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CHAZAQ’s Torah Talks #13: Harry Rothenberg - The Road to Heaven is Paved with Good Intentions
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welcome yet to another amazing timely
tuesday torah talk we have with us
tonight a very special dear friend and
guest
mr harry rottenberg a renowned speaker
a renowned lawyer oh that reminds you of
how i met you
that's funny i actually met harry
because
i needed his services and ever since
kazakh and harry rondenberg have been
synopsis production with so many events
and chairman lectures
and welcome harry to the show how are
you doing i'm doing
very well thank you always a pleasure to
see you and i hope you're doing well too
oh we are doing great and we are really
excited about tonight's uh program the
road to heaven is paved with good
intentions that's a topic for tonight
so let's jump straight into it okay so
usually
the focus of shavuot which is uh right
around the corner is about staying up
all night and learning
sometimes we might overlook you know
looking into the zucchini into the
verses
and meeting of miguel root can you
please give us a small glimpse
into miguel rude harry yeah so so to do
that
i want to point out that we know that we
learn a lot of the laws a lot of the
whole office
about conversion about garrus from russ
she's like
the iconic convert and there's a very
interesting gematria
if you match up the the letters with
their corresponding numbers
russ's name in gematria the numerical
value is 606
which makes sense because beforehand
when she wasn't jewish she had the sheva
mitzvah spinning noah
the seven myths vote that apply to
non-jews that they have to
obey she added on 606 russ to get the
613 so that's her name
now you'll say oh that's very
interesting one second what about israel
moshe's father-in-law didn't he convert
beforehand and
if you look at his name he's also got
the reish the valve and the top he's
also got rust in his name
but he's an extra yud he is an extra
unit because he was there
at the mountain at harcina when we got
the ten commandments that doesn't count
if you're there
when it shims up on the mountain give
you the ten commandments buddy
of course you're gonna convert so we
don't he's not the person from whom we
learn lessons
she is okay so here's the key question
if i say to you
and we know there's this incredible
scene where russ
and her sister orpah they and their
sisters-in-law they
they were married to two jewish men who
had moved to moab with their parents but
not
naomi and with ali mela and naomi
has lost her husband she's heading back
now to israel and she's telling
rosadorpa
go back to your gods and orpah kisses
her goodbye and leaves
and rus comes with and we learn from
that like when somebody says they want
to convert you have to push them away
teach them some laws then when you see
their sincere then you grab them
so if i said to you the simplest
question when did russ
convert when did she become a jew you'll
say to me
right what are you going to say to me
that's it this is it right then and
there
naomi's teaching her laws and she's
saying wherever you'll be buried i'll be
buried and i'm gonna go with you and
your god is my god
perfect there's only one problem if this
is the time when russ is becoming a jew
she's converting right now
which means she did not convert before
she married her husband
we've got a little bit of a problem
because if you look at the story later
on what happens
is that boaz marries russ and that's a
big marriage because from that
soon after a few generations later none
other than david
malek king david is born so that's a
very big deal
but before boaz can marry her he has to
go to another person
plony armonie we don't even get his name
he's like john doe
because he he he he didn't make the
decision to
to marry russ and he has to ask him
permission because he's a closer
relative
it's based on if a man dies he doesn't
have children
would go to his brother so this is
there's some kind of connection that
russ has
to the closer relative one second if
russ met
wasn't jewish and she married a jewish
man we don't look for the relative
jewish man marries a non-jewish woman
and dies we don't say to his his brother
his relative huh you have to marry her
now she's not jewish
if she converted later what's going on
we can't understand the whole rest of
the
of miguelous russ she'll say okay
obviously there's only one choice she
must have converted before she married
her husband
great if she married before she could if
she converted
before she married her husband how is
naomi telling her go back to your gods
can you imagine a woman converts she's
sincere she converts she becomes a yid
her jewish husband dies you say hey you
know what your husband
go back to your gods well what's going
on what is naomi doing
how can she be telling them and orpha
goes back so
we're stuck if she converted now that we
can't understand the whole rest of the
magellan
and if she converted earlier then we
can't understand the scene
what's going on you hear the question
okay
