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Battling Anti Semitism - Rabbi Yakoz Zev Smith
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Battling Anti Semitism - Rabbi Yakoz Zev Smith 3 Elul 5781
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you got
a the source of livelihood the rest of
your life you don't have to work go and
learn
we bought a donkey and we found the
treasure
and shimon ban chateau was adamant wait
a minute i bought a donkey i didn't buy
a diamond go return it
but rebbe it was sold as is it's ours
and taysakum and this and that
i didn't buy a diamond go return it
and they listened to the rebbe i guess
in those days people listened to rub on
him
and they went back to the arab and they
gave him the diamond
and he was flabbergasted
you were turning it you didn't have to
and he said these words
and shatter
an arab guy
proclaimed
you know what he saw
he saw what every guy has to see
that we are a chosen nation
and we live with the greatest honesty
and integrity
and we are the chosen nation
let me fast forward a few
thousand years i'll tell you another
story that i know personally
if i'm just
just had her palms 20 at the earth side
this must this story must have been
28 years ago when he became 80.
so the yeshiva made a
they wrote a safe attire in his honor it
was a major fundraiser and of course
when this fundraising there are posters
they put posters all over with this
picture and about the event
represent palm alasha was once walking
home and she noticed that on her black
and east seventh
and could tell you road they put up a
poster with his picture
and she felt that violated the privacy
of her neighbors after all it was a
predominantly non-jewish black
and she was very enraged that they could
do such a thing how do you put a
a poster for yeshiva on a gauesha block
there's a public school there's a there
was a church on that block
and she
thought herself tomorrow i'm going to
tear this sign down it doesn't belong in
a residential private area
the next morning she goes out looking
for the post and it's gone
so i so she's happy someone tore her
down
but she still felt that she owes an
apology to at least to a next door
neighbor how could she do that even
though it wasn't her doings
and the next time she met the neighbor
who i happened to have known because i
used to walk her palm home they were a
nice italian family they had a
son and a lieutenant in the
police department they had a german
shepherd about this high that scared
anybody who came in his vicinity
and she says mrs so and
i want you to know there was a sign up
last night i didn't put it off we didn't
put it up it was put it without our
consent i was upset i was gonna tear
down myself i guess someone else did it
and the woman is smiling and smirking
and she says you know who did it you
know tore it down
i did
sir
do you know why i tore it down
we lived next to rabbi palm all these
years
and we never met a person like him
and we look up to him
and we always wanted to have a picture
of him in our house
and here it was so i tore it down it's
hanging in my dining room
could you imagine shamayim looking down
and seeing an italian couple with the
lieutenant son and the german shepherd
this high arapah's pictures on the wall
it's a true story that even happened
but the message is
that's a living is hashem
and someone like that did not
engender any any sin as akum if anything
there was a respect
of vero called
hashem
they could see them a certain godliness
in a yeed
and they wanted to emulate that
and believe me
that's the way to battle
anti-semitism is to live the way it is
supposed to live in all
areas of life
you know we hear the word kiddish hashem
and we immediately associate that with
those that made the ultimate sacrifice
that died
but there's another
mitzvah perhaps greater
and indeed once said this and he lived
up to this
he once asked an unusual question
was the epitome of sad guys
every broker he gave every filler that
he he uttered was accepted by barayolam
but as is known the
orphan davin
wanted to give his life he wanted to die
and he would have him for that
and that feeling was not accepted
because the
died of natural death
rappamis why not why what did your
buddhism accept that villa
so he said something very moving
in shamayim they pass skinned
that the
what a practical
understanding of hashem
we hear the word kid is hashem thank you
and we immediately think about
a person that dies like this hashem
which of course is a great sacrifice
but you know it's more effective you
know it's a greater generator of quote
shamayim
when there's someone that's living at
this hashem
that a non-jewish neighbor could want to
put a picture of you on the wall
that's living
hashem and you know something that's
apostate in the torah
we say three three times a day
we have to assassinate
hashem
a total unconditional love
a rather tall order
how could the average person say he
could do that
says digimore and um
you know what it means
how do you do that not everybody is a
care worker not everybody is a
world-renowned speaker that could travel
the world to promoting
says the gemara person has to learn of
course
he has to be honest in business
he has to be a polite courteous
well-mannered person
mahabrio is allah what do they say about
him
ashrae of shalim they tell you how
fortune is the one that taught him torah
