Have Another Coffee | Avi Schnall

Have Another Coffee COO Agudas Yisroel of America Avi Schnall Many years ago, in an apartment in Bnei Brak. There was a man that lived and had an obsession with the manuscripts of the Rambam. One day he's in his home, And he has a unique manuscript. That nobody else was able to get, and he was reviewing it with a friend of his. Who was foolishly drinking a cup of coffee right next to the manuscript. As they were reading it, the cup slipped from his hand. And spilled all over the manuscript, completely destroying it. And it wasn't just that this piece of paper was now destroyed. That teaching of that Rambam can now never be reclaimed. The owner of the manuscript saw what happened, saw this treasure was lost, and he had an urge to be angry. And he was so in control of himself, he clutched his fists. He turned around. He walked out of the room. The man that was holding the coffee was standing there in total shock. About five minutes later, Reb Shabsai Frankel walks back into the room. And he's holding a new cup of coffee. And doesn't say a word about the manuscript being ruined. Today, in every Shul, in every Beis Madrash, in almost every home, Shabsai Frankel Rambam is the Rambam that all of us use. We don't know Hashem's Cheshbonos. We don't know Hashem's calculations, but it definitely is an irony. That when a Rambam manuscript was ruined, the reaction. The fact that he was able to hold back. He was Vayimaen his urges. He was Vayimaen his feelings, definitely has a connection to the Zchus, that Klal Yisroel learns from his Rambam. We never know what comes out, when we retain. When we restrain our emotions. Hashem should give us all the power to do just that.