Yanuka: The Power of Prayer

 English subtitles 

Prayer from the Yanuka for Peace of Mind

 

This is a prayer given by the Yanuka to someone who was suicidal, with instructions to read on a daily basis, as well as to sniff besamim [fragrant spices].  It was sent to me by someone who wishes to remain anonymous.   I don't have an English version, sorry.  If anyone does, please leave a comment.

The Yanuka Shiur for Tisha b'Av

Hebrew with English subtitles

"Amen Yehai Sh'mai Raba" - Yanuka - with transcription

 Transcription of first half

With regards to the answering of  "Amen, may His great name be blessed" - אמן יהא שמיה רבה

I have spoken about this - אמן יהא שמיה רבה -  it is an individual redemption and a general redemption.

This is saying that if a person wishes to act before Hashem any sort of salvation, for what he needs from HaKodesh Baruch Hu, then he performs a salvation before HaKodesh Baruch Hu - individual and general.  

This is written in Zohar Noach 62b, in the Zohar Terumah 120b. In the Beit Yosef 56 he cites this. We mentioned yesterday Shabbat 119 in the name of  Tosafot that this helps for the salvation of the Jewish nation. In Massechet Sotah 49a and in Massechet Brachot 39a according to Tosafot we see that there is significance that a person says "Amen may His great Name be blessed", that his decree is torn up.

The Sefer Chareidim mentions that there is atonement... there are a few types of atonement for a person. One of the atonements that he mentions first is to say "Amen may his great Name be blessed". This is among the atonement that can atone for a person's soul.

When a person says אמן יהא שמיה רבה with kavana [concentration and meaning] this is atonement for him. When a person has atonement, HaKodesh Baruch Hu acts towards him with all good, from all good, in whatever he desires.

[He then goes on to explain what "kavanah" means.]

Yanuka: Every Pain in the World

Every pain in the entire world is the pain of the Divine

Transcription below [he speaks like a poet!]

All of the troubles that we hear and all the pain that we see 

Is the pain of the Divine Presence 

Every person who has pain in his house 

Every pain in the entire world, is the pain of the Divine Presence 

There was the great R' Meir from Afta

At the end of his book Ohr Lashamayim 

He asks a question and he responds to the question 

He asks, what type of righteous person will be on a higher level 

Is it the righteous person who wants suffering

And will accept suffering upon himself to suffer for the sake of the Jewish nation ?

Or a righteous person who does not desire suffering? 

And there he concludes that the righteous person who does not want suffering is on a higher level

than the one who desires suffering.

There he explains the reason for this. 

He says that we know that every pain and affliction that any Jew has -

Regarding this it says: "in all their troubles He was troubled" 

Hakadosh Baruch Hu feels the pain of this affliction just as the Jew feels pain 

The pain of the family and the pain of the person 

This is pain that is drawn above 

And some of the pain of the Divine Presence descends down to us. 

The pain that we feel here is infinitely small to the extent that we cannot imagine compared to the pain of the Divine Presence 

The Divine Presence is crying 

And when a person leaves the world there is the sound of a cry that is heard from one end of the world until the other

We see that Hakadosh Baruch Hu, He is in pain and He is pained by the situation that we the Jewish people find ourselves in  

Hashem informs us of this pain so that we must understand that we cannot continue in this exile 

But today the exile has reached the situation that the majority of the world thinks that it is possible to remain and function like this.

The exile is comfortable.

If there is an illness then people go to the doctor 

If there is [difficulty] earning a living, they go to the parents 

Eyes are not turned towards Heaven 

The eyes are a great distance away 

And then they see the great destruction that exists in the world 

They see the pain and the suffering that our nation is experiencing

We all, all of us, each of us experiences what he experiences whether specifically or generally  Everyone has something to contend with.

And this pain, this trouble, experienced by every man, by every woman this is literally the pain of the Divine Presence 

And a person who feels this pain must understand that Hakadosh Baruch Hu is hinting to him 

Pray for the Divine Presence 

Rabenu Yosef Chaim wrote a responsa called Rav Pe'alim 

In chapter 1,  He writes at the beginning 

Whoever wishes to delve into this – this is fascinating 

In order to understand what is the Divine Presence, in order to understand what is Tikkun Chatzot 

What is it that we say: "For the sake of the unification of the Holy One, Blessed is He, and His Divine Presence" 

To understand these concepts well, it is worthwhile to study them 

In order to understand the depths of these things 

But what we must ask from Hashem

Every time, every day – is to pray for the Divine Presence 

To understand the pain that it has 

It does not come from wherever it is in the world

It is from the Divine Presence 

The Divine Presence informs us of this pain 

And asks of us – a request of mercy 

Ask for mercy for Me 

Ask that I  will not have this trouble 

Ask that there be a unification of the Holy One, Blessed is He, and His Divine Presence

Because I always recommend that everyone say A blessing before 

Before every thing to say: "for the sake of the unification of the Holy One, Blessed is He and His Divine Presence"

The Yanuka: What to do During Difficult Times

Someone just sent me this. English subtitles.

Yanuka: Remembering the Beit HaMikdash

Hebrew with English subtitles

Yanuka: The Greatness of the Souls of Israel

Hebrew - English subtitles

This one is for the people who are suffering.  We are all suffering but some have great suffering in their lives.  This is for you.

I know there are many non-Jews reading my blog.... if you are one of them and have connected to the Jewish people and the Torah, you have a special soul and you should not feel excluded. Righteous Gentiles have a place in Olam HaBo - the World to Come.

The Yanuka: Care and Caution

Hebrew with English subtitles

 "A person can be punished and live 70, 80 years for a claim that someone has against him... we must be careful not to harm any person..."

The Yanuka: Letting Go of Your Stubbornness

Hebrew with English subtitles 2 mins

[How to rectify the sin of the Golden Calf and of Adam]

The Yanuka: Safeguarding the Eyes

"The eye is the way to come closer to Hashem..... all of the functioning of the body is through the eyes..

based on what is seen, all of the body organs, sinews.... all follow what a person sees."

Hashem wants us to see the beauty of His creation and lift our eyes to Heaven.

Regarding this Yeshayahu said "Raise your eyes on high and see who created these things".

Video: Hebrew with English subtitles.

"Where is the Messiah?"

 

The tzaddik Rabbi Zafarani in an exciting meeting with the Yanuka - Where is the Messiah?

English subtitles

The Yanuka answers some Important Questions

 English sub-titles.

The Yanuka: Suffering for the Beit HaMikdash

"The body must be crushed.... therefore there is so much suffering today"

The Yanuka, Hebrew with English sub-titles.  Video only 2.35 mins.

The Yanuka: Mitzvot and the Love of Hashem

 Hebrew with English subtitles

Yanuka's Message for this Pesach

 Hebrew with English subtitles

The Yanuka: "For My Sake The World Was Created"

5 minutes, Hebrew with English subtitles.

If the English subtitles do not appear, run your mouse over and click on the Cog in the bottom right hand corner of the video, click on Subtitles and the click on English.

The Yanuka

HT: AG

"A soul like his does not descend in every generation, it descends once in many generations" 

Rav Shlomo Yehudah Be'eri, known as "The Yanuka", born in 1988 - knows the entire Torah, Talmud, Zohar by heart.   You can read a lot more about him here.