Chag Sameach! Tu Bishvat Higia!

[Music] so uh first and [Music] foremost it's a song I remember when I maybe 30 something years ago when I was a little kid used to sing the song on song I guess probably too young you don't know it song Good song he knows the song at least not the old so uh probably yeah it's a [Laughter] different so a lot of people um like toat why is very very little things to do as far as you know you know in regards to obligation to go to synagogue normal like any other day normal like any other day you don't have to fast in fact you should eat extra food so people like those kind of holidays like pu like kanuka but tubish is not really just about eating some fruits uh a lot of people like to eat the dry fruits which uh is not exactly the best idea for a couple of reasons uh number one the a lot of these fruits come even though they have you obviously first of all you have to make sure that they're kosher because unlike a regular fruit that you buy from a store these dry fruits they put chemicals on them different things different added ingredients to the fruit so the added ingredients have to be kosher so you have to make sure that whatever you bought these dry fruits in is a kosher uh and the reason why is because the go do not have the same obligation like Jews to make sure that certain things are clean that they uh don't have worms and maggots and uh all types of other interesting bugs in the food it's okay if you have if you find a fly in a uh in a in a hamburger in McDonald's they's going to tell you I'm sorry we'll give you a new hamburger you can't sue them for it and they're not going to feel bad about not going to go home and say they're not doing CH accident happens okay there's a little bug usually there's bug you just don't see it they cook it with the bug but you saw it this time we're sorry sir we're sorry that you ate the fly you saw the fly that you're about to eat you should have taken the bite instead you miss the whole thing but it's not it's not against their religion to have bugs in their food and as a matter of fact some people are all they eat is bugs you go to different part different parts of of of Asia they have entire dinners full of huge bugs sometimes they're alive sometimes they're dead depends is a holy people to you hasem says be holy cuz I am Holy to be holy you have to act different from the rest of the world and we're not allowed to eat bug bugs um there is a certain type of bug like uh that used to be in which was the um it's not a grasshopper really it's a uh but it looks like a grasshopper but today only in the old yemenite uh kot which I don't believe there's any really in America uh there are kot of yemenites obviously there are yemenites in America we have a few in the sh but kot of of yemenites oldfashioned you know it's Israel and Yemen they still eat it they still eat this uh this specific grasshopper like uh bug uh why are they allowed to do it because this bug is actually kosher kosher according to the Torah so how come we're not allowed to eat it because we can't tell the difference from regular grasshopper to the koser grasshopper we can't tell the difference and it's not part of your tradition therefore you're not allowed to eat it they can't there you go to Yemen they'll tell you which one is coach which one is not but here in America or in Israel in different parts of the world we don't have that tradition and all to eat it otherwise there's no bugs that's allowed for is in fact it says in the Tor when you eat a bug when when you eat a bug and you become imp purified it imp purifies your soul so the sages say what does it mean it says if you notice in the the word there's a missing Al the word is missing Al so you could also say what's you become stupid what stupid the guy built a building how come he's stupid you're not stupid a guy could do a math in his head 5,000 divided by 3.67 5 in his head 2 seconds he's not stupid no not stupid like that stupid meaning spiritually stupid you go to sh 20 years still didn't do chuba some people go to 20 years still didn't do Chua why they still eating bugs still eating bugs every time a person eats a bug whether it's a worm or a maggot or a fly it's all the same it's five different sins the equivalent of eating five cups or five bites of pig five five by you know you tell a regular Jew that still has some level of some level of connection to hasem you tell them you violate Shabbat yeah I don't keep Shabbat you tell them uh you uh go out with non-jews yeah sometimes you tell them you eat pig hey what do you think I am a go relax relax okay said I go out with them I go on Shabbat I go to I do all the other things but pigs I don't eat that's that's that's the that's a typical Jew I was one of them I said same thing this yes this yes this pig I don't eat pig so knows pig is when you eat a bug you're eating big pig five times five times so it's not just one it's five so this means that you have to be very very careful with the vegetables and the fruits that you eat and you have to make sure that you clean them you have to clean them especially if you're eating salad uh there's a fool that calls himself a rabbi um and unfortunately has a famous name uh and uh aadya and people think he's connected to radya but he's connected to maybe JC Penny more than he's connected to radya Z but anyway he wrote that yeah you can go to any vegan restaurant even if it's not Kosher he said he's a pek now he made him he just declared himself a p declared himself a p no one declared him a p he declared he's a p he declared he's a p he's going to write an article that you can go to any vegan restaurant even if it's not Kosher because it's only vegetables and if you can't see it don't worry about it meaning if you can't see the bug with your eyes you have nothing to worry about so that means you if you can't see anything you don't have to worry about it it's a new law we just add a new law to the Torah so so don't listen to such people you have to check in the books what it says the books do not say anything like this the books say something quite different the books say if you eat a bug you have a serious problem now obviously it's not we're not talking about things that are microscopic talking about things that if you check you'll find it you wash it right you'll find it a lot of people that like to eat if you're not cleaning your beans you are 100% eating bugs if you're not cleaning your beans if you're not cleaning your rice if you're not cleaning your vegetables especially if it's like uh um salads types of vegetables you are 100% eating just as many bugs as you're eating tomatoes at least so that's why it's important to wash the vegetables very carefully you have to put them into uh soap soap water you have to uh put them into salt water it's a process it's a process that's what it means to you be holy be holy means we're not animals we don't just eat whatever is in front of us because we're hungry just because there's food doesn't mean you're allowed to eat it you have to contain yourself this is part of this is part of controlling your desires if you see food and by the time you realize that you have to check for a kosher stamp you already ate the food you have no whatsoever you have no idea that you probably just ate a bunch of bugs and a bunch of things that you're not supposed to eat and if you knew what you just ate Not only would you do we probably throw up also so please you have to check tuat is a very very important holiday but it's not important because of the fruits and vegetables we are meant to be a light unto the Nations not to follow their misguided practices remember every Jew has to remember that he's a Jew and she's a Jew we don't celebrate non-jewish holidays even if they seem harmless it's a zul disrespect to the Torah and could lead to hasem desecration of God's name stick to our holy Tor and our own holidays that's the path of a true Jew