This is a story of the prison rabbi.

He was a guy.

He was in the 23rd year.

Of a very long sentence and he decided he had enough so he stopped eating.

But he put him into a suicide watch and I went to visit him.

All his ring is a green smock and tells me, Rabbi I can't take it anymore.

What should I do?

Hi everybody, it's Aria Finger and welcome back to another episode of Jewish and Joyful.

This week's episode is very unique.

It's very special, different than usual.

I sat down with the prison rabbi Chaplain Yossi is a chaplain at a maximum facility prison.

He deals with some crazy cases, some very interesting types of people who are behind bars and he's there to guide them, to help them and to try to make them better people for me.

And you will seem like it's a very scary job, but that's what he does on a day-to-day basis.

Some of his responsibilities include suicide prevention, death notices, as well as rehabilitation and counseling and mentoring them one-on-one as well as in groups.

And this episode, we talk about his job.

We talk about his life, his story, as well as some personal recounts he has from behind bars from the prisoners.

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Enjoy this, except so with the prison Rabbi Chaplin Yasi like to welcome you.

Chaplin Yasi, the Please take us back to your upbringing, where you grew up, and your background.

After my father left yeshiva, he got married and he moved down to Brazil, where I was born when I was 2 1/2 years old.

My parents moved to Buffalo, NY.

My father was the Robin Deshul, then his brother-in-law, Yitzhak Mazes.

All of asylum opened up a institute for Jewish children with special needs.

That was the first one, as far as I know, was called My Mommy's Institute.

My father joined him there.

I started to volunteer in one of the camps they ran and that was my first ID.

That was my first opportunity to work as a volunteer and realize that the world is not about me, it's about helping others too.

After I got married, I went down to Brazil too, and I went through a personal tragedy which made me more aware of people around me.

I was Berkshire living a very good life and when I went through my challenging times, I realized the people out there for me.

And this is how not only did I survive Borrachashem, I thrived.

I left Brazil and I came to Canada, Montreal and I started a business called Woods Forever.

It's still in business.

I sell hardwood flooring and I decided it's not enough.

I, I felt a bit empty.

So I started to volunteer again and they asked me to come to in New York State was looking for volunteers for permanent for Hanukkah and I started to go and I really felt fulfilled.

I decided to ask if there's any opening and there was a barrack.

I showed there were quite a few candidates and they chose me.

I started off at the Clinton Correctional Facility.

That was the largest maximum security prison in the state of New York, and I spent many years there and I'm transferred and Barack, I should move back to the states.

And I work in prisons, which are more local in my area.

So can you just take us through a part of your day and what you do in the prison are these criminals, are these people committed regular crimes, terrible crimes?

Well, these are.

People who made Who made?

Mistakes and sometimes and do not choose wisely there in their life.

That's why I like to look at it.

You should know, when I started my job, someone asked me, how do you deal with such terrible people?

And I should go for practice.

I just read a book.

Rabbi Joseph Teluskin, He wrote a book.

About the rubber and I appreciate.

I really enjoyed that book because he did not modify the stories.

He did not add.

He said it the way it was.

I remember my father repeating me the stories of my youth in my young, in my younger years, and he wrote it exactly the way I heard it originally first hand.

So one of the stories really touched me, one of the stories he wrote about that Israel singer in the early 1980s.

He was the president of the World Jewish Congress.

He went to the Soviet Union right before Rector Gorbachev, I think, took over and they took him around.

And when he came here, he said before he went in, he went to go Bobby Cherebin.

Bobby Cherebin, you know, he explained to him what he's doing.

I'm sure that Bobby Cherebin gave him a, a certain slickers there too.

So when he came back, he went to Yukidis and he told the Rebel about the trip.

He said he went to visit Laser Kaganovich.

Laser Kaganovich was one of the worst.

He was the right hand man by Stalin.

They built the Moscow Metro I think in the 1930s.

It was called the.

Kaganovic Metro Believe it or not, I can imagine thousands of people died.

Building it and there was no there were no safety.

Rules and you have to fill out your quota.

And.

He survived all of Stalin's burgers when even they arrested his brother, his sister-in-law, his brother's wife.

Came to him, he said.

Can't you help your brother?

I said I have no brother.

Stalin is my only brother.

But I'll do you a favor.

I'll give you a revolver with one bullet.

I'll get into your husband.

It's that is the easier way out.

