Pesach Mivtzoyim away from home, Rabbi Shmuel Lew - 5785

Today somebody phoned me about that fabang and he said he's listening to it in increments and he came to the story the story you know it's not from my own memory memory can play games with you and especially it's third or fourth hand but the story I heard from Rabbi Tali Loental that he heard or he read that Rabbi Grona Rabbi Label Grona in the 1940s in the tough shins was preparing a mime. He was a ba and together with Rabbi Schustman. They were um maybe typing or preparing a m of the to be able to give it to the to send out before Pes and it was the 13th of Niss and his mother somehow rang Assembly. Maybe they already had the public phone or sent a message. Are you coming home? Should we expect you today? uh you know it's almost and um he was doing the anyway the Reb came downstairs from being by the and he told the Reb this story that his mother called up and the Reb said I was just by the and he asked me is it really really realistic that it's going to come out before Pes this M and the Reb said there two working on it. And so said a very strong said of the everything is worth it. So the person told me today and contrasted it with a normal home a normal from home the night of everyone's home. Everyone's focused their last minute scrubbing or washing or sweeping or vacuum whatever that has to be done or something's being prepared to prepare for the seda. And in Kabad and in contrast there's a very large number hundreds maybe thousands that are going to different cities to make sibi and to help other people and uh he was admiring it. his own family is doing that but just looking for oius for language to be able to appreciate the contrast. So I was thinking of three levels of how to understand and how to appreciate it. Level number one taking the story at face value that it's 100% accurate. It reminds me of a story that I heard from Rabbi Grona about almost 40 years ago that there was a group that used to take place before till I think they stopped it then but there was group sometimes it was classes Montreal Boston from Kabat schools or it was students from Hill or from university groups Penn State I remember that one in Um so there was a group of students in the early tin yud 1950s and uh the spoke and then they had questions and about and a a young lady asked a question of the she said she had some neighbor or friend labavich person orid of some sort and the father of the house would go to his and um isn't that somehow reducing the in the family in the home itself? The Reb asked her, "What does your father do for a living?" And she said, "He's like works for selling a certain product. He's works for a company and he travels and uh does he travel often?" said she said, "Yeah." And the said, "Is that considered a difficulty at home? Are they okay with it?" She said, "We're very happy because we're able to lead a, you know, a relatively affluent lifestyle." means he's he's doing business as a result. So the Reb said that inn spiritually a person who goes to his Reb he gets a tremendous wealth which benefits the family that are there at home and that in itself is reflected also in the material world in physical and material well-being and emotional health and all other levels. So when a person is doing all of these pulas, it's not something which is apart from the family. That's point number one. Point number two, it's who are you doing it for? the the person that's at home on Gimmel, the one of the children that might be told, "Hey, you got to go to the airport and pick up Uncle Yankl or somebody or or Anle or child or you have to go down to Borough Park and to the Gach for cribs or for play pens or something because an are coming and we we already have an empty nest and uh there are all different types of jobs and they're being done for members of your family. Theba has taught us how to look at every Jew as our family and on the contrary the people who don't have the facilities without somebody coming there to help them make the seda or whatever those people are the members of the family who need it and it becomes even a greater a a a greater um experience in terms of the yam in the in the whole picture. I heard once a from Lipsk they said what kind of a blessing is Hashem is saying to the you're going to be spread out all over means your children may be scattered all over the globe you know what about togetherness and he worked it out that if a person is very comfortable they have a house if they live in one room it might be very cramped but at least it's happy. But imagine someone is a and they live in a big house in a mansion in a whole area. So the taught us that the whole world the whole that's us it's not far away. This is once you see that person as yours as part of it all then the activities that one does is part of the whole family and on a deeper level the third level it's every mitzvah that you do it's there's certainly a reward and there's gaden there's chay everything else but inabad the reb trained us and trains us to see it the mitzvah in terms of this is what hashem wants it's not where I am going to gain something from it it's doing it because that's what hashem wants if you look in the the mala where the very powerful oius In the later part of the MMA speaks about the the fact of doing mitzvah not because of any forget about the material world but not even for any spiritual reward but in order to do what Hashem wants that relationship that satisfaction that this is what Hashem wants in the world is something that gives the greatest satisfaction. Hashem should help that everyone should have and we should meet at good occasions. of mamish.