Your Behavior Is Important

[Music] shows us that a can allow every single one of us to help other people do kiru simply by our Behavior our Behavior how you act if the way you act is admirable is nice is polite is generous is is is just something that I want to be like guess what if I want to be like you I want to be like all of you so if Judaism is what's causing you to be this nice wonderful amazing person if Judaism is what's causing your marriage to be so happy if Judaism is what's causing you to be so generous if Judaism is causing you to be so classy and modest if Judaism is causing you to be so smart and studious I want to be a Jew I want to be a religious Jew just like you so that's why behavior is critical if you want to help people do Chua you can help them with money you could help them with your skill set you could help them with your time but most of all you could help them by simply being the example yourself one of the greatest things that I heard in all the years that we've been doing this is some stranger gets in touch with me um I breast the water but I didn't know I had tea had tea I didn't know f one of the greatest things I didn't I was going to have tea I didn't bless the tea one of the greatest things that I experienced myself as a as a privilege AO when uh some stranger got in touch with me or actually no I ran it to him I ran it to him in a uh store Supermarket I always have these interesting meetings in supermarkets and uh said yeah I saw you're you're on the internet I said yeah sometimes and uh and I said oh yeah I listened to a few yeah and he says where do he live where do he live and I said oh I actually have a uh couple students that live by you he says you do said yeah I have a couple of guys live by you they're brothers and uh he goes wait like yeah there's couple of guys live by you they live they go to some something he that's your students goes oh I'm gonna watch all your like those guys are the biggest in the I said I didn't tell you guys the story it's one of my personal favorites best story in the world why somebody says I want to watch now why because those guys I see they're like the that's the best thing in the world that's it that's the result that's the result of the work if that's the result that's what I want to do someone told me that uh they uh were at some uh shabbaton and um with several rabbis and although they heard of M in the past they never actually watched his work and it happened to be that the uh this shabbaton m was speaking in it so the guy tells another guy that told me the story he says that guy became a fan of R mrai before the lectures ever started I said why he said he told me he says you know honestly I heard so many things about RI I never actually bothered to listen to any of his stuff but I said you know whatever let him do his thing I'm going to you know keep my distance said no it's not my business no problem I don't have a problem with him but uh the stuff that you hear is not so good all the time you know cuz usually the stuff that's bad is publicized stuff that's good is a secret good stuff secret bad stuff publicized all over the news first you know headline but the guy became a fan why did he become a fan he saw that M brought a few of his kids to the shabbaton and the guy was looking at the kids he says that his kid goes yeah that one and that one are his kids that's his kids yeah that's his kids and he just started looking at Ra's kids I don't even know if RI knows the story he started looking just following Ra's kids he goes if that's his kids that's what comes out of him he's an amazing Rabbi he must be amazing if that's what comes out because there's a lot of rabbis that you know that that that teach but you only get to see the results from the students sometimes the students is the kids that you have your own kids sometimes the students that are not your kids point being if you see that the students are something to look up to that's that's that's the greatest thing in the world now the ramban says that even if you are a wonderful student you still have nothing to be proud of because that means you're fulfilling Your Role you're doing your job you should be happy about it but also that means that you were given the responsibility now that you were given the clarity to see the truth you now have a responsibility that comes with it now [Music]