BALAK: The Personalized Road To See MaShiach | STUMP THE RABBI (237)

[Music] You're happy. [Music] Show the heart. Elizabeth, Noah, [Music] Hana, Big J, old school nicknames. person has knowledge of it. Everything doesn't disappear. It just becomes insignificant. The problems can still be there. The sickness can still be there. But it simply loses its value of men. [Music] Sure. Banglit. [Music] We're back here on our Wednesday night stump the rabbi. We're after some you guys will ask some questions and will give us the answers. Tonight's show is going to be for the and all of Israel and all the righteous Noah's that continue to support our organization whether it's by donations by getting their friends to donate family to donate by donating their time and their skills. Lots of people are uh looking to have moreot before Msiah arrives before the ultimate salvation and uh therefore they're partnering up with us and uh we're doing as much as we possibly can and we're looking forward to doing much more. Tonight is going to be a very special shure before the questions because it's a shure that I think most people not only wanted but most people love to talk about this topic the issue of Msiah. Now despite the lack of knowledge by most people about the details of the arrival of Messiah not a moment goes by without someone mentioning that they want Mashiach to come. Just an hour ago, I got a message from someone and the message ended with him saying, "Mashiach now." And uh the reality is that this person I already know from obviously the other messages that he sent me that he has no concept of what it actually means for the Msiah to arrive. The truth is that each and every one of us is going to have a personalized road that we have to go through in order to arrive at the desired destination. Balak is full of secrets of about the eventual gula, the eventual arrival of the Msiah, the eventual salvation. And tonight we're going to uncover a few of these holy sparks within the parasa in order to understand how to navigate our own roads ahead. Paradal is an extraordinary para that tells a story within a story within a story. And really it all starts with last week's para where we see that before is went to war with Sikhon defeated Moav. How did Sikhon defeat Moab? Because they used Bam. Bilam ben P. He uh used his witchcraft, his evil eye in order to help defeat Moav and that's why when uh Balak and the rest of Moab saw that Am is coming close they realize they need help especially since their former enemy that defeated them was killed by the hands of Am so they know they needed something more than just weapons they needed more than what they could ever imagine and therefore they figured let's get the same weapon they use to defeat us. Let's get Bam. Now Bam is a unusual character to say the least, but put every single detail in the Torah in order for us to learn from it. in order for us to learn the different secrets of the Torah within the story within the details to such an extent that uncovered secrets of the Torah based on the crowns of every letter that's written on the uh on the Torah. Each letter has a crown on it and he literally discovered different secrets of teachings of a Torah from there. Nabilam was a vile, disgusting person, but nonetheless, he had communications with Hashem and there's a debate among the whether he was a prophet or was witchcraft because how could such a disgusting person be a prophet. Either way, we've discussed a lot of these details in past years and different lectures. Anyone that wants to know more details of the parasa and different parts of it could just go to our YouTube channel or our app and uh just type in balak and you'll see the para there. You'll see even more details there. But needless to say, Balak and Bam are characters that give us details of not only the eventual discussion of the Messiah, but also what does the road that precedes it looks like? Not just for the nation but for you individually. For me individually, for each and every single one of us. Earlier today, one of my dear students sent me a question. question that is a very very relevant question about why is it that the tells us that if you're going to insult some really bad non-Jewish person, don't do it next to a new convert because the new convert, he just converted a year ago, two years ago, three years ago, he still has a care for his uh former people even though he became part of AmI. So the student asked, how could this be? If he got a new nama when he converted or when she converted, shouldn't they completely lose all of those feelings they have for their former nation? And I told him that no, it doesn't work that way because it's a gradual it's a gradual path. Even though yes, Hashem puts a brand new nishama in their uh in their body, if they follow the path and continue to grow, they will eventually get to that point where they will completely disassociate from their past. But you're not going to understand it unless you've been in it or you have a lot of experience with converts and you've seen it firsthand what they go through and what they how they grow. Unfortunately, how some of them don't. But the good news is that it's very similar to the path of a baluva. someone that lived a secular life and then decided after watching Hashem took back his millions or one of Tikunit or one of the other many other lectures and films that we've made that they decide that it's time for them to go but in the path of the king in the path of Hashem and Ducha that person is not going to automatically abandon all of his sins abandon all of the add character traits and overnight become a sadikulam a perfect sadik. No, it doesn't work that way. It's a path. It's a road that has bumps in it. But if he continues pushing forward, little by little, he will not only abandon the past sins and desires, but even get to a point where he gets or she gets the greatest possible gift that exists in this physical world, which we'll discuss later. Now what is this path that this convert and this bound chuva have to take in order to see Msiah in order to see the ultimate salvation is going to give us some of those details. The more we pay attention to them the more we realize how personalized they are regardless of who you are and where you are in the world. If Hashem decided that you're going to watch this, then for sure this has a direct relevance to you. Balak sees that there's a threat called am that's coming, but he has this idea that he can beat them. Why would he have this idea that he could beat them if Sikhon and his army defeated Balak and Am is defeated? He said, "No, listen. I should just submit, become their slave or simply just run away and that's it or try to make peace." No, I could defeat them. Balak is called Balak Benipo because he had a bird that he used for witchcraft. And this bird showed him something in the future. What did he see in the future? He saw that from him will come the Messiah. How? Balak was the grandfather of Ruth the Moabitete. And from her comes David and from him comes the Messiah. How could this possibly be? It all starts with Lot, the time of Abramu and his two daughters. But then you fast forward to Balak. Who is this Balak? Balak was actually one of the children of it. It sadik went back to his nation in Midian and converted everybody. But Balak did not want to join Israel. He hated Am. And he decided to run away. He kept all of the treasures, all the money that had because of course the people went against after he decided to go uh with uh with the Torah. Balak was in a perfect position to become a leader. But now that he has an enemy at his doorstep, he should be scared. But he's not. Why? Because through his witchcraft, some say that he had a a uh a certain vision during one of his dreams where showed him that the Mashiach will come from him. So he figured if Mashia is going to come for me, if the vid is going to come for me, then surely I'm going to defeat this nation. But I need something supernatural. What am I going to get? I'm going to get Bam. Because Bam is the prophet of the nations in comparison to Mosheu is in fact say that Belak's powers were so great that had he used them for good he would even have things that Musheru didn't have. So Balak sends messengers to Bilam and Bilam tells him initially that he can't come because Hashem said no. Of course, Balak rejects this, sends messengers again, and this time with a very enticing offer that I'll pay you whatever you want. And Bam again speaks to Hashem and Hashem tells him unlike the first time where he told him, "No, don't go. This is a you can't curse this nation. You can't curse Israel. They are my people. They're special. Bam asks again because Bam represents the the Satan and he in essence just like Mushen who was married to the Bil was married to the Satan's wife. That's why he had to do all these disgusting things like marry his donkey. But that's something we'll discuss in the future perhaps. Anyway, Bam talks to Hashem again and Hashem tells him, "You're going to go, but know this that I will decide what comes out of your mouth." He goes on his donkey, his aton, and he's on his way. And as soon as he's on his way, the angel of Hashem appears, but only the donkey sees it. The donkey is scared. It sees an angel holding a sword. Tries to go around it. Bam says, "What are you doing?" Hits it. Then he tries going the other direction, crushes Bilam's leg against the fence. Bam hits it again. Then the angel appears right in front of the donkey. And the donkey knows that he can't go anywhere. So he decides to just sit and Bam hits him again. And at that moment there's a famous verse and Hashem opened the mouth of the donkey and yes the donkey spoke. Sages teach us this was one of the 10 things that created on the period of the first six days of creation between Friday and Shabbat. This donkey spoke and tells to Bam, "Why'd you hit me these three times?" And Bilam is not surprised at all that the donkey speaks, even though it's the first time he's ever heard the donkey speak after having it for many, many years. He's not surprised. He starts talking back to it. I hate you because you uh you mocked me. You didn't listen to me. If I had a sword in my hand, I would kill you. A donkey responds to having a whole dialogue. How could you say that? Am I not your she donkey? meaning your wife where you've written upon me all your life until this day during the day during the night meaning that at night we slept in the same bed. Did I ever go against you? He says no. And then after that the angel of Hashem is shown to Bilam. Hashem opens the eyes of Bilam and he's able to see the angel of Hashem. This is not Hashem himself. This is an angel that in essence is a messenger of Hashem. And he now can see why the donkey was acting so strange. And