Who are our heroes? - Rabbi Yaakov Bender

that heard that I'm not speaking tonight. Don't worry. On behalf of like to welcome everybody here, everybody upstairs people all over the world joining in to the tremendous we have here and Williamsburg tremendous and just want to remind again tomorrow nightm is the big of the dinner in Avenue East 22nd Street. It's not just about dinner. It's not just about everybody comes together and gets for the new year. It's not just about and America speaking to us, but it's about showing our all over the world. Is it the worldwide project worldwide? Is it locations? Is it daily? Whatever project you're coming to be and this is a big for and you come everybody should come today with us tremendous he has thousands of one minute I have to say call announcements But he found the time important. He wants to speak to every today. is being supported by family and also the call to give us to tell us who are our heroes. You said lang. I thank Rabbi B for his kind words. The title tonight was I asked Rabbi B about two months ago and we decided this week I think is the last night of this summer sessions correct tomorrow night at the big dinner which I hope you'll be very so I asked Rabbi B then what I should speak about he said speak about positive things I assume he probably thought that after two months of dras everybody got beat up already for two months straight was mus so positive so the title I think the heroes of Israel I want to thank also the bust who's not here right now for hosting every year after year to fix up the sh very nicely and and ra particular He just shows what one single individual could do. One individual went and made a program. He runs it by himself. Out of his pocket, he runs it and so we're very grateful to him. Who are the heroes of the heroes of is sitting right here. They're sitting in every says there are thousands of people watching now. Everybody's a hero of what's going on today with Tyra. It's hard to imagine that between 1900 1920 2 million Jews came from Russia 2 million Jews and Kamat Koul is similated this Kamat nothing left by Seagull sitting we grew up in Williamsburg then what did we have how many people were from and talking about in the 50s how many people were from garnish garnish GMG nothing with nothing garnish garnish GMG the kids [laughter] what what happened over here the heroes are people are sitting on 9:00 at night they could be sitting home, you know, getting himself a TV, sitting back in reclining and watching and you're coming here to learn. I feel sorry you have to listen to me. But but really the heroes of Metsk, one man over there, you're sitting here. There's one Sham Shabu Rab that became the pace setter. Your kids are running a program this summer in the mountains. I spoke for him this summer. It's your kids the twins, right? Mz went ahead and made the Shamri Shabas. Imagine the millions of pe millions of of dabbing that's gone on in what they call million factories there cuz one Jew said it's going to happen ask him later when the last time Mr. a little bit ask him he won't remember that's how long it was 70 who knows how many years ago I don't say how old he is so you have the heroes of are the people who every day that's so we'll speak about tonight I normally never go over time and I hope not go over tonight but there's so much to talk about the heroes of every person here what's going on is incredible incredible what's going on the learning of you can't find looking at next week's par at the end of the par after the the which is mostly until this week's last week's bit. It's all it's it's the ultimate he he really sums it up before we get after the is the final blow. And then it says etc etc didn't give you the heart to understand comes from the heart and eyes to see because interesting Hashem didn't give it till today what's today rashi is based on this command no rashi not based says, he says it twice. I heard is not basing on what I hear. That day when he said you didn't get the heart, the eyes and the ears till that day he's talking about that day had one and he gave it to he gave it to them right he gave God's came before he goes uh oh yeah it's coming together again they all came all the you have all of we have all this we're talking about heroes the opposite time for of course and I said to we also stood in we we received the was given to us to us everybody got the Why are you giving the control of the why you giving them? What are you doing? Say to us one day tomorrow meaning when you are no longer here it's not your it's ours. This happened in par and said come on we also want to cover it. So what's going to happen over here? became he became excited. The opposite of you want to learn. He said to them, thank you today. You're a nation because you want to learn. Is there a bigger than today in Israel? Morty Melman just told a few minutes ago that right now a few blocks away there's another issue going on. Rebell your brother is giving a vat tonight. Wherever you turn, there's vis. Unbelievable. Do you always tens of thousands of people learning dafy? I went