The Shabbat Show - Episode 13: The Power in People

[Music] hello everybody and welcome to another episode of the Shabbat children Shabbat home it's honor to be with you again Charlie Rory here it is such an pleasure that we're together again before Shabbos I look forward to this the entire week you know every single week when I say God's help like can't wait to see you again I hope that I get to see you in Israel but the thought that another week go by and we can spend another week together another time bringing in Shabbat the greatest time of the week it's really really an opportunity that I don't take lightly and thank you so much for joining us right now thanks to those that are tuning in from all over in the different platforms from all over the world it's an honor that you're you're with us it's an honor that we have to spend this time together today we're gonna change the topic up every single week is you know we try to have a theme it's not just enough to come together we want to make sure we're coming together under a specific banner to learn to grow each week to develop a new understanding another appreciation in something over the past few weeks you've been studying about different aspects of Shabbat kiddush challah Havdalah the meals all the different pieces of it but we wanted to do this week was go a little bit deeper it's not about Shabbat as much as it's about us walking into the world of Shabbat something happens when we enter into the space called Shabbat it's designed for a very specific reason me and you have something and what Shabbat is doing is bringing it out so a couple of years ago I was given a gift I had started to do videos for Asia Torah and a man named Jaime kaolin called me and he said listen I want to ask you a question would you like to spend some time with her of Noah Weinberg or if Noah Weinberg as you know is the Dean and founder of Asia Torah the Russia but one of the greatest most influential characters the past 50 years he was larger than life much of what you see today in Asia tour and project inspired and other great organizations come from the the leadership of this one man he said listen he's gonna be in the city would you like to spend some time with him said are you would I like to spend time with Noah Weinberg like I sure it's the right one like you know they give you like a sort of why we're here that's like really his cousin so from Hawaiian burger I'm like be he's like yeah see I'm like Vivi he's like yeah I'm like wow I mean what do I do like how much do you need like yes yes yes so I got six hours alone with this giant of a man and what went on in that room what I learned from him in six hours changed my life six hours alone in a small office in New York City leave over Sampson was there and he I asked him questions and he said things and I've never been the same one of the things that he said to me was instead he set it around to everybody he said that there's a famous Mishnah part of the oral law that says that God gave us a credible gift we're beloved in God's eyes why are we beloved because we have been created in His image God could create us in any way we could have just been walking robots all the pieces fit together clink clink clink and we get turned on by some magic button and off we go but it's not how God created us when God fashioned Adam he blew into his so to speak the epoch when he blew into him a a soul a living soul and this Mishnah teaches us that why we so beloved me and you out of where you are and what's your background religious not religious into it not into it feeling it not feeling it forget it what mean you have inside us what's empowering us is a piece of the divine that means that the two of us the ten of us the thousands of us right now in our in who we are what's powering us is a piece of the divine itself Selam aleykum it's it's in the image of God we have a helical okatee peace of God that means we have infinite potential that means there's no telling what we can accomplish in this role that means there's nothing this world that we can't overcome there's nothing physical that we can transcend because we at our core are not physical beings we have a body but we are a soul and I remember when he told that to me I felt so empowered to push to the extent of what that means God tells that to us and many times what holds us back in life is not capacity its focus its distraction when you get on the treadmill of life when you're young and you never get off it you don't have time to recognize who you really are when our brain gets lost into the world and we're so busy trying to survive and go through the day and carpools and going and coming in bills and work and catching up and then just the extra seconds that we have someone's buzzing and beeping and we're checking and you can go a life a hole you can go a year of five years a decade and never once slow down but Shabbat does Shabbat slows us down not only to find God but to find the God that is within on each and every one of us the peace of the Divine that we all go around with it's to tap into our own power it's to have that moment to breathe to see things to feel things to recognize things and the number one things we need to recognize is that me and you are really really powerful we're a piece of the greatest that's why we want to talk about today on the show the impact of Shabbat the power and people because there are incredible people out there and when we meet them and we hear from them and we hear the different ideas we see a piece of ourselves in them hopefully reminds us that we too have even more power than we're bringing out and it is a day like Shabbat where we recognize that God's in control buddy in endowed us with some incredible power it gives us the strength and the energy to bring it out and be stronger the next week so I'm looking for we've got a great show coming up for you we've got great people coming out from you the show the sponsor this week is Ken and Beverly crafts their family in honor of their daughter pearls recent marriage to tune up gas Gastner and also and also the sponsor is EV slotnick we have an incredible incredible show for you here today we've got a show we've got rabbi avi and we've got Brett from st. Louis coming up soon we've got the one and only shimmy Adar who's with us she is not to be believed