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I'm going to begin with a little
meditation a short meditation for all of
you who are joining us I invite you if
you want you can join us sit up wherever
you're sitting on your couch on your
chair on the ground on the floor
wherever you're sitting try to sit
comfortably try to sit comfortably
notice your body and please close your
eyes if you want to close your eyes and
I'm going to ask you to breathe in take
a deep breath through your nose inhale
hold the air for a few seconds and then
breathe out let's do this four times
very slowly
I want you to try to relax
and remember that every single moment of
your life Hashem is holding your hands
and you're always in the loving embrace
of Hashem who's in you near you and
around you
and if you're having scary thoughts or
crazy thoughts or wild thoughts just
notice them let them be and realize that
you are noticing them which means they
are not to you because you are noticing
them and remember that every breath that
you take every single breath that you
take is a divine miracle happening right
now with all of your trillions and
trillions of cells functioning in your
body including the cells within the
lungs allowing you to take in the oxygen
and that oxygen is then transferred and
brought to your whole body and then you
exhale you breathe out all of those
things that don't have to stay in your
body they're extraneous to your body you
breathe them out and you breathe in
again new oxygen this is a Shems life
force within every cell within every
part of your body that's allowing all of
this to happen at every moment
when you're ready you can open your eyes
and come back so my dearest dearest
children we're going to begin today our
next phase with the story this is a
story that I know from the firsthand
it's not a story that I heard from
somebody who heard it from somebody who
heard it from somebody I know the people
with whom this story happened and I know
this story firsthand and I want to share
with you it's also not a story of 200
years ago or a thousand years ago or
even 50 years ago it's a story that
happened not very long ago my friend
I have a friend his name is rabbi hi I'm
slow but it's key his wife's name is
Hollis Lovett it's key they grew up in
Belgium in Europe in the city of Antwerp
antwerpen and Belgium and today they
live in Fort Lauderdale Florida
they are kabocha lucien emissaries
ambassadors of yiddish chitin fort
lorded them they've moved there in the
year 2011 nine years ago during their
first year Fort Lauderdale one day
before Pesach Erev Pesach rabbi times
Levitsky went to visit a local Jewish
doctor in order to give him Mura matzah
so he would have it by the Pesach Seder
the doctor tells the rabbi I can't speak
to you right now he was a middle of a
procedure but thank you very much for
the matzah and then he tells the p.m. he
says you see the woman in the corner of
the waiting room she's Jewish and maybe
she would also like some matzo for her
say then
so what happens cab approaches the lady
sitting in the waiting room waiting for
her turn to go to the doctor she's
sitting with a magazine he goes over to
her he introduces himself he says hi and
he says hi I want to give you some matzo
for Passover she doesn't even look up
she says leave me alone I'm not
religious he says I just want to give
you some matzah for the holiday enough
to be religious she says I don't want
anything from you rabbi slit it ski
forth maybe she's afraid it's gonna cost
her money she didn't have money he says
it's free don't want to read
no charge just take the matzah she says
I don't want you matzah I don't believe
in organized religion so he took back
the box of Madison instead he reached
out for one one of his new shiny
business cards that he printed it was in
his jacket pocket he he left it on the
chair near the woman he knew that if he
would give it to her she wouldn't take
it he left it on the chair and he said
you can always reach out to me if you
need anything
have a wonderful holiday and he left the
office a few minutes later he forgot the
story he went on to his next Mitzvah six
months later two days before Rosh
Hashana Rabbi hyams Lovitz he gets a
telephone call a woman is on the other
line and this is what she says I am the
rude lady from the doctor's office a few
months ago who rejected your kind
gesture to give me matzah but I took
your business card why am i calling you
my father is in the hospital and the
doctors gave him 48 hours to live he
asked if he could see a rabbi you're the
only rabbi I know whose telephone number
I have so I phoned you 50 minutes later
Khayyam slob a tip ski was in the
hospital
the daughter the woman the rude lady
greeted him and she tells him my father
has cancer stage 4
the illness is very very serious the
doctor says he probably has a few days
to live two days 48 hours he's 78 years
old we're Jewish but we never did
anything Jewish in our life so I'm
confused why my father asked me to see a
rabbi my sister and I the two daughters
of this man never had a bat mitzvah we
never went to Temple we never went to
sure we never went to synagogue we never
went to Hebrew school not even on the
High Holidays Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur
did we go to the synagogue we spent our
Sundays having fun not going to Hebrew
school
we are completely unaffiliated Jews Jews
who don't belong to any Jewish community
but my father wants to see a rabbi bhai
I'm Slava Tetsu but it's key goes into
the room a man
78 years old his name is Rami laying on
the bed weak he asks both of his
daughters to leave the room they leave
the room
Ronny turns to the kyon and he says
these words I was born a Jew I want to
die as a Jew rabbi slow but it's key not
it and he says Ronny don't worry when
the time comes I will do everything to
make sure that you have a kosher Jewish
burial you were born as a Jew you will
die and be buried as a Jew Ronny shook
his head he said rabbi you don't
understand what I'm saying I want to die
as a Jew the rabbi was confused what do
you mean
and he says rabbi I was born a Jew but I
want to die as a Jew you see I never had
a bris I never had a circumcision I want
to die as a Jew the door is closed rabbi
do whatever you need to do do the bris
right now I want to die as a
full-fledged circumcised drew with a
bris guy probably thought every year of
if you look like a Rob you probably also
a mile
he says lock the door and do what you
have to do right now the rabbi looks at
him and says Romney I'm not a Michael I
can't do this I can't just cut you I
can't do this he says so get me one so
I'll try to get you one promise me rabbi
promise me I'm going to die as a Jew so
I'm gonna do whatever I can with God's
grace to fulfill your last request he
went out of the room started to call
different people who do Britain this is
before Hashanah and he found one in
southern Florida who was ready to make
the trip that afternoon remember the
doctors gave this man 48 hours to live
it's very very weak the man was ready to
come this afternoon that afternoon rip
ryan ran into the room he poked his head
into the room and he shares the good
news is ronnie i found somebody to
circumcise you he's coming this
afternoon the problem is there was a
nurse in the room at that time and she
heard what he said she raised her
eyebrows you want to arrange a
circumcision here there is no way the
hospital is going to approve this Ronnie
looks at this nurse and says what are
you afraid of you're afraid that the
circumcision is gonna kill me you're
afraid that the rabbi and circumcise me
won't know what he's doing and I'm gonna
die I'm dying anyway the doctor says I
have 48 hours to live
bring me whatever waiver is you have I
won't sue you don't worry I'll sign any
paper you want and let the man come to
give a circumcision one of the daughters
of this man her name is Sam
the living in Atlanta she was visiting
her dying father she hears what's
happening the nurse told her she freaks
out she comes in she says to the nurse
my father is dying he's not in his right
mind right now this Chabad rabbi is a
religious lunatic he's a crazy man
you should expel him from the hospital
for trespassing and bothering an old man
