Inside Glimpse: Can you buy beer after Pesach?

Oh mr. works on achievement Simon hello how are you Baruch Hashem tell us about yourself please well first off I am Simon Burton and I am the president and chief executive officer and the founder of a company called Manhattan beer distributors we are the largest beer distributor in New York City one of the largest distributors in the country actually but I didn't start that wasn't born as a beer distributor I didn't start as a beer distributor I was born in a displaced persons camp after the Mahoning for the war I was born in a town called Hawaiian Hawaiian by Salzburg in Austria I was born in 1948 my parents were both survivors of Auschwitz they met in Auschwitz they were liberated together and they got married they were from the same hometown Chaffin of in Poland I grew up in Brooklyn and Brighton Beach I went to I went to knock the achiever I went the Talmud Torah at the Hebrew school at the hebrew alliance on brighton 6th street and right in 6th Street and I've got the name of the street in vitam Brighton Beach your net to revenue service one that will be just opened a restaurant last week there the water Neptune so I went to Hebrew school there when I was about eight or nine years old I got thrown out of Hebrew school because I really wasn't paying attention to the teacher and I think I threw an eraser at the teacher of blackboard but anyway the grab I had Ramu nurse on my parents because they were survivors and the rabbi said don't worry I'll take your son and I'll teach him and he taught me with a tape recorder all of the prayers for my bar mitzvah I studied for over five years maybe six years with that tape recorder I Dobbins Mustafa I did my have tolerated my Torah right into the shock indeed I did all of these domine that I had a glove decanter for the day and that was probably the last time that I was in the synagogue until I got married maybe 20 years later and I now have three wonderful children they're all grown I have one daughter and two sons the my two sons were the business here with me and I met rabbi last year right around just before face off I encountered this this rabbi who was sitting in the lobby of my condominium in Manhattan and I was told that he wanted to speak to me and I had no idea who he was or what he wanted for me and as it turned out he was very charismatic and he convinced me to listen to him and all he really wanted me to do was to make sure that I would take my beer and and go through a ceremony and the proper arrangements to make sure that I would get rid of the limits for the hot for the holidays and make it where Jews can enjoy my beer if they buying it in this in the streets whether it be of Brooklyn or Queens and the stores from from all of the stores that we service and supply and at first I didn't want to talk to the rabbi I thought quite honestly he was just another rabbi looking to either convince me to be more Jewish or I don't know what he wanted so we went to dinner I was with my wife and my brother and his wife and we came back and the rabbi was still sitting very patiently waiting and very calmly insisted that all he wants to do is with it is the right thing for the Jewish community what's the name of the rabbi in common my sells wine Phil I'm sorry I spell it by spell that's one film yeah and I said to the rabbi okay come to my if you're serious come to my office tomorrow and I was that was my way of quite trying to see how sincere the man wasn't sure enough the next day he showed up with his friend with his friend yes the settlement yes the rabbi convinced me or explained to me what was going on I sort of know but I wasn't totally sure of the procedure not only did he get me to sign it was to sell my business for the holiday to a non Jew he also asked me if I would put on tefillin which I had not done in over in over 50 years and I put on tefillin that day and we danced a little bit and we celebrated we had a little schnapps together a little widow Jane bourbon and that's the story of why we're here to get today case off Passover is approaching it's coming up April 19th I want to make sure that the that I do the right thing for the Jewish community so everybody can enjoy all of my products this year as they always do and I will be selling my business to edward McBryan he is my chief operating officer he will buy it for me from for the holiday you buy the business from me for the holidays they'll pay me for the business and then after the holidays are over I'll buy the business back from him so who will make the profit of the business and pizza ed but Brian will make the profits he will run the business I will go on vacation the whole entire pizza yes Wow this is something special so you're not going to be involved in the business and everything what comes in and the profit after all the experts and pizza belongs to Ed yes Wow and this is what you did last year yes yeah last year honestly I did not go on vacation yes I realize I had to since I know about it now but you call you guys do that a few days you took weekend yes I did of course but not the only entire pizza yes the first two days yes oh but this time I'm going to take the whole week because it forces me to take a vacation and it's the right thing to do with the community Wow what happened oblivious years that a few lab I said that they were trying to arrange the same arrangement you know I get phone I get phone solicitations I get mail solicitations by the dozens today it's email as years ago used to be in a regular mail I get phone calls to me they're they're just sales people trying to make sales calls and quite honestly I'm a I'm a busy individual I built this business from scratch I have over seventeen hundred and fifty employees I'm responsible for everything that goes on here I don't have the patience so the dilt or the time to sometimes just take phone calls that are cold calls I have a secretary she takes the messages and I just didn't understand what was going on and nobody went out of their way like that like Rabbi weinfeld he went out of his way he sat in my lobby maybe two and a half hours until they came back from dinner and he was still there just waiting for me so we're going to do it this year also with Rob is here you don't have to sit two and a half hours in my lab and you'll come to my office I and you come right we move we'll take care of everything but I promise that the Coco skates will be there again this year yes yes did you like the coke ash cake I did it of course you remember the course yes your wife liked it yes yes nice thank you mr. Bergson thank you and we will meet again and we will do everything according to the Jewish law and the most strictly level yes thank you so much you're welcome