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Look up. Miss, but you'll have Sorry guys. When I manage This is coming to children music. >> We had a few songs this week. Ext. They don't know if we'll be cool. I don't know. Shalom. Questions alone. We're back here on our Wednesday night rabbi. We're after some you guys will ask some questions and will give us the answers. Tonight's show is going to be for and all of and all the righteous noises that continue to support, continue to donate on our website, continue to help us publicize the Torah all over the world. Anyone that wants their name mentioned in the beginning like some of you have asked me could uh also sponsor the lectures. You could sponsor on the website. You could also do lots of different things that you can do once you go to the website bzem.org. Uh also for those of you that uh want to see all the different things that uh we have available now, you know, whether it's the uh uh the films or uh the uh BH kids or the Chuva music or the different uh languages that we have our uh Torah in, whether it's Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, German, uh Dutch, uh and Chinese and many other languages you we have a new uh link tree uh profile. The link will be uh below. And over there you could simply see all the different things that we have including of course the very uh beloved AI rabbi app. So with that being said, we're going to go into and compare where is back then to where it is now. Because at the end of everything, we see that people are waiting for the Exodus, the next exodus, the salvation. In Parad, we learn about the last three plagues that Akadosh Bahu brought upon the heads of the Egyptians, destroying the country, destroying the most powerful civilization uh that existed not only at that time but ever uh until the time of Nebuchadnezzar, which Hashem told them he will be the most powerful until Msiah comes. Uh but of course uh ended up being uh destroyed and did not uh live uh forever like he thought he did uh because he was simply delusional. But nonetheless made him very very powerful uh for the few good things that he did by feeding the poor. And it seems like small things get big rewards. Especially if we look at this para with the world's anti-semitism and the war against the Torah continuing to heat up and get worse from day to day. People are constantly looking for that salvation, the next exodus. And it seems like the Exodus came, according to people that don't look into the details, it came for a few small things or seemingly small things because everyone that reads what the sages have said, AmI is at the 49th level of tuma, of impurity at the time of the Exodus. Seems like we're there today also, perhaps even 50. But nonetheless, they had merit to get the salvation. And the sages tell us that they preserve their names, their clothing, and their language. That was the merit, which seems simple enough to observe even if you're surrounded by idolatry and you're a slave. But perhaps we're going to look a little closer into it and uh look at the actual facts of today as well to see if we could look at things from a more correct perspective. But since it's also the ula of the Babasali Babasali Keshim also bring you guys some insights of who the Babasali was. People that are familiar with the Babasali know that the miracles at his hands were literally fluid and constant. Whether it's getting the uh young man that was a injured as a soldier and lost his ability to walk to start walking from parapilgic to running in a matter of seconds or the countless people that saw miracles in their own hands by just in their own eyes when they literally saw that the babas using the same bottle of to pour endless amount of glasses literally barrels of being poured. No one's getting drunk and the same bottle is being used the whole time, although covered. Because anything that's a blessing, the sages always say to keep it covered. This is also why we say to women that are newly pregnant, not to tell anybody about it for as long as possible, but certainly not anything earlier than three months. And if you could hold it off from telling anybody, including your parents and best friends for more than that, you should. Why? Because blessings are best kept when they're hidden. Nonetheless, the miracles wasn't the only thing that the Babasali was known for in the world of Torah. One of the things that everyone knows about the Babasali was that he was a ga. He was toiling in Torah non-stop his whole life. became a dian in a such an early age that today people literally barely know how to read the basics of puskim at the age he became a dian. Aside from that the babasali was well known to go into a room for a week at a time fasting the whole week and all he did was learn Torah. But what can we do that people love miracles so much they forget the toil of Torat that that's required in order for miracles to come to your hands. So he's very well known for the miracles. When he was alive very few people that didn't know him that didn't go and see it for themselves gave him the type of honor that he deserved. Most of the honor that he got was after he passed away 42 years ago. The Babas Ali even as a young boy when he was six years old, his father was a big rabbi sadik and there was a gil wealthy businessman that uh would come visit his father from time to time from all of his international trips and he would bring him gifts. In one of those trips he brought him six gleote. In those days they wore those full uh you know the u kftans that uh are unfortunately more common in the Muslim world than they are in a Jewish world today. But the safari Jews wore these for many many years including Egypt. So he brought him six and six-year-old Baba Salali asked him did you buy me one? And he said no I I I didn't. Why not? He said, 'I forgot, but I'll remember next time. And the next time he went on a trip and came back and brought some gifts. Well, did you buy me the kftan now? No, I didn't. I forgot, but I'll remember next time and I'll get you three. And the third time he went and came back, I forgot again, but next time I'll get you three. And the young Baba Sulli says to him, "If you have anything left, of course, this was a little unusual for a young boy to say, but everyone found out what it meant because on the next trip, this businessman had a massive fallout, losing literally almost everything that he had with the exception of a small little uh warehouse that He had some goods in just enough to make ends meet but he lost all of his wealth in a very very short period of time. At that moment his father said you have you have to use that mouth just to give blessings. The Gil realized that the young boy was not a regular, not a typical young boy and he came and he asked him for a blessing and the Baba Sali told him go and sell the things you have in that small little warehouse and will give you. We'll give you and his blessing was fulfilled and the man became very very wealthy relatively short period of time after that. And yes, he did buy him those gleote. After all, the Babasali was a young pure heart, but he didn't take anything for granted. He literally toiled and toiled over Torah day and night. And the reason why he went to Nativot wasn't because it was the first place he went to. In fact, he first came down from Morocco to Israel. He went to Ashkalon. But when he found out that there were some people that spoke against the Baltov, the next day he told his goodbye, we have to leave this place. Someone spoke against the Balshto and literally they left right away. He could not deal with anything that was against the Torah or its sages. And needless to say, he went to a place where he knew that he the city needed help because there were many Arabs that were kidnapping Jewish girls and doing all types of horrible things. And he knew that he needed to bring kadushivot and that's what he did. In one of those days where uh they decided to do some renovations on the Babasali's house, they need to take down a wall. They hired some workers And these Arab workers worked all day on one wall and could not succeed in taking down the wall. No matter how many times they smashed it with their sludge hammers and how much they did everything they knew. It was as if the wall was steel. At the end of the day, they gave up. He said, "Listen, we've never seen anything like it. We'll leave it." At that moment the babas came in and he saw the frustrated workers. What happened? The wall won't come down. Come with me. He followed the babasali curious of what the old man is going to do. He took his staff, tapped on the wall three times and said, "Now you could take it down with one shot." They hit the wall once and the whole wall fell down. But the Baba Sali was not impressed with himself or these miracles. He knew who his owner was. He knew who his maker. He knew all of it was in the name of Hashem. In Palad we see that is getting to meet his maker. Plague after plague. In the last three plagues you have the complete annihilation of Egypt as a powerhouse. First with bugs, with the locusts, then with the darkness that was actual physical darkness that the prophets say will happen also at the end of days. Only this time it will be 15 days of darkness rather than six in Egypt. There was three and three in Egypt. Three where it was darkness where one person could not see the other and three where they couldn't even move either. Wherever position you were in, you were stuck in for another 3 days while you were hearing the scariest voices and scariest things in the world in the uh around you from all of the Shindalim that were roaming the land. Nonetheless, the last plague where killed the firstborn is what changed everything. What caused to beg Mosheu to leave? Get out of here. You, your people, your children, your uh animals, everything, go. And on top of it, the Egyptians gave them a bunch of gold and silver and clothing and everything. Something similar happened on a much smaller scale about 2,000 years ago. The tells us a story of one of the sages, Yosi Ben Kisma, who his sons, his two sons, Tuttadim sons, were taken by one of the Romans as prisoners and he enslaved them. And when when when Kisma found out who has them, he went there himself with a hundred gold coins. And he told the uh Roman, "Here's a 100 gold coins. Go buy yourself different slaves. These are my kids. Give them to me." The Roman laughed in his face and shooted him away. The Sadik was not worried. The next day he came back, knocked on the door again. This time he sees that this Roman is suffering in agony of pain, stomach aches like he's never seen before. He's never heard of even. Says, "Give me my kids. I'll give you 50 gold coins." Huh? You don't even want to give the hundred? He goes, "No, 100 was yesterday. Today it's 50. Go away." The next time he came back, he told them, "I'll give you 25." This time, the Roman was in more agony and pain than the first few times combined. But his honor, his ego did not allow him to release the two kids. But the pain got so bad that the next time he came back, he told him, "This time, if you want me to take my kids away and your illness, you will have to pay them labor costs for all the time they worked for you." And that's exactly what the Roman had to do. And that's what he did. And you seem said this is just like what we saw in Parad where brought down and his country of Egypt to the point where initially they didn't want to let us go for any price but made it so that by the time the 10th plague came they begged us to In fact, Mosherenu tells Pero in chapter 10 verse number 24, he tells him ahead of time, even you, meaning even you will place in our hands feast offerings and elevation offerings, and we shall offer them to Hashem, our God. meaning he already tells him ahead of time, you don't want us release us now. No problem. In the end, you'll beg us to leave. At that time, thought that this was just one crazy joke. But he realized it wasn't. As we see the Torah continue, one plague after another gives more and more reasons to let Am is go. But when the last plague comes, it scared Paul more than anything