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Welcome everybody.
We have a beautiful day today planned. I
know everybody wants to enjoy the day.
We're going to start with Rabbi Adid
giving a shior. Beautiful shore.
And from there, we're going to go to a
quick fundraising
just to support this wonderful
organization which
Harry will speak to when he gets to it.
But they're an amazing organization.
They do so much for the community very
quietly. Any of you that don't know
about them, fortunate not to have to
know about them. Anybody that ever needs
them, they're very, very special in how
they help the organiza, the community.
Okay, everybody get settled, please.
Rabbi, do you want to
>> This is Rabbi Sanders.
>> I'm Rabbi Sanders with the organization.
Ben Sanders. Harry called me. You know,
Ben, do this. Ben, do that.
We're we're so grateful when when David
told me that Sunday morning
gives the sh I said let's have the sh at
at at the event. So we are we are so
honored. We we are so honored. Thank
you. Thank you. Thank you.
>> So I just want to thank my wife
Monnique. She's unbelievable to host
this event today.
She's been up since 6:00 a.m. getting it
organized. Did an amazing job. Thank you
Mon'nique. Thank you, Rabbi Adid, for
giving the class today. Thank you, Rabbi
Sanders. I think we're going to have
some other special guests uh to be here
in a little bit and we'll welcome them
when they get here. One of the liaison
from the hospital, two of the lison from
the hospitals, one from Mount Si, her
name is Simma and the one from Cornell,
her name is
>> Yohed,
>> the one at Cornell, the position was
established here in this room in 2019.
Thanks for the money.
>> Thanks to everybody that contributed. So
your money went to good use. We wanted
another liaison at another hospital, an
important hospital. And from that event,
we were able to raise money to be able
to bring in another liaison. She's been
there, you said how many years? Seven
years now.
>> Seven years now.
>> And she's built herself up in the
organization. I don't know if anybody
knows how complicated a hospital is, but
there's a lot of complications that
exist to get a liaison into a hospital
to be able to work in the background of
what goes on in the hospital is very,
very challenging. takes years and years
and once they're established they do
amazing things. So I've been
unfortunately experienced it a few times
and uh it's been family members and each
time I reached out to Rabbi Sanders he
reached out to the organization and
they've each time helped tremendously.
Simple thing like getting out of the
emergency room which can be a very
difficult thing to do in Mount Si. We
were able to execute expedite getting
out of the emergency room getting into a
room which is you really never want to
be in an emergency room. It's just
chaos. It's not enjoyable. So, it's a
very special thing to be able to uh to
do that. Rabbi, did you want me to
introduce somebody?
>> Okay, Rabbi Adid, please. We're honored
to have you here today. Thank you so
much. Take it away.
>> Take it away.
>> Thank you, David. Good morning, Harry.
>> Rabbi,
>> it's great to see you early Sunday
morning.
>> It's an honor. We missed you yesterday.
>> I was there. Sure.
>> You had a class for 250 minutes in the
morning,
>> but then we had some other things going
on.
>> God bless you. Thank you, David. Thank
you, Monnique, for opening your home.
God bless you. It's uh no secret how
much
love I have for the Hadids and David and
his wife and their family. Mr. Jamal,
Sha bless you, you and your entire
family.
And this event this morning, besides the
class that we're having, is a testimony
to who they are. It's not about money.
It's more about responsibility and
caring for others and doing for others.
And uh thank you for being that person
in our lives. And Hashem should continue
to bless you with opportunities to be
able to do for others and it should
bring blessings on your family. Amen.
Amen.
>> Also a special thanks to James Hadt for
uh always uh being on top of our Sunday
morning class. This is part of our
Sunday morning weekly class that we have
today. It's a little extra flavor that
we have with it. So thank you. We have a
lot of a lot of merit, a lot of
it always
your wonderful parents and it should
bring your family higher and higher in
general. Amen. Amen.
The um
the puk says
in a perk of that we read every Friday
night
it says
literally translated it means that the
great person.
They sprout. They grow like the date
tree.
That's called a tamaran.
And they
grow tall
like the cedars of Lebanon. Huge tall
cedar trees.
