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The Yanuka’s own words in this shiur, translated into English by Lehallel · 546 words · 2:53. Press a time to hear it said.
0:00 The greatest sin and the greatest accusation against us is that we forget that we are children of a King. If we understood our power, that the G-d of Israel, the G-d of Abraham, the G-d of Isaac and the G-d of Jacob, the great, mighty and awesome G-d, is with us, and we are close to Him, and He did not leave us and will not leave us and will not forsake us, then we could already cancel half of all these adventures that we see.
0:32 This severing that the Satan did in this generation, that he fights in the generation, not with all the transgressions that you see. He fights everyone to make them forget that they are children of kings. He tries to fight Judaism, the root of Judaism, to cut off from them the hope and the joy they have that there is someone they can turn to, someone they can pray to, to lift their eyes to heaven.
0:56 In the world they do not contemplate this and do not see it, and even when they say they are children of a King, then this is the result of what we see today. If we understood our power as the Jewish people, that we are called and our remembrance is in the name of our forefathers, our forefathers - see what they did in the world, see see what a lineage we have, the Jewish people, see what a path, see even the holy converts, all the holy converts who drew close to us and merited to be part of Hashem's inheritance with us - and you shall love the convert - how dear and close they are to Hashem, blessed be He, and you shall love the convert, they too, whose soul's root is holy and pure, everyone who merited to return
1:38 to these holy four cubits of Hashem who dwells here in Zion, in this holy place, to be included in all those holy moments of our forefathers who gave their lives, the people that was bound for the sanctity of His name, blessed be He, throughout the generations. People died for the sanctification of Hashem's name, they cut them, they went through suffering, troubles, in order to unify His name.
2:03 And all the trial throughout all the generations, all that we went through, is only to make us forget our Judaism, to make them forget Your Torah. What did the Greeks want to do to us? What did the wicked Haman want to do to us? What did all the wicked ones want to do to us? What does the Satan want to do to us? The Satan does not want to bring a person to sin, to crime. He has no interest in making a person stumble in some flaw. That does not interest him at all.
2:28 Only one thing interests him, that that Jew will despair of the root of his Judaism and go out and deny everything. And therefore know, if you know this thing, not only will you be saved from that Satan, from that evil inclination, and you will have much more benefit, but you will also cancel a great many judgments and troubles and sufferings from upon you, from upon the whole world.
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