the angel rebukes Bilam. Why did you hit her? If she would have continued, I would have actually kept her alive and killed you. Meaning the donkey just saved your life. So now the first thing we have to understand is how is it possible that Bil is not amazed by everything that's happening? I mean, we're just hearing about it here today after we've read it many, many times. And every single year you think about it, and it's amazing. A donkey speaking. An angel of God is appearing. How is Bilam not Whoa. How is it happening? Soon as the donkey starts speaking, why did you hit me? Oh, you speak. I'm sorry. I didn't know. You speak different languages, too. Do you have any brothers? You have sisters? Is there like a whole group of you that speak? What do you want to talk about? Maybe we should go back home and we'll have a whole conversation. Like, you know, like the donkey speaking for heaven's sake. No, Bam. He is not impressed at all. At all. Nothing. How could that be? As my dear Rav taught me nearly 15 years ago, Bilam fell to such depths of tumah with all of the sins and the filth that he was dealing with that he got to a point where he no longer saw any difference between him and the donkey. He didn't see any difference to him. The donkey and him are the same thing. So I talk, the donkey talks. This is our first clue. This is our first clue to not only address the question that my student asked about the convert, the bal, but also it's our first clue of the path to prepare ourselves for the path before Mashiach arrives. You see the vid tells us the goel the messiah is going to arrive in order to bring salvation to those that used to be criminals against God. Meaning the Messiah is not going to save everyone. The Mashiach is not going to bring blessings to everyone. He's not coming here to pay everybody's debt. He's not come here to tell you, listen, start keeping Shabbat and I'll come back in another few months. If you're doing it, then I'll save you. No. Once the Msiah comes, game over. Now, there's two periods that the sages are pet petrified of. One, the day of death that will happen to every single person at some point or another. two, the arrival of Messiah. Why? Because both of them represent an end of opportunity to do chuva, an end of opportunity to change your life around. If a person dies and he's Jewish and he did not keep Shabbat, he did not keep the laws of that person is not going to get any reward for his sins. The opposite. He'll get punished severely beyond comprehension which we've discussed in previous lectures and even have multiple films about Gomafa and so on. So if a person dies without doing chuva they're a lost cause they have to suffer and the suffering is like the damage that they cause with their sins endless. On the other hand, if a person is merits to live at the time the Mashiach comes, which is the time we're living in right now, and Mashiach arrives at that moment, Mashiach judges everyone. And as the prophet says, with the breath that comes out of his mouth, he's going to destroy the wicked. Who is the wicked? Those that went against the Torah. drove on Shabbat, adultery, you know, cash advance business, idol worship, you know, the whole list. So once Mashiah comes, the people that have not done chuva, have not stopped all of their perversions, they're not going to be happy to see Mashiach. In fact, that will be the worst day of their life and the last day of their life in this world at least. So if a person wants to have the opportunity to arrive at the right and the desired I should say destination whether it's the time where they eventually die or the time of Msiah whichever one happens first there is a path there is a road to take and Balak gives us what this path looks like one way or the other. It starts off by telling us that Bam did not see any difference between himself and the donkey. That is a bal chuva that just started. That is a convert that just started. He just wants to convert. He hasn't really converted yet. He's in his beginning stages. He's a new chuba. He watched one of our lectures, got shock of his life. Okay, I'm going to start keeping I'm going to start keeping Shabbat. I'm going to start keeping kosher. It's not so hard after all. I'll even go to shul a few times a day. I'll watch your lectures, Rabbi. Okay. So, I'm good. Yeah, for now you're good. But, uh is multiple steps. One is stopping the sins. Two is structuring your life in such a way where you're not enticed to go back to the sin. Meaning, don't hang out with the same types of people. Don't do the same types of things. Just like if somebody is trying to stop being an alcoholic, you can't invite them to a wedding with alcohol or a bar and expect them not to drink. So you have to design your life in such a way that you're not going to be enticed to sin. And step number three is regret. Regret the sins. Now when a person first starts going on the path of the king, going on the path of the Torah, step number three doesn't make any sense. Regret. What do you mean regret? Rabbi, you want me to regret that I went to the casino and I won $100,000? Yes. Rabbi, you want me to regret that I was with that girl and we had a lot of fun? Yes. Rabbi, you want me to regret that? Uh, I did all types of things that the Torah forbids, but I had a lot of fun. I enjoyed it. It tasted good. The pig was delicious. The non-coosher meat was delicious. The shrimp, I love it. It's my favorite food. You want to regret that? Yes. How? I like it. The only reason I'm not doing it right now is because the Torah says not to. Not because I don't like it. Exactly. Step number three doesn't make sense to you right now. That's why step number three. In the beginning of chuva, a person does not see the difference between himself and the donkey. Meaning he sees his friends the day before Chuva, the day before he started changing everything. The day before she decided to start walking around modest, she saw her best friend. She saw her boyfriend. She saw her girlfriend. She saw all those people. She hugs and kisses them. She loves them. She's my best friend. The day after they decided to make a change in their life and they run into one of their friends, one of their family members, one of their colleagues that's continuing to go against Hashem, but they decide to go a different path. When they see them, what do they do still? They hug them, they love them. Yeah, it's my best friend. Yeah, we grew up together. Yeah. meaning they don't see that there's a difference between them and those that are at as of this point a completely different species. They're going like the donkey acting like animals. But the bouva, the convert doesn't see that. He doesn't just one day wake up and sees his brothers, his parents, his best friends all of a sudden, oh yeah, they're all idol worshippers and uh they're all uh wicked people. No, he doesn't see that. He just sees himself as someone that is choosing a different path. Perhaps there'll be good coming out of it. So when you see somebody that just started doing chuva or just converted, don't expect them to have the same understanding of what is the proper scafa, what is the proper attitude towards the rest of the secular world of the idolatrous world of the heretical world. Don't expect him to be in the same boat as you if you've already been doing it for 10, 20, 30 years. Why? He's still there with the donkey not seeing any difference. He just chose a different path. Only after a person has abandoned the path for a long amount of time does he start recognizing there is a difference. And that's the next section. Paradalak says that after Bam arrived at Balak's place. Bam tells him, "What took you so long? What you think I can't respect you?" Says to him, "Listen, I'm here now. I'm here and I can only say what uh Hashem allows me to say." Okay, fine. Whatever. go uh do your thing and uh curse amb altars. Bring me seven bulls and seven rams. And to both and Balak's dismay, he can't curse them. Just like Hashem promised, you're not going to be able to do what you want to do. You're only going to say whatever I want you to say. And what does what does Bam say? What is his first prophecy? His first prophecy is our second step. He tells Balak, "I can't curse them. How could I curse? God is not cursed. How could I be angry? How could I anger him? He's not angry." This is a side note is one of the 10 remembrances that Hashem specifically did not allow Bilam's tool to punish his enemies to work as he knew exactly the moment that Hashem judges the world but on this day it didn't work. And then Bam says instead of a curse on he says behold this Jewish nation it's a nation that will dwell in solitude and not be reckoned among the nation. It's unique. It's not like everybody else. And that doesn't only tells a story but also tells us the second hint of the chuva process, the conversion process, the path that we all have to take in order to arrive at the destination that we want to arrive to when Mashiach arrives, which is in the beginning. Although the donkey may be your friend, you chose a different path, but you didn't necessarily see the donkey as different than you. You're just making a different decision. But the second step after you continue in this path of learning Torah doing at some point a person wants to elevate themselves. And what ends up happening is that the more you elevate yourself by learning more Torah, doing more mitzvot, applying more mous to your life, the more you see yourself in solitude. Even if you're surrounded by people, those same people that you grew up with, that you're friends with, that you're family with, all of those donkeys, not donkeys cuz we're insulting them. Donkeys because people that are acting like animals, it's just fulfilling their desires. When you started, you saw no difference between the two of you. But now after you've done chuva for some time, six months have passed that year has passed, you're doing you're learning a few hours a day, you're eating only kosher, you're making blessings before you eat, after you eat, you wash your hands before, after. Your life is very different. All of a sudden, you feel alone. You're in solitude. You've elevated yourself to the point where you feel lonely. Even if you're surrounded by all those people, you may feel miserable at that point. But it's good news. It means you've arrived at the second stage of the path to salvation. After that, Bam goes and tries to curse Am instead of cursing them he ends up blessing them again. Balak gets angry at him. What have you done to me? And Bam responds in chapter 23 verse 19. Bam gives an amazing response to Balak and at the same time gives us another spark of that is exactly what we need today. What's the next step? Bam says, "God is not a man that he should be deceitful, nor a son