how fortune is the rap the rabbi that
taught him torah
because look what torah does to a person
and really that's
every year's mission statement
you look at the possibility
and all of your offspring will become
famous
kohlre
kireim yakiram whoever looks them will
see kiheim zara
bayer hashem
they are the blessed children of the
ubanishalam
me and you and all of us
our goal in life is to be a walking
talking living quite shamayim
navaminski episode once said heard this
from eid
who said i got into a taxi in manhattan
and a puerto rican driver told me you
people are the chosen nation
so i said thank you very much we knew
that but what prompted you to say that
i'll tell you what just happened
i just picked up another jewish fellow
just before you
and he saw tell me he has to go till so
i was driving
and a block of big manhattan blocked
before he said stop let me off i'll pay
you in full
i said mister you said you want to go to
the next block it's a long buck let me
take you
let me off now i'll pay you in full
he says why he says look
he pointed there was a train station and
the train had just arrived
and evidently people started coming out
of the train station getting out
and it tells the driver if you're going
to take me the next block until you turn
around
you're going to lose these costs you
lose a customer i'd rather you make
another customer and i'll walk a block
so the puerto rican turns to this year
then
anybody who thinks of the other guy
that's the chosen nation
that's the way we battle anti-semitism
when we
evoke a feeling of avastro
that a guy is able to say heim zera vera
hashem
he told me
you'd rather
a one of the popular jamaican delivery
boys from this neighborhood in flatbush
once brought something to his house a
package he goes rabbi can i ask you a
few questions go sure
albany ask
he goes you know rabbi
last week i got locked out of my van
and you know i drive around that's my
livelihood and i couldn't get in
so someone a jewish person comes up and
says you know i see you locked out you
need help
yeah sure i said well just scribble down
this number call them they'll be hearing
them and they'll help you
i had nothing to lose i was desperate so
i wrote i called this number
like a minute or two later someone comes
pulling up and they say sir you called
oh you need help or we'll help you
and they open the car
so i turned them i said how much do i
owe you
he goes no no no we don't take money we
are i don't know pronounce either have
kaverima havayam we do this for free
and they drove off
so the jamaican delivery boy turns to my
friend and goes rabbi is that legit
because yeah yeah they drive around the
hole they're helping people wow hey ask
you another question rabbi
okay
he's like hello very patient
he goes you know i drive around flatbush
and i see those that solo cars driving
back and forth
that's legit i mean they don't take
money
no really they do it just to help
another person
so now he has to digest this information
because rabbi could ask you one more
question
yeah
if god has you guys
why does he need the rest of us
you know we're laughing
and it's reminder saying that's why i
sent you on this world
that a guy won this why do we need
if there are eden that are so
outstanding in their devotion to another
person they don't even know
ko rei ai me akiram came zara bera
hashem
do you think that jamaican driver will
be ever guilty of anti-semitism
but you know we have to realize that
instead of the arugula shame kochecha we
have to substitute the bury banach
and instead of this we have to
substitute being honest
perfectly honest in business
because that's the kid is hashem
that a certain sense is is more
effective
i once said this and i think it's an
episode of thought
i will praise hashem with my life
with my traveling on the train and being
courteous to the person sitting next to
me
at work
in a bank
when i meet the garbage man or the or
the policeman or the mailman
i'll be the first to greet them
that's
that's a yiddish
attitude
and i always say you know
we hear about someone who's kool-aid
torah kola tarakula
so today that
has been really pretty much
limited you know someone knows the first
four plot of the shiva shimazakis oh
he's going to go in him
but you know who in my mind is the
personification of kala karakula
but that's not enough
why i think
is the very essence called tarakula
is the gemara in brachus
it never ever happened
that someone greeted
zake first
he was the first to greet every person
even an anju
and i wonder
this man was called a torah he knew
everything when did he have a moment to
breathe i don't know
but where did he see the non-jew where
did he see the mailman or the the lonely
non-jewish neighbor
you know the answer it's not in spite of
his learning it's because of his
learning he was a living voice of he was
a living covenant
islam called this writes
there is no greater mitzvah than kidnesh
hashem
he's talking of course about sacrificing
one's life
but we could say there's no greater
mitzvah than ashira
and then i understood
it's not
hard to understand
we're taken out of mitzrayim
to be living
hashem
when faced with that ultimate decision
we have to give our lives
hashem
but if we're living in the safety of
america then our mission and our
redemption from israel was to be a
living kid
or syracuse
