EMETTalk - Aron Siyunov

before we bring up our last speaker we're just going to change the schedule very very briefly I thought it would be a very good idea not just to have uh one of the professionals the rabbis come speak up we want to hear from one of the actual one of the guests the people that were here please help me welcome Mr Aaron sonov while the rabbis and the professionals was giving us ideas of what we can walk away with aon's going to share with us something that he can walk away with 5 minutes okay so I literally just got asked 15 minutes ago to speak I'm going to completely speak from the heart nice and lot nice and Loud okay so first thing I want to say is uh one with with EMT what's so unique about EMT is that if you think about it how much time and effort did they spend preparing this shabbaton like they literally spent months preparing just this shabbaton because it's the biggest one that they do the for the year and they they have to go through a lot of a lot of uh stress with booking the hotel getting all the speakers on board getting all the people on board and not only that they have to get um they have to be able to to fund everything because this this cost a lot of money for them so it's something that I personally um something that I personally like see this as like a like a powerful lesson for me is because they they reach out to um to to investors they reach out to donors they ask them can you please help uh fund the people that can't make it because they they want to get as many people as they can that are not from they want to get as many people as they can that are not able to afford these kind of shabbaton so they can see the beauty of Shabbat they can see the beauty of of uh going to these to these lectures and get to see how what it what it means to have a strong Shalom B what it means to to strengthen your midot what it means to uh to dve in with kavana uh something that I I personally enjoy when I go to these shabbatones is that I see the lessons that the rabbis give off to the uh to the students um and it's something that I enjoy because I like I I'm a chatter box I go up to everybody I like to talk to people I like to ask them questions I like to go up to the rabbis I like to ask them well what do you think about this what do you think about that and the rabbis always willing to help out it's it's a beautiful thing um and what I love what I love great about these shabat tones is that nobody nobody ever here goes home complaining nobody ever here goes upset uh the the Emma has a unique way of teaching the teaching Judaism through love and the way I know this is because whenever I come back every year for the shabbaton something that my wife and I already we booked for the Thanksgiving weekend we're like we're going to em shabbaton but one thing that I know is that I noticed is that most of the people that come back here are familiar faces so it shows that the people that come back here is because they love it they want to come back they enjoy it um and I want to thank everybody here for coming and supporting Ed um God willing our children are going to be able to grow up and come here as well and um sh I want to thank you the for the giving me the opportunity to to share how I feel about this and I hope that uh we will continue to grow as a family and I hope that we'll all be able to uh to strengthen our midot and something else I wanted to share last year shabbaton was a lot different from this year last year shabbaton they were more focused on Shalom Bay on how to be better with with the spouses and it's some I don't see Rabbi kikuk here but it's it's an inside joke that my wife and I have whenever we have a little argument we like to say to each other well what would Rabbi keigle do in this situation or what would Rabbi what would Rabon keigle do in this situation so it's something that they they T they taught us and so we we really appreciate everything that they do every time RAB speaks kle speaks something my wife and I really look we we get up for it we like okay let's go let's hear what they have to say uh thank you for that and uh we love EMT we hope that the fames going to continue to grow and we always look to help each other out um I still have a minute and a half left all you all right how long you brought of EMT for so I've been with EMT since I was like 16 17 and I come from a conservative family um my family unfortunately we not they're not Orthodox but I've grown through EMT and I've and I've seen a lot uh through EMT and something that I impart to my children and and I and I look back and I say to myself imagine if we didn't have emid imagine how many people wouldn't have have changed for the better and because of that we changed and now our children are are are becoming more religious and it's like a it's like a domino effect because it's like a like a snowball where okay one person is religious but now he has children now his children are becoming religious and now their children it's like all things part of it is because of Ed you know really doing their Outreach and there's many different ways of doing Outreach um em doesn't do it with fear they do it with love which is a great which is a great characteristic to have um so that's I appreciate that about them and I hope that uh we'll all uh we'll all continue going here that was perfect that wasf thank you so much