Rabbi Menachem Bauman הי"ו, Father of Rabbi Reuven Bauman ז"ל

last speaker is Robbie Maddison Bauman when I reached out to morale from last week here about saying a few words he told me wants to think about it overnight and call me back the next day which he did and he explained to me that he's a very private person and spent his entire life under the radar and the circumstance of this tragedy gave him the impetus to feel it's some kind of leaf is for him to come and give different visit when he's asked to give him a big scare for coming all the way from Muncie here tonight we wish him had Slocum basura Stivers macabre blossom ballad to give us the music [Music] Christopher button shows kala kalah cordosa I have been taken straight out of my comfort zone I prefer the back row in the base of my dish and based on Nessus however as we stated just now there's circumstances I was driving down to Norfolk for Shabbos for the shadows after the Shiva I'm striving with my family going from Muncie going down to Norfolk to spend Shabbos with my daughter Lois my grandkids on the way down we listen to his sheer as I hereby grab Moshe to via leaf and whole theme of the Shearer was know how to read the road signs and this is that sheer I pay very close attention to it not only because he mentioned my son grooving in that shear but because I came to appreciate I start to think about yes maybe I do have to step out sometimes of my comfort zone of course I'll be talking about our own personal tragedy but I'm gonna try to share some thoughts that perhaps can apply to everybody we can only use [Music] I mentioned at moving supervisor that we talked about it's a phone we learn about the telephone we teach about the telephone and when things are going okay we think we're doing well with beat Oakland but then it comes time to see Carlton throws something at us and now it's time to really talk we waned yesterday but the rush to be given is the varnish part we need to hear da store like to share two thoughts that came from behind Connie asked Ashley at the time first one is the crane was asked we know that she loosed a mitzvah and he's oaken how could such a person such a thing happen to my son - moving moving went out he was taking care of these children as a Masonic he went out to sate with Charles White which seemingly he did and doing that he's open what happened to him the famous dancer which I repeated at my Shabbos table last week because it hit me that we were in there but Frank's answer was that the zebra came already last Rosh Hashana the date the time was already from last year however Hershberger who and I think this it's Mike application of the goblins of holidays our Chi Hakadosh barukh who made it that he with that at the time he would be taking care of these children at the time he would do a tremendous tremendous kiddush Hashem he bring tremendous afters and all of this would be as the first to his Bashara that a crunch both wanted to give him at that particular time and to add sakuya's to all of Claudius Troy [Music] on the fourth day of the search as he probably know moving was missing for quite a few days he disappeared in the water and was not found for five days later the fourth day after he wasn't iftar after he wasn't iftar message came from the asylum it's led saying good now we know that when the client said something got to try to figure out what what was he telling us fourth day of the search he's been out in the water is he hanging on to something is he around we didn't have very much hope but we knew that Akash folk was taking care a search sound good but what's going to be good what was good was the fact that he was found the fact that he was found he didn't have to be found although Coast Guard said eventually he would be found the fact that he was found was good what was good our fourth brother and before summer's own hat o Muhammad you should Nicola cavora my understanding is that's what the fight meant when he says it's red sign good had to see the good even a ton of tragedy yet her efficient way with there was a tremendous feeling that we were able to bring him to proper Kevin [Music] but our I'm hope therefore surface seller we have to understand what the drug is our must understand where the buffer is it's not so easy sometimes moving along with this theme of having having been found the search and it's having been found it's impossible for me to expend my hikers Autopia everybody every organization every person that was involved in darkening and learning and sank to healing in the search in helping the family and whatever it was that took place in that time was an amazing amazing time of has said throughout quali Israel is the stories that I heard how Norfolk ran out of kosher food because of all the people who came down to help they had to go and import food I but there were so many things and there's so many organizations so many individuals but I'm going to single out three people and not make any of them as I can't there's a man in Norfolk who I'm sorry back up a moment the Navy and the Coast Guard went searching after a day it was no longer he was the search and rescue was recovery the colder the day they did it they did what they could do and if all the cars are towed for everything that they did do time was up and they were never be involved anymore there's a man above us in the shoulder in Norfolk if you were there in the show you'd say this another battle bus like anybody else there okay he got things going again I don't know exactly what he did I heard something about a state senator I've heard the Coast Guard the Navy the largest Navy base in the world and poppy in Norfolk the Navy was looking but as a job as a job ever have to see who actually fled moving it wasn't the Navy it wasn't the Coast Guard people like this man got things moving and all the research researchers they were our people the people are the very people at the shore said you're not gonna find him that's ridiculous and even to the point where the ones who found him our people who found him said that it was an ace that they found the methods in because our people really really cared to go out and it meant everything to them these are heroes this man in Norfolk who got things moving you know what I saw him shot this afternoon i sat down with a couple of moving services because moving wasn't there I said to learn with them and then this man came over he gave a shear that's how I know this man that he did it so much he was so involved and he made things happen he'd never know he wants to stay anonymous I can't tell you who he is I spoke when we were coming back from for the cover I went over to the person who really probably was our person who oversaw the whole search the one from one of our organizations and he was our liaison to know what was going on I went over to him I said I just want to say thank you thank you and he couldn't even look at me just said you're Steven what's up I went over to the man whose private jet had just flown us up from Norfolk for the Kluwer I said I just want to say thank you thank you he looked down he said you see what's over I can't tell you these people are it's the last thing that they would want me to do but who the real heroes these are real heroes what I learned from these people I am here for this special moment of chisel and ello it's not a time for less