 I want to tell you a story about maybe my strangest speech. I'm sitting in my office maybe four years ago and I got a call from a woman and as soon as she picked I spoke to her I knew this was going to be an adventure. She was from Buford, Georgia and I said she said hello. I said hello she goes, hello my name is Betsy. Is there a Mr. Hurray there? I'm like almost one more are. She's like oh Mr. Hurray my name is Betsy and I'm calling from Buford, Georgia. I'm like I can tell from your accent. She goes would you like to come and speak at our conference? I said well what's the name of your conference? She goes it is the Christian coalition of technology. I said you sure you got the right number? She's like well yeah you are a minister aren't you? I'm like no she's like well you're a rabbi right? I'm like not a rabbi. She goes hmm well are you at least a Jew? I was like yes. She goes that I'll be jaaaand I said okay I mean what is it? She goes we want you to come down be our guest at our conference and you know I'm like okay like I gotta like you know never been to Buford never been sort of there I'm like you know what let me just ask my rabbi and say goodbye to my family and uh go to Buford you know what I'm saying I don't know if you can have me for lunch I don't know. So I go before I before I let you go how did you find me? She goes I've watched one of your videos on a great website called aish.com. Awesome. I said okay so I asked my rabbi and I said goodbye to my family and I boarded a flight to Atlanta and got picked up by a car and drove out to Buford. Anyone here been to Buford before? Why would you? Buford is a wonderful town and at least what I saw at Buford it's long patches of grass lots of churches football fields and gun shops which is just perfect. So I'm going in a church gun shop football field church gun shop football like this is going to be an incredible day and at the end of his long long road there was a small little hotel and I got out of the car and I walked into this conference it wasn't a major hotel and I kid you not the conference would have been a conference that you could see in one of our communities. The conference is about technology and how technology could impact faith on children like we can literally have had the same thing and I walk into this room and the room is packed and there's three presenters there's an evangelical minister but I want you to picture this guy he's like 35 good looking short haircut and he is like in the dictionary if you look at like charisma you see his picture he's like he comes in the room and the room just lights up he's walking he owns the place next to him is a southern baptist minister african-american man like the energizer bunny and then there's me the jew from long island and the conference begins let me let me give for those of you who aren't familiar I wasn't familiar the way it works in the jew if you speak to a jewish audience you get up here and you give yourself and you sweat this out the rabbi gets up there and gives a drush and sweats it out if you're lucky after an hour for a jewish audience and they like what you say we say schkeich schkeich is short for yasher kalach but god for me should we say two words let me turn it into like one word which is like a half like you were coughing schkeich schkeich so when the rabbi is done his whole suit is drenched with phlegm for all the schkeich schkeich schkeich that's that's that's it you get a schkeich that's the gold standard in the jewish world not in the evangelical world if they like what you say in the middle of their speech they will scream out mid-speech amen just in the middle amen if they really like what you're saying i don't know how they do it they have like this weird like esp they say mm-hmm but not one person like four or five ten people i don't know how they all know to start mm-hmm together but they do and you'll get a collective mm-hmm he gets up there and this guy just kills it i mean he kills it he is quoted every single prophet he's and they are loving him they are amenning him they are mm-hmming him he's talking he's talking about david and the rock of david although it is small it'll slow the big the lie at the internet may be big but it's our faith that makes us work because david has the name of the lord and you never met and they are going out of their minds they're amenning they're mm-hmming he is dancing with them i am sweating i've never seen this in my whole life and he sits down like it's like a regular day for me then the southern baptist gets up holy cap you think the evangelicals are fun forget southern baptists you've got amen and mm-hmm then you got extra credit let words they feel like what you say after they've gone through amens and mm-hmms they will stand up and they will put their hands up and they will say preach on my brother in the middle people just stand up and they it's unbelievable this guy forget about it he's like but he's quoting guys and he's not quoting our people he's quoting matthew and luke i don't know who these people like it's not one of ours but he knows them chapter and verse and he's floating and he's dancing and the people are up in the aisles amens preach on he is dancing with them i am like dripping in the corner the evangelicals not moved whatsoever and he's rocking and he sits down and then it's my turn and i get up and say in this week's parasha it says i didn't do that it doesn't work in shul it's gonna work down there i get up and i'm like i tell how i prepare the whole thing about the idea of what we would consider it to be like dear but i don't have the physical it was supposed to elevate it you know spirituality doesn't mean non-physical it means the elevation of physical and i see a whole speech about how there's something in this world that can be a potential tool for god and i am getting no amens i am getting no mm-hmms and you can be sure i am not getting any preach on my brothers and it's uncomfortable you understand it's been a half an hour of a total dance fest and the jew boys up there and it's like a library and i'm going out of my mind i'm like i don't understand i was like i prepared and i'm going and the problem was that i'm from new york and when you're from new york you talk as fast as the words come out of your mouth because the minute you stop someone's barreling right over you in the south that's not how it works you gotta talk slowly and you gotta give them a runway to get the amen and i didn't know that and there's no handbook for if you're a jew and you end up in a christian place how do you get an amen no one told me that in school and i'm like i am going out of my mind and i'm going and i'm trying and at some point i'm like you know i'm whatever i don't need an amen i'll just get i'll just live with schuyahs if that's my lot in life to just get a bunch of schuyahs fine i'm a cabel all of your all of your judgments i'll go back to new york and i'll live with flemmy schuyahs and i'm going thank you and i'm going and i'm just and i'm just into it i'm like let him go and i'm talking about this time you have to elevate what we have and do it for the sake of god and i take a breath because i'm exhausted and in the corner of the room a guy goes amen and i'm like sir i want to let you know something i was up here the whole time and i'm like i'm not getting any amends and i was getting a little subconscious but i want to just thank you so much because i really appreciate your amen and the crowd found out that this jew boy wanted amends they amen me to death and i was all in i was like and then and they're like amen and i'm like and could i get an amen look amen i'm like could i get a preach on and they're standing in the aisles they amen me they were the best day of my life i called my wife i said dina we are moving to you what