Chazaq event with R' Mashiach Kelaty on "Finding Direction in the Modern World"

[Music] well thank you Yan thank you so much it makes me want to stay on for another few weeks you know haval to miss out okay uh let me just formally say thank you to Yan and kazak it's really a to be able to speak for such an organization um we see so many things from kazak in the UK we have our kak in the UK with a with a K not with a q but we we spell it wrong okay there's a lot of things we spell wrong in the UK what can I tell you um but anyway I want to want to thank you personally Yaniv for the opportunity and hopefully it'll be worth it because at the moment it is 25 to 2: in the morning my local time so if I drop off in the middle of the lecture just give me a quick Shake wake me up and I'll try and remember where I left off okay so I want to I literally just arrived from the UK this afternoon and a funny thing happened to me when I got the the the plane from Manchester so as it happens uh this flight that I took this morning was not direct I flew from London to Manchester many of you might have heard of Manchester and from Manchester to JFK now it was too early for me to D when I left London it was about 4 in the morning so when I got to Manchester it was perfect time for me to D shakar so what can I do I had two options either to put my filling on in the lobby in the in the hotel uh yeah Hotel can see I'm already starting to flag um in in in the in the airport in front of everybody which I've done before by the way did it once in Dubai I wouldn't recommend doing it in any Arab country because anyway um or I could find what they call the prayer room many many airports have private prayer rooms you can go people of any race or religion can go and pray fine so I thought you know what let's try the prayer room so I went I found where it was took a look inside because very often in these prayer rooms you get certain Oddities yeah of other religions which may not be compatible with our religion so I went in I scoped it I checked it out fine no crosses no nothing topical no problem okay so I'm facing the wall and the room is behind me loads of chairs behind me putting on my Tet I'm putting my filling and I hear somebody behind me and I'm thinking it could be anybody could be a Christian could be a Muslim could be a Buddhist could be anybody and at this moment they're watching me praying and I'm feeling extremely uncomfortable so I decided you know what I'm not going to be able to dve them properly until I find out who it is so I took the chance I turned around and lo and behold facing me in this multiethnic prayer room was a of all people he said shal I said Shalom and we both G together why am I telling you this no real reason yeah other than I wanted to share it with you but I was thinking about it so many times things happen through I don't know what other way to put it I how how you can even say it in English and that we take these things for granted I mean here I am here I was in the middle of an airport in Manchester which is not a Jewish uh not so Jewish not as Jewish as where I come from edwar in Northwest London and he a had literally me and him praying together oh by the way I forgot to mention he bought his wife as well so it's a bit odd so me and this kic Jew and his wife all three of us praying in this room where Muslims could have come in Buddhist anyway so I live to tell the tale that's the main thing so many times things happen to us we take it for granted I think this week's parisha shows you what a mistake that is to take things like this for granted to take these quirks of Fate let me share with you a few points about this week's par which is and then either I'll let you go early or I'll fall asleep one of the two whichever comes first so in the beginning of the parha that uh chapter 47:29 the scene is set Yakov is with Joseph his son his beloved Son of his old age and yob was on his deathbed and he's telling yoseph don't bury me here in Egypt do the right thing bury me in erit is so I talked about this in my last chair that this the of affording somebody a burial a Jewish burial is what's calleded shell a met it's the high it's Aid of the highest order it is a HED that is unparalleled why because whatever kindness you can afford somebody who's passed away or for the cause of somebody's passed away can never be repaid for obvious reasons because the person's dead he can't say thank you he can't pay you back so it's of the highest order because it cannot be reciprocated let me share with you a story normally I tell my stories at the end but just in case I don't make it to the end let me share with you a story that I admittedly I've told the story before but it's just too amazing not to say it again so excuse me if you might have heard it before there was a story about a certain Jew who was a survivor of the Holocaust and like many people who went through that terrible trauma think you know that experience very often left people bereft of any religious dedication religious affiliation people who were from religious families after the war left everything behind now the worst thing you can do is to judge a person cuz Shalon L down we should not know from