CHAZAQ's Torah Talks #51: Rabbi Daniel Travis - Encounters with Greatness

yet another amazing Torah talks Tuesday night programs with special guests tonight we have us with us a very dear friend all the way to emergency throughout Robert Daniel Travis Lita welcome Robbie Travis how you doing amazing action boxing Barbie Travis and kazak go back many many many years actually Robert Travis if I'm not mistaken grew up in Forest Hills in Queens that's right wow okay Forest Hills Queens where uh khadak also uh more or less was uh was born and uh the rabbi is an altar of many many amazing safarim uh the latest one of your encounters with greatness and tonight we're going to be talking about the good DeLay So the great rabbis of Our Generation and previous generations but before we get to tonight's exciting topic Robbie Travis we could get a little bit more background about yourself the great work you're involved with uh for Claudia's show I grew up in Paris cells you said I went to public school what School of Science yeah wow training for the Olympics 100 made hurdles and Premier Kahana came to the school he said you're in the wrong school go to Israel that was about 40 years ago I listened and I've been there ever since yeah and from the day I stepped forth into Yeshiva it was clear to me that the right thing to do for me is to become opposing become a posic and train other postcard and why is that because halaka is the way we're supposed to walk the way we're supposed to go I realization properly if you don't know it in depth then you really don't know how to function as a true so it's clear about one of my primary teachers taught me this four major ways to learn Terror either meaning in depth um in depth or more broad learning of gumar and he said pick one way and go with it your whole life and you'll be very successful I picked in depth I love her wow amazing and rabbit can you tell us a little bit more about your Yeshua Taurus so Taurus time has been around for for 18 years it's called torresheim because it was in a car accident it was pronounced dead afterwards crossing the street hit by a car thrown in the air and land them ahead and run over by a truck back pronounced dead publishing may live through it I went afterwards to represent I said I had a miracle which they do he said do something and Hashem will give you a broker give you a blessing and you'll do I started learning Allah and from learning Allah came to teaching Allah from teaching Allah came in a whole institution of um we have a very we have a big group of very talented young students today and they're all trained to be postcum we're trying to set up a building and bizarre the show we're going to be bullying base measures just for teaching post him we just set up a website trainingpostcam.com and I want there to be postcode for the Next Generation that every single question no matter how hard it is there should be a clear answer my specialty by the way is balchuma shylist yeah the most complicated difficult uh messy shylist that's what I love because I could relate to that and uh rabbit has a lot in common you know the fact is in the Forefront of saving the lives of so many public school students that's right and helping them find a Jewish Day School or helping them with after school programs Sunday school and they should all know every single boy who comes through your door should know he could be the next post to the door unbelievable I started from nothing I couldn't read a gemara and now broke a jump today I'm the head of this unbelievable that that in itself is enough for the tour dog rabbit thank you very much that's really inspiring and uplifting but uh we're gonna jump into the tour talk which uh Rabbi as we mentioned you are and we're very close to many good days so many great rabbis of uh Our Generation previous generations if you were to have one unifying lesson that we can learn and apply to our lives what would you uh what would you uh it's a very very hard question because there were so many of them but I'm gonna pick one very special one today and that was they loved every single Jew like he is your own child right every single Rob that I had a question with someone Tammy Goldberg I'll share with you a story that happened with the shovels we were having great difficulties my first year of marriage I went to shovel zorbach and told them the difficulties difficulties that jump is pronounced so different everything everything you could think of okay and um I went to the Rob and I said Robbie what should I do and he said he started crying yeah I don't know I I don't know what to do but I have so much Mercy for you I have so much love for you yeah every single rub I had treated me like I was their only son that special cashier that's special and this is why it's so important to have a rub that you're close to right because the Rev shiman scope explains in a safer um um in the introduction he says what is a God he says the god of the person his sphere of influence is great if your experience was only a one person then you're a small person if your sphere of influence is on the entire Jewish people that's a God yeah so they love every single Jew like they're their own child and we should apply that message because we all know a five-year-old kid would come in and he would treat him like the biggest Township unbelievable unbelievable that's something we should all take him on ourselves like I was saying that the basement Temple was destroyed because I've seen us coming because of basically hatred so how do we bring it back is by having been loving all freely just like the godell these are just like the greatest rabbis of the generation so uh we know that uh that you should make for yourself a rabbi and you'll have all doubt removed why is this just an important concept you touched upon