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0:10 In serving Hashem, one must think only of Hashem, blessed be He, and not see any created being in the world; a person should think he is alone, alone - about which the Sages said in the Mishnah, Tractate Sanhedrin, chapter 4, mishnah 5: Therefore a person must say, a person is obligated to say: the whole world was created only for my sake - for my sake the world was created, for my sake the world was created. So what does it mean that a person tells himself, 'For my sake the world was created'?
0:38 What is the point of it? If a person understands that the world was created for his sake, then he will constantly search and see how he can repair the world, and how he can save the world from blemish, and how he can repair the world from going down to the pit, for the whole world stands on each and every one. There is no one in the world - every Jew, wherever he is, wherever he may be, in whatever state he may be - he holds up the whole world.
1:20 For now the revelation of Hashem, blessed be He, is found in us. Where is the dwelling place of Hashem, blessed be He? With each and every one of the holy people. Rabbi Shimon explains in the Zohar on Shemos, on page [unclear]... Rabbi Shimon says: if people knew - if the people of the world knew, if all human beings knew this love of the Holy One, blessed be He - how merciful Hashem is, and the love with which Hashem loves the Jewish people - everyone, all of them, whoever he may be - it is without distinction, those who have not yet merited the level - everyone, because Hashem loves everyone - they would see His love - they would run after Him like a young lion - they would run after Hashem, like young lions roaring for prey, how they run,
2:18 with the swiftness of the lions, and how they have in them strength and swiftness and speed, so they would run after Hashem, blessed be He. If we knew how much Hashem loves us, how much compassion Hashem has on us, that He wants to redeem us and loves us with endless love. The bond between the Creator, blessed be He, and us, the created, is a bond without measure.
2:47 No gate is closed before one who believes and clings to Him, blessed be He; no gate is closed before him. A person must know that Hashem hears you just as He hears the greatest tzaddik, and Hashem loves the farthest of the far and the most cast-away of the cast-away just as He loves the greatest tzaddik, and everyone can lift their eyes and turn to Him, and ask of Him, blessed be He.
3:11 The whole Jewish people, all of them, each and every man and each and every woman - all are special beyond measure. And Hashem has love for each and every one, with a precise, personal Hashgachah. The greatest hope there can be, the greatest hope is that each one will know that the geulah depends on him - this is 'for my sake the world was created' - that each one must do all in his power to lift his eyes to Heaven and to ask: enough, it is impossible any more, it is impossible to be in exile any more, it is impossible any more to prolong this exile.
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3:57 We want to see all the prophecies. If one more, and one more and one more, and one more ... will do it, then at last we will be able to see what stands there, and what hides it - this curtain called the firmament. And then His kingship will be revealed, and all will see what we say all the time: 'Hashem reigns, Hashem has reigned, Hashem will reign forever and ever.' Whoever truly clings to G-d, blessed be He, and knows that he came to serve Him, and all his hope and all his longing, and all his thought and all his intention and his path, is that he thinks how he can bring Him, blessed be He, satisfaction - this is the essence of the level and of closeness to G-d, blessed be He; this is what Hashem desires...
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While serving Hash-m, one needs to think only about Hash-m Yisborach and not see any created being in the world. A person should think as if he is solitary "For my sake, the world was created” What is the meaning that a person should tell himself: "For my sake, the world was created”? That if a person understands the world was created for his sake then he will constantly search and see how he can fix the world and how he can save the world from flaw and how he can rectify the world from ‘descending to the Pit’ and the entire world stands on each and every person, Each Jew, wherever he is, in whatever place he may be, in whatever circumstance may be, he supports the entire world Because now, Hash-m’s revelation is found in us Where is Hash-m’s dwelling place? In each member of the Holy Nation If the people in the world knew, if all people knew how merciful Hash-m is and knew of Hash-m’s love
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- 3:53It’s impossible to continue this exile any longer It’s impossible to prolong this exile any more…
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