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0:00 To light a candle in the merit of our master Rabbi Moshe Cordovero, the Ramak, whose hillula is today, 23 Tammuz - one of the greatest of the great Kabbalists, the holy and awesome ones who stood up for the Jewish people. At his funeral, our holy master the Arizal suddenly stopped the funeral and said: Who sees something? And no one answered. A child came up to him, a young bachelor of 15, and said to him: I see a pillar of fire up to the heavens. He said to him: Good - come to me tomorrow, my son, I want to learn with you. He came to our master the Arizal the next day; our master the Arizal saw in thought, with ruach hakodesh, that at night he had become impure.
0:30 Our master the Arizal said to him: Because you became impure and did not guard yourself as you should, to my sorrow you have lost this level, and I will not be able to learn with you. See what this level of holiness is: to guard a person's holiness - even for one moment, it was an incident that he did not guard himself in holiness, an impure incident, he did not sin or do anything - he did not guard himself in holiness and became impure, he lost and forfeited this level. Therefore see: at the time of the holy Ramak, who lived in the time of our master the Arizal, there was a pillar of fire over his bier up to the heavens. May his merit protect us, amen. The Divrei Chaim of Sanz said that the illness of cancer, which is mentioned for the first time in Parashas Tazria, in Rabbeinu Ovadiah Sforno -
1:08 he writes about this illness that it is a kind of the plague of tzaraas: that there are plagues that come upon a person through lashon hara, then comes the plague of tzaraas that is on the body, on the garments. but still, more than that, the Sforno writes: that these plagues also grow from within the body. This illness comes because of this sin of lashon hara; these plagues grow from within the body and torment the person. And so it happens, to our sorrow, in the world - all that is happening in the world. So says - the Divrei Chaim of Sanz explains: this illness - 'sartan', cancer - why is it called that?
1:41 From the words 'sar tinah' - 'the grudge is removed': one must remove the grudge from the heart. And therefore the book of the Ramak, of Rabbi Moshe Cordovero, called Tomer Devorah, is capable - writes the Divrei Chaim of Sanz - of annulling the illness from upon a person. Why? What is in this book? What is so special about this book of the Ramak? In this book, in fact, the attribute of patience is expressed and revealed: that a person should not get angry and not be exacting with his friend, to judge favorably and accept everything that happens to him with love, and know how to be like the Holy One, blessed be He, whom the angels call 'the humble King', who forgives and pardons all our sins, how we disgrace Him and sin before Him, humiliate Him -
2:23 and the Holy One, blessed be He, forgives and pardons us. So, with Hashem's help, let us strengthen ourselves from this, in the merit of this holy day of the hillula of our master the Ramak; may it protect all this holy congregation. Amen. Salvations and miracles and wonders. Amen. 'Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all who hope in Hashem.' Chazak, chazak!
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