Anyhow, there's AI don't want to go through all the gory details.

He was indirectly involved in many, many, many, many deaths.

So when Israel So an Israel singer told the rebel that I went to visit.

Laser Kaganovich, the rabbit's reaction was.

We.

And Muzan out, he must be very old.

He was an old man by then.

And the second remarkable arbitrary rabbit told him to his Geret Miten vegan Chuva.

Did you speak to him about repentance?

Out of that book, Out of all the stories in that book, that story stuck with me every year and say it was every person has an opportunity to do children.

Each and every one of us has the opportunity to be an example and help.

Others on their way.

How do you bounce your emotions when you deal with these people?

Because a lot of them were serial killers, a lot of them to terrible, terrible or richest horrendous things.

And you're you're a rabbi and you have to go in close proximity with them.

How do you deal with your emotions?

How are you nervous?

Are you scared?

We are trained that we to look at every person I sound created every person, both good and negativity.

Unfortunately, the way I shamps it up the.

World by most people struggle with the negatives of all people 99% of all people struggle with their negativity.

For you, what's something for you easy to overcome for the other person might not be that easy to overcome and you.

I focus on their positivity and my main job there is suicide prevention, So how?

So I always, you look in a person's cell and you see it's neat, you complement it on his neatness.

You see he's artistic, you complement him on his art and you stimulate the goodness within him.

And as a chaplain, it's one of the.

Benefits of this job?

It's a pretty respectable job, so they look at you differently and they take what you say a bit more serious.

So the point is always to have a positive interaction.

Never focus.

I never ask.

If they tell me, they tell me, but I never ask what they do and I try not to find out.

Do you have to walk around with security guards of the prison?

No, I don't know you're.

Not afraid.

That's one of the I feel too safe, which is not, which is not, which is not that good either.

But I feel, but I feel I feel too safe.

So do you have any stories of suicide prevention and how someone was going to commit or someone that committed suicide and how you impacted them or could have impacted them?

Yes, there was a guy doing.

There was a person doing 20, he was doing.

He was in the 23rd year of a very long sentence and he decided he had enough.

So he stopped eating.

So he went into.

So they put him into a suicide watch and I went to visit him and I he's not wearing any.

He's all he's.

Wearing is a green smock and he tells me right but I can't take it anymore.

What should I do?

So I just finished learning per que Alvis a Zell give our curvatures you through.

So there's a shot from the altar ABBA the first of avatar ABBA.

He said that inside every person there's a sword, the inner, inner self of every person.

This is Neshamah, this is soul.

And that's an unlimited amount of kayak power.

So I told him, Stephen, close your eyes, focus deeply, breathing deeply, reach deep into yourself.

Try to go into your essence, into your.

Soul and you will be able to overcome.

Anyhow, Barack Hashemi found out I was successful and he started to eat.

And they shipped them off somewhere else.

So I never know the end of the story.

When people lose hope in life, it can happen to any person.

When they people, they think there's no way out.

Yeah, it's a big, it's a big issue today.

I'm not sure if prison has much to do with it.

There's more suicides, I think outside the prison.

For example, we have American veterans.

I hear there's one suicide every 54 minutes.

It's not a it's a very, it's very unhealthy.

And the reason I think it happens, they come back, they feel abandoned and they feel rejected is the main cause of suicide.

That's my personal.

I want to share a story and maybe you're familiar with it.

I heard it from, but why would Jacobson?

There was a story about a a man who unfortunately committed suicide on the Golden State Bridge in California.

And it was very common for our suicides to be taking place there.

And they used to hire investigators to see why the person committed suicide and how they could prevent future ones.

And the investigator retrace the steps from the bridge of this fellow who committed suicide.

And he found this a few miles away.

He had a small home.

And the investigator went into the house.

And as normal, there's usually a death note, right?

A suicide note.

Started reading the note, but he never saw a note like this.

He started crying when he read the note.

The note said as follows.

The note said, I had so much pain in my life, and I feel like just giving up.

I feel so broken.

I have so much anguish with no relief.

I feel like knowing the world cares about me, I want to end my life.

I'm going to walk to the bridge.

It was a long walk, a few hour walk.

He mapped out, he had ways, whatever.

He mapped out the place to the bridge and he started walking.

And he said in the letter, if if on my long walk, one person acknowledges me, if there's one person who smiles at me, even nods, not a smile like this.

