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Someone asked me over the hug.
So they had this opportunity.
Someone needed a ride. He was driving he
was coming to the airport and someone
needed some I don't know the details the
baggage a ride.
And it was going to require his family
to squish.
In order to make room for these other
people. Maybe it's one of the person and
their baggage.
And he asked me as my as a
brother-in-law of mine.
And he said Don, I want to ask you
something. What would you do in this
situation?
He said on the one hand I can do it.
I can squish. My kids can squish. It
won't be comfortable. It would be an
hour in the car of discomfort.
And we'll get the mitzvah.
Of Hachnasat Orchim.
Welcoming someone else into our car.
Same thing as a home. Remus Feinstein
says.
But on the other hand like
I know if I don't do it.
They told me clearly that someone else
is going to do it. That's they'll get a
ride. Take the mitzvah while you can.
So he asked me what would I do?
So I thought about it and I didn't want
to just say for sure do it like I would
do it but I really thought.
And my thought was
something that we all should be thinking
about.
Something that we learn in Pirkei Avot.
Something that might be a little bit
morbid but sometimes it's important to
think about those things.
Say the day of death should always be
before us.
Imagine if someone was to come I was
thinking to myself come to me.
Well say for someone else. Someone was
to come to
Rivka.
And say Rivka, today is your last day
in this world on planet Earth. Tomorrow
you're not going to be here anymore.
What the Mishna is telling us what
Chazal what the rabbis the holy rabbis
the sages telling us
is don't start making cheshbonot.
Calculations.
Maybe I'll get this I'll become a great
righteous person one day and then it'll
be natural.
For sure then I'll do it, but now I'm
not there yet. But what if today is your
last day?
Would you be thinking that as well?
Wouldn't you try to grab as many of
those opportunities as you possibly can
if that was the last day of your life?
So why is today any different? You
shouldn't be thinking about that today?
So I told him, "Listen, I understand
your struggle. I understand the two
sides.
But I think that if I really thought
about it, which I'm doing now,
in a moment of true reflection and
contemplation,
I think the answer is yes. Teach your
kids a lesson.
Let them know
that the reason why we're doing this,
tell them,
is because there's something much more
holy, something much greater than just
riding home from the airport to our
house.
It's the opportunity to exalt exalted,
to uplift it, to turn it into a divine
ride,
to turn it into something godly, to turn
it into something where God is going to
get pleasure.
And if I would do this, if one would do
this on the last day of their life,
why wouldn't you do it today?
Shalom Kabod
they didn't
treat each other with respect.
It doesn't we don't have to wait for
that last day. It's something that
during Sefirat Omer we should be
thinking about. How can I enhance
someone else's life even
if it's on the expense
of my own comfort.
How can I help someone
even when it's not
convenient for me?
And now when we have children do we say,
"Oh, but what about them?"
On the contrary,
we use it. We're coming off of Pesach.
What do we say? The Torah
by Yom Ahu. Tell your children.
Judaism isn't about doing things behind
the scene and being some righteous
hidden person that doesn't tell other
people. You got to tell them tell your
children what you're doing.
Tell them we had this opportunity.
Tell them there's someone that needs
help. Tell them it's Omer.
Tell them the reason why the students of
were died, why they perished.
24,000 of them.
It's because they didn't respect each
other.
And tell them we have an opportunity.
Not an inconvenience, a golden ticket to
our eternity.
In this car ride.
Is that not a different Judaism?