So the great person is being compared to
a day tree and to a cedar tree.
The idea is very simple seemingly
that a great person doesn't stay. He's
not a rock. He's not a table. He's not a
chair. This chair will stay the same for
the next hundred years. It could only
get worse.
But humans are not like that. Humans are
not static. You see a person, 10 years
later you see another person and 10
years later you may see another person
hopefully for the better.
Humans are meant to grow.
Humans are meant to become greater to
elevate themselves. We come into this
world and we're as selfish as can be.
We're born selfish. You never have to
wonder
where a person got selfishness from.
It's the way we were created.
A person is born with jealousy. A person
is born with all the worst
characteristics.
A little baby is an example
of a
person who is lacking good character.
And our job in life is to elevate
ourselves and to grow above.
To go from selfish to selfless,
to go from jealous to satisfied.
To be happy for others.
To grow from lazy to energetic
and all the beautiful things
that a human grows, which of course all
requires wisdom.
So the puk is basically saying a great
person grows like a tree grows. When you
see a date tree when it's planted it's
nothing. Come back in a few years you
see it's got branches it's got dates.
People are eating from it. Beautiful
cedar trees tall. You looked a few years
before there was nothing there and look
what happened.
Look around you. There are people that
have grown in life. All of us have grown
up with people.
Unfortunately, there are some people
that I grew up with that haven't changed
a bit. They're the same guy, just maybe
with a little more money.
The same comments, the same rudeness,
the same selfishness, the same.
It's sad. They're not bad people. Just
sad. Like grow up. Not grow up in age.
grow up, become something better.
You don't have to make those comments
anymore.
You don't have to be so competitive
anymore like you were when you were 15
on a basketball court. You're 55.
Grow up.
A human is meant to grow up.
It's sad when we see a person
who is very similar to the way they were
20 years ago.
That's what the puk describes.
It describes the great person as the
person who has grown, who you look at
him today and say, "I don't remember
that guy. I mean, I remember what he
looked like. I remember his voice, but I
don't remember him. He wasn't like this.
It's supposed to be that way. You're not
supposed to be the guy that everyone
remembers.
That's the way of the world. Great
people graduate.
Great people become.
And there's no greater
example. People are always wondering how
to raise a better family, a better
child.
that they should leave a legacy in this
world of something bigger than
themselves. And there's no greater way
to do it than to be that person,
to be an awesome figure in the home of
your children and grandchildren
where they look at you and they have an
awe for what you are and who you've
become.
That's what the puk is describing.
that great people are no longer
identified
the way they used to be and every person
has to think about that.
You don't have to think about it. You
can think however you like. It's free
choice. The world is free choice.
But the purpose of free choice is that a
person develops themselves and becomes
something.
But the question on this puk is
why is there a reason
that they chose specifically these
trees?
Why did they choose the day tree and the
cedar tree out of all trees? Just say a
tree. We know what trees are.
And if they wanted to give an example of
a specific one, why give two? Just say
one. You like the date tree, just say a
date tree.
Why do you have to compare a great
person to a date tree and a cedar tree?
I mean, there are plenty of trees. If
you wanted to start listing, there's no
end.
So the truth is that the day tree
and the cedar tree have their own story.
Each one has a story and it's very
important to know their story.
The day tree
is not a very tall tree.
The reason why it's not so tall
is because it puts all of its energy
in producing dates.
Imagine for a moment you were a date
tree and you're working all winter
to produce what's going to be fruits,
thousands and thousands of fruits.
And you work and you work and you toil
and finally
your fruits come out. Your tree is full
of fruits. So beautiful, so exciting.
And a day or two later,
some fellow comes with a big truck.
He takes every one of your dates.
Doesn't even say thank you.
and you're left bare without even one
fruit.
Everything was given out.
You look at yourself and say, "Why did I
do this? Why did I sacrifice so much to
produce fruits only for someone to come
and take it all? I sacrificed my height.
I could have been tall. I could have
been a cedar tree.
A cedar tree is very tall because it
doesn't produce any fruits.
So all of its energy
goes into itself.
So it just keeps getting higher and
higher and taller and more beautiful.
