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If I would ask you all
which Rabbi
in the history of Rabbis
had the most beautiful eyes?
Who would you choose? The most beautiful
eyes. Can you Can you picture beautiful
blue eyes, beautiful hazel eyes? Which
Rabbi, if you could took We have a lot
of pictures today, had the most
beautiful eyes?
Thank you. I have one fan over here or
just some lunatic that needs a
straightjacket.
Who had more beautiful eyes than those
beautiful baby blue eyes of the
Lubavitcher Rebbe? Who?
I My My opinion is the Lubavitcher Rebbe
had the most beautiful eyes.
But not because they were blue.
Not because they looked nice.
Because what beautiful eyes the Rebbe
had that he was able to see the beauty
in every Jew.
The absolute beauty in every Jew. The
absolute beauty in God's world.
That's why the Rebbe had the most
beautiful eyes. Because he saw
what God sees instead of what we choose
to see.
You know how many sinners walked by and
looked at his wonderful beautiful blue
eyes and that smile? Did he yell at
anybody? Did he scream at anybody? Did
he tell anybody that you're stopping
Mashiach?
No. He understood a much deeper truth.
And I'll tell us all this very important
lesson. Don't look at yourself with your
own eyes. Think about how God sees you.
And if you can't imagine that, think
about how the Lubavitcher Rebbe would
have just looked at you and smiled.
With such love. No judgments.
That's how a Jewish leader looks at his
his people.
That's how God looks at his children.
And I'll tell you another thing. Let's
talk about today and tomorrow.
Moshe Rabbeinu said if you're going to
destroy the wicked, take me out of your
book.
Who Who greater than the Lubavitcher
Rebbe in modern times? He could have
sent all of his students to the best
madrash to learn.
But he said, "You can't." There's a
famous idea from the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
He said, "Listen, everybody understands
that we our life is for Torah. Rebbe
Akiva says, you can't a fish out of
water is is is is like a us without
Torah. Our life is Torah because Torah
is God
and our connection to be with God and to
be like God."
But he says, "You want to talk about
education as to make it like as an
institution?
When there's a fire
in a home and and and the people in the
home are going to die, anyone and
everyone has to get up from whatever
they're doing, even if they're learning
Torah, they have you have to get up and
save those people from that fire cuz
they're going to die.
The world is on fire right now.
There's a darkness, a double and tripled
darkness.
The world is
ablaze
and [snorts] there are people sleeping,
sleeping in their homes and their homes
are on fire, burning down.
And they're sleep when sleepwalking.
They don't even realize it.
Now, if there'd be a physical fire and
people are sleeping, they're helpless.
Who's going to help them if we don't if
we don't run and help them?
The secular Jews of today are secular
because of their fathers and
grandfathers and grandmothers and
great-grandfathers and
great-grandfathers' decision to turn
away from God and Judaism. They are
innocent children that have been
kidnapped.
They have been raised as non-Jews,
complete non-Jews, and they are exempt
from the Torah entirely because they're
like children that were kidnapped, that
are that are considered onus, considered
forced. It's beyond their control to
embrace Judaism.
They are sleeping in a house on fire.
And the Lubavitcher Rebbe understood and
preached and screamed,
"You have to get up and go out there and
save your brothers and sisters." And so
he closed the books, so to speak. I
mean, they they learned Smicha, they
learned Hasidus, they learned. But he
said, "Institutionalized learning, to
sit in a base medrish all our lives and
learn while our brothers and sisters are
dying dying and they're asleep and they
can't get up and they're they're dying?
No, now's the time to save lives, save
souls." And he sent his children around
the world. you can go where you're not
going to find some kind of a Chabad or
at least being in their
their their area code radius.
And
it's unbelievable. He sacrificed himself
and his children and all of the
greatness and honor of they could have
had in Torah because when push comes to
shove, what's more valuable? The Torah
or the Jew?
What's more valuable? The tefillin that
you put on the Jew or the Jew that's
wearing the tefillin?