of man that he should relent. Would he say and not do or speak and not confirm? Behold, to be to bless, I have received, he has blessed, and I shall not contradict it." So here he tells him listen you want me to curse even if I want to curse it doesn't matter whatever comes out of my mouth it's the decision of Hashem but for us in our path we started as donkeys we then felt alone but we continued continued learning to continue doing continue supporting ku continue doing but we still have anxiety are we going to have enough money to get a bigger house once our family grows and our kids need to go to school or their need their own rooms even though we can't work on Shabbat. Are we going to be able to afford yeshiva? Am I going to be able to afford to get married and pay for a wedding even though I'm learning in in yeshiva all day? All these amuna questions that people have. Once a person has already decided to abandon the donkeys, has already decided to overcome the loneliness and continue learning to continue doing mitzvot, at some point or another he's going to be elevated again. But then he's hit with new troubles. What are these troubles? Amuna problems, problems. having complete faith in a kadosh and confidence in a kadosh to the point where he or she realizes with 100% certainty that everything comes from Hashem. Now they may say no I believe only in Hashem. They say that until problems arrives at the doorstep. And of course growing your amuna and is a lifelong process but it is the next step. As B is said here, Hashem is not a man that he should deceit. Meaning if he promised you a reward for all the good that you're doing that's following the Torah, he's not a liar. If he said you'll be okay, you'll be okay. Why are you worried? He's not the son of a man. He doesn't need any middleman to be the messenger like they believe in Christianity and other false religions. He would not say he would he doesn't say and not do like people. Meaning whatever is written in the Torah, that's the truth. As I said last night, there is the political right, there's the political left, the secular opinions, all of heretical opinions, all of these different opinions that people have. These are all man-made. Then there's the Torah. The Torah is the truth. The Torah is not a middle ground because that would give any type of validity or significance to the others. No, everything else is a lie. The Torah is the only truth that exists. Now, a person that has learned for a while, has grown, now Hashem gives him the next test on the path. Yes, you've kept my Shabbat. Yes, you're wearing modest clothes. Yes, you have abandoned the life of the donkeys. But now I want you to start learning and training yourself to understand that all you have to have faith is is just Hashem. Not your job, not your skill set. And the more you trust Hashem, the more kindness he gives you. As the Torah says, someone that has confidence in Hashem, only kindness surrounds him. How do you start off with? First, understand that Hashem is not a man. Therefore, he does not have limitations. He doesn't lie. He doesn't say something in a Torah and then contradict himself and doesn't do it. If he said that's what will be that's what is and the more a person has bet the easier his life is going to be but that does not mean he's not going to have test that doesn't mean he's not going to have test but the third step of the journey is to work on your bet. One of the ultimate tests that a person is going to get in their battle against the Satan that wants them to have no confidence in Hashem. They'll be like a religious person without a religion where they do certain things. They take certain actions. They go to shul, they pray, they eat certain types of food, but in reality their heart is somewhere else. That's the satan fooling a person into thinking that they're religious. Fooling a person into thinking that they are going to heaven. You absolutely must have. But one of the ways that the Satan wins is by making a person think that Hashem has everything and therefore he doesn't need anything from you. So why should you take your hard-earned money and support the Torah with it? Invest to help other people do chuva just like you did. Help other people abandon the life of the donkey like you did. Why should you do it? And not only that, okay, you give, but why should you give 10, 20%. That's a lot. How could you buy a bigger house if you if you give 20% of your money? How could you uh you know uh uh grow your how could you retire? How could you this? How could you that? And is telling us there's only one thing that you're allowed to test me with is and that is with your with the money that you take out of all of the income that you make and you take that 10% and you invest it into supporting Torah that you can test me. What's the test? If you give at least 10% on a regular basis. Hashem promises you protection, endless blessings, and the gi says that if you give 10%, Hashem promises you that you're never going to lose your money. He didn't say this that uh you won't uh go have ups and downs, but he said you you're going to have protection just like this group of rich people that came to Rav Steinman after the collapse of the market. He said, "Listen, Rabbi, we gave a lot of donations, but uh we we all lost money." And Steinman says to them, "How many of you gave masel? We gave we gave millions but how many gibb how many you gave 10% exactly? Oh no 10%. No goes exactly you didn't have the protection. You may have given a lot as far as quantity but as far as relative to you it wasn't 10%. Therefore you didn't have the you didn't have the protection. And then one of the rich people raises his hand and says rabbi I gave 10%. And my friends don't know but I'll do it for the honor of the I'm actually I didn't lose any money. So exactly what the rabbi is saying in the name of Torah is exactly what happened to me. I'm the only one here in this group that gave m and I'm the only one that didn't lose money. And the gi says that someone that gives which is 20% is guaranteed to have wealth in this life. But the Satan is going to do whatever he can to convince you that you shouldn't donate that much. It's too much. only donate from your smaller job. Only donate from the small investment. Only donate, you know, it's enough. It's enough. You don't have to do the big things. But as the Torah says here, God is not a man that he should be deceitful, nor is he a son of man that he should relent. If he said you're going to get rewarded, that means you'll get rewarded. But if you don't believe that, then guess what? He's not going to reward you. At the same token, if he rewarded you now because you've been giving and you say, "Listen, I gave I donated $10,000 out of my $100,000, but now my $100,000 turned to a million. For me to give a $100,000 now, it's hard. So, can I could still give$10,000?" No. Hashem is not a man that you can negotiate with. Only reason I gave you the million is so you can give the 100,000 not so you could have a a million so you can give the 100,000 and what he says is what he does. So the more a person wants to get closer to Hashem and have the more they're going to be very very particular to give myself without looking twice and I've seen it with my own eyes time and time again how much blessing comes to the people that give and support the Torah in accordance to what the Torah says in accordance to what the sages say now person say yeah well it's not a Torah obligation to give m without the mikdash you're right it's not a Torah obligation it's also not Hashem's obligation to give you any blessing either it's only for people that want to have the blessing so you want to have the blessing you give you don't want to have the blessing don't give oh but listen but uh my friend he's a rabbi and uh or he goes to cola and He says, "Listen, I can give, but I don't have to give that much." No problem. Don't give. Give some. Give a lot. That's all your decision. No one should ever try to convince you. You should convince yourself to give. But since you don't believe, don't believe. No, no, I believe. No, you don't believe. If you believe, you would have already given. People that believe do. If you believe that Hashem is the only power and he's the one that gave you, there's no question. But if you're starting to have doubts, that means that the Satan is winning. He's convinced you that you need to help God. So that's the third step in the cha process. You abandon the life of the donkey. You eventually feel alone for a period of time, but then you start getting closer and closer to Hashem and you start building. What happens when you overcome the test? The para continues after the third try to curse am fails and instead Hashem has bil give another blessing but this one is a very lengthy blessing that includes prophecy of Msiah Bam says All of a sudden, Bam is saying things that wow, you wish your rabbi, your your parents, your best friend, your the biggest to you. Who? What do you say? He says, "How goodly are your tents, oh Jacob, your dwelling places, O Is meaning you didn't leave the life of the donkeys or feel alone and miserable or overcome the money test and beat the contest for nothing." No. The more you elevate yourself, the closer you are to this having blessing in your house, having an amazing dwelling place. Not just dwelling place, a place to live, but a life. You're happy with life. You wake up happy. You wake up happy. Even if there's problems, ups, down, you're happy. Why? Because the greatest gift that a person can get in their process of chuva is not a lot more money, a bigger house, a wife, a husband, kids. No, no, no. Those all good. We welcome all the gifts that Hashem sends us. But the greatest personalized gift that a person gets after he has overcome the test of the donkey first stage the test of loneliness second stage the test of bet third stage then Hashem elevates that in to now they start realizing consciously and subconsciously where they used to be. They start realizing that they were also the donkey. It's not just their cousin. It's not just their friend. It's not just their No, no. They realize their past. They realize what happened. But instead of getting sad, oh, I made all these sins. What I do? No. Now this is the ultimate opportunity to bless Hashem. Why? Because they realize, look, despite me acting like a donkey, despite me being filthy, full of tuma and sins, akadosh still accepted me because he knew that I can get to this stage. He knew I could overcome that test. He knew I could overcome the second test. He knew it and he let me in and he saved me. Bahu let me in. If I was Akad, I wouldn't let somebody filthy into my my my castle. But who loves me who has endless mercy in this world after this world is finished. That's it. There's