JNet Appreciation Dinner 2019

good evening everyone [Music] it's great to see so many familiar faces here tonight if i have not had the opportunity yet to greet you personally shalom aleichem my name is yoho the dukes and on behalf of jnet i would like to welcome you to our sixth annual evening of of appreciation top shin iron tests [Applause] for those of you who have been here before welcome back if this is your first time i hope that you will be inspired by the experience here tonight i would also like to welcome our volunteers who hopefully we got the live stream up and working by now um who are joining us via jnet.org dinner which uh we are hopefully not still experiencing technical difficulties getting live um this year's theme is kiheim kayenu that the toyota is our life it has a double meaning torah is both our life and also shows us in every aspect of we of what we do how to live and so let's hear in the words of our ebba a little bit about what it it means that the torah is our life [Music] to sum up the clip of the rabbit the the torah is when we call something our life it has to be something which is alive life doesn't cease even for a moment if there are breaks it's not true life and so the rabbit tells us that when it comes to torah terror is different than any other philosophy or or other religions which have a philosophy where there are breaks in what it teaches you whereas torah every single aspect of our lives from the moment we get up in the morning until the moment that we that we go to sleep at night whether it's in our thoughts in our speech or in our action every element of our lives is dictated by the torah and in that way the torah is our life it doesn't stop there isn't a moment no matter when that we are separate from the torah and so it's so important for us to recognize that when we get on the phone with our karusa we are not just teaching them a concept even teaching them something that they're supposed to do but we're connecting them to something which is alive to something which is life to something which is going to guide them and feed their spiritual lives like the fish in the in in the water every moment so thank you to all you volunteers who as hasidim are connecting people to their source of life and bringing torah to all corners of the globe in the spirit of appreciation this is a evening of appreciation we owe greta karzatov to mr george rohr and the roar family foundation [Applause] and to rabbi katlarsky who [Applause] for the grant and the foresight to establish jnet some 14 years ago and for ensuring that it continues to grow regretfully robert kotlarski was supposed to be here tonight to thank and share his share some thoughts with you in person but as his amazingly dedicated job demands he can be called away at moments notice to attend to some of the some very important and hopefully happy occasions as well and tonight he was uh called away um at the last minute and so he thankfully has shared a video message with us and here that's hashem this one will work having the siber just days away from twenty five years from guimotamas which clearly shows that zarya bachayam is for the rebel smith cetera which is most undoubtedly the most important of the rebbe smithsonian it is very very important that we focus for a moment on what the rebel wants from us trevor really wants from us that we should reach each and every jew is to bring it into the river you what you are doing is bringing people closer to the abrasion because there's no better way you know more important way than through limitator so it isn't that i give you a yashica in the name of for the time and the effort and the energy that you expend in this because it's not necessary and that yash doesn't suffice because you're not doing it because somebody's asking you to do it to do it you're doing it because humankind shot him to the rabbit and alzheimer's showed him this is what a mikusha does i'm a crusher does what the rubber wants and the never said what house is cautious his cautious is through learning my trainer so even if you learn something with someone that participle that during that period of time you're also in the mouth of earth and this is the emesis zarya bachayam in the officer we're on a campaign now recovered the 25 years of to make balabatim bring other people to do a mitzvah so it would be right that you get your havrusa to get another individual either to come to a share or to put on film or to do something light candles to do something this in this week's we read about the menorah and it says everything what does rashi say he didn't change is that really ashwagandha he heard something from the abrasion and he did it the same way he did it so those that say that the same way that he did it the first day by the chanukah that was the same with the way he did it the day of his systalkas goes by so many years and you could think 38 39 years and you could think that there comes a moment that he has his own day and he can do what he wants it's not a schwa in definitely didn't change so i once saw from the embassy says with the same highest with the same maybe gavin kite with the same bittle that he did it the first day that is the same way he did it the last day so if i could express a bracha each and every one of us myself included that in everything that we do from the it should be shallow the same way we did it when we was here today in these layers we're going to have godless because the rabbit promised us that this is the last third of godless and the first dirt of giulia we should do it with the same maybe