Amazing Story About Rav Saadia Gaon Ztl
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0:14Rav Saadia Gaon, zt"l, was once traveling and he arrived in a new city where no one recognized him. However, a gevir, a wealthy person in the city, saw the Talmid Chacham and said, "Chacham, please, come to my home." He invited him into his house and hosted him for a week. Gave him food, gave him a bed, treated him really, really well. Nothing was missing. After a week, Rav Saadia Gaon says to him, "Okay, thank you very much. I'm going to leave now. I appreciate you hosting me very, very kindly and very generously. May Hashem bless you and your family and so on and so forth." He says, "Chacham, what's your name? What's your name?" all week he's been studying Torah. He's not in the backyard playing ball or jumping into the pool. He's hosting him. He gives him food. And he studies Torah all day, so he's not bothering him. At the end of the week, he still doesn't know his name. He asks, "Chacham, what's your name?" Rav Saadiah Gaon replies, "Saadiah." He says, "Saadiah? You know Rav Saadiah Gaon? Is that who you were named after?" "Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know of him. I know of him."
1:37How do you know him? How do you know him? You know him, what, he's like family? The guy starts asking questions, do, do, do, do, after I say, okay, it's me, it's me. The guy starts crying and starts shaking. What? What? You, the Gadol HaDor, is living in my house for a week. Oh no, oh no, oy li, oy li, he starts crying. What happened? Why? I can't believe it. You've been in my house. The Gadol HaDor, the biggest rabbi in the world for several generations, has been in my house for a week. I didn't know, and that's how I'm treating you? He goes, Baruch Hashem, you treated me really well. Every time there was something to eat, there was no room on the table, you gave me so much. What else? What are you going to do? No, K'vod Rav, had I known that it's you that's in my house, Surely things will be different. Please, please stay in my house for at least another few days and let me give you the kavod that you deserve. He says, what would you do differently? He says, now that I know that you are Rav Saadia Gaon, it would be completely different. Rav Saadia Gaon, stop crying.
2:50The guy thinks he made the Kavod HaRav upset. No, no, Kavod HaRav, sorry. Why make you upset? He goes, no, no, no, ashrecha. You just taught me so much mussar. Me? Teach you mussar? He says, yeah. He says, you see, every day we thank HaKadosh Baruch Hu for giving us a neshama. And we thank HaKadosh Baruch Hu for giving us the Torah. And we thank HaKadosh Baruch Hu for letting us learn this Torah. And we thank HaKadosh Baruch Hu for doing this and doing that and doing so much more. In essence, we use all of these different tools right from the beginning of the day. Why? To reconnect with HaKadosh Baruch Hu and get to know Him better than we did the day before. Now you see, yesterday I served Hashem the best I could. I learned Torah and did everything to the best of my ability. Today, I also did the best I could. The problem is, it's the same thing. You just taught me. Had you known that I am who you think I am now, surely it would be different. What does it mean? That means that I haven't really served Hashem the proper way. He's enthusiastic. Why? Because obviously, I should have known Hashem even better as a result of yesterday, today, and serve Him better today. And I didn't. What answer can I give Hashem now? What answer can I give Hashem now that I served Him the same way today as I did yesterday? What answer do I have for Hashem?
4:18When a person wants to sanctify themselves, they may not understand the story and how it applies to their personal life in the year 2020, and they're barely twenty years old. However, they will understand that this is truly the way to do things when a person has more knowledge. He also has more knowledge about what he's missing. And if Rav Saadia Gaon understood that he was missing in his own avodah (service) of Hashem because he didn't serve Hashem even more than he did the day before, despite spending the entire day learning Torah, surely we ourselves have some deficiencies, to say the least. Does that mean that we should be sad? Absolutely not. That would make it worse. We use such information and such stories as a motivator to inspire us to serve Hashem even better every day. Now, when a person understands that HaKadosh Baruch Hu watches everything, understands everything, and knows everything, he looks into that in every aspect of his life.
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