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thank you
know what kind of reactions the
reactions
thank you
your life
is
when you have an environment is going to
be acceptable no matter what level
you're at you know that's listening
firing
people in this film
I think at the end of the day what was
consistent
what's happening
right now
the only way that we're really gonna
have to have a children movement if
everybody sees this in their own
personal opportunities
it's great to be entertained that
wonderful emotion but it's got to be a
translated because
we've got to do something about it
thank you
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talking about
they have no idea of what the title says
is
they have no idea what when you say a
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I never imagined
what secular could mean until I
understand literally there's absolutely
oh
I bought for my son
12 years ago
don't worry
until you come into their lives
because it's powerful it's tennis
practice and that's life they don't even
realize they're missing something
Tucson Seattle and Edmonton and
you name it
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we're changing the whole
all right
and we don't have
it together
that would be a strategy
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one of the German Guardsmen brutally
there's no God out there
and so there will be no cheers
our good friends the Arabs don't take
care of the Jews in Palestine
American Jews will take care of
themselves they will disappear
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thank you
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the other person I wasn't about to work
so I'm gonna grow up with that
grew up in the regular
circles like everybody else
ever lived out of town
that I don't have their Forks I'm
special tools to know how to talk to
somebody but I just try to be nice
try to be myself try to be pleasant and
try and make that one step to initiate
something
lies the living in a very isolated
community
and they don't realize
so interesting when they doing
everything
universities
side besides
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thank you
and I got here about five minutes before
dinner started
you know the actions
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thank you
years ago
conservative movement and reform
movement was strong and Orthodoxy was
weak and struggling at these schools are
the first starting and it was after the
war people were first trying to get
their feedback on the ground but from
Ivan was just interested in let's
maintain what we have let's be insulin
let's understand that this is Yiddish
kite and everything out there besides us
is
strong and clear separation this is the
hid this is a gun this is kosher this is
Trey and it served a very valuable
purpose
and we're only around today as from
Newton because of those steps
today
from kite is much more accepted it's
much stronger all one has to do is go to
the to the Madison Square Garden
today is
out there are no longer the antagonists
and the bundest and the judiciousness
out there is just plain eating that
hardly knows
how many times have I sit on an airplane
looking at
somebody next to me says oh you're
looking for the OU look over there
behind this there this is there's the OU
over there
what they're really trying to
not look at the bag of peanuts they said
oh you they're really trying to tell me
look over here in my seat I'm here I'm a
heed too I might not always look for the
OU like you but really I'm in the same
ballpark As You Are and I can react to
ways then I can say oh thank you very
much and eat the peanuts go back to
sleep on the plane or I can say oh I see
you know about the OU where you're from
did you go to Hebrew school oh yeah yeah
stop telling me my grandfather was this
and my mother was this and I didn't
really go to yeshiven I don't really
know and I'm not sure you know I was bar
mitzvahed you know and that starts the
conversation and really many times
one out of five or one out of six
positions
whatever
that's a signal and the signal usually
is
hey I'm Jewish
the value that I place
to grow up in the house that I grew up
in and to go to yeshivas that I was able
to learn
America is all about
see that no it's not normal to have a
stable home for people to have a stable
relationship
what's the meaning working successful
vacations
it's a bunch of things
and
how things go from generation to
generation
and the way he speaks with such a power
and he turned to the audience and he
said you know
we always have to learn from our Bubbies
and I'll say this how exactly the
hadraha that we have to have that we
have but whoever said that your body
and I knew exactly because we are there
attitude they're
coming in the early 20s mid-20s
they're revising 40 56 year old adults
successful professionals are going on to
four of us and the rabbis tell me
if you don't teach your kids use value
somebody else
and so true that is
that's the values that we have the more
badcounters there'll be good quality
people and work harder those values are
