TeShuva Story of the Toilet Paper Seller | TORAH FOR KIDS AI

[Music] says that anytime you have a punishment, it's a sign for me to wake you up to do chuva for that specific issue. Somebody just stole money from you. That means that is trying to tell you you have to do chuva for stealing. Wait, but somebody stole from me? Yes. They only stole from you because you stole when? I don't remember. Oh, wait a minute. What? When I was 15, I took $5 from my cousin. Yes. When you were 15, you were considered 100% an adult according to the Torah. And you stole $5 and you have to give back the $5. Now, you're embarrassed to give the $5. Put it in an envelope. Don't say where it came from and send it to the person. Now, what if the person ran away? You don't know where they are. take the $5 and give it in sta for something that's connected to Torah. If you could return it to the person itself, that's ideal. If you cannot return it to the person or the institution, let's say you stole from a store or you stole from a school or you stole from something like that, you can't do it or lead to trouble. Maybe, for example, they'll sue you. It's not enough to give it back. What do you do? You put it in an envelope and you send them a payment. Now, if you don't have all the money, let's say you stole $5,000 and you don't have $5,000. So, what do you do? You make payments. You make payments. You put a blank check or just cash in an envelope, drop it off, send it off. Or if, again, if you don't know where they are, this person is gone from the world, you don't know where they are, you take that money and you give it in Staka. You give it in Staka and you'll see a lot of blessings in your life. There's a famous story that happened in New York some time ago back in the uh early 1990s. I think it was 91. Breaking news report on the news. >> We have some breaking news coming in right now regarding the toilet paper company. >> Interviewing a Jewish guy that owned a small toilet paper company. He didn't know that the interview was coming, but they interviewed him and highlighted his business and say, "Wow, you have such an amazing business." Well, it's so amazing when you find out the details behind the scenes. So, he told the story himself to Jews, not to the news. He says one time I came to a lecture just like this and the rabbi said wasn't me wasn't a rabbi yet rabbi said anyone that has blood on their hands cannot enter ganed anyone that has blood on their hands cannot enter ganed so everybody was relieved oh I'm not a murderer but then the rabbi continued blood is damim but there's alsim blood is means dam in Hebrew but damim also means money in a Torah. Meaning anyone that stole money cannot enter Gan. Even if they keep Shabbat, even if they give, even if they learn Torah all day, all night, all that stuff is good. If they stole money and they didn't do Chuv, they cannot enter Ganet. So, one of the guys got nervous. Why? He's been stealing for a few years from who? From his customers, which today is acceptable apparently, even among Jews. People think that if you don't steal, you can't make it in life. It's the opposite. By the way, if you steal, you're not going to make it in life. Not this life, eternal life. But anyway, he says to the rabbi after the lecture was embarrass what am I going to do? He says, "What happened?" He said, "I'm in a toilet paper business." In its industry norm that every roll of paper is 100 yards, but none of the customers actually count if the roll of paper is 100 yards. So, you know, we all cheat a little bit. You know, you sell 100 but 99. You sell it as 100. You price 100 but it's 99 yards. And then I figured, you know, let me try cut a little bit longer. 95. I said, nobody paid attention. I went to 90. Nobody paid attention. I went to 80, nobody paid attention. I said, you know what? I started feeling bad. I said, you know what? I'll make a deal with the, you know, my my what? 85. I sold it as 100. I priced 100 full price but in reality I gave them 85 yards for years I'm doing it 10 years I'm doing it for 10 years I'm selling them 85 yards that means every roll of paper I'm stealing 15 how do I do for such a thing I want to ganed and I keep Shabbat now I got and everything how do I go to ganeda now rabbi was smart he says if you tell them he goes hey rabbi I thought you were smart what do you mean if I tell them if I tell them right now they're all going to sue me I'm going to be put in I'm going to be in losses for the rest of my life and I'll never be able to pay him back anyway. Oh, the rabbi said, "I know. That's what I was saying to you. If you tell them, nothing good's going to come out of it." He goes, "Exactly." Oh, now you're good about that. So, I love telling, "Oh, you have to do something. What do you have to do?" He says, "Let me ask you about this toilet paper business. Is there a lot of profit margin in it?" He goes, "Yeah, there's a lot." He goes, "If you sell them the hundred, but really you give them extra. You give them 115. Instead of 100, you give them 115. Can you still make money? Can you still make a living? Goes, "Yeah, but Hashem, we make plenty of money on the paper." You go, "Okay, that's what you do. That's what you do from now on. Give them 150." Meaning, give them extra. They're paying for 100. You were taking 15. So now with every roll of paper, you're making up for the stolen money without them knowing. And little by little, Hashem will see that you're trying your best. And that's what the guy did. and he did it for one month and two months and the profit margins went down but nonetheless he's still making a living and if somebody wants to go to ganed they'll do whatever they need to do. So as you would have it loves people that do cha he loves them so much that he shows them open miracles even in this world after they pass some tests especially when it comes to the test of money because who said to us in the last generation is going to serve the god of wood the god of stone but also the god of silver and gold. What are the gonna be the four different types? The four different types of abu before Mashiah comes. You're gonna have Christianity. You're gonna have Islam. You're going to have money. You're going to have people that do mitzvah for kavud. They want they want respect. They want to donate only if you put their name on the website. They want to donate only if you put their name on the on the uh on the building. Nah, if you're not going to report it, then I'm not going to donate. Yeah, but you know, people need to do you need to feed people. Okay. So feed them with a plaque on to you know give them a card that says I gave them money. Then sometimes people do mitah like this says they'll cry when they get to heaven. When they get to Shayim they'll cry because all of their all the reward they got will be spent already in this world because of all the honor they got. But anyway this guy passed the test. He started giving his customers extra extra extra one month, two months, three months, four months, five months, six months on the sixth month. One day he has on his door, sir, his TV TV stations outside the office. What happened? He doesn't know what's going on. Maybe they go, maybe they discovered what he did in the past for so many years. He doesn't know what to do, but he can't hide. So, he goes outside. Sir, what do you have to say for yourself? We just did an industry research on the toilet paper business and all of the competitors are promoting 100 yards per roll, but we did an investigation. The average is selling 72 yards, 72, 76, 78, 87, 89. No one is selling even 100 even though they market except you, sir. You give your customers even extra. You give them 115 on the average. What do you have to say about it? The poor guy, he's not going to tell him, "I've been stealing my customers and I listen to my rabbi and I'm doing now." What is he going to say? He goes, "Well, you know, I love my customers. I love my customer." That's what he says. Guess what? his business boomed. Why? All of the all of the customers saw this TV uh TV uh you know special. They say why I'm gonna buy from this guy. I'm buy from that guy. This guy's giving me at least good toilet paper. They started buying from him and a bul already gave reward in this world. Why? He did chuba chuba. It's difficult to do. It's not easy to do chuba. It's not easy to do chuba for money. But nonetheless, he did it and he got rewarded for it. says if you do you'll get rewarded measure for measure in this world and the next for more 1 2 3 [Music] 1 2 3 [Music]