Life's Unknowns Faucet Of Bracha - Rabbi Fishel Schachter Shlita

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I I remember last year I think I remember actually I I do remember when I finished the shir I said it's time it's beginning of el it's a shir it's once a year she so I said to myself I know you're not supposed to be not supposed to say but I'll tell you the truth I said to myself now is when my diet starts I said if I say that I'll have to report to you a year later and clearly the busha of failure will force me to maintain my diet. So I am here to report to you that the taste of a good piece of Google cougle overrides busha. Okay. Like my father's used to say in the in the he said like this. He said to drink not to drink wine. There are many time not to drink wine but the taste of wine is stronger than anything else. However, don't intend to give up. We will try again bin this year but this year I mean it but then again I meant it last year also. Okay. No devel of art like this. This is just for illustrative purposes only. Ask your local rabbi what to do. They say on one piece of pizza the bra is mine. On two pieces of pizza, you have to wash and make a hamzi. And on three pieces of pizza, you make a shakyanu on your new suit. Okay. Now, the says of art says of art that there was a uh Romanian yid noticed a few people started eating cookies. Now, it's true because we're starting after this year, right? I can't eat cookies during the sh, but you could still kaparine another hour. They say to us this uh Romanian yid, he comes into a tailor, comes into a tailor and he says, "Can you open the jacket? It's quite tight." He looks at it, he says, "Okay." It's always the question whether you open the jacket or you go up to the next size. So he told him, "Okay, it's going to be $35." So the man said, "What? $35 in Bookucharest. The tailor would charge two pingo for this. And the tailor said, "Yeah, but how much is a ticket to Bookucharest?" Right? You know, see, you're still cheaper over here. Chuva, it says is a lotion of chuva. The word means now. What does now and chuva really have to do with each other? And the answer is because you can't do chuva on the past. Can't do chuva on the future. There's no such thing as doing chuva and then moving on. It's it's um I think he says this line that was a gal that he he told the yidel come on maybe you take me over this Sunday. said, "What are you talking about?" He says, "No, really, I need you to cover for me. I can't find another gal." I said, "What am I supposed to do?" He said, "You I I can't go into the church." No, I I don't I'm not going into the You're not coming into the church. You can do on the outside. Wait, do we do confessions? You come people. He says, "I should play the role of a gal. People should come and confess to me." No way. So, he told him, "What do you mean no way?" He says, "Uh, you know, I charge 100 bucks a confession." Okay. You know, I'll do it. So, everything went very well. When the gal came back, he noticed no one's coming to be under a he says, "What happened?" He says, "The Y told us for $100,000, you get the next 10 years of a pre-sale." You know what I mean? give it to a you know what I mean. You can't do chuva on the past and you can't do chuva before you do an it doesn't work. Chuva is on now. Chuva is now but chuva is on what I did yesterday and what I did two years ago, what I did 5 years ago, what I did 10 years ago. Why are you telling me that the chuva is on now? The kadusha says that the chuva is when aid says that that gives me a brand new life every second of my existence. As far as the nish is concerned the nama would pack out too much of a contradiction with the gof but says nama you stay I'll call every single breath means new life however you want to interpret you want to interpret biologically that our cells are constantly reproducing themselves you want to interpret it whatever but that's the mitsus and it's Understandable cuz we're not the same person. Picture of a little baby and a 99year-old Zeta. They're the same person. They don't look the same because the person's constantly biologically changing. But there the biological difference is so great that it's it's a stark difference over the years. It's from one day to the next. You don't see it. Even from one year to the other, you don't see it. But you know, eventually you see it. I remember when I had to paint my beard white for Purim. Now the painted black. That's what happens. One of my was doing it for me found a black here. He said Z your beard's turning black. I said I don't think so. I don't think so. But the mats says that we're constantly changing. So there are DNA tests that can tell you exactly how old you are. How? Because the brea who you are now is not who you were 5 seconds ago and it's not who you're going to be in 5 seconds from now. So understanding that that means that is constantly for every second that that we're we're alive and we can talk and walk and think is giving us a new life. So the kadushim says that that's the proof that you can still do chuva because why would the do that if you couldn't do chuva so I'll call so less someone say I cannot do chuva because of what I did it just piled up too much okay I'm a different person now I'm a barrier kadasha this barrier kadasha who I am now as of 913 43 44 45 on this on this night over here Monday night in Boston. This person who wherever we are, we're we're a different person. From the beginning of this year till the end of this year, you're a different person. For some of you, it's cuz you're going to be much more well-rested after a little nap. But for whatever reason, we're different people. So, what I did, I did. Now, I'm doing chuva. This new person wants to do chuva. Remember that I got one of my new used cars. Be careful. It's a it's a new car. That's a new