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0:00 - What message does the Rabbi have, what hope can we give the Jewish people so they can continue in Torah, in mitzvos, to take everything we had with the Rabbi and with everyone on this holiday and continue it the whole year. - This week a Jew came in Chol HaMoed, he told that he tried to [unclear] abroad, and he read an article of ours in English, and it saved his life.
0:37 In a situation, I am looking for some Torah scholars who know this language well, and also know Hebrew well, and who can, I will sit with them and I will explain to them some things that need to be published, very relevant. Whoever knows, and really at such a level, we [unclear] a few like that, we have done this so far with a few, individuals, we need more, because there are many things. Whoever can, should turn to me, to Rabbi Yisrael Moshe, at the end.
1:05 - But what message can we give the Jewish people. The moment we pass from Sukkos, we pass from the lights, from the joy, as the Rabbi explained, so deeply, so beautifully, from the joy of a mitzvah we go out to the weekdays, we forget everything, and on the other hand, we are at war. The Jewish people, there is a lot, the Rabbi knows more than we do, all the troubles, all the adventures. How can we take the great light, all the joy, all the good things that there were, and pass the message on to the Jewish people? Here, one small message saved one Jew.
1:41 The Rabbi's messages are [unclear]. It can save the Jewish people, it can give hope to the Jewish people, it opens the gates, it gives us light and longing for the whole year. The whole Jewish people longs and wants to hear the Rabbi's words. We would be very happy to hear, even in brief, but some message for the days of the week, that we may overcome, may continue, and be good Jews, better than we were before.
2:07 First of all, tell the Rabbi here who comes on foot, a very great distance every Shabbos, his questions, his wisdom-giving Torah, [unclear], [unclear] Heavenly assistance, blessings, much good, a good life, salvations, joy, all the blessings and good influences. Our heart is glad. Dear and beloved and cherished. - I will tell you something truly very important, a very important message.
2:33 Why did Hashem, blessed be He, give us memory? Why? Pay attention, we read in the portion "Sanctify to Me every firstborn," and "it shall be for a remembrance." In the section in our tefillin it is written "and it shall be for a remembrance." This is exactly the question the Holy One, blessed be He, asked the Jewish people. I gave you the Torah, you were at the standing at Mount Sinai, I took you out of Egypt, you had manna, signs, wonders, you saw all the plagues.
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2:58 What do you now need to do? To use what? Memory. One must always remember everything that was with you, everything you went through, all the miracles. And many times a person also needs to remember the miracles Hashem, blessed be He, did with him. We have all been through many miracles that Hashem, blessed be He, did with us. We must always go, and when we come to the graves of tzaddikim, when we go to the Western Wall, among the things we ask for, we must also remember the miracles Hashem did for us and tell them to the Holy One, blessed be He - each one who had some miracle, rescue, something, a thing that he had, always mention it to the Holy One, blessed be He; one must mention the miracles and the wonders. True, we mention it in the prayer, but to spell these things out is one thing,
3:42 exactly to tell. "And He saw their distress when He heard their cry," also the Holy One, blessed be He, our sorrow, our pain, that we sound a joyful song before Him, that we sing and rejoice. But what is the essence of a joyful song in singing? It is the stories of the miracles, the wonders, as the Radak explained there on the psalm, and also in Psalm 103 and in Psalm 104. Now, always think, thank Hashem, we have been here together since Rosh Hashanah, we are together, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and all of Sukkos, think how much we learned together in all these days. Some joined in between, but from these days we already learned together from all the meals of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and Sukkos, and midrashim and all kinds of things we learned, all the questions and things, how much, thank Hashem, we learned.
4:30 Now your job is to remember everything I taught you. I do not know, that is your job. I remember the question whether you remember. - But what is the message that we can take the great light and carry it over to the whole year?
5:12 Right, with memory, but what is the message the Rabbi can give us, the hope the Rabbi can give us, the good things we can take from him? - Shall I answer again? Memory. And I will explain why. I will explain why. Memory, when does sin come?
5:37 When does a person sin? When a person forgets Hashem. When a person is in the most exalted moments, he never sins. Look at a person in the Neilah prayer of Yom Kippur. If I took that time and extended it to the whole year, would there be anyone who sinned? No one would distance himself from Hashem, blessed be He. It is Yom Kippur, it is a holy day. But when do people sin? When they leave the holy day and also forget the closeness of Hashem, forget the miracles Hashem did for them, and they feel that [unclear] the trait of forgetting, that a person forgets the Torah, from here to action it is done, this trait in practice causes a person to distance himself greatly from the Holy One, blessed be He.
6:21 But it is also fitting to mention now the Zohar on Vayikel, page 506, that we learned, when Rabbi Shimon says that today, now that we have finished all the parshiyos, and Simchas Torah, then he says that every parshah in the parshah goes up above to the Holy One, blessed be He, every single parshah - Shemos, Vayikra, Bamidbar, Bereishis, Matos, Masei, imagine them like this, flying up, Tazria, Metzora, Acharei Mos, Kedoshim, each one like this goes up, up, up, every single parshah defends us for having finished the Torah, all the parshiyos of today, all the parshiyos, says Rabbi Shimon, [unclear] all the parshiyos today go up like this and are completed above, in the Supreme Crown before the Holy One, blessed be He, up to the Throne of Glory, all the parshiyos in which we learned the Torah, and they come and defend the Jewish people on this day.
