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Torah Umesorah Address | A Paradigm Shift in Education
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This keynote address was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson at the Torah Umesorah 9th Annual Presidents Conference, Motzaei Shabbos Parshas Vayishlach, 17 Kislev 5777, December 17, 2016, at the Turnberry Isle Miami Hotel, in Aventura, Florida. To watch more classes & to read Rabbi YY's articles visit: https://www.theyeshiva.net Follow Rabbi YY Jacobson: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RabbiYYJacobson Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheYeshiva Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yyjacobson Twitter: https://twitter.com/YYJacobson Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yyjacobson/ Telegram: https://t.me/RabbiYY #parenting #education #rabbiyyjacobson
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I was invited some time ago to a dinner
in
Montreal of a particular
Community which was a s
community and a particular community
that was Notorious for coming very late
to
events so when they told me that my
speech is going to be 7:30
I assumed it would be 8:30
9:30 I was sitting there was
11:30 and the guest of honor was just
called up to speak and he liked to hear
himself it was
almost I turned to the rabbi who invited
me and I
said not on
me
but they he be lying he says no no no I
want the full speech I said 5 minutes he
said no I hired you for an hour I want
you to speak for an hour I said you're
nuts you'll forgive me but you're crazy
this is suicidal for you do it no I get
up I look at the just looking at me I
could feel the agony in their eyes the
suffering you know what I mean I was
basically the last thing between them
and their mattresses
it was M I didn't know if it's
a that was because there was a lot of
food that night so it could be it was a
different get there but it wasn't a
comfortable position to be
in so I get up I
say G to tell
you there was once a fellow who was
invited to speak somewhere there was a
Jewish event and there were a lot of
speakers before him anyway he speak
speaks and he gets into it they gave him
an hour he spoke for four NOP the first
hour half of the people leave the next
hour another 20% the next hour another
finally the last hour two guys stay the
last half an hour one guy that one guy
remains comes over to him after his
speech and he says Ah all my life I was
looking for the talmid
mik had
ala I was looking for the Quint
essential student who would carry my
legacy for
eternity finally I have found him come
you'll follow me wherever I go and
be what do you say about my Brilliance
the man says truthfully I wasn't
listening he says you weren't listening
so why did you remain four hours till
the end he says cuz I'm the next
speaker so I have for you good news and
have bad
news the bad news is I'm the next
speaker the good news is I'm the last
speaker but I'm the thing that stands
between you and the
barbecue so I do understand the
significance of my position I am
the that is
being
and and it's not a comfortable position
to be in especially after people who
have been starving and
dehydrated a whole
shabas between the te- room and the
Grand Ballroom how would I be in such a
position okay so that's
that so I will try not to be MAF between
you and the malava Mal but to try to be
theere the appetizer before the main
course of the malava Mal
so since the says
that would say before
every he wanted the rabbis to laugh why
did he start off a she with an anecdote
I don't think it's the meing in the
yeshivas today that the Riva starts off
with an anecdote one reason is maybe he
wanted them to come on time if they
would come late there miss The Jug but
probably there was a deeper reason than
that so I'll also begin with a
there was once a Jew and a Hindu and a
politician who went hiking in
Texas they get lost on the
hike KES the sun sets and there's no
Hotel no Motel to stay they find a home
and they figure Southern Hospitality
will do them well they knock on the door
and a classical classic Texan farmer
opens the door how can I help you and
they tell him their predicament they
need a place to sleep can they stay in
this house for the night he says sure my
pleasure my delight it would be my
privilege the only problem is I have two
beds in the house so one of you fellows
will have to sleep in the
barn okay the Jew is not going to sleep
in the barn the politician is not going
to sleep in the barn the Hindu he goes
to the barn 10 minutes later he knocks
on the bedroom the Jew and the
politician open the door the Hindu is
there they say what's going on he says
there's a problem there's a cow in the
barn as a Hindu there's no way I'm
allowed to sleep with a holy cow Hindus
worship cows there's no way I could
sleep in the same room like a count okay
they turned to the Jew the Jew says I'll
go sleep in the barn 10 minutes later
there's a knock on the door the Jew is
there what's the problem the Jew says
there's aaz in the barn there's a in the
barn there's no way a
Jew a Jew can't sleep with a pig in one
room I'm sorry I need oops that's
exactly what it sounded like I'm sorry I
need a bet the politician says okay I
guess I'll go to the barn so the
politician goes into the barn and 10
minutes later there's a knock on the
door the Jew and the Hindu open the door