car, right? That car is collecting social security for me. It's a new car. But we really are a new car. We really are a new person every second of our life. And that's the of being a form of chuva. That's how we can't live in the past. We can't live in the future. I have to thank Hashem be appreciative to that at this moment I am a new person. The Gmorra says that there was a fire in the city fire that ravaged an entire city. One particular shun one particular neighborhood was saved from the town fire. Absolutely nothing happened and they were sure it wasn't. And it says they had a dream. Who had the dream? The whole had the dream or maybe the whole town had the dream. They said is immeasurable. But if you want to know why the fire didn't touch any of the houses in this particular it's in the of a woman who used to heat up her oven every shabas and then she invited all of her neighbors that either didn't have an oven or didn't have money to heat up their oven to come and bake their chabas into her home. Now you have to realize the issaw over here. Okay, most people do not look for guests of Shabas before this month and most balabasters definitely don't want their next door neighbors to come in there. Sometimes in somebody once told me that uh you know I I heard from the sarov that doesn't sleeping of Shabas is very important and he doesn't even understand why he didn't put it in the Saras. So I decided from here on I don't care if this man is at 4:00 even though he has a house full of kids he goes to sleep at Shabas. I said did you feel harina? He said I definitely heard the kubra and I said I'm going to sleep now. So you know the famous story and may have repeated this once too many times this hoya that there was a lady was really the whole building heard her screaming every of shabas and she she continued to yell into shabas and finally somebody said listen I can't take guys he told his family scream sham loud scream sham loud because I I can't take it anymore and sure enough you know the the husband of the screamer came said why are you screaming sham so loud and the man answered it's to drown out your Asia's Kyle. Okay? Cuz believe me, so think about this woman. Think about this woman who has an oven and she has wood to heat the oven. And she knows that many people don't have wood to heat the oven. And at the worst possible time that you don't want guests, so she calls in the guests. She calls in her neighbors. She says, "Please, my oven is yours. Bake. Bake. I want you all to have fresh warmish as she saves the entire town that the fire doesn't attack them. So that's that's an awesome madrega but perhaps a notch less than if you didn't invite your neighbor but your neighbor came knocking of shabas and someone tell me no no no if you're in a situation where your neighbor comes knocking of shabas to come in that's a notch more because if you invite the neighbor to come in that's your that's your free choice you decided you're doing this you're proud of what you're doing but when decides I need you to help someone out now of Shabas and take them into your house at the worst possible time and you accept it. That means it wasn't my decision that I that I electively did but hashg put it on me and I accepted that that's a higher mad. I remember when I was a bak eating in different houses in your and there was the father kept telling the children before they ate all the food which wasn't much he said uh it was it was rough this house it was love to watch them your shalima family mayor sham family and they had like a a bed on piano hinges that came out you know and then they put four poles on that were the beds on different levels you got bunch of kids canara I remember I was sitting with we were sitting Friday night we were sitting sings mirrors and they said okay my kids have to go to sleep so we'll have to stop now and I was wondering who's stopping your kids from going to sleep till I realized they fold the table and they spread out mattresses on the floor in the dining room but I did watch this father go from kid to kid and say kesh malamita with them with a smile was very special so he used to tell all his kids this remember to say kesh before you eat remember to say kadesh remember to Shabases when it came to the dessert the comput you know it wasn't wasn't strawberry shortcake it was some kind of plum little thing and they were short on the dessert and there was a big fight amongst the kids and one kid I remember one kid said he picked up the kat and he said kesh and he gave it away to the other child and the father smiled and the father said to him like this he says when You eat the kat yourself. You have to make it clear you're eating it shabas cuz you may be eating it the shame uh you know you enjoy eating kat. He said when you're giving away your kat you don't have to say that it's shabases. It's automatically shabases. When you're giving something away then it's then it's part of you. So you know the famous again the we have a bunch of mushy tonight. Um, this woman is walking with her anacle and suddenly there's a rip current and the tide and she didn't hear all that thing about staying away from the hurricane and and her baby her anacle is swept out of the out of the carriage and swept into the ocean. She cannot believe this. And this grandmother starts hollering and screams at the top of her lungs from the depth of her heart. You can't do this to me. Help. And a wind comes and the baby is swept out of the water into her arms. Mom is okay breathing and she kisses the child and she looks at him and looks up and says, "God, he had a hat. Where is it?" Can you imagine? Right? But that's really what we do if we understand the appreciation of life. So why do we complain about the hat? It's all because we don't have enough of an understanding of the gift of life that comes every single minute. So