CHAYEI SARAH: Real Estate Business - STUMP THE RABBI (220)

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literally do you know a sh day for the rest of our lives and still not finish all of the teachings that you can learn from each par needless to say uh but tonight we're going to focus on one particular thing which is business now starts off after the AK after abah ainu passed the extraordinary test of the AK of being willing to uh and nearly sacrificing his son killing his son and he comes home only to find that there is another huge test where in the world of aam I don't know which one was bigger which one was smaller it's irrelevant to us it's simply incomprehensible he comes back after after an extraordinary test instead of what we would expect like a surprise party uh some type of Celebration abah ainu comes home to find that his very dear wife for over a hundred years s menu has left this world has died and uh he now has to bury her he now has to bury her this is something that uh no one wants to ever deal with but the reality is everyone dies at some point or another was aik lived 127 years that were complete years fully of righteousness she was a prophet that was even greater than abrah ainu her her husband and abrah ainu wants to make sure that he buries her in a very special place and few know about the secrets of the cave of uh including the current own of it which is eponte aam goes he's a famous celebrity leader King all over the world everyone knows who Abraham ainu is especially after he he defeated the Four Kings the four biggest armies in the world single-handedly especially after AB ainu has shown to literally have prophecy has been called the man of God by those among him abah ainu comes to the Hittites and he says to them that uh he is looking for a piece of real estate and of course Ephron is the one that owns what AB ainu has and the deal begins the deal begins now what can we possibly learn from this deal what can we learn from this deal Shalom one of the great sages of am Isel writes in his commentary of SE in the D in the first section Al that in order for us to know the true essence of anything we must learn about what the Torah says about that thing whatever that topic is that you're looking for the first time it's mentioned in the Torah once we review what the Torah says about it before it after it during the verse what the commentary by the sages say there we will learn the essence of whatever subject we want and the first time that the real estate business is mentioned in the Tor is in time of of Adar when K killed heav there was no they were not fighting over uh over who has a bigger house the time of Noah destroyed the world there was no realate to speak of but here we see that abah ainu is involved in a real estate transaction wants to buy the cave of M from Eon but we see that Ephron is not someone that uh he appears to be initially aam says to the PE people the leaders of the HTE people which Eon is sitting among them even though at this stage he was not a leader but once a was looking for him the greatest man on Earth is looking foron automatically the hittite people said oh a is looking for you they gave him a position they gave him a salary they gave him honor if abah ainu is looking for you you must be something and ab is pleading with the people and he's saying I'm looking to bury my dead if you would please speak to the owner of the K of M of course if one is there people say oh you are the man of God of course we would help you no one will withhold anything from you and if one of course stands and says aam not to worry bury your dead they could have it as if he's giving abah ainu the cave for free but surely thereafter for starts to add a few disclosures you know like somebody makes you lots of promises tells you listen we can do this A and B and C and we can provide you this service and that service and this service and that service and this is the price well you could do all of that if you could do all of that sure I'll buy all of it even even though it may be expensive even though it may be more than what I'm paying but if you could do all of that absolutely I'm happy to do it and then when you're ready to sign and unfortunately many times after you sign you're like wait what happened to that uh service B that you mentioned and if we're already talk about service B let's also talk about C and D cuz you mentioned it wasn't just a you also had b c d so so where are those oh well well those are extra what do you mean when when you talk to me about what you provide you said that you could do a b c d and that's what I was paying for and I asked you can you do all of that you said yes yeah but may you didn't understand us you didn't understand us we meant that if you want to get those other things you'll have to pay another 30% here another 50% there another 300% there well it's a completely different contract this was unfortunately Aon Eon initially presents the deal as if he's giving the place for free but then he says to aam what's 400 Z between your between friends which in reality everyone knows including the the hitp people that are sitting there watching silently ason is trying to take every bit of money that AB ainu has he figures abah is Rich so why shouldn't I be rich too this is the Socialist Communist mentality that many people today have where they think that just because somebody else is Rich for whatever reason or another they owe you something so here is the first place that real estate is mentioned and we start seeing that the negotiation between a andon changes from it's free to what's 400 Zoo between you and I which in today's worth in today's uh uh uh value is millions and millions of dollars much more than the was worth further he tells them listen it's not just a cave it's a field perhaps will explain why he even sold the field instead of just a cave making it seem as if it's a better deal now and other things and from there we're going to learn how to do business in real estate or really otherwise wants to buy the cave but the first thing we see is thaton is trying to fool and that's the first thing that one must realize that if you're going to go into business whether it be real estate or anything else and you're going to look to buy something you have the money or access to the money know this the seller will certainly try to fool you by giving you a price much higher than what it is without having any shame in fact it's so much higher than what it really is it's multiples beyond what you would even imagine where you could expect going into a transaction that someone is going to try to take an extra few points here and there an extra few percent here and there no we see fromon he's not selling a land that's worth you know 400 zus here a cave that's worth 400 zoos here for 410 he's rather selling something that's worth maybe 10 for 400 so the first thing we see and we learn according to the teachings of our sages as says is the first rule of business expect the seller to overprice it that's the first thing second we see that initially is very kind you can have it for free no problem you are a man of God and if you have some money you're perspective buyer don't be surprised if all of a sudden everyone wants to be your friend and they ask you where do you live what do you do for fun what' you do in the weekend how many kids do you have how did you succeed this far and seem interested in your life do you need coffee don't be surprised it's not because you are such a Charming person this is business if they saw you in the middle of the street falling over yourself they most likely wouldn't stop to pick you up but since you're a customer since you're a prospective buyer all of a sudden the fake kindness comes out again this does not mean that they're bad people this is necessary you can't be nasty to people and expect them to buy something from you but the same token don't take that stuff to your head don't come home to your wife with a chip on your shoulder saying yeah listen I went to uh the broker's office I went to the uh car shop or whatever you went to go buy something they know I am they know I wish you know how my me as much as they know well honey how do they know who you are well as soon as I came in right away they stopped what they were doing one of them was even on the phone he hung up the phone right away I think it was a probably an important phone call but he came to my attention right away how are you doing how do you like your coffee how didn't even know I like coffee they must have known you know with technology today they must have known I'm coming they must have known and if that was enough before they even knew what I was looking for they pointed to the fancy car that I've been eyeing a few times said sir we're not even looking to sell you anything anything why don't we have some fun today why don't we go for a nice Joy Ride on this $300,000 car I said fine they must know who I am they don't know who you are in fact you don't even know who you are if you think that you saw her something but in the business World fake kindness is expected they'll even pretend to be your friend they'll even to pretend to care about what you're saying that's what if fun was doing why is this necessary because as FR Was preparing the next step de baat and switch with initially a fron offers or gives without even a request here it's yours go bury your dead as if it's free in front of every everybody but privately he says what's 400 Z between you and I the ba and switch but Aon doesn't stop there Eon has been eyeing ainu along with the rest of his community that's been eyeing AR ainu counting his money one of the most despicable things that people like to do talking about other people's money or counting other people's money how many people do you think going to uh aru's restaurant every day I don't know I think I saw maybe at least 150 yesterday wow 100 150 yeah yeah no listen he's got four openings Sarah she's a worldwide renowned Chef everybody knows it's a fancy place they'll cook it fresh on the spot nothing is uh sitting there Frozen everything is good 100 100 you sure you're not exact no no 100 150 so he starts doing calculations in his head he's got a hundred people let's say coming into the restaurant every day makes let's say what each one is at least three $400 the guy's making a ton of money every day what employees does he have he's got slaves he doesn't have any this guy's killing it and imagine what he gets on the weekends imagine what gets on the holidays and not only that but now if he's got that kind of a business then the real estate itself is appreciated in value and he starts calculating all the money that abam has in his imagination he has this and he has that and this is what people do all the time what does he do for a living what difference does it make he has a job he has a respectable job no no I want to know what he does he's a lawyer he's a doctor he he's a you know plumber he's an accountant he's I don't know a technician what kind of uh doctor well you sick no no I don't know before I say yes to the shid I wanted to know what wait you don't need a doctor so what do you care what kind of doctor he is no I want to know oh you're trying to size him up you're trying to figure out how much money he makes because if he's like in like you know family therapy and like something that's like the local doctor that pretty much deals with colds and stuffy noses then uh you know if he lives somewhere in your uh your area of the woods probably makes $150,000 but if he is uh maybe one of these guys that uh looks at uh the X-ray machine all day looks at all of these fancy uh pictures from the MRI for the uh CAT scan then he's probably making about four or five maybe even 600,000 but hey that's only if he works it if he's the owner he can be making over a million oh and heav help us if he's a spinal surgeon then he's making at least a million and a half dollars wait are you marrying his wallet his job his boss his customers his financial statement or the guy this is what people do all day they