Yaakov Bender

that this is what they're, you know, this is the level of mesiris nefesh, the level of giving.

Yaakov Bender often says that if everybody would give maisur, there would be no tuition crisis.

Meaning if every Jew would be mocked a bit about Meisner, there would be no tuition.

Can you imagine if every Jew was like this? No tuition.

It was not comfortable.

Rabbi Bender used to give us schmoozin, anti-television schmoozin.

You shouldn't be watching television.

It's not good for a bentire.

You shouldn't know these things, but just in case you do...

These were my father's shows.

Do you think it was comfortable for me to listen to Rabbi Bender give those shmoozen? It wasn't comfortable.

I never felt uncomfortable because of Rabbi Bender, but I knew my family was different.

A person has to engage their family with mitzvot such as chesed and Torah learning so that it's something which has a long-ranging impact.

I think I saw once a pshad from Rabbi Bender.

He says, why is it that we find that Avraham Avinu exemplified chesed and it was something that stuck with us.

One of the things that defines Kalei Israel is that we're going to chesed him.