Rabbi Gavriel Friedman - Turning Darkness into Light

hello everyone and thank you for coming with such a short notice it's not my fault we thought that rabbi gav is coming here january 6 okay that's when you're coming for a half a time i don't know the pictures okay so so but then he torah anytime is bringing him for they had a 30-hour campaign and they brought him from earth so ravi called me up he says rabbi he wanted to have rabbi okay now [Music] we [Music] have sponsored this for and it's not only what happened to leo the world is going on a very dark days and there are things that look like [Music] the world is going steep down and nothing makes sense so and then then there is things that look like there is end up the light and the end of the tunnel so that's why we picked the topic you know dark okay something like that and that is i think rabbi god through his many hats does it that that he wears he borrows has the these things especially the first things that you deal with people that are a little bit not so close as we call them to to doing torah mitzvos the thing is that the first things are they have questions about and that's what he does with the people that are a little bit not so close to english and the area has a different project it's called the rosh holders project is a kosher movie system high quality very high quality and that is for actually yeshua books for young kids and they show them in many day schools and that's also talks about kamuna and a lot of things the last one i think was about to come on what's going to happen so the f4 i think he has no need for introduction everybody knows him and probably better than me and without further ado ask rabbi gabriel [Music] okay if i could just ask if everyone can sit on opposite sides so they could watch each other the whole time it's good we have a makita it's gonna set this up like this more girls come i don't know where do i where do i look do i look like this or do i look like this what do i do or do i stay in the camera do like this the whole time that's good okay okay gentlemen i forgive me but we're going by the rove here the majority so let's begin okay all right we're gonna mess up the camera guy i don't know what i'm talking to here all right all right so um first and foremost as uh you the community knows and i think it's a double community right that we have rosalind and greyneck very close to each other right relatively close which is uh very very crazy and i could tell you me personally i just dive into right now minecraft on the corner where this tragic accident happened i grew up on that block i blew up one block away the outside that show that's where i grew up praying that's the show that i divined in the the young is the uh the i'm sorry based fila is known as edward avenue shul right over there so i was even telling my wife today i'm going to daven i can't even imagine the just the the what we call me katse alcatra from one extreme to the other extreme where you go to uh to a place where there was such a horrible tragic event that occurred and then to walk in to talk to god it's just like it's a bit of a it's a bit of a jarring thought you know to go from literally one extreme to the other extreme but so you know this is the the essence of what is a jew what does a jew do what do we do we we don't just wallow and sit back and do nothing it's not easy there's no no question about it it's a challenge and and like the rabbi said this is unfortunately one challenge of we're living in some crazy times and whenever somebody said that before it didn't mean anything you know we're actually living in some really really unprecedented incredible i know every year people say that and every time it's something new and something else came up but this time it's really this is just unbelievable there are no words i i wish there were words but we know that's why when we go to a to a beta veil when you go to a house of morning so so what happens at house of morning you don't what do you say when you go to house of morning it's a little bit uncomfortable sometimes to watch people at a house in the morning people come in and they want to tell them to people people come in sometimes tell them to come in invite them in i feel bad he said right so so what happens at house of morning people come in and they don't really know what to say nobody really knows what to say so a lot of weather gets discussed the weather is a big topic you know it's cold it's hot it's hot and cold it's cold cold it's doubly hot it's hot and cold and hot and but in another country it's a different weather and i can you imagine what's like in florida like it's the same every year this is the whole year there's nothing to talk about so so in new york we could say it's this it's that's the other and then everyone talks about and people don't know what to do themselves they serve food they walk around serving food and whatever it is what are you supposed to say at a house in the morning what do you what are we supposed to say so the answer that teaches us the the great and holy sages say what are you supposed to say so we have two answers interesting three answers i see one two and three we're going to go with this is with that and the other one so this is when we're leaving but what does it say when we get there we come in and what do you say you say nothing well that's awkward to say nothing you don't do that right but you say nothing you don't say anything you don't say a word you come and you sit down and i'm telling you this by the way as to learn right to know like what's the jewish law what do we do we come in and we don't say anything why don't we say anything what do you mean the person's in pain persons say you know let me say something the answer is because there's nothing to say you can't say anything to somebody who's going through pain this is the the mishnah says that you don't you don't try to go ahead and comfort a person when their their loved one is lying before them they're they're in a state that they can't you can't you don't comfort them which is why it's also very uncomfortable sometimes to go to a house because you come in in the house of shabbat you say and what do you do and people like do the whole like you know the there's like the everyone becomes like chinese or whatever i don't know or japanese i don't know i'm not so cultured i don't know but you know they they just come in it looks like there's some sort of taekwondo thing happening and you know and the little look the nod and the uncomfortable right and then the weather he's like what do you do the answer is you come in you sit down you don't say a word you don't say a word because what we're saying by not saying a word is is there's nothing i could say i don't know what's going on you know but then somebody asks you know someone lost a loved one why did it happen and then you have the person who doesn't have the highest level of intelligence that come i'm not saying the lowest there are lower but i'm saying this is this is a low level of like gamsula tova you know like this too is for the best you know and come on everything god does is good is it true is it true that everything god does is good yes or no okay i don't know where you are in your life and what you know i get to tell you what judaism says judah says it's true julian says it's true everything is good wow we don't really see that do we we don't really it doesn't seem that way it doesn't seem like it's really so good it seems pretty dark it seems pretty bleak it seems pretty intense someone said bastante so we're talking about you can't even see don't you know i'm saying where are we going to see give me some give me some light over here let me see what's going on let me see what's going on it may not seem that way but we know we know that's why that's what what what's the the s the essence of what what are we the jew is a my men we're we believe we really are connected wow thank you thank you so much thank you what is it father what is it you'll find out yeah okay so you're saying all right okay so you like that and now i'm nervous yeah it looks delicious thank you hold on oh thank you all right anyway so what do we do what do we do we go we sit there we don't say a word everything is everything okay this is i once made a mistake when it comes to when it comes to idea of emunah i once made a mistake to say that we work on our munna right we work on ammuna and okay it could be semantics right and we're not loosely translates as faith it's very hard to understand what the word really means i i was