The Power of One- The Life Story and Mission of Rabbi Noah Weinberg

[Music] and he took a look at all the guys in asia terra he said that guy's about sugar that guy's about sugar that guy's about sugar that guy's about sugar i said and he said my friends he said these words if one man can kill six million jews one man can save six million jews speaking a asia too [Music] 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 to fight for something judaism was a walled garden of 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 whole supermovement we're fighting to save the jewish people and we're going to win the first thing about my father is almost you didn't hear the word kill 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 akaresh baraku please help us to love your children the way you love your children i met rip noah i had never seen anyone like this before the first thing i heard about was claudius how this was falling apart what are we going to do bring back the jewish people all of them now no excuses revna 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 he used to meet him used to stop him for five seconds used to speak yiddish it says do you remember that there is a god he says for sure for sure that he says you have a big big mitzvah and my father said the immune started to go into his blood he kind of had it drilled into him from an early age and he drilled it into his town meet him you gotta know hashem loves you his father was completely caught up in learning with hazel mishnais in the street but never told me he remembered having to pull on his coat to get his attention when they were walking in the street i knew from new york since i was about 16 years old we were roommates together for a couple years in near you soil we learned together i remember once someone wants to sell a car for about fifty dollars it didn't have any fenders the wheels were exposed it was a wreck but it rode well had a good motor i put in 25 and he put in 25 and we bought the car together it didn't concern the least it looked terrible on the outside as long as it got us to our destination he wanted to be a he wanted to be a timeless club and no question about it to us he was he was a talmud who was his mind was up there but his feet were on the ground on one hand he was like a fighter a warrior on the other hand he was a tremendous tomahawk and he was the warmest loving person like he had such a soft side to him and he seemed like you know a bit of a contradiction he wasn't an oscar he loved learning more than anything else if you think he had passion for kirif you had to see rob noah's passion for prashadin aramba i was standing outside the office and there were coils of rocky ramnor and rabbianco were screaming at each other i didn't know what was going on suddenly the door opened rebnoch grabs my arm and pulls me in were sitting and arguing over shot in a ramba rebnoch wanted me to decide who's right i spoke with raviaco weinberg i was studying in there yesterday and he says if you could take my brother uh a package i love it what was in the package that i brought him know those in those days you have a caffeine pill so you don't fall asleep revna 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 and my father stayed as the youngest of the family growing up with a weirdo mother i think one of the ingredients to rev noah's power is that his mother gave him a very special childhood and rev noah 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 he said 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 he basically realized that people had no idea and that we heading to a disaster we're heading that these people one generation two generations down we're going to lose their children their grandchildren we're going to lose them and that's where he just started to think what could he do you go to the rabbis you say rabbi do something about it right so that's what he did he went from rabbi to rabbi from russia shiva to russia shiva 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 going to work it's never going to happen just take care of yourself take care of your family that was the notion that time and then khazanesh was in israel and he's going to convince the khasanesh he went on a boat and on the boat he heard in the radio that the khazanesh passed away and his old trip to israel was pointless they say that the next day they got up in jerusalem and he opened the window and he said this is a place that a jewish person has to live so he learned in the meal for a period of time he met my mother they get married it says that my father came to his worship and he said shiva i want to open a shiva this and this is my plan i went to a blessed year and i wanted permission from him it was the mayor in the in in usual i am i am making yeshiva so he says what do you want to do nya so i told him you know i want to take secular people i'll show them the beauty of tourists but but they don't want to keep mitzvah saying you know i'm going back and forth finally he gets the message he says no yeah i understand what you want to do you want to make a factory and turn people take them in one cent and out the other end of you tell me i'm crazy to his fiancee will he leave me will he 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 wasn't 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 but renault saw such a beauty in the torah he said everybody that would see it they would come here shiva for guys not religious can't be done people would point with a finger there goes noah the meshuggah he thinks you can teach secular people torah it was so far away eventually rebnor found how to break the ice that was the 48 ways because 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 jewishly 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 10th grade which provided virtually no information on jewish belief and for me being 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 taught me one thing that there's