to the first big scene dy 3,000 people and today what it's going on today. What a dire. The heroes of client that are sitting and learning every minute. The heroes of clown. So you know what we are but think of ourselves in a different way by sight didn't exist. It didn't exist. All this pirate they're learning. This is the is telling us how didn't give you till today. You know why? Because saying we want the Tyra comes along and he makes a program and thousands of people are watching all over the world. There's a parro there's a parro rabbi said the other day there was a child that was lost. 1,500 people dropped what they were doing to go search for one little six-year-old kid. for 6 and 8 hours the child was lost a nephew of mine a great nephew of mine but hashem he's fine I went to go see him tonight before I didn't make it in time so that exists by talking the word other people of the world that exist that idea what drop I remember now when feldman was lost many don't remember it that bus came in front of mir yeshiva to go search for surf feldman you know who's getting on the bus if bam IS GETTING ON THE REMEMBER WAS GETTING ON THE BUS WHO HAD not long before massive heart attack a kid and I remember once in the mountains when I was in my another kid got lost in a camp he's going on chap he's going he's going I said you can't go he was going on chapas call is so listen to this ra I put together different places what I'm saying NOW I MET A JEW HE TOLD ME THAT IN WORLD WAR II he followed around the on all his appeals what's called organization called Vatah means means they were going to save Eden in Europe. Yeshivaite in Japan where they were they were saving people went around and he said he followed him around as he told me and he gave the exact same drussia every single place he went. That's right. Nobody go close to the mountain. It says over there. You go too close to the mountain, you know what's going to happen? Many might die. So I feel one is thousands. One, you know, one person isn't Israel. What bothered what bothered Rashi? Of course. Why doesn't he didn't say enough? It should have been a Russian rabbin. No, it means many people was called one Jew by you know mean to save a Jew. Well means to save one yeet. So the world stopped less than a week ago. The world stopped. There's a kid a kid missing. A child is missing. We can't function now. I'm going on the bus. I'm going over there with how that's all happened. How that's all happened. He was standing in front of the People the Heroes of CL standing in front of People on Ry Street in Williamsburg and the collapses and they call those days you didn't call 911. You called zero for the operator. And they waited and they waited and they waited and they waited and he 45 minutes he was knew about medicine like in zero he says this cannot be this cannot be we're going to make I believe that was the year can't be medicine nothing zero he put together it is the largest volunteer first aid volunteer organization in the entire world today from the heroes of when they made I want to tell you what took place the four members was ter make an organization the four volunteers went up to a room 35's classroom and then with four oxygen tanks he puts them on the desk there wasn't even a case say nothing yet there special a special wrench to open it up and he hands out each of the four guys a first aid book from the what [clears throat] the American first aid school and he hands them a bag of stickers he says tonight you walk around to the whole community AND GIVE OUT STICKERS to put on the phone then it was 38 evergreen 7 3871750 THE GUY SAID WE DON'T we don't know anything before guy said we don't know we don't know nothing don't worry he said this is oxy tank he says you go you go around first to hand out stickers to the whole population of flush that's it and then they'll CALL YOU BUT THEY KEPT GOING make an arrangement to send an ambulance that's They used to company called Midwood Ambulance. I think it's still around Midwood Ambulance. Thanks. Midwood ambulance that if there's a call, they're not doctors. You're not doctors. Says you're there to stabilize the patient till they go. And those today medics that's your job finished. So guy has chest pain, turn on the oxygen tank, give him oxygen. What if guy has a headache? Give him oxygen. What if guy breaks his leg? Give him oxygen. Actually, what are you going to do over there? Hotsol is the biggest part of the entire flatbush entire solo organization anywhere because the heroes of kalisol one you said it's going to be and today you can't get into you can't even become a member if people want to become members they don't want people to come rusty it's very important I asked once the headization they're afraid if a guy doesn't go too often he'll become rusty so they want to have a limited amount of people the says look at the where's heaven Oh, you know what the T says? Listen to the T say I I can see, you know, the words are are amazing. Listen, I'm sorry. The blood for all those children that heaven would had and grandchildren screaming out in the