The Voice Told Him to Go Back - Near Death Experiences You Won’t Forget

I went to sleep in the back and woke up only after 3 months. My heart artery burst and I got in the accident. I also got a hit on the head. I have a dent here. >> [music] >> I felt that I was slowly going up, coming out gently through the nose, coming out. And up, hovering above, I can see everyone down below, how the car was in an accident, how they saw it open the car, how they brought in helicopters. I see soldiers and suddenly I have no idea where all these photographers came from. They just appeared and started taking pictures, snapping photos. Nothing hurt me. I didn't feel pain. I didn't feel bad. I felt good. I really felt good. I started going up. I look up. I see light. Uh I see a point of light. I feel that this light has a will. It [music] wants, as if it is pulling me upwards. And all around everything was black. It was like a tunnel. I'm being sucked upwards. The more I go up, the light becomes it becomes bigger. And then I was ejected into some large hole. It was on this side. On the left side there was some righteous man. He says to me, "Asher, come." So, I had a kind of moment like that, even less, a fraction of a second. How does he know my name? >> [music] >> He told me, "Move to the other side. Sit here." I sat down. He opened the book for me. So, I looked at him. And I looked. I saw two more there on the other side, one older, one younger. >> [music] >> Uh so, I said, "Excuse me, sir, with whom do I have the honor?" And he replied, "Israel Shem Tov." Which means in other [music] words, the Baal Shem Tov. I never had anything like this. Wow, the Baal Shem Tov. There was never anything like this. I've never felt this way. >> [music] >> But the Baal Shem Tov. So, I said, "Excuse me, is another question possible?" He says, "One more question and that's it. We have no time." I said to him, "Who are those two over there?" He says to me, "Rabbi Nachman and Rabbi Natan." And we started to study. We started to study as if we like they study in a coral with each other, how they shout at each other, how the rabbi said this, this one said that, that one said this. We really shouted at each other during the study. And then suddenly, a voice was heard. This one is sentenced to death, but the voice was so coarse. The Baal Shem Tov stood up and began to advocate for me. He said, "It is impossible that he is being taken from the [music] world before his time. He still has more to rectify." And then suddenly, Rabbi Albas appeared, Rabbi Ruven Albas. He arrived and he also started to advocate for me. That it's impossible [music] for him to be taken from the world before his time. He has things to rectify. He has a family. He has children. And then, a voice was heard once more, but the voice, the second time, it was such a warm and gentle voice. It shall be done as you say. That's what the voice said. And then I understood that I understood that I had to go back down. And I don't want to. I didn't want to. So, I said to the Baal Shem Tov to Rabbi, "I don't want to go back down. I want to stay here." He says, "But you still have things to rectify." Just like that. You still have things to rectify. So, I had no choice. I started not walking. It was like I was being led. I'm being sucked back into this tunnel. >> [music] [music] >> Hello there. My name is Asher Ladayev. I just wanted to introduce myself. I'm 55 years old and it's a [music] pleasure to meet you. I am, thank God, married with eight children and we also have grandchildren. 25 years ago, my eldest son was just about to have a Seder party. So, my wife [music] said to me, "Tomorrow is the Seder party. Don't forget. We're going." I told her, "No, I can't come [music] because a good friend is coming from abroad and he's having a bris for his son tomorrow. And we're invited. I have to be there." And it was in Tiberias and I was working at the diamond exchange. I was a diamond polisher. I told her, "I can't." She argued with me. "Yes, you are." >> [music] >> I told her, "I can't. I have to go. You go." She argued with me and all that, but in the end I didn't go. So, I stayed. I slept at my brother's place. We got ready. With [music] two cars, we said, "We're heading towards Tiberias." We woke up at 5:00 in the morning. We prayed and after the prayer, we drove in two cars. Everyone, we took drinks, food because we wanted to go up to Mount Hermon before the bris. And I >> [music] >> I didn't sleep that well at my brother's because when you're not sleeping in your own place, you just can't sleep. I didn't sleep very well. We arrived near Horshat Tal. We [music] said, "Let's sit down and have a barbecue. Let's eat something and then we'll [music] head to Mount Hermon." So, we sat down. We really started the barbecue, [music] set the table and there were seven of us friends, guys. >> [music] >> My older brother was also there with us. And as we were sitting there, one of the friends, the one who was killed in the accident, he was 37. He said, "God willing, in another week it's my birthday." [music] We said, "God willing, we'll celebrate for you. We'll travel to Uman together." We told him. And meanwhile, I felt really, really tired. I couldn't take it. My eyes were closing on me. I said, "I'm going to the car. I want to sleep." [music] I asked a friend for the key to the car. I said, "Give me the key or just open it. Press the remote so I can get into the car." Indeed, he pressed the remote and I got into the car and went to sleep in the back. I went to sleep in the back and I only woke up 3 months later. I didn't know anything. What happened? How it happened? Why it happened? Who? What? I knew nothing. So, now they are telling me that the person who was sitting right next to the driver, he says that after we all got into the car and started driving, the driver, apparently because he had been drinking quite a bit, actually they drank a lot, all of them, and especially the driver, who had much more than he should have. He was apparently drunk. Because of that, he lost