B”H
I thank G-d that this week I merited, we merited, to have a
lesson every day. Truly every day we had a lesson, Baruch Hashem (Thank G-d). Many of my students know well that for
decades I had the merit to run from town to town, from village to village, from
place to place, to give lessons and to L’afitz
(spread forth Chassidic teachings), Baruch
Hashem, look at how much we have merited. And now, Yishtabach Shemoh (May His Name be praised), Hashem has closed. So He prepared these devices, with which we can
connect together, Yishtabach Shemoh.
I truly feel you all, and I want to transmit to you a message every day, to
strengthen you every day, to listen to daily live lessons, calling the Emunah line: 026444250; dial “9” and receive
an automated call immediately before a live transmission, or dial “4” in order
to listen to listen to past recordings. So that I can talk to you every day,
because you are very important to me.
We haven't told jokes in a long time, and we need to start
returning to them, in order to replenish inventory. Well, in the meantime,
we'll tell some old joke. Someone who very much loved the sea, very much, told
his friend that because he loved the sea so much, so he named his children with
names that are references to the sea. One he called “Gal” (wave); the other “Hofit”
(coastal); the third “Yam” (sea);
and another called “Jacob.” So a friend of his asked him: “How is Jacob related
to the sea?” He answered, “Well, he’s the lifeguard.” 😊
Very well, truth be told, Hashem brought upon this virus and shut down the world. From that
point on, I have begun, with the kindness of Hashem (Blessed be He), to
draw into the Jewish people the “Law of Thanks.” Truly, it had not been for
long, because just as we started this whole wave came, and we stopped. And I
have prayed so much regarding it, the “Law of Thanks,” that everyone should
merit knowing it… because people need great salvations… all the time. Even now,
I just received a letter from a Jew telling me that last Shabat he felt that he was really suffocating to the point that he
couldn't swallow anything – he couldn't even eat. So he went to a corner, performed
the Law of Thanks, slowly, according to his ability, and it all passed!
People keep telling me, “I did the Law of Thanks and it
worked.” Therefore we need to strengthen everyone. In order for us to learn the
Law of Thanks, we have to make some introductory remarks, because I want everything
to be understandable to everyone.
So let us begin with the words of Rabbi Nathan, Rabbi Nathan
of Breslov. This discourse is on what I based myself, and based on this, three
books of gratitude have been written so far: "Sha’arei Torah (Gates of Gratitude)," "Amarti Tordah veNoshanti (I Said “Thank
you” and Was Delivered," and "Nifla’ot
HaTodah (The Wonders of Thanks)," all based on this discourse.
I will to read to you what Rabbi Nathan wrote, literally
word for word: "Because in really if all..." What is all referring to?
The people of Israel, everyone - "... were to hear the righteous voice of the
true Tzadikim, to go according to
this path, to always believe in Hashem (Blessed
be He) that everything is for the good ..." What does Israel need? To hear
the voice of the righteous, who teach us to believe that everything is for the good.”
You should all know that is the essence of Emunah!
Saying, "I believe in Hashem" is good. However, if a person is sad
and broken and depressed and discouraged, it is a contradiction, a real
contradiction to that statement. It’s as if one would say he was satisfied from
hunger but had not eaten for two weeks.
Therefore, Emunah
is to believe that everything is for the good. Like I said in class last week, that
complete Emunah is to be happy with
one’s lot. Also today, someone also strengthened me. He told me what he was
going through, and that it was hard for him, and that he has problems with marital
peace. So I told him that first of all, the first thing is to accept it all
with Emunah, with love, and only then
is it possible to begin to address your problem. He then tells me, “No, I am
not capable of it.” So I said to him, “Go pray for half an hour saying,
"Master of the world, Father in Heaven, give me complete Emunah to believe that all is for the
best! Have mercy!" The connection with the Creator, the Holy One Blessed
be He, the King, with Father in Heaven, begins with believing that He loves you
with infinite love, complete love, and He does everything for your benefit!
I always have to remind people – it’s true, you can't
understand what's good about it, but you have to believe. That is why we have
stated, “[Have] Complete Emunah… Emunah!”
Because with his intellect, a human being is not capable of believing what is
the good?! A person that has no spouse – that’s good? What do you mean?! A person being sick –
that’s good? – and so forth… [therefore] that's the path. That's why I always
mention this point - I don't understand but I believe that it is for the good! That’s
just the way it is.
However, for a person to receive such Emunah, many prayers are needed, because that’s Gan Eden in this world (“Heaven on
Earth”), to accept with Emunah that
everything is for the best and to be happy with one’s lot – that’s Gan Eden, as simple as that! Without
explanations and without anything [else], you will simply feel like Heaven on
Earth!