you know i was once by a wedding
it was during the dinner
and they were
they were playing
dinner music and they said they was
playing that song that beautiful song
that women have cried their eyes out for
generations
davening for good children i should have
children
um
and suddenly
all the men started singing it first in
a low tone also it was a spontaneous
eruption of feelings that every person
there i imagine the woman was singing
the undertone but everybody was singing
and davening with akainu the goddess
children that will light up the world
with their torah myself
and i'm certain that many people have
had themselves in mind let me also
contribute with my life let me also make
my my impression on this world let me
also make a difference
but i'm afraid most people thought well
i can't do that i can't light up the
world with my termites i'm just a simple
little old me i'm just a simple working
person i'm just a simple housewife i
can't change the world
and that's a terrible mistake
because you think about it
was there ever a generation like ours
that we meet and we interact with so
many people on a daily basis
more often than not in the state of life
we lived in the ghettos
segregated areas
unless you lived in a big city
and a typical stetto a person didn't see
a non-jew
on a regular basis
certainly didn't interact with
non-jews and today we live in a society
that a person in an average week
meets and deals with
hundreds of people many of them non-jews
and i tell you
every meeting with another person is an
opportunity of kids hashem
whether it's in business
to be perfectly honest and a word is a
word whether it's just the menstrual
kite
that really
we should
be the ones that are the portrayal of
manchester kite
but
each encounter with another person
is an opportunity of creation
and they say a story it's printed in
fact
that a secular writer wanted to
interview the heligenesis
and the
felt that it was the right thing to
grant his request he said okay fine
let's when i go for a walk you'll
accompany me and you could ask me all
the questions that you want
so he started walking
walking pretty briskly
and suddenly the hazard slowed down
and the reporter was
frightened maybe that feeling was closer
up everything okay
he goes yeah yeah so why'd you slow up
because didn't you notice
it was no
look
i was walking briskly but i noticed when
i came a little closer there was a
person
basically an invalid who was walking
very slowly
so the reporter says so
he said what do i mean so i'm going to
walk right by him i'm going to remind
him of his infirmity
i don't want to piss him so i'm going to
let him go his face and i'll follow
behind
he said quote
now we understand why they sent me to
interview you
he saw what tyra does to a person how
sensitive the hazardous feeling was to a
person he never met
he was doing nothing wrong but there was
a sensitivity
that he had learned from the terror that
he learned
tiring whether we realize or not
for every action there's a reaction
and whatever we do
there's a maya mural habrios like the
himalayas says
and as if there's an imaginary reporter
that's following us
oh this is a religious jew
let's see what does it mean a religious
jew
does that mean that he's aggressive
that he's self-centered does it mean
that he's very
honest and very generous
and the way we interact with people
we're making a statement we're filing a
report of what torah does to
us of segal the manchester rashiva was
once traveling
by train
and he bought a second clip a
second-class seat
and he realized it was too noisy so yes
the
one of the workers could he upgrade to
the first class that yeah sure go into
the first class and you know you'll pay
me later
he came to the end of his destination
and he
went over to the worker let me pay the
difference because no rabbi don't worry
because what do you mean no don't worry
i want to pay the difference i promise
i'll pay just forget about it
so rav sega was undeterred and he went
to the train master who was like the
rush of shiva all the work is
and he said you know i i made up i'm
going to pay extra i was in it even
though it was an empty seat but i said
i'll pay he doesn't take money
so the man announced in front of all the
people this rabbi is one in a million
not just he's not cheating
he's running after the opportunity to
pay
he just filed the report that yidan are
honest he just made a kid in shashem he
just justified the reason why we're
taking out of mistrial to do something
just like that
was once walking in gardner
it was then in his late 80s
and it was a very narrow path
and he was walking one way and there was
a soldier coming the other way
and the time stepped to the side and
most of the soldiers go first
and the soldier was shocked the rabbi
must been three times his age so he
emotioned him to go first
and he says no no my whole life i
stepped aside to respect someone else
i'm gonna do this now as well
and the soldier says
this is something i never saw
such a respect for me
and the soldier was touched he was moved
beyond words
because there was a living kid of hashem
called khafiz
and that's the way we could live
me irremessa oil
by portraying what tyra does to us
in every encounter with the non-jew
then there's no problem of anti-semitism
at least we mitigate or diminished it
which is the basis of the kaddish that
we say
the word escadal biscadas
