Ohr Reuven Dinner 2024 - Alumnus of the Year

[Music] mayor embodies three do for me mayor's father liby was my first town in the neighborhood liby growman and never missed a Shear mayor was here since nth grade and he's never left literally he's like the like the furniture in yiva remember my father's always told me about Sal in Berlin that there was the tables and the chairs and the stenders and I could say that about mayor there's no kid in the Yeshiva who doesn't feel comfortable walking over to him and he treats each one of these kids and each one of the people in the Yeshiva like they're the only person he knows and like everything about them is so important have B to take on learning programs and how did they start what do you mean groman said that this is this would be good for me and this is rabis we see this again and again and again in his very quiet way he he's Mas he encourages others to learn I've had the privilege of knowing remor since I first became a rebi seven years ago and what always stuck out for me is that throughout all my years there were always Boys in every single class that went out to learn with her mayor sometimes he would take some of the most challenging kids the kids who were going through who were struggling and yet they jumped at the opportunity to learn with her mayor you speak to Mayor he remembers dates based on what DFI was learning at that time I just spoke to him the other day he said oh I saw your son his pinen was San so that's what his pen was so that's how mayor thinks and in his subtle way it really influences you to realize how much learning means to him and how much learning she mean to us my father been hug and went to many when I was a little kid then I went through the high school system is medish K and now to have my son be able to continue and love it here it's great I get to learn with him I get to drive him here in the morning so it's it's amazing over the last 25 30 years I got to learn individually one one or one on two with probably 100 150 aruan bman I don't look at like T ring some people cool you know tutoring I I look at it just because I you know there each kid has so such potential a lot of times you know you connect to them and you know now I have this new thing over the last two years that I give out your shamies to any kid that wants to try it not if they they don't have to commit and I'm still amazed I tell people all the time I started this year and a half ago I was hoping to get one kid one person to learn your shomi and now I'm giving out 15 20 25 year shamies every time it comes out and I have kids from seventh grade e8th grade nth grade 10th grade 11th grade 12th grade learning yourami and I myself I I'm amazed I'm florid Vala and a good majority of these people are ring kids a lot of them areum that were there are still here now stansky who was my 12th grade Revy rabby gly was my 11th grade Novi rebi and now I still see him you know he's running the Yeshiva the as a principal and know it's I love listening to him because I I loved listening to him back then so it's amazing to have a lot of my Oran from back then you know still still giving share I'm still inspiring people so yeah a is is is amazing it's not I don't think there's an AM of words you could say to you know express my accar for everything that all the inspiration I I get I'm able to give a little bit back and hopefully for many more years [Music]