Shmorg 5: Rabbi Pruzansky

what a great honor and a source it is for me to join you today and talk a little about Ora I'd like to begin with a beautiful story that I heard a number of years ago Yaakov Haber was a rough in Muncie he was traveling down with 17 on the way back from the mountains to his home it was very late at night and he felt very tired so he opened the window to get a fresh breath of fresh air he turned on the music to try and waken himself but it wasn't working he felt that he needed a black coffee as he's driving on the deserted road he he spots a shop he pulls up to to the store and he goes inside hoping to get his precious glass of coffee as he walks inside he smells this the smell of trayful meat permeates the ear he walks up to the counter and he's surprised by the greeting of a gentleman that was standing there the man says Shalom rabbi so her behavior seeing him says Shalom Aleichem so this Israeli guy that was standing behind the counter and he says rabbi in America is what they teach you our latest M is plural you're talking to you not talking to two people you only talking to me so he says when I talk to you I'm not only talking to you a behavior said every person has to my love from that company him wherever he goes there's a mouse on your right side and there's a mouse on your left side so when I say Shalom to you I'm saying Shalom to you and you're my welcome you and your angels so the Israeli man says ah rabbi you and your angels I don't believe in that stuff I can't believe you believe in it the man goes and gets him his coffee he gives it to the rabbi haber and my behavior goes on his way a few weeks later my behavior was driving down with 17 again on his way to his home in Muncie and once again he felt very tired was late at night and he said you know what I need a cup of coffee where can I go since I have he remembers the Israeli man in the shop he goes over to the shop and he walks inside in the moment he walks inside this real man stands up and he says rabbi attack encounters hi I'm Shelley you ruined my life rabbi you ruined my life so I ruin your life what are you talking about I only met you once couple weeks ago says rapper I remember what you told me about those angels that accompany a person well after you left I got hungry I wanted a midnight snack so I took a took a piece of bread a slice to put a ham sandwich there with a piece of cheese and I was ready to eat the sandwich as I'm about to eat that sandwich all of a sudden I see on my right side your angels this theory got me and I see on my left side angels this theory me I couldn't eat that sandwich while his angels were by my side the rabbi he laughed it took his coffee and he walked away thinking amazingly enough that on that day the angels of this man protected him stopped him from doing so many are various at least for one day when we talk about aura aura are those angels there standing on the right and the left of thousands of children and adults throughout America they're there every step of the way when a child's in public school they he wants to go to yeshiva he wants to learn who is there to pay the tuition when a child wants to go to camp for the experience of his life the zone camps are there to provide an amazing fun-filled and tired Dicky's summer that will leave the child with impression and impression that will last forever and throughout the cold winter nights there are chills own there are 30 chill zone spots in three countries where boys and girls gather together eats much of Shabbos to learn with their totem mates the boys'll in one location the girls in another location and that night is filled a night full of light they learn Tarot they have pizza they have a great time and they learn to appreciate what it means to be a tour Jew this past circus many families came up to the aura zone in upstate New York and they had the young tip of their lives families from diverse backgrounds got together and they enjoyed a circus that I'll never forget a beautiful circus beautiful sucker they got down meaning boys were introduced to down mean them they never held them before he should have seen a smile on their faces came to howl amide and they were enjoying running around doing the old activities that were have so but the highlight of that young thief was simplest area simplest tire and aura is a yontiff like no other the boys came and many of them were never in a shoe before they never saw what simplest error was like they never knew that you take a tiring and dance around and when they saw their counselors and the mesh medium and all the rat or a Barnum that were there gathering and dancing with the tyro they were fused with this spirit the spirit of a half a cetera a half a shell one of the counselors who was theirs commented you know what this scene reminds me of seeing these boys that faces beaming as they dance on silk Listeria reminds me of a scene that I heard about and after the Holocaust it was shortly after the Holocaust and then when the survivors got together in shul and there were no terrorists to be found and they found a few young boys who had survived and they took these young boys and started a dance with the young boys saying these are our terrorists these boys represent the Taira that's going to grow one day and fill the land I'm reminded a story about a great Sadiq his name was really who the labor lien before the war Rabi who their labor Orlean was one of the founders of the basic movement insertion era was known as the mother of Bais Yaakov Robbie arlene was known as the father of Bais Yaakov and he taught thousands of girls how to be a aim in Claudia Stroud to be a mother in Claudia stroll unfortunately his dream of creating a base Yaakov was quite cut short by the Nazis the Nazis invaded and sent so many people to the deaths robbery lien was in the Warsaw Ghetto it was 1942 was simplest era and a few men had gathered rabbi menachem assemble sure they took out a taro and they started to sing he Mitzi I ain't they'd say sell euro they start to sing the song