Jm in the AM Live From Sderot 8/8/14

jm in the am it's america's one and only jewish moments in the morning radio program heard on listeners sponsored wfmu east orange wmfu mount hope rockland county at 91.9 on the fm dial and around the world in the web jmntham.org foreign oh foreign because i me me hey jm in the am with nakamu on this arab shop is nakamura done by aspaklaria off of their kuma cd and we say welcome to a jm friday morning i want to thank stan in our studio we kept the music rolling as we were preparing for our show here in stay wrote and i uh i welcome all of you to this uh very special friday morning broadcast it's special because number one we're in state road and i know a lot of people think that's a great accomplishment i don't know if i think it's a great accomplishment but i think it's an amazing opportunity to show love and solidarity for our brothers and sisters who are in a difficult uh um a difficult situation this summer here in israel uh as we record this show it's about three o'clock in the morning in the united states in the eastern time zone so we don't have the latest latest news but we do know that there are some rockets flying toward oshkolon and other areas of this region and we pray for the safety of our brothers and sisters of course and continue to pray for the amazing um personnel of the israel defense forces um i want to thank everybody here at state roads who have opened up their um their wonderful uh a community to us this morning and uh the second reason we're here in addition to that very important reasoning of the reason of showing solidarity and being in this area of israel the second reason we're here is because for months and i mean that literally for months an amazing group of people that i'm privileged to be part of uh have been planning a hachnasa say for torah a big safer torah celebration in the ethiopian synagogue in the city of stay wrote and we were involved because months ago yussi babel happened to ask me about the possibility of finding somebody to donate a safer torah one that was desperately needed in the ethiopian synagogue and as i have pointed out many times in the last few weeks the team of simon and dr joe from west orange new jersey came through immediately and we said that uh unlike a lot of situations where you see the celebration haknes for torah first and then the torah actually that day or shortly after be presented to the synagogue in this case simon insisted that the torah be delivered to the synagogue immediately and that we would plan on coming for the big celebration at some point we didn't realize that it would be the summer of 2014 uh when a trip to israel and of course the state road would be so meaningful to people here and today is the day we celebrate uh today uh simon jacob and dr joe rosada and members of their families and myself and rabbi sharbat from west orange new jersey uh rabbi siegel from staten island and so many uh wonderful people who are joining us are all going to be celebrating a couple of hours from now right after this radio broadcast and that beautiful hachnasa say for torah celebration in the ethiopian synagogue there's a lot to say about that there's a lot to say about stay wrote yossi baumel has promised us some amazing guests for this hour so stay tuned rabbi you didn't of course going to speak to us in hour number three and today is one of those rare fridays where we will not conduct a weekly update we're not going to be speaking with malcolm homeline today but that will return next week today we are dedicating our show to this amazing visit to the city of stay road and we'll talk more about state road and more about this safer torah celebration coming up right here at jm in the am a big thank you to pc guy who's leading our engineering team here in israel doing an amazing job we continue to recommend his website as probably the best way to get in touch with him for services both in israel and around the world i've mentioned many times how he's amazing in fixing computers that are thousands of miles away from him go to the pcguy.co.ialthepcguy.co.il i want to thank our friends at the imbal hotel whose hospitality has been amazing they continue to be an amazing sponsor of ours and our journeys to israel and we may have some very special things going on with the inbol beginning of next week when you tune in monday morning for our show from jerusalem you have no idea nor do i at the moment uh know where we're going to be broadcasting from but i think the inbow is going to be playing a very big role in that and of course tuesday will be with nefesh benefits a big thank you to miriam al wallach general manager of the nakhon siegel network who brilliantly has pieced together this trip she and i yesterday had a a journey of a lifetime as we were um i think even closer to gaza than we are now uh we were in uh we were in oh gosh do you want me to help yeah no what was the other time we were right good morning sir good morning how are you and i'm doing fine excellent and among the people that we met just a few hundred yards away from the gaza strip were soldiers from the united states of america including one from livingston new jersey that was it was unbelievable meeting him uh first name was gabi if i'm not missing yes last name yeah are we allowed to release that information well we did already is that confidential is the idf gonna come after us now i don't know i got a big picture of him i think it's on facebook with his flak jack that says where are the pictures are they on uh i am single network i am presently trying to upload them literally as we speak all right check