An Ear for Greatness - R. David Ashear - TorahAnytime.com

I saw a story took place about 85 years ago there was a famous khazan world famous hazan called yasala rosenblatt yasil arose in blood he had a a voice like a bird and they the news came that he was coming to yerushalayim and he was going to be singing in a shul in The Old City on Shabbat everybody's wow Hassan rosenblood is coming so excited throngs of people try to stay at other people's homes to be there the excitement was in the air they fought they only heard about him they heard about him no one ever heard him there and the excitement was in the air hazan one-time appearance and the streets were fill that Shabbat morning whoever wasn't able to have a place right there walking from far by five o'clock in the morning already the the shul was full you can't get to see people are climbing on the Rafters they're outside the windows are open foreign at that time the Young raval yashif was learning by his gender I guess he prayed Nets on Shabbat morning and he learned the rest of the day and he wanted to go hear him he's holding his tender he's learning he was learning and he said he loved music gotta go hear him once in a lifetime event how could I leave the Torah some learning how could I leave because he's back in his struggle he said it's onig Shabbat it's gonna be a one time and I'll have to do it he closed the gemara he went from he walked 20 minutes he's getting close he says how could I leave the talking anything be more important than Torah he said I went back I went back to my and blowing back I'm almost back and then I see some very people coming I said where you guys going they said we're going to hear the khazan I said wow you're going to I said it must be it's the right thing to do I turn back with them and he said he went and they started he got there he started listening he said he would the voice was more beautiful than we imagined gorgeous everyone's hanging on every word it was going to take a few hours he said after two minutes I said I can't stay nothing's more important than Torah and he went back and he went back to his camera and he learned 70 years later he walked by that shul with his son-in-law and he stopped and he said his son-in-law said what happened what miracle he says oh you don't know the miracle that took place for me here he tells them the story he said that day there was a lot of people hundreds of people no one had an ear like me I had an ear for music like you don't know and I was enjoying every second he said it was so difficult for me to leave I already missed I already left before and I came back he said when I got up it was such a struggle but I left and I said Hashem there's nothing more powerful there's nothing more precious than your Torah and I clung to the gemara and that catapulted me and I just kept learning and learning you see when you overcome a Nissan is telling you nah stay don't go back to learning and you overcome it and you go back that's how you shoot to Greatness