these things we we cannot even put ourselves in the feet in the shoes of people who went through the Holocaust so I'm definitely not going there I'm definitely not judging but this fellow for what whatever reason he decided to cast off the Yoke of his religion and he he was he lived in Israel and he was from a religious family originally before the war and on the day before yam kipur 1952 this fellow had a dream and in his dream his father appeared and his father was dressed in a talit and he told his son look you're doing the wrong thing you've given it all up it's not going to do you any favors come back to your religious Roots yeah and then the fellow wakes up you know when you have a dream like that it could be something I ate it could be something maybe I was thinking about something before I went to sleep so the guy dismisses it but then he has the dream again and again and apparently there's two slightly different versions of the story that he had the dream seven times another version says that he had it a number of times and then he actually came back to his house I think they said it was eram kipor and he literally saw his father sitting in the chair in his in his in his house okay so again I can't verify the truth of that particular part of the story but anyway the fellow was a little bit freaked out by this by these multiple dreams he didn't know what to do he heard about a famous religious Jew a rabbi who lived in blra at the time by the name of the Kish so somebody said to him look go and see the Kish speak to him tell him about the dream he goes to the Kish he tells him everything that that transpire no sorry he goes to the Kish he enters the kish's room before he even opens his mouth to say anything the Kish says Ah you don't keep you've thrown away the Yoke of your religion why are you doing this the fellow's like I haven't even said anything and he knows the whole story so the H is again before the fellow opened his mouth he said you know you have on you A din of there is a death sentence on you I can see it so at that point the fellow opens up and tells them the whole story they had these dreams and whatever so now the Kish says look I can see you have this gazer this decree on you but something's stopping it from happening there is something something that you've done some Merit that's keeping you alive you must have done some mitvah can you tell me is there anything you can think of any Mitzvah you've done that you think is not worthy so the fellow thinks he says look I'm RAB be honest with you I'm not very observant uh but what I do do is I I I give on a regular basis says no no no that's not enough to keep a Gaz of you must have done something think think back maybe it was a number of years ago so the fellow thinks he says you know what I do remember something when I was a young boy maybe 14 15 years old my father was a member of the KRA kadisha which is the burial society and I came home and I saw my father was in conversation with a young woman and this young woman was sobbing to my father that her son had died young boy and she wanted to know what's going to happen where is it going to be buried so my father turned to me and he said to me look you have to go collect the the lenu the body of this young boy and bring him and we will bury him so I went on my father's instruction in the middle of the night through terrible danger it could have been Nazis it could have been anybody a young boy 4 15 years old and I took the boy and I put him in a bag on my shoulder and I came back and we buried this young boy the said that Merit is what's keeping you alive now because is so important it's unlike anything and this fellow you know like all these popular stories this fellow you know the ending he comes back to frite and Etc that's not really the point the point is is that this is one of the greatest Mitzvah anybody can be involved with there countless countless stories about people being involved with Mel Mitzvah with with the burial society and they always end up well they always end up where the person who's performing the always ends up in a better place so that's how the para starts out yakob wants his son to perform this when yov will die now what is very strange in this there's number of strange things in this week's paracha what is very strange is that yov does not include YF in the list of the tribes the list of the tribes that were going to be mentioned placed on the breastplate of the Coen gal instead he brings or he promotes yosef's two sons Ephraim and manasha we know this Ephraim and manasha were second generation all the other tribes are first generation from Jacob manasha and a our second generation they are the grandsons of Jacob so the plain and simple question is why why not just make Joseph like his peers ruen chimon Ley Joseph was one of the brothers put him on the breastplate you bring his two sons and you leave out the father so raiman gives an amazing reason he says you have to understand who rather what a relationship what a special relationship yoseph had with his father and what his father had with ysep because ysep was one of two brothers who were the sons of yakov's most beloved wife his AA his first choice