them out folks we had an amazing day uh we should give credit to yuri al-nakhm correct from my family name is nothing right that's not good we have a picture of me in front of the nakhon sign in front of their house which is pretty funny right um they he was one of the most remarkable people we've ever met when the soldiers started coming down to that area and the staging area for gaza began to form around the town of pharma he and an amazing group of volunteers mostly led by the women of the community started cooking meals started collecting shampoo and underwear and everything you name it everything's there we have photos that you'll see uh they started shuttling soldiers from the base to homes to shower they formed a whatsapp group they formed the whatsapp group that had over 50 000 messages right so people can be up to date on what services are being provided by this and this was all volunteer the army never expected any of this and uriel said that he has basically not gone to work in four weeks he took up a month from work right basically he has dedicated himself to this mission and after a remarkable remarkable afternoon which it really was and nahum um we both agreed that we we spent our day with jewish heroes we started with rabbi fass in the morning that's right you know single-handedly and with uh with tony gilbart obviously and his team at nephesh banefest they are bringing all these olim and we look forward to next week and then we finish the day with 22 year olds 19 year olds who are literally on the front lines and thanking us for visiting them which was completely remarkable we saw a 22 year old soldier i think he was actually a commander yahushua who asked me what my 22 year old does in new york right oopsie days that was a tough that was a tough conversation but it was quite remarkable when we met gabi homa and and all of a sudden we were sitting in that car in far as and we're talking to the high limb through the window and all of a sudden that perfect english comes out and you said i am nakhon siegel and five minutes later he's like can i take a picture from my mom and out and it turns out that both simon and dr joe know the homa family oh really just in new jersey of course they do of course is right of course all right guests from state road and plenty more coming up it's a very special friday morning arab shabbat nakamu here at jm at the am i believe candle lighting in the new york area is 7 43 7 43 on this era of shabbos parshas vs khan on air shop is nakamura 7 43 is candle lighting time we are going to conduct this jam name radio program a unique one for a friday a little bit different than usual no weekly update this week and then we're going to proceed to the ethiopian synagogue where we're going to participate in the safer torah a very very special torah which we will describe with some very special guests coming up keep it here on this era of shabbos nakamu at jmm oh okay foreign okay my hey m them smile and drive the tears that shriek your weary face your wounded soul will be controlled by the wonders of this place laugh away the fears there's no need to be afraid this storm will long pass of sorrow after these long nights and there'll come a time to leave the sadness behind we'll rejoice again after this black night passes a new light will dawn and you'll see look how we shine so be strong be true be brave you gotta keep your head up high you're young and you'll be smiling again after this when you left vicky so again after this jm in the am with aryeh kunsler on this arab shabbos nakamu before that a group called shamayim who i believe are based up in spot with their version of nakamu ami hey this is the day to play some arab shabbos nakamura music it's in fact there shabbos nakamura and we're spending it in state road uh doing a radio show and then participating in the big nasa safety tower that we've been anticipating for months we'll give you details about that coming up moshe schwartz is here anything but a typical passaic new jersey youngster uh moshe schwartz welcome to jm in the am thank you thanks for having me you ever hear of this show before yeah you know they listen in state road huh so give me the give me the lowdown you go to elementary school in new jersey i assume yeah yeah and then i went to i started off in uh yzy uh small yeshiva in muncie i went there for two years and then i switched into mca i finished off high school i uh then went on to ishiba soraya torah learned there my shana alef and then a little bit into my shawn about i switched into steroids right and uh how'd you even find out about state road have you had you visited here during shanala well i i i went for one shot as you know to check out just like you know you know state road sounds like a cool place to visit and when i got here you know i saw the yeshiva and i was very impressed you know the very serious people here um the the i feel the issue almost it's like a prototype for yeshivas in israel to a certain extent the way that it interacts with the community we're not just a shiva that is located instead we are the yeshiva of steroids and i thought that was something very special something i want to be a part of there are no other american students american meaning american students whose parents are still in the united states and state road at this time they are they are not you're the only ones yeah does that make it i don't know difficult for you it's not a big deal how would you describe i mean in the beginning it was pretty rough i mean when i got there you know people are like how are you what's your name and i had no idea was flying i didn't know any