Big Talk No Action Has Heavenly Consequences - MUSSAR Pirkei Avot (54)

[Music] good to be back the last year that we had here was a very big hit I think it was the about the I think was that or was that after we also had another one before after it I think it was but the I know it was a several thousand people were very uh excited about it there a lot of new information about uh unfortunately sometimes the enemy is us uh so uh lot of uh today obviously we continue the uh series number 54 we did something new over the last couple of shim that uh one in New York and one last night that a lot of people enjoyed so we'll try it again which is to ask questions in the beginning of this year and show how this exact Mish answers your questions doesn't matter which mishna it is it's all from hasem and Torah connects to everything so one of the uh main points that uh truly impressed me when I first started doing cha is that you could literally find any answer all answers all knowledge anything that's any good anything that's any has any value in this world in the Torah but it's not like you can find uh something valuable in a treasure chest where it's just money here we're talking about you could literally find the answer to any of your problems in any part of the Torah if you dig deep deep enough so for example the last couple of sh I uh I asked the crowd to ask their questions ahead of this year whatever their questions are on the spot and see if we can actually use this m to answer the question doesn't matter if the question is about or it's about uh life marriage children whatever whatever question you have not if hm gives us the words to say then he has no limits so we did it in the last couple of sh and a lot of people liked it because number one it a uh helps the crowd be interactive you know be involved in a sh and two you really see the beauty of the Torah because if you just if I just read a book to you then you say I'll just read the book on my own and save myself two hours but uh when you see how deep the Torah is and how you can get to real answers applicable answers in your life you see that this is something I need to invest in this is something I need to invest a lot of time in and uh because this is something that's magical it's beyond the norm soem we'll try it again uh so think of questions while I do the uh first it's to the Ben uh today was born a baby boy but the baby boy is some breathing problems so and becomes a big like his father also to Michael Oto uh AAR Balu ruven Joseph Ben Rifka Sarat SAR Gladis Nunes Eda Guero uh Josephina Matos esparanza Aila Rachel and Monty Sandler lardi yosua Mikel Ben hadasa Nancy leesa Patricia valman Michel valman Sonia Suarez Nicole valman Austine Hernandez Isabel betan Liliana anonia giberto menes jaini roas Roger pra uh yah Garcia Pablo lenzo Miriam bsar uh RAB Alon Ben anet Miram Joseline uh Adas Vasquez and Vasquez sunsha Sun Vasquez canob Resnik SAR Gutierrez Diego Hernandez and Ja they'll have also and David andana and also all of them have I see the list is getting longer but there some new names so it's good the old ones got healthy both but uh unfortunately we have uh new ones has a lot of suffering throughout all the generations if you look at the history of there's practically almost never been almost never been a generation Without Tragedy generation without suffering but not just suffering that's from the outside even from the inside sometimes it comes from the attacks from the go where the Greeks tried to destroy Judaism they weren't really interested in killing the Jews they were just more interested in killing Judaism or the Romans that tried to kill both or the Nazis or the Turks or the Spaniards or uh you know many many other places now we have obviously have the Arabs are trying to do a lot of the things at certain parts of the world the Christians are trying to do certain things things has always had Wars with the go but at the same token has always had Wars with itself there's always been issues within us and sometimes the issues within us have been a bigger issue than issues we have with the go now the main issue the main thing that leads us to have problems is that is a difference of opinion of how you're supposed to live how you supposed what's the purpose of life how you supposed to live how you're supposed to connect to H Hashem some people believe that you're supposed to just Live and Let Live mentality where I do whatever I want you do whatever you want and good luck to you some people believe what it says in the Tora which is if you're already going to call yourself a Jew then you have to fall into the definition of what is a Jew and this is a very big debate that really should be over in two minutes it's a big debate for Generation after generation especially right now I think get some big article big uh debate in the news about it who's a Jew who's not a Jew in the Jewish World obviously but the reality of it is that the debate ends within a matter of seconds first and foremost you have to understand when was the first time that somebody called a Jew when was Juda Judaism created Judaism was created in Mount saai before Mount saai there was no Judaism we were called Israelites so first and foremost we know that before Mount Si there was no Judaism second thing is once we arrive at at Mount sa something changed that made us Jews and that thing that change is called the Torah we receive the Torah the written Torah the oral Torah and the Ten Commandments which in essence logically everyone understands that what changed here what made us Jews is the Torah which means that anyone that wants to accept the Torah completely can become a Jew so anyone that let for example was born into a non-jewish house wants to become a Jew they can become a Jew if they want they have to they have to follow the laws of how to convert they have to go to a bed a koshered and make sure that they do everything they need to do in order to live a Jewish life on the other hand if somebody's parents were Jewish and they are not following the law technically the person is Jewish because their parents are Jewish you know the mother is Jewish then the boy is Jewish or the girl is Jewish but in shim they tell you that when you are following the law you still have that ticket that ashm gave us in Mount saai still works but when you don't follow the law when you disobey the law when you drive on Shabbat when you smoke cigarettes on Shabbat when you violate major laws in the tah then what happens is that you put your Judaism on suspension so meaning the person is still technically Jewish because their mother is Jewish by biologically they're Jewish uh spiritually they're Jewish but when they if they die at that moment or the Messiah arrives at that moment the messia is going to judge them as a Jewish Idol worshipper not as a righteous Jew even if they give a lot ofak even if they're very nice people even if they're wonderful even if they know a lot of Torah if they violate Shabbat if they violate one of the major principles of Faith then hasem judges them as a Jew with Judaism on suspension but not Judaism on suspension where it's like it's not a big deal Judaism on suspension to such an extent that they're considered on the same level as one of these people that's worshiping Buddha or one of these people that's worshiping the cross or any other form of idol worship that's out there so when a Jew wants to be Jewish so much the very simple answer that should take 30 seconds is okay are you willing to do what it takes to be a Jew what ises it to be a Jew follow the Torah which part of it all of it because anytime hasem mentions the Torah and the rules that he gave us he never says follow whatever you like he always makes sure to mention follow the entire Torah the whole thing follow the whole thing not just what you like what you don't like meaning anything that you can do so for example right now we can't do K because we don't have bet mikdash so you can't follow that rule not because you don't want to if the mdash was here we'd have to do but since the bet mdash is not here we can't do and many other things that we used to do in the uh in the bet mdash we can't do so it's not that we don't want to do it and we're not following the entire T is that we're considered anim meaning it's beyond our ability so hasem is taking something else to replace that kban which is our prayer that's what he told the prophet prophet haay he said that the uh the Bulls are going to replace your the words that coming the the words coming out of your lips will replace the Bulls meaning that your prayer is going to replace the sacrifices the uh the kot so anyone that is arguing am I a Jew am I not a Jew people are trying to argue maybe you could prove Judaism by DNA we answered this question last night someone asked about whether you can prove somebody's jism by their DNA and the problem is that based on ala you can't and one of the main simple reasons is that just like there are companies that will give you a breakdown of your DNA there is at least one company in the world based out of Israel that can take that report can take that DNA and change it so whatever your DNA is naturally they can change your DNA which means the DNA is not a reliable source of information uh when it comes down to Judaism and really for that matter uh if the criminals get a hold of this of this type of technology which most likely they will at some point it won't be reliable for use of Court civil court either it's changeable that exact you can actually change it it's a known science that you can change DNA so as far as Judaism is concerned you want to be Jewish you follow the Torah because that's the only thing that makes you Jewish you don't follow you don't follow the Torah your mom may be Jewish but unfortunately sh you considered an idol worshiper so this is something that's critical so what's the battle about so everyone knew everything I just said this is nothing not a what is the the is how do you get people to to do this how do you get people to agree to follow this law now the strategy since m whose time has always been to tell the truth aem's signature is em em means truth that's his signature so the strategy has always been Emit and to teach the emit but it's somewhere along the line especially about 3 or 400 years ago the way we deliver the am changed where rebuking was removed from the equation at least to a large extent and tell telling the full truth as it's supposed to be said was no longer a way of doing it people tried sugarcoating things and this has obviously got much much worse in our generation in the last couple of generations to such an extent that many people that are in a secular world that are not educated in the Torah think that the Torah is an elective think that the Torah is a is up to you you want to follow it follow it you don't want to follow it no big deal the reality is is that once you actually study the Tor and you hear the words of himself you see that hasem has quite a different opinion Hashem did not say if you want to follow the Torah it's no problem if you don't follow the Torah it's no problem it's quite the opposite he says if you follow the Torah good if you don't follow the Torah you're considered dead to me which is someone that doesn't follow the Torah hem says they're considered dead even during their life even during the time that they're alive here but in hm's eyes they considered dead and the reason why is because it says their their time here for this piece of meat that's uh that's living in this world is temporary it's going to end the eternity that I have set up for them is no longer the same so today we'll continue learning our M series of how to get to this truth what is is the truth bit what does hasem say what does he want from us um what's what's the missing ingredient from a lot of the speeches that we hear a lot of the uh you know teachings that we have in the world today why is it that is so secular to such an extent that when they did a recent study they said that the the actual country of Israel and the Jews in Israel unfortunately are considered the most secular people in the world which is the strangest thing in the world to say about the nation of the book the nation of the Torah it's cons everyone knows that's those are the Jews they're religious they always been religious you look throughout history we we invented religion we got the Torah gave it to us religion began then before Judaism there was only idol worship there was nothing else despite all the stupidity that people say oh no there was Buddhism before no there was no Buddhism there was no nothing there was idol worship which was Buddhism anyway and then that was Judaism other religions started 2,000 years ago Christianity and then shortly later Catholicism which is another form of Christianity and then about 14 or 1500 years later uh I'm sorry 14500 years ago uh Islam started and today there's somewhere in a neighborhood of 880,000 or so different Cults and cultures and different types of religion some people worship snakes some people worship cows some people worship pieces of wood some people worship motorcycles some people worship uh you know false gods of all types uh you know people worship anything I heard a story a guy says to R again um that he's not interested in doing chuva he's not interested in doing anything and re again was a very strong speaker he made walls du cha so when a guy says no to ra again and doesn't do CH is very strange and ra tried very hard with this guy nothing happened and he tells the story and he says uh sometime later I came back to the US to visit and I actually saw the guy again but this time I see him religious this time I see him with a keeper he religious I said what happened he goes oh yeah yeah I I I've changed a lot since we last saw each other goes yeah who who's the who's the big Rabbi that was able to crack the shell to crack this cement you weren't willing to listen to anything proofs no proof science no science whatever you nothing he said it