Chesed 24/7 Event Promo Video

A few years back, traveling for business, I'm in the Philippines and as I always do, I look for the local synagogue. I walk inside, I see someone I never met before. He gives me a big hug. He tells me, "You don't know me." He goes, "But I'm assuming your father is Eli." I said, "He is." He goes, "From Beirut?" I said, "Yes." He said, [music] "He and your father were best friends. It's a small world. Anywhere you go, you're going to bump into someone you know. I like to use the phrase often, "Ma tovu oh halecha Yaakov." It's an ohel, right? I went I went to the synagogue in Philippines and to me, how beautiful are the ohels of Yaakov. Like this synagogue or [music] any synagogue around the world that we go to. It's the ohel Yaakov and that's what brings us together. Hesed 24/7 was the ohel that I needed. [music] We were in Cornell. You're in another world, although you're in Manhattan and you're in the city, but you're in a building that's really it's own almost like it's own it's own world. [music] And when you're in there, you have to take care of what you're doing. Whether it's taking care of something that needs to be taken [music] care of or could be a great thing, having a child or grandchild or whatever it is. But when you're there and you need that something, Hesed 24/7 is that ohel within the building, right within the world of Cornell, which is where I was at. And I was there for a while. I was there with my wife. And I'll tell you from the first day or second day we were there, Rabbi Sanders came to me, introduced himself [music] and he said, "I want you to know we're here for you. Anything you need, [music] Hesed 24/7 that's here for you." I said, "Rabbi, we need a heart." He said, "I know." He said, "We're praying for you and [music] we're going to Hashem is going to get her a heart. We're all praying for you." And honestly, anything I could have asked for, I'm sure they would have done for me. I needed [music] a break or I needed a snack or I needed tefillin. Whatever it was, you go in that room and it was the ohel that I needed. The first Friday we were there, your habit came to us and she [music] brings us what they call Shabbos in a box. And they give you this box which has kiddush cup, besamim, sweets, um a card of refuah shleimah card, a flower for for your table, [music] challah cover, a table cloth. Like they think of everything. And that's what's beautiful about not just our community, but the Jewish world. They're always thinking of others. And that's my opinion, what's going to bring the Mashiach quickly. The achdus is paramount to everything. >> Chesed 24/7 is an organization >> [music] >> that we all wish we don't need. But at the end of the day, we're all one community, we're one family, and there are so many people struggling today that are utilizing Chesed 24/7 [music] all their resources. So it's so important to recognize the fact that they are critical to our infrastructure, to helping our community members navigate through medical [music] challenges. >> I was happy to help by contributing my home. >> It's my pleasure, my wife's pleasure. My wife is happy to do [music] it, with thrilled to be a part of the organization's success. And we wish you many, many years of continued hazakut in continuing to do what you do. Your organization is fabulous. It's priceless. It's important and really there's so many people you help and nobody even knows it. >> Thank you guys at 24/7 [music] for being there for myself, for my wife, for my family. They're doing unbelievable work.