many years ago i love when people say that because that could mean three it just depends on how old you are and what your life is like but for for me this translates as about 15 so 15 years ago 16 years ago 70 what i don't know whatever something like that i learned in a colell in in a and we learned once a week for six months we went through the topic of what's emunah what's bitachon we we went through the faith and trust it's not so simple does it say emunah is faith that's it that's that's all it is it's not i want to say it's not so simple the basis of it is okay that's the basis but there's a lot more to it a lot more depth we don't work on our muna and in a way where we where we build it although it's true we do we do but we don't i'll explain we don't work on our in a way that we built that as if it's some sort of external thing that we have to then come and bring in and try to connect it's the real way of saying it is we uncover aramuna we uncover it because it's there right we have it inside this is what this is what the the hazal stands for the sages the blessed memory explain and they say what is it that we an we are believers the children are believers it's inside of us it's inside of us if i to quote i think it's tony the tiger there's a hunger inside you it's great but we have to be able to uncover that thing it's there we have a fortitude we have a power we have abilities that are there that's what people talk about the idea you know you think like oh wow the secular world and the movies and whatever first of all where do you think it comes from where do all their ideas come from when you have hollywood where'd it come it comes from jews imagine if jews worked in hollywood they do you understand all of hollywood are jews and it's all jewish ideas there's one non-jew okay whatever what's the guy's name um matt damon it says whatever he's the one guy he's not jewish and he's from boston he might be it's a you gotta say it all comes all those concepts are you you see the the power and it's like inside of you and reveal it and let it out this is it's there where does that come from that comes from ghazal it comes from from our holy torah which tells us that we have a fortitude that's incredible and we don't try to cheapen it by saying words a person is going through something there's nothing to be said we sit there we just come and we sit and what are we doing by sitting we're saying i'm here you should just know i care about you i love you i'm not even gonna begin you know people play the comparison game oh i also went through something once and whatever and i also had a circumstance and i knew someone and whatever that's what people why you make this about you that's very nice that you had that it's not very nice i'm sorry you have to go through that you know but why you got to bring you into my issue over here just stop talking just quiet just come here and sit down just sit down and be quiet and if you have to leave you got to go somewhere so then we say when we say ideas that you go ahead and bring and bring consolation what's what does that mean because it's the only thing you can do it only god can do it is a reference to god himself he will bring you bring you comfort why because he's the only one that can do it the only one that can bring somebody comfort who goes through some sort of trauma some sort of tragedy and this is every one of us at every level whatever it may be the circumstances that we have in our lives or the way that we perceive other things is to come to recognize that the only one that could bring real nichrama the only thing that can bring real real comfort is hashem himself that's it and that's why we know that the gemara says is a well-known gemarat says in i think it's unfound on page 50. if you want to check it out says that what you know i think it'd say correct me if i'm wrong what's going to happen we're going to say we say the following concept when somebody goes ahead and there's something good that happens we say barakatov blessed the one that is good and bestows good as we say when do we say a blessing like that we say blessing like that practically if you make hidush and you drink wine and then someone brings out a nicer more expensive bottle of wine you make a blessing blessed is the one that is good and gives good let's drink and we go ahead now i'm not saying you should be doing that but if you you know a little bit and whatever it is in shabbat or something like that some people go and do it i happen not to be able to hold it at all i think it's disgusting but whatever everybody has their thing i wouldn't make the torment if i drink grape juice but whatever it is that you'd like so it's more shubac someone which is greater what else do we say we say when we have something you know it's called blessed is a truthful judge somebody went through some sort of something bad we said dynamite the most famous known well-known thing about that if somebody loses a you know someone passes away we say baruch blessed is the truthful judge why do we say blessed to the truthful judge we know that we know is it true or false and again i just i don't know everyone's background and what you've learned what you haven't i'm going to take away my question i'm going to say a statement what judaism says judaism says that it is true that everything god does is for the best everything that god does is for the best this is a quote from rabbi akiva [Applause] just learned about him recently in chinese you learned it love that rabbi i am that's it in a nutshell you said it yeah so nakamise gamsu comes along and pays 21 in tennis he comes along in one he says in the following it is a story i'll get to the story in a minute but you know you'll know the story you'll like the story you like to review the story but but but here here's the point that that is true we believe that this is such a concept everything god does is good everything he does is good okay but how do you say that when you have such a tragedy how do you say that when someone goes to something so horrific is so terrible so wrong how do you say such an idea what are you talking it doesn't make any sense that's a great question that's a great question and that's why we don't say barak hatov blessed is the one who is good and this owes good when we see things that are life that we perceive as bad when we see things in our life which we perceive as bad we don't say blessed is the one who is good and bestows good why not isn't it true that it's good the answer is even if it's true over here even if i know that it's true it hasn't reached me corazon it didn't get into my heart i don't feel it i got none over here as a matter of fact it's quite as they say in france just the opposite i feel not connected i feel maybe a little bit like where god where are you what's going on over here even when we might not feel this positive good feeling that doesn't take away from justice so we say god i trust you that you are the truthful judge i'll say that much i'm going to say you're good i don't know if i could say that and that's why the gemara says you don't say it some people end up they try to be like a little bit higher and then they go and say oh i'll say it no you don't do that you don't do that yeah we have to grieve we have to mourn a person doesn't go through the morning stage the person doesn't feel the grief it's very hard to move on this is not just this is not just a i was going to say something very off let me say it right this is not just psychology this is the torah itself okay now what i was going to say which is total clear and off the dark and wrong is it's not just the torah it's psychology that's not how it works it's not just psychology that's the torah it tells us a person has to mourn a person has to grieve there's a period of and you know what the real grief is it's amazing i mean i i thank god i've never been in such a circumstance with with a close relative to know this myself but there's something known as an oh name what's an onion and onion is if somebody loses a relative a close relative a father mother sister brother son daughter spouse one of the zion kraven someone who's or maybe even a rebbe it depends on a certain but the general understanding is those seven relatives that until the body is buried they're called an o name and they don't do positive mitzvot i want you to understand what that means anybody here ever take a cup of water and they made a bracha you made a blessing before you drank it has anyone ever done that three of you three i'm not sure what this is still so