Rabbi Akiva Story | The Scary Snake That Came To The Wedding | TORAH FOR KIDS AI

[Music] how do we know that what we're doing is the right thing to do something nice for somebody so says if your brother meaning your fellow Jew becomes impoverished meaning he doesn't have any money he lost all of his money and he doesn't have any his means for alter and he's in such trouble that he doesn't have money to pay for the house or for food or to feed his kids or to get clothes for them or things like that that's a problem right so he says if your fellow Jew becomes impoverished you shall strengthen him whether he's a convert or he's a natural born Jew the same rule applies to both don't think that if he is a natural born Jew that you have more responsibility to him no no no and don't think that if he's just if he's a convert that you have responsible to him no no no no both the same rule you have a responsibility to worry about your fellow Jews whether they've always been Jewish or they became Jewish at some other point in their life you have a responsibility to go and help them so he that he can live with you what does it mean so that he can live with you you have so every time somebody has a problem problem you have to tell them oh come live in my house not necessarily if they already have a house they don't need to live in your house what does it mean it means that if you see that your fellow Jew does not have food to eat does not have money buy things that they need and you heard about it even if he didn't come to you and ask because perhaps he's embarrassed to ask you know it's very embarrassing to to before it's very embarrassing to being in such a situation so many times people that are suffering they don't come and ask for help because they're embarrassed especially if they used to be rich especially if they used to have a lot so you as a Jew have a responsibility have a have a obligation to help your fellow Jew as soon as you hear that they have gone to the point where they're impoverished where they don't have have the ability to provide for themselves don't wait for them to come to you and beg oh please Sarah please can you help me no don't wait for them to come and beg you for help abolutely not as a Jew you have the responsibility that as soon as you hear it that means hasem brought it to your proximity he brought it to your life he brought it to your attention that means that hasem wants you to help and don't for a second think wait a minute why should I help if there's other people that they know maybe they can help them if hasem would have only wanted other people to help them then he would have brought this to the attention of the other people why do you think hasem Mak sure that you found out that they have problems why do you think what do you think s why has bring it to your attention because maybe something because maybe has if you do D I'm will give you something good yeah but even before the reward you have let's say somebody that lives in your community and you don't know you don't even know them that well you know that they're Jewish they're nice people but you're not friends or anything but now let's say you in uh are having a conversation and your is having a conversation and you're having some tea and you're enjoying yourself and all of a sudden all of a sudden somebody comes in the mailman comes in he goes hey is your mail is a shipment uh he said oh thank you very much she go oh by the way I heard that the uh neighbor the neighbor L just you know let's just call her ra you know the neighbor ra I heard uh she doesn't have food to eat but it's good that you guys have and then he lives now you know that ra she has a a rich brother or ra has a big family and you're is it okay for you to say you know what since ra has a rich family or she has uh a lot of other friends the other people are going to help her you know even though just found out that she doesn't have food to eat but she had other people so it's not my responsibility to help her or it is my responsibility it is it is my responsibility why because because you can get the MIT giving you the mitvah why oh how is hasem giving you the Mitzvah how how do he do it because he brought to your attention yeah see knows a lot of people there's a lot of other people in the community but hasem made sure that you heard it which means that if he made sure that you heard that ra needs something that means that hasm wants you to know because he wants you to be the one that helps if he didn't want you to help then you would never know about it then the mailman would not uh say he would not he would not come and tell you what's happening at's house but because he brought it to you obviously hasem says I want you to find out I want you to find out cuz I want you to be the one that does this mitvah do you understand so here the t is telling us yes yeah um we're coming back to house we're coming back to house from somewhere and then you saw a PO man he was in his tree so he B almonds you gave him almonds almonds it's very nice of you it's very very nice of you and that's sometimes when you see people that are poor and you have the ability to help them by giving them a few dollars or giving them food definitely definitely by the way to give to food or or or even a little bit of money so they can buy food uh you could do you could do both with uh people that are poor in Jewish or people that are poor and go uh it's not just a uh it's not just je that you help the poor but specifically here it's talking about if you find out that there's another Jew that is poor or is having some major problems then it's your obligation to go and help them and not wait for them to ask for help because maybe they're embarrassed maybe they're embarrassed so here we see inside the tah of this week's par that doing something nice is not just a nice thing to do but sometimes doing something nice could save somebody's life because if that person doesn't have food then they could starve to death they could have a problem and that's actually what happened one time that happened one time yes there was a sadik his name was isamu isamu was a bigad and thear says he was actually one of the rabbis of R AKA RAB AKA learned with him for over 20 years he learned with it that was his Rabbi for the first 20 years but he was in was called because he had such great that he would always say no matter what happened in his life whether it was good or was bad he said meaning this too is for the good this to is for the good where he knew that everything that happens in life everything is for the good and if if somebody gets a new present that's let's say a toy or a new markers or a new dress or new keeper or whatever it is people say oh course this is good but sometimes a person uh you know gets hurt they fall they hurt their leg or something or or they get a cold they have to also say why because if Hashem did it obviously there's something good out of it we just have to find out what it is everything is good and that was one of the teachings of but the says in that had a very difficult experience one time what happened he was coming back from a long trip he was away for a long time and he was coming back from a long trip and as soon as he got through his door of his house a poor man showed up now nak Gamu was still on his donkey he was riding his donkey and he had all of his stuff and the poor man showed up and this poor man didn't hasn't had food to eat or anything for for for a long time already for a few days and he said to the rabbi please feed me and na Mamu said sure one second let me get my stuff and he got off of his donkey and he went to get the food but by the time that he came back the poor man already died now is it G's fault that the man didn't eat no it's not his fault he doesn't know the person and he didn't if he would have