Tantzers Event - Full Coverage

Good morning everybody. Let me get this a little bit closer. >> Aby, >> come on outside. It's a uh great honor and a tremendous pleasure for me to be in the home of Claudia and Avihulu this Sunday morning. We've been fortunate in a couple of ways, maybe many ways. One of the ways we've been fortunate is as the summer progresses and as we go through that's our uh >> I was going to say brothers from another mother, but then I'm not going to I'm not going to stop that now. Let them let let's put it this way. Let them do their thing. Let them do their thing. We know we know where they came from here. Um Avi, >> yes. >> And Claudy, I've been in your homes a few times now. And it's uh very rare that somebody has a charity event and then another one and another one and another one. And it's uh very heartwarming to see that because most people in our community unfortunately never have their home opened and we want to teach them and we want to show them. And I think that you and your wife lead by example where the doors to your homes in Brooklyn and here in Jersey are open. They're open all the time for to help different institutions, different organizations throughout our global Jewish community, not just locally for our sphartic organizations as we've had events, but this one is uh very intriguing because as you listen to Zelik Freriedman and his team and you see what they do and how they go about it. And to think that Harry Ame has never had the microphone, nor has the great Rabbi Eli Mansor, to speak about Tanzaners. One day they'll tell me where they got that name from. Working on working on it, working on a new logo for them. So, um, I spoke to them for 20 minutes. >> In what? In >> what language? >> I'm Syrian. I don't speak Yiddish. But I get it. I have enough friends today, as does AI in Williamsburg, Mie, especially Burough Park. Rabila will attest to that. being who we are, we gota we we got to know everybody and everybody should know us. And if they don't, well, that's their loss. But, uh, we're happy to host them this morning. Happy to listen and learn and hear more about the wonderful, wonderful work that I've been told that they do directly and indirectly. Indirectly was from a young lady. I don't have the right to say her name at this moment. But what they did for her and her family and her son that was not well and you know nobody knows God forbidu until you know and then once they know they understand the value of tensors they understand the value of zelik and his team and what they represent what they do and they do it from again the sense that I got you know you can't get to know somebody too well in 20 minutes but they do it without any fanfare. They actually most of the time want nothing in return. They want nothing back but to put a smile on that family, the siblings, the parents, the grandparents and especially they focus on the child that may be ill. And uh that is very special both at home and in the hospitals. And I uh take my yamika off to you guys for the work you do, how you go about it. It's just unbelievable. And now I understand better why Avi told me to come early and why Avi told me I should know you and know you I do want to. So with no further ado, we want to move along. As I said on Friday, because we're having a three-day run, I think it goes all the way this week. The weather is gorgeous. Yesterday, besides being Tuba, and I'm sure that you went up for Shishi, I stood next to Rabum right there. I Rabbi, I was holding on to him at one point. I was hugging him and I watched because when you're not reading or you it wasn't my aliyah and you see his face when he was talking about when Hashem told Mosherenu about the Shabbat and you see a giant a great man like Hamemed and you saw the way he was reading from the and the enjoyment that he got from seeing what we've been gifted and it's on Shabbat and you're reading about the Shabbat and he's up there and there I I'm holding on to him for dear life. I was nervous. I don't get nervous, but I was nervous. So, um, with no further ado, he doesn't like I've introduced him, as I said, this year four times because he's had events. God bless him. Abby doesn't like any fanfare. Claudia doesn't want any fanfare for herself or her husband. Everybody knows in the community what they're doing, how they're doing it, what they represent, the care and love that they have for their fellow Jew both here in Brooklyn, Israel, and I guess Hav's reach goes to any Jew anywhere in the world. You just got to contact them. And is hot. It doesn't need a hot day to melt. It melts any day of the year, 365 days of the year because that's what he is. That's who he is. That's I've watched what he did for Rabbi Zeri in the beginning, the middle, and the end. Struggling to build that building next door. We should have been able to build it in an hour. But Hashem makes it makes things it doesn't make them easy. Rabbi, you know, tell tell me about it. >> Yeah, we're going to make a song about tell me about it. But you know what? It comes to fruition. Aby got his name outside. I got my name inside. >> And it's just a beautiful extension. He couldn't have done it without you. He's in Israel for his birthday. >> He calls me Wednesday and he had the flight on Wednesday and he knows how the three of us love him and everyone else in the community. And he said, "I'm not going." I said, "You're not going." And I couldn't believe it. I I couldn't believe I was in that position. I said, "You're going." And here I am talking to the great Rabbi David Ozeri. You're going I don't want to go. I said, "Rabbi, you're going to Israel. It's your birthday. Your kids are there." And your wife's waiting for you over there. You want you want trouble? And he never answered. But I spoke to him from the airport because he's so attached as you are, Rabbi. as you are connected to our people, our community and what you give back and what he gives back and what every rabbi is giving back to us. We are so lucky. We are so fortunate. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else in the world but the Syrian Jewish community both here in deal and Brooklyn watching all the great things that go on. Abby, don't sit back down. I'd like you for a couple of minutes. No, it's your house. >> It wouldn't be nice. But you know what? You could be co-m. Okay. So, I I think for the opening of this great morning, I um will call on my friend, a man that I respect, that I've grown to adore. He knows that. He knows the trust we have for each other. when we need something and won't go any further than that. We have each other on speed dial for those situations and moments and they come often and we're there to support each other. Mostly it's a little bit of business, a little bit of advice, but it's mostly charity. It's mostly Ted car giving money and giving our time and effort back to the great community that we were put into. I wouldn't have it any other way. I speak for Avi. I don't think he would either. Come on up. [Applause] First of all, uh, thank you, Harry. I think I said every single time, maybe the 10th time already that I'm speaking saying it, but God bless you. Actually, our community is very lucky to have, uh, to have Harry. He's only one of a kind, and I don't know how he has the time or energy to do it. Harry, you should try the coal punch. I don't actually, no, it's scary. you on the co plunge, but but really I don't know how he has the time and and more and energy to to do it and he's by every single event. God bless him and uh we're very lucky community to have him. First and foremost, really thank you for my wife like Harry said. Uh Claud, thank you very much. Countless events and never there's never no actually I I book it before I even tell her just knowing that she says of course. So thank you so much Cody and really appreciate it. There's no one like you really. Thank you, of course, also for the rabbi and for everyone uh attending. Uh really appreciate you coming and uh taking your time uh sun on a Sunday morning. Beautiful Sunday morning. Gorgeous weather. I know there's a lot of events, a lot of things to do. Uh really appreciate it. When uh Ashley uh I think I'm trying to remember, I think was it Sydney first who who uh wanted me to meet with uh No, I'm sorry. Joey Habala maybe was first. And Ze reached out to me a few times and I didn't answer him because there's so many community so many organizations and uh I never even heard what's tons like Harry said I mean I know tons dance but I didn't know what tons is all about and said don't worry I promise you you'll be very happy if you meet me I'm not going to waste your time you're going to love the organization. I said, "Okay, not now is not a good time, but we'll meet with that." Joey then harassed me and then uh Sydney, I guess, was the closer and uh and I sat down with and I said, "Okay, well, let's sit down with Zigg." I I sat down with Zale. Where is Zigg? Oh, back there sitting in the back, of course, for a few minutes. And u as I'm sitting with him telling him, "What's the organization about?" He said, "Uh, it's about we started off actually. Uh, how'd you start? tell me a little bit about the organization and correct me if I'm if I'm wrong but uh he said basically they started off how many years ago it was about 10 years ago 12 years ago 12 years ago they went there was a there was a wedding at Hopa and the mother of the bride right was very sick so they went to to the mother wanted to be there for the hopa and she couldn't they couldn't she couldn't make it to Hopa because uh she was terminally ill and uh they decided to go do the hopa at the wedding at the at the hospital and then they were going to go to and then they were going to go do the go go go celebrate the the wedding. Is that correct? So they went they did the and unfortunately uh did the mother pass away right after or she was just very sick and after after the hospital they they have to go celebrate and go dance and celebrate the wedding and obviously uh after those circumstances they couldn't people just couldn't celebrate they couldn't dance it's very difficult from go from going to something so sad and going to dance so uh Zale heard about it and him and his partner Alashlam actually's partner was nar right he said he was on on the way back from an event. He got into a car accident. He was in a coma of seven, eight years and he passed away two years ago. All right. So, uh they went gathered a whole bunch of guys to go dance and got together to make a sim. So, the cheer the kala after uh going coming back from the hospital and um he continued proceeding telling me he's like okay but I thought you said the organization is for cancer children. He said yeah yeah we it's for kids with with cancer. I