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And from age zero, I remember my grandfather opened the door and scream my mother name and bringing like two three kids to sleep over in our house. Tell me figure out which school to put them in. Some of them some of them is the same. Some of them meet odd cases the father in jail or something like that. They have like around 25 schools. So tell me figure out which school to put it in. [clears throat] We put them in my my parents house in our house. So half of my life I didn't sleep in my bed. I sleep in my parents' bed and I give my bed to someone else and I didn't feel I I feel the best with that. And after that around when I'm we be 14. So my parents talked me about I learned in >> okay >> from you know >> and he say let's you maybe move to came to and I didn't fit in in a way because I want to do something not only you know to to take care of myself they're doing amazing job to learn to you know I remember shove of the old and I came to to the old city and I met Rabbi D. >> Mhm. >> And he took me to Kaban. It took me back, took me I don't know how to say it because I I learned all my life in I'm I I got to I I got to learn in New York. I be >> Mhm. >> small group for four years. I marry my wife. She's from Flatbush which you go and we decided we go to right away also when we meet we met in the dates we talk about which kind of we'll No. Yeah. Okay. You know except everybody. Yeah. is in the platform. >> Sure. I feel more Aish because I coming from the same background. >> Mhm. But coming I remember what is it the first thing is catch me catch me and he told me about I spoke with them is not talking enough about you know you know the older we don't see seriously vibe >> so this is what I ask him drinking dancing come on you you know that was the key question you know something so me say if I didn't before I say if I tell you now I I not remember if I say or not and I need to say why saying every morning so if he's not forgive me Why is he forgiving us? So what is all about? All about is about the smell about to prepare yourself to see the king. So we don't have a fra about the various about you know we need to only to prepare a good clothing a good cake made a good and to love this is the literatur It's like >> talking only about positive you know >> positive I'm saying >> this is what catch me is not something is you need to be afraid for him like you know it's like a policeman you see a policeman you go down you make it slow you like the speed and you're afraid oh see no it's not that it's someone you run to him you love him you hug him you see him you Yeah. >> Okay. Is the land in America Okay. the young couple we say let's make a CV resume and to send to all the around the world and let's met them in everybody coming here let's see what's the options and then after always in after sitting in a year two years >> okay >> this is almost 99% from the people sitting in co between one year to two to prepare yourself meet everything and then we go to so I sit in in meet a bunch of I mean interview make us interview one of the others and I sit with from Hong Kong yeah >> and he told me special place it's called Chundu it's a small settle 31 million people >> 31 million >> yeah and un Balan University make agreement with between University of Balan to Sichuan University. >> Bilan University >> Balan University. >> Okay. >> Make a agreement with the Chinese government. Sichuan University. This is the name of >> Sichuan University. >> Yeah. In China in Chandu >> and they will do a um student team exchange. >> Student exchange. 800 students going to Israel and 800 800 students from Israel coming to China. >> So Chinese students and 800 coming to to China >> for two semesters. It's been around a year and a half >> from 800 we say for me Israel is also at least 85 90% is is Jewish people. >> Okay. I'm talking about let's say 70 700 people. >> Mhm. >> Besides may have also small small community around 25 they're living there and it's a good opportunity we can you know every place may have student exchange. So a lot of people also students stay in the city. So the >> so the community here growing and slowly slowly so when we need to go tell me they will come right after okay ask my say [clears throat] we need you because I asked the someone I was willing to go tell me I interview a lot but they're not good for this position. I think I hear about you and your wife a lot. I think this is for you and I don't have someone else. Okay, go maximum. It's not good. Come back and you always can do sh in China after. >> Okay. >> So 3 months after the after our wedding we arrived in China. We didn't know nothing about China and it's be like you know like very fast. >> So do direct flights from America? >> No we had flight to Korea. Korea. Chandu. 15 hours to Korea. >> South Korea. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> After that 6 hours to Chandu. Arrive in Chandu. Young couple. And we rent house small apartment. Sure. I've been in Vietnam, in Thailand, in Belgium. Yeah, I know. Okay. I know in Asia I be in India. She's my cousin. I'd be really close to Gab three times. >> Actually, I need to be there. I I I go to New York in if I'm not mistake and because tell me please stay another months and then you know there's a lot of stuff we need to take care of. We need to go to Israel of Mat of the kids whatever. >> Yeah. >> And I don't know people know about it. >> Yeah. isn't they need to go and I tell him bring someone I'm already here 3 months >> no they will take take I will take care of the >> okay >> and I I tell him I he already from he already slept me out another month I don't know I will ask my mashia I ask my mashia mashia tell me is she You're already late for in almost a month. Go back. So you say getus what's it mean doesn't get kus getus to all the world >> to family to everybody you belong to the yeshiva you belong to yes if your parents ask you come to a wedding you need to ask your shoes your brother ask your shoes for But Friday or tish or summer you're not going home you're going to you have options you can go home but also good you you belong to to to you belong to you belong you not belong to you don't have a family and nobody you need to to give yourself to so in the time you're not learning you need to go to vow always needs something urgent. Please send me a Yeah. Send you taking care of they send you the to to help in touch with them. I'm listening. I need a and I have a this is his name. He need to come to me with the organization. Yeah. Yeah. That's the beginning. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes he have a name of he want specific. Oh yeah. >> Yeah. And he need to sign up for the need also to sign up. I need to. