Rabbi Shais Taub in Cleveland 9/4/23

C to you're referring to yourself as quote a small Jew from perel there is surely no need to emphasize to you at length that every Jew man or woman has a neus which is a part of godliness above as explained in N beginning of chapter 2 thus there is no such thing as a small Jew and a Jew must never underestimate his or her tremendous underlying tremend mendous potential the letters in English continues one more paragraph with the approach of the p i take this opportunity of extending to you my prayer for wishes that the Festival of our freedom bring you and yours true freedom freedom from anxiety material and spiritual anything which might distract from serving God wholeheartedly with joy and to carry over this freedom and joy into the whole Year wishing new and yours a PO and happy p with blessing so I I love that story no small Jew I've loved that story for years in fact I never met but when he passed away six or seven years ago and I I think it was on Co said he passed away so I wrote a whole sermon based on that no small Jew letter that his letter incredible letter and his M SAA actually it says that through him we were Z to the letter of no small Jew from the from the and I've always loved that story it's great story and to me it really encapsulates the dev's whole approach that there's no small Jew who would turn over the whole world to help one individual so that was 40 years ago almost 40 years ago right that was uh tan MD we're heading into tan P do so it's about about 40 years so about five six years ago I uh I got tired of flying out of Pittsburgh all the time I was living in Pittsburgh and every every trip was a connecting flight Dan remembers and I said I got to go I got to live in a place the normal airport and uh so I was looking for a place to use as a hub where I could travel speak and travel but also I was looking for a place where I could have a local schas as well but where they would understand I could hang my hat there and I could have a little bit to do locally but then mostly I could travel and speak so I had a list of four or five major cities with major airp reports where I'd spoken to kabad alassar and they were they were aable to an arrangement and uh to make it official I met with Misha karski we met at the party room the private party room of Basil all of a remember that the basil or Basel Bas basil not there anymore not learn how to pronounce it any and I showed my list and he said none of the above he said uh we're going to go to the five towns my daughter Kanye is there my son-in-law Alman and uh it's going to be great you'll you'll sh him for there's a big F Community there it's not kabad and they're very open hungry for C you'll you'll give sh him there and you'll be 15 minutes from JFK better than that and uh so we'll set you up over there and it'll be your slippers so I figured you know what mski sent out so many for the you know like this is this is this is as authentic as it can get these days I said all right measure it wherever you want fine no problem so uh so that's where we where we move anyways my daughter my oldest child my first child my daughter got married last Comic well you're going to hear my son got married seven days ago I wasn't here [Laughter] don't my daughter my oldest Ty has a friend alab who also she's a couple years younger than my daughter but she Al she went to bifa and although she lived in Five Towns but her parents when they moved to Five Towns I'll say this publicly uh okay I'll say whatever because Dan and I share the same feeling about this subject both of us say we're not Eis guys but we know people who got crazy answers and Dan's one of them right didn't your whole beanie babies come from yeah get we're getting stories mixed up we we'll bring later okay but at any okay something pivot so alab B's uh parents her father actually after gim P put a letter in Eis about moving from pound Heights to 5 pounds and uh the letter said it was interesting was written to a father who wanted to move and the ne said you can move as long as your children continue to learn in so they started a bus now it's very common there like 100 kids who go from Five Towns to FR Heights on a bus but he started the bus and his kids went to Crown Heights so anyways M was going to Rifka and she became friends with my daughter and then uh my daughter said you know is her younger brother he's young just turned 20 but he's very Advanced very mature young man he got his SM already uh let's let's see maybe him and Mal B are a good cou and they were both the first person that either of them went out with and it went very smoothly and quickly and they were married good base out this year like days so malman is the granddaughter of K gra she's named for Bobby Baya the grandmother in the dream who came and told her son at a time of Crisis if you're ever in trouble ask to help you so I've Loved this story for years for years but I never knew that 40 years ago when the laaba woke up M Kari at 3 in the morning that he was doing it for me I didn't know that I was involved in this story I didn't know that the reab saw not only that