The Barber, The Contractor And The Big Mitzvah | TORAH FOR KIDS AI

Just a couple days ago there was a [music] Shabbat Khatan of a family of Rabbi Ephraim and they went to the Khatan's family, the Shahar family. >> [music] >> And the grandfather of the Shahar family, alavashalom, his name was Aaron Shahar. He was a Sephardic Jew that was a the barber for Rav Tzion Aba Shaul, one of the Gedolei Hador in the previous generation. So, the barber, he was very close to Rav Tzion Aba Shaul. Now, he didn't know a lot of Torah, but anytime somebody would tell him a mitzvah, right away he would do it. >> [music] >> Right away, no wasting time. No wasting time. But, he was a simple man, honest living. The rabbi would come to him once a month, ask the halakha, he's going to get a haircut every month. Rabbi would come to him and he would give him a haircut and they would talk, and that's it. Simple Jew, fol- following the law to the best of his ability, but he wasn't a talmid chakham. Does that mean that he was a rasha? Chalila v'shalom, a tzaddik. >> [music] >> How do we know he's a tzaddik from this story? From this story, when you learn of one mitzvah, you learn about the entire person. So, one [music] day he decided that he wants to put roof tiles, roof tiles. So, he gets a guy come to his building. He says to him, "I want you to give me an assessment [music] of how much it's going to cost me to do roof tiles." So, the guy comes, over there, also another Sephardic Jew, [music] there in Eretz Yisrael, he comes on the roof, says, "Oh, it's going to cost you $5,000." So, "Okay, one second, I pay right away." So, hold on one second, wait on the roof. He goes into the house, >> [music] >> takes out money that he's been saved up over a long period of time, got $5,000, comes up and he says, "Here you go, here's $5,000. When are you going to start?" That's the type of honest people they were, they believed in people. Today, you don't give anybody anything because you know that if you give them money, they never come back. But, in those days, there was actually some emunah in people. Give him the $5,000. He says, "I start tomorrow." Okay. As they're talking, some Chassid Breslev got to the bottom of the floor over there. Not Not where they were on the roof. Was downstairs and decided to start doing hitbodedut. Start doing hitbodedut 40 years ago already. 50 years ago. HE YELLS, "ABBA! >> [screaming] >> ABBA! Help me! Help me, Abba! I don't have any money for this. I don't have any money for that. Please, Hashem, help me. Abba, help me." And he starts crying to Hakadosh Baruch Hu. A simple Breslever just talking to Hakadosh Baruch Hu, "Help me. Help me." So, how about when [music] Shach he says to the contractor, "Do me a favor. I'm going to give you the money, but just give give me the money I just gave you for a second. [music] I'll give it back to you. Just give it to me." So, the contractor gives him the five thousand back. He puts the rubber band tight on the money. $5,000. Tak. And throws it >> [music] >> right where the guy the Breslever is. Doesn't know who he is. Throws it right where he is, and he tells the contractor, "NO, HIDE HIDE HIDE. SHE DOESN'T SEE WHERE IT COMES FROM. DOESN'T SEE WHERE IT COMES FROM. She doesn't think that it's us." And all of a sudden, they hear the Breslever Chassid says, "OH, ABBA, THANK YOU. THANK YOU. WHAT A BLESSING. OH, ABBA, THANK YOU SO MUCH. Now I can pay the bills, and I can pay this, and I can pay that. Abba, I love you. I love you." Now that Chassid, what does he think? He thinks that Hakadosh Baruch Hu gave it to him. What's the real answer? Hakadosh Baruch Hu gave it to him. Now you could say, "No, no. What do you mean? It was >> [music] >> uh Rav Ahron Schach over there. Ahron Schach, he gave it to him." No, no, no. Hakadosh Baruch Hu used Ahron Schach to give it to him. >> [music] >> It's just that Ahron Schach was righteous enough, heard about a mitzvah, "I'm doing it right now." "He needs money, I'm giving it to him right now. Why? Hakadosh Baruch Hu one to want >> [music] >> it. The contractor that was so impressed by him, he's so impressed by him, he says, >> [music] >> "Mr. Shach, I've never seen anything like that before. I want to be partner [music] with you. Tomorrow the job I start, 50% off. 50% on me, 50% on you. 25, 2500." Shach said, "No, I'm going to go give you the entire 5,000 right now. This is my mitzvah. It's my mitzvah. I want the [music] mitzvah." That's what he wants. He wants the mitzvah. Didn't know a lot of Torah. Wasn't a big talmudic chacham, but he knew that there was an opportunity to do a mitzvah. There's a Jew that's crying, needs help. There's a There's an opportunity to learn. There's an opportunity to do. There's a I'm going to go do it right away. That's the previous generation of those were people that were simpler, but they had full emunah in Hakadosh Baruch Hu. In our generation, we don't have this or that. Many people don't have this or that. That's why the is more relevant now than ever before. If you want to get to such a point, you have to toil. You have to work. You have to do something about it. You can't just sit there and do nothing about it. You can't just think [music] that you're just going to be the without toiling. Let's say thank you for more Torah. 1 2 3 1 2 3 >> [music]