Tisha B'av 2020- Stop At Nothing

[Music] that love of that love of yiddish guy that love of another jew that my father had this was his life he saw such light and illumination in the in the summer of a yid i think the greatest life lesson that he gave over was the value of each individual no matter who they are no matter where they come from he never judged he loved everyone no matter what he just had so much room in his heart for every human being his greatest pride was building a person he was a builder of people slimer saw in you what you really could become there probably isn't a day that goes by that i don't say how would rav shlima have handled it remove freifeld was a doctor of the soul he learned from everybody he learned from every situation he had that ability to make people feel very very special i really think his only goal was just to do hashem's ratsu is just love hashem's kids [Music] so i remember him a freight fella gave a bang on his table and he said to me charisma that's a dirty word he says you don't make jews jews because of charisma he says you make jews jews because you have a heart and you have a soul [Music] it's a pleasure to speak of people they had a love for everyone every jew there was a snappish for others had no limitations so it is really my brother since you're speaking about people that are willing to do for others a person is willing to give up from himself he's uncovered he's whatever he whatever he has it's my brother is that this institution that is trying to help people love call the soil love to one another and i think tisha bob is as man that we have to think about others we are not a yoghurt we are part of holy salad [Music] is [Music] is [Music] oh [Music] my father sleether told me a beautiful line about ronnie greenwald and he said an ascon has gone i mean those who understand there's a need for the the cloud the satire to do things for the cloud to help individuals and help the cloud at large hashem i was privileged to have opportunities to see and work with ronnie greenwald understanding what it was to see a person that never thought about anything besides the objective help somebody else what can you do for somebody else my father was born in new york his family was extremely poor his parents were greeners they came from europe with two other children with very very little you would never know this in his personality he was always giving over an enormous amount of positive energy and we believe that that came from his his mother who was an extremely talented capable exciting personality who was involved in many many things in spite of their uh limited resources he was i think six years old when his mother got sick he spent some time in an orphanage you know some people become victims and some people decide that i'm not going to let anybody go through this if i could stop it he became a determined person to never see anyone suffer again it was deeply integrated because his sensitivity and his recognition of the invisible person he always noticed those people that were not noticed just the fact that you were alive and breathing and god created you that already made you unbelievable and wanted to do whatever he could for if he had the opportunity to do that he would be looking for people to help like just you'd go out for breakfast and he'd be looking around the room right anybody suffering let me see what i can do and he just lift him up [Music] this is a personal story that i have never shared with anybody verbally i met ronnie greenwald and i had him as a rebbe when i was 15 my father passed away my mother was quite ill at the time the problem was that we had no money just just simply for food and i was very frightened you know i'm just 15 years old and i'm the head of the household and i get a call out of the blue while this is going on from ronnie you know your father just passed away must be tough times i have extra cash three hundred dollars let me give it to you and you know he didn't want to make it sound like he's mr doctor he said you pay it back don't worry about it just take it for now but i understood that it was really uh no it was not that wasn't his intention to get paid back so i i put up a little bit of a of a debate i said no i'm not taking it and father magnusi insisted i took it and that really is what kept us going he lived with his eyes open yeah like everything was an opportunity there's no question that the word driven is a word that well describes his personality he was always doing things he was always involved and he always cared remember when we were engaged we went to watch the macy's day parade he said i wish i would love to organize this or to run columbia university to do something he had all this energy and he had all these ideas and all this passion if something big came by he would be able to do it i don't know if he was driven by anything more than i can so i will i asked my father once how he got started with all this politics he said that his first involvement in the political side of things was as a rebbe so they had these russian immigrants and they were applying for political asylum and couldn't receive it and so he went to washington he found somehow a name of someone in the state department to allow them to get political asylum and to be able to stay and that's when he had his first kind of i guess his first experience in washington he went from being a rebbe to an executive in terms of sorrow and from there he started the famous camps to sternberg and ken bogan of rome camps that functioned for people that couldn't afford camp when mishkan the camp came to be he had come to camp sternberg when ohil came to be he was a player in ohil it was seeing a need and doing something he needed a political connection to get something done it was him someone that was not feeling well needed a good doctor he'd connect he was you know someone didn't