The Shabbat Show - Episode 12: The Freedom Edition

[Music] welcome everybody to another show of the Shabbat show another week it's great to be back with you again it's amazing just how these weeks are flying by it's an honor to be back again for another show with you right now happy 4th for those that are wherever you are if you're celebrating the fourth happy fourth and shabbat shalom this has been an incredible incredible run and hopefully it will continue with going throughout the summer and happy summer to everybody today's today's topic really is at the core of what Shabbat is every week as you know we try to hit a different aspect of Shabbat today were actually trying to get deeper into the essence of what it is and I want to share with you a story so for me I had a guy that worked for me years ago I was working in a in a law firm and I had a bunch of people that we worked together and we were so close one of my friends were sitting up late at night once and I had mentioned to him that I had to get things done because it was Thursday and I had to get home for Shabbat and he said to me what's Shabbat I said you know it's a thing he goes no I'm Jewish but I don't know what your body's like wait you're Jewish you don't want Shabbat is like I'm like want you come first but it's like that I don't know I don't think so it's a whole story not for now but it finally convinced him to just spend one Shabbat with me just to come my house it's me like we hang out all that like how scary could it be if it's me so he agrees comes to my house and it was a one of those early Shabbat and Shabbat started I don't like it 505 something like that it's 3 o'clock it's four o'clock he's not there it's 4:30 he's not there it's 4:50 he's not there it's 5 o'clock he's not there I'm like it's ok like he's probably whatever was it's fine I get dressed up I got to about to go to synagogue about to go to shul and as I opened my door at 5:03 the area standing there at my doorstep t-shirt jeans and a six-pack of Coronas I'm like what are you doing he's like what are you doing and why are you dressed up for like are you going to a wedding I'm like I got no time to talk like get inside I tell me cuz I might get me a suit get me a shirt get me anything for you my kids turn to like little busy bees they're getting me shirt suit he's like what's going on I put a shirt on him a tie and I'm a whole thing I get my wife the Coronas I'm like let's go because I've gotta go I'm like let's go we go to synagogue go to shul places Rock and we come home we have this whole meal the guys looking like I've never eaten this was well in my whole life we got a berry wake up we go do a whole thing we come back to work the next week and I outside my office it's him another guy talking and I said what's going on guys look well we don't want to say well say some English we don't want to be offensive Mike it's me like we grew up and we thought that Shabbat was the day of rest like yeah it is he's like Dave rest he's like I spent your body in your house because I'm exhausted it's like they have rest I needed the whole Sunday to recover from your Shabbat what rest I thought we were coming and we're gonna drink the six-packs on the couch for twenty five hours like that would be rest what you did was not restful how is it any arrests now I'd never heard that question before but isn't that the question they arrest really that's what Shabbat is you know she bought number four on the top ten list of ten commandments number four we have the date day off at number four Shabbat I said they have rest because what God was tired really like he had an exhausting week build in the whole world and he he needed to like kick up for a weekend so like we do that like what's going on here is it really a day arrest was day something totally different she bought today something but founded a arrest so what is it I'll play you a video and in this video we're gonna build the show around this let me see the video you'll get a layer of understanding to disconnect - connect to what's well for our technologies but I want you to watch the video and look at it from a little bit of a deeper perspective shabbat is trying to do something very specific and if we get it it'll make sense but if we miss it we'll miss the real joy in the beauty of what's really behind it the show we're gonna talk about this the show sponsored by an anonymous donor and by moshe and dina cree gear of toronto in honor of rabbi and rabbits and simcha an st Tolman of h detroit what an incredible family I know them well remember we've got a great show coming up for you beforehand let's go to this video check this out this is a very touching video for me that we did this video a long time ago this is one of my first video so I hope you like it check it out [Music] [Applause] [Music] special shout-out to the or Nava Gruber at Wallerstein I'll shove all those that made that possible into government for pulling that together this is a little bit as what we're getting out here it's the goal of Shabbat what are we disconnecting from and why are we disconnecting from it that's we're gonna talk about that we got a great show we got a great show lined up first we got Kahoot you remember last week it got really intense with some new on Trent to the game please continue to join and join quick because there's a lot going on for Luca who'd get it down Kahoot that itu can get it on your phone or just check it get it ready on your computers now so we go to it you're not gonna wait we got ad rampant jam-packed week mrs. Debbie Greenblatt's with us rabbi ul majeski from Los Angeles's with up with us saw word agar incredible guy business tycoon larger-than-life CEO wonderful wonderful individuals with us as well we've got a great student leader from the University of Maryland Justin Hawkins with us we got Jaime Geller again we've got a lot going on we also got a shout out to the fourth the Unites States of America a lot going on so let's get started remember to like us on Facebook and Instagram and remember we've got every single week the opportunity to join for our one-on-one learning program if you want to do one-on-one learning you got a text one-on-one to 9700 it's a great opportunity to delve into whatever wisdom you're looking for it's a custom-tailored program so many people have joined from this group from this show continue doing it continued joining there's so much wisdom that we can share together also on Sunday for those that are subscribed we're gonna send you an email and just a survey we want to know what you like about the show what you want to see more of what you who you want to you know see what you want to see more or less of we want to know from you we want to make the show as great as it can possibly be so look out for that survey please fill it out and if you