Rabbi Paysach Krohn - 24 Hours Before Yom Kippur

introduction everybody here about Hashem knows them very well without any further Ado we ask the rabbi please come out first of all thank you everybody for coming the night before Yom Kippur it's a very busy night I appreciate that you all came I thank God by Balinese for allowing me to speak in this Kayla kadosha and of course more than anything else I thank the kazak organization and Ravi office for inviting me to come to speak to all of you foreign I'll tell you something very interesting before we get into the speech many years ago there was a young woman in her early 40s who had a husband who was very very sick and he needed a very serious operation and the doctor said I don't know if I could do this operation I'm afraid because the anesthetic is so strong that he could die on the table so he said to the woman you've got to go to a higher authority somebody that's bigger than me and if he says that I could do the operation then I will do it so she said okay fine and the next day she was thinking who is the highest Authority now of course he meant a greater doctor than him but in those days Rabbi Moshe Feinstein was still alive and her husband had learned 20 years earlier in the colel where Amisha Feinstein so she thought the highest Authority that's what the doctor said so she's gonna call Rob Moshe so the next day the doctor calls her and says did you call the higher authority says yeah I have an appointment with him tomorrow so he said oh who's the doctor she said well it's not a doctor it's a rabbi she he said you're joking right he said no I'm serious you said the highest Authority and mocha finds him to go dollar door he's the highest Authority he says I don't believe it you a doctor is going to tell me whether I should do the operation he says do you mind if I come I can't believe this she says yeah you could come he lives in the Lower East Side I have an appointment tomorrow with my father and you could come 10 o'clock sure enough he comes there and rub my shop interviews the doctor and he asks him all the questions and the doctor cannot get over how much ramushan knows about medicine and finally after he asked the doctors many many questions he asked the doctor many questions he says to the woman you know you told me that your husband learned here 20 years ago I don't remember him do you have a picture of him so she says yeah we were just married at that time I have a picture in my purse he says let me see the picture ramosa looks at the picture and suddenly he remembers who this guy is and he starts crying because he remembered him and this is a young man now with children who's on his Deathbed so when he started crying the doctor says to the mother now I understand why he could make such a decision any Rabbi who could cry about a student that he had 20 years ago God is going to give him the wisdom to make the right decision and you know what Ram Moshe said he should have the operation but he should be macabil something it should be makabel from now on when he makes up he says it out loud so that everybody could say Amen listen to this said how much is amen equal can anybody figure it out Allah 91 and the word malach Angel also equals 91. so how much you said when somebody makes Abraham people say amen they create and these will protect him and when he has other people say and he says amen again amen is equal malach 91. and so therefore that's what he did he was macabell the doctor did the operation and he lived to many years afterwards you know why I tell you this story because tonight I want to create malachim and Roslyn and usually when I speak I owe that's right we all need it and usually when I speak I like to drink so I'm gonna say Abraham we can all say amen and we could create that will protect us in this year should protect us one time I got in trouble doing this one time you know when that was the first time I filmed for the Heritage Foundation you know they show it on tishov right but they film it two months before so you know I'm making this whole speech it's on a video and everything and I'm drinking and in the middle Michael Rothschild who's the head of Heritage he says you gotta stop we gotta do this whole thing over I said what are you crazy did I say anything wrong he said no you've been drinking the whole time and we're showing it on this above so tonight when I get to show it on the show well we're not going to show that you'll keep going okay all right tomorrow night no no video tomorrow night so I want to begin by telling you a fascinating pasok the passuk is in Tanakh and Amos and Amos gimmel pasigas and it says like this if a lion roars Mila era wouldn't you be afraid imagine you're walking on Roslyn Road at Willis Avenue on Powerhouse and all of a sudden you see a lion roaring everybody would be afraid right so the mafashim say something fabulous how do you spell the word Arya aleph rage yud hey you know what it stands for hello Rosh Hashanah yomaki Purim Hashanah rabba isn't that amazing these days are roaring to us shouldn't we be afraid and that's the reason that we come especially the night before Yom Kippur these days are roaring to us these days are asking us that we should think and have mashava of this and try to improve we're all good but we could be better we all know that we could be better nobody is perfect and this is the time especially these days of Elo Rosh Hashanah yomakipurium and ashanaraba so I want to share with you something a personal thought that I think Hashem did this year to make everybody realize a little bit more what Rosh Hashanah is all about Hashem orchestrated we know everything that happens happens at a time only when Hashem wants it two weeks before Rosh Hashanah Queen Elizabeth died now we are not British citizens none of us but I must tell you that when I heard and I read and I watched the kavod and the adulation and the honor and the esteem that they gave to Queen Elizabeth she was the Monarch like a king and a queen so I was thinking maybe Hashem did this before Russia because we have to give respect like the British people gave to the queen we have to give to the king foreign God is the holy king hamillah Hashem is the one who is Holy and makes judgment and we say Mount so what are we doing to show the way they