about jewish rules i'm like forget the jewish schools they amen you down here so the conference is over i didn't want to leave but apparently it was over and i booked a flight from delta that was like leaving i don't know nine o'clock at night so they put me into a room to for a flight and i told them that i'm kosher like what do you eat i'm like just get me a few pieces of fruit and they went all out like they bought every single piece of fruit in the entire state of georgia so it's me a little conference room and the garden of eden some sitting in the room wi-fi and just pounding fruit about 10 minutes later the evangelical minister comes in and he walks into the room and he slowly closes the door i'm like okay this is the moment so he looks and he goes good job in there i'm like you get this all week he's like every time i speak they usually like wow talking for a few minutes and then he gets really serious and i'm like no no no we don't put blood in the masses that's not how it works whole thing is made up we're good people it's not like that what so he looks at me and he says i know i'm like what he's like i know i'm like so happy that you know um because i guess you think that i know too so you know and i know so let's just at the same time say who we know you go first so he says about you people i know i'm like okay what is it about our people in particular if you wouldn't mind that you want to start with that you know so he says you know i grew up and i was always in man of faith my grandfather had a ministry my father had a ministry and i knew right away when i was going i was going straight to the ministry i love the lord i love the bible and he this guy can quote chapter and verse like i've never seen he's quoting zachariah i can tell i i i don't even know half the stuff that he's saying i'm you're probably right i just gotta look at the Hebrew he goes but i gotta tell you something when i was in when i'm in my church i always had this thought that somehow god hooks you people up something about you and god they're always hooking you up and it always bothered me that seems like god has always taken care of the jewish people and one once i got to a certain level in his ministry he was able to take his first trip to israel and i took a mission to israel on the last day of the mission my tour guide said tomorrow we're going to see the most sacred place but right now in the world for the jewish people the western wall this is the last remnant of their temple and tomorrow we're going to go there be able to pray he thought thank god i have this tour guide because it's probably close to the public but this guy can like hook us up and get us in so the day came and i woke up in the morning and i gotta tell you i was sorely disappointed i expected to see nobody there except for a few really holy jews the place was open to the public every i saw a group of people taking pictures kids were dancing tourists were snapping pictures the one thing you have left the most sacred place you have on earth you don't court it off you don't seal it up it's open to anybody who wants to walk in how could that possibly be and i was so upset and on the way out i asked the tour guide how could it possibly be that this is the jews last remnant of their holy temple the most sacred place they have on earth and they don't keep it for themselves they open up to anybody that wants to walk in its public property isn't that a desecration the tour guide said no you don't understand how it works the temple was the place in which god dwelled in this earth and we don't believe that god belongs to us we want the whole world to know he exists in fact that temple was a place that they used to bring sacrifices even non-jews would bring sacrifices in that temple because this is the god we want the whole world to see so if anything when we have a place of the temple we want people to come in and tap into a little bit of divineness and as i walked out i realized why god books you up because you're his people and you're tasked with bringing him to the world so since you're working for the for the man you might as well get company benefits this is what you do your job is bringing him into the world so i understand if you're bringing him into the world you deserve to have certain benefits so i got on that plane i gotta tell you i had a very interesting flight home because part of me was so proud to be a jew like i'm a nobody i got a call from somebody so it's funny because as i walked out i go how did you get me he goes when i got back from israel i told my secretary i'm like betsy she's like yep betsy and said i told my secretary we're doing a conference about technology my first conference get me a jew i'm like i'm happy i was the one thank god for ish dot com i got on that plane i gotta tell you i had mixed feelings part of me was so proud i'm a regular nobody and yet i'm part of a people that's so glorious that some guy in buford comes back from this greatest state in the world the greatest country in the world and because i happen to be born as a jew because i happen to be a jew i'm connected to this nation a part of me felt like is he even right are we really that nation if someone would look into our lives would they say oh these are the people that work for god all day if somebody saw how we acted and spoke and what we did in our goals would they say oh of course these are gods people i almost feel like we're like in the tale of two cities you know on the one part it's never been easier and greater to be a jew like grandmother you should tell me stories where when she first came to america and she was working as a seamstress she'd go to work and they would tell her if you don't work on saturdays don't show up on mondays and she'd get fired every week my first job was with a very waspy firm in new york like i said earlier i first thing i did i'm from brooklyn i wanted to work in the waspiest firm ever when i went from my first job i'm like i need wasps i have to compensate you know what i'm about i want to firm with mahogany walls i want guys with roman numerals after their names i want people from the mayflower my first week in the thing i'm never with the orientation i walk in they tell me welcome to our firm we're gonna pay you a lot of money and you're gonna work really hard i'm like oh yeah about the whole about the whole hard-working thing i'm like it is october you know i'm saying so next week's rush to shana so i'll be out on um yeah it's tuesday wednesday this year so i'll be out tuesday wednesday like that's okay i'm like oh yeah i turned to a pumpkin at night when it when the clock strikes sunset so i'll be out in the afternoon on monday like that's okay we've had a rush and i'm like oh then the next week so i'm care but like yeah we heard that too i'm like oh then the fun just begins i'll be sitting in a booth for eight days so how about i see you in december and they're like okay okay okay right my grandfather told me stories about when he was in moongoch and he was in importing that's what he did he had a little wagon he would go to another town and he would spend a week or wherever he went and he would bring him bread and water and that's what he ate because when we traveled there was no kosher food today when i travel every time i go to a rest stop to my brain if it's in a package at this point it should be kosher you ever get that feeling when i'm traveling and i'm like there's got to be a you on it at some place you know what i'm talking about like i'm in the i'm in the restaurant i'm like looking at the package i'm like it's got to be kosher right it's got a package and i'm like how come there's no you like what does it do all day it's a package there should be three kosher my wife's like charlie it says pork chips on it i'm like they can't make pork