A Half-Baked Kapitl | Rabbi Eliyohu Meir Schmeltzer

What a Zchus to be part of this tremendous organization. Let me tell you two little stories. I recently was in the car driving to the airport, and I got a phone call from a strange number. And this young Bochur, a 12th grader in a prestigious Mesivta, calls me and says: Rabbi Schmeltzer, I have not been able to learn for years. Everybody thinks I'm from the best Bochurim in the Shiur. I cannot learn, I cannot concentrate. And I watched one of the Vayimaen productions, one of the clips, and you gave me such a tremendous idea, an idea to wait 2-3 minutes before I do any Aveira, and I'm a different person. Thank you very much. And that's really a thank you to the organization called Vayimaen. I was in Prague two weeks ago, and I was sitting across the table from a stranger and he says, I think I recognize you. My life has changed because of Vayimaen. So, therefore, let me add the following. Somebody told me recently that a young man wanted to get an audience with R' Avigdor Miller. And everybody knows R' Avigdor Miller said tens and tens of Shiurim daily, and he didn't have a spare second and he didn't waste a second. And the young man says: Please, I need to speak to the Rav. And the Rav says: Listen, I take a walk every day on Ocean Parkway, you could accompany me, if you wish, but otherwise, I have no time. And the young man jumped at the offer. And as they're going out to the walk, R’ Avigdor Miller says: By the way, I'm not going to be able to concentrate, because when I take this walk, I know that the mailman wraps all the different letters in rubber bands, and I don't like that all these rubber bands are strewn about on the floor and they go to waste, so I bend down to pick it up. I'm so busy picking up rubber bands, I won't be able to concentrate on what you have to discuss with me. But you'll do me a favor. You bend down and pick up the rubber bands and I'll be able to concentrate. And that's what happened. They come to the house at the end of the walk and the young man starts apologizing. I'm sorry, I was only able to find six rubber bands. Said R’ Avigdor Miller: You think I need rubber bands? I was afraid, we're going to be walking on Ocean Parkway. I don't see anything when I walk. But I was afraid, you're a young man and you're going to look around and Chas v’Shalom, you’ll be Nichshal. So I wanted you to be looking down the entire time. My illustrious brother, R' Ruven Schmelczer, writes in one of his Sefarim the following story. There was a Yid, R’ Michoel Perets from Mexico, that got a seemingly anonymous phone call from a fellow. I just recovered from Covid. I was intubated, I was half dead. Please come, I'm making a Seudas Hoda’ah. R’ Michoel Perets didn’t remember who this person was. And he comes to the party, he comes to the Seuda, and he's looking around. He sees 17 people there, some of them he knew a little bit vaguely and some he didn't know at all, and he's wondering why he's there. And the person starts speaking and he says, I was dying from Covid and I saw myself in a trance. I was already in a coma and I'm in Shomayim. And my mother says: Go back downstairs. My mother עליה השלום says: Go back down. He says: I can't, I'm not alive. And his mother says: Look down. And I looked down and I saw all 17 of you. Every one of you was saying Tehillim. And R’ Michoel Perets was thinking to himself, I said Tehillim? I don't even know this person's first name or his mother's name. And then he recalled one time he was walking out of Shul and he saw a Petek, a little note on the wall, saying: Please say Tehillim for this young man. And probably, while I was walking out of Shul on the run, thinking about my daily schedule, I probably murmured a Tehillim, half-baked. That kapitl Tehillim brought this young man back to life. The power of a kapitl Tehillim. So I suggest before you walk out on the street, say a kapitl Tehillim. Don't even think about what you're saying, if you can't. Say that kapitl Tehillim and the Aibishter will take that kapitl and protect you in the street. And B’ezer Hashem, you'll be able to preserve your Kedushah and go on to become a bigger and better person, B’ezer Hashem Yisborach Shemo.