Don't Get Shanghaied! | Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair

[Music] the rambam in Parish Miss describes how a king commands his servants to build a palace of perfect Beauty says the rambam it's possible that the whole reason that this Palace was built was that one day far in the future at sadik would come along thirsty dying from the Sun and find Shelter From the Sun in the shade of one of the walls of this Palace and be saved as it says in I in Russ Russia prepares it and thead wears it in other words this entire existence this entire world was created for clis every being every city everyone in China the entire world was brought into existence for the yiden when Thea escaped from Europe RAB asazi who served as the spiritual leader of the Jewish refugees in Shanghai arranged for the Yeshiva to occupy the Beth a R synagogue the synagogue was built in 1927 by Silas Hardon an assimilated business tycoon it was in memory of his father Aon The Story Goes that Silas Hun's father appeared to him in a dream and asked him to build a Sho in his memory for some reason Hardon didn't build the Shool in the center of town but far from the community the Sho had 252 seats a huge kitchen and a dining hall and it remained empty for years that is until the miva arrived with exactly 252 B nowadays China is a favorite business venue for many Jewish businessmen and just as Hashem arranged events so that the sh would be there for the M Yesa so every Nissan was created for you to be a sadic that challenge was put there maybe years ago so that you can turn the other way and fulfill another part of hashem's plan in this world maybe you're on a China Airways flight to Shanghai and there's a challenge a movie that you you shouldn't watch maybe that entire movie was made just so that you shouldn't watch it and by turning off your screen you reap an eternal reward now that's a really successful business trip maybe the only reason you went to China in the first place was not for your business meeting but to succeed in this Nissan and not get shangh highed every Temptation everything out there if it was put there it was put there for you to succeed don't get shanghaied [Music]