Transcript
Auto-generated transcript. Not time-synced to the video.
there was a great story about a great
Khan they called him the jeweler he
lived in the great city of Aleppo and he
had a morning routine every single day
he would head to the mcveair early in
the morning and then after the McVeigh
he will go learn and then you have to
learning he will continue to learn and
after learning until 11 o'clock he will
go open up a shop around 11 o'clock
and this was his normal routine and then
when he comes to the store people will
come and they'll ask him to appraise the
value of the gems and he would the
jewelry and then he would buy and sell
he was very successful one day as well
was heading to the McVeigh early in the
morning
suddenly he bumps into this area with
this huge turban with this huge taboosh
so the Arab takes off the taboosh and he
says Rabbi I heard that you're a jeweler
over here I have an offer that you
cannot resist
so the Rabbi says listen I'm in a rush
right now I have to go to the microwave
I have a schedule ahead of me he says
you don't understand let me show you
something he starts unraveling the
taboosh the turbine and then he takes
out this beautiful gem he says this gem
is worth a million dollars and I was
only here for a few days and today's my
last day and I heard that you were a
jeweler and I was interested in selling
it to you for wholesale price if I have
the amount
are you interested in buying it or not
the Rabbi says I'm sorry before I can do
business with people I have to first
take care of business with God
and that says you don't understand
you're losing at an opportunity you're
never going to get a business offer like
this again so it doesn't matter you can
finish the walk look app says okay no
problem I'm gonna go find someone else
to sell it too so the rabbi went he went
to the McVeigh he went to learn he went
to Dublin continue to learn
as he was on his way to his store
suddenly he sees a big crowd of people
and he approaches the crowd he says
what's going on over here so there's a
funeral or who passed away or there was
an Arab it was a merchant he was here
for a few days and today it was supposed
to be his last day he was leaving he was
supposed to check out of the hotel but
he ended up
dying before he had a chance to check
out so now they never paid the hotels
and the custom over here is if somebody
doesn't pay for the hotel they take his
items they take his assets and they
start to sell it and now all of a sudden
he starts seeing in the front they're
selling his belongings and they start
screaming who wants the Arabs watch who
wants his watch and this guy screams two
hundred dollars that guy 300 and finally
they give it away and then they go to
the shoes who wants to Arab shoes it
says a hundred dollars the other guy
goes for another 100 and finally they
sell the shoes and this goes on
finally they announced and who wants the
Hat who wants the turbine of the Arab
now nobody in that crowd knows that
within that turbine is the gem except
for them all
and this guy who wants to determine
locate ten dollars the guy says twenty
dollars the rabbi announces thirty
dollars everyone's wanting what does the
Rob I want from disturbing what is your
turbine for okay let him have it he goes
to the front he takes the turban goes to
his shop starts unraveling the turban
and there it is the gem a gem that he
would have spent half a million dollars
on he got for free because it was meant
for him and when you do the right thing
and you live a life with God no one
could take anything away from you that's
a life of emuna you trust that God will
take care of you you trust that at the
end of the day if it's meant for me it's
meant for me and no one could lay a
finger on me and no one could pull a
dollar out of my pocket I trusted soul
from Hashem
and in the end of the day as long as I'm
doing what's right Hashem will provide
