Rabbi Mordechai Kraft - The Torah At Har Sinai

for the amazing work they're doing in spreading Torah around the globe you know right now people able to watch this lecture and people are in Australia in in South Africa China India somebody came up to me recently and said that they asked me if they asked me my name I introduced myself and they said they saw my lecture on the Hebrew language in Denver he used it for the malapa Malka in Denver so I asked them how'd you like it so they liked it I'm so happy but for any time that org is spreading terror all over the world and we're very the amazing work and if that's not a sign of the coming of Messiah I don't know what is that the whole world is able to hear Torah it's an amazing basic thing okay everybody so we're getting close to the holiday of Shavuos Shavuos is coming we know this week and what is shiva was she was is the receiving of the Torah at har Sinai this was the day in Jewish history when the entire Jewish people went through the HAR scene I the mountain of cyanide we stood there and we received a Shem star that's an amazing thing the entire Jewish people the whole Jewish nation now this is the core of everything we believe is the fact that we have a relative who was there when God introduced himself this is an amazing thing and this one I want to get into tonight a little bit you know something must have happened there that was so phenomenal that has impacted Jewish generations for the last 3,300 something years why you know we look around you know number one we've been scattered around the globe for since the destruction of the second temple 2,000 years ago my family comes from Germany my father from Germany many people here the families are from Bukhara places like that Samara Cantus Pakistan places Tashkent wherever we are over there and there are differences between us let's be real there are differences you know their differences and Pesach right you know I don't need rice you eat rice true you know we I go to the the weddings who the wedding's of my students I've been to many avoided many of our of my students weddings and God willing we go to everybody's wedding here it's not yet married man mrs. Shem and it's different I have to before it's different it's very different you know and III I'm embarrassingly in love with the food as everybody knows I mean I'm not proud but but I am I can't help it I sit at the table and I eat and everybody's dancing and I'm eating it's just I'm embarrassed but I can't help it it's you know what could I do I'm not used to it and I'm so like amazed by it we dance you know we don't dance the same no dance the same our dancers are different you know I grew up we dance we form a circle and we hold hands and we and we dance really my first time I went to a wedding one of my students and nobody goes back and you know it's behind what the hands dancing around I and I tried to hold the guy's head next to me pulls it away it was the dance like you know we dance differently we do you know i reorganize and we try to dance like you you look we look ridiculous you know I mean the biggest compliment I've ever gotten was one time someone came up to me one of my students at a wedding I think he said it's another crafter you Bahari I said no I said why did he dance so well and I was so so complimented you know that's the biggest comment ever got but we danced so differently you know I mean I mean there's so many differences it's like you know sometimes I'd like to watch sometimes I've seen a few cases of my students like the girl is Bukharian and the boy is Ashkenazi seen a few cases like that where he's in yeshiva one of the achievers so these Sheva guys come to the come to the wedding you know and so I know it's the band of that band other 10-piece band the blue the boom you know what are their bows idli first they play the Ashkenazi music but they played so fast you know and one sided and then I'm always just watching i sat back I want to watch now because I know these guys soon as they switch to the Bukharian Beach you know I want to see what the guys are gonna do and I always love watching because they're shocked like what is going on over here like you know and then they try to do it I think I look so ridiculous let me let that my students Dance li'l did you better you do that so much better than you know but we danced differently we have difference our cultures but you know what 99.9% of what we do is exactly the same the terror that we have been transmitting for the last 3,000 years no matter where we've been around the planet has been the exact same turn exactly and it's it's so phenomenal how much we have in common so we have a few little differences cultural differences but it's the terror which matters only the exactly of Turin and here's my family has been in Germany for I don't know over a thousand years your families maybe have been in the other part of the planet over there in his Becca Stan Samarqand whatever what I didn't know about you I didn't know about you for many years you know I remember in the 70s so it's very big in America most American Jews and college students that we were very involved in Russian jewelry you know getting the Russian Jews be out of Russia you know bringing down the Iron Curtain we have protests and we used to go to the UN and places like this and marches it was a big thing for I was involved they were growing bald and there are mines who are those Jews we were talking about the other Jews in Moscow right the Jews in the for Nord used to be you know Leningrad st. Petersburg no and then all the son of the 90s I start meeting Jews from from pokhara now I have to embarrass the same I didn't know about you I'm so happy I discovered you you know I'm very happy I hope you're happy you discovered me I'm happy I discovered you but we've been separated we've been separated different parts of the planet for over 2000 years do you realize that do you think about that what if you feel that what that means and we have differences but we should have so many more differences and we don't we look at our Torah and our turret is exactly the same now I want to show you something that one night I couldn't sleep so I decided to count the letters in the Torah and I discovered that there are three hundred four thousand eight hundred and five letters in our toe three hundred four thousand eight hundred five letters which is 79 thousand words okay that's a lot of letters three hundred four thousand eight hundred five now in 1948 when the State of Israel was established and we started gathering Jews the our book unfolds the arts from all over the planet and we started coming back to we started coming back to Israel to Eretz this relative issue line so one thing that we did and very interesting so we wanted to compare each other's Torah are those 3300 4805 letters the same and guess what we compared all of our tours the TOEFL was back to stand with the tariff in Poland right the Torah for Morocco with the tyrant France right the Torah from Egypt with the Torah from Moscow we compared all the times and guess what we found that our tourists were exactly the same to the letter do we have a fourth out of the under five letters except the Jews and Yemen the Jews who lived in Yemen Yemen is a little was a little country is a little country on the tip of Saudi Arabia and the war because where they're located the proximity geographically they were isolated more isolated than other parts of Jewry very difficult to cross through the Saudi Arabia desert and into other places so they were very separate community we found that in their terror there were nine differences then in the tours of Jews in any part of the world nine differences so I did a little research and I'd like to to show you what the differences were what difference was in Genesis was the volved in mean ocean we know she has evolved the love was split another difference the love in my uh knows also embrace Genesis the vulva split another difference the bump in via hey the vote was split Oh difference big difference instead of the bub being full length there's a little crack in the bubble but like yet but the same length just little space I saw was involved just that little space does it affect the meaning of the word no does affect the pronunciation of the word no does affect anything no but they had little space oh that's three of them next was the hood of Tassie okay one with one letter was Miss there was a hood that was not in one word there was an extra evolve in the word a fold in the word car there was an Aleph instead of a hey sounds the same Aleph and hay are interchangeable sound but the different letters different Aleph instead the hey there was a verb in the word is somos there was a iord in the world shake em in numbers 1010 and there was another love in bohr the word boy spelled with him far but I would probably spell with off so we had they have nine differences and at three hundred four thousand five letters they had nine differences three of them were basically meaningless and the other six did not affect the meaning nor the effective enunciation and there were just variant spellings of the same word no okay you're not so impressed I don't see anybody makes impressed oh yeah truth has Rashi talks about it they're two different traditions hexam right it supposed to write for with the craic for some reason sometimes different letters are like that in the Torah for different philosophical reasons that big Newton's in some places they're small letters in some places it's all written in certain ways for very philosophical reasons spiritual reasons I know the exact I don't know the exact reason okay