The Story Of The Satan Inside The Penny

there was a extraordinary sadik one of the Giants of the generation just a few hundred years ago was his name and there was a time when they needed to raise some money to free a Jewish prisoner it's a very big mitvah to free Jewish prisoners when they're in the prison of the Gentiles and of course the decree was Heavy the amount of money was extraordinary and they needed to raise 30,000 rubles a huge sum of money so they came to and they said listen you are the biggest Rabbi of the generation we need your help to raise this money says to them I'll come with you under the condition that you're not going to tell me what to do if I want to go somewhere and ask someone or say something you're going to let me do what I want to do and not control my speech and where I go he said no problem if you come with us wherever you want to go and they started going different places collecting here collecting there but not much luck as they're walking there's a huge collection of uh field full of beautiful trees there's an entrance a road but they walk past it says why are you skipping it why don't we go here there's a big house a mansion down the road so the uh people say to no this is not a place that anybody goes to anymore we says why not it's not not Jewish people cuz no no it's actually a Jew but it's a Jew that's extraordinarily wealthy wealthier than kak but he is the stingiest man alive but he's not just stingy some people are stingy but they still give a little bit no this one is so stingy that his pleasure is to not give more than a penny and make fun in in in of the people asking for him so says I want to go here said yeah but wasting our time we got to you said we had a deal they go anywhere I want okay you want to go there Rabbi fine you go because you guys don't have to come with me if you don't want but I'm going we're coming we're coming so they walk down this you know huge Road beautiful trees beautiful flowers I mean this is a little Heaven you know one of these huge plot lots of land you know all types of a uh beautiful things on it eventually they get to the mansion they knock on the door the butler answers he has a smile on his face immediately saying you you sure you're in the right house yeah yes yes we want to see the owner of the house say fine suit yourself I'll call him as soon as the owner of the house sees them he smiles oh welcome come come sit down come over here please come in and says to him yes we uh have a uh situation there's a Jewish prisoner under the uh prison of the of the Gentiles and we need to do everything possible to free him and uh we need to raise 30,000 rubles and we're hoping that uh K would help us and the guy says to them you're new here do you ever hear about me where I am says no I just here to help I figured that you may want to help do Mitzvah and this guy sees that the r is so pure and naive okay fine he goes he comes back a moment later he I got something for you oh yeah sure what do you have he takes out you know the equivalent of a penny a tiny little coin something that even a paper tower you can't get with it here you go shiny penny for you opens his hand he puts it in his hand and all of a sudden the rabbi starts blessing this guy he he says the name of hasem and blesses this person andov may he bless this person with good health with success in his business happy marriage successful kids T he goes on and on and on and on he's Dan he's happy about it and the guy is confused usually when he gives the penny to people they throw it at his face they curse him out he has a laugh and uh you know the entertainment's over he's never seen anything like this needless to say a rabbi is dancing around while he's giving him blessings but not just a simple blessing he's going on and on and on and even the that came with the rabbi they're confused maybe the rabbi doesn't know what he just got maybe the rabbi's confused maybe he thought he gave him a gold coin instead of a penny and they're not even sure but they don't dare say a single word all they're saying just watching the rabbi give this guy blessings as if he just found Mount Si and after some time he completes the blessing and the guy says to the rabbi he goes wow you sure like that coin huh Rabbi oh yeah we really appreciate bem you want another one you would do that sure I'll do it the guy goes back to the room he comes back with a coin in his hand he goes here you goich opens his hand accepts the coin and all of a sudden the blessings begin again but now it's completely new blessings it's not the same blessings new blessings altoe and He blesses the guy who you have success in your marriage and your health and your this and your that do do do do every blessing under to the son that the guy has ever heard has been nothing in comparison to the blessing that he's getting from the and he simply cannot believe what's going on over here the are watching they have no idea what's going on over here and the rabbi is blessing this stingy rich man and after he finishes he says Rabbi I love your blessings I mean if I give you a Ruble would you give me more blessings Ruble is a lot more than just what I gave you Rabbi says let's try the guy goes gets a rubble gives it to the rabbi and the rabbi begins a set of blessings and he gives him blessings blessings the world has never heard before things unlike anything else the guy smiles he is getting the pleasure of all pleasures here he's like this is what you get for a Ruble Robert what if I give you a 100 rubles do I get Another Blessing Rabbi says we can try the guy goes gets 100 rubles and the rabbi now starts bringing blessings from the cabala from the Z and he's blessing him and the guy just simply couldn't believe it he's so happy he's in a different world he's never heard he's heard curses of all kinds in every language possible