If one person does that to me to feel like I'm acknowledged by someone, then I'm not going to jump because I know there's one person that cares about me.

And unfortunately, no one, no one, no one smiled at him.

No one nodded at him at the end of his life, so we could see the influence that we could have in other people.

We never ever know how far one smile could go.

We never know how far one kind word could go.

One kind word could change lives, it could change a person, and you never know what someone's going through behind closed doors.

Just want to share that.

The power of a smile and power of a good word.

The name of the investigators, Jerome Atos.

Jerome Atos What are the biggest challenges that inmates are facing today?

Inmates are facing today despair and loneliness.

And how do you help them with that?

Well, for the our Jewish incarcerated individuals, we we work.

A shame.

We have programs, we have cover, we learn, we study, we bring in volunteers, they get visits.

And for the bonano, what should I tell you?

For the rest of the population, I walk around ioffer guidance, I give out pamphlets, I discuss with them the Shabbat mitzvah, Noah, the Seven OI laws.

And this brings to them a certain tranquility knowing that they have a road map in life.

So what's your connection like?

What's the differences between your connection with the Jewish inmates and the non Jewish inmates?

Did they ever meet a rabbi before?

And how do they treat you as a rabbi?

Very good question.

I when I was in yeshiva, no, I was never trained to deal with this sector of the population, but Barack Hashem, when you're doing Hashem slippers.

You'll always put the right words in your mouth.

And I believe I was a did make a difference.

I was able to help many, many people.

Amazing.

Could you share the story I once heard you say about the filling?

Yes.

Oh, I had a guy there.

Called will call him.

Avi, he had a.

Russian.

He had an Italian father and a Russian Jewish mother, and he was tattooed from the neck down.

So this is I think the second or third time he was in prison and he decided to get interested in Yiddish kite.

So I used to give a class on

Monday nights from 6:00 in the evening to 9:00 at night.

So in the summer it was still bright.

We used to 1st put on.

Thrilling.

I had a line or three or four, however, putting on thrilling.

Then we dive in Mintra together.

Ashrae Yoshri.

Basaka.

Word for word I said the whole Shrimon ashrae by Lao.

They followed in English and then we ended up with Oseh Shalom Beamer above.

We sang together and then we did that.

We did in English and then we did Elena.

That took a good half hour with the thrilling.

So the first week with Avi, I put on thrill in, Very enthusiastic.

The second week I asked for Avi.

Would you like to put on Thrill in?

No, not this week, Rabbi.

Third week, 4th, doesn't want to put on.

Then he doesn't show up for a week or two and all of a sudden he comes, I think the week #6.

He.

Pushes himself to the front of the line.

He shoves away the two of the cover.

He peels off his green sweatshirt.

Full of muscles, full of tattoos.

Rabbi, me first.

Put twin on him.

He does not read Hebrew properly, but he assisted during it his way.

Shema Israel, Hashem Elocainum.

He did the whole first parsha himself, got you weren't a lot of corrective the whole thing.

And then we did the last.

We did the whole lesson together.

We roll up around.

8:50 I start wrapping things up.

And I call him over.

I said Javi just curiosity 2 two weeks.

You aren't here.

And the previous weeks you didn't want to put on filling what changed?

He said.

Rabbi, the last class I was at, we were learning Tanya and he spoke about his scoof here.

So the scoof here.

What's the scoof here?

The scoof here, Rabbi, Scoof here.

Then I realized you meant to say his scafia.

His scafia means self-control you.

So you spoke about that.

If we could master self-control.

That is the real freedom.

There are people outside these walls who are prisoners, they are victims to their vices, to their illicit desires and they have no freedom.

But even in the even the maximum security prison, if you can control your desires and you could mass to be a master over yourself.

That is the true freedom.

The Rabbi I want you to know.

So when I so when you asked me to put on the thrilling, I felt unclean because I I was unemployed.

Unemployed means that you're still you're stuck in yourself most of the day.

How do I pass time?

You told me I used to read magazines, which are inappropriate.

However, I thought about you said about the Seskufia business.

So I want you for to.

Know that the last week I left the magazines under my mattress and when I came here with a clean, with a sense of cleanliness, a sense of control, I wanted to be put on thrilling tonight 1st.

And as I was drove driving home that night, that story reverberated my mind.

It was a big ruse hospital for me because everything a person sees and a person hears, you can take lessons from it.

