Yosef Aminov - Tzedakah Saves Lives Testimony September 2024

Shalom everyone my name is ysph I want to talk about something very important but before I do I want to start with something different in order to put things in perspective there's a very famous statement that save a life and you will save the world I thought I knew what it meant in fact the hou for me was very simple you save somebody's life they go on to live they come up with a cure or develop a technology that would be beneficial to the world while it sounds nice and praiseworthy it never occurred to me that the same person that's being saved also has a potential to bring something negative to the world where do we learn this from well one example would be mikha boy named mha who who was saved by our teacher mher raenu as a little boy eventually went on to play a huge part in the Sin of golden calf very serious sin that we're still trying to fix until today as a nation but guys we don't have to go that far we can look at events at at the events that happened in the past year the animal the monster that that was responsible for October 7th was saved from a deadly disease by Israeli doctors I have no doubt they thought they were doing a noble thing a righteous thing a logical thing but nevertheless we live with the consequences where a lot of people got killed a lot of people got hurt and many more are still hostages may it be God's will they they be released soon alive very important may they be released alive our they already answered this dilemma for us you see this particular statement SA alive you will and you will save the world just like everything else it also comes from our Torah in talmud B in sanin page 37a it actually says like this anyone who sustains one soul from Jewish people the verse ascribes him as if he sustained the entire world again anyone who sustains One Soul the emphasis here is to save a soul not the physical body but the soul now the best way and actually the only way the only way to save a soul is to show it the path to the truth the path to the Creator that created that Soul now what happens when some someone is shown the path and encouraged to follow the path the person begins to transform themselves they begin to work on their character traits they work on the cleaning the speech cleanings of their appearances suddenly the person's the person wants to do good not good as a favor where he can cash it it cash it cash it in later no to do good because it's good to do good person began to imit imitate the creator of the world suddenly the person wants to stay away from lies the foul language is removed from the vocabulary and in my opinion the best thing that happens to the person they stop worrying about the worldly things the worldly worries so to speak who wins the elections who cares we know who runs the world who brought Corona we know who brought Corona we take it as a lesson to improve ourselves so Corona doesn't happen again and many other examples but just these that I mentioned already make the world a better place now just like any project in our house we're looking for an expert the business of saving Souls required an requires an expert as well in my opinion quo Ravon ruen is one of those experts now he will be the first one to tell you that he is not the only kiru Rabbi out there but organization batem that he created is definitely one of the kind it always bugled my mind korav that has a talent to make a lot of money quit the stock business and uh goes in all in into Torah into studying and teaching Torah now for us logically it would make sense if someone has a talent why not not use the talent to make money lots of money that organization needs and then use that money to save as many people as possible but as we delve more into the Torah we understand possibly the thinking behind it you cannot get cleaned in a dirty place you cannot become holy in Unholy holy place and if we actually think about it and kav probably said it numerous times he didn't quit the business he just found the stock that worth inent in investing in the only stock that worth investing in and the only stock that will pay dividends forever forever there's there would be no end to those dividends the best part about it guys it's the only stock that interests a the one who hold the keys to all the money to all the happiness all the health everything Biz organization has only one mission to save as many Souls as possible whether you thr from birth or coming back to Hashem or even if you're not a Jew but you're looking for the truth the organization has something for you especially as I learned today the new feature AI Rabbi is an amazing tool that would bring a lot of answers to a lot of people I tried it quickly and I was impressed very much in a minute I'll tell you my Miracle story but I encourage everyone to go to bh.org or BH tor.org and cons and and please donate to this huge campaign for the high holidays the biggest campaign so far from this organization rest assure the money always goes where it's supposed to go but guys as we always know and for those who don't know a does not need our money to feed his people that Sak is for us for those who can and do Saka saves lives and my story actually deals with this point very much on roses Nissan right before PES first day of Nissan my brother was scheduled to get a kidney transplant in one of the hospitals in New York we came in the morning before the surgery we met with the nurses and the doctors and we asked the surgeon how long the surgery will last he told us 6 hours the first 2 hours would be to remove the kidney from the donor and the rest of the time would be implanting into the new patient in this case it was my brother now as he went to the surgery I send a text to my family to read taim while the surgery is going on myself I followed the advice of kav not to waste time and I sat there in the hospital in waiting area and study as much as I could I had few books with me and I studied I wasn't even thinking about the surgery at all I just want to make sure that the time was used properly 2 hours later a representative from renewal came out and said that the kidney is removed from the uh first patient and now they working on your brother third hour passed fourth hour passed all of the six hours passed and I don't hear anything I began to worry I called upstairs to ask what's going on and the nurse says that operation is over just now and the doctor will call you soon now those words in themselves already make someone very nervous very worried few minutes later the doctor calls me and tells me that the surgery was success but we cannot get his blood pressure up so we're going to inate him now I'm not a doctor I'm not a medical professional but the words intubate somebody intubate somebody from the corona times sent shivers down my spine because a lot of people who were intubated did not survive few months before the surgery we lost our father and I could not bear that I'm going to lose somebody else that soon I text I texted karav Theon ruen and ask him for advice what to do his answer was very short Saka saves lives I replied I understood I went on my phone donated right away to the PES campaign I believe at that time and I went to to the second floor to the synagogue in the hospital I stood in front of um Aron aadesh and I remembered the words that quav always uses the effort is from us the success in the hands of a I stood there for a few minutes and I said that I've done everything that I I could do on my end I studied I prayed and I donated the rest is in your hands I went out I told the nurse that I'm going home if anything changes call me in the morning when I woke up I called the hospital I called the ICU and the nurse said that my brother is not there he's he's been moved and she's going to connect me to the right place now when the nurse picked up in a different place on a different floor I asked how's my brother she said he's here you want to talk to him and my brother told me the two sentence that probably the best sentence in my entire life at that time I asked him how you doing he said I'm doing great I already walked around the nurses station with someone that was the first sentence the second sentence he said I'm starving can you bring me some food that was a clear miracle that Saka saves lives and I as I said it before while we donating the money to feed someone or to save someone it's actually a favor for ourselves F favor from aad this is a huge campaign that's happening right now and we are in the month of alul and the best way to get the good angels to defend them to defend Us in the court of heaven and to get us be written in a book of life is to do kiru or to do the or donate the money to save somebody else to allow them to have honey on their r with that being said using my ability as a coin I would like to send out a blessing to quadav yon ruen and to his organization and to everyone who is listening may it be hashem's will that we are all written in a book of life may it be aen will that all the h will be saved and come back home alive as soon as possible I want to wish everyone sh don't forget BH r.org donate and you will see the Miracles col this message finds you doing well and preparing for the big holidays of and if you've learned to with us over the past decade you've also learned that we hate lies empty promises and any statement without a source so this year we ask dozens of our donors to tell you themselves what they've received as a result of partnering with us and having us pray for them during this time of the year in the conclusion you'll see our donors receive mirac Ires cured from cancer having a child after 10 years of marriage without kids financial success and protection and impossible situations finding a z special in Torah learning and countless other Miracles that you could read and watch these special tell you themselves after a decade of nearly 14,000 sh feeding 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