Past, Present and Future | BeEzrat HaShem Inc

As the Torah says, emet me'eretz titsmach. The truth will rise even after you cover it with all of the dust in the world, the emet will rise anyway in the end. And this, rabotai yekarim, brings me to a point of reminding everyone of something that started about 12 years ago. Most people know that some of the most brilliant ideas are surrounded by a bunch of people that are naysayers that say, "Don't do it. You shouldn't do it. You can't do it." Whether it started off with Paroh telling Moshe Rabbeinu that he's out of his mind for thinking that he's going to take all these people out of Egypt, or lehavdil, all of the major technological innovations we've seen throughout history, ones that you know of, ones that you don't know of, all of these major things didn't get notoriety from day one. Quite the opposite. The Be Ezrat Hashem organization that we started 12 years ago is no different. When we first started the Be Ezrat Hashem organization, we started with a shoestring budget. There was $25,000. That was a little bit of money that I had left that I put into it just to help some of the avreichim have the time, ability, and courage to start teaching Torah and put it on online. When someone else promised that they're going to do it and didn't do it, I chose to be the one that actually did it, even though I didn't have much, and also selling my car, the last of my possessions that I had after Hashem took everything else. And this little shoestring budget got us started. Baruch Hashem, my parents helped us as much as they could month to month so we could pay our bills, but in reality, we were living on a miracle each and every single month. We started teaching to law. We started sizing it. We started doing whatever we could to publicize what people needed, even though there were many that told us we're crazy, even though there were many told us that we shouldn't do it, we continued doing it. Over time, we started raising some money so we could publicize more books and CDs and posters, the Asher Yatzar posters you see everywhere today. These were all ideas that one after another everyone told us no. Why are you giving a bunch of money to people you don't know? Why don't you give it to yourself? Why don't you buy yourself a house? Why don't you invest it? Why don't you go back to Wall Street? Why don't you do this? Why don't you do that? This was a constant constant buzzing in my ear for years. But over time, as we continued doing more and more, the impact got bigger. And even though the first several years were very difficult, we were barely able to literally afford basic needs, we still did whatever we could to help as many people as we can. In the last 5 years, most of what's happened in the last 12 years took place in the last 5 years. And last 5 years were a different level of difficulty, but also a different level of impact. In the last 5 years, we've distributed over 10.3 million dollars back to Am Yisrael in books, in CDs, in USBs, in the Ahavat Yisrael posters and other posters, 2.5 million of them. 370,000 books. We fed over 251,000 people either by giving them money to buy food or by giving them food or both. We've publicized Torah in over 15 different languages, over 40,000 videos. And guess what? Along the way, there was plenty of people that said, "No, you shouldn't do it. You couldn't do it." And the naysayers continued coming. But the impact get getting bigger and bigger. Several years ago, we had the idea and the dream of actually establishing a physical location. Our own place where we can have our own Torah lectures, our own kollel, our own place that we could have something for everyone from birth until olam haba. Anyone that wants the word of Hashem, wants the truth uncensored, can come to that place where no one can censor us, no one can silence us, someplace that we could actually call home. We have some good things in Israel, but we needed something in America. The Gemara says in Maseches Shabbos that a lie that stands over a long period of time is only because it had a it has a little bit of truth in it. The sages called this world the world of lies. So, what's keeping this world of lies going? The Be'ezrat Hashem organization chose to be that little bit of truth that will keep this world going. Surely, there's other truth, there's other tzaddikim out there that teach the truth, we're not the only ones there. But unfortunately, the truth is harder and harder to find these days. And the reality is Abu Tayeb, those people >> [snorts] >> that chose to be our partners 12 years ago and over the last 12 years became partners with the truth, became partners with the success of the truth as Hashem raises it above the dirt and the lies of this world. And many of them got endless miracles. Whether it was cures for cancer and other diseases, finding marriage when they haven't found before, uh having kids after being barren for a decade or longer, financial success beyond their understanding and dreams, all types of extraordinary miracles have happened to many of them. And they continue to. Especially those people that have made major sacrifices, just like we did. And those people didn't only get those miracles, but they also got to be partners in the countless people that have done teshuvah through our lectures, through our books, through our teachings. To be partners in all of the people that have converted to Judaism and are building holy Jewish homes. To be partners in all the marriages that became the fruits of our labor, became partners of all of the Torah that has been publicized, became partners in feeding all of the tzaddikim and tzaddikot. As a result of it, they became partners in all of it. In fact, we have three books that are on the way here on ships. And these three books of Abu Tair Karim are not only special. We have the Sifrei Yehudi. This will be in English as well as in Hebrew. 21 Sifrei Tzaddikim that tell you what does it mean to be a Jew. The color pictures, beautiful quality. 