Get Dressed For The Wedding

The Tolna Rebbe ztz"l [Rav Yochanan Twerski] related the following mashal:

Two brothers were in a huge fight and didn't talk for many years. One day, one of the brothers was planning a wedding for his son and decided that he must let bygones be bygones and invite his brother. He went to his house to invite him but his brother wouldn't hear of it. NO WAY!!

On the day of the wedding he had an idea. As the band was playing he told them to go to his brother's house and play under the window. His brother loved music and he hoped that he would follow the music. And so it was. The brother woke up and heard the band playing and got out of bed. The band started walking towards the wedding hall and the brother followed - in his pajamas!

He arrived at the hall  - in his pajamas. His brother told him "Oyyyyy - had you only made peace with me you would have come dressed in respectable clothing. In the end you came anyway - but in your pajamas."

After 120 we are all going to the same place. We have the choice whether we are going to arrive in our pajamas or we can choose to "dress ourselves" in Torah and mitzvos and feel respectable.


Ahhhhhhhhhhhh:-)