Doing The Right Thing - R. Yehoshua Zitron - TorahAnytime.com

parro was it the prime example of always messing up and choosing the wrong thing. You know, you ever look at the story of of Pesak and you look at it like like parro worked so hard to mess up. He worked so hard to always going and doing and and picking the wrong thing. And we look at the story and be like, how could he be so foolish? How could he be so so like like blind and not see straight out? And the answer really if we take a step back and how many times it happens in our lives where we're do going in the how many times we know what God wants us to do and we choose the opposite. How many times do we know the direction that we need to go to and we don't follow that direction like we we ought to. There was a person we'll call him who liked loved is a better word the finer things of life. He enjoyed to you know the good taste of things and and Barakam he was blessed and he was able to you know afford the finer things in life and he had one one thing that really really spoke to him and that was watches. Watches always like oh like the newest watch that's something that he just like oh yeah like he's got to have it. He had this massive crazy collection. there was a collector's item, a PC Philipe that came out and he's like, you know, I gotta I I gotta have this, you know, this watch, you know, like he's he's going back and forth and it it was, you know, tens and tens of thousands of dollars. This particular watch when the time that he wanted to buy it was the the cost price was 60,000 $60,000. He calls out the manufacturer. He says, "I want to place an order for this watch." They said, "Okay, listen. This is a high demand watch. A lot of collectors want it. There's about a seventh month wait. He says, "No problem. Put me on the, you know, on the wait list for it." He is going and he is dreaming about this watch. All he thinks he's going through his day. He was a religious guy. He went to Shu. He did a Scarusa. He went to his business. He was, you know, like making money. But all he thought about was his like this watch. Like this. This was the thing that, you know, people go crazy over cars. People go crazy over jewelry. People go crazy over dresses. He went crazy over watches and 7 months go by and finally he gets a call from an international caller from coming in from Switzerland. He picks it up all nervous, all excited, butterflies in his stomach and he's like, hello. And he says, you know, is this uh Mark? His English name was Mark. He says, yeah, this is this is he. He says, you know, your watch is uh ready for delivery. And he's so excited. He's like, oh, amazing. I've been waiting for this. He they said, "We're ready to to to ship it to you a as soon as you wire us the you know the funds and send us a confirmation of that. We will uh we will overnight this uh you know to you." So he's all excited. He's about He hangs up with them. He says, "Thank you very much. It's coming over to you shortly." And he's about to call the bank to begin the wire transfer. He was waiting for nothing. He was about to call the bank to begin the wire transfer. As he's about to dial, all of a sudden there's a phone call that coming. It's coming in on his phone and he's not familiar with this number. He picks it up. up. He's like, "Oh," he says, "Hi, this is Yankee. So and so is, you know, Jewish guy. He's going and he says, you know, like, is this Manasha?" And he's like, "Yeah." And he said, "Look, you know, I I hear that you're a very giving guy. You're very, you know, you help people in need, which is true. This he was a big bald stuck. And uh you know, this this Jewish person says there's there's a Jewish family that just recently had a fire in their house and they lost everything." So Manasha responded. He says, "Do they got insurance?" And he said, "Unfortunately, they don't have any insurance. They lost everything. And Minasha is thinking now. He says he's about to spend $60,000 on a watch. And he says, "Here there's a family that lost everything." And he's like, but he's like, he's been waiting for this is, you know, it's hard earned money. He wants to buy, you know, like all these. He goes over to this uh to to this person. He says, "Can you do me a favor? Can you give me about a day, a day or two? Let me let me think about over and then call me back." The guy says, "Not a problem. Whatever you can do would be greatly appreciated." He goes and he starts thinking about it. I says, "How am I going to go? I'm going to spend money on something I don't need. I just want," you know, like, "It's a nice watch. I don't need it. I would appreciate it. I enjoy it. I like it." He's going back and forth and he's like, "How do I how do I He couldn't bring himself to go and buy something that not only doesn't need, not a necessity." Like, and this family is thinking about it. He had a good heart. And he decides, you know, like he he's got to do something to help out his family. He calls his brother. His brother was also a very successful businessman. And he tells his brother a story. He says, "Listen, I put the my money aside. I put 60 grand aside for this watch." And you know, I was about, it's like literally minim. It's coming from God. I was about to call the bank. This guy just calls me up. You know, he gives me all the list of rabbis. It's a legitimate cause. This family lost everything. I can't buy the watch. He says, "I want to help out this family. I'm putting in 60 grand." He says, "You want to go in with me? You want to put in also 60 grand? We'll go into this family. We'll rebuild it. We'll give them everything. We'll give them 120 grand to start with." brother thinks for a minute. He says, "You know what? You got yourself a deal. I'm in for 60 grand as well." He goes and he calls back this collector and he says, "You know what? I have $120,000 for you between me and my brother. We're going to we're going to we're going to send you the money. I want you to help out this uh you know, this family." He uh sends sends over the money. He calls back the watch company and he says, "Listen," he says, "What happens if I don't uh send them the you know, if I don't complete the purchase? Is there any penalty?" And the watch, you know, the guy from Geneva says, "You know, to be honest, there's such a long waiting list on this. We'll just go to the next person. You got nothing to worry about. There's a long list. There's no penalty, no nothing." So he says, "You know what? I want to cancel the order for for now." They said, "Not a problem." They can uh you know, they cancel the you know, the order. This person, this mana lived in Arrol. He uh uh in the year 20 November of 2016, there was fires that were broke. They were coming out all over Israel. Later it turned out that it was arson but at you know there was a fire in there but everybody had to evacuate. Minasha and his family one in November in 2016 there was a fire and they had to evacuate and they came in a few days later when the fire was all you know taking you know subdued and it was taken care of and they were looking at it was like like a disaster World War II you know style like houses were burnt to crisp properties were like there was nothing there was just ash they're like what are we even driving for? What's going to be left over in in our house? When they get to the house, they see something miraculous. Is as if from like a fairy tale. Wherever the property line was, the fire did not touch. Not a tree, not a grass, not the house, nothing. Everything was there exactly the way that you know the way that it was. And all of a sudden, he remembered about giving over that money from his watch to this uh you know, you know, to the to this to this family. Coincidence? I don't think so. You know, you look at it. You have some people that they live their life like Aparo. They live their life and they oblivious to all the signs and the hints and the things that sends them. And then you have a pe you have people like Manasha where sends them you know a simple phone call and they stop and they think be like what am I supposed to do during this time? What am I supposed to do? And they stand up and they do what they're right. And the lesson that we take away from this that besides the fact that Hashem sends us hints for parro was clear for manasha it was a phone call but every single one of us gets these hints get these phone calls get these messages from bar what are we going to do with akadesh bar we know and we see the lessons from parro that you can never win by going against you could hide your first born firstborn in the in the temples you can hide in the Jewish houses nothing is you can you cannot win by going against God and even more furthermore is that you'll never ever lose out by listening to and these are lessons that we have to take away not only for Pes but throughout the year where we're going to come to some sort of tests and we're not going to be sure how we're supposed to respond and how we're supposed to think and how we're supposed to feel and we have to take a step back for a second and realize that if we follow the Torah we follow the the you know the ways of the ways that of of the Torah we will never ever, you know, lose