Imagining Death At the Stake: Torat HaChassidut (2)

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Ash Naz book.com it's going to be on the uh screen when this uh uh video is on YouTube tomorrow uh also we're continuing to give a bunch of free stuff every day uh by uh anyone that's in our uh WhatsApp groups and the WhatsApp page so I highly recommend that you uh join free cups free bags free uh free stuff just for fun just for publicizing A's name and last but not least is uh anyone that hasn't seen the uh video videos that we publicized from our bedin uh in Israel uh headed by ra yakob zamir who's also the chief danan uh in uh Israel uh of the U the bed the biggest bedin in the world uh and he also heads our he's our n of oured it's also the a is raim K our our Ros is schl sharit uh who's also and of course the last isi uh so all of them uh publicized this letter against the heretic Manis fredman uh to make sure that everyone knows that it's forbidden to uh buy his books sell his books uh watch his lectures according to the Torah as he violates the 13 principles of faith in multiple places uh there was a video that publicized last week there's another one that was publicized today and there going to be a couple of others later this week to make sure that uh the information is known to anyone that wants to know it and of course there's always going to be those that uh reject it uh coming up with all types of silly uh comments and unfortunately some of them are even rabbis that contacted me saying oh listen I don't think that you're doing the right thing uh it's first and foremost uh if you look at the uh's laws of L there is no l when it comes to publicizing Heretics in fact it's the opposite we are obligated to publicize and protest against Heretics uh and uh to say that it's when it's a from AED comprised of extraordinary none other than the chief uh on planet Earth as well as uh some of the extraordinary organization that between them written between 50 and 100 books uh about Al it's a silly thing to say Obviously shows that they didn't really read the contents of the letter they didn't investigate who the rabbis are they just simply do not like to see anything that's going to uh you know destroy their hero uh either way it's important for people to know that uh you know this is going to continue we're going to do everything we possibly can to publicize that uh the warning and whoever wants to listen will listen whoever doesn't want to listen their blood is in their hint either way we uh we have this uh new series that we started last week series that is based on the foundational teachings ofid and this is a very important series uh no less than any of the other ones we've ever done before in fact in some cases it's even more specifically because of this point having to do with this heretic Manis fredman and his other heretic friends out there that claim that it's permitted to say that God has a body or has a arm or all types of other silly things that they make up which violate the Torah because it's so-called uh and you don't understand so you'll learn tonight uh a little bit more about what is realid what it entails to be Aid and in fact how you could actually do things uh to uh that do without necessarily the stal and the uh the uh uh the the rest of the garments of the or even calling yourself a you'll see that some of is were very muchim without the exterior that many people rely on now one of the uh most important teachings ofid is the teachings of Rin as we discussed last week was the third generation from the bmov it was the bmov his main t the uh um um thez and then the two main of the were Rabin and his brother rabusa so we're talking about people that are the foundation of and in fact the this relatively short SE or or or letter uh by the uh by R ofin is considered one of the most profound and foundational teachings of so meaning that anyone in the world today that wants to become familiar with perhaps even practice these are the foundational teachings that you have to know and perhaps even aspire to to fulfill some or all of them if you can now one of the interesting things that uh many people are unaware of in our generation especially since uh history uh of our nation uh although it's a uh very uh more well documented or better documented than any other history in uh you in mankind uh unfortunately the current generation is very ignorant of our history ESP especially what's happened to us over the last few hundred years uh when uh when people that are familiar with that history hear about the so-called Partnerships between uh Jewish people and the church or Jewish people and Christian organizations like what they like to call the judeo-christian uh Partnerships their their skin crawls why because all they could think of is what happened to us you know uh in the last few hundred years in the hand of the Christian church and one of the main things that uh happened over the last few hundred years is the Spanish Inquisition the Crusades and literally the murder of millions of Jews throughout all all of Europe and other parts of the world because we were Jews and the only way for a person to save their flesh was by converting to Christianity now the most horrible way that uh the Jewish people would be uh killed would be by burning at the stake you know simply uh you know trying to tell the uh the the the precious Jewish uh person to you know to convert to idolatry to convert to Christianity and believe that you know God is a man God has three parts sort of like following Manis fredman if you will uh and if not they'd simply burn you uh and not just burn you but do it in a public forum in a celebration in a party and put you know TI tie them to a to a stick and then just literally burn people alive this is something that happened literally uh in in the tens of thousands and on a daily basis throughout all parts of Europe in different parts of the world uh for hundreds of years now many people are unfamiliar with this I would highly recommend uh people look into this if you want to uh get uh something that's a uh uh um not just history but also like a story that's going to make it a little bit uh more fluid and easier to learn uh for some people that are very new and also like uh you know non-fiction books you could uh uh buy the book uh the U Morano Prince which is part of a series that I told you guys is a very interesting and very good series to uh to learn from uh not just uh the entertaining story but Jewish history is in that book and over there you see some really uh realistic gruesome scenes uh that actually happened that actually happened but not once and not twice but literally thousands and thousands of times of how Jewish people were killed in horrible ways because they didn't want to convert to Christianity now as horrible as that may be what most people don't realize is that all of this was bad but as far as what happened to our people but on a spiritual perspective it was also a time where manyik Sanctified A's name in the highest way you could possibly can do just like RAB Akiva when he got killed along with the other 10 martyrs when they got killed in a horrible way because they were Jewish they Sanctified aosh B's name because they did not abandon their belief in hasem they did not abandon their publicity of their belief in Hashem uh no matter what even if it cost them their life which it did cost their life in in a uh in a way that's unimaginable for most people and it was truly an opportunity to sanctify kosh's name now while a person will say okay fine you know it's a history maybe I'll read it maybe not but then if we're going into this series already the series of what one will find very interesting is that this is not just something you need to read about when you get a chance in fact what R ofin starts off this this small note this foundational teaching of is that if you want to be Aid you actually have to think of about that particular situation that horrible scene actually happening to you every single day now why would somebody ever want to do that and in fact how could that possibly help you become a this Andor is what we're going to learn today but before we get into that we also have to look at another perspective another situation that happened another situation that happened of course is a kadh directs the world and everything in it of course he