nothing relevant in judaism i was looking i was looking 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 mitzvahs i learned with him also the 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 who was a sailor a radio officer in the merchant marines his ship came to ashdod and and i met him and i took him to meet rev neuer 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 asia tower and this was really just at the beginning when asiator really exploded a lot of people started coming and my brother eric was the last person in toronto anyone would think 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 rivnoch 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 going to go meet with noah we're going to see who's who is this rabbi you know who basically 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 mesmerized i thought this this man has genuine wisdom he is dealing with the issues that are really bothering me this is what i'm looking for in the back of mind i'm saying i need to go to israel at some point and really meet with him it was incredible it was inspiring to see people hippies you know come in with their guitars and two weeks later they're sitting and they're learning 48 ways he would come with a few boys on their kipper on ashani kippur to me shiva to daven he would walk in with these dozen fellows who looked 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 yeshivas 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 i'll come to a class it happened to be that at that exact minute rev noah was teaching a class on his famous series called the 48 ways to wisdom 40 ways to wisdom is from pirkei avos the 48 ways that the torah is nicknet the him 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 until i came back and they were quite serious about it although they didn't really follow through they 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 why not so we went to revnox 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 going to believe this i'm in a yeshiva 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 in some type of place they came to israel on an enteby raid to get me back and i'll never forget that meeting with rev noah we're in rebnock's office rivnoch 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 going to throw you out the window mr feld calm down we're just learning a little judaism over here and when we got married uh ravnok was the masada kadushan 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 rav 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 rebison 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 rab noah he made you think about things that you maybe hadn't thought about before would you 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 going to 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 what's going on i brought my parents to meet rob noah the only thing i really remember was my mother storming out of the office yeah so it didn't go so well [Laughter] actually my brother who's three years younger than me came to check out what was going on he took a semester abroad and he came to israel and uh he came to check out what i was doing and he wound up staying at aish also and uh wound up becoming an age rabbi now he's a lawyer so my you know my parents got at least one lawyer i think the story starts with 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 you a plate get you to a place where you can know a little bit more and guess what next thing you know he's face to face with noah and he felt that he'd met a wise man i thought you know what my brother's lost his marbles you know so i came in to get my brother out and i listened to the 48 ways i went to ravenous 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 into double nelson and that was it and it was hard for my mother at the time you know giving her medical school was not the most popular decision at the time she came to to israel to to meet with robert noah before we started any conversation looked at my mother and he said dr samson you have two amazing children how did you do it at the end of the year i told them i was going to become a rabbi and work with asia torah that actually reassured them a little bit because i thought i wasn't going to starve to death so when i came to ace 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 ephraim so the three of them specifically would talk about it and 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 he 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 zip me out he thought this would be 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 shomar shabbat and kosher his apartment his party apartment back at the university he started an asia tourist 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 all for learning i graduated dartmouth college i was very into learning and philosophy and different religions and i was like great and i only think i member of noah when i decided i was going to 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 i didn't i didn't bargain for exactly what i was going to learn because it really is a god he really did give a torah from mount sinai and it's real and it's true that rasheed is torah and his his living with self-evident truths that he understood about hashem in torah that to me was what galvanized me i went to india and i found a guru and i was i was a very spiritual person so i was learning you know i learned how to meditate i learned eastern spiritual ways to get close to god and my guru said to me you're jewish why don't you look into jewish mysticism it's like judaism was a walled garden but i couldn't find a way in this was in there was no way for women who didn't speak hebrew who were not raised from to uh to find their way into that garden so i stopped in israel my way back from india we went over to aish we went up the into the yeshiva there's narrow stairs that go up to rob noah's office and rav no and he said do you know what the