of simplest IRA and the men didn't feel like dancing because this wasn't the simplest area like other years are the years they were surrounded by their families other years they had what to be happy about today was a was a was a bittersweet day it was silk austero but their hearts were really broken as ROM Baro lean was dancing with the men the door slowly opened up and in walked a young boy a twelve-year-old boy and was carrying a small tire of he came inside and he started to join the circle it's not the dance around Robert Allen got so excited he said a young kid with the Heyliger Tyrel a young man with a holy Tyra and he's dancing he's alive he took this young boy he grabbed him by his hands and started to dance with him in the circle suddenly the men around him became invigorated by the site and they too started to dance with new life a new vigor and that young kid represented the future Diaries the diaries that are gonna learn Tyra one day well the dream of rubber alene Barca shell has evolved Tyra America flourishes and auras taking those young boys those young boys who might not be holding a tailor they giving them a tailor a younger year with the hey Lydia Tyra and having them dance on a simplest Tyra they're giving them a silver photographer life well what more beautiful psyche in the V when we talk about aura we talk about Jung tae then we have to think about the packages that were sense to all these families comes to circus you need a sucker who is there you need our Menem sonica you get a conical package come spacer and guess who's at the door with a box of matches this aura volunteers the besides for the packages that they send there's something amazing that word does for families now you know aura that day they pay tuition for kids to go to go to yeshiva they bring kids to the camps but do you know what aura does for the families they bring them out of Shabbos Shabbat with aura they spending time with aura but for a moment I want to focus on the Shabbat with aura I want to focus on it because I think that Shabbat with aura is one of the highlights of another years for so many families you know I would know well because I myself was on a ship out with aura and I had a shaman of my life when I was there with refinements leading the way and all the aura volunteers coming together with the families and I saw the spirits that was in the ear I was mesmerised I was so inspired now that whoever does an amazing thing they go ahead and they take families and they don't just put them into a dining room they appear each family with a from family so there I was I was paired with a family from Staten Island the Cohen family an Israeli American family and I was supposed to make a connection with them a kesha with them that would last pass the Shabbos and throughout the year I was thinking so here they are they put me together on this table with this you know family and I got to make a connection with them what do I have in common with this family so I I tried to strike up a conversation with with this mr. Cohn and I found I didn't have too much in common with him the only thing we had in common was that I like to dip my cow in baba ghanoush and so did he but as I looked around the table I noticed that his daughter Adelie was at the table too so I turned to mr. Cohen and I said is your daughter and she doesn't is she looking to get married and he said yeah you know it's hard to find a good guy out there so I said you know you have the same problem your community that we have in ours it's always hard to find a good guy I said you know I know some people out there maybe I know someone for you for your daughter and I'm thinking to myself oh no what did I just say I don't really know anyone who do I know that's israeli-american that would fit with the Cohen family and once I said it I said you know what I have to go through with what I I have to go through with it and try and offer some suggestion so I'm thinking to myself that the only two Israelis that I know are two young men that work in the supermarket near my home kosher West so I tell my wife you know what maybe one of these two guys is for this Adela girl and she said come on that's not how should the home work I said what do you mean she's Israeli they're Israeli one of them I sure would be a good shooter so she she said okay whatever you whatever you think so it was right after that shops I went over to this is Dale he got I said so what do you think I might have someone for you what are you looking for so she says to me you know I grew a lot with Roy and I came a long way but recently I've been falling I'm out of school for a number of years and I don't know how I'm gonna hang on and if I find someone the right person perhaps that would give me a new start in life and I could become what I really want to become a life they said okay I took down a number and I said I'm gonna be in touch with you in a couple of days when I got home back to Lakewood I immediately went over to the supermarket I'm thinking so which of the two guys should I go over to and I I chose one of them's name was Yossi the only reason I chose him because he looked a little like this mr. Cohen so I go over to yell say I said you know y'all see I was at a Shabbat with it was amazing Shabbos I made I met this amazing girl her name is a deli and I was thinking maybe this would be a good shit'll for you so he asked me a couple questions and right away he says you know what rabbi I trust you it sounds good okay easy as look I ever tried to set up I go over to dolly I call her up and I said you know what dolly I have this great guy his name is Jessie and he agreed to go out what do you say and she said sure rabbi I trust you oh boy here I was so I started making my matchmaking business over here and the two of them went out and they went out again and for weeks and weeks I hear that it's going very well and a few months later I hear Mazel Tov they're engaged I couldn't believe it they're engaged in the cool that the rabbit said rabbi we're having the engagement party on