very westernized
the thirsty
you say uh good job is to somebody he
says oh yeah good job
they're just a full destruction
internet
fell in my school
very successful mid-30s making money as
fast as he can imagine
brilliant guy and everywhere he turns he
sees a deal and he's making big money
pulls into my driveway one day with his
brand new Porsche Boxster you know my
son goes out in the driveway looks at
the Boxster looks in the Box who loves
his Boxster the guy comes into my house
and he comes into him I said come on
circus Tell Them White Circus come into
the sucker so I bring up my little of an
s-rig and you know he puts on his yamaka
and I called my son the one who's
admiring the Boxster column over I said
show so and so
um had eventually wouldn't answer so my
son chosen that's right he turns it
upside down hold it like this right hand
left hand the guy says
wow
how old are you my son says he's eight
he said you're eight you know that whole
bracha by heart
and you know how to do all this he said
you're amazing so I said to my son he's
got the Boxster he's got all the money
he's got everything you know he was
amazed at you know how to make a brother
foreign
is a family
in relationship with those whoever these
kind of things
or not so again I'm a Wall Street guy
directionally that was a very bad Trend
and I just made a decision that I was
not going to be
linking that chain that was just gonna
be the dilution of my family's Jewish
conditions
you're afraid to be a friend but a
stranger
which I don't know is
ready they're waiting they're not
looking for Science and for losses
feeling of Shoppers
the same way
and an interest in a
same way the case
but you know something's touching and
they feel something it's something
and in the non-religious world you know
we're losing our children
we're losing them the kids don't know
what to do they're going to drugs or to
relationships they shouldn't get
involved in this one thing observance
and the lifestyle has brought us you
know a clear path and a way to raise our
family and our kids
a young couple drove up to a house
and the fellow said rabbi
I'm wearing Miami Titus
so I say great Andre that's tremendous
and then he goes on and tells me Rabbi
I'm wearing it because of you
I said
I never told them to do that then he
says rabbit I see that's what you do and
I know it's important to you so I want
to do it too and I'm doing it not
because you told me but because I see
that you have a happy you have a SIM
card from the things that you do so I
want to adapt as much as I can in my
life as you in your life people are are
emulating us so to speak who am I you
know who I am I'm someone who learned in
Yeshiva I learned in YouTube for 25
years we have the guidance of the good
Island
throughout the world answer our calls
and if not through repeal of David I
would have left Dallas a long time ago
last year we took a trip of 60 Bali tuva
we took him to the same the same
ashhouse was on a Tuesday so instead of
coming on Tuesday morning we came heir
of Shabbos and we spent the Shabbos in
heimberlin we spent the Shabbos in the
Yeshiva we ate in the Yeshiva we stayed
we stayed by the younger light in the
Yeshiva and it was an absolutely it was
a marvelous opportunity for everybody so
much so that this past year in in
Hanukkah time there was a young couple
that was that had off and they said
Rabbi we want to go spend Shabbos and we
want to go spend time in Yeshiva so I
set him up with one of my harusas so
think David lifted from Dallas Texas was
learning with Pinnacles
for two mornings the middle of December
this past year and both of them gained
tremendously from it and and the
khabershop that was created is forged
forever
raised in a you know a home that
considered it important to be Jewish but
really didn't give me any specific
direction as to why I really should be
Jewish I was
dating women who were not Jewish who
were Jewish but not religious or
anything
and I happen to have very coincidentally
met who the person who's now my wife
we became friends she introduced me to
Jonathan I'm not uh I'm just a regular
guy
I'm a ball of bus I didn't have any care
of training and they didn't prep me
beforehand and we didn't have uh you
know Mentor classes but we would meet
anywhere from one to two times a week
and we would go over generally a portion
of Hamish these are very much lessons of
life
Jonathan made them very much alive for
me and seeing him and seeing him with
his fiance at the time
you know was a tremendous influence on
me as to how I proceeded now here he is
he's shower Chavez and his family and
you know
it's a very fabric of his life you know
that's who he is today he's a from Jew
I gave him a gift before my wedding you
know as I did with all members of my
wedding party people think that I wrote
an inscription and I I told him about it
I absolutely would not be where I am
today getting married and religious if
it were not for him
Dear John
I give you this hagada with my most
sincere thanks for being my Usher USA
advisor and friend
a little less than a year ago I Met You
in Lincoln Square and he
