Rabbi Benzion Klatzko - The Power of Speech in Nissan

Okay, good evening. Welcome everyone to tonight's very special shar. Of course, we're just uh few short days away from PE from from Pesak and of course PES. Of course, the the power of speech that could be a great way that we can um all get ready for the for the great holiday of Pes coming up of course Kazak. Thankfully Jewish congregation Jamaica states for opening its doors. Special shout out to Milana's events. We have Milana over here. Let's get a round of applause. Of course. Of course, everyone. There's there's some extra copies on the on the table. Of course. Rabbi the Rabbi Klasco of course is going to be speaking about the power of of speech about we should we speak positively and of course is uh we got some copies sponsored um for the daily learning of of of the book about about the power of speech and of course everyone should should um should learn from it every single day and of course it'll have a great impact on yourself on your you know for your families and of course inside the book it's it it has a dedication of Leo Nishmas Ilia Eli Yahoo Ben Mazal of course the entire year tonight is being dedicated by um by uh by Ben and of course his family of course Elia Elya Elahu Ben Mazalyah Amen. >> Amen. >> And of course um we're going to call upon Ben for say some opening remarks. Give him a round of applause for for remarks. >> Uh I wasn't quite prepared to say anything so I'll make this quick. Uh first and foremost thank you all for coming tonight. I really really appreciate it. Um my grandfather was a very humble and quiet man. He um always used to say to me and my siblings um you have two ears, one mouth, therefore speak less, listen more. And little did I know that that's a straight from the Torah. And if you know if anyone here knows me, you know that I hate and despise Lshanhor. And it makes no it's a clear indication that since he was my son that that kind of uh was given to me by him he was very humble man and I just wanted to make a quick class uh in his memory. So please Rabbi Benasco welcome. So good evening everyone. Thank you Benyamin. This shir again is nishmas Ilia ilio ben mazal and whenever we say over Torah and we say nishmas what we were saying is that their life was impactful and the proof that it was impactful is that people are still still doing mitzvos because they existed that's how lei works works we are here because he existed So in shaman they say wow your existence is still having an impact on this world. You deserve a raise and they they take the nishama and they give the nishama a raise to a higher place in aba and it stays there forever which is amazing which means it's not a temporary boost. Doesn't you wear out it's forever higher and then if you do another mitzvah in their name it goes forever higher. So it's very exciting to do something. So, thank you for putting this together and the topic is is a topic, one of my favorite topics. Uh, so we're going to speak about this theim and before we do, I I just want to say something about what is going on in the world today because I I think it ties in to why we badly need the gahula. I am worried about blinking. I'm worried to blink because I'm afraid if I blink I'm going to miss miracles that are happening. We are living in a time of miraculous events and we are in Kaneka times in the Makabe times perhaps exponentially. So it may not seem that way because we're in New York. We're not in Israel. However, when the story of the Makaveim were happening, there were also Jews who weren't in Israel and they also heard about it from a distance. And maybe they didn't feel as affected, but they lived through those times. And here we are in New York living through those times. And we shouldn't blink. And every time we hear something amazing, the very fact that we happen not to be in Israel, running to the bomb shelters when the bombs fall, watching the news, seeing the enemies of the Jewish people fall one after the next after the next. We shouldn't take it for granted. It's miraculous times we've never seen. So many of the enemies of the Jewish people fall in front of our eyes when we dive and we say take revenge in front of our eyes. We want to see it. We're not a vindictive people by the way. We don't often ask to see vengeance. It's only twice that we ask in our but one of those times when we say let us see that vengeance we mean it. And since we had gone through this October event and since we have suffered through all sorts of terrorist actions that took place through the rash, through the wicked people of Iran to be able to see in front of our eyes the sinars of the world, the ayatollas of the world, the enemies, those who wanted nothing more than for your death And if they could have, they would have at the sea. Every day this morning, another miracle happens. The head of the Navy, the IRGC, the one who's taking care of the Straits of Hermuz, he was killed. Maybe even more miraculous was the statement made by the head of the military of Uganda. I don't know if you saw this, but I have to explain to you why this is a crazy thing. the head of the military of Uganda, it's a country in Africa, gets up and says, "We don't want to be part of this war, but if we have to, we will be." And you know when we would have to? We would have to if we felt that Israel was in danger. And people like, "What? Uganda? If Israel is in danger, we will go to protect Israel." Now, you have to expand why this is so weird. Why this is so miraculous come from Uganda. Uganda is a country that was