There really is an objective "best way" for Jewish community to live, and it requires complete and total dedication to G-d and Halacha, in every part of our lives. Anything less than that makes the Jews vulnerable and too easily swayed by the seductive materialism around us.
Binyamin Golden, in this clear and urgent message elaborates on what G-d expects from the world Jewish community.
Just before the Hebrew month of Iyar 2006, Binyamin Golden, the autistic student who is strangely able to pull down messages from higher worlds communicated this message by way of Facilitated Communication.
The Hebrew message below is being distributed throughout Israel. Click to jump to an English translation.
HOW TO GAIN CLARITY IN OUR CONFUSED WORLD A message from the autistic man Binyamin Golden Erev Rosh Chodesh Iyar 5766 - April 27, 2006
(This message was communicated with several Talmidai Chachamim present. Binyamin Golden addresses one of them directly, then continues with a message for the klal.)
Shalom. I am very happy to see you. I know, Reb Yid, how much you help Am Yisrael, and how much you suffer, I know. I know that you, without a broken heart cannot reach a high spiritual level. The broken heart is before all, it is our entry ticket to HaKadosh Boruch Hu. Without it, it is impossible to grow spiritually, impossible. Someone who is happy with himself, who feels he is righteous, doesn't worry about food or good health, or anything. Because he has what he needs materially, and he thinks he has what he needs spiritually, but the truth is that he has nothing. Because someone who never fights himself, who never feels pain, someone like this always feels big, and a person needs to feel small. If the Shechina contracts Herself to be with the nation of Israel in the desert, then don't we also need to contract ourselves in order to reach the truth?
The Secret Of How To Reach Hashem
This is the entire secret of how to reach Hashem. When someone goes on a journey or an excursion, he has to prepare himself. If he's planning on walking, he needs good shoes. If it's snowing or very cold, he needs a coat and gloves. If it's hot, he needs lightweight clothes and a hat.
When someone wants to go in the way of Hashem, to reach Hashem, he must minimize himself, remove the physicality that prevents him from getting through the door that leads to truth. You can't get through that doorway with all kinds of superfluous objects like beautiful furniture, a giant house, a car you don't really need, or magnificent clothes. The "golden calf" (explained more fully in the Hebrew pamphlet "Kol Demama Daka" #4 - download here) is too big and heavy to get through that door. We have to throw all that away, and enter with just a thin garment and love for Hashem. Just that and nothing else, not even other people.
The Goal: A Personal Relationship With Hashem
This means that the only way someone can get through the door is by himself, alone. He can't hold someone else's hand and go in, he can't take anyone with him. Everyone has to go in alone, with just his own merits, him and Hashem and his personal relationship with Hashem. This is what happens at death, may we be protected from it (the person is separated from his body so that his neshomo can cleave to its Creator). But we want to live like his and not just to die like this. We want to greet Moshiach - but how? We have to shrink ourselves, to reach our basic minimum. We have to know that only Hashem exists, nothing else.
What Is True Happiness?
What is happiness? There is only one true kind of happiness, to know that Hashem exists. That's the only thing that can make us truly happy. Even though there are also other good things that are good for us, but the best thing, the truest single entity is HaKadosh Boruch Hu, Who lives and endures, and we are His beloved servants. That's all the happiness there is.
What Is Olam Hazeh?
What is this world? We've been here a few times, all of us. Our children today weren't our children before. Our wives today weren't our wives before. It was all different. But what truly stays the same? The absolute enduring truth is our relationship with HaKadosh Boruch Hu. When Moshiach comes, all kinds of people will rise from their graves. It could be that a woman whose husband died young, when everyone arises at the Resurrection of the Dead, that her son will look much older than his father who died before him.
In this world, people worry about their health. When something hurts they run to the doctor. But if they had taken care of their bodies earlier, they wouldn't have had to go to the doctor. It is the same with us. If we would worry about our spiritual condition and truly repent, then there would be no need to come to terrifying things, may Hashem have mercy.
What Do We Really Know And What Don't We Know?
We don't know. Everything is confused and we don't know the truth until the end. But the one truth that we know for sure is that Hashem can do anything, and that He loves us, and that is our great joy. We suffer a lot today: strange tragic deaths, of young people as well as older ones, righteous and not so righteous, all of them from assorted weird causes. There is no home today without its difficulties, and those difficulties cause people to pray. How can we understand the troubles of the Jewish people unless we feel our own personal troubles? Show me one righteous person in the Torah who had an easy life! And something else, if we think about the Shechina's anguish, about Hashem's anguish, then our personal anguish will disappear.
But What's The Biggest Pain Of All?
It hurts, it hurts so much, all of these tragic events, but what hurts even more is that we don't understand. We are still holding on to the lies and we're not ready to let go of them, no matter what. We see strange things in the world, we see that Hashem speaks straight to us, but we're still not ready to abandon the lies. There are Jews with long payos and beards, Litvaks, Chassidim, and Sfardim, Chareidim, pretend-Chareidim, who aren't willing to give up the lies. There are Mizrachi, who look like they keep the mitzvos on the outside, but they're also not willing to abandon the lies. Secular Jews are very obviously not willing to abandon the lies, and the non-Jews are also not at all willing to abandon the lies.
