Rosh Hashanah: How Do We Know that G-d Exists? - Rabbi Daniel Mechanic

[Music] hello everybody so any of you were wondering where I got the name mechanic spelled like mechanic if you think I suffer my whole life telling people my name is rabbi mechanic my older brother is a brain surgeon so he's doctor mechanic the truth my younger brother's plumber McKenna I'm Biscay so that's my name where does it come from I'm hoping that my name comes from the following story I'm hoping my elva's ad my great-grandfather was a big Tom McLoughlin he came over from cousin uh from from the coven that he came over many years ago and maybe they asked him sir what do you do for a living and he answered it's been a Mohammed and the Gentiles could say yes so much kindness became mechanic that's what I'm hoping that happened in any event that's the name it's a very unusual name but the Emma Street is we are a family of mesangium we're a family of mahon come my father was intended for 65 years he openly started a modern orthodox co-ed day school in Long Island called Hank Hebrew Academy Nassau County so my father started to school many many years ago therefore I went to the school that my father started I even had him as a Rebbe in fourth grade my father used to send him letters to my mother when I didn't do my homework so there I was in his school it was a very modern school but my father always told me enjoy yourself but high school you're gonna put on a black hat and you're going to miss it you're gonna be a bento your own so that's what happened so I went off to him a sister I graduated high school after three years I graduated one year early I've been through 12th grade why because I was a going o ulama I was brilliant and I was a nun of I was very humble and I went off to Israel I went there to Sterling I learned to three years in the achieve a cold cold Torah very famous ueshiba the gurgler almonds almond or bucks that's how it was receive oh and I learned there for three years I came back to America and I went to pass a four year and then I went to Lake with a little bit and then they up in the holy city here Hakodesh Flatbush and I learned he needs Shiva called Torah with us Bhairav concepto and I learned it for seven years great years wonderful times and when I was 21 years old which is a long time ago 36 years ago he could do the math so 36 years ago when I was 21 my entire life changed what happened a man by the name of Robin Noah Weinberg diverse achieve of Asia Torah about Ruby is she but you all heard of Asia tour you go to the COI so you turn around you see Asia tour is new you know 30 million dollar building that I donated burqa Shimon 18 bucks and in this building where they do the Macario didn't they show them the beauty of inertia kite and here's the man this is 38 years ago 37 years where he started off this whole thing he was looking for boys that he could train them how to do this type of work say he had raised a million dollars in those days that was the equivalent of like 30 million though that's a lot of money and he came to all the use she was 37 years ago he went to hime Berlin then he went to throw a mirror and lake came to tour with us and he went through a palm the Russia she but he said give me a name of a boy who you feel could be effective in this type of work Kirov her hokum so being that I'm so shy and introverted Rippon said tried mechanic so I get pulled into the office I'm 21 years old I never heard a care of I never heard of recycle never heard a I've never heard about Dora you know with ueshiba boy and Reverend Noah Weinberg looks to me and he says tell me something mechanic do you want to join my revolution why do you want to be an accountant no offense any accountants here say look to him and I said accountant who are you talking about I go what am I talking about what are you talking about receiver well what would what revolution he goes what revolution he says I'm gonna convince a hundred thousand Friday even non observant Jews to see the beauty of Judaism and take on the mid smote become religious Shabbat cut short he says I can't do this myself I need to hire here of army and trained them so why did you come to Israel and it was a second week of June 37 years ago I'm about to go to camp right and the orphans be come to Israel I'm gonna train you what do you say to what Jew tells you I don't believe in this I don't believe in God I don't believe in the Torah I don't care leave me alone I'll train you how to deal with that it's like Hold'em look she bye mama I'm not coming I'm going to camp you know I want to get married I mean Israeli girls are nice but like an American you know I'm busy so you know what he did we all know that says in Pirkei avos it says Ashley should varam o me to olam the rules the world stands on three things you know what that is tera vaada Camilla's Kassadin so he had a different version kesef mamon and gelt he pulled out $1,000 this is 37 years ago that's the equivalent of 25,000 today and he puts it on the table and he slowly pushes it towards me III didn't know that I never saw so much money in my life thousand dollars thirty-seven years ago I'm thinking that's a lot of falafel that I could buy you know so the man offers me a thousand dollars he then showed me a picture of an apartment building he said you see that apartment building it's in the old city directly across from the Cosell we own it you see the top floor it's yours for the whole summer and then he handed me a check and the check was made out to L owls he says and soand he says here go buy yourself a ticket to Israel to this day I kicked myself I should have went first class there wasn't baking I was a kid anyway and Here I am I was on the next plane and here we are 37 years later and all ended numerous the blast 37 years besides getting married to a young lady who has very good taste in men and besides having the most brilliant gorgeous children in the world it's all genetic and besides gaining a lot of weight all I've been doing is debating Jews who don't believe in Torah don't see the beauty of Yiddish kites that's what I've been doing it's been a fascinating experience we've traveled the world we've been to every major city we've met tens of thousands of