RASHI: The Sacrifice To Make A Diamond

[Music] one time there was a man named rabak he wasn't exactly a rabbi but they called him rabak poor is dirt but righteous as poor can possibly be he studied his Torah he did his business but what could he do nothing nothing nothing was paying nothing was doing as poor as can possibly be it gets to a point of starvation it gets to a point of no food suffering stuff but he's not worried about that what is he worried about he's worried about that for almost two decades that he's been married to his wife they haven't had a son they haven't had a child the only thing they can think about day and night is having a child and they can't have a child sad praise to hasem but what else could he possibly do one day the poverty continues you know in those days it's either you extremely rich few or your poorest can possibly be there was no middle class one day he finds a stone in the field he doesn't know much about stones but he brings it to his wife his wife brings the stone to the locals as expert local expert it says this is a Priceless Stone this is something that's you have no idea this you're you're you're the richest people in in in the country forget about in the town hey take a couple thousand to buy groceries and do whatever it is that you want but this is a stone that I'm more than happy to sell for you if you give me the uh the honor to sell it for you please obviously them striking Rich overnight wonderful the guy puts it on the market little by little people come in to see wow this precious stone beautiful but no one can afford it one day they get a couple of Messengers from a different country say yes the king of some country one of the uh he's looking for a specific Stone and uh we want the uh owner of this stone is perfect is perfect for what he's looking for so where's the owner oh the owner isaki I'll bring him here okay listen we're leaving tomorrow morning you're going to come meet our King and he'll give you whatever you want for the stone cuz he needs it cuz it just the this was the eye in in his statue SOI knows he doesn't have much of a choice here if he says I'm not going they're going to kill him so now his wife doesn't have a kid or a [Music] husband if he says yes and he goes to this King he's going to be pardon he's Parton he doesn't know what to do he prays to hm to give him something to do something the next day they go on they go on the boat he has the stone in his hand the whole time he doesn't know what to do what to do what to do they're on the boat the sea starts rocking and he gets a brilliant idea I'm going to throw the stone in the water he throws the stone in the water makes it pretend as if it fell out of his hand and then he pretends like he went crazy for losing the stone there arrive at the seashore like oh where's the guy with the stone we heard you wrote us letters where the guy with the stone we heard is the stone go no no it's this guy goes what do you mean a drunk he's a he's a crazy person this guy cu no no you don't understand this guy don't even touch him don't even bother this guy poor guy he's had a Priceless $20 million stone and he just lost it don't even touch him like we already feel bad enough for him put him on the next boat to go back to wherever he came from choice they put him on the boat they sent him home as soon as he comes home he gets off the boat this old man right off the boat covered up comes up closer to him and closer to him and Clos to him and then grabs him really fast he goes you are going to have a son that's going to light the world because you took something that was wor Earth Priceless to man but was against hasem and he says that his eyes were like that diamond and when he came home he told his wife I believe I just saw Nai and their son that was born a year later his name is Rashi that's m that's M can any of us that have food to eat have roofs over our head and not worried about lunch tomorrow or dinner next week would you give up 20 30 $50 million just to Shalom not be partner of Abu that you can't even see or just make pretend like you didn't see it and you don't know it's happening ah it's their business whatever they're doing I just sold them the diamond what do I what they do with it that's the Greek in us that's the asav in us no it's what's my problem what they're doing with the rock what's my problem what they do with this what's my problem it is your problem you're not thinking with a pure mind you're thinking with the you're thinking with the [Music]