showed the honor to the queen what are we doing to show that we understand that Hashem is the king so I'll tell you something I was in London two weeks ago I came the day after the funeral it happened to be that that's how they planned it and I'm very glad because on Monday you couldn't get into the country because the whole country was closed because of the funeral no planes were going in and out everything was closed but you know what people told me on Tuesday you wouldn't believe a few religious guys told me they took their children to the funeral you know why so they should see King Charles and be able to make up teaches us that if you see a king a real king whether it's a Jewish king or not you're supposed to say Abraham Now in America we don't have a king so we don't understand the awesomeness of a monarch but he was supposed to make Hashem the king and I'll tell you what happened Friday before the funeral you wouldn't believe it Friday before the funeral King Charles announced that he wants the heads of all the religions to come to his office or wherever and he was going to speak with all the heads of all the religions and one of them was the chief Rabbi Rabbi Mervis now the problem was that they made the meeting for six o'clock and Shabbat began at 6 30 so Rabbi Mervis said to the person that cooked him I can't show up because I got to be home for Shabbat so when King Charles heard about it he didn't even call the rabbi he said we're changing the meeting just so that the rabbi should come and he made the meeting for 5 30. now listen to this 5 30 the king gets up all the heads of the religions are there all the cameras are there and the King begins to speak six o'clock he finishes he looks at his clock and he says rabbi it's time for you to go you got to go home for Shabbat imagine that the king of England so listen to what the rabbi said to him your honor it's not the protocol the law of England is when the king or the queen is in the room nobody's allowed to leave you cannot leave when the queen or the king is there you have to wait till they leave you are still here it's not proper it's not the protocol that I should leave and you know what occurred to me it's the same you're not allowed to leave a synagogue when the safetorah is open you can only leave the synagogue when the safety is closed because when the safety is open the protocol God is here right so you can't leave the shore so listen to this you know what King Charles said to him the Sabbath is more important I have a police escort waiting for you go you'll be home for Shabbat he got him home in seven minutes because all the streets were closed so what do we see that when we have covert for Shabbat and we have kavod for the king then oh even the goaim in the world they understand for your umeko that's what the password says when everybody will see that God's name is on you then that will respect you so how do we make Hashem the king I'll tell you two ways the first way I believe that from now on until every time we say whether you put on Talus whether you bench lift you bless the candles Friday night when you say the word stop think for a moment this is my king why am I lighting candles it's not a logical thing why am I putting on Talis to fill in that's not a logical thing I'm doing it only because the king Hashem ordered us to do it he's the king we are the subjects that's why we're doing it so that's why I believe that from now on when we say that just stop by the word malach and realize Hashem you are the king we are doing them in thought only because we are your subjects that's one way he here's the second way which I think is so important but I want to tell you a story that just happened in Israel two months ago zilberstein who Rabbi balance can tell you is the posseque adore he's the one that everybody asked the questions if they have any difficult questions they go to Rabbi Silverstein so he told this amazing story and he told a story like this what happened was that there is a neighborhood that's called Malay Ephraim and that's in the Jordan Valley it's 52 miles north of um yushalayim and it's a dangerous area this 1400 Jews that live in Mali Ephraim and most people don't travel there at night because it's very dark and it's very curvy mountains to go up on that hill but it's a very strategic position that's why Israel took it and they have it as a settlement so it's in the Jordan Valley now what happened was that there was a person his name is avraham and avraham lives over there and every day he would tell people every day he would tell people look when you're in the synagogue you gotta shut your cell phone because if you want to connect to Hashem you cannot connect to anybody else you have to disconnect from anybody else so when you're in the synagogue don't even put it on vibrant because when you put it on vibrate and you hear it's shaking you're going to want to see this somebody sent me a text an email uh WhatsApp or whatever so if you want to connect Hashem you have to disconnect to everybody else and then people will say to them yeah but this is a dangerous area the Arabs are around there he said okay we'll allow two guys to keep a phone on but otherwise everybody shut your phone when you come into the synagogue to pray and avraham he would leave the cell phone even outside the synagogue so now what happened was like this one night avraham and his wife are coming home from your shalayim they're coming at a from a wedding now as he's driving he turns to his wife and he says I think we're being followed she turns around she doesn't see anything behind the car she says I don't see anything he said the lights are closed behind the car behind us they're keeping the lights closed they don't want us to know that we're being followed so she says well why don't you just make a left turn off the highway and and see if they follow and that's what he does and they also make a left turn now they're very scared so he begins to speed up and they speed up and it goes down a hill and they go down the hill all of a sudden shots ring out and they're firing at avraham's car and the back window was smashed and he goes very quickly around the curve trying to avoid him and he says to his wife open the door just get out of the car roll down the hill I'm gonna do the same thing