him a little bit but uh being that you had so many great good element rabbis on your side what do you suggest for our broader audience how did you want to buy this one there's a big um Trend today to have a Dylan sock which if you're stuck you know that's for sure a good thing but it's so important to have your own rub why because sock is much deeper than just the answer to the question just opening up the shock and find the answer so stock involves the person you're talking to his financial situation is shown by his situation what he's all about how he thinks how he feels you know where is he holding life what are his difficulties all of these things come into Factor the word comes the word cut right whenever you learn any suggests whenever you learn any piece of Gomorrah right there's always going to be a line where can you be on this end of the line is is Mother and this line in the doctor this is forbidden and this is permitted up stock is getting to that line exact line to know where it is the more talented the more erudite the person is the more that line will be to be to be lenient right now it's not going to say that you should always be lenient right but you have to know that line because if a person is a case of great need then it's a Mitzvah to be lenient for that person assuming that Allah permits that now I'll just give you an example there was a quick question that came to me when I was very young and I want with and I spoke to a Surah Rob and it was I I related this stock to the person who was involved they almost killed himself wow a later winter of David Feinstein and he said that was a big mistake in such a situation you rely on the lenient opinion I once had a question whether David Feinstein it was one of my students who was very very shy and was having trouble getting married I was sent to a certain psychologist sent me to the psychologist told me six uh 15 years of psychology maybell album six months of karate will for sure help him yeah it'll make it more assertive and outgoing I went through him that would financially asking this in Winter to do karate he said only pequish most people would have given up and just gotten home I said rebby what's be co-opened after she said if it'll be more normal that is because this is one of the most important things I've ever heard in my life in the posting being more normal is because if you could make a person more normal through your sakalaka yeah assuming that the luck allows for that that's because this is what it posted was asked yeah he asked the young loved ones what's the most important what do you have to know to be a rough he said Castro's Shabbos Ervin he asked him a question again he said cash Rashad was the air of him he asked him a third time Kyle's there and he says you forgot the icker because you saw him almanus how to treat people how to debate is one of the most important things of time that can't be gotten over the phone if you call a random person doesn't know you can't have that to be a real rug to have a real roof you have to have an intimate connection with the child unbelievable you know the rabbit just reminded me uh we're walking my rubbies at South who I know was uh yes yes yeah the yards it was just this past material and uh and uh when I just got married I went to the Rob as my rubby and I brought my uh my my wife and uh we asked Robbie give us some advice for marriage she's one piece of advice for us was just being home just be normal just be normal maybe just touch a little bit upon uh I know that Rob just had a share but uh on on we're walking when I first came right when I came to Trail as I said my roshibos were Emotion by Eisman during my test I couldn't read a Gamora right I was just starting it was a year out of wrong science I was just starting I said but ready you know take me an achievement two years on being the top share anyway so I wound up in your Superstars motion walking was there the first year we were roommates together and he asked me to write an article about his grandfather we became very very close what his grandfather welcome no Ryan walking his grandfather come about pet in jail by heart with nothing else he wrote in jail yeah we became very very close friends one thing I could really say about iron which I said about all of these other Goods island is obviously his Trails whenever I would speak to him I had many bukhari and tamiram you would say uh Daniel you have to know what is going to how difficult it is we have to give to them you have to be strengthened them you have to do everything you can for these people because they're so the same they're so pure they want really the truth it's 100 true that's why it's a gold mine over here in Queens and I tell qualities of the Jewish people all over the world that in Queens we have 10 000 Jewish kids that are in public schools and now these kids are in public school they're not against Yiddish guy Judaism they're not against or they're not they just don't know any better I once they asked you have Noah Weinberg I said what's your secret they should tell what's your secret he said I look at every kid with earrings and long hair as the next gun will adore foreign every single person has potential for greatness and your proof of that I'm saying I'm just going to hurt strong learning and growing that's unbelievable so Rabbi uh really enjoying every single second of this but if I would uh with our custom over here our minute ago of Torah talks is that we leave the rabbi with one final message one final thought that you can leave for abroad so I mentioned my my goal in life my raise on dead tray is to train I forgot to mention and the rabbit didn't mention this this is one of over 30 books that the rabbit has published just very inspiring just as I said we're building a basement Cloud shell that's my raise