A THIN LINE BETWEEN WISDOM & FOLLY - Jewish HaShkafa PART (19)

[Music] good to be back took a week off no I did not have Corona don't have to worry um we're back here in aventur Florida doing our weekly sh on Jewish asfa a lot has happened in the last week uh even though I was uh not here we're still working still doing a lot of different things and uh a lot of interesting uh things happened um you know people were worried uh about why those this once in a while you get a cold but uh the reason why I took off I usually don't take off the colds or much worse than that but uh in today's world you have to be a little bit more conscious of other people than you are normally uh you know I know that uh even if there's a 1% chance of somebody getting nervous you know if I cough during the Shure or something like that or you see me wiping my nose it's not worth it not for you guys and also not the people that are watching that are always looking for some reason to uh go against you know oh look look this guy he has Corona and he's teaching those people there's a lot of them they actually have been working very hard this past week I'll tell you a little bit update about that today sh we have a um nice list of people to do for where uh tonight will be for foral Sherry Jonas Ben Sherry Haley ysep Ben B roel Stefan Ben Katarina tal mbana and also for a for Mara B Julie and Isa B Mara and also sha Ben faran benah benis gab benis elad benis David benri and all of those wonderful people that bem continue to donate and support our cause support our work uh day and night you know it's a uh it's not an easy thing today to uh to donate uh because of everything that's happening uh most importantly that the yet is working overtime and uh he's doing a lot of different things to make sure that uh you know he at least fulfills his obligation to try to slow us down and uh not just uh with sickness but also just simply by confusing people you know in the uh for anyone who uh follows uh some of the uh you know some of the media or the the different pages in The Last uh week has been uh four different uh four or five different attacks by different uh that uh uh not that necessarily they deserve a stage but it's almost it's important to also address some of these things uh just to eliminate confusion uh in case anybody didn't see or doesn't know who we are and this is the first lecture they're ever watching uh you know they watched some write an article about us or something like that so you know this is the first face they get so of course the uh rash from Bish wrote another couple of Articles because he has nothing else to write about other than heresy uh so he wrote a a couple of more articles about us about how uh he doesn't agree that tunit should be taught to uh to the public because according to him it's not a big deal according to him and some opinion he got from a toilet paper that he found in the street he doesn't think that is right he doesn't think that the from all of the whether it's the with theim the from 500 years ago from 2,000 years ago rambam Rashi everybody's wrong except him him him and Bish him and his uh dragons that he plays with in the zoo uh you know that's what he does for a living he's in a zoo you we're just not sure who's the animal uh he uh he writes he writes that uh it shouldn't be taught to people so who you going to teach it to who you going to teach it to oh no you shouldn't teach it to kids who you should teach it to senior citizens where the body doesn't work anymore who are you going to teach it to oh maybe it's too early so for all of those people that uh you know are are um conscious of the political correctness of teaching about t first and foremost our biggest answer is the most important one which is that we came out with another video today teaching about another video today nice 20 minutes to scare the living lights out of anybody that watches it make sure do not waste teeth why you're going to lose your and bottom line not because I said it because said it I'm simply a messenger everything that I say has a source in the Tora you don't like it go to have a conversation with them I don't know what's going to happen at the end all I know is that this is what kazal says time and time again to go find some weird P somewhere that said maybe yes and maybe no but nobody agrees with anyway you want to go rely your on that be my guest that's your business but if you look at all of the and compile all of the data and you see this Ned this there's no comparison there's simply no comparison but unfortunately there's enough that make enough noise and for all of those people that are looking for scies in order to waste seed in order to be immoral in order to cheat on their wife in order to be with go in order to do all types of things with their eyes and with their bodies and so on of course they're going to ignore they're going to ignore the they're going to ignore the they're going to make it seem no no it shouldn't be taught first and foremost you should know that rashash said that he taught his children about at four years old four years old so you're all late four years old you already told his kids do not touch your B there's a poster in I saw with my own eyes his words on it I teach my care four years old don't touch your B Shalom already taught his kids about Gom at 6 years old not the details that you saw in SHO number 84 that scared you for the rest of your life but nonetheless he taught him there's a place of fire my every single one of his kids from from the littlest one to the oldest one already knows about Gom why if you know about Gom when you're five 6 seven eight years old you don't need to be taught it when you're 16 and 26 and 36 why it's already ingrained in you it's already ingrained in you if you wait until the kid a teenager or older he's already made enough sins that he's become addicted to it and it's very hard to overcome very hard to overcome so this is specifically aah that you teach at all ages this is also part of the reason why kazal tells that which is one of the foundational places that we learn about git were eight years old themselves and who killed both of them now of course you're G to say yeah but maybe they this and maybe this that good luck with that bottom line is does not like this sin anyone that says otherwise is simply going against the Torah kler who built liid not yes lakid he built Lakewood said publicly that you know for all of those people that are afraid to teach this publicly because of course you're always going to find some that's going to tell you listen maybe uh you should teach it but only one onone first of all how you going to get the 20 million people and that's just the Jewish people how you going to get to another 8 billion people non-jews oneon-one are you going to set up the meetings for me how you going to get to all those people you're not going to get to those people invented the Internet for a reason of course you speak everything with you you speak everything with the way you're supposed to but the point being you you're supposed to teach it to the public in a certain way you don't want to teach it fine don't go against it don't say things against it but who goes against it as I taught you guys many times the people that go against it are the people that are criminals why it's the only reason it's the only reason you would ever go against such a thing you have an addiction to pornography or to all types of other garbage and you feel bad that everybody else is doing Chua except you so kler himself said Shalom that we'd feel comfortable like people do to talk about their personal uh intimate life but we feel embarrassed to talk about Kusa meaning this specific issue people talk about their filthy lives and all of the mistakes they make in their marriages and all the mistakes they make in dating and all the disgusting hobbies that they have freely oh what' you do this weekend yeah I met three girls oh wow freely they talk about it but no go teach that same guy about K teach him G teach him about what's going to happen to him if he doesn't do chuv no no no that's not the way says shom we get to such a day unfortunately we get to such a day so for anyone that's confused of who should be taught everyone everyone I have several serious I'm not talking about because they contacted me I'm talking about serious because they've been before I was even born and or actually a little after and uh that tell me that they listen to those shim specifically that's how they got to know who I was and so on they listen to it for for why it's not an easy thing no matter how old you are you're 30 you're 40 you're 50 it's never an easy thing you're married you're single it's never an easy thing someone asked me today listen what does a person do if he's tried everything he learns to he does he looks for doesn't find he's already in his 20s he hasn't found a shid what you're telling me that he's uh what is he going to do why you should kill himself no no one said kill yourself but why does it mean why does it mean that if you can't find a you have to go against theem like why does one thing mean the other like if a didn't bless you you go against him like what does it mean the reality is there is no leniency to was because you did not find a there is no leniency to have a girlfriend before you got married there is no leniency to do any of those things none zero nothing you want to go do it it's your business I'm simply giving you the information I'm giving you the information you want to do what you want to do do what you want to do the reality is there's an endless amount of sources that we've provided over the years I think we've have something close to 100 different sh and clips about this topic but it's never enough It's never enough simply because this is one of those issues that needs constant if you watch the 100 watch them again and after you watch them again watch them again and again and again and again why this is just one of those topics if you're married watch them again if you're single watch them again you got divorced watch them again you send them to your friend you should watch them again again how many times until you leave this world why because this is an issue that needs because there's enough sometimes they have a beard and a hat and sometimes they don't they're going to try to tell you no it's not a big deal it's not a big deal it's only natural it's only your body it's only your body if somebody could hire the uh the air conditioner if could lower it please uh it's only your body your body's normal thing your body's normal that there's no bigger foolishness than that there's simply no bigger foolishness does that because the reality is your body does a lot of things doesn't mean that you should use it for that your body can shoot a gun what does that mean you shoot everybody your body can take somebody take your hand and slap somebody in the face that mean you slapped them what the stupidity is this if you did not find a that's because did not give it to you yet that's why because he wants you to overcome the test yeah but it's hard exactly why do you think people get degrees in college like it's worth anything more than a toilet paper unless it's for an actual profession you'll use it for if you got a communications degree or some English degree and you're not becoming an English teacher you've wasted a quar million dollars of your parents money why do you think people get Doctorate Degrees and Masters and all types what do you think why because they passed an easy test no because they got something after hard work why do you think somebody's going to go to geden because they overcame some serious tests some serious difficulties in this world you couldn't find a and you still overcame it thear says loves you how much there's a few different types of people that who loves more than the normal one of them is a young man meaning a man that's single who overcomes this test it's not going to say it about a young man that doesn't eat a hamburger it doesn't say it if a young man doesn't go to the Nicks game it doesn't say it about a young man even if that young man learns to doesn't say about that what does it saying about somebody that overcomes this particular issue why because your body yearns for it so you overcoming it is a very big deal in hashem's eyes you failing is also a very big deal in hashem's eyes so the answer is for all of those people that are wondering what do I do I'm 25 I'm 35 years old and I'm single what do I do nothing you wait and you learn more Torah and you do more chuva and you ask AEM please help me find somebody because I want to do your will that's what you do now if there's Shalom some type of seed that leaves your body while you're sleeping as long as you watched your eyes during a day as says watch your eyes during the day so evil does not come to you at night as long as you watched your eyes and it's not because of the things that you watched on the Internet or in the