BIG NEWS RE. The TIKKUN HABRIT ON LAG BA'OMER

0:20Shalom b'rachot to everyone. An early Shabbat Shalom. We're almost getting into Shabbat within a few hours, but I had to announce it. I have to announce something big. We'll have to do a big Hoda'ah la'Hashem, Hoda'ah l'Kadosh Baruch Hu for big things happening. So first and foremost, as you all know, we've been working on these Tikkun HaBrit CDs for a couple of years already. A very, very difficult project. A lot of yetzer hara, yishtabach shimcha l'ad. They're here. they're here. And, Baruch Hashem, we're ready to distribute them. You see them in our store. But there's an even bigger announcement than that, which is coming in a minute. Beautiful packaging, like all of our other CDs, for the sake of Kiruv. Obviously, we're, you know, distributing them for free. Some people want to get them for their communities, please do. But there's a, as you can see here, first of all, One is a DVD. This DVD has a personal movie that's already garnered over a million views on the internet. Baruch Hashem, it has inspired countless people to do teshuva. That's one DVD, but it also includes eight other movies. Eight other amazing movies that have also reached several million views. The other CD is an audio CD. This audio CD contains almost 57 lectures that pretty much...

1:43I think only the dead people wouldn't do teshuva from these lectures. So this is unbelievable stuff on it, not because I did, but simply because it's pure Torah. Now, these CDs are amazing. They're available in our store for anyone that wants to bring it to their community. This is something that is simply the greatest tool, I believe, that has hit the English-speaking world. In a very long time, if not ever, simply because nothing like this exists now. To make this all concise, there's even another thing. We also have the same exact thing in a tiny, beautiful USB for all of those people who have told me, "Listen, the car doesn't have a CD player anymore." We have a USB. So we did make some USBs. USBs also have the same exact cool design where you flip it over and... And you put it into your car, into your television screen, computer, whatever it is. This is it. Obviously, these are much more expensive to make and much more expensive in general simply because there's more technology in it, apparently. But nonetheless, these are also available. They're not going to be massively distributed for free because they're too expensive to do that.

2:58But they're also there. Another third surprise, there is the famous Pirkei Avot series USB. This is the same content we had on CDs of Pirkei Avot, but because there's so much material—it's 179 lectures—we couldn't fit them all on one CD. So the CDs that we have only contain about 30 lectures. What do you do with the rest? We thought about printing additional CDs, but by the time you finish the series, you would have five, six, seven CDs. It's too much. So what we did is put the entire Pirkei Avot series on this USB. Cool-looking USB. They have some cool-looking guy on there, and he looks a little younger. This series itself took us two and a half years to make—just a series of lectures. It's 179 lectures, and the average lecture is about three hours. The bottom line is that by the time you complete this series, if you actually paid attention, you become a little rabbi. It's an enormous amount of Torah. So we also have these available in the store. Then, the final announcement, the one I'm most thrilled about, is that we just closed the deal with the merit of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai. We just finalized an agreement with a distribution company right now. Obviously, it's not free; it costs a significant amount of money. However, we closed the deal for the sake and merit of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai. A lot of things usually happen on Lag Ba’Omer. Typically, there's a multitude of people.

4:20that go to the kever of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai. Unfortunately, this year because of COVID-19, no one's doing it. No one can do it. And Rabbi Shimon is very makpid in regards to this holiday. So Rabbi Fein told me several times and we talked about it several times, that we have to do something for the sake of Rabbi Shimon. So we're working on translating the sefer that Rabbi Fein wrote about the Bar Yochai song. B'ezrat Hashem, we will complete it before the holiday. We just did something important – we closed a deal with a distribution company to distribute 100,000 of these CDs. 100,000 CDs all focusing on Lag BaOmer, on Tuesday. Coming on Tuesday in a couple of days, in New York – Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, the city, and different places. We're going to distribute them, 100,000 of them, B'ezrat Hashem, for free. And one of the biggest things is because these CDs are about Tikkun HaBrit. A lot of the content revolves around Tikkun HaBrit. Why is it so pertinent? Because 99% of the information that you have about Tikkun HaBrit, aside from the Gemara, comes from the Zohar. Where does this Zohar knowledge come from? Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai. So, it is appropriate because we got all the information, a lot of it, from Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai. We have to do something in return. And Be'ezrat Hashem, Rabotai, 100,000 of these CDs are going to be given out for free.

5:45and put it directly into people's houses, put it in their doors, on Tuesday, on Lag BaOmer, Be'ezrat Hashem. So please pray for us that this all succeeds, that to do such a massive plan in one day is difficult in general. Usually, companies set this up six months in advance, but apparently, HaKadosh Baruch Hu in heaven wants us to get this done, and this was done. So for that, I want to do a Mizmor L'Todah. Anytime something big happens, you always have to say a big Todah to Hashem, but even more so for something like this. So we read Tehillim 100. Mizmor L'Todah, Hariu L'Adonai kol ha'aretz, Ivdu et Adonai besimcha, Bo'u lefanav birnana, D'u ki Adonai Hu Elohim, Hu asanu velo anachnu, Amo v'tzon mar'ito. Thank you, HaKadosh Baruch Hu, for giving us the merit to learn Torah, to teach Torah, and to distribute it to Your nation, especially now, in a time when people need it more than ever.

7:03Thank you, Rabotai, for listening. Please support the cause. Help us distribute more. We need to print millions of these CDs, distribute millions of these CDs, because simply put, these CDs help people do teshuva. These USBs help people do teshuva. Go on the website, go on bezratHashem.org, and donate. Buy the CDs. Whatever you can, just do something. We also have flyers that you can give out. There are a lot of different things that people can do to help others do teshuvah. You have to be excited about doing teshuvah because if you're not excited about doing teshuvah, what else are you going to be excited about? So the key is to make sure that we do what Hashem wants. Make His will into our will so He can make our will into His. Baruch Adonai le'olam. Amen ve'amen. And Shabbat Shalom u'Mevorach. Kol Tuv. Music Music

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