There are Jews that are so estranged,
they are more than Jews, they're
more like non-Jews than Jews, but inside
is the neshama. They are a walking sefer
Torah that's being burnt.
And what are we? Who are we if we don't
go save them?
And so if I would pick
the Rebbe with the most beautiful eyes
and the Rebbe that stands in the place
of a Moshiach,
lefi my small brain,
someone who sent his children around the
world to bring every Jew back home, wake
them up, save them from their own
destruction,
that's a Moshiach Rebbe who's saying,
"Erase me. Erase me from all the books I
could have written and all the books my
students would have written and erase me
from a Torah that could have been
because the Jew is worth more."
With that in mind, let us answer our
final question. Who's stopping Mashiach
from coming?
No one.
No one is stopping Mashiach from coming.
We're not powerful enough to stop
Mashiach from coming.
It says "Beito achishana." Mashiach will
come in his time
and he he will come speedily. And it's a
contradiction. Either he'll come on time
or he'll come early. What is it?
And so we're taught from Kabbalah that
in the end of the day Mashiach coming
doesn't depend on how good we are or how
bad we are.
It depends on God.
However,
what does depend on us
is are we going to learn the lesson from
Moshe?
Learn the lesson from the Lubavitch
Rebbe and other great great sages and
great rabbis. Are we going to learn
their lesson
or we going to make the mistake of
Noach?
As long as I'm okay, it's okay.
It's not okay.
Imagine today, today "B'chol ototo."
Today Hashem wants to bring Mashiach,
but there's a problem.
There's a lot of empty seats in this
table.
The party of Mashiach is is going to
happen. God wants it to happen more than
we do.
And we think we're here with a kippah,
with tzitzis, we're sitting here ready
ready ready for the Mashiach party.
It's late. We're Ashkenaz. It's late.
It's supposed to start. He says, "What
do you mean start? Start a party of
Mashiach and my children are not all
here?"
The Rebbe understood and we need to
understand. We got to go out there and
help bring Hashem's children with us to
the party.
An empty party with his children out
there, that's not a solution. And again,
with the Mashiach coming in the end of
days wars with an entire world out there
that's just vulnerable to the attacks of
of of of midas hadin, we have to make
ahavas Yisrael and
unity, love, and we have to become a one
unit. If we stick together as one,
then of course nobody can get hurt.
If we're holding on to each other, then
no one gets hurt. If we're separate,
then people can become vulnerable.
The secret of Purim,
according to at least my understanding,
is this.
It says in the megillah,
Haman Haman was very deep, very smart,
holding on very high spiritual and
sorcery levels. He understood if the
Jews are scattered and separate, mefuzar
u'mefurad,
I can attack.
When the Jews are separate and
individuals, that's the idea of of
accounting, which they're susceptible to
to to to danger, to harm. When they're
scattered, you can they can be hurt. But
if they're one, if they're one unit, God
will never get rid of all the Jews. So
if if we become one, then none of us get
are get harmed.
And that's what Esther Okay, you want me
to go in and risk my life? By myself,
I'll die.
But if we're one, if I come in with all
of you with me, I'm untouchable.
Kenos
lekh kenos et kol ha Yehudim. Bring them
all together as one, and then I can go
in to and risk my life because I will
never die. When we're one, when we're
united, when we're when we love each
other,
we are untouchable.
The solution to Mashiach, at least from
our perspective, is
embrace your fellow Jew. Don't blame
him.
Become one. If we become one, we become
untouchable.
And the miracle of Purim shows us this.
How many Jews died in the war of Purim?
Miraculously, probably the greatest
miracle that ever occurred without a
ball of fire coming from heaven, was
zero.
Not one Jew died on the Purim battle
because we were one.
And God said to Haman, "You Haman, you
want to kill the solution to Messiah and
Jewish survival right now in the face of
all of the bombs and all of the
craziness and all of the prophetic Gog u
Magog end of days wars is love yourself,
love your fellow and the Jews and the
Torah and God become all one."
