40 Seconds to Switch Everything - R. Zecharia Wallerstein - TorahAnytime.com

there was a girl in chicago and her name was miriam she was born i don't know if i said it this year but anyway marcia if you know it you have to still be quiet so unless there's something i missed and you can you know coach me so you're on film careful be careful so this girl her name was miriam and she lived in chicago on the side south side of chicago she wasn't religious they were heartly jewish that she was born jewish but that's about it and her parents felt in out of town you know they still have very strong day schools or sunday programs tamatora and they felt you know she's jewish we should send it to tamatoa let a little bit learn about where she comes from maybe a little hebrew oppan you know israel you know a little bit not too much so they sent it to this conservative or maybe reform even tamatara and the rule there was that they hired religious teachers but the religious teachers are not allowed to take their students home for chavez that was the rule they didn't want no religion they weren't teaching religion they were teaching history jewish history not religion anyway there was one teacher just to show you loyal that's the only number eight or twelve i'm 100 right it's not for you to finish this teacher said this teacher fell in love with this little kid she was nine years old fourth grade and she decided she's taking her home for shout outs she's gonna invite her for shabbos even though she's gonna get fired sunday she's getting fired because you're not allowed to so she calls up the parents and she says you know your little miriam i would love to have her for shabbos they're like okay no problem they send this little mirror for shabbos she comes to her teacher for shabbos she stands there and now the teacher's lining candles teachers landing candles this little miriam if you can imagine in america never there are many people who never saw candles being lit never never just somebody i know went to see program in miami and she said that in a room of a hundred people she asked of the 100 people to raise their hand if they know anyone if they have a relative not they know if they have a relative in their family that intermarried with a non-jew every single person of the 100 people raised their hand here in a room of a hundred jews every single jew in that room had a relative that married a non-jew so the holocaust that he killed six million you understand and america is much bigger that because once a man marries a non-jewish woman all the children from that generation forever are not jewish so you just put them on the gas chamber and cut them off that's it so this girl came back from the sea program she was like beyond herself what's going on in america but you've been going on america for a very long time so there could be a kid in chicago who never saw candles in her household chavez so she was amazed she said wear my candles you're lighting i want a light so the teacher said no i'll light for you she said no i don't want you to lie for me because i don't know if i'm ever gonna get a chance again my mother doesn't lighten i i would like to like kendall so the teacher said okay it's at the end of the world we'll give her two candles so they gave her two candles and she knew the teacher went like this and the kid didn't know what you're doing she also went like this and she made the broncos she made the relic and she lit her two little candles fine i'm not going to take too much time on the story she let her candles and she went home after shabbos the teacher came back to school interesting she told the school what she did that she you know that she invited her whatever she wanted to come from the parents and they didn't fire her for whatever they said don't do it again but they didn't fire okay anyway this girl went through eighth grade tomatoes sunday school that was it and she was in public school and her parents decided south side chicago wasn't so great they're going to send there to a private school right across the street from where they lived was a private catholic school so they figured you know even though our jewish they were they didn't really practice it so they took their little miriam and they brought it to high school ninth grade to saint mary's whatever private catholic school this girl goes to private catholic school and they got her off she doesn't have to pray with everybody she could sit on the side while they pray but of course she made friends she wasn't that strong in her jewish roots altogether and by 11th grade her name wasn't miriam anymore it was mary by 12th grade she was already praying with them and it was all over she was one of them she ended up going to college to a private catholic college and she met vinnie and she fell in love with vinnie and to roll the story to roll it ahead what happened she's going to get married to vinnie so when is she getting married of course she's getting married on shabbos and she's getting mad in chicago on chavez in church no rabbi just a priest that's it vinnie vinnie and mary no that's the whole thing so fine so she gets into she the day that she's supposed to go she's in the car and um and uh the bridesmaids you know come into the car and they're on their way on their way to the church they're going to the church on the way to the church the three friends are sitting in the car and they say you know what we bought you a present what you