given kite with the same energy with the same warmth so i want to even though it's not necessary to thank each and every one of you i want to thank the staff of janet especially rabbi yudy dukes for his time and effort and wish him also that he should do it with the same energy that he did it the day he started and david she should give us that we should talk it before gimmel thomas we should be reunited with the rabbi and then you'll be able to walk over to the river as i'm sure that you do even today that when you go to the yale you give the rabbit absurditava of the person that you're learning with this cognizant the learning and how you find what you could do better but we should all give the wrap up sort of say this but the rebel will come back as a session before gimel thomas you'll be able to walk over to him directly and he'll give out dollars and says and when you walk over to the dollars you'll be able to give the rabba dog here which is also myth services and scrolling all the other myths and if sodium that there are say rubber here i did what you want and i kept as a fubar because i was sorry i am sorry i'm not able to be there because i have an out of town wedding tonight of a bala bus that i must be at but my heart and mind is with you that's [Applause] i would like to thank rabbi katlarsky for everything he does for giving me the privilege of being able to do this and always encouraging us to do more and more like rabbi kotlarski mentioned we will be having a special at fiat campaign for gimotamos to try and inspire our kavrusas to get others to also do a mitzvah we'll be sending out information about that in the near future we are also starting on working uh with a new division in eritsel and hope to have it started in honor of gimel thomas this year [Applause] [Music] [Applause] and through the the the constant inspiration from rabbi kotlarsky barak hashem mitsut limadattara has been growing did you know that you are now part of a network of more than 11 000 members from over 80 countries learning in eight different languages and that there are more than a hundred people being set up each month [Applause] this doesn't all happen on its own so i want to take a moment to thank our dedicated staff for all their effort i would like to have a special thank you to our administrators mrs adel zirkind and bossie kessler [Applause] our coordinators yossi cohen levy myers ilanikamishbrieldahan and daniela gabriel [Applause] and muchas gracias to rabino hi koan our extremely dedicated director of the spanish division and online classes you guys have taken your jobs as a schlichtas and go above and beyond to help make learning happen all over the world i also want to take a moment to appreciate all of you who help us out financially and especially our monthly donors without you we cannot do the amazing work that janet does [Applause] but finally the main reason that janet is possible to exist is because of the dedication of all of you volunteers here in this room just last year you collectively learned more than 50 000 hours of torah affecting lives all over the world in your journal you'll be able to see some of that effect with the featured in the featured cabooses section and with all the ads dedicated by your caruses in your honor yoshika [Applause] in a more sober note i want to take a moment to ask you all to davin for a very dedicated janet volunteer rabbi avraham keller a father of eight kanai nahara who recently suffered a serious stroke rabbi keller would always let me know every time that he would finish a payric of gemara with his kavrusa and we asked hashem that this hosts of his learning with his khabroos ali azer from annapolis maryland for the past 12 years should bring avraham and sharing sarah a complete and quick refusal and now i want to make a say a special thank you to our a division in australia um we know that the khatikad ratatan the the the lower half of the world is one of the furthest places and that part of your future of the hasidis and torah reaching the furthest points of the world is part of what we need to do in order to bring mashiach and they are doing it down under rabbi yossi rajal rabbi dhovi wolf and mrs rahul herzberg yashica [Applause] and now for a little message and feedback from someone from one of their chavrusas in australia shalom janet my name is rail quadrant i divide my time working as a rural generalist that's as a type of doctor in the alice springs hospital i've lived away from jewish communities for more than 15 years in 2016 i learned of the existence of an organization called chabad of rural and remote australia and it was the first time in the in a long time that i felt connected to something bigger larger than myself and when my grandmother member passed away and i was too remote in this town tennant creek to return for a funeral i arranged to learn on the phone in her marriage for that hour with the rabbi rabbi yossi rodol of chabad rara and it was then that he introduced me to janet so things moved quickly from my interview and to meet in my router rafi goodman who's the most wonderful learned insightful family man who found the time in his busy week with his work as an electrical engineer and looking after his family with four kids to learn with me and we've learned regularly for more than a year already we learned humash with rashi and recently we completed the meguillatus there with commentary something both of us had never done i look forward to makherta every week because it's time set aside for jewish learning which is something that every individual should