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Rav Gav Friedman - Chanukah: Elevate Your Inner Light
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Welcome everyone to tonight's very
special year. We have the renowned Rafa
Freeman. Let's give him a round of
applause. He's joining us today.
A very special evening. People are
wondering how do they how can they
prepare for Khan? Got to go to the
newest supermarket and get the jelly
donuts, their lotas, their their gel.
But of course, what greater way can they
prepare than than getting some words of
inspiration, get the right perspective
for for for the great days of Khan that
are right upon us. And of course, we
have a great topic tonight of elevate
your inner light. And of course, we want
to thank the sponsors for tonight. It's
being dedicated for the success of the
David of Sabanov and Khara families. Of
course, these are great families in the
community who hashem do so much. And we
wish the the families continued
for all the great work they do for the
community. Amen. And of course want to
thank of course near Morai for
partnering and hashem. It's such a not
only a kahila but it's like a Torah
center a place of Torah of
kindness of prayers of of kindness of
every single day and nightm and of
course we know EMTT has amazing
programming for the entire community for
young professionals for college
outreach. So thank you. Thank you EMTT.
And of course Kazak organizes different
shir programs like tonight to give
inspiration give that give that give
that and of course Kazak's main mission
is to inspire tens of thousands of
public school students through after
school programs Sunday school programs
over 20 different locations and Rohashem
has transferred over 2,000 students from
public school yeshiva hashem. So of
course if anyone has any friend everyone
thinks for a second they know of a
neighbor friend co-orker and they can
share that light to them they can help
give them a Jewish education of course
let them reach out to Kazak and um of
course we um we have a special topic
tonight about elevate your inner light
but if you think about it you would
think Kaneka
is a uh is a military victory. So, so
why are we celebrating with the with the
light with candles? Really, it's a
military victory. That's the real story
of it was the the Mcabes, this small ar
small group of of of people and they go
defeated this massive powerhouse of an
army. So why why are why is and then
what happens? This is a technical
difficulty that they they couldn't find
the the oil and it last instead of one
night it lasted longer. Wh why is that
the holiday that that we remember? So
Charlie once said an amazing insight. He
said he said he said you know why?
Because as Jews we we we we don't we
don't go out and go fight others. Um we
go out and we have to defend oursel of
course but we as Jews we go out and we
have to we we we we go in proactive
approach and sharing the light. And
that's that that's what each of us in
our own life. How am I gonna bring light
to my life, to my family, to my
community, to the Jewish world at large?
And Hashem, somebody who's doing that
for tens of thousands of people, as you
can tell from a cold night outside, and
there's not so much parking in the area.
And um they're they're here because they
want to hear the light and and and share
the light and and hear that light from
our dear friends. Let's give a round of
applause to renowned speaker Ralph
Goffreyman.
[applause]
So why is it that we're saying over here
that you have to have eight days? This
is one of the most famous questions
that's asked
answers to this question. The one that
I've heard repeated most often is the
fact that the the fact that the fire
burns is also a miracle. We we're used
things so we think it's normal but it's
really not normal. It's just a strange
thing. Why should it be that plus that
equals a miracle? We get you to get used
to it. Therefore, it becomes what it is.
However, we got to make sure that we
understand. So therefore miracle because
the unexpected it's going to burn and
even the things. So we have to recognize
Hashem is giving us good things every
day of our life. And if you're
experienced something bad in your life
and you say everything's bad, it's just
terrible. This is bad. It's okay. You
you're allowed to say I'm experiencing
something bad. It's it doesn't feel so
good. I just have one challenge for you
and that is why don't you also mention
something good. You could speak at the
bad speak at the it's like this is a bad
thing is happening to me. Okay, but is
there something good? Nothing
good. Nothing good.
Nothing really like nothing. Nothing. Do
you Do you Do you hear me? Can you hear
me? Yes, I can hear you. Is that a good
thing that you could hear me? Yes or no?
>> Is that a good thing? Yes or no? Yeah,
>> that's an amazing thing. At least
somebody agrees. It's a good thing. They
can hear something. Can you see? Can you
taste? Sometimes you don't want to taste
certain things, but can you taste? It's
an amazing thing. It's incredible. It's
true. Right now, I'm going through
something which is painful, but there's
also a lot of good out there. So, that's
just one thing. Just counteract. Let's
recognize that. Let's recognize the fact
that even if I'm going through something
hard, in the midst,
even in the midst of the most painful
things,
Even their names are
there's no guitar, but I'd play for you
because I'm good. Real good. But anyway,
but I'm here speaking for a reason. So,
let's uh let's stick to the speaking.
So, so here's the deal. Even in the bad
is good. Okay. But I want to share with
you a story which is really good. I want
to share with you really good, but it
was really bad.
But it's so good. This story is so good.
But it was really bad. And the story
goes like this. I'm going to take you
back to
Sisma
EV.
This past year, Sukkot started
on a Monday night.
Is that correct?
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. I see. Oh, that How did you know
that?
>> Wasn't that moment?
>> Yeah. Okay, good. I see. Usually what
happens is they're impressive. Did you
build the sukat this? Is that I don't
know how you do that. I'll tell you why
I'm impressed because women generally
remember I have to cook after whatever I
know what it men are like what's the
code but what happened is they go ahead
it was on a Monday night Sunday night in
Israel
I have the zak to live in the holy land
of Israel I live in Israel I'm anyway so
there I am I'm living in Israel and in
the back of my home I have what's called
aer
I have a little Little what do you call
it?
>> Sure. Courtyard.
>> What do you call this grass there? It's
still a courtyard.
>> A field. An orchard. [laughter] I know.
I'm going to go with that. I have an
orchard in my yard. In my yard. I think
it's called a yard. Anyway, a yard.
That's the word. Okay. So, I have a yard
in my orchard. In my courtyard. Anyway,
in the back of my house is an area
that's open, relatively speaking. And uh
that's where I'm going to build my suka.
Fantastic. Now remember, sukot is Monday
night. It's Sunday afternoon.
And uh I know everyone's thinking yom
kipur right after you have to build it,
whatever. And I did. I built it. But I
didn't build everything because I didn't
have everything because I wanted to add
that year. And I didn't have enough
stuff. So I put up whatever I put up. I
didn't put up this, which really is a
fine. I didn't build the fine. It's
fine. The point is I start to build the
suka, you know, I'm starting to do it.
My son helped me in the first night and
then and then it's coming Sunday
afternoon and my uh two littlest boys
are helping me build the suka.
My six-year-old, my nine-year-old.
And this is how it goes. Behind my house
in my orchard,
there is a bunch of steps and then you
have the open area. But there's actually
if you go down you can make a left and
go down again. And in that area is the
everything falls there. Garbage is never
clean place that I happen to leave all
year round. Whatever is there it stays
there. That's all it is in the bottom in
the back in the bottom. It is what it is
in the back of the wagon of the in the
back of of my house. So anyway, what was
one of the things I left there? the
crashim the boards the kashimar
beams thank you that go across the suka
you see suka again the tabernacle anyway
so I have the pentecost and as I have I
have the beams that go across the hut
and uh okay but they're all sitting on
the bottom and so has to place them
because they're very long so we're going
to put them on sitting over there So, my
two boys are helping me out. And by the
way, I knew this was a mistake. I knew
it was a mistake. Like that. Why?
