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0:00 Look, On Sukkos we do the taking of the lulav, right? The four species The four species correspond to all the Jewish people Included in it are all the souls of Israel, tzaddikim, wicked people, in-between people All of them stand in the four species - all the souls of Israel On Pesach we do the afikoman and eat matzos We break the desire for eating, and we also say 'The wise son, what does he say? The wicked son, what does he say?'
0:36 'The simple son, what does he say? And the one who does not know how to ask' Four aspects come out here, among those levels of tzaddik, in-between, wicked, etc., simple, one who does not know how to ask We see that here too we have, corresponding to four aspects of the levels in the Jewish people - here there are the four species here we have wise, wicked, and simple, and one who does not know how to ask And on Shavuos we have the receiving of the Torah What is the receiving of the Torah?
1:11 The receiving of the Torah corresponds to the 'ARMA' - that is fire, wind, water and earth Corresponding to four elements, and one must receive the Torah with four elements That is why, what we do on Shavuos - we stay awake all night and the wakefulness all night, learning and engaging in Torah all night Because tiredness and sleep and laziness and heaviness correspond to the element of earth And the Torah learning that a person learns all night corresponds to the wind, which he brings out of his mouth And corresponding to the Torah itself that he learns - that corresponds to the element of water And the receiving of the Torah that he receives right away in prayer corresponds to fire, 'Is not My word like fire, says Hashem' We find here that in the festivals we have the four aspects
2:02 corresponding to those in-between people, wicked people, tzaddikim, etc. And what does Hashem, blessed be He, want to hint to us with this? That at these times, on the festivals, which are a remembrance of the Exodus from Egypt when we make Kiddush and sanctify His Name, blessed be He we remember, in remembrance of the Exodus from Egypt And on Sukkos we remember, in remembrance of the Clouds of Glory We are inside the sukkah, remembering the Clouds of Glory This is from the miracles that Hashem, blessed be He, did for us and took us out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves and spread His sukkah of peace over us and led us on the way until He brought us to the Holy Land, to the Land of Israel the holy land, secure in Him, blessed be He
2:46 that we merited to cleave to Him, blessed be He; the thought says that we learn the Torah and reflect we see that everything Hashem, blessed be He, commands us is in order to crown Him King, blessed be He Hashem's turning to us at these times, on the festivals why 'three times shall all your males appear before the Master' the Master of heaven and earth, our Master, the Creator, blessed be He that everyone must come before Hashem 'The rich shall not give more, the poor shall not give less' Everyone must come and donate, in remembrance of the half-shekel Everyone must have a share in the offerings in the Beis HaMikdash, the Holy Temple Everyone must go up and appear before Hashem, blessed be He What is the need for offerings? What is the need to appear before Hashem?
3:34 Why does Hashem, blessed be He, want them to appear before Him? What is the need for all the Jewish people? And so it comes back all year on the festivals, the appointed times, the special times, on Purim, on Chanukah we make a remembrance of the miracles, that He did miracles for us, for our fathers What Hashem, blessed be He, wants to reveal to us is that the essence of the Torah the essence of the mitzvos and of what we merit to fulfill is to bind in that He, blessed be He, is the Ruler and the Master over the creations that we know that Hashem, blessed be He, rules and is the Ruler and we have complete and absolute trust in Him, blessed be He We know that He is the One Who makes rich, and He is the One Who makes poor
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4:10 and He is the One Who brings low, and He is the One Who raises up Then we merit the level of emunah and of complete knowledge of Him, blessed be He Because, as we look around all through the year, there are all kinds of heresy and apostasy and, Heaven forbid, we meet people who are far away wicked people who cool a person off in emunah So when these times come, of the festivals and the appointed times then Hashem, blessed be He, reminds us of the wicked Seemingly He should have made us forget the wicked When Amalek comes, the main remembrance...