moments before his death trying to force
him to undergo a surgery get him out of
this hospital Marva Slavitt if Sookie
slipped out of the room he knew that
there was a Jewish doctor who practiced
in the hospital and that would be his
only hope he phoned his Jewish doctor he
told him the whole story the doctor
promised that he would look into it and
do whatever he can a few minutes later
he calls back rip Heim stop at its key
and he says the legal department of the
hospital said they will agree to this
procedure with one condition you have to
find a mile who's also an MD he's also a
certified doctor a certified physician
and he has to be insured under the same
umbrella policy as hospital if you have
all these conditions he's a mile he's a
doctor and he's insured under the same
insurance like the hospital then they're
going to let him do it well go find
somebody he calls everybody that he
knows in Florida no avail Georgia
Alabama the Carolinas Virginia no
success at last he finds a mile who's a
doctor who's living in Brooklyn New York
he fits the bill
phones him tells him the story and the
doctor the moil tells you Brian get me a
ticket I'm coming down on the next day a
few hours before Rosh Hashana 3 o'clock
p.m. several hours before welcoming the
new year an elderly Jew by the name of
Ronnie was welcomed into
the bris of of Rama vino Rani chose his
own Hebrew name after the bris and you
know whose name he chose he chose the
name of another person who had his bris
not at the age of 78 but at the age of
99 and you know who that was he chose
the name of Aram by slobber tyskie sat
with Romney who was now Avraham after
his bris a few minutes before Shoshanna
he squeezed his hand every time the pain
spiked of Rob's eyes were closed from
exhaustion and his voice was so weak it
disappeared after every few words his
oxygen levels were low his body was weak
but this is Jew who just had a bris
spoke to Rabbi Slava tits key and this
is what he told them people always talk
about Jewish guilt Jews feel guilty but
you know I'm a Jew and I never suffered
from Jewish guilt I never got the memo
that you gotta be guilty as a Jew it
never reached me I had a good life I ran
a successful business I have two
beautiful daughters I own a house I even
own my own yacht my own boat I lived
almost eight decades that way and I was
happy I never felt guilt pangs I never
felt regret I never felt empty I never
looked for more and I never wanted to
look for more the doctor came in here
yesterday and he told me that it looks
like I have 48 hours to live it's
Riegert so many faults i built a
beautiful life i built a fine life but i
realized in 48 hours i won't be here
anymore
and then i discovered something there
was one thing that i did not have
a relationship with and you know what
that was that was the one thing I was
taking with me my soul my soul I didn't
have a relationship with my soul with my
neshama
the only thing that will be left with me
when everything else is gone
I never had a relationship with it I
didn't know about it
I can't tell you where it came from
rabbi but as soon as the doctor
mentioned there 48 hours to live
suddenly everything I was surrounded
with my whole life evaporated I felt
empty
I had nothing all my investments
my bank accounts my house my yeah my
yacht all my successes all my fun all my
leisure all my luxury it was all gone
there was nothing there and then I
thought about the bris I never had and I
turned to my daughters and I said get me
a rabbi and that's why I called you at
least now I have something to take up
with me when I die
he looked at rabbi celibate its skin he
said these words now I'm ready to meet
God
now I'm gonna interrupt the story for a
moment on my own and a parenthesis I'm
gonna say to appreciate what this person
did you can open up a gap Miriam assess
our voices are now viewed on with Aleph
and read the story about CATIA bar
Shalom or you can ask your father y'all
the brother to help you avoid the Zora
you da man Aleph I think in his clear
bar-shalem and you'll appreciate what
Romney did right before Rosh Hashanah
however although the doctors gave him
only 48 hours the creator of the world
decided that a Fromm should be given
more time and he gave him more time to
be able to experience his new life as a
Jew Romney of ROM celebrated his first
wishes Sean Mannion kippered as a full
member of a Roma venous tribe he heard
the Schaefer on Rosh Hashanah on circus
hi I'm slow but it's key walked two
hours to the hospital with a Lula van
and s Eric so that I've ROM could shake
it as I've ROM took the lulav the Esther
the Hadassah and our others his hands
shook as he made a blessing on the telus
lulav Saffiano Vicki Manu VG on others
Manasa for the first time in his life on
a lulav a few days later as Drew's
around the world we're getting ready to
dance with the Taira on simcha cetera
an elderly man in a floor at a hospital
by the name of of ROM passed away his
hands filled with the holy things he
could take with them to the next world
but there's a postscript to the story
their father passed away now his
daughters have made arrangements
beforehand for him to be cremated
you know what cremate it is for his body
to be burnt into ashes the ashes are
scattered it's much much cheaper than
buying and digging the grave and buying
a coffin and burying the person and
putting the tombstone you have to buy a
plot in the cemetery so the two
daughters Maya and Samantha made
arrangements for him to be creating
cremated but replica in promised dis Jew
he's gonna have a full Jewish burial
he's gonna come to cable you sir oh so
he went to the daughters and he pleaded
with them he said look what your father
wanted respect your father's last wish
and the daughters agreed Maya paid
$2,000 towards the expenses of burial
Samantha was ready to give the 695
dollars that she chipped in for the
cremation not a penny more the problem
is he needed another $9,000 to be able
to perform a burial Maya's mm and some
Anthes 695 would not cut it now this
a new rabbi in town he did not have
money none of so many connections but he
put it on his credit card he absorbed
the remaining nine thousand dollars in
expenses it was not easy for him but he
understood this is the right thing to do
this is what everybody shillelagh wants
from him this is his SH Lisa this is his
mission Rome needs to be buried as a Jew
not kalila cremated he had a full Jewish
burial reply and took care of it
cabbage was said all the Jewish
traditions were kept and maintained
Raheem admission is for him gave sadaqa
for his neshama time has passed the slop
at its keys wrote the safe attire for
the community a new safe attire for
their shul and they were now completing
the safer tailor beautiful has Nasser
secretary infer lorded there and the
woman who donated much of the same
eternity invited her friends to come to
the celebration of carrying the safe
attire the Sheol outside on there a
hopper with music and dancing and
torches and candles bringing into the
beam again into the shoulder and cried
there's dancing Herc office and a lot of
Jews many of them were secular Jews came
to the festivities beautiful celebration
a few days later Rebbetzin hi Ellis
Labatt it's Kira Prime's wife is going
through her mail and she sees a very
nice check that came from a woman living
in Atlanta that she comes with a letter
the woman writes as follows I came to
the safe a Torah celebration that you
hosted last week I came from Atlanta my
friend invited me to come and she
sponsored that there the the Torah
scroll watching the parade accompany the
holy scroll down the streets of Fort
Lauderdale and hearing people speak
about their connection to Judaism and to
the timeless values of Torah it woke up
a part in me that I did not know
existent
I never planned to give my son a bar
mitzvah I never had a bat mitzvah but
after this celebration with the Torah
scroll I made arrangements for him to
learn about Judaism with our local
rabbi I want them to know what it means
to be a Jew I am sending you a check
this check is to cover some of the costs
of my father's Jewish funeral thank you
for taking care of him when I would not
with a grateful heart
Samantha daughter of Avraham she paid up
