The Shabbat Show - Episode 7: Yom Yerushalyim Special

[Music] and hello everybody hope everybody's doing well welcome to another Shabbos it's amazing how quickly it's going and it's great to be back with you again for those are joining us now it's an honor be back with you and every single week I end by saying from me and mine to you and yours this week I want to begin with that because it's a very big week both for the Jewish people in general and for me in particular and they're both giving me almost the same lesson that I want to share with you this week we're celebrating thank God bar a bar mitzvah for our son when you are making a bar mitzvah for a boy who has been planning his bar mitzvah since he was 10 and until a few months ago he didn't even know what quarantine meant it looks very different and I'm sure there's lots of people that are listening or going through this in different ways and one of the things that my wife and I are experiencing right now is something fascinating it was a concept in life which is sometimes in life when you lose something you gain a sensitivity in something else if somebody loses a sense in one thing he gains a sense a little bit more acutely in another sense when doesn't have something when they're pushed against the wall they develop a muscle that they couldn't have developed before in life there's really two ways in which we operate it is the external piece of who we are and there's the internal piece of who we are there's our body and then there's our soul true joy comes from our soul but the body and stuff also feels good and one of the things that I'm experiencing right now that I want to share with you as my Shabbos afternoon family by the way I think we're taking pictures right now my wife I'll be right back in a minute so if you if I disappear you'll know why I'm just kidding one of the one of the things that I have noticed from all this is that although the breath of people that were able to celebrate it with clearly went down we're doing it through zoom we're doing through other places the physical presence of family and friends have gone down in many ways the gifts the signs of appreciation the things that people have done the comments the conversations there we're realizing that what you lose in breath you can gain in depth and a bar-mitzvah though doesn't have the same amount of people even my son 13 is seeing that there's a certain inner joy you can have when you make it as exciting with less when you see the love of people that have to do things beyond for you the physical world around us sometimes is so busy and we're so distracted and so we're so stimulated by the outside world that we we forget to go deep we forget that the true joy that we have really is on the inside the moments and we're almost done with God's help you're feeling it wherever you are I hope the light from the end of that tunnel is coming closer and closer to you and your family but as we leave we can't lose this lesson that when you're when you're when you have less physical it's not less it could be much more because you have the ability to borrow into a deeper hole that allows you to be to tap into true depth to have things that are deeper and that's what this weekend really is about not just for my family for the entire Jewish people because this weekend on Friday we are celebrating the holiday called ya'muru Shalom today today is a day that we remember the time in which your schleimann was returned we never really lost it Jerusalem isn't just another city that happens to the hours the connection that we have with Jerusalem is so much deeper the connection that a Jew has with Israel is so much deeper it's not just the physical land it's something that's inner it's something that taps into us deeply every year I had the good fortune of going to Israel with a whole bunch of great guys and it's every year it happens that somebody walks up it's more than one it's at least a dozen guys for every trip they walk up to the Western Wall they've walked into the old city of Jerusalem and they're looking at me go I don't understand something I have never been digital in my life why does it feel like I've been here before if I were in any other country I would feel like a tourist why don't I feel like I'm an outsider and I'd say to them yeah on the outside this place is different but in the depth of who you are and your soul your this is your homeland this is your your souls connected to this place the depth of Jerusalem is why we love it so much it's not just another city it's our city matter where you live and and by the way doesn't matter even been there before don't matter because spiritual doesn't work that way and that's the depth of Shabbat that's where we are right now Shabbat not just another meal that takes place on Friday night it's not that at all it's it's something different entirely Shabbat is this moment where we are grappling with the outside world but our interaction with it is much different the food if you're tasting is a little bit different the company the family the air it's just a little bit different because we're tapping into something real something spiritual and that's why we get to do this that's how I'm here together and I hope that as we move past this phase in our history which I hope we do really soon I hope we don't stop spending time together on Friday afternoon and I hope that we don't lose the lesson the true joy comes from the inside and as I increase