Don’t Just Feel Bad - Do Something!

The Dubner Maggid was walking in the street, >> [music] >> he sees an almana walking with a yasom. Not only that, almana is blind. So, Dubner Maggid walks over to her and says, "Is there anything I can do to help you out?" So, she says, "I don't have heat at home, I don't have food." So, he says, "You know what? My house is your house. Come [music] to my house." Dubner Maggid took care of her and the yasom for a few years. He actually hired a private rebbe and had the rebbe learn with this child. This child became Reb Kluger. Says the Chofetz Chaim, "How many times have we passed in the street an almana and we say in our heart, 'What a nebach, ah, she's blind. Foo.' And then you just keep on walking. And how many Klugers do you pass up in the street? What I'm saying is poshut that every one of us here passes by the Klugers, the Reb Klugers of our generation. Play a machashefa with me. I did not pass up the Reb Kluger of our generation. I went and I convinced a guy that was like an almana. He was bankrupt from Torah, bankrupt from Yiddishkeit, convinced him to come to the shiur and he turned out to be Reb Benny Rubinek." And every one of us knows that guy in shul that hasn't opened up a safer in 10 years and we say to ourselves, "Oh, yeah, let the Peretz Chaim Leibin take care of him. Let Ploni take care of him." No, it's our cheil. It's not just almana, it's the yasom, the yasom of Torah. We have the opportunity to stop and say, "Come to the Beis Medrash, I'll change your life." Because a lot of us, we see things and just feeling bad in your heart is zero, mamash is zero. Taking action, doing something about it, that's when it counts.