Speed Bump Ahead | Rabbi Avrum Mordche Malach

You know that sometimes when you're driving by a road, you know, next to schools, you have these bumps. Speed bumps. So there was once a person, that he lived in a village, he never saw bumps for his eyes. So first time he’s here in America, and he is driving together with his friend and they get, you know, to a bump. He starts laughing. He asks: Why are you laughing? He says: I don't know, I don’t know. This city, the government here is crazy. It's insane. It's unimaginable. -Why? Listen, listen, listen. You go on the street, and all of a sudden you see two signs from both sides. ‘Bump in a thousand feet.’ You continue, and all of a sudden two new signs. ‘Bump ahead.’ You continue, now you have two other signs. ‘Bump’, ‘Bump’. You have from both sides. Now there's the bump. The bump has paint on the floor, a white line of paint. Then you have on the bump itself three lines of paint, you know, like in a V, and an opposite V. Then after the bump, there's again a line of paint. What is going on with this city, can you tell me? Isn’t this taking taxpaying money and putting it into the garbage? You know how much money you have to spend on these signs? Printing the signs, having people put up the signs and having the paint, painting, and always every year to refresh the paint again and again and again. For half of this money, just straighten out the bump. Of aleh gut yohr, no bump and no nothing! When his friend, his partner heard it, he started laughing. He tells him: Are you crazy? Do you really think that this bump is a bump that just occurred? This bump is a planned bump. The city has a Cheshbon why the bump is here. They put this bump here. But the same city that are giving you the bump, they'll give you enough signs and enough support, you should go through the bump without any damage. Rabosai, sometimes we have this Hargasha, we have this feeling, Ribono shel Olam, why should Avodas Hashem be so hard? Why? Just take away the Yetzer Hara. Just take it away. What's wrong to stand, pick up himself in the morning and see only Heilige zachen, go to shul to see Heilige zachen, to get your Parnassa without any internet, any stuff, any nothing. Go in the streets to see only holy people. Why? Why, Ribono shel Olam, do I have to go in the street in the summer day in Manhattan or any place and see such stuff? And Hashem tells us: These bumps I put it. It's preplanned bumps. I have a Cheshbon with these bumps. Mein teire kind, I want to tell you one thing. Your grandfathers and your great grandfathers did not have these Nisyonos that you have. I didn't trust them. Can you imagine? Hashem trusts us with such Nisyonos, with such givaldige, shrekliche zachen but he did not trust our forefathers with it. That means he trusts us. We are his army. We are his soldiers. And he tells us: Mein teire lechtige kind, I'm giving you these bumps, but you should remember one thing. If I'm giving you the bumps, I'm giving you the Kochos to prevent damage from these bumps. I'm giving you the Kochos that you should not fall from these bumps. I'm giving you enough signs, just open your eyes and see how close I am to you. And Rabosai, givaldige Eitza, when you’re on the street or whenever you have a Nisayon, and you're looking away, don't be a nahr. Be Mispallel then for a Choleh, be Mispallel for the Hatzlocha of your children. Every time when a person looks away, when a person closes his eyes and he's not looking at something that he wants to look, for these minutes, he's the Tzaddik Hador. He has givaldige Kochos. Let’s chap arein. We see such a thing, close the eyes and say a Kapitl Tehillim for a Choleh. And you won't believe, you won't believe. Rabosai, בנים אתם לה’ אלוקיכם We’re all Hashem’s children, and let's have כל טוב ומיטב.