kosher by now what do they do all day they should be making there shouldn't be food anymore we walk into a room like i don't know if there's food they should figure out i made that kosher i kind of feel like everything we can want you get online this everything you want to learn every time someone wants to grow we go to israel in a couple hours we run the entire if you look if you speak to your great grandparents or your grandparents and tell them that we're sitting in the middle of diaspora and we're under 15 hours from the hotel on demand you get to log on and watch it live any sheer anything you want to know at any point at any time they look at you go like are you on drugs everything is available and with all of that do we really feel like we're killing it as a nation do we feel like we are killing it like we are the light that we should be do we feel that way if i would turn to my great grandparents when i'd say you see how much god gave us look what we do with it we're the light that we we've always do we feel like that how come so i believe there's a bunch of reasons but i believe there's one in particular i think there's one reason why we have so much but yet we're missing something and i think it has to do with this month we are entering into the month of adar this week on thursday and friday we will enter into adar we're already in adar we're going to get into the real sort of speak the adar chain and the month of adar there's a famous mission that was turned into but then expounded into a gemara and the month of adar it says you know it's famous because it's a song simple when you come into the month of adar you have an increased amount of joy and the question is why why when you come into adar do you have more joy what is it about the month of adar that makes you happier is it because we have holidays well guess what if you can wait a couple of months and you get to tishray you have holidays every single week if it's the holiday just give it a couple of bits and then you'll be able to have joy if it's because god saves us the story of purim where we almost died and god showed up and saved us through the haman ester mordecai move i gotta tell you something if we can have a drop of patience and wait until nisan god saves us in so much of a better way in a more month now by paesach god uses grasshoppers and lights and blood and split seas like it's so much more interesting in a month that should really be joy how come adar is the month of happiness but like if you think of purim by the way don't you find it at least ipod if you're gonna have to rank purim if you have to rank all the holidays from order of holiness wouldn't purim be like on the bottom you know what i mean like holy holidays are like yom kippur and sokes and shabu is god gives the Torah isn't like purim like you have to like hang out and drink a little bit more could it possibly be that you come into the month of adar because you get to drink on a holly really could that possibly be that the rabbis are doing that i got a buddy of mine i'll never forget i was in law school we had a group of four people we had a study group three orthodox jews and an irish guy this is the beginning of a bad joke irish catholic strong catholic irish irish barks from god bless them they love to drink three but he's he was staunch he was a very religious guy and he's like i want to find out more about judy's i'm like it's okay like he goes i want to find out more about judy's i'm like okay it's fine we got you he goes oh no no i'm very interested in the religion i want to find out but like okay listen we're studying for our our our our prim law if we get an a prim law if we do well the next holiday after the grade you can come over he goes guarantee we're like guaranteed we took the finals in december we got our grades in february what's the next holiday after february porum he comes rolling on porum he's like this is the best religion ever i'm like just wait for young kipper he's like what's that i'm like just wait my friend just wait could it be because we get to drink really rabbis irish now for real why is this month supposed to be the month where our joy increases so it's hard to speak about adar it's hard to speak about this month unless we speak about maybe the most interesting and strange things that we do we do a lot of strange stuff but there's one thing that i think is olé al dove there's one practice that we have that i believe in my core is the strangest of all practices and it involves our obsession with one people we've had a lot of enemies in our lives there are a lot of nations in our history that hate us just how it is we need to be a jury people this is how we roll throughout history people look at us they get threatened by us they think we're bad or good or we're warmongers or we're peacemakers and as a result they hate us and typically it follows a very simple pattern people hate us they try to kill us god saves us and then we turn them into food that's usually how it works and out of all the people that hate us there is one nation that we seem to be obsessed with what nation is that amalek there's a nation called amalek and it seems that we are so obsessed with them and we're so obsessed with them that we actually give them a special shabbos the shabbos is called parshah zohor and it has to be that the shabbos before porm you cannot go into porm until you have a shabbos dedicated for us to remember amalek it's called parshah zohor the shabbos of remembering and what we do is they we walk into a room and basically according to the Torah you know the davin and dominion the only time really the right so you have the davin we have to hear dominion is to hear this one few sentence part of the Torah when we speak about this nation of amalek and when everybody comes to the shul and their avid goes okay we have two readings and three readings four readings don't know guys seriously quiet now they're seriously quiet can you please everyone stand up everybody listen pay attention ladies later ladies earlier guys seriously seriously seriously and the entire nation has to according to Torah law show up and we read that there is a nation called amalek that tried to kill us and we really read that we have an obligation to eradicate their memory and we have to come together and remember them because it is our obligation to eradicate their memory anyone seeing the logical problem here who here but for us even remembers amalek nobody they don't live anymore they're not a nation anymore it's over they're gone nobody remembers them you go on the street and go tell someone amalek you think you're cursing at them they have no idea what you're talking about and even we don't even know who they are so we like make up people the nazis amalek guys are strapping bombs themselves amalek the guy who failed me on my road test amalek for sure two jews are fighting medina no medina medina no medina they're like you're amalek you're amalek we don't know what amalek is we just find people to call amalek because we got to find the way to ready they don't exist anymore it's over we won it's it there's no groups there's no shuls for amalek there's no trips in amalek land for like a week called jw amalek p whatever there's no the only nation in fact nobody remembers them they are eradicated from the entire world the only nation who actually remembers amalek is the nation who was charged with eradicating their memory anybody see a problem with this but may anyone bother by this with those are even members because we put them in the room had we lived in the back of the bar room where they were before where everybody's in the country or the packages we'd be like our kids wouldn't remember them in a couple years the only people that still remember these people are the people that god charges with