The Task of Now

Thank you, shims. See how they lie, Azar Sherman and Azar Sherman. >> YES! LET'S GO! >> What a start to the seder musar. >> David David Aton and and Yehuda. What's the last name, Yehuda? Weiss. From where, Yehuda? Boca, fantastic. Aton, where is your family from? Boca, also. Fantastic. And David, I know. Excellent. Excellent. Israel, there are two things on the parasha that I want to that I want to study now. The first thing I want to study is it is is I want to study something about shabbat kodesh. We're coming at kiva directly from a beautiful I thought shabbat was beautiful. What did you think, Kicks? I thought it was really special and warm and inviting. And I want to read a passage from this week's parasha, Yosef, about shabbat kodesh. And the passage says it's talking about when we blow shofar. We blew we blew these horns. And it says in the Yom Simchasem on the days of your simcha u'vmoadechem and your moadeem and on Rosh Chodesh blow chazotzros. You blow these horns on Rosh Chodesh on moadechem is moadeem, Pesach Shavuot, Sukkot, and u'vyom simchasechem. When are your happy days? What does that refer to? Says three times that you blow chazotzros, Rosh Chodesh moadechem moadeem. Moadeem is Pesach, Shavuot, Sukkot, u'vyom simchasechem on your happy day. On your I can I can eat inside. On your happy day blow the horns. What's your happy day? Says the Sifri, Akiva, what is your >> happy day?" The possuk's vague. It says three times to blow horns. Rosh Chodesh, Yom Tov, Mo'adechem. Mo'ed is a time of close. Mo'ed means it's called the vad, when people come together. Mo'adechem, the the Mo'ed, the time we get close to Hashem. So, Rosh Chodesh, Mo'ed, and the third time you should blow horns is Yom Simchasechem. Your happy days. When is that? Does anybody know? What's it referring to? It's the first one. It says, "Blow the horns on your happy day, your Mo'adechem, and your Rosh Chodesh." What's your happy day, Shimon? Yehuda, I'm proud of you. The Sifri says, like you, the Shabbos. >> Yo! >> Your happy day means Shabbos. >> I have a >> Now, I want to explain it, Yehuda. Yehuda, I'd like I like real things. Why is Shabbos called your happy day? It's weird. Yom Tov is a mitzvah to be nice and to be happy. The same mitzvah to be happy. Shabbos is no mitzvah. I never saw a mitzvah in the Torah to be happy. And the Sifri, Sifri is Tana'im. It's this the Tana'im say, "Your happy day, Yom Simchasechem, your freilach day, your happy day," says the Sifri, "is Shabbos Kodesh." Why is Shabbos called your happy day? What's [clears throat] Where's the source? What about it is a happy day? Shabbos is called your happy day. Fact. My hi, why is Sha- There's no even Yom Tov would be called your happy day, I'd understand. There's a mitzvah to be happy with same mitzvah to be happy. But Yom Tov is not told your happy day. The day that's called Yom Simchasechem, Yehuda the wise, and the Sifri says that Shabbos Kodesh. I like I don't like pretend, Yehuda. And I don't want to pretend, guys, that people who struggle with Shabbos. And yet the Torah calls it your happy day. What is that? I'm not a forest chill. What's What is that? What's the possibility of Shabbos? Akiva, I want you here. Stand for the second thing. Do Do the phone. For the first one, Akiva, I managed cuz we were just talking about Shabbos, Akiva. Why is Shabbos called your happy day? The possuk in parshas Balak says, "Uviyom simchaschem on your simcha dikedai Yisrael." Says this is Torah to say, "Blow horns on your happy day." Says this is free. You know your happy day is Shabbos Kodesh. I hear you, Al. What is that? What's that called your happy day? We don't find that Shabbos is like such This is such a a fascinating thing. There's I mean Rebbe says a mitzvah The rice to have pleasures on Shabbos. Maybe maybe that's nice. It's a good question. Rebbe says since there's a mitzvah to have pleasures Right, possibly. I'm asking why is Shabbos called a happy day? What is it about Shabbos this is the happy day? What do you say? It's true. It's menucha. It's funny. Tranquility it says cuz you don't you don't do melacha. So there's tranquility for sure. It calls it a yom menucha, a day of tranquility. Peaceful was a great word. You don't work So what you're all saying is completely true and very much associated with menucha and perhaps with simcha. I want to express something about Shabbos that I saw me first him say, "Why do you yom simchaschem is there Shabbos Kodesh?" Sifri Sifri is tanai mari. So interesting that Shabbos is called your happy day. Yom simchaschem. Huh? Not interesting? Fascinating. Avraham says, "Why do you even say the day of Shabbat is blow it wants to call Shabbat your happy day. Why is Shabbat called your happy day? So being a lady I'm a lady so I want to specifically three see it through a certain lens. Us Levite would sing songs in the base of migdash. I'm going to get to that in a few minutes you'll hear but Levite sang and I'm going to say but I'm going to get to it. >> Avram sing sing sing sing Avram sing. Do your kiddish right. >> [laughter] >> I want to express Levite sing a song what? Are you a Levite? No. You should be you sing