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0:00 You know, the Maggid of Mezritch received from the Baal Shem Tov, as a rabbi, and he was with him a few months, in his company, He was not found there every day. They say that Rabbi David of Lelov and the Chozeh of Lublin, was one of the students close to him. He hardly taught him and he was with him. How was it? It is clear that there are levels between a rabbi and a student who are very, very great, You do not have to be with him. You can receive from him, and if you are really connected to him and nullified before him, you can receive from him really everything.
0:28 There was a story with the Rebbe of Belz, Rabbi Sar Shalom of Belz. He had a student who came to him for Shavuos. A student who would come to him once a year. Once a year he comes to him. He did not come to him every day, once a year. He went in to Rabbi Sar Shalom of Belz for Shavuos. After he sat with him, Shavuos came, and they began, suddenly he felt something not good in his eyes.
0:53 He did not see anything, he really saw such smoke in his eyes. He took to his bed, he was in very great distress. And until he said: until I come to the Rebbe, Now I have become like this... and he began to be afraid, He began to shout and cry, how... So they said to him: Listen... They tried to calm him. He is a little unwell, he came from the road, maybe... that he should sleep, maybe it will pass for him. He saw that it did not pass, He prayed, He said they should pass his name to the Rebbe, to Rabbi Sar Shalom of Belz, He said he should not worry, that is what he said.
1:27 If the Rebbe said not to worry, I am not worried, it does nothing. At the close of the holiday of Shavuos, immediately he returned to seeing, Everything vanished. He approached Rabbi Sar Shalom of Belz. He asked him, what was it? He said to him, know that I also had the same thing. I did not see anything, I had smoke, And I really see the Revelation at Mount Sinai every year on Shavuos. I experience this from the cleaving. And because you are so attached to me, even though you come to me once a year, you believe in me so much and are attached to my Torah, and in my mind, your soul is with me together, I gather the souls that I go up together with, I gather all the souls that depend on me, It is true that sometimes we do not speak to him about something...
2:06 but I gather the souls that depend on me, and the soul feels. There was a story that Rabbi Sar Shalom of Belz said that whoever steps on the threshold of his door will not depart from this world without teshuvah. That is what he said, that he will not depart from this world without teshuvah. So his son said: I knew many of the visitors to my father's house, who never stepped on the threshold of his door... I knew many of the visitors to his house, many who came to him, but they never stepped on the threshold of his door.
2:33 Not always is the one who is close - close, and not always is the one who is far - far. Sometimes a person who is close can be the farthest, Sometimes a person who is the farthest can be the closest...
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