i'm a little nervous right have you ever made a broccoli yes or no you read about before right have you ever had a cup of water thought to yourself did i make a blessing i didn't and then just started to drink right it's a weird thing it's a weird concept or a man with feeling you know every day have to put on filing right they rap i don't know how this got translated in english but phylacteries i don't know where that word came from at first i thought it was an asian sickness i didn't realize that it's a you know oh excuse me i have phylacteries if you don't mind you know you know it's like a new strand it's the new strand of corona called phalacterius like i'm waiting for them to come out anyway so so point is that when it comes out on the day that they lose their loved one isn't buried you don't put on feeling you don't pray you don't make a blessing you don't even make a blessing you're not allowed to make a blessing why what's going on answers there's a distance there's a feeling of a distance here and we understand we have to allow ourselves to feel that pain a person doesn't allow themselves to feel anything then it makes it a lot harder to move forward that's why the process the concept of the morning period is so important we don't ignore it and that's why i say when people don't get it they lose a loved one they just go back to life it's okay i'm fine it's okay i'm fine you're not fine and it's okay not to be fine and you shouldn't be fine and if you are fine then one of two things either you weren't really so close to that person or you're in serious denial you're not fine and it's important to know you're allowed to feel pain you're allowed to feel pain it's it's normal and if a person didn't feel pain it's a problem but one second if i'm feeling pain then where's my umuna if i really believe in trust in god then how could i feel pain gam zulutova call my daughter it's all good i don't have any pain do you really not have any pain he said no no i do have pain but i don't want to say that pain because if i say that i have pain that means i'm saying that i don't believe in god they don't understand the the dilemma here right that's how they say in hebrew you understand an israeli person say to me one time he says i said oh you have uh oh i'm sorry i didn't catch that last word i got the hd what's dilemma i never heard that one you know for those who don't speak hebrew you speak a lot more than you think dilemma telephone sweater banana money just say money you're fine ribs yeah ribs ribs apparently that works yeah you make me a little nervous with that one but anyway point this is that you go ahead and we have uh where was i saying because i said the lymph node and i'm talking oh we have a dilemma dilemma because on the one end i believe in god right i believe in god i believe in hashem but i have faith in the other end i'm in pain how does that make sense all you all hear it all you all hear the question okay so listen to this can a person feel pain and still believe in god the answer is of course it's actually not a difficult question at all once you know the answer it's like most things in life once you know the answer is actually not difficult you know it's difficult when you don't understand the answer then there's a problem but over here it's actually quite straightforward how does this work anybody here ever had a problem it's embarrassing enough to say in public but they've never gone to the dentist dentist one person okay so so the rest of you there's a thing called the dentist and you go to a dentist and let's say you do you know that maybe it's a good idea i hope unless you're like no i like pain so i go and say no you know there's a problem you have to go to the dentist the dentist shows you what's going on inside there's a problem and it has to be taken care of one of my kids had to have six teeth pulled out six teeth six teeth pulled out it was amazing what drugs can do six teeth go ahead oh that was a i'm sorry there's a wrong class that part with that comment but back to the 16th 16th that are that are pulled down well that's that's incredible now does she believe the dentist knows what he's doing yeah if she believes the dentist knows what he's doing then for sure she won't have any pain because i believe i know that dentist knows what he's doing so since i fully believe the dentist knows what they're doing therefore i don't have pain what you have nerve endings there's something called the nerve and when you touch a nerve that's painful even if you understand what's happening i could be in pain that something tragic happens and still believe in god does everybody get it it's not a contradiction i'm allowed to be in pain and still believe in god and this is one of the big questions that comes up in various areas of life when people go through struggles and challenges and they say well it must be if i'm feeling this no it's okay to feel that and understand that concept well then where's the light where's the light where's the goodness where's the positivity it's so dark i want to share with you something which is mind-boggling but i'm going to give you an example so you're going to be able to you're going to be able to see what i'm talking about it's mind-boggling i'm going to give an example to be able to see what i'm to see what i'm talking about you'll see what i mean you will see what i mean now it would actually be fun to really do this but i don't have equipment to do this right now but you've all you've all been there before there is a a commentary there was a well it was it was a great great sage by the name of the villenegon remember the albin zalman you know what you met him you heard about him all right it's like you look pretty you look great for a 250 year old americans so the villain he uh he said something so powerful on on the in the prayers we say the following words yo create do we have a problem you say i'm bored the same thing silence has anyone said these words he said it many times so what do they mean comes from it fashions yeah it's a good one you read arsenal huh yeah fashioned the lights and created the darkness [Applause] the villenegon says something so powerful about that who brought them let's go loose brought about light and created the darkness fashion the light whatever that those differences mean just an interesting note to take a look into youtube what does it mean when we say these words say we say in the morning prayer right after baruch right after barclays so you have the the introductory first day if we go beer right the blessings 15 blessings which are awesome and then zimmer which is awesome and then baruch which is we just start doing that you know everything gets like you know take and then yo say overview so what's yot say or uber he says the ville nagon i'm gonna tell you something which is mind-boggling i just on the way here is on the phone with a friend of mine his name is rabbi shaffe israel in california and he shared this following idea with me beautiful the film the golden says that sometimes the greatest some darkness that we have the darkness that exists in this world is actually not from the absence of light and we all understand from the metaphorically darkness being bad like being good this concept like in the movies which get it from judaism yotzer or koshek sometimes there's something called darkness that comes from the absence of light you get rid of light you get rid of all the goodness and now you're left with evil but the villain explains that sometimes it's not from the absence of light rather it's from so much light and so much goodness that it becomes dark how did that make any sense anybody here ever cast a showman to a movie anybody ever went to a movie in the middle of the day bling out there truth is now this ever is like net spark right so i don't know if you have net spark on your phone whatever so everyone has a certain type of net but if you go ahead and uh brought to you by netspark so we um in the in the old days when you had to travel to sin and you had to work hard i'll tell you it's amazing it's an amazing thing i like any sin you want to do is now in your you kids don't know what sinning is about you understand i was most ernest you know i would i would like travel and i would put on all black i don't get to go and brought in condition but whatever you go to a movie which is made by juice that's okay right you go to a movie you ever go to a movie in the middle of the day does anyone know someone you have a friend i don't have a friend yes or no and what happens when you walk