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Migdal Ohr Event - Rabbi Paysach Krohn
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it is such a
great to have been invited by Mr Mrs
daba to come to speak to all of you and
especially especially for the migdal or
organization I had no idea that I was
going to see Rabbi grman on this video
and that he would talk about me but
really the office of migdal or many
years ago started in my home and I want
to show you and I tell you a Story how
one
Mitzvah one Mitzvah that people
do any of you you never know what
Mitzvah can change your life and change
your whole family forever so I want to
give you some
background many years ago there was a
Magid a Magid means somebody who tells
stories but not only tells stories but
each one has a lesson and he was a very
famous man in Yim his name is Rabbi
shadron and I had a cousin that was in
school in the Kon Yesa in Israel and he
would send my father cassettes if you
remember what cassettes are right he
would send them cassettes of rabash
schwadron and rabash schwadron was such
an electric electrifying speaker he
would tell stories and bring out a
lesson and my father always said to me
and to my brothers and sisters if this
mgin ever comes to America he's going to
stay by us I said P how you going to get
a person a famous person like that to
stay by us he says don't worry you'll
see just find out for me if he's ever
going to come sure enough God helps
those that help themselves and if a if a
person wants to do something Hashem will
help him we once had a guest for Shabbat
his name was Rafi a friend of mine who
had been in school with me in Brooklyn
but had been in Israel he moved back to
Israel his father was an eye doctor and
when he came to and I told him once when
I was in Israel if you ever come to
America you'll stay by us for shabas so
this guy rafre Bren is at the house and
my father says to him you know we heard
about this mid from
rabad do you know if he's ever going to
be in America he says what are you
talking about he's coming tomorrow he
said what do you mean Sunday he's coming
yeah he's coming with another man Rabbi
Gman Rabbi grman that's RAB Grossman's
father and they are coming to raise
money
for so my father said well he's got to
stay by us he said what do you mean he's
going to stay by us they have an
apartment ready for him in burrow Park
but again as we said before what
happened was that if you really want to
do something Hashem helps you Hashem
made it that there was such
thunderstorms and rainstorms and this
was
1964 in Israel the planes couldn't leave
for 2 days by the time Rashon came on
Tuesday the apartment was gone and this
is hard to believe my father took me my
two brothers and my grandfather to go
meet Rabbi shadron in the airport even
though he had no idea who he was but I
had been in Israel so I would recognize
him and he came with rabi Isel grman
that's this Rabbi Grossman's father now
Rabbi Gman had relatives in B Park so
they came and picked him up and took him
to B Park but
rabadon you know he didn't know who was
going to take him from the airport and
rafre Brena came and said you know these
people they would like you to be by him
he said don't I have an apartment ready
he said well it was given away because
you came two days late but you'll be
there for a day and then you'll go you
know to the B Park apart that they'll
find for you I still remember like today
we're driving on the van expressway at a
Kennedy Airport and my father turns to
Rabbi shadron who I remember was 53 at
the time and he says to Rabbi shadon I
just want you to know my house is your
house when you walk into that house
anything that you want is yours if you
have a you don't like the way we're
doing something you tell me we'll change
we'll do anything for you now what my
father did at talkable believe Saturday
night before radon was going to come he
took his own bed and put it on the third
floor he took a second bed in case the
person who was coming with him would
stay there as well and he put up a
telephone just in case in case that
person comes of course RAB shadran
didn't have that apartment he came to
the house and my mother set up a meal
like for a
king and then my father had added to the
house
like a whole Bas medish not for a
synagogue it just had over a thousand
2,000 and he had a conference table
that's where he would learn with us and
he had set up a sink in case they would
he was a moale in case anybody wanted to
do a bris and they needed a place and
RAB walks into this house and he sees
this he you know this was the first time
he was in America he could not imagine
that a house in America had so many
in and he sits down at the table and my
father puts on a tape recorder and every
word that rabash shadon said my father
was
recording and they became like brothers
so
close and after a couple days when the
people who had brought in Rabon said you
know you're ready to go to Barak he said
