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[Music]
I've shot he came into a sativa and he
took a look at all the guys in Asia
Terra
he said that guy's about sugar that
guy's about Truman that guy's about
tumor that guy's about to sin I've shot
got up in a shutaura
and he said my friends he said these
words if one man can kill six million
Jews one man can save six million Jews
here that is enough shot speaking in
Asia tour
[Music]
rinoa was a man of greatness he always
used to say give me ten men and I can
change the world he would start yelling
wake up wake up wake up he was sure that
before he dies we're gonna finish the
job
fight what did you fight for something
Judaism was a walled garden Rob Noah
took a sledgehammer and broke a door
into that wall he saw a need to help the
Jewish people come back he lived it this
was the power he gave the basis to the
remover you're fighting to save the
Jewish people and we're gonna win the
first thing about my father is almost
you didn't hear the word killed it's
love it's responsibility this is your
brother's this is your family you take
care of them you love your children he
used to say to our cutters Berkeley
please help us to love your children the
way you love your children
I met Ramona I had never seen anyone
like this before the first thing I heard
about was Colley's holidays was falling
about what are we gonna do
bring back the Jewish people all of them
now no excuses
we've not was a unique visionary where
did he get that kind of vision from my
father was this wild child that just
didn't sit down for a moment he actually
became very American because he was
youngest in his family and he was shaved
and he got into the sports he loved the
American society but my father always
remembered this my grandfather every
time used to meet him used to stop him
for five seconds no yeah Dukey thanks
that's if Aaron and I got to speak
Yiddish
since do you remember that there is a
god she's for sure for sure that says
you have a big big Mitzvah and my father
said the Emunah started to go into his
blood
he kind of had it drilled into him from
an early age and he drilled it into his
tile meet him
you got an Amish am loves you his father
was completely caught up in learning
would cause Amish nice on the street who
have told me he remembered having to
pull on his coat to get his attention
when they were walking in the street I
knew no I was a bundle of her since I
was about 16 years old
were roommates together for a couple
years in now you soil learn together by
a loser I remember once someone wants to
sell a car for about $50 it didn't have
any fenders the wheels were exposed was
a wreck but a road well had good motor I
put in 25,000 25,000 he bought the car
together didn't certainly the lease it
looked terrible on the outside as long
as it got is there a destination you
want to be to us he was he was a Talmud
Holcomb who is his mind was up there but
his feet were on the ground I won him he
was like a fighter a warrior on the
other hand he was a tremendous Thomas
Holcomb and he was the warmest loving
person like he hit such a soft side to
him and he seemed like you know a bit of
a contradiction he wasn't a NOS kid he
loved learning more than anything else
if you think he had passion for kube you
had to see rip Noah's passion for
Prashad inner rambha I was standing
outside the office and they were
colorless of rocky the north and Rabbi
Yaakov were screaming at each other I
didn't know what was going on
suddenly the door open Reb Nora grabs my
arm and pulls me in the nog and Rebecca
were sitting and arguing over chott
inner Lamba written off wanted me to
decide whose bite I spoke with Rabbi
Yaakov Weinberger I was studying in area
Sorel and he says if you could take my
brother a package I love it
what was in the package that I brought
him no those and those days they have a
caffeine pill so you don't fall asleep
but have not believed in learning all
the time without a stop and he would pop
these pills and stay awake as much as he
could in that time my grandfather passed
away my father was 13 or 14 then my
father stayed is the youngest of the
family growing up with a widowed mother
I think one in ingredients to Reb no ox
power is that his mother gave him a very
special childhood and reven always saw
the good in people and saw the good in
the world
and he got that from his mother my
father would realize that you know going
to camp or going up to the mountains is
a very expensive thing for his mother
she used to work very hard
what he did is then the summers when he
was a little bit older 1920 he would go
out to work so he would travel around
America that changed his life because he
saw that there's so many Jews since
people were so proud about being Jewish
and he would ask them and would say like
what makes you so proud about being
Jewish and basically realized that
people had no idea and it were heading
to a disaster we're heading these people
one generation to generations down we're
going to lose the children the
grandchildren we're going to lose them
and that's where he just started to
think what could he do you go to the
rabbi's you say rabbi do something about
it right so that's what he did he went
