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This Passover Shabbat.com can help Thousands thanks to you!

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hello my name is benan katco I'm the founder of shabbat.com and I want to take just a few brief moments to tell you what the S is all about and then ask for your assistance shabbat.com began in the year 2010 it began as a way for Jewish people to meet on Shabbat for Shabbat hosting it eventually also became a global dating network as well as a network that allows people to find uh employment opportunities shabbat.com is a nonprofit and its only aim and goal is for Jewish people to take care of each other regardless of denomination or affiliation shabbat.com cost $166,000 a month in order to exist maintain and develop the breakdown is as follows we have a full-time programmer that cost between1 and $12,000 a month we have an office manager that sifts through the profiles to make sure that everyone on the site is safe and there are no scammers or missionaries we have an advert we have a team that uh does development and uh and design that's separate from the programmer and we try to keep the design beautiful and Cutting Edge we also have tremendous server costs since there are a lot of pictures and videos as well as data on the site in addition we employ three different email servers to make sure that an invitation or a request doesn't end up in spam the costs are great but when you think about the bank for the buck you'll understand that it's quite worth it many people's lives have been changed through the site my own son found a soulmate through the site each and every week people tell me stories that had happened to themselves or their friends through the site a connection made Judaism rediscovered a poor person or a lonely person taken care of I can't do it without you for the first four years of the site I pretty much paid out of pocket with a little bit of help here and there but the funds have run dry and the only way to keep this site going as a nonprofit is with your help consider the bang for your buck every dollar donated means another person has a place for Shabbat all over the world in 112 countries nearly 4,000 cities so please won't you join me in this Global Mitzvah history is calling we have this great tool at our disposal and shabbat.com is the largest Network the largest kindness kindness network of its kind in the world on P we say all who are hungry let them come and eat but this not just for p this is supposed to be a lesson for us for the rest of the year to teach us empathy because that's the key to Passover the key to pesak is empathy with the bread of Affliction to remember what it's like to be lonely to not have food to not have a meal to not have a soulmate to not have a job you and I together we can make a great big difference but I need your help and I need it now and I need you to be large and generous and big in order to make this happen please go to the website and click donate go to www . shabbat.com there's a donate button you can become a monthly donor this helps me a great deal it allows me to know how much money is coming in and how much more needs to be raised in order to maintain the site but at least please go and give a one-time donation you can give your credit card or PayPal it's all secure and it's all tax deductible the receipt will come to you in an email shabbat.com is there for Israeli soldiers who are traveling it is there for the birthright student who just came back inspired it is there for you and it is there for me thank you so much shabbat.com is an amazing site which facilitate in 111 countries throughout the world 350,000 guests have already come to shabas tables as a result of shabbat.com and they have been given not only a warm meal but a warm atmosphere here many have come closer to mitv as a result many have happened as a result all this requires funds to see to what that this is done properly whoever can help support this wonderful institution will be blessed hi my name is Zak Wallin and welcome to shabbat.com um this is probably the best organization to raise money for because we know that God said that whatever you spend on Shabbat you get back so we definitely need some financial help to keep this um site going and um whatever you spend and however however money you give us it will uh come back to you so um this is the best investment this is guaranteed to come back and um it reaches so many people that there's no other way to bring them a Shabbat so um help help out here and and help Finance this unbelievable organization and you're guaranteed that will give you back this money besides this that you will get thank you very much for listening and have a good Shabbat [Music]