Satmar Rav: How to Choose Life - R. Don Jarashow - TorahAnytime.com

There was an editor of an Israeli journal. The Satmar Rav obviously was very anti. His love for Eretz Yisrael was we can't imagine it, but but he was obviously he had a sheetah about Eretz Yisrael. And there was a journalist who was very anti the Satmar Rav and ridiculed him, shamed him publicly. You want to know how a person who lives his life chayim over movis, you want to know what he does? This journalist was making a chasunah for his daughter and he had no money. Where did he turn? Obviously to the Rebbe. He comes into the Rebbe's office crying. He says, "Rebbe, I need money. I'm making a chasunah for my daughter. I don't have the funds." And obviously he's killing himself inside. How could I I ridiculed this Rav? I I shamed him. And here I am asking. He felt like such a lowlife. He wanted to literally bury himself six feet under, but he knew this was his only address. The only person that had enough of a heart that would somehow look over and give him his needs. The Satmar Rav takes out a checkbook, writes a fat check, sends him off on his way. The gabbai almost fainted. He said, "I understand, but do you know who just Do you know who just came in?" He said, "I know good and well." He said, "He's the guy who wrote against you, who humiliated you publicly." You know what the Satmar Rav's response was? You know what it means to choose chayim over movis? He said, "Bring him back." And he gave him more. More money. Cuz choosing life over movis means realizing that there's a God and his ratzon and realizing that there's nothing besides. Which can be often very challenging, very difficult. But this encapsulates, this reminds us that every second is karach, is bundled up with the choice of chayim and movis, whether it's learning more Torah, giving more tzedakah, living as a bigger and better mind man, as a better husband, father, whatever it is, ever the sham. We have choices, they're very difficult. It's a journey. But it's bracha u'klala and the choice is yours.