run by a general who became the prime minister named Idyamin Dada. That was his real name. Idi Dada. He was a he was a blowhard. He was a he was a balgava. He was a big shot. And then after he died, they found out he was also a cannibal. He enjoyed eating people. They found that out afterwards because they went down to his cellar and they found all sorts of people and body parts halfeaten and some who were still alive. Okay. Yeah, he was a he was a baddie. How However, there are two things you have to know about Uganda. Number one, you have to know that the story of Antebi took place in Uganda. Now, you're all quite young, so you may not have even heard of Antebi. Raise of hands. How many of you have heard of the miracle of Antebi? Okay. Miracle of Antebi was the greatest salvation for the Jewish people until what's going on now where many many Jewish people in an Air France flight were kidnapped. They were flown to Uganda and Israel miraculously came in the dead of night through all sorts of Mossad related uh hijinks. They came and they rescued I don't remember the the number 150 hostages or so. I don't remember the number. A huge amount of hostages. They had to sneak a major plane into an airport undetected. That's impossible to do. Very few people died in the rescue at Antbi. But one of the people who died was someone named Yonatan Netanyahu. And that was the brother of the prime minister today. And the head of the defense establishment in Uganda said yesterday, "Not only are we going to stand up for Israel and protect Israel, but I've decided that we're going to put up a statue of Yonatan Netanyo to remember the story of Antabi." This happened yesterday, today, this morning. I read the news. But there's another reason. It's even more miraculous. Did you ever hear of somebody? Did you ever hear the expression that Zionism is racism? Zionism means you're a racist. You know where that comes from? Uganda. It was them. They were the ones who brought up that expression to be voted on by the United Nations. Uganda. Interestingly enough, Uganda was also the place where when they didn't want to give us Israel, so Daisy Herzel said, "You know what? Maybe instead of instead of Israel, we'll move all the Jews to Uganda before 1948." Then afterwards, she realized, "We don't want Uganda. We want Israel. It's the Holy Land." Could you imagine if we were all in Uganda? What what would we do there? So this Uganda came full circle yesterday. We're living in miracles, but we keep blinking. And when you blink, you don't recognize, you don't realize. So I I think that's really important. And I want to just tie it in to something we're going to say in the Hagada and then we'll tie that into what we're speaking about tonight. We're going to be saying in during the sedar at the beginning of Israel means this year we are here. Next year we will be in Israel. We're we're praying next year let us be in Israel. This year we are slaves. Next year, let us be free. There was a rabbi who went through the Holocaust and his his name was Rabbi Yoshua Grunveld Grunvald and he wrote a shall such cafer which means a question and answer safer and it's called Leoshua and in that safer He said the following. He said that his town the Nazis came and they rounded up the Jews and they herded them in to Bate Madrash where they were going to take them from there to the trains to the gas chambers. And while they were there the Nazis to calm everyone down turns turned to Rab Grunvald and said to Raald, "Give them a rabbi talk. give them a rabbi talk. So you got your Nazis, you get out your SS, you've got your guns all around the B midrash and the Jews are standing there frightened and Grunvald gets up and he says, "I I thought of something. It came to mind right away and I wanted to share it with everyone." He said the following. He said, "We're right now. It's Pesak time." Because this happened on Pesak. He said we say on Pes today we are here. Next year we may we be in Israel. So he said I asked my congregation why would you say today we are here. I don't care where yeah today I am in Queens. I'm in Jamaica. Today I'm here next year. Why do I have to say where I am right now? And he said like this. He said, "With the Nazis rounding up city after city and sending them to the gas chambers, somehow until this moment, we have been spared. We've been spared. We are here. Yes, we're surrounded by Nazis, but we made it to this point. It's miraculous that we made it to this point. And we have a cabala. We have a tradition that when Hashem makes a miracle, he has a purpose for it. There's a reason. So, Hashem made us be here and be alive until this moment. There must be a purpose. And the purpose must be that we're going to continue. We're going to survive and we're going to thrive. And therefore, even the fact that we are here right now is a miracle. So I turn to all of you and I say here you are in Queens. You're part of a Bkharian community that has exploded on the scene with Torah Kazak by Kazak. You know what great work Kazak does. I could go on and on about Kazak what they do for the children. What they do to take people and bring them into Jewish education to Jewish schools. The shim that they give Torah anytime the tremendous work that it does both started by Bkarians. A community, a people that the communists wanted to to crush, to destroy instead has ignited the flame of Torah. So we're here today right now. We are here and even being here is a miracle. It must be Hashem has great things in mind for us. So now let's wait and see what great things