Counting Down to Greatness | Rabbi Avi Slansky

foreign [Music] school year and one of the wealthier donors was taking a tour of the Yeshiva building in Los Angeles and as he walked out of the building he noticed that across the road there was a massive billboard advertising quite an inappropriate material and the man was taken aback this was a Yeshiva and this is what the boys are going to see all the time he called up the billboard a company and he asked them I would like to rent the billboard they said I'm sorry sir it's been rented already for the next few months he says I'll pay more than you're getting he said sir we just can't do that and he pushed them and finally they said will you pay a thousand dollars a day says yeah and they agreed upon that and he transferred ninety thousand dollars and they said okay sir it's yours the next three months what do you want to advertise he says nothing keep it blink he says we can't keep a billboard blank you have to write something he says okay so write the words in 90 days 89 days 88 days and so on and so forth the billboard company was happy he was happy and everyone walked away a few days later everyone around town is busy talking what's the big announcement what's the countdown for there's this massive billboard that says 89 88 87 and people even approached this wealthy man when they found out he was the one renting the space and they said sir what's the countdown what's the grand announcement and to everyone who just say it's a surprise and in truth he didn't really have a plan but he figured something will come as it's getting closer to the end 70 days 60 days 50 days he receives a phone call Coca-Cola calls him up and they say we know you you have rights to this billboard and the news has just started covering that there's going to be a grand announcement at the end of 40 days 30 days we would like to rent the billboard for you and he almost laughed he just didn't want the inappropriate material there and Coca-Cola says to him we're going to give you three million dollars for that last day and we're gonna make the grand announcement the surprise is gonna be our advertisement of course he agreed and everyone walked away happy when one takes that leap to protect his eyes to protect other people's eyes millions of dollars are raining down upon him in heaven sometimes we even see it in this world but even if not just remember you take a leap of greatness in heaven in shamayan there's Millions raining down upon [Music]