do you get entered into a raffle just for doing that before we go to our first guest I want to give a couple of shout outs for those that are watching and you have the opportunity we love wishing you shabbat shalom it's our way of connecting us together shabbat shalom for Michael - Michael and Rachelle Kerzner and family from Toronto Canada Bachelet of the Novak family of Toronto shabbat shalom for terrific uh Patriots Rock the South Korea family from Skokie they are a significant player and a significant part of this program the hanging from Toronto shabbat shalom' to you Tony and Melissa Leonard in Davie Florida thank you for your kind words about Shalom to you the silver family from Highland Park shiri actual from Mountain Dew California good to see you again thank you of course rifki Mansur from deal great to see you again thank you for joining us every morning on the daily boost for those who are no more but that will post it on the link here Ayala Epstein of Toronto shabbat shalom harriet lewis of Woodmere shabbat shalom ozzie for baltimore shabbat shalom from Scott Rose of the Upper East Side shabbat shalom Sam from Flatbush shabbat shalom joel salesman from milwaukee and of course my buddy leer on shabbat shalom to you okay ready for our first incredible speaker mrs. Debbie Greenblatt Deborah Beulah has been educating Jewish women across the spectrum of Judaism for many years she's the founder of the women's division of gateways organization she lectures across the country on Jewish thought and relationships contributes to Jewish publications including a column on Jewish thought as it relates to relationships in Makaha magazine a Jewish weekly she considers herself to be the biggest fan of Jewish women out there to Debbie there is nothing better on the planet than Jewish woman she thinks men are good too she has been blessed a large family and become a great she became a great grandmother for the first time yesterday I've had the opportunity personally to spend holidays with her and her husband and her family and I got to tell you her words are so empowering it is an honor to have her on the show Debbie welcome to the show thank you so much Charlie I love the video I love the corona reference okay so everyone looks forward to the end of the work week time to unwind time to recharge rest up me time and Shabbos comes on the stage the day of rest the day of minutia which means rest and sometimes Shabbos does look like that we disconnect as the video showed us from our weekly whatever they need be and we so to speak put our feet up but as a woman I can tell you that sometimes Shabbat as Charlie said is not restful at all first of all mother's never get a day off the baby still wakes you even if it's Friday night the kids still get up at the crack of dawn and want breakfast even if it's Shabbat morning and then they need to be taken care of and entertained then walk to their friends houses and on and on now Shabbat is not meant to be spent alone it's meant to be spent with our families and our old friends and so often like Charlie said we invite people into our home and make new friends around the Shabbat table but as the women they have to tell you you know all that food doesn't get on the table by itself sometimes there's a lot of work that goes not only into the preparation but the serving and the cleaning and there were years when my kids were little that Shabbat was the most physically taxing day of the week so what happened to Shabbat Manuka what happened to survive rest so I want to share with you in the few minutes that we have together a different way of looking at this concept of Shabbat maneja Shabbat rest when we want to understand something Judaic ly we always go back to where that idea a word appears in our written Torah so where do we find the word maneja so in the Book of Ruth and the story of Ruth the fascinating story of the great grandmother of King David so in this book we find that naomi is returning to the land of Israel from the land of Moab and in my lap she lost everything she lost her husband she lost her two children she lost her money she's walking back to Israel barefoot wall she has in the world our two daughters-in-law whom she loves very very much Ruth and Orpah the two Moabite women that her HUD that her children no longer alive had married and she's parting from them they're each going separate ways and she wants to give them a blessing listen to the busing she gives them she says to them my sweet daughters that I love so much go home go home to your mother's house and make each of you finds renew hah in the home of your husband's she's giving them a blessing that they should get married Minu ha rest anybody that knows anything about marriage knows that marriages work not rest but Manuka here means comfort you know there's a we have when someone god forbid loses a loved one we we comfort the mourners that's called Newcomb availa it's the same word ruth was giving a blessing to her daughters-in-law and wishing them the comfort of a relationship if someone has your back if someone is concerned where you are and that you're going to get home safely our relationship with someone notices and cares how hard you're working someone with whom to reflect on how far you've come someone with which to celebrate your accomplishments Naomi wasn't just wishing them that they should find a husband but rather that they should find Manuka comfort in the building of something meaningful the Manuka the comfort of Shabbat is the disengagement of the mind from the here and the now and the stepping back to see the bigger picture not the picture of husband and wife well that's a very good metaphor but rather the picture of me and my Creator the picture where the Jewish people are the bride and God is the groom because once a week we need to go on a date we need to have a date with the one that cares about us more than anyone the one that we can always turn to the one that wants my life to turn out really well and wants to celebrate with me when it does and just like a couple that will often get together and discuss and recalibrate and figure out not only where they are going with their lives but whether in fact they are heading there is what we're doing actually working so - unsub at its the time that we as individuals ask ourselves those questions and we - as individual Jewish people can recalibrate not just regarding our goals for our careers and our accomplishments and our extracurricular activities there are goals for ourselves as Jews the comfort of Shabbat is the shift in the mindset the knowing that why the knowing why we are doing what we are doing and most importantly knowing that there's meaning and purpose to where we're going and that everything that we're going through and we're all going through stuff now that it has a goal it