Shofar on the Beach | Rabbi Moshe Taub

0:00I recently heard it myself that I'm excited to share. There was a Mashulikh, a Shadar, someone who collected money for Yusuf Merit's Israel. He would come in once a year to Chicago, New York, Toronto. And he would always stop in Miami Beach, both to collect and to see his one cousin who lived in America. A Khiloni from Khai'fa, but a cousin is a cousin. He would knock on his door, take him and his wife out, to a kosher restaurant and go back to Eratisro, see him again next year. One year after Chicago, after New York, he would leave him in Toronto. He went to Miami, collected money, knocked on his cousin's door. The man who answered the door was unrecognizable. He had a beard, a Yamaka, his wife had a tichou. He sat down, my eye, he tells him the following story. Formerly Khiloni, cousin. I jog every day, we live here on the beach. One day I'm jogging, and a bacher comes over to me holding a shayfa. And he says, today's Rosh Hashanah, are you Jewish? Did you hear the shayfa? And I thought to myself, I'm not religious. I've never been religious, but it's Rosh Hashanah. I've fallen so far as an American that I don't even know when it's the I'm handed.

1:01I felt bad, I went back to my apartment and I put on my keep-up, and I went back on my jog. As I'm jogging, I was coming onto the sidewalk, I bump into a rub, he introduces himself, I introduce myself. It turns out that his last name is the same name as my wife's grandfather, his last name, who was all so a rub, and we realized we're second cousins. He invites me to come to his house, a chabbos next Friday night, and we did. That slowly, little by little, my paran sits, my wife attended classes, we started keeping chabbos. He named Rosh Hashanah Rametzos, and every year he would come to Miami, the beard would get longer. He left his job, he's learning in Kylo. Finally, this formerly chelone cousin makes his way back to Arity's Srel, and he calls up his Michelin Chakazim. Take me to Rakhaya, and I have a question. They finally get their audience for the prime Kniefsky, and he tells the Gaudel Hadar the story of how he became from in his early 40s. And he asks the question he was anticipating to hear of Kyam's answer. Could the rub explain why the Hashem wait? To show me this side, to have me bump into this rub, who happens to be my wife's cousin,

2:05who invited me next chabbos, and I slowly became from, why couldn't this happen to us in our 20s, in our 30s, when I'm 40, 41, why when I'm 44 years old? Kyam said, tell me the story one more time, they tell them the same story. Kyam says it's obvious. You went back into your house when that bark came over to you, and you felt bad, you didn't just feel bad and keep running away, you felt bad. You took a step, you put on a Yamaka, and then you went for your Rasha Shonara. A run on Rasha Shonara, but with a Yamaka, with that very first step to do something, no matter how difficult the Nassayan is, no matter how distant we think we are away from Tyra and Kaddusha. If we take that step, that real sincere step, Akadush Barahu, will bring us so much to the Shma'ya, so that we could succeed within our family, within our Nassomu, within our community, within Klau'is through.