I'm gonna shut the lights so that they won't know where we are she takes out her cell phone and she calls the police however you call the police 9-1-1 in Israel and she says we're being followed we're being shot at by terrorists please come and save us he says where are you says I'm on the bottom of Route 90 where where you go up to Molly Ephraim so to dispatch on the police station said it's impossible she says what do you mean it's impossible there's no phone service down there on the bottom of that Hill there's no phone service this is a prank call and he hangs up on her imagine that and she's crying she says they don't believe us so he calls the head of the police and Malia Frank because he knows him he says this is Abraham I'm telling you we're being followed by terrorists please come and save us and the cop the head policeman in Malia Frank says where are you he says I'm in the bottom of the hill of Molly if I said there's no phone service how could you be calling he says please I'm begging you I see the sign that's what we are he says okay listen I know you I trust you I'm going to send down the cars he sends down a whole bunch of jeeps they come with the sirens and the cherries and the Arabs in the back car they see the cops are coming and they run away and he's saved a month later he made a sudas means a thank you party to thank Hashem that his life was saved listen to what the rabbi said and this is something that I think every single one of us has to make a Kabbalah the rabbi said you know what God showed us this guy avraham always said if you want to connect to God you got to disconnect from everybody else so God showed everybody in a place where everybody was disconnected because there was no phone service God connected to him because he always connected thashem and you know something I think that that's the Kabbalah we have to make from now at least that when we come into a synagogue to pray we shut the phones that's how you show melach that's how you show God as the king because I'm not this I'm not connected to anybody else I'm just connected to you Hashem to the homage through the sidor that's how we connect so two things if we want to be like those people in England who gave such kavod to the queen to the Monarch and they give it now to King Charles the least we could do is when we say and say the word melach let us stop and think and not only that when we come to a show we should make sure that we do not have our cell phones on especially during trila and kiryata Torah we have gone through a very very difficult period of two or three years covid was awful thousands a million people died in covet I hope when I pray that nobody here or nobody that's listening suffered death in their family but we know many many wonderful people who died I hope nobody suffered terrible health problems but we all know people that were on ventilatus and respirators we were all affected socially financially and certainly emotionally and Rahman Allah right after that came Miron the 45 people who died unlocked Bomer Marone how sad was that and then came Surfside you remember Surfside in Miami where the building collapsed two months ago I was there it was the first yard site I'm telling you it was so sad to speak to a whole group of people from seven different synagogues and the widows of some of those people who died was sitting there and the orphans the assamim the samot of parents who died in those buildings terrible things and then Ukrainian Jews imagine if tomorrow shalom people here in Roslyn had to get up from Roslyn and go to a country that you didn't even speak the language and you can only take a little suitcase I was in Ukraine a couple years ago I was in the yeshivas I was in the day camps and the girls camps little kids wonderful holy children learning Torah and they all had to run away to countries Romania and Poland and Hungary and even Israel they didn't know the language and then we lost door so we've gone through difficult times now we'll never know why all this happened until Michelle comes then he will explain but we have to react if Hashem made this happen in our generation we have to try to improve to be better what could we do so tough Shin paid gimmo you know what it should be assume Yola it should be the year of Pearson the publicity the announcement of how we're going to do that I'll tell you some ways that I think I want to tell you a delightful story many years ago when the labama became the rabbi he became the seventh rabbi his father-in-law had passed away a young father came in a modern fellow with his son and he came and he said to the rabbi revi my son is having a bar mitzvah could you give him abraha so the rabbi said yeah sure sit down let's talk and he began talking to him and then he asked him this question and the father was surprised he said uh are you interested in sports so the boy said yeah so the rabbi said what's what do you like he said I like baseball so he said do you like any team he said yeah I like the Brooklyn Dodgers the Dodgers were very famous in the 1950s 1960s so he said does your father ever take you to the games they said yeah my father took us to a game two weeks ago and it was terrible so the Remy says what do you mean it was terrible he said well it was the seventh inning and the Dodgers were losing 10 nothing so we left so the rebbe said that the players also leave the boy start smiling says Ready the players can't leave they gotta stay to the end I'm a fan so if the fan lose interest you know you could leave he says that's the lesson I'm trying to teach you he said right now you're becoming a bar mitzvah you're gonna wait to fill in you could be counting in Dominion and sometimes an adult gets excited about it but then after a while the enthusiasm goes away it gets weak just remember all your life be a player don't be a fan and that's what we have to listen and learn we must all be players in yiddishkite in Judaism sometimes things get rough and sometimes we lose interest but we can't be like a fan we're just going to leave you are a player and we're in it together and that's the purpose of getting together tonight because we've gone through a difficult times and we need each other and we need each other to be there for each other and to show Hashem that he is the melach and that