Welcome to the Daily Holy Story. There was once a very wealthy man in New York who had a very big factory with many, many workers. He used to be very, very charitable. Many, many rabbis from Israel and throughout the United States came to his place to collect charity from him, and he was very, very generous. He had signs on the door showing exactly where his office was, so it would be easy for the rabbis to know where he was located and not have efforts to try to find him. The signs said that the boss’s office was on the second floor. That way, it was very easy for people to find him.
One day, a rabbi arrived at the factory and saw that the sign said, “The boss is on the second floor in the right corner of the floor.” He went to the boss’s office and sat down. The boss asked him, “What can I do for you?” The rabbi started telling the boss, “What kind of nerve do you have, putting signs on the walls saying, ‘The office of the boss is on the second floor’? There’s only one boss in this world: the boss upstairs. The Almighty is the boss. You’re not the boss. Why do you take the title of Hashem?”
The owner of the factory heard this rabbi rebuking him and telling him he had nerve to be called the boss. Instead of getting upset and telling him, “Who are you to come here and ask me for money for your cause? Instead of being humble, you’re yelling at me!” he didn’t say that. He looked at him, accepted what he said, and replied, “You know what? You’re right. From now on, I’m not going to put the name ‘boss’ on the sign. I’m going to change it to ‘the office of the manager,’ because there is only one boss. You’re right. Hashem is the boss. No one else.” So he changed the signs to say “Office of the Manager.” Lo and behold, not only that, but instead of giving him a check like everybody else, he gave him a check ten times bigger because he had given him the right advice.
After he gave him the donation and changed the signs to say “Manager” instead of “Boss,” one day there was a very, very big flood in his factory. The water was about to damage a lot of the merchandise he had in the factory. On his camera, he could see a woman next to the flood who had the ability to close the pipes and make the water stop running. So he paged her and instructed her to close the water. But she was very busy. She was doing whatever she was doing, and she didn’t pay attention to what the boss said. Because of that, a lot of damage happened in the factory. The owner of the factory was upset with her and fired her. She went home without a job and no income.
When the husband saw that his wife had been fired, he got very, very upset at the owner of that factory. He was a goy (non-Jew). His wife was a goyah (non-Jewish woman). He decided to do the worst. He went to the factory with a gun hidden in his pocket and asked the workers, “Where is the boss?” They told him, “On the second floor upstairs.” So he went upstairs to the second floor, walked into the office, and saw that it said, “Office of the Manager.” He looked at the owner of the factory, whom he thought was the manager, and asked him, “Where is the boss?”
The boss, who was called the manager on the signs, pointed his finger upward toward the shamayim and went like this with his hand, pointing upward without saying a word, meaning the boss is in the heavens. The goy didn’t understand that he meant the boss is in the heavens. He understood, “These are the third floor, the fourth floor.” So the goy went up to the third floor in order to shoot and kill the real boss.
Well, the real owner of the factory says, suspected something is wrong, put his cameras on, and noticed that the guy had a gun in his pocket. Right away, he shut his office, closed all the doors in the factory, summoned the police, and they arrested the man and took him to police headquarters. The man’s life was saved because the owner had changed the signs from “Boss” to “Manager” and recognized that the real boss is up in the heavens. And that’s what saved his life. Thank you for listening and have a lovely, lovely day.