the outside I got to take that list lesson with me and then everything that I have should be deep all my relationships and my interactions and the stuff that I have it shouldn't just be the things that distract and stimulate and should be the things that I'm deeply connected to that's our charge that's our lesson we don't go back to normal we're not going back to normal we're going forward to greatness this happened for a reason and hopefully we're getting it hopefully we're getting a piece of it we can't figure it all out but we getting a piece of it and we'll take it with us this weekend for our Shabbat for your Marisha line and for our family for our personal simcha which I'd love to share with the rest of you we've got an awesome show we always have an awesome show you know why because we've got an awesome cast project inspired team rocks and they work so hard all week to make sure that when you tune in on a Friday afternoon it's it's it's got so much content and today we've got a lot and we got some new segments of course you got our Kahoot game coming up a little bit you can guess the theme for this week and it's not my son's Bar Mitzvah we've got an awesome power line up the chief rabbi of South Africa or by Warren goldstein we'll be delivering a message to us Rebbetzin me me David UPS of I think she's of st. Louis which is coming up counterterrorism specialists name's Steve Garr is coming up as well and we're gonna have Jamie Jamie Jamie Geller is coming up and we also have a live performance with Sam Glaser this show is dedicated in the merit of her for Schliemann for Cathy Becerra in the merit of thousands of us tuning in and praying for her Cathy bus service should have a speedy recovery before we go to our first measures I want to begin by reminding everybody about the awesome program coming up that has been going on you should if you haven't signed up yet you should it's the one-on-one learning program this is an incredible program that people have been taking advantage of here comes the screen share Thank You Lauren this is a oh and and and the ad is different this week so in case you're been tuning in week after week we get to continue stimulate you with different ads this one is even nicer as it gets more and more this it's a great opportunity learn what you want when you want one-on-one learning pick a mentor and learn what could be better than that just sign up here you can what's up the number on the screen you can email one-on-one for one-on-one at project inspired calm it is not you're not gonna not gonna regret it other thing is that Shabbat guide don't forget that a great companion to any single Shabbat table you should look it up on project inspired that org download the Shabbat guide now we've got this great opportunity to be on with a a real icon of the Jewish community I've had the opportunity to go down to South Africa about two years ago I spent a day there and I gotta tell you something so that first South Africa's not a very large Jewish community and I walked into a room and here are five thousand Jews and I turned someone I go how in the world did you get five thousand Jews you don't have the numbers for this when you have more but the percentage of Jews in one place and I looked at me and goes that's easy rabbi goldstein but the chief rabbi I would Warren Goldstein is a he's a luminary he's a revolutionary he's a visionary he is if you ever heard of the Shabbat project that came out of his work in South Africa he's an individual that is constantly thinking about the Jewish people both in South Africa but in the world at large it's an incredible didn't grow tan incredible book about ethics about morals and he's individuals speaking to him meeting him seeing what real greatness is a person who cares about the Jewish community so much is my honor to present the message from the chief rabbi to all of us today one of the most special experiences in life is to receive a gift a present when someone gives you something you know that that moment on your birthday or an anniversary whatever it may be a special occasion when someone who really loves you gives you something which is special and it's about the expression of love and it's about the experience of receiving it and then it's about the experience of using that incredible gift God loves us and he gave us the most special gift which is the gift of Shabbos and and it's the most wonderful wonderful gift because it enhances and makes our lives so wonderful and so beautiful at laugh without Shabbos is almost unthinkable because it's a time when we can be with our family it's a time that we can be with ourselves the time that we can be with God it's a time that we can step out of the urgency and the fragmentation of life with all of its demands and really reconnect reconnect with the people who are most precious in our lives reconnect with ourselves and reconnect with God himself and and we do that in a way which is filled with beautiful food and clothes and the most incredible experiences physical and spiritual and emotional with so much joy and so much an opportunity to savor to truly to love that is what makes it so special and and and was given to us because God loves us you know that feeling that you have when someone gives you a gift because they love you God loves us so he gave us this great gift and and and it's really you know he's really God is saying to us it's like God saying I want you to take a day off don't worry