earth. It would have been what it means one person to die. It means dyus and dyus and dyus and dyus for it's what the heroes of Israel this hero sitting here in every room of the holy were unbelievable. They were unbelievable what goes on SAY WE'RE SUCH SPECIAL people to start instead of you're sitting and learning terror is special giving up the time to learn terror they start such group handicapped children today and I have when I was a kid growing up they sat in the back of the room they suck their thumb kid can't learn he sat in the back dummy got D's on his report got U's and Z's whatever they g report finishing go what's going on today I went to visit and pesk a few weeks ago they asked me to come the over there the from the counselors from the giving over to the kids it's the rush 271 kids ri of them in hospitals they have an infirmary that's to take care of 200 kids every single day what's just ask and how many camps don't have special groups for the down syndrome kids what's going on for lifeline what goes on campa what goes We don't step in place. They stop to think about the heroes. What's going on today? What we are clue they activate campaigns for money. Those who don't DON'T GO guilt lifeline. What's going on today? Rabbi said there were two and done what's to each other. Part of the 12 and done an amazing thing says something. later he says and whenever there's a census or a count in that's where the counts all are and dun are next to each other there's no really rhyme or reason they're not from the same they weren't in the age order why are they together why are they together I think the parad is param look even I didn't see him and then done is the third one I'm sorry the last one third one of the third dagel and the first one of the fourth is done they're together all the time you're about you know done it together all the time it's an amazing thing always together because when kil came down to from maritam came with 10 children points out exactly exactly why each one of the names of the names hoop him cuz I missed the of my brother 10 children and [clears throat] what's b plural why is it plural is comes with 10 kids and Don has one handicap child tells us he couldn't hear he couldn't talk in the olden days everybody say it was shrek women growing up that that was a sign language. People who couldn't hear they were relegated to nothing to obscurity they couldn't do anything they still have us older people today that you see image couldn't do anything couldn't function today it's told implants but so don has himself one SINGLE CHILD ONE CHILD who's handicapped right so what happens when it came time to bury along comes he says it's mine it's mine Oh no, you sold the father the archive. Really? Where's the star of smart cookie? As where's the star? We have thear. It's an earth right now. Sorry, it's mine. They took a ran back to go get thear. He ran very quickly. He go went to getar. In the meantime comes along the says who couldn't hear. They couldn't hear give a long wonderful wonderful what they to us in this story that couldn't hear not for now he gives so comes over he sees trouble goes over to he chops off his head his head rolls into andesh of at the end of parl you the same day referring to This they're both buried on the same day. Jacob and Asaf who does it. He said where is 12 powerful shifted Israel don comes along and says the handicapped one he's the one he's in control let's wait so how many people is 10 mathematicians get ready and and how much is done one let's go to midbar the first major census bin has right has okay in in in the thing 35,400 people I believe so how much you don't have mathematicians 3,540. 200 years later, he has two years. He's one/10enth. Binyam has 35,400 and Don has 62,700 people. Almost double. That's like 20 times more almost than what happened came with 10 people. Now he's 35,400. Don came with one person. And look who he is. Cuz Don said, "I'm not going to let my son fall by the wayside. I'm going to make him into something. I'm going to take my handicapped son and make him into something. That's benon. Rabbi say that's the the plural. The terror is telling us the plural. You know why? Look what came out of one done because he WENT BECAUSE HIS FATHER DONE. SO I'M NOT GOING TO let what's going on today to help handicap children. Everybody say I wish you shouldn't say this. Everybody would do the same thing helping out these kids. But all right. No Mus today. It's unbelievable. I said it's unbelievable what's going on all these organizations and half of a fella half fell went to last night starcheski came over take a picture with ME I SAID GIVE ME AND HE SENT ME THE picture today I'm so excited you know I'm talking about the son don't know that cuz today we're taking care of these kids we're not every Jew counts every don say mar the gal with byam and don doesn't matter you have 10 kids and I have one kid and he's handicapped look what [laughter] he could become tells us famous about heroes. Everybody's a hero. You open that gum. When you have a to go listen to a sports game and you open up your