Rabbi Ephraim Eliyahu Shapiro Project Inspire Convention 2022 Motzai Shabbos Keynote

decades ago the kapishna sareba went a number of weeks before pesach to be involved in the baking of matzah kedarko bakladesh the helicopter took with him a number of hasidim and people to go along for the baking of the matzah when they finished the baking of the matzah the kapishon sareba had envelopes filled with money with cash he wanted to thank those that helped and that were there and facilitated the baking of the matzo so he took out an envelope and gave each one some of the money some of the envelopes as a way of hakora satov that's our trademark to say thank you and he handed it to the different people a number of weeks later it was heir of pesach some have the minhog that they baked mata specifically deliberately on erev pesach because it's an unusual merit and the kapitian cerebral went back to the same matzah baking to the same people but now it was heir of pesach and of course is the busiest day of the jewish year and he wanted to make matzah again and when he finished the baking of the matzah once again with envelopes filled with cash he went ahead and he started handing them to the people to say hi thank you anakora satova once again one of the yidan who was about to take the envelope he was one that helped a few weeks prior so he hesitated to take the envelope and he pushed it back to kapishinsarev and he said rebbe you already gave me you were already yaitze and the kapishnatsureba took the envelope and put it back in the man's hands and said rabid i didn't come to this world just to be yaitze i didn't come to this world just to fulfill my basic obligation if a person thinks about the shabbos that we spent together for project inspire the last 25 hours ashrae them to the 1100 of us because we're living with the words of the kapishmitsurabe no one in this room came to this world just to be yaitze we learned from looking at rebechaym sampson and from rabbiasi friedman and her mordechai trap and from her biakov ginegar and the rest of the staff none of them came to this world just to be yaichi because if you came just to fulfill your obligation and just to get by with the bare minimum of helping a fellow jew we wouldn't be here this shabbos and there wouldn't be a project inspired there wouldn't be a global fulfillment of rebellion's but only because people like rebecca him and reby and mordechain or the entire staff taught us we're not here just to be i'd say god allowed you to survive the pandemic god has allowed us bro it's not just to be yeah but it's to help project inspire and be there for all of claudius rowe project inspire and the names that i have mentioned have taught us that our sojourn in this world is not just to be you'd say and to get by but every day to ask ourselves what are we doing to help a fellow yid perhaps one of the most powerful shot them i've heard in my life from the lubliner russia shiva the founder of the dafhayami red mayor shapiro we know in the beginning tells avraham avinu go outside and count the stars and after attempting to count the stars hashem says to avraham avinu kauyasa so shall your children be literally it means we the jews will be like stars just like stars are numerous and are scintillating and brilliant that illuminate so does every jew do the same but mayor shapiro says no listen to a game-changing vart that's not what it means kauyasa it also means hashem told avraham go out and count the stars why did he attempt to do it you can't count stars it's impossible nobody but nobody can count stars yet he tried he made the attempt as insurmountable and as impossible as it was he made the effort when hashem saw that he tried the impossible he said to avraham that's the jewish trait that is entrenched and enseared in our dna koi that meda that quality and trait to attempt the impossible and try the insurmountable that is who we are it's in our dna it's in the very fabric of who our our very being that says our mayor shapiro is what we have to remember as claudius throw the nation we attempt the impossible you heard thereof told of naya then one person could bring back six million but it seems impossible it seems insurmountable you heard earlier about one dollar and another dollar and another red mayor shapiro is telling us kai that trait of going out believing believing we just saw the most extraordinary video about how a doctor took to heart to belief and helped save thousands upon thousands we can make the attempt it is who we are it seems so hard so funeral so insurmountable so difficult but that is who we are that's what project inspire is they attempt they persevere and they're successful you must believe don't let nobody tell you no a friend of mine shared with me that he went to los angeles he's from new york a very well-known person went from new york to l.a to city of hope hospital because he needed a bone marrow transplant and he had to remain near city of hope hospital in la for a hundred days in case they needed him to come back in so my friend from new york went with another cross country they flew to visit and do beaker hailem see how he was in middle of their visit the one who underwent the bone marrow transplant turned to the two and said you know there's a yid from your shelian from jerusalem who's having a bone marrow transplant let's go to city of hope hospital and give him words of encouragement make him feel good and be positive the three got into the car they drove there unfortunately much to their chagrin they were too late the procedure already took place half an hour earlier so the three of them were dejected they just wanted to give kizok words of encouragement and they turn to leave then they hear somebody calling orthodox jews well one second they turn around and they see the head nurse it's a male nurse he's been there for decades and he says hey you three i see your religious jews can you do me a favor i've been the head nurse here for about 40 years this procedure's happened thousands of times i always let the patient know beforehand what they can anticipate they won't have any strength for about 48 to 72 hours they'll literally lie there they'll think they're dead listless lifeless no strength but don't worry they'll be okay i couldn't tell it to the man because he only speaks hebrew i only speak english so because of the language barrier i couldn't convey that message his wife is there do you three mind in your language hebrew telling the wife not to worry when she sees he looks dead listless and lifeless it's okay don't worry the three of them are staring past the nurse through a glass