Impacting the Higher Worlds & Final Judgement In the End of Days

As we are starting the new year, I wanted to mention here a very fundamental idea and concept which I mentioned also in the afterlife shim which is extremely relevant for every person to know and that is the says inash that the said the said in front of why are they not singing sh why does during not sing they say hal we know we don't say hal we don't sing shir what's the reason so answers that is the books of the life and the dead are open in front of him and you want them to go ahead and sing shir as we all understand from that simple understanding that is we are standing on and the books of life if we're going to live or not make it till the end of the year are open in front of us we have one of his drashot, an incredible dasha which he said 115 years ago says 215 years ago says like this not like you understood the cifim is referring to us the book of the people who are alive are open in front of him meaning our din is opened up in front of him and he will judge us to the right or to the left if we're going to make it or not going to make it whatif mim the of Those people that already are dead, the people in the cemetery, the people that are up in Ghana, the people who are suffering and all of those people have a separate meaning on rash, there's a rash down here, a yadin in our world and there's also a rash which is a yadin in the higher worlds in the worlds of those people that went to a to the world of Ganeden. And of course the obvious question is what kind of judgment do you do yearbyear to such a person? A person has no free choice. We know that he's not able to do mitzvah. It's all over. Gags up. The credits are rolling. When he dies, it's all finished. So, what is it? What's the big deal? How can you tell me that things can change from year to year that he needs to be rejudged, recapped, rechecked every time? It doesn't make any sense. But the answer is a very fundamental as I mentioned which is from the inb and as I will see soon from the from avatk from 150 years ago and that is that there's an idea that even after a person is dead one should know that your actions are still effective your actions never die your actions are extremely powerful that even after a person dies they still remain effective. How if a person wrote a seph or if he wrote a book which affects people in some way and have some people grow then you should know that actually affects a person sort of to speak. If he has children that raised then they are able to raise the person who is no longer alive their parents are able to move from step to step even they remain dynamic even in things change. Of course, you can't. You have no free choice. Of course, you yourself can't do a mitzvah. But all your toat, all the byproducts of your actions, the fruits of your labors are being seen are being become apparent. You're able to see what will happen of this person. If a person gave Shirim on any time, especially if a person's able to give Shereim and put them out and people can see them and it becomes known to many people. So, he is racking up brownie points even without knowing it. also when he's alive, but especially even when he is dead, he's still able to do it. Look at this big that passed away and they still put up the shirim that he said in the past such as Wallerstein and others that they're able, they're able to put his shimm up. So think about this person that even though he's already in, he's already in the higher worlds, but still every day he's still getting more and more. That's an incredible function feature that we have that needs to be appreciated. When a person does when you're a lot of people or one person does that makes a difference. But every person that you're mar you put them closer you should realize the tremendous amount of that you get and continue getting as a result of prep. You help a person who psychologically needs help and you pick that person off his feet and he's able to get up and start a family and live live his life. You get credit for everything that you went ahead and helped him. Rash in his later years was blind. He basically could not see. It was very difficult that he used to have people read the garra for him because he wasn't able to see. When they were reading, he corrected them. He said, "You said the wrong word. You pronounce the letter wrong. He knew a bal." He knew it by heart anyways. But because he was so limited in his learning capabilities, the gut at the age of 98, 99, 100 years old, you know what he would do? He would make he would go ahead and make shidim because he knew that if I got to be racking up the and if I can't do it by learning Torah, so let me at least make at least I'm able to produce and create families. When you make a do you realize the incredible amount of you get also for the future because that family will be goat you'll go ahead and have children and great-grandchildren etc etc and the person who made the shak gets a tremendous amount of profit okay he'll get financial profit but beside the financial profit he'll get a tremendous amount of spiritual profit which will take him upstairs to Shabbayim even after he or she is not around anymore you realize What this means? We have a free pick here to be able to go ahead and choose right that to choose what's necessary. And when you do that, you realize how many ramifications, how much how farflung your actions can actually reach that even when he's not even here, even when that person's not even here, it still exists. An incredible feat, an incredible understanding, and like I said, a realization that some people will take this, "Wow, that's scary." But take it the other way. It should empower you to realize this is incredible. The amount that I am capable of doing. When we speak about great, the one who always sticks in my head the most is Rashi. Rashi who lives without rashi. Rashi is the rebi of all of Israel for the past 850 years. Rashi is the man. You can't open a you can't open a you can't do anything. Men, women doesn't make a difference. Rashi is the man from the beginning to the end. I you know that when Rashi was nif passed away 800 years ago is not the same rashi as he is today. He has 800 years of talim of people that learned by him. Can you imagine what is Mahaba looks like at this stage? 