about your work don't worry about anything else don't worry about the stresses of life don't don't put everything aside have wonderful food enjoy it wear great beautiful clothes spend the time with the people who are closest to you and for all of that God says do that and I'll reward you reward you in this world and the next reward you in your life he just gives us this incredible gift and you know what when we realize what a gift it is then we can truly enjoy it and that's why the idea of well coming in Shabbat is so important kabocha but it's to welcome it in it's that moment where we prepare to receive Shabbat and and that receiving the gift you see if you just have the gift and the end there's no build-up and there's no anticipation and there's no sense of wow this is so awesome and and that's what I really want to congratulate project inspire rabbi Samson the entire team for the this incredible initiative that week after week preparing with people who are getting ready to receive Shabbat and having that sense of the anticipation of this gift because especially at this time that the world is going through this time of uncertainty this time of challenge and of anxiety that people are feeling and the time of pressure we need the gift of Shabbat more than ever before and so let's enjoy let's savor let's welcome the Shabbat into our homes let us make our homes a hospitable warm place for Shabbat and light and the warmth and the beauty of Shabbat will fill our homes will fill our lives and we will truly benefit from this magical magical gift and so I want to wish you all from the bottom of my heart shabbat shalom good Shabbos naked you rabbi you don't love about listening to that there's well I happen to love him personally as a human being as a rabbi as a leader I love the fact that he can be in South Africa right now and he's just like me and you he's preparing for Shabbat I'd love that he can say words from a different part of the world and they're just as relevant to me to you to all the people from all over the world it's such a beautiful testament to our nation that as far apart as we are we're all very much the same and I want to be just do a couple of shabbat shalom down the list here before we get to our wonderful family out in Toronto to Michael Baer shabbat shalom thank you so much kensaku her from Skokie thank you again laya miles - Thank You Leah condom Miller shabbat shalom - sweetener rabbi sitting there the great rabbi sitting here we had a couple of weeks ago for those who missed him thank you very much - Debra pearl Weiss - Debbie thank you so much Debbie we appreciate it shabbat shalom - to Hillary and Laurence Hess in Fair Lawn shabbat shalom - Debbie White's again Esther hello shabbat shalom too risky Tyler of Baltimore shabbat shalom hope I'm getting everybody here tell you have the car funcle' family again shabbat shalom - lay a parallel woman to my good friend superstar Dee Orman shabbat shalom as well we'll get to some more later but until right now let's go up and watch the shabbat shalom - wonderful family in Thornhill welcome the Gendelman family - the shell hi how are you oh you guys look look at this this is the best this is the best hi guys how we doing amazing awesome somebody Tek nice to meet you guys so I want to ask you guys a question you know as we said earlier in the show there's always something sweet everything better right if you look for it and I understand that when the virus hit and people started to lock down you guys decided to take shabad into the next level tell us a little bit about what Shabbat has been for you during this period of time we always have been trying to survive but life gets in the way sometimes and the quarantine put us in quarantine to put everything aside and starts abiding on a week-to-week basis so we've been that's what we've been doing every Friday night Friday evenings we've been preparing it's a it's a whole day preparation that we've been involving the kids in from bacon to challah to setting the table and it's been really something that we look forward to and their kids started looking forward to and we've been doing it pretty much week to week for the past nine weeks since we've been quarantined in a phenomenal experience for us incredible incredible anyone kids what's your favorite anyone can answer what's your favorite part of Shabbat by the way you win that's exactly everyone speaking I'll bet everyone's here brother Shabbat is hala so you got that awesome and yeah you know person yeah I just like to fight the world sitting around the table and you know it's just the time to kind of finally reconnect with with the kids because you know it gets really hectic during the week and this is a perfect time and we don't really have to rush yeah amazing well guys thank you so much for being on and thank you for your words and kids you're so lucky to have such great parents we wish you guys shabbat shalom we should always be able to connect in a deep way and then and to be able to celebrate together and thanks so much for who you are and I know that you've got an incredible rabbi I know the rabbi that you have very well and is unbelievable and L are the best of the best and Thornhill's one of the greatest communities in the Jewish world so thanks so much for being on wee shabbat shalom to you guys and this is the beauty of us and our people and it's just it's so wonderful I want to wish a couple more shabbat shalom stew just some people