Chazaq's Torah Talks #82 Yossi Hecht - "Asher to the Yatzar" Movement

[Music] thank you Madam and welcome to Torah talks kazak's Tuesday night program with special guests tonight we have with us a very dear friend how you doing is if you could give us a little background about yourself a little bit more about the organization the grid campaign and movement that you started so um a few years ago I wasn't always in the wheelchair that man off the camera could see but um and uh I had you know a tumor in my spine and we basically have to get surgery for it was a ten and a half hour surgery oh wow yeah um actually not far from the Kazakh headquarters in lij but uh it didn't do it too well don't worry I had two infection surgeries after that also but so one of the repercussions of a spinal cord tumor and surgeries thereafter to get rid of it is that it can you know cause tremendous you know obviously paralysis or but another thing I can do is you know the bathroom because sometimes be affected so a little background my personal self um I was in Darke for you know it's also we're officially part of Queens yeah you know our ZIP code is you know technically Queensborough but um so I call when maribe actually who we'll talk about later maybe that he actually did want a sheer refer you know we had a tremendous trust to partner with Kazakh right you know I appreciate this because of course anytime yeah they're always spreading the light yeah exactly so you know we'll talk about that a little later um but um please maybe we could do something to you know you can you know help me like you know go to the bathroom again and stuff like that and you know these stuff are very painful obviously after a surgery you know you just your head's in a different world you know you're not really like focusing I'm sorry to ask but this came out of nowhere and like it was just randomly my my foot started hurting and all of a sudden like I just like I don't know I went to the doctor and he's like yeah you have the emergency room wow so it was a little bit you know it was a little bit rough but um so yeah so um so I you know I went to the doctor and went to the emergency room and after the surgery um so I called my rabbit I said if I kill some please make some sort of kabbalah's like you know take upon himself something that could you know hopefully I'll be a merit for for you know for the future that you should be able to you know get better and have a full flavor okay he said he calls me back a few minutes later he says it says that if you if you stand the place by Ashia you have come on you have you have concentration it'll bring you great merits [Music] so all the boys in my Yeshiva they said they were they took upon themselves for about a week or two whatever it was that they're gonna stand the place by ashyatzar meaning not move around now standing ones together so so embarak Hashem it really worked wonders for me um because the doctors came in that I still remember I called them a matasha I was that Shabbos um the doctors came in and said you know you're gonna not get to go and you're gonna be this and that little stuff for six months and I was like we go by different rules I'm sorry and we have a burial and we have a we have someone who's more in charge than but you're in charge and so uh you know barakashem uh it worked wonders and I saw the the power I said you know I got to spread this to other people so you know people you know they told us about it that like you to help them tremendously unbelievable wow unbelievable what we learned from here is that whenever there's an individual that goes through a challenge don't just go through it but grow through it and that's exactly what you're doing like yeah thank God he's uh spreading the message to the world no pantana that's Torah talks you know that that's not say that's the terror talks like that you know that's and just a true you know a tremendous lesson I've took out is that you know a lot of times um that people say how do you how do you deal with this Challenge and you know I didn't mentioned my mother also passed away middle of this from stage for breast cancer so people say how do you deal with all this it's so hard and this and I said and are you angry at a sham and I said I said to be honest if it was the other way if let's say I was in the year then I didn't have this support and you know all this all this uh you know people and friends besides for that but if I didn't have a God that I realized like why did he do this to me like what do they what are they going to live for I don't understand right like I'm serious so like let's see for 20 years you're walking around I was playing basketball I was you know I was told guys you know I was I was able to run around Jump Around Drive everything and all of a sudden yeah I'm able to still drive I got a new car that's it with hand controls because I've seen the car yeah it's about but if I didn't have Hashem then how how would I he has a plan do we understand no we don't understand it but you know but the but the end of the day like it's like the greatest muscle they give which is a you know a parable an example they give if a father sees this kid running into the street it gives him a big slap he says don't you ever do that again is the kid can be the kid's gonna be upset like an Outsiders are gonna say yeah the kids will be upset at the father but the father is doing what's best for the child he knows what's best for me so I got to you know people have to get patches and then you have to you have to try to you know ultimately try to capitalize and try to grow from it you know well because what inspiration this is a lesson for us all you know uh it'll be usually unbelievable that's it let's call it a night very very very inspiring but uh like you mentioned before we did do a few events uh after this whole scenario I was during covet and it was virtual and we had many different speakers it was uh it was kazak and uh many speakers or any time I think it was online yeah it was touring time of course uh that hosts a lot of the virtual stream for us and we appreciate it um if there would be one speaker we had many or one kid there's one Insight that sticks out anything come to mind yeah so I I don't want to say which speaker or whatever but it happens because they're over amazing yeah they're all a plus but one one thing that like resonates with me just I was really palachi and I'm sure I think he was he was a good friend that was out together this past the other Sunday very nice yeah so so Rory Palace is you know the speaker and one thing I stuck at him he said exactly he said do you understand you have free health insurance policy who wouldn't take it was saying the the mass of the world say and this Farm all the previous sages and everything says if you stand if you have in mind by this blessing you'll be cured from many cures and you won't have to come to the doctors you have free health insurance policy and that was something like like