Amazing Story: When The Baba Sali Saw The ANGEL OF DEATH

There's a well-known story when the Babasali was in Yavn and there was a Kyle the Kyle asked to have a meeting with the Babasali. The Rishky who was a descendant of the Vagon made a disparaging remark about the Balsham. something to the effect that we all know that when it comes to nigla deto that the nagon was greater than the balm the babasali was very upset and he says to this guy you're coming to tell me who's the vagon who's the bump told him kum get up get out of this uh office and after the rashk Kyle left he told his grandson I'm telling you that this man's ky will not stand here by tomorrow it'll be gone hav that's exactly what happened the very next day the funds from the government for the kyo were cut off and they were uh forced to leave Yavn and soon after that the babasali himself decided he can't he himself cannot remain in yavnet because he doesn't want to be in a place where such an incident happened in other words it caused him such pain to hear somebody speak disparagingly of the bal. So what is this connection that that the Babasali has to the bal and toy which is [sighs] I'm not here to say long dres but I'll say one a concept we know that the bal taught that means not only to love a fellow Jew but to be ready to sacrifice ice everything for the sake of loving a fellow Jew. Nephes absolute self-sacrifice for the sake of another Jew. What does it mean for to give up his gashmas? That's not misus foric is when he gives up even his and even that he's willing to do. There's a well-known story of the balsham. I won't tell the whole but when the balv was on his way to and he never reached in the end they say if the balshv would have met the kodish would have brought msiach he did not make it further than constantinople what is now known as Istanbul and he was stuck there for pesak and he had to make a sedar and he didn't have matzah he didn't have wine no mur and there was a wealthy Jew there who had all of the things that were needed for the sedar. So this wealthy Jew offered the balv that he could make his pesar with him and on the condition that this this Jew wanted that the balv should give him a bra. So the balshumptive agreed and he made his pesa with this with this wellto-do Jew there in Constantinople and afterwards the host told the bal I want a braha for children told him I can't help you with that it's explained the rebba told this story and he explained that the way that a braha works is that sometimes somebody has something in their spiritual bank account in Shamayam, but it's stuck and bra is ham is drawing down. So to sometimes you got to shake the pipeline loose so that the blessings can make their way down here. And a sadik has the access to bring down these blessings. But he can only bring down to you what's already in your account. If you don't have it in your account, then it doesn't even help to ask the sadik. Nevertheless, this this wealthy Jew who hosted the Basha for his pes he persisted and he says I want the blessing nevertheless even if it's not in my account you promised you have to give me the blessing so the bashv gave him the blessing even though it was not in the spiritual bank account and immediately the balv heard a basil a voice from heaven that says says, "Because you gave this blessing to this man that you had no permission from heaven to give, you lost your haba. You lost your hab began to dance and he says, "And now I can finally serve Hashem for no payoff, for no reward. Now I can serve Lee Shamay. Now surely the BPM of God is in Habach. We're sure about that. But the point is his reaction that it made him happy to think that he could be Moes. He could give up everything. He could sacrifice it all and now he could truly serve Hashem. This is one of the novel concepts of the idea. It's really not originalidis. It's actually it's a Mishna says in don't be like the servants who only serve their master to receive a reward. But see this comes comes and says we really really mean it. It's not just a slogan that we will literally give up everything and we don't need a payoff. We don't need a reward. We just want to serve Hashem or like I don't know if I can quote in Yiddish here at the but the famously said to Hashem I don't want you I don't want your I just want you I don't want a payoff no reward no nothing and this is one of the core concepts of now a story another story of the Babasali. This story took place in Eritis after the the Babasali came to Eritis and there was a Yid who used to come to the Babasali's home and deliver fruits as gifts to the Babasali. He was a he was a fruit uh uh a vendor. He sold fruits. He had a truck. He drove uh a truck with fruits. He comes to the Babasali's home to bring the fruits. He's very proud of this that he's giving this gift. Comes to the house. Babasali sees him and he says, "What are you doing here with these fruits? WHO NEEDS YOUR FRUITS? GET OUT OF HERE. GET AWAY FROM MY HOME. TAKE YOUR FRUITS. Keep your fruits and go." Very, very shocking. The man was very embarrassed, ashamed, broken. What could he do? He got back in the truck. He starts driving the truck full of fruits. As he's driving back, there was a terrorist attack and there was a