REAL STORY of The TRIAL of a WICKED PERSON (6 Minutes)

0:10Some of the most amazing stories can be found if you listen to his lectures or read his books. His stories are genuinely compelling and often quite real. In one of his lectures, he recounts a story about one of his students. This student, a young Israeli man, moved from Israel to Canada. And he was doing business there, whatever. He was completely secular, observing nothing, doing nothing. His whole life was about partying, money, and girls, and all that. But making sins by himself wasn't enough for him. So he became a chotei u'machti et harabim (a sinner who leads others to sin). He wanted to bring someone else into the sins, so he called his uncle from Israel, saying, "Come, come." Let's have fun. Come visit me. We'll have fun together. So the uncle comes to Canada and they go to have fun. They get drunk, this, that. After the night's over, they drive drunk. And as you would have it, unfortunately, the car goes off the road and smashes into a tree. The uncle dies instantly.

1:41...but the guy tells the story. He says, "You know, he was a goses. He was like, out of it," he says. "And I saw, all of a sudden, the Malach HaMavet came and took his soul out of his body. Look, his uncle's soul! He saw the Malach HaMavet come, he saw him take the soul out of his uncle's body, and he's telling him he's coming back for him." Took the soul, went to Shamayim with the soul, now he's coming back to him. And he starts taking the soul and he's screaming, "No!" And all of a sudden, he sees a great light. An angel appears. He says, "Leave him alone. I'm the angel that was created from the chesed that he made. He gave some tzedakah. And it says, tzedakah tatzil mimavet." And the Satan says, "No. He's a rasha." He's a Mechalel Shabbat. He goes against Hashem. I'm taking him. And the angel was fighting him. He says, okay, we're going to go to Beit Din. They went to Beit Din. They took his soul out of his body and went to Beit Din of Shamayim. This is not my story. This is the story of Rav Nissim again from the actual person. They go to Beit Din of Shamayim. This guy has one good angel on his side, and he's got the Satan and all the sins on the other side.

3:10And this one tzaddik, one tzedakah that he gave, some chesed that he did, is fighting for him. This one mitzvah he performed. He doesn't even know that he performed it. And that one mitzvah wins. It says, listen, you have one condition. We bring back your neshama. You say, Shema Yisrael, as soon as you're back in the neshama. And you go to Jerusalem immediately. You leave everything, you go to Jerusalem immediately, you go to Kollel. Go to Yeshiva. Learn Torah the rest of your life. It's the only condition. Or else we're going to come back for you. Comes back. He's in shock. He's in the woods. He sees there's cops everywhere. But he forgets to say Shema Yisrael. The cops see that he's okay. He's got a little blood, but nothing is crazy, you know. Nothing—he's not dying or anything. They arrest him. They said, "Yeah, you probably planned on killing your uncle because maybe you want his inheritance." So when they put him in the hospital, cops were surrounding his room.

4:27As soon as he's okay, they release him. They put him in jail; they don't know, they don't believe. So then he remembered, "Oh, wait, wait," he's thinking about the angels. So he said, all of a sudden, everybody leaves. The whole room empties out. The nurses leave, the cops leave, everybody leaves for no reason. He doesn't know what happened; everybody leaves. He decides to get up, get off the bed. He sees that somebody left his passport accessible, grabs his passport, leaves the country, goes to Israel, goes to Yerushalayim. To this day, he's in a kollel. Now, he was lucky. He saw the Mal'ach HaMavet and lived to tell the story. How many of us can say we're going to do that? Can we rely on mitzvot to save us? Can we rely on mitzvot? It depends on what kind of mitzvot you have and what kind of aveirot you have. It depends on a lot of things. The point I'm trying to make is that the same aveirot (sins) that we're committing are going to prosecute against us. These destructive forces that we think we're benefiting from by going against Hashem—like having fun, wasting seed, violating Shabbat, eating non-kosher, stealing, and doing all other things against Hashem—might seem enjoyable. However, we don't realize that those same things that appear to be fun are actually going to be the prosecutors against us.