What If You Almost Missed Your Purpose? - R. Don Jarashow - TorahAnytime.com

Moshe Feinstein lived in the city in the Upper West Side. And one time there was a knock on his door. And famously it was another big another big huge HaKam Reb Tuvia Goldstein. And he lived in the same apartment in the same building as Reb Moshe. And Reb Tuvia Goldstein caught glimpse. He saw who was knocking on Reb Moshe's door. >> [music] >> And at first he couldn't believe he couldn't believe what he was seeing and he questioned himself if he saw correctly. But he said now I'm going to keep an eye out for what's going on. After about an hour the door opens again and Reb Tuvia makes sure to be focusing. And he sees he confirms it's the person who he knew said a tremendous amount of lashon hara about Reb Moshe Feinstein, the Godol HaDor. And he went to Reb Moshe afterwards. And he said Reb Moshe uh what were you so busy with him? If I were you slam the door in his face. I have no idea why he even asked you but how can you sit with him for an hour? Unless he came crying begging for mechila I can't understand how you did not slam the door in his [music] face for availing you for embarrassing you berabim. And Reb Moshe told him not only no he didn't ask me for mechila. And not only that Reb Tuvia says no so what happened? So I'll tell you the truth. He came to ask me for haskama on his sefer. What? Haskama on his sefer? How can you possibly give him haskama? He publicly shamed you. He said lashon hara about you. He said there's no way you actually gave him haskama. Impossible. You know what Moshe told him? What do you think he told him? He said, "Of course I gave it to him." At that point, Toby Goldstein literally almost fainted on the floor. He could not believe what his ears were hearing. He said, "I I I I Reb I I I knew you were a great person. I knew you were the Godol Hador, but I I I just don't understand. You're a human being, too. How is it possible that you gave him a haskama on a safer? You know what Reb Moshe told him? Because maybe this was the reason why I came to this world. You understand what that means? You know what Maavir Al Hamidos means? You know what it means to let go and let God? It means that when people bother us, even when they put us down, even when we don't understand things, and a person could be humiliated, but he says, "You know what? It's all from Hashem." When we do that, we don't understand the bracha, we don't understand that maybe that's the whole reason why we're in this world.