Amazing Story About The Chofetz Chaim
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0:14As you would have it, many of our huge Talmidei Chachamim were also big Kiruv rabbis. One of them, his name was Chafetz Chaim. You guys heard of Chafetz Chaim, right? Chafetz Chaim, heard of it, recognizable name. Chafetz Chaim was not only the Baal Mishnah Berurah and also the Chafetz Chaim, But he was also an enormous kiruv rabbi, literally willing to go door to door, knocking on people's doors, trying to help them do teshuva. An old man, 100 years old, pleading for someone to just take him door to door to help them do teshuva. He met one guy one time who was a big donor, but he was Mechalel Shabbat. And the guy came to the Rav to shake his hand. Chofetz Chaim. Shook his hand, but didn't let go. And you know, the guy is holding a holy hand. Okay, don't let go. Only problem is he started seeing the Chofetz Chaim start to cry. Tears, tears. He goes, I knew something was wrong. What happened? You okay?
1:29It's so horrible, so terrible. He's crying like he truly sees his hand burning in fire. "Okay, okay, fine, fine, I'll keep Shabbat. Just give me like five or six weeks to set up my businesses, and then I'll start keeping Shabbat. It's for you." He starts crying even more, "No way, no, it's not good. The last two or three weeks, he was waiting. 'It's my Shabbat, it's my Shabbat, my Shabbat.' How can you do what you want? It's not my Shabbat." It's so horrible, so terrible, he's crying like he's mamash seeing his hand burning on fire. "Okay, okay, fine, fine, I'll keep Shabbat. Just give me, like, five or six weeks to set up my businesses, and then, and then, and then I'll start keeping Shabbat." It's for you. He starts crying even more, "No way, no, it's not good. The last two weeks, three weeks, he was waiting. It's my Shabbat, it's my Shabbat, my Shabbat. How can you do what you want? It's not my Shabbat." It's so terrible, it's so awful, that this generous hand, with a wonderful heart attached to it, is going to be burned in Gehenom forever. You see the Gadol HaDor, almost 100 years old, start crying, and you do teshuva. The guy says, "Kevod HaRav, this Shabbat I'm keeping. From now on, I keep Shabbat." The Chafetz Chaim had no shortage of tests. When he was writing the Mishnah Berurah, he had all types of tests.
2:56One day, his dear son got sick, really sick. Chofetz Chaim did not slow down; he knew that this Mishnah Berurah had to be written. Sick or not sick, it had to be done. Why? Am Yisrael needs this Torah. His son died. His son died. You think, Chofetz Chaim said, okay, son died, that's it, okay, finished, I'm going back, I'm going to take care of the... says out loud, and people saw it. What do you think? That if you take my son's neshama, I'm going to stop teaching Torah? Stop helping Am Yisrael? I'm going to do more now. We're going to publicize this book everywhere. And that's what he did. You have a bigger yetzer hara than that? Baruch Hashem, the yetzer hara is not killing your firstborn son. And Bezrat Hashem, he never will. But you see that when somebody deals with something that's going to help the klal, the tests are enormous. The tests are enormous. The bigger the influence, the bigger the test.
