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I want to tell you a story I read couple
of weeks
ago the story to me
was
unbelievable it was about the brother of
the vilna
gaon the brother of the Von was very
righteous in his own in his own life
everybody knew the Von the great villon
but his brother was very righteous also
but Abraham he used to go a few times a
year to visit with his brother the gra
and to get there was very difficult
Journey it was very hard to get there it
was a lot it was expenses it was hard by
the time he got there it was a weeks of
travel and he would say when he got
there he was in ganeden sitting next to
his brother it was like being in the
presence of a Mal and he gained so much
every time he went and
Tora
and so somebody once asked
him they said Rabbi anyway you learn all
day why don't you just live in vilna
next to your brother why do you travel
so far three times a year he said it's a
good question it's a good question I'll
tell you the
answer it starts like this many years
ago in our community there was a short
of before the holiday of and the word
went out there are
no in the entire city you can't get a
good
at and I said I have to have my wife
said don't worry I'm going to get you in
I'm not going to rest till I get you in
AOG and my
wife she went and she searched and
searched and she found somewhere in a
back alley someone selling
at and she spotted one and she said
there it is
perfect he said yes this is the only one
probably available in the whole
city and he told her the cost
was
astronomical she said money is No Object
I'll take it how you going to pay she
says well I don't have the money
but I have a
house I'll mortgage you my house if I
don't pay back by a certain time my
house is on
lean he said okay they signed the
contract she took the atog she brought
it back to her
husband and they were dancing wow you
got AOG in the time you can't get
AOG thank you so
much and he went that Suk and he shook
the lulet dog with such pride and joy
and the time came to pay
back for the the price of the atog and
they didn't have anywhere near that kind
of money so they were forced to sell
their home the home was worth more than
theog she sold the home and they had to
downsize their house to a house half the
size to pay for that
atog and he said I was a little
nervous how excuse me would my wife
respond now having to live like
this he
said my wife goes to shul twice a day
she goes in the morning she goes in the
afternoon and on the way from our new
home to the sh is our old
home and I watched my wife the first
time she went to sh from our new home
it's a little longer of a walk she St
stopped in front of the old
home and she stood
there and she put out her hands and she
said
H I want to thank you for
the that I was able to give up my home
for an I want to thank you for
that and he said every single day when
she passes back and forth she stops by
the house and she thanks Hashem for the
of this awesome Mitzvah that she was
able to give up her home
for you see I can't move to Vila cuz I
would take away that special time my
wife has with Hashem every single day I
can't take that away from her and I'm
reading this story and I said what would
someone like myself
say what Hashem I gave up my house for
theog where's the money where's that
money the money should have fell down
from sh you know what I did for
the no that's not their response what
is people who understand what this
world's all about it's not about money
and
homes it's about being more said nees
what I'm able to
do
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