THE STORY from Rabbi Duvy Bensousan at 9th Annual Project Inspire Convention

rabbi amin tells over every single year his wife and himself they go out to the cemetery out in Staten Island and on air rashanna their mini egg was they would go to visit his mother-in-law his wife would Davin buy the kefir of the mother-in-law and he would ask Mithila again and again and again every year on air of Rosh Hashanah one year rabbi Ammon and his wife was coming back from an affair in Brooklyn and they came over to Verrazano and they're making their way through Staten Island Expressway and it was a week before a shun rabbi amin turns to his wife and says honey listen we're about to dry by the exit of the cemetery what's the point that slept me back here next week we're here already so this year we won't go to your mother air of Russian we'll go a week before but we're here save the trip let's go she says okay fine you're right we're here so to get out of the exit he comes into the cemetery he walks up to his mother-in-law and says hi MA are you my homey and his mother his wife begins to pray and together they're shuttling around his mother-in-law's grave if I haven't fixed his eyes up and he looks and he sees in the distance there's a whole group of boys in suits standing in a circle on the floor is a coffin hole in the ground and nobody's moving rabbi amin turns to his wife and says what's going on over there how come nobody's doing anything they're just looking at each other no one's moving honey do you mind if I go over there for a minute just to see what's going on I'd like to stop for a pause do you see what it means to be a Rebbe you see what it means to be a god oh it's always about ah how can I help this guy ok back to the story say he goes out to this group of boys you walk something and says hey guys what's going on how come no one's doing anything they have a big smile they say are you a rabbi says yeah thank God rabbi listen the hearse they dump this here right next to the grave we don't know what to do this is our father here in the coffin we're standing here looking at each other we didn't make any arrangements we don't know what to do can you help us Hannah says sure guys how many guys we have here he starts counting one two three sees that there are six boys and there were two uncles and a family friend Muhammad says Wow nine people now I understand why Hashem brought me here to the cemetery a week earlier than normal I wasn't supposed to be here today but obviously he sent me here to be the minion okay guys together he grabs a shovel he turns it over and then he turns to the boys he says grab this side of the rope grab that side of the rope they slipped the rope inside the coffin and very gently they lay the coffin to rest in the hole rob a man grabs the shovel turns it upside down starts pushing the dirt in and as the moment it's covered he turns to the guys and says okay guys Javed Kadesh they look at him Kahoot Kadesh it got dalvik Gaddafi go ahead Cobb up they look at him rabbi what are you talking about is it say Kaddish your father rabbi we don't know what you're talking about okay rob a man pulls a sit around from the inside of his jacket he opens it up the Khedive she hands it to the boy he says go ahead kavod Kadesh the boy looks on the scissor and he says rabbi I can't read he says he can't breathe not even Dolloff but just know anna says okay gentlemen repeat after me yet God Velveeta - and he went through piece by piece of the Kadesh and all the boys repeated line by line word by word and the minion said Kaddish for the man who pissed their father just when they finished a Kadesh rabbi a man turns to the boys and says okay guys now before you go let's finish off let's push all the rest of the dirt into the hole nah rabbi come on we're done we got the Leeroy over there on the tractor we hired them we're done here let him come and fill up the hole we've finished we don't wanna get dirty rabbi the suits to a rental we don't we don't want to get dirty rabbi and says no no no come on this is your father couple damn it have a little respect fill up the hole well no matter what he said rob a Hammond said you know what I'll show him how to do with he turns around he grabs a shovel he starts to fill up the hole and he turns around the crickets they're gone he says guys come back here your father they're gone they're gone rabbi amin single handedly finished filling up the hole and buried this man alone just then leroy jumps off the tractor and he runs up the rabbi and he says rabbi he did the whole job by yourself you didn't heed me once he buried the man you might as well put the nameplate and he hands rabbi am in the name plate then he looks down and he sees the name Simon Pollock it's a son in well Simon I did my best now I know why a sham brought me to the cemetery a week early or Hashem I was the tenth guys so your kids could say Kaddish and he puts the name plate right at the top of the pile of dirt with those words he goes back to his wife and he says honey not gonna believe this they had nine I was the tenth guy she says that's amazing Wow it's not for you they couldn't stick cadiz she says yeah this guy Simon he lucked out I was here today probably because of him and with those words they leave back to deal New Jersey week later the admin family was enjoying a family wedding in liquid and that night all the relatives came from all over including from Seattle Washington Roman bumps into one was long uncle that he hasn't seen in years and he says to his uncle hey you want to hear a crazy thing last week I was coming in from Brooklyn I stopped off by the cemetery and it was over there that I bumped into these nine boys and they couldn't say Kaddish and I was a tense guy and I buried this guy and they handed me this nameplate some guy Simon Pollak his uncle said what was that name just you know Simon Pollock rabbi Hammond you know who that is he says no was on Napolitan his uncle's jaw dropped and his face went white it says you don't know who that is just know who is that his uncle says rabbi rabbi amin fifty-two years ago in Seattle Washington we didn't really have more than a day school Talmud Torah and we know that the only way to ensure you this guide and to be able to have another generation of Torah we're going to have to send our boys at the age of 13 out to Brooklyn New York out to Rabbi David C Shiva in Brighton Beach the problem was who can afford it in those days to send the boy out is the plane tickets and then there's the dormitory fee and then there's the tuition and so that Shabbos we made this big unbelievable condition shul sponsor a yeshiva boy and right at the end of the kiddush we lined up all our 13 year olds and with a big smile the president of the school said all right guys who's going to sponsor Harry's kid one guy in the back raises his hand who's going to sponsor this guy another guy raises his who's going to sponsor this kid to go to yeshiva in Brooklyn another guy raises his hand rabbi amin simon Pollak sponsored you his uncle said rabbi amin at the time that you needed him the most Simon Pollak was there for you and at the time that he needed you the most I shall make sure that you are going to be there for him