The Dangerous Lie of “Instant Connection” to God

that even if this so-called shortcut looks like it's working, the guy was not keeping anything. He took ayahuasca and now all of a sudden he became Mr. Spiritual. She became Mrs. Spiritual. Oh, I'm so close to God now. Hashem, I only think about him. Oh, ta-da-da. She's a little rabbanit now. It's fake. It's not real connection to Hashem. How do you know it's not real connection to Hashem? The moment tragedy happens, and at some point in everybody's life there is difficulties, there's even tragedies. There's death in the family, there's financial losses, there's all types of tests that Hakadosh Baruch Hu gives each and every single one of us, especially those that he loves. Whoever Hashem loves, he rebukes. In essence, he tests them. We look at Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov. Look how many tests tests they had. Endless tests.