and the Pig and the cow are standing
there I share with you this
uh us Americans are coming from a very
heated political uh atmosphere and
ambiance
and I'm not choosing sides here in any
way or form or
fashion but
politics is politics is
politics and I think at such an event
and such a shabas and such a
shabas it's important to be able to
extricate ourselves from it even though
we're human and we have that component
what we call bias egotism corruption
Etc they tell us story that there was an
immigrant immigrant came to the United
States didn't know a word of
English but he wanted to become a
citizen so he asks his friend he says
yank V verman how do you become a to
become a citizen of America I'll hook
you up with a clerk he's been asking the
same five questions for the last 50
years from every WN to be citizen you
don't have to know English you don't
have to learn history you have gar
your's WR and you have to memorize five
responses in English verbatim and you'll
pass the test you'll become a citizen he
says what are they says the first
question he always asks is what's your
name the moment you hear what's your
name you don't have to understand you'll
say m okay second question is always how
many children do you have you'll hear
that you'll say five the third question
is who was how many how many states are
there in the United States you'll say 50
the fourth question is who is the first
president of the United States of
America and you'll say George Washington
his last question is do you have parents
and you'll tell him thank God both for
three monthsa is memorizing the
questions and the answers for B him to
be able to become a
citizen he goes in for the interview and
the old clerk looks at him and says I
have five questions we'll do this very
very fast first question I have for you
is what was the name of the first
president of the United States of
America without skipping a heart's beat
he
says says my next question is how many
states are there in the US he says five
he says tell me how many children do you
have and the man says 50 he says now
tell me looks at this Jew came
with he says tell me what is your name
he says George
Washington the man on the other side of
the desk understood immediately what is
transpiring before his eyes he says tell
me who is muga in this room you or me
and he says thank God both
so
I so here's the
deal I want to share with you a story
the story
is let's try to understand in the
story
T shimad was a for 40
years 40 years was his tenure in the
beginning of
he would say one
day told his students one year he came
out Kipper from
the and he told
his I'm going to die this year they said
why why do you say this how do you not
he said every when I walk
into who walks in with me
an old man beded in white covered in
white walks in with me and he walks out
with me but this year y Ki I went in and
what did I see an old man also walked in
with me but the old man
was
as he was completely eclipsed and
covered in
black and therefore I know that
my mission is
over
pass
and a week later returned his soul to
its maker that's the end of the story
and I ask you
[Applause]
tonight the whole leadership of on all
levels what is the meaning of the story
first of all how does that prove to him
that he's going to to pass away second
of all who's this old man who's walking
in and out with them white black isn't
there
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a even the are not let it be there is
not only down here even the so to speak
to be there who's
the that theor leaves to our imagination
our understanding
and I want to ask another
question I want to ask another question
I I want to know what you would do if
you were in the
position who we know from was beyond
hand
handsome the VIS of was
stupendous and is bathing where in the
Jordan River in the yarden anybody here
went bathing in the Jordan
River
okay was in the
yardish who in simple English was a
gladiator a powerful muscular mafiosa
man who got his paros not from very
refined and Noble Feats
sees and because of his physical
strength and power he leaps into the
Jordan right
near why did he leap in you know what
his kavana was so the maue either he
thought was a
woman and he was seeking promiscuity or
actually he was seeking
so he's right there if
you're the the editor of living in in
the third Century after the Common
Era in the yard and this gangster this
Gladiator standing there seeking one
particular thing which is Yar
Y what would you say to this man one
would think would look at him and say
911 you did or
whatever call the police try to fight
him run away none of the above in full
composure he says two words and these
two words
probably contain volumes of
pedagogy of psychology of Education of
as two words and the two words
are such
power such strength such
creativity such enormous personality it
belongs to tylish was no dumb man he
looks
at he
says and your beauty belongs to women
you're telling me I'm in the wrong
business you're in the wrong business
you don't belong in the B you could be
doing much better for yourself what does
say what do you think would
say astounding he says you think I'm
gorgeous wait till you see my sister ah
as your Bubba would say
a wait till you see my sister and you
know what if you change around your life
I'll
suggest you for my sister and we all
know the end of the story Lish does that
and he marries sister and him and become
