DAMOJO Spotlight: Mekudeshet - Rabbi Shaul Haber

All right, welcome everybody. Friday, August 15th. We at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Steve Montigue for the annual breakfast with Mikuet. I'm standing here with my good friend Rabbi Shaul Habber who about a year ago, maybe a little bit more, got involved with Kim Daba and Mikuhett and uh to say the least, they've been doing tremendous work in the community the last couple of years on setting up and making matches and uh ultimately building families. So, Rabbi, give me very quickly the progress that you've seen in the last couple of uh years since you're involved. Okay. So, I would say that the primary success of Mikuhit is that we focus on each person, but we make sure to match. So far, we've done 237 matches. We focus on each individual. We talked to them. We talked to their family. We set them up with a matchmaker. And like we said, we did 237 matches, but more than that is last year we had 93. And now we have 237, which means that the progress is more than just year to year. We're increasing it year to year which I think is really and we hope next year we'll do 200 throughout the year. >> I saw some videos going around uh people talking about different organizations that focus on the we'll call it the shid crisis and the saying mikuesh in its short time has been surpassing everybody else. What do you attribute that to? >> Honestly, I think it's really because we don't relax. We're not happy. Okay, we started with an app that put on a bunch, you know, we had a bunch of singles on there. they put themselves on. And if we were a different organization, perhaps we would have been happy with that. We got it. We have matchmakers. They're doing their thing. We added 50 matchmakers this year. And every single day, the entire day, we're busy with this. Obviously, we do other things, but we're busy with this throughout the day. We'll text 10:00 at night, 11:00 at night, 6:00 in the morning, I wake up, I got a text from a few people involved with us. It's constant, constant, constant. And every single day, we're trying to improve, trying to increase, and trying to do better than we did the day before. Rabo, I want to tell you what you're doing is amazing. You and the team at Miku Deshet, you're literally building families here in the community. And the what did you say? 240. What was it? >> 237. >> 237. It should go up to uh 2,000 in the next couple