calculate other people's money constantly what does he do where do you get the money for this car this car is at least what $1,500 a month wait how do you know you saw his bills you look through his mail no no no I know I know cars wait you have this car no no I can't afford it so why would you care how much it cost if you can't afford it if you could only afford to pay a hundred bucks a month why would you even bother to look at a car that's way out of your league you know why because you like to measure things up you want to look at this guy oh this guy's driving an Aston Martin yeah he can afford a few thousand a month oh that guy nah that guy's a Buick that guy's a Hyundai that's guy's a maybe3 $400 that guy look at that guy that guy has a sports car you can't even Finance those things you have to buy him out right you think he bought it secondhand you think he bought he bought it from like a friend or what do you care what do you care about these things this Ison ifon has been Measuring Up aah ainu but in order to make the sale if one has to seem nice seem kind seem like he cares because there's a bait and switch coming after offers a free opportunity all of a sudden he says take the whole land with the cave on it but did I ask you for the whole piece of land is that something that I ask for no all I ask for is the cave I'm not interested in the land I don't want the land I just want the cave to bury my dead that's all I want I'm didn't ask for the whole thing because the reality is the cave itself was not really impressive it's a cave you bury dead people that's where they used to bury people back then Buton didn't really care about that he wanted to make a bigger transaction he wanted to make it seem more presentable and one of the reasons was his family was buried near the cave of M he was buried in that land now it wouldn't seem appropriate to sell the cave near the land of where your family's buried I mean it's not honor for you so what is he going to do no no we sold the whole thing it was just the one package deal we had to sell there's no other offer he didn't even want to buy the single cave if one quickly ba and switch just like unfortunately has become standard in the world today where you buy into one thing and you realize by the time you are getting close to finishing the transaction whatever you were looking to buy is not even available it's not even possible it's not even working but they always have something close that happens to be more expensive it happens to be inferior most of the times but you've invested so much time and Agony into getting to this point of the transaction you're like ah fine fine I'll get it I'll get it and in the real estate World unfortunately it's no different you go into to the guy tell listen I'm interested fine listen we really are only looking to lease it but uh if you want to buy it you give me uh 3 million for it 3 million yeah well listen right now it's worth 2 and a half million but I know that if I hold on to it for five years it'll go up to three million so if you give me what I'll be worth in five years from now I I'll agree to sell it to you as if he's doing you a favor wait a minute if it's worth 2 and A5 million why would I pay you what it could potentially be worth in the future on what planet do you live in the worst part is when you find out that even the price that he said it's worth 2 and a half million is not even real you're lucky if it's worth a million two or million three but that's all part of the game it's all part of business if one being switch trying to fool if you can't handle those first two steps you're not going to succeed in life why you're not going to be able to do any transactions wait so I have to be willing to be fooled in order to do transactions not necessarily but you need to know that they're trying to fool you and you need to know that sometimes you'll have to allow them to win the small ones so you can win the big ones third thing we see that once if one offers the whole piece of land everything throws out is obnoxious price AB ainu knows that this is more than just a piece of real estate this has to do with spirituality this does not have the same types of rules as an investment property he wants this there's a special reason why he wants this particular property it's not like if it's a synagogue where he could open it wherever he wants or if it's a I don't know an office building and he can open wherever he wants it doesn't have to be this one particular location he wants to that's where is buried he wants this particular place but he want wants to make sure that a the liar who's pretending to be his friend doesn't change his mind so what does abam do he closes quickly says what do you want 400 counts it on the spot but not only counts the 400 zoos on the spot but he does it publicly in front of all of the other people he pays the full price up front in front of everyone in order to make sure that one once Eon sees how quickly he gets the money he doesn't have second thoughts and starts thinking maybe I should reneg on this maybe I could get more out of it maybe I could get him 450 maybe 500 the worst thing you can do to someone especially someone that's a shark that's looking to bite you is accept their first offer worst thing you can do why immediately their belief is that they could have gotten more knows that if there were one-on-one he could go haggle you know what I didn't really mean it when I said 400 maybe we should go 450 maybe 500 but in front of everybody especially after everyone has said including Eon you are the man of God we honor you rabbi he can't embarrass himself this way so he has to he has to close the deal and knows this so this third thing fourth is in real estate if you want to have the edge you have to have the ability to close the deal quickly the more time you need to close the deal the more likely the deal is not going to happen now up to here are not things that are overly sophisticated but the next one is won't seem at first but it is extremely deep we see that is not just happy with a little bit maybe take 50 200 out of this uh deal no no he wants the whole thing he wants 400 he throws in a bunch of unnecessary things pieces of land on top of that he starts giving conditions I'll sell it to you but you're not allowed to bury anybody else here he says to only one person what do you mean if I'm buying it why why do I have conditions like someone that I spoke to recently so I'm looking to into this building well listen if you're going to go into this building it has to be a restaurant I didn't ask you what business I want to go into I asked you how much is the building how much to rent how much to buy that's what I'm asking you for I'm not asking you what what business I'm not asking you for business advice no no no the condition is it has to be a restaurant or has to be something why or somebody else that I spoke to listen everything sounds great but you're not allowed to build a mik here why is there a problem with the ground is there a problem with the uh ceiling what's the problem no we don't want a hole in the ground ground hold the ground now if this was a that told me this it really wouldn't mean uh anything but when a Jew tells me he doesn't want a hole in the ground that tells me that the Jew is closer to a than uh than he realizes and most likely his mother didn't go to the mik because he doesn't realize the mik is another a hole in the ground but needless to say conditions we see that Eon is not happy with what he got even though what he got is much worse of an offer than you can possibly imagine why why is this the case why is a front constantly looking for more why the mid brings a verse in the Book of Proverbs chapter 28 verse 22 and the WIS this man schl says as follows one who's overeager for wealth has evil eye he doesn't know that loss Will befall him this says the midash Raba was said about three people one of them being a who put an evil eye on the money of the tadik now why how is it that if put an evil eye on the money of the sadik because he was counting his money he was counting how much can aam really afford if he could just said quickly yes to 400 zoos maybe I can get 500 if he has a restaurant how many people is he make is he is he selling to a day if he has this if he has that what's a salary cap what's a salary this how much is they make how much the house did you buy did you rent is this a vacation property what's the tuition cost how much you pay for that car what do they pay somebody in your position all these types of questions that have somehow become socially normal even though they're completely obnoxious abnormal and rude the mid says eon was doing the same thing why because he was overeager for wealth what does it have to do with it one that's overeager for wealth has an evil eye why the teach multiple things first one that's overeager for wealth tends to be stingy like a miser where he could have hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars in the bank in portfolios and you know he has the money but if you tell them listen to uh go to this restaurant with your wife and kids and the family it's going to cost about six 700 about almost a $100 a plate what $100 no no no no no no no we'll eat at home we'll make omelette omelette I don't understand you have the money no no no no we don't need to spend that kind of money okay listen sir the uh car that you uh want to buy it's going to cost you 50 ,000 100,000 no no no no no no no no I I I'll continue uh writing my uh 25-year-old beat up car that uh has no alternator and is missing a few Wheels I I'll continue I'll continue I I'll ride a horse I'll ride a horse but I don't understand you could afford it it's not the money why are you such a miser why you so stingy no no no no no no no it's okay it's okay I don't want anything I don't want anything now sometimes people that have money are generous but with themselves they'll buy themselves a nice watch they'll buy themselves a nice vacation they have no problem spending 10 20 $30,000 on a vacation if you tell them listen why don't you help us feed poor people in Israel you can spend $10 $20,000 on a vacation concerned that you could spend I don't know $10 $220,000 to feed a bunch of people that literally don't have money to eat yeah maybe I'll um yeah I'll send you something in the mail I'll do it online and you see that they make a transaction that literally the transaction costs from all of the merchant Banks and the bookkeeping and the employees to log it into the system and the accountants and and everything else almost are as much as the donation why is this the case because the more somebody is eager for wealth the more addicted they become to money the more stingy they can become and the mits says someone that's not generous harms himself because lack of generosity meaning stinginess is the polar opposite of what Hashem is Hashem only gives and when someone acts exactly the opposite of what Hashem is and they're stingy that person hurts himself because he incurs aem's disfavor and the says someone that's a miser has such behavior that causes not only he to not necessarily be connected to anyone but actually people can't stand him and people respond to him in the same way he behaves with other people they're generous with other people they're kind but with him nobody likes him why because the world is a reflection of you but more to our particular point with Eon and in business is as follows there are people that blessed them with money they have properties not just that their house they may have a building they may have a few houses they rent out they have money in the bank they have a portfolio they have but when it comes to donations to support the poor to support the world of tah it's very very difficult for them why because they're so eager to gain wealth says the page 66b they're hesitant to give they're hesitant to give charity because they're afraid that if they give charity if they write a check for five 10 20 30,000 which they could easily afford without disturbing their net worth without