no I'm not leaving this is where I'm
staying and then Rabbi shadron called
Rabbi grman he said said you know we got
to be together we came here to raise
money
for so Rabbi grman said okay I got
relatives in B Park come to B Park he
said no I'm not leaving you could come
here and you know something it's hard to
believe but Rabbi shadron stayed for six
months six month he was traveling all
around America but he always came back
to the house and Rabbi grman this rabus
G father he stayed for three months and
my
father rabbi
RAB sh became so close it was just
incredible and after Rabbi Gren went
back after 3 months and Rabbi shadon
went back after 6 months you know it's
obvious that I'm an emotional person my
father was not like that he was very
quiet
dignified I don't think I ever saw him
cry one time I saw him cry the last year
of his life he was only
47 he was giving us
before was the only time I ever saw my
father cry he knew he was
dying any my father was sitting at the
kitchen table and this is so unusual my
father said you know I miss
rabash I never heard him talk like that
he said I think I'm going to go to
Israel to meet him I said what does that
mean he said well he's going by boat if
I go by plane I can meet him there and
it's hard to believe you know there's
certain people that can do anything I
remember we were sitting that Shabbat at
the table I said P how you going to get
a passport he said don't worry I'll get
it and he went whatever he got a
passport from my mother and um himself
he flew to Israel and he met rabash
Shan's wife and in K they went to Kaa to
meet the boat
and rebit my father was such a sensitive
person he said to the rebit and you go
see your husband first first I don't
want him to see me first he has to see
you and the family so she went up with
her kids and she greeted her husband
then she said to her husband your best
friend came to see you he said it's
impossible I left my
best I left my best friend in
America and then when my father walked
out there was they embraced and then my
father stayed by Rabbi grman who lived a
couple blocks away from rabbi sh that's
how he spent the sh and that's how he
spent either by Rabon and his wife and
then Rabbi grman and his wife was a
little boy at that time and he was a
teenager and he got to see how close his
father felt to my father that's what he
was talking about and then
unfortunately when my father came back
from that trip that's when he got sick
and he died a few months
later
and the one to come back first was Rabbi
shadon and he stayed in our home and
that's when he became like my
grandfather Rabbi shadron and then Rabbi
Gman also and that's when I got to see
what a Magid means what does it mean to
tell a story and over the years I became
very very close to Rabbi Shon and
eventually I said to them you know we
got to write your stories because the
people in America they don't speak
Yiddish to kids and they certainly don't
speak Hebrew and that's how this first
book came to be
written it's
called the mid
speaks and this was the first of the
maget books that I've written and all
the this is rabi
shadon and all these story the 95 were
all from him and the book sold so many
copies artsell never had a book
that's sold like that except for the and
the obviously but then they told me you
got to write another book I said what do
you mean write another book I I gave all
his stories I said you know I took all
his best stories so Rabbi Sherman said
to me I was just in South Africa and I
saw a rebi in the fifth grade he's
reading from your books that means if
this book had have influence thousands
of miles away you got to find other
stories and that's how the marget book
started started and that's why B hasem I
thank Hashem a million times I was able
to write 10 mget books of stories
because I got stories from other people
and one of the people that I got stories
from was RAB Isel Gman that's Rab's
father and a few years later after I was
married and rabert Gren was married he
came to America and he calls me up and
he says I'm the son of RAB Israel I said
you're the son of RAB Israel where are
you he said well in Crown Heights I said
I'm coming to get you you got to be here
for
Shabbat he
said you'll recognize me I said believe
me if you look like your father I'll
recognize you exactly exactly exactly
and I came to CR Heights I picked him up
and it was love at first sight we became
so close and I said to him what my
father said to rabash my house is your
house and we put up a sign and one of my
kids bedrooms migdal or and I wrote
every check I collected every penny
together with him we went all the places
together and that's and that's how the
office started and then eventually 3
years later when we were able to make a
big dinner in the world of Historia and
he had wealthy people you know he didn't
me need me that much I could just be a
good friend but I couldn't you know buy
him a building or anything like that and
I'm telling you you know he's a great
speaker
