A Secret Bond | Rabbi Yussie Zakutinsky

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

You know, we have countless stories about the Baal Shem Tov, but this is a story that the Baal Shem Tov said about someone else. He said there was once a Yid, a poshiter Yid, a simple Jew. This simple Jew did some Mitzvah, some sort of act of Avodas Hashem that created such Nachas Ruach, such pleasure, such delight by the Ribono shel Olam, that the Baal Shem Tov said that the pleasure and the Nachas and the Simcha that Hashem felt כביכול by this Jew, it reverberated throughout all the universes. All the Malachim, all the Neshamos, everyone was just shaken by something that happened. Now the Malachim were very curious, said the Baal Shem Tov, to figure out what was the source of this unbelievable joy and pleasure. So they were able to sort of pinpoint the location of where the התעוררות came from, and they figured out that it was this Yid, but no one knew what he did. So Eliyahu Hanavi came and Eliyahu Hanavi said: Listen, I can go down. I'll find out. So Eliyahu Hanavi puts on his costumes, you know, and he goes down, knocks on this Yid's door, and he says: I’m Eliyahu Hanavi. He says: Wow, okay. To what do I owe the pleasure? So he says: You should know that

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1. 0:07You know, we have countless stories about the Baal Shem Tov, but this is a story…
2. 0:39Now the Malachim were very curious, said the Baal Shem Tov, to figure out what was…
3. 1:10you did a Mitzvah yesterday, which shook up Shomayim. It's still shaking up Shomayim. And all…
4. 1:40The Baal Shem Tov said, That Jew, that simple Jew, was me, said the Baal Shem…
5. 2:12and they do many Mitzvos. You daven, you put on Tefillin, many of us put on…
6. 2:43Once in a while, do something that it's just between you and Hashem. You never know,…

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