streets or other places and it simply came to you because of perhaps the past or even just because you have nothing to worry about but if it's because you look at things you look at pornography you look at immodesty you look at all the filth in the world like freely like as if nothing's going to happen and something happens guess what you're guilty you're guilty I'm going to give you something that's going to scare you a little bit but it is what it is if it happens to you in a dream on tell me not going to go any more than that if it happens to you on it happens to you not you do this you do it yourself don't tell me don't tell me you're on your own you do on your own don't tell me please you just going make me cry but it happens to you on its own onip tell me that's a enough said on that one so that's one particular issue we have to address second a bunch of you guys owe me $10,000 bunch of you guys why apparently apparently I charge $10,000 for conversions I didn't know about this so you guys owe me a bunch of money I until this day for for all these years I've been telling people I do for free and the only fee is the bed charg a fee it's not my money I don't get a penny out of it many times I don't even get paid for the flight to go to the bed but apparently somebody says that I charge $10,00 for for conversion so apparent all you guys owe me money now I'm a millionaire already I don't have to go to Wall Street anymore they made money for me while I was sleeping so the reality is is that when they're picking at straws and they have nothing to you know they have nothing they have to create stuff they have to create all types of things in order to you know make themselves sound right because they do all types of fake conversions on a beach with people with clothes on which really in reality don't have clothes on uh it's a they have clothes on when they go to the mik that clothes is not considered clothes when you're in the street but that's the type of convert they have uh and uh they like to you know to make all types of uh false things they like to say all types of things why because they want attention they want attention they want to make sure that people pick them cuz they're the righteous ones cuz they're the good ones we'll talk about that too today why because there is there is a strange and unusual situation that happened in the Torah in the tanak to a group of people that when I heard it the first time tell you the truth it's very scary why if I say for example the Tor says according to the r according to the that we have today someone meaning someone that continuously violat Shabbat he know Shabbat exists doesn't really care continues sinning driving to sh or driving does whatever he wants according to the t is considered 100% an idol worshipper that's the now I say that some people don't like it some people get scared but more or less yal move on but if if came here and he told you if you have bad notab you keep Shabbat you keep Shabbat you protect your bre you keep the whole T you have bad you can get to a point of not being part of according to that's a little more scary why he did it one time until this until today it it stands for those specific people that he did it to so unfortunately those that want to make videos and want to go against the Tora do what you want all you're doing is you're causing damage to yourself there's another nice video actually high quality video came out today uh when I saw it the first time about month ago um you know it's say or a few weeks ago whenever it was I thought it was really good quality I oh wow only problem is it's talking bad about me that's the only bad part about it but what does it do it says oh yeah listen look he says things and the green like him the anti-semites like him because they're saying this they're saying that and they've already addressed this issue but they you know they made a video to try to vilify me and in essence try to say oh look he's uh giving power to theim they're going to there's more more anti-Semitism because of him reality is is this I tell you things that are in it you like it good you don't like it don't make a difference to me I'm simply telling you what says what the sages says whether you like it or not it's not that's not what I come here for that's not what I do the lectures for that's not what I pretty much don't sleep the rest of the week for it's not for that I do it in order to give people the information so you all make educated decisions what to do with your life now unfortunately has a very strong throughout all of the generations it's not just today all of the generations unfortunately we've had Sinners we've had Idol worshippers we've had we've had all types of things we've also always had that's what kept us alive it's not because of the that we're still here now if we do not use the teachings of the sages which says that we have to know about all of our mistakes in order not to repeat them and we simply ignore the reality of things the reality that we are sinning in one two or three places the reality that we are making mistakes in one two or three places the reality that we have made those mistakes and got punished for them whether it be the Holocaust or the Spanish inquisitions or the bet mikash if we simply ignore it and pretend everything is dandy then guess what you simply have to take theom and cut it in half or more why last week's par last week's gives us a rebuke of a lifetime anybody that reads this par with real commentary by at least Rashi and does not do chat should admit themselves to a mental institution why this par says the worst possible things that a can do to a person in this world and this is not even geham gam is much worse why gam is spiritual pain which is p60 it's a it's times 60 to the lowest level and so on and so forth tells us such horrible things in last week's that happened to us a few times and anyone that reads it and doesn't do cha after that even if you're FR and you don't do cha after it there's something wrong with you why because says listen in the beginning of the I told you that you are happy with all of the good that I gave you what a great to be happy with the good he gave us how easy is that then he tells us a few verses later you be a special Nation a special blessed Nation you you a special Nation more than the Chinese more than the Americans more than the Iranians more than whoever you you you can be a special Nation that's your obligation that's your commandment that's your also your guidance that's your advice that's your everything you be a special Nation great mitvah why wouldn't I want to be a special Nation happy special Nation but there's a problem here how can I be happy if I got all these problems bills are piling up all types of people going against me this one's trying to fire me this one's trying to not pay me this one's trying to uh cheat on me this one's trying to this this one's trying people have a slew of problems every day I got three four 500 text messages and emails every single day with people give me their problems whether it's rape or it's abductions or it's financial crisis or it's a marriage crisis I mean you named the problem I deal with it for free not $10,000 that's next week I don't have to go back to Wall Street with 10,000 I really make as much money as people say I make I don't have to go back to Wall Street anymore guys I was thinking how can you be happy with all of these problems how many problems do we have murders every other day accidents every second vast majority of the world hates you and even if you're not Jewish you have problems just like everybody has Pro so how if I'm a Jew and gave me at beginning of before he told me about the punishments he told me obligated to be happy for all of the good that I give you and you be a special Nation how can I be happy how can I be happy first what does it mean to be happy as a Jew I'll give you a small minor example that I just learned my raban of what it means and we did a sh about it the quick one last week in Hebrew and I think it's fantastic if you're a Jew and you live in Israel a lot of places of kosher kosher is relatively standard there unfortunately because of the million Russians that came vast majority being go that they you know went to Israel over the years there's a lot of pig stores also but there's more kosher stores to get kosher over there is now you don't have to look on the map where's the next kosher store like you do in America but in America in England in Australia and different places you want to go eat kosher you have to you know look where's the name you know where's the kosher place even the Jewish community so that means if you're driving from my house in Cooper City and you're driving let's say on the on Griffin okay you're driving or you're driving on Sterling or you're driving on one of these streets where on both sides there's restaurants and shopping centers and so on what do you see you're seeing 99% of the places not Kosher not allowed to go there not Kosher Chinese not Kosher Indian not Kosher this one not Kosher that one not Kosher this not Kosher that not allowed to go here not allowed to go there no no no no no no nothing get away run away reverse abort abort May Day made can't go nowhere finally you see a little Rinky Dink Place sends a FF and P koser but you're not even sure who's the yet you know what a Jew is you know what that you are happy with all the good that gave you and you your special Nation you know what you're you're not supposed to be happy for that one little koser place no you're supposed to be happy for all of those koser places you're supposed to say look at me I'm part of this that's not allowed to have any of this look how special it is who runs this entire world all the planets all of the different galaxies and the stars and the clouds and the rains and the atmosphere and the animals and and all types of germs and all types of things we see and we don't see why for this book for this book that says I am not allowed to go to all of those places how amazing is that how amazing that I can't take part in any of this that's what you're supposed to do you're not supposed to be of the mindset of saying oh man look what I'm missing out Chinese J Japanese tinese this me that me this me zese eanes no it's the opposite see look how special it is this entire world functions on the fact that there's going to be one little p place with some and because they haven't gotten the the from the from the yet to get meat that place I'm allowed to eat how amazing is that that's what you're supposed to that's what a Jew is a Jew is happy in that good not that there a little repeat the place that you cannot have any of the other stuff why CU said so and you fulfilling that mitvah that you cannot partake in all of this that's what makes you special that's a big deal now if you still feel like you're missing out in the movies and the theaters in the in the games and all the theatrics and all the other stuff there's a little bit of a little bit of missing out in your Judaism and this is why you'll see that every one of these every one of these that love to go against if you look at their personal profiles whether it be on social media or their personal hobbies in their personal lives what do you see with them constantly advertising the world of the green advertising the news advertising the games advertising the movies advertising the secular books rarely something related to Torah like like after like for every 87 post about the secular world for the gim they advertise something little for Judaism you know just to remind themselves like a muza like a muza they bought 37 years ago for their Bar Mitzvah you know it reminds them that's why they go against because they're so deep inside the non Jewish World they feel like they're missing out but says you have to be happy with the fact that you cannot partake in all of this why it's not for you it's not for you that's what makes you special if you're going to wear the same clothes as everybody else you're just like everybody else if you're going to act like just like everybody else you're just like everybody else but how come anybody that deals with nature and so on if they go to a behive they're not looking for the Bean named Steve they're not looking for Joe what are they looking for the queen why she looks different when you look at a ant farm you don't look at oh yeah this guy's probably name is Gabi and that guy yon that onead that no what are you what are you looking for for you're looking for the leader who are they all following who's the special one who is the special one you have the ability to be a special one every day and be proud of it but if you're constantly looking at the world of theim how you going to feel any special you want to be like them now there's nothing wrong with them it's just that it's not you if you were born a non-jew and that's the world enjoy it no problem there's nothing wrong with you you're doing your role if you're a