Rav Nissim Yagen zt"l Saving Jewish Souls

you see me a rabbi thank God and a famous Rabbi in Israel today they put my tapes every day in the radio every [Music] day and I'll tell you a story there was once Shalom he uh this was his his uh his people he get a letter one of these letters that's like you know me still it's a really really long letter and you know I don't know why people think that for whatever reason they think that you know the rabbis never have anything to do and we could just read these really really long letters God bless people I mean I appreciate the letters and everything but many times you have these 5 10 20 Page letters and emails and you simply don't have the ability to read all of it at best maybe you'll skim through part of it at best even if you look at it sometimes it's so long it's so scary you don't look at it at all uh not because you don't care it's just it just takes too much time it's 40 minutes just to read something it's a book but anyway one time gets a letter long letter he says usually I don't read these letters but I deled into the first few words and you know it got me to read more and more and more before I know it I read the whole thing and he says it was one of the most extraordinary stories I was ever a part of and it comes from a woman that says I saved her life I saved her marriage but I'm never going to believe how she said her and her husband have been fighting for a very long time what's the fight about her husband became more religious and uh she has no interest in becoming religious no interest and uh as he's becoming more and more religious she is becoming more and more upset that he is becoming religious and it gets to a point where he says listen if you're you're either going to Peak your religion or me and the guy says listen I love you I don't want you to leave but uh I'm not going to become not religious I'm not going to go to the beach with you anymore I'm not going to violate Shabbat I'm not doing it why don't you listen why don't you this you was never willing to listen to anything now around that time again had a a uh trip to uh to Europe I believe it was Europe and uh you know in those days they had tapes cassette tapes instead of CDs and USBS they had cassette tapes and you would have people usually buy a whole collection of tapes to put them in you know in the local Shool and you could just take the tapes you would have let's 300 tapes and he wanted to borrow one would borrow it and listen to it and then put it back like a library so she brought this collection and uh he gave it to the uh place and the place for whatever reason or another didn't want it or the guy couldn't accept it so it was uh didn't know what to do with it one day couple of the guys that had it said listen we're leaving town we're going to be gone for a while we're going to do with these tapes like I know well R again told us we have to get make sure we it go somewhere what are we going to do with them all of a sudden they see somebody else that they know like Hey listen can you do us a favor can you take care of these tapes and you know listen to them maybe share them with some people and the guy said sure why not look like a newly religious guy interested he takes the tapes and he starts listening to these tapes and he becomes more and more religious and uh but he doesn't dare bring these tapes to the house why his wife can't stand him it's the same wife that we're talking about his wife can't stand him becoming religious and if he brings 300 tapes of Torah to the house she'll probably hang him at night so every day he you know he sneaks in another tape listens to it finishes gets to another one and one day his wife tells him listen I'm leaving you I already talked to the lawyer already this already that we're done we just have to show up to the court on uh this uh day at this time time poor guy has nothing to do what are you going to do he says well she says the night before the court appearance that finalizes everything and officially ends this marriage the uh the husband is out working or something he was gone and and she was really upset that he chose God over her and she you know starts uh you know reminiscing with herself put she put on her wedding dress and she's crying herself to sleep and she looks at the the uh sky and she says how come I don't feel it how come I don't feel this thing that he does I don't feel God I feel it and she says God if you're real please show me and she fell asleep the next morning she goes into the car and before the appointment is later on that day it's 4:00 or something like that she goes into the car and she automatically the car plays the tape that's already in there and she starts listening to what's on the tape what's on the tape telling people about reward and Punishment G many command what happens don't steal why if a person God said clearly if you are not going to fulfill the my Commandments I'm going to kill you I'm going to destroy you you have going to have miserable life terrible AIDS divorces drugs you're going to be miserable if you don't follow myv you're going to suffer many people suffer many people suffer why why she forgets where she's even going she continues to listen to the whole tape she finishes it she gets home the husband is there she okay we have we have to go to the appointment she goes no no I'm going to cancel it HB like okay when do you want to do it I don't know but do you have another tape he says tape for what the tape the tape that you have in the car do you have another one the guy almost had a heart attack from happiness but he didn't want to show it there he's like uh yeah I kind of have some yeah yeah I can get you another one sure all can you get one quickly I I I need one I need one the guy runs to the car shows up with a tape oh thanks okay she goes back in the car she's listening to another tape she's driving aimlessly no reason to drive she wants to hear the tape she hears another tape I bought wash machine to my wife from Germany good wash machine I saw there in the brour I said we have guarantee on the machine in one condition wash machine we have guarantee 5 years in one condition what condition if you follow the instruction if you don't follow the instruction there is no guarantee make sense yeah God gave the Jewish Nation instruction he said there is guarantee you're going to be happy with your wife your children no Arabs no bumbs no no go no intermar everything would be okay no Holocaust no destructions no sick guarantee God give us in one condition follow the instruction she call finishes it she comes back home it's only an hour comes back home you have another tape like yeah I can get you another tape she gives him another tape another tape another tape and she's crying herself but this time from happiness and she tells her husband finally I want to be religious I want to cover my hair I want to do everything and he says to how and she tells him what she said she said I didn't feel what you feel I didn't know what you know I didn't want to hear it you told me you believe in this thing in the air that's God this Creator I didn't feel it I didn't grow up that way and last night I looked at the sky and I said if you're real God please show me and today he showed me today he showed me I went into the car and for the first time in my life I heard Torah and I heard God was speaking to me through that Torah because I don't know where you got those tapes what I do know is that had it been any other day it wouldn't have worked today I knew God was talking to me and R again says this story I heard this from him several times he says I'm reading this letter and I'm crying crying why who would have known this set of tapes that look like it was like supposed to go to one place they backed out on it for some unknown reason then it's like roaming around the guys that were responsible for it forgot about the fact that they have the tapes they end up giving it to some random Jew that just started doing Chua who's in a process of a divorce and that guy saves an entire generation of Jews with that set of tapes so you see when you invest into Torah that could help people whether it's a tape or CD or USB or a book that can help people get closer to Hashem you're not just helping that person become entertained you're not helping that person get closer to God you're literally giving that person to save an entire generation of Jewish people and that's why there's nothing greater than that [Music] [Applause] [Music]