And I learned you have to have an opportunity when you come home, put down the put down your phone, embrace your children, be spontaneous, give your wife the full attention.

And that is real freedom.

And that for me, it was a one of the turning points of my life when I learned to appreciate what I have.

It's incredible figure.

It's a wonderful story, very powerful.

Thank you.

What would you say what was like the most unusual, strange, or funniest request or question they've ever been asked by an enemy?

I had an interesting story around 3 weeks ago.

I'm walking by the blocks and this tall Afro American, very muscular, 28 years old so.

Rabbi, do you believe in aliens?

So on the spot, of course I do.

And there's even an alien within you he gets.

What do you mean?

I said I'm looking at a good kid.

A good kid.

He had a wonderful life, but he made the wrong choice.

Why did you make that mistake?

Why did you make that wrong?

Choice, you know.

Why?

Because he had an alien within you, and you have an alien within you.

I also have an alien within me and our objective is to always overpower the alien within which which is within us.

Basically what I did was give him over a schtickleram bomb.

It says they know them.

I survey Ellen K Nicholas by rushdos.

What's the type to rushdos?

What's the translation Rushdos?

Rushdos means an alien thought that's this is what I told him.

Anyhow, he he couldn't get over the answer and he passes it to all his buddies.

So they know that the rabbi is the guy with the alien is the man with aliens.

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We discussed a few weeks ago of your Yom Kippur in prison.

So can you just talk a little about that?

One of the.

Facilities I am we brought in.

We brought in violent, they brought in volunteers to Yom Kippur.

See that Around six volunteers came in, I got the very hush of Eden and we dive in together with our other 6.

Cover here.

And it was, it was a very powerful davening.

I made a point to sit with someone who was in his thirty who's, excuse me, was in his 40th.

41st year in prison.

And the guy asked me why are you?

Sitting next to him.

So I told them that the Khazan Ish made a point at Yom Kippur when he sat where he sat.

On his bench.

He had children with special needs sitting on his bench Yom Kippur.

So the someone asked him why do you do that?

So he replied and said I'm raining the shamas and I want to sit next to bench with raining the shamas.

So I explained to them you can build Zitsen let mention with someone to Brockman this show.

So I want to sit next to people with broken souls.

And this is it was a very and they and they all we all took turns sitting next to him, next to that gentleman.

It was a very powerful Yom Kippur.

Beautiful.

What What's the biggest life lesson that you've learned from an inmate?

Life is not about yourself.

We live, we want to be fulfilled, we want to be happy, but to find real fulfillment and real happiness is when we involve ourselves with the with the island Hashem benched each and every one of us.

With a lot of talent.

Some openness, some hidden, and our objective is we have to share our talent with everyone.

Beautiful talking, talking about happiness.

How do we bring more happiness into our lives?

So many people are walking around depressed, sad, down glum like never before.

Look at history wasn't always like this entire in today's generation, the 21st century, we have so much that we had previously technology, health, money, everything like is so you can't compare it to previous generations.

So you'll think that now will be more happy, right?

You'll think that now will be much happier people.

But we know the statistics.

We know what's going on right now.

Society.

The man's.

With their advertising, wherever you go, you see advertising to to enhance your own lifestyle on how to make you happy.

Happiness you never find, you will never find.

With Kashmiris, you can find happiness if you're lucky with ruthless.

What's ruthless?

What's spirituality?

For some, it's making fiercely to material.

But even even that is not enough.

What we have to do is we have to go out and volunteer.

I know I don't.

My my two days off of Friday shop is for the last 20 years.

I always made a point more than 20 years is to honest always go out and do myth sodium, visit forgotten Jews, put on film with them, maybe sing with them.

Shalom alaikum, a good word.

And the happiness that I see in their faces when I come and when I visit and when I spend a few moments, 5-10 minutes with them.

That's all it is.

That happiness is hailishire.

And at times I wish I could find that happiness that they have when I visit them.

And we can, we can't find this happiness.

But never, never, never by yourself.

You have to always reach out to someone else.

And like I said, we all have a lot of talents.

I'm sure each of everyone of us have phones scroll.

Go through your phone, scroll through your names.

Who does not have who's?

Who's sitting alone by shoppers?

Invite a friend.

A long forgotten friend does have to be does have to be religious.

An old acquaintance invite them over a good Florida for.

Good meal, I assure you, everyone will come.

For a good meal, come invite them over.

