Rabbi Jacobson Responds to Children's Questions - Coronavirus: Children's Program #1

okay we're going to start in a moment hi everybody okay we're going to start momentarily I want to welcome everybody to the program children literally from all over the world joining us I'm here live in Muncie New York and we're going to start in a moment okay welcome paella hadisha Candela welcome dear precious children joining us virtually globally from all over the world in a very special moment of his look of unity of inspiration I want to thank all of you for joining us I speak to you here live quarantined in my home in Muncie New York and I want to thank all of the special children I know so many of you have been home it's been a long week for some of you it's been yet more than a week we have rare children joining us from Ariat sister all from the Holy Land welcome we have our children join us from all over the United States of America and from different parts of the world different time zones different hours and Bruce Lee my Byam welcome to all of you I'm going to share with you today three stories three very special stories from me that I think would be very gosh mock and delightful for all of you to hear however before I begin the stories I do want to say that we're going to take questions and comments any of the children who wants to ask any question on your mind or on your heart or you want to share a comment or you want to share some feedback let me give you let me give you a telephone number and this telephone number is going to come bring the messages to me so you could text all of your questions to this telephone number eight four five seven seven seven four seven oh seven that's eight four five seven seven seven four seven oh seven you could text anything you would like any question any comment any feedback anything you would like to add and bleed matter towards the end of the program I'm going to share what you write try to answer your questions it could be really whatever you want we're going to have another children's program by Ezra Shem on Sunday the following Sunday 4 o'clock p.m. the same time we're going to do it a few times over the next week but today we're having it and then again Sunday at 4 p.m. and you're welcome to come and those of you who are children at heart even if on the passport you're not a child but you're lucky to be a child at heart you're also welcome to join even if you're as a Deana bubby Ana Tatiana mommy everything will be streamed live right here on the yeshiva dotnet WWDC vennett you can also ask all your questions at eight four five four eight four five seven seven seven four seven oh seven I'm getting used to I'm getting used to this system as well somebody just wrote to me my kids are watching and will hopefully give me a break so I hope you're good okay well I hope that you get a a wonderful break and I'll ask your children to treat you very respectfully and very nicely so Kindle ah what's happening now is something that's really unprecedented it never happened in my lifetime and it never happened in the lifetime of people who are even older than I am one day God willing you will tell your grandchildren about the coronavirus ayat break that came from China and arrived in United States of America and other parts of the world at the end of 2019 2020 today is Thursday March 19th twenty twenty twenty third day of other 5780 tough shinpei most of you or all of you have been out of school for a long time you're in your home families are together with Pappy's and mommies and brothers and sisters and it's not an easy time it's a very special time it's a very unique time it's very very important my dear Kindle walk that all of us use this time in the most productive fashion it's a great time to bond with your family like never before Totti is home all day and all night mommy's home all day all night all your brothers and sisters are home all day and all night it's your own unique nuclear family not even extended family is a very very special time I know sometimes we get on each other's nerves there's a lot of fighting we're not always listening but it's very important at this time to use the time well learn a lot of Tyre and do a lot of mitzvahs and great Davin Inc and do favors to your siblings begin the mix of obviously stall and respecting your father and mother begins at home and have fun enjoy life together this is a time apparently actually M wanted us to spend a lot of time in our homes building ourselves up and our families up do you remember the Mitzvah that I Shem gave the Jewish people the night before they left mitts Ryan what was that mitzvah Shem gave the Jews the night before they left mister I am impartial boy Moisture Rubino tells the Jews but after Lois 8su each may pass that base I advocate I don't want anybody going out of the door of his home until morning isn't that exactly the Mitzvah that you received a few days ago nobody should leave the home until the morning until the Sun shines on us until there's a new bright morning on this planet when this coronavirus is under control and not wreaking such havoc and damage in so many people's lives may God bring healing and recovery to everyone who needs it and to our whole world and what happened in that morning they left their homes and they also left Egypt so let's dive in and pray and hope that when our doors open up and we go out to the morning it shouldn't only be a morning of more recovery and more health over the whole world around the world we can go back to schools we go back to our shoes we can go back to our communities your tatting can go back to work your mommy can go wherever she has to go to work or elsewhere but I'll also be the ultimate morning the ultimate light waha a shameless Allah along with the hula we'll have the ultimate light or main and at these moments I have to share with you three incredible stories the first story was used to be told by the famous legendary Messiah of the miry Shiva your Bureau some Lebovitz zenefits article of rock who passed away in tough race at the Grove June June 1936 I think you took us seven tough resounding verb he was the Messiah the spiritual mentor at the famous yeshiva Damir in luther way kneel before the Second World War when he passed away in 1936 he was succeeded by the famous Mozgov from Catskill Evanston this is a story that the bureau h''im used to share and the story goes like this there was a city in Germany called Leipzig Leipzig is a very well-known city in Jewish history first of all there were many Jews who lived in Leipzig and Germany but Leipzig was known for another reason it was a place where there were every there was every year a huge you read a you read is a marketplace meaning people would come from all over Europe and the vendors would come to Leipzig with their merchandise that they would put on display and people who were running businesses factories were different types of companies in their cities and settling all over Europe wherever they lived would have to come to lights to check out all of the merchandise just like they have today jewelry shows and clothes shows and other types of shows this was like and all the people who deal with those businesses come to these shows because this is where you meet the people this is where you find what's out on the market and you could bring it back and make your money and sell it to the people there Leipzig was one of those well knowing international cities where people would come for are you read once a year or twice a year and there was a Jew his name was rip Dave Eisenman Roberto Bethel Eisenman barrel Eisenman would go every year to Leipzig he was a very affluent and successful and also a god-fearing an honest person one year instead of Dave Eisenman going to Leipzig his wife Hannah Leia went to Leipzig and Himalayan went on this long journey from the city where she lived with her husband she arrived in Leipzig she came to her hotel she unpacked her suitcase and she went to check out the eread this was her first time ever and liked sick all the merchants all the vendors sore they wondered why her husband wasn't there well her husband had surgery and he was bedridden he was ill so there was no way he could physically come to Leipzig and that's why in desperation he sent his wife who arrived here for the first time the vendors didn't mind their better lies a man had a splendid he had a sterling reputation of honesty and that Bora Hashemi has money and he was a successful Jew and they treated his wife with the utmost respect and dignity and they showed her what we call creme de la creme you know every vendor knows that for this customer you have to show the best because they want it and they're capable of paying for it and they gave her the same treatment they gave her husband they were in the business of fabrics and clothes soft goods dry goods clothes fabrics so all of the the stylists and all over the designers would bring their fabrics and their materials their and their new types of clothes and garments and they showed her the best and they gave her the price and she went from vendor to vendor it took a few days and it was absolutely successful she found exactly what her husband wanted she found exactly what they needed the price has made sense she had the money it was really marvelous in fact she completed her mission a few days before the eread was over she was so excited she came back to hotel she was serene relaxed she didn't realize it would work out so well barrel a initially was very hesitant to send his wife because she didn't really have experience but because of his surgery he really had no choice now today you could take a phone and you could communicate and you can call if there's a question I know when I go shopping in the store my wife gives me a list and I usually can't find the items I'm not that good with shopping in the groceries even though I go so I give a call you text and you say what do you want me to get that opportunity didn't exist at the time you had to send a letter and the letter took a long time to get there by that time do you read was over but he drew a map for her before she left and he explained her everything that's going on and he knew most of the names of the vendors and he discussed with her all of the details hoping that with God's grace it would work out and indeed it worked out perfectly now the system was that for a few days she would examine all the merchandise get the price make a list of it and then before she would leave she would actually go and pick up the merchandise