from rabbi - rabbi from receiver to
receiver he said guys there's a
holocaust going on there's people dying
on the street like what are we doing
about it
and people tell them forget it it's
never gonna work it's never gonna happen
just take care of yourself take care of
your family that was the notion that
time and then as an issue was in Israel
and
he's gonna convince the cousin ish he
went on a boat and on the boat he heard
in the radio that has an itch passed
away and his old trip to Israel was
pointless we say that the next day they
got out in Jerusalem and he opened the
window and he said this is a place that
a Jewish person has to live so he turned
in the meal for a period of time he met
my mother they get married says that my
father came to us versus even said
receive I won't open achieve at this and
this is my plan I went to de Blasio and
I wanted permission from him it was the
meal and be in in usual I am I am
begging as you sang and he says what do
you want to do now yet so I told you I
want to take secular people I will show
them the beauty of tourists but but they
don't want to keep missing I mean oh I'm
going back and forth finally he gets the
message he says no you're a pastor I
understand what you want to do do little
smacking off happily cabal each other
you want to make a factory and turn
people take him in once in and out the
other end volley to see surely the
Vaughan yeah well you told me I'm crazy
yeah they said the rabbit we say table
achiever one ambition but he was shocked
he was shocked leave I'm the teacher
MIOSHA alabaugh war so if I introduce
you don't need to his fiancee will he
leave me we leave me he says if you
believe that you'll succeed
yeah so I got a broker but my father
started from scratch because there was
no book there was no people that really
did it there was no key with
professionals and basically he started
to feel his way in the dark people
thought oh it's impossible you can't get
a person who is not brought up in a
Torah home to all of a sudden like
learning Torah love mitzvahs buttermilk
saw such a beauty in the Torah
everybody that would see it they would
come here Shiva the guys not religious
to be done people would point with a
finger there goes Noah
the Michigan he thinks you can teach
secular people told it was so far away
eventually would nor found how to break
the ice
that was the 48 ways well what the 48
ways did is it showed them that Judaism
has something to say about your life and
make you a better person I come from a
family that was not observant whatsoever
so we knew we were Jewish but we didn't
know much more than that at all I grew
up as a reformed Jew and I I knew a lot
in life so I thought I would say Jewish
Lee proud connected but not really
observant in any way and I grew up as a
suburban secular boy non-religious boy I
went to Hebrew school through tenth
grade which provided virtually no
information on Jewish belief and for me
be Jewish it was just an empty black
hole I didn't understand any of it I was
like the skeptic I was the one that you
know I could have married out very
easily I actually ran away and tried to
escape having a Bar Mitzvah basically he
taught me one thing that there's nothing
relevant in Judaism I was looking I was
lucky to find out really what it means
to be a Jew and he had a whole approach
in learning which I tried I memorized
the 613 mitzvot I learned with him also
of a 48 ways to wisdom and that changed
my life
he was like a father to me
my father was very concerned that I
should go to college but I got a year's
leave of absence from Harvard
my father allowed me to go to Israel I
think about five years after we started
learning my father was a sailor a radio
officer in the Merchant Marines and his
ship came to Ashdod and I met him when I
took him to read me Trev nya so he walks
into Rev Noah right and he looks at him
he says I've been waiting for five years
to punch you in the nose
and then they embraced so my older
brother at the time fell into a Shotaro
and this was really just at the
beginning when Asia tour really exploded
and a lot of people started coming and
my brother Eric was the last person in
Toronto anyone would sing would go to
yeshiva and it created an enormous
uproar you know the whole city thought
my brother was caught in a cult
including my mother and around that time
with Noah was coming to Toronto to speak
and it was the first time really that he
was making like a public appearance in
Toronto we're gonna go meet with no
we're gonna see who's who is this rabbi
you know who busy stole Eric away you
know what's going on and the place was
packed and he gave this class I didn't
know at the time but it was really five
levels of pleasure I was mesmerised I
thought is this this man has genuine
wisdom he is dealing with the issues
that are really bothering me that this
is what I'm looking for and the back
come on I'm saying I need to go to
Israel at some point and really meet
with them it was incredible it was
inspiring to see people hippies you know
come in with their guitars and two weeks
later they're sitting in their learning
48 ways he would come with a few boys on
their Kippur and roshani keep it to me a
