Live! Pre-Shavuos Children's Program with Rabbi YY, with Live Q and A

e e e it's live on YouTube I started so you just have to log in let me just do the settings e e e welcome everybody welcome welcome okay welcome everybody who's with us for the special uh Children's Program with Hashem going to begin on a monthly basis so we're going to allow everybody to come in to the zoom or whever is joining us wherever you're joining us on the.net on any other website if you're joining us by phone welcome welcome to all the kind to all the children wherever you're joining us from around the world this is going to be of an exciting program with hashem's Grace and we're going to begin momentarily going to let everybody come in make yourselves [Music] comfortable since is coming up so we could start with a nigan we'll wait till everybody comes in [Music] by [Music] la [Music] B [Music] okay okay thank you everybody for joining us from different platforms I know welcome to all of the children be hasem for our new program that we're going to begin with Jewish children the world over those of you who remember a few years ago during the corona we did this quite often and uh we would have these live programs on the computer with live streams with many hundreds and thousands of children from the whole world we would share some stories we learned together we grew together and uh we learned about the world together and then we had live questions where children would ask questions and uh I try to give the best answers I can so I was inspired by many requests to do this again so here we are at the.net initiating this program again we're going to begin by a doing it once a month hopefully the first Sunday of every month so we're beginning this Sunday in the days preparing for when we're going to receive the Terra once again so everybody knows it says in medish in the med says that when Hashem wanted to give the T to the Jewish people this Priceless gift he wanted guarantors he wanted what we call arim garanto it's like if I lend you a lot of money what if you're not going to have the money I don't want to not get back my money so what we do is we find a friend an AR a guarantor that even if the borrower doesn't have the money to pay back the guarantor guarantees it's called Aros that he's going to pay back or she's going to pay back the money so hasm said I want a guarantor for the T I'm giving you this priceless priceless gift I want a guarantor so the Jewish people offered the skim the elders the older Jews and Hashem said no it's not good enough they offered the Nim they offered the prophets hasem said it's not good enough and they went through this list and he didn't like the guarantor until they said the children will be the guarantors our children will be the guarantors now I couldn't trust you with the T if the children are involved now I know the chain will never be broken so it's because of the children that even M received the T without the Jewish children even mosa and Aaron and the greatest n and and and the holiest of the Holy and the oldest Jews would not receive the T it was because of the children that Hashem gave the T to the Jewish people so it's true every single year so in order to appear for mat it's to children who guarantee its upkeep who guarantee its future who guarantee its nitus its eternity so we're going to hear we're going to that's why we're here together with this program on this very special day known as the first of thees the first of the three days that the Jews had to prepare for MIM followed by the sixth of seven you can text in or Whatsapp all of your live questions and be I'm going to go through those questions the number is 718 9775 279 you can text you can WhatsApp any question you would like and we will try to address them all the second half of the program again 718 97 77 5279 if you're comfortable you can also ask your question live on Zoom if you're listening by phone you can ask your question via the phone you're just going to have to raise your hand by pressing star n you'll raise your hand if you're on the computer you can raise your hand on the bottom of Zoom there's a raise hand button and in the part of the questions we will take you questions okay and if you want to come on on Zoom you can come on on Zoom but if you're watching it or listening to it elsewhere that is perfectly perfectly fine I want to give a special thanks before I actually begin I want to give a very special thanks to the tman family from Los Angeles California who have graciously and are graciously sponsoring these monthly children's programs to learn together to sing together to DAV together to inspire each other so I want to thank the entire tman family from Los Angeles for the special dedication in loving memory of the unforgettable Sal tman from Los Angeles SCH Ben tman known as Salman one of the great Builders of Jewish Education dedic at heart and soul to the future of the Jewish people to the future of a tremendous a tremendous a tremendous Visionary with a huge mind and a huge soul and a huge heart he was taken from a six years ago after a life dedicated to and and especially and this is T together and in conjunction with one of the schools close to his heart that he built together with his colleagues and friends the ACH Hebrew Academy tman family Torah Center this was Sal's baby and amch is a very special school that continues to thrive and educate hundreds of Jewish students each year so thank you very very much and I'm sure is shpping tremendous Nas of seeing the voice and the laughter and the spirit of Jewish children the world over coming together thank you I want to begin with a story it's a story about the balv and of course the reason I'm choosing a story about the balv is because sh is the yard site of the B was born in the year on the 18th of 1698 and he passed away on in the English calendar that would be 1760 so the is on of course we know it's also says in passed away and B passed away and so I'm going to begin the program with a St a beautiful beautiful story of the B that always warms my heart it's a story about Friday night the bov was sitting at his table with his family and many many guests who came to spend shabas with the Holy balam and the BAM finished making KES and he drank the wine and he distributed the wine and then suddenly out of the blue the B just started to laugh he started to laugh nobody cracked a joke nothing seemed funny in the room why is the B laughing nobody knew but out of respect nobody said anything although it was very strange and made the B wash they did they brought out the first course probably the fish the B finished eating the fish and guess what as they were cleaning up the fish course the B breaks out in yet even a more exhilarating and a loud laughter he laughing nobody could understand what is happening here why is the B of laughing there doesn't seem to be anything very funny or entertaining happening in the room at the moment so the meal continued the Y the soup and then the main course the chicken or the meat whatever they ate the vegetables the fruits and when the finished the main course of the chicken or the meat whatever food they had there in meab in Ukraine again he bursts out laughing and you can see the joy and the excitement and the Sim on his glowing holy face nobody understands why the meal continues they finish and life moves on the shabas moves on after shabas the makes and one of his closest disciples his closest his closest felt that it was an auspicious time for him to ask so he says re I want to ask you a question why were you laughing Friday night at the meal after kidish after the fish after the chicken and each time your laughter grew and exceeded what what was going on looked at him and said why don't you go and invite shopi the bookbinder to come here to SCH to me a few years ago I had a more than once of being in me me is a little town in Ukraine and we still know exactly the place where the B was in fact there pictures from the original sh from before the war later was destroyed but they rebuilt the sh in the same place exactly as a replica the way it looked during the time of the B and of course there's the cemetery with the bam is Buri together with many other Jews of meab but it's like a little little town and it still looks very very ancient and old and hasn't been developed so why don't you bring shopi to now who was shopi shopi the book binder was a Jew he was a very fine good God-fearing Jew not very successful or affluent his parnasa his money he got from binding books this is in the olden days how much money did he get he got a few cupus you know what cupus are cupus was like the pennies and the in the Russian currency or Ruble Ruble is like a dollar but it wasn't a lot but he was a very innocent and a very fine person and people cherished his Purity and his yay his fear and his love for Hashem so this student went to the house of sh the the book binder it's called he binds books and he tells him that the B invited you to come to show he wants to see you shabi did not like this what happened he was bewildered what what what now you know what what type of trouble I mean he calm down the is not upset he just wants to see you so Shi accompanies this student and they come to the and the is standing there with his beloved students and he says a good week a Holy Week a beautiful week Shi could you tell us all what happened in your home on Friday night and shopi blushes and he says Reb please don't embarrass me in public I won't do it again the B says there's nothing to be embarrassed it was so special you can share it with us with calmness he says no no this is humiliating this is embarrassing I do not want a sh the encourages him and says I'm telling you this is I'm not judging you please share with all of us what happened Friday night in your home the Reb asks the B asks so Shi begins to tell the story and he says my dear you know that for me and my wife shabas is something special all of my savings all the money that I make I always save up extra money to be able to buy extra food and I have an extra beautiful environment and Ambiance and atmosphere on chabas we're a very poor couple we don't have much but whatever we could put away we put away extra to be able to buy delicious wine and fish and chicken and meat B and fruits and vegetables and whatever Delicacies they had in measur in the 1700s not many in order to be able to have a f warm shabas in our home for us shabas is everything unfortunately as you know the last few weeks there