that she needed and pay for it this was the last day after she would pick up all the fabrics and materials and she would head home excitingly and with a sense of accomplishment and gratitude she took her purse and went to the vendors in order to pay up it was a good day for her the son was signing physically and emotionally besides she also had a surprise for her husband because she even met a new guy what you call a new kid on the block a new stylist a new designer who came out with us a whole new type of fabric this was a whole new a whole new new a new merchandise new item to offer in the market and there their market was an affluent market then she found this and she thought her husband would love it and this fellow really appreciated the business and he made a great deal with her and she was so excited anyway she comes to the first vendor who already put away the material for Hanalei Eisenman all she needed was to pick it up and pay for it the first vendors name was Yosef Chester ie ie the Leipzig lot of Jews it was full of Jews Leipzig was fully you did was full of Jews there were many of the famous Godoy lessor all who did also business and life think they're well known but that's for a different a different class different program she takes all the materials from this to be a soulish Esther but when she puts her hand in the purse to take out the money hi Ella Dana no the money is gone she searches everywhere she's digging looking everything the money is gone she's she traces back her steps from the hotel maybe she'll find it it's gone she goes back to her hotel room looks on the bed under the mattress in the bathroom under the chair and the closets maybe it's gone it's gone what happened did somebody steal it somebody pickpocket her somebody break into the room did she lose it somewhere she couldn't figure out what happened and she understood this was a tragedy for her because they were affluent people but they didn't have infinite wealth and her husband always would save up the money that was necessary to purchase the merchandise and this was all the money saved up which was exactly enough and now was all gone the poor woman was devastated she was shattered she was broken she could barely catch her breath and your Brussels gesture saw the situation and he comforted and he said listen we know your husband he's an honest man he's a god-fearing man don't worry we trust you take the materials and you'll mail us the money you'll send us the money with a messenger the other vendors calmed her down don't worry we'll give you credit this was two of a good client to lose and he was a very trusted human being they really trusted his loyalty give outlet great but for her this was not comfort she knew she has to come back to her husband and tell her she lost the money she really didn't have extra cash they were successful did enough extra cash I always have to be invested in the business and what would her husband say and how could she do this to him she also noticed there was a hole in her pocketbook and that's when she realized what happened nobody stole it basically there was a hole in her in her purse and the entire she had all the money all the cash she had stacked up and it was tied with a with a string and she realized and it just all slipped out through the hole and it was gone she couldn't get herself to go home like this she was so broken and then she decided to do one think she's gonna put up signs all over the Erie didn't like sick now life sick was a big city filled with the Jews but mostly non-jews and right that she lost a significant amount of money give some identifying signs and hope hope beyond hope there was nothing more hope that one good honest god-fearing Jew would see the sign hope that maybe he found the money and his conscience would tell him go and give it back she put up signs all over lights in all the Jewish communities the shoals and in the marketplace and Leipzig telling the story briefly and asking anybody who found her money near the hotel or in the area to please return it the kana leia Eisenman she gave her address in the hotel frankly she didn't expect that the person who found the money would see the sign and even if he would see the sign would decide to return the money too after all most of the city as I said was not even Jewish lo and behold she had Mazel a fellow appeared he found the stack of cash he found all the money his name Ellison bear Gilovich your heinessen Berger lovage was a Jew I've been Tyra he knew how lucky he was a serious Jew he found the money he came to and he said I was walking I found this she was so excited I knew lots of it came under the journalism Ana's let you know how excited she was can I have it you're innocent Berryhill of it's Esther know how logically I do not have to give it to you she says why not you know it's mine I gave you someone and I gave you sighs now all you can do laugh who learned a limit see isn't a second above him asiya was your heinessen right or wrong what did your highness and Teller I want you to think for a moment on your own what did your innocence tell her why doesn't he have to give her back the money even though it's hers no innocence said this was found in a private domain or a public domain it was found in her issue Sir Robin in a public domain with thousands of people go most of the people are Jews or non-jews non-jews if you lose money in such a public domain do you give up hope or you don't give up hope do you think ah Jew who knows element C is and who knows about the mitzvot warszawa surveyed when you find something that's lost you have to return it is he or she gonna find it or probably statistically if you have 90 percent who don't even know about the midst of isomer survey that they may not even be Jewish 90 percent not Jewish and 10 percent Jewish or whatever the percentage is statistically you don't think you're ever gonna get it back this is a concept in a locker known as huge you give up you despair you despair OMA I'm never gonna get back this one evening you hope that miracle should happen but frankly practically speaking you don't think it's gonna happen and what's the halacha when an owner loses something and his me is he or she gives up hope that they're ever gonna find it again I logically that this association relinquishes their legal ownership over it and if I find it I'm allowed to keep it I'm not called a thief I mean if I want to give it back that's wonderful I can give you a gift I can give it back but I don't have to give it back because you're not considered the owner again it's a beautiful thing but legally there's no moral obligation you could take me to court Benson and be my entire me to give you back the money why because you relinquish ownership how did you relinquish ownership you didn't want to but by despairing by losing hope that you're ever going to have it you basically disconnected yourself from it you don't think it's yours anymore because you don't have it anymore and legally the person who finds it is allowed to take it even if you discover who it is because it's likely that you're not gonna discover who it is this is called yoosh nebulous and burglar it says ma'am mrs. Eisenman did you believe that you would find us did you believe that a Jew would find us and look for the Samana mand give it back you did not in such a society in such a reality in such a public domain where most of the people are not Jews therefore I do not have to give you back this money the poor woman was now even more spattered imagine she has the money but she can't get it and she said that's conniver that's thievery give me back my money you're a caliph and he said let's go to the roof tell him the story and you will see that I am right how logically I am NOT a thief I'm doing it and I'm right they went to the rough in order of was was a rabbi visiting Leipzig at the time he was considered one of the greatest rabbis and sages of his generation Rebbe Itzhak l hon inspectors a could Sannikov raha the Kovner off he was the rabbi of Kovner luther a Nia but he was considered one of the greatest sages halakhah cthe or ''tis not only in leafy Lithuania but in all of Eastern Europe the coven ear of rabbit Sakhalin and passed away in toe fresh nonverbally Veron 1896 he was visiting leipzig the man join us and beloved sister let's go to the governor of rabbit circle halt inspector they come to the beautiful c'mon she tells the story they're behind us and beggar Loveridge says his story and he looks at they rob and he says never tell her the halacha I do not owe her anything I am not obligated to give her even uprooted even a mark even a shackle even a ruble whatever the currency she was using there in Leipzig I assume it was the German currency of the time tell her and the company rubber bits of an inspector thought for a moment he looked at them both and he said can Alea you are right if you're innocent you're actually making an error you need to give her the entire money I said why not the why may he don't do any why and he said these words she is Ashley aha her husband she is an emissary of her husband she came here representing her husband she has no right to be me iishe on the money without his consent without his permission and he never found out about this story yet she is working for him she is representing him he gave her the money to do the business on his behalf the fact that she the spirit of the money she does not have the power to despair on the Michailidis behalf on the one who sent her in her husband's behalf if she would have called him and sent him a letter and said what happened and he despaired okay but he never disappeared over the money she doesn't have a right to be sick me is for him he never told her to be my age he doesn't even know what happened now because he doesn't even know what happened he's far away in a bed he had surgery is not in Leipzig so here we have a fascinating case all of you know the case what's the cult yeesh shall I meet us if you lose money but you did not know that you lost the money if you would have knowing you may have had the spirit but you don't know that you lost it you're in another city you don't know that your wife in leipzig lost the money is this called here should not you Sh in potential you might have despaired but in reality you did not because you don't know that you lost the money so in reality you never gave up hope over the money I buy an rava have an argument in the septum of Mitzi and elements he is and this is one of the six places and shafts where the halacha is like