Kidnapped At The Mall

This Torah class is brought to [music] you by torahanytime.com. Last year I had to get a passport for my [music] daughter cuz we were going on a trip to China. So we're getting a passport for my daughter. She was 3 months old at the time. It's a little tricky to hold up your daughter for the picture because they have a camera and they have a white [music] screen, but I need to hold her up. But my hand can't be in the picture. So it had to be like [music] a specific angle and I wasn't getting in her eyes and she was throwing up and There's 750 people waiting. And they're not patient. [music] So I came up with an idea. I said, "Maybe, you know what? There's a There's a We were in a mall. This is the Ocean County Mall or the [music] I think it's called that." And right next to the passport center, there's a dollar store. So I said, "You know what? Let me go next door. I'll [music] get a $1 tablecloth, a white tablecloth. I'll drape it over the stroller that she's in. [music] I'll put her in the stroller and then you take a picture there." So that's what we did. I take my my 4-year-old son at the time. [music] I go running through the mall to the dollar store. I'm looking all over for the white [music] sheet. I find one. I buy it. I come hustling back. I dodge the cans of tuna that they're throwing at me the people online. [music] And I go I ran I I put it on the the stroller. We take the picture. Give up on it. I turn [music] back. My son's gone. Just gone. So at that exact [music] minute every single possible headline comes flashing into your brain. Okay, he's kidnapped. >> [music] >> Every single person in the mall is a suspect. Yeah, that guy looks shifty. Yeah, you're a serial killer. Yeah, it's you. I envision my son. He's inside a [music] suitcase. He's being loaded onto a truck. He's being like hauled off to Mexico, shoved in a tunnel. And I frantically [music] panic. I'm looking all over the place and I sort of retrace my steps and I walk into the dollar store and there he is. Just casually in the toy aisle [music] looking at the toys. And I was saying to myself, like, how are you so calm? Like he knew I was an accident. The answer is is because he had no clue the dangers of random people seeing a four-year-old [music] in the mall. He didn't know the repercussions of what it means to kidnap and murder and mutilation. He doesn't know. But I know. We might not know what it means to get [music] lost in the mall of life and to just sit there and in the toy aisle completely naively unaware that our [music] soul is dying, is murdered and kidnapped. But Hashem knows. And he will never give up. And he will never give you peace ever until you make peace [music] with your soul. It's not possible to be peaceful and to live a harmonious life if the soul is ignored. [music] It's not possible. I know that there are a lot of ads and a lot of newspapers that will try to convince [music] you otherwise. It's not possible because Hashem loves you too much. You've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com.