And this is the gate through which you will enter to God,
this is the doorway through which you can approach God, this is the beginning!
You want to start believing in Hashem?
Pray for this!
And so I told him that for half an hour he would ask of Hashem: "Father in Heaven give me
complete Emunah to be happy with my
lot!" Each person regarding his issue: if he is sick, he should be happy
with his lot – this sickness. If he has no spouse, he should be happy with his
lot of not having a spouse. Each person has to be happy with his lot, with what
is going on with him, that's the key.
I thank Hashem
that I had the privilege last week to teach this lesson, to be happy with one’s
lot, that this is called complete Emunah,
because that is the key to this whole thing.
If we want to go into this matter of saying thank you truthfully,
don't say thank you and cry: “Thank you ... thank you ...” like a complainer. Rather
say thank you! And be happy with your lot! Really be with your lot! That's the
key!
So now let's go back to what R. Nathan said, it's very important
that the discourse that R. Natan said will engraved in each and everyone’s
heart, and truly believe in it. "Because really, if everything were to
hear the true Tzadikim, and go on
this path, to always believe in Hashem (Blessed
be He) that everything is for the best, to give praise and thanks to the Hashem always ..." To give! To give
praise, to praise, as in the Aleinu
Leshabeach, and thanks - to always thank Hashem (Blessed be He)"... bein
b’tivo bein be’ako" – this is Aramaic for “whether in good times or in
hard times,” or in simpler terms, "whether for the good or for the
bad." And this is the direct consequence [of complete Emunah], if you say you believe everything is for the best, what is
the consequence? To say thank you for everything! To say thank you for the
good, for every moment, to say thank you for every breath and for everything. It’s
obvious that it needs to be said. However, you also have to say thank, if you
believe that everything is for the best, for what the world calls “not good.”
You have no spouse, thank you for not having a spouse. You have no children,
thank you for not having children. Then what would happen? R. Nathan writes, he
brings the verse here in Psalms: "... as it is written with Hashem I will praise the matter..."
- Hashem being the name of mercy -
"... with Elokim I will praise
the matter..." - Elokim being
the name of judgement. King David said that if Hashem (Blessed be He) is merciful to him, he praises Him. And even
when Hashem (Blessed be He) acts
sternly, he praises Him. These are two paths: the first path is believing that
everything is for the best. The second path is to say thank you for everything,
whether for the good, or for the bad.
And now there is the promise: "... for sure all the
troubles and all the exiles would have been completely nullified and there would
already be complete redemption!” Listen well! And that's what gave me the the
strength - this discourse - to go and look for all the possible ways to spread
the concept of giving thanks! Says R. Nathan: "For sure (!) all the
troubles would have been eliminated!” And we are now talking about the present,
if the people of Israel were to say “thank you,” all the troubles now would be
eliminated! And all the exiles completely finished! And there would be complete
redemption! I know you've heard it many times, but in any event, everyone needs
to be reminded.
Rabbi Nachman of Breslov writes unequivocally in Likutei Moharan in straightforward fashion: "Know that the essence of
the exile is only due to lack of faith." Rabbeinu writes straight out: what is the reason for the exile?
Lack of Emunah.
And now that we have talked and expanded a little bit on the
subject that Emunah is to believe
that everything is for the best, if you don't believe that everything is for
the best, know that you lack Emunah!
Don't fool yourself into saying that you believe but there is something that is
not good - there is no such thing! Because the Creator of the world, Father in
Heaven, does only good.
Just like every normal father and every normal mother, who
do only good to their children, so too our Heavenly Father is no worse - He
does only good to his children.
All the while I kept writing in the books, whoever has studied
a little of them knows, whether “The Garden of Emunah,” “Garden of Gratitude,”
“The Garden of Miracles,” or “Nifla’ot
HaTodah” (Wonders of Thanks), whoever read knows that I kept repeating that
one should say half an hour of thanks daily. For example, a person who does not
have a pairing needs half an hour to say, "Master of the world, thank you
for not giving me a spouse. Does it hurt me? Thank you Father in Heaven for
hurting me in this area. Father only does what is good for his child! Father
does only what is the best for me! Thank you for hurting me! It’s simple,
because I believe Father does only good for me. It’s simple: half an hour of
saying thank you.
And from this I was privileged to write the book, “The
Garden of Miracles,” which is mostly stories about people saying thank you and
being saved. Anyone who knows the book, and anyone who doesn't, should read
this book and not leave it!
