Scary DIBUK Story

0:14Came to help them. Or there's, for example, a very famous story in the book of the Chazon Ish. The Chazon Ish, zatzal, is a sefer that talks about different things that happened in his time. And there was a newlywed couple... And the wife came from a religious family. The husband was also religious. However, the wife's father was a businessman. The father told the husband, "Listen, you can continue learning after marriage for another five years, and I'll pay for it. But after five years, you have to start working a little bit." So they agreed. They agreed. Good shidduch, good family, everything is good. So he was learning for five years. Every day, all day, he's learning. And after five years, the father came to him and said, listen, okay, chazak u'baruch, you learned for the last five years. But what about work? He said, listen, I want to learn Torah. You know, there's plenty of work. I want to learn Torah, and we'll figure it out. He goes, listen, why don't you do this? Why don't you at least do some, come, you know, an hour a day.

1:40Do some accounting for us. Do the numbers for the business. An hour a day. I don't have to pay for you, your wife, and my daughter for the rest of your life. You work for an hour a day. And the wife says to the husband, "Yeah, why not? He's right. He's going to pay for us forever. Work for an hour a day and learn the rest of the day." So that's what he did. He started working, and the wife continued encouraging him to work more. No, come on, two hours a day. No, three hours a day. Four hours. Why? Because every time you work, you make more money. And little by little, there was more money, a nicer house, nicer stuff, a nicer chandelier, nicer chairs, a nicer table, nicer, nicer, nicer. Before you know it, he stopped learning altogether. Stopped completely learning. On the day that he stopped learning altogether, a dybbuk came into his wife's body. A dibuk is a neshama of somebody that's being judged in kaf hakela, a state where a soul is not in Gan Eden or in Gehinom. They're roaming in a form of limbo, neither here nor there. And sometimes they're permitted to go into other people. Now, when there are two neshamot in one body, it's mayhem.

3:02If you read the book by Rabbi Yehuda Fatiyah, for example, which was translated into English, he talks about all the dibbukim that he dealt with in his life of different people that he would help because they had a dibbuk in them, and he would take it out, which requires the holy names and so on. But the point is that this wife had a dibbuk possessing her. She starts saying all types of crazy stuff. A different voice comes out of her. It doesn't sound like her voice. All types of strange things. She started acting crazy, doing crazy things. So the rabbis came and tied down the woman so she wouldn’t continue going crazy. They started talking to the woman, and they started talking to the dybbuk, asking, "Who are you?" And the dibbuk answered, I was an orphan that didn't know what to do, didn't know Torah, didn't know mitzvot. So, I didn't know Torah, I didn't know mitzvot, and I didn't do anything good in life; I was a very promiscuous woman. But when I went up to Shamayim, they said, listen, we can't put you in Gehinnom because you didn't know anything.

4:24But we can't put you in Gan Eden because you didn't do anything good either. So we'll leave you in Kaf HaKela, in the outer space, until you pay the bill for all these bad things that you did, because you still had a brain that you should have discovered and figured out what's the purpose of life. You never did. So you have to go to Kaf HaKela. So then they asked the Dibbuk, okay, so who gave you permission to go into this woman? It goes, it's not like they gave you permission. is that the grandparents, the grandparents of the husband, and our grandparents, our grandfather, which were both big tzadikim—our grandfather and his grandfather were big tzadikim—they came from Gan Eden. They came to me because they saw me roaming around town and said, "Listen, do us a favor. Go into our granddaughter over here, go into my daughter-in-law, go into her." Why? Because she stopped her husband from learning Torah. So G-d tortures her as much as possible, until she says, "I'm sorry," and she makes a promise that she's going to send her husband to go learn Torah full-time. This is written in the book of the Chazon Ish in Maaseh Shekarah. It's something that happened.

5:43Of course, everybody said, "Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, everybody's sorry." Once you realize what's happening, everybody's sorry. I'm sorry the grandfather, the tzaddik, came and got involved in this issue. He took the avrech, and you ruined him, turned him into a businessman. They came to him and said, "Oh, I'm sorry, he's going to go full-time, 25 hours a day, not 24. We're going to invent a new hour for him. Go back to kollel, go back, learn all day, all night, no problem." And then the Dybbuk left. They were allowed to take out the Dybbuk. Now, why is this such a big deal? Why is it such a big deal? Why would a grandfather that’s Tzaddik, a grandfather that’s Ish Kodesh, get involved with his grandson or great-great-great-grandson 20 generations later? Why would he get involved? Because they are also aware of the capabilities of the neshama that's here. meaning what is expected of the neshama in this world, which means your neshama has certain capabilities and certain expectations from Hashem. You may not be aware of them, and you may not even think you're able to do it. Because if you would tell a guy that just started keeping Shabbat six months ago, "You're going to be the next biggest rabbi in the world. You're going to know the entire Shas by heart. You're going to complete it every two months," he might not believe it.

7:04You're going to give shiurim five times a week. You're going to have a kollel with a thousand avreichim. The guy's going to say, what are you talking about? I don't even know how to hold Shabbat. I just started keeping it a few months ago. I'm on book number one out of 30. What are you talking about? You're not going to think, what are you talking about? This is not me. No way. Because you're thinking based on your current knowledge. Based on your current ability. But in Shamayim, they understand the real potential of your neshama. Which means that this woman, when she sent her husband into business, in Shamayim they saw what she was doing. She was simply murdering his neshama. And if, let's say for example, that neshama had the ability to be the next Rabbi Akiva Eiger, who was a Gadol HaDor a couple of hundred years ago, the next Rav Ovadia. The next Rav Wasserman. The next Chofetz Chaim. The next Steipler Gaon. The next Vilna Gaon. Next, one of these great figures. That's the potential that this neshamah had. It had all the tools to become the next great one. And yet, you sent him to work in business. You sent him to become a successful businessman. And when you go up to Shamayim, the wife goes up to Shamayim...

8:24She thinks she's a tzaddeikes. Why? Because she kept Shabbat and she kept Taharas HaMishpacha. And her husband donated a million dollars every year to Kollels, right? And Shamayim is saying, you are a murderer of Rabbi Akiva Eiger. You, you, lady, murdered Rabbi Ovadia. You murdered the Gaon of Vilna. What are you talking about? I don't even know the Gaon of Vilna. No, no, no. Your husband was supposed to be the next Gaon of Vilna. But every time he went to the kollel, you called him every five minutes. No, no, you're coming home? I want to go eat dinner. No, you're coming? I want to go out. No, you're coming? No, no, no, you bothered him. You didn't let him learn. Eventually, he lost the ability to learn. He stopped learning. You murdered him. So sometimes a person has the merits of his forefathers, where they get involved before it's too late. And we know that many, many times. So that's also how we know. One of the ways we know, and the Gemara also discusses it, that the neshamos of Shamayim are aware of things that are happening in this world, but we see it in real life. We see it in sefarim, we see it in events that have happened, things that we've observed, things that are still happening today, where there are certain neshamos that are very much aware of certain people that are connected to them still in this world.

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