before any this thing with Leia and bilha and Zila she was his is first love if you can apply such a thing which you can't really but just for Ju Just to uh uh to give to give some meaning to the to the relationship I can't think of another way of putting it and she died early if I'm not mistaken from memory she was 36 when she died yeah she she was that's like not even half a life so Yakov wanted to immortalize his wife how would he do that by making the two sons of yoseph into tribes in their own right that way he would capitalize on the legacy of his son yoseph and ultimately he would capitalize on the love that he had for his wife Rael and look at the nas that Rael had even after 36 short years of her life look at this she had a son called ysf ysf for all intents and purposes was running the world okay he was second in command to to pharaoh to to Pharaoh but we all know ysph was running the show ysep was the one who dispensed food to the entire world that's for one what was Ra's other son Benyamin if you see look in the midrash binyamin was one of four individuals who literally never sinned in their entire life can you imagine living an entire life not having one sin to not even one L and horror yeah nothing nothing the only reason why he died was because of the sin of the snake in the Garden of Eden that's the only thing they could pin on bamin otherwise you would be immortal so one son runs the world one son never sinned and Joseph's children EP and manashe that's how we bless our children now what about bamin bamin had Sons so theas increases exponentially so yov capitalizes on this by making eph and manashe tribes in their own right and this is what I like to call postumus this is that ra IMU received after she died and there's a famous question why do we bless first who was older so it sounds like a bit of a you know it's not not not you know you you go you go with the older one first now there's many answers to this I've discussed many answers in previous shim one answer which I saw just today is there was a distinct difference between eph and mashe manasha was born when ysf still remembered his father's house he still remembered you know being his father beloved learning with his father learning all the of all these beautiful things the connection he had with his father but by the time eph was born already there was there was a few years had gone past now although ysep was never part of the life in MIT he was already acclimated towards the life in MIT and that was shown by the name that he gave to his second son eph because Ephraim contains the letters p r a what name does that sound like put them together think par now of course God forbid you're not going to compare yosef's son to parro but parro apparently was those letters were part of they they they formed many of the names in Egypt like many of the names had those those three letters there you know like you know you have in in in the Russian or bharan Community the the the suffix of like Romanov isarov or in where I come from I'm a mashadi Jew yeah we havean like Kalan yeah so the the letters P were very common so Ephraim had a name that was indicative that he was already part of that Society in MIT so he was that bit of more step away from the life in that is amazing that is amazing pay R iron did you just think of that now we got on camera beautiful Farah beautiful Z so already epim was that much further away so he needed more he needed a stronger BR because he had more of a trial he already had less of that influence of that uh uh influence shef shefa no thank you twice in a row beautiful he had less of the hash than Masha had so that's why that's another reason why ephra was bought at the Braha first cuz he did more more of the the strength of the Braha now if you look forward in the parha 48 verse 20 listen to how this braa plays out and I quote no that's not the one oh it's 19 the one before let me just quot the right part I was right that's what I'm sorry to flag now really lose my concentration so the pasuk says so he blessed them that day Yakov blessed his grandsons on that day simple question who cares why are you telling me that day what well he blessed them yesterday I thought he blessed them tomorrow what do you mean of course you bless him that day so why mention this seemingly not necessary point in the par you saying today I know it's today so there's an important lesson that comes out here because to be a Jew who is firing on every cylinder who's doing things the right way it has to be today it has to be strike while the iron is hot in other words what Yakov was blessing his grandchildren was you know when you receive inspiration when you have when you feel inspired strike while the iron is hot don't let the inspiration go because as soon as you let that Inspiration Go you will never act on it so in other words if you feel inspired go and do a Mitzvah go and do something positive the longer you leave it the less impact it will have on you and we know this it's called procrastination a person who to say it now person who procrastinates will never be a productive person you know we see this time and time again if you put a bit of space between what what you should be