The day tree sacrifices its own height
to produce fruits for others, but it's
so disappointing because by the end of
the season, it's got nothing to show for
it. Someone comes and takes it all and
the day tree is left to wonder why he
has to work so hard and not get anything
in return. What I have to stunt my
growth
to give somebody else
from my fruits.
These are the stories of the trees.
In the tree world, the more you put into
fruits, the shorter you become.
The more you invest in yourself, the
taller you become
says David Melik
that the human story is very different.
You know, every one of us in life, every
normal person in life has aspirations.
They want to become big at something.
Some want to become big with money.
They want to be super wealthy.
Believe it or not, some aspire for other
things. Maybe hard to believe.
It's hard to believe. You say
some aspire for wisdom.
They aspire for wisdom.
Some aspire for perfection.
Of
course, they also need money,
but it's not what they're shooting for.
But regardless of what you're shooting
for in life, you want to become someone
tall.
Tall in finances, tall in family, tall
in wisdom, tall in accomplishments,
whatever it is that you aspire to, you
want to become tall.
God forbid that somebody wakes up in the
morning and has no aspirations. They're
in big trouble.
A human is built, a great human is built
on aspirations.
I have to build. I have to do. I have to
produce. I'm excited to become
something.
I'm not here telling you what to become,
but you got to become something.
says the great David
listen to me good listen to what I'm
telling you
that a person's rise to reach
what they want and what they desperately
want to possess
and it should bring them a blessing as
Well, and not always do the things that
we aspire to bring us blessings.
Sometimes we aspire for wealth and the
wealth makes us not so blessed. Not
everything that we aspire to is an
automatic home run in the world of
happiness and success.
says David Melik, I'm going to give you
a formula in this world of how a person
is able to achieve
the height that they want to reach in
all the important areas of life.
Along the way of success,
along the way of the tree going higher,
says David, there's going to be
situations that are going to demand of
you to give of your fruits.
You have a young man who aspires to be a
great scholar.
He wants to become something big. He
wants to know. The Torah is endless. The
books are endless. The wisdom is
endless.
And he's on it. He's studying. He's He
went from he went to to Mishna. He went
to Gim. He's doing Zohar. He's He's all
over. He wants to know it all. And
someone knocks on his door
and says, "Could you you have a a little
time for me?
Could you learn with me something?
An hour a week? Couple of hours a week.
You have time for me? Yeah, sure. What
do you want to learn? Oh, I'm I'm very
basic. I don't know much. Like maybe
like uh learn a puk, learn a few
pesukim, tell some stories.
The guy is thinking, what am I doing
here? Here I am on my way to my tall
great achievements that I am aspiring
for.
Spending an hour with this guy, spending
two hours with him, what a waste of my
time.
It's taking away from my ability to go
higher.
a person who's striving to make himself
a wealthy person and they start and they
work and they're struggling and they're
struggling and finally they're making a
little bit of money.
They made their first million.
I'm sorry if that's like too little in
this room, but whatever.
Used to be a good number.
He made his first million and he's like,
"Okay, he's getting there. He's closer
to the billions that he's excited about.
He's so excited
and all of a sudden he gets a knock on
the door.
He says, "You know, we have a project.
We have something we're doing for the
community, for for people in need, for
young people, whatever it is, you know,
we need your help. We need 100 grand.
100 grand.
That makes my
tree
not so tall. I took I'm up to a million.
You're bringing me down. You're cutting
me shorter.
That doesn't work in my world of
aspiration. I I need to keep my millions
so I can get to more faster.
You're stunting my growth
by me giving you my perot. I'm shorter
as a result.
It is that way. Not only in money and
not only in wisdom.
A great woman who is raising a family.
Everybody knows that it's not simple to
deal with a husband
and with children and take care of their
needs and making sure everything is what
it's supposed to be. It's not simple.
It's hard work, especially if you're
doing it right.
We've seen great women that are amazing
just to watch and see their dedication
and what they do for their family. It's
beyond what what a man is capable of
doing.
Here is a woman invested in her family
and someone knocks on her door and says,
"Could you open your home for an event
for 24/7?
you know, we need we need uh your help
in the school for something.
