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There's a medrash. There's a medrash that's quoted in the introduction to the Ein Yaakov. We don't know where this medrash is But in the introduction to the Ein Yaakov. He quotes a medrash. Medrash brings different shitas as to which pasuk in the Torah captures the entirety of the Torah. There are four different shitas. It's a shita ben Azay that the pasuk. That captures Kolatayra Kula is the pasuk. The pasuk says that man was created Betzalem Elokim in the image of God. Ben Zayma says it's the pasuk Shema Yisrael Hashem Elokeinu Hashem Echad. Ben nana says the hafta lareicha kamocha E Shimon Ben Pazi. Quotes the pesukim from this week's parsha
And says that the pasuk that captures the entirety of Torah is the carbon talmid. And when we think about these four approaches A person can readily understand that when the Torah tells us that man was created b'tzalim elokim That the dignity. That we all have inside of us, the soul that we all have inside of us captures the entire Torah. Person says, "Yes, I understand. That could be a pasuk that captures all of Torah." Shema Yisrael, Hashem Elokeinu, Hashem Echad, the oneness of all of creation. That's a pasuk that could capture Kol Torah Kula. V'ahafta l'reyach haKamocha. Certainly, that's a pasuk that could capture Kol Torah Kula. That we see the godliness in another, and that tells us that we should treat them in a godly way. It makes sense. But Shimon Ben Pazi comes with a chiddush: the carbon talmid The daily carbon that we bring in the morning and the afternoon That captures the entirety of Torah.
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Very difficult to understand, and the medrash continues And the medrash says that indeed they pasquined on that day, the chachamim pasquined that it was Shimon ben Pazi who was right. That it's the daily carbon talmud that we bring that captures the entirety of taryum And so we're doubly perplexed. Not only do we have no understanding of what it means But that was the maskana. That's the way we pasquined. What's going on over here? Rashi notes. The juxtaposition A word that we only know because of Artscroll. Rashi notes the juxtaposition between Moshe Rabbeinu's request for a leader after Moshe Rabbeinu is told that he's not going with Klal Yisrael into Eretz Yisrael. He says to Hakadosh Baruch Hu, Klal Yisrael needs a leader, and Hakadosh Baruch Hu tells him to appoint Yehoshua. And right after the appointment of Yoshua, the parsha of the carbon talmid, and Rashi, noting the juxtaposition of these two parshios Brings from the Sifrei an answer as to why these two parshios go together. But the answer is a wild answer, a perplexing answer.
Rashi, quoting the Sifrei, as we'll soon see, Rashi actually misquotes the Sifrei. Rashi, quoting the Sifrei, brings the marshal. It's the marshal he says of a princess. Who's dying? And the husband of the princess says to the princess You're concerned about what will be with your children. You're dying, and you're concerned about what will be with your children. What's going to be with me? I'm going to be alone when you leave this world. You have to tell the children to take care of me. And this Rashi explains as the juxtaposition. Between Moshe Rabbeinu appointing Yosua and the daily carbon talmid Moshe Rabbeinu, you're concerned. What's going to be with Klal Yisrael after your patera? Who's going to be the leader? Who's going to take Klal Yisrael into Eretz Yisrael? What's the future going to look like? You're so concerned about Klal Yisrael. Says Hakadosh Baruch Hu. I'm going to be terribly alone.
And therefore Just like the husband of the princess. Says to the princess, "Make sure the children take care of me when you're gone." "Says Hakadosh Baruch Hu to my Shabenu, 'Teach them the halachos of the carbon tamed to make sure that I'm okay.' And this is a very perplexing sifri. Hakadosh Baruch Hu needs to be taken care of. What are we talking about over here? Hakadosh Baruch Hu Kaviyachol is going to be lonely. Hakadosh Baruch Hu is nervous. What will be with him? A person who chas v'shalom loses their spouse and now they're nervous. Where will be their place in the world? This is what Hakadosh Baruch Hu is nervous about. Very strange to Sifrei. Not only that But if you look at the Sifrei It's not what the Sifrei says. Rashi made a change in the text. Perhaps he had an alternate girsu, but it's not the girsu of the sifri that we have.