she's so incredible TV Bernard my good friend an incredible incredible speaker and influencers here as well we've got a new segment we are introducing for the first time a panel discussing Jewish privilege we've got new clips we've got Jaime Geller so stick with us all the way to the end we've got a lot to do today remember to like us on Facebook and Instagram and our tech team we'll figure out who you are and place you into a raffle to make sure you get goodies remember the join we've got one-on-one we've got a new commercial to show you on the one on one here check this out [Music] [Applause] [Music] my name is Alex Asti my name is Desmond Berg I'm live in burns in Arizona I've been part of project inspire for almost a year now I'm from Brazil and I have been a part of the one-on-one learning program for over a year now I just didn't have a Jewish education my parents are from the former Soviet Union where it was illegal to learn I grew up in a family and we're unfortunately in Judaism in the culture was not passed down so I didn't know anything coming into this program we talked about everything from life liberty the pursuit of happiness we started learning once a week she has made such a huge impact in my life and she just really meant me where I was in a totally non-judgmental way so whatever comes up with relation to Judaism of Torah and Talmud and Mishnah and Kabbalah anything we just kind of talk about it put it out there project inspire has enriched my life by enabling me to set aside 30 minutes to an hour each week and dedicate time to learning about different schools of thought if it wasn't for them I wouldn't know how to read Hebrew it's really beautiful to see how extremism shapes my everyday life where I would have never even realized that before so I highly recommend getting matched up with the one-on-one partner if you are looking for a personalized way to stay connected with Judaism in your busy life I'm very much looking forward to growing in my truth ISM and my faith and having a stronger impact on the world around me because of it thank you project inspire and I can't thank you enough so thanks [Music] [Applause] [Music] incredible opportunity one should really take advantage of it remember you could always text one-on-one learning to 9,700 or sign up go to project inspire org as well it's a great opportunity great program learn wisdom why not on your schedule custom just for you this is one of my favorite things we're gonna do the whole show is keep people shabbat shalom so let's begin this and before we get to our first guest shabbat shalom from Macon Georgia from the Coen shabbat shalom' to you we have a goal shabbat shalom from Ozzy in Baltimore shabbat shalom from everybody beverly more recent Statesville North Carolina gold eat Alber shabbat shalom - to you shabbat shalom - Rivka Tyler otherwise known as Patriots rock one of the big leaders in our game - henan toronto shabbat shalom Rochelle and Michael Kirsten from Toronto shabbat shalom - - shiri from Mountain View California welcome back to botulin Colette Franco from Brooklyn shabbat shalom monka Lederman shabbat shalom to you the Hirsch family the Hirsch family they were are one of our original guests for those that have the history here from Fair Lawn with a newly adopted puppy so shabbat shalom - thee - puppy Hirsch as well Stacy and Alan Levin grat Levin rad from California shabbat shalom - Lawrence and Hilary Hess in Fair Lawn New Jersey shabbat shalom - okay we knew some Morley's later let's start with our first guest this week I actually had the opportunity to catch up with two great people rabbi Abbie Roberts and Brad crock and talk about this great new initiative that you know about AVI started you know we hit when you hit the virus everything shut down so some people just stopped and some people never stopped so check this out this one rabbi and what he did - to roll with the virus to bring Shabbat to students and his student who has really been growing from it so check out this interview that we able to cut during this week okay walk everybody to this incredible segment I am joined with two wonderful individuals rabbit avi roberts looking right now he is the heads the young professionals division at ignite YP in st. Louis and Brad crock is with us as well a 30 year old student for chiropractic he's a chiropractor so let's not with you rabbi you know you a couple of weeks ago you looked around the world as so many others did and said wait a second like we're all in quarantine what I'm doing is most likely interfacing with individuals from all over the world or from my community and now I'm stuck behind my house you started this thing called the Shabbos table what is the Shabbos table yes the Shabbat table was basically designed so that we can help each person learn more about Shabbat grow more each week even though they can no longer come to the rabbi's house because of all the restrictions and everything so each week there was a theme for the Shabbat table learn about something say kiddush or challah or whatever else it might be people from all over the country would join the Xoom here an inspiration we'll talk about it break up into small breakout rooms randomized to meet people from around America and get to know them and feel like they're learning about Shabbat with a lot of their pairs and then every city had it a little bit differently but the students would then go to the rabbi's house and pick up a few at yourself Shabbat packaged with a meal for Friday night with materials to learn more about Shabbat and whatever's needed like grape juice for kiddush or tea lights or something like that Wow and now Brad you are you're a part of that your why have ours in this constellation over here talk to me a little bit about how you got involved where where how did you get to the rabbi how did you get this job table what's your background - so Shabbat I mean you hit the nail on the head I mean I you know I work part-time and the chiropractic school full-time we've got boards coming up I mean how do you I go into what I call hermit crab season see their boards or finals there's about a three week period you're not going to get from just because just like we're with everybody else there's there's absent flows in life and one thing that I've realized this Shabbat gives me the ability