0678 - R' Yoel Kahn 28 - R' Dovid Stein Asked for a Bracha from Sandik

00:00 A person by the name of Reb Dovid Stein told me that he was once by a Bris where Reb Yael was Sandek. And after the Bris, he went over to him, and he asked him for a Bracha. He said that we know that a lot of people ask a Bracha from the Sandek because it says that a person who Sandek, they wish his Meichel, all his Avedas, but mainly his Brachos help. And we kind of see that, that especially by Sefardish Yidden, they come to the Sandek and ask him for Brachos. So he also asked him for a Bracha, and he looked at him like he fell off the moon. He looked with such eyes, which is angry at him. "What are you asking for a Bracha?" He said, "You want a Bracha? Go to the Eyl. We even want a Bracha. That's where you get a Bracha." He told him, "No, but we're talking about being Sandek, and we know Sandek is a Segula." He wouldn't give him the Bracha. There was another person there, a friend of this Reb Dovid, who really needed a Bracha. He was-- His Parnassa, he didn't have Parnassa, and things went wrong, and he really needed a Bracha of a Parnassa. So he says to-- Reb Dovid says to me, he told that person, "You know what? This person here, Reb Yael, was Sandek, so why don't you go over and ask him for a Bracha?" So he answered, "No, I don't believe in these things. I don't

01:10 go to rabbis to get Brachos. This is not-- I don't do this." So he said to him, "Oh, it's a good Shidduch. He doesn't wanna give the Bracha. You don't wanna take the Bracha, so it's a good Shidduch. So let's Bedavka ask him." So I think it was by the Sud or something. So this Reb Dovid tells Reb Yael that this person needs a Bracha, and since you were Sandek, I would like you to give a Bracha. And again, he looked at him with such eyes, and he said, "What? You want a, you want a Bracha? Go to the Eyl. That's where you get a Bracha. You don't need Bracha." But he said, "But Tzefka Tzef, you're Sandek. Al Sandek, you should give a Bracha." He didn't want to, but Tzefka Tzef, they convinced him, and he gave him a Bracha. And this guy says within a f-- I don't know, few weeks, a few months, so he struck a deal. In other words, he made-- he had a contract that he was involved in that the profit for him was seven hundred and seventy thousand dollars. So this person who didn't have Parnassa now got seven hundred and seventy thousand dollars. Only thing is, that's Derach Hagav, the Bikcheila took away the IRS, and then he had originally before had made a business, he borrowed money, I think three hundred and eighty thousand dollars that he borrowed together with a partner, and the partner ran away with it. I don't know exactly the details,

02:17 and he lost all the three hundred and eighty thousand dollars, and he owed all this money. So when he got this money now, the first thing he did, he took all the money that he got, and he went from house to house to the people that he owed money, which they were long Miyayish probably because they saw he doesn't have any money, and he paid all the money to them. And this person was left for himself with thirty-five thousand dollars. But that's just Derach Hagav. But the point is that we know it says a Sandek's Bracha helps. And here we see Reb Yael as Sandek gave the Bracha, and it helped. So he was the Shliach through which it came through the Sinyan of, uh, the Sandek. But it's interesting that first he didn't wanna give any Bracha Miklal. He says, "I don't give Brachas." But then when they convinced him, he says, "A Sandek, a Sandek, a Sandek is good. He'll give him a Bracha." So he gave him a Bracha, but the Bracha helped.