was such a heavy snow this was winter time and it impeded people could not travel so no nobody came to bind any books so even the little money that I was making I stopped making the last two weeks literally nobody showed up because of the heavy snow you could travel nobody could walk nobody could travel and Thursday night I sat down with my wife and I said unfortunately I have nothing I have nothing I can't give you any money to go buy anything for shabas it was so sad for both of us because what about candles we're not going to be able to have candles they couldn't have they didn't have money to buy oil to buy a candle what about wine they didn't have for wine what about a piece of fish some vegetables chicken for a chicken soup meat anything they didn't have they would just have to have some morsels of bread that they had leftovers to eat it was very sad it was very hard for both of us but I had no other choice I didn't want to go start begging as a PO I did not want to do that I never did that in my life I always earned a living and therefore we just looked at each other and tears stream down my eyes Friday morning I knew it's going to be very painful for me to sit here A whole day and know that we have nothing to cook and prepare for chabas so I went to shul and I davened and I decided to stay in shul throughout the day and I learned and I said to H and I was my Vedra you know the Mitzvah Friday we go through the the whole par twice we do a and then we do Theus the translation ofus in Aramaic and I went through the par I learned rash and I learned some other I then I said some more to and then I went of course before shabas they would go to the mik to the bathing house to prepare for shabas and I came back to sh unfortunately I knew I can't go home there's nothing to help I have no reason to there's nothing to help with I can't make a cougal I can't put up the soup I can't make a chant I can't even prepare the candles and when daving finished I went home and I knew that I'm coming unfortunately into a dark home because we couldn't afford candles how shocked I was Shi the book binder says to the Bal and his students as I'm approaching the home and I see so much light coming out of the windows and I don't understand why how and when I come closer to the house I begin smelling the fragrance of gak a delicious food I come into the house beautiful candles a glow filling the house with so much shabas light and warmth and then I can smell the r the smell the fragrance of food better than every week and to my astonishment I see that my my wife cooked up a stor I look at her and I say where did all this food fall from came from Like a Man From Heaven she looks at me and she says Shi you know this morning Friday morning you went to sh and I was so heartbroken seeing your pain of not having the ability to celebrate chabas the way you would love to so I decided I have to do something about it and I went through all my old clothes to see maybe there's something I can find you know maybe some old money that we put away or that I never used or that got you know got put away in a pocket and we never remembered about it you know these things happen you find some money and then I find an old coat and it has golden buttons and it hasn't been used in a long time it was old it was already like a rag AATA but the buttons were made of gold and I took off the buttons and I immediately went to the person you know the with the gold the one who handles gold and I gave the buttons was and they were expensive and I got a very nice sum of money and with this money I went and I bought the candles and I bought the wine and I bought the fish and I bought the meat and the chicken and the vegetables and the fruits and all of the Delicacies that we have here and with the borem I cooked up a shabas I prepared a shabas ah shapi was overwhelmed he didn't expect this he expected a dark and difficult and challenging miserable shabas he was so grateful and he meant every word that night when he said where do you find such a person such a partner in life such a woman of Valor he made Kish with so much gratitude when he finished his KES he turns to his wife and he says Ah I am so grateful to that he gave us this the privilege to be able to celebrate shabas with such love and such joy and such passion and such such prosperity and comfort I'm so grateful for the gift of shabas and I'm so grateful for the gift of you who who who did all of this and prepared all of this without me even expecting it and I'm so grateful that we have each other to be able to celebrate our relationship with Hashem with shabas with to with mitzvas with each other and he blushes and he looks at the B and he says I was so excited I was so moved there was nobody else in the house I asked my wife if she can dance with me and she said yeah and we started to dance and then we washed Tam and then we ate the fish and I sang the and we shared and we shared words of and encouragement and we were just grateful and when I finished the fish my heart was swelling with joy and I turned to my wife and I said I I'm so grateful to Hashem for shabas and I'm so grateful to Hashem that we can celebrate chabas this way and I'm so grateful for the gift that you have given me and us with this chabas and I'm so grateful for every moment that we have each other and our connection with each other and has and I again broke out in a dance and I asked my wife if she can join me again in the dance and we danced around the table with even more passion and we continued the meal and the soup and the chicken and after the chicken I was so filled with with his laav with passion and withus and with gratitude and again I jumped up dance and I said would you dance with again how can I be grateful enough how can I and we danced again around the table you know like a choo choo train we danced around and around and around and around I don't know what the niggan was but some niggan and he finishes the story and he's feeling very embarrassed you know it's not a typical Story the B is listening and the BAM looks at chopi and he looks at all of his students who were gathering sh and he says my dearest my dearest I want you to know something when you danced on chabas at your meal in your home you know who else was dancing with you all theim all the angels in heaven were dancing with you they were all celebrating with you you know who else was dancing with you Hashem himself himself was rejoicing and dancing and celebrating and cherishing every moment seeing you and your wife's love and joy and passion and connection Hashem too was dancing and the B said and I too joined along with you and everybody understood why the B felt so much joy and laughter and expressed it after kides and after the fish and after the chicken and then the B looked at chapi and says and chapi I want to bless you what do you need chapi looks at the and he says re you know my wife and I are very grateful for everything we have we're grateful for every moment of life we're grateful for every breath we're grateful for shabas we're grateful for y we're grateful for the gift of life every moment is the gift of life but there's one thing we don't have we never were blessed with children the B looks at chopi and he says I want to bless you that asem should give your wife and you a child and he sent him back to his home within a year shapi and his wife were blessed with a son and at the bris shapi gave his son the name is is of course is the name of the Jewish people we're all is is is we're called is is is the acronym because every Jew has a letter in the the 600,000 General souls and each Soul has many different branches like a tree has many different branches and is is the name of the B is the B and this boy grew up to become one of the great great Masters spiritual leaders of Polish jury he know when as of has a called name was is he was the boy of the bookbinder and he grew up to be he went to the city of KET he became the KET was one of the great Masters and Reb and sikim of Poland in that generation let me tell you what I learned from the story among all the other lessons you could learn from from it you know sometimes we don't value enough what we do in the privacy of our own lives in the privacy of our own homes you know sometimes we feel that things are important when there's pictures when it's all over the place when there's a lot of fanfare when there's a lot of drama when it's public when it's known and here the B was teaching us a Priceless lesson here was a man with his wife two people simp good people in their own home there were no cameras there was no live stream it was shabas and they were celebrating life with each other with themselves and with Hashem there was nobody to give them compliments there was nobody to validate them there was nobody seeing them there was nobody telling them it didn't go out there's a WhatsApp it didn't become a status there was no picture generally there were no pictures that but what was saying is you should know who was dancing with you all the Mal all the Angels were dancing Hashem himself was dancing that moment is priceless that's where life happens life happens in what we call the moment ofas the moment of real sincere authentic connection when you allow your heart to open and you celebrate life and you celebrate the gift of life and you celebrate the gift called you and the gift of those people you trust and love and the gift that together we can give to each other and we can Embrace each other and we can be channels for hashem's love and light and Hashem dances with you the that you bring to Hashem at that moment is priceless and the says and I too was part of that party always cherish and value those moments that we can each create in our own day and our own night in our own a our own relationship with and with Hashem and with those individuals friends family or others who we feel close to and we are close to and as you dance remember Hashem is Dancing with you so I want to go to the next part and say a very special Capital to hm for our brothers and sisters in the whole world but especially for our brothers and sisters in for all of the hostages we have had a great miracle shabas morning when four Jewish hostages who were in captivity by the for8 months were liberated by the Jewish Soldiers the the who went in with m nees Mish and rescued these four hostages unfortunately one of them did not come back he died Al kesem saving these four Jews these four young Jews there's many more hostages still stuck by May