SHOVAVIM: What Happens In The Grave After Death (BH FILMS)

0:00We make many, many decisions. Some of those decisions are good, some of those decisions are foolish. But at some point, HaKadosh Baruch Hu says, "Time's up, son. Come back to Abba." What happens the moment you die? The Arizal, in Sha'ar HaGilgulim, is one of the primary sources that discusses what happens in the grave. Chapter 23 provides us with some insights. It states that the beatings of the grave, which occur after a person dies and is buried, happen immediately after everyone leaves. As the neighboring souls are doing their yelling and screaming, four angels arrive and lower the ground of that grave. and they deepen it and make it like a hollow to the height of the person. Then after they deepen it, they stand him up. They stand her up. Then these angels, who have no aspect of mercy, deal only in absolutes. Then each of these angels mentioned holds an end of the body.

1:26You get this corner, that corner, that corner. That's how the angels hold the body. He's alive now, the soul's back in there. And they start shaking him, just like you shake a bed sheet. They start beating him with sticks of fire to remove the klipah that separates him from HaKadosh Baruch Hu. What's this klipah? It's like a spiritual garment. Very thin spiritual garment that we all have. And that person cannot go to the Beit Din of Shamayim until that garment is broken. And that garment is similar to a shell. And these angels shake them and hit them until it's broken. The thicker it is, the more difficult it is. And until that comes off, we're not finished. And this is why it's called the Beatings of the Grave.

2:27If I'm scaring you, that's a good sign. That means your soul is still alive. The Reishit Chochmah in chapter 12 of Sha'ar HaYirah says the following: One angel hits him, while another angel counts how many hits, because there's a judgment in heaven of how many hits he's allowed to give him. The third angel shoots out fire from his own body like a furnace, and the fourth angel brings the bitter and sour grasses from the mountains in case he stole from his friend or from other people, for you have eaten stolen property with your teeth. And then another angel shows up and brings the neshama of his parents, his mother and his father. And at that moment, the consequences of one's actions become evident. Each action in life holds significance, and it's crucial to recognize the weight of our deeds. Do not wait for the consequences to learn the importance of Torah and mitzvot. These malachim give him, the person who died, the permission to hit his father and mother because they're the reason he's there. "Why didn't you instruct your children to study Torah and fulfill mitzvot? They are partners to the crime." And if he feels embarrassed, saying, "No, I don't want to hit my Ima and Abba; I love them," then they hit him instead.

3:40in front of his parents and make his parents suffer watching their son or daughter get hit. Before the hits begin, the person is in shock and the angels say to him, "Get up, your time has arrived." And then they open up his eyes and he sees the truth. And the first thing that he sees is the Malach HaMavet himself, and he holds a knife in his hand, and at the tip of the knife, there is a drop of bile hanging from it. The moment that a person sees this Malach HaMavet, he gets so scared that he opens his mouth. And the drop falls into their mouth. And from that, they die. From that, they become smelly and disgusting. From that, the person's face becomes discolored. And at that moment, they actually see HaKadosh Baruch Hu Himself. In the book Ya'arot Devash, in the second drush, he says if people only knew what punishment exists in Gehenom, they'd literally start crying hysterically.

4:55begging HaKadosh Baruch Hu to simply just not take them there. Don't even take me to Gan Eden. Just don't take me to Gehinnom. I'll do everything. I'll keep mitzvot. I'll keep Torah. I'll become Baba Sali. I'll start teaching. I'll start giving everything I have, all the money, everything. Just don't take me to Gehinnom. If they only understood what it means. And then Rabbi Meir Baal HaNes says, by the way, the chibut hakkever for the resha'im, it's even worse than Gehinnom. I don't know what that means. All I know is that's really bad. Why is it so much worse? He says that Gehinnom is limited because he is judged for the vast majority of his sins from the age of 20, with the exception of wasting seed. So the sins that a person committed before the age of 20 receive a lesser judgment. It's not that there's no judgment; it's a lesser judgment. with the exception of wasting seed. But then Rabbi Meir says the judgment that's in the grave, the beating of the grave, everyone has to go through, even a miscarriage. Everyone has to go through this. Seven years of lectures.

6:18Seven months of film editing. Countless hours of study by two rabbis. Information we received over 3,000 years ago. All for this moment. There's a small member in your body. It shouldn't take over your whole life. If you satiate it, you're never going to have enough.

7:23The sofa clamp, when it gets a hold of something, it does not let go. It's time for us to rectify what we have done. Normal numbers should be somewhere around 20 million or higher. You're never going to have control. Only indulge in it when it is permissible according to the Torah. Pornography can be as addictive as crack cocaine. You can always strive for happiness, both in this world and the next.