here but as we continue on to to Jan Jan Sun shabbat shalom - you too - to the Symons of Phoenix shabbat shalom Poisson I think the Symons in Phoenix by the way are Phoenix in Kahoot I think that's what is when you see Phoenix killing it every week I think it's assignment Simon's talking from right around area Mac of Passaic shabbat shalom - Esther Heller shabbat shalom - Jeanne golden shabbat shalom shabbat shalom everybody to Esther hello let's go now we have the next part of our program you know this week is your Michelle I am it's a big big day it's a big day for the Jewish people we got a beautiful video to play for you guys on Jerusalem so I'll turn it over back to our superstar project inspire team to get us this beautiful film on your shrine [Music] [Applause] [Music] to God [Music] [Applause] [Music] a fury so kiyah [Music] Furio [Music] these are by in kobani [Music] Muhtar de ma vie we have a Irish air my dad your seventh who very yes [Music] Oh [Music] oh No see [Music] Oh [Music] Oh [Music] well Jana yeah it's hard to come from there put an honor to be part of this nation what an honor to have that as our eternal capital that voice you heard by the way is none other than Sam Glazer he'll be on with us later in the show we'll get the talk to the voice behind that beautiful video shabbat shalom terrific Allah Miller from Toronto shabbat shalom - hillary block thanks so much for your kind words shabbat shalom - hanyan - Lilly - Rachael Goldstein of Muncie - the black family from Toronto shabbat shalom - you guys we have a great segment on right now Steve gar is a friend of project inspire they call him the Jewish Jack Bauer he's a counter-terrorist specialist is actually his unit that was called on if you remember a few summers ago when those three boys went missing it was his unit that they called to try to find him not only has he such incredible experience in the world of counterterrorism he's actually studying right now for his Snuka to become an ordained Orthodox rabbi and he's a director a wonderful institution it's called or Torah dark a new yeshiva in Israel it's his Shiva for students of men with special needs that couldn't go and spend the gap year in Israel and because of this you Shiva they could and we've got this great excerpt of a young Irish lime event that he produced and this is in a bet it's a benefit for his special needs of Shiva the orator stones you shirataki know to see the full event go to OTS org slash returning home that's OTS org IL IL / returning - home and here is the clip from this wonderful event Charlie Harare thank you for those inspirational words as usual unbelievable cars my name is Steve Garr joining you from the land of Israel at the central command of the Gush Etzion have mercy on I know a lot of you through project inspire maybe you've heard me give a talk many of you maybe have done this very tour of the Gush Etzion this area that I'm so passionate about there's gonna be an honor to share with you some how important the Gush Etzion is in the six-day war in 1967 how important it was for us to recapture yerushalaim to get back our homeland to get back the soul of the Jewish people yerushalaim Iroquois - thank you for being with me I look forward for to spend more and more time with you guys and hopefully when this terrible situation of the culprit virus is finished you guys will come back to the land of Israel we can tour not just virtually but actually see how beautiful the land is stay safe everybody and I hope you enjoy the next couple of minutes [Music] remember in 1948 this area will belong to the Jordanians the Jordanians burnt anything down to the ground so we reconstructed this German monastery the Loess is the actual bunker where the Jewish defenders fell when the grenade hit the floor and that was the War of Independence 1948 let's understand where we are south of us in that direction is have run the second holiest city in Israel that way to our north is Jerusalem the modern highway connecting them is the main highway road number 60 the tunnel road a small portion of the ancient highway is still intact just behind our launch foot behind us is a launch foot remember in 1948 there were only four Jewish towns that existed over here Maserati sakharova dim interim and the main one where we standing right now is clarity on for 19 years this area laid desolate but 19 years later in 1967 in the six-day war the children who lost their fathers in these hills returned they came back remember they were yearning to go back to that blond oak tree just next to behind where I'm pointing there's a forest in their forest you'll be able to see the lone tree it's no longer alone there are the trees with that which is very beautiful in symbolic their dream was to do return to that tree their dream came true when they the children of clarity on returned home to these hills the Judean Hills to return is lush roof an oak tree now the symbol of the mother's oak tree that this was the central meeting spot in 1948 for the four Jewish towns some of these children have memories sitting under their oak tree having a picnic they remember swinging on their branches they swore one day we will return to our oak tree an oak tree in Hebrew is called an Allen to return you'll shoot along Sherwood is returning to the oak tree if you look just to the right of that forest area you see the city of our lawn Schrute created by the sixty orphans coming home this area is very beautiful over