beautiful. David's a Levite. David's a fellow Levite. Me and Dave are Levite. Who else here is a Levite? Any other Levite here? Shams? Foodie? My shoes here. Avi Weiler's a Levite. I'm asking my shoes. My shoes I'm asking. No let him be let him be let him be. That's a good question fair fair fair I don't know the answer fair like legitimate question. What we're asking my shoes what I'm asking is that in the parsha parsha is by last it says three days to blow horns to blow hot sauces says on Rosh Chodesh my idea and it says on your happy days on your happy days. Blow the shofar blow hot on your happy days. What's your happy days see who the wise is my husband to the sifri I want you to hear this. It says Gabe it says three days you're supposed to blow horns. Rosh Chodesh, my odd came on Yom Tov, on your Moed, and the third day you should blow horns is b'yom simchaschem on your happy day. What's that? What's your happy day? Says the Sifri, your happy day Shabbos Kodesh. B'yom simchaschem, your happy day, the possuk blow horns, says the Sifri Shabbos, ayyastchem. Why is that the happy day? I It's funny. Yom Tov there's a mitzvah d'oraisa d'simcha b'chagecha. There's no inyan simcha d'oraisa. Correctly pointed out, there's a mitzvah of oneg, to have pleasures. It's interesting that's called your happy day, oneg gashmi. The Chaver said Eitan pointed out that it's a day of tranquility. You don't do melacha. There's a tranquility in that, I hear. Why is Shabbos Kodesh called your happy day? So I A Y want to suggest as follows. If I could suggest as follows, Avram, that the Leviim sing a song on Shabbos Kodesh, and we define every single day. It's very fascinating that the song of Shabbos doesn't speak about Shabbos. Mizmor shir l'yom haShabbos, the song of Shabbos doesn't mention Shabbos, but obviously us Leviim are saying the p'nimius of Shabbos. We're saying the deepest space of Shabbos. And the song of Shabbos is tov l'hodos l'Hashem, it's good to thank Hashem. And I like to express that what the what the Meforshim explained, and just simple shot, the song of Shabbos is it's good to thank Hashem. I'd like to express that the metzius of Shabbos, the essence of Shabbos is that space that a person perceives Hashem's goodness. All week we live in a space of a lot of frustration, of seeing all different things that happen and there's good things, difficult things, difficult things and good things. That's the whole week. Shabbos is a space that a person could perceive that everything's for the good. That's the essence of Shabbos. Hashem, it is good to thank Hashem is the space called Shabbos. That was the song of Shabbos is see the goodness of Hashem. Experience the goodness of Hashem. Thank Hashem. And Shabbos is the possibility. It doesn't mean this is automatic. I said Shabbos, I was upset at God. It means the possibility of Shabbos is an awareness of Hashem. Awareness of Hashem means that one can easier come to places, not automatic. Easier, it's a space. Somebody could be anywhere and ignore the reality of the space. The space of Shabbos is that possibility of seeing Hashem's mommies with me in a good way. Now, all week we have frustrations. Where are you? Why? Somehow on Shabbos it's easier to plug into a space that Hashem is Hashem mommies is Hashem's kindness. I can experience and see that the deepest space of all, whatever is happening is for the good. It's easier to come to that space on Shabbos Kodesh. But that's the possibility of Shabbos is a deep awareness of Hashem and I can experience him. What does it mean to experience Hashem? To see the deep seated goodness. All week I'm struggling. I don't get it. And Shabbos a person can feel the goodness of Hashem. Perhaps that's the source. Rebbe Shimshon Pincus who had a unique attachment to Shabbos Kodesh. He was Rav Farkas' rebbe. He was a big big tzaddik, Reb Pinkus. And Reb Farkas was zocheh to be extremely close to him. And Reb Pinkus, he had a unique and incredible attachment to Shabbos Kodesh. He was a Yid all week, didn't eat much, like the Ribnitzer rebbe. He didn't eat much at all all week. On Shabbos, he'd go all out. He People would go with him on his shopping trip for Shabbos would describe like an a a a tremendous aliya, tremendous elevation. His relationship to Shabbos was otherworldly. People would describe new energy that Reb Pinkus would get on Shabbos, a vitality that was like woah. He was like on fire, a person just There was a tremendous energy to Reb Pinkus on on Shabbos. I would advise, it's in English. They printed Reb Pinkus the cousin. I didn't know that. How's he your cousin? >> My father is my great-grandmother's He's my great-grandmother's first cousin. >> No. >> My grandmother's brother. >> That's cool. That's very cool. Which grandmother of the Yona? >> My mother's mother. >> Mother, that's very cool. What's there What's mother's mother? That's I didn't realize that. Reb Pinkus had a His his He has a safer about Shabbos Kodesh. I believe the Yeshiva has it. We for sure used to have it. And it writes there at the end of the safer, people recount Reb Pinkus's own connection to Shabbos, which was magical. He had a tremendous fire to Shabbos. Reb