Rabbi Grossman and Rabbi Seltzer Interview v01

[Music] r and this is another project that came came to me unbelievable project through a long series of projects and each person that i'm meeting is just more incredible than the next and here we are project inspire it's all about obviously swirl it's all about people who love clients so it's all about people who they give their whole lives for classroom and when i met rav grossman i knew this is a person that probably more than i don't want to say more than anyone but the top percent of people who've given the whole lives of kaiser and it all started back after the six day war in essence what happened was that karasparkhu saved kaiostrol from a catastrophe the whole world thought that the country was going to be destroyed and a lot of people in arizona thought that they were it was really a terrible time for clay israel and but it was a tremendous miracle and clay soul won the war and at that time rabbits like devil grossman was a young man and he went to the kaiser maravi and he stood by the kaiser and he said rabona shalom i have such a curse of time you saved claudius all you save that israel what could i do for clay straw and he said i want to give a year of my life to a client so i'm going to go somewhere i'm going to give a year position obviously all i love for claudia so i want to go and i want to give it myself for a year and that was the promise he made standing at the coast of my room at the western wall of east london young man young rabbi went and he gave this promise to karis baraku and he went to israel the lullaby rabbi david what happened makara what happened when you went to lulav and you asked him you asked him where should i go what happened then the number says it should do it my name is he used to call me ichidube which you mean maybe you will go and take a look what megan do you make the laming i never hear mcdonald's in my mind i grew up in your shoreline i go out from his room i ask people meet delaney mcdonald's the worst place in this time it was the boss place crime and dogs can't believe what happened done but the rabbit says i decided to go so the rabbit says that he should go to big and he decides to go and he goes home and he says to his wife and his wife says listen don't worry don't get all nervous you'll go there you'll see what the rebbe says and then you will and will decide now his wife grew up in a house of of rep when the rebbe says you go they will come from the house and the rebels says you go you go so it took him the better part of a day to get there he had to travel bus after bus after bus and he finally gets to mcdella amech and it's like there's nothing of a town but full of crime and he gets off and now he comes into this place the rebels sent him and the question is where are all the jews where are all the backroom where's the torah and he walks in and this is the funny part this is where it all starts and he says this guy meets on the street and he says to him excuse me where is the yeshiva right where's the yeshiva i i come for me maya sharim every building is in shiva everything is a colon i come there i ask who is the issue what is shiva tell me talk about who can i find the youngsters to send the disco disco i never hear this go in my life and may assure him you don't know what disco i hear this guy maybe i think maybe it's a yeshiva i call this girl i go to the shiva disco i go in i see pull him in the middle the name people dancing girls boys what did they say to the to the rabbi when they saw the rabbi what did they say to you in the beginning they're thinking maybe somebody died they look for minion for qaddish but they say to me what are you doing here i say i think to come to leave you you're crazy you're living your life you yeah you make brothers i you you you're a jew let's let's live together let's do it together and from this post meaning it became like a magnet between me and the youngsters and i used to go every night into the disco i have my mankind my corner and they used to come and speak and ask then my home became a discord it comes to my home then shabbat became a all in shabbos night on friday night and this muslim i became very very involved in in in this youngster then somebody tell me my brother is in jail i say your brother's my brother let's go visit your brother i come to the jail chatter going fourth time in my life a jail 400 youngsters i go to the head from the jail and say let's let me make a program for rehabilitation so you have a program how many years does this program of rehabilitation in the jails and heritage so how many years is that right now when i sit with you we have more than a thousand prisoners right now in all prisons that sit and learning tour this program is going from 1973 till today and how many people went through the whole program would you say hundreds hundreds anders in the bikini ballet last month was a big er bigger what you call a convention for the police in the system from the jails the ad from the jail says that from the program program from all jails in israel prisons he says that the best program is the program that we have from tolling right because 70 80 percent don't go back to jail but the most important in the end then i decided and start to go to the jails not in stat but more important but you're going to the jails in in in the streets in the disco let's take deep boilers in the girls before they go to jail before they go to come make him a home and we started mcdonald in 1972 with eight eighteen boys eighteen boys today may have more than twenty thousand graduates i also wanted to talk about the cr the crazy story that happened when the rob was the robin migdal amygdala emic and on rosh hashanah because it was an unbelievable story the the rav is in shul in rosh hashanah