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Rabbi Zvi Ralbag, Achiezer Evening of Appreciation
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Rabbi Zvi Ralbag, Rav of Congregation Bais Ephraim Yitzchok in Woodmere speaking at the Achiezer Volunteer Evening of Appreciation. April 22, 2013 in Lawrence NY.
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before instance overall but i just
wanted to shoot down the start of that i
wanted to publicly thank my father for
coming off he has his rabbinical advisor
a few of our board members i saw
foreign and thank you everyone that's
here
i'm not going to give a long
introduction i'm going to i want to say
one thing
ellie touched on it that
the idea that i've said it last year
you'll have to forgive me is that tested
is contagious on one one once she unless
she shriver so eloquently put years ago
in our first video program once the ball
starts rolling you never know where it's
going to end
in 60 seconds i'll tell you
there was a woman we were helping in the
office whoever she was a mushpapa
and there wasn't a lot of money coming
to the house due to a loss of income
so she had to avail herself of the
various program that the government
makes available
okay whatever it is to make a long story
short
that woman woman
who literally had nothing to her name
was a victor thrown out of her apartment
had no money to buy bread and butter
she came
with a taxi
picked up the woman that came here elena
drove her down to seoul strover took a
taxi together and heard the social
service services because she knew the
program so well she spent the entire day
with this other lady who couldn't hear
speaking for her
signing her paperwork i was able to get
that
unfortunate person
all the help that they needed
i don't think there's any other
explanation
when our fiance started and it wasn't
that long was four years ago
one of the first reporters i had spoken
to at that point that's just the way the
rebounders on the vehicle developed was
a very rabbi
and
there were certain people it was a very
new concept it was vague it wasn't
specific we're going to help all kinds
of help was far from where we are today
wherever albert immediately i know he
remembers his worth he didn't care
specifics medical recommendations
hospital doesn't make a difference
you're helping quality show you're gonna
be doing something that's to make sure
that when people in the community have a
problem
they have a place to turn to ever since
then i consider myself not going to call
my friend he's a lot more worthy than i
am i revolve about someone who i speak
to frequently so i'm able to consult
with
the way he's carried and sure his
community the last few months doesn't
need me to get the hesitate about him i
want to give him a public ass
requirement i won't ask my robot to
share some special words with us
the way we are friends
like to thank
the host of tonight's
the iron milk till killson
for generously opening up your home you
should continue to do only
it's darker and simpler
the revenge
goes
do me a favor come tonight speak for 10
minutes 12 minutes
and give div racism
and i walk in here
and before it even starts
i feel i'm not the one giving physic
and i'm the one getting physical
i'll tell you why
i stand it all
through this entire crowd
because when you manage to accomplish
and what you managed to do
on a daily basis
these are things which are dwelling
tremendous things now explained
what is real essence
so you know the plastic says we learned
from abramovino after all i've wronged
his headsets
and what's the paramount example when he
stands
and i saw a question
okay we know that
who gave him the right he didn't know
that who gave him the right he was
speaking to akira
who gave him the right
to say i'm sorry hashem i need to take
care of those people
how do you know you can do that
and the answer i saw
is what real hazards
he ran
he wasn't thinking
it automatically carried him that he ran
to towards his guests
and after he greeted those guests and he
ran he said oh my goodness
didn't make that decision
that's it was natural for him it was
part of his being before he even
realized anything he was on his way by
about euros
but you managed to accomplish
as volunteers
you are the paradigm
of hesset
because it's natural to you
but yeah by europe it's natural you're
part of it before you even realize
you're doing it
that's the type of hazards that you're
doing and that's the real hazard and
that's the testing of abramovino
that's it which comes naturally becomes
part part of you
the java yara is automatic
and i stand involved from that because
many people do hesit they do it for fame
they do it because it feels good they do
it because they get recognition
but if you do it on a volunteer basis
you know
people don't know even your faces i see
all the people here and say
it's a pleasure to meet you here and you
meet some of these people in different
places but i see anybody is here it's
such a color dennis huss to meet you
