Strengthening Our Faith - Rabbi Paysach Krohn speaking for CHAZAQ!

[Music] very great horse to be able to be here tonight and because tonight is a very special night I decided to speak on a very very special topic and I want to introduce it by telling you that this past year I went on a trip many of you know that I take every summer we take a trip to places where Yiddish guide where Judaism flourished we've been to Poland and to Lithuania and to Belarus and to Morocco and to Spain and Gibraltar and Italy and the past year for the first time I went to the Ukraine now I know many in big of real pumpable Hara so I looked it up bo Hara from Kiev is 2245 miles that's how far it is but it was all part of the Soviet Union at one point and I was always afraid to go to the Ukraine but this time we decided to go because they felt it wasn't dangerous and do you know many of the great Hasidic rabbis when they started their dynasties they started it in that part of the world of Ukraine the Baal Shem Tov was in the Ukraine robbed lady intrepid achiever that robber Goldwasser just spoke about he was in Ukraine and Rebbe Nachman of Oman was also that's all part of Ukraine and many many times as you grow and learning you'll be able to see that a Hasidic Rebbe will understand the plastic a certain way and a Rebbe who comes from Lithuania or Poland will understand the plastic a different way but they're all going to come to the same result that we have to love our Shem we have to love Torah we have to love each other and love every year so being that I am NOT Hasidic and I never learned in the Hasidic Shiva and now here I was going to all these places of where they used to be Hasidic jewels and schools and the gravesites of these tsadikim I had to readjust my thinking so a few weeks before I went to Ukraine I was for Shabbos in a hotel in Connecticut there was a company it's called culinary Depot and they decided they're gonna give a Shabbos for all their workers and the families and they asked me I should come to speak on Chavez to speak a few times but what I didn't realize was that at that Shabba tone was gonna be one of the greatest Jews that I ever met in my life and his name I had never met him before but I heard about him his name is Rob Matta Frank and if you ever go to earth to show you must see and visit this person he is the warmest the most loving year that you could possibly imagine even though you don't think that and I know you think it is well okay but the point is he is such a wonderful warm person he's a breslav hassid and he learns this for him and everything that he talks about is your sham mayaman abbas a sham and Ava's Israel and I told him I'm going to Oman for Shabbos one that Ukraine Crypt were going to be in Oman he told me he goes there all the time I said you know it would be so great if we could go there together if you could be there because I've never been there you could teach me all about it and he said I'll think about it I said I'll get your free ticket he stopped thinking about it that was it fine okay that was quick right no but L Aslam woods from ENS tours knows him very well and he got of course he arranged that he should be able to come and it was just absolutely incredible and then when we got there I was in Kiev and I saw a Jewish camp a camp for little boys who never in their lives study Torah now in this summer camp where they had counselors from America and Canada and Israel all these from boys and what happened was they would teach these kids and these kids got up on a stage and they performed for us all the beautiful songs you come Amish your heart could break and all these kids are gonna go to you it was so special and then eventually we came on Shabbos to err Shabbos we came to Amman and then when we came to Oman brother Frank comes over to me he's so excited he says you know what I just heard there's a very special person that's gonna be here in Oman for Shabbos nobody even knows that he's gonna be here I just found out him and his wife he said he's so special and Aaron sister all nobody can get to him thousands of people try to come to him and there's such long lines to get in to him but here he's just coming for a little quiet vacation I said who was this and he said I'm sure you heard the name but maybe you never met him and I'm gonna introduce you to him his name is rabbi Shalom Arusha so now you may wonder who is Rob Shalimar oh so I want to show you rap Shalimar ruch wrote this book this book is called the garden and her muna this book was translated into more than ten languages and they sold over a million copies that should be like the market books hopefully someday right okay but the point is this book started a movement the movement of Emunah and people started reading this book and they were so inspired to believe in Hashem and to understand that every little thing that happens happens only because Hashem wants it to happen and people were so inspired by this person so I said to her I've mother Frank tell me where can I meet him he said don't worry we're gonna find him on Chavez and sure enough were walking around that little town and all of a sudden he comes over to me write what he says there he is come with me and he takes me over to wrap Shalom maroush who's got a gold beca shop long curly pays and Rob Mota just introduces us and rap