does Hashem have in mind for us. I'm right now coming from aim my son made my youngest. I have 11 children. He's my youngest. He's my benzun. Benkun means the son of my old age. I know I don't look old, but your youngest son is called your benkum. There's a special special a special sweetness to your to your youngest. My youngest is 16 now. And he finished maka's ba basra which is the longest maka in all of shas very very long maka and he got up in front of 10 people and he did it you know and he made his sum and someone got up to speak about him and they said you know what's so amazing about this young man his name is Mayor Aaron they call him mayor you know what's so amazing about mayor he is careful about lashonara what happened. So the person speaking said I had a bad experience in a store and I was very I was livid. I was upset. I was angry. So I was going to badmouth the store. Maybe give them a bad review on Yelp. This it was it was the person who was working in the store and mayor comes over and says maybe you shouldn't. And this person says but why why not? What's the matter? The store owner is not even Jewish. There's there's no official lash, right? There's official lash is only don't go around tellah amongst your nation about your nation. So mayor says number one number one it's true he may not be Jewish but the owner of the store may be Jewish that was just a worker and you would be harming that owner so that's then he says besides that the says if you watch your mouth your lips and your tongue from speaking lash. It's a good thing. You know why? Because it will save you from bitterness. It'll save you from anguish. Be in the habit of speaking good. Don't be in the habit of speaking negative. Like you were saying about your grandfather earlier, a humble man, a quiet man. In Judaism, being quiet is actually a a plus. A fence around wisdom is silence. When we listen, like you said, two ears and one mouth, right? Listening rather than speaking, make sure that you think many times before you speak Lashinhara. Now, Lashinhara and I know there's lots of talk especially in Torah any time about Lashinhara. So, what do I have to add on this? I'm not sure. Let's see. I want to say the following though. Lashar is a very unique kind of mitzvah/a and it's unique for the following reason. In the non-Jewish world, they also have their sets of moral laws, their their morality, a certain set of morality. It's not ours, but especially monotheistic religions have commandments that are cousins at least of all we have. So, for example, we have don't steal. If you were to ask a Christian or a Muslim, they also agree with don't steal. Okay? In Judaism, we're more exact. That's the truth. We even say you can't steal gene das. You can't steal someone's knowledge in certain ways. You can't trick them. You can't steal someone's sleep. Gaza Shaina. Okay? But they have a concept of don't steal. They have don't kill. They have the moral ideas like we do. They're just it's just similar. But then we have a whole different set of laws that they've got no connection to like pan fillin or wave values. Although Christians do have palm Sunday which they took from us but we have these these mitz muza right Christians they don't have muzas Christians Muslims. So the rituals they've got no connection to the moral concept they have something like it. What is the one exception? What is the one mitzvah that's actually a moral concept but they have no no connection to lashar? It's the one exception. Why? My background with college uh college students and speaking on college campuses and speaking in Hollywood, which I used to speak to a lot each month is that it's just too hard. It's too hard not to speak. It's not on the radar. If you think about it, if you can't speak, you're probably not going to have much of a podcast. You're not going to have a lot of likes. You won't have a lot of followers. Most radio shows would have to shut down. Most newspapers already shut down, but the ones who didn't would have to shut down. The magazines would have to shut down. Like, right. Even sports where they speak about who's who's slumping and who's not trying the ball. Like we have a culture, a secular culture that's literally built on gossip to the point that we are immune to to to even noticing it. We're immune to noticing it. You just turn on a podcast. I mean I don't have to go through the podcasters but you just you cannot listen for one minute to anyone without them speaking you know unless they're giving health tips you know but if you're speaking about a podcast or especially with politics it's it's lashenhara it's a it's a festival it's it's a it's a party it's wild so lashhara is unique where it's moral so they should have It's obvious that it's terrible and yet they don't have it. It's very unique as a mitzvah. When I was in Hollywood, I once talked about Lashhara and we had some famous people came to that class and one of the people said to me, "Rabbi, you're speaking about this thing called Lash Shanara. I don't I don't know if you realize where you are. You You're in We good? >> Yeah. We're We're in Hollywood. That's That's literally all that we do. That's page six. That's page six. They used to be called page six in in the newspaper is Lashara, the gossip section, right? And I I'll just show you how hip I am. It's called nowaday it's called spill the tea. See, I know what it's called. Spill the tea, right? Never heard of that, right? You're too old. I mean, it's like, give me the gossip, right? Tell me tell me what's going on. Spill the