Vizhnitzer Rebbe - R. Yehoshua Nissan - TorahAnytime.com

The first story is about a young lady, Leah, who had a very checkered past, but then riled herself onto the right path, and even got herself to go to seminary, and there she was, newly inspired, growing, ba'alat teshuvah, and one day a speaker came, and the speaker was fire and brimstone about all the terrible punishments that will befall somebody who sinned in their life, and this totally upended Leah's entire inspiring journey, and she started spiraling into tremendous depression. What will be with all her past mistakes? How can she live? How will she face Hashem? What about the untold suffering that's coming her way? And the teachers all tried with all levels of inspiration. You know the teshuvah, you could repent, you could turn it into mitzvahs. Hashem understands. All the speeches. It didn't work. One day, one of the teachers met with Aaron Sirasky, and they asked him, "Maybe you know something that can help this girl." And he advised, "Take her to the Vizhnitzer Rebbe. The Vizhnitzer Rebbe is very wise." So, the teacher said, "Okay, we don't know the Vizhnitzer Rebbe. Maybe you could come with us." So, he went with this girl, Leah, and the teacher, and they went to the Vizhnitzer Rebbe. And the Vizhnitzer Rebbe spoke to this girl, and said, "What's bothering you?" And she began to lay out all of her past mistakes, and her tremendous fear of all the punishment that's coming to her because of what she did wrong, and she's crying and crying. And she finally finishes, and she turns to the Vizhnitzer Rebbe, waiting to hear, "What does he have to say? What does he have to say to such a criminal record? What does he have to say to such punishment that's due to her? And the vision to rebel looked at her and said, "Do not worry one drop about it. It's all on me. I hereby accept every drop of punishment for any mistake you ever made. It's no longer on your record. I take it all on my head." And Leah did not expect that. "What? You take I take it. It's I got it. Don't you worry. It's all on me now." So Leah felt her spirits instantly lift. The rebel is taking it. It's not on my record anymore. The vision to rebel took it. She walked out of there and she was on cloud nine and she began once again her inspiring journey forward. As Siraski went to his rebel who is who? The Niseba Shalom. And he told the Niseba Shalom what occurred with the vision to rebel. And the Niseba Shalom started crying. He said, "I want you to know that wasn't the vision to rebel being brilliant and outsmarting Leah. That was the vision to rebel's real love for every Jew. He meant what he said. He wasn't trying to scheme and and and con her. He truly out of his love for every Jew, when he saw that a Jew was struggling, he immediately honestly wholeheartedly accepted all of her affairs on his head. For the vision to rebel, he's happy to take all of the sins and all of the punishment due to somebody else if that will allow that Jew to soar. Story one to remember to love another Jew, to be willing to give everything so that another Jew could soar, to daven with all your heart that other Jews should soar. That it not all be about me, me, me, but that it should be about us.