Pinkus claims that the Yom Simchasam, the reason Shabbos is called your happy day, is cuz the space that we have, Hashem has my back, and things I went through are for good. Do we always We can't always articulate it. And I don't pretend that on Shabbos I just automatic there's the possibility. That's what it means to be close. That's what it means to really have perceptions and clarity. The us Lavian sing on Shabbos Mizmor Shir L'Yom HaShabbos tov l'hodos l'Hashem. It's good to thank Hashem because on Shabbos is that space that there's more awareness of the goodness of Hashem and the kindness of Hashem. Sir Rapinkus claims that's why it's called your happy day. On the day that you recognize and see that the challenges of life, the difficulties, somehow we get maybe even just senses it if they can't articulate it. Perhaps the neshama and we want to get it to our whole experience, but we can sense that Hashem is working with us. That's beyond Simchas from Rapinkus. I want to share the possibility of Shabbos and certainly it's all it's our task and we keep the halacha helps us, but there's a deep deep space that Shabbos could be. One of the spaces of Shabbos is a deep awareness of the goodness of Hashem and my journey is l'toiva si for my benefit. It's it's something that's hard to articulate. We're all human have a have a lot of questions. I don't get you Hashem. Why does this one suffer this way? Why does that one so I don't get you Hashem. Shabbos is a day that a person could understand. It does not necessarily mean intellectually that we want to understand but it might just be sensing. I just I don't know. I just feel like you're taking me. I don't fully I I can't explain it, but I I have a sense that you're taking us and leading us right. That's the deepest space of Shabbos Kodesh that is. It's It's I think if somebody studied the Yeshiva, I think Friday night is the most fascinating phenomenon. It's not It's not a normal thing. I don't think anybody could give me like a rational reason and I've tried and you could say things We're here all week. Friday night there's something in the air. It's like, what's happening? There's like there's a buzz and an excitement. It's unusual. It's it's weird. And somebody could say if shot them could say ideas. To me it's obvious that the neshama feels something. You could ask her why here, why not the Shabbos is specifically beautiful here. It's also a very organic environment. When things are set up and contrived so it's hard to feel anything. Because people are trained do this, say this. When I I always like Shabbos, I feel Shabbos more than ever in my life here. It's a very environment where there's actually space to experience things. You can analyze it. There's a buzz here. The neshama feels something. Now to put into words to experience. There's a guy in Yeshiva went to rehab. And the therapist told me rehab, he called me up. The therapist said to him that we don't know. We've never seen anything like it. On weekends you're different. What happens? We're trying to figure you out. We're talking about it. The weekends you're different. Shabbos hit somewhere in the yid. The neshama senses if guys would play in the base hamikdash and know nothing, they would feel something in the mikdash, I promise. Now with their with their conscious soul, depends how worked on they are, how the base hamikdash is a space. Shabbos in the base mishnah the same things. Shalah shudis is the kodesh kodashim. Shalah shudis so if you're somewhat present person, you could feel something at shalah shudis. Shalah shudis is my favorite time of Shabbos. It's wild. You're in the kodesh hakodashim. You're mamish in the holiest space and a person can experience something and have have realizations and understandings. I don't like preparing. I prepare I try to prepare most speeches I give or I try. Try not always succeed. I try. Shalah shudis is the sheer when I got to at Heathrow, we have a gorgeous Shabbos. I prepare hours all the shiurim. I don't prepare shalah shabbos. Cuz I just want to be there. Whatever happens, don't don't prepare. Just let it go. Let it go. Let it go. Shalah shabbos is different. Just be present to the moment and let it go. Whatever comes, let it go. And and this nakuda of Shabbos kodesh, that it's a space. Shabbos is a very very deep space. The space that a Yid could come to like a deep comfort that I'm being led. That Hashem's taking care of me. I I I can't even articulate it. And I all week I'm sitting there fresh dread. I don't get you, Hashem. What are you doing? Why? Why why the pain? Why the difficulties? Somehow Shabbos is shiyach. Doesn't mean it's automatic and nobody should beat themselves up. Let's say on Shabbos I don't feel. Doesn't mean And first of all, maybe there's a little space. Maybe a drip. Maybe it's dulled slightly. I'm not Here it So a guy beats himself up if on Shabbos he's still sad. No. There's a space called Shabbos. Of course, we could struggle to enter the pnimius. And sometimes the ones who are most shiyach to it, it's a battle. It's That's normal and nobody has to There's no beating up on it. I'm describing the possibility of Shabbos. What What