so my rebbe rabbi milevsky zadzal used
to
explain as follows he says that for sure
russ and orpah converted before they
married their husbands
their husbands were the the sons of of
elimelech and naomi they definitely did
not marry non-jewish women
they converted they had jewish weddings
they married jewish women
the problem is now naomi's going back
penniless
back terrace as well she doesn't know if
these two girls were sincere
maybe they married these jewish guys
because you know jewish men they're very
handsome
and they were and they were wealthy and
they had a shame told they had great
names
maybe they weren't sincere so what naomi
is doing is she's testing their
sincerity
to see back when they converted were
they sincere or not
so she tests them and she sees ah warpa
she wasn't sincere she never really
converted
russ is saying what are you what are you
doing where you go i'll go where your
god is my god where you'll be married
i'll be buried
i was sincere i'm a jew just like you
i'm going with you
so she sees the hebrew words lima freya
she sees
retroactively that orpah wasn't really
sincere russ was
so that's what's going on in this in
this beautiful scene
and that helps us understand the story
of ross and her story what's one aspect
of her story in the magilla and the
point is that your intentions matter
we may not know if you just looked at
them at the wedding rose looks like a
nice jewish girl and orp looks like a
nice jewish girl brand new jewish girls
they both look sincere they both look
you know very nice they're having a
great time at their wedding
we see later one was absolutely sincere
one wasn't
wow amazing okay harry are there any
other examples of this concept
in the torah so so there's another
beautiful one
um what happens is a very difficult
scene difficult to understand
um dina the daughter of yaakov
daughter of jacob is kidnapped she's
abducted and
violated by schwem and her two brothers
shimon and levi they go into the city
and they deceive the people in the city
they say oh you want to marry our sister
sure you just have to have a brisk mila
all of you get circumcised on the third
day after they convince them they get
circumcised they go in and they
wipe out the entire city
so shimon and levy brothers in arms they
went into the city
why'd they go in presume they went in
for the same reasons
years later what happens
shaman and levy have descendants
shimon's descendant is
a fellow named zimri who was an abs
absolutely it's he was the leader of the
of the shavit shimon but he made a
mistake and his mistake was that he had
a
a relationship a dalliance in public
with a with a non-jewish woman and his
tribe surrounded his tent to protect him
and pinchas from shay that levy went in
pretended that he was going in for
different reasons into the tent then he
and he hid his weapon he went in with
his weapon
and he killed zimri and killed cosby the
the uh
the princess with whom he was consorting
so you see
again retroactively you know what was
going on we didn't see this until now we
wouldn't have known this
shimon went in to go after the people
that kidnapped
his sister because you don't touch my
sister family comes first lady went in
because
you don't touch abbasi strong you
disgrace the jewish people when you did
that
so lady had in mind the jewish people
shimon had mined my family
and so you don't see that it looks the
same what they're doing they did the
same action we don't know what's going
on in their head
but years later we see from their
descendants
that what was going on in their heads
was something very different and it
could be
could well be that that's why levy's
lady leave he becomes the living
lady becomes the the the priests and and
a portion of labia or the kohanam
shimon this isn't as well known become
the teachers the people from shimon lake
levy are spread out they become the
teachers
why maybe we could suggest because if
you want to be a good teacher
you have to feel like your students are
your family and family first
so that is hazak that's important you
have to be careful
it's not family first when you're with
uh you know moabite princess
and uh you know sinning then it's not
hashem has to it has to take has to take
priority
that's another example amazing amazing
uh
just a few weeks ago we experienced
freedom on
pesach on passover can you please
explain the powerful connection of the
journey from passover to shavuot
so i can but it's a painful one to
describe and i'll tell you a story
and this this bothers me every time i
think about it many years ago
i was in court i'm a as you know i'm an
attorney i
i help people out after they get injured
in serious accidents
and we had a case that didn't settle
going to trial so
it was in april or so and the judge says
okay
let's pick a trial date and he suggests
a date and i take out my old
blackberry my old phone and i look on my
calendar and i say oh your honor i
i can't do that date it's a jewish
holiday and he smiles he says mr
rothenberg he says listen
um i'm not jewish but i've been on the
bench in new york city
for 30 years and i know there's passover