most important thing in the world to know is like we're like no introduction no niceties no how are you hi how are you how are you they were like you know no we no we we don't know and he said to us the most important thing in the world to know is that hashem loves you we lived in jaffa at the big house overlooking the mediterranean on the hill i was an actor until the age of 40. i didn't know anything about touring nothing at all you asked me what's missing what are you talking about it didn't make much pressure on him the fact that there was a film star before the television star before it took me here i gave us a place in the old city we ate there we slept there we learned the torah he didn't gave the rashes he he lived it this was the power when he taught 48 ways for example he would teach about laughter about happiness about friendship about love he had the sparkle of happiness was in his eyes when he talked about love of god you could say this man loved god he loved hashem and you could see it all over him when i came back to yeshiva and i said i'm going to stay a month the first thing that they did with my knapsack on they dragged me straight into revenue's office and 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 said great if i told you that we will teach you how to be happy and it's going to take you a year to do it i don't know i'm getting nervous here all right that really went very deep because it really taught me what are my prior am 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 rivnock over the years ask that question and make that challenge for thousands of people and the first time i saw him i was in such awe he came around the corner by himself his head a little bit on the side as was his once he said to me you know do you want to know the secret about marriage you know that was so of not he had understood how the world worked and it didn't matter if it fit in with your intuition about it this is ms and if you did this you know you'd get it straight you know big white beard black coat the whole thing and i figured how are we going to communicate and then of course he breaks into his his lower east side accent so he basically gave me a five-minute talk on semester 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 saying just realize that god loves you i've never had that ability take very profound concepts and make them just real and clear in our minds so i ended up saying two weeks that turned into one month that turned into four months eventually that produced a wife and six kids in ace toronto he was a real leader leader that makes himself a leader a leader that leads a whole movement he gave the basis to the whole tuba movement he fought for it and he made he made things happen now it's very popular we're talking about hundreds of thousands by the tubers in elder 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 talmudim he understood that one person one person can make the difference he made the difference if he could just get his talmudim 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 aisha torah was just that sense of responsibility that rav noah made every single jew that walked into asia torah 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 and 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 and we'd been at asia tour for all of a month or two months or something like that and step up some people ask me when was the first time i taught a class at asia torah they're shocked when i tell them it was after three weeks being there i wasn't religious yet you said a person knows aleph you have to share olive right if you know base share base we have an obligation to learn torah and to teach torah it's one of the column of turtles learn in order to teach this is part of noah's queen was getting us to start right away and taking responsibility from always empowered us teach what you know we all thought that was a little bit crazy later we understood that this was renault's form of leadership development thinking about like what was the number one thing that really moved people about 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 of the most inspiring people i've ever met in my life but once you took responsibility you you became a partner and in a way he said you know if we're partners with a bonus we've got himself i never i've never come across that before somebody who spoke about responsibility in a real way well renault 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 what rover time says and does he says you go down the street and you see a guy drowning you're going to go in and save him you don't know how to swim poor guy he drowns but if every day you go and you see people drowning then you have an obligation to learn how to swim and i got a call from jamie calland who said to me noah spends some time in new york do you want me from noah and at first i'm like you sure it's the roof noah come like it's not his nephew this isn't a play they're like no it's the act i'm like the one the like yeah the one i'm like yes i'll be there right now and during those two weeks i spent six hours of noah weinberg like i felt like noah weinberg thinks i can do something with my life like 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 hashem 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 shimmy do you know god loves you and as a teenager rebellious teenager rabbi leave me alone that's all i want to hear like he says come on do i have to prove it you i said no of course i grew up with this i'm ash kid of course i know god loves me his eyes start burning flaming red eyes and he slams the table and he says so dance dummy and that is really what i think would be his message not just to less affiliate people but to to from people if you knew that he was a hashem in the world who loved you and you had and you really were clear that as the russia shiva was you'd be as he would say dancing a jig to every mitch you're about to do whenever i'd walk with