there was a father who was in pain but everything that would come out of that father and his his son and his the son's children and that he was making a sh that would that would transpire 40 years lat now that ever wrote a sa called every little every day there's a little little teaching so shab sh talk about two days ago today is Monday so yesterday was Sunday two days ago today 18 two days ago the 16th they asked me uh to to say a few words so I said I'm just going to read the from today here's the from the from the 16th of which is sh explained the saying of the sages says that if you save one Soul it's like saving a world save one individual an individual is a world so uh the AL explain what does that mean he [Music] explained that when you look at a Jew you have to see how that Jew looks in the primordial thought of the level of we're talking about a level above above the world of above any world the primordial thought where Hashem was planning epis the concept in the abstract of a potential concept called creation where everything is bis one sketch one snapshot that's called a so when you look at a Jew want to know how to look at a Jew said when you look at a Jew you have to see how that Jew looks in a okay how does a Jew look like an a there every you see it not just as itself but all of its descendants that will ever come from it for all time until Mia and therefore let's make it practical down when you help a Jew [Music] out you are helping all of those Nas till the end of time I don't know how to look at a Jew the way they look at a but I know what it looks like when someone does look at a Jew the way they look like in a did you follow that I don't know how to look at a Jew the way they look like in a but I know what it looks like when a Jew looks at a Jew like they looking H you know what it looks like the way that that the way that EV looked at every Jew that's what it looks like I don't know how to do the look I don't know how to see it but I know how to imitate the behaviors that one follows when one sees it that way and maybe I don't know exactly what's going to come from every Nish I don't know the story that's going to unfold I don't know how to make that are 40 years out I don't know how to do that but but what I do know is every time I interact with a Jew with love and kindness that same type level of Miracle is happening whether I get to see it or not usually I don't see it doesn't mean it's not happening it's happening look I didn't know about the no small Jew story really I didn't know about it until a few months ago I didn't know it was about me I didn't know it was about my descendants who I haven't met yet that Dev was sending a to Cel for my descendants I haven't even met yet I didn't know that so I'm comfortable with the idea that there's a lot of stuff we're involved with that we are we're part of Miracles that are affecting generations and we don't have to see it we don't have to know how it's happening we just have to know that it's happening and we have to know that there's someone who does see how it's working in all the mechanics and that's the Reb and that when we follow what the rebba told us to do we're going to always show up in the right place at the right time doing the right thing and be part of the miracle and sometimes we'll see it sometimes we won't does it matter if we see it it all the time no it's nice when we do then we have a nice story for but when we don't see it it's happening also just like this miracle has been happening to me for the past 40 years without me knowing now our stories of the V that are miraculous to the extent that they say if you believe every B story you're a fool but at the same time they say and yet If you deny the possibility of any one of the Alan stories then you're a heretic so it's not possible they all happen how could they all but which one didn't happen you tell me you going to say that one didn't happen there are a lot of stories about the LA I can't detest for all of that they all happen I don't know probably they are made up stories but I know this one happened I know this miracle I know this 3:00 a.m. call and I know part of what that Dev saw 40 years ago and how it affected me and the story is only unfold still in the middle of the story I should also mention that at theira last week the the officiating Rabbi is RAB M Kari continuing the that started with the 3:00 a.m. call we should also mention that uh M should be healthy should be at his full strength more better than ever amen continue continue he can continue to do his and all of us should be healthy and continue to do our and continue playing part in the Miracles of each other by being there for another Jew with loving kindness even when we don't yet see how the Mir is unfolding there's always miracles unfolding we have to show up the right way and that means see Infinity the infinite value there is no small Jew see the infinite preciousness and every Jew the way the B the way the AL the way that e enlisted our entire generation to live and one by one we know this is the way the gisha takes place one by one we will bring every single last back home amen