Expensive Wedding - R. Leeor Dahan - TorahAnytime.com

there was one particular a Yesa younger man who was very very bad situation he had a lot of kids to feed he wasn't able to make ends meat his wife wasn't working he wasn't working it was a very difficult situation and even the Yeshiva guys who were themselves not wealthy recognized that this person needed help so they did what they could every single month there was a gabai he would go around to the different people in the Yeshiva and he would collect whatever they had raise the money and in a secretive type of fashion he knew but in a nice way he gave the money to the so that he could survive sure enough sure enough uh this a had few children and his children were growing up first child already had the and marriageable of age there's a wedding the is excited obviously his friends are all excited for him oh his son is finally getting married his first son is getting married and he gives them all out invitations they open up the invitation and what do they see the wedding hall will take place in OT v v I think that's what it's called which is considered a very very high-end wedding hall and they're looking at this and they're saying to themselves here's the guy we're giving him money and his wedding hall is the most famous wedding hall well there's not enough wedding halls in B that you can go ahead and make a very you know respectable but not expensive wedding he's going to the most expensive place they don't know what to say but they say no no they there must be a reason arrive at the wedding and they're wishing Maz and they see the wedding the hall is not just one Hall he took out two halls for the men's section one hall for the women's section the whole place was rented out and they're saying to themselves why why why we've been getting him money he should probably be giving us money with the type of wedding and the wedding was tip top best wedding you could possibly have all the delicious food this was not geil to fish and luin coule this was this was the real deal okay so they they see that he went all out and they're saying to themselves we just don't understand they're dancing and they don't know what they're what what they're doing over there what kind of a wedding is this man doing I thought he was a a poor man and all of a sudden he's roid over here the wedding was over now you can imagine they've been collecting every single month up until that point how difficult it was they're going around and the gab is going around to people and they don't know why they're even giving the money they're saying to themselves he should really be giving us money why are we giving him money we don't get it the first month they were able to scrap it together and they gave him the sum the second month it was already becoming difficult and he sensed theiva guy sensed it he realized he goes over to the gabai and he says I get the idea that everybody's upset at me let me tell you this story I was looking at all the wedding halls in B like any would do the Looking for really the cheapest one essentially and they were all booked I went to thisam to this wedding hall I sat down and I asked him you know you have the big wedding halls and the fancy ones I don't want those I just want the one on the bottom in the basement the small one can I rent that out from you the person saw me he saw me how I'm dressed how I look he real realz that I probably don't have the means to pay for he says fine no problem give me a down payment I want a down payment so I wrote him a check signed the check down payment and I gave it to him he looks at the check and he seesi just making up a name he says this is you ROV that's you toosi he says yeah that's me he says you ever heard of um uh are you from the city the city of LZ you ever heard of the from the city of L he says yeah yeah that's my grandfather that's your grandfather takes the check he rips it up says your grandfather saved my life during the war and I was looking for a way to pay him back never found the man never knew who he was now I have the opportunity his grandson is standing before me you're not paying for a penny for this wedding I'm doing this wedding for you and you don't have to take worry about a thing the whole thing is going to be taken care of I will already arrange a wedding that will be okay and he ripped up the check and that was the story the whole wedding was paid for by the person that owned the wedding hall and in the meantime these people they realize the true story how bad did they feel how bad did they feel they finally realized that this whole time it was not him he didn't put a penny into this wedding and in they were just thinking this person is lying to us this person is being dishonest that's the idea always having to judge your friend