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A message for those who feel unseen or spiritually behind, about hidden greatness and Jewish resilience.
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[music] >> This is a video for the [music] people who never get videos. For the people who never get honored. For the people nobody notices. For the people who get eye rolls instead of applause. For the people who secretly think they're failures. This is a video for the teenagers fighting a war with the internet every single day and wondering if there's anything left of their nishamos. This is a video for the Bas Yakov girl who looks fine on the outside but feels absolutely nothing on the inside. This is a video for the people who struggle with Shabbos. Who struggle with Torah. Who struggle with tefillah. This is a video for the divorced man who once had the big house, [music] the family pictures, the dream, and now sleeps on a mattress in a one room basement. This is a video for the 32 year old single woman who smiled through weddings and smiled [music] through Shabbos meals and smiled through conversations while carrying a pain that few can understand. This is a video for the couple in year seven [music] of infertility. The couple that says everything's okay when everything is very much not okay. This is a video for the man who took a job he hates because his family needed him to. [music] The man driving home from work in Delaware sitting in traffic staring through the windshield wondering, [music] is this really my life? Feeling all alone, feeling unseen, feeling unaccomplished, watching old friends become Rosh Yeshiva and Rosh Chaburas and Rabbonim, watching others accomplish things he once dreamed of accomplishing, wondering where exactly his own dreams went and yet after a full day of carrying the weight of a family on his shoulders. He pulls
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- 0:00[music] >> This is a video for the [music] people who never get videos. For the…
- 1:33into the parking lot of a Beis Medrash, opens a Gemara, and learns. This is a…
- 3:36and somehow keeps on going. This is a video for the man who hasn't slept in…
- 5:07speaks better, the brother who acts better, the bochur who walked into the base medrish and…
- 7:09parents who never get a day off, who never get a break, who never get applause,…
- 8:42and every reason to give up and every reason to surrender and yet don't. They wake…
- 10:44[music] and he says, "Anyone who lived by the words Kavod Hashem ha lev, please step…
- 12:17became tfilos, whose pain became a korban, [laughter] who served Hashem without family or societal pressure,…
- 14:20who endured setback after setback after setback since somehow never stopped believing, she takes a step…
- 15:53never fought your battles. Stop waiting for people to understand you or to appreciate you or…
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