has a destination it has meaning and has purpose so sometimes we work hard until bad and sometimes we don't but the working hard isn't the problem because hard work only wears you out when there's no goal when there's no purpose - that hard work so we're the Shabbat is an easy one or it's a hard one whether we're together with family and friends or we're by ourselves perhaps because of kovat we have the comfort of knowing that we choose to tune into a higher frequency the frequency of Shabbat and of Torah that we are on a journey and that we are actually going somewhere so sometimes at the end of Shabbat I'm really tired but also really happy and I can't wait for Shabbat to come again thank you so much for inviting me to join on this fabulous program and I want to wish everybody and absolutely wonderful Shabbat thank you thank you so much every that was wonderful as always and I think it's the perspective we all need to sort of go in with right now understanding really what Shabbat rest really is thank you so much about Shalom to you and to the family and yet Mazel Tov all the wonderful news this weekend is also July 4th and surprisingly July 4th isn't just a holiday that is only for America it's actually something very interesting and that the Jews had a very big role in the founding of this country a lot of our principles of our Torah was actually very much a part of the beginning of this country mr. jereth you a great video about just how much the Jews were influential in the beginning of the founding of the United States of America check this out the Hebrew Bible lies at the center of the American imagination and it is one of the central inspirations for the founders rabbi new year soloveitchik leads the oldest Jewish congregation in the United States he's also a professor at Yeshiva University and told CBN News how Jewish Scriptures helped America's Founding Fathers form the nation we have today on July 4th after the Declaration of Independence was approved and Benjamin Franklin and John Adams and Thomas Jefferson our forming committee to decide what the seal of the United States would be the first suggestion that Benjamin Franklin makes once this committee gets going is that the seal of the United States should be Moses and Pharaoh at the sea with the motto rebellions finances obedience to God and so when Franklin has asked what story should emphasize or embody what we are trying to do here the first place is mind goes to his excess and the inspiration goes beyond scripture soloveitchik says most Americans would be surprised where the idea of religious freedom originated John Phillips is a man that I working off his dead in Charleston South Carolina he moves north served in the Revolutionary War and became one of the most prominent Jews in the new nation but despite his success religious freedom eluded him in Pennsylvania non-christians could not serve in the legislature so in 1787 Phillips decided to push for religious liberty in a big way John Phillips writes a letter to the convention and to its president and that president of the convention of course is George Washington so he writes to say that the Jews have fought have been passionate Patriots and they have fought for the revolution and his words he says they have fought the Jews have fought and bled for liberty that they cannot enjoy you have to appreciate the audacity alright he's writing to the most revered man in America at the time George Washington Washington and the other leaders got the message loud and clear the Constitutional Convention not necessarily because of his letter by the Constitutional Convention but concludes with a document that really for the first time bans religious test for office Philips earned the respect of the founders and left quite the legacy Benjamin Rush a signer of the Declaration of Independence attended Phillips daughter's wedding and one grandson Uriah Phillips levy not only became the Navy's first Jewish Commodore he also bought Thomas Jefferson's Monticello and preserved the estate for the American people you see an extraordinary poetry to the story of this Phillips family and the intertwining of the story of this Jewish family and the story of the founders in the story of America amazing for us to appreciate just how much the Torah the things that we're doing really doesn't just impact us in our lives but it's impacted people throughout history so even as we celebrate the fourth for those who are celebrating before for those who live in America for those who remember those who have moved remember that even this great country was able to benefit from the great wisdom that we are sharing here today and that is a testament to who we are that same wisdom was such an integral piece to so much of history and it's a real honor and a pride for me and you to be part of that forever we're about to get to our next guest who I'm so excited to introduce before you that I want to get a couple more shot outs to joel salesman of Milwaukee to Colette Franco from Brooklyn shabbat shalom' to re Mack from Passaic shabbat shalom charlie well thank you to Hillary and Lawrence Hess from Fair Lawn shabbat shalom Daler lab perils good to see you again shabbat shalom - the Simon's of Phoenix there were - last week on the Kahoot game let's see if they'll disrupt Patriots Rock and her domination and whoever won last week I hope that you can introduce yourself and I'm your Minister and the minister of families incident watch Lim okay now it's time for our next guest is it an individual I've had I've had the privilege to hear from multiple times one of the most one of the most touching moments in my life took place this year when I was at MetLife Stadium - the sium Hacha siomay Shas was the concluding of the Talmud 50,000 people strong MetLife Stadium it was a scene that I'll never forget and a scene that I I believe is giving every single person who have ever sacrificed the Jewish people an enormous amount of pleasure in heaven and one of the men if not the driver of that moment was our next guest it's an honor to introduce soul were dagger to the Shabbat show for the first time souls and international activists for numerous Jewish causes he serves as the board chairman of a good as rayul of America an organization that strengthens Jewish life in this country he is renowned philanthropists - even more noble charities but the reason why your soul is joining us today is because the half that he wears that is the most interesting here is that he's the founder and CEO of outer stuff a leading producer of sports licensed youth apparel in simple English when you buy a shirt or jacket with a Jets or Giants emblem or any of the dozens of other sports teams it's probably coming from outer stuff he is entrenched with so much of the sports the uniforms and the clothes that they wear it's a