Brooklyn Challah Bake 2015

Hurricane. Okay, ladies. Coaches, if you can count your seats, please. and let me know how it's you have you need. So Deanie, come here. You need Okay, five. I need Okay, I have five guests here. The next five guests. Let's go. One, two, three, four, five. Let's go. Deie, take them. Take them to this table. Deie, girls, girls, girls. Do you have a number? No suki. No suki. If they have numbers, they can't come here. Okay, coaches, check how many women you have at your table and then come to the front here so we can send you more. Coaches, if you can come here and let me know what you have. 113 and 118 coming in. 115 and 118. Shin. Coaches, I need you to come here and take women. Deie, just take women. Just take the women. Here. Go, go, go. Ladies, go. Okay. Okay. Keep going, ladies. Please just keep going. Okay. Now we stop. Okay. Coaches. Car me. What do you have? Take them. Let's go. Five. Six. Ladies, if there are two women together, just take them together. I need to open it up. Okay. Do not meet me like this. Go, go, go, go, go. Let's go, ladies. Please. Just just take them. Just take them shut. Okay, ladies. If we don't sit down, we have no idea where anyone is sitting. and we don't know if there's availability. I'm asking everyone, every coach, pick up your green flag and all the women at the table, please sit down. The only people that should be standing and holding flags are the coaches. Okay. Please, ladies, I'm begging you. If we want to start this event, which we really, really do, I'm asking the women to sit down. The coaches, I'm only supposed to see 200 women standing. That's it. Everybody else, please sit down. We have no account. Please. Suki, these women are waiting. What? Thank you. Okay, ladies, one more time. If you don't sit down, we cannot start and we cannot let even more women in. I need you to take your seats all over the main ballroom, the balcony, the skylight room, the atrium room, the rainbow room. You can all hear me. Please, everyone sit down. Just the coaches are to be standing. Just the coaches, please. We have four more that we can take in. Is there anybody else that has to be let in? Just let them in. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Okay. Again, please. I'm seeing women that are not holding the flags. I see them standing. Please. The coaches on the balcony. How are we doing, Miriam? Is it filling up? Okay, we're sending them up to you now. The outside room. Okay, but let me see about these two rooms first. I need someone to tell me. Okay, I need I need a runner. Girls, I need one girl here. Ladies and ladies, not gentlemen, but ladies, your attention, please. Can I have quiet in this ballroom? Your attention, please. Ladies, ladies, I'm here in the front. Your attention, please. Thank you. Just a short announcement, ladies. Thank you. Your attention, please. Once again, we apologize and thank you so, so much for your patience and understanding. This event has, please God, over 2,200 women in this room [Applause] and I so appreciate your patience and understanding. It's really it's really an honor to be part of this. And now with that, I'll leave you I'll leave you to your program. Everyone once again should be sitting besides for kala coaches. Your attention please. We want to begin the pro We want to begin the program. I need to know what's going on in the momentarily. Ladies, again, your attention. The only ones that should be standing in any of the rooms should be the kala coaches. Okay, Rabbi Freriedman, just one second, please. Coaches are to be standing. And now the runners are supposed to take positions on the entire room. This room and the other rooms. Go out and just span out. Okay, we're not gonna I'd rather them go upstairs. Yo, look. How many do we still have outside? Mrs. Weiss, where are you located? Oh, the other end. Look at that. Are we in sync or what? This is great. I came looking for you here. Okay. Okay. Okay. Let's just hear a sh When I say the room, just give me a shout out. Okay. The Main ballroom. Let's hear you from this room. Okay. The balcony. Can we hear you? Atrium. Can we hear you people in the side room over there? Where? Where? Yellow. Skylight room. Skylight atrium. The rainbow room. They're up there. Okay. Is Shimmy in the room? Shimmy. Shimmy. You are in the room. is expecting someone who's supposed to be at their table. Please either call or text them. We want everyone to really be, you know, at least where they thought they should be. Okay. Are we still bringing women in? Mrs. Weiss, we are ready for showtime. And we are off. We are ready. And ladies, enjoy the evening. Okay, runners, I need you at your positions, please. I need runners at the corners of each room, upstairs and the two rooms. Let's go, girls. Okay, coaches, I need you now to put down your flags. put down your flags because otherwise you're going to have a girl running up to you and saying, "What do you need?" So, please put down your flags. Please put down your flags. Thank you. What? I feel the love. I feel like right now. I'm not even joking, Mrs. Weiss. One, three, two. Which one's better? One. [Applause] Ladies and ladies, this is amazing. Welcome to the greatest event that Brooklyn has ever seen. I don't know about you folks. She's still clapping her hand. She's so excited. She's like, "Yeah, I feel your love." How many of you feel the love right about now? We didn't even start the program. This is unbelievable. I don't know about you, but I am honored. I am privileged. I am humbled to be taking part of this momentous occasion. Everyone saying hi. Hi. I love you. this historical occasion. Ladies and ladies, welcome to the great big kala. Oh my goodness, the kala coaches, you are unbelievable. Let me ask you a question. How many of you have ever baked kala before? How many of you My next question is for those who have never baked kala got your back ladies. How many of you have never baked kala before? All right. How many of you have ever walked into a room? Should I show you? By the way, some magical moment. This is what I do in a camp with 600. I love you. With 600 people, this is what we do. Everybody look to the lady on your right. Look to the lady on your left. Put your hands on your lips and you make sure they're not talking. One, two. I'm watching you. I know her. See, this is powerful. But I'm still gonna ask you to cheer. So you cheer when I pick up my hand. You're quiet. Now watch this, ladies. How many of you have walked into a home that has freshly baked kala in it and you walk in, you know what? Even if you haven't walked into a home, you walk past a bakery and you you know that they just baked some yummy kala and you're like, "Hook me up with some kala loving." How many of you have ever experienced that? When you experience that, folks, that is powerful. But you want to know what's more powerful? I'll tell you. If you hear me clap once, if you hear me clap twice, sh last night, late at night, they're like, "You know what? Let's have a game." And they're like, "Let's have a last minute contest." You see woman on your right. Woman on your right. That's your new nickname, the righty. So, we decided to have an Instagram contest and bes How many of you have Instagram? Not I'm not endorsing, but how many? They're like, "How dare you shimmy me a dar?" So, besides for the liking and the and the tagging your friends, you know, just to put in some flavor and spice things up, I asked them, "What color tutu should I wear for the right?" And everyone's like, "You're all staring at me. You're like, what?" Yes, I will be wearing a tutu for the dancing session. And if you look at me and judge me, I don't blame you. Wink wink. So people were like, "Shimmy, you should wear a white tutu because you're always getting dirty and you're an MC and the flower and the white, you know, they're going to camouflage." And I'm like, "Excuse me, not on my page. You don't diss me like that." But then this was the amazing moment. People were writing, "You have to wear a rainbow tutu. You have to wear a color tutu." And I was like, "What's going on?" Comment after comment after comment. And let me tell you what happened, folks. They decided to explain what they were saying. They said, "Shimmy, that is what the kala bake is going to represent in essence." And when I