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Yom Kippur Message: It's More Than Just Money

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven avatar
Rabbi Yaron Reuven

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Hashem, we're very happy to report that we've prayed for all these special during the holidays, myself and Rabbi Fry. And during the the I was thinking about all of these precious that made the nephesh to not only donate but to put it all behind and to invest and to become one of the special prayer donors that put a lot to get that special prayer to get that miracle. in Bashem many of them are simply returning. But one of the uh things that I've realized is that some people are not necessarily motivated by just money. They want health. They want life. They want more than just money. And right before the we got sever several uh uh miracle stories, one that we publicized and a uh couple of them that we haven't yet and you'll see them on the screen. One woman said she donated $3,000 and literally the next day she got a cure for a vexing uh medical condition she had. Now, if that's not good enough, I don't know what is. But aside from that, we had a woman that uh has been donating to the organization for many years. I would say probably since the 10 years ago already. And uh one of the years she did the special prayers donation with us. And after she saw all these miracles publicized, you know, in the last, you know, uh, several, uh, weeks, she asked herself, should I do it again this year? What did I get during that year? And then she realized that that's the year that her dear husband had a uh, a gun accident where a flawed firearm shot and and hit him. And uh, yeah, I mean, he he almost died, but literally the the doctors themselves, it was one in a trillion chance that he survived. then he's okay. And that's the year that she had that miracle, that he had that miracle. And of course, she realizes, of course, we're going to come back this year. We want more miracles. Hopefully, not for the same thing, for other things. But the point is is that the there's much more that people get than some people realize. It's not necessarily always getting what you think you're going to get. Sometimes the miracle that Hashem gives you is much bigger than the miracle that you want. You may want a house, but he'll end up giving you your life. another one that uh has been a partner with us year after year and hashem continues to return writes right before the uh uh the holiday started he sent this to me blessings from last year he gave me like a report what happened last year he said last year's campaign I asked for special protection with my father's eye disease this meaning is not even for himself he's asking for hashem to give a miracle for his father because he had a horrible horrible situation with his eyes and he writes after many months of doctors and procedures and medications Hashem was able to send my father a great doctor that performed a very minor surgery that ended up solving the issue that he was having. In so many words, Akadosh Bahu gave the doctor the tool theata to solve a problem that was unfixable elsewhere. Now, these miracles may seem like the biggest deal in the world to some people. It may seem like, oh no, maybe it's a happen stance. But once you start seeing one after another, one after another, people are having miracles when they're donating to Bashem and they're not getting the same miracles when they donate elsewhere, whether it's the synagogue or to other, they're not. And it's not because other people are bad. It's just simply as I tell people, it all depends of what the organization does with the money. Atem, you already know it's already public. We've given back nearly $12 million back to AMI is whether it's food, financial assistance, free books, free USBs, uh, you know, endless free. Everything is free. Why? Because our number one, two, and three goal is to publicize a kadosh's name to get to dov to help people get closer to Hashem, to help people convert, to do everything we possibly can to glorify Hashem. And because of that is not only with us, he's with our partners. So if you miss the opportunity of donating and doing your best, doing the most, utilizing the number one gift that Hashem gave you, if it's if it's, you know, a financial blessing and utilizing that to simply give yourself an advantage over any other year you've had before. This is the opportunity you have. The yonipur campaign continues. Well, we already started. We're still helping people. We're still planning on doing a whole lot more this year than ever before. And after the last couple of days, I realized that there's a whole lot more that we can do because there's a lot of people that know us, but there's a lot of people that don't know us. And you can be a partner with all of that. And I can be simply certain at this point that anybody that chooses to push themselves to the limit to be a neph to help our organization publicize a kadosh's name, there's no doubt in my mind that a kadosh will not forget you at that moment of truth. Whether it's because it's you need extra financial success that's beyond nature or you need literally lifesaving situations that au simply needs to make an open miracle for you. whatever it is going to be with you. Why? When you prioritize whose name's glory over everything else, then will prioritize you. So, you have a relatively short period of time to make that decision. It's all up to you. You're never going to get a call from me that's going to convince you because I think that all of these people and all of the miracles that they come with is enough proof for anybody that's looking for the truth. Thank you very much for all the support and I'm looking forward to praying for many more of you and even more so looking forward to hearing even more miracle stories from each and every single one of you during this next year as we glorify name not only through all of the shim and all of the books and all the things but also through this through this through the stories that you guys send me where you saw an actual miracle happen as a result of your support to beem. So I'm looking forward to those stories and look forward to hearing these stories. Call to