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tonight we have the covered havoc once
again noted speaker and author of
anachron seltzer
will speak to us on the topic of the
first theme party ever it's my coveter
calling or by salsa for tonight's russia
thank you very much
it's a big pleasure to be back here
thank you for having me
okay so
the the title was a little cryptic i
understand i've gotten this from a few
different directions and as the night
goes on i think everybody will
understand what i mean by the first
theme party okay but i do want to start
with a few interesting things which i've
heard recently when i'm when i'm
traveling when i go places when i'm home
also people reach out and tell me
interesting the kudus from their lives
and bark hashem recently i've heard a
number of interesting things which i
would like to start off tonight's class
with it's going to bring out the point
of going the extra step whether it's
between
if it's between hashem and us or
eritsa swell
we're gonna develop it we're gonna drop
the theme
so step number one
i was in baltimore recently i was giving
i was speaking in baltimore
i was taken around by uh one of the
biggest gun in baltimore is mr frank
storch the very closest
his entire cavanaugh is shimiro of
kaisrow where everybody's thinking about
simasha's
mr frank storch is thinking about how
he's going to protect khaiswal to see
and all the different interesting
security angles but hashem this every
kaiser is full of so many different
people with different kind of minds that
each person focuses on is his nakuda
i'll go upon him
we will walk we were going through
baltimore and we ran into two ladies who
were the principals of a school in crown
heights
and uh mr storch invited them to his
house malava malcolm to bring their
school of girls who are
you know interesting backgrounds come on
crown highs very special school
very special school and they're coming
to baltimore chavez
and he invited them to come to he made
him lava malcolm in his house there's a
house with a suit or a shield on the
property
so i'm sitting in his house mighty
shabbos at the whole very nice shop is
spoke in different places
and
i'm sitting there a few minutes before
the speech
it walks a friend of mine from bay
chambers his name is the back of raven
he's a rush coiler he's calling me
and he says they have to tell you a
story it just happened in arizona
okay so i want you to understand
statistically what's going on over here
two people live in beichamesh
meet in a house in baltimore
about a person to store them with a guy
in akko
for a group of girls who came from crown
heights you know this is statistically
what happened over here in order for
this thing to all come together it was a
very beautiful thing i'll go upon him he
tells me the story and i go in to speak
to these girls and i said i don't know
clearly you have to hear this story for
whatever reason i don't know why but
clearly you have to hear this so i will
start with this story
there's a young man in that system
went through a pretty tough divorce and
he was still not letting it get him down
he was still learning he was stagging
away it was it was hard for him he was
going through a certain you know you
sure him
i'm sure both sides were the maison he's
learning he's doing his thing
one day his father calls him up he says
listen do me a favor i need to want to
go visit my sister's coming from america
to ako she's staying in acco please
drive me to akko
to visit my sister
so he makes a question to himself and he
says
it's a drive of three hours
the visit's going to take at least two
hours the drive back is three hours
we're talking about a good eight hour
trek
it's very hard to do this but he said to
him
i could turn my father down it was very
interesting when i heard this story two
days before somebody called me from
arizona to america tracked me down to
tell me that they feel i should read the
book of my cabinets
two days later i hear this story anyways
time sorry point i'll go upon him so
what happens he says to himself
i'm gonna take my father to akko.
so he drives taco
takes for three hours he parks his car
now narrative swell the way it works i'm
sure most of you have been in there to
start
legally atlanta park and it's a blue
spot blue blue and white that's where
you're a lot of park red and white
you're not in a park now this guy finds
a spot in blue and white parks very nice
he can he thought it's a legal spot and
he goes in with his father visitors out
the visit goes well
two hours later it's almost 11 o'clock
and they go out of the house to go to
the car and he gets to the car and sees
the cop is there he's giving him a
ticket
he doesn't understand why so he goes
over to the cap and he says to him he
says havesha lee says very friendly
conventionally my friend why are you
giving me a ticket
i'm parked in the in the blue blue on
the way that's very good very patriotic
what's wrong why do you give me a ticket
so the cop says to him you don't
understand you you went six inches into
the red
six inches you're extending so the guys
at me says
there's a din room like a kuloi if the
majority is in the right spot majority
is legal we should be battle the six
inches should be bottled to the rest of
the car
so the cop is also he's not from but
he's a town
so the cop says to him oh so you're
saying like this see if i shave off the
first six inches of the car you're good
to go clearly not obviously it's not
okay
what he was really saying was it's
the first beginning of the cards
that's what the cop was really saying so
it was you know you have this machokis
over here
if you should say it's bottle we should
say you know and the cops are very so i
have to give you a ticket very sorry
ticket how much
500 shotgun
guys like i don't understand five is a
sheckle that's a big ticket exactly
how could that be
and especially
and what's my reward a ticket 500
shackle ticket that doesn't make sense
so he has no choice he takes the ticket
the next day he pays the ticket
and he goes on with his life
the next week
the younger man gets a letter in the
mail
from
the courts
he opens it up and he looks at the
letter and it says you
your ex-wife complained
that you came to the house
and you wouldn't leave and they were and
they told you to leave and they did this
and then a whole long thing which never
happened
she's looking at the letters this is
crazy it's never happened what am i
gonna do
the lawyer sent the letter what am i
gonna do and he's looking at the date
he's looking at the dates wait a second
i have proof this has never happened
i was in acco that night it can't be
very good so he takes this ticket
or if he goes the next day to the
courthouse and you shall him and he asks
to see if you can see the judge he comes
into the judge he says
he says i was only supposed to come to
the courthouse really in a few weeks but
there's been a travesty of justice over
here anita we need to actually
set the record straight so the judge
says what are you talking about he says
look look here see this ticket says that
i this this court this claim over here
says i came in this in this state and i
was doing this in this thing but it's
not true and it can't be true because on
