The story of the Moth

A Special needs child wanted to talk to Rabbi Wallerstein.

A Butterfly is a caterpillar that goes through metamorphosis. It suffers a lot in its cocoon to result as a beautiful butterfly. Sometimes we need to suffer in this world, but the end result is beautiful.

This special needs child came to Rabbi Wallerstein and said, "Rabbi, I want to tell you the story of the moth. There was once a grandmother sitting on the porch with her grand daughter. There were a lot of butterflies all around them, and then suddenly a moth landed on the balcony. The granddaughter took off her shoe to kill it and the grandmother said “don’t kill the moth, until I tell you the story of the moth. When Hashem created the world, He created thousands of butterflies, and He didn’t create a moth. And Hashem decided right before Shabbat he was going to create a rainbow. The world was going to be destroyed so he had to make a colorful rainbow to show that from then on the world will never be destroyed again. But Hashem had no more colors left, so he came to the butterflies and said ‘please give me your colors so that I could make a rainbow’. The butterflies answered, “We’re not giving it to You. Hashem you gave us these colors we’re not giving them back." But a large group of butterflies came to Hashem and said “Hashem you are the creator of the world! If you want to make a sign of peace for the world, we will give up our colors for the rainbow.” The grandmother turns to her granddaughter on the porch and tells her, “you see that moth? That’s a Butterfly, that gave up its colors. That’s more beautiful than the butterfly that has its colors.”
This special needs girl told Rabbi Wallerstein this story and he didn’t know for what, where, how, who, why? But anytime he hears a story he knows it’s from shamayim. He looked at this girl and said “I got it. I know why you're telling me this story. You gave up who you really are to somebody else in this world. You are more beautiful than a regular person walking on the earth, because you gave up your colors.

98% of moths comes from the same species as the butterly. Google search it! A moth becomes a moth the same way a butterfly becomes a butterfly. Starts off as a caterpillar, goes through metamorphisis, goes through a cocoon and all the suffering, to come out as a simple moth.

Everyone in this world has beauty. Some can teach, some have money, some are good at art... The point of this world is not to show off your beauty to the world and flaunt your colors. The greatest beauty is to give someone else your beauty. To help out others in need.

May we all be zoche to spread our qualities for good use to those around us and help those that we can that are in need.

This dvar torah was given by Rabbi Wallerstein from www.torahanytime.com