'Small' Acts of Chessed -Rabbi Yamin Goldsmith

shalom aleichem everybody at the end of parshas bayalo the torah tells us that miriam receives saras because she spoke badly about her brother moshe and like everybody with saras she had to leave camp she was not allowed to live among the rest of banane israel and the torah tells us however that the entire time that she was outside of camp binet israel did not travel why didn't they travel when she was out of the camp rashi tells us based on the gemara and masaka that it was it was a reward to miriam hanover why because so many years earlier when moshe was a little baby and he was placed in a little basket and sent away from his parents miriam hanaviah waited for him because she waited for moshe so many years ago we are waiting for her now and the question is that doesn't seem to make sense miriam hanavia waited 80 years ago this is 80 years later why do we have to wait because of something she did 80 years ago and not only that that that was one person she waited one baby one miriam now we have all of bernay israel two million people three three million people so two or three million people have to wait until miriam comes back into camp because of a tiny little headset that she did 80 years ago so perhaps one can suggest that this is a message for you and for me about when we think about doing hesed sometimes when we do an act of hased we say what impact does this act of hassan really have on anybody it's a tiny little thing why am i even doing this and this parsha teaches us absolutely that's a wrong attitude because look at miriam a tiny little husset and because of that tiny little hustle making sure that moshe was safe all of you bennet israel two three million people sitting in the midbar because of that little act of husset in quotes we are all alive today out of mitzrayim in the midbar after we receive the torah it's a crazy idea that a tiny act of hasset has so much impact in the world and that's a message for you and for me when we have something small to do there's no such thing as a small act of chasse even small active ghasset have impacts for years and years to come have a good shabbos everyone