For a shoppers spend time with him, give him a call.

During the week, see how he is you'll there you will find happiness, there you'll find fulfillment, and there you'll find the purpose of life.

It's beautiful.

Thank you.

Can we take a moment?

Let's talk a moment about stress.

What was like a very stressful time of your career and how did you overcome it?

Barack Hashem.

Barack Hashem in this current.

Career I don't have stress.

My previous careers I had stress.

And this career Barack do not have stress when the door closes each day when that those metal doors clang behind me, I look up to Shamaya and I say thank you Hashem, I'm going home now and that and.

I come home stress free.

I think the you had a story with the Baba Charabba and how a message from one of the tablets influence your staying because you said you weren't sure if you should stay or not.

That might have low due to stress right?

So maybe you could share that story?

I had a bar Hashem.

I'm past 60.

It's 122nd.

We wish myself is more than 20 more happy healthy years.

Better.

All right, all right, so I.

Had an issue for knee Barack and Shuman's under control and I was thinking to myself, well, one day it was giving me it was really hurting.

You do a lot of walking in prison and I was making this blindness in my life on my mind.

If you retire well, how much you make is it worthwhile?

How much longer can I go on like this?

And as I'm walking, why that row of cells, one of my Afro American Pacidian rabbi, I want to show you what the what your rabbi said.

I didn't realize.

I just realized that they gave out tablets and the olive organization.

Put on a lot of the Rebus videos so the Rebus what she gives over secrets.

You know, and then.

You'd be surprised how many the it's free doesn't cost anything to download for their movies.

I got to pay money because this stuff is free.

A lot of them don't, don't have the money.

So they download the Revis videos and they watch it in, in your dish with the subtitles.

I, I can't get till today.

I can't get over it.

And I want you to hear what your rabbi says.

And I felt very touched because he sees a guy walking around so he knows who my rabbi, who my rabbi is.

I was very impressed.

I know, I know till he turns it.

On till it, till it turns off, till it warms up till you find it, till you scroll through.

So listen, I'm going to go to the end of the hall, to the end of the row, and I'll be back in around 2 minutes.

I'll be back.

Anyhow, besides the tablet, he had a tape recorder and like when my younger days we used to call them boom boxes.

So what he did he.

Attached the wire from the top instead of the earphone into the boom box and all of the sudden it's a massive, huge room.

You know, tears the 3-4 tiers of four tier massive room.

And the echo is phenomenal.

And all of the sudden the words of the Barbara Chereba.

I hear the words of the Barbara Chereba.

It says a mange Arbid Zaczek Beautiful Zaczek yard retirement retirement, although Lamod you lot a person was created to work.

So I figured wow so that was a very powerful lesson for me.

So aha, the scholar pretz was unbelievable.

I got a a direct message thinking of retirement never long as Hashem gives each and any ever any of us Caiaphas continue.

I see Pasha lahava by by some of the lion who did it 30-40 years as correctional officers and then they they retired.

I, I see, I sometimes I meet them later, they're in a downward spiral, like maybe it's the stress of all the years of doing the job, but you need, every person needs structure in his day.

100% what advice would he give someone who feels like they hit rock bottom?

They feel like there's no hope anymore and they're despondent.

Find someone who needs help and become a volunteer.

There are a lot of Jewish organizations out there who are, who are always looking at searching for volunteers.

This is the.

And you should know, you are never.

There's no such thing as rock bottom.

Do you have a favorite story that gives you inspiration, a story that motivates you and inspires you?

Yeah.

We had once a, we'll call him Ellie, an elderly Russian gentleman.

He was in his early 70s.

He came out of the Soviet Union.

Well, there was still the Soviet Union.

He came to America and.

He.

Fulfilled the American dream, he spoke perfect Yiddish and well when I used.

To sit with him, we used to converse only in Yiddish, but he did not really have much what to do, not besides the foods he didn't know too much more, too much more about Yiddish guide.

But now that he's in prison, he did a very short term actually, and I used to learn with him at that point, used to learn him in the evenings.

So together, it was a Wednesday evening.

It was early August.

It was during the, I think it was after Shibasaba Thomas and we're sitting together and I had with me a safer of the Caleb, the base of Mikdash.

And I told him, Ellie, you're a lady.

That's all he knew is he's a lady.

His father told him when he was a young kid, he's a lady.

He had no idea what a lady is.

So this is a picture of the set of the base of English.

