It’s true, that things are pretty scary at the moment, for many people.

Especially in the mercaz, or centre, where there are a lot of booms being heard and a lot of strange things occurring with buildings being blown up…

Yesterday, I was awake before the siren at 4am in Jerusalem, and what I heard was: planes, booms, the siren. In that order. I’ve also been pondering the strange fact that a rocket can travel all the way from Iran to Israel, and not set off a siren until it’s literally on top of its target, or already blown it up.

But that’s not what I want to focus on today.

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Today, I want to bring some snippets from OIAG 2, where it talks about how saying the Tikkun Haklalis sweetens everything, even nukes (ahem).

The following snippets are from shiurim given at least 11 years ago – but so, so relevant, perhaps even more relevant, today.

The first snippet comes from the chapter entitled ‘Zimbabwe’:

In one of his lesson given during Purim 5774, the Rav said the following:

“Why have we still not managed to rebuild the Temple? Because if we built it now, it would just immediately burn down again. At the very moment that a person came to the Temple thinking bad thoughts, it would burn down. People don’t know that their thoughts [particularly their lustful thoughts] are like the fire of Gehinnom. Every time you look at things that you shouldn’t—that’s the fire of Gehinnom. A person can burn down the Temple literally every second.

That’s why Rebbe Nachman taught that a person has to be very careful to avoid evil [lustful] thoughts… And he can only overcome these sorts of lustful thoughts by learning Gemara, as Rebbe Nachman taught in Likutei Moharan Lesson 101 …

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… In another month, they [the Iranians] want to drop a nuclear bomb on us.

We’ll have exactly five minutes [from the time they press the button] because it will have to travel 1,500 kilometers to get to us, and their rockets cover a distance of five kilometers every second. Three hundred seconds is five minutes. So assuming the warning siren goes off immediately, there’ll be just enough time to say the Tikkun HaKlali, or at least some of it.

Just reciting a single Tikkun HaKlali has the power to explode every nuclear bomb in the world, and to change everything into candies. [Meaning, to ‘sweeten’ everything.]

At every moment, we are facing terrible decrees, like the decree to forcibly enlist yeshiva students.

Every day, we hear of more problems, and all this is only happening because of evil thoughts and lustful fantasies. That’s the reason it’s happening! Rebbe Nachman taught that the first priority has to be tikkun habris, and that’s the main focus of Breslov and the main focus of Shuvu Banim: to have holy, pure thoughts.”

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There is literally nothing new under the sun….

It’s the same ‘spiritual battle’ being fought today, as was happening 11 years ago. And even, the same people still fighting it.

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Meanwhile, here’s another useful snippet from OIAG 2, this time talking about what was going on back in July 2014, in the middle of Operation Protective Edge, when thousands of rockets were raining down on Israel from Gaza:

The Rav told Rav Morgenstern: “Now, we will see big miracles, and no Jew will be killed anymore. I believe in you, Rabbi Yitzchak Meir; the tzaddikim have the power to ensure that no Jew will be killed anymore, and that people will do teshuva because of the war.

That’s how it was in 1973, in the Yom Kippur War, that the Jews did teshuva, and all the baalei teshuva came from 1973.

Now, in this war, all the Jews will also do real teshuva. Once, wars meant that we would just kill some terrorists. Now, they are firing rockets at us, and they have mountains of rockets without number, and they are building tunnels underneath Israel.

Now it’s time to go pray at the Kotel and Chevron and at Rashbi’s Kever, and to storm the heavens with our prayers, that no Jew will get killed. No Jew! No Jew! No Jew!

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The most important thing is to stop the war, and the rockets that are falling every day.

We have to stop it. More than 20 Jews were killed in this war…They sacrificed themselves for Am Yisrael, and even though they weren’t mitzvah-observant, and they didn’t keep Shabbos, and they eat on Yom Kippur and don’t fast, the secular world really doesn’t know any better.

The Jews that are walking into the fire now, they’re sacrificing themselves al Kiddush Hashem, they’re walking into the fire.

And we don’t have any idea who is sacrificing themselves for Am Yisrael. They could have dropped out of the army and done other things, but they are going with all of their enthusiasm, simply in order to save Jewish lives. And now we need to pray to stop the war.”

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About a month after rockets started raining down on Eretz Yisrael, one of his followers contacted Rav Berland to ask him if he had any words of wisdom, or chizuk, to share about the rocket attacks.

The Rav said the following:

“Tell everyone not to be afraid, and not to start running away from one city to the next.

As soon as the siren sounds, take your Tikkun HaKlali out of your pocket and start to read it slowly, word by word, and if you do this, you have nothing more to worry about, and there will be miracles, with God’s help, and the rocket won’t fall anywhere near you.”

….During Operation Protective Edge, the Rav told his students to publicize the segulah of reciting the Tikkun HaKlali to as many people as possible and revealed that if 10,000 people would start to regularly recite the Tikkun HaKlali every day, no more Jews would be killed in the current war.

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This is so, so relevant to what is going on today.

The Arab family in Tamra were all killed in their mamad.

Yesterday’s attack on the building in Petach Tikva – so many of the dead were killed in their mamad.

Mamads are not guarantees of anything.

So, get a copy of the Tikkun Haklali – and start saying it.

At least once a day, three times a day, if you can manage it.

The take away message from this post is that more than ten years ago, the Rav said this:

“As soon as the siren sounds, take your Tikkun HaKlali out of your pocket and start to read it slowly, word by word, and if you do this, you have nothing more to worry about, and there will be miracles, with God’s help, and the rocket won’t fall anywhere near you.”

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It’s still applicable today.