that and that date i was an echo
the judge says wait he says you're
making a good argument and i do have
proof your car was in acco but there's
no proof you were a knuckle somebody
maybe somebody drove your car
so the guy says you're right that's a
good point a fair point however
i had a whole conversation with the
policeman
he would remember me so the judge says
if that's the case i'm gonna invite the
policeman down and tell you so live for
marco when i say invite i don't mean to
fight we're gonna bring him down here
are we gonna and if he remembers you
good i'll tell you my name you're off
the hook and if he doesn't remember you
you're in trouble
so let's see
okay the next day
he goes back to the court
and the policeman from akko is there and
the judge says to the police there for
marco do you remember this man
and he's looking at him and he's looking
at him and he's looking at him and he
goes and he breaks that into a big smile
and he says have actually says to him
ruby cakuloi
that's what happened
ruben cakulo i said the judge got all
excited and the judge says okay i see
you talking telling the truth off you go
and the lawyer is in big trouble for
lying like this
and so
a few weeks later
our hero
gets another letter in the mail
and he opens it up and it's on the law
of the law firm
that made that erroneous claim
which the judge threatened to disbar him
because of and there was a check of
compensation for three hundred thousand
shekel in the envelope
three hundred thousand shekel said they
were thinking of himself it was like
you're all worried about your 500
shackle you're paying takers who says
don't worry so much hashem is on your
side
i'll upon him i said to myself this is a
very interesting thing
to go with the extra step for the other
person
let's continue let's take it to the next
level okay that was step one so remember
very nice
okay so i'm on the bus the monthly bus
going into brooklyn
and uh about two days later
after i heard this story
and
i get a phone call there's a person
tracking me down from five towns he
wants to tell me his story
okay
so what's the story it's a beautiful
story i managed holding a story very
very much it teaches tremendously
slightly
in many many areas
so what what's the story
she says my gr i have a grandchild i
have children living in arizona
and one of them was making a bar mitzvah
so i we went down to arizona my wife and
i went to arizona for shabbos
now he says to me i'm not hasidish but i
have a minute of wearing big day
becca
my sister's over my shirt on shops
we get to arizona my wife says to me
listen nobody wears a becca shirt in
arizona so do me a favor don't wear the
becquestion arizona
so i said i said listen i hear you mommy
i hear you and i'm willing to
to take one for the team over here but
i'm going to still wear the titties so
we'll make a bashara
i'll i'm not going to be the beginner
but i'm going to tip this over my shirt
see okay
he's a guy likes getting ready for
shabbos early
and he's sitting there in his son's
house a few hours before shabbos he's
all ready for shoppers the titties very
nice is his coogle and his mother
and then his son one of his other sons
calls him up he says listen ta i need a
favor he says what do you need he says i
need to return my rental car to the
rental car place is about five miles
away
you please drive with me
and then you'll take me back to here
he said listen he said dovey you know
i'm i'm ready for shabbos more dressed
with shabbos and i really don't like
going anywhere shabbat said shabbos
he says ty i can't i need your help now
the way it works
when anyone asks us for something which
we don't want to do we're okay with
saying no but when it's a sun it's very
hard to say no to the sun it's very hard
you know he says i need you to do it
it's very hard so he says okay do we
come soon i don't want quick i don't
wanna
now let's do it now he says i'm gonna
come as soon as i can the micey shows up
about hour and a half before shops
he said okay it's five miles away it's
not so far
so they drive to return the rental car
they return the rental car and now
they're driving back to the house
about an hour before shabbos the driving
there's a lot of traffic on the road a
lot of traffic he feels all nervous you
know it doesn't have shabbos if you're
driving the the little hand is just
clicking around over there and your
heart is just beating faster and faster
anyone who's ever been stuck on the road
and i know shoves a terrible terrible
feeling
i'm going to go off topic for a second i
don't know if any of you read the book i
came out with recently encounters with
greatness about the new york of travis
and he writes in the book uh he told me
how when he was a buck he'd just be
coming from and he went to brooklyn for
shabbos and he and he got stuck with the
train broke down out of shabbos and he
was mama seeing a situation where the
trainer's mama's breaking down and he's
waiting and it's like
like
almost shabbos and you can imagine for a
regular person for a guy who you know
any person but for a guy who's a fresh
balchuva you can imagine what it was
like for him he didn't know what to do
himself he's thinking should i take the
emergency thing and break through the
window the train and jump off the track
what do you do but finally the train
started going again and dropped him off
in brooklyn
now he's two minutes before shabbos he
doesn't know what to do he has a bag of
money what's he going to do so he gets
off the train he looks and he sees uh a
sign this is tony's bowling alley so he
goes to tony's bowling alley he says he
got comes in here the sound of the pins
hear this you know very nice i smell the
bowling alley and he goes where's tony
say big tony says tony listen i'm a
religious jew
and i need a place to store my
belongings the sabbath is is coming in
right now can i please leave this bad
guy i have money or can i leave it with
you and tony says to him listen i'm
happy to do you a favor i'm not taking
any responsibility no cries
tony says okay but anyway yeah you get
the idea okay so he says that's fine i
have no no better choice i thought he
takes him into the office and he leaves
the bags leave it over here and he said
i'm going to come back might say shabbos
and mighty shout outs
the bucker he comes back to the bowling
alley he tells me i walk into the place
of the shambles the the glass where they
keep the trophies is broken the machines
were on their sides bowling balls
everywhere i said
no the lights were dim
and i saw tony walking around in the
wreckage and i said tony what happened
he said they broke they broke in friday
night and they destroyed my place
and he takes me into the office and he
says i want to show you something in the
office was my bag he said the only one
thing in the whole bowling guy that
wasn't touched was your bag he said
the money is left nobody touched it you
have a great god he says to him that was
travis introduction to to being a yin
i'll come on side point okay anyways so
our friend from the five towns is on the
highway in arizona and it's mama show me
shabbos
and then he gets a flat tire and he
pulls off the road into residential
black in arizona middle america they're