to research it's giving me the ability Hannah and it's a very slow learning process for me but it's I'm learning more and more to find a little peace on a Friday night be able to kind of sit down with myself and my thoughts and go okay you know we've talked about how she bot can be a lot of moments reflection kind like you see yourself in the firelight of the Shabbat candles but you can see the candles dancing around the table have you that gives me a time to reflect and sit down to okay like what was good for this week what could have been better for this week it and it's also I mean man I thrive on I'm starting to travel on moments of peace right so one thing that Shabbat does and I had to teach myself that's to come into August house there was actually joke my phone works in obvious front yard but as soon as I walk into August house I get no cell phone reception and it's in and I've had to teach myself that in my own home sort of like hey if I don't get any cell phone reception rabbis house because I'm not supposed to be on my phone like learn it put it away for a while and it's and that's something that's about giving me it's giving me a certain aura to no matter how much I'm studying or what I'm studying for what I'm planning for what I got going on Shabbat is becoming a moment for like I've got it I plan it every week so I give myself that two or three hours in the afternoon sometimes more sometimes less I try not to make any less I try to make it more and more each time like I've talked about with Augie you know stay off the phone for an extra fifteen to thirty minutes a night you know maybe maybe do a little reading you know find he's turning down a lot of good books open one of the books that you're one of the you know the tour anytime just you know make sure it's printed out beforehand so that way you're not using electricity to get on your iPad and laptop to read it but make sure it's printed out beforehand so that way you can get a little more Jewish education on Friday night you're just really sticking to and using it as a way to grow that was a small piece of a really an incredible opportunity that we had to meet two individuals both the rabbi who kept on rolling creating this incredible Shabbat table and of course the Brad who adopted it got involved in it has been growing since and this is just a little bit of the power that we're talking about in people to grow to innovate to bring our traditions in new ways and also then on the other side to be open to to to to grow in one's own own Judaism in every which way the power that we have in each and every person a couple of more shabbat shalom that we have from Donna bell Burkhardt from Seattle shabbat shalom to you to Linda for Anna Dale Virginia shabbat shalom to you to the car funcle' family shabbat shalom to you - Aviva from Cincinnati Ohio shabbat shalom to you to the barren family in Denver shabbat shalom' from John from Oxfordshire shabbat shalom to Yosef no Farrell from Passaic Brian Wolfe reset and Brian Wolfe shabbat shalom to you okay the next yes that we have is an incredible video that we're gonna show you know this individual actually was part of a one of our conferences his name is Dylan Segal he spoke at a project inspire convention he's a young child he's such a testament to the power of one person one person can accomplish check out Dylan's story love comes in all forms especially friendship in today's people making a difference lisa sigell brings us an update on a young author who's trying to find a cure for his friend's disease and shows the kids everywhere anything is possible 10 year old Dylan Siegel and his classmate 11 year old John Aparna zarion have been friends for a long time I won he's kind and friendly and fun to play with he's really nice it's a sweet friendship that took it even sweeter turn four years ago Dylan's my best friend that's when we first met them I like to go silly and when Dylan mentally six wrote a book called chocolate bar to help raise money for Jonah chocolate ball equals awesome I like to go to the beach - sell chocolate all see Jonah suffers from a rare life-threatening liver condition called glycogen storage disease 1b it strikes just one in a million Dylan wanted to help I wanted Jonah to feel better I wanted to help care his disease so they started selling books the first year raising $20,000 now we have raised over 1.3 million dollars and we've sold over 30,000 copies of our book now the books turned into bracelets shirts a fundraising page and of course chocolate bars chocolate bar they have found a cure for their first part and are gonna start clinical trials but they're still working on the cure for the second part of the disease I'm very thankful that Dylan has wrote a book and raise money is an incredible friend other people think Dylan's pretty cool too a few years ago the White House sent me a letter it was crazy young people like you are tomorrow's leaders Hershey's treated them to a special tour and Dylan's speaking across the country about giving back I haven't stopped gay because I want to inspire kids all around the world that they could do something amazing it's incredible how you can write a book and save someone's life see yes Dylan says chocolate bars are awesome and so is Jonah he knew that at 6 and now even more anything can happen if you just put your mind to it I like to help my friends that is the biggest chocolate bar an incredible story the power of one person you know I loved about that story so much is that he didn't have any idea about all the challenges that would be facing him you know when you start a project when you write a book when you try to raise money there's all the things that can go wrong but when you're young you don't have any of that you just get on a roller coaster and let the roll of course take you where it is sometimes in life we come up with too many reasons why we fail but if we would just go after it we would be shocked by how much we can all accomplish look at the one little kid one child accomplished just because he wanted to help his friend raised over a million dollars the power of people power that is inside every single human being to change the world now speaking about powerful people our next guest this is clearly one I've had the opportunity to not only witnessed what Jimmy has been doing around