The Curious Case of the Two Gloves | Rabbi Israel Salanter | TORAH FOR KIDS AI

And I'll be safe from Salk. One time they were [music] on a train. He's on a train with some of his students. Train stops. And he's [music] has his hand hanging out of the window. And the glove, you know, it was really, really cold. But the glove on his hand fell out. Fell off of his hand. And fell on the uh tracks. So he got [music] up to go get it. But then he heard the from the uh the guy from the train saying, "Oh, we're taking off. We're we're leaving right now." So as an instinct he took the other glove and threw it out the window. Now the rest [music] of us, we have no idea why he just did this, right? Same thing like his students. They have no idea why he just did this. You had one [music] You had two gloves. Now you have one glove. At least keep one glove. Al B Saf from Salant, the students asked him, "Kvod HaRav, why'd you throw the second Okay, you lost one glove, but why'd you throw the second one?" He says, "Well, of course, [music] I enjoyed the two gloves for a long time. But now I lost it. I don't have two gloves. And of course, I'm not [music] going to enjoy one glove. So I figured that at least whoever's going to find the one glove, you're going to find both of them. He's going to be able to enjoy it like [music] I enjoyed it all these years that I had the two gloves." But this was an instinct. This is not like he thought about it, assessed [music] it. 15 minutes later he came back and go, "Let me put the glove over there." This is an instinct [music] because the train was leaving. He didn't have time to think about it. This means that he had to become a much [music] one with the Torah. It became his instinct to think about the world around him. So this [music] is the type of mesiras nefesh that was required from him to do on a regular basis to get to [music] where he was. The story continues. I'll show you how the Torah that we got from Moshe, how it travels all the way to today. Another story about Al B Saf from Salant. There's another time he's on a train. And he sees this [music] uh businessman, Jewish businessman. And they start talking. >> [music] >> The Jewish businessman owns a timber company. He's very, very wealthy. [music] Owns a timber company. And he tells him, "Listen, I'm going to do this deal and that [music] deal." And And he keeps asking him, "Reb Yisrael says, "What are you going to do with it?" He says, "I'm going to make money." "And what are you going to do with that?" "So I could buy another business." And so on and so forth. Reb Yisrael [music] says to him, "Gavalti, you're wasting your life." "What do you mean?" "You already have enough money to learn Torah the rest of your life and use all this money to open yeshivas. And you're just going there to go make more and more and [music] more of what you can't keep anyway?" You can't take this olam haba, this money, [music] this timber. The guy took it to heart. Got off the next stop, went on the train the opposite way back home, got home, [music] sold all of his assets, all of his business, and started opening yeshivas everywhere. [music] Opened over 30 yeshivas. His name was the Saba of Novardok. >> [music] >> And he became himself a huge talmid chacham. Huge talmid chacham. Huge. He realized what [music] Rebbi Yisrael was saying is real. It's not uh sugarcoating anything. He knows the purpose of the world. He knows he was already religious. [music] He kept Shabbos, he wasn't like a uh kofer or anything. He was already new. He knew, "Listen, I don't need any more. What am I going to do with all this money? Let me go. I already have this world. Let me actually start preparing for the next world. And he went [music] from place to place and started opening Yeshivas and filling them up with Tommy Dean Hakamine. And became a Tommy Hakamine himself. I see what Nefesh for the rest of his life but in a different direction. Not go work. Okay, so you can go work and make more money [music] and just give money for Yeshivas. But what Torah is he going to show up with? The one that he learns an hour a day. You're going to pay for [music] the secret for everyone else to find out the secret except you. So, I see what Nefesh of completely disconnecting [music] himself from everything he knew. It sounds easy. Oh, just sell everything. You're a millionaire, right? You sell everything and go learn Torah. It sounds easy. But it's almost impossible. Lama because until that point all he knows is business. That's what he knows. So, for the Sabba of Novardok to go from being an ultimate businessman [music] to leaving business and going 100% full force Torah opening Yeshivas [music] is the ultimate Masirus Nefesh. It's Darkei Dovid Yitzchak. Cuz he's leaving everything he knows to a world that's pretty much foreign to him. So, this was a major change, switch. A mental switch to say, "Okay, [music] business is no longer important. Only thing that's important is a Lamda." Hazakenu U'varuchim. Let us say dikduk for more Torah. 1 2 3. 1 2 1 2 3, 1 2 3. >> [screaming] >> B H S >> [music]