Thinking About Others - R. Tzvi Sytner - TorahAnytime.com

in Aritis on one of the army bases there was this one army base there were about 300 soldiers on the base and they were doing a a pre-Russana like party like a whatever and then they had a raffle at the party they had every single one of the soldiers put in 50 shekele for a raffle so 50 shekel 300 soldiers 15,000 shekel grand prize and there was an American guy who said I'll match it so now it was 30,000 shekel grand prize and uh all everyone's writing their names on the piece of paper to go into the big box. It's going to pull out the name. And there's one soldier standing there and he sees a friend of his. The friend is in a wheelchair and he was recently injured and it was a bad injury and he thinks to himself, "Should I write my name or should I write his name? I would much rather he win, not me." So instead, he writes his friend's name. Everyone's tickets are in, and they start the raffle. And as they're mixing around, he's like dabbing to Hashem that like this guy, this injured soldier's name should be pulled out of the box. They pull out the name. They call out the name of the soldier who was in the wheelchair. The guy starts to cry and everyone in the room was cheering, everybody. And they wheel him up to the front and he gets his uh gets his check whatever gets his envelope and he is so and the party ends and everything and the soldier who had written the name of this injured soldier he's doing what one of the people was doing cleanup afterwards. So he goes up to the to the box to empty out uh the name and he and he looks and he sees as he pulling out the tickets that there was another ticket that's that had the name of the injured soldier still in the box. That was very weird because I thought we pulled his name out. Turns over another one also the name of the injured soldier. As he sifted through them, he saw that almost all of them had the name of this injured soldier on it. This is how we have to go into Russash. We're not writing our name on it. We're writing everyone else's name on