Ruth #8: Why Do the Highest Souls End Up In the Lowest Places? - By Rabbi YY Jacobson

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[Music] good evening and welcome to our eighth class on the Book of Ruth here at the yeshiva via Sheva that net you know they tell the story about this man who died and he happened to be a very very unlike individual the problem was in this community there was a custom they would not bury anybody unless a positive eulogy was presented by the member of a community about the deceased the issue here is that the man unfortunately was a criminal he was loathed he was disliked he was a disgrace to society so the community gathers for his funeral and nobody has anything nice or kind to say about this man the rabbi gets up and he says rabbi said my dear friends we have this ancient custom we cannot bury a person without a eulogy somebody please stand up and say something positively so we can bury the man but to no avail everybody remains seated nobody had anything nice to say about the guy finally one hour two hours three hours people are piloxing an old man in the back raises his hand he says rabbi I have a eulogy the rabbi says is it positive he says yes it's going to be positive they call the old man up he comes up he gets up at the podium and he says my dear friends I want to tell you that his brother was much worse well you can understand what a compliment how positive a compliment that is when the best thing I could say about you is that relative to your brother you are a kind person which brings us to the issue that we have been dealing with the last few weeks and that is the difficult - the blemish that tarnished the complicated

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