Mekudeshet Event - Rabbi David Ozeri

[Music] good evening ladies and gentlemen like to begin with a short story AIC Jews the way they get married is the parents go out on a date and they talk a lot about their children and if they like everything the children are engaged boy and the girl don't see each other till the wedding believe it or not okay so there was a wedding that took place like this and at the end of the wedding of course the boy is on the boy's side and the girl is on the girl's side they don't each other at the end of the wedding cidic Jews take down the me and it's just family left and they sit there for the meal and this New Groom is sitting next to his father-in-law and all of a sudden the Bride Comes Walking In she has a terrible limp and the broom is shocked he whispers to his father-in-law dad you didn't tell me she's a says you don't have to whisper she's deaf also I tell that's what happens when you don't know what's going on we know what's going on like I said for years we have a crisis as Carrie we've gotten up in public and screamed for years there is a crisis in our community hundreds and hundreds of girls are not getting married Rabbi habber just described to you that wherever he goes I could be at a wedding abitz a bris a Pon a class a funeral a bet every single place I go Rabbi I need somebody for my daughter I had a man come to me says I have three daughters 26 24 and 23 not one has gotten a date yet he has no money nobody calls he thinks nobody cares this is what is going on and finally finally they have an address to go to Mees let me tell you a little about Mees mesit is not the brainchild of any particular individual Kim daa God bless her visited many communities to see what do they do for their singles and she created and she hired and she built a website particularly for our community tailor made for our community to accommodate this community in particulares is proven that singles from our community can be set up with the help of matchmakers now that M that word Matchmaker sounds like fiddle around the roof like where where where 300 years ago back in the stto no our matchmakers are very different our matchmakers are woman from our community who understand the girls and the boys they are women who are upto-date women who knows what who who know what is going on and I got to tell you something before mes many of these matchmakers were burned out I'm telling you they were burned out they didn't have any help they weren't getting paid it was very very difficult for them and the same names come to them over and over again they needed a data they needed somebody to report back to in walks Mees meesh let me give you some of the stats 3,000 Community singles are now on our app 3,000 some simple stats 51% to those 3,000 are girls 49% are boys shocking huh shocking I wish I could tell you how many eligible singles there actually are in this community but I really can't that we know of 3,000 there's probably 6,000 7,000 8,000 we don't know we're building the data Bank we are building ladies and gentlemen on this list of 3,000 as you have heard some are young vibrant some are apprehensive about this process others have been forgotten yes forgotten there are girls out there 28 30 32 35 they have been forgotten older girls despondent and alone I'm sorry to be morbid but it's true it's true we can't hide our our face in the ground and just walk away and say okay it's nice we go to a lot of weddings we're invited to a wedding every night sometimes two sometimes three but when you talk about a community of 880,000 people it's not enough in in less than 10 months does this system work in less than 10 months 93 buzas were made less than 10 months why what makes it happen it wasn't discussed tonight how does it work what do you need so much money for Matchmaker closeup girl Matchmaker closeup boy send them on a date Toby these matchmakers are paid for getting a girl a date mes has all their banking information they are screened they are welcomed to be a mees Matchmaker we have their banking information they go on the App they inform us that they made a match girl a with boy B a girl over 20 years old for example I don't know if the numbers are correct she wakes up in the morning after they had their first date and the Matchmaker has $150 in her bank account they go on a third date they may have $200 or $300 more in their bank account there's an engage M they may have $23,000 in their bank now you know where the money is going now they feel appreciated these matchmakers now they want to work many of them need the money these are women who are Homemakers who they could spend hours every day on mat shaking with no re with no renumeration but now they have it ladies and gentlemen finally finally the Syrian community has a dress to go to to marry off our daughters and our th and our sons thank you Kim daa thank you for all coming tonight and one last thing we need money desperately this thing is going to grow it's going to catch on we need money thank you very much