Mekudeshet Event - Rabbi Joey Haber

[Music] thank you very much for being here father J for the record that is my brother I take all the credit no really RAB sha that was beautiful words and beautiful job and Hashem should bless your work and everything that you're doing we're going to be brief I'll just share with you this last night I gave two girls classes and not a lot of boys in town on Monday nights so at 7:15 we give a pretty large class to regular to single girls of all ages and then at 8:15 went to someone's backyard there's about 50 girls there all of them 26 and over 25 and over and if you would look and see their faces and see their loneliness and see their feelings from every single school there's not one school that is immune from this problem there's not one group that can say oh we got it covered because we do it this way or we do it that way every single demographic in this community has the same frustration and looking at them I ended up giving the class almost two hours because of what we're trying to accomplish tonight and here's what we're trying to accomplish know the gar writes that the first book of Kim is root says but why is that the case According to some happened first says because is all problems it's all and we don't want to start with problems so the G but Ruth also has a lot of problems the story of Ruth is a sad one they left the community they came poor they came back they say yes but root has the right to be the opening book of K beim because root ends with hope tonight is about hope tonight is about looking at every boy and every girl in the community and saying we do have your back we do care about you there is hope every single day every Rabbi here will tell you the same thing every single day we get a few calls Rabbi do you have a girl for my son literally walking into here tonight I opened up my phone and this was the text message Rabbi do me a favor do you have Rabbi I need a good reference on a girl that Joe is interested in just now and it's all day and it's every day you know we have an organization keser we're dealing with all boys and girls every day Rabbi you know my daughter find someone for him and they become desperate at this point so young once I had a meeting with a girl the girl was hysterical crying she had every single thing going for her hysterical crying CU a few of her friends got engaged I said one second how old are you she has 18 I said you kidding you're 18 because they know how desperate it becomes and how fast it happens they start to worry so early if this organization succeeds then you could look every family in this community in the eye and I don't care their background I don't care their school I don't care their religious level I don't care their age group I don't care their financial bracket I don't care who their parents are I don't care whether they the cool name or not a cool name I don't care every single family is struggling with this from a young age if we're able to support this tonight we could look every family in the eye and say we're there for you we have your back I'll tell you the truth I sat there with the girls and I said I care I really do I understand and try to give as much encouraging words as I can but I don't know if I really could say I'm putting my actions where my mouth is and tonight is our chance to do so and I'll tell you as organization we literally gave our rabbis and teachers and said go participate with Mikes take the girls you know find them boys take the boys you know find them girls because everyone wants this idea this is not something that's only for a certain style and a certain School certain school of thought certain Rel religious level maybe that would have been the case 15 years ago today every single person I know is feeling the desperation way earlier than you think they would tonight's our chance to show them we have their back thank you