on death trade to have a base measures to train post game who understand people yeah especially Americans one or Israeli Rabbi told me he says I don't understand Americans they're crazy I said they're crazy but you need to have a lot because for people you know but my other major desire in life yeah and I've given thousands of share them on that okay is to show the world that nothing bad ever happens right now bad the other direction does good and given thousands of share on that I wrote a novel about it it's called you did you yeah you did yeah and number two is coming out soon it's about a young boy who goes to terrible experiences yeah and he uses with the Torah teachings in order to that he did you want you did your two is coming out soon right I just want to leave you with a message for paid suck yeah but before we get to the pizza how one message about everything being for the best one thought one physic of all the lectures that you gave it's the most important Allah you know there's tens there's thousands and thousands right it says there as a person should say that many times every day I met galoy once on the beach I said ready I was just with him right I said ready right how do you that's easy to say but how do you feel Islands he said know that everything Hashem does is an infinite kindness yeah Hashem hand crafts everything when I was hit by that car that was the best day of my life even though I was pronounced dead why because of that 30 sparm came out because of that tourist time you know what's named after not refine brisker it's named after me because I'm alive wow yeah because of that I have a base measures I have this for him right we have to know the Zora says the things which the firovic or the worse it looks the more who has hidden there the tremendous potential everybody out there is suffering in marriage with panasa with health with children you should know buried in those difficulties is potential to grow and to understand they become a better person and become deeper and deeper if you live your life like that it says he says you're living in Olam like we say in Shema every day means like the days of Heaven on Earth you could live all them have in this world if you just realized everything Hashem does is good and that's the message of ASAP the rambam says yeah you begin with the bad and with the good we were slaves terrible slavery death action Holocaust yeah Hashem took us out and freed us and showed us it's all good this the peace that seder is a is a prototype for the whole year that everything that bad happens eventually Hashem turns it into good if you're patient and you understand you have a moon Hashem if you have the proper amuna you'll see revolva taught me he said every Jew has to write a megillah yes you write your own Miguel Write Your Story down and you'll see if you trace it from the end you'll see it's a happy ending what's the person's uh reaction or behavior how is one supposed to act when he's going through these difficulties you just have to hold on I'll tell you I got here on Wednesday Thursday every single thing could go wrong I miss my plane and then this happened and the plane next plane got delayed and then I was in an Uber at the region block and then you know and then uh um were you dancing during the office and then I got locked out of the house I was staying it was pouring rain I'm just and then like I want to just go to sleep I couldn't fall asleep I had jet leg I was like Hashem I'm just holding on tight and I've given 2 000 share them on this yeah and I still felt so upset I said I just kept saying over and over again come on never mind and you're allowed to get upset it's human Hashem girls are human but if you hold on tight the Zora says Hashem brings us difficulties he wants true love he's testing us if we really love him if you show at that moment they really love like one more time hold on my wife once woke me up at midnight she said I need some I need some drugs and I promise I said but I'm sleeping she's buying the drugs I got up I went I got the Medicine my wife said I see you really love me yeah that's what hashem's doing when I was testing out we have to know and it's just comparing your wife to God no but the point is like this I have the best wife she's from Rio de Janeiro shout out to the lives okay yeah or else that would be a a course A New Yorker yeah but the point is like this the point is that Hashem has infinite infinite love for us yeah and he wants us to express it he wants us to express it we express it by holding on during those times you don't have to be happy you know something bad happens you don't have to be singing and dancing but you have to hold on tight and just believe don't believe in Hashem and Hashem will help you a Mankato what a powerful message little Travis shalitha uh you see this Taurus time check out all this foreign about everybody should get involved trainingpostscript.com you can join with us to trainingposting.com Travis thank you very very much for those words of inspiration words of shizuk and we want to give some shout outs to dailygiving.org our dear Partners the dollar day goes very very far away a shout out to Tori anytime for hosting this amazing uh Torah talks along with the many different platforms that are uh sharing these uh podcasts and sharing I get feedback everywhere about this story talks Hashem please continue sharing it forwarding the links links to everyone and anyone you know and uh every single Tuesday night join us spread the word if you have any guests speakers rabbis they would like to have on the program please feel free to reach out to kazak info at chezq.org info kazak.org and once again Robbie Travis thank you very much thank you and everyone should have an amazing Amazing Grace it's unbelievable I'm so impressed Victoria thank you