Animalistic Nature Within - Jewish HaShkafa (14)

[Music] um we're uh back to our Sunday night Shure new location from now on all of the shim um will be in this location uh Sunday Tuesday and Wednesday here in aventur until further notice but uh for now they'll be here so easy for every want to remember every Sunday Tuesday and Wednesday uh uh at 9:00 uh next uh Sunday there's not going to be a sh but aside from that everything else is on schedule um tonight we're going to continue with our series on the uh Jewish ashfa based on K thank you uh tonight's Sho will be for for van B SAR David benri Doris Bora ala but Rifka uh Orit B Elana Ben abam Talia but Sarah dor but Mercedes Esther butora um B Sarah Sak baa and all of will have also and again all of will have to sha Ben faran elad benis benis Gabi benis uh David benri uh and all of the donors and supporters of whether it be with uh money or with time skill all of the wonderful people that uh help us share tah around the world we're continuing to grow continuing to share to to more and more people every day the uh amount of uh views go up the amount of videos go up the amount of projects go up but most importantly the amount of B go up every single day there's new new people taking on more new people taking on more things to get closer to Hashem some people that uh were completely disconnected are are keeping Shabbat after watching one or two shim other people that uh you know were relatively uh you know connected but not as religious as they realize they they need to be so there's a lot of good things that are happening uh but one of the main things is uh also that's uh happening especially with a the video that was released earlier today about these 14 that were highlighted on the list uh by myself and misi is uh that although there are many many unfortunately many other in the world we only highlighted those 14 as they are the most dangerous uh because of their popularity there are many others uh and unfortunately at the end of times as we've learned from rman and from the and many other places the zos even says that the vast majority of rabbis and leaders at the time of mashiah going to be meaning no good not good for you not good for cl Isel and um the important thing for a person to know is that although none of these videos or lectures that discuss bad people and the bad things that they do none of them are fun none of them are pleasurable quite frankly I hate them uh they're very much necessary as the uh Z says inim uh page 86 a person that makes separation for for people for the sake of himself for others between good and evil brings peace to the world so a lot of times people watch these videos you know where we're highlighting one of these Rim whether it be Manis fredman or Goldberg or any of these other people they say uh you know how many times can you go against the person we got the point or perhaps why do you say such bad things maybe makes Judaism look bad or maybe it's confusing people all types of things especially people that like these it's critical among the many jobs and tasks that a MIM uh has it's very very important for uh him or her to make sure to protect the public uh from things that they don't even know themselves are dangerous and uh it's one of the most important things Z says is that you have to make sure that you separate the good and evil you have to separate it there's no question of there's a difference between good and evil but there is a obligatory mitvah for each person to separate it from themselves but even more of a task and a a kindness for to actually highlight it and bring it to bring the light to people who don't know different who don't know why somebody with a very long beard bearded in a longer career even uh is so wicked or perhaps why a guy like doas that relatively speaking seems like a nice person on the outside seems very friendly accepts everyone guim Jews seems like a relatively nice person why would you highlight him as one of the 14 or perhaps uh Lord saxs uh that has been around for uh you know for many decades and wrote many many books why you know why would you go after him and say he's a bad guy the truth is is that it's necessary because the average person average religious person needless to say non-religious the average religious person does not know how to tell the difference between good and bad uh and it is our job to make sure that we highlight that there is a difference between good and bad and they cannot coexist now unfortunately in today's world when you bring light to such Dark Matters many people immediately reject and they start using some term they heard 5,000 times in different lectures and whatever other term they could remember off the top of their head and you know pretty much vilify you make you seem to be like the bad guy which also questions the matter of why you watching our video if we're the bad people but needless to say they attack you what do they attack you with they call you all types of names they question your integrity they question your this they question your that which in essence is much much worse than what they're actually saying you're doing to somebody else but they don't actually take that into consideration you know because generally speaking what we're trying to do is bring light to a dark world full of people that look like they're good leaders from the outside but only to people who do not know the emit now if I told you that someone was a rapist or a murderer I wouldn't necessarily have to prove my case for you to listen to me you would say okay this guy is a murderer he's a rapist is a is the charges by the police by the court yal finish this guy we you got to do a protest until he's behind bars but if I told you that someone is feeding you poison which is sometimes more difficult to prove because you have to test the food you have to know what what what poison looks like and what it does that requires a little bit more trust in the actual accuser than uh and the system itself then it does and uh just simply your own uh uh your own abilities and that's really what it comes down to now we've already brought up the fact that many of these have done many many bad things um but have been uh you know no one has really addressed it and the reality is that you have uh a outcome of an entire generation of people that do not know the obligation to keep Shabbat do not know the obligation of being honest in business do not know the obligation of being honest in their marriage and so on and so forth um and this is the reason when you have a large majority of people that are speaking to people in the public eye whether it be in a uh on their shabbatons or in a uh public forum like uh the media like YouTube and so on and they're just feeding people like this is much worse than poison this is much worse than poison because usually poison it has its effect right away and you can see the outcome and in essence you can pin down who the murderer is in this particular case you have an entire generation and tens and tens of thousands of people listening to these speakers and not even knowing that they're being poisoned and being damaged and being spiritually murdered and only to find out that this is the the case after they are told that their entire ideology is the opposite of what hasem wants him to have and that's really what you have here you have a lot of people that have the opposite of the ideology that what you're supposed to have hence the reason of why people immediately retract regress sometimes attack the one that's bringing the truth to light instead of saying you know what okay I don't really like what I'm hearing because I like this manice I like this D I like this epim I like this wpy I like all of these people I like these people so let me just check why is he saying what is he saying why are they on the list like what did they do and then after you review the facts if you still don't know that simply means you don't know Torah then you have to go to sh number one and you know go to school again and and you know there's a lot more work that needs to be done but assuming you have basic knowledge of what's good and bad according to within five minutes you can see why each one of these people's on a list and that's just simply the reality what a lot of people do is they simply attack first ask questions later they assume that since they like this speaker they like this Rabbi they assume that whoever is going against them has to be wrong why because our inner nature is to assume that by default we are right if I chose this house it must be the best house on the Block if I chose this C this must be the best model this year if I chose this job this must be the best job available if I chose this product this is the best product in the world we assume we're right so when someone tells you hey by the way you're wrong immediately our ego blows up and says there's no way that I'm wrong it's not about the speaker it's about me being wrong that's not possible and that's in essence one of the things that the Kish has been trying to teach us over these last few months with the Jewish ashfa the Jewish ashfa the Jewish ideology is not something that's easily attained and the reason why is because it requires us to not only test ourselves and compare ourselves to where we're really supposed to be but also to challenge ourselves to change before even agreeing or even knowing what the change requires simply because we know what he says has to be AIT there is no oh maybe he's wrong as soon as a person understands what a Gad is what a sage is in Judaism there is no no I don't agree with him so long as you think that you with your one or two or three or even 20 years of Torah knowledge that you've learned in your Yeshiva or you learned on YouTube or you learned in books on your own wherever you learned it the minute you think that you can challenge a gador this Jewish ASF you is not really going to affect you why you will be able to challenge what the are saying in every aspect and never change the first rule of Chua is submitting to the truth whether you like it don't like it agree with it disagree with it understand it don't understand it submitting lowering your ego and making sure you realize okay this is em what I have is not so much AIT probably CL of the she okay I got to change I don't like it I don't agree with it I don't even understand why he wants me to do this but it must be the emit if he's saying it because he has no other benefit to tell us this if it's not to help us he's not getting paid for it in fact he's actually losing as a result of it if you think about the socioeconomic issues of of kiru when you teach M you don't actually get a more fans it's the opposite many times why because you don't cater to everyone you only cater to a specific crowd that is looking for the EMT if you were to do it for business like the people on the list then you would simply tell people whatever they want to hear in order to generate a larger crowd in order to cater to everyone in order to soothe everyone and in essence make your Market eight billion people but when you're teaching people M that's challenging their reality Challen challenging their emit challenging what they think is true and what they think is good even you're in essence only cater to people that want to change before they even know whether the change will work or not before they even know whether the change is good for them or not simply based on the belief that the Torah is a and whoever spoke it is true true this is hard for many people