that starts acting like you're a Jew without an interest of becoming a Jew then there's something wrong with you you're a horse that painted themselves to look like a zebra there's something wrong with you you play your role he plays his role Everybody Plays their role it's like uh today's world everything's upside down the Girl Wants To Be A Boy the boy wants to be a girl everybody's crazy said you have to be happy about this why if you're happy about it you're going to be special and if you're special all of these horrible things that a said that can happen to us are not going to happen writes in is the beginning of theph may actually be by his blazer because both of them wrote In the book if anyone knew simply the basics of what punishment is in they would simply thank AEM thank AEM just for not sending them there without giving them any reward meaning AEM I will fulfill all of the mitv do everything you say for no reward just don't send me there don't send me to Gom don't send me to Ka why it's that bad but here we're not talking about kaf here we're not talking about says that a person that makes all of these immorality crimes is cursed cursed as a as a person that degrades his father and mother how many times how many times did you see or perhaps you yourself or I myself degrade our parents your father asked you to do something now come on again how about that says cursed and all of all of the that second your father asked you for a coffee that second your father asked you for a ride that second your father asked you for a loan hun son can you give me $500 I don't have any money but I need to pay the bill no come on ABA I worked so hard for it that answer that second all of is abah jaob davidu yesu everybody all of them say cursed is this person and all of the nation says am in why because you're a nasty human being and you don't know how to say thank you ABA for the opportunity to let me fulfill a Mitzvah whatever you want whatever you want The Ten Commandments were not a list of suggestions when your mother asks you to do something who says she's asking you I'm telling you you don't want to do it cursed is such a person and all of theik that ever lived are saying Amen on that curse and that's just the first one who wants to arrive at see their list books and books full of curses on them follow the nasty comments they make to their parents cursed is the person who causes a blind person to go to go astray on the road who is this referring to tell us this refers to someone that teaches the public something that's against the Torah teaches them lies tells them that there's no reward and Punishment tells them that everybody goes to GED tells them that hm is going to apologize to you tells them all types of things that are against the toah such a person is cursed you publicize their you take part in their you're part of that curse also and all of is all of theim say Amen cursed is a person who perverts the Judgment of a convert an orphan or a widow you convert people that are not people that you should convert why they don't even know what Judaism is in order for them to want to be Jewish they show up to the conversion with barely any clothes on because they haven't learned about modesty yet in a world where it's very easy to learn about Judaism in a matter of 5 minutes you go on the internet you go to bash.org you go to a few different websites you go to go to any normal Jewish website and you'll learn about these mitv this person showed up to a conversion without even knowing about modesty yet obviously that's not a person that knows what it means to be Jewish now yes you're going to say yeah but the says don't teach them too many mitv because maybe they're going to you know not want to do it yeah no one says teach them all the mitv but there's some basic things that Society needs to know why because like we just said someone that causes other people to sin is cursed so this woman she wants to convert but she's still causing the public to sin because she doesn't know how to put clothes on now yes you're G to you have that says yeah convert is a baby for the first 20 years of their conversion they don't get punished in this life because they're still considered the baby but still but those other people that are seeing her IM are still sinning even though she's not judged for it in that moment she's not going to get punished for it in this life for the first 20 years doesn't mean she won't get punished after 20 years it doesn't mean she won't get punished in the next World it also doesn't mean that the people that are sinning because of her are not going to get punished so if you convert a woman without her even knowing and accepting the mitvah of modesty you are cursed for converting such a person why obviously they don't even know the basic level of Judaism don't know nothing no no I like the Torah what do you like oh I like the stories with King David that doesn't mean you want to be Jewish it just means you like stories if you want to be Jewish that means you have to accept all of the mitv yeah but I don't know all of them yeah but you have to be willing to accept all of them whether you know them or whether you don't know them oh I'm not sure can you tell me what they are okay no problem I'll tell you what they are that's what they're learning for but the point is is to convert people randomly just to pretend like you're some good guy randomly convert people that's perverting the Judgment of the prates but it worse yet these B that torture people the GU already ready the girls already ready they've been ready they've already been on this journey for a year 2 years 3 years 5 years they're done they know already they accepted everything everything they're living as Jews already but the bed says no listen you haven't paid us enough or better yet we have a process that takes a century or we want you to be a rabbi by the time you convert those people are also perverting judgment or like this rash that took a woman who doesn't want to be Jewish doesn't want to be Jewish she already told her husband that she divorced because she was cheating on him with somebody else she told him I don't want to be Jewish but the bedine converted her anyway why because she was cheating on him with a Jew that was on the board of directors of the bedine or the connected to the bedine that's perverting judgment or all of these different kot that have signs on their doors we don't accept converts you're not counterpart of a minan you're not going to be accepted or in our schools that's not a good thing why says you're cursed for such a thing maybe not the regular people who don't know Al even don't know nothing they simply follow the leaders they think it's a mitvah because they're keeping their uh their their tradition fine but the leaders out there that are still enforcing this law and putting these signs up for sure are cursed why you know better you know that Torah has 36 different places that a gives special protection to the converts and the mid says that there's an additional 10 places meaning 46 different Commandments are broken when you go against righteous converts 46 different Commandments are going you're embarrassing them you're telling them to get out of here don't come here you're insulting the converts see what's going to happen to you and your kids why would you do such a thing don't you understand that even aside from all the convert rules that you're embarrassing another Jew in public and David says someone that you embarrass another Jew in public you have no share of the world to come you're doing it on a regular basis as if it's a good thing why okay you don't want to convert people within your k no problem it's not a good idea but yeah you have a tradition you have a Tak no problem but if he converted or she converted somewhere else at a recog they're kosher people they have they're religious they keep everything they want to just stop by your and pray they want to go to the school to Yesa they're Jewish you're Jewish and you reject him because of that you think you're going to have for causing them such damage says he takes special revenge against such people why that's his kids but what happens is you have the extremes you you have some people that are anti-c convert and you have people that want to convert uh people like Christianity they sent them to some beach and they let them dip with their clothes on yeah yeah go jump in the ocean over there yeah and you see the videos is it's 100% Christianity yeah yeah go in the ocean yeah how do you feel nothing what do you mean how he feel he's on a beach what do you mean how he feels he's on a beach there's 50 other people there only strange thing is that he still has his clothes on that's the only thing cuz normally he would just not have his clothes on the beach what do you mean how he feels you think that makes him Jewish dipping him like a what do we what happened that's the problem those types of things and those types of things are not what wants why because conversion is a gift from aad not me not you not the other not the if wants you to convert guess what no power in the world is going to stop it and if a doesn't want you to convert no power in the world can make it happen why you can go and dip with this guy you can go you could go live in the ocean like a fish if you want you could put PS in four different places and in eight different places you could wear 30 like some you could pretend to do whatever you want says on the day of conversion nothing happened to you you go up to sh your judgment is as a why the gift is from him who does he decide to give the gift to if he knows that you are genuinely accepting the me all of them on a day of conversion but if on a day of conversion you don't even know you don't even know anything about Judaism all you know is that the guy that told you about it hates everybody he hates all of the raban why cuz he's a convert and he doesn't he didn't get treated well and therefore he simply just hates everyone and he makes fun of everyone and he has all types of laws that he creates out of his thin head and he makes fun of kazal and he helps you make fun of kazal and so on and so forth you think that's going to help you in life oh no no I'm a jeun now I live in Montana okay where's your B it oh it's in Texas that's not what a Jew is and for anybody that went through those conversions you have to understand you could pretend all you want doesn't pretend he doesn't pretend what ends up happening a lot of times people wake up and they realize they made a mistake but it's usually after damage was already done somebody converts to one of these fake whether it's by this one or that one I don't even want to say names anymore just I don't want to advertise these people anymore enough it already you guys already know the names and if you don't know it's good you don't know you go to one of these fake one day your kid wants to get married one day you want to make Aliyah the rabbi has his job is to what to verify that you're Jewish that's the rabbi's job that's the other family's job oh your son wants to get married okay he wants to marry our daughter yeah your son went to Yesa looks like a good kid we like him yeah yeah we can we you guys are converts can we can we see a rabbi not us aab is asking to see the conversion paper you give him a conversion paper who who is this who is this guy he's the rabbi yeah but who who's the bin oh he is who knows him oh you can go to such and such website the raban knows him no and anything they know about him they don't like okay uh well sorry but she is off why you're not Jewish your son's not Jewish guess what your son's going to hate you for the rest of your life your daughter is going to hate you for the rest of your life why they lived a life they thought they're Jewish for intents and purposes Allah they could be Jewish but it's not recognized it's not recognized by the raban and for Society at large it's that means it's not valid and guess what your kid grows up wants to get married and he can't get married why he has to go convert first if they still want him if he doesn't Rebel all together and say you know what if they don't think I'm a Jew I'll just you know I'll just act like a non Jew anyway and that happens or a person goes the easy route and goes to conservative or reform you know they're on a class of conversion them Mustafa the uh the dog the cat the uh the people that are not even in the world anywh yeah everybody's converting in the same class the rabbi is a really a raban that's not Jewish themselves did the rabbi is also converting and I wake up one day listen I I want to keep Shabbat but the rabbi told me that I need to go learn at his house on Shabbat it's just that I have to drive to his house 30 miles on Shabbat and he said okay it's MIT if it's not an orthodox conversion by a recognized You're simply asking for trouble that's simply what I what it is yes there are some that are Kosher that are good that are not recognized by the