Amazing Story: Words That Come From The Heart Reach The Heart (4 minutes)
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Transcript
0:02By the way, it reminds me of an amazing story. Rav Shadron, Rav Shadron, zatzal, did a lot of zikui harabim, a lot of kiruv, Shadron. One day, he was invited to America. He lived in Israel. He was invited to America to give a lecture, big, big lecture. More than 500 people. He's one of the giant rabbis, not a regular rabbi—a big, big rabbi. So he shows up and says, okay, 500 Jews want to listen to me. Sure, why not help people do teshuva? So he arrives right away, and right before he goes up on the stage, the guy that organized the whole event...
1:30with 500 or 600 people, maybe six of them speak Hebrew. He goes, "Did you bring a translator?" He responds, "No, why would I bring a translator? I didn't know that everyone doesn't speak Hebrew in America." He says, "No, it's not our first language anymore." He's supposed to go on stage in a situation where most of the audience won't understand the lecture unless there is translation or adaptation into English. It's a pivotal moment to consider what to do next to effectively communicate the message without a common language. and help people do teshuvah. He went on a plane across the world to go see these people. People came because they know him; he's a giant rabbi. But he doesn't speak the language and he finds out a minute before the lecture is about to begin. Now, let me ask you: if you were him, what would you do?
2:30No translator gives a speech expecting that some people would understand. This is what Rav Shwadron did; it must have been Ruach HaKodesh. I don't know how he did this. Rav Shwadron goes on stage, never in his life knowing anything about sign language or pantomime or anything like that, and he starts doing sign language, starts doing pantomime. He says, if I speak to them in Hebrew, it's just going to confuse them. But everyone understands language that comes from the heart. And for the next hour and a half, he gave them a lecture about the most difficult topic in Judaism today, which is tzniut. Using no words at all.
3:32People came out of the lecture crying because of the strength they received and how they took it upon themselves. True story. When it comes from the heart, it reaches the heart. When it comes from the heart, it reaches the heart.
