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rebbe of mine very close to treve noah
sauber
told me he's a rebbe and jc elizabeth
and he was able to get robbie mutty
miller who's a big cure of activists and
lives in edison also
to speak to his tamida and he says
rahmati miller said over the following
story
to the boys to his talmida and he says
i'll say it in his words
a few years ago i got a phone call from
a man in england a family i was very
close with
the gone off the derek and they were at
wit's end they didn't know what to do
with themselves
the father asked abe miller could my son
come and live with you for some time
maybe he'll draw closer to his roots
maybe
so miller agreed so the sun moved in for
a month
i mean miller decided from the outset
he's not pushing him
he'll give him we'll show him the warmth
and show him the love just
torah observant home but he's not
pushing him so he came to the table for
five minutes on shabbos and then he left
he didn't dive in and put on filling
nothing he took him wherever he wanted
to go
four weeks later it's time to go survey
miller is driving him
to the airport for his trip home and
miller says to him
one favor you gotta put on filling on
monday and thursday
he says come on rabbi i i you know i
don't do any of that
he says look you've been living with us
for a month we gave you space let you do
whatever you wanted
i'm only asking you this one thing
fine fine so i want you to shake my hand
shook hands
he's got an agreement he's gonna put
until on a monday and thursday
i really didn't hear from him for some
time
on thursday july 7th 2005
the young man called rabbi miller
he was crying so much he couldn't get
the words out
when he finally composed himself he told
our miller he said look i want to tell
you something
he said every morning my father picks me
up from my apartment i don't live at
home
and drives me to the train station so i
can catch a train to go to work
this morning he picked me up and we're
almost at the train station
i promised dad can you take me back to
my apartment
my father turned around we went back to
the apartment
i was back in the car in three minutes
back in out and we sped off to the train
station i quickly boarded the next train
all of a sudden the power went out in
the train station
was the coordinated mass british subway
attacks
7-7 in britain is 9 11 and is the same
as 9 11
in new york in america 8 50 a.m on the
morning of july 7th
2005 three suicide bombings occurred
within 50 seconds of each other
on three different trains on the british
underground
52 people were killed over 700 people
were injured
the young man had boarded at the king's
cross station
had he been on time he would have been
on one of those trains
what a story but here's the kicker
why miller looks at to tell me them and
says so you think today he puts on
filling every day
you think he's a shomer shabbos you
think he's rash yeshiva somewhere
i know for a fact he doesn't put anton
at all
or at least not more than monday and
thursday
why and he says to the boys he says two
reasons
number one he was inspired but he didn't
do anything
inspiration doesn't last he didn't
capitalize on the inspiration
it's gone number two is the big one
though
because he wasn't putting on tv
for hashem he was putting on filling for
me
it wasn't an act of connection it was
like i made a commitment so he did it
and then abby miller looked at the boys
and he said
and what about us are we only fulfilling
our responsibility our jewish
judaic responsibilities because that's
what our parents have taught us
because that's what the community
expects of us because that's the way we
were raised
as we see from this story it's not good
enough
there has to be a feeling of love of
connection of emotion
it's vital when you see people are
searching for it people
want it and that is what chanukah is
coming to celebrate
hanukkah is putting the plug in the wall
the ingredients everything is there was
so good
we try so hard to feel it
to light the fire light the fire
and it cooks within us slowly and
beautifully
and the candela had like ner thomid the
candle within us
the candelana minora and that flame that
inextinguishable flame
burns ever so brightly have a beautiful
hanukkah
