After Hours with Rabbi Yaron Reuven (23)

any questions yeah is he himself yesun wild out chaos respons isma had his own T he did CH for his own sins but his children are living their own life you know father is not going to suffer for his own sins uh you know if if he himself did Chine if he himself is not responsible for the actions you know everyone's still going to have their own a uh their own uh free choice but if the father taught their children wrong and then the kid did wrong as a result of it they go both get punished they both get punished so that's what thear says that if a child repeats the father's sins meaning that the father sin and the son is repeating his sins they both get punished the son gets punished even more than the father because he still had free choice meaning he knew that his father did wrong and he still chose to do it yeah they constantly teach that Jewish people are bad in these AR countries that's what these kids are going to believe sure the kids are going to believe believe as a child you don't really have much free choice because until 6 years old you're not really different than a monkey that's what the uh Ben says until six years old child is not very different than a monkey don't worry I have two kids that are under six years old they're also Little Monkeys they're cute too but point is that no the politically correct people say oh monkey no my kid's really cute so it's not an offensive thing it's just a reality the kid doesn't have like a full dot of what what's going on in real life it only begins at 6 years old and then after that so yes up to that age sure but after that the kid starts developing wisdom and the kid starts developing their own mindset and hasem put a piece of himself into ad which means that every single person has some portion of hem himself in him some portion of hasem in him so of course a Jew with to is going to have a lot more of Kusha than a non-jew living in the middle of Iraq of course but that Iraqi in the middle of nowhere still has a piece of God in him or else he wouldn't survive or else he wouldn't live which means that he has a conscience he has an understanding he's not an animal that works off of instinct he knows the difference between right and wrong even Hitler knew the difference between right and wrong he just chose wrong that's just a reality he decided that wrong is right and right is wrong that's it so even if somebody teaches a person that to kill people is is great especially if they're Jewish especially if this and especially if that okay fine up to 6 years old which pretty much at that age he can't do anything anyway fine he's just he's like a he's like a cow but at 16 at 20 at 25 at 30 eventually he starts developing his own opinion that's how he develops his opinion to choose a wife that's how he develops his opinion to choose a job that's how he develops an opinion to choose different things he's not just program once and that's he's not a computer he has his own mind at some point that he uses yeah but then okay then why do we you're saying everybody knows right from wrong even Hitler k then how how do we justify wrong no why does the Torah need to tell us I mean if if we naturally know what's right and wrong why does the Torah need to tell us what's right and wrong no say it's right and wrong meaning there's a basic right and wrong and there's a desire right and wrong so basic right and wrong everyone knows that it's wrong to kill you don't need the Torah to tell you that it's wrong to kill everyone knows that murdering somebody in Cold Blood is wrong you don't need the Torah to tell you that everyone knows that taking something that does not belong to you if you came and you went to somebody's house you start stealing their stuff it's wrong you don't need Tor to tell you that it's wrong everyone knows that going with somebody else's wife or somebody else's husband is wrong you don't need the Torah to tell you that right and wrong you're a human being you know it's wrong even the Dove knows it's wrong and that's why the dove has only one husband that's it doesn't have 80 husbands but some animals have 80 husbands why because that's just the way they are they that's their Instinct but the point is that there are certain things that you know naturally you know as a human being you have you have a brain in your head you have a conscience you have a that operates now there is also desire there's also desire desire like lust and so on that is something that taints your senses of right and wrong meaning it rationalizes your right and wrong that you already know that's instilled in you so every murderer rationalizes why he murdered why he murdered him because he wanted to pay get paid $25,000 from the mafia so he could pay the school's tuition for his kid so really he was doing a Mitzvah you don't want my kid to go to school what if the person was a Serial pill again even that person that's a serious killer there's actually a guy named uh Iceman they called him he was he was a professional killer in the mafia his name was Iceman and they did a whole special on him while he's in in a uh in prison he's still in prison I guess if he didn't die uh and he was a serial killer he was like the number one serial killer I mean for the mafia and so on but but he had two lives one life he was a vicious horrible worst person on planet Earth the other life perfectly normal father that never ever gets upset with a wife with kids who never knew what he did for a living they thought he's like a math teacher in his mind that's