Becoming A Prophet - Jewish HaShkafa (127)

We are continuing our series of Jewish and we're GNA learn some new things perhaps perhaps things that uh many of you have wanted to learn but I've never learned before perhaps some things that you thought inside and you were too scared to say perhaps even things that you were foolish enough to say uh which is about prophecy someone asked a question about prophecy uh about a week or two ago in our stump the rabbi uh in Shure and um perhaps this is really the answer that uh they were looking for let me see all right so um tonight's shoe is going to be for the and for aavid IM and all of and all the righteous noahides that continue to watch learn enjoy the Torah with us and support as much as they can uh with uh donating on our website and uh helping us continue to do all the wonderful things that we're doing so to give you guys a little bit of an update there are a lot of things just simply many things that are in the works many of them are uh you know in the completion stages other 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of actual conversion uh it's not something that uh you know you uh you need to um get ahead of time by months or years or anything like that so with that being uh said we have a lot of mat material from our we also have some our some of our dear from the we have the we have the r is coming to help us tonight uh we have a uh tobolski is coming to help us we have the and of course we have our old dear friend theph is coming to help us tonight which be will give us a lot of insights about uh things that uh we need to talk about now for those of you that are sensitive uh then uh to rebuke uh to knowing the uh you know things person needs to fix uh this is going to hurt why because uh we're talking about becoming a prophet becoming a prophet is not a piece of uh piece of cake it's not piece of cake it's not something that you can just uh wake up in the morning and become a superhero uh to become a prophet is a process and I'm sure that uh some of you have heard uh you know a snark remark from somebody who didn't really like uh what you were saying to them and said something to you like uh what do you think you're a prophet you know you this is uh uh obviously didn't uh uh really think that you're going to take it seriously and hopefully you didn't uh but nonetheless the question Still Remains uh the sages have told us that prophecy ended at the time of the destruction of the beta mikdash uh and it was given to people that are crazy uh and children now putting the crazies aside uh because today you're not really sure who's crazy and who's arrogant uh and uh you know there's certainly plenty of people that uh send us messages on a weekly basis telling us that they think that they are some type of deedi or they think that they're the Messiah uh and they come in all shapes and sizes colors uh and of course they all go in the same deleted and blocked box but nonetheless uh is it a legitimate uh thing meaning that can one become a prophet well the good news is is that there is is a process the better news is that the Kish the Kish that has been telling us week after week for more than two years how to become the best possible Jew how to become the most uh healthy Jew mentally healthy Jew spiritually healthy Jew to think properly to think appropriately now has a whole chapter in this SE about prophecy but it's not what you think meaning it's not what you would like to think or I would like to think where we could read a couple of pages and boom we're all prophets we're all seeing the future we all see the past doesn't work that way we have a preparation we have a preparation and the preparation for prophecy is not so pleasant why why because it requires a spiritual Nikon it requires a spiritual cleaning spiritual cleaning a cleansing unlike any other you have to face some of the painful points and we're not talking about painful in regards to thinking about all of the horrific things that happen in geham and kafak and all the things that we have spoken about and have made films about even though it certainly is uh part of the discussion but it's a very insignificant part if you will uh you know at least today because the spiritual cleansing that's required for prophecy is much more relevant to everyone even somebody who doesn't want to be a prophet in fact even if somebody has no interest in being a prophet but does have an interest in going to heaven the chapter here that's called n prophecy gives us clarification of what it entails to become a prophet but simultaneously also tells us what's required to become a spiritually healthy Jew a spiritually healthy person in general and this process will have to be uh something we take step by step as we have with everything else in order to be able to digest everything and he begins as follows the truth that constitutes the secret of the world's existence is that hashem's presence fills the entire world and from the reality of hashem's being stems the very existence of the world world he causes everything to be every moment and his will is contained so to speak in every material object both under the sun and above it this will of hem is the cause of all existence all movements that takes place in all of Creation in adamant plants animals and people all of it's done with his knowledge by his will and his agreement one of the secrets that have been revealed to human beings is that man has the power of refining his soul and purifying his mind by way of knowing his creator to the point that an elevated spirit and a Sublime feeling rests upon him and then the Creator grants him some form of connection between him and his creator and he is worthy of hearing Comm commands from the mouth of the almighty as one would hear a fellow man talking this level we call naua prophecy we do not know the quality of the prophetic voice but we must picture it in our mind using the sound of voices as we know it and our sense of hearing as we know it for it says that the prophet heard it now here in this first section of the chapter about Neva about prophecy which you know we'll use the word prophecy in NAA interchangeably n is in Hebrew the Kish is telling us a little bit of a introduction a reintroduction to All Things AEM now you would think that after five chapters of toiling in and and what to learn and who to stay away from and what to do and how to think and appreciating the sages you would think that this is kind of like you know we know this already but apparently we don't at least not enough with Kish is telling us and clarifying that first and foremost in the school of Prophecy that we are now entering everyone have your seats enjoy the ride and know that this school of Prophecy is not going to skip a single beat it's not going to assume you know anything it's not going to assume that you are anything you may be extremely righteous you may be very Wicked you may be someone that wants to be you may be somebody that already is you may be male female young old all are taken into consideration and thereby the same conclusion is is is concluded as that everyone needs to know this introduction first and foremost in the school of Prophecy know who your creator is not believe believe is what we did believe is what we've learned about now it's knowledge of God and knowledge of God is a world of difference than believing in God because you can believe that someone is a good friend but you you don't know until that friendship is put up to the test you can believe that your spouse loves you until that love is put up to the test you can believe that the deal is going to work out until that deadline arrives and you see whether it does or it doesn't people live off of belief they need belief they need amuna in things they need to have certain types of faith in certain things in order to function in the world in order to connect to Hashem you also need to have belief you need to believe that hem is watching everything that you're doing but at the same token you also need to know God and knowledge of God is something that does not change according to the circumstances once you know the sky is blue even if someone tells you otherwise your knowledge and belief will not change once you know certain things nothing in the world can change them so the Kish is trying to begin this important section of Prophecy by elevating us and making sure that we understand what we're dealing with is now yes we would all like to be Prophets and we'd all like to hear theoretically speaking the voice of God speaking to us directly but first Ki says first understand what you're dealing with here the truth that constitutes the in the secrets of the world's existence is that hashem's presence fills the entire world and from the reality of hashem's being stems the very existence of the world in so many words words there is nothing else but him what does means I believe it's page 12 a it talks about what was there before Hashem created the world we know that in the same gar tells us that before Hashem created the world 974 Generations before he created the world he wrote the tah with black fire on White Fire which is symbolized by the way that the SE is written until this day 3,334 years after we received it in that tah is everything that ever happened and everything that ever will happen both on a grand scale and on an individual scale including this sh or that we have right now including the conversation that you're going to have with your spouse in including your experience at work tomorrow whether you know how to find it or not is a different question but the point is everything that's ever happened and will happen is inside that tah now the sages ask what happened before that we're not allowed to ask too many questions about what happened before but we do have information that hasem gave us at Mount sun and the sages explain that before there was anything there was just AEM there was just AEM there was no air there was no planets there was nothing else there's just AEM and he had to figuratively speaking minimize himself in order to make space for the creation whatever that means since he has no body or the likeness of a body we're simply using the language of the Torah that we're permitted to use he had to minimize himself in order to create space for the creation and it all started with a single point that he expanded expanded the planet expanded the universe until he roared for it to stop he roared die that's why he is called Kel Shai the god that said enough now of course