because the Torah tells us in chapter 12 verse number 29 translation. It was at midnight that Hashem smoked every firstborn in the land of Egypt. From the firstborn of Po sitting on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who were in a dungeon and every firstborn animal. So here learned the hard lesson that doesn't only control the water turning it to blood, the animals in the water, the animals in the land, the weather, nature itself, where he puts lava and ice in the same hail that fell on top of only the Egyptians that were outside, the bugs, night and day. But here he shows him that controls life itself much more than you control your own bodily systems where he specifically killed the firstborn. But not just the firstborn that people were aware of, but rather the firstborn in every household, which exposed much of the immorality in Egypt. Many women would cheat on their husbands and therefore have multiple firstborns in different h houses. Firstborn with this guy, firstborn with that guy. But no one knew. Well, on that day, they knew this one died cuz he was the firstborn of the first husband. That one died cuz he's the first born of the second husband. That one died cuz he's the first born of the third, fourth, fifth, 6th, 17th, 18th. Realized that knows a whole lot more than we could ever even imagine. And akadoshu also punished anyone that benefited from Amish is harm. So much so as even the ones that made fun of them in the prisons in the dungeon. There were those that were in a Chevy in the dungeons. They were prisoners of the Egyptians. But they enjoyed the fact that Amis is suffering as slaves. They laughed at us. No different than all the jokesters that go on television and YouTube and all types of places and scream out anti-semitic remarks, piggybacking and plagiarizing off of the anti-semites that preceded them in previous generations, whether it was Hitler or the uh uh uh Martin Luther, all the other throughout history that literally copy and paste from generation to generation the same nonsense that's repeated for thousands of years. Whether it was their delusions about Jews, uh, you know, doing things that are, you know, killing people and eating them as matzah or it's a, uh, like some of the fools here say that they, uh, pedophilia and all types of things that in fact they themselves are guilt guilty of, they blame us. But nonetheless, here made sure that anyone that had any positive emotion over the Jewish suffering suffered tremendously. As the verse says in verse in chapter 30 in chapter 12 verse number 31 for there was not a house where there was no corpse. When the judgment came it came hard and everyone knew the address of where it came from. The question is under what circumstance is having a Jewish name, Jewish clothes and the Hebrew language enough to get somebody the salvation because that's what it seems like. Those were the few merits we had. But in fact, the Torah tells us the details. In chapter 13, verse number 8 and Nadu tells us what he expects of us in order for us to get the salvation tomorrow just like we got today. for and it shall be for you a sign on your arm and a reminder between your eyes. This is referring to the for all of the fools that insult the sages for saying that we have to put on as if it's an invention like as if they have some type of uh business out of it. This is one of the many places where Torah tells us the obligation of a Jew to put on every single day except Shabbat and holidays. In fact, page 17a says there are certain people that will go to gayom for only 12 months, but some people will go to gayom forever. Even after the msiah comes, the salvation comes. Six out of the seven chambers in gum will end, but the seventh will never end. And one of the examples that it gives as a someone that will go to gay forever is someone does not put on feline The Torah tells us this is a reminder for us. What's it for? So that Hashem's Torah may be in your mouth. For with a strong hand, Hashem removed you from Egypt. Here akadosh Bahu is telling us through his prophet Mushe that a kadosh Bahu removed us from Egypt with a strong arm and kazal tell us that Hashem had to make a super miracle in order to bring us out of Egypt. It wasn't a typical miracle but rather miracles upon miracles. And in order for us to have the miracles tomorrow, the miracle of salvation, we have to do the same thing. What is it? The signs that we had back then and the actions that showed that the Torah is in our mouth. From there, we get the hint, one of many places of what is expecting of us. The sages tell us that Am is during the Exodus was in the 49th level of impurity, many sins. But yet found a reason to release us. And the in section number five in the name of says that is had a little bit of merit. What was the merit? They did not commit immorality like the Egyptians and other nations. They did not speak. They preserve their names, their clothing and their language. And the Midashba further adds, what does it mean? They didn't commit immorality, they didn't sell their wives. Can we say the same thing today with the horrible stories I keep hearing from different communities that tell me that there are sick people that exchange their wives with their friends to fulfill their lusts, pathetic, disgusting people. And some of them even call themselves religious. And unfortunately, I've heard this a number of times from different people. Each time I simply want to end the conversation and literally undo my ears. Sick people. Sick, disgusting people. In Egypt, the Egyptians did that, but the Jews didn't. The Jews did not do such a thing. Even though it could get them to be freed, it could get them some type of credit, some type of less pain, some type of benefit. What benefit do you get now for selling your wife other than endless gay and an inevitable divorce? and many mim because even when you decided you don't want this anymore, who says she's going to agree? And for those of you that think that I'm making this up, what benefit do I have? I've heard this in Florida. I've heard this in Los Angeles. I've heard this in New York. Literally, there are sicknesses in different places. It's a plague. A plague within. But everybody pretends like everything's okay. No, no. Why are you mentioning it? Because it's happening and it's been happening for years. But it's not a lot. It's not. We're not talking about hundreds of thousands of people or anything like that. The fact that it's happening even with two people would be too much. Especially since some of them claim to be religious. You'll see them with a keepa. You'll see them in a shul. And of course, majority of people are as far from religion as possible. That's not the surprise from that part. A person that does not have a god to obey has no reason in the world to think that there's anything important in marriage or or any type of loyalty to anything. But the disgusting vile part is when it comes from people that pretend to be religious. This is the that's within. This is what happens when a whole generation of rabbis refuse to talk about immorality in public. Rabbi, why do you keep mentioning wasting seed and all the punishments of gay? People don't like that. I don't care what they like. I tell them what they need to hear, especially since nobody else wants to. One rule of thumb that the sages have taught us many times and I've brought you the sources over the years. Anyone that speaks against the topics of immorality, meaning not against like saying it's bad, but rather against somebody like myself that tells people not to do it, you should know for sure they are themselves a criminal. Why? person that makes the wicked people seem as if they're righteous and the righteous person as if he's wicked both the wicked person and the one that's justifying the wicked person are considered an abomination in the eyes of Hashem and says these are the you will at the end of days. But tells us that immorality was not a problem. The midash tells us that immorality was not a problem in paratr section 32 paragraph 5 elaborates further on one of the things that seems like it's not a big deal that we preserved it. What is the meaning that Am did not change their names? That's a merit. You didn't change your name. So Ruven STAYED RUVEN. WHY IS THAT A MERIT? Says the Midrash. Ruven and Shimon came down to Egypt and Ruven and Shimon left Egypt. They didn't call Yehuda. They didn't call Wuven Luanu. They didn't call Ysef Leis. Didn't call Benjamin Alexandri. These were the names of those times. AM KEPT THE NAMES. YSEF DID NOT BECOME JOSEPH OR Joey or Johnny. We kept our names. FINE. BUT WHY IS THAT a merit? Our own very dear friend had an extraordinary kush based on what the says in page 7b. The says in the name of Lazar that by name of the le's mother showed she has prophecy. Why? She said he's called asen. See my son. Why see my son? Leah said, "See the difference between my son and the son of my father-in-law." Who is his who is his uh son of his her father-in-law Asav? Okay, we understand that was at Sadik and was at But what does that have to do with anything? Why is it why do you require prophecy for regarding Asav the son of my father-in-law even though he voluntarily sold his rights of the firstborn to Yakov my husband as it's written and he sold his first uh his uh birthright to Yakov in the book of Genesis chapter 25:33 three and it's written about Asav and Asab harbored a hatred to a Jacob even though he sold it. HE HATED YAKOV AS A result and it also says that it's because his name was called Yakov that he outwitted me these two times. Meaning Asav complained about what he himself decided to do selling his birthight. However, regarding my son Reuven, even though Ysef took the right of the firstborn from Reuven against his will, where it says in the Torah and when he defiled his father's bed, his right of the firstborn was given to the sons of of Yseph. This is written in the book of Chronicles 1 5:1. Even though didn't want to give up his firstborn, it was taken away from him by Ysef. Despite that, Ruven was not jealous of Ysef. Rather, he even tried to save Ysef's life. where the Torah itself testifies in chapter 37 verse 21 heard and he rescued him from their hands. Now, if you think about the details here, who had all of the reasons in the world to hate Ysef? None of the brothers that sold him lost anything to Ysef. Okay? So they saw that Yakov is favoring him, spoiling him more than them, but they didn't actually lose anything as a result of it. What? They didn't get the special clothing. Fine. But even if somebody else got it, either way, it would be only one person. But nobody actually lost anything to Ysef except yet. It was that saved his life. When he saw that the brothers were about to kill him, he said, "No, no, no. Don't kill him. throw him in the hole. We don't want blood on our hands. Then it was his turn to go serve his father Yakov. And by the time he came back, which he was going to use as an opportunity to free Ysef and bring him back to his father, he discovered that Ysef was already sold. Sold to the Ishmael. Sold to the merchant. Sold several times before he got to put. and it was too late. But why does this require prophecy? We had other wicked people in history whether it was K or it was Kaman as a uh Ishmael. Why is the story of telling us that Leah had prophecy here? You could just say she married having a good son and her righteous father-in-law also had her good son which was her husband Yakov and he had a bad son. I mean technically even Abraino had a bad son Ishmael. Why is Rashi telling us here that was named based on prophecy of his future actions? And therefore his name influenced him in a positive way. Comes Rabime and tells us here we see the secret behind why am I is did not change their names. They saw that that came from their grandmother was named in such a way that it literally influenced his actions in such a positive way. He's memorized and commemorized in a amazing way. But in fact, it's even more than that. Akadoshbu told Abrainu that his DESCENDANTS WILL GO DOWN TO EGYPT. Meaning we were going down TO EGYPT NO MATTER WHAT. SLAVERY WAS