The Lubavitcher Rebbe Zechesadik L'rocha points out that initially in the sifri it said it was a marshal of a king and a queen And Rashi changes it. It's no longer a marshal of a king and a queen. It's a princess and her husband. It doesn't say a princess and a prince. A princess and her husband. Why did Rashi downgrade it? Originally, it's the queen that's dying, and the king is concerned. Rashi says, "No. It's not a king. It's not a queen, but a princess that's dying, and a regular husband who's concerned." Why does Rashi downgrade it? I want to share with you something. For me, it's a question that I've received. For sure, hundreds of times, perhaps more, and I imagine it's a question that many of you have asked. Does Hakadosh Baruch Hu really care about my mitzvot? Does Hakadosh Baruch Hu really care about my averos?
I don't know why this is the average that people ask me about But somehow, in 90 percent of the cases, it's boreh on Shabbos. Does Hashem really care if I do boreh on Shabbos? I don't know what boreh did that this is what's driving the psychology of our youth today, but somehow this existential crisis of spitting out the seeds from the watermelon is critical. I need to know why Al Kiddush Baruch Hu cares about that. But this week This week I got the question differently. They came out. They just released the pictures of a new telescope. Y'all see this? The pictures of the new telescope. The Hubble telescope was the best telescope that we had in the world, and there are unbelievable images that we had. But the Hubble telescope is like one of those dumb phones relative to the iPhone one thousand that we have today, and it takes the most unbelievable pictures. And we're seeing deeper into space than we've ever seen before, and we're seeing galaxies that we've never seen before. And each galaxy contains planets and trillions of stars. And a Talmud called me up. He was bothered by the new pictures, and he said, "Rebbe I feel like I'm a nothing. I feel like I'm a zero. How could the Rebbeinu Sholim possibly care about me?
It's one thing we're here in NCSY Kollel. What do we have here? 300 guys. Beseder, I make a difference. One in 300, not bad. You look at the Jewish world: 11 million Yidden, 12 million Jews. What do we have? Beseder, I could understand. I start to think of the world: 7 billion. Starts to make me feel a little inadequate. I start to think of the solar system. But now that we know. And we've seen it with our own eyes—that we have galaxies upon galaxies, and we can see them. And it's unbelievable. We have these pictures; gorgeous. Rabbi, I feel like a speck. I feel like my life doesn't matter at Kibbutz. I submit that this is the challenge for so many of us. We don't feel like we matter. Many years ago Over twenty years ago I was sitting in Ace Kodesh in Woodmere, New York. It was by a Shabbos Shuva Drasha by Rav Weinberger Shlitah, and Rav Weinberger said over the following idea: Why did Cain kill Abel?
The Torah tells us the El Minchosoi Loi Sha. That Kayin felt like my carbon minchah wasn't good enough. Hakadosh Baruch Hu didn't turn towards it. It wasn't meaningful. It wasn't important. And Rav Weinberger said, and I'll never forget this. He said, "Do you know what a person is capable of doing when they feel like their carbon doesn't matter?" That Hakadosh Baruch Hu doesn't care about them. That what they do doesn't have cosmic and infinite significance and meaning in this world? A person could kill their brother. If you think about it, if a person kills their brother, it's not just the person who was killed, but also the family of the killer. If they're living with such a world view and they think my life doesn't matter, You could do anything. And the Arizal says that the Tikkun for Cain in heaven was Elisha, Elisha a Navi Elisha is a Laishah.
Somebody's paying attention to me. Cain felt ve'el minchoshei Laishah. Nobody's paying attention to me. Who was Elisha? Elisha was a person, a regular guy. And the aderis Eliyahu, the corner of Eliyahu and Navi's jacket touched Elisha and Navi, and that was it. He said, "Rebbe, I'm yours. I'm yours." And he took after he took off after him, and he said, "I'm going to become the Talmud of Eliyahu and Navi," and he became one of the greatest Naviim to ever live in this world. And before Eliyahu and Navi ascends to Shamayim He tells Elisha, "Ask me." Ask me for something. And Elisha asks a very strange thing. He says, "Rebbe" Give me pishnayim me'ruchacha Which literally means, 'Rebbe, make me twice as great as you.' What type of bracha is that? Who goes to their Rebbe as they're leaving? Their Rebbe as their Rebbe is leaving them and says, 'Rebbe, I think 很好. I want to be a leader, but I'm not sure how to get there. I need to be twice as great as my Rebbe.' This is not the humility of Elisha Anavi.
