Rabbi Reuven Kigel - The Greatness of Avraham Avinu

this B basically was exactly what I was hoping would happen toight so you just thought H would be sitting right here right I just you know looking around I feel uh so honored all of you guys here are mostly couples couple singles um I was just telling uh you know some the the T brothers that uh you know basically everyone here all of you guys either you or your spouse has become sh shabas like sh Shabbat you know in a big part because of emit which is an amazing thing it's an amazing thing to see and I just feel very proud to that R rber rcraft hire me and that I could be part of this organization and uh really introducing Judaism to Jews you know my job is to go out on college campuses and basically uh run our programs and but to run the programs you have to get people in the programs now to get people in the programs you have to come up to random people and ask them if they're Jewish right now sometimes it's a little bit difficult so tell you a personal story that uh inspires me all the time hopefully inspires some of you there was a man who uh one time was sitting outside of his home and you may not believe me but he was actually talking to God it was a long time ago he was a prophet he was not schizophrenic it's not today he was sitting in his home talking to God he was so connected he was sitting right out front and uh in the distance he saw three men that uh Look to Him like Idol worshippers walking by and so this man said oh God did not tell him to say this by the way this is a thought that he had on his own because he developed his character traits so much he said God excuse me for a second even though I know we're talking I just there's these three guys over there that worship idols that they for sure don't know about you and I want to tell them about you and he got up from his conversation with god imagine talking to God like I can you know I can't imagine talking toen know so so imagine talking to God andil and to get up and to go three completely insignificant people who you know are Idol worshippers and so far away from God and everything else just to and run to them and tell them about God now you know who did that are the the basically the founder of the Jewish people so all of us here one advantage of either being a rabbi in involing C being Bala is we have people in our lives that don't know so much about God and so it's Our obligation in a very nice way to not feel embarrassed and to not be afraid and to realize that to tell as many people as we can about God and what he does and this world and Shabbat and kosher and how awesome everything is if you connect is is is really the greatest thing we can do as Jews because that's what AB did and that that's what Hashem said okay from you come the Jewish people because basically hasem was like oh finally someone understands me before Abraham Shem and ever they were also able to talk to Hashem but they weren't necessarily willing to run out and tell everyone else about Hashem and that's what made AB different AB he cared about everyone and he realized that hasem if he created all these people he must care about everyone too and he wanted to emulate him with his whole heart and that's basically what we try to do at em we try to tell everyone about Hashem and uh before sh when that we able to to get as many people involved in tornament as possible because when we do that it makes hasem happen um I want to share you one more thought based on what Rabbi CRA was saying and what I've been trying to tell myself the last few days is that it's so difficult to realize how powerful we all are and how much impact every little thing that we do makes but like raer was saying we're the chosen people what are we not we're .25% of the world like not even P like if you round up we don't exist and Hashem gave us these to say this MIT to do and the Shabbat to keep and thear is always telling us like oh you're not so significant well you know what there there's more Olympic athletes than are Jews basically so so we right over the years and so we we are that significant and do not let the Zahara get you down remember every single thing you do every you make every smile you make at a person every you say every time you light the candles for Shabbat all those things have a huge impact on the world and with hashem's help we keep doing them with a lot of strength and uh you having even more strength in R past rashash Shana and with hm's help we should see mhia very soon want