eradicating their memory anybody see a problem with this but me what in the world are we doing so i'll tell you a story so i i think in a previous life i think i like was in some army i'm almost positive that like i fought like barkofa or something because i am like obsessed with the israeli army like the whole concept of like fighting in mosad i don't know the guys you know what i'm talking about so because i'm not in it officially i like follow a lot of like army blogs and conspiracy and i do this but am i the only one okay i can be the only one sorry i was in buford once it's okay i feel like it'd be a lot and like i follow like what's going on i try to figure out like mosad because i feel like you know you never know you never know they may need me one day the mosad may be like hey charlie listen we need some people do you mind hooking and stuff and i want to be like up to date with what they're doing so there's all these like depth gaffano if you have some different sites that you can go on to sort of see what the mosad and what intelligence is doing and i'm obsessed with it i just have so for those of you who are following this there is an enemy that we have now who has a very original idea and their idea is let's destroy the jewish people incredibly original and they think they're going to win they're called iran right i just can't wait to see after they're gone what type of food we make with iran it's going to be great i'm sure it's going to be sparty any sparty in the room there's going to be spices there's going to be hummus involved i'm sure it's going to be delicious very fattening but that's okay because we have mitzvah stuff like that i love by the way how we figured to not only make our enemies and our miracles all food but we somehow feel like god like hooks up the cow are you know i'm like god like god came in and helped us with oil to light the candle we're like oh oil to light candles uh let's eat oil as well god's like no no no no no no no no i use it for candles like no it's okay god i got this why don't we deep fry everything for eight straight days we get misses for eating oil right god's like no no no no no no no that's okay and not only that but some bubbly's like oh if you eat oil in dranica you don't get calories you know like on shop it's tomorrow comes in i just can't wait iran's gonna be a great food i'm telling you it's gonna be wonderful spicy but it's okay calorie free it's on god iran has this idea they want to kill the jewish peoples here's what they do they're building this nuclear bomb and their idea is they can send the bond into israel and they're going to destroy the jewish peoples us so if you remember those who are following the program i am i mean my my my my most side friends the way we're following it is in the beginning the program was going and then all of a sudden for two or three years the program basically went offline anyone who's following us and now it's making your resurgence and you ask yourself well what happened why did it go offline for two years and the answer is because the mosad and the cia had a joint mission and they actually went in to iranian nuclear facilities and they planted in the facility a virus called the stux net virus google and what they did was an israeli spy got into the facility planted the virus and it was so sophisticated that anytime the iranians are able to target the virus the virus split and multiplied so over the course of just a few weeks or months the entire nuclear facility was basically reduced to just metal scraps now iran understood that israel was going to be their enemy and they also understood that in 1981 iraq their next door neighbor had the same idea and when iraq built the facility like israeli did as they think in f-16s remember ilan ron moan the one who passed away and he was one of the fire jets is a great book called raid on the sun if you have never unbelievable how they did was incredible the fire jets came in and they destroyed the facility and they got home on touch thank god and basically destroyed their program so what i ran did was i ran built around their facility the most sophisticated ground to air missiles that that's available today and they filled it with the best technology and they're sitting around waiting for the israeli fighter jets so if you can just picture for a few minutes with me just enjoy this moment iranian guards controlling ground to air missiles waiting for israeli fighter jets probably screaming up in the sky like where are the israelis oh excuse me i don't know what happened here where are the israelis you know bring them on you know i'm like el jihad el jihad you know i'm talking about and they're like they're so scared they're so weak they're so wimpy we're all the israelis and meanwhile behind them is a virus probably being controlled by like two israelis like in a bunker in demona you know i'm talking about two guys in a room probably drinking Turkish coffee with the the coffee the dirt on the bottle you know the bottle dipping olives in hummus talking a million miles an hour you know what i'm talking about and they all know what they're saying and meanwhile they're controlling two israelis are controlling and these are really like they're so weak they're so big they're so weak where are they are they and the entire facility is probably crumbling behind me i get so much joy just saying this you know the greatest mistake the iranians made is the hormone rule in warfare is that if your enemy changes its face it doesn't mean he goes away and when you prepare yourself to fight in front and you leave the back wide open the back comes in and does more damage than what's right in front who was on my leg why do we care in 2019 about this nation that most people don't even know so you have to understand who we are from the beginning of who we are are the jewish people show up in the beginning out of egypt and one of the greatest mistakes that we make is that we think that the reason why god brought 10 plates to egypt was to get the jews out as if the creator of the world needed to bargain with paro as if god's like can you pretty pretty please and paro's like no i can't and god's like okay blood now and my power's like not impressed yet and he's like okay bring in the frogs and god's like i'm getting exhausted and i'm reducing how many money left and i have i mean like and finally after 10 rounds paro's like okay and god's like i just can't but do is my whole life guys let's get out of here as if the man that god created needs his permission to take his people out 10 plagues i can guarantee you wasn't because Hashem didn't Hashem could have taken us out Hashem could have told Moshe here's the deal on tuesday afternoon lights are out on on on mitzrayim egypt could have been all blackened out and the jews could have been in israel pounding shwarmas on ben yudash tree before the lights went back up and the jews go we're all the jews go we didn't need to play paro's game why in the world do we go 10 rounds with that man and the reason is because of the following thing well at the time of egypt the entire world believed in power there weren't atheists atheism is a relatively new invention it began a little bit in the greek empire but it's relatively new back in antiquity people weren't atheists they believed in power they believed in so to speak gods but they had one assumption of how power worked how higher power worked higher power was there they believed that the power was there and you serve the power you sacrificed for the power but the power was almost they were almost agnostic to who you are it didn't matter they didn't care about you they didn't know you they just ran the sun or the wind or the stars or whatever it was that you served the nations at the time egypt being the center of it believed in a certain