Illuminating the Darkness | Rabbi Zev Smith

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There was once a rumor of a magical machine that you would put in lead and it would transform it into gold. Of course, that doesn't exist. But we didn't have something very similar and that's a moment of greatness. When a person is faced with a challenging moment and he rises to the occasion, that's taking nothing and turning it into minutes into eternity. As the Nishman said, we talk with great awe about a tzaddik yesod olam. This is the foundation of the world, this great the foundation of the world, this great tzaddik. But there's someone in a challenging moment, no one will know if he succeeded or succumbed to the yetzer hara. And when he rises to the occasion, in that moment he's a tzaddik yesod olam because he did something that's purely for the Ribono shel Olam. Our problem is we underestimate those moments. We hear so much about the bad, bad, bad about when someone falls prey to the yetzer hara. But do we hear about the good, good, good of someone that

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1. 0:08There was once a rumor of a magical machine that you would put in lead and…
2. 0:38the foundation of the world, this great tzaddik. But there's someone in a challenging moment, no…
3. 1:10the good, good, good of someone that experienced a sweet victory when he enjoys another vayomer…
4. 1:41language of the Arizal, "In our times, when the klippah gave various me'od me'od, when tumah…
5. 2:12Olam. There's a well-known Chazal, when Mashiach will come, he will cry out, "Anavim, higia zman…
6. 2:43going on the world around us." But Mashiach will come, and he's going to turn to…
7. 3:13light that you are creating in this most intense darkness of Golus, a light that only…

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