have money someone had a problem with a child i mean it ran the gamut when dr bernard lander came to him and said ronnie i want to start a college but i don't have a building i don't know where to start ronnie got in touch with louis lefkowitz who got put him in contact with other people and toronto college began in a free building from the state the summer camps to him were so essential he loved the kids and he wanted to give them a summary he wanted them to get away from the regular school system and give them a chance to breathe and be excited the 50 years that he ran camps for children during the summer that was the central and most important thing that he believed that he did in his whole life [Music] ronnie called me up one day and said you know doc we got to make a camp for the handicapped in sternberg i said what are you talking about you didn't even discuss it with me i found out about it just about the same time everyone else did i said ronnie you may lose all the parents from sternberg say well you'll talk to them and you'll get it worked out and everyone said no you can't do this these kids have diseases and they're and and what are people going to say and people aren't going to want to send their kids and he said it's going to be good for them and it's going to be good for our girls let them see that these are people that we care for them that they're part of clients wrong that we love them in those years most orthodox people were giving away the handicapped children they didn't want them at home some of them were being upkeshmired by guyan but these girls got involved eventually these girls grew up married and had two children of their own and because they knew what was going on in michigan that changed the whole view of the orthodox in terms of what handicaps are all about so the behind it was very very great and he stuck to his guns because this is something a vision that he had that these children they'll be loved and cherished in the community and guess what like many other programs that he started in kemp sternberg other camps saw hey there's real value here we should do the same thing one day ronnie calls me up he says joe we're going to mexico i said ronnie i ain't going i said what am i doing in mexico he says well there's a rabbi zui in there and he has a handicapped child he wants to get into michigan i said rabbi greenwald we are federally funded we are state funded and i'm not going to jail for any handicapped trial for mexico he says doc don't worry about it we'll work it out so we went to mexico we somehow got the boy into new york and he became a member of michigan so as a teenager i thought he could be elected president as i became older i realized that wasn't likely but i i saw him do these things that were supposed to be impossible and they were not impossible by any stretch there's a famous uh line that he said the difference between possible and impossible is 10 minutes don't just say so quickly that it can't be done or it's too much just let's just sit it out and and let's think and see my father said that when he was young there was one mitzvah that he really always wished he could do i really wish i could do pidgeon william remember this is before technology okay long distance call was expensive plane rides were longer but it really was something he thought about he wanted it and i wonder if that's not how so many things came his way there was an israeli man who was flying with his brother-in-law near mozambique and because of strong winds he ended up flying over mozambique itself the plane was shot down he was held as a prisoner for a couple of years my father was called upon to see if he can negotiate a release for him congressman ben gilman was a very caring well-connected gentleman and ronnie called him it was about four or five in the morning gilman's first reaction was ronnie are you drunk what's going on here um he said no and he said okay so he met him at the airport it was actually the night of pesach that they had to arrange this prisoner swap of some kind and ronnie told me he was going i said money it's going to be a rough pace i said i spoke to a moisture i might just said i'd do what i got to do if i don't make a say do i don't make a say there they stopped off in south africa on the way they had a small seder conducted over there and they got back on the plane and started flying towards the the area where this release was supposed to be taking place there had been a similar prisoner swap a few weeks before that and the person who arranged for it and who conducted it was shot my father was there on that same bridge doing the same thing seder night my father went to meet him and gave him a big hug he embraced him and he said to him do you know what night this is and my father said and thank god they both returned safely [Music] we were at an ou convention in israel and jerusalem and one night we got a call from this member of the knesset flotto charon who was a very controversial figure and he said maybe you can help get sharansky francie was a big hot item then who wouldn't want to help sharansky i was a refusing what means i was refused to be given to be granted the visa and there's many jewish refuseniks lost my job was under permanent interrogations by kgb in the middle of the struggle i met my future wife avitar then natalia and we had a koopa in our apartment and next day she left for israel and we hoped that we will meet in few months as a result of our struggle we met 12 years later i was arrested and accused in high tourism for my zionist security i came to israel here we organized like headquarters we decided every jew in the world has to know what's going on with the brothers and sisters in in russia we start to travel from country to country from synagogue to synagogue to killa and i succeed to come to sienat and to congress of the united states one of these