said okay kids with cancer. So he start telling me more and more stories and different stories of I'm like but this is not a kid with cancer it's an adult it's is bottom I saw after a few minutes that really Zelig had just an a heart and a special nishama they just wanted to help any single Jewish person and uh like he told me like one of the things that they do which I which I thought was so beautiful is they go to the hospital to these kids with cancer and they go there they teach them they have a magician that goes once a week or is it twice now twice twice now on staff, a magician on staff that goes once or twice a week to all the hospitals, all the local hospitals and all Jewish kids with cancer. They go there and they teach them magic tricks to cheer them up and they give them a magic kit so they could go ahead and they teach the nurses and their parents and and they get so proud showing the showing the staff and showing them making them uh that they have a magic trick to teach them and kept on telling me story after story and like I said uh really I just saw he's a special person and I wasn't wasting my time and I was glad I met with him and he uh as we speaking he start started that he's started off with Ashkin Nazim and uh borrow park and different communities in the kas and uh he started naming name after name after name in the Syrian community unfortunately mainstream families even plenty of mainstream families that we all know that unfortunately Alenu had uh had someone sick in the family uh with cancer either a child a parent or anything and telling me about how they go even not just to cheer them up in the hospital they go afterwards when they come home because no one should ever know it's it's it's a it tears the family apart even more than the child suffering uh no one suffers more than a parent seeing their child suffering. And he would go in the house and cheer them up when the kids come home, throw parties by mitzvah, b mitzvah, whatever it may be. But he kept on naming more and more mainstream families and names. And I said, "Okay, so it's not just Ashkinazim, you're doing a ton of the community as well." So, uh, he said, "Yes." And actually, that's why I wanted to meet you. We're interested in opening a sparadi division which focuses just on the Syrian community because unfortunately the need and demand is is arising much more and uh we can't sustain it we can't sustain the Syrian community without a separate or without a separate division. So we sat, we spoke and and we met and uh we decided to open this FD division and um basically really the the funding and everything that's going to that just everyone knows really it's going strictly there's no salaries or anything no expenses or anything. So anything that we raise or that he raises for this vari specifically for the Syrian community for kids and families that leno are suffering from cancer or other other horrible situations that no one should know and it's going directly every dollar is going just to help these families and uh really he's a special person him and and his whole crew and uh I should really say and uh hopefully no one ever needs it Bizatm. If they do, hopefully we'll be able to be there to help them. Zale and his crew should be able to help them. Uh without further ado, I'd really love to call Rabbi Joey first. >> Yeah. Joey Shami uh who can share a little bit of his own experience uh with about with Zale and the team. [Applause] >> Not as tall as you, Avy. One minute. Hold on. Let me stand up up here and all that. First of all, Avi, Cody, nobody like the two of you. Every institution, every every area, you are there to help us all out, to help the community to grow, and you care about everybody across the board. And I'm I'm in awe of you, and God bless you. You should always be able to prosper and do well. So, uh, about eight years ago, my friend Eddie Baronov calls me up. He says, "I got this guy that does parties for kids with cancer, and he needs a place." thought about I said no problem. I have my rooftop at at at Delta which we do a lot of on my brother and I have been very blessed to be able to have that and uh before I know it we have 200 kids with cancer on well and their and their siblings on their rooftop clowns. God Elbaz as a singer. An amazing an amazing event that brought joy to these children who have really are in dis are in despair and no one should know know from it. Okay. So now I'm debating on sharing my own personal story with it. I think it's worth it to for you to understand who this man is. Few months later I get a WhatsApp with some pictures. I'm not even sure what they I literally forgot about the event because we've been doing and I see the Oh, that's my rooftop. Oh, that's the event. Holy cow. And I happened to be at that time going through the worst moments of my life. Not sure what my future would be. So I send a text to Zelic. I said, "Zillic, do you know so?" He calls me up a second later. What's your problem? And I explained to him what I was going through. Before you know it, he ends up gives me gets me an appointment with Dr. Zelevki. I get to Dr. Zelevki and he says, "Okay, my rabbi called me. The head of the RCCS called me. My son's rabbi in Israel called me. I got the message. I'm taking over your case." And thanks to Zelic, he really he saved my life. And so this man is a very very special in in individual. I'll