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0:00 Honored Rav, the Jewish people are all looking for a way because even a person who keeps Torah and mitzvos even a person who is already there, learning Torah even a person who is busy earning his living in the end he is looking for some path he goes through a lot of things in his life, he finds himself.. If I may please ask the honored Rav a few questions that will give people the strength, the way the right view, to look at the shape of life at looking at life in a completely different way If possible, with the Rav's permission, a few questions - Ask - Everyone, without exception always goes through some kind of crises in life life is not.. up or down they go through upheavals in these moments of crisis most people take it to a place of personal crisis
0:46 and they do not manage to get out of it How can one, out of a hard personal crisis, in spiritual and material matters, know how to look at the points of light that there are when everything around is dark - Look, King David says this in Tehillim "Look to my right and see, and there is no one who knows me escape is lost to me, no one cares for my soul" And then he says, "I cried out to You, Hashem I said, You are my refuge" If you look our problem is the lack of prayer We have come to a reality where we do not believe that Hashem, blessed be He, is with us and hears us And because we think we have already become very far from Hashem and from this long exile so people, at the root, think
1:45 that Hashem will answer them only on Yom Kippur or only on Rosh Hashanah only if they go to tzaddikim and they themselves will pray, it's not.. they do not rely on their own prayer And because a person does not believe in the power of his own prayer that Hashem, blessed be He, hears him, and is with him, and is close to him "Hashem is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him in truth" From this you can already see the exile, and the reason for everything you asked For Hashem, blessed be He, wants everyone, from small to great all to raise their eyes to Heaven and turn to Him and ask of Him what they want This is the most important thing And for this too - this is also what I try to do
2:24 that also when people come to me I pray; I do not only bless I pray so that even a person who saw salvation knows that it is from prayer that I explain to him that we turn to Hashem, blessed be He And for this I also give prayers, so that people will not forget and will always remember to pray because the main thing is to turn to Heaven to turn to the Creator, blessed be He this is what the Creator wants from us He looks at us here and He wants all of us to raise our eyes to Heaven and pray to Him This is the most important thing, this is the purpose this is the solution to what you asked - And a person who already manages to find the point of prayer but today, people who already go out into the street
3:09 they look this whole world is full of feeling full of colorfulness, full of intensity it gives all the senses the sense of smell, the sense of taste, the sense of sight On the other side, a person feels that on the side of holiness the senses are very low he tries to connect by force he tries in any case to find as the Rav says, the point of prayer the point of Torah and he feels that maybe it is not an even match the whole colorful world against..
3:34 how does he manage to find for himself a true place of feeling, a true one of holiness? - What you are saying is not so precise because everything, everything is full of G-dliness and whoever does not see that Hashem is in everything and that Hashem, blessed be He, is found in every reality in the world then he will never see Him anywhere That is not what will solve the problem A person need not look for colorfulness in the Torah and need not look for colorfulness outside he must see Hashem he must understand that he came down to this world in order to bring the Shechinah back home We came to the world in order to change the world Today the mistake is that the world thinks that everyone came to the world in order to enjoy it
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4:20 and to exploit it as much as possible so they get stuck, and they discover colors, as you say But if we understand that we came to the world in order to do good for others in order to change the world in order to nullify evil in order to make peace, to nullify disputes to nullify hatred, to bring peace to dwell to know the Creator, to know the Torah you will see that everything is full of colors the Torah too is full of colors and in prayer too there are colors and in the whole world there are colors And you go out to the field to pray to see the beauty of the flowers Go and see the beauty of the raging sea and you will see the greatness of Hashem and the rocks and the mountains
4:59 and the cliffs and the deserts and everything in the world Everything there is in the world - all of it is full of colors all this color, in which He created good creatures and good trees, for people to enjoy these are the colors of Hashem, blessed be He All this He created; these are the true colors that Hashem, blessed be He, looks at and wants us to gaze at and see the wonderful fruits He created for us the beauty of creation the heavens, the stars All this He made so that man would recognize Him not so that the world would close their eyes this they will not see, and they will see all the desires It starts from here: that the world does not want to try to search, to recognize Who stands behind this creation