type of higher power a divine power of godly power but they saw the godly power as being just the power that's on top and god wanted to introduce who he really was because the way we interact with god is in two totally different dimensions and they're both part of who he is there's a piece of god that is high that is the power that runs the world that's what everybody understood in our world every single day we say well our mission statement is shmai israel hashem elo cano we say hashem elo cano because we're saying he is the power but there's another aspect of god that is maybe even more crazy maybe more powerful and that is he's not only a power that exists on top he is a power that is in our lives he's not just a king but he's our dad he's with us on carpool he's the boardroom he's in our houses he's with our children we don't take a step without god we don't take a breath without god everything we do every aspect we are and doesn't matter if we're this religious or that religious all that stuff hashem is not only elo cano he is a hud he is unity he is everything and there's a period of time where the whole world said that's impossible and god chose egypt you know why because egypt was the epicenter of the world right now we're living in north america north america is the epicenter of the world if you go to especially in america by the way if you go to europe and you ask europe to follow american politics everybody knows what's going on you ask any of our children to name like ten european cities we're like we have no idea in fact most of people don't even know europe it wasn't for the live map on the al al flight to israel we don't even know the uberbian exists because right now the epicenter of the world is this part of the world in that time in antiquity egypt just went through controlling the world's food and as jews wins and how important that is and the entire world went through egypt the epicenter of civilization was egypt the most powerful man he wasn't a president he was a dictator the most powerful man in the world at that time was paro he stood as the representative of humanity and he stared at god and goes you could be up there but you're not in here you can't figure out what blood to give you can't figure out which houses to hit if you're going to kill all the animals you're going to know which animals are jewish and not jewish you're going to bring all these animals to kill you're going to know who's jewish you're going to know which blood kids are you crazy you're going to know which kids are first born how the world do you know that you know what you exist you exist up there and the entire purpose of the templates was to do an experiential lesson for the entire world with the most powerful man that i am not just god that lives upstairs i am god that lives in heber we say bekerev haaret i am in the world i know who's the first born in the house i can tell you which animal is jewish and egyptian in the same stable yeah i can have the blood i know the person who drinks that blood if it's water or if it's blood i don't just live up there i'm not just this king i live here i live in your life i live with you i don't know how this started but along the way we've managed to figure out a way to take god and put him up here i don't know when this started we think god is there where's hashem there what does he do i don't know he hangs out probably in israel he wants to vacation or go to chevron he speaks hebrew and he wants to like throw it up a drop or throw some aramaic in there he spends most of his time with really holy people but can i tell you one thing god is not anywhere near my life maybe on yom kipper i'll roll in and if i can just you know go through like 30 days of i'm sorry followed by 10 more days of i'm sorry and then comes the superfest of i'm sorry at the end of it finally god's like oh charlie i didn't even know you're part of the nation can i can i can you get a little louder can you scream a little louder can you say sorry a little more let me think should i put you in well you're not gonna get it's out like let's stop for that for a second so you beinoni or russia beinoni or russia okay fine you get to live another year and that's it see in a year somehow we've managed to take the creator and stick him up yeah somebody wears heaven you know what they say up where up someone dies and goes where up i don't know where did they go i don't know up there's probably a place that's probably very light i don't know there's gotta be a pool right i mean there's gotta be a pool in heaven you know there's gotta be food it's a jewish place people think we people we people think we die and go to a paysoch program our whole lives and you know what i'm sure there's bread as well right so you know what we die and we go to a sparty paysoch program because somehow along the way we have taken the creator of the world the greatest thing that we have the thing that we're here to represent and stuck him up guess what hachem is not up there is no up the sky is up hachem god is in he is in the world spirituality is not up spirituality is in and everything that we're doing is trying to reveal that which is in fact our only real experience of god in this world comes from what's within us god is in our marriages god is in our children god is in our work he is in everything in life our job in life is not to look up our job in life is looking and i speak to people who tell me charlie you don't understand i'm into it i'm not into it i'm this religious i'm this religious i go to this issue but i don't feel anything i go from this background i don't get anything and everybody walks around with this thing that they're not and i tell people all the time you have no idea who you are you never have to become spiritual there's no such thing as a jew becoming spiritual because you have built into the system more spirituality than you'll ever need your entire life you are created with a piece of god that's more than you'll ever be able to access your whole life you never have to become spiritual no jew has far or has close as they could be whether they're into it or not whether they feel it or they're not no one ever has to become spiritual it's built into the program if your eyes are open you have more spirituality than you can ever access in your lifetime you don't become spiritual you reveal spiritual just the question of how much you're going to dig in just a question of how much you're going to get underneath there it's all there already there's no two people that have more or less when you see someone who's a big guzzle he doesn't have more of hashen he just spends his whole life working to reveal himself more he just spends his whole life trying to access what's inside him already no one's better than anybody else no one's more than anybody else it's just some people are working hard to get it out and that came into this world in Egypt which is why god says if i'm going to have ever ever one day a year everyone's going to sit and talk about my my my miracles make it on Passover because i want you guys sitting around and telling your kids what i did because i don't want your kids thinking god forbid that i am just the god of paro i'm just up there and you know what paro bought it hook one center how could he not he said okay go and get me a brach as well and you know who else bought it everybody everybody when god put the juice through the sea and he split the sea the measure says that everybody of water spit as well everybody bought it when later on when yoshua when joshua sent and spies into israel and rachov would say to him you have to understand something we all know what happens the entire world said hey wait a second some god took these jews out of egypt he came down maybe god's in this maybe there's a god maybe maybe god's in the