warped obviously that's absent of tah Anda he rationalizes I'm going to make a living that's all he I'm going to make a living I'm going to kill bad people I'm not killing good people I'm killing bad people killing other Mafia people so they bad people anyway I'm doing the world service I'm like the cleaning service everyone rationalized their way Hitler himself also rationalized his way saying that the Jews have something called the conscience and conscience is the disease and therefore he's helping the World by getting rid of the Jews he's helping the world he believed that he's helping the world everyone justifies their that's desire a person could feel that it's perfectly normal and perfectly okay to go steal somebody else's wife why he is bad to her anyway he rationalizes his mind no he doesn't treat her well I'll treat her better I'll treat her better and the foolish woman is going to go with this other guy because she thinks also he's going to treat me better little does she know that as soon as they're together the first time he's going to throw in a garbage so that's the thing we is fooling us to believe that what is instilled in US is wrong whatever person Tak his own life that's a person that's mentally unstable and that's a person that usually a person that gets to a point of of a uh of uh of suicide it's a moment of instability it's a moment of just a uh desperation and they're convinced that whatever feeling they have right now whatever pain they're dealing with emotionally or otherwise is permanent I know this from two examples number one there's one guy that jumped off of the uh uh the bridge in San Francisco what is it called Golden Gate Bridge right yeah some guy jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge a lot of people unfortunately jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge throughout history but only two people survived two people jumped off the bridge and survived one of them is the guy that I'm talking about he survived he jumped off the bridge to commit suicide because of different problems that he had in his life and he survived now he tells a story there's a video online he tells a story he says the second my feet left the bridge I regretted it before I left the bridge I hated life I wanted to die I I knew I knew that it's going to be better I'm going to end this and then he he was in such desperation and mental instability that he felt nothing could be worse than the current situation I must end it but the second truth hit him in the face meaning not even the second he hit the floor or the water the second he realized he's going to die second his feet left the bridge he said mistake and I was so sorry that I did it and I saw my whole life flashing out in front of me and I was so upset that I I killed myself and I couldn't believe myself but now was too late and I was falling and it gives you the whole experience it's it's really it's mind mind- numbing it's unbelievable gu the must tried to commit suicide and he regretted it how I that's the second example second example is me second example is that I know that when I was in pain 24 hours a day for seven years there were moments during that time that to say was pain is an understatement if you can imagine someone on fire it's kind of painful I don't know if you can imagine such a thing that's what I felt so I know a guy that he has a when he learns T he feels like he's on fire he has an enormous amount of pain as if he's on fire we'll Le we'll talk about this at some other maybe tomorrow sh or another time about having difficulty while you're studying T specifically and still obligated to do the mitv but anyway there was an enormous enormous amount of pain and there are times sometimes are worse than others but I can tell you from my own personal experience of dealing with a lot of hardship and so on that one thing I know about a little bit is is suffering and when you're in the fire when you are suffering you are convinced not you think not you think you're convinced it's never going to be over you con if you have no you have NOA you have no idea what's going on you have no nothing you're just basic regular person if you do not have full 100% amuna and you're dealing through suffering you're convinced it will never be over not maybe in an hour or maybe in a year or maybe in 10 years no no you're convinced what you feel right now is never going to be over which makes you very suicidal why who wants to deal with pain forever that's why when I tell people listen there's certain parts of punishment that are permanent it's like no what's the point of it being punishment being permanent because they're thinking in like normal healthy terms first and foremost you should know that just like hashem's love is unlimited so is his wrath so that already throws away any logic any human logic into the garbage second of all just talk to anyone that ever suffered in their life real suffering you're convinced it'll never be over at the moment you're you're feeling it you're convinced it's never going to be over so I know why somebody could commit suicide I understand I understand them completely it's obviously wrong but that's the mindset of a person that lost all hope a person that does that lose their world to come as well unfortunately they are charged as a murderer they took a life that's not their own what if they what if they had before yeah it's not they don't losea but they they they have a serious serious problem because they're charged as a murderer they don't lose they do go to G they do suffer