Rabbi Bentzy Rosenberg

Rabbi Bentzy Rosenberg https://torahanytime.com/speakers/1410

The Real Deal Story About finding treasure in the oddest places:

Abridged Version:

There was once a town in Europe where the Poretz (the Manager owner of the town) who had hired a local Jewish confidant to be the owner of the local tavern (this story is usually told on Passover and takes at least 45 minutes to learn according to Halacha whoever this is the abdridged version to show how Hashem controls the world and how telling one good story is able to change someone's entire fortune regardless of their personal situation). The Poretz was walking through the town that night and he wanted to sit in with the Bar Owners family and enjoy a quiet spot where he was able to see how things go on a Passover meal. When it was time to begin to tell stories of how Hashem controls the world and that people get money directly from the way Hashem works things, the Poretz got angry and said,"you work for me and I give you the money that lets you have such a lavish and expensive feast on the table". With that the Poretz said he was going to choose someone else to be the Inn Keeper and that the former Inn Keeper will have to make do. Things started getting tough for the previous Inn Keeper because the summer was hot and only some food was able to be begotten from the field and more than that the fall started to get cold and by winter things started to get really tough for the former Inn Keeper. Now this Poretz had a wonderful cute monkey that he delighted and received much joy from and one day one of the accounts messengers (that the Poretz had to pay) was waiting for the right coinage from the office of the Poretz and in those days you had to go down to the vault with the invoice to give to the messenger. "Luck" had it that the Poretz had this cute monkey that he got from one of his traders who gifted it to him from way off, and the Poretz loved playing with his dear monkey. He went and followed down the accounts receivable employee of the Poretz and saw him counting some gold coins and he had to clean off some of the gold coins and he would add some spit from his mouth to the coin before adding it to the bag of the waiting courier upstairs. The monkey had followed in the employee of the Poretz into the vault and thought that he was eating the good and so the monkey too started swallowing gold coins. One coin after the other until the monkey sadly was too heavy to even move himself. The employee then left the vault and went and paid the Messenger and things were calm and right for a few days. After two to three days the people in the office started to notice that the monkey wasn't around and they started to get frantic because they didn't want the Poretz to go hay wire and go into a fit without his exalted monkey! The employees looked everywhere and one finally found it in the vault, and it was dead and smelly. They considered what to do, and had no idea how to deal with the monkey. They then remember the old Inn Keeper the the Poretz hated and decided to throw the dead and stinky monkey into the Inn Keepers window. When the Inn Keepers family woke up in the morning to this horrid smell, they immensely went to discard the monkey, who started giving up gold coins from Its mouth. 

The next Passover the Poretz again went to the home of the old inn keeper, and saw his Lucious spread and gorgeous items and asked the previous Inn Keeper where did he get all this money from? The inn keeper then said, Hashem has his ways.