Discover the Treasures of Life - Rabbi Fischel Schachter

[Music] so you know how it is when you go there at Isel people always calling you do me a favor I just want to send along a little little little refrigerator no no no sorry sorry so I have a rule it goes like this um can I just send something along it's a small thing I said really my my my bags are pretty full it's a small thing so bring it over are you home no but put it through the mail slot and he would say it won't fit I said then I'm not taking it okay so this person calls me up and says can you please take uh $5,000 for a CA that's getting married M she s she's getting married I said look I I I I really would love to be part of the Mitzvah I I'm not it makes me very nervous to take cash no it's under the limit it's not the point I rather not and my wife said to me you know but we're going we need a this is real the money anyway so I take the money it's in my pocket and I have this thing when I come through the metal detector everything Rings everything just rings I go through again and again and again and finally the man said Me Maybe you have cash in your pocket a lot of people that have cash in their pocket it rings constantly so I I tuck it into my suitcase into the outside pocket of my suitcase and I close the zipper and it goes right through and uh as we get there we get to the gate I open up the zipper and I put my hand in and the money's gone it's not there the face turns red all the Y come running over I don't know how they already knew exactly what happened you know and everyone says go back go back go back and I go back and I start arguing with them and they say no you got to bring all your suitcases and we got to go through it and we got to check and it's a whole long story don't ask what happened May me open up one of my suitcases and take everything out and uh say my wife could pack a whole house into a suitcase me three pairs of pajamas and I have to jump on it three times it was a disaster and we finally got to the gate the money wasn't there I said listen it's not there what am I going to do I lose the flight and all my tickets it's worse and before we get on my wife said to me I'm I'm not letting you I'm not going I said why aren't you going he said cuz you're going to go around the entire trip saying we lost so much money we lost so much money that's it you go for supper no supper that's it and scha gave out a ruggle in the morning we bring break it up amongst the kids after I lost so much money it's not worth going and they're saying sir are you getting on or not can you settle this like someplace else and I'm saying okay I promise you I will not mention the money the entire time you can you do it I'm telling you I won't mention the money the entire time I promise you and I had to prove myself right so I didn't mention the money the entire time and I said no we I can do it I can do it I put this big smile on my face and we did things we never even did before in N we had such a great time you can't imagine the last day my wife says guess what what look at the table I said you probably bought a gift to the Baler no look at the table I look at the table and there's the money I said where was it she said it was in there it was all along just that it slipped past where your fingers go and I said to myself I got to stop and think about this for a moment if I would have gone through this entire trip and I would have said L the money L of money no don't tell me about going places I don't want to go get Brock some people okay I lost the money right and all sudden the money is there oh the money's here but never I mean never mind the trip is over life goes very very fast and before you know it the trip is over in order to see the Sim in your life says the you have to do your best at sh I have heard this from a lot of people that once they started being conscious about sh they had a shom bias they never had before they had they had a spra with their children they never had before in order for us to find what we have stop looking for it elsewhere find it in your own [Music] suitcase