we have interest in the mitzvot and we want to improve and we're going to do it together as a unit that's what's special about this synagogue that's what's special about a community when people get together here's the second thing that I believe is so so important I have an end that unfortunately just passed away a few months ago she was my favorite and ever since I was a little boy her name was fagi fagi Ackerman she married my mother's brother and then unfortunately he passed away she remarried somebody in Detroit she was known as morafigi fakishani everybody loved him she was a short little petite woman but I had energy for 10 people every year when I would go to Detroit to speak I would always go in to visit her a couple years ago I was there she was 85 I sat down to Vegas how you doing she said well I just got back from my exercise class I said time to figure you're 85 what do you mean you went to an exit she said no I lead the class she said I said you leave the class she said yeah you got to get these women moving you know they're overrated so she was very Sprite now listen to this I don't know if you remember this I don't know how many of you are old enough to remember this but on August 9 in 201 a terrible terrible bombing happened in erity science anybody here remember sabanos some of the older people remember look it up on Google tonight you'll be frightened sabaros was a kosher pizza place and an Arab yamasha mobile came in with a terrible terrible bomb 15 were killed and 135 were injured and my aunt was in sabaros she was upstairs her daughter had just been buying the pizza paying for it she was upstairs putting the pizza on the table and this terrible explosion went off and she went flying against the wall she lost her shoes and her daughter Getty came running up says mom we gotta get out of here because if there was one bomb there's gonna be a second one she said I can't move there's glass and Rubble all over and I have no shoes she said Mama it's dangerous I'll pick you up we'll run across the street and that's what she did she picked up her mother she was very I said short and thin and she ran across the street a lady had a used Bookshop and she was telling older people to come in so they could be safe until everybody would have to evacuate from the area and then the lady says the owner of the bookshelf she says look you guys could stay as long as you want but I'm just telling you soon the cops are going to come you're gonna have to evacuate she said I can't move I don't have shoes three minutes later a short fellow comes in as Friday guy comes in with a pair of shoes he says here take these shoes he said how do you know I need shoes who are you he says no I got a shoe store down the block and the lady called me and told me that there's a lady here in these shoes take these shoes you never ever have to come back to give them back to me face them they're yours keep them just run and be safe wherever you can go and that's what she did a while later she went to her son-in-law's house I sat there at the figure you got the shoes she said yeah I said you know could you show them to me I'd like to take a picture of them and she goes back to the bedroom she brings about the shoes and then listen to what she tells me she said I want you to know for the last 20 years any time something happens to me that I'm thinking Hashem why did you make this happen to me I go back to the bedroom I take off my shoes I put on my sabaro shoes I stand there and I look and I say thank you Hashem that you kept me alive and that's the second way that we can come close to Hashem to have to realize all the good that we have every single man woman and child in this holybridge matters tonight has so much good in this world but we don't think about it we're always thinking about what we don't have there are many many people here that are very happily married give a thank Hashem you know I'm not saying everybody but a lot of people right you ever thanked Hashem that you're happily married you have a thank Hashem that you paid for your house or did you have children and grandchildren and some of us already great grandchildren you ever thank Hashem you ever thank Hashem for Rabbi Bolognese right wonderful Rabbi look what he's done in this community it's amazing you ever thank Hashem for your friends for your community how many people would love to have a community like this and they don't we're always focused on what we don't have every single one of us here that has children you know very well that when you give your child something and the child says daddy mommy whatever thank you so much you want to give more right and what happens when they complain well that's not exactly what I wanted so you don't want to give more but you give anyway because you're the father and the mother and that's the same thing with Hashem Hashem is our father if we say thank you he's going to want to give us more if we're always complaining and we're allowed to complain but you can't only complain you have to remember Hashem is the king and we are here to serve him when we say Miller when we don't take in our cell phones in the show and when we're a player and when we say thank you do you know what occurred to me once the word modim memori means thank you you know how much modem is equal in gamatria a hundred I think it's not a coincidence I think it's because we have to be grateful for a hundred percent of the things that we have in this world now I want to tell you something everyone wants to know what is the ideal Jew how should we be the perfect joke of Covenant once said something so beautiful and he said like this the pursuit tells us that in the mishkan where the Arun kadish was the wings spread upward and then at the end of the Apostle it says there were two faces the two faces faced each other and he said that's what the Jew is all about on one hand through Torah and tefilah our hands and our mindset has to be towards with learning and Downing but a Jew who only learns and Damas and doesn't do for that's not the perfect Jew there's two aspects there's Sports they can find him in the Milo and then there's the panayam is and some person who's just only good to the community but he doesn't pray and it doesn't Daven and it doesn't do Torah that's not the ideal Joe so I want