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A young Torah scholar told me a story that happened. I do not tell “once-upon-a-time” stories, I tell things… real things.

A young Torah scholar told me, he dreamed a dream and it is sweet. Like this I do not deal with dreams…

And the words of dreams do not raise and do not lower. They do not elevate a person anywhere and do not bring him down. We must serve the Master of the World while awake.

But it is Purim, so I allow myself in Purim Torah to tell the dream. Even sweeter and more interesting, I…

On the contrary, that is not the point, I have a few lessons that I took from this dream.

A young Torah scholar, I will not say his name, Esther does not tell.

So, uh… he dreamed that… he was sitting in the beit midrash studying.

And the Messiah came. Everyone is saying that the Messiah came, but you do not see it.

He did not really know what he wanted to see, that the Messiah would come specifically to his beit midrash to his bench… it became this kind of doubt.

Here everyone is saying, “Yes, yes, the Messiah came,” and you do not see it.

So what is this? What… what are we doing here?

He… he said that in the dream he waited until the end of the session and then he went out to find out.

I do not believe this, this is a complete lie, I do not believe he left right away.

But I… I go along with him, I am just telling what he told me. He waited until the end of the Seder.

So? What do we do? Everyone knows the Messiah comes and no one sees.

What would we have done? Enlightened people.

We call the news hotlines and listen.

What do you say? When the Messiah comes with all the… evil forces, will the news hotlines be canceled too?

So fine, then they will hear silence. Then they will know the Messiah has arrived. Simple.

That young Torah scholar is sitting and learning, he does not even know probably the number of the news hotlines.

So what do we do? A scholarly solution occurred to him.

And I enjoyed this thing, you see a person dreaming what he is thinking. A scholarly solution.

There is a pear tree there in the yard. He will take a pear.

He will say “Borei pri ha’etz” over the pear.

And afterward he will taste from the tree. If the Messiah comes, then there is already the rectification of the… primordial sin.

He will see whether the tree has a taste or not. That is… that is… that is beautiful, that is beautiful.

That is why I do not say his name, so that… so there will be no pride, so it will not be about that.

S’iz a… that is a scholar’s head, nu? He dreams in learning. A Jewish question.

No! A question occurred to him. Maybe we need to say Shehecheyanu?

The Shehecheyanu that they made on the pears does not exempt the tree.

The tree is some new thing, it has just renewed. You cannot make…

A blessing, we spoke on Hanukkah about a mitzvah matter that does not yet exist.

Is it… let us say they first made Shehecheyanu on the pear, does that exempt the tree?

There are more questions here. If it turns out that Mashiach did not come, it will be a blessing in vain if he says Shehecheyanu on the tree.

And in general a question about the blessing. “Fruit of the tree” is fruit that comes from the tree.

I do not know if it will exempt the tree itself if it will have a taste.

But in any case he did not know what to do. Yes Shehecheyanu, no Shehecheyanu.

He went into the beit midrash, he found me. That is how he tells me.

And here, pay attention, there is a very interesting point. He himself did not notice, but I enjoyed this point.

He asked me, I told him, “Kula chada u’davar lo mei,” that we have to recite Shehecheyanu for this.

And he should also have in mind the Messiah with it.

That’s written by Rav Shlomo Zalman. In Minchat Shlomo he writes that when the Messiah comes, we will need to recite Shehecheyanu.

What point of charm did I find here, calmly? He did not notice, these are sweet things.

If he walks in and he finds me, “You have a rabbi, ask him if the Messiah has come!”

“You cannot sense if the Messiah has come? Ask your rabbi!”

That is a sign that what I say, that I am not a rabbi, has permeated the world.

And they know it in their sleep, in a dream.

It is clear to him that I do not know whether the Messiah has come or not.

How should he know? He is a Jew just like us.

He has to sit here and ask a halachic question.

What… what does he know? He knows like you do. The same as you.

A learned question you can ask.

He can ask the rabbi. He did not find the rabbi, he asked me.

It is a… it is a sweet… I very, very enjoyed this story, it is a beautiful story.