puts our teachings in the weekly Paras every week already for nearly a decade we see in parat one of the most extraordinar and baffling scenes in the Torah where am Isel complains after Miram thead the prophetes dies and goes to ganeden and the Merit that she had is gone and that Merit was the reason why am had water throughout all of those years following them coming from the stone a river of water that the gar says was just like the man just like the man tasted like anything you wanted so did the water so you would have water and you would wanted to taste like wine it tasted like wine you want it to taste like orange juice it tasted like orange juice you want it to be a milkshake it tasted like a milkshake whatever you wanted that water to taste like that was what happened with the water imagine having such a thing literally you have anything you could possibly imagine without having to suffer any type of uh uh uh uh uh pain uh you know without having to chase it without having to buy it without having to do anything just literally following you for years for decades 40 years in a desert but now that m has left the world the water stopped and is of course spearheaded by the that always starts the complaints starts complaining starts threatening MOS and tells M go back to the stone and unlike the first time where I told you to hit the stone and the water will come out out this time speak to the stone speak to the stone but thear tells us that mosenu went to the stone but he went to the wrong Stone and therefore when he spoke to it it did not bring the water so he hid it twice and on the second time due to his sanctity in himself that stone actually started bringing the water out even though it wasn't the right Stone and even though am was happy that they have their water again was not happy and he tells in chapter 20 verse number 12 because you did not believe in me to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel therefore you will not bring this congregation to the land that I have given them see you see here literally the punishment of all punishments or at least it seems like at First Look given to mosenu MOS our Prophet Moshe our Rabbi Moshe our leader our mosu is getting punished for what for not sanctifying God's name because he hit the stone instead of speaking to the stone where is the Kem why did this happen these are some of the questions we will have to learn tonight in the is now for us to truly understand and grasp the magnitude of the teachings we have to understand the magnitude of the teacher But the teacher did not come from himself of course was the son ofad he was born in the year 1717 according to the gorian calendar 5477 in a little village in galtia his father was RAB elzar Lea liman and his mother was Mel they were both extraordinarily righteous people there were successful and they were very gracious to host all types of guests and one time they had these group of very poor people Beggars come to their door and they ended up hosting all of them and one of these Beggars was extraordinarily sick not just poor but sick in such a horrible way that he had infections all over his body so much so that when they gave everyone the ability to wash their the dust off their you know the themselves to to clean themselves up not just feed them not just give them some money but also make them feel like people again when it came to this poor beggar he couldn't wash himself because it was so painful and of course the sikim helped him by Washing parts of his skin with a sponge very carefully to make sure that it doesn't hurt him or at the very least hurts him the least possible to clean this stranger this beggar who smells awful who looks awful who can never repay you in any way or at least it seems like and they washed them and they cleaned them no different than if it would be their own son can you imagine yourself doing such a thing well after their stay after their recuperation the Beggars were ready to head on their way but before they left the sick one among them wanted to give rabz and mir's wife the raban a blessing and he gave them a blessing that would not make sense for many years until they saw what really transpired and the beggar told them the reward for your kindness is that I bless you that you will have a son that is just like me of course and M are baffled by this blessing but they didn't say anything okay someone gives you a blessing okay but they didn't understand but once their son was already speaking and the Beautiful Kusa started coming out of their out of his mouth they knew that this poor beggar was was not just any ordinary beggar but rather a hidden sadik perhaps even Ai and that's one of the things that we see among many sikim throughout history and even today they hide themselves they hide themselves in plain sight and only those that are very close to them those that learn from them really benefit from seeing their righteousness and there's a whole thing about why would they hide themselves which we'll get into perhaps another day Rin succeeded in an un in in an extraordinary way gaining not only endless Torah knowledge and kadus but literally being a miracle worker the open Miracles that were done through his hand as a allowed him to perform were similar in such a way that even at the time of the tanim it would be impressive even at the time of this of of the uh forefathers and Mount Si it would be impressive and this wrote this short note what he called a a short note as an inspiration for a holy life meaning that if you want to live a holy life a life of Aid these are the instructions and he starts as follows translation whenever you are not studying Torah especially when you are sitting idly alone in your room or lying on your bed unable to sleep you should have in mind the Mitzvah that's in the Tora in the 22:32 in that says I shall be Sanctified among B imagine in your heart and picture in your mind that before you is a great and awful fire burning all the way to heaven and you in sanctification of God's holy name overcome your natural fear and throw yourself into it God will consider your good intentions as if you had actually done it in this way you are never merely lying or sitting around idly but always engaged in fulfilling a positive Mitzvah of the Torah this is how he begins the we see from here that the ways of the are not like the ways of regular people where usually when someone is teaching something the typical way of doing it is you start from the small and you grow to the big you start from something easy and you go to the more difficult but thean starts in quite a different way telling you already the first message ofid which is if you have the opportunity to take the whole part if you have the opportunity to be completely righteous go for it don't just try to go along get along just a passing grade if you have the ability to do more rule number one ofid do more do more than what you are obligated to do do more than what you could even imagine yourself doing always Aspire for more furthermore we see that he starts off by telling us which in English translates to whenever but really there's a significance to the Hebrew language that we need to know where he's telling us meaning every moment and the in page 7A says what is AA what is a moment and the goes back and forth explaining to us different verses that talk about a moment a moment in the eyes of God what is a moment because this is the the lesson that one of the sources we learn from is from where bam knew when this moment is there's a moment where passes judgment on the world whatever wrath has to come to this world each day there's only one moment of the day that it happens and because b as we'll learn in par Bak next week knew this moment this would be the time when he would pass his he would say his curses on whoever was the enemy and the curses will be fulfilled because there's already Wrath coming to the world it's as if there is a tsunami and the house is in the way the asks what is a moment how long is a moment teach us a moment AA last as long as it takes you to sayga meaning a moment now broke it down even further and arrived at 115,000 of a second that's AA that's a moment says in every moment that you're not learning to you're not studying toah why you not studying to perhaps you're very tired you're occupied with something that makes you incapable of learning