Maran HaRav Shach was once walking together with his talmidim on Shabbos, and they reached the border of Bnai Brak. It was very obviously the boundary between holiness and the mundane. The godol asked his entourage, “Why is there shemiras Shabbos on this side and on that side,” – pointing across the boundary — “there is no shemiras Shabbos?”
One of the talmidim replied, “Rebbi, it’s very simple, because until here is the boundary of Bnai Brak; over there begins the boundary of Ramat Gan.”
Rav Shach answered, “That is not the reason. The reason is because only until here” – pointing to the boundary, “does the influential power of our shemiras Shabbos reach. From this point and onwards its strength is weakened. If we would be stronger and more vigilant in our shemiras Shabbos, its influence would intensify and extend to the other side where there would also be no vehicular traffic.”
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6 comments:
the text shows so much. Thank You rabi Goldwasser
To influence others is not easy duty, but with the grate wish and repeted try it's works.
we, only we are responsible to strech the boundari and to spreed good deeds, with that we will have no differences betwen place and "place"
This story is so deep,we can learn much from it.
We have to work on boundaries to errase them, we can do with our powerful prayer reach to the last Jewish village.
Shemiras Shabos could be spreed much brighter if we would talk more to our friends and families. There are always some which are listening good advices.
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