Daily Chidush: BeEzrat HaShem Teshuva Hurricane update

0:12How are you? This is Rabbi Yaron Reuven reaching out to you from Be'ezrat Hashem. We are in Florida. We didn't leave because we knew that Hashem was going to protect us. Today, I want to give you a special message for friends of Be'ezrat Hashem and also friends of Devorah Esther, our dear friend in New York. of what's going on, but also just to connect it to this holy Torah that Hashem gave us over 3,300 years ago, and just to show everyone how everything is all connected, everything is Divine. If you remember last week, we did a chiddush about this Irma, Hurricane Irma and how we showed it to all of our viewers that it's actually in the Torah. Different pesukim in the Torah talk about it. One of them was in the book of Daniel, He's the God of all gods. Where is this, you know, had the gematria value of 256, the same gematria value, numerical value as the word Irma.

1:15showing us that where is this hurricane coming from? From the God of all gods, you know, the only God. And also we saw it in several other pesukim. But one of the things that we also saw that had the same numerical value is that it also said in the book of Tehillim, chapter 143, it says, "Good wind. Good wind." So how could such a thing, how could such a big disaster be good? And... This is one of the things that I want to show you today, of how such a thing could be good. You see, the hurricane created major disasters all over the place, and us being in Florida, in Boca Raton, Florida, Florida obviously was not spared. But b'shtabach Shemo La'ad, we had a full belief, full emunah in Hashem. We tried having a live shiur with people for over three hours, answering questions, giving people more emunah, trying to give them encouragement, whether they wanted to leave or they wanted to stay, answering all the questions that everyone had, but most importantly, trying to give everyone the chizuk that was necessary during such difficult times. And this is really what we try to do every day. This is what we try to do every day, is to get people back to Hashem, because

2:34Realistically, a person that has emunah in Hashem has no worries, has no problems, because he knows that Abba in Shamayim is taking care of everything. But when someone's lacking emunah, then all the worries in the world are on top of their head. And that was what was happening last week. Everyone was just having a tough time. Some people were really being tested even before this giant hurricane arrived. And one of the things that Hashem showed us during this hurricane is that He controls everything. And we had an amazing Shabbat. We actually, you know, just had one of the best Shabbatot we've had in a really long time. It was really amazing. My wife, my kids, and it was just extraordinary. And, you know, there was noise outside, but we didn't really pay attention. We just celebrated, we sang, we ate, we learned. It was wonderful. And... We continued. We continued after Shabbat. We continued into Sunday. And we didn't leave the house. And I just left the house, you know, just moments ago. I just opened the door and I saw that there's a huge, giant tree collapsed right in front of my house. Like literally at my door, there's a huge tree that fell. And outside it's...

3:44I mean, there are a bunch of trees down, there are floods everywhere, and I mean, I don't watch the news, I don't pay attention to it, so honestly, I really just didn't know. Aside from a few people sending me information about what's happening outside, I just didn't care, because I knew that Abba, Baruch Hashem, is just going to take care of it. And He did. And He showed us that not only can such a thing happen, but He can take care of you even through the craziness that's going on out there. Right now, we have Parashat Nitzavim. We have a lot of craziness going on in Am Yisrael. We have a lot of confusion. And we are only a couple of weeks away from the biggest day of the year, Rosh Hashanah. And people are... really unprepared. You know, some people are too busy, you know, in their own world, in their own mundane activities, at work, with their careers, with their lives, with their hobbies, with their, you know, things that are stressing them out. And people are forgetting that Hashem Yitbarach is giving us an opportunity to get closer. And Parashat Nitzavim is truly a special parasha, like every parasha, but this parasha, of course, every time you read these parashot, when you read them, they're extra special.

4:56And this parasha really symbolizes what's actually happening right now, b'ezrat Hashem. Because, you see, in the beginning of the parasha, it says, "You are standing here today, all of you, before Hashem, your God, the heads of your tribes, your elders, your officers." And, you know, rasheichem means the heads. And even though it's referring to the heads of the tribes, meaning the leaders of the people, If you notice, just last night we released a report on how some of the heads of Am Yisrael actually agreed with what we've been teaching for over a year now in regard to this idolatry. that has somehow snuck into Am Yisrael and connected itself to the wigs. Unfortunately, one of the main things that people don't understand is that when it comes to idolatry, there is no heter.

5:59So, a lot of hair that people put on their heads that comes from real hair has idolatry connected to it. And this is one of the battles we've been fighting for a year, probably two years already. And it's truly amazing to see this Yad Hashem and see that Hashem is taking control here and is really getting some of these major Rabbis to wake up and see what we've been saying all along and hopefully wake up many of these precious souls that don't know they don't know that What they think is a mitzvah of putting a wig on their hair is really an aveirah because this real hair has a 98% chance, if not 100% chance, of being sourced from the Indian temples, which is 100% idolatry. And if we move forward, we see that the next verse says, It talks about the Brit, the Brit that Hashem has with Am Yisrael. And as many of you know, one of the very popular and very helpful lectures we did just a little over a year and a half ago was a lecture in regards to Pegam HaBrit. And we've had many chiddushim since then that we've talked about Pegam HaBrit. Unfortunately, one of the most...