wasn't an AR Rabbi it wasn't a rabbi he say so who was it he said it was Thailand cuz I went to Thailand with my father to go for a vacation and as soon as as I landed I saw things that I never thought were possible I saw people walking around in the streets with like buckets of snakes and waiting for people and somebody else would come he's like yes give me that one he looks at some uh light snake or dark snake he says yeah give me that one he takes uh something hits him over the head takes a snake hits him over the head pours the Venom into a cup and the guy drinks it the guy drinks the Venom he says and then you start seeing all these strange things they anything that walks anything that moves they eat it anything if it stands they worship it he says at that moment I realized Thank God I'm a Jew Thank God I'm a Jew and that moment they became religious we went home and I started looking what's what it says in so when a person realizes the available choices out there it's very easy to be a Jew once you know what it's all about the problem is that most people don't know what it's all about including Many religious people Many religious people Unfortunately they follow a certain system of studying and learning and so on and eventually if you don't really dig deep down inside and actually start using what you're learning to improve yourself then it just becomes monotonous it becomes nothing becomes like a you become like a robot robot that prays every day a robot that keep Shabbat a robot that wears certain clothing there's nothing moving behind you now the key to change all of that is M the key to change all of the things that we are failing at the key to change all types of things that go against the Torah the key to change the world the key to change ourselves is M and the reason why is because m is applicable Torah it's the Divine self-help and this is exactly as Salan says in his sixth chapter of this is is that this is exactly what they stopped teaching a few hundred years ago applicable Torah they'll teach you about that we don't have they'll teach you about the bet mikdash that we don't have they'll teach you about the different significance of a Dr which really all depends on whether you have money or not if it's really significant it costs more money if it's not so significant it's cheaper most people that are buying the really expensive one don't know what the difference between the expensive one and a cheaper one they just want to show it off to people when Hashem says to the prophet he says I don't care about about your fast I don't care about you ripping your clothes I care about you ripping your heart he's specifically telling the prophet meaning to tell us forever that your chuva your servicing of hem youra your everything all depends on what's inside but unfortunately Salan is reminding us again that what happened a few hundred years ago and is obviously much much worse today is that Judaism became very EX very dependent on the exterior where as soon as a guy goes to a B for the first time and decides oh you know what let me start learning T immediately he grows a beard no idea why beards are even part of Judaism he has no idea what's the significance of even having a beard but he knows it's free and it makes him look religious so now you have okay a beard shortly lady he says okay they wear black suits many of them and white shirts that's normal attire in a business World anyway only difference is sometimes they have the cheat hanging out and sometimes they wear keepa so he adds those two parts to a business suit so now he looks religious the problem is that the average guy who doesn't know anything about religion doesn't know anything about Judaism the guy with the beard and the keepa and the T teeth hanging out is 100% a rabbi so when he asks him a question and the guy invent some answer that he read in some philosophy class the secular guy is gonna take take that answered to the bank he's like oh yeah there some Rabbi answered me I asked them how come there's no dinosaurs in the Torah and he said yes there isn't any and see there's a problem with Torah because I see the bones well first of all he's not a rabbi second of all he's an idiot third of all you should look at the first chapter of the book and it says magd means giant reptiles giant reptiles is exactly what what a dinosaurus so it isn't a Torah it's one of the Creations why said you say it like t a n i n i n oh M I'm sorry M isn't Mary uh and g d o l i m andit I'll give you the verse verse is I don't remember the verse top of my head but I know it's in the beginning so this was actually one of my one of my uh major questions when I first started doing chuva you know I asked multiple rabbis where are dinosaurs in the Torah one guy says there's no such thing as dinosaurs so I said okay there's no such thing as you having a brain because there's bones in museums what they just made the bones even though technically that is true in many cases some of the bones that you see in museums are completely fake but nonetheless it is there are there is some validity to certain things but the point is that if the bones are real if they're all real if some are real whatever it is dinosaurs are in the tah it's in chapter 1 verse 21 so it says God made the uh well this is a really bad translation um 20 God created the great sea giant it says here this not great sea Giants T literally means giant uh reptiles uh the great uh the giant um the great sea Giants and every living being that creeps with which the waters teamed after the their kinds and so on but t tanin means reptile anyone that speaks Hebrew knows that tanin means reptile doesn't mean sea giant so sometimes you have bad uh translations point being is that people take Judaism based on exterior based on how you look if you wear a keeper you're a tadik you don't wear a keepa if you have a beard on you're already a you don't have a beard how could you know any Torah I even saw somebody make a comment on uh Rabbi mrai one of his shur and this guy was a religious guy he looked religious the guy making the comment look religious how do he look religious he fit the bill he had a keeper he had a beard and he makes a comment and he says how can you listen to somebody teaching to if he doesn't have a beard this is actually what he said in public comment aside from the fact that this is complete full foolishness because many of the giant sages in history did not have a beard beard is not a commandment in the tah uh it's it's been considered part of it's not it's not obligation but aside from that what do you think even if let's say for example let's just say that having a beard was something you were supposed to do as a Jew what do you think it be worse not having a beard or embarrassing somebody in public you understand so when when we when Judaism is based on exterior we fail we fail miserably because we don't know who's religious we don't know who to ask questions we don't know anything so the best thing to do is to go to somebody that actually is a real Rabbi it's number one number two even more important than that is to actually start doing research yourself open the books open the open the open the open the see what they say and you'll see that what they say unfortunately is very very different very different tone very different language than what many rabbis including Orthodox Rabbi say many times people tell me oh you know a uh why are you speaking so harsh about someone that violate Shabbat why you speak so harsh about someone that does this or that I said me I never spoke a harsh about anybody in my life as far as in religion what do I care if you keep it or not because what do you mean you said is Idle wor I didn't say it I just repeated what God said I didn't come up with it you look at Rabat Chapter 30 this is what he says you look at every Shabbat book ever written in the previous generations this is exactly what they say you look at the the book of laws that we have in seven different places it says it I didn't make it up ra didn't make it up this is what it says I say somebody tried to uh um uh you know I don't know I guess bust my chops today and he um I guess it was posted somewhere that uh to watch our kiru movie our kiru movie is like a 14 minute movie about the significance of doing kiru and helping people come back to Hashem and do chuva and this hero says but does that mean kir through love or through screaming gay he's specifically addressing me call calls me by name he's like is that about love or is that by screaming gay to people implying that I scream Gom in every shoe apparently I guess he hasn't watched many of my Sho but okay now here's the thing if you look at what they say in the books it's 50 million times worse than than what I say what I say is ganed next to what the sages wrote ganed what I learned today with r FR I can't tell you I learned today with r FR certain things about reincarnations reincarnations and he tells me what happens certain sins that people make whether it's adultery or stealing or uh wasting seed all types of stuff it's a very mystical Shure we had today and uh showed me you know said we we studied the book together it says this sin according to the Torah gets reincarnated as this this sin gets reincarnated as this this thing happens to this guy this thing happens to this guy what he said I can't tell you it's that bad do you understand so people are say oh no g g what G if I'm I'm sugar coding things but I can't steer away from the truth so told us this was already a disaster in the world of t a long time ago and one of the main reasons is because we forgot that m is an obligation m is actually an obligation from Tor you actually have to learn M every day and the reason why is because the whole purpose of your life is to fix yourself the only way you can fix yourself is the first if you acknowledge there something wrong second you start learning things that you could apply to your life m is what that's the part that you learn so before I go any further I asked I told you guys that you could ask some questions and so why don't you ask some questions then we'll continue go ready go okay Rabbi yeah uh in the Torah it says uh when we talk about the beer yeah the they use the word t which is mean destroy mhm so if we don't destroy our be in scraping it you know killing it that's what it mean so what so what does it mean what you mean is like no I'm ask you're asking what it means what what is I'm asking you like you like say you know that it's not that it's not a Commandment that we should be but the other hand emphasize clearly that it says don't destroy the beard okay next question okay I'll answer it through through the lecture go next I get the question yeah next I have a question um ask like five questions we'll make us year and uh according what happens in last um M was under the impression that Hashem would forgive him somehow and change his mind and let him into the Earth is so my question so and know only that moment there other events in to that the you see some uh decrease made by Hashem no but my question can a decree made by Hashem can be revoked okay next okay um what is the purpose of the sacrifice back to the kot the sacrifices I mean it's part of a repentance of sin but uh there's more details to it okay next the rest of the you guys know we should wear K all the time one converted or oh you obligate to wear keepa all the time or not the simple answer is you're actually supposed to wear a k it's a rabinal mitvah but technically you're supposed to cover your entire head a real kipa like for example is the way the rambam wrote which covers the entire head so the bigger the kipa the more you follow following the uh the ways of our sages uh and the reason why we'll talk about it in a sh go next four that's four next one five anyone has online good question uh uh this is another thing that impressed me very much is the different of the uh in m and okay it's some how it it's it's the the the the the is kind of different The Ten Commandments The Ten Commandments that's another thing and that's a question I was about to ask you today but why why is it different yeah they're different there's Ten Commandments but there for example slightly different how they're written yeah for example in some I don't remember exactly right now in par says let R your your your mules to rest and in the other say or your animals don't specify it and respect your mother and your father so you can leave more and then in the other one it says so you can have more no no no I get you it's one says uh sh one says uh keep keep Shabbat the other one says remember Shabbat the first your creator it's your creator then in the second one you see remember Hashem that he took what of of mising okay so we got okay so here's the question if I remember if I don't remember remind me one is uh the beard if it says don't destroy your beard then it's not a commandment right uh two the purpose of sacrifices three uh mosu prayed and he didn't wasn't forgiven can a decree be forgiven can a decree be forgiven divine decrees are are they forgivable are are they revocable I don't said revocable revocable okay change it okay that's three four is a uh the difference in the the difference Commandments do we have a five fifth one what's the fifth one okay uh when we talks about your neighbor we said uh my neighbor to me find Jew is a Jewish god and then the Gentile repeat that again we talk about love your neighbor you know yeah love your neighbor okay okay is is is a is the neighbor Jewish is the neighbor non-jewish right I mean it's first of all is I should look at my neighbor as a Jewish person before and then a Jewish and then a gentile first a Jews then a gentile yes Jew always takes presence over Gentile simply because you're obligated to love your brother whereas with uh a gentile you're obviously supposed to not be but uh D go ahead ask a question we already have five but let's go go for more no they asked easy questions so you could ask a difficult one go ahead delete delete online