The Story of The Old Brick Oven - Rabbi Lazer Brody

[Music] with hashem's loving grace welcome to amuna beams with your host laser Brody of a very poignant story to tell you today from the gorah and tractate Tanis tells about uh ancient Babylon in ancient Babylon there was a terrible drought and there were fires all over the country and they changed the name from from Babylon to the place of fires and all over the country because the Babylon is very it's a low elevated uh very hot climate and it's very prone to fires but in one village where RAV Huna lived RAV Huna was one of the great sages of the gamor at that time in one Village there were no fires and everyone thought that this was in RAV huna's mared because rafuna was such a scholar but uh that was not so uh rafuna had a dream and RAV Huna in the dream they came to rahuna from the heavens and they said your Merit is very much for your learning but you can't take credit for the fact that there's no fires in the village because it's by virtue of this one old woman is said who's the old woman he asked the particular angel that was passing him on this information it was an old woman and in RAV huna's Village who had an Old Brick Oven and in that Brick Oven she put fire she fed it with firewood from uh Sunday morning till Friday afternoon right before Shabbat the oven rested only on Shabbat and it had a fire going all week long well she didn't need that fire but what she did it for was that any poor woman who couldn't afford firew didn't have her own oven could come to the old woman's oven and bake bread and didn't have no questions asked no no ticket no admission price and come and it was open all week long morning night no questions asked anyone could use it this was such an act of compassion for the whole village because at time is it a great poverty at the time that the village was poor and not everybody could afford the firew water have their own oven and this is the power we learned from here that this woman May few people few people thanked her and she didn't get paid for this and it took a lot of her own money to buy the firewood because wood is a little bit scarce in Babylon to keep this oven going all week long so it's amazing it's amazing Act of loving kindness and compassion for her neighbors but in the Merit of this act of loving kindness the whole village the whole village was preserved not even where Rah huna's great tourist scholarship was enough to save the village This Woman's this is not a lone incident in the gorah the gorah tells about many people how their act of compassion their act of Charity saves not only themselves but saves an entire generation for example it was is the well Digger nun the well digger he saw that people didn't have enough water to drink when they were making the pilgrimage to Jerusalem during the three times a year in the holidays and pesak and sh on so what he would do he would with his own ax and shovel he would dig Wells don't and they would give them to the to the pilgrims and the pilgrims would have water to drink well once it was thought that someone told that nun that his daughter fell into one of the pit she said about that he was going she was killed he said that can't be that can't be it can't be that my offspring would be killed in the Mitzvah that I'm involved in and he was right and they found out that just then when he said that there was some miracle and she got out of the pit and that's the story ofun The Well Digger so we see this old woman in Babylon Run's town and Nuna and many other stories like that when you are occupied in doing an act of loving kindness for your neighbors not for yourself completely altruistic and you don't have anything personal to gain n he didn't have anything to gain by doing this back break work of of digging Wells for other people and the old woman she didn't have anything to gain personally but she had her own bread but the wood she could have fired up the oven once a week and and cooked her and baked her bread and that's it but went on all week long and this is an act of altruism which you have nothing personal to gain and should know nothing is forgotten in the Heavenly archives it's all accounted for and you can't understand the good morning Sanhedrin says that if you do one good Good Deed you have the power to influence the entire world it could be that there is a decree for the destruction of the world because of your one good deed and I want to think about it to do good things for other people it not only is good for other people but Hashem gives a word where do we get we don't often feel the reward ourselves but it goes in our Offspring like in's daughter who was saved uh in the inner explanations of the gamorra says that this lady this old this old woman with the old Brick Oven she used fire for a Mitzvah there's no such thing that her Offspring could be caught in the fires of purgatory because of their grandmother their great-grandmother Deeds that they would be saved can't understand when you do something good you're not only doing something for your community you're doing something for the world you're doing something for posterity for your Offspring and acts of good they go into our offspring's DNA where they often imitate Offspring imitate If the parents are the parent parents are generous the parents they give charity uh then the CH children like that they take the role from the parents that's the act of parents the mission says that the active parents are stepping toes for stuns this an example of Charity you give charity it's a measure for measure that you're never going to need charity yourself so that's probably the greatest income Insurance you can so we stop and think that every one of us each one of us don't say I'm too little I'm too small whatever you could do old woman she put firewood in the oven Let It Go whatever you could do whatever you could donate to your community whatever you could give of yourself give of your time give it your money whatever you could do you could save the world we can see the world's in a bad place right now and we need people that people altruistic and people with compassion people with hassid and by virtue of our acts of loving kindness hasem should act to us with amazing loving kindness and bring us Messiah and a rebuilt Holy Temple speeding our days amen God bless