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Ahavas Yisroel That Can Hopefully Bring the Geula - Rabbi Paysach Krohn Shlit"a
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Ahavas Yisroel That Can Hopefully Bring the Geula Rabbi Paysach Krohn Shlit"a Noted Lecturer and Author of The “Maggid” Series 6 Menachem Av 5786
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tonight's Russia.
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It's a tremendous to have been invited
by Bald and Sim and and the officers of
Egon
to come to speak to this wonderful
crowd. Now I know Rabbi Bald can't be
here tonight. Unfortunately, he has
pneumonia and he's in the hospital. So
just have him reminding you
Benra.
He should have a complete raff and
continue his great work for cities all
around the world. I just want to tell
you, Rabbi Bald, I know you're watching
and you can only see me, but I want you
to know I'm speaking for 4,000 people.
Now, if you turn around the camera,
you're only going to see 40 people here.
But let me just tell you, I'm speaking
to them, to their children and
grandchildren and great grandchildren.
So, Yosi and Cindy, I'm speaking to your
grandchildren because I know you're
going to give over the message. So,
really, we're speaking tonight for 4,000
people. Remember,
>> 140.
>> What? More than 40 here.
>> More than 40 here. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah.
Dutch doesn't want to lose his job.
Yeah. There's 60 here.
>> Okay.
You know, there's a very sad gamorrah
that is going to be the theme for our
speech tonight. Many of us know the
in the second people were involved in
mitzvah.
So if that's the case, why was the
destroyed?
Because there was hatred for no reason.
Baseless hatred. So of course it makes
sense that what's the opposite of of aum
and that's why I decided tonight to
speak about and I want to tell you
tremendous stories and if you take notes
and you write it down and you'll be able
to tell them to your family you'll see
when something comes up and there's a
situation you'll be able to think about
what did
what did Guritz do a guritz and What did
Rabon Fadron do? What did Raisman do?
And these these things will be
ammunition for all of you when a
situation comes up and you'll be able to
think how should I act in a situation.
So I want to tell you one of the
greatest stories I ever heard and they
called me from Gates.
They called me from Gates shortly after
it happened to tell this unbelievable
story.
There was a guy, let's call him Simi,
and he was a little bit of a VA fellow.
Thank you. By the way, without Voltater,
I couldn't do anything. So, give him a
round of applause.
If I sneeze, he gives me the tissue.
So this guy simply was a va guy and he
had learned in gates for three years and
now he was going to Israel to learn but
they made him a sudas praa a sudas praa
means like a goodbye party and everybody
was there the rabbim were there his
friends were there the rashiva
ra um aram guru was there and everybody
spoke a few words nice words about this
boy simp because everybody liked him but
they knew that if he spoke, it would be
either hysterical or it would be so
memorable. But what he said was so
memorable, nobody could ever forget it.
And afterwards, people called me to tell
me what he said. It was amazing. And he
said like this. He said, "Everybody
knows that I'm a little bit wild. And
when I first came to the yeshiva, after
a day or two, I got into a tussle with a
few guys and they started chasing me."
Now, I just came to Gates Head. I didn't
know the layout of the place. So I was
running into the building. I ran
upstairs. I saw a big door. I ran
inside. It was the base medish. And what
am I going to do in the bdish? It was
lunchtime. There were not too many
people there. And I I couldn't turn
around because they were waiting for me
outside. So I you know I started running
and at the end of the bdes I saw a door.
So I figured I'll go to that door and
I'll get out that way. But I opened the
door and I saw it's the library. It was
the itasum and there was no door on the
other side. So, how am I going to get
out of here? If I go back into the
Bdish, they'll beat me up. So, I was
stuck in the swarm. So, I quickly locked
the door and and they started banging on
the door and I said, "Get out of here,
you guys. You think I'm going to open up
the door for me? You're going to break
my head." And nothing. He said I was in
there and then it was quiet and then
there was a knock. So, I said, "Who's
there?" So I hear a voice and it says,
"It's the rashiva." So I said, "You're
the Russash Shiva. You're not the
Russash Shiva. Get out of here. You're
trying to beat me up. Get out of here."
