Stories Of Tzadikim - Chofetz Chaim
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0:10Because the Chafetz Chaim had Rav Wasserman and Rav Kotler, when they asked him, "Do you think the Chafetz Chaim had Ruach HaKodesh?" he said, "All I can tell you is that he had all of the tools to have Ruach HaKodesh." But when he, Rav Kotler, and Rav Wasserman would get together, every time they would get together, they would talk about the Chafetz Chaim and exchange stories. Kotler one time said that I was a man. He said, you know, he has one gadlus. He knows, he sees from the beginning of the world to the end of the world. He sees. So, tell me, listen, I, Baruch Hashem, study everything, but for some reason, some reason, I started this one masechta in the Gemara, and I didn't finish it. I didn't finish this masechta. But yeah, I'll get to it. You know, I have study, Baruch Hashem, Rav Kotler, Kodesh Kodeshim, Gadol HaDor, he's not having a studying problem. Well, I saw Chafetz Chaim, and he came, and he was talking to people. He was talking, he was talking to me, and this, and all of a sudden, out of nowhere, he says, you know, out of nowhere, it had nothing to do with what he was talking about. And you know, Masechet Zevachim, if you start it, you have to finish it. And he went back to what he was saying.
1:36It had nothing to do with anything, and he tells me, I never told anybody, I didn't finish it. You study it, you have to finish it. Rav Wasserman says, it happened to you, it happened to me too. He goes, one time, we're walking, and we're just talking, this, that, the other thing, and out of nowhere, he says, you know, masechet such and such, I forget which masechet it was in the story, Have to finish it. It's a big, big, big loss if someone doesn't finish it and he goes back to something else and nothing. How do you know? I never told anybody. No, I just started it and I closed it. I didn't get to finish it. One time, I was with some, alev ha-shalom, who came back from his annual visit. He would go to visit the Chafetz Chaim on a regular basis. And usually, when we came back... He would tell stories of every single thing that he saw, everything that he heard. One time, there was a lecture, a Rosh Hashanah lecture. The Chafetz Chaim would give a lecture. And after he finished, one of the other talmidim said, ah, this is the same ma'amar he said last year. Rav Wasserman said to him, no, you're wrong. Last year he used eight fewer words. This year there are eight extra words.
3:01such was his appreciation, value, and reverence for the Torah of the Chafetz Chaim, and his appreciation for the Torah of Hashem Yitbarach, that he literally knew the words that the Chafetz Chaim said. He said, no, no, no, it's the same ma'amar to you, but I understand there are eight different words that he used this year. There are eight more words. Eight more words, spoken over an hour. He counted the words. Don't know what kind of brain you have to have to count the words that quickly or at all. YouTube calculator, I don't know. How do you count words? This is something we can't understand. So one time, the word, the boss, and I come back from his 1931 visit to the Chafetz Chaim. He comes back from his trip in 1931, 1933, and he is white pale. This is everything okay. I know for sure that the Chafetz Chaim sees from one end of the world to the other. And if I was allowed to tell you, I would tell you. But all I can tell you is that there are horrible things coming. Another rabbi, Rav Naftali, I believe it was, was there and witnessed it. He says the Chafetz Chaim predicted the Holocaust.
4:23I'm gonna predict the Holocaust a decade before it happens. This is a, yeah, it's not a normal thing to predict. It's not like, "Oh, you know what, I think the market's gonna crash. I think the stock is gonna go up. I think this company is gonna make it. I think these two kids, they're gonna get married." It's not like that. Usually, you just use logic. There's no logic that can predict the Holocaust. It defied logic. So how do you get to such things? You get to it through Torah, through this black and white piece of paper. Do you understand? But that's the thing. That is a person who understands that. All they need and all they want is Torah. All they need and all they want is Hashem to do what He says, to fulfill what He says. Everything and anything that He says we do, even if we don't understand. If you're going to look to understand and explain everything, eventually everything is going to fail. The whole system is going to fail.
