Heaven Danced With You

was born in 1698 and the balsham have passed away at the age of 62 in the city of measure bush in a little city a little town in ukraine that happened on hebrew year was tough which in english would be 1760. once the balsam to friday night made kiddish and he had his students around them they were called the khavraya kadesh of the holy group as he was making kidney she finished kiddish he drank he gave the wine to the people around the table and he started to laugh this was very uncharacteristic he was like kvelling and laughing nobody made a joke they didn't understand why he's laughing they washed her might see this fish finished the fish and he started to laugh again just laughing it was very strange they served the york the soup and then the chicken and he starts laughing again nobody felt audacious enough i guess to ask him so nobody said anything but matsoi shabbis one of his closer students went over after mario after abdullah and he said rebbe can ask a question he said you were laughing three times after kidnish after the fish after the chicken what was the laughter all about so the washington said go to the end of the city and ask shopsi the book binder if he could come over so he goes to shop see the book binder and he says though as if he could come over to the base measures to the school and measurements he comes over so tells him can you share with everybody what happened friday night in your house he says rabbit don't embarrass me i won't do it again he says no no no it's not embarrassing i want everybody to know what happened if you don't mind sharing what happened friday night in your house so he says okay i'll share you know rebbe says for me and my wife shabbos is an amazing day and i always saved up money for my book binding business to have a little extra to be able to buy wonderful delicious food and delicacies to celebrate shabbos as we should but you know the last few weeks there's been heavy snows here in this part of the ukraine and measure bush and nobody came to bind their books and i didn't have any savings so it came before shabbos it was thursday night and i tell my wife not one customer came i don't even have a cupcake cupcake would be like a penny so my wife says so what do you want to do sharp see i said there's nothing i can't even afford a candle you should be able to light candles never mind a piece of fish never mind wine so thursday night we spoke and we realized this is a situation and i shed a tear my wife shed a tear and we went to bed hungry friday morning i realized for me to stay in the house it's going to be very depressing so after chakras i decided i'll just stay in shul and i'll learn and i learned the parasha of the week and i was my videra and i said shihashirim and i went to the mikvah and i prepared for shabbos and i knew that i'm coming home not to a regular shabbos but that's it there's nothing to do so he says after my riv i came home and as i come close to my house i see this light coming from our windows beautiful light i see candles glowing i open the door and i smell it's like sudden such a smell i walk into the house and i see a tablecloth set up with foods and delicacies we never even dreamt of my wife prepared our shabbos meal so i look at her and i say where did you get all of this so she said i saw you paint thursday night how pained you were so after you went to school friday morning i decided let me search maybe i have some old clothes that maybe have something expensive and i found an old coat that i haven't used many is it had golden buttons so i went immediately i took off the buttons [Music] and i went to the man who deals with gold and i got a wonderful sum of money and i bought candles and i bought the best food for shabbos so we'll have a beautiful shabbos ah he says i can't thank you enough and we did shalom aleichem together and they shall smile together and when i said asia's khal me imsa i certainly knew who i was talking about rabbi's bono is also called i made kiddish we were so happy i finished by kiddish i turned to my wife and i said you know i cannot thank you enough for what you have done and i can't thank hashem enough for giving me a wife like you and for giving us the gift of shabbos so he says let me gain a tensor let's dance so she says sure and he said me and my wife we joined arms and energies and we danced around the table we made a mercier to fish and after the fish i was so inspired i looked at her and i said how did i get so lucky to be married to a person like you and how did we get so lucky to have a gift like shabbos and how could we express thanks that this shabbos we could still celebrate with so much ecstasy and the light la mega nacho tension we have to dance a second time she said i'm gay and we danced again around the table for a long time with tremendous joy we sat down i ate the chicken after the chicken i told my wife my heart is swelling with joy and ecstasy we have to dance again she said let's go for it and we danced and danced and danced that's what happened in my house friday nights so the balsham tev is listening and he says shopsi i want you to know something when you and your wife danced after kiddish and after the fish and after the chicken you should know you weren't the only ones dancing heaven was dancing with you the reborn shalom himself hashem himself was dancing with you and all the angels were dancing with you and i too were celebrating with you and then he turned to him and he said is there anything you need so he said the one thing we would love as a child we were never blessed with a child so the balshemptev gave him a blessing that the next year his wife should give birth and they had a baby and she named him israel and he became the khashnat zamagit the kashmir zamagi his name was the bistrol of cashnuts we wrote a safer called avoiders israel kosciusz is a city in poland he became one of the luminaries of the hasidic world in poland he was a son of shapzi who was the book binder of measure a person is sitting alone friday night they don't even have children poor people have some candles get filter fish and they're dancing he said heaven is dancing with you and i also danced with you the unique recognition of a person's indispensable non-negotiable value and the fact that each person is an indispensable note in the cosmic symphony and that heaven dances with you that's the malchus that turtle conferred upon the jew that ability for a person to realize what real royalty means royalty doesn't mean that all my circumstances are perfect that i'm living in an ivory tower that i have no challenge in the world i have no struggle in the world the real royalty means that the person realizes that wherever you are wherever i am i'm never stuck there's meaning there's purpose there's light there's infinity there's a mission there i'm a in this world i'm an ambassador of the banishment in these very circumstances [Music] the yeshiva.net