show him takes my hand and he says come with me let's go for a walk and I tell you it was like being in GaN Eden to speak to that person alone and to ask him everything that was in the depth of your heart because you knew what kind of person he was how loving he was and non-judgmental and I could just open up my heart and tell him you know what what I needed and what I wanted and where I wanted to go and where I wanted to reach and he was just just marvelous it was so special and then I said to him I've shot him you know we have a group of 80 people here and we're gonna eat child sure this could you come to Charlotte shoot us and talk to our group most of them understand Hebrew and if they don't understand I'll translate he said okay I'll come now most of the people didn't know that he was gonna come some when he came with his wife it was like so shocking because everybody knew who he was and then he told us the most amazing story he said to all of us now got a picture this here's a man with long curly pays a long flowing beard and a gold cup whatta and he says I am about jouvert Wow you couldn't believe that he says I was a helicopter pilot for the Israeli army when you think of as paratroopers that's not the image you're thinking believe me and he says to me he says to everyone I want to tell you what changed my life he said was during the Yom Kippur War and I was one of the paratroopers I was one one of the helicopters we landed on the field and I see this tremendous emotion this tremendous said that's going on and I find out that's five of my best friends who are in another helicopter they crashed and they all got killed he said I was in such a daze I couldn't believe it he said I had long flowing hair down to my shoulders and I was living the life I did everything I had I was having the time of my life and now five guys were gone and I began thinking is that what life is all about that every day you just get closer and closer to death there's got to be a purpose why we were to this world and he said the more I studied them the more I asked and they're closer I became to certain rabbis I began to realize what year this kite was all about and I changed my ways and he said he became a breast of a Hassan he started reading this forum of Rab nachman of breslov and eventually he wrote that book but I want to tell you something very interesting you see he started a movement and there are some people that are so fortunate that they're able to start of movement that changes hundreds of thousands of Jews and I'll give you two examples what most of us here were growing up what we sow careful and shamira solution you said whatever you know you thought about oh we heard they're not supposed to speak loshon hora but about 30 years ago from you deserve sagal together with Michel Rothschild who today lives in Muncie they started a movement they started the schmear solution movement and in every school they were courses about how you should speak and how you shouldn't speak and they were all lectures and thousands and thousands of people started coming to all these lectures all over the world the Tisch above lecture which is seen by 60,000 people is an outgrowth of that resolution movement so imagine a few people thought you know something we've got to change we've got to change the way we act to each other and they started that movement and it's still going on today and then another movement started you know what the other movement is that Daffy oh me could you imagine 50 years ago or 40 years ago that a hundred thousand people would come to MetLife Stadium and celebrated tens of thousands of people are learning shots that learning tomorrow of course it has to do with art school of course because they had it printed in English and it made it accessible to to so many people but they weren't the ones who started the DAF Yomi movement there were others especially in a goodish Easterlin other places and they said to people you could learn it get a huh Bruce you'll be able to do it you don't have to finish us you have to learn as much as you can but then people were inspired so now hundreds of thousands of people are learning amar that never learned before that's the second movement and the third movement was started by rabbi rush and I'll show you the outgrowth many of you know that there's a young man Rabbi David Asheer who wrote a book called living and muninn it's a fabulous book right now already our scroll has printed three different books by rabbi yassir living in one a one two and three and I want to show you something so interesting you know I'm very close to the people at art scroll notice the cover of living in muna how close it is to this cover you know they smart they tapped into this for whatever message this forest shows they had a forest here and I remember may as a lot of what's once told me who he's the creator of wat school he said anybody who says you don't judge a book by its cover never tried to sell one so it's all there believe me it's smart marketing and so therefore now this book is selling like the thousands because what gives us strength what gives us strength today is Emunah when Shalimar Haru Bastian came out of jail what is one of the first things that he said and we should always try to remember that because it's so clever they ask them how did you survive and he