Loud Heavenly Voice Before MaShiach - MUSSAR Pirkei Avot (143)

shin(hebrew) shiur Torah great to be here in Aventura Florida and at the Breslev center baruch Hashem we can continue our series We are continuing the Mishna in Pirkei Avot this is actually going to be the second Mishnah in the chapter six of Pirkei Avot Betzra HaShem, it's a completely new Mishnah beautiful Mishnah problem Most likely again will also be several shiurim (classes) to complete this Mishnah as well I had a lot of fun studying for this Mishnah and (hebrew), it's actually also something that a lot of people are gonna like to hear about because I know people love to talk about Messiah, people love to talk about Moshiach, you know, and this Mishna has a little bit to do with it as well this has a lot to do with it actually So Betzra HaShem we'll talk about it We'll talk about some of the things that are continuing to go on in the world Unfortunately the horban (sacrifice) that has happened over the last couple of weeks with this misinterpretation of the Halachah by many well-known rabbis a lot of confused people and we will try to bring some more clarity to the issues if you guys have any specific, you know related questions, please ask along the way if it's not related then obviously after this you the shiur we'll have the typical questions and answer session This shiur will also continue to be for refuah shlema of my dear friend Rav Haim and also Of Rav Efraim ben Shulamit Raba Nitza bat Anat Yohevet bat Bhatia LeBana bat Sarah Sara bat Levana David Ben Joa Doris bat David Ben Missreah David Ben Esreah Doris bat Jora Devorah bat Mercedes Elisheva Haia bat Sarah and who else am I forgetting? And all of am Israel Betzra Hashem will have refua Shlema, refua haNefesh and refua haGuf The Mishnah in Avot in the weekly parasha, parasha Toldot Always be siat de nishmaia connect to our life at that very moment. The Chafets Haim once said, people are willing to pay endless amount of money To find answers during very difficult times What they should do during a business deal, to go not to go, to buy to sell What they should do with their marriage what they should do with their divorce what they should do with their children a lot of things a lot of big decisions in life seems like if You don't pay attention. You're bound to make the wrong decision But life is one decision after another and each decision could be the one that changes your life and people would come to the Chachamim throughout all of the generations and Ask them for asking questions about their life decisions this is one of the Important things that a Chacham needs to do for for for his people is to give them guidance Now, why do they go to the Chacham instead of simply answering things on their own? number one the Chacham Sees things from a different perspective It's much easier to see things From an outside perspective than from inside because their emotions that the person has when he's dealing with something usually steered their decision in the wrong direction you know sometimes when a woman wants to make a decision in regards to one of our children or a husband or Something relating to some emotional issue that she may have it's almost a hundred percent of the time that she's bound to make a mistake simply because Her emotions are going to lead her decision-making and usually the emotions are wrong If a guy is Very upset you can even say angry It's practically guaranteed that he'll make the wrong decision in anything that he does Even things as simple as what to eat Even things as simple as where to go Even things as simple as whether to pick up the phone or not Once a person is angry. There's no control no control and the Yetzer Hara will always steer them in the wrong direction. So When somebody you ask somebody from an outside perspective They don't have this emotional involvement with with what's happening So already that makes the likelihood of the decision to be much better much clearer much more likely to succeed but even more important than that is that a Typical person whether it be psychiatrist or friend or parent or some type of colleague that you ask for advice It's simply going to give you their opinion from their perspective Meaning they're telling you what they would do if they were you They're not telling you advice based on what they would do if they were Themselves they're not telling you advice as if they're putting, you know, they're your perspective first meaning The way that a typical person will give you advice is that He's gonna look at things Just from their own perspective just from their own life as if they weren't, you know Not really thinking about all the consequences not necessarily thinking about what you like and what you don't like What's going to benefit you in the long run? What's gonna hurt you in the long run? They simply look at things based on Themselves and their own ego. So if you ask your girlfriend for advice about what to do with the shiduch or with your husband that Really made you upset today because he did such-and-such More times than not your girlfriend is going to tell you to break up More times than not your girlfriend's going to tell you. You should leave him you're better than him He should be happy that you even looked at him And more times than not She's gonna give you the wrong advice she's not gonna tell you to work things out and the reason why is because she has no emotional attachment to this person and in fact Any emotional attachment she has is usually negative one because of our perspective If you have if you ask your guy friends what you should do with this relationship that you're in Most I'm gonna tell ya I think as you get like I think you do better. I think you do better They're not thinking about all but How do you know oh, but this is better. Oh, but he loves her Oh, but she's good to him all about a lot of other things. You don't think about stuff like that. I Had one time a Student tell me that his so-called best friend The so-called best friend was trying to give him advice a week before his wedding Very valuable and important advice. He told him you have to come to my house. I gotta talk to you So he comes to his house a week before the wedding thinking that's his friend and he'll give him some marriage advice after all he is religious Thinks his friend is gonna give him some guidance of what to do in the wedding day This advice of maybe how to start a house, you know what to do and to his surprise His friend tells him listen, I thought about it. I Thought about it a lot he tells him And I don't think you should get married. I think you could do better I think you'll find a better wife, may be better-looking than her? This was the advice of a Person to his best friend a week before the wedding The selfishness that people have unfortunately It has no limits So the reason why people go to Chachamim is because if they are true Chacham as we talked about in a previous Mishnah In order for them to be qualified to give advice HaRab Rua ben Shalaba Shalom says rule number one They must remove all their feelings and have no bias whatsoever of one way or the other Rule number one if there's a bias if they're called "nagua" in hebrew Meaning that they benefit or lose in one or the other decision Automatically disqualifies them from being a person that can give you advice So now The people that go to the Chachamim (wise men) Are gonna ask him to not be biased obviously, but then there's something further What is that is the fact that they're not gonna give you their opinion if they're real Chacham They're not gonna give you their opinion. They're gonna give you God's opinion As HaRab Tobia Singer, always says in his shiurim My opinion your opinion who cares about our opinions. What's God's opinion? What's God's opinion? You ask for advice you have to find out what's God's opinion, how do we know what God's opinion is? He wrote it in the Torah He wrote in the Torah and those that delve into his Torah over a lifetime Can find even the hidden message within the message or even the obvious message with the message the deeper message and They call that the oral torah Without it without this oral torah, even the basic level of HaShems opinion would not be understood In this week's parasha parasha Toldot Says something very interesting pasha starts By saying (Behele Toldot Isahak ben Abraham Abraham oli et Izchak) these are the offspring of Itzkack the son of Abraham, Abraham begat Izchak Now, rab Efraim asks, the last we checked HaShem was very very careful With the amount of ink he spent writing the Torah Meaning he didn't write one extra letter not an extra paragraph not an extra sentence and literally not even an extra iud Which is slightly bigger than a dot There's not a single extra letter, but yeas, you've seen the first verse of this holy parashat Toldot That HaShem repeats the same thing Not only does he repeat Abraham's name twice But he says the same thing twice in one sentence These are the offspring of Itzchak the son of Abraham, Abraham begat Itzack meaning that Itzchak is the son of Abraham, and Abraham's son is Itzchak But you already said it you said tha Itzchak is the son of Abraham, if Itzchak is the son of Abraham what does it mean? if Itzchak is the son of Abraham what does it literally mean? that Abraham is the father of Itzchak So why do you have to tell me the same thing twice? Nonetheless in the same exact sentence if you said it a paragraph later, three paragraphs later at the end of the Parsha at the end of the book in a Different book then I understand maybe I forgot I don't have such a good memory So maybe I forgot so Hashem is reminding me of things that He knows. I'm gonna forget because He knows everything But here you're telling me the same thing not only the same thing. It's literally glued together "Izchak ben Abraham, Abraham olidedet Izchak, meaning if you read the parashat is Abraham, Abraham the word Abraham is repeated twice in a row You could have even said let's say if you wanted to emphasize that Itzchak is the son of Abraham You could have said Itzchak ben Abraham Sholeidet Itchak. Meaning you still could have erased at least one Abraham The Chachamim answer with a Midrash In the previous parasha We heard of a story That Abraham before having Itzchak Was caught by Abimelech Who believed that Sarah imenu was his sister And as we all know the story clearly from last week Abimelech comes to Abraham and says. Why did you do this to me? You know G-d punished Abimelech he was in all of the holes in his body was shut Whether it be his eyes or the ones that allow him to go to the bathroom All of the women they were pregnant and were supposed to give birth were not able to give birth His entire people were punished severely in a clear way that they know something's wrong, is not like a rumor and Then Hashem comes to him in a dream and says to him You made a very very serious mistake Messing with Abraham. He's a prophet You better let him go or I'm gonna kill you And even after you let him go you should know he's a prophet so ask him to pray for you So he forgives you because that's the only way I'll heal you anyway, not only do you have to release him but you have to ask for his forgiveness to such an extent that He's going to pray for you And this is exactly what happens Now after this they go into business together And shortly later Abraham Has the whole experience where he sees the Angels the angels come they tell him he's gonna have a son actually even before this the the promise that the Angels made or that Hashem made comes to fruition shortly after this experience and we See that he has Itzchak The Chachamim say that at that moment All of the jokesters All of the funny people All of the people that like to make fun and like to make a joke of people All of the people that like to make comments on the internet or Insult you personally even though they don't even know you All of those people they said you know Abraham, he must be a really holy person. Let's just destroy him What do they do? We said listen This Abraham All he does is work for Hashem Something's wrong Something's wrong with that. What are we gonna do? Let's find something on him or in business is honest in This he's honest and this is good. In this is good, everything he's done is good. What can we find on him? Oh look at that. He just had a kid he just