Sunday night we want you to be there and we want you to speak I'm like oh no I'll come to the engagement what am I gonna speak about anyway that Sunday I happen to be in Staten Island and I spoke to some of the boys in our JJ and after I spoke to them I was leaving the yeshiva Rebbe comes over to me and I tell them you know tonight I'm coming back to Staten Island for a part says whose fart is it I said this girl's name is a deli does that deli you got to speak to mrs. Newman because mrs. Newman was her teacher and she has a great story for you I said story I love stories I'm Kai I want to hear it I contact mrs. Newman and I tell what's the story with this Odelia and she says I gotta tell you the story rabbi so she says that she was a Delhi's teacher in second grade and she was teaching a deli throughout the year she kept the Piquet sure and as they went through the school system a deli was making amazing progress but recently over the last couple years after she left high school she saw a deli slipping she noticed that when a deli came to pick up her brother from school when she came she wasn't dressed the way of basical grocery dressing so she came over to him and tell me how you doing what's been going on with your life and her deli told her the truth how she was slipping and she wasn't what she used to be mrs. Newman started to cry and she said Italia deli he's such a precious neshama you know we need you to come back you you need it not only for yourself but you need to feel your future generations Adelie one day you're gonna want to shrimp to answer your prayers you're gonna want to get married you're gonna want to start a family of your own and with what merit are you gonna turn to Hashem that you should answer you Adelie promise me that from now on you're gonna keep Shabbos no nedeli made a promise I'm gonna do my best from now on to keep Shabbos from that day on a deli kept Shabbos it wasn't always easy but she did it when mrs. Newman told me that story I said now I have a speech to say at that bar it's when I came to the Lord Sunday night I spoke about a deli how she kept Shabbos how difficult it was for how she did it and I spoke about y'all see how he kept kept Shabbos although it was hard he was about to burn and he kept Shabbos every week and then I spoke about chef bar with aura that United this family and I spoke about how aura brought Shabbos and brought them all together and bar Hashem a new family was built in Claudius row you know a few weeks ago I got a phone call that I became a Zadeh because the deli bar Hashem had a young son his name is Eden Sbarro Hashem with the help of aura on numerous Buffalo was built in cholesterol I want to tell you one more story about Shabbos it was a tour mate and as you know aura has so many programs one of the most successful programs and they have this is tour of eights where one can Russa learns with another Caruso and they could be across the country and every week they get together for a half-hour and they learn with each other so there are two tour mates one of the names is Steve and one of them is V and he would learn with Steve every week and one day Steve calls up his Torah mates V and he tells him you know I'm going through a hard time now I want to grow in my English kite but I'm having a proud Shabbos is a problem for me I work on Shabbos that's my paranoia and if I don't work on Shabbos I'm afraid I'm gonna lose my job what should I do it's we gave him Hydra ho and he gave him advice he told Steve if you keep Shabbos Shabbos will keep you you gotta keep Chavez so although it's very hard for Steve he decided you know what come what may he's gonna start keeping Shabbos so he went over to his boss and he said listen boss I got to tell you that from now on I can't come in on Saturdays I can come in on Sundays instead of Saturdays and the boss was very gracious and he said he agreed and he said from now on you got it Steve coming on Sundays and you're off on Saturdays but I have to ask you one favor next week is a very important week we need you to come and work on Saturday just one more time and then after that you could work only on Sundays you don't have to work on Saturday anymore so Steve went home thinking oh my what am I going to do I wanted to start keeping Shabbos right away and now I have this dilemma he calls up his tour mate and his tour mate reiterates this this idea Steve if you keep Shabbos Chavez will keep you all that night Friday night Steve was tossing and turning thinking what is he gonna do comes the morning Sharma's morning he decided you know what he has to work one more time although wise is gonna lose his job as he's sipping his coffee he's looking at the table and he sees his daughter's partial sheet on the table and he was amazed at the words that he saw it's said on it if you keep Shabbos Shabbos will keep you he felt there was a sign from heaven telling him that this is the Shabbos that he has to keep no matter what and Steve that they did not go in for Shabbos came Sunday he went to his boss and his boss told him an amazing thing happened someone's the same exact skills as you Steve happened to show up on Saturday and he did the job for you so we didn't lose out on anything Steve from now on just come in on Sundays and everything will be great Steve was so moved by the whole story that since that day he became a Shia Shabbos and this is some of the things that aura does for all those families out there they bring them out Shabab with aura they bring the fee on TIF and they leave them inspired I want to backtrack the simplest IRA for a moment simplest her at the zone when many families were there it was an amazing scene that unfolded you know in many shoes the key Budiman simplest IRA are auctioned off and when you look at a yeshiva you know what they do they they auction it off for gomorrah and das Danton learned and people could could bid thousands of blocks to learn in order to buy some of those key with him and so to an era they were auctioning off key buddham for blot learned so there are many