toah you're not able to learn whatever the reason is if you want to be Aid you have to take advantage of those moments especially when you are early on and far away from being aid but you aspired to be one take advantage of the easy times to take advantage of maybe you can't take advantage of every moment while you're working because your mind is on all types of things maybe you can't take advantage of the moment that passes through the day where many times people like to tell people how busy they are and pretend to be busy but somehow they have time to go out to the store and get some ice cream somehow they have time to go buy themselves some new music somehow they have time to watch all types of nonsense on the internet some now they have time for all of these things but if you tell them can you do me a favor and help me oh no no I'm really really busy they don't have any time they have time for other things that are unnecessary but for things that are important for other people they're very busy now of course if a person manages their time very carefully they'll have to learn how to take advantage of their moments but in the beginning you can't go from being a regular person to being a raash to being a to being a that literally counted the moments so R gives us an easy way when you're sitting idly alone in your room you're not doing anything you're not busy with work you're not busy with family you're not busy with anything you're just doing nothing there's nothing to do even if it's five minutes usually people that smoke have a lot of that I remember when I was smoking cigarettes back in my Wall Street days you go to step away from the office think talk whatever it is you want it to go away what do you do go outside whether it's cold hot doesn't make a difference somehow you're on five minutes off so you go you burn five minutes you burned 5 minutes and 5 minutes here and 5 minutes there if you pack uh you know you smoke a pack a day you burned 100 minutes 100 minutes talking about almost two hours so people burn a lot of time they burn a lot of time those types of moments we have nothing to do you're just scrolling through the internet trying to look for something interesting nothing to do your class just finished and or the assignment you working on or the activity you you were doing just completed and the next one that's coming up is another 20 minutes meaning you have nothing to do for that window of 20 minutes you have nothing to do for the window of 10 minutes a half hour an hour that time or better yet you're lying on your bed says unable to sleep you ever have that who didn't you just sitting there trying to go to sleep you're exhausted but you can't go to sleep so much on your mind so much you have to do all of a sudden all the things that you forgot about today suddenly you remember them all the things you have to do tomorrow somehow all of the to-do list becomes priority all of a sudden you're thinking about things that you forgot about you can't sleep during that time that time that you're sitting there doing nothing says [Music] says you should have at that moment in your mind the Mitzvah that's mentioned in our Tor that obligates us to sanctify aad Who's name to sanctify aem's name that's what you should have in your mind now did not invent this mitvah this is a Mitzvah from T and who is better than Ru the raan to learn the in his positive mitvah number nine meaning this is right off the bat when you open the seph you're going to see the mitv of the Tor you have the positive mitv the negative MIT the ones that you have to do the ones you have to stay away from now in Mitzvah number eight the rambam tells us we have an obligation to emulate Hashem be like Hashem just like hem is merciful you be merciful he's gracious you be gracious he's righteous you be righteous he is uh saintly you be saintly try to emulate the character traits of hasem this is the reason why the Torah uses human language in the TOA not because God has an arm or he gets angry or he loves but rather because these are lessons he's trying to teach us of how we should be because from our human limited human perspective this this is how we would interpret this action this action comes from anger this action comes from love this action comes from Mercy this action comes through a strong arm it is not for any in any way shape or form an insinuation that God actually has these feelings or he has an arm as the rambam tells us multiple times in the commentary on the chapter 3 number 7 it is not because God has these traits but rather this is what he wants us to learn from his action and from our limited human perspective this is how our mind would be able to interpret such an action such an action in our mind would be as a result of anger such an action would be as a result of Love mercy and so on so we have a commandment from the toat to emulate AEM and mitvah number nine that the mentions the ram tells us this a positive commandment from the Torah to sanctify the name of God this is what God Said in the Torah in the book Book of Leviticus 22:32 and I shall be Sanctified in the midst of the children of Israel now interestingly if you look at the Mitzvah the verse itself the full verse you will see that actually there are two mitv over there where once the Torah tells us to sanctify but before he tells us to Sanctified says you shall not desecrate my Holy Name rather I should be Sanctified among the children of isra I am AEM who sanctifies you so here T gives us one of the many examples of how we're not only obligated to do good but even before we do good we have to steer away from bad not to desecrate God's name Stay Away From Evil and do good you can't just do good while doing evil because you'll still stay evil if you want to be good the first thing you need to learn how to do is stop doing bad things if you're a Jew you're obligated to keep all of the mitv among them is observing Shabbat that means you have to observe Shabbat can't drive on Shabbat can't work on Shabbat can't can't even discuss work on Shabbat you have to arrive to shabbat as if all of your dealings are handled and there's no worries in the world because if you carry your worries into Shabbat you're not able to enjoy Shabbat and you're you're forsaking the the on Shabbat you're not really observing Shabbat properly so a person has to learn how to stay away from desecrating God's name name as the page 86 tells us that there are certain sins that a person can simply say I'm sorry to hasem and he'll be forgiven there are other higher category of sins where saying I'm sorry is not enough he has to wait until yum Kip for Hashem to forgive him and then there are sins that are even higher level where a person has to suffer in this world even after saying I'm sorry even after yum Kip they have to suffer in this world in order for that sin to be rectified but then there is the highest level of sin where a person can say I'm sorry can go through yum kipu for 50 years can even suffer in this world but it will not be rectified until he dies and that is the sin of of desecrating God's name and a person has to be careful to never desecrate God's name and really the way to fix desecrating God's name says over 700 years ago is by doing K doing K sanctifying God's name exactly the mitvah r is telling us we have an obligation to sanctify God's name one of the ways of doing it says the rambam the idea of this commandment is that we are commanded to publicize this true Jewish faith that believes in one God and should not fear that anyone will harm them in consequence of doing so see here the rambam is telling us that it's not enough to just be Jewish you have to publicize your Judaism you have to publicize your belief in one God your belief in the mitv your belief in the T publicize it be proud of it furthermore if you see someone is going against Jud Judaism violating the 13 principles of fa of Faith preaching heresy you have an obligation to publicize their heresy that's part of sanctifying God's name you can't just sit there idly doing nothing you have an obligation to sanctify God's name sanctify your beliefs that are contrary to the Heretics belief now what if a person says yeah but if I share your lectures you know people say uh bad things about me maybe they'll kick me out of Yeshiva maybe they'll kick me out of the community maybe they're not going to want to