raban for different reasons either they you know are new or they didn't pay off somebody or whatever it is and it may very well be kosher but I'm telling you using that you have to take into account that you may have issues if you ever want to make Aliyah that's number one number two if you have young kids that want to get married one day if that Rabbi is not well known enough could be an issue not necessarily 100% issue but if it's somebody that the world already knows has done already a thousand fake conversions that no one recognizes practically you're it might as well be reformed it might as well be uh anything else and that's the problem people are so you know focused on the destination they forget about the journey I always tell you guys don't focus on a destination focus on the journey why because the journey continues even once you get to the destination the things you do as a convert preparing for conversion are going to be the same things you do as a Jew what do you care when you convert or not oh what if mashia comes don't worry takes that into account oh what about if I die don't worry takes that into account also everything takes into account and if you don't believe that you shouldn't convert but of course people are simply falling for the Trap day after day why because the world is simply full of fools full of ignorant people that don't know and they rely on opinions without double checking and they don't value kazal they don't value our sages they don't value our Tora they think that they could translate the tah themselves they think that because they just started learning to a year or two or three years ago you know after they got rid of their other uh garbage whether it be the New Testament or Quran or whatever else they think they could start becoming commentaries like Rashi they could disagree with the rambam they think that it's a a free-for-all people like that says such converts are like a skin disease for why they're going to be full of problems full of problems good converts bad converts the mid says are compared to abah ainu I'm sorry bad converts are compared to a a donkey good converts are compared to Abu and this is what's happening in the world today where you have a lot of politics going into the conversion World a lot of lies a lot of deception but unfortunately people are falling for it people are falling for it it's it's people fail to understand that your conversion is not decided by the raban it's not decided by your sponsoring it's not decided by anybody it's decided by a Kad himself based on your actions if you are looking just convert just to have a piece of paper that's exactly what a is going to give it to you he may be even email it to you so you can do it online because he doesn't want you to become one of these people he's going to send you something in the paper just leave me alone go start pretending you want to pretend go pretend I'll send you a paper you could convert online now but if you want to be a real convert you want to be a real Jew will send you all the necessary tools along with the tests to see if you really want it to see if you really want it yes it's painful yes it's difficult but the reality it's better for you to overcome the test as a person that's in a process of conversion versus failure as a Jew and this is one of the things that requires a person to work on their character traits because all of the curses that are in the Tora in this in last week's Paras they're not the therefore the says that there's going to be diseases that there's no cure says there's going to be all types of diseases that just anyone that's ever been sick with real pain in their life just reads this par you start tearing you start tearing because you know what pain feels like if you're not scared when you read this par that's either because you're not reading it you're skimming through it because you've never experienced pain in your life but if you've experienced pain in your life you read this parasha you start shivering because you know what pain feels like that's one of the biggest problems in today's world of medicine you cannot see pain so when you go to a doctor you tell them listen I'm in pain doctor doesn't know like where here and you're like well it looks fine let's do some tests blood test this test collect cholesteral test heart test eye test foot test your brother's test your sister's test your dog everything looks good you look perfectly healthy I don't I think it's in your head they tell you I think it's the pain is in your head and you want to kick the guy in the head because you feel the pain and it's very much real to you but you can't see pain this we's par you could see the pain you could see the pain why gives us details he says that if we do not do what he says he'll bring the world bring our world to such a level of poverty that the righteous Among Us the righteous women that bear their kids carry their kids for nine months in their body raise their kids give everything to those kids feed them bathe them play with them talk to them cry with them they're going to eat them from starvation now for anyone that thinks yeah but this is an exaggeration it's not an exaggeration happened several times in history it happened at mikdash and even happened in Holocaust that's not a reward that's a punishment and it happened and it's mentioned in the Tora several times and that's not even G so when a says these things he's very much serious so to play with us Torah like it's some alphabet book or some fiction book or non-fiction book or whatever it is it's simply playing with fire of fires you have to understand that is not making any suggestions he's telling us obligations and whether we understand them or we don't understand them page 67b says says in Leviticus 18:4 the Torah stat you shall fulfill my judgments and this refers to matters that even had they not been written in in the Torah logic would have dictated that they should that they were written meaning these specific things that I call that calls Mish judgments even if they weren't written in the Tora we'd still be expected to follow them and understand that they are forbidden and the prohibitions of idolatry the prohibition of adultery and all types of immorality crimes whether it be wasting seed or it be incest and so on and so forth and the prohibition of murder and also robbery meaning stealing from people dishonest business things of that nature and also desecrating hashem's name all of those things do not need the Torah to teach you that they're forbidden but nonetheless they are mentioned in the Torah then continues and the verse continues and you shall observe my statues this refers to the matters that the Satan is challenging meaning that the Satan gives you ideas in your head that nah come on you don't need to follow this you don't need to follow this it says uh not uh not really in the tah because listen it can't be true can't be true it can't be true that I'm 25 years old and I'm not married and Hashem expects me to not waste seed I mean my body does it what I see a girl what what do you want you created me that way if you don't want me waste feed don't let it work until they get married right Satan puts it in your head listen it's only natural listen he left his Briefcase full of money it's not my fault he left the briefcase all of money if hasm didn't want me to take this money then he wouldn't give it to me the bank send me the the money by accident it's not to me it's just the same name but I know it's not my money and you know I know it's a Jew that scks next door to me just happens to be the same name but it's me if didn't want me to have it come on Satan challenges a person and tells them that no no this can't be MIT this is too much which one of these the eating of pork wearing shes which is the when a person dies and uh doesn't have any children he's married but doesn't have any children the Torah requires that a person to uh have his uh his brother is supposed to marry his wife his widow and but if she uh this is referred to as a and but if uh he doesn't want to marry her then there's a whole uh process called well she takes the shoe she spits on him long story short that this Mitzvah all intents and purposes for an average person in 20120 doesn't make any sense doesn't make any sense why I don't want to marry her what what's the problem with that I don't want to marry my brother and sister why is that a problem it's not my fault he died uh you know with no kids why do I have to marry her right pork why why not it's a perfectly good animal perfectly good animal easy to hunt easy to eat fills you up what's the problem some people even say it's delicious shatz no come on Rabbi have to check my pants got to check my shirt got to check this got to check that doesn't make any sense that's what this that's what the Satan says doesn't make any sense purifying of the somebody hasat and the service of the heo that sent away to this is at the time of the bet mikdash also the time of time ofu we had aah during there were two two sheeps one of them would go as aan to and one of them would be taken on a nice long journey of 10 mil or a something like 10 miles a little more than that nice long journey and then thrown off the cliff no parachute throw off the cliff to die that goes to that goes to the Satan Satan is going to tell you doesn't make any sense it's vicious for the animal what did the Sheep really do the poor guy had a family you know he maybe wanted to go on vacation he was just about to retire what's wrong with him why you throwing the poor animal isn't there some type of don't uh don't uh you know hurt animals why you taking this poor animal okay whatever it's aan for fine but you're giving something to the Satan what are you guys Satanist that's what the Satan will tell you what are you guys Satanist you believe in me you give me aan so don't make sense shot has make sense to you no not eating pork Mak sense to you no all these things make sense to you no you're going to say these are empty acts the the says meaning they're they purposeless therefore the Torah says hasem says after these rules I am God meaning I am the god that decreed these and you do not have any permission to Ponder or question my mitv not just these five that I mentioned any of them it doesn't matter if you understand them it doesn't matter if you like them it doesn't matter if your Rabbi suggested that it doesn't make a difference I am God he says and these are my rules you live in my world I don't live in your world you will be judged in accordance to my rules not I will be judged in according to your rules now all of us are going less than two weeks Judgment Day and shortly after we have y we're all supposed to show up the Y now if a person didn't arrive at Yip with at the very least an understanding an understanding that we're not allowed to question's MIT we're not allowed to Simply decide what I'm going to keep what I'm not going to keep we simply do our best at everything I fail I'll try again I fail I try again and when a person does not show up to Y with such a mentality that I'm simply going to do my best and I'm not allowed to question hasem I'm simply going to do what he says and little by little learn about who what when and how if a person doesn't AR with such a mentality you're showing up to the game without equipment you're showing up to work without your tools why it's the minimum requirement of a Jew if you showed up on your day of conversion without a basic understanding of what Shabbat is without a basic understanding of who the sages are without a basic understanding of what modesty is what Kut is what the value of a jewi Jewish Community is and a Jewish Education is why you need to do all of these MIT what is a Jewish life supposed to be what is a rabbi if you don't have a basic understanding of all of these things you're showing up naked naked of the ideology that this a basic requirement of a Jew Unfortunately today there are many Jews that are walking around like this feeling like they're fully clothed feeling like they have everything that they need because they've decided what the law is and on this is what the k Shalom discusses in his 12th section in the first chapter of and he says a thin d says there's a thin line between wisdom and foolishness foolishness being a lack of Common Sense lack of Good Sense lack of an understanding of basic things that are required of every human being Jew or Gentile and politically incorrect as it could be this is how the Kaz starts he says oh you think you're smart okay you should know as smart as you think you are the difference between your wisdom and complete stupidity is very small The Thin Line separating it yeah but I study no problem not saying you're stupid no just saying the difference between where you're at according to you know you're saying you're saying you know what you're doing and according to stupidity even by your own opinion is very small small line between them why says the thin line