Life Saving Teshuva Story

1:13One brother said, "Since I don't have much time, I'm going to start preparing for the next world." He started doing Teshuvah seriously. Everything he learned, he did. Shabbos, everything. His brother said, "I'm going to live it up. I'm only here for a little while longer. I'm going to enjoy myself." The one who was enjoying himself, he's dead. He died shortly thereafter. This is on record. I saw this with my own eyes on a video. He's on stage telling a thousand people this. There are articles and newspapers about it. He says... I did teshuvah, I did teshuvah, I did teshuvah, I did teshuvah, and every so often I have to go to the doctor to check, to check, to check, to check. One day the doctors are doing the regular check, what's going on, how I'm progressing, how I'm regressing, what's going on.

2:15And the doctors all gather in the room, and they're all confused. One is arguing with the other, saying, "Wait, hold on a second. Did you make a mistake?" "No, no, give me the other one." They're starting to argue with each other. And I'm thinking to myself, oh no, what's going to happen? What's going to happen? You know, what's going to happen? Maybe they don't want to give me the bad news. They say, "Okay, we're sorry, but we need to do another test. But we just did one. It's hard. It's not an easy test." "No, we have to do another blood test." This, that. Okay. Do another test. Come back. All doctors again. They are confounded. "Did you do it?" "Yeah, I did it this time, for sure." "I don't understand." Everybody's confused. "Sir, we have no idea what happened, but you don't have AIDS anymore. It's gone. It's gone." a disease that does not have a cure, disappeared. It's gone. His brother, dead. He, alive. Why? There's no limitation to what HaKadosh Baruch Hu could do. He does not have to work with the natural. If anyone truly knew the genome that I went through in my life and what I looked like some years ago, you'd understand how much different life is today. HaKadosh Baruch Hu has no limitations. He tells us in this parasha, you have different problems because you're making mistakes. I'm going to give you time, give you time, give you time, but eventually that time runs out.

3:40If you could see the challenges that I went through in my life and what I appeared like some years ago, you'd understand how much different life is today. HaKadosh Baruch Hu has no limitations. He tells us in this parasha that you have different problems because you're making mistakes. I'm going to give you time, give you time, give you time, but eventually, that time runs out. And before it gets too far, I'm going to give you a nice clap to the face to wake you up. Make your face white, make your arm fall off, make you go into pain—divorce, lose money, nightmare, another nightmare—all types of bad stuff. Those, my dear son, those, my loving daughter, are slaps and kicks and punches of love from HaKadosh Baruch Hu. I'm giving it to you because I love you, not because I hate you. If I hate you, I take you out, put you in Gehinnom, put you in Kaf HaKela. Let the malachim have fun with you, play soccer with your neshama for a nice 50 years like Chaim Nachman Bialik. Shem resha'im yirkav—may the name of the wicked rot. are slaps and kicks and punches of love from HaKadosh Baruch Hu. I'm giving it to you because I love you, not because I hate you. If I hated you, I would take you out, put you in Gehinnom, and put you in Kaf HaKela. Let the malachim have fun with you, playing soccer with your neshama for a nice 50 years, like Nachman Bialik, shem reshaim yirkav.

5:07Rabbi Yagen had a seminar. Years ago, he told people that it's very easy to bring a neshama to the world. He says, if it was allowed in the Torah, I'd bring you a neshama in front of you. It's very easy. People know how to do it. In two minutes, I can bring you a neshama, he says. He says, I know people who have done it, even though it's forbidden by the Torah. And he started talking, and then the conversation went on, and he says, someone like Nachman Bialik, that person is suffering a lot. He is in Kaf HaKela. A couple of young guys in the army, soldiers, this was a seminar, decided to leave. leave the seminar, go to their room, open up a Ouija board that they had, and bring down the neshamah of Nachman Bialik, because they knew how to do it. They learned it in the army. Good school over there. They brought down the neshamah of Nachman Bialik. They asked him questions. Nachman Bialik says to them, everything Rav Yagen is saying is true. But tell him,

6:29that I just completed my 50-year sentence in Kaf Hakela. They asked him, why did you get 50 years? He says, one year for each time I cheated on my wife. And now I have the merit to go to Gehinnom. They went down, seminar's long, it's a whole day, it's a whole weekend. They come back, see, these guys are, you know, cuckoo, everything. They were completely secular people. They come out, they interrupt, and say, "I'm sorry, we have to interrupt, I'm sorry, you're gonna wanna hear this." Uh, everything you're saying is true. Everything the Rabbi is saying is true. Oh, thank you very much. No, no, we want to tell you everything he's saying is true, what he said earlier, but he's right. We just spoke to him, he says everything you're saying is true, but he wants to tell you that he just completed his 50th year in Kaf HaKela.

7:43Now, a person who understands the opportunity they have to do teshuva while they are alive does everything possible to eliminate all of these negative influences, all of these risks of going to undesirable places, and does everything possible to strive for a good destination. HaKadosh Baruch Hu says, sometimes you will make mistakes, And if I'm going to give you such a big slap, such a big kick that it's going to hurt, I promise you, my dear son, my dear daughter, it's only because I love you that I'm kicking you really hard, that I'm punching you really hard. It's only because I love you that I'm doing it. Because if I didn't love you, I'd send you somewhere else, a place where you couldn't do teshuva anymore. I'm giving you this kick because I promise you, if you take the lesson that you learned today from Parashat Tazria, from the lesson that you didn't think you had any connection to, and realize that this kick is me giving you an opportunity to wake up and fix yourself.

9:02to wake up and start doing what I said, not what you think. You take an opportunity, you take advantage of it, and you start doing teshuva. That kick is going to be the biggest blessing that ever happened to you. That pain, that suffering, however long, however difficult, and however painful it was, you will end up blessing My name for eternity that I gave it to you. But only if you realize why I'm kicking you, why I'm hitting you, and then do the right thing and do teshuva. But if you don't, Then all of that kicking and all of that suffering and all of that pain will be for naught, because the outcome of your actions and your inactions regarding doing teshuva will lead to much greater suffering, but only reach a point where you can no longer do teshuva.

10:07When a person understands that their suffering has such significant value, where it's truly an opportunity, it's mamash divine providence. It's slightly less than prophecy, if you understand what it means. HaKadosh Baruch Hu is talking to you, but not in words, in actions. He is splitting the ocean for you, but it hurts. If you see that suffering as that, you see it as a blessing.

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