A Gate to Hashem | Rabbi Aharon Weinberg

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Dear Yidden, we all need Chizuk. We’re in the days of עקבתא דמשיחא, there’s so much challenges out there, there's so much Nisyonos, such temptations, and everything is so fogged up. Let's get some clarity. There's a fascinating Medrash on the Pasuk in Bereishis, And God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. Says the Medrash nothing less, ‘And behold, it was good’ that’s the good inclination, ‘very good’ that’s the bad inclination. It's almost impossible to understand the Medrash. How could we refer to the Yetzer Hara as extremely good, ‘very good’? And maybe we could explain, When we have a challenge from the Yetzer Hara and it's difficult and it's hard, really it's ‘very good’, it's your biggest opportunity possible, because if you overcome and you conquer the Yetzer Hara, and you win, you grow, you rise. As we find by Yosef Hatzaddik, from the worst possible challenge, he grew when he overcame and he became a Melech, a king, as the Zohar and the Medrash explain. There was a war survivor that gave over that he was in the Nazi concentration camp in Treblinka. And at one point, the Nazis came up with the most evil idea. They took a Paroches from an Aron Kodesh from one of the shuls that they burned,

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1. 0:08Dear Yidden, we all need Chizuk. We’re in the days of עקבתא דמשיחא, there’s so much…
2. 0:38and it's difficult and it's hard, really it's ‘very good’, it's your biggest opportunity possible, because…
3. 1:09and it had engraved beautifully in gold letters, This is the gate of Hashem, the righteous…
4. 1:40It appeared to them like if the Ribono shel Olam opened the Heavens. It showed them…
5. 2:10and we're literally at the gate to Gehenom. We have to remember this is an opportunity.…
6. 2:40There's a greater level of ענן, which is fog, very thick darkness. The greatest level is…
7. 3:13you could turn every challenge into the biggest opportunity of closeness to the Ribono shel Olam.…

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