to show you something very interesting I want to show you about our behind kanieski who he really was most people that talk about him always talk about the tremendous tremendous amount of learning that he did and there's no question none of us will ever ever know what he knew and how he knew it but one thing also that he did was that he was so close to people now I'm going to show you something and I want to see if anybody can figure out something that's special here all of us know the story in the Torah when you track avino wanted to give a bracha to his son ASA before he passed away yes felt he was dying and he wanted to give up so what happened and now here comes Asaf and the posix says these words he brought the food to his father everybody take a look at these words you see something unusual about these words what's unusual backwards and falls right and that's very good you know what that's called in English a palindrome and there's a lot of words like that Mom Pop radar race car Aviva David yishai all those words right evsky I mean we saw these words a thousand times who thought they were palindrome but he says oh great lesson a great lesson you know what he said you know why this is a palindrome to teach you the way you treat your parents that's how your children are going to treat you how do you like that so if anybody here has got nasty kids I'll tell you why take a look in the mirror right or think about how you were as a kid then you want to know why you got the kids you got right so all of us that still have parents here you can still make an investment right treat them nicely by your way and you know something about I'll tell you something amazing every single morning without fail after he finished tefilah every morning he went to visit his mother every morning sometimes she would make a breakfast sometimes they would just schmooze every single day they got dollar door went to visit his mother and when his mother passed away he stopped coming now listen to this two weeks later he met his father and his father the stipler from Yankee Michelle kaneski you know what he said to his son I also used to like when you come around behind his mouth dropped open he couldn't believe it my father wants the schmooze you know my mother likes to she moves with her kids but the father he's the goddola door yeah he wanted to talk David tore out with him or whatever wanted to find out how his son is doing so his son-in-lawski told me for the next 12 years as long as disciple was alive Rabbi never ever missed going to visit his father and you know something that's another Kabbalah that we have to make to treat our parents with great dignity and great respect and I would say that every parent here should make sure that their children call the grandparents every Friday to say shabbat shalom keep the family together that's what been other mahaviri is it's not only being nice to people in the synagogue of being nice to people in the workplace you know that some people haven't spoken to their brothers you know in 20 years and some people haven't spoken to the sisters or sister-in-laws in 30 years that's not how it's supposed to be it's supposed to be a close knit United Family and United Club Israel that's what Ram Heim was talking about but I'll tell you a great story you know the Hobart khayam writes and I think that all of us should undertake this if it's possible chapter 12 parakeet base on my own means it's very important thoroughly Zohar you got to be careful yes now one day you should go by from tonight on that you don't do a favor for another Jew I'm not talking a husband for a wife or wife or husband that's got to do if you know it's good for you but I'm talking about doing for another Jew and what I would say is that you should write it down don't write down 10 even if you did 10. write down one thing and keep that notebook and I'm telling you your life will change after 40 days you know why if you do for others others will do for you try it you'll see you will not be able to go to sleep until you do a favor for somebody else and all of a sudden your life is going to change you'll see that's what the Harvard time tells us so now I want to tell you a great story many many years ago when raphaim was much younger and he was able to walk very you know easily so what happened was he went to Biola love in one of the stores of beneb Rock and he comes in and the owner of the store sees oh the godollador he gives him a beautiful love he says no not this one isn't my second one he said no not this one third one this one it takes fine he pays for it he walks out with the son-in-law and a guy comes running out of the store and he says to the son-in-law I don't believe what I just saw he said what'd you see he said you know how long it takes me to pick out a little of an hour and a half my client was in the store 10-15 minutes he got a little love he said come with me he said where we're going just come with me it takes it through o'heim's house they walk up the stairs bomb it comes in the table whereabheimless there's 25 law of them there the guy says what's going on here listen to what he said he said my father-in-law knows that everybody follows every single thing that he does imagine if he walked into a store where they sell or love him and he doesn't buy one nobody's gonna buy it anymore because people say yeah I couldn't buy one find one I'm gonna find one so every store he goes into he buys at least one to love and then when he's got 25 on his table then it takes him three hours to pick out the right one so if you go to buy a dress or a suit or a shirt or a tie or a blouse and they don't have what you want right so that's their problem no matter behind that was his problems because he knew that he could hurt inadvertently that person who's trying to sell them Allah now I'll tell you an amazing thing what does it mean to care for other people this can happen only in Israel this happened on an agate bus an egg at bus you know most of us when we go to Israel we always were taking the buses until now they have trains and we rent cars but everybody was always on the Agate buses so there was one bus driver who loved his job and he had a kind word for everybody every man every woman that came in everybody had a kind word the guy was a cluster the guy