After the book came out, a certain woman who is our student,
and we know her closely, her sister became ill with a terminal illness (it
should not happen to us or anyone else of Israel). And her sister said, “What
would she I tell her? To now say half an hour [of thanks]?” She told her to say
eight times Mizmor L’Todah (Hymn of
Thanks, Psalm 100) because the Hymn of Thanks is a hymn in which in it we
thank, Psalm 100, and the number eight represents the concept of being above
nature. That's how she thought about it; that's how Hashem placed the thought in her mind. And the sister - the doctor
told her that there’s no explanation, “Here are the pictures before and after.
I have no explanation, you had a miracle happen here and that's that.”
When I heard of this, that by simply reciting Mizmor L’Todah eight times, she had a
miracle, I said: “Well, let's make a “law of thanks,” and shorten the process.
Instead of half an hour of saying “thank you,” people should say only fifteen
minutes of thanks, and then say eight times Mizmor
L’Todah, Psalm 100.
And since I started publicizing this, I no longer called it
"I said thank you and was saved [the Hebrew title of “Garden of
Miracles"], I called it, "The Law of Thanks!" We say thank you
and nullify the troubles, that's the law! Law! That's how the Creator of the
World conducts His world! That is how Father in Heaven conducts his world: we
say “thank you” and eliminate all troubles!
And I began to receive, here I have a booklet full of
stories we have collected, literally stories upon stories, that people who have
said they followed the law and eliminated their troubles. I put it all in front
of my eyes, and said, “Well, let's start this law.”
My son told me, “Listen, every time I went through what was
going on with this virus, I kept seeing with my own eyes how the law worked,
and how everything happened with zeal: miracles and wonders.” That's how more
and more people are being told about it.
So that's the law, say fifteen minutes of thanks for the
troubles you have, the sickness you have, or that you have no livelihood, any
and all problems in life. It’s worth it for you all to buy the books, so that
you will have many examples.
For example, in the book, “Garden of Miracles,” there are
190 stories, of all kinds, of people who said thank you and were saved. And there,
like I said, I wrote to say a half hour of “thank you,” and now we've shortened
it. Say fifteen minutes thanks and eight times Mizmor L’Todah.
So this is, this is the law of gratitude, and it is very
important to me, that we start now, and each one will begin to use this law,
and see with your own eyes! Because it works 100 percent! Some people have
already come and said to me “Honorable Rabbi, the law works 100 percent!”
One of the miraculous stories I heard, from a student of
mine, he had a very terrible kind of evil inclination. And he meditated (did hitbodedut) about it for half an hour
every day, and nothing helped him. He said that it only made the evil
inclination overcome him more, the terrible lust. I said to him: “Listen, do
the law of thanks and you will see that it will pass.” He said to me, “But what
is the connection?” I said to him, “First of all, say thank you that you have
such a test! Is it correct that you have anguish (Yissurim) from it?” He said
to me, “I have terrible anguish from it! I don’t want to sin before Hashem! I don’t want to! It pains me!
But I can't! I can’t overcome my lust!” So I said to him, “If so, does it hurt
you? We have a general principle: for any kind of anguish - and you have
anguish - if you have anguish, receive it with love! Do the law of thanks.” So
he sat down and said, "Thank you, Holy One Blessed Be He, regarding this
matter, regarding how in Your wisdom it was decreed that I have to manage with
this lust, and that I am anguished from it because I do not want to go against
Your will. Thank you Holy One Blessed Be He for the anguish that I have, thank
you..." For those fifteen minutes he said thank you, and said the eight
times Mizmor L’Todah. He then came
and told me - it works!
Of course, I told him to continue, because when he was just
praying it didn't help him, he didn’t succeed! Lust just overcame him. He
accepted the affliction with love, not the transgression! No! Regarding the
test that you go through, you have to find a way to manage, in whatever ways
you can to overcome the challenge - do something, accept whatever resolution,
pray endlessly… However, the anguish you have from the lust, and the madness
that goes with it, for that say thank you.
Because a person who has lust has anguish - you have an evil
inclination and that is anguish. The moment that he accepted the agony with
love, he then prayed afterwards and it already helped.
In other instances, the people who come and ask me regarding
a father that is sick, or a mother who is sick, are they supposed to say thank
you? So I ask them: “Do you have anguish from this, that your wife is ill?” So
they say, “I have great anguish from it.” So I tell them that they’re not
saying thank you for the person being sick, you're saying thank you for the anguish
they have for having their wife being sick.
You can't say thank you for someone else's anguish! You say
thank you for your own agony! And if you have no anguish from it, you should
pray for the person with simplicity that
Hashem should save them.
The thanks is just for your own agony! And you accept the
agony with love, and you say, "Master of the world, is it your wish that I
have this agony? I accept the agony with love! Thank you for the anguish!,” And
do so for fifteen minutes; along with eight times Mizmor L’Todah. That's the concept.
