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0:01 Everyone can find difficulty in everything he has in life. Everything we have, we can look at it and see it as the hardest thing there is. So hard that one can truly be broken by it and not rise up from it.
0:29 if we really look at it. And the opposite is also possible: to take the thing that breaks us the most, to try to turn it around and find sides of light in it, to the point that we understand that this reality is the good itself; it is the light, it is the good, it is the joy. And to turn it around in such a way that we try to look in this too at the light, and understand that this reality is the best thing. When a person looks and he sees, he suddenly stops himself and says: What is this whole life worth if I am sad in it all the time?
1:08 What is this whole life worth if I do not believe in what I live? If I am not filled with hope from what I have, then I am not truly living. Because a person who truly lives truly thinks about how to make use of life and truly understand what I truly need to do in the world; he searches for the supreme will of Hashem. Blessed is a person who is happy with his portion, who is fortunate, who is joyful, who feels good, who knows how to look at every single detail in creation in the most... in the truest light there is.
2:05 He knows how to look at every reality, he will know how to turn it into a good thing, a bright thing, a happy thing. He will take a trouble and turn it into a window of light. My very existence in the bad, in the darkness is a good thing in itself. Within your darkness there are precious stones and pearls. You simply don't see them. Mashiach was born on Tishah B'Av.
2:33 He was not born on Yom Kippur, he was not born on Rosh Hashanah, he was not born on Pesach. Mashiach was born on Tishah B'Av. Within the darkest, gloomiest day. It is a hair's breadth; it is a very, very thin divide between the reality you choose to look at and the true reality one must look at. In absolute truth, one must look at everything as the root of the good. And if we looked at it this way and then used our traits or our understanding, in order to make the light of Hashem shine, then we would see: 'A little longer and the wicked man is no more; you will look at his place and he is gone.'
3:10 We would see how the whole world is full of good. I need to look to enjoy my problem, to enjoy and rejoice in my constriction, in these vessels that I do not have, to rejoice and remember this period. Of this it is said: 'And it shall be on that day, the iniquity of Israel will be sought, and it will not be there.'
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3:35 What does it mean, 'on that day the iniquity of Israel will be sought, and it will not be there'? On that day they will try to seek out the iniquities; they will try to seek out these days that looked to us like days of iniquity, of darkness, of exile, days we look upon as dark days - and suddenly we will see how all these days suddenly shine with a wonderful light; suddenly we will see such light, such hope, such good, and we will look at how all the days... suddenly we will see how the simplest person, the simplest, acted to bring the geulah.
4:09 How a very, very simple man, whom the whole world could look down on, how connected he was to the coming of the geulah. What is meant when they say the geulah will come is that the truth will be revealed. The truth will be revealed - that means the light of Hashem will burst forth from each and every person. From every human being. Suddenly good will be seen from the most distant and outcast man.
4:37 From a person no one expected to have the light of Hashem, because he was very far away. Suddenly the light of Hashem will be revealed in him. This is what it means that we await the geulah: to see the light that bursts forth from every darkness, from every gloom and every deep darkness.
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Everyone can find difficulty In anything he has in life Everything we have we can look at it And see it as the most difficult thing that there is To the extent that one can become broken from it And not to rise up from it, if we truly look at it And the opposite is also possible To take that which most breaks us And to attempt to reverse it and find the light within it To the extent that we will understand that this is the best reality It is the light, it is the good, it is the joy And to transform it in a way That we will try to see the light in here as well And to understand that this is reality – the best thing that there is That a person looks and he sees And suddenly he stops himself and he says What is all this life worth If I am always sad What is all this life worth If I do not believe in what I am living I am not filled with hope from what I have Then I am not really alive Because a person who is really alive He thinks of taking advantage of life And to truly understand what I must do in this world He is looking for what Hashem wants Such a person is blessed that he is happy with his lot He is happy that he has joy that things are good for him That he knows how to look at each and every element of the creation In something that is the most … in the best light that there is He knows how to look at each element of realizty He knows how to transform it To something good, to something that illuminates, to something happy He will take a difficulty and transform it into something very tormenting
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- 0:12Everyone can find difficulty In anything he has in life Everything we have we can look…
- 0:45It is the light, it is the good, it is the joy And to transform it…
- 1:15Then I am not really alive Because a person who is really alive He thinks of…
- 1:46Such a person is blessed that he is happy with his lot He is happy that…
- 2:18The fact that I live in the negative and in darkness Is something good on its…
- 2:49And between the true reality that you must look at In absolute truth – you must…
- 3:22To benefit and rejoice from my smallness From these tools that I do not possess To…
- 3:52And suddenly we will see how all those days Suddenly shine an incredible light Suddenly we…
- 4:23The truth will be revealed this refers to the illumination of Hashem It will burst forth…
- 4:54From all darkness and from all gloom…
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