missile that the terrorist shot and it hit his truck. It got stuck in between the boxes of fruits and it went off, but it didn't do any damage to the driver because the fruits blocked it. A miracle. A miracle. And of course, everybody heard and they understood that this was the Babasali's nest. This was his miracle. But still they had questions. They asked obviously the Babasali saved his life. But why did it have to be so harsh? Why did it have to be in such a way where the man felt brokenhearted? And don't we know that if you embarrass someone, you lose your your your for embarrassing somebody. And they asked the Babasali, he says, "I want to tell you something. When that man, the fruit truck driver came to the house, I saw with him, he brought a guest. The Malakamovas was following him. He was not supposed to live through the day. And I knew that I had to do something about it. I embarrassed him." And this took off the decree. The decree was commuted, so to speak. The sentence was commuted that he was embarrassed instead of having to die. His life was saved. And this that you say anyone who embarrasses someone loses their says the Babasali. To save the physical life of a Jew, it is worth losing one's hab. Now clearly the baba has an he has a like we say but the point was his attitude that to save the physical life understand this the physical life of a Jew it's worth that the spiritual life can you imagine the above such a a sadik it's worth the spiritual life of a sadik to be sacrificed to save the physical life of a simple fruit salesman that's of the Now I want to conclude with this letter that's in the letter that the labba wrote to the babasali I'm not going to read the entire letter it's a beautiful letter some of it is cababalistic but just a portion of it where the babasali tells the is dated test ninud the spring of 1952 the babasali had just moved from Morocco to Eritis and he wrote to the Reb and he said that the reason he left Morocco was to get away from the community. He said he wanted to immerse himself in a voda and be free to connect to Hashem and not to have to deal with all of the anony all the commun communal affairs. And he's thinking maybe he'll do even one step more. He'll move to America where he'll be anonymous. You know, this is before all the pictures on the internet. You know, he would sort of be a sadic nister. In 1952, if the Babasali would come to New York, maybe he could try to be a sadic nister, be undercover. And that was his idea. He was just going to come and go incognito mode. He told the Reb his idea. And the Reb writes him back and the Reb says like this. Just going to read a few lines of it. You're familiar with this concept. The question of a wise man is already half an answer. the man is but the question of and a leader of the Jewish people even more so it's already half an answer maybe even means it's a whole answer that says to the babasali I understand that your nama is yearning to connect to the highest most hidden heights but hashem gave you a special talent a rare air talent that people actually listen to you that people actually listen to you when you speak. They listen. So you have an obligation to lead and this that you're saying you want for your own personal spiritual growth to come to New York to live anonymously says the reb you will find that the ultimate fulfillment of your nama will ironically enough come through your service of the community that when you put aside here The paradox when you put aside your personal spiritual aspirations and you think only of others and how you can help them. This actually is the most fulfilling thing because it's clearly a special talent that your nishama has and it's part of the reason that you came to this world. So you imagine the incredible Mr. Nephesh of the Babasali who wanted nothing but to learn in Davin all day and he decided instead to be Ma nephesh on behalf of the cl so that he would be available to guide yeden spiritually to help them materially and to do so with nephesh. This is the ultimate inab whose name was Israel. The Babasali's name was also Israel. This is the ultimate. And what was the the nephish of of the of the Babasali and of the Bash on behalf of Israel? The Yidden. The Jewish people are called Yro. And this is what a real sadic is. And this is what a melik is. The Reb tells the Babasali, "Who is a Melik? Who's a king?" on Mount Gerabon like the Gumra says the rabbis are kings and the first Melik was melik Yeshua was his he was also a melik and Hashem told Yeshua when your children go out to war you go with them we're in a war everyone's fighting the Melik can't stand back behind the war he can't stand in a safe place he has to go with the the foot soldiers on the front lines and this is the mic nephadic. I just want to end by saying that the rebba never ever ever let us get away with praising sadikim and saying oh what an incredible sadic this person was. The rebba always forced us to internalize the message and to try to emulate it try to live up to it ourselves. So on this occasion of the yard site hilula we should strive for midus nephesh on behalf of cla each one in his own way in her own way but nephesh for in the manner of the babasali aleno. [applause] work for so much.