I saw in the cipher it says a nice mush or story I don't know that there was a man he's running to shul and as he's crossing the street to go to shul a car tries to screech to a stop hits him he goes flying 40 ft in the air he lands he's knocked out at takes a minute turns out he had a slight concussion otherwise he's good to go no broken bones no internal bleeding no stitches imamish comes home the next day in shul he gives us a kadesh whoa He had a cake and coug and herring and fancy fancy schnaps. Monkeykey's uncle. What is that schnaps called? He had the monkeykey's uncle. He had the monkeykey's aunt. He had the monkeykey's grandfather, grandma. Also, super super kittish. The next day, somebody else came in and he gave even a bigger kdish. He had the monkeyy's second cousin, everything. They asked him, "What happened to you?" He says, "For 30 years, I'm crossing the street and I was never hit by a car at all." Right? So, why we only give kdish, you know, when we're if the person should protect everyone hit by a car? What about life itself? If we understood the braha of life itself and we had the hakar for life itself that is the greatest in the world and is the of cha I was in a camp this shabas and I like looking through the shameless I like looking through the sheamus and I'm looking through the shameless and I find a sther and I open up the sther and it's dated 10 years ago And it's a letter on the front page of the sid handwritten letter, beautiful handwriting in poetry from a teacher to a child, to a student. And I I don't remember the exact lotion, but it it was so beautiful. There was so much heart. There was so much hearts there. And I don't know, maybe it was a standard letter. Maybe she wrote it for all of her students and it was a graduation gift, but it didn't it didn't seem to me that it was printed in the computer. It looked very very real and it said how I know you know difficult times and the sitter is always there for you and through all your pain we'll dab together for the rest of our lives because the union of a teacher and a child is is you know never goes away and is always there and hopefully we'll all be dabbing together with this siddai. It was so so beautiful. And I'm saying to myself, why in the world is this in the Sheamus? It's like whatever this girl was going through and again, I don't know, maybe it was a standard Nusa for everyone. Didn't didn't she have a feel? You you can see the heart of the teacher plastered all over this letter. It's like, do we have an appreciation for life? Or did she say, "What does this teacher want from me?" And just slam down this cider someplace and leave it. No, I don't know. Maybe she lost it by mistake. Maybe someone borrowed it. I I don't know. But I'm wondering in relationships between each other, how many people really reach out to the other one and and the other side, whether it's between spouses or parents, we just we throw it into the Sheamus instead of having an appreciation. So we all know that in shul in the morning people come and they collect money. We give when someone comes over to you and he says, and of course we've all had the experience, can I speak to you for a minute? So, you know, you're in trouble, right? You know, this guy's not walking away with a dollar here. This is going to be really uh and what he say, no, you can't talk to me or I don't, you know, it's very hard to get. It's like some some of them are good at it. You know, you're cornered as you're putting together your talis. Can I speak to you for a minute? I supposed to say no. It's going to it's going to take you a minute to put away your drop your talis and run out. You know, like Okay, that's the way it is. I was just thinking there's two kinds of dabing. There's going around collecting sudok. I'm dabbing. I got to go through the I do by route, you know. I come come to sh do everything and okay, you get a bunch of dollars. Ashayam, help me. Help me. And sometimes we stop and we say to Hashem, "Hashem, can I speak to you for a minute? Can I speak to you for a half an hour?" It's it's a different kind of foring if you're thinking about it. So, I was in uh this Sunday yesterday morning actually. I was in uh in the country, by the way, the country we call the Catskll Mountains. Yes. And it was a big sh in a certain place. It's a big sh that services you know many many bungalow colonies around and around and it's it's a beautiful gorgeous sh doesn't make doesn't make a difference where has mikvah and there's plenty of cakes and cookies to keep you on the scion of diets going there and it's place to learn really really the problem is unlike the city where at least you have a hope of finding a parking spot on the street you can't park on the road so the only option of parking is in this sh's parking lot and most bungalow colonies are not within walking distance. So you only come you come by car and although there's quite a few parking spaces but there always more car on a Sunday morning there are especially prime time like 9 10:00 in the morning 8 whatever um of course I was there at 7:00 but I'm just saying there's more cars than parking spaces so they manage you know what I mean they're madish new parking spaces in between the lines on the lines the handicap spaces every says I'm such an honic compared to you and then then you park in the handicap spot you know this you figure out how to capture things you know it's but even then you know and people they they park in the middle cuz they figure out the guy could probably back out and manage to you know if you park mish in the middle between but even then there's not enough spaces so a lot of people just drive into the parking lot and they circle and drive out and you wind up doing hakuff. I said what else could you do? So I I see a friend of mine leaving the shul with his talent fill and as I'm