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0:00 I have been waiting a long time to see the Rav. During bein hazmanim we tried and tried, and it didn't quite work out. The Rav is busy. - No, I'm not busy. You are a tzaddik, you are special, you light up the Jewish people with what you do. Everyone loves you, everyone rejoices in you, you strengthen everyone. - I was recently with soldiers, and I saw people there without hands, without legs, but they are happy.
0:30 This shows the diamond that is called the united Jewish people. Here we see this diamond. I wanted to ask what the Rav thinks about the situation. - What can one say? That's exactly what I wanted to ask you. What do you say? - I thought that the Holy One, blessed be He, is preparing us slowly, slowly, in stages for the time of the geulah, because at the time of the geulah we will have no one to rely on except our Father in Heaven.
1:06 So we will need to, Slowly, slowly He is preparing us, that we need to rely only on Him, that in fact He toppled all the things for us - everything we thought would save us, He toppled for us, and left us only to rely on Him. And so one can truly see that soldiers who lost hands, lost legs, nevertheless they they managed to be happy.
1:44 Right. Like that, slowly, slowly. - What does the Rav think? - I think that everything you said is right. That is the answer. - What idea does the Rav have to say to the Jewish people? - To tell me that I should say something to the Jewish people? Who? To do what you do - that is the idea: that you keep strengthening them, awakening them. - In what? What should I tell them? - What you tell them: how much one must value life, how much one must be happy, how much one must see the good, to give them the chizuk, how you strengthen everyone.
2:13 You bring a lot of love among the Jewish people. You know this, that everywhere you go, everyone runs after you, clinging to you. - I had a great merit to pray here with the Rav. - I also merited. I felt kedushah today. Now I understood where it came from. - I didn't want to come in the middle of the zman, because I knew the Rav would be pained by it, that I would come in the middle of the zman and leave the yeshiva - Right.
2:38 - and come here. So that's why I came now, during bein hazmanim. - What a tzaddik, you are so special. What do you think that we, What do you think, according to your outlook, will bring the geulah? What do the Jewish people need to do? - Unity. - Unity? - Unity: to stop the quarrels and the disputes. - If there is unity, you are saying Mashiach will come?
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3:05 - Yes. That is what Mashiach is waiting for. He is waiting to redeem one people; he is not waiting to redeem two peoples. - Beautiful. He is waiting to redeem one people. I was there, in a hospital. I had a debate there with a certain soldier. I told him that I am embarrassed to speak in front of him, because he is in a situation much harder than mine. That soldier I am talking about - he was wounded at the age of 28 by a drone from Lebanon, in this war.
3:33 He was wounded three weeks ago. I told him: you - seemingly your situation is much harder, because until today you could jump, do whatever you felt like, and suddenly everything, in one moment, was cut off for you. And I, on the other hand, I was born into this reality, so it is less hard for me. And then he He told me that it is exactly the opposite, that mine is harder, because I - those years, I didn't have those years when he could do whatever he wants.
4:12 That too, I don't have that. I can't walk, dance, nothing. Nothing. He, unlike me, was able for some years to do that. - What does the Rav really say? Who is right here in the debate? I thought that really both of us are right. - Exactly.
4:37 - How does one explain that? - It is told about the Rebbe of Neshchiz that a woman came to him with many troubles, and the Rebbe of Neshchiz said to her: If you want, I can try to exchange your package for you with someone else's package. But one thing has to be: every person has to have some package. And then he went with her into a room.
5:03 On the table all kinds of packages were lying. So each one was turned down for different reasons: So this one is too hard here, that one is too hard there, until about one package she said: Maybe this one I'll manage. The Rebbe of Neshchiz cried and said to her: This is your package. What do we actually learn from this story? That each person and his package - that is what is fitted personally for him, but it does not suit the other.
5:33 My test would truly be hard for him; that is why he told me that mine is harder, because relative to his understanding, my test really is harder. And relative to my understanding, his test is harder, because it is not meant for me. - Right. What is meant for me is what I received. - I want a blessing from the Rav, a blessing that I will have the strength to bless.
6:02 - With Hashem's help. May it be His will that 'whoever you bless shall be blessed': everyone you bless, your blessings will be fulfilled. May you have health, may you have length of days and years, and may you always be in joy, always be happy. And know that all this lack of yours is the greatest advantage. Do you know why? Because your closeness to Hashem, in what you merit and what you do in the world, and what you do for the Jewish people, how you change the opinion of the created beings - this is the greatest thing in the world.
6:35 You simply sanctify the Name of the Holy One, blessed be He, every single moment. You know, the test of the Akeidah: that Yitzchak was bound, he could not move - that was his greatest test. So many tests - in the portion of the Akeidah there are a great many tests. But think: what other test was there in the portion of the Akeidah? Do you know what test there was? - No. - A test that people don't think about. No one thinks about this test: that the Holy One, blessed be He, told Avraham to offer up Yitzchak as a burnt offering, right?
7:02 Avraham Avinu thought and said to himself: Wait. I teach the whole world that it is forbidden to murder, to try to settle the world, to explain peace to everyone, that it is forbidden to raise a hand against one's fellow. I teach them mussar, derech eretz, that it is forbidden to hurt one another. What will everyone say now, that I take my son and offer him up as a burnt offering? What is this, idol worship? How will I face all the created beings?
7:28 What will I do? Everyone will say that Avraham teaches that it is forbidden to sacrifice children to idol worship, and in the end Avraham Avinu himself comes and takes his son and binds him. Avraham Avinu did not know what to do. There was here another test within the test, which people do not look at. - This really is a way of looking at it that I never had. - You didn't think about it? - I never thought about it. - Think what a test this is for someone who teaches all the time and says: this is forbidden, and this is forbidden, and this is forbidden - and he has to do it.