entering in like a meaningful deep way. As Slavin would sing this Shabbos, you could be in such a space. Mamash. Such a thing. That's why Reb Pinkus said it's called Yom Simchaschem, your happy day. Cuz today when you're in that space, all the difficulties and challenges have the possibility of melting. Reb Volbe says on his Rebbe had such an attachment to Shabbos, he says he physically was unrecognizable. He had come to learn by his Rebbe during the week. Shabbos he He a different Yid in front. He said, "Who that?" It was his rebbe. He didn't He didn't physically recognize him. A beautiful He didn't physically recognize him. It was Shabbos. Remarkably, Rebbe Volbe was not an exaggerator. He was very exact, measured in his words, very. He said he didn't recognize his rebbe on Shabbos to the point that when he first came, he asked the friend, "Who's the guy in the front?" Look at him. This is Shabbos has that What? >> I'm 2 and 1/2 years old today. >> Yeah, and yeah. He would count his age based on when he met his rebbe. Feel like he was born on that day. He would count his age in his life from the day he met his rebbe. That was the first thing I wanted to share with the chevre about Shabbos. I like studying sugiyos of Shabbos. It's I want to say and just I'm saying it I ask you to have your own experience. The Levi'im did sing that. So, I want to express it's good to know what's the possibility of Shabbos. There other aspects to Shabbos. Anybody reads the Nesivos Shalom, there's a deep world called Shabbos. You can imagine you enter a space that's called the Mikdash. What the Beis HaMikdash is in place, Shabbos is in time. You enter the Mikdash, you're you're going in somewhere. This What What do you say? >> Also cousin. >> Oh, the Nesivos Shalom that I know that I know. So, you enter the the Nesivos Shalom who speaks a lot about Shabbos. I wanted the chevre to know this pechinah, this aspect of Shabbos, that it's a space where a person easier can feel and experience the kindness of Hashem. And in easier feel that Hashem we're being well led. And even things that I don't understand that can have a certain comfort. Sense Hashem I'm in good hands. He's taking me and I need it and it's let it pass me. So, then if that's the experience of Shabbos, I can call that Yom Simchaschem, your happy day. That's the first thing I wanted to share with the chevre. Gabe, Gabe, can you come here for a minute with the guitar? >> Oh boy, he's coming with the guitar. >> With the guitar, with the guitar. Could I ask you a favor? Ethan came for Shabbos, David came, Yehuda came, and they got no music yet. When did you guys come, Yehuda? What? Did you get to You didn't hear Gabe? He wasn't here Thursday night. And he's a Boca guy and they didn't hear him yet, that would be so weird. I don't want to be weird. Your fellow Boca guys, you didn't get to hear him yet? >> weird >> Maybe we're being weird. Please stop being weird. >> How's the voice? It's tired? You're tired. >> I want to do on this one your song the song about the brokenness like a beautiful brokenness. It sounds very Shabbos-stic. >> Really? >> Because even what's broken, but we're in we're the song has a That's what sounds to me. Come, come, come. My shirt comes to this. You cursed it. Thank you, Gabe. >> Wait, Maisha, aren't you a Levi? You didn't get there, Levi. You got an old door. [music] >> We're going to talk about that in a few minutes. >> Let's go. >> [music] >> That was the second one. >> shattered glass >> [music] >> All I have is ashes. >> [music] >> My haunted past is surrounded [music and singing] by broken hearts. Oh, [singing] but I know I don't [music and singing] have to be whole. Oh. >> [singing] >> I know >> [music] >> I have a soul. >> [music] >> Human, [singing] so human. Perfectly >> [music] >> broken. [singing] Human, so [music] human. Beautifully broken. [music and singing] Everyone has faults. >> [music] >> We all have our [singing] faults. And doesn't make us weak. >> [music] >> Don't mean we don't [singing] deserve to be loved. Oh, we >> [singing and music] >> don't. We don't have to be whole. Oh, because we know >> [music] >> we all have a soul. >> [music] [singing] >> And [music] we're human, so human. [singing] Perfectly [music] broken. [singing] We're human, >> [music] >> so human. Beautifully [music and singing] broken. Rising [singing] from [music] the ashes. Rebuilding from [music] the dust. So okay to be human. [music] We are [singing] enough. >> [music] >> Human, so human, perfectly [music and singing] broken. We're human, so human, beautifully >> [music] >> broken. >> [applause] >> Which one do you want? Hey, Thomas, listen to this one. You heard the one more, one more. You heard the listen to this one. Now, we check this one out. >> [music] [music] >> Nobody like [music] joining in when you're getting >> I heard you had >> [music] >> me when you moved out to college, >> [music] >> away from town. It's kind of crazy, the way it all works out. >> [music] >> We didn't grow [singing] up in the same house, but >> [music] >> we're brothers, [singing] so I wanted to tell about something extremely crazy that [music] I found. It might be useless. I might