and as good as he speaks in English he's
10 times better in Yiddish now of course
most of you don't have an appreciation
for yish it's not how you grew up but
I'm telling you at that Walo dinner when
there must have been about 900 people
there if he would have said that he was
Messiah everybody would have believed
him he was so powerful he was so
incredible and people just loved him and
as I got to know him over the years I'll
tell you a great story that happened so
he would stay in my house every time he
came and then when he would go Shabbat
let's say he would go to Manhattan or
Brooklyn or wherever I would pick him up
Saturday night because I couldn't go you
know I had a family I couldn't go with
him all over so he would now listen to
this you're not going to believe this
story so one Saturday night I picked him
up from Rabbi David bl's house in
Manhattan he had spoken in his shoel you
you know trying to raise money and then
we go from the MAV that we had in Rab BL
we go to my car where it's parked a
couple blocks away in the parking lot
and we pass a
bar he says you want to see something I
said what do you mean he said let's go
in I said are you kidding I was
terrified I'm going to go into a
bar he says watch I said they'll who
knows what they'll do to you he said
just watch now at that time he was known
as what he said as the Disco Rabbi so we
go into a bar Third Avenue and I don't
know 44th Street or whatever and you
know the place is rocking with loud
music and the lights are spinning or
whatever and this guy walks in with his
long payis and his beard and I'm hiding
behind him
the
terrified and all of a sudden you know
they never saw a guy like this so they
begin crowning around him boys and girls
you know in the early
20s and they're looking at him and he
says who is Jewish
who is Jewish here and about 10 of the
boys and about five of the girls raised
their hands and he starts singing I'm
now even a kid that's not religious
knows
I'm now the music stopped in the bar
they're dancing around him they never
they like he's like a magic man I can't
believe this and I'm watching this and I
never in my life saw people with such
Charisma I was terrified to be there and
he's dancing with all these boys you
know he kept the girls on the side
obviously and they're all
singing and we walked to the parking lot
I said I don't believe what I just
saw he said you got to come come to
Israel and I'll show you and you know
something about a year or two later
that's when he
started um the mdor building those three
main buildings so if you look at the
book you know which you could buy
outside
so you know this book so you've got my
picture there a couple times and one of
the pictures is you know when he first
came I spoke get the dinner and then
rabadi y came to the groundbreaking
ceremony and rabadi Y I still remember
what he said and this is many many years
ago and I'm trying to find this med if
anybody knows where the med is please
call me I want to see it in
the midash says I can never forget we
have a picture on one of these Pages I'm
sitting right next to Rabbi grman and
and and we're all sitting together up
front on that main table and he said
like this that mosenu wanted to go in to
Israel and Hashem said you can't go in
and mosh raenu felt terrible that he
wasn't going to be able to go in so
Hashem said look around look around I'm
going to bring you on a mountain you'll
be able to look around Israel and RAB
said that every place that M set his
eyes that's where a yes was built
a said all I get chills when I say
this said all of you that are standing
right here this is where mosh looked he
looked at this spot where we're standing
and that's why a big yes and a big m t
is going to be built I felt so proud to
be part of that and of
course over the years I began to realize
that there's nobody like rabit we almost
the exact same age with a few months in
difference now he's got older white hair
in the P you know so he looks older but
really the same age and I saw him with
rabbis with politicians with children
with people in the Disco as I told you
men women generals Prime Ministers I was
there when they gave him an award Shimon
Perez gave him an award for it was just
absolutely incredible to see even
secular politicians how they recognized
him but then after the war during this
war and by other Wars when he goes to
see the soldiers whether he goes up to
the front and he's not afraid of
anything he'll go right up to to the
Battlefront and he'll give to the
soldiers and those soldiers that he was
talking about there was one of them just
a few weeks ago was in a coma and he
went and he kissed his forehead and he
prayed by him they took a movie of it
and the rebi a certain rebi the of a
rebi had given him a certain coin he put
the coin on the young man's head and 10
days later he was okay it's miraculous
it's just absolute miraculous but I want
to tell you another story about a
soldier in Israel not with Rabbi
grman I have a dear friend his name is