look around tonight, not only in the grand ballroom, there's a room there and a room beyond that and a room beyond that one. And the people in the balcony. Hey ladies, this is greatness. This is the power of unity, my friends. And when you have unity, you have everything. You could conquer the world. So when I look around, I hope and I pray that this unity should be a merit for all our brothers and sisters in Israel who are suffering now on these hard days. Yes, you. You're going to make the difference. I hope that you inspire everybody around the world to unite, to be one, because we are sisters. We're united. We're family. We're one nation. I hope humanity at large, nobody should suffer the end of suffering. That's it. In the in the merit that all of you tonight have come here to be together as one. Give it up for yourselves. Speaking of the power of unity, this Shabbat, this coming Saturday is going to be powerful. You know why? It's going to be the Shabbat Project. And that means that so many Yeah. Give it up for the Shabbat Project. So many Jews around the world. This is what I love. I looking around here tonight. It's unbelievable. When they said when they said the rainbow, the tutus, it doesn't matter who you are, where you come from, what you look like, where you're holding in your life, what background you come from. We are here all together. And I hope we take it forward to the Shabbat Project where we are going to have 1 million Jews around the world keeping and celebrating the Shabbat. Now, for such incredible huge events such as these, the Kalabake and the Shabbah Project, it's not simple. It takes a lot of people with great hearts who are committed, who are loving, who give it their all because they love their Jewish brothers and sisters. So if you give it up because I know that you want to cheer for all these people. Firstly, I would like to thank Jay Inspire who orchestrated this entire event. The sponsors, Gourmet Glatt, Evergreen, Amazing Savings, Excellent Poly Sterns Bakery, Med Park, Jack's Eggs, and Pomegranate. The volunteers, by the way, I was here today earlier. It's unbelievable how people were giving up their time, taking off work to set up. Unbelievable. The volunteers are amazing. the community women including our very own Brooklyn designers, seed packers, pre-measurers, powerpinters, pushup producers, registration girls and runners, lovely volunteers from the following schools. Give it up. Prospect Park Yeshiva High School. Yeshiva of Flatbush there and our Hey Verola and Ornava Seminary. The Kala coaches with the green flags waving them up in the air. Give it up for your Kala coaches. and the Guinness representative, Alex Anger. He's the one who judged our 20 foot kala that we will be presenting to you. Every single one of you are going to be getting a pinch of kala where we will be creating a unity kala that's going to be an another loaf where they're going to be giving that out at the Shabbat Project. Now, now is when I need you all. This is called the icebreaker. How many of you are from Brooklyn, New York? I didn't expect such a loud response. Now, why don't you help me out here? What I will be doing is I'll be taking a selfie of myself. Not a selfie picture, a selfie video. And I'm going to say a few things. Blah blah blah. When I turn around, you're all going to scream and chat and say, "We love Kala." Are you ready? Let's do this Brooklyn style. I don't think they did this in Mexico. Yaf for Burger Pi. Ready? You gonna help me out? Hi. We're here live at the great big and we have a few ladies, just a few. Over 2,000 ladies who would like to tell you a little something something. That was unbelievable. And right now I would like to introduce you to the Kala experts. Not I. First we have Khani and If you have ever walked into the Kala Fairy Ba Bakery Cafe, you would know that she treats you right at home. Her love, her warmth, but it's her talent that takes her to such great heights. You could even invite her to b mitzvah to teach the girls how to braid kala. She has special toppings, uh, sesame and cinnamon, but guess what? She has chocolate. And how many of you are chocolate lovers out there? And of course, she will be teaching us how to braid like a pro. No more awkward kala moments where you take out your kala on Shabbah and it looks like, you know what I'm saying? And Mrs. Jeravel. Mrs. Jaravel enjoys baking kala for her family and guests. In her professional life, Mrs. Jaravel has been teaching counseling, providing teacher training and parenting workshops in educational institutions across the United States since 1983. She gives weekly lectures in New York and New Jersey and guest lectures across the world on Jewish women's topics. She holds a BA in psychology from Brooklyn College and an MSW from Forom University. She is a therapist in private. She puts me to shame. That's what I'm realizing now. She is a therapist in private practice in Rockland County for couples and women of all ages. Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together and a standing ovation for Mrs. Connie Jerel. Talk like this. Talk about a tough act to follow. You know, friend of mine is a real estate agent. A friend of mine is a real estate agent. She told me that if she brings clients into a house where fresh bread is being baked, she could get $10,000 more for the deal. She also told me that there are air fresheners that could be bought by real estate agents that smell like fresh bread for those of us that just want the $10,000. There's something about bread and whe We know it consciously or not. Bread is much bigger than something that we eat. The person who earns money for a family is called a bread winner. For those of us that grew up in the 60s and 70s, hey man, you got bread or dough was a slang for money. Bread represents ladies our It represents the stuff of our life. But kala is very different than bread. The word kala comes from the Hebrew root of which means mundane. It's every day. Nobody could live life when it's just every day. And after a while, the mundane gets very tired. I remember being 16 and being a cheerful prostate park girl myself. And I remember my grandmother was watching TV and invited me to join her. And I saw a commercial that scared me in a way nothing else ever scared me. It was the commercial for Dunkin Donuts. remember that? And that little old man waking up at 3 in the morning, rolling out of bed, and he said, "Got to make the donuts." And I remember just breaking into a sweat and saying, "That's what it means to grow up." And a lot of us realize early on that we don't want to just make the donuts and we don't just want to eat the bread and we can't just live a life that's that's mundane that's simple and that's why we turn the into by connecting bread to God. A lot of us believe that the raw materials of life come from God, the earth, the creation of the world itself, the wheat. But it's harder to believe that actual bread, the stuff that I make, the stuff that I do, the stuff that I bred success through has anything to do with him. That's me. But when a Jew makes the blessing eating a piece of bread, we Thank God for the wheat. We thank God for We thank you God that you brought bread from the earth. Because as we go through life, we realize that the most that I could control in life is the process. But all of my outcomes aren't really about me. The fact that we have an up or down, the fact that we have a success or challenge, God, you're giving me that bigger picture. The choice to come here tonight, we could be proud of that. But the fact that we have what we have and who we have and the opportunities that we have in life, that's the stuff that we know is bigger than us. So why are women the ones to take kala? You know, they're very different ways of seeing the mother of life. The outside world calls her Eve, and we Jews call her Kava. Why is she called Eve? Because she was the mother of evil. And that's why The outside world refers to her as Eve because she was the first person to sin. But that's not ladies what we call her. The name that God gave the first woman through her husband Adam was and was meant to mean the mother of all life. But strangely was given her name before she had children. In which case, what made her a mother? And we're taught that being a mother of