KIRUV-- MAKING JEWS MORE JEWISH (A BeEzrat HaShem Inc Short Film)

1:33Hashem is saying, if you're actually helping My children, not only will I take care of your children, but if I decreed something, for example, someone to die, chas v'shalom, someone to lose money, someone to get sick, or some type of trouble in the world, and that individual truly prays for it and wants Hashem to change it, his prayer will count more than anyone else's. In Masechet Avot, It says that anyone who returns one Jewish soul is as if he created it. Tidak seperti, tidak hanya hal yang biasa yang kita tahu. Seseorang yang kembali menjadi jiwa telah membawa dirinya ke dunia baru. Anda tahu, seperti jika Anda mengejar seorang jiwa untuk membuatnya melakukan teshuva selama 70 tahun, Anda tahu, hidup Anda berharga. Hidup Anda telah membawa diri Anda ke dunia berikutnya. Di sini, dia mengatakan bahwa ini lebih tinggi. Dia mengatakan bahwa ini seperti jika Anda adalah Tuhan sendiri yang telah menciptakan orang itu. Dan di mana Anda mendapatkannya, ini adalah sumber yang sama, yaitu dari Yirmeyahu ini. Midrash, pada...

2:48Nizmor in Tehillim 116, Hashem says to the tzadikim, this particular verse says, "I am the creator of the worlds and bring back the dead, and you are the same." So much so that the Zohar says that if Jews actually knew the magnitude of making someone do teshuva, they would run around in the streets like crazy people just looking for someone to help them do teshuva. They would leave everything and just look for someone to help them do teshuva. The wise will shine like the radiance of the firmament, and those who teach righteousness to the multitudes will shine like the stars forever and ever. So, in essence, the people that learn Torah, whom Hashem is calling wise, are going to shine like the sky. They're going to have radiance, they're going to have a good place to be after this world. But those that teach righteousness...

4:14the multitudes, meaning the general public, not the wise, those that do kiruv, those that help people do teshuva, will shine like the stars. So, one of the midrashim called Sifrei, in Parashat Ekev, Piska Mem Zayin, says, why is it comparing the sky to the stars? What's the comparison between the sky and the stars? Just like the stars are much higher than the sky, that's the people who are making others do teshuva, in comparison to somebody who's just learning Torah. Further, it also says that the highest level of gemilut chasadim is to do kiruv. What's gemilut chasadim? If anyone wants to learn a little bit about the end of times, the messianic times, the sages say that there's only two things that are going to save us. Money is not going to save us; our brains are not going to save us; our friends and family are not going to save us. Only two things are going to save us at the end of times: Torah and gemilut chasadim. Torah obviously means learning Torah and putting it into our life—not just being a scholar who knows a lot of things but does nothing. Gemilut chasadim means kindness.

5:35But kindness, that requires effort. You know, there's tzedakah and there's chesed. Tzedakah is just giving someone money; someone needs money, you just give them money. Kindness means that you're not only giving them money, or sometimes don't give them money, but you give your time, which is more important. So instead of going out there and telling, "Hey listen, by the way, you should listen to so-and-so rabbi..." I think he's good, you actually give the guy the disc, or you give him the link. Make his life easier by doing part of the work for him. Or instead of, let's say, for example, telling the guy directions, actually take him there. That's kindness. So the highest level of kindness is kiruv. The highest level of kindness is actually helping somebody do teshuvah. One time there was a Kiruv person that came to Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, zatzal (zecher tzaddik livracha), to visit him. Rabbi Ovadia was known not only to be a huge talmid chacham, a Dayan, and pretty much the gadol hador—or not pretty much, but the gadol hador—and loved by all. Rabbi Ovadia loved Am Yisrael like no other.