doing it just tells T to fade away you don't you know the Yara comes to you and he cools you down and he says don't worry we can do this tomorrow and you say no I feel inspired I want to do the mitv now it's okay it's all right take a bit of a breather take a rest do it tomorrow and then when tomorrow comes okay I'm going to do the Mitzvah n it's okay it's all right you know what recoup your energy and do it the next day and it goes on and on until forget it when the inspiration comes When the Thought comes to do do not delay don't let it become like because that's the difference between a Jew who performs and a Jew who's who's out of the game because it's only a a spark very often you know the gamar says I wasn't going to say this but the gamar says in Shabbat me ba bait if I'm not mistaken 42 B says which means Sparks they do not have any substance because the gamar there is talking about Sparks are they M if they fall on a plate can you move the plate so the says no no no they're not M you can move the plate why because Sparks are insubstantial as soon as they fall on the plate they go out so I wanted to suggest like this a spark is like an inspiration you have some sort of feeling to do Mitzvah you feel on a high unless you grab it while it's in the spark stage and you give it something to ignite it's going to go a spark can either go out or it can catch a piece of drywood or a piece of straw and it can make you can make a torch you can make something which will be sustainable but a spark by itself it fills out by m it doesn't have any substance it's the same with inspiration unless you catch it and give it something to uh grab hold of you've lost it you've lost it and it will never come back it's such AAL so that's what yob was saying do it that day don't procrastinate strike while the island is hot now Yakov blesses all his sons not just his Grands his two grandsons He blesses all his sons Ru and CH some he gives rebuke and some he gives just straight BR the that he gives to is very interesting we turn now 49 verse4 [Applause] and there's a lot of animals here Yakov is blessing y he calls him you gur AR you're like a lion one is like a hind one is like this what's going on is no different says verse 14 imagine this you're blessing your son what would you bless your son with may you be like may you be like the how does yov bless his son who's one of the paragons of Tor he says you're like a donkey what type of Brer is that would you bless your children like a donkey we should cast any aspersions on yov but why was he calling a son a donkey you know why and not just any donkey a strong bone donkey because a donkey is different from any other Beast of Burden let's compare him to a horse a horse horse is very fast horse can also carry a burden but a horse is different from a donkey a horse when it carries its burden and it wants to rest you have to take the burden off the horse and then the horse like runs around and you know has a bit of a freak out yeah that's how it rests but a donkey when it wants to rest it doesn't you don't have to be all you have to take off the burden from the donkey the donkey has to rest with the stuff on his back a donkey is it's a strange of putting it but a donkey is a Workhorse a donkey works all the time even when it's at rest it still has the burden on its back that is the BR that Jakob was giving his son because a donkey never is never por all he never casts off its burden Ben Torah somebody who learns and practice Torah when it comes to benim what does he do does he throw off all his Torah and says now I'm on on vacation it's the EXO holidays and we going have a party yeah or does he come and sit in a sh like you with Rabbi kti or batem December 31st with Rabbi Wallin a bentor never cast off his burden that's endemic it's characteristic of a benor there's no holiday for us like my old Ros used to say a what how you put it A change is as good as a rest you don't have to stop doing what you're doing all year around and then do nothing just change you know says a beautiful thing he says you know there's no such thing as Bim you know this phrase Bim when people are in Yesa or in K they learn for let's say 9 months of the year and 3 months of the year they have B it's between the the U the semester so they have a they have a a summer semester a winter semester and there a time where they're off K they're off and they do what they do says you should call it you should call it because the holiday the vacation is also a Zan it's just this Z you do this and that's man you do that it's not a case of this man you do this and this man you you do nothing you kick your feet up you go to Florida for for 3 weeks and sit by the pool no okay everyone deserves a vacation but to cast it all off that's not what the bentor does we change so we don't learn as furiously as we learn all year okay so we learn something else something a bit lighter maybe we we involve our children we involve our spouses there I say you can have a k with your wife or with your husband nothing wrong with that but we don't cast it off we don't have a other yes it's not black and white with us that's what yob was blessing with his son but there's another interesting