Hatzolah Air Event - Rabbi Joey Haber

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