counselors that were there and they were buying they was buying many many key budem with their black they were learned and they were bidding hundreds and thousands of glad to be learnt to get those key buddha but then there's a young children who also want a bid they want to buy something they want to buy a keyboard and how should they buy one they don't know how to learn good moral yet so an amazing scene unfolded when one boy raised his hand and said you know what I want to make a bid so the one running the auction turns him and says what would you like to bid he says I offer to wear my tits this for two weeks and everyone was stunned this boy was offering to his sister for two weeks straight in order to get a keyboard and another that another person raises his hand and he says I want to also bid I'm gonna keep Shabbos for a month straight and then one boy youngest boy over there he raises his hand and he says I'm gonna learn Tyrel for two hours this young thief and that's my bid these are the bids made by these young children how precious these bids are in shamayim their Bertram looks at his children what math class it brings him when he sees his children making the effort to come closer to him I want to conclude with a beautiful Vaart and amazing story when the passion speaks about how Yosef was sold by his brothers Tyra teaches us that the came to Yakov with a cloak the cloak of yosef drenched in blood and he showed yak of this cloak and Yakov started to grieve and cry and was miserable he he mourned over the loss of his beloved Yosef and the plastic tells us via kuma coburn of haben ISIF bhaiya moil it's nothing that all his children came in front of the archive and they tried to bring him the Karma but Yaakov could not be consoled there are a high McCulloh asks a question he says why was what was it that the children of Yaakov were trying to console him with the Taira doesn't tell us so says they're a fiim that the children of Yaakov gathered in front of their father and they could sold them by bringing the Ganza family all his sons all this children all his daughters all his grandchildren came in front of him and they came in front of him and said captain we're all here in front of you we're all here here's your nakami we're here just because you lost Yosef not all is lost you still have us we're your nahama tata to this Yaakov said I don't have a mama as long as yourself is gone as long as my beloved son is not here there is no Nahum oh that can't be any nakami because one child of mine is lost so I heard maybe it's exhilarating say that we have a vm Shabbat sure my him we have a father in heaven our Father in heaven says as long as one of my children is lost even if all my children come in front of me with tire of mitzvos and they're learning they're performing but one of my children I lost one of them don't know anything about terra one of them don't know what it means to love their father I am still crying I am still mourning and I cannot be consult a father as long as it doesn't have his child can never because or is the father for so many of those children out there who is the father that's trying to bring the children back the trying to bring them back to our VM sabasha million they're going out there and the teaching them tyra they're trying to bring the comments at our bonus show loyal to say lucre but initial I love all your children are here it's the greatest the Comets the greatest consolation that you could ever imagine I want to conclude with one last story on this topic every year in the Bubba vabase Meldrick comes along to to that Sarah seem a chew of our there's a great gathering hundreds of children gathered together to say to hilum we all know the power that children have to say to hel him there's Felix pierced the heavens so all these children gathered in the bobbum a magician and they're ready to say to Hill him and all the children would gather hundreds of seats set up and they're all sitting there and in the front of the base magic in a place that was reserved just for children there was an old man sitting there so one of the scone and that was there went over to this old man and he said excuse me but this place is reserved for children and the old man said no I have to stay here I said again please you have to find a place in the back this place is only for children we'll find you a seat we'll find you a seat in the back and he said no I have to sit here among the children so that asking was looking at him wondering why and this this old man reaches into his pocket and unfolds an old wrinkled worn-out paper there was a picture a faded picture of two little boys and he says you see these two children these are my sons they were taken away from me by the Nazis so many years ago but I can never forget them and anytime that there's a gathering of children and the gathering to say to Hill and the gathering to learn tyre a father and son I try be there because I know that my sons are looking down from Shania and they're joining that gathering and so I have to sit here amongst my children because I'm their father and I can never forget my children but a boy sigh or is that organization that will never forget any of us shams children dear when the child needs them they're there to give them a little Tyra and say here's your Tyra here's a Heyliger year with a Heyliger Tyra a young man who has an opportunity he has so much potential to become a bent arrow to grow to become adult who is with them from childhood until they grow up in mr. sham build a family of their own and that's the greatest nahama that we could give to the rabona shillelagh that's the one thing that will finally bring consolation to their abundance a loyal arm who looks at all those children who looks to see where are my sons where are my children and when we bring them back with the help of aura that brings Mohammed to our show when we bring the comet to our show but as is that she'll Hashem is gonna bring the greatest Muhammad to us by bringing the ghoulish alaimo being hero of your main domain