4:41 We must remember Amalek - we should have forgotten Amalek not remember Amalek This is what the 'Magen Avraham' writes - this is a commentary on the 'Magen Avraham' That is not the intention... to understand what he says... The intention is that the main remembrance of Amalek is to wipe him out Seemingly we should have forgotten Amalek but the reason Hashem, blessed be He, reminds us of the wicked and we say on Pesach: 'The wicked son, what does he say' We mention Pharaoh, we build a sukkah and we do the taking of the lulav and esrog and we mention the four species, we mention all the aspects is because we must reveal that Hashem, blessed be He, is present in every single place, in every single moment The cleaving to Him, blessed be He, must be all year
5:23 It is not for nothing that our master, the holy Arizal, explains that the main light of the sukkah... the holy Shelah also explains that the contemplation must be at every moment It is not a level where a person is cleaving only at a certain time The light must be such that a person is attached to Hashem does not turn his mind away from Hashem for a single moment Now I am cleaving to Him, blessed be He, I do not turn my mind away from Hashem and I see only His light, blessed be He, and do not turn my mind away from Him and I am truthful before Him, blessed be He, for one must be truthful before Hashem Then we can understand why Hashem, blessed be He commands us each time these four aspects We stand in four aspects on Shavuos - in the receiving of the Torah
6:02 four aspects in the four species, four aspects on Pesach and then we break several habits of the elements for on Shavuos we nullify the earth This corresponds to the 'mishcha d'chivya', the filth of the serpent whose filth ceased at the receiving of the Torah - we nullify the element of earth On Sukkos we subdue, so to speak, the foreign spirit the spirits and the demons and the evil ones, through the taking in four directions that we do south, north, east, up, down, west This corresponds to the wind - we do it in order to subdue the wind And Pesach corresponds to water That is why it must not be in the dough, because that is chametz It becomes chametz, so one must nullify it, so that there is not, Heaven forbid, water so that there is no leavening - so one must nullify the water
6:50 One needs water that rested overnight, so that there is not, Heaven forbid, leavening of the chametz And also the element of fire, which is the baking, that the moments do not just go by This corresponds to the element of fire We see from here the nullifying of all the elements on the festivals, the appointed times and the special times, and then His Name, blessed be He, is completed - Havayah the letters of His Name, blessed be He, the letters of His Name, blessed be He, are completed when a person contemplates the creation at every time and moment The turning away of the mind, that a person turns away...
7:17 - (When is the fourth part?) - On Pesach, on Pesach I said it is both water and fire because the prohibition of baking carries extra stringency, more than the halachah of the time And the water - that there is not, Heaven forbid, leavening, that there is no chametz This nullifies both of them on Pesach That is why Pesach is more stringent, for we do the nullifying of evil The nullifying of evil is done on Pesach; on Sukkos you do not have nullifying of evil you have doing good; on Shavuos there is doing good But on Pesach its matter is 'turn away from evil' and in the other times it is 'do good' And so it turns out that these four aspects bring closer to His Name, blessed be He And at every time and every festival that we are in
8:03 His holy letters shine, His Name, blessed be He, shines - the Name Havayah And the more a person cleaves to Hashem, blessed be He, and does not turn his mind away from Hashem and thinks all the time about His Kingship and about how everything - what is the will of Hashem, blessed be He And this corresponds to the wind - we do it in order to subdue the wind And when one sees His Name, blessed be He, then one is close to Him This was the level of prophecy that Yonah merited to attain and the whole level of the prophets who merited to prophesy is because of the contemplation and the thought about Him, blessed be He When one turns the mind away from Hashem, blessed be He, forgetting comes And the main remembering, to know Him, blessed be He - this is so that Hashem hints to us