800 years ago when he died he was in a certain place but another 800 years later. Wow. It's incredible because he knew how to utilize listen to this 63 years of life. He didn't live very long. Those 63 years that he lived were able to produce a a rack upot which are endless. I know someone who has a very difficult time finding a job. You want to know why? because he was once an extremely extremely wealthy successful person through aar through a site which he had and he was making sales on a constant basis and he would tell me that he would go to sleep at night time wake up the next morning and he was thousands of dollars richer even tens of thousands of dollars richer his money was just rolling in like a jackpot machine without even having to do very much incredible incredible no so leno it should never happen to anyone but it ended going down. He ended up going bankrupt and losing it. And in the process of losing it, he can't find a job. You know why he can't find a job? Because he's not willing to work for however many dollars for an hour. He can't work an hour to hour job. It's very difficult after having the freebies of going and having so much outcome and being able to receive an incredible amount of scar to be able to do it by working hour by hour and day by day. But you know what? You can do it. That's right. You can do it. Every action that you pick, every time you pick something that does in the right direction, the amount of scar you get is endless. You don't even feel it. You don't even know that you're getting more and more of it cuz it happens automatically. It happens afterwards without you even knowing about it. And it goes to the other direction. Those people that raise their children in a kir and some type of heresy in a way that's incorrect. Unfortunately, we have people in the Knesset over here in the parliament over here in Israel that they are killing their parents who are already dead because they're turning over in the grave realizing we didn't mean I he meant to raise a child like this but he doesn't realize about how bad it was what he did because every time this person is chasing after Tyra mitzvah this person is chasing after religion and trying to torment and destroy everything that Judaism stands for his father who is the reason why he's doing what he's doing ends up being the one who's suffering that much more and that is exactly how it works in both directions for the good and for the bad and a person has to know the incredible ramifications of those decisions and this is like I said an empowering idea an incredible way of thinking before yam kipur because we have to realize that yes every action that we do is precious there's so much behind it and don't take it as a point of oh wow that's scary That's too scary. I mean, the person wants to give up from this. That's too much. I have no idea what I'm going to be able to do. No, that's not where we're meant to go with this information. You're supposed to utilize it to realize and appreciate who you are. The power that lies between your fingertips. That is why the Ramban says in that there are three. We have three times when we stand in judgment. One like we had now in Rosh Shah year to year. One when a person dies. Y of course it needs to be decided which direction is he going up or I'm not going to say right which direction is he going we have to know how much where how power how much is he going to get what level he's going to be there it's a proper but there's a third and this is where we spoke about in the afterlife the gdole in the time of when there's a full judgment on everybody the mim and the people alive and people dead everybody gets a judgment And you ask why should dead people get a judgment? Same question we said before. They're already dead. They already received a judgment. What's new by the And the answer is as mentioned because things changed at the time when a person dies, we judge him for who he is at that period of time. But when he's dead for 300 years, when he's sitting in a met for 250 years when he's there for a certain period of time, things change. He had certain people used his farm, people listen to people used his stuck. He built a building. He supported a coel. He started an organization. He had a gam which kept going. Everybody has these tremendous things and capabilities that they're able to do. Whether you're capable financially, intelligently, whether you're able to help a person out just emotionally, whether you're able, like I said, to make shidim, it doesn't make a difference. Person has to go out there and try to help Israel to do what you can to be able to be part of what you can do. Use your skills, your capabilities, your interest to be able to spill over and do what you can to help someone else because it is an endless amount of scar that will be given for the person who is able to uh to do that. That's the of the yoma. When Sha Amelik was nervous, he was scared, he was in fear about his situation, he had to speak to the problem and was already not alive anymore. So he did something which was not allowed and he went to a sorceress. He went to a woman, a sorcerer that was able to raise from the dead. And it says in the puk that he was in in the it says that was very upset. Why did you raise me up? You were here of irritation or frustration. Why did you do this to me? That's what he asked. And tell us in the says that what that means is he was upset. You know why? He got scared when he was being raised from the he was sitting comfortable in when he was being raised from the dead. He thought the resurrection of the dead and the day of final judgment is here and he was scared. Excuse me. Scared. You know was compared to Moshe and Aron. Do you know he was one of the greatest that existed? What are you worried about? How I should stand up in his footstep his foot souls to be able to be ashove? He's scared. Oh, if he's scared I'm afraid what I'm going to be thinking about. Why is he scared? Because the answer is because you never know the ramifications of all your actions. Do you hear this? This is said by the ramban that it could be that the ramifications over the past whatever amount of years he was dead for those few