job that takes him across the world and yet he finds time to be a proud Jew and also take time for Shabbat so he's going to the Super Bowls and limpets but yet he seems to be able to find it it's an honor to introduce the sole work of the show so welcome to the show thank you thank you Charlie thank you so much and happy fourth and really inspiring Charlie I mean I'm assuming that you know inspiration words from rabbis even we're gonna hear soon ferrell and majeski from you Charlie from Debbie Greenblatt so I think the purpose of my speaking on the Shabbat program is really to come from a different angle from a completely different angle from a more practical a business perspective and to say to all the people that are on this call that if anybody thinks that and some of you may have heard my stories it's hard to remember you know where I've spoken and who's heard but if anybody thinks that but one moment that keeping Shabbat as difficult as it may seem as Abby is gonna hold you back from accomplishing anything that you'd like to accomplish I'm the living example myself and my family that that's absolutely natural and I live in a world of sports as Charlie just said Sports is the one thing that doesn't shut down on Shabbat there's no rest in sports they play get these football games on Shabbat this baseball game is about this basketball games on Shabbat is special events on Shabbat but here we are the business that produces all of that apparel we do all of the event stuff so Super Bowl champions World Series champions but we shall balance your ban so how does that how does that happen somebody says to me somehow is it possible that you could succeed in a business that's so prone to having to work on Shabbat and still shut down shabanam to talk about the things that that the Greenblatt spoke about the Charlie spoke about the spirituality of it the tranquility of it the beauty of Shabbat spending time with your family shutting down having some time to spend with your with your children eating together a meal I'm not gonna talk about DOMA again the practical points and I'm gonna give you some examples that I'm going to give you some stories and I think really illustrate to you the the beauty of Shabbat and and you know I always said to myself why did God put myself and my children my family in this business he could have been I don't know could have been a rabbi Charley I could have been a you know in the real estate business or in the or as a lawyer or a doctor why did God and I think every single time we go through another event another Super Bowl and other NBA all-star game another World Series I realized why God put me and uniquely myself and my family in this business because we could really make a difference in this world I'm gonna give you an example it was 25 years ago and I get my first NFL license so I'm going on my first team football so can you go your first Super Bowl it's very inspiring but it's over Shabbat so I call up the local kebab guy and we arranged to go to go to synagogue and we arranged meals and I go with my kids but I find out that the one mandatory event that you have to attend as a licensed iam at the NFL is a Shabbat brunch it's a brunch that comes out on champa so I said to myself what am I gonna do it's my first year I'm a licensee I want to respect them but it's still Shabbat so I google it we google it beforehand and we see it's two miles away from the hotel and it starts at 12 o'clock you know what I'm gonna do you know I get up in the morning we find a local local synagogue we go pray I sit down we have a little bit of a Shabbat meal and I start walking and I think it I'll show off and I'll walk to this brunch I'll pay my respects and and do the right thing so I start walking and as I'm walking cars keep on stopping window rolls down Saul it's so hot outside why don't you you know I'll give you a ride I said you know which my Shabbat right on Shiva the next icon the third guy comes at least four or five guys not me by the time I get there the Commissioner was a good friend of mine Roger Goodell comes running over to me and he says Saul is it true that you walked here I said no Raj it's a bath and I don't dry you know we keep we keep this a bath it's a day of rest we don't and I try to explain to we don't we don't get into cars and he's intrigued and we talk and I said Rajat it's not bad enough that I had to walk here but I also have to walk back you know so I walk back and now it's a year later and it's two months before the Superbowl and my secretary tells me she gets a call from the commissioners assist and the commissioners assistant is requiring where is which hotel is Saul staying in for Shabbat at this year's Superbowl and so my secretary gives us the name of hotels but could I ask why because I was so impressed with Saul that he keeps Shabbat that I told the NFL that were Eversole states were Shabbat in that hotel we are going to do this NFL brunch so listen listen that is it's been 25 years and every single year this NFL brunch takes place in the hotel that myself and my family stay and and and now we let it made such an impression on other Jewish people so now we have a Shabbat meal at the hotel because now that we have the ballroom now that the NFL pays for the ball booth what we have to do is bring the food we have services we have Shabbat meals we can have 70 80 people joining us for Shabbat it made such a kudos on such a sanctified God's name that we do this and we have countless stories so instead of me saying you know I'm gonna bend this is my livelihood how am I gonna get away with this this is the NFL the NFL the power of Shabbat is bigger than the power of the NFL the power of Shabbat and the fact that we we really we sanctify God's name we keep Shabbat we have a day of tranquility we have a day of inner peace and a family day it only made and strengthened my business relationship with all the profession leagues I'll tell you a great story and then I I don't want to I could go on and on and on and stories the world series was once the last game of the World Series the Yankees were playing was on a Shabbat and you know that at the end of the games you know we have to print we print you see those videos all the time of these guys printing t-shirts all night to deliver the next morning in the stores that's us we stay up all night we we contract with printers and World Series champions and the Yankees will play get I think it was I don't know who was game seven maybe was Game seven of the World Series and it was Shabbat so I go to synagogue and come home and I come home after the last prayers the evening prayer Saturday night and my wife tells me saw the phone's been ringing off the wall off the wall and so our first thing I do is you know I want to watch it with playing because who's winning the World Series