the country in terms of the impact she's making on so many people I've had I've seen her in all these different contexts but also we've seen her on her show and she changed her way shamea da changed the whole game of of parties she would walk in and make people feel amazing she would bring up the energy she would travel around the world inspiring kids and adults singing smiling and dancing and when this whole virus started as opposed to saying well I can't go anywhere she shifted over and moved on to social media and changed and created one of the most popular platforms to bring inspiration to other people it's an honor to have me on the show shimmy welcome to the show thank you so much for having me how are you I'm wonderful it's great to have you it's great to have you here thank you for giving us the time sure begin I love project inspired the only organization that I don't want to call an organization it's the only family that would come on two seconds before Shabbat people are screaming at me I'm like keep the baby quiet professional you can I hope the doors locked by the way because mine is lock so that no kids can come in I forgot to lock it but they changed the topic last min and he told me the power in people and I was like the first thing that came to mind was project inspired and the experiences that I've had at the Chabot owns and the first one actually they came to mind is the Falla big first of all how big that was on a zoom a few months ago and I came on and they're like shimmy we're not gonna dance you know we're not it's weird to dance on Zoom and I put on the music just to see what's gonna happen and all of a sudden I see the younger girls start clapping their hands and their mothers are like hello this is so embarrassing I'm like get your mother to stand up and start dancing and it was just incredible how the power of people that was pressure and all of us started dancing because we brought out the simcha and happiness of one another but when we had a solid bake back in the day when we were allowed to be together with humans at the I think was last last year two years ago and that is how I bake and I told him I said it's not gonna work out at the hotel it's a few hours before Shabbat everyone has to get ready shower this and that people are coming in the place was jam-packed everybody was there grandmother's the younger children and everybody in between and I remember like the older women saying let me show you how to braid the table okay I've been doing it for years and some people never made call in their life and we were dancing the place was on fire by the way there's a hundred fifty seven participants I don't believe this this is amazing only a project inspired and after the the Falla make everybody left to get ready and it wasn't like a nine-year-old girl I wish I remembered her names I give her a shout out but she was cleaning up oh the whole place afterwards and I was doing a thing on my Instagram stories what do you love about about what's your favorite thing about Yvonne and what's this nine-year-old girl so what's your favorite thing about you about she said I love when my mother lights of Shabbat candles I love it but even more so I love it when I watch all the women light the candles these shop atones cuz like if you watch the flames they're so powerful and they're flickering and you see the mothers praying and each one is praying for something else and it's just like it makes me feel a little fuzzy inside like those are our words and I'm like I still have the video and I said what would you ask Hashem what would you ask God those rojo and she said I wish I would ask Hashem that my father could be here because he's very sick I wish my father could experience what it is to be around all these people and that's what came up when he said the power and people like individually who are amazing but when we get together it's so so powerful which leads me to my last thing yeah you want to say something Charlie your last thing go do your thing I'm not getting in your way 30 seconds which leads me we're gonna forward after that chopper tone top-dollar when Charlie I was gonna say her up charlie I almost messed up but I didn't he probably he gets up there and he does his thing and he speaks and he makes Abdullah he takes it to a whole nother level he elevates it and we're all standing there the women on one side the men on the other side you know there's a guitar in the background which helps you write your message it always makes it so much better as I remember you were talking about the power of a flame you see the Shabbat candle as one flame and then the of Dulla candle has two flames now I'm like a Hanukkah candle any other candle it has two flames and I remember standing there and as the music got you know with Avedon and green and it got more powerful in the beats and everybody I saw everybody wanting to dance and they're like you know nodding their head and but nobody was doing anything they were just standing there like frozen so my job is naturally to make everyone feel awkward so I grabbed the first woman on my right the first moment on my left which happened to be the woman on the right was a Hasidic woman and the woman on my left was a lady from Alabama who never captured by that I was her first Shabbat Erica and I remember just swing with them hand in hand and all of a sudden you saw on the other hand every it was just a ripple effect everybody was you know together as one and I looked at that as like the power of people the power of people cuz like we were all there we all felt the magic it didn't matter who you are where you came from what you look like where you're heading where you hold it didn't matter because at that moment we're all one and sometimes we get you know we lose focus with debts at a time like we don't realize how powerful we are when we unite and I look what's happening right now I think the wonderful thing that came out of this is that we could be here ere Shabbos people from all over the world getting ready for Shabbat with Charlie our re what could be better your great words and one of these I want to bring out that you're saying which is so important and I want to make sure people are getting it is that and this what we're talking about and I think you live I think on this principle if I'd have to guess that