all sitting out on the porches very
smack and he pulls it aside and he says
what are we gonna do
we got about four and a half miles to go
till we get home what are we gonna do
he doesn't have a phone he's ready for
shabbos he says to son you have a phone
he says i do have a phone but it's dead
so you have to recharge it so he charges
like
it never felt so long to recharge a
phone every second finally recharges and
they called the house
nobody answers probably taking pictures
in the backyard
garnish he says okay what are we gonna
do all right i see a family across the
street the mccarthy's are sitting across
the street and go over and ask them if
you can get a ride he crossed over the
street the mccarthy's are sitting on
their porch he says hello how you doing
my name is so-and-so i live here in here
but i'm stuck oh and the sabbath is
coming would you be able for pay to
drive me four and a half miles to the
synagogue
so mr mccarthy says to him i'd love to
help you we are also god-fearing people
however my son has to get to little
league i'm a do i have to get to ballet
camp and i can't take
i'm very sorry
goes back to the car and then another
car pulls up across the street next to
them
and he goes over and he says to this to
the people would you do me a favor and
please explain to them the same
situation and they said we really want
to help you but our kids go to space
camp and the other kid has to go to buy
corn chips and it's punching out the
gear we want to help you but we can
so he's stuck there and he says to sell
we have no choice we're going to leave
the keys under the wheel and we're going
to just walk to shore four and a half
miles
what are you gonna do as he's standing
there about to walk away a little
compact car pulls up next to them
there's an african-american couple
sitting in the front seat the little
baby in the back seat
and the window goes down
and the driver looks at this
yid and he says to him what are you
doing here so close to shabbos he says
true story
so
the guy is looking at it like he doesn't
understand what are you talking how do
you even know about this he says i know
i go to khabar to help them out i know
he says how'd you know i was jesus well
you're wearing the big scissors on your
shirt he says i know
he says what are you doing here he says
well my car broke down i got it i got
you know he says i'm going to drive you
to show
so he gets the guy gets out and he takes
all the stuff in the backseat he puts it
in the trunk he says get in the car
he gets in the car
and he sees the guys rabbits is all
excited also it's like sometimes you
know a guy wants to hustle but the
wife's not into it here the rap they
both throw into he says to the rabbits
he says so be a beautiful thing both of
you
it's very nice
she's like yeah we're very happy with it
he drives him to show and he gets there
walks in as the husband is saying he
the beautiful shabbos you could imagine
the hoibi shabbos he made it just in
time
and mighty shabbos he goes back to get
to the they take care of the car and he
goes back to that black residential
neighborhood and he's standing there
he's thinking to himself is this is my
friend the african-american guy is he
going to come by and take me and maybe
you'll say hello am i going to see him
again
he's there five minutes and the guy
pulls up
he says howard shabbos he says shabbos
is great thank you so much. and they
have oh schmooze
and then he says to the guy he says he
becomes serious and he says i want to
tell you something
you don't know what you did for me
and
the african-american looks at him and
goes
no
you don't know what you did for me
now i don't know what he meant by that
but i could tell you that he was talking
the truth because this guy has no chance
of keeping shops
he can't keep shops
but he was gauram that a year kept
shabbos you know what sakhar he has in
chiamayan because he was going off such
a thing you understand
and they say that
it's the opposite here you think he's
doing your faith you're doing him the
greatest favor because he brought you to
shul in time for shabbos
he made a tremendous impression on this
person
don't know what you did for me no you
don't know what you did for me you
understand this is really the way we
should look at every interaction we have
with a person in life a rebbe thinks
he's teaching his classroom but really
the kids are allowing him to teach torah
the person that comes to get sadaka
you're giving saddam you're helping him
out no he's giving you money for the
next world every way we every
interaction we have should be looked at
through the prism of no you don't know
what you're doing for me it's
unbelievable your site
i'm asking okay
so listen to this two weeks later
he's back in brooklyn he came he's
driving in brooklyn
from the five towns and he's parked on
the side of the road and he hears the
knock on the wind he's busy in his car
doing something there's a knock on the
window he looks up and there's one of
our box finest standing there i didn't
mean the police but one of the one of
the guys there usually you know wants a
taco and he makes the the worldwide
gesture
the the you know the gesture
anyways the guy not impressed and he
knocks on the window again
i don't have hamnest
again he knocks in the window he rolls
down the middle he goes what do you want
he says listen can you do me a favor
i can't walk he looks out the window see
the guy attacker can't walk he's can you
drive me to show him a shabbos
and he remembers that shabbos in arizona
a few weeks before and i needed a ride
he says for sure jump in the car and the
guy gets in the car
and he drives at the shoima shabbos
and he drops him off
and the guy looks at him and he says to
him
you don't know what you did for me
and he looks back at him and he says no
you don't know what you did to me
you don't know what you did for me i'm
telling you rabbi said this is mama so
you're sorry for life in every
interaction
it's mama's the opposite we always think
like we're doing it's who says who says
we're the one maybe the other person's
mom is the one doing it such a
tremendously sight
so that was the introduction to where
we're going to right now and we start
off with the biggest theme the first
original theme party in history and what
are we talking about so in order to
understand this we have an introduction
to this to the to the sheer to your site
with
the sixth day war in the sixth day war
eretz israel was very scared the country
was very scared that they were going to
be
overtaken by all the countries wanted to
destroy every last jew
and within a very short time there was a
tremendous miracle
some say within the first seven minutes
of the war when eretz has thrown the
israeli air force managed to destroy the
planes of almost the entire egyptian air
force in seven minutes myself if you
want to look at it tremendous tremendous
nissan
and the israeli ambassador to the united
nations
evan was the ambassador and at one point
during the war rav gifters
sent a letter to abba eben and he said
i don't understand why you're not taking
this
opportunity where the whole world is
looking at what's going on everybody
wants to hear what you have to say to
say thank you to the replenisher
