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Making Waves | Rabbi Fischel Schachter
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So the man goes, “Go check out
your aunt’s apartment.
You know, your great aunt, she died.”
He says, “There’s nothing in her apartment,
it’s somewhere in a dangerous
neighborhood.
You never know what you’re
going to find there.”
So he goes and you
know the story.
He finds a suitcase, and inside
there’s a painting and there’s a violin.
And there’s a note:
Be careful, this is a
Picasso and a Stradivarius.
And he runs to this antique dealer,
a person who is
a master of fine arts,
and he says: “Am I rich?
Is it a real Picasso?
A real Stradivarius?”
He says: "Yes! There's only one problem."
“What?”
Picasso made the violin,
and Stradivarius did the painting,
and none of them were very good at it,
so you can just take it home.
The greatest Bracha in our lives,
is for us to stand up to our own Nisyonos.
Who we are is the most beautiful
thing in the world.
When you’re Davening Shemoneh Esrei,
and a whopper of a thought
goes into your mind.
You’re coming to a Shiur,
and this terrible Machshava
comes into your mind.
Says the Baal Shem Tov:
Your attitude may be,
so apparently Hashem doesn’t
want my Torah.
No, just the opposite.
I remember once the dentist said,
if you don’t start brushing
your teeth,
I’m telling you right now,
I’m not going to have anything
to do for you anymore,
because you won’t have any teeth.
And I came back to him afterwards, and I said,
I’m having terrible canker sores.
He says because you’re digging up
so much dirt,
He says because you’re digging up
so much dirt,
but once you start brushing,
you’ll ride through it,
and then when you get to the next
phase you’ll be okay.
When we start davening and learning,
and your Torah and learning is effective,
that says the Baal Shem Tov,
is when you’re going to have
difficult Machshavos.
Because suddenly it’s surfacing.
Suddenly the Yetzer Hara says:
Wait, what’s this guy doing?
Don’t stop!
That’s the Siman to move on.
The Lashon of the Zohar Hakadosh is:
When a snake
attacks you in the middle of Davening,
that means that the Bas Melech,
the princess, is behind it.
The greatest moment in your life,
the greatest key to Bracha is,
when you’re trying to Daven,
and you’re trying to learn,
and you feel like you’re getting
whacked on your head.
And the Yetzer Hara wants to tell you:
Hashem doesn’t want you.
And I say, it must mean
that I am making waves.
I am moving on.