TheYeshiva.net - Torah Or Megilas Esther - How G-d Is Accessed In Every Generation Differently

of meeting people in the markets and in other places where jewish people gathered and asked them how they were was it how are you and the barcelona's reason for doing this was to elicit from them responses of thanks to the creator a blessing hashem god and the story is that washington visited a market and he met the jews and he talked to them and he encouraged them and raised their spirits and of course he asked them how they were and they gave him the traditional shtetlanchers galeb the benjamins and haley kenoman and all of these accolades all of these um expressions of gratitude and the affection the basham to have heard that not far from this market there was a polish uh i feel a hermit or a scene who sat in a shul for years and years and years studying today the day and night in complete isolation from the world had nothing in common with these simple marked people and their bashante went to see him have entered into this shul which was probably pretty dark and he approached this fellow probably had cotton in his ears and blinders on his eyes and something in his nostrils he shouldn't smell see or hear totally engrossed and the bashamtv introduced himself and he asked this person how he was and this person said to them that what would you like to discuss how he's doing and the person said what would you like to discuss and then said how are you doing so he said that about if you want to know how i'm doing go out into the market there are plenty simple folk with lots of free time they'd be happy to tell you how they're doing my time is too precious if you want to discuss something meaningful something deep it would be my pleasure if you want to just do gratuities formalities skip it find somebody else to waste their time why are you depriving god almighty of his sustenance why are you depriving hashem of his livelihood so this this uh pudus this hermit who was a scholarly man and probably much of a capitalist says that absentee what is that supposed to mean hashem is sustaining since when are we sustaining god and how are we sustaining god by saying barak hashem and the basham to said it's an explicit pasuk which we say every day in davaning the atakadesh you are holy and the connotation of course means removed separated disengaged you shave you sit you settle you manifest you come into your world to heal us yesterday writing on the praise of the jewish nation jewish praise is a throne as a seat on which godliness manifests just as the basa miktas or the kruben the cherubs carried the presence of god into the world so do the praise the praises the jewish nation give their creator and the bashamtv felt that it is incredibly important to praise god for many reasons including for this this story is a nice story clearly it expresses how important it is to thank god but it has a very very deep philosophical relevance