was not a Yeshiva boy a seminary girl a Jew an Arab he's got a word for everybody he loves the world one day he sees he's driving and he sees a woman as rushing with three kids coming to the bus and she's out of breath and he holds up his hand in the big window as if to say don't worry don't worry slow down I'll wait for you she gets on the bus with the three kids she's out of breath she says do you mind if I'll just put the kids in the back seat and I'll come and I'll pray he says no it's fine go ahead Joe go she puts the kids in the back seat she opens up her purse and she saw her wallet it's not there she left her wallet in the other purse she was rushing and she took the wrong purse and now she had no money to pay so embarrassed she comes up to the bus driver and she says sir please forgive me I forgot my wallet I was rushing I took the wrong purse my wallet is in the other if you want me to get off the bus the next stop I'll get off he says Nah don't worry there's a basketball that's all paid for she says a what a boss means like you know they do favors he says yeah it's paid for it you could you could go back she said I never heard of it he says no no on this bus is a boss she goes to the back of the bus with her kids and the guy who's sitting behind the driver says excuse me sir is there really a basket he says yeah he says who's the boss come on the driver says me he says what does that mean he says I live in ramata Sharon we have a rabbi we had a rabbi for 50 years his name was Rob yaakov Edelstein and he always said everybody's got to do a favor every single day I'm not a wealthy guy I'm not gonna do Vegas every day I don't want the money oh but I'm a bus driver and sometimes somebody forgets their purse or they don't have enough money so I pay I pay so I'm the basketball that's what Crescent is all about when Hashem sees that we do has it with his children he's going to continue doing for all of us so we have to realize he's the melach we have to shut our cell phones when we come to synagogue we have to be a player not a fan we have to have a character and we have to be those people that pray and Davin and learn personally Milo and then open am having of course not occurs at all but love for a fellow man just one more thing that we have to talk about there is a pursuit in tlm and we're going to say it unto God many times when we say hello that everybody should make sure that Hashem thing is blessed every day how do you do that by being a walking talking every man and woman in this child in this space matters wherever you go they know you're Jewish you can't hide it you cover your hair you don't cover your hair a white diamond a black yamaka a hat with a feather no hat whatsoever keep us through God you cannot hide everybody knows your face you're Jewish and if that's the case when you're on the plane like I was four times at least in the last two weeks when you're traveling on a bus or you're driving on the highway when you're shopping if you do something that could be a little Hashem then you're disgracing not only you or the people of Roslyn you're disgracing all Jews because everybody knows we're Jewish no matter where you come from You Can't Hide And so therefore every one of us has a responsibility I'm going to tell you two stories now you will not believe what does it mean to be a walking talking one of the great women who passed away in the last couple years last two years was a great woman her name was rabbits and Sheila Feinstein she was the daughter-in-law of ram Moshe Feinstein and the wife of reproving Feinstein she never lost her life in a terrible car accident and I went to bimination because I knew her she was a wonderful person and I was sitting in Staten Island in the home of Rubin with all his children and I said to one of the daughters could you tell me a great story about your mother she says yeah I'll tell you listen to this she says here in Staten Island we have an elementary school from grade one to grade eight and one day one day one of their obey him one he woke up late third grade Grammy and he was rushing because he wanted to make sure the kids aren't going to Daven on time and he was driving too fast and he comes to a light and is a car a fancy car stopped at the light and he tried to slam on the brakes but he went into the car and of course it caused the big dent the lady comes out she's wearing a cross he saw it right away she's not Jewish he said man please please don't call the police don't call the insurance company it's my fault I realized I was driving too fast I'm a rabbi I don't have much money and I just wanted that the children in school should pray on time but just give me your name oh here's my name and number just get an estimate in a body shop and I will pay whatever the cost is fine they get into whole conversation and she said she'll do that a couple days later she calls him up and she gives him the estimate the estimate is very high it was a very fancy car so he says look man I just want to ask you a small favor if you don't want to do it I understand but I have a friend Mindy who's got a body shop here in Staten Island and he does beautiful work why don't you take your car to him and if you see the work that he does and you're satisfied maybe get an estimate from him I think it's going to be much less than the estimate you got would you mind doing that for me to get into a whole discussion she says okay I'll do it fine she goes to Mindy a couple days later Mendy calls this Rabbi he says you know I'm giving her back the car on Thursday and you know when I give the car I'd like to get paid you're going to be able to pay me he says yeah I'm gonna try you know I don't have much money but I'm gonna try Wednesday this lady calls the rabbi and says you know I'm picking up my car tomorrow you're going to be able to pay him he says you know I I wanted to call you I just I just want to ask you one more favor if you don't mind if you don't want to do it you know I'll understand but maybe maybe tomorrow when you pick up the car because you pay the whole bill and then over the next 12 months I'll pay you every month on the first I'll pay you and at the end of the year you'll have all your money you get into a whole discussion she says yeah I'll do it every month on the first he sends a check by