Rabbi Gedalia Miller

with everything that's going on we have to take two minutes everybody should stand up and thank hashem for such a validity chavez and let's give one more round of applause for all the parents that actually showed up so much effort to come here financially from all over the world thank you thank you thank you in 2017 when a couple of brave men from our group started pushing for doing something for the parents we never envisioned being able to be at such a place in such a time the people that started this is heinous coleman [Applause] jinji markowitz [Applause] shlomi litzman [Applause] we had ashley rosenberg from this behind the scenes even from day one [Applause] mandy aider mosh rosenfeld [Applause] we are very fortunate from the beginning to have yankee goldman do all the graphics from us and i really really appreciate it [Applause] and afterwards we added on with hashem ellie kaufman i don't want to forget i'm going to try to go back and forth a little bit but this year a couple of weeks ago mama's weeks ago i don't know i went to baba i couldn't figure out the biden mats but the biden math before biden told us that if we give it early bird special and we give parents the opportunity to pay six months to pay out the payment plans we'll be fine with doing it on new year's and doing it and in this time where everything went up 40 percent we were really really behind financially one of our parents from kashanakshi offered to step up to the plate with correspond of of ushapanas and some others in lakewood we were able to bring on to our team yes freed and i really appreciate it [Applause] i also don't want to forget that jinji markowitz that saw that sloka that we're having with hashem really brought on to our team also a son jonah to help and it really helped us get here where we are with ahova zadas thank you very much [Applause] i really don't want to forget the team the women's team that work behind the scenes all the time to make sure these events really happen first of all we have two major players that really take all the reservations they all have jobs but they all work i don't know they work more for us than for the job that's what it looks like right now which is dashi binon and rizzi kaufman but i can't forget the women's team pearl stroh mindy markowitz sterny litzman kairuki mayor kayametska rivka driven razel feldman and i'm going to say again that esther walter that worked so nicely to put together all these beautiful packages i have to thank my sister hagiri for always stepping up to the plate when we need her we came here the night before she brought dinner beautiful dinner and breakfast for all of us thank you very much and i'm going to thank you again just because it's in the book dassey benon and rosie kaufman [Applause] it's also a time where i would like to thank again our new team in lakewood that behind the scenes helped us get all the parents here behind my body and again you throw on esther free to help sponsor some couples here behind the scenes being a greenspun that really invited me to come and speak at the civils i really really appreciate it mama it opened my heart and my eyes to what was going on they're saying the women don't hear it is working with the ladies they're working on it a muzzle the speakers didn't have that experience i'm used to it the women don't listen to me if they're not listening we might as well talk a little bit about the program tonight we're changing it up a little bit every year we had a keynote speaker spoke too long and made a scene that took too long we honored many people on stage that took too long so we're trying to change it up trying to help us walk away with some sort of a message from such a shabbaton which was unbelievable shabbaton do you agree [Applause] so we took a couple of our keynote speakers from throughout the shabbaton not all of them were able to make it unfortunately and we asked them to come up and say a couple of empowering words to empower the parents kashin nafshi since we started like i said in 2017 with a small group of hashem that helped me make it happen and with our first shabbaton in the rally which we had 130 couples and then we had 300 couples over here and then covert hit and it didn't look like we're ever going to come back here we did two more events in the rally we had we were very fortunate we have to thank hashem that we were able to do a european trip which started off trying to help the europeans but a lot of the people that i see over here ended up in magebrush how was that trip [Applause] number six who would believe as a matter of fact i should maybe not say it because once you say it you have to do it and once once the cat is out of the bag but i mentioned to ellie friedman let's give a hand to ali friedman for this beautiful job the chavez they had a hula of doing something that's fast with the whole group [Music] and we have to do something and it's a surul because there are many many many more parents in this role that need us to come to this room and he said you know what if you allow me to wow you i'm going to do something and he had a crew here a whole night thursday night after everybody went up to sleep till the morning and he created at the thrill for us here right in the backyard so hopefully with the help of the parents and the help of the tadhikim that helped us till now and with the help of the rebound islam hopefully one day this will be a reality and who does not want a long to go that's his room [Applause] so hopefully this shop this friday this night tonight will be set up where only a couple of select people will be speaking and i would like to first call up the viac of solomon to say a few words to kick off the night rabbi yakov solomon [Applause] you