missing any meals if they write a check that's substantial that you can actually do something with it'll diminish their Capital what they don't realize says thear is that the fact that they do not give the appropriate amount of the appropriate amount of causes a to not give them even more because when he is so eager to gain wealth and is hesitant to give charity he doesn't realize that hasem increases the wealth of those who give charity and the fact that you didn't give means that you also lost out on the extra gifts AEM wanted to give you and if that's not bad enough the person that is overeager for wealth where yeah we got to make money we got to do it we got to do this we got to do that they develop an and says the has three connotations one being a stingy person doesn't care about anybody else cares about himself he's willing to buy himself some item that he doesn't even need for a few thousand he's willing to buy himself whatever he wants but to help others if he does it all it's very very minimal it's even hard for him to give somebody a right to work or right to to to the doctor so difficult for him or for her to help the second type of evil eye causes the person to have Envy Envy of other people that have more even if they don't really have more they just look like they have more or because they actually have more so he has his job he makes a good living he has a few dollars but he's not Happ happy with it he's like ham that had billions of dollars but it was all worthless in his eyes ham said and still because there's one Jew named M that's not bowing to me so the guy he makes A1 $200,000 plenty of money for what he needs he has a few hundred thousand or even more millions of the bank but he can't spend a single day without looking at somebody that has more than him perhaps his boss hey I can't believe it I do all the work here why does he make all the money I could do what he's doing he's not doing anything he's just sitting in his office talking on the phone all day I'm doing all the work that type of ungrateful disgusting attitude is very common today people forget that they're employees and they think the the boss doesn't do anything so why does he get all the money they don't realize the boss didn't always sit there drink coffee all day and perhaps the bus is not necessarily only drinking coffee it just looks like to you that's what he's doing but they start calculating wait listen I don't understand the company made 5 million last year I brought in sales of at least 50% of that why shouldn't I make $2 million why shouldn't I I make a million dollars because you idiot there's expenses there's bills there's salaries there's the cost of goods there's the cost of doing business but he is so envious of his boss or he's envious of a cooworker that makes more than him or he's envious of somebody he doesn't even know which is the worst somebody that lives in this community that has a big house and is known as somebody that has a lot of money or somebody on that he saw in the media or on the Internet look all these people look how much money they're making man wow this guy makes at least 20 million a year that guy makes 50 million a year that guy is a billionaire this guy just joined the Forbes 500 this guy is the 500 what do you care the lowest form of conversation is talking about other people's money but he does it every single day not because he ad Ires anyone rather it's because he envies them he envies other people's stuff which means that that evil eye that he has is such a evil that it causes suffering to himself not just to others because when you are looking at other people's things and they have something else that that you don't have what does that do it not only causes the Envy the jealousy that's just gross but worse it makes you unhappy with whatever you have you could have just gotten a brand new car a brand new house a brand new wife a brand new kid a brand new job brand new something but the second you looked at that Elon mus guy on TV that keeps making more billions and inventions and so on and you're unhappy with the car that you have you're unhappy with the house that you have you're unhappy with the watch that you have with the kid that you have with the wife that you have the worst thing that a person can do to himself is poisoning himself with other people's information when you look in other people and they made money and they did this and they did that not only is that a complete waste of time and destruction of brain cells but worse yet it makes you unhappy about whatever it is that you have it's like you're eating the sandwich that your dear wife made for you or maybe your mom made for you and this has always been your favorite sandwich and every day you eat it and you're hungry you wow this is the best wow this is great this is great this is great and then one day you notice a guy coming in and he has a steak in front of him with all types of side dishes and guess what happens at that moment you don't long you don't no longer have an appetite for your sandwich not because you're not hungry but because you're eating your heart from jealousy and envy by looking at his stuff your wife becomes ugly after you look at his wife your house becomes unlivable when you look at his house your life becomes worthless when you look at pictures of the illusions of his life and the evil eye causes a person literally to damage everything around them including himself but that's not it the evil eye makes a person blinded to reality in how they impact other people meaning that when a person accustoms thems to look at other people's stuff with Envy with jealousy they're not going to admit they're jealous they're not going to admit they're en they're just saying look I just want to see I just want to see I just want to see this I just want to see that I just want to see I just want to see and guess what they don't realize that when they're looking at somebody else's wife they're hurting their wife they're hurting their kids when they're looking at other companies doing well they're hurting their company they're hurting the morale of their co-workers several times I've suffered from different types of employees that none of them ever lasted and one of the main reasons why is because they would tell me listen you know I can make more money somewhere else in 90% of the cases this has happened I told them if you can make somewhere more money somewhere else good go somewhere else in fact I'm very happy for you I want you to make more money I want you to do better thank you very much for what you've done here we appreciate you good luck to you they didn't expect that response they thought that if they tell me that they can make more money somewhere else I'm going to fall for the Trap and give them more this type of mentality is poisonous for a company why you start telling people listen you know I can make more money somewhere else you start putting in planting the the idea for somebody else to take maybe I can make more money somewhere else maybe this maybe that a person that's envious a person that has an evil eye does not realize that his entire midot system his entire character trait system is all defunct it's literally they become a hazard they damage everyone around them their wife and kids can't stand them why because he doesn't realize that his stinginess despite having money is causing them not to enjoy shabat because he still wants to eat last week's kala he's forcing everyone to eat Shabbat food already on Thursday but of the following week he's limiting everyone to only two salads his stinginess makes them hate Shabbat even though it has nothing to do with shab but it makes them hate being who they are because of his disgusting Behavior a person that has an evil eye literally becomes a hazard to every single person around them because they are unhappy with their share and they're completely oblivious of the fact that their expression of thems them sharing their unhappiness with others causes others to be unhappy also either because those people also start questioning what they have or because those people worked really hard to give you what you have she worked hard to cook for you she worked hard to clean for you she worked hard to raise your kids the company worked hard to give you a desk and a chair the company worked hard to give you all the different tools that helped you become better at whatever it is that you do but you saying that you can get something better somewhere else completely ignores that no it's nothing personal it's nothing personal I just I I'm just saying I could get something better it's nothing personal but you're a wicked person you're evil now in the case of eon how do we see this overeager for wealth having an evil eye play out how do we see this see what we quickly forget in this story as the negotiation is happening is that s menu is dead she's on the floor she's on the floor she's covered but if doesn't care he's too busy trying to make money the greed is such a high level he completely cares less that somebody has died in fact that brings us to the next point of how in the world of business you're going to meet a lot of insensitive people in fact you'll even meet people that have buil their business taking advantage of people that are destitute whether it's hospitals lawyers doctors or Evena sometimes where you have to bury somebody and they'll tell you that you have to raise a 100,000 200,000 $300,000 just to bury somebody I don't understand are you still feeding him why does it cost so much money and every year it keeps going higher you literally have to be a millionaire to die it's more expensive to die than to live but unfortunately this is also in the business World in a much worse manner as soon as the lawyer finds out you you have a case he doesn't really tell you the truth he tells you what you want to hear you could win oh great glad I can win but it's going to cost you 25,000 I don't understand they're only suing me for 75,000 why do I have to pay 25,000 well listen who says they're going to win 75,000 because you know and he starts telling you all types of things that don't really make sense but somehow he put you in a position where you're so scared like okay okay okay listen can I make payments I don't have the 25,000 yeah I'll do it for you cuz uh you I want to help you in reality two seconds after you send him the money he's already talking to the other side to do the easiest thing in the world what settle listen they'll settle with you you'll have to pay them half the money 35,000 but you won't have to go to court and it's all good well I understand I paid you 25,000 I paid them 35,000 so almost I I pretty much lost the lawsuit but I didn't lose that's the situation in the world of business you're going to meet many many insensitive people if you are a sensitive person do not go into business why you're not going to make it you're going to get hurt offended you're not going to survive the deal but the truth is that you have to overcome those sensitivities if you want to survive in the world people that are overly sensitive live very miserable lives we see how insensitive a for but we also see how insensitive the hitti people are because they're watching Eon overprice a and they sat there quietly because they figured that Aon is no different than them in fact they had the same evil eyes of now they look not only at Abraham's evil in an evil eye measuring him not they started looking at how can we get this money out of the fr's pocket they were also doing the measuring and the accounting of other people's money now another thing that we learned from aam in this business deal is that when Aon initially pretends like he wants to give aam a gift AR rejects it it rejects the gift he says no no no I'll pay for it full price whatever it costs I'll pay for it why because says someone that hates gifts will live because gifts are much more expensive than something you buy somebody gives you gifts typically when it's time for you to return it's much more expensive much more expensive somebody did you a favor when they come