Saving the Pecan Orchards - Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair

[Music] this is a true story whose facts have been verified independently and it happened just two weeks ago during the last week of Benet manim Eagle Pass on the TexMex border a woman farmer is gazing Towards the Sky Fighting back tears there's been no rain for almost 6 months not a drop she owns some pean Orchards and if it doesn't rain now the Orchards will die she will go bankrupt and she and her family will find themselves taking to the road suddenly a bus pulls up next to the parch Orchard and 50 Bim from the tri-state area pile out of the bus the farmer looks at them who are these Strang looking Gringos she's never seen a gringo with a baseball cap and peirs before she goes over to the leader of the group and says to him you're Jewish right yes he says we're desperate peans have grown here in Texas for 500 years my family have farmed this land for Generations but the last two years have been terrible we've prayed and prayed for rain but nothing has worked I know the Jewish people have a special connection to God will you pray for us please moved by her plea and thinking it would be an interesting experience for the boys the leader of the group schi science gathered the Bim into a circle and they sang three times then made a short m in English asking AEM for rain to help the lady farmer and everyone else who needed rain Father in Heaven he blessed our for fathers Abraham Isaac and Jacob please bless magali boss Angie God please shower this area with rain not only for her and her family but for all the farmers surrounding only you can do it and no one else amen amen I don't know how seriously some of the Bim took the whole thing when you're 18 years old just about everything is a bit of a joke she thanked them for their prayers the group got back into the bus and continued their trip that evening the leader of the group got a text from the farmer it said it rained for about an hour this hasn't happened in four or 5 months I feel so loved by God I want to cry thank you and thank God I'm so grateful for meeting you today how great are our toilers it's easy to think what can I do what's the power of my actions what's the power of my toilers what can my being omed do what's the power of my Mitzvah sure in all my it's powerful it does something but in this world it's just so very hard to feel that what we do makes a difference and our actions make all the difference these were just regular American boys we're not talking about bbas or lamed vnik and you know maybe some of them from it was a joke but they tore up the world they tore up the Heavens they reversed the gazer we have the power and even if our cavana is minimal even when we just say the words just phoning it in each one of us however small we may think we are our power is enormous believe it use it Hashem loves and cherishes our every action [Music]