U S Senator Rand Paul in Lakewood at Dr Roberts Luncheon

see that g m a h gak gak stands for GIS haset which means act doing acts of loving kindness for people acts of compassion of loving kindness a gamak is a free loan Society where things generally could be money but could be other things are loaned out for free now there's no government agency telling people that they have to open up a Kamas there's no Rabbi there's no institution here telling someone they have to open up a k it's just people who want to serve other serve God by helping other people for no compensation at all open the gachs so I'm going to just start reading the G there's the boys tuxedo G that's what they Lear out there's a circumcision outfit and pill there's the go for CDs want to listen to CD with lectures on them costume the coming costume dehumidifier they have a but this is one that I feel only comfortable saying in front of the police but it's a radar detector com obviously just so they know where the police are they can show off to the police the fact that they've been driving within the speed limit the whole time now what would I get the senator in my experience I look at my kids or whatever if they talk about something a lot that's what they want right that's like a hint htin you know talk about the laptop computer and this laptop that laptop they want a laptop computer so I thought I'd get him something that I think he talked about a lot so must be that he wants one so here it is you can open that up my own personal drone his own but I want to tell you something you're not allowed to use this against Americans when Americans and thank you to the Roberts for not only inviting me into their home but uh for sponsoring and taking us all to Israel we had a a wonderful time in Israel that was the uh first time that I'd been over there first time my kids had been overseas and we came back with a lot of great memories and a lot of great photographs too we have a uh picture of my son running up to the top of Mada and uh they say the special fores run up there in all their gear and then have their ceremony up there um he didn't have any special gear on in fact he taking his shirt off but he was running the top and so my wife went uh walked to the top uh my two sons ran or walked up there and I went up to the cable car said are we there yet are we there yet so but I made it to the top but we had a great time there and I thank Dr Roberts for for for doing that I think that U you know one of the things that um we came home with is I think you've got my wife this close she's thinking about becoming an orthodox je she she's close and if somebody wants to try to grab her I think she's there but she she likes the whole idea of like you know no electricity and candle light not doing anything she likes the fact that we try to keep TV and all the bad influences out of your lives and some of us aren't strong enough but I think the Traditions are good um and I think some of what we're missing in our country is then Traditions going away your Traditions are I don't know 5 6,000 years old there a long time but uh in our country things are changing so rapidly but not all for the good I mean we're losing things that keep uh these boundaries that are in many ways self-imposed that keep us uh you know um a a good people our founding fathers said that with all the freedom they were going to give us that it also required virtue and that uh to have a democracy you needed a virtuous people people say that you know the only type of Freedom that's consistent or the only type of restraint that's consistent with freedom is self-restraint that's what you get from your tradition you you learn right from wrong you believe right from wrong and in that uh we have that shared tradition you know and I think uh whether you're Christian or Jewish we believe in this shared tradition the shared tradition is knowing that there is a right and a wrong now well when Dr Roberts took me to a Shabbat we had a great time it his Shabbat and we Yeshiva Kiva were there and singing and dancing and we had a wonderful time and uh we got to learn a little bit of the traditions and I think Traditions are important that Shabbat you talked to a little bit about loyalty and I think loyalty is a great trait too it's a it's a trait that uh is something that is very important and something that I prize but you said something about loyalty in your introduction and I I really take that to heart we um traveled around Israel and uh we encountered uh I think most of the different plagues we had we we didn't have any Locust but uh we tried to get from Jerusalem up to the Sea of Galilee and the road was actually flooded out we drove two hours North and then we had to go turn around and go all the way back almost to Jerusalem and around through Tel on the way still to Sea of gal we had a rock slide covered the uh covered the road we finally made it up to the Sea of gal went up to the um Golan Heights went all the way down into the the desert through Jerusalem and it was a spectacular trip when I think about what we face as a country I think some of the things when I talk about that we need to to adhere to our Traditions is that it isn't all about politicians you know you have leaders in your community many of whom are here today they're as important as your politicians or more when you think about it can I make you a better person can I make you a good community no you do it yourselves you don't want the government getting in the way of what you're trying to do that's another reason that to to it's important who you elect but it's also important that we not think that oh we're just going to somehow the the the sort of the moral decline we have in our country is going to come about through me it's not it's going to come out through through your local leaders and through your community and uh I think by example the rest of us need to be following some of the things you're doing here as well but I want to thank Dr Roberts for letting me come today and letting me be a part of this my friends thanks wi was delicious we loed up all right you want