but it doesn't know what's impressed let me say I can oppress you just a little bit we're going to press just with a little bit of comparative religion this speech let's just be sure that's right you're not impressed let me impress you the reason not impressed is because you'll definitely compare to let me give you some basis for comparison now I don't mean to knock other religions that's not my purpose here tonight well maybe it is maybe but it's not my intent I my explicit purpose but it will happen let's take a look at the Christian Bible the Christian New Testament they call it the New Testament why they call the New Testament because they hold approximately 1,800 years ago there was a new prophet named Jesus geez we're gonna call and he therefore introduced a new covenant the new covenant was made with his followers no longer have to believe in the Torah now you have to believe in in him a new testament was written and we had now they have two documents they have what we call the Old Testament which is our Bible Torah and they have what they call the New Testament the New Covenant that's what the Christians believe is their holy work now let me read to you a statement from a Christian apologist Josh McDowell what an apologist apologist is a defender someone who wants to defend Christianity is called an apologist he's a Christian apologist apologist it doesn't mean somebody walks around all day saying he's sorry I'm sorry I didn't mean it excuse me so side that was not my fault that's not an apologist apologies the defender of Christian he defended Christianity let's do what he says he says like this to think that the two hundred thousand variant readings of the New Testament are a problem don't think so do you care what number I said two hundred thousand varied readings different readings we have two hundred thousand different texts as to what the real text is supposed to be but he's trying to defend it because he says it's not such a real problem why because it represents and only in 400 of these two hundred thousand places does it cause doubt about the textual meaning doubt about the textual meaning and only 50 of these 400 are of great theological significance do you hear that now the reason is interesting is the New Testament is done no he's a Christian Christian defender he's tried to defend this trying to defend the New Testament he's trying to say the two hundred thousand very readings they have aren't such a problem because it's only in 400 places does it affect the actual meaning of the text and only 50 of those will alter your theology meaning your understanding about God so he started offend Christianity that's what he's saying now you know why that's amazing because you think about it the New Testament is in terms of time our Torah was given how many years ago three thousand three hundred eighteen years ago approximately the New Testament was given one or that we came into being about maybe fifteen hundred years ago it's less than half the age of the Torah and they have two hundred thousand mistakes not only that it's one-third the size of the Torah and they have two hundred thousand mistakes do hear us go man and not only thank you know for at least the last thousand years they've had a central authority in Rome if a person comes and they want to change something a New Testament do you think they could get away with it they couldn't what happen is such a person who might have tried that a thousand years ago maybe he'd be burnt at the stake or something worse than that right it happened he's got a central authority to enforce it have we Jews had a central authority for the last two thousand years no absolutely scattered around the world we've been in exile we've been persecuted we're on the run and here we come back together after 2,000 years we look at our see free Torah and we find only you know that just the Yemenites have nine mistakes three of them which are meaningless it's it's it's phenomenal it defies statistics you think about it and what didn't we don't have a central authority means that you know if any Jew said them so look I want to just change you know just take something out of the Torah can you stop them will be able to stop it you know for example I've got to say but there's a synagogue down in Greenwich Village called Simchat Torah and this is a place that you know put it this way the you know the the Rebbetzin might be another man and supposing they wanted to say look you know that that very offensive verse in the Torah which says that such action is abomination supposing they came lost hey you know let's just erase that let's wipe that out let's scrape it out is there anybody can we stop them we can leave no authority we can't do that there's no central authority if we kept the accuracy of our Torah to the T around the world around the world this is amazing now I think what we have to understand is how did this occur it must have meant that something happened when the Torah was given at the mountain of Sinai 3318 years ago that made such an impression on the people who stood there that they understood that this has to be transmitted with complete accuracy complete accuracy something must have happened three thousand three hundred years ago that it's such an effect that no one had any doubt that this was the Living Word of the Almighty and has to be communicated communicated with detail and that's of course what we do believe and that's why by the way as Jews we're always looking back we're always looking back to that original point where it all began you know as Jews are our measuring stick of truth is not what we'll be in the future it's always what happened in the past that's what I mean if you look at the world today if you look in the world you see about 1 billion Christians you see about 1 billion Muslims billion and a half maybe and how many Jews do we see 12 million 12 to 13 million Jews that's it we are a very small nation the tops that the largest we've ever been historically was approximately 18 million you know and then that was that was approximately 1940 by 1945 over 12 million and we haven't really risen above those numbers since that's what we are that's all we are we're very small people but you know what you know how can we claim that we have the truth and we have the word of the Living God where we're such a small number how can we make that claim surely the billion Christians could say look look at us we're a billion billion to 12 million do you and a half Muslims to 12 million all right these are huge differences in numbers huge differences so how do we make the claim that we have the truth you know so as Jews it doesn't matter how many people there are today everything matters as to how many people there were at the beginning of the line he's like this famous metaphor that's always stated is that imagine you're on a picnic in the forest and you're in a forest having a wonderful time they're having a picnic if you're barbecue going slick you know you're cooking up your juice kabobs and all of a sudden somebody yells lion there's a lion in the forest so you started running out of the forest as you run out of the forest you reach a fork in the road you can either go to the right right if you go to the left you notice that 995 people run to the right five people run to the left which direction do you go what but the majority you go up to the grd nope if you see 995 you go right and fire to the left versus any intelligence it must be the 995 no more than the five and in fact that's how we do the site Jewish law by the way don't get me wrong Jewish law a majority is very important if you learn you're also right you know for example if there are ten coated ten butcher shops in the town nine of them are kosher and one of them is non kosher and I find a piece of meat in the public square can I eat that piece of meat nine butcher shops are kosher one is not kosher can I eat the piece of meat yes I can go up to the majority majority said they came for the kosher butcher store I can eat it we take majority very seriously in Jewish law that's the one time there's a famous case that Rabbi Akiva ager used to have this priest used to the banquet and the priest said to him you know the priest said to him you know rabbi I know you're tore a little bit and in Terra you always go after the majority don't you somebody he said right Vicki I said yes so it's preset to Rabi Akiva ager he said to look if you go after the majority who is the majority the billion Christians or the 12 million Jews who's the majority you got to go with us so Rabi Akiva it was a very wise Jew he said back to me said you only go after majority when you have adduct we have no doubt no let's think how this works so there you are in the forest you see 995 people run to the right five people run to the left go after the majority that's Jewish look over the bench party well you have a doubt I don't know which where do I go I have a line after me which way do I move so if we're intelligent we go to the right with 995 but suppose you look at those 905 and what do you see you see that they're actually the school of the blind they're having a picnic in the forest and in fact they're all walking out the forest with their hand on the shoulder of the person in front of them and there's only one person at the head of the line who has vision who eyesight now is it a question of 995 to five or is a question of five to one it doesn't matter how many people there are at the end of the line what matters is how many people are there at the beginning of life that's everything in Judaism we're always looking back look back to that original point the revelation at our