The Question Everyone Is Asking: How Do You Make Ends Meet?

0:00This Torah class is brought to you by Torahanytime.com. There's been much discussion lately about independent journalists going into Curious Sea Island and other Jewish neighborhoods, asking a question that truthfully we ourselves are often proplexed by. How do Jewish families make ends meet? We have large families to support, we send our children to private schools, caution food is significantly more expensive than what the rest of the world pays. Our Shabbos expenses, the Anteva expenses, Simchus, Sedaka, Tuition, Rent, Coding, and the List Never Ends. And it's not as if we all have Ivy League degrees of Fortune 500 salaries. So let me share with you a powerful story, talk about the great maggot, Rybchenko-Legulinsky. Rybchenko was once in a taxi in Ezisrael. The driver, a secular Israeli, turns to him and he says, I don't understand Khareidi Jews. In my community, we have an average 1.3 children and 1.7 dogs.

1:05We don't come close to the expenses that you have. I work 12 to 14 hours a day and still barely manage to pay my bills. And your people have what, 10, 12, 15 children? Every year you make another wedding and another brisk and another bar mitzvah. You're in shul half the day, you hardly seem to work. How do you do it? What's your secret? Herbiankole tells the driver, it's proven if a person's heirloch, he lives by the Torah, he has a moon in Hashem, then somewhere, somehow he receives Yatah the Shmaya and he manages to cover his expenses. But the driver wasn't satisfied. He said, Rabbi, that sounds very nice, but you have proof. Herbiankole is smiled and he says, I actually do, the proof is in the Torah. At the end of Pasha's Vahee, the Pasek says, the Arsi, Bav, Yifru, the Yirbumaite, the Jewish people settled in the land, they were fruitful and they multiplied greatly.

2:06They had many children, they had large families and immediately afterward, what does the Torah say? The Hiyakav, the Hiyakav lived. Yakav Agamachtalabem, Yakav Meenikla Israel, the Benei Yakhav had Parnasa. They more than covered their bills, they lived with dignity. The driver was stunned. How can that be? He said, it doesn't make any sense. The number is just on air up. Rebiankole tells him, Rashi actually asks your question. On the words of the Hiyakav, Rashi asked, Lama, how, how did they manage? And Rashi answers, Pasha Zeus Tumah. This Pasha is closed. The way Parnasa works is concealed. It doesn't follow visible logic. We don't see the calculations, they're done upstairs. How much as habits we say, Saranev Haspenu Yarbaka Khayol, may our children and our wealth increase like sand. The same Rebonish loylam who gives us children gives us the means to support them.

3:06The same as Shem, who increases Saranev, increases Kaspenu. The two always go together. And this is what the reporters don't understand. They see spreadsheets. We see Siyata Dishvaya. They analyze income and expenses. We live with Hamuna. How does this work? It works because Shem runs the world. Parnasa is not a math problem. It is a relationship. And that secret is something no camera, no statistic, and no journalist can ever capture. And now, we know. Have a wonderful day. You've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torahanytime.com.