7:10 So if you ask me what to strengthen, siman 281 in the Shulchan Aruch, to read the verse twice and the Targum once, every day one can read the verse twice and the Targum once. One can read the verse twice and the Targum once, according to the Rema, for Ashkenazim, from the time of Mincha on Shabbos when they hear the Torah reading, and according to the Kol Bo [unclear] the Beis Yosef, from Sunday, not from Shabbos. On Sunday one reads, and whoever wants to follow the way of the Gra, to read every day his aliyah, on Sunday the first, Monday the second, Tuesday the third, Wednesday the fourth, and then Shabbos comes and he has finished the whole Torah reading, a blessing will come upon him, it is a very, very, very great thing, it is important, so there is also time to go over the parshiyos of the Torah.
7:49 The verse twice and the Targum once comes before all the other studies, it is very, very, very important to read the verse twice and the Targum once, that everyone should be careful about it, and connect to the Torah. And in Tractate Bava Kamma, page 82, in the enactment of Ezra the Scribe, that the Torah be read on Monday, Thursday, and Shabbos, "and they went three days in the wilderness and found no water." We must always remember this, that we must come to hear the Torah, and also the hint of this, what there was, you saw what it was on Simchas Torah, to show us that the Holy One, blessed be He, says, "My children, nu, what are you doing before Me," on this day of Simchas Torah, the Holy One, blessed be He showed us that on this day
8:24 there was specifically the attribute of judgment, because the parshiyos argued against us, that we must come to hear the Torah reading, we must come to the synagogue, we must come to the beis midrash, to pray with a minyan every day, to come on Monday, Thursday, Shabbos, to hear the Torah reading, to complete the Torah reading. A person who did not read the verse twice and the Targum once for a year, needs the time to complete it, until Simchas Torah next year, but to read every day and engage in Torah, to learn Rashi's commentary, which comes before all the other studies, Chumash, Rashi's commentary, the holy Ohr HaChaim, to learn commentaries, commentators, to learn the Torah, to learn the word of Hashem.
8:58 This is the greatest and most exalted thing. People do not understand at all the depth of the Torah. People jump to Mishnah, Gemara, but at a certain time, Chumash with Rashi, with the commentators, the holy Ohr HaChaim, Sforno, Rambam, Ibn Ezra, learn, increase as much as you can. Thank Hashem, there are Torah scholars here who do this, this is not for them, yes? But the rest, the message is for everyone, this is what must be done, this is the message to all the... - You are absolutely right, So you are absolutely right.
10:16 - And for this, with Hashem's help, every week, thank Hashem, we write the holy writings, which is a message every week to everyone, to read them, these writings that are distributed from Shulchan Shlomo, so that it will be of benefit to everyone, there is in it a great, great deal of help and freedom, and it is a great deal of investment. You do not even know how much, how much, how much investment there is in this in the Torah, in the Torah, and really read every thing with great depth and learn it; there are in it all the tools to pass through this whole world in peace and also to reach true eternal life, and people testified that it gave them a great deal of understanding and a great deal of wisdom and a great deal of knowledge and important things and the way of Hashem and the service of Hashem, and it has everything,
10:55 everything is included, and everything, so it is very worthwhile to learn from it. The message is constant, that I am always here, and whoever wants me comes, I am here, one can come. - I have his Zohar, with handwriting and his new insights on all the writings of the Arizal.
11:48 And a tzaddik who was close to him brought it to me, who was close to him, he brought it to me, from him. And also a letter, a letter of his about the redemption. Yes, a letter, there is a letter there. It came in a book, in a letter in which he spoke about the redemption and about the things that will be, with Hashem's help, a letter that he wrote to a certain sage, and in this letter he wrote, he signed with a stamp, his words, and great things.
12:26 No, [unclear] on new insights, I do not know, I know what I say, I do not know what others say. - Oh, is it his hillula today? Oh, in everlasting joy. - I will explain.
12:59 True, prayer is strengthening and everything for me, but the Sages teach us in Tractate Berachos, page 31, that one prays with seriousness (literally: heaviness of the head). When you come to pray and you want to come to strengthening from prayer, I understand what you are saying. But the approach to Hashem's salvation, it first must understand that a person must come with submission, to come with awe before Hashem. Rabbi Saadia Gaon writes, of the Geonim he writes, that the way to come to the Holy One, blessed be He, in prayer is that one prays with seriousness, meaning that the person comes with submission, that he nullifies all his heart, that he knows that now, at this time of prayer, I have nothing in the world.
13:40 There is only the prayer and the Holy One, blessed be He. So if you come with such an approach, I do not think that Hashem, blessed be He, will not answer you. He will accept your prayer and you will also have strengthening and also salvation from Heaven and everything you want. But it depends on your preparation, for it is all preparation for receiving the prayer. And Rabbeinu Chaim Vital in Shaarei Kedushah, chapter six, writes that the whole redemption depends on prayer with intention, that the Jewish people will pray with intention, they will pray and the redemption will come through it. Yerushalmi [unclear], chapter nine, halachah 1.
14:11 There is more in this, with Hashem's help, may it be His will that it be of benefit to us, for Heavenly assistance, for joy, that Hashem, blessed be He, will strengthen everyone, and now go ahead, dance in honor of the Torah! You need to be happy; all year, thank Hashem, we learn, but now let us rejoice in what we learn, this is the time, rejoice. I am here. Thank you very much.
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