CHANUKAH SPECIAL - Jews That Are Surviving Edom's Decrees For Over 2000 Years

[Music] we're here in a special sh to everybody [Music] we going to uh take a uh little bit of break from our uh series of the uh Jewish asfa and triy to connect certain things that are happening during this great time of the year during kanuka to our day-to-day life uh of course always to there's always new insights uh will bring him to light uh tonight's sh will be for for a David benana and S sa and also for for Julie I love Mara Samuel Ben Mara Seas Ben Mara Alexander Ben Mara LS Ben Mara sha Ben faran David benis Gadis andir Shah and all of will have a and of course all of the righteous noahides that continue to support the Torah and do the will of hem so with that being said we have uh each year we get to this time we uh light the manora we uh celebrate get uh an extra few pounds added to our weight with the lates and the uh sfot and all the other oily delicious food um but the question is really do we know what we're celebrating do we know what we're celebrating of course we've talked about this in the past in regards to celebrating kanuka uh quite frankly the um the the holiday itself is a uh surely a cause to celebrate just the fact that we're still here um and we've talked about the fact of how many of the uh you know the changes the uh psychological changes that took place during that time a couple of thousand years ago or perhaps still affecting us today uh and it's time for us to do chva but uh tonight we're going to try to go a little bit deeper a little bit deeper into what actually happened a little over 2,000 years ago the whole uh Miracle of kanuka is uh is not something that uh is speculated among the Jewish people but rather something that we have precise details of as the uh um as the r in in his Muka uh in chapter 3 he writes the following he writes the following now as a side note kanuka took place in the year 3596 from creation which is uh 2, uh and um uh 86 years ago uh and uh but the Greek persecutions started several years beforehand meaning that the whole story of kanuka is not something that happened over a week uh or even a couple of months but it took a little while so the rambam discusses this inuka in chapter 3 and he says the following in the era of the second temple like I said 2100 years ago the Greek Kingdom issued decrees against the Jewish people attempting to nullify their fate and refusing to allow them to observe the Torah and its Commandments they extended their hands against their property and their daughters and entered the sanctuary rought Havoc within and made the holy articles impure the Jews suffered great difficulties from them and they oppressed them greatly until God the god of our ancestors had mercy upon them delivered them from their hands and saved them the sons of the kashim the high priests overcame them slew them and saved the Jews from their hand here if you notice the language of the rambam is uh very precise to first and foremost make sure to know that it is God uh that uh had mercy on us and delivered the uh the victory but in a uh physical sense as far as how we relate to the world what actually transpired is that the sons of the kashim the mbes uh were the ones that actually slew the uh the Greeks and saved the Jews from their hand they appointed a king from the priests and sovereignty returned to Israel for more than 200 years until the destruction of the second temple second Al continues as follows when the Jews over overcame their enemies and destroyed them they entered the sanctuary this was the 25th of KV some actually say that the uh the um Nim uh says that the victory took place actually on the 24th and on the 25th is when they actually entered the uh the sanctuary so in essence the 24th we ended the war that's uh when we rested from the wars that's why uh it's hinted in the in the name kanuka it's hinted kanu meaning rest stands for 25 so they rested on the 25th so the um uh the uh the rambam continues and he says that uh they ented the sanctuary that was the 25th of Kev they could not find any pure oil in the sanctuary with the exception of a single cruise it contained enough oil to burn for merely one day they lit the arrangement of candles from it for8 days until they could crush olives and produce pure oil according to the sages of that generation they ordained that these eight days which begin with the 25th of KV should be commemorated as days of happiness and praise of God candles should be lit in the evening at the entrance of the houses on each and every one of these nights to publicize and reveal the miracle these days are called kanuka it's forbidden to eulogize and fast on them as on the days of puim lighting the candles on these days is a reab Mitzvah like reading the Milla inim so here we see that the uh the holiday itself is not uh something that uh is a uh we're not certain about we have Clarity we have certainty uh in fact even the uh the custom of eating suot uh is mentioned by ruon is the R's father who was one of the he says this is 900 years ago he writes that uh the custom of eating suot is an ancient custom meaning that well even before than his day we're talking about well over 1,500 years ago so am is would already eat the suot that you you eat today so the whole of kanuka is a very very important day for very important week but still there's many questions there are many questions and that toil for the last couple of thousand years and give of course different answers uh about why we do what we do for example one of the uh most famous questions is why is it being celebrated for eight days why not seven days or perhaps nine days why eight days now of course some people will say yeah why not 15 why not 17 why not 32 no no no when the ask questions they don't just throw numbers just because it's a different number like some fools do where uh they just want to be different no the reason why we're asking why isn't it seven days and why is it in nine days is because seven days is technically how long the miracle was if that's what the holiday is for we had the uh uh the candles lit for uh for eight days but we already had oil for one day which means that technically the miracle was seven days so shouldn't the holiday be seven days or better yet it should be for nine days why nine days because we know that it's already a uh uh the sages enacted that uh in the Exile the uh we keep the holidays for one extra day just like we do with PES or sukot uh and and we do with with other times during the year when we're in the Exile we add an extra day because of the issues of time that we had back then and even though we no longer have those issues of time of knowing exactly when the holiday enters and when it ends um because we obviously have atomic clocks and things of that nature today once something becomes a uh old custom among am we do not change it so the Y Shen the second y as the discusses extensively is there to stay it's not going anywhere until comes but nonetheless the uh question would be so if we have a second yomtov in the Exile where here in America there are people obviously many Jews all over Europe uh and uh all over Asia all over the world there's Australia all over the world there are Jews why aren't they celebrating kanuka for N9 days adding one day to to the eight days that we have in Israel so that's another question or if you going to say wait but it's a then would be uh uh different than everybody else exactly it'll be different than everybody else because we have that extra day so these are some of the questions theim ask and there was actually a book that came out some years ago that uh had over 500 different answers to these questions from different over the last thousand plus years discussing them extensively now one of the things that uh you see when you learn tah is that each time you read the words of the sages you see that there's a little bit of a another titbit of information added that adds another piece to the puzzle adds another piece to the puzzle that's why the says that the words of to are poor in one place and rich in another meaning that you'll have certain things certain statements of the Tor certain subjects of the Torah where in one place that subject is discussed with minimal fashion there let's say you know one or two sentences about it but in another place in the Torah that very same subject is is discussed much more extensively but not the same exact words different words and then the way you learn to the way you learn What's called the is that you learn the uh all of the different statements that are said across the board whether it's the M the the the the m and so on and so forth so we don't uh we don't ever learn T just from a single place we take all of the different aspects of the diamond and combine it into one and that's how we learn a sugya this is why I always tell people that ask me the questions about what do I think about such and such Rabbi that made a statement about a subject that was contrary to what I said generally speaking you know usually you see the people that say other things where they said it in a passing fashion meaning like they uh just uh said whatever statement they said in passing it wasn't an extensive Shure it wasn't an extensive discussion it was just saying something in passing showing that either they have not uh study the subject or they simply don't want to discuss it especially the issue of Gom and Punishment it's a very uncomfortable issue for people to discuss for whatever reason and uh usually when people talk about the topic they minimize it I personally recommend for people not to discuss it at all if they're not going to study the subject and say the truth but nonetheless anytime you hear somebody uh mentioning this particular topic usually you see that it's very very different than what you've heard in our and the reason why is because like I said either most people have uh simply not studied the subject extensively to know the details or they simply don't want to study the issue or or teach the issue uh but generally speaking if you read any sug in whether it's the issue about G or issue about heaven or issue about Shabbat or or Brit or anything else you'll see that there are volumes and volumes and volumes of Works written about these topics and uh you could uh see it for yourself but uh sometimes these particular topics are discussed in a smaller fashion or quoted in smaller fashion in different places and the way that a actually gets to an actual conclusion in order to write that bigger book is by taking all of those little tidbits and combining them together into a complete idea so with kanuka we see that all of the sages that discuss this particular topic of why the days are the days why it's eight days not seven not nine not anything else we see that each and every single one of them always adds a little bit more titbits of information another little bit of information and one of the main things that I found fascinating is that the common knowledge that we have is that there were three decrees that the Greeks uh uh decreed on the Jewish people to torture us here we see that the uh the rambam is actually mentioning more than three but there are three famous decrees that the Greeks uh led by uh where they wanted us to uh cancel Shabbat no longer observing Shabbat no longer observing Roes and no longer doing a Brit that's a one of the things that they uh these are the three things that they wanted which by the way reminds me a side note for uh so uh now you have yourself a uh little bit of information but then when you look at the rambam you see wait a minute hold on a second there's a little bit more than just a little bit more than just AES we see there's more things they extended their hands against their property against their daughters uh they went into the sanctuary they caused Havoc you see already there's a little bit more there's a little bit more that uh is happening here so we have to dig deeper now when we dig deeper we'll find actually that there were 22 decrees 22 decrees no less passed by the evil Greeks on the Jewish people and he actually uh um put the list together which will go over now it's very possible that this may require more than one shuk is eight days we have a few scheduled for this week so we'll try to cover all of them and try to see where we stand not necessarily just where we stand with knowledge about these decrees but really where we stand in the world as a Jewish people and has anything changed have these decrees been nullified as a result of the uh win by the mabes by the by the Jewish people are these decrees still valid quite frankly another bigger question that Rim asked in a is do we know why we're celebrating kanuka because if we look at some of the decrees we'll see that some of our Brethren are actually actively electively and willingly practicing these decrees still to this day which means that if the Greeks or theim which were the Jews that joined the Greeks just like the Jews that joined the Nazis 70 plus years ago to kill their own Brothers to torture their own Brothers this was not a new thing there were there were in Nazi Germany there were inia of the uh in in Russia going after the Torah World there were uh MIM in the Spanish Inquisition they will me and of course throughout all of history including Egypt and obviously needless to say in Greece what are these were the Jewish people that chose to adopt the Greek laws Greek lifestyle not because somebody put a sword to their neck but rather because they saw this as better just like the uh reformers uh did when they first started with a uh Mendelson shim who was himself a Orthodox Rabbi who told people be a Jew in your house and a uh secular person outside a regular person outside unfortunately just