David Nesenoff - Part 2

Episode 182 - Part 2: Modi sits down with multi-hyphenate David Nesenoff, author of "I Never Met The Rebbe Many Times".

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Back In The Studio

SPEAKER_02 0:00

We are rolling. We are back. We are still in the studio. Not back in the studio, still in the studio with Dr. Rabbi David Nessinov. The author of I Never Met the Rebbe many times. Also the book Did David's Harp. And a fun hang. A great guy with amazing stories. And I'm going to just pop you. If you people heard the podcast before, we spoke a lot about the book and the Rebbe and Chabad and all of that. And um and uh so let me ask you, just just kind of continue the conversation.

Are We In Messianic Times?

SPEAKER_02 0:46

Do you think Moshiach is here?

SPEAKER_00 0:51

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 0:51

Just I just figured I'd throw that at you and just there was there's always a story. And those of you who don't know what that is, is is the Messiah here already?

SPEAKER_00 0:59

Right, right. Or the times of the Messiah. Yeah. I didn't ask that. I didn't ask nobody.

SPEAKER_02 1:03

So that's that's not even a question. Are we living in the times of the Messiah? 100%. That's not even a question. That's why even give that the energy of a maybe it's not. It's do you believe that the the that that it's already here? Right.

SPEAKER_00 1:17

So I have to give a tiny story. I'll make it quick.

The Window And The Fragrance

SPEAKER_00 1:20

No, you don't have to make it quick. Give the story. Make it a good one. Go for it. Menachemendelovitepsk, not the reb, another person. His name is Menachemendelovitepsk. Vitepsk is a town that I think it's pronounced that way. When I tell it to Russian audiences to yell at me, I pronounce it wrong. Whatever. So he came to Israel. He was in Jerusalem. And he was in his room in Jerusalem. And he's a very holy man, you know. And and he hears the sound of a chauffeur, you know, blasting. And he knows that the sound of the chauffeur means the announcement that Mashiach, the Messiah is coming, is here. So he runs to the window, he opens up the the the the shade, you know, and he and he goes outside and he gives a whip. Smells, because when the Mashiach comes, there's gonna be a fragrance in the air. You're gonna be able to smell the Mashiach, not just see it. And he doesn't smell it. So he goes back in and he closes it. And then it's so the question's asked you know, when Mashiach comes, you can smell it indoors and outdoors. You don't have to stick your nose outside. So why did he open up the window to smell outside? Because the life he was living in his room, the fragrance of Mashiach was there already. So when you ask, is Mashiach here? For those of us who want to live the life of Mashiach energy now, we can live in a world of Mashiach now. Okay, we can have that fragrance. For those who still are sticking their nose out the window, okay, they're gonna have to wait. But but to but to live a life now where we want to help other people, be nice, give some humor, uh open the door for somebody, whatever, whatever your Mashiach energy is, yeah, you can be living in a world of Mashiach now. You don't have to sit there waiting. My my high school teacher, when he taught all the religions of the world, he came to Judaism because he was Jewish, he says, and the Jews are still waiting. So I everyone pictures them going to a synagogue and waiting.

SPEAKER_02 3:04

The whole world's waiting, and I talk about that in my show, which you'll see at Radio City Music Hall. I talk about that everybody is waiting, the Christians are waiting for Jesus to come back. Muslims also have a messianic figure that they are waiting for. So the whole world is the whole world's goal is to be in this messianic era where everybody just gets along. It's just that's the harmony, just just harmony, you know, no need for the bombs. Here's the they open up the straits of Hormuz and they open up the gays of Hormuz and they open up everything. And so it's it's just it's just an easier world to live in. And I but you still see, I I I feel like we're there, you know, and all all of the so you you're an inspirational speaker, and they always tell inspirational speakers always speak about be uh speak in the presence. I am successful, I am rich, I am with my soulmate, things that right? So I am in the times of mashiach, I am in living in the if you treat the person next to you as if he or she is the mashiach, okay, he will be the mashiach.

