Tosher Rebbe: Do You See Tragedies or Miracles? (A BeEzrat HaShem Film)

0:25There's a famous Admor, a prominent Hasidic rabbi, who started in Hungary and later moved to Canada. His name was the Admor Mitash. The Admor Mitash was renowned worldwide as a great Ba'al Chesed. So much so that every time his Hasidim would give him money, he would immediately give it away to poor people. would give him money, he would immediately give it away to the poor people. Anybody that needed the money, he would give it to them right away, without thinking twice. So that momentous day, he had a line every day of people coming to him for blessings, people coming to him for help, advice, and guidance. That momentous day, he sees there's a line, and on that line, there's one of the guys who doesn't look so good, he looks poor.

1:26He knows he just gave away his last dollar. All the Hasidim gave him money, and he gave away all the money. He didn't even leave enough money for himself. But this one guy in the line looks homeless. He looks homeless; you could tell. Unfortunately, you could tell. And he knows this guy is probably coming for money, but he doesn't have any money. This guy's going to come to him, and he probably thinks he's his last hope. He probably doesn't have enough emunah in Hashem. He's going to come to him, and he's not going to have any money. The guy may break. we touch starts praying and then he sees, oh, right behind him, right behind the homeless guy, is actually one of the Hasidim of the Admor, who's actually very rich. So as the line continues to advance, advance, advance, he gets to the homeless guy. So, one second, and he tells the rich guy, "You come first, you come first." So the rich guy comes in. They go into the room. He sits down with him. He tells him, "Listen..." Whatever his problem was, the guy makes a very big donation. The poor guy comes inside. And that moment, the Rebbe says, "Yes, how can I help you, my son?" He says, "Well, Rebbe, you know, I'm coming here for you to help me financially. I don't have this. I don't have that. But you know what? Before I even talk to you about all the things I need help with, I'm really disappointed, Rebbe."

2:49I thought you guys are tzaddikim. I thought you guys are like righteous with Hashem. And you don't make distinctions between somebody that's poor and somebody that's rich. I thought that you guys just look, and he's a yid, that's it. He's a Jew, he's a Jew, he's a Jew. That's it. What happened? I'm on the line all day. I'm waiting, I'm waiting, I'm waiting. Right before my turn comes, what do you do? You pick the guy behind me. Why? Because he's rich. Why is his blood better than mine? Why is his Judaism better than mine? Why is he more Jewish than me? Why is this the case? He starts tearing the rabbi apart, and the rabbi remains quiet. Now, the shammash, the assistant of the rabbi, is watching the whole situation unfold and he wants to say something. He feels the urge to give this guy a reality check, to wake him up and make him see that the rabbi went through all this for his sake, but he holds back. Why? Because the rabbi didn't give him permission to intervene. So, this guy, this poor individual, is verbally attacking the rabbi. And yet, the rabbi remains silent. After this man is done venting, he turns to the rabbi and asks, "Rabbi, so anyway, I need some help. Will you assist me or not?"

4:01He doesn't even ask nicely. The Rabbi got an envelope. He didn't even look at the envelope. The rich guy gave him an envelope. He didn't even look at the envelope. He takes the envelope. He gives it to him. The guy leaves. He got an envelope. He doesn't even know what's inside yet. He opens the envelope. He sees a huge check. Now he doesn't have a bank account. He doesn't have a bank account. But he's happy to get the check. He's a little embarrassed about what he did to the rabbi, but still, you know, what are you going to do? It's too late already. Go on the line again? No. Let me just get a ride. So he waits and looks for someone to give him a ride. Eventually, someone offers him a ride. A guy pulls over and asks, "What do you need?" He replies, "I need a ride." The guy responds, "Okay, come on in. I'll give you a ride." He sees it's a fancy car, gets in, and the guy takes him for a ride. The guy asks him, "Where are you from? Where are you from?" He starts talking. He's like, "Listen, do you know anything about checks?" The poor guy asks the rich guy. He says, "Yeah, of course, I know about checks." He goes, "Can you do me a favor? I don't have a bank account. I don't know what to do with this check. Can you give me money for this? Can you give me cash for this?" So the guy says, "Yeah, sure, give me the check." So he takes the envelope. And what does he see? It's this check. He's the rich guy that gave the check to the rabbi. He goes, "Yeah, no problem. I'll give you the money." After he gives him the cash, he drops him off. He goes back to the rabbi. He's in the moment of realization.

5:20He says, "Rabbi, I don't understand. I don't understand. How come you didn't open the envelope? You just gave him the money. How come?" The Rabbi responds, "What do I care what's in that? It was not for me. It was for him." The student insists, "At least see what's in the envelope." The Rabbi replies, "I don't need to see it. He needs to see it." So then the student says to the Rabbi, "Rabbi, I don't understand. Why didn't you tell the guy that the whole thing, that you got the guy to skip him, was for his own benefit?" says, "What difference is it going to make if I tell him? He's not going to see it until later on anyway. He's not going to understand it until later on anyway. Why? Because when you experience a difficulty, you automatically think that Hashem is torturing you. You automatically think that Hashem is punishing you." Little do you know, Hashem is preparing something much better for you, something much better than you think for yourself. This is how life is. Life is that way. We're constantly complaining against Hashem, and Hashem stays quiet. Hashem stays quiet even though sometimes we say things that are not so nice.

6:33stays quiet even though sometimes we don't do the mitzvot. Hashem stays quiet even though sometimes we become heretics. And He still continues to prepare something better for us. Why? Because He wants us to see that in the end, it was all Him. If we see it's Him in the end, it ends up paying off. If we don't, unfortunately, I... He uses that case against us. When we go up to Shamayim, He tells us, "Listen, look at all the wonderful things I did for you. I sent someone to give you the truth all the way from a different country and brought it to your home. The money you needed, I provided from a place you never expected. The spouse you desired, I literally created just for you. From the beginning to the end of your life, I have given you everything you ever wanted." And you still went against Me your whole life. So now when you're going to say, wait a minute, but it's not fair because if you're comparing me to the times of Moshe Rabbeinu, they had a lot of open miracles. And then Hashem is going to show us our life. We're going to see that we had even more miracles, even more miracles than they saw in Mitzrayim, even more miracles than they saw at Har Sinai, in our own personal lives.

7:59But unfortunately, we weren't paying attention. Instead, we were paying attention to everything else. Instead, we were wasting our time. Instead, we were simply doing everything but looking in the right place. Now, the Be'er HaLevi continues and he says that if Hashem gave us an open miracle, literally splitting the ocean for us today, that would mean that He would have to punish us right away if we do something wrong. ...because then that little bit of doubt that we have right now, because we don't see open miracles—we see miracles, but not open ones—gives us still a little bit of free choice that we won't have anymore. And if we don't have free choice, then Hashem obviously does not have any free rights for us either... We're very excited to offer you the new Be'ezrat Hashem app 3.0. It's a newer, faster app, full of Torah, and lots of Kedusha by the shiurim that we do, myself, Rav Efraim, and Rav Chaim. You'll also have newer features that enable you to use the app while engaged in other activities.

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