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we're back here at our
uh Tuesday
night uh today sh will be
for also
for
for for griel
Ben and also for Kine B Hazel Katherine
B also for Leana Batar Doris Bora uh
and to
gab and their wives and their children
and also
for to all of
them so
uh continues we uh we have a little bit
of
uh uh different
uh aspect of it to go over today but
also connected to kanuka we're in the uh
middle of kanuka
almost for anyone who has not lit the
candles uh the AL is that you could
light the candles all night uh even
though it's best to light to light it
right after
arit
um about 15 minutes after AR or right
after depending when you pray if you
pray early you pray late but if you
missed out for whatever reason you could
light the candles and you have to light
the candles when you get home doesn't
matter if it's 1:00 in the morning or
12:00 at night uh also as a side note on
Friday obviously you can light you
cannot light the uh candles uh on
Shabbat so you have to light the candles
of kanuka before you light the candles
for Shabbat you have to light the
candles before you light the candles of
Shabbat this is not really reality for
most people but I'll still say it just
in case in case people don't know
if a person is very poor and does not
have enough money to uh to buy uh new
candles for for the kanuk and only has
two candles so for Shabbat what you
would do is you would Light One Candle
for the kanuk and one candle for the uh
for Shabbat but if you only have one
candle if you only have one
candle uh then you actually light the uh
the Shabbat candle
uh yeah you like the Shabbat candle so
um as far as the
um the of kanuka are not very extensive
they're not very massive but uh you
still need to know them you still need
to know what to do how to do um many
people uh make a mistake on uh lighting
the candles where they light the candles
Without Really calculating how much oil
they put in the candles and uh the
candles go out after 5 or 10 minutes
because there's not enough oil if you
did that then you did not fulfill the
mitah
OFA uh you have to make sure that
there's oil for at least a half hour now
on Friday since you're lighting it
earlier than usual you need to have oil
that's enough for one hour enough oil
for one
hour uh that's a another aspect of it to
know and uh kanuka and lighting the
manora
is an obligation for everyone meaning
it's an obligation for men and for women
so whether you're a man or you're a
woman or you're not sure whatever it is
you still have to light the candles
still have to light the candles uh if
you have any more questions about it you
could ask uh send me a text message but
uh it's not too
difficult now we've asked this question
a few times in the last few
shim as far as why do we actually
celebrate
kanuka now so far we've asked the
question we've gotten some answers that
really were celebrating the
spiritual uh battle that we won
bashem where uh the uh both the yanim
the uh the Greeks and the meim which
were the uh Lefty liberal Jews that
joined the uh uh the Greeks uh went
against the toah they didn't necessarily
want to kill uh Jews but they ended up
trying to destroy the entire Torah which
caused the death of many many people
including
Jews
now when uh you look at the
Torah you'll find something very
interesting now the five books of
Moses is when we say tah we're not only
referring to the five books of Moses
we're also not only referring to the
tanak the 24 books in total five books
of Moses plus 19 other books when we say
Torah we're actually talking about the
written Torah and the oral Torah oral
Torah being the the M
the
the um all of the mid M books this is
all different parts of the oral
Torah
nowan Shalom he uh wrote in K in the
beginning
that if you
notice the entire which is the most
critical part of our oral tah that's
where we learn how to get how to think
like a Jew that's where we learn all of
the details of the secrets of M that's
where we also learn
our without there's simply no
understanding whatsoever of how to be a
Jew and how to understand Tah
we learn many mid from there we learn
about the history of is and even other
nations in there we learn different
secrets about medicine all types of
beautiful things are in
thear
now if you notice the different debates
that are being made inside the gar all
of theim that are named in the
gar they're at the time of H and
after it's the time of H and after
which is about a hundred years before
the destruction of the bet mikdash the
second bet
mikdash now his
rabbis you know the the zot the uh all
of the Giants that live before him we
don't have their
Torah what we have today is the
teachings of the
students of Shay ofon the te the
students of
the students you know ofu but we don't
have their Torah per se we have what was
happening 100 years before the destroy
the bet mikash now why is this mini
history lesson critical for us to
understand because this is the time of
kanuka meaning that the Torah that we
have
today is only thanks to the battle that
we won during kanuka if if it was not
for the
sadim winning the miraculous one of the
battle against the millions of
soldiers Greek soldiers and Lefty
liberal anti anti- Tor Jews if it wasn't
for the few rabbis that won that war
it's not that there wouldn't be Jews
because there wouldn't be Jews
physically there wouldn't be Judaism
period Shalom why because we wouldn't
have the oral T that's actually what
we're celebrating during kanuka we're
celebrating that we
won the oral to we won the ability to
continue being Jews because without the
oral Tora without
the we would simply not know how to put
on we wouldn't know if it's supposed to
be a round box or a square one or what
color the leather needs to be or uh What
uh what type of leather needs to
be where to put it it
says what's you don't even know what it
is do we have to put do we have to
just now that it
says it says in theora you have to put a
one of the strings needs to be but now
that we don't
have the ability to know what really is
is anymore we don't know what it is
anymore it does it ceases to exist in
the world because they used to be an
animal the that they would take the
blood from this to make that animal we
don't have it anymore we have no idea
where it is so that means that we cannot
get anything that's now there are some
people that are
guessing a very educated guess of what
is and they sell it for a lot of money
$80 $100 $200
per but the reality is you go to
none of them are wearing it why because
they don't believe this is the so the
question is do we cancel the
entire because we don't have the like it
says in
the so if we don't have the of the can
we actually wear the without the without
the you would never arrive at a
conclusion you would know so you would
have people walking around with no
thinking that oh is abolished it's
canceled why because we don't have the
anymore we wouldn't know how to
slaughter animals we wouldn't know how
to uh whether to pray where were they're
allowed to pray uh at different places
different times and so on and so forth
all of the rules that you know today in
the T that are not
Customs come from our oral
T there is not a single rule in the
Torah that you could understand by
simply reading the written
Tah for
example in the oral Torah it gives us
details of what do the Ten Commandments
mean now if I tell you read The Ten
Commandments and give me your
explanation
now when it says don't
steal what are you going to say that
means no give me some answers don't
steal commandment don't steal think it's
like don't steal from a store don't
steal from a store
exactly that's what people would think
but it actually means don't kidnap
somebody don't kidnap
somebody also it says
look don't be a
adulterer don't be an
adulterer so you would think oh okay
don't be an adulterer meaning don't
cheat on your wife and don't be with
somebody else's wife that's the best
that our logic can get
to says
otherwise has two aspects of it one is
the one that you understand the other
one actually is don't waste seed meaning
don't be an adulterer with yourself with
your leg or your hand and so on without
the we would simply not understand it
most people first time they hear about
wasting seed is not allowed like okay if
it's so not allowed how come it's not in
the Ten Commandments it is you just
don't you never read it
so our oral
Tor is simply the Torah that g that
created Judaism that's what we have if
you go against the oral toah in essence
you are going against Judaism all
together and that's why it's very very
ridiculous when people make comments
that are against the against the oh no I
don't agree with rambam I don't agree
with RAB AKA you know you uh ask one
rabbi question he gives you one answer
and you look somewhere else there's a
different answer so everybody has their
own opinion I'm going to throw my
opinion to as if you have the right to
throw your opinion anywhere as if you're
in the same world as these big
rabbis so the holiday of sukot of
kanuka is our celebration that we have
Judaism
still which is also funny because one of
the favorite or probably the favorite
holiday for uh for for Jewish people
today that are not religious is
kanuka that's their favorite
holiday what it shows is how ignorant
the generation is because the holiday
itself is celebrating the defeat of the
secular people the religious people the
few the few the weak beating the many
secular people the many haters of Torah
the many people that want to go to the
beach with their wife and girlfriend at
the same
time this is the lack of knowledge that
we have in this generation we don't even
know what we're celebrating and why most
people think that celebrating kanuka is
you light some candles you eat some uh
Donuts go for it you're religious for
today now
are different parts of the Torah that
discuss the oral
Torah and but there are very interesting
things that connect to
Ouran now
thean has arrived at a
section where the ran says
so the ran writes almost 850 years
ago and if he is
poor and you are richer than and wiser
than he consider that he may be more
righteous than
yourself if he sins it is a result of an
error while your sins your
transgressions are
deliberate so in essence what is the
ramban
teaching us he's teaching
us he's teaching us to give people the
benefit of the doubt now the benefit of
the
doubt giving people the benefit of the
doubt requires
kindness requires an extraordinary
amount of
kindness that is almost unheard of
today you see most people are so selfish
that even when they do somebody a favor
it's not really a favor because they
want something in
return so when you give somebody the
benefit of the
doubt that oh this mistake that he
made he made it because uh he slipped
you know he didn't pay
attention why do so many people do that
because they know that they want them to
give them the same benefit of the doubt
they're not really giving him the
benefit of the doubt because they really