here you are the faces behind his
headset
you're doing it because it's natural
it's part of you
you know we end up in spanish
why did we end up with heisman with
and the answer is because
torah which represents
clearly the terror today is not the
terror from the previous generations
avodah which is yitzchak
avoided the darwining
the bonus not the same like previous
generations where
you know a bunch of notches less
but when it comes to headsets
the tester that can be the same as the
wrong movement
which is natural hazards that's what you
represent and therefore for one reason i
stand involved for everybody here that's
one reason
i'll tell you another reason which i
think became so evident and so clear
during the last disaster hurricane sandy
but it's it's pervasive throughout the
entire fiesta movement
during the storm
so i received a letter from one of the
foremost majestic
and he wrote a letter in english to biba
kazakh to people
and he writes like this i quote the lady
didn't want to say it was it remains
nameless
he writes
no hashem is revealed
in every situation even in difficult
situations you can see
he's revealed through the actions of the
yiddin
who make themselves into physical
extensions of his spiritual hands
doing his will
showing the world what divine midos look
like
he writes this is a crisis but it's also
a triumph because in the long run
people will forget about sandy
but they'll remember the acts of
kindness that took place just last night
at my school dinner somebody comes over
he says wrong you should know
and he lost everything he must have lost
250 000 on the value of his house which
is non-recuperable he says i forgot
about that already
but i still remember all the cassotto
which were done that stays
and he writes like this
he says
this is what he writes to our community
your community has a special skus
you were chosen to represent us all and
you on the front line passing the
nissanian for all of cloud israel
thank you for being the kadeshin
referencia
an entire generation of jews who are
watching
that's what you are doing on a daily
basis
yeah everybody knows about it during
sandy but you're not just doing assets
like
constantly people are saying wow
look at jews the way they help each
other out look at this organization
akhiya
what greater thing is there than that
so there's two things
real hazard of abramovino
and kirisha and chamber
and then there's something the third
thing
which i thought about this chalice
and i think that's what's the greatest
huss of everything
this week's publisher
posse tells us today to you
very important charge to be holy
croatian
you all and we all strive for that we
all want to have holiness we all want to
have kadusa and our terror in our years
remind everything we want to we want to
envelop it with conducion right that's
what that's what our goal is ultimately
that's what we strive for
if you look at the
deposit right before the word condition
be holy
is coaxed between two sentences
for a sentence relation to you
and the very next process
is
there's no reason why
what's the relevance
but i said like this
the reason why it's coaxed between those
tubes
and ish
because to be could kadush
to be holy to do the right thing
to gender and gender and foster yiddish
kind entire mixedness
it's not done in a vacuum
you need to have a kahal
adas binay so you need to do it together
right you do it by yourself it's hard if
you have a whole group a whole community
doing the same thing much better
so the first thing you need is called
kahala das venezuela anybody has to be
doing it everybody has to have the same
goals and that's ultimately that's why
we live in our neighborhood because
people around us have the same goals but
it's not enough
you can have people doing the same thing
with the same goals
but you still need the imo of
dto
you still need the people doing it to
kahal the group
to have this bond
to have the imo evolve to feel like
you're coming from the same home the
same father mother the same familial
home the same parental alone
you wanted everybody doing the same
thing
feels close cares for each other feels
for each other you don't want it just to
be kahala that's the name's royal but
kardashian
the true conduction if the kahal if the
group cares for each other and feels for
each other and they know we're in this
together everybody feels we're part of
the same family
and what achieves managed to accomplish
and all of you manage to accomplish and
that's why i stand in all
is because you have brought to this
community
to the five towns community in paraguay
this concept of caring for each other
well bear mentioned facet is contagious
not just it's contagious if i see how a
fiesta cares that we need to making us
predation
i stand you know and for that i have a
tremendous and i speak in the name of
myself and everybody that feels the same
way and many many everybody feels that
way we stand in all and we thank you and
we give you yeshiva and keep up the work
because you are schluten thank you
you