Never settle with where you are spiritually (6 minutes)
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0:02And I'll leave you guys with one story to give you a little bit of an understanding of what is real teshuva. I'll give you an understanding of what... If you understand the story, then maybe you began your teshuva. If you don't understand the story, then you haven't begun your teshuva. I mentioned Rabbi Nissim Yagen a lot. Rabbi Nissim Yagen, Zecher Tzadik Livracha, with communities like in New York, for example, where my parents live in Staten Island, there's a whole community in Willowbrook. The whole community he built is religious, as religious as you can get, from black and white. He built the whole community, and everyone became religious because of him. An amazing, powerful speaker.
1:26Personally, I mean, I've been a professional speaker for many years. I've heard a lot of speakers. I appreciate speakers, aside from Torah. I appreciate speakers. Personally, I think he's the best speaker of all time about any subject. He's amazing. On top of all that, he was a huge, huge, huge kiruv personality. Now, I heard this story when I was in Phoenix. From someone that was at this lecture. Someone that saw this. So, meaning this is coming firsthand, not from Rabbi Yisrael. Again, it's coming from somebody that was there. He says, we went to a seminar. Listen to this story; this story could change your life. For this story, I think it was worth coming. We went to a seminar. Rabbi Yisrael again, Shabbaton, In a hotel, Rabbi Nisri again was powerful. His speech, his words, everybody was really into it. This was towards the end of his life; he died relatively young from cancer. This is someone who the Gedolei HaDor, like Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, would call a star. Rabbi Ovadia Yosef would call him a star.
2:49All of the Gedolei HaDor showed up at his funeral, crying hysterically. The Gedolei HaDor, most don't even, you know, they don't know every single person who does kiruv. They all showed up and cried at his funeral, just to show you. So, he says that this Shabbaton was towards the end of his life. He was very, very sick. Very sick. Us, we have a headache, and we don't want to go to a shiur Torah at all. He was sick with cancer, dying, yet he still had a Shabbaton. Just to give you an idea, a Shabbaton is non-stop lectures. Non-stop. Morning, night, afternoon, in between the afternoon and the morning and the night and everything. Everybody eats, you do a lecture. I went to Phoenix and from the minute I landed, we had a break for a few hours. We started talking and didn't stop from Friday night until Monday morning when we got back on the plane. I think we did 9, 10, 11 lectures, whatever it was. But Baruch Hashem, it's a lot of work, yet Shabbat Shalom, there were a lot of good results. A lot of people doing teshuva, conversion, and so on. So this guy tells me, we went to a Shabbaton with Rav Nishmi again. It's powerful; everyone is pumped up, really excited, and really getting closer to Hashem. Some people are secular, and some people are religious. And then he says that one day, one of the days...
4:14Before he starts talking, we just see him. He's just sitting over there at his table. You know, and everybody's gathered. The crowd sits, waiting for him to start talking, to give one of the lectures. A minute passes, two minutes pass. Then you see him looking, just looking, looking. And you start seeing him cry hysterically. You see him again, and he starts hysterically crying. He tells the crowd, "Pray for me, please pray for me. I'm going to meet my Maker soon, I'm going to meet Hashem." The crowd starts crying; the crowd is in shock. They say, "Most of us haven't even started doing teshuva yet. We kept this Shabbat, and we're already thinking we're going to Gan Eden, this tzaddik." He tells the crowd, "Pray for me, please pray for me. I'm going to meet my Maker soon, I'm going to meet Hashem." The crowd starts crying; the crowd is in shock. They say, "Most of us haven't even started doing teshuvah yet. We kept this Shabbat and we're already thinking we're going to Gan Eden! This tzaddik..."
5:16It's glue to Hashem. I don't know how you can get more. When he has cancer, and he says, "Pray for me because I'm going to meet Hashem soon," because he's scared. He doesn't know how his judgment is going to be. Do you understand what this is? Do you understand? I heard this, and I got goosebumps. The guy is telling me that we all started crying. If he's worried about his judgment—one of us—he's worried about his judgment. We should just start keeping Shabbat, doing Tefillin, for five minutes, even just the short version. He's on a different level. Do you understand what's going on here? Do you understand? Once you know what it means to meet your Creator, then you start doing the Torah. Then you start doing the Torah.
