JNET Dinner 2016

[Music] can you hear me [Music] so good evening everyone it's great to see so many familiar faces here i have not had the opportunity if i have not had the opportunity to greet you personally shalom aleichem my name is yehuda dukes and on behalf of janet i would like to welcome you to janet's third annual volunteer appreciation dinner schnatzhakel tough shania involved once in seven years the jewish people would gather in yerushalayim and the omnis of sukis to be inspired by their leader the rabbit teaches us that in we too should gather and that each one of us can be a leader we're gathered here tonight in the spirit for those of you who have been here before welcome back for those of you it's your first time i hope that you will be inspired and for the first time we would like to this year we would like to welcome all our volunteers from around the world who are watching via jnet.org livestream welcome and thank you for joining us soul connection the link to meaningful life we all connect our charusas and that connection is a meaningful one it's not just one which is related to our learning i'm so frequently touched by the care that you show and have for your havrusas and their yiddish kite i had a woman who contacted me recently asking for advice she cared about her russo and found out that she had a certain eastern aveda zara in her home and wanted to know how to approach the idea and how to try to help another cover so called wanting to know of of ideas of how to help his roots to become more comfortable so that he could come and attend his local chabad house so someone who is socially not so ready to come he was shy never been in a from from shoal before and escarusa wanted to know how can i get this guy more involved this kind of caring is not just connection this kind of caring is a soul connection please forgive my pension for puns but that is not the soul soul connection when we learn with someone we are also connecting them to the rava and so with us let us hear from the rebbe the importance and the specialness of what it means of what this soul connection means [Music] um so uh um [Music] hmm so [Music] yeah so [Music] apologize for the technical difficulties in in the secret the rabbit talks about how moiserabenu is not only the one who went up to the mountain and brought us the torah which the torah when we talk about terror it [Music] the torah is is it's a zikru titus moshi is the one who connects us to the torah the rabbit says that our sustenance not only that maisha abenu provided not only our connection to terra but also when the hidden needed anything in the desert whether it was food water protection that covered was always there and always the one who was able to un to to to plead on behalf of the idin and to make sure that they had their physical sustenance as well the rabbit compares this to a body how the leader of the generation is not only the head but also the heart of the nation the heart is directly connected to all the parts of the body in the way that it pumps the blood which the blood is the highest the blood is the energy which enables the body and all the parts of the body to thrive and to flourish the rebel goes on to tell us that we can also have this effect on the people around us and when we take the torah and we bring it to people that we too can bring can be mafitz until kamehameha and everyone will be able to see godliness and to also have everything they need in the physical work in the physical realm as well and so we see from the words of the rava that by connecting to the moisture the moisture abner and the moisture we not only connect to the torah but we also receive all the physical things that we need as well and so when you learn with your karusa you are the conduit to their material blessings that the material blessings can flow through you as well and so this is also something that your havrusa can appreciate and will appreciate and will benefit from the spirit of appreciation we owe our great achara to the chore drawer and the roar foundation [Applause] for establishing janette and rabbi katarski for making sure that it continues to grow and grow it definitely has since starting in the year 2005 30 chavrusas you are now part of a network of more than 8 000 people from 80 countries learning in eight languages and we are currently setting up 90 people each month [Applause] all of this doesn't happen on its own i would like to thank our very dedicated staff for all their efforts [Applause] thank you to muhammad slandem our women's coordinator [Applause] to sarah marshall who is administration and customer service and really holds things together [Applause] the director of our spanish division and online classes and a warm welcome to eitan waxman our new staff member [Applause] who is now doing recruiting and developing our french division [Applause] you guys have taken your your jobs above and beyond and as a schlitz and thank you very much to make for all your help in making this possible i also want to take a moment to appreciate all of those who help us financially especially our regular monthly donors your support is what enables us to continue to grow thank you [Applause] but finally the only way that jnet is possible is because of you our dedicated volunteers just