amount of years that he passed away already during that time. Maybe he affected someone. Maybe he infected someone in the wrong way. Maybe he gave the wrong to someone and get him off the der. Maybe he did something incorrect and he never knew about it. And now in the time of Yomad Gadal, he's going to have to stand up to the final fruits of certain actions that he did. And yes, I said it could be a little bit scary, but I don't mean to go that direction at all. I'm going in the other direction to realize how precious your actions are, how far reaching they can reach. When a Jew does something, his actions are incredible. When we say in the in par we speak about the fact that shish is a root and the idea behind it is a little seed. If you can look microscopically into that seed you able to see everything that will come out out come out out of it. All the DNA you'll be able to see from that little seed. You can make a big sycamore tree, very strong tree. Or you can have all the trees that you see in Euseimde or Yellowstone, the incredible powerful trees that have been growing for 2,000 years and are the size of skyscrapers come from that little little seed. Because in the power of a little seed, it is endless how much one can do. One little action. Never think about it as being small. The reason why sometimes or we don't do chuva or we don't or we carelessly do what we do what we call a sin or do things cuz we think eh it's not such a big deal. Nobody's really looking that much. It's not such a okay it was just one action. Malone rabbi don't exaggerate. You don't realize the power of your actions. They go out to farreaching capabilities. They're able to go out of this world and they last forever. That's why of course we do chuba to erase any of the bad ones in order to avoid anything that's bad that happened. But that's the idea of appreciating the to what came out and cutler writes in page alfai to see it inside of him. This is an important which we have to learn and appreciate at this time. This also explains a Mishna in which says you know what a person tells us to remember who is going to be in front of a a judgment and a calculation. Shouldn't it be the other way around first you do a calculation after the calculation I'll put you in the din and then you get your punishment or your reward. I have to first see what you did. That's what the goyen asks. The goen gives an answer not for now but according to this the answer is says the bi the bi the answer is straightforward and simple what's din is the action that you did now you will get whatever required for you and now and when a person dies that din will happen but is all the future ramifications of that action all the fruits of your event of of your actions everything that happens in the future that will beffected ffected by what you originally did. We only judge a person according to the place he is right now. So that's the den. But the is year after year after decade after decade or even hundred years after hundred years even the guy's not around anymore, his actions still are there. They exist. They're real. A person still gets for them and maybe even a little bit onish for them also. And therefore we see that even when they're dead, even when they're not alive, they're still considered alive. You know why? Why it's sadik even when he's not alive? Because there's still moving. There's still action going on. Things are going to be constantly progressing. Well, this I finish and an important message and this we have to always understand. Instead of taking yum kipper and shifting the blame on someone else and saying it's because of that or these events are occurring and clal Israel wow look at the events that are happening. It's because of these evil Arabs because of this government or everything that's around it. No, it's time to not shift the blame on anyone else but to put it on ourselves to realize the power of our actions and therefore understand our responsibilities to realize that it's up to me to be able to make a change in myself and in the world around me. One time they went to the briskov this brer ysef dat they and they asked him in the 48 1948 there were a lot a lot of casualties I think even more than the present war than we're in right now a tremendous amount of casualties in the 48 war and they said to the briskav you see these malabat these people who are not religious and they're coming and trying to take Israel and make it not religious it's all their fault that's why we're having so many problems and so many deaths around us. The briskarab said, and by the way, not being a very big Zionist in an undertone said that he brought from Yona Hanovi. He brought from the safer Yonah Hanavi. This is why we read the safer Yona Navi on Yamipur. The Mish brings a reason because it has to do with chuva and it teaches us how to do chuba. Of course, as nin did chuva, but says a briskar, he brings an example from yona navi. This seems to me clearly the reason why we we read the safer of Yoda on on Yumipur and he said that basically the was a boat full of these people were idoltors they were bowing down to idols they were dominating to their gods they were people that weren't even keeping the seven and they were screaming and saying why is there a storm around us why is there problems why are we going to go under the ocean why why save us who is this they said they into this idol, that idol, this about that, that nothing was going. There was one Jew on board. His name was Yonah Hanavi. Not only a religious man, but Advi, a prophet. If there's one person on board, if you asked me, that I would say is not responsible for this problem, it was Yona. He's a very good person. Listens to the words of Hashem. He's a good guy. Leave him alone. And you know what Yona said? this storm around you, it's all about me. It's my fault. It's all because of me, not anybody around here. It's because of me. That's what the brisk said to them. He told them that stop blaming everybody else around you. Start pointing the finger at yourself. When we have piguim and things that happen or things that happen or events that occur in this world here in Israel or even around you when things that happen around you in your sh or in your community or in your family it's