The Power of the Mitzvah of Charity - Rabbi Dovid Goldwasser

[Music] during this time of chuhwa cuz i'll tell us our sages chuhwa salutes taka that shuva repentance Tila prayer Woodstock a charity marinas raha Jazeera it takes away all bad decrees so great is the act of stucco that we really now could mayhem Louise a fascinating incident there was once a man who was a great miser a calm Todd not only he didn't give a penny to anyone he made sure that all of his sons were educated in his ways and they also did not give a penny one day the man was elderly and he was dying he was on his deathbed upstairs in his home all of a sudden he got a little bit hungry so he asked his sons please could you make something for me make an egg for me and they began to cook an egg the window was open and that beautiful aroma of the cooking egg went out the window there was a man who was poor he was famished he hadn't eaten in days and when he smelled that aroma he went and he knocked on the door the sons opened it and he said could I have whatever is cooking I'm starving I feel like my life is ebbing away I may die the sons were very smart they knew that their father would never give a penny away and they said no and he started crying and begging them please you don't know I haven't eaten for so long all of a sudden the father upstairs heard and said what's going on and the sons told him what had happened the father said uncharacteristically give him the egg they gave to him the egg and after that the father was miffed on the father died when he went up to the basin shall milah when he went up to the heavenly court and they saw a whole life went by without anything good they were about to say that he will never get to heaven unfortunately he's going down all of a sudden a Moloch appear an angel the angel said wait wait I have something to say to the base then to the court I am the angel that was created from that egg I am here to testify that this man with his singular act of charity saved the life called mcian nefesh shakhas whoever can save one life it's like they saved the entire world and so the man gained entry to heaven later that week he appeared to his sons and he said to them you see what can happen from one my sixth akka from one charitable act can you imagine what a lifetime of hesitancy Tukka of charity and benevolence will do for everyone [Music] [Applause]