The Yanuka Rav Shlomo Yehuda-למה דווקא עכשיו？ הגאון הינוקא על זכות השהייה בארץ ישראל בזמן מלחמה

3:01 That is the time. That is the time to come. You know that we have been through, baruch Hashem, many, many ordeals. These last few years have been very hard years. There was Corona, always shutting ourselves in. There were lockdowns, people shut in, besieged and frightened. And after that the war began, in which we lost so many holy souls who departed from us, our brothers. And those who fell into captivity were tormented, and there was division among the people, a great rift tearing them apart every day in the streets, and strife and hatred, all these things. And now, suddenly, a war as well, and all the people are frightened, and all the alert beeps. So many people are in anxiety, people are frightened, they are frightened.

3:43 It hurts. True, it hurts. But fortunate is the one who was here all this time, in the Land of Israel. He merited, and he doesn't even know what he attained. The one who did not try to flee, but precisely stayed here, precisely in the hour of war, and through everything that happened. You cannot describe or imagine the level, and this tikkun of the souls. A time will come, and you will merit much good, and it will be only because you stayed in the Land of Israel precisely at this time.

4:10 There is merit beyond measure when a person faces the hardship, and the suffering, and the fears, and does not run from it. He faces it. To prevail in this, yes, that is the finest merit there is. And not to be among those who are afraid and panicked. So, precisely, to give support, and we merited to be here precisely at this time. We see there are some anxieties, and the sirens, and everything you hear.

4:36 We've been through a lot of tension here. Whoever is in the Land is afraid every moment: anxiety, alert beeps, everything. And there is no comparing the merit of someone who is here with someone who doesn't hear these beeps at all. He isn't facing the blasts. It has no measure. So rejoice, every one of you. Let us rejoice, and all the more so. And that you came, it is only, only for the good. It would be worth crossing the whole world, and going on foot, just to be one moment here in the Land of Israel at the time of this siren.

5:05 The merit of the Land of Israel cannot be measured, especially at this time, and we should rejoice over it, with the greatest joy. With Hashem's help, all the anxieties and all the sirens and all these things... True, there is pain; true, precious holy souls have now been lost, who departed; it hurts very, very much, but we must be strong for the rest of the people, to keep strengthening everyone, and to prevail with all our might through the power of joy, because with the power of joy one can come out of all troubles, "for with joy you shall go out."

5:39 We will prevail against everything that comes upon us, everything they wish upon us, and we will be able to pass through this world in peace, only through joy. With the power of joy one can come out of all troubles. So strengthen yourselves in the work of joy. As they say to read it: "When Av enters, we diminish" through joy. When Av enters, one can diminish all the judgments and all the severities through joy.

6:05 And so, be joyful and think good. Our heart is with all those who departed from us, and all those who went through all they went through in the war and departed to their eternal home. Our holy brothers are in the hidden treasuries on high, in the highest place there is. But what they would want for us is that we continue to prevail and not to break. Because the Satan, the only thing he wants is for people to despair, for people to break, to have no hope, to fall into anxieties, to fall into sorrow. That is what he wants.

6:39 And we must be strong and prevail, never to be afraid, not to break from anything. Whatever will be, will be. Whatever is decreed, whatever Hashem, blessed be He, has decreed in His wisdom, that is what will be. A person cannot run from his day. In Tractate Sukkah, page 53: "A man's feet are his guarantors": a person's own feet are his guarantors. And King Shlomo, who brought his scribes to the city of Luz, and the Satan came and took them right at the gate.

7:05 Who can plan? Who, let's say, can know? Even if you reach the city of Luz, he can take a person at the gate. The city of Luz, where there is eternal life, where people do not die. Kushta, the city of truth, as brought in the Zohar. Whatever the Holy One, blessed be He, decides: whoever's time has come, at his moment, he departs. So there is no need to fear anything, but to be full of trust, to cleanse from our veins and our blood all the heresy, every spirit of denial, and to believe and trust in Hashem.

7:35 And also to know that, true, I think that this Khamenei... but Khamenei's way of thinking was not eliminated. Meaning, his way of thinking is still in the world: everything they want to do to the Jewish people, all their wanting to destroy us. In his time, when there was Haman, they destroyed Haman and that was it. It was left with Mordechai and Esther. That was a great joy.

7:59 Today, true, his elimination is good, but his way of thinking has multiplied greatly, and he spread his view among the nations of the world, among the non-Jews. And so it is still "rejoice," but "with trembling." We still need to be clear-headed and careful, and to rejoice, but on the other hand, also to take things seriously, and to know that there are still more enemies of the Jewish people who want to wipe them out.

8:29 The Jewish people have many who hate them, and we must pray to the Holy One, blessed be He, to watch over us, and that we do the will of the Omnipresent. Because in the end, the only One who can lift this whole war from upon us is Hashem, blessed be He, and the only One who can turn reality around in an instant is also Hashem, blessed be He. And everything, everything is Hashem, blessed be He. And also, in order to know this, that too is what I said.