the Heretics and the atheists that followed them took this teachings from thear and started a whole new religion from it you know called atheism and evolution and all types of other things that uh in essence Tred to remove God from the creation but the reality is that nothing in the world could ever remove God from the creation because nothing can exist without the Creator himself whether you believe in him or you don't believe in him doesn't change his circumstance doesn't change the reality his existence does not depend on our belief now here the Kish is telling us that even now after in essence he made this room for the creation he still not in just in control of it not just just overseeing it but he is still it he fills the entire world where every single thing that happens in every single moment both above the heavens and below the heavens is only done with his will with his knowledge with his agreement a raindrop will not fall and hit a specific Leaf next to your house without him authorizing that raindrop to do so a cat that's three miles from your house is not going to meow unless aadh allows that to happen a life will not come to being or end without a allowing it to happen the creation itself requires the Creator to give it life at all times so much so that the that there's nothing else but him has not changed there literally is nothing else but him we are all nothing but rather something that he Wills to exist now in order to understand prophecy the Kish is telling us that the first thing we must do is understand who we are dealing with what is our true belief about this Creator and what better place is there to go than our all all dear friend and teacher and master the rambam the in the first chapter of the Mish says as follows the foundation of all foundations and the pillar of wisdom is to know that there is a primary being who brought into being all existence all the beings of the heaven Heavens the Earth and what is between them came into existence only from the truth of his being if one were to imagine that he does not exist no other being could possibly exist so here the ramban clarifies that means that there cannot be an existence without God if one would imagine that none of the entities aside from him exist he alone would continue to exist and the nification of their existence would not nullify his existence because all the other entities require him and he blessed be he does not require them or any one of them therefore the truth of his being does not resemble the truth of any other beings this by the way for anyone that studies this third Al further is one of the things that eliminates any possibility of the New Testament ever being true because the New Testament in essence saying that there is a trinity whereby one depends on the other and this obviously cannot be because the essence of God is that he is one and not in compared to two or three there's just one and that's it it's not relative to anything else all of the other creations whether it be the mashiach that he created before creating the uh you know the uh the world or the soul of the mssiah or it's the uh cabinet in your house or it's the uh the wars in the uh world you know from the past from the future all the different things that are there he doesn't require any of them he doesn't require anything to exist doesn't require anything to go up or down sideways he and only he is what's uh what's there everything else requires him and this is implied says the rambam by the prophet Jeremiah in chap 10:10 and God your lord is true meaning he alone is true and no other entity possesses truth that compares to his truth this is what is meant by the Torah statement in the book of Deuteronomy 4:35 there is nothing else aside from him and like we mentioned meaning that aside from him there is no true existence like his this entity is the god of the world and the lord of the entire Earth he controls the sphere with infinite and Unbound power this power continues without interruption because the sphere is constantly revolving and it is impossible for it to revolve without someone causing it to revolve that one is he blessed be he who causes it to revolve without a hand or any other corporate Dimension so here also the rambam confirms the belief by the Torah that the world is round a sphere if you will but even more so the way that the Universe Works requires God's existence but he does not require the universe to exist the knowledge of this concept is a positive commandment as implied in the book of Exodus 20:2 I am God your lord anyone who presumes that there is another God transgress is a negative commandment as it says in verse number three of chapter 20 of Exodus you shall have no other gods before me and denies a fundamental principle of Faith because this is a great principle of faith upon which all depends this God is one he is not two or more but one unified in a manner which surpasses any Unity that is found in the world meaning that he's not one in a manner of General category which includes many individual entities nor one in the way that the body is divided to different portions and dimensions rather he's unified and there's and there exists no Unity similar to his in this world if there were many gods they would have body and form because like and entities are separated from each other only through the circumference the C uh the circumstances associated with body and form were the Creator to have a body and form he would have limitations and definition because it's impossible for a body not to be limited any entity which itself is limited and defined possesses only limited and defined power and since our God blessed be his name possess his unlimited power as evidenced by The Continuous revolution of the sphere we see that his power is not the power of a body since he's not a body the circumstances associated with bodies that produce Division and separation are not relevant to him therefore it's impossible for him to be anything other than one so up to here we see at least a titbit of the belief in God and of course the rambam elaborates later on where he talks about anytime that Hashem says things that are uh that employ words like uh you know feet or his arm or anger or any type of expression that uh uh relate to uh human thoughts it's uh simply so we could understand it he wrote the toah for people not for Angels so therefore he wrote the tah for us to understand certain things certain messages but this is something we've spoken about in the past the key here is to know that is one and not one like anything else out there where you are an indiv individual and your uh kids are individuals and you have an individual personality or an individual thought no because even you are made up of Parts you have body parts you are separate from your thoughts your separate from the past present and your future uh you in essence whether you like it or not everything in the world is made up of Parts Hashem is not made up of Parts the past present and future his thoughts are all one thing meaning when he thinks it it comes into existence whereas we can think something and it's separate from us it's not necessarily something that comes into being they could be something that we think of of the past that we you know we remember today there's something that we're planning for the future if the future allows us to remember that this is what we thought but for the past the present and the future is all the same thing his thoughts and the actions are all the same thing now this is impossible POS truly for us to comprehend completely but if we understood God we would be God but still our sages have the teachings that are possible for us to at least have a uh get our head around to a certain extent and that's what the rambam is in essence telling us he's telling us that there are things that Hashem gave us the ability to comprehend hashm gave us the the ability to understand because we need them we need to know that there is no other God we need to know that he is one the past present and and the future are all the same to him we need to know that he's Timeless we need to know that he is the only Creator we need to know that he's the only one that could decide our destiny whether we live or has Shalom die whether we succeed or fail he's the only one the more our minds and hearts are in line with this understanding and this to the point of uh gaining knowledge of it the easier it is for us to perform his Commandments the easier it is for us to constantly be connected to him and the more we become fit to become that vessel that can receive prophecy now the rambam mentioned here that the belief in God being one and all of the other things that he mentioned is one of the 13 principles of Fate now of course every Jew is not only supposed to know the 13 principles of Fate even more so than you would uh you would imagine some Jews know the Ten Commandments but they don't know the 13 principles of Fai and the truth is that the 10 the 13 principles of Faith are uh applied to you no less than the Ten Commandments on a day-to-day basis but even more so a person can know something but not necessarily understand it know that it exists so the rambam in the called which is the introduction to he writes what the 13 princi principles of Fate are and the first few of them are very much an extension for what we just read he says these are the essential beliefs of our sacred Torah and its fundamental principles of Faith the First Fundamental principle is the existence of our creator meaning the existence of a being who is perfect in all manners of perfection he is the cause of the existence of all all other beings and from him they derive their continued existence so here is in essence everything we just read he elaborates further but we kind of cover it already with the second principle of faith of the Jewish religion where if you follow the 13 principles of Faith you believe in them you're in good shape anyone that doesn't believe in a single one of the 13 principles of faith is in essence considered an aicos considered a heretic the second fundamental principle of faith is his Oneness that this cause of all being is one this Oneness cannot be compared to the Oneness of a species or of General category again something we covered with theot the third principle is the negation of all material properties from his being meaning that this Oneness is not a body nor a physical power nor May any of the functions of the body movement or rest be ascribe to him neither innately nor