8:40 that He shows us at the special times and the festivals everything we saw all year; all year we met wicked people A person saw some person who was not good, or a person... And then when the time and the festival come, when even Yom Kippur comes we permit praying with all those who are far away all those transgressors, we pray with them, and this is to tell us that at every time that has closeness to Hashem, one must include the galbanum too the bad part too, in order to know that in it, too, there is no evil because everything is a revelation of G-dliness, everything is a revelation of His Kingship, blessed be He because they are all His children, blessed be He, and this is the reason there is joy on the festival because on the festival the sparkle shines
9:21 the purpose of the Exodus from Egypt, in which there was no evil for the Holy One, blessed be He, took everyone out, had mercy on everyone lit up everyone, lit up the eyes of everyone There was no evil, there was no darkness which is a light and a sparkle of the geulah That is why we see the farthest of the far, the most cast-off of the cast-off that the light of the festival shines on him; that is why one must purify oneself Maran the Chida writes that a person is obligated to purify himself on the festival And why does a person go to purify himself? To remove, as we said the filth of the 'mishcha d'chivya' - this corresponds to the earth of Shavuos That is why the immersion then is the most excellent of immersions
9:54 because then the filth of the serpent is removed whose filth ceased when they stood at Mount Sinai So that is why we come, especially to Jerusalem being at the holy times, in the Holy City near the place of the Beis HaMikdash, for here the filth of Israel ceased for here in Jerusalem, the primordial serpent could not swallow Jerusalem it could not swallow the place of the Temple The place of the Temple is the place where all the wisdom and everything is 'One who wishes to become wise should face south' That is the Menorah, which is in the south - that is all the wisdom and all the flow of blessing and all the flows come down, 'a spring will go out from the House of Hashem' for everything flows from the place of the Temple
10:29 And those who are near the holy place, near the Foundation Stone from which the whole world was founded receive the perception and the wisdom that flows to all the appointed times, to all the festivals, to all the times That is why you will see that in all the prayers we pray at the special times on Sukkos, on Pesach, on Rosh Hashanah, on Yom Kippur at every single time we mention the remembrance of Jerusalem in all the prayers we mention 'on Mount Zion, the dwelling place of Your glory' 'That everything that was made will know that You made it, and every creature will understand...'
10:58 Everything speaks of the Kingship of Hashem, blessed be He, at every time And on Yom Kippur we ask for Hashem's forgiveness and after we have asked for His Kingship we ask that He forgive us and pardon us and arouse His mercy upon us And this is to engrave in us that at all times we must be cleaving to Him, blessed be He that the limbs and the blood be full of trust in Hashem that there be, Heaven forbid, no heresy and no apostasy at all to know that everything is Him, blessed be He, and everything is by individual, precise Hashgachah and that a person have no sorrow at all over matters of this world because everything is Him, blessed be He and what Hashem, blessed be He, engraved and wanted and decided is what a person will have
11:37 And everything depends on how a person arouses his heart before Hashem and is glad and joyful before Hashem, cleaves to Him, blessed be He and then He shines upon him the letters of His Name, blessed be He There is, for example, a person who has not yet merited to nullify the element of wind so a letter is darkened for him; there is a person who has not yet merited fire there is a person who has not yet merited wind, or water or a person is far away, so the Name Havayah does not shine on him But a person who merited to sanctify and purify himself to refine himself and to purify himself so much then he merited to nullify the four elements And because he nullified the four elements he merits to see the letters of His Name, blessed be He
