Yosef The Stingy Tzadik (Amazing True Story a BeEzrat HaShem Inc. Film)

0:25a story about Yosef HaKamtzan HaKadosh. You guys ever hear about Yosef HaKamtzan HaKadosh? Yosef, the holy stingy person. It's an interesting title, no? He was a rich guy a few hundred years ago. It's a real story, by the way, and everyone knew this guy was the stingiest person on earth. People that would come to his house, he'd always walk them in, come in, have a seat. But the minute they asked for money, he would get furious. He would throw them out of the house after embarrassing them. "You come to my house to ask me for $100? You come to my house to ask me for $5,000 for your yeshiva, for your kids, for your this, for your that? How dare you?" And he became known as Yosef HaKamtzan, the stingy Yosef, because he had money. But he refused to give it to anyone. One day, he died. And he was hated so much by his kehillah that no one showed up to the funeral. No one showed up to the funeral. This is obviously a horrendous situation. He didn't exactly leave such a good past. You know, and they say, you know, we say it actually in our tefillah.

1:52it's better to have a good name than a lot of money because a good name lasts; money doesn't last. Just this life, and even in this life, it's questionable if it's going to last. So he dies, and no one shows up to the funeral. And all of a sudden, the day after the funeral, all of these poor people show up at the rabbi's house, knocking on his door, tens and tens of people asking for tzedakah. He says, "Where did you all come from?" They respond, "We all live here." He asks, "All of a sudden, all of you went broke at the same time?" They reply, "No, we haven't had money for many years." He asks, "So how did you survive until now?" They said, "Well, We don't really know, but we know that every time we went to the stores, the stores would give us the money. The stores would give us the goods; we didn't have to pay. If I went to the store to buy milk, the guy from the milk company, the guy from the store that sells milk would give me the milk. But all of a sudden today, I went, and he said, "I'm sorry, I can't give it to you." And the same thing with the next one, the next one, the next one, the next one. So now, the rabbi was not a fool.

3:17He's trying to figure out where this money came from. So he goes through all of the merchants. He asks, "Who gave you the money to pay for all these people? Why did you stop giving it to them?" He says, "Well, I gave it to them because every week I would get an envelope with his name on it, and the envelope would have the exact amount of money for what he needs for his groceries, or what he needs for his laundry, or whatever goods the guy was selling. And the envelope didn't come this week." who gave you the envelope? "No, that's one thing I'm not allowed to say. I promised the person who gave me the envelope that I'm not allowed to say." She went to the next guy. The next guy said the same thing: "I got the envelope, but I'm not allowed to say. I'm not allowed to say." The rabbi invited all of them to his house. "I demand that all of you tell me who gave me the envelope!" As a rabbi back then, they respected the rabbi. They all admitted it was Yosef. Immediately, the rabbi started hysterically crying and began praying non-stop to do teshuva for all the things they said and thought about him. Some type of answer from Yosef, but long story short is that he saw Yosef, and he sees Yosef all wearing white, looking very holy, and the next woman says, "Why did you do this to us? Why did you pretend to be such a cheap guy, when in reality you were feeding the entire community?" He says, "Because I learned one time that if you want your mitzvah, and you want all of it, you want to make sure that no one knows, and on top of it,"

4:40Some type of answer from Yosef, but long story short is that he saw Yosef, and he sees Yosef all wearing white, looking very holy, and the next woman says, "Why did you do this to us? Why did you pretend to be such a cheap guy, when in reality you were feeding the entire community?" He says, "Because I learned one time that if you want your mitzvah, and you want all of it, you want to make sure that no one knows, and on top of it, the receiver doesn't even know who gave it to them. And even the highest level that I did is I tried to make sure that the receiver hates me." "And what was your reward for this mitzvah?" "Because Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov, and David came to welcome me. David was making the music, and the Avot came to me, and they brought me to Gan Eden." the receiver doesn't even know who gave it to them. And even the highest level that I did is I tried to make sure that the receiver hates me. And what was your reward for this mitzvah? Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov and David came to welcome me. David was making the music, and the Avot came to me, and they brought me to Gan Eden.

5:41says, "But you know, I still miss one thing. There's only one thing I still miss about this world." "What do you miss?" "I miss writing the envelopes. There's no envelopes in Olam HaBa; there's no more chance for me to do more mitzvot." So that's when Yosef HaKamtsan got the name Yosef HaKamtsan HaKadosh, the holiest. When we know the value of each mitzvah... we'll chase it like we chase money. We'll chase it like we chase treasure. We'll chase it like we're chasing something that's extremely valuable. We're not going to focus on whether anyone notices or anyone doesn't notice.

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