the two spiritual T Giants of the
generation
andw
learning their debates and arguments
discussions and disputations
explanations crown and adore every
numerous numerous times in bavi and of
course Yi which they themselves worked
on and I ask one question number
one how in three seconds did Rish
transform his life what
happened from a gladiator from a
gangster literally from a person who was
ready to do this to a man who
metamorphosized his Destiny for
eternity shim
from our greatest spiritual Treasures in
Jewish
history and of
course some of you leaders of
Institutions supporters of Ty
institutions activists for tah day
schools and Torah education for decades
and decades have seen various Educators
and their
approaches various rebies moras teachers
and you know the
answer Rish asked himself one
question this man is ready to give me
his sister really you would offer your
sister
forish wow he believes in me so much but
he understood when said he wasn't joking
it wasn't acute euphemism you're so
powerful you should start learning
no looked at him he sized him up and he
said Rish I want you to seize the day I
want you to suck the marrow out of
life I want you to be more powerful than
you are today I want your full
creativity Unleashed physical
psychological emotional spirit
you know you'll be able to do
it comes from the it has the power to
unleash a in the
person somebody once asked me how do you
explain the extremism of Jewish
liberalism you know there's no atheist
like
Jews because Jews are atheists in a
religious
way they deny god with religious fervor
it's a unique type of
atheism so imagine Mozart growing up in
a home without a
piano what would have happened to
Mozart the genius has to go somewhere
but we thank God he grew up in a house
with a piano so the world was enriched
by
Mozart a Jew laav
growing up without turra is a
Mozart but a Mozart without a
piano
Jew summon that to change the
world so what is the outlet sometimes
the outlet becomes saving the whales in
Indonesia sometimes the outlet becomes
dealing with turtles in New Zealand and
sometimes the outlet becomes dealing
with the underdog supposedly was trying
to destroy your own Homeland and your
own brothers and
sisters looked at him and
said and I'm serious I like you I love
you I see you I'm ready to ask my sister
to give you a chance somebody Believes
In Me to that magnitude to that
seriousness said am in the rest is
history we did there be learn this from
I don't know but the
Compares said about himself why he could
be by
the I'm from the children
of isn't this the whole
story that faithful day
remains
alone she grabs him by his cloak lay
with
me he says take my bagot I'm out of
here
says he saw the image of yov his father
what happened there what image did he
see he didn't know what jakov looked
like before what image did he see what's
the
we have here contained probably one of
the most vital messages for the future
of toy M and Jewish Education and toyra
education in the 21st century in the
United States of
America and the
World At Large
namely we have every story is also a
metaphor here is the Jew here is the kid
ysf throwing into to a pit sold into
slavery but at the moment of truth the
says he refused and there a that's going
to be read next week one of four in the
there's only three
more he refused and it wasn't
simple he succumbed but he saw the image
of yov his father what
happened friends
there's one
more there's one
more right
before everyone comforted him for the
dead kid he said no why
not wasn't dead he couldn't close the
chapter he couldn't say kades and say
this is it he couldn't forget but you
mindless what does it mean
spiritually what does it mean
spiritually perhaps it means there's a
family there's a community that has a
child and the child falls into a pit
of abyss of
addiction an abyss of pain of Agony of
suicidal thoughts of deep abuse sold
into slavery doesn't even belong to
himself anymore and everybody tells
yakob okay but you have 11 beautiful
kids and you have 12 beautiful girls
look who they
are don't call my boy
dead Y is not dead Y is alive I know YF
YF is not dead don't write off my child
he's
alive he refuses to be comforted and
close the chapter on YF and say let's
move on you know what happens miles
miles miles far away entrenched in the
abyss
of a 17-year-old lad alone in the
universe without a mother father
brothers sisters Community Yeshiva
support Tor without
anybody alone in the world and the wife
of describes in graphic detail how she
changed her
uniform three times a day paa's credit
card was quite maxed out this lady was
doing a lot of
shopping breakfast lunch dinner she came
with a new
uniform she promised of the world for
five minutes and she threatened him with
with the worst torture if he doesn't
obey what gave him the fortitude to say
no the answer
is you know why he refused
because at a Moment of Truth he saw that
he has a father who believes in
Him is what prompted
y means refus comes from the word IM
confidence trust he had a father who
empowered him who believed in him who
trusted in him and that's why in The
Abyss he could look up and see an image
of that
father listen to
this
boade why is begot called in Hebrew a
begot you know what a b is yeah in yish
a for those who still know yish AAR a
traitor a begged
betrays I could be AAR but I wear Roth
child's go I could be on but be a
homeless
garment people invest a lot of energy