fast forward continuing what he does. We did another event on the rooftop for the parents of these kids who really h I won't say they have no joy in their life, but they're at their lowest life. Their children are suffering. And he says, "We need to do it an event for them." So, we did an event for them. We had a beautiful six-star dinner for them set up on on on the rooftop again. And then I could go on and on. He would call me. He says, "I got this bar mitzvah kid. I got this uh newborn. I got whatever it may be. He brings joy to the people that are in the lowest points of their life. He raises them up. And I should say I said you excuse me guys. It's the entire Tanzer team. They are amazing. And God bless them. And as Abby alluded to really I'm sorry to say sickness, cancer, so forth. It knows it knows no income level. You could think that you're in the healthiest point. You think you're in the best point of your life and shock comes to your life. And these guys are there to bring some joy joy to it. God bless them. Thank you. And that's all I have to say. >> Like re the one and only Rabbi Mansor to please uh say a few words. Thank you, Rabbi. >> Thank you. Thank you. Uh, I'm good. Good morning, everybody. So, before I begin, I was sitting with Stephen and he asked me, "Did you ever hear of the organization?" I said, "I can't even pronounce it." But that's neither here or there. Doesn't matter what the name is or how to pronounce it or what language it's in. We're a resultoriented community. A lot of you people are businessmen. We just care about the bottom line anyway. So, call it whatever you want. Uh, one word about our host and hostess with the mostess. Uh, although I don't have a charitable relationship with Avi, I'm sure that'll evolve one day and I'm anticipating very quickly. Oh, Maggie David. I take that back. I have a very prosperous relationship with Avi. We did value Shiva. That's right. I meant personally in any event. But I I do have a relationship and I saw the a very good side of the man which is more impressive to me than anything. The gim says when you're trying to measure people's character, look at the small things. Look at the things that people overlook. Try to find the humility. Then you know everything about the guy. He made a big bzitzvah for his boy in our synagogue in Lawrence Avenue. and like a real proper bitzvah all the NBA was there and all the you know all the sadikim the lamemed sadikim showed up and uh you know with all the paraphernalia and jerseys and all you know all the good stuff and uh it was a beautiful event I'm so happy we could have these parties in Ashul and my son who happened to get somehow a third-hand invitation he was there and uh he could he didn't come home with any any booty any loot and somehow Abby found out about it I'm Not too sure how. And the next day, you believe it? He comes himself. He's a busy man. He's running businesses and stuff. He comes himself to the house with a basketball, with a jersey, with a thing. Okay, where's Jacob? And he delivers it person. To me, that's that says the whole story. Now, the big things have value because of that. I know a lot of wealthy people and the only thing that's greater than their bank account is their egos, which make them very intolerable people and people are not so liked. So my impressions, my first impressions are the ones that I'm always going to remember. And as our relationship continues to grow, I'm sure I'll have a better window into the the uh the the the gentle giant that sits in front of us and his great rebbit. Regarding our great master of ceremony, Mr. Amei, who is a dear friend, he's such a good man. Um in America, they say charity begins at home. In our community, charity begins with Harry Ami and it actually begins with him. It ends with him and he's the middle as well. I bless my good friend with good health and prosperity. I want you to all know he doesn't get paid for this. Uh might be a good idea if he would take a dollar for every event. He would be very wealthy just on that alone. uh to his credit not only does he come and not ask for compensation he actually gives and he gives very generously and he gives happily so credit to our great Mr. Ami, chairman of the board. [Applause] We're finding a trend trending that a lot of organizations run by Ashkin Nazim, bless them, are servicing the Syrian community. This is, I think, the third event that I've gone to this year that this trend has happened. We went to Isel Shabbat. Now, is Shabbat is a synonymous with I know it well. and they're just giving out uh to Shabbat to Shabas as they say in the vernacular and they're giving food. Who knew that they're giving out hundreds of families in deal? So all of a sudden they come along and say we can't sustain that item, the deal chapter of it. And sure enough, the community rises up to take care of that 24/7. I was in Mount Si. My Rebbitson said had a little procedure and of course I escorted her there and it was a 12-hour uh ordeal there. But everything's fine. And I cannot tell you when I was in the hospital and I'm looking at that board 24/7 of all the names and all the Syrians. So I said, "Well, these guys were not Syrians. The guys who were loading up the kitchen had beards down to the floor, hats up to the Shamayim and all that, white socks didn't look anything like Syrians, but they're servicing the people. So