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> So I I go back 3 weeks before the attack in in Mumbai in India. >> Yeah. And also >> everything normal everything amazing and forbidden we every every day say in India we have also businessmans and and schleers coming and and >> the backpackers and this is something also give a big in my life cuz I want to give myself >> you want to give myself not in a way give yourself in a way So saying no and almost two three two three two three two three two three two three two three weeks after the I came back the attack happened I need to be there was this affected the attack. >> A good question. I don't know answer till now. It's affect me a lot but in a lot of corners first of all about and also about not everything I have answers. I have a lot of questions. I have a big list. This is thing number one or two and of believe we love him and this is that so I don't remember exactly the the date but I can send you send me Right away after after I came back, I tell him I came back and my left and everything. >> Yeah, I remember he sent me email. Wow. York learning but we cannot open a safe I mean we always mention you know what's going on now what's going on now and this is something big give a big I think to every in the world every in the world special Yeah. >> So, China in let's go back to China. So we came okay we came 3 months after our wedding we came to Chandu and okay I we prepared we took we took our small apartment like that >> was chang >> everything in Chinese nobody's speaking English >> this is first of all and everything is difficult because you you want to buy a sim card you need to sign up for my kan in some you know so much papers. Everything is a lot a lot of it's communism country to open a bank took us like a week to rent a house. It took us a week. Everything is like really difficult and especially in the beginning you don't know how to do it. Yeah. [clears throat] >> So we raise around $50,000. >> Yeah. has also help us around 25,000. >> Yeah. And and then we start and then we see what's going every need to take care of yourself. I mean everybody under Americ will always will be exactly. So all the issu under Americans have every every area >> every country >> every country some some some countries have to take out to take care of I'm under what you mean under not pay me a salary he's paying me And if I want to bring another in my area, I need to ask him a shoes and in extreme situations whatever health or something like that. So he's coming step in. >> Uhhuh. >> So we start we start with that money. And it's be really difficult you know with the power of succeed and we came I remember when we came to we came to Chandu I asked where's the tell me everybody in the bars in disco cuz Chandu is the night life of China is a town from the university >> the town of town of the university also silicon valley of China also the richest people in China a lot of them live in Chandu >> and we have a lot of you know disco bars. So I know for my grandfather you know my grandfather is the disco rabbi. So I have already the the address I say and like I'm my grandfather say be the same. I came to the bar I see purim in middle of the day people dancing going and in Shandu all the bars who taking care of them Israelis is the >> bar the bars the bat from the bars are the Chinese of the bars and also the barmans each bar have around eight taking care one is the barman one is that one is that you know >> als Als the customers the Chinese not we don't have the foreigners is maybe less of 1% from the city >> the bars the Israelis no >> Israelis guilt in the bars the Chinese >> Israelis marking money of the Chinese people >> okay >> to measure tell you idea some one of the bars can accept every day is accepting around 25 people thousand huge lagger >> is huge like you know I mean but he's divided the rooms blah blah blah you know the t of the the bars maybe after the interview I'll tell you I mean this is something interesting so I came in and they asked me what you doing here someone die or you need a minion what do you want I tell him uh I came to be with you with We are we don't like we don't like listen we don't have we don't have we don't have Eden come sit together okay Rabbi can give you a drink. Yes. >> Speaking of a drink. >> Oh me and you to I don't like the the word inspire. Inspire is like inspire to do what we need to do and then people other people they will do what they need to do. Sounds good to me. Oh my. By the way, so the part stop listening now. Just letting you know this episode is not for kids. sponsor for the episode turf office guysudio studio in Texas any plus a dormatory a reception area a doctor's office a hospital nursing home office a call center turf office has all the furniture you need the ken is delivering the ken is bowing designing installing whatever you need turf office can take care of it easily and quickly quickly studio in Texas. I'm very appreciative to them and you can be too callerstein turf. The phone number is 347-489-2181. That's 347-489-2181K turf office. The sponsor of the episode Joyide Auto Leasing caravan of trips new year new car new you can car leasing needs joy auto leasing has taken care of me with my last two vehicles. 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This is um the bone without any I know the the alter. >> Okay. what we can do what we're talking about the kind I don't know I didn't met this I met the grand >> okay >> and the want interesting and also we need to know we're not coming it's not sister I mean I'm saying sister not to make we're not selling you know what I mean or the point is to every Jew to be proud of Jew first of all and I have 10 minutes. This is the focus with meet me. Yeah. Yeah, sure. >> Yeah. Yeah. Villain Shabas Jewish education. No. >> For him. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Shabases. Oh, the >> Okay. >> And what are we missing? What? What are we missing? Missing one. >> Missing two, I think. How is this? >> How is this all? Let's >> do nine. >> No, say 10. Okay. [snorts] >> The point is every is connecting to Yeah. And like we send email. If I send you email, if I got the that.com, the email not going through. So, right. >> Did you forget the dot? I saygmail.com >> right >> I forget that that one one point >> it's not very this is the 10 thing is if you do that you fully fully cover is will make sure you fully cover think about it about each thing to learn to cautious if you do the other 10 But this is the directions the Reb give us. And the point is not trying to convert people or you know to we need to find the with everyone. Tell you a story. Three weeks ago we're sitting in Chandu. >> Okay. And we have in we're doing it's called a parliament going with good scotch and cigars and a bonfire like you know the the smaller. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> And we sitting together around 25 I always preparing something about connecting to sh a topic to talk. most bring topics, you know, to make everybody uh to tell them to come down, you know, and then everybody says topic and I I tell him about again everybody is connecting everybody >> pental so he's connecting yes and we try to find some we talk about it a lot and I tell I want please everybody sharing share with them share What is >> exactly? >> Okay. >> And especially from their childhood cuz they coming from from place 99% from them they don't have a father didn't and one of them I changing the name let's call him David. >> Okay. David tell me I will my father didn't in my parents house anything meet and everything I said try say yeah I have one thing say what his father go to and bought a platter for shabas uh >> yeah a platter okay and and he bought it for what still in yum keeper the eating from the platter They're not eating >> from not new new food and we eating from the plas once a year film keeper all year take it out plugged it everything like you tell me the stress before I tell this is every Friday every Friday I have the stress before I look at >> make sure the plot is working >> yeah pl is working okay television and everything but the platter everything in a platter every if you dig dig dig dig inside you have a pintilate this pint is a fire you know always mean be careful from fire why fire spirit I put a little bit fire here all the hours can be fire >> it'll spread >> spread all over you need to find it only to put a little bit gas and that's it or connect it to someone else. Imagine myself go to give me plat, you know. [laughter] >> Wow. So in the bars, oh, so we're sitting together and we connect with we had around every shabas around 15. >> I mean the host mentioned came in. So I go to the market with my um cutting board with a knife to buy fish to cut it there to clean it there with my knife. After we bought everything from the market I mean not everything >> fly chicken >> fly chicken we bought from from Hong Kong with suitcase. >> Okay. >> Flew to Hong Kong every months, every two months. Full suitcase with meat and chicken and bring it to Chandu. Bought it to Chandu and spices etc. made a container. Then once a year >> from the spices >> only black pepper about cashes and I'm afraid to say in a broadcast because someone can we know exactly which brand to buy is under the cashes all over all all over the >> need to ask the because sometimes they can be the same brand but they don't have cashes you need to ask the exactly They also in okay they have list and need to talk to them to ask me if they have cautious of this factory. >> Uhhuh. >> Cuz sometimes it can be the same brand and different factory. This is cautious. This is this is not a serial number of the >> a lot of stuff people I see coming to us and whatever eating chips. Yeah. like coke, you know, all over the world. The nut the chips I know is they're using nut kosher oil in China. They adding um they're adding additive from >> Mhm. >> So we need to check exactly if this product this serial number see already you're doing. >> Yeah, I'm trying. [laughter] A mikv is doing. No, we don't have a M in Chandu yet. To buy a property in Chandu, it's cost around a,200 >> dollars. >> Dollars and we don't have mortgage in China. You come in suitcase, you put the money and >> yeah, and bam raise around 400. But what we doing? We flying. My wife flying every month. Not only my wife, another six women's flying every month. Not women's >> plane. plane in the around 2:00 is need to be there from the morning the flying to Shanghai or Beij on 3 hours. >> Wow. >> And then come back some a lot of days special in the summer is late coming the next day. >> Yeah. >> Is expense can cost $1,000. Besides the expenses, it's hard for us to, you know, see women's you see them if they're going here and they're maybe someone can scheme of but they're going every month flying to the mikvah back and forth these women's if they're going in whatever out I'm not talking about my wife. Yeah. I had a lot of stories about Mika. But the point is if you light it is like and sure m is not easy. So to be a Jew, I'm saying to every we are so what theb say all the time is like um you know like in cash when you p it in you know >> no with also and also with like if I want to cash a >> so I put hard water yeah like whatever whiches we need moment after is not ble no when you're in the way if in the mood of toilet you're not you're not getting in. So if you're in the mood of toilet in so you're not getting so my head. But I see someone with this like the guy made the story in David meet the guy with platter. >> Mhm. >> And he fighting for cashes, fighting for for for light you up. See, wow. Look what's kinder you have. Let's go back to we came to Chandu. Okay. 3 months after we go to Bras being the Pes is coming. [clears throat] Let's go. Purim Purim. His name is Sassan. >> Sassan. >> No. When I met him, his name is San is interesting story. He come to my house then around send you the picture after and look like Japanese like Chinese. I ask him who are you? What's your name? Tell me. I tell you my story. Is is gang elder above. She marry a German soldier the time Nazi the time of the war and to move in the runway to Argentina. Yeah. She had and he had a daughter. She married to and she go to Japan and marry a Japanese Japanese boy. >> Mhm. >> And and this is is and is the child >> is the is is the is the Nazi >> for a Nazi >> and his grandmother is Jewish. in the Nazi took I don't know I didn't give details but I have all the papers and everything from lodge >> wow >> and her mother marry a Japanese boy and what he can tell me tell me I tell you what my grandmother told me what My mother told me the accent, you know, the accent and we figure out every after figure out all the details and everything the the safes they took it by the way from Texas. >> Texas. >> Yeah, I can I can make your meeting. >> I'm in it. We came around Texas in the build. >> Son moved to Texas. >> Okay. >> His mother also after Japan moved to Texas. >> Uhhuh. living I not remember exactly where in Texas I mean can connect you to anyway the point in sitting in for in in we put him film first time in his life and he met another American boy so he met American boy he tell him he he tell him tonight I'm going to kabad Jewish center and what pull him. I'm also half Jewish and what half Jewish you tell him the story you full Jewish okay I will come >> he didn't know what's his mean and we tell him how much is and then we change his names to and till now putting film every day and trying to keep cautious and we're in touch every months every few Now he's living in Texas. >> Huh? >> Yeah. So after the pes about and >> yeah. >> Okay. >> So I asked the where where I can rent we make a already sent emails and advertised P please come. have around 250 people register to the city. >> Travelers, backpackers, businessmen. So, and I didn't know where to do it. So, we tried to rent a hotel home >> like a ballroom. >> Yeah. >> Every hotel me rent. Every