there is the Shiva the his daily Shiva with a combined serving in the army and learning Torah I got very emotional in my Sheva brachot are studied in in the SU Shiva and I was married in yerushalaim a boy from South Africa a young lady from Canada but our Sheva brachot were over here my emotion was when sitting at Sheva brachot my friends my family singing the beautiful verse that I'm sure you all know oh ye Shama bother you who da thought Arusha nine courses on the Coliseum kool Kat an occult kala one day you're gonna be hearing the rejoicing of a bride and a groom we're in the Judean Hills I'm sitting next to the most beautiful bride in the world and we're singing and rejoicing this is a prophecy coming true we are living the words of the Prophet the Shah vovinam Lagavulin we are coming back to our own homes the children will return to their homeland this was due to the fact of 1967 the Six Day War when we returned back to our homeland where our fathers have fell the sons are returning remember as we discussed coming into the Gush Etzion the vita mela king david himself was born just down the road in Bethlehem plate left him late alack me he was born over there he was a shepherd down underneath in the bunker we talked about Psalm 130 cough lemon and we said from the depths they called out to Hashem it is very possible david hemella a shepherd was sitting on one of these terraces while his sheep were grazing he was composing some of the Tehillim some of the Psalms were in a very special place he not gives me so much joy is to see and hear their grandchildren some of them correct grandchildren playing in these hills the men and women who gave their lives defending this area in 1948 now have their great-grandchildren playing in the fields in the parks the shovel venom League rule on our children have come home I'm so happy that you are able to join me in the spot on such a special day on your mousseline that you are able to be here with us celebrating being inert Israel there are apps they are downs we have said Tom's and they are happy Tom's but what's so beautiful about the family of a Mistral is that family stay together when times are good but family are there together where Tom's are tough people who care come closer thank you for being close with us during this very special day at this very special spot thank you so much for those words his heroism is beyond us and it's just so nice to be able to see him there and the messages will most definitely ring true for us for those who haven't yet go to Kahoot dot i t download it from the App Store we're about to play the Kahoot game so we'll give you ten seconds to just get ready to roll pull it up I know it's getting competitive out there until I'm hearing about it I'm hearing the chatter in between the weeks of the winners we've got some real huge players coming back so I'll give you one minute to get ready while I wish about Shalom here it is in here's the game pin for those who are WWI T or you got the app one or the other the computer of the app for two one six seven eight seven all the sinners are playing I think it's a sitting or says the sitter's alright look while we do this while we start seeing who's who's the car focal families and I was gonna get rough I Phoenix Arizona's back fingers Arizona really really produces before as we do this let me just say a couple of shabbat shalom it's the hiya - Susanne Meyers shabbat shalom from stuff from Rockland lay a beset by Shalom to you to Richard and Leia to the Hersh's of Fairlawn shabbat shalom to you to leave woodsfamily shabbat shalom to you san jose thank you very much for the moms love guys shabbat shalom - all you guys yes I knew it I knew I know I've we've uncovered the famous Phoenix family who has been so dominant these past few weeks keep it coming everybody one more minute as all the players line up a couple more shabbat shalom Lawrence and Hillary Hess shabbat shalom Pam and Jim Mikan from Cleveland shabbat shalom Waterloo shabbat shalom on my facebook to ricky Weinstock dorian Hausman shabbat shalom bossy Weiss a lot of pearl in shabbat shalom' Petoskey family from waterloo ontario shabbat shalom i think we're ready okay let's let's play yeah give it a minute people are still logging in one more minute less than a minute 30 more seconds Rana Adler from Farrell on shabbat shalom le cohen shabbat shalom we're very proud of me me and and the whole David family is Austin where you get to them in a minute okay we're about to get started let's roll okay guys I know people are st. Louis just pulled in here we go for questions number one the measure tells us that there are 70 named Metro says the the Jewish law if you will a part of the Torah 70 names for Jerusalem which one these are is not the names of Jerusalem which one of these is not the name of Jerusalem you shall I am see own Moriah Maria and Palma which one of these names is not a name mentioned in all of the Torah for Jerusalem that's in all the different parts of Torah one of these is not Jerusalem related four seconds left do what you can do two seconds one see how we do good that's right Palma is not one of the names who shall I'm clearly is theone and Moria okay very good let's see how we're doing so far let's see who our winners are who's let's see who starts early this week slo-moes coming in Shapps winner of Muncie a victor and a and s okay for those who are out there don't get discouraged this game moves quick alright let's go