judgment. But in this world gives us endless opportunities. And in the beginning when you first started the path, you did it because you figured it's a better direction. Even though you still enjoy going to places that are forbidden and eventually your lifestyle, even though you still admired the sports players, the movie stars, the rich and famous, the all that stuff, you stopped going because you wanted to elevate yourself. It's not because you didn't like it. It's because you wanted to focus on this right path. But every time you heard that somebody made a lot of money, won a lot of money, you were a little jealous. Why? Cuz it could have been you. But after you've elevated yourself further and further, you pass the bet test says I'm going to give you that first ultimate gift. You're going to feel the blessing. Not just in the panas you have in the light. No, you're going to feel where you actually are. You're going to realize how different you are from where you used to be. Not just by action, not just by the way you dress, but who you are in your essence to the point where you cannot believe that used to be you. You cannot believe the ultimate mercy of akados that he took you out of the filth you were living in and now you're on the you're on the path of the king. How goodly are your tents and guess what? This gift does not stop. If you continue elevating yourself, continue to pass more and more tests, every so often, Hashem will give you another piece of of another piece of that is going to make you realize not how much better you are from where you used to be when you first started. Rather you looked at yourself 2 3 years in in comparison to where you were in the beginning you see wow big difference but now five 6 years in you don't look at when you started you look at where you were four years ago two years ago you look at last year you start seeing significant difference you start feeling different start understanding different your mind opens Your character traits soften. You continue on this path. You're at 10 years continuing to overcome endless obstacles, endless test from the Satan. And guess what? Gives you another piece of the sh another piece is uncovered. More more blessings. And at that point, you literally not only can't recognize who this person was 10 years ago, 15 years ago, it seems like it's a previous carnation. It's a different person. You can't even recognize where you were at year 9 versus 10. Why? That's how much the blessing is. But it doesn't come for free. It doesn't come for free. doesn't come easy because you have to keep going, keep pushing, keep overcoming. And one of the ways that does it as it says in the paral says to this business deal of us didn't work. Hashem has withheld from you, honor from you. He's saying it to him in the story. But is saying it to us, you want to arrive at this ultimate blessing, know this. Once you get that blessing, I'm going to do things to protect you. One of them protect you from getting too much honor. Why? Get too much honor. The that's an opening for the Satan to get you to start thinking that maybe I can think for myself. And literally the blessings that a kadosh can bestow upon a person are absolutely endless. Whether they're starting off as a baluva, as a convert or even somebody that thought they were from enough their whole life but realizes they have a long way to go because they don't feel these blessings. They don't feel different than where they were 10 years ago. Yes, the feeling of of of elevation is for every Jew, not just the one that did chuvites. Even if you born religious, you were born with a keep on, you were born with tit, you were born with pot like somebody I know, you were born with pot. And guess what? If you don't feel that you've elevated yourself from one year to the next, you don't have the blessing. The blessing is not complete. Why? You're supposed to feel it. Not just know more information. Feel the blessing. Feel the connection with Hashem. So nowadu says these blessings they'll keep getting bigger and bigger. These feelings, this connection to Hashem, this happiness is going to continue growing. But if I didn't protect you from the honor, you could fall. How? Let's look at what the other side looks like. If a person thinks that, oh, I did chuva, I converted, I'm religious for a while already. I don't need to exert the same amount of effort as I did the first few years. I can relax a little bit. I used to listen to the rabbi every shure that he did. Now I'll listen to once in a while. I'll listen to some short clips. I'll read some books here and there whenever I get a chance. That means the person thinks they've done enough. And what happens to a person that thinks they've done enough? They start thinking for themselves. And here warns us warns us where says listen even though the curse did not work on is I'm going to give you an idea. I'm going to give you an idea. I'm going to give you some advice. Why? Because I know what's happening in heaven. He had so much confidence that he knows God already. He's done enough. This unfortunately happens to some people that think they've done enough. They don't need a rabbi. They don't need to listen to the rabbi or everything that he says. They can just pick and choose. Like when you go to the grocery store and you decide what you want to buy because that's what you need. You decide what you need. People think that's the same thing with Torah. He starts listening to himself. But unfortunately that's the downhill. It's not uphill. Thinking that you know enough you even know what's happening in heaven. That's downhill. And that's what allows Amalik to attack. And that's why has tell us the different nations what's going to happen when Msiah comes. the whole the whole path, the whole road, the whole war, everything. He says there's going to be all types of nations. There's adome, but adom has amalik. Yeah. Why could you just say it's adome and is the same thing? Goes, no, it's not. Why is not isav is adom and amalik is his grandson? What's the problem? Why isn't uh it's the same thing. It's not. You see the midash says in last week's para that initially is wanted to go in the area of Adam and Adam says no no way and says let's attack him says no you're not allowed to attack them why I gave them a blessing I gave them protection I gave them their land you're not allowed to attack So that's confusing. Why? Because we have a mitzvah to destroy them. So is part of how could it be? You see in last week's para attacked us. Attacked us. But it wasn't the first time we got attacked by don't by Amalik three times. One right after we left Egypt. Right after. This was the first encounter. Second time is when Amal came in last week's para. We had to defend ourselves. But after the third time that Amal came to attack us unsolicited, unin uh we didn't do anything to them. Hashem says until now AM was protected with the rest of Adam. Now that they've attacked, they've attacked you three times. They've attacked you simply because you're believers in Hashem. Now AMC is different. Not only do they not have the protection of the rest of Adam, but now there's an obligation to destroy Amalech. obligation. They're the ultimate enemy. They lost their protection. But even though they lost their protection, you have to destroy them. That doesn't mean that I'm going to make them weak and make it easy for you. You have to have the merit to destroy and uproot this nation. And that's why Bam says this Amalecch is the head of all of the nations. Most powerful of all the nations. They're the most powerful. They're going to be the last enemy. We have to fight. This applies to a person also in your path of chuva. In your path of getting closer to you're going to have different tests. In the beginning, it's abandoning a life that you know is not in accordance with the Torah. Then it's the loneliness and reconfiguring your life. New life, new address, new friends, new this, new that. In the beginning, it's knew nothing. You're alone. You have no idea which way to go. But you continue. The extent after that, it's having complete faith in Hashem. And as a person continues to grow further and further, at some point or another gives them a big test. What's the test? He introduces them to Amalik. Amale can come to them in the form of a teacher that pretends to be righteous. Amal can come to them as an anti-semite. Amal can come to them as some heretic. I'm like come in different ways if they have continued growing. They continued pushing themselves to serve Hashem even better and better every day and continue increasing their every day and then start inventing their own ideas and picking and choosing what they want to do and what not. If they've continued elevating themselves when comes you will have the merit and the strength to destroy them. But if notem be a complete disaster. Person could completely lose everything in a second. Can convince them to become a complete you have to have the merit to destroy Amalik. And that's why the last part of the prophecy of bil that's telling us he says you're all saying mashiach now [Applause] who are we are who is going to survive when hashem imposes these says says, he says, "As you all get closer and closer to Mashiach, those bumps in the road, those tests start becoming more significant." Just like school in the beginning of the year, you get easy tests, quizzes. Oh, it's a 10 question quiz. Five questions, 20 questions. Easy. It's what we learned 10 minutes ago. But when you get towards the end of the year, what does the teacher say? All right, we're going to have our final test. All right, the 10 questions. No. How much is it? 250 questions. You have three hours to finish it. What? 250 questions? Yeah, 250. It's good. You uh you know how to count? says, "Whoa, who will survive? Who will survive?" You know who's going to survive? Those that didn't just get stuck on the first path on the first donkey stage. Those that didn't get stuck on just the second stage when it came down to being lonely and then they decided to go back to their old friends. No, not even those that had a little bit of amuna but didn't want to push further. No, they're not going to be in a good shape either. It's those that continued elevating themselves to the point where they got the blessings, the kaduca. They got elevated parts of their ina to the point where they were able to fight Amalecch face to face and win because of the blessing that Hashem gave them. What about everyone else? Who will survive? It won't be those that didn't complete the path. So you seem while everybody would love to think that they're ready for Msiah. The truth is not exactly that. Now person can say listen God loves me no matter what. You can imagine that you're a kangaroo. It doesn't turn you into a kangaroo. You can