scene I how many people do we have there and we're going to talk about it witnesses how many what this is three million witnesses all of our grandparents and hopefully tonight we're going to verify that that's a truthful event but we're talking about three million witnesses at the beginning of the line now do you hear just that claim itself the claim that we have that there are three million witnesses what does God reveal himself that itself is the Jewish claim that every Jew stood at har c9 every Jew was exposed to God as God said and no additional heifer in fact the neshamah is burst out of the body to such an extent that the Jewish people died and God had to revive them God didn't said the next commandment we died again and after that he said to Moshe okay you hear the other age yourself before it enough but we experienced it and not only that we experience God 40 years in the desert but this is something we call national revelation the whole Jewish people people experience it and that's our claim our claim is that everybody who was there experienced it you know we have a lot of people you know here we all fell out of people in different professions it's some of you making a lot of money late my thought over here some of you aren't making as much money but if you want to make a lot of money you know what you should do start a religion because religion is big money just Turner I start to religion alright I started you know I'm just wanna be careful I just do my job but if you want to start with it you turn on any you know these in van Jellicle stations and what do you see people give money left there's big money and there have been 15,000 religions in the last 3,000 years now let me say that it's very interesting what's that what which is a little sick all those 15,000 religions if you want to start your own religion and you want people to believe you there's your question what's a more powerful claim that God came to you one night you had a vision and God spoke to you and told you there for it to spread his gospel through all of humanity and therefore you start a religion is that a more powerful claim or is the following more powerful remember the time how God came to all of you as we were sitting at Beit Gabrielle and God told all of you to listen to rabbi craft as his prophet which is the more powerful claim it's the first the second one correct obviously second one you go so I guess a little slack if you work for us the first second it doesn't matter whatever you say it's right but we obviously understand this I have a question how come no other religion in the last 3,000 years has ever dared used that claim think about it let's dis analyze the little list a little bit of of analysis we call a comparative religion comparative religion you know they say that Yasser Arafat you know when he died so back Shamu he went up to run up to heaven I guess briefly and God asked him a question and said to them is that Yasser who is there that you'd like to meet is there somebody in history that you would like to meet so what'd he say he said Muhammad I'd like to leave Muhammad meet Muhammad Ali hey guys okay just uh open that door over there he opens the door he sees this tall man beautiful beautiful beard glowing countenance cool long white flowing robe just elegant and beautiful he says to Muhammad this is no motion motion oh I'm so sorry their motion tops up motion please please it's okay okay I'm so sorry what I did your appeal it's okay please please stay stay you're here you're my guest coffee or tea please Moshe that's that's not nothing nothing coffee or tea now motion Moshe please no no Yasser you're here yes you're my guest coffee or tea okay tea tea tea Marvin teeth that's a joke you will not hear your comparative religion class at st. John's I got no edit that will take that off the tape you know let's look at Christianity for a second what's the Christian claim the Christian claim is that Jesus performed many miracles and these miracles demonstrate that he was God's prophet part of his claim question how many witnesses did he claim saw him perform these miracles how many people how many witnesses do they claim they claim very few how many witnesses were there when he turned one loaf it too many loaf when he walked on the water how many witnesses the claim don't claim any witnesses they don't claim any witnesses so why do you have a billion half Christians who believe it because they have faith we have faith that look if my father told me that he wouldn't lie for all the father is saying what Christian boy turns to his father and says dad tell me about Jesus walking in the water how many people witnessed it you know his father will say well you know I don't know if anybody witnessed it but that's what we believe little claim witnesses those like Mohammed you know in according to the Quran Muhammad how did he die well if he's gonna die can't have a natural death he ascended at the point in the Dome of the rock that's where the Temple Mount is today in Jerusalem from the temple he ascended the claim on his donkey Barak and he flew into heaven how many witnesses does the Quran claim were there how many witnesses the Quran claim besides the donkey none so why do you have a billion Muslims who believe it and when you know when a Muslim father tells his son listen you know isn't that how Muhammad died I'll tell you mama didn't die he ascended from his donkey Barak on the Temple Mount into heaven so all fathers saying it I have faith that's the way it happened but I'm not telling you anything about witnesses what do we say as Jews our claim is there were three million grandmas and grandpas your grandparents my grandparents all who received divine revelation prophecy all who stood an RC Knight 3 million witnesses now if you think about it this is the most powerful way to start a religion is it not so why don't any of the 15,000 other religions use this claim as the point of origin at the beginning of the religion why don't they use it you know why they don't use it because you can't use it unless it's true I can say something happened to me and I might have the charisma to convince a few of you but the rest of you will look at me like I'm nuts true I could say that I am my weight to give me this class tonight I got out of my car and a flying saucer landed right there in the middle of Mandalay Street and they brought me up into their spacecraft and they spray-painted me green and they flew me all over Forest Hills I look down at the entire community here you know I could and while I was there they gave me a book and they told me to come out to teach it to you and I'm to be a prophet and the first thing it says is to donate the big part of your salary to me I can say that to you a few you might believe me but few will be very skeptical and you'll say right god that's very wonderful it's very nice but that happened to you not to us but if I come here and I say to you remember what happened as we were all waiting for this class to begin remember how we were over in the front of the the synagogue eating sushi and these Martians came and they spray-painted all of you green and they took all of you up into a flying saucer and together we all flew over Forest Hills and in front of all of you they told you that I'm to be your leader I can't make such a claim if that claim is false can i I can't claim you experience something unless you experienced it I could claim I experienced something to try to convince you but you can only claim you experience something if you were really there I'd have to be crazy to make such a claim that's the Jewish claim the Jewish claim is that there were three million witnesses who stood at har Sinai and Moshe Rebane reminds us that again and again remember how you stood at our scene I remember how God spoke to all of you don't forget loutish God teach it to your children he got it to the vehicle say it to your children remember it over and over and over again remember what happened to all of you that's a very interesting claim now a something very interesting there has been nobody in the last three thousand three hundred eighteen years who have denied that claim it's the basis of Christianity every Christian believes that the all belief that God spoke to the entire Jewish people in our scene I that's an axiom but about eighteen hundred years ago Jesus became the new prophet and his word supersedes what happened three thousand thirteen years ago Jews follow me you know what we Jews said we said wait a minute that's ridiculous why if God gave us his word and his mitts vote in front of three million witnesses if he wants to undo it he also has to undo it in front of witnesses doesn't he can't undo it in front of one person and that was a Jewish argument against Christianity where are your witnesses if we were the witnesses three thousand years ago then it was two thousand years ago if God wants to change his mind he also has to do it in front of witnesses because that's the most perfect way of communicating witnesses it's not true and that's why very few Jews follow Christianity because didn't have witnesses in Islam Muslims we have a billion half Muslims you know what does Billy and a half Muslims all believe that God spoke to the entire Jewish people rc9 we have no problem with that no problem whatsoever but with the coming of Muhammad he is now the new prophet and now his word overrides what happened that but not to the Sinai that's all and Jews now listen to the new prophet so we turn back to them of course is they the same thing if God gave his Torah in front of three million witnesses if he wants to undo it undo it in front of three million