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How far would you go for peace at home? Rabbi Khaimov Michael
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A powerful story from the Gemara reveals how Rabbi Meir Baal HaNes was willing to set aside his own honor to restore peace between husband and wife. Through wisdom, humility, and sacrifice, he teaches that shalom bayit is built not on winning arguments, but on letting go. True marriage requires mesirut nefesh — the courage to sacrifice pride for harmony, unity, and lasting blessing in the home. #DruzhbaTV #TorahOfLife #Rabbi #JewishWisdom #RabbiMeir #ShalomBayit #JewishMarriage #Faith #TorahStories #Gemara #MesirutNefesh #JewishFamily #PeaceAtHome #TorahInsights #Judaism #MarriageLessons #Humility #JewishValues #SpiritualGrowth #TorahThoughts
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Our sages bring a amazing story down
with a great sage Rabbi Mayor Balan the
G tells us every Friday he used to give
a dasha a long dasha and there was a
lady we'll call her kana who had a
husband we'll call him Samuel Samuel
wasn't a big fan of lectures and he
wasn't a big fan of synagogues and he
said to his wife you can do what you
want I'm not going so the wife she went
to the lecture and she got back home
Friday night it was a little too late
the candles were all out and her husband
said, "Who is it?" And she said, "It's
me. It's Ka. Where were you this whole
time?" She says, "A at the lecture of
Rebe."
He says, "You're not coming home. I'm so
upset that you took so long to come
home. You're not getting inside the
house. Until you go and you spit at
Rebe."
The lady hears that. She doesn't argue
with her husband. She knows there's no
point of going back and forth with
somebody who's hot. She stood quiet. She
walked out.
She doesn't know what to do now. can't
go and spit at a sage. He's a great
rabbi. It's disrespectful.
Rebeer through divine providence,
through divine inspiration. He saw that
this this lady was having quarrel with
her husband and what what her husband
requested of her. So what mayor did was
he said, "Does anybody know a lady who
knows how to spit and heal a person?"
Meaning who knows how to spit in his eye
and get him to heal from his eye pain.
Everybody says, "What in the world?" We
never heard of such a thing. He says,
"Go find me a lady who knows how to spit
in a person's eye and get them to heal
from their pain."
When the lady's neighbors saw that the
rabbi was looking for somebody, they
came to her and said, "Why don't you
come?" And the rabbi needs somebody to
spit in his eye. Why don't you go and
spit? She They bring the lady to the
rabbi. And the rabbi says, "I heard that
you know how to spit in people's eye to
get them to to heal." She says, "Rabbi,
I don't know what you're talking about.
I can't help you." She says, "No, no.
Spit in my eyes seven times." So she
spits in his eye seven times at after
which point the rabbi said go. Thank you
so much for your help. And she went back
to her husband.
She comes to her husband and uh they had
shalom. They made shalom because she
said I fulfilled your request. But the
students were now upset. They said,
"What's going on?" Well, how did you let
this lady spit in your eye? So the rabbi
said something very powerful. He says,
"I'm no I'm not I'm not greater than
God." See, God said, "Take my name and
erase it in the water in order to make
peace between man and wife." God
sacrificed his honor, his glory in the
world. And am I greater than God? Of
course not. So, we see how much Rabbi
Mayor pushed himself to bring peace
between man and wife. And the lesson for
us in our own homes is to realize that
marriage peace takes sacrifice. that we
must push ourselves to have in order to
have that shalom in our homes and not to
sit and stick to arguments to be willing
to relinquish our honor and we should
experience shalom in our homes. Amen.