home me rent after 2 three days. They call us say, "Sorry, we want to cancel the contract >> of us." >> Say, "What's going on? What's happen? The government cancelled the contract one by one. tell him don't accept this foreigner to make a event by you. I call I I had a Jewish guy. I I met him already Eton from the American consulate said what? Please help me. What we do tell I have good idea. What? Let's make a birthday uh party to for myself. So the the American council is Jewish. He made a a birthday uh party in Passover night. We make up the story. Yeah. And you sign [clears throat] up. Let's like he sign up all the papers and everything and a hall in a hotel. >> Yeah. You know, >> I'm sure. So he's hosting it. >> He hosting that and we bringing the food. Ah >> is the m the first place and then it's 1 hour and a half walking from the hotel to us hotel second days that tomorrow meals regular meals but to go in the hotel in the city the seding and everything >> also second sed only the first seder is given big >> so I ask the please help me maybe you can lead me I don't know the way tell me rabbi no problem I lead you with the bicycles no please don't I lead you with the phone you know with the map I cannot go with the map no I need someone can memor all the way you know because well >> back and for see I don't have where to go my my wife did some did something cute. What she did, she make me undershirt with the address in Chinese of the our house and all the seder after the seder we go [clears throat] home and then in the street pick up my shirt say to the Chinese person, "Excuse me, you know where is it?" >> Uhhuh. >> And tell him figure out to let me go. I remember the the phrase of the Chinese person every time I pick up my shirt to show him my undershirt me the address is a >> communist country the point in China is don't bother us we not bother you yeah respect Point is respect them. They're respecting us. I tell a story about you. You're talking about the Chinese communism. The fifth sponsor from the episode luxury for charity. A lot tools connected luxury vacation Rolex watch like you and me. Go to luxury forcharity.org and kicking of the raffles. Do a special trip to Iceland, the land of fire and ice. Have you ever been to Iceland? It's a beautiful country. The northern lights in volcanoes and snowcapped mountains. It's gorgeous. You can win it for just $15 a trip to Iceland next to the raffle. They do this every month to support the go to luxury forcharity.org link please. podcast. I hope you win. Thank you so much. Luxury for charity sporid sandwich shop in the tri-state area. 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One room we live. >> This is bedroom. >> Iron bedroom. >> Then oh. Oh, okay. This >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> I'm talking about the first year. >> The first year >> we are you see we have 13 hours to go because we have 13 years in Chandu and we are in the fifth year. >> Okay. And [clears throat] 10 policemen's coming to the house say you need to come with us. Okay. Right away I call Abberson you know the oil is in the oil. I mean every every day we have so many from all over the world. He bringing to the oil all the time. Okay. >> To the >> Yeah. I tell him please I didn't have time to write to to to send and please go inside mention my my name and my mother and my my mother name and my wife and her mother name and tell the rebba police take us we don't know what where we going but we need a >> this is scary but in China the police came and pushed >> took us with the police car it took us investigation 4 and a half hours >> interrogation >> yeah one room I I I my wife one room I I question after questions after questions >> give us water you know it's scary in the future >> questions is visible everything what we did you ask me why you go in Starbucks you ask this someone if he's Jewish he's German guy and I think if you give me the list of the Jewish people and not need to ask every white face if he's a Jewish or not. >> This is the result. >> This the question they show me what they know what me talking in the phone ask me how is not falling off. This is one of the smartest questions you know a lot of phone. [snorts] >> Yeah. I think also here but nobody tell you they ask me a lot of question about chabas about about chabas why you not going why you going in the stairs not in the elevator what what's the meaning of that you know questions after questions then he open his drawer taking a small picture you know the reb's picture with the address of the oil in the back yeah >> and the and philos there a business card. >> Yeah. Ask him who is this guy? Tell him like come up to my mind like it's after 4 and a half hours. Yeah. Tell him this is my father. You ask me also you have a huge picture in the your center about this guy who's this is my father. Pick up the phone start to speak Chinese. Ching ching. He tell me from this is your brother. Tell him yes. >> This is your brother. Yes. Say, "Ah, okay. No problem. You can go. You can go." You see also the Chinese person. No. So, investigation. So yeah, maybe it's opposite. My wife, she came out. She said, "You see, we are the like the we're going to jail almost, you know, like Yeah. And we the education I give my kids, education I get, I got my wife got is to think about mission, not to think about myself. I see a lot of stuff me doing [snorts] me doing for I want to be more hik. I want to be more mush. No, no, take out yourself from the picture. The target is target not in a way you suffer. You do it in with ice here. >> Mhm. But the you think about nothing I make myself more >> side effect >> maybe not >> this is not the goal >> maybe not you tell me I be more I'm I'm not he's not a real estate agent I'm to have more Grenaden or to be more like The problem I see these days everybody talking about anxiety and stuff like that. Why? Because people thinking too much of myself, think about someone else. How I feel, how I d how I go. You know what I mean? Mhm. Stop. Think about the mission. Sure. Sure. is anxiety 99% of anxiety not is not productive come to be yeah no it's not terrible of them >> tell me more about chandu >> so chandu This is a Silicon Valley of China. >> You want more water by the way? >> Yeah, please. Thank you. >> So do the Changdu [snorts] is a silent G. It says Chandu or the Changu. Well, yeah. >> Okay. >> This is how we say this is the beautiful city. >> Yours is shine. >> Beautiful city. Ch China is the 2035. >> They're in the future. >> The future. You pay me the face. You you you going everything is like everything technologic and clean and good. The Chinese people they're really nice. The the nice they come the >> idol. >> Yeah. More nice. Sure. Every every country have his problems. And the point of chandas is a relaxed people. >> Relaxed. >> Relaxed people. Stores open 9:00. like minion. You know what I mean? >> 9:00 in