Jews who became religious and even if they didn't become religious now they fast on Yom Kippur they do nothing else fasten your Kippur they committed to only marry a Jewish girl that's a tremendous accomplishment we want more but not bad and that's what I did for many years kara hokum and then 18 years ago my entire life changes again Chris 18 years ago I received the first phone call you never forget the first and anything in life a from mother calls me up she figurative mechanic could work with you know Jonathan I don't know Christopher's and Kristina's maybe you can work with rookies and series and shmoo leaves and my she's so from mother called me up and starts telling me a story my daughter was kicked out of high school she was not she was hurting the other girls in the school she was definitely deserved to be kicked out the mother tells me she starts crying was 18 years ago and she tells me my daughter was so hurt she ran away from home 17 year old girl and then she says to me it's now a year and a half later we have not seen her nor have we heard from her in a year and a half and I'm thinking she's not alive said that a little big shackle girl to the streets of Manhattan at 17 don't hear from her year and a F and she tells me but we know she's alive because from men coming back from the bungalow colonies late at night through the streets of Manhattan they've seen our daughter walking the streets Manhattan at 4:00 in the morning and she wasn't you know wearing their big sack of uniform saying to him could you help and I ran out to my wife Derek she's off the globe oh my gosh would this is terrible and I've heard of such a thing 18 years ago and then I went back to my care of her hokum/the nan from Jews two or three weeks later I get my second call a boy who's kicked out of Shiva he's a drug addict can you help I said no I'm not going into Harlem but in any event could you help and the calls were coming in once a month that quickly went to 18 years ago to once a week it quickly went to once a day it quickly went to two or three times a day Ida youma Z every day of my life two or three calls some of them are neva horrific some of them are my daughter is a wonderful girl a wonderful religious girl doing wonderful well in school everything is fine but she has big questions could you answer her question sure bring him into my office within an hour to where we take care of all of her questions hi my son's a wonderful boy from everything he has his mishegoss he refuses to learn he will not open up his Gemara Davin's he does everything he doesn't want to learn anymore could you talk to him sure so you get calls like that and then pretty all types of calls from all types of people right wing left wing black cat blue head yellow hat gray hat Bukharian Syrians Russians Israelis Americans you name it so this all started 18 years ago so I said I got to do something piped who's gonna help gonna help the G get assured I'm you throw so my idea was I sat and I thought about it I said look we go and show non-religious non-observance secular Jews they see the beauty of your district what do we say to them how do we what do we show them what do we do we bring them to my table and I dip the Apple in the honey and they're like wow I want to dress these two could put on a shape though because of that Orkut where they shake a loo love it oh I want to be religious that's beautiful business but that doesn't do it and I said to myself what is it that we say - no I'm observant Jews that convinced them to radically change their life why don't we present that information in the achievers and the may circles and the modern schools and the citizens control them and we'll be mocked in the refer to the motto you know that preventive medicine I use I used to suffer from migraine headaches percussion they all went away percussion but I would feel anything immediately take you know two Tylenol to advils to prevent it mechanics idea was why don't we go into the schools wonderful kids and strengthen them give them this information that will strengthen their love of Yiddish kite and see the beauty village kites so I put together a whole big seminar nine-hour seminar I called the 300 schools 18 years ago 295 hung up on me five were interested the five schools that were interested with very left-wing very modern we have the kids and even team shots and here we are 18 years later we're at 406 schools went from 5 to 406 almost every single yeshiva and base Yaakov High School in America and Canada and we go in and have this organization and we do these programs and we do these seminars showing them answering their questions showing them the beauty we describe the beauty of Rosh Hashanah the beauty of Yom Kippur and so Chris and Simcoe star right now so now we got an idea of who I am and what I do now let me tell you this I have visited like I told you over 400 news Eva's as shemin's giving me this course I've spoken to her hashem over three hundred ten thousand teenagers from teenagers and I've learned to laugh from it and one day I'll come back here and I'll tell you some very interesting secrets that I've learned about how keeping our kids on the darris and keeping their religious etc etc but I want to share something else with you I want to tell you during during these seminars that I give for these kids and I talk to them and I need a lot with kids one on one all day long one on one but these kids so what I do is I like to share with them with these from kids my experiences and care of rope opium in the Hollywood with movie stars so some of you have heard me speak before I may have heard about this experiences that I've had and I and how I have a relationship and I say Boris Hashem with probably the most famous movie stars Jewish ones Hollywood producers I would imagine that most of you if not all of you have heard these names these people they're quite famous and me mechanically Ashima guy I have a relationship with them and I've learned a lot from these this relationship and I share this with the kids I go in they want to hear another rabbi say another DVAR Torah yeah but when I tell them the names of some of the people that I meet in Hollywood they like with their mouths open then why do I tell them