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0:00 People come and tell me, "It is hard to live... I do not want to live." Like that, all the time. You know how many times it falls to us to save people from roofs, to speak with a person on a roof. Two months ago there was a conversation — a person called the driver, Shmuel Chaim. He said to him, "Where... I need to speak with the Rav." He tells him, "It is not possible..." He tells him, "Fine, then know that I am on a roof right now — on a roof. There is nothing I can do." On a roof.
0:25 He spoke with him. I was at a bris just then — we had come out of the bris; I was the sandek at the bris. "Someone wants to speak..." — speaking with the person. While he was in the conversation there, I began to speak with him. I brought him to such joy that the person ran from there — he came to me. He was happy. And he is happy to this day. I began, first of all, to speak with him words — but true ones — about the purpose. Of course, the first thing I did: I got his details out of him, the address, where he is, and everything...
0:56 and, on the side, to call the fire department, for people to get to him, to catch hold of him. That comes first; that is the first thing I did — to save him... Because I said to him, "Before I speak — come, tell me where you are, where your place is, what you..." and so on, Meanwhile, before there was time, he had already... he left even before they arrived. I said to him, "Listen: there is no such thing as stopping life. There is no such thing. Life will be forever.
1:21 You think that you want to go from here, but you will start with the problems there. You have nowhere to run to." Woe to those views that say that death is an escape. I said to him, "Hold yourself strong, and do not break, ever, and everything will be all right — there will be salvations. Think good." I spoke with him about the purpose. And it is true that it is hard in this world. Rabbeinu Bachya writes that this world is called the world of worry, but it is forbidden to break, ever — forbidden. One must hold on like this: Rabbi Mordechai of Lechovitch said: emunah in Hashem and coming close to Hashem — they will hold on to a wall with their fingernails. So he said: with their fingernails they will try to hold on to the wall.
1:59 I understand that people have difficulty, but first of all one must understand: to die, to take one's own life, to get divorced — all these sentences, and the nonsense people speak — that is not life, not a solution. There is hope for everything. But Heaven forbid — not to try to think about this thing, because life goes on. Life always goes on. A person has nowhere to go. It is not that now he... "Fine, I will remain an outcast; the sufferings in the soul are over, the troubles are over."
2:28 Not at all! You will go on living — simply in another place. You will not solve the problem for yourself. Here you can solve the problem, so that it will not be there. It is like a parable — what is it comparable to? To a woman with labor pains. She has contractions. What does she say? "I have labor pains — it is not good for me here. I am going to another place." Now, she thinks that she will ride in the taxi to another place and her labor pains will pass. Will her labor pains pass?
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2:54 They will not pass. She will continue the labor pains in another place. She goes with the pains and the sufferings to another place. So what must be done first of all? Give birth — give birth to the baby, be rid of the birth pangs, of the pain, and then she will be healed... That is how it is in everything. Yes — it is forbidden to despair, ever. There is no such thing — not an illness that one cannot come out of, and not problems of the soul that one cannot come out of.
3:19 Everyone — the problem is... What has happened to people? People had some difficulties for a few years, and they feel that it is no longer possible to come out of them. That is it. "If I have been ill for many years already — that is it." And that is not true. One can come out of everything. There is hope for everything, there is a solution for everything, but on condition that a person never despairs. To remember — you know that Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, may his merit protect us, Amen.
3:45 who had most wondrous ruach hakodesh, awesome ruach hakodesh — in his generation, in the generation of Rabbi Nachman — everything that he spoke to people, all kinds of words of strengthening: to sanctify oneself, not to despair, there is no despair at all. He spoke words that were awesomely lofty and, on the other hand, very simple.
4:10 His opponents at the time, when they opened the books, would laugh at him: "What is this 'there is no despair in the world'? 'The whole world is a narrow bridge, and the main thing is not to be afraid at all'?" All kinds of opponents would read this and say, "What is this? What is he writing here? What — he speaks here about the holiness of the covenant? We marry at 13."
4:37 They would marry at the age of 13, 14. A person whose match was delayed would come to the Rav at the age of 15, 16; he would say, "Oy..." They look at him as already a grandfather — he has not married yet. You saw — that is how it was... But who was not... Rabbi Nachman married — they made him the bar mitzvah together with the wedding. He married at the age of 13 — Rabbi Nachman married at the age of 13. Once, that is how they would marry, once... So they would look and say, "Whom is he talking about? We are holy.