do and janet has given me this wonderful opportunity to fulfill this mitzvah in this most remote location with someone who's not only my age but funny and friendly well learned and inspirational i can honestly say that the combination of janet learning and connection to khabar of rara has inspired my jewish practice i think my home is the only strictly kosher home in literally thousands of kilometers i drove a hundred kilometers to towel my cutlery and crockery in a creek and this year with khabad rara i hosted at my home a purim and we we read magilla and fulfilled them it's what and also at my home two large seders hi my name is rafi goodman i live in melbourne australia i'm 39 years old and i've been involved with jaden now for just over a year a friend of mine who has janet suggest that i get involved as there's quite a few people here in australia looking for learning partners of chavrus and i decided i'd give it a go and uh i've been very happy i've done so i've got a fantastic hovrosa the fellow's name is rael kodron i'm loving being involved with jnet it's just fantastic and i really suggest anyone who can who has the time or to make the time to learn with someone there are people out there who don't have access to terror their remote locational debt starting from scratch please get involved it's really good and i'm really enjoying it and i'm glad i'm not involved so continuing to jaina and all the people that are involved we also had a lagba omer party and rafi was the guest speaker because it was a ruta night and so he called in and became our guest speaker for the crowd and actually the host of lagba omer is a young jewish guy who i recently connected with and subsequently he's bought a set of filling and i taught him how to put it on and so he puts on his filling daily and he's recently applied to start learning with janet uh with the jaina kevita too and janet has been a real catalyst for this jewish explosion in in the remote australian outback being that i work in the professional world you don't always get so many shloka's opportunities jane had really afforded me this opportunity to get involved with the rubbish rosemary on a weekly basis really from the comfort of my own home i want to give a massive yasha and thank you to janet the workers the volunteers and the donors who make this amazing organization and project possible and i hope that you really understand that you're contributing to real meaningful changes in people's lives so it's really amazing when people can have that effect and uh it also seems that uh you know the uh the goodmans come from good stock um and it's now my honor to introduce rafi's brother who is a shliyak in about of the beaches rabbi ellie goodman who has experienced the effect of a jaina volunteer in his community rabbi ellie goodman good evening good evening everybody can you hear me good evening good evening that was my brother down under in australia it's good to see he's doing good things i have to come all the way to the jn event to see what my brother's up to back home in australia i've got a good report to give to my mother now my jews the good ones are taking over jaina you gotta watch out i'd like to share a thought that i share with my community over the shivers is about receiving the torah with joy janet is about teaching and learning torah with joy so i want to share this thoughts it's brought down in gemara in menopause a very profound talmudic tale i'll say it in english it says ravi hood i said in the name of raj that when maisha raveno ascended on high after receiving the torah on harassing he found hakadish bharava he found the holy one blessed be he tying crowns on the letters of the torah now there are seven led seven letters in the terror that have crowns those three those little lines that look like crowns on top a number of the letters and moisture banana said to hashem master of the universe revolution who is preventing you from giving the terror without these crowds without these ambitions what is lacking in the words the holy words of a torah that we need to have these crowns on top of the letters and hashem said to mr riveno there is a man who is destined to be born many many generations later his name is akiva vinyasa and he is destined to derive from every thorn meaning from every crown not just the crown but each line of the ground he's destined to come up with mounds and mounds of different halakhas and different types of teaching from every single one of those crowns so moisture man was so impressed that it'll be a future rabbi not only will he learn from the letters but from the crowns and the letters he's going to come up with mounds of innovation and different i would like to see this man so in a classic back to the future misha finds himself sixteen hundred years in the future and he's sitting in the eighth row in rabia tibet and rabia kimba is teaching torah to the students and lo and behold as this is a famous tale and the gemara moishe is listening closely in the eighth row and he doesn't understand the word and he's dejected it says his strength waned and his energy departed from him he was demoralized he couldn't understand what ravi yakiba was teaching this is moshe rabena but when rabia kimba came to a noble interpretation one of his students asked him rabbi akiva how do you know all of a sudden moisture revenue hears that and his mind is put at his now this story seems to be an absurd story what does it mean moshe rabino couldn't understand rabbi akiba's lecture maisha benner received a terror he had the best russia shiva the best teacher