actually the foolish thing is is that they they think that death will end their suffering but in reality it only Begins the suffering it's they just brought themselves much more suffering because of how they chose to uh end their life they took something that's not theirs they committed murder and they're going to suffer something tremendously worse than what they suffered in real life even if the person wasy yes boy go and Jews both have Gom different Gom but they both have Gom if a person has for behind them and they God forbid commit suicide they they go to and they go to depends depends what kind of MIT they have and depends what kind of other sins they have if the only sins they made their whole life is is suicide it's hard to believe that's their only sin usually a person that commits suicide also lived a life without God a person that has godten his life you know does not commit suicide unless he's a martyr unless he's dying for God meaning someone told him go pray to to to Jesus or something like that or I'll kill you he dies or he kills himself he allowed to do it so to do it he di but a person that jumps off of a bridge because he feels sick or because he lost money or his girlfriend left him or his wife left him or something like that that's usually a person that made a ton of sins to begin with and that person the suicide is most likely the least of their problems they most likely are also made certain sins that are which took away their even before suicide again it's not one siiz fits all I'm not I'm not the judge or the jury it's just a reality if somebody that's got to a point of committing suicide usually also did not follow the rest of what hasem said or most of what hasem said if he made he'll get rewarded for but if he died if he died a uh you know a adulterer if he died a uh you know someone that Wast seed uh on purpose and uh if he died making some of these sins without doing Chua you know there's no good wasting seed is equivalent to murdering your own kids right wasting seed is worse than murdering your own kids because murderer is just one person wasting seed is millions yes and he did Che up for 127 years he CH 127 years everyone has a everyone has a sin there's no such thing as a person who does not sin the key is chuva the key is chuva weren't there seven people in the Torah that never never made a sin four four people says four people the four people are dav's father ISL moshe's father uh am son I believe and Benyamin those kav kav and bamin those are the four people that never sinned and the only reason hasem uh took their life is because of the original sin of so yes everyone has some type of sin the question is how big is the sin versus how big the mitv are did you do chuva did you not do chuva and so on so it's it's not necessarily that uh is looking to punish us it's that Hashem is looking to reward us but at the same token he cannot just give you a reward for no reason and he cannot just let go of sins for no reason there has to be there's an accounting there a by the way one of the things that connects the uh the generation of um uh of AD all the way to AB ainu is is the following when uh Adar the first we read couple of weeks ago it said the first generation from there was 10 generations to Noah 10 Generations Noah had a son named shim Shem the Torah in the Book of Genesis also says that Shem was a uh another name for him was maled maled the king of shalim maled the king of shalm why maled king of shalm because maled Shem the son of Noah was a sadik and he was shal he was a complete person completely righteous and he they made him king of a place called shalim this place you fast forward 10 more Generations is the very same place that has says bring your son to this mountain and as we talked about uh goes to his father and says no do it and abah is ready to do it and hasm says no don't do it and then it says so it says named the place named the place God will see why because on this on this mountain God uh has been seen or will be seen so this same place this same place that was called shalim it's called shalim rened named it he named it nowm says wait who is sh he's a complete person righteous he named the place shalu who was do giant of giants also complete person he named the place can't be both what do we do we combine the two what do we call today that's the connection between the two yeah all the last moments of their life they do wicked so how's that how's that work person can do own life the comes to a person moments before he dies and tries to make him make one sin just one what's the sin just say you regret all the mitv what you did it wasn't worth it just look how hard your life was look how hard your life was look at the you know you had this you had that you had this you had that you had this you had that you had this and your friend had better had this and this and this and this and this said look you're both going to die you're both about to go to the Grave he had the Ferrari you had tus he had a house uh the White House house you just had white yeah he had uh you know he had uh three wives no one wanted to look at you he had 16 kids you just looked at his kids you know look at the life you had what' you have some books you had some on Tuesday what' you have you had AAL life say you regret it person says he regrets it he loses everything that's also why we learned from there that a person should never ever say he regrets a mitzvah never why because that's how you lose the Mitzvah so someone can do a Mitzvah and let's say for example he says