“Our volunteers could just go home after work and play golf,” says Beer. “But they don’t. There’s an understanding that there is more to life than just your livelihood and personal gain.”
Glick himself is well-known in the cantorial world. “Sometimes it shocks people to see that Shlomo Glick is the one responding to their call. They’ve seen him in these powerful performances, belting impressive pieces; they listen to his discs, and suddenly he’s in person treating their condition,” says Beer.
“It would be like Bono arriving on a motorcycle to save people on a weekly basis.”
Glick has even found himself singing to a patient while giving him oxygen. “In one incident, as I was treating an elderly man, his wife had asked me to sing her husband’s favorite cantorial piece and that’s what I did. After, he was treated and discharged from the hospital, he couldn’t believe that it was me who had responded first to the call.”
“Some people have said to me that it’s not fitting for someone of my profession to ride a motorcycle and answer the masses. An artist is supposed to distance himself from the public for his image. But that doesn’t interest me,” explains Cantor Glick. “God gave us life and he can take away life. Your image as a musician or whatever profession, isn’t important when you’re saving a human being’s life.”