Shiva to doubt he would walk in with
these dozen fellows who look like they
came from Mars as far as the mayor was
concerned something just stood out like
I mean it's hard to imagine a more
glaring discrepancy from everyone else
black and regular yeshiva SH and this
group
I was spending my last day in Jerusalem
someone came out and said would you like
to come for a class and I said well do I
have to pray and he said no so I said
okay welcome to a class it happened to
be that at that exact minute Reb Noah
was teaching a class on his famous
series called the 48 ways to wisdom 40
waste wisdom is from pyaar ka voz the 48
ways that the Torah is NIC net the hem
it was looking like there was something
really solid here and I didn't feel I
could turn my back and just hop over to
university and forget what I was
learning and my parents very reasonably
said they would sit Shiva for me and
that they wouldn't talk to me till I
came back and they were quite serious
about it although they didn't really
follow through they could said they
would cut me off financially I think
they may have done that I wanted to know
you know why was important to marry
someone Jewish besides my parents
threatening my economic well-being
someone said do you want to go to a
class about wisdom said why not so we
went to RIF Nowak's class the first
class was about happiness and I never
heard wisdom like this from the Torah so
I decided to stay for two weeks to go to
classes and I called my parents and I
said you're not gonna believe this I'm
in a new Shiva studying Judaism and my
parents were very nervous in fact they
actually went to a therapist how to deal
with their son who was in Israel and
some type of place they came to Israel
and Entebbe ready to get me back and
I'll never forget that meeting with
retinoic
we're in Rebbe nox office we have know
obviously the warmest person and then my
father gets up what did you do to my kid
what did you do to my kid I'm gonna
throw you out the window mr. Feld calm
down we're just learning a little
Judaism over here
and when we got married
rhythmic wisdom Celica Duchenne and my
father took his hand like this I owe you
everything I owe you everything and it
was really really a special moment not
only did with Noah infuse within us a
deep incredible fire but he empowered us
to take that fire and do something
incredible with it and I still remember
this quiet moment of Noah was walking up
the steps and the Rebbetzin was walking
up the steps alongside him it was an
incredible partnership of two people who
have transformed the world I was very
happy with my life I wasn't really
searching for the answer I wasn't
searching for spirituality but when I
first met Reb Nowak he made you think
about things that you maybe hadn't
thought about before would rather be
happy or rich what's life about and so
that really got me spurred me to stay
and I wound up staying for four and a
half years when I told my parents I was
gonna come back but only to visit that's
when it sort of hit the fan and they
were like what are you doing this is a
cult you're crazy you know what's going
on I brought my parents to meet Reb not
the only thing I really remember was my
mother storming out of the office yeah
so it didn't go so well actually my
brother who's three years younger than
me came to check out what was going on
it took a semester abroad and he came to
Israel and he came to check out what I
was doing and he wound up staying at
Asia also and wound up becoming an ace
rabbi now he's a lawyer
so my you know
the parents got at least one lawyer I
think the story started really with my
dear brother who was visiting the old
city one thing led to another he met
somebody was who was religious he said
if you'd like to know a little bit more
about Judaism I'll take to you a plate
you to a place where you can know a
little a little bit more and guess what
next thing you know he's face to face
with Noah and he felt that he had met a
wise man I thought you know what my
brother's lost his marbles you know so I
came up to get my brother out and I
listened to the 48 ways I went to
reverse classes every day and they were
mesmerizing but it was really his proofs
of God and Torah which really got
through to me after a few weeks you know
he got me in a double nelson and that
was it and it was hard for my mother at
the time you know getting our medical
school was not the most popular decision
at the time she came to Israel to to
meet with whoever knew her before we
started any conversation little my
mother he said dr. Samson you have two
amazing children how did you do it
at the end of the year I told him I was
gonna become a rabbi and work with Asia
Torah that actually reassured them a
little bit cuz I thought I wasn't gonna
starve to death so when I came to H and
I decided to stay all my friends were
convinced that I must be brainwashed I
have a twin brother got together with a
few of his friends and roommates and
they plotted how are they going to
rescue a frien
so the three of them specifically would
talk about it in plan and my brother
just made a decision that he was going
to spend his whole second year at
university preparing to come out that
summer and have all the answers and all