the nine thousand dollars for her
father's burial I found this story so
moving so extraordinary it teaches us so
many things first of all it teaches you
how to look at a Jew are you dish in a
Shama what a Jewess sometimes a Jew
could live 78 years without any
connection to you this kind and there's
no guilt and you would think he doesn't
really have a soul he's part of the he's
the exception you never never
underestimate what a Jewess drew is a
piece of Hashem every Jew is a piece of
ash Emma Gaelic la cop me ma ma ma as it
says in Tanya a Jew is a fragment of the
river nation I love a spark of infinity
a light of a shine in this world and
it's something I can't change this is
who I am this is who you are your
infinite your sacred your beautiful your
holy your awesome your wholesome your
you are splendid even if I make mistakes
and even if I'm estranged and even if I
make many mistakes there's a connection
because this is who I am this is my
essence even if I haven't practiced just
like I can't change the color of my eyes
I can't change the color of my soul this
is the color of my soul this defines my
essence this is what you see in the
story with him and with the daughter
I also learned from it how sometimes we
can invest our life in so many things
but at a moment of truth you have to
answer the question that my investment
go into the right places
the
I invest in something that is really
real really powerful real eternal and a
lot of people are thinking about this
now with the coronavirus when so many of
us all of us are stuck at home with
quarantined at home most of us are not
going to work
we can't go to shul we can't go to
school you taught these and mommies are
not going to their offices at least in
the most part some are but most are not
so many businesses have closed down or
are on hold and it's a time when you
actually ask yourself what is real what
is the part of me that is indestructible
that nothing can destroy and we are am I
really investing my life Wow
thank you to Brian and Kyla for for
being the people you are and for for
such an incredible incredible
experiences story and now we come to the
riddles guys riddle time and today I'm
going to ask you to riddles okay one is
a riddle on tehilim and one is a riddle
on nature on the world hashem created
i'm gonna begin with the riddle about
something about nature that is very very
interesting okay and i want you to tune
in and whoever answers the riddle and
you get it right you're going to bleed
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let's try to get the volume a little
louder people are saying it's not so
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bit
okay so whoever gets the right answer on
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could text it into eight four five seven
seven seven 47 47 I'm going to talk
about water okay you look at water
there's something very interesting about
water the colder water becomes the
heavier it is the denser it is the
warmer the water is the hotter the water
is the lighter it is but when water
becomes colder the colder it becomes it
becomes more dense more heavy more
compacted
therefore the cold layers of water will
always sink sink to the bottom because
the colder the water gets the heavier it
gets and the coldest layer of water will
always go down to the lowest level
because it's the most dense it's the
heaviest according to this when water
reaches the freezing point it's not only
cold but it's becoming frozen and it
hardens into ice the ice should sink to
the bottom that's the way we would
expect we would expect that the ice
should sink to the bottom because now
the water reached the freezing point but
something unique happens in nature when
water is cooled to four degrees it
suddenly reverses the process and the
colder it becomes the lighter it becomes
till it's 4 degrees if it's 50 degrees
and it's going to 40 30 20 10 9 8 7 6 5
the colder it gets the heavier it gets
and therefore it sinks to the bottom and
the lower layers of water will always be
colder and the lowest
the coldest because it's the heaviest
suddenly when it hits four degrees
everything changes it's now the exact
opposite the whole process is reversed
instead of it becoming heavier you know
what happens it becomes lighter and the
colder it becomes the lighter it becomes
so therefore when it turns into ice you
know what happens the ice forms not on
the bottom the ice forms on the top
that's the process how it happens which
means which means whenever you go to
anybody of the water any body of water
the bottom of the water will never be
colder than four degrees because if it's
colder than four degrees what happens it
gets lighter and it goes it floats up
all the way to the top this is a very
very funny thing that happens as the
water gets even colder colder than four
degrees it becomes less dense and the
colder it gets it expands and it becomes
more light and therefore close to
freezing the colder water floats to the
top and the warmer water now sinks to
the bottom now if you know a little bit
about the science of water and ice
you'll have all these explanations about
the difference of molecules of water and
molecules of ice the interesting thing
is that this happens already when the
water is four degrees when it's getting
ready to become ice this change happens
so there is the scientific explanation
of what happens but what I want to ask
you today and our first riddle is can we
understand why Hashem put this
extraordinary phenomenon in nature what
are the results of this what are the
ramifications of this what would have
occurred if this ruled
not exist in science if the rule would
be consistent than that is that the more
the water gets colder and colder and
colder even lower than four degrees even
colder than four degrees it continues to
become heavier and sink this is my first
question Kindle ah you can respond there
eight four five seven seven seven
forty-seven 47 our next riddle do you
know that there's one capital in tehilim
curfew attest chapter 119 which is the
longest capital at the hilum it has 176
so come I think the same exact amount of
sukham as the longest partion how much
what's long as perish and how much no
say 176 okay
the same amount as the longest my sector
in Shas baba Basara so you have in
hamish in Suva and in gomorrah the
longest one purchase knots in the sector
of Abbas and tehilim 119 Kofi o test you
know what's unique about coffee tests it
goes through the olive base and every
letter of the alphabet gets eight sukham
so there's eight circum for a loaf and
then there's a token for Bazin eight so
can forgive mo so it starts off ashtray
smee made orichalcum Bucyrus are they
know it starts off with an Aleph and
then the next faucet ASHRAE notes
Rayados of certain which begin with
olive then it starts base by megasuck
and iris RFI and then gimel all the way
till tough every letter of the olive
base gets eight per sukham it's called
Palmilla a P and c'mon yeah P hand this
is a capital that is double homilist
song praise
ecstasy port spider towards mitzvos and
in every single pasa
dove it makes reference to shams Tyra
he uses different words sometimes he'll
use the word tie Rosco right like ash
race we made orichalcum thesaurus Hashem
he'll use the word Tyra sometimes he'll
use the word who Kappa your laws
sometimes I'll use the word Mitzvah
sacca two of town but now Aslam Dana
keep in mid-space at their Monty Baraka
- I'm Danny hotel sometimes I'll use the
word mish potaka
sometimes he'll use the word a boy
sometimes I'll use the word devar huh
sometimes I'll use the word in Raza all
of these words are used in every single
person sometimes he uses the word P
khuda huh p KU death for your
commandments your mitzvahs your
testimony every single possible have one
of these expressions but there is an
exception and my question is which pasta
Corp sukham and Kofi Oh tests are
missing any reference to Toyota in any
one of the above phrases and why you can
answer your question you can answer the
question eight four five seven seven
seven four seven four seven next program
we are going to get back to both riddles
the children who got it right if you put
in their home address you will bleed
never get something special from us here