it's in there you should got to bring it out like it's in there right you you look at somebody and they're like wow I don't know I shouldn't them that's what I do I've never done this before I don't know it's not what I did you're like stop and in if there's anyone that does that I mean people don't appreciate that the person who draws people in to dance that's the most death most vulnerable in the world they standing about the podium these are protected right when you're going out and pulled something in that dance floor you can lose big time you know say you could be alone on that thing but you have to believe in your core that that person for that moment has a piece of something inside them that wants to come out it's just something's blocking them yet what do you see just in 30 seconds when you look around to a dance with people not dancing or how do you know that you can take that chance to bring out other people I got into a point in my life where I don't care what anybody says or thinks about me as long as I'm doing the right thing and I know that I have the coop I mean I can't draw I can't do a lot of things but I know that I could connect to people in a certain way and that's God gave it to me how could I deny the world of that and everybody has that something in them but they know they know what's there so like when you when you realize how could somebody could gain from something that and there's no one else in the world that has what we have they might be able to dance and sing and and and you know speak but no one can relate to anyone the way you could relate to them and when you know that you have that one thing pressures on yeah sure yeah you're awesome gotcha bless you doing continue bringing all the joy to the world bringing out the best and every person that comes in your way let's keep up be the reason some smiles and spreading that sunshine thank you there should be a dot really one of the most powerful forces that our people have today really and I think it's such an important piece that we get and I know that feeling because I know you know you know that feeling too right you've been for that dance floor and like you go and you not going do you go and you're not going you want to go in is that it's the force you want to well let go a little bit you want to dig in and whether you dance or not it's a metaphor but sometimes you got to dig into who you are and pull out the power within but I think what should you say also secondly was even more importantly which is yeah I know who you are you gotta know who you are gotta know what you gift this you got to bring that out to other people that's really where your power comes in shabbat shalom - Lori Salomon and family from Suffern shabbat shalom - the runner family re/max shabbat shalom Jenn from Georgia shabbat shalom recent Brian Wolfe from Oak Park Michigan shabbat shalom shabbat shalom - Michelle Ryan from Suffern VAX from Toronto shabbat shalom - Venezuela special um - Mikey Malka Lederman shabbat shalom' for Yonatan in toronto lay apparel special on to you again New York City I love seeing some of this familiar names I keep on coming back shabbat shalom from Costa Rica the Stoller family in Dallas shabbat shalom - you malko kolinsky from Chicago the Patel ski family from Waterloo shabbat shalom' mark Hoffman from LA Robyn Rudman shabbat shalom - you to lay it and Richard Bessette shabbat shalom - you okay let's go to our next video you know what's so fascinating we try to do this on the show a lot and we've got some really wonderful feedback from it and it's who we are which is although this is a show that is based at least timewise in the United States of America it extends outside of course to all these different countries we very much are tethered to the State of Israel our homeland and we speak about heroes and the power within it's almost impossible to not mention the heroes that are within the borders and one of the things that always strikes me and the guys that come on the trips with us always strikes them is that when you think about the idea after you think about the soldiers protecting the entire country you would think these are sort of sophisticated of adults that have been spending a lifetime in the army but they're not their kids their kids with big guns but they're kids and they're not even big kids like can you see like it's really soldier they're not like six for 250 like God doesn't make us that big like these are like scrawny kids where they get the power from I get it from within you know it and I know it you meet that elbow soldiers have it you meet an Israeli soldier there their dedication their commitment they draw out this power that they have inside them that far surpasses any physical lack of power that they may have there's a source of power and where does it come from so I want to play you a video from a hero hero that passed away but a hero nonetheless in fact I found out about this individual years ago and I have been learning about him and from him for years he has been a source of inspiration in my life is really a touching story and I'd love to show it to you the story of the power in people check out the life of Roey Klein he left here the protocol Harun we missed vacations who need Calma holy master the edema Hotel Oh bingo flick even khuda' table Shannon it Cal Bahama they must say una fuga language off Mustapha to the Hebrew name avec le ferry to KO the client customer mrs. micawber patois language illumination in semi-auto put him around estimate entire lanka toaster - mmm interleukin is rocky ramona ki-moon across OMSI turn Ramona's a coffee table [Music] he thought she might flare cousin recover now smile he's flying a shame and okay I share my heart cuz i watch becoming a kilo much more koala [Music] chocolates of that mmm what did you like it Lord Smollett aha hey Gus t-shirt no Sarah you guys to like it long that you deal imam al schmaltz me you're hot too bad they are fighting motto dish more like a dream this more kundalini won't go gum the power for much me [Music] so what if not so instead of debating here Tony friend Herman came in very broke everything she needs Kevin a convenient they add by T slyly with OCD Alex Riley Machado the shot is flailing she showed him in Le me to have a rush along the road with a hot dog we go here the army - oh gosh are