already decreed. But because saved his brother Ysef, we came to Egypt like kings and lived there for many years like kings until everything changed. But the decree was not only changed in a positive way. Even the bad part, the horrible part was cut drastically. Instead of being slaves for 400 years, the sages tell us that the horrible part of the slavery was between 86 to 116 years. meaning a quarter of the time of what it was originally decreed because the first hundred years was a visceroy. Nobody even looked at the Jewish people in the wrong way. You're the one that built our country. You're the one that saved everybody's lives. And who is that? Thanks too. When Am saw that the Jewish name that his mother called him had an actual impact on all of Am. They realized not only should we continue calling our kids, Shimon, Ovadia, Ysef, all of the righteous names. But we have to because our names are what going to help us, what's going to bring us blessings. This kabutai is something that is not as common as it should be. Many times people have a name that they call themselves in business and in uh daytoday and then they have the Hebrew name that they use when they go to bket and they want a blessing or an aliyah. I myself before I did chouba changed my name from your own to Ron just took off the first two letters. It was much easier to explain my clients in Texas and Colorado and Kansas and different countries the name Ron than your own. But in reality the blessings only came to my life when my name returned to its original. Why? That's what wants you to do. That's where the blessing is. That's where the blessing is. A person should be proud of their Jewish name and only use that. And certainly if you have kids, you married to have kids, never call your kids, never name your kids these strange names that people come up with from different countries, different n, you know, nations. The kids are going to suffer as a result of foolish parents that call them names because some rapper or some celebrity called their kids that name. Am didn't just have an understanding of what Jewish names were. They understood that this is one of the things that has brought them the blessings. And that's one of the reasons why they kept the names. That's why they kept the names. That's why it was a big deal because it showed that despite all of the impurities, they still had some Torah left in them. They still had belief in our traditions. Today, it's no different than other times, even though it seems like it. And there's nothing new under the sun. That's what But people say, "Listen, I do good things and uh I don't see the reward. I don't see the salvation. I don't see the personal exodus. And this guy that's in a corrupt business that's destroying people's lives like cash advance business or is a gambler or some other type of criminal. Look, he's getting blessings. Answer this question. when he answered his son who asked him, "Do you really think people going to read these books that you're writing and selling? You're working so hard toiling over people going to really read these books?" The wasn't famous when while he was writing the books. Fame and honor only came late in his life and much more even after he passed. But the already knew that this is the way it's going to be because he told his son, you have to understand the way that the works is very different than the way that Hashem works. The the Satan, the He gives you reward on the spot. Make a sin, he'll give you enjoyment right away. go into a corrupt business, he'll give you a reward for corrupt business. Commit immorality, you'll have joy right away. And he'll even send you more people to commit immorality with. You have a reward for sins from the Satan on the spot. But Hashem doesn't work that way. The toil you do today, learning and following the Torah will not give you joy today, merits today that you could cash in pleasure today, money today. No, rather it's down the road. But why do it? Why have the patients think of the engineers and architects? They're given a project. Build us this bridge. Build us this railroad tracks. And these architects and engineers, they work on this project day and night. for months or years. Every screw, they know exactly where it's going to go, how long it's going to be, how thick it's going to be, how much it must weigh. One small mistake could lead to an entire collapse. As we've seen many times throughout history, it was a building in the middle of Manhattan that they found out that there is a major problem with it to the point where it could literally collapse due to wind. But there was already people in it, companies in it, multiple transactions have transpired. But when the original architect found this out from a student of his book, he was a professor, discovered this mistake. He wasn't ashamed of telling the owners of the building that they must remodel this building or face an inevitable collapse. And this remodeling project cost millions of dollars. But it also saved lives. These architects are very precise. They do their best to make sure that each screw, each piece of metal, each piece of wood goes in a certain place. Sometimes they can work for years before they see any fruit out of their labor. But they know that if they build it right, then people will benefit from this building from the railroad tracks for many many generations. The same concept says the is with our Torah. If you build a foundation properly by toiling in learning Torah, teaching Tawa, and spreading Torah, the fruits will not only come, but when they come, they will come for many, many generations. And that's actually what we saw. We saw with the we see with all of the sages. If you ask about who was the richest man in a certain city 200 years ago, nobody would know. Who was the most famous 400 years ago? Nobody would know. But if you ask who are the Torah sages, in any town you want, in any generation you want, not only you will be able to find out, but you'll even see the writings that they exist until this day. They weren't rich with money. They were rich with merits. A merit of Torah that is endless. These are the words that we learned impacted our will affect yours as well. I know that many of you have questions that you want to ask. But before that, we'll answer the question that we asked last week. Many of you sent me answers and each one was interesting. Some got it right. Some did not. The question was a guy named Ruven buys the aliyah in a shul every week for years. One time he wasn't paying attention and the goodbye that usually reminds him to buy the aliyah wasn't there that day and the person that replaced him did not give him the the nod to buy the aliyah and somebody else bought it. Shimon bought the aliyah. Once Reuben found out that Shimon bought the aliyah, he said, "Come on, you know I'm buying it for many years. Let me give you the $50 that you bought Dalia and I'll get it. Shimon said, "Listen, I'm happy to sell you the aliyah, but not for $50, for $500." And he knew that Reuben would be willing and has the money to buy it. The question is, is he allowed to do it? Some of the people in the shul were against it. Some people stayed quiet. Some of you said, "No, can't sell for $1,000 or $500. It's a lot of money." Some said, "Listen, business is business." What's the answer? Shalom says that once a person fulfills a mitzvah, buys a mitzvah, buys a merit for an aliyah, or fulfills a mitzvah, he is allowed to sell it. for whatever price he wants. No price in the world will ever be as equivalent to the actual reward he will get for any mitzvah. But nonetheless, if he wants to get some money for it, he can $1,000, $5,000, $100,000. So according to he's allowed to sell it. But according to Ashkafa, which is Jewish ideology, it's not a good idea. Why? You shouldn't be making money in a business out of aliot and someone wants to buy it, no problem. But as far as a scafa, it's not the right mindset. It's not the right image for the beset. Now, we're going to ask you another question which you guys will think about throughout this week and answer me. You can send us the answers either by email or send me a WhatsApp and all of that is available. You know, my WhatsApp number is practically public property and the uh email is everywhere. The question is, oh man, one second. Yeah, sorry about that. One second. Phones people on Facebook. Do the uh do you guys still see me? Somebody make a comment if you still see. Sting won't stop. >> One second, guys. Let's see. All right. Okay. I think we're back on. Yeah. Okay. We're back on. All right. The uh question is as follows. couple of guys going to a taxi. They want to take a trip from Yusha to Tel Aviv. And uh they get into the taxi and then they see there's one guy that is uh flagging whoever wants to give him a ride for free, a hitchhiker. I said, ' Where are you going? He says, 'I want to go to Tel Aviv. All right, come along. He's like, no, I don't have money to pay for a cab. He goes, no, we're going there anyway. So, what difference is if you come in? Oh, great. He goes into the car and he goes into the front seat enjoying himself. They all talk. Drive is relatively pleasant. They get to Tel Aviv at the traffic light. All of a sudden, the two guys open up the doors and run out of the car and run away. taxi driver looks at the hitchhiker, says, "Listen, that's too bad for you, but you're going to have to pay the bill." Because what are you talking about? I mean, you knew I was a hitchhiker. I didn't I didn't agree to go. Listen, I understand you came in expecting a free ride, but it's not my fault that these two guys are thieves. You were in partnership with them. They were going to give you a free ride, not me. You have to pay for the ride. Question is, what happens now? What happens now? Does he have to pay for the full ride? Does he have to pay for part of the ride? or does he not have to pay anything at all? I mean, technically it's a hitchhiker or something else that you can come up with. That's the question. Let's see what kind of answers you guys send me. Whoever sends a complete answer, not just tell me he has to pay, he doesn't have to pay or whatever the answer that you come up with, but a proper explanation will get a present. Like many of the people that have sent me correct answers over these last several months we've been doing this, you'll get one. Also, usually the gift is one of the uh the cups of the bottom cups in a BH shop. That's why we've sent some people. People like it. >> I'd like to introduce you to your new best friend. We did it. AI Rabbi is here. It's an AI model that is based on kosher Torah sources. 