witnesses can't undo it in front of one person that's not fair that's not the way God communicates so everyone agrees with our claim and has never been denied for the last 3,000 years did you know that every group and religion around the world has agreed that God spoke to the Jewish people at rc9 three little witnesses you know in fact if you look at the definition of being a Jew it's really four things it's belief in God it's belief that God spoke to the entire Jewish people of our scene I it's the belief that there's an oral law and it's the belief that it cannot be changed that has been the four pillars of Judaism when you've changed one of those pillars you've walked away from Judaism look atlet's going back in history a little bit there was a group around the time of the Second Temple called the sudoku Sadducees did they believe in God absolutely did they believe that God giveth toward our scene I absolutely did they believe in the oral torah fully know what happened to sudoku they didn't fully believe in their altar like we believed in it what happened to them disappeared Christianity did we believe in God absolutely did you believe that God gave the toward our scene I absolutely do they believe in their altar and not so clear you believe that can be changed yes not yours Muslims little bit that they believe in God you look killing if you don't believe in God right it doesn't believe in God they're very monotheistic extremely monotheistic you know you could go to a Muslim mosque and dominant club do you know that Dominic oh they're extremely monotheistic I mean maybe do it do it quietly I maybe it's not such a job but it's you can't do that in a Christian Church it's forbidden to go to Christian Church can you go to a Muslim mosque a very monotheistic do believe that God gave the tour horsie and I absolutely do bring the altar no doopy believe it could be changed yes you know take something I'm sad to say this and and there's only been one group in the history of the world since the gaming of the Torah 3,018 years ago that has denied almost all four pillars of what it means to be a Jew you know what that group is I'm very nice to say it but it's it's our own brethren there's a movement called Reform Judaism they denied almost all four pillars it's a fake a question you're asking if excellent wrote an article one time that one could probably take them to a court of law in America and sue them for misappropriating the name Judaism that has a funny article but in entity method somewhat seriously you can't call it your subject nice people now Joe as a joke believe me a Jew isn't shoujo me just one from the Jewish mother that's it and you can't claim you and your legitimate expression of Judaism with your clay if you change all four pillars stop bring it back and that's our job I've been all Jews back we love vultures my big Jews back the Jewish people's gonna be here for eternity we're gonna be after Michele comes no question about what these always the four definition we change one of these definitions you moved away from what Judaism is its belief in God belief they got get a tour at the mountain Sinai believe in the oil Torah and believe that it can't be changed right those are the four pillars you changed one of those he walked away from Judaism and you no longer will no longer look Jewish your children will no longer be true and that's historically we have seen happen so you know the only movement that has changed almost all four pillars and even to some extent believe in God maybe isn't a formal tragic it's sad gotta bring it back doesn't it saying you know as Jews you know people talk a lot today about survival the Jewish people I'm not worried about the survival the Jewish people you know why because we have promise from God that we're gonna survive if a promise from God that weren't eternal nation what I am worried about is that individual Jews should be with us you know as we say the bus is gonna make it the bus is gonna arrive when the chef is gonna be here the Jewish nation is gonna get their questions gonna be who's gonna be on the bus and God obviously wants all this children to be on that bus and therefore it's incumbent on all of us to try to help other Jew she was to reach out to them okay but let's keep moving now so we understand that there is not a religion in the world or a people of the world that's denied our claim that God gave the Torah at rc9 everyone agrees with that and that's why as Jews we're always looking back we're always looking back to the previous generation a generation that was closer to the giving of the Torah darts d9 and that's why we respect our elders so much and that's why we respect the previous generation so much you know they tell a story about the famous rabbi rabbi yaakov kamenetsky then one time he was on an airplane and he was sitting next to a minister in the cabinet of Israel and they're about the same age part of the late 70s maybe early eighties and this minister in the cabinet of Israel is a secular in Jew and he noticed that the whole flight never vehicles grandson was very attentive to him was serving him you know and was taking care of him do you want a drink can I get you a pillow did I do something for you so this other who the minister on the cabinet and is really turn to visit listen you know how is it that your your grandson has so much respect for you it's simply copied you give you so much honor my grandchildren don't wanna have anything to do with me sir of Jakob said to me Rock'em kamenetsky said look it's very simple the reason my grandchildren respect me so much is the know that I'm two generations closer to the giving of the Torah at har c9 and therefore the wisdom I have is greater and purer you of course your grandchildren look at you and they say you're two generations closer to the monkey some watch no respect you we're always looking back we don't see the previous generation as being inferior we see the previous generation as being superior why because they're closer to giving the toilet our seat you know anybody here's a doctor doctors here know anybody in medicine was it Messing doctor doctor you doctor what's that pharmacist pharmacist okay let me suppose your first name Shawn was there was there a professor in college who had a particular influence on you and your development as a professional moses name with your culture we just go no nursing what was the process name doctor yes beautiful I'm sure was a wonderful whether he was a wonderful professor she was I'm sure she was a wonderful wonderful person Sholem question who is her professor anybody here in science anybody here your science cool what puts out signs dear Oh pre-med people okay doctor where do you go to school Queens College is there a professor there who has a particular influence on your desire to be a doctor and in shaping it yeah what's his name or her name wasn't professor from Zeki good beautiful who was professor was a keys professor anybody professions do we have anybody business business school physical oh no people poor oh no that's a senator who was professor st. John's had a particular force on you dr. Thatcher first - who was dr. tetras professor I would tell you something I studied for over 14 years I just she would call it's client reduced to me Forest Hills now secure nails my Rebbe that saw was the great brochure shiver of henna clay bits I study with him for 14 years his Rebbe was his father of David Lebovitz his Rebbe was the outdoor mr. butkin his Rebbe was the altar mikkel his Rebbe was registro salata his Rebbe was from Zulu miss a lot his Robin was high involution his Rebbe was the Vilna Gaon his Rebbe was the cry of them his Rebbe was the Marshawn his Raya was Lamar Shah his run was the rash ball his way was the rash bomb his rabbit was the run his run was the body toast was forever was Rashi I'm right at the Year 1000 right now do you hear our transmission we look back how are we connected to the previous generation how connected are we because we're trying to get ourselves back to the point at har Sinai where there was a revelation in front of 3 million witnesses ok it seems that we don't know the exact location now there are some places they think yes no it's more of a Christian tradition in our tradition this seems like a Shem does not want us to know the exact location because the application isn't important what support is what happened ok now here we go everybody you know a document came into the world called the Torah what we call the five books of Moses there's only what is really only two possibilities either the claim that we have that there were three million witnesses who received God's Torah is true or that was made up those are the two possibilities either it happened and it's true God spoke to three million Jews and we transmitted that information down accurately the last three thousand Ryo to eighteen years or it was a lie it was made up there's a very famous safer written about thousand years ago book called the kuzuri in which he has sort of an imaginary debate with the king of kazaar there was a country that in which the entire nation wanted to convert to Judaism called kazar so he speaks to this Kanaka Zorn's like imaginary dialogue proving why Judaism is the true religion one of the arguments that he uses a very famous argument and the argument goes like this he says either God gave the Torah in front three million Jews and that's true or the whole story was made up so he says let me work like this let's try to disprove position B let's try to disprove if we can that it was made up and this said the argument reads the argument means like this listen carefully he says let