hebrew but um you know you battled through it you worked through it and then you know it's very gratifying now to be where i am that i you know more or less i understand what's going on are people in new jersey concerned for your safety well yeah you know people in new jersey they hear steroids and they think oh so you're learning in gaza that's what's going on you know but um no i mean the yeshiva you know obviously you have to be very careful you know when you hear a severdom you go to a shelter and in addition to that you know we have like you know the star wars great weaponry and the iron dome and you know we have a great army we also learn here we feel that you know that helps this the situation and you know about hashem you know in the last round of fighting i don't think there are any um fatalities uh in steroids uh how many soldiers have passed through here over the last month it's been great there have been a lot i mean it started off with a maybe around 100 that came in and uh and then just more came i think one the friday morning just a few weeks ago it was like you know four or five hundred you know soldiers just came in and uh it was great we had shabbos with them and it was just it was really you know probably the best jobs i've ever had in my life it was very amazing moshe schwartz is here from passaic new jersey uh now in the state road uh did the yeshiva students have a role in helping the soldiers or the stuff that you were doing as a volunteer or any way helping them well absolutely i mean you know we were sharing dorms with them you know they were very i think grateful for the fact that you know how you know warm and welcoming we are i mean one soldier mentioned that there's a certain feeling you get when you go home and you see your family and you see your parents and he said he felt that when he came to our yeshiva this is a hiloni soldier and you know it's very special to feel that you're in a position where you're able to actually you know like make a difference certain extent these people who have been in gaza and were returning for shabbos or people who are on their way out to gaza i mean you just feel you know life is more real and stare out uh is this the beginning of an american program in the yeshiva and state road are you going to be the first of what will be hundreds of students whose parents and families are back in the united states but they're coming to study here yeah i hope so i mean we're actually trying to start an american program it's sort of hard to pull americans to stir up by virtue of you know its reputation of being you know kind of in gaza as people would consider it from america but it's really an amazing place and you know the people here really excited to meet americans to see americans see americans in the yeshiva they've been extraordinarily welcoming to me if there's anyone out there who's interested in learning steroids you know it's a great opportunity are you going to remain here through the rest of the summer and then you know for even more than that yeah i plan on drafting in hashem with the yeshiva this coming march draft um uh so i'll be in the art so i'll be in the yeshiva till march and then i'll be drafting into the army right with with boys your age yeah with the guys in my shear wow unbelievable well call it kavod to you a pleasure meeting you what message should we give back to the people in new jersey you know i mean it's uh you know it wasn't easy for me you know coming in to stay out but you know there are easier paths to coming here you know i mean people talk about you know is it uh is it for us to make aliyah at the end of the day i mean you know our entire story of our history have been getting to israel and getting kicked out of israel i mean at this point it's time to get back kokomo thank you so much amazing moshe schwartz one of the prides of the garden state from passaic new jersey thank you for joining me today and enjoy your shabbos nakamu and stay road uh we're here today because we have a wonderful safer tourist celebration coming up right after we finish this radio show and we'll give you details about that coming up here at jmum i do want to remind everybody that the terret khan in uh division and the one israel fund have a unity concert that's taking place tomorrow night in upstate new york and i hope everybody uh goes and enjoys uh whenever an event is um is planned and is designated as one that's a unity event for israel it's so important even if it's a musical event to make sure it's well attended it's happening tomorrow night at 11 p.m up at the master gym on maul road in barryville new york it stars god elbaz an eighth day and a whole bunch of other performers and uh for information you can contact atari konim of the one israel fund let's make sure that it's going to be well attended and uh and um a great success yasi baumel why don't you join me here for a moment jesse baumel was with us monday at jm in the am and uh it was that day that we were sitting and talking about this very day here in state road and you're going to introduce us to a couple of special guests in just a moment um nice to see you here on this side of the world yasi baumal nice to see you on the side of the world tadara ba good to be here to say the least i don't understand something and i'm not making light of what's going on especially today because we know that in oshko alone there's things happening etc but uh ever since we landed here we seem to be in a uh i don't know much more calm environment than the one we were in a couple of weeks ago would you say that that that would be a good description of the situation