Divine Message Hidden in Parashat Kedoshim

[snorts] >> This tzaddik had a dream where he's coming to the synagogue and he sees that everybody is praying but not the regular prayer, rather they're all reading Tehillim. And he asked the rabbi of the shul uh in this case it was another person that we know. >> [snorts] >> And uh he asked him uh why they why they reading Tehillim. And he says because there was a pigua, there was a terror attack. And somebody got hurt. And the tzaddik says, "No, it was not one person. It was a lot more than that. We don't just read for one. There's a whole lot There's a The damage is much much graver than this. Please make sure they continue reading Tehillim." The next day next morning I should say this whole thing happened. Now the tzaddik knew that the message from from heaven that it was given to him in a dream was not for naught. There had to be a reason of why Hakadosh Baruchu, you know, in a time where we don't have prophets, in a time that uh you know, the uh there's a lot of confusion in the air uh >> [snorts] >> when Hashem sends you certain messages, you have to uh you have to take advantage of it and then and try to see what else you can find out. So he did something that uh only few people in the world know how to do properly. Uh and it's only done very few times because it's so difficult to do. I'm [snorts] sure you guys have heard about it before, but none of you I can assure you, none of you know actually how to do it. Uh it's uh it's it's oversimplified. Um and he decided since he had this insight uh to do what's called Goral Agra. Now Goral Agra, what most people think it is is that you just take any Chumash that you open and you open it somewhere and you pick a pasuk and that's it. Well, that's a very big oversimplification of what it really is. Uh Goral Agra requires a certain amount of uh uh steps before it happens. First of all, the person has to fast uh for like a Yom Kippur fast before he does it. Um and uh do certain types of kavanot before he uh uh before he uh opens the book. And the book itself, the Chumash that he's using cannot be a regular Chumash, it has to be a unique type of Chumash that you don't really find in regular stores. >> [snorts] >> Um it has you know, just the words of Torah on it. It's uh it's it's not the Chumash you're going to buy in the stores. Not not something you can buy on the internet either. And he has to open it in a certain way following a certain order uh until he arrives at that particular pasuk. Now because we know the tzaddik and because he wanted us to uh uh publicize this um he told us exactly what it was. And the pasuk is from Parashat Kedoshim in chapter 20 verse 22. The question was why did this happen? What is the cause of this horrible, horrific attack? And you're not allowed to ask more than one question. And this is the answer that he got. And the pasuk says, "U'shmartem et kol chukotai v'et kol mishpatai v'asitem otam v'lo takiy et'chem ha'aretz asher ani mevi et'chem shamah lashevet bah." Translation, "You shall observe all of my decrees and all of my ordinances and perform them. Then the land to which I bring you to dwell will not disgorge you." Here the tzaddik, who also has to have the ability to interpret this properly hence the reason why the average person can't do this uh and even regular talmidei chachamim can't do this. It's only it's uh people that are well-versed in Kabbalah uh and um of the highest caliber. Uh he was shocked at this because of course the obligation to keep the Torah the obligation to keep the mitzvot is already something we have for over 3,000 years. It's nothing new. But throughout all the generations we've had Hakadosh Baruchu in his mercy have patience with each and every single one of us with us individually, with us as a nation. And of course from time to time he would send different messages. He would send different messages whether it was the pogroms, the inquisitions the uh Holocaust. And we thought we got all the messages that you could possibly get before the final war, before the war of Gog and Magog that's uh prophesied by the prophet uh Yechezkel, Ezekiel in chapter 38 or Zechariah in chapter 14. But throughout all this time we got a lot of different messages. But now the tzaddik says, "This is a message unlike anything else we've ever gotten." Why? Because here Hakadosh Baruchu is clearly telling us if it wasn't written, we wouldn't be allowed to say it. Here he's telling us no more patience. No more discounts. Either keep everything >> [snorts] >> or you'll have to pay the price. Whether it's the the land will vomit you or you'll simply disappear from the land like what happened to thousands of people in the last 24 hours. No more discounts. No more keep Shabbat, you know, once a year and uh you know, God will understand you, protect your breed for 40 days and uh you'll be okay. And uh after that you can go back to your uh you know inappropriate relationship. Uh with self or with others. You know, uh simply put what the tzaddik explained to us and literally in tears is that Hakadosh Baruchu is giving us a very very clear warning that this is it. Whoever is going to jump on the bandwagon now of Hakadosh Baruchu either jump full force with everything, with all of your strength and all of your ability and all of your knowledge to fulfill everything you know. Whatever you don't know, learn and do it. But whatever you do know, you know how to keep Shabbat, keep Shabbat. You know how to protect your breed, protect your breed. You know you're not supposed to look at things that are inappropriate, don't look. You know you [snorts] have to eat kosher in the house and out of the house no matter what that's what you have to do. Taharat Mishpacha, family purity, learning Torah every day, everything. I'm not saying that everybody has to become avreichim and become Torah scholars. But every single Jew is obligated to fulfill