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Chesed 24/7 Event - Rabbi Joey Haber
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first of all thank you very much for
this this is
incredible can those of you by the food
can we have your attention please for
three
minutes first of all Rabbi Sanders this
was not necessary at all I all you you
all the thanks but this is incredible
and I'm not going to mind bringing this
home having the actual handwriting and
the actual words of the excuse me of the
the is an Incredible Gift
okay so my speech is going to be shorter
than expected because I can't see one
word literally not one
words can I
you
okay do we have your attention in the
back there are many things in
life that we are prepared for that means
when someone gets
mad time
so when they're ready for marriage they
took lessons and classes and hopefully
they're ready for what's in store when
someone's about to have a
child by definition it takes nine months
for that child to come into the world
you have nine months to
prepare if someone's going to buy a
house you go into contract and then you
close you're
ready but when someone gets a call that
their mother has to to go to the
hospital or their father or their wife
or God forbid their
child you don't have any
preparation it's usually hi Daddy's go
daddy's not doing well hatah is coming
to the house right now who's going are
you going I'm going I'm going mommy's
also going to go we're going to go too
are you sure could you drop you have a
class to give don't give the class grab
something from the house and get in the
car you're going to follow down salot
truck and you're going to
go and then you get there
and you're so not ready for
anything you barely know the doctor
you're going to speak to and you for
sure don't know what you're going to
do my family and I have been through
about a seven-year
Journey that ended sadly three months
ago and on that Journey we've been in
and out of
hospitals and had nowhere to turn and at
nights we'd sleep on
Floors at nights
what you slept on before yes yes not my
father at night we didn't know where we
were going to get food from because it
was so urgent no one even knew we were
there enter
247 and all of the sudden the whole
experience
changes and I'd like to give you
explanation why and give you a few keys
if I can that the people in the back are
okay with listening for two minutes
theuk says of of
consolation we
speak you speak about the heart of
Jerusalem because our sins have been
forgiven what do you mean our sins have
been forgiven yesterday was sitting on
the floor because our was destroyed what
changed today what Chang today is the
recognition of
Le the recognition of the heart of the
Jewish people and the Heart of the
Jewish people are so powerful and so
unique and so captured in 247 when we
walked into the hospital we didn't know
them and they didn't know us and before
you know it they were our friend and I'm
going to give you three components of
how they help number one is food you
might say we don't food we could like
afford food I hope you've never been in
a hospital if you have try Uber eating
to a hospital it's so annoying CU When
You Uber eat to your house you could say
drop it off outside the door and you go
pick it up in 10 minutes or 20 minutes
or an hour whatever it takes which door
are you going to drop it off to outside
the hospital so where do you go so you
keep tracking on your phone and then the
guy came already and then he left and he
went to the other Hospital door and he
went to the front he went to the back
the front and the back is not not the
front and the back of your house it's
three blocks away the front and the
back and you're starving and your and
your patient needs food and you need
food and the hospital gives you some
food you can barely look at
it and then there
24/7 my siblings and I were in and out
of that room and we'd go get a piece of
cake we'd go get something to eat we'd
go get some vegetables we' go get some
candy we go get some snack we go get
some real food we go get
soup on Shabbat we get K we get great
jues they give you a little box they
walk into your
room even if you could afford the
food even if buying food for you isn't
hard you feel so desperate and so poor
in that moment and the last thing you
have time to do is say ma dad tell the H
doctor to wait I'm going to go to the
store and get
food that's number one number two is
holidays
my father was in out of the hospital
like I said over seven years it was
probably 200 300 days that he was in the
hospital 300 nights that he was there we
had a couple of PES in the hospital PES
24/7 sent a team the night before PES to
clean the
room for PES then they sent the team to
set up the room for PES like my brother
mentioned on the video PES said there
they had
k matah
everything you need the whole set
up and for each and every holiday they
are there for you to make you have
whether it's Shabbat holiday make you
have exactly what you
need and the third and final thing if
you never in a hospital you would think
you don't need it but if you did in a
hospital you desperately hold on to it
and that is a friend to hold your
hand in our journey we were in Two
Hospital hital is predominantly Mount Si
and Cornell I still remember the day
when Sima walked into our room I think
we were in the waiting room and she
walked into the waiting room she says hi
and we're like who are you she said I'm
247 and she told my mother I'm going to
hold your hand every day we were in
Mount
Si for approximately 70
days I'm not sure was everyone or almost
everyone every single day simma came to
the room and sat with my mother what do
you need what can I get you when you're
there and you almost feel like you're in
jail it's incredible what they do and
then we were in
Cornell and simma is right here tonight
with us thank you simma so much for all
that you done for my
family and then we were in Cornell and
in comes your and your is there for our
family and she's watching us and she's
there with us every single day and we
were there also for weeks and
months my point here tonight ladies and
gentlemen is this I hope you never have
to walk into a
hospital but maybe I hope you
do because it means your parent lived a
long life and it means you have a chance
to be there for
them and in the haste and in the energy
that you're putting in to be there for
your parent or be there for a spouse you
don't
realize how much help you need and the
people you need to be there for
you so you don't get warning and I hope
it doesn't come for another hundred
years but when that day comes you're not
going to get a collar class you're not
going to get a groom class you're not
going to get driver's
headed and you're not going to get some
L that's going to teach you how to give
birth to a
baby you're all a sudden going to be
there and you're going to be
lost and then you're going to hear about
this room and you're going to get the
Hebrew
combination and you're going to walk
into the room and you're going to feel
like your
home and you're going to see other
people just like you people in our
community and people from other
communities and you say what are you
here for
one time my sister walked into room
there was a man there who's was sitting
shiva but his wife was giving birth so
he was in the hospital during the seven
days my sister was able to console my
family was able to console him and he
was able to strengthen us our nation is
incredible because of the heart that we
possess because of the strength that's
inside of us because of the unity of
Jews around the world
that no matter how many people are our
enemy we are brothers and sisters and
there's no place on the planet that you
will need it and that you will feel it
more than in the 247 room I hope you
don't need it for a hundred years but
when that day comes you will be so glad
that tonight you supported the hearts of
our nation thank you