Because they're little. And these pieces
of wood, they're not exactly fresh good
pieces of wood, solid. They're full of
splinters. The whole thing is like
there's this there's random nails in
them. Whatever. He's like, I don't know
what's on them. They're sitting out
there.
So my my boys are like helping. But I
gave them gloves. So one was wearing
like winter gloves. I was wearing like
some worker man glove. It's like it's a
funny thing. And so I'm standing on the
top part, they're in the bottom. They're
handing me these beams. I would take
them, put them on top, and that was it.
You know, child labor,
but I didn't pay them. So there's no
child labor. It's just child abuse.
[snorts] And uh and they're going
they're handing me the things and I'm
putting it up and handing and putting up
handing putting up. And then suddenly my
nine-year-old boy starts screaming.
And by the way, I just want to play out
what happened. I knew exactly what
happened.
What happened?
What would you expect to have happened?
>> A splinter. Now, not just any splinter.
I already had it in my head. It's like a
thick like a splinter. And it was deeply
Hello.
>> Oh my goodness.
And it's deeply embedded. I mean deeply
embedded
to the point that it's never coming out
ever. It's one of those splinters that
you have forever. It's like the lead
piece of pencil from when you were a
kid. Am I the only one that has that in
my every part of my hand? Number two
pencil. Number one never made it. So
what happened is he has this he has a
splinter so far and I I I could picture
it. I'm like great. I know what I have
to do now. I this is so frustrating like
I this is the help that I need you know
like this is like 10 steps back you know
one step forward 12 steps back I know I
jumped too but so I'm thinking like what
and not only that I know what I'm going
to have to do I'm going to have to go
find tweezers I'm not going to be able
to find them by the time I find them
they're not going to be sharp enough I'm
going to have to sharpen them on some
rock and then you have to get alcohol
and whatever and then I'm going to say
okay come here let me do it he's going
to be like here my finger and I'm be
like okay this is all going in my head
you know I don't know if you guys also
have these visions. I am a prophet and
I'm watching these things go on. I'm
going to have to go ahead. I'm going to
have to hold him. He's going to be like,
"It's okay. Go ahead, father. I trust
you." And then and then I'm going to
start and he's like, "No." And I'm going
to be like, "Yes." He's going TO BE
LIKE, "NO." AND BE LIKE, "YOU KNOW WHAT?
FINE. Just keep the splinter in your
finger." He's going to be like, "FINE."
I'M LIKE, "NO, COME BACK HERE." Am no
trauma. Anyone? And so, so he goes
ahead. I figure I'm going to hold him
down. I'm going to get it's not going to
get in. I was going to pierce this. I'm
going to get my wife's going to be like,
"Stop it. Don't do that." And be like,
"I love him. It's for him." Anyway, so I
come over to him and this is that was
all everything I just told you was like
one second in my brain. I come over to
him and I go, "What's the what's wrong?"
He's like, "My finger is kill
like I heard, but what's going on?" He's
like, "My finger is killing me." So I
said, "What? What? Show me what's wrong.
Show me." And I know what I'm going to
see already. really deeply spent time to
get up the tweeze after the twe scream
really crazy but the alcohol is going to
go
I'm going to do it and he goes in he
goes look ah and he holds out his finger
and I look at his finger
and uh
and there was nothing there nothing
[snorts] no splinter no cut no like nail
no no no no no no no like hepatitis like
there was nothing I couldn't even see
hepatitis nothing. And I'm thinking
like, what's going on here? There's
nothing here. But he's he's really
freaking out. And he can't even stand
still. He's like, it hurts so much. I'm
like, okay, what's the issue? He's like,
it's right here. I said, where's it
hurt? He goes, here. Here. And then he
go
and then he goes then he goes like this.
He's like, it's here. It hurts right
here. I go, okay, where? You see here?
And he goes, now it hurts here. It hurts
like here. Here. I was like, oh, here.
Okay, good. Let me check over there. And
and I'm like, "What's going on here?"
So my 16-year-old boy, he goes, "Call an
ambulance."
So I was like, "Okay, ambulance. What is
it? My son's finger hurts. Why? I don't
know. We'll be right over." Like, "What
is that?" I'm like, "Hold on. We're not
going to just call the ambulance." You
know, this is at 5:30 p.m. Sunday. Boom.
So I That worked out nice. So I was
like, "Okay, [snorts] what what what's
going on here? Let me check it out." And
and my son's like, "Call an ambulance."
I'm like, "Hold on to the ambulance one
second. Let's go inside. I'll wash off
his finger." And it's like, "What do we
do? What do we do when someone's in
pain?" It's the weirdest thing that
people do. You're in pain.
Here, take some water. Would you like
water? Do you need water? I I remember
when I was uh it wasn't that long ago,
but it was actually that long. It was
2018, 19, whatever it is. I was playing
basketball. I know you're all looking at
me thinking, "You're probably really
good." And you're right. You're right. I
am. At least I was. And I was playing.
I'm not like really really good. I'm
better at guitar, but I'm saying but I'm
I'm good. [snorts]
And uh and I was playing and I was
running to a corner to to to defend.
Someone's in the corner. He hits us
three. Game over. I run and I take a
step. And when I took a step, I stopped,
but my knee decided to keep going. And I
was like, "Please don't go." And it
said, "Yes, I will go." And it left. And
whatever I ended up tearing some stuff,
a lot of letters. I don't know if you
know the alphabet. I learned the
alphabet from my knee. A lot of CL's
like a PCL, an MCL, an ACL, a meniscus,
like a lot of stuff. The patella was
okay. It was a major contusion of the
tibia and the fibia. That was the most
painful. I was in pain, ship pain.
Unbelievable. I don't know why I'm
telling you the story.
Oh yeah. So anyway, the major thing was
I tore through my ACL. Anyone speak
Hebrew? Any Anyone speak a little
Hebrew? No. Nobody. Not really. Okay. A
little bit. Yeah. Um, how do you say how
do you say
filament?
>> Go ahead. Fil filament. You don't speak
Hebrew. Okay. Anyway, I'm kidding.
That's my new word. I didn't even think
why I thought of that word. Anyway, but
this is this is crazy. I'm reading the
results of the I'm reading the results
of the MRI. I got an MRI. First, I got a
I got it. By the way, this is a story
and a story. Stay with me now. I I got
the uh what do you call that thing?
X-ray. X-ray doesn't show anything.
X-ray is just if it's broken or not
broken. Didn't come back broken. So, I
was like, "Okay, this is crazy." I got
an MRI. Of course, it takes like six
months and $45 million and connections
and you get the money back and you go
back in time and you do it again. So, I
I I uh ended up getting the results and
I read the results and it said as
follows. Get ready. Here we go. For
those who speak a little Hebrew, the
results said like this. Kufin.
What's Kufra?
>> Ka. You can call it Kra if you'd like.
Ka
ready for pay attention. Me sud [snorts]
bet
[laughter]
me sabak
yud bet yud
>> I know it's orchard isn't it
broken around
>> yeah broken around
>> misiv
not
and I'm reading this word.
I have no idea what's going on. I call
up my cousin who also had an issue with
his knee, but he's Israeli and I say,
"Mayor, I I can't read this." He goes,
he goes, "Read what?" And I show it to
him and he starts laughing. He's like,
"What do you mean you can't read that?"