And then there was quiet again. And then
there was a knock again on the door. I
said, "Who's there?" And he said, "It's
a rashiva. I need a safer." Yeah, my
foot. You need a safer. You're trying to
beat me up, that's all. And you know,
like and okay, so he was quiet and he
waited a few more minutes. It was still
quiet again. And then after a few
minutes, there was a knock again and and
he says, "Who's there?" And a soft boy
says, "It's the Russa. I need a safer."
Yeah, you're not the Russa. Get out of
here. And then he it occurred to him,
you know something? Maybe it is the
rashiva. You know, like what's he going
to do? So he opened up the door a little
bit and he saw, oh my god, it's the
rashiva himself. So he didn't know what
to do, you know, because there was no
way out. So, and if the Rosh Yeshiva
would see him, you know, he'd be out of
the yeshiva in a day. He just got there
two days ago. Anyhow, after a few
minutes, once again, there's a knock on
the door and he says, "I'm telling you,
it's the Rashiva. I need a cipher." So,
he opens the door a little bit and he
sees the rashiva standing like this. And
that's how he goes into the room. He
doesn't even look at him and he says I
want all of you to know the rashiva is a
great but his midas was so great because
if he didn't do that if he didn't walk
in that way and he would have seen me I
would have left the yeshiva the next day
but because he didn't he had the obvious
not to embarrass me and just to look
like this when he walked in so I was
able to stay in this yes yeshiva for
three years and that's the sat I want to
have to the rash yesa and we see of Of
course the rashiva could have been very
angry but you see that's how a great
person is. That's a lesson of a royal.
Now before I had my stroke I was able to
travel to different countries and one of
the countries I went to was in Brazil
and I was in S. Paulo. S Paulo is a very
nice community but you wouldn't want to
live there. Every house is guarded with
gates and police and you can't even walk
into a shul. You have to walk into a
chamber. They locked the door on both
sides and only when they realized nobody
else is there but only a guy who wants
to do and they'll let you go into the
shul anyhow. So I was there to speak and
shabu.
So you know you make Jewish geography.
So I asked the guy what's his name? He
says my name is Daniel Sunfeld. I said
sonofeld what do you mean you're related
to Rabis Haim? He said yeah that was my
great greatgrandfather. I said you got
to be kidding. I never met anybody
that's related to Rab Yim. You got to
tell me a great story about Rab Yim. You
know, I'm always looking for great
stories and then I want to write them
down. So he said, I'll tell you a
fabulous story that only people in our
family know. I said, "Okay, go ahead."
And he tells me this amazing story. When
Abuim was older, Neb, his wife passed
away and his daughter-in-law would come
every day. Her name was Kasia Shaina.
Everybody called her Shaina. and um
she would come and help her grand you
know her father-in-law every single day.
One day as she's coming in
open the door for her and he hears a
woman crying. So he says Shaina who's
crying. She says I'll go out and I'll
find out. And she goes outside and she
sees it's a Yemenite woman and she is
the washer woman. She would collect all
the laundry from everybody and then hang
it up to dry and then bring it to people
in the afternoon and they would pay her
and that's how she had money to buy food
for the kids on the way home. So,
so she found out that that day was
rushed and this Yemenite woman didn't
know that there's a minig in so that
women don't do laundry ones. So, nobody
gave her laundry. So, she was crying cuz
she wasn't going to have panosa. So
that's what she told Raim. So listen to
what he said. So Raim said to her, "Do
we have any laundry?" She said, "Yeah."
He said, "Okay, take the laundry we have
and go out and give it to her." So she
goes out and she gives her the laundry.
And when the neighbors saw that Raim
gave the laundry, so they also gave the
laundry. Finally afterward, she came in
and she said, "Z, I hope you don't mind
my asking, but what about the Mik that
women don't do randesh?"
He said a yid has to know priorities.
That woman is an alman. Helping an alman
is a disa. Not doing laundry ones is a
mig and a dissa takes precedence over a
minute. So that's what we have to do.