sound stupid [music] cuz I can't prove [music] it. But I need to tell you that >> [music] >> there's a God and knows your name and he knows your heart and >> [music] >> feels your pain. Oh, I wish that [singing] it was something [music] I could explain. I can't but I need to say [music] there's a God and knows your name and he [singing] knows your heart and feels your pain. Oh, you might [music] not believe me but either way [singing] I promise heaven knows your name. >> [music] >> Oh, do you ever [singing] >> [music] >> feel that spark that is burning >> [music] >> in your heart? Does it guide you when [music] you're in the dark? [singing] >> [music] >> Oh, do you wonder [singing] if there's more to life, if there's an answer to the [music] great big why? I believe that there is truth to find. [music and singing] It might be useless. [music] I might [singing] sound stupid cuz I can't [music] prove it. But I need to tell [singing] you >> [music] >> that there's a God in knows your name [music and singing] and he knows your heart and feels your pain. Oh, I wish [singing] that it was something I could explain. >> [music] >> I can't, but I need to say there's a God in knows [music] your name and he knows your heart and feels your pain. Oh, you [music] might not believe [singing] me, but either way I promise heaven knows your name. I hope that you hear this song one day. You sing along. [singing] And [music] together we'll say >> [clears throat] >> there's a God in knows my name and he [music] knows my heart and feels my pain. And it's not something [music] I need to explain. [singing] Oh, I just want to say [music] there's a God [singing] in knows my name and he knows my heart and he feels my pain. Oh, I've waited all my life to say that heaven knows my name. [singing] Heaven [music] knows my name. I've waited all my life to say >> [music] >> Heaven knows my name. >> LET'S GO. >> [applause] >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. >> HOW GOOD WAS THAT, AVRAM? >> That's all. >> Avram in the house. >> Avram enjoyed it, David. I want to I want to share one more thing. I want to share one more thing, then we'll talk about the schedule today. I want to share something when you when we read the parashah, bring yourself to the story. Don't forget your stuff when you're sitting when you read the parashah, and you'll see different years, different periods of your life being different things will hit you. And a possuk in Balak jumped off the page this year. There's a long sugiyah, Rashi, Rabban. I'm not going to go into all the details cuz I frankly don't want to hold the guys so long. It's a It's once we could learn it, but I want to bring out a specific point, Avram. In parashas in in parashas Balak, we know the Leviim, us Levites, had jobs. And I'm looking at Avram. He's so strong. The Leviim, we carried things in the desert. We carried things. We carried things in the desert, but the psukim say the psukim say, "Tell the Leviim that from 20 years of age, miben chamesh v'esrim shanah, from 25 years, they should come into the avodah of the olam ya, to carry things." Remember we were carrying the Mishkan through the desert. It was heavy, and we were moving and us Leviim deconstructed the Mishkan and carried the heavy Mishkan through the desert. Miben chamesh v'esrim shanah, but at 50 years old, you stop. Yashov mitzvah avodah l'yado, you're not allowed. 50 years old, you stop. Now when I read this possuk, my wife and I belong I am 51 years old. I am a lady and I'm reading the possuk that at 50 years old the lady the lady stops. Lo yaveid oid, he no longer does this. >> No, no, no, no, no. >> Now the possuk I want to bring something out. I I'm not I want to bring something out. So the possuk says, "The shaarim says ba'al oilam ayed." He changes roles and he serves his brother in the oilam ayed. Lishmor mishmeres va'avodah lo yaveid. He guards but he doesn't do the avodah. "Kachah ta'asu l'Levi'im." So you shall do to the Levi'im. So Rashi says what job does he go to? He switches roles. Says Rashi, Rashi says different "Av el chazal l'eilah shaarim." He guards the doors. He closes the doors and guards the doors. He becomes a guard in the mishkan or Beis Hamikdash. "L'shir" he gets to sing. He could sing. "V'litoi na'agalei's" and to load up the wagons. And he coaches his brothers. He becomes like an an advisor to the younger Levi'im. Yes. So I was reading this and it's machlokes to Ramban and Rashi exactly what job he leaves and what job he comes to. But I was reading these sukkim and I want to say I want to share something that hit. I think it was relevant to my own things I think about and I think it's very relevant to guys in transition. And I want to say this not as an excuse not to feel. I can only imagine the lady hanging up the cleats where he's retired from a certain job that's got to be hard. I'm not I don't like this ah, don't worry, cry. Cry for what what you void is real and missing something is real. I don't want to be a pretend person. I don't want to say, "Ah, there's always other things." No. We're allowed to mourn and grieve that we lose. I we don't know yet. Avrum and I have been talking. Is he going