Rabbi Yakov gibber and he is aoka and he
just three weeks ago he took 25 men in
his sh for three days or four days to
Israel and listen to this story you'll
see what a Jewish Soldier is all
about so they came to a place where they
was he was going to give a speech about
K and there was a fellow there who comes
over to me and he says Rabbi gier can I
talk to you privately he said yeah so
right after the speech they went to the
side and listen what the soldier says to
him he says Rabbi I'm
23 I haven't put Onin since my B mitzvah
for the last 10
years I was there in that concert now
those of you remember that concert on
October 8th there was not one religious
person there he said I'm not religious
but I was at that concert and I saw the
helicopters coming down and the
parachutes and I saw Hamas started
shooting everyone and I knew I had to
get out of there because it ended up
over 365 people were killed and 40 were
taken hostage and I saw a forest I just
ran to the forest and I was hoping to
hide behind one of the trees but it was
very narrow every tree was narrow I knew
I couldn't hide it but then I saw a
ditch so I went into a ditch
and I was able to bend down and hide so
that they wouldn't see me
overground and I was there 5 hours in
that ditch and when the screaming
stopped and the shooting stopped I
climbed out of that ditch I ran towards
the highway and by that time the Israeli
soldiers had come down south already and
two of them took me to a certain place
where I was able to get a bus and get
home he says Rabbi I want to go back to
that ditch I want to put oning for the
first time
and I want to say shay
Isel and Rabbi giba said what's the
question of course I'll go with you and
he helped and they were crying together
and the next day Rabbi giber told me
that he took a bus with security and he
took about 10 or 15 guys he didn't take
everybody and they went down to where
that concert was and he knew right away
where that forest was and he went
towards the ditch and before he went
into the ditch rabak said I want you to
put on C and he made the with him and
then they put on
thein and then the soldier said Rabbi I
don't want to go on the ditch myself
come with me and they both climbed into
the ditch and then every Israeli kid
know is but he doesn't know the rest of
the so he was screaming and he was
crying
is was wearing the and the and then RAB
GI said the rest of the parasha together
with him and everybody was standing
around just
crying that's the attitude in Israel
today they want to become close they
realize that they have no lives if
they're not religious there's no meaning
and so a soldier who didn't put on Tian
for 10 years all of a sudden now he
wants to become religious and that's
what RBI grman Taps into all these kids
whether in the discos OR places they
have no interest in somehow he and his
teachers are able to tap in to all that
and you know as he said the main goal is
a that we should be as one and that's
really what puim is all about you know
my
son he's married his a grandfather right
but when he was a little kid you know
gatria you know there are certain words
that have numerical value so there are
certain people they don't see letters
they see numbers I don't know their
minds think differently so they could
see a word and they'll figure out in a
second what it's equal and then somehow
they'll come up with something else and
this was my son was like that as a kid
and I told him you keep on WR coming up
with this stuff I'm going to write a
book for your B
Mitzvah about all the stuff that you say
and I did it was like a pamphlet and I
called it Yash
why that's his name but listen to one of
the the things that he said is
incredible how many people here can
figure out the word is
Alin what is that equal
to ALF is one yud is 10 311 right so my
son is reading the m and he
says b you're not going to believe this
the
word to his friend is also equal 311 so
ish is 311 and
his friend is 311 he said that's
for that's what the p is you have to
love your friend like yourself you're a
person is is 311 and that's what the
says that's what puim is all about
getting together keeping the sensitivity
alive so that you do things for other
people that are special now we know that
when
told Mor that the Jews have to pray what
expression did she
use gather all the Jews together if Jews
pray separately it's not going to work
you got to pray with we have to be
together so she
said gather all the people together and
then we're going to pray and that's how
it's going to work so I want to tell you
a beautiful story about Sensitivity I
can't get over this now if you have the
opportunity when you go to Israel right
across the street from the cotel there's
a great Rabbi he's in his 90s so try to
see him while he's still in this world
his name is Rabbi aigor
nansa so I went to visit him a number of
years ago and somebody told me that he
was very very friendly with Rabbi
schlomo zman Orbach who was one of the