in the spring
and there are the high holidays in the
fall there's no jewish holiday
in between did your honor what are you
talking about of course there is he says
what are you talking about
there's no jewish holiday in between i
said it's
he said what's that i never heard of it
before so i explained to him you know
the story of passover the the jews the
israelites
the exodus the ten plagues we all know
that story he says sure
i said well 50 days later remember
that's a movie also
charles heston moses he's up on the
mountain and he and he has the
the the the commandments the the tablets
and he smashes them
he says yeah i said we have a holiday we
celebrate 50 days later
when we got the torah he said i i
apologize
i had no idea and so of course he gave
us a new date so i left there thinking
like
how is it possible he was he was so 100
sure so how's it possible because he has
many many many jewish lawyers
observing not observing jewish jewish
who said your honor i can't do that it's
passover
your honor i can't make that date it's
rosh hashanah your honor i can't make
that date it's young kipper
he never had somebody say to him i can't
make that date it's shiva is
and that's what's so so difficult
because we have such an incredibly high
percentage of jews observant not
observant you can ask
you can ask not every but an incredibly
high percentage of jews what are you
doing for passover oh we're getting
together we're family
we're going to have a seder observant
not observing us
you can walk around heir of shivers and
go stop 10 jews on the street you know
you know what tonight is
no i i don't know this year uh
sunday i i have no idea is there a new
tv show premiering like well
what's going on is it it a ball game no
it's shivuas
what's that and that is um it's a shame
and i think that a lot of the reason is
that
on pesach it's like you open a an
envelope
and you pull out it to check like an
unexpected check like i don't know a tax
refund you weren't expecting or
something you already said wow
it's a check in the mail and schmuetz
says you open up an envelope
and it's a bill it's like ah right so
pay stock of course we're all excited
about pay side we're
free and then schmooze comes oh by the
way uh 613 mitzvahs
oh oh i thought we were afraid and
that's a big problem and i
and i wonder i'm not pointing the finger
at others
i wonder whether that's not our fault
those of us who are celebrating like if
we're not as excited about shiva's that
we are about pesach
that can filter down and we have to be
we have to be
ambassadors to go out and make sure
people hey you want to come for shows
about that oh let me tell you
it's an incredible night maybe invite
people over to to study et cetera
and we ourselves have to be careful
because if we over celebrate pesach
and we under celebrate schwa what are we
saying to hashem
freedom that gets me excited the
mitzvahs
not quite as much that's what we have to
be very very careful about
a hundred percent amazing day in and day
out you mentioned it's vote we do many
mitzvot we do many
commandments what is something we should
be aware of after we do a mitzvah after
we
do a commandment what do you suggest so
um
what i suggest is and and and sometimes
we lose sight of this
is that the the moments before a mitzvah
we know we're difficult
because maybe i'm not going to do it
maybe there's something i don't want to
do and i had to do it
or maybe it's something i i really
wanted to do and i didn't which is also
a mistake to refrain from something
right like you
you were tempted to steal or do
something else and you did wow okay
great so i'm done i did it i did the
mitzvah
the biggest danger after doing a mitzvah
is regretting it
because if you regret it you
lose it it's a very big problem as a
matter of fact we say in the in the
evening prayers in the
in in the uh in in in
some call it in in the paragraph of
hashtag
we say do we ask god the huster sutton
milo forneinu
we ask god please remove satan from
before us
and from after us so but first we
understand there is
he's tempting us we're asking god like
get him out of my way what do you mean
after us already passed them what do you
mean after us after us is that
you wrote the check you gave the charity
right and it was not so easy
and then you said yourself ah i think i
gave too much yeah why did i get why did
i get pressured into that
you did the mitzvah you gave the person
the ride you did the favor ah you know
what i wasted time i lost time they
didn't even thank me
you regret it you lose it so it's a very
very dangerous time period that's why
very interestingly there's a there's a
wild measure
that rashi
my personal favorite writer commentator
on the torah writing in the ten hundreds
and tua france
he says that that the reason that sarah
avraham
abraham's wife died is that immediately
after the ikeda immediately after
um avraham was ready to sacrifice their
son yitzhak who wasn't born until they
were
very very very old sarah was 90 avraham
was 100 and he was born
so 37 years later and the sun comes
running back and tells sarah
