Just Love Them - R. Binyomin Pruzansky - TorahAnytime.com

A number of years ago I was sitting in a shul and a young man comes over to me. I was learning shim and was parish muso and there was a a over there that talked about the 42 maso that yidden took when they're in the midbar and he said can I learn the niv sha with you? I said sure let's learn it together and we began to learn the sha together. It was incredible. And this yid said after we got finished with it, it was all about journeys. A yid's journey in life. Clar went from place to place. And so to every yid in his life is going to go through journeys. He's going to go from place to place. But then he's going to find his way eventually to where he has to get to in life. And when I said this to this young man, this young man said, "I want to tell you a great story." He said, "When he was a teenager, he got lost. He was he grew up in a from family in Brooklyn in New York and yeshiva was not for him and he dropped out. He ended up living alone in Manhattan with some friends who were not from and he said what happened to me I I just I just sort of left the derek and I grew my hair long and I wasn't really keeping the mitzvah the way I should have at all. I wasn't putting on filling anymore and shabas was not so great. And then he said, "I had a bar mitzvah in Lakewood and I went to this bar mitzvah and you know I was really out of place. Everyone had their black hats and the black suits. I came with my purple jacket and my loud clothing and my long hair. But then all of a sudden the rebby of the barissa boy grabbed a hold of me and he started to dance with me and he was pulling me in the circle and dancing and I was having such a great time because I love to dance. And there I was dancing with this rebi and then he gave me a hug and something happened to me. I felt his love and a few days later I decided you know what I'm going to I'm going to start learning and I cut my hair. I went to Israel and the rest as they say is history. Now what happened was I didn't know at the time but this rebi later told me. He told me something incredible. The next day he went to his class and he told him the last night I met a cousin of the boy and you know he really has a good nisha but we got to bring him closer to let's say a to him for him and the whole class said to him for me little did I know something was going on and the made me feel that energy and that must be what got me to go to because I don't know what I was thinking at the time there was no way I was going to go learn any yeshiva and I did it was those boys I believe that really gave me the inspiration and today this young man he's married and he has a mishb and he's leading a life of bentoro and a home what a home of mitzvoice and it all started from a love from a hug from a rebi to a hug from the class tank to hill for him let's see how we can love our fellow fellow Jew. In the meantime, what will happen is they'll bear them to to Tory. We'll become greater. They'll become greater.