yelled at me for not wearing Yamaha
then I told you I don't wear it to fill
in and I'm sure you thought I was
hopeless
well today I'm getting married I have
taken Avail to observe Torah not just
for us not just for me but for my
children and my children's children
so on behalf of them and myself
I offer you my deepest sex
and I only hope that you Myra and all of
your children attend my children's
wedding
Debbie and I love you both and Myra and
we hope you're a
part of our futures
my son just wants us to try that's all
he wants us to do
we both tried in our Hashem you know
successful
growing up in Mobile Alabama
what you had in front of you was the
extent of the Jewish World we had reform
and we had conservative and that's all I
knew
when I was 16 I went on a summer
pilgrimage seven weeks Terrace Israel
with I think 250 other teenagers and the
first week we were there
we were told on the first Shabbos we
were allowed to go to any synagogue we
wanted not knowing the environment we
just decided we'd walk and see if we
could find a synagogue
we found a little bitty Portuguese
synagogue this was my first experience
with an orthodox minion
after we were there for about 20 minutes
a man came up to all of us and I think
there were five or six of us who went
together and he went up to each one and
he said Cohen
going
and he came to me and I knew I was a
Cohen I didn't know exactly what it
meant and I said yes I'm a Cohen see
indicates to me come with me
so I followed him and he takes me into a
back room
he says to me take off your shoes
put out your hands and he starts
watching my hands
at that moment I was convinced I was
going to be sacrificed
when I realized that
nothing painful had happened yet he led
me into the front of the congregation
where he stood me amongst another group
of men who were lined up he put a Talus
over my head
and I stood there while other people
were saying in retrospect was Berkus
calling him to me it was humiliating
to be standing there
and not knowing what was happening I
felt like something was missing
there was a piece of me that wasn't
connected that needed to be connected
there is no doubt that my religious
growth has impacted my medical practice
it became extremely acute when I decided
that I'm going to wear a yamaka to work
to me this was extremely uncomfortable
but there is no doubt that it made me a
better doctor because I realize now that
every encounter I have every patient
that I see must be a kid Edition
I remember I was calling for our first
Aaliyah first time it's embarrassing
you're an environment you're not
comfortable in you've never been in this
environment my first Aaliyah was
addressed the toy so I'm up there I'm
sweating you think everybody in the
congregation is watching you all eyes
are on you
and for somehow I was up there instead
of granting the tour dress I grabbed the
bema cutter and I'm trying to figure out
how's this going the toilet and I'm
sweating and it just was pouring down me
and I just couldn't figure it out and
someone handed me the address of the
toilet I'll just started laughing you
know is this you know so many moments
like that
I'm reading the Jewish times I always
read the letters to the editor and the
letter from a very very nice letter
letter basically was saying that
you know people look at women as career
defines them and really that shouldn't
be the defining elements of women women
have value you know being in their home
and raising their children is really the
most amazing thing that a woman can do
and this letter is signed by you know
somebody who I never heard I've never
knew before you know Renee Turner
um so
so I looked up the name picked up the
phone and called I said I saw your you
know I saw that the letter you wrote to
the editor
and uh it sounds like some you know so
I'd like to meet you and talk to you
about this so we met and it ended up
with an invitation to a Shabbos table
my wife accepts an invitation and she
said
we have accepted lunch with this Rabbi
Rabbi Deutsch sheesh left her husband to
our chavezebo which we thought was
beautiful
so we're gonna go to him for lunch lunch
okay fine we'll go have lunch it's about
an hour an hour and a half well I've got
tennis is it two no problem right yeah
well David chern David chernan had the
most miserable experience at our Shabbos
table but he'll tell you about that well
this was excruciatingly difficult for me
here I am in this house just filled with
children
nobody that I know
drove there parked in front of the house
and people are peering out the window
and I walk in now I'm so completely
intimidated and then the rabbi
starts asking partial questions
and all of these little kids are jumping
to answer these partial questions and
I'm petrified if he's gonna look to me
for an answer and I'm going to be shown
up by this four-year-old
and this lunch would never end it just
kept going on and on two o'clock of
course comes and goes
he drove back I didn't know this part of
the story to many many years later we
get in the car to go home first of all
we're walking to the car
my two little girls
um in like second and third grade
