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Beis Medrash Elyon - Community Event 2015 - Dinner Video
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H are you
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there's no question that a good has been
blessed with a terrific staff which is
able to accomplish the terrific things
that you see here tonight but at the
same time there's a secret ingredient to
their success to our success and that's
you the
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community you know to me a good stroll
represents more than just organization
I've been involved over the years with
many organizations each one playing a
vital role but a good truly serves as an
umbrella organization of Cl and most
important we know that it's all under
the directives of
G that's why it's so
important make a choice with each other
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together in uned
we come together with one voice united
we can make a choice with each
other all together hand in hand united
we take to stand and be stronger
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face face will
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like many of you sitting here tonight I
grew up with NBD songs back in the early
'70s
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he was the originator of his style of
music many have since come and gone but
MBD is still the best and he quite
rightly deserves the title he's earned
which is the king of kidik
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however over the 25 years that I have
known Mor personally I have witnessed
another side to him which is a man who
is using his talents and passion not
just for making a living but for giving
and S to people who are less fortunate
nice a nice face yeah wow is that
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unbelievable back in the times of the
Iron Curtain in Russia traveling to that
part of the world was dangerous together
with
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in his community of Seagate he's a true
ascar during Hurricane Sandy he lost his
whole basement but that was nothing
compared to some of his neighbors who
lost everything and were uninsured he
took upon himself to raise millions of
dollars to rebuild the community and has
helped dozens of families who say that
he literally brought life back to them
MBD has forged a close relationship with
and he is also involved in supporting
his
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coings
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in to say thank you to someone who has
done something for you who does more for
us
every breath we wake up in the morning
the first thing we
say I thank
you he gave me back my I have another
day to live I have another day to do
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mitz I'm privileged to be M's friend as
he is
unquestionably the best performer and
singer in the Jewish music
business but I respect him we
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the r
shalam sends into this world in every
generation certain
individuals who are like shooting
stars just like the shooting star
appears on the in the sky and is very
bright and makes an
impression so there are certain people K
Bahu sends down into this world and are
here for a brief sourn that they achiev
tremendous things and there's much to be
learned from
them one such person was benan
d a
talid and a
friend and a great
philanthropist joined Baka Primary
School Board in the early 90s at the
time we were quite a large Board of
Governors um and he was exceptionally
vocal during the meetings and um with a
very very clear vision of where the
school needs to be he he made a
tremendous impression on me with his way
that he was uh viewing the future of the
school as far as I remember his C with
with the SHA came about
through my daughter married his cousin
and he came from
the and got to
know and through that he developed a cat
with him that was a very deep and warm
cater bety was very involved when we had
a transitional move from a private Moet
to a state aid to a voluntary aided
state school he had a very very clear
Vision what what the basics we are to
continue to
keep if we're talking
about how
is certain that Beni as everybody knew
him so affectionately was in the
category of his own he had a different
Madre of of what I like about
Ben specifically is that he was a real
dgma of an
H um he understood Asus very very well
worked on it appreciated it appreciated
others
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who involved in as understood what they
are going
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through was a friend and relative of the
B
family his close love for all the three
B
rabes his
son and his son-in-law ofba
Ben was an exceptional mix of
a
and on the highest
level
his his charm
was something that pulled everyone who
knew him to want to be close to
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him particular I knew him from
Toyo into which M said he put his heart
and soul and he was special because he
realized that to get the maximum from a
Tal
meant that he needed onetoone
encouragement and it was the same that
he had for
for for anything that the needed it was
his pleasure always to to to be to step
up first and to do what has to be done
bety always found time for our Mo um
could have been late in the evening
early morning during the say whenever
has a phone call that basic needs his
immediate attention he dropped
everything and he and made himself
available that I think a very strong
message uh to arahill that um even if
you're very busy um we try to find time
for our SCH so this is what we need to
learn in general from him that Bren
for there's so few of us there's so few
in the kahila today who have got that
driving ambition to work for the cloud
and without a desire for personal
recognition but just to ensure that the
next
generation is full of people who love
Hashem is and who love his toah
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he wrot that this evening's Mala should
be successful in every possible way and
we should go away from this evening's
event strengthened in our a hasem and
resolving to do as much as we can for
all the in the whatever moist said they
are especially of course it's m