I'm like, "I can't read it." He goes,
"Why can't you read it?" I said, "Well,
I can read it. I just know what it's
saying." He said, "You're thinking in
the wrong language."
>> Ker massive.
>> You know what massive means?
>> Massive. That's the Israeli system for
you. Ker
>> massivi massive tear. It was 100% torn.
Craziness. said, "Have surgery." But but
here was here's the deal. Surgery's not
right away. And the major issue is the
ACL. Now, let me tell you what an ACL
is. ACL is a big strong rubber band.
That's what it is. And it allows you to
go from left, it goes from side to side.
If you have a torn ACL, you can walk
forwards and backwards, but as soon as
you turn, you'll have zero support and
you'll literally fall to the floor.
That's what happened to me many times
over the weeks until I finally was able
to get surgery. And I was walking once
into the old city of Yu Medical. There I
was. And as I was walking, I'm walking
with one of my rabbis and he's walking a
little too quick for me cuz even though
he's much older than me, but he's I
can't I just can't really walk. And I
felt awkward. You know, it's like this
awkward thing. You look with this big
rabbi. I'm going to say I'm like, "Slow
down." So, you know, I'm saying I'm I'm
young. I'm 25. I'm like I'm I've coach
maybe I was a little older and I was
like let me let me do this and I'm
walking and as we get to steps
I took one step down
and then I felt it going. I said knee
please not here not in front of the
rabbi and my knee went [laughter]
and it just buckled. It went and I fell
down the staircase.
I'm I'm in the old city going down the
steps like right next to this schwarma
place, you know, like on the way to a if
anyone knows what I'm talking about. I'm
not saying you should eat there or not
eat there. I'm not whatever. I'm just
saying it's there. Anyway, so I thought
maybe you should, maybe you shouldn't. I
don't know. Ask your own rabbis. But I
felt on the staircase. I'm lying on the
floor. I was so embar I'm embarrassed.
I'm very embarrassed. I know you're
thinking why? But I was. And the rabbi
looks at me. He's like, "Oh my.
Can I get you water?
I was like, exactly what I need. Why
didn't I think of that? What's wrong
with these orthopedic surgeons? Just
give me water. And it was just like a
crazy, oh my goodness. So, here he goes,
my son. He's freaking out with his
finger. I'm not going to give him the
drink. I'll wash off his hand. Maybe
there's something wrong with his hand. I
bring him to the kitchen. It's 5:32.
We go there and I'm I'm washing off his
finger. And I'm saying, "Where does it
hurt?" He's like, "Yeah, it's here. It's
here." And then I look at his face and I
see
he starts foaming from the mouth. He's
foaming. Foam is coming out of his
mouth. Like, what does that remind you
of?
>> Guess I'm nervous to ask what it reminds
people of. It was like different things.
But is this rabies or something?
Something's going on here. This is
messed up.
So I said, "Okay,
I I think I know what this is now." Not
that I knew what it was, but I think I
know the category of what it is.
Something must have happened to him. So
my son's like, "Call an ambulance." I'm
like, "We went through this already.
Just give me a second." I went
downstairs. is I went back to where he
was standing
and I saw the last beam of wood that he
was holding and I went to the end of the
beam of wood and I slowly lifted it up
and comes running out a scorpion.
Scorpion comes running out.
Now at this point everyone always asks,
"I didn't know there were scorpions in
Israel."
Neither did I until it was. I actually
did know. I actually did know there were
scorpions in Israel. The reason I knew
there were scorpions is is because I
volunteered for an organization called
Main Deon. And one of the things we
learned over there is that there are 22
different species of scorpions that are
found in Israel. [snorts] 22 different
species. The most dangerous of them is a
yellow scorpion.
The scorpion was yellow
and I punched that kifer right in the
face. When I saw that thing running,
I was a little nervous to actually get
close cuz if it stings me, it also be a
bit of a problem. But I went ahead and I
and I
even made that noise like twice. Then I
stepped on that kifer and I killed it. I
killed it. And uh and I came in. Like I
was like, "Okay, now let's call an
ambulance."
Really, I shouldn't have called an
ambulance. I should have just got in my
car and driven cuz we live relatively
close to the hospital. I could be in the
hospital from my house where I live. I
live in a place called Gatsa Fat in
French Hill Sophia Mount Scopus.
in order to get to the hospital from
where I live. If you drive legally,
but if you drive illegally, I could be
there for sure in 30 seconds.
Like actually, like I I live very close,
but legally it would take legally take
like 3, four, five minutes. Lights and
one-way streets, whatever.
So, I ended up waiting for the
ambulance. They first we called and then
a bunch of guys came. medics came very
quick and so one of my one of my buddies
is his name who works for Mada he said
what happened I said the scorpion he
said where's the scorpion I said in the
back he goes to the back and uh he finds
it it was you know was lying there like
it was like that I put chalk like around
it you know put up tape and the whole
thing and uh he ends up he comes back in
the kitchen with the scorpion he put it
in a bag and he said bring it to the
hospital cuz they have to know in order
you get this uh you have to know what to
what to give. What do you give in order
to you know depending on what the
scorpion is.
So at that time now he's losing his mind
and the ambulance say ask him what does
it feel 1 to 10 what's the pain
what would you say someone's like 1 to
10 and you're flipping out what would
you say 1 to 10
>> you guys are so [clears throat] good I'd
be like a billion you know so my son
though because he's little and he
listens to instructions he's like 10
10 I was like 10 10 forget he's turning
red starts to turn red he's going crazy.
One of the guys in the ambulance, like
the the Mad guy, he put a glove on the
arm to create a tourniquet to stop that
should have more venom going in.
Anyway, we get to the place and this is
like the this is like honestly the
craziest thing. We we walk into the into
the emergency room and they look at him.
They're like, "Okay, the kid's 9 years
old, scorpion bite, whatever." He's
like, "Honey, was a scorpion bite?" And
I'm like, "This is how we know." You
know what I'm saying? It's just like
unless it was a coincidence that he
touched that area and then the scorpion
came out and he's like I didn't do
nothing. I didn't do nothing. I was
minding my own business, you know. First
of all, he wasn't talking anymore cuz I
punched that clip in the face. But the
point is I brought it in.
Okay. They're like, "Go to the nurses
station and get checked in." And I was
like, "Are you is that like what?" And
but you can't it's a problem. You can't
really fight with them. You start
fighting with them, they're going to
throw you out the whole security thing.
So they're like, "Go to the thing." And
I was like, "Okay." We start going up.
He's getting redder and redder. And then
he starts throwing up. Just starts
throwing up. And he's not throwing up
anything. Now, so what are the signs of
poison? Well, I don't know. Maybe
freaking out. That's one of them.
Throwing up, turning red, fever, high
blood pressure, high heart rate, which
we didn't really know yet. But then they
looked at him like, "Okay, let's bring
him bring him back in." And I was like,
"Oh, that's a good idea." Now, I walk
in, there's myself, my wife, she drove
up, my kids, a bunch of my older kids
came and uh then my wife heard something
that was not good for her to hear.
The head doctor says, "Put him on the
bed.
Put him on the bed for uh CP for um CPR
for the defiill. hook them up to a
defibrill. Now, let me explain to you
what a defibrill is. Defi is for dead
people. And that's if the heart stops,
then you start the heart again with a
defibrill.