back for a favor you'll see that it's much more than what they did for you doesn't want any gifts in fact the Z says when it comes to even if you have the opportunity to do a mitvah for free like distribute the kiru cards the Shar cards or to USBS or books or to share lectures or to uh whatever it is that you could do for free you should still get some money together and donate and pay why because anytime a Mitzvah is free it gives the Satan some bit of ownership in that Mitzvah allowing him to distract you allowing him to destroy allowing him to do a lot of different things that you don't want so the Z says enemy that is given for free gives a part of itself to the and therefore a person should be careful that even if someone gives them a mitzvah for free they should give them something so the grabs onto the money instead of grabbing onto the mitzvah the next thing that we learn from abah ain's negotiations here is that after he agrees 400 Jews I'll pay you if one is not happy with that he's not happy with it but you got what you wanted you asked for 400 for something he didn't even ask for more than the cave he gave even that what do you want no no no I want to give you conditions what yeah I want to give you conditions listen you're going to use this land only to bury one person after that you have to do farming you have to do all Ty crops you can't use this land for the things and realizes says the Mal that these conditions are something he has to argue against he can't just deal with I'm only burying one listen I'm buying this so I can do whatever I want with it not to deal if I'm paying for the if I'm paying for it I'm paying for Freedom I'm not paying for conditions so in the business world you're going to have to realize that one of the most important parts of the deal is not like what most people think the price the price you'll pay the rent the price you'll pay the lease or the the price the purchase price the sale price certainly that's important but even more important than that is the conditions what are the conditions that are attached to this price if the conditions are unfair then so is the price and if you're not willing to deal with the conditions don't think that you'll be able to fool this person somehow because it'll end up costing you a lot more in the long run so you have to know that there's certain conditions you have to compromise with there's certain conditions you have to deal with there's certain conditions you have to fight we see that Eon achieves extraordinary Prestige as a result of this transaction also something that we see in business but yet we are dumbfounded when we see that despite the fact that he has pretended to be kind switched the offer overpriced the asset included something that wasn't asked for gave conditions insensitive to the actual reality that the s menu is dead achieved Prestige and position now he makes a bunch of money just from Simply this as a result of this now with the new job that he has he still wants to take more and more Advantage why why does he want more says the mid in Mim someone that's overeager for wealth has an evil eye where this was said about Eon because no matter what he got it would never be enough even when he got good and the same is said says the midash about somebody that does not give somebody does not give the tithe 10% of what they make in order to show hasem that they know that he gave them 100% And therefore they're going to use 10% of that to publicize his name to support T to support to support the mid says this same awful verse is said about people that do not give M properly because they are just like ephon who got so much but is reluctant to give and in fact gives back evil and if that wasn't enough mid says that there are three people that this verse is written about this verse of one who over who's overeager for wealth has an evil eye the first one is a for all the reasons we said the second one is K who wasn't happy with only having one wife because he was jealous of his brother Abel that had two wives so he killed him and the third one is people in the merchant cash advance business someone who lends money with interest those are the people that the T says are overeager for wealth and thereby has have an evil eye and do not realize that loss Will befall them ask the midash Eon we understand K we understand but why is someone that lends money with interest one of the people that is considered this evil answers the midash why does he lend money with interest it's because he's overeager for wealth and therefore because of his overe eagerness to wealth a curse is put upon his assets and that's why the rest of the verse says and he doesn't know the loss Will befall him when he is doing what he's doing and lending money to people with interest he is biting them he is hurting them but he doesn't care that that he's hurting them by charging them the 30 and the 50 and the 100 and the 500% interest because he's so eager he's so lustful for money he doesn't care that he's hurting anybody on his way to so-called success he's just like a snake and unfortunately is still here in this world today it's called merchant cash advance it's called lending money with interest now the curse of being such a person that's overeager for success is not just what we said we saw K that shows how much the impact is in this world needless to say in the next World you see anyone that knows Hebrew knows that the loss in the verse that says that he's someone that's overeager for wealth his evil eye and he doesn't realize that loss will come upon him that loss is called next to it you'll see a word that looks almost the same if you don't pay attention it actually looks exactly the same but there's one small difference see this letter over here looks like this letter over here looks like the but this is actually a it has a little chup Chi a little extra Dash over here on the side and This spells kindness what does this have to do okay so they look alike what's the big deal no no you see the Book of Proverbs schl says when you are overeager for money it causes you to have a curse upon you whatever success you have will be literally failure because it'll be cursed the winnings the prophets will end up going to lawsuits doctors problems you'll never enjoy it like one particular person that came to me for help recently worked their entire life got together a few million dollars but now they're in a lawsuit with their own children because the children stole all the money literally a nightmare of all nightmares this person is going to spend the rest of their life fighting their own kids to get back the money they worked for their whole life meaning that they will not even have the opportunity to enjoy the money they slaved for their whole life because hasem says when you serve money as your God instead of me that even the joy you thought you're going to get you're not going to get so when a person is overeager for money for sure they're going to have a loss and they don't realize it that's why they continue with this attitude but what they don't realize is if they just just change a little bit instead of being overeager for money they should be overeager to do good with whatever blessings hem gave them then they turn this into now what's the difference then you see once you have the verse changes now it becomes not's verse it becomes his father's verse in in Psalm number 32:10 says someone that has will surround him meaning you don't need to be overeager to make millions to be so successful if Hashem wants to give it you will give it to you even with your one job even with your whatever ability if he wants you to be successful and make you successful but make sure to serve him and not yourself because if you're overeager for money and disregard the fact that this causes you to have Horrible character traits you're spiteful you're Z jealous you're you're uh looking at everybody else's stuff constantly With Envy you care less about the damage you cause Society including your own family and friends and co-workers and employees you're losing but if you change that if you change that attitude into you just add a little tiny line and you have some in your life then guess what Hashem says someone that has confidence in me that I'm the one that provides for them success or failure life or death winning or losing I'm the one that decides the results not you not your efforts and someone that has confidence in me then guess what then I will surround him with kindness his entire world will change not just he will change himself she will change herself but the world will look at them differently oh you see that guy yeah he's a big b why he's a millionaire no not really but he's just kind he's just constantly looking for ways to help people wow we see that guy you should do business with him why he's got a lot of money no but he's just an honest guy oh okay I'll do business with I I'm looking for somebody honest you see that guy yeah you should hire him why he's a genius I don't know if he's necessarily a genius but he's a really really hard worker okay yeah I'll do that I like that kind of guess what opportunities will open for you that don't exist if you abandon this OV eagerness for money and you start doing if you start having when somebody ignores the to they could literally go and grow up in a Yesa learning T but if they don't fix their character traits if they don't censor their overe eagerness for money they could easily become the front of this generation and being a merchant cash advance business lending people in their own Community money with interest on impossible to pay back they'll lend money to their own family members with interest that they came back they literally are giving predatory loans to friends family co-workers people in the community people that have kids people that have sick people in their in their house people that are taking care of all types of problems people that are even helping Society but they don't care they'll give them a predatory loan they'll give them a predatory product because of their overe eagerness for money but the problem is not just with the merchant cash advance business the problem is in every business that is an absent of tah if you're in a real estate business and you're overeager for money you'll find ways to bend the truth just to make the transaction even if that means you're hurting your own client if you're overeager for money you'll find ways to lie to your patient even if that that means that that patient will remain sick for the rest of their life just so you don't get sued if you're overeager for money you're literally going to call the enemy of your client to make a settlement just because it makes you quicker money even though it's not for the best interest of your client if you're overeager for money you'll simply do anything but in the end your only lose on the other hand if you abandon the teachings of eon and you adopt the teachings of abrah ainu who did endlessid that says then kindness will surround you will come to you whether you're looking for a job or looking for a contract for a million dollars whether you're looking for a new idea or a new wife kindness will surround you so you see the conclusion of it all is that business is not easy but this doesn't mean that we should stop doing business because the seller is evil since we see that abrah ainu himself completed the deal with Eon what this means is that we have to take these teachings to Heart literally engrave them into our minds not just for today or for this week but for our lives that when we are doing business whether we're selling a building or house or car or our services our abilities or our time don't be Aon because in the end he lost be aam who ised he's the winner in the story this will give each and every one of us the wherewithal the tool and the extra push to be honest without worrying about losing ever to be kind and charitable without worrying about losing because if you believe that Hashem runs the world like we do then no one ever loses by doing the will of Hashem with that being said now