Many times you know we try to be mir at
somebody's expense but you have to know
the priorities. Now I want to tell you a
story that Abomadron once told me and he
cried when he told me this story and
I'll tell you at the end why he cried
but it also has to do with we're going
to hear stories about today that are
just unbelievable his tremendous
tremendous aas
what happened was inimuls
the basis passed away and everybody went
to Ra and they said, "Reb who you going
to? Who's going to d for the helmet? You
know, this guy ded so many years." The
Reb said, "Don't worry, I'll appoint
somebody." So
they waited every week, you know, they
would come to the Reb Shaba said, "Reb
did you appoint anybody?" He said, "I
told you, don't worry, I'll take care of
it." Now it was the night of Rashes. The
next morning, somebody supposed to down
for the elmet and nobody was appointed.
So they went to the RV and they said to
him, "Reba, who's going to d tomorrow,
Shakas?" He said, "Don't worry. I told
you I'll take care of it." That night
after everybody left the shul, he calls
over the son of the guy who used to d
and he says, "You're going to be the
bosak tomorrow." He says, "Rabbi, I
never dyed." He said, "You heard your
father 30 years. You'll know what to do.
You go and do it." And sure enough,
that's what he did. And that guy went up
to Davin. Afterwards, one of the canoy
went over to there's always a guy in the
sh who's a bigger sonic than the and uh
he says to him, he says, "Rebel,
there's not a lot of dash. This guy just
lost his father a few months ago." He
said, "Let me tell you something. Who
was sitting in the ladies section, the
almana of that ber? Imagine if she would
hear every year she heard her husband
sing out hamela. Imagine if she had a
strange man saying hamelik how she would
cry. We would all cry from her tears and
being that she would cry like that. I
felt the only one that would satisfy her
would be her son. And that's when I pro
that's as if there was nobody else to do
it. And many of us have mothers that are
among us or sister-in-laws that are
among us or even
you know people in the neighborhood. You
have to be so careful with an almana.
And the reason Absalam cried is because
his mother became an alman when Abhalam
was seven years old. And it always hurt
him so much how our how his mother had
to suffer in poverty and she had to wash
floors. And I'm telling you, he the way
he treated my mother after my father
passed away was so incredible. He talked
to her, you know, with with kid gloves.
And um I don't know if I should say
this, but I probably shouldn't. But I'll
tell you something that Rab Shalom once
told me. Only somebody who understands
Yiddish will appreciate this. And only a
wife could say this to her husband. He
told me that his wife Leia, he called a
Leica and she called him Shalom. She was
the sister of Al. So she once told her
husband shalom,
you know, like you know, you you're so
careful with all the almanas, you know,
she used that expression. But the truth
is he was an absolute incredible person
when it came to any almon, especially my
mother, how he treated her. Now there's
a message
that I think is the balance of what we
said from the Gomorra and Yuma that you
know the Bas were destroyed because of
the
and it says like this
is not going to be redeemed until we are
like one group. What does that mean to
me? It means that if we have and we care
for each other, so then we're going to
have the we have to be a but I think
it's very very important to know when we
say audas.
Not everybody has to be the same. I
don't have to be like you, you don't
have to be like me and none of us have
to be like Sundi. Everybody's different.
Everybody's got mileas. Everybody got
things that they could accomplish. So we
have to read in
and the I want to show you certain
things that the says that are out of
this world.
says there's four types of people in and
he brings it from
you have leaders in
people who guide us and tell us what to
do and then you have you have there many
but they're not leaders in they could
they could give a sh they're but they're
not the leaders and then you have
You have the men and the you have the
women. So you have the leaders, you have
the
and you have the men and the women. And
then says something which is so
important. He says this.
Every one of us here and I know so many
of you. Everybody has their own way of
serving Hashem. Nobody has to be the
same. There's some people that are beta
a whole day and there's some people that
are exceptional in there's a guy here
Nigel Mandel tonight. I told him I'm
going to speak about a guy Nigel in our
shul in our show.
There's a guy Nigel if you sit next to
him it's impossible not to d him better.
We had a guy David Shman all over
Shalom. I used to sit I used to love to
sit next to him when he davened. He was
so special in saying every single word
as if he was counting a $100 bills and
he said and then there's people
every person and then says even in some
people like some people like uh and he
says even in mitzvah there some people
they love the mitzvah of Shabas and some
people love the mitzvah of titus. Every
person every person has their own way.
