The Virtue of Helping the Community - Rabbi Dovid Goldwasser

[Music] they asked the great roof Steinman's they heard Sadiq LaRocca what can we do about all the things that are happening in godless in the Exile how can we help out the world that it should be a better place rush diamond answered with one word Duke has said do loving-kindness volunteer help out the organization do whatever you can do for the cloud and in fact we read every single Shabbos the home Isha I skim it so hate see Baba Mona whoever is involved in the community and does their work with loyalty and dedication Hakadosh barukh allah is challenge karim hashem will send them great reward the austere I am Kamala and I Shan will remove any type of illness from them the year polical go from give them good health the East LA Kahala Bynum and will forgive all of their sins they will have Brock on they will have a flock of blessing and success in all that they do the commentaries that's the question we see that it's the other way around when we pray the ama da da chuan Esther every day we say first slot la no oven okikuta No forgive us first and then riffle a new then heal us when we're talking about those involved in the community those volunteers we say it the opposite way around heal them make them healthy and strong and then forgive them the commentaries answer that because those who are involved in the community are so dear and so important to the world Hashem is far off even they're not forgiving yet heal them make them strong and healthy make sure that they have the great strength in order to do all the things that they need to for the community imagine what a person helps out any organization especially he de bruit all that they do in the entire world to raise this generation to give them a higher calling to bring them closer to Hashem a person that supports or an individual that volunteers physically imagine the grades of clothes once to the great Sadiq Baba sali zu who say yoga no lay no the great Sephardic gone there came and tirage of a number of cars that drove up in front of his house the men came out they were all wearing dark suits they were all somber they had began to let their beard grow they came in front of baba sali and they explained to the great Sadiq that their son their brother the member of their family was an Israeli soldier of Hayao and unfortunately he had gone on a mission that failed he never returned the army called up and said we regret to inform you of a basura of some news that is not good and so the family began to sit Shiva Lowell a no they began to mourn Baba Sally's listening and they're asking baba sali for words of comfort d-brane nahama baba sali begins to look he moves his head back and forth and he says shall he who clean not clean shall he who cleans not clean he kept repeating this but it was hard to understand them because he mixed in the words with Hebrew and Arabic and they couldn't exactly tell what he was saying they could just barely make it out shall he who cleans not clean they thought maybe that sonic doesn't understand them maybe that sonic is like in a different place right now eventually they all got up and they all left the whole entourage well it was about three weeks later once again the entourage pulls up all the cars outside of the home of baba sali this time wearing colored suits festive suits clean shaven smiling all of them walk in one with a box of fruit one with a box of candy one with a box of cakes one with sodas one with fish and they begin to put it on the table and in with them walks the heiau this soldier that they thought was lifter the soldier comes in front of the great going and Baba sali looks at him and says tell me which special Mitzvah do you do the soldier is a modest and humble soldier he looks down I'm just that footman assured I'm like anybody else I don't do anything special at all baba sali says I command you tell me which Mitzvah do you do that is special the Kayal says on our army base we have a little base Madras a little chapel and the soldiers that come to Dobbin they're always in a hurry and they run and they come in and they leave and sometimes they see the ream the prayer books are thrown around and I come in on Friday afternoon and I put everything in order and I sweep the floors and I clean and I wash the floors baba sali looks at everybody and says shall he'll clean shall you please [Music] you [Applause]