the 12th month he calls her up and he says look you know I'm gonna make the 12 payment today but I want to do it in person I'd like to come to your house to talk to you and pay you is that okay she says yeah for sure he comes to her house and he says to her like this he says look man till the accident I didn't know you you didn't know me why were you so kind to me you didn't even know who I was you didn't call the police you didn't call the insurance company you went to my body shop you paid the bill in advance why'd you do all this listen to what she said she said I work in the public school system Sheila Feinstein is my principal as soon as I knew you were from her tribe I knew I could trust you imagine that as soon as he knew she was that he was Jewish and she he came from the same people as Sheila Feinstein he knew she knew that he could be trusted now listen to this this is absolutely incredible this story happened January 2nd 2020 and it's very important to know the date that it happened because you know what happened January 1st 2020 do you remember January 1st 2020 was the same as us right at MetLife Stadium 95 000 people celebrating that they learned shots freezing day right those of us who were there this happened the next morning there's a principle he told me the story himself his name is Benjamin Ginsburg he lives in Toms River and he had to give a speech in Brooklyn but he was running late so he was speeding on the Garden State Parkway weaving in and out of traffic and speeding but a cop stops them what's he gonna do he opens up the window listen to the first words that the cop says to them he says did you study your page today he says officer excuse me what'd you just say it says I was in giant Stadium yesterday don't you guys study a page did you study your page says officer 10 30 in the morning you know I I didn't get a chance to study it but I will it says you promise he's the officer says if you promise that you'll study your page I won't give you a summons he said yeah I promise and then listen to what the officer said to him he said you know yesterday a fellow officer said to me he wishes he could be Jewish I said then why do you want to be Jewish he said you ever see a nation like this 000 people celebrate what are they celebrating nobody won a lottery they're celebrating that they study the page and they understand it and not only that 95 000 people are singing and dancing and not one of them is drunk imagine that and then listen to this then he said another officer said to me they made a good mistake yesterday they called it giant Stadium it was a giant Stadium a stadium of giants oh that's what we could be all of us could be a stadium of giants this show could be a shore of Giants both men and women when you're on a plane you're in a grocery you're on the highway you're in the park with your child wherever you go they know you're Jewish we could all be a stadium of giants so I want to tell you two more things and The Last Story is literally life-changing listen to this before the last story this one is also like unbelievable this story happened a couple years ago in energy Israel what happened was there was a family that lived in hernof in your shalayim father mother and seven kids modest family they're not much money but they're very close to each other the whole family and every year they go on vacation together and every year the parents sit down with the kids they give them an itinerary itinerary means like a list of where they're going to be going and they tell the kids look this is where we're going don't ask that we should go other places because this is what we can afford this year they said this year we're going to go to Terraria we're going to go Jeeping in Terraria we'll go on a bus ride on a boat ride in generic and don't forget no restaurants no eateries mommy's bringing all the food and all the snacks because it's very expensive especially in the summer all the restaurants and the eateries okay and they give the kids some spending money and they go the first day the first day they're coming up towards Netanya those of you who are known that Tanya's on the water it's gorgeous they get out of the car to take their food they go to a picnic table and they're all eating lunch when they finish the Abba says the father says okay everybody back in the car everybody starts going to the car except zevi the eight-year-old he said Debbie how come you're not going to the car he said Dad I need the bathroom we're going up to three it's a long trip I need the lavatory the father's thinking like this this is the picnic tables here there's no bathroom over there he takes a look he sees a block away he's a kosher restaurant and he knows that no restaurant likes when you just go in and use the facilities and you're not buying anything what's he got to do what can he do he's got no choice they got a long trip you know going up north he goes into the restaurant the waitress is at the door and she says to him can I help you he says look I'm so sorry we're not here to buy anything we're going up to Terraria my little boy has to use the bathroom do you mind he'll make it fast look could you let him use the bathroom she looks around the whole restaurant she says okay make it quick fine little boy does what he has to do he's coming out the father meets him in the middle of the restaurant they're just about outside the restaurant they're still inside and Rafi the Israeli way to sees him and he explodes he says what are you guys doing here who gave you permission to come in here all your religious Jews you're all the same you take advantage you don't buy anything or use the facilities and this father's thinking like what's he gonna tell this guy he says who told you you could come in he'll give you permission father seemed that the waitress he's on the side there by the wall and she's listening and he knows that he says she let him in that crazy waiter is gonna fly around so he says listen what he thinks I'm on the spot he says sir you got it all wrong so what do you mean no we're all coming in here to eat well who's coming in my wife and we got seven kids set up the tables we said oh my goodness I'm so sorry I didn't realize I thought you just brought your son in there I didn't don't be sorry just set up the tables and he