life isn't only about having children. That the word life to a Jew, the choice of living is taking advantage of the choice to connect everything in our world to the source of life to God. And even her distancing herself from God even after her first day out at work was not that positive. They were left homeless. This was not a good day. Kava said, "So what now? As long as I still have him in my life, as long as we could still grow toward emulating him and bringing him in, any life could be a good one." You know, I remember working with a young 12-year-old boy years ago, and he had a miserable life, really miserable life. And I used to come out of this session every week and go into the coffee room at the counseling center that I was working at then. And sometimes I just cry. And a friend of mine that I worked with, she said, "Honey, if this is what you look like after a session with him, imagine what he looks like going home. What are you doing for this boy? And I said, "You know, I don't know what I could do. There's not much I could do. He has a really tough life." So, she says, "I don't believe that. I don't believe there aren't goals that you could set. I don't believe there's not more meaning he could find. Get in there next week and try to find something, something that can make his life better." And the next week, I went in. I said, "You know, Matt, we're going to try something else today. I want you to close your eyes and pretend that you're asleep one night and I'm that magic fairy. I'm going to sprinkle that dust and the next morning could look like anything you want it to look like. Matt, what would you want tomorrow to look like? We're going to start setting some new goals and making life even better. And I'll never forget, he scrunched up his eyes and he said, "You know, I don't know if you could change my life, but I'd really love if you could change the way I see my life. The Hebrew word for miracle is a nace and it's spelled with a and a nun stands for a noel a victim stands for support. That the fact that a person could realize that hashem God is supporting me makes them realize that any life is a good one because it could be connected to him. So women who are the mothers of life take what would be and they bring God into it and they turn the kala into an experience and they bring it into relationships and they connect it to him and they offer him the first piece to say God all of my output in life it's you and that's when bread becomes magic because all of us mothers and women are magical beings give yourselves a We're now going to start with the kala. We have seven ingredients in front of you. And the master of kala, the magical kala fairy herself is taking these seven ingredients, seven, one for each day of the week because our entire week is connected to Shabbat. Our entire week is led in a way that's leading it to God. Empty the 8 oz bottle of water in front of you. Ladies, the one with the regular top and not the sports top into your bowls. Connelly will be demonstrating while I speak. Ladies, water represents the Torah. 80 This is F. 80% of the body and 80% of the world is water. Because the Torah is what unifies all other ingredients. We cannot thrive without it. Now take the yeast. What? Now take your sugar. One of your sugar. What? Oh, the yeast. The gloves are in the pockets of your aprons. And each of your ingredients are there. Ladies, I would love to walk you through some of the meaning behind these ingredients. First, put in the yeast. The word yeast comes from the Hebrew word, this is impossible, shimarim. Yeast represents protection. What? Yeast. Add the sugar and the yeast to the water. One of the sugars to the yeast and the water. Let it sit. And we have to let it sit. Ladies, ladies, I want everyone to just leave the yeast and sugar and water in their bowl. These three. Okay, tune back in while your yeast is sitting. Ladies, ladies, ladies, I need your attention. While the yeast is sitting, you are now. You are now through the creation of kala. You are now symbolically creating yourself and those you love. The yeast They have to be quiet. Coaches, could you please have your table be quiet for two minutes? Attention, ladies and ladies. I am right here. I need you all by the count of one to not say a word. Please don't make me call out your name because I have no clue what your name is. Three. There is somebody. That's beautiful. Two. Ladies, we are waiting for quiet. Rearville, it's all yours. The yeast is sitting. I want you to think while you're creating this dough of creating the essence of yourself and the others that you love. The water represents the Torah. It represents it represents spirituality. It represents the force of the world that everything falls under. The yeast, the yeast represents the desire to grow and expand. That a house is a place that's nurturing and allows others to be. and to grow to become what they want. To do that, you need sugar. It needs to be positive. We need to be sweet. We need to emphasize the goodness of every individual. And then with all the work we're going to do, ladies, the best way to let people grow is to just let them be. Don't do anything. Just make sure it's warm and protected and the environment is safe and let them be and become and think and feel without having to crowd out their thoughts with any other agenda. Then next after that we're going to be adding eggs. Eggs become hard when they're cooked because Jews represent endurance. Jews represent the ability to get through life and be resilient. We're then going to add oil. Oil represents not the olive, not the external, but the internal. The oil hash spells out. It represents the soul. So right now I think the yeast should be ready. I'd like you to watch the egg. We're now putting in the egg. The egg, ladies, represents our endurance that we as Jews don't give up. We endure. We get harder when they try to cook us. Now follow. We are putting in the oil. So, so far you should have had yeast and water and sugar and egg and oil. Oil is our connection to the spirituality within. And now the flour. It says, oh, the salt is now putting in the salt. The salt goes in after the sugar because our primary is sweet. But salt lets it hold. Salt is a pinch of discipline, a pinch of being serious. Now we add in the second sugar. The second sugar. in the flour. And now we add in the flour. Add the flour in slowly. And now all of your containers should be empty. They told us to speed up. Add in half the flour. and mix it around. The harder you work at creation, the better the outcome. You could use your bags for all of the garbage. Don't worry. If you did it in a different order, it's fine. As you mix it, watch Connie's hands, ladies. She's taking the dough from the side, bringing it into the middle. Follow the expert. And think of all the effort that goes into the people that you love, you need, you work, you form. too. If you feel your dough is too wet, it's too dry, you could add a little water. If you feel it's too wet, you could add a little flour. No, no flour here. Okay. Feels good. Oh, they're not looking aims here. Are you doing this? Ladies, I want you to look around the room and imagine how proud God is at this very moment. Unbelievable. You're creating a world with every loaf. Now they're going to have dancing. This is amazing. They did an amazing job. This is Jurville. Mrs. Jaravel. To your left. To your left. To your left. Okay, ladies. I think this is all getting to your head. Okay. Bury all the imperfections underneath. And they should bury all imperfections underneath. Pinch the bottoms and leave your dough alone. Now take your napkins. You have these Beautiful napkins. Can we get the camera on and cover your dough? Plastic bags first, ladies. And then the napkins. Plastic bags first and then the napkins. Plastic bags are in your pockets. And then you got to give me something to speak. The plastic bags will make your dough rise faster. Ladies, after you cover your If we could ask all the coaches to have the women sit down and be quiet so we can move on. Kala in the plastic bag and the cloth napkin over it. Can the runners pay attention to the flags, please? The runners, please pay attention to the flags. If you don't have enough napkins, then let two people share one napkin. What is that for? She did