a buyer not like robber usually when I buy a rover debate the laws like rover but there are six exceptions right yeah Elka gone one of them is you'd use in you sh the lockers like a buyer whether supplier say you shall owe me das if you disappear but you don't know it meaning there's no awareness you don't know you lost the money it's not called hugely Schmitt huge battle-ax Eisenman never the spirit of the money and therefore you are obligated to give back the money to kind of layer eysan and so she should be able to give it to her husband come away it got back the money and she brought it back to bed allah Eisenman in the shtetl where they live to be able to continue their business successfully the marsh kiosk of the mirror you see vert abusive Lebovitz pulled over the story and he said you here kinder life you here bottom you here students we are all flew him we are all messengers of hashem in this world we are all ambassadors of the Reeb initial euler hashem sent each and every one of you and each and every one of us down to this world and he gave us a schlissel and he gave us a mission and he said you represent him and as long as you're here he did not give up on you and he did not give up on your mission and even if you think that users lost opportunities and things that are lost the master never ever gave up on this list i want to quote to you the way the bureau would say this to his students a friend of mine sent to me no beautiful would say in the mirror yeshiva you hear about him Ashley ass doesn't have the right to the spear we are saluting him in this world we are ambassadors of our SEM in this world sometimes you look at your life and you want to give up you're miserable you get depressed you give up on yourself I'm not successful I'm not progressing there's so many challenges these things that are bothering me I have anxiety you don't have a right to the spirit the bees intimacy is even if you think that's the only option now because you are representing Hashem in this world and he never ever gives up on you on your soul on your body on your life on your success on your happiness are you lost everything your going on broke I shall never ever give up ever never gives up on you and this is true right now some of us it's a little difficult you're quarantined some of you are boards know many of you are happy not to be in school although many of the schools are continuing beautifully and you're learning wonderfully but sometimes it's hard but I want you always to remember whose power you have whose energy you have your be Rossum said you represent Hashem if you represent that Shem the Gemara says in conditions loose I shall Adam camisa a messenger represents the one who sends him so you have all the power in the world all the confidence in the world you're invincible you're indestructible your soul is a piece of our sham is a helical akame mouth you represent Hashem in this world you are infinity in this world and if we have the power to prevail under all circumstances to keep your spirits never ever give up hope never ever relinquish you drew even if you're looking at a situation and all there is to do is use for this you have to remember what the Heimlich erosion of Easter all of erosion says yoosh salami das years spire Jew can only be if there's no das if there's no awareness when you know who you are there's no years why because you're Ashley uh you don't have the right the piece of me is it's not my money my body doesn't belong to me my soul doesn't belong to me my life doesn't belong to me it's a gift I am a gift you're a gift hashem sent down a piece of himself into this world he never gave up you're a piece of our ship in this world no years kindle i know the spirit may be challenging it may be difficult sometimes I cry sometimes I've been pain but keep that hope keep that faith keep that spirit going now I want to share with you another story but let me see if there are any questions and we'll take them because everybody could send in questions let me give you the number themselves let me give you the number you can ask any questions and give any feedback I see a lot of comments here thank you for all the comments and the words of praise and the compliments but now we're going to look if there are if there are any questions so you could text eight four five seven seven seven four seven oh seven eight four five seven seven seven four seven oh seven you can text all your questions about this or anything else and God willing I will respond to it person wants to know what is the source of the story the source of the story I'll tell you right now I'll tell you right now a friend of mine by the name of Mendel Kannan sent it to me a few days ago and his mother sent it to him she read it in hameau dia in Israel the Israeli newspaper imodium many many years ago and she preserved the happy for it a copy of it and he sent it to me now so that's the story I'm sharing with you that's the source of the story I can't authenticate it anymore the story comes with all of the names that I shared with you so now let's move on to the next story okay I want to welcome all the Kindle ah who have joined us I know many of you have joined us once again thank you so much for being with us it's been a long week we're all in the same boat we're all in this together I want you to know what you're doing in your house I'm doing in my house my children are doing in our house and our house there keep the Simca keep their muna people to be talking it's a serious time this coronavirus is a very serious virus hm should protect all of us all of you stay healthy stay quarantined we have to curb this virus but as every crisis there's also tremendous opportunities here utilize this time this is a time you're going to remember utilize the time well it's a very special time for Toyota for our visor for Camilla's Kassadin photographer Tefila foots doctor for alice's role for mitzvahs for respecting Tati and mommy for bonding with your family be nice to your little sisters be nice to your little brothers and little brothers and sisters be nice to your older brothers and older sisters because sometimes the younger ones really rule run the show be nice be sensitive be respectful it's a great time to learn how to live together when families learn how to live together and trust each other it's the best preparation for life good marriages come from good childhoods when you have learned how to live with your parents and your family you respect each other's space but you also preserve your own space and your own boundaries sit around the meal share your stories share your experiences have fun together schmooze together sink together dance together put somebody on the keyboard and dance together celebrate together speak together learn together davon together I assume you're ready fighting together so I don't have to tell you to do that I assume you're also arguing with each other you're good Jewish children but I'm saying in addition to that enjoy each other celebrate celebrate with each other okay we have your children from London we have our children for marriages ro we have children from Australia oops we have children from Australia Wow we have children mothers from all over the world it's a very very special moment all of us here together dedicating ourselves to strengthen it to strengthen each other with our sister all and with ACTA sister all I'm now gonna share with you another story somebody wrote a prep can you do this program again I'm really enjoying this well we're middle of the program why do you ask them about the next program enjoy it now but yes we're gonna have it again Sunday 4 o'clock p.m. right here at 30 Shiva dotnet Sunday 4 o'clock p.m. come back ok question how can anyone give up hope if everything is part of our sim you're a very smart child give out they come so happy you're asking this question because we're not all we don't always feel this way the ixora inside of me doesn't want me to always feel that I'm part of my shell the 8th Sahara sometimes tells me I'm a bad person I'm a failure I'm a loser I'm unsuccessful I'm not part of our show I don't have all the strength that I need the XR o sometimes tells me to do things that are alien to my true essence to my true identity to my true purpose to my true core as as Ashley F of Hashem as a soldier of a sham as a representative of our self that's you're exactly right but when somebody becomes aware of that then there's no use also remember sometimes people go through difficulties in life you know boring Hashem you're sitting here with your family you're in your house with a mommy and a topic some people are alone there in a home alone and it's not easy it's not difficult it's very difficult sometimes people have different painful situations in life some people have fallen very ill because of this corona so in life there's sometimes situations where there's a voice inside of us that tells us to give up some of you know that some relatives in your family sometimes give up you give up and it's a very normal part of the human condition and that's what your Bureau was teaching that by a Jew there's no huge huge said the originary shallow ami das it means you have no dots when you say at the holy law Odom das the first das is no you Shh okay a question coming in from Heshy Hesse Hayashi actually is five years old and five year old has she text me a question rabbi Jacobsen why didn't the man want to give the money you know as I was telling the story I had the same question why did the man give her such a hard time I am so proud of you has she that you have this question I'm proud of you the fact that you don't understand why the man didn't want to give it back of the Monday that is very very special I have another question why did he come to her to tell her that he has the money if he didn't want to give it back to her that that that I don't understand why why did he why did he tell her if you don't want to give it back of the money don't tell her that you have the money and then make her feel bad very very strange I don't know the answer for this I'll just speculate I'll speculate what I think and my speculation is that maybe Uranus in' was ready to give her back a little bit of the money but not all of the money maybe that's what happened that's why he showed up maybe it just happened to be that she encountered him maybe she was searching for the money maybe she you know put up a sign and she happened to meet and he said oh I found this money you know sometimes that happens you say Oh does anybody