is asking question we have to type fast cuz we want to start people going to log out um okay I'll keep looking at the screen while while I'm talking to see if you ask a question along the way I'll try to answer it all right this is number 54 now um the a is teachings of our of our forefathers of our of our sages and it continues here in mishna 22 is prosperity okay prosperity of the wicked okay prosperity of the wicked how come the how come the wicked Prosper said good question um so this mishna says the following for as you can see this is a very long it concludes two verses from the Torah from the book of Jeremiah and it says he he meaning razar benar it's the same anytime it says he it means it's the same Sage that said the previous mishna so he is still talking about the same Sage we learned about yesterday raria which was one of the presidents of the San uh was very wealthy was a giant uh sadik and uh and he was elected to be the president of the sonin when he was only at the age of 18 um the details of the story we actually talked about last night so we won't repeat it but anyway he continues and he says anyone whose wisdom exceeds s his Good Deeds what is he like he's like a tree whose branches are numerous but whose roots are few then the wind comes and uproots it and turns it upside down as it is said in the Jeremiah 7:6 and he shall be like an isolated Tree in an arid land and shall not see when good comes he shall dwell on parched soil in the wilderness on assaulted and uninhibited Land End of quote but one whose Good Deeds exceed his wisdom to what is he like to a tree whose branches are few but whose roots are numerous even if all the winds in the world were to come and blow against it they could not budge it from its place as it it says in Jeremiah 178 and he shall be like a tree planted by waterers spreading its roots towards the stream and it shall be not it shall not notice the Heat's arrival and its foilage its foliage uh shall be fresh in the year of drought it shall not worry nor shall it cease from the yielding fruit so it's actually much simpler than than it sounds in so many words rabar aaria says do you have a spine if you have one you'll stay close to God if you don't you won't it's in so many words theat the simple how does he say it he says it in this following he says someone who does very few good deeds in comparison to how much he knows he knows a lot he knows a lot of Torah he read read the he read T he read a little bit he read this he read that he read this but he keeps to himself he doesn't necessarily keep everything that he learned about he's learning it more on intellectual basis than he is for the purpose of action was a giant Sage to the extent that he was able to revive the dead says this such a person that knows a lot but his deeds are not a good match they're not in the same level he's like a tree that has many branches but few Roots where if a wind comes it's very easy to uproot this tree because the reason is when a tree has more more branches more leaves it becomes heavier so that knowledge AKA those leaves are actually bat for the tree when there's not many roots if there's a lot of roots if it has a good hold on of itself it's good it could hold as many leaves as it wants but if you have very few roots and many leaves that's the first tree it's going to fall over as soon as the wind comes as soon as there's a some type of uh hurricane that's the first tree that falls so here he says and what is it like it's like someone that makes fewer good deeds in comparison to his wisdom where Essence is wisdom is like poison and says the Torah is called meaning it's called the drug of life but drug of life where if someone knows how to use it it'll give him eternal life if someone doesn't use it then it'll get Eternal death it's either so the same person that learns toah can get two different things from it it could either destroy him or it could build him so he says this guy is learning tah he knows the laws he knows about Shabbat but he says no it's not relevant to today anymore no it's not good for me doesn't fit it's hard for me like a lot of people say the modesty laws women obviously and men are obligated to be modest in Judaism when you're a precious Jewel you're not supposed to expose your Priceless possessions to the world Hashem looks at each and every single Jew and each and every single creation that he has as something Priceless especially when it's especially when it's human beings soem says you're not supposed to show that to the whole world you're supposed to protect it if you had a100 million Diamond you wouldn't throw it in the air to see what happens in the middle of the street what would you do you'd cover it you put it in a safe you put a few bodyguards around it to make sure no one sees it no one looks at it even if anyone asks a question he suspend ious he's suspect why you asking questions about my diamond now is that diamond any less valuable than your wife then why is your wife walking around half naked if the diamond it's $100 million is not more valuable than your wife I mean if it's more valuable than your wife you married a one woman or maybe you're the wrong man but the point is that if you think that something that's a stone is more valuable than a human being you have a problem but if you realize that your wife is more valuable than $100 million diamond or a billion dollar Diamond then you have to ask yourself the question why would you put bodyguards around the diamond and put it in a safe and cover it and protect it and everything but your wife that's priceless and your daughter that's priceless walk around showing everything to the world this is the ality of the tah you're not supposed to show everything to the world there's a time and a place for everything and not Everyone's entitled to see everything so here is telling you if you know this rule you know that you have to be modest as a Jew you know that you have to be modest as a non-jew you know that you have to follow certain laws but you say no you know what everyone else is walking around with shorts so why shouldn't I modesty laws don't apply anymore to our generation everyone else walks around with a long wig why should I have a scarf on my head everyone else walks around with t-shirts why should I wear long sleeves it's hot our grandparents used to live in a desert but somehow they weren't hot we are hot with essential air conditioners you see the logic here it's complete 100% yet but the point is that if you know that you're not allowed to do it and you still do it he says that your knowledge is working against you you actually get punished twice for it one for making a sin two for treating AEM with casualness thinking that you could just change his laws he says if you have such knowledge and you don't actually do something about it eventually you're going to become a complete 100% K and we'll talk about the details how in a second he says when he mentions a verse in the Torah uh that uh answers one of your questions the verse is and he shall be like an isolated Tree in an arid land and shall not see when good comes he shall dwell on part soil in the wilderness on ass salted and uninhibited land so here the prophet is speaking about one who places his trust exclusively in human efforts whether it's his own efforts or somebody else's effort instead of relying on God so whether he earns his living legal way illegal ways irrelevant the point is is that he's that person the Prophet Jeremiah is comparing him to an isolated tree that's going to eventually collapse and is never going to receive the blessing from Hashem so the question that someone asked online is why is it that some people that are violating the law of hasem every single day as Jews get blessings they drive a Ferrari they have a big house they have a lot of money in the bank they look happy look happy theoretically they're happy first and foremost I can tell you from being around around a lot of those people that have a lot of material I've never met I've never met one that's actually truly happy I've met some people that were content with certain parts of their life but as far as happiness I've never met a non-religious person that's Happy I've met a lot of lot of people in my life in the business World many people in the religious World also but as far as the material one thing I know from sure from experience is money has nothing to do with happiness all it does is that it enables you to arrive to your problems with the limousine Tau US money in essence is a battery it's a battery that is so supposed to give you the power to enable you to do look if you're going to use it properly and you use that money properly for the purpose of what hasem said listen I give you the money for MIT then hasem is going to refill it he's going to refill it he's going to refill it he's going to give you more power if not then he's not necessarily going to take it away sometimes he takes it away what happened with the camera yeah strange um guess this is an interest no it's BR battery um if as you can see Satan is working so is a good important question if yeah it doesn't doesn't matter why if the person uses this fuel this money that Hashem gave him the right way it entices Hashem to refill it entices Hashem to recharge the battery on the other hand if he doesn't use the money properly sometimes hasm takes it away but many times he gives him more he gives him more money logic last week's Pala last week's Pala hem says my lovers the ones that keep my Commandments I pay them for thousands of generations this is in chapter 7 verse 9 I pay them for thousands of generations but my haters which is the opposite of my lovers obviously the ones that don't keep my mitv I pay them cast to their face to destroy them I will not delay their payment will pay them cash to their face what is this like the snake that violated the word of AEM and said about the first sin that happened in the world was the snake line saying about saying that hasem said one thing but he didn't it wasn't uh them eating from the Tree of knowledge that was the second sin first sin was the snake actually lying about hem saying about hem and Hashem says says you are you are cursed forever and what does mean he says you're cursed forever where you could eat everything but it's all going to taste like like waste like soil meaning you're going to have all the money in the world everything is available for you to eat everything is available for you for the taking all the money in the world is yours all the cars in the world yours all the houses in the world yours all the companies in the world your everything is yours just don't talk to me don't pray to me why when do people pray to Hashem when they don't have any money when they when they have some type of need everybody becomes religious as my dear friend Fidel told me everyone's religious at the hospice center The Atheist is religious the Christian is religious the Jew is religious everyone's religious and hospice Hashem says you're cursed once you get to a level once you get to a point of being a in the eyes of hem he says I'm going to give you everything but not because it's a blessing because it's a curse what is it like going back to our original analogy of a battery if you're good he recharges if you're bad he puts extra voltage to the point where he ruins the battery he gives gives you so much you puke it he gives you so much you're numb to it he gives you so much you start caring less about it everything else becomes meaningless a guy that buys a new car every three or four years gets excited usually when he's about to buy the car a guy that buys the car every two years less excited a guy that buys a car every year less excited I met a guy that bought five Range Rovers in one day a football player got a contract on his first day of the contract he bought five Range Rovers for him and a few of his friends family and so on aside from the fact that he's broke now the uh for obvious reasons the point is is that he was only excited when he bought it just two weeks later he wasn't so excited about the five Range Rovers he had to buy another car when someone gets everything material that they want it ends up being a curse not a blessing Hashem says when you get to a point of such Prosperity where you get so much it's not necessarily always a blessing it's in fact the opposite it's it's a curse so how do you determine whether it's a curse or not determine with the rest of the guy's life you see some of these uh issues are making the Torah very simple to understand first and from most the proof that money does not make one soul in the world Happy is the fact that suicide is a rich man's problem poor people do not commit suicide for the most part proportional to relative to rich people rich people kill themselves poor people have hope they don't kill themselves this is by far the best possible proof that money does not make you happy so when you see somebody that has a lot of money it's not necessarily a good thing now as far as the uh question you asked in regards to um M repeat it again is Heavenly decree is a Heavenly decree changeable so or or reversed so revocable so hasem does revoke his decrees if they're negative if there's a negative prophecy negative decree he could undo it if something changed but if it's positive only once in history has he changed a positive into a negative and that was during the BET mikdash during the bet mikdash he didn't want to destroy the BET mikdash and many times he was supposed to punish because they sinned against him they sinned against him they he said they're going to do but they didn't do so he kept giving them chances he said I wrote in my Torah I'm going to punish you okay but some one guy did chuva okay so give him more time give him more time give him more time one guy said this one guy did that one guy did fing one guy did finally his wife's going to the mik and so on but eventually he got to a point where there was no one willing no Rabbi willing to tell the truth the says that as