Facing the Abyss

[Music] This is going to be one of the shim that going to be one of the foundational shim that's going to help you in your life. Because when it comes to life, it doesn't matter who you are. You know, you were born rich, you were born poor, you were born religious, you were born secular, born Jewish, born not Jewish. It doesn't really make a difference who you are and where you started and where you are today. Everyone, absolutely everyone goes through tough times. There's simply no question about it. And sometimes a person goes through such difficulties whether it's a health difficulty, financial difficulty, relationships, children, parents, whatever it is, addictions. Sometimes a person's difficulty is so much so that they truly feel like they're alone. They truly feel like they're crying alone and no one is listening. And really the question is, does God actually hear your lonely crying? Now everyone has heard that Hashem heard am cry in Egypt and we learned that again in parad he heard our cries he answered our cries but the question still remains in everyone's heart at times and certainly in their mind whether he hears your cry okay so he heard 3,300 years ago and he heard some other people that you heard about that they got a salvation but when a person is going through difficulty when they're agonizing in pain whether it's financial pain or physical pain or spiritual pain or whatever whatever it is and you feel completely alone, you could feel completely miserable. Some people even get to the point of wanting to commit suicide. Unfortunately, somebody uh sent me a letter just uh the other day and telling me that they're in such pain and agony. They're asking me if it's permissible for them to kill themselves. And of course, it's not. But the point is the fact that a person got to that level of pain, which I'm very familiar with, is certainly tragic. The answers of mutay are in the Torah to these questions of whether a kadosh listens to your [Music] cries. Don't think for a moment that a kadoo does not hear you crying. Don't think for a moment that a kadu is not in the pain with you. [Music] Don't think for a moment that those cries, those tears, that blood that was shed was for nothing. All of that is part of the perfect acculations of a kadosh. Whether I'm hearing the cry, whether I'm hearing the pain, I'm already here with the next question. Everyone will naturally ask is if he hears me cry then why doesn't it seem like he's answering?