outside you become blinded by the light you get blinded by the light what do you mean blinded by the light everything becomes dark you already know the experience you'll see what i'm talking about we oh someone understands my false shadow from before the concept of there's so much goodness there's so much light that it looks like it's darkness did anybody get what just happened this is not that there's no light it's that there's so much light but the reality is we don't understand we don't get it and sometimes we can't discern we can't be able to tell the difference between when is it that it's so much light and when is it that it's darkness though we are the believers the children are believers that understand how deep this is and we have to know that darkness sometimes is coming from absence and sometimes it's coming from abundance and we just can't handle it it's just too much there is such an idea that there's too much good we can't handle it we just thought again again tanita that's asking to pray for the rain to stop what a powerful idea however i want to extend this a little bit more to our own personal lives to come to recognize that we have our own darkness we have our own things that we go through we have our own challenges that happen we know that one of the questions that we're going to be asked when we get upstairs after 120 years or however many years it's going to be apparently the oldest woman in the world just passed away on thursday 135 years old in china one second i i just said oh of course you know it was like what in china of course who doesn't live to 135 years [Music] the point is we i may have answered we get upstairs there's going to be a judgment there's going to be a judgment the people don't like to talk about this like ah joshua anthony what's going to be yeah this is judgment if we get upstairs it's going to be a series of questions that are going to be asked one of the questions that's going to be asked is i'm doing an ashkenaz and then i'll attempt this fire see pisa yeshua or you guys would do something like sipita lea la la so did you what does that mean cpt show what does it mean where are you listen to the literal words sippis yeshua did you look for and long and expect yeshua a salvation why are we limiting it only to mashiach do we expect a salvation that god is going to save us in whatever circumstance we may find ourselves do we look forward to it is it real to us do we expect it or are we sometimes even shocked when we get the salvation anybody been to a circumstance where suddenly there was a salvation something happened unexpected and you were shocked you're like what how did that i needed that paper and you showed up exactly when i needed it i was trying to meet you and there you are you walked right into my building wow that i needed a particular doctor and and it just they just showed up went what like what's going on over here well let's think about it if it's see pizza yeshua if we anticipated it anticipation is a yearning and an expectation for something then when it arrives we're not shocked we're a little frustrated that it took so long we're waiting for you where you been where you've been see peacefully yeshua did we await and yearn and long for salvation we're going through a challenge in our life do we wait for it i want to tell you an amazing amazing concept of of what that of what that is and this is a um okay i wrote the name of yosef engel as a beautiful idea of understanding something i was just thinking about this past this past tatter day because i can't say it so here this past saturday this past saturday this past shabbat i was thinking about someone said he's walking home from shul tell me like tell me like a novelty a new idea what you're thinking i said i'll tell you what's on my mind that i'm thinking about parashat vayeshev it wasn't was a few weeks ago but i'm thinking of the story of yosef we know the story of yosef and yosef he's taking joseph for the technical coat everybody knows the story right i saw it on broadway and then you came outside and it was very bright so you always say the technical code what happened i forgot to tell you a story i'm going to come back to you clean that there i want to tell it joseph the technical code what happens joseph gets taken by the brothers he gets sold by his own brothers he gets taken to prison anybody ever been in a very small confined area you ever been on ll anybody ever flown anybody no you you ribs now you know what you mean by ribs right you go ahead and you and you fly you fly in a place where it's uh it's uncomfortable you know you're stuck imagine being in a pit khalil god forbid but you should never know you fall into a pit god forbid and there's food that you could survive a year two years five years seven years eight years nine years ten years what this is after being sold into slavery working at someone getting framed set up thrown into prison for something you didn't even do and now you end up in prison let me out i knew nothing i'm innocent yeah that's what they all say or they said it in egyptian i know you don't understand it means that's what they all say right and they go ahead and they throw them down into the pit and there he is and after many many many years comes the well-known story of the bartender and the baker what's the story of the bartender and the baker well they also get thrown in prison the bartender in the baker and when they're in prison they're in prison joseph sees one day that they don't look too happy they look a little bit upset so he says what seems to be a problem he was israeli as well what is the problem i'm thinking about him like that anyway what is the problem i do not care 100 what i say this is true listen you can fight it doesn't make a difference you'll be praised to be rabbi there's a play okay so what happens joseph goes in and he sees them and he says what's the problem oh no i had a dream we had you know each one if you know the story you know it if you don't then you don't i mean it's yeah right but it's worthwhile to look into it and he has a conversation with them and he says what's the issue our dreams we have known to explain it let me explain it and he explains the dreams to them after he explains the dreams to them he says yeah your dream means you're going to die three days they're going to kill you that's the other one says your dream it means that you're going to live in a few days you know what's going to happen it's going to be the birthday of paro which is the only birthday mentioned in the torah the only time we talk about compliance is in in this in this idea says the omo let it shalparo the birthday apparel and we have other days of people being born but it's not called like that they're gonna make a party so the three days you're gonna go ahead so just next time you make a birthday party you should just know the origin just saying comes from pharaoh and egypt you know so just keep that in mind and if you can get some sort of serpent you know everything will be fine so what happens he goes ahead and he says in three days time you're going to be taken out you're going to be put back and reinstated in your post this is what he says to the ball tender so the ball tender says yay that's great and yosef then says to him the dreadful words if you could just do me a favor you're going to speak to pharaoh you know what i mean you're going to speak to like the top of the top you're about to be just could you remind him i tell him like i'm here i didn't do anything and i'm stuck in prison it's just not fair could you please go ahead and just tell him that i'm an innocent guy did nothing wrong remember me and we'll move on and what happens the guy gets out and he forgot about him he totally forgot to tell him and yosef ends up going and getting stuck in prison for another two years that's a little bit intense why'd he get stuck in prison for another two years so various answers of yosef engel explains you know i got stuck in prison for another two years see there was a lack of faith on yosef's level on the level of your safe right known as like the level of where he was at he should have more faith now what does that even mean he should have had more faith you can't do loot you can't you're not going to put effort in what it's sadiq should just sit back just like this don't eat food don't sleep don't anything i mean you know he mate you're gonna just leave the guy like this and whatever you're gonna die what are you doing in some canaanites right what's going on so he's not allowed he's not going to ask for help