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The Formula - Project Inspire Tisha B'Av 2016
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is something
important sure yeah do you do some K
that's another
question ask you if you think is
important yes yes do you do some no some
people are afraid to do kir of some
people don't want to be bothered why
wouldn't they want to be bothered you
got to ask them I'm busy doing other
things is something
important no is it something important
yes do you do
some my son does for me do you know any
people who are not
from
no if you met somebody would you want
him to become from yes what would you do
I don't know why don't people do more C
you think um unfortunately people don't
feel that close to each other they think
that a Russian is a Russian not a Jew
and they think a yemenite is a yemenite
not a Jew they probably don't realize
the importance of it because all of all
of yish kite involves kir even people
that are formed can even become close to
themselves there's always room for kir
why don't people do more care maybe
maybe because not trying to I
guess I have no idea honestly no no idea
it's such a wonderful
thing it's a very important thing to be
okay right do you
do
no it's now over 10 years since we
filmed some of the clips that you just
saw as part of the film
inspired the film basically was designed
to find out two
things are people interested in kirv is
it something important and are they
involved so we went to the streets and
as you saw many people agreed kirim is
something important our have been
encouraging us this is the Mitzvah of
the generation but sadly many of us felt
that it didn't really involve us that
was not something that we could
do but it's been a
while perhaps there has been a shift a
paradigm shift through all the
invitations that have gone out these
last dozen years or so through all the
Suka invitations and the shabas
invitations and the kalab bakes and the
trips to Israel
and so many different easy Outreach
gifts that have been given out
throughout the
years people are getting it they
understand they say you know what
everyone has to be involved in kirv but
is it really so we went back on the
street we wanted to find out where are
we up to today right do you think K
rokum is something that is important
absolutely I am involved with Rage which
is more with Russian
is whenever I meet somebody I talk to
him but exell I was now in Switzerland I
met some Israeli girls and I I got him
to get koser food there it are you
serious a lot of people over the house
over the years many many people over the
house many many my wife has constant
people over the house constant constant
do Kim an important
Mitzvah is a very important Mitzvah yes
I learn with someone through uh
wonderful group called project Inspire I
mean we're still learning but we learn
on the phone now cuz he he became uh
observant and uh he moved to Israel and
he went to Yeshiva wow so now uh we just
learned over the phone but uh for a
couple years for about uh two years wow
your neighbor I invited my Postman in to
make kid sometimes I invited him to my
Suka one time when he wasn't religious
anyone your UPS driver I have done some
kind
of it's
clear we know it ourselves we see the
kir of happening it's in our homes it's
in our shools it's in our neighborhoods
wherever we go it's a revolution
bar but today is Tish it's another Tish
and we after all we're project Inspire
so we're supposed to be inspiring you to
do kirov and bar hasm that has happened
you're doing it you're doing it in
unprecedented
ways thousands tens of thousands who had
never done it before so the challenge
has changed the challenge is no longer
isn't important should I be involved the
challenge is now what is the formula
what is the
recipe how do we become really
successful is there a way is there
something that can be taught that we can
understand that this is the right way to
do it this is the way to guarantee our
success so this TSH what better time to
work on our a what better time to work
on showing our love for all of our
Brethren this Tish let's see if we can
find the
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formula
[Music]
for for
[Music]
and so the quest begins to answer the
challenge of finding the
formula and we start in Lakewood
Lakewood New Jersey SCH weasel not
exactly cir of
professional but I found after speaking
with him that I had a lot to learn from
him so will you here was never in my
family in any way I grew up just you
know we were either it was with a yiva
background the yiva setting or maybe in
setting but I was never really exposed
or had any to do with anybody was not
from
orish pretty much we invited to sh
across the street of a girl who cha and
uh it was at the time where I met David
at my mother's Jewish I was born a Jew
my father's not he's a Christian and so
I was raised with um fundamental in
fundamental
Christianity I met schm weasel about 10
years ago at the final shev bras of my
sister at the time I was living in
California so I come into this home I
See This Magnificent Farm shr all these
Farm on it and I was thinking wow look