e stand for Advent let it be an event which had it really occurred would have left behind enormous easily available evidence of its occurrence but said that again let he be an event and if that event really occurred it would have left behind easily available and enormous evidence let's say giving on the Tartar c9 if the period of toward our sinaia hadn't really occurred it should have left behind easily an enormous easily available enormous evidence if you cannot find such evidence people will not believe that the event took place I said again human nature is such that if you're trying to fool people and you claim something great happened but you don't have the evidence to back it up we've never seen a case in history where people will accept such a claim here no say that he be an event which if it really occurred would have left behind enormous easily available evidence of its occurrence if the evidence does not exist people will not believe that you could okay which means that what do you have to do to four people there's a certain assumption in the world that people are not stupid and you cannot fool people so much need for people a little bit but you can't make a huge claim about something and not have the evidence to back it up and if you don't have that evidence people are not gullible enough to accept it there you have to work the other way of course now if you have such a claim katara Darcy and I and you have the whole world never anyone doubting that it existed it must be there's enough evidence to support let's just analyze this for a moment you know if you think about it people are gullible a little bit aren't they you can fool people if you want for example you know back in the Middle Ages in England people even dragons didn't they they believed in dragons these monsters that that breathes fire right you know Harry Potter talks about a lot you know and and they believe in dragons so if they believe the dragons we see that people are goal you can fool people can't you how did you fooled to believe in dragons but let me tell you something anyone who believed in the dragon always believes it because of the following type of story for example you have this knight Sir Galahad he's riding in the forest and all of a sudden he sees a dragon come out of the cave and he takes his his Lance and he Spears the dragon and he's a big hero and he comes back and he tells people what happened you know what you never hear in folklore you never hear that a dragon once marched down the streets of London and burnt down Buckingham Palace why don't you hear that you know why because it's event like that which is so big and so many people should have known about it and yet no one knows about it nobody will accept that it occurred that's to say if you want to try to convince somebody about a very large event occurring which there shouldn't enough evidence to show that it happened and yet there's so no such evidence people will not accept it as being true you know we see that about a lot of things in life you know going back like you know hitler yimach shmo you know when Hitler came to power in 1933 so he wanted to say you know the reason why Germany lost the war World War one was because the Jews but you know what he said he said the Jew stabbed the Germans in the back now if the average barber doesn't get barbarous you know in the average you know the average man of the streets there's me on the street heard that he would say oh yeah the Jews stabbed us in the back you know that makes sense like you know the Jews we don't like the Jews they don't establish in the back never did Hitler say things like this in the Russian front during World War one the Jews laid in front of the tanks tried to stop the German tanks and that's why we lost the war he never used that type of lie you know why because that's not a lie and get away with because even the German people would say wait a minute we fought in the German army during World War one she was never laid in front of Tanks we never saw such a thing if you want to convince people that something happened they're only going to be gullible up to a certain point if you want to claim a huge event took place that many people should have known about it and no one knows about it or that there should be a lot of evidence demonstrate that happened there's no evidence people will not believe it people not believe it that was interesting that's the closer he says the kuzuri therefore says you know our claim that the Torah was given at har Sinai there's a claim that there were three million witnesses there now let's analyze that for a minute that's a claim that if it were true it's true but if it were false how did we get so many people to believe it would people be so gullible to say oh that's true well let me ask my father did that happen were you there you know at some point we didn't have the Torah and at some point we do have the time and you know the Torah says the Torah says remember what happened to all of you when all views to the hearts denied what did somebody read that Torah for the first time say wait a minute I didn't stand at heart see now who are you who are you tried to fool so maybe you're speaking to the next generation maybe this target came into history and a few generations I said you know what happens to your grandparents you know the austere that harsh scene I and so what do you do you turn to your grandparents say well do this happen maybe grandparents say look I don't remember such a thing happening if you're gonna make a massive claim and you know the evidence to back it up people are not go below enough to accept it that's a rule and this is what the Thar says the turn is very confident in this because the Torah says in Deuteronomy it says the following words it starts speaking to the generation it speaks to us and says Keesha I'm now the young evil rishonim please Jews if you have any questions about what took place ask your father's ask the previous generation generation ask them what happened go back in time ask them how can the Torah make such a claim if it doesn't want us looking at the past how can the Torah make such a claim if it's a lie if we're trying to fool a people that something really happened to didn't people aren't gullible enough to accept that and yet the Torah says confidently Keesha Amna please ask and you're the Torah adds the turn adds a little piece of prophecy right there it says that no other nation in history will ever make such a claim that the entire Jewish people the entire people witnessed God speak to all of them no other nation will ever make such a claim that's prophecy you know you think about you have to imagine like this imagine that Moses and Joshua are trying to fool the Jewish people they're trying to pull the wool over their eyes they're making it all up let's take possibility be over here it wasn't true it didn't really happen but they're trying to fool the Jewish people that the all heard God speak to them okay so really what happened was you know they got some fireworks and gunpowder and he shot it over the mountain and they had some sort of primitive electricity I am the Lord your God brought your land of Egypt you know and then one said my gosh it's God speaking and they had these mushrooms in the desert you know and they were taking it there are you know experiencing all sort of psychedelic things and and and and and and the you know and now Joshua's going down the mountain with Moshe returns to motion says Moses I was unbelievable if we really did we'd pull it off they really believed us Moses said yeah that was great I believe huh so I said okay most okey Joshua's dictate I'm gonna write I'm gonna dictate than you right so right remember what happened to all of you when God spoke to all of you at the mouth of Sinai said Joshua I was writing that and if you have any questions don't forget ask the previous generation what they witnessed they'll tell you now Joshua write the following no other religion will ever make the claim that God spoke to the entire nation imagine what Joshua's response might be right there listen Moshe you're a very smart man you were so smart you were able to hook up some primitive electricity over here you were able to fool the whole Jewish people that God really spoke to them and the Jewish people are very hard people to fool we have a lot of enemies in the world but no one says we're stupid I try to go to 47th Street try selling a diamond that's not real to a jewelry they're not gonna get four people don't like this for a lot of reasons but they admire us they do realize that over 50% of Nobel Prizes I mean received by Jews that's pretty phenomenal statistic because in the world population you know what we are about point zero four percent if you round this because sometime if you round this off to the nearest to the most to the nearest integer it's zero statistically we don't exist and we have more than 50% of Nobel Prizes no one denies beer brains don't like us they know smart so here Moses so Josh returns the most it doesn't Moses you were so bright you're so brilliant you were able to be able to fool the whole people that was really God speaking to them but Moses you're smart enough to know aren't you but if you can get away with it won't there be somebody or some religion in the next 3,000 years that might make the same claim they'll also try the same trick maybe we should leave that line out very interesting it's prophecy God tells Moshe to write no other nation will make that claim you know why because of the cruiser is telling us it can't make a claim that you experienced something unless you experience something people are not that