tea, right? It's it's like part of the fun. I think there was a a a a TV show called Gossip Girls or something. Like I I never watch I don't have a television, but I like you to call like, "Hey, imagine call imagine a television show called Lushian Horror Girls." Lush Girl. Let's speak Lush and Horror. Right. It's it's it's wild. So this person said to me, "Do you realize where you are? You're in Hollywood. That's literally all we do." I said to this person, "Well, do you like when they speak about you?" And this person said, "No, but they do. They do anyways." I said, "If you don't like when they speak about you, >> then don't speak about them. That's that's Judaism. what is hateful to you, don't do it to your friend. So if you know that it bothers you when people speak negatively about you, so don't don't do it. >> Do it anyway. >> They said they do it anyway, but doesn't mean you should do it >> if you know right them doing something wrong does not give you the okay, the green light to do something wrong as well. >> Doesn't have to be doesn't have to be. You could a person can say you know the you know right the the the abuse ends here the abuse where that people abuse each other ends right here. >> I'm saying aren't there seven conditions >> the yeah not not even there are there are very very very special and unique conditions in the I guarantee you I guarantee you not a single instance in Hollywood ever met those conditions. I guarantee one learn those conditions. Guaranteed never once ever in the history of ever. Okay. So they said, "Okay." Then I continued giving my speech in this to this Hollywood class. Then I said, "Okay, now let's speak about whether you're even allowed to hear gossip about someone else." So this this act actor says, "If you tell me I can't even hear gossip, you just told me I can't speak. If you tell me I can't even listen, I'm out of here." So I look at them, I say, "Bye-bye." And my best Hollywood impression, "Bye-bye." They said, "But you, we can't even hear gossip." I said, "Well, how would you like if somebody was speaking negatively about you to your friend? Would you be okay with if your friend just like sat there and listened to that to that gossip? Would you be okay with that?" You wouldn't. You would want your friend to protest. You'd want your friend to say, "Excuse me, don't speak about my friend." You would want them to stop. So by listening, you're empowering the gossiper to continue gossiping. So therefore, we don't even listen. Listening platforms to use today's expression, listening platforms the speaker. It gives the speaker a platform. So if you hear Lashhara, you walk away. if you can't stop them. So that's the concept of lashar and we've all learned lashar. My wife and I before we go to sleep each night uh we learn lashar together from this book. And my my wife wanted to make sure she wouldn't miss tonight. So before before I took the book here, she said, "Can I just take a picture of the pages so she could like have the book?" Because we we use the same book. We read together every night and if I'm traveling, we do it over the phone. By the way, it's very romantic to learn Torah together. You laugh, but it's true. It's true. Yes. So, this is a book called Saber. This book is actually the book written by this man. This man was a man named Rabi Mayor Kagan. Mary Kagan was a great big rabbi. He lived in a city called Roden. He was very humble and very under the radar for much of his life, but he ended up being one of the greatest in history. Uh actually um I had a funny little story. Um I met a a very big rabbi two days ago. I mean a big rabbi. I mean he had a big synagogue, an older custodic man. And he saw I had I have a I had a pocket watch. So he said to me, "You know I collect pocket watches." He said, "Would you trade me that pocket watch?" I said, "You want me to give you my pocket watch?" I said, "What do you have?" He said, "I have letters from big rabbis." I said, "You would trade me." It was my my pocket watch. By the way, it was a PC Philippe. So if you know anything about pocket watch, it's like a very high pocket watch. Gold old PC Philip pocket watch. He he says, "I got some big rabbits." I said, "I'll make you a deal. If you have a letter by this man, I will give you for the times letter my Patak Philip pocket watch." I said, "I I will absolutely give you my watch for a letter by this man. I don't care." You know, that that would be worth it to me. Um, interestingly enough, I'm getting No, he had he had another one of the rabbis I wanted called the rugged chev who's a very very special person, but he wanted too much for that. Anyways, but but I would have given him for the Yeah. like um I I've spoken about him in the past but he was very very unique because very often great rabbis are born they exist they live they pass away they shephered their flock they took care of their city and we don't know much about them because they gave what the community needed for that time. But once in a while, once every few generations, a rabbi comes along who puts his finger on the pulse of the Jewish people and says, "I know why the gula hasn't arrived. This is the problem. This is the issue." And it is endemic. It it goes to the very heart of what ills the Jewish people. And very often we try to figure that out. So we have one person says, you know, the issue is we say ashaya too quickly. We do say it too quickly and we should stop and think about what we're saying and stand. I stand. I don't walk around. But it's hard to say that that was the epidemic. Throughout