imagine that Hashem loves you no matter what. Doesn't mean anything. God gave us Torah. And the Torah tells us exactly who, what, when, and how. Tells us what the path is. Our sages have literally lifted every stone in order to figure out what is the will of Hashem here and what is the will of Hashem there under this condition under that condition. If you follow those that have toiled over the Torah to know what the will of Hashem is, then you'll have a direct path to not only get to the salvation, but to also arrive at the desired destination. But if you want to make your own path, have all types of breaks, all types of discounts, all types of shortcuts, don't complain when the final destination is not exactly what you desired and you're crying is not going to help either at that time. It's like a person that the BBI said that some people that they complain and problems they bring to themselves. like a person that every day he would come to the factory work and then lunchtime and as soon as he open his lunch bags a get a sandwich with jelly and his co-workers you know they have their sandwiches he has his sandwiches every day he's unhappy next day ah again jelly I hate jelly already co-orker like Listen, I'm not giving him my sandwich. I got my sandwich. I don't know. The next week again, get the lunch. He opens the bag. Ah, jelly again. I hate jelly. So, one of the co-workers said, "You know what? Tell him." He's like, "Yo, listen. Uh, Steve." Yeah. Why? What do you want? I'm I'm upset right now. Why? Because of jelly? Yeah. I hate jelly. Yeah. That's what I was going to tell you. Why don't you tell your wife to make you uh something else, not jelly? He says, "My wife doesn't make me the sandwich." Oh, who makes your sandwich? Says, "I do." The fool makes himself the sandwich and then he complains about it. Says, The stupidity of man causes him to go against Hashem and then he complains about Hashem for punishings. The Torah tells us an exact path of how to arrive at the desired destination. That path has different segments where you're going to have to overcome the test. This paras told us what those segments look like. I am certain without a shadow of a doubt that every single person that's watching this identified themselves where they are in which part of the path or what they overcame. That's because it's Torah of truth. It applies to everyone. The only question that's left is now that you have this information, which road are you going to choose to go ahead? This will give you the desire and understanding of why you need to go in the path of Hashem. because the blessings and the ultimate reward are literally endless. And may it be his will that we all succeed in welcoming Msiah with all of our friends, family, beloved ones that we have toiled to bring them to do chuva because we have supported tua. We've given shine, we distributed books, we did everything we could. Some people gave money, some people gave their time, some people gave their expertise, but you did everything you could as part of your servitude of Hashem of going on the path. And you did not say, "Listen, I'll give uh when I get a chance or when I feel like it or when I'm in the mood or when I get this." No, you push yourself. Why? Because the servitude of hem requires you to push yourself. It requires sacrifice. The more a person sacrifices, the more opens up gates for them full of blessings that make them see that whatever you sacrificed. It was not only worth it, but literally was small in comparison to the blessings that a can give you and will end up giving you if you do what you're supposed to. We all do stick to the right path and get as many people as possible to do the same thing. So that way when the salvation finally comes, we're not going to have sad faces that our uncle or cousin or friend or neighbor is missing. He's not there to welcome the mashia. Why? He's one of the people that didn't go on the path. What a sad day that would be. The key is to get as many people as possible to go on that right path as soon as possible because once Mashiach comes clock is upe took a lot of time and effort to study for this lecture and I really hope that you're enjoying it and really growing with every word because I did. If you liked it, if you're enjoying the constant challenge from the Torah, then please like, subscribe, and make sure to share with the people that you care about because you can end up changing their eternity. Thanks again for learning with me. And now back to the lecture. You guys can start asking some questions. Give me the answers. You're I'm depressed. Yeah, you're depressed because you are not feeding your soul what it needs. You're only feeding your body. The problem when you eat food, your soul does not get satiated from food because your soul is spiritual and requires something spiritual. So if all you're feeding yourself is basketball, football, money, girls, boys, toys, trips, all of those different things that may satisfy your body for a certain period of time, but your soul is not going to be nourished. Why? Because your soul has to be nourished by getting closer to Hashem. How do you get closer to Hashem? By learning Torah and following the instructions of what it says to do. So you're depressed not because your body is not having fun playing basketball, watching movies. No, your body is doing the same thing it always did. Your soul is miserable. Your soul is starving. Start feeding it what the Torah says and you'll see that you'll become happier than ever, even without all of the basketball and football and the things you feed your body. Yes, the Torah is the Torah literally means instructions. Torah is what instructions God gave us in order to follow his will. There's nothing. There's the written Torah, there's the oral Torah. In order to understand the written Torah, we need the oral Torah because we cannot understand the laws of, let's say, for example, Shabbat, God tells us that there's 39 laws, but the written Torah doesn't say what the 39 are. And yet 12 times in the Torah, God says that if we break Shabbat intentionally, then it's death penalty. So obviously, we need to know what these rules are. There's a lot on the line. So the oral Torah, which is the Talmud, the Mishna, that is where we get explanations for everything that's in the written Torah. And of course there is explanation to the explanations as far as what the details of the laws are which is the but the point being is the Torah has two parts as the Torah has the oral Torah. Now the problem is when people do not understand the significance of this unity of how they are one. The oral Torah and Torah are one. They choose to pick one over the other. Like somebody told me uh was it yesterday or today that he chooses to just follow the Torah. There's I've heard this before and each time I respond the same way that there's literally not many people that are bigger fools than you for thinking for for thinking that that's an option because you're not even able to read the Torah without the oral because the vowel system in Hebrew is part of the oral Torah. And if you're going to say, "Well, no, I'll take that." Wait, so you're choosing which part of the oral Torah you're going to take and which part not? And then people end up in even different religions saying no, we have the Torah and then we have uh something else. We have a new testament but this is not from God. This is from people man-made. It's full of mistakes. It contradicts the Torah. So a person has to understand that there is a very very clear instructions that Hashem gave us on Mount Si. It's both the Torah and the oral Torah. And the more a person understands what it says and how it applies to their life and actually applies it to their life, the happier they're going to become, the more successful they're going to become in life. In life. And at the end of the day, that's what every person desires. They desire not a lot of money. They desire success. Success to one person is different than success of another. If you ask people that are interested in the um in the investment business and investing in the stock market or or things like that, then who is the best investor? They'll tell you things like a uh Warren Buffett or or other historical figures that uh that made a lot of money. But the reality is if you look at the personal lives of every single one of those people that are extremely popular, you'll see that they were miserable. They were horrible. Many of them ended up committing suicide. So a person has to understand that success in life is not necessarily a dollar sign. Success in life is getting to a point where you're completely happy. You're completely connected. Why? because you have a purpose that is in line and synchronized to the purpose of what Hashem gave you. It's not a purpose you're reinventing every few years when you get bored. It's a purpose that Hashem gave you. So the more a person follows the Torah, the more they're going to understand their purpose in the world. The difference of my uh of my old me and the new one is I believe only peace can dissolve evil. Uh well, you could believe whatever you want, but it's you cannot the Torah doesn't say you have peace under all conditions. We have laws of war. there's an obligation to go to war with uh certain people. Rabb says that we have to study Torah with happiness and if we don't we will eventually hate it. What is the best way to bring joy to myself when preparing to study? I'm not really sure where you read that you have to study Torah with happiness. You have to perform Hashem's mitzvot with happiness. You have to serve Hashem with happiness. But studying Torah is not necessarily always uh something that a person is uh excited to do because they have an evil inclination. There's a famous story of one of the bahim in the yes is yeshiva uh came to the uh stip saying listen rabbi I don't know what to do uh I don't feel like studying and the stipler said to him I don't feel like studying either but we don't do what we feel like in this world we do what Hashem says so sit down and study come on we'll study together and that's it that was the solution people think that you're supposed to enjoy everything have fun everything at all times no the enjoyment of the Torah The sweetness, what they call the sweetness of the Torah is what Hashem gifts you as a reward. But as far as learning Torah, it's toil. It's difficult and it's overcoming all of the obstacles that will eventually allow you to receive the sweetness of the Torah, enable you to receive the Torah, the sweetness of the Torah. So, it's not a uh just because uh you want to do it, therefore it's going to be easy or uh just because it's Torah it's going to be uh you know uh you know something that you enjoy right away. No, there's going to be certain sections uh that