Says Rav Weinberger. No What was Alicia saying? What was in the corner of Elio Anavi's jacket? I want that jacket. I want to walk around with Elio Anavi's jacket, and everywhere I go, I could touch Jews, and those Jews will take off and become Alicia Anavi. There was nothing in Elio Anavi's jacket. There was nothing in that jacket. But Alicia was a person who was waiting for the excuse. He was waiting for a Rebbe to come over to him and to put his arm around his shoulder and say: Come, let's do this. Become the person that you're meant to be. Every one of us, Chazal say, has a person that we're meant to be. Eliezer Hanavi was waiting for an Eliyahu Hanavi to come And now Eliezer Hanavi knows that his Rebbe is ascending to Shamayim, and his Rebbe is not going to be around to inspire him, to encourage him, to push him, to critique him, to give him the mussar that he needed, but to raise him up. And he has a question, Rebbe: When you are gone What will I be? Who's going to remind me that I could be a somebody?
Rebbe, give me pishnayim me ruchacha Because we all have two ruchos. We have two spirits, two winds about us. There's the person that we are, and then there's the person that we already know that we have inside of us. And every single one of us already knows the person that we have inside of us. It's just a question of whether or not we'll have the courage and the commitment to become the person that we know that we are, and that's not a simple thing. Because there are so many deep vulnerabilities that we have. To be able to stand proud and stand tall and say this is who I am. It takes a tremendous amount of courage to be authentic. It's not a simple thing. So there's the person that I am, and there's the person that I know I can be, that I know is living inside of me. And in some ways, the definition of maturity is to become the person that you know you have inside of you.
So there are two ruachos Like the Berditchiver says about Nayachatzadik. Eilat told us Noach, Noach. There's two Noachs. There's the Noach that he was, and then there's the Noach that he could have been. And every one of us has two ruachos—the ruach that we are and the ruach that we could be. Rebbe Eliezer Naviv says, 'Rebbe, give me pishnayim eruachah. Give me the bracha that even after you are gone' I won't forget that I have two ruachos. I won't stop being inspired. I won't stop working on myself to become the person that I know I have inside of me. Eliezer wasn't Kassvasholom asking to be greater than his Rebbe. He was asking to be a lifetime bal avoda To not give in to the complacency of life Which is not a simple thing Because we get distracted And to be a Jew who shows up every day and says, "I'm in, I'm committed, I'm passionate, I'm focused." These are not simple things.
Does a kodesh baruch hu need us? Not a simple question. On the one hand, some of the philosophers in the room are probably saying,"Hakadosh Baruch Hu needs me. How could that be? Hakadosh Baruch Hu is not lacking. But the alternative is psychologically debilitating. Hakadosh Baruch Hu doesn't need me And we go around and we tell our talmidim because we want to teach them a proper Ashkafa. We tell our talmidim, 'Don't worry, Hakadosh Baruch Hu doesn't need you.' He has no lack. And what's the message that so many of our talmidim are hearing? Hakadosh Baruch Hu doesn't need me. It's all for me. If I want it, it's good. It's the ultimate pleasure. It's this. It's that. But maybe it's not the ultimate pleasure for me. Maybe I don't feel like it's the ultimate pleasure. Maybe I'm not interested. Comes along Rashi in a daring move.
And Rashi tells us an unbelievable insight into the nature Both of Hakadosh Baruch Hu's relationship in this world and our relationship to Hakadosh Baruch Hu. Hakadosh Baruch Hu is infinite, and an infinite being has no lack, and a being that has no lack has no needs. But that doesn't chashvasholom mean that you are not needed. Rashi says it's not like a king and a queen. The Sifri says the queen is dying. The king is wondering what will be with himself. But Rashi says that the text cannot be that. That can't be the pshat because a king, even when the queen dies, is still a king. And he has all the royal officers and everything he needs to be taken care of. A king does not need his subjects Not to be king. So Rashi changes it. Or perhaps he had a different gersel. Or perhaps he's giving us an insight.
And Rashi says it's really about a princess and her husband is a layperson. He's not a king. And the layperson, after the princess dies, he says, "What am I?" What am I without you? There is kaviyachol ki'ilu, a vulnerability. Not that the person is lacking, Chas v'shalom. Not that Hakadosh Baruch Hu is lacking. But what will I do without you? What will life be like without you? And so Moshe Rabbeinu, in this moment He's coming and he's asking a question to Hakadosh Baruch Hu: What will be with Klal Yisrael after I go? Who will take over? Who will lead Klal Yisrael into the Promised Land? Who will build the Beis Hamikdash? How will we ultimately have a Mashiach? What's going to be with my children? Hakadosh Baruch Hu gave us the ultimate answer: one, appoint a leader. You have to have a rebbe. You have to have a rebbe that inspires you. There is a second answer that's equally important, perhaps more important.