gullible people will say I cannot accept that because you're telling me my experience and the next generation won't accept it because we'll ask their parents and say did it happen and the Paris I know it didn't happen people will not accept such a claim we've never seen a case in history where a great event has been claimed to happen and there's been no evidence of it have you ever accepted it we've never seen such a thing but we have seen is when great events supposedly happened and there is evidence that people accept it that's what we see so God is writing liberal prophecy say no other nation will ever dare make their claim because they can't and they have it and not only that we all agree to our claim that's interesting some biblical criticism is written by Ezra about a thousand years ago it's the claim but actually couldn't be more than thousand years ago sorry I mean we know that the Torah has to be at least two thousand four hundred years old because but Ptolemy of Greek of Greece translated had seventy rabbis translated into Greek but some say that was actually written by Ezra a short time before that which is interesting because even when the Greeks were translating it they claimed they were translating an ancient document an old document at least a thousand years old but some say was aspirin so here comes Ezra comes out this document with the Torah and he said him Ezra what are you doing I've been in my basement then writing a terror here it is a beautiful work of ethics and morality and life let me read it to the Jewish people remember what happened to all of you when all you stood horsey night Ezra not so fast this and I we weren't there I don't mean you I think your parents parents okay let me ask my parents what were you there we weren't there no not that I mean your great great great great grandparents Ezra how can we have no memory of this you forgot it people forget things when you start reading the document a little further you turn to Deuteronomy 31 21 and what do you find you find the following words no you're mu should be Peter Leola the words in this Tara the event of heart see me will never be forgotten forever forever it will never be forgotten forever as well why did you write those words if we forgotten it interesting the confidence of the author of this document those will never be forgotten because it happened that's we have over here we have evidence we have evidence if evidence three million witnesses to the event you can't make a claim like that unless it happened I can't claim something miraculous happened and you will not believe such a miraculous event unless you can verify it and we have never seen a case in history where a miraculous event had been claimed and people have believed it unless there has been verifiable information people will not be so gullible don't believe in dragons but little because Sir Galahad told them what happened to mountains you'll never hear a claim that a dragon went down into London because people have believed things that became verified that works that's what we have that's our turn now in order for people to believe the claim but God gave the tower rc9 there has to be verifiable information that really happened so obviously the Terra is speaking to the people themselves remember what happened to all of you remember the going out of Egypt never forget how God gave you the Torah it tells the next generation right ask your parents explain what happened question my friends and here's my question we are now three thousand three hundred eighteen years approximately from the giving of tartare scene I do we have the evidence today that that event took place do we have enough evidence in our own lives that we can commit ourselves to God fully do you and I have that evidence today do we have evidence now remember I don't want you know it's not faith Judaism believes is something called das knowledge do we have enough information that we can make an intellectual decision not an emotional decision an intellectual decision that the event really took place do we have enough information today Jake is a little shaky I'm not so sure right because without that information today can we really feel that it happened then granted the claim is of a miraculous the claim is amazing you can't claim the whole people experience um they've experienced it and that's the claim the claim is no it says the total never be forgotten though the nation over there maked it says all that but I want to see in your own lives in my life do we have the information that we can commit ourselves to it okay listen I wanna do it you right now switch tracks with me just for a moment and then we'll come back and you'll see something very beautiful does everybody believe that 65 years ago there was an event called the Holocaust we believe it why do why do we believe it does why still exist we're survivors here we have today we have a few hundred thousand survivors they're becoming less and less each year by the way would you be surprised if I told you that beginning even 20 years after the event there were already people who are denying that 6 million Jews were killed and that today there are many people around the world who are denying the Holocaust for that surprise you you know if you go on the web you could see whole websites about such people video if you says Austin J app former associate professor of English at the Sauk College Philadelphia is the author of numerous neo-nazi pamphlets did 6 million really die the truth at last interesting a professor I have at this guy Arthur butts professor of engineering at Northwestern University the hoax of the 20th century denying the death camps and the extermination billions of Jews claims of fabrications of the Holocaust of Jews seeking to enlist support for Israel by appealing to popular guilt feelings when was the State of Israel established 1948 1948 when to the Holocaust and 1945 is it true that it was the feelings of guilt in the world that allowed the Jewish people to establish a state after 2,000 years do you think if we tried to establish a state today we'd get anywhere given the UN would grant us a state today definitely because of the guilt that was feeling that could the remorse know what happened so you know what they claimed they claimed that that the Holocaust was a Jewish invention in order to elicit sympathy for the State of Israel that's what the claim well how about this one over here Robert feresten holds a PhD from the Sorbonne in Paris he was dismissed from his position as professor of French at Lyon University for revisionist views and convicted by a French court for defaming the victims of Holocaust he claims the Nazi gas chambers never existed and that facts about the Holocaust of the number of Vic's and victims has been grossly exaggerated these are professors by the way these are professors there's a lot of officials about their don't believe it now there's only 65 years after the event and these guys started 30 years ago nothing no I asked you a question is it important that we keep the memory of the Holocaust alive I think is important it's very important for many reasons right many reasons we have to understand that just because you have a PhD and you have culture that doesn't mean you have morality you know these Germans are Goering at five PhDs education doesn't make you moral we have to understand how low a people can be we have to extend the human being as in the shaman every person is created image of God you have to know that I got to keep its essentials imperative that we keep the the memory alive question then I said by question if we want to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive if we want people to hundred years from now to know that this event occurred what do you think we should do what do you think we should do we want the event of the Holocaust to be no 200 years from now music for example to like the Museum in Washington biggest vote bill who's even I believe his face very very powerful good idea other suggestions passed down generations talk about it speak about books books about it good ideas study the genie the contention if you mentioned movies movies did you know that in the State Department they have the files and State Department I've heard that something over like three tons of paper documentation where the Germans themselves documented the destruction of Europe injury we have the State Department and yet we have revisionists we have people deny it did anybody see Schindler's List it's genders list do you think good evidence that the Holocaust happened or anything it's it's not good evidence who was the director and producer who could prize is the dream team in Hollywood do with their names I forget their names also but Spielberg is one of them at all Jews I see a question and when I was growing up we used to have an expression that says the camera never lies nowadays my eight-year-old can do things on Photoshop but you can distort and make anything look like anything is the camera today a verifier of truth or is the camera today perhaps an instrument of deception you know is it possible that Jewish producers in Hollywood could not produce films in which you have images of death camps and dead people and make the films look very old and very convincing is that that possible could it be that all of the evidence that is parently in the State Department verifying the destructive six million Jews was actually forged by Jews everybody knows that the Jews are the richest people on the planet which is true you know for our size we happen to have a very big part of the the deed of the gross wealth of the world is it possible that the Jews