control of the car and ended up swerving to the left. The driver lost control. It was already too late to do anything about it and the car had already started to veer off course. Now, when he swerved left, he was already asleep. That's what the one sitting next to the driver says. And he lifts his head. He sees a truck coming towards them. And he sees that he's not in his lane at all. He's in the opposite lane. So, he steered. Now, in the truck, when our car was in the opposite lane, he also steered into the opposite lane to avoid a collision. But there wasn't enough time because he turned the wheel back. And then there was a head-on collision on the driver's side. And so, they say the driver was killed instantly and the one sitting next to the driver was lightly injured. What do you mean light? His arm was broken from when he turned the wheel. His nose was broken from the windshield. And I was the most severely injured. From the impact of the hit, that's what the professor once said. He said that you actually received, in fact, 10% of the impact from the accident. 10%. So, my heart artery burst from that 10%. The heart artery that [music] burst on me, well, it caused two holes in my lungs, in both lungs. And they say they gave me about 10 [music] or 15 slaps to wake me up, but they couldn't wake me up. So, they called for [music] helicopters. A helicopter took us, according to what he says, it took us to Zivin Tzfat and from there they apparently saw they didn't have the equipment [music] to check why I wasn't waking up. They probably said I needed a CT scan and they didn't have a CT machine like that there. So, after realizing the seriousness of my condition, they called the helicopter back to the scene. And then they took me to Rambam Hospital in Haifa. There at Rambam, they performed a series of tests on me and after those tests, they discovered that the artery in my heart had actually burst. During the accident itself, I also suffered a significant blow to my head, which left me with a noticeable dent here. A dent right here on my head. In addition to that, I also had several broken ribs. In order to reach the heart artery and repair the damage, they had to operate on me. It was not a straightforward procedure, not like a typical operation, but rather they had to go in from the side of the from the nipple of the chest here all the way around to here. They literally lowered my shoulder. They opened my arm like this to do the surgery. They damaged [music] my vocal cord. I have one vocal cord now. Usually, there should be two. There's like a pin like this. They hit each other and then a voice comes out. That's how the professor explained it to me. So he says in your case there's only one. So this one is straining. So they taught me how to strain to get the voice out. Because I used to be I used to be a cantor. I used to chant. Today not so much but I used to be. It was a few days before Hanukkah. And when I finally woke up from that accident it was already the holiday of Purim. Another 3 months later until I woke up. >> [music] >> Now I remember that I woke up. So I asked my wife Who is this? What is this? What's going on here? So she said to me, "It's okay. Everything's okay." The main message that I personally understood from all of this clinical death That's what needs to be to do many acts of kindness. Because the more you do kindness it's good not only for the one you do it for. It is mainly good for you because [music] it makes you feel good. There was a scent there. Such a wonderful scent. All the perfumes in this world are nothing compared to the scent that was there. It was a truly wonderful scent. And the light especially the light here. So when I after I returned >> [music] >> when I returned when I woke up I could look at the sun just like I'm looking at you now and no I had no tears or anything. That's how I could look at the sun until it slowly slowly faded away. The light was very very strong. Such a hugging light. In other words, the second voice that I heard the one that said it shall be done as you say was a voice just like that. Gentle, reassuring and comforting. That very same voice the one I am describing came to embrace you wrapping you up along with the light that was present there at that moment. When I had to go back to that same tunnel I did not go alone this time. Instead I was led [music] there. I was drawn in. More accurately I was drawn in there back to [music] that tunnel. And from there I descended. As soon as I woke up after a few days when I woke up I asked my wife the first thing I asked of her was to take me to Rabbi Elbaz [music] because I couldn't walk. I was completely bedridden. So she called a taxi took me to Rabbi Elbaz. And then when we arrived at Or Ahayim they were right in the middle of building the Yeshiva. So they moved to [music] Shmuel Hanavi below and their Yeshiva was there in the meantime. So she arrived at She went up to the Rabbi and said the Rabbi was just then studying. I think that on that day he was studying it was a Monday just like today and he >> [music] >> He had a study partner and he was observing a fast of silence that day. He was studying with a partner. So when she entered she said, "Where is the Rabbi?" He told her, >> [music] >> "It's impossible to disturb the Rabbi. It's impossible to disturb the Rabbi." So she raised her voice and said, "Asher is here downstairs." Then the Rabbi heard my name. He left [music] everything and came down. He came downstairs. And I couldn't get up. I couldn't get up. He said to me, "You sit. Don't get up." Then students surrounded the Rabbi. So he pointed at me, "Do you see him? The reviver of the dead." This is the reviver of the dead. I went to the Baal Shem Tov. I held a Thanksgiving party there. There were about 60 to 70 people there. I told them that the Baal Shem Tov was my [music] defense attorney. But the message I gave was to do kindness. Acts of kindness. That's what This is likely what I was missing. [music] We must do more acts of kindness no matter what in life in everything.