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a lot of widows uh orphans uh divorces
people that are simply struggling uh
contacting us uh people that we know
that have been on the list since we had
the event last year and uh we're trying
to do the best that we possibly can uh
to uh to help as many as we can we have
a whole list you know some people are
trying to contact us even now uh that we
all know them we really uh feel bad but
we can't help everybody uh but uh
there's the stories are horrible and and
I'll start off with uh with this uh
today I uh anyone that looks at the
campaign right now goes to bhpessa.org
we'll see we haven't really raised much
money but uh here you'll see a receipt
uh for wire transfer for a little over
85 000 that uh you know that I sent this
uh this morning and uh more will be sent
uh in so many words we're following what
the Torah says who did me a favor first
and I will pay him as we do every year
uh it's a sometimes uh seven pays back
right away sometimes he takes his time
but needless to say if you do what uh
you know what what the Sam wants you to
do for his children you're never going
to lose even though it's a lot of
pressure it's a lot of stress it's a lot
of moving Parts but it's certainly
something that's necessary and
especially when you hear the stories and
some of these people we need to help
them on a monthly basis and even on a
weekly basis and one of the stories that
came to us is a woman that uh and his
wife know for many years she's actually
uh the kids going to school together the
older kids
uh older I mean 12 years old uh and um
lastly we helped him though Hashem we
gave them a uh I believe it was a
thousand shekels and this year they uh
she called and asked if we're gonna be
able to help me he said we have this
program for the shots but she's a you
know her husband left her because she
did juvent with the kids and uh he
doesn't want to do chuba he wants to uh
you know remain a uh an animal in so
many words and uh he ended up leaving
her and uh he's leaving out without he
left it with nothing this was already
the last couple years but we never
really knew how bad the situation was
until this uh last week when she told us
uh that uh even to forget about the
holiday uh you know having money for the
you know to buy matzah to buy wine to
buy you know chicken meat anything for
the holiday forget just about that we're
talking about uh
to feed the kids in the morning
breakfast she doesn't have jealous uh so
when you hear stories like this you know
it's not stories fairy tales that people
you know sometimes they text message me
uh listen Rabbi can you help me out I'm
struggling you know and then you know
you hear some details yeah listen you
know I I paid my rent I have food and
everything I just I really need to get
this new suit I need to get this new
suit so I was wondering if you could
send me a couple hundred dollars that's
unfortunately struggling in the American
uh deformed mind when I say struggling
to you guys I'm talking about food I'll
talk about the very basic needs of life
and when a person tells me that uh she's
a uh a divorced mother that uh has uh
you know I believe three or four kids
and she doesn't have food
to feed the kids in the morning
a couple hundred dollars not gonna hold
you have to obviously try to do whatever
we can on a monthly basis and this is
some of the things that we've done over
the years with different
some people have uh you know somebody
very sick in the family so they need
some money for that some people have uh
just different types of troubles uh you
know financial troubles uh you know
medical problems all types of things
and what ends up happening is that
during this time of the year the stories
somehow all pile up all at the same time
all the new stories we know all these
old stories but there's always new
stories that join and uh aside from
asking you guys to try to be generous
and as generous as you possibly can to
help us with this campaign because as
you see I mean again we're already out a
hundred thousand dollars uh between the
two campaigns with a couple hundred
thousand dollars in and we haven't even
you know uh raised a quarter of it uh so
aside from being generous uh in the
campaign uh and if we raise more than
that if you guys you know uh decide to
be the messengers of Hashem to help us
then certainly we're gonna be able to
help even more whatever you guys sent to
us we're gonna use for people we're not
paying my rent with it I'm not uh you
know buying any uh any uh any Ferraris
with it all the money that we get uh to
my knowledge we're the only organization