the questions that he needs to bring me
back so everyone was rooting for him and
they were all excited and heaps he took
courses in rhetoric and logic and
comparative religions and philosophy so
he had the whole thing worked out so
that when he got here he'd be able to
you know he thought this would be a a
piece of cake and then he came across
these intellectual Giants by the end of
the summer he decided that he was going
to be shown more Shabbat and kosher his
apartment his party apartment back at
the University he started an Asia Torah
study group
back in Toronto anyway the end of the
story is that all three of the plotters
they all went on to become Orthodox
rabbis and all involved in one way or
another in outreach I innately had a
certain belief in God a personal God as
a young child these feelings and these
beliefs sort of became submerged over
the years Noah was every bit the
intellectual match for any of the the
Harvard or Cambridge professors that I
came up against and then some yet he was
coming up with arguments that were
compelling that I had never heard before
I had the opportunity to basically
engage with Noah one-on-one for a couple
of days almost continuously and I felt
all of my reservations and skepticism
and cynicism just melting away I
realized that this was this was very
right and this addressed something very
deep within me I was also learning a
graduate Dartmouth College I was very
into learning and philosophy in
different religions and I was like great
and I only think I meant revenue when I
decided I was gonna take six months to
figure this out either it's true it's
not true either I'm in it or I'm out of
it that was that was where I was coming
from
why didn't I didn't bargain for exactly
what I was gonna learn because it really
is a God he really did give her Torah
from Mount Sinai and it's real and it's
true the row she was Torah and his his
living with
self-evident truths that he understood
about Hashem in Torah that to me was
with galvanized me I went to India and I
found a girl and I was because I was a
very spiritual person so I was learning
you know I learned how to meditate I
learned
Easterns spiritual ways to get close to
God and my guru said to me you're Jewish
trying to look into Jewish mysticism
it's like Judaism was a walled garden
but I couldn't find a way in this was in
1969 there was no way for women who
didn't speak Hebrew who were not raised
from - to find their way into that
garden so I stopped in Israel my way
back from India we went over to H we
went up the into the Shiva
there's narrow stairs that go up to
rovno office office and Revenue us and
he said do you know what the most
important thing in the world to know is
like no introductions no niceties no how
are you hi how are you our they were
like you know know we know we and he
said to us the most important thing in
the world to know is that Hashem loves
you we lived in Jaffa at a big house
overlooking the Mediterranean on a hill
was an extra until the age of 40 I
didn't know anything about Torah nothing
at all you asked me was missionary you
Molly
what are you talking about big bunch of
pressure if the fact that I was a film
star before it tell me is time before he
took me here gave us a place in the old
city we ate there we slept there we
learned the Torah he didn't this megiddo
gave washes he he lived it this was the
power when he taught 48 ways for example
he would teach about laughter but
happiness about friendship but love had
that sparkle of happiness moving his
eyes when he talked about love of God
you could say this man loved God
loved hashem and you could see it all
over him when I came back to yeshiva and
I said I'm gonna stay a month the first
thing that they did with my knapsack on
they dragged me straight into Revenue
Office and no so excited that I was here
and he proceeded to ask me a series of
questions and one of them that I
remember that really stands out was
would you rather be happy or rich and of
course I said happy it's a great if I
told you that we will teach you how to
be happy and it's gonna take you a year
to do it I don't know I'm getting
nervous here right that really went very
deep because it really taught me what
are my program I being real with my
priorities I say one thing but am I
really living that but what was also
interesting was that I heard Rev Noah
over the years pass that question and
make that challenge thousands of people
and the first time I saw him I was in
such awe he came around the corner
one he said to me you know do you want
to go back there eh you know that was so
rough nah he had understood how the
world worked and it didn't matter if it
fit in with your intuition about it this
is a mess and if you did this you know
you'd get it straight you know a big
white beard black coat the whole thing
and I figured how are we gonna
communicate and then of course he breaks
into his Lower East Side accent so he
basically gave me a five minute talk on
Samantha he'll go how to be happy with
your portion the warmth the the
sincerity the care about me it all came
out in those few minutes it was like a
blast of of love he was a new Shambhala
just realized that God loves you I've