A yid needs to know that his actions are necessary. That his life is necessary. That every moment that we are here is on purpose. When a Jew wakes up in the morning and he says Ma'ida Ani, it's the recognition that in this moment, Hakadosh Baruch Hu is saying you are needed in this world. It's a beautiful verb from Rav Kook. If you came to NCSY Kollel only to hear these words from Rav Kook, it would be worth it. In your Yom Kippur davening, we say Ad Shalom Otsarti Eni Kadai. The Achshav Shenotzarti ki ilo lo notzarti. Hakadosh Baruch Hu, until you created me, I wasn't necessary, and now that you created me, I'm still not necessary. It sounds so depressing. Comes along Ruvkuk and he says, "No, you're not reading it with the right intonation." Ruvkuk says, "Imagine a person who has a line in a play. Imagine you're on a Broadway show and you're given a line. And this is your line. And everybody comes, and they pay thousands of dollars to come sit in the audience, and it's the breakout show. And you know it's your turn, and you get on stage, and it's your turn to sing, and you have nothing to say."
What a waste! The whole show was culminating with your line. It was your turn, and you're on stage. Say something, says Rv Kook. Ad shalom, tzarti ani k'day. Until you were born, you weren't needed. But now that you're born, you have a line to say, and only you can say it. And now that you're here on stage, ki ilo no tzarati, because we're not saying our lines. And why aren't we saying our lines? Not because we don't know that we have lines. We know that we have lines to say. But who amongst us has the courage to say those lines? To live that way. To live that way every single day. Who has the courage to do that? Not a simple thing. It's an unbelievably inspiring message, Cesarov Cook. To know that this moment Eleven o'clock at night in NCSY Kolle This moment is an infinite moment, pregnant with infinite possibilities, and the only question is, what will you do with it? And all of your life is like that.
I'll tell you, when I turned forty years old a couple years ago, it messed with my head. And I realized that I'll be derech ateva. I'm probably halfway done. If I live till I'm 80 years old, I'm probably halfway done. And I realize I'm never getting those years back. And it messed with my head. So what am I going to do? I've got 40 years left, and I already messed up so many of the earlier years of my life. I felt a deep sense not of regret only, but also of hopelessness. Like what was And I was talking to my rebbe about it, and he said, Mordechai, if you're feeling that way Could you imagine what would have happened if, when you were 18 years old and you went to yeshiva, you didn't make the decision to be passionate about your yiddishkeit? At least you could say that. At least you could say, okay, you know, you're imperfect, but at least you could say you've been sticking.
And it was a big nachama to hear that from my rebbe. At least I could say I'm trying, even if I'm failing. But I'm in the game. And Rabbeys say that's what's being asked of us—to be in the game, to show up to play. If you don't show up, there's nothing we could do. But if you show up to play, you're at least going to score some shots because you're there. Every person in this room needs to know that every moment matters. You don't need to be perfect. That's not what Hakadosh Baruch Hu is asking. But Hakadosh Baruch Hu is saying,"If I woke you up today, I woke you up on purpose. What are you going to do to change Klal Yisrael today? What are you going to do to change the world today? " Everyone here knows, I'm sure Of Rabbi Doctor Lord Chief at all the titles in the world. Rabbi Jonathan Sachs, who passed away.
Rabbi Jonathan Sachs tells the story of how he became chief lord. He was in England And he had philosophical questions. He traveled to New York. He wanted to speak to Rav Salavichik and the Lubavitcher Rebbe. He showed up at seven seventy Eastern Parkway and said, "I'm here to meet with the Rebbe." And the Hasidim laughed at him. You don't just show up at seven seventy. People make appointments. Months in advance. I traveled all this way from England. They said, leave a number where we can reach you. But we don't know if you're going to get an appointment. He said he was going out to Los Angeles, and he left a number where he could be reached in Los Angeles. He got on a Greyhound bus and went across the country from New York to Los Angeles. And when he arrived in Los Angeles, there was a message waiting for him.
The Rebbe will see you tomorrow. So he got back on a Greyhound bus. He went all the way back across America. And arrived at seven seventy for a private yichidus, a private meeting with the Rebbe. And in that meeting He started giving all of his philosophical questions to the Rebbe. One by one, the Rebbe knocked them off. This answer to this is this, and the answer to that is that. He kept on asking questions and kept on answering. Finally, Rabbi Sachs was out of questions. Thinking that the meeting was over, he stood up to go. And the Rebbe looked at him and he said, "Where are you going?" You got to ask me all these questions. Now I want to ask you a question. So Rabbi Sachs sat down And the Rebbe asked him "What are you doing for Jewish life in Cambridge?" And when Rabbi Sachs tells the story, he says, "I answered like a typical Englishman. That is to say, I avoided the question."