And now she's thinking, one second, if I
put my effort
in this and in that, how am I going to
have the ability to help my own
children? You know how much energy I
need for my children? You know how much
time I need for my children? Now I'm
gonna give my energy to others to other
children.
It's not going to allow me to reach the
goals. I have goals. I want to become
something great. My children, my home, I
got to be focused on what I have to do.
This is the story of life that no matter
what
endeavor you're elevating yourself to
reach
along the way. You're going to have
people knocking on your door to take
away from what you're striving to
become.
They may take away your time. They may
take away your wisdom. They may take
away your money. They may take away your
energy.
And at that point, you're going to have
to make a choice. You're going to have
to make a decision.
The logical decision would be no. I have
goals. This is going to set me back. I'm
not doing it. It makes sense. If people
don't give charity, it makes sense. I
get I get them. I understand them. Why
would they? They're working hard.
They're trying to get somewhere. Why
would they give away their fruits? I
understand why someone wouldn't want to
learn with somebody who's way below
their standard.
I get it. Makes sense. It's logical.
says David Melik
that although it's logical and although
makes sense
but in the human reality
it's not the way it works
in the human reality it works totally
different than the trees you're right in
the world of trees logic says you give
of your fruits to others you stunt your
growth
You're not going to be so tall.
You keep everything to yourself, you're
going to become tall as can be.
But when it comes to humans,
says the great David Melik, it doesn't
work like that.
In fact, it works the opposite.
He says, "Sadik, the great person,
when he gives away
the gifts that Hashem has blessed him
with, when he gives of his dates,
he gives of his time, he gives of his
money, he gives of his energy, he gives
of his wisdom, he gives to others.
That's how you grow tall.
You specifically grow tall by giving of
yourself to others.
That's the formula.
You're not like the trees.
Humans are not trees. Humans have a
different way of reaching their
aspirations, reaching the top, reaching
what they want in the most blessed way.
Taking everything for yourself doesn't
make you successful, not even in what
you're aspiring to achieve.
It's only when you give of yourself.
It is only there where the formula of
growth for yourself happens.
It's something that a person must
internalize.
We're all by nature selfish. We're all
by nature wanting to hoard everything
for ourselves. That doesn't make us
anything less than human.
But it doesn't make us wise.
The wise person looks
for opportunities to open their home, to
open their pocket, to give of their
time.
They see it not as a
block. They see it as a hurdle to go
higher.
When someone is taking something from
you, he's giving you something.
Living life in such a way not only
becomes productive, not only becomes
energetic, but it becomes blessed.
You become a cedar tree.
I heard a story some years ago, maybe I
mentioned this here in one of the
classes. It's an unbelievable story
about a young man.
This story, by the way, was said over.
I forget the name of the person who said
it. Very wealthy Jew that lived in
England. He passed away now.
I forgot his name. He was a Holocaust
survivor.
And he made a sum on at the age of 80.
Something that he learned. And he spoke
and he said the following story.
He was in the concentration camps as a
little boy
and when they let them go, he was the
only one left of his family.
So he was trying to find a place to
start his life.
He says he ended up in the streets of
London.
No home, no money, no family. Can you
even imagine what that feels like?
And
he says he saw he was at the time around
18 years old. He saw in the streets of
London he saw yeshiva
yeshiva where boys are learning Torah.
He hasn't learned he hasn't seen a book
in eight years
but he's at home. He says, "Oh yeshiva,
maybe I'll go. I I'll enroll in the
yeshiva."
He knocks on the door.
He meets with the rashiva.
He says, "Rabbi, you know, I
I am uh
just saved from the Holocaust. I have
nowhere to go. I see you have yeshiva.
I'd love to sit and learn to
you know place to stay
on and the sea hears what the man what
this little young man is telling him. He
tells him, "Listen, you're welcome to
stay.
Be happy for you to stay, but I just
want you to know the people here are
very highlevel learners.
You haven't learned
in years, you're not going to be able to
understand what they're saying."
He said, "If you can get a
if you can get one of the boys to learn
with you,"
he says, "I'd be happy to have you. I
just don't know if anyone's going to be
willing to learn with someone who knows
nothing,
but try."
