Hatzolah Air Deal Event - Rabbi Shlomo Farhi Keynote Address

and I'm proud if it does to you men that is not only my dear friend I've had this hope and the blessing for me and him to call each other true Buddies we don't get that all the time with rabbis the rubbish is an incredibly fascinating man with a giant heart and he knows how to capture young and old alike men and women equally is the Rabbi of the Edmund Safra synagogue on 63rd Street over the last five almost six years he is doing probably the most incredible job that any Rabbi could do to choir the minds in the body and souls the city they don't come because they're told to they don't come because they're forced to they come in droves and fill up the synagogue seven days a week because they want to that's both men and women young and old alike gives me great pleasure to introduce you all to our keynote speaker tonight and God reporting from London England and his wife agreed to come back to America and to make us a better community I think he makes the world a better place you come up with our keynote speaker tonight on behalf of the liar [Applause] thank you thank you Harry foreign to this incredibly important organization doing literally God's work and saving lives around the world I should bless your family with health with success with paranasa with old grahat that God has in his Heavenly Arsenal for what you were doing tonight because what you were doing tonight will Echo um and reverberate throughout many many many many generations of people whose lives will be saved because of what we're here to do tonight I also want to thank Ellie kreidler for bringing me here for reaching out for arranging this for the hours that we spent on the phone I want to thank Ellie Rowe as well who was literally an angel disguised as a man it's a very special your business is important to us please stay on the line someone will be with you shortly you got it no worries so thank you Ellie Rowe you are a hero Tom Israel the Torah teaches us that charity saves from death this idea means that a person who gives charity is blessed with an insurance policy where God Saves them literally from them actually gives an example of how real this idea is Charity saves from death Shabbat page 156 daughter and he was told by the astrologers of the time that the day of his daughter's wedding would be the day of her death he was so bothered having died was plagued by this news a mixture of both happiness and fear combined and coalesce on the day of his daughter's wedding he knows that this is the happiest day of her life but he's also been told time and time again that this is the day that she dies tells us that day she went into got into bed that night and she took off her golden hairpin from her uh from her beautiful Tresses from the Magnificent hair that she had done up for the wedding and as she went to bed she stuck it in between the bricks and the stones in the wall she wakes up in the morning and what happens as she pulls it out of the wall says a snake comes out of the wall impaled on her Golden Pin pulls the snake out of the wall on the pit she shows it to her father that prophecy that had been given to him that they'd set him time and time again would take place that disaster is averted and she shows it to her father and her father says and I could just imagine the scene he's cupping his daughter's face in his hands and he says to his daughter Maya Adidas what did you do to deserve this salvation said to him last night amidst the wedding celebrations a poor man came and he was starving and he knocked at the door of the wedding with the noise of the music and the cacophony of sounds that were taking place says everyone was busy the whole world was taken up the suit that died in the wedding and there was no one who heard his knock caramina the bride Rabbi akita's daughter said to myself I heard I got up I took my meal daddy that you brought for me to eat as the bride on a wedding night and I gave it to him do you have it me yeah I gave it to him you did a tremendous mitzvah walked out of this conversation walked right into the synagogue gives a big bang on the b-9 he says ladies and gentlemen I have a speech to give it the greatest Rabbi that ever lived in the Jewish people Rabbi Akiva stands up and he starts his job with the words that I just started perhaps that's the only similarity between Rebecca and myself that we both began to did our shot with the words from death but my friends there are some needs that don't get heard by anyone no matter how hard you knock there's no one who is hearing you no insurance no hospital dreams of what we are witnessing tonight no health coverage No Matter What premium you pay is willing to give you what this organization is willing to give you for free there were certain knocks that don't get heard by anyone because it's too big a job it's too expensive it's too complicated so the knock comes and no one answers the call my friends in the time of mashiach God promises us I will carry you on the wings of eagles and I will bring you to me my friends that does not only refer to the coming of the national Messiah when amisel goes back to editor sale and rebuilds the Vietnam but everyone who is looking for their personal mashiach for their salvation God says I will carry you on the wings of eagles and today we are fulfilling that Prophecy from God hearing that knock and raising ourselves on the wings of eagles to be able to take people to Heavenly salvation Rashid tells us why is it compared to the wings of eagles and Rashi says because there's a difference between an eagle and every other bird every other bird has no natural enemy coming at it right from below it's from above so where does a bird keep its young in its hands in its claws because it's worried about birds of prey descending on it from above but an eagle it flies the highest of all birds so there is no natural predator from above so it does not put its young in its claws but rather I would come finish sharing on its wings the only enemy of an eagle with no natural predators in in the uh in the ecological circle of life is from a human Hunter and the eagle by putting its young on its back flying in the air says better than the arrow should penetrate me then it should penetrate my kids the eagle recognizes that when you love someone you put