to accept hence the reason why this job gets diff more and more difficult as you get more popular as you get more students because many times students that come on board they like something that you hear sometimes because it doesn't affect them but it affects their best friend it affects their wife it affects their husband affects their kids it affects somebody else so they like it oh yeah can you tell this to my husband oh I like what you said in the shoe can you tell my wife this stuff oh can you tell my son can you tell this one can you tell that I like what you said but the second you say something that affects them I didn't like what you said last time why' you say that for the same reason I said the stuff that you like that I said about your girlfriend and your boyfriend and your husband and your cousin and everybody else that you like for the same exact reason that's what kazal says we don't say things out of our own you know Common Sense we simply say what K says what our sages said because we know that they toiled and toiled over the Torah year after year decade after decade Century after Century for the last 3,000 plus years in order to arrive at a conclusive em between and the difference between em and she and when you bring the EM to people and that Amed challenges the people that they like the people that they admire although initially it may create some Wars because you have the people that are rejecting the want to fight you they make all types of comments they sometimes if they were donating they stop donating if you are invited to their Sho they make sure you're disinvited if there's people that like you they try to convert them to not like you and they do all types of things in order to foil your plans if you will so in essence initially it creates War but the Z says those that bring the light to the darkness where they show you the difference between the em and the they are the ones that are truly bringing peace why because there is no such thing as peace if it's not based on AIT any peace that's based on she based on political correctness based on just fitting in based on you know you're just doing things to be friends you're just doing things just so there's no altercations it's not real peace I spoke to a nice guy recently and I told him listen you tell me all these things that the local Rabbi yua is doing why don't you say something he's doing all types of things the the the the board is run by one guy that's a shabat one why you say something no I don't want to do my I don't want to make M there peace now I don't want to make M I don't want to have any debates any arguments because if I say something it's going to create arguments I don't want to make any arguments and people think this is aah by allowing the entire K the entire Community shalom what's going on the entire nation to live under a lie we think that's a Mitzvah because there's no where tells us that's false because that piece that you have by withholding the emit by not telling the rabbi the truth by not telling the community the truth is not creating peace it's creating falsehood and that's why sometimes you see many times these people that say they love everyone they love everyone all Jews have a share of the world to come you know you should love Jews who do they fight me wait but you said you love all Jews how come well I was I'm not a Jew both my parents are Jews I'll do if you want well how come you don't love me no but you said this about my rebi you said this about my Kila you said this about this one you said this yeah but I said what the Torah says how come you're so aggressive about me and you're not aggressive against the guy that's missionizing to Christianity you're not aggressive against the guy that's violating of Shabbat you're not aggressive against the guy that says nonstop you're not aggressive against the guy that goes against the and distorts the Tor how come you're only aggressive against the guy that's actually bringing a met to people oh so you're only aggressive against me because I am foiling your plans I'm foiling this fake piece that you have by telling you it's not peace at all but if I agreed with you and I told you yeah listen drive on Shabbat do whatever you want bring the missionaries to sh eat pork on Yip if you want or like one guy told me today they have an event on T what's an event tab they're bringing Christians to sh and they call it the Jews and the missionaries together if if I didn't see this with my own eyes I wouldn't even tell I wouldn't believe it Event Event Jews and missionaries together now this is what's happening to our world this world of internationalization of of viewing our Judaism as somewhat of like something that's here to share and not necessarily think that we have a monopoly on the truth like uh like Lord sack says no Judaism doesn't have a monopo on a truth he wrote it in his book and many during that time when he wrote it I think it was like something like seven eight years ago called him a in England said you have to retract this book you have to take it off the shelves burn it what do you mean you don't have a monopoly on the truth he claims that everybody has truth Y is true Muslims are true everything is true Buddhism is true idol worship is are true everybody is true everybody has truth if you don't think that Judaism as a monopoly on a truth you my friend have a very serious problem with now when you bring the truth to people although initially it does create War it's similar to a a war that's aah if you notice in the Torah we didn't just initiate attacks for no reason we listen to the prophet anyone who didn't listen to The Prophet first ask what hasem wants whether we're supposed to go to this war or not lost the war but we asked Hashem hm can I go to war should I go to war is this a war for me hasem said yet you went to you went to the war everybody everybody could feel oh Hy I'm going to war I'm going to kill a bunch of people come back home like no one was worried he's goingon to die why this aah someone observes the mitvah is not going to see anything bad but if you went to war based on your own idea you want to conquer land you wantan to you hate these people just based on your own uh you know he stole my parking space he stole some business for me is my competition that's not a Mitzvah is went to a few Wars for the sake of Mitzvah now is a war pretty no when you look at the midashim that detail what happened in these wars and how many people died and rivers of blood being created both men women children many people died war is not pretty by any stretch of the imagination surely today people have a better idea of how ugly war is from all the movies that people waste their life watching you know especially the effects that they have in the video games you shoot somebody you chop you know his arm falls off his face falls off and they give you all the graphic details of what happened during war so in reality unless you become desensitized you realize that war is horrible a horrible thing you're killing somebody that means that they're not going to have a father that means they're not going to have a brother that means they're not going to have a husband that means that this person is alive today dead tomorrow he's going to be missing limbs you know he's going to be uh you know someone that's no longer in this world there's nothing pretty about it but says if you do it because I said it it's a mitvah yeah but how why don't we just all get along and be friends can we all just get along no we cannot all get along there's a time for war yeah but how is this war good because the war is going to make peace yeah but AEM that's an oxymoron how could War make peace because this war that's a MIT this war that's a Mitzvah is is a war against the she it's against the lies by removing the lies by removing idolatry by removing things that are against hem you are lessening the evil and allowing the emit to stand out even more hence the reason of why the zorad says those that part the good and evil they bring peace to the world it's not the one that say everybody Hashem loves everyone Hashem is you know is a will forgive you for everything no that doesn't bring peace that brings more the Jewish ideology is not one that's easy to attain simply because it requires you to not not only believe this but it requires you to live like this to know that there's going to have to be a time where you too will have to go to war a war that's gruesome a war that may be in your eyes even evil but nonetheless understand that that war is required and that war in the end is good the ends justify the means it's not that you want to kill people it's that you want to kill the sh you want to destroy the falsehood and that's the reason why we keep coming out with these videos we keep coming out with more information to wake up is from their their Slumber we just sleeping at the wheel while these are just conquering more and more and causing more harm than you could even imagine now part of the war requires sometimes for a person to know that if you're fighting a war for the sake of Hashem you're not allowed to use the same animalistic nature that you use to fight a war for some government the same animalistic nature that you use to have a fist fight when you were a kid the wars of Hashem are not requiring you to have these animalistic nature in fact you're not supposed to have them you're supposed to know that the these animalistic Natures will actually kill you not help you live this is why the made it a law that if you just made a mistake you made a mistake when you put on and you put on put the arm first but not complete then you put the head right he say first first first time but then if you speak in the middle you say a second usually do both but nonetheless if you spoke in between you say second now if someone saw oh you did this you said the second says you're not all to come to war why you spoke in the middle of it's not like not you're not you're not Madness you're not EF you're not D you're not telling people smoke marijuana but it's enough of a sin it's enough that you are going to put the entire Army in danger you're not have to go to war yeah but I'm a bon I worked out for six years straight I could I could bench press 490 lbs I could squat a thousand I could kill eight people with one sword not to go to war why you spoke you spoke in the middle what did I say though you said hi to somebody you have a whole conversation the rabbi came in said hey Rabbi I said not even hey Rabbi hi said hi in the middle putting the arm in in the in the head you said something you have to do you have to fix that you do a second right that's already says can't go to war with us why that little sin you're not going to come back from war and if you die you're going to cause somebody else to die meaning what meaning that the only people that went to war in the army of davim not people with animalistic nature that just want to chop some heads off to go and fight the wars of hem it requires a person to be a sadik to be someone that knows T not to be someone that has good AIM now the K tells us a little bit more about the difference between us and the animals in the first chapter section number seven after he's told us great details about different body parts different aspects of the thought process he now goes on and he starts telling us about the difference between us and animals in section s he says the following animals share their bodily structure with men as well as their qualities and other aspects in their material makeup