you guys could ask some questions and will give us the answers I tried to warn him didn't want to listen one of the things that I've been speaking against over the last several years is Cash advents lending money with high interest some of those rates legally are as high as 1,00% a year people are not searching for the truth what are they searching for quick way out of my problems one of the things that the talut teaches us simply how to behave social media is discussed extensively in the tah in the oral tah in the written tah in [Music] wanted to give you a chance to follow the T you decided to go against you desecrated his name the amount of punishment and suffering you're going to get is literally going to be endless every single second you stay friends with your old Christian friends with your old missionary friends with your old atheist friends with your old friends that are anti-at is a life [Music] risk you have to get rid of a lot of the stuff that triggers you if you want to progress that means you have to abandon the past by being modest in behavior and clothing makes the person a vessel that is able to accept a certain amount of Holiness in the world pornography is no less a addictive than the hardest drugs in the world experts say there's another pandemic children exposed to pornography on the devices we give [Music] [Applause] them says after you make the same sin twice tells you it's allow here we see that aadh is not just a fairy tale that sometimes people would like for him to be the majority choose to be evil before the mashia arrives today they look like they're a millionaire today they look like they're living large look around the corner and they [Music] gone I tried to warn them but they didn't want to listen a Jew has a Mal that teaches him Torah in his mother's stomach what about a convert uh well a convert gets a New Soul when they convert so that soul is coming from a place that is unlike your day-to-day life uh so certainly that soul is a uh not coming empty-handed uh it's a the uh the new soul is a Jewish soul that was at Mount saai do you think that Judaism is the religion of Peace Judaism is the religion of Truth and sometimes war is necessary while other times peace is the right way depends what the Torah says is what it's the word of God sometimes He commands us to go to war either to defend ourselves against the enemies like the evil uh Palestinians and terrorists and things of that nature and sometimes he commands us not to go to war so it depends so if you think that peace is simply letting people terrorize you kill you uh and you just say thank you very much then uh perhaps you should go into a Minefield and uh pray play with you know throw rocks at them just to see what happens is Zar really the work of rimon yes absolutely the investigated the and certainly concluded is a from it's a holy book it has an extraordinary amount of wisdom and the only people that uh go against it today are people that never read the whole thing they read excerpts they read something on the Internet they never actually studied the zor because anyone that studies the zor knows that there's so much wisdom in there it's a it's it's so profound it's so extraordinary that uh you're you're only left with admiration for the Zar not questions for the Zar about its authenticity did God command you to terrorize the Palestinians uh in fact actually in the uh in the Book of Joshua uh which even the people of Islam believe in God commands us uh to go to the land of Israel and move all of the people that live there uh meaning that Israel belongs only to the Jews no one else so and anyone that was not willing to leave then we had we were obligated to go to war with them so in fact uh this is actually uh in the Torah now the situation today is that you have many Palestinians that live in Israel get the benefits of the country the hospitals the education the different uh things that they have that are not available to them anywhere else but yet instead of going to work they decide one day that they're going to kill their co-workers they're going to kill civilians they're going to kill a bunch of different people so people like that not only they don't have the right to uh uh to to live Among Us in reality if they if they have even a belief in doing such things to people that are providing them good they don't have a right to exist so because God told us someone that tries to kill you kill them first this is what uh the Torah says if you disagree with the Torah then uh that's your problem you'll have to uh solve that problem once you're in Gom and hasem is dealing with you and he'll explain to you every verse who is Jesus Jesus is a Jew that became a heretic and caused more damage to the Jewish people than any other individual in the history of mankind he was a heretic that uh used the Torah that he learned to uh convince people that he is God that he is an idol uh and to serve him that they no longer needed to observe the Shabbat just like it says in the New Testament where he says he is bigger than the Shabbat uh and uh Jesus who came from a uh prostitute that uh committed adultery um literally multiple crimes for the same per from the same person uh was a uh Wicked person that is suffering in Gom and uh I have several lectures discussing uh different sources uh throughout history that uh talk about who he is and why he is such a wicked person Unfortunately today many people that are unaware uh of the truth believe he is God now they say no he is Messiah yeah but your definition of Messiah is divine no no he's the son of God yeah but your definition of Son of God is that he's part of three the Trinity it's in a form of idolatry and reality is that the Torah itself says that God is not a man multiple times so to say that God comes in human form is a form of heresy form of idolatry a form of stupidity now people that believe it just simply because they don't know anything else we feel bad for them so anytime they come to us we try to educate them we send them information to watch lectures and videos and and uh read books and so on so they could actually realize that they are uh going in the wrong path but uh people that uh try to uh missionized to us and try to convince us to uh uh to believe in their false Testament uh quickly find out that uh we're not exactly the uh the best uh target audience because not only are we not going to uh the truth of God and the Torah and go to idolatry ever uh but uh also we know a lot more about uh the truth and and in fact even the lies uh than the people do and show them clear verses in the Torah that prove that the New Testament and anyone that follows it is following idolatry that prove versus even in the New Testament that show is a man-made false document uh that is full of uh hypocrisy and and and uh and contradictions that do not make any sense and that's the reason why you're really never going to find two Christians that have the same belief everyone has created their own version of it you know they all want to believe in that one savior that uh that you know that uh recuses them from any obligation but how and who and when and when every one of them is different than the other so again we try to help those that are open to the truth and we reject those that are not only not open to the truth but are actually trying to uh preach their uh their idolatry to people that uh you know that are uninformed when should we turn down money like aam did when he didn't take the money from the king of Sodom can you give an example uh sure uh the uh money that you can make as long as it's money that's not causing damage to people that's not unethical iCal that's not illegal uh then there's no problem making money you know but as far as if you're going to have to violate the law whether it's the law of the Torah or the law of the land or uh or you have to uh you know hurt people uh then certainly that kind of money is not uh is not good money that money you should reject and I've told a story before uh in the past I've had many tests over the years but uh one of them was uh you know I've had many tests with money and so on when I was in the business world and uh I was maybe uh this time probably 23 years old and I just made my first million dollars and uh I was doing well and uh all of a sudden one of the uh people in my office said listen my friend is calling you he has a company he wants you to come work for them I said okay fine call I'm not uh really looking to leave but fine anyway the guy calls me and he's like listen I heard about you you're this you're that you're this all types of you know Eon types of compliments and he said listen I'll give you $7.2 million in cash to come work for us now this was a offer that it didn't need a genius to realize that this was a uh a lot more than what I had but also a lot more than what I was worth at the time uh and of course of course I realized there something there's a catch I said okay so what's the catch no no no catch just come work for us and uh well I'll give you the money if you want it they can give it to you in a wire I could give you a check or if you want I can even give you a suitcase full of money whatever you want just come and transfer your business your clients over here you got the money and if you uh won you could even make another $7 million said okay fine what's what's the uh what do I once I go over there can I continue doing everything that I'm doing now it's like well more or less what do you mean more or less is it more or is it less I said over here I do the research on behalf of my clients to find out what's the best investment once I find the investment I choose what to buy you know if they if the client agrees and that's it no one tells me good no good not allowed not allowed none of the co-workers none of the managers none a supervisor you know I my clients trust me and uh as long as I'm everything I'm doing is is legal it's there's no problem can I do that over there he's like well sort of I said what do you mean said well you could buy but it'll have to be part of our list of stocks and that's when I realized very quickly this is a scam so okay just know what show me give me an example of one of your things and I realized he gave me a couple of symbols I realized these this is a bucket chop this is a uh a place that uh pushes all types of shell companies fake companies scams and so on uh in order to Simply take transfer the money from the clients to their pockets they give the Brokers huge amount of money in order to entice them to Simply sell out their clients uh but of course the bosses the owners make a whole lot more so if you made 7 million the you know the boss made 70 but uh uh the point is is that it was a lot of money but it didn't take me more than three seconds to tell the guy go fly kite no money in the world is going to cause me to lie to people to cheat people to steal from people uh you you called up the wrong guy so an average person uh that gets an offer of $7 million will think about it at the very least many times they would take it and unfortunately many people take these types of offers if not in the investment business in the real estate business and legal business business and uh uh you know merchant cash business all types of unfortunately uh under the table types of offers that everyone knows from day one is corrupt everyone knows but the money blinds even the wise even the wise get blinded by the bribes so if a person wants to have real success in their life that lasts they always have to be honest they have to be in accordance with what to says and there's no doubt in my mind that you will have everything that you will need in life and more but if your uh uh uh making money means you have to violate the law law of the Torah law of the land ethical laws things of that nature that is money you have to say no to and that's also why uh AB ainu said no to the king of Sodom because the king of Sodom was a wicked person uh and ainu knew that he doesn't want to deal with such people that uh pretty much uh got their money and unethical ways got their