Reishit Dinner 2018 - Alumnus of the Year: Joshua & Devorah Chaitovsky

we have anymore of those large chairs I only found this one it's very nice I'm being honored and you take the picture ready start so the past 17 years of flew by there's no question that the gray train were great but the the SHA was expensive Binney Brock really had a strong profound influence on me I was told this is an advertisement for farmers pantry so I'm very humbled to be honored this year with snack of the year and farmers pantry corn bread Chris we sell them throughout the southeast throughout Walmart in different parts of the country grateful for this honor to the snack of the year so I don't know how much time we have I was you know actually what a dissertation on me Eric in Israel so I still have about a half hour to share with everyone but one of the first thing I remember coming off the plane was every single one of the kids the reveille knew their name it was a nice welcoming experience we were the second year in Beit Shemesh fortunate enough to be in the new building but not as it is today the friends I have now our friends that I've had since then and 17 years later still very close with a lot of them and still even today speaking to the remain pretty regular basis during the year this many years later and the connections that you have with them is just incredible I never feel like I can't call them or email them with any questions and it's also interesting how there's a handful of different tile medium that would they're after us that went back as robbee which is pretty unique obviously a tribute to what they do and how they instill that aspect of the love of Israel and then at the same time the love of learning in the business world there's a fine balance between obviously yudish kite and also how to control and handle yourself in dealing in the regular world and there is definitely that that learning of that you know being able to take parts that I enjoyed learning I guess without realizing it again at the time really made a big difference to you know understanding a lot of different hello hosts that I very practical today and another part of it is the family bounce the Rabanne would always have us for shavasana and it was nice and you see how just the interaction with them with their families and now having my own family and how important it is for being around either sitting Friday night going through partial with them or just bringing them to show after I graduated college I went back there out basically every January I went back there continuously for about four or five years in a row but it was it was great I mean the ravine that was still there being able to just go right into the normal way of life and it was really enjoyable and I'm obviously grateful that I had that opportunity as well a few weeks ago I was in show someone came over and said Oh Mazel Tov and I no idea who it was obviously he went to Rishi and it was like an immediate you have a connection like that mutual connection automatically starts from oh you're a tration and then you have like a very different feeling towards the people like you knew them I think they really do try to stay connected which is great because life does get busy and it's not always easy to stay focused on your past as much as you used to but it's I'm happy they do and I'm grateful that I've been able to be a part of it and and the impact it's made on me and my family and now this many years later it's been an amazing opportunity to have spent the year doing this and being able to make the connections I did and still have those connections to today