I once spoke with a woman regarding her daughter that had
gone to an insane asylum. She told me really that there was nothing that she
didn't do! Went to the graves of the Tzadikim,
did Pidyonot (“redemptions”), and nothing
helped. She studied the book, "Garden of Gratitude," and said thanks
half an hour every day about the anguish she has since her daughter became ill.
After three months, the girl was 100 percent recovered!
So again, don't say thank you for the anguish of the other,
say thank you for having the anguish regarding what's going on with the other.
One person, his father is far from the path of the Torah, so do not say thank
you that he is far from the path of Torah, say thank you for the anguish that I
have that my father is far from the path of Torah. Say thank you for your
agony! Never say thank you for another's agony, it's stupidity! The other is
suffering! Pray for him that he should not suffer! In no way should you say
thank you for the anguish of another! Say thank you for the anguish that you
have! And you accept the agony with love.
Because what is the “Law of Thanks?” That you accept your
agony with love! And that is how it is written in the Gemara, that it is the law, that is how the Creator of the World
conducts the world, that as soon as one receives the agony with love - the
agony is abolished. “Sama D’Yissurei
Kibuli!” Do you want a drug to eliminate your agony? Receive them with
love! An explicit Gemara!
Now it is very important for me to reintroduce this law, to
place it within the people of Israel with every strength.
For example, I have told of the time when I was really
coughing a lot [well before Corona began], and really did the law, and
everything disappeared, may His name be praised.
Just call the Hafatzah
(distribution) line, and tell the stories: 0522240696. Did you say thank
you? Did the troubles become nullified? Tell it! You don't have to say your
name, you can remain anonymous, but it's very important to tell, to strengthen
the people of Israel.
So today we went back to reinforcing the need for the “Law
of Thanks.” I thank Hashem that I
explained it a little bit, and Yallah (Come
on!) everyone now with the law! The Law of Thanks! And people will find their
spouses, they will have children, healing, deliverances! The law works! May His
name be praised forever!
I thank God that I am privileged to continue to teach you all
lessons, I am truly happy with you, and love you very much, and I think of you
and pray for you, even today I was in the holy grave of Samuel the Prophet, and
I also prayed for the people of Israel a little bit, whatever I merit to do, Baruch Hashem. I truly said to Hashem: "Master of the world, we
for thousands of years have hope that everyone recognize You, that everyone
know You, everyone accept You as king, everyone believe in You! Everyone,
everyone! For thousands of years! We have, for thousands of years, said, “Yitgadal veYitkadash Shemeh Rabbah” (May
His name be made great and holy [the beginning of Kaddish]), “Return us, our Father to Your Torah,” we pray for Teshuvah (repentance) in all kinds of
ways, for thousands of years! It is time for You to do everything now! We have
prayed! We have asked! As I have written in a commentary to the Siddur, “Remember the kindness of the fathers,”
the Holy One Blessed be He does not just remember what our fathers did, rather
He also remember the merit of all those killed for the sanctity of His name. How
many were killed for the sanctity of His name, how many millions… pogroms and the
Holocaust, what did not happen! And Hashem
remembers the merit of all the Tzadikim,
and also what they promised, all that he remembers, all the Tzadikim from our father Abraham to this
day he remembers them. He also remembers everything that each and every one of
the people of Israel did, the prayers, the thank you’s and the thanks giving,
and the good tears, and all the commandments they did gladly, and the Torah
they learned joyfully, and the anguish they received with love, everything that
the people of Israel did from Abraham our father to this day, he also
remembers. "... Therefore there are
treasures! ...", I told the Creator of the world, “... there are
treasures!” Of Teshuvah (repentance),
and prayers, and tears, there is everything!
Now it's time for You to take it all, and put it all to
work! We prayed, now You should do it all! The books and pamphlets should come,
and the lessons, everything should come to all the people of Israel all over
the world! Do not give up on a single son of yours, a single daughter of yours,
so that everyone will repent!" And in this way everyone should pray, at
least ten minutes each day. And everyone should see how to become a partner in Hafatzah (spreading forth teachings). I
heard yesterday words from the tzadik the
Moharosh from Yavniel (may his memory be for blessing). He said, that a
person even after he has left this world, should tell Hashem that he is ready to reincarnate only to be assured that he
would L’hafitz (spread forth)! He is
ready to return even a number of incarnations, the main thing is to be assured
that in every incarnation he will spread forth!
How important is the matter of Hafatzah, that even if
though the idea is to strive not to be reincarnated, if he is assured that he
will spread forth, then he is ready to
reincarnate. So we see how important it is, so now in this incarnation – go
spread! Spread!