therefore, we have to step up." So now we hear uh that tanzers, as they call it, and as AI and uh Mr. Sham he mentioned how many unfortunately of our people I mean sickness does not does forget about economic it doesn't discriminate between whatever you are and that's unfortunate I want to explain to you in my opinion humble opinion what what the value of what these guys are doing so we have a mitzvah the mitzvah is called him everybody knows be called. But I think that because we've heard that word so many times, we stopped paying attention of these two words. We don't pay because oh yeah, visiting the sick, taking care of the sick, but pay attention. Usually, you visit one sick person at a time. I mean, you don't make a collective visit. I mean, you go into the room, there's one patient on the bed. So why does the uh term refer to it in its plurality? It should say and of course many times over. But why is it? So I wanted to say a novel idea in honor of the good people of Tanzas. What I think is is that when somebody is sick in a family, there are many other people in the family that are also sick but go unnoticed. The obvious sick person is the patient that's laid up in the bed that's going through his medical treatment. However, there's a nonapparent effect and casualty, collateral damage that takes place to the whole family. If a husband is tied up, it affects his wife. And if the wife is affected, it affects the children and it affects the grandchildren. And the whole chemistry and the whole balance of a family, I mean, families are very fragile. Doesn't take too much to throw off a family offkilter. And God forbid when somebody, a beloved person is going through a crisis, the family is thrown into peril. And therefore, I think the rabbis were telling us not to look at this mitzvah myopically. Do not just look at the h but whenever there's a h there's him and therefore to fulfill the mitzvah correctly you cannot only deal with the one that's sick you need to do a comprehensive job and take care of the holy and I think not for the first time but it's a breath of fresh air to see this again that this organization has identified what was not obvious to everybody everybody knows the but to the credit of Zelig and his holy group they have identified the him kudos to you. You're doing the mitzvah in the perfect way and in the correct way. Finally, I will not belabor you with long dash. Although I do have all day long for an organization like this and I'll tell you why. I made once an observation in the first Mishna ink there. The Mishna says was the second Mishna that the world stands on three pillars. And we all know that these three pillars correspond the primary traits of the three fathers. The avot is represented prayer. He himself was a sacrifice. Today we pray instead of bringing the and wasra. So actually if you follow the sequence of the it's why does the Mishna put it out of order. The says that's why is last? He should be first. It's a strong question. In your honor, I would like to say again a novel interpretation. These interpretations are intellectual property. I'll have you know and they are trademark. So please before you put it in a video or in a movie, I'd like you to speak to me first. In any event, the explanation is is that I don't think the Mishna is giving us the chronological order of the avot. As a matter of fact, I know the Mishna is not giving us the chronological order of the mitz of the avot, but it's giving us the chronological story of the Jewish people and what the world is going to look like from the beginning of time until Mashiach comes. There's going to be a generation of Torah and there's going to be a great um level of uh capacity and understanding and genius. I think that great generation of Torah was the generation of the Mishna. It was the generation of the Gim. We'll never replicate that generation. As a matter of fact, our opinion is the earlier rabbis are like angels and we are like Ben and we are simple. We cannot hold the candle against the authority and the the genius and the intellect of the previous generation. So I think although we have a lot of Torah, don't get me wrong, it's quantitative, but it cannot stand the quality of the previous generation of Torah. And then you have the next generation. That was the time the temple stood. That was Abu Dha. If you saw the temple in its glory, you saw what service of God means. People were coming and bringing sacrifice. They were bowing. They were praying. They were supplicating. I wonder today we have beautiful synagogues. We have magnificent edififices. We have beautiful, beautiful places of worship and they're all filled. We need more. However, we may question we may question is the kabana of our prayers anywhere near the kabana of the earlier generations? In our generation, we we we measure a minan by its speed. We measure a shul not from when the minan starts, but when it ends. And the more we're able to skip in a prayer, the happier we are. You know, if we're so lucky to get a that's about two and a half minute to save. Gives us a lot of time to spend out of sh. So again, I'm not God. I didn't come to condemn our our people, but we have shuls. We pray but we can't compare our prayers to the previous generations. I mean our we pray minimum kabana and uh uh last in first out. However, there's going to come a generation where we might not be able to