Oorahthon '23: Kumzitz & Stories 1

foreign [Music] he died [Music] everybody [Music] foreign [Music] right away I would like to welcome a very special guy his name is Jacob Yakov Mahoney would like to share some insights of his personal life what got him to Ura please bring him a chair Are You Gonna Stand all right how are you I'm very well thank you is this time of scaring you by any chance actually honestly I want to pet it a little bit it you can go ahead okay all right appreciate it appreciate it okay so you know what let me put this down just to focus because it's a little heavy on the head but Jacob let me hear what's uh what's your title yaakov what's your connection with Ura um um my connection to Ura started in Israel I was in Yeshiva and I noticed every mati Shabbos they would empty out there she would empty out and I was like where's everyone going what's going on and um what'd you see where were you I was in directors okay that's one place to be I mean that's a thrill for itself is good but yeah very nice good places all right and so she put empty out I was like where's everyone going what's going on you know we all go to Chill Zone and I was like what's Chill Zone and they're like we learn for an hour we have pizza and they give you money and I'm like they give me money so first of all the name itself was like very attractive Chill Zone chill in the zone and they give you money and pizza money and pizza and I was like that sounds good to me let me try it out uh I had a very nice time my first time I felt very welcomed people were sweet again I mean connections so the cabroose is the catch is the catch they get good guys they get good guys in the beginning I'm sure for sure that's the first guy I meet right when she first guy I met was Jacob but then at the end the catch is the pizza right yeah that's how they hook you afterwards okay and you learn what when I was there yeah I was actually learning Holocaust of Shabbos at the time oh nice okay it was very nice I really enjoyed it okay so so that so it says they hooked you up with uh habrusa and what is his name his name was uh moribash is here Morty box is here Morty box is here so what wasn't he the best khabarusa I'm sure he was exactly all right so you have somebody who watches for you okay and uh so what happens next so what happened next after that they're like you should go to this program called du and I was very curious I was like what's this program me you do you yeah it's part of the you know Yiddish I know you don't know a lot of Yiddish right a little bit you know how you say you and Yiddish how do you say it D oh really yeah but in the literature will say do it's a little bit confusing but everybody knows all right all right so du what's the program so the program I initially thought they said oh yeah let's go to this camp and they give you scholarship money for Yeshiva and I was like great I could use scholarship money for Yeshiva and I was like okay so uh what kids am I gonna watch uh how are these kids what's the deal am I going to be a counselor and they're like I'm not a counselor there's a program for you I was like for me I was like okay sounds good let's do it and I ended up going I had a blast I had a great time I made a guy I met guys I was also going another year in Yeshiva so I met guys that went to other yeshivas and made connections with people I met guys that were going to be Shauna olives in the coming in there and I made fantastic connections I had not only did I have a great time make connections made uh scholarship money all this oh wow scholarship you meant to say that you went to college or you're going to college no so the scholarship money in sushiva right but are you are you are you continuing how are you continuing from here so after Yeshiva I ended up going to the uradira um but I do College online oh nice so while you're you're online in college you're you're continuing with adira what's what's that like so life in Indira it was it was a very nice place to land right outside of Arizona right after Eric Israel um to be put myself in a nice religious environment and to be able to they have a nice learning theater at night and where's that that's not an essential that's that's in Lakewood that's here that's back yes yeah and and and that deer is basically a safe zone for uh for a for somebody who wants to continue to have a connection with Hashem absolutely right so a guy coming from Yeshiva I wanted to get into the Working World I wanted to start college and stuff like that and I wanted a nice place to land and still keep a tour observant life in a in a place with tour observing Jews and I thought there would be a great place for that wow amazing amazing you know the most you know this story sounds so simple but yet you know it's it's his it's it's his world his big world you know sometimes we can get inspired from the most simplest Journeys that people have and I'm sure it's not simple at all from outside but those few small details right so was there something that was very difficult that you want to share with you know that that the Ura was really you know uh like an angel that uh they're scoring me um I would definitely say that when I was in Israel I had a really hard time financially I was having a very hard time it was difficult for things obviously my Sheba helped me out as much as I could but it was tough it was tough and the fact that they had the opportunities for not only scholarship money to help me out to be able to go again the also the the spending money that I could afford things while in Israel I ended up spending that money for but they actually got my fill in in China Olive and they helped me with that I was obviously the Sheba also got me with that um but they they definitely helped me with with just being able to stay in Israel and stay in Yeshiva with I wouldn't have been able to do without the money they had column here's a good year the Yakov who uh Hashem he's placed his right foot in the right right direction and we always need Seattle going forward but we have to thank Aura for really uh helping out yaakov thank you so much this time I would like to sing everybody together [Music] life sometimes it's simple sometimes it's complicated but we always need to pray Tasha foreign gets us to a place of amuna which really connects us to the place of sheffa [Music] the sharpest relief Shabbos but yet we don't leave Shabbos We Take Along Shabbos for the rest of the week still we sing [Music] again foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] and we keep strong we realize that this stick is really our mission it's the stick that we lean on Hashem keeps on giving us challenges but that's to strengthen our money [Music] [Applause] call him [Music] thank you foreign [Music] what's our biggest physic that we have we're starting a new project we're starting a new week the biggest physique is that we know that Hashem is right behind us especially when times get dark that's when we know that the world is like a will and turns around [Music] students [Music] foreign [Music] come on foreign [Music] aura Aura is also attached flights [Music] oh foreign