and one of Rabbi Deutsch's young
children who is about to graduate from
Tamina this year
walks with us to the car and she goes is
that your car
yes
are you gonna get in it
yes she looks and she goes why
so I get in we're driving home I I'm
banging on the steering wheel
yelling at my wife don't you ever
accept an invitation this neighborhood
again they just shot look what you've
done
I think it was two weeks later we were
at the halperns for lunch
gripping the steering wheel said don't
you ever do that to me again
right he was the president of the day
school just a few years later
he's learning kumara with me he's
learning stuff yummy and he's learning
more of my shoe every day
no one would ever believe my life when I
would become observe it I mean it was
just so far out of the womb of our
personalities it just it just made no
sense
my brother brought me back a pair to
film
and I pulled him out and
said these are to fill in it was the
first time my life ever saw to film he
said you're supposed to wear these every
day and I remember literally saying
no thank you I don't think so and I felt
bad he was crushed and
my father died in November of 93. and
when he died that's when it really I
started asking questions and I really
needed I think my religion I felt like
it wasn't there I just felt like you
know I was bar mitzvahed
I grew up you know in Temple and doing
everything we're supposed to do
as a matter of fact in Fort Worth they
would read the tour on Friday nights
because they didn't have Saturday
services
and so when I struggling the services I
never understood why they didn't read
the tour Friday night I
just didn't know
and so when I really started sorry
needed
the foundation to lean on
to kind of get me through a difficult
time that wasn't there
and so I started asking questions and
wanted to learn and and that's when I
met with Noel and I started attending
classes actually went through a
Discovery program that was the first
introduction my wife and I had
go through successful professionals our
Saturdays were typically ice skating
lessons or soccer games but one of us
would be at the office they wouldn't or
we both would be or just all over the
place but we saw as we started you know
going to these Shoma Shabbos homes we
saw something special especially from
the band the homes we went to and with
the relationship they had with their
children and their spouse then she
became Shoma Shabbos and kosher and it
was just a great journey very very
special Journey
you know I have a white wife I love very
much I'm so proud of
a successful attorney
she's a partner she's in 21 years at the
largest law firm in Dallas
for her to become shomer Shabbos and
kosher in her career
what a special thing that is the
commitment she's done
I had four children as a partner and a
major Law Firm
special
it's my life that really
got the ball rolling I remember
one Friday night it was it was before
the Friday night but Renee said to me I
want to make this Friday night shots I
want it to be shotless
fine
it was ending well I don't want us to
watch television I don't want to
turn on
any lights or you know just
so I had no idea what I was getting
myself into
and Renee made this just absolutely
beautiful meal
started off with this chicken soup that
I Still I Long for to this day
and and I made the mistake or the
unmistake of saying to Renee if you make
this chicken soup every Friday night we
can make every Friday night Shabbos
for a year and a half the seducus I have
as a wife made this chicken soup
curve can be done if someone wants to do
it anyway
it can be done on your block it could be
done in your office it could be done and
sure
it could be done at the restaurant it
could be done on the subway it could be
done at the bus stop
if you know that someone is Jewish
you've got yourself a potential client
I can tell you how many people in in
Dallas are from today
because every single service we would
walk by the house and they were outside
in the front lawn playing baseball
and we say Chavez and after a couple of
months they would respond start
responding Good Shabbos they didn't know
what they were talking about but they
said and as time went on they go oh you
want to come come over for a kiddish oh
come we're having shabba's party now
bring the kids over okay the kids came
for Shoppers body well what do you have
Shoppers party today why do you give the
kids so many treats well today's a very
special day let me let me tell you all
about it and three hours later when
they're sitting there for half dollar
wow this is this is this is tremendous
this is amazing you know you know we do
this every single week no way
I'm running my Shabbos table the way I
was if nobody would show up
they are seeing the authentic Jewish
me show them the product
the product is your shabba's table
the product is just six children sitting
around the table singing as mirrors
and if you're proud of that and that's
all you have to show them and the rest
will be internalized
I know one fellow who on the bottom of
his email he has a signature
you know whatever his name his title his