but it's also
the living kaddish that we have to be
the league living koichi man that we
have to be
that we will proclaim
and we will broadcast
and we will sank to hashem's name in our
dealings with the non-jew
and i'll give you another example which
is close to my heart
i recently saw a bumper sticker
this driver
makes a kiddish hashem
what a beautiful statement
because let me tell you
there is no greater vehicle pun intended
of kiddish hashem
like the way we drive
because there's a world out there
you know road rage has been given new
meaning
and just this this
aggressive
very violent way of driving has taken
over
and when a heat is driving the way he is
supposed to drive
and parking
and not double parking and that block is
someone's driver even to make minha
he could be a living kid this hashem
but it's not only
this driver
but it has to be everybody that goes in
the streets
but you know it's unfortunate
sometimes we do just the opposite has to
show them
i don't want to be my but it's something
that has to be mentioned
but matasiyo salman once said
and i quote
mir buoyan anaya hitler
with the way we drive
the truth is
he's right
because yidna always rushing
we have to make minha we have to make
shakia we have to make the bris we have
to make the shirt we have to make the
chopper we have to make the pigeon at
ben we have to make
shabbis we're always rushing and our
time is precious
and we might be justified because we
have to get there
but the non-jewish world will not accept
that as an excuse
we can't drive and make a khalashem
but if you're talking about
one area that
generates so much sina sistro
it's where we drive the way we park
i'm just thinking of two incidents that
i saw recently
where i did get out of a car and started
screaming at a guy
for no reason
it was i was embarrassed to be a hit at
the time
or someone double parked
actually was there was no way to pass
through and just
went away
and there was a line and this is in my
black in fact a line of cars the entire
block no one could go
the honking the incessant honking was
deafening
if you could somehow quantify that as
that that synonym because of that year
that double parked you could probably
produce an atom bomb
there was such road rage and such anger
why is this person being selfish a line
of cause and you know what happened the
person was embarrassed to come out and
move his car so it was worse and worse
until another yid who was parked legally
came out of his house and moved his car
so all the cars started going through
that avenue to get out of the street
but it was something that was just
beyond belief
how do you do that to people he didn't
know go ahead with no difference
but my boy and i are hitler without
driving
and people have to
quote happen so they just park or double
park or block someone's driveway that's
unforgivable i don't think any plastic
would say you're allowed to disturb
someone to make them irish
come early and find a parking or walk or
a hike but how do you do that
and and you know if you don't have that
bumper sticker on your car you have to
emblaze it into your neshama
this yid is living hashem and the way i
drive is a wonderful opportunity being a
quite shamayim
you know they say a story about this
person is driving on a highway and he
sees he gets stranded so he quickly
makes a detour and goes to help the
fellow
and he looks closely
and he says and he doesn't seem to be
jewish
because are you jewish he goes no
so why are you wearing that yarmulke
he said my mother says you ever get
stuck take out this yamaka put it on
your head the jews are the most
wonderful but i'll always stop for you
that's a beautiful story
that's that's called a kid
but
sometimes
we do just the opposite it's painful
you know we talk about
hashem
i don't know if we realized the
magnitude of hashem
i heard this from
an ankle of moisture
i'm just gonna talk about all the
details because it's something that's
not to be publicized
but many years ago there was a year that
was stuck behind the iron curtain
when being behind the iron curtain was
dangerous
and he was in a very dangerous situation
and there was one political figure that
was able to
get him out of
jail and bring him to safety
but he had a price they had a price tag
he wanted to run for a prominent office
government government position
and he wanted the jewish people to back
his
candidacy
and then he'll get the yid out in no
time
the problem was this was a yid who lived
a deviant lifestyle
and was living
because what he did then he was known
and i don't get into the details
and they asked bianca kaminetsky
could we save a life but it's going to
be
we're supporting a candidate that does
not deserve our support
maybe oculus i have to think about it
and the next day he said i have no
writer that you like to do it and
therefore don't do it
because as important as creature as
an
israel
but making sure
and as a post script someone i don't
know why they went to eskraf shah the
question
had the identical response i don't have
orion and therefore we have to say that
it doesn't justify hashem
i need a cotton if i could air arya
maybe it's a gemara and it's a hedgehog
of zai and
the murray says pikachu david lavrov i
deserved ever wanted to do about him
until houston says
like he was dealing if i desire
so he
responded what's going to happen if my