a great job. Put this on your Take it from the left. Okay, if we could get everyone now to sit down. What? Ladies, can we all sit down? The only thing rising now should be Ladies, can all of the women balcony downstairs outside? Can everybody find their seats? Okay, we're moving on. Ladies, if I was to ask all of you. Yeah. Okay, ladies. If I was to ask all of you, if I was to ask all of you what it means, I'm sorry. Okay, we have we're moving into the next phase and I ask of you to be quiet. Ladies, ladies, if I was to ask all of you what you thought it meant to be productive, you would all think about all of the things that you were busy with. But as Jews, we believe that productivity is not about being busy. Just as your dough just as your dough is doing the most work when it sits and it's allowed to be to a Jew, the most productive day is Shabbat. And the word Shabbat literally means a sessation, a stop. that it's when we stop and we think and we reflect on our life that we are most productive. How do I get quiet? I'll wait for quiet. All good things come to those who wait. Ladies on the side of the room, if I could please ask for quiet. Okay. Thank you. Your dough is most productive when it sits. And we are most productive, believe it or not. Not when we're doing and not when we're busy. I I'm begging you for quiet. People in the side rooms, I'm begging you all for quiet. Thank you so much. The reason that all of us experience such a headache in the airports now at security, the reason that none of us could bring our water past the security guard, past the security stations is because in the year 2011, was it the year? No, not the year 2011. Thank you. That there was a deranged individual that tried to bring liquid explosives onto the plane in a baby bottle. His plan was thwarted. But because of that one thought of one deranged individual, every one of us has to dispose of our water, put up with headaches, and go through security as we know it today. That is the power, ladies, of a thought. That one person's thought could change a world as we know it. We don't have to do anything to make change because the power of thought is so great. And God says that the power of a positive thought is 500 times greater than the power of a negative one. So if that was the effect of one thought of one individual and the landscape of the world today is so Imagine what one thought of any of us could do to change the world in a way that's good, that's beautiful, that's godly. Your kala now is resting. But rest is not static. When a Jew rests on Shabas, we call Shabbat a sensation that we stop and we contemplate. And that's very productive. When we make our kala now ladies, we take advantage of something that's so huge. I'm asking all of us to take one minute to pray. And there's no prayer that's too small or too big for God. And there's no prayer that's not answered or successful because the success of a prayer means that you connected to him and he'll take care of that outcome. All you have to do is want that connection. You provide the right environment just like you did for your dough and then you let it be. And you provide the right thoughts and the right environment for your thoughts. and then you let him do what only he could do with them. So I'm asking us all in a time that prayers are so simple to come to to take one minute where we have total and absolute silence and that we could all just be comfortable in our thoughts and sharing them with God. That's the merit of kala. integrating all of your life with him. And now you're taking advantage of being able to have a private conversation. I'm looking at my watch. I'm clocking one minute. And let's all respect the space of others. Now God, after thinking of you, I want to emulate you. And all you are is a giver. And I'm inspired to give. I want everyone to pick up the quarter that's in that box and to put that in the charity box on your table. This will be aortioned to to Shabbat to give money to Jews because we know we're all connected. And what's mine, God, is yours. And there's nothing you love more than someone who loves your kids. And I want to show that I love your kids. to speak about what now ladies for the next part of our program I ask you again for quiet ladies. The rest of the world believes that progress means looking forward. New and improved, always changing, always different. But we Jews have a different belief when it comes to understanding progress. We say we ask God to bring us new life by bringing us closer to what was old. We know that a kosher animal has split hooves and chew its cud. There are other animals that just have one or the other. We know that camels chew their cud, but they don't have split hooves. We know that pigs have hooves, but they don't chew their cut. The camel is the representative of the Arab nations because they're always looking backward, but they're not about looking forward. The pig is the representative of the Roman nations, of the nations of Asaw. They're always looking forward without respect for the past. But we Jews believe that to be kosher we do both. We look backward in order to look forward. And for that reason, it's an honor for me ladies to bring us a representative of the past, a very rich legacy who will bring us into the future and separate the kala now as our representative. Mrs. Mirakowitz has been baking kala in the early morning hours every Friday since she was married in 1952. You know, just being married since 1952 deserves applause. Her amazing water recipe can be found in your bags. She grew up in Budapest, Hungary during World War II, one of 11 children. As the result of her father's foresight, each sibling was hidden in various gentile homes. And with God's help, the entire family miraculously survived the war. Despite her stolen adolescence, the influence of her parents strengthened Mrs.'s resolve to rise above the difficulties, that's her yeast. She therefore learned about the mitzvah on her own and resolved to perform this women's mitzvah baking kala each week. Her experience of living in a war zone and then war turn Budapest with little to sustain her barely enough to eat instilled in her the need to help others less fortunate. Every Friday in Burough Park, she would get kalas donated late on Friday afternoon from local bakeries and put them in a box at her door so poor who could not afford to buy them would also have fresh kalas for their chabas tables. Mrs. Ititz has an air of majesty that radiates from within as renowned for her meticulous home and hilarious sense of humor. That's the sugar. You got it all. However, she feels strongly, that's the salt, that her greatest accomplishments are raising her beautiful family of four resilient children, the eggs, many grandchildren, that's the flower, makes a lot of mess, and many, many great grandchildren. That's the water because they keep us together. And I now introduce Mrs. Kowitz that will grace us with the blessing by saying When a Jew says a literally means I believe it is your bra too. First she will light a memorial candle so that this mitzvah that we're doing on such a grand scheme will also commemorate the many mitzvos of those that are still very much alive in a different sphere. Those that are connected to God in a way that's infinite. Mrs. Thank you so much. I feel humbled and her dear granddaughter who will be saying the blessing with her afterward. Thank you. Thank you so much. Where is she? Ladies, your attention please. [Music] All it takes candle flickering shining candle. That is all it takes to penetrate the dark. All it takes is one soft word, one soft, soothing, gentle word. That is all it takes to mend a broken heart. When we put our hearts and minds together, a thousand flowing candles burning ground, [Music] then we become a force that can't be measured. Together we can drive away the night. Drive away the night. [Music] All it takes [Music] is all it takes to melt the heart of stone. All it takes [Music] is all it takes to know you're not alone. When we put our hearts and minds together, a thousand glowing cand burning ground. Then we become a force that can't be me [Music] together. We can drive away. [Music] Everyone together. Let's raise our voices in harmony. Someday soon we will all be free. If only we could all stand together. All it takes is one small dream. One small glorious hopeful dream. That is all we've ever pull through. [Music] All we ask is one more. One last long awaited mcle. That is all we need to help our dreams come true. Our dreams come true. When we put our hearts and minds together, a thousand glowing cand The burning ground burning ground. When we become a force that can be measured, together we can thrive away the night. Everyone together. When we put our hearts and minds together, a thousand glowing hands of burning grounding. Then we become a force that can't be met. Together we can drive away the night. When we put our hearts and minds together, thousand glowing candles burning bright, then we become a force that can be measured. And together we can drive away the night. When we put our hearts and minds together, a thousand glowing candle burning bright [Music] force that can't be measured. And together we can drive away. Together we can drive away. away. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Malgi Ginar and choir. [Applause] Ladies, for the moment of our crowning glory when we're taking the product of our work and bringing God in, I ask for total silence and I ask everyone to slowly rise. Mrs. Ititz is now going to make a blessing. A blessing. A braha is a bra. It opens a wellspring of opportunity. Ladies, your prayers, your charity, the song in our hearts is now joining with the blessing of Mrs. Hitskowitz, which she will say in Hebrew. Her granddaughter will then say in English, and after each one, we will answer aim. Amen. We believe. And this mitzvah will now become all of ours. and connect us all in a way that I don't think this many groups, this many numbers of women have ever been connected. And now, Mrs. for Blessed are you, Lord our God, King of the universe, who has made us holy through his commandments and has commanded us to separate from the [Music] At this moment, I want every single lady on the dance floor, everybody on their feet around the tables. Let's go. We're ready to celebrate. Yay! [Music] One, 2, 3, go! [Music] Look at table 65. [Music] Everybody, hands up. Hands up. Let's go. Let's go. Table 64. One 2 3 go. Where are the people in the balcony? Go. One 2 3 go. [Music] [Applause] Let's go everybody. This is amazing. [Music] Everybody, let's go. Go. Table 44. I want to hear everybody together. I want you to sing on top of your love. [Music] Let's go. Let's go. [Music] This is unbelievable. [Music] Let's go. Table one. Go. Table one. We have ladies on the chairs. They are so happy. Everybody watch me. Look at me. Look at me. Right, right, left, left. Jump in. Jump out. 1 2 3. Right, right, left. Jump in, jump out. Take it back. Let's go. [Music] They got it. They got it. Get ready, everybody. Everybody go. Come on. [Applause] Hands are up. Let's go. [Music] Everybody hands up in the air. [Music] Who wants more? I want to know who is smarting. [Music] Who is asking us? Wow. I want to know how many of you live in New York City. [Music] I want to know if you are Jewish. If you are proud, I want you to sing. I want you to feel the energy. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Where are my dancers? Let's go. Come on, ladies. Come on. Oh, they're doing it. Unbelievable. Look at all the other rooms. Unbelievable. You're amazing. You're amazing. Get ready. Get ready. Everybody sing. Let's go. [Music] We're not afraid. [Music] Everybody, let's go. Let's go. Walk. Take it back. [Music] I want you to say hey. Let me hear you louder. You know what to do. Ready? What? [Music] Yeah. Let me hear Brooklyn. [Music] Brooklyn. Get ready. The place is going to shake. I want to hear you. Say 1 2 3. Look at the ladies on top. Louder. Everybody turn. One, 2, 3, go. I love you. Everybody turn. Make some room. Give me a beat. [Music] Give me a beat. [Music] Let's go. These are all my girls. [Music] I can't even hear. It is so loud. Everybody, I wanted that roof. Let's go. Unbelievable. Everybody turn. One, two, 3. [Music] Everybody in the back. Let's go. Ready? Here we go. Everybody relax. Right now, we are going to take it smarty style like her. 1 2 3. Oh, yeah. [Music] There we go. Let's go. Look at this place. I love you. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. channel. I love I found you. I love you. Baby [Music] say I know. [Music] You know the song. Get ready. Start [Music] everybody. Let's go. Wherever you are, give me a beat. Other way. Faster. Faster. 1 2 3 4 5. Come on, Miam. Come here. Miam Hamler. [Music] Other way. Other way. Here we go. Hands up. [Music] Other way. [Music] Everybody sing. [Music] Who is happy? [Music] It's the Everybody together. Let's go. On the way. Everybody go. [Music] Stop. [Music] Walk around your table. Walk around your table. Faster. [Music] Let's go. Let's go. Walk. Walk around the table. [Music] Here we go. Hands up. [Music] I want to hear you. La. [Music] I love you. Wave it. Wave. [Music] 1 2 3 go. All right, everybody freeze. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Everybody dance. Take a look. [Music] Hands up. Let's go. [Music] Let's go. [Music] I want every woman and girl, take your right hand. Put it on the girl or lady over to your right. Take your left hand, put that on the person next to you. If you know the song, I want you to sing it. So when negativity surrounds when negativity surrounds it'll all turn around because there is no time for negativity now when you have so many women's [Applause] war everybody together with me say it day one day one day one One day, one day, one day. If you don't have a tear in your eye, I don't know, but you have to feel this. You have ladies and girls from all different backgrounds, from all different places in their lives, affiliated, unaffiliated, it doesn't matter at this moment. There is a power in this room that everybody can feel. Sometimes it might drown our tears take over. Sometimes we judge when we don't accept. I know someday, but one day it's all going to turn around because all my life I've been waiting for. I've been praying for the people to say I'm praying that we don't want to fight even through dance you can pray and you could unite everybody say it day one day this is a sad song and our life looks like it's sad right now but let me show you something powerful when Mashiach comes it's going to be like 2s in My tears I drown, but I never let it get me down. So when negativity surrounds, I know someday it'll all turn around. Because all my life I've been waiting for, I've been praying for the people to say that we don't want to fight no more. There'll be no more war. And our children, one day, one day, one day. Yeah. 1 2 3. One day, one day, one day. Hey, let's see. [Music] Give me a Sometimes in my tears I drown, but I never let it get me down. So when negativity surrounds, I know someday it'll all turn around. Because all my life I've been waiting for. I've been praying for the people to say that we don't want to fight no more. There'll be no more war and our children will play. One day, one day. One day. Yeah. One day. Come on. One day. Believe. One day. Scream. One day. One more time. [Music] I don't see anybody clapping. Come on. Hey. Hey. One more time. Sometimes in my tears I drown, but I never let it get me down. So when negativity surrounds, I know someday it'll all turn around. For the people say that we don't want to fight. There'll be no more war and our children will play one day. Louder. One day. I don't hear you. One day. The women are going to bring Messiah. One day. No offense to the men. One day. One more time. Feel it. One day. Make a difference. [Music] Be the reason somebody smiles. One day, one day, one day we are going to see a better tomorrow. I love you. [Music] [Applause] Nice to see you again. The hardest part about my events is to get everybody situated after such an intense moment. So, if you all join me in getting quiet by one, find your seats, take a drink. I believe you all have water. Try dancing in a tutu. Ladies and ladies and young ladies, as soon as Okay, I'm not guarding anything yet. All right, here we go. Here we go. 10. Nine. Find your seats, ladies and gentlemen. Uh, women, my bad. That awkward moment. Sh. You with the blonde hair in the back. That's what I do at my camp. I'm joking. Six. Anybody from the zone? Five. Ladies, if you have somebody on your