gar, you're a hero. Rabbi say you're a hero. Whatever you're doing, whatever you're doing could open a gumar dear shoe. What's going with tears? The amount of people taking tests. I I took the test once it's scary. I do that. I mean, I'm up. I'm doing this. I'm this round with Tyus. Got to find time. It's a big problem. I got to I got to do two yeshiva. [gasps] It's difficult. I but I finding time you know I do you can't talk TO I GOT A PLAN I HAVE to have time sitting you waste an hour waiting for the photographer to come down it's a perfect time you go hide somewhere and finish and you it's hard it's very hard we are the heroes rabbi say we are the heroes every Jew wherever he is is a hero is traveling home to he has donkeys laden with all kinds of wonderful foods and he's going home a happy manu because no matter not ever happened. He used to say gamifa everything happens in the merc stories about him and Anie comes over to him and he says to him when he's riding along he says give me aassess give me something to eat says wait a minute I come get down the get get off the donkey and I'll open up I give it to he gets off he starts unpacking and the Eid neies gets so upset Muhammad gets so upset. You know what he says? His eyes that didn't have him should be cut out. I should go back to what happened was they came to visit him. Tom came to visit him. I left out the first part of Tom came to visit him and he was laying on a bed without hands without feet without eyes and all four posts of the bed were in pales of water that the ant shouldn't crawl up on him. They said, "Rebby, what happened to you? What happened to you?" such a mat such a mat. Wow. How did this happen to you? But they story he was going. So he says his eyes the eyes didn't have the hands didn't move fast enough. The feet that didn't move fast enough should all be cut off the gun. But what did he do wrong? What did he do wrong? He said, "Wait a second. I'm sure he didn't crut around. He jumped off probably and he opened up the package and he said here." Oh, too late. My hands, his feet, his hands is it finished. What did he do wrong? He said it. I heard it from someone who was there at the executive director now of he said he said he imitated's voice. [screaming] He should have had a roll in HIS POCKET IN CASE of money comes to him bulk in cash. He should have a bulk roll in his pocket. Yeah. Immediately should never go to a hospital. He goes on in hospitals today. They're vying to bring you food. The bigs have going to the bigs. My son was called they have seven hospitals already with whatever you want. Shabas the food. Not just them and it becomes a bar park in Mount Square 24/7 organization. You don't have to wait for you don't have to wait for a bulk. It's there wherever you turn the organization. You talk about heroes today. What goes on today? There's not a place a person goes today and rooms and rooms whatever you need today. There's 6 book AND SIX ZILLION CASH TODAY. That's what's going on today. We are unbelievable nation. Say where do you have a better nation than us? What they do is incredible person get sick in the community CALL BRING A CAR PICK YOU UP. I THOUGHT there he needs he came my office to visit me. He had to go for chemo in Manhattan. He said [clears throat] I got to go now. He said I told him my driver to pick me up. Who's your driver? I walk him out the front of the building. One of the nicest balabatim, a quiet, wonderful man, drives up a very nice car and he says, "Oh, there's my driver." He says to me, I said, "You also?" He says, "Why?" He said, "I retired." He said, "I'm retired now. What should I do all day?" He learns, by the way, the heat. And we see his name get upset with me. He was Goldberg. Wonderful people. I retired. So, why don't we do my time? He came to pick up Yasi to take him to the hospital for chemotherapy. I said, "Do you realize how many hours this is going to be if radiation he was going? I'm sorry. How many hours go to Manhattan from far away? I slept going. It's a 5h hour day and he does it all the time." This man told me he's not a hero of say he could sit home, relax, go for a walk with his wife. He can do whatever he wants or say. Comes up with a fancy car, nice car, very car. Takes the guy and puts him into the car. He takes him to the hospital and he waits three hours while they're doing it and drives him back. We're [clears throat] not heroes. What's going on with us? The houses for that's going on you memorial caring the apartments that lifted up the apartments the big going on you know every big has [laughter] magazine if you want to eat THEY'RE JUST FOOD WHATEVER YOU WANT THEY GIVE YOU THE SUMMER ONES THEY GIVE ME THE BLOT AND EAT WHATEVER THEY GIVE PREPARE be Jewish feel comfortable I eat feel comfortable the heroes of you saw what's going on I have a list here everybody said 50 different things I sat I asked people to help me out and I can give all 50 today organizations you know in lakewood There's a sign for gamak and yes when I looked at the sign about 10 years ago there were 250 gs on there I counted the 250 G YOU NAME IT YOU CAN