30 different languages that are available to you. So if you want to ask it in Spanish, in Chinese, Portuguese, whatever you want to do, it's available for you. Can you tell me about timestamped to the shield? You press this green button. AI rabbi on your WhatsApp. You'll have the ability to ask questions at will. You'll be providing sources and most importantly, you'll be able to know the truth and be able to rely on the sources. So now you guys can ask some questions and will give us the answers. Is a person allowed to use AI rabbi to deduce the answer to the weekly question? I mean listen it's a uh interesting uh question. Can you technically you can I mean it's a uh you can look at books you can look at a uh a rabbi um but um I think that the uh uh the I'm trying to come up with questions that I haven't asked before. So I'm not really sure if the a rabbi uh will give you sufficient enough explanation of why. But hey, listen uh you you know I'm not saying you uh you can't uh theoretically it should come out of your uh your understanding. Uh that's with requires a little bit more toil than just asking a computer. That's the whole point. Do we commemorate and light candles for the Babasali today? You can. Who are the Jews? Are they the sons of Abraham or Yehuda? The Jews came from Abraham who had a son named who had a son named Yakov. And Yakov had 12 sons. So all of his uh descendants are the Jewish people. Now, as far as Yehuda, he's one of the tribes. Many of the Jews today come from the tribe of Yehuda, but not all of the Jews. There are Jews also that come from the tribe of uh you know, from all 12 tribes. In today's world, we have Jews that come from Levie, from uh Min, from uh uh Beyamin, I believe. Uh so there's several tribes that we're aware of today. But uh the Messiah will come from the tribe of Yehuda. What's the difference between the Torah and the Talmud? Well, the Torah has two parts. There's a written Torah and then there's oral Torah. The written Torah is the five books of Moses and the rest of the Tanakh, which is 19 other books, the prophets and the writings. The oral Torah, that is the Mishna, the the which combined are called the Talmud, uh the Zah, the uh you know the um all of the major sages writings until this day. These are all the part of the oral Torah and the two are one in this, you know, they go go together. There's no such thing as just, you know, following the written Torah uh or just following the oral Torah. The two come together and it's even mentioned in the Torah itself many times and that Hashem gave us toot which is plural, not just one Torah singular but toot. uh where uh Musher Rabenu tells us that uh we got at Mount Si, we got the uh ten commandments and we got the toot the the uh the which is a plural word plural word for Torah. Uh furthermore, Hashem says that he loves because he preserved my which is again plural. So now, of course, there are um heretics and mental midgets that uh like this uh guy uh named um what's his name? People keep asking me to talk about him. Uh Isawitz. Uh the last thing this guy is uh is he is a kufair a that insults the Torah on a regular basis. He's married to a Goya. Uh but he did his own at home made at home uh you know uh conversion. He believes that he knows more than the sages uh and that you don't need to eat kosher food. You don't need to observe family purity. In so many words, he thinks that his own understanding, his own understanding of the written Torah is sufficient uh to uh not only observe the laws of God, but literally to uh completely dismiss anything that the oral Torah makes. Now, this guy is somebody that is it's a is a joke. But unfortunately, many people know such little Torah. Uh they don't understand the difference between a heretic and someone that actually knows what they're talking about. They base their judgment based on whoever they are attracted to more, who has charisma and so on. But like I tell you, uh there are many heretics every other day. uh and many of them tried to reinvent the wheel but there's nothing new under the sun. Heretics like him existed in the past. We used to call them Sadducees or Batusim. Uh there is of course Christianity that started from you know heretic Jew. Uh there is all types of heretics throughout all of history. This is nothing new. And the one common denominator that all heretics have is that they hate the oral Torah. They hate the oral Torah. In fact, the original heretics, the Sadducees and the Batim, which were uh were from a couple thousand years ago, originally they planned on dismissing the written Torah as well, but no one wanted to follow them because people wanted to follow God and they, you know, they knew that Hashem gave us the Torah, Mount Si. So, they changed their strategy from no Torah at all to saying that they're following just the Torah. And from them stemmed the karites and all other types of heretics. But anyone that actually studies Torah properly and also swallows their ego to realize that they certainly do not know more than the uh scholars of today. Needless to say, they don't know more than the scholars of the past generations. Anyone that actually studies the Torah understands that it's not possible to have a written Torah without an oral Torah because you would not be able to understand anything without the oral Torah. Not only will you not know how to observe the commandments where for example, Hashem tells us in the Tawat 12 times that a Jew that violates Shabbat gets a death penalty. Meaning it's a very serious crime according to Hashem. It's the equivalent of idolatry. Now, this is intentional desecration of Shabbat, not accidental. Accidental, they'll have to bring a sacrifice. In today's world, they'll have to do chuva. But nonetheless, at the time of Mosherenu, at the time of the which means for thousands of years, anyone that desecrated the Shabbat, the Torah commanded us to actually kill him. In fact, Moshe Rabenu killed someone that violated Shabbat only two weeks after we got the Torah. It's in the Torah. It's it's his name. Now, if this is such a big deal that the violator, the desecrator gets a death penalty, then certainly we need to know how to observe it and how to not violate it. But the Torah doesn't give us the details. What does it mean to observe Shabbat? What does it mean to uh to to to desecrate it? Because the guy that got a death penalty, he didn't light fire on Shabbat. Because the only thing that the written Torah says about not violating Shabbat is don't light fire on Shabbat. But yet God commanded Musher Abenu literally told him kill the guy and make sure that everybody sees it. So they will be afraid also. And everybody that saw him violate Shabbat. They're also part of killing him. They have to throw the rocks on him and they have to push him off the building and so on. The whole death penalty was executed by the people that caught him doing the crime. What was the crime? He gathered trees. Where does the Torah tell you that if you gather trees on Shabbat, you'll get a death penalty? Guess what? It's not written anywhere. It's not written anywhere. So, how would the guy know that he's going to get a death penalty for gathering trees? I mean, obviously, God didn't put us in this world because he wants to kill us. He didn't give us the Torah because he wants to kill us. He wants to kill us. He would just kill us without a reason. So we obviously see here that the details of the rules are written elsewhere. In other words, there is an oral Torah. There's an oral tradition of where the details to all the laws are. The same concept was an example of what one of the things I mentioned in the shield today where God tells us that you will have a reminder of this exodus on your arm and between your eyes. What do you have between your eyes? We're not Hindus. Nobody has a red dot between their eyes. We're not Christians that put some dirt on their forehead once or twice a year on some Wednesday. What is the Jewish THING THAT'S BETWEEN THE EYES? NOTHING. Look at ANY JEW'S FOREHEAD. THERE'S NOTHING BETWEEN THEIR EYES. Look at people's arms. Nothing. So what is it? Obviously, this is the tilain. The fillain, which in English is called felactories, is something that every Jewish male age 13 and above has to wrap around his arm and put on his head every single morning. But the details and even the word to fill in do not exist in the rena. This is in the oral Torah. So imbeciles and mental midgets like Harowitz, Israel, Harowitz are so stupid that it's a mockery for anyone that knows Torah to even consider them. And the only reason I'm even mentioning him is because literally a rabbi sent me a message at 8:10 this evening. literally less than an hour before this show sent me a clip with this guy telling me, "Can you mention him?" And I've heard of this guy already for a couple years. It just never really wanted to mention him. Uh because he's just it's just it's it's a mockery. But when rabbis are asking me for a favor to to mention uh and expose a heretic, I do uh if if I think it's uh it will be uh beneficial for the public to be warned. But nonetheless, people that understand people that understand Torah understand that there must be a written and an oral Torah. There must be people that don't want to understand the Torah, don't want to accept the Torah. They will make themselves endless excuses, endless explanations and rationalizations and mental gymnastics to justify their lie. If you want to make a new rule, call it something else. There's plenty of religions in India. I think someone told me one time there's 80,000 different cults and religions in India. Go there. There are all types of religions all over the world. Why do you have to harp on Judaism if you don't actually like it as is and you want to change it? You want to reform it? So that's one of the things that makes you realize that when the sages explain to us that there is purity and impurity and tuma you realize that this is much more than logic rational IQ as the va explains which I saw in the byfki when a person makes a sin automatically the uh prosecutor that he creates this angel that he creates that the says every time you make a mitzvah you create an angel that helps you do mitzvot every time you make a sin you create a angel if you will uh or shindalit that uh will uh make you want to do sins and the gi explains that it's not that the angel is now going to uh make you make other sins no if you felt for lust. You made the sin of lust like this guy did where he married a non-Jew and he just decided that she's just going to become Jewish because he thinks she is. Then guess what? You will now have the desire to make more of that same sin. Don't be surprised that he will defend into marriage, which he does. Don't be surprised if he defends eating non-cosher because he eats non-coosher. All of the things, all of the sins that a person makes, he now desires them because each time he created a spiritual figure that now entices him to do more of it. It's like feeding the monster. You created a monster and the monster wants more and more and it's never satiated. That's in essence the common denominator among all heretics. They continue to harp on the war against the oral Torah because that is the one place they know that the truth is very very clear because all the details are there. Whereas if people look at the you uh you know you could determine whatever you want based on your own logic but that's just not the way it works. The third reason why the oral Torah is an absolute must, as I've said this many times and I will continue saying this a million more times, is that the written Torah is unreadable, literally unreadable without the oral Torah. Why? Because in the Hebrew language, the holy language, we do not have vowels like you have in other languages such as the uh the uh English language. In English language, you have five letters A, E, I, or U and sometimes Y. They're used as vowels, meaning that these are foundational letters that are in every single word in the English language and in Spanish and German and so on and so forth. you must have one of those letters or more in order for the uh person to uh uh be able to read this word to understand it and so on. In Hebrew, we don't have such a thing. So, what is the vowel system in Hebrew? It's called nikud. Nikud is like those dots you see in the middle of the letter or under the letter when you read Hebrew. But the written in the Torah scroll, the original way it was written and you still have in every shul even the reformed shs will have the same written Torah in their spend $200,000 to make sure it's the right Torah. They don't follow it, but they have everybody has the same. And every sephotra you will see does not have does not have the vowels. So how do you know how to read it? How do you know that it's mohe and not m? That's a big difference. How do you know it's and not? How do you know how to say it? Why is that a difference? Because the difference between one vowel and another could make a different word, could change the meaning of the entire language, can make the difference in the entire sentence. And if it wasn't for the oral Torah, which is where the vowel system comes from, we would not even be able to decipher a single word in the Torah. We would not know what anything means. So to say that the Torah is a standalone and there is no such thing as oral Torah you have to follow is obviously only a fool would say such a thing. Now most people don't know this. So they think that you know the the the missionaries from Christianity and the heretics that were born Jewish like this is uh they uh they sound good so therefore they must be telling the truth. But like I