last year you collectively have made more than 35 000 hours of learning possible affecting yiddin all over the world [Applause] in your journal you'll be able to see some of the effect of your learning by seeing some of the beautiful feedback that your cabrusas have given in the dedication section your dedication has reached beyond crown heights as well this year in recognition of your efforts the new york state senate passed the legislative resolution sponsored by senator jesse hamilton commemorating the 10 years of service of janet volunteers that you guys have given you can please see page 8 in your journal regarding that it is now my honor to introduce our featured speaker someone i have a tremendous amount of respect for personally the person that thereby appointed to help advance schlitz around the world and has put tremendous effort into ensuring that janet grows and flourishes who has graciously taken time out of his schedule to be here with us tonight janet's chairman chairman of the kennesa shlokhim and vice chairman of marcus rabbi maisha kotlarsky [Applause] is before i begin uh it's an appreciation then i know we grew up is for every little thing that we did the rebel would say told lacia the story i think of holding the door for the rebel and the rebels saying but we didn't see that they should become a mini see them and this appreciation dinner is really a truthful show of appreciation but before i express my appreciation to the volunteers there are two people that i want to single out this evening to express appreciation to them one is you know the gaba he never gets to get shishi shilishim after if he has a if he has a birthday come captain so i want to give him the name of every one of us the one that is really the driving force behind jaina is rabbi yiudi dukes and i think he deserves the second one i want to thank and it's not only for jaina i don't know i'm sure that you're in crown heights where we had five different things going on this week around the world not around the world we had a young jewish professional ski getaway in vermont of young jewish khabad young professionals that got together about 80 of them for a shabbos together and i just heard reports of how it was a transforming event in their lives we also had two major league shabbatons where we take the children of shlokham in remote areas and we had two of them one with 60 one with 60 young shlokum and the other with 70 and we also had a small undertaking here in crown heights where we had 2 000 teens actually 1600 teens and 300 chaperones that came from around the world and you know aside from all of the logistics and everything that went on i'm sure many of you saw it live uh as it was being played in times square and there was a banquet today it's an individual that worked very hard on feeding everybody and didn't sleep last night and then tonight he instead of going to rest he assists i really want to thank vincent cohen for everything [Applause] there are things with the red which the rebbe innovated that we didn't find by any of the previous rabbi take for instance the sudan mata rosh hashanah was something by cain of it was an innovation of the rebbe to turn chanukah into the public holiday that it is the presuming the public miners the one that there's no other rabbit there was no other mani israel that turned hanukkah into a yantef the way hanukkah is celebrated today around the world purim with the myth and all of them have told him to have the rabbi you don't find any of the other previous guideli israel that should say that in this man that the base amigdas isn't here that we should be celebrating hakim so when you see them get together first of all this is a side predatory shayna aside from it being an appreciation dinner which occurred in in in in in michigan minnegas to thank you for every week taking time out of your schedules and learning with somebody and establishing that soul connection this is a hot hill but also every time this year that you pick up a phone and you learn that is also a hacking so you could imagine the naka that the rebbe has from the hot kills that you perform here and those that are listening around the world every time you learn with somebody during this year and we see the titsaas you see the end result you see that we read the pie the the the malacca mishkan this truma there's a it's fundraising in the beginning vehicularization write the check on my name collect money build everything up make but then we come to the page of yatatsava and we at the tetsava is something that is very interesting maishirabano's name is not mentioned does it diminish maisha rabbanu that his name was not mentioned it doesn't diminish there is who shines in the in the in the spotlight and partially is the end user which is iron and his children the fact that there is the rebbe's first mister and the most one in which he made the greatest dogesh spoke is all about but to say that you walk around saying walk around there's a merced called janet but does anyone in the world know who the people that are behind it which means you the volunteers kenner zuggin that you could say everybody knows everyone that is doing it and this is the viata tsava when you do this you're slocum of the rabbi to be mekaim the smithson of mr taylor and then i'll