Buy A Friend and Make Yourself A Rabbi (6 Minutes)
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1:06Extraordinary book. One of my students actually got it for me as a present, and it's mamash. Every page makes you do teshuva. It's his life story. It's something out of this world. And he tells his story of different things that he went through his whole life and different people that he met. And many of the people that he met were Chabadniks. They practically built Judaism in Russia. Without Chabad, there wouldn't be any Judaism. But they... were as zealous as can be for Judaism. To such an extent where he tells one story: you weren't allowed to practice Judaism. They would go to jail for it and sometimes even receive the death penalty for keeping Shabbat. To keep Shabbat. One rabbi, Rabbi Rabinowitz, or perhaps it was Rabinovich, I apologize for forgetting the exact name, went to jail.
2:06And in jail, and this is not jail like the Taj Mahal we have in America. Jail in Russia was on earth. Slave labor, cold at all times, barely any food, a nightmare 24 hours a day. Most people would not even make it out. So in jail, he still found a way to keep all of the mitzvot, one of which was to wear tzitzit. that nobody wants to wear anymore today, like wearing tzitzit. So, he made strings, put them on his clothes, and made himself a tzitzit in jail. One day, the head of the jail calls him in, and he comes in wearing his tzitzit. "You're not allowed to be religious, you're not allowed to be Jewish. That's why you came into jail in the first place." And he says to him, "How dare you wear that thing? Take it off right now." And the rabbi says, "What? Take that off right now." He says, "You want me to take this off?" He goes, "Take it off." He goes, "You want me to take off my tzitzit?" He screams at the top of his lungs, "You want me to take off my tzitzit?" Pah! And punched the guy in the face and started beating him up until they stopped him and almost killed him. For him, to take off his tzitzit was worth putting his life on the line. Find me one Chabadnik like that.
3:34that's telling people it's okay to drive on Shabbat. There are, of course, many holy ones that are still around, but they're not Messianic. They're not the ones that I mentioned in the groups before. The ones that are reading the real work of Chabad, the ones that are really learning the work of Rabbi Nachman, or any of the major sages of the past. not doing anything stupid by telling people, "Listen, drive on Shabbat for the first year, and the next year we'll talk about it." You're never allowed to sin. The fact that you sin is your problem. You're never allowed to. Yes, everybody has gradual levels of how they do teshuvah, but don't ever think it's okay—it's okay for now. That you know you're sinning is okay for you; it's not okay for your mind because eventually, you'll realize it's a sin and you'll have to do teshuvah for that too. Because we can't just change our life overnight. I get it. I did it also. It's not overnight. But don't think it's okay to drive on Shabbat. Don't think it's okay to eat pork once in a while. It's never okay. Just understand that you can't handle conquering all of them at once. But if you actually learn from the people that built this organization, and you see how zealous they were for Hashem, for every single mitzvah they did, they were willing to sacrifice their life for.
4:59Every single mitzvah. Rabbi Yitzchak Zilber says in his book that for him, he was willing to sacrifice his life just to find a way in jail. Unfortunately, all of these big tzaddikim went to jail and got tortured in different ways. He sacrificed his life to find a way to get a nail for a candle for Hanukkah. To get a candle, to get the wax for a candle for Chanukah, that's a mitzvah of DeRabbanan, a rabbinical mitzvah. It's not even De'Oraita. He sacrificed his life just to get the candle. Find such guys, go. Look for them around. They don't make them like that anymore. And our only chance of getting back to that, our only chance to become zealous for Hashem, Like that? Only chance to love Hashem like that? Only chance to fear Hashem like that? Starting with number one, face reality. Number two, get yourself a Rav. Number three, buy yourself a friend who's going to tell you the truth whenever your Rav is not around.
6:17And three, give everyone the benefit of the doubt (kaf zechut) if they're righteous, and make sure not to give them the benefit of the doubt if they're not righteous, because you're not allowed to. You've just experienced another Torah class.