So then it seems that so what should you
do? How do you pick out what you should
do? Should you be somebody that learns,
somebody that dams, somebody that does
say brings a p in um inelis
everybody has certain inclinations.
Everybody has certain feelings towards
certain mitzvah or towards certain
mitzvah or certain hanogas. And if you
have the mitzvah that way that's what
you should do and you become
exceptional. So when then when the says
when the med says the gold
it doesn't mean we have to be the same.
Everybody has their own way of doing
tremendous things. I want to show you
certain people that had a certain nity
to certain things and we'll hear an
amazing story. Now I had an uncle. I
never in my life called him Mike but
everybody called him they called him
Mike Mike Tress many of you heard of him
he was the president of aura for two
decades in America and he he loved doing
so I love this story
I have a cousin who's lamel's son for
many years he was a tremendous Oscar in
Toronto and then he went to Miami once
for vacation and he was it was shakus in
the morning and he had his talis bag on
the uh on the table. So a satma guy with
curly pis up turned out in the becka say
you know just like me and uh
no inside that's what I am but anyway so
any he takes a look at his talis bag and
he says to him
he said yeah see this head from my
says so he said
so the s guy stops and he starts crying
his mom is crying so says to
you knew my father? He said, "Let me
tell you a story about your father." He
said, "I came to America after the
Second World War. I had no job
whatsoever. I didn't have bread. I
didn't have food for my children and
wife for the Shabas table." So, somebody
said to me, "Why don't you go to the
Agura on Bedford Avenue? There's a guy,
Mike Tress. He loves to do favors." So,
I went to Mike Tress. I went to a guy. I
didn't know who he was, you know, no
beard and you know, and he said to me,
"Can I help you?" I said, "I need
panosa. I don't have pinosa. I don't
have food." He said, "Well, what do you
do?" He said, "I'm a glazier. I fix
glass, you know, in windows or in
doors." So, he said, "Your father said
to me, oh, I know a glazier on MSI
Avenue just a couple blocks away. He had
given this note. He's my good friend.
And give him he'll hire you." And sure
enough, I went there and he's telling
three trust. The guy hired me and I
couldn't believe it. Every Friday, he
gave me my money that I deserved, you
know, for working for him. And and I had
food for the table, food for my kids. I
couldn't believe it. He said, four
months after I was there, my boss calls
me in and he says, "I want you to go to
Mike Tress and tell him he doesn't have
to pay your salary anymore.
I'm going to pay you myself. You're a
good worker." So what Mike Tress had
actually done was in that note he said
take this guy and pay his salary and I
will pay you. So like this you'll be
able to have it. Many of us here
remember Benny Fishoff. So Benny Fishov
did that same thing with a young kid who
was moving to and he had no job and
Benny gave him a note to somebody in
you know he wanted a computer job and
the guy he called the guy in the guy
said how can I hire this yeshiva guy he
doesn't know anything about computers so
Benny said leave it to me I will send
you money every week and after 6 months
if he's not good I'll take care of him
and sure enough he paid for six months
panosa and That's
now many of us are able to be givers and
we're able to help those people who
don't need who who don't have posa and
who need jobs desperately.
And now I want to tell you one of the
greatest stories of Rabim.
In the old city of there was a little
seven-year-old boy who Nebak lost his
father and he was so traumatized that he
stopped talking. And people went to and
they said Reb maybe you could go be the
kid and maybe you could get him to talk.
Sabim
went to the house and he sat by the boy
and he started talking to him and they
got into a conversation and sure enough
the kids started talking. So as we said
before there's always these that are
smarter than the so when was leaving a
guy went over to him says reb doesn't it
say in you're not supposed to talk to
the other until he starts talking first
you know said to him you didn't hear him
he was screaming
imagine that you didn't hear me was
screaming and sometimes a person could
be screaming and you don't hear the
voice but you know what's going on in
his heart and that's That's what did. So
I want to tell you a very interesting
story that happened with my
brother-in-law.
I have a brother-in-law is a very soft
spoken guy. I don't want to say where he
lives cuz I don't want it to be a
reflection on the area. But he opened a
day camp for boys with two other guys.