next got to play who built the first temple King Herod King David King Solomon or King Hosea first temple Harrod David Solomon or Hosea seconds six here we go very good lots and lots of answers here but it looks like we'll be having so a mix up let's say let's see what the results are now chaps comes hey I knew it did I call Phoenix Arizona si Phoenix a big there and ene okay shafts is still pulling strong let's go third questions is a four question game to some people what year was the old city of jerusalem liberated 1948 1973 1967 or 1991 sir all years were Israel was in military conflict for those who are familiar with Israel's history 4870 367 91 let's see we got the quicker you answer the more points you get okay let's see what we got okay most people got this one right let's see how this all shakes out sames lead sar em okay Edie and Phoenix we've got the leaderboard going into the next question this is the last question this celebrity was born in Jerusalem got to put some Shira Haas Natalie Portman Zac Efron or Matisyahu little pop culture in there just to mix it up a drop you see how we go we go wide military history torah pop culture you name it we got it Shira Hass Natalie Portman Zac Efron of Matisyahu nine seconds left for the final Kahoot game we got presents for you make sure you email project inspire they'll get you all the presents here we go the winners who Natalie Portman okay that you're gonna see a mix up in the final tally here we go here it comes I'm excited shafts comes in third great performance who's in second SA and the number one is Ian hey these are new individuals coming in Ian's a runners-up of Phoenix pulls in the car funcles awesome performance everybody congratulations for all the people that played fun stuff email project inspire and they'll get you some gifts time to go to st. Louis to visit with an incredible family the David family family that I know well member that I've had the honor to stay by multiple times rabbi David and I have been to Israel many many many times he's an incredible guy and his wife is even greater because every time you see anybody the wife is always the best Rebbetzin me david has an incredible educator a person who has really inspired so many people in st. Louis and all over and it's an honor to have her on the show Rebbetzin Mimmi David welcome to the show thank you Charlie and Myles except Charlie to you to your son from all the David's not just me but yo sage and all of us it's really a special moment when I think it's your first farm it's all right my second second okay but everyone is good one is the first right absolutely thank you very much much appreciate it our pleasure I wanted to share an idea that the sages teach us our sages teach us that the human soul is the candle of God the human soul is the candle of God and to understand what that means I want you to picture a scenario that first show for sure all of you have been in at least one some neighborhoods do this more often unfortunately than others and that's picture a blackout in your house okay there's a blackout in your house and it's not just in your house it's your whole block right the whole place is I'm powerline down there's an outage you're not gonna have power for a day and a half and it's just a mess okay and so during the day when this happens it's manageable you know you have some light from outside and you can see what you're doing and you can get you know you can get where you want to go but as it starts to get dark it gets dark not just in our houses but it gets dark outside and the kind of darkness in your house during a power outage it when it's also at dark outside is different it like you could feel it it has a total cuz there's no light from outside there's no street lights there are no house lights it's everything is dark and thick and it's a yucky feeling and then you take a match and you strike it and you light one candle and it is unbelievable how that one little candle can suddenly change your whole situation it makes everything manageable like there's enough light to see and you don't feel like you're being closed in one little candle just dispels a tremendous amount of darkness it's actually a Hebrew phrase that we say a little bit of light can get rid of a tremendous amount of darkness and that's how our souls are our souls do the same thing picture time in your life that was dark right like you're going through a challenge or you're maybe you had a heartbreak of some sort or maybe even now in Kovan 19 maybe you know you've been quarantined and maybe things have been challenging and difficult and somebody reaches out to you they reach out to you with a kind word they really listen they really listen when you speak they buy you your favorite chocolate bar and suddenly that dark time in your life it's not so dark anymore it becomes manageable right it's the the little acts of the soul those little acts of the soul can really bring a tremendous amount of light and of goodness in our lives so that's one way that our soul is like a candle a little candle a little soul gets rid of a tremendous amount of darkness but there's another idea also that I think is really cool and that's the thing about candles that you take one little candle and you can light as many candles as you want with that same flame and nothing will happen to the original flame it will stay as bright and as strong as ever line up the thousand candles as many as you want and just keep lighting