company and on the bottom it says check
out Shabbos at ace.com forward slash
whatever it is I don't remember exactly
what it is and that's part of his
signature so when he sends out an email
to whoever
if they're interested they'll check it
out
books there are books out there that
people are willing to read
there is permission to believe
permission to receive there's on Judaism
by Rabbi Feldman
there's the menu every givea tax books I
bet Becca just wrote a book there's
living up to the truth by Rabbi godlib
the existence of Art School the whole
feldheim library is a queue of endeavor
it's it's reaching out to people and
trying to explain to them why to make it
easier to provide the tools
I'm one of those guys who's
uncomfortable meeting new people because
what am I going to say what am I going
to do
Etc I but if if all you do is when you
meet a new person is find out a little
bit about them
that and someone's interested they see
someone's interested in just engaging
them and goodness gracious and Orthodox
Jew is interested in engaging me or a
rabbi is interested in engaging you know
having a dialogue with me
that's it you've broken the ice how many
of us go through parenting training
courses before we have children none
but yet there's nothing more intricate
and complicated and complex in raising a
healthy stabilized child
why is that
it's it's just be who you are it's
meeting people for coffee on a regular
basis going out to dinner with them
working out with them taking walks
having them over to the house it's much
more about one on one
it doesn't say that a person has to only
love someone if he has a beard if he has
peace if he has a yamaka there's
obviously sort of lovely fellow Jews
sincerely and if you can be sincere
about it then you have to have no
training at all and Torah sells itself
I work as a systems analyst in my spare
time
that's Monday through Friday nine to
five on a good week
and there are many Jews in my company
most of them have nothing to do with
anything of Tyra and Mitzvahs whatsoever
but they actually do have a real deep
respect and almost a little bit of an
awe of somebody that looks like me they
have a little bit of trepidation
person looks so different than them
they're afraid to approach but really
there's a respect and they even like to
have a connection and they'd even like
to have a recognition that they're also
Jewish many many people have sat around
my table and told me said Rabbi I can't
believe I'm sitting in the house of a
religious Jew enjoying myself
uh enjoying myself on a Shabbos on a
Friday night instead of playing cards
with a bunch of guys in a bar I'm
sitting at a Shabbos table with a rabbi
with a front person who loves you this
guy and his kids are here answering the
questions on the Parsha I can't believe
it
and then we usually make another when we
go on one of the classes I'm giving is a
gamara class that I give on a Sunday
morning and I've been giving that class
for the last 13 years so there are
people that are going to that class who
13 years ago never saw the inside of a
camera I never knew what a gamara was
and and now are are are good Learners
people who have we've finished many Miss
actors we finished uh we finished
getting we finished Marcus and we
finished babakama
I mean these are receptors that are are
difficulties that people some Yeshiva
students might be proud to have finished
this many musakas regular Bell about
them I was going to be finishing up my
years on Kyle
and my plan was to go into real estate
Insurance hopefully get to the point
where I could learn half a day and and
uh and work half a day and be hopefully
some type of asking
uh that was that was some plans I had
things set up in in New York ready to go
back and I was on the bus uh coming home
from the mayor and cover of mine had a
Jewish Observer special issue on kirovan
I've been very interested and intrigued
by it so I I grabbed the uh the issue
took it home and read it cover to cover
that night
and the one article that jumped out of
me was the article by Renault
we're basically was saying is that if if
ninety percent of Claudia strollers
opting out
how can we expect that we're going to be
we're going to be protected by
cochebrejo
which seemed to make a lot of sense to
me you know there's a horror been going
on and we've got to do something
to love each and every one of our fellow
Jews
if you really love somebody
um
that you could talk week and it won't
make a difference
if they know you love them and you care
about them because their fellow yeah
foreign
or they could be wearing ripped jeans
and a t-shirt and have pink hair
foreign
what you want to do when you meet with
people for an hour for lunch is talk for
about five percent of the time okay and
get them talking to 95 of the time they
will leave floating on a cloud
but when they get home their wives will
ask them so Andrew you met shimshan
silken or Rabbi Silgan how did it go oh
it was wonderful it was just tremendous
it was a sweet guy so what does he do
gosh I don't really know does he have
kids boy you know I didn't really ask it