congressmen was ben gilman and when i arrived to his office there was another man and he introduced him like robbie greenwald and the man was nice warm and i understand immediately this guy know how to do things then i spent time with his family in monsi and very warm and i spent their shabbat and then we tried to talk about this swap i first met rabbi ronnie greenwald when i was an attorney at the department of state and the department was approached by congressman ben gilman robbie greenwald and gilman were particularly interested in the release of dissidents but jews in particular because they were persecuted at alarming rates syransky had been at the top of our list of persons we wanted out of the soviet union for a very long period of time he was an extraordinarily courageous man standing up for human rights ronnie was just this wonderful character in the best sense of the word he was open he was clearly very smart he tried he he traveled a lot and he talked to people and who knows what else he do and he had through an israeli member of the knesset named flatoshiron contacted wolfgang fogel a lawyer in east berlin which led to prisoner exchanges that ultimately led to the release of anatoly or nathan sharansky [Music] when i came to congress and senate and i met practically with all of them congressman ben gilman was one of them and when i came then his office was ronnie greenwood i said oh you're the ironic you know that they held from a vital and that's how he met i remember him permanently full of energy full of initiative and full of desire to help i think his energy optimism all the time to be alert to hear the needs of the jewish people what's going on i think it's a very important legacy so this pigeon shvuyam idea played out as he rescued people from all over the world in communist countries and other things but also how he rescued people from difficult situations whether they were abusive physically or emotionally whatever it was he was there for them i grew up in brooklyn in the syrian community i started hanging out with the wrong people at some point my dad tried to get me to go to boarding school because it was really bad i got into munzee academy muncie academy was run by rabbi greenwald rabbi greenwald always saw me as an individual he was accepting he was loving at the end of my senior year robert greenwald told me he wanted me to go to israel i always believed in judaism i just didn't see my future in it getting me to israel changed my life i started keeping shabbos and kosher i met my husband here and rabbi greenwald gave me a call there are a few girls who want to come to your wedding give me two names so he flew two of my very close friends into my wedding he came to my wedding i was the first muncie academy girl to get married he was filled with light [Music] when my father did these things he didn't tell anyone no one knew did somebody actually has it quiet i mean people knew this but then were like a drop in the bucket of all the things he did quietly after he was nifter somebody compiled emails that girls sent in from camp and from the school and from all walks of life and the it was just page after page after page of of another girl who felt that her life was changed and her life was saved and how she finally saw somebody who cared about her and so i think that was a big theme in all of the letters people came to the house constantly they were people with divorce cases and custody cases and no one was able to help them and my husband got through to people he was able to arrange amicable divorces and custody cases where no one else was able to do it the woman who had to run away because she was in a very terrible marriage she found a place in my parents house the young woman with two children who had to get divorced because her husband started using drugs again and could not live that way when someone needed a place i guess they knew the address it really bothered him that people had to be labeled and i don't want to hear about you know somebody else defining you because you you know you went to a certain school or you live in a certain community i think the most the greatest life lesson that he gave over to me to us was the value of each individual no matter who they are no matter where they come from no matter what they look like he didn't talk about it but he lived it girls who wouldn't talk to anyone after a few minutes with him they just opened up because they felt that he loved them and he wanted the best for them and he wasn't going to try to you know mess them up in any way or report them or whatever it was the principal told my father that he doesn't know what to do with this girl who he has to tell her to close her top button every single day how many times do you have to say something to a kid before they listen it just doesn't make sense you say it again and again they don't listen so my father said one second you say you say it again and again and does it work he says no so what do you do i say it again and does it work no so how many times do you have to say it till you learn that it doesn't work and try something else he never looked at the way a person was he looked at what the present could be there's been a summer there there's there's more than you can see i know so many kids who people had just given up on totally given up on and he spent you know we take him out to breakfast once a week and a lot of these kids are productive happy healthy kids today it's unbelievable he wasn't afraid to fail so i'll fail and he said many times i failed in many things many things didn't work that i tried he didn't stop trying and so he also accomplished many great things and i think his competencies continued to grow as he succeeded in more and more areas one thing that i hope when people hear about my father that i hope we can take for ourselves is when we hear about the love that he had for each