her no so every i don't know 50 feet or so he would stop and go like this and i thought he had a back problem and at a certain point when i asked him to describe how do you experience god and experience the six consequences he like put his bag down and stuck his back up and he's like you have to just breathe in hashem's right here right now with you he's taking care of you i said to him right you have a back problem he said no i said is that what you're doing every 50 feet or so he says yeah how else am i supposed to live with the six counts of business 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 hashem 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 the two thousand thumbing which i have had and it's three generations already they're all every time a kid hits bar mitzvah our boss mitzvah it's a trip with daddy to israel and we went to see rav nach and rev noah said we'll give a picture of the family and i said sure i took it out i showed it to revnach and he took it from me and he put it in his suit pocket i said uh ravnoch i need that picture back i have to show people my family he said that's my picture and those and that's my family we have six children and five grandchildren and two the grandchildren carrie rivnoch's name you know i know it meant a lot rivnoch 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 kolel for many years my oldest has now become a roche cola my second is transitioning to become a rebbe we had the enormous privilege of remaining in touch in as close touch as i think anyone at a distance could be with noah whatever i am and have done that's worthwhile it's equally attributable to rab noah he loved us like a father we became his his his like his children was love hugging and he was my father and like a father he slapped me so many times you are so you are deserters to me a deserter you know who you are you always are go out bring people make what you said no i want to run torah i was at 40 with my life i don't want to waste anymore it was a fight the most difficult set of encounters i had with him was with regard to the curriculum in the yeshiva he wanted that someone could come in and go from olive base to smeja in six months i put together what i felt was a super duper program that would take seven years i walked in from nell's office i presented it not got angry he was big he was strong he held onto 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 d'avoneno he was so right he was so right we have no idea how many jews are i've been working on statistics now there are somewhere between four and eight million jews in america how's that for statistics somewhere between four and eight million jews we don't know who's jewish and he saw it coming in kiru at the time you were in it's like the lowest of professions like you hang out talk to happy courses but show you all day so there was a controversy and a very unpleasant one and i was very hurt by it that the things that were flying around i remember this as clear as day i walked into randolph's office and he was sitting there with a smile on his face and i said look this is hard and i said when are they going to stop some of the zealots were coming after him and he said don't worry there will come a day when all of the religious world will be learning how to do kiru for beijing torah the only reason i started my first yeshiva or my first organization and all the 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 going to give me his rope yeah is that right i'm going to come to your mind and say almighty i need you to help me 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 mean i never asked for money yeah i figured oh my even helped me i didn't know how to make an organization try it you know mighty has to help he's got to help and going for his children he's got to help us 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 torah here in cleveland so i said okay sure and he said to me what can i do for you i said i went 15 minutes with rob noah he was such a celebrity because my kids have always heard about you know rib noah's stories and eric cistrell and asia torah and kirov and everything else in here is the man himself coming to our home [Music] and sat down with me in the kitchen of my home so i said i am very much involved in kier verhoekem 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 shyla to you rib noah should i stop he looked at me with those dancing happy eyes and that big beautiful smile so here's what i'm going to 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 give me a bracha the bruck i want 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 bracha and i remember in the first internet meeting of h.com before it was ever east.gov they were showing us what the internet was like dissecting a frog they were 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 h.com was launched oh this was with alex like pride and joy like his little baby because he saw like wow look at all the people who reached look at that look at the potential here ravnoch 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 manpower the from 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 when 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 not 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 is 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 we said ravnoch we're a kirby organization we bring jews in we connect them to their potential and rev nook said no we're not a cure of organization we're hot sala 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 to the jewish people would do something out of the box to help the jewish people i got a call that rabbi noah weinberg wanted to organize a group of people to petition the canadian government to arrest an arab terrorist and he had raised six figures when rav knocked when he when someone said you got to do something he does it rob noah said every person who's been hurt or killed has a human face let's get that in the media and