were present one second where they buy her they bought her a cross they take the cross she has their eyes closed they take the cross and they put the cross on her neck her eyes are closed and the way the story is set over her eyes are closed when the cross hits her chest right it's on a necklace and it hits her chest all of a sudden there's a scream all the way to shamayim no screaming all the way to shema the way she says over the story it goes all the way to the kisa krishna city covered there's a voice from this world screaming no what's going on don't worry about it's one of the girls she's into marrying that whatever it is out comes the malach and the malak says you have to give her a chance why after you're a chance who are you i am the malek of the candles i'm the two candles that she lit and i say you have to give her a chance hashem says how long did she how long did it take to light the candles 40 seconds mission made abraca she has 40 second chance to change herself 40 seconds okay cars going girls are in the car they come to a red line in chicago the light is red windows open there's four jep girls from brooklyn jefferson organization to be required people there's four jeff girls from brooklyn standing on the corner totally lost in chicago no idea where to go car pulls up it's a limo with looks like non-jewish people in it the jeff girls go over to the car and they're lost and they say how do you get to west let's say 23rd street whatever it is mary's sitting in the back she sees four girls she realizes that they're jewish she says oh west 23rd that's where my school used to be right it was used to be a conservative synagogue now it's now it's an orthodox show she says girls hop in the car and i oh you won't happen the car you girls are religious so follow me and i'll take you to the to the to the synagogue i know that you'll otherwise you're not gonna you're not gonna be able to find it one of the jeff girls from new york says excuse me uh how do you know anything about a synagogue she's already talking about i'm jewish she looks at her chest and says i don't think so something happened to your mother and david it's not looking very right over here she goes oh no no i'm going to marry vinnie and i'm the story's a much longer story but whatever it is she says by the way she says she says what's your name she says oh they call me married the jeff girl asked what's your name they call mary but my name is really miriam so the jeb girl says look what i have and she's wearing one of those silver things my name is also miriam isn't that crazy i i made miriam meet miriam she says well it will follow you so they they follow the car to the shul they come to the school this girl thinking ligma what is a jep girl 17 year old jeb girl how is she going to save this woman who's on in in the car with her friends wearing a cross on her way to church to get married what are you going to do you give up you'd walk away and say what am i going to do right what can i do this girl she's a brooklyn girl right she is she says she says to her listen you're jewish why don't you get a blessing from the rabbi she got the busy from the rabbit she says yeah they're in the middle of services you know saturday services come inside get a blessing from the rabbi she goes you know what i'm jewish i should get a blessing from the rabbi she tells her friends wait two minutes i'm going to go inside to the synagogue and get a blessing from the rabbi not knowing of course there's no way rabbits can give you a blessing to marry vinnie but the jeff girl knew that but she didn't know that so she's about to get out of the car the jeff girl says you really shouldn't wear that in synagogue i might like shock him a little bit she go oh you're right 100 i'm sorry it's not respectful she takes up the cross she takes off the cross or from the shama and she puts it on the on the chair and the way she says over the story that was the turning point when she took that cross off and put it on the chair that was where she opened up a little bit for hashem a little bit a little teeny hole fresh so she goes ahead and she comes into the show she walks into the show now she's in a wedding gown i'm sure it wasn't very seastick right she walked into the girls section of the show and you know they're used to out of town with about troubas and stuff like that and the rabbits in there are all sitting there and they're like okay listen you know some belcher let's take it a little bit chavez color she looked very literal so she went out and she bought a you know she went out of wedding down yeah we're not going to say anything so they're not going to say anything fine she comes in the revision gets up she gives a hug and a kiss what's up what's going on and she says no i'm wearing this because i'm going to i'm getting married to who to vinnie she goes he's jewish no he's not jewish were you getting married at church she said listen we're almost finished praying maybe my husband you know he's the rabbi to synagogue he'll talk to maybe give you a blessing i don't know they're all playing the same game right okay anyway they finished diving she's waiting the girls are beeping in the car ready they're getting crazy and the rabbit comes out he sees this beautiful jewish girl she's miriam's a jewish girl he's miriami says listen i'm not telling you vinnie not vinnie whatever but you know what maybe before you marry him spend the shabbos or two with us and then