Rav Shloimi Steinmetz founder of Ani Maamin Initiative speaking at Mishmar at Scheiner's Shul

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never locked it and he said I need the bike to go Al I'm not going to and he believe not like and he was always there unfortunately after he was left his brother took over his bike he didn't have the same am minute looks like cuz that bike was stolen a week later with the lock but he was always there to help people to help his friends every time I spoke to him was the height of Corona when he went to and he was busy organizing his friends deal and every time he say something I can't talk I'm busy with the bad you have a de no I have another my friends are coming but that's the kind of boy he was he was took care of his friends and and that's why part of what we're doing we're trying to to give to the world and his because he was there for his friends and now we want to be there this I to put put me put me in this position I didn't choose it so we're trying to be the PSA you know raising the flag and is not it's not me it's been around for almost a thousand years we're just trying to bring bring the an awareness at the same time you have to have a minut people because he believes in the Eden to do the right thing for [Music] that we are living in very Hard Times unfortunately we don't have to tell the what we've gone through in the past year since October 7 we always knew that we hated all over the world and the going don't like us yet this whoever we thought we're comfortable no matter where we are whether we're in America end of the day Mia part of the campaign or initiative rather that we started and doing and started printing a thousand then 5,000 I'm not going to go for all these I said already before I want to bring is because was hungry for it people wanted people were ask for the cards so when we printed 10,000 20,000 30,000 put already over 300,000 cards it's not because we're putting the Cs same people in the sh people actually want cards and we get requests daily from all over the world just today I got two requests one for Milwaukee and another one in London England and we're happy to send them all out to whoever wants as many as they like it gives us and we get and the response that we're getting the message from the they getting also so it's a win-win for everybody gives you a certain but also a comfort the people are telling me they take on I'm not telling people what to do we're putting it out there and should decide for however comfortable they are me personally been saying Al for many years but the people are saying it take me down a certain comfort give you a couple of ideas of the messages young and old no matter who you are whether theage no matter where you're holding in yish I was just now traveling over the past few weeks some people which heard about the story then somebody told them and they said it's people which which don't even they all connect to it everybody again this is something which us as Eden we believe in it we have it in us so to bring the we just try to bring the closer and more and awareness to to live just because I'm saying the here in the sheld I remember maybe two years ago I was here after Ding A came over to me I yes no idea who he was I just want you to know I just went through some very hardships and those were the words he said so we don't know who we touch and how we touch and from to a message that we got people send us pictures of a lady that's 0 his great grandmother that's going into surgery she want to have an an with her H Survivor the late M another story that this person actually just sent me this message last week the the girl that went to for to go learn she was struggling a little bit with her uh growth she went to thing and she was in when it happened and she was very shaken up and she heard about the AL initiative she took it upon herself she used to go to visit few times and she was very and she grew and was M they got married actually I didn't hear from her she used to send me messages of here and there saying we're happy to hear sent me a message recently that after a month after she got married she she lost her father 6 months after that she lost her sibling and it was Mish it was very very hard she said by the they went and they went to the to the K went the cemetery and they went they sang on together with was close family and gave her a lot of again this is random people I've actually never met this person but the messages that we get and we hear gives gets and the reason I'm saying it is to see what the people that are are saying it I'm sure everybody is but the that everybody gets like I said just the PSA on trying the story of A Min we can have so was just the UT was a few weeks ago and we just heard somebody told us the story M by the UT people know he's the in China he came he was in he was in Montreal about a month ago and he himself said he just heard the story by Crown and was a Russian was a Russian man ground Heights was dancing this elderly man standing on the side not dancing the Father [Music] the how can't down I'm sorry I just had a this three days ago this is this is a man which was around 80 years old or mid 70s it wasn't easy to have a b very nice what let me tell you he said let me tell you the reason why I didn't know my son got engaged while ago and he said you would like me to read one night said I need you to have a b you don't have a can't have a and it was very hard for him and he you know he didn't think he could do it finally 3 days before the h he decided having he and it was he was happy that he did it and his son was happy with M the biggest was so blown away by this heat that lives in Russia no he's not living in the H Community he went through something at this a this age and he said he had a dollar from the St and he gave it to the seed the seed suddenly broke down crying uncontrollable didn't know what he did he he gave him a dollar he gave a dollar from the he wanted anyway you come down and explain to me you don't understand around 40 years ago I went to and was about to give me a dollar ask me I had the bris no after you get the bris you're going to get a dollar 10 years after that the re was and this said I'm never going to get my dollar for the re and now you're coming to me 40 years later and I got the dollar from the the had this is just you know a minut so when a pusher to eat is doing something special why did he have up this because yes but he knew that we don't understand what connected where minut another story that I just is a fresh story I don't want to go I I can talk for the next two days if I have to get stories for the past two years I'm going to just try to bring it to the past few weeks cuz we meet so many people I was uh I was in I spent a week in Spain the south of Spain about two weeks ago and his wife they they working doing they bring for it's unbelievable food mid and you go