into their clothes the look the label
design the image you project the type of
suit the type of tie the type of knot
type of glasses and it's
p beg is Bo n with truth with truth God
them
conceal you know what she did you know
how
she
like many of us
like him by
his by his down moments she said look at
you you know that your brothers hate you
you know that your father may be the one
who did it to you you
are you were dreaming about things you
Brothers weren't dreaming
of go all the way let it go enjoy
life isn't that the message that many a
child here you're anyway not going to be
the
god you're anyway not going to be like
your he already he finished three masas
this year and you're having a hard time
one with
Rashi and we know how much percent of
the class is it your IQ is anyway not
like him you're not a bookworm like him
you're a social animal you're dreaming
of taking over the world you're not
going to
succeed and how many boys and how many
girls their energy is sapped out of them
because of that
message You're a boade
somehow we equate academic Excellence
with a relationship with God I don't
know who invented that
Idol who invented that
Idol the fact that somebody is less
social and has a better IQ and could sit
at a book for more hours makes him
Superior in the eyes of
the I'm not a
I'm a child
of he went out of all of the limitations
the predictions the definitions that
society and sometimes from society puts
on him that's where learned how to speak
to
you're not a it's not true do you have
Downer moments of course do you have
struggles do you have challenges of
course and who
says is afraid of people who have
challenges how do you create a society
of Perfect
People how do you create a your normal
healthy Yeshiva where boys or girls are
not to speak about their struggles and
to speak about your struggles May cost
you a how can people be healthy that way
it creates neurotics psychotics they
said what's the difference between
neurotics psychotics and
psychiatrists so neurotics build castles
in the air psychotics live in those
castles the psychiatrist collect the
rent from both of
them and the rent is very very high it's
very very
expensive tells me there
was had
a
real the boys tell
him Saturday night he goes to the
theater now you
understand that in that's
like some other places
of it's a
separate but there so he tells them he
says next them all
next time he leaves so you know boys
they could get close to the R by
informing on somebody else it's a great
Temptation right we used to have our Nam
for them in Yesa we won't talk about it
but you all know that classmate right
you still love
him and uh it's a certain type of tpus
and they never change
usually when you're 60 it happens in
another ways but there's bit there's
psycholog
profile so uh
so they excitedly they gate gate he's
going he's going he's taking the train
to the theater so his name wasak he goes
takes a taxi I'm on it and he goes to
the movie theater the poor kid is
innocent he comes out of the train
confidently you know he's out of the of
the Saturday night party time and he
walks into the theater and who's
standing there at the front door right
there by the signs you know all the
titles
Etc he looks he's pale he's red he's
green he's white right there by the
entrance he wasn't up the corner away
saying he's going to his grandmother's
sister's L was right
there Riva looks at him says I don't
understand he's
like it's winter and those of you who
escaped from New York to Florida know
exactly what I'm talking about s those
guys a how do you go without a
coat you can't go without a coat where's
your coat why didn't you come with a
coat
look takes off his coat you as a good
Foo you know those rebers the Footers
the good fur coats you know what I mean
I don't know where they pick them up but
they pick them up
it's it's like the male minks that they
create and uh he takes off this this
coat he puts it on the boy and he says
listen Zan have fun tonight but nor the
mantle don't go anywhere without the
mantle I don't want you to get sick
enjoy yourself the mantle he says Reb
you need a coat he says no I'm already
on the way home I had to be here I'm on
the way home I'm taking a taxi I'll be
fine tomorrow morning whenever you come
back you leave drop off the coat in the
yesha's office I get gives him a kiss
and he
leaves the B told over the story he says
I went to the movie theater I sat down
I'm looking at the C looking at the
stage at the
play I couldn't see anything all I was
thinking for two hours was the yakov's
mantle my riva's coat that's all I was
thinking about ah this coat this coat
this coat changed his life it changed
his
perspective we live in a generation
today and maybe old Generations our boys
and girls need the
coat they need the
information they need academic
Excellence they need to be challenged
intellectually and stimulated
intellectually no question but above
everything else they need to hear that
God loves them unconditionally
they need to hear that he believes in
them unconditionally and they need to
hear that despite mistakes and sins and
transgressions there's a relationship
that will never ever be
tarnished as we live
in it's time to remember
the and you could look it
up says I met a
and he
says listen there's two things I love
with all my heart what are the two
things and the Jewish people what's he
says but I want to
know what's
