Zaka: When Everyone Leaves, They Stay

Because I have a feeling that I'm going to die and I have a neshama inside of me. I have a tough kid and so to see and I need him and he needs me and therefore we are obsessed about each other and we will run to change the tire of a kid we never met before and we will donate kidneys and we will go to houses of people we don't know about and we will adopt children we don't know anything about because they are Jewish and that's what we do. Because we love each other. Because push comes to shove we are greater than we tell ourselves. Anytime in the world there's a earthquake, a tsunami, a building collapses, anywhere in [music] the world the whole world reacts and they send their medics and the presidents fly in and [music] the diplomats and the foreign ministers and the Red Cross and the army and the Jewish people, if there's Jews there, we send ZAKA. ZAKA is the group that goes and finds survivors or the bodies of people who are trapped in an earthquake or a flood, etc. You know what often the news organizations don't show you? They don't show you that three and a half weeks later when everybody else is gone and the presidents have flown away and the diplomats are gone and the foreign ministers are gone and the prime ministers are gone and the Red Cross is gone and the foreign aid is gone and everyone else is gone you know who's still there? You know who's still there in the 105 degree weather? You know who's still there in the rain? You know who's still there in the 6 degree weather, in the freezing snowstorm looking? You know who's still there? ZAKA still there. Because they are looking. Because there's a 6-year-old girl who's Jewish in there and we haven't found her. Because there's a pinky of an old Jewish man and we can't find it and we will not leave until WE FIND IT BECAUSE THAT'S A JEWISH SOUL IN THERE. WE'RE GOING TO PICK UP and leave and get out of here and leave because our work is done? Because society told us that this amount of effort is required to save and beyond that we don't do? We will do anything. THAT'S A HOLY SOUL BURIED UNDER THAT building in Surfside, Florida. We are not leaving until we find it. Do we think of that as ourselves? Do you know that if we were buried under that building? Do you know that we wouldn't stop looking for you? >> [music]