driving by I I roll down my window I say you're pulling out can I follow you? He says yeah join the other five people who are following me already. He says, "So somehow somehow and you know it's of course you see hashgraph cuz you can circle 20 minutes and then you see somebody pulling in for the first time at pink then someone pulls out and he pulls in." Right? That's the way it is. They don't give out tickets. You know it's fig you waste time. The says I'll you spend extra time dabing and learning. I'll save your time someplace else. It's no one you don't lose time by doing the right things. Some cipher used to say uh if you find it rather tedious or maybe you're more of a London says is what does it say? It says so you'll have more time. You're worried about your time you'll have more time. Somebody told me he was in a place once on business and there was a minion there in the hotel and there was some locals also blew by a davining namish like the 100 yard dash of 30 seconds you know he says the next time he was there was like 30 40 years later they were dinging much slower he asked some of the locals what happened you know he says we see our friends we're always in a rush and we see you know where our friends are these people in their 80s and 90s we're not in such a rush anymore slowly you're Okay. So, finally I find a parking spot and I'm about and I I I want to walk out and my friend says to me I said, "Oh, come on. What is that supposed to mean?" I said, "Don't tell me that it's that ding here is like pur nicely there." He says, "You'll understand when you get into the shim." I said, "You mean because we're going around and around in the parking lot?" "No, no, no, no, no, no." I said, "What do you mean a pur?" And he drives away. shine. I have to figure out every mishag somebody says like a have to break my head to understand it. But then I came into the sh and I understood it being this is such a central place and being that all the mishim that come to collect money for sudaka obviously have little to do in the city and on a Sunday morning and especially the last Sunday morning of a camp. You know it is important when you can't even d every two seconds I'm getting married this week I'm getting married next week I'm for I got married last week please I'm trying to get married you know this every two seconds and you came right well that's what it was like it was purim it was purim ding okay you know like five people came to me between Omar that's between borak and shaomar you know what I mean so I remember the saying and like he wouldn't hear an earthquake but he used to insist they allow people to come over to him for even by he says the very Indian that you have to like stop for a second to be matri yourself take out money for someone else he says we don't know what that does and I was just thinking for a moment and I said you know all these cars are leaving here next week there'll be very few the week afterwards there'll be nobody in this parking not and no one knows where they're headed. No one knows where this world is headed. No one knows where the city is headed. No one knows where the country is headed. No, no one knows where anyone is headed in this world. So purim is a tremendous pur is a shaka and purim is a sh for the entire year. And I think the person is right. The amish that gives all the people in the a to have a good year. Yes. And it's hard to stop every two seconds. Some of these people they don't even need the money. Well, okay. The different once told someone, you would not give to a thousand people that need sodaka for the one person that's that's an impostor that's running a business over here. He says, I don't mind giving to a thousand people that are phonies if one there's one real person over there. Okay. Tell me, would you buy a thousand lottery tickets if you knew one of them was the power? If you understand what the value of seduck is. So I was just thinking in Switzerland, I read this someplace that they get, you know how much you pay for a speeding ticket? It's some some of the liberal socialists want to do it here too. It's based on your wealth. It's based on your tax return. If you're very very rich, then you can wind up paying $100,000 for a ticket, for a uh speeding ticket. It's it's wealth-based. And if your mom is poor, they give you money when you get a speed. I don't know how it works exactly. Now, you know, most people a speeding ticket it's not the money so much. It's the money is the way they say it's the points, right? Points is uh points is a lot. So, I was just thinking, so in America, in New York State anyway, you get a speeding ticket and you should not be speeding. So you get points, right? It's a problem if you get points. And the guy that was stopped and the policeman said to him, "You know why I stopped you?" No. You know why I stopped you? You're going 20 mph over the speed limit. Do you have an excuse? And his wife says, "You had to be careful. You see, he doesn't have a license. Would you be around? You're driving without a license?" I usually don't. But you see, I have this dead body in the trunk and I I I had to what? No, it's not. It's You see, the wife says, "No, you have to realize he would never do it if he was sober." Okay. It's just It's just that he's drunk. And finally, he calls in a police cars come from all over the place and they goes and she and and and and he says, "We just, you know, we we also there's another concern." and his wife says that the submachine guns we have between the first and the back seat if you go slow it could start it up. You know what I mean? Like so all of a sudden there SWAT teams all over the place and they grab the guy and they throw him up against the car and they say they said okay where's the dead? They look in the car. There's no dead body. There's no submachine guns. There's no uh what's going