This is now this is getting my wife,
she's like, I what? Like, no, don't put
him there. Like, yes, you got to put him
there. And she's like, I'm going to
faint. So, then the nurse goes, you lie
down. She's like, I'm out of here. And
my wife left us.
And uh she left. Totally left the room.
could not handle this. She walked out,
my son went with her, whatever it is,
and I stayed inside and they hooked him
up. What's the uh heart rate? What would
you say is a heart rate of a child of 9
years old?
So nine nine years old is tricky because
9 years old is the turnover.
From one month until 9 years old is one
heart rate. Somewhere between
somewhere between 80 and 120.
Once you go above nine until the end of
time, it's somewhere between 60 and 100.
So his heart rate maximum should have
been 120 maximum and really since he was
already nine turning 10 it should be
around 100. Now this is known as a
resting heart rate. That means if you're
not running or going anywhere just
staying still it should be 100. So his
heart rate was at 150. That was a
resting heart rate. That's not a normal
number. Then they took his blood
pressure.
Blood pressure. This is a little more
tricky. This is where this separates to
see who really knows what they're
talking about. And this is actually a
clinical number. Most don't know this.
You know, an average what should be a
9-year-old's systolic. That would be the
top number. I'll give you the average of
an adult would be 120 over 80. Okay?
Could be 110 over 70, right? A minimum
of 60 on the on the diastolic a maximum
of 90. And then we have 90 to 120.
[snorts]
So a child of that age maximum should be
about 100. Really 98. if you want to be
like exact but about 100 that should be
his blood pressure. That means how much
pressure is the heart shooting out the
blood. So he should be 100 as resting
blood pressure was at 165 which means
his heart was pumping over time [snorts]
going crazy. And I'm looking at these
numbers and I know these numbers. I've
worked on the ambulance. I know what's
going on. And I'm watching this and uh
he's going so crazy that he goes to the
doctor and the doctor comes over. He
says, "Put me to sleep. Put me to sleep.
Put me to sleep. I can't. It's too much.
Put me to sleep. Put me to sleep." And
the doctor, the doctor says, looks at me
and then I look at him and we have a
conversation. Now, this conversation
never happened. But it was a
conversation of eyes of two grown men
looking at each other. And he said to
me, "Should I do it? Should I put him
out?" And I said, "I'm not a doctor."
And he said, "Yes, I'm familiar." I
said, "Then why are you asking me?" He
said, "I think I'm going to put him
out." And I said, "Okay." That was our
eyes. That was it. That was an eye
discussion.
and he decides to give him anyone from
California, if you're from California, I
want to make you feel at home. So they
gave him fentinel.
So anyway,
which I don't know if you're familiar
with what that is. I mean, you know what
I'm talking about. Family business. It
is what it is. Home sweet home. You're
like, why did I say where I'm from
anyway?
Fentinel. They actually g fentinol. He
he was just going he's losing his mind.
Then they gave him another drug, then
another thing or whatever. But the one
thing they should have given him that
they weren't giving him was
>> water. [laughter]
Water. SOMEONE QUICK. WHAT ARE THESE
EVEN DOCTORS?
The answer is an orchard of water. What
should they have given? They should have
given him something called Well, he had
venom in him.
>> Antivenenom. In Hebrew, it's a tough
word. Antivenenom.
Give him give him the antivenenom.
Okay, not so simple. They didn't give
it. they weren't giving it to him.
That's a great question. So the question
was why not? And by the way, I wondered
the same thing. And I even wondered it
aloud.
And this was not an eye conversation. I
go give him the antivenenom. And then
they kept saying, "We're not, you know,
that that doctor is some guy in charge.
The one who's in charge, he was there."
[snorts] And he's like, "No, no, no, not
yet. Not yet." And then he kept now I'm
watching my son and he starts to like
he's he's like freaking out. that he
starts to like his eyes start like
rolling back. He's like going out and I
was like, "No, no, no, no." And I keep
saying his name and saying his name and
saying his name like, "No, it's okay.
Stay with me." And say his name, why?
And then he starts hallucinating.
He starts fighting with his siblings
that are not in the room. There were
other siblings there. He did not fight
with any sibling that were there. only
the siblings that were not in the room.
And he's like, "Give me the blanket." I
was like, "Here's the blanket." He's
like, "No." And he starts yelling at the
younger, he says his younger brother's
name, "Give me the blanket." And he's
like, I'm like, "Okay." Like I I I start
like playing out like I'm the kid. He's
like, and then he would like pause like,
"Huh?" I'm like, "Here's the blanket."
He's like, "Give it to me now." He's
going nuts. And then he starts going out
and then coming back. Then he starts
jumping up and then he ripped the IV out
and then I have to put the IV back in
and then the doctor's holding his like
you have to hold him down. You have to
keep him. Okay. He's freaking out and I
go I'm like, "Okay,
I need
I mean like I'm not a doctor, but
maybe
we should give him some water and then
venom." No, no, no, no, no, no.
I'm the doctor. I said, "I know that
part,
but maybe you should do that." And he's
like, "No, not yet." I'm wondering
what's going on. So, finally, one of
them tells me, "It's not so simple. So,
a kid has venom. You have antivenenom.
You think that that's everything.
Sometimes the ramifications of the
antivenenom can be worse than the actual
venom." Now, that depends on age,
weight, how much, stage, and what
there's a lot of stuff that goes into
this. Obviously, you have to know how
tall he is and what his weight is and
and there's a lot that goes a lot of
factors, but he's like and I'm like,
"Okay, listen. I Yeah, I hear that.
You're saying it could be there's going
to be bad things that happen." I just
I'm not like, "Well, there are bad
things happening right now." Like, it's
possible there'll be other ones.
She in this case if you understand maybe
something bad will happen but right now
something bad is happening and he's like
I said we went through this already you
are the doctor I am not the doctor but
what are you I said is it possible that
like really he needs to get it in a
certain amount of time he goes no I said
but what if it is possible he's like I'm
the doctor okay I'm stuck I'm stuck and
then I look and then I look at his
And I take out my [clears throat]
flashlight, which I have on my phone,
which you don't, but I do. Yeah.
[snorts] Anyway, I take out my
flashlight to check his pupils.
Now, why am I checking his pupils? Cuz I
noticed something right away. I was
like, I noticed as he closed his eyes
and opened his eyes and closed his eyes
and opened his eyes. Something
interesting. What's the thing that I
noticed? Yeah, you guys have hitting the
button also. Anyway, so so what I
noticed, hold on one second. We were
right there was doing a flashlight.
None of that. All right. Anyway,
[snorts] so he goes ahead. I noticed
that his pupils, that's the black part
of the eye right in the middle,
they weren't changing size. This is one
of the one of the main things which
you're going to see if someone god
forbid has a head injury. If there's a
head injury or
poison, these are these are two things
that are going to impact. That's called
pearl. P E A R R L that is pupils are
equal and round react to light. That's
what you want to look for and make sure
there's no god forbid head injury. As
you ever see the doctors like let me
check over there. You're like what are
you doing? Right? It's checking the
pupils to make sure they're reacting to
the light. When there's no light when
it's very dark the pupils get very big.