said Alice BAE's gimel Aleph means Emunah faith but alpha means trust that's the base gimel that led to the gula to the redemption and that's what carried him is so interesting I've been reading about him now he never said in any letter or to anyone that he was in prison he said I am in a place they call prison you look he never said he was in prison and all the letters that he wrote to his children I am in a place I'm stuck in a place they call prison I'm not I'm a free man because I have connection Taschen and it's just a matter of time I love Bay's gimel and Munna betoken and go over and then I want to tell you something very touching him this past summer I was a nurse Israel and I have the great schools I'm so grateful that I'm able to speak again a stickiness of Shamir solution during the nine days in the bing-na or mother they have three thousand women that come to listen to a few speakers rabbi dovid alasc is one of them rabbi menachem missile and brakesh Alma happen to be one of them but the day that I came to Israel somebody said to me you know there's a woman and how no who's very broken and she would like to talk to you I said who is this woman they said she's a widow now of course many of you know that my father passed away when I was 21 my mother unfortunately was a nomina a widow for 40 long years so I know what it means to see the pain of a widow I said of course I'll go to her house I called her up she said you would really come I said of course I'll come it's not a question and I came to the house of mrs. rothman our Otan risa rahman and she told me her story I'm telling you I get the chills as I'm about to tell it to you do you remember those four fellows that were killed in her know that terrible terrible morning when they were hatcheted to death and it was a fifth a drusy soldier but there was another person that was banged and beaten and he was in a coma for a full year that was her husband and what happens is that after any event after three or four or five weeks people forget about it and they talk about something else but she couldn't forget about it because three serratus husband was in a coma he wasn't coming out of it and so for a full year she lived with Ganim of going to him every day hoping against hope that he would come out of it and eventually he passed away and now she told me she's writing a book and she said it's gonna be printed by on scroll and being that I've written brush I'm a number of books by Oscar also we began talking how the book should be printed of course she had done most of it already but we were talking about a title and then I gave her what I thought would be an appropriate title I said as soon as I come back to America I'll call Gedaliah slaughter woods who took over for his late father America tonic love Rafa and I said to rob Gedaliah I said you know I met with mrs. wrap and I know you're putting out a book Hanukkah I want to tell you what we think should be a good title and he said I want to tell you something there's one word that must be in that title no matter what you tell me if that word is not in the title we're not gonna use it I said what is that word he said emunah and now I want to show you the book that they just printed it's called Terra and Emunah in her nose again it's a moon that's worth getting this book so there's three books now wrap Shalimar Russia's Garden of emunah Rabbi David asheer's living Emunah and now this book terror and Emunah and her nose and that's how we get strength we get strength by understanding that Hashem is with us every second and we have to learn to talk in a different manner and I'll give you an example rabbi shimon Schwab it's a very interesting question we all know the story Yosef was in jail and he's trying to get out of jail and the Sara masks him the one who poured all the drinks for pyro he had a dream and Yosef says don't worry you're gonna be ok he said but do me a favor when you get in front of pirate please remember me so I can get out of this place now what's wrong with that anybody who wants to have something done you're allowed to ask somebody to help you why was he punished for what he said he was punished with two more years jail I remember Schwab says a very interesting answer he says you know what he should have said this is what he did say and I'll tell you what he should have said well Schwab said he said these catania pirate remember me by Polly voice say Sonny minna biases and it'll take me out of this place that's not what he should have said you know what he should have said risk art aniele parley remember me to power a vote see any la Kim when I buy says that God is gonna make sure that I get out of here you have to always say but Ezra Hashem you have to always say Amir to Hashem you have to everything that happens you have a great interview with the boss and you want to get the job you have to say poor Hashem the interview went well hopefully I sham will get me the job you going out on a date whether it's a young man a young woman and it's going well you have to say I hope I made a nice impression I hope Hashem will make it that we'll be able to get engaged now and think of real of course it used to be anyway that most of the people who are bahar Ian so I learned how to say in bar Aryan borough Hashem and Perez's Hashem how many Bihari ins are here my friend