at all these books they must be worth a
fortune and this guy's like a professor
of religion or
something and I'm from California and
where I'm from people have a fireplace
and a gun r back and a dog in the house
nothing like I saw here it was
totally foreign to me I'm sitting there
in my probably a pair of jeans and a cut
off short sleeve t-shirt and um a white
silk yamak I picked up at the I'm
sitting there
and um SCH
weasel was sitting next to me he spoke
said some deor at the
Shas and he bumped me and said you know
hi I'm SCH weasel I put my arm on the
shoulder and I said David I would like
to show you something You' never seen
before I do remember he said do you want
to go see BMG that's a local uh he
probably didn't call it a Yeshiva maybe
he said place we learn I maybe he called
it a Yeshiva I don't know do you want to
go see it and I was thinking who's this
guy trying to invite me to some strange
place but I'm not scared I'll
[Music]
go and um
we drove over there and I saw a lot of
people were looking at these books with
the Hebrew couldn't read Hebrew I didn't
know what was going on but there was
people learning it was religious and he
took me on a tour and I'm going to be
honest with you okay i' I've sat next to
people at chevis isn't that people who
are not necessarily
observant the last place I would bring
them Midnight is to go to Bas medish
Gava he must have had some divine
inspiration because that
I don't know why how that would make
sense to most people you're right it
sounds
ridiculous there were hundreds of young
walking
out um so I was like standing behind him
and trying to motion sh if I you know
give him shal a few people you know
stuck out their hands give Shalom you've
never done this before did you ever try
something else uh like this or
no I don't recall trying to be M of
anybody in the past you had never tried
to M for anyone in the past this was
your first time this is my first time
and you went right to the
extreme it's a little
mindboggling well the whole story is
mindboggling you realize what we're
talking about it just to step out for a
minute there's tens of thousands of
people watching all of them benra and
and you have somebody from Eureka
California who probably has never
seen not only a from Jew maybe not even
a Jew hardly and you Tak him to Bas
medish
gavaya and and hoping for a miracle I
guess I I wasn't thinking more than what
I had at hand like I didn't have a plan
it wasn't something I've done in the
past this is what this is what's
supposed to be done now that's what I
did I listened to Schmo weasel and I
like you was astounded by the story and
then I had the opportunity to sit down
with the rashash Shiva of Lakewood of
Mel Cutler schita to ask him his
perspective on it says that that's the
way of bringing people people to T by
showing them the effect of T showing
them
someone shows that what is either as
himself as an example or other brings
him to and he sees this
just it's just different it's a
different
world ni is and there's no comparison
because if you you're coming from the
convictions so they'll they'll go back
in it they'll think it over maybe yes
maybe not but this just draws them we
came back he was leaving here from the
sh so we came back here and I gave him
my phone number I asked him for his so
we switched numbers I said you know what
we'll stay in
touch sure it's about a week
later and I had that paper in my pocket
and I decid I'll give him a
call mhm so I call him up and I said
David this
is he obviously talked to me about my
Heritage and um that was the main key to
getting me you know to keep to getting
me on this journey was just to be in
touch to just to talk to me he used to
call me email me send me packages what I
did get to realize
is we have a wealth of information
stored inside ourselves that we don't
even
realize things that I would be telling
them is not things that I even think of
about but now you know you you're
confronted with it and the questions are
asked and you talk about you talk about
Hashem it was just a very it was a it
was a very beautiful feeling every
single
time David came to us many times that we
that together in the je and slowly many
people would come and say hello and uh
and I was getting requests to please
share the
and many people in the neighborhood open
their doors and David would they would
beg me can we can we have him for a meal
can we have him for a meal and uh some
of some of the Miss became very close
with
David he called me and said you want to
come for suus and you know we all sleep
in the Suka we'll sleep in the Suka with
my boys I'm like a bunch of guys
sleeping in a Suka this is crazy this is
I did not know what sukus was I think we
called it the Festival of booths or
something and booths sure I think that's
what it was called and I was like I was
still this mentality you know what I'll
see what you guys do I'll see what you
do this film is being shown to tens of
thousands of people all people who are
religious and people who want to know
how they can help others get closer to
their Heritage and a lot of people think
that if they just knew the right
technique