decide if you want to do this because if you're going to marry him you're never going to have a chavez maybe it's something you should look into and then you push it off for a week two weeks three weeks whatever it is when in the shama you know i mean maybe some of you guys have seen it but when the shaman unravels it unravels because it our souls want holiness so when you when you start to scratch up the dirt a little bit and the diamond shines through it wants to break all that dirt off so automatically sh without didn't make any logic sense she's on a way to a wedding right she came outside she says over the story she came outside and she went to her friends and she said girls i'm postponing the wedding oh you can't do that we knew it the minute you started talking to jewish girls we knew what's going to happen we heard about you guys like this you know you never make up your mind she turns around to susie one of the girls sitting in front she goes you can marry vinnie for me because the two of you been looking at each other anyway all the time i've been watching you so you know what the hall is there it's paid for that the priest is there you go marry him and and they drove off and here was this girl sitting in a shoe in a wedding dress on the day that she was going to marry vinnie okay so they took her the rabbit took her into his house and they ended up collecting money and they sent it to eritsera maybe even to nevaeh i'm not sure where she ended up but i think it was nevaeh and she ended up going to destroy for a year and for two years and she ended up dating another guy that guy ended up becoming a rav hasid they ended up living okay from chicago going to church on a shabbos wearing a cross to get married to vinnie by a priest ended up a rav hasid in it's not for you to finish just get it started i can take a girl from christian school wearing a cross on a way to church to marry vinnie with a priest i have the power to take her turn her around and end up having her head shaven living in masha'allah and bringing up little kids because you can't do that but i can do that now how do i know the story so there's a teacher in my school about 10 years ago told me this story she was a seminary girl and she they send these seminar girls out to strata homes kassidic homes up north danza to to experience different shabbat so these two girls were sent to this house they measure they come into the house they sit down you know they're an hourly guy with the big white you know white yamaki's and he goes to shul and then this girl comes down right an american girl who speaks english she comes down and she's coming to let her candle she has two two little she had like six kids but they she had like two little girls and two little boys going on to like candles and they see this woman is coming to light candles in a wedding dress now they're like wherever i could see them maybe all the women shot as kawa you know right so it could be it's their minig right so they sit there quietly they don't they're gonna say anything if you think i have a list they said that she stood there for 45 minutes to light candles everyone who doesn't have children anyone needs to for shalem she just had a whole list crying by this thing crying by that name this this one needs to shed a momish like a rabbit she finishes the 45 minutes she sits down she says so you're wondering why i'm wearing this dress she said the reason i'm wearing this dress is because i was rewarded on shabbos because when i was a little girl i lit candles and i know that's what saved me and therefore since i found god on shabbos in this wedding dress i made a nether that for the rest of my life i will always light my candles in this wedding dress and that's the story of a moment how long is a red light guys go outside go to the light sit there 40 seconds 40 seconds took a girl from the lowest point to the highest point just start just start with 40 seconds and you can go from wherever you are to the highest point hashem will take you but you have to stop at the red light and she offered these kids help if she would have said i'm sorry i'm on my way to my wedding the light would have turned green and the limbo would have continued and it would be a totally totally different life forever and ever and ever and ever and ever 40 seconds in a person's time now we're all going to come up to heaven and we're going to say god you didn't give me a chance you didn't give me the right parents i was in the wrong neighborhood i didn't go to yeshiva you're going to have a million excuses hashem's going to take out a list and show you all the red lights he gave you you went to a sheer you thought for 40 seconds you want to change your life then you didn't you saw you went to a funeral and when you saw that this young guy died you said oh my god i could die young also i have to hop around i have to jump i have to change my life but you didn't you went to a wedding and you saw the beauty of a hustle and a collar getting married and you said oh boy i wish i would only have one girl like this guy has instead of 30 of them but you didn't everybody has red lights in their life everybody does the question is how do you read it do you read it do anybody should i brain or reddit leave me alone me if if i if you leave me alone or leave me alone that's the difference and how you read it and you have to believe in yourself and you have to believe that you can that you can do anything you