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0:00 Many people come to the Rav, make requests, see miracles, miracles. Rav, perhaps the Rav can give a blessing, from the depth of the heart - we are at a bris - that perhaps at last Khamenei will go. - With Hashem's help. You know, we pray every day that the Holy One, blessed be He, will guard - 'when the wicked perish, there is joyful song.' but in very truth we know the truth.
0:26 It is not him, it is not Haman, it is not any wicked one who rose against the Jewish people. And Pharaoh brought Israel close to their Father in Heaven. For we always look - if we truly look - that we think only that it is Khamenei, or Haman or Sancheirev, Gog and Magog, the wars. In very truth, that is not what stands behind it - it is Hashem, blessed be He, Himself, hinting to the Jewish people: 'Return to Me, return to Me.' He could make Khamenei the greatest lover of Israel, and tomorrow he would bring a meal offering, burnt offerings and sacrifices, and say: come, build the Beis HaMikdash, the Holy Temple - I am taking all the money I have, build the house of your G-d.
1:03 They see in us that we have been distanced from our land, they see in us that we do not keep our Torah. You know, the Persians - their nation is the bear. It is a very strong nation. It is a nation that has modesty. Because of the modesty they have, that they are modest, and they are proper in their modesty, in the deeds that need to be done in modesty - they are modest. And this modesty - we see King Shaul: when he was modest, then when he went into the cave - and Rochel and the descendants of Rochel - modesty has very great power, it is the way of angels, it is holiness and power.
1:35 Today this nation is very strong, and because of the modesty it still has some strength and resilience. If we, the Jewish people, also strengthen ourselves in modesty, then Hashem, blessed be He, will destroy all our enemies and our haters - for in truth we have no enemies and haters. Our sins, our distance from Hashem - this is what creates the enemies and the haters for us. We need to pray to Hashem that the geulah will come - we will see all the good in the world. There will no longer be hatred. There will be no need to teach 'nation against nation, sword' - no war, no envy, no hatred.
2:01 The Rambam says at the end of the Laws of Kings: 'And at that time there will be no famine there,' no envy, no competition, 'for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Hashem as the waters cover the sea.' Everyone will know Hashem; there will be no need to teach anyone, to tell them: know that there is Hashem. Everyone will know the holy King, everyone will know the One who spoke and the world came to be. And then, with Hashem's help, we will merit to see in the geulah, with the true knowledge - as King David said: 'Save me from damim, O G-d.' What is 'save me from damim'? The holy Baal Shem Tov gave a very beautiful explanation. 'Save me from damim' - that I do not think that the money, the damim, is the G-d who helps me.
2:28 'Save me from damim' - that I do not make them idolatry. I want to trust in You, Hashem. And the moment we trust in Hashem, the moment we pray to Hashem, the moment we truly do the will of Hashem, you will suddenly see that there are no haters, no enemies, nothing - everything is null and void. May we all merit to return in teshuvah, and may all our enemies become lovers, and may we never have haters, and we will reveal the good that is in creation - that there is G-dliness and good in everything in the world, in every creature in the world, everything is the will of Hashem.
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