Emmanuel said everybody's asking Isaac here big Gabrielle already all right for those Bulgarians you know who are gonna be listening in Africa or someplace who the Bakura right that's how you say it okay in case you're interested that means Baraka Shem and here's who the hut that means God willing okay am i right did I say good okay is your Navy did some homework for me how to speak Bulgarian I know Russian Slava Bobo that I know right there you go when somebody has a baby boy Slava bow or they called me happy but otherwise but the point is that has to become part of our nature and when you say that everything whether you've got the job whether you got this up every little thing you thank gosh em and I'll tell you something amazing many of you know that I had the great schools to be very close to the market of you shall i more of a salt rod rod I used to hear him say over the years that I know a hundred times for sure who do la sham kitto if Keely LM class day I share my thank you you come home tonight and you have a spouse you come home tonight and the children are sleeping fine you come home tonight then you know that tomorrow you're gonna be able to wake up to go to a job to go to shool you stop and you think how you doing on sham Quito of Chile LM pasta I will never ever forget the first Hanukkah that I got married I was living on Beverly Road and rabbi Kramer's house so I came home from shul we I'd bench Hanukkah left already then I went out for my herbs and then I come to the house I was living in you know we had rented a place in somebody's house and I look up there and I see my menorah you know in the windows the first time that I lit you know candles after I got married and you know I just stopped and I just looked at the candles and I remember saying how you do wash em Quito Eve kill the LM caustic thank you i Shem that you allowed me to get married and to have an apartment and then I could light candles you have to be grateful for every little thing that happens every time you're on a plane every time you're on the highway don't have to tell you what could happen I hate to tell you this but I'm gonna tell to you anyway even though it's so sad but I want to bring out the point of what it means to be grateful for every little thing that happens I have a brother in Lakewood he had a granddaughter she was 3 or 4 years old just happened just two months ago her mother said go downstairs wait for me I'm coming we're gonna go to the grocer or whatever and she got her on our bike and she was riding down a driveway that was on a slant now she must have driven on this driveway a thousand times but for whatever reason she was going very quickly and by the time she came to the sidewalk she couldn't stop and it went out into the street and that's when the tow truck came right by monolith slung you send out a kid to go shopping the child comes home home kids kiliel Omaha Steaks that's what a Munna is all about and Munna is the conscious awareness that Hashem is there every second so how do we get to that level and I believe we get to that level by telling stories of hosh caja practice I'm gonna tell you now two or three stories where you will see it's impossible any other way except that I sham orchestrated that such a thing could happen I'll give you an example there's a fellow his name is rabbi Kamal Brazil everybody used to gnomish multi Brazil he learned in Far Rockaway show you sure and then eventually he moved her to Shirl and he opened up a very successful yeshiva so he told me recently that one of his tongue medium one of his students became a traveling salesman now a traveling salesman is in the car all the time so how much can you listen to Mike in the mad dog you know it's only a limit right and all the same news guests it's all the same news all the time you know Trump did this Trump did that whatever you know so he decided you know what over left over there I'm only gonna listen to Torah tapes from now on now for whatever reason he spoke Yiddish and he wanted to listen to the CDs of a great time that we lived 30 40 years ago his name was the closing Burger Rebbe and he lived in Union City New Jersey before I moved to Eretz Israel and he gave many shoes so every single time this guy got into the car he put on the CD and he would listen to Torah from the Rebbe sometimes was one of the pouches sometimes I was on the holidays whatever it was one day he's driving and all of a sudden he hears a loud horn right behind him and he wakes up he realizes oh my gosh he fell asleep at the wheel that car woke him up he's about to go into a car who's standing at a red light he slams on the brake and he doesn't get into the accident he missed that car by half an inch now of course the guy in front of him he wasn't looking in his rear view mirror he didn't you know nobody's thinking that someone's gonna bang into him so he just goes it's a green light he goes and he's shaking he can't move he wants who blew the horn he looks around there's nobody behind him he looks to the right he looks to the left there's nobody behind him who blows that horn that woke him up again he realizes Oh My heavens he goes rewind on the CD five seconds on that cheer that the Rebbe gave 35 years ago in Union City New Jersey it was in the summer the window was open a guy blew a horn as he passed the building for