The Shabbat Show - Episode 6

[Music] and a lot reading welcome to another week of bring Shabbat home it is so awesome to be back with you again another week I don't know how you feel but the days are busier but they're still speeding by we're entering into this incredible period of time both in our seasons the weather is getting better but also in this feel the world I feel is coming back to a place of Hope of expectations of vision there's still uncertainty but it's different its measured optimism and it's not to be with you again here it's an honor to be able to spend this time again the free Shabbat time that we spend together and it's so critical Shabbat is such a critical piece to all of this and I was talking to somebody this week and they told me this incredible story that I want to share with you so you remember back in the old days when I mean the always I mean like four months ago March was called the month of madness for those that are following March Madness was used to be the time in which we all got crazy about college basketball now back then we thought madness was like crazy teams hitting shots and winning games this year like this year really took the cake from March Madness I don't think we ever go back to March Madness again but that was the days where we used to watch at least for me watch college teams I never followed before and buzzer-beaters and all that world as a great coach in the old days and I heard this story this week and I was thinking about you guys that's right thank you to the Hess family I did shave just a shot shabbat shalom do he's a great coach out there he coached the Michigan State Spartans his name was Tom Izzo and one year Tom Izzo walked into his walked into his his team first practice looked around and saw something it sort of threw him off he noticed that his teammates his players were incredibly talented and he watched him play a little bit and he said wait a second something's off they're talented and they've got everything they need to win a championship but this be missing from this team he couldn't put his finger on it the next practice is the first practice of the season this is the beginning this is months before they win the championship the next practice he comes in when the boys come in they walk around and there's no basketballs they're looking left looking right to like coach where's the balls he says we're not we're not playing with balls today he's like well how do you play basket the basketball he's like line up he goes we cooked what are we doing drills he's like we're not running they're like what are we doing here he goes line up and he had them line up by the foul line and on cue he turned to his assistant coach and he has assistant coach go to the closet right behind the gym and he comes out with a ladder now there's a practice that college basketball players have when you win the tournament the championship game the custom is they take out a ladder and each player climbs the ladder and cuts a piece of the net it's called cutting the Nets that's the final sign of the champion and he has his assistant come out with a ladder I mean the players are looking going the ladder and he puts the ladder underneath and Tom Izzo turns to his first player and goes gives him a scissor and goes go cut the Nets he goes coach we didn't start practicing this is what we do when win the championship he goes go cut the Nets and each player climbs up on the thing and cuts a piece of the net and one by one by one they cut the nets and after each person comes out the net in his hands he says - he says to them you can't play like a champion if you can't see like a champion I want you to hold this and see yourself as a champion see what's ahead of you and believe you can get there but if you if you can't see it you can't play it that team went on that year to win the NCAA championships and I was speaking this week to a good friend of mine and we were talking about this period of time to win right now spring what may is supposed to be even what we're in right now with this whole virus situation as companies and as countries and estates begin to gingerly open up in our lives how do we become great we have to see it and in many ways that's what Shabbat is all about you see all week we're so busy doing we're so busy playing that sometimes we forget to see that's what my manner should look like that's what my parent thing should look like that's what my life should look like that's how I should allocate my time that's the kindness that's the resilience sometimes we're so busy in the game of life we never take a second out to cut the nets that's what Shabbat is that's what we're doing together right here and with God's help hopefully every week until we see the Messiah that's what we are celebrating God says listen I put you on this earth you got to survive I put you on this earth to thrive to be incredible and sometimes to be incredible you got to see it before you do it I'm gonna take you to give you a day take the day off but now off take the day in spend some time seeing the nets and cutting them down in your head and when you come back into your week you'll play a lot harder and so it's an honor to be here it's an honor to sort of mark the time with you to start this process together every week and starting it right now and I got to tell you we've got a killer shell a killer show the project inspired Dream Team that is pulling all the strings here making it at all work has been working tirelessly to get you stars and we've got them we get them every week and we keep on filling it up for you guys and so I'm so pumped for to the show we've got a couple things going on just to remind you remember we got a Kahoot game coming up soon you don't want to miss the Kahoot game it's a great way to compete in general but if you're like my family compete with the people in your family but to do it once we get rolling in it