Cheshvan - The Last Jew

<p>In this shmooze, delivered at Mevaseret Mishmar, Rav Burg explains one of the most extraordinary expressions of Ahavas Yisrael found in Chazal.</p><p><br></p><p>Eretz Yisrael desperately needs rain, yet Klal Yisrael delays asking Hashem for it until the seventh of Cheshvan. Why? Because somewhere on the road home from Yerushalayim, the very last Jew is still making his way back from Yom Tov, and we don't want him to get wet.</p><p><br></p><p>An entire nation waits for one person.</p><p><br></p><p>What does it mean to build a community that thinks about the last Jew? The one who moves more slowly, who struggles to keep up, who may be finding his way back long after everyone else has arrived?</p><p><br></p><p>Through this remarkable Mishnah, Rav Burg explores what it means to take responsibility for another Jew and to create a community in which nobody is forgotten simply because everyone else has already moved on.</p><p><br></p><p>The true measure of a community is not how far its strongest members have traveled, but whether it remembers the person who is still on the road home.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>