Purim: Finding The Light In The Darkness - Rabbi Dovid Goldwasser

good evening it is a great to see everybody this evening especially a few days before puim we have a unbelievable Z tonight to talk about those things that an individual sometimes loses sight of what happens in our world when it's a little bit dark when things are not going exactly like I want how to find the light how to be able to see the good how to have hasem help us to climb out to see better times I'd like to start uh just with a very small idea about puim everyone knows that ham was told by aash fos that he's got to go and he's got to find Hamman because Hamman he's going to lead through the streets and he's going to give him Honor on the horse and ham he's going to have to be the barber the bath house attendant he's going to have been it changed around he's going to have to lead him through the streets so Haman doesn't know where you find him where's he at where where do you get the this guy Mori so they told him go to B midash go to bet Gabriel that's where you're going to find him so he goes he's in the looking the B mid and he sees that Mori is giving sh he's giving sh a general Shear to the guys in the B midash Ham does not know what's going on he stands at the side he waits he's waiting for the end of the Shure to find out what's going on here he hears Aramaic he hears some Hebrew he doesn't know what's going on this Sher completes it finishes he calls over one of the B one of the the students says come over here B I got to ask you a question Hamman says what was he saying what was he teaching oh Hamman you know what he's teaching the mikash when they used to take that little bit from the OM from the and they would gather it like this very complex they would take a little bit from the grain hold it in their hand and then flip it and that little bit all types of ham could not wrap his head around why you need to know any of this they said H because there's going to be a bet mikash the temple is going to be rebuilt and we will have to know how to do the we're going to have to know how to serve hem and that is one of the that we're going to have to know Haman is baffled he thought what is going on over here and he said the following you read it time and time again go into it deep and deep and deep there it says Hamman got so upset he said your little comates that little bit that's on the end of your fingers that you take out from the from the meal offering that little bit is already it has already ruined thousands and thousands of silver pieces that I paid to be where I'm at today that's what he said that little bit of grain was Mel it aned all the thousands of silver pieces that he gave all the ask a question teach me why did he get so blown out of shape about the kamit about the future service in the BET mikdash what was so big about that everybody there are many Su in the there are many things all different things that are so complicated that could have been taught what was so special about K taking that little bit for the mikash you got to hear this unbelievable Rob galinski said thought what was the Sher going to be in already the signs were up in the street going to kill all the Jews the streets were all covered with the signs Jews are finished gone history they all ran in order to say that the Jews are going to be killed ham thought you know what the shear is going to be in you know what the class is going to be in in kazak it's going to be in Kem how a person has to give up their life for Hashem it's going to be in the not to serve Idols it's going to be maybe about habah because in a few minutes they're all going to be killed so learn abouta the next world as soon as that student told him that Yesa said we are thinking about the bet mikdash that destroyed Haman they're not afraid they couldn't care less about what we say they don't care about the Gaz they don't care about any of this evil they're thinking in the future we don't live in the present we live in the future what right now is happening does not bother us we're already looking for the future greatness of the bet mikdash that hon could not take once he saw that we are Jews that live with hope we are Jews that live with a dream we are Jews that see the future we are Jews that never give up we are Jews that will always be here because Hashem promises us that we will be here forever once he saw that Hamman said I am done I am finished and this is something it is so special that a person should take a look at this what happened and say never ever is there going to be anything that a person can get so scared about never can a person be so challenged that they face the future with fear they're upset as interesting thing I live next door in Brooklyn I didn't make it to Queens yet they didn't let me in but over in Brooklyn I live next door to a very fine person is unbelievable guy unbelievable he happens to be from the Persian community so something was facing him that was terrible something was facing him a challenge a lot of people that get a challenge I don't want to say what they get very upset a lot of people get a challenge they're finished they get I don't want to say but depressed over it they throw in the towel they say forget about it doesn't matter paros doesn't matter uh marriage uh children whatever it is a lot of people they they just throw in the towel they give up M I'm done even there are those that think about doing things that I don't want to say shows that a person gave up on life never ever so he said I came to knock on your door I came to knock on your door it was there of Shabbat I needed an answer Rabbi you were home you were not home I need an answer I had to know one way or other life or death you weren't home what shall I do he didn't know Friday night he went to sleep now I saw him Mo Shabbat Saturday night I came back from Lakewood he runs with tears in his eyes tears in his eyes he runs to me rebi and he told me he came Friday and I wasn't home I went to sleep Friday night you came to me in a dream you told me I should do this and this and this and I had my answer I was caling Rua because I knew what to do but the strange thing is you spoke to me in fary pers perfect person he fell on my shoulder and he cried I just give it to you exactly like he told me this ye this Jew has such a he's got such faith in the I believe whatever happened on Friday night was because of his great amuna a person never ever gives