Hashem liberate them may hasem protect all of our brothers and sisters and all of the hostages all the soldiers all of their families and give to all of the wounded and protect our brothers and sisters there and the world over so let's say together a Capal does any one of the children here on Zoom would you like to uh would any one of you like to say the to if anybody would like to say the to helim you could raise your hand and we'll unmute you and you could say the to helim loud for everybody or if not I'll just say the to and you could all say with me I'm going to share my screen and wherever you are we could say this Capal or any capalm you would like so I'm going to share my screen now I prepared it before let's see okay okay to him right here okay okay this is a Capal we're going to say together okay I hope everybody could see it [Music] okay and now we're going to go over to our next segment we're soon going to go to questions those who have questions you could text the questions or Whatsapp them unless you want to ask the questions live but many children already sent in their questions to 718- 977 5279 718- 5279 again 718 okay so now we're going to go to the next section everybody knows that is called inra the holiday of harvest and that's because it's the time of harvest after a long winter is called it's the spring the beginning of Spring and it's a time when we start harvesting grains and we start harvesting vegetables and everything that grows fruits and it will continue throughout the summer and that's why sh is also known as After People Farmers all over Isel would fill up a basket of the new fruits of the shim of the seven special species the fruits with which is praised for they would fill up a basket or many baskets and March toim with a musical prey Jews from all over the land would bring their baskets of fruits and come to to the bikes and gifted to aen and it was a very special festivity this usually happened after sh throughout the summer season when the new fruits were being harvested from people's farms and gardens Orchards and trees and Fields Etc so we're going to talk today for a moment and we have a special video about how you plant anything that you plant I recently I live in monsan I recently started the plant we started to plant some things and it's an amazing right you take a seed and you put it into the Earth and then it grows so you take the seed of an apple tree you take the seed of an apple and maybe an apple tree will grow or cherries or oranges or kiwis or maybe cauliflower or spinach or Peppers maybe a vegetable maybe a grain wheat barley spelt oats Rye maybe a legum what we call kitney May grow corn or you may grow rice or other form or other beans or beans and everything has its own mechanism of how it works but the miracle of it is you take a little seat looks like nothing you put it into the Earth and boom sometime later the miracle of vegetation happens how does that happen how does this little seed suddenly this little seed produces years later this humongous Apple app tree I have in my backyard an apple tree it's a humongous apple tree growing all these apples or any other fruits it's incredible incredible that little seed what does it have inside of it so today we're blessed with all the research and all the wisdom and the ability to be able to see deeper into the universe we get to see in every generation more and more and more of the miracle in every aspect of the universe every aspect of creation it's like whatever you look at it's so unbelievable it's so mind staggering it's so unfathomable today we know in a seed there's a lot of different parts but there's three basic parts in every single seed one is something called the embryo it's like a baby plant the whole plant that's going to come out later it's all there in the sea tiny tiny tiny tiny but that baby plant is there it's called an embryo little like a little little tiny baby it's in the seat there's another part of the seat it's called the seed coat it's like the coat like you wear a coat to protect yourself in cold weather protect yourself from the rain we have a very rainy day here the seed has a coat to protect it because this seed is going to get taken to a lot a lot of places and the seed protects it makes sure that it retains what it has to retain there's a little baby inside we don't want that baby to get damaged cuz that baby is a future tree or that baby is future grain or that gra beans is a future vegetable or whatever it's going to grow future flour so the coat protects it it protects it it's only going to open up in the right time it also doesn't want the seat to open up too early and if it's not going to be the right place in the right time it's just going to get damaged and ruined so the coat protects it and then you have a third part it's called endosperm that's basically the food that the baby eats the baby plant needs food everything in the world needs food so it nashes it Foods it's like the grains of rice like similar to the rice we eat but tiny tiny that's what it feeds later it's not going to need that food it's going to get other food and then you take this seed doesn't look like it has anything and you put it under the Earth and you're really burying it and somebody was say what are you doing what are you what are you burying it for keep it on your window seill keep it on your counter keep it on your table keep it on your bookcase keep it on your desk no if I keep it on my bookcase if I keep it on my desk if I keep it on my window sill it's just going to remain a little seed a lifeless seed you put it in the earth and you cover it and it looks like it's gone it's not gone you didn't bury it you planted it and you know what happens under the Earth the way Hashem made the world is that under the Earth under the Earth suddenly the true potential and the true life force and the true energy inside the seed which is completely concealed can begin coming out of course it's not enough to have Earth you need water and you need sunlight and you need warm temperature you need oxygen and then what happens the seed coat slowly opens up you remember I told you the seed has three parts the coat the embryo the baby plant and the food for the baby plant the endosperm it's called and it opens up slowly and you know how a baby starts kicking like a real baby in the mommy's stomach and the baby kicks right and then the baby this baby also starts kicking and the feet come out do you know what these feet are called Roots the first thing that happens is Roots come out from the seed like like like the feet and the roots go into the Earth and the roots are going to be what's going to bring in water and nutrients like food and water into this plant so that it can live that this baby can live those are the roots and then this baby starts kicking upwards and those are the little shoots that start coming out you ever see when you plant something and a few weeks later those little shoots those little green shoots come out come out so you have first the roots go downwards and by the way any direction you'll put the seed the seed always knows that the roots have to go down and the shoots have to go up it never happens that the roots go up and the shoots go down because the seed knows exactly what to do the Hashem embedded in every single seed this unbelievable wisdom of knowing exactly what to do how to do in order to ensure its survival and its growth and then it starts growing each plant according to its own formula its own own mechanism based on what's known as the DNA the the the genetic code the blueprint of what this plant needs in order to become who it's supposed to become that is in that seed in that embryo in that baby that baby has what's called living cells which has in it the DNA the manual like an instruction like a program code what it's supposed to do and it follows that and now it starts coming out and as it starts developing lead leaves you know what else happens there's a stem there's leaves the leaves now take the sunlight and they convert a sunlight into food they take just like we have our food the leaves get sunlight it's called photosynthesis they take the sunlight they convert it into what's called glucose sugar and now the plant doesn't need the food from inside the seed because it already gets food from the Sun and that's when the Original Seed Falls away the seed coat is gone and you don't need the endosperm anymore and this little embryo baby turns in maybe to a gigantic gigantic tree and I want you to watch this video it's a short video and then we're going to see the lesson for each of Our Lives stay tuned e for e for for okay sorry we uh some technical issue here with the sound what is the lesson from all of this you got to see I guess the basic formula but there's a very very powerful lesson for all of us here you know the way Hashem made the world I'm hearing my echo the way Hashem made the world is that everything in the world is connected to us and we're connected to everything in the world so what we see in the Earth or anywhere in the planet is a reflection of our own life take this seed when you look at the seed you don't realize how much potential it has but it's really filled with potential it has potential to grow into an amazing Splendid and beautiful tree but it needs the right environment so you take the seed and you just leave it on your table it won't be able to come out you'll never know what's inside of it you take the seed and you put it in Earth and that's not enough you need sunlight you need water water makes the Earth more moist the soil Mo moist you need the right temperature you need a warm climate if it's freezing cold if we would only have winter freezing cold nothing would be able to grow and then suddenly the true Soul the true n the true potential of this seed comes out what is this in all of our Lives we are all called Zer Isel the seed of Isel tell we say in the morning the nvi calls the Jewish people I planted you in the earth each one of us is a seed each and every single one of you every single one of us has a soul a a which is a piece of Hashem himself and your entire existence your body your brain your soul it has so much power in it so much potential in it so much strength in it so much Beauty in it so much Holiness in it but for it to really realize its potential it needs the safety and the environment to bring out the best in it so number one we need sunlight and warmth a person needs sunlight we need light we need warmth in light and warmth the seed