talk to me maybe this maybe that says the ramb if you want to fulfill this Mitzvah Kem and in fact if you do not want to violate this Mitzvah you have to not only publicize your belief in a Jewish faith and a belief in the one God but you are not allowed to fear anyone other than God you should not fear anyone you should not fear anyone harming you to what extent to what extent says the rambam to the extent that if a tyrant would seek to coar us and to deny the exalted one some Tyrant is trying to convince you to believe in Yos tells you you don't believe in Yos we're going to do the Spanish Inquisition on you we're going to burn you at the Stak if you don't convert to idolatry we're going to kill this and kill that says the rambam one has to publicize his belief in the Torah his belief in God his belief in Judaism to the extent where even if a tyrant would seek to coers him to deny the exalted one we must not heed them rather we should give our lives meaning we should die not to deny God we must not even let him meaning the Tyrant we might must not even let him receive the impression even through an external gesture of acceptance that we have denied God through our hearts though our hearts are steadfast in the beli an exalted one this by the way highlights the mistake of the moros and unfortunately others throughout history other Jews throughout history that when the evil decree was published by the government at the time whether it be in Spain or in other countries that uh decreed that the Jews have to either convert to Christianity or leave many of them left but some did not want to leave because they had all of their money there and when you left you couldn't take your house you couldn't take your money you were leaving with the clothes on your back meaning you had 10 million in the bank now nothing now nothing everybody left with nothing everybody literally was leaving with nothing everybody started from scratch so many people didn't want to leave how am I going to leave my business I'm making a million dollars a month how I'm going to leave my house it's my life savings how I'm going to leave uh you know all of these things things so okay well the only way for you to stay is converting to Christianity yeah but how could I convert to Christianity I believe in one God not three how could I convert to Christianity I believe in God as uh no body or the likeness of a body you guys believe that he became a human how could I believe in Christianity it's considered idolatry well buddy if you want to stay you have to convert to Christianity so some of the people said you know what let me just give them the impression that I believe in it tell them yeah yeah yeah I believe in this one and uh the son The Prostitute and the uh the Ghostbusters sure I I believe in all that stuff sure no problem no problem the the bastard and The Prostitute and the the uh and all the spirits and the Ghostbusters I believe in everything sure no problem we have idolatry hence the reason why we're doing it in every lecture especially when they killed us for it so now now now person thought he fooled him why he gave them the impression that he believes made sure that everyone knew he was not happy with this why you are not allowed by any way to give anyone the impression that you do not believe in a Torah while inside your heart you still believe many of them Morano did this cuz they didn't want to leave they didn't want to leave all these countries so they pretended to be Christians but then at home they still would practice their Judaism in a limited way and to show how aadh was unhappy with all of this many of them got caught and then burned at the stake and the most horrible vicious way tortures Terrible Things says the rambam we're not allowed to ever fear anything happened to us to such an extent where even if a tyrant would seek to coers us we must not even hint to such a person that we don't believe in a to this commandment says the rambam is referred to as Kem sanctification of the name which every Jew has been commanded in other words we must hand ourselves over to death at the hands of the tyrant in expression of our love of the exalted one and in our belief in his Oneness meaning if you have only one way either convert to idolatry or die a Jew must die and rambam gives an example of what happened at the time of the BET mikdash where put a stat he was king of every nation where the Prophet Daniel told him an interpretation of his dream that he will be the most powerful King in the world from his time until the mhi arrives once mashia arrives of course he will rule the whole world in a more powerful way than any other king in history but nonetheless until then was gifted this because he fulfilled the mitah feeding the poor but needless to say this rash was an idol worshipper even though he believed in God but he also believed in idolatry he had an enormous statue built and then through the use of huge magnets he had the statue pulled in both directions or multiple directions at the same time that it looked like it was floating in the air that's what the mid says so this statue is enormous size of a building and it's flying in the air and he said everyone has to bow to the Statue and the rambam says that everyone was forced to bow down to this image and all did including the Jews there being no one who would sanctify the name of Heaven which was a great shame for Israel why because you have not just the Gentiles many of which were already Idol worshippers all of which were Idol worshippers actually because there was only idolatry and there's Judaism so for them to just add another Idol not a big deal so you think okay why all the Jews Like run away yeah but when you saw the ceremony where literally millions of people are going B to the Statue you think oh everybody's doing it so no one knows the Jews are there they're doing it they're not doing it so tomorrow in the paper the headline will be everybody in the world B to Statue so the the three friends of Daniel knew the sanctification of A's name is absolutely necessary here and they refused to bow to the Statue and with thrown into the fire and of course saved them even though the prophet told him that he will not save them because didn't want them to know that he's going to save them he want them he wanted them to really get the full reward for this mitvah being commemorated thousands of years later and the rambam tells us here this of publicizing our belief in and not fearing anyone or anything other than a that no one could hurt us for publicizing the truth no one can hurt us for doing the will of hasem never fearing consequences never being concerned of whether people will like dislike kill doesn't make a arrested doesn't make a difference if they send you the the the uh police to the house if they send you problems they call the bank their friend that works for the bank convinced a friend that works at the bank to give you some problems all of a sudden you leave the holiday your bank is closed your money is gone you don't even have money to to pay for for food for nearly a month you have no idea what happened can't fear any of those things why you're publicizing the K's name you publicizing name eventually you will see how reward you like no other now this is a Mitzvah that is also connected to the next mitvah which is the kma is Mitzvah number 10 and we also see how the is not just writing things out of his mind he's actually connecting the we're emulating hem we're sanctifying his name and here we see is why is because we are also obligated to think about what theat is saying during as the teach us that when a person says and he's fulfilling that mitvah a Biblical mitvah of saying the in the morning and at night he has to imagine that he is jumping into a fire in order to sanctify kosh's name he is thrown into a fire to sanctify kosh's name never forsaking his beliefs never going to idolatry never going to heresy no matter what and tells us that this mitvah of sanctifying aadh whose name should be constantly on a person's mind where imagine yourself in your heart and picture an illustration in your mind he says that you are before a great and awful fire burning all the way to the heavens I mean this is some serious fire you're thinking about this is a fire nothing survives in and you in sanctification of God's holy name overcome your natural fear and throw