We continue with the topic of humility. There was a great rabbi who was killed in the Holocaust, Rav Aryeh Tzvi Frumer, who was also known as the great Rabbi of Kozoglov. He was very close to the Rav Meir Shapiro, who started the Daf Yomi. When Rabbi Shapiro passed away, Rabbi Frumer was very distraught. Weeks and months went by and he was still mourning his loss. One night, Rabbi Shapiro came to him in a dream, and Rav Frumer asked him, “ Please tell me something from the Olam HaEmet.” Rabbi Shapiro said, “ Our rabbis tell us in Pirkei Avot to be extremely humble. You should know, in the upper worlds, even if a person is great and did great things, they are judged by the measuring stick of being extremely humble .” That's the way people's deeds are measured. “ If a person is successful and does great things, but suddenly becomes a somewhat arrogant person, and he doesn't relate with everybody equally, and to speak to him, they have (what they call, in Hebrew) Proteczia- and people need special connections to talk to him- everything that he reached now shrinks. But if a person, even with all the levels that he reached, still keeps himself humble, then his deeds are considered great.” This is an unbelievable concept. Now you might say that we don't base our religion on dreams, but there's a well known, unbelievable Gemara in Bava Batra (10b): There was a great rabbi in the time of the Gemara, Rav Yosef, the son of Rav Yehoshua, who got sick and had what we call a near-death experience. When he came back, his father asked, what he saw, and he said, “ I saw an upside down world. The great people are below and the lower people are above.” And he said, “ That's the real world.” So, what does, “ The great people ” mean? Rashi explains that great people refers to social status. Tosafot quotes Rabbenu Chananel, one of the Geomim, who says that he heard from the earlier Geomim that they have a kabala/ tradition going back to this story, that what he saw was the great Rabbi Shemuel of the Gemara sitting in class in the Yeshiva Shel Maala/ the upper Yeshiva, hearing the class given by his student Rav Yehuda. Why? Because, as it says in the Gemara Shabbat, there was a lady that came to Rav Shemuel for a judgment on a case, and, in the words of the Gemara, “she was calling out to see him,” because of her court case, and he didn't take care of it. He didn't talk to her. In response to this, Rav Yehuda told his teacher that the pasuk says, “ Someone who corks his ears from the cry of the poor, he will also call out and won't be answered.” So here we see how the greatest of the greats are being measured on how they treat simple people. This is a scary point, because again, this is the measuring stick of the Gedolim. Sometimes our Gedolim are hard to get to, but it’s not because of them, it’s because their children or grandchildren set up barriers around them. But they inherently let people in. And if they hear a tumult or commotion, they'll let people in. I was raised in Monsey, New York, and we lived in the same town as Rav Yaakov Kaminetzsky. When I was about 14 or 15, a friend from high school came to my house for Shabbat, and he said “ Why don't we go see if we can get in to Rav Yaakov Kamonetzsky?” So we went around the time of Seuda Shelishit, knocked on his door, and who answered? Rav Yaakov Kaminetzsky. We said we came for a Beracha and he invited us in to eat. So we had Seuda Sheloshit with Rav Yaakov Kaminetzsky, his wife, myself and my friend. There were no airs, no bodyguards, no better than… that's the measuring stick of a person's actions and deeds. And, as we keep saying, it all goes back to your level of Emuna and Bitachon, and the realization that you didn't make yourself what you are, God made everybody equal. But when someone looks down on people, because he thinks he made it, that's a big problem. B’Ezrat Hashem, we will overcome that, and we will be people who treat everyone equally, and let anyone speak to us, regardless of what their social status is. Have a wonderful day.