coat can open up and your power can Sprout and produce whatever you need to produce in this world maybe the most fragrant flowers maybe the most delicious fruits or vegetables or grain or whatever you need to produce in order to bring your beautiful light of the world light warmth water the gor says about irrigates us it irrigates it hydrates it's the water that the plant needs to be able to flourish to Blossom and also Earth Earth represents humility if I'm arrogant if I think I know everything if I have to disagree with everybody if I'm confrontational my ego doesn't allow me to really grow going under the Earth represents humility another that's what allows us to truly truly grow and also in the earth sometimes I'm invisible you know sometimes in life a person could feel I'm invisible sometimes things happen that make us feel invisible and the worst thing to think is that you're really buried forever and crushed no every moment in life is an opportunity for growth and even if it's a difficult moment and I feel like you know I was buried but really I was planted sometimes it's hard it's very very hard and I have to acknowledge how hard it is I don't even see the seed anymore but if you understand who you are and you always believe and appreciate your power and your strength and you don't allow anybody to take that away from you even if I seem invisible but my seed is always a it's always a piece of and when we have these combinations we can grow and grow to be the people that we're capable of being and we're destined to be and you know never think that your seed lost its power you know there are seeds that are a thousand 2,000 years old and they were never planted and when you look at them they look dead but if you give them the right ingredients they blossom in fact in Israel a few years ago they planted seeds thousands of years old and these seeds grew into palm trees into dates can you imagine That's The Power of a seed sometimes you look at yourself you say I don't have energy I don't have potential or you look at somebody else looks just looks like a dead seed it's not it's in the wrong environment with the right sunlight with the right warmth we need to be able to give ourselves warmth and we need to be able to give ourselves light liite and water and the power of the earth and the right climate and then the seed grows enormously and sometimes a seed shouldn't blame itself you know the seed looks at itself and says why am I not growing look at my friend my friend grew into such a beautiful tree that seed had what it needed the seed maybe doesn't have what it needs and therefore the seed shouldn't blame itself the seed shouldn't say I'm a loser I'm a sick seed I'm a horrible horrible seed I'm a disappointment to the world no maybe this seed needs some things that it never got and when it gets what it needs it's going to be able to flourish and Blossom and it needs to respect that which it really needs I want to share something else amazing with you okay and right after this we're going to go to the questions and the second thing I want to the thing I want to share amazing with you is something else about trees since is the the holiday of of harvest and the holiday of when we started to bring B something else amazing about trees do you know that what are the tallest trees in the world the tallest trees in the world and the longest the oldest trees in the world are called Seas they're also known as redwoods many of them are found in California other parts of the world some of them are they can live for 2,000 years that's their lifespan some of them are 3,000 years old I've read about seoa or redwoods that may be 3500 years old or even 4,000 years old that means you have trees that have been around before mat before the Jewish people left trees that are around maybe from the days of Y or the days of maybe trees that have been around from the days of and the days of and the days of the it's incredible what these trees have seen so when you look at a redwood you have to have respect these trees have been through wow now usually trees have three major enemies you know fires bugs and diseases but these trees it happens to be they become stronger they don't resist they don't get damaged not by fires not by bugs not by many diseases and they also grow very tall you have trees that can be 500 feet tall sometimes 550t tall huge trees so they last for thousands of years and they're unbelievably tall now I I want to ask you a question how deep do you think the roots have to be in order to be able to hold up such a tree 400 feet 500 feet 550 ft for 2 3,000 years how deep do those roots have to imagine you have a huge tall building how deep do foundations have to be in order to be able to make sure this tree can live for thousands of years how long how deep do these roots have to be what would your natural Natural Instinct be take a guess you could tell it to the person sitting near you and yeah you would think maybe 100 feet deep right to hold up a tree of 500 feet probably it's 100 deep feet like a deep Foundation you know what the answer is the answer is a crazy answer usually these trees are between five and six feet deep or maybe a little more really five five six 7even 8 feet deep that's not a lot and it holds up a tree that's hundreds of feet tall and thousands of years old how how does that happen I mean such a tree should be so weak so vulnerable so frail so subjected to be destroyed so fast you know what the answer is I'm going to show you the answer in pictures be with me I prepared a few pictures here you see the height of these trees take a look take a look in the if you're on the zoom or on the YouTube on the take a look at the height of these redwood trees okay now take a look at this these are the roots do you see what's happening there's another picture The Roots here's another picture look at these roots here's another picture look at these roots here's the height and here are the roots look what's going on there do you understand what's happening let me point it out what are you seeing here these roots are not deep but they're wide what they lack in depth they make up in width and let me explain to you what happens when the roots of a Redwood a sequoia tree start reaching into the ground into the Earth the roots spread every tree has roots because the roots are the channels they're the pipes through which the water is going to come into the tree the roots are going to get it from the earth and also different nutrients like vitamins like like ingredients that it's going to need to live and survive and grow and Thrive so usually the roots of each tree are self-contained but in the redwood trees The Roots look for other roots of other redwoods and they start hugging each other and they become interconnected and in mesed and entangled and intertwined and interconnected with each other look at this you see the roots of different redwood trees now come together and they Unite and they connect and they become one okay take a look at this picture take a look what's going on here in these roots these are different trees but they're from the same family so the roots under Earth become connected on top of the ground it's separate trees under they're one and that's how they survive that's how they can grow so tall and that's how they can survive for thousands of years take a look at this phenomenon and we didn't know about this till recently cuz we didn't have the equipment to be able to look under the Earth it's only recently that we discovered how powerful this is so it doesn't have to be so deep but it has to be connected with other roots and then ah you see all the storms and all the disasters can destroy a tree that has its own Roots When you have 50 trees hugging each other connected to each other intertwin the roots intertwin with each other you won't defeat it you won't defeat it because it's not one anymore do you get what's going on here what we see here who are the seoa of History we have the Sequoya trees we have the redwood trees who are the seas in history in terms of people we're compared to trees and the answer is the Jewish people we've been around thousands of years and not under easy circumstances forest fires try to destroy us they still do bugs infections diseases Iran Syria from par toar to Hon to Stalin to Hitler and today the islamist that want to destroy the Jewish people as we talk five weeks ago six a few weeks ago six seven weeks ago Iran sent 300 drones and cruise missiles and Rockets with the intention of murdering thousands of Jews five weeks later the president of Iran abrah ra killed suddenly in a helicop a crash with his foreign minister and another few people 99% of them were intercepted outside of Israel but you're talking about and Jews and people wonder how will these redwood trees survive how will these survive and here we see one of the big answers the power of on top of the Earth every tree is different every person is different every soul is different everybody's supposed to be different like every seed is unique but under the Earth if you go deeper all the trees are interconnected all the roots on a root level all theas of Cl all are one it's one the goes into different different bodies but we are one Soul because the soul is an emanation it's a derivative of the consciousness of hasem Hashem is one Hashem is infinite Hashem is all of reality and each of our souls is a manifestation of that Oneness so if you go to the roots of a Jew if you go deep deep deep into the roots you know what you're going to find you and me and you and you and you and you we're one we're indivisible we're one Our Roots are interconnected even though we each have a different Mission and a different shape and a different design and a different personality and a different part of the world and each tree has its own unique function and purpose and its unique idiosyncrasies and but deep down go under not so deep 5T deep boom we're all connected we're all one you get it that's the power that's why it says under the first day of when the Jews came to Mid what does the say we're going to read it on one person with one heart and then they can receive the Tira because it's the power of being like one person with one heart even though we're different people but it's like one person with one heart true love and unity that's what allowed us not only to get the T but to keep the T and to have it thousands of years later and to be as strong and as powerful as ever and that's what happens That's The Power of Love That's