They become bigger. As the light comes
in they become smaller. That's why
you'll notice if you want to play a
little game you can look at it
yourselves. Have the person next to you
close their eyes even for 10 seconds and
open and watch the middle of their eye.
You'll see it becomes smaller. So I'm
doing that and then the nurse goes,
"What are you doing? What are you
doing?" I said, "Nothing." Like, "What's
your background?" I'm like, "I don't
nothing. [snorts]
Why?" They, "What do you know?" I'm
like, "Okay, I worked on an ambulance."
Like, "Okay, we'll do the tests over
here." I said, "Okay." Then they did a
flashlight. They go, "His pupils aren't
reacting." I'm like, "Oh,
yes. We've established that together."
And then he starts his body starts
atrophing and there's you see his body
going in. It was a very very scary thing
to see. And he's losing consciousness
and he's going out and I'm going back
and forth. Finally, I'm skipping parts
on purpose. I'm going to come back to
them in a minute.
Finally, I go to the doctor. I'm like
I'm like, "Okay, I'm talking to my son.
I'm talking to Doug." And then I get up.
I was saying something which I'm going
to tell you in a minute. Then I come
back up and I look at his eyes. One eye
is facing that way. One eye is facing
the other way. His body's going like
this. His heart rate's through the roof.
His blood pressure is crazy.
Everything's being monitored.
Everything's crazy. So I go to the
doctor. I'm like, [snorts]
it's a delicate balance of not getting
thrown out because they could call
security on me and they could chuck me
because they have to do what's best for
the patient.
And the other part of the balance is
that they'll do what's best for the
patient.
So I said,
"If Shu would lie,
maybe you could just look at him. Just
look. Just look at his eyes. And if you
tell me everything's okay, then I will
then, oh, then just look at his eyes."
So the guy says to me, "What are you
freaking out for?"
We're going to give him the antivenenom.
So I was like, "You could have told me
this." Like, "What are you whatever?"
He's like, "I need all." I was like,
"Okay, you're the doctor." They go, "Now
antivenenom. Now we have the problem."
What's the problem? How long does it
take to give antivenenom?
So in movies, it's like, "Get it. He's
good." [snorts]
He had to take four different vials,
which each one takes a half an hour. You
can't just shoot it in. You could, but
you're risking a lot of damage. It has
to be put in a drip. They put in a
machine and they put it in a drip. Then
it comes in slowly. What they actually
ended up doing was 30 minutes, 30
minutes, 15 minutes, 15 minutes. They
rushed it because they saw they really
started to start pushing it. When they
finally finished, that's when the
numbers started stabilizing. Everybody
started stabilizing. Like shocker. You
know what I'm saying? You give the
medicine and it works. It's crazy.
So anyway,
fast forward, we end up he ends up
going. Now, the crazy thing is he
doesn't remember this part at all. My
son doesn't remember it. He remembers
everything that would happen before
ambulance getting there, but once he
once he was on fentanyl, like that was
it, you know, and once [snorts] he
started going downhill,
that was it. He didn't even know what
was going on.
Then at the end of all this, this is
already three hours later, he uh he
starts they take him to the ICU
and they end up so what happened.
It's Sunday. I just want to tell you
something. I don't know everyone here
and I just know when I hear people tell
stories like this, I don't understand
for the life of me how it's possible
that they could say a story like this
without losing themselves emotionally.
If I would be watching someone else
telling the story, I'd be like so
emotional about this. I'd be get I'd be
crying and not let him sing you would be
whatever. I get [snorts] emotional at
these things.
So, I'll tell you why I'm not.
I got a phone call a few days before I
was asked in my neighborhood if I can
come give a class on Sukkot on about the
holiday of Sukkot in my neighborhood.
Can I give a sh? I said, "Yeah, no
problem. I can give a shore. Bro,
totally forgot about it. Nothing to do
with anything. I just totally forgot
about it the whole thing. [snorts] Then
this whole craziness happens. And when
the craziness happens on Sunday night,
he gets to the hospital. He ends up
stabilized. I'm with him. I slept with
him in the hospital that night. The next
day, I'm getting ready for sukot is
finishing up the suka. Even though no
one's walking into that suka anymore
because who knows if that guy's buddies
are around. [snorts] But uh let's get
the suka. I get a phone call. Hey, I'm
just calling to remind you about the
shior that you're going to be giving in
a few days. You know that one guy in the
neighborhood that doesn't know what's
going on? There's always that one guy.
Like everybody knew what was happening.
This is the one guy. He's like, "Hey,
you ready for the shi or coat?" I'm
like, I mean, my son's in the ICU like
he almost died. He's like, "Oh,
oh my goodness.
Are you going to give this your or not?"
Like, what's going to be? And I was
like, "No, I took a little poetic
license here if you're watching cuz he's
actually a really good guy." But he but
he he was like, "Yeah, okay." I said,
"Listen, things did stabilize. If they
end up better, then you know, okay,
that'll come. It should be a for him. It
should be good. Whatever. But we won't
know because it's going to be already,
right? So, it's going to be Monday
night, right?" No, no, sorry. Tuesday
night. Yeah. Monday Tuesday night was
the only time I was supposed to give it
for the Benl it's going to be there and
the B say will be there so it's going to
be the end of the holiday for one the
beginning of the second holiday for the
other and I'll speak but you won't know
until I'm there you'll come I won't
things did stabilize and I ended up
saying to my wife you know maybe I
should go give a shior for I didn't even
tell my wife like it's scheduled you
know I'm like maybe I should give a sh
for what do you think you know she's
like yeah it's a good idea you know if I
would have been like I have a sh like
are you a do you what? We're in a
hospital. How'd you get that in here?
Anyway,
point is I was like, "No, we're forced
out." She's like, "Yeah, good idea."
Again, a little poetic question here
also. But the point is, I end up going
rumors are going all over the place.
What are the rumors? The rumors are like
I'm walking down the steps. Someone's
like, "How big with the scorpion? How
big?" I was like, "What do you mean?"
He's like, "I heard that the scorpion
was as big as your shoe."
I was like, "What kind of Teenage Mutant
Ninja Scorpion is this?" Like, "What do
you think?" [laughter] Like, even a big
scorpion is going to be like, you know,
whatever. You think it's a size 13?
Whatever. It's a big shoe. It's a big
shoe. It is what it is. You So the guy,
the guy, I don't know. I was like, "No."
So, I started my speech. I said, "I just
want everyone here. I totally forget I'm
even speaking. I don't even know what
I'm going to talk about. Okay." you
know, something like that, you know, see
the montage and hugs you and the thing.
I'm like, you said the year last year
and the year before and the year before
and the year before and the year before.
I'm like, stop listening. So, he goes
ahead and all the guys like, we don't
anyway. Anyway, so so he goes and I get
up there. I said, listen, I just want to
start off. I I heard that there a lot of
rumors. The scorpion people were
wondering how big it was. Well, I'll
tell you.
I was like, you ain't you ain't never
seen a scorpion like this. It was like I
know it was small. And I said, I just
wanted to thank it. Now, some people
actually didn't know it was going on
because it's a day before Yomov. They
didn't know.