believe he made a mistake they think he
did it on purpose but they want to give
him the benefit of the doubt why because
they want to get it back in reality this
is not really benefit of the doubt this
is just you taking care of yourself the
kindness that's there is not really
kindness it's
selfish so the ran teaches us that the
root
of giving someone K is kindness but it's
also having the right perspective of
yourself
and how you view other people last week
he told us that e if a person is wiser
or smarter than you you have to honor
them if someone's a someone learns T all
day all you do is maybe watch sh once in
a while you pick up a book you can enjoy
your sh you can enjoy your books but if
he's learning all day he's tell me
doesn't matter if he's 20 years younger
than you or 20 years older than you when
he enters the room you stand
up when you talk to him you
say not like some of these people's like
wait does he have
a does he have a I don't know why should
we call him Rabbi does he have a
SM it's so ridiculous that people have
no problem calling some guy that barely
graduated college with a C+ average
doctor the guy pulls teeth for a living
they call him doctor DDS but they still
call him
doctor the guy passed some classes in
college and he got a uh PhD they still
call him doctor he's not a doctor of
anything he just learns how he learns a
bunch of books he doesn't operate on
anything but they call him doctor but to
call someone that learns T Rabbi they
have a problem with why they want to ask
wait does he have a SM or he doesn't
have a this also shows us our limited
knowledge our ignorance because number
one there's really no SM in the world
anymore
the real SM of the time ofu putting his
hands on yesu hasn't been around for
over 2,000 years the smas that we have
today where you get a certification from
a mid from a like uh we did at last year
with rabac
and also has many of them
already that stuff is yeah you get it
but that's not the same SM as what we
had since the time ofu that's more of
like okay we checked you you know what
you're doing go for it there's a few
subjects that you're good at you have a
SM in that issue and there different
levels but that's not the same type of
SM but there is one
SM that does not need to be given to you
by anyone and that's the of
teaching I believe it's page 33 a
says who is his
Rabbi he says oh his Rabbi is the one
that that uh who how do you determine
who your Rabbi is
so it's
between
and and the first says the rabbi is the
one that taught him the most amount of
Torah and the second one says says no no
it's not the rabbi taught him the most
he's he's good but the rabbi is really
the one that taught him the one that
taught him because that's the most
difficult but then comes with
he says no no no we know from who is his
Rabbi who is his Rabbi someone who
taught him a single somebody taught you
on from now one you have to call him
Rabbi what do we learn from there we
learn from there that anyone that
teaches T is a rabbi no
required no required you teach people
T here
Rabbi congratulations now of course
people don't NE necessarily need to uh
do this for for egotistical reasons
thinking that just because they have
three or four YouTube uh videos of
themselves with no crowd uh they from
now on they're uh you know they make
sure that their kids and their wife call
them
Rabbi uh you know don't be ridiculous
but the point being is that we have a
very very hard time being kind to rabbis
being kind
to being kind to people that Toil and
toil
over the Torah which in essence gives a
a reason to let this world continue
existing and one of the reasons is
because we do not give them the benefit
of the doubt we're also very egotistical
ourself and last but not least kindness
is almost like an unfound art we don't
even know how to be kind the right way
because the way most of us are kind is
more like business I'll do you a favor
so you do me a favor when I need you
I'll give you a ride so when I need you
to give me a ride you'll be there for me
I'm going to lend you money so you lend
me money when I need you that's not
kindness that's
business kindness is doing something
selflessly you do something just because
it's the right thing to
do you give him a ride because he needs
to go
somewhere someone one time I was giving
him a ride and I made a mistake on the
Road I didn't make a right or a left or
whever it was I don't really usually pay
attention very much and uh I make
mistakes a lot when I drive my mind bash
is somewhere else and I made a mistake
and he said to me oh no okay you know
what you could just drop me off here and
I'll just walk I said well I'll just
drive he goes no it's out of your way
what am I carrying the car in my
head I didn't want to mention it was you
but fine why am I carrying the car in my
head I don't care what the upside I'll
drive around take me 5 10 20 minutes who
cares what do I care I'm driving the car
people make such a big deal out of
giving people
rides why you carrying the car and you
had you pressed the gas pedal and
sometimes not even that anymore with
some of these
cars not a big deal but that's the
problem when you're doing people a
favor because in reality it's business
then it does matter it's like you know
what get off here no no no I'm not going
it's too much already it's too much for
me to press the gas pedal for an extra 5
minutes why because when you're going to
give me a ride you wouldn't want to do
it for me why cuz it's business now but
if you do something right just because
it's
right there's no limitation there's no
limitation now how can we get ourselves
to that point of doing the
required self- accounting to get
ourselves to our
mindset the raan tells us he tells us
it's all based on how we view other
people if the person is wise if the
person is Rich it's easy it's easy it's
easy to uh to be nice to them why
because usually we want something from
them but here he says you want to
develop true kindness you have to be
just as if not more kind to the people
that are below you people that are poor
people that are weaker than you people
that are not as wise as you how by
looking at things and giving them the
benefit of the doubt that even though
they lack in this one thing they
definitely possess something else that's
Superior to
you so he says if he's poor and you are
richer or wiser than
him then consider the fact that he's
more righteous than you you see a person
that's poor don't look down on him why
he's probably more righteous than you
it's probably a bigger sadik than
you and actually statistics show it's
probably true why the most religious
people in the world are the poorest
people you go to some of these poor
countries even though they most of them
worship idols nonetheless they're very
religious
people it's very easy for a poor person
to become religious why they don't have
all of the yet of money and ego and all
the nonsense that everybody else deals
with they deal with life and the
problems with no
falsehood this is also the
reason why most of the organizations in
the in the world that do good are funded
by poor
people not by rich
people the $100 donations the $200
donations the ,000 donations those are
considered the lifeblood of most
organizations it's not the million and
the 20 million 30 million dollar
donations that make
organizations it's the ones that
actually are small and the reason why is
because those million and two million
and $3 million donations that come come
randomly usually come with some kind of
a
contract I'm going to give you a million
dollars so you're going to publicize my
name and you're going to pretty much
obey my commands and every time I come
in you're going to kiss my feet and
every time I say something you're going
to jump and so on and so forth they
expect you to uh become their pet
because they're donating a lot of money
whereas people that simply do something
good just because it's the right thing
to do and they have $100 to give $1,000
to give $500 to give whatever money they
have they don't ask for anything they
don't ask Hey listen I'm G to give you
$100 but from now on every time I call
you pick up unless they're Delirious
unless they're delirious and they
actually do thing that they can control
you with
$100 which by the way happened to me
today
all of these
things you know is spoils me spoils me
with
this I'll tell you the story in a minute
now don't worry you won't miss out the
story it's a good
one
but the ran teaches us that you have to
look at the
poor as someone that's more righteous
than you you have to look at them in
such a way that if you see them in your
bitet coming in
late late
to never ever think ah this guy's half
religious this
guy might as well not even come why did
you even come how you already here we
already almost finished amid this guy
came this guy this guy I'm not even
counting man anymore never ever do that
why ran says do the
opposite opposite he came late why cuz
he was doing he was helping somebody
that you didn't want to help you know
that broken car on the road that you
passed by saying hey okay good luck to
you okayy oh you didn't even say that he
stopped and helped him that's why he's
late in your mind that's what you have
to
do but you on the other hand when you
come late give yourself on the head I
can't believe I'm such a loser I can't
believe I can't even show up the prayer
on time what a loser I am
that's what we have to do that's what
the ran says the perspective that we
have is the exact opposite of this what
do we do usually they are the losers we
are the winners we're late because we
have a legitimate excuse come on Rabbi I
was busy that's why it came late I was
tired that's why I fell asleep in a shoe
I was tired him on the other hand oh he
he's a loser he he's a he's always this
he's always that opposite if we have the
right perspective
little by little you will see yourself
start to develop pure
kindness you give people the right type
of benefit of the doubt only if you have
the right amount of
kindness
now
the page
151b has an interesting story between
Rabia and his
wife
Rabia tells his wife
that anytime a poor person comes to our
house don't wait for him to knock on the
door if you already see that he's coming
from the window run to the door open the
door and go out to him with something
give him something don't wait for him to
come all the way
here why because maybe our
kids are one day going to be poor and we
want hem to judge us measure for measure
since we were extra kind to the poor
people hm will treat our kids extra kind
that people that they're not going to
have to go all the way to certain people
people come to them and give them money
so just like a typical Jewish mother's
wife is like hey you're cursing my
kids you're cursing my kids what are you
doing go no no no you see we have a rule
the rule
is the wheel that rotates through the
world meaning
that no matter what you
do whether it's you made a lot of money
or you didn't make a lot of money in