what did the rebel want from hussein is there any way of bringing people to the rabbit better than learning apostic or a mimer or a letter from the rabbi there's no such there's no better way so that soul connection of connecting people to trade into mitzvos and to bring them together with the together to the rebbe is your tremendous course and in this week's parachute which we've just read there's the lochas and the shivre loches the lucas and the shivery lookers were both monochromatin there's a moment in time for millennia and those are the luchas that are monochromatin excuse me and he has something that is troubling him and because of this limitator of the luches you'll be able to become a conduit that the shivering lookers should also be monochromatic remember i was once by the rebbe it was one of six times that the rebbe began a yakidas with me in which he began with these words vegan episode and the rabbit had a vision of something which i won't go into at the moment and he hinted it to me a number of times i was very young i was just 22 then and somehow it eluded me and i came into the red band the rebbe says to me starts talking about that issue and i began to feel like you know i i just wanted to sink through the floor and in the middle the rabbit says to me as follows these words i've devised cancer zogen in my number and he said his name the he said and then he went on to speak about mitakayas and he says so i said to the rebbe really i couldn't talk i mean it's a long it's a long thing but i said to the rabbit the rabbit turned who said with a big smile he was sitting back like he said kaios kaios creekman for neighbors and then he became very serious and he fixed his time in his hat and turned around and gave me barakas why do i say this because you have the opportunity to instill a highest which comes from the abrasion by amino barcelona in each and every person that you learn with now what do you need for it the dedication that you have we're reading now vayako then comes because and there's a very telling person in the end of the whole malacca michigan also everything is done according to specifications comes main one he says we brought money that was more than what was necessary there was never a position in life that a fundraiser should say enough enough enough that to look for something to the seam to bring everything was built according to specifications and everything was built on time it says now you come and you say you hear nuts and they come you want to ask for you want the claw bench to get invention before they have to go out on the fundraising campaign benjamin should come on top that the plan should be on time that it should be built on the course now after everything is built you're coming and you're telling us i'm not talking about the abrasive i'm talking about you you hear nothing may it be your will you built something beautiful now you have to hope by coming to whatever the things are that the shrine should rest in the works of your hands this is the bracket that you have to ask and this is the bracket that if you care in that soul connection for your cavruses when you go to the yale there was a time right after bay shroud i got six seven times maybe even more ten times an answer from the rabbit that like shook it shook me up i used to get a lot of times university of lyons because i began to get answers from the rebbe a number of times kenya vasatevli yasidlavi and when i got it the first time i was literally shattered what do you mean leo said lovey when mushrik will come you'll have to tell the rebel service davis who was thinking that they'll comment but they're never wants those serious davis today and this is the time so when you go to the river and you go for yourself be my dear forever that i have a kavruza and i'm learning with this coverage and he's this is the way he's progressing and he told me last week on the phone that he has listened this problem or that he needs a broker for knockers from children or the fagizonto for whatever the thing should be because these kalamalamit is is when you go to the river you have your same way you're right for your children the same way you bring your children to the rabbit after zanzas and if whatever reason they can't come when you send opinion for your children make sure to be my dear absolutely that you're part of his mr traitorous nem time developed the climate because this is not going to last because the rabbit promised us that this is the last day of golis and it's going to be the first date of giulia and the opportunity to teach the way you're teaching now is going to change because so you'll have your place then too on the accomplishments that you have today but together with that you have to remember that it is incumbent upon you to be mikashi yochavruza to the rebel and through the laboratory remember i took over a jew from peru to the rebel hatsuko vernbrown he was the president when rabbi and robertson blumenfeld came there and i told the rebbe that that's hunting in the health industry for the year the everyone that you're learning with than before so the abridged i want to express appreciation teaching every one of you a dinner with all of the best food in the world is a ludwar machine let's share and so everything in the world you could