boast our Torah to the levels of the previous generation. And we might not be able to say that we're the best mikuanim in prayer. But there's going to be one generation which is ours where we're actually going to be able to look at our ancestors and say in this not only have we met expectation but we have actually exceeded expectation. Our calling before the Msiah is not going to be necessarily Torah or Avod in the final generation. it is going to be gimm and this an organization like this our grandparents didn't do this I have no doubt my grandfather and great-grandfather they could learn a Mishna and a 10 times better than me I I I surrender my great-grandfather and my great great-grandfather Mansud used to pray with the sidude of the cabalists there's no question he has more than me and I'm not being pretentious or obnoxious but when it comes to they didn't have this. They didn't have the wherewithal. They didn't have the technology. They didn't have the the the ability to to network like these organizations are able to. It's nothing to do. They had the good heart and I'm sure they had the intention. But the actual ability for this to materialize, for this to actualize into something that is a reality, they didn't have it. So although we might not be able to hold our heads that high when it comes to Torah, but the final generation that ushers in Mashiach, it's all about. So you're involved in not only dancing for sick kids, you're going to be involved in the most important dance of all when the Mashiach comes. This organization is in a transition. There's not going to be any more sick people. But I believe that we learned yesterday in the that God is going to make a dance for all the sadikim and he's going to be right in the middle. And everybody in that circular dance, I think they call it the horra. It's not going to be a square dance. It's not going to be the pula. It's going to be uh mah and everybody's going to point to God and say, "Hashem, this is the God we were waiting for. We're waiting to rejoice in his salvation." Well, I think I I can't tell you everybody that's going to be in that circle, but I have a hunch and I'm not a betting man. I would v venture to say that some of the good people at Tanzers, the dance that they've started today in the pre messianic period is going to earn them a position in that ultimate dance of the dance of Msiah at that time and the dance of compensation that we're doing now will be the dance of consolation and I pray that our community recognizes that we're being helped and if we're being helped we have to rise. rise to the occasion. Thank you very much. [Applause] >> Four years ago, um, out of nowhere, my husband was diagnosed with leukemia. Um, we ended up in the hospital. We were there an entire year. My son was diagnosed with a glyopblastto. He his brain was bleeding and he got rushed to the hospital and he needed to have like four surgeries to just stabilize him. >> Summer of 2017, I was blessed to be able to host a great event for children with cancers. Again, we had 200 kids on on our rooftop. Four, five months later, I got diagnosed. When we hear that somebody isn't well, our automatic thought is, are they going to live? And if the prognosis is that they're going to live, so a lot of us just like take it out of our mind and we move forward. Maybe we say to lean for the person. What people don't realize is the journey is intense and the journey requires help in so many different ways. They don't realize how much it tears the whole entire family. And a parent suffers more than the child himself when they're going through when they see their child hurting. Out of the blue, I get this phone call. Um it was about a month after my husband was diagnosed and it's this guy Zelic and he wanted to do something special for my kids who were going you know through a medical challenge with my husband. He threw this amazing party. He just he brought this guy that you know was blowing up balloons. He brought musicians um a magician and tons and tons of food. and he really brought Simha to my kids. Zelig called me like that second day or whatever when my head was all over the place and he's like I want to come. We want to come over. We want to come over. I'm like I can't even focus right now. He's like just let me come. I'm sending people and like they just showed up at my house. They came dancing magicians, clowns, just toys singing, dancing with my son. Next thing you know, he calls me up. What's your problem, Jeremy? I explained to him what I was going through. Before you know it, was getting calls from various doctors and influential Jewish people. And when I got to see Dr. uh Zealy, who's the top radiation guy, he says to me, "I got the message. You're an important person who I must take care of." As a volunteer for tons and as a middleman between a lot of people in our community and Zelic, I do get feedback and the feedback is always so positive. The feedback is always what did we do before tons? How did we survive what we went through? How did we get through this without Zel calling us up and saying what do you need? and sending these events to their house from food to entertainment to balloon guys to magicians to fire in the mouth and sword throwing. A few months after that, it was time for my daughter's bomb mitzvah. He found out about it and he called me and said, "What could we do for you?" The