The Professor Who Met The Rabbi
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1:21Dad, it's not comfortable. Anything? Gets up, professor, you have any pillows for my kid? Every few minutes, the whole flight, 10-hour flight, he's serving his kid. But the whole time, he's not even bothered by his kid and serving his kid. He's used to it already. He does it all day, all night. What is he bothered by? The whole time he's watching the rabbi, Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky, and the opposite is happening there. Every so often, the kid, Rav Shmuel Kamenetsky, when he was little, Shmuel, he says, Abba, you thirsty? You want something to drink? No, no, no, keep learning, Abba. You hungry? You want me to get you something to eat? We made some sandwiches, kosher. You want something to eat? Hungry? Maybe? No, no, no, it's okay, keep learning, Abba. Is it a pillow? Maybe you're tired or something. How about you? Maybe it's cold in the plane here. Blanket? The whole time his kid is giving him so... at the end of the flight, the little professor from Harvard University... thirsty? Do you want something to drink? No, no, no, keep learning, Abba. You're hungry? You want me to get you something to eat? Ima made some sandwiches. Kosher. You want something to eat, hungry maybe? No, no, no, it's okay, keep learning, Abba. Do you want a pillow? Maybe you're tired or something. How about you? Maybe it's cold on the plane here. Want a blanket? The whole time his kid is giving him. So, at the end of the flight, the professor from Harvard University... comes to the rabbi, doesn't know it's the Gadol HaDor, Rav Kamenetsky. Thinks it's just another Jew. He says, I don't understand. I'm a famous professor. I'm a very learned person. And yet I don't understand how you, just a regular person, have done such a better job at educating your kid. He goes, wait, what?
2:42He says, the whole time my kid is asking, "You know, Dad, give me this, give me this," whereas you have trained your kid, educated your kid, the whole time he's telling you, "Abba, you want this, Abba, you want that, Abba, you want, want." The whole time he's serving you. How did you do it? Rav Kamenetsky, whom I admire, says to him the following: "You see, Mr. Professor, Mr. Professor, Doctor, Doctor, Professor." What did you teach your kid? You taught your kid that you came from a monkey, right? He says, yeah, of course. Evolution, Darwin. Of course, that's the theory. Why? Where do you think we came from? He says, oh, okay. So you taught him you came from a monkey, right? So what did your kid understand? Your kid thought that the more you develop, the further you are from the monkey. The more developed you are, the further you are from the monkey. Which means you, as his father, are closer to a monkey than he is. Therefore, according to this reasoning, you should serve him. You're closer to being a monkey. So therefore, you should serve him. He's more superior than you.
3:43Me and my nation, my people, Am Yisrael, we taught our kids that we come from HaKadosh Baruch Hu, who created the complete human being. Every generation is lesser and lesser than the generation before it. You're never going to have a bigger rabbi today than there was a hundred years ago. You're never going to have a rabbi a hundred years ago be bigger than the rabbis of 500 years ago. It's never going to be. There's a steady decline of the generation. So you see, doctor, my son understands that I am closer to the complete human being, to Adam HaRishon. I am closer to Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov, our forefathers. I am closer to Moshe Rabbeinu, the prophet of all prophets who spoke to Hashem face to face. I'm closer to them. Therefore, my son knows that he's inferior to me and therefore he serves me. If you want to teach your kid that he came from a monkey, of course, you must serve him. Why? You are closer to being a monkey.
4:56than he is. But if you teach your kid that he came from God, then surely your kid will serve you because he knows that you are superior to him. B'ezrat Hashem, this will teach us just enough to know that not only did we not come from monkeys, but we should treat our kids in such a way that they also know they didn't come from monkeys by teaching them a life full of Torah, mitzvot, and gemilut chasadim. Baruch Adonai le'olam, amen ve'amen.
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