it on your back and you raise it to the very heavens my friends we live in an unbelievable time we have unbelievable access to Medical Care we have fantastic organizations that provide everything that you can imagine insurance companies that will pay for the most sophisticated operations but sometimes the threat comes to someone from an unexpected place where there was nothing that you could do to protect yourself it comes not from a cure we don't have a problem with the Cure we don't have a problem with a transplant we don't have a problem with a hospital we have two enemies in those critical moments space and time today our community does not only live in Brooklyn deal in the city today huge numbers of our community find themselves in pesop programs all around the world they find themselves for Yeshiva break in cities around the world and if we are spending more and more time away all the organizations that we invest so heavily in that take care of us right here in this place suddenly become a distant help that you cannot reach air brings you back to that warm embrace brings you back to what you need in that time we defy gravity to deliver Miracles we are a modern day angel Raphael flying through the sky Bringing In This Moment every person who gets sick my friends the words of tehelim chaps from around the world reign supreme remember Harry I remember in my own life when the tea lean chapter the daily was soaring to the heavens when the words of Torah classes are echoing throughout the world but in my mind in the heavens I hear a beautiful Melody of Harmony of those stiffy Lords connecting with the sound the Roar of Salah air engine as it brings the person its Destiny it brings the person that tremendous gift but this my friends is not only about this gift of flying in the air because I know that many of you are thinking is this great thing which is so expensive isn't it a luxury that's a question everybody wants to know let me talk to the elephant in the room my friends that elephant needs to be addressed does not believe in that teaches you save a life one it's as if you saved the universe entire every takeoff is a Triumph of human compassion every Landing is a Testaments where we emulate every one of God's 13 aspects of compassion it's a proclamation when a plane takes off fueled by your dollars that we believe that there's no distance far enough there's no boundary or border when it comes to caring for another Jewish person my friends private jets luxuries super important celebrities A-list Stars I agree with you but my friends when it's your wife husband son daughter when it's your Grandpa or Grandma who needs to be saved from wherever the heck they are they not the most important person in your life are they not an A-list celebrity at that moment would you say that that's too expensive or a price not worth paying you know what my friends we have to make sure right now that if we want that service available when we need it because at that moment trust me it's worth anything you'll sell it all you'll set fire to everything you own to be able to get that help that success that that you need and my friends it can't be done at that moment because you know what it's not about private jets or helicopters it's not about speed or altitude it's about the lives that get saved the stories that we rewrite the Futures that we preserve the countless patients and their families and I want you to picture this you're out of hoopa we all go you see a father a mother a daughter walking down the aisle it's beautiful they're crying Joy is unbelievable you're looking at this and though we don't cry along with the dad as he gives his daughter a blessing before he lets this young man take his daughter the last 20 feet down the aisle my friends I want you to Blink and see that same scene but without the father standing there next to his daughter it's a safe beautiful night you're in the same Hall but now it's marked by a Sadness by what could have been blink again and he's back at Hashem says the salvation of God comes the head of iron in the blink of an eye and we can write or rewrite that story whichever way we want tonight with your help here for those of you that are already supporting I just want to say thank you for the lives you already helped save for the child that received the new heart in the nick of time for a brave grandmother who defeated cancer thanks to the Swift treatment to the person in this community flown to another country when she could not receive the platelets that she needed to survive we were all brave but without the Roar of the engines where would she be my friends even the mightiest Jets needs fuel to soar and that's where you come in we don't want only your money tonight we want you to partner with us we want to make you co-pilots on this life-saving Mission we want you to soar with us through a future a future where the father stands next to the door where that grandmother is in the picture and I'd like to end by saying this my grandfather my he was married to my grandma and she passed away when I was very young she remarried my step grandma my grandma Anita and we all loved her very much she had a wicked sense of humor I still remember as a young kid she would say come here come here whoa is that an is that a monkey like you know what I mean stand next to me have you had a bad stand over there she had a beautiful sense of humor she she was so special she all set off like this so she sounded a little bit Jones riversy she was very funny she had a great heart we loved her very much and then they went on a cruise and out in the middle of nowhere in a tiny place down next to some shore of some God forsaken place she was infected by a flesh-eating bacteria they took her off the ship got it to some hospital that barely had Band-Aids and she passed away and tonight I'm thinking to myself what if at that moment in time actually existed maybe she'd be here tonight telling the story well my friends that's not an empty threat to stay in existence every single one of you and everyone that's going to watch this video we need you this is not a cheap endeavor but it is one that is absolutely necessary so tonight like Rabbi akiva's daughter answer the call let's answer the knocks so that when God forbid we have a call to make there is someone to answer ours thank you