know oh I know I know I know that I have found the money to give it back to me says no I'm not giving it back to you the reason why he didn't wanna give back the money has she is because sometimes people feel that if I made a lot of money and I don't have to give it back to you why should I give it back to you even if it's the nice thing to do and it's a wonderful thing to do but if I'm not obligated to do it then I don't have to do it so I did he didn't want to do it he wanted to keep the money for himself that sometimes an emotion that people have it's a very human emotion and that's why there are hollow eyes about it if everybody would always have the emotion to sheer then so much of halakha would not be relevant just be nice to people be kind to people go beyond the letter of the law the reason we need law is because sometimes people's emotions take them in different places and sometimes we're not even sure what's right and what's wrong and that's where we have a look and I look it means even if I'm not in the mood of it and even if I want to keep the money for myself but the Shulchan Aruch tells us that the will of our Shem is to give up the money so that's very very valuable has she I'm very proud of you for your question let me continue now my dearest kinder luck with the next with the next the next story okay some wonderful questions here I'm laughing I'll tell you so why but I'm gonna deal with these questions later we are here from Israel all the kindling from Israel all my children are enjoying it immensely we were planning to come to New York for Pesach and now all the plans are out of the window and there's a lot of disappointment we are very disappointed we were so looking forward to come to the United States to New York for Pesach okay excellent thank you for sharing this I'm so happy you're on with us and yes a lot of disappointment a lot of people's Pesach plans I was supposed to be pacer in Italy I was supposed to be pesos in stress Italy and my family and I were also very disappointed I know somebody a friend of mine here who lives nearby supposed to be there to sell for pizza by his family and he was very disappointed and I was supposed to be today at a wedding of such a close relative of mine of a niece of mine and the wedding is not far from here and I can't tell you the disappointment it's a very very very difficult time it's very challenging but I'm now gonna tell you a second story that I think is going to be very very inspirational and very powerful I'm gonna take more questions soon this story was shared by the Jew who would happen to and it's a very moving story I happen to know this person his name was Reb Mendel foot of us rep Mendel foot the FA's was a Russian Jew accosted and he was sent to Siberia for 14 years most people sent to Siberia didn't survive Serperior was one of the gulags the work camps that the communist Bolshevik regime created millions and millions of people were sent to the gulag in Siberia and other places and they could not survive first of all the cold it could get there 70 below zero and worse the illness malnutrition the environment in which they live the barracks the hard labor or they were just shot and killed but from all of these horrific circumstances most of them did not survive Rep Mendel foot the FA's was exiled to Siberia for 14 years I knew him after he came out of Russia he managed to get out of the Soviet Union in the 1960s and then I met him in the 70s and 80s and early 90s I used to Fabray with him a lot he was a very special Jew a real Eurasian maíam by him Yiddish kite was engrave than every fiber of his being and he was a smart man he was a wise man and he went through so much of life he had so many difficult experiences when he would speak you knew you're speaking to a person that every word he paid a price for things were not superficial IRA Mendel once shared the following story the story left such an impression on me ice it's such a powerful approach to life he says it was one night we were in the barrack in Siberia and what would they do a lot of schmoozing a lot of conversations what do people do when they're quarantined in a barrack they didn't have much to do there and let's remember they did not have the comforts that we have you know let's remember some of our parents were drafted to war we were told to stay in our houses and sit on the couch we can do it sometimes it's challenging me we can do it and this is our siliceous now this is what God wants we do it that we do it with simcha because this is Rutzen Russia but they require intend in a barrack and they're schmoozing and what are they talking about so one of the people says the good old days he was an actor in Russia he wasn't Jewish he was an actor very popular actor and he was exiled to Siberia the other one was a military general he was imprisoned tortured exiled to Siberia the other one was a professor a journalist a priest a businessman a writer a novelist and essayist a lawyer you have to understand that Stalin got of the most cultured educated people in the Soviet Union because if anybody thought for themselves you were a threat to the communist regime which was completely totalitarian Stalin substituted bread with bullets jobs with gulags and paradise with purgatory I can't tell you how much people suffered in the Soviet Union from the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 through Stalin's death Stalin became the leader of Russia in 1924 he died Purim 1953 one day I'll tell you the story and then the communism only fell in 1989 1990 but for 30 years Stalin was a strong dictator 1924 to 1953 tough rich pay dollar through tough chanute gimel and I can't tell you my parents grew up in the Soviet Union Mies a that was arrested in the Soviet Union so I grew up with a lot of history and a lot of stories of Russia and if you had a mind you were successful was likely you were sent to Siberia and everybody started to talk about their glorious lives they were popular they were affluent they were respected they were influential they had beautiful families they had relatively nice comfortable lives they were successful people and now they had nothing nothing they weren't even sure they're gonna survive for much longer and the actors started to cry and the general started to cry and the journalists started to cry and the lawyer and the doctor and and the professor and the novelist all talking about musing and shearing the misery of what they used to have and now they lost it all they ended up with nothing there now pieces of garbage literally treated like pieces of garbage one man wasn't sobbing Reb Mendel for the fuss so he said one of the several one of the non-jews turned to him and said I know why you're not crying you probably were always a loser and you're still a loser and when you got nothing you got nothing to lose you lost nothing you didn't have anything before and you have nothing now you have nothing to cry but we had glorious careers and that's why we're crying and Reb Mendel turned to them and he said traveller speaking in Russian actually I was a very successful businessman Herr Mendl was an affluent person he was a pretty wealthy Jew and I lost it all I also a married have a wife I have children and I missed them dearly I lost a lot I lost a lot but I'll tell you why I'm not crying because my main occupation my main job I did not lose what do you mean you didn't lose your main job what what job do you have ur da da fell trees all day in a Siberian forest and died from the cold what job the a ver he said my main occupation before I was sent to Siberia was that I was a servant of Hashem I was a never - M and that job I still have now nobody took that away from me the difference is in the software not on the hardware before I was exiled to Siberia I served God through running my business giving a lot of charity and living a very nice and comfortable life today I still serve God I serve God as a Siberian prisoner yes the circumstances of my life have changed but mice main occupation my identity my dignity has not changed exactly the same position I was chosen by God to serve him to bring a little bit of his light into the world and I'm still doing that even though the circumstances have changed that's why I'm sad I'm paying I miss my old life I want to return to my family I want to return to a normal life but I'm not in the spear my soul has not been snatched away from me my sense of inner resolve and dignity and confidence has not been taken away from me because who I was I still AM and my primary vocation in life I still maintain I'm a servant of Hashem in this world I serve God and Nina vrai see LeSean McCoy me the Mishna says at the end of condition I'm a hostage I'm a Jew who works for Russia and that insight that story Byrum Endel for the fuss touches me very deeply I'll tell you what I take of it the circumstances of life changed I wanted to be a knight too strong I wanted to be in New York I wanted to be in in in Italy I expected to be here I anticipated life to look like this you know everyone had plans and part of the plans of the end of other and the beginning of Nissen of March and April and May was not to stay stuck in the house with every jewel closed down I personally have been giving sure of every single day with large crowds I'm here in the house myself speaking to you through the miracles of technology which I'm very grateful for but I'm sitting literally alone in a room and I'm thinking questions through texts and that's the small stuff and then there's serious challenges people create trajectories plans for our lives our to-do lists and then it snatched away you know God caught everybody off guard I shouldn't caught everybody off guard but I want you to remember your core self you did not lose don't get stuck in the software don't get stuck in the circumstances I was an avid Asham and I am an avid Asham you were created to serve Hashem Irish like Ruby Rossum says you're a messenger of a sham you're an ambassador of love light hope healing redemption and you're still an ambassador of the rear burner I'm an ambassador of love light healing redemption Tyler Sims their movement doesn't indicate here is Shammai and Abbas Hashem Abba cetera novices saw that nobody nobody and nothing could take away from you yesterday Hashem wanted me to serve him in one way today Hashem wants me to serve him in a different way three weeks ago I sham wanted me to serve him in one way today Hashem wants me to serve him by being in my home on 9je court that Muncie and serve him here this