Help Us Keep the Light Going: A Special Message from Rabbi Yisroel Bernath

Support the raffle at www.ndgraffle.com.

In this special episode, Rabbi Yisroel Bernath opens his heart to the worldwide community that has grown around the podcast.

The podcast is more than a weekly teaching. It is part of the larger mission of Chabad NDG: creating spaces of belonging, supporting students and families, helping people through crisis, and bringing Torah, healing, hope, and Jewish wisdom into everyday life.

With the annual Chabad NDG raffle now 80% of the way toward its goal, Rabbi Bernath invites listeners to become active partners in sustaining this work. Every raffle ticket helps keep the doors open, in Montreal, online, and in the hearts of people around the world.

As a special gift, supporters will also receive access to the new Kabbalah for Everyone platform, featuring audio and video courses, practical spiritual tools, deeper teachings, and a growing community of people committed to learning and growth.

Support the raffle at www.ndgraffle.com.

Transcript

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Hi everyone. It's a beautiful day. I'm so honored to be here. I'm so honored with the feedback from my class last week. I've gotten messages from people that say they've been they've been listening for years and just reaching out now. I didn't realize how much this class on the gift of feeling too much would resonate. And it's really meaningful to me to hear that and to spend this time with you. I really, I really love this time that we spend together every week. Some of us have the opportunity to spend it in person, but many of us are spending it together in this little corner of the world that we call a podcast. And I know some of you listen while you drive, and some of you listen while you're walking. And some of you are listening when you're making dinner or you're folding laundry or you're sitting with a coffee, or trying to get through a hard day with just a little more faith and uh a little less yelling at people in traffic. And somehow, somehow across cities, across countries, across time zones, and very different lives, we become a community. It seems like this is striking a chord. A community of people who are trying to grow, who are trying to heal, who are trying to live with a little more meaning, trying to become a little better, a little more light, shining a little more light into a world that right now sometimes can feel very dark. So today I want you to know something. That it's my love and my joy to spend this time. I spend a lot of time preparing these classes. And this podcast is one of the many offerings of Chabad N DG, our beautiful center here in Montreal. And it's part of the same mission, the same heart, and the same open door that we do all of our programming. For me, this center is not only a building that's on Sherbrooke Street in Montreal, it's a home. It's a tent for people, an oasis. It's a home for students at Concordia University here. It's a shelter and a support system that we have for people in crisis. It's Shabbat meals and holiday programs and classes and all types of events, hospital visits, late-night phone calls, acts of kindness that most people will never see. And it's also this podcast. It's also these teachings, these conversations, these moments when Torah and Kabbalah when relationships, uh, healing, forgiveness, real life, when they all meet each other in the middle of our messy, beautiful human story. And so why I'm making this special episode today is I'm coming to you with a heartfelt request. Once a year, we run our annual raffle. It's ending tomorrow, which is Wednesday, July 15th. And thank God we are close to 80% of the way to our goal, but we haven't reached our goal, and it's our only fundraiser. I'm honored that so many of you have already found it and stepped forward and said, I believe in what you're doing. And I'm asking you to join them. Or you can reach out to someone who you care about and ask them to join us. So my request is for you to buy a raffle ticket to support us. When you support this raffle, you're supporting the work that reaches people in so many ways. And I guess if you want to say selfishly, you're also supporting yourself and the inspiration that you get through this podcast. So this year, because we're always looking for new things and new ideas, I want to give something special back to you. As a gift for supporting the raffle, you're gonna receive access to my new Kabbalah for everyone platform. And it's a platform that's very close to my heart. It's filled with audio and video courses that I've done that you can have access to anytime. It's filled with deeper teachings, uh, practical spiritual tools, and I'm gonna continue adding to them over the course of the year. There's discussion groups there with like-minded people who are also trying to learn and grow and heal and to live with more depth. It's a place where we can continue what we begin here on the podcast: more learning, more conversation, more community, more light. So when you buy a raffle ticket, or God willing, more than one, but one is great too. You aren't just helping someone else. You'll become part of the circle. I'll send you uh an email where you can join this. And you're gonna be helping sustain uh the very work that supports you, that inspires you, that teaches you, that reaches so many souls around the world. So you can look at the show notes or you can look below and you can find the link to the raffle. It's uh if you don't have it, it's ndgeraffle.com, ndgraffle.com. Uh so from the bottom of my heart, please buy a ticket, buy a few if you're able to, share it with someone who's been touched by you as a result of these teachings, someone who believes in the kindness and the healing and the hope. And uh I think the world the world becomes brighter when each of us good people decide to add light, one one mitzvah, one act of kindness, one one gift, one open heart, one raffle ticket. So thank you for listening. Thank you for learning with me. Thank you for being part of this extended family that we have. And thank you for helping us continue to build. We have so many ideas and so many things coming, and and the this even like this kind of you know, the school for sensitive souls, I have so many ideas, and it you can become part of it. So I want to end this little episode with a blessing. I don't want you to think it's just this uh sales, you know, buy a raffle ticket, which is important. But I I I really, as you know, the blessings are the most important to me, that we should bless each other, continue to bless each other. So my blessing to you today is may God bless you with revealed good. May your home be filled with light, may it be filled with laughter, with health, with peace. May the kindness that you give to others come back to you in ways you could never have imagined. May every mitzvah you do open doors of blessing, may every act of generosity become a seed of healing, of protection, of abundance, of joy for you and for those you love. And may we merit to see a world that is filled with more compassion, a world that is filled with more courage, with more pride, with more unity, with more light. And I thank you. I thank you from the bottom of my of my heart. Thank you for being part of this. Thank you for believing in this, and thank you for helping us continue to bring light to one soul at a time. With that, I will sign off until we meet again.