uh are going to be completely you know something you don't even like or don't understand or both. There's going to be certain times where you're not going to feel like it. There's going to be all types of things because remember the way to destroy the Satan is by learning Torah, by following what the Torah says. And therefore, the Satan fights tooth and nail in order to stop you from learning Tawa. So, it'll give you every obstacle under the sun to stop you. Whether it's giving you car trouble, family trouble, money trouble, distractions, everything and anything to stop you from learning Tawra. So learning Torah is uh is not something that uh is just uh you know go in there and uh it's going to be a piece of cake. It doesn't work that way. You have to fight for it. Is it best to learn Torah in Hebrew or in English? If you're understanding Hebrew like you understand English, then read learn in Hebrew. But if your first language is English, then learn in English. The key of the Torah is to understand it, not just to make sounds. What would the best lecture? What would the best first lecture for someone someone's Christian parent to watch on your channel? The movie called Hashem Took Back His Millions. Rabbi, I've noticed that time is progressing faster and faster. Shabbat feels like it's every other day now compared to six months ago when I started doing chuva. Is this part of the test? Uh yeah, I mean it depend it depends how you're spending your time. And if you are learning a lot of Torah and you're full of mitzvot all day, then yes, it seems like a uh time is a uh uh passing and you're looking forward for Shabbat. But if you're uh spending all of your time uh working and uh you know and there's not much Torah that also may seem like uh things are moving fast because things are speeding up in the world. Things are changing very frequently. But again it depends how you're uh how you're spending your time. The key is how does it affect you? Is it affect you in a positive way or a negative way? If it makes you feel better, feel closer to Hashem, then certainly it's a blessing. If it makes you feel like you're always behind, you're miserable, you never have enough, then it's obviously the opposite. Is Kabad a good thing or a bad thing? It depends. It depends who in Kabad. Kabad is uh is not comprised of one person and one opinion. There are some people that are great that are part of Kabad and there are some people that are the worst people on planet earth. But uh you have to you know understand what uh what the Torah says in order to determine which one is good which one is bad as an overall teachings of Kabad over the years the foundation the um you know in general it's great it's wonderful it's holyim but just because that's what the foundations of kabad is does not mean that every person that calls themselves a kabadnik is actually following those teachings. I mean a prime example is a manis freeman. He claims to be a kabadnik and a representation of kabad. But in reality, he's not not only not an representation uh not a representation of kabad, he is not a representation representation of Judaism. He created his own religion. So uh as far as uh whether kabad is good or bad, it depends what your understanding or what you know of kabad is who you're encountering. If it's the good side, then it's good. If it's the manice one or the heretic side, then it's not the original kabad. Yeah, of course. What is the true kabad? The true kabad is the based on the teachings of it starts off all withid of the baltov and later on he is grandson the the balana u and kabad teaches us number one that you're expected to complete the ram's mishnet each year that's an enormous amount of effort and knowledge and and and toil uh which means you have to not just read it but comply with it. So just understanding how much you have to follow just for there's an enormous amount of beautiful in there that the average person does not even uh understand that they that it applies to them. So also says that you have to learn uh you have to uh learn not just no even the oravi nobody just learned the tanya or just the labavbi's uh uh secret you learn the foundation where where did the labavbi or the valata where did they get their information from their own from their own book? No, they got it from the sages that came before them. Which sages? Like I said, the oral Torah starts off with the Mishna and the when you say the word Talmud, it in essence combines two things. Combines the Mishna and the But the point is is that that's the foundation of the oral Torah. So a Judah does not learn. They can call themselves Kabad. They can call themselves Pikachu. They could call themselves eagle. They can call themselves whatever they want. But they're not representing. Why? Because in order to be part of you have to have so even if you tell me listen all day he studies the of the Rebi wouldn't approve of it. Why? Because the Rebi didn't just teach from himself. He taught from what the says. He taught from what the Rambam says. He taught from uh a uh you know endless parts of the Torah that he understood. So when a person only learns one part of the Torah then they're lacking they're lacking significantly. So in general is to do more than the obligation. So we have all of Am is whether it's Safari, Ashkenazi, uh Yemenite, whoever, all of Amis is the uh the rules the the uh 613. We have uh even though the has which is the extra uh uh customs and different uh uh sucks that the uh the bala did which but generally speaking there's not a wide variance and difference between the and the and the like people think it's like two different religions or two book. No, no, this it's a foundation for and before that it's of course the Rambam. So the point is that a person that does not learn the laws, does not learn is not going to know how to be a Jew. So they could grow a beard that grows for free. They could put a keepa even double the size of mine if they want. But that does not make them kabad, that does not make them a even a uh a religious Jew. In fact, what is is to do above and beyond the law. Meaning, you know that the obligation is the if you want to be aided, you have to do even more than that. As a simple uh uh example, the average Jew has to keep Shabbat 25 hours, you keep 26. The average Jew uh could uh drink kosher milk. You drink only is and all types you have to as aid you have to do above and beyond your obligation. That's what isn't invented from nothing you know couple hundred years ago. Is already part of our Torah from the beginning. You see the uh talk about you see uh uh the mention but the point is is that the average person out there defines by exterior garments. How a person looks like, what kind of suit they wear, how they uh uh groom their beard, you know, whether their wife wears a wig or not. That's how people determine whether they're or not today. But that's not what uh that's not what is. So the real kabad is real which is foundation is on learning to but even the rebi of the the uh the not the last one the seventh one the sixth one his father-in-law he wrote a letter himself that you know rebuking people that call themselves kabadnik but in reality they're they're not kabadanics they're just they're defining their uh theirh uh uh um connection to kabad just simply by having fragans and uh and uh dressing. He says no, it's all based on it's all based on. So if a person is prepared to do above and beyond the uh the law the the responsibility and the obligation of every Jew and they want to do even more than that then sure that's great part of it's even more but if they're not even willing to do the basics then not only are they not they're not even a kosher Jew. So person has to understand what they're what what they call themselves and what they get themselves into before they do it and not just uh make rules as they go along. Why do we have sex? Uh there's different customs. There's a uh traditions that came uh from different parts of the world. The Jews uh have been in the exile for the last couple thousand years. Uh and some even went to the exile even before like for example the Ethiopians. They already went to Ethiopia already at the time of the beta mikdash. The rest of the Jews were dispersed all over the world uh after the destruction of the beta mikdash. Some went to you know different parts of uh Europe. Some went to uh Asia, some went to you know Middle East and in those places they developed specific customs, specific customs, specific foods. Now the basic fundamental law is the same for everybody. But the customs are based on you know where they lived and you know on what conditions under what conditions they lived. Like for example the whole um a uh ala that they have that theim do not eat rice on pes even though rice is not the at the end of the I believe it's uh page 114b if not 115 specifically says that uh rice is not kits but that if you ask an Ashkenazi Jew to eat rice on Pesak, they're going to look at you like you have two heads. What are you talking about? We were not allowed to eat it. Why? It's not the itself says it's not. No, no, it's Kametz for us. Why? That all came from the conditions they lived in years ago. there was such poverty in Poland and Russia and different parts of of uh Europe that one of the ways they could conserve and is is by using the same sack for wheat and rice after you used it for one use it for the other. So what would always happen is that every time uh even if you had a bag full of rice when you poured it there was a few grains of uh of of wheat in there. So they said that you know that means that there's no way for us to kasure the the rice. It's not that rice suddenly became a uh a different uh you know uh creation in the eyes of the Ashkinazim. It was under the circumstances that they lived in. The safari Jews that lived in the Middle East, whether it was in uh in Syria, in Libya, Tripoli, in uh Morocco, Egypt, uh Jordan, all the different parts of the Middle East that the Safari Jew lived in. Didn't have the same problem. Didn't reuse the same sacks. Didn't live in the same conditions. So that never became part of the customs of the safari Jews and that's why it's not part of them today. For the Ashkenazi Jews, it's still a part of their day. Even though you buy rice from the store and obviously they're not uh mixed with with wheat usually unless there's a mistake. Uh but they still why because the custom is so old that we don't change it. We don't change it. The so any custom with it's an old custom we don't change it. But the point is is that the differences between the uh Satir and Bobov and Kabad and uh a uh you know a tans and the Safhari Jew and the Ammonite Jew, Ethiopian Jew, Ashkenazi Jew, all of that gen you know is is that there is the laws all of us have to comply