have two types of soup and you could have a hot dog and a hamburger and a kebab you could have everything mid sushi that when there was hair with all of these things to come garnished to the appreciation that the rebel will tell you and tells you the appreciation that he has for what you're doing in einem and developed limitator said the abrasion should help you we should go from strength to strength and to unity i want to tell you like this you know you do tremendous work you haven't begun to work j net hasn't touched the surface eight thousand kavos has had it's nothing it's nothing until you'll have eight hundred thousand yamato i'm there will be funding for it you just get the volunteers and each round you know they tell us they tell it and he took a haircut after he finished the gala tells him how much to he says nothing i don't take money from clergy the next day he found a dozen roses on his doorstep with a note of appreciation two days later zanyakum la pratas dante minister says took a haircut he says how much do i owe you he says nothing i don't take money from clergy two days later he found two dozen roses and a note of appreciation came a rabbi after he gave him hickory says how much do i owe you says nothing the next day he found a dozen rabbis at his door what we want from you is that each one of you should bring another dozen volunteers to teach and yemen will know that tonight's night of appreciation wasn't only of appreciation of mata sufka foreign [Applause] thank you very much robert kolarski and i accept your challenge [Applause] i hopefully by next year we'll have double the amount of cabrusas and again i also pass that challenge on to you our volunteers to not only learn yourselves but if you know someone who has the ability to give a half an hour a week please tell them about this dinner maybe that could be an incentive enough but also tell them about the incredible value that you get from learning with someone and of it goes without saying that the person gets from learning with you and again robert kularski thank you very much for giving me the opportunity and the privilege to do this with us i would like to now introduce our next speaker of khabad of clinton hill and pratt institute who is an internationally known speaker and the author of two best-selling books rabbi simcha weinstein [Applause] okay wow okay okay good evening everybody we are now in adar so uh my name is semra so please uh indulge me for a second with the joke they tell the joke and it is a joke that uh president donald j trump is uh visiting the queen of england and president trump asks the queen a question you know you're so intelligent you're known for your brilliance acumen how do you get to be so smart queen says very simple i surround myself with intelligent people she puts down her cup of tea and cucumber sandwich she calls into the office prime minister david cameron and the queen asks a question she says tell me prime minister your mother has a child and your father has a child it's not your brother it's not your sister who is it the prime minister said well that would be me trump says that's brilliant goes back to the oval office calls in the vice president mr rubio trump says tell me mr ruby i've got a question for you your mother has a child your father has a child it's not your brother it's not your sister who is it rubio says he starts sweating he says i don't know i got to think about it he goes out into the hallway he sees send it to bernie sanders says bernie i got a question for you your mother has a child your father has a child it's not your brother it's not your sister who is it bernie sanders says that would be me rubio says great runs back into the oval office says president trump i know who it is it's bernie sanders trump replies don't be stupid it's david cameron in england [Music] the world is changing i'd like to talk about three levels of change number one there's a micro change a change that happened to me you know unlike many of the rabbanim in the room tonight i did not grow up hasidic observant orthodox her bad for want of a better word i grew up normal um and from manchester england famous american literary giant mark twain visited manchester and he wrote in his travel log he liked to spend the remaining days of his life in manchester and he went on to write because he feels like it'll make the transition to death easier so that's uh my hometown and i had a very powerful interaction with khabad a number of years ago i was working in the entertainment industry there's a knock at the door and there's two guys at the door one was very how do you say round what they look like the number 10 and they were both dressed like penguins black white they said to me are you jewish i said yes they came in with these briefcases they put them down on the table click they pull out the filling i didn't know what they were i said one of these they said we'd like to bind your arm and your head in straps of thick leather i look at the guy you know i said you crazy i threw them out normally no means no but to 15 year old uh bad bok rim there is no no they kept coming back after many months i finally sort of submitted and i loved it and every friday became the highlight of my week they would come we felt bad we didn't have kosher to serve