that that would do it what do what do
you have to say about that people don't
want to have techniques used on them
they want to have a relationship with a
real person he just presented the
real
deal and I I personally took it as
it was and appreciated
it and he that along with genuinely
caring about me what is a successful
uh kir of
encounter how do you get there people
are watching and thinking how do I
become successful in kirov do you have
some uh some thoughts about
that hard to say what's called success
and kir of I remember the conversations
we've been having many times I was
questioning myself am I doing the right
thing like guidance you know but I D
every time before I made a phone call I
asked hasm to help me guide me that I
should say the right thing and
not make any
mistakes and barem it uh it went
well I got married July 1st
2012 which I just had my anniversary
fourth anniversary I have Gabriel schm
is 2 and a half and raeli just turned
one David gave me the honors of being a
sandic on his on his G the first time I
was
sandic and I remember holding the baby
and thinking to
myself
unbelievable it's just even if I
wouldn't say another word it's just
continuing on the yish is continuing
future Generations because I had this
and brought David into my life my son is
a complete Delight he's uh I every time
I drop him off
at daycare before work I just can't wait
to see him when I get home and play go
jump on the trampoline watch Airplanes
listen to birds he's not ready to learn
yet so we don't do much that sometimes
we sing the olive based song but uh I
absolutely love my son spending time
with him total Delight life changer have
you ever think about what would be if
you had not met CH weasel and who
knows it's a major Braha that I met him
and um I'm so glad to be able to
continue the tradition with my
son I feel like I'm part of a bigger
picture a link in a chain that has
meaning
and I'm doing something with eternal
purpose more important than the
day-to-day ephemera
that's meaningless it just makes
everything I do feel like it's for a
purpose for the future for now for it's
purposeful a truly remarkable story
when you try to find a formula you look
for a story you see that it was
successful and you work backwards you
say hey maybe that's the formula and no
question this is a successful story
David Shera mitzvas living in pic with a
beautiful family it's quite amazing but
when you look back on how it happened
and you saw my reaction in speaking to
Schmo weel when you look back on it you
say is that really the
formula bringing him to the B medish and
Lakewood at 10:00 at
night it worked that part is for sure
but I think we're still looking we still
want to
find if and what is that
formula so let's go to bur Park and
let's meet a younger man from bub of
Yakov Weinfeld he has a fascinating tale
to tell us so when when do you remember
first feeling anything about
Judaism I think I when I was very young
I always felt something I was very
thirsty for that knowledge but because
there was no
uh you know Jewish people or even you
know synagogue in a town constantly I
would come to New York and I felt very
special and that's why I talk to my
cousin you know because he worked in the
Bora Park as a driver and I always joke
about it I was uh I always said you know
I'm here all the time but I never have
an experience why can I have uh somebody
to put me at fine on and that was you
know I I don't know I was feeling it all
the time I really want
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it it was about 6 years ago I went by on
the street and suddenly I see somebody
coming out from with tto on his hands
he was and he didn't even look like he's
Jewish and he started to scream at me
and ask me you want to do a Mitzvah
Mitzvah Mitzvah I didn't know what he's
talking to me I was like I was
overwhelmed I at one point I thought
maybe some kind of missionary is trying
to get people into his cult or something
I didn't know exactly what what kind
what he wants for me and we were in one
of the Russian restaurants so we were
just you know having a nice little time
and uh my cousin was outside like having
a cigarette and he just runs in you know
it's like Alex you know you always talk
about you want to have Ain on I have
outside a person aim who said he will do
it for you and everybody's not laughing
everybody and they they they thought
because I always say this you know and
they're like you know this is one of
another jokes you know they thought we
made it up and he said you want to do it
and I I don't know I felt that he's
serious middle of everything I said
absolutely where he's at said he's
outside and then he just brought him out
the cousin and he looked at me and he
asked me with such a sincereness this
Russian Jewish guy Alex and he tells me
can you please I would love to do a
Mitzvah so I told him do you want a p do
you have a so he says no so I said you
know what if you want to come to my home
which is this is a Flatbush I live in
bar Park I said you can come to my home
and maybe I'll put I'll put you on some
film but since it was already late in