so if you're saying if angel explained of course you could ask for help okay then why'd he get punished why do you get punished and why two years so the concept of two years we find actually also by parsa shalak by the story of the miragulim by the years by days being years it says they got punished they have to wander the desert for 40 years because of the idea that they they traveled the land of israel for 40 days then they spoke negatively about it so every day ended up being a year and the end of 40 years okay but what did your safe say to the guy in how many days are you going to pyro in three days you're gonna be saved so why two years get punished for three years it's three days and he what's the two so he explains a person is allowed to do a shadloot you're allowed to do your put in your your effort but it's supposed to be practical and you're not meant to worry you do what you got to do in life and why are you worrying about it take care what you have to take care of without worrying you'll say if you're telling the guy today to remember to remember you why are you telling him today what can he do to help you today he's only getting on three days if you want to say it say it on the third day when he's actually leaving so therefore one of the days wasn't the problem this one day he has to say it but you said it two days early so because he said it two days early each one of those days you got punished now and you end up being in prison for another two years now how to no that's not my thought my thought was did you ever stop and think if he got another two years slapped on solitary confinement you got another two years left on what if he wouldn't have said anything then what would have happened what would happened if he wouldn't have said anything he wouldn't they got punished if he wouldn't get punished and when would he have gotten out of prison three days later do you realize he was on the cusp he was at the end he just didn't realize he was at the end and therefore he did something to try to make things go quicker without realizing schweiashuya just hold on to the days it's almost there but then he spoke up and boom it got added on which means if your safe hadn't have said anything he would have got out right there do you understand he's sitting there watching these guys getting their salvation right one of them died it wasn't his salvation right but the other one ends up coming out and becoming going back to this post so he says if you just would have not said a word yourself you would have gotten out with him how do we know because it says that two years later he came out when rosh hashanah and he got whisked out which is interesting quickly very fast he didn't have time to even think he quickly went he shaved his shower they got ready and they went up to go meet with pyro for the first time powerful things sometimes in life we look at it at this dark it's hard it's challenging but just hold on hold on relax hold on hold on just take it easy and could you imagine what was going on in shamayim you're safe it's like in three days you're going to go free and the malachim upstairs all the angels they're hedging bets what's going to be with jose he's going to say is he going to say and then he goes could you just remember me and then half of them come like oh why'd you say that no one was like pay up pay up you know pay up what's craziness what's going on just don't say a word what are we complaining we have to be practical we have to be practical and take practical steps but everything in the right time everything at the right time chill chill not easy but when that right time happens bam it happens quick oh my goodness it happens quick quicker than we can even imagine let me share with you a story a story this is an amazing story i'm going to tell you one story i'm going to bring together going to recap an idea we spoke about i'm going to share with you one more story and then eso blind out there here we go the story is the well-known story of nakamise gamsu many of you have heard this story before perhaps all of you it's just good to hear it again and to get the details a little sharper the story is that one day the jewish people wanted to send a gift to the roman caesar they wanted to send them a gift they decided who are we going to send the gift with so we'll send it with nakham ish gamzu why'd they call him nachm because that was his name but why ish gamzu the man of gamzoo because he was a person who would say gam zu letova this too is for the best this two it's for the best there's two it's for the best they said he's a guy who's got miracles lots of miracles happen with him we're studying with him okay so they go ahead they go and they send it with him and he takes it and he makes his way he stops off at some hotel if you have to say like a jewish person then he stopped at an not sure what an inn is i never got the end thing but he stopped off at a hotel motel six seven eight whatever probably one at the time motel won and we stopped off there he had this huge treasure chest loaded to the brim we're talking about fit for a king's point so what happened they go ahead and he takes the treasure chest he puts it on the side and a bunch of the people working at the at the hotel they notice this treasure and they rob him of everything they take it all and they fill it up with dirt now there's actually two gear so to the camera first one is in parentheses does father mean it or no we don't read the parenthesis i don't know it's fine right we don't read the parentheses we take it out not brackets parentheses no i know that but like what does it say again where where exactly are you mentioning what are you six lines up 21a tightness hang on seven lines up i'm not sure but but it's on it's it's over there thank you thank you and right there we have a statement says that when nakam is gamsu saw that they took the money he said gam zu letova but it's in parentheses which means we don't read that part seemingly he didn't know the money's gone so he picks up the the whole thing and he walks towards the king and when he gets to the caesar he puts it in front of him he says your majesty your treasure they open it up it's dirt anybody here ever been to a government office before and you needed to bring documents in order to get something has that ever happened to anyone you ever needed a passport or you need if you're from israel i apologize for bringing up the trauma but there's this thing called the misrata penin right if you've ever had to bring you know you have to get something done if you don't bring every paper that you've ever owned ever owned like i remember one time i brought in a thing and i was like okay here they're like didn't you draw a picture when you were four and a half circles with a little bit of dots i'm like i did where is it no every paper and there's a fear you stand in front of that officer you know who just kind of like i hope i need it for illustrative purposes so you're uh you know the person by the desk is kind of like usually with um occasional glasses thank you it's usually usually something like this you know that it's usually like this sitting and they have it and they go that doesn't happen they got the thing and they go like [Music] yeah and they give you like this look you know like you know yeah if it's america it's like did you bring a patriot the paper with c section d for t a b r eller like did you just say eller it's the 27th letter did you bring it you're like no that's it prison like you feel like you're like what just happened you know i'm just signing up for a library card you know that's it prison and you owe us 27 cents from a book long time ago but it gets intense thank you for that prop thank you do you have a wallet keep your money all right so you got that no homies gum zu is standing in front of this caesar i don't think you understand what that means that means you're standing in front of life and death you're moroccan you know what that means in front of your mom and you know what's gonna happen now what if you don't bring your papers what if you have the right things what's gonna be the answer is what happens if he opens up this thing and it's full of dirt and he says oh no and he goes what are you making fun and stuff watch this ready nakamishi goes this too is for the best and the caesar's like oh is it oh is it now let's see how for the best it is off with his inner intestines you know let's just make this bloody let's go subuku do something here she goes and he's thinking like what that's crazy [Applause] the prophet