up on anything to find the light in anything that goes on Hashem or na Hashem is my light even in the darkest places in the entire world Hashem comes to shine hasem said I'm going to come I'm going to come to you you wait you wait for the light you wait for the way you wait for me to show you and I will do it individuals sometimes they don't realize they say it's too dark uh it is utterly impossible that Hashem could come in this situation I want you to know in the worst of worse situations Hashem appears all of a sudden Hashem appears to help us that's part of the reason bear with me for just one moment puim puim is an interesting holiday puim will be the only holiday that that in the future we will always have puim all the other y we will not have but Pim the days of puring will be here forever we will always get together we will always have a special time you and I and all of CLA Israel Branch together for the great day of puim why why puim why not yur why not any of the other great days there a lot of great days on our calendar but just puim so it's fascinating what does it say why is it why is it that puim is so great greater than all I'll just read you the lotion of the the days of Pur will always be here we'll always have Pur we'll always have it to look forward all the books of the prophets and and all those will disappear however which will continue M will always be here we'll always have it'll continue why why not the others P it's an unbelievable question here's the answer the answer is the following all the other holidays all the other holidays it wasn't so bad all the other holidays the Jews did bad but let's face it that there was still a possibility to get out we haven't lost everything however what happened on on puim on puim it was that the Jews the Jews had gone to the sud of they had their own the wine and they had their all the food but what was the problem yipper is when they had that party yum Kipper is when everybody was there yum Kipper was when everybody was drinking nothing worse than that I mean maybe Bread on on PES okay but to eat to drink on the night of Yip can't think about it that's the lowest that is it no matter what it is no matter how low a Jew goes Yumer is still yum Kipper PES is still PES is a ye lives in Bell Harbor is such a sweet Jew he has matah all the time matah PES I don't know if he knows I I I don't know if he knows the difference between Al and a base so he told me Reb Reb I went to the local there's a breakfast place on PES and it was unbelievable I had matah there they had matah and I ate the matah it wasn't as good as the muffin but the mat was very good I thought to myself he goes goes and he eats the matah on it but for all of CLA Isel to sit on the night of kipor and they're all eating in drinking together with everybody else which is in is we do not mix we do not we do not mix with the amim we are careful we make ABD we're not allowed to be together there are many many not to be together especially for a party especially to drink and eat if a person has to attend so there's a way to go there's a way to fulfill the law properly and still be in attendance but we are careful we are very careful so what happened at that time we didn't pray pray yipper n at least do n you may miss the other parts but do do n do something none nothing fast at least fast you don't have to do anything else but fast a little bit on yum Kipper no didn't fast so we're sneakers sneakers are easy to wear don't wear regular shoes no nothing say what happened Hashem said I don't care I don't care what they do I don't care they ran away I don't care that they ate and drank on kipor I don't care that they went in assimilated together with all of the go with all of those I don't care Hashem said I will be Mel I'll forgive them I'll give them I'll give them ra because of that s says that is our holiday that the Jews should remember always as far as a person could be as dark as the galut as bad as a personal situation could be Al that's why purm is the one holiday that will remain with us forever I want to say that I just see the book just for a moment I see the book came out the daily dose of the Torah any time with all the beautiful daily doses from all of the mid and it's a beautiful day it's a yum everybody can get it it's a some very very special to increase the Liu Torah in our homes and to increase the beauty it iset that something comes out like this that represents Torah from around the world it should have great and great another uh area another area and that is a person sometimes uh in personal situations they give up a little bit I had uh what shall I tell you I had a parent come to me and the parent tell me that their daughter is estranged their daughter they don't know where she is they tried to do the right things they tried to bring her up correctly but what can I say she went off the the Derk so to speak and she left yish kite and she left no forwarding address no email no telephone Nobody Knows the parents tried to get a detective to find out where she is they couldn't find her it's already two years nothing nothing no trace of her parents said if we had another child so I could comfort myself so I don't have this one but I have that the only daughter the daughter all their hopes all their dreams all of the future is in that daughter one day she get married she have a child they have an AET heartbreaking she left them nice parents I'm talking to them I I couldn't imagine nicer people wonderful people beautiful people they said Reby we give up we know we're not going to see her any anymore she did such an excellent job to conceal her identity we know that we're never going to see her again we just have a question what should we think in our mind how do we move forward from this and not go back and think about it all the mother said to me with tears in her eyes my husband took all the pictures down in the house we had pictures of her all over playing the playground and then when she graduated the the grade school elementary then when she stood high school with a cap and the Gown we had all the pictures there beautiful beautifully in the house but the lady said the mother said I talked about her all the time and I put a picture the father couldn't take it what could I take if that's living tell me what's death he took down all the pictures no gone she said I understand my husband o o Li that he's correct that he should take them down but what I do as a mother could I forget a daughter what should he do as a father he loved her more than I did he took care of her better than I did and now he doesn't want to hear about it if I even bring up the subject he said please the sign of a smart person is their quiet I said to the parents you can never give up on the daughter you can never think for one moment that you won't see her again there were many people that left many people that disappeared for years and then they came back there are many people that all of a sudden they wanted to do T even after a lifetime even after 10 years after 20 years you cannot give up put the pictures back on the wall every picture the grade school the playing in the sand the high school put them all up and every day say put in a dollar. 