that avraham killed your son and she
just she just faints and dies
so what kind you know you're lost you
know the son is trying to stop him from
doing it he did it like what the sun is
a sore loser what's going on
and the answer the rabbis explained is
that the sun wanted avraham to figure
out oh
sorta got the news and she died and he's
going to regret
that he was willing to sacrifice his son
that's what he's trying to do he already
did it
this was like the biggest thing ever he
showed i'm willing to sacrifice my son
and the son is still hard at work maybe
i can get him to regret it
it'll wipe out the whole myth so if i
can get him to that's why it was so
important for abraham to get up
and to eulogize her properly and then to
cry over his loss but not to question
god
over what had happened not to regret
what he had done
powerful wow unbelievable does this same
principle regretting a mitzvah then you
lose the mitzvah apply to
after doing a sin after doing an aveira
so um it has to because it's got a it's
got to work
in there there's always we newton sir
isaac newton gets the credit he
discovered
equal and opposite reactions okay very
nice maybe he popularized he didn't
discover it we've known about that for a
very long time
at the same time that pharaoh paro the
torah tells us that god hardened his
heart
like made it that he just he could no
longer do the right thing that was it
was like you know what
i gave you too many chances you're done
that's it you're just a pawn now in my
in my game you know let my people go no
like he can't say yes he can
at the same time the rabbis tell us
moshe
moses lost his yate sahara he couldn't
do the wrong thing
because if you have one person in the
world who literally no longer has
an inclination for good his gates or toe
you have to also have a person
equal who no longer has an inclination
or bad now obviously
it didn't just happen it wasn't like
hashem said let me choose how about you
moshe you look like a nice guy
moshe had worked and worked and worked
on it to get rid of his evil inclination
and pyro had worked
work that worked on listening to his so
he lost his good motion lost his bed
and so it's so it's equal and opposite
so the same way that
if you regret a mitzvah you could lose
it thank god
an incredible hesitant from god it's
it's it's the
it it may well be the biggest gift that
he can give us and he gives us
countless gifts the fact that we can do
a sin and if we honestly regret it it
gets wiped out
and in certain instances is even turned
into a mitzvah it's an
it's an unbelievable thing that he that
that god allows that
so it's uh so yes the the opposite does
work as well and so then that's good so
the same way we have to be careful about
regretting
our uh our mitzvahs that we do we have
to be just as careful to regret
the the sins that unfortunately we did
in moments of of uh temptation or or
weakness or carelessness
amazing harry wow so inspiring
unbelievable
um so so often times uh people feel that
uh
they might want to do a mid so to just
check off a box okay yeah i i
i prayed in the morning okay i i made a
blessing uh when i ate my food
like check check uh what one step we can
take to elevate our mitzvah performance
to the next level by viewing it as a
golden opportunity
everything will meet size and
opportunity
so i i think what we have to remind
ourselves is that there's a
a a very um simultaneously
scary uh but uplifting passage in the
torah
which is that we're we're told at one
point that
god is predicting what's going to happen
that we're going to to to stray we're
going to be punished and he says the
reason we're going to be punished
and punished is that kashar law varity
basim
he says i'm punishing you because you
didn't worship me
with happiness and with a glad heart so
read it read into what
what he's saying he's not saying i'm
punishing you because you didn't serve
me
saying you did serve me you know what
but you didn't serve me with a smile
and that's whoa whoa whoa wait one
second god like you said
i checked off all the boxes you told me
uh since it's here here they are come
you can you can
you can feel them on me here you hear
the scissors i'll show you the fringes i
got the beanie on
i wrapped the the fill in and i only ate
kosher
and i prayed and it when i prayed i even
did this i did the whole chuckling thing
and i didn't see any curse words i
didn't say anything bad about my like i
did oh i checked all the boxes
and god says yeah but you did it with uh
like you were you were fabulous enough
you you were my grandmother
uh you know make sure you rest in peace
you still hello shawn used to say like
you you you know about
people who weren't who weren't nice or
weren't friendly like you you you were
going through the motions you were just
checking off bob okay what do i have to
do next god all right okay what's next
okay okay fine
and it's got instead it's the exact
opposite
it's got to be we have to be running to
to uh to do what he uh to do what he
wants running to do what he wants
and and the so there's a great example
of this it happened to me years ago
