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Amazing story about Shabbat
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There was a couple that lived in Europe.
The couple was from known to be the
great
their was off the charts.
Every day they had guests in the house
and Shabbat. Wow. Shabbat. Their table
was
they would have guests galore. They
would bring home from anyone who needed
a place. Everybody knew this family,
this couple, their house was always open
to guests. But in spite of the fact that
they did amazing
for many many years, they were never to
have children. They were childless for
almost 15 years. But that didn't stop
them. Theirat was off the charts. Listen
to this. After they had the people over
on Shabbat, they would insist that the
guests would stay over Saturday night.
They would give them a big goodbye meal
Sunday morning like a breakfast. And
they would actually send them off their
guests into the week with a tremendous
feeling of. And then upon leaving they
would turn to their guests and hand each
guest a little sack of gold coins to
give them some money to kick off the
week in a good way. They took this to
new levels. It was off the charts what
they did. But in spite of the fact of 15
years of the greatest
they still remain childless.
One Shabbat
they were middle of Shabbat meal Friday
night and this was wee hours into the
night. They were singing
and just then there was a knock on the
door. So the husband jumps up and he
runs to the door and he opens the door
and there he sees a guy a Jew completely
not religious and it was very clear that
the guy just got off his horse just that
moment finished traveling from a
different town. It was absolutely clear
as the guy himself just said I just came
from the other town that this guy
Shabbat
but it made no difference to this
husband. He turned to him and said come
on in my friend you look hungry.
Meanwhile, all the guests on the table
looking at each other. Look at this guy.
Mahal Shabbat. He lets in Shabbat to his
house. But wait, not only did he let him
in, he brought him to the front of the
table. He sat him next to the Balabite.
He gave him honor. He turned to his wife
quickly. Bring another setting. Bring
him from the food that he already missed
in the meal. I want him to start from
the beginning so he'll get all the
stages of what we put out tonight in
tonight's meal. I want him to get the
entree and then the salads and then the
cantaloupe. I don't want him to go
straight to the I want to open his
appetite and then give him the main
meal. The guests are looking at each
other. Why is he giving this guy so much
caring so much about him is Shabbat
Shabbat? Certain areas in God forbid
like a Why is he giving them such
honor? The guy's like a And the
guests started to mumble under their
breath and they were very upset. Just
then
walks up to the guests and whispers to
them so that he shouldn't hear, "This is
my guest. This is my house. It makes no
difference to me the religious level of
a Jew. Every Jew is invited to my home.
This is my and this is the way I am
doing it. When they heard the strong
tone of the they backed off. They
stopped mumbling. They stopped
bickering. They let it go. Shabbat went
on and this Shabbat was given the
literally the honor of royalty. The next
meal he sat him again in the front, gave
him maybe more than everybody else. And
then the next meal as well. And then
that night he turned to the guy and he
said to him, "I I I insist like all my
other guests, you stay over Saturday
night. Sunday morning I make a big
breakfast to send off my guests and I
also give them a satchet of gold coins.
Please stay." And the guests are looking
at each other, "Why is he taking care of
this guy? Look at this guy. Nobody buys
him nothing." The next morning,
everybody's about to leave. The Balabite
goes around. He hugs each one of his
guests. He thanks them for coming. He
tells them that they did him a favor.
You know those amazing people that they
actually convince you that you did them
the favor and then he hands them that
little satch little satchel of gold
coins and then the last guy he comes to
Shabbat and he gives him a hug and he
looks him in the eye and with such
warmth he says to him thank you if
you're ever around no matter when no
matter what time my house is open to you
and here's the gold coins. The man takes
the gold coins and smiles. And then
Mahal Shabbat looks at the husband and
says, "I want to tell you something.
I am Eliohani
and they sent me from Shamay to test
you.
They sent me from Shamay to find out if
your was for any Jew or maybe you had a
limit to only your type of Jews."
And I want to tell you something. you
pass the test.
Sometimes we got to ask this question to
ourselves.
Are we all about showing the favor and
goodwill and warmth to the people that
come off to us as my type of Jew? Are we
only nice to the people that come off in
our eyes as someone that's my type of
Jew?
This guy was a sinner. says, "I came to
you as a Shabbat
and you didn't bat an eyelash.
I wanted to see what was really about
and now we see in heaven that there was
no limitations. You have a love for
every single Jew. You didn't judge me.
You didn't jump to conclusions. You
weren't bickering. You weren't burying
when you knew that I came in." No. You
opened your arms. You put me by the
table. And you treated me literally like
a family member.
He looks the husband in the eye and he
says to him, "You're going to have a
child this year and this child is going
to light up the entire world." That's
how the world was to the great Balto.
That was the baby that was born that
year is baltov. And these were the
parents of the baltov. That was ely.
Why? What did they do? What did they do?
What did they do? Did they save the
lives of a city? Did they did they did
they did they go and build the yeshiva
of thousands of students? No. They did
one thing one thing. They didn't judge
another Jew.
And because of that, they were to
be the parents to bring no one less than
the greatest of the great, the great
into the world. Don't judge.
They didn't judge.
They were nice to someone who wasn't
religious. We pushed so many people away
only because at our first knee-jerk
reaction, they don't look like our type
of Jew. We push so many away.
Ela was knocking on your door at that
moment. If it would have just been MV,
that guy, that young lady might not have
been my type. But there is no type.
There's only one type. There's only a
Jew. You just experience