The Opportunity to Leap | Rabbi Moshe Chaim Halpern

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We sometimes wonder how a Yid, back in the Shtetl, it would take him many lifetimes to be exposed to what our generation is exposed to in a half a second. And we sometimes wonder: Why? The Heilige Chofetz Chaim used to Krechtz to us and used to tell us, My dear children, This is the reality. We have entered עקבתא דמשיחא. The Toras Chaim in Sanhedrin tells us, Just like a candle, just before it goes out, there is a burst of light, and just like before a person leaves this world, there is a tremendous energy, so, too, the Yetzer Hara. He knows his end is close. And in עקבתא דמשיחא, writes the Toras Chaim, there will be a tremendous, tremendous burst of energy and power of the Yetzer Hara, because he knows this is it, he's almost done. The Gemara in Sukkah tells us, After the Yetzer Hara will be disposed of,

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1. 0:05We sometimes wonder how a Yid, back in the Shtetl, it would take him many lifetimes…
2. 0:35there is a burst of light, and just like before a person leaves this world, there…
3. 1:05Tzaddikim will be crying and Resho’im will be crying. What are the Tzaddikim crying about after…
4. 1:36And suddenly those days are over, the Yetzer Hara’s gone, and to be able to leap,…
5. 2:07We used those opportunities to be able to become closer to the Ribono shel Olam with…

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