is how he wants and if this is how he wants me to serve him that's how I serve Him it's a disappoint think sometimes it's very disappointing is it painful sometimes it's very very painful sometimes it's very frustrating but don't forget who you are why you were created and remember that is timeless it accompanies you and it follows you throughout your entire life I'm gonna tell you an insight that was sheared I heard this from a Jew his name was grab Herschel Fulghum and all over Shalom and he told me he said that when the previous labovitz irreparably serviettes on their every yachts ran away from nazi-occupied warsaw he came to New York in 1940 and pay so he spent in Lakewood and during one of the fàbregas during one of the gatherings one of the Titian on Lakewood in Pesach faced adoption 1940 this is toughs in 1940 the leper said the following inside it says into Hill and we say it in Hollow on our Shem kyani of down how does everybody translate it please Hashem help me I'm your servant I'm your 'event but there's something missing in the plastic it doesn't say please a Shem help me this is unwashed and please I shall because I'm your servant something is missing in the sentence please what what are you asking for later it will say on our sandwich iana please help me but enter some missing the rebus said take a look how on earth spelled on our semi-sheer not honor spelled Aleph non Aleph what does elephant and olive mean honor please but that gosh I beg you I plead with you annachi uncanny of deska how is on a spelt Aleph known hey what's the difference Aleph non Aleph means please honor please I beg you Aleph non hey means we're under sailor we're gonna go under with there hey at the end doesn't mean please it means we're you know what the Villa Mella was saying on Asham kyani after huh a bursters hug me rue well it's been Bank my passion tell me we're tell me where you want me to be and I'm fine I'm your servant I'm here to serve you I am your ambassador in this world therefore I'm invincible gunky a little bit gates I'm obviously really a team or even if I walk in the shadow of death I am not in fear and and panic because you're with me to hilum chapter 33 tehilim chapter 1 39 mm Ellis says him s action I am some Autobot see a shyly Mecca if I go up to the heavens you if I go down into the abyss on quarantined in the abyss you're also here even if I'm a cross to see gosh um your clothes son Shane even such as they need even there your hand holds on to me come holy honest with me Michael even the deepest darkness darkness can't black you darkness can't eclipse your presence I am always on ever - em just telling me we're so that Mendel said yesterday he wanted me to be here serve him here today he wants to be the serve Vermeer I know who I am and that identity is as powerful and invincible and therefore it gives me comfort it gives me confidence it gives me solace tell you to Kindle I at this moment I want all of you to be able to look into yourself turns out Shem and say oh no Hashem candy F now tell me where you want me to be here quarantined I'm here because I'm here to serve you and this is how you want me and us to serve you during this time we're gonna do it with a joy with passion with faith with similar with trust with confidence with resolve with courage you can add any other adjectives I hope you took your English grammar today you get at any other adjectives you want and to be very responsible to do what we have to do not to kalila spread this virus let me take questions from all the Tyler Kindle on ham let me take questions [Music] so the story that you spoke you said about leipzig according to our luca that he have to give it back or not excellent question according to the halacha he thought he does not have to give it back but the governor of a bit circle hun inspector showed him that he was making a mistake he treated the woman's money as though was her money and she gave up on it and he said no she's Ashley odd and her husband never gave up on it she doesn't ever right to give up on it that's the point you don't have a right to give up on a life that doesn't belong to you it's God's life and he never gives up you also don't give up is the corona virus real the corona virus is real that's a virus is real the issue is we know so little about it we don't have all the testing and all the research and all the tests statistics and medications and vaccines we know so little about it and that is part of the danger part of the danger is you see for thousands of years people didn't know that viruses existed you know why we can't see them with our naked eye you know how large this virus is this virus the particles of this virus are 125 nanometers a meter is around 3 feet you know what a nanometer is a nanometer is one billionth of a meter one take a meter three feet and divide it into a billion parts this virus is 125 nanometers you can see it with your naked eye these are called microorganisms it's like a little living organism and it travels and in order for it to replicate in order for it to survive it needs to attach itself to a living organism a tree a bush an animal a bird a living organism and a person it looks for a living cell and that becomes its host and the virus goes into the host cell and it kidnaps the cell and then it uses the Machine the mechanisms of the cell to replicate itself and it spreads all around the body and the body starts finding it and we are going to have program explaining what this means and explaining it from my tired perspective god willing next week next week join us we're gonna have so how much of it we don't know all the details that's what doctors all over the world are trying to figure it out what we do know is that it's highly contagious we do know that complete countries have been unlocked down because of it we do know that some people have become seriously ill because of it at unfortunately places especially in China and Italy there have been many casualties may God protect all the people in all of the countries and therefore we're trying to do whatever we can the virus spreads very very fast and a lot of and people who are older can get sick and get very very sick and if it happens so fast and you have millions of people sick the hospitals can't deal with them but if the virus travels much slower much slower so then they can deal with every case that needs emergency help in hospitals and so forth when we stay quarantined what I remain isolated in my home you remain isolated in my home in your home so if I have the corona virus if I have it I'm not gonna pass it on to other people and if I don't have it I'm not gonna catch it when we go out even if we're just in the street I go into a store I touch a doorknob I touch somebody's shirt I touch somebody's food and I can catch it and then I bring it to other people or if you don't have it I can give it to you that's the advantage of being quarantined very good question can you address accepting change of plans due to all of this well I think the main point is very powerful it's very hard to make a change of plans it's really really hard and we have to acknowledge the difficulty don't deny their emotions don't deny the pain it's a difficult time for all of us we're all in this together and my heart goes out to all of you I love you you're so special all your kindle ah and we love each other and it's a very difficult time for all of us and this is where the power of this kite is so powerful back to the Mendel's words the software changed not the hardware don't let the change of plans infect your identity your dignity your sim Cossack valium and your soul don't allow a sudden change of plans deprive you of the joy of life the joy of life must remain why because the change of plans are just different ways and opportunities to serve Hashem but the core of who you are an ambassador of God an ambassador of infinity no coronavirus can take away from you and when you're connected to that and you just realize the place changes circumstances change the software changes but not the hardware your your your in a very very good place Ahuva nine years old who created god ah Hoover is such a delicious girl who created who created God you know what I over listen we have to do a session about this and we're gonna take these types of questions I'm gonna do another session again stay tuned with us and we'll do a session but I don't want to ignore your question at all so I'm just gonna say one very short sentence very short I know it needs much more explanation but I just don't want to ignore your question completely cuz this may have been on your mind since you're four years old right now Hoover how long has this been on your mind for somebody to create the world if you know anything about our world for somebody to create our world this being has to be beyond time beyond space and beyond physical matter and such a being doesn't have to be created because such a being is reality it's the core of reality and the source of reality we have to discuss this more god willing we'll do more programs and take these questions more how could it be that the achievers shut down isn't it that keeps us going this comes from mashallah mashallah and mehndi my Salam Mandy this is a wonderful question how can we shut down the achievers when Tara keeps us going what a beautiful beautiful question the Gemara says in the second Shabbos that the world stands on the heavily noites shell based upon the world stands on the holy words and the breath that comes out from you the second Allah when you learn apostle kamesh when you learn a pea Krishna is when you learn on amid Gomorrah when you learn as if until tomorrow when you learn something of Tyria when you daven when you say to hell and when you davon the world stands on this breath how can it be that the achievers close down the answer to this question it's a wonderful question excellent question and I'm so proud of you and let me answer the question I'm gonna give you an example maybe a funny example the Gomorrah says a masochist Magilla were coming from Purim you may have learned this Gomorrah the beginning of my secular Magilla I think it's doubt Dalit Nevada and Talmud Tyra like reiha-sama Gila we stop learning if I'm a Russia Shiva I'm giving a shear we want to learn but there's a minyan tear the Megillah we stop our learning to go here the McGill the Gomorrah says even the tire name and the base are making us had to stop their avoider to go here that Magilla during the second base on mixtures they had poor him that to stop their