The Power of dedication that's the power when you can do a favor to somebody with a full heart that's the power when we remain United completely indestructible we don't allow small Petty things to get in between us we remember who we really really are we are truly truly one each one of you is connected to millions of Jews and not just of this generation of all the generations you have all their power all their mysterious neish all their amuna all their creativity all their love in addition to you being who you are as a unique special individual who nobody can replace just like every tree has its own unique person it okay we're going to go to questions we're going to go to questions right now and everybody is free to ask live questions and then we're going to end with another very special story and a very special message okay so those of you we already got a lot of questions those of you who want to text or Whatsapp your questions 77527 9 718 9775 279 I'm going to open the document where we have all the questions if you want to ask a question live then please raise your hand here on zoom and you can ask your question live okay let me just figure this out so on the zoom on the bottom of Zoom you could raise your hand if you want to ask your question if you want to ask your question on Zoom you can just raise your hand if you want to ask a question on the phone because people are listening on the phone so by phone raise hand is star Nine Star nine okay so you can do that as well I see somebody's raising their hand yeah yeah hello you're on the phone ra the hand okay so unmute them [Music] Leora right yeah yes go ahead Leora why does her sh um thank you why why um my question is why does sh first of all Leora how old are you nine you're nine and where do you live where you where are you now um m m MSY okay that's where I'm from okay Leora what's your question please my question is why does hasem love children doing more than grownups doing oh that's a beautiful question why does Hashem love children's davening more than grownup davening I think he loves everybody's daving but I think there's something very special about children's daving and that is that children do things with a full heart children are very by Nature every soul is very pure and when we're children that Purity comes out in a much clearer fashion children are so innocent and pure the gamar says that the world stands on the words and on the Torah and on the Mitzvah and on the daving of of children because sometimes when we get older if we don't remain children we can get a little we can get a little trapped by all of the pressures of the world because the world has a lot of lies and the world has a lot of messages that could contaminate us but children by Nature the way Hashem made them have a purity their hearts are more open they say what they thinking they say what they're feeling they know how to laugh they know how to dance they know how to giggle they know how to be children so their prayers have a sincerity a seriousness to them and a purity to them and a power to them that is very unique in fact one of the one of the great sages so there's a and he brings that he used to say by daving I want to DAV to hem like I'm a child I'm daving like I'm a child even though he was one of the greatest rabbis of his time he said I want to put everything away and just DAV like a child meaning just from Heart to Heart face to face soul to soul you understand Lear you still here oh you're muted okay right okay do you understand yeah thank you okay do you have any other questions the other one I I wrote in the chat oh I see your other question wow your other question is also a great question so here's the other question we talk this is a NY old girl we talk Leora thank you we talk about Hashem a lot which is normal but every time we talk about Hashem my brain questions lots and lots of things my brain starts asking all these questions how is Hashem made does Hashem have a mother does Hashem have a father did his mother give birth to him if so who made hashem's mother I don't get it did Hashem just come out of a portal did he just emerge this makes no sense this is questioning my mind every single day whenever we talk about Hashem it's so weird for me because my mind goes into all these difficult questions that I don't have an answer for wow wow that's amazing first of all thank you for trusting and asking this question and it's really very special that you're asking and you're asking a very very deep question but I want to still get to many questions I'm going to give you an answer I'm just going to I'm going to try to give a brief answer okay you asking a good question we just learned about a seed right every tree comes from somewhere the tree doesn't come from nowhere the tree comes from a seed and the seed came from somewhere the seed came from the fruit and the fruit came from a previous seed right and that seed had to come from another fruit all the way back to the beginning but who made the first seed that made the first tree the chicken came from an egg right but who made the first egg oh the egg came from a chicken the chicken laid an egg and then the chicken lays on the egg and then the egg hatches but who made that first chicken oh an egg but who made the first egg the chicken or the egg the chicken or the egg the chicken and EG same is true with the horse the baby horse came from Mommy but who made the first horse and the calf of an elephant came from the mother elephant which came from a previous mother from a previous mother and the same is true with every single one of us and anything you look at the world anything you look at it has a source it came from somewhere right and where's the beginning so you say well Hashem created it all so now you're asking Leora and which egg did Hashem come from and who was hashem's mommy great great question and the answer my dear Leora is as follows everything in our world is physical like an egg like a chicken like a seed like an apple like a cherry like a plum like a peach like a cantaloupe and it came from something before it came from a seed which came from a previous tree which came from a seed which came from a previous tree the same is true with every person you came from your mommy who came from her mommy who came from her momm and all the way back to Hashem is not something that is made from anything physical Hashem is not made up of matter he's not made up of something physical Hashem also doesn't exist in time or space Hashem created time Hashem created space Hashem created phys physical reality so Hashem doesn't need a Creator because Hashem is not that type of reality that you could create or that needs to be created Hashem is the essence of all reality Beyond Time beyond space beyond matter take a look at the first the first of is in the beginning Hashem created heaven and earth so look what we just learned in the beginning it means says this the balat says this Hashem created beginning Hashem created time time is a creation and by the way in modern science today the great scientists explain what they call the big bang that before the Big Bang there was no time there was no before time is a creation space is a creation Hashem created what does heaven mean space you know what else he created Earth matter time space and matter we're all created together because none of them can exist without the other you have matter where is it going to be it has to be somewhere and when is it going to be it has to have a time so space time and matter work together when you have something that's matter it exists in time it exists in space Hashem created matter he created time he created space he's completely Beyond it so he doesn't need a Mami to create him he created all the mammies because Hashem is the essence behind all of reality all of reality began in Hashem and all of reality everything that exists comes from Hashem it's an extension of Hashem and that's why Hashem exists in every single reality because every reality is a revelation of Hashem including you beautiful beautiful question wow thank you leor understood littleit than for answering the question pleasure pleasure okay let's go other questions 718- 977 5279 718- 977 5279 you can text or Whatsapp your question if you want to speak up live on Zoom you can come on zoom and raise your hand and we will you come in let me go to the next questions here okay next Sho is age 10 what should I do when I want something and my parents say it's not in the budget they don't have the money for it but I really really want it what should I do wow what should you do that's a very good question Schmo I think maybe maybe you can talk to your parents about that and ask them say you know tati Mommy I really really want this how can I make it happen how can we make it happen how can I help make it happen and maybe all three of you together can come up with a good idea let's figure it out you know sometimes it's an idea sometimes there's different ways of getting something maybe your parents need a little time or maybe there's another way so if you could sit down with your father or mother or both of them and say you know this really means a lot to me what can we do and let's brainstorm you're an intelligent boy I see I'm sure your father and mother have their way of looking at it you know maybe you can also suggest to them maybe they can ask somebody for advice so that's what I would do I would have a conversation with them yudis 12 years old I am bored all the time what should I do a question wow thank you for your questions children you know I answer a lot of questions from people but there's nobody like nothing like your questions galic you see why Hashem likes the prayers of children okay so wow that's a good good question you're bored all the time so what I would suggest to you youus is is there anything that you ever found interesting or nothing ever is there anything you ever did you ever read you ever involved in that you did find interesting because if yes let's focus on that let's start with that is there literally nothing that you find interesting ever if there's nothing you ever find interesting nothing to read no people not even yourself I would really speak about that with somebody you trust may be your father or mother or an uncle or an aunt or a grandparent or a teacher or a principal or a sibling if you really really find that there's nothing in the world that interests you that means that there's something inside of you that's very very sad so you want to speak about