But what choice does he have? He takes a
piece of paper
and he puts it right by the entrance of
the bet midash
and he writes a boy here came from the
war
is in the yeshiva interested in
interested in study partners.
If anyone is interested, please go over
to him.
Okay.
One day he's waiting in the bet midash.
Who's going to come over to learn with
him? Big yeshiva. A lot of boys there.
Each one has their who's going to come
and learn with him. One day passes, not
one answered that note.
Who can blame them? They have already
their study partner. They're doing their
thing.
The second day, maybe the second day
will be a little better. He comes the
second day,
waits from morning till night. Not one
guy,
nobody comes over to say I want to learn
with you. He's already feeling a little
hopeless.
He says he'll give it one more day.
comes the third day. Nobody.
It's now 6:00 7 p.m. He's gonna find
another place to go to because there's
no hope in this place.
On his way out,
two young men tap him on the shoulder
and they ask him,
"Are you are you the person who put up
the note?"
He says, "Yes."
So, well, my name is Moshe. My friend
here is Tuvia.
He says, "We want to learn with you.
We're sorry we didn't come earlier. We
weren't here. We were out of town. We
just came back today. We saw the note."
But he'll learn with you first the
morning s for a few hours and I will
learn with you in the afternoon every
day.
Is it really? You guys want to learn
with me? Yeah.
So he said he was so happy someone was
willing to learn with him. In his mind
he said these are probably the losers of
the yeshiva
who was learning with them. They came
from out of town. They probably you know
but what what else does he have? No
choice. He stayed. He started to learn
with them. took very quickly for him to
realize
that Moshe and Tuvia were very very very
solid. They from the most solid of the
yeshiva.
When people had questions, they come
over to them. Young men, but they were
special.
This man ended his cyum speech by saying
the following.
He says, "I kept up with almost all the
boys in the yeshiva that I learned. I
know every one of them."
He says, "And I will tell you that from
all the boys that were in that yeshiva,
not one became anything special
except from Moshe and Tovia. Both of
them became they're very well known.
They're from the Gdole.
each one of them.
Here's an example
of young men that said, "Listen, I'm in
yeshiva. I gotta learn.
What am I wasting my time with this
guy?"
Makes sense. But that's not the way it
works. That's not the way life works on
human standards.
when we dedicate ourselves. Now, of
course, if a person is pulling the money
out of you like they're stretching your
skin,
I don't know if it works like that.
If someone is forcing you to teach
somebody, I don't know that it works
like that.
A person needs to feel a responsibility
if you've been blessed. And who here
isn't blessed with something?
If you've been blessed, remember and
remind yourself, your blessings were not
given for you.
Your blessings were given to give out
like dates on a palm tree.
This is not only your obligation, but
it's the source of your success for you
and for your family.
You'll take something and turn it into a
blessing.
The person who feels responsibility
for the gifts that Hashem has given him
to use them to open the home to open the
wallet to open their time to give their
whenever a person is asked and it's a
real cause and it's important
and they could do it. Sometimes you
can't do it. You can't do it. Can't open
your home. You can't know. You can't do
it.
Know the opportunity.
Know that the person isn't taking away
dates from you. It's giving you a cedar
tree life.
And
it's a um
the well-known secret of our nation.
It's who we are.
As the puk says, Hashem loves us. Why?
Because even when Hashem gives us a lot,
when he gives us a lot, we realize that
we have more to do and more
responsibility.
When Hashem gives blessings as we say in
the
to love Hashem
with all your heart
with your soul.
What's
means a lot.
To love Hashem with the When Hashem
gives you a lot. When Hashem gives you a
lot, it's meant for a purpose. It's got
a destination.
Feel the responsibility.
And when you feel the responsibility,
you become a vessel of blessing
for more and more and more.
This is a uh reality.
Fortunate are people who understand this
reality and more fortunate are those who
live by it. Their life becomes a
completely different life.
Very little will stay the same about who
they are when they live with that
responsibility and that
that's my blessing to all of you. My
blessing to all of us is that we should
see clearly.