of course did not buy off these people to - you know - to claim that they were actually victims or the claim that they were perpetrators isn't that's what that's what their vision is claim these aren't my arguments is it that possible the Jews all did this why because they wanted to establish a Jewish state of Israel and therefore needed guilt feelings in the world and therefore feelings of a popular support that's what they claim that's the argument some arguments the argument they claim all the evidence that you just said hey beautiful Museum in Washington you know what they claim think that was it what we tell what money built it Jewish money it's the Jewish life part of the Jewish lie in order to keep the State of Israel around they have to always remember that there were Holocaust so part of the Jewish life works and again that's what the claim that's not my argument that's their argument true but I'm saying you know do you hear its problem 200 years from now how can you actually act you actually can convince anybody that the Holocaust existed you know it's very interesting that this problem even going back there's a very famous Holocaust writer Lucy Davidowitz so one time she was interviewed on Israeli radio and it says she wrote the following she said we were writing this article a young man who works on the radio in North America approached me and asked me if I was willing to debate Robert feresten he was well the Holocaust deniers when I replied angrily would be a travesty of justice and decency to give such a man a public platform the young man answered why are you opposed to dealing with a problem which is up for debate I asked him if in his opinion the murder of European Jewry was included in the character and category up for debate has it not been proven as historical fact I asked him the man responded I wouldn't know you I wasn't bored I wasn't born I'm only thirty I said that's that that's the attitude now this very serious thing sign it's not a joke it's a question if we want two hundred years from now when all the survivors are dead to believe that there was something called the destruction of European Jewry and there was a crime against humanity we have to guard ourselves against such arrogance and against looking at a human being as non-human if we want to keep this memory alive how are we gonna do it how are we going to do it do you hear the problem museums do not help movies do not help books do not help Jewish forgeries that's all they are the for the claim that's the claim all to listed support the State of Israel so I would suggest let me to you I have an idea and this is my idea this is a idea why don't we do the following let's gather together all of these survivors in the world right now Brooke has shown we still have a few hundred thousand my father-in-law is one of them let's gather them together let's bring them to Jerusalem and we're gonna sit down and we're gonna ask each and every one their experience what happened and they're all gonna record their experience tell us the experience we're gonna talk about the round dumps in the middle of the night I'm gonna talk about the cattle cars you know when you go to this Holocaust Museum in Washington I went a couple times I take the students the most powerful exhibit at the Holocaust Museum in my feeling is that Kalakaar they have one of those cattle cars where the Jews have to travel and you see how small it is and and and a hundred you know hundred Jews packed into it for a three-day journey in the cold or the high heat with nothing to eat the torture so the record that event the record how they arrived at Auschwitz this dr. Mengele would point to the left of the right democra no left meant to go to the gas chamber the right meant you have a chance to live my father-in-law tells the story he was a little boy he was 14 he's small he said doesn't know what happened but as he was going through the selection two people lifted him up and he was sent and they said go to the right to this day doesn't know how it happened no sir but Russia another describe the tortures and I described the hard labor of the scribe that smell of smoke and bodies burning and anybody who was there has that smell in their nostrils for life and you know the truth of the matters even the words they say can't really get it out because words can't get around these ideas you know I always asked my father all the time I said I'm dad let's just no more it always just go back to the same stories and I realized it's not because he doesn't want to say more it can't say more you can't get words around these horrors words can only do so much bull try let's get some words out and we'll get this story down and then we'll describe the liberation the Russians came from the east the Americans came from the west and how Jews were then brought by it by special units from Israel crossed mountains and crossed borders taking on ships to Israel people built the rise and rebuilt the life and will make a scroll documenting the Holocaust the hood will do with the scroll once we record it we're gonna make a rule can never be changed you can't subtract to it nor can you add to it this is the scroll of Allah Coast all the events now around that scroll we're gonna do something very interesting we're gonna form a club it's gonna be the Holocaust survivors club now how do you become a member of this club to be a member the club you have to be a son or a grandson or a daughter or a granddaughter or a great great granddaughter great kind of great stress on our of somebody who went and experienced the Holocaust and every member of this club will at Birth have the tattoo number that was inscribed on the arm of their parent grandparent great parent inscribed on the armor they will have that under the sleeve for life and when they have children they will describe that same number that number will be passed down now where are certain rules in this club you have to marry somebody from the club you can't marry anybody outside the club and in fact nobody can join this club maybe some people special people people who really care he could come into the club now it's gonna take a lot of work a couple years of work they have to commit themselves to what the club stands for they're very very deep boy and you know we're gonna do in this club we're going to take this scroll and we're going to divide it into let's say fifty four parts and once a week let's say Saturday for example we'll dedicate ourselves to studying that portion of the scroll and that day which we devote to studying that board to scroll we're going to gather in our collective our collective community center and we're going to read that part of the scroll publicly and then we're going to gather together at our houses I'm going to have a meal and at that meal we're going to make discussion of that particular part of the scroll the purpose of that meal I'm gonna speak to our children and talk to them about it and then we're gonna do it we're going to do some other things also in this club we have other rules for example every member of the club is gonna be obligated let's say just the men are gonna be obligate to wear underneath their shirts a piece of the pajama you know there's that their grandparents wore in Auschwitz and they're gonna have it underneath their shirts they're gonna put it there and they're gonna tuck it into their shirts but they're gonna know what that's there know the striped pajamas just the men are gonna have that that commandment and we're gonna take a part of that scroll maybe the most important part of that scroll there's we part of the scroll is gonna say like this hero Holocaust survivors thou shalt remember the Holocaust with all your heart boys soul all your financial means you shall take these words of remembrance you shall tie them upon your arms should place them on your head and in fact will create boxes black boxes I'm gonna put those black boxes the words you shall never forget the Holocaust and every morning there's gonna be a commandment for every member of this club to get up in the morning women are busy just the men will get up in the morning and they'll take this box and they'll tie that box on their arm through remember the Holocaust and the place that box on their head to remember it cognitively Sri bleah and with their arm they'll remember it I have to act and remember so to use my strength to remember it oh sup Tom and you're gonna write them write these words on the doorpost of your house every room in the house every doorway gonna have a little box and in that box you're gonna put these words you shall remember the Holocaust never forget and every time you walk into a room and well I will not forget and this club in the morning you're gonna wake up first thing or say in the morning hero Holocaust remembers thou shalt remember before you like that with night you say the same thing you know then we're gonna have certain holidays in our club one holiday we're gonna have this could be the holiday of the food that we ate in the concentration camps you know in the concentration Candice potato was the mainstay potatoes taro peels your life was in the hands of the guy who dished out the dished out the food if he had if he was generous and he was kind he would try to dig down deep for you so you got a few potato peels if he was cool he would just skimming off the top she just got liquid see what we're gonna do for what week we're to clear out our homes I'm gonna have a special week we're for that week for in every meal we eat potato peels from the whole week and you know we're gonna do it in that week the first night in that holidays gonna be a special event