5:40 If we try to recognize Who stands behind creation you will see that the whole world will run to raise their eyes to Heaven That is why I say that first of all one must begin to search for the connection to Hashem from a person gazing at creation to look for the beauty in creation to look for things that move him When did a person just listen to the song of the birds when did a person gaze at fields, at flowers at wonderful trees, to hear the chirping of the birds to see the song of creation, to read the song of creation to hear the waves, how they roar to gaze at the sky to see the birds the cliffs, the heavens, the stars to understand "Lift up your eyes on high" - Yeshayahu says "and see Who created these"
6:28 Contemplate Who created all this Who made all this let a person ask himself then he will see the true color no color in the world will interest him because he will see all the colorfulness the color, the right thing - So one can also say, perhaps, honored Rav that in fact all the colorfulness in the world is in fact also G-dliness so even someone who thinks the Holy One, blessed be He, is found only in a certain place and he says that all the colorfulness belongs to the other side but then he learns to contemplate that all the colorfulness too the mountains and everything, in fact belong not to this world they belong to the World to Come meaning, to a life of holiness and purity if he looks properly - One can say it in this way
7:07 It is not a matter of what a person looks at and in what way he looked, and how he looked the question is the goal is - for what purpose is he looking Every sin and transgression, too, that a person is judged for that is why If you look, when the Torah forbids there are several expressions of prohibition of 'lo'.. "Do not stray after your hearts" 'pen'.. 'al'.. that a person must be careful with the Torah's prohibitions which the Torah forbids us The Torah does not forbid the thing to the person in order to tell him: this is forbidden, you will be punished There is a deeper meaning here than that The meaning is that the Creator who created the world He Himself engraved and stopped this thing And when a person contemplates and says
7:57 it is true that the Torah forbids me this and that but I also need to understand that it is also the will of my Creator that I not turn to evil, and that I love Him and I love Him, He has been so good to me and He so wants me to love Him and to follow Him And also from the inner will of the person not to betray his Creator not to betray Hashem, blessed be He From this the purpose will also come to a person for what, why Why did you look When you look at a high mountain you can look and say: what a beautiful mountain and pass the time just gazing at the mountain, for yourself but if you gaze at this mountain and you say: how great is the One who created it
8:39 if you contemplate the greatness of Hashem and you say about the great sea A person may contemplate the sea and say: the sea is beautiful, it calms me and there is a person who will contemplate the sea and dread and fear will fall upon him Who created this great sea So that is a difference like heaven and earth between this one's view and that one's view between the Torah prohibition as this one understands the 'do not' that the Torah says and as that one understands 'do not' And from here comes the problem, that the world does not understand Who stands behind the Torah that it is Hashem, blessed be He, who gave us the Torah And when we understand who gave us the Torah and we understand Who stands behind the Torah then the Torah too will have colors
9:19 so that a person will love these colors - With the Rav's permission, I want to tell the Rav an experience of mine When I used to listen a lot to the honored Rav's shiurim the shiurim were blended from all of the Torah and they were very moving, their style too but I noticed something very interesting if the Rav could explain it a little because this is also something many people ask The Rav can speak in a shiur on the laws of the forbidden and the permitted on the laws of Shabbos, a shiur on the weekly parashah any subject in the world in the end, somehow, the Rav manages to come to the subject of the Beis HaMikdash, the Holy Temple the subject of the destruction, the subject of Jerusalem And as is known to whoever knows the Rav
9:53 the Rav also likes, from time to time once a month or so to travel to the holy place, to Jerusalem It seems that the Rav, in every kind of life itself even in Torah shiurim of any kind comes to the point of the Beis HaMikdash although there does not seem to be a direct connection - Look, it is not that I get there it is that the Torah brought us there I am not trying to get anywhere I am trying to see what the Torah wants from us and what the Divine command wants us to do in the world The Beis HaMikdash and Jerusalem this is the dwelling place of Hashem, blessed be He And when the Beis HaMikdash was destroyed it means the Shechinah departed up above it means we are in a place that is full of dangers
10:48 as one sees the world a place where the attribute of judgment rules From the day the Beis HaMikdash was destroyed each day's curse is greater than that of the one before it You see that the world stands on 'Amen, yehei shemei rabba', the Kedushah of the order of prayer to hold onto mitzvos, to hold onto prayers and holiness in order to save us from that curse, since the House was destroyed But it is still not the House As you understand, as a person understands that a person wants and needs something, and he has a lack if he understands that this lack stems from the House of Hashem, from the place of Hashem from the honor of Hashem then it will pain him, and he will speak of it When I learn the Torah, I love the Creator, blessed be He
