Angels Are Right in Front Of Our Eyes | Rabbi YY Jacobson

I once was invited to do a shabatone in Sedona, Arizona. The other guest speaker was the unforgettable rabbit and Esther Yungres, a blessed memory. And I still recall an amazing story she shared at her Friday night address in Sedona. She said they were little children in Bergen Bellin in the Bergen Bellin Nazi concentration camp. In some of the camps, the Nazis allowed families to be together and the Jews were treated a little little better than in other camps. They were from the lucky ones who survived Bergen Belin under very very difficult conditions. And she recalled a memory when she was a little child in Bergen Belin. The family was together. They had a few few scraps of bread and her father Rabbi David Yungrise started to sing shalom on Friday night as they would sing in their home in their before the Holocaust welcoming the angels that come to our home on Shabas. And Rabbi Syong, Rabbit Saung said her brother turned to her father and said, "Tata, father, I don't see angels. Where are the angels? I see SS monsters. I see Nazi animals, Nazi beasts. I don't see angels. Where are the angels of Bamba?" And her father turned to her brother and said, "You, you children, you are the angels. You are the angels that are here." The story remained with me because really there's a very deep message here. You know, people often ask, "Where are the angels? I don't see angels." Okay, so first of all, we don't see everything, but there's also something else here and that is, you know, all week we're stressed. We're overwhelmed. There's a lot of anxiety. People have deadlines. They have to make ends meet. There's a lot of dysregulation. Shabas is the day focused on regulation, on tranquility. When we come home from Davening Friday night, we sing shalom. We sing and then we look at our wives and suddenly we see their angels. We look at our children and suddenly we see their angels. Maybe middle of the week we didn't have the the capacity or the sensitivity or the depth or the tranquility to be able to see that reality. But with the holiness of Shabas, we look at all these people in our lives and we say, "Ah, my wife is an angel. My children are angels. Welcome to the angels of my life." I I Oh, the