And after about four or five months when
the camp was doing well, these two other
guys they kind of ganged up against him
and they took the camp away from him and
they kept the prophets and you know he
was he was out of it and he was so
distraught you know and they got into an
argument back and forth you know he said
oh I started to camp together with you
how could you guys plan against me but
you know that's how it is sometimes in
business and he didn't know what to do
So you know he called me and I said you
know Rabadan was in America at that
time. So I said to him why don't you go
to Rab Shalom and asked him and this is
amazing thing. So he came to my mother's
house that's where Absolum was and he
told him the story. So Abshalam took out
his wallet and he said I want to show
you what I carry in my wallet. There's a
letter that the Rambam wrote to his son.
It's called
the Rambam had a son of and the the
Rambam wrote a letter to him. I'm going
to read first one line in Hebrew and
then the rest in English.
Don't defile your soul with arguments
that destroys the body.
It'll destroy your soul and your money.
What are you going to have left? Raisi,
I saw Lev and people that were white
complexioned that his faces became
black. I saw, he said, I saw families
afflicted.
Families afflicted, princes removed from
their prominence, large cities
devastated, groups split aunder, and
respectable people embarrassed and
humiliated because of arguments. Sir
Abshom says, "I keep this in my pocket
cuz everybody somehow is going to get
into an argument with other people." And
does he told him, I can't believe he
told him this. He said, "Walk away from
the camp." And my brother-in-law did
that. I can't believe he did it. But you
know, he's living a nice, quiet,
peaceful life. He has a government job.
But he did exactly what what you know
what Rab told him. You know,
part of is not to be involved in.
But I want to show you a lady of a Yro
that's just unbelievable. I have a
friend obviously I can't mention his
name. He has also a boy camp and the
camp was very full every year. Let's
call it camp godless and unless you can
come up with a better name. You're the
mock man. And Morty Melman who's
watching from someplace. But anyway, so
this camp was filled every year. So this
guy sent out a letter. My friend three
weeks uh three months before the camp.
Please everybody if you want to send
your son to the camp please register and
send in an email that you want you want
you know your son to come to camp. So
fine. So he and a lot of people came in
and he had no spaces left. And then one
of the wealthiest women who had sent her
son called him up and he said, "You
know, I'd like to register my son." He
said, "But didn't you get the email? I
sent you the email." She said, "Yeah, we
got the email, but we thought we were
going to be in Israel this summer, but
the plans changed, so now we need" He
said, "But I how can I give away the
space? I I Every spot is filled. I can't
take away somebody's spot."
So, he said, "But I promise you this.
every year in the camp, right before
camp, somebody cancels out. And if
somebody cancels out, I promise you,
you'll get the spot. She said, "Okay,
that's fair." Anyhow, three weeks later,
Taka, somebody canceled and he called
her right away. He said, "Listen, a spot
opened up and if you want the spot, you
know, it's yours. You'll be able to have
it." So, she said, "Okay." She zelled in
the money right away. And listen to
this. The next day she called Mik Israel
and she said like this. I want you to
know all my life I was wealthy as a
child, as a teenager and even now as an
adult. I never had to wait for anything.
I always got what I wanted first cuz I
had the money. My family had the money.
But this past three weeks while I was
waiting for you to call me, I had
feelings that I never had before. I
never worried whether I was going to get
in or be accepted. And I never felt that
pain. But now it occurred to me that
there were a lot of people in your camp
probably who felt this pain. They didn't
think that they could get in. So I want
you to know if there's any kid that
can't get in because they don't have the
fee to pay for camp, I'll pay for it.
And that's mama because she doesn't even
know that person. She can't expect any
favor. She's doing it for somebody who
felt the pain of not being accepted.
That's to me incredible. And I want to
show you all of us who had this to know
Rais Solomon knew that he was such a
wonderful loving kind person besides
being a tremendous
and a great English accent you know and
it was always so great to listen to him
and he was never embarrassed I couldn't
get over he's never embarrassed to speak
English you know some Russas they're
embarrassed to speak goes I mean you
know that's the language when you go to
England you know they nobody's
embarrassed or settled used to speak
English. Ra Matio and all these people
as well.