whatever reason maybe there was a dog in the streets who knows but that horn that I Shem orchestrated 35 years earlier save this guy from getting into an accident because he was makai in the midst of a left over there because he was gonna learn Torah instead of listening to the radio and all the other stuff that you could hear on the radio so who orchestrated this I'll tell you another story it's just unbelievable it's one of my favorite stories it's amazing a guy in coffee room right we all know what of Aramis right you get locked out of your house you get locked out of your car or whatever you forgot your kid in the car whatever you know they take care of it so this guy from Harvard I said a guy in Lakewood tells me that it was three years ago there was gonna be a three-day yontiff it was Shabbos and then Saturday night was gonna be the first night of truce so there was gonna be Shabbos Sunday and Monday okay three days yontiff well actually Chavez and then two days yontiff he said an hour before Shabba starts he gets a call guy says could you please fix my flat he said we see a slide right before 3:00 they under are you stuck on the Garden State Highway are you stuck on Route 9 were you stuck no it's in my driveway he said come on it's in your driveway you know it's a three-day yontiff you know everybody's very busy he says no I'm not so uh I might need a car he said he told me he felt so awful here he was like accusing the guy I've taken advantage of him and really he's right Koster Sean you know you gotta be ready 24/7 literally if you're not Salah and he says I apologize I am so sorry I'm gonna go myself and I'm gonna fix your flat and he told me he came to the house out so look I didn't even have time for him cuz he was so busy dispatching and doing other things and fine one of the kids wanted to give him a gift however guys don't take any gifts finally he comes home listen to this you won't believe it's Saturday night he's sitting at the table right you could see what's happening Saturday night he's sitting at the table and his mother-in-law's at the table and all of a sudden she falls back and her eyes plop into her head and she's having a stroke and somebody says get up so she's having a stroke and they call out so and who do you think is the guy who comes this guy who we fixed the flat for and saved her life could you imagine this guy saved his mother-in-law's life and most of the time that's a good thing I can never say my wife is he she doesn't like when I say it but she's not here but when you see something like that happened then you know a Shamus there I want to tell you something that's not easy to listen to but it'll teach us also what a munna is all about as I mentioned before my father passed away when I was 21 and at that time that's when I became well I became a mile even when he was ill already he couldn't do it anymore but I'll never forget near his final illness my brother and I were right the helm of Rabbi Shimon Schwab and referee Schwab was a rub on Washington Heights and the hospital was not far from his shul so we stayed by him and the reason that we knew rubbish Wahb was because before rubbish Schwab became the rabbi in Washington Heights of the German community he was a rebel in Baltimore he was a Rebbe initial and my father was one of his students so he knew the family so he said of course you could stay and after most of you go visit your father and that's what we did my brother and I we went to visit my father after moseph and then we come back rough swamp and his wife were waiting for us to eat a meal and wrap swab says to me how's your father so I said to him I have baton that he'll be well but tahoe means I have faith that he'll be well Graf Schwab got so strict with me and he told me words that I will never forget he said Bhutan does not mean that your father's gonna get well but talking means that a sham has a master plan and hopefully one day you'll be able to understand it you don't know how shocking that was he I'm 21 years old I'm scared like anything that my father is gonna leave this world I'm gonna be stuck I have to leave these shivers support my mother support my younger brother and sisters and this rabbis telling me they were talking means your father doesn't mean that your mother's gonna get well but of course he's right and Munna and faith in Hashem doesn't mean that bad things don't happen bad things happen terrible things happen tonight as we speak right here in Queens and Brooklyn is must be a thousand women that have gathered because tonight is the SH Lyceum of yacyas on who many of us knew from hatbox and his children so there's the keenest for women it's being streamed my wife was watching it you know as I left she told me look over 3,000 people on listening to the streaming you imagine how many people were trying to get in there terrible things happen and eventually when Messiah comes down we'll understand why they had to happen but that's what a Munna is and Munna and faith and betoken and trust and a sham means that whatever happens happens for a reason God made it happen and one day we'll be able to understand it how about this guy for two years he didn't have a job finally he had a great interview and he thought for sure he's gonna get the job and then when it gets home he gets a call they don't want him and he's so broken