avoid now you might ask a question how can you stop the learning of Tyra in order to hear the Megillah I don't understand Tyra keeps us going and the answer is Tyra is the one who tells us to stop learning in order to go here the Megillah the tire itself that keeps us going is the one that tells us that sometimes it's time to do things differently the tire commands us the halacha is that peacock nefesh saving the life of even one person overrides all over the mitzvos of the toad a kyon goggle could be in Kippur in the coitus a Kardashian but if there's a life in danger and he can save the life he must drop everything and go run and save this life the Mishna says in sanhedrin that saving one soul is like saving the whole world and destroying one Souls like destroying the whole world the Taira also tells us that we have an obligation to listen to doctors in order to be able to save lives and to protect our health the tyre also tells us this is our law cancel tomorrow fury daya kofta Zion that if God forbid there's a pandemic there's a desert is a pandemic in a city a person must quarantine himself he must run away he must go to a place where he remains safe so he doesn't catch it and of course in our case there's nowhere to run because it's all over the world there's nowhere to run I can't go to another city that doesn't have it and if I do I'm bringing it over there and that's why isolation is our law so the same tire that keeps us going tells us that there's certain situations when the author of the territory binder shel olam says now is a time unfortunately where Hashem wants a different slickest from you a different mission from you where he wants you to be home you remember when my shoe broke the Lukas Hashem said yo Kefka Shibata sometimes our Shem says thank you for breaking the Lukas that's number one number two we should not stop learning we're learning right now it's a different type of learning it may not be the same hours and not may not be the same environment but you the shake in the lock are continuing to learn Torah everywhere I know my kids schools are going in full force my boys are learning tomorrow with their with their Abi's from Chicago be sifter to boys are sitting now in their stiking in Gomorrah my daughter is learning now commercial halacha my son is learning so continue to learn make sure continue to learn but how we the circumstances that itself Toyota tells us so the same God who told us that Toyota protect us and Terry keeps us going also tells us we must listen to health professionals and we must do everything to save a life and if not we violate the terror who sees human life as the most valuable thing in the world great question rabbi Jacobsen Ahuva age 9 Oh we spoke about a home ok my name is dovey and I am watching you Thank You dovey for watching us please come back Sunday at 4:00 we're gonna be here again if the messenger is like the one who sent him why then can't the messenger give up hope III give I'll take a question like a mother cup lissa kun a should RT halt I'll tell you why because I am representing the one who sent me to be able to represent him not to be able to define what the mission is if you send me say rabbi Jacob said I want to make you ash Leah you'll become Bar Mitzvah you're gonna make me Ashley off to burn the Comets for you are you gonna make me Ashley asked to give sadaqa for you to separate Rimmer you're gonna make me ash Leah you decide what the slickness is I can't come and say no I think the mission should be this then I'm not your messenger anymore Hashem says I don't give up on you I believe in you forever and ever I represent Hashem as long as I'm representing a Shem the moment I decide a different agenda different perspective then I am not being true to myself you know what it's like imagine your refrigerator says you know what I don't want to represent that electricity anymore that's flowing through me I want to be my own person and it asks you to pull out the plug and you pull out the plug you know what happens to the refrigerator it's about here it doesn't work anymore the whole refrigerator is the electricity the power the fittest electricity that flows through you the power of the schlep is the energy of a Shem that flows through me so therefore I can't decide I'm giving up on my life that means I'm disconnected to the truth that I'm part of infinity you don't give up on infinity you don't give up on godliness you don't give up on beauty I have a question what should I do I feel like I'm in a prison what do you do when you feel like you're in a prison I suffer with anxiety my entire life I have a agoraphobia it's so hard to get around on my own my parents passed away already and I still haven't gotten married I feel so alone I have friends I have feeling siblings I did a lot of therapy I'm still suffering I always wanted to get married and have a family but I can't do it it's not happening I dated for years I don't feel happy I haven't felt happy in a long time I feel angry at our Shem he's in charge and my reality is so so painful I'm so so sorry and I would like to continue this conversation privately you can email me rabbi why why at the yeshiva net rabbi why why at the yeshiva dotnet we'll continue the conversation privately I don't think it's for this program the only thing I would tell you is that some of us have a lot of deep anxiety and we have to respect that I can't I can't give you a few words and get rid of your anxiety I wish I would be able to I wish I was able to tell you something us get rid of your anxiety I don't think we can always get rid of our anxiety what we have to know is that we have anxiety but we are bigger than our anxiety the core of - Shama is not anxious and that God is with me through my anxiety I am larger than my anxiety but sometimes I can't just get rid of my anxiety and there is a painful out reality there but don't identify the anxiety with your essence ever Kanaan elsalam welcome how can you give up hope if you are in the place we lost it excellent question back to the story because it was a public domain there were thousands and thousands and thousands of people let me ask you come on your shoulder if you're walking I don't know do you know Manhattan if you're walking on Fifth Avenue Manhattan like 600,000 people walking everybody with their cell phones right and you drop a hundred-dollar bill right then a day later you come back you think you're gonna find it it's a public domain there's so many people if you lose it in your little stable in your little base meddra SHhhh you lost it in your classroom you know all the people are there they have a mitzvah my shovel surveyed if you have some money then you don't give up hope if you don't have some on them then you do give up hope because nobody's gonna know it's you unless it's mamas a tiny place where you could speak to everybody but in such a public domain with mostly non-jews she gave up hope very nice you asked before why the man gave to the lady to tell her that he found the money if he wouldn't give it back to her because he didn't want she should keep on looking for it okay he was being nice he wanted to avoid her another headache to continue looking Devi is five years old why were people sent to Siberia oh yeah he's Devi if I would know the answer to your question why are there people who are so who behave in such an evil and destructive way why Hashem gave people free choice and we have to fight with our yeat Sahara and make sure that it doesn't take over our lives but some people make terrible choices Pera enslaved a whole nation hummin wanting to destroy a whole nation and a Crusaders was not too much better Joseph Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union for 30 years the man was brilliant but he was paranoid paranoid and he cared about human life less less than you care about the dust in your bedroom less sometimes people can choose a horrific horrific path in life and that's part of our job our job in the world is to teach the path of goodness to teach the path of morality I count my blessings and remain positive as much as possible but reality hurts me so so much yeah I'm so sorry yeah I want to pray for you please send me send me your name and your mother's name I would like to pray for you rabbi why way at the yeshiva net grab my this was not just for children the grown-ups loved it as much I'm glad that you are a child in your hearts my name is Miriam I'm 10 years old remember survived Siberia did they shorten his term or did he escape how was he able to vibe without breaking his heart if I'm not mistaking I think they shortened this term and he came out after 10th round 14 years I think after Stalin's death after Stalin's death a lot of people were emancipated the Soviet Union was still a horrible place cursed country what the Communists did there but it was better than under Stalin and I think he came out how he survived it was unique every person who survived was a miracle I knew I knew quite a few Jews who survived the gulag for many years I knew a Jew his name was laser Nana sir a blazer Nana's he he survived he was in the gulag for twenty years he wrote a book called sue bata with a pen name of ROM Nats aha he was the gulag for 20 years I knew other Jews who in the gulag for 10 years 15 years 20 years they survived a hatch tremendous courage tremendous resolve and there was meaning in their life you know Viktor Frankl was a Jewish therapist a psychologist he was a student of Freud and he was in Auschwitz and he wrote a book man in search of meaning and Viktor Frankl writes over there that he found that people in Auschwitz the only ones who could survive were people who had meaning in their lives that transcended outwards it didn't mean they would survive six million Jews were killed but it meant the only people who could survive potentially was people who had meaning outside of Auschwitz and he was one of those survivors an incredible incredible insight Benji Benji for Manchester United Kingdom welcome Benji Benji Salomon from United Kingdom if we are meant to be solution for Martian why don't we have instructions Benji I love you question why doesn't he give us a manual Benji I have a secret we do have instructions it's called the Taira every Danish Minister we call Tyra Tyra scallion what does Tara Skye you mean Tara Skye a means a guide for life a map you know if you're going on a long journey you don't remember the days before ways before GPS we used to take maps and the map says go here go there today Waze tells you or or or Google