that with somebody you trust but maybe that's not the case maybe there's just a lot of the things that a lot of people are interested in just don't interest you which is fine but then find something that you are interested in that you are passionate about and you know what get involved in that you know I meet people a lot of times and I know there's things that I'm interested in that a lot of people are not interested in there's things that excite me they don't excite other people certain things that excite me other things excite other people and they may not excite me and you know what that's fine every person is different we spoke before about a seed right every seed has its own unique Destiny an apple tree doesn't have to feel insecure o I'm not growing watermelons I'm not growing cherries I'm not growing blueberries or raspberries and everybody likes cherries no you have your thing oh I'm growing figs I'm growing bucker Char carobs yeah that's your thing lived from you for 13 years don't be insecure so each of us have our own passions our own heart so find maybe projects or books or or um or uh or ideas or insights or friends or relationships or hobbies that Tri that that arouse you that inspire you there's so much in our world you know some people love some people love some people love Med some people love stories some people love history some people love science some people love physics some people love math some people love just spending time with other people some people love cooking some people love drumming some people love music some people love nature some people love exercise hiking find your thing and make that your hobby make that your passion and don't be afraid to listen to your own music I'm going to tell you a beautiful story I read this somebody somewhere there was a uh there was a person he's he told the story it was a few years ago he's 32 years old and he said when he was in sixth grade in School he would look out the window a lot and his teacher didn't like it because it looked like he was dreaming you know he was looking out the window he wasn't looking into the book this is not a Jew he was in in a public school and one day his teacher turned to him and said very nicely you know I don't know how you're going to support your family because nobody's going to pay you for looking out the window you should look away from the window look into the book study what I'm teaching so so you could learn it and then you'll be able to be educated and hopefully you'll be able to make a good living because nobody's going to pay you for looking out the window and the man smiled and he says you know what I do today I'm a pilot they pay me for looking out the window it's so interesting because that was his thing he loved the outdoors and he loved looking out the window and that's what he does today all day and sometimes all night so find that and appreciate it and respect it and enjoy it next question question by Anonymous okay how did all of this start you give classes to so many people and I see that you have thousands and thousands of views can you tell us about your background and how you began all of this yeah galic I love these questions okay okay so now I'm supposed to talk about myself right okay in the meantime you could send in more questions 718 9775 278 718 977 527 I'm sorry 718 5279 right okay 718- 977 5279 I see also questions in the chat okay we're going to get to all the questions so you want to know how all of this started with me with me uh with me talking and giving all these classes Etc okay I'm just looking to so many questions here so I'm just trying to find all the questions from all the different places okay in terms of your question your beautiful beautiful question which I appreciate very much I'll be very brief um basically I grew up I grew I I'm I'm 51 years old I'm still a child at heart I try to be a child but a part of me can't always be a child because I'm I'm a father of children I'm not my husband and uh you know I'm after Mitzvah with all the benefits with all the pluses and with all the minuses but I had a privilege I grew up at the feet of the LA in the crown height section of Brooklyn and the Reb would speak very often on chabas and on yam later years almost every shabas when I was younger it wasn't every shabas but it was pretty often and I had the privilege pre of listening to the Reb talks and faans where he would speak about all aspects of T and the Jewish people and the Jewish world and and bring T down to everybody's level and make you feel how relevant it was to your life T was real Mitzvah are real and the power of T mitzvas and the beauty of it and the glory of it and the love of it and I grew up in that environment for many many years and uh I had the I had the privilege as a b i was one of the people the re would speak on shabas and Y there were no tape recorders because it was shabas so there was a group of people who had to remember what the rebba said for many hours he would speak for many hours and then we would write it down during the week and I had a of being part of that group later as I grew up in life people asked me to come give classes and teach and some people asked me to come to their SCH or their Community their school over the years and then they asked me if I could even travel to other states and other countries and I guess some people enjoyed it because I got more and more invitations so that's how this all began and I began teaching and then later when the internet became a thing because when I grew up there was no internet right we didn't have cell phones there was no internet it was still in my house we still had typewriters we didn't have computers I don't know if any of you saw a typewriter but my father had a newspaper he would type there were typewriters but later when the internet came out so I decided to put a lot of the classes on the internet that's when I made the yeshiva.net and other websites that took these classes and then Corona came and Corona if you remember those of you who remember March 2020 right right after PM 2020 T not many years ago just four years ago literally four years ago four years ago in a few months everything closed down overnight literally overnight I remember you know we had a put him and we made a big event on porm I remember the next night I went to somebody's wedding and the next night my daughter had a Mitzvah and the next day it was like nobody's going anywhere the school's closed down and shs and you weren't going anywhere and I would give a lot of classes I think almost every day I think every day so I right away reached out to my guys and I said we got to do everything online and in one day we shifted everything online I started to give all these classes online and then I realized that so many children are home I said let's make a children's program and barem it got thousands of views and then we did a program for teenagers and for adults and uh you know it's been a few years later and I have the privilege of trying to be a channel for Hashem to spread his TOA and to spread and the whole world then help bring the G closer so that's the story in brief question I never want to eat fliks because then I can't eat milk and if I eat FL I want to eat mil and I have to wait and I get very upset before and during shabas lunch if we don't start eating early because I'm scared I won't be able to eat mil if I eat F what should I do great great question in fact you're not alone a lot of people they really want to eat mil and therefore they don't want to eat fliks so I would say as follows pace yourself and ask yourself what time do you want to eat milk I assume that in your house they wait 6 hours as they do in most homes there is a Min by some that they wait less but probably you wait 6 hours that's what we do also that's what most communities do but there is there is some communities they do it a little differently so ask yourself okay what time do I want to eat mil and make sure that you don't eat fliks at a designated time that will not allow you to eat mil and what happens if shabas lunch is served a little later so maybe don't eat fls don't eat fles eat eat the other parts of lunch that are not fesik and if you're really hungry for fesic maybe if you see that lunch is going to be late you can talk to your mother or talk to your father or talk to whoever is in charge and say you know what can I eat a little piece of Flik before the meal begins that way your fliks you will be done with fliks and still have enough time to eat M great question thank you and enjoy your fesik and enjoy your m and I want to tell you it's very special when you think about it that when a Jew eats fics we wait such a long time till we till we eat mil you know we wait six hours that discipline and that uniqueness and I'm even going to share a little insight the Insight comes from the balat maybe it's it's it's it's a little deep but I'm going to share it anyway what's the difference between milk and meat milk every food has an energy milk is milk is white milk is the liquid of love that's how a mother gives life to all of her children also in the animals all mammals how do they feed their babies how do they feed their calfs with milk that's why what was the first meal he gave to the guest the first recorded meal in the Tyra will you give to guests it was milk and milk is the only food the more you give the more you get you know that if a mother stops nursing she doesn't get the milk the more you give the more you get all the other food you give it away you don't have it so milk represents love the more you give the more you get and it's all about giving and nurture meat Bas represents gura strength you can only eat meat after the animal died milk is the liquid of life it's how the mother gives life to her babies meat we eat after the animal was slaughtered so it has a whole different energy right you're not let to eat a you're not let to eat a limb from an animal that's alive even a is not allow it's one of the also meat is hard and meat is red so meat represents the energy of gur we have we have G and the fact is that in our life we need both we need to be able to have love we also need to be able to have boundaries we need to be able to have strength we need to be able to know and say no you can't have this no you can't touch this you need to be able to respect your own body your own boundaries just like I'm eating soup and somebody starts taking from my soup no it's not okay this is my soup don't come into my soup don't come into my