money in illegal ways got their money in horrible ways uh he doesn't want any share of that he says if if Hashem is going to bless me he'll bless me from a kosher source and that's why Hashem eventually made abrah ainu one of the richest men in the world you don't ever lose by going in the path of hasem at what point in the meal did aam realize the guests were Angels when they told him is gambling bad money yes according to the gambling is considering is considered stealing uh because when you gamble uh the losing party assuming you're gambling to win so uh the losing party only played the game because they also assumed that they're going to win so when they lost to you they're giving you the money not because they want to give you the money but rather because you're the the rule that you have forced them to give you the money this is in essence considered as if you're taking the money against their will it's considered a form of stealing according to many sages most sages uh furthermore places of gambling are considered MIM which is a place of uh of of scorn uh you know a all types of horrible things happen in places of gambling that's a second thing uh third thing is a person that gambles quickly becomes addicted and uh you know could uh end up either abandoning their normal job or ruining their normal job in their normal life because they'll you know they'll use everything that they have to pay for their gambling losses so gambling does not help anybody even those let's say the casinos or the house or whatever it is in the end they all lose everybody loses in gambling the only one that wins in gambling is a Satan that's it for where does the convert Soul go to when he gets a New Soul doesn't go anywhere it stays exactly where it was it's just that the convert soul that they had originally is much smaller than the uh than the Jewish soul that they're going to get so for example if you have a uh let's say a uh a bucket of water and that water may be the cleanest water best water beautiful water tastiest water fantastic but if I uh you know add a river of water of clean pure water on top of that water then certainly that little bucket of water becomes insignificant in comparison to the new source of water that I added the same concept with the new Jewish soul that they uh that the convert gets that yes the original soul is still there but it's so small in in comparison to the new Jewish soul that they uh just acquired through conversion uh that uh it's the old one becomes in inconsequential they're still the same person as far as biologically they're still the same person you know they obviously remember who they are uh but as far as the soul itself some spiritual part of them you know big their entire spiritual status changed number one number two the uh also says that even their physical parts of their body will change over time as well and I've actually witnessed multiple times different people that we've helped convert over the years where literally they not only changed behavior and demeanor and so on after conversion but literally they uh physically they actually changed so Jews have a different soul yes Jews have different soul than non-js absolutely Why did many people die for Jesus if he's a fraud many people die for a lot of stupid reasons that doesn't mean that the stupid reason is true you know some people uh you know worshiped a uh statues some people uh you know there's a uh worship you know money some people you know people do all types of foolish things that's just because they're willing to die for it doesn't mean it's true there was people that committed uh Mass suicides just in recent years groups of people hundreds and hundreds of people committed suicide because they believe that their leader was uh was God now obviously everyone realized this was one big scam uh the whole thing so does that mean that the scam becomes real because they died for it no it means that they got scammed means they got fooled and they lost their lives for it is God omnipotent we have free will God is omnipresent and he's omnipotent and we have the uh choice not free choice what is the difference between choice and free choice it's a couple of things number one free choice means you can do whatever you want freely without any consequences that is not true because God specifically says in every single page in the Torah that there are consequences for violating his T and therefore if a person obeys the Tor follows the Torah then they will be rewarded if they violate the toah they will be punished so we do have choice to do whatever we want but is a consequence for it now in relation to your question about whether God is omnipotent meaning whether God knows the future or not and how it's connected to whether we have free choice or not the two do not negate each other they don't contradict each other and I'll explain you see you're assuming that if God knows the future then therefore he chooses the future but that's not how it works if I let's say for example took a piece of paper and I wrote down in a piece of paper without you seeing exactly what you're going to do every single day for the next week and then I folded a piece of paper I put it in an envelope and we gave it to someone else to put it into a safe where only you have access to that safe no one else has the key now you don't know what's in that paper there's no magic tricks for you simply I wrote everything in front of you you just don't know what's there and I put it in the safe now you went about your week and you did whatever you did you went to work you went to the supermarket you went to the bathroom you went to uh get a sandwich you went to uh watch something on the Internet perhaps one of my other lectures you want to do what whatever it is that you do every single day for that whole week at the end of the week you come back we meet back where the safe is you bring your key no one else has the key you open the safe you take out the envelope it's exactly as it was when we put it in there you open the envelope you open up the paper and you see that what I wrote is exactly every single thing that you did during that week now the my knowledge of everything that you did during that week impact your choice no you still did whatever you wanted to do the same concept with Hashem with God he knows all of the possibilities all of the choices past present and future is all the same to him he doesn't have past present and future everything is the same to him but he does not influence your choice you still make your choice you can still choose to go against him or you can go and serve him you can go to work tomorrow or you can go to the beach or you could sleep all day you can be a righteous person or you can be a wicked the fact that he knows all of the different possibilities does not impact your choice the only thing that you have to be worried about is not what he knows about the future but rather what you know about his law because that's going to affect your life in this world and eternally because the more you know about what he expects of you and what he obligates you to do and what he obligates you to stay away from the more inclined you are going to be to follow what he says and as a result of following what he says you'll have a good life in this world and a good eternal life but if you ignore his law if you're oblivious of his law if you're ignorant of his law or you simply reject it even with knowledge then you end up putting yourself in a path of Destruction why you'll end up having a miserable life here and certainly a punishment that will never end after this life ends and that was your choice you chose to ignore his law reject his law and live whatever life you wanted and you suffer the consequences for it the fact that he knew that that's one of the choices you have did not alter your choice you chose you paid same concept on the other way if you chose the right way you chose to follow the Torah you chose to follow the truth and guess what that was one of the choices that was possible for you and he reward you for it that's why he brought you to the world he wants you to win he gives you all the possibilities to win he's not going to win the game for you because that defeats the purpose of the game that def defeats the purpose of life but he gives you all the possibilities to win if you win Life by following the Torah then he can give you the greatest reward that you can possibly imagine multiplied by infinity and that's just the first second and that was your choice and that's why you deserve it if he chooses for you then there's no reason for you to ever get rewarded why would he reward you if he chooses for you why would he reward you if you have no choice why would he punish you if you have no choice and that's actually what the rambam writes in there's a whole section about this it's also in that the rambam writes that talks about free choice where in general what I just explained is it there's obviously more if you want to get deeper into it but the ultimate knowledge of free choice is incomprehensible to mankind because we do not have any concept of what timelessness means uh o of of what true kindness is we don't have we don't have any understanding of what godliness is we understand what the Torah tells us we understand how he described themselves and we understand in the human form but our main responsibility is to know what he commands us to do commands us to stay away from and do what we are supposed to do and if we fail then pick ourselves back up and try again until we succeed what are we talking about we're talking about life and its purpose okay can you tell me the brother of Moses yes uh Moses had three brothers uh the main brother that you're familiar with and most people familiar with is Aron aronen he also had a sister named uh but he had two step brothers too elad and Maad two prophets they're also in the toah so you're saying that you get a New Soul of Y where does it speak of that in Scripture of getting a New Soul well in beginning put a soul inside inside do you view non-jews as animals uh no not necessarily depending on their behavior some uh Jews and non-jews act like animals and some Jews and non-jews act like humans depends on the person's Behavior this can't just generalize everyone there's some righteous people and there's some Wicked people some righteous people are Jewish some righteous people are not Jewish some righteous people are uh some Wicked people are Jewish unfortunately and some Wicked people are not Jewish simple can't just generalize and say this entire group of people is bad only am would do that is it possible to be a Jewish convert and socially anxious at the same time uh yes you're just going to have a very difficult life regardless of whether you're Jewish or Not by being socially anxious but hopefully you'll get over that over time why do Jewish people not pray for n n Jewish people do you consider non-jews your brothers uh although the non-jews are not our brothers we are Jewish people are each other's Brothers uh you're wrong about Jews not praying for non-jews in fact we have an entire holiday the holiday of sukot uh where at the time of the bet mikdash for seven days the Jewish people will bring sacrifices to the bet mikdash for the benefit of the non-jews in fact our talmud teaches that if the non-jews knew how much we pray for them at the bet mikdash they would have sent their armies to the BET mikdash and instead of destroying it like they did twice they would have actually sent their armies to protect the Jewish people in the bet mikdash so in fact it's not only wrong what you're saying it's wrong like with a factor of a million now that doesn't mean that we pray for every non-jew if the non-jew is an enemy of the Jews we certainly don't pray for him but if the non-jew is a decent human being that uh supports the Jews helps the Jews likes the Jews or at the very least is not anti-semite then certainly there's no problem in fact there is a some of the people that I mentioned their names in the uh beginning of the lecture that the Merit of this lecture