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What will happen to unaffiliated Jews when Moshiach comes???
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a few months ago I had the opportunity
to spend pesak at Bruce Bachman's
wonderful pesak program pesak in the
south east with Rabbi Simmon Jacobson he
told over a story that resonated so
deeply with
me I was invited to be on a panel with
two rabbis an orthodox and conservative
Rabbi and it was in Huntington New York
they were given 10 questions ahead of
time they were able to prepare their
answers each one gave their answer and
then they opened it up to the floor this
I remember around 500 people in the room
and a woman all the way in the back to
the left I remember she said I heard all
three of you eloquently describe end of
days Messianic World utopian world the
world of peace I want to know what will
happen to the largest segment of the
Jewish population who I speak on behalf
that segment is the unaffiliated the
alienated the ones that don't
necessarily have a synagogue don't even
know what it means to be Jewish what
will happen to us if the Messiah comes
tonight that was the question you can
hear a pin
drop all of them are secular thank God
my turn was third so first came the
Orthodox Rabbi and he said four words he
said God will have
mercy that's all he
said now I don't know if you've ever
heard AO but 500 people booing someone
is very very uh humiliating the rabbi
walks back back to his chair and then it
was the conservative rabbis turn he
turns to me and he says Rabbi Jacobs I
have the same question to myself what
will happen to them and then he really
added fuel to the fire he said and his
voice was Dripping with sinicism I heard
from a sadic who said that the Holocaust
happened because the Jews had
transgressed and then he went into
graphic detail describing every atrocity
perpetrated by the Nazis was like T mid
ConEd mid for what the Jews had done and
then he concludes and says so RAB
Jacobson is that going to
happen to the Jewish people that are
secular today if mhia when Messiah comes
and honestly I didn't know what I was
going to say s like I I was prepared for
this but I knew one thing was a real
important moment because these hundreds
of people are either going to go home
with terrible experience and no answer
or I'll say something that will be
meaningful so what you do then you close
your eyes and you just pray to God put
the right words in your mouth and I said
the following I said the balat one said
that when you asked a question you don't
have an answer you tell a story and if
that doesn't work you sing a song so I
said I'm going to tell a story and I
hope it helps if not I'll have to sing
so yeah I got a nice awkward laugh I
said the following story I said the
fifth Reb his name was Reb shom do of
laich Reb rashab he was known I said
he was dancing and speaking very highly
about simple Jew not a scholar not
particularly Pi not
particularly just
simple and one of the was very upset the
Reb seems to only talk about the value
and the virtue of a what happened to all
the all the all the all the and finally
he approaches the Reb rashab and he says
rebba what happened to all the holy
righteous people why are you only
talking about
the this happened to be a diamond dealer
so the rebba looks him in the eye the
rebba says would you do me a favor would
you bring me a bag of diamonds he didn't
know where the rebel was going but he
ran home got that bag of diamonds came
back to the rebba and gave it to him the
Reb said I'm going to choose the most
precious one he chose the most lustrous
the largest rock and he said no the said
you know that might be the shiniest and
largest diamond of the whole pack but it
ain't the most valuable he says but it
looks the the best one to my eyes he
said Reb with all respect you have to
have a trained eye there's other factors
that you can't the naked eye can't
always see and the re says aha you have
to be a diamond dealer to know which one
is the most valuable Diamond you have to
be a soul dealer to know which one is
the most valuable soul and as reab Simon
Jacobson finishes the story he turns to
the audience 500 secular Jews and he
says souls are measured by the journey
by the struggle so who are we in general
to talk about Souls which soul is
greater which Soul we don't have any
clue it could be the souls with the
greatest challenges are the greatest
Souls on Earth CU that's why God gave
them challenges because they have so
much power I was taught by my teachers
that if Messiah comes tonight the Jews
with the greatest challenges and maybe
with the least amount of information and
knowledge will March first I should only
be so
lucky as to be behind you when we greet
mashiach and unanimously everybody got
up
and gave him a standing
ovation you know the people in this film
or for that matter any person we meet
may very well be from the most valuable
souls in the world we're not Soul
dealers but we have to assume the very
best in everyone because at the very
least we know this
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El every person has a soul and that soul
is pure it could never be polluted it
can never be defiled because it's a
piece of
hasem you breathed her into me and if we
can look past the physical veil of
another human being and allow ourselves
to sense their Nish and treat them with
a care and respect Every Soul deserves
then we be to
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greet
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