Who is a Holy Jew? - Rabbi David Kaplan

[Music] the man in Bnei Brak had a hardware store and he had a very successful business he had a lot of customers then one day this man will call him Ruben he had this beautiful store working well I had a nice partner a good livelihood and then one day a man shim ohn came and opened a store right a hardware store right across the street for them no it's even though it's proper according to halakha you're not allowed to encroach on somebody else's turf but there's three strict columbic limitations by the letter of the law if you're across the street by the letter of the law a letter of the law it's okay but there's something called decency basic decency and most people wouldn't do that that would be acceptable this man Schiavone went and open up our doe store right across the street from moving so the next day when rubin saw the stores opening up he marched over to shipmen store and you could anticipate what's going to happen it's not gonna be a very pleasant conversation but that's not what happened Reuven walked in and he said the shipment look I want to tell you something if you need good suppliers here's a list of my suppliers these are the cheapest ones they'll give you the best price here are the products that sell best and he gave him a whole list of ideas in order to help his business become successful his wife he came home and his wife said then what happened today he said I spoke to the guy and I helped the guy so why did you do that why would you go he's gonna be your competitor there goes your business and really look his wife said you don't understand on Rosh Hashanah hakodesh horoho got decrees how much pernessa each person's gonna have so whether I help him and don't help but my pronoun is gonna be the same the only difference is that by helping him he will now take some of my customers so I'm gonna have to work less than I normally would and I'm gonna have the same part us up when the cousin eesh that's all heard about this story how's a niche said that man is a kadosh that's a holy Jew we always talk about faith having faith in God belief in God but as my father citronella raha said put your religion where your mouth is if you really believe then you're going to believe even it involves money and the money is really the of a person's belief I believe in God I believe God decrees from the beginning of the year I'm gonna have my prayer now so it won't hurt me to help another Jew make his pernessa as well [Music] [Applause]