8. Emet Family Involvement

[Music] and what i want to say is today i have the privilege of being so like flocked by surrounded by the niyazov brothers abram and moshe moisie oh you guys mean so much to me and it's going to be this great interview i want to just let everyone know know after we're done with this short interview uh since we had so much success with us last night we're going to go with dj alex we're going to dance until we make it to 800 thousand dollars is that correct dj alex all right bazrat hashem that's what we're going to try to do machete is going to come out our two previous guests are going to come out we're just going to make it happen so we're we're so close you know when i woke up this morning i don't know what i i don't know what figure we're at but i knew we were going to get there but i i didn't know how and i see like with everyone's generosity with broke hashem we're on our way but we're not there yet we have 45 minutes or so and we have about 80 000 left and i know together and with these guys dancing we can get it okay so first i just want to introduce abram and moisee so let's give abram uh the elder brother we're going to give him the mic and i'm going to ask you very quickly where do we meet for the first time queen's college i think it was a wednesday or on monday queen's college 8 p.m that's right and you were amazing you were you came to our fellowship and that was a long time ago and that's all whatever so you were like 18 19 years old 2010 2010. that that is like at least 10 years ago now so you were like what 18 years old maybe 18 years first semester college 18 years old and then we sort of like lost touch for a little bit and then when your younger brother came then you got drawn back in which was amazing and then when you when you came with moisie to our fellowship i was like wow abram we haven't seen each other in so long because at emmett every like once we have a student robert kraft from ruben once we have a student that like we're basically together we're not going to forget about you so even though it was it was 2015 five years later when you came back to make a real but it was just we got right back into it so i want to ask you what if you could describe the sensor to what would you say emmet has added to your life i would say definitely build my foundation judaism from where i am now and you know it it gave me that core you know it gave me that understanding where you know at first one of the first things we learned was let's say pierre cabot it was the ethics of the fathers where we were able to take something like that and just we could apply it to our everyday lives and it made us better as people and you know just from there it just keeps going awesome it was quite an experience and what about what was it like i we got to send you to israel for a few months what was that like yeah i mean it was one time i went it was amazing it was for a month and then after that it was i went there again for six months and it was definitely an experience uh you know i i built a lot on my my judaism my faith in hashem and you know it it sort of gave me that the correct uh trajectory to to my future beautiful okay thank you so much okay moisie thank you you're welcome thank you i won yes please to turn all phones off people are going to be texting you there are thousands of viewers um noisy your mom i want to she's maybe she's watching i wanted to ask you a question okay and the question is if you were to describe the transformation in your families once you guys really i mean emma was just the conduit but once you guys got really into judaism and everything how would you describe it um i'll describe it as ultimate pleasure all right so before when my family was in shabbos observant um our saturday would be like the best day of the week you know that's the time when you have the most fun and once we kept keeping shabbat just the pleasure just kept increasing and increasing and we didn't i still don't understand how i thought my old saturdays were right it's a holiday thing and how did you how were you able to you really brought some were able to like really hook your whole your older brother younger brother your mother like grandpa everyone how did you how are you able to like get everyone how are all of you guys able to really come together and like start keeping shabbat together i think everyone respects uh people that are true to themselves even though um family members may disagree and i think just uh if you believe in something and just do it people are gonna are gonna they're gonna gravitate to that so i think that's that's one of the reasons how we got everyone on board awesome and how was your time in israel when we got a chance to send you to israel to yeshiva to learn what was that like my time in israel was the best ever i actually had a great internship in israel plus i had some yeshiva learning and um i say israel's like my my my one and only drug that i always want to take with me wherever i go but all right well that's right hashem you get a chance to go back soon amen so i i wanna i wanted to uh ask you the following question so would you let's say someone is you know queen's college or city college or wherever and they get an email from or a text from sarah b and says come to emmett you know what would you recommend for them i'll say accept the invitation because you're going to get 10 fold if you don't answer and if you say no you're going to get 100 fold so just accept the invitation before saturday gets to you so you might as well just come right away i love it okay and if you uh i i would want to ask you for everyone watching if you could tell them you know where why why would why should someone donate to emma there's so many other causes to donate to i mean of course i'm biased you know emmett you know i love him but as a student and as a supporter and as a friend why would you tell everyone out there to donate attendment because emmett has uh has uh how can i say has results right there's a lot of organizations where you pump money into and there's a hole in the bottom of the bucket right but uh emmett has a lot of results thousands of thousands of jewish people have uh been introduced back to their roots and just the fact that a ashkenazi formed organization is investing their time and effort into a sephardic community i think that's a a risk i would play i would you know i would gamble on that there's a reason why they're doing that and even though we don't know the reason why but uh they're definitely making the right decision so support the organization everybody please we got how much seventy thousand more yes uh we got seventy thousand we got forty minutes are you ready to start dancing soon of course all right okay awesome so um i wanna i i wanna ask you the following thing okay so what is what would you say is the most important thing you learned with from your time at evan by the way what you're saying is so beautiful so inspirational to me it's so spiritual to everyone out there it reminds me why we're doing this and you should know we we do have like uh besides we have we were started by the two ashkenazi rabbis we had so much good nazi rabbis joined but now we have a full safari bukhari and persian staff it's a really amazing and we have the great like really the greatest rabbitsons also working with us and it's just a privilege to be part of them and i'm like you know um every day i wake up like pitch myself i get to be a rabbi what what what an amazing thing so if you were to say what's and thank you for those words like we're real where i'm at so it's great to hear the students say this you know we forget sometimes because we're in the middle of it what what is one thing that you could really just say that you really took away from emmett something that you will will stick with you for the rest of your life okay is everybody ready for this you guys ready okay one of my first lessons i learned robert keagle he said if you want to conquer the island you got gotta burn the ships and i was like what a stupid idea why would you burn the ships it's money he said uh no if you wanna conquer the island you gotta make sure you got no choice but to go forward because if you think there's a way out then you're gonna you're gonna fail so from that lesson it might not be a jewish lesson but you know things don't always come from the torah to be wise and educational the rambam says if it sounds like truth it's in the there you go it's from the torah it's from the torah so yeah so burn your ships everybody if you want to do something just do it all the way now looking back that's that's the one of the main lessons i learned from robert keagle let's pass over to abraham abraham what is one lesson that you said you learned from emmett i'll say one of the biggest lessons is more i think that uh you know where you could be you know comfortable being jewish it definitely made me feel comfortable you know one of the hardest things was you know uh let's say putting on my keeper you know like just walking outside and right you know through through the classes you know through through talking with the rabbis with them it you know it just you know it's it made me feel comfortable where i can really express myself as as a jewish man all right that is so beautiful beautifully put all right let's give the niazo brothers a big round of applause