and is he gets tapped on the shoulder and he turns around what does he see sveal doradi the mayor of migdal haimic is standing there the wedding is a is a real character we're not getting into that but he he's tapping the rove on the shoulder on russia's shoulder morning and he says we have a situation over here code red and we need the rabbi to come and put it out because if not is going to be a massacre now what happened what happened was the so the rough system what happened last night he said last night there was a party in the saghnut in the city for the new russian immigrants who came to migdal magdala emec and what happened was a moroccan boy passed by and he heard the singing we heard the music here he wanted to be in the party and he came inside and the russians said get out and they told him you have to leave and they forced him so what did this boy do he took a bottle and he smashed it down on a chair and he broke the battle and then he killed one of the russians that's what happened that's the background of what happened that night on rosh hashanah knight magdala so what happened i don't know the old story in the sestemium that right now the old russians making the demonstration they come together and they're taking mama everything what they have to go to fight with them are going to save themselves going to be like a ball between the russian and moga and he says that he he goes there and they want to say something they're screaming in them they want to do they want to kill him the mayor then it says maybe you come you can help i live right away synagogue come there i see what happened all russian i started to speak to them in english and this time you know in 73 they know english a demonstration a demonstration you must but my idea is let's go to make this demonstration in the synagogue so instead of them fighting what the rav did is the rav took them away from where they were going to actually fight and maybe kill each other to the shoe to make the demonstration in the shul during washington the rock holds them to the shore i come in with old people i think all the mother also from the boy and everybody the husband was there the bianca jack rosenbomb for he has a beautiful voice he's a big cousin and he decided to come to mcdonald's the inn is by bell he's staying rosenbaum is staying in play and certainly the old russian comes in became a balagan and he asked what happened let me tell him that somebody killed ifaldine he faked it fight it in the middle of that middle governing then i go everybody is inside i go to their own kurdish open up their own kurdish and say jewish in english jews of course of course a very hard thing what happened but fighting i tell you if you will fight he will kill somebody or or or or if so what you say to the wound something somebody you will not finish this year and who am i speaking a helicopter you're a helicopter outside of the square of this couple is coming the head from the police from the from the israel with the old group you know what happened the fight comes down they see him they see the helicopter he says i can speak to everybody give me a delegation they take few five six people the russian it goes in the room near the synagogue and what is a moral kana you don't speak english and they speak only only dish or russian it says that if i want that i will the rav is going to be the translator the interpreter you must understand them they come they have not they have no apartments they're very poor and you come and the government gives you a nice apartment in this journalist is i say to myself if i will say to them what he says he will be he will be in that i say he says that this boy will be forever in the in the in the rub what the rub is saying is that the chief of police was basically telling the russians things that the revenue if the russians would hear these things they would not react well so the rev basically interpreted his words completely differently than what he was saying he was saying you have to understand the rope's saying we're going to put them away forever we're going to lock them up the newspapers wrote about the rub what was the line have made better basically everybody afterwards they understood that the rav understood exactly what to say and i like to say that that rosh hashanah was when the ralph was kinder the rob acquired miguel emic he saved the city from a massacre and that was mahmoud at the moment he became the love of the city today the two cities in israel that keep up shabbat hundred percent everything is close when you drive into mcd there's a there's a gas station in the in both sides of the city they're gas stations with signs that say we're closed on shabbos and you don't find this anywhere else this is fine gas station which is closed on shabbos but i want to i want to talk to the rav for a second because the rav is not a you know he grew up in a charm he's not a person with the sports he was never into sports and yet somehow of grossman not just did he get at the sports he ended up being involved with one of the most famous sports teams in the world the new york knicks and that how did that happen where the rub ends up going to madison square garden on the parquet floor of madison square garden what was the story why did the rav end up going to madison square garden one day i was in my home in the old guys that you called it disco in the beginning what was your name for the guys from the disco what means the guys from the disco that's called these guys on from the disco we call them so he's sitting at home and there's a knock at the door they come then i don't mind tonight i open up the door and they take me and they started singing yes sherlock him yes a god and they put me of a kang in the street of the crown of the deck from the car in the dancing yes