Beis Medrash Elyon - Community Event 2015 - Dinner Video

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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 Music 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 [Music] unbelievable back in the times of the Iron Curtain in Russia traveling to that part of the world was dangerous together with [Music] 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 [Music] coings [Music] 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 [Music] 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 [Music] 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 [Music] who involved in as understood what they are going [Music] 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 [Music] 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 [Music] 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