Rabbi Michael Haber, AH, Tribute Video

[Music] [Applause] [Music] my father was born in 1946 to a basically irreligious family when he was 7 years old his mother was in the movie theater and she had aneurism and she passed away suddenly now my father's growing up as an orphan without a mother he became religious as a kid IM magn David Yeshiva then as he became became older teenager in the early 20s he started to learn with a small group it was one of the first such groups in the entire community and there were a few people many of them rabbis today that were part of that group he married my mother and he and my mother went to Israel and then my father felt it was time to moved to Brooklyn together with the support of the community he built this gorgeous [Music] Sho my father had an intense love and admiration for this community and not just his own kahal the entire Community my father had a great deal of understanding of the people he knew when they need a compliment when they need a nice word when they need an extra minute after the shabbat shalom when they need a speech that will lift them up and provide and each person came up to approach him he gave them all the time asked about what's going on in their life he was very good at being a rabbi he knew how to talk to people he knew how to build the keyot when it came to answer people's questions he was always available for them my father-in-law loved the people and he believed in the people everyone felt that he valued who they are where they are right now and he valued where they could be and in their future potential I love the kahal we've gone through thick and thin together I feel like the kah family to me but when we first moved to Brooklyn my father insisted on giving the sh a name that would have the word t in it CU he felt strongly that nobody should ever go to Sho and walk out without having learned something awesome my father said specifically I'm not here to open up a synagogue he said I'm here to open up a place of Torah it's well known the statement of that the job is not for you to finish that very often each of us does our share and together with others the job gets done despite his an he always understood that Hashem wanted him to be be very productive in this world when rabbi habber did something for the community he did it 1 million per for the community you can tell that it was never for himself you see the books that he wrote they're always coming to fill a need all the while the vast majority of his day was spent learning T he's learning Morning Noon late at night and writing saim when you watched my fall Al learn it was like watching a Malak in action all we can do is grow with the help of Hashem we have to keep at this you know as I got older and understood somewhat of what it means to be a father and to be a rabbi at the same time I realized how difficult of a Juggle he was able to be fully committed to the community yet it never felt like the community ever got in our way my father managed to go from being of course a great person but also I would say a very cute down to earth father when you grow up watching my parents what you see are people that have the epitome of Shalom B I think what makes my parents so special was the way they work together if there would be an issue of a Community member my father would have the angle and the advice and my mother would be able to work on the emotional aspect combined they were able to fully address a [Music] familys like it conve mil words and how you see the whole life and the whole scope of my father's life it's incredible what he accomplished leading a kahal riding guarding the masses answering thousands of shot all of that emanated from an unassuming yet remarkably productive and influential person to say my father was an anomaly would be an understatement somewhere in a list of endless Deeds always room to meet you just one more need yet more than what you do it's who you are [Music]