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The Short Vort- “Chani’s Gift” (1/19/12)
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Good Morning!
Today is Friday the 25th of Teves 5772 and January 20, 2012
Chani’s Gift
Chani (name changed to protect privacy) is a vivacious and gifted young woman.
She is in Eretz Yisroel and is attempting to experience the eternal and the immortal.
Chani never misses an opportunity to say her brochos out loud in order to allow others to say Omein to her brocha.
She is an individual who is careful about people’s property and refuses to partake of anything which may have even the slightest tinge of dishonesty.
However, even Chani as meticulous and as careful as she is was shocked and amazed at the local homegrown piety at the Lederman Shul in Bnei Brak.
Chani was davening at the Shul recently and was about to recite a brocha. She recalled learning how much more effective a Brocha is when heard by another person who is able to answer Omein.
Suddenly she spotted an older woman in the corner of the women’s section.
Chani went over and asked her if she could please answer Omein to her brocha.
The woman obliged and Chani was about to take her leave.
However, the old woman asked her to escort her to a side room.
And it was here in this side room of the Lederman Shul where the woman revealed to her the secrets of Omein.
She told her how Hashem focuses on and appreciates the Omein of His children.
She told Chani how a properly intended Omein can bring deliverance and succor to those who suffer in this world and in the next.
However, most of all she gave Chani the gift of sincerity and of total and adulterated passion and love for Hashem and for His Mitzvohs.
This feeling and enthusiasm which this woman revealed to Chani is often just read about in books and rarely observed first hand.
Chani felt this woman’s love and connection to Hashem in a real and meaningful fashion.
In short the woman gave over to Chani a part of herself which was nothing less than Godly.
Who was this woman?
Was it a world famous Rebbitzen or a hidden unknown Tzaddekes?
It really does not matter for what she gave to Chani in those too brief moments in the side room of the Lederman Shul was ethereal and enduring; indeed, it is the stuff from which memories are fashioned forever.
Chani saw greatness and that is eternal.