Flesh Blood sen bone and tissues in so many words we're exactly the same you look different the shape is different the shape of your face is hopefully different than the cow and the rangang and the uh and the and the lions and so on yes but for all intents and purposes same thing you you have two eyes they have two eyes you have a nose they have a nose you have ears they have ears you have a mouth they have a mouth you have a digestive system they have a digestive system you have a heart they have a heart you have a brain they have a brain yes oh okay okay for all intents and purposes there's not really that much of a difference between you and the animal as far as the physical makeup of the two says they're living beings they have senses like men they eat in a similar manner to human beings you know they eat with their mouth just like you do they have two genders male and female now the difference between man and Beast lies in men's wisdom and ability to speak now says that the senses of the animals are just like men you can smell they can smell you can see they can see you can taste they can taste but yet anyone that has either watched Discovery Channel or read some books knows that the senses of animals are sometimes much much better than ours question is how come you don't have the sense of smell of a dog dog sense of smell it's powerful he could smell something from blocks away better yet the sense of smell of a bee a bee can smell something from Miles Away miles how come you don't have the sense of smell way if hasem already created you in the image of hem and you're the greatest of all creation and so on why don't you just give me the best sense of smell the best eyes the best ears the best everything like M superhuman that's also in the tah when it comes to the sense of smell the Tor tells us that we're not allowed to pray or learn Torah any place that has a terrible smell so if your wife just cleaned out the garbage or one of your kids just uh you know toddlers just decided that to make the middle of the living room the bathroom or the garbage truck passed by the once or twice a week that it does if you had the sense of smell of the dog and the bee then guess what you would never be able to pray you would never be able to learn toah because there's always something there's always something within that distance in His Infinite Wisdom gave you a precise sense of smell that's good for you so even though there's a garbage truck three blocks away it doesn't affect you you could still pray even know the kid made the living room the bathroom you're in the room you don't smell it far away unless you're special you don't have to worry about this stuff why you can just go to a different room and move on with your life you could pray now what about sense of hearing why don't we have the hearing of some of these animals like the dog actually that can hear something from very far away why don't we have hearing like that tells us in order to learn Tor you have to have Yeshua do what's Yeshua do complete Focus the Torah is not history the Torah is not mathematics the Torah is not philosophy the Torah is not some subject that you can just glance through it on your free time the Torah is it's the words of himself you have to have complete Focus just like as if you had him himself sitting right next to you you're reading the you're reading the you're reading you're reading some book you're reading some you're reading some you have to think as if sitting right next to you you have to have complete Focus if you want to remember and apply what you're learning but if you could hear every single squeak from every corner like the dog guess what you're never going to be able to his conversation is interesting her conversation is interesting what was that sound what was the other sound why did that happen why did this happen cuz you're hearing everything you're never going to be able to be focused and hasem says I want you to learn to I don't want you to be a dog I don't want you to listen to what's happening your next door neighbor's house I don't want you to care about what's happening downstairs I want you to learn so what kind of hearing do you have you have the hearing that's perfect for you just enough to know what's going on but more importantly to know what is important in front of you now ask a question I believe it's the brings a question says that Shalom found out from a that he was going to die on Shabbat and he didn't want to die on Shabbat he said to Hashem let me die on Friday let me die on Friday so no one has to deal with me a dead body on Shabbat let me on Friday so they can bury me on Friday hasem says no no no no no I can't why your Torah your T is so important to me it's more important than a thousand a thousand sacrifices that your son is going to bring inash so to kill you a day early I'm going to lose a day of toah from you okay so let me die on Sunday says no the second a person's kinghood is supposed to start that's when it starts you cannot be alive for an extra day your son is supposed to already be king by Sunday so knew that he's going to die on Shabbat he just didn't know which Shabbat so what did he do he had a trick he knew that the could not touch him as long as he's learning T if the manal comes to you if the the Satan comes to you drag them to the bet meaning learn learn T is going to protect you against so long as he learns T can't take him this is why as a side note we have the custom to have the fourth meal that's what the made celebrating they he survived another Shabbat celebrating survived another Shabbat ah the fourth meal so now comes and he knows hey I can't touch this David but it's clock's scking I have a job they're going to fire me they're going to fire me what we going to do I have to take this guy to but he's studing to I can't touch him so what does he do he makes some noise outside the hears somebody's a tree and he gets up and as he gets up he goes down the stairs and for a second he wasn't thinking about t the was able to take away one of the steps he fell and died took his life that one second so asked wait a minute hold on a second wait what every time somebody made noise outside would get up what kind of Tora is he studying this is this is this is what somebody made noise outside you get up so what's the what's the big question cuz that came many many years after him says that anyone that goes away from his Tor just to go deal with mundane things they're going to feed him they're going to feed him cold that doesn't ever go out why you're learning tah but then your phone rang oh who's it oh Steve let's see what he wants hey what's up Steve what's going on oh yeah she called you oh wow w wow yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah still close the book it goes away that phone call just called you some it's not just regular not just regular c special ones says says special ones this one special this one is not on sale this one premium doesn't go out why you treated the Tor like it's some history book that's why say you should have already in your mind when you first start learning whenever I stop because I intended to stop when you start studying you don't know when you're going to stop you intend let's say you want to study an hour 2 hours 3 hours 5 hours but sometimes there's going to be distractions already have in your head okay whenever I stop for whatever reason I intended to stop you shouldn't stop for every little thing but nonetheless this has already removed you from this horrific situation all of us are guilty of this so how could be us little nothings or at least me little nothing could be compared to what he got up also cuz somebody was on a tree someone was making noise on a tree says no no and he was learning T but he also knew that he heard this tree outside for a reason someone must be climbing a tree on Shabbat and that's I have a to make and I'm the only one that can make it if somebody else can make this of you must rebuke your nation then I can just continue studying but since I'm the one that heard it and no one else is here the obligation is on me I have to go rebuke this person tell what are you doing is going to kill you didn't get because he got up for everything is that he knew that someone is violating Shabbat right now he didn't know it's Satan making noise he know someone's make I got to go rebuke him I got a mitvah to make if there was somebody else here in the room I you know send them over but nobody else here the obligation is on me because just like says if somebody sees another person sinning and they're able to rebuke and they don't the sin goes on them says I don't want to go up to sh because I decide to learn I heard it I got to do something about it so K says that we have this special sense of hearing that's lesser than the animals for a reason so we don't hear every little thing so we could have yes so we could have complete focus when we learn T the animals on the other hand are given a better sense of smell sometimes better sense of vision sometimes better sense of hearing vision is probably the easiest one to understand if all of us had the vision of the eagle that can see all the way from from from the heavens from the sky he can see a little mouse the best Vision in the uh in the world is for the E the eagle has it if we had it we'd all be guaranteed to go to Gom because our eyes would look everywhere that we're not supposed to and no one would be able to tell except the himself so we have a private G no one knows about so says let me save you the trip you don't have that good of a vision which by the way you should know our vision used to be better used to be better the says that someone that has a t has a uh he's a shepherd and uh says how does he know what's his sheep and and and cattle and so on versus his friend he says whatever he can see with the naked eye is his you know if it's a huge land and so on not everything has fences he's walking with his St and the other guy in there could be miles away so whatever he can see says well how far can he see how far can the person see and the way they describe it he can see 18 miles with the naked eye today if you can see a mile you have great vision one mile you can see with the naked eye you have amazing Vision in reality most people can't see past two blocks already becomes blurry Lac cheap anyway the uh so our vision actually has deteriorated over the years but for our benefit why just look at how many sins we're making with the poor vision that we have imagine we had better Vision in order to help people do CH tell listen you're accepting yourself okay give me your eyes let me take them out that's the only way it's the only way to do do cha take your eyes out look how many s people make with their eyes all day so K says the difference between men and Beast lies in men's wisdom and ability to speak the continuously make a big deal about the fact that man has wisdom that animals do not man has the ability to speak and animals do not this is repetitive acoss the and the Z all over the place constantly constantly mentioning that there is a significant difference between this species this cow this lion this dog this cat this whatever animal this is and this two-legged animal called a human being why CU this human being has wisdom has now the page 41A says even further says who is poor someone who does not have wisdom because one that has wisdom what is he lacking and if he has everything but no wisdom what does he really have meaning if you don't have wisdom that makes you poor not if you