history, there have been certain rabbis. The Rambam was a rabbi like that. He understood that the Jewish people needed the Mishna Torah. They needed the of Judaism that was concise, that was that was organized. Rabbi Salanter is a rabbi who understood that we needed msar self-perfection and that was what was ailing us. and he started a Muslim movement and that changed the whole Jewish people that made him transcend his generation. It made him a historic figure. The Balshamto he understood that we needed whatus had to offer. Rab and Ben Zach. I could tell you the names you think about them. They're like they're so big what they understood was so forward thinking and the was one of them. And probably when he said the issue is gossip like okay and maybe the issue is we should put our tillin on more straight or maybe the issue is we should make sure that we're wearing the best kind of tetsis or maybe no no he got it. You got it. Like history has proven that the was right and that's why in every home practically every from home every religious home there'll be something to do with the whether it's his picture or his book or another book about Lashhara or a little sticker on your phone there'll be something to do right I had a student on my trip who had on her phone lashhara You heard that? Instead of I don't speak doesn't speak to me like it doesn't speak to me. If you ask I have a daughter in shukim. Now if you ask her what her deal breaker is in shim it's lashara. If you hear it's yours as well right? If you hear a guy or a girl is a loser person, turn around the whole bye-bye, goodbye, move on. You can't afford to live with a person who speaks lashar. So lash and har it turns out is what we need to focus on to tackle the issue of basilless hatred to bring the gula. So why is Bin Yammen's idea of speaking about this tonight so huge? Because Nissan just started at Benisalu. We're going to have Gula now. So if we want to bring the gula, it didn't come yet. It's been already been rot. It's a few days after Rokesh. Obviously, we need to work on Lashara. So Lashhar is perfect foreshan. So besides your V of P which is a great V right besides the fact that when right when it said oh right are you going to kill me like you killed the Egyptian right but we want to bring the gulum so I want to do something I think is interesting when you open a Jewish safer Jewish book. So there's the meat of the safher but very often there is the hakama of the safer. The hakama is the introduction and what's very interesting is some people love introductions like they will not skip an introduction and for some people the introduction is more like I want to thank my wife. I want to thank my my my parents and my in-laws and the donors. But a real introduction, like a good introduction, sets the stage, frames what you're about to hear. There are famous introductions. Perhaps the most famous introduction in history, Jewish history, is the introduction to the messilarum. It's the most quoted where the Ram Khal says, "I have not come to tell you something you didn't know because you all know it, but it's because it is so known that it's easy to forget." That's an introduction. So, what people may not realize is the also gave us an introduction. He framed why he wanted to speak about Lashnar. So what I want to do with you for a few minutes is I want to go through scan through the intro and try to figure out why he used this introduction to teach us to tell us why not to speak lashar very very important introduction I'm going try to do without my glasses will help So, blessed are you, God of Israel, who separated us from the other all the other nations. And he gave us your Torah. He gave us his Torah. And he led us, he brought us in to the holy land so that we'll be worthy of doing all the mitzvah in the Torah. And many mitzvah can only be done in Erits is they're called mitzvah. Certain mitzvah. He brought us out of Egypt, brought us into the land of Israel in order to do all the mitzvah. And Hashem's entire intention to he just wanted to give us goodies. He just wanted to do good for us so that by doing this mitzvot we will be holy to him. We will be holy to Hashem. You should remember do all the mitzvah and you'll be holy to Hashem. And it'll be possible for us to accept all the good that he wants to give us and all the kindness that he plans on doing for us both in this world and the next world. What? What is Hashem asking of you? It says in the Torah, keep his mitzvah, do the Torah, do all this. Why to watch of Hashem and his uh precepts? Why? So it should be good for you. I want to give you everything that you want. Time out. What do you want? You want a good shak. Okay, that's how you're going to get it. I want to be healthy all my life. That's how you're going to get it. I want to make a nice living without working too hard. That's how you're going to get it. I want safety for my family. That's how you're going to get it. I want loyal friends. On and on and on. Hashem says, "I know what you want. You don't even have to ask, but it's good. Open your mouth and I'm going to give it to you. I said before you even ask I already know what you want. So all I want is to give you good. Now remember we are in the intro to not speaking. I don't see anything about all I just saw was it says thank you Hashem for choosing us from all the other people bringing us into eritis to do the mitzvah to do good for us. Nothing to do with Larat. This is the intro. Very interesting. Should we continue? Okay. Not only did Hashem give us the vessel of his delight, which