and i'll never forget this i went to a
um
i like watching professional sports and
it's a nice
opportunity sometimes for father-son
bonding so i went with one of my sons
this is many years ago
two i'm from philadelphia so i went to
watch the eagles game and the eagles are
about to lose they're down and that's it
the other team's gonna kick a field goal
it's less than a minute left and once
they kick the field goal the game is
over people are already
filling out of the filing out of the
stance and it just happens like
i've never saw this happen before at the
end of the game one of the eagles
manages to get a few fingers on the ball
as he's kicking the field goal blocks it
the ball hits the ground another one
picks it up runs the length of the field
scores a touchdown
and the eagles win and the place goes
absolutely
bananas okay forget that i'm hugging my
son we're hugging strangers we're crying
we're slapping
unbelievable okay so we come home and my
son with the time is maybe
i don't know that 12 13 or so somewhere
in that in that range plus or minus
around bar mitzvah
he's telling my wife you know she's
pretending to be interested in this just
because it was exciting
never see was the most unbelievable you
can't imagine they're about to lose they
blocked and they
whoa it was crazy we were going nuts oh
i'm so glad i did a good time
fine he goes to sleep so later that
night he says to me
um oh so you know it was a exciting game
i said yeah so you were you were going
you know crazy with i said i don't know
if i'm going crazy i was you know i was
mildly amused because i know i can see
already like something's coming i can
i can already smell them and try i don't
know why i'm in trouble every day they
won i cheered what did i do wrong i went
to the game my team won
it was exciting i'm just gonna point out
to you
you know i was thinking about this that
um this was in the fall during football
season
that next week um is sophis and the
endosotis is simchastora
and i know that you're not usually one
of the big dancers you know it's like
not your thing
but i was just thinking like you know
our son's gonna be there watching you
and like
you know i don't know like he might see
that when they won the football game you
were jumping up and down and dancing
and then when they're dancing with the
torah you're not it's just something to
think about
right so think about that for a second
okay something to think about here's my
son okay what what do i want for him my
my goal is that he's going to be an
eagles fan okay it's very cute it's very
nice it's father-son bonding
for the same for the same laundry okay
you know midnight green and gray and
black and white and etc okay
or do i want him to be excited about
the mitzvahs and do them with a smile
and do them with
enthusiasm so what am i modeling for him
the tour is out and i'm sitting on the
side okay oh and it's my let me know
when it's my turn in the meantime i'll
be over at the
at the you know where they have the
snack table oh but when the eagles win
yes yes and that's
it's all recorded it's all recorded and
it's not only recorded up in shamayam
but particularly for those of us who
who were gifted and we're and we're
parents um they
they see everything nothing nothing
nothing
passes their their view and they know
and and they know us all too well
and so we have to model that we have to
be enthusiastic we can't every
classification god forbid
that we ever did we ever have that that
that that look of like
that that oh it's difficult you know
like they say back in the day when you
know in america
oh it's difficult to be uh to be a jew
okay difficult to be a jew you know have
fun so i'm gonna
i'll find something else to do so that's
what i think is important to be
to be enthusiastic and to and to show
that enthusiasm
it's my mother my favorite topic talking
about happiness
very important yeah i'll tell you one
that just comes to mind i'll tell you
i used to learn with a love when i was
in israel when i was when i was younger
um significantly older than me because
he has since passed away
and and he said he once said his kids
are like so from and so stark and
and so so enthusiastic about tori says
he says i wonder like i'm just a regular
guy
he's like like i wonder myself like what
did i do to deserve this he said i was
i was thinking myself that there's only
one thing i can think of that i can take
some credit for
is that my kids know i love
a good steak i just it's one of my
things i love a good stick
but they also know that i love a good
vartora
when i hear the goods retort like i i
jump out of my chair i stop people like
god you gotta hear this tartare
he said i think like maybe that rubbed
off on them like they see how
enthusiastic i am
like that's what has to be we have to
show them like that's what's important
to us
wow amazing harry rodmer you give me so
much kazoo so much inspiration for all
of us listening we're enjoying
and uh very very great lessons and you
know harry we live in a world
that values the results you know for
example how many home runs did the guy
