The Esrog

there's something called avraham avinu's heart we call it a yiddish you can't say it better such as we call it an asterisk of ram's heart the navi mr says [Music] it's 1949 a drew walks into shul in the lower east side of new york or in williamsburg or in bronzeville wherever it is in the new york area he walks into shul nobody knows him nobody recognize him no friends no relatives he's a complete stranger but they walk over to him and come to where you from which camps were you in did you see my relatives which dp camp were you what are you doing for parnosa do you need a job where you staying yeah where to eat shabbos how did you survive which tattletale did you come from oh you must have known my uncle you must have known my brother he was ashore what are your plans you have parnasso what are you doing tomorrow what are you doing after tomorrow where are you going 1948 49 2017 and drew walks into school the questions are going to be a little different thank god the questions are going to be a little different but the heart won't be different the heart will still be the same we eating what are you doing do you have friends here do you do you need help do you have a way to eat a shampoo meal that's an asterisk that's of roma venus heart that's not just any heart that's the heart that sustained the jewish people it's the heart of a man who had a tent with four doors on all four entrances to be able to make every stranger feel hospitable you have to ask yourself do you have that heart i'm going to share with you two little uh two little stories but they contain a lot one story i heard from these are shashiva nightsister all his name is literally means moisture the rock but sure is a common uh family is your israeli family name ramoshitsu was rather a veteran from the air force in israel he became a baltruva and today he founded quite a few yeshivas that he leads once heard from him that he became a veteran he was a veteran of the israeli air force and he was doing his own thing came back to you he's an ambitious and talented fellow he was very successful in the air force and in the early seventies he related that he was in new york and he went to visit the laboratory ever so the obamacare ever asked him what are you doing for the jewish people he said he's not really doing anything for the jewish people he's worrying about his own life most people have a life to live somebody got to pay the mortgage yeah so the rabbit told him what's with the mitzvah afterlife as every jew is responsible for the jewish people every jew or to love another jew you have talent you have skill you have ambition become a leader do things for the jewish people the jewish people need healing the jewish people need guidance the jewish people need inspiration so he was you know he was respectful but uh that's a kick ankle he's looking to get crinkled uh he was you know you know how it is when you want to be a gentleman and you don't uh you don't want to really argue with the person he's like okay point well taken you mean well she said you ever looked at him and said i want to ask you a question which limb in the body is most important after the brain he didn't know where he's going he says the heart of course and he said on which side is the heart it says the left side he says i don't understand in judaism which is the more important side the right side of the left side the right side how do you know joseph was upset when yaakov takes his left hand and puts it on his oldest thumb the oldest son needs the right hand not the left hand it's filling you put on with the right hand on the weak hand yad kayla mezuzah put it on the right you do things on the right culpina the point the mission says liam mean we go right live liamino life silva smiler so he says that moisture have a question why did hashem create the human body that the heart from which hanefesh [Music] the blood comes and gets pumped from the heart that's where the soul is that's where life is the nephesh why is it on the left side not on the right side he was smart enough not to answer the question i don't know i don't know that's how the body works you have a heart that works you thankful so never told them that's called he says the truth is that the heart is not on the left side the heart is on the right side you know why because a jewish heart the heart you know what its function is its function is to feel what's going on in the life of the person who's standing right in front of you so the function of my heart is to empathize and to experience what's going on with you and you're standing right in front of me and it's on your right side because my left as we say by twilight my left is your right the function of my heart is not only to feel me it's to experience you and for you it's on the right side that's what a heart is don't be satisfied with yourself let your heart feel the jewish people he said it changed his life he built like six or seven schools six or seven year chiefs that are very successful in as a result of that conversation but it's true in every one of our lives in our own way what's happening with my heart the asterisk watch the full class at the yeshiva.net