And he said, "Well, Rebbe, you must understand, in the condition in which I currently find myself," and the Rebbe cut him off. And he said, 'There's no such thing as a Jew that finds himself in a particular place by accident. If you're there, it's because you're supposed to be there to do something.' Now, what are you going to do for Jewish life in Cambridge? And that's the way the Rebbe was. And he was merciless with his chassidim. We think sometimes of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, and we think of this warm, sweet, soft elderly man who gave brachos and Yeshuas for Klal Yisrael. But the truth of the matter is, he was demanding of everyone that he met. "What are you doing for Klal Yisrael? What are you doing to change the world?" Because the Rebbe deeply believed that every moment that you exist on purpose, and it's an opportunity to bring Klal Shamayim into this world.
And perhaps that's why Perhaps that's why so many Chasidim today, even after the Rebbe's death, continue to do that work. Because he instilled in them that level of devotion. Rabbi said, "There's a key. There's a trick." The trick is to show up every day. If you believe that Hakadosh Baruch Hu wants you, that Hakadosh Baruch Hu needs you in this world, not because He's lacking, but because there's something that you have to say, a line in the play, a piece of the puzzle. Then you show up every day to play, and that's the mitzvah of the carbon tamed. The mitzvah of the carbon talmid is an expression of the fact that every single one of us infinitely matters. And what more inspiring puzzle could there be in the entire Torah that we were created? Selam elokim, beautiful, godly dignity. Every one of us, shema yisrael, ashem elokeno ashem echad, an infinite God, amazing oneness.
Vehahtalureiach hakamocha, beautiful. But comes along the Medrash and says, all of those things are not the way we paskin. We paskin that the most important psukim in the Torah that encapture the entire Torah is the psukim of the Carbon Talmid, because the Carbon Talmid is the revelation that every single one of us matters. And the problem with the question about Boreh And the problem with the question about all of the galaxies and all the skies and everything that I'm seeing in the world is that I feel, Rebbe, like I don't matter. And that's what people are feeling today. People are not on their phones on Shabbos because they have ADHD. People are not on their phones on Shabbos because they have nothing else to do. People are not on their phones on Shabbos because they have no idea of the infinite significance of keeping a Shabbos. They have no idea what it means to show up to davening and to know that in Shamayim when we show up to davening, that yid showed up to davening.
I want to. I want to. I want to tell you something. I love I love yo men's yes why. I love Yo Men's Yes Why? Not because of the fireworks or the drummers. Not because of Mordechai Shapiro, though I happen to like Mordechai Shapiro music. Not because of the guy that's constantly screaming, "Please don't throw water," which happens every single year. I love Yom Ences. Why? Because I love watching thousands of Yidden come together, and I love watching kids get up on screen who have no yeshiva education. And they don't have the opportunities that many of you had, and they get up on screen and they say, "Ich bin a Yid. I'm a Jew, and I've come to my land, and I've returned to my land, and I feel like I'm a part of it." My daughter last night. She came back from dancing. And she said that was an awesome Yom Encysy. I asked her, 'Bracha, why was that an awesome Yom Encysy?' And she said, 'Abba, I've been dancing with TJJ girls for the last two hours.'
" Nachs. Nachas that Yidden came on a program to Eretz Yisrael and to say my life as a Jew matters. And Rabbi Sigh, you should know what Klal Yisrael looks like because when you're growing up in Florida or the Five Towns or Tinek or Muncie or L. A., you don't know that most of Klal Yisrael doesn't look the way it looks in N. C. S. Yekola. You should know that there are plenty of Yidden walking around out there and they have no idea that their Jewish life matters. And it's our responsibility in every moment of our life to make sure that the world knows that Yidden are here, that Jews are here, and that we have the opportunity to impact the world. It starts at home. I was having a conversation with someone in NCSY last night And we were talking about an interesting development in Klal Yisrael. We can't find great mechanchin because nobody's going into chinuch anymore.