And she has soon gone about to come.

And you should know you're going to you and I are going to find ourselves in this place.

You have to know.

Where you're allowed to go where you're not allowed to go, what and how the and the setup of the building.

And I with a colored picture.

I try to make it sound as real as I can.

And then he this is conversations in you that she tells me rebel.

I remember when I was a child.

He's done, he's done.

He's like 7370.

Four, I remember my Zeta telling me also about the base of English, also about Mushiya.

And now it's many, many years later, and you're telling me the same thing.

And with tears coming down his eyes, his face, he tells me, rebel, how do I know it's true?

Yeah, you have to be here.

I was not prepared for that question, so I tell them, Ellie, let me see, How old were you when you came to the United States?

I was 50.

Did you know any?

Did you know anything?

Did you ever study about your Yiddish guy from Russia?

No religion in Russia was like taboo.

No one discussed it.

So when he came to the United States, did you interested interest yourself, the Yiddish guy?

No, no, no, I'm not not interested.

So I want you to know, Ellie, that the same question you have I had and I prayed to Vashem to give me an answer and he gave me the answer.

He said what's the answer?

So I then began reviewing with him his life story and finally this person who has no the background, the Yiddish guide, was not interested in Yiddish guide.

He's sitting now in a prison.

He could be outside enjoying the weather, blank his guitar, and he's sitting here next to a rabbi with tears coming down his cheeks.

And he's asking me about Mushiya.

So there, I sham, I ask you for an answer, to know that it's real.

I look at Ellie, and now I know it's real.

You see, Ellie, I got my answer.

Now you go find your answer.

Wow.

Beautiful.

Did you ever have any tragedies in prison?

These things could happen.

Yeah.

And we have a protocol.

We follow a protocol.

And and we follow a protocol.

And and we.

Do we do things?

A very in a in a very.

Professional manner.

Many years ago when I started my career, we had a very high, very famous, no one remembers him.

I'm not going to mention his name now.

A very famous inmate who passed away.

He was in prison since night in the in the early 1960s.

So as a, as a, as a prison chaplain, I'm obligated to officiate at their funerals, even though I'm a rabbi and they could be, and he's from, he was from another faith.

But the Rambam says clearly that the, the Rambam tells us that we, I'll show them, show them, show the Malchus.

We should go and we should bury the dead of the, of the, of the community where you live.

It's an obligation.

So I, it was the last minute funeral.

I was totally unprepared.

And I grabbed the film.

And I turned to an English to them and it was capital of Gimmel.

I said no, no, no.

I said I sing that by the Shabbos table.

So I went to.

I think I did.

The capital of Dalit.

I got up there, I said it in English, and there were only three or 4 other inmates who helped carry the coffin and we had a supervisor of the cemetery and an officer departing everyone.

And yeah, everything is an opportunity.

And I spoke.

About the beauty of a soul which comes into the body.

God sends a soul into a body to live a life.

And every soul has a mission.

And we have taken opportunity for all of those who are still alive.

We should do what we're supposed to.

I mentioned briefly the seven Mr.

Blenowa, and I said, well, we should walk away there with a certain sense of kindness.

We said what we just did was an unbelievable kindness because this person who we just buried can never repay, can never repay us.

So we should always remember, we should share kindness with one, with one another.

And I found out the message went through when they spread it around the old prison without the rabbi speaking about kindness and that Barack Hashem, I left an impression.

So we we we are de benched.

We are as humans, especially as Eden.

We have to take every opportunity we have or we transform it into something positive.

Even at times like this beautiful.

And you're in prison.

I'm sure like are there gangs?

Is there fighting that goes on?

I'm sure there I, I, I I have never.

Witnessed it, but so I hear.

Who is the happiest person that you know?

Us Eden as Jews, what we have to understand what happiness is the happiness, the real happiness.

It's that we say it a Shabbos and I'm Taving and we say the Shur Hamalois.

It's under the time of she will come Azimales like funeral Shenanorino.

That's when you'll have the real happiness.

We're aiming for the happiness.

Happiness is not me.

Self satisfaction.

Happiness is an idea of achievement.

I felt I accomplished.

What did I accomplished?

I accomplished my mission.

I've seen happiness.

The real Simcha, Teri Dicasimha.

I'm sure you've seen it also.

All your watches have seen it.

I remember I was by the Lubavitcherabba Simcha story, by night and by day.

