A Story of Chizzuk - Shlomo Landau

foreign who shared with me a beautiful personal story he shared that him and his wife were Americans living in Eric's Israel they had one child and then they had a second baby and the baby was born very very ill and for 26 weeks it was touch and go and it was so Bleak for them they're all alone in a country where it was a different culture without their family support system and their baby was so so ill he said that there was one story that gave him and his wife so much physic in the darkest of times he said he had heard that there was a rebbe a teacher in Gary Crader in usual line and one day middle of class the rebbe leaves the classroom and he goes into the ready room to make a phone call happens to be that while he's in the rebbies room the principal the manao has there and he hears the phone call the fell says to his wife you know that old record that old jacket that I had did you throw it out yes wife says on the other end is it in the garbage can know his wife says I already took it out to the garbage bin do you think you'd go down to the garbage bin and see if you can take it out I'm sorry the garbage collectors already took it okay no worries and it goes back into class later that day the principal stops him and says to listen I don't pry but that was really strange in the middle of a class you stop classical ask your wife about that old jacket that you had that old record that you had like what was happening I really want to know I'll tell you he says when I got married I knew one day I would have to make customers for my children so every day I put a few shackles into the pocket of this old jacket that I have in my closet it's been a bunch of years and I've accumulated 40 000 checkups this morning in passing my wife mentioned to me that she planned on cleaning out my closet I said okay also for some reason during class that hit me if she cleans up my closet she's gonna throw up my old jacket and she doesn't know that there's money in there so I ran out and I called her and she had unfortunately thrown it out so the principal them now looks at the remedy system and you didn't even react it didn't seem like you got angry you weren't disappointed you just said that's okay and he went back to class where does that come from where does that inner strength come from and the rebbe said something so powerful he said who knows if my entire life all about that run around that one minute that one decision how I would react would I get angry would I Lose Myself would I be because would I say something sharp to my wife or would I somehow win it would I somehow be Victorious and come out of that and say in that challenge come complacent and believing in our show that's the dialogue that you heard the principle was blown away by this fellow this young father with a very sick child in the hospital said that so many times he told his wife and his wife told him Hashem gave us an incredible life until this point he went to yeshivas we have great families able to sit and learn we have parano so we have every beautiful childhood home everything is perfect now is the moment record could be is saying okay let's see what you're made of let's see what you can do with this Messiah are we going to lose it are we going to get depressed are we going to fall apart are we going to say we're beneficial of them we got it we have it we're gonna come out of this stronger than ever before and he said this story gave him through these terribly difficult half year to a year today his child is doing so much better when I heard this it gave me personally gave me personally I was like find those moments in our life where things are really challenging we have to tell ourselves it's possible that our entire lives were just for these moments and then Hashem we can embrace them and we can grow from them and amidst Hashem because