i think maybe meshiach is coming yeshua kim what happened this night was a game between macabee tel aviv in rochester in israel one with one point this russian in the the in television in the radio that he gives the news from the game because israel is his success is screaming yeshua so the sports announcer who was announcing the game he was so excited he was so excited that israel won this game against russia that he screams out yay shalom kim there is a god now all over israel people went crazy and oh and that sadiq came through of grossman's house screaming yeah look at me look him and they picked them up and put them on top of a car and they're dancing around the car screaming yes you're looking so what happened then after them one for them maybe three years after them one from the boys amygdala america very interesting boy sitting there learning learning he finished his decided to learning when he finished the whole chase i make a big big body and i say to the old people you remember the the the the screaming yeshua kim for this for the sport let's make a big party in singing yeshua kim for this boy i brought rabbi yourself to me it was the cheap rabbi that was the see him that was a beautiful scene yeah shalom came but then the rav had an idea and the idea was i just want to tell what the idea is the ralph said look there's so many israelis in in america so many things and they have no connection to the yiddish guy they have no connections to torah how do i reach 20 000 israelis in one shot how do i do this i want to i reach everybody in one shot so rob had a great idea todd brody was the guy who won the game against moscow and the rev had become friends with tao brodie so the rov goes to tom brody and says listen i want you to set up a game a basketball game between maccabi tel aviv and the new york knicks and i want i'm going to come back in madison square garden i am going to come and i'm going to speak in the halftime show so what happened so tell him what happened in the halftime show at halftime they say usually people stay up to date to do the same never surprise everybody sit they make darkness only middle delight then i come in me to microphone i come in no people and says my name is rabbi grossman i come from israel to speak to you you israeli you remember are you what means to you you never ever place that let's say together then i said let's say sing together [Music] can explain the feeling for the old people they don't want to leave he's singing again many people in new york remember and then they started to call me sent letters and many many people became close to hashem from this unbelievable one game from one night wait a second but we have to say the best part of the story was what dr j right dr j said to the rev maybe take a shot now rev gross would never never shot a basketball in his life but dr james like let me help you and he says okay hold the ball like this and bend your knees like that the rub said let me do it by myself what happened i say let me do then i take the ball i conflate myself and i put in is it [Music] i want to talk about one other story i mean we commercially we could talk we could talk all day and all night hashem which we did when i'm the book the same the book that's coming out now from the from the rub it's called legend and it's and it's uh with art school and this is a book that's hours and hours and hours that i spoke with of grossman about his incredible life but just one more story this story was really one of the most amazing stories that the rov had in his life a life of amazing stories but this story was like a gorgeous marco speaking to the rav and this is going back to 2004 if i'm not mistaken when the rav signed i decided to build me build a beauty a very big campus for the boys the sign is i signed for six million dollars i have maybe maybe 200 200 that's it maybe more then when i signed you have a video that says i say i signed you will pay that's what i say okay the laughing in this after them i became the israel prize oh so at that time israel gave rav grossman the a very a very prestigious prize it's called the israel prize which is really it was for a lifetime of achievement that's what it was and therefore because he had the prize everywhere he went in israel people recognized this everybody knew it was a big thing it was a big hole so the prime minister in the president and televisions right i come to ella to go on fundraising you received israel price we want also to give you a prize what you want upgrade mere to the first class now rav grossman never used to go on first class because what i used to duck of money for for the travel no no but now they gave him the upgrade for free so okay okay i got in first class was sixth seat two and two into i see dell nobody is hell in the last minute comes a couple the american couple and sit down okay the flight is take out never i do this i don't know why i do this i stay up go to this man and say shalom my name is rabbi grossman i walk with thousands of kids they used to call it the disk you know by telling the story and i said maybe you want to see a dvd a video from my place thereof knew he can't go anywhere he's stuck he can't go anywhere he has to watch it say okay then i take the the the dvd and put him take this table from the indian in the plane put this in and he use him and his wife right he needs his wife and then you i take on eight minutes i see finished i come to take back okay slow down so let's let's get what happened here clear the rov gets her from a seat the rev goes over to this man and his wife to take back the dvd machine that he that he just watched very nice now what happens next but that man you know in this plane you have a battle here a button in the seat if you pull the button then the seat became like a