know had that ability take very profound
concepts and make them just real and
clear in our minds so I ended up staying
two weeks that turned into one month
that into four months eventually that
produced a wife and six kids and H
Toronto was a real leader we they're not
that makes himself a leader a leader
that leads a whole movement he gave the
basis to the to remove it he fought for
it and he made he made things happen now
it's very popular we're talking about
hundreds of thousand but it was in
energy soil but then it was a desert the
beginning and he fought for it 24 hours
a day he planted the seed in all of his
Tom Needham he understood that one
person one person can make the
difference he made the difference if he
could just get his Tom made him to see
that as well they'll realize it too and
they'll continue on his mission in life
I think what attracted me to a chitara
was just that sense of responsibility
that Noah made every single Jew that
walked into Asia tour understand that
they were a leader that they had
responsibility that they had to go out
and they had to to really save the
Jewish people in any in every way and
when he would go away on his fundraising
trips he would have one of us students
step in and teach the 48 ways or proofs
of God we'd be in at Asia tour for all
of them a month or two months or
something like that and step up
some people asked me when was the first
time I taught a class at Asia Tara was
shocked when I tell them it was after
three weeks being there I wasn't
religious yet he said a person knows
Alif you have to share all of read if
you know baize she obeys and we have a
obligation to learn Torah and to teach
Torah it's one of the column of total
Millwood Alba national are made learn in
order to teach this is part of Noah
screeners is getting us to start right
away in taking responsibility no it was
empowered us teach what you know we all
thought that was a little bit crazy
later we understood that this was a
reverse form of leadership development
thinking about like what was the number
one thing that really moved people a
better of naath I believe it was his
invitation to be a partner the way that
he believed in me and the way he
believed in every Jew that we can be
unbelievably great we can really change
Jewish history I guess over the years
our relationship developed from one of
an almighty Rosh Yeshiva an awesome
personality which he absolutely was
certainly one the most inspiring people
I've ever met in my life but once you
took responsibility you became a partner
and in a way he said hey if we're
partners with the rabona partners
we've got himself I never I never come
across that before somebody who spoke
about responsibility in a real way knock
would look at you and then all of a
sudden his eyes were sharpened and he
would steer you and it says what are you
doing for cloudy strong you know the
hover dream says and the Freeman said
does he says he'll go down the street
and you see a guy drowning there kind of
go in and save him you don't know how to
swim
poor guy who drowns but if every day you
were going you see people drowning then
you have an obligation and learn how to
swim and I got a call from Jamie Calend
who said to me Noah spend some time in
New York do you want me or of Noah and
the first don't like you sure it's fear
of Noah come buddy letters not just
nephew this is in a play the like no
it's the action like the one but like
yet though I'm like yes I'll be there
right now and during those two weeks I
spent six hours of November I felt like
we've no Weinberg thinks I can do
something with my life
like we're of Noah when you feel that
somebody that big believes in you it is
impossible to not believe in yourself
more and the reason why he believed that
it was because he believed that it
wasn't you it was awesome
as I went to yeshiva I was having a hard
time and my father a close student over
of nah brought me to meet him when he
was in New York so now sits me down and
he says she me do you know God loves you
and as a teenager a bilious Tita
rabbi leave me alone that's all I want
here like he says come on do I have to
prove it to you
I said of course I grew up with this I
mean she could of course I know God
loves me
she's I start burning flaming red eyes
and he slams the table he says so dance
dummy and that is really what I think
would be his message not just to less
affiliated people but to from people if
you knew that it was a sham in the world
who loved you and you had and you really
were clearly as the Russia Shiva was you
beat as he would say dancing a jig to
every mitts you're about to do whenever
I'd walk with or not so every I don't
know 50 feet or so he would stop and go
like this and I thought he had back
problem
and at a certain point when I asked him
to describe how do you experience God
and experience the six consonants us he
liked put his bag down and stuck his
back up and is like you have to just
breathe in CHUM's right here right now
if he always taken care of you I said to
rep you do have a back problem he said
no I said is that what you're doing
every 50 feet or so
he says you what how else am I supposed
to live with this expensive missus I
don't think anyone has ever in my life