HAVE for it there was zero shel what a he was he had the table and chairs AS FAR AS DAM BIG YOU HAVE to write nothing down you need makewood you can't make money to if you're if if you're a guy who rents out chairs and tables Unless you had the fancy ones for who knows what you can't you just go up to the garage you pick up the garage you take the tables and chairs and return them and if he loses a few used to say afterwards who cares whatever you need there's a pamper rabb if you need pampers you have five minutes before chappers what do you do you can run over somebody get pampers pens and pencils whatever you need without heroes go try telling it to try telling it to them what goes on by us try telling it to TRY TELLING THEM WHAT IT MEANS. Wherever you turn, wherever you turn today, you can't go anywhere without it. It's unbelievable. [clears throat] I'm trying to choose now a little bit. You're coming to me beside away from me and suka. I'm a little bit ahead. I go I'm always afraid I'll fall behind. I'm a little OCDish because the mish brings over there different that you can't do a till you do buries you can't do c till you do d for example a child can't wear film why because he can't watch them in the kus when he's able to watch the tomb in the kios you can put it on a person you don't give a a person a child a lose to shake until he knows they do not interesting says that if a child wants to go to the g to get them ISIS over there in the g right away get them He can only go after he starts dling. There was this year when I hear this many many years ago. Yes. The kasha everything has a connection. You can't you shake the you know how do you can't put on film until you know how to keep them right? can't go to get the what's the says forever the is he takes and he takes and he takes you want to take first give bench to other PEOPLE BENCH CL YOURSELF IT'S NOT ENOUGH to bench got to bench WHEN YOU LEARN HOW TO BENCH A HUGE YOU THEN YOU CAN GO TAKE THE for yourself before that you can't take it but we give you what it was to be if offending anybody's sensitivities I don't know the over here online what it means to be childless what it means to be childless today's day all those days and ages I remember growing up after the war we were after the war there many people in didn't have kids they still take care of all of those people he has we have two organizations at a time and what what they're doing for people there's so many you you name The problem these are not heroes. One Bakd never had his own children. Rabbi say never had his own children. Bak never anyization for Israel. People should have children. We're living in a rab of so much of so many HEROES AND SO MUCH AND SO MUCH AT THE SAME TIME. The Tyra is incredible. Wherever you turn SHOES ARE PACKED ARE PACKED WITH PEOPLE SITTING AND LEARNING what's going on is incredible right bull says heroes where you turned as heroes so many heroes heroes we're special people we're special people you sign him Rabbi you sign him alise I have a president he once told me he told me he says words change over time they have new definitions. I'll give you my own mushel. The word chill. 30 years ago it meant something is cold. It gets chilled. Right? Today it's a non the word chill. Guy's not behaving. Chill out pal. Right? Chill out. A different word. But he said to you one word never changed in all the years since the word alman. I lived in Alman for many many years. My mother she was strong. She brought some into my house. You know what it's like says out of your mouth. So Rashi says over there by the way always bothered me who Rashi says over there it's not only true anybody if you start up with somebody same now it's very hard to see the next line of rash speaks about what's common they're weak. It's it's commonly found people gave them paying vice versa said he should watch himself give clothes brought down the story. wasn't who goes up to and gives him a patch. It doesn't make any sense. Everybody say the person we we we inadvertently we be we we we chaper people everybody. So I always shot it doesn't mean anybody that's in American is words today Harry's nebs by me those those are fullletter words what do you mean Harry in front of a guy he's a Harry he's a neb he's this he's that is somebody and I was learning and he says over there brings the He adds two words. It's a I think he adds two words came up to me. 21 came up with me. Says Rabbi, how can you always worry about the why don't you worry about the divorce kids? I said to be I worry the divorced kids also. He says but no one has he says you know are impossible people feel. He says we grew up in houses where fathers and mothers always fighting. So not everybody's worried about he's [clears throat] right now you know what's going on or organizations today what's going on there's a links organization links organization is for girls you say I try to go to fash once in a while do you know that and the these club name girls is the boys party organization the sister the sister for divorced ladies the men have their own organization massive organization sister