SPEAKER_00 4:11

I don't know about that. I'm saying if you treat them in that way, if every if everybody in the world did that together, if everyone stopped for one second and treated the person next to them that they were the mashiach, that they were someone they should respect, they someone should look up to, so much to be caring for, there'll be a different world. Okay. So we we we have we can bring about, and the Rebbe said it, someone yelled at him one, there was a woman crying, it was on video, it's crying. You, you, you rabbe, you have to and he said, It's not my job. I'm this guy. He said, I'm I'm a rabbi. Yeah, I'm a rabbi. I'm a rabbi. I'm telling you that all of you, he pointed to each person in the room, man, woman, and said, It's your job to do it.

SPEAKER_02 4:49

And that's she looks she she she lost her son. Yeah, she wanted her son back. And she was crying, and she said, You have to bring Moshir, because you, you, you have to do it. You said, I'm doing what I have to do. I am a rabbi and I am uh uh teacher. Whatever I I don't want to quote, but whatever he said. Um and but she was no, you, you, you, you, you. So it's just it I don't I I think everybody has a Mashirch energy in them.

SPEAKER_00 5:15

So you I would I was very impressed that you your thing you latched on to is Mashiach energy. Like I'll yes, this is a comedian, he's very funny, which is by the way, the hardest job to do in the world, okay, is for for somebody else. For me, it's the easiest thing in the world. Right. But to become so popular and famous and to do what you're doing, and to do it for Jews, you know, uh uh to begin with, okay, and to do it with a a a husband who's gay, as you say. Yes, okay, just it just it it's it's it's ridiculous. I mean, you have to be that funny to accomplish that. That's what it is. Okay, it's not that you figured out some logistics. It's funny. Okay. I remember Jackie Mason, I was in Broadway bell belling out. When I'm in your audience, I'm belling over.

Comedy As Unity During COVID

SPEAKER_00 5:54

So, so so that that but the but on top of that, to all of a sudden, mashiach energy. Yeah, like like I was like, where did that come from?

SPEAKER_02 6:02

Like it came from COVID. It came from from from from COVID. When I I saw Mashiach energy, I saw it. Uh I I knew Mashiach, and we have to wait for Mashiach, and we're waiting for the Messianic era, and we have to live in a messianic era. I I knew all of that. I met the Rebbe, I felt what that, what Mashiach Energy was. I didn't have a name for it. I didn't have a name for it. Um, but when COVID began and we were starting to do live shows, and during COVID is when my husband made me a more of a household name through all kinds of all kinds of of ways we were able to help people. It was and and Leo took it, and and the number one Jewish comedian though is number one because of his non-Jewish husband, right? And um, and you people were were the first time they were back together with other people laughing. Right. And I said, wow, that is a crazy, I've never felt that before. I've done a million shows, but I've never felt that. And the fact that the unity, I go, this is Moshiach energy.

SPEAKER_00 7:09

The unity that to have personal conservative, reform, chasidim, everybody all finding one person, right? Okay, one person to be funny and overlooking any other problems they have, this and that. It's it's it's crazy. It's absolutely incredible.

SPEAKER_02 7:23

It's I I I hope you realize it. I I I I I realize it. I'm thankful for it every single day. I'm in awe every single day. I don't take anything for granted. I I I I want it to be bigger and bigger and bigger, just to be able to reach more people and make them happier. And and that's uh and and it's it's Leo, it's blessings from from Rabbi Gross, it's blessings from the Rebbe, it's visits to the Rebbe's oil, it's it's connecting with Chabad rabbis, connecting with regular rabbis. My own rabbi is such a big influence in in all of it. So um, so that's the Mashiach energy. That's and now October 7th became another to unite people when it in in the most darkest times when we had hostages and to make them laugh. And then at the end, let's just focus together and sing Hatikvah. Right. You know? And some people don't like the Hatikvah song, but I just it's a song everybody knows, and just we're united singing it, you know. I know everybody has their problems with their words, and but but uh it just uh so I I I 100% believe we we we're we're in this that we we are 100% in the messianic era, and but we also it's more than that. It's really that it's really it's a it's a consciousness of change. The whole world just in a second could just change. It's a consciousness. The whole world just goes from we have to kill them and destroy them to just we have to be their best friends. We have to be their best friends, and it's it it's kind of happening too with the the David Accords, all of a sudden Abraham Accords. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, or the Abraham Accords, all of a sudden, these countries are doing business with Israel. You can visit these countries, it's it's just a it's a consciousness, just a switch. Boom. We're we're their friends, not their enemies. It got boom, just changed like that. Right.