50 whatever you want to re mayor Balan whenever you lose something you put a little bit in you say that little thing and you're able to find whatever you lost I lost one time a diamond ring I won't go into the story diamond ring it was not a pretty picture I went to rebi Mayor balines and arat Israel and I said RI mayor I need you you got to help on the spot I gave the money and the at the cev at rebi mayor balones I came back to my room I stayed by the great Rabbi Arya carel I came back they ran in there's a telephone call for you who is it rabbitson Miller they found the diamond ring M sh that was at least two months after it was lost I told them go give to Rabbi mayor Balan better yet get a Koopa get a stu a box every day give something in rebi mayor balanz should help you so that you should discover your daughter the husband said rebi do we have to do it said I don't tell anybody they have to do anything you don't have to do it if you want myah I offer you to do it that this will be a a good thing they said okay if the r says we're going to do it we'll do it every day they gave the money when the money was already at a nice amount they sent it to one of the places in AR Israel the Kat rebi mayor Banes they put in the name and they said please if you could put the name by the Kev and they paid money the people took the name of the daughter they put the name by the Kev they put it up as they were requested parents spent quite a big deal of money anyhow it's inferior Mi what happens from a namea what happens from mioda what happens from never giving up happened to be one of her friends the girl's friend comes to the Koopa and she sees the name of her good friend right there the name is an unus usual name the only one that she knows by that name is her friend the girl made a number of different calls until somebody that was on The Fringe as well knew how to get in contact with her she said to the girl do you know that somebody put your name by the great rebi mayor Balan and everybody that comes is Miss pal everyone is praying for you as well the girl couldn't get it she couldn't understand who did it she was so curious she started wondering who was it's a teacher somebody but who remembered her name who would do it the Curiosity got her so bad that one day she picks up the phone ABA ABA Ken M who is this ABA Ricky Ricky Ricky how are you are you okay Ricky ABA I only have one sh do you put my name by RAB mayor balades k k that's the only thing I could do because I didn't know where you're at she said if you didn't forget about me in all these months it's a s that you will never forget me I'm going to come home to see you an individual that realizes that is that an individual always has hope it doesn't matter what it is it doesn't matter what the difficulty is Hashem will always help us no matter where we are no matter how a person has sunk one more item and that is that we have two bra all of us each each one of us every day of Our Lives T the more that a person keeps Tor the more that a person is close to mitv the better it is for ourselves for our families we can do anything for schoola the biggest schoola all person has to do is open it doesn't matter what the saf here is it could be that a person will open up a and learn a little bit doesn't matter a daily dose doesn't matter what it is open up and learn the of learning for even a few minutes is bigger than ever it will also Enlighten us said the great Reb Alan waserman Reb Alan waserman said when somebody would come to him and need an answer and they would want an answer from him re Alan would usually have the answer to give him at the times when it was impossible to give an answer he would open up a safer on the table and he would start to learn from the learning he would get get an answer what to tell the person that was the great re Alan waserman as long as a person learns even they're in the worst mood even something went on that was very difficult for them but they turn towards liur T they turn towards learning they can lift themselves up Hashem said I will come and take you out of that place I'll come and take you even where there is no path that you could ever see and the same thing is with a Mitzvah a person is any Mitzvah the strengthen any Mitzvah it is it doesn't matter when a person decides they're going to do it smallest Mitzvah individual will say you know from now on when I get up in the morning I will say one cap before I pray one chapter T before I pray unbelievable if the individual says you know what before I pray I will go and I'll wash my hands I'll wash my hands I'll go according to the something small to be to say out loud that's somebody else will answer aain huge we don't realize it we run after all different types of schoot all charms and everything one that a person can do and they got it I got to to tell you just agav whoa a person came to me there is a uh there is a I don't know how you call it not an illness that a person perspires a lot sweat they sweat a lot the guy sweats a lot young man and he says it's embarrassing I get nervous so it's sweating like terrible or if somebody comes to shake my hand and it's uh the whole hands wet right and he's nervous about it so he said I tried all kinds of things there is an operation a surgery to get to help that the problem he came to me two weeks before the surgery and he said rebi can you give me a br I'm a little bit scared about it can you give me a braa that the surgery should be okay so I thought to for a moment what does it say in you turn the Torah over and turn the Torah over because it's all in the Torah I told him I started going in my head one place in