uh you know went to sh and then after the sh someone calls him oh so you you know you missed the party or you uh missed this you missed that ah man I went to the sh I can't believe I shouldn't have gone to the sh shouldn't have gone to the sh you think it's not a big deal you just said a few words was the big deal and Sh the few million mitv you just got during this sh went somewhere not your account where they go to all of the you just got go deleted from your account put into their account so never ever regret a Mitzvah never ever regret a Mitzvah that's that's one of the foolish things that a person could do but unfortunately there's a lot of tests lot of tests all the time yeah told him to go and slaugh Son but then really tell him not yes that's what I said why could say himself why couldn't say to himself M and also all say that if hasem would have spoken to abah himself he would have scared him same reason of why hasm didn't actually send the Mal himself there because the Mal is each one of theim sh is strong enough to destroy the entire world each Mal each works for each one has the power to destroy the entire world to show up it's kind of scary she thought it was God not about thinking it was God scary doesn't make a difference with it's God not God you see something scary you get scared you may do something stupid especially since your son is half a centimeter away from a knife you may kill him in the end so that's uh the reason why hasem not only did not speak to him himself but also did not send the Mal himself to show up and they just told him just said had a voice before he came he had there was a voice first that's what the mid say yeah supporting himself says other things so see many people do just that they Lear yeah so there is a whole sh we need to we've given about the topic to some extent uh it's not something that's easy to answer because on one end uh you have to um explain what the rambam really said uh it's not as simple as what you're saying it's not as simple as what he saying uh on another end there's a couple of different opinions in the Torah now we've talked about it in the past sources that we used a debate that he had withu in I believe it's in the 36 37th page uh about Tah just learning to to and working which is part of the foundation of what the rambam is using um in so many words this is what it says rambam in general was not a fan of people just learning which is understood says that a person that just learns T without an intention of teaching it is like a person who does not have a God why because the point of learning Torah is to learn about God meaning to learn his midot to learn his character traits and emulate him to he has good character traits you should have good character traits he's generous you should be generous he's loving you should be loving and so on and so forth so a person that's not going to teach it's like a person that's not is learning a Torah like he's learning a math book or he's learning a history book so that's F that's Point number one point number two as far as a person that um the r also says that you shouldn't actually charge for teaching tah uh under all conditions there are certain conditions you're allowed and certain conditions are not allowed there's there is a uh you know that replaces what you could have made somewhere else is intricate parts to the law of when you're allowed and when you're not allowed to charge for teaching but as far as a person working and a person learning uh it all depends it all depends on how you collect your money if a person has a way to make a living uh his parents his family an inheritance uh some business that he has on his side and all he does is is is work all he does is learn T he's perfectly fine he's perfectly fine uh according to the r he's perfectly fine if he has a source of income coming from someplace he just doesn't have to work it just comes in no problem at all when does he have a problem no when does he have a problem even if it's sta even if let's say for example his parents said listen we're GNA give you x amount of money every month you just learn to it's perfectly fine according to the r perfectly fine what about learning a same thing anywhere you learn a Col learn your house learn in a zoo learn wherever you want someone's going to pay for your rent and whatever he's going to pay no problem is no according to R there no problem when is it a problem when is it a problem to just go learn and not work or or you know when a person uses their Torah time to go collect money meaning you are you decide you're going to learn to deci you're going to learn to you're going to go to and you depended that God's going to send you money the moment God gave you a test and he didn't chend you the money on time the time that you thought it was supposed to be your parents didn't give you the money your neighbor didn't give you the money the investor didn't give you the money money is not coming from a normal way instead of continuing to learn and withstanding this amuna test and showing that you really believe what' you do you you put the books down and you went and started collecting door to door that's why number one you're not learning toah number two you're showing that whatever you did learn you don't really believe that you're not allowed to do so yes if you have a source of income regardless of where it comes from whether it's coming from the or it's coming from people that send you or so on and so forth you're perfectly fine if you have it as long as you're learning but if you're going