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The most important thing that I Jew can
do for another Jew, whether they're
family members, friends, or just simply
another Jew,
is the Hesed of getting them closer to
Hakadosh Boruchu.
And, you know, some people call it
Kiruv, some people call it Zikui
Harabim.
Ultimately, the Hakhamim call it Hesed.
The Gemara in Maseches Sanhedrin
uh has the students of Rabbi Eliezer ben
Hurkanus
ask him a question. They say, "What is
going to save us in the time of
Mashiach?"
And Rabbi Eliezer ben Hurkanus says to
them that Torah and Gemilus Hasadim is
going to save a person from the
sufferings of the times before Mashiach.
Now, what's Gemilus Hasadim? Gemilus
Hasadim literally means the ultimate
kindness, the highest level of kindness.
And what's the highest level of
kindness? Highest level of kindness is
to get a person to do Teshuvah, to get
closer to Hakadosh Boruchu.
Now, the in this generation, from my
experience of doing this for for years
now, and helping Bochurs and thousands
and thousands of people get closer to
Hashem,
from my experience, I think that it's
the most effective way. It may not be
the only way, but the most effective way
to help people get rid of the Ruach
Tumah the fastest, or the Klipah, or
just simply their addiction to evil or
bad or whatever sin, the fastest way to
do it is to give them strong Mussar by
simply making them aware
of the cost of the sin. What's the
ramification of the sin? Strong Mussar.
The lovey-dovey way we speak to them and
say, "Listen, it's not good for you. You
shouldn't do it. Maybe you could try to
do something else. God loves you." That
may work for some people, but the vast
majority of people in our generation
today, it simply doesn't work for them.
Uh because they they already have that
Ruach Tumah on them so strong that it's
just it doesn't
you know, it just doesn't do anything.
It's like, "Okay, maybe if you, you
know, blow some air towards a mosquito,
it may fly away, but if you do that on
an eagle, it's just going to bite you.
It's not going to do anything." So, it's
the same concept here. So, people have
have connected themselves either to evil
itself, to sins themselves of
promiscuity, all types of immorality, or
or or bad people that are in businesses
like this and corruption and so on, that
that Ruach Tumah has already been on
them to the point where they feel like
it's part of them. They're used to it.
They've made themselves at home. So, to
just go soft with them and tell them to
just come to just any type of lecture
and any type of speech that is just
going to appease them and make them feel
like, you know, good inside, it just
won't work. They need to know that there
are ramifications
for their actions that are very severe,
both in this world and the next. And I
think that the the USBs
that you have outside, they're all for
free. There's one for Tikun Habris,
there's one for Erev Mashiach, there's
all types of USBs. Each one of these
USBs has a series of videos as well as
audios that are strong lectures,
similar and different to the one that
you heard tonight, that are simply full
of sources, honesty that's brutal, but
is effective.
You know, it's a it's it's it helped
countless people get closer to Hashem
because for the first time in their
life, they heard that there are serious
ramifications
for their bad actions, whatever those
bad actions are. So, I think that if you
have somebody in your family or friend,
whoever that you care about, the best
thing you could do for them is to share
those videos with them without really
even saying much. Just say, "Listen,
this is interesting." Why is it
interesting? Check it out yourself.
You know, check it out yourself. This is
interesting. Don't you have to sell it.
You just tell them this is interesting.
The packaging in itself is interesting.
The use the fact that it's a USB, it's
interesting. The fact that it's free is
also interesting. All these things are
interesting. Let them be interested. Let
them press the button and let Hakadosh
Boruchu do the rest of the job.
And you'll see that many times people
you won't have to talk much to them.
You'll have to just simply lead them in
that direction and they could already
decide for themselves. Sometimes it's
very hard for a person to change, but
the one thing that does happen usually
when a person sits down and listens to a
lecture that we do is that even if they
don't change right away to to do good,
they're no longer going to enjoy the
sins.
They stop enjoying the sins. Just
yesterday, I did a Shiur in a Bais
Knesses
and
you know, they asked me to speak.
I don't go anywhere I'm not invited.
They asked me to speak and I spoke.
And after I finished speaking,
a close friend was there with me and he
said all all these wonderful things and
I honestly don't understand what was the
big deal of what I said.
So, it was amazing, it was great, it was
this, it was that, you know, it's I
thought he was just giving me
compliments cuz he loves me and I love
him and it's a No, he said, "No, no, you
don't understand. No one in the history
of that Bais Knesses ever did what you
did." I said, "Why? What what was the
What did I say that's such a big deal?"
He said, "First of all, it was much
longer than anyone else ever talked.
They're 5 minutes maximum. You spoke for
a lot longer and not only did people
stay, even the kids stayed. Little kids,
10, 11, 12-year-old kids stayed
listening to every word. Two,
the stuff that you said, no one dares
say because it's strong stuff.
Three, I know for sure it was effective.
Why? Because during the Shiur, during
the speech, at least four people came up
to him complaining. "Oh, it's too hard.
It's too this. It's too that." He said I
said, "Oh, why is that good?" He said,
"Because that means it affected them.
They're not complaining if it doesn't
affect them. They complain cuz it does
affect them. So, at least from now on,
they're not going to enjoy doing
whatever evil that they know that
they're doing. They may continue talking
in Shiur. They may continue doing
whatever it is that they were doing that
you said that they were doing.
But from now on, they're going to look
at they're going to see your face
every time they do it. You know, it's
like Yosef Hatzaddik. The Gemara in
Maseches
Sotah says that Yosef Hatzaddik when he
had Eshes Potiphar
tried to get him to sin with her.
And Yosef Hatzaddik almost sinned with
her.
She was a beautiful woman, he's a
beautiful man, he's young. What do you
want? House is empty and literally
almost last second, last second before
he's with her,
the Gemara says the image of Yaakov
Avinu
appears to Yosef Hatzaddik.
And Yaakov Avinu says to Yosef, "If you
do this, you should know, one day
there's going to be a Bais Hamikdash and
there's going to be a Kohen Gadol. And
the Kohen Gadol is going to have the
Choshen and every one of the tribes,
every one of your brothers is going to
have a special stone
for his tribe. If you do this, you're
not on the Choshen.
You're not a tribe. You're not part of
us anymore."
At that moment, Yosef Hatzaddik took his
fingers and smashed them on the ground.
It was like breaking his hands in order
to rid himself from the desire, the lust
that he had at that moment.
And he got away from this sin. Some
Hakhamim even say that it was so that
the the lust was so high that it became
to the point of mystical lust. It was
already something that was like above
and beyond the norm that the seed came
out of his fingernails.
That's I mean, which is physically
impossible. The point being is that
something is the Yetzer Hara, the Satan
is so strong within a person that you
can't you can't just deal with them in a
normal way. Can't deal with them in a
normal way. But if you do tell them what
what needs to be said,
you broke a Klipah. From now on, it's
not going to be the same for them.
They're not going to be the same. So,
that's what happened with those people
in the Shiur. They're never going to
talk in Shiur and not think of what I
said, apparently.
So, that at least is going to make that
sin less enjoyable. If it's less
enjoyable, maybe it's more likely to
stop. It may not stop tomorrow, but it's
less likely to more likely to stop. And
that's sometimes what you have to do
with certain people, with your family,
with your friends, and so on. Cuz
sometimes they're used to certain things
cuz no one ever said, "Don't do it."
So, the second you give them a USB or
anything else, and they hear the truth,
and you also have to pray for them and
do whatever you can, that's a Mitzvah in
their name, then Be'ezras Hashem, this
this too will will help them get closer
to Hashem.