the sister helping out people this you don't have enough room that to divide it up now the for the younger ones and the older ones because there's so many people the you know what they do with it how they whine and dying the women by how they whine and dying the what they give for theim and for these organizations never existed rabbi say today's the heroes OF TODAY'S DIRE WHAT'S GOING ON TODAY IS INCREDIBLE RABBI SAY incredible everybody didn't exist before today and now We have it in our It's incredible. And now what goes on is incredible. The heroes of what a nation of people we are s who we are this people are giving me with kids that offer. People say there were no kids off to Derek. We were going growing up. Sure. And I'm George Washington. No kids. After eighth grade my father's was a magaz bald's uncle very close friends he was a you know that huh my father your father shapsi ball are you kidding bloomy was the knew your mother right my father knew shapsi pur I want to see had a point about that. Huh? Off the direct say one more thing I wanted to say. So they took my father out of his job as a 10th grade rebby pal was the ninth grade. My father was a 10th grade rebby later found was the 11th grade rebby goes up to my father I'm putting you in his manal of the junior high inas I like teaching y was in his class he had such tell me actually my mother once told me that my father on a Friday morning and the would come Friday night to his house cake and soda wasn't cholting those days cake and soda to the house they all come and there was a massive snowstorm on Friday massive snowstorm the b didn't come of course 12:00 is a knock on the door yank Shift a brisker only sole surviving childhood. Karov Yankliffe's wife. Yankl shiff was an American boy. He comes to the house rebasha. My father told me he loved teaching. He loved teaching told him no. The kids are going to public school after elementary school. You got to stop it. I need my father was a young American dynamic bent who learn went to Europe to learn. He was a dynamite of a person and he put him in and it helped tack a lot. If I told him he felt big misgiving the and people give up their lives today there's a wall team with the running over the yeshiva with the running the yeshiva we have a problem FOR UGLY I CALL THEM RIGHT AWAY THERE'S SO MANY organizations today heroes of clasel we are a special nation what's going on today it's not it's not shy I can say it again and again we're different say we're different we worry about we one person you have a flat tire you worry about say you I 3:00 in the morning. No problem. He's there right away. He's there right away. There right away. Train told me today that his son had to get something out of his car and he wasn't around. So he got out of his car train. So he asked afterwards, "How'd you get out of my car?" He says, "The door locked is a problem for me." He says, "You weren't around. I don't want to open up the door." He helps out people. Whatever. He helps them out to get things out of their cars. do whatever you need. Shime and Shmira this organization. I can't even I can't even keep track of them anymore. I saw 1,500 people that came over. Did you see the organizations? And Mask Yank Yankee Maya one guy, one Jew, Yankee Maya decided what a number it is. People used to worry slept from here, I slept from there. It's just that one part of asking him bringing the chairs and bringing the safety store whatever they bring. The heroes of today's d these are heroes say the heroes of today's d we have them around the I'm sitting in this room is everybody I'm just skipping through quickly because I have to know and stop when you [clears throat] cry was once told over that he became sick he became sick the doctors gave him six months to live. 6 months to live. So he ran to the He went to the stiper rabbler. He says to the ster, "What should I do?" He said to him, "Go out there and raise money. That's it." So he told him, "I want to tell you why." He says, "We d every morning." What? doing in the middle that's recying prizes. What's it doing in the middle? Right. He says cuz if you want to stop go out there. He raised for the next 25 years $30 million himself. This is the time of $30 million was a lot of money today. Rabbi said the amount goes on now. We used to go on if a person needed to make a in Europe. All the stories are by say today people stand online to give money. They want to help. What a nation of we are a nation of heroes. What they are wherever you turn. There's not enough holes today. Not enough. I want to tell you a story. There's a Eid of Eid. Eagle is his name. The one who runs the Elvalda. Eagle. Eagle, right? Eagle is his name. Yeah, he runs Elvalda. He once told me, you know, his first rabbitson was Nifa while he was building up the hall. It's called teras teras Rifka named for his first wife. So he told me he had a ninefall when she was sick. He's going to make a hall. He's going to make a hall to a light. Cheaper hall. I have a barak he very close to the beller very very close to him he told me he went these poor people told me