Amudim and Ohel Addiction Awareness Event - Rabbi Zvi Gluck 7-15-2017

thank you very much I'm going to make this brief I want to start off by thanking pest Eastern and Jack Jaffa and I'm going to hold no punches I apologize for those that don't know me that's just me and get used to it I was in Florida on vacation with my family when has he called me up I did not know them at the time on a conference call with checked sounding on the phone was somebody shaking and I was just imagining who this person is on the other end of the line and the words he said were I'm done I'm done you're done what are you done with water what do you do do I know you to which he then continued to Cheryl she was part of the Flatbush Africa together with Jessa he was on members of July I was published on today about the promise of refugee 11 deaths in the last five weeks under the age of 35 from our community these are the raw facts that were seen now when I say under the age 35 I have to function something that dr. Blumenthal just mentioned I only know the numbers to survive under because if I really want to get attacked the national side and we start talking about the 47 year old for the aneurysm of the 51 year old that is headed in the shower 51 year old I had a heart attack on plane and that we realized track marks on their arms and I was really open continue saying was not we may believe our community members are not dying from is on the bill from the waters in the Falls and the Fishman's those are the situation complaining for the over 2000 sectional view so we're treating the ovary not my preferred addicts of which the bulk of them were molested or destroyed by various even school systems and I use that word before I should say it would murder - that's you know what thing I think if requested - now in stages I'm going to give the left arm sorry three bloom for doing a lot of work stoppage modulus complete right education addicted original saying was just not enough join drug addiction in a high school Paulo in area and internet helps them because water falling to let me raise your high school day I can take the drops even is where impact you all I want but maybe because you guys they won't with us so on LI same would be the care business and we have this works work with it springing and safety for our children it's worth in five areas we interfere step up call tell our schools this is what we expect of you the Zika virus did not kill anywhere near as many people people or destroy as many pregnancies as the drug epidemic didn't approve community yeah we all go and sleep at night sounded angry because I am is because this past week together your oh boy boosting your health is a soil over for fresh my famous of friends and acquaintances of his all together in one area less than 50 feet apart from each other I'm sorry that hurts me when I was 19 years old two of my closest friends died back to that one of them hung himself and left left a very very detailed suicide note and yes dr. Norman I'm going to say the word suicide [Music] no support or show the ad except see here which start by a success the advantages disease Asian illness all foreigners an annex and they don't want usual tomorrow I'm packing in the face do that soon we have a three hundred I had anybody tell me home [Music] this is a war and we look at all the other issues in cloth Patrol and I'm going to give tremendous new David Meza got involved Oh dealing with mental illness developmental disabilities of that nature or completely systematized and through the winter all members of the court press in the future you know she is Yong ki har with wrote an article in the Jewish Observer that main story in a flow of the Israel kids at risk while we're talking now about lessons and that's what's happened so first of all Vivek a surprise to everybody here because by coming here tonight and listening to this that's the first step for many people here to be able to understand this is what has to be done and that's extremely important but we need more as much as we're trying to help get our opponent to understand better we need more now let me just give a couple of small pointers I'm going to make this short because I know it's late I apologize number one any school that throws the kid out especially in high school without making sure there's an appropriate school for that after going to a side visa area and of course the house with a gun pictures of my you do that is who you murder that's it I don't care who you are and how big your school is and what fancy names are on your building your murder and we and we need to be able to tell us where's who make it know the dollars we don't care we also need educated our parents taught us open our duct you have to send kids the schools that are appropriate to those kids too and as we as parents only want to send our kids who in the Letus school then a certain brand name or a ring to it and our kid is not meant for that we are also killing our kids and that's got to stop as well and we see that all too often we also need to make sure and I'm going to say this very quickly only because this is what this event was about and I like people to know the truth so first of all seven of the eleven components from the last five weeks we know for sure we're throwing out of schools and more than one without a replacement being found that we know for a fact we also know for a fact that early detection in all of those cases would have been tremendous whether it's figuring out that these kids were molested when they were younger had learning disabilities had other issues at home these are things that we have the power to empower our school systems to change and that's what we have to do you know I give a lot of credit to Rabbi David otherís who got up at the convention and or some sort convention or to get which one and spoke about that what our vein has to be paid more and he's right and of course my wife's a teacher teacher should be paid more also but we'll deal with that as well but he's