7:59 What do you say? What, maybe you thought... What could Avraham Avinu have thought? What do you think? You, according to your outlook, what do you think? - As the Rav says, that he should have been afraid, that in fact he contradicts himself - exactly as the Rav says. - So do you know what Avraham Avinu relied on? - On what? What? - On what the Holy One, blessed be He, said.
8:24 The Holy One, blessed be He, said it, but still Avraham Avinu could have been afraid. Think what Avraham Avinu would think: he would think they will say he is crazy, because Hashem did not reveal Himself to everyone; Hashem revealed Himself only to Avraham Avinu. I once asked this on one of the Shabbosos when we were in Jerusalem; I asked the students what they say about this: what test was there in the Akeidah that was in fact greater than all the tests with which Avraham Avinu was tested in the portion of the Akeidah?
8:49 And this is in fact the greatest test that Avraham Avinu had. Why is this test the greatest? Because Avraham Avinu has to contradict all the work of his hands, everything he taught, everything he invested, and he has to do the opposite thing. And also, no one heard that Hashem revealed Himself to him, and also, what will they think? That he is crazy. Can he say, 'Hashem told me'? He cannot do that either. He has no way to get out of this. And so Avraham Avinu - do you know what he said? Even if the whole world is against me, even if no one goes in my way, and everyone abandons me, I will go alone in the way of Hashem.
9:19 And about this it is said: 'Avraham was one.' This is this computer. That is my interpretation. Did you like it? - Very much, of course. Yes, I think you are [unclear]. - Why is he called Chezki? Because he strengthens all of the Jewish people. All of the Jewish people, he strengthens them. Every time I see him, I am strengthened by him. He strengthens me. His voice, his kedushah, his joy.
9:45 Let's sing you a song, everyone together. He made a siyum last week Yes? on Tractate Sukkah. Sukkah. Sukkah? Sukkah is the union of Havayah and Adnus, the union of the Holy One, blessed be He, and His Shechinah. After we were on Rosh Hashanah, after we were on Yom Kippur, and we did teshuvah and tefillah, comes the sukkah.
10:15 In the sukkah the union of the Holy One, blessed be He, and His Shechinah takes place. After times of teshuvah, the union of the Holy One, blessed be He, and His Shechinah takes place. - What does the Rav really say about this, that we are soon entering the holy days? We can ask for everything. After all, we have been through a year that was not simple. - Right, a year that was not simple at all. - What does the Rav say - what kind of strengthening? In what is it best to strengthen ourselves? - That we do all our deeds for the sake of Heaven, for the sake of the union of the Holy One, blessed be He, and His Shechinah.
10:40 Sukkah - the union of Havayah and Adnus. We will strengthen ourselves in this, and we will be happy, and we will try to unite the Jewish people, as you said. - It's good that there are cameras here, so that not only we are hearing: the whole world will hear what the Rav said just now. - What you said. What you said is much more important than what I say.
11:06 We all love you, Rabbi Chezki. May you have health, may you have length of days and years. - May he succeed in yeshiva - he moved up to shiur gimmel. - May you succeed in yeshiva, and everyone is with you! Everyone rejoices in you and everyone loves you. May you have salvations and blessings, a good life, and miracles and wonders, protection and defense and rescue from all evil. - Maybe it's possible to start thinking about a yeshiva gedolah, that it will go easily for me.
11:31 - Whatever you want. Whatever you want, you will have. May Hashem, blessed be He, grant you all your heart's wishes, for good and for blessing, for gladness and for joy. And whoever you bless will be blessed from Heaven. Do you want the power of blessings? May the Holy One, blessed be He, give you the power of blessing, may you have Heavenly assistance, and protection and defense. Have you heard of Rav Fish? Yes. He was a hidden tzaddik. Have you heard of him?
11:57 Have you all heard? - Yes, of course. - So once he blessed a certain great sage, a certain tzaddik. He blessed him, he told him: everything you bless will be accepted, it will be for good and for blessing; from Heaven they will answer you on everything you want. That is how he would bless. And they say that there is something in this, when a person blesses his fellow and tells him 'everything you bless will be accepted' - this can very, very much be accepted, this can help very much, like 'one who prays for his fellow is answered first.'
12:23 So you too, bless like that: everything you bless. May we too merit like that, may all of us be blessed, like this story that happened. - May the Rav continue to lead the Jewish people with a high hand. - I also want you to bless me, also that what I bless will be accepted. - Maybe I'll do Birkas Kohanim. - Yes, please. - May Hashem bless you and guard you.
12:47 May Hashem shine His face upon you and be gracious to you. May Hashem lift His face toward you and grant you peace. - Thank you very much. May the Holy One, blessed be He, give you health, a good life, joy, salvations. - Really moving. - And may you always be in joy, and know that you are loved. - And I will also be glad, with Hashem's help, to meet on Sukkos like last year. - Yes, certainly. You are invited to the sukkah, with niggunim and joy. We will be in the sukkah together, with Hashem's help, with Mashiach Tzidkeinu, in the same place in Jerusalem.
13:17 We are all waiting for you there, and we will be glad to see you and to dance with you. We were together many times this year, on Purim too we met, and on Sukkos there was great joy, and at the siyum you also came to me. Thank you, I am really happy to see you. We will meet again a lot, with Hashem's help. - Of course, this is your place here. You know that this is your home, and everyone here loves you and prays for you, and may you always be in joy, and keep bringing joy to all of the Jewish people.
13:46 - From this synagogue one can learn respect for a synagogue, the way it looks here. One can learn respect for a synagogue for other places. - Really? - Something special. The awe of the place that is here on the people - something special.
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