don't have any money if you has if you have wisdom you're not lacking anything yeah but I don't have any money who cares about money you have wisdom and if you have everything you have houses and hotels and businesses and and and and wives and CH all the things of the world but you don't have wisdom you have nothing you have absolutely nothing so the midash elaborates even further says that a person who does not have wisdom a person who does not have wisdom a dead carcass of an animal is better than him I mean on one hand you told me okay if I have wisdom I have everything great if I don't have wisdom I'm poor okay great now you're telling me even worse now you're telling me if I don't have wisdom a dead animal in the street some raccoon that 15,000 cars ran over is better than me I mean that's that's that's pretty insulting hasem it's not politically correct some of these rabbis will go against youm they're not going to like what you said they're going to kick you out of the Sho they not going to accept you for saying such things saying a raccoon is better than me not even a living one one of these little dinosaurs you guys have here in Florida that cars like to run over is better than me how could it be how could it this is this is not like uh some opinion this is what it says someone doesn't have wisdom it says the dead raccoon the dead lizard dead lion better than him how come says first off with the dead raccoon the dead lion the dead lizard if you're skilled you can still do something with it take the skin make it into a little handbag sell it on you know on uh in Manhattan for like $500 you could take a few of the things that they have make something out of it make some money out of it a person who doesn't have any wisdom can't do nothing with him worthless so say okay what's the what's the proof that this is really the case that someone who doesn't have wisdom a dead animal is better than him the mid says the proof ISU himself look at says was the was the father of wisdom he brought us the Torah he took us out of Egypt he was the prophet of all prophets he brought us the man he saved us from ourselves many times he went up to to mount siai 40 days and 40 nights three times without eating without drinking his body here is over there was able to speak to hasem face to face the only human being that ever existed or will ever exist that did it no one will ever be like mosenu including the Messiah meaning this mosenu big deal of big deals when it came down the superpowers M had flew in the air had a lot of power beat a giant was a genius and knew a lot more Tora than all of the rabbis that ever existed combined the tah that we have is the essence of Torah the real Torah only mosu knew that's why the MIM didn't understand how you going to give the real Tora to this person that's the son of a woman said no I'm giving him the Torah but the people it's just the essence of the Torah the real tah no only he it's different so this wrote 13 in one day he built the mishan no one else was able to to build up this whole thing he built it and after everything that he did he still waited for hasem to say Moshe come in come into the McAn come into the Mish says ifu would have simply got into the mishan without waiting for to tell him come in giving him the permission will be considered worse than an animal yeah what about he took him out of Egypt and everything I just said doesn't make a difference because someone who does not have wisdom is worse than a dead animal what's this wisdom being able to decipher right and wrong if mosenu wouldn't have been able to decipher that he has to understand you're supposed to knock if you're going into a rooms into a house incling building hm's house yeah what hasm needs my permission what hasm doesn't know I'm coming it's not about Hashem doesn't know it's simple tact manners if Moshe didn't have wisdom to have manners then it's just like the animal why cu the fox goes in and out whenever he wants the dog comes in and out whenever he wants the cat goes in and out whenever he wants sits on top of your head if he wants if you as a human being are just like that you have no wisdom to teach us that manners is a key part of your wisdom if we don't have good manners a dead animal is better than us many times you see people that look religious and for all intents and purposes act religious on sukot you see them carrying a Al and on P they eat mat on yum Kip sometimes they will wear white other times they'll just simply wear regular clothes like the rest of the year just newer and more importantly Del fast on Shabbat you see them dressed up to go to sh every day they put on if they're a man for intents and purposes he or she look religious you see a walking around with a but then you see them do certain things that even animals don't do someone cuts them off in traffic and all of a sudden a sewer comes out but not from the ground all of a sudden somebody did something they don't like and you start seeing them roar like a lion but the lion is offended by their Roar cuz his Roar is much better their Roar is full of like spitting and cursing and it like kind of sounds like it but not really but it's a human being and and then the lion is confused why are you taking my job who's doing your job if you're doing my job you see you start seeing people Roar and yell and scream why oh she took my shopping cart she cut me in line cash register is not working this cashier doesn't know what she's doing this guy doesn't want to sell me the stuff because he said he already somebody else already bought it and she's yelling and screaming and some people act much worse than animals I mean the horror the stories that you hear on a day-to-day basis see they can't even say these people are animals because animals don't do this meaning that manners is not something that is automatically inherent in people just because they keep shabas manners is not automatic to someone that has manners is not something that's automatic if you attended manners like and like all good character traits is something one has to work on in order to acquire good manners are not natural to people mainly because we are a selfish creature and one of the ways that the to teaches us manners is from animals says look at you you lowly man that if it wasn't for the Torah you'd have to learn how to be clean from the cat cuz the cat cleans itself and many other animals we learn different things from them and K elaborates and he says animals serve man such as the ox that bears a yoke and a donkey that is the Beast of Burden now the Tora says in SE chapter 22 verse number 10 that you're not allowed to have the donkey and the ox work together there's a there's a complete prohibition just like eating pork is prohibited just like touching your wife if she's n is prohibited just like driving on Shabbat is prohibited it's prohibited to have the donkey and the ox plow your field together is it question is why the Donkey house that's his job and so does the ox that's their role what if I don't have two donkeys what I have of one donkey and one ax so what just going to give it to the ax by himself or just give it to the Donkey by himself might as well use both of them no to says forbidden in fact it's forbidden to use any other mix of animals in fact if you have a mule that his father is a horse but the other Mule the father is a donkey you're not allowed to have two mules they both have to have the same type of parents question is why says you have to learn midot from this PUK what midot look at the work that's being done if the and the donkey were to plow together something horrible would happen the ax is clearly stronger which means that now although they're both pulling since the ax is stronger he's going to do more work than the donkey and that's not fair yeah but he's an animal so he's a creation of hem why should he work harder than the guy that's getting paid the same boy better yet if they work together then the donkey is going to look at the ax and he's going to notice that the ax since it chews its cud it's constantly chewing which to the donkey looks like he's constantly eating he's constantly being fed but I'm not being fed why cuz the donkey he eats he swallows finished the ax chooses cud so swallows regurgitates comes back out so it's constantly chewing so it looks like you're constantly feeding the ox how come he's getting paid more than me we're doing the same job he's driving a cab I'm driving a cab he's uh fixing the the uh closet over there I'm fixing the closet over there how come he's getting a th000 a week and I'm getting 200 it's not fair why cuz he's your brother he's getting paid more s if we're doing the same job we should get paid the same amount so it's even though you're not paying them more it looks like it it looks like you're paying the O more to the donkey it's already not good horrible even though it's just a donkey third the donkey is not a kosher animal doxes and the says this is olic of a sadik doing business with a rash the prohibition for a sadik to do business with a many times you see religious people do business and sometimes they don't necessarily care so much about who they do business with why because cash is green in America at least so figure listen I'm an A Part parip with this guy on this building I'm going to partnership with this guy on this company but he's right it's not a big deal cuz it's just I'm not not no it is a big deal you're not let to be in Partnership together you're not to be part together you can work for him he can work for you you could do certain things like that but to be in a partnership like that no no good and even working together is problematic why shouldn't be together it's not supposed to be not supposed to be many times people have religious problems even if they're religious because of the people they choose to do business with just a couple of weeks ago a guy asked me a question he's like listen I just got into this partnership I guess I should have asked you this question before I brought into it but my partner he doesn't keep Shabbat so he wants to run the laundromat on Shabbat is that okay I said yeah you were supposed to ask me before you bought into the business yeah but he doesn't keep Shabbat anyway I said it doesn't make a difference you now own it now you have a problem depends somebody attend doesn't attend as a known that the person's Jewish point is why did you get yourself into this mess in the first place that you now have to find some type of leniency of how to get yourself out of the Soul because you can't get out of the partnership if you told the guy listen I don't want this partnership anymore he goes okay listen I'll just take 100% for free then no big deal no no no I want you to buy me out hey hey sorry I spent the money already I'm not buying nothing out you bought in that's it why did you get yourself into this mess why don't you ask the rabbi first a lot of times we make decisions first and then ask the rabbi after we've got into a mess the B says you have to learn from a donkey and the ox they're not allowed to work together why one aik find another way find another way RAB listen I have this two job offers okay well one job pays more money okay the other job pays less money yeah that usually happens when there one's more the other one's usually less okay so what's the question well listen the one that pays more he doesn't really uh he's not really into this whole Judaism thing he wants me to work on the holidays and he said say on on Fridays I have to work a full day I have to leave