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I want to share with you an incredible
story.
I just heard this from a refined waxman.
Mindboggling.
There was a big askin,
a wellto-do askin from Israel
and he had to go to Europe to
Switzerland to oversee an operation for
a young boy who is deathly ill.
He flies over to Switzerland with the
family. He makes sure everything's okay.
gets him into the hospital.
And after his job was done, he went, he
had a hotel. He went back to his hotel,
checked in. He was going to relax a
little bit. It was a heavy trip and
dealing with all the paperwork and the
legal stuff. And his family, they didn't
know how to speak. They didn't know
English. They didn't know anything. So,
he was there for them. And he finally
was excited to go back to his hotel,
relax for a few minutes, get a good
night's sleep, and he was going to go a
couple days later.
He walks into the hotel and he meets
this other couple
from
not familiar. Didn't know them. Didn't
know their name. And he says, "Oh, nice
to meet you. My name is
Schwarz from and I'm here on this
mission to help this family." Say, "Oh,
very nice." A little chitchat. He goes
back to his room, goes upstairs. this
meeting, this uh this encounter has
happened at let's say 6 p.m.
goes back up to his room in the hotel
and hours later he needed to come back
to the lobby to get a tea. Comes back 5
6 hours later it's ready 11:12 in the
morning and he's perplexed. He sees this
couple
with their daughter still drains in the
lobby and he went back and he said, "Are
you the same people that I saw 6 hours
ago?" And they said, "Yeah." He said,
"What what are you doing here? You're
sitting on Talabi. What are you okay?"
And they said, "Well, truthfully, we're
from we don't have any money and we push
can't afford another night in the
hotel."
So, we figured we already were here for
one night, couple nights, and we can't
afford another one, but we're leaving
tomorrow morning. So, we're just going
to dre on the couches over here, and
when our taxi comes in the morning,
we're going to leave. We have our bags
ready, ready to go.
And
this Askin Mish Mish Schwarz looks at
this couple with their daughter
and he said, "Are you crazy? You think
I'm going to let you sit here for the
next five, six hours alone?" He said,
"Come to my room."
He took them, welcomed them into his
room. And he had food and drinks and he
sat and fang with them danced and was
mazic them.
6:30 7:00 the father gets a notification
a call the taxi is here. They part ways
say
months later
the thisin goes back to
the family goes back to this sick child
gets better goes back
and this ask gets a letter in the mail
and it says
dearen
I'm looking forward to seeing you at the
so So he opens up the letter. He says,
"Dear Mutton, I didn't marry off any of
my kids." He opens it up. He looks at
the invitation. He has no idea who this
invitation is from.
And he thinks it's just a epic mistake.
Some must have made.
Day later he gets a call.
Shalom. Moshe. He says, "Yeah. Who is
this?" He says, "You remember me?
I was the Yid that you bumped into in
the lobby
in Switzerland. And he says, "Oh, of
course I remember you."
He says, "I just sent you an invitation
to your."
And he said, "You okay? You're well.
What?"
He said, "Let me explain to you."
He said, "I didn't tell you why
I was in that lobby. I told you that I
was waiting for my taxi, but there was a
backstory.
He said, "Let me hear." He said, "What
happened?" Um,
he said, "I was invited in Switzerland
because
my daughter, who you saw in the lobby, I
was with my wife and my daughter. My
daughter was dating a guy.
My daughter went off to D and wanted
absolutely nothing to do with myself,
with my wife, with the rest of the
family to the point she was dating this
guy and ready to get married.
And all she wanted was for us to bring
her some money to get the ready, make a
few preparations, bring her some last
minute possessions, she forgot, but
after that saying goodbye to us, say
nice knowing you for the 20 whatever
years going out living in Switzerland
and falling off the map.
So what happened was you didn't even
know but you came over.
You asked us our name. You asked us what
you doing over here. You showed you
cared.
You don't understand the impression the
indelible impression that you had on my
daughter.
For a week we were J in Switzerland and
nobody asked us how you doing? What are
you here for? You're an Israeli couple
with a daughter. What's going on? You
were the first one
to the point that we got on the plane
and my daughter said, "Mommy Tati,
if this is what an it is,
I may have been tainted.
I may have gotten beaten up over the
past few years,
but I'm signing back up.
on the plane. My daughter broke off the
sh with this guy,
came back with us,
resubscribed
and a few months later, right now she
became a tora and she's ready to commit
her life back to mitzvah.
And that is why I wrote on this letter,
dear Mutton, because without you, there
is no chance I would ever have this
opportunity. My daughter would never
have Jewish of
Jews
and it's all in and I'm forever indebted
to you and I want this. You are the
mutton.
The moral of the story there's hundreds
but one is for sure.
We cannot underestimate
the power
of a kum and like that person ask what
can we do these days? How can we bring
the B mikdash? If we keep the didn't
bring it, if the rash didn't bring it.
The answer is
one kind word, one overcoming with the
we don't know. We can't underscore its
value, its potency, its power.
It can do anything. But we cannot
belittle those moments. A kind word, a
kind gesture, showing another person we
care. And especially in this time of
year, seen them.