we're gonna gather together families and we're gonna sit in the front of each other with our parents grandparents in the first generation great grandparent a V that person was even in one of the concentration camps and but we do this every year and we're gonna have a whole service we're gonna take potato peel this was the food that our fathers ate now Fitz we're gonna dip it in salt water I'm gonna eat it I'm gonna taste it and we discuss it and talk about it all through the night now we're on another holiday it's gonna be the holiday of what it felt like to sleep in these camps the barracks for one week you have to leave your homes and you have to build a hut in your backyard or on your driveway or someplace like that and you have to sleep there and eat there kind of got out of your living room get into that hot feel what it was like to live in those barracks for one week so we'd have another holiday it's coming a holiday that commemorates the beginning of the club and that's gonna be a holiday in which what we're gonna step all night and learn the scroll again learn it and talk about it and think about it and you know what this club is gonna have so many rules we mentioned you can't change anything you can't add anything this club is gonna have special dietary laws special dietary laws that no one else has because this club is devoted to the memory of the Holocaust and the memory of the Holocaust means you have that sensitivity kind of a heart you can't be cruel like the Nazis so for example we're not gonna mix milk and meat that's cool we're not gonna take the meat of the baby and cook it in the in the in and then milk of the mother all right don't do such a thing that's cool this club has to work a compassion we have to make sure compassion rules the day you know we're gonna do all so we set up a whole special school system members of this club do not go to public schools members of this club go to special schools for them for example the first half of the day they're gonna study the scroll the second half of the day maybe they'll study things they need for life mathematics Shakespeare but the first half the day is going to be devoted to starting the scroll and we're going to make the prime achievement of somebody in this club to be a teacher of that school that's gonna be the goal of every little boy that he could grow up to be a teacher this question everybody if you see a people a club 200 years from now who are living a lifestyle a lifestyle dedicated to the remembrance of an event is that enough evidence to say the event occurred look at ourselves my friends is there anything that I said which is not exactly what we do as Jews mezuzah to fill in sits Asst yeshiva Cassius Shabbos paisa circus Shevat you can't change the Torah you can't add to the time you got study the Torah should I guess well and this is just a small sampling of what we do if you see juice three thousand three hundred eighteen years from the event living a lifestyle living a lifestyle that demonstrates the remembrance of an event is that enough evidence to say that the event occurred you know what the evidence that horsey night took place and that we had three million witnesses it's not only the fact that we have three hundred four thousand and five letters that never change it's not only the fact that scattered around the planet or sea freight are the same it's that we are all living a lifestyle testifying to the event how did you convince that first generation not only to accept the event but to take on a lifestyle that testifies to the event unless the event occurred know what the cursory said if an event occurred people will not be stupid enough to believe it unless there is evidence that the event occurred not only did that generation believe it you were willing to accept a lifestyle of obligation testifying to its true a lifestyle that is difficult a lifestyle that says sometimes you have to give up a job not to work on Shabbos a lifestyle that says that you can't eat anything you want to eat a lifestyle the city can't marry who everyone I marry a lifestyle that even in the Torah there's no mention of Olam haba there's no mention the turret so on the oral tradition it's hidden we know it's there we're not doing it for benefit we're doing it because we know it's true there is benefit but we know it's true how did you get a whole nation to accept 200 years from now if I see a member of this Holocaust Club well I not say the Holocaust took place absolutely 3,000 302 18 years from our scene I if I see a Jew living a lifestyle of Torah well I not say that that event took place absolutely where's the evidence you know or deafness or the evidence right here that's been the transmission 3318 years hey my friends you know I was so much.we the worse were part of such an amazing transmission we're so fortunate a Sheree no Callisto we're so fortunate to be part of this transmission to have it to have this truth to have what was given to our people three thousand three hundred eighteen years ago you know and it's been handed down to us and handed to us from generation to generation to generation like a baton being passed down being passed down and here we are now ready to accept it it's been passed to us what a beautiful beautiful transmission how fortunate we are you know they tell a story about two people Harry and Sam so you know Harry Cole Sam up and he says Sam listen I have a stock for you I want to invest sam says listen Harry I don't like to invest the nervous you know I don't like the market leave me out of it Harry said listen Sam I'm putting ten thousand dollars into it do you want to invest Sam said look I don't want to invest hi I'm nervous how are you okay Sam I'm investing so Harry investors ten thousand dollars next day Sam is thinking you should have invested you ever had this feeling given in that stayed you life yeah yeah some of you you look in the paper you know look at that stock doubled hurry now is twenty thousand dollars I have nothing so next day you got a call from Harry close Sam up he says Harry listen to Sam listen you know I want you to put money on that stock that stock is gonna double again I want you to but it's listeners dying happened watch not gonna happen twice now I don't want to do it next day you know sample puts up the papers live interested stock doubles again Harry now is up forty thousand dollars how he calls Sam up he said listen Sam listen I'm telling you just put some money and put some money and that stock is gonna double again said look it happened why it's not gonna happen again I'm not interested don't call me you know next day they can't help himself these days you know he opens up the paper look at it doubled you know Harry is up $80,000 Harry calls Moe he hears you know yeah you know he's calling him up and stamps like dozen want to pick up the phone you know everything how am I going to pick up the phone you know it's like he knows it he knows it's Harry you know it looks like you just know that you know that you know the person calling you know yeah I know is he's calling these calling that I can invest now they can't double again it's gonna crash I can't do it I can't do it so you know how he's ringing ringing you know the answering machine goes off Sam I know you're in there you know Sam I know you're in there pick up the phone Sam I know you're home doesn't happen to you you know look throw the phone okay how are you yeah hi Harry I'm sorry I was making lunch you know yeah make it to the fish sandwich I couldn't get to the phone time you know but I so you know they got it best put money in that I don't want here so looks at the paper the next day doubles Harry's up a hundred sixty thousand Sam gets his mail you know he looks in his bank account as annuity came do you know he's up 1386 a few dollars more guys up one sixty thousand dollars Nicole say calls me again said listen I want you to invest listen I'm not investing it's gonna crash it's enough already stop calling me so please invest please invest so I'm not gonna do it please next day books it doubles again he's up what's that so I talk about money you listen right so he's up to $20,000 so now Harry pulls up in his Porsche - Sam's tenement and guess I was poor she says listen you have one more opportunity I want you to invest I want it please invest I can invest that's good I can't be it's ridiculous there's not gonna happen again it's not gonna keep going please he doesn't do it next two books in the stock it doubles stands up now seven over 600 for it where am I six hundred forty thousand dollars closing again one last chance please and less please please I can't do it's gonna crash enough all right stop calling me look at the paper the next day it doubles he's up where am i intercept 1.1 1.2 million dollars and Sam was looking at you know doesn't what to do Harry comes over his house knocks on the door says Sam let me you know what talking have a seat it's the sound of table remember a few weeks ago I was begging you to invest I was urging you to invest I know you wouldn't invest so I invested for you I put my ten thousand dollars into account and I made a special $10,000 count for you you also have 1.2 million dollars [Laughter] you know my friends the investments has been made for us we're just here to receive what's been passed down to us our parents grandparents great parents great great grandparents they've done the investments we just have to pick it up that's all we're the bearers of the torch as they say we're the next rung of the ladder the next change in the transmission how fortunate we are to be part of the transmission thank you listening everybody [Applause]