before that taught me to think of Hashem
which to me is such a different way to
see the world puts him on your side
it made a huge impact on me and all you
have to do is realize that he really
believes in the rabona shalom that's
within you and once you get that and you
go out into your life if you can
remember that there's really very little
that can get in your way so as far as
I'm concerned the the mm I'll meet him
which I have had and this three
generations already they're all don't be
in my business every time a kid hits Bar
Mitzvah but our bas Mitzvah it's a trip
with Daddy to Israel and we want to see
Reb knock and Reb Noah said we'll give a
picture of the family I said sure
it took it out I showed up the Rev knock
and he took it from me
and he put it in his suit pocket I said
run off
I need that picture back I have to show
people my family you said that's my
picture and those and that's my family
we have six children and five
grandchildren and to the grandchildren
carry Reb Knox name you know I know it
meant a lot but have not always asked us
for photographs of the family and what
really gave him the he used to
literally carry around with him
photographs of us and our kids that's
what really gave him the to do what
he did
my oldest two sons have made their their
lives learning they've learned in
yeshiva and kollel for many years my
oldest has now become a roach kollel my
second is transitioning to become a
Rebbe we had the enormous privilege of
remaining and in touch and his close
touches I think anyone at a distance
could be with what Noah whatever I am
and have done that's worthwhile it's
equally attributable to have no luck he
loved us like a father
we became his his his back his children
prove nor was love hugging and it was my
father and like a father he slept me so
many times so you are deserters it to me
a deserter you know who you are you
always go out bring people to make what
you are saying oh I want to read Dora I
wish it 40 was my life I don't waste any
more there was a fight the most
difficult set of encounters I had with
him was with regard to the curriculum in
the Shiva he wanted that someone could
come in and go from olive base to Smith
in six months I put together what I felt
was a super-duper program it would take
seven years I walk in from the office
office I presented it
and your long got angry he was big he
was strong he held on to his desk I was
sure he was gonna throw it at me and he
starts screaming seven years in seven
years we won't know who's Jewish la da
vani no he was so right
he was so right but we have no idea a
juicer i've been working on statistics
now there are somewhere between 4 and 8
million Jews in America
how's that for statistics somewhere
between 4 and 8 million Jews
we don't know huge and he saw it coming
in Kiev at the time you were in it's
like the lowest of professions like your
hangout talked to a peak or sieve intro
show you of all day so there's a
controversy and a very unpleasant one
and I was very hurt by it at the things
that were flying about I remember this
as clear as day I walked into of the
office office that he was sitting there
with a smile on his face and I said it
would lock this is hard and I said when
are they gonna stop some of the zealots
were coming after him
and he said don't worry there will come
a day but all of the religious world
will be learning how to do Kier
information Torah the only reason I
started my first yeshiva or my first
organization and all the room subsequent
was because I believed one thing that if
I come to a human father and I say your
son is drowning
I need your rope would you please give
me your rope the guy's gonna give me his
rope
yeah is that right I'm gonna come to you
or - eh Almighty I need you to help I
want to save your children do you get
that that's the only reason I ever
started I didn't know what to do how do
you make money how do you raise money I
don't ask for money
I didn't know how to make an
organization control the almighty has to
help he's gotta help I'm going for his
children he's gotta help one day there's
a knock at the door and it's Tom Markman
and I said well what can we do for you
he said well the truth of the matter is
I'm looking for a place to stay so that
I can establish an Asia tour here in
Cleveland so I said okay sure and he
said to me what can I do for you I said
I wanted 15 minutes with from Noah he
was such a celebrity because my kids
I've always heard about you know we have
no up stories and it's Easter all in
Asia Torah and Kirov and everything else
in here is the man himself coming to our
home
and sat down with me in the kitchen of
my home so I said I am very much
involved in cure for hokum and a lot of
my friends are really discouraging me
they're always saying to me you know I
think you give up too much time to them
you have a family my Shila - you live my
life should I stop he looked at me with
those dancing happy eyes and that big
beautiful smile so here's what I'm gonna
tell you if you were living in 1942 in
Poland in a city or a village where you
knew the trains were going through to
take Jews to Auschwitz but they told you
you know you can pull one kid off that
train what would you have done