You saw the Punim, you saw a Teri Dicasimha.

That's the happiness I yearn for.

So I have Bharat Hashem had the schools to visit the Baruch.

Look in the far out cities and forsaken places and there's a certain aura of accomplishment and I sense in them a happiness.

I don't see it on their faces that much.

Maybe in the rise, but that is the happiness.

That's happiness is a sense of accomplishment.

When I was right here, Bharat Hashem, I married off all my children.

Walking down the Hooper, I was able to achieve a moment, it's very deep, profound moment.

When I realized that I I managed to reach a certain milestone in my life.

It was not so much the happiness, it was a a sense of tranquility, of accomplishment.

We have it a few times in our life.

We should all be Zoecher, but we have to aim to finalize our mission, and our mission as hidden is to bring Mashiach.

We're living in a very historic times.

Turn on the.

Radio you'll hear the news real historic times, we should not get confused what's going on and we should achieve to climb to cross the finish line Lahabdil I saw these climates should go on Mount Everest and they reached the top you see the.

The exhilaration of the faces.

That was their aim and they achieved for that moment, that moment in their life, they achieve their happiness.

We are looking for more permanent happiness, and this is will all accomplish only when the ghoulish lamer, which each and every one of us has the power to accomplish when.

You have a day that let's say you feel sad.

You feel a little depressed, and if you could say in your own way, how do you cheer up the your inmates?

How do you go to work and you're upset about something and you have to put on a smile on at least those people's faces, but you yourself don't have a smile.

What do you do?

It's a problem.

We do the best.

We can.

We don't always have easy days.

You said before that if you make someone else happy, you get happy yourself.

So it could be the answer is just try to put a smile on their face.

Yeah, a fun question.

If you could sit down with one person from the beginning of time, dead or alive, for dinner, who would it be?

Well, I would.

Say like every good, every good, the Jewish boy would say they're rebel.

So my case, be my rebel.

Did.

Did you have a connection with your with the with the Labava Cheruba?

Well, yeah.

Well, yes, I was.

I went to APHAS a few times and I got a few dollars throughout my journey in life, which I broke a sham past on to my children and to my grandchildren.

What's the best advice that you ever received?

Well, my wife gave me a lot of advice and all the wife all the advice my wife gave.

Me is always the best advice.

Anything you remember that your wife said that sticks out?

Yeah, but I can't repeat it now.

OK, no problem.

What advice would it give to someone watching this?

Someone who wants advice from Someone Like You?

OK, we are living now in the Generation Mamas and Mashev's generation.

You open up your eyes.

You could see it.

Around you the world is fascinated.

The Jews, you can't hide it.

Whether it's in a positive way or unfortunately not in a positive way.

The whole world is.

If is is fascinated, you are.

Each and every one of you was watching.

It is a living example.

You're constantly being judged.

You're not aware of it.

The way you walk in the street, the way you talk in a store.

You're constantly being analyzed.

You're constantly being watched.

You're constantly being judged.

And we have unbelievable opportunities to do kiddush Hashem many, many times each day.

And we also have opportunity, God forbid, not to leave a positive impression.

And if you keep this in mind and believe me, a good word, a a good, a positive, good morning, a sincere full thank, a sincere.

Full.

Thank you.

Goes a long, long way.

Yeah.

And there's stories of how people were saved from death because of a Good morning.

The best story I have is I watched the interview with the.

I don't know how politically correct is with Putin.

They once asked him.

I know because Beryl Lazar is my wife's distant cousin.

But this is 0.

But I heard him.

He gave over the famous story.

I mean, I think and the story was like this, why is he so friendly to the Jews?

When Putin was six or seven years old, he lived in a tenement to Moscow.

He lived in a tenement and down the block in this, in the same hallway.

Imagine a tenement to Moscow in the 1960s.

You know, it wasn't, it was not luxurious.

And then food was an issue.

You didn't worry.

Everyone's had challenges with.

Food.

And he told there was a Jewish neighbor, a religious neighbor.

The religious boy with parents, obviously his father was not around too much, and they, his father invited him in, helped him with his homework and he shared quite a few suppers with them.

He never forgot that because of that simple act of kindness, millions and millions and millions of getting in Russia are not being persecuted.

The Borat Hashem have a good life.

What will happen after Putin goes?

I don't know, but I secretly.

I dive in from everyday shall have a Ricociomer and he should continue with his kindness with the with the Eden in Russia and he said his policies politically maybe should change them too.

