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3:26 At least that there be a minyan. It is not connected to faithful ones in that way. It is - it is - you need to understand: we, the Jewish people, need to merit having the geulah in our days. One needs merit for this; it is not a simple thing. We need to do everything so that there is this merit for the coming of Mashiach, that we be worthy, yes? One needs merit; one needs to merit it. So apparently in the generation of the Or HaChaim, not everyone had yet come to understand who the Or HaChaim was, so that the geulah would come.

3:56 He would pray, and he would lift off the ground. He would rise ten handbreadths above the floor. He was careful to immerse every time after he relieved himself. Every time he went and relieved himself, he would immediately go and immerse himself, and guard himself in holiness. And by the way, he was among the first to come to the Kotel, and he sent a messenger to write his name, Chaim ben Moshe Attar - he put it inside the Kotel. The first note.

4:24 The Or HaChaim did this. Yes, that is what he did. He sent a messenger, the name 'Chaim ben Rabbi Moshe Attar', with a blessing and whatever he wanted, and put it between the stones, and from then on it became a tradition that people began to keep. It was the Or HaChaim HaKadosh who first did it. Some say that even before him they did it a little; I have also seen this in a few other places, but let us attribute it to the Or HaChaim - better.

5:03 And there is a connection in the meantime. Beautiful. With Hashem's help, may it be His will that we all merit this. The main thing, in principle - whoever learns the Or HaChaim HaKadosh, Rabbi Yisrael of Ruzhin said, whoever learns the Or HaChaim lights a light in his whole city. So he said. He lights up his mind, his face and his soul and sanctifies himself - whoever learns the Or HaChaim HaKadosh - continuing, in principle, Look, there are no competitions here, yes? It is not a competition.

5:32 The principle - what [unclear]... Yes, and the Maggid of Kozhnitz. There is a teaching of the Maggid of Kozhnitz that speaks about the Kav HaYashar - many books say it - I explained it today at the Shacharis prayer [unclear]: that if a person learns Zohar, or a teaching that a sage brings, he receives the abundance on a much higher level than when he learns alone.

5:58 So especially when you learn the verses of the Torah with the commentaries of tzaddikim like the Or HaChaim, you receive his influence much more than when you learn it alone - the Torah, yes? A person who learns Torah with his own explanation is different from when he learns Torah with the Ibn Ezra, the Or HaChaim HaKadosh and other commentators. It is different, because he also receives their holy understanding. And then their light too is received. And then, on page 97, the sages say: every Torah scholar - said Rabbi Yochanan - from whose mouth a teaching is said, his lips move. So the tzaddik, now in the grave - his spirit - he speaks the Torah that you are saying, and his spirit joins with the person: 'Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth.'

6:37 It is truly as if you are at his holy resting place. So even when you only recite his words and you do not understand, it is still excellent to learn it. So of course it brings great benefit, but very, very important - of course the learning of the Or HaChaim HaKadosh is one of the important studies, which comes before very, very many studies. There is great importance in learning the Or HaChaim, whose commentary was accepted throughout all the communities of the Jewish people, and it is the custom of tzaddikim, chassidim, holy ones and men of deeds.

7:03 And a hundred years ago in Jerusalem they would not even give semichah for the rabbinate to someone who did not know the Or HaChaim HaKadosh on the parashah; he would not receive semichah for the rabbinate. They would examine on this too. Since one needs fear of Heaven - on the Or HaChaim HaKadosh. Not obligatory. One can learn from the Rishon LeTzion; from that one can learn. - After all, it is written: 'Make for yourself a rav,' and [unclear] 'and remove yourself from doubt.' How can one know? Today everyone is a rabbi, everyone is good, everyone is a tzaddik - how can one know whom to truly connect to?

