Don’t Miss the Opportunity | Rabbi Yisroel Besser

A 100 years ago in Russia And the communist leadership had made it impossible for people to touch, to do any vestige of holiness was erased. You couldn't teach Torah . couldn't sing a Jewish song. You couldn't sit down and say א קאפיטל תהילים. You couldn't put on Tefillin Anywhere they saw anybody doing anything that was a little, little bit Jewish. They came to snuff it out, and there was one man who stood up to them. The previous As they called him in Lubavitch, די פרידיגע ליובאוויטש רבי the previous Lubavitch Rabbi, R’ Yosef Yitzchak was undaunted with spirit and with stamina and with resilience. He stared them down and he inspired a group of his Hasidism to go out and keep keep teaching, keep inspiring, keep lifting up, keep listening. And his Hasidism went because the rabbi told him to. But a certain point, the KGB harassment was so strong, they were relentless. They followed these people around. They harassed them, they harassed their families, they threatened them. It got very hard and it was debilitating. And these Hasidism came back to the Rabbi they said Rabbi, we’re trying to fight them. “מען שוין נישט”. we can't do it anymore. We don't have the energy anymore. It's just too hard for us, for our families, everywhere we go, there's little spies and they're following us and they're threatening us and they're making us scared And they’re scaring our children We can't do this anymore. So listen to what the previous Lubavitch Rabbi said to them, he said “קינדערליך” my children “כאפטס אריין מסירת נפש”, grab the opportunities to be מוסר נפש to sacrifice to give of yourself. “ווייל עס וועט קומען א צייט”. There's going to be a time “מען וועט זיי זוכען מיט ליכט”. You're going to be looking with candles for such opportunities. You're going to be searching for an opportunity, To be מוסר נפש you're going to want so badly this chance to do what you're doing these days and you're not going to be able to find any. That means days are going to come, that you're not going to be able to do this anymore, Where you're going to be able to worship in freedom. We are not going to have to come on to this and you're going to long and you're going to yearn For the opportunity that you’re being given now to be מוסר נפש to sacrifice yourself. Don't give them up so easily. That's what he told them You will look, with candles, we don't live in Russia and we don't live under the communist regime. ברוך השם But the opportunities are still here. There's going to be a time when the world is going to be clean and pure and filled with the word of Hashem and we're not going to have these opportunities. But right now, we live in a world where we have such a gift. We walk down the street, you go to the grocery store, you're surrounded by by opportunities to be מוסר נפש because your brain is telling you one thing. Look, look, look. Your inclination is telling you One I'm thing And you’re saying I don't have to look. I'm stronger than that. I'm more than that. I'm bigger than that. "מסירת נפש" "מסירת נפש מסירת נפש" as the די פרידיגע רבי said grab those opportunities, seize those opportunities and savor those opportunities because they won't be here forever when they're here, enjoy them and live them.