SPEAKER_00 9:14

It's like I always say on a train, to get that train to go on another track, you may need like the biggest crane in the world to pick it up and put it there. Yeah. Or there's a little lever that the guy switches and it goes like this. And then that train goes on the track. So the Mashiach energy is this a little lever, it just goes there. And and it and it is crazy what's going on. You know, look, the whole world is focused on Israel.

SPEAKER_02 9:36

I mean, there's such an energy there.

SPEAKER_00 9:39

What is what is that about?

SPEAKER_02 9:40

I don't know what to tell you. It's a I don't know. It's it there's an crazy energy there. I've a I have a bit I do that. I talk about like, you know, when you go to Israel and you feel it, but then you have to deal with the Israelis. So then the whole thing changes. Um, but uh, you know, there's it it's it's there's a there's a Israel is Israel, the land, is a crazy

Torah Saved In The Holocaust

SPEAKER_02 10:04

energy in there. It's the energy of our forefathers, the people that began the world, the people that began the consciousness of the Torah and all of that. And and um and the Torah, I love in your book how you talk about the Torah being a living thing. It's so beautiful. You start with a story about uh um some somebody who tried to save one of the Torah scrolls. And those of you who don't know, the Torah scroll is written on uh on a skin, on uh parchment. Parchment. Um the the cow skin. And it's written with uh with um with a quill uh with ink that and all the letters have to be uh complete, and one person wanted to save the tell tell the story that it was during the Holocaust, you know, and and they were taking people from a village.

SPEAKER_00 10:50

They, the Nazis were taking people from a village to go into the forest and kill them.

SPEAKER_02 10:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:54

So the rabbi of that town decided he he's gotta save the Torah. And and he goes into the synagogue, takes off his clothing, and he takes unravels the Torah because it's in a scroll, right? And he wraps it around himself and he puts his clothes back on and he walks to the forest. But on the way, he actually stops. I don't know if I mentioned, he stops, unravels, and gives it to a pig farmer of all people in Poland and gives it to him and says, Save this Torah one day, it'll bring you great value. And then he went on to the forest and he was killed. And years later, a girls' seminary uh school from Israel was visiting, and some guy came out with a little piece of Torah and he said, Where'd you get that from? Oh, some pig farmer has a whole bunch of it. And they took all the money they had on their trip and they bought the Torah and brought it back, and it goes back every year. But but but the concept of being wrapped in Torah, yeah, the Torah is not necessarily here to save us. We're here to save Torah. We're here to save the principles and the morality. And that's what filling on when we put on the the boxes on our head and our arms and our on our head, we're having an intimate moment. We're wrapped, we're wrapping Torah around us. Who does that? Who puts who puts the Bible on your body?

SPEAKER_02 12:07

It's it's it's a it's a crazy thing. So I'm just telling you how powerful your book is. This book, um, I never met the Rebbe many times. I just popped this up again with a great picture of the Rebbe on it, and um, there it is. I never met the Rebbe many times. This book really was uh it it changed things in my life too, because I'm 55. I put on tefillin every day. Um I connected with it right away from age of 13, living in a house that wasn't religious, but I still put it on every day. I used to go to a minion, I because they had big bagels, but before school, I I always had a connection to tefillin. I never knew why. But you think, okay, I know everything about tefillin. I know why it's the the letter shin here, why it's seven here, why it's the the another letter over here. Um and then you told me it's it you you're wearing it. You're wearing skin, it's skin to skin. It's it's it's a part, it becomes like a literal part of you. And there's another dimension that added on to my life uh uh about putting out tefillin. And then every once in a while you you see, you know, I as bad as we say social media is, you learn so much from it. There's like little devar Torahs, little teachings of Torahs that could, in a 30-second clip, you know, I on the on the head piece of the Tfillin, there's a shin and a shin. One has three, one has four legs. And every once in a while you see a rabbi or somebody that gives some kind of a Kabbalah lesson about the different meanings of them. And you get that adds into your consciousness as well. Right.

