Attitude Is Everything

there was an old father and a son who lived together on a farm they were very poor they had one coat the father said i'm 95 years old if i don't have the coat i'm going to die from cold the boy said i'm out in the farm i need the coat the father said but i'm old you're young and strong they got into a fight they go to the roof who's right the son says i want the code the father says i want the code thereof thinks he says i'm sorry your son is right you're indoors find a way to protect yourself indoors but he's outdoors outdoors what is he supposed to do the only shelter the only protection he has is a coat your son is right son says you see i told you i'm right son takes the coat puts it on and they walk back from the rabbi's home back to their hut at the end of this farm it's freezing and the sun sees his father shivering literally trembling a 95 year old man trembling from cold and he can't he can't deal with it he takes off the coat and he says tati here's the coat the father says thank you puts on the coat and now the sun is trembling and the father feels horrible he says i think you should have the cold no no you have the cold they come home and the father is wearing the coat and the boy goes out to work the father's looking out the window and he sees his son trembling and he calls him and he says you have the coat he says no no no no i see how cold you are you have the call because the rabbit says you have it i know what the rabbi said but voluntarily i'm giving it to you so now they get into a new fight the father says it's your coat and the sun says it's your coat they go back to thereof thereof listens thinks he says give me a moment he goes into his bedroom he comes out with a big warm fur coat and he says you know i just remembered i had this in my closet for many many years i don't use it i have another coat and it's here so why don't i lend this to you and when god helps you you have money and you can afford another coat you'll give it back to me so the old man looks at him and says why couldn't you do this the first time you had the code in the closet for 20 years he says good question i didn't think of it so i'll tell you why i didn't think of it everybody's energy is connected so we affect each other in ways much deeper than we know consciously so the rov says as follows the first time you both came in screaming the boy was screaming it's my coat mine the father was screaming it's my coat subconsciously i was screaming it's my coat i didn't even think of giving it to you but now you came in the boy was screaming it's your coat the father was screaming it's your coat so my system started to scream let me share the coat as a result of the rabbi hearing these types of people he found out a part about himself that he didn't know before before that why should i give a code to somebody else i'm a rabbi i'm not a gemach we often view life as victims i'm responding to a situation very often i could create a situation [Music] the yeshiva.net