the which one comes first
both I
love the only things that preceded the
world and he brings
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the that's I call most people say turn
to perceive the Jew
I want to know what's
the what's
the perhaps it's two hasas two
realas number one
the of everything is to that comes
before everything you want to have a
good life you want to have a
relationship with hasem you want to live
up to his
expectations you have to to gives you
legitimacy to justifies Your Existence
and what happens if you don't have TOA
you're worthless you're a piece of
garbage one
approach says
this
is and just like nothing can
destroy nothing can destroy the
K the Holiness of a Jew and his ensal
relationship with Hashem and just like
no mother sitting here looks at her boy
or girl and says you're too dirty I'm
not your mother
anymore Hashem will never say that about
a Jew
that's to is hashem's gift to the Jew
you want to be able to live this love 24
hours a day you want to be able to
breathe in this relationship your whole
life you want to be able to reveal this
connection so you have you
have galinski was my
cousin he said over that he heard this
from the STI
gone I've said it and people told me
can't
be I don't
know said he heard it from the
stier so I'm telling you the vort listen
to the
vort you never asked the
question yob is sent by his Rich father
very rich father to go find a sh without
$5 in his wallet who does this to a
son a stick elzar goes for three days to
find a girl and a gives him half of
Switzerland
y sends his son for 20 years to
settle epis something no not $10 to
start off and he knows the crook he's
going to be dealing with what's
everybody knows the classic rash every
knows every kid knows every girl knows
what does Rashi say yob went with a lot
ASA sent his son alas to kill him he
comes to Yakov and he's ready to kill
him what does he say I can't
why he grew up in
the he couldn't
touch but that's what it sounded like
again I'm just doing you know graphic
illustrations to keep you
awake remember in as's family K was no
small thing the
right the was Mak and
this whatever my
father's my father's not the okay but
wasn't so what does yov tell him y
should have told him you father's a
criminal he's a murder get out of
here yakob starts giving him aeres
I have for you take away my
money killed me was a of killing me and
now you you can go home and you know
what he does that he does that takes
away the money I'm left with M I ask you
a question say told was
a was
he was the strict
one y was not the type that we call you
know the forgiving liberal open-minded
so open-minded that there's nothing left
inside who does he have raised in his
bosom who was this called alas so if you
follow the last Aliyah which the last
two aliyas today but end of let's face
it most people it's like whoa after
you're done with Dina and everything
else it's like the drama doesn't stop
people are not busy analyzing the
genealogy of as but the r says
that have the
same wants you to
know he also wants you to know exactly
who's kids were every one of them and
who the pilim Were Somehow God thinks
it's important important information who
was this tat called alas so the Goran
and and Rashi quotes a little bit of it
he was quite a interesting figure for
starters he decided to go to his
father's wife and have a baby with her
and he named The Baby K so
even his father's
wife it's not enough for him he goes to
another married
woman take goes with her and has another
baby the baby is called timna that's not
enough he marries his own
daughter and who do they produce
aik describing to you a little bit of
this
T this T called
alas should have looked at alas even
when he was young he was a Nai and say
this kid enough that had with his
father now the Next Generation elas you
go somewhere
else he kept him in his bosom he kissed
him he loved him he embraced
him okay so you'll say he wasted his
time he wasted his time look what he
did he wasted his time because love
the Jewish people were saved for
eternity because if not alas would have
killed
Yakov and not one of us would be sitting
here
today is would have not emerged into
history the reason CL was saved was
because what did for alas don't
underestimate it even though alas did
not turn out to become the quential RAB
and even the title of a
even he wouldn't fit
into he went to the Other Extreme don't
underestimate what
accomplished if this is the
case come back with me to
shimik shimik was a
as
mentioned the
end those are the words of the and he
even
says
being if he dedicates himself to
Hashem theim
40 years he's serving in by his sheni
but you know what happened in his times
Alexander the Great conquered the
world helenm began and shimad saw the
process that will lead to the story of
the MIM and ultimately the Revolt which
would give us AEK shim sadik lived in a
great day it wasn't dark yet but it was
getting there and as all Jews in
different Generations he had his
feelings of pessimism what's going to be
what's going to be the future as we
heard over shabas and generally when
Jews
meet we give
a what's going to be every generation
with its and
challenges but he walked into the
kadash you know what he saw he saw an
old man I'm not sure the old man was an
old man it
was it was the spirit of the Jewish
people that is very old
he
saw and
was it was
white was beautiful was bright and he