SPEAKER_00 13:40

So you know, they say the the Ten Commandments were see-through. Actually, see-through. They were right through. So if I take four, one, two, three, four, and go like this, no, now you see a shin through it. So that's part of one of the reasons.

SPEAKER_02 13:54

One of the things that that was a new one I just heard. Yeah. It's the it's the avos, the ema, the the mothers, and the there were three mothers, there were three fathers and four mothers. So there's what maybe that's the reason. Also, the menorah in the temple had seven. Um the the menorah which which which also symbolizes victory and many other things, but it's one of those things. And so you have your it connecting to that energy. This but it always keeps popping, and you keep learning. And the technology the Rebbe said the technology in film was like more than any computer, you know. So right.

SPEAKER_00 14:28

So I and I I I was always attracted to rituals or symbolism. I like poetry, you know, things that are the metaphor. I like the metaphor.

SPEAKER_02 14:35

So so many people call it uh uh in Kabbalah, they call it technology. It's a technology to connect to God. Right. So when you're making kiddish, when you're putting out fillin, when you're eating something kosher, if you think you're if you're eating that thing kosher because you want to connect to God, not because you want to tell people I ate in a kosher restaurant. There's a new kosher restaurant. That's the certain thing. There's a new kosher restaurant. We just ate there. There's a new kosher, but but if you're I I I ate kosher last night, I get to I got to connect to God. In my I got that connection yesterday. Some people can eat kosher all the time and have zero connection to God.

SPEAKER_00 15:11

We think we're doing this to be able to reach God. We can't reach God. We're doing this so he says, Oh, I want to come down there. The mitzvah is to connect with, we're making a we're making a Shabbat candle, we're making a kiddish, so God comes to us. Right. Rather than us trying to go to him. You know the story of the guy who says that's the joke. My father told us the joke. He says the guy says he's praying, um, he he he says, You pray morning, afternoon, and evening, you pray for the new moon, you pray for a new day, you pray for the holiday, you think all that praying is gonna make you live longer? And the guy says, certainly feels longer. And there's a lot of truth to that. Yeah. That we're doing all this to connect, you

Tefillin And Ritual As Technology

SPEAKER_00 15:48

know.

SPEAKER_02 15:48

So I'm gonna tell you something. I used to, I used to, when when I when I used to pray in the morning, I used to do the full shakerit. And then I used to wake up and be like, oh God, I gotta do that now. And then I I abridged it to the prayers that I really connect to. And now I wake up every day truly looking forward to Davening and my Twillin and my all uh because I know it's the prayers that I need and I want. And sometimes I'll add more. When the hostages were in there, I added a whole thing for hostages, just and I felt that like I couldn't wait to get up and put my time and pray for them. And uh, and I had a miraculous thing with one of the hostages who's coming to the show. I'm so excited. Uh, Omar Shemtov and um who I told him he was the uh, you know, I told the story before, but in the the in the part one of our podcast, he spoke about Eli Wizel. Right. And you know, I when Umar Shemtov, one of the hostages that was uh that was on our podcast, we had a live podcast with him. I met with him before and I told him that, you know, you're the new Eli Wizel. And he had no idea who Eli Wizel was. Which you don't blame. I can't blame him. I can't blame you. College campuses don't know. But this isn't this is an Israeli kid in his 20s. He didn't know who Eli Wizel was. He never, because Eli Wizel never spoke in his high school.

unknown 17:07

Right.