circumstantially and therefore our sages negated the possibility of joining anything to him or separating anything from him where to him cannot be ascribed that he's sitting or standing or he separate from something and in reflection to hashem's uniqueness the prophet said this is the uh prophet Isaiah to whom will you liken God and to whom will you compare me that I should be his equal says the Holy One if he had a body he could be compared to other bodies all the descriptions of him in physical terms such as walking standing sitting speaking and the like found in in the in the scripture are all borrowed terms and analogies as our sages teach in the page 31b that the Torah spoke in a language of men but it confirmed that he's not a man in the Book of Numbers chap 23: 19 where it says God is not a man that he should be defefulky and not do would he speak and not confirm this is an actual verse in the Torah so here we see that again it's a expansion on what the mentioned on the third Principle as far as hasem and him not having a body or physical features whatsoever cannot be compared to it but those terms are used in order for us to understand the Tah the fourth principle is its preval existence meaning that this unified being exist above all concepts of time all other existence by contrast cannot be considered to be independent of time there are many texts that bring proof to this concept says the rambam but this fourth principle is said in the Torah the Abode of the Eternal God this is in the book of Deuter omy 33: 27 know that the one of the great fundamentals of the Torah of Moshe is that our world is a new entity created and formed by God out of absolute nothingness and one of the reasons that it put so much emphasis on the negation of the concept of the worlds existing before time as some philosophers maintain is because the creation of the world from nothingness proves God's existence absolutely so here we see that the rambam is also addressing the philosophical minded folks out there that would like to believe that the world could have existed somehow before God but even more so he's addressing the fact that as difficult as it is for us to understand the absence of time and space because everything we could think of everything we could relate to is subject to time and space he says that in itself is God meaning that that in itself is why we cannot understand God because he's not subject to these rules he created them now the ram continues with the principles of Faith where we're not allowed to serve any other uh anything else any other entity where person that is praying to a person with their living are dead or praying to a thing anything that's not God is in essence violating the tah and practicing idolatry now this confuses some people when they see that righteous people go to the grave sites of sikim whether it's Yeshua benun or the rambam orim but no righteous person prays to the sadik what they're doing is they're praying to God in essence beseeching the sadik to also pray for them because they paid respect to him by visiting his grave site by studying his books by promising to do certain mitv on his behalf if you will so they beseech the sadik to also pray with them to Hashem because the sadik has more merits and also is up there where the truth is clear then the six principles of Fai brings us to our original point which is prophecy to know that Among The Mortals there will be individuals with heightened sensory potentials and highly developed characters when they concentrate their minds they are able to receive the pure form of int and fuse mortal intellect with the active potential for intellect says the rambam from which they will derive Sublime influence these are the Nim the prophets and these are their attributes then he goes into the seventh principle which is the ultimate prophet of all prophets was Moshe Renu but that will go into perhaps later on in other sh we got to our Point first we address the fact that God is not a man God is not needy God does not need anything everything that exists needs him whether it's something as great as the universe and the laws of the universe or it's something as small as you or I in fact as said in the some time ago one of the reasons he brought the uh prophet Isaiah 43: 211 where kadh actually took us to Egypt in order to take us out of Egypt I mean if he wanted to Simply make us a nation he could have simply started that Nation with Abraham and yob and continued as Free People the 12 tribes were perfectly free there were leaders there were Kings why didn't he just leave him there why did he have to go through this whole process of sending us to Egypt through that whole conspiracy of what happened with yusf only to bring 20 years later the entire family to Egypt because there was a famine but he was in a good financial position and Leadership and of course his father wanted to see him after not thinking that he may be dead for 20 plus years but why didn't they just not have all that why didn't Hashem since he runs the world and he is the one that decides what's going to happen wed hasem just perhaps just let y leave and go back home even without being a king or not have the famine not have the famine and not have the hatred between YF and his brothers just avoid that whole thing and just keep them all the way they are and have the nation you know populate from them obviously Yakov started as one and before you know it he has seven that he's taken to Egypt so we see that it's working within a few Generations they can become Millions like they did in Egypt if hasem wants them to become millions and he wants every birth to be six birth he doesn't need Egypt to do that he doesn't need the suffering so why do all of that says the prophet Isaiah says this people which I fashioned for myself that they might declare my praise meaning I raised you from nothing to something where aad says I made sure I made sure to bring you to a position where you realized I made sure that you realized that you need me and I don't need you I put you in a position where you realized that there is no other way for you to ever become a nation a success happy or anything of substance if it were not for me freeing you from that lowly state that you were in as slaves in Egypt where per was murdering 300 babies every single day so he could bathe in their blood 150 in the morning and 150 at night because he had a skin disease and his necromancers said that the only thing that will cure it is Jewish blood Jewish baby blood sort of like the Palestinians of today they think that their salvation will come by simply murdering Jews the ideology has not changed in 3,000 years the Jewish people were in such a sad State of Affairs that they could no longer think of Freedom as even a remote possibility that's relevant to them and that's why the sages said that Hashem had to make a super Miracle one to destroy the Egyptian in a miraculous way of you know plagues and changing nature where he would bring the you know all the different parts of creation regardless of where it lives all the way to Egypt during the plagues of the uh uh of the animals he brought the polar bears and all of the other creatures that are uh deadly all the way from the Arctic to Egypt and also from the jungles to Egypt and also from the Caribbeans to Egypt and forever it was he brought it to Egypt to show that he is the master of all of creation and aside from those miracles of destroying the Egyptians and then killing their firstborn and then exposing their adultery and and disgusting Behavior where they became disgusted and revolted of themselves Hashem still had to make a second secondary Miracle a secondary Miracle of actually giving the Jews the wherewithal to think of them actually being free meaning that the Jewish people got to such a position that they simply could not even think of Freedom as something being relevant to them this certainly was was something that they had to overcome to the extent where it literally required a miracle for them to think of themselves as something other than being slaves Soh says through the prophet Isaiah I did this intentionally I made sure that you realize I never needed you you needed me I could have made anybody else my nation I could have made you a nation in a different way but then you would say listen we were doing fine without you we were hanging out we were Rich we were successful we didn't need you hasem says look you weren't Rich you weren't fine you weren't successful you were literally the bottom of the barrel and I took you out of there and I made you my chosen people this is the same reason why chose m without actually healing him obviously aadh is the master of all the creator of all he healed everybody else that came to mount sa the one that was missing limbs grew those limbs back like a starfish the one that was you know paralyzed was able to walk the one that was blind was able to see because the that came down to to mount saai cannot come down to a place of imperfection of people that are missing body parts so everyone was healed except mosenu Mosher renu's speech impediment was not healed except when he taught Tor where the voice of God would come out of his throat why didn't hasem heal him also this too was in intentionally done so one of the reasons as of course the endless reasons that who has are beyond our comprehension but one of the reasons is so that no one would ever say they all listen to mosenu because he was a good speaker he was very charismatic if you listen to him it was like music to your ears what music maybe a mixtape he was had a speech impediment he constantly stuttered and had a stammer it was hard to hear him but yet this was intentional did not want anyone to think that Moser Renu is going to be like one of these politicians that's elected because of his speaking skills he wasn't a talker like kak was K was a very big talker and a good talker but that led him to G he didn't want MOS renu's speaking skills to convince anyone he wanted them all to make an educated decision based on the facts and the facts alone about the knowledge of God so here we see that the preparation for being a prophet first and foremost requires us to know who are we going to talk to once we hear that voice if we do who are we serving who are we praying to who are we yearning for but then if you noticed if you're paying attention you'll see that the rambam said something that was also mentioned by the Kish as part of the required steps of Prophecy of course the Kish followed the ramban