Man adopts ABANDONED baby

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.