The Students He Raised - R. Yaakov Rahimi - TorahAnytime.com

There's a story that s over when he was younger 18 years old he started giving sh to balim for the working men and he said that many of them will come to his class many plumbers painters many of them would come to class as night and they will fall asleep like this they fall asleep on the table now it didn't happen once happened twice three times four times a lot of times these people they came to she at night but they will fall asleep so somebody once asked they told them hey what's the point of you giving the shir if you know that they're going to fall asleep. They're not listening. Anyways, told them there's such a kushem. He tells them, "Don't look at me that I'm speaking to people that are sleeping every single night. Look at them that although they're know although they know they're going to fall asleep, they still come every single night cuz they want to try to hear five minutes of Tawa, 10 minutes of Tua." But you learn from this even though he didn't have a crowd to speak to. And this is a big again learned imi. He had things to do. He wrote one of the greatest the generation has ever had and he could have wrote many more. But he gave up that time to go spread as much Ta as possible. Although he didn't get a big crowd. Although he didn't get major cav or whatever it is. He went for the individuals. He knew I got to spread to as much as possible. I got to do my part. So although people were falling asleep in his class, he still kept on giving the shar day in day out. Day in day out. Years later, by the way, at the end of the story is what Ysef will say that many of these people that came to his class who fell asleep, their grandchildren now come to him to give them for the for the books they've written. their grandchildren succeeded so much in Torah and in Shim and going to yeshiva that they now come to the rabbi to get a recognition acknowledgement for the new book that they're writing and ma whatever it is have taught us over here that when parents when fathers go learn in shul just from the fact that they tell their kids they ask them abba where are you going why are you leaving the house daddy why are you leaving the house when the wife or the father tells the children I'm going to learn to that makes a huge effect on the child. The child grows up in a house knowing my father learns Torah. So even though he might fall asleep in the sh but from the fact that the children see that the father wants to learn Tawa that already makes a huge impact. That's what have taught us.