So what happened was when Ra Matio first
came to Lakewood, everybody wanted a
piece of the action and a Friday night a
long line would stand and uh you know to
say good. So one Friday night there was
this kid who was online and he's waiting
a long time you know to be say Mashk. So
finally he comes up to the mash and he
says good chabas and he says rebi could
I ask the rebi a question
said my k of course whatever you how can
I help you he says rebby I heard that
the circus is coming to New Jersey and I
bought a ticket to go to the circus but
I heard that the rebi gave a schmoo and
said that a a fr boy should not go to
the circus but I bought a ticket already
am I allowed to go sir Matio holds his
hand and he looks at him. He holds his
hands and he says, "Yingala, I just want
to tell you now that you asked me, I've
got to tell you the truth of what I
feel. I feel a boy should not go to the
circus." So the kid was downcast and he
said, "Okay, I won't go." And then he
turns to leave and Ra Mati brings him
back and he said, "We're still friends,
right?" So he said, "Yeah." He smiled
and he walked away. Six months later,
now you know who told this story. Ra
Solomon Ramatio son told us by the
Shiva. Six months later, Ramates was in
a car and he says to his driver, "Take
me into that shaw." He says, "Rebey,
where are we going?" He said, "You'll
see." He goes into the shul. It's that
boy's bitzvah. He had rewritten down
that night when the kid had said that he
was his friend. I mean, obviously he
wrote it after Shabas. He wrote they
found out when the kid's vitzvah is and
then he came in and the father and the
kid almost fainted
is coming to his vitzvah. So the father
ran over to him and he said mash I'm so
happy you came but what made you come?
He said do you mind if I say some bra?
So the father said, "No, of course not."
And he brings the little boy next to him
and Ra Matis was speaking at the bait
mitzvah and he tells the story that
happened and he said the boy said we're
still friends. So how could a friend not
come to a friend's vitah that that was
who Ra Matio was just absolutely
incredible.
Now I just want to tell you one more
story about Ra Matio that the Epstein
family told me. The Epstein family are
neighbors to Raatio. Now when they first
when Ramatio first came in so and they
moved next to the Epstein so the Epstein
had a daughter that was the same age as
Raatio and they both were very close
friends. And then it turned out that
Amatio's daughter was getting married
and this girl Nebul she was anal her
father had passed away and uh she
couldn't come to the wedding. So the
night of the wedding, it's hard to
believe when they came home from work,
the Epstein family, there was a note on
the table, don't prepare supper.
Supper's going to be delivered to all of
you. And in an hour later, there was a
caterer that came from the kasa with the
shimog with the dessert with the main
dish and all those things. And not only
that, but Matio hired a photographer to
take pictures of the vading and the kupa
and brought it to the family. These are
all stories of Avis Israel that you know
you have to think beyond you know out of
the box. It's just amazing. And that's
why I like to call this sto this speech
the AAA speech ammunition for action and
a
every single day we have opportunities
to to say a compliment and that's really
what I'm going to be talking about on
the video on tishov to give a compliment
to be mazic people there. Everybody,
there's so many people that are so
broken. It's I I don't know how the Reb
take it, you know. Everybody comes with
their sorus. There's so many people that
are sick and they have
problems and kids going off to and you
have to be we need
and
that's what I believe. That's what a
means to have and to hug people and to
talk to them and be mazic them. And if
you have an opportunity to help a
person, that's really what you have to
do. Now, I just want to tell you one
more story about Ra is Alman. And this
is hard to believe the story, but it's
written in his biography. In the 1940s,
there were so many bombs coming in in
your Shallayam and it was dangerous to
walk outside and Rabi Sman's wife Ba
Hinda, she was Rab Aaron's mother-in-law
because Rabis was his father-in-law. She
was a tremendous mild she wrote down the
shurum of Rabisa Salman and that's how
they were printed from her writings. But
anyway, during the bombing, she said to
her husband, "Please come with come into
the shelter." And he said, "No, if I
learn, that'll be the biggest
protection." And she was crying and
begging him, "Please come into the
shelter." He said, "I'm telling you, I'm
going to be okay." Finally, the bombs
were not stopping. And then she said,
"Please, I'm begging you. I'm so
afraid." He said, "Okay, if they calm
down, then I'll I'll go outside." So,
the bombing calmed down a little bit.