he had hashem himself what does it mean he didn't understand ravi akiba's lecture furthermore as we know say that every student in the future is something new it says that this was something revealed to maisha and harassing so what was even more strange is when moishe didn't understand what was going on why was moisha so upset what he had an ego that he had to hear i don't know i don't understand what's going on and now i hear my name now i'm happy can you imagine an average person doesn't understand and the lecturer says at the very end you know where i got this from from this particular person's book and that's you sitting in the room over there even though you don't understand any of the lecture but your name is mentioned so aha i'm famous that's good enough for me but we know that moshe abano was an autumn he was the most humble person on earth why would he care if his name was mentioned what's going on over here so the lava forever the river impassioned a beautiful explanation it says what bothered moshe rabeno was not rabia kiva's brilliance nor did mushroom have a hard time understanding the lecture he grasped all the ideas what caused moisture to have the most pain listening in the eighth row in that particular lecture was something that moisha excelled in once you realize that we just started now again perfectly obvious the first chapter and we read over there in praying obviously it says moshe received the torah from sinai and then he gave it over to yeshua and yeshua to the canines came into the navy and the question is obviously asked why did moishe receive a terror from sinnah he didn't receive it from sinai he received it from hashem we mentioned all the leaders that it was passed down to why is the same way she received from sinai is teaching us that where did moishe learn the number one ingredient to becoming a student and to learn terra properly is from sinai sinai was the smallest mountain sinai represented humility and moisture realized the number one ingredient to learn whether it's on j net or whether it's any other way where a person learns torah you have to have humility he knew that was the number one thing obviously it's important to be smart it's important to be wise and all these other character traits but the number one character traits in order to learn terror and to receive is that you have to have humility sharpness iq creativity they're all important but they're secondary so when moisha rabino was sitting in ravi kiva's class he heard a brilliant lecture he heard rabia kiva the brilliant teacher the charismatic erader the extraordinary scholar the maestro of torah of that generation the spiritual giant and he was listening and listening and he said the man is brilliant but where is the humility is does he also have a rabbi does he teach with humility or it's all coming from him so then when one of the students asked rabbi akiba where did you get this novel interpretation he said it's sinner so then moshe says ah i can see rabbi akiba zaha he also has a river he also has humility because he's willing to say this is not mine this is all coming from beno at the very very top and that is the number one ingredient and that was why moshe rabeno was able to relax and as the river says in the sector is this ashwa data that ravi akiva was able to show that he also understood that humility was paramount and he was like a hustle he was a hussain he realized that he was receiving from the generations and the generations before that and the durations before that and that is why janet is so important there are many organizations i live in long beach long island i come across many organizations many good organizations they teach a lot of torah there are groups on facebook and on google and on whatsapp and there are many opportunities for people to learn terra throughout the world but what janet has to offer is that janet has a leader and robert pedlowski mentioned earlier our inspiration is the reverend and whether you're teaching simple hebrew or you're teaching gamari teaching teaching whatever you're teaching the concept of rather comes through and it's only through this organization the genuine organization of khabad that you're able to give that message across because you're able to give that humility that is required for people to grow and grow and grow they're not just learning something intellectual they're not wanting something just godly it's more than that they have to realize that this is coming from a higher source from something so special so rather goes through every single one of you when you teach no matter what you teach the concept of rather is coming through to that person in alice springs as you can see what does it use his house for like the omar events he's all about mature who uses how their home of their home for lack of armor events in alice springs i've never been to alice springs i lived in melbourne most of my life alice springs there's nothing there in alice springs let me tell you i don't know why he's a doctor he's saving lives there's nothing there in alice springs a few jews but he's going out of his way and he is acting like a husset so i guess my brother did a good job with him because he understands it's not just to learn torah so he can finish us so he can finish the missionaries he can tell all his friends that he finished but he realizes that from the studying that he's getting a janet he now needs to give over to others that is what humility is all about that is what janet has to offer and that is what us hasidim have to give over to alpha brussels and i want to