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was kuresh keshim when he's already in
his later years he had to move because
of all everything that was happening in
during the first world war was getting
close to gadin
and uh they had to uh they had to escape
they had to escape deeper part into the
country and they went into deep Russia
And in Russia the
on his first Shabbat there saw for the
first time in his life a Shabbat someone
a Jew violating Shabbat and he starts
hysterical crying old man crying is
dangerous life risk he starts hysterical
crying and he's telling to calm him down
they know he's crying why you crying for
what do you mean
look What? What's happening here? What
What is a Jew doing to himself? He's
separating himself from Hashem.
He's crying and then eventually
calms down.
He goes back to Shabbat, goes back to
learning Torah, teaching Torah.
A week later again sees
again
and this time he starts crying, but not
crying like last time.
much much more to the point where they
can't stop him. He's just crying
hysterical
and they said, "Please at least tell us
something. Why are you crying so much
more this week than last week?"
answers them an answer that's worth a
billion dollars for anyone who could
understand it. He said, "Last week when
I saw a Jew violating Shabbat,
I cried for that Jew. I cried for that
Jew who's desecrating the Shabbat,
desecrating a Kadosh Bahu's name,
distancing himself away from his father
in heaven, completely
untying any connection to the creator of
the world." I cried for that.
But this week, this week I started
crying when I saw a Jew violate Shabbat
because that's what you're supposed to
do when you feel for is but then I
thought to myself
to you
unto you is
that since this is already the second
time that you've seen a Shabbat, you
don't feel as much pain as you did last
weak and I said to myself is that was
his name
is you're ruined and I cry and I cry to
myself as I realize I'm ruined
why my sensitivity
my sensitivity is already ruined why I
saw it I saw wicked people twice
I've been around wicked people long
enough I'm ruined.
This is the mind of the time. This is
the mind of the This is our It has the
power to protect you. It has the power
to bring you extraordinary joy.
But if you allow wicked people to roam
around your life on a regular basis and
you do not elevate those people to the
Torah, either because they are AML and
they refuse and they hate the Torah or
because you're simply deciding for them
that they can't handle it,
then those wicked people will impact you
and will turn you into them.
It's just a matter of time. The only
thing that you can do to protect
yourself from wicked people, whether
those wicked people are family members,
friends, partners, whatever it is, only
ways we've learned today, one, don't
associate with him at all. Run away.
Like the Rambam says, go to the desert.
That's not realistic for most people.
Why? You work in New York, you work in
Florida, you work in England, you work
in Tel Aviv, you work in different
places, wicked people are everywhere. So
to disassociate from all of those people
while being in the business world, while
even being in the in the in the in the
yeshiva fruit world, still there's
wicked people everywhere. To
disassociate completely, it's not
realistic for most people. Now, of
course, you could limit it. You don't
have to go to your uh cousin's house and
your aunt's uh mixed wedding and all
those things. Of course you limit that
stuff but to eliminate it completely
it's virtually impossible.
All you can do is contain it to some
extent.
Second part is that when it comes to
wicked people
you can't run away from them completely.
Second token you can't embrace embrace
them and and be close to them because
then you're going to turn into a wicked
person.
So what do you have to do? You have to
number one be selective. If they're
wicked out of ignorance,
then try to enlighten them with Torah.
Give them a CD. Give them a USB. You go
to batashem.org
the store. You order yourself some USBs.
You order yourself some CDs. And you
give it to people just like you would a
business card. Always have something
available to people. That's the best
thing. And little by little, you'll see
some change. Why? Because we teach
Torah. That's Torah. It's not Torah
that's being catered to low or high
people. It's simply Torah. It's Torah as
it's supposed to be
for more. 1 2 3.
1 2 3.
Beious.
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