had a kid his wife's 90 years old who has a kid at ninety years old where does this kid come from? Ah! Abimelech is really the father of the kid Abimelech is the father of the kid why? Because Abraham already tried for seventy years 80 years. He's been trying, that didn't work. So now you're telling me finally it works as a miracle Is it coming from a Abraham. No way, Abimelech is the father. Meaning they said Itzchak is a mamzer, has beshalom And HaShem, who knows what's in our minds, who knows what's in our filthy hearts at times Protected the honor of Abraham By making sure that everybody knew that Itzchak is his son. How? He says that not only was Itzchak his son, but it actually looked like That Abraham actually gave birth to Itzchak literally because Hashem changed Itzchac's face To look exactly like Abraham. meaning you couldn't mistake That he was his son. They were copies It's the same person You couldn't say it's Abimelech's kid, anybody's kid. You could barely tell he is related to Sarah Because he looked so much like Abraham, They'r identical So everybody says, "oh, yeah, Abraham gave birth to this kid". Not even Sarah. Abraham, Abraham It's a copy Even when he grew up as a teenager People who came to Izchak said him. Oh no no, sorry. The business deal we did you are talking about my father, sorry It's not me Abraham, my father he's in the kolel. He's learning go talk to him because no nu come on stop playing. No. No, beemet It's my father. They wouldn't believe him Because they looked identical Why? To protect Abraham's honor We already learned from here that the jokesters Unfortunately, they've had a place in the world from day one The people that like to make fun, the people that like to make a joke of things the people that like to start websites just For the purpose of making a mockery of things, didn't invent anything They are nothing new they've already been alive and well for a long long time and in the gemara masechet (tractate) Avodah Sarah Rabi Eliezer ben Jokino says the rabbi of Rabi Akiva He says the people that joke around The people that like to make jokes The beginning is suffering in the end is disaster Meaning that the punishment for those that like to make jokes is so horrific He says that the lower, the smallest part or the soft of their punishment is complete suffering in this world That's the beginning is suffering. He says the end is complete annihilation from the world. No Olam Haba (world to come) Why you like? You like to make jokes Kal vajomo you make a joke of somebody that's trying to bring HaShem's kids to the world and brings HaShem's kids back to him But sometimes rabotai You don't, you can't tell the difference Who's a tzadik. Who's a rasha. Sometimes they both look like they're the sons of Abraham Parasha talks about that too (reading hebrew) Already from the beginning we see that this parasha Starts to tell us about what's happening when the life of Rivcah (Rebeca) and Izchak And says that in the beginning Rivcha was also not able to give birth just like Sarah Imenu Just like Sarah Imenu But then a Hashem allowed himself to being treated by him meaning that Hahem heard the prayer of Itzchak And the Rivka conceived meaning another miracle happened Chachamim ask Why did Hashem hear the prayers of Itzchak? Why didn't He hear the prayers of Rivka? Usually the tears of a woman open every single gate in heaven It says "va ia ter lo Hashem" meaning "va ja terlo" you heard his prayer, Hashem heard his prayer not others Why did He hear his prayers, Itzkak prayers? , why not Rivka? Because Rivcah saw through prophecy that one of her sons Could be no good. Why? because the Gemara in Bava Batra says That the sons of a woman will look like her brother The sons of a woman will look like her brother both in physical looks and also in character Some of the Chachamim say this is no longer relevant, but there's still something to learn Meaning that if you want to know At least somewhat of an idea of what your how your son's what kind of midot (character) your sons are gonna have Spend some time with our brothers if our brothers are gangsters It's not usually a great thing but Chachamim say this is no longer relevant and the reason why is because in those days Nature was different Hashem ran the world slightly differently and more importantly today People usually don't live next to each other like they did back then But either way Rivkah was very scared of this. Why? her brother Was literally partners in a tumah (impurity) of the world He wasn't like a regular person that just robbed banks He wasn't like a regular person that killed a couple of people on the site for the Mafia No, no, he wasn't like a regular criminal. He was mamash koach hatumah himself She says if my son is even somewhat connected to him somewhat connected to Laban Arami Hashem Irahem But Itzchak continued praying, Why? he says it's not our business It's not our business to Run the world our business is to do When Hiskiaju haMelej Saw through prophecy That he's gonna have a son It's no good. He decided I'm not gonna get married The Prophet Isaiah came to him, he says tomorrow. You're gonna die because me, I'm gonna die. I made all of am Israel do tshuva Even the little babies knew the entire Mishna by heart. Why is Hashem killing me? he says because you violated the law What law what law did I violate? Everybody's learning Torah all day all night. No one works anymore, everybody is learning Torah Everybody learns Torah, the whole nation is learning Torah the Gemara says if the Messiah Was gonna come a Hashem decides he's gonna be Hezekiah Hashem actually decided I'm gonna make x the Messiah until he made a mistake He decided not to get married So Hashem says kill him. Not only he is not the Mashiach, kill him now Hashem Irahem judgment strict with the tzadikim Hezekiahu says, yeah, but Hashem gave me ruaj hakodesh (divine prophecy) Hashem gave me prophecy Hashem gave me all these gifts. I used them. I saw the future I saw him if I get married, I'm gonna have a kid. kid's gonna be rasha merusha (evil) He's gonna be Eisav, he's gonna be Amalek be he's gonna rasha Why would I want a son that's gonna be idol worshiper. Go against HaShem that I'm worshiping all day The Prophet Esaias says it's none of your business It's none of your business how Hashem runs the world You're obligated to fulfill a mitzva of peru urevu (procreation). He didn't give you prophesy so you look into the future and start changing things You have to fulfill a mitzvah how Hashem runs the world is none of your business This also is slightly a Nice hidush for those that ask the common question About the horrific sin of wasting seed with a say listen sometimes There are certain women that are barren like Rivka and Sarah Or perhaps they got old and they cannot have children anymore So how is it that if they know for sure that they literally physically cannot give birth Some have removed their ovaries some were never able to all types of things I've just got an old typical situation people get old and they can't have kids So how is it that when their intimate with their husbands that that's not wasting seed? It's a good question Because you know the seeds not gonna reproduce for sure. I mean unless you're Sarah Imenu Unless you are Rivka So how is it that wasting seed Because rabotai We are responsible to do we're responsible to fulfill mitzvot The outcome is none of our business Every single man is responsible To fulfill the mitzvot to be with his wife especially on the day of the mikveh He must even cancel a shiur Torah if he has to if he has if that's the night of the Mikve It's so important to be Careful with this mitzva peru urevu (procreation) But even when you know, it's not gonna work Why because your mitzvah is to do It's not the outcome the outcome HaShem decides whether you're 25 years old and Fertile or 85 years old and you're 30 years after the last time you had something why the outcome to Hashem is the same a Hashem decides that outcome just like he decides that outcome Hezekiah Almost died because he made this mistake But after he found out that this is the mistake he said to Isaiah he said, I'm sorry. I'm sorry Hiata hiaviti If this is not for me to worry about this is not for me to be concerned with Don't let me marry your daughter later Because at least if I marry your daughter the chances of the of the children being righteous is higher Why I am a tzadik ben tzadik (righteous son of righteous) I'm a tzadik the son of a tzadik and the wife is gonna be the daughter of a tzadkik much higher chance that the son our our son is gonna be a tzadik and they agreed and They got married. He married his daughter and he had two sons and when the two sons were little babies One of them said you see Aba's (dad's) bald spot It's perfect said one of the little son said to the other son You see aba's bald's spot, Hezekiah haMelej bald spot It's perfect to put a korban (sacrifice) for the avodah zarah (idolatry) It's perfect place, rasha (wicked) It's a perfect place to put a korban a sacrifice to put avodah zarah (idolatry) on it Hezekiah Couldn't take it he killed him on the spot He killed his own son on the spot, why? Avodah Zara... My son! He didn't kill the one that listened because he didn't say anything What's the problem the one that listened became in a rashe (wicked, evil)? One of the biggest resahim in the history of am Israel's history ever But ended up doing Tshuva He literally made every single sin you could imagine (sins in hebrew) Everything you'd imagine he did But the Gamara says Menashe Did tshuva , Menashe did tshuva and and he has a share of the world to come To show us that no matter what we've done in our past if you're still alive and kicking You're definitely not worse than Menashe, which means you can do tshuva too Now back to parashat toldot we see that Rivka was not praying but Itzhak was Rivka was concerned when she would pass by the place of Avodah Zarah (idol worship) One baby would make noise when she passed by the bed Midrash One the other baby would make noise She was concerned why is one Kosher and the other one not kosher But once they were born although they look differently as far as their skin was different their hair was different If you look at the pasuk in Chapter 25 verse 27 it says (hebrew) (reading hebrew) It says the lads the young men grew up. Eisav became one who knows trapping a man of the field But Yaakov was a wholesome an abiding the tents come he said why what does that mean abiding the tents? Yaakov was in the Beit Midrash learning all day and Eisav was in the streets doing business and otherwise But there is a very very interesting Limud (teaching) that the Rahamim tell us about the beginning of this pasuk It says that most people today When they give you a picture and they teach little kids about Eisav What do they teach you they teach you that Eisav was walking around with a ponytail tattoos Maybe a biker jacket a knife hanging off of the side That's what they did the impression they give you look at every picture on the Internet of Esav The cartoons that they make he looks like an outright criminal He looks like the criminal of all criminals like he just killed 18 people on the way to the picture But the Gemara says this is the mistake (hebrew) What does it mean (hebrew)? The two young men grew. Was that mean they grew. they were Identical you couldn't tell the difference. He was such he was such, he was Hasid He was Hasid. He had a beard all the way to the floor. He had a beard all the way to the floor You couldn't tell the difference The Beale a Mussar says that Esav came to our generation and he walked to any big Beit Midrash in the world and people started asking him for barachot Rabenu, rabenu. Nu. Nu (kiss) Rabenu rabenu, please a bracha. Because the outside, the way he looked, kodesh kodoshim the way he looked Sefer Torah, sefer Torah! Rabenu, give me a kiss. Please Rabenu, bracha, my wife, my kids, this, tzedaka... Yakov and Eisav identical. They looked identical Here we learn rabotai That looks can be very very deceiving Everyone today has a beard and If they don't Sometimes they look even like they're wiser You'll give them an excuse of why they don't have a beard. Oh, yeah, he's from Syria. They don't grow facial hair Oh, he's from Italy. They don't grow facial hair. Oh, he's from this one. You'll have all types of thing