it's gonna be too hard so do it now go to Kahoot take out your 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shabbat shalom lucy Arteaga shabbat shalom Karen Rosen thank you very much for your kind words Amy trap shabbat shalom thank you very much Alec our funcle' from Toronto thank you very much about Shalom in regards to your dad and your family the silver family shabbat shalom from Argentina Ellen Duke Elena Duke shabbat shalom' from the Duke family in Toronto thank you the Carr family Gabe guests Gabby Caston Queens New York represent Queens shabbat shalom okay now before we continue remember one on once how could we not do one on once anything you all learn you want wisdom I want wisdom here comes the screenshare yes I want one-on-ones very simple sign up today the whatsapp number is right there if not I'm sure project spire can get your email but it's so critical changing our lives we're getting better every single day of our lives and why don't have someone that can learn with you one on one anything you want so that's coming up so for those who are watching right now feel free to please sign up for this it's an incredible opportunity the second thing I want to talk about is this incredible Friday night guide special thank you to Rabbi simcha Barnett who sent his incredible son who goes through she with my son over personally hand-deliver this personally with gloves and all the other appropriate measures this is the Shabbat Guide that we're talking about and this is the stuff that's going to be make your Shabbat table phenomenal got candle lighting we're doing this we're doing this this is called show-and-tell my father I know if your kids have this my son my four year old every like day there's some Maura reading him a story which is the coolest thing in the world so I'm watching this all week check this out this is incredible you bring this to your Shabbos table explains everything English Hebrew why we do what we do you could download some project inspired calm I'm sure if you want a hard copy if you reach out the project inspire they'll make it happen these guys are masters okay up to our first guest right now I got to tell you I've known this individual my whole life we've went to camp together and I never would have known then that rabbi far he continues was firstly he was then and he continues to be an incredible light in the Jewish people are by far he I was there in London England when he just tore the place up and now he's back in New York he's the rabbi in the sapphir shul in New York and he's one of my favorite people on earth honestly I listen to him I'm inspired by him I love him and it's such an honor to have him and I am excited to give you the one and only Rabbi Shmuel on Rabbi fari shabbat shalom first of all my first shabbat shalom has to go out to charlie Harare one of my absolute best friends someone who is indefatigable you don't get to use that word often for the Jewish people so thank you for having us here and the project inspired for making these this and so many other amazing events happen so I was given a few minutes to talk to you about Shabbat or to kind of guide us into this beautiful experience of having Shabbat at home bring Shabbat home and something struck me I don't know you guys are spending as much time online as I am I'm from one zoom to the next from one class to the next doing stuff all over social media so you get to see a lot of the things that come up and some of the stuff that Corona has brought out I mean it's brought out a lot of terrible things but the creativity that Corona has like engendered in the human race is beyond I don't know if you guys have seen that you know that little scene of this woman goes to visit her like really old mother on Mother's Day and they've made this giant mijita out of plastic with like plastic arms going out this way and the moms on one side and this woman sticks her arms in and it's just mas stick your arms in and it is like another cut out of plastic and the mom sticks her arms in and they're both completely encased in plastic giving each other a giant Mother's Day hug I mean come on that's ingenious right it's amazing and then I saw something else and it really is what I want to speak to you about today for the few minutes of yet it's something from Coors Light Coors Light as creator created something called a clone tool teachers are gonna hate me for this all right bosses are gonna hate me for this but students and workers are gonna love me for this they have this tool which creates a 30-second looped video of you sitting in front of the zoom screen going like this so you could effectively just walk away from your screen and what Coors Light did with this tool was to allow someone to have 30 seconds so they could run to the fridge grab their favorite beer and get back and not have their boss or their teacher realize that they've gone AWOL for 30 seconds now the creativity Bravo love it amazing teachers caught on very quickly that there was a static picture of you like this so they realized exactly so the video was crucial crucial bit to be able to get away but think of the payoff and this to me I think is something that I want to speak about with you guys what does it mean to bring Shabbat home I don't know if any of you has ever done this before but I'm the worst person to send to a grocery store cuz you'll send me to Costco or to whoever I will come back with so much stuff that we have nowhere to store it or put it except for the things that I actually was sent to go get cuz I got distracted like oh my gosh a box of cereal that feeds an army in one box come on who doesn't want that Costco is amazing it was like created for Giants to go shopping it fantastic so Clone Wars effectively for me said one thing about Shabab you're gonna go bring chef at home but what is Shabbos what are you gonna go buy or are you gonna be like me go out try and bring Shabbat and