right that's talking, please tell them to be quiet. The lady on your left, please tell them to be quiet. Could you get them quiet, please? The people in the back, could you please get them quiet? Two. And as you're quiet, make sure that you hashtag Brooklyn and post all your pictures and hashtag shimmys. Come on. Yeah, of course. Connelly, take it away. Wow. Testing. Before we get to before we get to the next part of the program, ladies, if I can have your attention, please. in order to arrange an event like this. As you can imagine, this was no small feat as you're getting the picture of. But I want to publicly first thank Mrs. Khani Mandel. She's over here at the control room. Mrs. Khani Mandel has worked many months together in her partner in crime crime, Mrs. Weiss. [Applause] and all the wonderful ladies of Flatbush who have made this evening possible. Additionally, to arrange that this event, Bez Hashem be a secure event. A special thanks goes out to the NYPD in the 72nd precinct, the director of community affairs, Sean Spencer and Captain Eric Perez, as well as Mr. Dean Hannon, who made this who arranged all the police presence here, and our community liaison, Mr. Josh Melman. It's now my pleasure to hand it over back to our MC, our host for the highlight, if you can believe it, of this evening's program. Back to our program. And I will go on my fancy stairs onto the stage. Very classy. That's how I roll. I'm classy like that. Don't be jealous. That was amazing. Don't cheer. Just know how amazing you are. There was a man. There is a man who woke up one morning and said, "How can we make Brooklyn the best that it could be? How can we make Brooklyn better, bigger, wiser?" We can because we are the best. But somehow he figured it out and he came up with an idea. He woke up and he said, "I got it. A 20 foot kala." So ladies, this whole thing right here is thanks to the man behind it all, Rabbi Yakov Ginear. [Applause] So when you wake up one morning, don't you ever have that? You wake up and you're like, I want to make a 20, right? I have that all the time. But I'm like, it's not going to happen. And there comes Ellie Berman and the staff of Strauss Bakery and they said, "We'll take care of it for you. We're not only going to create this whole is it called better dough and they're also going to braid it. Take a look, folks. Look at your screens. This is how it all went down. The staff of the Strauss Bakery. Give it up for the incredible people who are behind this amazing event that's about to go down in history. Now, after you have a 20 foot kala, you have one big problem. You wake up and you're like, "Wait one second. It's braided. But how do I bake it? I mean, I don't have a big oven, but it definitely can't fit a 20 foot kala. And then came a very special man. His name is Anthony, the master baker, and he is from the Damascus Bakery. Give it up for the Damascus Bakery who helped us achieve the baking process. But I want to tell you something. How did they come to finding the Damascus crew? Rabbi Bendelstein from the OU not only certified this kala, but they helped us find the biggest oven in town. Thank you to all these people who helped us achieve this great moment [Music] right now to tell us that this is truly a 20 foot kala. Alex Angret from the Guinness Book of World Records will do his magic. Can I lift it? [Applause] And here we go, ladies and gentlemen. Ladies, the measuring tape is unfolding right before our very eyes. We need some scary music in the background. And here goes. He looks. He pers. He's hungry and smells this delicious scent of kala. Mr. Anthony, you know you want some kala. Do you? That's a yes. All right. So, not not only are we here tonight for the great big hollow bake, but we're here for a Guinness World Records title attempt at the world's longest grated loaf of bread. [Applause] As you all saw, I just made my official measurement with my official adjudicator tools. And I'll get to that total in just a minute. First, I'd like to confirm that this was a valid Guinness World Records title attempt. That the four necessary ingredients of flour, yeast, eggs, and salt were used and the minimum of three strands were accomplished. And with a final measurement of exactly 20 ft, I am thrilled to announce that Project Inspire has set a brand new Guinness World Records title. Now, first off, before I get to present everyone here with the official Guinness Record certificate, I'd like to say just what an honor it is to be here on behalf of Guinness World Records. This has been a fantastic event. Uh Guinness World Records is all about bringing together communities behind one common goal to be the best and the greatest in the world. And that's what I see here tonight. a community uniting under one cause. So, this is a fitting record attempt for the great big holiday. So, it gives me great pleasure to welcome Rabbi Samson and the folks at Project Inspire into the Guinness World Records family. You are all officially amazing. [Music] [Applause] [Music] We would like to thank Ellie Berman from the Strauss Bakery. [Music] [Applause] and Rabbi Elephant from the OU. Thank you so much. Hello. I just like to thank everybody for coming and uh it's a beautiful thing a color of unity and it's really this symbolic of the incredible unity that comes together because of all of you ladies. I thank you all for coming together ladies from all different backgrounds coming together as Jewish people as one people. This is what will bring greatness to the world. This is what will bring redemption to the world. I thank you all very much for coming tonight. [Applause] Are we ready? Okay, ladies, before we braid our kalas, I would like you to each take a little pinch off, which we're going to make for our one kala of unity. And runners, could you please take the pinches of hala and we're going to bring them all together. Ladies, even though our kalas didn't have a long time to rise, it seems that they look pretty good. And I think we're going to be ready to work with them. Runners, please go around and collect the little pinches of hala. Okay. If everybody takes their kalas out of their bags. We're going to cut them into two even pieces. Oh, sure. Before we actually braid the kala, I just wanted to share with you one small uh uh piece of interest. We break Okay, please if everybody could please be quiet, that would be very helpful. Okay, we're going to be putting our bowls away and we're going to be using our our mats to work on. That's going to be our work surface. Put the bowls into the bags. You could take them home and you can reuse them. We're going to be making two six braided halas. And the reason why we braided our into six braided uh loaves is to commemorate in the temple every Shabbat they had 12 loaves of bread which were called Mishna. And these loaves were and when we braid our two loaves into six braided kalas, we're actually having 12 into 12 strands of dough. And that is to commemorate in the temple the 12 loaves of bread. So I'm going to cut out my my piece of dough into two even pieces. I'm going to set one aside. I think if you put your extra piece into one of your uh kala pans, you can keep it over there and it won't stick to the table. Ladies, if you're quiet, we can all hear the way we are going to braid the kala. Okay, I'm going to teach you something that is a secret of the Kalafairy and something that when you see how I do it, you're going to say, "Wow, I can't believe it. Why didn't I ever think of this?" Okay, is everybody ready? Okay. When we when we cut our kala into six pieces, we don't actually cut them through because if you cut them through, then you have to pinch the tops. I'm going to actually use my knife that I brought along so we could see it better. We're going to first cut our our piece of dough in half. And when we cut it in half, we're going to bring it almost to the top, but not actually through. And then we're going to take each piece and cut it into three. Does everybody see this? So, here we have our our our kala here, our p our piece of dough, and we cut it in half. And we cut each piece into three. Another reason why we braid our kala the na the word braid in Hebrew is sama which is sadic mem and those are the same three letters of the word matzah. When we braid our kala we could think about