SPEAKER_02 17:07

So he didn't it's not reading for their school either. It's not, I guess the book night isn't their isn't their reading, but you know, I it's uh but he was a very special person, and um I said that to him, he had no idea who it was, and that was just that was such a reminder to me that people just don't know. In my act now, I always have Holocaust references. Always have Holocaust references, just so that people can either remind themselves, oh yeah, that happened, or people are like, Who's he talking about? What what's that name? I'll drop I'll drop some not Nazis name and um and they'll be like who's that? And and I'll say Google it. Google that, yeah. And um the Shabbos Elevator routine. Shabbos elevator routine, that kind of stuff. And it's you have to keep reminding people of it. And um at uh I think we spoke about one of the podcasts, but um I have a show in Detroit coming up. Um so the the the the story begins like this. We we were in um I had a show in Detroit, a theater show. Um it was just uh I took a theater and people came and bought tickets to see me. And there was a people in the audience that that have hired me to do a show in a synagogue a few months later in May. And the woman called and said, There's uh we we um there were two two jokes that we we appreciate he'd not do. One of them was this Holocaust reference joke because we're honoring someone who's a survivor. And then the other joke was like a a Trump joke, which and both both jokes were not jokes of that. What the one was to remind people and to show that the youth don't know that much about the Holocaust, and the other one was to show that the whole political thing could be just make it fun instead of instead of instead of fighting. Right. Um so my agent gives me, gives us her number, and I said, I'll I'll I'll call, I'll speak to her, which I usually don't. We called and I I spoke to her, and um we had no, we called uh from the hotel room, and it's the synagogue that the guy drove into to to blow up.

SPEAKER_00 19:23

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:24

And we called an hour after he drove in. So we call her up and like, hi, how are you? It's one of those, oh, you're calling because you see what's going on. And Leo right away is on the da-da-da. He goes, Oh my god. And he just like shows me. I go, and I'm like, yes, that's what we're calling about. We're calling. I wasn't gonna be like, who do you think you are telling me what I can say in the audience? You know, I have a special called know your audience. You're telling me. I go,

Prayer, Hostages, And Memory

SPEAKER_02 19:54

yes, our hearts are with you, and we can't wait to be laughing soon with you and all of that. It was just nuts. You talk about a lot about how Chabad, if you ever want to hear a miracle, if you want to know what Mashiach energy is and what a miracle is, ask any Chabad rabbi how he got his Chabad house. Yes, it is so true.

SPEAKER_00 20:15

Yes, it's so, so there is one where where a Chabad Rabbi is walking down the street, he's looking, you know, he needs the Chabad house. He sees a church and he sees it says for sale in front. Yeah. So he goes, This is perfect. I live down the block, I can walk the shoulder. The church is going out of business. So he knocks on the door, it's at night. He saw some cars there. Some guy comes to the door and he says, uh, can I help you? He says, Yeah, I'm interested in maybe buying the church. And the guy says, uh, I always say the guy, not the guy. The guy says, you know, uh, it's not for not for sale. Right. He says, What are you talking about? You bring him up, show him the sign, says for sale. But there's a little thin arrow pointing down the block to a house down the block.

SPEAKER_01 20:52

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 20:53

So he says, Oh, I'm so sorry, I'm so embarrassed. You know, whatever. Rabbi walks away. The guy goes back downstairs to the basement to the board meeting. And he says, How funniest thing? This rabbi wants to buy this in the church. And they all said, Bring him back. And they said, and I spoke in that synagogue church.

SPEAKER_02 21:11

I was in Harvard. I was in Harvard. Um, I'm milking my Harvard experience to no end. I'm I'm a member, just so you should know, I'm a member of the Harvard Lampoon. Leo and I were honorary members. But I went to the Chabad house. Rabbi um the the the Rabbi there um um showed me his house, then there's this lot of land with a small house on it, and then there's another house that he has. So he has both of the houses with the house in the middle empty. And so he was telling me that we spoke to this guy and asked him, can you please sell us your house and we can build one big thing here? And uh and the guy said, Absolutely not. I don't he wasn't thrilled that this he's sandwiched in between these two things, but he's not selling. Anyway, long story short, whatever his miracle story was, the guy got sick and they had a cell and they had to, it all just happened, and now they're building uh They're building over there the third base of Migdash on Harvard campus. The Harvard Chabad is going to be the third base of Mi'kdash. A huge, beautiful, unbelievable. And um and it's just every story's like that. Every every Chabad house story.