world everybody bought it except for one nation they were living in the south of gaza they're called a mullak and they couldn't handle it they couldn't stomach it they couldn't digest the fact that we're going to have a real understanding of god's you know what they did they left their place we never had a nation come and leave their place we had nations say that we're in their zones and we're going to overthrow them we had nations saying they're coming close to our countries we want to kill them we had nations telling us that you live in our don't trust them how one says they live in the middle of you we've had nations say that we get too close don't trust the jews we have never had a nation say the jews are all the way over there let's get up and go fight them and the only goal that a mullak wanted was they didn't want to beat us you know what they wanted to do they wanted to just draw blood that was their goal as the madras says they'd like wanted to jump into a hot pool and just cool it off a drop because what they wanted to do what they knew they couldn't destroy us were god's people god pulls out of egypt we're going to die to a mullak that wasn't even their goal their goal was to just draw blood because if they drew blood the nations would go i don't know you know i thought this whole jew thing was working well but like they just got difficult maybe maybe not maybe most you got lucky they introduced what's called doubt in hebrou it's called suffix suffix and a mullak has the same numerical value as the gamatria of suffix because the whole goal a mullik's existence is relax you think god's in my life relax calm down when you come back from seminary you just the child just come back from seminary a minute ago he barked at me all day can you stop with that for a second really did you say brock to him like 30 times can you chill just drop where i'm very very inspired it's beautiful one he's not he's trust me he's not my job do me a favor do me a favor it's wonderful i love it he's a whole yeah okay stop let me tell you how it works in the real world in the real world you show up you pray a little bit give the rabbi an extra check you go out in the real world what goes on outside come on the goal on my leg is to introduce into our heads that doubt god's not in my life god's not in front of me there's no way god could have brought me that challenge there's no way god can do that god trust me i'm not a holy person i'm not a religious person i guarantee you that the big god up there is doing way more important things than worrying about my little insignificant unholy life and a mullock his entire mission is to do just that and they come at us and they draw blood and then for the first time ever what was introduced into this world was doubt you mess with us we'll let you live you mess with dad we'll never forget you so how in the world are we still remembering them for why do we bring them right in front of puram and talk about them we won they're over they're dead i get it they did this once a long time ago it's unfortunate there's no more a mullock anymore and the answer is the truth is it's still here a mullock doesn't have any more nations and they don't have any more people there's no more ground to air missiles of a mullock but you know what a mullock still is they've changed themselves from actual individuals fighting us from ground to air missiles from f16s that are flying in front of us to being just a virus so mullock right now represents the virus that's inside us so yeah we walk around them we're so proud of ourselves we're walking around as jews going look how great we are as a nation big shoals big airplanes big nation big army apps kosher food you name it we own the place and there's two guys in the headquarters of a mullock on computers going exactly exactly god's not in your life i got that look how beautiful this family looks how gorgeous they are look how wonderful this family is look how wonderful they look so nice look how nice they're dressed it's amazing uh-huh god's not with you god's not with you either you know talk about each other that way destroy each other uh-huh in your language just take the people down uh-huh they look different than you god no i love this two jews fighting as each other this is awesome god's not in any of you i got you and i got you and i got you and you can walk around and have wonderfully looking jews and in their hearts there's a virus called a mullock the virus is god's not in front of me god's not in the secular world god's only in school and as as great as we look and as big as our missiles are they can sit around and they can take down a nation with just a little bit of fire so every year god says don't you walk into my perl don't you walk into perl until you get in the room in the room stand up and remember a mullock you know why you think you beat them wait you think you beat them you're so proud of yourselves really you think you win we think like we got this because we can go to israel and we can learn a little we think we let me tell you something i'll tell you when you beat them god says when you see messiah you'll know you beat them until then they're they're still here but guess what don't don't be an iranian national guard don't fall for the easiest trick in the book you think because they're not flying f-16s you beat them they're in the back they're taking jews and destroying them they're taking families and making them they're telling their families they're telling regular wonderful jewish people that if you don't do these four things god's not with you they're the virus that's inside your heart stand here stand up and remember it's your job in this world to be a representative of me yeah it sounds crazy to say that god's in my life that's your job root him out root them out you better search your heart and every aspect out of your heart of that doubt because that's why we're here so why do we do it now for because if you know something amazing every holiday we have has one thing in common every holiday one thing in common we have a problem and god shows up and saves the day every holiday pass over pace off god shows up and saves the day the next holiday shavu is god showed up and gave us tour the next holiday we have rush on your kipper once you come down god saves the day sukes is the clouds of glory even hanukkah we come in and god shows up and the miracle of oil there's only one holiday that we have where god is completely on the surface absent the story of puram took place in shushan by the way it could take took a place and any other place in the world if you remember the story of puram basically it's this one minister that passed the law against the jews and another minister that got the king to not stop the law to allow the jews to defend themselves i guarantee you throughout our history this happened a lot of times one town had a minister that was an anti-semite and somebody got the minister to either repeal the law or to defend ourselves that was the entire story the entire story was you got him haman who passed the law you had a woman in ester who got something else from the books and the jews got up and defended themselves and lived another day there's no god it didn't replace it israel mordecai and ester aren't even Hebrew names there's no you're shalayim there's no israel there's no even mention of god's name the entire story is 100 secular and god says you're going to walk into my holiday and you look at a holiday it doesn't put you in shul it doesn't have you pray you get to walk around and dress up and drink and remember a secular story and you're going to walk through that holiday and if you're looking at you're going to go where's god here god didn't show up god didn't prove a miracle and god goes no no no you're wearing the wrong glasses you still