at the yeshiva that met Tyler Tyler the
Kindle I'll tell you the Kindle ah I'm
going to begin now with a few questions
that keep on coming in from our dearest
children okay a lot of questions coming
in let's begin with a few questions and
then we're going to go to another song
and then we're gonna go to another
amazing video that we're gonna do today
about something extraordinary in our
world and then we're gonna go to more
questions and then we're going to go to
another story and finish with a song so
let me go to the first question here the
question is by Ailee how come there are
so many ways in our Vedas Hashem what is
really the right way and what is Hannah
and what is the right way to journey
during our life here on this world Wow
Haley this is a great great question and
the answer is there are those things
that we are all equal in just like we
all need oxygen we all breathe and we
all need to eat then we all need a drink
and we all need to sleep and we all need
to exercise these are things we all need
but there's also the uniqueness and
every single person that makes you
unique as the Mishna says amiss after
Sun hydrogen page 37 there are no two
people who are identical they never
worry there never were and there never
will be because indeed every single
person has a special contribution to
make in this world that nobody else has
there's a famous expression in English
we are all born originals many of us
died as copies in you discredits the
same way the mitzvos include all of us
we all dive in and we all need caution
we all give sadaqa and we all are entire
and we all celebrate shoppers and we all
celebrate dumb TIFF and we all respect
our fathers and mothers and we all love
another Jew like ourselves etcetera
etcetera however there is also the
unique journey of each person and that's
based on who you are it's based on your
personality and the type of body you
have and the type of mind you have and
the type of neshama you have and the
type of place you live and the type of
talents and resources and challenges and
blessings you have and that's why there
are supposed to be many paths it's not
supposed to be one path it's like the
body itself look at my body imagine if
my kidney decides tomorrow that it wants
to be my nose where the heart says you
know what I'm fed up with fed up with
pumping blood all day I'm exhausted I
would like to be the brain I want to be
the supervisor right or the ears decide
that they want to become the eyes and
the eyes decide they want to become the
legs and the stomach decides I want to
become the pancreas or they decide
they're all gonna do the same thing what
happens it's a catastrophe a person
can't live the beauty of the body is
that every lemon every organ has its own
unique contribution to make in life and
they work together in full cooperation
realizing that they're really one
they're creating the miracle of life and
the same is true among the Jewish people
and the same is true in serving God the
same is true in Yiddish guys there's
things that we all do equally just like
in the body the blood flows through
every part of the body the blood cells
trillions of blood cells we spoke last
time with the videos right they go
through every part of the body no
difference you don't say oh this is a
leg you don't need blood cells without
it no part of the body can live but then
there's also the unique contribution
that every single limb of the body makes
sorry sorry Huffman if Hashem knows what
we're going to do how is it our choice
and why give us a choice if you anyway
know what we're gonna do if he in any
way knows what we're going to do so we
can't do anything else and if we can't
do anything else it means we're forced
to do what he wants so we don't have a
choice
that's an excellent excellent question
wow that's an amazing question so this
is a huge discussion this is a big big
discussion and I should say that the
Rambam rights and hooks is true ver in
Chapter five I think it is that this is
such a complicated idea because to
understand how our Sims knowledge works
is beyond human comprehension but still
I'm going to give you one explanation
that's brought in some smarter this is
brought in meddra small and prickly
others in the name of the Rama Moschino
and it's brewed another swarm that is as
follows
for Hashem it's like the future happened
already and because by Hashem past
present and future are all one in fact
the name you'd hey evolve heya shams
name is three words together hiya hi
every here he was he is and he will be
so when Hashem looks at reality imagine
if you could see the future
before and for you it's like the future
happened already
so then Hashem could see what you chose
so of course you have a choice Hashem
just knows what you chose already
because by him the past and the future
are one so just like if I know what you
chose yesterday to eat by dinner there
was a big choice and you chose something
and I know what you chose it doesn't
mean that I forced you I just know what
you did Hashem for him the future is
like the past now I know it's very hard
to understand but I just want to plant
that seed I once gave a four class
series on free choice if you're really
curious girl you can go to the yeshiva
dotnet and search free choice and you'll
see I think it's four classes on this
topic where we delved into it with more
depth great question sorry okay I really
enjoy your questions and answers did you
make any major mistake if yes can you
tell us about the mistake that you made
I love you this is great so I'll tell
you a little secret it's not a secret I
always make a mistake some of them are
big and some of them are small I
sometimes make mistakes every single day
but I'll tell you what I try to do I try
to learn from every mistake when I make
a mistake and I realize I made a mistake
I ask myself wow that was a pretty
stupid mistake now how can I learn from
it not to repeat it now sometimes it
doesn't really help I repeat the mistake
again but the most important thing is
that we should try to learn from our
mistakes okay this is a question by Yo
of yahwah from melbourne australia
yahwah from melbourne I heard I heard it
be said that when you were younger you
were one of the team who used to
remember the lubavitcher rebbe his
teachings at a fabrini in' for many many
hours on Shabbos and on young turf
because they were not recorded and you
used to write them down after Shabbos
and after Yom Tov
how in the world were you able to do it
how is it possible to remember so many
hours of talks
well yo-yo that's a powerful question
it's a powerful powerful question so I
would say two things I would say three
things number one sometimes a person has
a special gift from Hashem with special
resources that you could do something
that may be difficult and challenging
but you can still do it even though a
lot of other people have other gifts and
they can do other things every person
has their unique gifts number one but
there's also something else and that is
when you're listening to something
listening to a person and you really
feel and believe that what you're
hearing now is historic
it's never going to be repeated again
and it's unbelievable powerful inspiring
deep and real material and therefore you
tune into the words with your whole soul
you can absorb it
but there is a third Kannada element and
that is you have to suspend everything
else in your mind you can't even think
about that you're not thinking about
anything else and you can't even think
about the fact that you're trying hard
to remember and you can't even think
about the fact that you're enjoying it
because then your intellectual ego your
eye gets involved and you're not really
open to absorb so you have to suspend
everything that's called bittle and you
open your mind completely these are the
three components that I think were
extremely helpful
who caused the virus the corona virus
the sultan or hashem the answer to this
is that there's only one master in the
world and that is hashem the world is
not divided by two domains where hashem
runs some things and then the sultan
runs other things Hashem is who Levada I
Sevilla sakaba masa Hashem is the one
ruler and master of the universe Hashem