But I did the the lesson here is why did a a a a Jewish man, a Jewish family divided in a non Jewish boy into their home wash it?

What's kindness?

I mean, look, this is the lesson from Irimovino.

I mean, a billion Muslims are following his his tradition.

I mean, they should.

Follow it a.

Bit better over a billion.

That is 1.6 billion.

They should follow it a bit better.

But the the the religion started with an act of kindness.

Doesn't cost much to be kind.

No doesn't.

Do you deal with anti-Semitism in prison?

Once in a while.

So you as a rabbi, you're the one representing the Jewish people and I'm and is the anti-Semitism usually directed as a Jewish prisoners or at you or both.

Everything is an opportunity.

You could look at it as a anti-Semitism.

I had by us once a gentleman, I'll call him Justin, in those days in.

Order to have a beard in prison.

Now the regulations change, but in those days.

He had to either be.

Jewish or Rastafarian?

So he came into the prison, he registered himself Jewish.

He was convicted to my, if I remember correctly, of trying to blow up a synagogue and all the sudden he's there, registered Jewish.

It was a little touchy situation until he had a meltdown in prison.

He had issues with mental health and that time when I found out, I used to visit him almost at least 2-3 times a week in the prison, giving him a visit and then you got better.

Family came to visit him.

I went to see them all together in the visiting room.

I told them I gave him the great potential I see in the sun.

And he was.

He didn't sit long.

Right before you left, I sat down with him.

I went over to my sister.

Justin.

You're a good guy.

You have a problem.

You sometimes you're too good and you follow the wrong people.

You could become a leader, do something positive in your life.

And we shook hands.

And Barack Hashem, I haven't seen him back in prison yet.

Hopefully you're made that way.

Is there one final message of hope, One final message of physics they like to share with the audience?

Don't underestimate yourselves.

I have an exotic, I do an exotic work in an exotic place.

But in your day-to-day life, you interact each day with so many people and you have an unbelievable each and every one of us has an unbelievable potential to help someone out and and to be helpful to ourselves and to society in general.

And this is in our DNAI mean, look at John F Kennedy when he started the Peace Corps.

The Jewish population, I think was what, 3-4 percent of the United States?

It still is.

Nothing changed, just the population got a bit bigger.

And there are 40 / 40% of Peace Corps volunteers.

We're Jewish.

We're Jewish kids.

They know too much about Yiddish guy, but they haven't.

It's within us.

We will have to do ticking alarm and Barack Hashem with two ticking alarm.

We could do the off ticking up the way the Torah wants us to, ticking along.

And that's why we have this is the famous jokes for Jewish doctors and lawyers.

We restart.

Off the small.

And unfortunately, as life goes on, it's been flying spirits.

We want to do this small, we get involved.

It's a lightly small.

What advice or how do you guide someone who's dealing with a mental health challenge of their own family or God forbid, and someone who's being imprisoned in their own family?

Every family has its own dynamic, so I don't really want to touch about that.

But we should never be afraid to reach out.

We should have a a Sailor Javer before the river had the stroke.

He encouraged everyone.

I thought it was just full of barbecues, but I see it was not.

I say, look, Ralph, everyone should have a mentor.

I meant I have a young man, a friend of mine.

We my age.

When he started a business, he told me he always he had a retired businessman.

He always asked him advice.

And I used to laugh at him.

Come on, I thought, you know it all.

I know it all.

Well, I guess he didn't know it all, and I also didn't know it all.

But after a while, I, I realized it took me a while to realize they didn't know it all.

But he, he was very proud to tell me that each time he had a big deal, he used to discuss it with his friend.

This is talking about the business.

I'm talking about his spirituality.

It's a sailor Harov.

A sailor.

Harvard make yourself a friend and but a true friend, a real friend.

And a real, a real rough or someone who's really is interested in you and it's not easy.

I'm not a lot of people cannot do that, have a difficulty with that.

But if it could be done, you should be fine and there's nothing wrong.

Reaching out for help.

Don't hold it within you if you can't share it with your spouse.

Find yourself a good driver and find yourself a rough nothing.

Nothing is unsolvable.

Absolutely.

I deal with people who, believe it or not, who would think they're in utter despair.

They're not.

Nothing is unsolvable.

Every problem.

There's a solution.

Might not be to your liking, but there's always a solution.

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