A Moment for Hashem | Shloime Daskal

Rabosai, Vayimaen Yidden, Ah, geshmak! There’s nothing like a Vayimaen Yid. I have a geshmake message for you, a Simchadike message. As we go to weddings, what is the peak of the wedding? What is the highest moment by a wedding? The Chuppah. They're getting married. Baruch Hashem, he gave the ring, we say the Brachos, done. What is now? The most exciting thing would be to start dancing, leibedik. All of a sudden, before that, there is something that we do. Some people say it, some people sing it. We say, If I forget you, Yerushalayim, may my right hand forget [its skill]. If I do not bring up Yerushalayim at the beginning of my joy. What is “the beginning of my joy”? The peak of the wedding is the Chuppah. And on that moment, before we're going to dance and celebrate, I'm thinking of something very important. Yerushalayim. One time, one of the musicians, not a Yid, asked me this question. He doesn't understand. We finished the Chuppah, it's supposed to be a happy time, and he realized that we're singing a song and crying about Jerusalem. I tried to explain it to him in a Yiddishe way, but it didn't work. So what I thought is like this. The peak of the wedding is the moment that we're going to break the glass and everybody's going to scream: Mazel tov! We learn from Yaakov Avinu an incredible thing. When he went to Egypt to meet Yosef, Rashi says when he hugged Yosef, he was leining Krias Shema. What? He couldn't do it a minute before, a minute later? He needed to do it now? So an incredible understanding what Yaakov Avinu did over here. Yaakov Avinu was always thinking about Hashem. He loved Hashem. What can I do for Hashem? When he went to hug Yosef, that moment was his happiest moment in his life. And he said: Hashem, I want to give You that feeling. I want to give You the love that I have for Yosef, I want to give it to You. That's why he leined Krias Shema. R’ Akiva, before they killed him, he was leining Krias Shema. Why? What's that moment? That's a moment he was waiting all his life to be Moser Nefesh for Hashem. I want to give that moment to Hashem. The heiliger Chasam Sofer says that when a Yid is before a Nisayon, that moment is the highest moment that a Yid can get in level. And that's the moment, he says, that you can ask Hashem whatever you want. So a Yid that comes to the highest moment of a Yid, that moment, think, I'm going to give this minute for Hashem. I love You, Hashem. I know this Nisayon is so geshmak, this is going to be amazing pleasure, but I want to give it to You, because I love You. So Rabosai, There shall again be heard in the cities of Yehudah and in the streets of Yerushalayim, God willing, Simchas by all.