thing you go forward one Pas V we just talked about the donkey having a burden the next p is like a contradiction he saw Tranquility that it was good wait a minute you're a donkey with a burden or you cast off the burden and now you want a life of Tranquility which one is it I'll answer this with a Mas that's given by the the talks about a a parable about a jeweler and this Jeweler like many Jewelers that we know they go to countries in the Far East and they buy large quantities of diamonds or whatever and they bring them back and they sell them for a huge profit in London we have a place called Hatton Garden that's where all the all the the Jews have their little businesses and they sell precious stones Etc so this Jeweler goes to a country in the Far East with a nice big fat amount of money money that's to buy goods and he has a smaller amount of money that he uses for his expenses let's say $5,000 to buy the goods and maybe 3 400 bucks for hotel uh you know to have some nice meals you know just to get the you know so it shouldn't be too much like work the whole time so he goes he has a very successful day buying the diamonds and he's on his way back and he sees one of his fellow uh Traders and this fellow says to him new how did you do he says fantastic I spent all my money $5,000 I bought man the most amazing stock the F says really I didn't have so much Lu why what happened he says you know whatever I bought I I I getting hassled by the authorities I'm I'm getting investigated by this one and that one basically the longer the short of it is whatever I bought I have to sell quickly I don't mind even selling it without a profit I don't mind even losing on it I cannot go back with all this stock I have to sell it chick so will you buy something from me the fellow says look I had 5,000 I spent every penny so the other guy says look you haven't got you can't you haven't got anything on you you know I'll take anything I literally have to get rid of this I can't go back with this stock the fellow thinks he goes you know what I bought with me $3 $400 for expenses I've spent a little bit of it I'm not going to spend all of it look I'll tell you what I'll give you $200 is it going to help you he says you know what whatever you give me is good I'll take the $200 take all this so now the guy is going wow that's amazing I bought $5,000 worth of stuff and now for $200 I bought almost the same amount again so this guy is on top of the world and the guy was literally pushing it on him yeah so it was like it was almost like win-win but now what happens now this guy's got a huge amount of diamonds but he hasn't got any money for hotel he's got no money to buy any food he's left himself maybe 10 20 bucks so what does he do for the next few days he roughs it he sleeps in the park he eats maybe a pet of bread and he's meanwhile he comes home to his family and they look at him they see the guy oh he's like Raz thin he looks ill says why says what what happened you look terrible he says no you don't understand and he tells her the whole story and she said but you must have been suffering because even though you bought the stock you know you didn't eat properly you didn't sleep properly he goes honey that's the law last thing on my mind you know all I was thinking of was I cannot wait to get home and sell all this stock who cares about the hotel who cares about the food this Mas talks about is a commentary in this P about seeking Tranquility of course everybody wants an easy life everybody wants to cast off that burden but you know what we as Jews are working for for a greater goal we've got something called Torah we've got things called MIT what and you know what if we've got those under our belt and we come to shamayim are we going to turn around and say you know it wasn't worth it I lived 80 years 90 years I didn't eat well I didn't sleep well I got a few mids SWAT but you you did brilliantly who cares about the the fact you had to rough it for 80 90 years look what you got in your hand look what you're taking with you that has to be a focus of every Jew it doesn't matter if you don't have it your way the whole time if things aren't Rosy in terms of uh you know physical sustenance so what you're working for the greater good you you've got all those diamonds in your pocket you're going to take with you you should always bear this in mind in case things yeah you might feel to complain about this to complain about that don't worry about that think about the money that's what my wife and myself often say when we're at when we're doing because we're photographers we do weddings and permits Us in case you want to bring us to New York to cover your function we happy to do it but sometimes you get to a wedding and it's not as GMU as as other weddings and sometimes it's like you know the people aren't so nice and it's the wedding was dragging on that might have a mitz for tance which goes on to 4 in the morning but anyway it goes on and we're tired and it's dragging so what I turn to my wife and I say the same thing it's not necessarily the best thing to say but it puts a smile on her face I say to her look shell think about the money yeah it's hard but at the end of the day