Cherish the Gift | Rabbi Yisroel Besser

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Years ago, a friend of mine told me how he worked for Torah Umesorah and he had to show a certain video to a bunch of Rashei Yeshiva. Video technology, VCRs, were then fairly new. And one of those Rashei Yeshiva was R’ Elya Svei. And he had to show this video, it was a classroom program, something about teaching children a certain way, and the Rashei Yeshiva had to gather into a room in a library in Philadelphia. R’ Elya Svei came in to watch this video and he popped the VHS, if you remember that, into the VCR and he pressed Play for R’ Elya to see it. And R’ Elya took his chair and he sat like 15 feet away from the monitor. So he said: Maybe the Rosh Yeshiva should sit a little closer. So R’ Elya said: I have to look at the video, but I don't have to sit any closer than necessary. And like, I never really understood the story, to be honest, because you're watching it, anyhow. The Rosh Yeshiva made a Cheshbon that that's the right thing for him to do, as a Manhig, as a leader in Chinuch, he felt like he had to watch that video and answer whatever the questions were. If you sit closer, if you sit further, it makes a difference? Another story. A yungerman in Eretz Yisroel told me that there was a Bris in his family, and it was just after COVID, and the parents and the grandparents couldn't come in from America,

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1. 0:06Years ago, a friend of mine told me how he worked for Torah Umesorah and he…
2. 0:37from the monitor. So he said: Maybe the Rosh Yeshiva should sit a little closer. So…
3. 1:08and they very much wanted to see it. So they zoomed the Bris, they livestreamed the…
4. 1:40So R’ Asher said: I’m not sure what you’re talking about. He said: By the Bris.…
5. 2:10he’s saying Shiur to thousands of Talmidim that has been. R’ Elya Svei was from the…
6. 2:40I kept feeling it, I kept... So somebody else told me, he says: You're basically wearing…
7. 3:11Am I cherishing it? So R’ Elya Svei said: I have to watch. My vision has…

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