Mechy Brandwein Xtreme 5K

Hi, I'm asking you for a donation for Extreme Runner. So before that, I'd like to explain to you a little bit about Minan Jalono. You know, a lot of people walk into Minan and they always give me the same reaction. They look around and they tell me, you know, look at the group of guys there. Most of them aren't going to amount to anything anyways. They're a bunch of losers or they're so far on drugs there's no help for them. It's mostly wasting time. And I just want to tell you a little bit about some of the guys over the past couple of years. You know, every single Arab Shabas, every sing I give a little duv on a voice note to the guys. This past I sent a voice note and I spoke about the challenge of and that's exactly what Hashem wants us. Now, I didn't expect to get any big reaction, but about two hours later, I received this long message, and I'm just going to paraphrase what it said over there. There's one of the guys that never keeps jobs. He doesn't keep cash. He doesn't keep anything. And he sends me this long message, and he tells me, you know, I don't keep it. It's not because I hate, it's because I find it so hard. But I heard what you said about overcoming challenges, and I too want to overcome challenges. I want to show Hashem that I could also overcome challenges. So this P, even though I'm going away with my family, I'm going to my grandparents and I was planning on sitting in my bedroom just watching movies, I'm going to make sure to keep and I'm going to make sure not to be Mal Yam. And I said, "Wow, that's beautiful." But I didn't expect much to pan out. Matz Yumpt 5 minutes after Yumpt is over, I get a message from with a big smiley face. I did it. I'll tell you another story. I was sitting in Minyan one night and this is another boy that never keeps shabas and he just finds it too hard and at my table a couple guys started speaking about somebody else and the boy right away jumps up and he says please stop talking I don't want to talk lash and har and everybody at the table turned around and looked at him and he said yeah I know I made up with my family this week I'm not going to speak lashar shabas is too hard for me but lash and har I'm going to try so you know when people walk into mñana and they say there's no hope. They say it's not going to happen with these kids. I turn around and I look at them and I tell them, "Look, two years down the road, every single one of these boys, and I honestly believe this, I don't just say it, has the potential to become the next Raan Kaneki if they're just given a little bit of love, if they're just given a feeling like people love them and people will help them. This past winter, we sent 12 boys to And some of those boys we sent to regular mainstream yeshivas. And many times over the past few years, people have said, "Oh, that boy's never going to make it. He's not going to make it." And today they're in regular mainstream Yeshivas. Every single one of these boys has the potential to become great if they're just given the love, they're just given the help. And that's what Many Shalonu does. Minan Shalonu gives these kids the chance. And the many programs we run, they're not cheap. They do cost money in order for us to be able to continue to give these boys a chance. We really, really need your support. And that's why I'm doing Extreme Runner. I'm not doing Extreme Runner. Trust me, I'm not doing it because I want to get in shape or because I want to lose weight. I'm doing it because I know how vital important these programs are and how much they'll make a difference. So, please give whatever you can. Every dollar is appreciated. Thank you for listening. Thank you for watching. And I hope to get from you.