Maps tiles you make a right make a left why it's complicated I could get lost very easily life also needs a road map I should stay on the path I should get to my destination I should live a healthy life a wholesome life a happy life what is the Waze GPS God's positioning system we call it the Taira now within the tire itself there's instructions that relate to every person individually that's why we need good teachers good friends with parents who can show us the map that guides all of humanity and all of the Jewish people also contains individual messages and instructions that help each of us in our own journey of life Shalom nine-years-old welcome to the program for husband and wife are like a team why can't the wife give up hope and accounts like the husband because they're a team great question I love the questions I give out I see why your teachers love you you have great questions Wow the answer is because it wasn't her business she knew nothing about it she didn't want to go to Leipzig it wasn't her money wasn't her business it was his business it was his money he appointed her as his messenger she was asleep therefore she could not give up hope how did God create the world and why how old are you 5 years old 5 years old 5 years old going on 80 how did God create the world and why exactly how God created the world you're asking the wrong person as if I would know how I would do it myself but when we study the world we know a lot about about how God created the world meaning we know a lot of the mechanisms the systems that I shall used to create the world how he invented those systems it's because God nobody can invent those systems but when you study the world you see a lot of the tremendous mechanism example when you study your body yo-you says me sorry excel a cop from my flesh I could perceive a Shem you study the biology of a human being I'm gonna have a program next week we're gonna discuss how viruses work and how we fight viruses from a Jewish perspective and that's gonna be one example of the brilliant mech brilliant mechanism that a Shem used just to create the human body and then you have all of the other living organisms in the world and then everything else on the planet and then everything else in the whole universe and cosmos why Hashem created the world ah the question of all questions that's a big question and again we have to leave it for another program but I don't want to ignore your question so I'm going to just give a very brief answer one of the great reasons why Shem created the world is says in the madras madras raba says in parshas no so you and insurer Sheeran and in houma Paris now say this avocadoes Baro Julio is Lloyd D ribbit Athena Hashem created the world because he wanted you and me should be his ambassadors to make this world a home for Russia he wanted us to become his representatives and create a world filled with goodness kindness love he brought us into a world that looks so fragmented everybody is separate and everybody thinks about themselves and we would reveal Hashem and HUD that really were all one we come from one and were all one look what happened here a little virus affected a person in Wuhan China and he sneezed and all of your schools closed down and you're listening to me now we're all connected were all one so are shem created the world and he sent each of us into this world to take this world to refine it to revolutionize the landscape of planet earth and to reveal the oneness and the love and the light that pervades it all beginning with yourself for you to realize that you are the manifestation of a Shems light in the world and this is allows us the experience of a relationship with Hashem of oneness with Hashem for ourselves for our loved ones and for the whole world excellent question is so much more to talk about if we were supposed to leave the best matters for coronavirus why did Reebok ever have refused to teach Toyota Brabham isn't it the same Sakana Menahem why did you behave at each tire publicly he knew that the Romans made a decree against Ida why did it also endangered his life forever Kiva thought Thailand he was killed it hadn't been trapped in you talking about brother 61 the brothers on McAuliffe what about our desire you testified in a bit dragon was teaching Tyra and the Romans burned him they should have all closed about a matter but the bottom Madras ice excellent excellent question wonderful question the answer is very simple when an empire and a regime stands up and wants to destroy Yiddish guides from the Jewish people the Torah says that sometimes we are obligated to have mysterious nefesh not always but sometimes there are moments that we sacrifice everything we have free this guide photographer mitzvos for hashem for our relationship with a shot just like a father and a mother your mother would sacrifice everything for her child we are sometimes summoned to give up everything even the gift of life for Hashem because that's who we truly are that is our essential relationship the coronavirus is not coming from an emperor who's trying to destroy tired and you despite the corona is not trying to shut down Jews who are learning tighter or domine ninh show the coronavirus is an illness that infects people so imagine somebody god forbid has janna ma and their immune system is not good so the doctor tells the boy you can't go to yeshiva because you can get very very ill over there nobody is gonna tell him we're gonna we fought the Romans we fought the Egyptians we fought the Babylonians we fought their Syrians we fought the Greeks we fought the Persians we fought the Russians we fought the Germans we're gonna fight the doctor - we're gonna fight it the doctors not trying to destroy Toyota the doctor would love if you learned Toyota this is an illness that Hashem caused the person to have and I am says I need you to do everything to heal from this illness the coronavirus not trying to fight terrorism we could say we're not gonna let him frighten it it's an illness that's now in the world and we're trying to save lives by quarantining ourselves and learning in our homes learning tyre in our homes the coronavirus doesn't mind if you learn tire in your home the coronavirus simply travels from person to person that's the idea it's not a war against Tyler it's a virus that infects people and kills house for some people who are senior citizens or have a low immune system people who have problems with their lungs people who have asthma people lose immunity is compromised and therefore the toyotas says we have to protect them and if we go out and we're irresponsible and we say we're not gonna allow them to shut down terror what we're doing is we can have blood on our hands in the name of Toyota we're sacrificing the life of a Jew so if I'm sacrificing the life of a Jew because I want traitors should survive I'm doing it for terror fraction that's mysterious nefesh but if I'm doing it for what because I want to be irresponsible because I'm going to be irresponsible and go against the Toyota then a person can't do this this is not sacrifice for the sake for the sake of of Toyota Corolla is not trying to destroy Toyota do you understand my dear friend this is an illness that we have to protect all good people from that's why the show tomorrow says when there's an epidemic you run away but what if you have a base mattress what about mysterious nephesh you learn somewhere else then I try to take away the Toyota from you but you have to do what you have to do in order to keep people healthy and not god forbid endanger people's lives I'm animus IFTA why can't we be the Kauai can't we be quarantined together and not leave you Seva well you could be quarantined together and not leave your Shiva but somebody has to do laundry somebody has to buy you food right somebody has to take care of you somebody has to cook you you need a place to sleep you need somebody to take care of you so people have to move around the larger group of people that say you're mister has 50 people together 50 people together even if one person got it all the 50 people get it now once in two weeks you want to go visit your mommy or get food now your family gets it right even if it's 50 people and one person gets it are you gonna remain quarantined 50 people together locked up in a room a whole time and are you sure nobody has it at some point people are going to manuever people have to move people have to survive so the larger groups of people the more danger it is because if one has it then a larger group of people gets it and then they're going to spread it to a much larger group of people right if nobody has it but one gets it he's gonna bring it to a group of 50 people and then when they go out they bring it to so many so many more people you see to transfer this virus you don't have to feel sick you could feel healthy you could be a young man or a young boy a young boy or a young girl you have the virus you touch the doorknob of your grandmother's home and she gets the virus and she has four Solomon is very ill even though you didn't fall ill so I could transfer the virus even though I don't feel sick so that's the problem here whenever you have large groups of people and anybody goes out anywhere it just transfers and transfers and let me tell you how fast this goes when people mingle right so let's say today if I had coronavirus I may have it I'm not sure I did dance with somebody who was who had corona virus so I may have it and I was in a shoe where somebody had it so I was exposed to it I'm staying home and like I hope all of you are but let's say I have it yeah and I mingle I wouldn't I will infect at least two people okay so tomorrow two people have it even if it's only me rabbi why why only me and I give to people hospital the day after yeah those two people it gets doubled let's say each of them gives it to two people so the third day four people have it if you double each day that number by the time you hit day 26 or 27 you now many people have the virus around 500 million people that's every single American plus another 200 million people you heard what I said around you could do it on a calculator or do it with a chess board okay one piece two pieces double it four pieces eight pieces sixteen pieces 32 pieces in the beginning it doesn't look a large like a large number you hit day 20 21 22 you hit around day 26 27 around 500 million people you come today 30 Ordway 28 29 you're dealing with almost a billion people remember the last few days it doubles crazy numbers so imagine if we just all