between wisdom and Folly and will not allow a man to enter the portals of wisdom this Thin Line although it's thin it's such a strong line that if it's not addressed the right way a person will never be able to cross it and arrive at the sight of wisdom from his current stus of status of foolishness like it's not a thin line in order to tell oh it's easy to cross it no opposite it's a thin line that if you do not acknowledge and address it carefully you could simply live your life on the S of foolishness 70 years without even realizing it thinking actually you are on the side of wisdom he continues in saying gentleness of the eye meaning a refinement of the eye and happiness of the Soul erase this line completely and the path of wisdom stretches ahead smoothly what's the cure to this issue how do you get rid of this line refining your character traits without defining your character traits to become a more gentle person and now so attacking horrible judgmental and so on and so forth and without working on your happiness happiness does not mean that you walk around with a smile ear to ear all the time happiness doesn't mean you make jokes of everything happiness is a spiritual status of a person that's just is he wakes up happy he goes to goes to sleep happy even if there's problems everywhere in between now if a person has this refinement of the eye and this happiness of the soul that erases the line completely meaning you are now smoothly going to acquire higher levels of wisdom now in so many words without gentleness in midot in character traits without refining our character traits without becoming more gracious to people more humble more generous more sincere honest welcoming and all of the positive character traits of a person without this type of character that is looking to help the world without accepting uh expecting anything in return if it's given great if not no big deal looking to improve their marriage even when it's already good looking to do more for your spouse without asking what they're going to do for you looking to give your kids everything you possibly can in order to give them a better life without thinking about oh how much is this going to cost how much is that going to cost but simply doing your best being honest in business no matter what the profit line is going to be you're not looking at honesty as something that's a variable I'm going to be honest so long as is I'm profitable but if I'm not profitable then I'll have to be dishonest No Such Thing exists in your head and so on and so forth without this types of gentleness in your midot to soften you and make you less of a hazard for society and without acquiring this happiness of the Soul which obviously is acquired only through Kusha only through toah itself a person simply cannot acquire wisdom that's what the k is saying and opening remarks in this particular part it doesn't matter how many books you read it doesn't matter how many sh you attend it doesn't matter what school you've attended none of that matters because a person who doesn't have good midot and having a gentle uh uh character is not going to be able to control his desires and such a person is not going to know how to tell their body no because your body is going to have needs you're going to see a burger you're going to see a woman you're going to see money you're going to see this you're going to see different things and if you haven't refined your character traits to Simply take control of yourself you're not going to be able to acquire wisdom why you are operating more on Instinct than you are on wisdom so now if a person goes to school and finish college and gets his bachelor's and then he goes to grad school and he gets his Masters and he continues with school and he gets his PhD and he continues and he gets his Doctorate and he continues and he becomes not just a doctor but the head of a division of doctors the head Professor he is the one who teaches other doctors he is the master of a group of doctors in a field now such a person the world would agree this person has intellect he's acquired intellect he read a lot of books he passed a lot of tests he had a certain amount of experience but when it comes to wisdom that's only judged based on his character treats meaning if that person that doctor of doctors the doctor that has passed all of these classes and got his Masters and bachelors and and phds and all of this stuff and is now a wellestablished expert in his field if that person when he walks and he sees a woman and he turns around and follows her as if he's a sensor of laser or something like that and regardless of whether her IQ is one or 1,000 guess what he has now become lesser than the one all of that medicine all of that experience all of that is worth zero why because all of that that you've learned did not change you as a person you remain the same piece of Flesh the same animal that you started in this world as if every single time you have somebody inviting you to auna to a mitvah to some type of s you already get anxious because you're nervous about what am I going to wear what am I going to wear what am I going to wear and your husband says honey you have a whole slew of dresses no no no no no I can't I can't they already saw me in that dress no this is a new one no no I wore that one eight years ago don't you remember no okay yeah yeah I remember what about this one no no that one I wore 6 weeks ago no that one I wore N9 years ago no why another dress yeah another dress you have a very serious problem why you worry too much about your desires about people's opinions of you about people's you know understanding of your value and their determination of your value based on a dress based on your hair based on your shoes not based on your wisdom and your your your actual real value you have completely summed up your value based on how fair your dresses and that's why the whole year you wear when it comes to an event it comes to a Sim all of a sudden the the wig that's longer than the Exile comes out of the closet honey where's your I have it what do you mean you have it where where I don't see it no this is it that's your hair no no it's not my hair it's the one from India I mean it's not from India it's a it's the one from Belgium it's the one from England it's that one yeah it's from Brazil Brazil in the mafia over there that's that's real that's not your hair no honey look look it's moving oh okay how come you wearing that where the I see you all year around no come on how could I show up to a s with the on my head why on head on the head and they didn't call they called they called the crown of aad why you embarrassed to look likeu so why you callu the most beautiful woman in history woman that wear a shata on a head not not a crown you're better than her all year round but you have what happened oh cuz you want to you care about what everybody else says so that's your value a person is valued based on what he Praises you are telling people your whole value is the way you look so don't complain if they judge you based on the way you look don't complain that they turn you into a piece of meat because that's what you made yourself into if a person acquires all the knowledge in the world in secular wisdom and it does not even in the Torah world but it does not change their character traits they have not acquired wisdom why because the who is a gaon gaon is an understatement without ever attending medical school he would teach surgeons brain surgeons how to operate on their brain how to operate on brains till this day people learn some of his writings to know how to do brain surgery he says this wisdom it's not based on the books it's based on character traits if you have not softened your character traits you have not refined your character traits you've not attained happiness of the Soul you have not attained wisdom but a man is likened to a wild beast says and remains Changed by his desires as he was on the day of his birth he continues seeking sweetness and pleasure and is constantly angered and full of false Pride here the kazon in essence says everything we've said in the last hour and a half in a single sentence so you know why you haven't acquired wisdom because you're still the same Beast you were born when you were born all you wanted was something based on your physical needs you want to eat you want to relieve yourself you want to eat you want to relieve yourself sleep in between as you got older you ask for a few other physical needs pretty much it the difference between you and a sheep or a calf or a or or or some other animal nothing really they walk on four you walk on two sometimes four not much of a difference some say you're cuter some say you're the puppy's cuter it's debatable says that's what a man is likened to a wild beast but he's not supposed to be but he keeps himself chained chained to this wild beast status because his desires are controlling him because he's constantly looking for pleasure he's constantly looking for a good time so is she tonight yeah is there going to be food maybe yes maybe no you coming for the food you're coming for the shoe there's food sometimes yeah no problem but which the question is why are you coming are you coming for the food or are you coming for the shoe if you're coming for the food there's probably better food at your house if you come for the shoe okay the food is fine no problem no problem but when a person is constantly looking for pleasure that's what makes them decide everything in their life everything in their life and then he says this person is constantly angered and full of false Pride why is such a person that's desire based what's the connection between wanting good stuff wanting a good time and constantly being angry and being full of fols Pride what's the connection if person is only looking to have a good time is only looking to fulfill their desires that means that their life in total from the minute that they're born until they leave this world if they do not do chuva for this their entire life without a moment spared will be full of disappointment why there will never be enough desire to satiate you never why you're going to say listen my dream my dream I want to go to this concert of such and such artist and I know this first hand I've seen this in my own eyes there this young man wanted to go to a concert of some artist that he that he liked and this artist I know was one of these people every ticket is a zillion dollars long story short one of his family members bought him front row tickets front row tickets there an arm in the leg front roow tickets to go see this artist wow amazing great yeah you coming you coming I'm going to go yeah all the excitement World wow yeah five yeah you're go yeah yeah yeah okay guess what they show up to the Y wow that's it that's it what do you mean that's it it's two hour show what do you want to be for a year you you you paid him for a couple hours you didn't pay him for his life what that's it that's it it's over that's it my whole life I waited for this that's just two hours when's the next one I don't 5 years from now when we get the money back finally to pay for another ticket hopefully you know you don't want to go again and that's what happens when a person's life is driven by their desires they're going to constantly be angry constantly be disappointed the car they get one day it's the best shortly later it's not good enough why a new model came out computer they like they finally get it a week later it becomes the same G the same junk it was as the previous machine you see no difference the shoes they like they finally get them after the first stain is uh becomes a permanent Mark it's just another shoe the wife they get they dream about her they love her few weeks after marriage she's just another girl the husband she gets m i dream I've been dreaming to be married and go down the aisle and everyone's looking at me in my dress and like every girl dreams about the day that she's going to get married and with the white dress ah ah ah okay a day after marriage okay so wait you're staying you're yeah we got married yesterday oh so so that wasn't like like my dream my dream was over at some point like you're staying though constant disappointed why when your whole life is based on desires at some point that desire will no longer be a desire but you still have it meaning you've acquired this thing and you finally realize it's not all that it's not as good as it was in your imagination so your whole life is full of frustration frustration frustration of the stuff that you got that wasn't as good as you thought it was and the stuff that you don't have and you can't get constantly frustrated constantly angry why does he have it how come I don't have it how come God gives it to him and not me I keep shabas I keep this I should be getting much more than him I should get a car why does he have a car he's a nothing I learned DFI he learned nothing ah angry at the world for no reason