story and I told the whole world no he doesn't mind I asked him he doesn't mind he went to the berv and he said to the boy a wedding go I build a hall for the armalite the berv says big person he stands up say at me he said I build a hall for THE ARMALITE YOU BUILT A BEAUTIFUL HALL for them it's a very nice Take where do you have this in Lakewood? Wherever you turn today, the halls, you know what it means today for $15 the I'm sorry today for $8 $9,000 including music and flowers and all good never HAPPENED BEFORE. PEOPLE WENT BANKRUPT on weddings. People went bankrupt. I fig when I say that's it, it's not find any more organizations. You can't. Everything is done and done already organization a new one. Every day there's a new one because the heroes of the heroes of Israel when it means the heroes of Israel caring about individuals it's a separate topic and deserves a whole caring about individuals you could go to aba and sit for four hours they give you all the family world one child I won't tell you a story heard from Gian I heard it might say a story. I know exactly where I got it from. Lived in Barak 18th Avenue on top of a couple they had kids. The woman in that house of your house got something called MS multiple sclerosis. She was sick. It's a disease that today of holding it medications bestind. It's not good. But the kids she became pregnant the doctor said forget it. It's going to kill. It's going to hurt her very badly. She could she could die from it. They have to abort the child immediately. Finish the child right word for word. They went to was the was the barak. Then they went to ask him what do we do? Thought thought said go to the east side. The one man that rebel with he sent from Israel sent shilas to America to the one person you know the kids enter says tell me all the details tell me all the details I told him all the details I mean I used to go my mother used to send me to the east side shouts for giving a name whatever we always did went to was busy day and night and day and night and day and night and It's not he never had to think him and never had to think one second. He answered immediately to the source to the root to the to the right on the spot. Says, "Give me the details." He said, "Come back to a few hours. Maybe wants to talk to a few doctors." He says, "You should have the baby. You'll be gaz. The child will be gazant." So, of course, the child was gizant. The child was born and the mother certainly didn't worsen. And that baby gazak finish tells me one day he's going down he's going down the steps and he hears a tum just so that in the middle in the neighbor's house he runs over there you know there's a sick lady there he says what's the excitement over here he says YOU'RE ON THE PHONE now is on the phone now [laughter] asking asking for the mother he's standing there says so he's standing there says to the mother according to my husband your baby's one year old Today I called to say happy birthday. I heard from who was standing there. I called to say happy birthday to you to this lady. I told it over somewhere number of years later this he says it's true. He says it's my brother's birthday. It was my brother. Every year came to the birthday of a child to make the mother happy. Imagine the mother. We said we could do it. We could do it. You can make a man once a week. I'm going to do is it is it shovel the stone. You can DO WHATEVER YOU WANT. YOU could do it's so easy to help out somebody does it. Everybody's a hero. I say everybody's happy birthday. The goes on telly he once told me FAMOUS of Israel they got some ice over there who he got wiped whatever HAPPENED OVER THERE THAT DAY MANY things happened to change that day because till then you had to pay to get into the bish and you had to be he made a new rule. He made a new rule made a new rule. YOU WANT TO LEARN TI go learn terra today's da I said today's dra you want to learn t you go wherever you want to go you can learn t girl what they did for the world it's unbelievable you can learn to every it's the heroes of clients for everybody say so that day says they added 400 seats to the base why don't you just say they 400 more people came into mish 400 seats well what shot that 400 seats So see they added it says benches over there. Maybe they add benches. Each one has four seats. So 1600 seats maybe 700 400 700 over there. So maybe means benches. I don't know. They came in and they said here sit down. Know the difference when it means he comes into sh doesn't know where to sit down. It's my seat. Your seat. I've seen it. Everybody say here's a benalow. Have a seat. They didn't just tell come in. They made him comfortable. That's today's cla say that's today's cla we take care of everybody who tried to anyways somebody told me he was living in Atlanta there was a hurricane in Florida two years ago hurricane in Florida two years ago and they had to run away they they told to run they went to Atlanta 500 people got there Friday AFTERNOON IN NO TIME WHAT GOES ON he taught US what But I remember we know I know every train once told you know the psych he tell psychologist