work at 5:00 which means that I'm going to have to violate Shabbat you know part of the year you said you had a question yeah well that's the question the other guy says that he'll let me work whatever schedule I want you know with the Judaism and everything but it's a lot less money yeah you you said you had a question yeah that's the question which job should I take that's not a question that's not a question violating Shabbat is not a question it's like saying Rabbi I want to go to ganeden but g at the same time there's no question here there's no permission to violate the Torah for the sake of money why did you get yourself in this in this situation in the first place the second the guy says you're not allowed to leave early for Shabbat you're not allowed to work a schedule that allows you to take off Jewish holidays it's no longer a job offer yeah well I don't have any other job okay then pray to hasem harder there's no question you're not allowed to work on yum Kip you're not allowed to work on Shabbat it's not a question if you want to go to ganeden you want to go to G no enjoy yourself but so long as you think it's a question you haven't learned from the Dunkey you haven't learned from the ox lastly tell us that this donkey and Ox example is also symbolic of intermarriage no matter how nice the donkey is and how beautiful the ox is it's forbidden for them to be together and bring a new animal to the world just like it's forbidden for a Jew and a gentile to bring children to the world or even beat together intimately forbidden completely yeah but she's a really nice girl doesn't make a difference yeah but he's really rich doesn't matter yeah but he accepts my Judaism it's just that you know he doesn't want to be Jewish himself it's not a question these are not questions you have to understand into marriage is forbidden under all circumstances in Judaism if you're a you can marry whoever you want among the Gentiles if you're a German you can marry Chinese you can marry Portuguese you can marry a Spaniard you can marry a Greek you can marry an Arab you can marry whoever you want but if you're a Jew you're only allowed to marry a Jew now by the way for all of the wonderful Gentiles that watch you are forbidden for marrying a Jew and if you marry a Jew you are a guilty of violating the seven noahide laws specific law of murder because what you're doing by being married to a Jew is you are murdering their n so long as you remain married to a Jew you're committing murder a new every day yeah but I love him it's not a question a Jew is not allowed to marry a non-jew even if they're wonderful people even if they're exceptionally smart and exceptionally beautiful and all of the things that you can say and they most likely are and you're most likely right still not allowed even if the donkey says love you text messages to the ox every single day on WhatsApp with a little Emoji next to it and a kiss doesn't make a difference not allowed not allowed this we learned from the animals these animals continues are also a source of food for man in a form of milk and eggs some provide wool for man's clothes some serve as food themselves they were created in many forms and types and their nutritional needs defer from type to type it's truly amazing how created everything in such a way that everything in the world is needed you look at a sheep it grows a ton of wool for what it's not cold they're not growing in just cold areas why so the man can just one day go give it a nice little quick haircut took take everything that he grew up over the last I don't know few years however long it takes and make a sweater out of it make a mat something out of it for mattresses for for covers for clothes for whatever yeah but it was took me long time to grow this wool okay thank you it's for me what gives you the right to take the wool from the Sheep what gives you the right to take the meat from the cow what gives you the right to take the eggs from the chicken technically they're supposed to be little little chickets what gives you the right the says page 49 a person that does not learn Tor is not allowed to eat meat meaning you're not allowed to eat the cow you're not allowed to eat the bird why if you don't learn T you're never going to acquire wisdom and therefore there is no difference between you and the cow you and the chicken there is no valid reason in sh to say you're allowed to eat meat technically all secular people are forbidden from eating meat according to the Torah in fact even religious people that don't learn to they just religious you know by you know they just keep Shabbat because they grow up that way also not allowed if you don't learn T if it's not part of your life to learn T you're not allowed to eat technically why you're not different than the cow but already paid does up front he said I'm going to assume you're going to learn toah I'm going to make a cow delicious especially in a barbecue I will make the chicken make as many eggs as you need toot and it forgot about them the second after you took them away it's not KN going hey hey give my eggs let's go I know it's you you're the one that came yesterday also no I know I already know your address or say you know what you took my eggs I'm not laying eggs anymore no more eggs no eggs for you you took eggs already for three months straight that's it enough for you no more eggs if I was a chicken that's what I would do keep taking my eggs okay I'm not going to have any more eggs anymore what's what's the point just for you to eat them thank God I'm not chicken you guys starve to death made the chicken lay eggs regular easily no pain it's a blessing you tell in the uh at least in the sapharic world I believe also in the ashkanazi world may you have the baby like the the chicken lays the eggs meaning painless but if we don't learn T we have no right to eat the eggs or the chicken or the steak nothing meaning that the Torah is what this distinguishes us from these animals we're not like the guim that simply are allowed to eat everything now even the gim have to have certain rules where they're not allowed to torture the animals they're not allowed to eat the animal while it's still alive but there are some that have unfortunately no belief in God like some people in Asia they believe in statues or in atheism and things of that nature where simply the they eat everything that moves except cars and everything with legs except chairs people are surprised that they're eating bats in China that's the least of it there are certain of the certain G in Asia they eat monkey brain while the while the monkey's alive they don't kill him they actually have a certain sadistic pleasure in seeing the monkey suffer generally speaking the whole shellfish situation is disgusting in itself aside from the fact that shellfish all pretty much the Cockroaches of the sea how do you cook them alive I've never cooked any Lobster but some people that have told me listen even though the lobster doesn't speak English you can hear him screaming in the in the pot they put him in boiling water you can hear him scream I don't know what a lobs the scream sounds like but somebody told me it doesn't sound so good that's vicious that's a vicious thing many times you see them eat all types of things that are completely foreign to us Jews doesn't make any sense there are cooking shows where they have certain people go to foreign lands just to show how unusual the the food of others are so you see them eat all types of bugs all types of oh and I think it's in Thailand they have a morning coffee line but not for coffee you know here you have morning line for coffee in Starbucks or your in Manhattan it used to be one of these little Huts that the Arabs have in every corner over there they have a different line in the morning what is it poison from snakes they have a little snake a little ring of snakes they take the snake out put him on a cup take out some poison there you go $20 good morning snake poison good morning thday morning there's even people that take a special pleasure in eating fish that is known to be poisonous and the and the chef is only hired if he knows how to take the sack full of poison out and he's only hired if he takes the first bite if he makes it we'll eat it and they have a certain pleasure to eat this fish why cuz you know your life's on the line for what for lunch you want to have lunch you want to put your life on a line This is foreign to us Jews it should be at least should not be this is not normal behavior for us shouldn't really be normal for them either and for many of them it's not but nonetheless many people do this they eat all types of foreign things now when you get further and further from Hashem what ends up happening is you do things that are even worse than that there's even a tribe of people from India that they take advantage of the customs of the Hindus which is to not bury the bodies anytime somebody dies over there they put them on a little raft and they ship them into sea now many times those bodies don't burn and they fall into the ocean so this tribe of Hindu of of of Indian people what do they do they go into the ocean they dig out the dead bodies and they eat them they eat them this is their lunch dinner sule fet dark meat white meat whatever you want to them it's pretty normal meaning the bottom of the bottom of the barrel it's not far from them it is them a Jew is supposed to be different in all aspects we're not saying you're not allowed to eat but when you make food your life you become an idol you become a uh Idol worshipper to your food one guy told that he was meeting him like oh this uh steakhouse has this special type of steak is not exactly a big meat eater or a big Restaurante or anything but uh they met at some point I think it was one of the events whatever it was and uh he said oh this place is the best why is it the best ISS because the steak here it takes six months to make it why did it take six months because after they slaughter the the cow they take the meat and they smoke it for six months six months to smoke this meat like somebody has to go every day look at the meat turn it this do that to make sure it doesn't go bad to make for six months and then after six months of doing this cooking it takes three days you have to put it in the the on the ground and a hole inside a hole what happens here I first of all the poor cow what kind of suffering she has 6 months just to cook it what did she do what kind of Sinner was she that she has to be cooked for six months but on top of that if that's not bad enough people think this is normal this is like okay now you ever see a lion prepare his meal for 6 months lion sits there hangs out he gets hungry sees a deer eats it doesn't think about it for six months do say you know what let me hunt them when it's dark that way the light the animal doesn't hunt for six months the animal doesn't prepare and salivate over a specific calf for a specific deer or specific anything for 6 months or two months or 2 weeks yet we literally spend hours and hours and hours of our life and sometimes weeks and months of our life preparing some meal that total time frame of consuming it 15 minutes took 6 months to prepare the meal but four or five years to get this cow to eat so four years to raise the cow on top of that six months to smoke it 3 days to cook it for how long you ate it for 15 minutes just to excrete it out of your body 3 hours later how long did the actual taste survive in your mouth maybe 4 to 8 seconds so even though it took you 