but get so busy bringing seven types of homos and three types of kugel and four types of herring and six types of Mazza and Caban LACMA gene that what winds up happening is you brought everything home except for Shabbat I think what Shabbat is is the opposite of Coors Light sorry course Clone Wars is to create a fake you to put something in place that looks just like you it can fool your closest friends your boss your teacher but it isn't you it's you on a loop you making the same nod twist paying attention in a loop but that clone wars that clone tool excuse me which is exactly the same exactly the same as you is actually just the recording going through the same motions again and again the danger of our world when we have to go work because we do when we have to take kids to school because we do except for now because we have to do the shopping because we do there's a million things we have to do the danger is not that we not that we stop doing those things it's that we lose ourselves in those things you know if you go on a date and you treat your date in the most beautiful way and you smell good and you've shaved and you're wearing a tie and United pyjamas like most of us for three weeks in a row now okay you've made yourself out to be your best you speak nicely you don't interrupt you're kind you're courteous you might think that the real you is back at home in sweatpants and the fake you is out on a date the real you is someone that makes those sort of mistakes the real you is someone doesn't concentrate during Shmona astray the real you is the person that makes all you know the mistakes at home but thank you is the one that you present when you're presenting your very best but actually the opposite is true this clone tool that creates a fake robot of you that's what we're trying to get away from when we have Shabbat so what do we do how are we when the phone isn't ringing when we don't have what the jobs when there isn't a school run what will we be like in that space and that my friends is the job of Shabbat you know if you ever listened to a documentary or a TV show or a history show or even a video that you'd watch on to shava out there's always mood music there's a composer that makes music specifically for that piece to make you feel happy or sad or to make you realize that something scary is about to come create anxiety or nervousness or tension or hope you speak to the composer and invariably he's very stuffy about it and you say why did you compose this piece of music and you'd say to you Oh Charlie in her eye I just felt that it captured the essence of potato chips like you know he says some rubbish that just action doesn't make sense that anyone but him but but that's how he composes he chooses the music the song for that piece but for us as Jews there's a song by the way for all of the holidays there's a song a score a background piece for Shabbat it's called mizmor Shir Leo Mustafa here is the song of Shabbat so you'd think the song of Shaba will get you in the zone for Shabbat let's pay attention to what it actually says here is the song of Shabbat told Leo it's great to give thanks to God everything is wonderful and it carries on lodg'd Bob Bakker has better to speak of your kindnesses in the day and on and on and on beautiful that Hashem and then the psalmist takes a left Ernie's like so when wicked people like when they have the upper hand yeah that's not gonna carry on and righteous people doesn't seem like they're not getting they're getting the short end of the stick don't worry Hashem will sort that in the end what does that have to do with Shabbat let's get back to talking about good food and family and the answer is that often we're encouraged not to be our highest or best self because we think that if we're not being selfish if we're not cutting somebody off to get our piece in if we're not putting ourselves first online who's gonna look out for who's gonna look out me if I'm not looking out for me but ultimately says the MS Moshe glioma Shabbat relax get home take it easy start to think about your best self what is the best dad look like what is the best husband or wife look like and all of that is dependent on the effort that you put in I want to share with you an amazing kedusha I just thought of this afternoon the word spelled Sheen bit tough but there's something that precedes Shabbat you know what will decide if you have a beautiful Shabbat or not look what happens before Shabbat the letters before Shabbat the letter before Sheen is rich the letter for bet is Alice the letter before Todd is Sheen what comes before Shabbat is rush the head space the head that you walk into Shabbat with is gonna be what Shabbat is like if you're playing a Shabbat playlist before you walk in like the head playing you're gonna be in a museum as you walk into Chava if nothing is ready and everything is hairy you're gonna feel stress before Shabbat so where is your head before Shabbat comes in so the letters before Shabbat is rush what is the letters after Shabbat when a person has done Shabbat in the proper way if the scene is tough if the bed gimel if the tasks the last letter is ali taga we have that word in / cavort with the east ramesh bottarga he who uses targa means a crown when a person uses Shabbat the proper way when they're not trying to manipulate people and situations and things to serve them they actually after letting things go why end up wearing the crown of having experienced the Shabbat of being the real self not the clone tool not the person you think you need to be not the person that's gonna get the things for you but the real you that's what it means I hope and I pray as we go into this amazing speakers hosted by Charlie around the best of all hosts you're not the Lord of hosts that's how Jen but other than the Lord of hosts you're right there charlie all right love you radish and we will walk into the shava leave