The Yanuka Rav Shlomo Yehuda-＂לא להישבר לעולם＂ – הגאון הינוקא על כוח האמונה והתקווה

2:55 He is a holy angel. All the angels have six wings. The Satan has eight wings. He is the only one; he has two more wings than the ordinary angels. All the angels have six wings: "with two he covers his face, with two he flies." Two, two, two. The 42, the 42: the Ana BeKoach that we say, corresponding to the prayer of Rabbi Nechunya, this is the 42, the 42; it is divided into threes, of the Name of 42, the forty-two-letter Name, Tractate Kiddushin, page 71, the Name of 42, as they explain there, the Name of 42, Ana BeKoach; it is divided: Alef-Beis-Gimmel, Yud-Tav-Tzadi.

3:28 "With two he covers his face, and with two he covers his feet, and with two he flies." The Satan is the only one who has eight wings. And the Satan does the will of the Holy One, blessed be He. So everyone asks: what does the Holy One, blessed be He, really want from a person? The Holy One, blessed be He, wants a person to prevail against everything he goes through. No matter what you see. And the Satan too, you should know, respects a person who prevails against all the anguish and the upheavals he has.

3:55 There are a great many crises; this world is not simple. But one has to know how to get through it in peace, and first of all, not to break. We know there are broken people who write very hard things, and it pains me and hurts me very much to hear it, and to read these things; it is heartbreaking, very hard. But I tell you of this joy, when afterwards you see a Jew who is filled with hope, and that Hashem has saved him, and suddenly he is happy, and suddenly he changes his life and his hope.

4:26 Do you know where this strength comes from? Only from hope and emunah. We must be strong. If you have people close to you, or people who are in a bad state, strengthen them in every way. Not to break, because a person truly has to know that he passes through this world in order to come close to Hashem, blessed be He. Whoever truly wants to come close to Hashem, blessed be He, truly, to be close to Hashem, you should know that the way is to go through a great, great many upheavals. A great many.

4:51 And a great deal of hester panim, the hiding of His face, by the Holy One, blessed be He. A great deal. And a person will feel a great hester panim, and he will come close, and after that he will be far, and after that he will again go against the will of Hashem, and again come close, and again go out. And then he will have light; he will run toward that light, and once again it is not given to him. And again hardship, and again darkness, and again gloom, and more gloom. And after that it seems to him that he is getting out, and again he does not get out, and again he is confused, and every day he gets up with a different craziness, and so it will come over him a great many times, beyond measure, tens of thousands in number,

5:19 until, in one moment, he will truly prevail and understand that the Holy One, blessed be He, stands in this darkness, and the Holy One, blessed be He, wants him to humble himself. The Holy One, blessed be He, wants him to have hope, to be full of hope, never to despair, to be full of hope, to be strong enough to understand that even this place can be repaired. Then the Holy One, blessed be He, will return to him, and he, that's it: "Behold, Your enemies, Hashem, for behold, Your enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered."

5:44 When a person knows that behind all his enemies, behind all his anguish... enemies are not only enemies when someone comes to attack you and comes to hit you; that is not the enemy. The enemy is the person himself. Sometimes a person, his opinions, his anguish and his thoughts that go round and round inside his head, they are his greatest enemies. If a person wants to know who his greatest enemy is, it is he himself. All the people will flee. A person's greatest enemy, what is a person's enemy? When the person himself despairs, when a person already wants to take his own life, out of despair and out of what he has been through. Therefore, always be strong, and know this: the more hardships of the soul a person goes through, and more anguish, and more turmoil, and more crises, and more trials, and everything that comes over you,

6:28 know that you are a mighty and very great soul. And it seems that those souls who are in this hard place, who can no longer survive and be here in the world, it is because their soul is so great that they can no longer bear the revelation of the light; they no longer want to be. That is how we need to look at them, and that is how to bring them close, and encourage them, and give them hope.

6:55 So, baruch Hashem, you will always remember to give light and hope to the Jewish people. Once again we are nearing Chanukah; Chanukah is drawing near, and Chanukah is to light up all the rooms for us, all the darkness, all the gloom: the wicked kingdom of Greece. The kingdom of Greece, Yavan, as you see: the Yud at the beginning, and the Vav in the middle, and after that the final Nun. Notice that the darkness always begins, little by little, as a small point.