to use the learning time to go call to then you have a problem according to the ra like I said is there's a time there's a time to yes there's a time to no meaning if a person is teaching at a time that he could be doing something else so for example I have a profession and if let's say my profession whatever the profession is would earn me $1,000 an hour now if instead of going to I can go work right now and I go work and I can make $1,000 an hour so that means if I work for five hours I'm going to make $5,000 but instead of going to work for five hours I go teach you guys for five hours that means I have a permission to charge you $5,000 why because I would have made the $5,000 elsewhere I could charge you less if I want but I could charge you $5,000 why because this is in essence I'm using the time I could have made this to do this so I'm allowed to charge you for that but but it's not allowed to charge something where there is no reason for it meaning many people say listen I want to I'm going to give you a lecture if you pay me $5,000 but if they tell them listen uh we want you to give the Torah lecture but we don't have $5,000 then he says okay then I'm not coming you can't do such a thing you can't behave that way because technically you're not supposed to do teach the Torah purely for the money only you can't just do for the money you're allowed to charge you're allowed to make a living if that you would make but it has to be reasonable it has to be within reason it has to be there's certain intricate laws within it it's not just that every single person that teaches t or every single person that learns tah automatically should assume that AEM is going to send them M from sham like they did to the uh you know to am for 40 years it doesn't work quite like that but at the same token you can't just go out there and start charging people $25,000 uh just for showing up for for for no reason which many speakers do unfortunately you said you said before that uh that if you're learning Torah but you're not teaching it it's like learning a math it's like learning a math book or whatever what if a person doesn't have the ability to teach like what if a person sits and just reads and tries to get as much Torah knowledge as he can but he doesn't really have today he doesn't have the ability to teach tomorrow he may point is that he should have an intention to teach eventually and this does not mean every single person has to become a public speaker that's not what teaching means teaching means sometimes you can be a public speaker if he has the ability to do it sometimes he doesn't have the ability to do it or time but he has a family right so teach his family teach his wife he has kids teach the kids if he doesn't have a family if he doesn't have the ability to speak to the public and he doesn't have a wife that wants to marry him and he doesn't have kids that uh he has and it's only him by himself on an island teach himself teach himself but obviously most people are not in such a horri horrific situation most people have one of those things they have a friend they have a colleague they have a they have a somebody they can exchange Torah with how did how did the rabim how did he know that that by sitting and learning all day he was doing the right thing I mean meaning what it says that a person should learn and work it's the more popular opinion how how did how do some people like rashim Mar the ability to just sit and learn all day and not work I mean ability meaning naturally or ability meaning like why what makes you think you ask two different questions at the same time no like like like not the ability physically like the ability to like how did he know he's right for his decision to to study and learn to decision right meaning like Hashem agrees with it or decision right like a uh money is going to come well I mean first off all of the all of the T were at a level that they had a the ability to revive the dead theyes they had different insights that are beyond our scope of understanding now happens to be one of the people that learned you know he wrote The Z so he in the cave with him and his son they learned with angels so they had kind of a uh first line of you know of communication with uh and he knew right or wrong much more than we could even comprehend others that uh come much later than him is students students students students students later on didn't have his level and so on I mean we have sources we have sources we see what our forefathers did and we compare to what we do that's why we have a Tora Tora is not just a book of stories Shalom the Torah is to show us what Hashem wants from us it's an instruction book of how to live How To Succeed how to do good business how to have good marriage and so on and so forth so T is which means instructions instructions to do a lot everything so had a debate of uh of uh what's called what a person should do should a person uh study full-time or should a person study and uh and uh work the ultimate the the the M between the two of them comes to a final conclusion which is if a person has the ability if a person has the ability not only the mental wherewithal but also the muscles then ideally he should study full time ideally but they even say in the says it and and agrees it doesn't work for everybody why some people don't have either the mental capacity or Thea to do such a thing Thea muscles to do such a thing to to only study uh and therefore they need to do balance well you know but back then it was a different generation I think back