there it's he's so busy shabas we ate 100 people Friday night and he told me this a small shabas usually we have over 200 people the middle of L I mean you know we're not coming to America that you have a restaurant in every corner and you know I am and um his wife is originally from Montreal and soas tell me the story together with his wife during Co she got very very sick young she was actually expecting what number TR they got probably a whole bunch after that this baby today is 2 years old so unfortunately she got very sick and they tried bringing doctors from Israel and they B doctors from France because of south of Spain and France there's a lot of French people that go there and they said that um they were debating what to do should they bring the mother to to they wanted to bring it to Israel for treatment because maybe that they can save the baby at the end of the day all the doctors decided you can't move she's too critical she has to stay and called from the rabbi of course he want to help I want to arrange the transport the medical transport whatever it cost I want the best treatment I you I see what you're do for the community I want to help you tells him thank you appreciate it but unfortunately money is not going to help us at this point the doctors are very nervous and only only thing that can help us at this point is she was in a coma and the doctors were very very worried all you can do is that so the seed said I'm going to go to jalta there's an ancient there on the Rock and I'm going to D every day for your wife and this seed went every single day he went to the he went to the ceter done after he finished he sent a text to his rabbi RAB for your wife should for he went there for 30 days and after 30 days she opened the eyes and she got better after she was recuperating her husband asking you a coma M she were hovering those days that they thought you're not going to make it what did you see you see know wasar I don't want to say you're going to make fun of me was funny what I saw I saw something but it was a little funny no no tell me she says every time I felt I was slipping and I was about to just give up cuz I didn't have no more I saw this person let me you can't go we need you the needs you you your kids need you we all need you every time I felt I was like I got to give up this guy's knocking at the door don't go andal says do you know this man for 30 days he was ding for you every single day so when has a no matter who you this a push to eat in Jala the RAB told him all you can do is he went to the old Cemetery there I visited myself it's definitely old and she came out of the coma [Music] as we know the m is not good either what's going on with the war and G and everything back in March I decided to go give a little bit to the soldiers keep was learning to then came along and we went to some bases went should just telling them my story bringing them on the mountain cards and they they were happy just for coming there and giving them the yes people are making barbecues I think go make the barbecue I ate from the [Music] barbecue but they appreciate the F went for one base another as we're going to a second base there's a guy there he s the car he saw I was busy outside talking to the soldier he picked outside the tank base people that know you got to be a tank uh command in the tanks I won't qualify would probably fit maybe just about it's all skinny guys they got to be in out very fast and this guy stop me said oh I know who you are I'm saying and he has this tank man I'm talking like we both stop by the base and he's looking at in the middle in the middle of G I mean this is you have a m from Brooklyn I'm from monreal Canada yes we got to go meet the guys we've never met before that's what is this tell the story wow he can't believe that that that in the here guy is saying it because you lost the son 3 years ago and this guy's is coming and you're meeting and and he knows what you do you're giving out he couldn't get he gave him C to give him again this is this this is this These Are Soldiers which are not from they haven't heard I mean they know everybody heard of an from nothing to do if you look or Not by all of us so it's just a matter of bringing it out on the way when I drove down to Gaza I stopped to be the family there was that that unfortunately was a that ofas family was 22 23 years old after their may remember they saw was soldier that was shot decided to go father father has a whole that was his older son he I think has five or six boys also like me and he told me an interesting we didn't have to talk too much and you know when you get to you just by being through the same thing you they appreciate it obviously the fact that I'm coming from can but that's not he he wanted to bring out to me that had a few years ago not didn't happen now when when you lose when somebody when somebody loses a child we're waiting for more than before that's just unfortunately how it does he says you know what's called Happiness of Mia we talking come say I'm going to explain to you the he said he had this he the nicest music he go and every corner has another Tish and and it's happening he says a thousand times nicer the music was like beautiful nicest band the best thing and he was he felt like he's flying high and he wanted to explain to me the feeling he had and then he woke up but he said everybody's talking the street M has come is coming so the excitement and the happiness he was trying to explain whoever gets married but a lot of people to set them up they got to get a deer it's a people it's very very hard most marrying up a child over there his tremendous heart he said he he felt like he married off all his kids and no that's why I tried to give you the feeling how he felt that's how happy he felt married off everybody everybody has this is this is on Sunday and he lost the end of the day in order to reach everybody and to spread the message it's one KN to the next one person to the next yes I'm holding up the flag and trying to get everybody to say it and like I said we've given out over 300,000 cards we printed on book in English which is sold 12 15,000 copies I'm not in the book business but seems to be much we just came out with a Hebrew Edition started to go out in when started going out last week and people are hungry for people want people want it we're doing it all in but not just to do do it those for yourself doesn't take long 90 seconds you say it anytime you want before after I'm not telling people who to say when to say you can say dur the day whenever it is but you going to get and I think by people helping to spread the message each one of you would that say take say send out a message to 20 people you know that you spread the message further and it just gives to yourself that another person is believing and then we're going to have the whole world saying on I'm sure that this was definitely the last love