today I had a Orthodox Jew young man uh in his uh uh 20s tell me that when he went to Sho today and uh was discussing with somebody about how he's becoming more and more religious and he's trying to serve hasem even better one of the older Jews uh in the Kil told them listen you can be an orthodox Jew in your house as much as you want but outside stay secular this is no different than mendleson from 200 years ago inside a modern Orthodox sh so you see that this mentality is not a new mentality and also not a forgotten mentality it's still practiced today heavily in many communities uh and not just the modern Orthodox Community you also have it in the uh uh uh Community you have it in a safari Community you have it uh everywhere there's a uh some type of or kak or even an asav and amalik in every Community unfortunately uh but it's for us it's to to uh to identify who's amalik and who's not as the uh yov cries to save me from the hand of my brother save me from why save me from the hand of my brother save me from asav because when asav looks like isav and he's a Nazi he's a Greek he's a uh some type of uh uh some type of enemy that's uh with a sword or a gun or or some type of weapon in his hand it's clear to me but I'm not as worried about him as I am worried about when he looks like he's my brother save me from the one that looks like he's my brother why because the one that looks like he's my brother sometimes he wears a keepa sometimes he even has a beard and sometimes he's even called Rabbi therefore he's much more dangerous than when asav looks like asav and that's one of the biggest problems that uh we have in the world not just today but throughout all of history where you have some of our brothers and sisters unfortunately join asav but continue to remain Among Us no different than when the Christian missionaries who uh infiltrated the Jewish community and were exposed recently by benu organization and uh and others uh uh also did uh you see that these Christian missionaries were living as Orthodox Jews in Israel they r or the in uh in a uh Arizona uh the Dawson who uh changed their name to isacon uh of course all of these people 100% as but pretending to be a pretending to be our brothers pretending to be Jews and of course how did they enter because there was another one that was pretending for even longer that helped them none of these people enter the Jewish communities by themselves they all have a helping hand from somebody somebody that actually is our brother as far as actually a real Jew but unfortunately still an asav still an amalik still a piece of garbage that is a uh committing treason against his own people like this aminov character from Arizona and I'm sure quite a few other characters that are helping others in and other places so you have all types of criminals spiritual criminals and even legal criminals uh secular criminals that are walking amongst us and some of them are rabbis some of them are regular uh average Jews that have a beard and a hat some don't even have a beard and don't have a hat but nonetheless they're advocates for for a much more than their advocates for uh you know for the to itself for yob uh and it's very very important for us to know that these things exist and stop living uh like the uh like uh the bird the B uh that puts sticks its head uh under the uh under the ground anytime it sees danger it doesn't want to deal with uh we have to stop pretending like the uh the world is full of roses and and and uh and uh strawberries the world is not strawberries the world is not uh a uh an easy world to deal with and people have to stop pretending like uh there there isn't trouble ahead but the key is to know that once we do know that there is trouble we can prepare for it and if we prepare for it we can actually do well unfortunately for the last couple thousand years we've had we had Jewish people that have become part of am part of and still remain Among Us and some have done it willingly some have done it by ignorance Al alone they simply don't know that there's something better available to them and these 22 decrees were something that the discussed in many I'll quote some of them that uh really we have to identify first and foremost where we stand with these decrees today ourselves and second of all that if the came to our communities today which one of our s synagogues and political parties would they join would they join your Sho because they see that your Sho is more in line with their beliefs or would they join a different Sho if the are in line with the Lefty liberal promotion of uh homosexuality LGBT and ABC and EFG and all types of uh uh filthy other things that they can create and try to use euphemisms to minimize them if it's going to be one of these people that likes LGBT likes the homosexuality and he sees the youru also likes homosexuality has a rabbi that says that homosexuality although it is a sin it is not such a a big deal and we should not uh make it such a uh such a horrible thing we could still accept them with Open Hearts and love and make it as if this is just one mitvah that they're sinning just like the rest of us are sinning with one mitsvah at least if this Greek this sees himself fit perfectly into your the question that we have the question that asks is why are you celebrating kanuka because really the whole celebration of kanuka at least until now we thought was that we were celebrating that uh we won the war we won the war and we had a miracle but after we complete the review of these decrees I think we'll come up with a different reason of why we celebrate kanuk we still have very much a reason to celebrate kanuka but I don't think it's because we won the war and you judge for yourself and see if you agree or you have a different opinion either way so talk about how they were decreased by the Greeks who were people that believed in many gods and simply could not coexist with a nation that believed in a single God their gods needed them our God doesn't need us their gods could do individual jobs and that's it our God does everything and doesn't sleep doesn't rest their God are elective where you can believe in them and you'll get according to them rewarded or not believe in them and nothing would happen perhaps you'll have a stronger God instead Our God whether you believe in him or you don't believe in him doesn't change his viability his reality his significance but nonetheless it does change yours because if you believe in him and you follow him you'll get rewarded for it eternally and if you don't you'll get punished eternally and yes Judaism not only believes in Eternal punishment we are the source of the teachings of Eternal punishment as it's mentioned in both the written and the oral Torah now the Greeks could not coexist with such a people they simply hated the fact that the Jewish people tried to be holy they hated the fact that while the Greeks felt that you needed to live in this world and this world alone you had to benefit out of this world physically and every way that you possibly can fulfill every desire that you have even if your desire is against human nature and they pushed this on the Jewish people more than they did any other people number one because other people didn't necessarily reject it as much as the Jews because they didn't have necessarily much to fight for but secondly because the Jews reminded the Greeks as they do all of the Heretics that they're wrong and so long as there's a Jew in the world there has to be and as that hates him now there is a mea that is called the Miga of the sons of the it's also known as Meg anus and there you'll see the uh the story of what happened with the Jewish people the decrees the mbes and in it mentions that there were three major decrees four times four times it's mention these three evil decrees that were passed on the Jewish people the cancellation of Shabbat cancellation ofes and the prohibition of the now we ask ourselves why did they pick those MIT why shabbat and not why and not why and not and only after you review the details of each and every single one of those decrees will you understand why this and not others and quite frankly understand that it's not that they just pick those it's that we pick those we as as the the the Jewish sages our forefathers pick those three as the main three to highlight even though there were 19 other ones because these were the three major ones that in essence whoever fell for those three typically fell for the rest of the 22 whoever held up and withstood the test it did not start violating Shabbat did not start driving on Shabbat did not start a uh uh skipping the bit Mila for their kid out of their the uh because they were scared of the Greeks and did not honor the decree of uh not uh calculating thees if you able to withstand the test typically you were one of the mabes but if you didn't typically the person became one of the m and adopted the rest of the laws now the mentality of the Greeks was not a new mentality in fact the mentality of the Greeks began with asav himself the T says that he is AD and AD is a one of the way it represented itself in the world was the Greek Empire it's also the Roman Empire and it's of course the Nazis as well and others but nonetheless isav on the day that he uh sold his firstborn rights to yov the says that uh the the sages say in the midash that five sins he made that day five sins meaning that one was desecrating the firstborn right he also had a g immorality heresy against the uh uh resurrection of the dead and the uh Anda and also committed murder so we see that the asav made these five sins and his descendants built off of that where their decrees as we'll see today all have a connection to those five sins the mentality of asav was based on the verse of in in Isaiah 2 verse 23 eat and drink because tomorrow uh we will die meaning live for today the the uh you only live once mentality that you have in the world Unfortunately today that people just do whatever they want because they believe you only live once this type of type of belief is heretical it's antithetical to the Torah because we not only believe in a resurrection of the dead of the righteous dead but also we believe in a Eternal World in a world that uh life begins after this life what kind of Life a person's going to have after this life obviously is determined based on their actions in this life where the person came to this world to toil and uh toiling meaning not work on Wall Street or for the sanitation department or uh or uh collecting Bitcoins but rather a person came to this world to collect mitv a person came to this world in order to serve AEM through the natural world so yes he has to work she has to work everybody has to uh uh get educated everybody has to uh uh find ways to make a living in an honest way but through that life they also have to make sure that God is a priority in their life and not just the theory of God but rather the belief system the religion that put into this world called Judaism when the Torah was given to us at Mount sa it wasn't just given to the Jewish people at Mount sa but rather it was given to the entire world and the entire world has to comply both Jews and Gentiles in different aspects the Jews have to fulfill the entire tah and all of its say Commandments that apply to the Jews and the Gentiles have to fulfill the Torah by complying with the Commandments that apply to the Gentiles mainly the uh seven noahide laws and everything that's common sense now the uh mentality of a Jew needs to be or anybody really needs to be where I'm here to serve a while I work while I get married while I have kids while I give uh uh education and rearing to my children while I uh do everything that I do I have to have God in mind and the mentality of asav was you only live once go and just enjoy yourself whatever physical uh pleasure you can get Get It Whatever uh uh uh mental stimulation you can get get it whatever monetary benefit you can get get it meaning live as if there are no consequences because you only live once and uh these are the types of people that aadh hates as the prophet says in Isaiah now the uh Greeks try to implement the this type of belief of you only live once into the Jewish world because so long as the Jews existed they reminded the world that there is an eternal life there is one God and there is a consequence for every single action that you do and therefore more than any other Nation more than any other other people the Greeks focused all of their resources to try to destroy the Jewish people meaning the greatest civilization in size and war power in the world went against one of the smallest and this is not the first or the last time this happened that in itself shows that the Jewish people are the chosen people because no other people have had the greatest civilizations Target them lose the battle cease to exist and they live to tell the story not once or the countless times that the Jewish people have had but you see that the Assyrians the Babylonians the uh Romans the Greeks the Nazis the Spaniards the Turks all of these different civilizations were at their time the strongest in war power the strongest in control the strongest in wealth uh strongest in every aspect but instead of just continuing to live their lives and continue Conquering the rest of the world they focused on a small people located on a small piece of land smaller than the state of New York and take all of their war power all of their weapons all of their money all of their resources just to destroy these people and of of course destroyed that great civilization made them into a distant memory in the history books and the small people that suffered dearly lived to tell the story until today this is really the story of am this in itself proves that