5:01 What blemish of the covenant? There is no blemish of the covenant, no one has despair; there are learners, learning in the synagogues. What are all these words?" No one understood that he saw the generation... He said that he was speaking about the generation of Mashiach. Why did he say, "My fire will burn until the coming of Mashiach"? He said: "The words that I said then — you will need them in the generation when Mashiach comes.
5:26 When Mashiach comes, then you will need the words that I said. I was not speaking to you." He is speaking to those who will be in the time to come. And that is this generation. People today, in our generation, suddenly understand what he said — "there is no despair"... And when he said, "There is no despair in the world at all," he did not say it like a saying that a person says — who tells you, "Be strong, there is no despair, there is hope, there is no despair." He did not say it like that.
5:53 He looked closely at each and every one of the Jewish people; he reached such a level that he felt everything that all the Jewish people go through. And only when he reached the feeling of the Jew who is at the farthest edge of the world, at the very end of the world, hanging on the cliff and about to fall from the cliff — he felt his pain at that moment, he felt that from this too one can come out — only then did he say, "There is no despair in the world at all."
6:24 Only then did he say it. That is to say, until he felt that this applies to everyone, he did not say this sentence. Suddenly everyone looks and understands and says that if such a thing was said, then there is hope for everything. And one must know... you — Baruch Hashem, we have seen people who came out of things. that doctors... Here, this week there was a person; a doctor told him, "You have no time, you do not have a month to live — go and die at home." That is what he told him. Baruch Hashem — miracles and wonders, it was "Give thanks to Hashem, for He is good, for His kindness is forever." He is alive, he has nothing — not a thing, nothing.
6:57 How can that be? There is hope. There is no despair at all in the world. There is no such thing as coming and telling a person, "despair, despair." The doctors — I tell people every time: the doctors are doctors, they are not prophets. People... "The doctor said I have two, three more months left." I said, "Oho, he has ruach hakodesh." He is not a prophet. The doctor can deal with medicine — recommend a good operation, a treatment, a pill — whatever he wants, he will recommend.
7:26 We respect their opinions, the treatments, the things — that is yet another subject of its own — we respect what they say. I say all the time: go to doctors. Why? Because the doctors, too, see the salvation of Hashem. There are also, Baruch Hashem, people who come at the public reception — I ask them, "Who sent you?" He tells me, "This professor..." The professor sends people to me. They know that I am responsible. I give people an answer. I do not tell people, "Do not do this and that," "Do not go for tests." I never in my life said such a thing — never. The opposite: I encourage people: yes, go for tests, yes, go to doctors; yes, see to it every year to do a test.
8:03 There are those who say, "Do not go for tests, no need, you have nothing." Heaven forbid — oy va'avoy, that is irresponsibility. Sometimes there are very small things, where one can also go out, go for blood tests, do tests when a person has pain. There is no need to be afraid. One does a test; one is not afraid. But one must know that there is no despair in the world at all. A doctor is not a prophet. He can say, "The condition is such" — he diagnoses an existing condition; he is not a prophet.
8:31 He cannot say, "Two more months are left," "One more year is left," "It is impossible to come out of this..." There is no such thing. Those are sentences that he cannot say. He can say... but the person should not believe — what... — should not listen to him. One must believe in the word of Hashem. With Hashem, blessed be He, everything is possible, and truly in the blink of an eye — you should know this. Therefore I want to strengthen you, that you should know — whether in problems of the soul or in problems of the body — to remember that there is hope to come out of everything, one must be strengthened, and believing, and cleaving to Hashem, and not break, despite all the ordeals that one goes through.
9:09 I know that people go through such ordeals and troubles and sufferings that you... I tell you, you — each one has what he has. He does not know what things I hear — things come to me that, from the story alone, take a person out of himself — I have to take hold of myself; I say, "Oy, what people go through, what the world goes through!" It is a great pain — it breaks the heart. Just now, when I was there, I prayed — I already prayed about this: "Enough, Master of the World, save us." I said to Eliyahu HaNavi, remembered for good, "Let me hear good tidings."