11:36 I seek to know what Hashem's will is from my Torah that I learn not what I want from Him but what He wants from me And when I learn the Torah and when I understand that what He wants from us is that we return home that we bring the Shechinah back home that we return to Jerusalem that the Jewish people pray that there be peace that there be no more wars in the world that the House of Hashem be standing that they raise their eyes to Heaven that there be no more idol worship that the world goes after wood and statue and stone and all will lift their eyes on high then I understand that what Hashem, blessed be He, wants in my Torah and in what I learn is so that I will seek how I reach the root of the will
12:21 of what He wants So that is why I come there I do not come there because I think one needs to come there rather, I do not think one needs to come there I understand that this is the way, and this is what Hashem wants that the Shulchan Aruch says it is fitting for every G-d-fearing person to be pained and worried over the destruction of the Beis HaMikdash he means a person who is truly pained and worried If you are not G-d-fearing then perhaps you are not pained and not worried and you do not care From here one can already see how the expression and the meaning of a person's wish to do Tikkun Chatzos it shows whether he is pained, whether he is worried If a person worries in practice, what does it mean that there is no Beis HaMikdash
13:03 That there is no Beis HaMikdash means that the world is open to all the troubles and all the disasters and all the plagues and all the injustices and all the terrible things there are in the world and there are no judges and officers - truth, true justice for the son of David does not come until bad judges and officers cease from Israel the meaning being that the judgment is not straight the way is not right everything is crooked, everything is twisted, everything is not straight and not true there is no truth, the truth will be missing The Beis HaMikdash is the place that was the perfection of truth it was a place that was the perfection of peace the perfection of light And the Torah must always connect and bring there At the end of the prayer, when we step back with our feet, we say
13:47 "May it be Your will, Hashem our G-d and G-d of our fathers that the Beis HaMikdash be built speedily in our days and grant our portion in Your Torah, to do the statutes of Your will and to serve You with a whole heart" What do you learn from here that the request for the Beis HaMikdash ties within it the matter of the Beis HaMikdash that when a person seeks and asks for the Beis HaMikdash he will seek his portion in the Torah So the meaning of coming to the Beis HaMikdash and asking for it is so that it be the will of Hashem I do not know what will be with me I do not know how long Hashem, blessed be He, will decide to leave me in the world but I try to give what I think
14:22 so that at least they will understand this that I know that a soul comes down to the world in order to shine light each one of us comes down to the world in order to shine light I must do what Hashem wants from me not what I think I need.. Today, the world's perception is very different they think the meaning of a person praying to the Creator is so that the Creator will do his will a person needs salvation and a livelihood and the whole connection of the person, between the Creator and the created is: what are you doing for me You raise your eyes to Heaven and want Hashem to do for him to give him a livelihood, to give him this and that and so a person demands of his Creator And when one learns the Torah, one looks and understands
15:05 how great Hashem is, and how insignificant man is and you understand: I did not come so that He would do my will but I came in order to do His will And then immediately a person who learns and understands Hashem's will is that He have a place of a Sanctuary "And they shall make Me a Sanctuary, and I will dwell among them" that there be a place where He will rest a place where He will be revealed a place where the created beings will raise their eyes on high and will not set their eyes on flesh and blood And from here one must ask for the Torah and this is what I ask for in the Torah I try to have people come close to Hashem, blessed be He and that the eyes be toward the Creator and not toward flesh and blood
15:41 This is my request this is why I ask for this May it be the will that Hashem, blessed be He, enlighten our eyes and gladden our hearts and grant us to remember that the greatest Mikdash and Mishkan is found in our hearts From the day the Beis HaMikdash was destroyed "And they shall make Me a Sanctuary, and I will dwell among them" it does not say 'within it', but 'within them' The true Mishkan is in the heart The purpose of a person in this world is only to raise his eyes to Heaven and to serve Hashem and everything a person does in holiness especially to come close to Hashem, and to engage in all that is his this is the essence of holiness, and this is the essence of the purpose and especially also his 'damim'
16:26 'Damim' - this can be the self-sacrifice a person makes and everything a person does this is the essence of a person's holiness and strength that a person be holy, that a person be clean that a person be pure and think how he acts for the honor of Hashem in everything And may it be the will that Hashem, blessed be He, bless everyone in all matters and that everyone have Heaven's help and that no person lack anything that everyone have supernal abundance, in good that is seen and revealed wealth, miracles and wonders, all good and from all good and that Torah increase among the Jewish people and that Hashem, blessed be He, shine the light of love without reason and joy, and good influences, and all good and from all good, to everyone
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