The Hungarian Grandmother | Rabbi Avrum Mordche Malach

A good friend of mine once told me, I have a Hungarian grandmother. She’s a real character. Real Hungarian-Hungarian. I ask him: Tell me a story from her. He tells me, Once she walks on the street with two of her grandchildren and one of her friends approaches her on the street and she tells her: Mrs. So-and-So, What cute grandchildren. Wow! She tells her: This is cute? You should see them in the pictures. This is nothing. Rabosai, Every joke has some truth to it. Sometimes you’re at a wedding and there's a big family picture. A few days later, someone shows you the picture of this wedding and you see yourself in the picture and you can't believe it. That's me? I never knew that I look so good. Rabosai, the heiliger Satmar Rebbe זכותו יגן עלינו, once at a Drasha, was crying and screaming out, A Bochur or a yungerman or any Jew in today's day and age, if he could guard his eyes when he's in the streets or in the business, he should know that he has the same Kedushah as the Kohen Gadol, Yom Hakippurim in Kodshei Hakodashim. Can you imagine, Rabosai, a person comes up to Shomayim after 120 and they show him an image. He sees the Kohen Gadol walking in, in Kodshei Hakodashim, Yom Hakippurim. He can't believe it. Wow, what a Schar! He asks the Malach: Tell me, for what Mitzvah was I being zoche now to see the Kohen Gadol in Kodshei Hakodashim? The Malach tells him: My friend, this is not the Kohen Gadol. It's yourself. This is me? But I was never a Kohen and I, for sure, never entered the Kodshei Hakodashim. He tells him: This is not the Kodshei Hakodashim. This is Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Here in Shomayim, the images are not the same images that you saw in the Olam Hatachton. When you were walking to your business in Manhattan or whatever city it is, or wherever you have to go, and you guarded your eyes, you were watching your Machshava, you were then the Kohen Gadol in Kodshei Hakodashim. Harav Hagaon R’ Meir Tzvibel shlit”a, one of the big Rabbonim in Satmar, once wanted to give a good Remez. How many times does the Kohen Gadol say the name י-ה-ו-ה during the day of Yom Hakippurim? Ten times. י-ה-ו-ה is 26. Ten times י-ה-ו-ה is 260. How much is the Gematria of עין, an eye? ע-י-ן 130. Two Einayim is 260. When the Kohen Gadol said this ten times, the י-ה-ו-ה, we do it with our two Einayim. And that's why at the end of the Avodas Yom Hakippurim, we say, Truly, how splendid was the Kohen Gadol as he emerged from the Holy of Holies, unharmed. And he would make a festive day, having emerged safely. Praiseworthy is the people that has this. Praiseworthy is the people that has this? Are we talking now about the nation or we're talking about the Kohen Gadol? No, we say, the same Yom Tov that the Kohen Gadol made Motzei Yom Hakippurim with his friends, praiseworthy is the people that has this. The whole nation could make the same Seudah every time we come back from our business, every time we had any challenge in Shmiras Ha’einayim, and we could withstand this challenge, and we did it, we made it, we could make the same celebration as the Kohen Gadol in Kodshei Hakodashim, Yom Kippur.