Someone posted this letter from a young man to a Rabbi. --- Dear Rabbi Jacobson, I'm a musician that lives upstate New York. I usually play secular music—secular rock music. Last Thursday I was doing a performance in a bar in Poughkeepsie. As Israel started attacking and destroying Iran's nuclear weapons—even though nobody in this bar looked Jewish—during the performance I announced what was happening and asked that everyone should pray for peace in their own way and make a commitment to do an act of kindness to help make the world a better place. Then I played the song Shalom Aleichem and explained the meaning: that there should be peace. The next night, Friday night I had a strange dream that Rabbi Groner, the Rebbe's secretary, called me and said, the Rebbe wanted to thank me because what I said in the bar inspired a Jewish woman in the audience to light Shabbos candles and her candle lighting in Poughkeepsie helped bring extra blessings into the world that protected people in Israel, and helped the Israeli air force succeed. When I woke up Shabbos morning I thought, even though it was a nice dream it's probably a nonsense dream because I'm not an important enough person to get a message from the Rebbe in a dream. But today, Sunday morning, I got an email from a woman in Poughkeepsie who looked me up on social media and told me I inspired her by what I said and that she lit a Shabbos candle to honor Israel. And it's the first time she lit one since her Bat Mitzvah mitzvah 50 years ago.
Amazing. Rabbi Groner is still the Rebbe's secretary, even in Shamayim ! https://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/4712126/jewish/Rabbi-Yehudah-Leib-Groner-88-Aided-the-Rebbe-for-More-than-Four-Decades.htm
Rabbi Simon Jacobson: A Musician Inspires a Woman to Light Candles – What Impact is this Viral Story Having on Others? is included in this lecture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmSu8yTG4x8
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Someone posted this letter from a young man to a Rabbi.
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Dear Rabbi Jacobson,
I'm a musician that lives upstate New York. I usually play secular music—secular rock music. Last Thursday I was doing a performance in a bar in Poughkeepsie. As Israel started attacking and destroying Iran's nuclear weapons—even though nobody in this bar looked Jewish—during the performance I announced what was happening and asked that everyone should pray for peace in their own way and make a commitment to do an act of kindness to help make the world a better place. Then I played the song Shalom Aleichem and explained the meaning: that there should be peace. The next night, Friday night I had a strange dream that Rabbi Groner, the Rebbe's secretary, called me and said, the Rebbe wanted to thank me because what I said in the bar inspired a Jewish woman in the audience to light Shabbos candles and her candle lighting in Poughkeepsie helped bring extra blessings into the world that protected people in Israel, and helped the Israeli air force succeed. When I woke up Shabbos morning I thought, even though it was a nice dream it's probably a nonsense dream because I'm not an important enough person to get a message from the Rebbe in a dream. But today, Sunday morning, I got an email from a woman in Poughkeepsie who looked me up on social media and told me I inspired her by what I said and that she lit a Shabbos candle to honor Israel. And it's the first time she lit one since her Bat Mitzvah mitzvah 50 years ago.
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DeleteOne small light, lit at the right time, chases away a lot of darkness.
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Amazing. Rabbi Groner is still the Rebbe's secretary, even in Shamayim !
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