and their success and gave them blessings some of the names that I read were people that were not Jewish so it's a uh the lecture itself if you actually watch from the beginning you would have seen uh that you're wrong who protects the Jews was it not the Muslims unlike the Romans that destroyed them uh my friend you should uh read history outside of the fake books they provide you at the musk and if you read history you'll see that the Muslims murdered countless Jews over the years in fact just in the last hundred years just in the last 100 years has been countless pilgrims that came from the Arabs against the Jews in the last 1400 years since the creation of Islam there's been endless amount of pgms forced conversions massacres of Jews uh so uh Muhammad himself murdered a bunch of Jews when they didn't want to listen to him and adopt his fake religion uh it's in it's in your books so I'm not really sure who told you that the Muslims are uh the Protectors of the Jews but but uh if you want to say that there were times where the relationship between the Jews uh and the uh and the Muslims was uh you know at you know somewhat peaceful certainly there is if you want to say that there were some Muslims that were really good people that were supportive of the Jews no problem that's true too but to say that the Muslims protected the Jews it's completely false there's simply you know there's no so far from the truth but I I don't blame you for it you're just uninformed you're ignorant of of the reality so that's why I say read books and information that is not coming from a biased source and you'll see what the actual history really is and of in comparison to What You've Been Told who did God make his establish his Everlasting Covenant with with the Jewish people please don't block me without answering my question what does the tamut say about Jesus uh I'm not going to block you number one because it's just a waste of time uh number two um there's no need to uh block you because I have entire lectures uh that you can go on YouTube and watch for free uh on my channel that discuss Jesus and bring sources from the tud that show that he is a wicked person he went against God he went against the Jewish people he caused more harm to the Jewish people than anybody else in history um if you want to know what the talmud says about uh him being now he's in Gom he's in boiling feces uh with the rest of the wicked people so as far as if you want more go watch those lectures you could go to my uh Channel type in in the keywords either Jesus or Yeshua and you'll see there's several long lectures full of sources you could look up every one of those sources different books and see that exactly what I say is what's written in there um and that's it there's nothing new okay see I have a couple of questions that were sent to me by cute little kids so I'm going to read you guys the questions this one why did Hashem make everything for men it's a great question whym make so the sages teach us that uh Hashem is the ultimate good and he has no beginning he has no end uh there's nothing that we can give him he is the only one that gives and uh but the good the definition of good is something that creates good and because he is good he created good now when he created the souls the souls in essence are an image of God meaning they're also good and they were enjoying the pleasure of all the good that he would give them but since they are good they wanted to produce good but they can't produce good to help God they can't add anything to him which caused them to suffer that they cannot earn their spot so therefore the souls asked for God to give them a way to in essence pay their do to deserve whatever good they have in essence we asked to come to this world to be created God created men with obstacles with a law that you can fulfill or you you know God forbid can ignore why because if we fulfill the law of the Torah then the Soul goes back up to heaven and now gets a reward of Eternal good without suffering that it doesn't deserve it because it obviously paid its dues on the other end if a if a soul fails then it gets punished so the reason why hasem made everything for us is in order to give us an opportunity to earn the good that he's giving us and one great example that I can give you that will show you how this is better because many people say well if you want to give us good why don't you just give it good I just explained the souls did not enjoy good for free what is this like imagine somebody gave you a uh a toy now the toy it's fun toy it's a little car you play with it voom voom voom voom vom boom and after a little while you get bored of it you play with something else why because you don't have any connection to this toy somebody just gave it to you and um that's it you're finished as soon as you're bored with the toy that's it but what if I told you that if you read the entire Paras this week or perhaps if you read the entire book of uh B Genesis over the next week or two weeks I'm going to give you a reward I'm going to buy you a toy now of course you're going to say wellit it's really hard for me I'm I'm only you know seven years old eight years old uh for me to uh to to read the entire book of Genesis it's hard it's going to take me a lot of time exactly that's why there's a reward at the end and guess what if you do that and you work really hard and every day you're putting in an hour two hours three hours just to get closer and closer to the end and at the end of those couple of weeks you finally get to the end and you finish and you achieve what you set out for that in itself gives you amazing pleasure because you won but now when I give you that toy even if that toy is a car that you wanted just like the other car that somebody else gave you that car is now special it's not the same car even though it looks exactly the same it has the same Wheels the same color same everything but that car is not the same why because that car you worked hard for that car that toy that you got is special because it's connected to hard work so even if that car breaks one of its pieces you're still going to keep it even if that car gets lost you're going to do everything you can to find it even if somebody's want to give you money for it you're not going to want to sell why CU it's a special car for you because you worked hard for it the same concept with the reward that Hashem wants to give us he wants to give us an amazing reward and if we earn it we will enjoy it and therefore Hashem created everything in this world in order to give us an opportunity to serve him follow his Torah and glorify his name through his creation so instead of looking at the sky and just thinking about about the weather a person could look at the sky and admire in awe the glory of God instead of somebody looking at the clouds and being upset that it's about to rain a person could be in awe and appreciation of how hasem feeds the world with these little Puffs and pillows of air that somehow carry water and that water is as clean as possibly can be even though the way that the what the water came there it came from sometimes dirty places sometimes salt water sometimes a uh sewer water some all types of water evaporated and now it comes back down as the cleanest water that exists so a person looks at a cloud and realizes wow that water now is going to allow a tree to grow an apple to grow someone to satiate themselves as a result of that Apple that came from that drop of water someone is going to be able to give birth as a result of that water someone's going to be able to finance their uh their their mortgage as a result of that water someone's going to be able to live as a result of that water when a person goes outside and he looks at the birds they it he say oh well these birds they make a lot of noise I you know they woke me up today or they could say you know what wow look how much Hashem loves us and he made so many different types of birds and each bird has different colors and different features he could have easily just made one bird and all of them look the same all of them gray all of them white all of them black and that's it but no no he made each one of them special each animal special each flower special everyone is unique this one is yellow this one's with stripes this one is blue this one is purple this one has big wings small Wings this one flies fast this one chirps this one looks like some painting everything is special look how amazing God is he created all these beautiful things for what for him no he doesn't benefit out of it so for who was it for us for us to appreciate his glory some of the things are for us to eat some of the things are for us to appreciate some of the things are for us to use to make things out of but look he created it all for us so when a person is such a ungrateful person that they not glorify God's name every single day and thank him every single day and serve him every single day that means that they're taking the entire creation for granted assuming that everything just came to be by itself by some explosion or some accident and uh those types of people live the most miserable lives and have the most miserable ends so the reason why hasem created everything is in order for us to have endless reasons to connect to him and endless reasons to appreciate him and serve him in order for us to achieve the ultimate goal which is to fulfill his tah when we do that we win what is the story of akel uh AK toel was a uh uh extraordinary Torah scholar that lived at the time of King David he was actually the father of uh of Bacha the uh the wife of uh of uh of David he was an extraordinary Torah scholar that uh pretended to be a friend of King David pretended to be an advisor to King David but in reality he was jealous of King David and was trying to destroy him and uh despite his Torah scholarship and his knowledge he had a very big ego he was an arrogant despicable person that uh only did things in order to serve his own good and ultimately he advised uh King David's son of Shalom to go against King David to steal his wives to steal his money to steal his kinghood because his plan was for abshalom to kill King David and then to tell all of the people that abshalom is bad and therefore he should be king meaning he didn't want abshalom to be king but he knew that he could not defeat King David by himself so he wanted abshalom to kill King David and then defeat abshalom himself what ended up happening is that after his plan was foiled abshalom was killed and a killed himself by hanging himself and the in says that uh Shalom uh only left three things in this world to his children one he told them don't be a cause of debate meaning don't be like me that cause a it cause a uh a uh you know problems people uh number two don't uh go against the house of yah don't go against the house of yudah meaning don't go against King David why because Hashem will fight for them and never give up on them they're always going to win against you and three he told them that if it's a uh good weather on the second day of shabat that's when you should grow your crops meaning a way to make money and so many and and even that the sages say okay but what is the definition of of good weather and that he didn't leave meaning in so many words AB Shalom died and with that all of A's plans dreams and Ambitions died with it and AEL was one of the greatest Torah Scholars of his time but he was a wicked person he was a arrogant person in fact the says that was a the that knew over 300 just off of the letter lamid just on the letter lamid why is the L that way I don't even know what you could possibly think what 300 insights what one Insight you could have on just one letter in the Hebrew alphabet but literally his genius was beyond comprehension but if your Torah scholarship does not lead you to fix your character flaws then the Torah scholarship is worthless and that's why says that has no share of the world to come so had the opportunity to be the biggest Rabbi in the world and instead he became the biggest Wicked man in the