A shiur on the power of small acts of kindness.
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One spark can start an inferno and one jet of water can put it out. During the terrible fires in Los Angeles, 65-year-old John Carr defied evacuation orders to save the home that had been passed down to him by his parents. The house was built by my mother and father in 1960. I lived here my whole life, so there's a lot of memories here. And I think I owed it to them, as well, to try my best to save it. He said, Some things in life are worth fighting for. When I was out here, hosing the house down and getting ready, and when the houses started to burn, I didn't see one single fire truck out here at all. Zero. If they had had some fire trucks just to put a squirt here, a squirt there, and kept an eye on things, all these houses would be here now. It started with one little spark, one little small fire. One small jet of water can put out an inferno, but only at the beginning. The Gemara in Sukkah Daf 52 says,
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