your life at some point someone that's
connected to
you or you yourself will suffer from
Financial issues says how
so it could be that you made a lot of
money but you're
kids didn't really know how to preserve
that money like for example the
Rockefellers and the uh the carnegies
and the the all of these people that
made millions or billions of dollars a
hundred years ago 150 years ago many of
their descendants are completely broke
some of them still have a lot of money
but many of them are completely
completely
broke very rarely do you see wealth
transfer over several Generations it's
very rare generally speaking that wealth
ends within one or two generations from
the one guy that made a whole lot of
money or the one woman that made a whole
lot of money I mean historically
speaking it's been usually more mostly
men but the point being is is that
generally wealth does not transfer very
well because the guy that made the money
and preserved it and did all he did knew
how to do all of that stuff he didn't
necessarily always teach his kids the
same thing and even if he taught his
kids his kids did not give their kids
which is his grandkids the same
education So within one or two
generations they start wasting the money
and before you know it a lot of them go
to an extent where they literally become
completely broke
homeless so that's one way one way that
we've seen historically many times where
a person works really hard in order for
his kids to have everything that he
never
had and only to see that his kids or his
grandkids or at some point someone else
has less than what he
had so says that's one way that wealth
ises not transfer and The Descendants
can be poor so we need AEM to have be
have kindness for them so they don't
have to go door to door maybe somebody's
going to help them out they don't have
they have to deal with a limited amount
of
embarrassment another way though another
way is tells us is re
Carnation a person could be decreed that
he or she is going to have a lot of
money in this
Gil and they passed the
test they passed the test of money they
had money they gave money they were
generous with it they publicized toah
but they failed the test somewhere else
they failed the test with their eyes
they failed the test with their Shabbat
wasn't 100% they fail the test with K
they fail the test with SCH they fail
the test somewhere not the whole test
they're not going to gain them for
eternity but they fail the test
somewhere so in his kindness has to
reincarnate them bring them back to the
world again but since he doesn't want to
give them the same test that they had
last time what does he do he does them a
favor what he makes them
poor because they already passed the
test of money and he knows that having a
lot of money is more difficult than not
having money because you have a lot more
opportunities to make sins so he can
reincarnate a formerly rich person as
somebody that's completely broke why
because their test is no longer the
money their test now is schom their test
is Shabbat their test is something else
it's not money so a person could be
reincarnated as a poor person and not
have the same the same luck as he did
last time but this is again kindness
from hem so tells us we have to be kind
to the poor because again it could be us
could be us or our kids
now the
in says that when a person sees a poor
person pass by him and we're talking
about a poor person that not a poor
person that's just a uh some uh some guy
that came uh you know from I don't know
Saudi Arabia or something and uh he uh
he's only poor because he hasn't gotten
his terrorist money yet no we're talking
about like you know person that's lives
in B in in different parts of New York
religious person but he's poor comes to
the B the P says stand up for him give
him cavod stand up for him why because
we learned from in Psalm
10931 that the almighty himself stands
at the right side of the destitute
meaning this poor person who is walking
with
him he's walking with him wait you think
that this guy's a nothing who's right
next to
him because he's poor he's the destitute
why because when we pray what do we
really pray for what do we really pray
for B seriously let's do some to laugh
at us ourselves a little bit what do we
pray
for give me you know the house is not
big enough I need another room you know
another room for the kids to play in so
they don't mess up the whole house I
need another room so they could do
nothing with and
also please do me a favor teach my wife
how to cook and please please do me a
favor my boss kill him give me the job
and do me a favor you know that customer
that customer make him like you know
like give me all of his money without
realizing it and my car I don't kind of
no I'm a Jew after a son he had to give
me this this G this garbage car come on
I have to have at least Alexis or or
mexus or something come on what are we
praying for it's a joke what are we
praying for we go to we pray like this
this what we pray
for give me more more more like homeless
people that's what we that homeless
person that poor person when he prays
to what ises he pray for he
says give me some food so I could
live under these conditions but
live give my
wife somehow some miracle that she'll
have health to continue this miserable
life CU I want to live why does he pray
for this poor person he prays for real
stuff us we pray for extras
extras we pay for it's a
joke walks with
him with
us maybe walks away from
sometimes because of the the stuff that
sometimes we pray for what do we pray
for I had five texts a day Rabbi is
there as Gul to make more money this
year five out of six texts is there is
something I could do to make more money
this year now if the guy is poor he's
struggling and so on no problem okay
listen got to pray got to do this got to
do that but the reality is most people
that tell me that they have money
problems would all do respect they make
a bunch of
money we're talking about people that
usually make 100,000 plus they complain
they want more they want 200,000 plus
400,000 plus a million dollars funny
thing is none of them donate but that's
a different
story is not funded by rich people I
don't want you guys to think that we're
funded by rich people we only funded by
poor people best people on
Earth why they give for with their
heart
now the tells us that who's standing
next to these poor people already know
if a person carries this knowledge the
next time they see some guy with a
keeper that's from
1937 walks into the Sho and he looks
like he just came out of a garbage pale
and he's asking for a little Saka
instead of saying no no no let let me
finish let me finish I'll talk to you
after instead of giving him this
dishonor this disrespect this disgusting
Behavior if he remembers wait a minute
this guy with the 1937
keep who's right next to
him he came in who came
in all of a sudden you look at the guy
different all of a sudden you look at
the guy
different you want to give him why
because is watching for sure he's right
there this this type of
knowledge is priceless if a person wants
to become become
kind but if a person doesn't want to
become
kind then I would refer them
to number
84 I won't spoil what the name of the sh
is
though so
now a person needs to understand that
it's all about how you
perceive
yourself and then others be critical of
yourself kind to others now of course
I'm not saying start self-deprecating
you know some people like to
insults that's not allowed that's
completely ridiculous you're not allowed
to say about yourself you're not allowed
to say listen I'm such a loser like
these things that I say is really more
for entertainment purposes I'm not
telling you you should start calling
yourself a loser not start making fun of
yourself that's that's not that's just
for joke some people take me word for
word they start uh that's the only thing
they write down the wrong stuff no
you're not allowed to insult yourself
but the point is is that you have to
always think of yourself as in the
middle one mitvah you're going to the
right side one sin you go to the left
side you're always in the middle always
in the
middle and even after you made the one
Mitzvah still you're in the
middle you're always in the middle don't
ever look at yourself as someone that's
a terrible person unless you really did
something terrible but the point being
is that this is the right perspective
you should have for yourself and never
think of yourself as much more than what
you are which unfortunately happens very
very often with
B it happens very often with people that
don't have any type of real leadership
they don't have a real Rabbi that they
listen to they have rabbis they listen
to but no Rabbi they listen to the
difference is if you listen to rabbis
that means you like different speeches
you like his style of speaking his style
of speaking his uh mindset his mindset
but you care less about what they say
about you you just care that they say
stuff and you think that they're talking
to everybody else and you'll pick and
choose what you want that's someone that
has rabbis someone that has a
rabbi all you care about is what does he
think of you
and everything he says is about you why
because your job is to take everything
he says and apply to your life whether
you agree with it or not is
irrelevant you have to treat that Rabbi
like it's
God why because God sent them to
you how many people are willing to do
that the sad part
is is that one of the ways that the
fools
us is
with how
so spoke to one of the theim in this
generation and probably for the last 30
or 40 years recently and he said what
would you say is the biggest obstacle
that b cha
have now B cha doesn't necessarily
always mean someone that didn't do any
MIT his whole life was secular and then
now started doing chva no that doesn't
necessarily always mean that B cha is
simply someone that's elevating himself
even if he grew up or she grew up
religious her whole life she didn't
really know what real religion was she
didn't really know what real is until
the last couple years when she started
learning mus so that's still a b
Chua even if she or he considers himself
FR from birth he knows that over the
last one two three four five years
they've elevated themselves tremendously
that's still about
cha so asks this
and also someone that's been in the uh
industry for over 30 years what would
you say is the biggest obstacle for
Bala and surprisingly he
says the biggest
obstacle is
that have a
different than anyone that's been
religious for a while why the guy that's
been religious for a while bother him
with average
things average standard stuff maybe
don't go to sh maybe go to sh maybe pray
today maybe don't pray today maybe look
at her maybe don't look at
her regular stuff the B CH he doesn't
bother him once the guy is on fire once
he's
on he wants
everything says I'm not even messing
with this guy go you want what what do
you want to pray 3:00 in the morning go
