0167 - Rabbi Meisles - Don't be Ungrateful

00:01 When we moved to Miami, there was a Rav here by the name of Rabbi Maisels, a Hungarian Rav who had moved to Chicago. He lived many years in Chicago, and he moved to Miami when his health needed it because he couldn't stay in a cold weather, cold climate, so he had to move to Miami, so he moved to Miami. And he told me that after the war, he moved to Chicago and opened a shul there. But after a while, he felt very, very uncomfortable. There were no Haimish Yidden there. They were really mostly not Frum Yidden, and he felt very uncomfortable, and he wanted to move to New York. So he went into the Satmar Rebbe, Reb Yelush, and he asked him whether he should move back to New York. And the Satmar Rebbe told him not to move back to New York, but to stay in Chicago. After a while, a year or two, I don't know how much, he again felt that he wants to move for the same reason. So he went back to the Satmar Rebbe, and again he asked him if he could move back to New York, and he said no. He said, "Don't move back to New York. Stay in Chicago." After a while, he said he decided he's going to ask the Lubavitch Rebbe. He's going to ask the Friediker Rebbe. So he went to New York, and he went to Yechidus of the Friediker Rebbe, and he told him his whole story, and he told him

01:07 what's going on in Chicago, and he told him that he wants to move to New York because he feels uncomfortable there, et cetera, et cetera. So these are the words he says that the Friediker Rebbe said to him. "A Yid torn nid zayn ken kofoi tova. Der Eibishter hot eich geholfen un tageratevet bey dem molchome, davkir zen helfen andere Yidden." Which means the Friediker Rebbe said to him, "A Yid is not allowed to be ungrateful. If Hashem helped you and saved you from the war, you have to also now help other Yidden." So obviously, he stayed in Chicago. He stayed there for many, many years. But when the doctor said that he has to move to a warm climate, that's when he moved to Miami. But otherwise, the words of the Friediker Rebbe stayed with him, and he said that he cannot be a kofoi tova, and the Eibishter helped him, so he has an obligation to help others.