Reb ephraim Shapiro on night 7 of Chanukah, ANOTHER MUST WATCH!!!! Plz subscribe!!!

[music] The rail tells us that one of the things that the wanted to do to literally that means they stuck their hand in our money. What does that mean? My father Shapiro Sal wonders that if the Ramba means they stole our money or plundered our money then there would be words that are more common to use. What does the mean specifically with the word my father's explains so powerfully the Ram is teaching us that the didn't want to steal and take away our money but rather means they wanted to infiltrate and influence how we used our money, how we viewed our material possessions. They didn't want us to use it to get closer to Hashem, but rather to squander it and to use it for useless things. And that's the to infiltrate and influence the way we think about our material wealth, not to use My father's atal went on to give a number of examples. He told a story about his father, my Zadi Harav Shapiro Zatsal who was a ro in Pittsburgh many years and he had a wonderful balabos. Unfortunately, the children of this balabos, they weren't religious. They didn't follow his ways. When the father passed away, the children did sit sha. And one day my zadei went to Dunik Mum and when he was talking to these children, the ones who weren't religious, they asked my zadei the following question. Rabbi Shapiro, our father left a kdish cup. [snorts] Are we allowed to use the kdish cup as an ashtray? Could you imagine that question? In other words, they had no need for the kdish cup. So they wanted to know, could we use it as an ashtray? That's the success of the yanim to influence the way that we use our material wealth. My father gave another example many years ago when he was ar in Miami Beach. He went over to a woman that he knew was making a bar mitzvah for her son and he wanted to make sure everything was in order and taken care of. This woman was spending tens of thousands of dollars. And this was over 50 years ago, tens of thousands of dollars on the bar mitzvah, the finest wine and meat and everything. And then my father asked the woman, "The tillin, they were taken care of." And she responded, "Oi, I forgot about the fillain. I forgot." She then asked my father, "Could you take care of getting the fill and the baritas in about a week or two, but please make sure to get the very very cheapest pair that you can buy." Again, that's the success of the influencing. Don't use your material wealth. But on the contrary, but there's a beautiful story that shows that we were successful, not the Ivanim. Many years ago when my parents were initi at the and returning in the afternoon, it started to rain and the rain became heavier. They were in me on and there they saw there was an elderly woman that was motioning for them my parents to come in to come in out of the rain. My parents came in and they were stunned. The poverty the extreme poverty of this woman in this small apartment. In fact, my father commented that there were so many leaks in the ceiling. She had kalas that were rolled up in a plastic on the tablecloth so that the rain would not come in and wet the kalas. And when they commented to her about the rain, she looked and said two words, gishmea gishme braha. That's how she viewed the rain. My father took a note of her address. He remembered it. And m shabas came back with some money because he wanted to help her fix the roof, the ceiling of the apartment, etc. And it was money they had gotten from Balabatam. And she said to my father Shabas, "No Shapiro, I don't need the money." My father thought perhaps she thought it wasn't kosher or guilt. He reassured her it came from Balabatam Shabas. She said, "I don't need money. There's no reason for me to take money." After all, she referred to it as Gisha. And then she said, you know, on second thought, I will take the money. Every morning she said for decades she was davening vase at the kaisel. She davened every morning at the kaisel and there she went and she saw so many women women that she said unfortunately would be asking for money but she could never give saddaka. She would never have she never had the money to be able to give saddaka to those women and it always pained and bothered her. She said to my father but now if I take the money from you I'll be able to give saddaka. I'll be able to help those in need. And for that, she took the money. That's our success over theim. That's our success over to use the money and to use the wealth and to use the gifts we have. And certainly we have so many that help to give for daily to support. That's our success over the Yanim. That's our success over [music]