great rabbis in CLA
so I said to him you know I write books
of stories of gim of great people could
you tell me a great story about RAB
schl he said I'll tell you we were very
close we used to learn every day from
400 to 4:30 nobody could interrupt no
calls nobody could come into the house
we had undivided attention for each
other he said but I want to tell you my
favorite story about him he said there
was a girl in yam that had a broken
engagement and she wanted to get a from
the big toic that she was going to be
able to find the right husband she had a
broken engagement so she asked her
father could you take me to RAB he's a
bigad and if he gives me a I know for
sure I'm going to get engaged so you
know there are some people that delay
everything no matter what they have to
do they're always delayed they walk into
shabas 5 minutes before shabas you know
they walk into Ding you know when the
the middle of they always delay they
never could do anything on time so this
father every day when his daughter would
ask him he would say not today tomorrow
I'm busy I'm working whatever finally it
came the day of puim so puim is not
working so she said ABA take me he said
okay I'll take you but of course he
delayed also and he waited till late
afternoon by the time they came to Rabbi
or's home he was in the middle of the
sud and this guy felt terrible he's
going to walk in you know with his
daughter in the middle of the sud but
you know she was crying ABA you promised
me you got to take me in so he doesn't
take her in but he goes inside he says
to RAB I'm so sorry to disrupt
your I have a daughter who has a broken
engagement she wants a can I bring her
in he says no you can't bring her in I'm
going to go out to her he says no Rabbi
you're sitting with your family I don't
want you to leave the dining room
absolutely not she cannot come in here
I'm going to go out to her fine he goes
out to her she's in the front room and
he had the greatest smile in the world
such a warm person he happened to be
Rabbi shra his brother-in-law the one
that we spoke about before and he
listens to her and he says I give you a
you're going to meet the most wonderful
and you're going to build a wonderful
family you're going to have children
you'll have a beautiful home and she's
so overwhelmed by Thea she starts crying
and then rabbi obak turns to the father
and says now you understand why I didn't
want her to come in cuz he understood
that the girl might cry from the and how
embarrassing would that be in front of
his whole family that this girl who
wants Thea is going to cry that's what
sensitivity is all about you know he
could think hey you know she's coming to
me right and they're coming late they're
disrupting the sud down no no no if that
girl is going to feel embarrassed I'm
getting up from the table I'm going to
go out to her that's what greatness is
that's what is all about and that's what
we have to do in pu but I'll tell you
another thing that I think that we have
to do not only today but until the war
is over you know we want to identify
with the soldiers and we want to save
them all those people never that are
wounded and we don't want any more
deaths the other day I had to speak
someplace so I did some research you
know how many Souls
we've lost I'm not even talking about
wounded
550 550 sold just lost that's
terrible so you know there's
a staka saves from death and this is the
only P that I know in the entire Mish
that SCH that he repeats twice usually
you have a it doesn't repeat it twice it
says it once and the same thing in t but
wrote saves from death and I believe
that it doesn't only mean that if
somebody gives charity they're going to
be saved from death but if somebody
gives charity they're going to save
others from dying they're going to save
that death doesn't come to the world to
Jewish people and so therefore we come
together
sta so I want to tell you a story about
staka it's very difficult for me to tell
you the story as you'll see in a moment
because it's about this one of the
saddest parts of my life but we're going
to see how great people could become now
I told you that when my father came back
from Israel I was just a teenager
then and that's when he got sick and
later on NE just within a year a year
and a half he passed away I was only 21
when he passed away my father was 47 now
when you're 21 you think 47 is an old
man but you know all of us here realize
how young 47 is so I was a moel at that
time my father already had taught me how
to be a Mel and I had to leave the ISA
and I was supporting my mother and my
six younger brothers and
sisters and it was so difficult I would
walk into a house 21-year-old kid and a
grandmother would look at me and say oh
you look so young so I said well the
baby's also young you know try to make a
little joke out of it but anyway it was
difficult and one day in the synagogue
where I prayed there was a man his name
was Kim Israel and he gave me an
envelope and I said to him what is this