and they suddenly realized you know they
know nothing about you that's your sign
that you've succeeded you have to get
them talking
and eventually you say let's meet for
coffee how about we study some Jewish
history and then it's Jewish philosophy
and then yeah
nobody has all the answers I mean speak
to the biggest robotic in the world and
they you know I'll get back to you they
also have to look Inspire them and they
have to speak to their robotic or you
know and uh there's nothing wrong with
that if you don't know something
say you don't know if anything it gives
them confidence that here's somebody
who's trying to relate to them on an
honest level
I had somebody approach me and say to me
rabbi silkin
I don't know why we're doing all this
um I don't believe in God
I don't believe in God
that's it came over
what would you say to that
here's what I said to him I said to him
neither do I
and he was
checking his surroundings that you Rabbi
silken right and this is Dayton is what
you do and I presume you pray and
I said to him something that I learned
from one of my teachers
I said to him
what is God who have you studied what do
you know
if you studied maimonides
he says to me who did Sato contemporary
philosophers
some of the more well-known worldly
philosophers Aristotle Plato Socrates
I said you don't
not believe in God
it's just you have no idea what you mean
when you say the word God I said to God
that you don't believe in I don't
believe in either
come into my life let me show you how I
perceive what God means to the world
they don't like it when you say how can
you not believe in a gun you start
coming out with all the proofs the
archaeological historical they're not
ready for that it's not ready for that
they want to hear that you understand
them
people say to me 26 hours of Shabbos I
can't do that I say to them don't
because they're not going to anyway
I say try 26 minutes
that give me 26 hours now
people say to me I can't do kosher
too expensive it's too difficult food
never tastes good enough I said don't
I'm not ready for that
right like
of desert says you can't fight ibrahira
you can't fight that war that's way out
in Berlin when you're still in Paris
try it once a month on a Tuesday night
or here's a good one
you're doing Friday night show about
dinner now because of all our
discussions make the Friday night show
but I didn't make that kosher
make that kosher these people have
kosher homes now some of them
of course it's always back there take a
little bite understand it's not all or
nothing and they say really that's the
most that's the most catching
magnetizing aspect of care of it's not
the whole picture everybody's somewhere
on the ladder my focus has to be next
round up
I was working in the public schools and
I had a kid come up to me after pay suck
and they were so proud of themselves and
they said you know what I went to
McDonald's over Passover and I didn't
eat the bread
and I had to hold back at the time from
laughing but afterwards I started crying
because this kid
did something so huge we have to realize
that for everybody you know each step
could be the one that sets them on the
Thousand Mile Journey
from the balchuva's questions you
sharpen your own understanding of
yiddishkite number two when you get
somebody to be from and you see their
enthusiasm you say to yourself
look how they pour themselves into
Kabbalah Shabbos how much should my
Kabula Shabbos be so it's actually a
case where you actually a car of
somebody gives you
it gives you actually A New Perspective
deeper in yiddishkite and when you see
one of the balchuvra's enthusiasm for
you this guy do you say to yourself oh
this is what it's about
all of a sudden there's a sparkle in
their life you know recently one of our
people they're not doing Shabbos but
they're doing Mikvah
and then he says to me how about some of
those in my house
you know that the crust is beginning to
melt away you feel it as crumbling it's
disintegrating it's it's it's it's
otherworldly there's no other way to
describe it it's beautiful
it's uplifting it's very rewarding
it's a lot of fun
and it's not felt as an obligation
itself is an urgency it's like you want
to take care of your own child yes are
you obligated to take care of your child
are you obligated to pay for their
tuition of course you do do you look at
it as an obligation no you look at it as
love as care as concerned as who you are
inside of that person that's all it is
we just have to start looking at
everybody who belongs to our people as
our children as our brothers
certain mixers are outside our control
so if a year after 120 years comes up to
shemaim and they say why didn't you make
opinion happened
he's going to say what do you mean my
firstborn was a girl
okay
why didn't you do Mitzvah
ah neighborhood didn't make me forget
anything in my field
but when they're going to ask him why
didn't you do a little care of
what's he going to say
so they might let him into the shemaim
email anyway because he learned that for
you me and he was out looking for him
and and gave stock and his mama Muslim
but in that area he missed and that was