means the Torah. He also commanded us, "I'm giving you the Torah. Don't abandon it. Don't ignore my Torah. I have given you a beautiful a beautiful gift something so wonderful my Torah don't lose it don't leave it the law can mean that's okay we're going to we're going to skip a little bit and says that Hashem is not like a regular person where when regular person if if you give them a present and then they sort of leave it at the side you wait until they leave, you take it back. Like they're not even using it. Hashem says, "You may abandon it, but I know you're going to come back to it." So, Hashem gave us authority even when we don't learn it. You're going to learn it. I'm letting you have it. And he says, Hashem not only believes in us, but through the bias, through the first temple, Hashem says, "I know you're not going to abandon my throne. I know you're going to come back to it." And Hashem gave us Naveim to remind us. And Hashem gave us a bay sheni after destroying the first bes mikdash. And once again we lost that. We lost it. And even though it was missing some of the kaduca of the first bay, but we still had closeness to Hashem. You may buy Sheni. Now listen carefully. Here's why. This is in the intro. He says in the end of the second temple period, Godam for lashharaenu baseless hatred and lashhara began to strengthen among us. We began to badmouth each other during the times of the second temple. We began to speak lashhara. And he goes on to prove it wasn't just it wasn't just baseless hatred, but baseless hatred literally means that's what it means. And so he says that all the time he says from the time of the slaughter of the Jewish people by the Romans from the time we were kicked out of Mikdash out of out of out of we've waited and we've ded in front of Hashem that he should bring us closer like he promised us. And he says, and the truth is, the complaint is not on Hashem. The complaint is on us. And he says something very interesting. He says the following. He says, "Hashem has the ability to take the galost that we're in and end it instantly." Now it says in the Gumaran Sanhedrin that a day is like a thousand years or a thousand years like a day and therefore today we are in the sixth,000th year. We have about 200 plus years until we have completed our 6,000th cycle. And at that time after 6,000 years, Mashiach is going to come, which means about nine generations from now. >> So 200. >> Yeah, about 200. A generation is between 20 and 25 years. So we're talking very very very soon. We have since since the Torah was given at Hari, we have passed about 120 generations. There are nine generations left. You ever think of it like that? We've passed 120. We are literally in the last five minutes of the movie. And if you don't know that, look carefully at the news. It feels like it. Doesn't that feel like it? We're the end of the end of the end of the movie. But wow, I'm not going to be around. It's 200 years. I still have 200 years plus. But Hashem says just like at in Mitsim where Hashem says you're going to be there for 400 years but Hashem says you know what instead of being there for 400 years I'm going to take you out after 210 years. Hashem says I can do the same thing again. I can actually take you out before year 6000. And it's better if that happens. And I'll explain to you why. Since the year 6000 in Jewish Hashkafa is the year of Messiah has to come. What if we're not worthy of Messiah by the year 6000? What happens then? What do we do? Does Messiah not come? What happens? What do you think? Yeah, >> I thought he comes either way. >> He comes either way. Well, if we're not worthy, how could he come? So it says in the Gomorrah that if we're not worthy, he's going to come through tremendous destruction where the world will be in such shambles that I it'll be clear that it needs salvation. It needs Yeshua. And the Amorra who mentions this in the Gomorrah, the rabbi who mentions it says, "I would rather not be alive in the time of Messiah if Mashiach comes through that uh apocalyptic destruction. I'd rather not be there through whatever kind of nuclear holocaust, AI holocaust, self-destruction, you know, plague virus, whatever it is, I'd rather not be there." However, you should know that if we can convince Hashem that we don't need to have that great destruction, we don't need to have another October 7th for Shalom. We actually got the message. Okay, well then I'm then we're ready. Are we ready? We're ready. So here we are in Pesak. Hashem is saying look at what's going on. Look at the miracles that I have done for you. See that I want it more I want it more badly than you do. I want Mashia to come more than you do. It says in the Gmoran braas that every night Hashem is Hashem screams out. He roars like a lion and he says, "Woe to the father that I have to send his children away." Woe to the children who I had to send away from the table. I feel bad. I had to send away from the table. We don't have what we need. the olos and the zvim and the schlamim carbon pes. Do you know do can you feel what it was like to have carbon pes? Do you know what we're missing? Do I know? Does any of us know what it was like to be ola? Can I paint you a little picture? You know what? Jewish people from all over Israel. Men, women, children, they packed up. They were so excited. We're going to go up to your shalay. We're going to bring carbon pesak and they came and there was singing and there was dancing and there were musicians and if you could picture it when they were ereal when they all went up. So