awesome how could you do this to me two years I'm without a job finally I had a good interview and what happens a month later that company goes bankrupt and he gets a job someplace else and that's how he has a good job if he would have gotten that job with that interview he'd be messed up all over again because that company went bankrupt so here he's trying to think how could you do this two years right I can't break the Witch and I kept in my bills and that's what you do to me know that she wants to show you that every little thing that happened what you might think is negative is the best thing that ever happened to you not all of us always see the open reason and that's why it's called emunah and that's why it's called baton trust and faith and that's what we get together to give physic to each other we've all gone through difficult times that's what Gullah siz all about nobody here hasn't been challenged every one of us and if you look around that you see nah come on this guy or this woman they got everything that's only because you don't know what's going on if you would know what's going on in everybody's life everybody's got something and that's why we come together we come together to have the three loves iva cetera Ava's Hashem and Ava's is royal and that's the purpose of getting together to make sure that we can help each other to give peace up to each other so I'm gonna tell you one more thing and then we're gonna end with a great story I see my dear friend Rebecca Sierra's here so I don't know yet if interest motion do they have the mahashiv also program yo you saw the video but they started it okay so there's a young man energy Searle Yossi Weiss from Ramon Beit Shemesh him and a group of others they started a new program and I'm telling it to everybody all around the world and to everybody here in Beit Gavriel make sure that your children and your grandchildren school gets it it's free it's a video that's gonna be shown every Rosh Hodesh every rest holder should new one they had one already for kiss slave rabbi official chefs have made that one and I did part of the one for today's and the idea is Vasi Vasi elevator to show our children that there's a God in this world and that every second a person understands that everything that's happening is only because Hashem wants it and then once you have the little children that have that Emunah betoken then they'll be so proud of the either skite when they're teenagers and the others won't be able to influence them in a terrible way so my topic was the goodness that Hashem does for us and I want to tell you something and from tomorrow morning on every single one of us will be able to do something so special that maybe we never did till now what I spoke about on that video was did you ever see anybody paint an apple red do you ever see anybody paint the banana yellow or grapes purple who painted those fruits only a Shen you ever go into errands or seasons and you see how the fruits are laid out it's gorgeous it's gorgeous it's so colorful who put the color in the food only Hashem if you closed your eyes and I gave you three different bits of food you'd be able to tell the difference between pizza and sushi a chocolate mousse and mango and steak it's delicious Hashem could have made it that every single piece of food was gray and white and bland and tasted like pills right really that's a chef could have done that right he could have done anything who made a taste in food that's only a sham and then finally every single one of us here and everyone watching hit that road tour anytime around the world the only reason they're watching this you know why because a few hours ago you ate something or a couple days you ate something you didn't eat anything in the last five days goodbye you're out of here the food has three things the appearance of food the taste of food and the nutritional value of food and if that's the case oh now we're gonna bench different coz right in the benching right at the beginning we say three things but hain but I said over akhmim watch this but hain gracious beautiful beautiful cause of food I said oh it's such a nice thing Hashem lets us have wonderful taste is there anything like chocolate ice cream you know there isn't right so chocolate ice cream is delicious who put that who put that in the chocolate beans right or whatever that's the acid and finally barakamon Hashem has mercy on us he gives us a nutritional value so tonight when you go home open up you're sitting on the wine it every single time you bench from now on just remember okay I said over ahem the color of food the appear of the appearance the taste of it and the nutritional value and I'm telling you tell that to your children tell that to your spouse tell it to anybody who will listen that's a muna this betoken didn't happen from us we take it for granted so let's review everything that we said we'll end with this fabulous story let's remember that today we're talking about a muna and we need a muna though terrible tragedies that happen how do we go through it we go through it as well chuan told it to us not everything that happens is wonderful we can't understand it but if you have a modern baton you have trust and faith in Hashem that eventually will understand why it had to happen let's remember to say a museum preserves Hashem