except the fact that what does all say false Pride he's full or she's full of false Pride when your whole life is based on desires once in a while hasem gives you stuff okay what do you want a car here you go kid what do you want wife here you go kid what do you want some food here you go here you go oh oh he gives it to you so what do you think you got some of this stuff so you think yeah so see God's blessing me I am all that you're not you got some blessings because you're still God's son or God's daughter so he gave you some stuff to feed you so you can eat and live and hopefully do CH but instead of saying thank you to what are you thinking you're thinking you deserve it you've become self-righteous you've become a person that thinks that everything that you got you deserve in reality you have more coming to you because you keep this and you do this and I'm so generous and I'm so nice and look I walked that guy across the street he was blind okay what what do you want like a special gun Eden for walking him 8T look I gave that guy a homeless guy I gave him some money you gave him 40 cents buddy his life's not going to change that was change that you had in your pocket you forgot about cuz you haven't washed your pants what are you like what but in the person that their whole life is desire based they don't think about how they impact the world they think about how the world impacts them because they're entitled they feel entitled they feel the world owes them something which is the current generation we've been living in everyone feels like they owed something they get a gift that's it they get a job that's it everything is that's it that's all that's all you got you have another one you have you have another another that's it that's the problem and then K continues even if he has granted the talent for wisdom as part of his soul and even if a double portion of understanding has been delegated it to him he cannot prosper in his studies because of his bad character traits K says something horrendous even if a person is gifted the brain of Rada he's gifted the tools to build a spiritual spaceship that could cross the universe in 5 seconds he has something she has something that is extraordinary something that people would die for he has a memory that he remembers everything from the time he was 3 years old he has the ability to read faster than the average person by two three 4X he has certain talents that a instilled in him brain capacity that's able to analyze AAR like it's nothing like it's a regular menu for for restaurant and he can read it he can Bree through it sh no problemi the the everything the the everything reads reads reads everything you can read all of it K says even if he does all of this he's still never going to succeed meaning he's still never going to succeed in acquiring real wisdom what do you mean by read all these books and [Music] more biss yeah but he read all of them okay so you read all there's websites that have Hebrew books.com all those people you know they read books too why wisdom is acquired but not simply by reading the books if a person has bad character traits K says that will be simply like a wall separating him from wisdom but he doesn't say that he's not going to acquire wisdom remember the beginning he says the line between foolishness and wisdom is very thin meaning if you do not have wisdom if you have not put yourself standing firm on the wisdom side you're on the foolish side like you think you have a and Sh say what stupid this guy this guy think that's look he's so confident about it too he like went like this when he said it like he was like loud about it and everything and he told it to all of his friends he had a whole shoe of 500 people he was saying with like zealousness and everything just idiot what going to do I'm we going to come M Moshe bring out we got to take care what do with this guy what we going to do with this guy Moshe comes oh man this guy again no has we can't do this we can't handle it gotta get involved you gotta do something we can't this guy keeps coming out with new rules every week every shoe every this every YouTube video well come on AEM no no come on please he's he's embarrassing us hem he's like my grandson please a closed heart and a closed mind shut the doors of wisdom to him and lock the gates of understanding when a person does not open up their heart to completely in order to Humble themselves in order to understand their insignificance in order to soften their character in order to make themselves a servant of aadh whether it's a he or a she meaning you being a he or a she if a person does not soften their character traits they they themselves are locking themselves in the section of foolishness The Secret of wisdom lies in the fine points in delicate sensibilities that cannot be sensed by an ordinary eye only a refined eye behind which there is a refined heart can understand these sophisticated issues the wise man prepares conduits in his heart and soul for the wisdom bestowed upon him and through them wisdom flows to his heart and soul a joyous soul and happiness of spirit a thir a thirst for wisdom and hunger for understanding are what enables this flow to proceed all of these are the result of the one good character trait which creates the conduits and keeps them in exist distance here the K simply tells us that after you've understood clearly that it is your own character traits that are going to determine whether you're going to arrive at wisdom or not or whether you'll stay at foolishness or not whether Al is going to be like you or Al is going to be far away from you now that you understand that point you have to understand that it is not the obvious points that determine whether you're sadik or a but rather the fine points the small details that you don't think matters for example over 4,000 years ago there was a young girl some say she was three others say she was six who had a test that would all do respect to everyone here none of us would pass she was at a well getting some water and says miraculously instead of her taking the bucket putting it all the way down the well and then bringing it back up with the water which is in itself a difficult thing for anybody miraculously a made the water of the well rise up to her fill up her bucket and she could just take a walk away suddenly someone shows up by name of elel and he has 10 camels and 10 slaves on them strong men and he says to her what's your name he didn't ask name I'm just tell you for the story listen Le can you give me a little bit of water little bit now if I was I give him a can of Coke here you go what do you ask for he ask for a little water I'm going to give him a little bit of water maybe I'll give him a Coca-Cola give him some taste that's what he asked for right that's why I'm not says I'm not only going to give you water I'm going to give it to you and to all your camels and to everybody now camel drinks a lot why he doesn't drink for a century and finally wants to drink so imagine how much he has to drink now you can say listen if I was LE I would do the same thing why when I there was no no it was easy I went to the well the water came to me so all I got to do is just take it here you go here you go like a vending machine here you go here you go without any money vending machine the water comes up I put it in water here you go here you go vending machine with no money right but here's the problem the PUK says that when before he came she was not taking the water out meaning the water was coming up to her but then as soon as she committed to this saying she going to give him water for him and the camels suddenly she had to pull the water out he everybody else no Miracles no Miracles now buckets and buckets of water now why no Miracles why is a big test first and foremost ifka lived a whole life a whole three or six years and every day she worked hard hard and every day there was guests and she would give the guests whatever they needed and her parents asked her for stuff she would do what the parents said she did everything good but on that one day that elzar came to look for a wife for she said no I'm tired maybe maybe you get down the street or maybe you get it yourself here you Go's the well what do you want you want to drink here you go here's the worldall right here enjoy it's on you so a lot of people say right listen I'm uh I'm new in the area you know where I get something to eat yeah I think if you look at it on Google Google you probably find something just type in kosher listen I'm new here I'm looking for a job you know anybody that's hiring yeah you could probably go on LinkedIn or something look for a job you know just look type in Florida type in Florida and then it says jobs and I'm sure you going to find something that's what people do listen I'm trying to get to the store I just don't know how to how to get around here you know anybody give me a ride yeah yeah call Uber call Uber you want to call here you go there's the number Uber is it's not no it's not even a number you can download it go to the App Store you can download Uber and you can put your credit card in there there you go it's on you that's the type of favors people do today somebody asked you for something you said yeah here you go where where do you want to go there oh it's there like that's it if gu had such a test elaz says I need some water she could have said it's right here like everybody else today but guess what she wouldn't Beka why if she did that she would have failed a test and she wouldn't be our mother she would just be some girl you never heard of that existed in the world but but on that day it's hot she's young the crowd is big and on top of it she has all the excuses in the world not to do it 10 camels what one person let me at least get some help bring your slaves you aren't you paying them anyway get them to do it get 10 of them well I have to feed them too I have to give them drinks too get them to do it if she did any of that she wouldn't be and then she could say wait a minut but I at least hem help me help me do this before when I was by myself you made miracles for me now that I need to do said you're not even helping me I want to doah want you to help me out I want to give how come you're not giving me more money I want to get married how come you not giving me a overnight I want to learn to how come you don't make me remember everything overnight like I just like I read it one time and that's it or I just give me all the in my head how come you're not helping me is teaching us a very valuable lesson became because she had a very good understanding of what's required of you every single day with or without Miracles and that is 11% every day to do your very best when you wake up in the morning and you're going to go pray make that the best prayer you ever had don't wait for y to make it your best prayer when you're going to put on your make that feeling that you have the one you have don't make tomorrow tomorrow on a holiday or when I'm at no that one that one one why maybe today is the day you're going to be rid the Torah yourself maybe today is the day if had a clear understanding today is the day and every day is the day I have an opportunity to do it's really hard there's 10 camels a bunch of lazy slaves a huge request and no miracles situation horrible exactly exactly what wants exactly what wants she passed the test with flying colors because she understood our position in the world understood Our obligation in the world because our character traits our character traits were already softened enough were already pure enough that she made her body a vessel for wisdom instantly when it arrived which is what the Kaz is saying that yes this wisdom can be given it's it's there it's in the world but if there are bad character traits those bad character traits are like clogging the veins they're clogging the N it's not allowing your body to be a vessel for this Purity for this Holiness yes it exists yes you listened to the shoe but you didn't absorb anything you sat here for 3 hours nothing changed hey Rabbi I just finished a series okay what changed what something was supposed to happen a lot either you failed or I failed but either way B of us are miserable for it if you haven't changed a little bit after every sh something happened that wasn't supposed to why the Torah is supposed to change you supposed to improve you soften you make you better and K says if the Torah is good the wisdom is true and it's still not being absorbed by you it's only because you are not making yourself a vessle because your character traits your flaws and your character traits are simply not allowing yourself to absorb the truth as it is you're constantly rejecting it questioning it going against it trying to figure out a better way maybe tomorrow maybe yesterday maybe next week maybe for somebody else maybe it's cheaper maybe it's more expensive there's a constant maybe maybe maybe just not today now if a person does allow