known that he needed food to eat 3 days ago he would have given it to him if he would have known it two days ago he would would have given it to him if you would have known it one day ago he would have given it to him in fact even the day that he found out he said please give me good food to eat what did say sure I'm going to do it just one second just one second but dang this man that hasn't eaten in so long died but also learned from this he said you know what I made a mistake what mistake did he make he said when he asked me for food to eat I shouldn't have said one second I'm going to get it to you I'm going to go get this stuff I should have simply gone to go get it why because this man hasn't eaten in so long and he was suffering so much that when he heard it's going to take even one more second for me to get it his heart couldn't handle it and he died he lost hope that was the last minute he lost hope now of course this is a high level ofik but it teaches us that number one as soon as you see that somebody needs help you have to go help them you have to go help them but the other thing also we see how the like take responsibility and learn from everything whether it's the good or the bad even though he wanted to help this poor man he didn't have the chance to help him it was already too late and from that he learned that from now on if anybody asks for food right away I'm going to go give it to them not even going to tell them wait one minute until I get something and then I'll get it to you no no no right away go and help them because you never know if if they really in their mind feel like they can't handle any more time so that is one of the things we learn from the in fact because was the rabbi one of them and of course Raba taught the Torah to his kids and Raba had a daughter and the daughter was a big tadika and one day she was getting married and there a big celebration the rabbi's daughter is getting married what a big sadik she's marrying a sadik wonderful celebration right now there is a custom that on the day of the wedding the bride and the gro do not eat the whole day until after the wedding until there's the because they want to arrive at Thea like as if they fasted on Y pool pure pure from uh sins pure from so there's a custom of not eating but of course after the eat and usually they even give them a separate room to go eat in peace so nobody bothers them so this happened over here now as soon as the was finished everybody's still celebrating and dancing and enjoying A's daughter went to her room to go and eat she doesn't eating a l Dan she was very hungry you know they gave her a big nice beautiful plate full of food and had all types of meats and all types of delicious rice and all types of wonderful things and she was really hungry and as she was about to set up the table over here everything is ready she about to eat and all of a sudden somebody's on the in the door who's knocking on my door oh maybe maybe it's my father wants to say BTO maybe it's my mother maybe it's my new husband maybe who knows so go to the door so she gets up and she opens the door and it's a very poor man very very poor man he sister please I'm hungry please help me I'm hungry she says uh sure sure one one second one second uh and she immediately goes and gets her food she gets her food and she gives it to him thank you very much so much I've been eating in 3 days thank you so much and he goes and eats now she doesn't have any food but she knew she did a mitvah she said don't go get food somewhere else let me just go rest for a little bit and she goes back to the room she Clos the door she goes back to her room and she wants to lay down for a little bit and she takes out you know the the brides they have a uh the gown and something covering their hair so she took that out and it was being held by a pin you along they have these long needles that are long pins that hold the hair and everything together she took it out and she she didn't want to forget it and or lose it so she stuck it in the wall she stuck it in the wall they had use that so you stick it in the wall and then she rested for a little bit she rested and rested and rested she fell asleep no after she fell asleep for a little while it was time to go back to the party and she was still sleeping so her ABA AA came to get her AA came he knocked on the door he knocked on the door he knocked on the door and she woke up oh oh okay hey and she got up yeah who is it oh it's ABA oh ABA come in and he comes in and he sees that she's waking up he goes okay rest for a little bit I'll wait for you over here she no no AB I'm going to get it I'm going to get ready right now think covers her hair again and she takes out the pin from the wall and now with the pin it's hard to take it out and she tries and she tries and she tries and then she pulls it hard but what happens with the pin a snake comes out but the snake is dead because the pin stabed it she oh wow look at that this snake was the pin was she put the pin right over our head which means that if she wouldn't have put that pin in the wall the snake would have come in he could have bit her and killed her it was a poisonous snake really yeah very poisonous I know which story a black mamba black mamba that's very poison po fast yeah and fast this so Nowa was in wonder wow what a miracle but the Miracles don't happen St they don't happen for no reason tell me my dear daughter what good deed did you do to deserve such a miracle and his daughter says how about I tell you the truth what happened is before I fell asleep I wanted to eat finally cuz I haven't eaten all day it's fasting finally got my food I was about to eat but somebody knocked on my door and I opened the door was a very poor man he have food and I said I have to give him the food that's what I learned from you from the story you told me about and all the so I even gave him my food because I knew that I could get food again somewhere else no problem he needs it right away I could survive without it for a little while longer so I gave her my food and I be AKA says my dear daughter I never told you this but I'm going to tell you now before this wedding before this wedding took place there were some people that saw in a dream that you were supposed to die on your wedding day and they told me about it he told me Rabbi we know that you're a holy man but we have bad news what's the bad news these were not Jews these were green we saw in the stars that your daughter is supposed to die on her wedding day and we thought you should know and I never told you that because I knew that am Isel is not like the green am is is above the Maz even though the Maz said that you were supposed to die on your wedding day according to these going according to the Stars that's supposed to happen but a Jew could always change everything through his actions and the moment you gave Saka to that poor man you gave him the food you saved your own life and from there we learn says when he went back to the and he told the story he says from here we learn what says you giving staka can even save you from death that's how important it is to givea to be generous to share to do good things even if somebody doesn't ask you for it but you know that they need you must go do it not because you're suddenly going to be a hero that saved the day but rather because when Hashem brought this to your attention that means your that means that means Le that means that means y y andam that means that hasem wants you to know because he's giving you an opportunity to maybe even save your own life that's why we have to give staka we have to do good things we have to share we have to help each other and will always save us we continue to do good things and will continue to protected let's say thank you to hasem one 2 [Music] Let's so one two three [Music]