yourself in it in order to sanctify God's name and not abandon his beliefs now the sadik Daniel Parish who wrote the famous midash commentary on the on the Z kados he before he publicized this very awesome writing he was a teacher for children and of course these children grew up many of them became and even regular people that are in the work world but are very very righteous people and some of them told how they learned to withhold themselves from sins to stay strong despite the tests during those years when they were little kids six seven 8 years old learning with Daniel Parish they said that once in a while perhaps once a year a few times a year I don't know the exact times but the rabbi would take the kids on a trip on a field trip they were going to the woods all types of places see all types of things at some point they're going into the woods he makes uh takes some care kosene that he took with him and lights a fire little bonfire all the kids are around it little kids cute precious do not know what sin are and he tells the kids which one of you is willing to sanctify a kados whose name by jumping into the fire of course if the if the uh Educational Department would hear such a thing that say they arrest the guy but the rabbi was trying to teach them something which one of you is willing to jump into the fire in order to sanctify hashem's name as the kids are looking at this very passionate moment one says I'll do it and then another one says I'll do it another one says I'll do it and little by little each one of them gets Wild up yeah I'm willing to do it I'm willing to do it I'm willing to do it and the whole group of them are willing to do it and by then already ra Daniel Parish were made sure that the kerosene already died out and the fire died out so nobody has to jump into the fire but years later these same children grew up and they said those foundational teachings that we learned from the rabbi were what kept us strong through difficult ult situations when there were big tests because it was engraved into our heart into our souls that we are willing to jump into a fire in order to sanctify God's name now the bet in the SE where it's in essence his his journal his diary of his different teachings and conversations with the angel that would teach him constantly discussed his lifelong dream to die on Kem by being burned at the stake like the Spanish Inquisition and he would constantly beg the angel to promise him that he will make sure that when he dies he doesn't die a regular death but rather dies on Kem the Z he brings the ru that tells us that if somebody desecrated God's name made the mistake of all mistakes by desecrating God's name and he wants to fix it before he dies as says you have to you have to do K do the opposite but he explains how does this how does doing Kem undo the uh desecration of God's name he says because the punishment for desecrating God's name is so big that there's not enough horrible things in this world to quantify it to to measure it and therefore it is waiting for a person after he dies but at the same token the reward for Kem is so big that there's not enough good in this world there's not enough good in this world to quantify the reward for somebody that Sanctified God's name and therefore as also clarifies in the is when a person sanctify God's name he undo the one goes against the other and as the says that if a person does chuba from fear of punishment their intentional sins turn into accidental sins means they'll still get punished but much less but if they do Chua from Love their intentional sins turn into mitv imagine person made a million and a half sins now he has a million and a half without actually doing the MIT but to do chuva out of love as Shalom said nearly 200 years ago it's not relevant to even the righteous people in his generation except if you take advantage of the opp opportunity that the Z brings which is to do kiru if you help people do chuva either directly by teaching them by giving them a USB by giving them a a book by encouraging them by inviting them to a lecture by sending them a lecture or by supporting it simply donating on a regular basis not one time in your life then guess what if you make helping other people do chuva if you help other people do chuva you are now showing that you love God and that is the highest expression of love of God says the Z you could possibly have which turns whatever your chuva was at that point you probably did Chua because you afraid you didn't want more bad things to happen you probably had some bad stuff happened to you you don't want them to continue happening so you started doing Chua started fixing your life just like most of us started doing Chua because bad things were happening want to stop want God to help us you want to turn that into a chuva from love says the Z do do K that turns your chuva into a CH from love meaning that all of your prior sins now turn into mitv why because you are now sanctifying God's name you're sanctifying God's name the reward for you supporting kiru is unquantifiable in this world you cannot measure it why because it's all considered Kem and therefore the Z says somebody that makes kir their priority in life they're always giving to that's their priority in life more than helping poor people more than anything else they make this their priority in life even though they're working they're an investment banker they're plumber they're a mechanic they're a a consultant they're a whatever lawyer whatever they are but they take make sure that they invest consistently into helping people do CH they go up to sh bet they lived 120 years they know they made some mistakes they know they made some errors but kiru was their number one investment guess what Z says there's no bed the bedine says go is your special place in ganeden they don't judge you now of course this is assuming the person is trying to do good things he's not sinning regularly violating Shabbat every week but he thinks that he's gonna buy ganeden with money no he's doing his best she's doing her best to be righteous and invest in kiru at the same time there's no judgment in sham why because it's considered kadem it's considered k now the uh saying you could even fulfill this mitvah at other times if you want to be a true you want to be a true you could even fulfill this mitvah of K even at other times in fact it doesn't cost you a penny how every time you're sitting there idly you're not doing anything you're laying down in bed you're sitting at your chair in your office your dinner table you're waiting for the meal to come whatever it is that you're doing imagine yourself being burned at the steak for the sake of God's name now of course a person could do this for one second for 5 seconds for a minute and guess what saysin God will consider your good intention as if you had actually done it just like the page 48 says who loves us so much he's looking for ways to reward us and therefore you had a good thought you want to do a good thing you truly truly want to do it you tried it you did whatever you could to fulfill it writes in your report card for life you did it yeah but no I tried to give all of thisa but right before I gave it the am IRS came took all my money something bad happened I lost everything I tried to give everything I wanted to give it but I lost it I had the money I was going to give it to the rabbi right there and then before you know it some muggers took everything from me says you had the plan you had the intention and I know what's in your heart he says in my book for your life is a check mark there's a check mark for that Mitzvah you fulfilled it you fulfilled it if a person person thinks about dying on Kem says thear which R brings up considers it as if you just died on K in this way he says you are never merely lying and sitting around idly but always engaged and fulfilling a positive Mitzvah in a Torah meaning this is not just okay I sat there I thought about it for a minute it was a little bit difficult especially when you start getting visuals especially when you start thinking about what's going to happen to your body especially when you're thinking about the sad faces of people that love you you start getting the visual especially if you get good at it says every second you are thinking of that that you're dying on Kem is a Mitzvah it's not one mitzvah for one minute