them so 10 came with 11 claim with 12 came with a blow we still have marks in the kitchen i'm proud to say i'm proud to say that two weeks ago i purchased my bacho menachem mendel a pair of the film you don't know the power that you can have as a cabrusa the second type of change is a macro change a global change last night i was playing laser tag in kansas literally i was the guest speaker at the cabaret on campus midwestern shabbaton and mozart shabbos we go to laser tag i was the chaperone i think i was having more fun than the students and i noticed that one of the schlockhin in the laser tag was sitting in the corner and he's on like the phone he's plugged in and i was all perturbed here we are we're supposed to be with the students we're supposed to be the chaperones i see the sitting in the corner he's on his phone i go over to the i sit down i saw something that blew my mind i'm sitting there in a laser tag room in kansas city and we're sitting there and i'm watching on the phone live from times square there is a sea of jewish teenagers they're singing we want meshiach now the band in times square is the eighth day if that's not a sign of meshiach i don't know what it is and i have to give incredible hikaru satov to rabbi kudlowski for organizing these incredible phenomenal programs rather colossal you spin more plates than the circus it's unbelievable the third type of change i'd like to talk about is the change that begins with you because if it's not for you there wouldn't be the micro change there wouldn't be the macro change the volunteers of jaina you are quite literally the rapper's mouthpiece you make a soul connection that goes straight into the cerebral cortex of your chest it's unbelievable you know i love what i do i wouldn't change it for the world but as a shriya so much of what i do involves slapping costco chairs or singing my beard on a sterno or navigating the complex laws of recycling but what you do is the essence it's the soul connection the connection you make while learning is is so powerful so life-changing so definitive and i have to thank judy dukes wherever he is it's incredible what you're doing i'm very i didn't expect there was gonna be so many people it's it's quite remarkable i'd like to uh end up with a story because it's very powerful it's very important to be that connection it's so powerful to be that but i think once a year you have to come together and as well as oxygenating the world you have to oxygenate yourself i'll tell you a story i was given the chance to speak at the holocaust museum in naples florida and on the way home something happened to me that's never happened i get to the uh the airport they tell me rabbi you've been upgraded i said you know i've been downgraded i've never been upgraded they said we're going to give you a seat on the plane with more legroom i said you know the one thing i need i'm not even going to finish that but they said you have to know in case of an emergency you have to know you got to put before you put on the oxygen masks of others you have to know you have to put on the oxygen mask to yourself after a painfully long pause i said i'm still thinking about it and i said you know i'm going to do it and it's so important in life ashleigh and we're changing the world but we have to come together i think it's so important the perhaps the premise of this dinner is to oxygenate ourselves so we can oxygenate the world change is powerful change is infectious and change begins with all of you in this room thank you so much thank you very much rabbi weinstein [Applause] 11 months ago on his weekly phone call to his kavrutha jaina volunteer moishi raichik instantly realized that something was wrong when asked about it mr jeffrey perlman told him that he had just gotten back from a checkup with his doctor the news was not good moishi wanting to help offered him to come up to the oil to ask for a bracha from the rabbit after doing some tests jeff flew in to the oil on a sunday and when he returned found that due to some lab error he had to redo the tests [Music] the following day moishi got a phone call we should only hear good news and today a moment ago they did psa count on the repeat blood test came back to 5.5 that's half point higher than normal which means there's not going to be any i'm going to still have the answer but it means that we just monitor it um every six months and have a psa test once a year and that is that so everything that you have thought of for me you know basically a shepherd to you know to come to the memorial and ask for a blessing what an idea in man what what did the rebbe have look how fast he got to hashem and this news happened um i'm you know right now i think i could jump into obama alive although i'm not obviously i'm not with that mirror but that's how i feel right now just wanted to be you're the second one to know gail was the first so i want to thank both you and uh ricky for everything and i'll talk to you later on all the best all the best all of that's my friend i'll talk to you later bye we are we are excited to have jeff with us tonight jeff will you please come and share uh i'm here tonight to honor all of the volunteers i'm not the guest of honor all of you are hashem arranged our bodies so that our heads are on top of