their body to become a vessel for Holiness and allows their heart and soul to become a vessel that can give him all of the wisdom that he wants to give him or her this in itself will make the person achieve the second purpose which is the happiness of the Soul now when a person feels a little bit of that happiness of what true wisdom is you don't have to become the or the to attain a little bit of wisdom or the feeling of it the second he feels it the second she feels it the benefit of acquiring real wisdom and what it does to a person's life you become hungry for more now you know already it's not going to be easy why to get the first step was hard you had to swallow your tongue when you really want to say something you have to keep your feet still when you really want to go somewhere yet to keep your thoughts to yourself when you had an idea that wasn't exactly 100% kosher you get to keep your eyes focused on absolutely nothing instead of looking at something that's not allowed and so on and so forth it was hard to get there but that little bit that you required gives you enough momentum to keep going now the beauty is is that the longer you go on the right pace the more you value wisdom the more you value This Joy Of the Soul why because when you're on a journey in the beginning of the journey you may have some high hopes of different things that you will attain once you arrive at the destination and it has a mental value of x in your head now if you arrive at your destination according to all of your plans that value more or less doesn't change now if the journey is much more difficult than you ever expected instead of it taking an hour it took you a day two days a week a month to attain does that make the value less or more much more the greater the difficulty the greater the appreciation of its value meaning the greater the value the fact that it's much more difficult to attain the higher level of wisdom should not discourage you but the opposite why the longer you go on this right journey and the more you feel little bits of enjoyment from time to time of attaining certain metrics now you know that okay hold on a second I'm already on this walk for a thousand steps so at the very least it's worth a th000 steps now you walk another 2,000 steps the value has now increased by another 2,000 yeah you're not exactly where you want to be yet but at the very least that destination is worth more than 3,000 you thought it was worth a th000 now you've already wored 3,000 it's not that you're not appreciating and you saying no it's not worth it no it's actually the opposite it's actually worth even more why because I've tried even more on this the harder you try the more of yourself you put into anything the more you appreciate it the more valuable it is that's why if you give let's say a kid a toy that's let say a readymade I don't know doll or car or something and then you give him a Lego set to build of some ugly little thing guess what he'll appreciate that ugly little thing much more than the readymade car why he built this one he built this one in his eyes it's the most beautiful thing in the world now you give a person an apartment his parents yeah honey listen you could live at our uh second house that we have in Florida okay so he lives in a house nice house two three four five rooms great you compare the that to a house he builds with his own hands that he worked for the money he put some Nails on the wall maybe some plywood maybe some things that thing might as well be a shack but he'll still love it much more than the house that was gifted him for free much more you see guys many times they like to work on cars some old beat up car that no one in their right mind will ever drive but to them that's their baby some they'll sell their kids for that car why they put everything into that car don't necessarily recommend it but nonetheless you get the point the more you invest in something the more valuable it becomes the more you invest in your own Nish in attaining the wisdom by perfecting your character traits the more valueable your n is going to be to you therefore you'll protect it from things that ruin it you protected from seeing pornography you're protected from seeing other immoral things you'll protected from being around certain people you're protected from being around certain things why it's valuable to me I don't want to destroy it it took me a while to get here it's not that you don't want to have the conversation about nothing it's that I don't want to risk it I don't want to risk this junk that you're talking about some baseball and basketball and some other ball I don't want to risk that being in my head for another week why it took me x amount of time to not have it in my head now if I talk to you about it and the goal that he scored and the net that he ripped and all these different things that's not going to end there it's going to continue this is why if you leave one of these Hobbies whether you are a card player or or a fan of sports you can't do it just a little bit like if you want to make yourself pure mentally and spiritually it has to be cold turkey I can tell you from experience I used to play cards I love playing cards not for the gamble simply for the mental capacity where you're able to analyze math and statistics and also read faces and do all types of other things but I refuse to watch anything relating to it why cuz I know the few times that I did it was enjoyable I liked it oh yeah he won he lost I knew he's going to win I knew he's going to lost and guess what I finished watching that two three three 4 minute video but the video didn't finish with me it was still with me 3 4 5 6 days later it's still there and that's just a card game imagine other things a ismo a person watches one of these filthy movies oh no it's only two minutes no it's only 2 minutes that way it's staying with you for a while depending on what you're doing doing what you're watching and the more you invest in perfecting your n the more valuable becomes to you and therefore the less likely you are to Simply risk it for nothing because you're trying to acquire wisdom and Kish is telling us we cannot acquire wisdom if our character traits are in the way now if a person does not acknowledge these things and simply thinks that they're just going to acquire wisdom the oldfashioned way that people think they can by simply reading books what does that look like years ago who was an enormous zealous for AEM a lion for the truth only thing you could catch him doing is learning tah one day he comes into the BET mid with a clip out of a newspaper gets the attention of the few thousand men that are in there and he shows them a picture what is this picture picture of Einstein a born Jew that wasn't exactly religious to say the least sticking his tongue out very famous picture anyone that knows who Einstein is has probably seen this picture it's perhaps the most famous picture of Einstein's life what most people don't know is the story behind the picture Einstein was called by a journalist to for an interview and a journalist ran late by 10 minutes Einstein that valued his time more than he valued people got so frustrated that the journalist showed up to his house late that when he knocked on his door at 1210 instead of 12:00 Einstein in his anger open the door stuck his tongue out in him and shut it in his face meaning I don't want to talk to you now with all of the math and physics and Sciences that he could fit into his brain that today is cut up and distributed among different colleges is an experiment in Princeton University and other places with all of that mental capacity that he was able to attain it was all summed up as simply an act of a monkey no different all of that wisdom did not change his behavior one bit acted just like a monkey or three-year-old whichever one you want to pick from that picture had you not known who that is you'd simply say who is this fool why is he in the newspaper what has the world come to that they put such fools in a newspaper the only reason why people share is because oh yeah that's Einstein they completely ignore the fact the guy's acting like an animal in the picture but for Ben for a grown man to stick his tongue out as an insult what's wrong with you where's your brain where is your brain where is this PhD and and n d and this D and that D where is all of that where is all that wisdom where is eal mc² where is that nowhere why that intellect did not change the character traits wisdom changes character traits not intellect now when a person is on their chuva Journey they're going to hear different types of stories about about the sages one of my favorite stories is story of when a couple of some say they went to his some say he went to they went to uh his brother and they went and asked the r a question they said the tells us in that we are obligated needed to thank AEM in kind and just the same for good and for bad you get a million dollars you lose a million dollars someone asked me last week when I posted that I don't feel well and I have a cold and I want to get anybody to catch it but I started with said why are you saying that you have a cold I told this is the reason because you're obligate to say good or bad but it wasn't a stupid question a serious question went the and said how come you say for both good or bad so the says I can't answer that question you have to get the answer from he knows the answer where is he he's in his house so this was a stormy day full of snow and it's been snowing for a few days so it wasn't exactly an easy Journey but these two wanted the answer bad enough that they were willing to go through the storm to go find the answer they went they finally arrived at this house was full of snow the the person that lives in there surely has not left the house in a few days cuz the whole door was covered they take down to the uh snow get into the house after knocking of course that they're entering and they see inside the house the heater is not on there's no fire whatsoever it's freezing and then you see zusa studying his Torah with smile ear to ear happiness M glowing as if he's in ganed he said rebi he looks at them Happ oh how are you hey hey how are you well the the r sent the here to ask you a question you saw the who wow wow amazing tell him I said hello wow it's such a merit you saw the the the wow okay but he asked he asked us to ask you a question he said you have an answer for this question so he said has an answer z has an answer for a question what's the question question is of the Torah tells us that we have to thank AEM for good and for bad just the same how can we do that how can we thank for good health and for sickness the same waya looks at them puzzled for a few moments until he says to them it's very strange that the r asked you to ask zusa this question how would zusa ever know such a thing zusa doesn't know an answer to such a thing because nothing bad ever happened to zusa how would I know how to act if something bad happened from that they learned the answer that if you have a pure mind you look at everything as good even when it looks bad now the stories ofid teach us the outcome of perfecting your character traits when you learn about rusa when you learn about the bov when you learn about the K and you learn about all of theik the the of the the stories of the different they teach you the outcome of perfecting your character traits what does that look like M on the other hand teaches you how to get there so when anyone tells you no why don't you learn some tell them you are because you are in order to arrive at a stage of thinking like a rabusa of thinking like a bov of thinking you need to know how to get there because you can't just one day wake up and be zusa and pretend like you're happy you see a few people pretend here and there and they pretend cuz they like to dance in the sh and they want to dance and take sh for 3 hours but the second something happens oh I was so nervous what do you mean what what happened to zusa what happened to the Z in you you were dancing in sh for the last 6 months the prayer took 50% longer because of you're dancing why are you nervous right now what happened why oh so the whole thing is a fake you just like dancing has nothing to do with happiness you can't just skip to be zusa you have to learn how to get there getting there means we have to perfect our character traits step by step acknowledging our flaws addressing those flaws perfecting them one by one through different works of the sages different works of the Torah different Reflections understanding the difference of good and bad but most importantly understanding that the risk the risk we have is too great The longer we're on this journey why because you've already invested a year two years 3 years four years learning Torah in some cases people that watch us 5 10 20 30 Years Learning Torah you've already invested all of these steps with really a an understanding that at some point