elijah he popped for noel no one knows where he comes from he just does he comes there he is and he is dressed as an officer of the romans and he says no your majesty these jews they have some stick up their sleeves maybe that's the dirt that avraham avino padres maybe that's the dirt that he used when he went to war tell me about this dirt because you take that dirt you pick up that dirt then what he goes then you take that dirt then what then you throw the dirt and the dirt becomes arrows and he's like yeah right right he goes try it so they go to try there was a certain country that they couldn't beat they went out to war they took the dirt they threw it at it lo and behold they became arrows and they won the war and they came back like now now that we're not going to pull out your intestines and now that we're not going to kill you you can go into our treasure house to come to my treasure house and take whatever you want he goes in he fills it up he takes he's going home he stops by the same hotel he had a two-day stay and checkout was only at four so he goes to the hotel and when he gets hotel they're like apple he's like thank you they say wait a minute where'd you get yeah i got it from the well what did you yeah i gave i gave the caesar whatever i got from here and they're like what they destroy the building they break it down they crumble this pieces they put it into their stuff and they bring everything on a truckload to the on a horse load whatever it was a big horse to the to the uh to the caesar and they go whatever he did it's from our dirt this is it like oh let's try they took it they threw it and the dirt lo and behold was dirt and they killed them it's like a bedtime story you know you end there you say good night little one good night don't let the dirt bite right and then go ahead and what what just happened over there he says listen whatever the lord whatever the lord wants is good this is going to be good pitt don't bam everything ends up being good it's right there your safe was at the cusp it was right there you don't even have to ask for it certainly not early just wait wait a few days and don't worry it's right there bam you're out and that's how quick the goola is they didn't have time for the for the that's all we have to eat well spiderman get to have lavas but ask me matzah why do we eat matzah because we had to leave quickly it happens like pam all of a sudden and they go and they pick it up and they say everyone's out and then let's go and they start to bounce how quickly does the yeshua happen wow the salvation happens quick and nakamise gamsu wasn't like whoa did you see that he was like godzillatova that's good we're going through a challenging circumstance we are allowed to ask for help don't worry i'll be happy to do don't worry be happy most people don't know the middle words but rather we got to take steps here allowed to take step but at the right time at the right time so i want to share with you the story that happened to me it's a personal story hence me saying it happened to me balagun husband of a garden not sure why we're talking about that let's keep going dominoes to the husband so anyway what happened what happened listen to how incredible things can happen out of nowhere when you think like there's no hope and then all of a sudden something happens so i'm going to share with you a story which is i think is a great story it's not one of the stories that i like and then they were you know falling off the airplane and they fell back on never heard a story like that but it's not one of those but it's still i think it's a great deal you know i'll let you judge not me too harshly but please listen to the story as we speaketh israelith is now decided because of this new variant known as phylacteries that every jewish man from the age of 13 must put something on every day to save themselves anyway so because of this new you know we have god is we know the omnipotent and we know he's omnipresent and we know that he created omnicron and so now there's a new rule in israel if you have an israeli passport you're not allowed to leave israel even if you have an american passport it is considered that you haven't you're israeli and you happen to have an american passport i'm not sure how it's legal don't ask me but you know you know we don't ask questions we just we do what we got to do we gotta do it night okay so i just got a problem how'd i get here how's he going i'm going back i feel like cotton i joe seventh inning stretch anyway so anyway how am i gonna get that i'm getting back like what's gonna be right it comes to the toe when was the law when did the law come into effect we're now on thursday this came into effect on tuesday night at midnight tuesday night at midnight it came into effect now i am supposed to be in brooklyn on sunday so because i have that i'm coming in all right to get there on sunday i have to leave saturday night it's a little bit challenging so i'll come for shabbat all right so when am i going to leave i'm going to leave on thursday night thursday night i'm talking about before they made the rules that's when you go you leave on thursday night 11 o'clock 12 o'clock 1 o'clock morning whatever and come coming to america and i come to america at 6 o'clock in the morning if you go jfk maybe take new work end up four in the morning whatever it depends what you do united delta allow so general standard protocol for me is i'm gonna come in i'll get there in the morning and they'll be great i'll leave on thursday night i'll get to friday morning the problem is that they put this new law into effect i can't leave anymore i have an israeli passport and i'm stuck what am i going to do i can't go so maybe i'll cancel it maybe this maybe that and and if you go maybe you can't come back and if you come back and you have to go to a corona hotel living it up at the hotel it's beautiful you get shots all day and you just now they give you pills with it it's whatever you want fine so i'm like okay what am i gonna do so either i cancel the trip i don't go all right go a couple days i'll go before tuesday at 12 o'clock midnight i'll go i'll go before midnight okay so in the end this is what ends up happening i go before midnight i set up a flight i'm gonna take a fight the only problem is the flight is packed there's no room there's one seat left in first class or business it's called polaris on united and you can have it for the grand price of three thousand dollars okay so uh you know i know you look at me and you think of course i know thank you you think of course this guy does not belong on a plane or near any people but i don't know three thousand dollars forget about it you know i'm not even italian but i became forgot about it it's not happening i don't have three thousand dollars to spend on that okay so i made a few phone calls a translation my wife took care of everything but i made a few phone calls they were all to my wife asking did you find something out yet and she ends up finding out there's a flight that's leaving after midnight that's flying to chicago and then from chicago to newark only problem is going after midnight but don't worry because united understands the rule so they're moving it back five minutes to 11 55 so that they can get it in time anybody ever been on a plane before and they actually took off the moment they said they're going to take off there's always five minutes that it's going to mess up and you know what happens in israel like if this is the law you know you imagine i could i was always picturing the scene they're about to take off you know engines on for 11 59. 