matzah which is the first the first time when the Jewish people were united as one and they left Egypt together. And the numerical value of tama which is the braid amata is 135 which is the same numerical value of hashem who elohim. When we braid our kala and when we make our kala and we make our dough we are saying that god hashem is our god. And this is something that connects us all as as Jewish people. Okay. Is everybody ready? No. Okay, I'll give you another minute. When you're at home and you're and you're braiding your kala and you see that your kala is sticky, which it is not right now, don't ever use flour to to make it smooth. Take a little bit oil in your hand and go like this and then put it on your on your dough. It'll make it smooth and it won't make it lumpy when you work with it. Okay, ladies, I think we're ready. Okay, we're going to make this very, very easy. We're going to be starting on the right side and we're going to be starting with with strand number two. So, it's a it's a very simple process. Strand number two goes over all. Strand number one. Strand number two goes over all. Strand number one goes over two. And then we switch sides. So watch me here. Strand number two goes over all. Strand number one goes over two. When you do this, please make sure that it's very tight so that there are no pockets. Then we switch sides. Strand number two goes over all. Strand number one goes over two. Please make sure that all the all the runners, please make sure that you come to the stage and take the box so you the boxes that are here from the Strauss bakery boxes so you can put all the unity pieces in them. Okay, we're ready to go to the next side. Strand number two goes over all. Strand number one goes over two. And then we switch sides. Strand number two goes over all. And strand number one goes over two. Strand number two goes over all. Strand number one goes over two. While your mill are working, you can always straighten out your pieces of dough so that when you're done, your hollow looks presentable and pretty. Strand number two goes over all. Strand number one goes over two. Switch sides. Strand number two goes over all. Strand number one goes over two. And we're always starting from one side and then we're switching over to the other. Strand number two goes over all. Strand number one goes over two. It's always strand number two goes over all and then strand number one goes over two. Switch sides. Everybody who has not gathered all the unity pieces, please do so. Now, all the runners, all the runners, please come and get your boxes. I know it's a little bit difficult to navigate the room. Please, please pick up the boxes. Strand number two. What What am I up to here? Okay. Okay. I'm going to take a new piece. Let me just finish this and I'll start over. Once again, ladies, if you take a look, I'm going to show you. I'm going to show you how we do it from scratch. Conveniently. Conveniently, I brought a beautiful piece of dough here with me from uh my cafe in Rockland County. We're going to take the kala and we're going to cut it in half, but not all the way not all the way till the top, just almost to the top so that it's just sticking together at the at the tippiest top. Each side is going to be cut into three pieces. I said it about three, four times. Okay. Oh, there's a guy here from Strauss who's coming to pick up all the little pieces. Please, please bring them. Please, please bring them to the front. You don't want to be the one who misses out on being part of the unity kala. Ladies, if you look at my beautiful piece of dough here, okay, as it sits here, we have three beautiful strands. And if you follow the instructions and you make it very tight, your colors are going to come out beautiful. I see a few people doing something completely different, that's totally fine. We're always going strand number two goes over all, strand number one goes over two, and we switch sides. Okay, strand number two goes over all. Strand number one goes over two. And we switch sides. Once you remember how to do it and you memorize the lines, it should go very, very easily. Strand, we switch sides now. So, we're on the left side. Strand number two goes over all. Strand number one goes over two. And we switch sides. Strand number two goes over all. Strand number one goes over two. And we switch sides. Strand number two goes over all. Strand number one goes over two. And we switch sides. Strand number one goes Strand number two goes over all. See, I also sometimes get confused. Strand number one goes over two. And we switch sides. Now, the reason why this is such a beautiful kala to make is because once it's done, your kala has a lot of height and when it rises and you put it into the pan, it rises beautifully and and really makes your kala look very festive and very ready for shabas. This one doesn't really belong in this size pan, but look how beautiful it is. When you're making when you're braiding your kala at home and you see that maybe you decided when you braided your kala that you wanted it to be a longer kala than fits in your pan, I'm going to show you what to do. Ladies, when you break when you braid your kala and you see that it came out like way too long to fit into the pan, instead of instead of squishing it and putting and putting the edges into the pan like this, which will make it messy looking. You take the ends and you tuck them just like this and you put them into the pan like that. And then when it rises, you'll see that it rises much much nicer and it won't be messy inside your pan. As soon as as soon as they're done with their feet with You mean you don't have all of them yet? None of them are here. I need all the I need all the runners to come right now with the boxes. Please, please. I don't see any boxes up front here. Please, as soon as you get finished gathering your pieces, please place them up front here. Please, girls. Ladies, as soon as I can get quiet, I can tell you what to do when you come home and how to bake your kala. Can we get quiet so I could tell you how to bake your kala when you come home? I know a lot of a lot of you have baked before and are uh seasoned bakers, but for the people who haven't baked before, this is very important. Everyone, please be quiet. I'm I won't take up too much more of your time. I need to wait for quiet, please. Please, please. Hello. If you decide when you come home tonight that you want to bake your kala, take it out of these beautiful bags. I can't believe that they went through the effort to actually make baked bags, which is actually quite amazing. I don't even want to use mine. So cool. But you're going to put these your kalas into these bags and you're going to take them home as soon as you get home. The probably the best way to put them into the bag is to put them in like this so that when you carry it with your kalus already rising, it's not going to touch the sides of the bag. When you bring it home, if you want to bake it tonight, which I maybe some of you would like to, leave it on the counter in a warm place, but not on top of a preheated oven. Don't leave it on the stove top. If you do, then the bottom of the kala will start baking and your kala won't rise properly. When you come home, take a little take open up an egg, whisk it up a little bit. You could put a little water with it, a little sugar, depending how you like your kala, and brush it with a little egg wash. Runners, look for the green flags, please. Take a little egg wash and put it on top of your kala. If you don't have a brush and you want to brush it, just take a paper towel, dip it in the egg, and just brush it on top of your kala. Inside your bags, there are little packets of uh sesame seeds and poppy seeds, which someone went to a lot of hard work to put them into those little bags. I'm sure it was a major major job. So, please, after you put your egg wash on, you could put on sesame seeds, you could put on poppy, you could put on both, you could sprinkle a little bit of salt on it. You could have a little everything kala. If you like to, you can make yourself little uh vanilla crumbs. Mix equal amounts of flour, sugar, and a little oil and mix it together and uh sprinkle that on top. You could put chocolate chips on top. You could put cinnamon crumbs on top. Anything actually