And uh so I said, I just I really want
to thank a lot of people here who were
who were praying, you know, who were
dabbing for and then I lost it. Just
lost it. I couldn't talk. So I just want
to thank you for I was trying to say for
praying for my son, but I said for
praying for [laughter]
that's [clears throat] how it came out.
like it's like up and down
and I just I just put my hand on my head
and there are people that knew they're
like whoa and the people that didn't
know they were like
is this a shior for sukot like what's
going on here is this a sukot shior I
think I'm the wrong shior it was like a
but people and I was like that for a
good 30 seconds now 30 seconds might not
sound like a
My watch is dead. I just realized it's
not even moving. Anyway, so we would
have been here for a much longer time.
>> Yeah, it's dead. Anyway, if there's any
watch people, please afterwards see me.
Okay, so uh yeah, you're a watch person.
Okay, [snorts] so so is the Rolex,
please. Thank you. So he goes and and
and 30 seconds and then finally I didn't
even know what to say. I was like
and I was trying to find I want to say
what I was picturing. I was trying to
I've never fallen through ice on a lake.
But that's [snorts] what I pictured. I
pictured like I fell through a lake and
I'm looking for the hole to get out.
Like where's the hole? That's I was so
emotional like just find the hole. Stop
crying. You know you're a man.
Oh man bear. You know today is my bar
mitzvah.
And then finally I'm just like
anyways Sukkot is about and I went into
a different topic and then I continued
talking and I went into whatever and
then again it got to the point where you
know I get to I did I did a lot of
crying like I did a lot of public crying
like awkward awkward awkward [snorts]
public crying in front of random people
that still didn't even know what was
going on. So that's the reason I was
able to get through it. Right now I'm
only able to do it because I spoke about
it. If I had not I spoken about forget
about it. I would not be able to survive
this. Anyway, we go upstairs a Sunday
night. Fast forward, we end up staying
in the hospital. Sunday, Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday. This is Sukkot. I
said this is like we're just just
starting. And uh and we did shifts. We
live very close. So, 15 minute walk. So,
um I actually I don't remember. I I I
know how many paces. I actually counted
the paces like as I was because what
else are you gonna do? It's Yamov. I
couldn't. Anyway,
I slept in the bed with him. I didn't do
it the first night. I slept like on a
chair like that, you know. I felt like
the scorpion, you know, after I [snorts]
I slept on the chair. The next day, I
come to visit my wife swap to me. She's
lying in the bed with my son. I'm like,
"What are you doing in the bed?" She's
like, "Well, he's nine. He's tiny. Like,
what's that?" I'm like, "I can sleep in
the She's like, "Where'd you sleep last
night?" I'm like, "In the bed." Like, of
course. You know. Anyway, that night I
moved my my son to the chair and I uh
hooked myself up, you know, to the
monitor and they're like, "What's going
on?" He's like a seems like a different
age bracket going on there. Anyway, no,
[snorts] I'm kidding. I didn't whatever.
I had him next to me. I woke up like cuz
like he kept moving and the wires kept
going like around my neck. It was like
so it was wonderful time.
Anyway, the next day they come back with
blood results.
So now it's like the blood stuff. And
there was one particular number that
they were looking at. It's called
tropodine. It was supposed to be like
20.
It was at over 6,000.
There was another number that was
supposed to be 0.2. It ended up being
almost a thousand. We're talking about
numbers were just literally through the
roof. My sister-in-law is a
cardiologist. She lives in in in Canada
and we're calling back and forth and
she's just
she's like telling exactly what to get,
who to do, what to uh whatever.
Fast forward Sunday, Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday. They let him out Wednesday,
thank God. And on Thursday
night,
still sukkot, we had a sudata in my
suka. And when I told the story, I'm
like, "Now, if everyone please look down
at your feet because this is where it
happened."
And uh and thank the good Lord, Hashem,
it's not a small thing. There's there's
so many nim here. I didn't even start
with them yet. Let me explain to you
what was going on.
First of all, when they finally gave the
doses,
the doctor then walked out into the
hallway
and my wife who had abandoned us who was
in the hallway,
she overheard the doctor saying she
called up another they called another
hospital called Hadasa
in Karim. Hadasa in Karim is the big
hospital in
you have Shahit Sedek which is also big
but not as big. And then you have which
is a small hospital relatively speaking.
So I've heard them calling at Karum.
We just ran out of vials for
antivenenom. We just gave this kid the
last vials. We need you to send over
some from Adasum because we have to
restock. And the doctors in Adasa in
Karum said we don't have any. We're out.
I just want you to understand when we're
getting in the ambulance, the ambulance
driver said, "So, which hospital do you
want to go to?"
Standard for those who really don't know
much, we'll say because that's the
biggest one and they have like very
professional stuff going on there. If we
would have gone to Inky, I think it
would have been a very different story
than we are right now. Turns out that
the hospital we were in Harim is the
hospital to go to because it's the
closest to the desert and that's
generally where scorpions will be found.
not usually in your back uh kum
vineyard. So [snorts] what happens? The
fact that we went to the hospital right
there itself number one was a nace a
miracle that we went there. The fact
that they had any left and they had
exactly the amount that he needed was a
miracle. The fact that they didn't have
it the other one unbelievable.
Then there was a rumor during the week
that they didn't even have a chariotic.
They were out. They end up it takes
time. You have to it's called milking.
You have to milk a snake to get the
venom to create the antivenenom. It's
not a simple process.
And also someone suggested I think it
cost about $10,000 per vial like of uh
of venom. So it might be a reason also.
But of course medicine they're
altruistic and there's no money
involved. But it's possible there's
money involved. So that could also be.
Now here's the thing. That doctor that
was there was not just any doctor. That
doctor's specialty is venom. that's what
he does.
And not only that, they said that if he
hadn't been in the hospital, they
wouldn't be able to do anything without
his permission. They would have to call
him. He's the doctor that's necessary in
[snorts] order to be able to go ahead
and to do something over there. Now, as
I'm trying to get him to listen to me,
like he's not listening and I'm getting
whatever. I'm freaking out a little bit.
What's happening over here? Let's rewind
to the whole story. as he's going
through this hard time here. I'm
thinking to myself, and I can't tell you
the story now because it's way too long,
but another story that happened to
another one of my kids a few years
earlier. And because of that story, I
remember a bit of a failure. What was
the failure? The failure was that I
didn't see the good
in the situation as it was bad. Meaning
to say what? It's easy when everything's
going good to say thank you, God. Easy.
What's difficult when things are bad to
say thank you God. What does that mean?
Thank you God. I don't know anything.
All I know is that you know. That's the
bottom line. [snorts] I know that you
know. And this is hard for me. You know
as as human beings we like to know. We
like to understand. We like to be in
control. And sometimes it's very hard to
just let go
and let go.
Sometimes it's very hard to let go and
let God. Sometimes it's very hard to do
that league. Sometimes it's very hard to
do such a thing. It's hard and to say
thank you to God even in the midst of
the of the hardships. Now my daughter
She was sitting next to me. I turned to
her I said she I want you to know
something because I've spoken to I said
I want you to know just listen
carefully. I want you as a witness.
Thank you Hashem for this challenge. In
the middle of the challenge not later
not before not whatever in the midst of
the craziness heart rate and craziness I
said thank you Hashem. Thank you.
But can we like change it like a little,
you know? Thank you. I'm not I don't
understand, but like I really would like
it to be different than this. [snorts]
I'm trying to think what's going on.