goab go go pray 3:00 in the morning
nobody's there except you go you're the
by itself why you want to watch five
times a day go go learn it go go with
you watching with you yeah yeah I'm
there right there it's good it's good
right you like it doesn't bother you for
a
bit learn go learn learn yeah finish
this that go do it yeah is cheering you
on where does he come to him he comes to
him he sneaks up on him sneaks up on her
with Gava
pride and how they view the world and
they start viewing everybody else as
zeros no one all of a sudden is
religious enough for them this Rabbi is
not good enough this Rabbi is a k this
Rabbi is a monkey this raban is a this
this uh K is not good enough for me that
K is not good enough for me I'm not good
enough for that's it I'm already above
everybody I'm only a I'm only about youa
for a year but I already know more than
all of you
guys that's how he comes to him he comes
to him not don't learn don't go pray
don't go this no he says
go and give yourself the illusion that
you're actually better than everybody
else start canceling out rabbis for no
good
reason of course there's many rabbis
that are not rabbis the Heretics that
call themselves rabbis that we talk
about many times but the problem is is
that now people start looking for
something wrong they're not watching the
rabbi to learn something from him
they're watching the rabbi to see what
is he going to say wrong so I can make
fun of him what is she GNA say wrong so
I can make fun of her they look for the
wrong in everyone they don't look for
right why because they already know the
right as if they know everything already
they learn one
two 5 10 three 100 a thousand sh online
or they think of
themselves this one
is this one
is he walks in you should you should you
should levitate not
stand this is the problem this
happens this happens every single day
and one of the saddest things that you
deal with when you're in the kiru world
helping people do Chua for an extended
period of time and actually have real
results of people changing one of the
saddest things is to see people drop
off he or she has been watching your one
two three years straight you see them
come go from being as to
yov this person was am when you met them
all of a sudden this person
is wow you praise their name all of a
sudden
missing an action no emails no text
messages no 500 phone calls no questions
anymore all of a sudden they know
everything
bys no Consulting no
advising nothing stop coming to the sh
if they
come all of a sudden they're on vacation
but an extended one three six 8 months a
year that's the saddest thing why is it
this saddest thing it's not because you
need them it's not because you need them
to come to you it's not because you need
them to send you more text messages God
only knows how I need less text
messages it's that you know that it's
only a matter of time before all of that
work that they did in three years to get
themselves to become
aik goes right in the
garbage all of it and many times they
end up becoming coming much much worse
than they
started why because now they think that
they know it all now they think that
they're righteous enough they've
graduated they treated your Torah like
it's college
class they thought they completed the
course they went three years four years
I finished I graduated now I'm on to
bigger and
better from such people bigger and
better learn learning T learning M
working on yourself is a lifelong
commitment there is no
graduation you could be learning it for
80 years 80,000 years 80 million years
you're still never going to be finished
there is no graduation there is no
unfinished there is no higher
level you go
Toki he reads an enormous amount of Tor
enormous amount of
seven pages of the seven pages every
single day bunch of and so on and so
forth he has such a regiment of T he
completes more in one day than most
people do in a year he completes more in
one year than most people do in a
lifetime but you look at his
books what's the most recent book
m m teach that's what we WR in the book
how to be a decent human being how to be
is how to be honest how to have
integrity how to be kind and so on and
so forth that's what he writes about why
which means what which means he himself
also learns
it he himself learns it every single day
why does he have to worry about being
kind and generous to people he's at home
all day learning T who are you going to
be kind who are you going to be generous
to the people that come in whenever they
do
this rabai is one of the things that if
you don't pay attention to it the Satan
can sneak up into a person's n and
literally destroy them from within you
start having a perspective on people
especially especially people that know
Tor in such a warped
way that you're just going to cancel
people out eventually just by their
looks just by where they live just by
what congregation they're a member of
without even hearing a single sentence
of
Torah you decide you already know more
than them you decide you already know
better than them this is a very very
serious disease and it's very common
unfortunately
now if a person has the right
perspective on people whether they tell
me or not
obviously this problem will be dealt
with but as long as a person does not
have the right
perspective he doesn't have the right
amount of kindness towards other
people he bound to fail now why does
this matter so much and what does this
connect to kanuka so
much because if you
notice kanuka we fought just a few
rabbis we fought in order to save the
oral
Torah now the oral tah is very
interesting in
that
the was already spoken about in the
Torah itself the prophet
HOSA chapter 8
verse2 says that says to the
prophet if write for him great
quantities of my
Torah the Jews would be considered like
aliens says if I give
is all of my Torah not just the written
Torah the five books of Moses and
eventually the tanak but I give him a
large portion of my meaning everything
in
writing everyone is going to start
looking at it there's not going to be
any difference between Jews and non-jews
and everyone is going to treat it as if
it's available he for
everyone because the greatest portion of
the Tora is the oral T you look at the
tanak the entire tan is this
book that's it this is the entire T oral
T you could fill this building up a
million times from floor to ceiling with
books and you're still never going to be
finished
a million times this this building a
million times you fill it up with books
still never finish with the
oral made it so that the the oral tah is
not only
endless but it's also
incomplete why
incomplete
because wanted us to know
that when you look at a mishna
there's a rule you'll notice the
mishna without commentary doesn't make
any sense most of the
time you look at the mishna it's some it
looks like half a sentence a sentence
and a half three and a half sentences
there's always like something missing
it's like they're speaking in code
sometimes but then you look at the about
this mishna endless arguments end
debates of what who what when how and
this is like a condensed version of the
arguments the rest of the millions of
books are the expanded version of the
argument and who what when and how the
really is why
didn't just tell when he wrote the
mishna rebi do me a favor write the
whole thing write the whole
thing reab a kadosh in this generation
they had hundreds hundreds of tractates
of the mishna
all we have is
six
six not because he didn't know it but
because he condensed it as much as
possible he condensed it as much as
possible and therefore the mishna when
you read it the when you read it you
have no idea what's going
on
until you go to the
commentary until you go to the rabbis
you go ask Rabbi
Rashi you go ask the to you go ask your
local Rabbi that's learning with
you you go ask your Rabbi that you watch
what does this mean what does that mean
how come it says here this and over
there that and who and what and what
wait how come you can't do by yourself
why can't you do by yourself because
doesn't want you to do it by
yourself you're not allowed to do it by
yourself you will arrive at the wrong
conclusion by
yourself the whole point of the oral
Torah is to show us that we need the
rabbis like we need
life we need the like we need air in our
lungs there is no Torah
without you have to have somebody to
learn with have
to without the commentaries you're going
to start reading
like the Christians just based on the
verses when whatever you understand out
of it guess what you'll become a
Christian you won't become a
Jew you read the weekly par five books
of Moses the easiest part of the Torah
as far as to understand literally
because it's the clearest prophecy not
that it's easy toah but it's the highest
level of Prophecy if you
notice the difference between the five
books of Moses versus any of the
prophets Isaiah Ezekiel
Jeremiah and so on is you see that the
further the prophet is from the time of
mosenu the more difficult it is to
understand what he's talking
about now when
Ezekiel explains to us that he saw
what's happening in heaven how Hashem
opened up the sky and showed them what's
there when you read what he
says you have no idea whatsoever what
he's talking about no idea you you can
imagine whatever you want and everything
you imagine is
wrong and right at the same time but
you're not even sure which one it is
you're so confused by the time you
finish it you actually think that you've
become like during the actual
reading because you have no idea what
happened here how did this happened to
me how did I read this for three hours
and I still don't know what
happened but then you go to
mosu you're reading it like oh hasem
spoke to Moshe Moshe tell said to make
with corners and easy to
understand what did mosu speak a
different language than Ezekiel
no the r
in elaborates on this point and he says
that there is different levels of
Prophecy the higher the level meaning
the
more I can't really say righteous
because you can't judge them by
unrighteousness but in essence the more
perfect the human being
is the less flaws they have in their
character the more clear their message
was between them and
God so mosenu that was the humblest
human being that ever existed there was
in essence virtually no separation
between him and Hashem as far as when
they spoke it's like me and you speaking
I speak you understand as long as you're
listening and not sleeping you
understand what I'm talking
about that's how spoke to M on the other
hand some of the later prophets even
though they understood the
message but the way they understood it
because of certain flaws they had if you
will in their level their extremely high
level Al we would be the dust under
their feet but in their extremely high
level the way they understood it wasn't
as clear to us so when we read their
prophecy it is almost impossible for us
to
understand unless we think with the
mindset of the
sages we look at the we look at the Mish
we look at the MIM we look at all of the