soup right we have to respect our boundaries our body that's called gur so we have both things in life we have and we have gur and we have to be able to respect both our main function though is I always want to connect I want to give but in order to do that you have to be able to protect yourself with gur now whatever comes in first in the system that's the foundation so that's why if we put meat first in so on the bottom we have gura so we have to wait till it dissipates and then we bring in the because if not the is going to become subservient to the gor but the other way we don't mind that's why after the milk you don't have to wait for so long because if is on the bottom and the is subservient to the you're good okay next question hi it's Lea I am 10 years old I hate mosquitoes I get them all the time why did hasm create mosquitoes they really bother me asked a question like this about spiders and he got a reason reable answer but mosquitoes just suck my blood and they make me miserable asked about spiders and then he realized that spiders covered over the cave with their web and sha couldn't find them because he didn't think anybody went into that cave can Hashem show me why he created mosquitoes and how mosquitoes help us wow you know that's a great great question you want to know what is the benefit of mosquitoes in our world who needs them they seem so annoying you know what I have the same question I also don't like mosquito bites and I'm going to research it I am going to research it you just gave me my homework CU I don't know enough about mosquitoes I don't know enough to give you an answer so Lea I'm going to research it bem and our next program which is going to be one month from now I'm going to address this question okay so come back and we're going to address it last week I wasn't feeling well I came home from the hospital oh I'm sorry and I have I have a wound in my arm I'm stuck at home for the next few weeks after SCH my question is this I was in the hospital now I'm home I'm stuck at home I am very bored I'm not feeling well what am I supposed to do this is not good the hospital was not good and now I'm home I don't know what to do I'm sorry it's hard it's hard and speak to speak to the people who take care of you and you trust and love how you could make your time at home more meaningful and more significant maybe there's certain projects you didn't have time for you could do maybe you could do gardening maybe you can do some errands in the house maybe you could learn how to cook maybe this book you want to read that you couldn't read maybe you can catch up on some skills that you couldn't catch up there's also different programs they have on computer on the internet where you could learn different things and catch up with your class maybe you could also join your class with a telephone or with a zoom maybe with a video maybe you could do that so talk to the people that you trust of how you could make your time more meaningful maybe there's different things you can do with your body maybe you could learn new skills there's so many different options so let them and you look into it and figure out what you'll do with your time and I'm sorry I'm sorry it is hard it is hard and you have to have empathy and compassion because it's aggravating you want to be in school you want to play with your friends and this is difficult yeah hi this is a question from ysf I love Hashem I love you I love my rebi how can I love my parents more wow what takes some of us adults you know years to articulate these kids articulate very fast how can I love my parents more so the answer YF is I don't know about the struggle you're having with your parents there's something that's upsetting you about your parents um the first thing is do you feel that you could speak to your parents about this do you trust your parents do you feel safe with your parents do you feel secure with your parents is this something you can talk about with your father or mother and if not is this something you can talk about maybe with an older brother or sister who you trust is it something you can talk about with somebody else in the family or maybe with your principal or with your rebi or with your MOA or with your teacher not with your MOA with your rebi or with your principal um You probably don't have a mora that's why I see your name is YF is there something you can talk about with them cuz I don't know you know I want to say love your parents but there may be something difficult there may be something challenging maybe something they have to know maybe something you need to talk to them about or somebody else needs to talk to them about maybe this something bothering you that they don't know about maybe there's something that they can do more or maybe there's a problem here that has to be addressed so unless you share with me more I don't know exactly what to tell you but I want to tell you that it's important for you to respect what you're feeling respect what you're feeling and speak to people you trust about what is going on sometimes it's not so serious sometimes it's a simple thing you know maybe there's a misunderstanding between you and your mother between you and your father and it can be fixed easy easily sometimes not so I want you to speak to somebody you trust in your family maybe your parents but if not it's fine you could speak to other people and share with them what exactly you feel is bothering you so much about your parents if it's just that your parents you know sometimes discipline you and they say no and they put you to bed and they want you to take a bath or a shower well that's they probably you know they mean well so you could talk to them and connect to them more if it's something that you're missing from them maybe you can talk to them or again to somebody else okay next question you could ask your question 718- 977 52718 5279 718 9775 279 718 9775 279 let's go to the next question okay the chat on Zoom has a lot of questions if you want to ask your question live feel free to raise your hand if you're on the phone you can also ask your question live but you have to raise your hand on the phone by pressing star n if you're on Zoom you could just raise your hand here but let's go to the next question which is on chat okay let me open it up here question if Hashem knows what we're going to do at the end then we don't have free will what's the answer to this it's one of the two if hasem knows everything so he knows what I'm going to do tomorrow so then I can't choose because if I choose against what he knows then he doesn't know so if Hashem doesn't really know how can he not know and if Hashem does know then I don't have any freedom to choose so what is the answer to this question wow wow wow this is a good good question it's a very deep question this question has been asked for thousands of years so let me try to answer this I want to say first of all I'm very proud of you for asking this question because it's really really a good question and uh I think that uh I think when you ask questions you should know that it's very meaningful to me I'm happy to be able to address such a meaningful and good question it's a very deep question and I'm going to give you one perspective okay I'm going to give you an example let's say I'm watching a video of a game of a game that happened I'm going to say it differently let's say I'm talking to somebody about a game I don't know basketball game of two teams that I really like maybe two teams in my school or in my family whatever it is and I tell somebody okay and we're we're we're where I tell somebody you should know that or Yankee or MTI or David this is the move this is the move that he's going to do you see what's happening is we're watching a video of this basketball game and I tell my friend this is what he's going to do now this is what how he's going to throw the ball and I want to ask you a question did I just take away his free choice of where to throw the ball no you know why I'm watching a video of what happened I already watched it so I'm telling you what happened already he did it my friend didn't watch the video yet I watched the game already so I knew yesterday what happened and now I'm telling my friend this is what's going to happen he doesn't know but do you know how I know because he did it already when you're telling a story about something that happened you're not taking away the person's free choice because the person did it already so now let me explain to you something Hashem is Beyond Time past present and future are all won by Hashem in fact the name is a combination of three words he was he is and he will be all in one word he and he is he was he is and he will be because hem created time so he's Beyond Time Imagine time is like a river you know it goes and this different parts of the river but you're above the river right so you see the whole thing as one you see literally the whole thing as one you know today in science Einstein taught that time is even relative you know with the speed of light time can change there could be 50 years that pass in one place in another place only one day passed so even time that we know is relative Hashem created time so he's Beyond time so past present and future are one so Hashem sees what you're going to choose before you chose it why because he's Beyond Time so it's like the future is already even though it didn't happen yet for you it didn't happen but for him he's Beyond time so it's like he sees the whole river let's say you're swimming in the river right you're not at the end of the river you're going to be at the end of the River tomorrow or in an hour but Hashem is beyond it all so he sees the end of the river right now and he even sees you at the end of the river now because he's Beyond time so therefore when Hashem knows the future it doesn't take away your free choice because in your time and space you have free choice am I going to throw the ball this way I'm I going to throw the ball this way am I going to say this am I going to say this am I going to do this am I going to do that I have choice but Hashem is beyond time and beyond space and Beyond matter so he sees it before it happened as though it happened already so just like if I see what you did yesterday and I know what you did it doesn't take away your choice you know why cuz I sought after it happened when Hashem sees it before it happened it's like it happened already and that way he could know everything but there still free choice next question how can