And then he went outside. And then all
of a sudden more bombs came. And she
said, "Come with me to the shelter." And
he said, "No, I'm afraid." And then she
said, "So let me yell for people to
come." He said, "You can't yell because
if there's bombs and I yell or you yell,
people are going to want to come. But
there's bombs going on. We can't put
people in a sakona." And so mama, she
was hit by shrapnel. He had to wear a
cast for a year so he should be able to
heal properly. And then eventually he
went into the shelter and he was saved.
I mean this is not part of my speech and
I don't usually like to tell jokes but I
heard during the six day war when there
was some mother you know wanted to tell
her father to go into a shelter he said
you know you got to bring me my teeth I
can't go into the shelter. So she said p
they're not dropping sandwiches they're
dropping bombs. But anyway, but the
point is that's really what Abas is all
about. And I just want to end just with
this thing. I know I'm ending a little
early, but today somebody asked me
what's the difference between and think
about it for a second. What's the
difference between compassion and
so I I I saw a beautiful answer. Raim is
when you're asking what another person
needs. It is when you think of what
could I give and every one of us can
give. You can give a compliment, you can
give money, you can give, you can give
pens, whatever. Everybody has something
that they can give to make somebody feel
special. You can invite somebody to a
house for a meal for Shabas and guests.
And that's exactly what we want to talk
about theim
the and I believe that if we could only
take some of these stories and when
somebody's in pain and we feel their
pain and call them there's so many
people that are stuck at home whether in
rehab centers or at home because they
can't get out or because you know they
don't have jobs. Let's try to think you
know the writes and say
he writes a person has to be
not one day should go by from today on
that you don't do for somebody else. I
want to tell you something that I do. I
don't usually like to talk about this,
but every single day I don't go to sleep
until I wrote down a that I did for
another person. And I don't include my
my children in that that you got to do
and your wife that you got to do if you
know it's good for you. But I'm talking
about there's so many people that need
and if you write that down, I'm telling
you, I guarantee you that your life will
change because Hashem, Hashem, Hashem is
your shadow. If you do for others,
others will do for you. And again that's
what the says in par.
So one of the things that we can do
tonight is when we say we should have
Allah
in mind. He's a tremendous sadic at
he's a mahab of and he arranges shim
hundreds of shur throughout the world
and he's one of the great people in our
our generation and I just want to end
with this story about a person that I
love so much and that's Sherman and he
told this story and I just called him
the other day just to confirm it. He he
was in the sixth grade in CA in um
yeshiva Turvadas in Williamsburg and one
day I don't know any you remember that
the principles in Turvadas do it was
Rabbi Pinkis and a Dr. Stern and one day
Dr. Stern came into the class and um
Rabbi Hersh Kaplan who was the rebi
wasn't expecting Dr. Stern to come in
and Dr. Stern wanted to speak to the
bahim but he came in by surprise. Now
Rabbi Hersh Kaplan had a mida that if a
kid was bad he wrote his name on the
board and when the kid was good he would
erase it. So here and now Dr. Stern was
in the class and and Rabbi Kaplan was
afraid that he's going to see the names
on the board. So as
let me hold on to this as okay just
just hold on as Dr. Sunn is talking
Rabbi Kaplan went against the blackboard
and started with his beckisha erasing
the names and when when Rabbi Sherman
said when Dr. the stern walked out and
Rabbi Hersh Kaplan accompanied him out
the door. So he saw all the chalk on the
on the back of the bees and that's
that the the cover of your should be
just as strong as the cover of yourself.
And I just hope that tonight that we
learned some stories from we learned
about
with the washer woman and we learned
about the little boy who was the and we
learned about
and who appointed the son of the bilah
and we learned about Kaplan and we see
that
every single person has different
talents. Try to see that you should be
not only
to think what the other person needs but
be active be proactive
and the word and means what could I give
to others and I once served that the
word reaction and creation are the
spelled with the same letters so we
shouldn't only be people of reaction be
people of creation figure out what can I
do to help another they should help that
should have a former I'm sorry we're
stopping a little bit early but I hope
that everybody will learn the lessons of
and we should be nigal together and be
able to have
in your Thank you for coming and thank
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