12:17 It is only that the world is far away and does not see Hashem's Hashgachah in all of reality and does not see His light, blessed be He, and does not hear His voice and does not see the holy reality that He is the King and nothing else - everything, everything is Him, blessed be He That is because the four elements have not yet been subdued So for that reason they have still not merited the holiness of Yom Tov That is a sign that they desecrate Yom Tov That is why one must be careful with the holiness of Yom Tov be careful not to desecrate, Heaven forbid, Yom Tov, nor the festivals and be careful on the holy days of Purim, on the days of Chanukah on the day of Yom Kippur, on Rosh Hashanah, on Tisha B'Av
12:51 for at all the times that have closeness to Hashem whether an enactment of the Torah or an enactment of the Rabbis His light, blessed be He, shines, because those times and those appointed times and those festivals that Hashem, blessed be He, set for us are in order that we unite all the Jewish people for then the unity of the four elements shines because these are the times when the four elements can be nullified as brought also in the Kavanos, known to those who know 'chen', the hidden wisdom who know this matter of the intention, that these are the times that shine the light of Hashem, blessed be He, shines in all the worlds, at every time especially on Purim, for the day of Purim is 'Kippurim' where a sparkle of joy sparkles, 'and rejoice with trembling'
13:32 This is also 'ra'ad' (trembling), whose numerical value equals 'Mordechai' who is the soul of the Kohen Gadol of the Beis HaMikdash, there was the Kohen So on Purim there is Mordechai the Jew and on Yom Kippur, which atones for all the Jewish people so the drinking of wine will atone; so a person who, of course, will drink it if he merits, a secret will come out of him; about this it is said 'The secret of Hashem is for those who fear Him' - the secret that Hashem reveals to those who fear Him is that He is the Ruler and the Governor over all of creation This is the revelation of Hashem's Kingship, this is the meaning of 'the secret of Hashem is for those who fear Him' that we know that everything, everything is Hashem, blessed be He
14:05 There is no reality at all apart from the Creator, blessed be He and the complete and absolute knowledge and engraving not to turn the mind away from Hashem, that there be, Heaven forbid, no turning away of the mind About this it is said: 'Fortunate is the man to whom Hashem does not reckon iniquity' Fortunate is the man who reaches such a level; so writes the 'Be'er Mayim Chaim' Rabbi Chaim of Chernowitz, who explains this on Tehillim He says that 'Fortunate is the man to whom Hashem does not reckon iniquity' means he reaches such a level that in Hashem's eyes - He will be exacting with him He will say to him: just now you did not think of Me? That is a terrible and awesome sin And He will rebuke him for having turned his mind away
14:40 for one moment he did not think of Hashem, blessed be He, his mind turned away And then, in practice, when this time comes, of the festival of Sukkos when everyone gathers together to come before Hashem striving to appear before the Master of heaven and earth in the Beis HaMikdash that will be built and may we merit that there be a revelation of Hashem's Kingship everyone will come before Him, blessed be He, and crown Him King That is why the main intention we have in the taking of the lulav is to intend - even the simple people - to intend that the Holy One, blessed be He, drive away the evil and shine His light, blessed be He, in all the worlds and all will know that everything is His Kingship, blessed be He And then the Name 'Ehyeh' shines, corresponding to Keser, the Crown
15:21 which is the light of the Exodus from Egypt, which is a remembrance of the Clouds of Glory This corresponds to the clouds, this corresponds to what is above corresponding to the Name 'Ehyeh', which is Keser, what is above; and then, in practice endless mercy flows onto the entire creation All of creation receives such wondrous mercy that everyone is awakened to Hashem's compassion, to know how compassionate He is how full of mercy He is, and there are, Heaven forbid, no judgments and He does not cause anyone pain And when one sees, Heaven forbid, something not good, it is not...