the entire Torah. But unlike any other time throughout their life where Hakadosh Baruchu was simply willing to give us in essence the uh time time to beat our yetzer hara, time to acclimate ourselves to a non-secular life time to overcome our uh you know, our desires for sin. Here Hakadosh Baruchu is uh telling us that we've uh we're running out of time. We've run out of time. You know, for for something like this to happen I can assure you that if even seven hostages not not 700, not 300, not not none of these crazy numbers that you're going to be seeing and then see already. If if if if one person was taken from America, if if if a a small family was murdered in America by terrorists literally the that country that that did it would disappear off the map. If it happened in Russia that country and their neighbor would disappear from the map. But here in Israel unfortunately the prophecy that the Gemara in Masechet Sotah says at the end of the Masechet in page 49b that the leadership is going to be doing things that are against its own people. And uh unfortunately because of their treatment of their relationship with whether it's America or other countries or themselves or their own personal beliefs they're simply not uh they're not willing to uh to do what's necessary to defend the people. And uh they're saying that they're going to attack back and do whatever they're going to do, but the reality is that uh nothing will ever bring back those souls. Now of course people are going to come up with different conspiracy theories in the uh coming days whether it's uh all this was an inside job. How could it be that the the you know the border is you know has one day you could even notice that there's a bug on it and needless to say you know a person next to it and the next day for 8 hours there's tractors literally tractors and and trucks and and all types of vehicles going through it destroying it and no one even notices this for 8 hours. This must be an inside job and of course you know it's very possible and likely that you're right. On the other [snorts] hand you can say yeah but you know these people were dancing in front of an idol on Rosh Hashanah on Shabbat and of course you're right. Yeah but but the truth is you'll see other things. All these people lefty liberals they were pro-Palestinians. They actually like the Palestinians and now they won't like it so this is all of these things you can have you can have people going to talk about all of these things but the truth is none of this stuff matters. None of this stuff matters because and what made me laugh though there's nothing else but God is the one that allowed this to happen to his own children to his own people because it's a message for each and every single one of us that is still here that is still alive that if we do not wake up our sleeping souls if we don't serve God who completely with every bit of ourselves if it's with your prayer make sure your prayer has more if it's with your Shabbat make sure you're keeping Shabbat just like it is. If it's with your modesty don't play games with God. Don't be modest one day and not modest the other day because your job is this or your party is this or your boyfriend is this. Don't play games with God because I can tell you first hand you know I've heard about these things throughout my life I've you know I've I've heard about all types of things I've read a lot but to be in a situation where you have you know literally people around you are scared to to to even say hello they're scared to like you know they don't know what to do with themselves they don't know if the car that's coming up is full of terrorists or it's just other fellow Jews. The situation is is is is scary for a lot of people and the truth is that God is doing this to scare and all of us in order for us to to straighten our hearts in order for all of us to stop playing games with God because once God sees that we are going to fulfill his laws and we are fulfilling them and we're not playing games anymore. We're not going to rave parties instead of going to the synagogue. We're not going to the casino instead of the synagogue. We're not going to be in you know immodest settings or inappropriate businesses. In so many words if we start taking this the Torah seriously and fulfill just like the verse that has discovered all of the laws without any sugarcoating and and and pretending like you know we're we're pacifying like some of these programs that are out there and saying oh yeah everybody should keep Shabbat once a year. Yeah so you'll go you know keep Shabbat once a year make people feel good about themselves once a year but then in reality you're enabling them to violate Shabbat the rest of the year. What is that going to do for them? Same thing with the modesty same thing with greed same thing with everything else. The Torah is complete and one of our 13 principles of faith is that it will never change. The Torah will never change. That means that the same laws that we had since the beginning of of of our Mount Sinai are the same laws that we have right now. We have to keep all of them. So whatever each and every single one of you knows do it. Whatever you know do it and start learning more seriously in order to make sure that you learn more things and do them. As you learn more do more. It's hard for you try again. It's hard for you try again. It's hard for you try again just like you do with anything else in life. >> [snorts] >> God knows your heart. God knows your efforts. Don't pretend like you can't do when you can do. Don't pretend like it's too much for you when in reality you just don't want to do it. So anyone that is [music] looking for ways to better his situation protect himself protect his family from the horrific situation that's around us terrorism and everything [music] else they must understand that the only way is to increase Torah. More Torah more life.