with and then there's the customs the specific traditions that uh were uh you know that applied, you know, to specific places until this day. Um, now certainly there are that uh pasin differently using the same rules of the Torah uh that pasin differently, but that's you know it's it's not the foundation. Meaning there's no uh prosec that's ever going to tell you that you're allowed to drive a car on Shabbat. Whether he's aazio safari or he's Yemenite or he's uh from the old generation or the new generation today, you're never going you're not allowed to drive on Shabbat. You're not to light fire on Shabbat. But when it comes to for example uh reheating reheating water on Shabbat on a on a hot plate there is a difference among puskim for a uh safari Jew once you uh take off the hot water let's say it's soup off of the platter if you put that uh that pot down on let's say the table you're not allowed to put it back on a platter during the rest of that Shabbat. Now, if you live in a non-safari home and you see that your mom is giving you soup on Friday night and also giving you soup again hot on Shabbat afternoon, don't think that she's a sinner. she it's allowed because she's not following the traditions of the is they're allowed to reheat water. Um but again the fundamentals fire on Shabbat uh you know adultery, murder, uh you know all the basics are you know that they're all the same. They're all the same but that's what you have to learn and you have to apply and you have to learn even more and understand and become at the very least become a evid of I heard of the name Cohen. Well, it's Is that like a joke? I mean, Cohen is a Jewish name, but doesn't mean that every person that has a last name Cohen is actually a Jew because of the intermarriage that has happened over the generations. You cannot rely on the fact that just because somebody's last name is Cohen, that they're actually even Jewish. Because if, let's say, for example, the uh the husband is a Jew that had a last name Cohen and he married a non-Jewish woman, her last name becomes Cohen. No, but the kids that they have since since the wife is not Jewish, the kids that they have are not Jewish. So even if they have a uh last name Cohen, there are many people in the world, you know that came from intermarriage and therefore they are not Jewish even though they have the last name Cohen. But certainly Coin is comes from a coin. Aaron, the brother of of Mosheu, he was the first he was the first coin. I mean technically Moshe was the first coin but the uh Aon is uh was the main coin after that first day. Can I marry myself as secular but still be observant? Can I carry myself as secular? Oh, can I carry myself as secular but be observant? I don't really understand what you mean by carrying yourself as secular. If you mean walk around not modest, if you mean uh you know use foul language, if you mean uh you know go to the movies and and and pretty much act like everybody else, but yet keep uh Shabbat and kosher. You can do that, but don't think for a second that it's okay, that you're going to go straight to heaven without any problems. because if you're doing things that are forbidden uh according to the Torah, then um you'll get punished for them. Plus, living that double type of life where you want to follow what Hashem says because you know you have to, because you know you need to, but at the same token, you're afraid of what people are going to think about you and how they're going to look at you and all of that stuff. you're gonna end up being very very miserable because you're going to be living a double life and never you're never going to be happy about your connection to Hashem because you never went full force and you're never going to be happy with your secular life because you know that you can't do all of what everybody else is doing. So you're just going to end up being the most miserable person in the crowd. For the person that's uh missionary mentioning the name of their idol and everything, you guys can just ignore them. They're just sick people. I get sad because I get picked on by my neighbors, but I'm still here. Well, who told you that you have to listen to what they say? If they say something nasty, just walk away. Just because somebody's talking doesn't mean you have to listen. For all the idol worshippers or the group of idol worshippers that are trying to miss meize during this lecture, if you really want to know what we think about your Jesus, you could watch my channel. go to my YouTube channel and type the word Jesus in the uh or New Testament in the um in the search box over there. You'll actually see a lecture that I uh did years ago called um Jesus based on a cabala or something to do with that. And it'll tell you I'll talk to you about uh about how number one believing in the New Testament is idol worship. Number two, your Jesus is in gay right now and he's never coming out and all the other wonderful details of uh what the Torah actually thinks of your Jesus. Um perhaps it'll wake you up and make you realize how foolish uh your current belief system is. But uh the point is is that um if you want to understand why we think uh without a shadow of a doubt that uh you're simply wasting your time being here and trying to missionize and why we know without a shadow of a doubt that your belief is idolatry. Just go watch the lectures that I actually have over there that show all the proofs from the Torah and even from the New Testament that show that it's a false man-made document that uh is simply ridiculous to believe in. So go watch them. There's several lectures that I made over the years about the topic. Watch all of them. Each one is slightly different than the next or very different than the next. And you educate yourself at least. Why waste your time here smashing your head against the wall, you know, writing all types of things that nobody's paying attention to. I recently recently moved out from living with my mom to seek Jewish community and convert. But my mom is heartbroken and sad. Am I in a wrong? No. The Torah specifically says that at some point the children have to leave the house, get married, and needless to say, if somebody wants to abandon the non-Jewish life and convert, abandon the secular life and live a life of Tawra, of course, they should leave their parents house uh you know, as soon as possible. And uh as far as your mom being sad, once she sees that you're happy in your new life and you're doing well, she'll be happy. [Music] What should I do that makes me think that Judaism is fake? Educate yourself. watch the lectures we've made that uh show the scientific, archaeological uh and biblical proofs that not only is Judaism real uh and Torah real, but it's the only thing that's real and everything else is fake. I have a film that we made years ago called Torah, Science, and Ancient Wisdom. It's about an hour, hour and 20 minutes. It's a very, very good film full of proofs. you could look up yourself could check it. You could, you know, you could look up the references and there's many other lectures that I have on uh the uh our website and our YouTube page uh that you could simply stop guessing. Stop uh wasting your time guessing. Go check. Go check. If you were going to buy a uh a business and you're going to put all your money in it, let's say you had $10 million and you're going to be but you wanted to invest into a business before you write the check for $10 million. You're going to check if the business really is what the people are are saying it is. You're not an idiot that's going to go and just give them a $10 million because you you know you believe them based on uh what they said. You're going to go check. You're going to go check under the hood. Do they make that much money? Do they sell that product? Do they have patents? Do they have this? is do they have that? You're going to go check. The same thing if you're going to invest into a stock or you're going to invest into a uh you know anything, a car or anything else in life, you're going to check. So, if you're going to check for something that is material and therefore temporary only to last this lifetime and not even all of it, then needless to say, you should check on what is going to determine what your eternity is going to be. meaning your entire life in this world and your entire eternity that comes after this life. So go check what the Torah says. Say look at the sources. Don't take people's word for it. Don't take who's the best speaker. Uh who's the most convincing, who has the actual sources, the original sources. I would recommend also reading the book called Kuzari uh published by Feldheim publishers uh or by I think art scroll may have one as well but Kuzari that's a uh talks about the uh the famous battle between the uh Judaism which is the Torah versus Christianity and Islam and also Buddhism at some point. So go read that book. It's about a thousand pages, very deep, very uh extensive, but you'll know for sure what the truth is. You'll know for sure what the truth is after that. I used to learn three hours a day. Now I can't learn anymore. It's so hard. No, it's not necessarily that it's so hard to learn. It's that when you used to learn three hours per day, you were listening to your desires and lust less. Now that it's hard to learn, it's because you're listening to your desires and lusts more. The more materialistic a person is, the more difficult spirituality is. The uh the uh more serious and committed they are to developing their soul, their spirituality, the easier it is for them to separate themselves material. What should you do if the community you're in does not allow cure material to be given and is rejected individually, but you still want to help those who have been led wrong ideology? Well, I mean people can still be helped individually. You go, you meet them in uh go to their house, go to when you see them at uh some common event, you see them in a store, go to the supermarket. I have a uh some students that uh understand how important it is to do kiru that they literally went to a community that probably has I at least 350 400 houses. So, it's a decent sized community and they made sure they put not just one book. They made sure they made a package for every single house with a book with a card I think USBs all types of things. Each person got a box, a gift and they invested a lot of time, effort to make this and it's not the first time. After they finished that, they went to a different community and took another 300 and they do this on a regular basis. So if a person really wants to do kiru then they'll continue doing it and and do it and do it no matter how many failures just like in the world of business. If a person is in the world of business he's not going to quit and be decide to be homeless bum uh just because his first business venture didn't work out or because he didn't get the job that he likes. He's going to try again and again and again and again. So the same concept with kiru even more so try again and again a different way strategize differently strategize uh more clever strategize with more investment more effort and business will help you will help you somebody asked me today rabbi what's your secret that you're able to get all this done all the things you do all the projects I want to be like and to go into all the details on all the projects that I work and all the, you know, it's going to take too much time. I'll tell you this, I do my best to exert myself to the limit and leave everything on the field every day. Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail, but I always try. Why? Because I understand and I live the need. When I learn about another person that is going against Hashem, I don't think about, oh, too bad for him. Hopefully, this cha No, to me it hurts. What can I do to help him? Now, of course, people say, "Oh, so if you could help him, why don't you call my cousin? Why don't you call my uncle? Why don't you call my girlfriend? Why don't you call my husband and my kids and fix it?" No, I don't have that kind of time because there's so much need out there. I can't do everything. I can't make personalized phone calls and spend 45 minutes on the phone one-on-one to convince somebody to believe in God or to to convince somebody to leave his non-Jewish spouse. No, I don't have that kind of time. I need to deal with the masses. And to do that requires an enormous amount of effort, enormous amount of time management. uh and you have to pretty much split your resources to the to the best use. No different than how you run an energy company or you run a uh any type of uh major operation, you want to use your resource to the best of your, you know, of your ability. So, while some people may have all the time in the world and they can make personalized visits, they can go to people's houses every day, a different house, uh that's great, but they're not going to be able to do a lot of things aside from that. they'll be able to do that and that's it. But my organization has a lot of different projects. They uh when I was uh in a rabbi's issue earlier today, I uh uh I was also giving a sh with him and they were asking questions earlier today and uh the people are very lively and lots of questions and uh they asked us what kind what what projects are you working on right now? What's the next project? And for anyone who who knows uh knows that there's no such thing as what's the next project. There's a endless amount of projects that were always working on that are always in the making or that are always a uh you know there. So for example, this is a list of different projects that are you know just in the uh you know like and another one and there's a couple of other lists over here. Now, if you want to see some things that are very, very close to hit to market, this is a sample of another book. We just got it and right now it's being printed and will be in the market to distribute for free in uh Israel mainly and some in America. It's frames uh new book called. There's also volume six of we just got the uh graphics done and now we're going to go and start printing. So there's two books that uh are being printed and uh we'll uh eventually get distributed. We have a bunch of different technological projects going on. Uh we have that big projects that I told you guys about uh for uh that's literally three years in the making. Uh, and um, I'll give you a sneak peek. Sneak peek. I can tell you what it is or how, but this is it. This is your sneak peek. It's called This is the new Kiru box. What's in it? That's the secret. But Karim, this is coming. is going to change the entire life of somebody forever. But even after we bring it to market, only smart people are going to invest because it's not just about having money. It's about having the spiritual intellect of what to do with that money. That project it's big. It's really big. You want to see more? Let me see how many of you I'll let you see more. Now I will tell you this is the first time anyone sees this. It's been a secret for a long time. Even guys on the team, people on the team haven't seen this. We had a Kir um kroof bag that we distributed. I don't know how many of them since we first started years ago which had books, USBs, CDs, different things. Now it's not only very expensive but it was also very timeconuming to to package them to ship them. So we figured what is the best thing that we can give somebody that is everything on a silver platter, educate them, uh entertain them and change them to the right path all at once. Now you say, "Oh, give them the app, give them the card." You're right. You're right. You could take give them one of these, you know, cheap bookmarks that are absolutely amazing that only cost a few pennies and uh they scan it. They watch the app every day and we're done. But unfortunately, not everybody's going to do that. Why? It's convincing, but not that convincing. So, you give him a different card or you give him a USB. Yes, it's all convincing, but it's not I'm not sold yet. Why? Because he has a non-Jewish girlfriend. Because he likes to gamble. Because of this, because of that. There's one thing that only if you're literally anti- Torah and you hate it with all of your heart are you not going to at the very least entertain trying it out. And that's what we have. I'd like to introduce you to the new Kiru box. But unlike the other, this one does not require much packaging. In fact, it doesn't require anything by you. All you got to do is open. It [Music] [Applause] starts off with a song. Then it goes to the films and it has a bunch of our best absolute best films, music, shim, lots of stuff. that is pleasing to the eye. You could hear it and in so many words Abu Tai the dead would be a woken just to do this just to watch it. You have fast forward you have increased the volume. You want to go to the next film. Go to the next one. You got it. You would probably like to get it for yourself, but if you really want to do kiru, you're going to get this for as many people as possible. You're going to try to get one for your cousin, for your brother, for your coworker. Why? You don't need to talk anymore. You don't need to convince anymore. You don't need to say, "Listen, this is a USB. You could put it. The rabbi is interesting." You don't have to do anything anymore. We literally did everything for you. All you got to do is get one of this and simply tell to a person, listen, I love you. Here's a gift. What is it? It doesn't require an explanation. In fact, it doesn't require internet. It doesn't require technical knowledge. All it requires is some ability to simply open it. That's it. After that, it turns out by itself. If you want to skip because you've already watched the first few videos, then we need a thumb or a nail or or something, a stick, you could press things and that's it. No skills, no internet, no nothing. Abu tai endless amount of effort of designing it, putting it together uh uh just a uh huge amount and also selecting selecting what's going to be on it. What's going to be on it? and Bashem because our team is so amazing. We have a lot of different things. So, we put the films, some music, lots of things that it's going to short, long, lots of stuff that's going to keep you busy, entertained, and like I said, a person has to be spiritually dead, not to be enticed to at the very least try it out. If they try try it out, your chances of getting that person to do chuva have now increased by 500%. There is no tool like it in the world of Torah because everything else requires more effort, more selling, more convincing. And this is going to be something that's available within the coming weeks. We're not going to be able to distribute them for free because they're expensive. Uh but we're not going to, you know, we're not looking to make millions of dollars out of it either. So, it's going to be cheap and uh we're going to try to keep coming up with more and more innovative ideas to help do. But this, like I said, this is not your typical idea. This is an idea that took three years to come to uh to existence and now it's already on the way here. And uh anyone that wants to sponsor wants to be a partner because we didn't have time uh nor did we wouldn't have the uh ability to raise money specifically for this because it's been really a secret project for a long time. But now that you know, you want to be a sponsor, you want to invest, you want to put instead of investing more in stocks and real estate and jewelry and all types of other things, you want to invest into getting baluva. There is simply no tool on planet earth that will be more convincing than this because this raai is 10 years of work in a not only in a simple thing but it's 10 years worth of work in a way that's so beautiful that doesn't matter whether the person is secular, religious, young, old, Everyone would be interested in this. Don't be surprised if other people are going to try to copy it. But what they can't copy is the last 10 years of work that they won't be able to copy. And uh if if they copy and they actually succeed in helping people do chv will be happy for that. But this is a first in the market and this is kabutai weeks away and uh it'll be available in the stores and we'll make a special package for people that actually want to buy a bunch of them so they can distribute them. Um, we'll do whatever we can to to make it uh not only uh affordable, but also to make it uh something that um you're going to want to give it to people, not just keep it for yourself because it's entertaining. Will have success. Thank you very much for learning with me. uh anyone that wants to be a partner, anyone that wants to support uh this project or to help us with feeding the poor in Israel that have lost their home during the uh recent attacks, you could donate on the website, you could donate on our campaign page, you could donate on the Facebook campaign, lots of ways to support. Uh but um if you really want to be serious about your uh your blessed life that you want in this world and the next, this year gave you the path, gave you the clarity, gave you the alternative or at least knowledge about it. And now we finished off even with a new tool. It's light. It's really really cool. This is miracle in the making of miracle and thank you very much for learning with me. Blesses everyone that watches that shares and uh the will take advantage of the opportunities that are available to help. I'm not I don't know. [Music] foreignch. [Music] I would tell you [Music] alive. Give it to me. 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