on top of our bodies and our hearts lie in the middle so that the head controls the heart tonight the two work equally no one park controls the other and so i begin with my remarks in the way that i shall end them thank you all thank you hakuras boroku thank you [Applause] thank you rabbis thank you rabbi yehuda dukes rabbi shmueli kogan thank you rabbi yussi harlig thank you rabbi five-ish dolphin thank you rabbi yossi wolfe thank you to my wonderful hosts shmuley and shula goldstein thank you ruthie procasia [Applause] and thank you to my dear friend we know it says in the torah we should acquire a friend and a teacher well being a little on the greedy side at times i acquired more than that i acquired a friend a teacher a mentor and a brother moshe rychek and all of this comes to the biggest thank you i can give to any one individual person thank you rebbe thank you rebbe when rabbi dukes called and asked me to if i could come to new york i immediately said yes and it was and i said it in the way that we that we replied at hearths and i we will hear and we will do for me it was a question of why such a simple jew would be asked to come and speak sibyl to me means one who believes with all of his being that hashem exists in everything and nothing happens without hashem and that we all have a life of time of work to do in this mundane world to make it a place for the holy one blessed be he i am one of those simple jews i am one of the people that the khabarossa reach out to my wife and i lost our mothers over 23 years ago saying cottage for two years made me thirsty not thirsty for wine or water made me thirsty for torah one of my friends told me of a khabad which just opened in a former dry cleaners hard to find at first but after 10 minutes i was hooked more learning more applying the learning and studying alone while everybody else ate at work another friend assembled a group of us and we studied weekly with rabbi shmueli kogan this same gang studied with rabbi five-ish dolphin at the same time then one day i was introduced to moshe raichuk we agreed to study for a three months a three-month period four years ago now four years later his marriage the birth of his children and my diagnosis of diabetes and another thing which i don't want to talk about too much we are we are fast friends brothers the torah instructs us to acquire a teacher as i said all jews are my teachers [Applause] because because we all learn from each other and if we don't we're missing something very very strong but with moshe i hit the jackpot i had a fast friend who who is my teacher who's patient with my missteps and who has the answers to my question including the time worn question over four years one question i don't understand this and the second question so rabbi how does this apply to our daily lives in today's monday mundane world i learned how to learn late in april of 2015 i told moshe what the biggest concern i had i've had to face he wasted no time exactly as rabbi dukes had mentioned he arranged for me to come to the oil and to 770. what admits he did my finest moment in jnet in in moshe is having him as a friend and a teacher and above all a brother dobbing at homer and true i close my eyes every time i do it three times a day and i'm at 770 every single time this weekend this shabbos was my first shabbos ever dominating at 770. [Applause] and this trip to 770 was more overwhelming than the first one i thought all the time it would be just a little bit less overwhelming than it was the first time no it was more sometimes people refer to the rebbe in the past tense the rabbis the rebbe said the rebbe talk and i say the rebbe teaches the rabbi the rebbe says maybe he did pass away in the physical sense in the spiritual sense he doesn't you walk into 770 he's there you can feel it you walk by the oil he's there you can feel it you walk down the street in any city in the country he's there and you can feel it rabbi raichik and i study talmud every thursday privately i'm reading guide for the perplexed and believe me when i tell you if you weren't perplexed before you started to read this well then you are when you start one of the things i do [Music] and it's a product of evolution development and it's a treasure to me is the chabad.org app for the telephone often when i'm in my car or when i'm waiting for something or if it's just a break in the office i'll put in the earpiece and i'll hear a lecture and i learn if i'm going to sit in traffic it's going to be for two things to catch up on the news on npr and to learn some torah [Applause] we have we ha we are given a limited amount of time but we're not given time to waste so we need to use our time and what a better use of time than some study when you can and in your car it's a perfect place it's quiet you're alone you can concentrate on only two things one not hitting the person in front of you which is a very good thing not to do and two learning from the best and i'm here to honor the best [Applause] hobbies i have them they're not important they're transient ladies and gentlemen all of you here tonight assembled our tribute to the work of the rebbe he has to be very proud i know he is and with all of that i hear the rebbe telling all of us both the students in the havarasa if you think there's