goes. You could have a really really fun kalas. I I did. Don't forget about the poppy and sesame. Somebody worked very hard to do that. If you decide you do not want to bake your kala tonight, this is very, very important. Do not put it if you want to bake it tomorrow when you get home from work if you work or tomorrow tomorrow morning. Put it into the refrigerator overnight. Take it out tomorrow. Put it into a warm place for an hour or two. You'll notice you'll know when it's doubled in in volume. And then bake it at 350 for between 325 and 350 depending what kind of an oven you have. If you have a convection oven, bake it at 325. A regular oven, bake it at 350. And it needs anywhere from 25 to 35 minutes because these are small collars. If you decide you want to bake it on Friday before Shabbat, do not put it in the refrigerator for two days. The yeast will die and the kalows will not rise. Put them in the freezer. You can put them straight in this bag in the freezer. Just tie it up properly. Take it out Friday morning before you go to work. Leave it on your counter. Don't leave it in too warm a place because otherwise it's going to rise too much. It needs out of the freezer. It needs at least three or four hours for it to defrost and to rise and then bake it as you would any kala at 350 for 25 to 35 minutes. Shimmyar. Shimmyadar. I want to thank everybody for having me here. This has been an incredible, incredible privilege. Khani is actually a classmate of mine from high school and we've remained friends through all these years and I have a little Hakara Satov to thank her for right now. I think now is like the right time. About 10 years ago, I came to her house during the summer when we had our our class reunion, which we tried to have every summer. It doesn't always work out. Akani had these most amazing whole wheat kala sitting on her counter. And I said, "Knie, these are just amazing." She said, "Here, let me give you the recipe." Anyway, I took her whole wheat kala recipe and I tweaked it up a little bit. And it's the whole kala recipe that I use in my bakery every single day. And I sell it to all the different supermarkets that carry my kala. And I have a huge satau because it's a no fail recipe and it comes out amazing every single time. And it's 100% whole wheat. And I want to thank for that. But your recipe is actually on the cards in their bag. It's not the the recipe for the kalas that you made over here tonight is in the bag. It's an extremely extremely simple recipe to follow. It's a lot of fun to make kala. And because this recipe calls for a dry yeast, these are ingredients that you can have in your house all the time. If your children have a snow day, if there's a special situation and you suddenly decide that you want to bake hala, these recipes are all available at your fingertips. Oh, and the whole kala recipe is in the bag as well. That is just fantastic. It happens to be it's an amazing recipe. It doesn't you it's an amazing recipe and we have to thank Jerel. Connie Jelle spoke so beautifully and from the heart tonight. I cannot thank her enough. She really made this event an incredible, incredible event and we really thank her. Thank you also. Are we ready to go home? Okay, fantastic. Okay ladies, I wish you a lot of Oh my gosh, that's amazing. There are women who have volunteered to help you make kala in your house. In your house anytime. And if you ever have any questions that are special for the kalafairy, I am available anytime. You can call my place in Rockland County and if as if it if it rings four or five times, it comes straight to my cell phone. I am here to answer any questions and this is really really true. Thank you, Connelly. Okay, we're going to reintroduce Shimmy. Shimmy, you made this party incredible. You are I did not. The women did. Thank you to Mr. Isaac and Mrs. Edy Gross from GFI. They sponsored this whole event. Everybody give a round of applause to these incredible human beings. I also want to thank a very special individual who made this night happened. He actually brought in this kala. He coordinated. He ran. He did. Thank you to Mr. Suki Silver. Now ladies, you could take home your kala. You could take home your knives, your bowls, the Pam, the candy, the water bottles. You can take home whatever you want except the napkins. You could take home the tables and chairs, but I will catch you. Ladies and ladies, your attention to Shimmy Adar, please, as important announcements coming up as well as safety announcements. Please do not exit as we will exit accordingly. The sign up for the Shabbat project is going to be in your bags as you go out. If you want to sign up for this incredible Shabbat project, look in your bags. If you cannot make it, you have a Shabbox. That is a Shabbat in a box. You have a kushka, candles, rolls, whatever it is that you need to make Shabbat happen, it is in there. Make sure not to take the napkins. If you lost the camera, come to me and describe your camera to me. All the runners, if you did not bring up your pinches of kala, please bring it up to the table. Thank you, Mr. Adar, for my music. This has been an unbelievable experience. The great big Kalabake. Thank you to all who are involved. I love you all and may you be the reason somebody smiles today every single day. It's a wrap. Okay. Thank you very much, Shiadar. An important safety announcement. Ladies, your attention, please. We are going to exit the building in an orderly fashion so that everyone can exit safely. And I ask that people that are on the second floor and in the balcony please make their way downstairs and exit. There are staff on the on the steps to guide you and help you. I ask everyone in the main ballroom to please wait a moment for people on the balcony and in the rainbow room on the second floor to exit first. Thank you for your cooperation. Anyone who parked on the street on an angle should please be careful in pulling out. We want everyone to get home safely. There are garbage bags under your tables for any trash. Please utilize the garbage bags under your tables. Once again, balcony and rainbow room. If you could please exit the building quickly so that we can exit from the main ballroom. safely. Ladies, ladies, please from the balcony and the rainbow room, please exit the staircase quickly and carefully. Ladies in the side rooms, please be ready to exit as well. From the skylight and atrium rooms, please exit the building. [Music] All coaches and runners, thank you so much for being so amazing tonight. Please collect all remaining items so that they could be collected after the event. Once again, balcony and rainbow room as well as the skylight room and atrium, if you could please exit the building. [Music] I want to thank Yehuda Rdman and his brother Doug David Rdman from Realtore Audio Visual who were absolutely outstanding tonight. What a show. Thank you to Mali Gineer and Choir for their amazing job. And do not throw out the charity boxes from the tables. Do not, I repeat, do not throw out the charity boxes in front of the table. Ladies that are still here, let's hear a round of applause for Shimmy Yadar Connie Jerlli Leman. Connelly the fairy, the kala fairy, the schlissle whistle. Kali Schlisser, thank you so much for doing such an amazing demonstration today. [Music] Once again, ladies, from the rainbow room and the side rooms, please exit the building as well as from the balcony. We are going to be opening up the main ballroom exit ASAP. [Music] I also want to thank ladies, please give it up for the Grand Prospect Hall, William Gallagher and staff who were absolutely amazing in organiz Mr. and Mrs. H from the Grand Prospect Hall who were absolutely incredible. All the guys on the sound, all the guys on the AV who made it happen tonight. Thomas who made it happen. Ladies, you can begin exiting the main ballroom. You can begin exiting the main ballroom. Want to thank Kobe on the sound tonight. Who is the general? Ladies, you can begin exiting. Thank you so so much for coming. This was truly an incredible event. [Applause] Hallelujah. [Music] Once again ladies, please exit carefully and slowly. Y there are a lot of people exiting the building at the same time, but please quickly exit the building so as not to congest the stairwell. Thank you so much again for coming. [Music]