on over here? He says oh that's what the police told you. He probably told you I was speeding also. You know what I mean? Like uh that's what he was. Is it? Okay. But seriously speaking, speeding is no joke. Um he's taking the other people's lives around you. So even if a person gets points on his license and if he gets what is it 12 points, your license gets suspended and it's not gishmak. But uh the there there are eightas to get point reduction. One of the eightas is uh driver's ed class. You take a safe driving course brings down a few points. Of course, there's a limit to how how often you can take the the course. Okay. I got that went to driver's ed with my shea didn't have we snuck out by English and registered myself to some place that had a draw. We had Mr. Epstein. He was a Gavaldic. He taught us he says if a car doesn't start on the road don't have to be a big he took out a pen and he showed us you remember the old cars had carburetors. They had like this butterfly. They had like a round thing in the middle of an engine like a round looked like the top of a pot. Someone help me over here. Who's my age? And you turned this butterfly and you took off the tap. And then there was like a little flywheel and and an opening that went a shutter that went up and closed. And that's how the air came in and the g as you press the gas. And if you uh sometimes it got stuck. So the engine wasn't getting the gas. It wasn't starting. And if you stuck a pen or a little screwdriver in to keep it open, it got the air. remember that those days and the engine would start. He says, "Hey, you come there, you can make yourself take out a whole tool chest to make yourself look good and there stick in the thing and tell them to start the car. The engine will start and you'll be a remember there was no you'll be a good so I had some cars that only started that way." Um, problem today is go find the carburetor, right? See, so one other thing I remember what Mr. Epstein said, he said like this, "Make sure when you drive, you clean your windows on a sunny day." We looked at him like, "What did you drink this morning?" He said to him, I I know what I said. "You clean your windows on a sunny day." So he said to him, "Why do we have to clean our windows on a sunny day?" So he said to them, "Snow, you have no choice. I don't have to tell you that. But a window on a sunny day, if it's not clean and you drive into the sun, you don't see a thing because the little particles of sand all glow in the sun, it's more important on a sunny day, he says to wash down your windows than it is even on a wintry day. And he's right. And I'm just thinking, you know, comes now l the sun is still shining and the sun is on us. So when the sun is on us little little avakhara the dust of lash it shines right now is the time that we have to we have to clean our windows and there's no greater way of cleaning our windows is when a person just says thank you Hashem for life when a person has an appreciation of life says that's first attack on a person is he shouldn't appreciate that the is giving him life doesn't appreciate life gives you a says and right afterwards a talks about a vis by not appreciating the gift of life the next thing is a visar and the worst of I'll repeat to you what I heard from my good friend Gabil lamb he said like this very powerful v not all that are happy are thankful but all those that are thankful are happy someone to be thankful he has to be happy so there's a story of aid is who had a hotel and when you're you're in a hotel every single le Shabas you don't really have much. So he decided his wife said, "We need a break. We have to go to a hotel, take any of the rooms." No, we're going to a different hotel. It's very hard for a hotel owner to go to a different hotel. But that's what he did. And okay, he realized, you know, his wife was right and he's going to have Shabas and like seconds before Shabas, he gets a call from his manager. He says, "There's a fire. It's burning all around in the garbage dump right near and and and the walls are starting to catch." He says, "The whole hotel is I have to call you. I don't know what to do. And the guy says, "What?" And he goes, "Oh, sorry." Boom. So, here he goes. He's going to have some Shabas, right? His hotel is in flames. He decided, okay, Shabas is shabas. There's nothing he can do about it. This is an assign of a lifetime. And he did his best that Shabas to keep his mind off it. But sorry, Shabas. He called and he said, not going to believe it. The fire department came and mish put out the fire. No serious damage. Everything went fine. And the hotels hotel people came back into the hotel. Al is good. Not only that, the garbage burnt. I don't even have to take out the garbage. So he said, "I'm sorry. I knew it was before Shabas. I had to call you. What should I do after it was you know?" So he told his Rob the story. So he said, "It's a good thing I didn't worry." So the Rav said maybe because you didn't worry that's why it happened. that the gift of Shabas is that if we have the nephesh to put things on hold that says I can take care of things of you that under normal circumstances I can't say the shame if we can find the [Music] even to the slave he's saying a similar thing Every single day of our lives, there is a truckload of Yeshua dispatched every single day toward us. Yeah, great. Where is it? Comes to a checkpoint. The checkpoint is the Madin and the Madin says, "Let's check." They don't check the truck, but they check the intendant recipient. Is he worthy of it or not? says the kadusha even though we dab in three times a day do we really dive in three times a day some that we dive in go straight to the s but most that we dive in are put on hold or put on a shelf let's see what happens and then you have one where it's not because you're scared it's not because