Yetzer Hara Inside A Penny

[Music] is a story from someone that's such a high level of K it's hard to understand even the story but it gives us a little perspective of how difficult it is to overcome the character trait of stinginess but at the same token how someone that has the truth in their hand has to work hard to help people overcome it so one day was told that the Yesa is in danger the are in danger we need money we need money fast we need to come up with $30,000 you know the beautiful things about if they're serious yes they spend most of their time learning to not collecting money but that also means when they're collecting money they need it now when you have a Torah organization of any kind collecting it's usually not every single day it's usually once a year twice a year but they need a bunch ASAP because they've gone to work until pretty much the wheels have fallen off so was told we need $30,000 an enormous amount of money at the time we need the RV to go if we're going to get this money quickly enough we need the top we need you to go always excited for mitvah opportunity always excited to help T he goes out with several of his students he says okay hey tell me where to go you have a list from last year of who donated then we'll go and they start going through the list goes oh no no that guy don't go this year one of them said it he said wait wait who we're not going to he goes oh no there's this one guy he's very very rich but he never gives and every year we go to him and not only does he not give he makes fun of us go perfect him I want to go there first no no for he's not going to give exactly for him I want to go first what are they going to say they go they go to this Rich guy's house on the door the butler opens he says yes I can help you oh I'm here to see so and so he says what you here to collect money you know he doesn't give no yeah I'm here I'm here to collect money because don't waste your time I know you seem like a reputable Rabbi no no I need to see him okay act at your own it's at your own risk he calls the balabit the owner the owner comes he oh you here to collect yeah yeah you have a cause oh great great great great thanks for coming thank you thank you he goes into his pocket he takes out one penny one penny a penny was never worth much even many years ago today I don't even think it should be in circulation anymore no one actually uses pennies anymore I think it costs more money to print a penny and even a 5cent coin then the 5cent coin is worth but they still print them because people are scared of change but here he gets the penny he takes the penny and he starts dancing and cheering and giving the cheap stingy rich man blessings from here till tomorrow and he gives him the name and he gives him the blessing and the GU what's good crazy he goes oh wow you like the penny huh cuz yeah thank you so much I appreciate it what a great start wow guy's like you want another one the guy is so enthused about the dancing he said you want another Penny could you would do that I said sure why not goes into the draw takes out another Penny dancing is doing bigger than the first time he's giving him blessing for me in the next week the guy is so excited he says what about if I gave you a quarter quarter Falls he starts Dan who who who he starts dance the guyy is so excited gives him a quarter he says okay this is great I actually even have I like you I like you I like you I even have a dollar for you the guy is dancing is dancing like he just gave him the whole sum and that's exactly what happens next he says how much did you say you need we need $30,000 cuz one second the butler comes brings a checkbook he writes him a checkbook the students are baffled the whole city knows this man as the stingiest man that ever lived in a city how did you break him how did you break the stingiest man that ever lived in a city there are legends that speak about this man stinginess gives us a secret he says when someone has the yet stinginess it has to be somewhere and I found it his yet was in the first penny his yet was physically in the penny once I took the penny from him the was G now go enjoy he's going to give you to no end and that's exactly what happened he became the most generous person in the city [Music]