it's not one mitzvah for 10 minutes no every second you think like that that you're willing to die on K is a mitah and that Mitzvah from just so you guys understand if you took the words of the sages and gave an illustration to it the sages say that the reward for a Mitzvah any Mitzvah is greater than anything else you have in this world what does that mean if a person lives an average life 70 years 80 years you know what let's give him 90 years a third of his life he's sleeping people on the average sleep8 hours a day out of 24 hours that's a third so third of his life he's sleeping so out of 90 years 30 years AG gone another third of the life he's taking care of business he working average person Works eight hours a day or at least pretends like he's working eight hours a day so he's not exactly learning to he's not exactly doing some great mitv he's not praying 8 hours 30 years another 30 years a gone you have 30 years left out of the 30 years that are left the rest of it you have to take care of your life you eat you drink you go to the bathroom take a shower spend some time with the family some of it some of that time that's left is not exactly enjoyable some of it perhaps it's enjoyable but let's be generous and say that the entire 30 years that are left the entire 30 years that are left are comprised of joy every Joy you can possibly imagine when he eats food it's the best food when he drinks a drink it's the most tasty drink he never gets sick he never even has a cough nothing hurts he's always healthy pristine Health they use him as the modern day example of someone that is healthy not only that everything he does is fun whatever he does he walks enjoys he runs enjoys he lays down enjoys he wants to play enjoys his marriage is joyful his kids are joyful everything is joyful just imagine 30 years of just Joy now let's imagine further not just one guy living such a hypothetical unrealistic joyful life but an entire generation of people everyone in the world living this life where everything they do is like the greatest imagination everything is joyful the food the the intimacy the uh the the the drinking the everything is away 30 years that they live that's not work that's not uh sleeping everything else is joyful entire generation and you take the joy of all of them and you it you put it in a box now that box has a lot of joy in it I mean that's a joy that's extraordinary Joy it's not even something you could really quantify but we're giving an illustration if you put that Joy and then you put it into a syringe and you give somebody a shot with all of that Joy at one time I mean that's going to be one happy guy that's going to be one happy lady if she got a syringe if she got a shot with all of the generation's joy 30 years of actual life in one shot I mean that's joy that you cannot even imagine now if we take it a step further if you take the joy of every single person that ever lived the Kings the Queens the princes the Warriors the bankers the the lawyers the the the uh the the the wicked people the righteous anybody everybody that ever lived from the beginning of the world all the way until the end of the world we are now at year 5,784 we have nearly 6 th000 years billions of people have lived imagine all of them have had joy every moment of their life not just one generation but all of these Generations you take all of that joy and you put it in a box you liquefy it you put it in a syringe you give somebody a shot with that joy and one person getting all that joy and one shot for all of the people that never existed I mean we said before the one generation of Joy that's one happy camper you can't say that about everybody's Joy that's happy it's not enough you have to come up with every possible adjective of good to quantify how happy this person is going to be to have the joy that everyone has ever had in all of history says the sages the Jewish sages tell us all of the joy that everyone has ever had from the beginning of the world until the end of the world is not even announce not even a small amount of the joy that a Jew will receive for fulfilling one mitvah in the Tor meaning all of that joy that we just gave you an illustration for is not even a small down payment of what you will get for fulfilling one Mitzvah in the tah needless to say the Mitzvah of sanctifying A's name which for that was what you were created for as the tells us in multiple places and mentions it as well why did create this world in order to sanctify his name so when you sanctify kosh's name you are literally fulfilling the purpose of this world in a who's infinite parts that he has in this world you as the small little part that he has in this world have decided from your free choice to do your job you have now become a useful tool you have now fulfilled your purpose imagine that the reward for such a Mitzvah is greater than all of the joy that everyone could ever possibly get in this world if you combined and when a person thinks about kashem for one second thinks about dying for the sake of A's name for one second that's a Mitzvah two seconds it's another Mitzvah 3 seconds it's another Mitzvah 60 seconds a whole minute 60 Mitzvah 10 minutes 10 minutes he's thinking about dying in he thinking of himself being tied to the wood surrounded by pieces of wood fire is coming out and he's happy saying the joy that he will get is unquantifiable even if he only did that for just 10 minutes in his mind why who loves us so much he will consider your good intention as if you have actually done it as if you have actually done it now the also by tells us that a person should not want to die hem is not looking for us to die rather he should want to live on K as the says you should pray to until you can vividly imagine various types of death and afflictions until my senses are en olded and I can feel the very pain and suffering of death as if I was dying for the sake of your great and holy name let there be no difference between my thought and my willingness to die in actual death itself until I reach the point that I feel my soul is about to leave me and I have to refrain from thinking a bit because so I don't want to actually die because you do God forbid you do not want me to die before my time because in your beneficient will help me and teach me how to be truly ready to die with love for the sanctification of your name and the norm says that at that moment a person should actually imagine that he's sanctifying his life in order to affirm God's Unity because this is the path ofik and then the says that with all of that a person should realize that with all of the opportunities to sanctify ify hm's Name by dying for him living for him and sanctifying his name is even greater it's even greater to sanctify your your your life for the sake of God and live with self sacrifice with for the sake of God is even greater than that by you going and helping people do chuva you're sanctifying A's name even bigger by you publicizing T you're sanctifying A's name even more why because a does not desire the sacrifices he doesn't want a person to kill himself or forfeit his life creates endless amount of souls each and every minute so why would he want or need the soul of some sinner rather aadh looks to find a precious person who will devote his whole heart and soul to him while he's alive and at each and every moment someone who refrains from indulging in a deep physical desire that is bringing a sacrifice to God by you living on kashem that means that you have a desire to do something against the toah you saw something in your peripheral vision that's L that's not modest and you don't look you don't look something on the screen popped up L you shut off the screen right away you look away L your wife has a relative or a friend comes over to the house L you look away even if she's you don't look you look away you you see some delicious meal it's not kosher you're starving not eating it why no Kosher business opportunity make a fortune cheating people you don't do it why you need the money you want the money it's not Kosher by over overcoming those desires to sin you are living a life that's holy and that's what a wants let the dying on Kem be in your mind and you'll be you'll be rewarded as if you fulfilled it and something even more extraordinary is by living on km by literally sacrificing your daytoday in order to honor hashem's