go But the point is that you see people that speak people that teach If the guy is a Hasid of some kind Automatically, the first things people notice is the way he looks How long his peyot are and his beard is and how big his hat is and how long his jacket is? And You see young kids and grown men the same When you go to beit Knesset next time you go to beit Knesset go a little early so you don't actually end up wasting any real valuable to feel that time, but go early a few minutes and notice what everyone else is doing before the Tefila and during the Tefila and You'll see that during it Tefila whether they're little kids 10 12 years old 13 years old starting to come to beit kneset for the first time in their life or Or six years old whatever there is are they're older or they're in. I don't know 25 35 45 You'll see that everybody's constantly fixing themselves Surprise there is now like a mirror where the guy starts putting makeup that's coming soon That's coming with the next on the next upgrade in the shul. The guys fixed themselves 500 times Who in front of who where you going? And they're twitching the whole time and said when you up like this, right When do you have time to pray I Went to Beit Knessed , a new beit knessed on Friday. Why try it it just didn't have any minian end up going somewhere else but in the beginning I saw this little kid not a day older than 13 years old 14 years old and The kid literally with there was therefore maybe 10 15 minutes 20 minutes He must have taken off his jacket and put the jacket back on and then this shirt and fix the shirt at least in 15 minutes 15 times But you see this everywhere Looks looks People are worried about their looks a lot. I'm not saying you have to local look you're just came out of a garbage pail you Need to look respectable But stop being a girl The men of this generation are very very feminine and It's quite sickening because that's actually part of the problem of the Shiduch (dating) world You see that the men are more worried and concern about their looks than the girls and They know more about makeup than the girl. They know more about cloth than the girl does Such feminine behavior. Can not bring kosher kids in the world. It's a problem Groomed no problem look good. No problem But if you're spending as a guy more than 2 to 3 minutes in front of the mirror, there's a problem if you're spending 15 20 minutes doing your hair, it's a problem if All day you're fixing yourself like a twitch every 5 minutes. It's a problem It's a very serious problem. And by the way, it's also unattractive for women any woman that's attracted to you It's probably not such a good woman Because it's not normal for a woman to be attracted to another woman Today people think that You can base your decisions of as far as how much knowledge a person has and whether they're right or wrong Based on their outside appearance So when they come and they make comments or ask questions I care but this rabbi He's a Hasid Okay this rabbi he has this and he has that The only question you should ask does he have the right answer That's the only question you should ask does he have the right answer does he have a source for his answer or You basing your entire Olam haba (world to come) based on his appearance? Somebody asked me recently I Didn't answer because I thought it was a ridiculous question. I try not to answer ridiculous questions They asked me for certain rabbi If I think his beard is real Yes, he actually sent me a question and said do you think such and such rabbi his beard is real it's so long These are the questions people spend their time thinking about and I have the couple out of a lot to listen to these things sometimes But anyway rabotai when we are confused about what's happening in the world As I told you guys last time you have to look at the motivation First and foremost, what's the motivation of the speaker? What's the motivation of the person that's talking? The confusion that we have today about this whole issue with Pittsburgh and the Holocaust and so on about kidush Hashem and hilul Hashem And so on people say a lot of things that are inappropriate and They get emotional Because the answer they heard is not in accordance to what they liked or heard or want But that's where this Mishnah comes in and it gives us a little bit of a insight Of what's happening every day as we prepare for Messiah Omar Rabi Ioshua Ben Levi (hebrew reading) Translation second Mishnah in a sixth chapter of havot starts with Rabi Ioshua Ben Levi says Every single day a batkoll a heavenly voice Emanates from Mount Horev what Mount Horev Mount Sinai and we'll go over why it's called Mount Horev or Horeb in English There's a voice coming out as a "batkol" every day Any of you heard it yet Well here we'll find out why we don't hear it well, maybe you did hear it you just not paying attention There's a voice coming out Every day, where's this voice saying? Proclaiming and saying Oil, ahem woe to them to the people because of their insult to the Torah For whoever does not occupy himself with torah is called nassuf In english they translated nazuf to rebuked but it's not really a right translation It's more like somebody that's sanjereb or nidui, it's kicked out Someone that doesn't learn torah it's as if Hashem becomes Disgusted with him as it says in Proverbs 11:22 Like a golden ring in a swine snout is it is a beautiful woman who turns away from good judgment We'll explain what this proverb means obviously literally you could see that gold is good, but the pig is disgusting Just like a woman a beautiful woman who turns away from good judgment meaning a beautiful man Hashem gave all the gifts in the world But she uses it to make sins Hashem made her beautiful instead of appreciating this beauty and Having her husband enjoy it. She makes sure the whole world enjoys it She becomes disgusting to the creator and his creations As it says in Exodus 32 16 the tablets are God's handiwork and the script was God's scripts harut engraved On the tablets Do not read the word harut the word engraved as "harut", but rather "heud" meaning freedom For you can have no freer man than one who is engaged in a study of Torah and anyone who engages in the study of Torah becomes elevated as It is said from a Tana to Nahadiel And from Nahadiel al to Bamot numbers 21 19 which again at some point will elaborate when we get to the end of mishna today bezrat hashem Will try to cover the first couple of parts of this Mishnah First and foremost we need to know who we're dealing with here As we do in a holy way we try to make sure that We know who we're dealing with and even though we've heard Rabi Ioshua ben Levi name before There's an enormous amount of Torah that came from Rabi Ioshua ben Levi It's critical for us to know who we're dealing with Because if for example You have an average Joe giving you a Advice for business Average guy. Yes, can what do you do says I have a I work for UPS. I'm a driver Okay So where do you know this business advice? You're giving me he's a gardener. I've just been around the block a lot. I See things I read a lot of books. I Want to give you advice? Okay. Thank you Five minutes later you meet the founder of ups And he says I want to give you advice business advice, are you gonna treat both of them the same Obviously not why the driver has a lot of opinions read a few books he could very well be smart But his wisdom Was not fulfilled Why at the end of it all? he's still an employee of somebody else's company and He didn't exercise his wisdom or his Expertise and knowledge of running a business Whereas the other one that founded ups built ups and has turned ups into a two hundred billion dollar company. Ah, That guy. I want to hear I want to hear what he has to say Why? He has some serious experience that's valuable he also has success and failures I can learn from Rabi Ishua ben Levi is one of the special people that we had in am Israel that Was at such a high level that he's one of the ten people that never died It's habuta It's two good friends two good friends One of them was Eliayu Hanavi Eliayu Hanavi Hashem turned him into an angel He never died You read when he was walking with his protege Elisha haNavi Hashem Send the chariot and a wind and took Eliayu Hanavi as he is. Where his course at, to shamaim He never died you all know burial. No, nothing. Why? because as the Prophet says he has to come back Three days before Messiah comes to announce to us Rabotai, Moshiach's coming Moshiach is coming But then I learnt a hidush today from the Marasha the Marasha It's kodesh kodoshim You can't learn a page in Gemara without the Marasha Marasha Had long hair But no he wasn't a rock star He wasn't doing it for looks why did he have long hair Because he would take his long hair and he would tie it to the wall Because he didn't want to go to sleep because he wanted to learn Torah He would put his legs in Cold freezing water to keep himself up, but just in case the cold freezing waters. Not not because sometimes you're really tired and Even the cold freezing water is not enough. You should try it even The cold freezing waters not enough. Your legs are already numb It's not enough the cold freezing water your face still fall on a desk. So what happens? You fall asleep. I Have an idea hidush. He says what I'm gonna grow long hair - what - tie it to the wall because as soon as My head falls just a little bit how much it's gonna hurt and then you wake up you like it. So good morning Good morning, how are you Oh cookery cool You waking up the desert the turkey the chicken everybody else. You're waking up. Why how much pain you have? Oh, yeah Your hair is bold! Hashem irahem. That's how much you want to learn Torah That's how much you want to learn rabotai. The Maharash says we say Moshiach could come any day. Moshiach could come every day. Mamash. He comes every day, you look gemara mesejet Sanhedrin, it says Mashiach can come any day How could it be the Mashiach can come any day? But the Prophet says that Eliyahu must come three days before So technically can't come every day He comes three days from now, after Eliyahu hanavi, he says no. Maharasha gives a hidush he says if if the Messiah comes If the Messiah comes at the predestined time Hashem said listen everyone its tzadikim, everybody did tshuva or Unfortunately, everybody's is rashaim. I'm gonna force them to do tshuva, which we'll talk about later today What does it mean forced to do tshuva and so on? If it comes to a predestined time then Hashem will send Eliyahu hanavi, Eliyahu hanavi says hello, hello hello Mashiach is coming in three days If it comes as a surprise Then the Moshiach and Eliyahu hanavi come at the same time, they come together That's why the Mashiach could come at every day, with Eliyahu hanavi So now one of his havrutot, Rabi Ioshua Ben Levi was Eliyahu Hanavi Eliyahu Hanavi introduced them to a lot of people Introduced them to the Messiah of his generation says in the gemara masejet San Hedrin Says, where's Mashiach? When is he gonna come? go ask him yourself! It was worries he was in a gate of Rome And he goes to meet him, we'll talk about in a second Eliyahu Hanavi says to Rabi Ioshua Ben Levi say... You have any interest in seeing what gehenom (hell) looks like? Sure sure, cause come, I'll show you You know that an entire shiur (class) he made about gehenom. Where's the source? The vast majority of it is Rabi Ioshua ben Levi If you remember if you go tune into that shiur again if you want to get scared again to give a little bit more Irat Shamaim You're in the beginning issue. It says Rabi Ioshua ben Levi met with Eliayu Hanavi Eliyahu Hanavi says to him you want to go see what gehenom looks like? and he says yes take me And Rabi Ioshua ben Levi says, I went there, and I saw... tu tu tu tu. Hashem Irahem what he saw So a lot of what information that we know about both Mashiach and gehenom, you know from Rabi Ioshua Ben Levi But also he had yet another friend. who? the Malaja Mavet (dark angel) Malaja Mavet was also his friend Why how come the Malaja Mavet be friend of a tzadik? Cause the Malaja Mavet loves tzadikim At the end of the day Yetzer Hara, the Malaja Mavet, Satan, all three the same thing He is an evet Hashem, He's a servant of Hashem. Hashem put him in the world People think that Hashem is gonna kill him Once the Mashiach comes That would