said, the more you learn about the topic, the more you realize that the truth is far far away from them. The truth is with the people of the book with Isel and Am is the Torah, the Torah, the oral Torah, and uh anyone that wants to follow is welcome. Anyone that wants to go against can join all the heretics that came before them and eventually were destroyed. Who was the biggest heretic 200 years ago, 400 years ago, 800 years ago, a thousand years ago? Who are them? You rarely ever hear hear of those people. Why? Because as the Torah says, the the name of the wicked become is rotted out. It's forgotten. But who are the sadikim? Who are the righteous people that the Torah sages in every single generation in every single town in throughout all of times you are have who were those Torah sages? Why? Because the righteous people grow like a palm tree. Endless fruit and no wind in the world can ever blow them away. Even after they leave this world physically, their nish, their uh uh the spark of their writings, their Torah continues to flourish, continues to be here. So person that wants to join the enjoy your whatever it is that you're seeking for because it's shortlived. Eventually, you'll be wiped out like all the wicked people before. people do chuva before it gets too late. What's the oldest version of the Torah that we have today as far as a Torah scroll? Um we have a uh a famous sephil toad that's called the codeex came from the uh uh the Syrian community. There's a big story about it. Uh if you actually you should read the there's actually a book uh that was uh written a few years ago called Aleppoex. It's a very good book tells about the story of how they were able to uh get that book out of Syria and they brought it to Uh this this book is from uh you know a couple thousand years ago, more than a thousand years ago. I think something around 1500 years ago. That's for sure one of them. Um I know that there are some other ones but I'm not sure as far as what's the oldest one. I know that's certainly one of them if not the you know the one that's the oldest. Uh but that's more than a regular um uh sephil tora that uh you would have because this one was the Aleppoex was used for other scribes to write another Torah meaning that it's not like the typical sephil to it's it's something that was used for beyond that. Um, but there there are some uh some uh uh some very old I've actually had uh several people over the years from the Middle East uh different countries in the Middle East offer to sell me uh Torah scrolls that they have from, you know, many many years ago, 400 years ago, 800 years ago, a thousand years ago that are still in Iraq or in Lebanon or, you know, different countries. And however they these people got it in their hands. Uh but uh aside from the fact that they usually want an astronomical amount of money uh they usually to do the trade even if you happen to have the money uh that they want uh to actually do the transaction is is a life risk because you can't just you know fly there or and they can't necessar you know fly out. So you would have to be putting your life on the line. Uh the story that happened with the Aleppo Codex was actually a bunch of life risks one after another. Hence the reason why uh it's a very interesting story but it was a uh something that um uh was very much a big for the people that did it. uh you know, but there's a lot of uh there's a lot of that are very very old um that are uh not even in Jewish hands. They're uh they're owned by non-Jews. Rabbi, your teachings are eye opening. It's simple nature. Oh, Rabbi changed my life. I'm 26. I had no motivation to do anything. Once I stopped wasting seed, I started studying and working on blessings will continue coming. Stay strong. Um, thank you Rabbi. I'm building my faith in the oral and started watching right when you are giving the answer. That's called divine providence. Hashem said sees that you're looking for the truth. So he brought it right to your table. Thank you Rabbi for saving our soul. The Bolognia rule Torah scroll from Italy was discovered in 2015 and is considered the oldest existing Torah scroll. Thank you. Where is a kosher source to learn lashes? Um there is uh several uh places uh the several books that uh I've recommended in the past. I'm not remembering the names, but if you want me to uh send you a um the name, just send me a message and I'll uh send you uh the names. I just I'll look for it after and I'll send it to you. Just send me a message on WhatsApp or email and I'll send you the names. Just the names skip me right now. But there's several books that I've recommended for people to learn lashes. And reminder for people who don't know, learning lashes is not the same thing as conversational Hebrew. Some of the things there's comments. Some of them I just don't understand what you guys are writing. Like this one particular thing is explain 14 of 613. Is oral considered a variation or deviation? I don't know what you mean. If you're asking is the oral Torah deviation from the written? No, it's not. Like I just explained for 10 minutes, but I have no idea what you mean by 14. What is 14? Um uh did the 12 tribes have different traditions from each other in any way? Uh yeah, I mean as far as the people live in different parts of the uh of of of the world and you know certainly have different traditions even when they lived in different parts of the land they have different customs but the foundational law is the Okay. I want to convert by one synagogue in my city is LG LGBT and the other one is closed. So move to a Jewish community that has normal synagogues. Thanks so much. I truly appreciate Rabbi for many. Uh is there a way that a noahite could merit Hashem's protection before converting? Uh sure. The more kiru you do and support, the more Hashem will protect you and bless you even if you're not Jewish. We have many people that uh watch our lectures that Noah hides that uh have even publicized the different miracles that Hashem gave them as a result of them supporting our k work. Do you support the rabbis who signed against reparative therapy for gay behavior? Not familiar. not familiar with the rabbis or the signed document you're referring to. In the case of the plague of death for the firstborn, what if the mother was Jewish and the father was Egyptian? There was no such thing. Hashem testifies himself that no uh Jewish woman had children uh with the Egyptians. There was a one case of rape uh with the famous story of Schulamit, but uh the uh that's not there wasn't a um something that was uh happening every day or anything like that. and further the um the Jewish child will still be a Jewish child. So it's not uh would not be part of the Egyptians. How come you don't live in Israel? Because I live in America because there's a lot of people that speak English that need uh to learn Torah. Now, can I still teach in English while I'm living in America? Yeah. But there's a lot of people that uh are local also that are students and uh that uh benefit and will continue to benefit from me being here. Um and for a lot of other practical purposes that makes me being here more necessary than me being there. Why was King Solomon allowed to marry gentile women? He converted all of the women. That's what the Rambam says. All of the women that and the GM also says it that all of the women that uh from the different kingdoms that Schlommed married first had to convert to Judaism. Was Nama the wife of Noah at Sadika? Yes. Have you heard of Hashem approaching a Noahide doing chuva and leaving Christianity? I don't know what you mean by Hashem approaching a nohide. If you're asking that where whether no hides get blessed and all types of good things as a result of them abandoning idolatry and going towards the Torah certainly have countless every day. Oh, you see right here I'm a no and Hashem is blessing and protecting me. So you got an answer to your question from another fellow nohide. Can you tell me if King David ruled before or during the Roman conquest? Before the uh King David ruled about 3,000 years ago, the Roman was about 2,000. Big difference. What can I do to be closer to Hashem as a since I can't keep Shabbat and other traditions or practices I'm allowed to do? what you can do is to help more Jewish people do chuva, more uh people to learn the truth. So, one of the things that a lot of people do and benefit from is by sharing our lectures, sharing our uh different books and USBs and Jewish communities, sharing it online, supporting is by donations. The more you publicize the truth of a Torah in different ways, whether it's online or offline, the more blessing Hashem will give you, whether you're Jew or Gentile. What happened to the bodies of the Israelites that died in the plague of darkness? Hashem buried them in the ground on the spot so the Egyptians never saw it. It's like the ground swallowed all of them. If God offered the Bible to all nations, then the Hebrews, are they really chosen? Yes, because they're the only ones that accepted it. is vitiligo a king of a kind of is vitiligo a kind of that's caused by spiritual purposes. I'm not familiar with what vitiligo is. But uh is a spiritual and physical ailment. Why were Moshe and Aon technically not affected by the tuma of Egypt since that place was filled with impurity? Because the Levy tribe continued to study Tawra. never worked. In the beginning of Pero's plan, um all the Jews were successful and and and business owners and so on, but the Levi tribe focused on learning to then say, "Let's let's fool these uh these Israelites." How did he fool them? By making all of them leave their businesses and starting to work for the country, starting to work for the government as if he's going to pay them even more money. And this went uh went forward, everybody abandoned their businesses and started making a lot more money as workers of the government. The Levy tribe did not take the the debate. They continued learning Torah, which what were they learning? They were learning the oral Torah because we didn't get the written Torah till later on. and uh the um the rest of uh the people can worked for po and eventually he lowered the salary lowered lowered lowered and eventually enslaved all of them and again the levy tribe did not fall for this trap. Furthermore, we the reason why they were even able to do that uh is because Yseph when he was a visroy u made a rule that stayed with Egypt until its destruction that the men of religion have special protection. Special protection they don't have to work for the government. They don't uh have uh uh they have their own land and so on. So this was in essence theoretically a protection for the Egyptian men of faith uh for their idolatry and so on but it it ended up protecting the levy tribe. Uh so that's also the reason why Moshe and Aon were able to walk in and out of Egypt without fearing any type of uh you know any Egyptian enslaving them or killing them or anything like that. How come Lot offered his daughters to those evil men of Sodom? And he also said that they were virgins. However, I understood that Lot's son-in-laws were in a house, meaning that the daughters were married. No, he had other daughters. So he offered his daughters uh that were uh you know the um the daughters that survived because he wanted to simply uh preserve the uh illogical honor which is very similar to the honor that the uh in the Muslim world where if somebody comes to their house uh they as their guest they'll protect them even if that person is an enemy. uh and even if somebody comes to kill that guest, they'll literally sacrifice their life to protect their guest. It's a sort of uh honor system that they have. But the moment that guest leaves their house, they themselves can kill him because he's no longer their guest. So, it was that type of perverted honor system uh that Lot had that's similar to what they have in the Muslim world to this day. Who is the greatest and highest level Sadik in South Florida? I don't know. What was the greatest betrayal in the Torah and how can we rectify it today for future generations? uh the greatest betrayal. I mean you have Kak Kak and