When It’s Weird, Redemption Comes! - R' Eliezer Zeytouneh - TorahAnytime.com

I know everyone knows I'm I've been teaching already for 25 years but I feel like I'm 25 years old. Okay, nobody asks you anyway and but I feel like I'm 25 and I remember that one of the yeshivas that I worked in I was a pretty popular teacher and they liked me and they were you know allowing me to rise within the the power structure of the yeshiva. Well, I decided I needed a raise and I was looking at my salary. I wasn't, you know, making enough to live comfortably. So I asked them for a reason. And they told me, "Let me think about it. Let me think about it." Now again, I think I was probably the I was the popular teacher in the yeshiva. Well, they thought about it for four days and they came back and they decided to give me the raise minus $1,000. In my mind, that's weird. $1,000 is $100 a month. What's a $100 a month for Yeshiva that's striving number one rebi right number very popular making your kids grow them interested $100 a month I was so offended I said I'm sorry I'm out if you can't go up $100 $100 a month it's nothing $25 that's $3 a day if you can't do $3 a day for a rebby that you care I'm out and it made no sense to me Why? Just give me the $100. It's a big deal. It's nothing. It doesn't make any sense. And I went from there and two years later, we opened up our first elementary school. And never would have happened if I got that race. If I got that race, never would have happened. And went from the elementary school, we went to high school. Then we opened our own high school. All as a result of me not taking that position, of not agreeing. It made no sense. God said that's where your is coming from.