we're making a parasa and that keeps it going and it keeps me going as well yeah I'm not recommending it to everybody it's not necessarily the best attitude but it makes sense here think about the Torah think about the Mitzvah don't worry about the material side that can go by the wayside it's a bonus if you get it right in terms of gash all well and good but don't expect it don't expect it okay one more point I'm going to finish off with a couple of stories time permitting 9 or it's about 3: in the morning for me now so I've done well so I'm literally going on I'm living proof of Hashem there's no physical reason why I should be standing here with all my faculties I have some not all of them but I have some of them so if we move on Final Point chapter 50: 21 what is this talking about here towards the end of the par the scene is set Joseph is speaking to his brothers now his brothers came with this whole prefabricated story oh you know father said don't hassle us don't give us a hard time because we sold you of course this never happened but that's another I won't go into that point basically ysep ends up comforting his brother saying what I should ever do anything against you that's the furthest thing from my mind he was comforting them he was saying don't worry I have no Capa I'm not I'm not mukit on you I'm not particular on you whatever happened happened I hold no grunt this is not a grudge match it's in the past so it all sounds good you know there was never any you know he he he was never standing on his rights yourself and his brothers felt reassured that should be the end of the story not so because many years later there were the 10 Martyrs that R AKA Shimon gel 10 of the holiest people that ever existed were killed Alem and we are told they were killed because of the sin of yoseph with his brothers question wasn't that resolved Joseph forgave his brothers his brother said uhhuh thank you very much that's it why why were 10 people holy people their lives were taken they were killed in the most horrific ways which I won't go into now so there's one answer and it's it's got some very serious ramifications because although ysep forgave his brothers fully completely there's no question but unfortunately there were certain words that never came out of his mouth that should have come out of his mouth the words I'm referring to are some of the hardest words to say for any man for any woman for any child I forgive you he never said those words I forgive you he never verbalized it he may have meant it of course he meant it but he didn't say it formally and because he didn't enunciate those words that's why these 10 Martyrs were killed now if you think about it how many times have we been wronged in different areas in our lives people have embarrassed us people have been dishonest with us many times it happens and you know what at the end day we forgive them we don't want to to to carry this burden of of you know uh uh um cruelty so we forgive them but do we say I forgive you does the person know that you that they've been forgiven you might think oh look I don't have to say them it's obvious I forgive you but it doesn't always work like that and it's evidenced by the fact that it's so hard to say those words I forgive you it's so hard ask any husband ask any wife I have a friend and I check this with his wife because I don't believe in his s he said to me my wife and myself never ever ever go to bed on an argument and he was emphatic about this he's been married for tens of years so so I happened to meet his wife had a and I said to her you know what David told me he said that youd never go to sleep on an argument is it true I was a bit you know I just I wanted to know she said absolutely true never have we ever gone to bed without resolving any issue that we have I think they they said 20 25 years will be married now that is incredible that is that is a couple who can turn around and say you know what I wronged you I forgive you and it will be accepted but it's so important these words okay what I'm saying now it might not be right but I'll say anyway because it might be right I think in my humble opinion the words I forgive you are more important than I love you what about saying I'm sorry h i put I'm sorry and I forgive you in the same category they're both phrases that show uh sub submission and uh humility then I love you okay then then then yeah you're right you're is it first say I'm sorry or or from the other side I forgive and then you can talk about but until a husband or until a spouse has that reassurance she knows or he knows that they're going to get it I'm sorry or I forgive you then the love thing doesn't really it doesn't have that much basis can you imagine what type of Love Is there if your if your spouse doesn't forgive you no how could you do this to me I will never forgive you that's love so that has to be part of your lexic on I forgive you and I'm sorry in my humble opinion I could be wrong must come before I love you okay so I'm just finishing off now we talked about the importance of involving oneself in matters of burial anything to do with burial Society or kadisha you know they they're various ways we we can fulfill this