the morning, the starting the day. I made it because the stores open at 11:00. >> Okay. So, I didn't know. >> Yeah. Unless it's a food store, a clothing store. >> In Israel, everybody start 7 8:00 in the morning. >> And Chandu is a place bringing also travelers backpackers, businessmans. >> It's the gateway to Tibet, right? >> Yeah. And a lot of people passed by in gender. And this is beautiful. When you see in the house, he opened the door of the house. And you seem backpacker. He finished the army and a me in the army and a businessman, a traveler, misnik. All the kind of people. Everybody feel like >> so the is from the community. So I'm sorry. Let's go back. Let's make it quick from after. Okay. After we stay in Chandu, we go back. No, after Per waiting for >> Balan and I got two weeks before they need to arrive and got a phone call from the dean of the Balan and tell me I'm sorry Rabbi the the Chinese university break the contract. >> They broke the contract. We must have given the breach of contract. >> I don't know the kind of but the deal is over. >> The deal is over. We're not coming. They're not coming. >> So what are you doing now? So think I sitting my wife what we doing so I say I don't know we need to have bo that time we need to have a baby let's stay here till we're going to New York to have the baby and then we decided what to do between then every shabas may have around 40 50 people the community then around 30 people but every day sending a shure a class with someone mus film every day we had a job to go back to New York and sending me and my wife saying now a young couple have responsibility, we have kids, what we do and we have a lot of options in other places and me saying we go to the go to the go to the we came out to the video the video say speaking about at you know when you go out videobre is speaking about is not about quantity. It's about quality. Quality is individual one is like you see this is more answer from that we cannot get beside me going back and this is the baby. Oh yeah, he came back to Chandu and a lot of students came by to learn Chinese to learn Chinese exchange kind of came >> around 200 students came after >> so do the deal is done >> done the deal done already 12 years ago >> clinic >> and and what's happened we had a community around 400 people >> wow >> and travelers sent back because we had busy we had kindergarten And 3 months, sorry, 2 years after I invoke that came the Israeli council Liberman be prime min prime minister in Israel. He came to Liberman Liberman >> prime minister sorry I say >> foreign minister >> foreign minister sorry >> came with Chandu and sign up meet the Chinese government to open an Israeli consulate in Chandu >> okay >> I sit with them after in in in the hotel why you decided to open in Chandu you're right may I had a lot of options may have also better cities give economy cities in China and we decided Chandum we say if the strategic people decided to open in Chandum this mean this is the place you know >> wow >> you don't know this is the point of WhatsApp send a message on WhatsApp to 9297775425 that's 929-7775425 access internet access. I'm jealous of you. You can still call. We can always hear it in all episodes of the hotline. The phone number is 6054771888. That's 6054771888. >> Anyway, we had also the Israeli government open Israeli consulate. We had a kindergarten school base and then >> every around 200 150 people Okay. >> Co came from a community around 600 people, 500 people in two weeks after everything start in in in one everybody move out >> from Chandu to Israel, from Chandu to Israel to to United States or everybody to China. in China left only around 25 and I didn't know what to do but I ask you >> yeah tell me let's you need to speak melo like to get advice everybody tell me you need to come out >> leave >> huh >> in the beginning >> yeah I'm talking about when this came to me more strong and we had quarantine for two months straight three months straight everyday PCR. >> Yeah. >> On the ground in China the we saw the videos and the pictures everybody saw people go in the street and fell. You remember the story first videos we see. We saw the same thing. >> Wasn't that fake fake? >> This is what I hear also. I hear the same. I don't have more information from you. >> Okay. >> But we the government closed everybody in the houses. >> So I have a container in the basement container of food that we send we government give each family rice and noodles and some basic delivery. >> Yeah. to each house >> chocolate doesn't matter >> nothing >> okay >> and doctor I didn't have experience with that if someone need to go to a doctor so you need to get special permission and special car will take you also the need to know in China if you had co that time so we take you to quarantine 14 days in a government place in a government quarantine And more from that if you have a child in no cons they had a child had cover. >> Yeah. >> They took only the child. >> Yeah. >> This is this is crazy. >> Yeah. And this is >> I can't convey >> what is more I be afraid the most that time is one of my kids something >> if they get Yeah. Every day we make you PCR test coming to your house and do the PCR in the nose. Yeah. mandatory. And if so, you know what a kids 2 year old three year old always they have coughing they have you know noral we go crazy and put them showers we're afraid have coughing near the guy coming in the white clothes it's done this is China >> what would they Yeah. >> Okay. With a picture with a passport. Okay. Is you like immigration? Yes. Yes. Yes. >> Wow. Every day. And yet from the government. >> Sure. But I get asked about that a lot and I but Mr. What's my our our grand grandfathers grandmothers in in Poland and Russia what they did so okay everybody say we are the door of the social media we are the door of reality and this reality this is to give to others and but we need to be control all the time this is what I asked him tell me speak me to like make a zoom call together decided now is the time to go it's already too much Because you cannot help other you >> stuck two months already in >> and Alander is not stuck. >> Exactly. So what you can help the same thing you can help in and what it can be you and your wife and your kids can be crazy from that. Imagine now you there you cannot go out nothing. I'm talking two three two months straight not. Yeah. Kab so the portrait had the place I mean not someone in a in a permit >> got me space mention >> but is how much you can stay in the one place >> and we go to New York and we we didn't know what's going on in China was will be in China to come back to China we that time we need a um >> special permit >> special permit to come >> you know how long is the quarantine >> uh 14 days and in the government counting and 14 days in house. Yeah. >> Wow. So after 7 8 months we saw around 20 people 30 people came back and >> soft 