person the belief in them even if it looks like they're not in such a great place right now but we don't know anything and we don't have to we just know that they are created by god and they are precious and there's no one else like them he just had so much room in his heart for every human being love one another be there for one another care about one another that was his mantra you have to everyone has to look out for everyone else you have to look out for yourself true not to your own detriment but the other person is just as important and you have to be there for him or her and don't be judgmental i can't tell you how many hundreds of people i've come across like your father is my best friend it's amazing it was really special i really think his only goal was just to be a good jew it was just to do hashem's ratsu it's just love hashem's kids i put in the three biggest i mean them abandoned sleeter the bearish liter freifel i remember sukis i got the phone call that he wasn't here slime is avec and i cried and i told my wife this is the first time that i could say i'm happy if wooten is not here she said why i don't know how we could ever tell him or something fivefold was nifty that was their relationship was encouraged by his rebbe rafner to be the most that he could be as he wanted each of us to be when i was 15 years old i went to yeshiva high berlin the russia shiva behind berlin was ravitz someone introduced him to me and he says i want to know this is shmuel brazil from boston and he grabbed my hand in the sholem aleichem which i don't know if that shalom alaikum could be duplicated it was so full of warmth and simcha made me feel so hush of here i am a little 15 year old kid come here to this tall rabbit rifle and i think that was the beginning of having such a relationship he was a towering figure physically and the personality that was bombastic full of life and you just met him for the first time and just his handshake kind of won you over many people talk about rip slime as shalam aleichem it wasn't a nice city wasn't something that he read in dale carnegie used to say and you walk into a shul you walk into shiva no one recognizes you you don't feel like you're an entity somebody comes up and gives you sham they give you a sense of being a sense of who you are that you you're something it's you're important to that person you saw what the reber schulman had mine what a human being was supposed to be the taller picture in the meadows and the learning and the mensch look like the smile his smile is a smile that went straight to you in the show i still feel the warmth of his shoulder one time he was saying the sheer rover and when he finished a russian shiva from a different place walked in so after being inspired that's this year you had like 70 guys all of a sudden just stood up and they saw yeah they went over and said shalom alaikum he was so overwhelmed this was shiva that he remarked says what is this kirish levana [Music] i think the greatest story there's a lot of stories but i think the greatest story is two words it's called shah yoshev khaim berlin was in the neighborhood and chamberlain was going to brooklyn and there were over a dozen bachram that they asked him to stay in the farah and not come with them to brooklyn i was in berlin i was from the lucky fellas that when they were moving back to brooklyn certain guys they didn't want to take along because they wanted to build the yeshiva with what could tell me them if schleimer wanted me and my whole life changed my rabby called me in one day i told you have tremendous potential i would love if you would come join me in the new yearship and i was just like wow my rebbie's inviting me to go be one of the original bakrim in his yeshiva and i felt this was like the opportunity of a lifetime he took that core of boys and a couple of tommy were close to him from the outside like me and he started the yeshiva the rabbits in aleya shalom gave that name the name itself means the remnants shall return everyone should return everyone should come to their rightful heritage there were more boys from shoe backgrounds than there were balshovers but since my father was open to every kind of year across the country you know if anyone showed a little bit of interest in you this guy didn't know much call robbed by freyfall he wanted every young man to find his connection to torah youth were all of us were affected by the turmoil of the time it was the 60s i had always succeeded well in yeshiva and i was connected to yeshiva but looking for some peace of mind looking for something to believe in and rebbe understood that need and then as the yeshiva got bigger the word got out that is ava for every single yid whether you were froome not from you wore a hat you didn't wear a hat you were a big yamaku you small yarmulker you had people as long as it's failures he used to call that the quantum theory of yiddish guide it's all about quantities he says you have to look into the yid you have to see the neshama and every year it has an ashama you have to nurture it you got to cultivate it i was 17 it was the summer of the draft and i was strongly considering vietnam [Music] my brother who was a kai in berliner suggested i meet rush lima and i met this giant of a man and he said i have one question for you do you want to learn i said yeah right he says okay then you're in i need a person i could relate to i need a person that i could speak to and so i did decide to come to shayashv and of course rabbi freifel was very welcoming i ended up marrying his daughter so it for sure good that's the way hashem led it you know i make the joke that jakob avina worked for seven years for lovin's daughter only worked five years to get to robbie's daughter [Music] himself loved nigunam and he loved to sing him he in fact told me to take a certain digging and find a that we could put to those