you're worried you just decide you know for 30 years I was never hit by a car you just decide to say thank you to Vanish for life and as soon as you do that they take all the that are on the shelf and it's it it's combined into one powerful awesome that goes through to Shaya and suddenly the checkpoint is removed. Not only is the checkpoint removed but those that were standing by the checkpoint blocking the trucks now go behind the trucks and they start pushing them. If you're driving on route 17, you're driving up to the country as most of you would be driving back from the country. You may notice when you pass curious yo, they're building a whole new section mish right up to the highway. Huge, big, beautiful, beautiful apartment complexes. So, a very interesting story. As they were digging in a place that was just grass, the construction workers came upon a concrete bunker, a very well-fortified concrete bunker and they did research and it turned out that there was a World War II veteran that came home and he was suffering terribly from some type of uh post trauma and he was sure the Nazis are going to come back and take revenge on him and He built a concrete bunker underneath his house. He had a house in the woods. There was only a small little dirt road. I should see it now. That small little but then it was very isolated and desolate. And and Immish for most of his life he lived in this lived in this bunker. And I'm just thinking to myself can't judge anybody. But how many of us are so we're soim and we're so we can't get it. that person did this to me and this she did it to me and he did it to me and she said this and he said that and every little fight you have goes back to the room and all the things that you say just get out of the bunker get out of the bunker and appreciate the moment of life soak she marries says what the richest man in one of the richest she marries was was then he had a wife, he had children from a previous marriage. I'm what did you do? And he's so angry that he makes a you can't have any enough for my from my estate. And they're living all I have a straw. I don't even have beds. And in the morning they have to remove the straw from their hair. And obviously there was one morning, you know, human beings are human beings. She was having a hard time. And he told her says to her, he says, "If I had, I would buy you on your hair instead of you having to remove the straw from your head. I would buy you an was a famous crown like on their head." And as they're talking, a man knocks on the door. And he says, "Please, my wife just had a baby. I need straw. Do you have any straw? I don't have any straw." Ah, now they felt good that they have straw. I'll say, "Who is this person? I don't understand. Why do I feel better because someone else doesn't even have straw? I still don't have furniture. I still don't have a bed. It's left to sleep on the straw. We say if you're saying like you're supposed to like rings an L. So we say afterward, what does that mean? You give a person. Oh, you have furniture. this guy doesn't even have straw. We shouldn't need that kind of an says okay he taught them to be but I want to potentially the moral talks about this talks is within all of us and when a person has an appreciation for life itself there's a gala whenever someone gives over there's a within I once told he told me when came to tell him that he was pardoned. So they told him, "Rabbash, pack your bags." And that could have meant he's being transferred to a different prison. That's the worst thing in the world cuz Vish in the prison that he is, he already knows the ropes a little bit. The guy didn't tell him he was being pardoned. He came into the warden's office. The warden told him, "You're going home." I said, "You know, he's going to tell you he didn't want to tell him. The other prisoners shouldn't hear him because they're going to attack him." He's going to tell him because he wasn't that if you bring someone to a good news there's a a spark of alo that comes into you says desire he wasn't to be there he wasn't to have it this person was and he came to them and said my wife had a baby the gift of life maybe you have some straw and they looked at him the way he appreciated life and that was their that gave them the brah and the impetus that She said to him right away, "You know what? Just for us to live this way is no point. You go off to learn and we know the rest is history." So a Rav once came to the BMP and the Ra said to the Bashv, "Should I do a shak with a man who was a water carrier till now, but now he became very wealthy." How did the water carrier became wealthy? I don't know. Amazon. He wrote a book about water carrying. I have no idea how he became wealthy. Micely became wealthy and the water carrier decided huh he wants the rob so he hired a shakan and apparently this water water carries he hired the mama to be the shakan and this water carrier was a very smart man he said you know how much you're going to get we are going to record how many times the gir yells the rob is going to yell at you when you suggest the shak And depending on how many times he's going to yell at you and how high he's going to be screaming, that's how much money you're going to get. The more he yells and the higher he screams, you're going to get more money. You understand the genius of this? And this sha knocks on the door to the water carrier. What? Oh, that's not good enough for me. I need rid of the water. What? We're getting better. And over here, I think your son will be fine for the water carrier. Water is with you. You realize wasn't giving up over here. You know what I mean? He slammed the door. or he climbed into the window, he slammed the window, he climbed into the roof. Some couldn't do that anyway, but he was, you know, he's going at it. So, Lisa, he just he just he was was