right and that's one important but if we're not doing our part our kids safe in the school setting figuring out their issues and getting there early health what are we doing school like my way Jacobson says last week became assistance it's a system of systems and everyone plugs into the box and if you fit in the box you're going and you don't fit in the box you're bad guess what I love nothing more than to go out of business and I'm with them and not because of lack of funds put me out of business get the schools to do their jobs I thank you all that to me would be a huge personal favor probably to my wife and kids as well but it's important to note a few things that I'll do to wrap up number one show up in a conditional Chavez and you also a guy next to you like I am and he says no don't ask him again you don't know what that person is refusing country because they are sober because they are in recovery you don't want to be the cause to push that addict back to the alcoholism that destroyed their life until that point just because you want to be able to say that you analyst I am with so-and-so they say no it ends done another thing stop person find alcohol as something special I grew up in a house we have a Cayenne between the fish and the meat that was it I think my father still has that same bottle of whatever label it was called I don't even know what it was from before my bar mitzvah I see people coming home from these trips to Europe and Israel and their boring 35 year specialty thing putting it on top of the cabinet what are you teaching your kids when you do that what are you showing them this is what's important this expensive bottle of booze is what I look up to how do you expect your child to not want to do that that's a simple trick you enjoy alcohol color kavod I sleep in moderation ah prohibition no problem enjoy it like a wrench have a glass of wine you want to talk to a friends about equality why no problem don't make that the focal point of your Shabbos tutorial finish and I can tell you I know Paula against these calls a lot we certainly get them and I'm with him from lives whose husbands make eleven stops on the way home from shul and each they have of course this other bottom leg bone and by the time they roll home forget about the fact the language the abuse to the wife to the kids is this the way that we have we as from hidden Liz absolutely not we want to talk about official talk about where it starts school and homes let's be the example that our children and the next generation need us to be at the end of the day this is why we're here and I really want to say thank you Mel for really cheering this event tonight and just I want to thank Derek take dirty fighting someplace and David Mindell from all hell and I'm going to end with a quick story people especially last summer when I decided to go on the attacks on the world for not dealing with these issues so every I learned something from our illustrious president but I did it before the election every time I got attacked I just doubled down I went further and I'll keep doing it because kids are dying something's got to happen you know we can all go back and go to sleep at night unfortunately it's not as easy for me so people like to make fun of me they see me on the street and go what's the number up to say something that an email every week and I detail the deaths and I don't mind publicizing it you know usually a week or two behind people shouldn't always figure it out and at the most the most recent blow by I'll never forget I'm sorry three lavanya's ago sorry where the after we walked out the father was holding mine and Reverend Wallace content we were walking out together and somebody made this comment in front of the father and I thought this was great he was so Clark you happy now you got another number to talk about and the father looked at this guy and said what did you just say that number is my daughter that's not a number we're talking about and then he turns to VM sense we please talk about it this is not just a number there are so people very insensitive to this and then people like to say to me do you think you're really going to make a difference they say really don't know that I'll certainly try but I'm going to say this story and then I'll end everybody here has heard of the organization called are you sharp right so there is Rome was founded by a rabbi a casino unfortunately lost the number of children for take to do today sex and when he started very sharp I don't want you to think for one second that he didn't have fighting on him he was put into a green ribbon instead what do you think you're playing God who should marry who his life was really made to be a living to Hanuman but he fought it he fought it he fought it and to the point now that his household I don't know any high school or seminary doesn't trying to get their kids are ready to love do the test King's work Jewish Medical Center had a taste export day sex work back then was a fancy way of saying hospice for children that were going to die anyway a couple of years ago they called up rabbi Eckstein and they asked him to please come for an important meeting that they needed to have in the hospital he shows unless a meeting and there was an entire ceremony they were waiting for if we're being dedicating and be naming that ward to something else but they haven't had a new case in a number of years that's the man that changed the world by putting up a fight this week we learned the partial offenses and I looked at one of my mentors the wiper of ironic people a photography colors with rock art someone who was a pinnacles in his generation and I say we will now have the obligation to be the Pentecost in this generation to stand up for what's right not forth popular paint that kid on the street showing you love and show her you care support in any way you can emotional financial going to the schools pressure communal do whatever you can so that we can only speak about good things thank you very much