our loving creator calls the shots yes
we speak about a Sutton and we speak
about my locker but all they could be is
as the Navi says kick arse and be a
defensive it's like the ax in the hand
of the chopper so imagine if you're
building a sucker and you take the
hammer and you take the nail and you
bang the nails into the wall so you
build your sucker and I want to thank
you for building my sucker am I gonna go
and thank the hammer and the nail they
did it but you don't thank the hammer
and the nail because the hammer and the
nail were just hammers they were
employed as lifeless tools in the hand
of the person who built a sucker so
Hashem has so many tools in this world
he has hammers and he has nails and part
of those hammers and nails are called
viruses that are made up of genetic
material RNA and they have their fatty
covering capsules and they travel and
they try to get into animals of the
people so they could live because if not
they can't live as I explained in
previous children's sessions so there
are all these tools that our Shem used
which we call nature but essentially
Hashem is the one master of the universe
what do you do Betsy what do you do when
you're going with sugar because you
can't go anywhere in your home I bet see
Betsy you're a good boy I love you what
should you do first of all is it
possible for you to go outside if it's
not dangerous if it's medically not a
problem
I don't know where you live so you
should try to run outside run run
outside do some exercise maybe play some
basketball do some sports maybe do some
dancing what do you do you're a smart
kid find ways to entertain yourself
there's so much amazing things you could
now do in life first of all you could
connect with friends either on the
telephone or through zoo or through a
computer call relatives pull friends
play games read books learn more
davin more you could read now like
you've never read before call your Bubbe
and you say they call your uncles and
aunts play with your siblings if you can
or come up with new ideas maybe start
writing a journal maybe make an album
maybe organize your room maybe exercise
maybe you want to learn an instrument
maybe try to learn an instrument or
maybe you want to learn how to draw or
maybe there's a top of that interests
you or maybe well hardly you should go
through tomorrow so try to figure out
how you could make your day productive
and have fun and bond with your parents
and with your siblings me and many
others have read and watched things that
I am not proud of things that ruined my
ideas okay this is an adult question
this is an adult question so you could
ask it tonight that our teenage program
9:30 p.m. you can ask this question
tonight okay because it's it's an adult
it's an adult question okay my friends
we are now gonna take a little break of
questions and answers and we are going
to go to this beautiful beautiful song
by Yishai sheller Vahine a hashem Nitze
severa vocalist
[Music]
the inai ashame to meet subbu
Oh Emile oho let's give oh you do
boy am I beat low every kind kilo yo is
boola
I deem of the cold
vinaya same needs of
I'm Aloha let's give oh you don't
he might be loved if we can kill Allah
de Molay kalui the heat is a meter
yo yo let's get rowdy
Oh
Oh No
you know
very nice
email or call
[Music]
if I can kill oh you're alive whoa
now you saved me too
you go
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
even though it although let's give oh
you don't
Oh
maybe I can climb
[Music]
No
[Music]
Wow Fahim a hashem needs eval of amyloid
calorics quite a uma batalov of eyghon
Clairsville am i've de Caro ye with that
song is telling us is that Hashem is
deepest desire and pleasure his deepest
interest is to have a relationship with
you he's so connected to you he cares so
much about who you are and everything
you do has such a powerful influence and
impact so ty in Italia the Kindle love
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coming Sunday two o'clock p.m. the
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Sunday and then next Thursday were again
gonna have four teenagers and a week
from Sunday at four going to have our
next program with children in English
and I'm going to address the two riddles
and reward all those children who got it
right and now I want to talk about
something extraordinary and marvelous
you know one session we spoke about how
viruses work and how they get into the
body and they make copies of themselves
and suddenly from one virus there are
thousands and then hundreds of thousands
and then millions and sometimes it
kalila be life-threatening a man shall
bring a complete and speedy recovery to
all those who neither a for slamming or
for Craver
speedily very speedily and smoothly and
easily when I'm I remain we spoke in one
of the programs we spoke about the white
blood cells and we spoke about the red
blood cells and now I want to speak
about another phenomenon an
extraordinary phenomenon in nature and
I'm going to talk for a few moments
about bees now we look at bees is very
very annoying you're sitting in your
sucker and you're sitting around the
table and there's of course maybe honey
on the table or whatever else does on
the table wine and suddenly in the back
there or in the honey or on your fish
there is one B and the B is roaming
around and then ten minutes later there
is eight bees in your sucker ten minutes
later there's eight bees in your Sakura
you go out to your garden now in the
spring after pay Sun and the flowers
start coming up and soon the bee start
coming out because they love to suck the
nectar they come to the nectar the sweet
part of the flower the becomes and the
bee takes the nectar and the bee eats
part of it and the bee
also can't eat so much and the bee wants
to bring back food to the tens of
thousands of bees waiting in the bee
hive so the bee has two sacs where it
stores nectar and it brings it back to
the bee hive and then the bee knows how
to take this nectar and together with
its own enzymes it turns it into honey
and even though it B is a non-kosher
insect the honey of course is very
kosher
we dip the Apple in honey and we dip
Italian honey and we love honey devathas
olive there there is kabir tommy and
eric says strollers defined as errors of
us call of wood vash it's the land that
flows with milk and honey and honey
actually comes from the nectar of the
flowers which the be through its own
body elements turns into honey and it
stores it in in cones in the bee hive
and this is what we call a mush and
kindness
oh thank you what we called Vash thank
you thank you Simon Baraka Todd in Milan
pony up Advani now here's the deal let's
say let's say you're starving you're
starving
you haven't eaten in a long time and
everyone in your home hospital doesn't
have food everybody's hungry starving
right let's say it's era of pace so you
know Eric pace are kind a lot of homes
there's no food people are starving
right I remember when I grew up Eric
pasted up in the after you're always
starving and then suddenly in the garage
or in one of the pantries or in the
freezer or somewhere you find a great
stack of good on food and of course you
eat and you make sure to eat a lot of it
so you're full and then what do you do
you go back and you tell your brothers
and your sisters there's great food
there are no macaroons or ladyfingers or
chocolate or whatever the foods you eat
on pacer every family according to its
traditionally from unity maybe some good
meat or some good steak or good burgers
or chicken or nuts or oranges or peers
whatever it is not peers but oranges and
you tell them and in a few minutes
they're all there enjoying the
shallowest - that they just found a bee
goes and finds food you see the bees are
looking bees can see and basically smell
and the bee finds the nectar but now B
wants to tell all of its friends all of
its colleagues all of its family members
and the bee hive that is great great
food here so first of all they can all
eat second of all they can bring back
food for those in the hive third of all
they can make honey problem is the bee
can speak the bee can't communicate so
dear boy inertia loyola mush em put a
mechanism into the bee into the work B
that is extraordinary and I want to show