soon as hem says there's no one left in the world to tell people the truth about Torah meaning to tell them when they're sinning to tell them when they're mistaken because everybody was worried about other people's opinions everyone was worried about popularity everyone was worried about offending people the moment that he saw there's no one willing to rebuke he said I had to change something that I decreed I was supposed to be good the pleasant reward that I was supposed to give I change it to bad why did I change it to bad because originally I decreed when I created the world that I'll protect the righteous and I'll punish the wicked it says that originally hasem said I'm only going to kill the I'm only going to kill the secular people somebody doesn't keep Shabbat I'm going to kill him punish him someone keep Shabbat no problem he's good but then the not came to hem and said hhm it's not fair because the people didn't keep Shabbat because the rabbis didn't tell them it was so important the rabbis didn't make a big deal out of it they didn't lay in the middle of the street to stop the cars they didn't yell at people say Shabbat death penalty Shabbat they didn't say not allowed to drive on Shabbat they show instead they show the guy where to park sometimes Hashem says you're right they die first so inab page 54 for anyone who wants to look it says hem decided to overturn his own positive degree to protect the righteous and he ended up punishing them first why Hashem says they really weren't righteous they looked righteous from the outside the beard the Hat turban like Ram turb she see it all the way to the floor they know everything by heart he didn't rebuke says it's worthless for me why this mishna Mish says if you're going to learn Tor but you're not going to follow it it's worthless worthless if you're going to learn Torah but you're not going to follow what it says you my friend are are destroying the world says someone learns T but doesn't want to follow what it says it would have been better had he suffocated from his mother's in his mother's uterus meaning it was better that he never came to the world now you think about this okay somebody learned T they don't feel like keeping Shabbat they don't feel like keeping MIT they don't feel like keeping kosher they don't feel like keeping the about the beer they don't feel like doing it big deal saying it's better he didn't come to the world what the guy didn't contribute anything good to the world he gave a homeless gu he uh you know lend somebody else some money he was really nice to his wife I don't know he was nice why was really that much it was that bad to make a sin is that bad when you understand the depth of Torah you start understanding start understanding why it's so bad to sin against the now hasem says if you know what it says in the Torah and you don't follow you're destroying the world and it would have been better off that you died and you didn't come to the world why because before you came to the world 974 generations to be exact 974 Generations before Hashem created the world he created the Torah he took White fire and black fire and he used the black fire to write on the white fire this in essence is repeated today in a way where you see the SE is a white scroll and you have black writing and not pink or blue or red Tess's trying to you know emulate what Hashem did 974 Generations before 6,000 years ago so now hasem in initially the Torah was theoretical it's a theory meaning hasem say kosher kosher exist any everything but it's all in theory why because unless there's humans it cannot be fulfilled only human can eat kosher angels Don't eatm doesn't eat only humans can keep family Purity only humans can keep Shabbat only humans can do all of the mitvah the 63 Mitzvah only humans can do so in essence the only reason why hasem created the world was in order to remove this holy Torah from being in a state of of theory and put it into practice so in essence you are able to complete the mission and this is why the holy book say in essence when he created the Torah he became one with it when he created he became one with them it's all part of the same thing it's all part of him when one piece doesn't feel like being there you have a problem when you read the Torah and you say you believe in God but you don't want to do what it says you don't want to do what he says you're defeating the whole purpose of creation because the only reason you came here is to honor and sanctify the name of hem it says a person who doesn't find a way to sanctify the name of hem on a daily basis it would have been better off they didn't come to the world at all why what's your point the world's not you it's for him he's the world he's everything he only created you so you could fulfill the Torah because without humans Torah is theoretical he doesn't want it to be theoretical he wants it to be in action he wants to be a living Torah living Torah requires human beings requires so when fulfill the T they're fulfilling the purpose of creation when goes against the Torah they're defeating the purpose of creation they're destroying the world so now sometimes you have Ral MIT that confuse people so for example the issue with beard and T says that you are not allowed to destroy your beard but the sages which Hashem empowered them Hashem empowered the sages to put a fence around his fence and to implement certain laws based on certain Generations they were also instilled with wisdom from Mount sa of how to translate the exact meaning of these laws like for example when Hashem says wrap it on your arm and on your head wrap what wrap a string wrap a rubber band wrap what wrap what's how do we know what's inside is it just a cardboard box or is it made out of a certain skin can I make it out of lion skin or can I make it out of a deer or can I make it out of a cow can I make it out of a turtle can I make it out of an alligator imagine nice alligator skinn fine page 27 says no the laws are from we already know that the laws of from mountai we know they have to be black we know they have to be square we know what the everything we know about is there and one of the things we know is that it must be from a kosher animal must be from a kosher animal can't be from a lion or alligator this is from Mount Si we already know but it's in the so these very same sages that explain this that have not just their own interpretation of the laws but they have the laws all the way from Mount sa are telling us that when it says in the T don't destroy your beard it doesn't mean you must have a beard it means you can't shave with a razor close to the skin to the point where it destroys the root so destroys the root so that means even if you want to shave for example if someone wants to have a a uh no beard they have to shave shave with a buzzer not a razor and even the buzzer has to be an approved buzzer it has to be a um a kosher buzzer because many of the buzzers today or the Shaving machines today have something called lift techn techology and this lift technology is almost as good in some cases even better than razors it goes deep inside your face and takes the root out this is the same thing if you use that type of Technology it's the same thing as shaving with a razor and shaving with a razor just so you know is like eating six spoons of pig blood same thing it's six different sins shaving with a razor six different sins to such an extent it's such a big sin to shave with a razor that if aan you know you're can to have the holidays Yip or coming up sometimes they bring singers instead of Kim they bring singers someone has a good voice they want to be Kazan cuz he could read this is a problem because many of these singers don't follow Torah so they look like models they sound like a uh some famous singer but as far as tah they're ignorant completely they come in with a shave face like a baby if his face is shaved like a baby that means he's shaved with a razor if heble to raise the says he's not allowed to be even counted in a forget about being thean he's not even part of the Manan why is he not part of the minan says anyone that desecrates the laws of the sages on a regular basis is no longer part of so why is shaving considered such a high thing because because an average man shaves on a regular basis he doesn't shave once a year he doesn't shave once a century he doesn't shave once in his life he shaves every two days which means that if he shaves her a razor he's shaving every couple of days he's violating the laws of Torah and the sages every two days he's regularly going against the Tor can't be counterpart as a and definitely cannot be the and if you look at the page 16 at the end 16 or beginning 17 it says a who's not koser is bringing curses on the not blessings so be careful where you go pray on sometimes they have singers those singers are not helping you those singers are not helping you they have a nice voice but it's that voice is just bring from you understand and to answer the next question in regards to what's the point of theot theot were replacement or were um a way for us to repent our sins a way for us to repent our sins so for example when a guy accidentally not on purpose accidentally turned a light on on Shabbat accidentally then they says okay you have to bring there different types of you have to bring to bet mikdash to repent for your accidental sin now if he turned on the light on purpose there's no Kuan it's death penalty if there's Witnesses he was warned he turned on the light anyway it's death penalty there's no Second Chances but if he did it by accident says bring a aan why aan what eats the cow what does he do with the cow it's to remind you that really it's supposed to be you dying you know how they slaughter the Coan they take the cow they slit its throat they kill the cow it's a very very gruesome situation a lot of rabbis that's the first rabinal uh test that you take you uh you learn the laws of and part of learning the the laws of and so on is you have to learn how to be a you have to learn how to slaughter not learn theoretically you have to go to the slaughter house they have to give you a special knife you have to know how to check the knife with the nail you have to go through the knife if the knife has any bumps at all it's not a kosher knife can't use it has to be resharpened every time every you have to resharpen the knife again so if you're lazy your is not koser if your has pauses in it it's not Kosher if the animal suffers it's not Kosher you have to know how to but anyway I remember when I was a little boy my father God bless him he took us on PES he used to have this Minag I don't know whose Minag this is but in Israel they have this Minag where you go and you actually put a sheep's head on your p table sheep here we do leg fish EG Fish Head something where they came from they'll put the head or if they didn't put the head they just killed the whole sheep and eat it throughout all of PES anyway my father when we were little kids I was maybe I don't know 5 years old six years old me and my brother was a couple years older than me he says I'm going to take you to the butcher now we're little kids we don't know anything we just go ABA wants to take us sure excited to go with ABA anywhere if you could go to the bathroom with them you go to the bathroom with them you're excited it's ABA so you're running R going with with my Dad we go to this Butcher and all of a sudden we see all these animals and we see one of the guys taking one of the sheep cute little sheep he takes the sheep and they pin him down and like what's going we have no idea what's going on here next thing you know he slices his throat kills the Sheep you start seeing you know the the feet move I will never forget this vision for the rest of my life it's the most horrifying thing ever awful awful awful awful I don't know how anybody can be a God bless them it's such an amazing profession because you have to be a if you're if you're just a vicious person you're a vicious person but if you're have serious y because you know it's hard to see it for anybody including the but you're doing it for so anyway so seeing it as a kid when they asked me do you want why don't you go study to be a rabbi I said what to be a to be a butcher never in a million years I already have the vision from when I was 5 years old never in a million years I'm going to take this course put a knife to anything I'm scared to cut my steak you want me to cut this cut the sheep from this memory of of 30 something years ago so anyway hasem says in reality theban it's very you know gruesome situation but nonetheless it's a reminder that really it's supposed to be us supposed to be us symbolic symbolic that it's supposed to be us getting the death penalty for violating the laws of hem so hasem is in inflicting the punishment of death on the animal instead of on his child but now after the BET mikdash was destroyed we were no longer allowed to do corot as a matter of fact the laws of corot changed a couple of times throughout history before the mikash we were able to do individually brought to Noah brought to abah and yob brought to they all brought to in the uh original bet mikdash of the desert really the Tabernacle the desert the mishan they brought there but as soon as the BET mikdash was built there was a new law you're not allowed to have a Corban a sacrifice anywhere outside of the bet mikdash you are no longer allowed to doban on your own if you want a Corban you have to come to the bet mdash this in essence forced people to come to the BET mikdash several times a year which in essence was one of the goals but that also meant that once the BET mdash was destroyed there was nothing to replace it so for the last 2,000 years we have not been able to doot soem already gave us a solution he says to the prophet OA in uh Chapter 14 verse three take words with you and return to hasem say to him meaning do CH say to him may you forgive all iniquity meaning forgive all of our sins and accept good intentions and let our