The Chafetz Chaim's Letter

[Music] I brought a letter with me that I didn't know whether I was going to read it or not but a lot of people when they talk about the Unfortunately today they make the seem like a puppy seem like a little you know little that's 13 years old doesn't know yet so I actually have a letter written by the that he wrote about 15 years before the Holocaust and it's what he says today because of our great sins bitterness and and bitterness surrounds us and when a person looks around him at the state of his life there's not a day that is not cursed more than yesterday and when he examines his situation regarding he sees that there is also no absolutely no success meaning that even if somebody is trying to follow T at the time of the he's still not succeeding meaning everybody whether you're secular religious doesn't make a difference everybody's failing everybody's seeing their life is just cursed it was a disasterous of a time so the point of the letter is to answer why and even though every Jew beseeches the Holy One blessed is he to answer his pleadings and Grant him respite no one hears this is a true situation he says even right now 1927 all Jews secular religious cish lfish whatever you are everybody prays to hem and everyone has a that hm's going to help him but hhm's not answering anybody's prayers meaning your day is cursed regardless of what your background is what Yeshiva you went to everybody's day is cursed I've said that the main reason is that we ourselves distance the Holy One blessed the see from us says the reason for all this is because we are far away from Hashem because of what we did what do we do Behold our sages stated in page 24a and a hand breath exposed in a woman in a place that is usually covered constitutes sexual unchastity and today D due to our many sins this matter has very greatly spread and the evil inclination seduces women to walk around without covering their hair and to go out with their arms exposed and sleeveless dresses and many of their garments expose their chest everything is exposed so that in whatever place a man should look he's confronted with unchastity this is almost 100 years ago 1927 back then in comparison today the most immodest woman there was modest to comparison to today and he said look at what they're doing they're not covering their hair they're not covering their arms they're not covering their chest properly look at all the disasters bringing into the whole generation don't blame me in summary this terrible fashion of the times brings a man to have evil imaginations and sometimes also the emission of Sean in vain God forbid and in doing so he endangers his own small children as the brilliant Torah scholar the yavitz wrote in his prayer book The yavitz Shalom actually wrote even in his own Sid about how to be careful about not wasting seed that's how the from previous generations were careful about this sin that no one wants to talk about in this generation and almost because of this terrible fashion alone we ourselves negate the admonishment of the Holy One blessed is he as it says Therefore your Camp shall be holy and he not seeing you the unch thing meaning that a simply runs away from immodesty if you have immodesty you simply cannot have a in that place to such an extent that the his was shalom shalom one time was a guest in America at a religious family's house religious family's house and he's reading the real is that somebody reads it for everybody that's the says that one person is supposed to read it for everybody that's the way it's supposed to be today most people read it for themselves even if you have 10 people it's not supposed to be that way it's supposed to be one person for everybody else problem is that it's supposed to be somebody that loves people so when he says the blessings he doesn't want it just for himself he wants it for for everybody today it's hard to find people that love other people other than themselves anyway was sitting at dinner at the religious family's house because in the middle he stops stops in the middle and everyone's waiting one minute two minutes three minutes stops trying to get the rabbi's attention for everything okay doesn't answer everything okay nothing nothing nothing almost 15 minutes pass nothing then a little six-year-old girl that was wearing short sleeves six years old gets up from the chair and leaves he continues why not allowed to say now talk to in front of IM modesty held six years old 6 years old she has no sleeves can't talk to Herm right now can't talk why hm's not here who am I going to talk to myself I'm going to talk to H when's here six-year old with a short sleeves I can't talk to hm so what's the point who G to pray to myself that's if you think that's crazy that means you're crazy you don't know what Tor is this this now continues and he says and due to our many sins a great Blaze has erupted in his Vineyard in several places because of this terrible fashion for the power of impurity has considerably strengthened because of this as our sages have said on the verse and you shall guard yourselves from Evil thing in book of Deuteronomy chapter 23:10 that a man should not have sexual thoughts during a day and end up polluting himself at night for if this should occur all the blessings and the Divine flow to this man's deeds will be cut off and because of this he will be surrounded by evil tribulation as is written in the Holy wisd books of wisdom meaning that a person that ends up wasting seed all the all the blessings all the good that hem wants to give him as a result of his MIT all of it goes to the all of it go to the Satan employees yeah but I kept Shabbat okay so the will go to someone else yeah but I did me good so this it's G to go somewhere else everything why once the person waste seed that's his P he's wasting his P the therefore every man has an obligation the letter ends saying to extinguish this terrible fire and to rectify the situation in his own home so that everything will be according to the law and not to allow L sensuousness God forbid and in doing so he will have the Merit to have upright and exalted holy children these words are written in the honor of God and his Torah out of Anguish over the tribulations of his Nation Israel with the longing for redemp redemption speedily in our time amen signed is May the son of theen this is the and who he really was not the puppy that sometimes you hear about and they tell you oh no he loved everybody and everybody's a sadik and uh was only about and you should watch your mouth no no and he talked about all the same things we talk about Al we talk about what he talks about this is just a small token of who the really was meaning that if the came to today no one would let him in to speak why he's not politically correct he can't build buildings with this but until this day because of his you have buildings being built you have entire organizations being built the organizations sometimes themselves say what he says sometimes don't say what he says but they like having his pictures on it the picture everybody every every every company wants to have his picture on there every book wants to have his picture you know how many books have the's picture on them right now I don't even think there's a number honestly but to say and do what he said in this letter and the rest of his T you're not going to find many you're not gonna find many why because like I said it's not politically correct so your your the question that you asked match the letter you want to learn something from this learn something from which is you have to watch your eyes why if you watch your eyes you're not going to make sins at night even more so if you are but is if you make sure you realize if he doesn't watch his eyes he looks at you your partners to the sin your partners to the sin he he loses Allah you lose Allah you he makes sins you make sins yeah but I I just walked around innocently no my friend there's no such thing as I walked around innocently everybody's responsible for each other you walk around immodestly somebody sins because of you you're partner to the crime excuse me way to go to we do cha that's the point of the sh the point of the sh is to do cha [Music]