Name by overcoming desires when a person studies T they could push themselves beyond beyond what they would normally push themselves beyond what they think is beyond what they think is even what they're able to do they want to go they see their friends are playing but they still choose to learn more they see there an opportunity to go do all types of things that sound like fun but they stay learning to they're tired they're falling asleep on the book they push themselves further to stay up longer in order to learn tah they got to a really difficult part of the sh they push themselves further to keep learning it a few more times till they understand it or at least try that's sanctifying A's name through your life through your life now who is not who is not a like people today that just call anyone a sadik he would call this one Jew that was a simple Jew a Kad a holy Jew it's one specific Jew and this Jew is not a extraordinary or big no he was a simple Jew and every time he would tell this story he would get emotional and you would call him what a holy Jew what was so special about this Jew this Jew was a regular Jew but one day these go decided that they are going to force this guy to convert and abandon Judaism and usually they go after the people that look weak and they threatened this Jew to convert to Christianity and this Jew although he wasn't a scholar he wasn't someone that was well known said absolutely not and refused to even listen to anything they said eventually they put him to burn him at the stake on stage in front of everyone cheering looking forward to Jewish blood and this Jew was already ready to die on Kem any time they would speak to him he would completely ignore it anything and just look at the heavens waiting to give his n back to that created it completely ignoring anything that anyone was was telling him trying to get him out of it he was ready people were cheering hungry for death in the last moment the Jewish people got a bunch of money together and bought his life back and he was released but from the trauma that he had and literally his n was already ready to come out he lost his ability to speak for the rest of his life every time he will say the story he says that is a a holy Jew that was a holy Jew now it may seem very far from us to think that this Inquisition and the things of the past centuries would happen to us and we write that it won't happen to us even though the World At Large seems like it's returning to the past with all the anti-Semitism it's in the world either way a person should not only have this knowledge in the back of their mind but they could literally live already as a holy Jew every single day and prepare their n to sanctify k who name on a regular basis at any time that you have a opportunity to now I know this is not for everyone and perhaps not even for the vast majority of people that are watching this but needless to say anytime a person thinks about instead of thinking about the garments instead of thinking about the accent instead of thinking about all of the things that the superficial that pretend to you know to present with if a person really wants to know what is all about it starts with this doing above and beyond above and beyond what you're obligated to do meaning that if someone is doing the standard obligatory good job that doesn't make them a though if they're not even doing the minimum certainly they're not a no matter what they're wearing and what they're saying if they're violating the and teaching against the Tor they're as far from as you could ever possibly be because this is the foundation now many of even without being part of a just because their D toah was so Superior to what a person could possibly get to that if you simply read what they said learn what they said learn about their Liv you're seeing something that someone that didn't just become a g in the Tora because they learned a lot they didn't become aad because they have a good memory or or they're father is a big Rabbi literally you see that these people were giants because of their actions because of their midot extraordinary Story I Heard just today from who he himself heard it from the the person that's in the story the rabbi of the Yasin perhaps the most famous synagogue in the world at the very least in Israel endless amount of Torah lectures are given there every single day for many many years big to theim that built the place and literally set it up in such a fashion where literally there is that get publicized in every corner of the world one big Rabbi after another now the rabbi of the Yim is Yik and he said that when he was much younger they asked him to start giving giving a start giving a to now today anybody that thinks that they know how to teach t or they just like to hear themselves speak or they want to become popular or they want to pretend like they're righteous they just start YouTube channel they start teaching T now the truth is says that if you want to start teaching toah you have to get permission from your Rabbi now you say oh I don't have a rabbi then you're not fit to teach toah now if I want to teach toah I have to ask permission from the rabbi what if the Rabbi says no then you're not allowed to teach simple that's that's now of course they asked him to teach toah but he has to get permission who does he go to he goes to his Rabbi one of the the of and goes to the house of the rabbi he knows that he's constantly studying teaching he doesn't want to waste his time so he prays right before he enters the door please AEM bring the right words into the mouth OFA that whatever he says that's what you want if he wants me to teach then I'll teach if you you don't want me to teach I won't teach whatever he says I'm going to do he goes inside and he says to the ra sorry to bother you just take a few moments of your time because he was studying said yeah sure what do you need and tells him they asked me to teach some uh and I wanted to uh see if the rabbi Dees for me to teach says yes of course go ahead and do it yeah thank you very much the and he already turned around to go as he got to the door he put his hand on the handle and all of a sudden the r turns around the the says his voice says of Y and of course once you get that second before you go you already know uh oh what happened now turns around says yes so in this you're going to teach the to huh yes I mean is what we're going to start and there's plenty of plenty of practical in there that we have to teach he says but you know that I pasin differently than R in many places so who you going to go with who are you going to teach says if the ground could open up and swallow me at that moment I preferred that already what are you going to do this is my R and this is R what do you do me immedately sh says he goes I'm your publicize your no matter what we publicize what your Pak is of course the basic Foundation everybody has is the same but the way to fulfill certain MIT is sometimes different between and says I'm going to teach your your ways and surprise of all surprises looks at his and he says and you're going to go against he says if the ground can swallow me again for sure I'm jumping in this time he says but but but but you went against him and I'm going with you he says but you are me doesn't know what to say but but I don't know what what what do you do okay uh no yes he says although I disagree on certain things with you go teach [Music] that's what you teach that's what wants it's not about my opinion versus his opinion it's what what is needs and you have to go teach what taught how he P it this is this is four walls nobody knows nobody's convincing the rabbi to do anything he could easily command his talid to teach only his way his his after all it's his talid and if not he could simply just stay quiet not say anything whatever he teaches it teaches but he makes sure that his tmid knows don't ever get confused yes I P in different on this or or that but you have to go teach what is teaching that's what you have to teach why that's what AM needs to know that's what AM needs to know when a person cares only about the will of a that means that their will their desires there anything is removed from the equation completely and only the will of hasem is there and that means not just the basics of what's expected of you but even more so and the more a person is looking to