uh he went against Moshe and uh he and Hashem uh by uh the same thing that the heretics do today where they say that the uh um the oral Torah is not uh is not true. you know, Mosher Rabenu um was uh attacked by Korak where he said, "Listen, you're saying that we have to have, you know, one uh one pil one string out of the tit that's uh this is what tit is and it has four strings, you know, uh folded into eight." And he's you're supposed to have one as uh as blue and K says, "What if the whole seat seat is blue?" Whole seat seat is not really blue. it. And uh Benu says that's not the mitzvah. The mitzvah is one string. Mitzvah is one string. Uh or he said uh what about a muza? A muza. You're Mosha said you have to have a muza. That's what Hashem said. On every door that goes into uh a house or a uh a room except the uh restroom. Uh and uh and also not a closet. Um and um you have to have a muza there. And uh Kor says, "What if my entire house is full of Torah scrolls? Do I still need a muza?" And Rabenu says, "Yeah, Hashem did not command us to have a house full of Torah scrolls." He commanded us specifically to have a muza. And the point is is that Korak used this he lo you know his his rationale and his logic uh to try to convince and successfully convince many people to follow him. This is the same warped logic that heretics use till this day where they try to rationalize the mitzvot in order to promote their own biased opinions uh that are anti-orah that are antithetical to the Torah. So if somebody uh uh follows what the sages tell us is the 613 laws, we have one law which is not to be like kak, not to be like kohak. Uh and um that's actually one of the 613 commandments. And if a person wants to uh rectify that, help rectify that situation, then they can help us fight against all of the lies, all of the heresy that's out there, either by publicizing the shim that we have about it or by uh uh donating to support or whatever it is that you can do to uh help more people not be heretics. What are your thoughts on Yeshu and was he in the Torah? Yeshu is an acronym for meaning may his uh name uh and memory be blotted out. So the Torah specifically says that this is a wicked person and this is the oral Torah. The written Torah does not mention Yeshu because there's nothing to mention here. He wasn't alive uh at the time of Mosher Rabenu. uh he you know was a uh a wicked person that lived only 2,000 years ago. The written Torah was given 3,337 years ago. Uh so it's a uh Christianity was uh born uh nearly 1500 years after uh almost 1400 years after the written Torah was was given to Amislan. How are the sins of the Jewish people atoned for without Levitical priest? Because the Torah itself tells us in several places. One of them is in the book of Deuteronomy that uh we have one of the 613 laws is the mitzvah of chuva which is repentance which does not require uh a levy does not require the bet mikdash doing chuva is a multiplestep process that is number one stop the sin don't do it anymore number two um make a fence if you will to not repeat the sin meaning similar to let's say an alcohol olic that wants to stop. Obviously, he cannot continue going to bars. He cannot continue hanging out with the same type of people. Same concept with someone that sinned and wants to stop, he cannot continue going and doing the same type of activities that made him sin or led him to the sin. So, that's the second step. The third step is to say I'm sorry to Hashem. Uh, and if they hurt another particular person, then certainly apologize to that person. If they stole money, they have to return the money. That's the third step. Uh and four is to not fail again the next time you're tested. So doing chuva is a not only something that exists now, it existed at the time of Mosher Rabenu. It existed at the time of the beta mikdash. the uh foolishness that's spread by the uh missionaries and heretics out there that the only way for the Jewish people to uh to uh repent is uh if they have uh the beta mdash and therefore they can't repent anymore and therefore they need some man-made god uh that looks like a rock star that was born and and then died and couldn't even save himself. uh and the only positive testimony of him comes from a prostitute. Uh this is foolishness. This is nonsense. This is antithetical to the Torah. Our Torah itself tells us that is one of the 613 commandments is to repent. The going to the beta mikdash was only part of the process. Even when somebody would bring a sacrifice as part of their repentance, the sacrifice in itself was not sufficient. If they did not repent then the sacrifice is called pigul which means uh it's it's it's it's it's worthless. It's not considered a sacrifice. So the repentance of the steps that I've told you that's as old as as old as the Torah. It's not it's it's part of the Torah. uh and uh so there's no need for the Levy tribe uh you know you know working in a beta mdash for us to repent. You could repent in your house wherever you are. You could repent while you're uh you know commit to repent at least wherever you are. You don't need another person to do that. I rabbi I'm from Panama and Safari. I've been to Panama a few times. Nice place. Um, are the Palestinians originally Canaanites or Pleim or another? No, the Palestinians are from different Arab countries. Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, uh, Egypt, they are people that came from different countries. They have nothing to do with the Philistines or the Canaanites. They were just, you know, Arabs that came from different countries. There's no such thing as uh Palestinians. It's it's a modern day invention uh as a form of uh you know uh way to fight the Jewish people. Has nothing to do with with the uh Canaanites or the police team. What books do you recommend for a Jew after the age of 40? Should they buy the cabala? It depends. If they are a Torah scholar that has completed the Tammudi multiple times, the so on, then I'm sure their rabbi will tell them at some point that they could learn some cabala if they fit. But if they're a new person to to the Torah, then certainly they should not even consider learning Cabala. They should first start with the five books of Moses that has commentary in it. Uh you can get a very the most popular one and the best one uh especially for beginners is you can get it from arch scroll uh arch scroll.com uh it's called Kum spelled ch hu m a sh that's the five books of Moses and uh but you know it has also commentary on almost every verse so you're not only reading what the five books of Moses says but you're understanding what the explanation for everything is because the Torah is not read literally. there's a lot of meaning behind it. That's one thing I would for sure uh recommend for everybody. Uh needless to say somebody that's starting out so you can actually see the actual source of everything. That's one. Second thing is I was uh I would recommend for you to learn if you're a beginner again uh to start learning books of mousar uh books of mousar which is uh character development or ethics. Uh you could uh you know there's several things that are good there. There's uh there is there's there's many different ones. If um you could also buy the books of um a RA Nissim Shalom. Uh all of his books are amazing. uh if uh you want uh you know more uh detailed explanations of certain particular topics, Arab victim Miller has many books uh that uh are very good. Um there is uh plenty. Now those are uh Torah uh Torah scholars that lived in you know in our lifetime in the last you know they they both passed away in the last uh 15 years or so 20 years. Um now as far as um if you have uh more things to you want to learn to learn about the Jewish law which is to learn ala uh alaka is spelled h a l a c h a uh and that's the Jewish law that's how to practice Judaism. Uh now whether you're safari or akenazi uh is going to determine which books I would recommend for you. Uh but the point is that if you want more details of specific books, you could do one of two things. You could either send me a message uh tell me a little bit more about yourself and I could recommend certain things to you or you can go to our website bezlatem.org that's spelled be e z hm.org. over there uh there is uh free PDFs and books and uh ebooks. One of them is uh is a uh interactive um uh baluva guide it's called. It's like uh it's a PDF interactive PDF that has I don't know maybe like 150 pages in it. Each page has things you press on and it's uh it goes to different things and one of the sections is books we recommend and it actually when you click on the books it takes you to Amazon or whatever bookstore is selling them and you could literally go to that book section and uh pick the different ones that you want and that's probably the best and fastest way to do it. You could download it for free. It's an interactive guide just to make things more convenient for people. Uh we uh boas have that So that you can get on our website. But isn't it required for all Jewish nation to gather on Yung Kipool so that the Levitical priests Well, we're we're required to do what is possible to do. Now, since there is no beta mikdash, it's not possible for us to all go to the beta mikdash. Obviously, the same God that created us created the rules and also created the circumstance that we're in. So, we're not obligated to do something that is not possible to do. Just like for example, a woman is not obligated to do a a circumcision. Why? She's doesn't have she doesn't have the parts. A man is not required to uh you know to go to a mikvah. Why? He doesn't have the parts. You understand? It doesn't he doesn't get a period. A uh you know a uh uh there's different things that you can't do because it's not possible. So we're not obligated to do things that are not possible. Not that you don't want to do it. It's just not possible to do it and therefore it's not relevant to you. Someone that is not a Cohen that's not part of the Levy tribe is not obligated to serve in the beta mikdash because they're not even allowed to serve in the beta mikdash because they're not a ken. So therefore they're not going to get punished for something that's not possible for them to do. A male is not obligated in the laws of women and a woman is not obligated in the in the laws of men. Why? because it's not possible for them to do that. So the same creator that created the world, gave us the Torah, and also created the circumstance that we're in obviously thought about all of this. That is why the chuva is not something that depends on the beta mikdash on the temple. It is completely separate. It was possible to do certain things at the time of the temple at the time of the beta mikdash that are not possible today. But repentance was always possible and will always be possible until Mashiach comes. Um, furthermore, there is a uh there are different types of chuva for different things. In fact, uh since you've already asked, I'll give you guys a understanding. People always ask me about chuva and the uh and the sins that they made and they want to fix them and so on. Uh so the in uh says a few things about it. Let's see. First of all, for those of you that are doing tikun blit uh to the best of your ability, whether it's from whether it's from uh um uh you're doing tikun bleed by donating on our website or you're putting the magnet on your car or both or whatever it is that you're doing, men and women, big for doing that uh because it'll help you. And one of the reasons why I will help you is because the yum page 85b says in the name of rebi for all of the sins in the Torah whether the transgression repented or did not repent. Yumipu atones except one who throws off the yoke of Torah or one who acts insolently towards the Torah and ones who violate the covenant of the flesh. What is Rebi saying here? Rabbi is saying that all of the sins you have to do chuva for them. Um and there are yum kipur is one of the days that helps that chuva. Some sins uh you have to wait for yum kipool in order for that chuva to be complete. Some sins require yumipu in order for that chuva to be complete. But there's other things that