got the virus you come to shul the weekend beforehand and you remember that inside your heart is in my leg inside your heart is that person that says god's out in this world and if you root out of my leg you're going to walk into perm you know you're going to see god everywhere you're going to look at the story and go wait a second she dies and she takes over he happens to be there the king falls asleep and he gets up in the middle of the night and reads the thing that it's mordecai and mordecai shows up don't you see god everywhere and we're like what are you talking about god's nowhere and you're going to go what do you mean don't you see god everywhere when you rip out the doubt in your heart that god's in your life you look at the world with glasses and you see him in everything and god goes you want to know what you're supposed to do in perm you want to know the area says why perms the holy state of the year do you want to know because you know what simcha really is you know what it really needs to be happy as a jew this is what we say um has fakers there's no joy than the release of doubt god goes you want to know what you're supposed to do in this period of time you want to know why it's the happiest month of the year because it's one month where you get to look around and fight the doubt that i'm in your life it's awesome to be inspired when we have the moments of inspiration who isn't inspired by young kipper it's awesome to go to israel for a couple of days and touch the hotel and feel inspired but guess what then you come back to life and you go back to work and you go back to being regular but can you imagine if you have a holiday who is trying to not take inspiration from the top who's trying to find inspiration from the ground if you can find me god says in your life in a regular story if you can start to get rid of doubt in your life you know what you get for that you get something so much deeper you get the life of meaning you see me everywhere you get true happiness true jewish happiness because you walk through your life and you spend your life saying my god is my dad i don't have to be the most perfect person for my dad any parent in the room know what i'm talking about how many parents have a kid come to you go have to tell me about your day and the kid goes because i didn't get an a on the test i figured you want to want to talk to me because i would just talk to me if i'm getting a and a dad or a mom because what are you kidding me you think i need you to get an a to talk to me i'm your mom i want you to tell me everything and the kid goes why would you want to hear about all the little things you go what are you kidding me i want to know about the bus rides and all about your friends is there a parent in the room that is looking at their kids and going only if you get a's i want to spend time with you you know what it means to be a parent it means that i don't love you if i love you period i love you just because you're mine i love you when you wait and when you fail i don't need a condition to be in your life i am your parent do you understand the level of torment that a parent would feel if a kid doesn't look up and say i didn't know idea i thought you only love me when i did well in school when you look up at god and go i didn't know you wanted to be have a relationship i only thought you were with me when i was being a perfect juke i'm not a perfect juke you love me as a regular totally flawed juke i can try to be better but what and shem says you think i'm just a malcanu you think i'm just a king you don't even get to the king until you get to a venu you think i'm just a king you don't think i'm your dad oh you got the amolic virus root that out because you can't be my nation you can't be glowing with godliness if you think i'm only around when you're perfect because you're in this earth to show people what it means to find god in a boardroom what it means to have children and see god in your children that's the hardness that's the challenge that's the opportunity of what it means to be his nation and the challenge and the happiness rests in the world of regular and adar is the month of regular the holiday is regular the story is regular everything is regular and if you can find hasham and regular then you have him forever when you find that the person that you love loves you when you fail if you're married and you find that your spouse loves you when you fail you have that spouse forever as soon as a kid realizes that mom and dad still love me even though i brought home a bad report card or i failed i remember as a kid my i never felt close to my mom that when i missed the winning shot to a basketball game what do i know i was in sixth grade i missed the shot i came home i couldn't come out of my room and mom goes you think i care about the stupid shot the thought that a kid has that you don't gotta press your parents because your parents love you no matter what you know what that feels like for a child happiness maybe that's what we're missing is jews maybe we have everything except for that clarity maybe just maybe our nation right now has everything everything except for one little bit of clarity that our father in heaven loves us no matter what there's a great rabbi in his own name or tzvi meyer or tzvi meyer says that if you want to know what will bring and hasten the redemption it's the fact that we need to impart into our hearts as gold godel the greatness of a havas shem lanu the greatness of god's love for us let me end with one story and then i'm done you may have heard this before but i love it it's my favorite story i think in toronto she spoke once everyone here the tzvi meyer story okay if you did thank you for not saying yes i'm gonna end with this one thing and then i'll call it another in the latest gaza war there was a woman who had just lost her husband to a car accident and about a month after her husband died her son got called into battle in gaza and she was going out of her mind she also she didn't want her son to go she lost her husband but what was she going to do the israeli army called and she was a patriot and she's leaving her son to serve the army and he went into battle and the worst thing happened about a week into a battle the army calls her on middle of the night and says we have bad news your son was killed and she breaks down that's it her husband dying was close when her son died it was it and she basically said i'm done living she gave up everything and she kept her locked herself in her apartment for months she has another daughter a son and a daughter her daughter called her she said ma come out imma come out i'm not coming out imma i have children you have grandchildren you have miss a miss a sata she goes i'm not coming out i'm not living i don't god doesn't love me i'm out i'm out no lock the door a week five weeks six weeks two months and can't blame her two months later one of her friends said to her listen there's a big rabbi coming to town she goes i'm not listening to rabbis i'm not doing anything i'm living my life in this house with the lights off forever she goes please come to the class she comes to the class and the rabbi speaks about god being in your life and she's like half nodding through it she comes home that night and she turns she sits down in an house and she looks up to heaven she says god you took my my husband and you took my son i understand we make sacrifices for this land i get that but i want to know that my son is okay her son's name was divir i want to know that my i understand that he died and he died for you and for your nation and i'm okay with that that's what happens when you send your kids into the army you take that risk but i want to know that my divir is okay and here's the deal i make with you god i'll know that you're taking