15 minutes to eat it it's a total of maybe a minute of pleasure took you six months or sometimes people okay let's say not so extreme six months every night every day three hours to cook dinner why why three hours to cook dinner put some pasta and water eat the Sleep Y what three hours every day has to be oh every day shabb that's how much time you have in your day eat something get full move on with your life people make everything out of dinner which you want to go to I don't know which one you want to go to oh Chinese no no no Tahiti no an hour and a half to pick the restaurant finally go to rest oh this one has a line it's worth it okay you wait online for an hour or better yet in New York or in different places like Los angelist what you do you make reservations three weeks in advance meaning you're thinking about this meal three weeks just to go spend $500 on a little cracker and some salad on it and call it dinner and I pr oh wow it's so wow it's amazing it's amazing wow you know what the reality is everybody goes home and eats real food they go spend $500 at that restaurant and they go eat a burger at home cuz they're still starving when they get home but they pretend like you know this is like well this is high society what happens to those people 6 months to smoke meat 3 weeks to make reservations 3 hours to finally pick something to eat what happens to those people the Kish is telling us you've turned the animal into your God your food became your God there's no problem with eating there's no problem with even eating good food I like good food just like you do what you think the they ate how much they ate the says that was a he was huge he was humongous from all the he would eat every day him and another was so big that was so giant that a bull can walk under their stomach if they were stomach to stomach that's how big they were enormous people allowed to eat but even theim there was a law two days one night finished after that you can't eat it thean you have to eat it that that day that night by next morning finished that's it no more smoking meat for three weeks no more you know reserving it for two month no why the whole point of the food is for the mitvah not for you to salivate over it and think about it and forget about t for the next three weeks because you're salivating over some meal and whether it's going to come with salad or it's not going to come with salad or you going to pick the fries or the potatoes that are crackers and really they're organic from Tahiti stop making food your life it's okay to eat good food but people make it their whole life and that's what happens they turn the animal that's supposed to serve them into their God K says these animals were created in different forms and types and their nutritional needs defer from types the type some do not benefit human beings for instance beasts of prey snakes Vermin and insects but the truth is that these two have a purpose although not all of them are known one thing that we found out in recent history is that snakes aside from making good shoes and jackets they also make medicine some of the most advanced medicine in the world comes from the poison of snakes many other things that are investigated we find out that they have extraordinary medicinal value but other times we don't know what the benefit is unless we pay close attention to Nature and we realize that if it wasn't for them we simply would not be able to survive for example one thing that's been shown to us in the recent few decades is the value of bees now bees for most of History outside of the Jewish World reviewed simply as something that makes delicious honey honey was the candy of yester year most people don't really use it for candy anymore but Rashi says 900 years ago the way you would teach a young boy the Al B is you would make a board engrave the letters on it and put honey in it and every time the kid got the letter right he he pronounced the letter right you'd let him lick the letter why that way he could subconsciously connect the Hebrew alphabet with sweetness and that's why for the rest of his life he would always want to learn toah because to little kids when they're first learning Al Al is their to it's the equivalent of you older people learning learning M learning in fact it's better cuz they're not obligated to do like you are and most importantly they don't have sins like we do so now H was very valuable throughout all of time but surely there's sugar cane and there's other things that are sweet in the world so if the world had less bees people didn't know what kind of damage that would cause until they found out that the fact that there was less bees in the world made many farms and many plants suffer because the way that many of them would get the pollen would get the uh the uh the the nectar move from field to field and so on was from the bees because since these bees go on every single flower some of the Dust of this flower stays on them and they transfer it to a different place and you don't realize this is happening until there's less bees China people themselves flowers huh there you go in China they're actually doing it they don't have any bees over there they ate them too since they have legs so there are many many things that there's a benefit for them and we simply don't know it says sometimes these animals are used used to punish us and sometimes one can learn wisdom and ethics from them the says that somebody came to and told him that there is a enormous dangerous snake called the arod and the arod was killing people by the dozens no one can kill it everyone's scared to death what do we do understood that this is a Mitzvah that he's the only one that's able to fulfill he got up from away from his Torah he said okay show me where it is everyone was scared but sadik is going to help is over there he in that hold sticks his leg inside the hole and just Waits there everyone's nervous what's sadik doing if the snake fights him we're going to be responsible for the dying he's sitting there relaxing whistling waiting for the snake eventually snake bites he pulls the leg out and everyone sees the snake died the snake bit but the snake died says this is to show us that it's not the that kills it's not the snake that kills it's the sins that kill meaning knew he had no sins on his account he had no sins there's no way that the snake can kill me anyone that he killed it's because in sham they said oh this guy violated chabbat this guy went committed adultery this guy did such and such death penalty sometimes the animals come to the world to punish us that's what says sometimes they're there to teach us M we learn that we're obligated to wake up early from what from a rooster no matter where you put the rooster the rooster will wake up the crack of dawn you're still sleeping at 10:00 rooster is better than you we are already accustomed to their existence and we feel with that without them the world would be lacking the world would not be beautiful and complete without Beast of prey we see that the animals of the world many of us have become accustomed to them you see cat you see a bird once you grow up it's cat bird cow no big deal the force of habit dulls the sense of excitement that one should have upon seeing any form of life in reality what the Kish is trying to tell us is that since we've we've seen chickens and we've seen birds and we've seen cows we're no longer excited when we see them we don't think it's anything special like when my little kids see a bird oh I'm a bird bird bird bird adults it's a bird but the kids a bird look bird bird oh butterfly butterfly why for them it's still new you're old already ancient you seen birds and they fly they fly you don't think it's a big deal says that's a deficiency in you not the kid you're supposed to be enamored by the fact and Amazed by the fact this little creature is just flying and there are so many different types of birds one's a blue jay and one's a woodpecker and one's a dove and one's a this and one's a that and they're all all have enough P to eat and they all can fly until whenever and they all have nest and they know how to take a little piece of wood and make it into a house you can make a wood into a match and they can all live without worrying about a mortgage without worrying about who's going to drive what car without worrying about what college you're going to attend they all live their life comfortable and they're flying wherever they want to fly to and every year they know when the seasons are going to change and they fly to different places it's amazing but you saw them so many times oh yeah no bird I remember when I was in New York there was a lot of doves in New York or pigeons whatever they called doves pigeons I don't really know what the difference is but to us New Yorkers those flying rats that's what we call them there's so many of them and there's also so many rats oh yeah it's a flying rat it's a walking rat there's so many rats and so many pigeons you don't really know the difference anymore reality is wrong why it's amazing that there's a bird flying amazing it's amazing that there are so many species in the world and every single one of them who thought about and has a specific reason of not only why this species is in the world and its parents are in the world and its children are in the world but even more so why you saw it like how it applies to your life how it affects your life there somebody did research called the butterfly effect of how when the butterfly flaps its wings how it has a endless effect effect around the globe whether you want to challenge it or not challenge it it's not my business the point being is that in itself shows you that every single thing that exists in the world has not only a purpose in the world but has a significant purpose everything and if you saw it that means it has a significant purpose in your life not just generally speaking King but because we saw so many times we become dull this is why the Aron KES had image of two angels on top of it called theim the cherubs and what's the image of the Cherub two little babies two little babies looking up and looking at each other at the same time why why they why do they have this image teaches us in one of the one of the lessons from it is that hasem views is in a favored light when they are like children yearning for toah yearning for knowledge now the force of habit dulls the sense of excitement that one should have upon seeing any form of life but one feels excited when presented with rare and unusual species such as the elephant the monkey a mouse that is half earth like the page 91 or the ad now this is a very interesting thing that the Kish mentions here he says that regular animals cow a donkey horse he saw it once or twice three times that's it you don't really get so excited what do you get excited about you see an elephant which really doesn't exist in Israel anymore you see a monkey oh see these two other animals but before we get to the two other animals you should know that when it comes to a monkey and an elephant if you see them you have to make a you have to make a special that thanking hasem that he changes the bot that he changes the creation the creatures of the world do anybody here know why a monkey and a uh and a uh elephant we came from monkeys monkeys we came from monkeys no oh okay I said we have to go back to sh number one with you no no why why why why uh it's actually you have something there but I'll tell it's not what you're saying but something close in the Tower of Babel the