share that not only am i inspired by what's going on in alice springs but in my community there is an individual that was also inspired i have a few people in my community over here but he's one of our very best no doubt about it i think they'll agree he learned over the past year or so with an individual his name is mason fine management and he is an extraordinary individual together with his wife nancy a great great couple and i think that the learning that he's been receiving has really filtered through such a way that he himself also shares and inspires others in our community so without any further ado enough hearing from me we want to hear from the real heroes that participate in the jnet and learning janet so i'd like to call upon mason fine to come over here and share with us a few words [Applause] and have about my experiences with james at the original valley goodness i began to turn your chain a little over a year ago i've been interested in time for some time because i'm some level of santa i tried reading it on my own i found it way too difficult to understand and form our questions and answers as i found out having a study partner and time far more i started my weekly sunday sessions slowly and reluctantly being in texas tiny are difficult to understand and i wasn't sure what questions asked without appearing ignorant to the person on the other end of the phone and i've never met i remember my harusa guided me through each chapter of tonya with patience and insights it went a little bit like this i read he explained passages i read some more he asked me questions and honestly most of the time i didn't have an answer over a period of several months it began to form a friendship a real breakthrough happened however around mid-october and november and football season was in full swing i asked if you liked football i'm neither a giants fan or a jets fan my football team is the denver broncos and spent most of my life in colorado talking together i found out my teacher was a kansas city chiefs fan now if you follow football last year you know the broncos were doing poorly the kansas was heading for an undefeated season i was immediately converted to a kansas fan each week we began our study session it would take some time to talk football for a few moments each sunday before diving into the interesting stage of tonya we're just two guys talking sports oddly enough around the same time my time reception really began to speak deep more deeply the sessions the sessions as they like to say start to get inside me what does that mean it was difficult for me to explain but the time concepts chan started to change me from the inside out i want to read two chat passages to help me make that change at such time during the shema the prayer when the love of god burns in the heart of enemy evil in the left part of his heart the animal soul's principal area of manifestation is subjected to and is nullified from the goodness i.e the love of hashem it spreads into the right part of the heart the divine soul is manifest in the hakuma being a dos factories in the brain which are bound in the meditation of the greatness of the end so the chapter goes on towards the end the elder brother says the discussion of the mastery over his animal soul has thus far been centered on madness pertaining to man's relationship with god and now moves to another area so too it matters between man and his fellow man that that mean will not grant expression and thought speech or action for any evil feelings toward his fellow as soon as there arises from his heart to his mind any animosity or hatred possible a jealousy anger or a grudge and a like we are abiding from his mind who are refusing even to think of them the concepts in these passages were life-changing it changed my dogma i concentrated on holding on to the godless sport from but what really got to me was working on my international interactions with people as soon as there arises from his heart to his mind any animosity or hatred or jealousy or anger or grudge i'm not saying i'm perfect now and more conscious of mistakes i make and work with fragrant determination i'm not making them again it's changed how we interact with everyone strangers friends family i can't provide concrete examples and say i'm more open we're accepting we're it empathetic like my godly soul's been split from inside that the flame is working its way upward and outward i hear these changes to my harusa tanya is a difficult text there are no endearing stories to break up the dialogue instead my bruce has helped me bring the text to life at this time i'd like to ask my bruce motion permanent please come up to the podium [Applause] mercer and i have never met though we live only 20 miles apart 25 miles apart we speak on the phone every sunday moshe thank you for taking an hour out of your time each sunday to work with me through a very difficult text this time this year your dedication and devotion has changed my life in ways that you'll never know i hope we can continue to study justina's for for many years oh and may kansas fix its defense this year so that you're able to win the super bowl thank you so much [Applause] it's really so amazing for to me when i see a russo so that that develops such a beautiful connection and uh like you know moshe and mason and again like like you heard mason say this is the first time that they've actually met in person after a year of study and um just uh want to congratulate them on the study that they've done and we'll segue from this into our sim presentation and so i'd like to congratulate