you what it is take a look at this
extraordinary video
honeybee workers are able to send
complex messages to one another in the
wild they're sometimes nest out in the
open but mankind has persuaded them to
live and saw their honey in hives the
colonists heart is its queen she is just
a little bigger than her subjects and
mother of them all in spring when food
stocks are low the workers get busy
collecting nectar
[Music]
they have a remarkable method of telling
one another where to find the most
productive flowers
[Music]
it's called the waggle dance this
returning bee has just found a new
source of nectar and is going to tell
others in the hive about it
[Music]
first she gathers an audience to do that
she climbs on her sisters backs and
vibrates her abdomen now that she's got
their attention she begins her dance
using a code of movements that tell her
fellow workers where her discovery lies
[Music]
the duration of her waggle indicates the
distance to the nectar source the longer
the waggle the further the flower and
the angle at which she dances across the
cone tells them the direction to the
flower in relation to the Sun
[Music]
her instructions are remarkably accurate
and can pinpoint the location of a
nectar source over six kilometres away
some of her fellow workers set off
immediately to find it in one short
season the colony's workers will visit
up to 500 million flowers and will make
around 90 kilograms of honey that is
sufficient to sustain the whole colony
through the coming winter when there is
no nectar to be had
[Music]
you
Wow
this is absolutely incredible and some
time ago I know somebody who lives a few
blocks away from me in Muncie New York
and they have beehives and I dressed up
in the suit that I want to get bitten
and I went in I went into the Beehive
and you have 50,000 bees this little
little high and they're working they're
working non-stop
many of the bees live only for 30 days
because they work hours every single day
they die from exhaustion they fly back
and forth back and forth and I was
watching I saw the queen bee and then I
got to see this incredible phenomenon
this incredible miracle of nature that
you just saw and it's called the bee
dance literally the bee comes back and
it makes a dance what I like to call
with my children see gate oxidation
tensile it's like a civic dance
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
the beat is going around that yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah the music is missing but
the bee is literally dancing around so
you can just think it's excited you know
the bee got food hey harangue no no
there's so much wisdom and depth because
in that dance as the bee is dancing
around and around she's actually giving
a shear she's giving a lecture she's
giving a presentation she is teaching
everyone around her
we're they can go get their food to be
able to sustain themselves and live to
be able to bring it back to the high for
the other bees and to be able to produce
honey and oh so to do one more thing do
you know that bees are very very special
to us cuz even though we find them
annoying but if you open up the
refrigerator you look at your counter
70% I think it's around 70% of the
produce that you have in your kitchen or
in your garage and your or in your
refrigerator it's credit to the bees
because
for these for this produce to reproduce
the seeds have to be pollinated they
need pollen in order to be able to
create new bushes new trees new new
flowers that will ultimately create the
fruits and the vegetables you want and
who brings this pollen who allows all of
this produce to grow 70% of it is bees
you know why because when the bees go to
the flower to eat the nectar the bees
also pick up pollen along the way over
there and then they spread it out and
they allow a new generation to grow and
now they go back to tell their friends
and how do they share it with their
friends with this with this Silesia
tongues or with this pencil with this
with this bean pants I should say with
this bee dance the waggling of the bees
body what an what an incredible
incredible phenomenon now I want I want
to make sure you notice some of the
details when the bee comes back they're
not looking at her they have a lot of
things to do so what does the bf2 do she
has to call out and say it's time for if
I bring in it's time for a how does
she do that they're busy they're busy
then I played the Gators she starts
jumping on them and they start feeling
her stomach vibrating on them she's
jumps on them she now got their
attention she triggered them she says
never to have a special message
now they gather around there you see it
she's in the middle and now starts the
action she starts to dance
this dance is so meticulously calculated
because of a few things number one how
long is she gonna dance number two how
was she gonna dance so the B basically
knows where the Sun is and she's gonna
dance in the right angle from the Sun so
that the bees will understand that when
they go out of the hive we are they
going to find the Sun the food do they
have to go in the direction where the
Sun is that's the direction or maybe
they have to go
away from that direction maybe a
90-degree angle maybe a 15 degree angle
maybe a hundred and twenty degree angle
180 degree angle from the Sun maybe a
200 degree angle or maybe they just have
to go in the direction of the Sun when
they come out of the Beehive look where
the Sun is go in that direction so the
angle that she dances on is the angle
from the Sun where the food is gonna be
where the nectar is gonna be incredible
or what but that's not enough let's say
they know that they have to go on a 90
degree angle from the Sun that's where
the food is but where they supposed to
go they guard over the Bihar they go in
that direction she has to tell them how
far every second that she dances is one
kilometer how the bee knows that every
second is approximately one kilometer
which is a little more than a half a
mile so over the beat dancing dance is
10 seconds if she goes on this dance for
10 seconds they know they have to fly
whoa wait they gotta go six miles if she
dances for one second
it means it's right there one kilometer
if she mama she gives a fast dance if
she just makes a circle she makes a
circle she's not going down a line and
then coming back and dawn going down a
line she just makes a circle what does
it mean it means you'll go out and
you'll see it right there how the bee
knows this she knows where the Sun is
even in the dark beehive now she could
dance an hour later the Sun already
moved but she knows where the Sun is and
they all know so when she's at an angle
they understand when you come out this
is gonna be the angle from the Sun and
that's where you're gonna find your food
and they know exactly how far how long
they have to go there's something else
they smell the pollen that she brought
back and therefore when they come to
that place they start smelling if it's
the same smell they know it's hot if
it's not the same smell it's called we
have to go a little further we have to
adjust our angle what do you see from
here bees know this they're hatched and
they just know this how Hashem put into
every single creature every single
organism the Brill
into wisdom it needs in order to be able
to survive and in order to be able to
create a new generation and in order to
be able to help the environment all
these three things to be able to survive
itself to be able to make sure there's a
new generation and to be able to help
its environment because because of this
what can the bee do the bee can go tell
other bees how to get food so they can
all survive they can create a new
generation that you can read a beehive
they can get give us honey
and they can pollinate all these flowers
which allows a new generation of produce
this is the Karma that Hashem gave every
single living organism the perfect
ability to be able to fulfill its
purpose in this world they should be
able to give life to creation they
should be able to perpetuate life look
at this little tiny thing there's a
little dance what is in the thousands of
years people did not know about this
they just knew the mystery a bee comes
into your suka a bee comes into your