there were tributary roads, side roads that led to main roads. So from each little village in each little city, the people began their pilgrimage up to Jerusalem. So it started off as a family met up the cones. The cones met up with the Schwarzes. Hey, we'll go together. Both families on the road up to your Schlime and they met the Greenwalds and they met the uh the the they met the the black men's and they came and then as they as that little road poured into the big road, more and more people came and soon there were hundreds of people on the same road and one guy took out his guitar and the next guy took out his ukulele. Another thing took out his flute and they began to sing. That's what it looked like. That's literally they played music and they sang on the way up to Jerusalem. And on the way there were people who said, "Wow, the people going up to they're going to be hungry. They're going to be thirsty. Let's have snacks waiting for them." So there was these little pit stops on the road that villagers had set up. So all those going up to some people had to walk for days. So they went walking or on their carriages and they were singing and dancing and then once in a while you had a great rabbi who joined the crowd and everyone sudden and they would pick up their rabbi they would sing and dance and ask questions and Torah stories and it was amazing and he came close to your shalim and when he came close to your line it wasn't a thousand people it was hundreds of thousands of people from all sides of your and those hundred Hundreds of thousands turned into millions and he came to your shalam and things were loud and things were exciting and you know why they were they were because people were getting ready with their carbon pes and they had their m sheni and they came and there some people brought their and they had all their gifts to the kahanim and they had all these wonderful things and people were being appointed you're going to use my carbon bas I'm going to use yours we're going to get together we're going to roast it together and Dune the whole year had that delicious smell. You know how good steak smells? There's a roasted lamb over a pit over a grill. You ever been to the old city? You smell the schwarma. You see that that that lamb on the rotisserie for a little schwarma. That's a little lamb. Imagine the entire city smelled like roasted lamb. And they took out their wine and they the arbakos and wherever you went through you heard singing you're heard singing cuz there were so many people the whole area so they they crushed into Jerusalem they all came together it was unique it was magnificent and we're missing it you know why you know why we're missing the greatness of seeing the coin gole the greatness of seeing the kohanim the levim singing the sadikim the sanhedin you know Why? Because of lashara. This sabotaged us. And because of this, we don't have that trip up to Jerusalem. We don't get to see co. We don't get to make carbon pak. We don't have that sadikim that we once hadim. We didn't have that that we had. We didn't have the glory of the mikdash because of lashara. This destroyed the Jewish people. When you think about it, every shool should be speaking about this in the month of Nissan because this is the game changer. This is why we're still here. So, I'd like to I'd like to end by encouraging. We're giving these out, right? Complimentary copies at night. You take your medication or you take your shower, make it part of your ritual. You see, I'll finish with this. We all want to believe we're good people and we all try to do the right thing. With Lashhara, there are two things that sabotage us. Number one, awareness of Lashhara, meaning we speak about it and we forget that we're even speaking about it. So learning this every night reminds us it just it keeps it on our radar even if the law that we learned the night before is not the law that's applicable to the question that I particularly have right now but it's keeping it on my radar. And the second reason why this is so important is you can't stop yourself from speaking lashara if you can't identify lashara and most of us can't. The questions are so numerous. My wife and I were very involved in Do you know how many lush horror questions come up on? Am I allowed to say this? Do I have to say that? How there shouldn't be an exaggeration? That should be the right amount. And so many wh what if they don't plan on getting engaged? What am I what do I have to volunteer information if they didn't ask it? In business, the same thing. What if I'm a teacher? Am I allowed to hear lash and horror about a student from the teacher of the year before? When the teacher goes through all the students say, "Oh, last year's teacher, this student was like this. Maybe I'm not allowed to hear that. Maybe the students should be able to come with a clean slate. They shouldn't have to battle the reputation that they had before." The questions, they don't end. Can I Can I write a review on Yelp? Can I write a negative comment on a YouTube video? Can I can I speak about a RV if I don't think he's leading the congregation properly? So many times we righteously speak lashar. Righteously speak it, but it's still ashar because we don't know the laws. We don't know when it's mut when it's not. So do we want to have carbon pesak? Do we want to have carbon rabbon khiga the carbonote the miracles? Do we want the third bas mikdish built? Here's the key, right? Doesn't have to hang on a belt. Just has to sit in your bedroom or sit in your dining room through making sure