both of you and the on the completion of 35 of kanye [Applause] at this time we would also like to acknowledge the compliments of the accomplishments of several the learning accomplishments of several of you here tonight uh be aware that this is just a representation of some of you it's amazing the amount of learning and the more feedback that we get from you about any specific learning accomplishments gives us the opportunity to stop for a moment and recognize that there is two elements to our learning there is this specific study that we are doing and then there's also the relationship which is happening the life of torah and also the way that the torah shows us our life it's the content and the relationship and it's all hyena our life so um without further ado i would like to i would like to present um these certificates of accomplishment to the following individuals uh [Applause] so and at this time i would also like to take the opportunity to greet a volunteer who has traveled all the way from charlotte north carolina to be just to be here tonight to meet her for the first time mrs leia portnoy and mrs linda cogan congratulations on completing a year of partial sasha bula [Applause] this is hani dubo from here in brooklyn and this is barbara nevin from excelsior minnesota on completing five years of partial [Applause] so we would also like to congratulate miss briana telser and miss marlene dowling from thornhill ontario on completing turkey avoid [Applause] and now for the men when you uh hear your names we could please come and approach them for you um rabbi itches amino from brooklyn and mr rafael rose also from brooklyn i'm completing also 34 kraken of tanya [Applause] cammon from austin texas i feel also you can read the featured member article uh the featured clubhouse article in the journal about them on completing above [Applause] rabbi shimon goldenberg and mr jacob voice from san diego california on completing 14th program of tanya [Applause] rabbi and mr dylan feinberg from taipei city taiwan on completing six demanding of kitchener [Applause] and finally gerardi and mr zev zalman shulman from cliffside park nurturing on completing the september office please come up to the podium [Applause] food [Applause] so [Music] i'm very grateful for rabbi who has joined us tonight and will be completing a seo month for us and and has taken the time where he usually gives a share to to come and share this and make this mitzvah for us here tonight with the completion of a miss after to complete it in general before we start the thing i wanted to tell you that you should know [Music] that this part of you this solution strongest most valuable it says that apparently yes first of all you told me your club headings of the founders in which you protect you all your life on your last journey even at the time of this amazing give a look again today did you set up time to learn if you have a chance to lock door and i was in business sincerely that was your [Music] is complete to the dear ladies i wanted to say we just celebrated nothing there and by martin taylor you're gonna finish your little segment before anything else stick to the ladies be the ladies your david back out before don't give me man why he shall and the husband that he should set up time to learn you have to say that after so many speakers so i believe it myself they limited me already but uh in general and see if the satan i would like to operate without the culture it's family purity morality he could see that they made it not only permitted amanda do you raise his holy name established shown by it says here at the end by the conclusion that the generation after the destruction of this ambiguous the generation started to grow down in spiritually levels is [Music] rub yourself don't say about that don't say that i am here what do you say this is he said if people could take me for a while if people take me from our receiver the way i am it shows that the world is fun [Music] then it means also to say that he says it is not novel because you see another for me by the way there was nothing was and then he decided was very profound our news is even more sources you know i've used it with empty very plain simple he didn't want he didn't want to show any government so still he says ah so you take diabolo but not comparing authorities he and he was the mercy of him and he was still such a great daughter though [Music] foreign uh say he was leaving to have such armenian tamil because he was always supporting nemo and especially whenever it was a responsibility [Music] foreign me [Music] american that's the detailer you should have i feel it but you should know this is secondary hey i'm young [Music] foreign [Music] have been learning for over eight years now and i'm very grateful for him to dedicate his time to also be a janet volunteer among the other many significant responsibilities that he has thank you so much [Music] we now like to acknowledge and appreciate our caboosa of the year walking up and down kingston avenue i've met and recruited many of you here and have had many more people respectfully decline when i met rabbi the first time six years ago on kingston avenue he had just gotten married two weeks before and he had asked if he could get back to me in a couple months when things had settled down a typical uh politefully declining answer that i had been used to i was very pleasantly surprised but two months later i got a call from him asking him to volunteer asking that he volunteered to study with someone and he was set up with alex verbreyer a phd