these are not people we should respect their as the kids say it's a messed up why do I tell them about these people we shouldn't be emulating or looking up to at all because a I might as well show off a little bit you know gain some credibility with these kids and be I describe to the students and to these kids have spending time with these most famous rich beautiful stars and these types of people provide me with a tremendous amount of physic and gratitude for being a fromyou that we have a toy or a telling us how to live our lives and they have less than nothing nothing less than nothing telling them how to live their lives so that's why I feel it's important to tell these kids and I tell them I tell the kids what is our biggest problem life well sometimes it's health but our biggest problem is really the ate Sahara now what does that mean we all have a sorrow right we know it's right we know how we're supposed to behave we know we're supposed to do but we have a gate to harbor some people of small ones some people have big ones mechanic has a humongous one so I did research at its Apogee sorrow I spoke to the people in California who have the biggest seats of Horrors in the world and the money to give into it and everything is accessible to them and you know mechanic found that after spending time with these people mechanic found out that me and you have more eylem hazare than them to get about Olam haba we have more alum has even these people why because mechanic found that they're walking through my door Friday night and the kinder less ran over to me me do we shop is tons will dance at the door Shabbos grayish and then we sit down at a Shabbos table and we do a Shabbos table the way it's supposed to and we have a rush Hashanah like it's supposed to without meaning and coming home to beautifully Gulen and the C Mon him that we do that we're gonna do me obsession Wednesday night we have more alum Hazare than them because these people have no idea who they are why they are what is the purpose of life why are we here what's happening afterwards there's nothing and that's what I tell the kids and that's what we learned from them so let me share with you it all began 28 years ago 28 years ago when when I was invited to join there was something called discovery seminar we had a seminar many years ago that we presented to about a hundred thousand non from Jews and thousands became from from the seminar a very intensive full day seminar show we would go into Reform synagogues and conservative synagogues be going all across the country and speak the thousands of people were completely unaffiliated intermarried garnished and show them the truth of yiddish ago the discovery seminar that's what it was called and twenty years ago it's a twenty eight well twenty years ago there is when but i'm gonna tell you the story that happened I was asked to fly the Hollywood California 20 years ago to present together with two other rabbis two friends of mine and we were our job was to present the full day's seminar to 750 completely sick Jews this took place it was um UCLA UCLA University 750 Jews what was unusual at this particular seminar was that it was being sponsored by one of the biggest movie stars ever and he was an actor in a show that is considered by many to be the greatest show of all time know what's the greatest show again I don't you know I don't watch television I don't open these things but great a show of all time has considered something called Seinfeld so in this show called Seinfeld that everybody who is a man in this show a short guy called George in real life his name is Jason Alexander and he sponsored this seminar so they had billboards all over Hollywood come here discovery with his picture on it and yet 759 from totally secular Jews come listen to us show them that toy is caval dick being from his wonderful this Jason Alexander they're very interesting I was a rabbi I don't watch television you know I never I heard this show but I never saw ever except for one time on an ll airplane gone Erik Cicero I decided to give a little peek and I was laughing so hard everyone on the plane was rushing me you know but in any event this guy Jason Alexander gay Jewish woman you know completely assimilated very funny I remember had a good line to me he said people think I'm short I'm not short I'm a very tall that was his line to me it was very smart and now why did he do this why did he sponsor the seminar that way to talk about the beauty of Yiddish Kate this is 20 years ago Chris his Rebbe told him - who is his Rebbe see in Hollywood they have a the older older Hollywood stars they mentor the younger stars you know Lahab the elf of those and star but Cody's to do that you know but in any event who is his Rebbe there was a famous star name is Kirk Douglas now Kirk Douglas is considered you shouldn't know from this but it's considered to be one of the top five stars and Kirk Douglas told us Jason Alexander you gotta have this seminar sponsor it bring the rabbis out because what happened had a Kirk Douglas know about it because a year before this seminar with this Jason Alexander I was also invited together with to my friends to present the seminar to Kirk Douglas and 400 non-observant Jews in Universal Studios you know together with Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck I remember I came in I was getting dressed at so much security I was putting on a suit and suddenly there's this guy Kirk Douglas say he says what's your name I said rabbi mechanic he said laughs hey come on what's your name I cross my name I pulled up my license to shut him he couldn't believe it he says where'd you get a name like that I said my job is to fix Souls I'm here to fix your soul he goes well let's see if I need any fixing in any event so you know what happened we presented the seminar to Kirk Douglas this man is mock mirror he married three non-jewish wives and do you want to know what this man started doing since he heard our seminar 20 years ago he's now a very old man he's not well since besides the bar mitzvah since he heard our similar he was Makabe lon himself three things a he lights Shabbos candles every week his wife can't do that she's not Jewish in light Shabbos candles