you would have dropped everything and
you would have ran to that train I said
but Noah
give me a brother brachii why is that my
children should live Torah and bring
others closer to Hashem in every way and
he said you got it you got my brother
and I remember in the first Internet
meeting of acecomm before was every stop
they were showing us what the internet
was like dissecting a frog on there
showing it and then the guy said he said
you know this is amazing if this really
works we'll be able to reach thousands
maybe tens of thousands of people a day
once each calm was launched
oh this was relaxed like pride and joy
like his little babe because he saw like
wow look at the potential here rev knock
was always looking at the big picture
how do I create a movement look what is
I need an army I need manpower for that
movement what's the most logical and
manpower the firm community so it was
always his dream if he could just awaken
the sleeping giant the firm community
are the sleeping giants if we can just
awaken them they can impact the entire
Jewish world I mean he spoke a language
which said you can change the world I
remember him saying what are you doing
about the famine in Ethiopia
what are you doing about Rwanda now one
student would say it's not my
responsibility so he would show
everybody from that interaction and you
would self-evidently see it from
yourself it is my responsibility it's my
responsibility to change the world so
that that really appealed to me so after
9/11 he realized the civilization that
we lived in the Western world was
greatly threatened if these guys take
over you can forget about the campuses
and we were rebelling
he said rajbhog were a Kirov
organization you bring Jews and we
connect them to their potential and Reb
Knox said no we're not a queue of
organization we're hot Salah
organization we do what's needed we take
on all Jewish problems and this is the
one that I've identified did not
surprise me 101 iota that a guy who was
involved with outreach for the Jewish
people would do something out of the box
to help the Jewish people I got a call
that Rabbi North Weinberg wanted to
organize a group of people to petition
the Canadian government to arrest an
Arab terrorists
he raised six figures when ralph north
when he when someone said there's
something he does it from no I've said
every person who's been hurt or killed
as a human face let's get that in the
media and that was the beginning of our
relationship you financed us to open up
an office and people say who's behind
you said you wouldn't believe it
they usually in the Mossad know just
there's a little rabbi who was you know
who's behind this
my son contacted me from stay wrote he
said ah but you wouldn't believe what's
going on here
my dad had a relationship with rabbi
Noah expressing to Robin off my first
rocket experience being in a Shabbat in
a shul during the Friday night services
and once Robin off heard that story said
and bring him over I want to meet with
him and then rabbi NOK said what is it
what do you need as as simple as that I
need me a video camera I a small car to
chase these Rockets I need a computer
and a laptop simple as that and Robin
off said I'm with you the second I got
the video camera the first one there to
literally dock him in those first
seconds after the rocket fire I'll be
honest that after getting this first
rant from Robin or were able to
establish ourselves he knew very clearly
that this has to be shown and exposed
throughout the entire world melee to the
Jewish people so Robin off.if as well
was a physical or spiritual attack on
the Jewish people he took it as his own
plot to do anything he can to speak up
for that there's an organization today
called honest reporting that monitors
anti-israel media came out of people
that were affiliated with age so a
couple guys in the Shiva came up to me
and said we have an idea let's go to
college campuses back in America and
let's talk to students there about
what's really going on in Israel we
didn't know we were gonna go what we're
gonna do and it was such a powerful and
we talked about empowerment you know to
saying you can you you want to take
responsibility for the Jewish people
Asia tours behind you Rebbe knocks
behind you you can do it and that really
laid the seeds for house bro fellowships
and the foreign ministry told us okay
we're gonna give you the funding to do
this first program and I went straight
back to the Shiva and I went straight
throughout Knox office and I told him
well the foreign ministry said yes and
he looked at me like in wonder and of
course it gave me another slap this was
I think my second still of slap and he
said the foreign ministry of Israel I
mean
secular left-wing they chose Asia Torah
to stand up and defend the Jewish people
like he said like Messiah is coming he
couldn't it was it was amazing
his whole essence was Torah saving the
Jewish people taken responsibility for
the Jewish people that was his whole
life his 24/7 goal and I became
interested
I saw meat it is a very unusual person
is a murdered rabbi is also dedicated to
the Jewish people in particular worried
at large
he looks every individual noticing that
