"I Am Sorry For Being Silent."

So I'll begin with sharing another story of the Baal Shem Tov, which is printed in Sikha Saner.

This well-to-do man came to Baal Shem Tov, and he didn't have anything in particular that he wanted to ask the Baal Shem Tov about.

He just came to Baal Shem Tov.

He said, I heard about you, and I wanted to learn more about you, and that's why I'm here.

So Baal Shem Tov said to him, looked at him very seriously, and said to him, I want to tell you a story.

He said there were these two friends that grew up together.

And one of them became very wealthy.

And one of them had a very hard time financially.

And the Bar Shem Tov continued the story.

He said the guy who was not doing well financially, he knew that his friend from elementary school had become very wealthy.

So he decided he's going to go and go visit him.

Maybe he'll be able to get help by his friend.

So Reuven, the poor man, goes to Shimon, the rich man's house, hoping Shimon will help him.

Shimon invites him in.

And Shimon hears the situation.

And Shimon says, listen, we've always been good friends.

We always shared our snacks together in school.

So he called his accountant and he found out how much liquid cash he has.

He said, we're going to split everything evenly.

We always shared, I want to split everything evenly.

Whatever I have, I'm giving you half.

Can you imagine the elation of this poor man hearing this? He gave him quite a lot of money and And he went off and this poor man became very, very successful.

I remember who I called Ruvain and who I called Shimon.

But let's stick with Ruvain being the rich man who shared all of his wealth with his friend Shimon.

Shimon has now taken what Ruvain gave him and he has doubled and tripled the investment that Ruvain had in him.