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0:00 There are people who have hard lives and problems, and they threaten to commit suicide, to harm themselves, to take their own lives. I tell you, know this: the very thought of this, it makes the spirit miserable, it harms the soul, it destroys it. It is equal to all the sins together. It can cause a person ruin. Be careful not to think it, Be careful even of despairing, G-d forbid. It is the impurity of impurities. This despair and this sadness - it makes impure, it is the ultimate source of impurity.
0:26 It makes the person impure, makes the spirit impure, darkens the soul, it blemishes very, very much. It is a most severe sin. It is like a person who decides, resolving in his soul, to murder someone - to murder himself. It is a very severe prohibition - just to think it. When a person does teshuvah, just for having had such a thought. So I understand that a person has trouble, and that he is really distressed about himself. I understand, but G-d forbid to commit suicide.
0:50 Not to think such a thought. I understand how hard it is, especially when you want the salvation of Hashem. One does not come to the Holy One, blessed be He, with a threat: 'If You do not save me, I will commit murder.' It is as if a person says this to the Holy One, blessed be He, G-d forbid. Beware of this, I warn you. That one knows who I am speaking to. I am speaking to that one who brought the note just now. I ask of you, in every language of pleading, to be careful, and after this they will talk with you, and come to me.
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