not to speak. We're gonna be Z gonna be worthy of not having to wait 200 years, not having to wait for everything to come crashing down, but instead take the miracles that Hashem is showing us right now. Grab it and say, you know what, Hashem, I got the message. I'm going to do my share. And if you do yours and you do yours and you do yours, that's how we're going to do it. Thank you very much. Can we do questions and answers? >> Oh, yeah. Yeah. Let Let's take a moment. We'll do Yes. You questions and answers. >> Question. What you mean by >> what? >> No. I'm saying when are you allowed to speak? When are you allowed to say something about some? Let's say somebody calls you up for a reference and you know something about them. Are you allowed to say it? >> Right? >> Are you allowed to say it? And and sometimes it's not not even a negative thing, but it could be taken as negative. Are you allowed to say something that can be taken two ways? Kam speaks about that. Are you allowed to say something that's not negative, but you know the person listening is going to look at it like it's negative. Yeah, >> I guess maybe you already answered the question. I did read that book. So like >> I guess what I want to say is how do you know when you are and when you're not and you don't have a book. And I was also going to say like there's no like app like I don't mean like AI but like an app where you could ask these questions if you don't >> there is and there are hotlines lashar hotlines. Um I don't know if it's written here but um I am sure uh that they are available. You could go you can go online say lushnar hotline they they do exist where you could ask your questions absolutely anyone else >> I just don't get the concept of like how do you like subconsciously nonsubconsciously how do you just go without gossiping I guess like how do you >> how does how does one train their brain to turn it off and be like like >> you go you go on a bad date you had you saw saw something with a friend like the next time you see the friend it just inevitably comes out like >> right right it first of all it starts with the sensitivity if you're not sensitive guarantee you're going to question once you're sensitive to not speaking then comes the next level which is to know what is okay to say what what's not in other like we don't mean to do anything wrong we just we don't know so we'd rather not know because if I know I may not be able to say >> things that are lo like That's the book. That's why I got to read, right? I can't give you all the right now. I wish I knew all the perfectly. My my my wife is better at this than me, right? You got to learn. >> You train your >> Let me give you perspective really quick. The What's the last song that we sing on in the Hagada? >> The very end. >> Anyone? No, the very last song. Anyone? Anyone make it to Now I want to tell you something about and this will this just wrap it up in a beautiful little bow. If you look at So you gota So the Gya is who? the Gadia the the one the one goat the goat in the story is the Jewish people the Jewish people are bought with two zuzim what are the two zuzim the two lucos that's this is what the meaning of the song so the goat was bought with the two zuzim then came the cat and ate the goat so the cat is bad right because it ate the Jewish people now let's just figure this out Okay. Who what ate the cat? Anyone know the what? >> The dog. So then if the cat is the bad one, so then the dog would be >> the good one. Whatever it means, right? Okay. In history, history. Okay. The dog is a good one. What happened to the dog? >> The dog was hit by a stick. So stick would be the bad one. >> What happened to the stick? >> Burned by the fire. Fire would be the good one. Water put out the fire. Fire would be the bad one. Ox would be the good one. Slaughterer would be the bad one. Angel of death would be the good one. And then God would be the bad one. Shalom. If you go if you go through the list of and you follow it historically where the Jewish are you following me? Where the goat is the Jewish people. They were eaten by the bad which is the cat. That was eaten by the dog which was the good bad good bad good bad good good. It comes out that at the end the angel of death is the good one and I said it's a bad one. So we're missing something here. So you know what we're missing? The cat is not a nation. All of the other items in the story, the dog, the stick, those were all nations. Good nation, bad nation, good nation, bad nation. The cat in the story is Lashara. >> The cat is lash. So the the goat was eaten by the cat means the goat was eaten by lash. So what happened was the dog ate the cat. The dog was the one who created the destruction because of lash. So now the dog is the bad one. the stick is the good one and then it makes sense again. Okay, you'll have to look at it's a little little complicated in all that, but if the C all of the items are nations except for the >> there you have to see the commentaries that it's it's built on each one is the Babylonians, one is the Romans. Each one was a nation, a nation destroyed, built, destroyed, built, right? The Jewish people are the goat, the cat is the lashara, and then the dog is the one who destroyed the Jewish people. And then the dog is the bad. The the stick is the good. The fire is the bad. The water is the good. The ax is the bad. The slaughter is the good. The angel of death is bad. And then God at the end brings Mashiach. He's the good. So Lashara, we end the whole Hagada with a warning about Lashhara. Thank you very