we talking moon Ashley Marshall Zota Pam it's a maximize the self-study matata pls wha bula-bula tential Israeli meet Akash Makaha Israeli who even a soldier been Angela McCullough meet Ohio to the dogs they shall be Clem Ashiya the whole turd the holiday movie horrid caboodle banana bite we talked to her have it nailed Makaha Nova with the cuticle pay dearly slowly or every local boy our individuals the power of a few to be so dedicated to a cause that the cause itself is more important than their own lives he jumps on a grenade to save others there are people with this much power they're not stronger than us they're just bringing out more I'll tell you Rory Klein had a big impact on my life years ago my uncle bought me this book and if you can see it's called with all your hearts actually roie's writings and it was one of the most powerful things ever read it's worth of the by powerful thing I've read big people just like me and just like you the potential to do so much the potential to bring out so much in us and God's with us all the time it Shabbat those moments where we have to remember it even more than during the week shabbat shalom - gave me Kesten - Gabi Caston from Queens New York Carol Drucker Upper West Side Carolyn Gordon Drucker shabbat shalom - you you her - Shlomi - polar and Esther Perel shabbat shalom - you Lisa black nettings from Toronto it's good to see you again shabbat shalom - shabbat shalom - machine Hana to Roger and Erica Adina from Richmond Hill Ontario shabbat shalom - mark Hoffman in LA the Pope ELLs in Miami she rewrites from sherry rice from Denver Colorado Suzanne Bernheim from Birmingham Alabama if command sore from deal and thank you for joining us every morning the Franco family this is incredible right look at the world the Jewish people were all one from all over the world world watching the same show all in the same thing one of the great programs we spoke about here is mine flex mine flexes project inspires way of making sure that everybody continues to grow flex your mind this week they've got an incredible program coming up called Torah in science in conflict or incontinence you don't miss it it's an incredible program check it out July 14th and 16th at 9:00 p.m. go to project inspired org for all this information of court again 97,000 for 101 learning so many programs so much opportunity to grow okay now up to our new segment we're going to be trying a new segment this week the panel discussions talking about Jewish privilege it's going to be hosted by the executive director of project inspire Jesse Friedman please turn your attention to this panel thank you so much charlie and welcome to the ask the rabbis session of the bring Shabbat home program we have with us today rabbi to be sitting here who's the rabbi of the village shul how are you rabbi - sydnor roth gob forget his intro and doorbell time joining us via the phone is a senior lecturer on campuses and Jewish thought thank you very much guys we're only a short stop walked here today here we go the question of the week is Jewish privileged so it's a hot topic the jewish privilege is it a real concept and is it per guard of your thoughts I'm going to Europe I felt I'm personal your thoughts of whether other Jewish privilege is a real concept and is it regarded so first of all the whole word Jewish is the word though which means appreciation and thanks so the entirety of Judaism is to acknowledge our privilege it were blessed we the most common word and feels like a swing which means privileged fortunate what can people in the world we were given the tire up we come from unbelievable legacy boldness but hrut is because he went for it we accomplished things we accept the total we've lived and people people use it as a pejorative they're trying to put us now well let me say this in 15 seconds is that we've lived our entire lives with I can't read there's not a person in the world that hasn't put their food on our neck to say that we've been privileged and that to the cause of our success our privileges the bill need not to be broken or worn down that we had leaders who gave us who turned our pain into fire the world should learn from from Jewish pain on how to turn pain into greatness and joy it's a blessing so you say never tell them that we are privileged we are privileged however it didn't come from us growing up so to speak in a privileged environment we earned our privilege by accepting on ourselves with our and paid for everything triple we've we've done everything with both hands tied behind our back we've lived our lives not being able to breathe from walls of ghettos from literal boats from gas and look what we are amazing well on this from us we have we definitely have earned that I'm gonna go rob a sitting there your thoughts that I'm Jewish privilege is a real concept or and is a pejorative meaning is this is this how we in deep privilege so look I think that we have to define our terms when we talk about privilege I think what we're really talking about is having some inherent advantage I'm privileged not that I'm entitled that I have an advantage being in this situation so when we talk about you know is there Jewish privilege I think the answer is yes I think there is Jewish privilege I mean look we have the best system of morals and values and ethics we have the Torah we're hounds people there's no question about it we have a bluefish we constitute point O 2% of the world but we make up 30% of Nobel Prize winners no question about it we we have some type of inherent advantage that being said I don't want to use the word privilege because when we talk about that what we mean is especially when we talk about skin color we mean it's it's something I have but you can't have you can't change your skin color when we talk about Jewish privileged Jewish if inherent advantage we're saying yes I have it but so could you anyone can have it it's a beautiful esteem or you're posing on the inherit inherent privilege I felt that more of the earned privilege shows me grab your thoughts on on Jewish privilege is a real concept and as a pejorative the biggest problem I think is not that whether we are privileged or not it's whether Jews recognize they're privileged I think the rest of the world gets upset that we think we're privileged and we are so self-conscious to recognize