reason why K did not punish the people of the Tower of Babel which was only 350 or so Years After the flood of Noah is because even though they were enemies of Hashem they were United so Hashem made their uh had to ruin their unity in order to punish them so he changed their languages but part of the punishment was aside from destroying their Tower and changing their languages is that he actually transformed some of them into monkeys and elephants so it's not the truth is the mid and several other places the as well talks about it it's not that we came from monkeys but the opposite monkeys and elephants came from us and every time you see some say if you saw it one time that's enough you have to make a special blessing that hem changes the creation meaning this monkey technically used to be a human not that it was a that was a monkey that will eventually become human was the opposite it was a punishment from hasem now there is an animal that the m in in chapter eight M number five it's called says if we saw this animal I don't believe exists anymore or at least uh not one that anyone has seen anytime in recent history this is a special animal that existed a couple thousand years ago and it's called it's mentioned in it says this animal is very unusual the kazal across the board discussed this animal mentioned in the mishna but then the rest of the sages discuss it the says this is really an ariton says because it's this animal the way it's described it's described as having human features and animal features says the the the arang has those features but the in in peric 8 says no that actually the ad is really a wild man that lives in the forest but is has animal features similar to what people call Bigfoot so Bigfoot may be real according to the it is but the rambam in his on the also in actually explains that is a creature that constantly talks but it's not legible language but he talks just like a human being and he says this this specific animal is mentioned in many many books and one of the books is the book of the banura and the banura is one of the sages explains that is a animal whose features are similar to that of humans get it's connected to the ground by an umbilical cord where it draws its nutrients and the real name of this animal is yadua and this animal is vicious and devours any creature that comes close to it and abalan NOA concludes by advising that the best way to hunt down this animal is to shoot an arrow directly at the umbilical cord which is the life source of this animal because once it's damaged the yadua will die immediately so then the question is why would anybody want to hunt down this vicious animal so Rashi says in the explanation in Leviticus chapter 19 verse 31 on the Mitzvah of don't uh turn away from any medium meaning don't do any type of idol worship or Witchcraft and so on and it says it's it's called Yoni and Yoni is really referring to this yadua this this animal where a person would gain supernatural abilities to see the future if he took the bone of this yadua and put it in his mouth You' be able to see the future this is In some cultures in the world like in Africa this type of Witchcraft is still used to this day I don't know if they necessarily have this animal but nonetheless you see many pictures and many movies and things of that nature that they still have these type of nature where they put animals and and the like uh connected in in their mouth and their body parts and so on especially when they perform Witchcraft and uh some say Rashi says that you actually put this in the mouth of a dead person thead thead actually says that you put it in the mouth of a dead person and you're able to conduct conversation with them that person will talk to you meaning that this yadua this ad animal was a very very sought after prize very interesting this is in a write up in a website called mishna uh talks about this specific mishna mom.com but the point is is that the mentions this if you see this said like wow that's cool run no that's cool before you run say it's cool why it's different see an elephant wow that's amazing it's huge 5 ton creature is scared of a little guy that's 100 PB barely with a little leash amazing amazing but the truth is supposed to be amazed by the elepant and the bird and the chicken the same amount why are we less amazed because we got used to it this is why there's a mitvah that in a bet mikash if you entered from one of the entrances let's say the entrance of the north you are forbidden from exiting from that entrance why the yavitz says if you entered from the north you must go and exit from the south even though it's adding another 20 minutes or even two hours to your trip you cannot exit from the same entrance because Shalom you would see the walls of the BET mikdash twice in one day and get used to it like the walls of your house meaning that it's with within our nature to get used to things even after we saw them one time even if it's the house of God needless to say uh a bird a a human being and so on but yet when we see something unusual we're enamored by it Kish completes this particular section by saying it's also human nature to be astonished at the sight of strange beings handicapped people very small people very very tall people but the source of such astonishment lies in a non-logical part of human thought and is not part of the intellect if all of your astonishments are spent on being enamored by how people are unusual looking part of his skin is black part of his skin is white he has two different color eyes his hair has a white streak he's really tall he's really short he's missing an arm that's what astonishes you you my friend are not using your intellect this is not a sign of wisdom in fact it's a sign of the opposite it's a sign of the opposite one time a Jew tells me that he just had a surgery and you know surgeries are not fun especially when the uh painkillers or whatever was making the pain uh numb subsides many times that waking up of your skin of your flesh is more painful than the surgery itself so he just had a surgery and uh the skin started waking up the body started waking up and it was an enormous amount of pain now when you're in enormous pain it's hard to think but he saw that there was somebody next to the uh Pharmacy that was missing two legs missing like it looks like some you know you had the amputated and he was sitting there in a wheelchair and despite in being in pain he stopped went to the guy and he said can I help you with anything and the guy was another can you get me water like no one else paid attention to them he's sitting there all day yeah can I get water sure he goes and gets some water the guy that had his legs amputated could have gotten himself he had a wheelchair and no one is paying attention to him who paid attention to him someone else that's in pain why is he paying attention to him because through his pain he realized wow my pain is temporary eventually the surgery will heal eventually the pain will subside eventually the painkillers will kick in but he's missing parts of his body they're not growing back through his pain he learned how to help somebody else that's in bigger pain now when we only look at other people's m other people's deformities as a way to amuse ourselves we are less than animals less than animals cuz even animals don't do that you're never going to see a bunch of animals making fun of another animal it's missing a leg in fact many times in nature you're going to see the opposite but when we use the wisdom that implanted in US us will be able to not only be enamored by all of creation but also be able to use this brain of ours this n of ours to start bringing kindness to each other in ways that are simply not normal to a person that does not have wisdom already instilled in them now this type of kindness is not something you just come up with out of the top of your head it's either in you as a result of acquiring wisdom over extended period of time and eventually hasem gives you the chance to use it or it's not many times people have the huge admiration of but based on what based on their scholarship based on the amount of books that they wrote based on the amount of lectures they they've given based on the amount of uh significance in the Torah that they have but very few of them actually learn this private lives of these Shalom one time was a uh spotted to in in in a fashion that most of us would be embarrassed in how there was one guy that every every week would bring vegetables to's house he would order the vegetables from the market and the guy would bring it to his house on Friday for Shabbat at one time he was about to go deliver the vegetables and a young newlywed came to the guy he says listen you're close to can you tell him can you can you help me like talk to him what what happened some schum bite problems with my new wife I don't know she's complaining this that can't take it I don't know what to do so maybe I go say good words for me or something you know I'm going to there right now come pick up a box go with me so they come they get to the house knock on the door opens the door and they see him with his pants rolled up to his knees and he's mopping the floor and the is sitting there happy as can be he's mopping the floor the the biggest Rabbi in the world he's mopping the floor cleaning the floor for Shabbat is sitting over there so the guy that sell the vegetable salesman he said no no I'll clean goes no no no you don't know how to clean like me you don't know how to clean I clean listen that he's having problems I want you to talk to talk to he's newly we go where is he goes right here oh where'd he go the guy ran away he left the Box ran away okay Rabbi I'm sorry okay shabbat shalom shabbat shalom the guy like what what happened to this guy came with me all the way here and he's not here so started driving away and he sees the guy's walking away go wa what happened to you you said you want to talk to the I brought you to the r he goes no no no no no after I saw that the is doing Spong is cleaning the mopping the floor and the is happen I'm going to go home and and kiss my wife's feet to say thank you for everything that she does I'm complaining that my wife is not letting me study enough and there's no quiet and there's no this there's no that the is helping his wife clean for Shabbat and I'm going to complain I'm going to complain what it's all my problems in my head that's what happens a lot of times a lot of times guys think that the women that they married is a cleaning lady a cook and maybe it's once in a while somebody that they're going to procreate with the says what's an an is a woman that raises your children with and and keeps you away from sin that's an yeah what about cleaning what about cooking that's extra that's already super if she get makes sure that your kids go to if she keeps you away from sin she's she's she's with you that's that's who you sing about every Friday cooking cleaning T all that stuff is extra of course it's great if she does all that stuff but if you think that all of that stuff is going to come and if she hasn't cooked your life Li ings because you're comparing it to your mother and if she doesn't clean to your liking because you're comparing it to some cleaning lady you had 20 years ago and if you does it just all that stuff that's all in your head that's all in your distorted head of what you think a woman is supposed to be you thought you married a cleaning lady SL Chef SL somebody that you're going to be with a baby oven and unfortunately