garden a bee comes to flowers and a few
minutes later a few hours later a bunch
of bees are there because they heard a
sheer from this bee
you know what else you could learn from
this you could learn from this for each
and every one of us Hashem gave you all
the resources you need to fulfill your
mission in this world every person has
their own mission but whatever resources
you have are there to fulfill your
mission and whatever you need to fulfill
your mission you have those resources
and you know maybe maybe this is a
little humorous but the first time I saw
the bee dance you know what I saw I saw
that there was something very special it
was almost like this is just my feeling
that the bee came home it's fulfilled
its purpose it got its food that brought
food to the Beehive it's gonna give
everybody honey it's gonna they're gonna
have food for the whole winter cause in
the winter they can't go out there's no
nectar so they have to stay in the
Beehive so they need honey for the whole
winter a lot a lot of honey for the
whole winter you know that they visit I
think 500 million flowers of beehive and
from that they make a lot of honey for
the whole winter she comes home she's
happy she's excited what do you do she
goes a dance it's a way of thanking the
reboiler sirloin limits I said there's a
pencil she goes at conference he goes a
dance it's assumed that she brings to
everybody because when you fulfill your
purpose there's a sense of inner joy and
satisfaction let's go back to the
questions and answer late for five seven
seven seven four seven four seven a lot
of questions are coming in let's see
what we have over here eight four five
seven seven seven four seven four seven
okay I try so hard I'm always accepting
things on myself for a short amount of
time but then it goes away I'm not
inspired anymore and I remember the
Mishna says lafoon Saira agra the harder
you work the more reward you get and I
feel that it's gonna be I'm gonna be
taking on things forever which is not
easy can you give me any advice yes yes
let me give you advice don't just take
on things try to do it in a way that
works for you in other words don't just
say you know okay I'm gonna stop doing
this and start doing a new thing because
it's usually not gonna last
there's no Mitzvah to take on things and
then be disappointed and take it on
again and be disappointed again try to
take on things that work for you take on
things that you're ready to take on take
on things that you really appreciate the
value of doing these things or not doing
these things and that you have a system
of how you're going to maintain it even
when you're not in the mood because that
will avoid a lot a lot of disappointment
yes don't be afraid of challenging
yourself as you said Lefou Saira Agri
but there's no Mitzvah constantly
disappointing yourself by trying and
failing and trying and failing and
failing do it a completely different way
really try to see why you're failing and
if you could fix that in a very deep
place it'll be so much easier maybe
you're taking on things that you're not
ready for or maybe you take on things
but you're not really convinced you
should be taking on these things so try
to work with yourself maybe you could
speak to somebody you respect and your
family you're outside of your family
made
able to help you to clarify these things
my name is Ruchi I am 8 years old what
can I do to make Hashem proud rookie you
are doing what you whatever you're doing
you're making Hashem proud even this
question what a special question imagine
if my son or daughter would come to me
and say Tati what can I do to make you
proud Wow you already made me proud
Ruthie your existence makes em proud
your existence just you you make Hashem
proud look at Rashi Raschi that defines
the words gula we are as gula this is GU
lavash Emmy says you like a treasure the
king walks in and he just wants to look
at it and he enjoys a rush M sees you
and he's all smiles Hashem sees you you
make him proud your very existence but
remember every time you bring light into
the world light into your life goodness
you make a Shem prouder and prouder and
prouder every time you learn Tyre every
time you dive into becoming to a midst
every time you help somebody every time
you tell you Yeats ahora no and you
Yeats eight oh yeah you make Hashem even
more and more proud if Hashem programmed
bad people to be bad and good people to
be good and do good why does a Shem have
Gehenna Mangan Ayden the answer of
course is that we are not programmed we
have choices and we can make choices so
we always have the ability to make
choices we are not programmed
why does Hashem bring people into the
world if he's going to make them die
that's a beautiful beautiful question
wow that's a real question I mean
they're all great questions I love the
question the answer to this is that our
life on this world has extraordinary
unbelievable value and purpose it's not
like oh we live and it's nothing and
let's you know let's get it over with
it's like driving on a highway you just
want to get to your destination and you
wish the highway wasn't there every
moment of life in this world has an
eternal impact on an eternal value the
meddra says that Hashem
created our world where godliness where
Hashem is concealed so that we should
reveal the oneness of Hashem in this
world at every moment of your life in
this world has extraordinary value and
opportunity and forever and you know
that even after we died there's going to
be clear son Mason every soul is
ultimately going to come back to this
world and there will be ternal life as
the Ramban explains because the ultimate
purpose of a Veda sasha is in this world
even though there is that time when we
go to the next world because the
neshamah is in gonna deny me and my
brother fight all day because we have
nothing else to do what should we do
about it
okay I I think you should have a new
game and that is the fight should be
that each one of you has to be the other
brother okay
so let's say you're fighting about who
gets to play with this game right so
instead of you being you and your
brother being you your brother being him
make a game that you should make believe
you're your brother and you have to
explain why your brother is right and
your brother has to be you and he has to
explain why you're right that should be
the game so whenever you're ready to get
into the next fight stop and remember my
suggestion say we're gonna do it this
way okay I'm gonna argue for you're
sorry then you're gonna argue from my
side first of all it's a great game
secondly you'll understand the other
person's perspective and third of all
you'll have great times together if we
look on the world like a place where
everybody has a mission and when a
person accomplishes his mission he moves
on to the next world
is there a logical reason that we are
sad when somebody passes away not an
emotional reason there is a logical
reason why somebody is where we are sad
when somebody passes away because every
single person's presence in this world
enriches our lives so much especially
somebody you're close with and that's
why according to halakha when somebody
passes away there is deep grief and is
deep mourning so of course you're right
the neshamah finished its mission and
the neshamah is going where exactly it
has to go and then
summers eternal and the neshamah does
not die when a physical body dies but
still but still I miss my father
I miss my loved ones you miss your
father you miss your mother you say to
you bubbie whoever it is your friend
your family member or relative or friend
and therefore there is something that
they brought to the world that we don't
have direct access to with our bodies
and that's very very painful
Hashem did not create anything new how
did he create this world that a new
concept of time a and so is placed that
did not exist and is new the creation of
the world is called yesh may I earn
something from nothing and what it means
something from nothing is that Hashem
even though within Hashem you have
everything you have everything that
potential for the world was always there
but the revealed manifestation of the
world like you say time and space this
is something that I Shem had to bring
