Numbers are for Nazis | Rabbi Elchonon Jacobovitz

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The opening of this shiur, in Vayimaen’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

At the outskirts of Maybrook, there's a beautiful nursing home located right next to a large Yeshiva. And there's very little traffic between the two institutions, but one day one of the elderly residents, Reb Moishe, he notices that there's a young bochur from the Yeshiva next door spending a lot of time in the nursing home basement midrash. The bochur looks down, he looks dejected, and Reb Moishe decides, "You know what? Let me go over to him. Maybe I could help him out. Let me hear his story." So, he goes over to him, introduces himself, and he says, "Tell me, what's your name? What brings you here?" And slowly the story emerges. With tears in his eyes, the bochur says, With tears in his eyes, the bochur says, "Up until a few weeks ago, I was literally the top bochur in Yeshiva, number one. But at the beginning of this month, a few weeks ago, a new group of bochrim came, some very strong bochrim, and just like that I was demoted all the way from number one to like number four or five. And I'm crestfallen, and I just I can't deal with the letdown." Reb Moishe looks at him, puts his arm on his shoulder, and he says, "Tired bochur, let me show you something." And he starts to slowly roll up his sleeve until the numbers tattooed on his arm by the Nazis come into sight. And he looks at the bochur and he says,

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1. 0:06At the outskirts of Maybrook, there's a beautiful nursing home located right next to a large…
2. 0:36With tears in his eyes, the bochur says, "Up until a few weeks ago, I was…
3. 1:06And he looks at the bochur and he says, "You know what that is? Those are…
4. 1:36are we here? But the possuk in Koheles says as follows, "Kol asher timtza yadcha la'asos…
5. 2:06Did you do everything you could with the tools you were given? Numbers? Numbers are for…

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