them and lighting them and lighting them and the original candle will never go out it will never be diminished it will never be lessened even though it's giving and isn't the human soul the same aren't our souls the same we give and when we give from our soul we never lose out if you learn something and you're so inspired by it and share it with someone else not only do you not lose out I believe you gain you become even richer from it if you teach somebody something and now their life is different because of that you gain from your soul and you didn't lose out ever if you give good advice somebody comes to you and they have something going on and you're really good at helping them that's giving from your soul that's like being a candle you never lose out when you do those things so I was thinking about this and I said you know I think this is probably one of the reasons that when people like there's about candles they light a candle for every member of their family you can see mine right here add a whole bunch and and when you light those candles what you're saying is you and I all these people we share a soul we give to each other we take care of each other we bring light to each other's lives that takes away some of the darkness and when we give to each other we never lose out we just came from the experience so today when you go light your candles all of all of us we can have in mind a little prayer if you have a husband or a spouse a wife or you have children you can think of them if you don't think of all those other people that you share your soul with that you share your life with and for each one say a little prayer as you light a candle and thank God thank God for the goodness and for the warmth and for the light that you bring each other into your lives shabbat shalom from st. Louis it was great seeing you all and have a wonderful Shabbat shabbat shalom and thank you so much it's so true what she said you're the ability for one little candle to inspire something I can tell you personally the small little moments where people are doing small little things for us and it's this simple for our family it's it's it's we'll never forget it there's no words small little candles can light up big big dark rooms right now we're up to the segment with Jaime Geller our partner inspiring individual who is a really a cooking sensation we're gonna go there's a great video we're gonna post right now on Jaime Geller and we'll be able to talk to you a little later about how's things with Jamie Oliver great things Thank You charlie and hi everyone what an honor it is to be back with your cooking segment and really just to be part of your pre Shabbat inspiration we are overwhelmed by the warm and loving food that we got for this segment so here we go again this week we are celebrating yummy Russia lime and the upcoming holiday of shovel with an israeli very mash up now shovel what is typically celebrated with dairy delights cheesecake being in the culinary symbol of the holiday but you do not have to stop there so we are taking falafel stuffing it with a cube of cheddar cheese and oh my gosh this may start a revolution but we're ready for it now if you don't want to go that far you can just follow along the recipe omit the cube root of cheddar and you'll have classic Israeli falafel what a great way to celebrate Yomiuri shall I so wait till the end of the video it's short and it's quick but there's a cheese pole that will have you licking that screen shabbat shalom [Music] well that looks good honestly let me show it for that video on for more if those who want to see that video again and for more videos from Jamie Gallup please go to Jamie yellow calm she's got Facebook Instagram Pinterest YouTube Twitter tick-tock at Jamie Geller and at Jewish by Jamie very important I said earlier in the show for us to dive into pray for the speedy recovery a woman named Cathy bus our every could really take this on especially as you like candles the Shabbos stay an extra prayer to God that Kathy has a speedy speedy speedy recovery put her in your thoughts every word that we that we utter is goes into the ears of the creator of the universe we don't appreciate the power of our words so please put Kathy Basara and your people in your thoughts and your prayers today as earlier in the show today you saw a beautiful video by about Jerusalem and the song the voice behind the video was a man named Sam Glaser Sam has been using his voice to inspire and to enlighten and to bring joy to so many for so many years and it's an honor to invite Sam on the show Sam welcome to the show you great great to be here Charlie can you see me all right you can't see you yet but I'm sure we got we got you we got so I understand saying that you got you got a little song for us I know that you do some soft is strong in your heart and I know that you are you were in Jerusalem for the first time what was your first experience in Jerusalem well thankfully my family decided that all four boys all four brothers would have their bar mitzvahs in Jerusalem so that was pretty important and pretty intense and then when I had the opportunity several years later it was actually about nine years later to go study at Asia Torah I was on the first Jerusalem fellowships they ever did which was a long time ago in 1985 learning hour by hour and what was the former Beit Midrash of Asia Torah gave me so much intensity and information about my heritage and a lot of life and