he responds it's the policy of the state
of israel never to mention this in
public we don't talk about this in
public
on the other hand
let's go back a hundred years ago
to shaliah
so if zona fell
the rub of you shall i
am just the opposite
approach
what would what what am i talking about
so back then the you the internet you
shall i am here
that there's going to be a new british
high commissioner coming territorial
and he happens to be even from
i don't know how from he was he was from
sir herbert samuels
was from
and they're excited about this maybe
he's gonna understand them better
so
he comes there to stroll he sells into
his official residence and at some point
the british high commissioner wants to
meet with the different leaders of the
religious communities inertis raw
so he has his people contact he wants to
meet with he meets with the
cr with the catholic church with the
greek orthodox church the
russian orthodox church the ethiopian
church the with the muslims and after he
meets with everybody he wants to meet
with the with the chief rabbi
he has his people contact the the
volatiles the answer is on the field
there's a time
the british commissioner wants to meet
with you he says okay he could come no
problem they said how do we say this
politely your house not so nice we can't
maybe we can move you for the visit he
said what i invited him he invited
himself if he invited himself let him
come to my house this is my house they
said okay but you're like all the way
down to the basement of the clerval we
should move up to the top floor he said
i live in the basement that's where i
live
they said okay but could get some new
furniture he said why this is my house
what are your new furniture they said
can we at least put a new tablecloth on
the table he said that you can do
fairhead yarn comes the day of the visit
and the british high commissioner was a
very tall man
comes to the house and he has to crouch
down to go down the stairs to get into
the home wherever he is out of the
palatial home of israel and he crouches
down and he and he gets into the house
and rabbi yosef offers him a cheer
and i heard this from his great grandson
he told me that the chair my grandfather
offered was a chair wicker had these
little holes in it you know those chairs
with little holes so when the british
commissioner sat down on the chair
suddenly the whole thing collapsed and
he fell on the floor
and he fell you can imagine the british
high commissioner fell on the floor it's
like i'm not sure what the equivalent
would be maybe the speaker of the house
comes to you and he's collapsing on the
floor and rabies have said
to he said you know when yaakov aveedo
came to aramario
so we know that he gathered together 12
stones around his head for protection
and and as legend has it they all they
wanted they all wanted to have the head
of the savak on them so they all became
one stone
she said
here too all the holes wanted to have
the honor of you sitting so there became
one big hole and that's what happened
so the finish line commissioner looks at
rabbi
couldn't you have found
a less fancy home to live in i mean this
place is just such a splendid edifice
so israel walks him through the window
he says look out the window he
says if there wasn't it used to be you
could look straight out
and you could see harabayas
so many years ago a few thousand years
ago this was the house of a kurdish bar
who he says that
the house of hashem
but today
other people are there they they put
their animals there they play soccer
there
and he says to the british high
commissioner if god has no house in this
world you want me to have a better house
than god
and the british occupation says i
understand rabbi i understand
and he left and that was the visit
that is very special i mean
it's not just talking about
ravenous shalom this and much of that
you actually
don't want to live in a fancy house
because hashem doesn't have a house in
this world that's like the real thing
it's like really doing for akades marco
in this case okay
so i would like to tie together we just
went out of tishbo we're going to elbow
i want to tie together a purim and
tissue above your sight
put on what is purification above so
let's talk about it two questions to
start with
first one a very famous question
was the issue what was it was it from
the tribe of yehuda was he from the
childhood
that's a famous question everybody
answered everybody has different answers
that's the question number one we're
going to come back to
question number two
when the schweppem comet stands before
joseph atzadek
and you also had sadiq manipulates the
situation
that
binyamon finally comes to him
and benjamin is finally standing in
front of his brother and yo
looks up at yom and he says to him tell
me it must be nice having brothers who
care about you right it's gevaldic
schmack says yes it's very nice he says
tell me are you how old are you it tells
him how old he is are you married yes
you have children i do
hashem how many a bunch what are their
names and you yum it says
and these are funny names
where do these names come from i've
never heard names like this and beyond
tells so we're going to come back to
this what are these names imagine and we
take these names great names to the past
we bring them back you get married you
have twins you call them muppets
it has a very nice right why don't we we
should bring these names back so what's
what's shot with the names binyamin
called his kids
so now the gemara mcgill it tells us a
very interesting discussion between
them and the tamidim common they ask
their teacher
why was it that the year delivering the
time of the purim story which i have to
be destroyed what did they do that was
so bad everybody asked themselves this
question what was so bad what did they
do that was so bad so shivakai answers
them why don't you tell me he's a good
rabbi he says why don't you tell me
you must have given some thought to this
question why don't you tell me so they
said because the year didn't enjoy
themselves at the suit of atheros
so he says to them okay that explains
why the evening of shusham would be
destroyed what about the rest of the
world what did they do that was so bad
so this is them didn't know the igmar
says to me
he says i'll tell you why and it's a
very interesting answer and the reason
why the indian of the whole world
to be destroyed merit of destruction is
because they bowed down to the statue
of the vulcanettes
many years earlier
today it's on a glance it seems like one
thing has nothing to do with the other
so what was the background
45 years earlier
erects a statue in the valley of duro
and he orders all the population of the
world to come and bow down to the statue
and the brooklyn was king of the world
and everybody had to come and they all
come and all of the yiddin bowed down
all of the unit except for three people
michelle and azaria do not bow down
and they refuse to give it to the
pressure so tell me to say wait a second
if claudia bowed down
to the statue they should have been
completely destroyed for real
why doesn't kurdish borough who agree to
drop the charges
if they did something wrong punish them
if they didn't do something wrong what
are we talking about it now 45 years