And there might be a lot of reasons for that. But one thing for sure: if we're not developing people that are going out and inspiring others, it means we didn't fail you then. It means we failed you now. We failed you when you were teenagers. Because right now you have the opportunity to know if my life matters. Then I have to do something meaningful with my life, and that's not a small thing to do. I remember when my father, who was very successful, Baruch Hashem. I remember when my father lost his job And three weeks later he had a much better job. There were three weeks where we had bought our house in Lawrence, New York. And there were three weeks where right after that my dad lost his job, and I didn't know what was going to be. It could be scary for a 16-year-old kid when your dad lost his job.
And I didn't want to ask my father. I didn't want to be the intrusive kid, but it's scary. So I remember I asked my dad. I got the courage one night and I said to my dad. What's going to be? I knew my mom was scared. What's going to be? My father told me. I'll never forget this. Regular guy. My father grew up with no yeshiva education. My father said When the Rebbeinu Sholom blessed us with money I was privileged to be able to give tzedakah. And I am hopeful that the Rebbeinu Sholom will give me that opportunity again. My father is not a learner. He never had the opportunities that we had. He never went to NCSY Kollel or Yeshiva. He didn't know how to learn. He learns what he can, but he never learned much. He didn't know Gemara or Mishnayos. He knows a lot about Pesach. He knows a lot about Chumash.
My father was not the biggest davener in the world. It's not that he didn't daven, but we weren't. He wasn't the guy that was deeply into davening. But in that moment I saw in my father a level of emuna that I had never seen, and more than that. I saw in my father that he believed ba'emu neshlema That if he got money from Hashem, it was for a reason. And if he has a life, it's for a reason. And what are we doing, Rabbi Yisai? That's our responsibility. I wish I could have given you the shmooz before Yom Enciassy. It didn't work out. I wish I could have told you that on Yom Enciassy, it's your responsibility to get into dancing with every one of those kids and to pull every one of those kids in. I wish I could have told you that before.
But the Rebbeinu Sholom wanted it exactly on this timing. I'll tell you afterwards. We have a responsibility not only to ourselves, but to every single person in this kollel and to every single person in Kollel Yisrael. And if Chassvus Sholom, you don't spend your life doing something that matters, that's meaningful, it's because you didn't bring the carbon tamin. So you think to yourself, "What's a ma'iriv? What's another ma'iriv? Does the rabbanim don't care about my ma'iriv?" You know what the answer is. Infinitely. I'm too tired to wake up in the morning. Who wants to wake up in the morning? It's so nice in my bed. I don't want to wake up. Your shachris matters. I don't want to stop in the middle of my day. Your mincha matters. Do I really want to push myself to learn a little bit more, to work a little bit harder, to make sure that I know the translation of every word and the shakla v'tayyeh of every word?
Every word infinitely matters. I won't tell you who But there's a madrich in this very room. That in staff training not that long ago, we had a beautiful long conversation about what inspires a teen today. And this young man was arguing correctly and appropriately. He was saying, 'Rebbe, don't we got to teach these guys skills? Don't we got to make sure that they know how to learn? Part of the problem, the reason that they're not inspired' It's because they don't know how to do it. And he's right. But I told him I argued and perhaps I'm right and perhaps he's right Or he's right. I don't want to point in any general direction. Perhaps Perhaps the problem is not that they can't read the Gemara. Perhaps the problem is they can't read the Gemara because nobody ever told them that it matters if they learn how to learn Gemara.
You have to know that it matters infinitely. I wonder. I wonder Who among the NCSYers here will be the people that in fifteen, twenty years from now, NCSY Kollel is going to be taking credit for? Because that's what's going to happen. There's going to be some people here that come through NCSY Kollel. And they're going to become great for Klal Yisrael. Maybe they'll become great marbitzei Torah. We have had great ravonim come through NCSY Kol. There'll be big balaitz daka. We've had big balaitz daka come through NCSY Kol. Maybe there'll be community leaders. We've had community leaders come through NCSY Kol. But you know what's amazing? I have no idea, and nobody does. I have no idea who you're going to be. I can't look at the audience right now and say. You, or you—I can't know. It's impossible to know, but I know it.
I know it because we've been seeing it. The next generation of talent is sitting in this room right now. And we don't know who amongst you is going to be the next person that changes Klal Yisrael. But I know this: if you're listening carefully, and you believe in your heart what I'm saying I know that the answer increases exponentially. And my bracha for us as we wind down before Shabbos. Is that every single person who's sitting here today should believe be'amuna shleima that they are the person that's going to change the face of Klal Yisrael? Rabbi, I have a beautiful Shabbos.
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