15:52 'For whom Hashem loves He rebukes' - to reveal His compassion that He wants them to pray to Him that He wants them to contemplate that He stands behind everything and behind all of reality, and then the judgment is sweetened When one contemplates this, then the Kingship of Hashem, blessed be He, shines Hashem, blessed be He, knows that the person has intention and thinks about Him, blessed be He and knows that He stands behind all of reality and behind everything, and behind the holy brothers for we see all the Jewish people, all the holy souls and the four species corresponding to them, making one bundle, one union to awaken everyone to call together in the Name of Hashem This corresponds to all our times; then His Name, blessed be He, shines in all the worlds And that is why at this time of the year, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year
16:38 at these times too, and on Rosh Hashanah, and on Yom Kippur, on Pesach and Shavuos, and Sukkos, and Chanukah, and Purim, and even on Tisha B'Av for on Tisha B'Av too, 'He proclaimed a festival against me' In the future to come this too will be a Yom Tov, a festival, there will be joy and all of Bein HaMetzarim will be days of Chol HaMoed These will be days of 'it was turned around' 'that the Jews ruled over those who hated them' that there be Kingship for Hashem, blessed be He, and all will know His Kingship For back then, when the Beis HaMikdash was built, was standing may we merit that it be built speedily in our days then they saw Hashem's Kingship without concealment there was, Heaven forbid, no hiding of the Face over His Kingship
17:18 All that we hope for the geulah we hope that there will be a nullifying of the four bad elements that fire, wind, water, earth will turn to the side of holiness that a person, Heaven forbid, will subdue - he will not be in the kelipah, he will be in holiness then he will reveal His light, blessed be He, even more So that is why at these times, when each one of us has the opportunity to snatch another mitzvah and more kedushah, at this time of the festivals every time there is, especially now on Sukkos which is then the beginning of the year, because from the day of Simchas Torah from the day Simchas Torah ends, after Isru Chag then this corresponds to the sparkle of the Yom Tov what remains from the impression of the Yom Tov
17:57 so in practice the year begins, this is the start of the year, then it begins And then one can see in each person's seal what was sealed what Hashem, blessed be He, decides in His mercy That is why, at this time, the Maariv prayer of Simchas Torah is a very important prayer to have intention in because it has the power to open all the gates for in the Maariv prayer we say 'Who by His word brings on evenings, with wisdom opens gates, with understanding' to have intention, because this is the time of the opening of the gates in the Maariv prayer of the eve of Simchas Torah, when we pray then all the gates we prayed for on Yom Kippur are opened on Rosh Hashanah - we say 'Open for us the gates of Heavenly help
18:40 the gates of wisdom, the gates of grace and kindness' The time of the opening of the gates is in the Maariv prayer of Simchas Torah and from there they stay for the whole year; so that is why it is a time to have intention Whoever prays with us every year on Simchas Torah knows that we are always careful to lengthen to put such an emphasis on the Maariv prayer There is a special intention, I will explain it too everyone... I will explain to you what to have in mind Have in mind the compassion of Hashem, blessed be He how He is compassionate, full of mercy - this is the main intention, to think And also simple people who have no dealings with and intention in lofty matters, who do not know the very fact that they intend to connect themselves to all the tzaddikim
19:18 and especially when one thinks about this - what the 'Yosher Divrei Emes' writes Rabbi Meshulam Feivush of Zvoldor He wrote that he connects himself both with those greater than me and with those smaller than me The benefit of connecting with those greater than me is that through them my thought is elevated and the benefit of connecting with those smaller than me is that they answer Amen through me So he says, that being together as one - what is attached to the pure is pure because I go up and receive that same level, that same holiness of his because I am attached to the pure - pure And then, in practice, there is an ascent, it becomes even more So: that Hashem, blessed be He, is compassionate, full of compassion endless mercy flows - may it surely flow
20:00 endless mercy upon me and upon all that is mine and Hashem, blessed be He, in His mercy will have mercy on me will remove from me all the judgments, and will open for me all the gates and no gate will be closed before me from now and forever True, this moment is a bit long but to have this in mind during the Maariv prayer of Simchas Torah the night of Simchas Torah, in the Maariv prayer and it can also be on Motzaei Simchas Torah in the Maariv prayer of Motzaei Simchas Torah when we already say 'Who makes the wind blow and the rain fall' because it is already the end of the Yom Tov; but the main thing is to say it at the end of the time this is actually the next-to-last prayer of 'Who brings down the dew'