the day I want to him to be able to put
out that film still during that day
before night time otherwise it would be
wouldn't be a Mitzvah anymore we went in
uh right to this
home uh did not have a keep on
absolutely you know he was so interested
and so
really he was like excited to be able to
do this Mitzvah so I gave him the the
film I put it on to him I physically put
it on to him showed him how to do it and
then I told with him I said with
him have to just a you and he said word
from her after me he never he never
obviously not life said these words
never in his life from what it seems yes
so I I because I see the way he said the
words he didn't have any recollection of
anything so it seems he didn't even have
a rabak put in on me that
was I can't even describe that was
mystical that was I mean sh I had shiver
Shivers absolutely it was I Can't
Describe right now but it was again it
was like surreal at that moment after he
finished saying old theum he was like
almost I I was almost in tears just
watching him because it was such a
strong emotional experience and I think
it was a good for my children to see as
well my children still till this day
remember this and they came into the sh
and they were standing there
respectfully and waiting for me to DAV
and then Alex asks me ROV please teach
me how can I DM I want to davem so I
told him God understands every language
and you don't have to D from the S the
way we do just by talking to God
directly with a communication like one
man to another that's what daving is all
about and that's how you can D to hasem
so he was like so mesmerized and he was
like you were able to see that he was
like all steered up and he was like so
envious of us Jews like we're going in
and out and it's like part of life and
he doesn't even know what this is all
about right right and you met him one
hour before correct and he looked at me
and he said if you're really serious
about this I will give you a present and
I said sure what you know present I
thought you will give me a book or
whatever and he brought F in and you've
never seen him since no I've been in
contact with him on the phone many times
the best way to keep him going in yish K
to keep it moving forward would be by
having him connected to someone in the
area where he lives I get a phone call
from aid from Bor Park saying that
there's a Jew in Frisco Texas who wants
to learn about Judaism and it's very
very hard to reach him we're playing
phone tag for days for weeks and I still
have not met him I've barely gotten a
conversation with him and it was time
for
rosashana and I talked to the uh RAB
Yakov and he said where you going to be
in rosashana have able to contact with
rebi zon and I said we kind of are
playing you know phone calls but I never
have and he said so where you going
Rashana I said I'm not I'm working I had
a restaurant at that time he said you
should call you should reach him you
should reach him rashishana is coming up
and I said join us rashishana we have a
learner service which is perfect for
people who have very little background
in Judaism teaches you the basics of
Judaism what the high holidays are all
about and how to use that to gear up for
a really meaningful year you know he's
like
come come to you know and I was nervous
I don't know what it is I don't know how
it's going to be you know I was in the
Orthodox Sho before and I was hesitant a
little bit and he's like come on and I
said I don't know if I will to make it
or so I don't know what to do he said
just come and come over we would love to
see you here and I get up in the
morning and I said I will go comes
rashash morning I'm looking out for him
not knowing what he looks like looking
for a stranger who looks a little lost
he's not there I went to the I don't
know what to take check with me I took
my you know uh Talis I took my you know
filin but I did not even know you cannot
put fine on the holidays so I came
over and the rabis zakan was speaking I
don't even know who is who I walk in you
know man sitting listening so I'll sit
down and I have my bag with me at the
end of the service as the I go to the
learner service everyone's leaving after
the service I see a man with a big smile
a big mustache and a big smile radiating
Joy
reading and he says rebi I'm Alex I said
oh great to meet you
welcome and that's how it all begins
that's how it all begins I went for yon
kipur that was my first real I will say
you know holidays right and that's how
we start to keep in touch so we met for
lunch and we discussed that and Alex
very much wanted to study and he started
coming to one of my my weekly classes I
believe it was a class on the paraa in
the paraa class we discussed the concept
of bris and he came to me and he
mentioned he never had a bris wow and I
said would you be willing to have bris
and he said absolutely immediately
agreed he wanted to have it he wanted to
have that connection and even though
it'd be painful and difficult there was
no hesitancy he said I'm here to help
you what do you want I said I want to
have my Breeze done I never done my
family you know it was illegal how how
old were you I was uh again I was 41 41