words because it's it's a halogen again i'll mention what happened when what was the focusing or the star of the generation came to the neighborhood when bob dylan came to the neighborhood i believe he came for a shove of brothers that night rabbi spoke to him privately i myself and the entire generation was you know enthralled and enamored by bob dylan and of course we were all interested in what happened and what transpired in that conversation he said to me listen to these words he said david you're in better shape than bob dylan i asked him what are his plans for the future what are his dreams what his aspirations what does he want to create what he want to build what does he want to accomplish and he didn't have answers and you have answers you know where you want to go you know what you want to do you know what you believe in and where you're at so you're ahead of him so instead of using that experience to knock him and which would have not been effective and would have just made me turn around and say you know okay instead he uses it and i walked out a foot taller saying you know i'm ahead of bob dylan you know i'm in better shape [Music] one day i decided i want to go to this ishiva i came home and i told my mother found where i want to go and i found where i'm going to be happy i don't think that's for you he says why because it's known as about yeshiva and i don't think it's good for you you're gonna have to do a soon and it's not gonna be the right thing and i couldn't move her i couldn't change her mind i get this brilliant idea maybe the rush of shiva can talk to my mother perfect plan you know put it on him and he looks at me says your mother's an almana you want to be messiah and almona i said no i would just like to be go to a place where i'm gonna have a tacos and i'm gonna be able to learn he says to me you know what you come here whenever you want to whenever you want to we'll learn together and that's how my kesha started with fleming freifeld i was a regular secular jew growing up in the chicago area i went the usual traditional hebrew school got my bar mitzvah had nothing to do with judaism graduate high school i was getting involved in a lot of left-wing radical organizations because i wanted a sense of meaning and purpose in my life and i wanted to change the world that was an idealist came to shay yashuv and i met rabbi freifeld and it was love at first sight it was exactly what i was looking for i think that's the the greatest story you could say that he made such a shiva that keeps going that's able to go ahead and take all different types of bachelor because he felt that he could give them that no one else he was way ahead of his time didn't make a difference if you were yid and you wanted to learn torah and you wanted to grow and he wanted to have muna and and hashem to help you one day my roommate came home and he said i was just behind berlin and rafner zatal introduced this new involved now the words were so powerful [Music] a person should build a tabernacle a base hamikdush in his heart yeah and i said i think i have a negan that's going to bring out the words even better i took my negan from the words of urachum it was a hit the day that rahu nazar came to the yeshiva we were making eseem on the succulent magilla was the first sema the shiva was the second year and after all it was one of his closest tomatoes where freifeld and then we sang bill bobby [Music] who made up this and he said you made this do you make other night of also and i said yes he says say shane you have to come one day to me and i wanted to hear some of you in the gonna was a a doctor of the soul to see how he was able to emerge people wherever he went just his existence inspired people he was a like an earthquake of a person i don't know how to describe but he was like a volcano when a buccaneer used to ask a question he would make it so alive he would jump around the basement clap his hands bring over someone take a look what he answered you felt so good after hearing him speak about you he was always looking at you carefully he was always listening to what you said he was watching and listening to understand you better what he said about himself one time he says i'm a very good listener even when i talk i'm listening and i remember once i was driving him home from a leviah and he said a comment to me i'll never forget he said you know moishe i can meet a young man for the first time and in 30 seconds i could figure out what he has to hear in order to like reach higher but you know sometimes i have to wait years to find that opening so that i could say the words and they'll sink in it was artistry i lost my father when i was 12. he treated me like a son i think he treated all of us like children like sons he always looked at what our future could be what kind of family we could have what potential we had he gave us such strength because of that because we knew that that's what his goal was [Music] with these people he created a beautiful community for guys are learning guys to his credit that for ocarina today is le chamel to ferris beautiful beautiful beautiful community with yeshivas and and rebels and coils and he spilled out into the five towns also it was a very warm summer day one of my kids picked up the phone and said someone is calling he says he's a good friend of yours i got on the phone and it was ripped slower and he said to me mostly you don't love me anymore i said baby of course i love you so he says how can we do how can we visit where are you so i said why should i come he said right now i ran over when i came into him he was on the phone like yelling at somebody and i i got scared and i started like the background he said he went to me like to sit down i said he said he was yelling at a guy and he said i remember exactly saying shaya if you ever do that again once once i'll give you this last time