Please something.
Now, I was telling Robbie right before
the class.
I'm a numbers guy. I like numbers. Why
that is probably not having friends as a
child, but I like numbers.
And uh and and I'm good with numbers.
Not numbers doesn't have to mean I'm
good with like 4745 times 25.7.
No, what I mean is I I know dates and
phone numbers and whatever. I I call my
friends.
I mean, whoever's watching this, if I
missed it, I'm sorry, but I'm actually
very good at calling my friends on their
birthdays. I don't have Facebook. That's
for old people. But I've been saying,
but I don't I don't I never had that.
I'm one of the old people. I never had
it. I don't have on my calendar people's
things. I just remember I just remember
their birthdays. I know people's phone
numbers. I I I'm from an era when you
used to remember these things and and I
still I think they're important to me.
[snorts]
So about about a week ago is maybe more
now. I my watch doesn't work. On
December 4th, I turned to my wife and I
was like,
I know this date.
I don't know what is this date. I don't
know this date.
And then she says to me, "Happy
anniversary."
I'm kidding. I'm kidding. [laughter]
That was earlier in the year. And so I
said, "I know this date, December 4th.
What is December 4th?" And I can't I
just can't remember. I know December 6th
because December 6th is my half
birthday. I know my half birthday. Happy
birthday.
>> Thank you everyone. Thank you so much.
I'd like half of the money you were
going to give me for anyway. I know
December 4th is something. What's
December 4th? I couldn't remember. I
don't Okay, I'll let it go. A few days
later, I remembered.
Robbie and I were talking
a year ago on December 4th and he told
me about a shar that Rabbi Eli Mansour
gave and I said, "What's this year?" And
it was about Alenu the alu shab. And I
was like, "Okay, let me hear." I was
busy painting a ceiling cuz as I do and
I'm pretty good at painting ceilings.
I'm pretty good. I got not as good as
guitar but uh but I'm good.
I'm painting a ceiling. I'll listen to
Mansor Alenu. Amazing shear. If if you
didn't hear this year, listen to it. If
you heard it, listen again.
There are shir that we hear in our life
that have an impact on us. Most of them
are few and far between. How many times
you hear a sh like, "Oh, it's really
good." You know, you walk out, you
forget it, you move on with life.
[snorts] But there are some shirim that
we all hear that like we remember them.
This shior on December 4th of last year,
I don't know when it was given. Oh, it
was given before Shana because it says
like it's like something before. But
this shior that was given I guess in
September, I listened to on December
4th.
This year is a sure that I have thought
about every single day. Not like I
forgot some days. Every there's not one
day I missed. Every single day since I
heard this year, I've thought about this
year and I've implemented what he said
and I think about it three times a day
during a called
and the of
[snorts] is such a powerful prayer. It
is upon us to go and praise the Lord,
the master of all. You didn't make us
like them. You made it like me.
And you look through this prayer. It's
powerful. It's action-packed, intense.
And I'm going through this prayer and
I'm thinking how amazing, how was
incredible. And as I'm going through it,
then he says this one point. Listen to
what he says.
I'm just quoting Rabbi Eli Mansur. I
didn't see this inside. So I I trust him
on this. He says the following idea.
It's actually something which I didn't
even realize at the time. I had heard
from
says this also but not the same similar
enough in the s
and he writes he quotes I believe the
and he says the following at the end of
the first paragraph of Elena we say the
following words.
You shall not place it into your heart.
You should know today
God
he is the power [snorts]
on the heavens above
and on the land below.
without there's no one else
in the heavens and in the ground in the
mountains will crumble [singing] but we
see that in the heavens and on below an
ovado there's nothing but god
says say say say say say say say say say
say say say say say say say say say say
says Rab Mansour
that there's a a special sigula what I'm
about to tell you right now is
incredibly powerful
When you say the words,
he's the one who's upstairs in charge.
He's in charge down here. You're
supposed to get into yourself, into your
kid, into your essence.
There's no one but God. No one but God.
No one but God. No one but God.
And when you get that into your essence,
pause.
The next paragraph starts with the word
al therefore. Or if you're smart, it's
But before you say that, think about
there's nothing but God. There's nothing
but God. There's nothing but God.
And then say the words, which means
therefore.
And at that moment
stop and think of anything that you
need. Doesn't matter what it is. You
need something stop and ask
money
um health b you need you need something
in your life. Stop focus but really
focus. Not not like okay
there's no one in the world that can do
anything to help me or hurt me but God.
That's it. God's the only one who can do
anything. Then say al and then pray for
whatever you want. May
I'm quoting
it is tried and tested that you're going
to be answered.
I just want to tell you when I heard
that on December 4th last year since
then it's been a whole year.
Since then, September 4th, 2024. Since
then, I've had a number of circumstances
in my life which I can't go into because
they're too personal. And when I say too
personal, I mean they involve other
people. So, it's not fair to me to
disclose it. But I've had a number of
circumstances from health to schooling
to also another health situation
uh that came out to be and I say this I
mean miracles.
Miracles. Impossible. it's going to work
out. Worked out for sure. There's a
medical problem. Got better. I'm talking
about craziness.
So, as I'm sitting by my son and I'm
talking to him, I'm like, "Come back.
No, wake up. Wake up. Wake up. Wake up.
Wake up. Wake up." I then thought to
myself, "Wait a minute.
We know and we learn from the story of
Yakov and Yoseph
that the Sham's presence is found by the
head of a sick person.
So I said, why am I talking to my son
who does not even conscious? I'm right
by the head of my son. That means Hashem
is right here. Let me speak to Hashem.
So I said, Hashem,
can you can you please do something
about this? Thank you. Thank you. Thank
you. I'm going to take this. I have to
learn, but I got to change.
And by the way, they say when something
happens to a child, when they're under
the age of bar mitzvah,
that it usually has nothing to do with
the child. It's actually it's a message
for the parents. And I'm thinking, what
did my wife do?
Anyway, [snorts] so I'm by the head and
I said, "Hashem,
please, please. He said, the doctor's
not even listening to me. Please help
me. And I said, I said
ain't old. There's no one that can help
him. The doctors can't help him. The
medicine can't help him. Nothing can
help him but you.
And then I said,
I sat up. I looked at his eyes. They're
opposite directions. Went backwards. And
then I said to the doctor, "Can you
please look at him?" He goes, "What do
you mean we're giving him the antenna
and I was like, "Oh my goodness, I could
have really saved some time if I would
have said Alena in the beginning."
But at the moment when I said,
"There's no one but
that's when I realized, wow,
you got everything. I got to stop
pushing. There's so much. You're in
control here." And I don't know was in
charge. And even the doctors if they
they're not the ones who can't do
anything. Not even the medicine's going
to help if not for you. And they gave it
to him. There were no side effects from
that. And the end was unbelievable. But
I'll tell you what else I thought about.
Anybody here who's learned any in their
life ever
would have had the same thought.
When you hear about a scorpion,
what goes to your mind?
>> The story of Yoseph Sadik.
when he was in the pit.
That's this week's para by the way,
the pit was empty. There's no water. But
what was there?
There were snakes and scorpions that
were there. And [snorts] I was like, "Oh
my goodness." And then I realized snakes
and scorpions, this is too much to go
into in depth. They can't do anything to
you unless it's coming directly from
Hashem.