hid or how many sales did you make
but we know in judaism we know that uh
results are in god's hands and it's up
to us how much ever we put into it
uh how do we change our mindset out of a
results-based mindset
and and and uh remember that it's the
effort that counts
okay so um i i think that
that one way is as follows we have to
orient ourselves
and realize um who we are and and what
it is that we're doing here so
to answer that i i i have an analogy
that i like to use
as follows imagine that it's that it's a
mother's day
okay and a little kid i don't know
six-year-old kid
sets an alarm you know quietly and wakes
up early
and tiptoes down to the kitchen and
makes i don't know any
pancakes or an omelette okay like puts
it on a platter
and brings it up to his mother okay in
the meantime the kitchen
is a disaster area the pancakes are and
they
they're barely edible okay like whatever
i mean he's six years old he's not a
cook
imagine when he walks into that room
okay what's the reaction of that mother
gonna be
you know oh yeah you messed up the whole
kid all these pancakes are terrible oh
my god is there an edible
kind of monster right this is going to
be the best pancakes and the best
omelette
she ever ate her she could be at the
whole time she's going to be trying not
to cry
my six-year-old kid said wait wait you
what you
set an alarm and tiptoe downstairs and
made
pancakes and an omelette for me for
mother's day
get over here get over here for a giant
hug and a giant a giant kiss for mom
right
and so like that's that's how hashem
views it like if we're
trying hard we're doing our best and he
understands that
he knows how difficult it is and people
get down sometimes because the people
who are who i i'm talking to myself okay
and
i say this every year and it bothers me
more more every year is that
okay so i was 13 young kipper 15. i was
i was 25 i was 30 i was there like i'd
con
okay i'm in my 50s now and like i'm
still like what come on
like i promised last year you know come
on but hashem understands he knows it's
very difficult
it's very it's not it's not easy of
course we have to put on our our smile
and it and it and and and it's a but the
the omaha
it's a lot that's expected of us and we
have to understand that he still
loves us and there's no we can't break
that
whether we've had a great day of course
he loves us we're having a great day i
learned that i doubt and that i keep
talking of course he loves us but he
loves us even when we when we make a
mistake
still loves us he's still there waiting
for us like i i
just just try just get just get up and
and
and you know and and get back on that
horse because i still
love you and i know it's i know it's
difficult i know what happened i
got it i understand that i i hardwired
you
i sent the sun there to tempt you i i
get it and you'll say well sasham if you
knew i was gonna fail uh one second
right we always know how do people say
like how do i know i can pass a test
so there's an easy answer to that
question god gave you the test
so if he gave you the test you could
pass it he doesn't give us tests that we
can't pass
and even if we and when we pass them
you're you're you're obvious
he's saying avraham avraham like your
your name in shamayim is is
now you just matched it your name your
name down here and when we don't okay so
you'll get another chance
tomorrow's another chance it's all we
want to be we want to be better tomorrow
than we were
than we were today and better today than
we were yesterday if we make mistakes or
just
we said that before so you regret it
hashem disgust is going to wipe it out
we put a smile on our face and you know
what hashem that's it bring it on
bring on the next test i failed the last
one bring on you don't look for tests
but
if it comes i'm going to be ready for it
the next time several people talk to
become
a per uh a righteous person falls down
but what makes him
righteous is the fact that he gets back
um back up
and we all have tests and we have to get
back up if
if we fail him amazing harry you're
giving us so much so much inspiration
kazakh
very strong um time is uh
is up but before we call it a night
can you please leave us with some
closing remarks final message to our
broader audience
that we could uh we could take with us
uh you know so i will
i'll share with you one of my favorite
stories that happened in
in tanakh and it's uh in keeping with
what i was just just talking about about
our our father in heaven and it involves
which is which is appropriate for
shivers and involves
so what happens is that um
solves the king and hashem appears to
shmuel to the navi to the prophet he
says okay
go and anoint the new king of israel and
shimo's a little taken aback wait
but shoal's still on the throat and that
could be a little danger i guess
listen listen to me this time we're
going to do it you're going to go
quietly
secretly to the house of you shy and
you're going to anoint his son
as the next king okay takes the
anointing oil
goes off on his secret mission he
arrives at yeshua's house tells yeshua
yeshua of course knows who he is he