out as something new because before that
it's called nothingness because it's
completely absorbed in our shams
infinite self and that's why it's called
something new even though the potential
of course was there because Hashem
includes the potential for everything
but the potential is so to speak
pregnant within him if I could use that
expression and then Hashem has to create
and bring out something new which before
that was just part of infinity because
when we look at time and space it
doesn't seem infinite it seems very very
limited if you would see it in its
source it's really an expression of
infinity and this is pretty deep stuff
you're asking but you asked a deep
question so I gave you a very very deep
answer that's why it's called yesh may I
in a sham creates the world something
from nothing because the limited
definition of the world is something
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7 7 7 47 47 now I am going to share with
you a beautiful story
Toyota tyre Candela this is a story
which happened in the early 1800s it's a
story about a prominent commander of the
French army who worked under Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte was the Emperor of
France Napoleon was a young man but he
was the most powerful person in the
world he ruled over most of Europe in
the early 1800s but then he made a fatal
mistake
he declared war against Russia
Napoleon's appetite was insatiable he
never could satisfy his appetite it
wasn't enough for him that he ruled most
of Europe he needed to rule the world
like Alexander the great Alexander
Michener and Napoleon in summer 1812
spring summer 1812 tough cough iron
Bay's declared war against the Czar of
Russia now Russia is a huge country but
Napoleon mobilized the greatest army in
human history till that point six
hundred thousand soldiers unbelievable
number and they crossed the river he
came of course from France went to the
east came to Russia through luther way
mia and crossed the river the Vilna area
covered a Vilna area you'd base thomas
tough cough iron base this is June 1812
Napoleon Bonaparte declares war against
Russia
he thought that within a little while
the Tsar will surrender to the
conditions of Napoleon Napoleon will be
able to state the conditions and he will
ultimately be the ultimate master and
ruler over Russia as well there's a
story that a prominent French commander
encountered the great reply in vulajin
r-rahim of illusion was the rabbi the
Rev of the loose Iranian city of
Varginha
he was also the founder of the great
Volare yeshiva rapine ballerina was also
considered one of the greatest students
of the Vilna Gaon and a crime but larger
know whose author many far him like
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reply Mahajan er was asked by a
prominent French commander who will win
the war
Russia or France well Napoleon emerged
triumphant that was the expectation or
will Napoleon be defeated and the story
is told that rebellion told him the
following parable O'Brien said that
there was once a prince traveling on the
road with eight mighty horses they were
of the finest stock when he arrived in
the midst of a thick forest one of the
horses slipped into dangerous quicksand
and the horse pulled the other horses
after it and the whole wagon turned over
all the efforts of the prince and his
officers to get them out were futile
they were in vain nothing was happening
the horses were stuck in the ditch in
the quicksand a few hours passed the
poor Prince's exhausted these dirty
smelly and along comes a simple farmer a
peasant with a wagon that's drawn by
three weak and sickly horses the horses
are old the horses are frail the horses
are emaciated you could see they're not
being fed well they also begin to sink
into the quick scent the farmer begins
to whip the horses they use all their
strength and they pull themselves and
the wagon out of the quicksand
the prince is watching this and he's
amazed he goes over to this poor farm
and he said I don't understand I have
eight mighty beautiful horses the best
of the best
you have three old sickly horses yours
were able to get out of the ditch the
mud the quicksand mine are still stuck
how do you explain this my horses have
so much power and might your horses are
weak and probably what's going on there
farmer looked at the prince he smiled
and he said let me explain to you your
horses are pure thoroughbreds your
horses are the best you have taken one
from here one from there one from here
you have taken the best of every country
each one of your horses has his own
individual Stella's own individual
personality and when you whip them each
one tries to go in a different direction
they can't really unite for the common
good because each one of them has his
way of doing things on the contrary when
you whip one of them the other one is a
little bit happy
he doesn't mind that you're whipping the
other horse let me tell you about my
horses my bony and weak horses are all
of one family see these three horses
it's a mother and two children
these horses love each other they're one
they grew up together they care for each
other when I whipped one of them the
others feel the pain and all they want
to do is help out the other one so they
pulled themselves out of the quicksand
by working together in unison and
replying said the great Napoleon is like
the prince in our story he has at his
disposal a gigantic well-trained army
but they're not from the same blood the
army is made up from troops of Austria
and Prussia and France and Italy and
Spain and all over Europe Napoleon
mobilized soldiers from all over Europe
and every faction wants to claim the
victory to its own credit every one of
them cares about themselves each
battalion is not so upset when another
one is defeated the Russian army is very
different it's a poor army they're not
trained as well but they're made up of
one nation fighting to keep their own
country they feel the common danger
they're completely united for the common
good therefore I'm afraid that victory
will go to your enemy history has proven
him right Napoleon suffered a tremendous
loss near Moscow finally he was defeated
at the river crossing at the georgina
almost all of his soldiers either fled
or were decimated and killed the Tsar
emerged victorious when I heard this
story I read this story I thought to
myself wow what a powerful lesson
for today's times you know each one of
us has our own personality and that's
good
each one of us is an individual and we
have our way of doing things and our way
of thinking about things but the most
one of the most important gifts in life
for the Jewish people is to remember
that we're all part of one family we are
all children of our Shem we're all
soldiers of our sham we're all
ambassadors of our Shem yes we have our
personalities we have differences of
opinions we have different perspectives
different emotions but I have to be able
to celebrate with your life and after be
able to feel the pain of the whip that
you receive and I have to remember that
although I cherished my life and my
contribution never ever should I live a
type of life where I become estranged
from you because ultimately we both
suffer from that when the souls come
together when there's trust and there's
love and this camaraderie we can get out
of every ditch and we can get out of
every cold quick sense and we can get
out of every abyss when we reach
powerful but I'm only powerful on my own
independent separate from you ultimately
everybody everybody loses and as we go
through this time of quarantine this is
such a time to reflect on this and to
remember this inner oneness that we have
with each other because of this other
one is that we have with our Shem
twenty-four hours a day seven days a
week you're always in a place of
infinity and always in a place of unity
and always in a place of oneness even if
there are sometimes voices that distract
us from this one is my dearest dearest
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Shiva that night I want to thank you all
for coming and let's conclude with this
beautiful melody
Spira vocalist melody by the vulnera
hamana the honey Rock Amana
come on
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