SPEAKER_00 22:15

I spoke, you know, throughout England. England's a great place to speak because they speak English for the most part. And so I spoke throughout England many times. And I spoke in Oxford, which is very prestigious, also, you know, although they're perhaps not the greatest audience, but you know, a little stuffy, but but Leeds, England, I spoke in. And um the Chabad house there told us that when they bought this beautiful, charming house, they went to the town to get licensing for it. And they said, you know, we can't give you a license because you need a parking lot. You know, the driveway going to the road. You don't have one there. And they said, Well, there's two trees we can knock them down. They said, Oh, no two trees you can't knock down two trees. Those trees have been for hundreds of years. You know, that's the old joke of the the the tour guide says, you know, uh taking tourists around, and the people say, Oh, look, the pub opens at 10 30. Can we get a drink? And the tour guide says, 10 30 is the year it opened, not the time. You know, so in England everything's old. Right. So the trees have been there for hundreds years, you can't knock it down. So they write to the Rebbe. What do we do, Rebbe? We bought the place, you know. So the Rebbe writes back, are they fruit-bearing trees? So you got these three rabbis out there, they don't even know you know fruit came from a tree. They're looking at the thing, you know, and they brought in an arborist, and he said, No, they're not fruit-bearing trees. So, no. So they write back to the Rebbe. No, they're not fruit-bearing trees. So the Rebbe writes back two words get ready. Drew here's get ready, he thinks, you know, get a lawyer, you know. Let's get ready. What is it? Get ready. I don't know. So they wait. So they're having a meeting with the head of the registry, the town hall, and the environmental department, the highways department, the, you know, and um they booked that meeting, and the night before that meeting, the biggest storm to come through northern England came through, knocking everything over. And he should with the rabbis showed up to meet these people. One tree was down and one tree was on its side. Wow. And they said, You guys got connections. And the town took away the two trees, and I spoke at that, and I walked down that nice driveway.

SPEAKER_02 24:07

Wow. So it's a machine, it's uh No, it's every every Chamas, every Chabad house. I have a I met another, you know, so we we got a uh a house in Connecticut, and I went to see who's the nearest logo rabbi, Eisenbach, up there. So I w I went to visit him, and he he's in this church. This is um and he says, Yeah, I have a million, and they all walk here from the parking lot. They all walk right to our to our I've been there, I know.

SPEAKER_00 24:31

He's great.

SPEAKER_02 24:32

Yeah, that's good. It's a yeah, and whoever donated it, whatever. There's always these amazing, miraculous stories of of all of these, um, of all of these chabad houses, and um, and that's it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:44

It's just you know, I I talk about Mashiach, Mashiach energy. I jokingly or maybe seriously say that the Rebbe sent out all these Shlochim, all these emissaries to all parts

Chabad House Miracles And Momentum

SPEAKER_00 24:55

of the world, not just to get all the Jews involved in Judaism. He knew that Rebbe really believed in Mashiach. That when Mashiach comes, Mashiach's gonna go all around the world announcing peace, and he's gonna need a place to spend Shabbas and Koshafu. So the Rebbe sent 5,000 Shluchim emissaries out to the world just so the Mashiach will have a place to stay. And in the meantime, we can enjoy it. Yeah. So, you know, he really, really believes. So maybe they're out there just for the sake of Mashiach.

SPEAKER_02 25:22

You know, I was um when we were for Bringen with uh Robert Posner, and he he's singing We Want Mashiachnach. We did they say the song We Want Mashiachnah, which I I've stopped singing. Because you it's now it's it's uh the word want, I think, is one of the most dangerous words in the world. The word try is one of the most dangerous words, one of the most self-sabotaging words. Um, you can't say we want Moshiach because again, God gives you whatever it is you what whatever it is you ask for, God will give it to you. You say we want. So the you He's giving you more of the want than the actual what you're yeah, he here's more want. So what is the we have Mashiach now?

SPEAKER_00 26:02

We we we feel my Shiach now. Shiach is here, we'll bring Mashiach now. It's here. Mashiach's here now. I I don't you feel it? Don't you feel it? The whole world. Uh if every time I turn left and right, it's all about Israel, so it's telling me the whole world is you know, right there.

SPEAKER_02 26:18

And the enemies being attacked, and uh but but I uh leave the bigger picture in a smaller world. Yeah, you you you your your son that I is on always in this book, or the little thing he does is so mashichist, it's so meshichist.

