Rabbi Sampson Honouree Film

well atelier of noah called me when i when we started and he used to call me quite regularly and he said hayan you're going to get a lot of reward for this right and i was used to say rebbe but you know i've been working for asia toro for a long time he said no but this is different if you can get the layperson to share the beauty of turtle with his fellow jew that's all something altogether different so he said i think we just need a few cassidium to come and sing so i said i'd love to [Music] i see this guy long here he's wearing a leather jacket and jeans [Music] he was waiting for me to basically start learning with him he was looking for a kosher restaurant because he was about two or three weeks into keeping kosher [Music] all i was doing was just you know let me just try to do something you know my rebbie ravnochuaima told me this is something you should try so i tried [Music] i grew up in a traditional family when i was 17 i went to asiatura because my brother who was a year older than me was a naish and he said that you know he met a wise man and he's you know there's there's evidence that there's god and god gave the torah and i thought ah he's lost his marbles so when i was 17 i went with a friend we went to chatura and i figured i'm going to like take him on you know he's making a big mistake so essentially when it takes a turret to get him out but that was the beginning i went to ishitara and uh i met rav and i listened to his his his wisdom for living and uh one thing led to another you know i went through the evidence and the proofs and they got me in a double nelson and uh what could i do it was uh you know the truth of the torah spoke to me you know when i came to aisha torah it was an exciting time we were young people we were passionate we wanted to do something with our lives we were young and we were idealistic and we met a man who gave us a vision how you can change the whole world my husband was working for ace new york in manhattan on the upper west side and he wanted to fulfill his mission to bring all of hashem's children back to torah so we started very simply with what we called easy outreach gifts right they were gifts that you can give to someone before a festival before rosh hashanah i was involved in designing the gifts and kind of sourcing the various items that went into the gifts a little bit later came the the incredible films of the inspired films that it's greenman put together and i said to him listen you put out the film we'll do the follow-up colorful characters guns of glades and others who got involved in yiddish kite and and the whole message of the film was they became involved in yiddishkai yeah you can share this with with people and they will respond and thousands of people started doing it but then they came back to when it says right you know rabbi sampson this is all very good but what happened did they ask me a question you know i got the relationship in and i'm doing that let's start doing care of training programs we went to from shore to shul in in five towns brooklyn queens all these different neighborhoods i would go to schools i would speak in urbana and muncie they let me come and speak and instead of their shabbos speech have so advertised cure of training are you interested to know more about kirov do you need some training and i thought i probably need some training we decided to to meet rabbi daniel corrin's house we had a series of meetings and we came up with a fascinating idea which was you can actually train our people who've got involved to actually give the seminar we had mrs reifer from borough park an orthodox housewife with 13 children now she was teaching and in fact she started teaching internationally she was so good [Music] people coming up who really bought into the mission and felt this is important i want to be a part of it wherever samson pushed me to a wall every time i used to meet him she said mario you got to do something you got to do something and many of them came up with their own ideas so during the shabbaton there wasn't much sinking going on i was sitting with my friends friday night and after the event after the keynote speech we were singing and there was a rabbi philadelphia next to our table and he said hey that sounds like maybe come to our community and do just what you're doing i said yeah with the traveling casino [Music] so we had people you know who were from queens that went into the shopping malls and they would give out colors and cuggle to the israelis in the kiosks we created partners these partners are doing things in all these different communities and not only they're doing it but they're working together it really became a sense of of movement that we're in this together [Music] that we spent on the road with project inspire were were fascinating and something that i'll never forget the chavez in cincinnati the shabbos in baltimore and the bethesda hopefully more as time goes on here we are the master chavez program for many years jakob solomon was saying you know what we have to do a convention and it was like a dream we never thought we could probably the first time i realized how big this was was one of the first few conferences where it was getting filled up very quickly 700 people 1200 people open up a second hotel it's an amazing showers obviously and mata shops they give up sign-up cards they got people involved with the project four weeks later i got a phone call and they said hello decline so i said yes uh yeah we found you ah so i said i'm not in yeshiva i'm already talking about i'm not looking for havoc i said remember a few weeks ago you were in project inspire shabbos mata shabbas you signed up she said oh yeah i had that momentary lapse of sandri so i said okay fine get me the guy's number i'll call him she said no we already gave him your number and he's going to call you [Music] and really project inspire became really a byword for inspiration in general you know there was a the idea of a khala bake you know everybody likes to eat color they bake khalid fantastic and in brooklyn for example we did a hula bay for 2500 people i know everyone says no i know but this is really no trust me i'm doing you a favor i know you think it's not my thing you don't understand i don't do cure what would have noah say to me now he would say fine you've done well we've got a lot more to do we're just getting going [Music] should continue to inspire not just inspire to really build rabbi samson the king of king has got us involved in momentum jwrp we now take thousands of women does it affect them yes does it affect us yes we've developed the means of how to how to bring this much further i always thought that uh that he would do it because i know that that's who he is and absolutely nothing will stop him this will bring inspiration to the whole from community and to the non-firm community 15 years we just have to appreciate where we are today compared to where we were 15 years ago [Music] [Applause] the next step for project inspire is just to continue on the work that that they're doing just to expand the programs and and bring the message out to so many more of the israel there are so many more that are not informed i once asked noah you know if we could get the whole of the orthodox community reaching out to their brothers and sisters right but they're just not really moving them they're not really getting that involved you know is that worth doing and he said if you can do that nishik will come tomorrow you