Tomchei Shabbat Promo Video

[Music] You have no idea how many families are really struggling financially. It's impossible to comprehend and understand what a family goes through and how they even function when they can't think to themselves how they're going to provide food for their family. There are families in our community that live down the block from you and me that can't look forward to Friday night because they don't know what they're going to put on their table. It is unimaginable in our eyes, but it really exists. We know for a fact there are people in our community that cannot put food on the table for Shabbat. It's very very painful when you get a phone call from somebody who can't, you know, put together a holiday the way uh it's supposed to be done and they have to answer questions to their kids. >> We have an organization here in our community called Shabbat on the Jersey Shore. It's a special organization that actually gives food to families throughout the year helping many of our families in our community to be able to manage on the holidays and on Shabbat. Every single family in our community deserves to have the incredible gift that is Shabbat. And to Shabbat will ensure that every family in deal is able to have the gift that all of us have. And Friday night is coming and I'm going to sit down with my family and have the most magnificent meal and time of the week. This amazing organization gives people basic necessities, not luxuries, but basic needs that they need weekday Shabbat and just to live life with dignity. >> The beauty of giving food directly instead of having to go shopping and buying and seeing and what right there it's in front of you. You get it. You're ready for Shabbat. >> As it stands today, there are over a hundred families in our community that have been benefiting from Tom Shabbat. Shabbat gives a tremendous amount of relief to these families who literally cannot imagine what they're going to do for the upcoming Shabbat. I personally know many people that once they receive the boxes of Shabbat, how relieved they are, like such a huge stress is taken off their heads. I've seen this again and again and again. The smiles on their faces when they get all this food, they don't know what to do with themselves. It's all done very, very quiet. No one's embarrassed by it. It's done smartly where they don't have to feel like they're getting a hand out. >> And that's also very important in maintaining the pride and respect of every single person who receives. >> They care about us and they give us let yourself meet meat and and anything that we need in our community, they go out of their way to help us. >> It's very very integral for us to support Shabbat because they are supporting the Syrian community. >> It's a tremendous tremendous organization. The community needs to rally behind it. Supporting a cause that's helping our community members where they really need food to eat for the holidays and Shabbat is a tremendous mitzvah. This organization needs money from our community to keep it going. >> Shabbat is the table of Hashem. When you put the food on the table for his honor, you elevate yourself. You elevate the table. You elevate the whole Shabbat. The greatest proof, the greatest indication that you're doing it for Hashem's honor is when you include the poor, those who don't have >> the obligation to be happy on the holiday is also part of making the people who are poor to also enjoy the yumto. Another amazing aspect of Tom Shabbat is that when you give money to Tom Shabbat to give food to your brothers and sisters, you can be assured that 99% of the money is going to literally giving food to your brothers and sisters. I have no sus effect that our community will answer the call to help our own brothers and sisters. It's not only something that's a nice thing for us to help our friends, help our neighbors, help our families, to have food for the holidays, to have food for Shabbat, and food for regular daily life. It's our obligation as members of the community would be a very good support. >> Everybody should be giving money to Tom Shabbat to help our own. Anybody that is able to contribute to this Shabbat organization, Hashem should bless you always to continue to give to to organizations like this >> to support. This is a tremendous a tremendous mitzvah of the highest order without a question. This is a mitvah that you can't beat. [Music] [Applause] [Music]