I make I I do have that why make the services they have the thing and sure enough the phone the second I walk in the phone rings I pick up the phone and it's the commissioner Bud Selig who happens to be Jewish say Saul why didn't you pick up the phone I know I said because it was a Polly says but I know Shabbat is over I said but how did you know Shabbat as always as I googled it and I saw that when there are three stars in the sky Shabbat is over I went outside I was waiting for the three stars to call you that tell you you better stop printing those t-shirts since the Yankees is the 8th inning he says Yankees are winning 7 - you better stop printing those shirts you walk googled to see when Shabbat is over and he realized it was 3 stars in the sky and I could pick up the phone and we have calculus countless stories like this that that and people get inspired how many people see that we can be successful and stay true to our religions they true to the Shabbat and I think it's it's not a burden anybody that thinks that keeping Shabbat is a burden or it's a hardship I'm telling you it's beautiful it's what keeps you saying if it keeps you going and keeps you inspired and more important than that by keeping Shabbat you're not only taking care of yourself and your family but you can inspire like our family did dozens maybe hundreds of other people people stopped the industry all the time I wouldn't believe that's all thanks to you also not family we started slow first my wife likes candles and we have a Friday night meal with the kids and slowly but surely we realize what this the inner beauty the inner tranquility that it brings to myself my family because of you and because of your family because of the inspiration that you were in in Shabbat we have become a whole different family I become a whole different person and more successful so my message is it's not a rabbinical message it's a practical message that if you think for whatever reason that keeping Shabbat is gonna hold you back from accomplishing anything you want you're a hundred percent wrong take it from me take it from my family and anybody that wants to you know I'll I'll give Charlie or rabbi Samson my number you're more than welcome to call me or email me if you need any any guidance um how did how to do this I again I'm in the world that I really don't see anybody Jewish in in the business you know I don't see it you know yeah there are a lot of sports owners and things that are that are Jewish but the leagues themselves the people that I interact with I'm not but they've all now gotten to know and understand the beauty of the day of rest of God's gift the greatest gift that God gave us and our families so with that message I want to wish thank you for having me on the show Charlie thank you for the beautiful work you do and everybody else and a very very wonderful Shabbat to everybody that's on this call thank you for having Thank You Saul and thanks for your kind words and thanks to your words of inspiration I think one of the things that we're getting here in this show isn't deeper understanding what your pot supposed to do and Saul really is bringing us there this idea that Shabbat is not just about disconnect from technology it's something much deeper it's a perspective in life it's understanding who we are it's understanding when we stand strong and we're proud of who we are we can see the world in a different way moments I took so inspiring from the salt the story that soldiers mentioned was that his clarity of what his his values were sort of allowed him to see the world in a certain way and the world came to him versus to the world many ways that's really what Shabbat is getting at it's trying to get us to stop what we're doing in order to gain perspective to recalibrate our values to determine what is most important in our lives it's building us so that our glasses are cleaner and cleaner and our lenses are clearer and clearer thank you soul for your kind words we're gonna go to a couple more shabbat shalom before we get to go who is coming next so for those who want start loading it because kahoots coming next and i'm gonna go to Shabbat there's some more shabbat shalom as I turn to my project inspire team and tell them to please start launching the Kahoot we're gonna go right now but until then to Canadian minister in the minister family shabbat shalom - - Miriam from Brooklyn shabbat shalom - you too Elliott Ileana and Eric shabbat shalom' from Brooklyn shabbat shalom - - and Aaron's white shabbat shalom - and from las vegas special own practice inspire let's get Kahoot going while I'm doing this - Michelle and Rochelle - Michael and Michelle Sullivan from Baltimore shabbat shalom - you okay cahoots coming on right now everyone get your cahoots screens go to cuckoo tighty here's the code seven three oh five one one for Aziz on that's right the team is coming back in and wait cans on Patriot's rocks on here comes Lea Ron's playing big today the Sullivans it's gonna be a big day I'm feeling it we just had Saul we spoke with the super bowl we're gonna get rockin it's gonna be our own Super Bowl here on Kahoot Hess family's on a couple more Shabbat stones as people start let's sign it on Ventures of Stamford Connecticut in West Hartford shabbat shalom - you Carol and Gordon Drucker shabbat shalom - you to the propels in Miami - Helen in Toronto Karen levy from Toronto it's wait hold on to Richard but set it's his father's 32nd yard site yeah coach Rubin yo said maybe huh maybe he has a may he have a elias neshama as everyone piles on let's go Kahoot tighty one more minute to get on it's a tough quick game so you got to get on quickly we'll get a couple more seconds I'm gonna do three much Abacha lumps and we can get rolling here Roger and Erica for South Hampton - Mariam Friedman from Ottawa Canada Thank You Howard shabbat shalom to you and God bless america ari Mack Lisa Weber from Muncie Pomona okay let's get rolling shabbat shalom to you and let's get going on Kahoot here we go first question speaking about rest the average percentage of a person's life spent sleeping is sixteen thirty three fifty seventy two you get more points quicker you answer jump on this thing you get a lot of points for going quick while we do that neela carmely shabbat shalom northern illinois thank you for free thank you an Abe Adler from Fair Lawn shabbat shalom - okay here we go of six seconds left come on get them all in Jodi Jodi and Toby shabbat shalom to you the Brooke cow families okay here we go first answer is 33% you imagine a third of our lives sleeping it's a lot of time how we doing Oh God Patriots rock begins early Aviva Rachael Petoskey Jordana and Ozzie you gotta watch out for Ozzie as he climbs the boards all the time okay Patriots rock is still at the top here we go number two how