We should see the assignments that have
been given to us through the blessings
that have been handed our way
and we should be able to utilize them
not only to help others but to elevate
ourselves and our families. And I think
this morning is another example of how
our community
steps up to help those who are helping
others.
Nobody wants to be as David said in
situations where they need this
organization.
But we all know that it's a reality that
probably we all will need this
organization.
And when someone is in need and someone
steps up to help,
it's part of who we are as a people. And
those who step up and give and support
those who help are just as important as
the ones on the front lines. So
Dave, thank you again.
>> Who's who said I'm finished?
That was just the introduction.
Thank you, David. Thank you, Monnique.
Thanks to all of you. It's always a
pleasure to be around people that we
love and people that we connect to in
the most beautiful way. My blessings to
you and to everybody to your families
all your extensions that you should see
tremendous blessings. You should not
only receive the blessings but you
should experience the blessing in the
blessings. Some people get blessings but
they don't they don't enjoy them to
enjoy your blessings and be hashem today
will be another stop on the road to
those blessings. Thank you 247 for uh
making your way here and giving us the
opportunity to help you do what you do.
Thank you.
>> We're going to show a short video.
>> Okay, we're going to show a short video.
>> I'm I'm going to have to leave.
>> Oh, so we better get Harry first.
>> He's on the video. Can we show it for
just a minute?
>> Go ahead. Show the video. I I
>> I know you have to go. Harry,
>> I always have to go.
>> I know you the person he was talking.
Let the video roll and let the video
roll please.
>> The star of this video, Mr. Ralph Zerak
is here himself and
>> where is he?
>> Few years back
>> traveling for business. I'm in the
Philippines and as I always do, I look
for the local synagogue. I walk inside,
I see someone I never met before. He
gives me a big hug. He tells me, "You
don't know me." He goes, "But I'm
assuming your father is Eli." I said,
"He is." He goes, "From Beirut?" I said,
"Yes." He said, "Me and your father were
best friends. It's a small world.
Anywhere you go, you're going to bump
into
someone, you know." I like to use the
phrase often, mule.
It's an allhill, right? I went I went to
the synagogue in Philippines
and to me how beautiful
are the Oales of Yakob like this
synagogue or any synagogue around the
world that we go to the Oel Yakob and
that's what brings us together 24/7
was the oh that I needed we were in
Cornell you're in another world although
you're in Manhattan and you're in the
city but you're in a building that's
really its own almost like its own its
own world. And when you're in there, you
have to take care of what you're doing.
Whether it's taking care of something
that needs to be taken care of, it could
be a great thing, having a child or a
grandchild, whatever it is. But when
you're there and you need that something
headset 24/7 is that oh within the
building right within the world of
Cornell which is where I was at and I
was there for a while while I was there
with my wife
and I'll tell you from
the first day or second day we were
there Rabbi Sanders came to me
introduced himself and he said I want
you to know we're here for you. Anything
you need, I said 24/7 is here for you. I
said, Rabbi, we need a heart. He said, I
know. He said, we're praying for you and
we're going to
Hashem is going to get her a heart.
We're all praying for you. And honestly,
anything I could have asked for, I'm
sure they would have done for me. I
needed a break or if I needed a snack or
if I needed teen, whatever it was, you
go in that room and it was the oil that
I needed. The first Friday we were
there, Yoh came to us and she brings us
what they call shabas on a box and they
give you this box which has kushkam
sweets um a card
a flower for for your table hala cover a
tablecloth
like they think of everything and that's
what's beautiful about not just our
community, but the Jewish world, they're
always thinking of others. And that's
my opinion
what's going to bring the mashiach
quickly. The
is paramount to everything. 24/7 is an
organization that we all wish we don't
need, but at the end of the day, we're
all one community. We're one family and
there are so many people struggling
today that are utilizing 24/7 all their
resources. So, it's so important to
recognize the fact that they are
critical to our infrastructure to
helping our community members navigate
through medical challenges.
>> I was happy to help by contributing my
home. It's my pleasure, my wife's
pleasure, my wife is happy to do it.
We're thrilled to be a part of the
organization success and we wish you
many many years of continued zahoot in
continuing to do what you do. Your
organization is fabulous. Uh it's
priceless. It's important and uh really
there's so many people you help and
nobody even knows it.
