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Rabban Gamaliel had a son.
Rebbi was born, there was a gazera,
there was a decree
by the wicked Romans
that you're not allowed to do brit
milah.
Not allowed to learn Torah, not allowed
to do brit milah. They tried to
eliminate Judaism.
Yehuda, little 8-day-old baby,
what's he going to do? He's
give him brit milah.
Of course, there's always a rasha
looking at everyone
and waiting for them around the corner.
Sometimes it's a Jew, sometimes it's a
gentile, but there's always a rasha
somewhere.
And Hashem sends them to test us to see
what we're going to do.
So the rasha is exist upon by himself.
Hashem sends them to test us.
This was not even a test for Rabban
Gamaliel. Why? Because he knows who runs
the world.
The rasha comes, "Hey,
you went against the king, I'm arresting
you." Okay. Rabban Gamaliel is the head
of the Jews. He's an important person.
So they can't like, you know, insult
him, abuse him. It has to be a orderly
way of how to bring him. Treat him with
respect until they kill him.
That's the goal.
So now, before he gets to the king, they
have to travel. Eventually, before they
get to the king, it's a long road, long
travel. Eventually, they get there, and
you know, before they meet him the next
day, they're going to have him stay at
one of the king's family members'
houses.
And they stay there. [music]
And the
uh
wife
of the ba'al habayit, of the owner of
the house, she sees Rabban Gamaliel's
wife crying.
Why are you crying?
She says, "Look at my baby. What did he
do?
They're going to kill him tomorrow."
And the Roman woman says, "Why are they
going to kill him?
What did he do?"
She says, "Oh, because he's a Jew." She
goes, "What do they care if he's a Jew?"
He goes, "Oh, because, you know, they
don't like us." He goes, "How do they
even know if he's a Jew?"
He says, "Well, because we did blick me
la. Look, we cut the foreskin."
She goes, "Oh, that's how they
identify?"
He goes, "Yeah." She goes,
"You know what? I also had a baby.
I also had a baby, same time, same same
age. Also, he's only a week old, two
weeks old by now.
Why don't you take my baby?
Cuz all babies look alike.
Take my baby and show it to the king.
He's going to see a baby that's not
doesn't have a foreskin cut off. So,
they'll think [music] that they lied."
So, Abun Gamliel's wife says, "Only
under one condition.
>> [music]
>> You give me a condition?
Saving the boy's life, you're going to
give me a condition? Because you have
one condition.
What? Don't breastfeed my son."
He goes, "Don't breastfeed your son?
Doing you a favor, you're saying don't
breastfeed? Okay, don't breastfeed." He
goes, "Yeah, because
>> [music]
>> it's our tradition that
Amis says only allowed to drink kosher
milk from their mothers,
from Jews. Don't breastfeed my son."
She says, "Just think about this emunah.
That she's trying to save our kids' life
and she's giving her conditions."
Us, we'd already be writing checks. "How
much do you want? What's for this? We're
going to clean your house, cook for
you."
She's giving her conditions. So, this is
what happens. The mother says it
continues, they bring the
Roman boy as if he's a Jew.
The king sees it, he goes, "What is
this?
You brought my dear friend, the
honorable Abun Gamliel, all the way here
for no reason?
Saying that he's did a blick me la, when
against me there's no week me love.
He killed the Russia.
Disgrace my, you know, disgrace of a a
big person. Even though he's not a
Roman, he's a big person, he's
important.
>> [music]
>> They have respect.
They killed the Russia.
But now [clears throat]
they come back
to pick up their boy.
And I want to take the You want to take
you with her.
Maybe he becomes a bee with her.
So thank you very much, you saved our
son. She was, "Yeah, but I have one one
thing I want to
in return." "Oh, anything you need,
anything you need."
She says, "I want you to breastfeed my
son."
"You breastfeed your son? Why?" She was,
"Because it seems like you're so
connected to your God
that you were scared, you would rather
your son die
than have something unholy.
>> [music]
>> Which means that what you have is really
holy. And I want that for my son."
So she breastfed her son.
And her son
later on became Antoninus
Marcus Aurelius,
the Caesar, the head guy in Rome, top
guy, number one.
Called the king. I think they called
Caesar, but they called the king, it's
the same thing.
And Rabban Gamaliel's son who will
become Judah, Rabbi Judah.
And they were Havruta, they learned
together.
Hashem
Do you have any questions?
>> No.
>> Okay, so let's all say Baruch Hashem for
more Torah. One, two, three.
Let's say Baruch Hashem. One, two,
three.
The Asians.