they'll laugh at you. Surely the same train once told me that most of his life he slept on the floor in his house for the amount of guests they have in the house. Morty Florence [snorts] some people I know most of the year most of he left on the floors he saw psychologist take a kid out of his bed put him on the floor I thought sugar the kid go the kid kid go to direct what happened to the kid she wouldn't train a very normal guy on the floor today what goes on it's not sh it's unbelievable what goes on hurricane Sandy to you meant nothing or say you lived in lap you had a very comfortable life hurricane Sandy lived in wasn't on I remember like yesterday when it happened 7 8 9 years ago suddenly lights went out my basement goodbye you know means to watching your refrigerator you're floating along refrigerators and furniture destroyed 1500 homes were destroyed people got to work immediately immediately went on what is the same when they said bring stuff for the bring stuff right bring stuff for the right It was too much here. That's it. This is for the Mishkan. Said no more is don't bring anymore. It's fine. We're fine. We have enough. There was so many trucks from all across the world sending clothing and food to Farakaway that they had to turn away the trucks. There was meals served for the next three, four weeks, breakfast, lunches up in three places. Anybody had whatever they wanted. I go out one morning, second day after the flood. I see a guy standing there. He says, "Hey, Rabbi, you want?" He says to me, "You you you want a Danish and a coffee." I said, "Rabbi," I didn't need it then and hadn't happened yet. I go over to the He has a car there, a van set up over there. He says, "Who are you?" I said, "I I had [clears throat] to, you know, it's a it's a book." He says, "People need a coffee in the morning." He came from Burough with three big tanks of coffee. He set up in his van with a few hundred Danishes and everyone is carrying to have a Danish coffee in the morning. Make them feel comfortable. We're clowns. We're heroes. We're clown Israel. We We are such heroes today. Everybody say that's after a whole year, a whole summer of listening to all the it's wonderful. The Muslim is very important. That's who we are and what we are. I can't tell you what went on in Sandy. Then I will tell you something. I was driving to Brooklyn during Sandy. I see a line of nish mentioned waiting by 67 by [clears throat] right waiting line. They're waiting for soggy Red Cross sandwiches. All waiting there for soggy Red Cross sandwiches. Kobe Maza was going on. I talk about catered meals and clothing. The nicest, fanciest clothing everybody wanted. We're heroes, guys. Realize who we are. We walk out of here tonight to the shul wherever you're listening over there. I b say thousands. Walk out here saying proud of yourself what we could do. What a y COULD DO. EVERY Y COULD DO. Walk out here saying look look who we are. CALL WHAT A SPECIAL NATION. I have a list. I'm stopping. We are special. Rabbi say we can't stop. We can't forget for a second who we are. What our nation is. Doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. We're a wonderful wonder. He got stuck so many the teacher there was a Mr. Rivka Gutkin who's a teacher in our school here we was she told me once didn't was a single shabas come out didn't have guest house on chabas you know where she lived Omaha Nebraska her father was ah I said what shab guest he says I got she told me that Omaha was a hub for certain aine so people always got stuck there for shabas they would open up the phone book right look for a rabbi they're stuck there got for shabas the phone book something you call phone book years ago rabbi book or phone books, whatever it was. There was phone boots, said it was tokens on subways, whatever it was. So says people needed to have a place. They look for it was called a reverend. He was in the book. Was it a rabbi as Shabas? It's a we give we give away the last the last piece of this DRINK OF WATER. WE HAVE to give away to Yanim. That's the heroes of you. Rab every person here is a hero. every person both imperial we started out before and let's continue be heroes to help other people help ourselves a wow who's our heroes is our hero he made all of us heroes tonight such limits unbelievable all the have to up all the also like to thank the supporters of fish and Mr. for sponsoring today's tomorrow night is the big dinner. Please, we're asking everybody, look how much we got tonight. Look how much thousands of people all over the world are getting tonight. You want to be part of it. You want to be part of not just coming and getting yourself. You want to be part of the people that's creating this for all over the world. this machine of which is creating all over the world please call you want to sponsor we have the every Sunday Rabbi Smith in the stack in English we have many in many different neighborhoods worldwide soon many locations in America it's yeshiv for thousands of kids coming every day big be part of Calling 7188518651. 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