student in winston-salem north carolina [Music] [Applause] hi my name is alexander berbair i live in belo horizonte in brazil i do medical research i am a stem cell researcher i was born in soviet union in 1986 my parents found professor positions in brazil in a very far city called fortaleza at my home in fortaleza where we lived with my parents me my sister and my parents we didn't know much although we thought that we were the most religious family in the town and many of the things that we were doing at our home and now i know that they were not correct for instance we thought that every chicken every cow will be kosher i didn't know that you need to have a special heat that should become cultural a special way that we kill the animal to become cautious we never mixed milk and meat or ate shrimps or pork or this kind of things because we knew this but several other things that we didn't know uh we didn't keep just because we didn't know the first time that i went to schulte in chabad i brought all the religious jewish items that i had with me that i knew that probably i need them in the show so i brought a signal that my father gave me i brought a tallis that my father gave me and also at feeling however i brought it on friday night so i wrote it kind of to the service and i just brought that feeling now i know that it will be much but i didn't know anything at the time and i was trying to be the most religious that i could after i spent around two years in sao paulo i was in the stage of my career to start doing phd and i found one place in north carolina to do my phd there in neuroscience when i first arrived to north carolina and i found in the internet that there was a chabad in greensboro that was about 50 minutes drive from where i lived i went to this habitat they received me very nicely was jose veninzi plotkins that were young schlohem they just came to greensboro a few months before this and they really became my family so yourself proposed that a great thing will be to try j net that i will be able to study with a partner so this was the way that i got connected with rav joel hazan from manchester that now lives in crown heights and so he was my partner in study he was teaching me so many things that i didn't know and sometimes we would even just talk about life or things from life and he will help me in few things he will tell me stories of his life and we even became so friends that when we came to live in the bronx in new york when i got married and his wife and his children they even came to spend the shabbos with us we also came many times to spend travels with them in crown heights so we became really friends and the learning was a great experience and was a great thing for me so we came to brazil to a city that i have a 10 year professor position i have a big lab of around 20 people here we do medical research with stem cells cancer research we study several diseases and we try to progress with this medical research i believe that both learning in jnet and just generally jewish learning it kind of guided my research and directed me and this learning will bring some type of energy to my day to my week i would like to thank so much the plotkins family rav joseph plotkin raviol the whole janet raf yehuda dukes and the whole fruits from janet that do such a great job and make uh important changes in the life of so many people around the world so i would like to thank all of you and you really made a change in my life so i'm very thankful and this is a great thing that you guys invented [Applause] of the year award [Music] [Applause] [Music] the uh the award reads jaina is proud to recognize of the year june 17th 2019. [Music] [Applause] thank you so much we would like to uh conclude the program by asking rabbi haikon to come up and draw the winning raffle name from our chevous learning campaign as you know we have a learning campaign throughout the year where we send out a specific mimer or study material to learn um and the last one was just in honor of schwartz and so we would like to draw the winning raffle ticket right here from the people who from everyone who submitted their dos in their name for studying in this campaign the winner is ori castella from miami florida [Music] um we will be sending you your prize in the mail um sorry that you weren't able to be here tonight uh to uh to receive in person um so i would like to uh thank everyone who helped make this dinner possible rather than by bomb garden the jewish children's museum with your help on live stream uh gem for the club of the river which we unfortunately weren't able to get quirky but they did do their part in getting it for us um uh ben shimon studios for the lighting uh yarmouth for the video rev olympic guitar the event and i would also like to thank my wife sarah for hanging in there and putting up the wrong way associated with making a dinner and for sharing also her beautiful music which you heard during the um during the throne video while you were having dinner um on the way out make sure if you're all the volunteers here are entitled to receive the book the daily wisdom two as a gift for your dedication thank you so much for volunteering uh we are also having a ten thousand dollar raffle on tesla thomas july 18th uh for those of you who are able to this is a way to participate in china not just as volunteers but also in the capacity of cebu and helping us do even more i hope you enjoyed the evening please do do not forget we'll be having um shortly and that's hashem we will very soon complete our shlokas here and besides okay [Music]