Seeing into the Future - Rabbi Ari Bensoussan's Personal Experience

[Music] this story is going to come to you from a very personal place inside my heart this is a story in which I Ari Ben shushan I'm going to be the one telling you about me you see unfortunately I had been sick with cancer not once but two times in a few years away from each other I was single at the time and to be honest it was something where scary is not the word it is something in which you literally take a moment and then a day and then a week and then months of going through treatment going through chemo going through radiation you take all those moments and you compound them together to think what we'll be with tomorrow if only I could see it how can I have any kind of future even if I go beyond the sickness even if I become hasem better even if I have a ra Shala of my body but what about a refor shalma of my future of my life how would I ever be able to have a wife to build a family any of these things I was petrified and I DED and I begged and Hashem answered and I have to tell you how he answered I was brought to an incredible sadik Baba elazar abater of asalo Baba elazar abater very famously always had a hood over his head and over his eyes Babel Lazar would never look anywhere at anything except Torah except into sarim and accept into people's Souls I was brought to him he was visiting New York I put my hand out he takes my hand in his and he starts to Make Me Feel So Good by just saying to me Al dog don't worry the sickness is gone it's not going to come back to you Babel Lazar pushed back his hood a little bit and he smiled he looked very close at me and he said and invite me to your wedding you have to appreciate at that time my hair had not grown back I didn't have any eyebrows at that time I had to wear a mask because I could not control even my own spittle coming from my mouth I was in a terrible place my body was still giving forth that green sickly glow that you get from too many months of radiation and yet he said to me invite me to your wedding Rob Tha when you're show when you watch yourself from what you look at when your eyes are clean you'd be shocked at how far you could see how far in the future you could look because about a month and a half later when I was engaged I flew to to spend PES but also to go to Beva to hand bab elazar batera an invitation to my wedding and his only response was he gave me a look which was what took you so long I saw it he said he knew R Tha today we live in a world of Darkness we're trying to see is there any hope is there any future you keep your eyes guarded you keep them clean you'll be surprised how far how clear how positive and how much light you too will be able to [Music] see