Rabbi Oirechman remarks @ CSE, FHP Director Colonel Brierton retirement at FL State Capitol

it's an honor and a pleasure for me to stand here today and to put together this event with my dear friend the first chaplain first fhp chaplain jewish chaplain in south florida chaplain rabbi chaplin marco rosenberg who is the director of cse lemis in the state of florida who brought to florida all of his experience that he had working with law enforcement in new york and now we're working on making it a reality made it a reality for the last few years in florida along with the help of our deer colonel there'll be a relationship for many years and before i when i came in here i met the colonel outside and i asked him so what do you think said i got mixed feeling i said are you happy i'm excited so he said i have mixed feeling i said to him i didn't mean that i'm happy about you leaving that i'm excited about the event honoring our dear colonel actually uh we also have mixed feeling so we're there with you on that uh at the honorable pleasure to work with chaplain rabbi mark rosenberg for the past two years and so impressed and not only is a friend to me i could say i look at him as a good friend but i also admire his work and what he has done here in florida that nobody had ever done before here so thank you mark for your dedicated work day and night 24 7 literally i would like to welcome rabbi we have a very special guest from new york rabbi edgar gluck the chief rabbi from new york who works with law enforcement for over 40 years also serving as the chief rabbi of poland and i had the honor to speak with them briefly before we came here at the chabad house and i was so impressed with his experience and stories and he's here with us this evening i mean this afternoon and we'll be hearing from them thank you well bye for being here and with us we also have mandy rosenberg the president and founder of csc mayor berger and obviously from the department we have with us honor and a pleasure to have with us the director the executive director terry vaughn it's nice to see you and have you with us here today i remember terry for many years ago and worked together in couple of things with the department of agriculture right it was kosher for kosher for florida so terry has experience already working before with the jewish community and i think we also had some rabbis from new york involved back then as well right so now you're continuing that so i just wanted to let you know it all started before we start with a formal event honoring the colonel another phase retirement coming retirement and first still with us we have also major welch who i got to meet attended together with the colonel our pouring party we had a good time and by the way i want to let you know usually i start a speech with elohim you know the chime is when you raise a cup of some good drink and won't say which color but you have a lechaine but due to the nature of the event we decided to keep the lines out so years ago a couple years ago i remember three or four years ago uh friday afternoon i'm in midst of preparing with my dear wife honey for a big shabbat meal about 50 60 students every shabbat we have large friday night dinners and this past year we also moved closer to campus and jake bloomsden is the president of the chabad student board who is now working with us thank you for all your help with coordination of this event i got a phone call from mark rosenberg who tells me rabbi we have an issue so what's the problem this was before anything started the funny formal relationship we had here with fhp and i said what's the issue tell me it says there is a there was an accident on the i-95 of west the exit of the west palm beach exit and a bike rider who was on his way to with a bunch of bike riders to almond beach for the weekend and a jewish bike rider who died in an accident now the body uh was taken in to the md the me office and they wanted to make an autopsy on the body and the jewish ritual is that if there is a way to prevent the autopsy you know we do everything we can to prevent it according to the jewish law atapi should not be performed unless it's required by law and he said it's almost shabbat and shabbat comes in we can't do anything unless it's in a life of death situation the family is under stress they are in the hospital they are talking to the people in hospital the people in the hospital don't understand them what they want we need some help here to at least delay everything until after shabbat and if possible to get the body released so we could bring it to barrier as soon as possible it's also another jewish ritual the jewish law acquires you should make the burial as soon as you're able to so i said to mark you know i don't know what i could do now it's about three o'clock right before shabbat but let me get in with the governor's office and see what we could do so i call into the governor's office and i explained them the situation i said it's an emergency and we need some help they have contacted right away fhb the colonel's office and i mean time while everything is an old i have to go prepare for shabbat i go into the shower at this time i make sure that the phone is with me so i could if i have to jump in to take it i know this is a call i'm expected to get so and indeed it was i took the phone and right away the director's office was on the phone put him in touch with mark rosenberg and everything was handled perfectly the body was released and one going to the details of the story but that's how the relationship began and then we have arranged a meeting here at the colonel's office with uh mark rosenberg we came up to the office and we had mandy with us and we had in a very nice meeting and when we came in to speak about this we were really worried we said how this is how are they going to receive this this is something a jewish tradition they may have not heard about it about we didn't know what to expect but when it came when we walked out of that meeting i could tell you one thing i walked out with two yiddish word that i want to colonel come out with and remember if not today mark will help you later one of that is i said this person you know colonel baraton is one is a mensch and judaism when you want to say that someone is you know explanation or translation someone is really really extraordinary person personality say is a mensch and the second thing is one other expression i want you to remember colonel is i came and said wow what a shame upon him shane and pony means a continent's face a face gradient's face said never met such a person at his position was so nice so helpful want to do what's right i was really came out of the mark and i came very impressed in the rest of history and i just want to share with you that today when i read the daily section of the humash i the torah of today's portion says that begins with these are the offsprings of moshe and ah this is uh we begin reading the book of numbers the book of amit bar ayla and you would think when you read this that you're not going to find out about aaron's offering and moses offerings offsprings so the torah tells you only about aaron's children iran's offspring not you don't find anything and you wonder hey is the torah missing anything voice we just read that we're going to read about moses offsprings so the torah says the commentator rashi explained that someone who teaches his friends sons torah the torah consider it as he gave birth to this child meaning when you do something for someone else you help them and the lobby of schneiderlin a blessed memory the founder and the leader of the chabad movement the world jury respond about it and he says every moment calling from kabbalah every moment god revives the world and bring life to the world every second so every second the world is renewed and when you at that moment help another person the torah consider it as that person is your child because you gave him you taught him torah torah is life so what i want to my blessings and my wishes to you colonel upon your coming retirement the i met an elderly lady this past week who complained to me and said that people look at her as she's old she's over 70. and she's really feeling young she's feeling the spirit she was very down so i sat with her and i tell her that the bhavichi rabbis said to someone that your age is not what at your passport your age is in your spirit is what you feel like so and you never really retired so all these people colonel that you helped along with the help of the lieutenant colonels ernesto and lieutenant colonel kelly all those people all of those souls that i have been having that you have helped giving them the proper respect before their burial you know they are all consider your results they all consider yours and the department and terry all of those people that you're helping and all the majors and the people from fhp that are here all those people are considering your children consider yours so those are the people and these spirits that you should go from here today thinking you're not retired you're taking all these people with you their spirit is with you on whatever you're going to be doing next you're just taking and you're going from strength to strength i would like to invite mark rosenberg to begin the official part of the event with an invocation a prayer i told mark when he told me you speak first i told him you know in tradition the prayer goes first so i said you know what i'm not going to be the formal part of the evening you're going to begin the formal part so prayers is first you