2020 like December time. Hanukkah. >> After Hanukkah. >> Okay. >> Yeah. after Hanukkah and we decided we go back. >> We be in the beginning be upate. >> Okay. >> Thank you. Pan came. >> Okay. >> He's a good friend of mine. No, he's a he's a great >> a supporter of supporter for a lot of things. And he I call him penny what me do they tell me doy you know now so that time in New York everybody be afraid you know especially someone coming from China you cannot go to >> give me our substate >> not using that >> I can name those no problem so he I remember to put the heat there is take time tell because the pipes can pipe whatever we came to upstate me live upstate by itself on 4 months New York. >> Woodidge, Woodburn, >> Woodridge. >> Do that grocery. >> Yeah, of course. Awesome. We go you can we go to the city every every week. Go to the oily kettle store, you know. >> Fill up the car. >> And after that, we go to Florida. >> Okay. >> Around 4 months. And then we go [clears throat] back to Chandu. Go back to Chandu. in quarantine in government quarantine for two weeks. >> So Rabbi Gber from Shanghai send us food every day in Shanghai. Yeah, they're allowed they're allowed to to >> messenger services and okay >> and two weeks in a plane he didn't >> came to a plane he didn't >> every day we got got the food and but think me yourself with with five kids in a a normal room in hotel two beds in the beginning they want to separate two rooms so you cannot He say no. The the the guy taking taking care of the government and saying one one room is you with two kids. One room you wife and three kids do together with two beds small room normal room like like here for two weeks some days. Yeah. But yeah, we talk with my kids. They say the most fun time they had in the world in all life has been the time of counting >> talk. Is that true? Why was it so good? >> Family time. >> We play on the bed, under bed, we jump. We you know pillow fights and we do everything. We brought a lot of games. Yeah, they're good. We make schedule sh in the morning at breakfast. make it also fun what I'm trying we had I had time it's really hard for me how much you can be in you know in the same room you have no idea what's going to happen yeah two weeks and then And they're not allowed to go out. Nothing. They're closing you gate. What mean? >> The government put like a sticker like hologram. >> If you open it is ripping up. Okay. But if you open it, you know, you ruin that in the government or something. Whatever. Yeah. Um [snorts] they >> they they they welded people into their homes. They they they they locked the doors. You couldn't leave. >> But now the community growing slowly. We have now around 100 people in the community and we learn how much is you see and we learn every day sometimes I I think to myself I spoke with other I tell him imagine it is coming for big with a lot of people a few thousand of people tell me come to me I I I maybe take care of 5,000 people. How much people you taking care of 100 people you can give a lot more tell them like you come sometimes you come to the sh you want to learn something you have so much swing open this book no that book that book you know you waste like a lot of time 20 books I know which day I open this book is it Monday I open this book this is talking about every Jew every Eid is like like um my family members and I know exactly I not need CRM for that. >> Mhm. And we see the impact impact is not only to I mean sure every mitzvah is bringing mashia and everything of that mitzvah of how much people connecting together and how much they helping others and every one of them come to be another tell you a story happened to me two weeks ago I be in deal New Jersey meeting every day at another meeting and the guy He's been in a kabalas for around seven 7 months. We will connect and he's coming from the Syrian community. >> Syrian community. >> Syrian community. And I tell them, you know, China. >> Yeah. For 7 months. >> Gabb in in Chandu for 7 months. >> Okay. >> And coming from the Syrian community and I spoke with them a lot about two things. I spoke with them with them. I changing his name to David and not Allah. Okay. David two things we have idiot you know in the s community we have something beautiful a from the old rabbis already 100 years to not marry anti marriage >> the last the only thing the only community they have zero almost almost zero inter marriage >> was the is the serious I tell him I saw is a little bit going around tell him you need a family you cannot going like that you know keep keep you tradition >> in China >> China is >> and the second thing I tell Phil I know he's ask for you cautious and everything Phil this is okay last shabas before you go tell him David I want if you can give me a promise me one thing in one the next here put film every day. Okay. Tell me no problem. And you go deal at the crazy meetings after meetings fundraising for I know David is there is there also the last day Thursday tell myself I push it maybe I come I will come next time. >> I was but I didn't have time. tell myself no, why am fundraising money for them? So I tell the wait I need to fundraising money for you cancel a meeting 10:00 I tell I call I call David I want to meet you David how are you how are you don't crazy how you call me now tell I'm in deal I want to see you I can see you in 10 minutes tell me sure send me the address and he got crazy tell I ask him what's what's going on tell me like that story this morning he took a shower and he want to go with few with friends to the beach in in in deal and he think to himself I don't have time to put fill in but I promise Rabbi Dovi to put fill in say okay I promise the the rabbi that's it let's move on it's already 3 4 months after I move from Chandu why I need to start to keep the promise come out from the shower who calling I'm calling to meet them wow Oh, >> and he put Phil and tell me, "Rabbi, I'm not will I'm not I'm not going to stop anymore." >> He got the message. >> Got the message. But see, Hashem push you push me to be the right minute. Eating is in the shower and get a message. They say, "Okay, do you must cancel the meeting. You go." >> Wow. Then mention so the panda this is Chandu is the panda base for >> the whole world >> the world for the world right now don't let because people have sickness and they can make the panda sick cost a lot of money can can offer you. Yeah, I I find you figure it out. >> Yeah, figure it out. >> Okay. >> And this is Chand is the base of the pandm have a lot of uh villages around beautiful villages. raising rice >> and rice >> and rice and and to see the villages in China is beautiful nature >> a lot >> parks >> parks Joago is called this is the beautiful beautiful park say people flying from all over the world to see it also in China this is something beautiful to see also the ch Chinese old version and from houses So streets and also we have near them we have like the global center you can search >> the biggest mall in the world >> plots >> and this is China China you can see special chandum we have you can see everything you can see culture future everything similarity The struggle was China culture and art and music and poetry and the same. They're so unbelievably advanced. So I if I if I will speak about China, everybody can think I'm I'm Chinese patriot and I'm a spy in United States or whatever what but we see the culture Chinese culture coming from by the way it's not religious culture religious >> also then also then >> I feel it's today >> no it's a way to live all the Chinese medicine and if you see a lot of the Chinese medicine and the Chinese recipe and everything is you see the raam see >> similarities. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> And every is beautiful to see it there. And move on from that there is someone not coming to the parents. The parents can go to the can call the police. My son didn't come to me for months and the son get a fine. >> A fine or he gets the sesame points. You >> know besides the three points he get a fine. >> Okay. And the about let me speaking here when you see in say about the iPhones and about the technology and in China the internet is kosher. So how social get filtered? >> You cannot filtered. No, in China all the social media is control and you cannot come into the places in in the internet >> nothing and don't they know what is good for you and they choose for you what is good for you cuz know sometimes people at the time was thinking that we need someone to help him >> to to go to the right place and the problem what's happened last I think eight years ago a lot of modernizia or American culture come to China. >> Okay. and ruin the people. Start to ruin the people >> in what? >> Talking about all the uh uh mod all the moda >> the styles >> styles coming from whatever from Gucci muchi from from all over the world coming to China. Now the Chinese government control that cuz we see we have a beautiful c culture we have a beautiful background and this is what we need to go. Okay. Youth in >> in China you're not allowed to use Tik Tok. You cannot use Tik Tok. >> What's it called? Dian >> Dian is something else. same company but the Chinese Tik Tok move on that usually in in the D app when if gold want to go in the app >> Mhm. And to make a video, we have like directions. How long is the sleeves and how everything? Yeah. If not, this is going off. Upload. >> Yeah. >> To do a time limit. >> Yes. >> I think 45 minutes. Am I mistake? >> 45 minutes. And the they can use only the iPad >> Nishka phone >> nishka phone only iPad and they have 45 minutes >> and if they using father computer or something else the government can come in to see and you can get a big fight anything [snorts] too much of anything is not good internet and it's a waste of time it's not good for mental health in mention the Chinese government secures. I mean I putting a phone outside and in the street and I go I come I will come after hours will be there nobody will touch it. >> Well I know >> I know and you know >> and nobody go me the guns in China >> also policemen. >> No guns. No guns. Only in the airport you can see two policeman's go with the guns. Why? Because we not need the guns to afraid people. Everything is in control. No. Now if you're going and each time we give us another you're going the good way is connected. Yeah. Also my uncle is okay. We speaking together every day. Every >> day. Yeah, every day also give him not only direction me learning and I learn about obviously so they give me the power and what I also the most what I think about my zera thinking big don't think small always think big and do Yeah. Yeah. Also in the last 10 years I'm also involved more and more in >> organization in not in soul and but I I'm taking care of migalo international around the world. >> Okay. meet with meet all the offices may have around the world have a budget. McDonald have a budget around uh $50 million >> 50 million15 million >> we need to raise >> $15 million a year >> $15 million >> the old the budget is 35 million government Israel government giving 60% >> million >> yeah and we need to raise around 50 million >> budget 10 years the also they was so busy in Israel every minutes you can see the schedule it's crazy So I'm going for him around the world to help him. >> Uh-huh. In in that budget in China >> around 250. >> 250,000. Yeah. >> Mikvah >> now 700. >> 700. Oh, they become 700 mv the permits. raise around 500 >> in this this is the the project >> when you're writing the check now or after >> if if I open my bank account after the thing and there's 700 in there I give it all to you um >> I would be very happy projects for the future in what's the most pressing Everybody I speaking with thinking about mikvah is an important thing to do and sure we want to offer a kindergarten again and other but we will do that we can rent we can mikvah this need to have a mikvah and sometimes to hurts me to see women's canotenv to do it. >> Mhm. >> Okay. China. >> So came seven years ago. I had a baby boy mental wound in China. And >> boy in China. >> Yeah. >> Wow. >> And he came to the breeze. It be the Sunday. Come to the breeze. I tell you a beautiful story where they have Friday night. So in in China coming the house shine. Yeah. Shabas is wow. Yeah. But Shabas is around 250 people. >> Okay. in Chandu and he's singing with and everything fire the the door of the house open and backpacker coming in with his backpack. I tell him, "Put you your backpack in the may have a small room to put the bags." He see my Z. He sees the robe and he's push stop and crying like a baby. The ro came to him. But the rabbi what the rabbi do all the time. Give him a hug and a kiss and tell him what's going on. After few minutes, he clap on the on the table. Tell to everybody. N have a story to sell. Okay. N tell everybody a story. He's he he be in the army for two years and he volunteered for another six years. He be a commander me in the army another six years. So it's total nine years in the army and everybody after the army you know go to travel around the world to you know to get relax the structure >> and he want to do also trip like that but he do it in a unique way he took flight to Russia and from Russia he traveling with each with a him or every country only to cross borders you taking a train or a small plane, but 99% from his trip he's doing with me hitchhiking. >> I actually think I met this guy. >> Yeah. Wow. >> I met I think I met him in Kazakhstan. >> He do. It's crazy. Blond. >> You'll show me a picture after. You have a picture? Okay. >> It's a going like that all over the world. This morning he opened the map. He want to go go to Kuming. >> Kuming. >> Kuming. Another city in China. It didn't be in Chandu. It be another village >> and you see it take around 5 hours in a