by nearly 700 years so it's the kazun learning from the rambam but needless to say the Kish said that these people these special people that made themselves into a vessel that was able to receive prophecy were people that had a refined soul and a purified mind and that's exactly what the rambam said that in order for a per person to be able to become that vessel that can accept prophecy they have to be a refined vessel they have to be a pure vessel and becoming a pure vessel is even more difficult than believing and knowing god our dear Master tells us nearly a thousand years ago why he wrote This Book why did he write this certainly he had other things to do and he says in the introduction to which translates to duties of the heart says that when one of the sages was teaching the laws of divorce one of the students asked a question that was not even relevant not even relevant you just you know one of these people that just like likes to ask questions like you're talking about you know the laws of M the laws of you know Shabbat and he's asking a question that really has no substance no ramifications something like what is does the Torah have to say about aliens that live on other planets or if they're ever going to come here to this world like what would an alien living on another planet do for you how would it affect whether you say is time or not obviously person didn't think about that and the sage responded to him in a very very harsh manner saying you who asks concerning that which brings no harm if one does not know it do you know all that is you are obligated to know of The Commandments which may not be ignored or neglected such that you have time to think of strange questions which will further you neither in Torah nor in amuna and which will not help you overcome your flaws and your personality I swear that for 35 years now I've been working on what I need to know of The torah's Commandments you know what great effort I put into my studies and all the books that I have access to and yet I have never had the time to think of the question which you have just posed and he continued rebuking this person how can you possibly allow yourself to waste your time in this world on questions that have no substance whatsoever on whether you're going to be righteous or Wicked serve AEM or Serve Yourself how can you do such a thing so the question is what is the reason why the wrote this book because obviously it's the answer the big question and he says this in the introduction he says I found int scripture in the tah book ofb 35:1 where it says he who kills a person accidentally is not liable to the death penalty why he killed him accidentally they send the person to the the Cities of Refuge and he's not liable to the death penalty and that he who inadvertently violates one of the negative Commandments is liable only to a sin offering or a guilt offering even where an intentional violation would have made him liable to premature death or to one of the four types of execution which the court passes sentence on but since it's unintentional he doesn't get the death penalty he has to bring a sacrifice what we see from this says the is that there are major grounds for punishment only when both body and heart participate in the Forbidden act the heart with its intent and the body with its activity similarly our sages have said that if a person performs a Mitzvah a good deed but has no intention of doing it for the sake of Heaven he receives no reward for it and since the very basis for an act and what it revolves around depends upon the intention of our an inner life of our heart the knowledge of the duties of the heart should come before the knowledge of the duties of the limbs in so many words the is telling us the reason why I wrote this book is because we need to know why we're doing what we're doing not just what to do but we need to know why we're doing it now when you see the rambam tell us that to be this ultimate person of a prophet requires you to clean yourself to cleanse yourself to purify yourself you see the in the same exact way 800 years later you see that the is telling us yes of course you have to cleanse yourself part of that cleansing is to put thought behind your behavior why you do what you do and how you do it now what is it that we really need to think of in his new seph this will be available in America in Israel in the next several months and in chapter of last week's he brings up a few points he says that we see in this that it's very important for the Coen to not only wear specific garments where the Coen G has eight garments the Ken OT has four but these garments have to work what does it mean work the qu had to have these bells on his clothing and those bells had to make noise they had to make sound if he had bells that didn't make sound he could die because of that why because there's a law that just like before you address a king of Flesh and Blood you have to receive permission you have to ask for permission you have to make your uh um your uh your um entry known you can't just show up on the king just like people show up to the rabbi's door at 3:00 in the morning asking for help no you have to ask for permission you have to make a entrance if you will he said the same goes when the Ken had to enter The KES kesim so question is who does he need to do this for obviously Hashem knows he's coming he's not like a king of Flesh and Blood who doesn't know what's around the corner Hashem obviously is there says no it's not for hashem's purposes but rather because there were Angels inside The KES kesim and these Angels were extraordinary angels that were zealous for hasem they didn't want to leave but in order for them to leave they needed to know that the Ken is coming but if theen did not follow the rules they had the permission to kill him if the quen's mind or behavior was not in line with the prerequisite that permission to kill him these were not his friends in fact explains that just like there was a servant for a king that the guards picked on and constantly made made uh you know scared him the king that liked this uh this servant said in order for me to help him what I'm going to do I'm going to give him a special uniform so everyone knows he represents me and by default they'll stay away from him they'll respect him they won't bother him same thing with the qu he got this special uniform so the Angels don't mess with him but that's assuming that he follows the laws during the second temple the second mikdash many died during Yip because they didn't follow the rules and one of those rules that before he enters these bells had to make sounds so the angels are notified that he's coming in and therefore they have to leave so now we understand why he had the Bells on the way in but the holy Torah says that he also had to have have these bells make sound on his way out why on the way out explains that those very same angels that was zealous for hem that weren't happy about the fact that this is the situation because they wanted the Torah they wanted to serve hem and they didn't want anyone that's not worthy of hem to be the one that's serving Hashem but they had to leave because apparently somebody worthy came in but now that it's time for him to leave he better let us know that he's leaving so we can go back in so the bells had to make sound on the way out and the Torah says if it didn't make sound on the way in on the way out he could die this is literally verses in the Torah now these angels just so you understand these are not just little baby Angels once was visiting a place and there was a very big in that city that was hosting him knocked on his door and asked him to borrow a piece of paper and of course that Mo was happy gave him a piece of paper and as soon as he gave him a piece of paper the took a coin out of his pocket and paid him was surprised for you don't need to pay this this is only a it's a penny and I'm giving it to you as a gift insisted and he gave it to him he said you have to understand sometimes people they give things not because they want but because they feel obligated to they don't give with a full heart and according to the Torah if someone gives but not with a full heart you know it's like one of these people say here here take take take but he doesn't really want to give which is like gambling when one person gambles against another person even though they both have the same rules when the loser loses and gives away his chips he doesn't give those chips willingly and therefore according to the Torah it's considered 100% gazin stealing the person that takes the chips even though he won fair and square will have to come back as a reincarnation to pay back the money fair and square why he stole the money yeah but those were rules those rules are against the Torah he doesn't really want to give you the money he only played because he assumed he's going to win and therefore says the since there are people that give not full-heartedly then it's considered gazel and the gazel for even this one piece of paper will create an Angel that's big enough powerful enough scary enough to destroy the entire city of VHA and I don't want to destroy the city of VHA and that's why I made it my own custom my own asfa never to take anything for free and that's why I give you this coin meaning the is telling us here just in case you're giving me the paper a piece of paper that's a penny in case you're giving me the paper because you feel bad because I'm a rabbi because of this because of that but you're not really giving to me full heart I don't want to take that risk why that risk will create an Angel that's big enough to destroy the entire city and I'm not an irresponsible person that's going to put the entire city at risk so from here we see this is a small Angel small angel in comparison to the ones in KES kashim so we see that as greater the angels are that could destroy a city the Quin is bigger bigger why he takes president he goes to the K kashim as long as he follows the rules he's priority but then says the Tor and explains who's bigger than the who's bigger than there was one time aen coming out of The KES meaning he was a righteous Ken righteous enough to survive Yip on and be inside The KES kashim and he came out and usually when they came out everybody ran to him C at congratulated him got a blessing from him at the same time that he's coming out and everyone is next to him the come in come from afar to give him a blessing and everyone sees the coming so everybody leaves the quen to go