Mitzvah you can be part of the of the that does the tahara on the dead bodies it's not everyone's taste it's very my cousin's wife actually does that for women who' passed away she does the tahara I don't know how she does it she's a very delicate person but she does it because she's a she trying to get her husband to do it and he's a a little bit more reticent more more difficult him to get involved in that but some people can do it it's a tremendous Mitzvah but there are many other ways you can involve yourself you can go to to to the betar and make up a not not the women I should talk this way you can make up a minion at the betar so many times there are people who pass away they don't even have a minion to make cage for them in the UK we have a society maybe you have it here as well where they will I think they're called shm where they make phone calls and they make sure there's a Minion for every person anyone who lenu passes away and and have to say Kadesh yeah I'm sure there's something on that here but these are ad MIT you can get involved with so the story is told and this story occurred in in New York state a few years ago there was a Salesman who was caught out in a snowstorm somewhere in in in New York state yeah those are the days when it actually snowed around this time of year I mean I got off the plane it was 60° I couldn't believe it I said to my wife sorry 70 I feel like I'm in the summer I should have bought my shorts and my t-shirt so in those days he used to snow during the winter so this guy NE who was caught out in New York state snowed in and he wasn't the only one people were stopping their cars by the side of the road getting to anywhere where they could get a room and by the time this poor guy this poor Jewish guy uh uh pull up at a a motel or a hotel all the rooms are taken and now what's he going to do he's is he going to sleep in the car so somebody tells him look there's no rooms here but there's a nursing home up the street go there maybe that they might have a spare bed for you you canle stay there overnight fine he makes his way to this nursing home and they're also full but he pleads with the the manager there please please I'll sleep on the floor anywhere I can't see so he the manager was convinced he says look you can sleep in uh there's a couch in my office you can have that as a bed no problem the guy goes thank you so much the next day the guy wants to the Jewish guy wants to pay the manager he says look you let me have your the couch in your office least I can do is to pay you something for it man says no no no no no he says I'm I'm not in the business of of uh you know making money on on a couch for one night he said but you can do me a favor the Jewish guy goes yeah tell me please he says I see that you're Jewish says yes that was very observant we have a Jewish fellow who lived here and he he just died a few days ago his name is Mr Goldberg and we know that he has to be buried in a Jewish cemetery but we didn't don't know how to go about that if you can help us find this uh this fellow uh like a place to be buried in the with the Jewish burial rights that will be enough and I will consider that as you've repaid me so now the Jew goes wow fantastic he says don't worry I'll handle it so he makes a few phone calls this one that one and there's no room in it there's no room in this Cemetery no room in that Cemetery in the end he finds he speaks to the kadisha the barel society and they said look we have a special plot that's only for people lit for em people who never have any surviving family members and obviously that you know it's like almost like a free loan a free like a burial plot bring him and we'll we'll we'll bury him there fine so the Jewish guy slaps the the dead body and he brings him to this this special burial plot which is like a the free area and the Jewish guy tells the head of the kadisha the name of the fellow who died who's going to be buried there he said Mr whatever is Goldberg the guy from thead near fell off his chair he says can you tell me the name again he says Mr whatever is Goldberg he says you're not going to believe this 30 years ago we were literally running out of space in this bet this cemetery and a fellow rolls up from nowhere donate something like $30,000 and says put this towards a free burial prop for anyone who dies without any family dependence to pay for their Barrel cross and the fellow who came in and gave that 30 grand was the the fellow that you're just about to bury you see that's the power of I hate to use the phrase especially in in a Shore but there's relevance to it what goes around comes around mind send your bread out to the waters because you do a Mitzvah it will come back at you you may see it you may not see it this fellow of course he didn't see it because happened after he died but you see the power of that Mitzvah he literally bought his own burial plot unknowingly on all of us to take the tremendous lessons we learn for this week's par the power of and this year we should see the greatest can ever do for his beloved Jewish people and that is I mean with a in the beginning this year without any pain thank you for coming and thank you for listening [Music]