you know what has it really resonated with me and and I've heard you know other people about Hashem has got because from that end and everything all other stuff but that's like one type of art that really sticks into my mind you know just to add to what you're saying to what the the rabbi said is that uh the Sephardic ocean is just a few varying differences of the lotion of the wording Safari there's 45 words in the ashayat sir which is gamachu is an American value of the word Adam really so Adam which is man wants to be complete you say all 45 words I heard uh there's a new say for a new book yeah I have it here so we we partnered together on his beautiful safer amazing amazing um about Ashley outside um so we're not gonna go through the whole book right now but maybe you could stick oh I see a Ford but yes yeah forward so I said one one I'll tell you about it I stand it Forward um by Ruben Feinstein he did uh he he also had Antarctica right amazing you know which robot just give it a shout out to you exactly so Irwin fancy said unbelievable he said what does it say just think I should thank you Hashem for letting me go to the bathroom tell me about cavities and and openings and Hollows tacos I have fruits of the of the land of the ground tell me straight I think he says what happens if Hashem decided right now that there should be in in Mr a that he has a little hole this big teeny teeny little bit punctured in his in his in his lungs he would die in a second splits a little a little teeny little hole what happens if something was That's supposed to be that's you know that's supposed to be you know open and it's closed a little blockage I mean I'm not a doctor but I'm assuming there's plenty parts of the body that you know just one little blockage you know could cause heart failure it could cause any failure within seconds so that within seconds a person could die so that's what I that's what the bracha is saying that if I wanted to I could I create all these cavities and Hollows and this and that because it's part of creation that creation it shows it portrays hashem's power his Almighty power how all these different things how he's you know creating and recreating the world every single second and and that's why you know that's why that's you know that's that's why uh we have all these details with them exactly exactly exactly you know so um and actually uh another bar I heard from Obama was it was um you know a fellow Queens Rabbi right so he said that the I think the dress around says that the it says in I mean because she made a song about Barefoot and I Remember album heard it and he said over a vart that by refuse right it's that Hashem just like just like in the beginning of creation it says boracious barley came out Hashem created the world from nothing right we call it something from nothing right right the same thing by by medical referrals and medical you know medical situations um that that Hashem creates and recreates The Refuge he's beautiful so which means if somebody says the doctors say that this man has six months to live and this is Hashem creates he creates the reform so that's why you know that's another amazing Insight you mentioned touched upon a song yeah it came out maybe you can tell us a little bit more about that oh so it was very interesting so my uncle um Rebecca he from you know from the 510 so he he was I was sitting in the hospital bed and it was you know it's obviously very lonely and I don't but obviously I'm a lot of family you know friends family cousins Aunts Uncles everybody came to visit me and my mother elevation was there you know three months straight um I didn't miss the day my parents came and my sisters and everybody and I was sitting there and some people came also were singers and you know singers came and Joey new commercial Victor came you know one day and my uncle was there it says Hashem is Right Hashem creates her forests so so you have to you know make a song about that only him is by her voice so on the spot we were just like going through different stuff and he said listening I had disconnected back nature and and mojaved at this can age and I went to school with my because shout out to you that's so funny yeah nice so um so so yeah so so one thing about the next then we made a song and a music video and amazing you know all through create the awareness awareness charge you know and we think that we are in charge is it to speak to so many rabbis but at the end of the day you'll see your message really resonates as a for lack of whatever it's like an American one of us that that is out there with this powerful message of appreciation appreciate everything we have it taking whatever God gives you and trying to give it out to the world so we enjoyed every single word that you've been saying I felt back that I wasn't I'm not a rabbi so Torah talks I appreciate you saying that because like I I have the almost coming from uh you know but your message is is definitely very it resonates and it's very powerful and uh we haven't been out we have a custom in Torah talks which is one final message a final message I want to mentioned I don't think he was around no I didn't know that marriage to do it with the rabbi uh still resonate still today with many people of course actually you're not going to believe it who told me this vote ever I'm walking oh baby I'm walking director of the Kazakh teens division shout out to it and the previous Roja happens to be so we have a cup here so so are we walking told me this so imagine we have a and this is my final message I want to give do you know Charlie Watkins oh baby but we still got it walking where I've been walking you gotta get to know him because the energy in the patch did you watch the video we just had at the campaign of the the boy and rabbit walking the way connected you got it everybody's gotta check that okay we'll check it out I'll put a link to put a link to it so so we have to get oh before I forget figure out if the Final Chapter to uh to Mayor and to all the other the whole team because everyone so we have we have a cup here right a cup so everyone always asks a pessimist or Optimist is it half full half empty yes Dr Victor Miller no you're all wrong the cup is fully full why is it fully full how long can you last with that water for was it like three days maybe or one no not only three days and then like food is like a week or something like that something like that right and oxygen if we forget that if we don't breathe how long can you last underwater for maybe a minute right the cup is fully full ah baby right wow so the cup is fully full it's fully full so life we have to look at you know I could look at you could choose to look at oh I'm in a wheelchair and I lost my mother and you could complain about it and guess what okay people will understand people call yourselves by Sean right foreign uh the newspaper that came out and the very very big inspiration 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