The Reason Behind Near Death Experiences

0:20do we pray in a minyan? Why attend a minyan? Because when you pray by yourself, you don't have kavana a hundred percent of the time. You have complete focus for part of the prayer, so part of your prayer is excellent, and part of your prayer is not exactly very good. All right, it's not a good day. Now, we pray in a minyan because the Sages taught us that Hashem loves us so much that... When we have unity and we pray together, He takes the best of the prayers from each one of us and combines them into a perfect prayer. So, Shani had five minutes, I had three minutes, Netanel had ten minutes, Gabriel had one minute, this one had three seconds, that one had two. In the end, none of us had a full prayer individually, but together it is perfect. In essence, that's how HaKadosh Baruch Hu runs His world. He runs His world in order to allow us to survive despite our countless mistakes and sins.

1:23He has a system in place, which we will never understand, but I can just, again, minimize it to try to get it somewhat understandable and make it complex into something simpler, that He has a system in place to allow our survival without violating His stamp of emet. ...dies. Everyone cries, "Terrible, horrible! I'm going to miss him." Wait a minute, five minutes ago you were cursing him though. "Yeah, but I'm going to miss him now that he's not here anymore, and I love him." Hey boo boo, everybody's crying. Right then, as everybody's still crying and everything is terrible, all of a sudden they start... "What happened? What? He's awake?" dies, everyone cries, it's terrible, horrible, "I'm going to miss him." Wait a minute, five minutes ago you were cursing him, though. "Yeah, but I'm going to miss him now that he's not here anymore, and I love him." Hey, boo boo, everybody's crying, right? Then, as everybody's still crying and everything is terrible, all of a sudden they start... "What happened? What? He's awake!"

2:32came back to life an hour later, came back to life five minutes later. That's called a near-death experience. They go, they die, and they come back to life. It happens. It happens. Something in the neighborhood of 30 million confirmed cases of near-death experience in the world. 30 million cases. Anyway, a person dies and comes back to life. Now you would think, listen, if this guy was a big tzaddik, Big tzaddik. And he died. And Hashem says, you know what? Let me give you some more life. That makes sense. That makes sense. He's a good guy. He's a tzaddik. Hashem says, why should he die now? Let him live a little more life. Bring more mitzvot to the world. Have more opportunity to do mitzvot. Why not? But a rasha gets more time. Why? Doesn't make any sense. That's because you're thinking with your human brain. Your brain is limited. HaKadosh Baruch Hu, in our prayers, had the sages include one of the Tehillim that says that Hashem takes our merits and plants them like seeds. He plants them as seeds in order to see them flourish later on. And the sages teach us that sometimes somebody will do a certain mitzvah, and Hashem will not reward him for it.

3:59right away, in fact, he may not even reward him for it in his lifetime. He gave tzedakah that saved somebody else's life. He did something that saved somebody else's life. Hashem says, "Don't worry, I'll pay you back, but not you. I'll pay it down the road." Years pass; this person leaves the world. A son comes into the world. He has a few kids. Lives a life, moves on to the next world. His sons have kids. Move on, have kids, have kids. Ten generations later, one of his kids is off the derech, already for a while. A few generations already, not so good. One of them is destined to a place of doom. Drugs, alcohol, crime, ta, ta, ta, every crime under the sun. The Satan says, Satan just showed up in my office, and he says, listen, this guy's a criminal, we gotta kill him. You said on Yom Kippur, death penalty. I'm gonna kill him. Says, kill him, kill him, permission, right? Permission, all of a sudden, boom, car accident, out of nowhere.

5:22The guy's head smashes, he doesn't know what happened. All he knows is that he's in shamayim and they tell him, "Oh, listen, habibi, you had a good time in the world, yeah? Okay, now you're going to pay for it. You're going to go to Gehinnom for about 70 years. After you finish Gehinnom, you're going to one chamber, then another chamber, and another chamber. They give him the whole din of all the judgments he's going to get, and this guy cries tears like crocodiles, but not crocodile tears—like the tears are the size of crocodiles." because he realizes no more fun. All of a sudden, out of nowhere, an angel shows up, saying, "Hey, hey, hold on. Excuse me, excuse me, hold on a second before you stamp that final deed. Excuse me, I'm the tzedakah that his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather gave that saved somebody's life, and I'd like to testify that..." He deserves a little more time to do teshuva. HaKadosh Baruch Hu says, Mr. Satan, you'll have to wait. Why? These malachim just showed up from 15 generations ago.

6:33It's right. I planted this angel. I planted it. I planted it. I made you think that you're going to get it. I planted this before you even knew. I planted this 15 generations ago because I knew this was going to happen, so I needed to give my kid a little bit more time. So, Mr. Satan, go find somebody else. And he gives the kid a little bit more time to go do teshuva. And that's what happens. That's what happens, Rabotai. HaKadosh Baruch Hu loves you so He gives you countless opportunities to do teshuva, but that's also why the punishment is so severe if we don't do teshuva, because that means that if you've lived an entire life without doing teshuva and there's nothing else to do for a person, that means that everything has already been used. to save you for 3,000 years, and you still failed. Instead, every single resource that HaKadosh Baruch Hu has to save you has already been spent over the last 3,000 years. So that means that if a person finally gets that punishment, it means that they deserve it because they literally insisted on putting themselves in Gehenom.

7:48That's why the punishment is so severe. Because all of the chances, all of the opportunities, all of the planting of seeds were already used. Abused for generations after generation, and a person simply never took advantage of it. Needless to say, that's the reason why sometimes certain souls need to be punished, perhaps even destroyed, as Hashem sees fit. But that's why we come to shiurim, to remind ourselves of these scary things and ensure we don't fall into the traps we've been falling into for a few thousand years. We're very excited to offer you the new Be'ezrat Hashem app 3.0. It's a newer, faster app, full of Torah, lots of Kedusha by the shiurim that we do. Myself, Rabbi Efraim, Rabbi Chaim. where you'll also have newer features, allowing you to use the app while using other applications on your phone. You'll be able to share the shiurim directly from the app. You'll be able to donate online and support our kehilla and the Torah work that we're doing.

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