now in israel uh nakam i try to explain this to you on the radio and in all my talks in the united states in america everybody's worried over here despite the terrible losses that we suffered the spirit of the people here is so strong and so optimistic and hopefully we will lead our leaders in the same path uh we know that the lakes are india hashem so we can't judge our leaders because god's running the show as far as that goes but each of us can make a difference by being calm by going about our lives and doing what has to be done and that's what the people here do instead of doing today but we've been doing it for weeks already right so even those who are following and there are a lot of people in the united states and listeners of ours who follow the red alert apps and when they see you know oshkolon for instance dominating the morning news etc they may get the feeling that i don't know israel is under fire they have to realize that it's it's not like that that you know we're not minimizing what people in oshawa and other areas go through but it's not that's not the way to look at it if you're trying to figure out what's happening in israel you have to understand it's not a personal thing the danger to any specific individual is infinitesimal but the entire country follows the rules not to let them to have the pleasure there of of a victory over us even by killing one jew that's why we all do these things and that's the spirit that we have here but nevertheless we people we have to understand as far as the state of israel goes no country in the world would take even a half a missile shot at them and here we are and as i told them this morning what i think israel's reaction would be that the first stage we wouldn't react at all to give a chance for them to calm down once again this is the situation but the people are strong that's the greatest message of the last two months is that people are really strong and not that we would ever make any recommendations to people but if people are planning on coming to israel and are planning on spending some time here in august uh all we could do is encourage them keep those plans absolutely a lot of people contacting me i told my wife already it's not gonna be one day vacation this summer because there are groups coming all the time we have people coming to we have two groups tomorrow at the same time tomorrow we have other people coming throughout the week we have a lot of groups planning to come towards the end of august there's just a lot of people want to come and to get a little taste of the spirit that i'm talking about here in israel all right help us introduce our next guest who do we have is it arnold cohen is going to be drawing one second these guys have to travel to the to the galilee and where's your cake holding garner it's arrow it's okay so you have another five minutes okay great so we're going to have introduce to you yehuda and bingham library all right let's set them down their parents rami and papsi library live in harnoff they were honored at our dinner as parents of the year i remember them yeah they're not americans they're israelis his mother their mother actually was naftali bennett's babysitter uh when he was a little boy i think you mentioned so they share a very important uh quality with the leaders of our country uh but they're the futures leader of our country in any case let them talk instead of me all right so yehuda and benjamin leibler are here and uh let's just turn that around let's put the microphone on the left side uh which one's yehuda shalom and broke your toes to you oh you got it there we go shalom and boko tov t2 i see your english is not so bad well thank you very much binyamin welcome to you as well hey good morning shalom shalom uh so tell me about your who's older by the way the one who looks so insulted thank you very much tell me about your progression i mean how how did you end up in yeshiva in state road well uh first of all uh benny and i were both uh born and raised in jerusalem right two out of uh seven brothers um i came here at the end of high school uh 12th grade i was uh looking for yeshiva for estoy shiva to go to my friend just suggested one day let's go down to the devote and i said yeah okay whatever and i came here i decided to stay here what is it that attracted you to here limut amazing power of uh torah learning here that uh the moon i opened the uh heavy uh rocket proof uh glass doors on the front of the bait midrash and it was in the middle in the middle of the uh afternoon cedar and i opened the door and it was just this boom of uh of a noise of uh of limut it was powerful i've been to other uh to several others and that was powerful i decided to stay here and that sound can drown out the rocket fire yes it does it does drive it does my wife calls me sometimes and says are you okay we had there was just uh it was just uh dom and i said i didn't hear anything my mother sometimes called and said are you okay the news just reported like no idea and when did you get here i came here this year uh same thing after 12th grade i came here about the same reasons i checked a few places and i came in because i the rabbanim really inspired me from the serious and the also the purpose over here is really the the the gesh that they give you is about the union it's all in from inside torah that's what really inspired me i know yeshiva is always reaching out to other parts of the community you as students feel that in yeshiva of course yes and people come in and they're from other parts of the community and they study torah there i'll tell you i noticed this i noticed this uh