lips substitute for Bulls meaning let the words coming out of our mouth the prayers substitute for the Bulls which used to be theban used to be the sacrifice so today when we pray it's considered aan each time today when we do it'san so people they know how to do sometimes they know how to do part of it they know how to eat thank you they know how to eat but they don't know how to say thank you so good say name of is there is there any similar mention on the Torah like you read now from M meaning from the five books of Moses yeah like as literal as that there's something else but not as literal as that one okay cuz at the time of the five books of Moses it wasn't a uh there is uh ways that kazal translates certain verses to to mean that but it's not the same thing like as literal as that one that's the most literal one that I know of at least but as far as the um thank you part is people have a very easy time eating but hard time thinking so sometimes they look for excuses to get out of it so they'll eat one slice of pizza because somebody told them that if you only eat one slice of pizza it's and not this is not really true this is not really true this is a madeup thing in order for a pizza to be it has to be made from much much more expensive ingredients than what your Pizzeria is willing to make it with the the the bread is not baked the same way it has milk in it it's a no one does it put it that way you I I don't believe there's more than one place in probably all of America if there is a place at all that has real meso pizza if you're eating one slice of pizza it's Mi if you you know how to eat always if you know how to eat you need to know how to pray especially since you know that the prayer of is from the Tor as a matter of fact it's from this week's hasem tells you in chapter 7 uh verse uh 10 you will eat and you will be satisfied and bless hem your God for the good land that he gave you you know how to eat good you know how to be satisfied from eating comes natural no problem bless AEM say thank you say thank you what's thank you it's the number one most important blessing in all of Juda is is more important more important than people play around with it and they say oh I forgot I'll do it later I'll do it this I'll do it that so even though you have 72 minutes from the time you finish eating to do you should know that based on you're supposed to do it at the place you ate you're supposed to do it says you're supposed to do it where you ate so if you eat here bread supposed to do here not oh I'll do it in my car I'll do it in my car so I'll tell you a story that happened in it also remind me in this uh in this book it's a very good book highly recommend for people to get this book it's um it's called by uh the the C Edition it's really good anyway and it says about about and it has the in it anyway uh it's in thear it says that um you're obligated to do Theon where you ate now if you forgot forgot you ate you know how to eat you never forget to eat anyone ever here ever forgot to eat one time he forgot to eat for three days he forgot to eat for three days him I if he told me if he says I forgot to eat for three days you can believe it why he was glued to the Torah 24 hours a day so you could see he didn't sleep for 3 days he didn't do anything for three days other than learn t for three days him forgetting how to eat it's fine no problem I believe it it's a real story me forgetting how to eat me you forgetting how no chance in the world we know how to eat so if we know how to eat we need to know how to pray to hm and thank him for the food so now it says if you forgot to pray at the at the place you ate no problem pray immediately wherever you are you don't have to come back even though it's a there's a difference of opinion one says you have to come back another one says you could pray wherever you are but the goes you could pray where ever you remembered it stop pray at that moment okay you're in the car already stop the car pray says what if somebody eats he knows he has to pray but he says no no I'm going to pray on my way I'm going to pray somewhere else I'm not going to pray here intentionally going somewhere else to pray thear says one guy did that and as soon as he left the resturant he had he left he ate he knew he had to pray he didn't feel like praying I'll pray later let hasm wait for a little while what happened he said Lions attacked him and killed him as soon as he left the restaurant Lions appeared out of nowhere and killed him now my wife God bless her she had a phenomenal K I said what is the what is the talks about this Lions what does a lion have to do like why would Hashem send a lion why wouldn't he send I don't know a bull why didn't he send a bull why didn't he send I don't know a truck why he send a lion because if you notice in it says the it says in remember that so it says so it says says this King salvation performs kindness on us um for et for David and his descendants for eternity so here Lions can be impoverished and hungry Lions they can go hungry and die but those who seek hem never lack anything Lions goes hem decides Lions stop that no problem but if you're one of the few that seeks hem worships hm honors hm you're never ever going to starve to death it's against the nature that hasem instilled in the world and David says I've been young and I've been old and I've never seen a righteous man starve or his children looking for bread never it's against the nature of the world unless there's a decree on the entire generation because the Crea entire generation it's a different story so now she says hey now I know why in the it says the guy that decided that he wants to pray somewhere else was molded by lions why because it says in that the Lions can go hungry so the lion did go hungry so gave him something to eat you don't want to do fine I'll feed the line with you simple so now yeah so there is a I heard that there is a standard is there and a standard version of there are some type of reductions or small versions I don't know put it so yes says the first paragraph wrote first paragraph M wrote when we went to mount sa second paragraph yeshu prophet of that led after yesu wrote second paragraph after we cross the Jordan sea split the sea again went to yeshu wrote second paragraph third paragraph king of Israel David and his son WR third paragraph after that the the the wrote all the and then the last paragraph m is again so you see the Giants of all generations wrote the obligation of from it's not it's not biblical so now hasem says men have an obligation to learn to men have an obligation to fulfill the entire T to a higher extent than women do and the reason why is because women have the responsibility of building the home they have a responsibility to take care of the kids the kids are not always soldiers waiting for the commands sometimes they want to draw on the walls sometimes they want to jump on the wall sometimes they want to go inside the wall sometimes they want to climb the ceiling sometimes they want to do all types of stuff so Ima is very very busy managing these kids so so the IMA doesn't have as much time as ABA so sometimes if the IMA really really is M has no time whatsoever there's a shorter version for her if she has small tiny little babies that are going to start crying hysterical because they need to be fed and they're not going to get the food from Walmart they're not getting the food from shoppr right they're not getting the food from any Supermarket they need to get get the food from IMA the baby that's three four 5 six seven months old only gets the food from IMA he doesn't get it from he doesn't go to the store by himself so she can have a shorter version for her because she is in a precarious situation with she has no time five kids no time ABA on the other hand does not have that okay and even if the IMA has grown kids she no longer is allowed to use it either so if IMA has grown kids she can't use the same excuse she used when they were babies cuz now she has time so the shorter version of bone is available but under precarious situations but again the appointment Del lay the appointment sometimes you have to run late you run late sometimes you have whatever you have to do is no problem the key is is that if we have time to eat then we have time to pray so the everything else is everything else is just an excuse so the goes with it right if you if you have time to eat then you have time to pray you don't have time to eat then you don't have to pray you don't have time to pray don't eat right that's why he an honor or he said big respect 100% he gave you food you're not the very the the the smallest amount of decency would be to say thank you if a homeless guy got something a normal person that's you know has his mind still in his head he going to say thank you if a stranger opened a door for you you'd say thank you if a stranger gave you a piece of gum you'd say thank you but maybe you throw it out cuz he's stranger but the uh the point is anyone gives you anything you say thank you Hashem gave you sustenance you're not going to say thank you doesn't make any sense the same thing goes with when people leave the bathroom one of the my personal favorite blessings is this it's actually the reason why we had these posters made that I give you guys before we have these and I mentioned I think a few weeks ago whenever I mentioned it we have these posters made and uh there there are other ones in the market but we thought that uh we could do something that's uh you know has our logo on it has a some uh blessings on it that are in addition to uh or schoot in addition to what's uh out there and more importantly has something more aesthetic you know some of the stuff that's out there a lot of people don't like it they don't want to put it on the wall they say it looks you know uh childish or or or whatever or cartoonish so we wanted to put something that was is a little bit more aesthetic a little more in line with what people like and also something that's um it's going to last for a while so we have this poster actually made from plastic it's very durable could get wet whatever and also it applies to you know it could be uh used by anyone if you speak Hebrew you have the Hebrew writing if you don't speak Hebrew but you want to learn Hebrew you have the transliteration so an English way of uh pronouncing the Hebrew words and if you want to just know what the meaning of the words are you also have that too so all three of them are there plus you have certain scho or where you get from whether it's in uh job or Psalms and so on and several nice things anyway we made this thing why did I make this thing why did I pick this out of let's say anything else simply because it's very it's something I can connect to personally and most people don't appreciate the health until they lose it like I said in the hospice center everyone's religious in the hospital usually they start becoming religious start asking about God but when you're healthy and everything it goes good no one asked any questions when I was 26 years old I had practically no problems with my health once in a while have a small little problem but nothing but then at the end of that year life changed and I realized that the simple deed of going to the bathroom is 100% a miracle every time you bring steak chicken uh apples oranges KitKat bars whatever Hashem takes all the good out of it allows you to absorb it and give you health give you sustenance he takes all the waste and it gets out of your body without any help that by itself is a simple Miracle now what's a bigger Miracle is that in this blessing it says that if one of these openings closes or one of the things that's supposed to be closed opens you wouldn't survive now most people don't really believe that or if they believe it they don't really put it into their conscious mind maybe it's in their subconscious mind but it's not they don't really understand it consciously they don't apply to their day-to-day life so they think I went to the bathroom big deal everybody goes to the bathroom the chicken goes to the bathroom you can go to the what's the big deal the big deal is that if you weren't able to go to the bathroom it's the worst possible feeling in the world and if you go to the bathroom too much thear specifically says if you have stomach problems a person that has stomach problems righteous obviously not someone that's a someone that's righteous and has stomach problems where they go to the bathroom too much and they suffer from stomach throughout their life they don't see G they do not see G how that's how bad stomach problems are considered in sh and anyone who doesn't understand stomach problems trust me when I tell you you almost prefer Gom for it so here you have a blessing you go to the bathroom this is a way to say thank you how you say thank you hasem I know that sometimes I don't think about it but I just experience it if it works I don't consider anything bad but it the second it doesn't work the second you can't go to the bathroom Life Changes whether you're 20 or 50 or 100 any mature human being can understand the significance of this you put this on the wall every time you finish going to the bathroom you read this and it's good to have the poster and to actually read it from the poster because when you read something instead of doing it for memory which most of us do naturally to do it for memory it's better always better to read it from something than to do it from me memory because the AR said that even he himself the AR we know all the secrets of the of the from the AR he say even he himself reads from a why he says that's the only way you're going to have 100% kavana full meaning only when you read the words you have this on your wall it's aesthetic it's nice it's durable and so on we're trying to raise some money with it hopefully people want to buy it but it's only five bucks but if somebody can't afford it they can have it for free we'll send it to you just do the mitvah For Heaven's Sake if you have money