too he put some fill in every single day what is men hug ISM Colome and I don't know but he put sons Relan every day and three he used to learn the club rooster with a friend of mine and in California Riley Braverman Kirk doesn't say he loved this seminar that we presented and he told Jason Alexander you got to do this okay now we go like that now so you all got this 21 years ago I did this for Kirk Douglas a year later 20 years ago for the Jason Alexander three weeks after this Jason Alexander seminar three weeks later my secretin usual so I need to like make sure with the wordham screen my secretary wonderful late ten year old big taco girls screening my calls she calls it to me she goes hi this is someone from Hollywood wants to speak to you I go you know I'm reading a Jewish press I wanna Dana I'm eating a Danish and I go could you ask him what his name is so she comes back but she says he says his name is Larry David for those who don't know Larry David is like the biggest thing in Hollywood he's the producer of some Philly as well these shows he's brilliant he's in the show room but in any event he very wealthy mind-bogglingly wealthy he's on the phone so I get on the phone I go hello he goes hey rabbi Larry David I just freeze he goes yeah yeah the Larry David from Seinfeld I go oh hey how you doing I make it believe that I'm call me while my heart's going like this I mean this guy so I go uh he goes sides of his conversation rabbi I don't like rabbis so I Shem put the words in my mouth I said Larry I don't like movie producers he liked that he was laughing he was round boy I'm Jewish you know I go I know I know that he goes but I I haven't done anything really Jewish in my life have never been bar Mitzvahed never been to a synagogue the only thing Jewish I ever did was I married a Jewish woman he said and that was an accident I met her in a bar somewhere and I got married now of course if your state Sophia divorce baby says to me and the reason I don't like graboid and the reason I don't like any of the Judaism is because I've had serious questions on judy's in my whole life but I don't like my wife so I never got the answers but I heard you speak at the Jason Alexander seminar and I would like to talk to you I go he said when you're gonna be in Hollywood next we'll get together I'll take you kosher kosher Bleek oh sure I go to him oh my gosh I happened to be coming this week which is all a lie of course I coming this week unbelievable so I call him I called up Rubbermaid receiving Eric's Australia said listen I got this billionaire Hollywood guy wants to meet me I gotta go he says go I said his only first class he says fine go first class first and last time he went first class say fly into California and we go to this place called Pat's restaurant for those of you rendered to California and Pico Boulevard Pat's restaurants so even though my name is mechanic I pull up in an old jalopy rented car he pulls up in a full block long limousine with three bodyguards who is so big their muscles had muscles okay and they were carrying guns this is not regular you know big guys guns you got it serious stuff so me leg I woke up tomorrow Shalom Shalom okay we walk into this restaurant two bodyguards stay outside at the front door one comes in with us and we walk in now I let them know before that I'm coming with this guy Larry David I don't want to stand on line with this big star fit for an hour and you know somebody could come over you know Moses kala I can't have that so I let them know I'm coming so I walk in and you know 150 from Jews you know steak on their fork at the end and they will stop and they're staring I know them I know I'm good-looking but they're staring you're Larry David so we walk in they gave us a place at the end they put him in heat surround us we had privacy and they sat down with him and we talked and I'm going to tell you about it in a moment so I'll take the these are the star there are many other stars I'm not going to get into and the reason I'm telling you all this and the reason I tell kids this is we have to be we have to thank Hashem not only are we you then that we have a toy or that we have MS that we have versus Shana that we have a yump if then we have beautiful children and grandchildren who are learning and growing because you meet these people they don't have any almost all of them have none of the things I just said which is why they want to meet with me all the time there's no idea what their life is about they really don't so let's go through a few things I remembered so I met with Jason Alexander there was interesting I remember he says to me we sat that I gave this whole seminar together my friend 9 hours right but in between me lunch so he ate lunch with him so remember he's history rabbi tell me something what's this thing with miracles Oh all over the Torah it's all about miracles and milk I don't see any miracles today we don't see anything now we don't see the river's splitting this is nonsense see here's what I said to him I said well yeah the first understand what the definition of a miracle is and so let me ask you something I said to him if you would walk out of your house every single day and just sit over there like this in front of your house and beautiful ripe watermelons would fall from the sky onto your grass and you'd pick them up take him inside their everyday watermelons falling out of the sky would that be a miracle he said you bet that's a miracle I said why is it that when they come from up there down it's a miracle but when they come from the ground and they come up this way it's not a miracle coming down miracle but coming up this way not a miracle yeah we have to talk about that let's learn that was the first thing okay then he said to me he goes like this he goes where's this whole thing with women I go what do you mean is the way you know Judaism and women with Judy's view women I look to myself we're pro se you get and I explained to him the secular world is gonna come to us Torah observant Jews and complain about women guess who was the gutter Hadar two and a half thousand years ago the place a car door was the vote on the Via Cavour anivia two hundred thousand years ago maybe more she was the head of