our cares behind be the people that are the are our best selves and recognize that that is who we really are and that's how Judaism expects us ultimately to get to become bachelor/bachelorette well you're awesome thank you so much for your awesome awesome words and that's exactly right come in with your best self you know as we were talking in the beginning I was thinking about I told here a couple of weeks ago the story of how I won the greatest moment with my children came recently when I caught my nine-year-old skipping out of class which is his bedroom and I realized that he figured out how to take a screenshot of himself and he put it on his screen so I mean the level of joy that I got just by him doing that was unbelievable no it happened to be the next week I kid you not I was on the phone with his principal and we but something totally different him that would have been me growing up my mom would've been on the phone so I said to him I heard of a kid that did this you know just think I feel like a head job like we got your back and this principals the best guy in the world who looks me goes screenshots he's like we've got kids running loops like these like we're like coarse bunch of Jewish kids who are like in like sixth grade I don't think the chem website has exactly right thank you so much for your kind words we should be so really all of us should be our best selves and then thank you for bringing us in hopefully we going the right with the right head we've come out with the crown thank you for who you are and what you do and I know that you've got a class now good luck and thanks for all that you do for us thank you shabbat shalom before we go on to the next we have a great guest coming up next I need a couple of shout outs here Michelle Reiner from Suffern New York shabbat shalom Lee apparel from New York City hiya Heller from Muncie blasts Keough from Harlem New York ruffle Reisman Reisman from Toraja riflemen from toronto lewis Zinman shabbat shalom shabbat shalom charlie Thank You Marilyn and Barry Jindal from Boynton Beach Florida thank you so much Mike Starsky from Cleveland tje from Denver shabbat shalom to you guys next one is Luis Luis from Palm Beach Florida special him to all of you this is awesome that we've got the nation all of us as far as we all were just one zoom call away that should be our new tagline our next guest is an incredible woman Danielle Morris is with us right now here she is she comes from H Thornhill proj inspired Toronto Danielle welcome to the show thanks so much for being here thanks for the invitation so I know that you've you've gotten involved I know that you in addition to all that you do there's something about how that you like and talk to us a little bit about your connection now to the one of the greatest foods at least did I yell week years now I run all the workshops and I give away a lot of color I gave away three colors today we threw a stone hill we did a challah bake for officially mass for one of the women who runs the bake she person has so we did a call a bake sponsored for him for his foolish leymah and these are actually my Wow it's running away what that topping is that like crumb topping on that it's a nice juicy topping I'm a damn racing one I hope you have one sent my way right now we'll still work on that later after the show that's amazing that's incredible what you do with your passion and it's such a big deal for people I'm sure make such an impact now I understand that you started in an organization tell us a little bit about that a little bit lofty what it is is a series of Facebook groups under the banner of hungry so for people who are food insecure or people who are food abundant they can help feed those who are food insecure so we have a couple ways that people work my main group is hungry north of the GTA which basically is everything north of downtown Toronto all the way up to Barrie and if you're hungry you can post saying hey I'm I don't know for example a single mom and I need school-aged snacks and meat milk and formula and diapers or whatever and people will fill that order it's incredible there are other things that you can do if you make too much food or you have too much food and you don't want it to go to waste instead of just letting it sit and rot we offer it up to people if you made too much chili say I've got enough chili to feed a family of four is anybody interested pickup is wherever people will come and say hey I would like that and it is an incredible thing to know that you are reducing waste you are feeding people who aren't hungry and you are to repair the world because for me it's all about tikkun olam ah amazing I hope everybody learns first of all from from you in two ways number one is in particular in the area of food waste and connecting people but also that people everyone can make a difference and really impact the world as we anything any message for anyone with regards to Shabbat any message you want to leave us with it's been such an honor to talk with you and to meet you any any any parting words before we continue on I think that Shabbat is an amazing thing just to sit down with your family and leave the world behind forget about all the problems and the issues that are going on in the world and just start healing your own home I mean you know it all begins with you and with one step every step helps change the world so I just want to say shabbat shalom thank you very much for this opportunity and if anybody wants to talk about creating their own food insecurity group let me know I'm happy amazing okay amazing Danielle thank you so much for being here and being a part of this shabbat shalom to you and thanks for who you are and what you do for for the world at large and it was awesome and this is what the themes about this weekend we were talking about the ability to think bigger to see the cut the Nets right to be the real self as a ref