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0:00 Honored Rav, may I ask a question? - Yes. - I see the good, I see the light. I am very optimistic. How? How do we help more people lift their heads, see the good despite all the hardships, despite all the harsh judgments? How do we sweeten them? How do we help them see the good things? There is blessing too. - There is blessing. But people are broken today. The Jewish people today is in a situation such as we have never been in. We are mixed up in such a cauldron that there is no one to comfort us. We are in great danger from all the enemies around. All the problems, all the hatred, all the rivalry, all the chaos there is - everything is full of lies from beginning to end. Today there are really no laws that run us, only people's feelings of the heart. By that they pass judgment.
0:36 That one is a friend of this one, that one is connected to this one, so he helps him, has mercy on him, gives him approval here - this one is connected to that one. Everything is corrupt, everything is a lie. There was never anything like this. People are broken. You want to strengthen them? Tell them that they need to understand that they are inside the lie, and they need to cry out and seek the absolute truth. And then a person will begin to understand: fine, if I feel bad now, it is not because the truth is causing me this sorrow, not because Hashem is doing it to me - it is because I am in a reality that is not good. And then, when a person understands that he is in a place where he seeks to see the light, then Hashem is a light for him, for the Holy One, blessed be He, is light, and He is truth, and He is good. Despite all the lies, the Jewish people returned
1:06 and we work our land, and we have Jerusalem. That is, there is also much, much good here, and redemptions and miracles. The miracles also need to be wonders: "As in the days of your going out of the land of Egypt, I will show him wonders." That there are, thank G-d, miracles - miracles; but when all day you are with the sword on your neck, that is still not miracles and wonders, because we have not merited to go out of the land of Egypt. That is why, of the land of Egypt, only when we went out is 'wonders' written: "As in the days of your going out of the land of Egypt, I will show him wonders." As you went out of the land of Egypt. The wonders are the strength and protection of Hashem, to redeem us from our enemies and our haters and all who seek our harm. That is exactly as we today are surrounded by enemies and haters
1:36 who seek our harm: the Iranians from here, the Yishmaelim from there, who try to do harm, and disputes within our own people, which is the most dangerous thing; betrayals there are in the Jewish people, that these sell out those, and those sell out these. We need to uproot the hatred from within us, and this sword of all that is within us, all the foolish and stubborn conduct there is here in our people, and then we will reveal the light and the good, and help the Jewish people. You know how many people are crying out in hospitals, poor souls, for medicines, and they have no medicines? How many people want to take their own lives, how many people are broken and crushed, how many crooked judgments, how many false and baseless accusations there are against people in the Jewish people. How much sorrow the Jewish people has. In Tanna D'Vei Eliyahu it writes how all this sorrow - in its merit, says Eliyahu the prophet, may he be remembered for good, the Jewish people will be redeemed. All these oppressed - this is called 'the tears of the oppressed'. - Rav, thank you. - Be strong, be strong. - Thank you. - Be strong, be strong, be happy.
2:20 We will lift our eyes to the heavens, and we will come out of this whole thing. - I am going, I am going to the reserves for another five hundred days, and I am going to set up another hundred farms. Be strong, be strong. Be strong and courageous. Be happy. Salvations from Heaven. Be strong. Here, we are already beginning to see the great light.
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