am is the chosen people and the world was created for them but of course you'll still have anti-semitic and people that are delusional that are sometimes self-hating Jews that don't think that the Jewish people are unique and quite frankly don't even want to believe that the Jewish people are unique or that they're different than everybody else why because if they are unique that means there has to be a reason and the only reason you can find is the Torah and if the Torah is the reason then you have to ask yourself why is the Torah a book A book that was written 3,3 300 years ago why is that strong enough to make a people so uh Everlasting obviously this book is of divine nature and if the book is of divine nature obviously I have to read what it says and follow what it says and if I have to follow what it says and what it says is contrary to my lifestyle where that book says that homosexuality is forbidden that book says that immorality in general is forbidden that book says that eating non kosher food is forbidden desecrating Shabbat is is a is a uh is a sin that will uh uh will cut me off from a eternity of good and replace it with an eternity of bad that book says a lot of things that are contrary to my uh Pleasant seeking life then of course unless a person is ready to change he's not going to be willing to do it so you see it's that when you believe that the Jewish people are chosen you can't just leave it at that you have to ask yourself why the Greeks asked themselves why are the Jewish people chosen they found out it's because of the Torah so rather than change their lives rather than change their mentalities they simply decided to eliminate the people of the book this unfortunately is a uh not the first or the last time and there are even people today that try to do it all types of Heretics try to do it there's even a uh guy that um came to a lecture came to a lecture by one of the uh rabis in is who told the story directly to raim uh and he said that after the lecture both uh the husband and the wife came up to uh the rabbi who uh had a lecture that was discussing different proofs different scientific proofs different biblical proofs that the Torah is of divine nature and that it had to be given by the hand of God it's not something that some person wrote both the Tora and the oral Torah and there are countless proofs uh that show it after this uh lecture took place the the woman said to the rabbi Rabbi I'm honestly amazed this lecture changed my life and especially the part where you talked about how the Western Wall was promised by to never fall that I did the calculation in my head was so shocking to me that from now on I'm going to start observing Shabbat and continue to learn and build from there and the rabbi asked the woman what about your husband did he get the same impact and the woman looks down in embarrassment the Rabbi says what's wrong he didn't like it says no he also got shocked by the same exact proof only he instead of taking on the Mitzvah Shabbat he says he's going to try to blow up the Western Wall and prove the Torah wrong now of course some of us are laughing inside and some of us are crying but the reality is is that some people would rather blow up the Western Wall than observe one single Shabbat some people would rather rather do all types of vile things than observe theah giving themselves all the excuses in the world of why they can't and why it's not this and why it's not that and it's such people that you feel bad you feel bad for such people why because they don't even realize how thick the kipa is on them how difficult it's going to be for them to do cha even if they wanted to do cha now the uh the Greek tried to eliminate the whole notion of an eternity from the thought process of the Jewish people because they knew that if they hurt the Jewish people they'll conquer the entire world not just physically but Also spiritually so the first decree that they wanted to that they passed was the Forbidden of prohibition of observing Shabbat the reason why is because Shabbat is a holy day all civilization since the beginning of time had a 7-Day week with 24 hours there's no civilization that uh you can speak of that had eight days or nine days or three days everybody had virtually the same uh the same s day week which in itself is a proof that the tah is of divine nature because there really isn't a reason there really isn't a reason for the week to have seven days if not for the Torah you can say yes but the world rotates in a certain fashion and you can calculate it's 24 hours yes but who said that the 24 hours needs to be 24 hours somebody could have simply calculated it for me to be 12 hours or 3 hours or 3,000 Michu or Pikachu choose why choose 24 hours needless to say even if you all arrive at the same conclusion that there is 24 hours why end it with 7 days why not just have a simply a Eternal clock a clock that doesn't end first day second day e8th day 9th day 15th day 150th day 190th Day 19,562 Day and on and why not just continuously count from the beginning till forever or better yet just say one day every week is one day and just simply no separation whatsoever the only reason is the Torah that's the only reason why there's seven days a week but the reason why the Jewish people keep the Shabbat is not just because they're seven days a week because that technically is observed by all civilizations and all people the reason why we observe deserve the Shabbat is because made the Shabbat for us as the says that before we got to mount sa told M go and tell that I have shabat I have a very big gift in my treasure chest and the name of it is Shabbat and I'm going to give it to you even before the Torah was given to am is we received the Shabbat and this gift of the Shabbat is the gift that aadh already thought of in creation that he's going to give to us so much so thear says that each day init when a completed the creation after each day where say in Ence the creation of everything took an instant he that the created out of nothing everything but then everything else after that was a where he innovated the creation that he already created initially so you see that the words that are being used after the initi initial creation that everything was came from nothing is one word and is a different word used for the rest of the creation taking place during those six days the reason why is because took the creation that he already created in an instant put it let's say uh for argument sake in the uh in outer space and then put it in the right place at the right time during those respective days now all all of those things whether it's the uh the Heaven and the earth and the land and the uh and the water and the fish and the animals and the the the hug reptiles or the animals and the kosher animals non- kosher animals the flowers the trees the the the moon the uh the uh um the Sun the stars all of these great things will put in place on those respective days but we see that at the end of each day when he completed that day's placement of those items we see that it says so we see there's something different it says there was evening there was morning there was night there was morning uh there was night there was Day first day there was night there was day second day Third Day fourth day fifth day sixth day or the sixth day we see that there is there's an extra letter before the word shishi sixth why do we have this extra letter preceding the word it's a Superfluous letter meaning is not necessary if you suffice to sayon meaning first day which is uh in English called Sunday and second day called Monday and Third Day called Tuesday and so on and so forth if you suffice to just call it first day second day Third Day fourth day why is the Sixth Day called the sixth day says the wanted us to know this day is different because this is the day that made a covenant made a covenant with two witnesses the Heaven and the Earth and that Covenant was that one day I will give Shabbat to am is if they accept it if I'm going to give the Torah to am is if they accept the Torah which means they'll accept Shabbat and the rest of the mitv we will see Shabbat all benefit an eternity of good just like the heaven the you feel in Shabbat but if they reject the tor we won't even live to see the world will not exist to see Shabbat so now we see that this Shabbat is a testimony not only of's original deal but of our acceptance of the Torah which by default means our acceptance that aadh himself created the world in six days and ceased creating on the seventh day so when a Jewish person keep Shabbat observe Shabbat just like the say they don't drive on Shabbat they don't use their phone on Shabbat they don't cook on Shabbat they're not working or even discussing work on Shabbat they're observing Shabbat by having the kid spending some time learning Torah spending some time sharing Torah with their family resting a little bit praying to and simply enjoying the day in a kosher fashion they're in essence screaming to the heavens yes I admit accept and love the fact that created the Shabbat and he created the Shabbat after he created this entire world and if it wasn't for me to accept this Torah I would have never seen Shabbat I would have never simply existed altogether because created his whole thing for me and the Shabbat Shabbat is one of the gifts that gave us because we are the Jewish people that he created all of this for and are in essence giving us a gift before we accept the tah telling us that's what is on the line this Shabbat that I that he gave to am before Mount saai is in essence announcing the deal to them that existed already at the time of the creation so when a person observes Shabbat he is in essence she's in essence saying I accept is T and everything on the other hand when a person does not observe Shabbat thebat says that's that person might as well be one that's running in the middle of the street telling the whole world that he doesn't even believe in God he doesn't believe in God and he doesn't believe that God created the world in six days which are two different beliefs but nonetheless same conclusion a person can say they believe in God but they don't believe that that God gave us the Torah or they believe in God but he doesn't believe that God cares if we observe Shabbat or we don't this was in essence more in line with the Greek theology the Greeks believed in a god they actually believed in many gods but they simply did not believe that those Gods cared about your behavior to such an extent where they would reward or punish you based on your sexual ual preference or behaviors or the way you conduct yourself in business and otherwise so the first thing that they wanted to forsake and prohibit the Jewish people from doing was observing Shabbat because that is a constant reminder a constant reminder to a Jewish person in his family that it is God and God only that created the world so this so long that the Jewish person believed in this God being the ultimate God being the only God this conflicted and was in essence antithetical to the Greek belief the second thing is that they forbid the Jewish people from observing rodes why do they care about rodes writes that in those days in those days they had the custom which we could Implement in our days they had a custom that Jews from around the world would get together every KES and would learn T together the best speakers the best lecturers the the best material people would leave fores that was a time that they would learn to instead of waiting for to have a all day event where people are one lecture after another giving instead of waiting for to to give sh all day a day full of Tor every every KES they had a day full of Torah around the world needless to say especially in Israel and the synagogues would be packed the would be packed just for the sake of learning Torah and uh these Greeks decreed to cancel this day why so long as the Jewish people learn tah and needless to say they learned tah United there's no way we're going to defeat them now of course this was not it they also put a decree that no more breit no more breit as is what takes a Jew to the supernatural there is no physical benefit that was known to man at the time and only known to some people today about having a now although more than 30% of society today in America especially still circumcises their children many people do it because of customs of course the Jewish people do it because of our religion even if a Jew is not religious most of the time they still circumcise their children but there are many guim many people and including Jews that actually frown upon the whole circumcision Brit Mila especially the ones that are anti T where they hate the Brit so much so that they create all type of perverted material that they try to pass on to people and show them how this whole B is wicked it's pedophilia because the rabbi puts his does who takes the blood out from the with his mouth and they have all of these dirty thoughts that these sikim that are doing Mila for free are pedophiles with babies I mean this really the the filth and the sickness in societ society today uh is is is one of those things where it never ceases to amaze me how filthy and disgusting people are to think such things but nonetheless it's because they have so much filth and garbage in their mind that they're blaming other people of doing it you know the liar is the one that suspects everybody else of lying the thief is the one that's constantly uh worried that people are stealing so because they have filth in their minds they in essence uh say that the sikim have have it in their mind as well but nonetheless there are many people that will look at a B and say this is uh harmful what are you doing why are you cutting a piece of a uh the