cloudy throat she was the god oh ha dark they've already video so our system the whole Torah system to produce a situation where if necessary she was the God who had are you know what was going on two and a half thousand years ago forget that 500 years ago by the anal yahudim how they were treating well you throw we made the bow around the video was they had a Claudia throw go take a look at it Suva what it says over there no one the nation in the world has anything like it the Robin says I'm a cop though yo Seminole fo every man has to be Mesabi to his wife more than himself in every area so these are the things I told Jason Alexander then I remember his big thing with Shabbos he said rabboni and wouldn't pen what a peep people who don't understand what Shabbos is about and bilasa will example do they always give to make fun to my phasic from Halawa you know what example they always give tearing the toilet paper right kids here toilet paper though that's really hard work says Anna Tori can't do work you know tearing toilet papers work this is Anna asked me he said this is insane I go no no no no no terrible misconception and I explained to him the Torah does not forbid work what is the word for work I vote that avodah it doesn't say that it says melaka a completely different concept Elohim means creative work there's nothing to do with how much you exert your body nothing to do with that and then explain to him why did I Shem forbid melaka explains this man because Hashem I said some God knows that if human beings go through life without knowing and living the most important piece of information which is a God who created this world and there's a purpose to life and he gave us a toy room you go through life not knowing that you've missed that on everything and God knew that and therefore and he knew that a life centered around how centered around Hashem is the life live I'm sorry a life without Hashem is a life lived with no answers and a life with Hashem is a life with no questions and I Shem knew this and I said new people have to know there was a Creator who created this world and he's infinite and has no needs and therefore there must have been a very big purpose and that was given to us through the Tyrol and therefore Hashem says you know how you do this don't do creative work you take a piece of paper you rip it in half what have you done you've created two pieces of paper so we do not do that so we could testify we believe in Hashem he created this world we don't make two pieces of paper we don't do creative X it's a completely different mindset he was blown away by that now I mention to you that Larry de l'homme Jason Alexander why did he do the seminar because of Kirk Douglas so what was some of Kirk Douglas of questions his big issue was I'm not sure who's in the room here his big issue is uh ain't no you who'd them Gentiles how we look at them and how we treat them etc etc my friends do you know there were fifteen thousand religions out there there's approximately fifteen thousand fourteen thousand nine hundred ninety nine of them say if you don't follow our religion God don't like you that's it you're finished forever Jews we're the only one the only one at a fifteen thousand oh you don't follow our Kyrie commits us no problem God loves you just through sheva mitzvos bnei noah don't kill don't steal don't you know basic morality Hashem loves you and you can't boil em how about you tell me religion really has a leader I'm a rabbi who gets up there and says ain't 9qu gets Olam haba if they keep sheva mitzvos bnei Noah I'm not gonna get to do the homework look as we show you I'm not getting into it yeah they get some Foreman it's different than a year to keep 613 if it's like on an airplane right so the Comets time it's an airplane to Olam haba the cup of time is in first class you're all in business mechanics and coach and those that are that keep the Chevy mid Supino they're all the way in the back of the plane surrounded by see them trying to put together a minion and keeping them up all night but they're on the plane where the owner wants to say such a thing now where the religion at 15,000 do not take on 613 do your sheva mitzvos a sham loves you you got your purpose in life and then they work on and have their job love beam have their job women have their job men have their job it's like a baseball team first base second base we all have her topless and this is where they told curb those he's blown away by that okay now let's go to Larry David that was interesting so we come into this restaurant and I'm sitting with him right I sit down with him you know my wife taught me beforehand I can't go you Sheba shun the guy had a way to put my hands where to put my napkin have it be very classy I'm fine so I'm sitting down with this man surrounded by Emma Pizza the whole kosher restaurant everyone is tumbling quizzes big star was there his bodyguards there so I figured you know what's the guy gonna say to me so here's how we start off we sit down and they give us menus I remember he said to me rabbi order whatever you'd like and I'm thinking the guy he's a billionaire I'll just order the whole restaurant how much is a restaurant 15 million with 15 minutes could I have the rest of it but no I got my steak okay so I figured small talk he'll start so where you from are you married do you have children small talk that's how normal people when you first meet say here's how it starts to off our conversation we sit down hand the menus the order of food and then as he's putting his napkin in here he looks and he goes so rabbi you have you know God exists like that's how he starts huh he says to me we start off the first thing he says to me is how do you know God exists you know that's how you start off you know it was very smooth like with a nuclear question so what did I do I looked at him and I said how do you know he doesn't he looks at me his face was I thought he was gonna bash me in the face he goes you are such a Jew I bring you out from Flatbush from Brooklyn to ask you questions I ask you a question what do you do you answer me with a question I asked you a question graboid heavy no God exists so I begin I go how do you know he doesn't and then he looked he was