you ever do that to me you'll ever get in your life i'm never going to forgive you and i didn't know how was he letting me sit over there and and he even said his name shy and i knew shaya was because there was one shot in those ears in the ishii and he was yelling at him and then rap someone started laughing he said you know i hate schmaltz herring i hate schmaltzering i only want pickle daring at my table and then he was lifting and i sat down and he said to me maisha i thought you said you loved me i said baby i love you i love you he said if you'd love me to take off that hat and jackets making me so uncomfortable it's so hard could you just please take that off and make yourself comfortable and then out of nowhere mamish out of the blue he said to me i have an idea for you he said i think that you should go to woodmere to be a robin woodman to have a shoulder now this was the furthest thing in the world for my mind and i asked him i'd rather you what am i supposed to do i have any money i'm supposed to have a stable so he said to me i'm not your financial advisor i'm your friend and i think that you would be very good then i think that the jews could use that part of rebbe's magic was that ability to to understand where a person is where their soul is you could feel that he's looking at your potential of what you could become he gave everyone a chance one fellow came he didn't know how to read or write english and my father-in-law was you know really felt for him he sat and learned with him the abcs and taught him how to read i was teaching them english and it says for me teaching him english is yiddish besides being a warm person he also was very wise he has very deep understanding of people a dear dear dear friend of mine he was an issue when i was in yeshiva and he had juvenile onset diabetes and at this point his life in his 40s was very sick so he was a big baseball fan he loved baseball so we decided we're going to get a nice league baseball we'll get everybody to sign it we want to cheer him up and who are we going to go to first go to rabbi freifeld let me go up to his big chair so he smiled a big smile takes the ball takes his pen and writes babe's freifeld he like looked at the ball that's too good it lifted his spirits like you know he had such a broad mind to think like i'm a rashi of this and that you know in the summer of 69 the yeshiva had a bungalow colony we would take the buckram up and some of the jungle light families they blossomed in those one and a half months more than they could do half a year in yeshiva i don't want to say they were chilled but it was relaxed and it was uh everyone's heart and the heads were open to here woodstock was just really down the road you could walk it and so you can't imagine how many people came you know it was the hippies at that time that were very prevalent and there was a traffic jam all the way up to the side of of the of the bungalow colony and when came out and saw what was happening he started walking down the road stopping at every car is anyone jewish would you want a place for shoppers you come join us we'll give you some good food and chocolate if you know what that is and he would just go down and down to each car to try to get someone to come to come in for shabbos like he wasn't intimidated at all i remember another story was that i was in the bungalow colony when i was in kohler rabbi yeager who was my rebbe then he came over to my wife and he said you know i was uh talking to my father-in-law right before i felt and i was discussing different things that were happening in share and i told them something that your husband might should set over and rabbi freyfall's eyes lit up and he says naftali you go right now and you find ramosh's wife and you tell her that she's married to a tomahawk he knew i needed that kind of physic so that i could continue going because i was so far behind i'm 23 24 years old and i can't i could barely read a mishna brewery you know you'll get it you'll get you'll get there we used to travel up to come to muncie and i said to my wife you know we're going up the fdr let's stop off to visit rip slime we drive up we get to the hospital and get to his room and he was he was in this little room and he was a giant of a person in this little room and i walk into the room and my wife stands by the door and he gives a half look at her you're on your way up to muncie yes and before my wife can answer i say yeah we were just headed there and we thought it would be nice to come see rasheel so who we have in company for shabbos he's looking at her i answer well my in-laws are coming and all of a sudden he gives isaac enough i'm not talking to you i'm talking to edie so you know what edie you come to the bed let isaac go to the door because him i talk to all the time you i never get to talk to and he was so sick at that time and he was in such pain and again i looked at him just he just knows how to make every single person feel like a million dollars in his later years when he was sick someone always had to be with him when he was in the hospital it was a very difficult job as he was getting a cat scan and they thought it went into the liver and of course he was nervous about the test he had the test finally brought him upstairs to the room it was we went down around one o'clock it was already four o'clock and you know i got my father into bed and he's finally relaxing and i see four or five young ladies i heard rabbi fryfell was there so they came to visit rabbi freyfall so after the ordeal that he went through that day i didn't want them to come in so um i said i go like this please you know like and rabbi freifel says to me avrom there's daughter he used to speak to me in here she likes speaking to me who's there as a few girls want to come see the rebbe you know they could come back no no no send them in in that moment he was so weak