son assassinates me
it's going to be a horrible hashem that
governor melech was killed so if if i
didn't avoid zara or people attribute it
to my wrongdoing it won't be hashem
david was willing to give his life
not to make
him
and he wasn't even making
my point is
that
hashem is something
that's it's intolerable
and perhaps the person has to give his
life not to generate hashem
so how do we do it
without thought
how do we do it when we deal in business
and people say
the jews are not honest
once said by the good of convention i
quote
he saw recently in a webster's
dictionary
that there's an entry is a word to jew
is a verb
to cheat
and engage in sharp practice
can you imagine
to jew a verb is to cheat we have become
synonymous with cheating
doesn't that tear at your heart
you'll say that that's just the
anti-semitic remark
i i hope we could i hope we could accept
that
but what goes on we hear stories rahmani
let's learn headlines that are
heartbreaking
we are
children of of the barista who's ms our
terrorist ms and we have to be ancient
and there's no justification
of doing anything less than honest
besides the
wrong doing in itself
but the horrible hashem that it creates
we have to commit ourselves
to redefine the word to jew
to jew means to be scrupulously honest
to be
polite
courteous
and beloved that's the way we have to
live to see revision in the dictionary
because that's the essence of a yeed
we have to train our children also
every opportunity we meet another person
is an opportunity of choice
sometimes it amazes me
why we are not focused on this enough
you know there were generations that
rabbanum
learned
hashem with their
kilois they were gonna have to give
their lives like it is hashem they were
fathers that learned with their children
hashem
before they
gave their lives
hashem
and i say now we have to learn with
ourselves and our children our
grandchildren
and if i could say this particularly now
we look back at the past year and a half
with
one of the
corbin of of the covid
is how we were vilified in the press
how
whether it's right or wrong i don't get
into that now
but we were the first that opened our
shoes and opened our receivers and and
we did things that perhaps the game
weren't doing
and
there was a lot of bad talk about us
and now we have to create a counterforce
a kid hashem that erases some of that
residue of
hashem whether again whether it was
justified or not is immaterial
but
we have to create a kid hashem to erase
that bad image that we created
maurice says
that has a stain on his clothing
is high of me
why
says the gemara because he's
a saying he's causes tyra to be hated
rashi explains
people say
that's a talmud
he goes with a dirty jacket
and they
despise tyra
and i ask you
if he has a stain in his
isn't that a far greater hashem
now she says you have to be hagon
we represent the beauty of torah
i know a friend of mine told me
he once said yes rapam which goes back
obviously years ago
they had a very good job offer
but on one condition he can't wear a
yamaka
that's our palm told him
and our times even though
years earlier it was more acceptable
but he wouldn't recommend his time to
take a job where he cannot wear yamaka
he says what you should do is
ask for permission to wear yamaka
and you have to do three things
you have to be the most honest worker
the most polite worker and the most
devoted worker
then you'll be making a kit the shame
with your yamakum and your behavior
that's what we have to do when we enter
the business world
the most honest
the most polite and the most reliable
but it's all about me you're messing we
could light up the world with the beauty
of toronto wherever we go
you know the gemara says in khulan
incredible story if you think about it i
mean you have to
have to really
think about the implication of the story
rapin
was going from var mitzvah
and he was traveling and the narginay
was in his way there was a raging river
so perhaps
again
undeterred
he says you know he splits for me
so you know he says why should i split
for you and there was a whole back and
forth
but la maisa the guinea river split for
a princess banjo
then he said wait a minute there's
another yi that i was that was also
going for them it's a split for him
okay
but listen to this it says
prince william noticed that when he was
walking
there was an arab accompanying him not
that the arab was helping him but
they're walking together
so perhaps turns to the genoa river
khalik
not just for me
not just for this year that's doing the
mitzvah for this arab worker
i
what shall be after this arab fellow he
wasn't working for you he was a comp
he's working with you
delailama
that no one should say
lebanese
says rashi
people say in shock
that's a jewish person imagine i'm
walking with this jewish person and the
water splits for him and leaves me
behind
we have to live our lives with that
question
we do something will people say
that's what a religious jew does
pardon me for saying this
but
it pains me
a year tells me he was in a supermarket
and there was a non-jewish
cashier that was working behind the
counter
you know ringing up the order
and she turns and says how come you
people don't have time for us
so the idea that she happened to
accuse was a friend of mine who were
very liberated i'm sorry what do you
mean
because you know what just happened you
wouldn't believe it