20:38 They say this corresponds to the dew, which is the dew of resurrection in the future and all the flow of blessing that we intend; but we say it toward the end so that this light will continue through the whole year That is why one should intend 'opens gates with understanding' intend that Hashem, blessed be He, open all the gates And then remember that all the elevation and cleaving that each one of us has throughout the whole year this light is drawn from these holy times whether it is Pesach, or Purim, or Tisha B'Av whether it is Rosh Hashanah, or Yom Kippur for all these times have in them a sparkle and a revelation of His light, blessed be He And the moment His light, blessed be He, shines, one can subdue the four elements all the bad and harmful elements - the fire, Heaven forbid, of arrogance
21:26 and the wind, Heaven forbid - 'a fool lets out all his wind' when a person speaks words of nonsense and vanity idle words, or, Heaven forbid, words that are not good, or anger and all the things that are not in the way of Torah and holiness At this time of the festival, of the joy there is renewal and holiness and purity for the soul, a person is renewed And that is why the tzaddikim merit to gather from all these times from all these holy times and it shines in the tzaddik, who has it all year That is why the tzaddik is in the aspect of Shabbos When a person merits to draw close to true tzaddikim then he shines holy Shabbos upon himself as it appears in the holy Zohar, and also appears among the holy Sages
22:07 'The righteous shall inherit the land' - who merited the holiness of the Land of Israel which is the essence of holiness and of thought; that is why Rabbi Shimon said that he can exempt the whole world from judgment By what power can one exempt the whole world from judgment? Because they merited to subdue the four elements And since they merited the subduing of the four elements they merited the light that flows from all the times, the festivals and the appointed times It is all present with them on a weekday That is why the very staying there shines the sparkle and the revelation of the Yom Tov of the Yamim Tovim, of Shabbosos, 'Your holy festivals' because the light that is drawn at these holy times with the tzaddikim it is present 'kuli shata' (all year)
22:48 that same light all year that same awe of Yom Kippur it is not drawn once a year it is present in the middle of the year too and also at the end of the year or also in the middle of the year, they have a tremendous awe of Hashem or a tremendous fear like that of Yom Kippur and every day in their eyes is like Rosh Hashanah And every moment they try to subdue all the sitra achra through the lulav which of course is through prayer, even though there is no lulav now two months have already passed since then - it is to shine the light of Hashem, blessed be He through the miracles and wonders of Chanukah which is to crown Him King, blessed be He through praying, etc., all these matters So may we merit to gather from these holy times
23:28 this light, that it continue for us that we have a good life, that there be good flows of blessing and that Hashem, blessed be He, redeem us with a complete redemption that His compassion, blessed be He, be drawn upon us, that He save us and remove all distress and all troubles from the Jewish people that there be good flows of blessing for all the Jewish people that there be a good life for all the Jewish people that there be miracles and wonders for all the Jewish people salvation for every single man and every single woman may everyone have salvations, may everyone have a good life may everyone have miracles and wonders May Hashem, blessed be He, hear the voice of their prayer be at their help and guard them from every trouble, from every harm and from every illness
24:05 May we merit the complete redemption, a complete healing and length of days for this whole generation, for all the generations after us and for all the Jewish people; may we merit the complete redemption and the building of our Beis HaMikdash and the Kingship of our Master, the Creator, blessed be He; and so may it be His will, and let us say Amen! Rabbi Chananya ben Akashya says: the Holy One, blessed be He, wished... I will tell you a story, there was a nice story, there was a story that once the holy Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak HaLevi of Lantzut the holy Chozeh of Lublin, may his merit protect us he has a book, 'Zos Zikaron', on the Torah And he was a genius of the world, the holy Chozeh of Lublin They say that he used to go about with a covering over his eyes
24:53 once he went blind from it; so there was once someone who tried to make this covering, so he said to him 'I also put on this covering, and I don't see like you' So he said: 'You are a fool' 'for I put it on so as not to see, and you put it on so as to see' So they tell that there was once someone in his town who was very rich he had wealth upon wealth, and one day when he reached, in the prayer that Hashem, blessed be He, 'brings the haughty low to the ground raises the lowly to the heights, Hashem makes poor, Hashem makes rich brings low and also raises up' - he had a question in his heart for he said: after all, I have much wealth so how can Hashem, blessed be He, bring me low?
