Rav Galinsky--Always Prepared For Big Test

what's the benefit of wanting to get close to hem I'll give you the story and then you could ask as many questions as you want galinski shalom overcame some of the tests that none of us could pass but during his day the Communist Russians Soviets they hated religion to the extent where if you practice religion openly they' kill you not like today you're in America you're in the UK you're in a uh Canada you're in Israel practice religion maybe a few people will annoy you but no is going to kill you maybe they'll make fun of you maybe they'll do all types of things to make your life more difficult but you're not going to get killed for being a Jew in those days which we're not talking about that long ago talking about your grandparents age 40 50 years ago if you were religious in certain parts certain people saw you simply kill you on the spot now now Communists don't believe in capitalism meaning you cannot make your own money everybody shares the government controls all money so the way they force people to abandon Judaism is by simply saying if you practice Judaism you're not going to get the food stamps if you don't get the food stamps you can't eat because no one accepts money can't go to the store says Hey here $150 give me some steak no NOAB only way only form of pay is the food stamps from the government now during this time galinski decided to open AA where in Soviet in this and exactly a place where they're going to kill you for being religious why he says there's no T all the school's closed I got to open something why learning is more valuable than anything else yeah but they're they're going to kill you who said now no one wanted to come to why he said listen if we send our kids to your Yesa the Soviets are simply going to take our food stamps away we're going to starve to death galinski says don't worry I'll get you food I'll get you the food stamps how you g to get the food stamps for all these kids all these kids families says don't worry runs the world such that to have thatuna on yourself takes work but it's not uh the same level of amuna as taking that where you're taking charge of other people's lives now you know yourself worst case scenario you could go and maybe eat all at your friend's house if you're by yourself fast for a couple days go uh you figure you'll figure out by yourself but to feed 10 20 30 40 50 100 families where you going to get that food you can't joke around with this not it cannot be fake amuna whoever signed up galinski got them the food stamps how he went to the black to the gray Market found somebody says listen his food steps his money exchange for a bartering system he got everybody the footsteps the problem with this is that this is illegal it's violation of the law in Soviet Russia and before you know it they caught RAV galinski they put him in jail they said concluded trial concluded what's the what's the conclusion of the trial death penalty for what for violating the law for thinking you could learn Torah when we said no death penalty now in this cell with everybody else it's like Central Bookings you know the police police have uh none of you ever know but there's two places there Central Bookings which is pretty much after a person gets arrested and you're in a cell with a bunch of degenerates low lives drug dealers all types of filthy disgusting people and everybody's in one cell like a zoo where the lion and the zebra are in the same cell like it doesn't matter what your crime was you stole a candy you're in the same place as somebody that just chopped somebody else's head off same cell a lot of times in those cells people get go get sent to the hospital but not because of their crime but because of the punishment how the system is but then after that after the trial is completed they sent it as the person then there's the actual prison where you are in a Cell usually with one or two other inmates not with 40 50 people here in Russia there was so many people getting sentenced to death every cell was like Central Bookings 40 50 100 people in one little cell since everybody got the death penalty people were losing their mind galinski said the story himself he says people were losing their mind inside their cell because everybody knew that tomorrow each person is going to die he said in the cell there was also priest that got arrested at the same time as of galinski now the Russians these people are very sick in those days they the Soviets they figured since we're going to kill everybody let's uh feed them so they would bring a bunch of food into the cell like a Last Supper so they brought some food gra galinski looked at what's allowed what's not allowed saw that the bread is allowed saw that this Jam jelly that's allowed didn't and start eating the priest in there looks at him he's the only guy eating everybody else is losing their mind they're all crying they're all hysterical yelling going crazy beating each other up and you see this little guy he was M this little tiny tiny little Rabbi you see him he has videos on him on the internet you see him when he spoke to people he was like a lion but he spoke he stands on top of the table see this lion complete but little guy huge he's eating comfortably in the cell everybody's losing their mind killing each other the priest goes to galinski goes how could you eat tomorrow they're going to kill youin says who said what do you mean who said the the judge said he says who's the judge judge flesh and blood till tomorrow there plenty of time for let me eat leave me alone tell tomorrow who said they're going to kill me like because Flesh and Blood decided I'm going to die who even considers him for what is going to kill me for learning toah for teaching his his children to he's gonna kill me who said as you would have it when he sees his children sacrificing their life for Torah he simply changes nature for them the head Attorney in charge of sentencing in Soviet Russia got sick to the point where the doctor said you're going to die it's only a matter of days she said listen I'm a very important person is there a cure said yes there is a cure but we don't have it maybe you can get it in the black market her husband she's bedri she cannot move she's dying M piece by piece her husband goes to the black market finds the medicine the guy says okay yeah what do you want okay I want this medicine for my wife okay no problem it's a uh $100,000 what who can get you that kind of money I don't have that kind of money go okay so let her die I don't care this is how would make a living I care about your wife I care about money this guy has no idea what to do put a rich Jewish person in the right place at the right time and says to the guy how much you need $100,000 I come up with $100,000 for you if you want okay help me you can to help me oh there a condition business there's a someone that's important to me inside your jail cell it's about to get the death penalty since your wife is the head Attorney in charge of death penalties I want your wife to sign off on freeing someone by the name of yov ginski he says no problem okay deal guys gets him the medicine brings it to the wife she's cured all of a sudden her color comes back she's starting to ah breathe everything is good few days pass a week passes R GL is not he's not freed they mean what's going on no no no listen my wife said it's um it's not gonna happen what do you mean it's not gonna happen I I paid the medicine said no I can't do it I'm only an attorney it's that's not exactly what was the deal what do you mean you want me to free him why would you want me to free a criminal maybe you're a criminal you want me to free criminals she didn't want to free them she Reed on a deal why because she's healthy now just like it says in the par two weeks from now what it say says that after after yo the beginning of Exodus three weeks from now beginning of Exodus there's a new par that forgot who YF was K says what do you mean forgot who y was no no the same exact par he didn't want to remember y why because it didn't fit his interest anymore fit his interest anyway it didn't fit her interest when she needed the money she needed the medicine she'll say yes to anything when we need something we say yes to anything hasem says that's why puts us in situations where we need him you have problems that's because needs your attention but doesn't like when people play with his children's lives she didn't want to free of galinsky she got sick again a week later she got sick dying again he's back in the black market the Jew is over there says this time I want it in writing ahead of time I want R galinski freed then I'll pay for the medicine suddenly she has the power suddenly she is the right attorney suddenly she can do it and she does now throughout all of that time do you think of galinsky thought for a second he's going to die not even for one second why because he was already glued to AEM for many many years before that he was prepared for this day these are to prepare you for any type of difficulty you may have in the future whether it's marriage or it's a health issues or it's the mashia or it's whatever it is that's the point of the sh to get you glued to hasem so when the time comes and you need him you're not going to lose hope for a second you're not going to forget about because you're gonna have it the whole way there [Music]