60,000 of these are on the way. And then we have a commentary of Maseches Keilim. Unlike any other sefer that's ever been written about the subject, showing you every kli that the Mishna mentions in order for you to understand the Maseches unlike any other time. Rav Chaim Kahlon that wrote this sefer and worked on it for many years says we made it easy enough for even children to understand. These books, anyone that will open them and learn them will first have to go through the names of some of our partners that have sponsored, that have partnered with us. And this is what we do each year. People are involved in these projects sometimes without even realizing it. And what they also don't realize is that these books, they're not just sitting on some shelf. They're being distributed distributed in the thousands and tens of thousands. So, imagine those people that have been partners with us over these last 12 years, making a major sacrifice every single year. How many people have done chuva because of them? How many people have converted because of them? How many people have learned from Seforim because of them? 370,000 Seforim and there's 70 75,000 on the way right now, on ships right now. Meaning that we're expecting to be over a half a million between these and a few others by this time next year. How many people are going to learn Torah from it? How many people are meriting from it? All of those people that partners it. All of the people that helped us feed Am Yisrael both spiritually and physically. And what changes now? Now that we have our new headquarters that will have a soft opening during the High Holidays and a grand opening a couple of months later. We'll have a physical place. A physical place not only to pray, not only to teach Torah, but also have all of the strength that we've gathered from around the world also centralized in one place in order to make our impact in the world a thousandfold bigger. So, whatever merits, whatever miracles, whatever good people have benefited from and have been partners to over the last 12 years, b'ezrat Hashem, we're expecting to magnify that no less than a thousandfold over the next 12 years, b'ezrat Hashem. So, what I ask you to do is not just what we ask you to do each year when you help us feed the poor, when you help us publicize more Torah during these High Holidays for the High Holiday campaign, but I ask each and every single one of you to think of what you would have done to be partners in all of those amazing things that I just told you about over the last 12 years. If you could just buy it now. Well, even though you can't buy the last 12 years after it already happened, you can be partners to the next 12 years. And that's what I ask each and every one of you that cares about the Torah, that cares about the name of Hashem being publicized, that cares about the little bit of truth that's still keeping this world going. Be as big a partner to it as you possibly can. We have our campaign bhyk.org is the website. I ask each and every one of you to not only join and partner us partner with us on it, but also get anyone and everyone that you know to be partners with it again. Because as Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai says, "Gadol hamaseh min haoseh." Greater is the one that enables others to do a mitzvah than even the one that did a mitzvah. And the Hakhamim ask, "Which mitzvah is this?" Rabbi Shimon says specifically one that helps other people give tzedakah. Meaning, you give tzedakah, you give 1,000, 10,000, 50,000, 100,000, whatever you give is great. You'll get a lot of reward for it. But guess what? If you get your friend, your cousin, your neighbor, your boss, your colleague to give that money also, you'll even get a bigger merit for what you've encouraged them to make to give. Get as many people to be partners with it because these types of opportunities, Rabbotai, is not an everyday thing. And the proof is the [snorts] last 12 years. It's simply what we've done that's been public information. The videos, the miracles, the shiurim, everything has been public. It's all available on our channels, available on our website, available on our apps, available everywhere. We have tried to be as transparent as humanly possible about everything we've done. Financially, spiritually, everything has been an open book. I want each and every one of you to do as much thinking and analysis as you possibly can not only for yourself and what you should be partners with, but also to get all of the people that you know to be partners with it as well. We have our high holiday campaign, which is the biggest campaign we have of the year each year is right now. It's happening. Rosh Hashanah is judgement day for everyone. Anyone that wants a favorable judgement needs to do things to give the judge of all judges, the king of all kings a reason to judge you favorably. There is no better reason than telling Hashem, "I want to publicize your Torah. I want to save your children from intermarriage. I want to save your children from idolatry. I want to save your children from heresy. I want to save them." And Be'ezrat Hashem is the one organization that has dedicated everything and anything in order to make that happen. And the proof is simply in the results. Thank you very much for learning with me. Thank you in advance for anyone that is going to choose to be a partner with us in this campaign and to be partners with us in this extraordinary new center that we're opening. And of course, anyone that wants to join us during the holidays, especially men, Jewish men, we need as many as we can not because we don't appreciate the ladies as much, but because the new community, we need as many people as possible so we can have at least a minyan or two in every prayer. So, uh if you can, please come. It's the address is 4806 North University Drive. It's in Lauderhill, Florida 33351. And bez od Hashem, a lot of remodeling and construction, a lot of different things are happening literally till last minute just to get the place ready for everyone. So, bez od Hashem will be open and we'll be celebrating the holidays and uh bez od Hashem, this will only grow from here, but we're so excited about finally having this place that we're pushing the envelope to make it happen where we're already starting even prematurely to at least be able to pray there this holiday. Of course, we'll have a lot more to offer down the road as things are more prepared, but needless to say, we'll have more than what we need to at least pray to Hashem and thank him for the amazing thing that he's given us. Thank you very much for being partners in the past and thank you for those that choose to be partners in the future. Kol tuv, b'hatzlacha raba.