how privileged we are am I said nobody's in there what's what's something that Jews can do and have in mind in order to recognize the privilege that we have either inherent or have worked for over the years think that if if every Jew could pick one one aspect of you display not something naturally but something that they already familiar with and just delve into it or come to appreciate it take a little bit of time every day to just value that one Mitzvah and realize how special is realize what a son gave us I think it'll help grow our own appreciation for what we have in this world thank you that's perverse in a final ten seconds is yours I felt him I loved dearly when at the end I can do this then we'll speak after his ballina there but the catheter realize that we work for this at the other day I think a privilege means we didn't we don't even necessarily deserve this Roberto so long God is so loving and so caring it's already gave it to us that we can't even do anything to repay it but I think it's time to be able to take a moment to think about how blessed we are how blessed we are what an honor and privilege it is to be connected to this thing called duty is absolutely amazing guys I thank you so much I know everyone's busy on a Friday afternoon I really appreciate you doing it especially if you have out of your beautiful Hawaii house over there so much so much alone to all you back to you Charlie as we as we look to as we look to continue the amazing show we trabajo Thank You rabbi pretty much for that what an incredible interesting conversation hope that we all can take with us and bring it to our Shabbat table and keep on asking the question and what it means to us and how we can make it a bigger part of our lives now we're up to Jaime Geller I know people love including me Jaime gallon wallet she has to say she's a big partner of this organization and we see her every single week ladies and gentlemen Jaime gallop thanks Charlie a bundle I love this I love being back hello everybody we've got a new recipe for you this week obviously okay so I was inspired by people you know we come in all colors shapes and sizes and together we make up the most amazing human race well so to this spice mix this is the everything spice mix and it brings together lots of different colors flavors textures and seeds and it can basically be put on anything well anything savory that is so I'm going to show you for fun ways to use it but you can always just put it on something follow up my favorite application sprinkle top of cottage cheese or tossed with a simple salad this is literally one of my favorite spice mixes and burn I always have it in the cabinet okay so I hope you enjoyed as much as I do and shabbat shalom [Music] Thank You Jamie that was awesome as usual for more videos go to Jamie Gellar comm Facebook Instagram Pinterest YouTube Twitter tic toc at Jamie gala or 'jewish bye Jamie for more of her incredible recipes couple more shoebox loans before do i before we go to our next guest the Duke family of course before then we're going down the list here the Symons in Phoenix shabbat shalom to you the Duke family from Thornhill Ontario shabbat shalom - you should watch alone - Goldie bow shabbat shalom - you spatula man in Las Vegas shabbat shalom - you okay we're gonna go to our next we go to our next guest TV Bernard incredible guy I've had the opportunity many times to be connected to TV was born and raised in Johannesburg South Africa it was there that he developed this deep passion for African and it's wildlife seeded leading to his internationally acclaimed an award-winning keynote and business book leopard ology the hunt for profit in a tough economy TB has taken into those platforms of global corporations across the world and has appeared on CNN CBS ABC NBC Fox and PBS sky and MSNBC and others now living in Miami Florida Hugh Bernard is the CEO of a private partnership engaged an alternative-fuel conversation project based in Europe and is still a highly sought sought after speaker on speaker TV thank you so much for joining us in the program Charlie my old friend wouldn't want on privilege to be here with you but so long for this shabbat shalom - you know about this well because you write about it you talk about it you live it talk to us about your perspectives on power and people and what that means absolutely so you know I was listening to a lot of fascinating anecdotal you know notes that were made by many of your guests and just at a meetings major story with Robbie here's what I want to share the power of the pride right the power of people and the capacity that human beings have to really live a transcendent life and to get up above it and to find spaces and crevices and places of deep meaningful connection but the something that transcends them themselves is a phenomena it's an amazing thing and absolutely is it is most experienced in the mass distribution the people which is something that we Jews truly specializing we are on a militias who know we are an unco - a holy nation it is the capacity of our individual talent that allows for the collective to be such an awesome machine but Charlie what I want to touch for a minute on is the the power of the fragmentation that I am as a singular human being in other words what I've just said to you is the many people that live within me and as I move through a contemporary conventional world in 2020 specifically the world that we're currently navigating right but in general finding place between him and earth being a Jew that is connected to something transcendent that is plugged into a heavenly space but yet has a requirement a responsibility and a capacity to be involved in the world in a physical material world there is as natural tension that consistently right he's born within us and it plays itself out every single day and many times every moment of every day and what happens is we kind of travel through this and we come to this one magical incredible thing called Shabbos and it is the only thing that quills their tension and that finally says to my cognitive rational brain that I am NOT a physical human being that occasionally has an experience of the spiritual but it flips the entire thing on its head and gives me a paradigm shift and it says to me you are a spiritual being delivered in the physical