years old no 40 no nothing no and he
said you really want it I said yes I do
and my family took it negatively in the
beginning like you all growing up man
it's a surgery I want it actually from
that time I will say my life
changed when I have it done my brother
drove me home
that feelings I
had you know it's like I was freed I
truly fell I was freed and I got a call
out of blue the blue and it's Alex on
the phone and he says with excited voice
yako rakov you know who this is I said
yes Alex how are you you're going to be
very very excited to hear what I'm going
to tell you right now so I said what is
that I just had a bris so I asked him
Alex are you in pain yes but I'm happy
and proud to be a Jew that's what he
said he was so proud that shavas we did
a naming for him we naming for him and
he was so proud he asked he brought
kosher food so he could celebrate he
brought his family and he was glowing
and we gave him the name
avam a true Trailblazer
aam and he kept on growing and I asked
him a short while later I said Alex we
have a learner service every shabas
would you like to join on sh
I always tell him I want to do it but I
have no woman at night at home my wife
works my daughter in the college and I'm
working and he said Alex concentrate
what you can do not what you cannot do
he said can you light the candles yes I
can can you have a kidush yes I can do
it Das press is
incredible man walks down the street in
King's Highway minding his own business
and somebody walks out and says my
cousin wants to do a Mitzvah few minutes
later he's in Bur Park putting thin on
him but what makes the story really
great is that it had been six years
since Yakov Weinfeld had met Alex Alex
went back to Texas Rabbi zon a very
qualified prominent C professional was
now involved in Alex's life but when I
interviewed Alex I found out that this
was now going to be the the second
encounter in six years between Alex and
Yakov Weinfeld every time I call reab
Yakov or he called me you know I I have
to be ready because he will ask me how's
your study going and everything and I'm
ashamed myself I don't do enough and I
wish I can tell him I succeed in this
and this and this and you know you know
raka when he talk to on the phone he
like you know like a father figure he
asked you what about this and what about
this and you know I feel very you know
kind of humble to not to not disappoint
him because he's the one who started and
this week he told me he's going to be
spending a full shabus here in Bor Park
and have a full shabas the First full
shabus of his life as we're sitting here
as we're sitting here this week in this
house in with the wine felds with the
wine felds he's going to spend the
entire the entire shavas wow and you're
coming in tomorrow you're going to do
the burrow Park Shabbat here in Brooklyn
absolutely that's why again everybody
think I'm crazy
here six years this is his first chabas
now you've waited a long time it feels
exciting that he's going to the next
level at this point and I'm hoping that
this will bring him to start to be able
to maybe keep shabas every week you know
right but uh I'm just cautiously
optimistic that it should bring him to
the next to the next level right I want
to do it first time
and from that now point I know I mean
there's no more excuses than not to do
it right I I want to see how it's have
to be done it's so I mean know to me
again it's a fairy tale are you nervous
are you are you scared I'm more excited
a lot of people
define success by the ultimate result by
the end
result but here we are six years and
he's taking little baby steps so to
speak do you feel like you're a
success I feel that we me success is not
measured by what we can Define as being
the rashish Shiva or becoming a rabbi
that's not what we have to Define as
success success is when we bring someone
closer to Hashem and every baby step
that we do that brings them closer that
is Success obviously we want them to
grow and grow until they become part of
soet part of the Orthodox Society part
of from y but that is the goal that we
have to focus on is what can I do if I
can bring one Jew that was not close to
Hashem bring him closer to Hashem with
every deed that he does with every that
he does with every putting on or with
every with every he has
what and that's the ultimate what we
really call success amazing great story
what a a joy what a privilege it was
just to be able to meet Alex and see how
far he's come but it's taken six years
this is his first shabas
ever would have love to have been there
together with Yakov Weinfeld and Alex it
must have been some remarkable
experience but you know Yakov Weinfeld
was privileged to see the success of
Alex even though it has taken so long
through the relationship constantly
talking
connecting eventually he's getting there
and he's still on that Journey schm
weasel in the previous story he saw the
success of David he was able to see it
an amazing way that he had come so far
from Eureka California to Bic New Jersey
but it's right in front of him what a
Nas what a
success but you know success is not
always defined by what we actually