light and I recognized that the key to joy really lie within my own faith and there was no need to tour the world or check out our arms in India it really was all present for me and of course after that I made sure that my family got to have the same experience and I tried to get my parents involved and so my brother Yom Tov over at some point and thank God we got to my brothers are now rabbis and we're all doing our part to make the Jewish world a better more committed place amazing what a great story look at the impact of one person you can have the impact that your brothers are having one candle as Reverend David said one candle can bring lots of life and you're clearly bringing lots of light and I know you got a song for us so please and bring us to the Shabbat with your music excellent so this particular song is called dancing in Jerusalem it was a popular YouTube video and was on my album The Promise and it talks about the joy of return about all the generations in the past 80 years or so that have come back to Jerusalem and made it their home and by the way you can read more in the joy Judaism my new book so thanks for sticking with me till the end of this program and I hope you enjoy this this is dancing in Jerusalem [Music] God will fill your heart's desire take you to the place you want to go and eat dreaming of the man of your history and we're walking the streets before you know pumping some people say took to the skies not sure how this magic husband replied surprise enjoy them first Shalom 50,000 [Music] to [Music] all these dancing [Music] in Jerusalem [Music] the ignition that I needed for monosomy entities [Applause] [Music] shut his real watch off on the Sudan [Music] [Applause] thank you so much that was awesome it's so true we will be dancing there and thank you for bringing us and dancing to Shabbat Sam and I don't have you on pick up your book one more time for those who want to get your book it's called the joy of Judaism check that out Sam thanks for what you do thanks for what you bring to the world thinks the light that you bring to all of us shabbat shalom to you and yours thanks brother and that's it we're gonna wrap up now for those that want to tune in remember that right now there's a 6:35 there's the streaming life if they have new synagogue hub a lot Shabbat check that out the zoom link will be on right here I'm sure you got artists who - green kabocha bot with the 5th avenue synagogue for those who want to sign up for the one-on-ones please do so it's really this is the time get it in now and of course please download the Shabbat Guide and I wishing wishing you a shabbat shalom I mean this is these are the moments that like I said this is this is my favorite time of the week you can almost feel the change that's coming into our lives and I hope and pray that this Shabbat as we get closer and closer to the end of this on board that we make decisions now that define the depths of everything that we do hold on to the moments where we know it it changed us if there are things that we got during this period of time we can't let it go we can't go back just recently I wasn't I was talking to someone who passed by to wish us Mazel Tov earlier they said you know a lot of the schools were cancelled and a girl's going back next year for her next year and she said that on the plane ride home all of her friends said we want to go spend a little more time in Israel we want to be able to go back and complete our experience and they got home and after being home for a couple of weeks they said Mads ok the ability to hold on to inspiration is hard the ability to continue on when everything goes and things change is hard and I hope that we stay that way I hope that we take from what we learning we take the good as we saw from that wonderful family I hope that we take the good the gentle will family taught this to us they wanted to make a change they did and they're gonna hold on to it for a very long time and what Mimi David said about that candle where I Goldstein said about having the ability to spend time and being a gift from God these are the moments being an inner person these are the moments digging in to find the joy on the inside of things the inside of our lives the spirituality the the intimacy that we have with our family around the table the intimacy we have with with God the quietness that Shabbat brings us the wisdom then the new clock as they say and I hope it's a minute we have now I hope it something that will have forever and I hope we get to do this until we get to dance in the streets of Jerusalem with mushiya and I want to switch you from me and mine to you and yours should be a Shabbos filled with light tranquility wisdom depth commute spirituality you should see things as Shabbos that you may not have seen before I should feel things of Shabbos evening I felt before you should connect in ways you maybe not have connected before the shaba should be the best one you had in every Shabbos afterward should only get better so on behalf of our family shabbat shalom and with God's help we look forward to seeing you again next week but hopefully after dancing together in the streets of Jerusalem shabbat shalom [Music] in the strangers in the world extra thing with nations my fate place cover get the whole world of a slit your patron it's basically we taking earache and they change it for that master go we don't forget [Music] you feel like you're [Music] [Applause] [Music]