to come past this? He's going to a fish in the Yeshiva. And there's what there's what to miss on Sunday. And I'm not saying this in a way to to like mitigate a sadness of departure. That's real. I am speaking that there different stages, different ages, and different things to engage. My wife and I speak about this in terms it's interesting. I'm watching guys in Yeshiva play sports, Avrum. And I once liked a lot and wanted to run with the Chevron. We went to the tournament at the Nerk. Then things came up and there wasn't a slot for me, but it also wasn't wasn't as I wasn't as easy to run in the heat. And I want to express that there's different avoidances for different stages for every person. And something moves me something moves me about the Levite. About the Levite that at a certain age the certain physical labor wasn't their task. But they had other labor they were designed for. They went to the sheer, to the music. They went to guard the doors. They went to advise and instruct and coach other Levites. It's always it's always funny to me how a guy retires. I remember there was a baseball player who was known as a very old player. He was a second baseman. He was an older guy. He retired and became a manager. And all of a sudden he was a very young manager. It was funny in a minute he became young. I I said as a as a hotzi joke when my friends have children, I say just became young. Yesterday you were a middle-aged parent. Now you're a very young grandparent. As much as the joke there there's a void that there's a void there for every stage. And I'm moved at Lavian at 50, Lavian that's not your task. There's a different task I have for you. I have watched people not just age gracefully but find new roles and different roles for different coopers in their life. And I'm moved by that. You're designed for things. And the possible I can gets home Lavian 50 you're at whoa. But then the sharers is there's a job for you. That's not your task. This is your task. Finding the task of now, finding the job of now, finding the avoid of now. There's an avoid there for now. There's a now avoid in life. I'm not speaking about not about not grieving or missing or celebrating what was. That's valuable. That's worthwhile. But I'm also talking about embracing there's an avoid of now. And I'm moved to my to Raban and Rashi exact what their new avoid of Lavian were over 50. But it's cool there's jobs and tasks for every age for every stage. I love when people nail the grandparent role. I like it. They're not just and a person could miss and talk about what was and it's worthy of reminiscing of celebrating and it's eternal yesterday's job. But there's a job of today. I love people that nail the roles of today, the task of today, the opportunity of today. Today presents a job. So I love in the game that's not your job anymore. The sharers is by all means there's a different job that you have now. It's interesting. A time Lavian was fire against the word retiring. Fire. He he he he despised the word retire to retire. He said you never wait for death. He didn't let people who were close to the Rebbe never retired. They found a job of then. If the guy was a physical labor, he didn't let you he didn't like quit your job and then you'll find what to do. No way. The guy you already put into place. Some of his guys learned they became coil guys. But the day they missed stopped his job, they were at a different job. There's a task of now. There's a task. There's something you can have. I happen to appreciate a lot when I see people take grant grandparenting seriously. I like love people. You see people who nail it. They're grandparents, but their mom mission nailed it. There's jobs of now. The Rebbe was the Rebbe I hope Hashem will will nail it together with Hashem. There's Hashem. But there's tasks of now and I just see in this slavery we're I would don't do this job. So I first when I read that I was like shoot. 50-year-old stop. I have my own like rebelliousness against oldness and and and and I'm not talking that everybody should keep to I don't know if I'm to say but to keep fresh and vigorous and not to come I'm not talking about I'm not talking about stretching old. I'm not talking about that. My son I speak about my Tata would play tennis in his 70s. He never once said I'm old. He would grind it out. I'm not talking about stretching and calling yourself old. I'm not saying that. I'm talking about that life has tasks in the present. And you can you can grieve and talk and be wax nostalgic about the old days. Cool. But also ask what's the job of today. So when I I read the first I was like a jolt. When I read the the last two years, 50 done. Whoa. Then I read the never sure by only. Then I was looking at Rashi, the Ramban. Oh, there's a task for then. You're designed you're uniquely designed for something that you couldn't do younger, by the way. The shine and speak about what the jobs are. My like is the Ramban and Rashi. Could you have done it younger? Could you not? It's a sugia. But it hit me there's a task of now to embrace that you're uniquely designed for now. It's interesting. As he it's a yard sign. As he told me many things