No Need to Say Goodbye | Rabbi Ari Bensoussan

[Music] so VI is a worldwide success the amount of people who email me who call me and tell me about the beautiful lessons that they're getting from myself barem and from so many incredible raban the amount that I get ah it's incredible and thank you but here is the coolest part sometimes you will get a story or two that is a vayan lesson that literally will resonate for such a long time I want to Now read you this message good morning Reb Ari I wanted to thank you for your recent vaman video I had to share with you something so interesting my grandmother rebit and Feldman the M Mash Reb H Feldman's wife she was diagnosed many years ago with the Maha in her eye she had no choice but to extract the eye the surgery was scheduled for early morning in Philadelphia hospital my mother and her brother R schm Feldman escorted my grandmother to the hospital for a surgery that day they noticed that she was extremely tired my uncle R asked her ma why you so tired he assumed the answer would have been she couldn't sleep anxiety the upcoming surgery however rabbitson felman's response was incredible I was up all night in conversation bidding forwell and parting with my eye I thanked it for serving me all my life it served me in the day days when I was a young child in my hometown and then during the years of the terrible World War it served me in the years postwar as we traveled our long journey until we reached the USA and then in America raising my family helping my husband with all his tum seeing my children and grandchildren walking down to their Kaa and watching my great grandchildren grow it took her all night until the morning came and she had to say her final thank you and goodbye I read that and I cried and I'm still so emotional from it because I haven't said po the same ever since I got that message waking up in the morning you get to see we get to use our eyesight for some of the greatest things possible and we don't have to say goodbye to it and anything that we don't ever say goodbye to hasem unfortunately we may take too much advantage or take for granted so I beg of you in the moments where we're challenging to look at things think about the happiest moment your eyes have ever shown you and say Hashem those eyes that you gave me to see my wedding day to see my children to see Ada daf Kamara those eyes that you've granted me such a gift I will hold back and I will not use those eyes to see anything that will further me from you ever again