care of him and i'll be okay with it but i want to give my divir one more hug i want my divir one more hug you give me a hug with my divir i'm good okay true story this is going on i'm just i'm the lady the lady spoke in toronto two weeks later she had to call from her daughter she's a saima it's almost to beshvat there's a a um uh to beshvat get together you know in israel they they they have the fruits and the whole deal you have two grandkids they miss their safta come on please she goes okay i'll come to the to beshvat get together she goes to some area and they have nuts and the kids are playing all some kids are running around and she walks over and she's sitting around and she's a nursery school teacher so when you're a nursery school teacher kids come to you know i'm talking about any nursery school teacher you know i'm talking about like a little mora's are like magnets for kids you know i'm talking about you could have like a a mora somewhere and like every kid's like mora mora mora mora you know that's a mora's are god bless them they're the greatest people in our nation somehow mora's and candy men are like the greatest people so she's a mora she takes care of little kids she used to before she quit so some little two-year-old comes running over and starts like hanging out on her leg and she's like who's this kid so she's like playing with them a little bit and all of a sudden like you know the the mom comes over to like try to pull the kid away and the kid won't go and she's playing with them and she's like it's okay i'm a mora i'm okay and she's seeing her grandkids in the distance and this little kid's literally attached to the leg and this mom looks like she just can't get it together this poor mom looks like she's totally drunk she's got a kid in her little pouch and the kid is just crying and screaming and schnadi and crying and losing it and her two-year-old attacking some stranger and the mom is like pulling her hair out and she's she's telling this kid get off her leg leave the garret alone and she's just hanging out there and she was okay it's okay and she's losing it and she goes and and the mom goes listen give me the crying baby i'm a safta i've done this before i'll take you handle the kid wants a toy or something a carob tree i don't know what they want so she takes out she she takes out the baby and she hands it to this woman and the second she hands it to this woman the baby starts crying like is this like she the grandmother's had that touch she's a bobby safta grandma wherever you are she's just rocking in the kids like googling at her and she's like in oh and the mom looks she goes you know i feel like the kid likes you better than me and she takes care of this two-year-old and she goes she's cooing him and she goes well what's his name and the mom goes his name is devir she goes devir that was her son's name who died she was devir what a strange name why would you name him devir and she says well i'll tell you it's a crazy story when i was pregnant with him a few months ago the doctor called and said they got some tests back and he was going to come out big if alive at all incredible it would have been a disaster they weren't sure if he'd make it if he was a viable kid uh fetus and if he did get if he was born he would be born with so many complications he'd spend the rest of his life in a hospital and i was broken and i went home that night and i prayed to hasham and i said hasham please i want to raise the kid make him healthy and that night i saw on television that there was in the god's of war a casualty of war there was a man named devir who just died and i said hasham if he comes out healthy i'm going to name him devir in memory of that soldier and this mom is giving her devir one last hug you see if this would happen once it'd be cool i did a video two weeks ago about thank you hasham some of you may have seen this before i got a hat you know it's amazing i did this thing i went i missed my friend's wedding and i spent the whole day saying thank you hasham and at night i got a package can i tell you something amazing since that video went out i think i got a hundred calls and texts from people with their own story of hasham just showing up their own little devir stories you know why because when there's a big story out there everybody knows but we don't know of the little stories they don't make it to the news now instagram apparently it does it's a new thing so we think that god is big and we never meet enough people to get everyone in the room so we could all realize that hasham not big hasham is also right with us all of our little mises of stories they never make it so we don't know that millions of people have their devir stories because god is not just elocano he has echad he's bekerip aris he is mine and your dad and can i tell you something as much as you think you're not worthy of him that's not how parenting works if you have rachmanus on your children you can guarantee god has more mercy on you and maybe our job in this world is to stand up and to start to look for him to stop waiting for some major miracle to be inspired and to start seeing him in everything that we're doing maybe our job is to see god in our regular lives and to point him out and to feel his embrace maybe our job is not anymore to be big maybe it's to be small maybe it's to be a little light on ourselves and our nations maybe it's not to use f-16s maybe it's just to start to clear out the virus in our hearts so that if we have children that they don't have that virus and we have friends that don't have that virus and we go to work and walk our days people look at us and go there's something about this person i don't know what it is about them they just walk with god maybe our job is to finally stand up and fight a mulling to live as porum jews because yom kipper doesn't come porum comes all the time every once in a while he opens the world but not anymore maybe just maybe maybe if we became those people who knows when they call us for the technology conferences and they say i brought you down because you know what you do for a living you work for god you can look at them and go you know i may look like a doctor or lawyer and a mom and a nurse but you're absolutely right you know i work for i work for my dad because too many people think that my dad only loves a few righteous people and i'm on this earth to show everybody that he's in my life so he's probably in your life too so it looks like i'm a regular person but you know who i work for i work for the company i work for the man and that should be the greatest gift that we give him and we give ourselves and if we live like that i think in my heart we'd walk around we'd have good days and bad days but it wouldn't matter because at the end of the day we'd walk around and i think we would touch the true measure of sin and it is my blessing to this holy holy crowd that when it comes time for god to reveal himself in the world and the shiach comes here my blessing is that each and every one of you should stand in line and when you meet him you should tell you thank you for bringing me god should tell us in a time where nobody knew i was there thanks thanks for being one of my few soldiers that walked the streets and brought me into the regular world thank you for not just believing that i'm up in the world but thanks for continuing seeing the legacy of your great grandparents and believing that i'm not just there that i'm here thank you for living not just schmai sholashem lakhenu but thank you for living hashem akhar we should be socha to see those days where shem reveals ourselves and we should be socha we should have the good fortune of standing tall standing proud being his child and living a life of true true godliness and true true happiness thank you very much