this phenomenon even before i entered the shiva when my friend and i came in the 12th grade we didn't know the way to the shiva and we ended up on the completely on the outskirts of the rotte and we asked people and we just asked someone already do you know where the issue was of course go that direction so when we went in the direction it was pointing we found another guy you know they should everyone we met and we were complete it's embarrassing we're completely on the other side of town but everyone we met along no the way knew exactly where the yeshiva is and that's something that the mayor of the town once told rafindell mr alondawidi said there are many cities in israel uh with uh with the yeshi with the hester shiva in them this is a hazardous evil with the city around it amazing i love it uh what about army service is that something you've done already yes uh this is a hesdel program i'm in my fifth year now it's a five-year program where we do a year and a half studies in the shiva another year and a half in the army and then another two years in the shiva i served in the paratroopers um i was released two years ago it's basically used off of doom and uh yeah of course anything anything over the last month or this was not your role um well uh my wife happily for my wife and yeah okay for me too i wasn't called up um we were we got you sound a little disappointed yes i was a little disappointed we're very gung-ho over here but um yeah sure i i i got married eight days before this whole thing broke out wow thanks very much we moved down here exactly um at the end of the shoveable hut and exactly the day after we came here you know it was quite suddenly there was a fireworks display from gaza and uh you know so my wife really needed me by her side and i uh so i'm happy to do that but sure so some people would say you lucked out you wouldn't use that expression no not in this lifetime though amazing absolutely amazing and benjamin your schedule with the army um i have i think half a year or maybe i'll do another in yeshiva wow unbelievable to both of you a pleasure meeting you thank you very much uh we have yehuda and benjamin uh leibler from usual i am now studying in stay road and we wish mazal tov to yehudah and his wife and this is a perfect example of the amazing youth that you will find not just in israel but in this area of israel who are ready to serve at a moment's notice and are disappointed when they're not able to which is pretty incredible more coming up here at jm and the am as we uh continue on this friday morning broadcast as we've been reminding everybody we are here not only to show solidarity with stay road and to be here with um this incredible uh group of people on this era of shabbat nachamu but there is a an amazing and incredible safer torah that's going to be happening later today and that has to say for torah going to be happening at the uh ethiopian synagogue here in state road and why are we part of it we will explain all of that coming up if you keep it right here at jm in the am so is do is i jm in the am with cats friday morning eric is candlelighting at 7 43 in the new jersey new york area on this era of shabbos harsha's vest thank everybody for joining us for a very special friday morning uh by the way um and we will talk in a moment uh in a couple of moments about the uh safety that's going on here and the background behind it in addition to uh simon jacob and dr joe rozada who are here rabbi sharbat who is the rabbi of the uh svardic minion would that be the right way of saying the spartak minion congregation navas ahmed a jacob and david of west orange new jersey he is here to tremendous kavod a tremendous honor for us to have him here and rabbi kaim nassen nate siegel who is the rabbi the new springville jewish center in staten island for 30 years and has been one of my uh greatest advocates for the last 30 years he is in stay wrote with us today and he is going to be uh joining us as well with athleticism for torah it's great to have great rabbinic leaders here participating with us it lends an even more uh authentic atmosphere to this incredible day and this amazing celebration arna cohen is here uh she is a resident of stay road but i guess for us what makes her unique or makes her story really cool is that she's from south bend indiana welcome you midwesterner to jm and the a.m not too much left to the midwest by me no you sound very israeli for somebody from south bend how'd that happen i haven't been in south bend for 39 years my gosh how long ago did you move to israel i moved to israel in at the end of high school and came back to south bend for one visit since then and uh since then i've lived here got married well that's something usual for a high schooler to make a decision like that to go to israel at that time i must say that from my peer group my age group there's a great great number of people made aliyah here in israel from south bend from my age group it's amazing all over uh you moved directly where in israel where was your first jerusalem right and then we lived in iraq we lived in beit el and then we seven years this week we're going to celebrate seven years to moving to zero so you're a real kaluta i mean you were in places that uh i assume we're all building when you got there right in places like arad and others i ride was a small town at the time it's much it's developed very much since then but um it was irad was always a nice town it was a beautifully planned town how different is state road today than seven years ago because i see a tremendous amount of construction going on and just so much growth happening