sanctify A's name the more a person is looking to live sanctifying A's name the more more they'll become a precious tool that aosh has in this world that is fulfilling the purpose which is to glorify the name of God now when it came to this mitvah we saw from the rambam it's a positive Mitzvah meaning that if there is a situation where there's some Tyrant some some Crusade some Nazi that's threatening us to abandon God or else we die we know that we have to die but we don't have to go look for Crusades just to die that's not what the Mitzvah says meaning you don't have to look for opportunities to sanctify God's name the mitvah is do it when you can but if you want to fulfill the then you start looking for it and for that we also see the answer to our question about M mosenu was commanded by God to speak to the stone mosenu after the annoyance of am complaining and threatening and yelling and being very very obnoxious in every way shape or form especially led by the ER that inspired all of this hatred mosu makes the mistake of hitting now after all the purpose of getting the water out was achieved but that was not really the purpose you see a said I want you to speak to them not hit speak to the to the stone and not hit the stone why because you already hit the stone in the past and water came out now if you hit the stone again is is not going to learn anything from that they're not going to learn anything from that they're just going to think oh so mosu has this trick or God has this limited miracle that if you hit the stone water comes out they're not going to learn anything from that but if you speak to the stone then am that has a clever mind a precious Nish and a clever mind is going to see wait a minute look this stone is a stone but yet it's fulfilling the words that mosenu is saying it's fulfilling the Commandment that mosenu is saying to it we have a flesh heart we don't have a stone heart meaning we should also listen to mosu and follow the ways of Hashem but you didn't do that M you didn't do that you hit the stone and therefore we lost the opportunity for am to learn we lost the opportunity for am to learn to do chuva we lost the opportunity for is to have another reason to sanctify my name as a result of their desire meaning you lost the opportunity to sanctify my name and because you lost the opportunity to sanctify my name you cannot enter the land land of Israel that its entire place a full land is all sanctification of God's name the entire land of Israel is one big K and as a measure for measure punishment because you lost the opportunity to sanctify my name you cannot enter a place that's full of Kem now are we obligated in the same level as mosenu no but when you're a sadik judges them even for small things the is not even an obligation at the hair breath hair breath small things things that you wouldn't even imagine now again we're not sikim we're not even the shoelace that mosu used but yet at the same token we have an opportunity to fulfill the same ASU and couldn't do because we're we can go to either way whether you live in the Exile or you live in you have an opportunity to sanctify name perhaps you'll do it once and then forget about it maybe you'll do it twice and then forget about it maybe you'll do it once a day for a week and then forget about it maybe you'll do it every day either way it was all worth it why because if a person comes into this world and just sanctifies A's name just one time all of the creation and all of history and all of the agony and all of the pain and all of the trials and tribulations that have ever happened into the world World become worth it which means if any one of you that's watching us right now after you watch this you take an action to sanctify God's name you could do it for free by thinking about the things that said dying and or you could do it by supporting kiru helping us continue publicizing holy Torah either way you'll be sanctifying A's name and for that it wasn't only worth it to have this sh to study to go through all types of trials and tribulations to get to this point much more than that it was worth it for a to create the whole creation just for that isn't that amazing thank you for giving us the opportunity to sanctify your extraordinary name your holy name and will be and sanctifying your name and publicizing your name and encouraging others to do the same thank you very much for learning with me bless each and every single one of you with a life full of K anyone that wants to help us continue sanctifying K's name and become a partner with us in sanctifying A's name you could donate at BH torah.org orem.org or many other places that you could donate by sending a check or contacting Us in other ways either way bless you and we'll continue to learn again later this week [Music] for [Music] for fored [Music] today because of how long the Gus has gone on there isn't a Jew in the world who deserves Punishment No matter what he does [Music] for [Music] for [Music] for for [Music] the has a real arm if says arm then he has an arm don't turn the to into a into a fairy tale abish that has an arm a real arm a literal arm Mish an arm you mean like mine no you don't have a real arm [Music] the needs [Music] you [Music] for [Music] for [Music] for for [Music] he means well he's a very very very nice person probably means well he speaks well he loves people but to teach people there's no a [Music] anymore tells he doesn't say every day says there's noish [Music] nowadays for [Music] and the B says that if a person is trying to get there but still not there as long as he's trying he's still on the right path eventually he's going to get there but if he thinks if he's deluding himself that fear is bad like this Manis uh uh Santa Claus thinks or some of the other uh people say that fear is not good gay is not good scaring people is not good all types of mumbo jumbo that their philosopher heads are creating the balat the head of one of the greatest in history says someone that thinks they can purely just love AEM is not doing anything at all it's not serving AEM serving something else why because there is no such thing as a servant that's not afraid of his master no such thing and this is pure logic you can even call it rational and it's that each and every single one of the people that ever listened to that mumbo jumbo that's distorting the true T will listen to these holy words and do CH get closer to and serve him as a tells us to serve him 5784 Manifesto since our Rabbi the rambam wrote in this commentary on Mish in santer 10 1 that when a person disputes even just one of the foundations of the Tor then he steps out of the circle of our people and denies the essence of our faith he is called a heretic and anicos and one who uproots the saplings of our beliefs we saw fit to reveal our Torah opinion D Torah to publish publicly about the man called Manis fredman and the fruit of his thought the book I did not ask to be born according to what we have examined there are blasphemy and heresies in his words which go against the 13 principles of Faith which are the foundations of the entire tah we were very saddened when we heard in his words things that are exactly the opposite of what the ramb wrote in chapter 1 3 and the commentary on M 10 1 because all the entities require him and he blessed be he does not need them nor any one of them for he is not dependent on any being other than himself we have also heard how the affir menion denies the belief in the 11th foundation of the foundations of the Torah that he pays a good reward to those who observe the mitv of the Torah and punishes those who transgress its prohibitions we have also heard that in his words he gives a place of honor to those who forsake the toah and their Abominations about which king Salomon peace be upon him already said those who forsake the Torah will praise the wicked there for there is an absolute obligation upon all Jewish people to avoid hearing his sermons or reading his books and we sign this as a humble addition to what has already been publicized by the member of in the USA the great goon Feldman the people must stay away and protest against the invalid ideologies of the uper mentioned signing in sorrow and out of concern for cl is in all their settlements yob Zim k schi [Music] ruen [Music] fored [Music] for [Music] for Feldman [Music] Kon ruen [Music] amen