rambam and so on you see how the sages
interpreted each and every single word
that they
said and then we finally understand what
Ezekiel Saw to a certain extent what
Isaiah who saw the same thing how come
he's using different
words what is really the message with
this TI and why is it mentioned three
different
times why this and why that we look at
all these different
things and when we look at it from the
eyes of the rabbis of our sages we start
understanding the picture
clearly and that's what
the Shalom says is the the
beauty of kanuka that most people simply
do not understand Judaism was nearly
destroyed by Lefty liberal Jewish people
that
befriended the IIM befriended the
Greeks and they literally tried to
destroy the T but not the the written
tah they had no problem with the written
tah they had a problem with the oral
Torah
and unfortunately in the beginning many
other Jews joined
them and they judged the rabbis very
unfavorably and literally almost helped
the enemy destroy the Torah alt
together and he says here
that
the oral tah that we celebrate
today is a celebration of the fact that
we have a connection to the sages we
have a connection to today you don't
have to look too far to find someone
that learns T it's only a phone call
away it's only an email away sometimes
it's only a text
away you don't have to worry about
whether someone's going to kill you for
talking to him you don't have to worry
about whether this guy is alive or dead
there's plenty available to us so what's
the missing ingredient how come we're
still fools how come we're still
struggling we're still
struggling because because we do not
appreciate
these we do not appreciate these sages
because our ego is getting in the way
and we're not judging people
favorably
now we're looking at people in a way
where
automatically when we look at someone we
look for their flaws we look for their
weaknesses why because we want to make
sure that we're better than
them and even if we can't find
something we still find something we
create something out of nothing and even
if we can't create something what do we
do okay well he's my Rabbi he's my so
he's not everybody else's so in essence
yeah he's good he's perfect he's the
biggest Rabbi in the world but that's
only because he's my
Rabbi your Rabbi is homeless your Rabbi
is your Rabbi needs to go to
some shelter your Rabbi needs to go to a
zoo my Rabbi is the
best meaning he's only the best because
he's yours not because by himself that's
not a value for him it's a value for
yourself and your judge of
character and that's a flaw that's a
flaw in our
mentality it's a flaw in how we perceive
the
world Feinstein
Shalom was one of the people that in his
generation if somebody would have said
he has to be the Gil ofu nobody would
have doubted it he was so humble
that some of the things he would do
enamor us till this
day now Feinstein was very very careful
with how he
treated everybody so much so that one
time he was uh going to a uh a very
important meeting as
Thea and right before he ENT he was
going to enter the car a poor guy walked
up to him and asked for takaka and I
have my M Feinstein stops takes money
out of his pocket and gives the guy a
few dollars but then the poor guy
insists on talking to
him starts talking to
him okay one minute two minutes three
minutes he's talking to him the driver
and you know the couple of people that
were with
the started getting frustrated like
who's this homeless guy go away sh sh he
gave you some money no go celebrate
already you have a few dollars from the
you shouldn't even spend it like go
already know what are we hold up the
biggest Rabbi in the world to talk to
him right now you didn't find anybody
else to talk
to so after a few minutes they started
getting annoyed and they started telling
the guy listen the rabbi is busy he
needs to
go Feinstein shes them away
sh go not the homeless guy them his
helpers go away let him talk and he
continues talking to him for 10 minutes
now this may not seem like a lot because
we waste a lot of time just in the
morning waste 45 minutes figuring out
what we're going to do for the day by
the time we figure out what we want to
do for the day we forgot so we start a
whole new
plan that's how much time we waste every
day for to waste 10 minutes it's like
you wasted a whole
day so maybe
more 10 minutes for
is a lot of time so after he finished
talking to him in 10
minutes he says okay I now need to go
the homeless guy was very happy
taking and he left so the people asked
the
rabbi when he got into the car like
lambi like you know teach me why did you
spend so much
time with this poor
guy he says for him me listen listening
to him and to his
trouble was much much more valuable to
him than any money that I can give him
because he wanted me to care about what
he's saying so that's what I did because
my
mitaka was to listen to him not the
money the money was an extra Thea that I
really gave him was and what he was
looking for was a listening ear and for
someone important to care about what
he's
saying only the mind of a sadik thinks
like
that why because the average person says
hey guy listen $10 now go okay why you
want my time how about this I'll give
you 20 you go faster why I'm busy go one
I'll go buy fast food that's what you're
busy what are you busy with what are you
so busy with you don't want to give me a
time of day you don't want to talk to
him you don't want to talk to her
sometimes people call me and say listen
I have problem I have slum bite problem
okay so talk to your husband about it
why you telling me tell your husband you
have SL body problems he's usually the
one to fix it with you he's the husband
she goes no that's the problem he
doesn't talk to me so what do you mean
he doesn't come home no he comes
home after he comes home usually there's
I don't know hi sometimes so you eat
together yeah kind of and then what
quiet was quiet after his two sons died
he was quiet the husband's quiet doesn't
say a single word
why
not why doesn't say a single
word oh maybe he's upset maybe he had a
long day maybe has nothing to
say what's the matter with
us we sometimes think that our problems
are the only problems that we that exist
in the world we never think that the
other person our spouse our wife our
husband our kids our partners we don't
think that they have problems either we
think that
the whole world was created for you and
only
you it's the wrong mentality it's the
opposite of
kindness sometimes a listening ear is
all that somebody needs they don't need
a solution from you they don't need
advice from you they simply need you to
listen to
them a Jew came to a
rabbi that
was and said to him
I don't know what's going on but I keep
praying to Hashem nothing's happening
it's almost like I'm praying to a
wall none of my prayers are being
fulfilled I don't know what I'm doing
wrong I come to I pray Nets I put on
also Shabbat I keep an hour
before I keep R extended everything my
best in the world I'll spend extra just
to make sure I get bet or this or that
the that I had I already ordered a year
before all the all this the love that I
have people were praising me for they
people thought I got it from Heaven
[Applause]
All I pray to for this for
that nothing
was a serious
but someone that tells you how it is he
says wait aren't you the one that told
me that uh your wife is very annoying
she's like a
child goes yeah yeah for the exactly
that's what I'm praying for hasem is not
answering my prayers goes no he
is he
is goes what do you mean for love he
says you're the one that said your wife
is younger than you he was like 10 15
years apart between you you know and and
now you know you liked it before you got
married because you wanted a young one
but after you got married and she
started talking also you know you didn't
want that one anymore you know she was
20 when you got married and you only
really wanted the everything else but
the Talking part you don't want so
much but you know wives talk once in a
while sometimes more often than once in
a while and guess what once she started
talking you're like God this she's like
a kid she like child she talking about
nonsense she talking about dresses talk
about her friend what I care about her
friend this child oh problem is a little
minuscule that's what you told me right
yeah you remember the conversation I
said I remember like it was
yesterday he
says is giving you measure for
measure he says
explain says
listen when your wife comes to you and
she you work the whole day you listen
lifted a building over your head you
fixed a few cars you made certain deals
and she comes to you with her little
mini problems that the baby hasn't
pooped in three days that uh you know
she has a little one of them has a
scratch on his face but it's because of
the accident that his brother did to him
but he didn't really mean it and that
the neighbor hasn't said hello in three
days and that maybe we need to repair
the the water fountain and I think that
the fridge may be broken but it may be
not and all of these things and you're
like this childish problem what do I
care about this stuff I have big stuff
to do I build buildings you think right
so you complain right so let's let's see
you're praying to for what you're pray
to
say I know you gave me a little bit of
money but why don't you give me a little
bit more I know you gave me a house but
give me another
one give me another car and give me this
and give me this and give me this now
the m
the angels of each one of them is the
size of a
planet different shapes different sizes
different
images they come they look at this
prayer and they say look at this guy
look at this guy he finally got to he
got to the King of
[Applause]
Kings he got to the king he didn't go to
to to to the IRS and he finally got the
clerk he didn't go to the president of
the United States that answered his
letter no he got to the King of Kings
the only one that could do something
what is he pray for what does he pray
for look at this guy what is he praying
for he prays for another house you
finally got to the only one that can
give life and what you pray for is some
brick and mortar that may go bad
tomorrow you pray for a car you got to
the King of Kings that's what you want a
car he's so childish hem a child says
you I agree he's a child put his I don't
deal with children I don't deal with
children measure for
measure you treat her like she's a child
you don't want to pay attention to her
guess what treats you the same way why
because at the end of it all your
prayers are also
childish because your perspective of her
is that she's less than you because her
biggest K of the day is that the baby
pooped
thank
God that the neighbor finally came back
from vacation that uh the car worked
that the check clear like that's
the takes care of the kids she doesn't
have Wall Street like you she doesn't
have she's not building building she's
not doing big stuff she's just a simple
woman takes care of the
