Some Things Are Just Between You and Hashem (Rabbi Yehoshua Nissan)

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

Not everything needs to be posted. Not all of our good deeds need to be known by anybody. There's a part that's reserved for just us and Hashem. I remember a story. There's a story I believe I I if I'm not mistaken, I I think it was with my Zayde Reb Mottel, Reb my Zayde Reb Leibele, that's my great great great grandfather, my great great grandfather. Reb my Zayde Reb Leibele came running into my great great great grandfather and he told him it's unbelievable there was a tzaddik in town unbelievable there was a tzaddik in town and they wanted to give him a drink in a cup and he looked at the cup and he said, "No, it wasn't toiveled." Okay? So, we know the halakha is, you buy a cup, if it's not from a Jewish source, it must first be immersed in a mikvah. Okay. So, he said he won't drink it. They said, "Why won't you drink it?" He said, "It's not toiveled. This cup was never toiveled." Okay, that's not something anybody could see. That's a spiritual thing. They went and they checked and sure enough by accident, they'd taken it out of the package, they'd never toiveled it. Wow.

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1. 0:00Not everything needs to be posted. Not all of our good deeds need to be known…
2. 0:31unbelievable there was a tzaddik in town and they wanted to give him a drink in…
3. 1:02package, they'd never toiveled it. Wow. So, he came home, he was amazed. That's amazing. Look…
4. 1:32that kind of spirituality. He said, "And I hope that when you do, you will think…
5. 2:05There's a beauty in that secret, sacred hallowed part of your relationship with Hashem that's just…

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