bed i come i come but one one hand i want to take the dvd from the end i put my hand over the bottom of the unit and then i push the button i make him lean he goes from one second to the next from sitting up to lying down without knowing it he's shocked he doesn't know what's what's going on yeah she sees someone you think somebody is very fat and put them in like i'm done i don't know what to do and i stay and then i i i is leaving is living like them i give him a kiss in this is okay so this is a very funny part of the story the ghost is standing he's towering above this guy this guy just went from sitting to lying down and with grossman he doesn't know why he does this but for whatever reason not knowing why he bends over and he gives the guy a kiss on the forehead he doesn't know why he doesn't i say and say no but because i want to show you i'm excited and you feel bad for what happened excuse me excuse me then i take back i go back to my place and i speak to myself why are you doing things like why did you do this why i share me for myself two minutes later you stay up with his wife come to my chair he says rabbi i wanted you know i've been very close to bb and i've been very close to brie bielski bielski is the head from the jewel from the uga very blessed he says i put away a big amount from from for for building they want to save kids like what you're doing they show me many things the uga and the the the homes the jewish age agency in bibi show me that i don't like ask my wife i make a sign with god if somebody will come then he's walking with these kids from walking home office and he will give me like his eel this is the man that i need to give him the money can you believe that this is to make a sign like a crazy and it gives me a couple of million dollars to build this building unbelievable i just wanted to say we're going to finish off with it with this interview and the mai said it all started if we go back in the beginning it all started from the rav for the obvious israel wanted to go and save kalaya soil that's how it all started that's where it began with the rav with a person a year who wants to give and save kaiser and that led to a lifetime of the most amazing amazing story evan every day you say in the darkening i thank you god that you created me for you anna i say every time in my speeches in my daughter i say a story this was a father an american he has a son in america in two sons in israel one is rich he lives in kissaria and one is a pool lives in mcdonald in the merry office south an american he sent a letter to his son the big the richest in shekels say your brother is going to be your brother is going to be uh wedding i wanted to come to the wedding everything that you will spend for your wedding i will give you back and it says also please try the juice brother with this formula for mcdonald's will also come okay this son from kiselian save a letter that father will give back everything but he spent is going to tel aviv in this golf center bought for his vibe about different boutique you know boutique denies clothes he voiced for himself beautiful wood beautiful suit everything for his kids but the mcdonald's is brother he sent them i have a ticket for you this in this day be flying to america but you don't go to buy a clothing in in in for his wife the brothers vibe and the children okay day is coming the two formulas come to airport loud they go on the plane to america in america in kennedy airport the father this is my son this is my grandchild so proud the leader comes to the son from ignorant clothing very like like pool he became ashamed what can he do okay day after they take him to tellton avenue in ballpark bought them a clothing finish the wedding was a beautiful body wedding in in bold of astoria was beautiful after the wedding after the chevy bonus time to go home this son from kisanya waiting their father to give him the backpost where's the money send me the money i don't i say don't you go to his father father you know how much cost me the old boutique and all the clothing and everything the father says you're a big boy you will walk a little louder you will you will pay back he says hey i have overdraft in my bank you will pay back father what your problems mean that everything what i will spend you will give me back i promise you i have the letter okay let's show the letter let's take the letter let's read together everything what you will spend for mine honor i will give you back the says to his son if you will think of mine anna you will try that your brother and his wife and it should also have beautiful clothing what you spend is for you on them i never promise you that i will give you for you right now what is the emotion if you try only for yourself that you're learning and darwining and keep up together but if you do this only and you don't try that your brother also to have little shyness and to give him love god says this is not for man you do this for you right now every day and if you think you need to take care of your brother's kids and then you know i grew up in a home in bhativashin my father was the growing the bestowal grossman 10 kids in 70 medals in mid 50s arrived in israel the yemenis my father go to washington speak it go in the eminence youths leave this time in in tense winter very bad it goes from 10 to 10 it says if you have a problem for your kids i have a place and you brought to my home i in my homework five kids yeminus i used to sleep in one bed with two yamanets i assure you sure this is my blessing 70 meters 10 kids he has passion to go and my mother and father to take another five kids the yumminess why this is amazing because you don't live for yourself you live for kodeshbo thank you very much of grossman you're an inspiration for all of us against kaiser okay