blessings like this no one's ever heard after the rabbi completes this and he says hold on a second what are you guys actually looking for what are you doing here he said we're here to collect money to free prisoner he says what do you need to free the prisoner 30,000 rubles okay I'll do that he goes back into the room comes back with 30,000 rubles here you go the rabbi of course gives him blessings many many more blessings and then they all leave now of course there was no time to waste they immediately went and used the money to go free this prisoner and shortly later they found out that this cheap stingy Rich Man became the most generous person in the community suddenly he wanted to donate to the Yesa he wants to donate to the synagogue he wants to donate to the homeless shelter he wants to donate to free the prison he wants to donate to everything and he became the biggest G in the community that's when theim came to raich and said what did you do to him what is it the cabala what did you do to him how did you do it when we were there we didn't see anything so can you please explain to us how did you do that we've been going to him for 20 years he never donated even the penny how did you get him to do all this says I knew who he was many of the poor people that came collecting came to me complaining about him and how he insults them he embarrasses them and he gives them nothing not even a cup of water and as soon as I saw that Penny the evil inclination told me throw this penny at his face what is he joking but then I looked at the penny and I saw the Satan is inside that Penny meaning this guy his entire evil inclination is inside his money he's so stingy that even the penny didn't have the Merit to go to the right place that's why people kept throwing it at him so I figured let me take this Penny from him and all of a sudden he wanted to give me another penny and I saw the next penny and I saw that there's still some evil inclination in that Penny obviously this is things that normal people don't see but the saw I saw that there's still some evil inclination in there so I said yeah give me that one too and then he gave me a Ruble and after that I saw it's very little left of this evil inclination of this Satan I took that one too and then he gave us a 100 and that was the first time I saw nothing on it we succeeded in eliminating his evil inclination of stinginess from now on he will be a big donor for the sake of tah now of course the greatness of the riich doesn't need to be clarified any further but the truth be told there's also a greatness to that stingy donor a greatness that may not be appreciate at First Look first look you want to punch the guy in the face at first look you think why doesn't this guy donate before as people struggling you have so much how many beds can you sleep in how many houses can you live in how much food can you eat you have extra give but the reality is that some people have lost their merits where they don't have the ability to give and that person although he didn't have the right intentions at the very least he tried he gave a penny and when he heard a blessing he didn't discount it he appreciated for what it was and gave more not realizing the value of that penny that first penny opened up a merit that he didn't have in years and Merit to give another Penny the second Penny give a merit to give even more and the reality is that when a person does one mitvah the says the reward for one mitvah is another mitvah why is the reward for a Mitzvah another mitvah why don't you just give me a penthouse why don't you just give me a plane why don't you give me a bunch of cash why is the reward for a Mitzvah another Mitzvah because the truth is explains the rambam there is nothing in this entire world even if you calculate from the beginning of the world and all the way until the end that is as precious as a single Mitzvah nothing in this world meaning all of the wealth that ever existed in this world all of the pleasure all of the good that ever existed in this world is not enough to reward a person for a single Mitzvah that they did and because of that the real reward that a person gets for a Mitzvah is an opportunity to do another Mitzvah now sometimes that opportunity will come with more tools more money car a job a wife kids whatever it is but it's not the kid or the wife or the car or the job that is the reward it's the Mitzvah opportunity that comes with them because the real reward is much greater than this world and the only thing that's greater than the reward that a person will get from a Mitzvah is the reward that he will get for causing somebody else to do a Mitzvah says greater is the reward of a person that causes another to do a Mitzvah then even the reward that he will get for the Mitzvah that he does for himself meaning that you will get an endless reward for your donation for your good deeds but guess what there's an endless reward times infinity that you will get for causing somebody else to do now for the those people that say oh you know what so let me just focus on causing other people to do and I don't have to do anything myself no no no in order to have success in causing other people to do a Mitzvah you have to have the Merit and you can't have the Merit if you don't do the mitzva yourself so from there we see says take from me a portion take from what I've given you a portion and invested into building a sanctuary for me in your heart something you can very well do today now if you find yourself having a tough time building that Sanctuary that's full of Torah in your heart you find yourself more inclined to donate towards dogs donate towards heresy donates towards lies donates towards reform liberalism and all types of LGBT type of in interests then you should cry for Mercy from above to at least give you the Merit like that guy that gave a penny