be wrong why would be wrong Because you made him do the job. You told them to go make people Sin give them obstacles. We're gonna kill for now? That's not justice Hashem is all emet (truth), all justice. How could it be? Chachamim explain he's not gonna kill him physically But he's going to relieve him of his role He no longer need to be the Malaja Mavet. He no longer need to be Yetzer Hara. He's gonna remove that role from him You will now become good angel that's it Since Rabi Ioshua Ben Levi was At the time of the Gemara which was right after the Mishnah he is one of the Giants that connected the sages of the Gemara to the sages to the period of the Mishnah But his Divre Torah Had a special level of significance when it comes to halacha now all of you have heard the name of Rabi Iohanan The Gemara says if rabi Iohanan has a majlohet With the rabbis, you go to Gemara, you go back and forth. Rabi Iohanan says such and such the Chachamim says such and such a Halacha, Rabbi Iohanan Halacha if there is a majlojet between Chachamim and Rabi Iohanan, rabbi Iohanan is greater than the Chachamim But what if there is a majlohet between Rabbi Iohanan and Rabi Ioshua Ben Levi? Rabi Ioshua Ben Levi. Halacha from Rabi Ioshua Ben Levi Halacha from Rabi Ioshua Ben Levi. Such is the greatness of who were dealing with here The hadonish, Halava Shalom says people that learn Torah People that are privileged to know Torah Meaning that they live. Not that is learned in school in order to pass a test So they get a basketball as a gift from Aba and Ima and really do what they really want to do Pretend to be LeBron James only three feet shorter People that learn Torah and live Torah not just because they like to make youtube videos People learnt Torah because they want to live it Hasonish say They walk around and they look like ordinary men You couldn't tell the difference Someone that possesses this to lot a real person They walk around like regular men ordinary people but in reality They're more similar to be angels than they are men They look the same like everybody else head shoulders knees toes everything else But if they lived the Torah that they learnt, they're angels They're not regular people It's angels dwelling among mortal men This is in the collected letters of the hsonish first chapter xiii letter Rabi Yoshua Ben Levi was a constant representative of Am Israel in a time of danger When he had to deal with the Roman authorities he imach shimam But even the Roman authorities even the Caesars Feared and respected him to such an extent that when him and Rabi Hana ben Hama Went to the Caesar The Roman governor stood up when the two Jews came in Even though I made everybody upset Jews standing up to them not some King the Jews! The Roman governor says Angels Angels even the goy could tell, angels Angels, we do you think he learnt Gemara? Do you think they learnt Mussar? No The kedusha of a person eventually has a physical impact on him The kedusha of a person has an effect on him Ha Rabi Akiva alaba shalom asked a very very serious question He says out of all of the different muiot, all the different images That Hashem could have picked To put on top of the haron hakodesh What did he pick? the two Heruvim the two? Cherub, let's call it I thing in English? What did he pick? two babies two Babies why did he pick a baby? Why did not pick Moshe Rabenu, Abraham avinu, Yaaron Ruben maybe? I wouldn't mind... Why did he pick two little babies? Why two babies? The best thing a baby can do is open his mouth. Oh He does open his mouth all day everything. He puts in his mouth everything He puts in his mouth doesn't make a difference doesn't think about it. Everything he puts in his mouth He wants to have a taste of everything even If it's not edible Today sheer bally. He climbed. He moved the couch moved my whole furniture. I said I shouldn't have bought to the moving company He moved the whole furniture Climber the thing on top of the sink and almost took down an entire hot water cannister I said to my wife if Wall Street the financial crash the health crisis the chaos that we had if everything else didn't aged us, this will This little baby Cutest thing in the world But the best, the little kid, what's the kid gonna do , he opens his mouth But why does he open his mouth? Okay, why is a little baby open his mouth Because he constantly wants to learn the beauty of a baby is Because he constantly wants to learn from everything. He wants to learn how Does this taste. He wants to learn why you saying this. He wants to learn what's inside this he wants to learn what happens when I jumped from this he wants to learn constantly and Hashem wanted to give us a symbolic sign of what can you be, What can you do What can you actually do? to be Kadosh, the haron hakodesh holds the holiest of holy How can I be the holy thing? be like the baby Be like the baby learn from everything But don't climb my kitchen Learn from everything Don't be one of these people that stop somebody else when they start talking say no. No, I know I know I know I know like one of these people I know Mr. I know everything Don't be one of those people In fact, it's against derech erets It's against good middot to interrupt another person is telling you a story even if you know the story Somebody's about to tell you some people like to tell stories 87 times just to make sure you know it and after you know it They tell you a different version of the same story another 87 times some people like that. They like to do it Sometimes they don't even know that they're telling you the story 87 times By time you finish the story you okay? Oh, you can tell them the story back. So go. Wow you are you were there And even if we tell them I know they still tell you the story No, nobody never I don't think I told you this part. I don't think I told you this part. No No, you were here two days ago. You told me the story. No No, I don't think I told you this part need to do do they tell you the story again? Some people love to tell the same story, but you want to you know, why Hashem is sending it to you? Aside from the fact that we all have sins we need kaporot havonot. It's also because Hashem is trying to give you Some practice how to work on your midot how to work on your patience how to work on your derech erets You're forbidden from interrupting their story even if you know the story. They are about to They're about to tell you dvar Torah? you heard the dvar Torah? Don't tell you know it. don't tell you know it Now many times this happens with little kids Little kids they love to talk Sometimes they have nothing to say so they just make up stuff And I'll repeat the same thing, oh you did this they do this I told you already Okay, it did this any did this or you told me five seconds ago you told me again? Oh and they repeated say 500 times And after they get out of the horban five hundred times, part two another 500. when it comes to Torah rabotai Rabi Yoshua ben Levi Teaches us about that, too What do you say? Rabi Yoshua Ben Levi took Torah so seriously made sure to teach Torah to his kids and grandkids His kids and grandkids The gemara In masejet kidushin page 38 Says that he used to hear his grandkids Give him a DVAR Torah every Friday every Friday He'll give them a dvar Torah, but one Friday, he forgot one Friday forgot But he only remembered after he got into the bath house like the Mikve of that day But he realized as he's there. he didn't go into the mikve, he put on his robe and started running home Started running home to not miss the little kids little five. Six. Seven eight year old kids dvar torah Now, of course, the chachamim they had students. They're also running He's running, we're running, and they all chase them and they say they're thinking maybe gonna go meet Eliyahu Hanavi Maybe he's gonna melaja mavet Maybe he's gonna meet Messiah and the gedol hadol is running in the streets like something just happen He's just running All running after him Turututu eventually they all get to the house He gets the table They're sitting and they say Eliyahu Hanavi is about to come, meshiach is about to come Melaja mavet coming. Somebody's coming! They see little five and a half year old little boy. Hi Sabah! hi! Hey you ready for dvar Torah? Students are looking at themselves. He's Meshiach? He's Eliyahu Hanavi? Eliyahu Hanavi's got got a young , five years old? And they hear and they see rabi Yoshua ben levi starts learning habruta with a five year old After they finished They say. we have to ask you, teach us Why are you so... like, take this so seriously? where you miss the Mikve you didn't even take a bath before Shabbat you know you ran you I mean It's five years all at the end the day. I mean.., yeah Okay, you'd like to do it. It's nice to do it, but Isn't it a little too serious? Rabi Yoshua ben levi says to them. I have a Hidush that if every parent Knew this Their children would never leave the derech (path) If every single parent did this Their children will never leave the derech Rabi Yoshua ben Levi says to them Rabotai When that little five-year-old Learns Torah with me When he sees his grandpa Teaching him Torah taking his DVAR Torah Seriously, and then teaching him back and going back and forth and I'm hearing his idea and I appreciate his idea And then he appreciates my idea. For him it's like Mount Sinai itself For the little boy, it's Mount Sinai And you want me to take that away from him because of some mikve? Because I'm busy? Because I happened to be a big rabbi? If our parents would spend some more time with the kids Then not only Listen to their DVAR torah On Shabbat a lot of parents do this they have the kid prepared dvar Torah you See the kid prepared dvar Torah One of the parents listens the other parent is busy talking to some guests They say kol hakavod, even if it doesn't make any sense and they can't wait for him to finish That's all nice But that's not what's gonna keep him interested What's going to keep the five-year-old interested at 6 and the six-year-old interested at 8 and the eight-year-old interested at 12 and the twelve-year-old interested at 18 and 18 interested for the rest of his life Is if you spent some time with him learning with him Learn with him Don't just listen to whatever he learned in school Sit 5 minutes 10 minutes 15 minutes an hour whatever time allows once a week once a day depends learn with them But be emet (truly) learn with them One of the most pleasant experiences I had Probably ever With a kid Was today Where I saw what's the difference between a kid? That has a brain of Torah versus the typical kids that I've seen my whole life Now I didn't grow up around Torah and Quite frankly, even though I know a lot of kids and I've seen a lot of religious kids in my life. I Haven't seen something like this before One of my conversations with rav Efraim is his Wife's brother Came on the call. He says I want to ask you a question came on to me. I Thought okay, it's twelve years old what kind of questions you could possibly ask Where God come from Dinosaurs some philosophical questions that twelve year olds ask And the kid asks me a sugia Asks me a question Not an easy one... I had the answer But he asks me a question in the gemara , in bava kama And I saw when I was giving him the answer with different sources For him it was like heaven He was enjoying this like this is Wow And I'm thinking to myself This is what your 12 year old kid. This is what you're thinking about.? You're not thinking of basketball, or Michael Jordan and football and Emmitt Smith and this one and baseball and The Mets and this one and the stock market and Bitcoin. You're !not thinking about that stuff kid you're thinking about some sugia , about the gemara, the bava kama? You're 12 years old! a 12 doesn't know what the gemara is And to be honest with you many of the kids that I know from American religious schools Don't know what the gemara is at 12 years old other than its homework Its homework, that's what gemara is, what's gemara? it's homework This wasn't homework, he didn't ask me the question because of his homework, he had a question about this gemara Why is this so pleasing to me? Because the same kid They wanted to throw him out of Yeshiva two months ago They said he's not a good student and We don't have any time to invest in him So you have to send him to a different Yeshiva So haRab