I'd like to tell you a story about
reincarnation once there was a person
who went to the Baal Shem Tov the Baal
Shem Tov was the great kabbalist and he
said to him you know Kabbalist I have so
many problems can you help me I don't
know what to do
and the Kabbalist looks at him and says
you know I really can't help you here
but if you go to this town and you ask
for this certain man you'll be able to
solve your problems and the man looks at
the Baal Shem Tov completely baffled
doesn't know what's going on he asked
him for help he's a great kabbalist why
can't he help him but he says you know
what I'm gonna go to the town I have
nothing to lose I have so many problems
so much money I owe so much chaos that I
can't lose anything so the man goes to
this town and he goes into this inn that
everyone's there and he starts asking do
you know this person and nobody knows
him so he goes to the center of town he
goes to the library he goes to where the
people are eating he asks all over the
town does anybody know this person and
nobody knows him finally he's so upset
he's so baffled he sits on the street on
the corner and he's thinking what can I
do you know I really need to find an
answer to all my problems and it's
getting cold so he decides to go inside
and he starts eating and drinking and
he's trying to think trying to
understand why the cab was sent him to
this town then all of a sudden he sees
this old man and he starts telling him a
story and he says to the man I don't
know why I'm telling you this but I'm
wondering if you know this man and the
man says yes I I know him I know who he
is
come with me and they start walking in
the middle of town and all of a sudden
he sees that he's going to a graveyard
and the man takes him to the graveyard
and says this is the man that you're
looking for
and the man is so baffled he doesn't
understand the Kabul has sent me to look
for a dead man he's not even alive how
is he gonna help me with my problems
I don't understand him it's very very
baffling so he says you know what I
really need to understand this I'm gonna
go back I'm gonna write everything
that's on the grave and I'm gonna go
back to my teacher and I'm gonna ask him
you know why did you send me there so he
takes the trip back it takes a day or
two of course and he says to his teacher
you know you sent me to a dead person I
thought you were sending me to somebody
who could help me but I found out that
he passed away almost 60 years ago and
the cowboy says to him and how old are
you and the man says I'm 55 and he's
thinking to himself the baal shem tov
his saying uh 55 and what did you find
out about this person and he says well i
found out that he was very stingy he was
a very mean he didn't like helping
people and he used to take a lot of
money from people a lot of interest on
their money and he would never have
mercy for anybody a lot of people had
owed him money and everybody hated him
and that's why they buried him at the
end of town at the end of the graveyard
the baal shem tov looks at the man and
says that man buried in that graveyard
60 years ago and you're 55 do you see
the connection all of a sudden it falls
all of a sudden he understands the
connection he was that man what does
this come to teach us people ask why do
good things happen to bad people why do
bad things happen to good people we
never see the whole the whole story we
never see things from a past lifetime we
have a chance to give we have a chance
to love this man who died 60 years ago
was cheap
was mean didn't care about people let's
find it in our hearts to take every
moment and care about someone a lot of
the stories that I read are from someone
by the name of Shlomo Carlebach he had
many many many stories and usually those
stories are from hundreds of years ago
about the famous Kabbalists but I found
something that he spoke about in our
time and he says you know once they
invited me to Florida to give a lecture
and sing he used to sing used to play
guitar and bring a lot of joy and
happiness he says once they invited me
to a place in Florida for a convention
on the environment and how to save the
environment and I sat there and I was
watching them and I was listening to
them and they were so worried about
pollution in the air and how we need to
keep the world clean and they were so
mad each of them they were so mad at
each other they would get up and talk
and they would just scream at each other
and when I went up stage this is what
she'll McCarley bajas saying when I went
on stage he said to them you know you
guys are so worried about your
environment you're so worried about the
physical environment about the the
cleanliness of the air but you have to
know that the air is also polluted with
anger it ruins the air when the air is
full of anger in the world when the air
is full of terrible negative words in
the world our souls get affected and
because you were invited me here to sing
I need you to understand the world is
filled with anger if we take a moment
and we try to clean the air one of the
ways that we can clean the air is by
speaking good about each other
about looking for the good in things
about being positive that's how you
cleanse the air if you enjoy singing if
you enjoy laughing if you help each
other laugh if you start clapping and
enjoying your cleansing the air remember
it's not just about the physical
cleansing and making sure that our
factories and our places don't pollute
the air it's about being able to enjoy
each other being able to find a good
word about each other
that's what can help clean the air and
really make it a better place
and he kept keeps on going and he's
telling a story about a great kabbalist
who was with his pupils his students and
they were talking about different
spiritual things and they were in such
euphoria they were so happy that they
were connecting to the Creator they
never felt anything like this it was
almost being high on the holy words and
they were so sure that that's it they
got rid of all chaos and it's the ends
of time and everything is fine one of
them all of a sudden got up and said you
know what I really think I feel like
it's the end of time and everything is
going to be fine now and the Kabbalist
that was teaching them says you know
what wait let me go to the window
let me check he goes outside and he
comes back and he says you know I'm so
sorry but the air is still full of
hatred the air is still full of anger
and his students say but how can that be
how is it that you are such on a high
level that you can feel when the air is
still like that
can't you just clean everything can't
you just make it go away and he says to
them he says to him you know the place
that you're sitting at is full of love
and full of purity but when you go
outside you feel all the hatred
so if you're able to go outside and take
that love take that purity that's here
in the room and not let anything affect
you but be able to spread it that's when
the time of the end of chaos will come
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