and welcome to two giant Torah Scholars the although he was righteous enough to be in The KES he let jealousy get the better of him and that jealousy turned into something really nasty where as soon as the came to him to give him a blessing to congratulate him he said something very nasty to him ah here are the two converts that are not like the descendant of Aron in so many words he's telling them you guys are converts so you're not really even though everybody gives you honor you're not really like me I'm the descendant of AR I'm a but of course know how to address everything including the naysayers and say Yes here the converts that get this honor because they have the traits and the behavior following aronin not like the descendant of aronin who doesn't behave like aronin who instead of loving peace and chasing peace and loving the Torah and bringing the Torah to people he loves himself he chases his honor he chases only uh respect for him self and does not act like his grandfather Aron so of course they put him into shape they put him to where he belongs but the point being here is the to is telling us as great as aen is if someone's he's bigger than him meaning even if it's somebody today if there was a that was not a he's a he's not said that they had to teach this throughout the whole week of preparation before to know all the and he had to by the end of the week he had to recite everything back and forth to them so many of them were not some were of course but is even greater than a that's not if he's and of course he's he's he's better because he has the extra but if he's just Co but not of even today learns to all day he's greater so we see again Angels but who's better than that who's even bigger than this who's bigger than not there was once two Jews that worked at a religious school and they worked on the bus now in those days things weren't as automatic as they are today so you had to have someone open the door of the bus to let the kids in let the kids out so the two people for the bus perhaps some schools some buses is still like that today maybe for safety reasons or whatever the reason is anyway these two Jews came to AB Shalom and they were arguing said Rabbi we need you to help us we have a dispute Among Us sure what's the dispute he said every day we are on the bus taking the kids to school and we're arguing I think that he should be the one that opens the door but he says no I'm driving you open the door I say no you may be driving but I'm monitoring all the kids I can't go up and down on the door and go outside and it's cold and it's raining you go outside and we're arguing so who should open the door looks at them surprised this can be said I don't understand what you're fighting about so before they repeat the story as if the rabbi didn't understand the puts things in perspective he says I don't understand how you guys are not even selling this Mitzvah there should be a bidding process like they do for seph T every week for who's going to open the door because of course these are betan these are Jewish kids that are going to learn T opening the door for them so they could go learn Tor it's like opening the bet mikash it's like opening the of the Tor people pay a lot of money for that you're going to open the door to enable a kid to go learn to such a big M people should be biding for it I'm not understanding why you guys are fighting all of a sudden they also weren't understanding why they're fighting and the only fight they had is whose turn is it to open the door because I want to open the door why because the kids are going to go learn T I want the I want the SC what changed perspective perspective of what you're doing and that is part of the cleaning process that's required of all of us because sometimes a person will do some of the things that are necessary to do chuva to change their life but not realize that they just started that they're not finished that they're not in a position to really be rebuking everything and anything that's not at their level which unfortunately is very common where people people start keeping Shabbat start praying start learning and all of a sudden the world around them turns into Wicked people now the people haven't changed the only thing that changes their understanding of the purpose of life the people around them haven't changed their understanding but all of a sudden all of those people become bad terrible and instead of helping those people instead of elevating those people instead of at least understanding that those people are exactly where you were just a few years ago many times people hate those people rebuke the existence of those people question why those people even have a right to exist and they literally start hating everybody our dear Master the seph was written about 600 years ago one of the in the answer number 19 he says as follows there are five things that are habit forming and once a person is addicted to them he will find it difficult to swear off them therefore for one should beware should beware of them and shun them so that one does not become hooked on them because they're extremely harmful so here the is telling us there are five things that a person can do that could quickly become a habit a habit and once they become a habit it's worse than cancer what are these things slander tail bearing anger thinking evil and associating with a wicked person because we learn from his ways and they affect our character ASL says he who consorts with fools comes to grief so here the seph tells us there are five things that are Det mental to your spiritual health and even more so to your chuva and even more so to your possibility of entering ganeden without a very long trip in kafak or Gom first if you like to talk about people you like to say bad things about people you like to slander them say yeah you see she got fat oh you see I think they're Ste oh you see they do this they do that you know those same Gom parties that I keep telling you guys every week about the ones that people like to get together have a coffee have a beer have a whatever to drink and some cookies some potato chips a little bit of salad maybe perhaps they'll even order some food but the main dish is slandering whoever's not in the room that's the main dish slandering whoever's not in the room saying about whoever's not in the room that's the main disc that's the reason everybody came to that party and that's the reason everyone will have the same destination at some point why it's called the Gom party for a reason why do you think we trademarked it I'm just kidding about the trademark but not the Gom party unfortunately people get together and their topic of conversation is always about other people people this one did this this one did that whether it's a lie or it's simply a truth that should not be told either way it's not allowed if it's a something that is a lie then you're slandering if you're slandering then you my dear friend are becoming a friend to the Satan also and therefore we can't be friends anymore why I don't want to be friends with the Satan and that's what happens sometimes people forget that you're not allowed to talk about other people he said no no no but what I said is true it's true that they're getting a divorce it's true that he made a lot of money it's true that she had lipos suction it's true that yes it's true but it's also the fact that it's true is one of the things that makes a is true who said that you have the permission to publicize is that she had lipos suction or they're getting divorced or this or who said you have permission to talk about people what am I going to talk about Rabbi don't talk for I care just don't talk about people don't talk about people oh it's so hard you're right it is hard not to talk about people and that's what is saying you know why it's so hard for you not to talk about people do you know why do you know why it's so hard for you not to talk about people because you got used to it it became a habit it became a habit to talk about people you talked about them a month ago and two months ago and six months ago and a year ago and each time it's a different person so you don't feel so bad about it each time it's the hottest scoop whatever is happening in the neighborhood whether that neighborhood is on the internet neighborhood or it's the local net neighborhood doesn't really make much of a difference but that's what happened you like to talk about people and you don't realize that you have developed a habit that's detrimental to your entire Chua where even if you're doing good things that habit could literally destroy lives could destroy lives I even heard from one person that said to me one time one time time she said something to a relative about a different relative of how that other relative did something that wasn't exactly the most appropriate she didn't realize it was going to be such a big deal she just thought you know it's conversation within the next month that person she spoke about got a divorce reason what she said started a fight that grew to something beyond control and had to literally get a divorce now guess what in shim you have yourself a problem solution you can't force them to get back married they have to choose for themselves what can you do help as many people as possible do chuva so at least you have the chance that one of those people or five of those people or a thousand of those people that you help do chuva will fix that sin and that will go to your Merit when aadh sees that people care about doing chuva and they exert all the effort possible to do it he gives them the ability to do it he gives them the ability to do it but when a person doesn't think much of what said it's not come on no it's what else am I going to talk about says yes you're only saying that because you've developed an addiction not the cocaine not the crack not the fentanyl none of those drugs you got hooked on something much worse it's called bad character treats you've got hooked on slander you got hooked on tail bearing now even even worse is something that is even more common and that's anger a person gets used to anger now of course all of us have some level of anger in us but the difference between the righteous and the wicked is that the righteous know that anger is something bad and therefore control it don't allow themselves to let it burst out with curses and and beating people and and breaking stuff they never allow such things to happen even if they want to break the wall even if they want to destroy the whole