later
says no didn't really mean it didn't
really mean it
they were faking it they were pretending
because of the danger of disobeying
them also pretended he took the threat
level and he stopped
let's make satan i don't understand
what is the fact the jewish people bowed
down to a statue 45 years before the
purim story have to do what's happening
45 years later makeshif what's the
connection
what kind of an answer is
giving us
and if the jews who bowed out to the
statue didn't really mean as a way to
zaro why does hashem threaten them with
total annihilation 45 years later what's
going on over here what kind of an
answer is this
so in order to understand what's going
on
we have to we need to take a step back
in time
to look at the gallus that began seven
years earlier
what did the jewish people look like at
that point
so fortunately for us
we have a poignant
verbal portrayal in tehelem
explains exactly how claishwa looked
when this was all going down
right if you look at chapter 137 on our
above on the right around this time of
year everybody every camp sings it on
ours but before benching we all remember
the words
it's mama's a description of claudius
going into ghosts that's what 137 is
by the rivers of babylon we sat and wept
as we remembered seoi there on the
willow trees we hung up our harps for
there our captors asked us for songs our
tormentors for amusement said shirou la
nu mishir tsuya and sing us the song of
sioi
and the people respond
nashir
why how why not we won't how because the
first time tell us they were the levium
who broke off their thumbs and they said
sorry we can't do we have no thumbs you
want us to play how can we do it we have
no thumbs
so there you have it an absolute refusal
to come to terms with an alien land
that's what was going on over there in
the words of al-naris bhavel is claudio
saying we will never forget yerushalayim
that's what it is
it's at that great moment claistro took
us
that has become
the hallmark of every year it has
accompanied us through galas at every
wedding we say these words
if i forget you you will shall i him may
my right hand forget its skill may my
tongue cling to the roof of my palate if
i do not remember you if i do not set
you shallaine above my highest joy
a ragged disoriented nation
engulfed by sadness and anguish
over the loss of their beloved basel
mikdash
fearing they lost the love of hashem
forever
they're in an alien place not a home and
they will never ever make peace with
their newfound reality
fast forward seven years and what do we
have
fast forward 70 years the internet are
sitting and enjoying themselves at the
party of achashverosh and there's
something original about this party
what's original about this party
everybody
it's a theme party
this party is a theme park today it's a
normal thing it's a couple to have
themes at parties hello kitty craze
whatever it is that you're you know
whatever your kids are into at that time
place baseball i don't know whatever
your theme is
it's a theme party you walk into the
party the band is dressed like levier
the waiters are dressed like kohanim the
king is sitting in his way in the big
day of the korean goddam
on every plate there's a little
menorah made out of chocolate
and a little chocolate man out of jelly
and a little key or made out of marzipan
little party favors
it's very nice very good schmack
celebrate because according to his
calculations
70 years the babylonian exile came to an
end and your yo was wrong and the you
that are never going back there to
strong and the king and the homo sat
down
and they were celebrating now i'm going
to ask you a question anybody in this
room have relatives who went through the
holocaust
anybody here yes i see one yes two many
people how long ago did the holocaust
happen
70 years ago now if you go to a party
and you sit down at the plate there's a
little gas chamber made of chocolate or
a little
oven made out of jelly how are you gonna
feel about that
not so good i think you would get up and
leave
because it was but it was 70 years ago
so long
it's not so long 70 years we remember it
like it was yesterday there were people
alive today who were there 70 years ago
i remember it
how did that happen
that's the question we have to ask
ourselves
and that's what i mean by the first
theme party
what's going on over here
some
students aren't just referring to the
idiot who lived in susha because the
university are representative of the
eden of the whole world because nobody
wanted to go back
everybody was very happy and comfortable
they said well we're going to go back
there just it takes 20 minutes to eat
about water for a shower forget about it
we're staying right where we are nobody
wants to go back
they made peace with their exile
and
adds the following line he said what
you're saying is true this was the cause
for this bark who was threatening them
with complete destruction but when he
asked this the question you have to
always ask yourself it's a biscuit
question
where's the the nakuda where it all
began
meaning they left there to struggle they
cried they're never going to forget
after all but now seven years later they
had a party with the whole few of the
parties they don't want to go back so
when did that happen where's the point
where it changed
says
when did the disdain for the past begin
at what point did the jews go from
crying over the destruction of
submission to enjoy such a party what
was the error that began the process of
alienation of american soil
what was the compromise there's always a
compromise what was the compromise
what can we point that and say that's
when it all began
and the tamiden didn't know it says i'll
tell you where i'll tell you where it
happened i'll tell you where the point
of compromise was where the tragic error
was
the problem started the shift
in the jewish mindset began at the time
the jewish people bowed down to the
vulcaneza statue
45 years prior to the purim story that's
where it all began
if you're searching for a turning point
for a fatal error
for a point of compromise
that's it and i want you to picture the
scene we're going to go we're going to
describe the scene everybody the evening
commercials for the booknet palace
you're listening to the radio one more
six o'clock the news comes on beep beep
beep beep you'll see the voice of bubble
the reporting speaking for the palace
the bucharest has ordered every single
member of the
empire
should go to durham prostrate himself
before his statue on pain of death if
you don't do it you're gonna be killed
imagine you hear that in the new on the
news in the morning you know you're like
yo you're on the radio and out of the
white house you know like imagine here's
such a thing what do you do there's a
statue erected in wisconsin everyone has
to go bow down to it what are you gonna
do
so what do jews do
so every of course immediately the jews
of barvel run
to the rabbanim
they run to the asconi
what should we do how do we handle this
situation
immediately they go and they ask advice
instruction
shout out to chubas what do we do
and the robotic begin to write shout
outs to troubas of how to deal with the
situation
the rcb or medical council above will