great send it you could sponsor them if you don't have money we'll send it to you anyway just do the point is is that it's a uh it's it's an amazing blessing I can connect to it because at some point in my life I lost my health and hasem gave it back to us this is one of the things that I connect connect to so anyway here we have a mish tells you that when your foundation is weak you learn T here and there you know a few rules you know what Shabbat is you used to be religious but you fell off he tells you the reason why you fell off is because you started taking the Torah and picking it apart you pick this you said n this is not for me ah this one's not relevant ah this one is not for me you started picking different parts you like you don't like he says your Deeds weren't even close to your knowledge and as soon as you don't implement the Torah you destroy the world on the other hand one whose Deeds exceed his wisdom to what is he likened he is likened to a tree whose branches are few but whose roots are numerous even if all the winds in the world were to come and blow against it they could not budge from its [Applause] place as it says the Prophet Jeremiah and he shall be like a tree planted by water spreading its roots towards the steam towards the stream and it shall be not he shall not notice the Heat's arrival and its foilage shall be fresh in the year of drought it shall not worry nor shall it cease from you building food so here the Prophet Jeremiah is the Prophet Jeremiah is actually talking about a person that trusts in hem if the person trusts in Hashem that's a good foundation that person will be rewarded for this foundation for having such a foundation now what's the what's the reward for it the reward for it is eternity why because you pass the test now sometimes I hear stories from people who say listen I don't really know much I'm already 30 40 50 60 70 years old I want to do chuba but I don't know much how do I know if Hashem is going to accept my chuba I've been sinning for 30 years 40 years 50 years how do I know I mean how do I know how to do everything and so on so the key this Mish is actually answering this question he says first and foremost what's the sign of of of true Chua is you do everything you know you know do it you know do it you know do it you know shabat do it you know K do it somebody came to and he told I don't know how to read I don't know how to read so I can't be a but I want to do CH I want to I want to continue doing what I'm do go what do you do now says today I wake up I uh I know that the uh Rabbi say to wash your hands I wash my hands he goes then what he goes then after that actually first he says I I say thank you to Hashem for bringing me back to life okay after that I wash my hands fine after that I go to the besset okay after that what do you do he after that put the on was I didn't know how to put he like I see the rabbi he did it so I follow the same thing okay after that go I say go I know goes I heard the RAB say it a few times so I say now also okay after that I go eat he goes where do you go eat I go eat something kosher goes how do you know eat kosher because I heard my Rabbi said you have to eat kosher after that I go pray later on in the day how do you know to do M he goes my Rabbi said to do this this and this and he goes through his whole day he goes perfect do everything everything you just told me just say everything you just told me every day just say it every day it's fine he goes why what do you mean just say it goes when you say you're already saying said you should say you should thank for bringing back your that's already on the morning second is you're saying you have to watch was your hands you have to wash your hands you're repeating on learning after that you go to pray do that's says you have to do in the morning and at nightma twice a day you're following it and also you have to why do you have to do why don't you just talk about I don't know bubble gum and and zoo animals why says CU you have to repeat The Exodus what happened at The Exodus every day what happened at every day that's why they picked okay after that in the you have toay after that you do that's also from all of these things you said to me they're all all laws of the T if you just repeat it that's already learning T so even if you don't know how to read you don't have any excuses you don't have any excuses even if you don't know how to he goes just the simple fact that you know that you have to say thank you to hem when you wake up already shows that you can be a sadik why think about it for a moment why do you have to say thank you to hasem when you wake up in the morning why thear says when someone sleeping it's 160th of death it's technically death it's 160 of death so the fact that the comes back already we should say thank you but K says that's not the reason why you say thank you when you say you say meaning in essence you had mercy on me and you had in meem had mercy in me why so the sages explained that every time you go to sleep your goes to sh it tells hem hasem today he stole today he ate n koser today he looked at a girl wasn't his today he did this today tells on youm look what he did this rash look what he did today he ate this he did this he overcharged he complains against you why is it complaining against you it's supposed to be partners because no says it says to hem hasm I don't want to go back goes to sh and it says I don't want to go back look look he's ruining me I was pure I'm part of you Hashem I was pure I was clean I was perfect you put me in his body look what he's doing to me I don't want to go back I don't want to go back hasem says you have to you have to go back butm I don't want to he goes you have to go back because today I have today he's going to do cha that's why you say it's not the you have inem it's the that has in you today you're going to do cha today the day he's going to eat kosher finally today the day he's going to watch his eyes finally today's the day he's going to wake up on time go pray with Manan today's the day he's going to actually learn to instead of looking at Sports Illustrated or some nonsense magazine today he's going to do cha I have a in him today he knows that you're not going to do because he knows the future but he Hasa maybe it's going to change maybe you're going to change maybe you're going to overcome your yet he has a but the doesn't want to go back so when the finally is forced to come back in you you say thank you for that thank you for forcing her to come back because without her I'm nothing I'm just a piece of meat you understand so now when a person knows that the Torah was only brought to this world to connect to us to make to remove it from being theoretical to remove it from being unpractical he knows that deed deed is more important than learning doing says what's more important learning versus action they Define it as learning that leads to action which in essence means action why learning by itself it was better off if we just learn and don't do hem says it was better off you didn't come to the world just doing with no learning you're going to be a all the people that are not religious are just doing whatever they want they don't know what they're doing they think that they're pleasing Hashem every Jew in the world even if the atheist said no hhm loves me if there's a God he loves me why I heard somebody says all of Israel share world to come so if there's a God The Atheist says he loves me anyway yeah but you don't believe in him yeah but he loves me anyway cuz somebody said it he had a beard he had a hat and he looked religious I thought he was a rabbi so people assume that they're okay everything's okay I can do whatever I want and I'm going to be okay just doing doing doing stealing it's okay cuz I'm stealing from the rich I'm giving to the poor who's the poor poor I'm the poor I was poor now I'm rich see I did a Mitzvah flawed logic people that have flawed logic destroy the world and in essence thear is saying if you learn in order to do that's the ideal situation that's what the says they supposed to be doing cuz just doing by itself you'll do something wrong people say no no I've been keeping Shabbat for 5 years I said okay did you learn no I just know I don't have to learn you know light electricity don't drive in a car don't smoke a cigarette go to Cog pray eat everything's good I said yes in theory that sounds good but most likely if you haven't followed and learned all of Shabbat it's 100% chance you're violating Shabbat not not a small chance not 90% chance not even a 50% nothing 100% chance you're violating Shabbat why simple things simple things that you do that you don't realize are not allowed on Shabbat for example when I first uh started keeping Shabbat at least I thought I was keeping Shabbat like I was supposed to I thought as part of my on Shabbat I'm going to make sauce fresh on Shabbat by taking tomatoes and grinding them on Shabbat to make nice fresh tomato sauce on Shabbat later on when I started learning Shabbat I realized hey I'm violating Shabbat by grinding the Tomato you're not allowed to grind later on you start realizing hey fine this is not allowed so you don't grind Tomatoes fine later on you start learning you start learning you start learning oh wait a minute every Shabbat I eat let's say I'm just giving you a theoretical example I eat pistachios now if you eat pistachios and you taking the peel and throwing it in one bucket and eat the pistachio that way you are violating Shabbat it's called B you're not allowed to separate the waste from the good so how do you eat pistachios you have to put some good good pistachios in the waist in the little uh little bowl that you're putting the waist in put a few good pistachios in there or some people say no listen I want a clean house I don't want to have dirty dishes everywhere so women wash their dishes how do they wash their dishes they know they can't use the the uh the dishwasher right they know they can't use their dishwasher so that they know no problem but they wash it with hot water they wash the they wash the dishes with hot water because hot water is makes the dirt of the dishes come out it's violating Shabbat you're cooking okay they stopped stop using hot water now they're just using cold water which is a little annoying so they use gloves and the sponge and they clean it that way problem again why the sponge not allowed to use the sponge the sponge is sucking the water is absorbing the water you're not allowed to do that you have to use a type of sponge it's not really a sponge it's more of like a uh has holes in it it's like a net so you see just these handful of simple things that means pretty much you have most of the people out there violating one of them if you don't learn Shabbat you're violating Shabbat this is not me saying it it's kazal saying it so the point is that when a person knows that they need to learn and with the intention that this learning is going to lead to deed we have a good we have a good strategy why he says because even if you don't know much now you're going to gain knowledge because hasm is going to give you the Hashem is going to give you special help from Heaven because you are taking whatever you know and you're implementing it you're implementing it so even when you make a mistake it doesn't count against you to the same extent as if you did it without learning in the mishna in it says if your mistake that's shed you made a mistake you by accident violated Shabbat accidentally you didn't know how you didn't know that you weren't allowed to do one thing accidentally you violated Shabbat if it's because you didn't know due to not learning because you didn't feel like learning you just didn't feel like you wanted to watch sports you want to go work uh extra long hours in your business you want to go hang out with your friends you want to do anything else you didn't feel like learning if it's because you didn't learn then that unintentional sin turns to intentional why because you didn't learn intentionally but if you made a mistake you learned but you made a mistake because you haven't learned this yet it stays mistake stays accidental sin so what does hem look at you like when you're a new B cha or a new convert he looks at you like I look at my babies Hashem looks at you when you're a convert you're officially zero someone a student converted let's say 6 months ago now she's 6 months old she's not 30 years old like she thinks she's in hashem's eyes she's 6 months old she's sometimes younger than our kids 6 months old someone did CH brand new baby andm brand new baby 1y old 2 years old 3 years old 5 years old a bunch of little babies running around doing CH now what happens if the baby first time baby Sarah got up we were very excited two seconds later she fell good she had a cushion from the diaper and she got up again we got excited and she fell again and she got up fell got up fell started taking a couple of steps fell now because she was only a year old it's cute we laugh we're enjoying it we're celebrating it's the greatest thing in the world he's seeing a little girl walking the first time I can't wait to see Oya start running around already he's jumping around in the shower like he wants to go on a horse so he starts seeing his little boy walking it's going to be the greatest thing in all why cuz he's 5 months old now she's two years old they're tiny little babies they walk they run they say a word it's the greatest thing in the world that's the Bala when you fall cute to look at my son look he just violated has no idea it's so cute but he's learning he's going to get to it it's another 20 pages in his book the book that he's reading it's 20 more pages he's going to learn that today viol but to me it's cute now why is it cute he's a baby baby doesn't know better he's cute but if he's an adult 25 30 40 50 60 years old and he starts falling on his buz like hey hey oh you drunk something wrong with you are you high go get yourself together stop falling all over my kitchen