house even if they want to choke their uh spouse even if they want to beat up their kids even if they want to beat up their partner in the in the business they don't do it why because they know it's evil they know it's bad they know it's forbidden they know that m mhu called another fellow Jew aash just because he had his hand in the air and he wanted to hit his fellow Jew just because he had his hand in the air and he wanted to hit somebody elseu called him rash and that's why the says just by having your hand in the air that you want to hit somebody already makes you evil already makes you Wicked I should say not evil Wicked hating them makes you evil needless to say if somebody hits their spouse somebody slaps their wife or Worse our holy sages tell us that if a man would beat his wife the sages would warn him if he didn't follow the warning that chop off his hands literally to chop off his hands he'd become like person without hands why you hit your wife yeah but it's my wife yeah she's our sister she's God's daughter who gave you permission I'm angry go drink some cold water what doesn't work smash your head against the wall a few times that doesn't work do it until you pass out by tomorrow morning you feel better who said you have the right to hit anybody needless to say to scare people some people like to scare people like to scare kids scare people in the streets some of these foolish YouTubers like to scare their friends or complete strangers and they think it's a joke they don't realize that each one of those things that you do to scare people that's unwarranted is another sentence in Gom literally you could be putting on you could be keeping Shabbat you could be giving staka you could be doing a lot of good things but you're a little kid came over here hey Abba how are you and you lose your mind on him for no reason guess what all of those mitv you'll get paid for them at some point but only after you get cooked up a little bit for a few years they cook you up nice turn you up like kak every year you get to the same like the moon same thing why who told you that you're allowed to do that yeah but I'm doing mitv sure for the mitv you'll get paid for the you're also going to get paid same thing same thing said B you have to become a sadik you have to become a sadik not because AEM needs s but rather because you're already working so hard to pray to learn you're doing half to battle but you forgot that Hashem doesn't just need you to put on to fill in and to pray or for woman to put K on and to wear mother close it's not just he doesn't need that you need it because that makes you into a better vessel that's able to act accordingly meaning if you're modest you should be acting modest if you do holy things you should be acting like a holy person but if you do holy things but you act like a loser you act like a thief you act like like some troll that came out of the cave and you're yelling at your wife or you're yelling at your husband or you're screaming at everybody that doesn't agree with you as if they're all criminals like you weren't a criminal yourself then guess what you're much worse than them you're much worse than them much worse why they have an excuse they still don't know the purpose of life you supposedly do you supposedly have disc CED the truth you saw some Torah and science you saw some some musar lectures you saw the movie of Tabit and a cfaa and all the wonderful things that scared your lights out of you you know the purpose of life but you still act like a beast you still act like a troll that hasn't eaten in six months you still act like some Gargamel that came out of some nightmare to who to the people that are closest to you to your spouse you yell at your husband like he's some piece of garbage you yell at your wife like she's some zah you yell your kids and curse at them this is the that the talks about every single day where commands you not only to pray not only to believe in him but to teach your kids is this how you teach your kids by cursing them by hitting them for no reason that's what you do this is Mr righteous this is the tadika you my dear friend are in much worse shape than the people that are walking around atheist why they don't even know why they're here for them the cow and them is the same thing they're going to go to Gom and not come out but at the very least here they're not judged the same way there's more Mercy on them they're still missing the chip in the computer you have the chip you have the instru instuctions and you're simply avoiding them and that's why the say don't make it don't make it a habit to allow yourself to express your anger by breaking stuff by hitting stuff by yelling by cursing why once you have that habit it's hard to break hard to break that habit you're used to cursing people now everybody even your uh small talk is cursing people that get used to cursing it's a lot of work I know from experience on Wall Street every second word is a curse word I had to work on myself for years to clean my speech not because I liked cursing it just became my my conversation it became the way my my I spoke to certain people anger anger is standard I I used to think that what do you mean I was born angry I'm GNA die angry what's the problem you can't not be angry not realizing that the says if you express your anger by throwing stuff by hitting people by breaking things you're considered an idol worshipper no different than a guy that is praying to Buddha that's praying to some statue because you're following the that tells you this today tomorrow he's going to tell you something else before you know he's going to tell you to go to Christianity before you know he's gonna tell you to go and uh go kill somebody you're gonna follow him he becomes your new God says the don't let it be a habit clean it up ASAP oh but it's hard good you get reward for hard the harder it is the bigger the reward says that's just only three three fourth thinking evil what's thinking evil you think everybody's bad everything is bad always negative always you wake up even though it's you look at people nah something's wrong with them why he didn't do anything to you yeah but look at look at the way he looks what do you mean what's wrong with the way he looks I don't know he's like look he's wearing a t-shirt and uh you know he's like he looks like he's too like you know something what what what did he do did you see him do something wrong no but you know I could tell what do you mean you can tell what are you a prophet we just started the whole series we just opened up the school of Prophecy how did you skip all the classes and already become a prophet that you can tell just by the way he looks or you can tell by just the way she looks that she is this way or she's that way stop thinking so evil of everybody else even more so stop thinking of yourself as Mr or Mrs righteous why you think because you keep a few that makes you somebody came to Steinman person that's but his father-in-law was very wealthy so wealthy that he came to this B and he told him listen you married my daughter now I want to build you a house pick any place in yush any place in yush I build you a house there he picked a place father-in-law bought the piece of land and literally built them a castle this had such a fancy castle with all the likings and all the chandeliers and all the different things and he came to Steinman and he said he had a problem what he said I had a housewarming party and all my uh aim friends came to the housewarming party and I saw that they were a little upset that how is it that I have all this and I'm concerned steerman said to them no what are you concerned about what what this says someone has nice things it's going to help him learn nice wife nice house these things help you learn what's the problem he says no but I'm concerned that since it's a really nice house that my friends are going to have a table with four legs of golden GED and I'm only going to have three like the story in ofan looks at him completely baffled and then he looks at his gabai who's with him all the time for many years he says look at this generation here you have a Jew that's over 90 years old that's constantly debating himself every day of which chamber they're going to cook him in G and yet you have this young man of certain about the type of geden that he's going to go to how could there be such a difference Steinman is constantly thinking about I'm gonna go to Gom because I spoke misspoke over here one word or I didn't serve hasem to Perfection over here and this guy he's already sure he's going to ganeden people are sure they're going to ganeden like like it's free everybody goes to ganeden why you keep Shabbat ganeden you're a Jew ganeden you wear keeper GED you gave staka once a year GED you gave a lot of money one time GED you finished the track dat in the GED you were nice to people GED you walked the lady across the street G you Babys sat the rabbi's kids GED everybody's geden GED everybody goes to ganeden nobody get home but you didn't mean to GED everybody's geden I Stein man is crying over there saying I'm here 90 years old and I'm thinking of myself which chamber and G going to cook me because I didn't serve my master to Perfection but here you have a generation of people they're sure gedon is coming for free sure they're going to be in G and they're worried about which table they're going to have be thankful you if you don't go to if you don't go to G be thankful if you're only there for a certain amount of time what world do you live in that you're so sure of your righteousness you've perfected yourself have you at the very least eliminated the habit of thinking evil of people where every every single person that you look at automatically you think bad of them automatically they're not good enough like some people contact me and tell me listen the Jewish people are terrible you should do this and you should do that who are you to talk about the Jewish people like that wait but you do no I don't you perhaps have a understanding difficulty perhaps you should rewire your brain but the way it goes is this anyone that's familiar with the work that I do Beyond just a lecture knows there are two versions just like our sages teach us and just like the RAB misat clarified where he said why did love so much where on one end he punished mosenu on another end he loved mosenu more than anyone else clearly more than anyone else by the way they communicated what they communicated how he actually asked mosu to leave his