The Chassidic Story Of The Little Girl Who Couldn't Grow

book that in every generation there's one mitzvah that's like the tikun like a rectification for the entire generation meaning that the entire generation needs to exert themselves on fixing this one thing. Everybody has a deficiency in this mitzvah that if everybody does it, they could literally bring msiah every generation. It's not the only thing they do. It's not, oh, you just do this one mitzvah, Mashia's going to come. No, if you stay, it's not going to help. If you're going to stay im it's not going to help that you did something. So for example, he says in his in his generation the wasvit in his generation was the titim that were they knew exactly what was happening in shine. It's not the regular people that you compare. I've told you a couple of stories in the past about just to remind you a little bit. One time there was a a father that wasn't one of his talim but was encouraged or in a nicer in a nice way encouraged but in a more uh clear way forced by his wife to go to why they had a daughter that stopped growing at the age of two. She stopped growing. By the time she was 16 years old, 15 years old, she still looked like she was 2 years old. Poor little girl. Couldn't move. She's 16 years old, but she looks like a baby. So the wife kept telling the husband, "Go, take gold. He's he's a giant. He's Everybody knows that he makes miracles. Talks through his throat. go to him. Eventually, the husband, went, when he got to his house, he saw the the the rabbi wasn't there. So, they said, "Just wait here." And he waited. And the uh little girl was put on was placed on his bed. So, as soon as the Rav came inside, he saw some girl laying on his bed. rude little girl. Get off my bed. Now, the girl couldn't move. She couldn't move before this. But as soon as said this, the father was surprised. He saw her get up, stand up off the bed, and fall. First time in his life, he saw this girl do this. He starts crying to seeing obviously this is he makes this kid that hasn't moved in 15 years just get up and get off the bed somehow. This ishados this is as a holy person. He says please help us. He goes what? What's wrong? Who are you and why you on my bed? He tells him the whole story. She's really 16 years old. She's not two. So how come she's not growing? So she has disease this that. He goes, "Okay, grow." And the kid grew. He says, "Grow." And the kid grew. And in a matter of m seconds, she grew to be 16 years old little girl. Now, you can believe it. You cannot believe it. It's up to you. This is eyewitnesses had this, saw this, and this is one of countless stories. Now, how did somebody become so holy? One time heard from that in Shamim the the depth of judgment is so critical. We have very little understanding of it to such an extent that one of the students of Isant and his friend they promised each other as a side story they promised each other that whoever dies first come back to the other one and tell him what's going up in Shamine. What's going on in Shamine? So when one of them died, he came to him after 11 months. He goes, "What happened to you? How come it took you so long to come to me?" He says, "Listen, I've been judged every single second for the last months." He says, "Okay, so tell me tell me how how what is it?" He goes, "I can't tell you. I can't tell you what's going on. I don't have permission to tell you." He goes, "Can you tell me anything?" He says, "You know how we worked our entire life, seven years, we worked on fixing our midot, fixing our mitzvot, fixing everything to make sure that we're good." He said, "Yes." He says, "The depth of judgment in heaven is much more critical than we thought." These are people, by the way, that you could just look at them and think this is Malik Hashem. This is like an angel. This is not a human being. And they said it's this. So heard something similar from his He was previous generation heard from his RAV that the Omead is critical to such an extent that if you hit your mother, you hit your mom when you were little, three years old. There's judgment on that. There's judgment on that. Oh, two years old, three years old really means that that's how two-year-olds are. They hate everybody. They don't know it hurts. They don't know it doesn't hurt. When he heard this, he he remembered that one time when he was 3 years old, he hit his mom. He took his hand and put it in the fire, burned his hand, lost feeling, complete feelings off of his hand. He said, "I rather have it here than over there. This is not recommended." Why? Because he's we are hopefully will become one day. but to show you how what they understood of what's happening in Shamai. So the person that he cured his daughter, if you will, they asked him which hand, which hand did he do it with? He says it's the hand, not the one the the one that's a uh the one that was burned. He goes, "Yeah, but he lost feeling in it." I don't know. That's the hand that made her grow. Hand like that that did such chuva like that. It's holier than the other hand. Hasn't done cha yet. So this same says that every generation has a tikun has a rectification that if they do it they could literally bring mashia. So one of the that just left us in the last year was someone that completely removed himself from what we call reality, from materialism, from anything physical. I mean just extraordinary life. People would literally just go just to go to his house. You just go to his house, see his house, see how do that people are giving him millions and millions of dollars. He lives in a bed that has a some mattress from I don't know the 1920s, probably some jail or something was throwing them out on top of milk crates. That was his bed. Now people have given him millions of dollars for for his yeshivot. But he himself his house worth $5 maybe. You go to his house you do cha. Why? You see how removed from reality he was. He gets up right as soon as he gets up he has his right there finished. There's the bed. There's a chair. There's a table. There's the house. So they asked him, one of the other from the Salah Sali family asked him if said such a thing about his generation if he said such a thing what's the tikun for our generation shalom said the tikun for our generation the tun for the entire generation is is confidence in a to the level where you have zero zero reliability on anything material any human being anyone but that's the if you can get yourself and work on yourself to simply go to for everything don't rely on your boss don't rely on your customer. Don't rely on your parents. Don't rely on your kids. Don't rely on anyone. Not your wife and not your husband. Only rely on a Now, of course, all of these things are still part of your life. You still have a boss. You still have customers. You still have parents. You still have a wife and a husband and so on and so forth. You still have all of those things, but you don't rely on them. You know that everything comes from but not you know it like when everything is good. You know it when everything is as dark as night. You know it's coming from that's the if we can do that we can rectify the entire generation. Why? Because if you have such beton, of course, you fixed all of the other majors too because you cannot get to such such confidence in Hashem while sinning against him constantly. You cannot get to such being a Shabbat or being an immodest woman making other people sin or being somebody that's a you know is a immodest and and uh promiscuous can't you can only get to that level if you fix all of the other majors too but if you can do it you can fix your whole tikun so if I said it it's a nice thought but when says such a thing you could understand that this has this carries a lot of weight in as a rabbi I must emphasize that this mitzvah is mandatory for every Jew as it ensures all members of Israel can properly celebrate the holiday with dignity and joy. [Music]