EMET Impact & Transformation Rabbi Ari Hertz 2 0

foreign about a year and a half ago right before the Thanksgiving Retreat of 2021 and immediately my wife and I jumped into this huge family that we never thought we were going to be a part of but we we couldn't be happier that we're involved in it and so that was definitely much heavier on the couple's division but I personally am very focused on the campus Division I work a lot with our younger guys the guys who don't have that much interaction with Judaism and and religion prior and and it's an amazing thing to be a part of you know I'm I'm sort of part of the foundation of them hopefully getting to that point where they're part of our couple's Division and part of something much bigger and for the rest of their lives so I've been with them at for about a year and a half now and what I've noticed continuously and what I see just from my vantage point as someone who's on the campus team and someone involved with the higher level men's division is that throughout the entire organization we come into contact with many different students from many different backgrounds and what's so clearly at the core of Emmett and and the belief that I think propels the tremendous growth of all of the students is that we simply believe collectively and individually that everyone we come into contact with is born to connect to the Torah and and can receive and deserves to receive a relationship with the Torah and that's all we're trying to that's all we're trying to give them is simply that relationship with the Torah bring the most out of them that they can and what I see and what I love about working at Emmett is that the students make that so easy I've never met a group of young adults a group of people that are so ready and so just want to grow and they just want to seek truth they just want to be the best that they can be they question when they don't believe what you're saying and that makes me better that makes me interact with them on a more real and connected level and it makes me feel very lucky honestly to just be able to be there for people who are who are so ready to take another step in their lives and to make more meaning in their lives I'm lucky that I'm part of an organization that solely cares about the growth of our students that's all that's all that's important to us is how much can we help them but in order for that to be meaningful and important we need to be dealing with people who really want to receive what we're giving them and that's all that they want they just want to grow they just want truth they just want meaning in their lives and and they won't they won't rest until they find it and it's I'm so lucky to be a part of it I'm so I'm just very very thankful that I get to know these young guys these these all these young adults it's something that I'm really I can't express enough how happy I am to be a part of it