kids but you think it's childish you
think it's
nothing why cuz you're Mr
bigwig says you're right okay so you're
big wig let's compare you to me then
let's compare you to me you build
buildings I build
worlds everything you have I did you
just pretended like you're doing
it child what are you praying for car
car's too small on me if you ask for a
planet maybe I'll give it to you cars
too small I don't I don't create cars
cars I let you guys
create it's too small for me
child that's what happens when a person
person only looks at
thems and everyone
else Falls by the wayside as
nothing everyone else is a child
everyone else is a fool everyone else is
not enough they're not smart enough
they're not rich enough they're not this
enough and they're not that
enough this is one of the things that
destroys your connection to as well as
destroying your connection to the world
around you
suddenly your wife hates you suddenly
your kids can't wait to not see
you suddenly every Shabbat they don't
want to be home they have a sleep away
where somewhere just not
home if your kids want to constantly
sleep not in your house that's a
problem yes I understand kids like their
friends but it also means that if they
haven't seen you all week and they did
see their friends all week and the only
time they see you is on the
weekend because you're so busy building
buildings but they're friends they could
just simply see another day but they
still prefer to go see their friends
only that means they don't like
you there's a reason for that you made
them feel like
nothing you made them feel like their
problems are not important their little
sevivon that they were spinning and
going hey wasn't important to you why
cuz it wasn't worth a million
dollars so when you pray to
a for different
things has to return the favor measure
for
measure so we see here is that lack of
kindness can be very very damaging not
just with our relationship with our
spouse our friends our children our
cousin customers our rabbis but also our
relationship
with
now
sometimes a
person all they want is a little bit of
attention and if they get it to them
it's like you gave them a million
dollars one of the times that M
Feinstein walked into the bet midash he
saw that the janitor which was an old
Russian man was holding his
face and mosha Feinstein noticed it and
he stopped and he asked him and he spoke
to him in Russian says what's wrong and
this old man says oh it's my
tooth spoke to him a little bit for a
few minutes and the people you know
people were you know following the ra
all the time imagine you have mosu among
you you're G to follow what he does what
do he do now what does he do now where
is he here like behind the everywhere
after the janitor walked way the people
that you know already know this janitor
for years for decades he's worked in the
same building for a long time says we've
never seen a happier
person all of a sudden the toothache
didn't
matter all of a sudden the pain didn't
matter why mosha Feinstein spoke to me
for a few minutes he cared about my
problem he cared he cared that I have a
little bit of pain and he spoke to me in
my language and he spoke to me without
telling me listen I got to go but
uh good luck to you I'll pray for you
what's your name again text it to me
text to me text to
me now when you work on
yourself pays you in this world and the
next and M
Feinstein had the Merit to have a
son-in-law by name of of
MOS
shis and his
son-in-law tried to follow the footsteps
of his
father-in-law and worrying about people
being conscious of other people's
issues so much so that he
befriended a young man that
was a special needs person had some
mental issues where he thought of
himself as
a expert doctor but also a military
secret agent and he liked to be referred
to as the
professor and of course the treated him
well would invite him talk to him in his
way one of the times that he invited him
to the house you know with other
people this professor came with his uh
radio and he decided to turn on the
radio and blast it
and it was really really loud and but no
one had the heart to tell him to shut it
off including the r but it was extremely
loud so what do you
do so when you care about people so much
that you never ever want to hurt a
fly you get like this what does he do he
thinks of an idea he says Professor wait
a
minute he listens to the radio even
closer he says to them those military
secrets and the professors yes yes they
are yes yes they are like somebody else
gets him he says but Professor you do
know I'm not in the military I don't
know if I have the authority to listen
to such
things the professor says you're right
he shuts It
Off you're right shuts it
off only a person that cares about
everyone thinks of a k like
this what does the average person do let
me steal it from him but you take his
attention you get his attention I'll
take the radio when he comes back he
won't see
it they think like Bank robers
criminals but if you care about
everybody because you see that everyone
else has something that's better than
yours and not the opposite that you have
something better than everybody
else this is one of the things that is
very easy and pleasing to talk about but
very hard to
do because
naturally most people are arrogant to a
certain
extent most people do not think think
there's consequence for our crime most
people think they could tell everybody
what to do not just anybody everybody
what to
do there was a woman that lived in the
building
ofada and uh one time everyone knew that
radya did not want to waste a single
minute every single minute of his life
was accounted for learning T doing doing
helping do I don't believe there's
anybody anybody that has done more for
whether you're Safari
orazi in the last 100 years like he did
of course some people going to tell you
somebody else no problem it's not a
debate it's not a a race but the point
being is that CL SL was in a horrendous
shape before came into this world
before was somebody that took leadership
by the horns and ran with it
and the power that he had all came from
itah and he would spend every waking
hour learning to many times people would
ask
him if you would be the Sak hold the
baby when they do
the and he would agree because it meant
a lot to them but under the condition of
no party no uh waiting music this that
just tell me exactly the minute to come
come hold the baby bre I'm
leaving the Whole Thing 2
minutes don't wait for me a whole line
uh five hours people one after another
asking for blessings the music the the
the no no no two minutes comes down from
his house come to the Sho comes down
from the house give me the baby
finished no problem you want have you of
the generation hold your baby have it's
a big he gives him a blessing to have
such a thing but that's conditions why
cuz I want to go study T that's my baby
I want to go study Tor I hold your baby
because I also care about him and I care
about you but I want to go study to
because that's my baby so when you have
somebody calculate their time like
that Shalom you waste
it this foolish
woman that lived in his
building it's famous story Witnesses saw
this
it's actually even written in kids books
in children's
book she they were having a board
meeting in the building about something
that had to do with the
building and it was known is not going
to come to these meetings he's had much
more important things to do than board
meetings but she made us stink about it
she no we cannot have the meeting of the
board to decide something really
critical unless all the tenants
unless all of the people that own a
house here in this building attend so
everybody looks around they see
everybody's here everyone knows is not
coming it's not even a question he's the
biggest Rabbi in the world you foolish
lady you're not actually expecting him
to come are you she goes NOP the tenant
he's not here ra has to come I'm not
starting the meeting until he
comes what embarrassment this caused but
word got
Toya and he got up from his learning and
went to the board
meeting and he sat there and he listened
to them they the nonsense that they talk
about board meetings of buildings by the
way the biggest waste of life in history
just so you
know it's ego central idea Central and a
lot of other things I don't even want to
mention the nightmare of nightmares but
anyway
I was privy to a few of them I regret
every single one it's one of the regrets
of my life if hasem has to re incarnate
me just make sure I don't come as
someone that owns any buildings or
anything that I don't have any board
meetings so
now
now is sitting over there the board
meeting starts the board meeting
finishes everybody gets up for the gets
up and everyone walks away but as the
leaves
everyone walks and they wait for the
woman to
come and she can't
move I said no come on let's go she goes
I can't move she what mean you can't
move she goes I can't move I lo I don't
have any feelings on my legs I don't
have feelings on my body I can't
move his witnesses there watching this
woman like what do you mean you can't
move she goes I can't move she starts
crying hysterical I don't know what's
going on I don't know what's happening H
H and everyone in a second understood
what's going on you just wasted the time
of the biggest R in the world the
biggest in the world to come to your
stupid board meeting to talk about
Plumbing that's what you want to waste
his time
with you're playing with fire lady
you're playing with
fire they run to rabu vadya the please
please don't be upset don't be upset at
her she can't
move says no no who said that she
shouldn't move who says should the
second he said it she got up and
left I didn't say she shouldn't move the
second he said she got up and walked
away
shocked like we're talking about someone
that literally lost a feeling to their
body and there's witnesses
there he says upstairs who's says she
doesn't move she walks away she got up
that second why you're playing with fire
when you play
with people think they can say and do
whatever they want
to they don't realize these are are the
people that simply serve hem These Are
Soldiers of you insult it's like you
spit in's
face needless to say you have to be kind
needless to say you have to have and
give them the benefit of the doubt the
says if you see a sinning sinning you
actually see a making a sin don't even
have bad thoughts about him but surely
he's going to do CH
night he's known as you saw him make a
mistake don't have a second thought for
a second that he already didn't do cha
he's doing
cha because that's the point of his TOA
now of course if someone becomes was
known as a in the past but already has
has a repeated crime against in public
and so on that's a different
story but people are looking for every
flaw every word to mistranslate they
look to create M between rabbis you know
how many times a week people send me
things about different rabbis that I'm
friends with in order to get me to