something he could have controlled that
was something that could have been done
and it can be done on any kind of basis
it can be done like filling every day
it could be done like Shabbos once a
week it could be done like yantev once a
year
it can be done like joeyville once and a
half a century
at least one time
every person
should go to sleep at night and say what
have I done for cloudy strong today and
they should get up in the morning and
say I have this and this and this and
this to do and I have this learning that
I want to cover and this job that I need
to do
but what am I going to do for my people
today
you can never thank him for what they've
done for you okay it's impossible
they change their lives and your
children's lives and your grandkids
lives and it's impossible
what it means to to me now is everything
it's that they're
there is such a
a a much more Grand life out there
once you understand
the gifts that God has given you
through learning people will open up
people will start to understand that
this is a profound
religion it is a profound responsibility
and people will change their lives when
given that opportunity
you know God forbid you know it will be
my time to go I would say I I I've had
I've had a life
that I do not regret having even if it
will be today
you not only change their lives you
change their family and their children
and their children after them
and so I believe
that after we're
gone from this world
those are gifts that will keep on giving
my little star just graduated from the
Missouri High School for Girls as a
seminary in Israel for this year the
other daughter is on the same track and
they own their Yiddish cup they grow
they come home they teach us and we all
heard the prophecy mashiach could come
when the children teach the parents
that's not the miracle Miracle is for
the first time that I've seen the
parents are letting her kids teach them
they're learning their kids show them
how to say a broker or how to grow or
teach them a Parsha
this is
these are opportunities to affect not
only people but for generations and
generations and generations to come
what a privilege what an opportunity
that's what you get from learning with
somebody who knows less than you do
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they speak in one unanimous voice there
is nothing more important in today's
generation than people who have Twitter
who have the gift of Torah who were
raised with Torah to take that education
to take that upbringing to take that
experience and give as much of it away
as you can to those people who are less
fortunate
now on the campus to deal with there was
supposed to be 400 000 Jews now they say
there's two hundred thousand Jews we're
shrinking it's Do or Die the Jewish
people is is disappearing
it's not a matter of whether this is an
opportune time this is the only time
if it's not now it's not going to have
another chance
this whole group of unaffiliated Jews
aren't going to stay unability for the
Next Generation for the Next Generation
they're not going to be Jews
a voicemail was in Hungary and he sent
down messages to the whole world he made
a deal with Eichmann to save Jews yeah
and they didn't send them the money and
he went back to him and he bluffed him
and he got out one train and he went
back and he was dealing with life and
death yeah
he failed the end
he never got discouraged
you're not going to be discouraged about
man
we have no choice
we gotta fight
I gotta bring back our our children
if I were standing
on a trained platform
and people were walking into the train
and these were cattle cars
and the cattle cars were on their way to
Auschwitz
and I have the ability to pull people
off of that train I can pull them off
would I be worried about my honor would
I be worried about being ashamed I'll
think I'm crazy no
I would go over and I'd pull them one
two three four
that's how I look at it
and every person who I can pull off of
that train is another person who will
have life and of his children and their
children and their children and if I am
silent I'm just letting them walk on
that train
that's not what Hashem wants
we can't fail
the almighty is with us if he helps us
we can't fail and he wants to
we have a Torah
which is beautiful beyond compare we
just have to present it the right way
we have a people who are thirsty for
meaning who are thirsty for truth who
are idealists in every way one of the
most charitable the most active for the
poor
they want truth they want meaning
we have to do our job we can't fail if
we just make that effort When you pray
to God what do you say to God
Isaiah Almighty I know that you care
about this much more than me
I know that you want me to succeed I
know and if you help me we can change
the whole world
I know you want to help me
I know I just have to want it enough
please help me
to one
to feel this pain the way you feel it
said you can help me do it
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please
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everything
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