just staring at each other and then I go you have a problem not me you have a big problem you know why because there were two possibilities either I'm right there is a God or you're right and there is a pastor so I said when we there's also a possibility either I'm right or you're right there's no third possibility I go when are we gonna find out who's right who's wrong when why don't we know for sure with the answer may vestrum the second we die in 120 either I'm right there's a Shem IRA me it's like Jack over my Bubbe or you are right and there's nothing those are two possibilities right he's like yeah I go let's look at the consequences of who is right and who is wrong let's say I turned out to be wrong Custer Jones I don't have to say house to show them every five seconds so hostage Shawn squared let's say I turn out to be wrong I told him finish spiel I lived my whole life of a hundred 20 years thinking that I'm right and I had a wife and I had stopped this and I had children and I had cashed roots and I had this I had that and I had to show him I didn't say that and I had a little so what did I lose at so I didn't smoke some weed at a numerator if you have a list I don't want to say your initials I didn't do this I didn't do that big deal but let's look at the consequences if you're wrong you live your whole life not believing in a sham and then you die and there he is what are you gonna say for eternity oops you will have the consequences for you if you're wrong or catastrophic as eternal it'll be for trillions of years catastrophe the consequences of me being wrong is all right so if you have a resetting dude big deal meanwhile I had such a good smack of life you know and then I said and since the consequences of you being wrong as so catastrophic you better do your research time for you to go do you see if I said and if you don't want you see but you learned with me I'll learn with you on the phone let's learn and then I look at some books they showed me you don't believe in God here's a book called permission to believe and read this book and here's another book and here's another book I showed a three four books and then I said something very very powerful some people may not like it but if you know the context it's quite powerful I said to him you read these books Larry and you come back to me and you shall be where I'm wrong you show me where the floors are and all the Cedars cathoshea care I took off my yarmulke and I said I'll eat a ham sandwich with you and your Kippur do you know how powerful that is in compliment that is I said you disprove you know no problem and I said that what you won't be able to because Judaism is beautiful and it's true and if you want to know if you really want to know the truth rather than bring me out and act like a no but learn with me I met him a second time and then I met him a third time and then I tried to really put the squeeze on him come on let's learn let's learn on the phone I learned with Yuto Roy and his wife got a whole thing heard about this at this point and she she said stay away from mechanic there's a cult there called jihad their coats she made him crazy and that was it and every once in a while every few years they give him a call say come come you Shabbat he goes my rabbi you gotta do better than that you got a war for me whatever he says and this is what I tell the kids it's very very powerful to show them confidence we have the MSO we have everything what do they have out there that somebody somehow can that whether they got a large man who put a ball in a net we have I live in Flatbush a twenty ninth Street between LNM the heart of Flatbush and many years ago this has got to be at least 18 17 years ago missionaries descended on our neighborhood Christian missionaries in Chaves in the month of May beautiful weather and they figured out we get out of short 11:30 11:00 love it and they come knocking on our doors to spread the message of the lower-right so they start knocking at everybody's door my block and of course everybody is from on my block and of course no one either they don't answer the door or if they open the door they see it's missionaries they say without a chest and they close the door what do you think happened when they reached my house at the end of the block so here's the story to show you how we have to show our Kindle walk on ourselves confidence in you to strike so with a load of thirty in the morning the house is listed all the lights are on the house has the Shabbos smell right the Challenger Shabbos smell and all the girls my daughter's are old they just got up at 11 o'clock and it's saying they're diving and all the boys came home with their damn in the basement killing each other wrestling you know in the couch I'm sitting at my wife's preparing the you know the salad and preparing everything and I'm sitting at the table preparing good and the doorbell rings at 11:30 and like the doorbell the mailman doesn't come to later who is this so I say I'll get it so I go to the door I look through the hole in the door who's standing outside a well-dressed beautiful african-american couple a man and a woman and I'm looking at them I'm thinking who are these people why they here they're holding thing that dressed beautifully it took me about five seconds till I stop exactly who they are and before I open the door I ran to the basement kid the lock come upstairs quick the missionaries are here my kids come running upstairs their little kid left and never even heard of this word missionaries I say listen operas gonna open up the door now I'm letting in two people don't be scared go to the couch don't say a word watch what happened goes the kids run so excited okay so I open up the door everything looks good I opened up the door and I look at them and I go hi sabbath greetings come on in and they walk into my house i was standing there and the vegetable there and i go so where you from etc and i wanted to steer the conversation in a way record let them know that I'm a rabbi why did I want to let them know that I'm a rabbi because I knew when I tell them I'm a rabbi they're gonna be so excited in their kitchens in the neshama they can be so excited we're rabbi they think they're gonna catch a