our he said to to do things that are able to help people in bigger ways like Danielle stands for what she's doing and many many times one of the core aspects of that is the ability to connect in a way to each other to recognize that as different as we may look we're all the same so I'd like to turn your attention to a short film about how we really are all the same [Music] sometimes we right now can you round sorry sound butcher a baker a trouble man you're in every day people yeah yeah can accept every anymore [Music] we choose [Music] man [Music] there is a long hair that doesn't like the short hair for being such a rich one that will not help the poor one [Music] shush [Music] yeah and so we are everyday people were all the same may look a little bit from the outside but we're all the same won't we get it the more we bring it into our hearts the bigger we become as a nation shabbat shalom - everybody - lilies are from washington DC - Shaina Rabinowitz from Chicago - Lisa black nettings welcome back Lisa we loved having you a couple of weeks ago thank you and your wonderful family was nice to meet you - aleeah's Zamorin from the suburbs of Philadelphia shabbat shalom - you to be Albury from Nassau Bahamas Yossi if that's who's hanging out in the Bahamas shabbat shalom - shabbat shalom that's for sure to mend eastern from the west side of New York to the Carr family thanks so much everybody shabbat shalom we're gonna continue on we'd love to hear from you if you go to the shabbat shalom' it's now time to play some games it's time for the Kahoot we're gonna play our weekly trivia game it's a good time to compete with each other we've got prizes from majestic please feel free to access to email project inspire if you are a winner hopefully if you've been winning even getting prizes majestic has been so kind to sponsor them so I'm gonna turn to my project inspired Dream Team to turn on the Kahoot game here okay we're ready team we're ready ok I can see I can see low and doing her job ok here we go ready let's get started first question who was the first Jew in space Soviet astronaut Boris volley on you while you know us astronaut Judith Resnik internationally-acclaimed Leonard Nimoy or Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon who is the first to in space remember try your hardest to answer as quickly as you can because you'll get more points for the quickness give you a hint this this mission took place in space answer is Judith Resnik 15% of that Judith Resnik most of us got Ilan Ramon Ilan Ramon was the first Israeli in space while the first Jewish face was not him and I'll give you one little all the trivia you know what we feel on Ramon brought to Israel with him which is really cool a Torah in fact the monomer went off the surface of tragic what happened to him and you know the real on Ramon was part of we should put this in questions maybe we'll do it next week Lana alone just as a pic as it as a little bit of trivia a bonus trivia Lana Rome was actually one of the fighter pilot fighter pilots in the raid on the Sun the famous raid against the Iraqi of cirith nuclear plant okay go to the next question please Star Trek Oh let's go who's winning Star Trek the Vulcan salute was inspired by the shape of Israel the Jewish producers named Vogel selectively shape the coop the cohan blessings hand position south count California gang members the Vulcan salute comes after what this is incredible modern pop trivia and how it relates to Judaism only here in project is finally okay what do we got here we go let's see what the answer is Oh still getting questions in here we go the answer is good most people got this - Cohan blessings the kollene blessings excellency - the impact that we have on civilization I mean we're look at this what would Star Trek be like without the going blessings okay keep on rolling next question oh let's see whose wedding person Ken Sal cover is killing it keep it up Ken you're beating Phoenix you beating the state of Phoenix and then a smiley face that smiley face is pretty good by the way they keep on winning let's go third question now we're getting into log ba Oh mer on log bomber bonfires are lit how do you see log Vollmer in Hebrew H E Peron shall have it over door think before this one think don't answer too quickly eh shall have it eat Peron or mad or if you're Israeli and you know this slow down for everybody else because I didn't know this until six hours ago when rabbi yaakov dinegar explain this to me because I went the wrong way [Music] okay answer is Medora okay how to cut that right but I get by the way just letting you know just the heck of it a great answer I shall have it means a flame it's a flame so everyone's super close is it getting harder these trivia questions are getting a lot harder here we go let's see who's winning pedina steps up RM asked and Jonathon okay This Is It this is it last question for the win why are babies and Israel ten times likely to suffer from a peanut allergy than children of other countries the altitude exposure to many travelers high immunity tight living quarters high immunity or the popular kid snack Bamba maybe grifters answer is because they're Israeli that would be a great answer the Israeli feel like we're not gonna get peanuts or Israel that's not one of them okay let's see what we got and the winner is almost coming in coming in [Music] the popular kid snack bomber that got most of the answers so good job everybody let's see who wins this week's Kahoot remember get your gifts from majestic third place goes to ask test delivers I think you've been here before st RM and the first place goes to a gouda smiley face let's see smiley face woman's at their first place Adina thank you very much for joining you came up late and you kept it going this is amazing Jonathan and SNA came in 4th and 5th Mazel Tov everybody for playing this game called our email project inspired