6:57and he paid special attention to anyone. Any Jew, whether he knew him or didn't know him, whether he was across the world or right next to him, he would pay special attention to people. But he was also very precise with his time because he had to dedicate sufficient time to Torah study. So, one time a kiruv (outreach) person came to him about half an hour before they were due to daven Mincha. He sat with him and started talking to him, and then his assistant came to him and said, "Listen, you know, it's just a few minutes away, and we have hundreds of people waiting at the Beit Knesset (synagogue)." for you to daven. He just ignored him, which was unlike the Rabbi. Ten more minutes, it's two o'clock, which is when they start davening. He's still not coming. Two ten, two fifteen, two twenty, and each time somebody comes, he's completely ignoring them. At two twenty, he had to respond finally to his assistant, telling him, listen, according to the Torah, This person who's helping, he never said who the person is, so I don't know who it is. But whoever this person was that was in front of him doing kiruv, he says he's one of the stars. Which means he's worth more than the rest of the people that are waiting, so let them wait. Because he cares enough about the children of Yisrael, the children of Hashem Himself, who deserve special treatment.

8:24But the good that the sages are telling us is promised to a righteous person is 310 worlds. In Judaism, each one of the letters that we have has a numerical value. You know, so Aleph has one, Bet has two, and so on and so forth. It's called Gematria. The numerical value of Zekuya Rabim, which means benefiting the public or doing Kiruv, is 310. Same thing as the 310 worlds. has a numerical value. You know, so Aleph has one, Bet has two, and so on and so forth. It's called Gematria. The numerical value of Zikuy Harabim, which means benefiting the public or doing Kiruv, is 310. Same thing as the 310 worlds.

9:30It also says in Proverbs 8:21, when Hashem is promising us these 310 worlds, this is what it says: "I have what to bequeath to those who love Me, and I shall fill their storehouses." The phrase "I have what to bequeath," in essence, in Hebrew it's called "yesh." And "yesh," the numerical value of yesh, is 310. So again, from all of this, we learned a little bit of an idea of the significance of Zikui HaRabim. So on one end, why am I even telling you all of this? It's not necessarily for me to toot my own horn, because it's not exactly like I'm going to do a norah or anything. But first of all, the point is to understand that the mentality is still the same. It's still an investment mentality. It's just a bit of an investment.

10:37Why is it relevant to you or anyone that's watching? It's because everyone could be a Mizakeh HaRabim, just in different ways. You don't have to be a darshan, you don't have to be someone that speaks to be a Mizakeh HaRabim, to do kiruv. If you can't speak, if you have money, contribute money. Buy a few of these discs of people that are actually doing it, and give it to someone that's not keeping anything. Or even if someone is keeping mitzvot, perhaps not enough. If you don't have money, A lot of this material is available for free. Find a link on the internet to a good drasha or lecture, and send it to a friend or family member. Say, "Hey, by the way, look at this 'Torah and Science' lecture by Rabbi Mizrachi; it's life-changing. It's four hours long, and you can divide it into three parts, but it will change your life." The "Life After Death" movie that he made is also amazing. The near-death experience lecture by Rabbi Alon Anava is equally incredible. When you send people a link on YouTube, they can watch it and be inspired. If they do something about it after learning the truth, it changes their entire life. And all of what I said is if you just save one person. Which means that the 310 is just for one person. Each person that you save represents an endless amount of benefit, both in this world and the next. On my end, I see the benefits every single day, mainly because I see myself physically and mentally.

12:03And obviously, I'm living a life where somehow the bills are being paid. I haven't worked in over a year. I can't tell you that I have millions in the bank. I don't have anything in the bank. But somehow the bills are being paid. Happy? All the money in the world that I had is not even worth an hour of today. Not even an hour. The best thing that ever happened to me is that entire disaster that I thought was a disaster. Health-wise? Listen, I'm near perfect. Especially if I compare myself to where I was. Yes, of course, here and there there's a few things, but overall, the fact that I can speak in front of you today is a miracle of its own. So I know it works. I'm an example. Some people have different stories. Some people died and came back to life. Some people just woke up by seeing something. Different people have different stories. My story is more comprised of a combination of millions of dollars. A medical mystery, a disaster, and a series of miracles followed it. Every single person has their own story. And as I mentioned, every single individual can leverage the one key element that will lead to our salvation in these challenging end of days that we find ourselves in.

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