You Have problems? Emunah changes your life. (9 minutes)

1:25Could be that if you would have walked into the meeting at that time, it would have been something inappropriate that's not good for you to see. Oh, why did I lose any money? Oh, because three years ago you made a sin and we made a decree in Shamayim that in three years you're going to die. But I saw that you're doing teshuva. I saw you started keeping Shabbat. I saw that you're trying, you're doing tefillin. I don't want to kill you, so I took some money instead. Because the Gemara calls money damim. Money is blood. You still have to pay for the sin, but not with your life. So that's some of the things that we have to understand. Also, keep in mind when Hashem is sending us big signs, and we have to do serious, serious teshuva, I'm telling you from my own experience of seeing it myself and seeing it in other people, Baruch Hashem, and hopefully seeing more of them do teshuva. The first thing that happens is you have money problems.

2:25All of a sudden money doesn't come easy. There's no bracha and no money. You're making money, you can make a million dollars a year. It's the same thing. You can make more money even. But for some reason you don't feel the money. You're making more money but you never have any money. It's always bills, always this, always that. Last year you made $500,000, you had $450,000 left. This year you made $3,000,000, you have $30,000 left. How could it be? No bracha and no money. First sign. First sign of danger. Warning sign from Shamayim. Remember this. Second sign, start losing money. All of a sudden, that savings account, that IRA account you had 500,000 in, goes to nothing. What happened? Lost. Big money lost. All of a sudden, you went to a dinner, somebody robbed your house, lost 100K. Lost 100,000. How could it be? Big sign. Big sign. That's damim, which means the value paid instead of your life. In essence, what you're supposed to be doing here is two things. Number one, thanking Hashem for giving you another chance. Do not be upset about the money. Hashem took the money, not your life. Money you can get back, but life you can't. The third sign is health—sudden health problems. All of a sudden, you're perfectly healthy one day, and the next, you're in a hospital needing surgery.

3:50You have, all of a sudden, you're 26 years old, going to have a surgery that you don't even need to have, but you feel like having it because they said it's simple. The next thing you know, you wake up from the surgery screaming, and you don't stop screaming for 62 days. Even after that, seven years of suffering follow. The $20 million you made in your life means nothing. Zero. Because, without health, you have nothing. That's the next sign. After that, Hashem is with you. So you have to pay attention. You have to pay attention. Emunah is one of the most important things that somebody needs to develop. It's not Emunah, oh I believe there's a God. Even someone with a little bit of seichel believes there's a God. Obviously, we didn't come from some big bang. Even someone with a little bit of brain can see that there has to be an intelligent design.

4:50It has to be intelligence behind this design. You want to call Him whatever you want, you want to call Him HaKadosh Baruch Hu, you want to call Him God, you want to call Him whatever you want to call Him. There has to be an intelligence behind this design that we have in the world. Next thing is to see the Torah, see what He says. But Emunah is not that. Emunah is getting close to Hashem and understanding how He works and understanding that everything that happens is from Him. Everything that happens in our life is Him communicating with us. He's talking to us, and He's giving us messages. It's like Hashem is sending you a WhatsApp message. I send you guys WhatsApp messages every day. Now I have a few tzaddikim in my group. Now they're sending WhatsApp messages in my group. Baruch Hashem, the WhatsApp group is getting active now. It's not just me. You guys can't complain just to me. The Facebook group, Baruch Hashem, is almost 3,000 people. Also very active.

5:51Uh, He is sending you a message, sending you a text message. Oh, money is hard today, customers are giving you a hard time, your wife is not happy, kids are failing in school. It's time to look internally, my friend. You're missing something; your tefillah is not as strong as it should be. Whatever it is, you're single, breaking up a relationship could be the best thing that could have happened. Hashem is giving you signs. He's going to always direct you in a way that He wants you to be in. Someone who breaks up a relationship, Hashem says, listen, I gave the relationship time. I gave it a year to see if you would get stronger. In the beginning of the relationship, you were getting stronger with Me. Relationship started, you stayed on the same direction. The relationship continued, you started getting off a little bit. And then you plateaued, you stayed the same. Nothing to get stronger, and maybe even got a little weaker. Okay, so I see that this relationship is not good for you. Because the relationship is supposed to be two neshamos getting together and bringing the best out of each other. What does it mean, bringing the best out of each other? Meaning that one plus one is not two; one plus one is five.

7:12Bringing the best out of each other means that you're making the other person better than what he would be by himself. You're making one into three. And that's the key. If the relationship is not doing that, Hashem is telling us, "Ah, listen, we tried it, it didn't work, okay, next. I'm going to have to give you something better." You have to give me a reason. So that's it. So Emunah is understanding that everything that Hashem is doing, He's doing for our benefit, and most importantly, that He's doing it. He's in control of it. This means we have no right to ever be depressed. We have no right to ever be angry. This is the reason why the Gemara says that when someone is angry, it's as if they are doing Avodah Zarah. It's like they are worshipping an idol. Why are they worshipping an idol? How could you compare? Okay, this guy is praying to some Buddha, and the other one is angry. How could you compare the two? This guy is crazy, and that guy is just angry. No, Hashem says the guy that's crazy, he's crazy. But the guy that's angry is also crazy. Why is he crazy? Because he thinks that he's in control of his destiny. He thinks that he's God.

8:34When someone's angry, they're essentially saying that they're in control of what happened. When something occurs that's not to their liking, why wouldn't they be angry? It's like saying, if he thinks he's God, and I know I'm God, we can't be in the same room. being common. From the teachings of our great Rabbis, we understand that anger is a destructive trait, and it stems from a lack of emunah, which is faith in Hashem. It's crucial to cultivate strong emunah, especially in the times we live in. We are approaching the era known as the "end of days," when the challenge and test of our emunah will be more prominent than ever.