male member of a child I mean it doesn't make any sense but of course if you look at history this is something that has been practiced for well over 4,000 years by the Jewish people something that has been practiced by the non-jews for just as many years as you know as a gave a to son so of course theim the Arabs still have circumcision to this day and uh quite frankly the uh uh a good uh part of the world a good part of the world I would say at least 40% of the world if not more of the entire planet have a circumcised male member this is not a newfound idea it's not an innovation of today but still you'll see the people that are uncircumcised both in their male member and in their hearts frown upon it in such a way where they'll start accusing you of all types of crimes against human nature why because they don't know of anything that's beyond their their little mouse brain they don't know anything they don't know about the Customs they don't know about religions they don't know about anything beyond just their what they see the little burger that they see and eat the uh the uh the physical needs that they have that's how far they see of course the Jewish people we connect everything to and we don't walk right or left without letting us know which way to walk and the Jewish people have this commandment of having circumcision since the beginning where Abu hundreds of years before we received the T was commanded by to circumcise himself and all of the people of his house at the uh at the age of uh at the age of 100 years old now the Greeks could not live with this why because this B Mila did not just end at the time it took place but rather it was a life choice AIT is not necessarily something that you do on the eighth day or if the baby is weak or ill you have to delay the Brit and uh take it uh and do it at a different different time if the uh if the baby has jaundice which uh is common uh if he has jaundice at above a level of 13.5 or 13.5 and above uh you uh uh you not do theit as a matter of fact says that anybody that does a when the baby's jaundice level is above 13.5 is really putting the baby's life at risk and it's sufff it's doubtful if that b Mila is even valid as a or if the child really has to do anyway cuz you really did Sin in that circumcision so sometimes the doctors are much more lenient than the rabbis and they just say no I want to do Brit mil you can do bit mil on the second of the day the baby is born or you can do it a a few days later or you could do it this and sometimes the doctors don't really care and sometimes they care too much so that's why we have our traditions we have our knowledge our sages know exactly what and who and when and uh including medical knowledge and uh if the uh baby has a jaundice level that's high you don't do theit if the baby is weak you don't do the bit typically if a baby is born uh early it's typical that the baby is weak and therefore you don't do the B mil on the eth day and you wait until the baby is stronger and that's something that has to be verified and approved both by the doctor as well as the rabbi not one or the or the other both have to confirm that this baby is strong enough to have a because you don't want to put any child's life at risk uh and uh what about the whole issue of doing on Eighth Day the eighth day is for healthy kids if the kid is not healthy yet you don't put the kids life at risk for the sake of a mitvah you don't put the life RIS now when it comes to the uh this is not just a single act but rather a life choice a life choice to make this body this entire body this snitel that you have this this burger that you call a body take this body and make it holy no less than a seph or make it more worthless than a burger that sat outside of the fridge for three or four days that's what the B Mila is going to decide if you take that bit that you got either at 8 day old or later you take that and you keep that Holiness throughout your life that means that your entire body is no less holy than a SE on the other hand if you're not observing your breit and you're constantly desecrating your breit wasting seed priscu homosexuality and all types of immoral crimes that means that that body is worth less than a hamburger and you need to do Chua you don't need to destroy the body any further you don't need to kill itom but nonetheless you need to fix it you need to do a you need to to fix what you have desecrated now the Greeks would have none of this why they lived the life of immorality in fact the immorality that went from Sodom and gomorah traveled to Greece and spread to the whole world of today where when they had their uh Gladiators their muscular Warriors tried to make a statement they would put them in a Coliseum and take some Jew poor Jewish people and make them fight but to make sure that everybody enjoys the fight because perhaps some people don't necessarily just want to see blood they made sure that the fight was being done naked that's how sick these sick people were the homosexuality the promiscuity the the constant vile nature that they called life to us Jewish people is death it's worse than death so for us to sanctify our body as the Tor says in you be holy CU I am Holy says one of the ultimate ways for a Jew to make themselves holy and quite frankly without it there is no Holiness is the Holiness of the bit the Holiness of the of the uh way a person is with their treating their own body if a person treats their body like a uh uh like it's uh public property there is not an ounce of Holiness in that person whether it's male or female if she is walking around and make sure that her body is like public property like it's a garbage pale that everybody can see everybody can see every crevice everybody can see every uh layer everything that woman has literally zero holy in her she has a Holiness of a but that is hidden by the that she's continuing to build upon walking around imly no but she does give okay in G they're also GNA give that to certain people and do a over there when you walk around immodestly you're you are showing that you simply do not care about to ofm you don't care about hem you don't care about his Torah why because the the the Holiness of a person begins with how they treat their body and making sure that they are not public property same thing with a guy guy that walks around with Imus clothes which unfortunately has become very common today all these guys that call themselves religious walking around with tight pants or half naked or naked or whatever they're walking around with or needless to say guys that are constantly going to all of these nightclubs and bars and doing how many sins over there with different people every day or with themselves all of these different things desecrate the Holiness of the body a person like that cannot retain any Holiness whatsoever until they start doing Chua this is why you will sometimes see people start taking on MIT start taking on mitv he started keeping Shabbat he started keeping kosher but he still his head is still def he still can't learn toah like a normal person he still can't grow in tah he still curses like a truck driver he still acts like as if you know every day he could be giving up the entire T why because doing some is good but unless you have Sanctified Yourself by having a Brees you haven't started doing chba you haven't started doing CH when a person sanctifies themselves sanctifies their body not just by doing mitv by by actually sanctifying the body by keeping themselves moral and protecting their bre that person can do anything they could learn to at the highest level just give them time they could observe all of the MIT just give them time to get there they'll get to everything but if they don't protect their bed you'll see that wherever they are at some point they hit a plateau and they can't goow further they can't grow further so this Covenant that we got at the time ofu that we have to implement in every Jewish baby is one of the main things that makes the Jewish people not only different but makes the Jewish people holy and when a Greek saw that every time he saw one of his Gladiators fighting one of the poor Jewish people and he sees the Jewish people naked and he sees that they're different this would drive them insane would simply drive them insane that this still existed and therefore they said that this is not something that can continue now Shalom writes in his seph in the ones that I've mentioned to you guys before about uh that we have about uh each part of the Torah again spoke about through his many years of doing uh uh K and giving lectures and one of the books that they put together is theuk all types of lectures that again spoke about uh kanuka and also pin and here on in chapter six page 37 in the English version he brings the Rak and the Rak says that God will release us from the pit of Exile by the Merit of the Covenant meaning that the Messiah is going to come when am protects their breit now of course everyone say wait it's never going to be that uh every Jew keeps their breit there's always going to be somebody that's still a uh bam certainly but when enough Jews protect their breit enough Jews do cha enough Jews care about their other fellow Jews and Society at large to do cha for the issues of immorality then you will see the domino effect of kadus stem into the world enough enough to make a bring the M meaning you don't have to wait for the whole world or the whole Jewish people to protect their Covenant but rather there already being enough people doing it and enough people caring about it now now again also says why the why is a why is it done on the eighth day he brings the maral the maral says because eight represents eight is a number that represents the supernatural something that's above nature and AIT elevates a Jew above nature and gives him a share in eternity in life after death and the resurrection of the dead and the world to come and therefore was no wonder why at a compl we recite the verse in uh in uh Ezekiel 16:6 where it says I passed over you and I saw you wallowing in your blood and I said to you in your blood live meaning that in the uh in the whole ceremony of AIT there's this verse that's mentioned about how we'll live through our blood what blood the blood of theit says why because this Brit this special Covenant is what makes Isel but not just because you did it at 8 days old and nobody even asked you but rather because you kept that bleed throughout your life and if you desecrated at some point you did CH and then you kept it from that point on and everybody knows page 86 says that a person that does chuba out of fear is turning all of their sins that were purposeful into accidental sins meaning there's still sins but much much lower degree but a person that does Chu out of love turns all of their sins that were purposeful into but how could a person do chuv Out of Love by helping other people do cha helping other people do chu doing K is the highest level of that you do in this world and that's the highest way to show that you love hem and therefore you are literally turning all of your sins into MIT now how do you do CU not everybody's a speaker and uh not everybody is a someone that uh write books simple make kiru your number one investment in your life make kiru your number one investment in your life unfortunately some people had the opportunity and did not do it I heard a shocking story today from oura it's an extraordinary and speaker he's given almost uh 3,000 lectures uh in uh in his in his life and uh he's now he's our head of our and said a real story that uh was actually documented and uh I'm trying to get the uh the the paper on it to perhaps put it on the video when we post the sheld tomorrow but anyway he says that there was a wealthy Jew a wealthy Jew uh that lived in uh in America and there was a rabbi that he knew now this rabbi made Al and um but you know still the uh stay in touch with different people one day this Rabbi wasik good person gets a phone call from this Jew that he knows from America this Jew right now is at that time he's 90 years old 90 something years old already and the Jew tells him listen Rabbi I don't have a wife and I don't have any kids and what I want to do is I want to give the $50 million that I have in the bank I want to give it to you and you put it into Torah all the good things that you do you're the only person I can trust sounds good $50 million it's fantastic you could help the world of Tora in a very big way the rabbi knew that the is not going to let this go $50 million going into the Torah world it's not happening so easily so he told the uh old man he's like I appreciate the gesture and uh I'm more than happy to help you but what's the point of doing it after you die why not do something now the guy says no no no Rabbi only after I die the rabbi talks to him about it for 40 minutes tell him listen you have like the best gun in the world in your hands you have this money you're 90 something years old we both know you're not going to live forever you decid that you want to do good and you want to use this gun that you've accumulated the best gun in the world and use it for the best thing in the world but you're putting something to block the gun that's what's Happening Here guy says I appreciate the analogy not giving any money right now after I die we'll go to a lawyer I'm putting your name in the will you're going to get the money and after that you're going to do it the rabbi tries again listen I understand you don't want to give all the money right now I'm not saying give all the money right now but why don't you give something $40 million you have 50 get $40 million for TOA now while you're alive because you'll have merits in this this world while you're alive I mean it's a world