12 o'clock and all of a sudden you see like almost side the shin bet like there's like they stormed a plane you see like darth vader everybody comes out of everywhere to like attack stop the plane because it's 1201. now everything is contagious you know like you know right now it's like what's gonna be all right so i'm like i really don't want to get on that fight but i'm stuck it's the only flight i can get on so i take it get in the flight they're going to take off 11 55. i decide to go to the airport early when i go to the airport early i'll be able to maybe jump onto that plane security caught me jumping on it was the whole thing i thought i could pull that little what's that guy you know on the side of the plane is it mission impossible whatever i think i could do it you know it didn't end well senator i thought i'll be able to get onto that plane i get to the thing early i get to the del pak i don't know how to say it the counter get to the counter when i get to the counter which now sounds like a kitchen but when i got to what's now definitely sounds like a kitchen right now you're thinking but i get to uh the place where they check you in and um i mean that'll be awkward when you when you check in and i and i say is there any room in the flight the one that's going at 11 o'clock instead of the one that's going 155. they said no no totally full my god game so what can i do but then when you get through that you're totally ready to go to the gate to board i was my flight i think was g8 and the other one was g9 i know you're thinking like a g6 but i i couldn't afford it that was a jet you know what i'm saying it's too expensive so there was a jet there anyway so go ahead i'm sitting there i'm waiting and i see them boarding that plane and i hear them like final boarding final boarding for the flight to newark so i went over to the counter and i said you know maybe do you have standby like maybe i can get onto this fight so they go what do you mean get onto the flight she's like well is there a room in the fight they said yeah there's a few seats i was like those big everyone goes little i'm like those big you know what do you mean this is the other zoom i said okay now mind you you have to understand um i'm wearing a mask right in the airport this is this is what you see you understand yeah i could look dangerous and i get out there with my black hat my sisters i was ready to roll i said let me let me get on they said yes sorry you can't just go on i said why they said well do you have any bags like checked in i'm like no checkmate like no i don't have any bags i have like my carry-on and this young woman is really nice and she really was being very sweet and she says to me in order in order to do that like you have to you have to go through security i said i went through security i said no you have to go through security like for this fight i said it's the same people you know like like what do you think like you're gonna come okay are you on the flight yes uh no okay now are you on the flight still still yes okay fine so what am i gonna do so go ahead and they said i'm mexican you called security i said no it's too late they're all the way back there and then she says okay i'll ask the person next to me this girl is probably in her 30s this other woman's probably 50s or so went over to the 50 year or so woman who was like the supervisor supervisor and said you know and has a little conversation and then i see the dreaded you know it's not going to happen i say okay listen i'm like listen you'll be saving me like five hours like hey i don't have to wait till there and then i don't have to fly to chicago whatever it takes off late what if i miss the chicago thing but you know this is such a favorite because just maybe we could do it and i wasn't even i wouldn't there was no yellings no screaming i was i even spoke in english i just went straight up english i didn't even do like the hebrew thing like shalom you know i didn't do anything like i went straight up with english and they're like i'm so sorry i can't do it i'm like okay you know okay i thought of the gemara nakamis gamzo i thought of gums of the torah i said comes over and you know what hashem could do whatever he wants and he wants it to change it'll change if he doesn't want to change it won't change it is what it is and it's not like the the worst thing in the world i'll take the other flight hopefully some other guy starts talking are you trying to get a plane i'm also trying to get on a plane i'm like do you have a bag underneath he's like oh yeah i do oh forget it all right and as he said that this is 30 seconds after they told me no the woman behind the counter says excuse me i said yeah she goes i'm i'm trying to get you on i'm trying to get you on the plane i said huh when do you ever have in israel where they call you back and say i'd like to help you how can i help you it was like i was like it didn't register i was like you want to kick me she says no no i want to help you i said what do you want to help me so i wanna get you on the plane i said oh she goes yeah i remember you i know you and now i'm like what is going on what is going on here how does she know me you know how does she know who i am and she goes yeah i know you and i'm thinking okay like what because i don't know who she is and i'm looking at i'm thinking like i don't even know like why would you something weird is going on here so she goes again where do you know me from and she says i used to come to your classes in asia torah i was like what is really seemingly israeli seemingly secular seemingly girl i'm not judging anything at this stage i don't know what's happening there's a lot of seeminglys why would you have come to like come to my class and whatever don't make sense girls can't come to these classes this particular can ken they used to have these classes called essentials is open anybody can come in i said why why would this but why would an israeli be there it's in english i don't know like what's going on and she goes yeah i said when she goes in 2008 13 years ago one mask a partridge and wrong thing to say that now and what happens over here unbelievable i couldn't i was like wow thank you fast forward i just let her do her work she did it she says yeah but the other one says yeah you're gonna have to sit in a middle seat though i said okay i'll you know fine you know i'll take it i want to get it right then 30 seconds later you know what we'll work out we'll get you an aisle seat i was like wow i flew the plane wouldn't that be amazing i wish that was true anyway so i go ahead in aisle seat i flew it you know from the aisle anyway so what happens is i end up and i said to her what's your name what what and i would say but i'm a little you know okay somebody's watching nobody really watches my classes anyway i said what's what's your name and she said her name and it sounds like a woman's name also so again judgment she has her name i said oh my goodness blame it all came back i said i know you and she says you do and i can't say how what i said but i said a few different things that it was very clear that i knew she was i knew her and i said i didn't even tell her you don't it's not true it's not from hd you know me she knows me from another place she knows me from nevae she was in the va she was also a niche but that's where she actually first met me she just doesn't realize that i knew about her family life i knew everything it was unbelievable and i went on a plane but i thought to myself how incredible is it that it was closed i'm not getting on this fight it's not happening it's over i spoke to one i spoke to two i spoke and then the security guy came over because they called him from the other whatever to come he comes over he's like okay i'm like okay he's like do you speak english i said i do he said i said okay he said i said okay we can do that he said it's late i said to say they're not going you know and then and then he says ask me like where are you going i'm like i'm going to france the plane's going to newark where you think i'm going you know i didn't say that no way it was in my head though you know but i didn't do that i was like yeah third third your third you know i tell them where i'm going and that's fine and i got on the plane and i made the flight and i was thinking what a crazy thing that it was closed it was signed and sealed i'm not getting on this plane and then bam the whole thing flips around in a moment and she says you're getting on i remember you think of the odds of me being to the night that she's working there that she should remember me and see and i guess i don't know maybe people is there an eye mode or anytime do you just watch eyes how does this work you know like do you want to watch this do you want to listen to this or do you want eye mode you know it's going to be a thing now i'm old you know so so fine i was able to pick that out and yet it ended up happening it's an incredible incredible concept to just think about in our lives it's there the yeshua's are all over the place the sad part of the story is that i was shocked that's the sad part because a moment before i thought to myself hashem could do anything and then he did it and i was like oh my gosh and hashem's like yes it is it is your gosh i'm not sure gosh comes from i think it's a old wooden ship or something anyway so my friends let's put this all together we started off in the beginning in the beginning [Applause] we should never ever know such pain