Efraim Said I'll teach him Just keep him in a school give us another chance Give us another chance. I'll take responsibility I'll teach him I'll work with him. I'll do homework with him. He already has his own kids. I Know a few things I'll teach him. Nobody said oh if you're gonna help them do their I'm okay We don't have anybody here we have 400 kids we can't invest that much time into every kid But if you're gonna do it, we'll keep him, we will give him another chance In less than two months the kid is the number one kid in 400 kids The brain didn't change All is gonna change baruch Hashem is you gave the kid a little attention a little bit of attention a little bit of interest a Little bit of care and now he cares More than you Now he wants to learn Gemara more than you when we were talking. It was 12 o'clock at night for him He's supposed to be sleeping, but he was too busy thinking about Gemara in mesejet bava kama. A little bit of attention all the time a little bit you spent a little bit of time Doing some learning with your kid. Don't do their homework The number one reason why kids become losers in life is because their parents do their homework If you're gonna do the kids homework take him out of school and you go to school instead Don't do their homework It's not healthy for them to think that somebody is gonna do their work, that's not how life works You go into the real world. No one's gonna do your work When you fail most tell you, ah, good job you failed no you need to fail sometimes Don't do the kids homework Because then he's gonna get used to alll other people doing his stuff She's gonna get used to other people doing her stuff. And by the way, she's not learning a thing He's not learning a thing when you're doing that homework. So yeah, the grade on the test says a hundred and The GPA says four point eight. Somebody told me that even though there's only a four point system in GPA They're now up to four point eight in GPAs. Meaning people are getting scores that are above perfect The average GPA in college and universities in America today is the highest it's ever been in history But yet the level of education that we have is lower than we ever have in history. How could it be? How could it be this was reported? How could it be? This was a study? How could it be the time the grades are the best they've ever been? but the failure ratio This is the actual success and what these people end up becoming in their life is the biggest failure in history How could it be this doesn't make any sense if you pay the bill They'll give you a name You pay fifty thousand a year. They'll give you a name Why does the kid have no problem with passing a class he didn't even work for Because he's used to it because his parents have been doing his homework its whole life Somebody's been doing it Why does the kid have emuna problems when he's only 16 or 17 years old? Because his parents have been doing his homework and he has no idea who Moshe rabenu is He has no idea That miracles are part of our day-to-day life as Jews He has no idea that sacrifice is part of our day-to-day as Jews. He has no idea that HaShem Commands you to fear Him Before you love him, he has no idea why because ima has been doing his homework every day Rabotai I've seen this with my own eyes many kids The ones that their parents do their homework end up becoming the biggest losers later on regardless of religion You want to destroy your kid? do his homework You want to build them? Make him do himself even if it means he's gonna fail even if it means is gonna get left back Even if it means he's gonna be left back twice If he's getting left back twice because he keeps failing. That means it's the right decision He's not qualified to be in that grade if he's failing. That means it's the right decision That means he should not pass because he doesn't know the information Failure is a part of life You need to fail in order to succeed But if you really wanted to succeed Spend some time with him spend some time with her learning with her not just taking her to the mall to buy a new dress Not just taking out to lunch making her feel like a lady Spent some time learning with her about stuff that's gonna actually help her in life The dress is not gonna help but more than once or twice in our life The dinner is not going to help them more than satisfying her hunger for 15 minutes But learning Torah that could help them, especially if you show interest If rabi Yoshua ben Levi can show interest to study with five year-olds I Think we can do Okay, okay Right, what do you do with the kid take him out of school take him to a different school a School a school that gives participation trophies is not a school It's a facility to make losers They enable kids to become losers That's all they do Participation trophies is the biggest disaster in education system in probably history You're giving somebody a prey a trophy for failing why should he ever succeed why should he ever work hard? The only thing you deserve if you fail is Maybe a pat on the back because you got up after filler failure. Other than that nothing Failure is necessary rabotai. Am israel needed to fail many many times in order to become am Israel Tzadik shlomo hamelej says fall seven times It's necessary to fail in order to become a tzadik necessary Because that tzadik is going to use those failures as ways to connect to HaShem even further Meaning that you can use the failure for something good. It's not all bad The types of people that Rabi Yoshua ben levi Invested his time with the gemara masejet tuvot in page 77 B says would constantly put his own health on the line and the reason was Is because he would teach the people that have life-threatening diseases He insisted to teach them because he said that the Torah protects them Because Torah has as a rule There's no such thing as a person losing as as a result of doing a mitzva Can't lose in the end by doing a mitzvah That possible it's against nature Just like it's not natural If you to jump I never fault go back down because there's something great called gravity There's like it's not natural for something to continue going up it must go down at some point It's not natural For a person to lose in the end for doing a mitzva so you would constantly put his life on the line and Teach these people that have terminal diseases that were infectious But also he would tell people the same type of principle in the misrash hir hashirim raba He says the same principle applies when you're donating for Torah When you're donating donating to help am IsraelI learnt Torah When you're donating to help am Israel do tshuva the midrash hashir ashirim says that Rabi yoshua ben levi says Person needs to look at his donations Just like he looks at fingernails Which regardless of what happens in your life will continue to grow No matter how much you cut your nails no matter how many times you cut your nails They're always going to grow back He says no matter how much money a person contributes financially to support Torah study God will always pay me back A person that wants to do the right thing and publicize Hashems Torah is never gonna look at all the things he did. Oh I donated for this : oh I donated last month for this I've there Oh, I donated last week for this this or last year I did this A tzdik doesn't look at his past A tzadik looks at his present responsibilities People need to do tshuva, I have money to make it happen People need to learn Torah, I have money to make it happen What about next month what about next year what about the next guy? When we get there, we'll worry about them. Now. There's an opportunity to help somebody do tshuva by donating XYZ That's all you're responsible for no one promised you next week. No one promised you next year Some give you an opportunity to donate today Hashem give you an opportunity to do mitzca about today today you're responsible for it Everything you did in the past. Don't worry. You'll get paid for it Everything that's in the future. We'll worry about it when we get there Today's all we have to worry about And one of the things that a person can do people always ask how do you build your Emunah The number one way to build your own Emunah is when it comes to money Donate just enough to make it hurt Donate just enough to make it hurt obviously don't destroy yourself. Obviously, they'll make yourself go homeless. You're not allowed But if it's very easy for you to donate a hundred dollars It's not enough if It's very easy for you to donate a thousand dollars. It's not enough Don't eat just enough where it like pinches a little bit and then see God work One person that has some serious and we know that I know He all says constantly one of these people that's never satisfied who worries that It was a situation Similar to what happened with me where I had to move in a very short period of time and He had to move the problem is That everything is unaffordable Today I don't know where I don't know where it's cheap anymore, but it seems like, New York, California Florida Texas and pretty much anywhere. There's people it's expensive. So People send me all the time Especially people that become religious weather because they are converting or because they're doing to BA first thing you do You need to move the Jewish community problem is no one can afford it including the people I lived there Peter I love they're all borrowing money. No one has any money anymore. Everyone has eight jobs. No one has any money So this guy had to move so Kevin I can't find house what do you mean you can't find out It's no house. It knows plenty of houses. I said, okay So what's the problem because the problem is the next house the next house is? I think it was Fifteen hundred or twelve hundred dollars more than the house. He was living in I Said okay. So no move those baby move women in the money for You don't make any money you don't work because I work not this much I Said okay. So talk to your landlord He talks to the landlord and lemo says no you have to move So she says it was what I do you have to move Or I'll star you're gonna make this landlord very upset. Is he Jewish? Yeah, he's Jewish It's a sin to make a jew upset He moved the next day Or two days later, something like that Why He couldn't afford it but he also couldn't afford to make it you upset So he spent an extra $15,000 a year that he can't afford to make sure he doesn't make another Jew upset What do you think God's gonna pay for it I Think he will Rabotai haKarim , if you want your Emunah muscles to work you have to exercise them You have to exercise them If what you're doing is becoming easy, that means you have reached the next level It's time to put some more weight on But that also means that we have to worry about all of the other character traits that we have All of the other things that we have In order to be so worried about another person that you're willing to spend $15,000 not to make him upset The first and foremost Lesson that you can learn from rabi yoshua ben levi You have to learn humility. In gemara mesejet sanhdrin page 43 rabi yoshua ben levi says the greatest trait of All is having humility to such an extent that when a person practices humility It is greater than all of the Korbanot that were ever brought to the Beit Hamikdash - One time someone told you something You really liked it so much But you humbled yourself Said okay move forward One time you had the right answer, but it wasn't the right time You humbled yourself you moved on One time you had all the right in the world to be angry at is such and such person But you know a sham hate anger. So you humbled yourself and you moved on Countless times Hashem gives us opportunities to humble ourselves and say things like I'm sorry or Excuse me and You do it once The havruta of Eliyahu Hanavi the one who met the Messiah The one who met the malaj hamavet and was scared of him. Rabi yoshua ben levi says that one time then you practiced the humility is more valuable than all of the korbanot that were broght to the beit hamikdash - Meaning all of the prayers that you will ever have in your life Because every time you pray the Prophet says every time you pray they it is like you are bringing a korban It's like bringing a sacrifice to the beit hamikdash Since we cannot bring Korbnanot anymore. We can't bring sacrifice anymore. There's no Beit Hamikdash