of difference getting the merits while you're alive versus after your dead after dead you have no yet so you know in sh say yeah he gave the money but in reality who else is going to give it to he doesn't have a uh a wife doesn't have any kids what is he going to give it to idol worship he's not so he gave it to to a big deal but if you gave it during your life that means you overcame something that you've acquired your whole life and you're giving it away for the sake of T that's a big deal so give $40 million for keep yourself $10 million $10 million at your age you could literally take the money and eat every day you still won't run out of money eat the money itself instead of stakes and everything else you could actually eat the money and you still won't run out of money the guy says to the rabbi Rabbi not even $1 am I giving while I'm alive after 40 minutes of trying to entice this guy to do the right thing and give during his life there's nothing for the rabbi to do fine that's what his decision was shortly later the guy died and the rabbi gets a phone call from a law firm who tells him that he has to come and uh deal with this case this person died so comes to deal with the case and they say Okay Rabbi this uh this man left 50 million for the teachings of the Bible so we gathered all of the names of the organizations that teach the Bible and it's for you to choose which one to give it to the rabbi looks at the list and he sees it's all churches Christian idol worship churches one after another after another after another not a single synagogue not not a single Yesa not a single K the guy the rabbi said oh hold on a second you made a mistake here I knew the guy he wanted to give the $50 million for Torah that's what he meant by Bible they said to him we're sorry in this country Bible means New Testament Bible means Christianity which Christian organization do you want to $50 million to go to and there's nothing he can do about it such a punishment such a punishment is literally worse than G why because this person is not only going to get punished for whatever sins he made during his life but now he's going to pay a heavy heavy crime heavy punishment that he contributed to more sins where all of his life's work all of the money went to go publicize idol worship you see when tells you something he's not telling you something out of uh just uh ah this is nice for you to hear is telling something that has to do with a person needs to take that into account but unfortunately some people don't have the Merit to see the truth because they already chose not to so the Greeks no matter what you showed them did not want to see the truth they simply wanted to change the truth to whatever they felt whatever they felt and Brit was one of the ways that they wanted to eliminate anybody else from seeing the truth because this Covenant that the Jewish people have with their God of cutting their flesh to show that they are different from everybody else was simply unbearable to the for the Greeks to see because that means that every action that they do has to do with their God every time there's a baby that comes to the world it has to do with their God every time there's a marriage it has to do with their God and was simply unbearable for the Greeks to deal with now the fourth decree now that we're going after these three we're going to go into the other ones we're going to go into the other ones to show how evil these people were writes that the fourth decree was that this is actually well known and the rambam writes this in his letters that this was one of the decrees of the Greeks the Greeks instituted a law passed a law that obligated the Jewish people to engrave on the horns on the Chim and on their doors that they do not have a share in the god of Israel they no longer believe in God in so many words publicly declare that they don't believe in God now why did they pick the uh the horns because in those days people would use these horns as a bottle for the for the kids to to drink their uh to eat their food and drink their milk so they said the Greeks were smart people intellectually and very conniving and evil they figure that if a baby sees a certain statement enough times it's going to also be engraved into their heart and this is what they wanted to this is what they passed that Jews publicly make a statement that they don't believe in God the fifth decree was not being allowed to say the word God in any way shape or form not Hashem not the sh nothing not allowed to say God's name anywhere why because the Greeks knew that so long as a Jew says the uh the name of hasem this is going to remind him of where he came from remind him of Judgment Day remind him of decrees reminding of mitv now it's not just saying not saying the name of Hashem but also not saying anything that refers to Hashem such as not allowed to say the word amen amen mean is an acronym for the word the god the king that is reliable meaning that whatever he said he's going to do he said that he'll reward the righteous he'll do that he said he'll punish the wicked he'll do that that's what rashi rashi says is the uh the meaning of the word amen Jews were forbidden from saying the word amen they were also forbidden from saying blessings saying was forbidden no more blessings why are you blessing God there are many other gods go say thank you to them according to the Greeks because they figured that even these small things that perhaps don't seem like such a big deal okay so he doesn't say Amen every time he he's a blessing so he doesn't say a blessing even what's the big deal enough time passes a person forgets that God even exists already we see that these Greeks were very strategic with their decrees they didn't just cancel out the entire T in fact one of the says that the reason why there are three decrees the Shabbat the in the that are mentioned in the uh uh in the M of is because these three were the most powerfully instituted ones en forced ones and because anus his strategy was that he'll tell the Jewish people don't keep these three but we know you have 613 so you'll still have 610 I'm not trying to cancel out your religion I'm just telling you three what I'm being very uh diplomatic here with with you guys I'm uh very open very liberal with you I'm not saying to uh cancel out your entire Torah we want you to stay Jewish we'll even put you in the government we'll put you into office we'll give you good jobs we'll do a lot of things just show us that you really want to be part of us by canceling these three and you continue keeping your other 610 that's in essence was the uh the evil strategy of the uh the Greek Empire and its lead on the now the um person that would say Amen to a blessing or would say a blessing itself was at life risk if a Greek heard somebody is making a blessing or anybody would say this guy makes blessings they didn't need any further Evidence theyd simply just kill those people and in essence scare enough people by showing them oh we heard this guy makes blessings somebody told us one of the people that already is a one of the people that already adapted and elected to uh to go with the Greeks by choice he told us this guy makes blessings this guy says that's what we killed them so the rest of you learn not to do it and people would see this and get scared to death the maritz the maritz brings this in the uh in in in his SE and also it's in in in 76 this is why after the um the miracle of of winning the war took place the sages instituted and of the instituted the prayer of there's a prayer in our both and have this in their a section a paragraph of prayer There's No One Like Our God there's no one like our King uh uh and uh we do that why because this is in essence a uh a way to undo the damage of not saying aen and not seeing blessings under the uh decrees of the Greek people next we have the next evil decree this perhaps will touch the nerve of some of you and if it doesn't touch the nerve of some of you you should check your spiritual pulse every woman that's a virgin and wants to get married has to have intimate relations with one of the Greeks first in order to be permitted to get married this was one of the decrees that was passed the the whole issue of intimacy was of highest significance in the Jewish world since the beginning because as I said before this is what makes us holy the way that we are intimate with our wives is one of the ways that distinguishes us from the Nations so much so that even bam the knew that this is the way to destroy am where you when you destroy the Holiness of intimacy of the Jewish people you destroy the Jewish people that's why after trying to curse us three times and failing where hasem turned the curses of bam into uh blessings bam gave the idea to balak in par balak go send all of your girls with 's clothes and get them to convince the Jewish people to sleep with them if if you do that their own God will destroy them why because their God hates zma hates immorality and that's what happened balak sent all of the girls to the Jewish people camp and unfortunately the Jewish people fell for it and pinkos Shalom says that this was the only time in the entire Torah where punished on is without warning them where decided to annihilate and was and proceeded with it 24,000 people died in in in literally in moments and it only stopped when Pinas Ben elazar benen killed the the leaders of this whole immoral act publicly killed Zim and uh and Cosby the zi was the leader of the Shimon tribe and the Goya uh was was a woman named kby was the princess he killed them while they were in the middle of the act and showed everybody the bodies made a whole big Kem didn't care the fact that they were going to kill him didn't care about popularity didn't care about the gruesomeness of what was happening he killed them during the Act and the uh Mish says that there were 10 Miracles 10 Miracles that took place during this murder this this mitz this murder that was a Mitzvah that saved the entire people blessed Pinas with a life where he's never going to die he ended up turning into Eli he also gave him his n back because after he killed uh Zim and kosby uh all of the soldiers of Zim who was the leader ran into the tent and from the fear he got a heart attack and died hasem put his n back into him and then gave him extra strength to fight everybody off and actually raised both of the bodies that were stuck to his spear in the air like a flag another miracle the M says that he actually put the spear in the sexual organs while they were in the ACT to show that this is indeed what they were doing miraculously went through it don't even imagine what I'm trying to tell you but that's what happened the the the key here is that we see that simply decided that this was the only cure to this cancer that was a life-ending Cancer and because of that the beginning of says to mosu for all of those naysayers for all of those people that think that pinhas was a extreme fanatic just let them know the only reason why everybody's still alive the only reason why there's still an is in the world today is because of what P did because I decided that I was going to destroy everybody and he did an act that took my Vengeance for me and uh because of him I gave am another chance and ra pus Shalom wrote in his SE that this was a uh not just a heroic act but rather this was a act that saved Amel from a punishment that was like no other punishment in the entire now these these Greeks wanted to ruin the sanctity of and make sure that every holy Jewish girl that was going to get married is going to have intimate relations with one of their filthy disgusting Greek excusable life garbage people unfortunately when it says that the uh the the mind of a woman is a uh is uh is easy to influence most people especially the naysayers the missionaries the uh so-called Messianic Jews that are really Christians in Disguise uh they translate this in a negative fashion that you know the Judaism in the Torah looks at women in a unfavorable way this is the furthest thing from the truth and the reason why is exactly this story I'm about to tell you where is a statement that was made in favor of the holy Jewish women well first and foremost we know that women are uh emotional much more than men are but at the same token they're also not going to abandon Hashem as easily as men do at times because of something that somebody said so when the Greeks passed this decree even though the men did didn't like this decree that their future wife is going to be used properly by the time they're going to marry her their sister is going to be used by somebody before she gets married unfortunately many of the men accepted it the women did not accept it what can they do comes one of the sisters of the kashim enters the room in a uh place where all of the Jewish people are standing she was scheduled to be married and thereby she was scheduled to go into the camp of the Greeks to go commit relations with one of the Greek animals who call them themselves a human being she comes in front of all of the Jewish people rabbis the the regular people and this tadika that has never been touched by anybody takes off our clothes in front of everyone so much so that when her brother saw this and everybody saw this they wanted to kill her what are you doing what are you doing and they tried wanted to kill her and then this smart girl told her brothers oh so I'm only allowed to do this with the Greeks then and then her brothers and the rest of the people got the message how did you ever become okay with the fact that your wives are going to be used by one of these filthy Greeks how did you become okay with it I'm not okay with it and this created a jealousy among the and thereby the rest of the people that joined them we can't