the talud it does talk about persperation about sweat where is that you have bread in the morning right you eat a little bit bread in the morning wash eat the bread make b bench afterwards this is a great schoa it says in the Tam for many things one of them is if a person perspires too much so I said to him DOI I don't know do you ever eat bread in the morning re I take a colada every morning a drink I time for the bread this the what I said hold on for a second Doby I'm going to give you a new menu I want you to have pass chakis wash over the bread in the morning I didn't say I have to eat every day some days some say you could be with others with M but I want you to have bread he said okay he did it at the end of two weeks he noticed a little bit of a change it wasn't as bad as it used to be he used to have to take a towel to wipe off there was so now he could like sort of put it off with his hands and he didn't have to have a towel all the time it got a little bit better he called the doctor he wants to postpone the surgery see how it goes he continued the end of one month he caught off the surgery the problem kimat went away still a little bit but went away Torah says if you follow it all its ways are Pleasant you do a Mitzvah you get rewarded you don't have to worry about it you need something you give some money to Thea you know what happens from that you double your money you get rich uh everybody knows you give money in order to become rich any Mitzvah works like that but sometimes a person could make a mistake and we're coming to the end but I got to tell you never underestimate the value of a Mitzvah never underestimate the value of one little chance of Liu Torah we learn Torah every day I don't know if you know zarimon if you heard of it zarimon I give a she five minutes every day you can sign up uh there's a WhatsApp group and there's also a telephone call I don't know if anyone is on the telephone call goes off four o'clock around the world and thousands of people learn together Zon I cannot tell you the yeshu the bra that came from the five minute no Shar is longer than the five minutes today Shar is not longer anybody would like to sign you could sign up afterwards but I want you to know that I met a yeid and the ye had no parasa none he asked me what he should do he had a few different ideas you know like exotic ideas you go up to Mount Everest you pray when it's Roes and look at the Moon three times and you know all kinds of things I said I got something simple you want I'm part of it I do this year I give it five minutes he said okay he did it he decided the telephone so telephone all of a sudden he's in the Department of Motor Vehicle you know where you get your license motor vehicle okay he's in the Department of Motor Vehicles you have to sit there and wait on your line I don't know about Queens but in Brooklyn you could bring your lunch and dinner and wait there till they call your number right so he's waiting on the thing in the meantime 4:00 biduk the telephone rings he picks up the telephone he starts to listen even better he takes the little paper out he wants to write down a few Notes From The Daily Shear so he can remember it there's another guy another from Guy this is crazy telephone he answers the telephone he's learning the telephone he begins to write it down he said uh can I ask your question do you like do you learn on the phone or you have something kind of you got to teacher on the phone he said no I do the Zar Shimon he said uh wow and they start talking about it how do you get started he says well actually I don't have parasa I don't have a job and it's a little difficult I got kids and there so I ran into this Rabbi gold waser and he suggested that I do the zarimon and that's what I did I pick it up four o00 the guy said uh really he said I want you to know I need a supervisor for our work are you available to work he said yeah I'm more than available how soon could you start I could start tomorrow he met him in the Navy shipyard in Brooklyn the next day he has the most beautiful job I cannot tell you how many times he called me up to say thank you I said don't thank me thank the zeron he hooked up that whole thing the guy is so happy Yeshua that comes from learning Yeshua that comes from a Mitzvah anyhow uh we be great sadik had to leave his house there were politics unfortunately political politics happened in the neighborhood in the community and the had to leave with his whole family so he goes to the next community over and there's a wealthy man big home the wealthy man says he he didn't know who he is he just know he's a rabbi didn't know how great he said you can stay here with your family whatever you need so stays there one week so two weeks three weeks the man's wife began to say uh uh listen let me ask you a question how long are they going to stay I mean it's a little difficult that they should stay here and uh uh you know like I have to when I come out and and so forth and the kids the husband said wait just wait wait wait hold on don't say anything few days later she came back he says okay I'll ask him he said the rabbi like I don't mean to ask you but uh do you have a plan or you know is there a day when you think you're going in that moment when he asked him knock on the door they go to open the door there is a delegation that came from L to ask the great that he should be the rabbi of the entire tri-state area accepted it and they all started packing the owner of the home felt so bad first he didn't realize who the he didn't realize he knew he's they didn't know how great he is he said please could you stay for a few more days we would love to have the cavod to have you he said no my stay here is over I got the sign minay I had two great bra that I wanted to give you two blessings because you took in because you provided the first you will be Rich Forever you your children your grandchildren the second that I was going to give you is that you would have Torah in your family forever however since you were not M Tora and were ready to tell me I had to believe I cannot give you the second braa but the riches you will have forever and so it was the left that day and the family that he gave the bra to is the raild family that has riches the other part we're still waiting everybody for everybody big everybody big we should already see we should see peace in Isel all the should come home take Safe and Sound amen [Applause]