party that they threw was insane. There wasn't a dry eye in in, you know, in the party. Everybody was so emotional. It was food. Brought DJ. He made these magnets of pictures for all the girls. They would bring all kinds of puppets and and and swords in the map and fire to to the point where like I would call Zale and I'm like send the boys like would come send guys no matter what whenever I asked. So like this past October was my son's bar mitzvah and you know it's been a few years since my husband passed and um he showed up that morning with his volunteers and it was so so special. Zelig is a person I can't even describe. He is so hopeful and bright, but at the same time, he's with you in the pain and in the fear. They're looking for to do. They they pick up the phone. Who could we help? What could we do? And they go above and beyond. He's doing every event without asking for a dollar. And now is our turn to help him out and get these events continuing because these families can't live without it. They can't get through these challenging times without Zelic. There's I've seen it this way and I've seen it that way and the difference is is unescribable. >> To see a child any child smiling for me is just amazing. But especially a child who's going through a hard time lenu to see a child who's suffering smiling that's that means so much more. So the journey of getting someone well and the journey of going through a difficult time is not just about where it's headed and what's the result is going to be. It's about making the process as positive and as energized as happy as possible. That's the goal and that's the mission of Tanzers. So if you're ever in a medical situation and a medical struggle and you need someone to uplift you, Tanzers is who you need to call. They're probably going to pick up the phone and and find you before you even, you know, try to find them. Really, Zik Taners, everyone at Taners, what you're doing is is incredible for me, my kids, my family will never forget. >> Zelan Tanes have a special gift. They know how to bring joy and laughter to those people that are most distressed and in need. Changing their lives, changing their perspective. If you have an opportunity to be able to support them, I promise you, you are doing one of the biggest mitzvah out there. Zelig, you want to come up, please? I think it's appropriate that everybody puts a face to the name of the founder of Tanzers. >> I think I'm going to call the Syrian division taners. >> We're going to be >> tun the Syrian division be called cancers. Ladies and gentlemen, these three men are responsible for getting out there throughout the year, throughout the last 12 years of going to hospitals somewhere we never want to be to people's homes in their most distressful times. Somewhere I don't have the guts to walk into. I'm a softy. I can't take it. but they have the courage and they have the strength to go in and make things just that much better under the circumstances that families are going through. So, we want to all thank you. Thank you for coming out today. Thank you for exposing yourselves to our community. This should be the first of many times we meet and many times until the coming of the Mashiach, which I was telling my rabbi that I just have a feeling with everything that's going on in the world and everything that's going on in Israel today and the countries that are screaming out against Israel, Mashiach is definitely here. No longer on the doorsteps. I believe he's arrived. And I believe that means that we have to do like Rabbi Eli said that much more all of us every single one of us has to put out more. So Abby to Joey to Rabbi Eli thank you for walking us through the concept of you know it's not easy to talk about an organization that we didn't know before and that now we know. So what I want to do now is I'd like our community to give financial support to this organization. They have a budget of $1.2 million. I don't know how AI is going to break out the sphartic division from the other divisions. I'm going to leave that to him. He knows how to do that. But I love the idea. I love the concept that you want to carve out because it is becoming more and more obvious that the need for them to show up on the doorsteps and in these hospital rooms where they don't take no for an answer. By the way, sometimes doctors and nurses don't want people coming around. But uh he doesn't know no. And you should never know no. You should always do. you should always do what you believe in your heart is the right thing. So, let's raise some money for tons. Let's uh start to give you some financial support. I'll take a couple of minutes with the great people of this community that week in and week out all year long, including every Shabbat and every synagogue, we host fundraisers and we help and we help and we help and we want to continue to do that and be known as that kind of people. people of people that are not just giving their money but also giving of their time which I always call the most valuable asset and that it is and we want to give more and more of that when needed like my friend Joey Shami who will open his roof him and his brother will open their rooftop as many times as necessary give him a day's notice only because he wants to prepare not for any other reason than he could do it that day but he might want to put some refreshments out >> we need places