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hen we sell a yacht to a long-distance client, we hope to get future referrals. When we sell a yacht to a wealthy fellow South Florida resident, we hope to make a friend for the rest of our lives. They will never regret their seven figure (or eight figure) purchase, because we're going to be seeing this person again and again. Thankfully my family's operation has been built on quality, quality, and quality. So we are blessed that when we see clients, they have often become friends.
One such friend was Morris Steinberg. "Maury" had an importing and exporting business. "But I'm not Art Van de Lay" he would tell me. What? "Seinfeld," he explained. But to counter-balance the corny jokes there was a heart as big as the Gulf of Mexico and I became part of Maury and Marsha's extended family. Cards, flowers, hospital visits if a family member was ill, such warm and loving people, and bless his business sense, I was invited to all of the parties he hosted on the yacht. He said it was to pretty up the crowd, that sweetie, but he knew as people walked around his yacht and took in all of the "wow" factors, he was invaluable to us as he brought me in to the conversation and said, "well this is who you talk to, Dolly here and her family only build the best." We send some holiday gift baskets, Heat and Dolphins tickets and many forms of thank you gifts back to Maury and Marsha.
This year, Marsha called me and says Maury wants to invite me to their first ever Passover Seder at Sea. "A what?" I said back to her. "Dolly, you know what a Passover Seder is, nu? ("Nu" was their little Yiddish way of saying, "right?" though I always felt the Spanish "verdad?" was a closer translation.) Marsha continued her explanation of what I knew I had to say "yes" to: "Dolly, this is the ritual dinner that begins the eight day holiday of Passover, when Jews all over the world tell the story of Moses bringing the slaves out of captivity from Pharaoh in Egypt. The family gathers, ritual foods, we read the story, and we pass along the traditions. And we eat matzoh, no bread because the slaves had to hurry and there was no time to let the bread rise. Just watch “The Ten Commandments” with Charlton Heston and Yul Brenner. And Dolly, to us you're family, and we're hosting the Seder on the yacht. And oh by the way, you drink four cups of wine." Yes, dear readers who are gentiles, FOUR cups of wine! So of course I said yes. Ahoy, Rabbi!
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