25:41 If He takes this from me, I have a fleet of ships and the abundance Hashem gave and if that goes - I have an abundance of fabrics in Frankfurt for I have a great abundance of fabrics there, of merchandise and if Hashem takes that, then I have all the trade of the village, and precious stones, pearls that too is under my hand; so wherever Hashem takes from, I have this How could it occur to anyone that Hashem, blessed be He, can make poor and make rich?
26:12 He had a question about this And this question entered his heart slowly, slowly, until he drifted away and slowly, slowly he no longer came to the Chozeh of Lublin and also did not come to the Rosh Hashanah prayers with him and also did not come to the Yom Kippur prayers with him And when the time of Sukkos and Pesach came, the festivals he was also no longer seen in the beis midrash And when Pesach came, the holy Chozeh asked Where is that Jew who used to support the avreichim, the Torah scholars?
26:39 So they told him that he is no longer close, because he has drifted away And truly that man had drifted away and had already stopped supporting Torah and drifted very far away thoughts of heresy entered his mind, and he drifted very far away And so he also went down from bad to worse and fell, Heaven forbid, into very forbidden places and drifted very, very far from Hashem, blessed be He; and there was a time after he had drifted so far away, that he really fell then at night he felt such a great lack in his life until he felt, what does he have to do with his Judaism anymore So he said: I will go and taste he had already tasted all the madness of the world and had also married a non-Jewish woman, and drew close to the church
27:32 And from there he came to this priest And when he came to the priest, the priest said to him How will I know that you are a Jew and not making a fool of me lest I do all these things for you and take you through the whole matter, and in the end it turns out that you are making a fool of me, and you took all my time for nothing and I toiled over you in vain all this time I want you to give me a guarantee that you deposit all your wealth in our hands and that will be proof that you truly want to go in our way We are not taking it from you, but put it in our hands so that if you really turn from your way and return to your Judaism
28:12 then you lose all your money and are left with nothing Do you agree to this? And we will know that you are ready. He said to him: Yes I am ready for everything, I want to taste this thing As soon as he signed, so it was; he went to his home, and as he goes to sleep he thinks: what will really be if he decides to draw close? After all, those are thugs there, and this is a priest he cannot go back on it now, all the wealth is theirs And then he began to have thoughts of doing teshuvah, of regret, of reflecting in his mind And then he understood that all this happened to him because he had said 'Hashem makes poor and makes rich' - how can Hashem...
28:48 So he ran quickly to the holy Chozeh of Lublin And as soon as he came in the door to the Chozeh there were some other chassidim, he pushed them aside and he came in in the middle of the night, came into his room And the holy Chozeh raised his head and said to him 'Hashem makes poor and makes rich, He brings low and also raises up' And then he fainted, he was frightened, really frightened So the holy Chozeh woke him up and said to him Now do you see how Hashem makes poor and makes rich?
29:16 Did you understand? He began to cry, and he cried and did teshuvah He said: I do not question Him, blessed be He, Heaven forbid Everything is Him, blessed be He, everything is Him, blessed be He The holy Chozeh said to him: because your teshuvah has been accepted 'Stand firm and see the salvation of Hashem, which He will do with you today' The sun had not yet managed to rise when a fire broke out and the priest was burned, together with the town and the church and that whole document was annulled, and he returned to his wealth And then he saw; he said to him 'Hashem makes poor and makes rich, He brings low and also raises up' So know Who is the Master of heaven and earth Who is the One Who makes poor and Who makes rich, Who brings low and Who raises up
29:53 May it be the will that Hashem, blessed be He, raise the lowly to the heights raise up all His people Israel, and raise the horn of His people Israel that there be an abundance of all good and from all good for all the Jewish people And so may it be His will, and let us say Amen!
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