Your Life First - Rabbi Avraham Nissanian

[Music] [Applause] [Music] the Tor commanded us Anda said it its great Foundation of of our Torah and mitv the question is nobody else knew about that only R we we had to wait fora to tell us that you should love your fellow friends like yourself the brings something that the in Baba Mah said to us about two people who are going in the desert and they have only one bottle of water that can last or can be enough for only one person who should drink it if one of them will drink the other one will die and if both of them will drink both of them will die your life precede the life of your friends therefore you are the one that you should drink the the water but reaba put emphasis that it's only in matters that belong to not that belong TOA because m letters that belong to meaning teaching others making others to do perform and what it means someone comes and asks you to land with him for you you know already the subject that he wants to study and you really don't want to waste your time after all you're going to sit with him an hour or two you're you're going to gain nothing why you should teach him because you by being with this this friend you will gaina and therefore you teaching your friend and you're doing favor for yourself when you teach someone you perform a Mitzvah a great Mitzvah of talut Tora and this is basically what we have to do for every Jew we have to strive to seek people that for some reason they are far from Torah and mitv and try to in any way that's possible to bring them to love Tor and beem to gaina one of the greatest ranim that we have we had as a matter of fact that he was known for his dedication for bringing people that are far from to make them wasu a man who passed away about 16 years ago at UD many people used to come to his home and ask for advice blessing other matters on this particular evening everyone is coming at the end of the line there is a small kid waiting patiently for his turn when finally he reached har harav again and harav asked him what can I do for you the boy somehow very emotional ask please I want you to make my father to repent because our father wants to leave us and go to Germany Rabbi again said that he barely could hear the child but the Cry of his request was basically coming to heaven and Rabbi again said to him how about if you ask him to come to me the kids laughed a little bit if my father would know that I came to you I'm going to get a punch from him Rabbi again look at him and you see that the kids has a k and he ask him how you become I guess at home the family are not so observant I said well I went to ISAT and I register myself he was talking about it like you go to the supermarket buy milk and coming home RAB again was very very impressed so he said to him give me the phone number of your home give me the name of your father and I will do my best and in the meantime he gave him a nice sedor and a few books give him as a present when the child left Rabbi again called the number and a man answered the phone Adon shap Mr shap yes who is it Rabbi again said that at this time he just didn't know what to say he just called and all of a sudden he didn't know what to say but he said that's from Heaven he found all of a sudden that's the words coming to him uh Mr Shai I am the Rosa here and I need some help in maintaining the building and I'm looking for someone who knows he the guy Mr shapa didn't even let him finish you just called the right place I have I have certificate as a plumber as a carpenter even as a secretary and I'm looking for a job I accept whatever you give me well you didn't hear anything about what I want I'm taking the job so please grab a take a cab and come to me and he give him the address Mr chapai came to Rabbi again and Rabbi again said to him I'm going to pay you weekly and I want you to be 6:30 every day here and whatever I have to ask you to do I'll tell you to do one thing I want you to to know from the beginning I am very very busy Rabbi again said to him therefore sometimes I will not tell you what to do at the moment maybe later I will pay you even though you will you will not do anything but when I don't tell you what to do I want you to go upstairs and study with my father okay sound great come to work tomorrow 6:30 he came 6:30 there in teila he brought his uh tools and everything and he just f a little bit awkward in the middle of the besset with everything there and Rabbi again who was there noticed that and he just signal to someone to take a sitsit a kipa and just put tein for him and at the end of the teil Mr sh come to RAB again what shall I do today he said to him listen I'm a little bit busy uh as we said go to the bed midash and later on I will tell you what to do okay no problem no problem he went studied the whole day the second day the same thing I will let you what to do later L on by now Mr Shai felt a little bit part of the Yesa he participated in the liud even had some opinions on certain things on the third day the child come to Rabbi again and ask him rabbi did you talk to my father Rabbi again laughed and said to him come with me would you believe that your father is learning Torah now the kids just was surprised come come come with me and they went and they looked through the windows and the kid saw his father standing by a stander and talking and arguing a big kipa on his head one of those kipa that you wear you know once a year when you come to besset and the kid was so happy so happy Rabbi again asked him would you like to come and say hello to your father no no no no it's enough what I saw and he runs away the next day Mr Shai come and Rabbi again said to him listen by now you part of us the kipa that you have it's really not suitable for you here is a nice kipa take it please and wear it and I have a question Rabbi again Ask him you know we all wearing titit the Torah commanded us that we should put on every Garment of Four Corners to put sit and he asked him the command is for who for the go or for us he said of course for us Jewish people and he said to him you know what you're part of us here is a talit Katan and I want you to said thean on that and I want you to wear it from now on and he did gladly in a few months Mr sapai came as part of the Bim the people who are learning in the K of for see again so we see from here that really this is something that every one of us should strive to do that should seek other peoples to see how I can teach someone how I can bring someone under the wings of the sh and by that it is something that you will gain forever because the benefit of your teaching and the progress of your student whomever it is will go for generations to generations and that we all will get to this point that we will be united we will love each other to the point that mashia will comeu amen ver [Music] amen