SPEAKER_00 26:30

Yeah, it's so it's so it's little miracles like my my grandchildren. I I we have two kids. We weren't lobabich to begin with. I now have eleven grandchildren from the two kids. Uh-huh. Okay. And and and they're they're each one is is like a little mashiach. Yeah. They're so precious. You can there's no television, there's no cell phones, there's no, you know, they're living in a world of mashiach right now because of that. So so uh those are things you look at and you realize that we're we're we can smell we can smell the fragrance that I mentioned earlier. Yeah.

Finding Your Rabbi And Your Rebbe

SPEAKER_02 27:02

Yeah. And I I see it, and I again uh f I if I can give people advice, find a rabbi that you really connect with, find that Rebbe that you connect with too. There's a big difference between a rabbi and a Rebbe. Um I was I was blessed. I had I have the Rebbe in my life currently and always, and I had a Rebbe, uh Rabbi uh uh Sorrel Gross, who he was a Rebbe, he was a full Rebbe, and you I got blessings from him, and he he on his deathbed gave me the blessing for the first show of Radio City Musical, and his wife gave me the blessing for the second show.

SPEAKER_00 27:37

They live in Florida now, they live in Florida, and they just named the street after him. Yep, correct. And their daughter, Susie, yeah, was best man at her wedding. Stop it. I was best man at her wedding in New York Hilton right here. You're kidding. I was there, yeah. Susie's husband, Ellie, yes, is my best friend. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:55

Do you want to hear a funny story? So, my best friend, my very, very best friend, Dina is Susie's sister. Dina, who I was with last night, had dinner with her last night. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 28:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:08

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SPEAKER_00 30:14

You have to know that this is he was not just spiritual, he was he was in the physical world because he every time I saw him, he would say, Are you making a living? What are you doing? Are you making a living? What are you doing? You make like he he he really wanted you to succeed. Yeah, you know, it wasn't just about the pray and leave me alone.

SPEAKER_02 30:28

And but you needed to be to be kind of I spoke with him, I was on the phone with him a lot. I was before every show, before every show, I would call him, wherever he was. Sometimes I'd forget to call, all of a sudden he'd call me, not knowing that I'm in Arizona backstage doing a sound check. Right, right.

SPEAKER_01 30:45

How are you? How are you? How are you? Where are you?

SPEAKER_02 30:49

Oh, I'm doing yeah, and he would he would always it would always give me a prayer. And at the beacon shows, he was still alive, Buk Hashem, and he gave me prayers and all that. And he on his deathbed said, I s I said to him, We finished the beacon shows, I'm ready for something bigger. And he says, It's coming. And then his wife said, You're gonna do too. And um, so if you can find the Rabbi, if you can find now somebody that's spiritual, but you have to you have to give in too. You can't you can just go get a blessing and leave. You have to be connected with them. It's it's it's hard to explain. It's hard to explain. Your rabbi is your rabbi, that's your synagogue. You're there's the guy who you go to to ask questions of the Torah and and and Rabbi Posn is whoever I go to asks questions regarding Lababaj and Chabad. And so you have to have to have a system, uh Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:37

Well, you have sometimes people call different rabbis for different answers. Yeah. Yeah. You know, is this kosher? Uh let me call this guy. Not not kosher, not not kosher. Yeah. This guy's uh the one that'll say yes, you know. But but uh but no, it's it's nice to make that connection to have those people in in your life that it's not just relying on you on yourself or people around you. You need someone who's gonna who knows you, really knows you. Yeah, and who you've revealed yourself to because that person will be totally honest with you. Yeah. You know, and that's that's what uh having a a rabbi or a rebit is like. So uh, but yeah, the grow the gross family and and uh that's so funny that you were the best man that there. Ellie's uh these very special people, you know, Ellie and Susie are very smart, yeah. Oh, we'd be embarrassed I'm talking about him, buddy. Oh yeah, but uh but really good people. Good, good, good. That's amazing.

