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0:00 Listen to the true voice, and remember to recognize this generation and its state, and do not let anything in this world mislead you and confuse you, to shine the light of Hashem, blessed be He, in truth - the true knowledge of the Torah. Do not put out the last ember that remains. With joy, and to think only good, and to light up the souls of Israel. Not to draw souls and not to sketch souls. The souls of Israel were hewn 'from the top of the rocks,' from the highest place.
0:26 Stop drawing souls - it is not a drawing. Today people draw souls, they draw, they catalog. 'Wait, what are you, Breslov?' 'Okay. How old are you? Chabad?' 'You returned to Torah at fifty? Fine - we'll send you a match, someone aged seventy, who doesn't see, doesn't know.' They catalog people like this; they do not look at the souls, they do not look at the souls of Israel. Stop this. The sages of the past - you see the knowledge, and the understanding, and the wisdom, how much they lit up the souls of Israel, how much the Torah and the sages increase peace, lift up the people, lift up the souls of Israel.
0:59 They do not increase disputes, nor separations, nor catalogs, nor sects, nor labels, nor anything. They light up the light, the souls of Israel, the holy soul - there is in you a holy, lofty, immense soul that has no measure. Awaken the light of the souls of Israel. We do not look at the clothes, we do not look at the appearance, we do not look at everything around, we do not look at place, origin, community, which yeshivah, learning, past, future - nothing.
1:30 We look - the Holy One, blessed be He, said: 'where he is.' Every soul has a right, a share, to take in the holy Torah. Who are we, that anyone should dare to come and speak about the souls of Israel, and sketch it, and speak of it, or catalog it, or call it by a name, and a status, and a rank of influence, or social at all, or they also catalog him - who is he that he should speak, or speak like this. About what? Every Jew is an authority in this world.
1:56 There is a soul in him, a portion of G-d from above, he can bring you the redemption. He. This little one, this odd one, with tzitzis out, who just now shaved his head and grew out peyos, and yesterday stopped smoking, and his soul shed tears in the Ne'ilah prayer. Come see - the heavens are now open before him. Who knows what will be revealed in this soul? Who knows what will come out of him? Who are we, that we can speak about the souls of Israel? Can we catalog people, sketch them, say whether they will get into a Talmud Torah, will not get into a Talmud Torah, 'he is like this, he is like that, he is this, he is not, he is permitted, he is that'?
2:30 We cannot speak about angels of G-d - every Jew is a limb of the Shechinah. Speak good about the souls of Israel, and remove this strain, which, like a viper, sows venom among the Jewish people, and only tries to sketch out the mind for us - what is a Jew, and who is truth, and who is falsehood, and all this foolishness. The time has come to learn true Torah, Torah - we learn Torah, we do not busy ourselves with everything around; we busy ourselves with Torah.
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2:56 That is the purpose, that is the knowledge.
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