Fruits of Labor - R. Yaakov Rahimi - TorahAnytime.com

There's a story of when he was younger 18 years old he already started giving and his friends in yeshiva will comment to him who are you leaving learning for already as you can imagine was a big mid didn't waste one second so they asked him what are you so busy with who are you giving a shield to already a thousand people 100 yeshiva students who. So sometimes his friends went with him to see who was giving to and they would see the every single night would give a to the working men to the plumbers to the painters to the construction workers blue collar. Not only that most of them will fall asleep in the middle of a speech. They would put their heads down. They're working the whole day. So his friends of tell him this is called giving a shaw to people should be taking notes. Ysef is giving a sh everybody's sleeping putting their heads down eating the cookies on the table with the drinks. This this is what you stopping you're learning from. And told him the following line. This is a tremendous lesson. He says, "These guys are working the whole day. When they come home and they tell their wife and their kids, "Honey, the rabbi is waiting. I got to go learn." Even if when they come to sh they're going to fall asleep. You know how much an effect it makes on the family that they hear that their father is going to learn Torah? The wife respects him more. the kids respect them more. See, even though I know they're falling asleep, the fact that they came here is a big deal because I'm changing families to start respecting Torah. And Hashem cherishes them coming to the shul even though they're falling asleep. Fast forward 50, 60 years later one time said in one of his speeches and events and he says, "You know where I get the most from? You know, I see my fruits of my labor, the pleasure of my work. When grandchildren of the people that came to my class who are not grandfathers, when their grandchildren come to me and they want my that they wrote and they want me to test them in to give them, that's where I get my from. You know why? Because when I would give shuim to their grandparents and they fell asleep, people will tell me I'm wasting my time. But the answer is no. And I was right. When you go to shul and you join a class and you learn Torah, even when you fall asleep, you're making a tremendous difference for yourself and for your entire family. And you're going to see the fruits of your labor if not now and generations to come. But there's nothing more important in the world than learning Torah.