Ripple Effect of Torah - R' Yehoshua Zitron - TorahAnytime.com

RAB rabinovich bres down the story that there was a very modern very Progressive community in America that uh in there lived a 16-year-old uh boy that lived in this you know secular lifestyle after he you know he graduated high school with honor smart guy he ended up going into college afterwards but he ended up doing college with Yeshiva he came home for Rashana and uh he decided that he's going to spend some time with his family and he realized that he forgot to have buy a moer for the rashash prayers and it was too late all the the farm stores in that area was closed down so he calls the community Rabbi he says maybe you have an extra moer lying around that I could use and the rabbi looks into his you know his farm his library and he says yeah I happen to find a really old Mo you could use it his family recently got new M says we don't need this one so they give him this old you know this old Mo this is what he's praying for he's praying with during the break of R prayers he uh goes and he's started leaking through this very old ancient mxer and he sees there's an he found an empty page at the end of the master and right after that there was a page that's written that it says AA a speech before teus before the blowing of the chauffeur and it's written by rabol title Bal and you know he's starting to read it start old title was a SAT and this is when he lived in he lived in hungry he gave a speech about 80 years ago and now this boy found this piece of paper and he's thinking he says wait a minute he says who knows if even the didn't even know about this he says he's reading now and he's start starting to study a speech that was given 80 years prior he thought he was going to be reading about Rashana he's going to be reading about blowing of the chauffeur reading about maybe chuba connecting to God and he sees the majority of the speech is barely focused on on chaur all that the rabbi is focusing on is that during that time there was a terrible breach that woman in in modesty that woman began walking around in public with their hair uncomfort and that's what the the whole speech was about and It quotes a whole bunch of sources the bras chapter uh page 24a speaks that a woman's here is uncovered as considered an AA and then he mentions the Zohar that any woman that makes light of this is cursed it goes on and on the goes on says that if a woman is here as uncovered no one's allowed to make a blessing in front of this woman he discusses at length this topic after you know this boy reads throughout all of this uh Speech he has this like this this energy the zealous Spirit you know boils up inside of him he lives in a very modern Community he goes home goes to his mother and he says uh listen he says you're not uh you don't cover your hair he says I'm not sitting with you in the Y table she's like what are you talking about she's like you know like and he starts explaining to her just learned from the all the things that you know the he says you're sitting over here with your hair uncovered I can't make a blessing with you it gives all the curses a whole bunch of terrible things I'm not not going to sit with somebody who's the hair is uncovered so it's straight out Al um the family was so shocked it's a modern family very Progressive uh you know family very Progressive Community it's not appropriate you know from from an enlightened person to speak like this he they tried to convince him you know this is not accepted the woman of their town all dressed a certain way they dressed just like everybody else we're all very find people we're all good people we're good Jews okay so we don't dress like you know in the in the olden days but this boy said very firmly says what do you mean he says the law is a law he says you know like so they decid that they're going to bring him to the rabbi they can bring him to the rabbi let the rabbi talk some sense into him they bring him to the rabbi who himself was very Progressive his his wife wasn't so particular in these uh um you know in the laws of modesty as well so the rabbi very eloquently very persuasive very good speaker goes and explain to them listen there's the days of the the olden days we're in the new era this is very different it's still okay don't worry about it blah blah blah gives him the whole SPI but this boy was a smart boy he says listen he says the Torah doesn't change the law is the law the law says you have to cover the here the law says all these These are the laws I can't make a blessing I can't you know and he refused as much as the rabbi convinced him don't worry about it your mother if she's not modest it's okay don't worry about it he would not budge the rabbi goes over to the parent says listen I tried he's not budging what could I do so the mother said listen I'm not going to you know I want my son you know to to spend the time together with me I want my son to go and spend uh uh the meals together with us okay so I'll cover my hair he goes she goes and she covers her hair her sister the mother's sister prays in the same in the same uh synagogue she sees you know the next day she's coming with a hair covering she say what's up with this like where are you going she tells her the whole story it says you know my son he all this he on the paper he got the all this we brought in a rabbi didn't work out so sister after the whole story sister was inspired she says oh if that's really the case I'm going to also cover my hair say you're not going to be the only one in the community I'll also cover my hair and she started covering her here and making a long story short it ended up after a short period of time the entire Community start started covering started covering their here all the women over here this is the power of Torah this is something so amazing you think about it the S rabba wrote something spoke about something 80 years prior that again in hung you know during the war pre-war like what what was what was the modesty lacking during those times like what we already like you know like okay maybe there was a reason that he actually obviously spoke about it but we didn't realize that his speech came into effect that an entire Community 80 years later changed and covered their here that is the power of Torah that is the power that has the power to affect 80 years later and this is something so important whether you're dealing with speakers whether with writers you know sometimes speakers are very into like okay fine you know like I want to reach and and rightfully so I want to reach as much people as possible and maybe not always does you know the the speech has reached or the volume that that the speaker is wanted to but you never know it could be 80 years later and it can change an entire Community because that is the power of Torah and this is the power when you're going and you're trying to connect to God and you're learning and you'll be like okay wait a minute maybe I didn't change anything maybe I didn't I I still don't have that connection don't worry that can still come that will come over time all you need to do is you need to learn Tora as we see from this story that even 80 years later I had a power to go and change an entire Community you want to connect to God you want to connect to the mitzvos you have to do it of happiness you have to do it out of love you have to do it enjoyment and there's one way and one way only and that is you have to rekindle your connection and that is through Torah study learning Torah and it could take a month it could take a year it could take 80 years but at the end of the day you're going to see the connection for