all over my living room you understand when someone knows and still violates Shabbat hm doesn't look at it as cute it's not cute at all when hasem sees someone that has a beard and a hat someone that's already been learning T most of their life waste seed it's not cute at all when someone has been learning Tah for many years and still looks at women that are not his wife it's not cute at all when someone has been going to the bedet for 5 10 20 years and is still driving on Shabbat there's nothing cute about it zero zero cuteness Why by now you should have known you're not allowed to learn to drive on Shabbat you drove on Shabbat to the for 5 10 20 years and you still think it's cute there's nothing cute about it but if you're brand new you started doing Shabbat you started keeping Shabbat now doesn't matter what age you are you're a baby why because this mishna is telling you your Deeds are exceeding your wisdom Hashem knows you don't know but you're trying your best you're trying your best it's good it's great because when someone implements the Tah and does everything they can to fulfill the Torah he says no could take him down he's like a tree with not many leaves because he doesn't have much knowledge but he has good roots what's his roots his roots is his roots is a good foundation he wants to fulfill aem's will why because he has good roots the roots are the roots are based on something good it's something realistic has started the the the the musar movement a couple of hundred years ago and already in his book he says the spiritual disease continues to grow and there's not enough doctors and the reason why there's not enough doctors for the spiritual disease is simply because there's only one medicine the medicine is to teach M to teach fear of the almighty because once a person fears the almighty AEM himself says he'll stop sinning once he's afraid of me he'll stop sinning and this is why the the all of the sages just give you a few a few examples in chapter five of uh is this is what the sage said in his work the author of he says the main thing that everyone whether it's a Torah scholar or a Layman both men and women must study one page of M seph every single day each person should choose a work that is appropriate for a station and level whether it's or later languages and he says at this time I am personally taking it upon myself this is one of I'm taking it upon myself to study mus with both my students and the layman in the community every day before starting every class in in in anything I will review with them a page ofad from his lessons of rebuking and reproofing people this way the students will be neither devoid of fear of hem nor gravitate toward its worldly desires one who learns from these books each day will comprehend the serious sins that he committed and the evil Deeds that he perpetrated the word of hasem will make him shake and quiver so that he will turn away from Evil and do good this is previous generations this is not 500 years ago says without such study without it will be impossible for a man to stop the flood of disturbing thoughts that fill his mind with vanities of the world there is no man who on his own accord turns his heart away from from sin so in the in chapter four of the of the famous work of he says one should engage in contemplation of fear and M for at least one hour per day this is 300 years ago he says every person needs to contemplate about the punishment from Heaven the fear of Heaven for an hour or day he himself has to do it for an hour a day us we should do 24 hours if he does it for an hour a dayes we should do it for 24 hours moving on go to VNA everyone quotes these in every lecture everyone quot every single Rabbi quotes these rabbis everybody quotes it just this part that don't quote so I'll do it for you the V says studies of M few times each day is a must in his famous letter he wrote this letter to his family he says amongst the books in my library is with translations into the vernacular also he has seph and Other M books I also include my son-in-law in this exhortations it is important to learn and in particular with the mid of as well as for our sages tell us that which means proper conduct like we learned today precedes the Torah or yesterday in essence he says without without proper conduct there's no way that the Torah is going to go through your veins there's no way that your Torah is going to get to your heart how do you learn proper conduct learning what the consequences are the he writes in his book it's proper to set a fixed timear study for the greater the man the greater the evil inclination Lisa the author of he says I jure you today to set a fixed time every day for M study for in a multitude of our sins our hearts have become stoned and only through m is the heart softened only through M now the one that shook me the most is these next actually two that shook me the most is these next two lived in the late 1700s and he writes in uh his famous work NE he says before engaging in Torah study before you start learning your Torah it's critical to get yourself in a ready fashion meaning mentally ready to study Torah how do you get it with a pure heart and fear of Heaven let him Ponder his creator for a moment by doing so he will be removed he will be moved and repent for his transgressions and be P become purified a person may may briefly stop his Torah studies for this purpose so that the fear of God that he accepted at the beginning of his study will not be extinguished from his heart in that interlude in that break let him contemplate a new fear of Heaven for all of these rabbis that say no no you shouldn't be scared of God you shouldn't be scared of God the Torah is teaching us quite the opposite and the sages even more so they say it's a prerequisite to learning tah it's a prequisite to Judaism says the beginning of wisdom is fear of God Alexander sisin and he says studying on a continual basis will help implant wondrous pleasures of heavenly fear within a person's heart and the fear of hem will thereby be increased so here he's telling us you actually having fear of God is a pleasure because it's reality it's a real connection a real connection with it's the greatest thing you could possibly have so he says it's clear that man has an obligation to investigate and comprehend the judgment and Punishment of the upper world and all of this is found in the works of fear and M meaning you have to every day think about what happens in sham when someone sins he say it's an obligation to think about that it's not something that's far away not allowed not for you I'm not ready no no he says you actually have to to do it that's the way you purify your soul that's the way you built a good foundation with real Roots where if some K comes to you and asks you a question or throws some argument at you you don't just leave the religion because you don't have the answer like some people do they don't get an answer so they leave Judaism because of that or they see some guy with a beard going against theem and say oh so the whole thing is fake the reality of it is the people that fall off because they never had a good foundation they had no roots the strongly adjured every person to study uh books of fear and M on a daily basis and he stressed that you are not allowed to skip it even for a single day the would start every single one of his with mus every single every single sh he ever did he would start it with musar specific speically focus on and the one that really Shook Me Up was what AB denig said he lived also in the late 1700s he was a major P meaning he decreed laws he translated applied it to our life he a looked at certain and so on by Rao uh gried is based on his rulings just to explain to you how much of a giant he was he was one of the three biggest PIM in that generation or in several generations and the was based on his rulings he was one of the main pem that the rulings are based on and he writes in an ala book this is not a m book in a book about the laws of Judaism specifically talking about yum Kip he says it's Elementary meaning obvious that each and every person has an absolute obligation to study the works of heavenly fear daily whether a little or a lot this is imperative this imperative is greater than all of the other obligations to study T even if such daily study is going to take time away from other studying he's not allowed to skip M even if it gets to a point where he doesn't study he doesn't study he doesn't study other parts of the Tor but he studies mus you did good but if you're studying everything else you're not studying M no good it's book he says if there's no fear there's no Torah and last but not least R RAB wrote the in it's written by him the BET and he says in the book that he was an angel an angel would come from sh and learn with him we can't even draw an angel he had an angel study with him you understand what we dealing with here an angel angel from sh stopped what he was doing came to RAB who only thought about Tora day and night he'd study with him K like we're studying right now he study with him K every day so he writes in his journal everything that happens to them every day what the angel teach him what he say what he do and he writes in a journal the angel rebuked me today he says why didn't you study M today the angel from sh came to him and rebuked cares rebuke them why didn't you study enough today you understand so anytime you hear different places that tell you no no we don't do rebuke we don't do M we don't do that you tell you don't do Torah either then because m is Torah cuz that's the part that build you the roots that's where you have the roots because the is going to come to you the is going to come to you at some point in your life you tell you why you're not driving on Shabbat show me in the Tora it says Don't drive on Shabbat show me where does it say car in the in the where does it say you have to grow beard in the T where does it say you have to lay that are black in the where does it say this where does it say that if you're not tell me you're not going to know all the answers as a matter of fact there's a situation right now that was brought to my attention a guy started doing CH recently I don't know a year two years three years whatever he did and some K came to him and says listen he started throwing some questions at him and the guy didn't know the answers he's like don't worry about I'm going to bring my Rabbi with you we're going to meet you you're can to ask me questions he's going to know the rabbi's going to know so he goes to this guy's office with a rabbi but the guy is a professional c meaning a problem is's a serious problem so unless you're trained to know how to deal with these people unless you train specific subjects not just not just a basic Mish not just basic you need to know serious serious stuff to know how to deal with a K as a matter of fact rambam says You must learn enough to deal with a Cel to deal with a heretic why if the heretic comes you're responsible now this rabbi this young student they go to this guy's office which is M like going to the lines Den they underestimated him I know who the guy is unfortunately he used to be a kiru rabbi who just decided that after a bunch of people embarrassed him his ego was hurt so he decided to go against the Torah now it's not because of the Torah it's because of him and his ego but anyway so now what he tries to do is make other people leave the Torah and he gives them questions that only someone that's trained can answer so the guy is sitting in his office off he's asking them questions which are serious serious questions they don't have answers and the Rabbi says I didn't study this stuff so now the student who doesn't know that most guys look at rabbis as Moses young guys young girls they look at every Rabbi like they know everything you don't know what you know they don't know what T is they don't know is they don't know what to is they don't they don't know anything you just think the guy's a RAB he knows everything they don't know this the Torah is an endless ocean not every Rabbi knows everything not every Rabbi knows the same thing so now this Rabbi wasn't trained to deal with a Kel He looks foolish it becomes a and they both leave empty-handed and now the kid is in trouble because now he's thinking maybe this maybe this now he's got saf in his eye in his head why does he have saf why does he have sa in the first place why is he even in his position to even question anything it's not because of the Cel it's not because of the Cel no don't let that go into your mind for a moment that he has questions about Judaism because of the K it's not because of the K it's because of the rabbi why because the rabbi did not train him well if he trained him well he would train him with you have you don't go to the office of a the fact that the went with him to the office of the K means they both have problems not just the K because when you have a good foundation of you know that one of the most important obligations in the Tora is not to put yourself in Jeopardy who do you think you are you going in front of the unless you're trained unless you're specifically trained in it who do you think you are putting yourself in danger putting Aman in danger putting yourself in danger who do you think you are go deal with a you know what it is who do you think you are you're going to go talk to a missionary think that you could debate them everybody wants to debate now everybody wants to be a famous debator no let's debate they send me letters they send me comments I want to debate you debate me about what do you know one plus one good at least you know something the rest of what you say is everybody wants to be a famous debater can't just put yourself in danger for for no reason everybody wants to debate Christians now all of a sudden do a favor don't debate anyone debate the debate the Tor debate your yet don't debate anyone unless you're a serious serious professional you know the whole book by heart you know the entire