um steroid has grown stay or when we came when we when it came to safety's time there was a lot there were a lot of attacks on steroids so a lot of people left at the time and it was it wasn't the ghost town but it wasn't fully populated and it's amazed because there's been so much building done in the last two years steroids has grown there there's a great demand for apartments for young couples very very very many young couples have come to make this they're with their home um i think that the education has grown a lot there are very many more nursery schools than they were when we came um but you know we we have to remember that there were people inside me down the street from me there's someone who said that 52 years ago he got married in the house that he lives in right now so that's also part of the population of these old-timers they've been holding on steadily for a long time and they're very important part of the population arna cohen is here from south bend indiana but in state road for the last seven years and in many other places in israel for many years before that everything you just described and yet we're here where a few seconds ago a red alert seva dome went off do you ever get used to it we're in the middle of it right now how would you describe it to people who are listening first of all it doesn't contradict what i said before kika has a special agreement with ami israel that putting pressure on him so makes us grow and develop and bring out the best in us and i think that's true about today also for people who have a good level of coping people who are physically okay and emotionally okay it's you can manage it's not pleasant it's not normal i sometimes i think that the emotional aspect is worse and the truth is the emotional aspect is much worse than the actual danger because the tension that ceviche dom that the red alert can cause or the anticipation to red alert or the panic or trying to run because as red alert is much much more danger dangerous than the danger of being hit so the most important thing is to do everything you can to stay calm it is a problem when you're dealing with the weaker parts of the population weaker participation includes little children because you really can't go outside to any distance with the children in this situation um my grandchildren haven't visited here for a month except for one family that came in the middle of the week to meet their father who was released from the fighting in naza for 24 hours they came to us to say spend maximum time with him and they stayed home the whole time in our home people for example i know a handicapped lady who didn't leave her house for two months she didn't go through the threshold of her house for two months um and for you it's not just this month it happens many other times as well right it's not it's not as bad as it sounds on the media it's not as often as everyone thinks steroid isn't such a an object for our enemies today it's much more interesting for them to make people in tel aviv once they're in ashkelon or in order feel uptight and steroids is well practiced we people in steroids have learned how to cope and also we have more protection here than many other places they have the bus stops that are sheltered we have shelters and even have a playground that has a shelter not that i really think that that's a way of life the way of life is to show that we that airtiso belongs to us and our enemies have to realize that also yeah well kawai kavod i thank you very much for joining us today thank you for on behalf of all of us thank you to stay road for all your hospitality and continued success here in the city of state road well my best wishes to all my brethren in america and if you really care about is the common influence come here and you can take a part it's a democracy you'll vote you'll be a part of the whole this beautiful beautiful picture here and put your your your word in also in your life all my best shabbat shalom shalom uh point well taken as they say um lorna cohen thank you made a point that all of us should certainly remember uh we have the influence we have the capability of having even more influence and hopefully soon everyone will take advantage of that uh possibility uh i'm asking dr joe rosada who is um uh with us here today to join me as a special guest from the city of nehrutsv um where where are our special guests dr joe rosa zada and a special mystery guest from the city of narratsv uh good morning dr joe how are you sounds like it sounds like a drastic uh description frankly um dr joe rosa zada is part of the uh amazing committee of uh of simon and dr joe of west orange new jersey we are getting ready for the big safer terrorist celebration we'll talk more about it in a few minutes but you have a special guest amikai zeltzer is here with us today amit shalom shalom nice to meet you where is nerdsvily it's uh right between tel aviv oh wow i probably passed it a thousand times and don't even realize how many years are you living in israel since i was born your whole life how did you meet dr rosizado oh that's a wonderful story there's no one there's no one who can cross around uh dr rose's zada and not meet him and you know get know this uh this amazing person and you met in new jersey correct yeah in show ensure joe is hosting anyone who's anyone who has a place and doesn't have a place to stay around you he has an open house more than open house it's it's an open hotel should we give some credit to laurie the shield of course there's nothing nothing grounds for as someone who who was there a few times um i must say that nothing can run without lori