Rabbi Braun Addresses Netzigim: Elections for Vaad Hakohol

first of all I want to give an apology because I'm going to be running out soon not because this meeting is not important because there's another meeting that's important because I have a sheer later on followed by another meeting um which was a prior commitment it's really a very momentous um event happening over here there's a phrase which is used a lot it's actually not a PK although a lot of people think it's a PK that it's BR refer to it as a it's a it consists of two that's probably why why people refer to it as a the voice of of the crowd is like the voice of hem so the voice is this that phrase Latin too but the voice coming from the community is the most important voice and the way the Reb set up our in contrast to I believe almost any other K that it's what we call that the community right in the beginning when we're talking about elections it was all about what what does the community say the community's voice is very important and we have over here a sample representative I know it's not the entire Community I don't think it would fit in this place but we have a sample representative which brings us to hear to hear the voice of the community in many many talks about the difference between a and H coming on the hills of it's something that we think very conscious of a means many people get together and they even could be getting together for the same cause but there a bunch of individuals that got together a call talks about a call means where everybody got together and lost their identity in order to become part of the co and that's one of the difficulties that we often have you you want to retain the advantage of being an independent because if you don't want to have that Advantage let just one person make decisions for everyone the idea is everybody comes with another viewpoint but they're do they as they're doing that they want they're losing their identity because they want to become part of their entire big call I know that in in in the business World they have a concept when they make meetings they have this concept called opv opv means other person's view so you have to stop and see if you could understand where the other person comes from and then they have this other Concept in the world where you they give you different thinking hats I don't enough people familiar with this concept we used to do it a lot in schools in education and now you have to put on a creative thinking hat don't don't knock his idea now we're all being creative now we're going to reject all the ideas so often when we sit together in this everything that everybody says has value the question is where has value some ideas only have value in and some ideas I could know and some ideas some ideas have value in some ideas have value in only in one part of the community and some ideas have value in for the entire community and everybody's voice has to be heard and when we know this some what's the worst thing to happen for you in not the because everybody's upset at the Pak in the end whether you want or you lost but the one thing that at least you want to feel is I Was Heard and the person walks out from the T and he says they didn't even hear what I had to say so as some D say listen keep on talking the clock is ticking the meter is going talk as long as you want but some of the things you're saying are totally not relevant to the the fact whe whether he told you a that's not really relevant so people's voice is very very important and the purpose of this meeting tonight is to have the to have the people's voice and later to take this people's voice and translate into action now often in the meeting your opinion will become you voed your opinion and then we follow the once we follow the like we know from the when it comes to AZ the three how to learn in the and one of the is that all the three it's not as if two had an opinion on the thir was in his battle it becomes the voice of everyone so when the call gets together and forms elections and forms committees this becomes the whole entire call it's not as if it's only from and I had a different opinion no you're part of that like always talks about is not him he's representing the entire the final decision is representing the entire and that's how could and that's the thatb gave us and we saw something theb said this many many times about G to the of be with shom theel makes a joke and says but but we' seen in our killer in a lot of instances where there was where there were differences between people I think was me mentioned earlier also the differences were in in almost every single situation I don't want to talk about the elephant in the room about last night that's another example of that where really 99% of the differences I'm talking about the higher ups but people have to be able to be prepared to listen what we spoke opv in the entire world the spoke was that every doing in Crown Heights of has a pull on the whole entire world so we can't underestimate the Val that we can accomplish in B will come to the [Music] ultimate which say that I'm just going to finish with that there was he went around from Reb to Reb to Reb and he eventually he landed here he translated T was a brilliant individual he was a a waste of talent he wasn't used enough and he this real Sim went to the he went once to the and he had came with a proposal and he came later with the same proposal to the Reb so he later said that the and they both said the same answer but they worded very very differently he had this idea to make a of all in the whole entire world and all so he came to told him he he came to the Reb and he told the Reb the same idea and the Reb told so he said speaking about the Holocaust speaking about they said the same idea we see our we not going to accomplish almost of because the Z is not really save anyhow and we could actually bring about so many different people together you know one the best stories I have I think I said about the Mish thing and I'll finish with that that had two people came from d and it was a scheduling problem I misunderstood them probably my fault not their fault they told me you said he going to be in the office at this in this time I said no it's supposed to be tomorrow yeah kids you coming you know what I I felt bad for these parties I said okay I'm coming I'm coming soon okay by the time I came they told me they settled with themselves while waiting