continue letting the Greeks defile our households defile our wives defile our daughters we've been quiet for way too long and this was one of the acts that a woman a righteous woman used her beauty Dy in order to get to wake up and it needed to be that extreme in order to wake people up apparently but this was one of the evil decrees of the Greeks in order to enter the household of the Jewish people because one of the people that guided the Greek as I told you in last week's Sho was a heretic named T benat who abandoned his Jewish traditions and religion and adopted to the Greek ways and advised these Greek cronies all types of strategies to go against his Brethren telling them that as long as they give them the ability to accept thean the sacrifices then their prayers will be accepted and the Greeks will never win as long as they have Holiness sexual uh immorality is not among the Jewish people Hashem will hear their prayers as long as uh uh they act uh uh where they pray to hem they do Hashem will hear their prayer so he constantly gave them insights about what they needed to ruin specifically this was a hinted in the save me from my brother save me from where saved me for my brother that's uh that was my brother but really he is more asav than anybody else so now in the this new T new tor unfortunately like some other Heretics out there today and used it against the Jewish people and in the page 22b it talks about how a woman makes a breit makes a covenant with her first mate the man that she's with for the first time in our life that who that's who she has a covenant with that is who she's going to think about even if she ends up being with somebody else even if she ends up being with many other people she's always going to remember that first guy this is a known thing and the sages knew it this is both a physical and a spiritual and the since T been was one of the who knew the oral Tora this is some of the insights that he told the Greeks in order to encourage them to implement his laws that if you want to have all of the Jewish women have Greeks in their mind and truly adopt the Greek laws you have to make sure that the first person the Jewish women are with shalom with the Greeks let her get married to another man let her do whatever she wants but if the first guy is a Greek then Greek is going to be in our system this rash is uh one of the people that gave the Greeks such a filthy idea because if they just wanted to be with women then why not just be with all women married not married young old what's the difference they specifically wanted to be with the women that were virgin before they got married showing how evil evil really is now this also shows us one of the reasons why the uh the uh tah tells us that it's forbidden to teach theim the non-jews the intricate details of our mitv of the oral it's forbidden for a non-jew to learn it's forbidden for him and it's forbidden for us to teach him this is why I always tell people if you're in a process of conversion focus on what you need to learn for the sake of conversion don't try to conquer the entire world of tah in one day focus on what you need to learn for uh for the sake of conversion because if you're learning what you need to learn then you know that hhm is going to be with you once you start learning things that are forbidden to you then perhaps Hashem is not going to be with you but also the is going to be with you and before you know it you're going to go into the wrong place wrong place wrong time wrong understanding and you can get into a lot of trouble and unfortunately this is one of the things that uh you uh you see in the world today people don't want to listen to any Rabbi they just want to do whatever they want and before you know it they simply decide that they're Jewish just because they learned to they decided that they were Jewish and this unfortunately is becoming more and more common or better yet they decide they know more than the rabbi why because they read two three four five books or 10 books or 20 books they decide they know more than the rabbis they decide they know more than so this type of distorted mentality is uh not something that appears overnight it's something that is uh created over time when uh when people don't learn what they're supposed to be learning so the Greeks wanted to make sure that the knowledge that they had of the or t is going to be used against the Jewish people and that was one of the things that they implemented the seventh decree the seventh decree is that the Greeks outlawed mik anyone that would send his wife to the mikve would get a death penalty would get a death penalty as we know a Jew a Jew is not allowed to be with his wife during our menstral cycle he has to wait until the bleeding stops a minimum of four days even if she bleeds for only one or two minimum of four days for minimum of five days for Asim plus seven days for both meaning it's 11 days minimum or 12 12 days minimum out of the month the Jews are not with their wives the Jewish men are not with their Jewish wives sometimes it's longer if uh if she bled for longer or needless to say if she just uh uh uh gave a you know had had had a baby then you're talking about a couple of months or more uh but nonetheless anytime the woman is bleeding from that part of the body if it's a coming from the uterus the uh she's forbidden from being with her husband she's considered nid which is spiritual impurity that doesn't make her a bad person Shalom it doesn't make her uh uh a uh person that's uh uh lesser in any way shape or form just that she's forbidden from being with a husband this is actually a time for her and a husband to build their relationship without intimacy which is very very much a uh needed part of every relationship and nonetheless the uh this is one of the things that creates uh Holiness in a marriage and also creates a uh a constant state of Attraction a constant desire for a Jewish man to be with his Jewish wife each month because he's not he's never overdoing it he's never overdoing it just like says if you found honey which is referring to a a woman a Jewish woman you found honey meaning you're getting married to her uh eat only a little bit because if you eat too much you end up throwing up in so many words this is an analogy for saying you married a kosher woman perfect don't overdo it why if you overdo it then what's going to end up happening is you're not going to want her anymore and this we see in the secular World in a non-jewish world where over 80% of people that get married in in in Western Society get divorced within 5 years it's uh it's it's pretty much normal of people to get divorced at least once during their life if not more often it's no longer frowned upon it's no longer Taboo in fact if you're a celebrity and you've gotten uh divorced less than two or three times you're not even an aist actor anymore you're not an aist celebrity because to be a celebrity you have to be already through several marriages and you could literally have people in their 20s in their early 30s already through three or four marriages and without even thinking twice about it and unfortunately this is a Greek mentality this is a Greek mentality that has infiltrated the world and is still in the world today and uh one of the things that keeps a Jewish marriage holy and different is the uh the fact that you have mikve mikve is when the the days are completed the like I said either 11 or 12 days uh respectively and the woman then goes to the mik and she they are their uh the husband and wife are together that night it's very very important for the man to be with his wife during mikve night it's a very big deal it's like a holiday it's very important for a man to be with his wife during mikve night if the woman does not want to go to the mik she's called a ra says is a woman who does not want to be intimate with a husband and this is one of the grounds for divorce without giving her uh so it's a woman doesn't want to be with her husband is a very problematic woman uh same thing with a husband husband doesn't want to be with his wife it's also a grounds for divorce uh needless to say if a woman doesn't want to go to mik which is typically what happens if she doesn't want to be a husband she doesn't go to mik because then she knows that even if uh even if he doesn't care if he's a religious Jew if she didn't go to mik he won't touch her hand even needless to say he won't be with her so this is one of the things where is grounds for divorce if somebody doesn't observe this Mitzvah now the uh Greeks would have none of it why would they have none of it because for them to limit a person to only one woman to limit a woman only to one man was unprecedented was unacceptable it's too religious for them too religious for them because they wanted each person to be with whoever they want whenever they want now so far we see how different the life of a Jew is versus the life of a Greek certainly to finish this whole list we're going to have to do another sh so I'm going to give you one more decree and then we'll go over the whole thing so far try to wrap it all up the next decree that the evil Greeks pasted was the Prohibition for a man to give his wife write his wife a write a man wanted to marry a woman he has to give her in those days it was customized that a man would write his own which is a contract today it's uh the custom is for the uh either the rabbi to write it or you simply to you know buy it a rabbi to buy it uh and you uh pay for it uh or if your Rabbi really likes you will'll give it to you for free uh but nonetheless a uh this uh is the contract is the contract that a uh person has when he wants to marry a woman because that contract in essence is a purchase the Jewish man is buying the woman not buying her as a slave but buying her in a sense that she belongs to him everything that's hers is is becomes his and he is a owes her he's obligated to her he has to give her sustenance he has to be intimate with her he has to give her clothing uh he's uh he owes her also it's not just a one-way street now of course the the feminists and the uh the anti- Torah people will tell yeah this is not good this is how uh Judaism puts down women they're making them uh purchasing them and they're putting putting women down this is as far from the truth as it gets but uh this is actually one of the ways that the sages instituted to protect the women to protect the women how do they protect the women while the Greeks wanted to Outlaw this and anyone that wrote aah for his new wife would get their fingers cut off the uh thear says in a couple of places in page a in page 889a uh and other places as well that the sages instituted the in order to protect the women for being thrown out for no valid reason why you cannot use a Jewish girl and abuse you can't just use a get what you want and then just throw her out just because you want to get somebody a little younger or you want to get somebody with different hair color or you want to get somebody that cooks different style food if you're going to be allowed to be with this woman you are obligated to her and if you violate that obligation you'll have to pay for it a certain price that is already predetermined before you uh before you uh uh uh you get married now what happens if uh the guy committed okay I'm going to give this woman uh he writes the you know he likes her he wants to show her that he likes her he writes $100,000 on akba he writes $500,000 on akuba he writes whatever number yeah yeah I love you honey this doesn't really make a difference whatever $500,000 I'll give you don't worry don't worry and he thinks to himself ah it's never really applicable never applicable I'm marrying her forever right and uh Mr Wonderful over here marries the sadika and then five six months later he says listen h uh I don't love you anymore what do you mean you don't love me anymore what do you mean what what are you talking about you don't love me anymore no you know listen uh my secretary you know I I think she cares about me and this and that okay no problem you got to you give her a get you want to leave no problem that's a uh that's what you want to do you want to ruin your life that way you want to replace me with some Z no problem you have to pay the oh yeah that I don't have the money I don't have the money you know have uh have some real estate deals they have to go through and this and that khabibi sell everything you have to sell everything go borrow the money until you pay theba not tomorrow not in six months not when your deals go through immediately there is no such thing as a divorce being complete without him paying theba no such thing yeah but I'm going to lose money as a result who cares it's your problem should have thought about that before you cheated on her with some secretary so here the sages instituted the whole issue of Kuba for the protection of Jewish Women not to be used and abused Shalom by filthy people that want to act like Greeks even though they look like Jews and the Greek people wanted the Jewish people to throw their wives out freely why because the whole Greek mentality was to promote promiscuity promote homosexuality promiscuity free free free Bodies free this free that so here you see the first eight of 22 decrees and it's obviously tragic now let's ask ourselves the question you see here that the Greeks tried to destroy Judaism by forbidding us from keeping Shabbat how many Jews do you know forget about how many Jews are in the world forget about how many Jews you don't know how many Jews do you know that call themselves Jews that are celebrating kanuka right now eating s bigger than their head playing with the Civ acting proud to be a Jew but yet do not observe Shabbat as them what makes you a Jew any more than makes