material world to a corporal body and finally on Shabbat as I experienced these twenty-four hours I get this thing right and as I'm kind of really getting it right and my soul has bled through my entire body I take that beautiful half-dollar candle that flame and I'm it's not there I'm extinguishing the dominance of my soul over my body I'm making a commitment that it actually traversed through the week that this be my dominant self when I when I sippy when I said II totally into the city you know the beautiful people listening is that we are really navigating right now an incredibly tough individual time where so much is under the microscope there's so much shift and change there is so much that was familiar to our being that is no longer and they're operating methodologies that I'm after re adapted so this would be a problem for me if the world I lived in was my home but it's not it's just my house it's just where I transact a shelter at home upstairs in a heavenly realm where my soul actually lives I think this mentality will kind of take us through a whole different shifting slice Wow Wow Kiwi you always seem to do it that way words the words awesome you put the accent the whole thing with sophistication you knock us over I'm blown out you're exactly right you're exactly right and and I think the message you're delivering needs to be digested not just heard because this is what we're getting at is this recognition that we are something else and the end where you put it so beautifully we this this world is where we transact right it's not a I'm TV and honor to have you on thanks so much for another Rodeo together maybe we have many more many more Charlie and may you be blessed with incredible work you do but so long for this shabbat shalom TV thanks so much what an incredible message and key we just delivered that I want to make sure we end with which is this idea of what we opened with we didn't plan it but we opened with this concept of the body and the soul but what keep you drove towards what I think is so critical this idea that when we see ourselves as more than the body the world around us is a different feel the insecurities that we're experiencing in the current world that we're living in has a different impact on us when we recognize that this world this body is how we transact as his words versus who we are which is the soul this infinite powerful incredible thing that can overcome challenge that can dig and believe in things bigger than ourselves as we saw from each and every one of our videos and our guests before we end I want to just give one shot out I got a text just now that blew me away I had to stop for all those that they gave in shabbat shalom thank you so much about sums to all of you which I get to every single one of you and hopefully I will in the future I want to just give a special shabbat shalom to a man named joel salzman and here's what he wrote and i want to share with the group because we're talking about power and people and I hope he's still listening because everyone's gonna be inspired by what he what he just wrote in here Joel just wrote this the second Shabbat of July is the 45th anniversary of my first walk more than six miles from the neighbor to Milwaukee I lived in to the neighborhood that I now live in where my shul was six miles 45 years ago and here you are the anniversary Joel now you're living where that sure was congratulations on taking those steps that you did when you did and you must feel incredibly incredibly proud and powerful for who you are a couple more - shabbat shalom before we line up I just so many it's so wonderful just want to say shabbat shalom - can of course - Ken Stockholm from Skokie Linda from Buffalo shabbat shalom - shabbat shalom Pam - to everybody really shabbat shalom - who you are and I wanted to end with this idea these are our moments this is our chance we've got really one shot at this thing called life when we identify with our bodies were limited by nature but when we identify with our souls we find the power that is within us that we never would have known was there the story of the Jewish people is a story of a nation at dig well past their body into a place that is eternal the story of our ancestors a story are her people and when God created the world I believe he wanted to make sure that we never got on the treadmill and stayed there and never got off this incredible gift called Shabbat is a time warp we get to enter into a space and time it's amazing then you can sanctify a place you can sanctify your body what God did was he sanctified time and as we walk into this area called Shabbat not only does it give us a moment to breathe and to connect it's more than that it the energy the spiritual energy is a little bit higher so we connected a different level the Wi-Fi signal is stronger and on Shabbat so that inner mechanism that is spiritual can pick up on it but it's not something that we have to get something that we have to become I mean we have to reveal within us it's who we are don't forget that we've got the survey coming out please make sure that you fill out the survey to find out more in terms of what we want to hear from you what you like about the show what we should keep you want to get better and better make sure you text one on one to 97,000 we'll keep you up there and remember that we want to hear from you want the show to continue growing share with a few friends of yours if you like what you hear share it with someone else that may get a little bit from it and we'll continue to grow and hopefully we'll be doing this together every week until we get to do is live and in Jerusalem and for me and mine to you and yours may you have an incredible Shabbat maybe one that is restful and wise maybe one that gives you perspective one it gives you peace one that gives you wisdom may this Shabbat we go through it and start to sense but inside each and every one of us is a power source that is so incredible we can accomplish things that we never saw pop never thought possible and they like TV said may we go from that Shabbat to create a greater week to then create greater clarity in Shabbat and on and on and on so that Hebrew every week is better than the next can't wait to see you in Jerusalem but if not with God's help I really hope I get to see you again next week shabbat shalom