7:21 After that it spreads further, after that it goes all the way down, to cast a person into yeven metzulah, the mire of the deep. Down. It goes down, down. That is the whole aim of the Satan: to bring a person, in this world, to sadness and to despair. So a person who wants to be strong against it: prevail with all your strength, never to break. Hold yourselves strong, always. I bless you with all the blessings, amen, amen, and with every good bounty, amen. And may Hashem, blessed be He, also give you the strength, with siyata dishmaya, amen, to bring them back. With Hashem's help, I can tell you: we managed to bring these eight back, and, with Hashem's help, they will not come to this again, with Hashem's help. Be strong! May Hashem watch over you and save you. Always be strong, be strong.

8:08 Here is a beautiful chiddush for you from the Ohev Yisrael of Apta; it is the parashah now. See something beautiful that he sees. People learn many words of Torah, but they don't go deep. That is: "Let a little water be taken," pay attention: "Let a little water be taken." When you know... first of all, from here we see, we learn the Torah's point: that one must not burden those who serve in holy work. "Let a little water be taken": not to burden people. "Let a little be taken": derech eretz; not, "Bring a large amount of water."

8:40 When you want to ask someone for something, let us not ask for much. Don't burden him. "Let a little water be taken": that is what a person has to know with workers, with people, attendants, all of these: it should be with light work. "Let a little water be taken." Now, the Rebbe of Apta says something very beautiful. "Let a little water be taken": take words of Torah, one particular teaching, take one word of Torah, take one word of Torah, take a chiddush, some verse, a Mishnah, an amud, a daf of Gemara; let us take one small thing, "and wash your feet," ragleichem: let us clean away all the hergel, the habit you have already grown used to. You?

9:14 "I already say Lecha Dodi by heart; I know it." Take Lecha Dodi now; Shabbos is coming. Take Lecha Dodi. And go, say Lecha Dodi, bring it. This is what it says: "and wash your feet." Think that you are saying it for the first time in your life. "And wash your feet," and right away, what is written after that? "And recline beneath the tree." What is the tree? The Tree of Life. A person who wants to cleave to the Holy One, blessed be He, has to feel as if he has not yet learned anything.

9:39 Whoever thinks he has finished the Torah, that he has finished, and he already knows everything, and he knows, he doesn't need more, then he never began to learn. Because truly learning the Torah is beginning the Torah anew. To rejoice in the Torah and begin it anew, every time. And so, when we make a siyum and Simchas Torah, what do we do? "Before the eyes of all Israel," and right away we begin: "In the beginning G-d created the heavens."

10:03 The main thing in finishing the Torah is the Bereishis, the beginning. We don't finish the Torah; we begin the Torah. So on Simchas Torah we make the beginning of the Torah, so that even one who has not yet finished should begin. That is why shnayim mikra ve'echad targum, until when can we say it? Until Simchas Torah. Therefore accustom yourselves to this way of looking, and so you will be able to go through and learn the whole Torah with joy, with vitality, with enthusiasm, always to begin, and to value it. With this book the whole world was created. Do you understand? The entire world was created from this holy book, from the Sefer Torah.

10:41 The whole world is founded on it; it is the strongest power in the world, there is nothing greater than this power. Nothing. In all the generations and in all the history of the Jewish people, this is what brought victory to the Jewish people. This is in Tractate Berachos, page 54, where the Gemara says: "They did not know that the Ark was going before Israel and lowering the mountains before them." When the Jewish people were passing through, anyone would think that walking in the wilderness and seeing mountains, rough ground, caves, they would have had to walk like this, like this and like this. The Ark of the Covenant would lower them for them: the Jewish people would walk, and all the mountains would become one level plain, every time the Jewish people passed through.

11:21 Look, this is a miracle, something the human mind cannot imagine at all: the Jewish people walk with the Ark, and wherever it goes, the Holy One, blessed be He, lowers the high mountains for them, before the Jewish people, as the Ark went before them. The power of the Torah: to level all the hills for a person, all the mountains, all the anguish. Learn Torah, hold yourselves fast to the holy Torah, and you will see all the miracles and wonders, for "Great is Hashem and greatly praised, and His greatness is beyond searching out."

11:55 So that is the rule.