meet to discuss the challenge facing
them the orthodox you know babylonian
rabbis comes together to deal with the
crisis
the babylonian jewish council has
convened for a giant meeting of all
organizations what to do
jews around the world look to their
leaders for guidance
outcome the pisgah lacha of the day and
i quote the rcb the biblical council of
bubble bowing down to the
statue is mutter it is not avoided
the bjc the statue is the glorification
of the king it is not available on the
contrary the law of the sadina applies
it's a mitzvah gobel down gevalde and so
on and so forth what makes it all the
more interesting is the fact that
does not disagree he doesn't disagree
with the psychological he doesn't say
they're wrong
but that wasn't the issue what was the
issue it wasn't the issue wasn't whether
it was muther to bow down to the statue
there were three individuals walking the
streets
saying over our dead bodies we won't bow
down to this thing whatever you want to
call it
zara and darth or licorice call it what
you want we're not bowing down to it why
not it's not avoid the zara right there
are bottoms up
it's not the issue
we will not bow down we will not
prostrate ourselves in front of anything
which is reminiscent of aveda zorro
all we care about and fear is a
kardashian and we will not compromise
with the realities of godless
i quote the babylonian jewish press's
response to their fanatical stance
those three are canoeing said the bjp
babylon the jewish press those three are
kanoyim and as such do not represent the
jewish community we did not agree with
them we did not concur with their
judgment we do not condone their actions
they are fanatics
and as such they do not represent the
mainstream of the jewish people
do not care what everybody says
they do not listen not even for a second
and they were thrown into a burning
furnace and a miracle occurred and they
were saved
the moment the jewish people made the
collective decision to bow down to the
buchanan statue it was the beginning of
the end
we had been granted hectarium it was
true leniencies are allowed about that
it's not about the zara but being
willing to bow down to something other
than a kaddish boroku means you're
allowing yourself to forget what a
goddess barkle means to you that's what
it means
you're allowing the relationship to rust
and tarnish
and that's the beginning of the end it's
a fatal compromise it means you have
decided that bavel is now your own
native land
that's what it means
and by the way again you're not going to
get punished
you're not going to get punished for
bowing down to the statue because it's
not over zara but don't be surprised if
you end up at a party 45 years later
where the theme is you're not going back
that's a throne nobody's punishing you
for what happened
but don't be surprised don't be shocked
afterwards that you ended up over there
because there was a moment where you
compromised and when you compromise on
something it always ends up somewhere
else that's the way it is that's the way
of the world when we compromise on
something small we end up down the road
compromising on bigger things as i get
this
if schneck cutler spoke at a dinner
toronto many years ago and he said the
following line in nomin funtat in the
name my father abarani said that yeshua
fradar the salvation of a generation
cannot come in dark there can only come
about through someone
who wasn't
together with those who committed the
sin of the generation
it doesn't matter it's not the point i
will not compromise that's the vert
how come he's not prepared to bow down
this when
god's classroom gave in why is he not
willing to do it it was that if
he had been turned
back to
to shusha and murkham is exhibiting the
same exact behavior he refuses to bow
down he won't consider bowing down to
anyone other than akaddish baraku
there's nothing to talk about nothing to
consider only akaresh baku and that was
why morocco was the only person capable
of saving the klaus and leading them to
redemption because morocco was the only
jew in the whole nation
who did not compromise himself in any
way
let's go back to what we asked
in the beginning
here is an inherent contradiction is the
issue or is the ishimini what is he and
the gemara gives us a number of answers
but we can answer them
was the one man the sole individual and
shush and remained faithful to the
shabbat taken by the rivers of babylon
if i forget the o jerusalem may i forget
my right hand my yamini
if i forget the oh jerusalem
is the kind of person that if you asked
him how he feels
he would say not good there's no base of
mikdos you would say can you sing a song
for us you'd say i can't how can i sing
there's no bassaniktosh for him shushan
was nothing and never anything more than
an exile it was a fancy exile it's a
comfortable exile but was nothing more
than that
and he would never make peace and he
would go back to shalom eventually with
ezra
he was an ishimini a man who would
rather forget his right hand is yad
yamin
then forget you shall i for a second
what about the other question we asked
what about the question we asked what
you said sally is sitting with his
brother
and he says to him my brother he doesn't
say my brother he says binyamin
sadako how does it feel without brothers
who love you so much he says it feels
pretty good
tell me something how many are you
married yes you have children yes how
many a bunch what are their names heir
naman aki rush
what kind of names are these she says
i'll tell you he says benjamin says i'll
tell you your majesty i once had a
brother
he was such a good brother he taught me
how to play kogel
he learned with me mishnayas he
introduced me to butterflies mama's a
great brother he took me around
he took me to pierce afternoon
such a great brother
and then one day he went to look at
other brothers and he disappeared
and you know what i miss him so much can
imagine he's telling this to his brother
i miss him so much and he doesn't know
it's unbelievable he says to him you
know what i did so i decided i'm never
gonna forget my brother so what i did to
never forget
every child that i had that came along i
gave him a name to remind myself of part
of an episode of my life that my brother
wasn't there for what is hoop him
i wasn't at my brother's cropper my
brother wasn't at marco but that's koopa
and you can go through he can look up
harass you rashid goes through all the
names
that's the medo of benjamin to never
forget
what you're supposed to remember
to walk out of here
with the idea to take it a step further
for us
for
the people we know
for a
kardashra
to not give in to not compromise to be a
person who doesn't compromise that's a
tremendous goal that's a tremendous goal
so i want to tell you
we have a little bit of time left i want
to tell you a story
so i don't know many of you probably
read a book called incredible and this i
actually a few years ago i stood here
when i talked about this book before it
came out
little did we know where this book would
go the whole world would be talking
about about hashem everybody it's a
tremendous book
but i saw ebay wallace came to me he
said to me listen i want to do another
book and i said to him rabbi wallace i