another jew came with a
shopping
cart full of stuff he's on the phone
okay so i'm patient
and he starts unloading the entire
delivery
and i ring up everything
and
he
paid me
took the change
and didn't say a word to me he was on
the phone the entire time no hello no
goodbye no thank
you now you know what i mean how come
you people don't have time for us
and then affirmative comes this lady is
working for him she brings up the
entitlement packs it everything
didn't say a word matter hello not
goodbye and i thank you
how come we don't have time for them
that's the way it
behaves
you think about
ever happened that review had to greeted
that that that he that the guy had to
greet him because he was the first to
greet the other person
amazing
you know the gemara says rashi quotes it
something is beautiful has to be
maintained
if something is not nice so a stain
doesn't really take away too much of its
beauty
but something that has perfection that
has beauty
a little stain
makes a big difference
we are the beauty of the world
and we have to protect that beauty
i'll tell you a story of a friend of
mine
told me the derby of them goes back a
long time ago obviously he was learning
in muncie in baysraga in muncie
and it was thursday night it was ready
in the wee hours in the morning probably
i think it was 1 30 a.m
and he was learning schmuck you wanted a
little fresh air so he went to stroll
down the block if you if you know
basraga
on the right-hand corner of the of the
yeshiva there's an old cemetery a
non-jewish cemetery that goes back to
the civil war
and he's going for a walk you know
thinking of learning and he comes to the
cemetery and he says he never
thought he would see a thing but there's
a white
thing moving in the cemetery he said
never saw a ghost but that's what a
ghost is something in white moving in
the cemetery
so the average person would run for his
life but he's a baka he was a baka so he
went this did wanted to meet this ghost
and who was it
it was the legendary mashiach of vegeta
and he told me i don't know who was more
embarrassed me or him
i'm walking 1 30 in the morning and he's
in a cemetery with his shirts you know
like
so
says
you're probably wondering what one what
i'm doing here he goes no i'm not
wondering but he was wondering
i'll tell you the truth
he lived across the street from the um
from this cemetery and it was a very
busy street i think it's maple level i'm
mistaken yeah you're like that maybe
and sometimes debris
papers from this
from the area
blows onto the cemetery
and he knows muncie became a very jewish
neighborhood but again it was a
non-jewish cemetery from the civil war
and what's going if a guy drives by and
sees that this dirt in the cemetery oh
the jews don't respect our dead
so every so often no one's looking i
come out and clean up the cemetery
an incredible atari
offer the image of eden that we are
respectable people
but
to do something that will cause hashem
you know it always bothers me you know
going we're going to hallelujah trip
it's an incredible opportunity of
training our children
you know you look on the ground and
there's rappers with jewish letters as
big as kittens lavonna oysius
who threw that down on the floor wasn't
the guardian
or it says please don't feed the animals
and you could see matza and ladyfingers
i mean we're incriminating ourselves
we burn the comments therapy so it's
wonderful and where do you leave it on
the street
it's about
a terrific this is the way we tarnish
our image is the way we promote
anti-semitism
but then you have a person that's a
living
question his definition of to jew means
to be honest and arabic and devoted and
caring
the smog one of the great reshainam
voices obeys
he writes the rashti lagolius yisro it
seems like he made a a speaking tour
that those that are dishonest with the
non-jews
are being
terrible way
and then in a different an essay i in
dalit
it seemed like he really had
a great devotion to this point but the
rashti lagolius he went all over and he
said mashiach will never come
if we're not honest in business
why
he says what's this what is this exact
word i'm just translating it can you
imagine if meshiach comes
and the guy will say
the messiah came for the jews a bunch of
crooks that's illusion it would be the
most gruesome hashem if mashiach comes
to a bunch of crooks
and mashiach will not come
unless we are perfectly honest with the
non-jew
and i was thinking
maybe that's why their buyers have
changed our social life
that today we interact with
on a daily basis on a weekly basis
perhaps a hundred times
it's an opportunity of generating more
kidness hashem because that's the
prelude of the gula that's the the key
to the goula that's the precondition of
the guru that we have to sanctify the
name of hashem
and we have stories that that are moving
i heard
i could tell you his name is raphael
spitz a good friend of mine
he said he was him and his brother went
a long time ago to long island they
wanted to buy a certain property a
certain real estate
and they
you know i guess you're in the business
you know that you you can you talk to
the building manager he knows all the
ups and downs of the property and they
met what he said an ancient guy
it was definitely much older than the
average uh building manager he was a
seemingly an ancient person but he was