tells his son go tell Emma to come in with all the kids she can't believe it they never went into a restaurant the kids can't believe it they sit down at the table they never sell food like this they never saw a menu like this that was a dishes like amazing and all these kids are eating finally when they finish they notice that outside the kitchen there's a lot of activity there's six waiters and every one of them's got ice cream in his left hand and cake and sparklers in the right hand and they're all marching to the table where these kids are sitting so the father stands up and says excuse me wait a second there's a mistake here we didn't order dessert so the owner of the restaurant comes to the table says sir let me tell you something see when you guys sat down to eat that waitress came into the kitchen and she was crying and we said to her what are you crying about she said I just saw somebody do something that nobody ever did for me these people they're spending a fortune just ice not gonna buy anything but when they saw I was gonna get in trouble he had all his kids come and he's spending all the money on all that food just so that I wouldn't get in trouble and the owner of the restaurant said well we heard that we decided the special people we got to do something special that's why we gave me a dessert fight the kids finish a dessert and the father says okay can I have a bill says to the waiter the waiter brings him the bill and on the bill it says if you ever come here again 50 off he said yeah but what about today I want to pay for today so the owner listen to this the owner comes over to the father and he says we have a policy in this restaurant we only charge people we don't charge malachim we don't judge angels and you know something we can all be angels we could all be Giants and we could all be angels we have to take these days seriously Arya Shaw Milo era this is the time for change this is the time we have to be a player we have to realize the melach we have to realize we are addicted to our cell phones I'm not telling anybody not to have a cell phone we can't exist without the phones but when you come to a synagogue and you're praying or the rabbis giving you sure or when you're eating with your children shut the phone like that man said if you want to connect Hashem you got to disconnect from everybody else that's the Kabbalah that we have to make you got to be a player not a fan you gotta have a karate you have to be that forsaken a family my Lord but and we have to be a person that's a walking talking to the Mayan listen to this story we're going to close with this but this is a life changer a number of years ago on Lakewood they announced that two days before the holiday of pesach all the elementary schools are going to be closed so that the rebbies could stay home and help the mothers before yantev it's a very very busy time so now it's two days before the holiday and the fifth grade Webby comes into the kitchen and he says to his wife how can I help you what can I do for you she says you want to know really he says yeah I'll do whatever you say she says you know we got six kids if you could take them on an outing for four hours get all the kids out of the house I'll be able to cook and bake and clean that'll be the best he's thinking like what is he gonna do for four hours where's he gonna go he's thinking then he comes up with an idea he decides to go to Newark Airport it takes an hour to get from Lakewood to Newark Airport and he's gonna take the kids on the air train I don't know if you know what an air train is but many airports today have trains and you go from one terminal to the other I was just in Atlanta that's the same thing except in Atlanta that's on the ground but in Newark it's overground you want to go so everybody goes you know from one terminal to the other but that air train is so Sleek it goes near the runway so you can see planes taking off and you see planes landing and it goes over the Jersey Turnpike oh it's exciting the kids were on the airtron with their father for two hours after two hours they're having a great time a pilot walks on very spiffy looking guy you know all these Pilots are nice and trim with a cap you know and a uniform and everything and yeah they're all wonderful guys so it goes over to one of the kids he says hey where you guys flying today you know what to say look at the father and the father says sir actually we're flying nowhere he says nowhere he says you see we have a Jewish holiday and my wife asked me if I could take the kids out so she could bake and cook and clean and we're just having a great time you know with each other on this air train and the pilot got very very serious and he said young man I want to tell you something he said I've been a pilot for 25 years there is not a major airport in the world that I haven't landed in two years ago I got a text from my son and he wrote me dad you're always so busy you never had the decency to come to my birthday parties you didn't even have the decency to come to my graduation and last week the birthday of my first son your first grandson you didn't even come to that birthday party do me a favor take my number out of your contacts foreign and then he said two weeks later I got the same text from my daughter he said young man I have flown everywhere but gone nowhere you told me that you're flying nowhere but with your kids you're going everywhere and that's the lesson that we have to remember right over here the Young Generation that's everywhere all of us that have children and grandchildren more than anything else you have to be able to spend time with them to learn with them to guide them to be a role model for them that's the everywhere in Clague Israel we're all busy especially in New York we have so much in our minds but then we're flying everywhere and going nowhere you want to go someplace it's only look at this synagogue old people young people middle-aged people everybody together that's what Claudia sells all about Hashem should bless every single one of us that we should be able to have this year of and do it with our children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren and next year we'll be able to get together and Rabbi Balinese shul and yes thank you for inviting me and thank you for listening