you a Greek the Greek wanted you to desecrate Shabbat you in the year 5782 or 2021 according to the Gregorian calendar are desecrating Shabbat just like the Greeks wanted you to they said that if you desecrate Shabbat you're one of the Greeks are you Greek no come on man I'm not Greek I'm a Jew just like you even more than you then how come you don't keep Shabbat n you know it's like this it's like that okay fine it's like this it's like that fine secondes is not just the day that celebrated back then as a day full of Tor also KES is symbolic of all of our Jewish holidays we need to know exactly when KES is in order to know when R is in order to know when Yip is if we do not have the right calculation of when roses is we could be fasting on the wrong day and eating on the wrong day and thereby getting a sin cutting ourselves out of the Covenant of going G getting punished in this world and the next if we don't know when is we could be eating on P and eating matah on a regular day if we don't know when KES is we simply do not know how to observe God's laws Do You observe God's laws do you fast on Yip and not drive on R and also observe all of the yums whether it's the one yum or two yums depending on where you live or are you Greek because the Greeks didn't want you to keep two yums in fact they even want you to keep one yum so much so that they instituted a decree for you to forget about y by forgetting about why are you celebrating and not celebrating you eat the suot and L on the rabinal holiday of kanuka but when the rabbis tell you that you're obligated to fast you look at them like they have five heads now I got to work Rabbi I can't fast while I'm working you think it's an elective fast is this one of those easy fast Rabbi no I only fast on y I don't fast on the other fasts okay what makes you Jewish any more than it makes you Greek third is the B everybody no no I got my kids have that's not really a big deal why even Muhammad and Mustafa give a Brit to their kids sometimes Chris and Steve from the church also do a b Mila for their kids it's not exactly such a big deal to do a circumcision anymore like I said billions of people have circumcised male members question is do you know what to do with that Brit as far as what makes it a Brit versus a circumcision there's a circumcision which billions of people have in the world today and then there's a Brit which only few know how to keep it as a Brit protecting your breed from promiscuity protecting your breed from wasting seed protecting your breed from all of the things that are forbidden according to the Torah and the sages that's what keep keeps that Bri holy when you see that there is an abundance of homosexuality in communities which include the Jewish community and all types of people including some rabbis are accepting not only tolerating it accepting it as if this is the new reality as if this needs to be the new reality we need to accept them where there are some people that call themselves religious Orthodox homosexuals like this is not a uh oxymoron from hell now if you see that people have desecrated that b to such an extent and you're not concerned enough to do something about it there's something wrong with you too the fact that there is literally only myself in the world today in the English speaking world today that regularly speaks about the issues of breit specifically with immorality wasting seed is a disaster and a half as much as I love to get more and more mitv and to take all of the world's MIT to get people to do CH for this issue the reality is we need more Jews to teach about the issues of immorality but you can't teach people about immorality if you yourself are immoral and unfortunately that's what happens sometimes you have people that are immoral teaching about morality and then you find out they're the worst people in the world so the key is to understand is that each and every single person that understands the significance the importance of the teachings of morality needs to make sure that there is as much of it as possible as much of it as possible there's more books there's more lectures there's more videos there's simply more of it because this is what distinguishes us from being animals not even from being go from Simply being animals this is the difference between man and animal if we Are Holy then we are men if we're not holy we're simply animals if you're not protecting your bleed and worse yet you're promoting immorality by the way that you act you're promoting immorality by the way you dress you're accepting immorality as a new standard you're accepting immorality as even being good why are you celebrating kanuka if you're more Greek than Jew the fourth decree that told us that they wanted us to not say not uh not remember our by simply engraving engraving on the horns engraving on the doors that we have no share of the god of Israel this is symbolic of how people treat their mitv of M you see a person with a half a million dollar house million dollar house $2 million house but theine that he's wearing are from his bar mitzvah 15 20 years ago you tell them you should buy a normal pair ofine cost you a couple of thousand no Rabbi I have these already for 20 years they're still good when's the last time you got them checked oh you have to get them checked RAB why nothing happened they only fell a few times what's the big deal person has a million dollars in a house that's going to stay in this world but from his bar mitzvah or better yet he has a very expensive house and a salary that goes along with it but if you tell them that you have to get some good M it's going to cost you $150 $200 or more per muuza he looks at you like you have five heads why so expensive Rabbi Al so the house you could spend the money on but protection for your house and for everybody in it you figure that you could live without apparently you forgot this house also own owned by God maybe you should write on your door you have no share of the god of Israel maybe you should write on your car keys you have no share of the god of Israel why because for the things of this world you have no problem spending money on just like the Greeks but the things that have to do with the next World with eternity is always a problem there always stinginess you tell a guy listen you give M 10% of your of the income that you make to for the sake of tah oh no Rabbi listen I give money but I give it to like my you know people that are in my family I give it to my kids I give it to my wife are your kids and wife homeless are they poor no no they live with me no no they're not poor so how how do you consider what you're giving them what what's what what it says help your own family first Rabbi help them if they have a need not if you're already obligated to do it but people will use the their as if it's a uh uh the IRS uh uh write off sheet everything that they ever spend on anything they want to pretend as if it's m tell them want you take that $100,000 you make a year write a check for 10,000 put it for some K or for kiru or something that's going to help the world of Torah Rabbi can I just give a part of it now and maybe later on when I make more money is a person has forgotten who is for is he thinks that he's the one making the money it's very sad it's very sad but it's true it's very sad but it's true person does not make tah and not only toah but to that actually helps people their number one investment is a person that has to ask themselves why are they celebrating kanuka because they're doing the same thing that the Greeks did they're investing into this world now one of the ugliest things that the Greeks did one of the ugliest things is to tell us that we can't say A's name because they want us not to say blessings not to say amen and today you have to remind people to do a blessing before they eat you say same as not oh oh oh yeah yeah I'll do it after I'll do it after wait so you ate already and you haven't even said Thank you to hm yeah after after oh yeah I forgot I forgot imagine if a forgot to give you food for a day imagine he forgot and you just simply didn't have food in the world for you you forgot to say thank you you ate already you forgot to say thank you andom you mentioned to the guy that he has to sayab I think this is I really still need to do what do you mean it's it's bread how is it listen I'm in a hurry I'm in a hurry can I is there a short version of I don't know I think to myself all the time that it's amazing to me more than anything else that doesn't give certain people poverty it's like they know they have to say thank you but they only want to say the short version of thank you not eat bread because they don't want to thank aema on purpose not eat a real meal because they don't want to thank Hashem for more than a minute it's amazing to me that simply doesn't just impoverish those people how much Mercy has much more than men much more than I can even imagine but in reality there are certain people in the world that will not eat bread because they don't want to say thank you to for more than a couple of minutes because that's they don't want it's amazing to me that Hashem will say you know what you don't want to say thank you to me how about this I'm not going to give you food anymore how about that you're going to eat like Holocaust victims how about that then you remember to say thank you of course doesn't think like me thank God he doesn't think like me but it's amazing to me that that's the case if a person doesn't even know to that he's supposed to say thank you he's like a pig that just eats and eats and eats whatever comes to him honestly that person has more of an excuse than a person that knows he's supposed to say thank you but he only wants to give the short thank you of course the other person's also wrong for not saying thank you at all he should say thank you obviously for everything that he has but this person just lives in a generation of entitled people they think everything is supposed to be theirs and sometimes s they think that this it's the rabbi's job to pacify them like this young man sends me a uh request says to me listen can you if I give you $180 to send somebody to can you have them pray for me that uh I'm going to be 6 feet 3 in tall have a great hair forever and never go bald I'm going to live a long life and uh I'm also going to have a uh beautiful jawline be physically built great health and I'll have a wife that fits my standards physically and uh and also mentally and spiritually and uh can you can you do that for me for $180 obviously I said no and then he started saying okay can I just get this for $8 I said no no no no nothing nothing none of the request I can say yes to we're not going to pray for you to be a certain physical status or a uh to have a wife that a certain physical status or or we're not going to pray for that we're not praying for people to be Greeks you could be Greek by yourself you don't need my help for that you have not learned any of our Torah therefore you think you can buy us with $180 we don't want that kind of money go to some reformed guy that's going to take money and tell you whatever you want but unfortunately people are so delusional today that they don't know right or left they don't know up and down needless to say they think God owes them something that if they give his Torah a few shekels he's going to give them to write this to write that this that the other thing needless to say when hasem actually gives them what they want they still forget him it says in after I give you the food to eat and satiate you don't forget me why it's within human nature to forget AEM after we get what he what he what we want this is even more of a reason of why we need to not forget him if you have an opportunity to eat bread and therefore say or not eat bread and not say it behooves you to say to eat the bread and say yes it'll take longer but it's worth it to eat the bread for the sake of praying to longer and saying thank you to even longer because that's one thing that distinguishes you from the Greeks that either don't pray at all or they pray so short that you're not really sure whether it's a prayer or simply they sneezed we see that when it came to saying prayers saying amen and all that stuff these are all logical things but they haven't necessarily touch the nerve with everybody yet until we got to the issues of where the women were obligated to go and be with the Greeks before they got married to the Jewish guy now this of course bothers everybody that hears it if you're about to marry some sadika and she says listen I want to marry you but uh I got to go and uh Marcus over there Marcus aurelus over there I got to go hang out with them for a little while and then I'll be back we'll go I'll meet you the the thought of this makes your head want to explode that she has to go with some Marcus before she gets married who can live with such a thing right you can't live with such a thing that a woman's going to be with somebody else before she gets married right so how come it's so common that the girls and the guys feel at home with testing the grounds with different people before getting married why does she think that it's okay to be with somebody before she gets married to him why does he think it's okay for him to be with somebody's before he eventually picks a wife why does the world look at it as it's not a big deal rather than looking at it as it's a disgrace you see we see the clearly how wrong it is for the Greeks to decree that a woman has to be with some Greek before she gets married to a Jew because we see we figure it's against her will right and we're not really always understanding how do you compare that's against her will she's with a Greek before when she really wants to marry a Jew how do you compare