enjoy project inspired calm to get your gifts thank you majestic for what you do and for sponsoring the gifts we have an incredible next guest where we go to the next guest give me a little bit of time to say hello to Mike Schuh Sandler from Mexico - Rochelle Sullivan from Baltimore I'm sure Michelle and Mike Sullivan Mike Sullivan awesome from Baltimore shabbat shalom - mark mandolin for Baltimore and - mark mark mandolin and thank you so much for the morning booth shot out I appreciate that Devore Devore pearl Weiss rush loan to the Burrell's shabbat shalom - Jodi and Toby up there - uh Moshe Horowitz Moshe Horowitz that Wow fresh alum from the whole family thank you so much for watching our next speaker I've watched Rebbetzin levy can I say that Rebbetzin levy with a caller Eve and watched her speak and I was mesmerised she is an individual who has captured the attentions of so many inspiring educating growing with her incredible husband in the northwest of this country it is my honor to welcome you to the show thank you so much and I know as an educator sometimes people come to us months later years later and tell you something that you said to them that changed their lives and you're thinking to yourself did I really say that I don't remember saying that well I want to start right to sharing something that Charlie told me a couple of months ago that really really did change my life so a couple months ago this is the first time that I met Charlie like you know a person I've heard them speak numerous times it was back in November in Israel Charlie was on his last day of eating a trip and I was the day before my first trip ever that I was gonna lead and I was so excited but a little nervous you could imagine because it was a big deal for me and I wanted to do a great job but I had never done it before and when you do something for the first time it could be a little scary so I waited for Charlie all the men were talking to him and I'm weird and I'm weed and I waited and finally I had my opportunity I went over to him I said Charlie I need a little strength I need a little physic I said tomorrow is my my first trip the first day and I'm so scared and he looked at me and he said are you petrified and I said yes he said good because if you weren't you have no right to be up there and I said to him Charlie I just I feel so small and he said because you are small he said we're all small but Hashem is big and Hashem is inside you so when you get up there that's how you need to lead knowing who you are knowing what you have inside of you holding that humility and holding your power and I got up there that first night Charlie and I was just holding on to Hashem I took all the fear out of my heart so thank you and I want to segue into the message I want to give to all of you now this week we celebrated blood bond there and I think Charlie's gonna speak more about it soon there's so much about this holiday but it's it's a mysterious holiday like what's it all about unique bonfires and here gods and celebrations and dancing and music and weddings and there are many reasons why it's such a great day of celebration but one of the very well-known reasons is because it was the day that the students of Rabbi Akiva stopped dying that was a great day right imagine right now we're living to a plague imagine the day that we get our vaccine and everything is good back to normal whatever new normal but I heard something to speak that I've never learned before my son's Rebbe his rabbi rabbi Shalom school neck he posed the question that really boggles my mind he said you know why it was such a great so do you know why we were celebrating he said because well hold on the celebration is complicated because the students of Rabbi Akiva stopped dying because they had all died out seriously this is what he said I had never heard that before I just thought the plague was over and we carried on he said every single one 24,000 of his students died there were no more students how can we celebrate like this was the mind boggling question to think about we're celebrating and dancing and singing there were no more of his students these giants these scholars all wiped out and I was thinking about our own situation I was thinking how we're all grappling with so many different emotions right now Passover night I sat at my Seder so grateful we made it we have food on the table we have our health but in my heart there was such a big place for grieving for so many people that were in isolation that had lost loved ones it was even hard to sit there being happy how could we go on how could we celebrate when our brethren are suffering so the answer to the quest to this question is in the story about the Akiva because when rabbi akiva gets up after grieving he finds himself five students and he starts all over again so the celebration is about our resilience it's about our strength as a Jewish people it's about our abilities to renew ourselves no matter what happens and I assume that when this is all over we're gonna have to start anew there's gonna be humble beginnings for us you know we see this with the upcoming holiday of Shavuot round the corner in a few short weeks we see that when we came together the Jewish people every soul there at Mount Sinai together me said not a sevenish mal we will do and we will here and there were so much energy was a huge event but afterwards we mess up we fall down beside her a gal the the golden calf and Moses has to humbly go up to God again and receive the Torah a second time and that endorse that Torah privately quietly with humility endures just like the five students of Rabbi Akiva that endure their Torah in doors so there's this power there's power here there's strength for us we could walk with Hashem to enter that unknown humbly knowing that we're gonna be okay because there's Jewish people as much as work work weren't bogged down and hits down