time to start pointing the finger at yourself instead of everybody else and blaming everybody else except for yourself. And you know what Yona told them to do? Throw me overboard. I'm not saying to commit suicide. That's not the message. But the idea here is sometimes you have to throw yourself overboard. You have to get yourself out of your comfort zone. Do something that's not so comfortable, something that you would have preferred not to do. Make the move. And then by getting thrown overboard, the storm will calm down. Yes, you have to make a change. It's not always easy to make that commitment. It's not always there to just go ahead and say, but is not meant to be just a lip service. just going ahead and reading that I am sorry. It's an idea of coming from inside out to apologize to and say yes I realized we say it in a plural. We say it in plural in general. Why do we speak in the plural? Because we say yes it has to do with me. The events that are around in this world has to do with me. Not to make us feel guilty. Not for self-esteem. Again I'll say it a h 100 times. That's not what we mean to say over here. We're here to make it to understand the incredible power that I have behind every little action that I can do. We affect the world in many ways. The betali writes in para Noah. The reason why there was a flood like the storm bayona there was a flood in the time of Noah. He says is because everything was corrupt. Even the animals, the botany was corrupt. The trees were corrupt. You know why? He says because there's a second nature in us. When we do something again and again and again, just like it gives me a second nature, you turn robotic, you become automatic. So too, it affects the whole entire world around me. It actually can affect animals and botney and around us. And it can do things that affect things that you wouldn't believe. They say in San Francisco 30 or 40 years ago, birds were not reproducing. And they looked into it until they discovered that the reason why is because they were busy with Mishkav Zak. There were male and male birds that were together and therefore there was no reproduction system going on because San Francisco was affected by the community in San Francisco. If that was true then I have a feeling in America there's not too there's not too many birds reproducing in all of America anymore. Well, I'm trying to point out that we see the ramifications of affecting ourselves, affecting our surroundings. And even after a person passes away, his actions still lie and continue forever. Appreciate your actions. Swallow them. Realize this storm is here and it's here only because of me. And that's what it's about. I'll end with a story. There was a President Reagan at the time. He wanted to make peace with North Korea. the head of North Korea which obviously we knew there was a cold war going on and they are a very strong communist country presently also and he came with a screen in order to be able to display a certain idea. He made a historic visit. Every time they go, they all say it's historic. And he wanted to go ahead and explain to them that we will remove sanctions. We can have commerce together. We can be friends if you just take down this communistic way of thinking. And let's make the world a better place. So he came with what we call a mate, a certain uh he came with a screen. He came with a laptop which wasn't uh in in fashion so much at the time with a whole type of display that was there. And the basically the idea that was said on the screen is you should realize that this world contains billions of people. We have 8 billion people in this country in this world. There are 8 billion people around. But many of them are ineffective. There is only a certain amount of leaders of countries that can make a change. The leaders of the countries of the nations. They are the ones who are able to affect the world. If we come together and make the right decisions together at this very momentous and historical time, we will be able to change history as we know it, there will be peace forever. If we will be able to go ahead and make a make a make a truce amongst us and we'll be able to see eye to eye. The decision is in your hand, Mr. Leader of North Korea. You have the capabilities. Don't leave this opportunity. Don't miss this incredible opportunity which is standing in front of you with all the pompei and the music in the background and all the exciting display that this person gave to um that was given over to this to this person and of course the answer was a big fat no but anyways that's not the relevant over here I just want to mention one thing we know politicians like to exaggerate they like to lie they like to a lot of times as they say feed us luxion with cougle they like to go ahead and give us a lot of empty promises. We're quite familiar. And here was another example of it because everything he said was not true. But everything that they make, their decisions are usually temporary. They're changing. They're fleeting. A lot of times they don't have very much bearing on anyways. And it seems like something very impressive. But when there's one little kiche, things change. Those things that are done by those political leaders are not what make a change. He's wrong. You know who does? You, the one listening to the Shia right now. Yes. Us. 15,000 me 15 million measly Jews. That not measly the amount of Jews. Amount of Jews in terms of the percentage of the amount of Jews. Every action that you do has a tremendous amount of ramifications in the whole world. And even when you are not here, it might not be televised. It might not be put on any page of the New York Times and it might not be done when you're wearing your suit and tie in front of a camera and trying to look impressive as you're trying to make some historical episode. But it makes history. Every little action that you do makes history in who knows every action and it has tremendous amount of a ripple effect that has no end to it. And that's why a person has to always remember this storm. Whatever's around has to do with me, myself and I and nobody else. Therefore, I'm responsible for my actions. Therefore, I will go into trying to erase the past and try to build a future because Not will be a photo.