7:34 - Pray to the Holy One, blessed be He, that He always direct you to the path of truth, to true tzaddikim. It depends on the person. In principle, one must always pray to the Holy One, blessed be He, that He direct us. Usually, you know, a person can walk here in the world 70-80 years and not truly merit to come close to true sages, yes? It is common that today there is a lot of madness in games of honor; there is a lot of falsehood in this world - this world is a world of falsehood.

8:08 There is so much falsehood; it is a miracle that a person can lift his eyes to Heaven at all. That is why I told you, always, as a rule: draw close to any rebbe who will draw you close to Hashem, blessed be He. One must always go to a rav who will draw you close to Hashem, blessed be He. Whoever draws you close to Hashem, blessed be He - that is a true rebbe. If he draws people close to himself, that is not truth. He needs to teach Torah. A rav needs to teach Torah, reveal G-dliness and draw people close to Hashem, blessed be He.

8:33 And the role of a rav is not to deal with money, not with business deals, not with advice, and not where you should put the money - invest here, invest there. That is not the role of a rav; that is the role of an investment advisor. A rav needs to know Torah and teach Torah, period. Nothing beyond that. If he deals in advice, and he sees things and tells you, invest here - such-and-such a [unclear] is about to come, and now they will call him this, and now put it with him like this - these are tall tales.

8:59 I told you a beautiful story, which I expect you to learn again, about Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh of Zidichov, the Ateres Tzvi of Zidichov, who had very, very great ruach hakodesh. And once there were a few chassidim who wanted to travel to him by wagon, to travel to Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh of Zidichov. They got onto the wagon, and on the way they said to themselves - each one said - one said: if he knows exactly the place I am learning in the Torah - he knows exactly the place I am learning, he knows what I am learning, and he answers it for me - he will be my teacher and rebbe.

9:30 The second said: if he knows what I am thinking about, he will be my teacher and rebbe. The third said: if he does a miracle for me in this matter - his wife was due to give birth, she was having a hard labor and so on - he will be my teacher and rebbe. They got onto the wagon and traveled to Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh of Zidichov. That is what they said. They came in to Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh of Zidichov. As soon as they come in the door, he says to him: You - your answer - the Tosafos on such-and-such a page.

9:59 You - you are thinking about such-and-such a thing. You - your wife has already, baruch Hashem, given birth, mazal tov. Now go away from me, because I do not want to be your rav. That was our Ateres Tzvi of Zidichov. This week, yes - our Ateres Tzvi of Zidichov. It is only through prayer.

10:29 Only through prayer. Whoever gives you advice other than prayer - there is no such thing. A person, only through prayer, can nullify all four elements, can come to merit, can reach everything you want. Everything you possibly can - you want to fly in the air, even with wings, through prayer you can have wings. There is a responsum of Rabbi Yaakov Chagiz, in the responsa Halachos Ketanos, [unclear] - he writes a responsum there where he was asked why the Holy One, blessed be He, did not create man with wings so he could fly from place to place.

11:04 We are always dependent on cars; we cannot go by ourselves. Why does the Holy One, blessed be He, not make it that a person has wings, right? Like a bird. A bird goes from place to place, and we need it much more: we have minyanim, we have graves of tzaddikim, we have things - we need wings. A bird does not need wings just to grab a few leaves and make a nest; we need wings, right?

11:30 So really, what is the answer? What does Rabbi Yaakov Chagiz write? The answer is that if a person had wings, he would run to do sins. He asked - in Berachos, about Rabbi Shimon, who said: why, it is a pity that a person does not have two mouths, one for Torah and one for eating and talking. He said: oh-ho, if with one mouth one speaks lashon hara, [unclear] - what would be with two mouths? Oh, woe. So all the more so - that is the answer he gives about wings. So therefore a person must always know that one can reach anything only through prayer.

11:59 If a person prays to the Holy One, blessed be He, and insists on something, and prays before Hashem - of course, 'A poor man speaks with supplications' - always with supplications - one can bring about from Hashem, blessed be He, everything we want. Now, with Hashem's help, we are entering these holy days, the days of 'All her pursuers overtook her between the straits.' May we merit the mercy of Hashem and the building of the Beis HaMikdash, the Holy Temple.

