The Yanuka Rav Shlomo Yehuda-הגאון הינוקא - הקבלת פני רבו פסח תשפ''ב • תקציר מדברי התורה

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1:17 We must, must stop and ask Hashem, blessed be He, more for His mercy, ask Him more to have mercy on us... lift our eyes more and know that He can save us. It is true that we rely on tzaddikim and go to them to be blessed, but a person must know that Hashem, blessed be He, hears you just as He hears the greatest tzaddik, and Hashem, blessed be He, loves the farthest of the far and the most cast-off of the cast-off just as He loves the greatest tzaddik, and everyone can lift their eyes and turn to ask of Him, blessed be He, and raise their eyes to Heaven, and feel that the true salvation, and the complete salvation that I desire more than anything, is 'and their cry rose up to G-d', that just as they were in Egypt,

2:07 and all that they hoped for and all that they cried out for, I don't need to explain what they were, and what they did, and how they lived, and in what conditions, and what they went through - everyone knows this, and everyone has read it - but out of all this, their whole hope was that they want G-d, they want the G-d Who is with them in Egypt to reveal Himself and take them out.

2:35 And if we too will be here and ask for this, then it will be. But... there is not even a need to say it in a euphemism, but we all know that the exile was lengthened, and when the eyes went down below, and were not lifted up above - what the result was... May we merit that Hashem, blessed be He, wrap us in mercy, but the connection that existed was only for those who merited to attain the true deveikus.

3:14 This too can be explained there: what Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai meant in Tractate Sukkah, page 45b, when he said, 'I have seen the people of ascent, and they are few', that the thought - who are those who merited to attain the level of their thought, that their whole intention would be to ascend and to unite the letters Yud-Heh, which were blemished by the blemish of pride, '...in what you have learned, whether there is anything in it that you can fulfill', which the Ramban warned his son about in a letter, that he should read it, so that he would understand how very important it is what learning you learn, and for what purpose you learn, and for what you work for your livelihood, and for what you exist.

4:00 If a person would stop and think what the purpose of the whole world is, the whole world blinds their eyes and leads them on crooked paths, and makes them forget the whole purpose, and the time passes, and more time passes, and suddenly a person finds himself already close to the end, and there is no greater shame than this, than to depart from this world without our having lifted our eyes to Heaven and asked for the kingship of Hashem...

4:27 This request, and this will, and this emunah, and this trust, to feel and to love Him truly, without there being in the heart any difficulty or any question about Him, and to know that He is the merciful G-d, full of mercy, and He is the Good in every kind of goodness, and He is the Righteous in every kind of righteousness,

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