you heard about the big simcha they have a daughter now you know yeah yeah which is amazing they're all these years thank god seven i'm sure her older brothers are very happy about it i i ruined their three and three i heard they're gonna have to learn to live with it frankly but now she's gonna be good she's gonna beat them that's it that's that's my that's what's gonna end up what's the what i was told you have an association with nephesh benefits you actually help people make aliyah i'm uh yeah i'm actually a lawyer and i'm offering services to people who's making elia with i've been working in american law firm for five years so now as i open my own firm i'm offering services to americans and especially to people who make salia and need help with with all what a lawyer can help them are you aware that hundreds of people are coming this coming week i'm i'm so happy for them and we're going to be there in ben gurion airport to greet everybody i'm so happy and it's going to be amazing and you should know that we should know that that not only he is very good at what he does but honestly like knowing him knowing his heart his heart goes with his work which is unbelievable you're not going to find anybody else like that that he's going to put not 100 percent his heart into the thing like if anybody needs anything whatever it is he goes out of the way it's not just you know oh you know i'm a lawyer let me do the contract and finish and let's go on but anybody wants to buy a house anybody anything like that rental property whatever it is like he will go in and put in all of his effort and he's an unbelievable unbelievable person now that you have dr joe's reference business is going to start booming because that's hashem is that kidding me is there a way for people to contact you from america if they want to speak to you about ali yeah sure they can write in google law firm or or um right and they can dial nine seven two seven seven two two zero sorry nine seven two seven seven two two zero zero one two two suppose that yeah imagine that thank you thank you so much today thank you so much all the way from there to me i came all the way from the earth for the big same kind of speaking of the big sim club joe you stay where you are i'm going to ask amichai to hand his uh headphones over to simon because i do want to spend a little bit of time talking about what's happening here right after this radio show it's a significant event it's something that three of us have talked about for months and finally finally finally we are here together i don't think simon or joe or myself can believe that we are finally finally here together to celebrate today simon good morning to you good morning good morning great to have you and uh thank you for all your help and for everything you've done to make this trip such a success for us no thank you but no thank yous are allowed so i'm gonna stop that um well here we are the the short version of this story is that jesse baumel asked me in january if i knew anybody who might potentially have a safer torah for the ethiopian synagogue in stay road and i've had a little bit of a history rabbi segel could tell you that i thank god i've been blessed and i have a little bit of a history when it comes to shidduchim with sifrey torah and i called dr joe and you know why we called dr joe he called them because we need something done you call dr jones you know what's going to get done and he contacted simon and he contacted simon because he knows we need something done you contact simon and simon went ahead and as i said earlier instead of waiting for the big celebration of dedication he said let's get the torah over to stay road as soon as possible and sure enough today in memory of three people one a cohen one a lavy and one of you throw a spartak torah will be presented to the ethiopian synagogue how significant is that entire package to you uh just unbelievable unbelievable i'm i am so pleased it's worked out this way i uh personally knew your dad nacho i also personally knew joe rosizada's father incredible people and to have a to have joe's father a cohen and then to have your father nahum a levy and to have my father-in-law who was also an incredibly great person a real leader in his generation norman trigger who was the israel um also be part of this and uh to tie them all together it's just amazing and uh what's unique is that the torah is being given to an ethiopian synagogue that really didn't have any high quality torahs and only had one torah at all and now they at least have two separate torah when needed they actually had two sephirah torah that were there one that was totally pasul that they couldn't use one that was really um but they were using they were you know making making a go of it so they really hadn't not a safer tour to be able to use and it was um it was special it was special when we first brought it there we all decided together that it was going to be tough coordinating the coordinating the trip and uh it would be why should they be waiting over you know over yom tovim and uh over shabbat shabbat not having a safer torah so we you know we presented to them initially but we said we're coming back and ironically and i think jesse belmont can confirm this i think right after it was presented with shabbat rosh immediately and sure enough they were able to use it uh just a couple of months ago uh and we are here today and uh joe rosada how interesting is it that we planned this trip a long time ago and it kept getting postponed because we didn't know when all three of us would be in israel we end up planning it for this for error