and so wiped out and he he welcomed the girls as if he was well and he spoke for an hour and a half what the role of the jewish woman is like this was his life one day we were going to a bar mitzvah i told my wife edie i said you know what we're passing by far rock away i'd like to stop off the bush guitar and he wasn't well at that time anymore and she said sure fine so my son says we're going to schleimer freifeld so i said yeah great nobody has a rebbe card verb schleimer freifeld my son binyamin or known as yumi used to collect reby cards he was nine years old and that was the big thing in yeshiva collecting rebbe cards can i bring my camera and i'll take a picture so i said sure so we come there and slime is sitting at the table and we're talking and my son asked ask him i find him someone says you're me you want to ask me something [Music] can i take a picture of the shiva and he looks and says you want to take a picture of me that's exactly what he said and he picture a nine-year-old that shakes his hand says on one condition you be in the picture with me and i took a picture of him hugging my son and that picture was next to his bed for many many many years a nine-year-old kid felt like a million bucks but that's not the end of the story because two years later it was columbine circus and my son was going for a trip to great adventure with his class and i come home from shul and my son is home i said yummy he was supposed to go with your class what happened and he said tati today is the leviathan freifeld how can i go to great adventure i belong to go to that leviatha with you i have in my office i have a portrait of rich life really a day goes by when something comes up and i don't look at that picture and i say to myself how would the rabbit handle this what would the rebbe have done i really feel i live with employment every day [Music] one year moisture yum kippy started singing [Music] and he saw in those words his yeshiva he saw in the hearts and the minds of the bachelor we have to go into your own kipper you won't be dubbing hashem you want to be close to that shame you want to strike and learning you're going to see how good it's going to be because you had such a great yanthiv ayom kiefer and he would sing it over and over and tears you could see the tears rolling down his cheeks the tears of fila the tears of simfo of hope and tick for that voice we're going to make it we're going to make it going to become big juice this year [Music] it's a great pleasure to say a few words for a project inspire speaking about inspiration inspiration for what obviously tishbo is a time of introspection thinking feeling feeling for what obviously the loss of the by salmig dash by ishai was destroyed because of sinatra version tell us that the scrutiny was because of knesset's israel the knesset of israel christian being one and as soon as there was any harissa there was any destruction any tear in the fabric of it i saw clay israel that fell apart we speak about rebuilding the bay san migues it's thinking in terms of what can we indeed do to have ah what can we do to change our our approach our feeling towards others the world is fragmented as it is today we obviously understand the time has come it's way past the time to think in terms of well known that tells us that the last hara of the eighth sahara the sith division divisiveness a breakdown of society we have this day once a year to think very very strongly about how we must pull the society together pull clients all together to rebuild what's called knesses israel that can i see it's very important to have a production such as this that displays it brings out reveals the lives of individuals that really understood the importance of what every yacht can do for claudius through it's only a matter of giving a thought positive thought that's the word inspiration to inspire one to understand that it's not me it's beyond we just heard from the reshacta and we watched the film about two inspiring individuals who would stop at nothing to help another jew and we wondered ourselves what can we do to get involved today what better way to unite claudius roll like the rashiva spoke about and what better way to impact claudius earl than to be able to share our torah with people who might not be exposed to it otherwise here's an opportunity on tish above to sign up to learn with a one-on-one harusa or right below on your screen you can click on our click and share program which allows you to share an inspiring tish above film a film about binary with a fellow jew who might not otherwise know much about tish above and while you're considering signing up for a one-on-one carusa let me show you a film of people whose lives were changed by people just like you sign up today and make that difference that will internalize the message that we just saw about helping claudia stroll and uniting claudia's troll and with that will be zoha that this be our last tish above because my next above we'll be back in your shallow maraco dish amen [Music] [Applause] my name is ali chinonski my name is desi wiltenberg i'm navin 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 where unfortunately judaism and the culture was not passed down so i didn't know anything coming into this program we talk about everything from life to liberty to the pursuit of happiness we started learning once a week she has made such a huge impact in my life and she just really met me where i was in a totally non-judgmental way so whatever comes up with relation to judaism and torah and talmud and mishnah and kabbalah anything we just kind of talk about it and 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 judaism shapes my everyday life where i would have never even realized that before so i highly recommend getting matched up with a one-on-one partner if you are 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