that actually gives all of the money and
more to the actual people uh you know
that we actually raise every year we
always end up giving a lot more money
than what we end up raising provides for
us in different ways throughout the year
but this time we're uh we're in a
situation where
um I'm asking if any of you guys are
also interested in taking on
uh taking on a family and uh you know we
have I would say uh a good number of
families uh that uh need help on a
monthly basis and uh you know we don't
want to obviously embarrass anybody and
uh you know make things complicated so
we send the money to them anyway but
anybody wants to take on the family that
uh you could go it's anywhere from you
know 500 a month to uh a couple thousand
dollars a month depending on the on the
need it's not necessarily always
dependent on the size of the family
because sometimes the older kids are
able to work or or whatever but
sometimes just simply you know there's
some families need more than others
medical issues and things like that so
if any of you have have the means and
are interested in actually uh going into
this aside from the PESA uh you're
interested in doing something on a
monthly basis just specifically for this
cause we don't have it on the website we
don't have time to make all these
campaigns if you guys are interested in
it you could uh simply sign up on the
website to a monthly contribution you
can send me a quick text message uh to
let me know this is what it's for and
certainly uh uh we'll be happy to use
that help because again these stories
are real these are not uh fairy tales
these are not you know the commercials
they used to see as a kid where there
was a little African boy that is in the
commercial and the Fly always lands on
his head and uh 30 years he's still a
little boy it's still the same exact boy
you know the boy is probably already
seven years old already but they still
use the same commercial to this day uh
you know these are not fake stories
these are real stories these are stories
that we know firsthand we know these
people and one of the things that makes
it uh uh even more personal is the fact
that these are tourist Scholars he's a
serious
so much why does he make them poor many
times you know not all Scholars are rich
like whereby Akiva was and uh dynasty
was very rich and uh was very rich so
there were many they were rich but you
know there were many though very poor so
this heretic was like look this is very
poor uh you know why is he four why is
that one for why if they're so righteous
says Hashem specifically chooses those
people to be poor these Scholars to be
poor in order to save the rest of us
from genome why because Hashem is giving
us an opportunity to help a Taurus
scholar help somebody get you know bring
up bring more light to the world in
order to rectify our own issues our own
like uh lack of study lack of commitment
to the Torah lack of commitment to meet
lack of commitment to Hashem all
together so uh when we fund this uh we
we certainly bring more light to the
world so this is to help us get out of
genome uh and this is like this is not a
uh again uh something that we're making
up Everything is verifiable Everything
is sourced everything is clear and one
of the things that um you see in the
world today is that every thing is more
upside down than ever before where the
Israeli government is doing everything
possible to declare an open war against
the Torah where they literally want the
religious people to know that they're
hated uh so much so that uh they're
willing to do anything in their power to
not help anyone that is even Shabbat a
basic religious person they're willing
to you know if there's Government
funding for anything you know to whether
it's to help children or to uh to uh to
help the parents or to help health
issues or anything like that there's
always funding for that if you are a
secular person there's funding for that
they give you money uh if you're going
to some type of drama school you're
going to be an actor you're going to be
a singer you're going to be some type of
theater there's tons of money for them
billions of dollars uh if there is a uh
some type of uh um terrorist you know
that that hasn't really committed
terrorism yet but he's certainly a
criminal and no problem there's hope for
that if he's Arab oh there's a ton of
money for him ton of money for him but
if you are a religious Torah scholar
okay what we can do is 50 shekels a
month 50 shekels a month per child so
what do you have you have the uh 10 kids
all right we'll send you 500 checkers
now just so you know anyone that went to
Israel whoa 140.