unfortunately so the Prophet Hoshea says pray instead You pray it's like you brought a huge bowl to the beit hamikdash Even if you bring a bowl three times a day for 70 years $25,000 Bowl you brought every day for 70 years It's not as valuable as practicing humility one time Imagine practicing humility permanently in lifetime One of the most difficult places in times to practice humility is with our speech how we talk We speak freely Because the world around us tells us if you let it get it out of your heart that's gonna make you feel better In reality if you're upset talking about it more times than not it's gonna make you feel worse now Yes, there is a time and a place that you need to talk about things But not to everybody Not to anybody it has to be the specific people and That's to be a specific times But a lot of the times the biggest weapon we have of mass destruction is our mouth Cause us the most amount of damage The first beit hamikdash Was destroyed because of avodah Zarah gilui arayot and shirjut amim idol worship Sex crimes and murder But 70 years later Hashem put the beit hamikdash again Meaning that am israel did tshuva 70 years later We did tshuva, we got the beit hamikdash back Because if we didn't do tshuva Hashem wouldn't bring the beti hamikdash Second beit hamikdash Was destroyed and a HaShem hasn't built it for over 2000 years For what? For what they call baseless hatred Hating for no reason hating for the wrong reason hating more than justified Which the chachamim Explain in different ways Some say it's hating because of Lashon. Hara Some say it's hating because of lack of rebuke. You see your friend sinning and you don't say anything But most importantly the common denominator among Among all of the chachamim that discuss this baseless hatred is that it's exercised with our mouths We cannot control our speech We say stupid things we say the wrong things and We have a very very difficult time humbling ourselves when we make a mistake and saying I'm sorry 2000 years 2,000 years we still haven't done chuva for one thing Murder we did Shuba Rape we did Shuba. Hilul shabat we did Shuba, havoda sara we did tshuva All the things that we did in the first beit hamikdash. We did tshuva seven years later Hashem brought the beit hamikdash 2,000 years we cannot fix our mouths 2000 years we cannot fix our mouth imagine Why why can't we fix a few words that come out come out of our mouth every day Because it requires humility Rabi yoshua ben levi says in the gemara mesejet megila page 18 a Slander Saying bad things about anybody regardless of whether they know Torah little bit or a lot of it as long as they're kosher jews Saying bad things about them is as if you have violated the entire five books of Moses Meaning you have just violated the entire Torah Calva bahomer Needless to say if the person is a mesaker aravim if the person is a kosher Jew that knows Torah If the person is somebody that cares about Hashem's children More importantly rabotai ekarim rabi yoshua ben levy says that if Saying one word was worth the gold coin Saying nothing in shamaim they'll give you two gold coins for that Meaning The secret to humility is being quite Be quiet Unless you have the weight to what to say Unless you have something good to say Be quiet It's worth much more in shamaim Believe it or not. You look even smarter to Who's the smartest guy in the room usually everyone points that the guy that never talks Why if he doesn't talk, he probably knows everything we're talking about. We're not even at his level Who was the biggest fool the guy who talks the most why he showed us his ignorance with his all the things that he talks about The person wants to achieve humility He has to train she has to train herself to minimize her speech I know it's very difficult for women because Hashem already told us that out of ten Traits of speech ten level of speech that he gave to the entire world nine of them were given to the women and one to the men the Natural inclination of a woman is to talk a lot Now if you talked about Torah no problem Talk about meet smart. No problem talk nonsense big problem very big problem rabi yoshua ben levi saw eliyahu hanavi one time and he said When is the Messiah going to come Eliyahu hanavi told them go ask him in the gemara masejet sanhedrin page 98 Says this fantastic event that happened that we can learn an enormous amount from rabi yoshua ben levi met the prophet Elijah Who was standing at the entrance of the cave of rabi Shimon bar Yohai Rabi Yoshua Ben Levi ask them Will I enter the Olam haba Meaning do I have a share of the world to come am I gonna go to Olam aba? Now I could tell you between he knew if I was Rabi Yoshua Ben Levi I wouldn't waste this question Why Rabi Yoshua Ben Levi if I don't have a olam haba who does? But that's not Rabi Yoshua Ben Levi He wasn't sure if he has olalm haba He speaks to us. He speaks to Rabi Yoshua Ben Levi , he speaks to the Messiah , he speaks to Hashem He speaks to all of them, but he's not really sure they're gonna welcome in olam haba that's why he is Rabi Yoshua Ben Levi and that's why he's in olam haba, but The first question he's giving us a hint What should you worry about in this world? Should you worry about money? Should you worry about how big your house is? Should you worry about what kind of car you're gonna get next week Should you worry about what you did in here and what you did in there and what she thinks of you and what he says About you and what you're gonna buy and what you're gonna sell. What should you worry about in this world? First question Am I at a point where the way I'm going the direction I'm on is that gonna lead me to olam haba or not? That's what you should worry about Not how much money not who what when and where first question Am I going in the right direction is the business that I'm doing going to get me to gan Eden is the relationship that I'm in Going to get me to gan eden. Is the book that I'm reading and investing resources and time into going to get me to gan eden is the rabbi that I get advice from And listen to and learn from is he gonna help me go to gan eden or I'm gonna be gehenom with him Where am I going with the decisions that are making? Many people are Surprised at the gemara at masejet Shabbat That says when a person leaves this world and gets to the bet din of shamaim the first question they asked him Did you do business in a kosher way They surprised like where they worried about business up there, there's no money when I care about business Where does it say in the Torah that Hashem cares about business? You'd be surprised Gemara in masejet Shabbat page 89 A says What else is written in this Torah? Leticia You shall not take the name of Hashem in vain the second commandment I Chachamim ask what does this mean? Where is this law don't use a Hashem name in vain? in Practice. What is he making fun of Hashem name? What are you writing? Hashem name as a graffiti on the wall? What does it mean don't take Hashem's name in vain? The chachamim ask You shall not take Hasehm name in vain means are there any business Transactions among you that might lead to oath that are taken in vain Meaning is your business one big lie Are you promising but not delivering. Are you cheating people? If it is it's written in the Torah you're violating the second commandment Jew Gentile animal whatever you want to be second commandment you're violating it To do business in a kosher way in today's world is almost impossible because almost everybody and I'm only saying almost because I haven't met everybody but everyone I've met is a cheater So Rabi Yoshua Ben Levi was very successful Had a lot of money Had a lot of power you Wanted to ask Eliyahu Hanavi Am I on the right path? I Think I'm on the derech, but what I think means nothing You Eliyahu hanavi, you know, what's going on in shamaim. what do they think of me? Am I going to gonna gan eden or the other place That You showed me last week That that plays the hot place where they hang people upside down that place am I going there there? Will, I enter the world to come? Eliasha says, if the Lord wishes it meaning If the shejina decides you will or not if Hashem decides you are going to olam haba, he didn't say a yes or no Can even give me yes or no! why today yes, but you didn't die. Why don't you go to tomorrow? 20 years you're making lectures and give jisuk to the keila and you're doing good and people doing this and people do Not and you build a bet knesset and you build a yeshiva and you do this and do that u a Oh, I got everything great. Right, but one day you decided to call a bunch of conservative people kadoshim and Desecrated a hashem's name in public. No, the scales have changed The scales have changed yes, you've done a lot of good You build a yeshiva and you built a school and you went on Torah Anytime you have shiurim over there and you went on this and you have shearing over there. All of it is good But now you just desecrated a Hashem name in public Why why is the desecration of a Hashem name in public to do such a thing? Because now you you just told every little 50/50 kid That's kind of thinking to maybe get off the derech because he doesn't really like being orthodox anymore He doesn't really like it so much why it's much more fun to be Hiloni It's much more fun to go to the beach on Shabbat then go to bet knesset in his mind It's much more fun to go out with girls before you're married. You don't have to wait to get married It's much more fun to go bowling instead of gonna bet midrash So now you're calling all of these homosexuals that are mejale shabat kedoshim. Ah, I want to be like them. I Want to be like that, every rabbi in the world is saying that they are kedoshim I want to be like them. In fact, I'm them The scale has changed All the good you did is good. But once you call the enemies of Hashem, holy Everything changes Why we do tshuva and why we do tshuva To desecrate Hashem name in public rabotain hekarim is serious business If Rabi Yoshua Ben Levi was scared of his own status How much so we should be scared? Rabi Yoshua Ben Levi continue to ask Elijah the Prophet. When will the Messiah come? Elijah answered him, go ask him meaning go ask Meshiach yourself And where is he sitting? Where is he? Rabi Yoshua Ben Levi says where I Didn't see him. Where is he? he says a He's sitting at the gate of the city what's this signs Like, how could I tell it's him more as you have like some billboards that says Moshicah, moshiach... What's happening, Chabad dance around him. Where is this Moshiach? How do I know is Moshiach Here's a flag. Yellow flag with some red silk. Where is this Moshiach? Here's a flag There is a card? A led. Says Moshiach?. Well, how do I know? He says his distinguishing feature is that he's singing a sitting among all the poor people that are full of disease He's sitting among them that's where the Moshiach has he's not in the van he's not break dancing in the streets He's among the people that no one else wants to be next to One of the reasons rabotai the gemara says That he the Messiah will also be despised Because the emet at the end of times will be despised All of them Untie and tie their bandages at the same time and he unties and ties his bandages one by one Meaning they're all full of wounds But they take off all of their bandages And then they replace them with something new Because anyone unfortunately that has gone through the nightmare of having infections. It's very disgusting and horrible to have the infection nonetheless To have to deal with changing bandages and so on you have to change the bandages If you don't the infection gets worse So Eliyahu Hanavi says to him all of the people over there. They take off all of the bandages and I replace them all at once but the meshiach He does it one by one the one in his hand Takes off replaces it then over there takes off replaces it. why? There's two questions here number one Why is he changing it one at a time but a bigger question, why does he have all these wounds who beat him up? Who beat him up? What happened to the messiah? And this specific gemara tells us the first answer The reason why he takes off one bandage of the time is because in case Hashem decides for him to come and Bring salvation to the world now He does not want There to be a delay where he still has to put all the bandages back on if