what ends up happening is a lot of guys ruin their marriages because of the distorted mindset of what their wife is supposed to be why they have no dot they have no they have nothing they're worse than an animal they don't know what is sometimes people come to with schite issues I talk to the guy I said okay so what's the problem because I just told you what's the problem I don't understand what the problem is sometimes it's the opposite the woman comes to me says oh he works all the time time I don't understand okay does he learn to yes do he give you money to to to spend to buy stuff yes so what's the problem well I just told you he works all the time and he's learning all the time so what's the problem he works he learns he gives you money he's with you when you want it to be what's the problem what that's the way it's supposed to be that's actually better than what it's supposed to be yeah what what's the problem people have a distorted mindset they think that supposed to go to the movies in the mall together because they see movies and they see how their friends you know put post pictures on Facebook of their vacation and they destroy their life that way when a person acquires that when a person acquires good manners the first thing he's going to learn is how to appreciate the people that are close to him especially their spouse but even more so they're going to learn not to look elsewhere not to look at your friend's Facebook pictures not to be interested in what other people are doing in their life but more importantly look for ways to help other people instead of look for ways to constantly get more stuff for yourself the amount of learning that we can do from the sages is not just from their Torah but also from their behavior of how they understood life is the in Lakewood has about 6,000 right now he is someone that's not only special in the Torah world but anyone that had the Merit to be in his life in any capacity we see what kind of special person he is and the example will be this story in Lakewood when they have the uh uh a for the uh on the high holidays they go on till 1:00 in the morning so one time these two guys asked the of can we uh have uh the meal the festive meal at the Rob's house and the says yeah of course the the ra will be happy so they had the to 1:00 in the morning the guy is looking for his friend he can't find him and he sees the Rob he goes oh for the I don't know where my friend is but uh I don't want to miss out on the meal too what should we do the says no no shouldn't miss the meal let's go to my house let's go then the r Whispers something to his grandson and his grandson walks away ahead of them okay they walk slowly to the R's house and eventually get to the house and he see there's people there and the raban is there and the grandson's there and they sit down and they have a meal all the way till 3:00 in the morning 3:00 in the morning d goes back to his room and who does he see he she his roommate he's sleeping SC wakes him up no come on you missed out where were you goes where was I where were you he goes I was at the R's house what do you mean you were at the R's house I was at the R's house he goes what are you talking about I didn't see you when did you go said 8:00 I went to his house we had the big festive meal by 10:00 we finished we went to the B we did until 1:00 I went home what did the find out here he just realized ah the meal was at 8:00 it wasn't that his friend went missing he went missing and what ended up happening is when he told hey for the I can't find my friend so what should we do about food the r realized wow he didn't eat so he told his grandson go tell the raban we have company we have to make a whole new s and so he doesn't get upset and get embarrassed bring everybody else back to the house to make it seem like it's the first one so he doesn't get upset and he doesn't get embarrassed he doesn't think he's the only one eating we're going to have to do a whole K again all festive meal again all again all songs again till 3:00 in the morning why he didn't eat you don't become a just because you end up having a Yesa that has many students you don't become G because you know how to write books you become a g because your whole life you're simply thinking about how can I bring more to how could I bring more to Society at large how could I emulate a how could I emulate AEM who only gives but doesn't receive how could I justify that I am better than an animal that only looks out for itself how could I justify to be one of the chosen people all day every day how could I take this Torah that I learned and apply it to my life how yeah but you just learn about a donkey what does a donkey have to do with anybody living in New York what does an ax have anything to do with someone living in Florida you see any oxen here you see any donkeys here Rabbi no except you because you didn't learn from the Donkey you become a donkey if the donkey was in some Harry Potter book then surely there's nothing to learn but if the donkey is in the Torah and you didn't learn from it that means you're still a donkey you have to understand if it's in the Torah there is an endless amount of sh to learn from it you can learn one p any P inside the T from the beginning of your life until the end of your life and every single G from the time of Egypt all the way to the end of the world one p and if you don't realize it then that means you still haven't realized you haven't graduated dkey yet it's time we're not all going to graduate become overnight what can we do now understand that there's an endless amount of to to learn understand there an endless amount of Tora that we've already learned that we can apply and understand that without applying everything we're learning on a regular basis we're simply never going to become better people to just put a hat on a keep on a K on a long dress that doesn't make you anything better than an animal some circuses put hats on the animals too some goats have beards also some some some animals they put them in circles they put all types of things on them better nicer clothes than you what's going to make you better using this holy Torah and applying it to your life and making yourself something that's literally admirable admirable by the rest of creation you do things that are superhuman what's superhuman beyond the rest of mankind not that you read more books than them only yes that's also good not that you studied longer hours yes that's also good but rather that you apply this knowledge to your life and you simply started worrying about how can I bring good to other people and not just worry about your own t all day oh Rabbi I'm depressed why I don't know I'm just alone okay what about other people that alone do you think about them do you pray for them that they're alone or you only pray for yourself you only pray for yourself okay you're no different than nothing special about you why should a listen to your prayer not somebody else's that's why the says someone that wants a to answer their prayers pray for other people you want pray for somebody else to have you want to have a z help somebody else have a z you want your family to do chv help strangers do chuva the more you emulate the Creator by doing stuff for others the more the Creator wants to do stuff for you why you're now special you're just like me he says when you're just like me I'll do stuff for you but when you're only worrying about yourself and it's all about me me me me me you're not very different than an animal it's important for us to know that theim did not become tadim just because of books or just because of clothing or just because a few people came to their shikim literally did everything possible everything possible for the sake of Cl is we finalize with one story because of it his and his Merit did things in his life that many people don't know the amount of and sacrifice he made for gives us a little bit of an understanding from the story of what does it mean to be a a lot of people say oh I said such and such okay that's great he's he said it sure it's but do you realize what it took to Beki do you realize what it took to bead that because he said it we believe it it's not because of just the books it's not because of uh he's old there many old people and there's many people that wrote books what made these so special that when they pray for someone hem makes it happen the sadik decrees and hasem fulfills it why why does when he gives you a it comes true but you could pray for yourself for 500 years nothing happens how come what makes him so special when he got older and much weaker someone came to him crying to the r please R pray for me I'm sick and I need the r to pray for me you help me in the past but it's back and the r says to him I'm sorry I can't do what I did years ago I can't do it and the guy starts crying and the wife of sees this and she says to the r just the husband why you going to let him walk away crying why can't you give him a blessing he says toan what do you think I just make blessings I have to take on his tun when I give you a blessing what does that mean I know that there's a decreeing sh of sickness if I say don't make him sick what does that mean don't make him sick no if there's a decree of sickness bring it on me I don't have the strength like I used to 20 30 years agoan you going to take some with me she says yes if you're going to take some with me then you're going to be okay the was a bigad and the was a big sadik but in order for them to become sedim it wasn't just about books and about the pictures you see it's about being willing to literally die for is you came for a blessing he didn't just say oh everything's going to be okay if he is a real sadik he's in essence Sint to hem i s the sh please cancel it but if it if you if it just has to come to the world the bullet has already been shot it's in the air it's got to go somewhere give it to me give it to me an animal doesn't do such a thing if we want to be better than an animal at I'm not expecting anyone to say oh hasem gave me give me the sickness instead of someone else but at the very least what we can do is start praying for start caring for start caring about other people doing chuva start caring about other people getting closer to hasem start caring about other people's well-being does he have does he have a place to stay does he have somebody to say good night to or is he alone every day for 30 40 years years already can I help him find Aid can I help her find Aid yeah but I'm busy yeah everybody's busy everybody's busy but can you help anyway everyone's busy but can you help anyway yeah but I got bills also yeah everybody's got bills but you have an extra $5 we're not saying to pay his mortgage but you have $5 you have $10 you have a th you have anything you can help with because clearly he is in your life for the same reason the bird's in your life you saw it for a reason surely and needless to say if he or she came into your life is a reason for it invite them to to get closer to hasem send them the lecture on Facebook send them the lecture on email care about other people that's an Essence what distinguishes us from the animals if we only care about about our own the animals are better than us but if we start caring about others then we justify why calls us the chosen people this gives us a little bit more inspiration to get closer and closer to cl to CL is as well as to as to himself by emulating him by doing all the things that he wants from us and by helping others do the same [Music]