you will be better at some point you'll be a better version of yourself so there's already a inherent value that your journey is worth you can't just throw it away you've already walked a thousand steps you already walked a year two three four five years worth of steps so that already means that your journey and in essence your destination is worth more than the step you've already taken you can't just give it up you have to try to keep going further and further and further because the value is extraordinary now at the Pinnacle of things a person can get to a point where they've literally remove their desires from their life they don't see the difference between good and bad whether it's rabusa or it's when hisan margit told him listen I'm going to sleep but I left you dish on the stove just make sure to to eat tonight okay raban good night the next day the raban comes them no how come you didn't eat go no I ate raban I I ate no you I ate I'm telling you I ate what do you mean you ate I ate I was full I ate it was good is confused she goes to the pot she sees the pot hasn't been touched H is not a liar what does she notice next to the pot there was another pot but the other pot was cooking starch you probably don't know what that is because you live in modern society today you take your shirts to the dry cleaner anytime you need somebody right in those days in order to harden the color okay you had to put starch on it and starch you had to make at home you had to cook it and that's what she was doing she was cooking the starch that was with chemicals to put to make sure the colors are strong enough was so deep in his Torah he just saw a pot okay he put some bread in it start eating while he's learning no difference to him us we get a dish from our wives can you have some salt please some salt you didn't put pepper in this you don't have any pepper how come I work all week you can't buy any pepper what there's no pepper in the world you can't put olives on this why one ingredient is missing already we want to sell her want to sell their wives you go to a restaurant no it's not spicy enough take it back take it back what this is well done this what you call well done give this to you you give it to me I'm paying $100 for this steak we noce everything why that doesn't make us bad doesn't make us bad but it shows us a difference there's a difference when a person acquires real wisdom that means the more wisdom the more separated they are from their desires it's not that there they don't notice the bad in the world world is that every turn turns into good why this is the will of hem somebody wrote an article about you against you somebody made a video about you flat tire wow what a gift what a gift why did it did it what's the problem did what are you complaining about ah but if my world is only based on my desires then has to operate based on my likings based on the taste the right amount of sugar and the right amount of salt and the right amount of sweetness and the right amount of of of different things different Pleasures different pressures different this different that we're never happy why there never enough so you see it's not just about it's this world it's when you acquire wisdom by perfecting your character traits you also acquire gedin in this world because everything turns into good including the bad that we perceive as bad but when you perceive the bad as the will of hem this is how you could understand understand the B saying if AEM tells me I need to go to Gom I'm jumping head first why it's the will of hem it's the best thing in the world if he tells me to go to Gom I'm jumping in that's what it means that that's not that the bmov wants to go to G it's that he he's so glued to hasem he says if that's the will of hem it must be the best option when a person acquires wisdom by perfecting their character traits everything turns into the will of hem everything turns into good whereas when a person lets their desires run their life in essence the Satan is navigating them like a ship go right go left go up go down go this go that everything is terrible why it's never enough it's never going to be sweeten out it's never going to be fast enough it's never going to be enough enough and it's always going to be that's it that's it who wants to live such a life that's G and the worst part about it you get punished for it too the other one you enjoy and you get rewarded for it double dipping you enjoy and you get to actually a reward for it the other one you're miserable and you get punished for it but you look happy cuz you have Facebook pictures that show you happy with your family so you see happiness is one of those things that you have to work at but when you acquire it it simply increases its value exponentially one thing I could tell you is that when it comes down to people that do not take the advice of the Torah and risk it there's a very strong point I want to bring not to finish off on a negative note but to explain the risk because I told you and I promised you there something is going to be that's scary but important in the book of Samuel 2 in chapter 21 there is the whole story of the gibit now the gibeonites sages tell us that they were all converts converts to Judaism keeping Shabbat keeping K keeping the laws but because sha felt that they were against him he took away their finances and caused them to go into starvation some people died suffered time passed David came into power and wanted to make peace with the gibit enough's enough he was never at war with them but he wanted them to be part of let the P be the pass let's move on because you know that you need to have Unity among am is and certain things that were done in the past weren't so good sha was punished by hem for doing what he did but the point being is that it's done all that's left is a fuse of his descendants has nothing to do with him and surely David wasn't exactly the best friends with sha anyway so it's not like he's like protecting him sha is trying to kill David also but Ness as a King David comes to them and says okay let the past be the past and let's move on in chapter 21 verse number two it says so the king called the gibian ites and spoke to them but then the verse goes completely Haywire come says so the king called the gibeonites and spoke to them the gibeonites were not of the children of isra but from the remnant of the Amorite the children of Israel had sworn not to harm them but sha had tried to strike them down in his Zeal for the children of isra and yudah the verse starts as an event an event a conversation if you will where calls the giit tell him something but then it says that the gibit are not part of am they're part of the amorites they're go but we all know they're Jews what happened here the says page 79 a there are three signs to know that you're connected to Abu you have to be shy kind and merciful person is not doesn't have these three traits he's not acting like a Jew the came to the gibeonites and he said let the past be the past let's move on and the gibeonites respond saying no we're not going to forgive we want blood we're only going to let it go after we kill all of the descendants of sha David tries to reason with them tells them they're not even connected to him they weren't part of the whole thing they have nothing to do with it why do you want to just kill innocent people and the gibian ites say that's the way it is he heard us they're related to him we need blood David aavid the grandfather of the mashiah decrees at that moment you the gibeonites are no longer part of is decree you are no longer you're no longer considered part of no one is allowed to marry you when Ezra came Generations later this decree continued why because the was it for eternity GI no longer part of why your character traits are too flawed you can no longer be part of am why you do not have mercy in you you do not have forgiveness in you you have too much hatred in you you cannot be part of am you just want to kill you just want to hurt you want to destroy why cuz somebody hurt you okay they hurt you fine but enough move on let's move on why do you got to keep going somebody that hurts you he's already gone it's finished we're trying to move on with other people we're trying to move on with new times no we want blood oh you want blood you're not part of you're like is you're like you're like something else you're not like am why am has to be forgiving has to be merciful your character traits are simply unforgiving because you experience something bad and you're faulting even people that are not related to it you're simply saying wait one Rabbi told you the wrong thing thing therefore all rabbis are wrong one woman did the wrong thing to you you hate all women now one guy cheated on you therefore all men are terrible one company did this to you therefore all companies are bad no no no my friend that's not the way it works you cannot get a judgment in your own mind to be like that why CU you're in essence just saying that everyone that is not even related but just happens to be in the same industry in the same field in the same house in the same network is Guilty by indirect Association no that's not the way it works that's not Mercy that's not nothing that is a problem with you has nothing to do with everybody else it's like saying oh one guy in a neighborhood you know he be beat up somebody therefore the whole neighborhood is bad no it doesn't work that way one Jew is bad doesn't make the whole bad one go is bad doesn't make the all the go bad you cannot make people Guilty by indirect Association if they were involved that's a different story but no once you simply make everybody same color same shape cuz you got hurt and you got taken advantage of at some point no that has nothing to do with them that has to do only with you and your bad character traits and D made mamash a decree those people are no longer part of to teach us to teach us that if theak here is such so it is in sh when we learn what the sages say and they say we need to refine our character traits they're not really making a suggestion they're actually telling us what we're supposed to know ready if the K is telling us that the way to acquire wisdom is to soften our character traits and work on ourselves and we say the heck with his advice I'm going to figure it out another way that's not exactly a good idea why because this is in essence speaking to you through the sages is speaking to us to through the through through the through all of this if we don't take this and let it go through us as a vessel and learn from it acknowledge it actually apply it to our life then all we're doing is we're being like the gibit no no no no we want blood we want blood we want our own way David says that's not how it Jew acts Jewish is one of those things that is critical for a person in order to attain everything that's of any value of this world but at the same token it's important for us to know that just as it is valuable the longer we go the risk of not going of not doing it also increases as we get further and further along meaning the longer we ignore the message from the sages from a the greater the risk the more we simply say no I'm not ready to keep Shabbat I'm not ready to keep myself pure I'm not ready to be modest I'm not ready to I'm just going to continue doing whatever I want I'm going to continue operating the way I want the longer we do that the greater the damage the greater the risk this is why it's critical to learn both aspects of it there's a benefit to it but there's also a risk for not doing it that way when you know if there's only a benefit to it and you just don't want the benefit then you just don't want the benefit but when you know that there's also a risk now you say to yourself you know what okay well I definitely don't want to lose and say I'm already going to do it might as well go for the benefit that's why when you teach to you have to always teach reward and Punishment you can't just teach about reward you also can't teach just about punishment you have to have a mix sometimes the she is about punishment sometimes the she is about reward sometimes it's about a mix of both but generally speaking you have to always know that both are very much the entire Torah because if you simply look at just one or the other it's the wrong direction gives us a clear warning of what happened if we ignore guidance and his laws last week's gave us serious warnings of what happens if we ignore his guidance and his laws the tells us that even if we don't understand these laws we have no right to question them and kazun tells us clearly that the only reason why we don't understand them is because we're getting in our own way because we have terrible character traits terrible flaws whether it be arrogance or stinginess whatever it is that's not making us a vessel this too encourages us to make ourselves better vessels in the coming days to prepare for so we 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