he takes one out of time and Hashem makes the sound the shofar from shamaim Moshiach it's time now Moshiach. All he has to do is throw one bandage elsewhere. Let's go Time preparing for 2,000 years. Let's go Go One bandage, but if he took off all the bandages Yeah any other 25 minutes What do you made 25 minutes? They've been waiting for 2000 years 25 more minutes you out of your mind It's against the law. You're violating the Torah Meshiach So now the Moshiach is concerned about not delaying the salvation, the geula By even a minute But the second question I answered some time ago But to remind you why does the Messiah have all these wounds The sfarim hakdoshim say the holy book say that every day Abraham Isaak and Yaakov Come to the Messiah and Plead with him. Please continue Please continue Continue what Continue suffering for every single sin that every Jew makes Chachamim say one of the biggest embarrassments That a person cannot even imagine in this world is the embarrassment he will have when he sees Messiah because as soon as he sees Messiah he will also be Directed to see all of the wounds that he caused the Messiah himself Imagined the holiest of holy the Kodesh kodoshim Moshe rabenu, David hamelej kodesh arrives Everyone's waiting there's millions and millions of people Billions of people watching some big screens. It's in the sky. There's Newscasters those choppers, there's everything in the world Everyone is watching And he's coming up to you And your Little all you thinking you're a tzadik You're thinking I got the merit to see Messiah You're saying oh, whoo what I'm not gonna be like rabi akiva of the generation. Look at my prayers go And all you get to see Mr. Messiah, huh Look at his hand and say you see this deep flesh wound That's from you Remember when you looked at that girl and then you did that sin and that's you It's in all the screens It's been written in shamaim Abraham, Isaac and Yaakov are watching All of the greatest of the great are there , Hashem itbaraj is there And all you can do to yourself and just sit there Helplessly Saying I'm sorry What Busha we're gonna experience if we don't do tshuva Rabi Yoshua Ben Levi said to the Messiah Shalom Aleichem rabi umorri. Peace be upon you my master and teacher And the Messiah sayd to Rabi Yoshua Ben Levi Peace be upon you son of Livy Rabi Yoshua Ben Levi asked them Why are you coming? When is the master coming? Haiom I'm coming today Rabi Yoshua Ben Levi immediately run to and Eliyahu and said to him Look, look, I just spoke to him. I saw him. Eliyahu said, what'd he say to you? He said he first he told me Shalom aleja Eliyahu hanavi says ah, this is good, it's good sign why why is good sign? What does it mean? What is it? Just such a long. No, cuz you must understand how the meshiach talks. He doesn't talk like us. Yes, they understand was just talk Moshiach just gave me the answer the question you asked me What you asked me rabi yoshua. do I have to share with the world to come? what did he tell you he says Shalom Aleichem belly rise says Peace be upon you the son of Levi meaning not only you have share of the world to come but your father does too Your father does too But then as the day went The Moshiach didn't come And Rabi Yoshua Ben Levi said to Eliyahu he lied to me say he's gonna come today. He says no, you're not understanding He said Today he's gonna come meaning the minute you do tshuva Today Meaning I'll come as soon as possible Which means as soon as you do tshuva as soon as am Israel does Tshuva That's when I'll come The rambam writes All of the prophets have promised Meshiach will come and bring us salvation And all of am Israel will do tshuva those that will see Meshiach will do tshuva But there is a McLuket there's a debate there's a problem. What is the problem There's a predestined time the predestined time Of when Moshiach needs to come So there was a debate between rabi Yoshua and rabi Eliezer How is Moshiach gonna come If he's gonna come on it's time or he's gonna come not on his time in the gemara masejet sanhedrin in the previous pages 98:8 says There's going to have to be certain things that happen before Moshiach comes certain conditions One of the things that it says And ben-david bar Ella Bedok sakulos acai o kulakov The Messiah the son of David is not coming Unless the generation is full of righteous. People or full of wicked. Chachamim say This could not be. it's not possible for everyone to be righteous. There's always going to be one or twice Eisavs out there And it's also not possible for everybody to be wicked. It's always gonna be a couple of Yaakov here and there The vale hamusar explained No, we're not referring to everyone being tzadikim and we're not referring to everybody being reshaim Is that at the end of the days? Hashem is gonna clean the generation just like when the hahamin would clean silver in order to take out tin Meaning that they would take to take out tin difficult work. It's hard labor. It's a lot of burning a lot of fire Hashem is going to bring a lot of fire to the world a lot of difficulties a lot of problems Why he wants to see who is the precious stone? Who is the silver who is gonna stand strong with him and who's gonna desecrate his name? because there's no more middle ground when Messiah comes it's either you're at a tzadik or or you are a rasha There's no more middle all of us have to make a choice now A lot of us have a lot of yetzer hara Yetzer hara of money y.h. of women. Y.h. of attention. Y.h. of kavod. It's a lot a lot of different things I said on Sunday for all of the fools that are trying to compare the conservative shul to the Holocaust There's no comparison because even if you want to say that the people That died during the Holocaust in a massacre Vicious way and you want to a psak and say that all of them were kedoshim you have something to rely on You have something to rely on But you don't have anything to rely on for Pittsburgh why because you could have the Jew that came into the holocaust intermarried the Jew that came into the Holocaust a Christian a Catholic the Jew that came into the Holocaust alert to the US with Militia but he came into the Holocaust he came into the ostrich over there to the concentration camp militia But but as soon as he arrived and they took all of his yetzer hara They took away all of his money all of his kavod all of the things that were Distracting him and blinding him from Hashem itbarach. He became a Jew He became a Jew again, there's no more violating Shabbat There's no more eating on Yom, Kippur. There's no being intermarried You have something to rely on you can say was a Kadosh when he died in a massive brutal way Because he suffered for days years who knows a suffering that's unknown to us both Hashem You have something to rely on but if somebody that sinned his whole life and died while sinning you Can't call him the same thing You cannot call the same thing Rabotai ekarim there's a lot of yatser hara that's blinding all of us whether it be money or women or so on and and the same gemara says these are the things that a HaShem is going to take away from us and It gives different things that are going to happen before Moshiach comes People like to ask the question When is Messiah coming Rabi Yoshua Ben Levi in his debate with rabi eliezer are gonna tell us exactly when First and foremost You should know if there is a lot of problems in the world we're getting closer Well getting closer Second thing is even The promise that was made to the Torah scholars that as a result of them learning Torah they'll enjoy peace This will no longer be there that promise will not be fulfilled across the board at the time of Messiah Meaning there will be so many problems that even the people that are fulfilling a Torah Even the people that are teaching Torah, even the people that are gdole gadol giants The peace that was promised to them for their learning Torah will have to wait until after Messiah Rabi hava ben hanina says the son of David the Messiah will not come until The petty government has ceased from Israel until the Knesset Full of kofrim full of heretics running the land of Israel right now until it's destroyed until it's gone Why? because one of the things that was gonna happen at the time of Messiah is the entire Government, the entire leadership will be considered minim meaning people that lead people astray away from Hashem Until this is destroyed until this is gone Mashiac is not gonna come But then you're gonna say, okay, so all we got to do is go to war No, my friend has nothing to do with war war starts at home word starts with the person you see in the mirror Why because then zeir it says in the name of rabi Hanina. Now, there's another condition and the son of David Messiah will not come until the arrogant are eliminated from Israel until all of this people that haven't worked on their middot for a second, until all of these people that call themselves the great pride and to all of these people that want to show off their money their looks their all the other stuff they have Until they either do tshica and become humble or they're gone from the world Moshiach can't come But most relevant of rabotai eKareem is what we read also on Sunday The son of the David the Moshiach will not come until the judges and offices cease from Israel Cease from Israel all of these people that are making new laws, new halajot, in the name of nobody in the name of somebody All of these lies that are being taught to the world have to stop all this hilul Hashem has to stop now What about the people that are motivated by money? What about the people that are worried about building the next yeshiva the next? Kollel and they need to lie a little bit in order to get the halet shabat in order to donate a million dollars Well Shmuel says Shmuel says the verse in Tehilim 165 teaches us the Messiah will not come until the prices of all commodities are equal Meaning there's a financial crisis where everything becomes worthless No stock market, no housing. No Bitcoin. No Schmitt coin. No potatoes. No tomatoes Everything is worthless That IRA you're trying to save him for That retirement plan You only trying to retire before Moshiach comes because if he comes that retirement cleaners might as well be dead You're better off giving some tzedaka with that money or doing something useful like buying some sifre Torah But what about if the people are not ready The same gemara continues in another place and says rabi Yoshua ben Levi Says if the Jews are deserving I will hasten them if they're not deserving Then the redemption will come at its time The debate between him and rabi Eliezer is finalized with Rabi Yoshua Ben Levi putting a pzuk saying if they do tshuva good Meshiach will come and a nice time will be introduced by Eliyahu Hanavy three days before and all will be Wonderful. If not, Hashem will send Haman and he'll force to do tshuva Hashem will send a leader as evil as Haman the gemara says, and he'll force them to do tshuva The Meshiach told Rabi Yoshua Ben Levi I'm gonna come today Is because he says you can actually do tshuva today All of us can do tshuva today It starts with our own middot, our own character traits This is what Hashem has been wanting us to do For the last two thousand years How do I know? What, am I a prophet? Am I the the son of a prophet. No, he wrote it in his book I checked it and I'll read it to you The Prophet Jeremiah in chapter 2 verse 30 says Hashem says tell am Israel tells Jeremiah In vain, I strike your children, for they did not accept rebuke He says I destroyed the beit hamikdash I killed millions and millions of people all in vain It's a waste to kill all these people Hashem says It's a waste why because even after I killed them punished of this that they still don't want to learn mussar Because the only thing I keep telling them do tshuva how you tshuva learn mussar they still don't want to do it So the whole thing is in vain 2000 years we're waiting for somebody to teach mussar 2000 years Hashem is waiting for us to do Tshuba work on ourselves work on our middot All of the things that we concentrate on the material the prophet Isaiah says the prophet Isaiah in chapter Verse 20 says on that day meaning the day Messiah arrives Men will throw away his false gods of silver and false gods of gold all the money all the stock portfolios all the Bitcoin all the