7:17severe sins in all of Judaism that's very rarely spoken about in the English language. This again also is mentioned in this parasha of how the brit is so critical. The next thing after that it talks about, again, the same page. It says, it says, For you know how we dwelled in the land of Egypt and how we passed through the midst of the nations through whom you passed. And you saw their abominations and their detestable idols of wood and stone and silver and gold that were with them. You see here one of the major battles we've been fighting or continue fighting, is the battle against idolatry, and Christianity is the leading idolatry in the world today. is the battle against idolatry, and Christianity is the leading idolatry in the world today. There was actually a story I told in last week's lecture where, literally, I went to a dentist just to get a root canal recently, and instead of, like a normal patient getting a root canal, I was at the counter

8:34My dentist arranged for a missionary to try to missionize me. Well, obviously, he didn't realize who he's dealing with, so he ran away home crying. But the point here is, what if I didn't know? What if I didn't know anything about Torah? And, you know, I was just a typical Jew who just knows, you know, who Moshe Rabbeinu is—maybe from a movie. And, you know, maybe I keep a mitzvah here and there, but in reality, I didn't know the proofs. These missionaries are everywhere. And these idols of wood and stone, wood representing Christianity and stone obviously Islam, this is also in this parashah. But also the idols of kesef v'zahav, the idols of money, of how people are chasing money all day, every day. They're just literally spending their entire lives chasing money and forgetting about God. And that's why when we fast forward, to chapter 30 of the same parashah, Parashat Nitzavim. In chapter 30, verse 2, Hashem is telling you, "And you will return unto Hashem your God and listen to His voice according to everything that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and all your soul."

9:53And really, this sums up everything that Be'ezrat Hashem does. You see, all of these battles that we fight, whether it's the wasting seed, or the idolatry of the wigs, or the idolatry of Christianity, or many of the other things that are out there, there's just a lot of battles that are out there. All of it we do for Am Yisrael, all of it we do to sanctify Hashem's name, and all of it we do for free. It's all funded by precious souls like you that want to partner with Hashem and literally want to get Am Yisrael back. Right now, there are over 80% of Am Yisrael that don't keep Shabbat. Right now, there are over 80% of Am Yisrael that literally don't know who the real God is. They think they know, they feel they know, but they really don't know because anyone that knew who God was would definitely want to listen to Him. And the reality of it is that we have over a million kids just in Israel who don't know how to say Kriyat Shema. We have so many Jews, both frum and secular.

10:58That just don't know who Abba in Shamayim is. Don't know who our Father in Heaven is. They don't really know anything. And that's why hurricanes like this get them all shaken up. Because they're confused. They think Mother Nature is going to take care of it, whoever that is. They think that they call these hurricanes by names, maybe as if it has a personality. They depend on newscasters, on presidents, on politicians, on stock markets, on everything and anything except God. And Be'ezrat Hashem was founded... based on a principle that everything has to be with His help. That's why it's called Be'ezrat Hashem. Right now, we need as much help as possible from Am Yisrael so we can continue our work, so we can continue growing. The movies that we come out with, the application, Baruch Hashem, that's about to come out. It's nine months' worth of work that we've done. It's about to be released, Be'ezrat Hashem, in these coming weeks. A brand new website with features no other website in the world has.

12:00It's coming out soon, hopefully also within the next week or so. There are at least a handful of movies that are in the pipeline that are coming out very soon. I think one probably later this week. Countless lectures. CDs, we have given out over 50,000 free CDs just in the last couple of months. Kiruv packages all over the world. We've literally given out CDs, Kiruv packages, and now also the recent posters for the Gruen family that had Shem Hashem, the kids that got into a car accident. I mean, we had to do something about it. How do we get these kids saved? So we figured, oh, a good idea is to get Am Yisrael to pray for health every day. But, you know, if you ask people just to pray for health... Maybe they're going to do it, maybe not. So what do we do? We came out with a brand new poster for Hashem Yitbarach and we sent out over 5,000 of them all over the country and actually all over the world—to Brazil, to Europe, to different places all over the world—to get people to give these out in their communities and get Am Yisrael to pray to Hashem in their merit. And these things are helping. Each CD, each poster, each movie, each lecture.

13:11Each meeting, each phone call, each text message—every one of these things is helping. To such an extent that we had the siyata dishmaya to even tell a story about a recent baal teshuva who is actually a Marine, a Jewish Marine, who is in the middle of war right now and is watching our lectures. All of this is, of course, all Hashem. You have an opportunity to partner with us. We want to continue growing. We want to continue doing. We want to actually open up our own Mussar Center. A building where literally all day, day and night, we teach Mussar. We get Am Yisrael to fix their neshama. We get Am Yisrael to work on their emunah. We get Am Yisrael to literally get closer to Hashem the real way, the only way. Every single day. So the next time there's a hurricane... We're not worried about the hurricane. We're not worried about the news. We're not worried about anything other than the Hand that created it. So, I'm asking you today to reach out and take advantage of the opportunity of partnering with us to do kiruv. Because right now is an opportunity, right before Rosh Hashanah, to do mitzvot. We want to show up to Shamayim on our judgment day with something.

14:32Yes, sponsoring different parties and different meals and a few nice things here and there are great. But what if that one dollar you donated saved a neshama and brought them back to Hashem? What if that hundred dollars brought a hundred people back to Hashem and actually kept Shabbat? What if that thousand dollars got another thousand of Hashem's children to say Kriyat Shema every single day? Think about it. It's worth a lot more than a Hanukkah party. May Hashem continue to bless you. Again, thank you, everyone. Thank you to Dvorah Esther. Thank you to Hashem Yitbarach for giving us the opportunity. And also to the Hevratim that we thought about this morning when we thought about you. Kol Tuv and we'll speak to you soon.