Tor by heart you know the entire by heart you know the our Tor not theirs not their garbage our Torah because then you have your everybody wants to be a famous debat the guy just started keeping Shabbat two three years ago wants to be a debater what debater who you debating so here he tells you why all of this is happening it's not because of the K it's not because of the missionary it's not because of all these things it's because of us we have a flawed system right now because a system is no longer the system we got from Mount SI system we got from Mount Si says the first thing you need to build on is as soon as you steer away from that you have a problem you have a very very serious problem and to finalize this point I'll give you a little I know you guys like so also connects to this mishna also says means reward starts this will be the reward when you heren these ordinances you you have you follow the laws this is the reward so is what hasem wants to give you now the word is made out of three letters bit bit how do you to to write out the the actual each letter meaning a spell out the word a which is and and uh you so when you spell it out you get a few Secrets within the word a a first of all is the reward that hasem wants to give you if you take out the middle letter of each one of the letters if you spell out the letters you get UD V numerical value total 26 what's 26 God V and he is the same is a total 26 UD V and UD also 26 next if you take the last letter of each one of the letters which is noon p and t you get philosophy and desires so here you have the the reward is what hashm wants to give you but what's going to stop this reward the three biggest dangers we face now truth is Christianity philosophy is this modern style mentality everybody wants to be a philosopher a debater or modernizer and all this scientist stuff that goes against the Torah and last but not least the most difficult of all your desires your desires you can't control your Des desire and your love for money you're never going to finish your Chua you can't control your desire and your lust for women you're never going to finish your chuva you can't control your desire for all types of bad character traits you're never going to finish your chuva you hang out with philosophers you're never going to do Chua you hang out with missionaries and Christians you're never going to do chuva you don't do chuva you can't connect to you don't connect to you can't do reward how can we actually do all of this we have to make sure that we have a good foundation we have good foundation means that Foundation starts with first understand who you're dealing with once you know who you're dealing with you already have fear you already have basic level fear that basic level of fear is going to lead you to do once your actions exceed your knowledge Hashem will give you extra help to continue growing continue doing better you're already connecting with him once you get to that point he'll protect you from these K he'll protect you from all this other things that are going to try to get away try to just change your direction because you have a real connection what's your question is uncle aob is Uncle I mean ankle ankle ankle yes a is also ankle yes so Rashi actually gives the uh the um commentary on it he says that the um MIT in essence are the like the ankle meaning it's the foundation you have to do the mitv in order for you to have a good foundation the MIT is what gives you the uh connection to just like if someone who doesn't have any ankles can't stand right or heels heels not the not the ankle heel yeah he he yeah next did anybody else ask questions online I think somebody asked the question let me see is there sepher you recommend learning shabat yes y YF is in English learn it there's a uh it goes over um most of the laws the the section of Shabbat is completed it's three books it's y if you're Safari um that's the but also they cover also ashkanazi rules too so is the best one for alabat uh let's see who else ask questions so right Kenston cafeteria okay cafeteria Judaism it's funny uh any other questions let's see hold on I'm going to the beginning [Music] uh pick up Theon we did that already pazon in English is available you can get it in apps there are apps you get the sidur app uh on for free on your phone you get bazon in English and Hebrew and Russian and different languages at the times of the temple how many times a day did people pray three times three times a day that's what every kban was representing one of the prayers the uh prayers come from came from came from and came from uh list 48 cases where chv is not accepted yes one of the most important ones to know is someone that's someone that causes other people to sin is CH is not accepted but it doesn't mean doesn't accept it where he can't do Chu it just means that there's no there's no help from heaven for them to do cha uh who do you know that keeps all of the Torah who do I know that keeps all of the Torah I know people that try to keep the whole Torah and that's what we get paid for we get paid for trying our best how can I have a true belief in hasem if I haven't experienced revealed Miracles like and the great sikim are not around uh you don't need miracles in order to believe in God if you look at the mirror that's a miracle simply because you have balloons or something that's even thinner than a balloon that's better than any camera in the world that's telling you what's in front of you it's called your eyes and that eye is looking at something that was made out of sand called glass you take sand you heat it up few thousand degrees you add a couple of chemicals to it you make it glass now what's the difference between glass and a mirror one time there was a rich guy and he wasn't always so rich used to be used to be learn some Tor all of a sudden he left he went to the business world started making some money started doing well and it begin he gave eventually he started making big money he stopped giving so one time his Rabbi comes to him and he says I want to thank you for coming how are you how are you and he takes him to the glass to uh he takes him to the window he goes what do you see goes I see people I see this I see that and he says okay look at that way what do you see I see myself in the mirror goes what's the difference between the glass in the mirror and the glass on the window he says I don't know they're both glass he goes the only difference is KF means silver in order they're both glass but what separates the two is that the one what makes the glass into a mirror is that there is that there is silver in front of it but K also means money he says before you had a lot of money you saw everything clearly you saw the other side of the street you saw people you saw the world around you as soon as you have some money you only look at yourself understand so if you see yourself in the mirror it's already a miracle and there's plenty other Miracles that you can see if you just pay attention uh thank God for the TR okay thank you for coming um also that uh okay so uh 83 others I think that's it as far as [Music] questions I think that's it I think that's it yeah you guys have any questions did I answer all the questions that you asked in the beginning of the lecture beard Moses the difference between the difference between why the The Ten Commandments okay so the Ten Commandments difference it's very simple it's actually the simplest uh thing is that there's additional laws that we learn from the way hasem writes the Torah hm writes the Torah not like we write a book Hashem writes the Torah in specific language where he uses certain letters to spell a certain word and then in a different place he'll spell the same word in a different way and the sages had enough wisdom that was Heavenly wisdom that hasm gave them that they were able to translate new laws sometimes even from a simple letter a certain letter that was spelled differently so to give you an example um a uh sometimes you have a uh law that's implemented from if they add the word o o means or if it means or then it includes a lot of things but if they didn't put O then it just means that's think specifically just adding just two simple letters changes everything now one of the things that I want to always remind people is that learning T is not like learning anything else if you're learning T really not you're just learning T like you're learning a history book then it's a waste of time but you're better off not learning because it'll go against you but if you learn T and you learn M you learn how to implement certain things then you could literally get to a point where you could improve yourself to such a high degree that you become a much better human being because the Torah is the most ethical document ever written it's the most ethical religion ever that ever existed to such an extent thenat in um I believe it's page 23 23 yeah 23 it gives you the laws of PA means wig but it doesn't mean wig here means the end of a field and in the end of a field you everyone that had uh field and they would plant and so on they were obligated to give the end of the field to the poor so there's laws in the gar about how to give money to the poor when to give it so now the gar specifically says You must give the end of the field at the endend so the question naturally is why can't I give it in the beginning why can't I give it in the middle why can't I just give this I'm already giv why you telling me when to give you going tell me what to give I'm giving the money I should call the shots right that's what we think we think I'm gonna buy an Aliah in Yip I'm gonna buy Aliah in I'm gonna donate money I'm GNA say I'm going to donate money to the Bess but I'm GNA pay whatever I want don't tell me when to pay I'm GNA pay whatever I want why I'm giving the money say in Hebrew the one that's the owner of the hundred is the owner of the opinion this is against the Tor one of the ways we learn learn that we learn it from the laws of the laws of PA tell us that you must give the end of the field the part that's you're obligated to give to the poor at the end why at the end there's several different reasons there's four different reasons one of the main reasons is that the poor need to know exactly when they're going to get their money so you don't waste their time so they're not just sitting there idly doing nothing just because he's poor doesn't mean you're allowed to waste his time just because he's poor does not mean you're allowed to waste of time even though you're giving in sham they say you're not giving anything you're giving my money hasem says it's my money you're not giving anything you're just delivering what I gave so you're giving it I give it to you you're going to give it to my son you're not allowed to waste his time you have to give it him he needs to know when he's going to get it so this is very important for people holidays are coming up they like to say they're going to donate to synagogues and to this and to that or people tell me going to donate to B I'm going to donate to this I'm going to donate people make a lot of promises I'm going to donate I'm going to donate I'm going to donate and they figure you know what if I'm already going to donate I'll donate whenever I feel like it who is he going to tell me to when when to donate you should know you're not allowed to do that you cannot make people wait you can't waste people's time can't waste people's time this is very very important to know because again a lot of people for whatever reason or another they feel like their time is the only time that's valuable no one else's time is valuable there's other reasons of why the laws of show the ethics of Judaism but here you see how hasem treats the poor he treats them with even higher level of respect than the rich there's no law that says you're not allowed to waste the time of a rich person I mean you're obviously not allowed to do it it's called but in general here you have specific law saying you're not allowed to waste the time of the poor which is the one person that everybody thinks you could just do whatever you want with him like he's a duffel bag or something just because he's poor goes no no no there a specific law says you have to treat him with honor you have to treat him with honor so there's no religion in the world not Islam not Christianity not Buddhism not nothing no religion in the world that actually has laws protecting the poor and I'm not talking about protecting the poor being alive I'm talking about protecting the honor of the poor the honor of of the poor no religion has roles to protect the honor of the rich even here we have in the Torah we have LW to protect the honor of the poor if that's not Divine what is only something Divine would do such a thing because humans don't think like that humans don't think I need to protect the honor of the poor you understand this is the beauty of Judaism when you dig deep down in in it and this is page 23 in theat but people most people don't learn right away they learn they learn they learn other things so it may be a few years before you get to shabbat but it's there the deeper you go into tah The More Beautiful You see it is that's why when someone goes against the tah it's only because of either his desires or his ignorance it's never because of the Torah never so please remember Tora is divine all the answers to all your questions doesn't matter what questions you have you can connect him to any part of theah that's that's that's what makes it Divine and since we already know it's divine remember thank hasm every day you have learning T you have learning if you have to pick M or anything else you have to pick M because m is going to allow you to fix your inner wirings to such an extent where you're going to find more time to learn everything else whereas if you learn everything else you're always going to find an excuse of why you can't learn m is going to make time for other things amen thank you very much [Music] [Applause] [Music] n [Music]