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But my believe it's in Avodah Zarah, it
mentions that the Malach Hamavet has
seven names according [music] to David
Hamelech, Hamelech, Avraham,
Yitzchak, Yaakov. Each called him a
different name. But then a different
Gemara says that he has other names.
Other names meaning that what are these
other names? Why do we care about the
names of the Satan, the Malach Hamavet,
this is that he has a million and a half
different ways that he can fool us into
doing the wrong thing by making us think
it's a mitzvah. So for example, somebody
came to
the the Satmar Rebbe and told him "Kvod
Harav,
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>> I have a problem. I have a daughter that
needs to get married,
but I don't have the money.
I need to get $5,000 together to get my
daughter married. I don't have any
money. What could I do?"
The Rebbe "Don't worry." Put his hand in
his pocket,
took out $1,
gave it to him and says "B'hatzlacha."
He says "Thank you, Rebbe. I know this
dollar is going to have blessing b'ezrat
Hashem, naseh v'natzliach. Thank you,
Rebbe." He leaves. The next day,
same guy comes
crying hysterical. "Rebbe, I can't
believe it. You never going to I'm
sorry. I'm sorry. I'm back." Rebbe says
"What? You didn't get the money?" He
goes "No, no. Shevach Shmo, after I got
the dollar, everybody started donating
to me." "How much?" "Your dollar was
blessing."
"So you got all the money?" "So got all
the money." Says "Why you back?"
He says "Soon as I got home, I got the
money. I said to my daughter 'Baruch
Hashem, we have the money. We get
married now. You get married.' She says
'Abba, I'm not getting married.'"
"Why you not getting married?" She says
"Because
this dress that they want me to wear, $5
I'm not wearing this $5 dress. I'm only
going to get married once in my life. I
want a $5,000 dress.
I want a $5,000 That's what I want. Or
I'm not getting married."
"So, Rebbe, what am I going to do? My
daughter went crazy. She wants a $5,000
dress. I barely had $5,000 to get her
married, but she wants a $5,000 dress or
she's not going to get married. What
should I do?"
The Rebbe says "One second." He turns
around, opens the bookshelf, opens the
safe, shh, uh,
takes out $5,000, gives him the whole
thing.
He gives him a hugs, kisses, thank you
very much, Rebbe, I love you, I love
you, I love you. Mazel tov, bracha
v'hatzlacha.
Now, all of the people here have the
same look as the guy that was sitting
next to him, one of his talmidim. What
just happened here? The wedding, he gave
him $1. This chutzpah and his daughter
come back, he want 5,000, he give him
the whole thing.
She says, Rebbe, lamdeini, teach me.
What happened here? You know what you
could have done with this $5,000? You
could have give it to the avreichim, the
the guys who making $500 a month, you
could have give them some extra, maybe
600 to 20, 30, 40, 50 avreichim. You
could have give it to the yeshiva, maybe
get another extension. You could have
put it in the kollel. You could have
give it to the aniyim, all the all the
poor people. You could have give it to
the to the converts, they don't have
anything, miskenim, poor people. You
could HAVE DONE SO MUCH WITH THIS,
brother Rebbe.
Why did you give it to this guy, this
chutzpah, this rude person asking $5,000
for a dress?
So, the Rebbe says to
the Rebbe says to
He says, you know, you're right.
You're [clears throat] right.
The kollel, the avreichim, the yeshiva,
the homeless, the poor, the convert, all
of those 100% right. And I thought
everything you said, I thought the same
thing. I said, you're 100% right.
When he was asking me for the money, I
said, I can I can use this money for
this and for this and for this and for
this and for this. I can use it in so
many other ways. But, you know why I
gave it to him?
Because I said to myself, if I really
wanted to give it to the converts and
the homeless and the poor and the kollel
and the yeshiva and then this, how come
I didn't think about this mitzvah before
this poor guy came to me? How come I
didn't think about this mitzvah before I
got this baruch who presented me with a
mitzvah that I'm supposed to do now?
So, what did that teach me? That taught
me that the real mitzvah to do is the
one that Hakadosh Baruch Hu sent me,
which is to make a bride happy. The
other mitzvot, as of now, yetzer hara
sent them. The Satan sent those mitzvot.
Why? Because he doesn't to make me He
doesn't want to allow me to get this
woman to be happy and get married and
bring more Jews to the world. All of a
sudden remembering things that are not
relevant. If I really want to help all
those people with this money, I would
have already done it.
And therefore sometimes the Satan even
brings you a mitzvah.
Even brings you a mitzvah. Why? He wants
to get your attention away from the
mitzvah you're supposed to do.
In general, this is usually a test for
bigger people. For people that
are big and know how to decipher so on
and so forth. But the point is is that
the teaches us that the Satan has no
limitations of which role he's going to
play in order to fool you. In order to
create some type of distance between you
and Hashem
because that's his job after all. That's
his job in the world. But at the same
token, the also says that he was very
good friends with Hashem.
He was very good friends with certain
Why? He loves them. He says you're a
good
boy. GOOD FOR YOU. YOU ALSO SERVE
HASHEM.
YOU'RE ALSO a servant of Hashem. I'm a
servant of Hashem. You're a servant of
Hashem to publicize Torah. I'm a servant
of Hashem to be the pressure to stop it.
So if you overcome it,
good. I'm happy because that means we're
both servants of Hashem. But if you
fail, then I'm the only one that's a
servant of Hashem and I have to do my
job.
And say thank
you for more Torah. 1 2 3
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