again and again we always always rise we get right back up so I just want to enter the blessing to you we have one more week in this powerful month of er the Hebrew month and ER Aleph you'd you'd rage is an acronym for any Hashem recife I am God who heals you and it's also the month where the Jewish people became gradient in the praise of God when we came across the Exodus came across the spring see into the desert we find ourselves in this place called Marah a place of bitterness the water was bitter imagine being in a desert you just left your home left everything he left Egypt now you're in a place with no drinking water and yet God makes miracles and he turns the bitterness into sweetness so my blessing for all of us is to tap into the power of this time into this energy of renewal and hope and make everything that we're going through that's bitter turn to sweetness and we see it revealed in our lives thank you so much anxia facts alone Thank You Eve that was awesome and it's such a true awesome great message thank you for what you do for our people and what you stand for and the inspirational words that you give that's exactly the message of the power that we have within us that comes out when I shine brings us into these situations and thank you for your kind words we have a great segment next for the many of you know Jaime Geller Jaime Geller is a is a sensation as a woman who has been in inspiring people through her cooking through her Bey through what she's able to bring to the world and blending both the ability to cook in the kitchen but get right into your soul and so enjoy this next segment that we have with Jaime Geller Charlie thank you so much hi everyone its Jaime Geller and what an honor it is to be hosting this new Shabbat cooking segment here for project inspire and the biggest honor of all is to be part of this movement of Jews from around the world dedicated to bringing Shabbat home now we want to make it as easy and delicious for you as possible so we are sharing one of our most popular recipes this recipe is 36 million views and it features the challah the quintessential Shabbat food I'm pleased and proud and excited to present challah in a bag hope you like it [Music] [Applause] [Music] Thank You Jamie Jamie is awesome and you can check her out more for Jamie Geller a.com just on Facebook Instagram Pinterest YouTube Twitter tik-tok @j miguel oj ami e GE ller or 'jewish bye Jamie you're gonna learn an enormous amount once you get in you get hooked so please check her out a couple more shabbat shalom was trying to get through you Ella Harris shabbat shalom Yossi globerman from Philadelphia shabbat shalom I'm your Klein shabbat shalom' Nitze adler from the others and edison shabbat shalom - the car family shabbat shalom - bob Perlmutter in Lincolnwood Illinois shabbat shalom - Nachman Mandel from Lakewood shabbat shalom we'll get to some more later but now one of my favorite people I say that sometimes not all the time but I say it when I mean it and this next person is there's nobody like him in the world I was sofa I was worthy to be with him in an event of thousands of students and I watched him inspire and put a program together like nobody can he is the CEO of one of the greatest organizations on planet Earth hola me welcome to the show rabbi Dave Markowitz thanks so much for being here Charlie so he's great to be with you we've actually been together in like some pretty amazing experiences just it seems it feels like now a long time ago but it was just a few months ago we were together in Life Stadium CMS house going live it's great to be back together or hosting again and the truth is I really wanted to share with everybody this kind of story that we shared together almost exactly a year ago right we were together a year ago if you remember I mean it's hard today to even believe that just a year ago we brought 800 students and young professionals who are leaders in their communities all across 30 countries where all of me has different organizations and they came together in Spain for a Leadership Forum and we had this amazing week and Charlie was our it was our emcee for the week I'm celebrating together we had this great time there were amazing amazing moments throughout but there was one particular moment that was just magic see going into Shabbat there's a woman young lady named Alicia from and somehow she realizes you know like here we are where the Jewish conference and everybody's Jewish and it's completely conducive environment you know what I've never celebrated Shabbat before and wouldn't be amazing if this Shabbat I'll I'll try and celebrate Shabbat as she went she shared it with one of her friends and they they said you know that would be amazing maybe I'll do it with you and and then they said you know what maybe we can find somebody else to do this with us and they went out together and there they created team Alisha and they found these green like paper bracelets and they started running you know the team Alisha and people who are joining it and all of a sudden this thing went viral by the time Shabbat started six hundred of the students we really never celebrated about before in their lives many of them had committed to celebrating Shabbat Friday night I mean try to move together but it's hard to describe what was happening there a few minutes after the meal started it was this massive stage in the middle of the dining room you have 800 people and people started singing and then dancing broke out and they just kept going and going and going and the energy was electric and in that moment we went till about two o'clock in the morning and the special man le horn who's one of our amazing supporters he's 75 years old he's from Sao Paulo Brazil and he turns to me and he says Dave I feel like mushiya like the Messiah is going to come right now it was so powerful there was so much energy it was like something had been