Which means that this is some direct
message for my wife uh for us.
This is something we're meant to going
to take for ourselves to realize what's
going on. And you know what else I
thought about?
What did the suka represent?
>> The ana cavo, the clouds of glory. When
the Jews traveled through the desert,
the clouds of glory protected them from
what?
>> Scorpions.
>> Wow.
>> And I was like, what is going on here?
Isn't supposed to protect him? And then
I realized it is. And that's actually
what protected him. When my son got out
of the hospital, he came over to me one
night. He goes, Tati, I go, "What?" He
goes, "Don't you know that the suka is
supposed to protect from scorpions?
And I was like, "Oh no, he's going off
the der."
I'm like, "What? What's going to happen
now?" So I'm like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What were you thinking?" He goes, "Too
bad it was the day before Sukkot,
right?" I was like, "Hey, I was thinking
the same thing."
Unbelievable. Snakes and scorpions. And
that's the very thing that was going on
with Sukkot. And that's the whole
concept. Which fast forwards us to now
to the idea of Kanuka. And that's idea
of snakes and scorpions.
Understand that Hashem runs the world,
everything.
And the whole message really of what is
the message of suka? When you go into a
suka, what's the message?
It's crazy.
What do you think that's going to
protect you?
How many people here have ever been in a
place where it's dangerous and you
think, "If only I had a suka with me."
And it's known to be the thing that's
going to protect you. [snorts] This is
this is the protection for kali the
sukas.
Please no mister just take my money.
Don't take my life. Where is the suka
when I need one? It doesn't happen. The
answer is but you know what? When you're
in suka, you look up and you see there's
nothing there. Then you realize there's
only Hashem.
That's the concept of recognizing
realize the fact that Hashem is I had to
go falsetto. had to okay
that was not a false okay anyway
[snorts] the point is to really come and
recognize that Hashem runs everything
and then once we realize that then we
can appreciate
what's
now we can give thanks and praise to
your great name because I recognize the
miracles I recognize that anal without
there's nothing I recognize the fact
You're the one that protects everything.
And the more that we get that, the more
that we realize that, the deeper it
becomes. And that's where on we're
supposed to recognize that
go through the days of stopping taking
time when you look at the stop and
think, what am I appreciative for? What
do I have? You could see the fire. You
could hear it crackling. It probably get
far back if you could hear crackling
because it's usually just like a candle.
But unbelievable. You can feel the
warmth of it. Amazing. Unbelievable. So,
my friends, what we're going to do right
now is a quick recap of everything we
did and if one point and then I'm going
to run. Here we go. So, [snorts] we
started off in the beginning in the
beginning
being that we know
what happened
on Sunday afternoon 5:30 p.m.
No, don't. Yes, please. No, please.
Don't do that. I'm trying to help him.
No, you're not. Stop it. You're hurting
him. No, I'm not. Get into there. Go
check it over there. This unbelievable
happen. My finger. It hurts over here.
Now, what does it mean by here? Cuz the
venom was spreading. But I had no idea
what it was. And then what happens? He
starts foaming at the mouth. And let me
go check it out. Lift it up. Punch that
cover. Bam. Bam. The ant wife thing
comes put in the back. Take it with you
and go home there. Really? Hospital? No.
Go get checked with the nurse thing and
say, "Come on back. We'd love to have
you." Put him on the CPR thing. What?
No. I'm out. done right
150 165 things going through the roof
6,250,000
supposed to be 20 besides the fact that
me said you have the echo cardiogram was
coming up all messed up as well and you
have to go back the second time got
messed up again and go back three months
later I got better I recognize
unbelievable thing what's going on there
go but don't lose opportunity sure
listen I need to win this over here
thank you Hashem for what's going on
however
[laughter] and when now we think I put
my head next I'm at the head of the time
is over there please I'm going to do
Thank you so much.
No
December 4, 2024 coming together
is going to change everything. I told
the miracles the miracles happen on this
thing over there. How does that happen?
Unbeliev fantastic. The yellow scorpion
of all the things that should be in that
moment of that thing over there of
Yseph. It's I think it's for the parents
came to work on something. I learned
from this going back and forth and
recognize this is what was occurring
then I get up and I go and speak
get through the ice get through the ice
get through the ice so suck right then
we go think once the whole idea what is
sukot all about what's sukkot it's not
just sukot to think about for the entire
year but that's where we got the power
to realize that every holiday has its
power that power is to realize amuna to
really connect to such an idea and to
realize the fact that hem is running the
world for anomal you're the only that
can change anything all of a sudden I he
goes like well we're giving him the anti
What's the problem? Happens to be that
same the doctor the number one that
could have done it. There was no anti
vetam hospitals going on over he was
moved over there and he was at the right
time in the right place. No all nim
what's going on I can sleep on the bed
with him on the side chair. It's an
amazing thing that was happening to
recognize the whole therefore we bring a
carbon to now pizza would have been very
expensive for you to have all that. So
eat the ch and that's the carbon to
right to say thank you Hashem be part of
this incredible niece and miracle. He
went back a month later had another
sorry
it came back went back a month later and
he had a uh another one it's called echo
cardiogram and it came back good it was
wasn't good in the first couple of them
it came back good and regular
you know beautiful delicious boy back to
building sukas and doing everything it
has to happen over there amazing but
once we understand that then we can get
the kanuka
you can only get the kanuka once a
person has actually stopped have them
process and thought about what's going
on. Then we can get to we can go and
thank we can praise. We can say we can't
thank you enough. We can't thank you
enough.
We can't even we can't even stop there.
So if I lived a thousand years, if I
lived a million years, there never ever
be time enough for all the things you've
done for us to thank you and to praise
you for all the good things that you do
for us all the time. The [snorts] of
Hashem is unbelievable. It's incredible.
And the reason I tell the story is to
bring out the concept of what sukot is
all the way coming to recognize that
every one of us should stop and process
his ideas. Lighting a candle is a
miracle. Getting able to hear something
in a miracle. Our entire lives are
miracles. Maybe it's worthwhile that we
stop and think about that. Now I implore
of you to use this a
because let it be a stepping stone to
really delve deeper into that
connection. There's no one that can help
you. Nobody. The only that could help
you.
Nobody can help us but Hashem. And when
a person gets that recognition, then
therefore
I have hope. I have hope in you, Hashem.
That is everything's going to work out.
Things are going to work out the way
that we want them to. It's going to come
out to be positive. It's going to be
incredible. And it should end. Every one
of us needs
everyone needs aid
just but only one, right? anyone who
could have parasa.
People like that twice, right? And she
got we should get our jobs and we should
have good relationships and we should
have good food and we should have good
times and we should have an amazing
life. Should help us all to be able to
come to recognize that. Take advantage
of these opportunities. Don't let it
pass up. There's a few more days. Stop
the process. Take out a paper. Start
writing a list. Every day we should be
writing a small list. Something one take
a few minutes by the candle lighting.
What am I thankful for? And then not
just write it afterwards. Say, "Hashem,
I want to thank you for A B C F then E."
Always skip the E and then go to it
afterwards. You don't have to, but
you're welcome to if you'd like. Okay. I
want to thank everyone for coming
tonight and and please, there's a lot of
chunk and take it home and make a doggy
bag. I get that.