R’ Yossi

Yeah, they say after take off. So, I'm so happy to sit here with Rabbi Yossi ben Shushan from Cleveland, Ohio. >> Hi, hi. >> Not Rabbi Ari from LA. This is Rabbi Yossi. >> Yeah. >> And this doesn't happen every day. For me, it's a big honor. And we're in the middle of recording something like a one-on-one, and he tells me a statement that I loved, and I want him to say it again, please. >> Which part? >> Say the one. Yeah, that the fact that somebody Yeah, I asked him if he deals with crisis people. I I I even said like a not nice word like a um um big challenges. >> representing what like people say. As an interviewer, I'm representing what people say. >> Okay. So, I asked him I asked him if he deals with the sewer system of people like like the worst of the worst. And he went on saying, "Look Look what he said." Okay, you go. >> So, I I I think it's most definitely not people in the sewer because the way we view the sewer is that the Ribono shel Olam is only going to give people the bigger you sewer, the bigger the person, the bigger the person accomplishes within their you sewer, the bigger they are. So, the Ribono shel Olam gives them these medals on their uniform, and I'm walking up to a person that has a uniform laden with all these medals, and I'm telling them, "Nah, you never really did anything." Like Hashem said differently, buddy. I'm not And the proof is in their daily life. If they have all these issues, and they were born into this difficult difficult process of things. And who was not born into their problems? Like who walked around choosing that, "I'm going to be a ba'al teshuvah. I'm going to I'm going to have trauma or develop an addiction or develop any things. I want that." Like I'm No one chose that. So, that's a process that leads to that. So, it's clearly from the Ribono shel Olam. And if it's that big, Hashem is saying, "I'm trusting the zechut that these yissurim are going to bring to the world with this person." That's I'm nobody to say that. >> a big epiphany. A big epiphany for me, personally. And if just in case you didn't hear because he's I'm speaking very calmly, I'll I'll say it again. I'll repeat it in short, in one sentence, that the bigger your challenge in life is, the bigger you are, because Hashem trusted you with a bigger challenge. That's it. >> Yeah, you won't say to a doctor, you know, I'm not going to trust you in medicine because you had to learn this in 12 years. I want a guy who learned it in 12 months. You know, I want a guy who's smart enough to learn it. Like, no, that's not how it goes. The longer you learn school, it doesn't mean the stupider you are. It means the more trained you got. The more difficulties you've had, the more trained you've been, the better at life you are. >> Unbelievable. The more challenges you have, the better and bigger you will be.