comment on on it and say something nasty
in order to agree with their nastiness
so maybe they could send it to the rabbi
also and create a war yeah but Rabbi
said this and you said something
else so what should I say they look for
Wars they look for
action but that's because they already
canell both of
us before the argument even started they
see themselves as better they just want
to cancel both of us out but if we have
an argument that means that they're
right not that not that they the rabbis
are right people are constantly looking
for ways to justify their sins
constantly it is by far one of the most
evil things in the world but also one of
the most
annoying it's an evil trait it's m Satan
himself trying to create Wars trying to
say yeah but rabbi and such said the
opposite of
you he said the opposite of you how come
he said the opposite of you what what
what what do you have to say about that
why do I have to say anything about
it why do I have to say anything about
why do I have to say anything about it
you do realize that sometimes there are
two different opinions right why do I
have to say anything about it but no
they want you to say something why so
they could advertise it
it why they want to advertise it because
they want to justify their sins they
want to justify their
evil something happened recently told
you guys you're in for a
story this video clip that we made
recently about
music has been one of my
recent trying to explain to people that
a musical tune by default
is not Kosher or
unkosher meaning whether it's a guitar
from the Middle East like some of our
recent Chua music uh
videos or it's one of the different I
don't know equipment that they use over
there whatever those things are called
or it's some DJ at some Club doom doom
doom doom all that stuff whatever it is
or it's what they use in hip-hop or what
they use with violins in a part of an
orchestra
by default the musical tune is not
Kosher or un
kosher it's a m it's music you may like
it you may dislike itally it's allowed
whatever it
is the words the behavior the things
that are connected to it that will
determine if it stays kosher or
not meaning if you use whatever music
you want something from the Middle East
from times
of the the uh the Arab uh that a lot of
our prayers are used
today are from the tunes of Arabs it's
not really that's how it was initially
but a lot of the tunes we have we pray
in Safari shoes and so on come from
Arabic
songs it's not the prayer itself comes
from Arabs it's the tune how we pray
it you know Shalom all that stuff that's
comes from different tools that came
from Arabs so the tune itself was for a
different song completely nonsense song
but we use the tune we use the music to
make it something good there's no
problem with that there's no problem
with using this tune it's not the words
from the Arabs it's not the words of
idolatry it's the tune it's the musical
notes that by itself there's no way to
make there's nothing to say whether you
like it or not that's your problem no
one cares if you like it or
not doesn't make a difference if you
like it or
not if someone says prayers that go with
that tune someone says Praises that goes
with that tune whether it's trans or
it's
a or it's a uh I don't know uh some rap
song no
problem good for
you the reality is that some of the
music is more aggressive than others but
that doesn't make it not kosher
if the words the behavior that goes with
it is arrogance is is is a is is cursing
swear words of all types insult and
things of that nature then even if it's
part of an orchestra even if it's a nice
tune of Orchestra be you're telling I
hope everyone
dies I hate everyone if you don't do
that guess what you and the music are
not CER
why cuz n what do you mean doesn't
matter that there's a little violin and
what it doesn't make a difference the
words and the behavior is not culture
you start singing tune I am the best
you're not kosher you're not Kosher what
do you mean you're the best who told you
you're all to be arrogant it's not
Kosher the music didn't make it kosher
or not Kosher it's the words the
behavior that's that's it that's what
people fail fail to get to their thick
skull because that skull is wrapped by
their
ego so when I try to explain this
twice one video that was already made I
don't know a year and a half ago we took
a clip out of it the original clip and
then the explanation last
week a couple of people lost their mind
and
started just behaving like true
animals public defacement you know
embarrassment all types of good things
for me because we need these type of
insults it's good for our and to clean
the
soul but the point being abai is that
you see
that people's True Colors come
out
when you dis agree with
them when you disagree with them and you
stand up for the
truth and you realize that many times
people that are cheering for you many
times people that are
saying many times people are saying they
like what you're saying they like what
you're
doing they
don't they agree with
it they agree with it therefore they
like it
but the second you say something that
they don't agree with everything you've
said for three four five six years that
has changed and transformed their life
everything goes into the garbage as if
you've never said it you become Enemy
Number One now this is one of the
problems that I will always have this is
not a problem there's a solution to I
spoke to somebody today
and I explained to him that one of the
reasons why we don't get really rich
people to donate to
us uh there I think there's a couple of
people that have a few dollars but I I I
don't I don't think there's any
billionaires or even multi-millionaires
that donate to us at least not to my
knowledge uh and if they do please and
me but the point is is that I don't and
the reason why is because one of the
things that Millionaires and I have a
lot of experience with
millionaires
that they want as a result of Their
donation as a result of their
business is recognition respect honor an
arrangement which means if they're going
to donate a million dollars to you half
a million 10,000 20,000 a certain amount
of money to you they are in essence
buying you
they're in essence expecting that you
from now on when you look at them you
see Angels you see no foul you see no
harm you see no
flaw you praise their name as if they're
the greatest thing in the world like for
example sometimes you get some of these
in the b in the beginning of theim it
says all the people that they honor oh
this guy's a big tadik he's this he's
that in reality sometimes these people
are not sikim they just donated some
money but the author the poor author
that wrote this book needed the money so
that was the condition write something
nice about this guy that donated 25,000
or 200,000 or whatever he donate that's
part of the deal even if you don't know
that he's really sadik he's generous at
least and the says it's better to have a
generous than a uh which is a ignorant
person it's better to have a generous
ignorant
person that's cheap that's how much hem
hates cheap people even if they know T
he doesn't like them so the point is is
that sometimes rich people they want to
make donations they want conditions they
want you to call them they want you to
praise them they want you to see no no
wrong in their actions and that means
that they want you to change the truth
for them now in business and in politics
this is done all the time unfortunately
in the Torah world it's also done all
the
time with a people that are
fake if you're a faker you could be fake
whenever you feel like
it if the rash that just donated a
million dollars wants you to call him a
big sadik in public you'll do it why he
paid for he paid to be called sadik a
million dollar if you're a faker you'll
say yeah yeah he's the biggest sadik he
donated a million dollars he's such a
righteous person and so on if you're a
faker you'll say
it I can't do
that it's not even a matter of of of of
free choice I simply can't you could pay
me a billion dollars I can't do it it's
one of the things that created me with
this I simply can't do it I can't give
compliments unless it's deserved it's
actually one of the things that was
difficult for me in a business world
because I would only give you a
compliment that you're doing a good job
if you actually did a good job not
because you felt bad for the
day if you are a customer of mine you're
a customer you just another guy if
you're a donor you're a donor okay I'll
say thank you I'll be a appreciative but
you're not getting a scent more than you
deserve I'm never going to change the
truth for you that's a problem with rich
people why they want you to that's the
point they want to invest a million
dollar so you put their name on a
building you can give me $10 million I'm
not putting your name on the
building why should I put your name on
the
building for what so every single time
that people come in they're going to
look at your name if I hate you I'll do
that
if I hate you I'll do that why because
that means that all of the
merits for your donation will be spent
in this
world why should I do that to you I want
you to deserve the marriage when you get
to
sh you get to you get something for it
not a bunch of people saying you're
building was donate who cares You're
Building people what people say say
matters what hasem says but that's the
problem rich people sometimes don't
think like this they want the name on
the building now they want the call now
they want you to tell there right
now and that's a problem
so when I said what I said the original
video and some people that donate a few
dollars rejected it I said that music is
not it's it's based on uh what the words
are and not the tune and I said that Nim
black he says the right words he's
Praises hem it doesn't matter that his
music the beats are hip hop or rap
whatever they are the point is his words
is behavior is kosher so a few racist
people I have to actually make sure that
you guys know it has to do with more
with race and ego than anything
else a few racist people a few people
that simply are just haters of everyone
including
themselves hated this how could it be
that he is kosher no way he's this he's
that he's what why what do you have to
say
so not only I didn't change my
mind especially when they started making
a whole thing sending me a million
emails and making comments on Facebook
and on YouTube and different places we
went even stronger we made a second clip
about it to elaborate to the people and
give them an opportunity to do chuva and
explain to them that they're doing
wrong that they're wrong about what
they're saying because they're judging
based on their ego and their heart we
are making decision based on ala based
on the sages based on the Torah not
based on
feelings it's irrelevant whether you
like the music or I like the music you
don't like it don't listen you like the
music of how uh your head sounds against
the wall I'll give you the wall smash