cars all the houses all the garbage we consume our life with Why? Which made him? Prostrate himself all the stuff he worshipped his whole life and wasted his life is going to throw it to the bats into the caves Why because it's all going to become worthless the only thing we're gonna have at that time of Messiah is whatever mitzvot you fulfilled, if you Haven't done tshuva at that time. Money's not gonna help you This is why Rabi Yoshua Ben Levi Says Every day a heavenly voice emanates from Mount Sinai from maut horev proclaiming and saying Woe to them the people because of their insulted at Torah because of their hilul Hashem Woe to them the Orah Haim Masajet Shabat page 89 Says that why is it called Mount Olive? Why is it called a mountain of destruction? Is because am Israel is supposed to learn That originally a HaShem offered the Torah to all of the nations He offered the tour to all of the nations but all of the nations Rejected it widely rejected If you look at the gemara mesejet avoda page 2 b It says that the nations Said to a HaShem listen if we can't steal and we can't murder we can't accept the Torah Why are they they can't stop stealing why are they they can't stop killing? What's that? What's that problem white why they have to steal why don't have to kill Why they're so glue to it. I Chachamim explain the Orah Haim explains it's not that they're glued or not glued. You're not understanding that's their business They're saying to assume no, it's not necessarily that We don't want to stop killing and we don't want to stop murdering. It's that we're too busy working We don't have time to learn Torah We don't have time to learnTorah. we can't come at 9 o'clock at night I'm working For that I can't learn so I'm working. I'm working. I'm working. I'm always working. There's no time to learn to live. I Mean say this is why it's called Mount Olive because the green that rejected the Torah ultimately will be destroyed For rejecting the Torah but So will the Jews the rejected the one? They rejected the Torah because they were too busy working They rejected the Torah because they were too busy because they were working same price Same thing Now, how come there's this sound That we don't hear the Baal Shem Tov says This sound from Mount Sinai comes to each person at his level Wherever you are it comes to your level meaning Each one of us has an inner voice That tells them you know, you really should be more modest You know, the Rebbe said that you're supposed to cover your head with a mitbaja. You really should listen to him You know, you should stop working on Shabbat, you know, you're making your money. Anyway, you know, you should start keeping Shabbat It's a vacation every week, you know, you should start coming to the shiur and stop watching on the internet You're only 20 minutes away. You know, you should do this. We all have the little inner voice Where's the inner voice coming from Mount Sinai the Baal Shem Tov says it comes from Mount Sinai It's telling you let's say 3,300 years ago you are there You accepted the entire Torah and you're screwing up. You're doing something no good You better do tshuva, Mashiach's coming It's just coming We have to do tshuva rabotai Each and every single one of us hears this voice It's inside us We can't continue making excuses for the rest of our lives But unfortunately the Baal Shem Tov continues and he says to us All of us have this voice inside us? The wise person opens up his heart To this heavenly call and does thsuva and returns to God But to spiritually callous person The lazy person the wicked person the faker That guy is oblivious. He just says now that's just some noise No, that's just for other people. It's not for me. I'm too busy making money. I'm too busy going out with girls I'm too busy making sins. It's not for me this stuff I'll do it later when I get married and have kids and I'm 99 years old At hospice The Baal Shem Tov a kadosh says That person hears the voice everyone hears the voice But he just ignores it all of us hear this voice All of us have the sound of the bat call rebuking us constantly All I do is remind you of things. You already know That's it I'm just trying to remind you of what the inner voice has been telling you for twenty thirty forty years. That's it It's time we listened we have to do something about it stop faking ourselves out pretending There is work to do. every one of us has an inner voice that's telling you to do something do it already You can't do all of it do part of it The key rabotai Is to start paying attention The two thousand years We've been hearing a voice sinat hinam sinat hinam five times a year we hear about sinat hinam Beit hamikdash is not built because of sinat hinam, Beit hamikdash is not built because lashon hara Beit Hamikdash is not build because of this because of that It's not because of lashon hara It's not because of avodah zarah You know why it is it's because we're not listening That's why Beit hamikdash is not being built because we're not listening to the rebuke. We're not listening to the emet Even when the emet is punchings us in the face, we're not listening We're listening to people that pretend to love us. Oh, no. I love my Keila. I love them I'm not gonna tell the mejalel shabat, mot iumat So we're gonna finish with this Someone asked me this question But whether our delivery of how we say things being passionate a little bit in your face and somewhat scary at times If that's really the best approach Maybe I should be more patient Maybe I should be like the Chabad NIC that tells everybody loves him Maybe I should be like the Breslev and start dancing with him and him all the streets like when I was 17 Maybe I should be like the local conservative guy and invite him and go to his homosexual party. Hashem irahem Maybe I should be that? No Let me explain to you something No one loves The sinners more than the rebuker No one loves the hiloni, the conservative the reformed the complete atheist More than the rebuker, no one not even his family You know why because while everybody else enables them to continue Being a desecrater of a Hashem's name being a mehalel Shabbat being a idol worshipper by Saying he's at tzadik he's kadosh He's the best He has a good heart Hashem understands you you're the best and Letting him continue living a life of sin that he will have to pay for for eternity in A very very hot fire that will never end the rebuker that he and all of his friends hate with a passion is his only hope to do tshuva The rebuker is the only one that reminds them. Hey, buddy. You have to stop violating Shabbat Or else you're gonna go gehenome trust me you don't want to go there Hey, you're not allowed to be homosexual even if you have those feelings keep them deep down inside till they go away Lots of people have feelings doesn't mean you have to practice them. We're not animals We have to work on ourselves and the only ones that care enough to remind us of the people the rebuke us If there are two people that have a disease that's terminal And the doctor tells the first one that he has only one year to live that person is gonna cry at first from the pain of Realizing that his whole life is flashing before him and he only has 12 months Before he says goodbye to everyone What will he do with this 12 months? What can he do? the doctor Being a very passionate and compassionate person Starts crying with him and hugs him and tells him you know, I really love you. You were my best patient. I Really really care about you. I'm sorry to be a bearer of bad news. I Really? Am I really was hoping you'd be my patient for another 20 years After the patient leaves the doctor cries for another five or ten minutes And he says, you know what I'm not gonna do this anymore, I'm not gonna give people bad news anymore Little does he know his next patient arrives with the same terminal disease and only one year to live And he says, you know what my buddy. I told my buddy. I love him He's been coming to my office for 20 years we go to shul together. We hang out together our kids are this our that I Upset him I I can't believe it. You know what I'm not gonna do it again. He tells the next patient you're good But I'm good. Everything's good Thing going out of my arm. No, it's nothing. It's just that's callous. It's nothing. It's it's it's good. It's a it's an ingrown hair It didn't grow hands now. It's gonna go away. It's gonna go away in time. Oh, really? Wait a minute my foots falling off everything. Okay. No, no that just happens with age happens with age Just making up reason starts making all the hard. No. No. You are kadosh you're perfect. Don't worry. You're good as you are Hashem loves you, as you are. Stay don't change a thing Stay at tinok shenisva The guy goes home and he's happy he hugs his wife he hugs his kids. Everything is good. See you all worried for nothing and he goes back to his life a Year follows and the family of Both Dead people See the doctor one family Thanks him while the other one calls the cops and files a lawsuit against him The one that files a lawsuit against him Says to him we can't believe You lied to us We can't believe you told him that it was just nothing It was not a big deal that Hashem didn't really care and he loved him as he is We can't believe you lied to him said yeah, but I don't wanna hurt him I don't want him to cry like my other friend says Yes, but if he cried at first he would have done something about it He would have cried at first that now he has to change his life now Yes to get a divorce because he's intermarried now. He has to quit his job because he works on Shabbat now He has to change his life and he has to watch his mouth now has to change himself because he has to watch his middot Now he has to change his cloth because he has to but cloth on He would have changed, it would have hurt. It would have been expensive but It was over at some point and it would have used to it and maybe even liked it But you didn't him give him the chance you told him nothing is wrong So he just went about his life and he continued going to work And he worked overtime because you want to save for some vacation that he's never gonna see anyway, because he died And he never spent any time with his family. He never spent any time doing tshuva and he's never spent any time Appreciating anything cuz he was so busy working. He was so busy living the false life He was living because he was convinced like all of us that he has at least another 80 years to go So the last year that he had you just stole it from him Which is the equivalent of you stole everything from him? You took all he had you took all he had left Your friend that cried Yeah, he cried at first But at least his last year after he made the changes he didn't go back to work anymore Because he knew he doesn't have much time left See you as the time. He had left doing things that are useful During tshuva learning Torah Spending with family doing things that are useful to the world It hurt to do tshuva at first cuz he made an adjustment but I bet you that family loves you now Because now he's in gan eden Well, the one you didn't tell the truth - he is in gehenom and he's not coming out No one loves the secular the reformed the conservative and the atheist more than the rebuker no one Because he's the only one That's happily gonna tell you the truth, even though he knows you're gonna punch him in the face Even though he knows you're going to not donate even though he knows it's gonna hurt him actually financially even though he knows it's gonna hurt and emotionally when you make right things against him and his family and everything is about He knows you're gonna do it But he loves you just enough to tell you the truth because eventually We're all gonna meet somewhere and hopefully we're both in the same place any questions Betza Hashem tomorrow night we have another very exciting shiur to continue this Mishnah Of what does it mean to be sick but Torah to occupy yourself but Torah These psukim that we have in the Torah that tell us that we have to do tshuva Rabi Yoshua Ben Levi is teaching us here the one who saw All the things we could only imagine He said they'd give us some guidance of occupying ourselves with Torah occupying ourselves with tshuva What does it mean? How do we do it with Betbzra Hashem tomorrow, We'll continue Baruj adonai leolam. Amen ve amen