realized when you walk into
the when you walk into the of the year
when you walk into the of the of a place
of the bikes you see whiteness and he
came out inspired invigorated
empowered and he went on another year as
the spirit spiritual leader
of one year he walks into and you know
what he sees he sees an old man and the
old man is
black and he comes out and he
says I'm dying this year I'm not going
to live what happened he looked at the
Jewish history at the Jewish story and
he saw Blackness he saw
Darkness he saw the sun setting
he saw a dark future and he told his
students I'm going to leave the world
and that's what he does what happened
why the answer my dear
friends is simple and
deep if you want to be a Jewish
leader if you want to be a Jewish
educator if you want to be a
byen an active a
supporter one prerequisite and the
prerequisite is you have to be able to
look at your generation and see the
whiteness of your children see their
brightness see their beauty see their
Splendor see their luminescence see
their sacredness see their infinite
potential but if I look at a generation
and I
say aand it's not like it used to be I
see
Blackness I see a doomed future I see
negativity I see problems I see
flaws and I cannot identify the glory of
my students of my children of my
communities of my people of my
constituents I have to evacuate a seat
and I have to give it to somebody else I
cannot be a Ken
God yes I have to be honest about
everything one of our challenges there's
a lot of pain and there's a lot of
things we shoved under the carpet for
many years that we have to confront now
painfully we all know what that is or
don't know what we'll find out we know
that there's a lot of challenges
financially emotionally socially Etc but
my underlying premises ah look at these
kids look at this nation look at these
children look at these students look
look at them see the light see the
brightness when they saw a fox coming
out
of the end of marus everybody's crying
besides one man
who why he says listen I know there's a
fox coming out of you know what a fox
is leaving the I know that but who is
the responsible the says
the whole T goes according to
from says you want a whole
T you have to be able to be
M you have to be able to look at our
future and raise your spirits with joy
with confidence with determination with
optimism you have to be able to
see Zion was plowed like a field
but you also have to be able to
see and as says
in stands for two
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words complete complete
year so here's the
deal all of us sitting in this room in
one way or another
are serving every person is a every Jew
is
a
everyw every Jew is a
ech there comes Our Generation we more
than any other time we have to go into
the of our children and see
the and for this we have to remember a
few of the
biggest number
one sh is not afraid of
diversity why does anybody associate
religious commitment with everybody
being the same who ever heard of such a
thing thear sanin says
a is not so
small don't turn to into a box and make
children feel that if they don't fit
into my box they have no relationship to
God Infinity has no
boxes Hashem could have made a uniform
world he did not 9,000 species of birds
Milli hundreds of millions of insects
different types thousands of mammals
even animals no two the same and we
really think our children are all going
to be the same look the same think the
same diversity is woven into the fabric
of is and of entire
universe what is
more is not afraid of
struggle it in marriage a good marriage
is when you have a wife who disagrees
forgive
me in it says Isen
didn't want to be
alone he wanted we should help
him by creating
opposition is not the void of struggle a
life of is not the void of
struggle to encompasses struggle as they
connect that's my path we all have our
challenges internal psychological
emotional let's not stigmatize people
cuz they're not perfect who creates
societies of Perfect People you can't we
need to create space for people to be
real honest
authentic
raw emotionally exposed to the right
people in the right situations so they
can grow organically holistically
naturally and to is not afraid of
creativity we don't have to stifle
creativity toyra allows for emotional
creativity physical creativity spiritual
creativity all forms of creativity it
enriches to doesn't threaten to and
Hashem wants people to be successful and
happy and maximize their potentials
every child should understand that the
great objective of T and of Y is to make
him or her the most successful happiest
person in the world somebody that lives
every day to the fullest lives with
their soul lives with their body to the
fullest
so
yes there's a lot on the agenda and a
lot ahead of us but every single person
here who's going to go home back to our
Corners back to our communities back to
our schools back to our work back to our
constituents
remember sometimes you look at yourself
and you see yourself as small and ins
ific remember the power that every
single person has to look at a teenager
to look at a child to look at a girl to
look at a young man or look at a young
woman somebody we're connected to in one
way or another way and be able to
empower them individually and
collectively with those two words
of see the whiteness see the infinity
see the bright future and see the
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