wall and they're white like a ghost he turns to see what they're looking at and there was the jew from jerusalem half an hour prior had the procedure he got out of his bed albeit slowly he grabbed onto the iv pole he walked methodically to his cabinet where his clothing was he put on his bieber hat what he wore in through jerusalem he walked over to the sink he came back he washed in the telescoding he washed his hands three times and then got back into bed and the male nurse started to shriek it's not possible it's not possible it's just not possible he was going to pass out what my friend turned to the male nurse and said mister there are two possible explanations for what just happened number one it's a medical miracle we witnessed a one in 10 million or possibility number two this was the first time because of a language barrier you couldn't convey to the patient what they wouldn't be able to do maybe because you didn't tell the patient what they couldn't do they were able to do it because if you don't tell somebody what you can't do and it's impossible and it's insurmountable to be able to do it he broke down crying he never meant to be malicious he meant to tell them that they'd be okay but he admitted i'll never do it again because of the language barrier was the first time that he couldn't convey but if you always tell the patient you won't you can't you won't you can't it's impossible it's a self-fulfilling prophecy but if you don't tell somebody their limitations if you don't tell them what they can't that won't be able to do they can do it they'll surprise you like project inspire attempts to change the face of tens of thousands it seems impossible it seems insurmountable don't let anybody tell us the 1100 stronger perhaps more tonight who attended this convention that we can't and we won't and it's impossible and insurmountable because if nobody tells us that message then maybe just maybe we'll leave here and we will be able to the pastor tells us in hazinu literally it means that it's a generation of reversals children who didn't follow in my ways listen to an extraordinary explanation the word tapuchus is from the word mapeicha means in english a revolution you know what hashem is telling us tonight you could make a revolution you could change the face of clown you saw like shaq said so what gets in the way what is the single biggest impediment [Music] amon is from the word because you don't believe in yourselves what stops us from soaring high and changing the face of claudia's role and making that making that positive revolution where we change the face of claudius and bring everyone closer to the bonus shalom our father in heaven banim leiamon bum we don't believe in ourselves if we would learn to believe in ourselves if we would learn to believe don't anybody tell me i can't and i won't but i can if we would learn to believe ko ye zerecha it's in the fabric of our dna entrenched and enseared yes we can we will learn from the ways of project inspire we will learn what it means one jew after another after another after another to bring them closer to hashem we must believe in ourselves and in others and in conclusion a number of years ago there was a boy in yeshiva in eretz yisrael who had a question on the gemara he didn't have an answer he went down to the library and he looked it up in a safer but he didn't like the answer that was given in the safer it didn't please him so he went to his rebbe and said rebbe what should i do and the rebbe said well look who wrote the safe for the macabre on the front page's address and go visit him and tell him you didn't like his answer the boy got on a bus the name of the machabir the author of the safer was yeah safe he gets off at the address indicator on the front page and he goes very jolly to tell y's if the author of the safer i didn't like your answer and the door is answered by an elderly woman he says can i speak to joseph and she says solemnly he hasn't lived here for 10 years but here's his new address and she gives him his new address he gets back on a bus and actually took two buses but the perseverance is beautiful after two bus rides he gets off and he comes to the door safer in hand and knocks on the door and it's opened up by a man with long long hair tie dyed clothing multiple body piercings and tattoos off the kazoo you're yacif yeah you're yacif who wrote the safer yeah the boy wanted to run but joseph said what do you want he said i went through your safer and there's something you said that i don't like yahshup said one second he went to his room he put on the yamaka and he came back and he said to the boy what don't you like and the boy told him and all of a sudden joseph was transformed back to that yeshiva boy of 15 20 years prior and he started to defend his answer and he started to fight and argue and tyson and rashid and the rajman the choice and the rambam and the raved he happened to have told the boy what happened to him that he went as off as he did but he argued like his life depended on it torah was his life at least for that moment and then he emotionally turned to the boy and said do you have my safer because i don't he took out the safer and he presented it to yahseif he goes back to yeshiva the next morning and he tells us rebbe what happened and the rebbe says go to a phone you got to call that lady that was obviously his mother tell his mother what happened he runs to the phone he dials the number the elderly woman answers and he says hi i want to introduce myself i'm the boy that came yesterday and you guys she said stop don't talk i don't know exactly who you are but you listen to me young man i want to tell you one thing yousef is my son i have not seen him for ten years he hasn't lived here for ten years yice have called me a bit ago and said ma i'm coming home and my son isa is about to walk through her back walked back to up he's about to walk through the front door and i want to thank you because whatever your interaction was with him my yosef is coming home may it be the will of our kurdish borough that we believe in ourselves and believe in others when we show them the love the validation the acknowledgement the recognition will cause them to come home we'll bring them home one at a time we have to believe in ourselves don't let anybody tell us we can't we're not in this world just to be yeah hashem that we will learn from project inspire inspire ourselves inspire others believe in ourselves believe in others bring them home so that there will be that ultimate message where our father in heaven says my child called and said they're ready to come home [Applause]