very lively and very robust and very
young and energetic
and he's telling about it about the
building
and then he said by the way do you know
do you know the saint
my friend says i wasn't interested in
knowing the saint
he goes well which saint
rabbi title bam
so he says
rabbi term from wiesberg yeah do you
know what that's saying rabbi tattlebaum
so my friend said yeah i know but how do
you know oh i met him twice i got to
tell you
he said i was when i was young and again
he was ancient
i worked in the fire department
and on the high holidays it was rosh
hashanah obviously i was stationed to go
just stand outside the synagogue we call
it tashmahad which i guess is the
non-jewish word
and just you know be around just make
things maintain safety
and like around five o'clock in the
afternoon the door open then hundreds of
people streamed out
and it was a sight to see
then all of a sudden everything stopped
like as if everybody was paralyzed and
the old rabbi the saint came out
i never saw such a holy person
and he points to me and i got nervous
and i see he's talking with his friend
and he starts walking towards me he
walked very slowly
and of course he didn't speak english
but he spoke with an interpreter
and i want to thank you
for protecting
my people it's so nice you're you're
here we we we appreciate it and it gave
me a blessing
and i was touched
man i was touched
i said i'll pay another time
i was once making inspections on the
high fire hydrants
and there's a car parked right in front
of the hydrant and i was mad
but i was patient
and suddenly a private home the door
opens and out walked the saint
it seems he was
someone
and
he can point to me like he didn't
recognize him but he saw that his car
was making trouble and he asked i could
see him talking
and he makes a point to come over he's
walking very slowly
and he said listen i have to apologize
they brought me here
and i
walk very slowly and it's very hard for
me to walk so they park right in front
of the house
and
i'm sorry i didn't know it would disturb
you
i give you a blessing you get to my you
get to my age and you should understand
how
important it is and people treat you
nicely
this man must be in his 80s and he's
still working my friend says can i buy
that blessing off you
he says well not for all the money in
the world am i going to give you the
blessing of the saint
but you know to me is amazing the first
story
that was rosh hashanah
a day of malchus
who could imagine
and always thinking about is the
recognition to the guy firemen
you know the answer is
because that's the supreme
with that statement
and that's something that we have to
internalize into our own lives
a bank of communist was once sitting and
waiting in a doctor's office
and there was a irreligious boy next to
him
and the boy had a ball
so a bank of motion to the boy might
throw me the ball
so he did
and
banker threw back the ball to him and
they were playing catch
their banker was called to the doctor
and after
the annika who was with roy bank of said
what was that all about
why are you playing ball with this kid
because you don't understand this is an
irreligious jew
but we never saw a rabbi in his life
and i wanted to give him a nice
impression of a jewish person
i don't speak english i can't talk to
him
i play ball with him he'll think hey the
jews are nice people the religious are
nice people
are you probably wondering so where's
the punch line did the child become the
next vega
i can't say that i have no idea i don't
make up stories i tell you the stories
as they were
but to me that's the punch line
every encounter with another person is
an opportunity of kidding hashem
felt that if i be nice to this child
i'll make a kiddish hashem
and how about the people that we
encounter on a daily basis at work
on a train in a bank in a store
the way we drive it's all the same thing
let me close one more thought i remember
vividly that was a long time ago
i was a 10th grader i'm sifter tervedas
and the first time i encountered the
halogen for coivic shirum khan and
wasserman safer
i don't remember any stickle that i read
then but i remember the hakudama very
well
the agdama was written by a yid who was
there when the muhammad was shot
to death together with tamidim and his
children
and somehow he was he's he has a son
here robin flatbush this is the original
the father of
austria
was there of many years in the east side
he was there when muhammad was gunned
down
and he heard exactly what happened
and there in the akdamma the helicopter
he writes exactly what he heard from his
mouth
was very calm
and he says probably they they in
charmaine they feel we are their cabanas
for our brothers and sisters in heritage
in america
and we are a carbonus we have to make
sure we have the right kavanagh and let
us go and make the hashem with the right
kavanagh
with fire and the world the world would
be rebuilt
the could always be with fire
and that's the way he gave up his life
and i was thinking
we have to have the same attitude
the way we live our kids hashem
over
to us it lived nicer
now our role is to be
this beacon of light in the in the world
that's so dark
that people say oh that's an that's a
ban yisrael that's abandoned
we are also living
and we have to live our kids hashem and
with the age of kids hashem will be
saying
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