do we say which of these words is Hebrew for independence if you've been watching the show we spoke about it I'll give you there's a gnome before it ich mich lavaud ox maota +8 how do you say dependent my the word yom it there's a holiday that's connected to this in israel just even the playing field for everybody whether you speak Don Miller July 1st oh we didn't know that July 1st for the Canadians is their indepence 8 so happy Independence Day to Canada as well ok 54% good Yoma hots my hood is Israeli Independence Day that's how you say independence ok next question let's see how we do on the board here Rachel Patos who's climbing patriots Rock sure Danny Gibson Aviva okay here we go number three how many categories of work in Shabbat are there on Shabbat categories of work 39 72 109 and 613 how many categories of work are there on Shabbat either general categories all the mitzvahs these are just general categories how many categories of work Joseph Ferrell of Passaic shabbat shalom' to you the Rosenfeld's from Muncie shabbat shalom' from you Michael Miller from Nassau Bahamas much love let's go to the answer the answer is 39 excellent 39 categories of work let's see how we do on the leaderboard right now Patriots raucous climbing gives Jordanna Novak certain Toronto are getting up there and Aviva still in the game let's keep on going Lasker even if you're not playing you're watching the race now which of these famous people wrote a book about Shabbat look about it Senator Joe Lieberman senator Diane Feinstein Steve or Sigmund Freud who wrote a book about Shabbat Allen Stacey Levin rad from California and Maryland Ontario shabbat shalom Laurie Solomon and family from Safran shabbat shalom janitor Joe Lieberman excellent let's see how we do this we'll see who's winning there it is there replace Gibbs that can place the Novack's from Toronto first place is a Viva amazing we have a new leader today congratulations Aviva for your for your leadership here excellent work great job everybody honor a couple more shabbat shalom zai want to go to my facebook a little quick shabbat shalom Sharon Sharon Ladakh shabbat shalom from virginia shabbat shalom - Debra Cohen Nancy hill ins rabbi shalom Josh Brody Josh Browdy from Boca shabbat shalom Carolyn fetish about shalom deborah cohen shabbat shalom Michael Guerin trot Salome thank you everybody for tuning in and we're gonna keep on going over here our next guest it's an incredible guy I've had the honour to know to work with to be together on various programs mr. Justin Hawk is part of an organization and I've really seen firsthand what they've done it's called ole on me they're a partner with us on this show they've got 320 branches across 30 countries they're inspiring Jewish students with wisdom Jewish wisdom around the world and introducing them to the beauty of Shabbat it's an organization that has really reach students from all over the world and we have today one of their stars Justin's graduated from the University of Maryland this december he's involved with a pine or he has been working with old on me to figure out ways to get more students involved in Jewish education Jewish practices to work with Jewish professionals he started his career in January's moved back to Maryland just and welcome to the show thank you so much Charlie I appreciate you having me on the show and also a thank you to all on me for providing me all the resources that have brought me to this point and to project inspire for putting this weekly preach pot show on amazing it's an honor to have you on told us a little about your background you know how you got involved how do you got to you went to the University of Maryland then you got involved no let me just give us like a yep let us tell us a little more about you happy to do so so I you know it was raised in a reformed traditional household going to synagogue on the High Holidays most of my time and focused was geared towards competitive hockey so when someone you know as to me are you Jewish I focus more on the issue growing up and so you know that that led me on to the path of really focusing on on hockey which then I I played at the University of Delaware so mom who give a little background I actually left and transferred to the year in Maryland my sophomore year which was pretty crazy to say the least of picking up everything that I've ever really loved and being really passionate about and going on a hunch and that hunch ended up paying out in numerous different ways from the people that I've met to now being involved in a Lommy so when I got to the University of Maryland my brother was actually a freshman at the time and him and I made a plan to go on birthright and have internships in Israel during the summer and it really was there that I tasted you know and was reconnected with my Jewish identity we you know we learned we felt the spirituality and it was both of our first times in Israel and for everyone that that you know has been to Israel and you know as really felt the the strength of your Jewish identity come out and so you know while I was there I really took an appreciation and enjoyment out of learning and being around you know Jewish texts and you know I go back and I really kind of say this story not as a selling point but just something that really connected with me I was living in tel-aviv I mean I was working in Herzliya doing a real estate analyst position that was awesome especially being in Herzliya but I really connected to H when I was in Jerusalem for a couple times so I would there would be some days where crazy as it sounds I would get off work I'm in Hertz Aliyah at 3:30 and I would take a bus and go to H for some my classes that I worked out with with Roth goth and dovabear Cohen for you know individuals that know him and from there honestly I was I was hooked and I was connected there was another rabbi that you know throughout the programming said to me and and we work together on it that you know this is someone that for me I didn't necessarily know what Shabbat was I wasn't really connected throughout my entire life but something that my brother and I really connected to and and we work together especially being at at home with my family if if we choose to do something different either Friday night and or on Shabbat or Saturday it's we're keeping Shabbat together as a family and I think that's most important and really what's kept me learning and and desiring more to understand what Shabbat is because you know when I first started out I didn't understand that there were 39 you know ways of work but ultimately being in where I am today and understanding and and feeling the connectivity feeling the spirituality and feeling the love and compassion that you know my family is able to give me I'm able to give them but also within the communities that