like this shall never know such pain i understand we go through this concept understanding that what happens when a person goes ahead and they go through all these ideas of recognizing of of how there is such incredible uh things that are happening now that can pop out of nowhere it's such a terrible chat what do we say we don't say anything because there's nothing to say we go through this pain but we have to feel it and we've got to go through it and we have to experience it if i said allow them to do it because matter of fact the conservatives don't really know what's going to happen they're going to get passed in the first place right and then we get a little further because the fact that what happens because some of the shepherds gets active who's going to rebuild it but we reveal it we reveal it it's there we are believing the children are believers if they're allowed to have to get the concept to go further and further and get deeper and deeper inside of us and reveal that kind of open my eyes and let me see to really to go ahead and really see the ammunition to be able to understand to attach that concept in the first place how fast does it happen bam it happens tip is the yeshua to come and recognize the fact of what happens here of course everything's the best everything is for the best we don't say that for someone who goes to some sort of trauma never ever do sisters or concepts you don't say such a thing we have to know for ourselves can we feel pain and believe in god of course you can feel pain and believe in god of course you feel better with god you can feel pain and believe in a doctor you can believe that he knows what he's doing and yet still feel pain we have nerve endings and it's normal and we're allowed to and take that in but something to recognize the fact that sometimes we feel that there's darkness in the world but that darkness is not necessarily coming from darkness it's coming because of so much light but we don't necessarily understand that concept because it's very hard to grasp at but we've experienced it where there's so much light that we can't see it's too much it's too much goodness i can't even get it so we say lord almighty you are the truthful judge god you know what's going on we're not saying eventually we will we're going to see everything we're going to get to see the bigger picture and we're going to say baruch even on the things that seemed to be that they weren't so good coming to recognize and look that yosef sadiq just wait a few days got punished for those two days because it was irrelevant to ask now wait the third day and on the third day asked had he not said anything the only way to the third day he would have been whisked out immediately he's right on the cusp it's right there sometimes we don't recognize what's going on nakami's gamzo what happened there he is he brings it all of a sudden everything switches around yeshua's hashem the salvation of hashem happens in the blink of an eye how quick it occurs and then how we got this amazing new law which i don't know it's going to get back i have to go into quarantine i think for seven years i think that's what it is they lowered it though because i'm israeli guys anyways they come to recognize the beautiful things that we have in our life and sometimes that light sometimes that light is blinding which is interesting i heard that's why they say in talmudic terminology what do we call a person who's blind sagi naha which means full of light there's so much light there that we can't even see every one of us in some sense are saginaw we're not able to recognize the goodness sometimes hashem's goodness is so good that we don't even realize what it is let it be rahman al islam as we say hashem save every one of us not to have to go through any sort of tsar any sort of pain we should come to bless you and bless you and bless all of you and bless everyone bless you and you you're all getting blessings you're getting a blessing and you're getting a blessing and you're getting a blessing oh every one of us we should never know pain we should understand only see the goodness and we are told to experience the goodness however if we do find ourselves in those moments of challenge to just stop for a moment give it a second because give it a second before you know it some random lady's going to pop out and say it's okay i know you i remember you you can get on the flight you can get in the fight if there's not hashem we should be able to see the yeshua and hashem is the one who's going to bring back everyone all the badness all the evil it's all going to come back we're going to go and we're going to come with all the positivity in the world and never stop believing those ideas and connect and every time we pray to remember those words remember this concept and be able to get closer and closer and this is finally a thing i could say because i i so it's hard for me to say good every speech ends with and should be you know but but this is the one where i feel like i want to actually say it and this should be the time that we should be say get rid of all the pain yom not serotonin will die we should say no more of this pain and we should bring it in someone want to say kaddish oh hold on one second one more message thank you very much for rabbi okay now i want to tell you that hashem throughout the ages of israel what has kept us it's said and we just have to uncover our amuna personified in that and her mitzvah it seems her special mitzvah and as rabbi crone said it so beautifully on the night of the shiva it was that shemaissa so i decided that i am going to print some shema cards and anybody wants to take say shama shama is right before you go to sleep right before you go to see this is a safari version so we just made it it's paper and it's nothing fancy but if you say it it says that right before you go to sleep that's the dark moment that a person goes to sleep you go to sleep with a munna you walk with him when i wake up wake up and we say actually say shama if you're a boy you say shima four times a day okay if you are a girl you have to say it once and uh maybe once a night before you go to sleep because you should go to sleep because of the torah that's about it but if anybody wants to come and pick one up it's just i did it because i know that what keeps us going is the ammuna and as he said so beautifully so eloquently it's you just have to uncover it and once a person sees it says the last thing you say before you go to sleep says i will give my nashama to you you are hashem please redeem me meaning with me and sometimes person goes to sleep for a few hours sometimes a person goes to sleep for a very long time how do we know this it says um he makes his makes he he basically stopped he he makes he might i don't know how to transit huh fulfills is to those that are sleeping those are sleeping and everybody that's our immuno that those that passed away they're not really passed away because you have people have dreams people didn't pass away they just went to a different place we don't see them zack somebody went to a different city and that's and that's how a person once he says it at night and it says that you'll get a lot of protection a lot of protection and this was her it seems a mitzvah and that's why i took it upon myself to print it and i asked the rabbi of the family and he said it's okay that i do this so anybody wants could take one and if not if you have it if there is a apps i think there's israeli app i said there's one app for shema and if you have it and you say it and that would be a great great illusion for her because that's she i heard a few times over that's that's what she personified in in making people saying the shema keeping the umuna of israel even in these dark a these dark moments now hashem after the will have a minion arvid and there is a reliable refreshments please make a bracha for lailu nishmata and also for the refusal of all those that are not feeling well especially tinoc ben dina batracher should be uncovered we shouldn't be blinded to see the light we should sometimes we should have the right glasses and sunglasses and we should we walk out and we see the light so beautifully and soon the shades you know there are glasses that change the shades by themselves and we should everything should be clear and we should see the light very soon with coming on amen i would like to thank ravi above and the whole kazakh team i would like to thank the family to thank everyone for coming on a short notice and as a shame we should gather for good occasions amen