he said open it you'll see now this is
1967 and there was
$1,500 I said you know thank you very
much but we're not poor we don't need
Sedaka he said no no no this is not
Sedaka this is a loan so I said a loan
when did I pay you back he said whatever
you want I'll never ask
so at that time I wasn't married I said
I'm going home now from the synagogue
I'm going to my mother you know I'll ask
her if she wants to take the money we'll
take it otherwise I'll bring it back to
you tomorrow I come home I say ma you're
not going to believe Mr Israel just gave
us an envelope of
$1,500 she said we're not Beggars we
don't need Saka I said ma that's what I
told him but he said it's Al loone when
do we pay it back he'll never
ask what happened was 2 years later I
was 23 and I was getting more and more
bris
and then I was able to put together the
money and I went to his office on Queens
Boulevard and I gave him the money in an
envelope he said I'm not taking it I
said what do you mean you're not taking
it you said this was alone if it was Sak
we never would have taken it he said sit
down I want to tell you a story now he's
talking about himself and it was so
embarrassing for him to tell me this cuz
I remembered this a couple years ago he
said to me do you remember he's talking
about himself when he went bankrupt that
he was the rich guy in the synagogue and
like within 2 weeks he lost all his
money it was so embarrassing he said do
you remember that I couldn't even look
him in the face I said yeah I remember
he said you know there was another man
in our neighborhood Dr
lewenstein and he gave me money and I
went over to him and I said I don't need
money I'm not a beggar he said no no no
this is not Sedaka this is a loone so I
said to him what you said to me when do
I pay it back he said whenever you want
I will never ask you and sure enough
when I came to pay him
he said I'm not taking it I said what he
said what do you mean you're not taking
it you told me it's a loan he said it is
a loan but someday you're going to pay
it not to me you pay it to another
family that's how you pay me back and
when they come to pay you you're going
to give it to somebody else and that's
what Mr Israel told me I'm by giving you
the money that I gave you that was a
payback to lewenstein and now when you
and your mother give it to another
family that's your payback to me that's
stuck up that's of it that's what's
stuck at that's how great we can be and
we have to think of what we want to do
when we're talking
about being
together so I just want to tell you one
more thing
about now a number of years ago I made a
book on recordings that I was making
about it's called the glittering world
of and what I did was I'm going to give
it you as a gift you don't have it right
what thank you okay so but I want to
tell you I did research all over the
world about people that
did to bring and caring and one of the
great stories is about somebody that
probably many of you know a guy by the
name of Joe B does anybody know Joe B
yeah everybody knows
right oh okay and somebody wrote a book
about him jack wrote a book called
Joseph right very CL that's what also
right that's why I'm mentioning the name
I want to tell you about Joseph joa two
stories that I put in
here page 136 it's unbelievable what
this guy Joe would do to care so there
was a person his name was Mars Abraham
maybe some of you know
him
what really I'm sorry to hear that no
I'm only kidding of course not so he had
a son that was very sick Ezekiel and he
had res respiratory problems and one day
he was coming home from work and he was
driving with Joe beta and Joe told him
you know my wife and I were going to
have to be up a whole night tonight
because the doctor told us that we got
to be sure that the kid is breathing
properly cuz if he's not breathing
properly he might have to go to the
emergency room so he said you know my my
wife's going to be up till about
midnight and I'm going to take over at
midnight to watch his son that's what Mr
Abraham was saying and then what
happened was 1:00 in the morning Mr
Abraham is up with his son there's a
knock on the window and Mr Abraham got
frightened who's knocking on the window
1:00 in the morning he goes to the
window and it's Jory B he's got two cups
of coffee he said you told me you were
going to be up tonight I figured you'd
want some company imagine that that's
one thing that's a person cares who
wants to be up one o'clock in the
morning with somebody else's sick child
but he brought him coffee and then I'll
tell you another great
story I can't get over
this Joey bad sold linen and what
happened was he had a very very big
client in a place in Arkansas plac is
called Bentonville Walmart and one day
he went down with a rabbi
because they were learning together and
they're sitting outside the main office
of this guy that um Joey bet was always
doing business with and he notices that
there's another Jewish fellow that's
walking up and down and he seems