think we really covered it i think we we
really did it you know
why another one he says no no no there's
certain things you left out i said i
left them out for a reason
he says yes but i want you to put them
in i said but rabbi was we put them in
you may not you might not look so good
he says i know but i want people to hear
the aside that i'm bringing out i'm
bringing out your certain insights and i
want people
that's it
and he insists and i'm like i don't
think it's a good idea he's like no i
want you to do it get to back and forth
if you know who he is you know there's
really no saying no to the man so barak
hashem we're finishing it up second
volume right now incredible the the
missing years but i want to tell you
based on the time we have left
one tremendously side maybe another one
we'll see if we have time
so this is going back to he told me the
following this is also going along with
our theme of taking it
to the next level taking it a step
further not being willing to compromise
of appreciating a person going the extra
step what do i mean he says i became
froome
i became from and now i realize when he
became from he everything he learned he
just he took it like literally he
learned let's say he learned in a year
has to have his farm in his house
he took his station wagon to this farm
store he told the guy in the swim store
take any safer a jewish house needs and
put it in my in my station wagon and the
guy comes like the best sale he had the
whole year
tour like he barely reads he was like he
barely knows anything and he's like the
guy
anything he understood that you have to
do it
so he did everything but on the makkah
but
he's good
there it's not so simple
what if you hurt somebody
what if you don't remember what you did
he says to me
i need you to stress this because it
doesn't matter if you're not from if
you're from you have to
you have to make amends for what you do
in life it's not okay you say you know
what i made a mistake 20 years ago so
it's fine it's not fine he says i wasn't
from i didn't know but when i learned
what to do that's it i had to do it
so what does he do
he sits down in his house and he makes a
list of all the people you need to ask
makhila from
i'll give you a few examples
when he moved into his house in manana
so it was a construction zone a lot of
houses being built at that time and he
says i want to build for my children uh
a basketball court in the backyard i
don't have time to go to the store to
buy cement but a few houses down i see
there's somebody building a house and
they leave all these bags of cement over
there so i said i'll just go there one
night and take a bag of cement what's
the big deal and i did i went there i
wasn't from i didn't know i went and i
took a bag of salmon and i came back to
my ass to build the basketball club
i interviewed
uri zoar for the introduction which i
wrote when they we released this book my
friends we were robbed we did a little
mini bio of his life the same thing
happened to him if you're not from you
don't understand what's the problem why
shouldn't i take something he was in
someone's house and you know there was
like this miniature thing on the table
and walked out the door he said he liked
us he took it with him like why not and
his wife said he showed himself look
what i took and she said excuse me go
put it back he said no why should i like
everything belongs to everyone it's a
communist world she said i will she said
if you're not going to put it back i'm
going to sit down in the road right here
and i'm not going to move and and the
newspaper report is going to come and
everyone's going to talk about the fact
that he's like fine i'm going to put it
back but it's much harder to put it back
than it is to take it he did it though
but that's the point if you're not
religious
everyone says okay i took the bag of
cement i bring it to my house and i
built the i built the basketball court
fine but i don't know who the cable is i
don't know who the guy is i took who
cement is it i'm gonna give it back i
don't know who it was
another thing across the street from my
house is the paradise it used to be par
they small over to soil today you could
barely find pardesian everything's
building but back then and right now
across the stream is that's a big power
dish of oranges and very smack and he
would sit with his with his family on
the veranda at night
and it was some guest and then he
decided i want a fresh orange nothing
more geshmac than a fresh orange right
off the branch you can't get fresher
than that so he goes across the street
climbs over the little fence and pulls
down 10 oranges over the years he
doesn't even know how many hundreds of
oranges he took to his friends and his
family and his guests
and he wants to pay back him he doesn't
know who owns the orchard
another thing
when it came to tiling the basketball
court
in front of his ass they were tiling the
sidewalk at that time
so there was a bunch of tiles sitting
there for the next day he took 15. he
needed to tie the court and now he says
okay i took this guy's tiles i need to
give it back i didn't know i wasn't from
now i'm from i have a yamaha my head i
need to pay it back
so you wrote the guy down on the paper
okay bag of cement
i don't know who the guy is
350 oranges don't know who i have to pay
it back to
sidewalk contractor don't know who he is
he says i once with my friends to a bar
a bunch of my friends we think we got a
beer together and the guys loved the
mugs they were these beautiful mugs he
says he was such great mugs and they
kept them saying what nice mugs so i
just slipped them into my trench coat
when we got back into the car i said to
all my friends i like you so much here's
a mug for you here's a mug for you
i have to now go back to the i have to
find out where they sell mugs how am i
gonna do it he makes a list everything
on a piece of paper writing it down
everything has to be paid back so you're
saying these i put on my refrigerator in
my house don't remind me i don't know
how i'm gonna do it and there's another
aside you don't have to know how you're
gonna do it you just have to start you
don't have to know everything and when
it comes to many projects i don't have
to tell you everyone in the world
in in rochester
you start a project you don't
necessarily know who the people are
going to be in the project the
components you start the project
who sends you along the way he doesn't
know what he's going to do anyways he
says i'm sitting at my house one morning
and i have a friend over and he looks at
this let's listen on the refrigerator
says to me yasi what's this list so i
said i got to tell you a funny story
many years ago i wasn't religious not
that many years by that time i wasn't
religious and um i did a lot of things
which i'm not so proud of today
and there's people i hurt and i need to
pay back these people
he says new you know who they are he
says no so what are you going to do he
says i don't know but i'm gonna write it
down on a piece of paper and i'm gonna
actually do my best i don't know how i
don't know what's what i'm gonna do but
i'm gonna pay him back how i don't know
but i'm gonna do it it's not enough just
to make peace with our kurdish burghu i