see a short time ago we experienced the
tragic passing of doid
winad a man who was a businessman by
trade but his passion was really kir of
and
AAS and shortly after his passing we put
together a short film to tell a story
just one small snippet of what was an
tremendous accomplishment from David
wiard's you might call it a success
story that unfortunately he never got to
see my father would always differentiate
between a living and a
livelihood for a livelihood he would
work but his passion what he did for a
living was reach out to K I think his
mission was to make every Jew feel proud
that he was a Jew he knew how to focus
on a person to see what would bring out
the happiness of religion in that person
that was his great concept uh he got to
know this woman who worked behind the
count in CVS that uh found that she was
Jewish not from she she was expecting
and she told my father that you know
there she was going to have a boy so my
father came in and said you know to our
house and said we have you know 6 months
to convince her to have a bris and when
she had the boy she had a medical
circumcision she had no religious
circumcision and it broke his heart he
felt terrible about
it my father passed on and during the
Shiva this couple comes with their
little baby to the Shiva house she told
my my mother I want to honor your
husband RAB by David wiers I want to
honor him I want to do a br proper bris
me love for my son who's now 6 months
old and she said you know now I feel so
bad that I didn't listen to him about
the bris I never gave my son a Jewish
name I would love to name my son after
Rabbi win ARS so I said I got a great
idea for you why don't we do it when
does the Shiva end the Shiva ends Sunday
morning let's transform this house which
is a house of mourning into a house of
Happiness let's do Sunday afternoon I
was the
sandic and my
brother gave the kashim he named the
baby after my
father quite ating to watch how the
events unfolded and to actually see the
success of some of our labors it's quite
uh a moving experience it is a great
comfort to know that so soon after he's
gone there's a little adorable gorgeous
baby boy that carries his name now this
little boy will be connected to R WIS
forever my the ABA fulfilled his T in
this
world and uh we definitely miss it
though he built a
legacy he built a legacy for generations
to
come I have no doubt that doin winar is
in some way whatever that means
was at that bris and that he experienced
or witnessed that that baby was named
after him but of course in his
lifetime he never saw it he never
actually witnessed the
success perhaps he thought that he
failed who
knows but we're looking for the
formula we all want to do it the right
way the best
way but this Tish ofv
I think we have to remember that
sometimes it's not exactly what you do
that equals to the success as in the
first
story and sometimes it's not how long it
takes as we see from the Second
Story and sometimes the success comes
even though we don't see it at
all that's the way it
is so what is is the
formula is the formula one
strategy is the formula particular way
Maybe
not maybe the
formula is the
doing just
that we have to do we have to care and
we have to
do and no matter what the
results the actual doing of it is the
success a new
definition the definition of success is
not connected to the result and so to
define success to understand what it
really means in the world of I turn to
my r r for over 40 years R Hill David
SCH who gives us some fascinating
insights into what success really
means over the years a lot of people ask
me they're afraid of disappointment of
failure they don't know how to face a
failure but I want to tell you son I met
many people who were disappointed but I
never met a failure no one's a failure
if you open up your heart you open up
your house you open up yourself to a
fellow Jew and who's far from being
religious because he doesn't know what's
all about he doesn't know what to
appreciate what it is I never met one
one failure yet oh yes there are some
people I'll invest time in them and
after time I may
quit because the guy didn't turn into
religious yet you're not a failure first
of all by us
inish as bis was saying inish he
said our job is to do not to accomplish
when we do then it's all up to
the so whatever you do you're not a
failure you're a great success secondly
you have no idea what you
accomplished if he didn't turn out what
you want to the see that doesn't mean
you didn't accomplish that person now
has an understanding for religious Jews
he has understanding for religion he has
an understanding for Judaism and he will
respect it it may be too difficult in
his eyes to change he's an adult he's
has his whole culture and his Society he
can't change it all at one time but he
understands us and he appreciates it he
doesn't have what it takes but you know
that fell his son may join up with some
religious group and he won't object to
it CU he understands it he respects it
but what can you do it's not for me but
you're a great
success success is in many ways there
are people who if they did a few mises
now they'll accept something they won't