then much easier to study all day than today's world like if that makes sense everything makes sense but it's not it's not necessarily correct you're saying that today it's it's the Torah is somewhat obsolete which is not not right no it's not OBS different tests different Generations so today's you're saying that today we have a lot more tests which you're right we have not necessarily a lot more tests we have different tests our test today we have cell phones that addicted to we have a million and a half friends that U you know are there when we don't need them uh we have a uh you know a lot of different that interfere with our learning T yes how is Mia supposed to come out such generation you're talking people like how many years ago00 yeah he didn't come then why is he going to come now no saying how is Masia supposed to be so like like come out of such a generation that's on such a low level because the generation that Hashem took us out of Egypt was just as low uh the we were at the 49th level of Tuma when we were in Egypt all all we did is three MIT all we did was three mitv we didn't change our names we still had Jewish names we didn't change our clothes meaning we didn't wear tight pants like the GRE uh we didn't wear many skirts like the go we didn't wear uh you know pretty much we weren't walking around half naked like the so we have we're still modest uh we actually all modest in Behavior we didn't into marry with the exception of one particular case which with schlomit that got raped by the Egyptian the rest of the Jewish women uh stayed righteous uh and uh did not have such an experience um uh it's uh and also the um dat the yes so those those are the three things there was one other thing there was a fourth thing that I I'm forgetting right now but the point is there was three and some say four basic level mitv that we did uh that kept us connected to Hashem kept us connected to Hashem um and uh now and we were at the 49th level of Tuma if we would have gotten to the 50th if we would have got into the 50th hasem would have had to destroy the world because that there would no be no way for us to do chuva now the says that in the generation before mashia comes we will reach the 50th will actually be worse than Egypt but you just said that there's no chv from there there's no chv if there's no T now we have tah before we got we got to Mount Si when we're at the 49th level of Tuma we had no Torah so if we would have gotten to the 50th there was no way to recover and the generation before the mhia we're going to get to a worse level as a whole not as individual some individuals will be as a whole will reach a worse level but there still Hashem is still going to save us because we have tah so just like there is more trials and tribulations in the last generation which the Theos all of these Giants themselves said that they don't want to be they want the messia to come but they don't want to be alive to see it because of how many tests are going to be before mhia comes says that it's going to be very very difficult but but just like it's difficult the reward is greater there's a big Merit to be it so how is it that will all the heresy that's in the world the idol worship that's in the world the in marriage is in the world how could it be that you know mashia can come and uh and lighten the place up is if you see a lot of Darkness the darker it is the more impact light has meaning you can have 500 rabbis rabbis not even talking about the priests and Reverend and all the idol worshippers talking about rabbis Orthodox rabbis modern Orthodox rabbis or other fake rabbis that are not don't have and they can teach people that you're allowed to drive on Shabbat and they can teach people that you're allowed to eat at non kosher places because only vegetables and they can teach people all types of things that are against the tah I'm not saying all of modern Orthodoxy or all of anyone particular I'm just saying in general they can have a bunch of Darkness come from something that's supposed to be light confusion like this DWI guy that told people that uh the greatest thing that happened in recent times is that uh homosexuality is is is is public knowledge and it's okay this well he's the Orthodox Rabbi said it's okay it's great it's the greatest thing that happened you had a whole lecture about it so anyway the uh uh point is is that he is one of the many that are bringing a lot of Darkness lot of Darkness a lot of confusion a lot of people don't know what to do wait homosexuality allowed or not allowed good not good good not good this good not good into marriage good not good it's confusing to a lot of people how do you know this guy is even Jewish because there was one guy that that also said the same thing that homosexuality was okay on YouTube and I found out that he was actually no he's he's a he's a well he's a well-known he's a well-known Rabbi unfortunately and he's actually uh uh connected to yeah he's he's a well-known person unfortunately he was a rabbi in in New York for a while and then they kicked him out and now he's in London somewhere uh and soon G but the the point is is that it's a uh until then he's confusing a lot of people confusing a lot of people and uh there's a lot like him like for example about a year ago we had a whole sh for two hours 2 and a half hours trying to bring to shed light on Darkness what was the darkness if you weren't if you weren't familiar with the Shing back then then uh you didn't probably didn't hear about it but there was one of the top rabbis not