everybody is something good in himself
and his aim is to bring out the goodness
besides connecting the Jewish people to
Judaism
I was walking in New York and I bump
into him he would been sick at the time
I didn't know about it he was gonna have
an operation and he saw me and the
secondly he gave me a hug and asked him
what are you doing and I told him the
Silver Spring where is she been working
very hard and and you know he listened
it's very happy and then when I finished
he says but what are you doing for
Claudia Schrom a difficult time when he
wasn't well
and unfortunately got a very bad
prognosis seeing him in that light and
the condition that he was in and he
never let up he never let up and the
serum doth go from a standing position
to a sitting position was very painful
it took a lot of energy out of him to
like and he had to be helped to sit down
and I'm watching all of this and he
knows that I'm watching him get into the
chair and in a lot of pain and he looked
at me and he said don't worry
the God loves me this is all good I
think the main thing that I hear rub not
saying in my head over and over is
the Almighty is with you there's nothing
you can't do
he would cry about the pain that the
Jewish people are in and he would use
that to motivate us that you have to
feel that pain but realize that pain is
there to motivate you to get up and do
and so I think i'm tish above we can cry
and we can say ah
look at how terrible things are look at
the state of the Jewish people there's
nothing we can do or we can use that
pain and say okay and now it's our
responsibility to do something about it
and that's what we're driving off but
say he was they get up and do use that
pain and change the world I was sitting
in at the hospital better if not last
one last days I said Tim Rebbe Mushaf
coming soon he said of course I said as
a Jewish are the Jewish people gonna
come back of course I said so why do I
have to do it but she'll do it why do I
have to be involved in it he says you're
making a mistake so she was giving you
the greatest opportunity since the
beginning of time if you want to take
that opportunity you've got it if not
let me see after it'll be fine that's up
to you that's what it means I think to
be a Jew in 2019 is to realize that like
coach Braun was waiting for a few people
to stand up and take responsibility and
that could be all we need when you pray
to God about Jews who are assimilating
what do you say to those I say Almighty
I know that you care about this much
more than me I know that you want me to
succeed I know that if you help me we
can change the whole world I know you
want to help
I don't I just have to want it enough
please help me
to want to feel this pain the way you
feel
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that you can help and do it
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we all just watched a film about the
life of remote look lavas high already
brings the the hazael where Yoshio
hemella who was brought up in a palace
that was trying to be ogre yiddish guy
from cloudy Israel he discovers a safer
Torah he never read it before he never
he never read the Bible any that finds
his every dog he starts reading and it
gets to the Pasig he gets to the plastic
of or a shallow yochien' as live realtor
rehearsals and the you shall me asks for
teh torah no flawless and he says yes
that was in the days of yoshio amela and
yoshio Melek says to himself awhile ah
Hawking the plastic is speaking to me I
can do it and yoshio went and made the
whole Claudia stroll observant again one
person yoshiyama left me the whole
nation for the message Ranaut wants us
to hear is that Kali as well is falling
apart
most of Claudius world doesn't know they
were created they don't know there's a
burial most Jews don't know that they're
there sitting on the greatest riches we
have all the secrets for life most Jews
they've read more about other religions
than about their own al Ilah Hakim every
observant Jew any Jew that has tasted
the beauty of Torah has so much to give
we take so much for granted being our
Shabbos table be her has said our way of
life in general knowing why you get up
in the morning we have so much to share
a Lyla Holcomb there is nobody nobody
nobody that can tell himself what do I
know already
they're gonna ask me some deep
philosophical questions that I won't
know the answers Oh while Hawking
everyone of us can do this and every one
of us has to do this clown Bistro needs
every yoke hit Ohio Hokkien this is this
is the message this is probably not had
every one of us feel all Lila Hawking
it's not for someone else to do it's not
it's congest gonna be a nice finish I'm
I am every one of us has this obligation
because we have the ability to
everyone's got to feel this let's make
use of this Tisch above the day that we
feel the whole room feel the cordon of
cloudy so Holly as well as falling apart
feel the cordon and make use of this
make use of this wake up we use this go
out there talk to people
spread the word of Yiddish kind let's
make the difference must be safer to a
different world to be asked me she asks
it came up in here of the Amane upon me
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