Kindness to Greatest - Parshat Toldot - Rabbi Avi Wiesenfeld

[Applause] I remember it like it was yesterday it was a dark cold rainy storming Friday night here inesh and there's a knock on the door I get up for my suda and I open the door there's a young fellow asking Aila and he wants to know the electricity cut off right before shabas and the electric company here in Israel sent their workers in order to fix F the electric of his building Friday night the electricity comes back on and he wants to know there's food on the hot plate there's food in the crock pot and in the oven is he allowed to partake from that food or not when I assured him that it's absolutely okay asking him various shilas I said to him strange did you not call me before shabas anticipating this might happen and you asked me this question and I answered it and he said to me it's true but I'll tell you why I came there's a young Al Mona a window in my building with a little young children and she came knocking on my door as soon as electricity went back on and she said is it Hally permitted to partake from all the food that's in the oven on the hot plate and I said to her I asked the shil already she said yeah but maybe it's different and I wanted to put her at ease I wanted her to enjoy and relax the rest of shabas so I came up to ask you this specific Shila through the rain through the storm cuz I wanted to put her at ease what an amazing Act Yakov ainu in this week's parisher is called Yakov because he grabbed the ache of the heel of his brother asov when they were born that's why he was named yakob ainu I always wondered out of all the accomplishment that yakob ainu accomplished in this world that's what he's remembered by we have an organization bakov named after that because he held the heel of his brother when he was born what does it mean the to explains that the greatest act that a person could do in this world is help yid the B says even further the greatest act is to alleviate the pain and discomfort of someone else yaku had Ras on his mother even before he was born and he didn't want her to go through too much pain and have two births so as soon as his brother ASA was being born he grabbed hold of the heel to make sure that his mother wouldn't have to go through an extra birth and alleviate a little bit of pain and only have one birth that is why he was named Yakov the message is clear the greatest act that we can do is to help another yid and to alleviate somebody else's pain have an amazing Shas to Listen to More by Rabbi AI weisenfeld visit [Music]