relentless. So, at one point he came to the bos and he said, "Should I do the I mean, is it passes?" So, the malv told him, "Is he is he is heal?" He says, "Yeah, he's a shayan. He's obviously smart." He said, "Do the And when he left the said theus is ahat is a good what does that mean? So to reveal to them this was but what happened is in those days there was a minute a custom a terrible custom and that's how it was that the rabbi had to go to the neighboring communities and uh collect his wages that's how it went once a year he went around and the ra this ro was going from place to place and he came into a shul and somebody was giving a dr over there he like asked the kasha. Everyone burst into laughter. What kind of a kasha is that? The rob in his face and he comes to the next jewel and again he asks the kasha and again they all burst into laughter. It happened a bunch of times. The rough was very demoralized, very listen, he he wakes up. It's a dream. Nothing was a dream. He said even though it was all a dream it took him off his pedestal and because of that when the came he thinks it is a good he says I'm not so great you know maybe is a good says when the the the whatever that means the is a is a now to the credit hidden sulk under the pillow he recalibrated and said okay so maybe it's a good shik okay maybe this is where I'm taka is supposed to be. Let let me go for it. How many times in our life my spouse said something to me I can't believe after all these years she said that he said that whatever person is is putting you where you're supposed to be. I'll put him in his place. It's not what the way says not with that says that have to happen and we need it over here. We need it over here for you to happen. You know there's a person he came to atro and read this someplace and uh they told him there's no point for you to look for a job because you don't know how to read or write and he was looking he said the bish wants to give me pasi is going to give him pasi saw an application for government jobs and very strange he said only if you can't read any language and a bunch of people lined up for the job and he lined up you all said we can't read they said okay wait in the waiting room we'll soon call you in the waiting room were a bunch of newspapers and magazines and a camera and one by one they pled everyone because as they were sitting There they were. I was just looking at the pictures. No, it didn't work. And this person was like, he didn't even bother picking up the newspaper and they called him in and they got the job and he was working according to what I read. Uh he was working for the Israeli intelligence authorities. They needed him to shred papers. But they wanted someone who doesn't know how to read just in case uh you know they didn't want him to read any the way they say. So he said if I would have known how to read I wouldn't have gotten the job puts us in our place because there's a tick that we have to have Abu Kamyan I don't know if you remember him used to he was hurt during the war as a genius but during the war he went through a lot and he wandered from place to place of belk used to take care of him when he came to campa he would weeks before he would send articles of newspapers and they all knew him from Shanghai and I remember once I was in campa and Rav gifter was sitting outside next to Rav Rudman And all the kids were standing around and around they were like roped off and mashaba came in you know his way he looked like a looked like a vagaban but he was a tired attire in the sha and he he slept in tarvadas many years he slept in lakewood many years and he sat down he plopped himself down between ravan and ravgar they knew him and out of his bag he always sent bags of newspapers he took out a Chinese newspaper and he opens it up and ravg like looks at him and he says to he says you can't you know how to read Chinese so he said in a newspaper the only thing that's true is between the lines so between the lines what's the difference if it's Chinese or English between the lines he said it's the same right that's that's what it is okay so has a story he says there was a sits on a bus in sitting next to him is a you know fellow looks you has like two hairs and a little yamaka hanging with a pin from it and and he he has a big bag and he says, "You're a rashiva." He says, "Yeah, how can I help you?" He says, "Do you need a shas? I have like a little shas in my bag." So he said, "Where did you get this shas from?" He says, "It's like for 50 years when I come when I came here, the government gave me a job. I work on a rec in a recycling plant that recycles paper. Everyone brings their paper. They pay by the pound. They recycle it. But certain types of paper can't be recycled. And I'm here to pull out those papers. He says, "A lot of times I see I don't know how to learn. I see coming by and I grab it out. If not, it would get grinded up be turned into toilet paper, whatever they use it for. So a lot of times I I grab the out." He says, "And I wor many, many years." He says, "I found a whole sh over here and this yid tell what a yid what a yid is." He says, "I don't want my boss to lose cuz he paid for it." So I go out, I weigh the and I find newspapers on the streets that could be recycled and I bring it back to make sure he doesn't lose anything. So he has an equal amount of paper. And this yid says, you know, I would have retired a long time ago. My if I retire, who's going to take this job? Doesn't pay anything. I I have to protect the shameless. You understand who he understand who a person is? So when I was in yeshiva, we had a car. Shh. But we were illegal car. I was 17 years old. It was owned jointly. The car wasn't worth that much. So when you divided it amongst the partners, it was less than a shaputa per person. So I was able to say I don't really own car. It