need to make peace with people i hurt
you know how many people do this it's
such a huge thing everyone in this room
we all have things we need to make a
mess with the people it's not enough
we're from people but we all have things
and he's the guy i became from he's like
i have to make i have to make it happen
i have to be muslim all the things
anyways he says they go out of the house
him and his friend they get in the car
and we we drive out of the parking lot
and there's a truck blocking his car
they drive out of the driver this truck
and he starts he's not a guy with a lot
of patience he starts honking at the
truck to move the truck's not moving
he's hockey at a move get out of the way
the truck's not going he says i'm
looking at this truck he says to me i
suddenly notice there's a logo on the
truck which looks familiar
so i go i get out of the car i go over
to the window of the truck i say a guy
get your window down i said let me ask
you a question
ten years ago did you build a house two
houses away
he says yes so you're a contractor yes
question
what does it cost for a bag of cement
the guy says i don't sell cement because
i didn't ask you if you sell cement i
asked you what it cost for bags tonight
is i don't sell cement rabbit while it
says i didn't ask you if you saw
somebody ask you what of course he says
why do you want to know he says because
i wasn't always from but recently i
became from and since i became from i
want to pay back people i did some harm
to and it happens to be i took a bag of
cement from the yard over there when you
were building the house he says you're
crazy the guy says tim what are you
talking about says i wasn't from now i
have a yamaha my head now i want to pay
back
how much was it the guy says okay it was
this in this amount he takes that his
checkbook writes a check here you go
thank you very much and as he's talking
to the guy he tells me crazy thing he
sees an old man walking across the
street
he runs over today because he has a
feeling and is inside him that he knows
who this person is and he goes over to
the old man he says excuse me by any
chance do you own this paradise
do you own this orchard he says i do
and robbie wallace says okay great
how much does it cost for 10 oranges he
says i don't sell oranges i sell to we
sell to factories i didn't ask you i
just want to know what it costs like
he says what are you talking about well
to be honest with you for the last 10
years i feel a little bad telling this
to you for the last 10 years every time
i've been sitting on the veranda at
night and i was in the mood for a fresh
orange i would cross the thing jump over
the fence and take and over the years
it's probably a few hundred oranges that
i took he says you think i don't know
people take my oranges the whole
neighbor takes my oranges he says i know
but i wasn't from and now i am i have a
yamaha head i want to pay you back what
do i owe you says i don't understand
you're a crazy man he says maybe so but
what do i owe you he says okay let me
make it
okay very good give me a check for this
okay take that here you go thank you
very much pleasure doing business with
you he goes back to the car to his
friend saying he says you see that's the
way it works you you start you've got
this bar who's going to help you you
have to want you have to want to go
above and beyond you have to want to go
above and beyond we're going to
broadcast people
he says how am i going to find out where
this guy the guy who owns the the guy
who's the contractor for the sidewalk of
ronaldo i'm going to find out so he goes
to city hall
and he comes to the clerk in the
engineering department and he says to
him
do me a favor please go check your
records from 10 years ago
who was the contractor for the sidewalks
on this and this streets right now the
guy says he says seriously you have
nothing better to do than to come and
bother me about this now he says here's
200 shekel go and look in the
engineering department in the plans and
come back to me with an answer he comes
back to me says tim his name is
so-and-so he lives in netanya i think
he's retired now
abby wallace tries to natanya
the guy lives in a high-rise building in
the tanya and he goes and he takes the
elevator up to his apartment he knocks
on the the door and the guy comes to the
door he's a little yemenite guy with a
keeper through god he says tim can i
help you rapula says
yes i think so
are you a contractor yes did you
were you the one who built the sidewalks
in ranana about 10 years ago he says i
did do you remember coming to work one
morning and there were 15 of the
sidewalk tiles missing he says i do
remember it was terrible it ruined my
job because you can't just buy
individual tiles the guy whoever took
them what a terrible person he says i
took them you're a terrible person i
can't believe that he says i know i know
it's terrible but i wasn't from and now
i am i want to pay back how much do i
owe you
he says i cannot believe what a crazy
person who's in front of me right now he
goes to the house he calls his kids he
says i want all of you to come over now
to meet this crazy guy who's sitting at
my living room and all the kids come
over and he says guys meet this person
who stole from me 15 tiles fifth ten
years ago and they say he stole from you
call the police he said no no he wants
to pay it back how much does it cost and
he wrote him a check for a few thousand
shot whatever it cost and he he said he
said this is what it means to do the
shiva
he found the mugs he paid this he paid
back he paid it all back
he says to me and i said to him
originally why why put this in why put
this in
why he says no
i'm not embarrassed
i'm not embarrassed we all have things
like this we all every single person has
things that we need to go above and
beyond to pay back it's not enough to
just say i'm from it's okay no it's not
okay if there's something that you did
you need to fix it you need to fix it we
need to go above and beyond whether
we're murica
who's not willing to compromise in any
way
not going to foreign
whoever we are to go above and beyond if
somebody's there needs a ride to sheima
shabbos you don't know what he's doing
for you he doesn't know what he's doing
you don't know what he's doing we don't
know what we're doing for each other we
don't know who's helping who
who is helping who is the one i'm giving
sadaqa to is am i helping him or is he
helping me because he's taking my tadaka
and i'm going to go to shamayim and i'm
going to have money for shema heavenly
money who is helping you
so i leave you with that question
everybody what as we go through life to
ask ourselves this question in every
situation who is helping who and let's
go above and beyond we should be zaika
to go above and beyond within our
personal
interactions with us our friends our
families god's claims
thank you so much that's lockhart with
everything
making sure you're tired of most
explosiveness
to the salsa for the very inspiring to
russia
a boy sai
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sheer negan should retire and when you
put ad in the journal tell them what's
history or vegan worldwide who
knows who's helping who
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