SPEAKER_02 32:28

Many, many years. Oh, yeah. So we're gonna start wrapping this

Gratitude, Sponsors, And Closing

SPEAKER_02 32:32

up. First of all, I can't thank you enough. You brought me a picture, which I've seen before, but it's unbelievable. I don't know if we can get this on the camera. It's uh that's this is me here at a minion with the Labavach Rebbe who's uh either getting an Aaliyah or laning. Right. He's yeah, it's very obvious to see. And um, I have this picture online of it, but now I have it to to hang in the house, which is very exciting to have this. I thank you very much for it.

SPEAKER_00 33:04

Um you brought me I don't have a picture like that, so it's cookies. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 33:08

No, you not only you you so much don't have a you have a book saying I never met the Rebbe. Yeah, and the cookies from the Rebbe's oil, the the the grave site of the Rebbe, which I highly recommend everybody visit. It is 20 minutes from JFK. If you land, go there, visit, and then go to wherever you have to go to. Um this book is a treasure. It's special. It's a special book. However, whatever religious point you are in your life, read this book. It's an easy read. This is coming from someone who has zero reading comprehension. I was able to get through this. Leah was watching me on the airplane. He was in shock. He was like, Wow, wow.

SPEAKER_00 33:53

Yeah, you know, you know what's funny. I I gave it, uh my son-in-law helped me edit it through the Jewish stuff, but my I then gave it to my wife's friend, who's an editor, and she's been an editor for you know, newspapers and magazines. Anyway, I was sitting on Shabbos and Schul saying, I forgot to tell her not to work on Shabbos on the book. I didn't want a book on the Rebis, a Jew working on Shabbos editing it, you know. So I forgot to tell her, you know, don't do it on Shabbos. She was she wasn't Jewish. No, she's Jewish. She was Jewish. Jewish, but wasn't religious, very anti-some Jewish thing. I don't know, she wasn't into it. She's not into it. And but I forgot to I forgot to tell her, you know, she's taking care of the commas and the claimation points and the semicolons and all the. So I felt bad. Ugh, I didn't know Rebbe's book, she's gonna work on it, I'm sure. You know, come Sunday, she calls me and says, uh, you know, you had too many semicolons. She's like giving me arguments. So I'm saying, okay. So then she says to me, by the way, from Friday night to Saturday night, I didn't work on your book. Oh, I was shocked. I was like, I didn't even know why. I said to her, why? Like, I didn't even think Shabbos. She said, you know, after reading about this Rebbe and the Hasidim and the Jews, I thought I should take a day of a day off and have a rest. That's great. So I put a PS in the book, the first Jew to read the book, observe Shabbos. That's so funny. So it it's uh it is a it's a nice book, and I'm I I couldn't write it again. I'm glad I did it. And it's great.

SPEAKER_02 35:11

It's a great, great book. I I it doesn't, you know, it's that is I highly recommend that. And of course, the one book I always recommend is Dr. Wayne Dyer's Power of Intention. That's an unbelievable book as well. And um, that's it. I can't thank you enough for coming in. And uh what show are you coming to?

SPEAKER_00 35:30

Uh Thursday night, radio.

SPEAKER_02 35:32

Thursday night. Yeah. If you're having friends and family afterwards, I'll make sure you come in, you're invited to honored to be part of friends and family. And that's it. Uh thank you. Thank you all for listening. Um, you are available at David Inspires.com.

SPEAKER_00 35:48

David Inspiresinspires.com.com. And if you want to get involved in uh making a living and giving advice, you can go to Twizy, T W I Z Y, be at Twizy.com, and you could maybe help other people.

SPEAKER_02 36:00

Yes. I'm uh we have shows uh uh uh God willing, by now we have the uh uh the shows in London will be up and the shows some special places that we're not allowed to even say because we're just hoping it happens, and um and uh and it's very difficult to make things happen there. Hopefully those shows will be announced now uh by the time this comes out. Also, we have shows all over America. We have a summer tour, we have show by now, probably the Atlantic City show will be sold out, God willing. Um, but go to Modilive.com, find out what's near you, find out what's near your friends, get them tickets so you can be the friend that brings the friends to the comedy show that creates Mashiach Energy. Modilife.com for everything. Thank you all very, very, very much for listening into part two with David here. And uh that's it, Mashiach Energy.

SPEAKER_00 36:50

Amen.