9:38 I was at the Cave of Eliyahu. I said to him, "Let only good tidings be heard from you. In your merit, Eliyahu, bearer of good tidings — give us good tidings." Amen. I was there at the Cave of Eliyahu, and they told me what the greatness there is, and everything... Know this too, by the way: Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, when he was in the Land of Israel, traveled to Haifa; he went to the Cave of Eliyahu and said that there he received Rosh Hashanah as a gift — there, in that place.
10:04 Inside the Cave of Eliyahu — he was there, in the place — and he said that from Heaven he received for his soul the Rosh Hashanah on which people would come to him. See how great and holy this place is; it is a place... - Was he a Rav there? - He was there, yes... In the beginning he arrived there, and came — and after that was the whole journey to Tiberias and so on. But first of all he arrived at the port — they would arrive at the port of Akko; there it was a bay; they would moor the ship, from there they arrived in Haifa.
10:31 This place is very, very holy — the Cave of Eliyahu HaNavi. The Cave of Eliyahu — where is that? In Haifa. I went there just now. I was there, at the entrance to Haifa — and Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, and Rabbi Meir Baal HaNes — what holiness that is, what... We must be strong, to know that there is hope for everything. This is very important. I truly want each one to be strengthened, and never, never to break.
10:59 And if you love me — you who say you listen to me — promise me that no matter what, no matter what each one goes through, or what he has — and even though I do not speak with you, and even though we do not meet — we do not get to speak with everyone, because, Baruch Hashem, there are many — but remember: I am speaking to each one. There is no despair at all. To be the strongest, and to be with all one's strength — that one can come out of everything.
11:25 I pray for each and every one — but to be strong, with all one's strength, to overcome all the difficulties, and we will defeat all the difficulties. Amen. To be strong — amen. And salvations from Heaven — amen. All the blessings and the good bounty — amen.
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באים אומרים לי א קשה לחיות לא רוצה לחיות שמה זה כמה פעמים יצא לנו להציל אנשים מגגות דברים בן אדם על גג חודשיים היה סליחה בן אדם התקשר כבר רק שבותיים אמר לו איפה דרך אמר לו אי אפשר אומר לו טוב תדע שאני עכשיו על גג על גג אין לי מה לעשות על גג דבר איתו הייתי בברית בדיוק נסנו מהברית דק ברית הייתי בברית בדיוק נסנו מהברית דק ברית מה לכם לדבר איתך מדבר עם הבן אדם תוך כדי שהוא חרה שלו מדבר איתו היתי אותו לכזאת שמחה שהבן אדם רץ משמה בא אליי היה שמח והוא שמח עד היום >> צריך קודם כל לדבר איתו דיבורים אבל אמיתיים על התכלית כמובן קודם כל מה שעשיתי הוצאתי ממנו את הפרטים את הכתובת שאיפה שהוא נמצא והכל ומעצד התקשר לכיבורים שגיעו אליו לתפוס אותך זה קודם כל זה הדבר הראשון לתפוס אותך זה קודם כל זה הדבר הראשון שהתיל כן להטיל אותו כי אמרתי לפני שנ איפה אתה איתה איפה המקום שלך מה אתה עובד כל זה וזה שבינתיים עד שהוא לא פי כבר הוא כ הוא יצא לפני שהם הגיעו אמרתי לה תשמע אין דבר כזה להפסיק את החיים אין דבר כזה החיים יהיו לנחת אתה חושב שאתה רוצה ללכת מפה אבל אתה תתחיל בבעיות שם אין לך לאן לברוח אוילה אין לביות שחוזים שם מיתה היא מנות מתי תרדק אתה חזק ואל תשבר לעולם הכל מנות מתי תרדק אתה חזק ואל תשבר לעולם הכל יהיה לסדר א שהוא תחשוב דבר יקו את כל התכלית ונכון שקשה בעולם הזה רבנו בחי כותב שהעולם הזה נקרא עולם הדאגה אבל הזו להישור עולם או צריך להחזיק ככה הדור אחרון רבי מודק פה בצמר האמונה בשם כבוד השם אם נשים תתפקו התפקו על עם כיפורניים איפה הוא אמר עם הציפורניים ירצו לתפוס על קי אני אבין שיש קושי לאנשים אבל קודם כל
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