unleashed to everybody there because one woman felt this this drive a sense of I could really do something special here she shared it with somebody else and boom that went viral so what if we were to like push ourselves to find something real in this crazy environment think about what it would be when we share that in our homes with our kids beyond our homes with our friends family and in this type of an environment with a broad community of people all over the world who were to bring this on home so we we've been working some of you may have seen on the on the president's fire website we've been trying to share a lot in all kinds of different ways and we have a new video that we want to share with you actually this week it's it's theme is onedit Shabbat this celebration of Shabbat when we're trying to encourage you know find something maybe it'll be a special shirt that you're gonna put on in a hundred Shabbat you're gonna feel that joy when you're stepping into Shabbat maybe I'll light candles or make something special still in the in a few minutes get it ready just finish about meal and celebrate that should light meal together but do one more thing and just share what you're doing with somebody because you don't know that one share of some real genuine growth when it comes from the soul it could change everything and maybe for those of us who do celebrate Shabbat maybe it's gonna be kaduche with a little extra meaning maybe it's a song with extra bit of soul put inside whatever it is want to wish everybody the most amazing shabbat shalom we hope that you enjoyed the video getting ready [Music] of the fun celebrating life not just on birthdays but once a week if [Music] every we could sundown on Friday we pause the twenty five hours to celebrate knowing that we have so much to be thankful for we are thankful for the world will rest living we are thankful for the energy of the six days we are thankful for the blessings that come with hard work and we are most of all thankful for God who rewards our efforts with achievements like a birthday we celebrate with anticipation and preparation with food guests song and hopeful anticipation that the best is yet to come the foods that we eat the moments that we share they celebrate our ability to break free from the endless cycle of daily activity to stop becoming and to start being that experience is Onika it is not to keep Shabbat but to celebrate and in Jewish homes from San Diego to Siberia and in every generation that has known the Jewish people Friday higher into the most joyful and sensual celebration that this world Shabana tasted celebrated it is yours [Music] not much to say after that ah another show thank you very much thank you on me I want to really thank project inspire the team that's doing all the work really - Stewart Heitmann and Terry Sampson into everybody Friedman get we're beginning to go - Lauren - everybody who's really working on this every week all the time thanks for what you do and thanks for the inspiration you bring to all of us and this is another this is it another shot vez this is the time this is a best best moment of the week like always streaming live 6:35 and ten minutes from now Fifth Avenue synagogues couple at Shabbat streaming live look at the zoom link it's gonna be two nine five nine six nine six oh eight we'll post it on the chat for those that want for those who want to go into Shabbat with that Herrick here it comes easy there awesome I'm talking and they're ready working the back end there it is you who degree in Kabbalat Shabbat if you those who want to do it right now it's going to start in just a few minutes remember the one-on-ones so important to get the wisdom remember this phenomenal Shabbat Guide and what it can do for your table English Hebrew transliteration why we do what we do it's awesome it makes everything more meaningful and better and remember what I think this show is really all about it's this it's this universal push to become the best that we can be to cut the nets to not have the loop to recognize that one person can change the way food is done one person could make an impact on the world to realize it even in the down moments Ruby Kiva's law students there's an up moment there's still the ability the ability to endure to realize so much of what we're doing only makes us greater and and more important and makes us bigger in every single aspect I read that one girl in Spain who had this dream of keeping Shabbat made bands and next thing you know 700 students are keeping Shabbat together the power of one the power of unity the power of seeing that mean you are exactly the same the luckiest people in the world what can I say with the luckiest people in the world the best gift is the one that's coming up right now for twenty five hours and from me and mine to you and yours I wish you a healthier happier joyous wise a thoughtful a tranquil and empowering one with vision one with hope one with confidence one with family one that we realize who we are and a Shabbat that makes us recognize that each and every one of us is unique and this is the time to think like champions so that during the week and be like champions a really health being wonderful shabbat shalom it's been an honor and I hope and I pray with God's help to be able to see you again in one week from now if they maybe not on zoom' maybe we may may we be able to do it together dancing in the streets of you shall I may be in a nice hotel we can find maybe the Waldorf will speak to project inspire in the Waldorf Hotel you shall limeira kodesh may come soon or days from here may know Amane shabbat shalom it's been a pleasure [Music] regeneration [Music] - the Saints in the world extra big stations my faithless cover get the whole world faceless and patron its baseless we take it here a slit and they change him for that master go we don't forget [Music] you see [Music] [Applause] [Music]