with the whole situation in israel and everyone not everyone but many people said oh i guess you're going to now postpone your trip everything going on in israel and the three of us said are you kidding this is the time to go this is the time to really get it jump into action and make sure we're there for the big celebration you know you know i'm going to take a few minutes just just uh to go over this you know like me and simon berkshire we've been you know last year we were here for for you know we went to safat for like by omar and you know he mentioned all the time like he reminds me of the thing that i said no nissin miniflow like anything that we do in this world or in this in this war in this in this life it's all minnesota miami and everything everything works out you know the way hashem wants it we could work from here till tomorrow we could decide or this is the day that we're going but hashem knows and hashem directs us to that to that time of when we really really need to be here and when we really need to do you know uh just a quick thing you know this this this partisan is passionate and you know that moshe rabbino our biggest the biggest jew the biggest nazi the biggest leader in the whole entire world dive into hashem 515 times as we know it at you know with the government of 515 times now and not not yeah no that's it no more don't doubt it anymore this is it and you're not going right and look look what we can do like we a a pasha de yid or anybody a joe anybody could just buy a ticket and come to israel and and we sometimes say no you know the war is going on absolutely you know like you have to you have to put that away and just remember that that motivator with all his his mitzvahs and everything else he couldn't come and step foot on on the land and we mamish could every second we could come in anytime we want it's an unbelievable thing i get emotional every time i think about it most of it's going to come and you have a chance and you show them say oh no there's a gaza rockets or something going on the toughest thing we have to to to do to get to eric cisrella is decide whether we're going to eat meat or fish yes the price of the ticket but even 100 years ago we're not talking about a thousand years ago but a hundred years ago this journey took three months four months it was an incredibly arduous journey we get on a plane in nine and a half hours and ten hours later yeah simon alluding to the greatest difficulty we have what to order on the menu when you get on the plane right uh both simon jacob and joe rosada here um we want to send regards back to the entire jacob family both in the united states and israel because there are plenty of them here in israel hashem and of course to lori and the entire family back with the boys and your princess in west orange new jersey if if again sure some few few more things just want to mention first of all like you know my kids you know they were saying they were telling me oh you know what's going to happen you know they have this red alert thing that that oh every time they come the amp that comes up and you know like what i what i told them is every time you hear it you just say shema if you don't know anything also anything like that for the jews that are all around and i think it's an unbelievable thing that the pakistan they keep doing and they asked me before i left you know david especially in nike the my biggest boys asked me like you're not nervous you're not i said absolutely not and they said you know could we come like you know that's really what they they felt it like as a little little kid hashem you know um were they scary ass but they they definitely definitely didn't feel like oh you know like they saw the hand of hashem and everything so i do want to shout out to david aiki rami rouhane aron and talia varhashem and laurie and you guys are special that you know that you know we're able to come here and of course mama golda and how that you know mama best regards for me that's it and rabin and sima of course you know who i know at any moment now is going to be joining us i know he's hiding somewhere in state road that's it with cousin moshe for sure for sure sippy and david shimon and ariella really uh you know they're all daubening for aloha on sippy road such a beautiful thing for the khayalim i'm really proud of her um that i gave out or you know that i you know that i gave out moshe and angelia yoni ellie nina and abby really i i you know they're all behind this and uh they're unbelievable that they all support this this thing you need an entire show when joe starts talking about simple as that uh at a special hello to dina jacob yeah because she's an eyewitness to today's big celebration it's nice to have a family member here with you isn't it yeah and also a shout out to grandma doreen um and my wife who let me and my brother michael especially in his family let me come so it was a very big deal so hashem all right hashem is right we're here to celebrate and uh we will give you uh uh a uh a taste of the athletics of safer torah certainly with the videos that we'll be posting and obviously we'll have a report about that class of savior torah monday when we're broadcasting from yerushalayim right here at jm in the am um we will be joined next by rabbi fendell and then before we get to rabbi uden we will have both are by siegel and rabbi sharbat on to discuss the significance of this event today to say for torah here instead wrote continue to listen to jm the am this is america's one and only jewish moments in the morning radio program heard on listeners sponsored wfmu east orange wmfu mount hope