big fish little do they know I'm a killer whale and they're clueless today so we bring him in I break into my Shabbos table he got the picture here at this point my wife walks in the room with a look on her face my wife's look was this is what my husband does for fun okay brings missionaries in said what what but she's seen this before she's like let him play with his toy is fine okay so I sit down and I start isolate the male said here the female said here here's the table here's the head of the table with the kiddush cup in the hollow so I thought explains this african-american couple arm in hug him this is why we have two cowls this is why we cover the power I'm explaining to them arm in hug him and then I finally say some what brings you here today so the female she didn't say a word the whole time she was very sneaky stick the mail he closes his eyes I'm just like this well rabbi you have a deep poison well rabbi Oh South Carolina by the way southern accent well rabba i come to you with a message of love and salvation when they did the love and salvation my Kindle app behind me on the couch burst out laughing I don't want to fill us up with my hand I'm like trying to get the kids quiet and he's telling me I have to take yashka into my life and laughter Louie yoshi-p your sugar your spirit when he's all done I go that's very very interesting that's very very interesting that may I ask you a question he goes sure they said what evidence and proof do you have that your sugars DiMaggio what evidence the proof do you have so he opens up his little bag he pulls out a Tanakh in English that Arthur and he was ready for battle he opens up to yes I uh chapter 53 rabbi over here take a look chapter 53 Isaiah and he had to underline you know the blood of this suffering servant clearly that refers to yashka on the cross clearly that refer clearly refers to yashka on the course the blood of the suffering servant then he goes over here it pushes it to Zachariah and then schmuck guy Ryan baccara and Sun and Psalms and bonds and Ezekiel's and Schmidt kills he's all over the Tanakh gave me ten examples this is a read everything the remiz nothing but everything's like a hint here's a hint the archer hid the hint to his mother Mary here's a hint to his dorm he has a hint to his grandma here's a hint to the intent sentence when he's all done watch this I go so what you're saying is you and your friend are believing Christians and my kids and my wife they're all watching this you're saying the reason you believe in this stuff is because thousands of years ago the Lord deliberately inserted into the Tanakh into the Bible certain words and certain phrases that are hints to all humanity throughout all the centuries that y'all should go thermos yeah right he goes yeah I go sir when the Lord wrote these what language were they written in Hebrew Tyra's in Hebrew I said Sarah what does this word mean he say but he just looked at me because he doesn't know any Hebrew show hon he's just staring at me then he said tell me what is this mean at a time T page condole at that point my wife ran out of the room she's laughing so hard for those who don't know he where that means you're very stupid what does that mean a good home for this great face so then I said to me oh oh you don't know Hebrew the words that you're using to prove mm-hmm cool it's a Timmy honey my two daughters cutest things ever saw and you like four years old and six years old they were at that time it's a Abba I said wow you look so pretty in shop it's kodesh they say they see these two people my daughters are standing next to me these two people are my friends I said to my daughter's could you do me a favor tell them how do you say in Hebrew they were food on the table how do you say orange in Hebrew my two daughters I go one two three and my two girls go tapas I go how do you say table one two three Shogun I look at them I said you are proving your whole religion from words in a language that you don't even know the language and my four-year-old does his Igesund shall only hit rote now I didn't just kick him out it's not nice and then I went through all the examples that he was insane one of them was it was insane every word I showed them you know I speak Hebrew that's not what the word means so they left a week later Sabbath tell you this knock on the door I go and I look through the whole I runs the basement Kindle on their back come quick watch what happened us quick they're not coming back a third time and I open up the door guess who they sent me with him the tool from last week they sent me bubby missionary understand they sent me a rezone see last week was acronym they sent me Irish I'm a buddy buddy missionary you brought bubbly missionary into the house I'm not gonna go through the whole story because it's getting late and I took care of Bubbe missionary they don't come back no more and our kins with Mike in love story edition you wanna hear what I said about missionary there was once a city around my swing some is safer this is a disprove to all religions in the world you all know we begin with a heart see 93 million people over a national event historical event all other religions fourteen thousand nine hundred ninety nine of them all they can with one person claiming I had a revelation with no Aidan no witnesses every single one except for us so I said to this Bobby missionary now to her I said the story as an Indian chief but amongst unserer will make it a city to rebel and I told her the following story i sat down at my table I said to her oh the people that were here last week they told you about me yeah he said okay wonderful I respect that you want to talk about your religion I respect that and then I told her the Orthodox Jews we have a custom where we like to tell our children's stories so I'm in the middle of the story now when I finish the story then I'll have a discussion with you about religion a little did she know here we go it was once a citizen read book yeah that wasn't see them one day the rebel wasn't if they're suddenly miffed her they didn't find it so far there was no will later them who should be the next Rabi have three sons who should be the next was taken over thousands seen him said the before