and hoda Hashem ki Tov Keeley alum hosta let's remember to tell each other stories of rajagaha protests of what it means that a Shem orchestrates every single thing that happens let's remember as we said the goodness that I shamed us for us behind the head over a common the beauty of food the taste of food and of course the nutritional value of food I just want to end with this thing and the truth is that we could come back on another night and we could have just as long a speech also just to talk about a more number talking but just remember these three books and that'll give you more than I could ever hope to give you mashaallah mirages book the garden of Emunah rubbishes book living Yamuna and we surround his book terror and a muna in her nofe I just want to end with this touching touching story we know that one of the great people the talmud and one of the term medium of the Vilna Gaon was alpine village in ER he opened up the first yeshiva and he had a Talmud the Talmud's name was Rob Shia for dekhi and I'm sorry bore dekhi had two children a ten-year-old boy and a six-year-old boy and what happened was that they lived in an area where there was a terrible despot and it was like so communistic it was so difficult for the people to be there and every night they tried to escape every night different people tried to escape that country to go across a mile in the river and they would get on a fisherman's boat it was an old rickety boat it could only hold 20 people but he would take fifty because he wanted to make some money and try to get everybody out that night when nobody was looking everybody knew that one night this boat is gonna break and the Knights are Shia bodek he was on and he had his two children and it's freezing at night and all of a sudden the boat begins to crack and people are yelling and screaming because there's not enough grass to go around and all of a sudden Rev Shia board ecchi finds himself in the water holding his two children and he's crying and he says there's two children there's no point in all of us dying there's no way that I could carry both of you and swim to shore we'll all die that doesn't make sense I've got to drop one of you I don't know what to do this is my worst moment of my life how could a father drop one of his children and the older boy says father dropped me because I'm older I think I know how to swim you gotta save the younger boy and the younger boy says no daddy you save the older boy he's it Sadiq he goes see a Shiva he doesn't Mitzvahs he learns save him he's more worthy than I am and the father doesn't know what to do and he's struggling and finally he decides that he's gonna drop the older boy because maybe he knows how to swim and maybe he'll be able to make it but he can't let go his younger one and as he loosens to hold of the older boy and the older boy realizes that he's falling into the water he yells his father daddy please please don't drop me hold me don't drop me and the father can't drop him he can't and he holds on to him and somehow miraculously he's able to get to shore and he saves both kids he drops both kids understand and he collapses and then when after he gets up the older boy comes over too he says daddy how could I thank you you saved my life and listen what the father says to him I didn't save your life you saved your life you see I didn't have the strength to save you but when you cried out to me you gave me a certain strength that I didn't even know I had if you had not cried out to me I would never have that strength and then I heard somebody tell the story and he said that's what the Gemara tells us in Brock Islamic Bay's I'm at bass 32b and your Oscar Olga Mara listen to this in Roya autumn chase Paul L if somebody sees that they prayed Valon Anna and they didn't get answered what should they do give up no yells abuse prowl Davin a second time you know why because the plastic says cover Allah Shem Kazakh vm8 sleeper huh Vacaville ahem twice it says covering al-sham Davin and pray to God hope to God and if it doesn't work do it again you know why cuz then you give this strength to God so to speak sometimes cover your whole set of speakers Shem doesn't have the strength to save us because we don't have enough merit so what do we have to do we have to do more mitzvos what do we do moment since we have trust and faith in our general we Dobbin and we say a Shem it's only you I think I shouldn't says wow you have such trust of me now I have more strength the posix says to ISIL and the Kim gives strength - em when we have a moon and we have a talk and we're giving splinter strength to save us Hashem should help from this great night together this great night of December 31st when all of us have come on 1 million vehement Mahlon we toil and they toil we went out in the night on a freezing night here in New York but we came to bake Gabrielle we came to hear Tyra we came to hear inspiration and a Shem is gonna reward us for that we will be elevated tonight and that's why we thank Yaniv and we thank huzzah for making this we thank Heda brute tour any time that come we should thank each other for giving each other physic Hashem should bless each and every one of us we should be able to fulfill our potential and be the Jews that God wants us to be thank you for inviting me and thank you for less [Music] [Applause]