Turning the Wheel | Some moments don't wait for perfect timing.

24,000 people have already died, and the Torah tells us that Mosha and the leaders of all Israel were standing at the entrance to the Ohel Moed weeping. Weeping. While people are dying, and then Pinchas stood up alone, without being asked, without waiting for permission, without checking to see if anyone else was going to move first. He saw what needed to be done, and he did it, and the plague [music] stopped. Hashem's response is extraordinary. He doesn't give Pinchas an army. He doesn't give him wealth or power. He gives him a bris shalom, a covenant of peace. Because the person who has the courage to act alone when everyone else is frozen, when everyone else is waiting for someone else to move first, that person receives something that cannot be bought or given by anyone else, inner peace. The knowledge [music] that when it counted, they showed up. Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish diplomat in Budapest in 1944. Not Jewish, under no obligation whatsoever, but [music] while the entire world looked away as Hungarian Jews were being loaded onto trains to Auschwitz, [music] Wallenberg acted alone. He printed fake Swedish passports. He rented buildings, declared them Swedish territory, and he physically walked onto the trains and pulled Jews off with his bare hands, giving them documents and saying, "You are under Swedish protection now. [music] Move." The guards didn't know what to do. Nobody had ever done this before. He saved over 100,000 [music] lives. One person, no army, no permission, no one else moving first. He was Pinchas. And we are asking [music] you to do the same. If you know someone who's struggling right now, do not wait for the right moment. Do not convince yourself it is not your place. Be Pinchas. Be Wallenberg. Stand up before [music] the train leaves the station. And if you're the one who's struggling, please hear this. There are people whose entire mission is to be the one that stands up for you. Reach out to someone, to anyone, to Amudam, because you deserve someone who doesn't freeze. This is Turning the Wheel, because the road to healing isn't straight, but no one should have to travel it alone. Wishing you a wonderful Shabbos.