are required aside from that. But he says but there are certain things that yonipu will not help at all. One of the person that becomes a heretic. That's one example. Two is somebody that insults the Torah like this uh this uh mental uh Israel Harowitz and other people like him or Palvinov, Yipur does not help them. And three, somebody that wastes seed, somebody that's waste seeds, Yipur does not help him. That's number one. So this is another reason why a tikun is necessary. Furthermore, for each sin there are certain issues that a person needs to understand because it'll affect their life. So let's see. Okay. So it says here it says uh page 86A uh okay so Davidid says in um in Psalm 89:33 in the name of Hashem then I will punish their transgressions with ro with the rod and their iniquity with plagues. What does it mean? Says uh one that bears the sin of desecration of Hashem. Repentance does not have the capacity to suspend punishment nor yonipool to atone nor suffering to purge. Rather all of them are required just to suspend. But death purges the sin. And it was revealed in my uh in my ears by says the prophet by Hashem, master of legions, this sin will not be atoned for you until you die. This is in the book of Isaiah 202:14. So here we see that someone that desecrates God's name, Yokipool is not enough. Suffering is not enough. A uh doing chuva is not enough. He has to do all of that. And then at death there is uh they'll complete. But also it tells us that every sin has different things that you need to do in order to repent. Some of them just saying I'm sorry to Hashem and doing the chuva steps that I mentioned is enough. Some of them require to do the chuva steps and yum kipool. Some require the chuva steps yum kipool and suffering. meaning they have to suffer in this world in order for the sin to be purged. Now, one of the reasons why the sages brought us the tikunim for tikunit is because like rebi said in page 85, like the says in page 86, wasting seed is not like every other sin. Yum kipool doesn't help you. In fact, wasting seed is one of those that if you don't do chuva for it in this world, you go to gain. You don't come out. So a person needs to do for it. But the problem is wasting seed is not enough. That means suffering is required for wasting seed. So the tikun for tikun is suffering. Now Rizel said you could suffer for each time you wasted seed suffer by fasting 84 times or the later Mikubim explained instead of fasting 84 times you can donate the equivalent of 84 fat 84 meals. So if let's say I don't know it cost you $5 a day to eat then $5 times 84 420 if you know it cost you more it cost you more but the point is is that a uh we don't uh base it on everybody's calculation of what it cost him to eat. For example, if the guy is a, you know, a uh eats for $100 a day, uh you know, he's not necessarily required to do 84 time 100 because we base it on the uh the lenient opinion of what it would cost to eat for the average person, which you know, let's just say more or less $10. Uh but that's for each crime. So the tikunit.live live website that we have where people do tikunim and also has an explanation of the fast for the sins and so on. Why would anybody do this? Because like the Talmud itself says, yonipool does not help. Wasting seed chuva, it's not enough. Doing chuva by itself is not enough. Suffering is required. A person can suffer and one of three choices. One choice is the donating money. Your pocket suffers if it's possible for you. If you don't have the money, then you don't have the money. That's one thing. One one thing. Second way of suffering is fasting. But nobody p you know can do that especially with the amount of sins that people make. Third is waiting to deal with it after you die except for after you leave. Either way, a person needs to understand that the uh uh the issues of chuva are a lot more uh detailed than people make it seem to be. Saying I'm sorry is not always enough. The Torah was not written for four-year-olds where they cause some trouble or they don't want to go to sleep and then they say, "I'm sorry, mommy." And then everything's okay because they're so cute and they're only four years old. The Torah is not for that. There's details. Why? Because each sin has certain ramifications, certain impacts on the soul that in order to fix it requires certain steps. So it's just like for example if somebody flew a jet you know one of these fighter jets what I learned recently uh was that a for each hour that a fighter jet flies in the air and I guess war or practice is on the average requires something like 8 hours of repairs or something ridiculous like that meaning it's a very very sophisticated machine and requires a lot of maintenance But it does things that obviously other things can't do. Same concept here. If you make your body that is supposed to follow violate the Torah, you are making certain things that require repair. Sometimes it's enough to just say I'm sorry and not do it again. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes you need the help of Yonipu. Sometimes that's also not enough. Sometimes it requires suffering to come to a person. The good news is that you can choose your suffering. You can choose your suffering. And it could either be monetarily, it could be fasting or it could be after you die. Many times if a person doesn't take the initiative when they're able to, Hashem makes it a balance. Meaning that he gives them some suffering, some extra suffering in this world and the rest of it in the next world because the suffering in this world is very valuable. Nonetheless, a person must understand that it's anybody that tells you that uh you know you uh you could just do whatever you want and uh claim ignorance is simply ignorant themselves because the Mishna itself says someone that makes uh sins as a result of ignorance is prosecuted as if they did those sins intentionally. And the reason why is because we are obligated by the Torah as one of the 613 commandments to learn Torah. And therefore, when you chose not to learn Torah, and therefore you didn't know what the Torah says, you intentionally chose not to learn Torah. And therefore, the sin, the outcome of not learning Torah is an intentional sin. So these are the words that is what the Torah says, what our sages explained. Anyone that tells you otherwise is simply making up their own rules. So of replace death and suffering to purge the sin. It depends if it's the proper staka. Yes, it's not just to anything. U but it's Yeah. When I do Shabbat on Friday, I also give charity and the money with the money on the table. Good. Um, what about visiting the grave of Rabbi Nakman's grave site reconi? Well, visiting the grave of Tadikim is, you know, something that you can do, but it's has nothing to do with an actual tikun for your tikun for sins that you've made. And the tikuna kali is something that it's reading taim which is supposed to open up your heart to do the steps of actually doing chuva. It's not chuva itself. The tikun itself does not fix the sin. It makes you more inclined and more uh you motivated to actually fix the sin. The talmud isn't for beginners. Uh yeah, I wouldn't start off a new person with the Talmud. I would start off with the things I mentioned before. Show us the Talmud. The Talmud is not a single book. See all those books in the back over there. That's And there's over there also there's Tami. There's Tmud Bi. It's many books. What is desecration of God's name mean? It means making the making uh God or his Torah look bad or um yeah. So it's for example, it's a uh it's somebody that's making fun of what the Torah says. uh it's, you know, mocking the Torah or mocking the Torah sages or Torah scholars. It's a uh uh behaving in ways that are uh antithetical to the Torah. Publicizing heresy, things like that. Jews can be converted to any religion. False. Person that was that's Jewish cannot convert to other religions. They always remain Jewish. They may be a wicked Jew, but they can't convert to others. What is proper? Propheta means to the right place to you know if a person for example that is you know uh um giving staka can't just choose to give it to whatever they want. It has to be proper. Meaning some people ask me, can I give my uh daka to uh to my parents or to my brother? So I say, well, are they poor? No, no, they're not poor, but you know, just uh help them. I'll pay for their car lease. That's not considered staka. Okay. Uh what about can I give uh money to my synagogue if it's just regular staka? Yes. But if you're trying to do a tikun for tikunit, it depends what kind of synagogue it is. Uh if if the synagogue is just a place to pray, there's no shor there. Needless to say, no one teaches about tikunit, then it's not the ideal place to give taka to uh because it has nothing to do with the sin. So it's a person needs to put some more thought into um what's the best place to donate to and not just think that wherever I give to I could just consider it the the right place. There's no unforgivable sins in Judaism. It's just a the doing chuva for them, repenting for them is much more difficult. The worst thing is desecration of God's name. But uh like we saw here in the in the Talmud that it's a there is chuva for it. It's just a much more difficult to do it. opinions on goim like myself. Um, it depends. If you are a righteous then good for you. If you're a wicked one, then you'll get punished. Righteous people go to heaven, have a share of the world to come, whether they're Jews or Gentiles. Wicked people go to cafa, all the worst possible things, reincarnations, whether Jews or Gentiles. So, it depends. My opinion is irrelevant. It's what's God's opinion of what you do. And God told us what his opinion is based on the laws of the Torah. If you violate the Torah, then his opinion of you is a very negative one. If you follow what Torah says, then opinion is very good. Is it normal that I can't look into my female cousins or relatives eyes without feeling weirded out and talking to them? I don't know your cousins or you, but no, not necessarily weird. It depends. You may be very right. Can you explain the difference between Ashkanazi and safari and why they say s and not ta and why the pota longer? Okay. So the Jews of Ashkanaz were Jews that everybody was a Tibet midash. Okay. Everybody was be there wasn't there wasn't always Ashkanazi Jews all Jews for uh started with Arainu which was in Iraq in so many words safhari Ara and Sah when they brought all the guests into their tent they weren't eating geila fish I promise you they were eating mad they were eating they were eating uh you the safhari food. Uh now this stayed that way because the Jews were in the Middle East. After the destruction of the Betdash about 2,000 years ago, the Jews went into exile and some Jews went to the nations of Ashkanaz, Germany. later on Poland, Russia, Ukraine, uh you know other countries in Europe. Those were the Jews of Ashkinaz. Now among them were extremely righteous people, Rashi, his grandkids, Baltos. I heard one scholar say that technically uh after all the pilgrims that happened in in uh to to the Ashkenazi Jews uh the uh really the um we were down to about 20,000 Ashkenazi Jews and all of them came from uh Rashis to all Rashi's descendants meaning that all Ashkenazi Jews today are descendants of Rashi. So this was uh told by a uh a uh somebody that apparently is a scholar in this particular topic. Nonetheless, the Jews of Ashkinaz among them were extraordinary righteous people uh until this day. There's many righteous people. We quote them many times whether it's the uh the I'm the um the uh um Benish the uh um the Yavitz uh theki the stipgo and his father uh you know the uh Sternbach you know many many righteous Ashkenazi Jews they lived in Medino Ashkinaz the nations of Ashkinaz which was German jewelry that later on an you know broke off to other places. They kept running away from country to country because everybody pretty much continued to kill them like the rest of the Jewish people throughout the last couple of thousand years. Now the spharti Jews after the destruction of the betdash they stayed in the