highway. You go to the highway, you put each >> Yeah. Make in China. >> Yeah. >> Legal. >> It's not legal, but Israel >> mentioned. Okay. >> Not mentioned. Israelis. >> Okay. [laughter] >> No. >> Anyway, someone stopped to some truck stop. Okay, come here. the drive I'm going to the same place driving very three four hours and see the government make over the the highway >> construction of the highway >> and [clears throat] they they tell some policemen stop the road tell me need to go around the truck drivers tell him listen I'm not going to continue go back to my village for me to go around is not worth it I'm going back you know the Israelis with their ego I will find out I'll get out of the I'll figure it out. He going and he start to go he start to go near to the highway like a field nobody there and it start rain when it's raining in China it's like a mansoon you know when it's flow it's raining >> it's a marble >> and he's wet from top to the bottom and he had a little bit scotch in his backpack started drinking he's wet he don't know what to do and he remember he learned in a school bloomingfield in not a former school and he Remember in 12th grade he base the man bought a rabbi to speak to him before the holidays and he not remember what the rabbi spoke but he remember what the he teach him a song teach the class a song what's the song and like that he's singing byself like few minutes And then someone beeping. Someone is the manager is taking care of the to make over the the the highway. Say crazy what you doing speaking English also. Tell him the story. Tell me from Israel. I will take you. I'm finished now the job. I will take you to a Jewish place. Took him the house. He didn't know his Friday. He didn't go meet the phone nothing. You open the door and who you see? See the rabbi teach him the song 20 years ago. in and he stayab. >> Yeah. And here fight the night in China. See how made it. He was probably pinching himself like a baby. Yeah. I see you in my mind. I didn't know you your name. I forgot your name. like few hours ago stay in and now he's keeping cashes shabas film full bal wow beautiful >> yeah I'll tell you another nice story about we had this unique story in China every summer we got my kids learning in online school >> online school >> yeah it's another topic we can speak at ours but uh >> my kids starting school 3:00 >> in the afternoon >> yeah Why? Because 8:00 in Israel 2 3:00 they're starting depends which starting the school in China. >> Yeah. How many countries you have in in your school kids? >> Yeah. Say the names of the countries. >> Thailand or what? >> Vietnam. Cambodia. >> Cambodia. Europe. You have also Sweden, Romania, organ, Germany, seven, seven and eight countries. >> U Yeah, US. [snorts] So, everyone start in a different hour. Depends which uh which time zone is how we came to. Okay. >> You wanted to tell me a story. Okay. I don't know why I came to school. Let me only school. So the studing school every day. Oh, they starting school every day 2:00. And we don't have our community is a young community. We don't have almost kids. We have seven kids in all all the community now. >> Okay. Including >> no not including my six kids. So the all day together the happy they helping in men by men giving yas in Friday nights they're taking care of the shabas table to organize that but we're taking every year a month a month and a half they're going to camps going to United States or and also to Israel to go to camp to see family to get >> to for their for us but >> but the kids is a lot more important. Yeah. >> To get fresh again. And we came back after a long flight around 28 hours with the stopover. >> We do the stop >> something going da da >> New York. Da d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d da chandu >> da. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> I'm going Qatar Dubai. Sorry. Dubai Chandu. >> Okay. And after a long flight me coming tired and in China everybody living in a complex like in Florida start you know what I mean community. Yeah. And our place is like a small v small community. We have around 150 villas. >> Okay. and we come and try to we want to go in. The police guy don't let us let us to go in. What's going on? They tell me, you know, we have robbers gun. They gunned all over the community. And they want to see if they gun, but you also waiting hour like secretary came. Police people came. One is taking care of the fingerprinting. One guy with a camera. A lot of coming in. Everything everything in the spot everything fine okay they go away two three weeks after I met I had a problem some travelers some travelers lose the bags they lose the the passport anyway I need to go with them to the police they call me to help him go to the police station come to police station I see the police officer I know tell me rabbi I want to speak with you okay tell me you know in China what way we catch the robber Yeah. And we had the rumors he tell me like that in the police station they say maybe the rabbi is one of the of the robbers from the >> Yeah. Why? Because I make alibi. I go to to New York. Oh sh this I tell him the information about all the all the neighbors and I come back like that and only by with every everybody got >> everyone got robbed except for you >> except me arranged >> tell him exactly information. So in the first investigation with the robbers with the gun that they ask him why you didn't rob the the Jewish person. >> Okay. And there is the suspect. >> Yeah. And the robbers show the police in the phone that every every camera every long system they know how to control. These phoner have especially unique cameras. We didn't know how to control that. They took pictures from the only muzas around to search after how to control these cameras, this system. >> Wow. >> And because that they didn't touch us. This means let's keep shooting. >> Wow. >> We'll do it again. And special without the lights you shine. >> Thank you very much. message something you want to give over yeah is to look around to care our job like a Jewish persons is to care is to care also if I don't know if you go in the street you see someone not Jewish fell to help we need to be the first one to help in everything to care and then if you care you're looking around you you got like hushim and hushim to the to the to your kids to your wife to everybody push to look around and to care and if you see something stop to care about it and to help thank you very much that's beautiful thank you I appreciate you behind the scenes in front of the scenes. We appreciate you sponsors of course from Southside smokehouse in luxury for charity office in remember to tell them I sent you and if you don't know where to go on vacation call they will figure it out for you and you'll be happy. Last but not least, thank you so much. Oh, sorry. Thank you so much. I appreciate you. 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