your head a few times what about record
it if you want what do I care what music
you like I'm telling you what's allowed
what's not
allowed people can't get through that
they can't get through that that that
hump it's like everything has to be
according to them
so when we went stronger immediately
literally within 24
hours I got a couple of messages but
also a couple of cancellations of
donations so so far this clip is already
cost I don't know maybe I don't know few
dollars five $10,000 whatever it is so
far now if we're a big organization
millions of dollars this wouldn't really
be a big deal as far as money but it's
still not a big deal the reason why is
because I know runs the world and it's
that's the reason I'm mentioning it
again in case they're watching hopefully
they can do cha because it doesn't
matter how much you donate you could
donate a billion dollars the truth will
never change you'll never buy
me because you're not it's not me I'm
telling you what the Torah says for For
Heaven's
Sake if it was me I wouldn't even talk
to you in the first place I'd be on Wall
Street I don't need donations I'm a Wall
Street guy I'm here simply because I'm
telling you what hasem says because I'm
saving the time you're not going to read
all these
books that's what people can't get to
their head they think they could you
know they donate a few dollars oh I'm
canceling my $200 a month I'm canceling
my $50 I'm canceling my th
cancel you just
lost what do I care you're tell you you
do you think you're hurting me you
I'm crying for you your only hope your
only hope was some kir that you
contributing
to the only thing that was going to get
you out of the Gom that you build
yourself every single day was to help
people do now you stop that that simply
shows you how far you are from the
truth but
this is nothing but
ego nothing but ego you cannot be kind
to people and have an ego at the same
time sometimes you hear stories of such
and such rich person donated money to
some you know poor
couple you know Mr this and Mr that just
you know they helped them uh you know
fix a car one time so he gave them a
free house oh wow he's so kind no he's
not kind he's really good at marketing
if he was kind no one would know the
story there would be a deal with the
house what's the deal here's the house
and there's an agreement don't tell
anyone anything don't tell anyone who
bought you this house it's between me
and you because I'm doing it because
it's me and you but once everybody finds
out that this guy or that guy bought the
poor people the house all it is is
Market marketing marketing his name he
looks better better image more people do
business with him more people invest
with him more people do this with him
and that with him guess what that half a
million dollar investment he makes it 20
fold 20 fold he
makes that's what people say they they
used to be a show I remember years years
ago when we still watch TV we used to
watch these shows with uh something boss
I don't know like there was like a the
president presid of a company would
pretend to be an employee of the company
and the people the regular employees
wouldn't know that he's really the
president or the CEO so he would pretend
to be an employee and uh work at
different places and you know see what's
going on then at the end of the show he
would you know tell them oh I'm really
the CEO of the company I have a zillion
dollars I'm the guy dada and I saw how
you work and you get a bonus and you get
a vacation and you get this and you get
that and you know you would
cry it's so nice this poor you know
single mom is getting now a new vacation
a new house a new
this he's so kind so stupid we're so
dumb we don't realize that the only
purpose of why they're doing their show
is not because they care it's fantastic
marketing the next day their stock goes
up $1 a share that's a100 billion that's
$20 billion that's however many shares
they have times a
dollar okay so he gave a few people I
don't know $20,000 they spent a quar
million dollar let's say on the show the
next day all the stock has to do is move
a penny and they make 50 or hundred
million a
penny ah so kind what kind it's all show
it's all a show kindness doesn't come
with
glamour you want kindness I'll give you
a story of
kindness and we'll finish with
this there's a Amazing
Story
thato
lein said in one of his and I heard it
from lein used to live at a in p
at a street called
Solomon and he lived in the building
number
eight he said his neighbor for many
years was an unknown Rabbi meaning he
was a he had a little school but the
world till this day doesn't even know
who he
is people in the community knew who he
was but if I tell you his name no one's
going to say oh yeah
nothing his name was Aron
buus of Aron
buus lived at number six Solomon so
literally a building over from R
lein
andus was married but didn't have any
children but everyone saw m the light on
his face he had his Sho he had his he
was but relatively unknown
outside and the mar sent cim that he had
to to build a religious Jewish Community
to fight against the
Zionist Zionist did everything they
could to destroy is much more than the
Nazis by the
way it's unfortunate truth many people
that are Zionist or call themselves
Zionist today simply do not know the
history of Zionism but we've talked
about this in the past so
anyway a came to to fight against the
zionists but the fight means both sides
fight so Baus was one of those people
that was there for many many
years
big you'd see him you see had light on
his face certain people you look at them
it's like you see The Beautiful
People righteous people never never
heard a scream from his house never
heard any schite problems never heard
any issues everybody could say this
is now as he got
older started losing it a little bit as
sometimes happens to people as they get
older and once in a while he would say
something off like a word would come out
didn't make any
sense you know he'd say something and
something just came as a blab just don't
understand what he said it happens as
you get older
now during
his last
day his uh nephews were around him and
they saw that he's sick and they called
atalah atalah
came and uh they picked him up from his
house and they put him on a
bed and they were taking him to the to
uh the ambulance
he was still
conscious but everyone knew there's you
know obviously something not not so good
here now right before he went into the
ambulance there people there the uh
nephews are there
especially everyone's worried but
there's not much you can do but
everyone's looking at him paying
attention just just to see
anything and right before he entered the
ambulance
he screamed what about the Filipino
dancers and
died now the nephews these
allim this was they wanted to Simply
bury themselves in the
ground their Uncle the
bigad instead of saying
sh which is what you're supposed to do
before before um going to sh supposed to
say supposed to say I'm sorry last
minute
chba what's this guy doing what about
the the the Filipino dancers and the
tickets didn't know what to do with
thems the whole Shiva the whole Shiva
they they're crying but they're confused
they don't know what to do how do we do
it they want to keep the story a secret
it's already embarrassing enough but
word got
around and one time after a little time
passed a
big came
older came to the
nephews and he said to them I heard the
story
aboutus shalom
tell me exactly what
happened so the nephews were very
embarrassed I don't know what to say how
to say it but listen our uncle was a
tadik but you know once in a while maybe
would say something off but we have no
idea how to explain this right before he
died his last words his last words what
about the Filipino dancers get the
tickets what about the Filipino dancers
get the tickets
what do we do with
this that was around for many many years
knew he says sit down let me tell you
the
story he says over 40 years ago over 40
years ago your uncle came here
to in those
days wasn't like it is today the Zionist
had a lot more power and they did
everything possible possible to
destroy they would spend a fortune just
to kill Judaism just exactly like
theim maybe a little
worse so what they decided to do ah we
have a new idea what's an idea we're
going to make a huge concert
in and bring Filipino dancers
and everyone's going to come and fall in
love with these Filipino dances and wash
them and make all types of sins
and when your uncle when buus heard this
he couldn't live with himself he
immediately called the place and he says
how big is this event he said for 5,000
people he says have you sold any tickets
no no we haven't put them on sale yet he
said okay I'll buy every ticket
said what what do you mean you're going
to buy every ticket he goes no I need
all the tickets I need all of them I
have people why I don't want I don't
want to lose
out I have 5,000 people you have 5,000
seats I got 5,000 I got 5,000 I need
5,000 tickets the ticket guy is like ah
sold out sold out finished best thing in
the world that's what you hope for sold
down one phone call we should have made
10,000
seats B goes to the Bank borrows money
that he's never going to have to pay
back he simply borrows
money to pay for these
tickets buys all the tickets takes them
to his house the show happens and the
Filipino are dancing to themsel no one's
there now after the show is finished and
this Sak This Disaster out of the
way good but you still got a loan of
that's hundreds of thousands of dollars
how you gonna pay for this you still got
to pay for it now it's okay you did a a
good
deed you still gotta pay for it now
where you GNA get this money from your
$400 a month that you get from the where
you gonna get it from so raus came to a
few family members said please please
help me out I took on this big mitvah to
to to protect from sinning in this
concert help me out a little bit maybe
they laughed at him his family laughed
at him goes what are you doing what are
you crazy why' you do that so what what
you you you cancel the concert for three
hours so for three hours they didn't sin
so they'll s on the fourth hour on their
own or they'll make another
concert what's the point why'd you do
that you put yourself in the hole no
we're not going to pay for
it so not only they didn't help him but
they made fun of of
him goes to
the he goes to the styp he tells him
exactly what he did he says I just need
to know did I do good or
no the stip
says not only you did
good but you now have 5,000 tickets
TOA you take those tickets get with you
to you have nothing to worry
about so tells the nephews that's what
your uncle was seeing was saying why he
was already seeing the next World last
minute you already see what's going
on he was telling sham bring the tickets
the 5,000 tickets with the Filipino
dancers why that's my entr to
that's
kindness we try to do the
same amen amen
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n oh
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