wife so mosenu can marry the mosenu was like the husband the was the wife the relationship between andu was second to none but yeah mosenu was punished for certain things so how does it work after died took his out in the most beautiful loving way where first he sent him the to bother him and say hey I'm here to take your but the didn't have power over mosu was more powerful than Mal yelled at him and when M came backu hit him and took one of his eyes out rain away from M he was scared of mosenu so why didm send him to makeu happy that nobody can take his other than and then came to M and said okay it's time for me to take your but the told but I like this body that you gave me because it's it's in line with me it wants to serve you I want to serve you where could I serve you better in this world or the next World Hashem says yes right but it's time for you to go time for the to come up the air closer to me and he gave him a kiss to take his out literally the go through a whole dialogue that happened throughout this day between andu after who chose to take M's out after he took it out he cried over mosenu dying why you crying you're the one that took it out he said who's going to rebuke my people like mosu who's going to rebuke my people like Moshe Moshe my servant wait but didn't you say that when he yelled at the people that was no good and that time he said no no you don't understand the where it works is this in this week's makes a mistake mistake of all mistakes the golden calf the six-hour mistake where they miscalculated how much time mosenu was supposed to be in Mount saai and that got them to a domino effect of one mistake after another that led ultimately to the sin of the golden calf long story short says I'm going to destroy the people comes the same mosenu the same mosenu they yelled at the people the same mosenu that rebuke the people the same M that get angry at the people I told him you crazy going against hem he can kill you look at all the things that he said and he told them all the curses if you do this he'll punish you he'll do this he'll punish you he'll do this he'll punish you he'll do this he'll punish you all the different punishments you have this disease and that disease and this disease that disease horrible punishments literally worse than any nightmare you could could possibly imagine the same comes to and says to what are you going to punish them for what for the golden CF it's your fault what my fault what my fault it's your fault who gave the gold where they get the gold in Egypt they were poor they didn't have $2 forget about gold didn't have any money nothing who gave him the gold you gave him the gold if they didn't give if you didn't give him the gold how they going to S if you didn't give from the gold how they going to sin how they going to sin without the gold and if you're going to kill them then you're going to make the Egyptians right because the Egyptians said that if the Jews go to the desert they're going to die so in essence the Egyptians thought that something bad is going to happen to us so now you're going to fulfill what the Egyptians said it's your fault after all so what do you you work for the Egyptians what's going on here is defending the people and says who is going to rebuke my people like mosenu when it comes to the people when you're talking to them you rebuke them you rebuke the people you see that they're doing something wrong you tell them listen you're doing something wrong are you go are you crazy going against Hashem he's the one and only God there's nothing else but him your breath your everything that you have depends on him are you crazy to go against him don't you understand maybe you don't understand so let me explain it to you let me explain it to you what is the consequence of going against Hashem let me explain to you what is the reward of going with Hashem let me explain to you so you understand and you can at least make an educated decision and you explain with one hand pushing and one hand pulling but of course when you're talking to them and you see they've already made it sin you see they're looking to continue their sinful way you have to talk with wrath you have to talk with a to make sure they don't repeat it but when you go to Hashem after they've already sinned after they've already made a mistake you don't go and complain to about and sinful people no Shalom you go to they're little kids they're stupid little kids they don't know anything they're little 3,000 years are still making the same mistakes they're addicted to this they're addicted to that they think they uh the money means anything they think the girls mean anything the boys mean anything they mean they're they need more time they're foolish foolish little kids they don't know anything have some mercy on them I know you have a lot of Merc a little more just a little more why give him some more time because to stop being atheist to stop being Heretics to stop inviting missionaries to the sh to stop doing stupid things give them some more time perhaps a few more sh perhaps a few more perhaps a little bit more perhaps a few a little more more more more of you is going to help it because after all what' you wait 3,334 years for nothing just to kill everybody no right you want to save more so give me some more time let me save a few more you go to them are you guys crazy what are you doing can kill you you go to Hemm what are you going to kill them for what what benefit do you have in killing them what are you going to kill them for you already waited $3,000 3,000 years for this for this pool poor idiot that's going against AEM that's worshiping some Idol that went to India instead of going to the synagogue what are you going to kill him for let's get him out of there I'll give him to the synagogue I get him to the Yeshiva but then you go to the guy are you insane you went to India what did you do in India other than finding idols what do you have in India are you insane there's only one God and you gohm Hashem he's a fool he's crazy he thinks that he can find something other than you even though it says en there's only one God he thinks maybe there's something else he's an insane person I have to help him get him you know spiritually instituted you go to guy why you playing stupid you know there's only one God stop chasing the girls stop chasing the boy stop chasing the your tail do cha and you keep going going back and forth what do you think Hashem doesn't know no it's not that he doesn't know he knows and he loves it you know why he loves it you know why he loves mosenu because he doesn't need anybody to talk bad about his people to him he already knows they're doing something bad he's looking for someone that's going to defend them without changing the Torah without removing their ability to do chuva without changing the task at hand so to we speak favorably about to other people we talk favorably about am but to the people themselves that need to learn something they need to do chuva we have to tell them the reality and the reality is their behavior is unacceptable their behavior will bring them many many punishments because that's the reality we have to tell them the reality in order to enable them and encourage them to change at the same token we don't have to tell the reality to Hashem he knows the reality all too well he's looking for somebody that's willing to love no less than they love thems and unfortunately many times people get addicted to rebuke to the point that they forget what's the task at hand and they start thinking that they have become better than everybody else little did they know that they've become worse than everybody else just because of a lack of understanding of what their position in life is and that's why the says if a person has gotten themselves accustomed to thinking evil about everybody else it's so addicting it's so addicting they'll have to work on removing that from their mind without changing the tah that's why when somebody ask me listen what if we teach the kids without teaching them about hashem's punishments and I said even if they minimize the punishments that are mentioned in the Torah the school should be shut down I'm not telling you to go into the oral tah and start teaching them about the details of Gam but you have the T the T talks about how hasm created the world second he destroyed the world the Giants melted the Giants were destroyed you change that story to make it seem as if nothing happened to them you should never teach again the Torah stays the Torah because a gave each and every single one of us a unique with special receptors to the Torah that a different times of our life those receptors will have a certain level of Purity that will allow us to understand different parts of it in different ways you don't need to change the Torah the Torah is perfect the imperfect part is you you have to deliver the perfect Torah and let the Torah do its job don't change the Torah in order to customize it for people give the Torah as it is as it is and the kids and the adults and the adults that are like kids and the kids that are like adults everybody's going to understand why because to is perfect but when you start thinking that you can make decisions for people it's very easy to get to a conclusion that nobody's good enough only you only you're good enough and that unfortunately puts you in a very bad position and that's why a person has to know a person has to know that if he allows his anger to be expressed that anger can get him to a point where he can be considered 100% an idol worshipper and the says in Chua 137 that when a God-fearing person is incest at behavior of the transgressors he should think twice before exploding with anger meaning even if you see people that are sinning even if you see people that are sinning you see somebody drive on Shabbat you see somebody whatever not modest think twice before you explode with anger he should remain cool and collected and let him take a lesson from mosenu the same Moser raenu we just spoke about why because when Moser raenu did not fulfill his role perfectly where he rebuked when needed to rebuked and he defended when needed to defend when he just missed the beat one time one time he missed a beat where he rebuked the tribe of Ren for wanting to settle in the east side of the Jordan and not come to the land of Israel and he called them a band of Sinners mosu punished them punished mosu severely why he treated them like Sinners made sure the N of a sinner got into the grandson of mosenu