December 4, 2025

I once found myself in the office building of BP [music] Print Group, a printing company in Lakewood, New Jersey. And being a large company with well more than a minion working there, they built a schol inside of their building. What's unique about this minion is that in addition to the graphic designers and the [music] printers and the editors and the writers that dav in there, there is often a large number of mishim from your as part of the minion. They come to the company to print out their letters of recommendation to attest that they are in need of stuck. Now, what took place during Khazar Sashhats absolutely amazed [music] me. A man got up with a pushka in his hand and began walking up and down the aisles collecting stuck. Like in most shows, only a handful of people actually put something in the pushka. That is until the man got to the mushiman. [music] without missing a beat. Each and every one of them reached into their [music] pockets and placed some money in the Pushka. Now, the reason this impressed me so much was [music] because they were actually taking from the very money that they themselves collected by standing out in the rain and going doortodoor and embarrassing [music] themselves. This was the very money that they needed desperately to pay for their wife's chemotherapy or their infertility treatments [music] or the bank that was about to foreclose on their house. Yet they took that very money and placed some in the pushka. Not a single one didn't because these people are attracted to a currency of a different kind. A mitzvah that comes walking by is too attractive to pass up. [music] They couldn't hold themselves back. Even after a tearfilled ma begging Hashem to save them from their financial plight, they grabbed the mitzvah of a smile on their face before it passed them by. For them, it was simply too precious not to. When we realize how each and every mitzvah contains a precious ingredient for a [music] life of goodness, we realize how foolish it is to overlook any of them. Suddenly each and every mitzvah is prized. Each one is too cherished to step on and move. And none of them are insignificant. Like puzzle pieces, each one make up the ultimate life of goodness stamped with the approval of Hashem. Malik, as he normally does, summed it up best in Cohelis. mitzvah. Keepers of mitzvah will know no evil. [music] When we realize how fortunate we are to be privy to these mitzvah, we will do whatever it takes to properly fulfill them. And when we do, aside from living life to its fullest, our names get etched in Hashem's heavenly record books for eternity. Ashu, how fortunate are we that we merited this? We are the luckiest people on the face of the earth.