I've been to and in the different homes I've you know have warmly been welcomed to it's amazing you know what the power of Shabbat really brings out not just you know to me but as a community and what we can you know give to each other during Shabbat is something that I will you know miss Rogerson provide my family because you know as as Debbie and Saul alluded to before it takes you away from the week and you're able to provide something for your family for your loved ones for the greater Jewish community which ultimately helps you out through where you've been where you are now and ultimately you know the future they said well Justin thanks so much for your words and they mean a lot coming from you everyone comes from different backgrounds and when you see people from different perspectives and different backgrounds being able to look at the same part of our tradition part of our history it means it means a lot to us and thanks for your leadership and you continue to inspire and to grow it's an honor to have you on the show man thank you Charlie should watch them shabbat shalom to you coming up next is Jaime Geller as we all know Jaime Geller is our partner on the show every week's brings us inspiration through food which is how Jews operate Jami Geller's coming on next check out for a new video thank you so much Charlie and hi everyone oh we are back but I'm gonna make it super quick today because we have an amazing video for you I'm gonna show you how to make an entire Shabbat meal in just one hour that's the fish for the starter the chicken and rice for your entree an offense fabulous fruit crisp for dessert enjoy this for Shabbat dinner Shabbat lunch or for the third meal just serve the fish and the crisp let's get cooking the telephone and shabbat shalom [Music] keep that in mind as you prepare your July 4th barbecues Jamie's always there to take care of us of course you can get more of Jamie Geller go to Jamie telecom Facebook Instagram Pinterest YouTube Twitter tick tock I Jamie gallon at Jewish by Jewish by Jamie our next guest is a rabbi who I incredibly fond of great guy aspiring the world with his videos with his shul with his messages come at us from the west coast but one and only rabbi you strong Magesty rabbi welcome to the show Thank You charlie how are you I'm doing wonderful it's an honor to have you on well please inspire us with your wisdom and with all that you are to bring us closer and closer to hold that we can be on Shabbat Wow what an honor to be here because I'm still thinking about that food that Jam was just I need a minute to process that and get back into the inter rabbi mode Charlie you know oldie but a goodie but you know I've heard others say there's so many times I'm sure you have as well first of all hello everyone hello project inspire land so Bradley Becker says over the most awesome story where one time he was in Hong Kong and he was put up in a hotel and he was put back on the 45th floor and no Shabbat and there was no stuff our elevator which means he was gonna be doing a lot of walking after he finishes speaking doing his his little thing he walks up to the 45th floor it was a hot summer day and he is sweating buckets and he finally pushed it off the door and literally like just collapses and this woman walks by and says excuse me sir is everything okay he's like why didn't you take the elevator because it's easier to go to the car easier to press the button on the elevator it's a lot more restful restful to stay at home and just go to the beach what is this day of rest when we say Shabazz is a day of rest so I want to share with you an idea which I heard from a very close friend of mine who lives in Los Angeles name is rabbi Devin Morris and he said you know if you if you're into cars my kids are really into cars I like know what a Toyota Camry is and a minivan you know charlie that's like that's like where I end the my kids all the kids though the BMWs and the horsepower the CB excuse all the different things and my friend said he said if you wanna look at a car and if you're into cars were the first thing you want I was how fast does it go he says but what's the real what's really even more important question and how fast the car goes he says is how well does it stop right then anyone ever hear of Brembo before I don't want to hear Brembo I didn't hear there Brembo is the braking system on the Ferrari and all the McLaren and many of the fastest cars in the world they have a special system with pads and a lot of stuff going on to make sure that the car stops but if your car goes fast that's all great but if you don't know how to stop then your car's not gonna really do much good for you we are always moving we are going we are flying we are rockin we are rolling we're dealing we are we are machines as a comet says we are meant to work Adama I'm all you lie we were put here to work and that's why what we're not we're stuck in quarantine where I get me out of here I need a move and moving is awesome and creating is awesome but you also have to know how to stop had a hit to brace you know shove us about Shabbat is stopping but God created the world for six days he was doing that he was the most amazing look outside look at yourself look what God did during the sixties of creation on the seventh day he stopped and he reflected and he looked back and he was now able to analyze the world and say now let me see where this is going how was you and how are we gonna go ahead and continue building this beautiful creation that's what she'll bas about Shabbat is about realizing then we gotta take that step back and Shabbat smees shots to sit to stop moving and ask and analyze and think and realize what we are doing here and what what do I really want to be doing I'm not getting lost in in the hub on the run so she found my hiding spot she always find my hiding spot I want to leave you with an idea that I've heard from rabbi Shalom I rush you put out a video a couple of years ago not not too many people compete with Charlie's videos out there but this one this has hit the spot where Ruth said that one of his students told him he went into a cab from up north in Israel near spots and it was expensive camera he had to go all the way to Jerusalem and he's in the cabin in the back of his seat and he looks up you know Israeli cab you start talking hello how are you what's your favorite food shwarma falafel they do their thing and all of a sudden he sees in the passenger seat next to him there is the next bit driver there's another steering wheel so this driver was driving and then there's in the passenger seat there's another steering well there's two steering wheels so he looks at me Hebrew he says I now have no idea you do teach drivers are you a driver's ed teacher he said Oh No can I ask you why do we have two steering