that was the beginning of our relationship he financed us to open up an office and people said who's behind you said you wouldn't believe it no just there's a little rabbi who's you know who's behind this my son contacted me from he said abba you wouldn't believe what's going on here my dad had a relationship with rabbi noah expressing to rabbi noah my first rocket experience being in a shabbat in a shoe during a friday night services and once rabbi noah heard that story he said bring him over i want to meet with him and then rabbi noah said what is it what do you need is as simple as that i need i need a video camera i need a small car to chase these rockets i need a computer i need a laptop simple as that and robin all said i'm with you the second i got the video camera was the first one there to literally document those first seconds after the rocket fire i'll be honest that after getting this first grant from rabbi noch we're able to establish ourselves he knew very clearly that this has to be shown and exposed throughout the entire world mainly to the jewish people so rabbi if it's what 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 yeshiva 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 where we were going to go what we were going to do and it was such a powerful we talk about empowerment you know saying you can you want to take responsibility for the jewish people ishtar is behind you have no ex behind you you can do it and that really laid the seeds for hasbro fellowships and the foreign ministry told us okay we're going to give you the funding to do this first program and i went straight back to the shiva and i went straight throughout noah's office and i told him well the foreign ministry said yes and he he looked at me like in wonder and of course he gave me another slap this was i think my second slub 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 he said like meshiach is coming he couldn't it was it was amazing his whole essence was torah saving the jewish people taking responsibility for the jewish people that was his whole life his 24 7 goal and i became interested i saw immediately as a very unusual person he's a learned rabbi he's also dedicated to the jewish people in particular worked 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 had been sick at the time i didn't know about it he was going to have an operation and he saw me and in a second he he gave me a hug and he asked me what are you doing and i told him i'm a silver spinner yeshiva i'm working very hard and and you know he listened and it's very happy and then when i finished he says but what are you doing for claudius [Music] the 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 to see rev noah 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 this god loves me this is all good i think the main thing that i hear rav noah saying in my head over and over is [Music] 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 on tishbo of we can cry and we can say oh 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 noah would say he would say get up and do use that pain and change the world i was sitting at the hospital better of not last one last days i said to him rebbe coming soon he said of course i said is the jewish are the jewish people going to come back of course i said so why do i have to do it let me do it why do i have to be involved in it he says you're making a mistake hashem is giving you the greatest opportunity since the beginning of time if you want to take that opportunity you got it if not let me do it we'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 brawl is waiting for a few people to stand up and take responsibility that could be all we need when you pray to god about jews who are assimilating what do you say to god 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 me i know i just have to want it enough please help me to want to feel this pain the way you feel it [Music] so that you can help me do it that's what you gotta do [Music] we all just watched a film about the life of rip noah the chavez haim already brings the the hazal where yoshio hamela who was brought up in a palace that was trying to be okra yiddish guide from claudius he discovers asafoetara he never read it before he never he never read the bible and he finds a savior he starts reading and it gets to the pasek he gets to the passage of him and the you shall know he asks tori no fullest and it says yes that was in the days of yoshio and yoshiao melak says to himself o laila hawking the pasik is speaking to me i can do it and yoshio went and made the whole claudius royal observant again one person yoshio ahmed made the whole nation from again the message renault wants us to hear is that kali israel is falling apart most of claudia's role doesn't know they were created they don't know there's a borealis most jews don't know that they're they're 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 every observant jew any jew that is tasted the beauty of torah has so much to give we take so much for granted be in our shabbos table be our hesed our way of life in general knowing why you get up in the morning we have so much to share oh laila hawking there is nobody nobody nobody that can tell himself what do i know already going to ask me some deep philosophical questions and i won't know the answers a la la hawking every one of us can do this and every one of us has to do this claudius role needs every yogi this is this is the message this is every one of us feel a lie looking it's not for someone else to do it's not it's just going to be a nation or 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 tissue above the day that we feel the hormone feel the hormone of cloudiness or how israel is falling apart feel the hormone and make use of this make use of this wake up make use of this go out there talk to people spread the word of yiddish kite let's make the difference and let's be safe [Music] me [Music] you