about Frank. His yard sites this week. I want to share something like that many things as he doesn't even know that this hit me a lot. He said it in passing and I read it about him and it hit me a lot. Frank was a very good athlete. And Frank would play ball with his with camp monk. He was involved in the sports. And at a certain age of Frank just he always was on the courts playing with the camera. That was like a big thing he did. And at a certain age, how old was he as he? How old was he about? How old was he? How old was he then? You once told me the age he was. But he always played ball with the camera. He was very involved in the sports. And then in his 40s in his 40s one day and I'm not saying to do this. My father played ball till he was 78 till the end of his life. I'm not coming for ages when yes, when no. But it fascinated me there was an age Frank was playing ball to guys and one day and zero. No more. And he he had he still was as connected and was with their different stages, different ages, different ways. It moved me a lot. There was something about it that moved me, but it wasn't like if it's like he's old he was he was young. He was young till the I I met him as he described he was energetic and young. There ages and stages and jobs and things you're built for. There was something about it that was very very moving. He he took his he didn't disappear. He put them certain places and there ages and stages. These suck him of the 50 it's especially I thought this is especially appropriate to guys who are leaving. Not in the way of not grieving. So all there's a time for everything. I'm not talking I'm talking about grieving and being sad and missing something. I'm not I don't like cheap things. I don't want to like say it's sad. It's I'm I'm very I'm very sad. Avraham Avraham is You changed the whole Yeshiva Avraham. You changed the Yeshiva. You're a beautiful person. This journey lifted up. You lifted up the Yeshiva. [applause] And it's difficult. To me it's difficult that in one week I could look I have three Avrahams in line. It could be true and well four Avrahams. Avraham Avraham Avraham. I >> [laughter] >> just one big Avraham chain. Five Avrahams. Who would shake on all the Avrahams? I don't know the leaving we have to figure out. It could be all five Avrahams will be in the Yeshiva. That's possible. >> [applause] [cheering] >> THE BACK AVRAHAM MAYBE A DORM COUNSELOR. I don't know. We'll see. We're going to work it all out. We make keep this Avraham. We're making a with R' Levi. I'm working on a I want more learning in the basement of the Yeshiva. And we're making a first seder next year with R' Levi. He's going to start being he's going to move to what a very to run a I'm recruiting Ari like crazy. Maybe even Avraham. Maybe even pulling an Avraham to have this to have to have this but we'll see. But I want to say on all five Avrahams that I'm not saying it in the way Avi. Avi you did crazy things here. You cashed your try with sneaky. You just a smile, the highest, to grow in the way you grew, Avi Reichman, in a positive, happy, simcha dikka way in a beautiful, honest way, close to Rebbeim with friendship. You grew in like a beautiful way. We'll miss you and it's worthy of the sadness. I'm not saying this to like to be cheap, to avoid the sadness. The sadness I have is already like heavy. Guys leaving, that's heavy. I'm saying the truth of stages that there's things to do and accomplish and we're built and we have stages, not to be afraid to grab the next challenge. But again, I'm not saying it not to mourn, not to miss, not to even be nostalgic. That's worthy. That's valuable. I am say I want I'm telling you the story of me learning these psukim. I'm reading a possuk, you're done at 50. And I read it last year and I read it again this year. I'm 51. Levi, 50. When I read it, I was like and I read the next one, I have a job for you. There's yet a task. There's an avodah. There's an avodah of now. I see people that nail the avodah of now, that like nail it. I happens to be somebody is like a very strong grandparent. I admire that. And there are people you could all point to grandparents who like nail it. They're involved. They're present. They take it seriously. It's a beautiful task. My grandmother there I have two I I was one of my grandmothers was a was a was a I grew up, she didn't have a husband. She was very powerful in my life. My other grandmother was like a mother figure in my life. To I had parents together was a very powerful force in life. There's an avodah of now. There's an avodah task of now. I'm moved by that, that Leviim as they go through stages, you're designed for something uniquely of now. I saw my father My father taught 11th grade for 46 years. And then he he left that job and he became a rash color to whatever you guys and it was a different task. And for 46 years he did one job, but I saw somebody who nailed the new job. Who nailed that he didn't He was nostalgic and missed being a rebbe and spoke about that. And yet he had a task. He was a rash color. He did something different and bonded and connected as a rebbe of now. I like whenever we can ask ourselves what's the rebbe now. Miss and feel, but I have an rebbe and I have I'm sorry. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's yeah. Embrace the And there's a specific rebbe of now. Don't be afraid of that. Yes. Yes. I wanted to share this cuz this is what struck me in the parsha reading about the journey of the rebbe. So I did want to share that and express that we're confident. I look at a guy nailed Avram, the way you nailed this period gives me tremendous confidence you'll nail the next period. It's all about Avram. It's all fine. You'll nail the next periods as well. What do you say? I'm not coming to speak against afraid. I'm coming to say there's a rebbe of now. Every stage has a rebbe. There's something designed for you now. Hashem has a plan. So I I just tell you when I read the pasuk in 50 not this below, but the next pasuk gave a chizuk of the yes. Then I was like studying Rashi and the Ramban and thinking about there's a rebbe of now. I think about the people I've witnessed who've like who've nailed next stages and moved and gotten it. I think about the rebbe didn't let people retire. People certainly changed their jobs, but he The rebbe's point was what's the job of now. There's never a period you have no job. There's no such thing. There's a task of now. Nail it. Figure it out. Find the task of now. What is the task of now and nail it. So, I'm not talking about not being afraid or not being sad. I'm not I'm not addressing that. I'm I'm addressing that Hashem designed us for a task of now. That's Avram, is that fair? Yeah, it hits me that it hits It's not It's not meant as like to take away emotion. There's a truth to this and I've seen people And when I the Rebbe would speak to you about retiring, the Rebbe wasn't saying that the guy at 84 could do what he did at 60 or at 40. He can't. He was saying, "So, what's your job? Let me hear your job." The Rebbe would demand this of his close Hasidim, "What's your job now?" So, one guy learned in college once say there. One guy was busy with his grandkids. One guy ran a Hesed organization. He didn't let people retire, stop one job till they had already like found their task and he was saying, "You You're here. You're designed for something. So, let's let's be busy with that. Let's embrace that. Let's get busy with that. Let's nail that. That's That's what I wanted to share with the Hevra. Yeah. Thank you, Chaim. How long have you been in Yeshiva, Chaim? What? Two glorious years. Nice. I saw Gedaliah. He came in Baltimore. I made a I We made Me and Gabe made something for the alumni in Baltimore and Gedaliah came. >> That's how I came. >> It's true. Gedaliah Gelb is the shadchan that came with Chaim. I loved him before. Now he gave us Chaim. I love him even more so. Thank you, Gedaliah. Thank you, Chaim. Yeah. >> [applause] >> Akiva, you're like a cheat code. In sports, there's certain players who besides being a great player are coaches also. Name an athlete who's a shidduch coach on the court. Hey, who just said it? Say it loud. Bill Russell, good one. Give a current one. A current player who's besides a player, he's a coach also. Good call. Chris Paul, good call. Did he retire? He did? That's it? He said I like the point guard. I feel like Akiva was a cheat code because he's like a dorm counselor rebbe or a yeshiva and he's a bochur in the yeshiva. I was watching Friday night on Leil Shabbos Kodesh the way Akiva was managing the dorm, the oneg. You were a big part of that beautiful oneg in the Carlton and the way you were there and helping other people. Thank you, Akiva. Thank you. >> [applause] >> Asriel, who's getting you next [applause] year? Who's getting you next year? Hm? We'll see. I'm thankful you're here right now. Thank you, Asriel. Thank you, ASRIEL. YEAH. >> [applause] >> DOES THE CHEVRA THINK WE SHOULD DO VOLLEYBALL TODAY? What is the chevra holding? Should we put up that volleyball net and at 4:30 do volleyball? We need to get it up first. Moishe, what do you hold about doing it? Shims, you can arrange your coats up one court. Then we could do a tournament or Who knows how to get a Chaim, you're handy. Chaim can get it done easy. Could you try? I think it could be complicated. There's bullies and thugs. Is it there? You could put it up, Moishe? Who's in with some guys Avram you'd be a summer that you would play volleyball? Avram you'd play? Let's do it. Are you a volleyballer? Let's play volleyball. I want to play. Can we play together, Harry? But Avi you'd be down for some volleyball? You trying to play best? Would you play some volleyball beach? Asriel you'd play? I want to play Asriel. Sherman you'd you'd play? >> Puppies. Today's the day Miriam >> Could we put Could we Oh, is that true? Ben, let's put on the chats. Ezra, can we put that on the chat? 4:30 volleyball with Ben and Dan Kalish. Avi, you're allowed to play or the finger Avi, you allowed to play Gersh? You'd be down for volleyball at 4:30? Well, Kicks, you'd be down? Mice, you're down? Okay, for Gabe, 4:30 some volleyball. I'm going to speak to all three right now. Morty, 4:30 volleyball? Put it out. Reuven, you and I are going to play? Bring Ari also. Okay, we'll stop. 4:30 David come. David