wheels are you from England did you like to switch the steering wheels to the other side he says no why do you have two steering wheels listen to what this cab driver said he says well I have a little boy his name is kobe and kobe he likes to drive moses really start driving like five years old 6 years old and he said whenever i'm driving he always takes his hand on the steering wheel and he tries driving as well he says even in israel you know having little kids drive at the same time i couldn't do it and then i had a great idea what if i go ahead and get him his own steering wheel i just put it over there by the dashboard and when i drive i tell me oh you drive also you drive as well and that's what I did my friend was giving away a car I took out the steering wheel I put it in now whenever I will drive he is steering I back turned to the left we go this way and he thinks he's driving the car and this man tells a story to Robby Arusha ever who starts crying he says now I get it now I understand life says Hashem God is driving the car he he knows exactly what he's doing in this world but we also want to drive the car we want to work and we wanna we want to build with all these great things God wants us to see oh he does he gives us a steering wheel and he said you also get to drive you get to drive as well but just know one thing I'm really the one who either way I'm the one driving your car so you can relax yes we got to go out and build and create and use our god-given talents to go ahead and change the world and build and our businesses and our families come two greatest people out there but so many times was stuck in traffic as so many times were afraid of drunk drivers and so many times were in this lane of this fast highway of life my friends and we feel like we're losing control can you imagine if you would actually realize that there's someone else driving the car let go watch let go hands up now the roller-coaster hands up and the roller-coaster still moving guess you got to be in the car you got to do your thing god helps those who help themselves you got to go ahead and do whatever you could do but ultimately understand that God has gone has this all worked out someone just told a special person that Israeli says this Coronas out of control and there's rap everybody I looked at him I said no it's out of your control it's in controls does that might not be yours patrol but yes we get God has his under control one guy eating some bad in China turned his whole world upside down but don't think for a moment that there's no one driving that car that's what Shabbat Sabbath Shabbat is about stopping and looking back and saying I could let go because I know that God is right here driving next to me and therefore I have to ask myself how much overwork how much overtime how much am i doing how I push you myself when the way I can really just take a step back and focus on what I want to become under who I want to become other type of son daughter father parent spouse you name it who do I want to be and you're able to do that on Shabbat because what does that mean to rest when I'm Lady Astor IV better wanted you press the elevator you know what he did he didn't create he didn't create an electrical current he didn't go ahead and say I am in control I'm he stopped creating you recognize that God you are the creator yeah I'm in your world and thank you for letting me be part of this amazing world thank you for forgiving me this heritage forgive me this identity forgive me this direction of the Torah and we each got our own pace and we each got our own struggles and we each got our own legacy that we're building but let me tell you all to do with this if we really take this point of shabbat to heart and whenever there's chaos in our lives we understand else who's driving this driving this car for us it enables you to take such a breath able to really focus on what you really want to accomplish that's how that's that that's what I take from Shabbat that's what Shabbat rest really means to me and I'm looking forward for a nice bold chunk I'm looking forward to Spain tiring my family I had a very hectic week we started camp what we heard 250 kids coming off the masks and temperature tests and there's a lot of things going on and this Shabbat I'm gonna kick back have a nice cold one I say cold one I mean a nice cold Diet Coke and really just just give it up give it up to the one above so my blessing to all of you is get that experience of Shabbat in feel it connect to it it's the greatest gift in the world thank you so much trial Avignon thank you project inspire and let's do it let's rock show that Thank You rabbi as always very inspiring know exactly the words that we need to hear and the stories we need to hear thank you so much about Shalom to you shabbat shalom told all those that have that have tapped in for as we leave the silver is - Jen - - Dalia Leighton from LA I want to end with the following line and really for me at least when I heard this it really changed for me remember shabbat shalom is not the day of rest we're Jews we work really hard by films their perspective sometimes the things that are the most important are right in front of our eyes we just can't see him the world's going too quick we're not disconnecting so that we just see our family we're disconnecting that we just see things that we couldn't see otherwise who we are who's in control what's the most important part of my life we disconnect from the world we realize that that soul that's inside us is a chance to breathe a chance to influence and a chance to give us a perspective as we see the world in a way that we couldn't otherwise for me and mine to you in yours I wish you a Shabbat filled with that perspective we see the world for what it is and we realize that there's something controlling beyond us we go through life fighting for the things that are the most important putting our values above everything taking chances creating relationships finding rest in the way that Debbie said earlier what it really is finding strength in the way that Saul mentioned the strength taking opportunities in front of us the way Justin did being able to go piece by piece and seeing each and every one of these incredible opportunities that are in front of us and like I grabbed his robe majeski just said being able to let go with that we should have true peace shabbat shalom estrada peace true peace so for me in mind to you and yours I wish you were shabbat shalom I hope and pray the next we could get to this in Jerusalem but if not with God's help I can't wait to speak to you again next week shabbat shalom generation of world we're Nations my platelets recover get the whole world of facelifts your patron and spaceless we take it erased it and they change it for that master go we don't forget [Music]