explains his his mission
and ishai can you imagine imagine a
proud father
calling his bahor right into the into
the room right
i imagine like a magic i can't even
imagine my father calling me into the
room but son come on you're the makour
shmalls here and i come walking in the
bachara of course it's going to be the
bakar
and he's handsome and he's tall and he's
a warrior and he's a natural-born leader
and small says not him okay
because hashem whispers in his ear don't
be fooled don't be fooled by he look he
looks like he
definitely if this was hollywood and you
were casting it would be him
this isn't hollywood it's not him so
shmuel says
it's not him so eusha's a little bit
taken aback he says okay
bringing the next song he brings the
next son equally just
i mean the guy is he is fit for royalty
he's ready to to to ascend the throne
and hashem says whispers to shmall who
tells you shy
not him they bring in the next one and
they bring the next one
and they keep bringing in sons it's got
seven sons
and he brings in the last son now
obviously this is it
you know yeshua knows why he's here he's
he schmoes here i got one son left like
this
is it and you can imagine okay here he
is like who would have thought
who would have thought that it's the
youngest one and he brings in the
youngest one
and hashem whispers to small and small
says it's not
him it's not him what's going on
so so this this this exchange is in the
it's brought down it's a measure just
not in the text in inshamalallah but
it's there in the matter
says to ye sha do you have another son
and ye shai says back to shmoel no
and small no no and small says back to
ishai
i know i'm in the right place i got i
got my gps
okay hashem sent me to your house so i'm
gonna ask you again
do you have another son
and yeshua starts stammering he says i'm
there there's the shepherd
it's too long to explain why yeshua
didn't realize that he was he was the
father was always a question about this
the shepherd's lineage knew who his
mother was didn't know who his father
was
so he tells his sons go get the shepherd
so they go out back
to the shepherd the guy who didn't live
in the house
you can imagine what he looked like he
came and he's he's he's hurting sheep i
can't imagine what he looked like when
he's
what he looked like what he must have
but what the odor he must have brought
okay
and he and they go and they get dove it
and dovid walks into the room
and the oil in schmorl's flask starts
boiling over
and schmoll says all rise for the next
king
of israel and he pours the anointing oil
on him now if i
said to you okay if you were you were
let's say you were a psychiatrist okay
i'm described to you daughter living the
whole family is in the house and each
one i mean the
unbelievably talented people and he's
the shepherd out in the back
doesn't even know who his father his
father doesn't know who he is okay do
you have another son
no i'm asking you again okay and that's
what he says
he says we say to holler he says it unto
him he says evan mosso habano
high celeroshpina the stone that was
that
that people couldn't stand that they
that they pushed away they were
disgusted by it
became the cornerstone how is that
possible if you're a psychiatrist and i
said tell me what do you think about
this person you'd say
i think they're going to be neat they're
going to need to spend a lot of time on
my couch
and instead this is the guy who becomes
david melech
israel how because he understood
that whatever the situation no matter
what i have a father i don't i have a
mother i don't
i have siblings i don't they let me stay
in the house they don't i can go off
and do what they do or maybe not but at
the end of the day
i've got a vino bashamaya
i've got my father in heaven and he
loves me more than anybody and that's
what every one of us has to remind
ourselves
that hashem loves us more than anyone
and that's
that's not simple because a lot of us
thank god feel tremendous love from our
fathers and our mothers and our
grandmothers and grandfathers and and
wives husbands brothers sisters sons
daughters grandsons granddaughters
however much that is hashem loves you
more so put that smile on
and think the right thoughts and serve
him um with
with joy and um and mirzashem will will
soon
bring in another uh another year
reaccepting the the torah and hopefully
we'll all soon be able to to celebrate
that
in uh in israel inaudible i mean harry
rottenberg what a powerful
inspiring and uplifting final message
thank you so so much for your time thank
you so much for the inspiration for the
rizuk
we got to do this more often harry that
was really uh
grand slam deal deal
i really appreciate it thank you for the
opportunity always great to see you
and uh and kazakh and and continuously
with everything that you do in the
harbaugh store i always appreciate the
opportunity
maine i mean thank you very much and we
want to remind all of our audience every
tuesday night we have a special guest
timely tuesday tour talks and we'll see
you next week with another amazing
program thank you very much have a great
amazing night