was a 1966 American Motors Gremlin stick shift, but it didn't have the shift and the clutch. It also didn't have cuz everybody wanted there was a you know how to drive a clutch. that was and uh there was no the gauge that told you how much gas was gone without a no one knows how much gas is in the car and the mechanic said it doesn't pay to fix when the fuel pump goes this thing is connected to the fuel pump when placed the fuel pump our maz everything in this car went except for the fuel pump and this car would was constantly running out of gas even if it stood in one place They ran out of gas until we realized you put a neglasser shisel underneath it, caught the gas, and then poured it back in before we started. So, we recycled most of the gas. The last time I saw this cars when we left it on the FDR drive in the middle lane on Thursday night in a snowstorm, we somebody told us that lives in Spanish Harlem. We were going to see. Don't ask. Okay. The bakarim they how do we know how much gas was in the car? We kept like a spiral notebook in the glove compartment. Okay. Everyone was supposed to write down how much gas they used with the mileage. We were going to figure it out. We had a red container of gas. Every once in a while you pour the gas in. And in order to get it to start, you had to jump on the car. If the car was totally empty and you poured in gas to get the gas to circulate, there were no fuel injector. We were the fuel injector. You had to jump on the car. There was one baker. He was like a baker. That's the sprite. the other guy for a little bit. You know what I mean? He used to jump on the bumper till the bumper came off. That didn't work. I remember once 3:00 a.m. I was jumping on the trunk of the car and a police car passed by and said, "What are you doing?" Unless I wasn't arrested. Lesson one from this story say, "Don't let your bakarim drive." Okay. Know somebody said he's looking for a told the shak I will not take a boy that has a license. No worry. Don't worry. On my word, my honor. Found it afterwards. Bakar had a license. He says told you what did you do? He says his license was suspended. He doesn't have a license. That's not a problem. Number two, you bring under the bench going cuz you have no idea what he did as a lesson number three that sometimes we need to be shaken up. Yeah. Gives us the gas we need but it doesn't work to get it to be circulate. We need to I think tonight famous story. I think I've said it here because it comes up very often the yard site. The mash used to say that they were walking together and there was a bak ripped off a leaf from a bush and he said how could you do that? The says bria everything in the bria says sh to hashem and they passed by this tree that was swaying back and forth and he said you see the tree is swaying back and forth. This tree is saying sh to the and he said you see the little leaf all the way on top that's the bilah that's the balt used to say you have to learn from everybody he said you have to nash from the Hungarians you have to nash their generosity from the litox the lus and the ban from Americans their sent each to different rebim no cookie cutter he himself was a town of the said a story. He was in Scranton. There was a Yiddish community there and someone tried to run him over. Yes, anti-semites were always around and he saw the image of his rabbi and he fell back and then the car zoom zoomed by zoomed by. But he saw every as a separate bri of didn't he used to send different to different rabbis this is for you this is for you used to say you know we used to ask him we feel we're getting burnt out he said if if you teach you're not going to get burnt out if you teach gar you'll get burnt out teach you always have new so the was by of one of his kids and he ded a very very long they're like you know the cater the photographer afterwards he said you know He says they call out the daughter of so and so is going to marry so and so and there's a time a split second when the has to take place and if you're ready too early what does the do there's a fight between the so it gets pushed off he said I don't want there to be a fight so I decided to d until that last minute okay so we we don't have the know when to but if there are little fights before shabas the says this has to be that way. So just to make a quick khazor, let's let's not build a bunker. Let's live our lives. Let's open our ovens air of shabas. Grab the moment and give sodaka. Especially when you feel like saying another which is ridiculous is when your saddaka is going to count and the next year let's report one to another that we didn't leave any special sid and the shameless the father of the he was to the he was a gabi and he used to give out the before and once he gave out all the good the only ones that were left were ripped ones and the rash came he said my and he gave him a ripped one he says this is what you give me whack He didn't answer one word. He said, "I'm sorry. I'll make sure to have a new for you next time." He said, "I am who I am. Nothing's going to change." He's the Russ. It's fine. Not to have the son of the So, if we do get whacked and and and there is an issue and things aren't going the way we want, it just may be that the gave you now such a gift says, "I got to jump on you to get it to circulate." Don't fight it off because we can miss an opportunity of a lifetime. Let's all take a cabala on ourselves bully from bust to bust from year to year. And maybe I can tell you next year that I did hold a diet and hopefully I'll be saying it in your most likely givea inspiring Joshua would like to give bigger shakur to the supporters and sponsors tonight Michael Exasa Miriam Hen for Mr. Mrs. Jacob. Captain Grace is sponsoring one of the many throughout the year worldwide. Call 8651 or email.com. Israel for River [Music] We're over. [Music]