Helping Israeli Hostages With Mishloach Manot

[Music] if I told you what if I can find a way to [Music] get to each one of the hostages is there a Jewish person that will not sign up is there a Jewish person that's not going to go all out on this man you're not going to send the M man with a couple of chocolates and a little root beer no you're going to send them a whole barbecue machine with the steaks inside broiling $33,000 Rabbi no problem you're going to get to the hospital this no problem can I give more than two Rabbi I say fine you give more than two but not too much before you know it you raised $100 million in why going to the hostages now I'm here to tell you that even for those that like to help poor people more than they like to publicize T there's an example that will show you that even that if we're not investing in tah we won't have the Merit and the ability and the knowhow to invest properly even to help poor people what's the example right now everyone that's Jewish is aware of the fact that we are in a war not only in a war in Gaza but different parts of the Middle East different parts of the world some on the battlefield some on a technological end some on the political end there's a war against am Isel anti-Semitism is openly acceptable everywhere across the board now there is a war but the part of the war that hurts everyone that still has a Jewish heart or as close to the Jewish people as the hostages the hostages that the is took raped murdered and whoever still left the hostages they still have everyone thinks about the hostages and it breaks their heart now if I told you what if I can find a way to get to each one of the hostages in AA in Gaza over there which one of you is going to sign up is there a Jewish person that will not sign up is there a Jewish person that's not going to go all out on this Mish manot you're not going to send the Mish manot with a couple of chocolates and a little root beer no you're going to send them a whole barbecue machine with the steaks inside broiling you're going to put some p in there you put kumus you put matuka you put Safari food ashkanazi food You're GNA put yeminite food you're going to put every food Under the Sun and you're going to make sure to give it an every variety of Kash maybe it's maybe it's MB maybe it's a just you know the uh uh OU whatever it is you're G to make sure that the K is not a problem the type of food not a problem what he has Celiac maybe well give him glutenfree what he likes the meat only we give him every type of meat he likes what does he like he likes the uh the the the uh the stuff that's fattening we'll give him some candy we'll give him some chocolates we'll give him some cheese we'll give him some this we'll give him some that each is going to be an investment and a half if it cost you less than $1,500 a person i' be surprised and that's just for one that's just for you imagine you have to do two of them $3,000 Rabbi no problem you're G to get it to the host no problem can I give more than two Rabbi I say fine you give more than two but not too much oh can I give 10 what no 10 I just two 10 10 RAB can you do me a favor I want 10 host I want to give my Mish not $1,500 at a clip for 10 people can I do it all right fine fine fine before you know it he's got a th M oh I told you 10 10 maximum he goes no no 10 for me but I brought my friends what your friends also want to give M yeah what they doing the same thing no they did a little bit more each one two three $4,000 M before you know it you raised $100 million in Mish why going to the hostages it's going to the host you don't want them toab get them the you you got the connections go to right you give before you know it you raised a million two million five million $500 million to go to the hostages to give why you want to dovah right you want to do mitvah now let me ask you a question the hostages you're right if you could help him you should help if you could send a m you should send M but is the hostage whoever it is whether it's that little cute baby may hasem protect him or it's the mother or it's the guy that's sitting next to him or it's somebody else's daughter or somebody else's son or somebody else's father any of them better than the Jewish people that that are not hostages right now but they're not hostages of Aza but they're hostages of poverty where they don't have food they don't have money to even have a celebration on kanuka they don't have money to celebrate P they don't have money to celebrate sh and needless to say they don't have money to celebrate puim right now have money they're not hostages of the ishim the hostages of our stinginess and our selective giving we're going to give things that are close to a heart when you give to things that are close to your heart you're giving things that are sometimes far from A's desire there are literally endless amount of people that we can help right now in is we've gone far above and beyond year after year to help the poor in is not only during the holidays and before the holidays but during the entire year every day there's a new story every day somebody else is getting married and they don't have money to pay for the wedding every day somebody's having a baby and they need to pay for basic things every day somebody needs diapers every day somebody needs food for their five kids and the husband died or the husband left or something happened every day there's a new story and every day we try to do whatever we can yeah just put it on the card put it on the card Rabbi the card is is is getting tired already yeah just put it on the card you want to do a campaign no time for campaigns just more just help these poor people what are you going to do there's literally not enough not enough not enough time and a Daye to help all the people that we could possibly help but unfortunately when people make decisions based on their emotions instead of based on what the Torah obligates us to do we make the wrong decisions now I agree with you if I had the opportunity to send aish to each one of the hostages I'll easily send a $1,500 Mish to them but you know what that means also that when I help the poor people I have to give nothing less than $1,500 nothing less than $3,000 nothing less than whatever it is I would do to something that pinches my heart so when I see people send me messages and say Rabbi I donated to the campaign and they send me a screenshot of the of what they donated it makes me happy they donate unless I know them a little more and I know that this guy makes $100,000 a year this girl makes a quar million dollar a year this guy makes a half a million dollar a year this person lives in a $2 million house and they show me some receipt of some $50 donation or100 or $200 and I say to myself would they give the same amount if I told them let's give it to the hostages I bet you not now they're not bad people cuz obviously if they're giving they're decent people you're all decent people what we all decent people if we're giving if we're learning we're all decent people we're not trying to do anything bad but the problem is that we're ignorant of the Torah we're clueless of the Torah and therefore many times we make decisions based on emotions and not based on what the Torah obligates us that's why rabai when Yeshua benon heard that the Mal is there in the name of the Torah because there's no Torah being learned right there and then he didn't need any further explanation immediately went inside to the depths of the Torah and that's why Yeshua B had the blessing to conquer 31 different nations that's why Yeshua benon had to receive the cavod the honor of having this entire holiday day of puim decided based on his time what he saw what he did if there was a wall City the holidays on this day if it's not a wall City at the time of Yeshua Bon it's on a different day why because the only reason why gave us the land of Israel is because because of the Torah is because of the dedication of the Torah not just picking up a seph t and kissing it but rather listening and living by the words inside it not just saying we know the story of the written tah but living by the rules and the depth of the oral tah when a person simply decides to dedicate themselves to the Torah that means emotions garbage A's will that's what's going to make my decisions let me know uh what you think and make sure to share it because other people need to learn too