12:23 Amen. These lights, when they come out of these days - these are very, very holy and pure days. They are pure days, they are holy days, they are days in which the Shechinah rests. They are days of joining oneself to the Churban, the destruction, to join oneself to the destruction, to ask before Hashem, blessed be He. Maran the Shulchan Aruch ruled in siman 554, se'if 25, that whoever does not mourn for Jerusalem will not be able to see the consolation of Jerusalem, as he brought at the end of the chapter Chezkas HaBatim in Bava Basra, on page 60.

12:52 And what Maran the Shulchan Aruch ruled in siman 560: the importance of leaving a remembrance of the destruction, leaving something out - whether at a meal, whether a cubit by a cubit at the entrance to the house - all these things are small things, small, but they are meant to remind a person of the Beis HaMikdash. Tikkun Chatzos is so important. To say Tikkun Chatzos takes a few minutes. One can say it sitting, one can say it lying down, standing - only to say it, only to say Tikkun Chatzos, not to skip Tikkun Chatzos - it is so important.

13:24 It repairs, and one can pour out before Hashem, blessed be He, a person's whole heart. It is a joining with the House of Hashem, to ask for the kingship of the Creator, to ask for the House of the Holy One, blessed be He - the Beis HaMikdash. [unclear] - the importance - that a person should fear Heaven. The Sfas Emes of Gur says: 'It is fitting for everyone who fears Heaven to be pained and worried.' When the Shulchan Aruch says this, so he says - the Sfas Emes - 'It is fitting for everyone who fears Heaven': be pained and worried whether you fear Heaven at all, that you merit at all to do Tikkun Chatzos. Do you understand how he explains it? Exactly the reverse of the plain wording.

13:55 That is to say, that a person should be - one must reflect, to see how great our connection and our importance are. And therefore our master the Arizal also writes, in the Drushei Rosh Hashanah, page 90, column 4, at the beginning, in part 1, that every time and every festival corresponds to the limbs. Every month corresponds to the limbs. And the month of Tammuz and the month of Av correspond to the eyes; that is why the Tablets were broken then.

14:22 Because as soon as he saw the deed of the Calf - why - after all, the Holy One, blessed be He... when Moshe Rabbeinu heard that the Jewish people had sinned with the Calf, seemingly he could have broken the Tablets right away, while he was in Heaven. Why did he not break them above? Why did he break them when he was below? Only when he saw the deed of the Calf - the power of sight was so strong - then the Tablets were broken. That is to say: see how severe a blemish of sight is. That is to say, when he heard it with his ears, he did not break the Tablets over the deed of the Calf; but when he saw with his eyes the deed - only then were the Tablets broken.

14:55 So we see from here how severe the damage of seeing is, that it can harm the depths of the soul so much. And therefore these months can repair a person's main limbs, and they are also a preparation for the holy days of teshuvah that are coming. May it be His will that with Hashem's help we all merit the building of the Beis HaMikdash, the kingship of Hashem, blessed be He, the mercy of Hashem, blessed be He.

15:21 I was happy to be with you on Shabbos and to see you every week - last week too, with Hashem's help. May everyone have good tidings, may you have a good life, may you have miracles and wonders; may the Holy One, blessed be He, bless everyone with all the blessings: a good life, peace, good bounty, miracles and wonders, all the blessings and the good bounty for everyone. May all the wishes of your heart be fulfilled for good and for blessing, for joy and gladness, and may you not be broken by anything in the world.

15:48 To be only in joy, always, not afraid of anything, not alarmed by anything, fearing only Hashem, and succeeding, and confident that the Holy One, blessed be He, will save each and every one in everything he needs. May the Holy One, blessed be He, save you with a complete salvation, may you have good tidings, may you have miracles and wonders, a good life and all the good bounty. And so may it be His will, and let us say Amen.