world uh last question from the kids no I have two more actually um why the seph say with a small hey ah very good theim say that that small stands for where created the entire world for the sake and the Merit of Abraham ainu and that's the uh uh symbolic of it uh two uh who was the wisest sadik uh well the uh greatest wisdom is said that uh you know that uh schl was the wisest of men but thear says yes butu was wiser than him like yeah but doesn't it say that schl was the wisest man yes there's no contradiction though how could there not be a contradiction because mosenu was not considered among the category of men he was considered like half man half angel he's not considered like a regular person his wisdom was Superior to all his wisdom was nothing nothing in comparison to anybody else but everybody else after that certainly was the wisest man of all great questions from the youngim let's see for Bitcoin is 97,000 and why is that a question I don't really know but since you already mentioned Bitcoin uh anyone that wants to donate now has a new ability to donate to our organization to support our efforts by donating cryptocurrency you can go to our website.org uh and over there you'll have options either donate to a credit card normally or PayPal uh or you have actually the ability to donate cryptocurrency like some people have uh uh started doing recently so if you want to donate your one cryptocoin one Bitcoin would be more than uh grateful to your support I'm assuming that's the reason why you're bringing up why that Bitcoin is 97,000 because you want to send us at least one of them but if you want to send more you could all send more which by the way we don't keep the uh whatever cryptocurrency you send gets automatically sold we're not in the uh investment business whatever people donate we use it to help people learn to people eat people get closer to Hashem can a rabbi teach Judaism to a person who is not Jewish can I learn Jewish Judaism at a synagogue being not Jewish okay so Rabbi that uh has the obligation to uh if he's teaching to teach Jews if there are no Jews for him to teach and the only possible option is for him to teach a non Jew then he can teach a non Jew uh butth if the non-jew obviously has the intentions of converting uh but uh if uh if the he has other Jews that are willing to learn from him then he's obligated to go teach the Jews now if the rabbi is teaching like what I'm doing right now teaching online then anyone is welcome to watch learn and uh hopefully apply these things to their life whether they're Jews or Gentiles uh whatever is relevant to you apply to your life whatever is not relevant to you then simply ignore uh but uh anyone is welcome to watch these lectures but as far as for a rabbi to do let's say like a one-on-one or or even just to have a group of non-jews that they're teaching they're only allowed to do such a thing if there are no Jews for them to teach which means that unfortunately some of these uh rabbis that have made it their business to only teach non Jews they're making a mistake according to the Torah now as far as if you're allowed to go to a synagogue and uh learn Torah um are you allowed yes are are the synagogues going to allow it most likely no uh because number one they're afraid that you're a missionary uh and you know therefore they wouldn't want it uh number two the the place is you know is paid for and set for uh you know helping the Jewish people so it's not it's not necessarily a uh a public Arena where like a public park where just anybody could just go there just because they you know they want to come uh join them but if you're interested in learning tah and you're obviously want to convert to Judaism then by all means go through a conversion go to a uh move to a Jewish Community develop a relationship with one of the rabis over there see if they have some type of course some type of uh um study session that uh for four converts and uh at the synagogue or online or wherever it is and you'll have to go through the motion until you complete your conversion there you know thank God many many uh people that used to be non-jews that we've helped them convert to Judaism and many of them that uh We've guided and still continue to guide even if they live in different parts of the world we just actually had uh one of our uh students in uh in Africa in South Africa uh just complete his conversion and get married to a righteous Jew uh just in the last couple of weeks we had a couple of converts complete their conversion in different part of the world uh in the last couple of months so there's many many people that are converting to Judaism if they're uh serious about it and they're dedicated and you know there they're going to succeed at one point it's not a one two three system it's not like Christianity or Islam where one two three they throw some dirty water on you and you become whatever their Rel religion is now in Judaism there are two main things that are required for somebody to convert number one is a certain amount of knowledge uh that's required in order for you to know how to live like a Jewish life which again to acquire that knowledge takes time and number two to make the necessary changes to your lifestyle uh and live a Jewish life one of the things necessar is for you to live in a Jewish Community uh among other things eating kosher food uh you know being modest and so on so there's a on our website be.org which is b z r a t h- m.org um over there there is a tab that you can find a convert the uh ebooks free ebooks one of the free ebooks is called conversion guide one of the uh one of them is called conversion guide you can download that for free that's an interactive guide that has a bunch of lectures and different writeups that have that's going to guide you of how to convert what to learn how to learn it what you need to know which books to buy uh in all of the different things you need to know for the sake of conversion and uh this is something you could uh do you could go to the website download it for free and then apply it to your life you succeed and one day you'll tell me that listen I watch this uh this lecture of yours on YouTube or Tik Tok or on Facebook or wherever else and and it inspired me like countless other people to convert to Judaism and now I'm Jewish and that would be fantastic news what is the Tanya and what what is the T and are his teachings only forab is it similar to T okay so the Tanya was one of the sages that lived few hundred years ago uh andman of liadi was his real name and uh the Tanya was the book that he wrote uh in this book taught different character developments and different things that a person uh has to do in order to serve AEM at the highest level uh you know in in Judaism in a uh in a uh in the according to the teachings of not just the T but also the bov now this is not the entire Torah this is one part of the Torah the Torah is wider than the ocean there are literally millions and millions of books and that's not even the entire tah but this certain c l is a very important teachings of the Torah uh it's a main thing is character development uh the teachings of and no it's not only uh for kabad many uh different types of Jews uh study the Tanya but one thing that uh all Torah Scholars you know meaning people that are experts in t people that spend their life learning to will tell you is that learning the is not for everyone meaning anyone that wants to learn it can learn it it's allowed but just because something is allowed doesn't mean you should do it and the reason why is because many of the teachings within the are very very highend very elevated teachings that are not relevant to the current knowledge base that the average person has it's like for a person learning rocket science without even knowing what algebra is so yeah he could listen to the rocket scientists explain all of the different things that he's doing but he's not going to understand anything because he doesn't have the basic Foundation now once in a while he may understand a word that the rocket scientist is saying because the rocket scientist said yes so he understands the word yes and he he said two and he understands what number two is and he says apple and he's going to understand Apple but then he realized that's because the rocket scientist is eating an apple and he had two Apple so you gave it to somebody else because and the guy said yes but in reality if he would have known algebra then he would have had some basic Foundation still not enough to learn rocket science but at the very least to understand that he does not belong in a rocket science class so same concept with t the more Torah a person learns that's the F the foundation of the Torah which is the five books of Moses the to the these are the foundations the more a person knows the foundation the more they realize they need to learn a whole lot more before they get to spend their time efforts and Life Learning the Tanya that doesn't mean you have to learn for 50 years before you start learning the Tanya but the point is is that if a person does not even know the basics if a person has never even read the entire Five Books of Moses with commentary even once they have no business learning the Tanya if a person hasn't finished the Shas they have no business learning the Tanya in fact the Tanya would tell you that that's why the uh for example another one of the great of bre many of the people that claim to follow rman of breast only learn the book that was written in his name but the truth is don't even learn that why because if you only learn the book that was written his name you'd actually eventually run into himself saying before you learn this you have to learn the uh the T all of the foundations before you get to why because you have to learn all of the the foundations but many times people pretend like they are are something that they're not and that's not new and it's not only among that's among Mankind in general so can somebody learn a Tanya sure should they learn a Tanya I'll have to know who the person is and what their knowledge base is before I could answer such a thing it's not there's no there's no quick yes or quick no okay I'll take maybe one one question that we're done we're already two and a half hours a little tired and I have a lot to do before the night is over what do I think is great if it's real we have an entire series uh called to that teaches about and what is real where can you get the series you go to my YouTube page and in the playlist one of the playlist is called it's based on the uh writings ofin the 10 and uh you'll see over there we've done I think uh something like 10 or 12 lectures in that Series so far but it's still going I just answered the question in English thank you for the blessings do have a set daytime for these uh lives yes so uh the schedule usually is I try my best is Sunday Tuesday and Wednesday at 900 p.m. eastern time Sunday Tuesday and Wednesday uh Eastern Standard Time at 900 p.m. okay thank you very much for learning with me maym bless each and every single one of you that came to learn that came to support uh that came to get closer to hem and we succeeded to do that even a little bit anyone that wants to donate to support whether it's the Bitcoin holders that want to donate at least one or two or three or 50 Bitcoins or even a quarter of a Bitcoin uh or something else or the ones that want to donate 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for a few hours that's about it for tonight that's about it for this week May Hashem bless each and every one of you remember the oran film is coming out next week Shabbat but until then we will learn several times before thank you very much scho we are meant to be a light unto the Nations not to follow their misguided practices remember every Jew has to remember that he's a Jew and she's a Jew we don't celebrate non-jewish holidays even if they seem harmless it's a z disrespect to the Tor and could lead to chem desecration of God's name stick to our holy tah and our own holidays that that's the path of a true Jew