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There was a kid, his name was Rabbi
Srol.
He was instructed.
He was a wealthy town of him lived in
the city of Brisk.
And he was a very very big deal,
tremendous, fabulously wealthy.
And
fortune has its ups and downs and
unfortunately came the time
that he lost his entire fortune,
everything gone, depleted.
And
he really didn't know what to do. He
never encountered such a situation. He
had everything. He was always the giver.
He was the He was the timer. He was
supporting the entire Brisk.
And mid-summer out of nowhere
he got struck by lightning.
And there was nowhere to turn, nowhere
to do.
But he knew
there was a famous family, the
Rothschild family in England.
Baron Rothschild, there was a famous
family, tremendously wealthy bankers.
And he said, "You know what? Maybe I
should just try my luck.
I'll take a train trip
to England and who knows,
maybe they'll hopefully be able to help
me out." Finally, he gets to England, he
looks around, where's the Rothschild? He
was all Rothschild, Rothschild, he's
directed to the right place. Obviously,
with in these situations with very
wealthy people
there's a lot of red tape. He realized
that the entire world literally is all
here, all trying to get
Baron Rothschild's attention, trying to
share their story.
And he started to get very mirish.
He knew time was ticking down. It was a
lengthy train trip and
by the time he's going to be able to get
through to someone and then finally meet
Baron who knows it could be months,
maybe even he had no idea.
He met the clerk
on Arab Shabbos. Somehow the clerk saw
that he looked super out of the
ordinary, very very broken, very very
shattered. And he approached Baron he
approached he approached Rabbi Srol.
And he said, "I see you look different.
You don't look like everyone else. Like
you look really, really
battered."
And he said, "Yeah, Taco, I I'm coming
from Brisk.
My entire plan also is a very wealthy
man, and it's all been taken from me. I
left my family with a very small
allowance.
And here I am just in hope sitting here
crying doubting that I should be able to
get a meeting with
Mr. Rothschild." And the clerk
sees that this again, he was a very
wealthy man. He was a man of
dignity and pride, and
there's a special
unique mitzvah when it comes to someone
who was used to someone who was living
that lifestyle of a shiva's to get him
back on his feet in that way.
And he said, "Listen,
I'm going to take care of you.
Come back after Shabbos. Let's
reconvene, and let's see what we can
do."
The the the clerk comes back and
introduces him to the baron, to the
banker, to Mr. Rothschild.
And Mr. Rothschild
sits down in his office and says, "Can I
just ask what happened?"
He says, "Well, I'm from again, I'm from
Brisk, and the clerk told you I had a I
was a very wealthy and a big business,
and everything was taken."
He said, "How much were you worth? How
much did you lose?"
And he gave him
the sum.
It was a very, very large amount, and he
was almost embarrassed to just like say
with that number, but you know, in
respect to where he was and who he's
done with, he said the number.
Mr. Rothschild takes out a checkbook
and writes out a check
for exactly that number, not a penny
less.
He almost fainted on the spot.
And he's completely overwhelmed,
overcome with emotion, and he wants to
ask and say and get something out and
how why thank you you
completely exploding with
And before he can say anything,
Mr. Rothschild
says, "Reb Yisrael,
what's your address?"
So, him his address.
Mr. Rothschild takes out another piece
of paper
and says, "Here.
This is my address."
And he says, "If you ever
get yourself into another situation like
this,
send me a telegram in the mail.
I'm going to take care of you."
There's a lot of
messages,
takeaways from that story
about chesed and stocker
and no sin about him and the way.
But there's also another message
that what was this Rabbi Saul feeling?
He's feeling broken.
He's feeling lost, darkness.
And all of a sudden
there was the redeemer.
There was the big veer
that was able to take care of
everything.
Wiped all of his pain and sorrow
into obliteration.
On the seder
we're no different.
We come to the seder.
We talk. We tell the stories. We sit
with our wives, our kids, our in-laws,
parents.
And what we're doing is we're setting up
the structure.
We're setting up the path
that whatever may happen, whatever may
go down later
after Pesach, Shavuot, the summer,
Hanukkah
we're creating the pipeline, the gateway
back to the master.
And the master says, "Every single year
sit down with your family
and relive it."
And then when the dark times come
we're not hoping for the veer.
We're not hoping for sagulas us nism.
We go one place.
We're going back to David's there. We
have his address.
That's the structure, that's the
intention.
That's the key boon of the Hashem.
It's man here we're saying of course the
freedom that we're excited we relish
in this
that we're
that we're in the time we're out but
something much deeper, something much
more fundamental, something that will
really sustain us
is realizing that we have the address.
Hashem is giving us a slip of paper and
he's saying I'm your God. I took you out
of trying and any time any darkness
any oppression that you're feeling in
your life there's only one address and I
can take care of you. Will it happen the
day you ask? The day after? Maybe a year
you're going to have to wait. But
there's one address.
