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Hatzolah Air Event - Rabbi Joey Haber
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thank you Harry very much for those kind
words we kind of be
brief you know that was incredible I've
spoken after a lot of unbelievable
things in my life but I don't think I
ever spoke after a movie like that I
felt like we just watched Top
Gun that was
phenomenal I'm here tonight I would say
first and foremost because of my love
for the betesh
family grandma py that's how we call you
it's not Mrs betesh I'm sorry to us it's
Grandma py we love you dearly we love
your sons your daughters your
grandchildren your sons-in-law your
daughter-in-laws your great-
grandchildren the whole thing and
watching you seeing you sitting here is
is incredible it's emotional it's it's
so unbelievable CU we were watching each
step as it was happening and there was
so so many vulnerable moments along the
way and the fact that you hear so
eloquently is elegant is really such an
unbelievable I'll give you a little
story it technically has nothing to do
with that t but I think it'll make our
Point very
clearly in the beginning of this summer
I had to speak somewhere outside of the
community it was an eskan community and
I still hadn't prayed ARB yet so it was
after ARB I was after the speech it was
late at night I went to as to pray I as
you all know I'm in the year Shan have
to say kadish so what's tricky about the
way
pray is Syrian say
kadish before
alen Sayad after Al so I'm standing
there in the It's Tricky as it is I'm
syan I'm trying to follow along and do
my thing and they finished and now it's
my turn to Sayad and I guess I didn't
jump quick enough I wasn't sure what to
do next next thing know they start
saying so I I'm like oh no I missed my
kadish I don't know what I'm going to do
and I'm just my father just passed away
I can't believe it I'm Miss madish I
don't know now they finished healing and
now I'm like not sure what to do when
can I say it now is this my chance do I
lose my chance and all of a sudden a man
behind me just says to me three words he
says go for it go for it and I jumped
and said kadish and in that second I
felt like wow a second ago I was so
vulnerable so hit so weak so lost and
one man's little phrase go for
it gave me the I gave me the courage to
go and do it hatah a is telling the
Jewish people go for it my family never
used it yet but my father as you know
was sick for seven years and the
community didn't quite know exactly the
extent of the
disease but my sister Sim M was very
involved in
a lot of the medical in this community
at times she was finding new ideas and
new ideas we're going to give Daddy this
treatment and that treatment and every
time she would say Joe we're going to
take her daddy to Florida we take Daddy
to Miami we're going take Daddy to
Germany we're going take Daddy to
Cleveland Cleveland I'm like Sim what
are you talking about Daddy's in no
condition to fly to Germany how are we
getting Daddy to
Germany and she said Joey what are you
worried
about that's what we're going to call
that sense that this someone behind us
telling you go for it there's nothing
you can't do there's no treatment you
can't get there's no place you can't go
there's nowhere in the world there's no
doctor you can't meet oh you're stuck in
a wheelchair oh you're in terrible
condition oh it doesn't make sense for
you to fly in a plane and go into an
airport it doesn't make sense for you to
even sit in business class or first
class on a plane don't
worry go for it we got
you you know we know abam is the father
of
nation and the famous story is the story
of him the three guests came to his
house what's so incredible about that
story everybody in this room has had
three guests come to their house that
they've served the answer is there's one
piece of it that's unique and that is
abah who just kept running to do
it watching those angels on those videos
you saw people running to do it now I
always thought it was incredible when
they run in the middle of a work day to
take someone 3 miles away to the
hospital hospital but to run to Panama
to run to Miami to run to Germany to run
to New York to run to from anywhere
around the world that's
crazy how could we not give them the
support how could we not be behind them
our forefather ABR told us what is and
is telling every single Jew we will run
anywhere we can to help you we are
behind you no matter what you do no
matter where you are we're going to
stand behind you and tell you go for
it I have to tell you a little cute
followup to that
story I walked out of that M and I was
like wow that person has no idea how
powerful those three words
were I said I have to tell him thank you
I have no idea you know how I was about
a month and a half later the middle of
the summer I took my wife and my
daughter and her husband out to dinner
in Lakewood in this restaurant called
The Loft and there's this big table of
like 12 15 people sitting on the table
and the head of the table an older man
comes over to me he says you're RAB I
said
yes never met him before he says we all
listen to your classes on my whole
family listens to the classes and one of
my sons is having a birthday tonight and
we'd like you to come and give him a
blessing for his birthday so I'm
standing there waiting okay I said no
problem give me two minutes I love being
able to make someone happy I stood there
for Thought B for 2 minutes went to the
table gave them a whole Little 3 minutes
speech and a whole blessing after their
speech was over one of the sons told me
he says Rabbi I was the guy who was
behind you in that Manan that night I
was the one who told you go for it I
said you don't know how much I wanted to
meet you and thank you for that moment I
hope no one in this room ever feels the
vulnerability that the pesh family felt
my grandma py was on the floor the
entire Friday night I hope you don't
ever feel the
vulnerability of that my family's felt
over the last seven years trying to
figure out treatments for my
father but I know this that if that
moment ever comes you want someone
behind you telling you no matter what no
matter how much you have no matter who
you are you want someone behind you
telling you go for it tonight is our
opportunity to tell hatah go for it
thank you