Dr. Marc Gafni

But but back to our Bal Shem Tov, who's in the wagon with Alexei.

So he engages in this, you know, his wagon kind of goes through, you know, time and finds itself in a different place in time and the in the outskirts of some small hamlet.

and where he was still known his name was still known he was the master of the good name and he has 10 of his disciples with him and they they knock on the door and you know the disciples announced the great master of the good name is here and so the man is like very poor man with with his wife they don't have much but he's so excited and the balsam trip comes in and it's somewhere you know a little bit after breakfast time and he says make me breakfast

And the disciples look at him like he's crazy, right?

It's like, this is obviously a poor house, right?

To make all of his breakfast, you're going to, so, but the man is excited and they, whatever he has, he brings and makes this beautiful meal.

And the Baal Shem Tov at the end, he gobbles everything up.

And he usually was an ascetic, didn't, you know, barely eat anything.

He's all, I'm going to walk for two hours.

I'll be back for lunch.

And the man's like, right?

So he can, and the Hasidim, like three of them just leave because they're just embarrassed, right?

They're like, our master's obviously gone insane.

So like seven come back with him and,

He makes him whatever he has like lunch and he gobbles it all up.

And he says, I'll be back in a few hours for the last meal before I go.

And his wife goes white because they've got nothing left.

They've got, you know, they've got to slaughter the last chicken.

And he says, what can we do?

This is the great Baal Shem Tov.