that to some girl being promiscuous today before she gets married or some guy being promiscuous today before he gets married how do you compare the two you compare the two because they're exactly the same you see if this girl if she's not an outright Zona and she's just a normal girl that simply thinks it's okay to be with some guy before she gets married that's only because she's assuming she's going to marry this guy it's only because she's looking for a serious relationship no normal girl is ever going to be with a guy just because she's assuming something will develop out of this if she knows for sure that this guy's going to throw her out like a bag of gotten food for sure she won't even spend a minute with him if she's a normal girl and she knows this guy is like a Greek that as soon as he gets his way he's going to throw out like garbage she won't even look his way so of course it's the same exact thing as the Greek decree when you're promiscuous and you allow yourself to be with somebody whether you're a male with a female or woman with a male whatever it is and you allow yourself to be with somebody before marriage it's exactly like the Greek decree why because since it's not going to lead to marriage and you're assuming that it can had you known that it won't for sure had you known that they're going to throw you out like garbage you wouldn't do it and therefore after the fact it's always against your will it's always against your will especially since it becomes addictive both physically and mentally and you end up wasting a lot of your time with people that simply take advantage of you both physically and mentally but it's your fault you put the evil Greek decree on yourself you view the Greek decree as repulsive and disgusting and you didn't see that you're putting that evil decree of disgusting nature on yourself when you are with somebody before they get married I always tell both the boys and the girls that contact me that are dating someone serious and they're about to get married whether it's a week later a month later or six months not really sure people delay things so long but I tell them listen until you have a in your hand and you're married after the the you are complete strangers you're not allowed to look at her a certain way not allow to touch her you're you're complete strangers regardless of what you did until this point you're complete strangers don't act like you're married because acting like you're married to somebody before you're actually married is putting the Greek decree on yourself and needless to say putting that Greek decree on somebody else and if you were with somebody and then threw her out what makes you think that a is not going to give you the same punishment and have somebody do that to your daughter in the future oh you didn't think about that did you because you're only 20 and you only think things that are 20 minutes later as you get older you start thinking about things that are a little longer than 20 minutes later maybe 20 years later but a smart person will start thinking about the future today whatever you bring into this world is going to bring you right back even theim know that this exists and they call it karma Torah calls it measure for measure if you're a promiscuous man you could be certain that unless you do very very serious CH and even then it's very likely that is going to do the same thing to you make you feel that same pain that that girl or those parents or both felt when you threw somebody out after using their body to your likings same thing with women and same thing with young and old when people are promiscuous they're bringing evil to the world needless to say to their life and the Greeks knew exactly what they were doing when they instituted this because since they heard different aspects of the oral tah from Jews that went against the Torah they also heard about what it says in t number 70 it says that there are certain that come from the and thereby have certain inclinations that are the opposite of what is normal he feels like a she she feels like a he they feels like they want they instead of a just a person they want people or animals all types of strange desires Z says these people came from a intimate act that was between a man and a nid she was his wife but she didn't go to the mik face she didn't keep t or she was a Goya a Jew and a non-jew or she was a sh she was a mate servant she was an underling she was a secretary she was somebody that was under his control or she was a zonah she was a promiscuous woman whether prostitute or simply a woman that was not married to him she's considered a Zona a woman that has intimacy without being married is considered according to and the that will come out of that woman will certainly be one of those that is likely to be a problematic that could have strange inclinations strange desires difficulty when it comes to toah and a hurdle to overcome in order to do cha but nonetheless each that comes to the world with those strange inclinations or with difficulties and so on is also given the strength to overcome them and I've seen with my own eyes of how people that were born with certain strange inclinations overcame those inclinations overcame their distaste for Holiness and become holy people not once not twice not five times or 10 times I've seen as many times of people that have done serious and some of them many to our after serious dedication they completely became holy people that at times I would ask them for blessings but nonetheless those people had to overcome a very very difficult hurdle because their parents wanted to act like horses the Greeks wanted everybody to be like the children of horses let the Greeks do what they want to do why are you helping them by being promiscuous why are you helping them by promoting promiscuity and having it on your screen showing your children all types of promiscuous movies showing your children all types of promiscuous shows showing your children and your wife and your husband and everybody in your household all types of things that promote promiscuity why are you promoting Greek methodology and yet expecting your family to remain preserved it's important for us to know that we're bringing these Greek decrees on ourselves when it comes to the mik that remained strong was willing to get the death penalty and still send their wives to the mik because they knew that there was no other way for them to be together there was no other way for them to reproduce there was no other way for them to live together without the wife being pure Unfortunately today according to a study that was done in 2017 according to the Gregorian calendar about the modern Orthodox Community only 50% of women in the modern Orthodox Community go to the mikve which means that nearly half of the children that coming out of the modern Orthodox Community half of them are coming from a Nida half of them are coming from a zon half of them are coming from a forbidden relationship half of them is anybody surprised of why there are so many Heretics in the world and so many atheists and so many people that are promoting all types of agendas that are against human nature if you want good to be in the world you have to start by producing it you have to produce good did not have any investments in pools when he made the laws of and obligation to go to he's not an investor in a uh mik companies he did it because he knew that's the way to produce Purity in the world when a person does not View mik as an important time in the family's life each month not just the husbands not just the wives but the family's life the family's future they need to at the very least invest them time to learn more about this Mitzvah and realize what they're missing out on we have a video on our Channel about the uh both scientific uh findings about the the issues of of mik that was made Years Ago by uh Rabbi jua ladya and also there is a uh book that our own uh raban shulamit kakl wrote about the issues of she's been a BAL for almost 40 years all types of stories that we got from different uh students she has students of our own different people wrote how many miracles they had as a result of keeping going to the a person that does not observe this mitah which is only for married people person who does not observe this Mitzvah is simply living a Greek life why are you celebrating kanuka if you're acting like a Greek and this is not to encourage Greek lives and discourage celebrating kanuka it's a rebuke that's coming from Pain to see that a lot of people are doing things to themselves and not realizing that they're doing it the isue is the last thing that we talked about tonight and the last thing we'll talk we'll finish off with today supposed to be a agreement that you make in order to to remind yourself of your obligation but today it's turned into a big business people are so enamored with materialism that before they even get married they have to make all these Arrangements who's you're going to pay this you're going to pay that if you don't pay this we're not getting married if you're not going to pay that we're not getting married you have to buy this she has to buy that pretty much both both party both both sides of the family are barely closing the month but they both expect the other side to be a millionaire in order to pay for all these different things on top of that people that do have a few dollars they want to make sure they're protected from everything listen if you didn't come into this relationship with anything you're going to leave with nothing too if you leave already they're thinking about getting out of the relationship before they even started now of course again a person needs to be smart and not expose themselves to risk be smart about certain things but if you don't trust this person you're about to marry why are you marrying them if you're already married why do you have two different accounts separate accounts are for separate people if you're a family there's a single account if you're a family there's no secrets if you're a family you make decisions as a family but unfortunately today money has become such a big thing that theba is the beginning of many many agreements that will follow 90% of fights in families are about money why don't you fight with him about him learning more tah why don't you fight with her about being more modest why don't you fight with him more about him dedicating more to spend some time learning spend some time connecting with Rabbi spend some time learning M why don't you fight about that why don't you fight with her about learning more mus more why is all the fights about money don't you think that if you fought about things that are more meaningful perhaps the things that are less meaningful will be worked out bym oh you think it's a fantasy well the M says it's our critical Foundation of our old T and name of anyone who takes on himself the burden of T takes away from them the burden of the government meaning you learn more T take more of the responsibilities of this world IE you learn more you work on yourself more to serve Hashem better Hashem will take away some of your money problems if each wife would argue as much about her husband learning more t as she does about getting a new car or a new fridge or a new vacation we'd have a lot more sikim in the world and sadikot in the world but if you view theba as a business agreement from day one and that's how your life is Opera it's all all based on business it's all based on money Shabbat has more business talk on it than Wall Street desks then you're not going to have a very successful life and needless to say your kids are not going to be very much different than the Greeks we have many other decrees that the Greeks put onto the Jewish people but as you could already see the first eight the day passed on us that nearly destroyed the Jewish people are still nearly destroying the Jewish people today but not because the Greeks are putting a sword to our necks and enforcing it rather because we are forcing it on ourselves by not learning Torah and by simply adapting to the Greek laws without ever checking what the Jewish laws are first during this kanuka I highly recommend that each and every one of us spend some more time learning more Torah learn what makes you Jewish learn about what it is to be Jewish why is it that the Jewish people are compared to oil why AR we compared to orange juice why are we compared to Candy we compared to to oil why while the Torah is compared to water anytime you have water you'll see that the water travels to the lowest point the Torah travels to to the person that's most humble oil on the other hand no matter where it is and who's next to it it'll constantly remain separate from it it'll constantly remain separate from it the Jewish people are supposed to be separate from the gam thereby they're supposed to be like oil separate from everybody else don't be like everybody else don't act like them don't look like them don't want to be them how can I do such a thing you use the tah to Humble yourself and the more humble you are the more you'll become different than the rest of the world around you we'll see each other again later this week to go over more of the decrees and perhaps learn more of what makes us Jewish not just today but also what will make us Jewish and our kids Jewish tomorrow thank you very much for learning with me bless each and every single one of you to serve AEM at the highest possible level sanctify his name and get all of the Miracles that he already wants to bring to you in your life and the Merit of this [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] for for for for [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] a [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Music]