just in a uh you know in a community top two diim Dian in Florida there's two heads Diane in Florida one of them the younger one his name is Ephraim Goldberg he decided that it's a good idea to bring the number one Catholic missionary in the world guy by the name of Matthew Kelly to speak to his congregation at the Boer Ron synagogue about the purpose of life this is orthodox Rabbi it's not a reform or conservative or atheist I was at the Kila I was going there I lived there and we fought tooth and nail for over a month to try to stop this and it worked hasem had mercy on us and stop this whole event from happening after a month and a half of fighting the point being is that people like this that have no are bringing a lot of Darkness to a lot of Darkness a lot of confusion people don't know anything about modesty they don't know anything about driving on Shabbat they don't know anything about anything you go to that synagogue half the there's a parking lot with 250 cars every Shabbat 250 cars coming in not coming out not uh it's an orthodox je a it's not like a some Rabbi that no one knows and maybe no no it's a it's one of the top rabbis the D guy is uh very very well known unfortunately he's actually married to one of the uh uh uh people in rah's family his daughter or his granddaughter or something like that so these are not just know noodies these are people that are very very well known unfortunately they're bringing a lot of Darkness to saying that a big Rabbi would actually say that homosexuality is okay I'm not saying he's a he calls himself a rabbi and according to the community calls him a rabbi but as far as to he's a heretic the point I'm trying to tell you is that there is a lot of Darkness I'm trying to get to the conclusion of what the answer to your question is there is a lot of darkness and a lot of confusion what you're allowed to do what you're not allowed to do if you look at the religious world today almost every religious married woman is wearing a wig even though there are 127 P say it's not allowed and there's even more reasons of why it's not allowed now because of connection to a which this half a dozen sh that I've talked about in the past discussing the details point being is there's a lot of Darkness so what's the point what are we doing here why we even bother if 80% of doesn't keep Shabbat the two the the 20% that do are also confused conf used no one knows what's going on what's the point why we even bother we bother because the darker it is the more impact the light will have if you have a very very dark cave very dark huge giant cave all you see is Darkness take a little tiny candle light the candle it's light so 500 rabbis can say that homosexuality is good and Shabbat is good and all Zionism is good and all this nonsense is good all this anti- Torah anti- God mentality is is good but one little guy that no one ever heard of comes and says the truth and you see thousands of people doing chuba that's it so you come into the shoe you bring light they come to the Sho they bring light you guys are part of the light you're part of the light you're the light so that's what makes hm happy happy enough to let the world continue despite the darkness and that's what's going to bring the mashia isn't it true that a great the greater a person is the greater is also sure still doesn't justify being a heretic though again it all depend it all depends if the person has to be great in the first place so you have to M you know again we're not judge a jury we're not judge a jury but a person his his greatness is not necessarily determined just purely based on how uh how much Torah he studied in his life uh or there there's a lot of things that uh it depends on it's not just how much story he studed he might have had a uh a very very uh rewarding life where he was born into a religious family that uh believed in learning Torah and he studied his whole life and his parents were rich and he didn't have to work and so on and so forth and he became a successful Rabbi that does not make him a great person that just makes a person that studied a lot of Torah what makes a person a great person is if he's willing to sacrifice himself if he's willing to sacrifice himself for Hashem if he's willing to sacrifice himself for what is he doing it for you know there's no there's no issues with success the issues is why you succeeded what's behind the success so when a person his number one motivation is is is to make people happy that all he's doing is fulfilling the prophecy that it says in the page 49b which is face of a generation is a face of a dog what does it mean face of a generation face of a dog one of the commentar says that the rabbis the rabbis are going to be like dogs the rabbis of the generation are going to be like dogs why because if it's your dog every so often the dog runs in front of you but every so often what does he do he looks back is it okay if I'm going okay is it okay I'm going is okay it's okay for me to give a lecture is okay for me to talk about shat oh no no Shabbat okay can't talk about uh you know no and they listen to the K listen to K what can I say what I can't say what can I do what I can't do that's they're little they're little dogs they're scared of the owner that's what we have that's what we have we have we have people that unfortunately just fulfilling the prophet phy of B we also have people like ra M and raon and several other rabbis that are fantastic rabbis that are bringing light to the nation will bringen [Music] [Applause] [Music] la [Music]