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0:00 Continue to gladden the Jewish people, amen. I will tell you a story about Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev that Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev went out once after Hoshana Rabbah, the Days of Awe were already over, everything had passed... And he saw some old Jew crying. He said to him, why are you crying? So he said to him, how should I not cry? Now it has passed - there was Rosh Hashanah, there was Yom Kippur, there was Sukkos - I did not repent. Now they told me that one must return in repentance, and I did not know... I have nothing with which to do repentance. So he said to him, what would make you happy? He said to him: Nothing; the doctor said I have no more chances to live, there is nothing for me to do. He said to him: If I give you all my World to Come, will you be happy? He said to him: Yes, certainly. He took out a note, told him that you should ask to be buried with this note. He wrote: I, Levi Yitzchak son of Sarah Sasha and Meir, transfer to you, give to you, to this so-and-so, all the World to Come. He wrote it to him like this. He said to him, ask that they bury you with this letter.
0:51 He said to him, ask that they bury you with this letter. And also Rabbi Zusha of Anipoli, in the "Menoras Zahav," he writes to take a notebook, to write down all the charity that a person gave, and to ask that they bury him with it. and to ask that they bury him with it, and also to do repentance, to do repentance, forgiveness and repentance... And he would write with tears... every day he did repentance, to fulfill what is written in the Zohar, Korach, page 178a, "the masters of accounts," every day. He would do this every day, crying and weeping to the Holy One, blessed be He, until everything that is written in the note is erased.
1:19 As if... what did he have to erase. I do not know; this is what he would do. And then he asked him: Why are you like this?... If I give you the World to Come, will you be happy? So he said: Of course. And after a week he passed away to his eternal home, and he came to Heaven, and he wanted to enter the palace of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev. All the chassidim said to him: You left the synagogue, you gave this to an old Jew. How did you do such a thing? He said to them: Is gladdening a Jew easy in your eyes?...
1:44 Is gladdening a Jew easy in your eyes? See what a merit it is to bring up joy. How great this merit is, how dangerous it is to break people. Strengthen everyone as much as possible, with Hashem's help as much as possible, with the help of Hashem, that the Rabbi should continue to gladden the Jewish people. Amen.
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