nothing you can do think harder and so i'm going to end my remarks tonight the way i began them thank you thank you all [Applause] jeff i'd like you to stay up here for now um thank you so much for your awards and the obvious effect that the rebbe has and and and you show all the people here in this room i would like to ask rabbi moshi raichik to come up as well um and uh rebecca clarkson to come and present uh our favruza of the year with their plaques and gifts we appreciate you jalen is proud to recognize mr jeffrey perlman as cabrissa of the year february 28 2016 1991 jane that volunteer appreciation event [Applause] [Music] i appreciate you jane that is proud to recognize rabbi mercier of the year [Applause] [Music] [Applause] and this is the further you're learning this is a beautiful muhammad's teachings [Applause] to share a few words as well [Applause] thank you robbie dukes thank you robert kolarski thank you jeff for those kind of beautiful words good evening it's great to be here with the janet's family about about four years ago when jeff and i started learning but we learned the passion of passion such a war and i would always say over a vote from that and over some time whenever i asked that eva's question jeff would say i know what the rebbe is going to answer jeff just mentioned jeff just said that when he mentioned to me about the animakala immediately automatic response was we're going to the rabbah a lot obviously we live and breathe and we don't take a step without him as someone as robert kellogsky mentioned before a sono became part of my life every time i got to the oil when i aimed with the parker i always call jeff and i mentioned i tell him that i mentioned him his wife and his son jared and jeff's growing connection to the rabbit continued when we just heard his voicemail how fast the rebel worked it was clear to me that ever was part of his life there's a known letter from the rabbi [Music] before the nacios speaking about bringing people to the nether never tells them there's a person that moved away got the letter here to be a little more exact a person that moved away he's not shy of tavern he's not a moscow he's not a leave it he doesn't even grow a beard he never learned him thank you to him you know he never even learned yeshiva and he moved away to a far village away from yiddish and over some time people from that village started sending letters through this person to the rabbit he told people ya should ever be yourself says how much more so us that we saw that referring to that i think how we saw that evan how many more people we could bring to nether one time one of the other secretaries came to the rebbe it takes forever so long to open up all the envelopes why don't you just get a machine and just throw it through all these envelopes and they open automatically and that ever said someone's going to close the envelope with tears i'm going to open it with a machine when i was america's shorthand in germany we thought you know let's begin this you get around little did we find out there's no more germans there they're only russians and it's a little problematic i don't speak that language i brought with me some living tater videos we walked into our house stuck it in subtitles put on filling love some candles i hope they know what to do with it and we left we just connected them with whatever there's a can tell him to explain it that we bring a present tomato we bring a year to the river we should all be zaika thank you this brings us to the conclusion of our program thank you very much for coming i would like to thank everyone who helped make this event possible first and foremost i want to uh thank rabbi mendel kotlarsky who really gave from his time and did a lot beyond but what was expected and really really made this beautiful beautiful event happen and come together i'd like to thank rabbi shalom who challenged our bomb in the jewish children's museum then c and cohen for the catering nathan kunin for his help with the gift we have mrs danielle lowinger uh sabbah.org jem probably camille jacobson and levy eckhaus our journal ad team aiden hanoka yesterdayman esther malcolm cohen brocky roddle and hindi goldstein and all any other volunteers that i may not have mentioned who helped out and a very special thank you to ruthie procacca for the amazing job she did coordinating this event [Applause] there is a special gift for all the volunteers as a token of appreciation for your dedication on the table on your way out we would also like to to ask if you could please take a minute and say a few words on the video camera we're gonna have a video camera set up outside and just a couple words about your name who you're learning with and what jane what what the experience on jnet adds to your life will help other people also benefit and deci and hopefully volunteer as well i also want to uh say that the the gift will be made available to our volunteers around the world who are watching online as well on janeth.org livestream where they can fill out a form to have the gift mail to them um even though they are not able to be with us tonight thank you very much for your dedication as well um and we hope that next year we will all be able to celebrate together in yerushalayim and bishop foreign [Applause] okay