>> Thanks 24/7 for being there myself, for
my wife, for my family. They're doing
unbelievable work.
Harry,
welcome.
>> Thank you, David. Monnique,
>> thank you very much.
>> Well, he has a gift for you, so
>> you got one for me, too.
>> I I consulted with a famous uh art
consultant, Mr.
>> Your hands are shaking.
>> Mr. Ricky Sutton, uh who uh was very
kind in helping us. Please come up with
it. Please come. Please
come.
>> No, no, you take with them.
>> Go ahead. Take a picture with them.
>> This is by a famous artist in Israel.
Well-known artist. It is a It is a
It looks like a spaceship. But in fact
um it you know nowadays the kohanim when
they go to bless the Jewish people the
living in come and pour water on their
hands. And the the Monique and David, as
the rabbi said, have such clarity in me.
I would hope that both of them are
present tomorrow. But we wanted to uh
the the inscription reads, "Presented to
Monique and David Haden with heartfelt
appreciation for your exemplary and
visionary leadership in establishing the
the Haded family patient liaison
position at Wild Corn. Now
um you have blazed a I'm sorry you have
blazed a magnificent path for your
family and for your community
founders of Rabbi and Mrs. Greenberg
once upon a time they're here with us
once upon a time there was one room in
in in in Rockland County and Mrs.
Greenberg started that room and she said
to her husband, "Come, let's build the
thing." And of course, like all good
husbands, he said, "Of course." And so
now there are 34. We just opened up our
second one in Brooklyn. NYP uh NYP
Brooklyn is called now. Uh there are of
course Mount Si uh Cornell, Columbia
Children's, Columbia Sloan Kenny. Um
thank you very very much.
Thank you. Thank you, Rabbi. Appreciate
it. Harry,
>> do your thing.
>> Enjoy it. Thank you. My thing is your
thing. My thing is the rabbis's thing.
It's what our community is all about.
Giving back. That's where our heart
comes from. That's what we were trained
from. our grandparents, our parents, us,
our rabbis, they speak about it day in
and day out. And and Rabbi May's speech
today was the epitome of that. It's all
about what you want to be, who you are,
and how much you can give back. And one
of the ways is money, right?
>> Well, we established that position for
Mr. Shanik. Mr. Shan, can you stand up
for a moment? Mr. Shanic's position was
established in this room. We would like
her to continue and we are going to
establish hopefully another one
hopefully here today. Mrs. Backreck is
here. Mr. Back, can you stand up for a
moment? Mrs. Backreck is here as well.
That's of course who uh David was
privileged to work with in 2018. And so
that's Simma.
>> We call her Simma. Simma, would you mind
standing up?
>> I'm sorry. I have to steal the
microphone. Simma, would you mind
standing up for a second? Simma, who's
waving, doesn't want to stand up. She's
very humble. Uh, Simma was one of the
most
>> you guys done.
>> Uh, Simma was the most amazing help that
anybody could ever want to have. It was
a really a dire situation in Mount Sina.
I'm not going to get into the details,
but it was a family member. It was very,
very sensitive. And having Simma at the
hospital, I'm so glad you're here today
because you didn't come seven years ago.
and we really appreciate I know you came
from a very far away dist this distance
distance and uh you're here today with
us. So Simma was the and is the liaison
at Mount Sinai Hospital. Hopefully none
of you ever need her but if you do she's
done amazing. She's like a magician uh
helping you navigate the hospital,
helping you figure out which doctors are
the right doctors, helping you
understand the medical issue that you're
having. uh her knowledge and experience
over 20 years from what I understand is
just tremendous and y I haven't met you
before but I've heard your name yv is
waving also another humble individual
she's at Cornell seven years now thank
you I heard you're doing a great job we
appreciate you anybody should ever need
her you should reach out you should know
that she's there to help you navigate
the hospital so you're not stuck in the
world of abyss that tends to happen in
hospitals so
>> Harry please.
So, thank you for being here and thank
you for everything you do. So, in
addition to all the food and the
apartments and the different things that
they do, one of the most important is
leaison at these two hospitals. So reach
out if you ever need