How Close We Can Be - R. Avi Slansky - TorahAnytime.com

was someone who lost a ring a diamond ring and it wasn't just a diamond ring of a few carrots worth tens of thousands of dollars it was a family heirloom and when she lost the ring she knew where she lost it it was very simple it fell into the garbage but then the garbage was taken to the curb but then the curb was picked up by the garbage truck but she caught the garbage truck before it got anywhere else so she knew it was inside this garbage truck and she knew that it wasn't crushed in the garbage truck so somewhere inside this massive garbage truck was her ring was this family heirloom and she started she called some friends she had the garbage man empty out the garbage all over a you know a big schoolyard and they started going through bag after bag and it was a tedious process and as they went and it was hot and it was sunny and they went through one bag and the next and they started to despair and then it started raining and they started to despair they had to hold off and they came back the next day and day after day after day and we don't have to give the analogies of the searches of looking for something but the difference was she knew her ring was inside her garbage which was inside this truck which was inside this schoolyard so it's true there might have been a hundred bags of garbage maybe 200 bags of garbage and the ring is a teeny little item and there was garbage piled up and they were literally sifting through the needle in the haystack but they knew it was there and therefore they searched for day after day after day and when one friend gave up they called in reserves and then they waited a day and they knew they were never going to give up for the simple reason she knew the ring was there it was 100 because the ring found the garbage and garbage found the garbage truck and the garbage truck was put in the schoolyard so the ring was somewhere well that person after a day a week a month say oh forget it it's too difficult it rained it's hot it's smelly of course not aside for the value of the ring but the priceless fact that this was a family heirloom she will never give up and she will look for days for weeks for months and we all know she will eventually find that ring we have been told so many times by our sages by the godailim that we're near the end the meshiach is at the door it's waiting to come the ring the mashiach it's inside the schoolyard it's inside one of these bags of garbage and it's true each year it seems like there's more and more and more garbage and there's raining and it's hot and it's snowing we can't do it anymore hashem what do you want from us we're drained you want us again to try to search for that diamond ring and the answer is yes because we know it's there so let's realize could this be the year of course will this be the year we hope and we pray but we're so close what's it going to take it's going to take all of us together to dig a little deeper a bit more connected find a tier find something that connects to you find a way to be a bit better it's something that we've heard millions of times in the last months and year and two years but maybe finally do it so let's take consolation and realize we sifted you so much garbage hashem you've thrown so much at us and we're still sitting here and we're still waiting and we're gonna mourn them we're gonna connect but let's realize we're getting so close to that finish line if we all try together to find a little bit more connection a place of mourning a place where we need to be some english in our lives a reason how we're going to bring that base and condition into our lives hashem this could be the year this will be the year god willing that we'll all get together in yusholayim for allah [Music] you