Worthy Vessels | Rabbi Yisroel Besser

The Bais Yisroel the gerrer rebbe would say over. That back ‘In der heim’ at home in Europe he’d say chasidim would travel to the Rebbe and when they got to the Rebbe they would ask for a bracha they would very often be helped. They would achieve this salvation they came for. And he said that everyone understands that it wasn't just the Rebbe’s bracha although it was that as well. It was breaking yourself to travel because back in Europe before the war, the travel to a Rebbe meant weeks, sometimes months of traveling. There were thieves, there were bandits, the roads were very difficult There were no highways, there were no cars. The weather was lousy. You had to stop at an inn here. You slept at the side of the road over there. Maybe you stayed over and slept on a bench in the back of the Shul, In a third town. It took a lot of work. He says by the time somebody came to the Rebbe, they'd already broken themselves. They had already turned themselves into a vessel that was worthy of receiving bracha There was no more haughtiness, there was no more comfort. They came to the Rebbe ready for the bracha, he says. Today, chassidim get on an airplaine they come to him and they’re in Eretz Yisroel You would tell American chassidim You’re here 12 or 15 or 20 hours later, you sat comfortably had food. What are you coming with to the Rebbe that makes you worthy of bracha? so you know what the Bais Yisroel said? He said you're still coming as broken, Keilim as broken vessels you know why? because in that time on your trip, there were a lot of sights that were enticing you, a lot of things you may have wanted to look at. There were a lot of opportunities for you to fall and you stood tall. You didn't look, you didn't give yourself, you didn't give in to temptation. He says, You're coming here. You're just like those chassidim of old because you too, have broken yourself to be here. Because all along that way, when you stood tall and you stood above a nisoyon, you made yourself ready for bracha you made yourself ready for blessing. You turned yourself into a vessel that has earned blessing by breaking yourself that way. That's how you come to the Rebbe. It's true now. Every single time we go to shul, even if you're not a chossid and even if you're not going to a Rebbe you go anywhere , Reb Tzvi Meir Zilberberg Shlit’’a , always teaches people. He says that when a person has a sight that they want to see Their body is pulling them a certain way and they don't look, that's the time to daven and that's the time to pray. What he's saying is really what the Bais Yisroel taught When you break yourself you you have given the Riboino shel oilum a great gift, a minchah, We know that tzadikim before they daven they give tzedakah, Why? Because you have to give of yourself. Other people fast on fast days, on days of tefillah... because it's more auspicious to daven when a person's fasting. We're always fasting and giving tzedakah Every time we go to Shul and choose not to look and choose to rise above temptation and rip apart a little more of ourselves. That's a fast day , that’s tzedakah that's breaking ourselves, that's turning ourselves into vessels whose tefillos will be answered.