Middle East. They stayed in the Middle East. Egypt, Syria, Libya, uh Iraq, uh all of the Middle Eastern countries. uh at some point they also went to Spain and uh but they kept the traditions that we had throughout all of these times. Now as far as the uh customs not the laws the customs change obviously based on the places you live and the circumstances you live in. So for example in Pesak during Passover the uh the Ashkenazi Jews have a rule that the vast majority of Safhari Jews do not you know consider you know irrelevant to them that it's not for them. What is it? Kitnot. Kitnot is uh where the uh the Ashkenazi Jews do not eat rice uh you know on uh on Pesak and pretty much most of what they eat on during Passover is you know fish, meat, potatoes. Everything else that they can make out of it which today is pretty much a a whole you know list of million things you could eat. There's more things you could eat on pes than you could eat the rest of the year. But the point is is that they observe this law of kitot. The safhari Jews do not. The majority of them, the exception, I think of the Moroccan Jews, they keep kit. Why? Because in Europe, the Ashkenazi Jews suffered a problem that the Safari Jews did not suffer, which is due to their poverty, they had to reuse the sacks for wheat, also for rice, meaning that they were never able to know for sure if they did not have wheat in their food. And in order to eliminate the risk of violating the Torah in eating wheat on PES, they simply stopped eating anything any grains during PES. Safari Jews did not have that problem. We had poverty but not that particular problem of using reusing the same sex. There are obviously other details and I'm sure some of my Ashkenazi students will send me 57 different reasons of other reasons of why. But that's again some of the things that I can think of off top of my head. There are other customs that the uh added to the uh they today you when you read it you learn it you uh you see in every uh in every you'll see that there is let's say the what wrote in in big letters and then you'll see the in small letters right next to it in the same if the tradition was slightly different or there was something added to it based on the uh customs of the uh the traditions of the Ashkenazi Jews. But today, you know, every has both the Rama and the same. Um so that's as far as the uh main difference. Safari, Middle East, Ashkenazim, European. Sometimes they uh do some great things together. Sometimes the hatred, you know, is is the reason why the betas is not being rebuilt. >> It is what it is. There's a lot of hatred um that is baseless, but what can we do? Um, now as far as the reason why the Ashkinazim say sa instead of ta is because again that was their custom where they had a tough and a saf whereas the safari Jews are remained loyal to the original language we spoke at the time of the beta mikdash and beforehand and there was no saf in fact someazi Torah sages learned, relearned how to speak Hebrew in accordance to the Safari tradition because they said that's the proper one. That's the more that's the one that we had at the time of the betash and before. Needless to say, everyone has their customs. If you want to say, do you want to say tough, say tough. Um certainly if you live in uh in in uh you know in uh the exile in the diaspora whether it's in America or it's in uh England or Canada or everything else you're going to be uh you know you're going to hear and tough most likely more tough than tough. Uh but if you're in Israel uh that's uh there's a uh hashem uh also a lot of uh you know there's more safari Jews than there is Ashkenazi Jews. So there is a little bit less. Uh but my point is if you are going to be a hateful person, then you're going to have a much more difficult time uh in the diaspora because if you're a safari guy that doesn't like Ashkanazi people and you don't like the way they speak, then you're going to have a very very difficult time. Why? Because the majority of uh Judaism in the diaspora is Ashkenazi Jews and Torah scholars and great people that have done good things. Certainly there are some nasty people, but there's nasty people in every place, in every community, in every country, in every world. So you can't judge the whole uh uh uh uh um the whole people based on your bad experience with some as far as uh to uh to get along. Respect everyone. Not not talking about sinners and wicked people. I'm talking about respecting people's customs, traditions, and so on. Whether they're Ashkenazi, the Safari, I don't like it. I'm Safhari. I don't like it when some Safhari students tell me to speak against uh you know uh the uh the Ashkenazi traditions. And I certainly don't like it when Ashkenazi students tell me that I should speak against Safhari traditions because that's not the that's not the truth. There's this and this are the words of the living God. We respect the traditions, the customs of the Yemenites. everybody as long as it's obviously has a mass. Now, as far as the pot, the pot, there are different customs that each community has. Uh, one of the uh people that's uh the benai says had very very big pot is in the book of Esther. Uh, it's the first time in the entire Tanakh that the word Jew is mentioned. It's about Modai Modai the Jew and the Benishai who was a Mikubal Safari Mikubal Pekk Dan Tadik uh he says the reason why uh Modai was called Mordeai the Jew was because his pot was so big and long that you could identify that he was a Jew from far away. So having pot is something that we've had in jewelry since the beginning. It's not something that was invented by Ashkenazi Jews or in the last few hundred years. This is something we've had uh a record of all the way since the beginning. Now, as far as uh Safhari Jews and Ashkenazi Jews, I would say there's more Ashkenazi Jews today, I think, that have pot than there are Spharti Jews. But certainly there are Safhari Jews that have long pot, breast lovers, my rabbi, different people. There's no obligation to have a long p. You could simply have a short one. But the point is is that it's a uh it's something that is uh both for safari and um that's it. Yeah, of course. Grew up in Egypt. Is one permitted to pray with all kabad people? I've been praying with them for the past two weeks. Are you allowed to pray with all kabad people? No. Uh there are some that you're not allowed to pray with Feldman uh that if the people that are uh eloquist, they are complete heretics and you can't uh count them in uh in a minan at all. And he even said people that are uh that you shouldn't uh be part of their minan. Uh but uh as far as if they're normal kabadnik that follow the actual to itself, there's no problem praying with them. uh you know but again it depends the same thing with uh you know with other you know uh parts of jewelry whether it's uh the the Moroccan Jews or or Syrian Jews or regular Ashkenazi Jews or it depends if you have people that are righteous then certainly you can pray with them if you have people that are wicked then no I've prayed with Ashkenazi Jews I've prayed with safhari Jews I've prayed with really nice people and sometimes prayed with people that weren't so nice and regretted So you know you have to uh you have to do what you can uh you have to do what you can but uh most important thing is that you have to pray even if you end up praying by yourself certainly if you can pray with a minyan you should but uh as far as the the bigger obligation is to actually pray itself Okay. Okay. I think we've uh how does one have kavana? What does it mean to pray? So, I have a whole lecture about this. Uh several times I've spoken about it, but I have a whole lecture about it. It's part of the eeran series that I made. Uh there is if you go to the my YouTube channel uh Rabbi Ruven YouTube go to the playlist in there there are different playlist of different series of lectures that I've made. One of them is called Aamban and uh in that series which is about I think 35 or 40 lectures. One of those lectures is uh talks it's it's in a title. It's called prayer uh or or how to pray the best something that you could just put in a search prayer and you'll see that lecture that prayer gives a lot of details about uh prayer uh about kavana how to do it properly what you should do before you pray what you should do during while you pray and so on so there you'll get a full Sir, Rabbi Manis Friedman is a heretic and a hash of the worst kind um that distorts the Torah on a regular basis and I have many lectures exposing his heresy. 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Every single person that watches my lectures, especially those that live in the United States and does not give out our books in their community on a regular basis, you should consider yourself with a certificate of spiritual foolish foolishness. Why? You're missing out on extraordinary merits that you could add to your account that pay in this world and the next. giving out the USBs, giving out the books, uh putting the magnet on the car. These are all said that you're not only doing for other people, you're doing for yourself. Go to the Kroof store. We have krooftore.org. It's renewed. It's uh it's it's it's it's beautiful. It's efficient. Uh you know, it's it's it's simply an amazing tool to use on a regular basis. You got a box, you distributed it, get another one, get another one. just keep getting. Why? Because the more Torah you spread, the more merit you're going to have. It'll help you with pona. It'll help you with zeug. It'll help you with kadusha, meaning to overcome your test of immorality. It'll help you with everything. Doing kir is the greatest thing you can do. Now, of course, we appreciate those that donate money, too, and and and and we appreciate it and understand that some people have less ability to distribute than others, but everyone should do something. Even if you're not able to distribute 5, 10, 20 boxes of books, everyone can do at least a bucks a month. Everyone can do at least a bucks a month. Everyone can distribute 25, 50 USBs. Everyone can share the lecturers they watch. Everyone can do something. And if you don't do it, just know you're a spiritual fool. Why? You're missing out on getting a lotto ticket, a winning lotto ticket every single day that's given to you for free. We pay for the shipping. We pay for the books. We've literally spent over $12 million on doing Kiru and we continue to. I just sent more money to the uh the uh the uh uh printing houses a few days ago. There's and to the shipping companies and we have a bunch 30,000 books on a ship right now as we speak because they'll arrive in next couple of months. We have new cards. We have a lot of stuff and all of it's free. You don't distribute it. You're missing out. Now, if those of you that want to give out the uh the cards, the uh I'm sorry, the uh the Kiru boxes, um then get yourself together. Even if it's you and a friend, get $1,000 together. Or if you could afford it yourself, do as many, you know, $5,000, $10,000 and give it out. Give it out to people. People will love you for it. I've never seen a single person that didn't like the ku bucks. Never seen it. Just doesn't exist. Even people that hated me took it and then told me thank you after they watched it. Literally people didn't. No, no, I don't like try it. It's free. What do you care? I'll give it. So go. Literally later on they'll contact me. Listen, Rabbi, I don't know why I hated you, but I love you now. I'm telling you, it's an amazing thing. Get some money together. Order as many as you can. Give them in your communities. Do as much as you possibly can. Kiru is the ultimate way to not only bring Msiah and to help but to help yourself to help yourself do. Thank you very much. We'll learn again later this week uh later next week. Call to shalom. We're finally here. The new Groove box opens up. A nice little cushion here. We got Let's see if it's charged. Isn't that amazing? Still blessing your life. >> Now available at batashim.com.org.org. Get yourself 20 of them, 30 of them, 50 of them. distribute them to all the people that you care about and you get people to do the chba.