the eldest is the before he should take over others said no the middle son he's the biggest time of Holcomb of the three of them he's a nose color three Bakula he should be the next red but others said no nobody likes the oldest son or the middle son everybody loves the younger son he's charismatic he's about late so he's like come out look tremendous my focus breaks up brakes out they already started building three jewels and I'm telling this to live it to the Bobby missionary on the Indian chief built three tents you know I mean that him the sons and then they said one day the youngest son of the red book comes into the shul banks on the Bema and he says I know for sure who's supposed to the next ribbon no more fighting Mike locus is over I know for sure and then he said the following story I went to sleep last night I went to mikvah I did thinkin cut sighs I went to sleep and had a dream and in the dream Totti the rebel just thought came to me and said you're the next Rebbe their problem the next Rebbe so then I asked the missionary lady what could all the huh see them or the Indians would ever say to their to this youngest son that will logically disprove what he's saying then it can't be that was supposed to follow because of his dream no what could he say they could say to the younger son if the rebel up there wants to communicate down here to us the most important piece of information in our life who's supposed to take over he wasn't come only to you we would have come to the three all three sons all three sons where they had the same dream and then they'd know and she got that and then I said to her about what would have been the best way of all even better than that no the Rebbe up they could do anything come to all 50,000 see them go into their dream and say the youngest son is gonna be the next Rebbe and this missionary lady took her time but she finally got it well I guess the best it would have been if the Indian chief had gone to all the Indians I said thank you ma'am you just disproved Christianity and every religion in the world thank you she was like a deer in headlights I said listen to what you're saying you're saying if there's a being up there who wants to communicate to people the truth who's he gonna go to one person like yashka like Muhammad like all these other religions who is he gonna come to everybody it's the only logical way and that's what we have the only religion ideological that makes any sense if I know an important piece of information that all of you in this room need to know am I gonna tell this one lady teller do you do me a favor tell everybody that's a life for that thing that would make me evil what if she's irresponsible what if she doesn't get to everybody you get everybody together and then you tell everybody and that's what we have and that's what I told this lady what I wanted to convey to tell you these are people these stars and others they have all oh la maza they have looks they have money they have fame and then they wake up at 45 years old and sit with me in a restaurant what is the purpose of life what is right what is wrong what is good what is bad they have no idea they're clueless and we have the MS and we have a tyrant we have the MS and I'll tell you this the living that we're coming out before Rosh Hashanah the great rabbi Noah Weinberg that's how they receive of Asia Torah that you know that started me off and all this he once told me my into the offices many years ago this is 1983 okay we're talking about 34 years ago that was about her with young guy he looks amazing you know he said if you don't know what you are willing to die for you do not know what you're living for what are you willing to die for some state some money covered you willing to die for that no there's only two things that I would die for my wife and children and you'd expect that's it nothing else that we will die for you gotta know if you want to know how to live life and I'm sure some of you were a little bit older than me you could tell me this if you want to know what real real living is you got to know what you're willing to die for and once you figure that out then he said to me and then if you spend your life not living not surrounding your whole life around those things that you're willing to die for then you're a baby then you're not really living but you know your life you would die for your wife and children you better spend time with them you better love them spend time with them either shake you better learn tour you better keep Mitzvahs if those are the only two things you better spend your life surrounded around surrounding yourself around those things otherwise you're a baby or you're leading a meaningless life and here we have a full Russia China the oh my then it's a happy day it's a very happy day thanking as shimmies our MELAS Shambo gave us Toro gave us mitzvahs my song you got to work for me to Robert swanigan me lose custody that's what we got to do when that's what it's all about and that's what life is really all about and we have this from Arturo I remember the kid the other day kid was asking me um with the ask me about which Mitzvah maybe she Lewis I came some Mitzvah they said that's not fair it's not a fair bit spot it's it's uh it's cruel so I right away said really so Hashem is cruel know if you don't believe in ocean then you don't have the question oh but you believe in a sham in the midst is cruel that me do you think I've shown as cruel as I sham cruel and he was like he didn't have answer I said the only real where do you get this whole concept of what is right wrong cruel not cruel where do you get them from from a Torah the Torah teaches you Osirak stuff no signal we are the source of it all and as you have to believe in Torah in order to even ask these types of questions and this blew him away and we had the source of Emmis and we have to go into Rosh Hashanah thanking assembly these are Mela that he gives us a beautiful Torah and gives us a chauffeur and Lulu loves and Esther and all the beautiful things that we have in the educate so that is a moment of mine my brother to all of you we show a little conceivable seemeth over you have a good sure and that's it take care have a wonderful day [Music]