mingle around yeah or even 50 people together in your Mis IFTA but then you start going out if somebody has to go out right somebody has to bring milk somebody has to bring water somebody has to bring tricking somebody has to pick up something for Shabbos you have to eat somebody has to go out if there's 50 people there's a chance that somebody has it now you go to a grocery store you sneeze by mistake on a doorknob an older man comes cuz he needs food then he touches the doorknob he touches his eyes and I wanna let's Lonnie can end up in the ICU unit you get the point so if we mingle every single American has it now if a certain percentage is very ill suddenly 2 million people come to a spittle 's they don't have beds they don't have doctors they don't have respirators this could be a terrible terrible tragedy in Italy they had to choose who gets a respirator they didn't have enough for everybody because it spread so fast cuz they didn't take it serious but here is the good news I spoke to a friend of mine who lives in Florence in Italy and he said today in his region was the first day that the number didn't go up because they're on full quarantine everybody is home 24 hours a day seven days a week they don't go out full quarantine a friend of mine a rabbi in Florence with his whole family 24/7 in the house he says today the numbers didn't go up the numbers stayed the same the first time first time but has their Shemin stay the same so you want very small units of people because people spread it all the time and if it goes it just doubles every day you come to impossible numbers but what happens if the virus spreads over many many many more months so in the meantime some people get it and they recover some people need emergency help and make they should recover but it's not so many hundreds of thousands of millions of people in one shot and then many many lives can be speared and be saved you stall on five years old why do we sing like you hood them high so IRA of Purim during Abdullah hood they're my side why sir I love this simcha versus our envy car okay it's a great question and you know what I don't know I have to look it up but I think one of the answers is because every much sorry Shabbos we're going away from Shabbos and whenever we go away from Shabbos it's difficult the six days of the week don't have the holiness the beauty the ghachok of Shabbos that's why we smelled of Summum there's a special song that many juicy midsize Shabbos alterior of the archive don't fear Yaakov Shabbos ends sometimes a Jew fears Hashem says don't fear so I think it's one of the reasons why my sorry Shabbos we declare while you hood in my cellar of a simple service awesome a car that even though we're going into a new week we could still hold on to the life of Shabbos did joy of Shabbos the festivities of Shabbos and the glory of Shabbos especially as we're lighting a fire or burn a millennia H but I will look it up because there's probably much more to it Yosef is six years old what are the things that you have to have mysterious nefesh for and what things do you not do you see what six-year-old Candela are asking these days my dear adults parents and teachers I mean we got to up the level of education children today understand a lot more than anybody thinks talk to them real talk to them about infinity give them the real thing but only if you can give yourself the real thing very very briefly very briefly these are the hollow caisson rambha men and Gomorrah nancial Homeric generally all mitzvos get canceled out if a life is in danger I eat on Yom Kippur and I Drive on Shabbos and I can eat tray for food and I can eat comets on Pesach and I could commit almost I can violate almost every single Mitzvah in the Torah if somebody's life is in danger right that's where you have the solar ambulance comes to a house on Shabbos they take the person to the hospital how can they do this even though they're not even sure he's gonna die even if it's a Suffolk if it's a doubt and a doubt your ladder violate all that almost all the mistress of Toyota in order to save a person's life there's three prohibitions for which we have mysterious nefesh Delia is vicious government of a desert Gomorrah Sun hundred page 74 Rambam hostess you say the attire chapter 5 and this is the hawa Henschel cholera three sins and that is to murder somebody I'm now let it kill another person I can't murder another Jew in order to save my life even though I'm gonna save my life but at that expense I could I can eat hum it's a basic I can do a lot of sins but I cannot I cannot murder another and then there's Gilly arias which is committing adultery committing adultery would be usually a woman who's married and she goes to live with another with another husband which destroys the holiness of the family and of marriage which was one of the holiest things in the world and the last thing is our Vedas are of I desire amines idolatry which is serving idols denying Hashem worshiping other gods that's something for which the Jew has mysterious nefesh sacrifices his life how did I shall let the coronavirus happen I am Yana nine years old ah I am Yana I don't know I don't know we live in a painful world until Messiah comes we live in a painful world and it's very hard to understand a lot of the things a Shem does his thoughts are not our thoughts you know think about it you're nine years old if you would take you three-year-old brother and put him in a yeshiva with the Russia Shiva was giving a Shearer to through two-year-old brilliant people who know the whole shots your brother would say I don't understand the word and it's pretty boring because he can't expect his little brain to understand what this genius is saying even though your brother may grow up and be as smart and knowledgeable as him it's impossible for the finite brain a limited brain of a person to understand Hashem infinite wisdom if we understand anything it's a miracle Shems wisdom is infinite this perspective is infinite there are some things we understand some things we don't understand I don't know the reason why our Shem wanted the coronavirus to come now what I do know and this is maybe more important as what our mission is we may not know why but we do know that there is meaning and this purpose everything has meaning and purpose and we have to utilize it as an opportunity to grow to grow individually to grow as families grow as communities to grow as the Jewish people and to grow as humanity we're all part of God's world so we have to use this opportunity to grow and know that there is meaning will we one day know the full meaning of it perhaps but I don't know burro okay there are two paths one everything is for the good perhaps not immediately but eventually good will come out from it that's true because everything comes from our Shem there is goodness in everything there's meaning and everything there's purpose in everything but sometimes we don't understand it and sometimes it looks so painful and it is very painful I'll give you a simple example if you go into a hospital and you see a surgeon cutting open a person's body but you grew up in a desert you never knew about hospitals and its operations what are you going to do you're going to scream murderer or murderer little do you know that the surgeon is saving the person's life so sometimes we don't see the full picture we don't understand everything it doesn't mean it's not painful a surgery is very painful and it doesn't mean that people did not make mistakes people make mistakes it doesn't mean that in everything there is a spark of goodness there is meaning this opportunity this purpose and sometimes we can't know the reason why but we have to ask ourselves is how can I grow from it what can you borrow he'll do at this moment in your life to be able to become a happier person a better person a deeper person kinder laughs we're going to take a break for now thank you so much for all these wonderful wonderful questions I was planning to go for 40 minutes 45 minutes but with all these questions I didn't want to stop it and we're all having a great time together it's so special and precious and holy to be with you it's inspiring I love you so much and I bless you stay healthy may Hashem give you and your families and all of Claudius are all only good health among all good people in the whole world and use this time well I told you with your families if you could dance with your families celebrate life with your families be thankful for the blessings and look forward to all the opportunities that we have in store during these very very interesting times and one day you're gonna look back and tell your grandchildren ooh let me tell you about this mashugana virus this crazy little creature that you can't see came from China and turned the whole world over whoo how to taught us the power of one little creature the power of one person the power of one handshake and the connectedness of the whole world and I'm going to see you back here we're going to have a children's program Sunday 4 p.m. on value Sheva dotnet featured on the home page this video you can also replay it's gonna be on the issue with that net and we're gonna have another live one Sunday at 4:00 again you could text in all of your questions if you want send your questions beforehand so I'll know what to talk about you could send your questions beforehand now I have to get the number eight four five four seven seven four seven oh seven eight four five seven seven seven four seven oh seven you could text your questions you can email rabbi why why at the yeshiva dotnet I'm gonna see you here again inmates are Shem Vasia rush em with good spirits with similar with a Munna with B toxin Sunday at 4 p.m. in the meantime I have another Shir here live for adults at 9 p.m. but I see you guys are quite intelligent so those of you who tell your parents are gonna be up on time you could come 9 o'clock p.m. tomorrow morning we learned by shovin listen this at 7:00 in the morning tomorrow at 8 in the morning Sunday afternoon 4:00 p.m. we have a children's program I can already wish you a beautiful Shabbos of meaningful Shabbos and uplifting Shabbos a healthy Shabbos an inspiring Shabbos stay quarantined in your home be responsible but keep those spirits high ma Shem help the world heal the world save the world at Ultima bring us out of this crisis gesundheit frailer to hate and give us ultimately the ghoulish leymah be mayor biame new domain via main thank you very much have a beautiful day and a beautiful evening [Music]