Going to Eretz Yisrael for an American boy serves as a two-fold experience. On the one hand is the ruchnios’dike experience that Eretz Yisrael offers, such as the presence of tremendous talmidei chachamim who sit and learn the entire day and the special kedushah of Eretz Yisrael. On the other hand, there are the more mundane experiences, such as the different culture of life, the dress codes, and the new mentality. The American bachur is thus exposed to many new things when going to Eretz Yisrael.
One of the new observations is the ram kol — the cars that drive around with loudspeakers blasting out the latest news: whether informing of an upcoming event, i.e., a machaah, a levayah, or any other reason.
In his sense of humor, R' Yankel Galinsky would ask: “What do they announce on the ram kol’s in Shamayim? What news are they spreading there? In Shamayim, they know everything already. They know everything that happened and everything that will happen. So where lies the excitement in Shamayim?
“I’ll tell you what they are announcing,” he would continue. “What they announcing is:
‘Shmuly, the young boy, was challenged by such-and-such challenge, and he gripped it!’
‘Yanky was upset and overcame his nature!’
‘Chatzkel learned although it was hard for him!!’
In Shamayim, they know everything, but the one thing they don’t know is who’s going to withstand his pressing yetzer hara. That can’t be known. When someone does overcome it, then in Shamayim, there’s a great happiness. That is the ram kol that goes around, as that is what excites Hashem and all the malachim. They are overjoyed with the successes and accomplishments, attempts and desires that we have. That is the enjoyment Hashem has, especially nowadays when we’re so devoted to Him and still staying strong in this nearly two-thousand-year galus. That is beyond nachas to Hashem.