even tell you they're accepting because
they don't want you to to Badger them
and inist insist on doing more and more
but there are certain things they'll
take upon themselves he'll see the
religious way and we know we are
mourning for the destruction
of the Holy Temple and our sages tell us
the reason why the second temple was
destroyed because there was
sin there was hatred without any reason
for it
sin you know what Sin is
Sin is the effect of not caring for a
certain person for any person that's
called sin
we have to learn to open up our hearts
what does it mean to open up our hearts
open up our hearts means we have to
start thinking about other people people
tell me that they're afraid to get
involved because they're afraid of
failure
disappointment well disappointment I
can't say I didn't meet people that were
disappointed but I never met a failure L
yet that it doesn't exist no such things
a failure what do we know what's doing
in another person's heart that person
you opened up your heart to him he will
open up his heart if you had a brother
if you had a son a
daughter who went off the way of
religion and you try to get him back
once you didn't succeed twice three
times would they give up well our Jews
who are far from religion they are our
brothers I'm not just giving you an
example I'm telling you the case the way
it is these are our brothers and we can
do for them no such thing as failure
somebody was being
marar he from Russia and in conversation
after a while it came out that his
great-grandfather was the
villan but the leader of Lithuanian
jeury the V
who was Mish like aish
the he he was the greatest of the great
and his great-grandson was
irreligious and he said
imagine a person is learning his whole
life he learns garas he learns whatever
he's learning and he learns together
with the V the and perim if it's on sh
if it's on if it's on the
Kesh and he has a difficulty and he's
going to come up I can't wait until they
have 120 I'll come up in heaven and I'm
going to meet the vill and I'm going to
say to him what do you mean when you
wrote this and this and he'll say oh
before we talk in night let me ask you a
question you know my great-grandson
lived next door to you what did you do
for him to bring him closer to to bring
closer to Hashem what will you answer
and they you want talk with the you
didn't do anything for his grandson who
lived next door to you a very sobering
thought that's
amazing again today is Tish today we're
going to work hard to bring back the Bas
of mikdash and our very day and our very
lives and the first point is the came
because of sin and we're going to do
everything that's possible to bring back
all of hashem's
children he said listen if I failed bit
I didn't do for The Bu grandson don't
you think I should feel bad not doing
for hashem's children first generation
we're all the hashem's children let us
do and open up our hearts of open up our
homes and let them see the light let
them see the warmth of religion let them
see what it is to
be that's what we need to do we need to
understand what success really is we
started out with a challenge trying to
find a formula for
kirv but now we understand what we might
think a success really isn't
sometimes we see it and sometimes we
don't sometimes it happens now and
sometimes it takes
years it doesn't really matter exactly
what we see what matters is that you are
really
trying if you're caring and you're
trying never forget it you are 100%
successful leave the rest up to
theam if you're sitting here right now
on this Tish above and wondering what
can I do what can I how can I start what
can I do to try to make a difference
there are so many ways project Inspire
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timec consuming and you can learn it at
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can do something do something together
it's an experience this is what shapes
the relationship this is what brings
success real success why because you're
doing something that's why this is the
time to do it if you wait till tomorrow
it may be too late
you don't want to miss this opportunity
you want to show
theam today that you are taken care of
his children his children that are
waiting waiting to be introduced in some
way to their own very
Heritage and in fact they actually may
be waiting for you that's right don't
think that it's any different and don't
think that you can't do it and don't
think that you have to see the results
they're there they're there because you
are doing
something this year on tiab let's all
resolve that we are going to make a
difference we are going to bring back
the basa mikash one brick at a
time the wordban also has the
word in
it means destruction but means
togetherness
Unity unity means reaching out to your
fellow Jew become one learn with someone
study do
something go to our website projec
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other of the amazing programs that gets
you on the road this year let's
understand the formula is caring and
doing nothing more than that and in
that's
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