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Astounding Discovery Made at a Shiva Home
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When Alex Shafir was called to do a random act of kindness he discovers he was repaying a debt 30 years later! Join Sinai Academy’s Virtual Auction https://www.rayze.it/sinaiauction/ Program & Drawing Motzai Shabbos, Jan 15th pm Sponsored By: Fasten Halberstam Certified Public Accountants & Consultants https://fhllp.com 20 Minute Daf Available on all Podcast Apps, TorahAnytime and https://www.20minutedaf.com
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it was a regular work day when alex
schaefer got a call from his close
friend who asked him for a favor this
lady had passed away and in need of a
minion and she doesn't have any family
so if i could help him out to set up a
minion so i said sure not a problem alex
made a few calls within a half hour a
group of guys showed up at the apartment
they dive in the hammer if they said
kadash they learned some schneiders with
the corner of my eye i saw a plug
hanging on the wall and it said sinai
academy on it i was thought like hmm i'm
a product of cyanide academy that's
interesting and suddenly alex recognizes
his own signature on that plaque he says
that's my signature oh my god what's my
signature doing on this flag and i got a
yoshi come take a look at this your
signature is here as well he rushes in
he looked in close look yeah that's my
signature oh my god that's my other
classmates slowly but surely so many
people in that minion identified their
own signature and we started going crazy
about this place like what is this who's
this lady how come is this hanging on
her all
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it turns out 30 years earlier when alex
and his friends were just kids they went
to sinai academy and marilyn this woman
who just passed away donated a safer
torah to the school i remember the
excitement of receiving a torah it was
new to me being an immigrant from soviet
union i really know what it is exactly
it was like a big deal for the school it
was an amazing feeling in an effort to
express gratitude all the children of
the school signed that plaque which said
thank you for helping ensure that the
torah will never be forgotten by the
children and perpetuating the receiving
of the torah at sinai and now three
decades later in a moment of incredible
hajj's protest these children who were
now grown men with children of their own
were standing in her apartment
perpetuating her memory making sure that
her support for toro will not be
forgotten the energy of finding out this
that after so many years that we were
kids receiving a door and now where this
lady's house is davening for her it was
something incredible you know i feel the
story sheds light on the words we say
every rosh hashanah
hashem opens the ledger on judgement day
that has all the plaques of all the
actions we have done throughout our
lifetime the ghost
there is a signature on each page our
signature we sign on those actions that
we did but maybe just maybe those
signatures aren't our own
each page in that ledger is filled with
signatures of all the people that were
impacted by our actions
they come to sign they validate they
confirm and like alex and his friends
they are called to remember
marilyn's act of kindness on her
ultimate day of judgment
at a time
when she needed it most any missus that
you do now do not expect things to
happen right away in return because you
never know what happened tomorrow what
happened the day after tomorrow or might
happen after you die don't count for the
quick reward
look at the bigger picture
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