distraught so he goes over to me he says
uh who are you what are you doing here
he said I was trying to get an
appointment with the head of Walmart but
there was a mixup and they don't want to
give me the appointment he said what do
you do he said I'm selling linen
that's what Joey bet was doing so Joey
bet listen to this he goes into the
office and he says to the buyer he says
there's a guy out there Manny I want you
to see him before you see me he says
what do you mean what does he sell he
says he sells linen he saids but I've
been getting that for you there's enough
for everybody so he goes back outside
and he tells that fellow Manny he's
gonna see you next he said oh my gosh I
left my samples in the car because I I
didn't even think they were going to
give me an appointment so Joey B and the
rabbi and this guy they go to the car
and they bring out the samples and he
goes in and the guy was able to make a
sale who does that to his competitor but
that's what AK is all about that's what
Pim is all about and that's what migdal
or is all about and when we come
together in this beautiful home and it's
beautiful not because of the walls and
the decorations it's beautiful because
of what goes on here
the the S the caring that's really
beautiful and before we review and just
end with a fabulous story I just want to
say that this should
be Rael and benina and Raa for St schl
Ben Carol and David
Ben so we spoke about many many things
we spoke about the greatness of rabbi
how he just cares about every Jew every
type of Jew feels attracted to him we
spoke
about we spoke about how rabman cared
about that girl to make sure that she
doesn't cry in front of his whole family
we spoke about
giving and we spoke about Joey beta
also I just want to end with this
fabulous story and the reason that I
love this story which is in this book
about Rabbi grman is that great things
happen to great people and it's always
good my father always taught me be
associated with great people cuz after a
while it's going to rub off and if you
want to accomplish in
life you want to know who you really are
write a note to yourself of the 10
people you spend the most time with
that's who you really are the average of
the 10 people you spend the most time
with if they are accomplished and
positive people you're going to be that
but if they're critical people and they
don't accomplish anything you're going
to be that you got to be near great
people and just push yourself you'll get
there and just as we said before Hashem
helps those who help themselves so
listen to this story that happened with
Rabbi
grman a couple years ago he got a call
from a guy in America who said
Rabbi it's the yite of my mother and
she's buried in the Tanya it's the first
yite
and I wanted to fly from America to
Israel to be at the cemetery but my wife
doesn't let me go because Nat there was
a
bombing in the hotel in one of the
hotels on PES many people were
killed he said there were terrorists
going around in the streets of nat I
can't go is there any way you're in
Israel could you get a minion to go to
my mother's Cemetery to say kadish for
Gman said I'll I'll go don't worry so he
took a couple students two or three
students from his school and he figured
he'll find seven people in that Natan
Cemetery but he couldn't find so he
started walking around the cemetery and
they were able to find up till 9: they
couldn't find a 10th person finally in
the distance he saw some short little
man and RAB grman runs over to and the
guy doesn't speak Hebrew he just speaks
French but one of the students that
Rabbi grman had also spoke French
so they find out that this guy he came
from France and he also had yard side he
thought he would find him in young so
Rabbi gr said I can't believe it you
came but we're going to be able to help
you and you could help us so why don't
you come with us and they made him inan
so he had the minion and then they had
the minion everybody went to this guy's
the French guy's mother and RAB grman
writes that on the grave site of that
Man's father there was his father that
had
died the first one was the mother but
this was the father it said that he was
in thead in
Tunisia and he always made sure that
people who couldn't come back to Tunisia
had a inan to the yard site so Rabbi
grman tried to help this guy and this
guy went they went the French guy was
able to get a Min because they helped
each other and then they helped the guy
who always tried to get other people for
a in
and that's what is all about and so I
just want to say to all of you try as
much as you can when you go home to tell
what you saw about Rabbi grman and that
you'll tell your husbands and that we
should give as we never gave before it
should be a for all of
us there should be no more death in
Israel no more death for Jewish people
in the whole world and we should be able
to
celebrate together
with Mr I'll make the big S for
everybody thank you for inviting me and
thank you for
listening