There Are Also Among Us A Few Truth Seekers
But there are also among us, among the Jews, B"H, small groups who seek only the truth. They are prepared to close themselves off and segregate themselves from materialism, to distinguish between lies and truth. They shut themselves off in spiritual ghettos of truth and don't allow the lies to enter.
Lies Creep In Everywhere
It's very difficult because even the air is full of lies, the air we breathe is full of lies. The street is full of lies. The schools are full of lies. The Yeshivos are full of lies. Clearly not every Yeshiva, and not every corner but it infiltrates also the Yeshivos, and also the chareidi schools, and even every place that seems to have the most kedusha. It's clear that the less holy places are almost completely full of lies. But it's heartbreaking that the nation that's closest to the truth, has such a large part of it that is pulled to the street, pulled to the lies, even while they are still dressed like people who serve. Woe unto us! We have to encourage those who separate themselves from the lies to encourage the groups that want the truth. They are called extremists, but without this kind of extremism there will be no servants of Hashem in the next generation, chas veshalom.
Who Can See The Truth?
Whoever wants to see truth can see with a broken heart a generation which is too much like the secular Jews. And only someone with a broken heart can see this, because only someone whose heart is broken can see the truth. And this agony (seeing the Jewish people in such a situation) is enough to break the heart of a Jew. And if his heart doesn't break, then I need to pray for him because this is the saddest thing about our generation. Woe unto us Jews, believing Jews, who believe in Hashem, who believe that He gave us the Torah on Mt. Sinai, who believe that we were all there, even the converts, (and even so continue to behave in a way that is in opposition to this belief).
We Have To Make A Security Barrier
Make a security barrier between us and between this world, this filthy, contaminated world. This materialistic world, make a security fence between us and them. We have to see and cry for the Jewish People, for the fact that we're descending to the level of Goyim, heaven forbid. We have to cry and pray and agonize, because the end is very, very close. I am not a prophet, but according to all the prophecies, one can easily understand what is about to happen. Anyone who thinks he can live in a Goyish world and also live in a spiritually Jewish world and be close to Hashem, is making a big mistake and will get a very unpleasant surprise at some point and will be eternally sorry.
However, it all depends on Teshuva. The main thing is to repent truly and then there won't be anything to worry about. But some people are so far gone that they will never feel bad, even at the last minute. Because if a person is so stuffed with materialism (chomer) like clay, then he himself turns into a statue, and he feels like a solid stone that's totally inflexible and can't absorb anything or give anything, just a closed and sealed statue. To my great sorrow, most people in the world today are candidates for this. Woe unto us, what more can I say. Most people will not understand what I've said at all, but maybe there will be one or two who will understand, and if so, this message is meant for them.
Maybe a few words of truth will get into people's hearts and some truth will grow out of them, and maybe it will bring them to that world that is entirely good, maybe. I can only try my best, with Hashem's help. I love the Nation of Israel very, very much, but more than me, and more than anyone, or any Jew or any creature, Hashem loves us. He created us out of love and He loves us, and He is a concerned Father.
Our Troubles And Suffering Are For Our Good.
Hashem placed us in a very hard world with all kinds of troubles. We were born with all kinds of faults and weaknesses so that, we have to spend our whole life conquering them in order to come to the truth, to fight against our own weaknesses more than anything else. The outside world, the physical world and materialism have a pull on our weaknesses and cause us to stumble very much.
Why were we born to such suffering? Because it is good for us. Hashem created us as human beings so that we can prevail over all the obstacles, over the evil inclination that is trying to keep us here stuck in the dirt. In order to accomplish this in the best way possible, He gives us just a few years in this world, in order that we won't have to suffer endlessly. Death is a kindness, but Hashem is still fashioning His world. This process of fashioning isn't yet finished, man will still reach far greater heights.
Man Is Likened To A Tree In The Field
This is all a process like a tree that grows. The tree grows nicely, but in order for it to continue growing into an even taller tree, the higher branches have to be pruned and then there will be new and stronger growth. This is a process that keeps repeating itself over and over again. Man is not complete now, but in the future he will be complete. He will be complete both spiritually and physically, with these two aspects totally integrated. And then, there will no longer be any suffering, no evil inclination.
Everything will be complete and true and good. We won't want anything that's forbidden to us and only things that are allowed to us will be objects of our yearnings: the true, the correct, mitzvos. I bless all of the Jewish People that we should merit to greet Moshiach Tzidkeinu together and live in the world of truth. But why are we waiting for Moshiach? Because we want to be close to Hashem. This has to be all of our yearning, without any interference from the yetzer hara, without any barrier between us and Hashem. We want Moshiach so that we'll be able to sit on Hashem's knees (so to speak) and He will embrace us and we will be joyful and serene.