It's Not Gonna Get You Too Far you know
you know maybe maybe you'll be able to
get the diapers Maybe uh for the month
you're not gonna get far you're not
gonna pay rent with 500 shekels you know
you're not going to pay anything of
significance but that's what the
government does now of course the the at
the same time the government uh and the
Lefty liberals will make people think
that uh the religious people are the
ones that are sucking the government
drive all their money reality is the
opposite the religious people pay more
in taxes and contribute more to the
Israeli economy than anyone else
needless to say they actually get less
than anybody else uh you know the
terrorists that actually throw missiles
at us and bomb the buses get more money
than the uh uh the uh you know the the
scholars but again this is an upside
down world it's an upside down world and
this upside down world
where he doesn't know who he's giving it
to and the receiver doesn't know where
he's receiving the money from it's
greater than
I mean this is this is not just a great
act saying it's greater than most of
them
so of course the uh first and foremost
we have to understand that the act of of
giving the Caba settle is is shows that
you're not looking for any type of Honor
shows that you're not looking for any
type of credit You're simply looking to
do the will of a sermon to help people
and when we're doing these types of
campaigns when we're giving it to all
these people this is exactly what you're
doing this is the highest level of
simply because you don't know the person
that you're getting you're giving it to
and they don't know you you know you
have us as the middleman so this is
literally the highest level of and the
uh says this is something that raises a
person to higher than Washington now of
course uh you know some people say oh
wait so I could just behind them with uh
500 bucks a month okay you know what
I'll give a thousand I'll be high to God
like the heretic stick no so uh
foreign
actually think that just from a you know
a single act of uh they could uh become
bigger than you know the greatest person
that ever lived so what could such a
thing mean uh the same token we know
that the sages didn't say things for no
reason so what does it mean what it
means is is that at the time of there
was no
hiding from Hashem meaning if a person
was wicked he died
foreign
in that uh in that whole party also
the the uh the people that the American
that said
their tanks came out of their mouth and
connected to their uh uh um belly
buttons and the uh bugs were going up
and down their tongues until they died a
strange death the blasphemer got uh you
know got uh worst possible death penalty
got a death penalty at the same token
when am Islam did good when I be saying
Hashem showed him things that are beyond
our comprehension even a simple woman
was was able to became a prophet was
able to see the sound
see the sound and see the voice of God
we cannot even imagine even if we have a
creative might
they had mana come from so they had all
of the blessings in the world no one
needed to work no one needed to bathe no
one needed to go to the bathroom even
literally everything that they needed to
do is just simply live and just learn
they were traveling on clouds even their
feet would not get tired because of how
Hashem structured the world for them for
40 years we were like this and some say
that you know it was literally like part
of their free choice was taken from them
in such a case because it was so obvious
that God is running in the world that it
wasn't such a big deal to help your
fellow Jew
so that's what the camera means here it
says
that if somebody gave at the time of
mushega bennu if himself helped some you
know person it wasn't really such a big
deal why because
God Is Watching you're not exactly uh
doing anything that uh is so hard to do
and you know that God is watching he's
buried I mean literally it's like seeing
God
the same token says
pretty much well off there was man
coming down from there was never any
like horrendous cases where I don't have
food to feed the kids really the type of
stock other people would give each other
at that time was really they wanted to
befriend each other and spoil each other
so give them above and beyond what the
average person had so they would get
fruits from from some of the uh people
the green that were uh selling it you
know as they were traveling in the
desert they were you know they were
buying from them they'll buy food from
them but here we see that someone that
gave us okay you did it's nice but it's
not such a big deal when was right there
next to you on the other hand says the
gun is little before Michelle comes
there's gonna be
Hashem hiding his face and the world is
going to be upside down and the Wicked
the evil the Liars the thieves the
Heretics the idol worshipers
the haters
the atheists it looks like they're
winning that's what it's going to look
like in the world it looks like they're
the ones that are successful it looks
like it looks like it's not true but it
looks like they're the ones that are
powerful they're the ones that are on
the winning path so to help
to help publicize the toilet at that
time to help a poor Jew that dedicates
his life to the Torah at that time that
is going to elevate a person to the 50th
level of kadusha a level that even could
not rise to he got to the 49th level
because the 50th level is something that
you can only get through through this
so here we have an opportunity in our
generation to do something that was not
possible three thousand three hundred
years ago
but yet at the same token because the
yetzera is fighting so hard the average
person will hear this be motivated will
show up in order to cool them off and
that's why I say to you guys
you have to think about eternity not
just think about this week or this month
you have to try to do whatever you can
to make commitments longer term
commitments understand what's on the
line because at the end of it all
this is one of the things that a person
is going to cry for not having not
having a part of so with that being said
we have the campaign bhpessach.org
anyone that wants to contribute please
do anyone that wants to do aside from
that once those help us with some of
these really difficult cases we have
literally dozens and dozens of families
that some we help from time to time some
we help regularly and some we help uh
you know whenever possible uh if you're
interested in taking on a family and how
much you want to do it that would be
fantastic but regardless of all of that
always understand these types of things
uh you know these are responsibilities
and I know that a lot of people like to
help people and many times they believe
that they're helping people and uh
sometimes uh I I wonder whether uh of
people realize who and what they're
having so in this case we know who will
be
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thank you
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