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I'm here in Deal, New Jersey and today
something happened that literally
stopped me in my tracks. There was a
bris taking place in one of the local
Scholes and strangely the room was
packed withidim. Now if you ever been to
deal you know that's a little unusual.
This isn't Williamsburg. This is the
Syrian community. What are all these
doing here? But then I heard the story
uh aided family recently welcomed a baby
into the world and tragically the child
was born with some severe disabilities
and the family wasn't able to provide
the level of care that the baby would
need and would have to give the baby up.
And when word of the situation spread a
Syrian man here in deal did something
almost unimaginable. He stepped forward
and he adopted the baby and he brought
the baby into his own home and today was
the baby's bris. And think about the
scene for a minute. There's celebrating
a brisk together with Syrian Jews,
different backgrounds, different
customs, different worlds. But when a
Jewish child needed a home, none of that
mattered. It was just one Jewish family
taking care of another. I have to
imagine that if there was ever a moment
where Hashem was crying, this was one of
them. But as I was driving away, I
couldn't stop thinking about one more
thing. I'm sure this man is busy. I'm
sure his life wasn't missing the
responsibility of raising a child with
special needs. I'm sure that his
calendar didn't have an empty slot
waiting for this. I'm sure his life
probably didn't have much room. But you
know what did? His heart. And when
there's room in the heart, there's room
in your life. And that's a great lesson
all of us can learn. So often we look at
extraordinary people and think, "Yeah,
that's beautiful, but I can never do
something like that. My life just
doesn't have room." Maybe that's true.
But maybe we're asking the wrong
question. Maybe the question isn't
whether your life has room. Maybe the
question is whether your heart has room.
Because when a Jewish heart makes room
for something beautiful, it's amazing
how life tends to find a way to follow.
Because a Jewish heart is far bigger
than the life we build around it. When a
Jewish heart catches fire, it has a way
of stretching a person's life to make
room for things they never thought were
possible. That's the power of a Jewish
heart. It's infinite. Don't let your
heart follow your life. Build a life
that follows your heart.
