On The Way Home from the Rebbe

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A story is told that a group of Hasidim went to spend Shabbos with the Margaret of Chernobyl.

On the way home, they sat together in a wagon.

Speaking excitedly about the Shabbos, they just experienced.

The toy they heard from the Margaret that feelers, the caducia.

Everything they had witnessed by the reber.

In the same wagon, sat a simple man.

He had never in his life been by reber before.

This was his first experience.

He didn't understand deep Torah.

The Hasidim asked them, tell us, what kind of experience did you have?

He said, I'm not the Shabbos when I went into the reber.

The reber asked me to describe my Seidir Hayan.

My daily schedule.

I said, I wake up early in the morning, I wash the nego basser, I drink something.

And immediately, I take all of my merchandise and go straight to the big city to sell in the market.

After a few hours, I come back and I go to Davenin Shul.

Then I lie down to rest.

The reber asked me, in the morning he goes straight into business before Davenin.

Before Davenin, a person must first learn something and prepare himself a tfila.

Before Davenin, you're ready running to the market?

I said, reber, if you don't go early, there's no one to left the trade with.

Business has to be done early in the morning.

The reber then said to me, I want to tell you a story.

There was once a Jew who had to marry off his daughter.

But he didn't have the means to cover the expenses for the wedding.

So he traveled to a faraway place to earn money.

He worked as an alumna, as a teacher.

In those days, people would travel far away to become alumna and wealthy homes.

He stayed with a wealthy family for many months and earned a lot of money.

After months of work, he accumulated the large sum of money and decided to return home.

But he had so many coins that he couldn't physically carry it all.

So he exchanged it for gold.

He ended up with 12 gold bars, which represented his entire wealth.

Besides that, he had a few small copper coins to pay for transportation and food for the way.

He sat around his journey home, hoping to arrive before Shabbos.

But along the way he realized it wouldn't work out.

So he came to a Jewish home and he understood he would have to stay there for Shabbos.

But he had a terrible dilemma.

Should he give the gold to the homeowner for safekeeping?

What if the man wasn't honest and he would take it for himself?

But keeping it with him over Shabbos was also dangerous.

He didn't know what to do.

As candlelight approached, he went over to the homeowner and he said,

I have a very large sum of money.

I want to give it to you to put in your safe.

And he gave him the gold.

But the entire Shabbos, he was not calm.

Who knows if the man would return it?

Maybe he would keep it.

The homeowner noticed how anxious he was and he understood why.

But there was nothing he could say to calm him down.

Martha Shabbos came.

They began davening Mariff.

While the guest was in the middle of Shwina Esre,

the homeowner said Barachamaavdal, he went to a safe, took the sack of gold,

and gently placed it in the man's hands while he was still davening.

And he could feel it and be at ease.

In the middle of Shwina Esre, the man felt the bag.

He began touching it carefully, counting, one, two, three.

All 12 gold pieces were there and he felt relieved.

Then suddenly he thought, Oivey, maybe he took the copper coins.

He checked again.

He saw that even the 20 copper coins were there.

The rabbit said to the simple man, now let me ask you a question.

If the homeowner wanted to steal from his guest,

why would he return the 12 gold pieces and only steal the copper coins?

If he were going to steal, he would have taken everything.

The fact that he returned the gold proves that he was honest.

So why did he have to feel for the copper coins?

And then the rabbit said, it is the same with a person's life.

Every night when we go to sleep,

we return our soul, our life, that are by Nishlana.

And we trust that in the morning you will return it back to us.

So if you trust Hashem with your life, with gold bars,

you can surely trust them with some copper coins, your Parnasa.

Therefore, you should have him first and trust Hashem.

Mandiyov Khayya, Yav Masaynah.

He who gives life, gives livelihood.

Said the simple man, this is what the rabbit taught me.

And I decided to change my seat there, Hayan.

What a story.

The Haseedim spoke about the lofty Torah, the fiery feelers,

the caducia, that witnessed.

But perhaps this simple Jew taught them the greatest lesson of all.

A profound lesson in Batachin.

If you can trust Hashem with your life,

you can trust him with your livelihood.

And with every detail of your life as well.

And now, we know, have a wonderful day.

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