I have more K in daving how can I make my daving more exciting it's a beautiful beautiful question and the answer I would say is one thing you can do is try to focus on one part of davening and maybe say it in English like maybe say it in English or in Yiddish or in your own words like take one piece of daving and take a s with a language that you understand and say it in that language just one piece with your heart sincerely and every day maybe do another piece and you know what happens after a while you're going to see that you understand so many pieces much better and then different days focus on one piece for for a little longer that's what I would do another option is that in middle of daving at some point you should talk to Hashem in your own words like besides the holy words of the Sid you could talk to Hashem for a minute or two minutes or five minutes in your own words like you were talking to your best friend like tell them what you're thinking what you're feeling what's on your mind what's on your heart what's bothering you and that too opens up our heart that we can have a much more powerful relationship beautiful beautiful questions wow so it's time to wrap up wow it's late it's time to wrap up so let's wrap up and I'm going to wrap up with a very very very special story it's a story that just happened so it's not even like a story it's like it's like in the news and I think it's just important to mention it because it tells us who we are and who our people are I I spoke before about the sequoia trees the Redwoods how the roots are connected and even if on the top of the ground every tree is different but if you go deeper everyone is one this shabas morning this shabas morning dozens and then hundreds of Jews sacrificed their life to save for of our brothers and sister shabas morning four four Jewish hostages who were kidnapped on Sim this year Sim this year October 7 2023 so that's B wow you're talking about more than eight months they were kidnapped and they were kept in houses and tunnels by the Hamas monsters y in Gaza four of them were liberated and were brought back home to ER Isel and to their families in safety Noah aramani 25 years old 25 years old Noah was freed almug mayir 21 years old Andre kov 27 years old schom 40 years old they were all at a music festival and they were kidnapped by Hamas and this shabas morning just yesterday they were freed and this came at the price of hundreds of Jews soldiers who were involved in this unbelievable operation to liberate them you can imagine the war that went on the gunfire because theas kidna Jews and then they put them among regular civilians so now when you want to liberate them you're dealing with a struggle because when they're shooting back at the Israelis who try to liberate them it's among their civilians that's the of people in the world who say oh many Arabs were killed over there yeah you put the hostages among your people among your civilians of course we're going to liberate them and you're going to fight back they're going to be killed who's that who's to blame there was tremendous amount of gunfire and they killed the murderers they killed the Kamas security people they killed those who were trying to kill the Jews trying to liberate the hostages and they tried to kill the hostages they were liberated but the one who directed the operation it was two separate homes one home was the girl and the other home were the other three and the one who directed operations in that second home with the three hostages AR onor he was the leader liberating these hostages he was killed he was shot on he was wounded and he passed away in the hospital Arnon MOA is a father of two children a married man a husband 36 years old 36 years old and he was killed Al KES hasem saving these Jews there was a tremendous Sim to see them come back reunited with their family IES but also tremendous tremendous pain because of AR's death in the hands of theas and it just brings out to us you know how much we don't understand but how much we need each other how much we're connected to each other how much we're dependent on each other and how much we're here for each other and this is the power of aus that we spoke about before and I want to tell you kind shu is coming up we're going to reunite again this and recreate our covenant with Hashem once again 3,300 years have passed since Matra and the trees are as strong as ever United stronger than ever committed stronger than ever and that's why this year I always heard from the reab he always asked every Jew and every child should try to come and hear the the Ten Commandments when they're read in the T the first day of Shas by the reading of the T because it says in Med that hasem said if even one Jew is not present at Hari I can't give the to I need everybody there including every infant and every child and Hashem said the children more than anybody else because they're the guarantors and it says it me that hasem said every year by by when you read it's like you're receiving the T again and therefore I want to know suggest and urge each and every one of you and all the parents to bring every one of your children to hear the even little babies even infants even if you think they don't understand they understand more than you think and it goes into their soul because this is the connection and the relationship that holds us together and holds us intact and gives us our energy and our eternity learning tired observing MIT every one of those that we learn or anything we learn inti any mitzah we do is an eternal connection with Hashem forever and the time that we received it all is this year it's Wednesday to come Tois and together United more than ever we will once again receive the T and appreciate it and cherish it and celebrate it by celebrating ourselves and our own souls and our own gift and our own life by celebrating our family and our friends by celebrating the gift of life every single moment and may our and our unity and our learning and our mitzvas and our daving and our and once again coming together to receive the ultimately bring down the greatest blessings for all the Jewish people and the greatest blessing is that all of us should be reunited in with the third with to be able to celebrate the with the real with the in the bikes let's see if there's more questions and then I'm going to say goodbye to all of you okay there's a lot more questions but I'll take two more how do we respond I mean I see two more questions there'll probably be more but I'm going to take two how do we respond to those that are against the Jewish people and are anti-semites what are we supposed to do well one thing we have to do is we have to remember why they hate us they hate us because of our Holiness they hate us because of our goodness so it only tells you that we need to be more Jewish and more empowered and more inspired and bringing more good to the world because all the good we bring into the world defeats the darkness that's number one and number two Jews have to do whatever they can to influence the world you know Rin was chosen in order to be a blessing for all of humanity and every Jew needs to do his or her part in influencing the world and teaching truth justice morality kindness authenticity and teach people how to differentiate good from Evil we need to teach the non-jewish world we need to teach and stand up for what's truth and educate the world there's a lot of good people they're waiting to be educated we need to educate them and as children I think our greatest job is to be more Jewish to be more focused to realize how powerful we are if this is the type of hate that we engender realize how powerful the Jewish people are we're only a tiny little people we're not even a quarter of a percent of humanity and yet we trigger so much emotion look at the power of the Jewish people so it tells you how powerful you are and that's why the anti-semites don't distinguish between children and adults and older people and younger people they don't care every Jewish child is as important as the greatest holiest Jew like by m hon wanted to kill every child because every child was a little M it shows you the power of a Jew the Holiness of a Jew that's why they hate us so that means believe in your K and bring in more Kad and every that you learn in and every Mitzvah that you do and Every Act of that you do and you help another person and every Mitzvah that you do and every it all has tremendous power and energy it changes the world in a very real way question when someone isn't nice to me how should I react sometimes there's people who are not being nice to me how am I supposed to react it's a very very good question wow wow the first thing is it's important to protect yourself if you're being hurt it's important to create boundaries and protect yourself so they shouldn't be able to hurt you okay number one number two if it's somebody you could speak to about it you should tell it to them if you can influence them and they're going to listen to you you should tell them I don't appreciate what you're doing I don't like what you're doing you're being not nice if it's not somebody you could speak to is there somebody else you can speak to to make sure that this doesn't continue sometimes there's nothing you can do they're just not being nice and it's their thing and you know what you could feel bad for them and say listen you know what I'm going to learn how not to be maybe sometimes you learn from people how not to be they're not nice but I'm going to be nice but it's very important first to protect yourself to create a proper boundaries if there's somebody you can talk to talk to them if you can talk to them talk to them sometimes there's nothing you can do and you know what yeah sometimes people are not being nice and it's really their problem but you know who you are and you know what a beautiful person you are so don't let them don't let them not being nice take away from you your power and your love I hope that answers at least a little bit of your question because I know that this is a uh this is a very important question that you asked okay kelak my dearest kelak I send you all the love in the world I wish you a beautiful yam a beautiful month may you have and enjoy is to receive the title with joy and in an internal sincere way and be blessed with all the in the world and may our eyes see the the ultimate and true Redemption through I want to again thank the family of Sal tman from 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