Fagin but my question is why wasn't moving what could we learn from somebody like Lorraine whose life was taken in such a way relief and she touched my quite a bit of what I want to say already and I thank you he wasn't me I said he was a unifier he was a unifier from the get-go during the shiver and after with people that we heard from who were in issue with the foam Elementary School in New Jersey to Washington Heights to Scranton to a lid to Eretz Australia - Elizabeth - Savannah and to Norfolk there was no barriers whether it was in the young younger years with those who are older or younger than him those who were doing as well as him or not as well and in school there were those who he helped out when somebody came over and said I can't achieve I was kind of lost but he came over to me he became like came over the same way in Savannah and and in Norfolk then they were not looking but he found and he was a unifier all these people he was consistent as the RUF said earlier in this observe in the tavern a he was dependable he had the state of before governing he had he started he a shear a partial Sherrod on Friday nights at Norfolk which they never had before he the children land to him too with him I saw this in Savannah I saw those who I had already graduated maybe now that he even had hand as a Rebbe they were learning and achieving businessman and they came home nun young terrific came to learn with him somehow or other and just in this hardest punim and it is very quiet way people were attracted they were drawn him he was a real unifier some of these people were very unaffiliated with you this night I heard of someone who I heard recently about of someone who this show didn't know that this person had any affiliation with anything just showed up once or twice and found out later on after Rubens patina this person said yes be he had tremendous effect on me he was a real unifier and he was a real McCurry but he did not do it wildly he just did it he got it done may be aware that moving wrote a book he wrote it about a year and a half and finished about a year and a half ago he published it was a kids book why did he write a book for what kind of fame what was the purpose I'm gonna read out of them what his words out of the book it's a kids book it's about it well let me I've always enjoyed reading stories about our kid Doland the story is inspiring me and make me want to be just like them I love the fact that people who are so great in their torah learning we're also so great in their meto so the two must go together however I know that even after reading or listening to stories about these great people it's still hard to learn from their examples and apply them to our own daily lives so I thought it'd be a great I get to write this story about a young boy with typical issues and challenges the story shows you how he learns valuable lessons from acardo manages to apply them to his own life and even improves his own me those and love for learning Torah he becomes a happier boy through the process I have to tell you honestly I've heard from a couple people they tell you about the first time this is before movie was taken from us I have a son who's a Rebbe in Toronto he had a boring this class we went to the help out and he said to the boy what do you do on Shabbos afternoons this is I read what do you read Harry Potter the usual time the fun things that those boys would be reading and my son said ok I have an idea he said my brother wrote a book would you like to read the book we'd give it you over Shabbos so yeah boy I read the book came back on Sunday gave my son the book he said I loved it was so great it's just a beautiful thing about Yahoo Yahoo kamenetsky and how you can be just like Rebbe Yaakov community I wouldn't be like my behalf eternity of course my son is still and couple days later my son gets an email from the boy's mother that we changed the boy so positive the boy just wants to be like Daddy cats are probably talking next was a vehicle coming etske Wow so my son emailed blue vein and told him about it and moving responded it said you know I wasn't sure if it was worth the effort I wasn't sure if I really want to go through with it I wasn't sure it was gonna happen says now I see the really worthwhile we found out after we went super TV was the middle of a new book because he thought was worth it but this book also could raise some eyebrows were mortified kamenetsky shmita came to us during the Shiva and he said I heard about this book about my Zaidan who's writing what are they writing he's gonna write about my Zeta tell me about it I want to know what's going on will I prove ended up and somebody may read his article with which he presented us with that their point ended up that he got the book he loved it so much that he made the part of his he he was curriculum and it's in his home why because he saw that he saw the the MS in the writers mind he saw what it what moving was trying to accomplish it was pure and it was right so this is say Haley success stories I heard other stories also a teacher came to me in my school and said like what the book is right I read it to my children they had to be do over and over again to them why because he connected he connected with people of all types of all ages in all kinds of places that could have been in Brooklyn and Muncie it could have been Elizabeth come in Savannah it could have been didn't matter and the age I assure you did not matter either what to end up with two concerns that I had to come out of all this if I may [Music] because I want to know how to read the road signs it's my own thoughts we know that sometimes some amazing thing happens in the world and we all like gets shaken by it in whatever way and it's real disorder with chuhwa and people really want to do better and people are really really like it's like the whole Jewish world is excited and people say it's got to be machines time this is it I think I remember that that happened or as a kid at that time after the Six Day War and what happens after a while things start to like level off the car - not quite keep it going it's like they're incessantly kubera try to make it take a home run and then afterwards let it go but the idea is at least try to hang on and hang on to whatever we whatever we can even afterwards and that's what concern number one that we don't let this summer not just just mine not just my son Reuben but don't let this summer go by and forgotten no it's something that we have to keep on learning from the other thing with it's a little hesitant to say is that when we talk about after semester oh and we talk about all the different sectors of Israel that got together and we I don't like using like using labels but we talk about all different types I hope he will realize that somebody like moving when way beyond those labels those people the people who he connected with very often where people who I would have trouble I think many of us may have trouble really making the connect with but we certainly have to admire and we have to dive in for those who are making those connections and beating those who are really really further out closer to us if we can accomplish these things that maybe this year can be the final year of the ghoulish Lima thank you [Music] shame Hockley should set elect to be sequestered Almont for the fireworks [Music]