his grandson yonatan the son of G was such a rash that he ended up becoming an idol worshipper in the temple of mikah the same Wicked kid that followed Moshe Renu until he stole his mate and then that ended up being the golden calf that same Wicked mikah ended up building a temple of idolatry and the grandson of mosenu was one of the congregants over there why did mosenu the prophet of all prophets why did he deserve such a grandson because in his level he missed a beat he yelled one time look what he got some people yell every day at their wife some people yell every day at their husband some people yell every day at their co-workers at their customers and they don't realize that they're literally desecrating the Torah they're literally worse than the people they're yelling at because they should know better if they's still an idol worshipper if there's still someone that believes in nothing and they yell not much is expected of them it's surprising they're able to put their penss on one leg at a time with such foolish beliefs but if somebody knows the truth about aad and still yells at people and hits them and behaves like a lunatic that person literally is ruining everything with such behavior and Kish says you want to be a prophet first and foremost you have to make yourself into a vessel a cleansed vessel a cleansed vessel that does not utter a word that's forbidden a cleansed vessel that does not express even an ounce of anger outside of their heart if it's forbidden a cleansed vessel does not look and anything they're not allowed to look at he say it's hard perfect you get paid well for hard you get paid well for doing hard things not just in the next World in this world in this world and therefore we have to learn how this is all put into perspective by the Sab the sa says gave an analogy he says life in this world is like a deer that's running away from its Predators he's running away in the forest and that's in essence a man a man is compared to a deer by schl in the song of songs chapter 2 ver7 and that deer is running through the forest trying to outrun it's pursuers the problem is that this deer has antlers beautiful antlers but those antlers are holding him back they can get stuck on trees they can get stuck in a bush they can get stuck and pretty much destroy him lead to his demise those beautiful antlers are the bad character traits of a person where if he tries to protect those bad character traits he doesn't want to lose them he'll end up being destroyed as a result of them just like the deer but if he lets go of those antlers just like the deer shed their antlers every season he can get to the place he wants to really be which is complete Freedom not just in the next world but freedom from anger Freedom From Misery freedom from loneliness freedom from unhappiness in this world freedom from normaly of this world and a point where you literally become a vessel that's one step closer to prophecy now the sabuk says the goal of M is to perfect knowledge and self-control and a person's Illusions about who he thinks he is complicate and ruin his life he thinks he is better than what he really is she thinks she's better than what she really is I deserve this I deserve of that no one should talk to me this way no one should treat me that way their illusions of where they really stand are what complicate and ruin their life and therefore those horrible traits stop the person from getting to where they want to go which is actual freedom freedom from the bad traits freedom from the addictions to bad traits and the two ways to refine your midot and get rid of those bad traits one is grit determination which is in essence doing good because it's good to do good or two self-examination where you identify the bad and remove it and therefore what we thought was that while each of these strategies that the stand on their own as extraordinary ways to eliminate bad character traits it seems to me like the combination of them will be more plausible for more most people where grit determination is necessary in order for us to change but without self-examination sometimes a person is not going to know what the change or at least least they're going to stop knowing what needs to continuously change after they change the original deformities and defects where a person could initially change something that's obvious but as soon as they stop changing as a result of no reflection self-reflection then that chuva instead of it continuing to grow begins to deteriorate so combination of introspection and and that continuous willpower to change and that's why fear of Heaven is the best possible tool to ignite both of those determinations because on one end if you have determination you're afraid of failure and if you have the discipline to do then you also have the fear of the consequence of staying with failure and with flaws so constantly developing is necessary but it's not only about the punishment in the next world that we have to think about we have to think about the punishment in this world which is a miserable life a miserable marriage miserable relationships being disliked by everyone destroying relationships having your children not even want to look at you needless to say not want to talk to you no one call you no one write to you no one want anything to do with you why you've become a volcano that everyone does not want to be there when it erupts and that's why a person has to know that what the Sab is telling us is not really suggestions for all of us that are trying to do chuba or already on the path but thought that we were finished rather he's telling us we still have our antlers on they may not be the same antlers we had 15 years ago but the endlers regrow and they're different every time they're not the antlers of 15 years ago they're this season's antlers this season antlers are new something we may not even notice until we start paying attention now a person can get so used to their own horrible behavior that until somebody points it out they won't realize it there was one time a guy that came into a store and he was looking looking and looking and the shopkeeper saw the guy's looking for a while he's not buying anything said no you like this no you like this no after a while he started yelling at him ah what are you doing here and sa is watching this whole thing what are you doing here just waste my time here's this nothing's good for you nothing's this nothing that and all of a sudden the shopkeeper Smiles hello how are you today what happened how did you just go from this little demon and you became this nice little creature it's very simple at first there was one customer and the one customer wasn't buying and the natural traits of the shopkeeper the horrible ones came out because he thought that this is what he has to deal with until a new customer came in and the shopkeeper realized that if he continues his behavior of yelling at this customer the new customer will leave and the risk is too big to lose now a customer as a result of staying angry and losing the customer is not something that he could afford and that's why he changed right away meaning whoever hasn't worked to clarify and perfect as midot is like a blind person that has never seen the light this person is only going to change in the store just for the sake of the circumstance but they're not willing to change themselves permanently they're still living in darkness sometimes a person starts changing certain things in their life they start praying they start giving they start saying certain words but their insides is still the same rotten person they stop developing and therefore they're just like that shopkeeper where he could change based on the circumstances but when push comes to shove they're the same exact thing they're still living in darkness if a person works on thems they can get to a point where the light is not a fake light but rather it's always a light and this is what the rebit of n the daughter of the Sab said to Aid who came to visit from Rin the the and he asked the raban what's the difference between Rin and n and she said to him Rin you see the qu top of the world aspire to be like this holy sadik that never uttered a single word against the Torah that's why it ate 100 years old he still had all of his teeth perfect white he said what about Nook say Nal we tell you where you stand now it's nice to look at the Coen and see wow look at that potential look at that Navi that KES kashim but don't think that you're already there just because you can see it realize that you're still here in this world with rotten traits that need fixing with rotten behavior that needs apologizing with rot things that you've done that should never even see the light of day again you need to fix that but don't lose so much hope you know why because like we learned from says look those little kids you open the door for them it's like opening the bet mikdash it's like opening the ofes so much opportunity you B you little convert you Jew that's already been keeping Shabbat for 10 years you're still a baby in A's eyes you're still a baby so go ahead try harder tomorrow you'll do better as long as you try but if you think you finished if you think that you are a senior citizen in the world of tah you don't need any more fixing don't be surprised if the bettin of sh says Wicked he thought he finished and he's not even a prophet the road to prophecy is an arduous Road it's not something that people could just get to because they have a certain parent a certain lineage certain attitude looks or even knowledge the ultimate difference between one prophet and another is explained by the ramb inim it was how much they perfected their character traits so before we learn about being prophets let us first be decent human beings and stop imagining ourselves to be something that we're not yet because after all if we're in this world there's still work to do it's all working progress and as long as there's progress we're going in the right direction thank you very much for learning with me next week we'll continue learning and expanding on this chapter of Prophecy but even more so I'm hoping that the next time we all see each other all of us have made a little bit more progress in ourem by apologizing to those that we've hurt by committing to no longer doing the things that are forbidden that we heard about today no longer attending those gayn parties no longer saying those foul disgusting words that Hashem does not want 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