rabbi stacy freeman and the mental health initiative program coordinator at the congregation. thank you so much for being here. >> thank you for having us. >> why don't we jump in and ask you why did you consider this particular issue so important to your particular synagogue and the je cttee a large? >> wh ore decided itas a real ne i ha there already for about 20 years. increasingly in the months preceding that more and more people have come to talk to me about mental illness and mental health crises with them or family members. it happened more and more. that summer was the summer robin williams took his life. really for the first time that i had seen or our country had seen the issue of suicide and mental illness was the top issue in the news. news programs were talking about it, television, people were having this conversation. at that moment i said it's time to discuss this publicly. we need to reduce the stigma. for me as a rabbi of the congregation, i wanted to create a committee wherein people could bring their mental illness for them or their families, in addition to