Beautiful Music - Rabbi Yirmiyahu Abramov

[Music] one of the great pianists in history was the great Paderewski Kurowski was a well known concert pianist and he was famed all over the world came from Europe Paderewski was due to give a great concert in New York in the Metropolitan and of course tickets were selling at a very high price and they they expect that a jam-packed audience it was a young Jewish lady called mrs. Sally Goldstein and Sally was a music fan but she had designs for her young little boy of five called Joey she wanted Joey to become a pianist so she decided it's worth the big investment of a few hundred dollars for a ticket but she wants to take Joey with her to the concert of Paderewski and so she purchased two tickets dresses though Joey up in a tuxedo to fit the occasion and they arrived at the hall they show to their seats and they sit down and she sees in the row behind her a friend an old friend so she turns and has a go and engages in the conversation while waiting for the lights to dim in the meanwhile Joey was sitting alone with him next to his mother but he grew a bit Restless so he got up and wandered off and he walked towards the stage and this little five-year-old boy no one noticed him really and there was a at the end of the hall adjacent to the stage is a door and it says no entry Joey couldn't read so Joey walked in opened the door and walked in and exactly at that point the light started dimming the great Paderewski is about to appear and as the lights dim who walks onto the stage Joey Joey tunnels onto the stage and he looks around and then he noticed the piano Oh a piano Joey's being given piano lessons so Joey walks over to the piano clambers onto the stool and starts paying playing his favorite twinkle twinkle little star and there's Joey to the consternation and the amazement and the shock and the surprise of this huge audience Joey is playing plink plonk plonk plonk twinkle twinkle little star and the audience are completely confused at that point the great Paderewski walks on recognizing what had happened he walks over to the piano and he leans over to Joey and says young man you're doing great just keep playing and as Joey continues his twinkle twinkle Paderewski around that his fingers start moving blending and making magnificent harmonies and he plays a beautiful piece of the most magnificent music around the plink plonk plink of Joey and at the end of this he takes Joey's hand and the two of them walk up and they take their bow and their audience given out standing ovation to this magnificent music that had been produced and that's the story is a very deep blessed area we in our little way in life have our little way to do things and we do things maybe not always with the greatest sophistication but we're trying and then our heavenly father comes along and he leans over us and he says keep going young man you're doing just great and a sham will convert our little puny attempts into making music into creating something he will help it and he will create around us all the environment and the harmonies to make a little pure innocent act into something very special in life we need to do as best we can and we know that Hashem we'll come in and make the most magnificent harmony and blending of everything we do as long as you do it with purity and the naivety of a young child [Music] [Applause]