Rabbi Dov Ber Cohen | Discovery Seminar

Hey, good morning everyone. Welcome to today's very special the famous discovery seminar and rett for thank for hosting the entire leadership of we want to give a special round of applause to Benjamin Mataya and David Sacho for a round of applause for a lot of efforts and and to have a success. Of course, we're going to hear momentarily from our dog >> and we were just a few weeks before the the school year and and everyone knows a friend, a neighbor, a coworker who has kids in public school and we're just just a few days away from Elmo and we have to think of someone that can give a Jewish education. Of course, it would be a great merit for you, your friends, for for your entire family to help do a Jewish education. This school year starts in a few weeks from now and Fazak has helped coordinate over 20 different after school programs and has transferred over 2,000 forms of students from public school. 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Thanks. Okay, first everyone needs to relax a bit. I feel there's a bit too much tension. Can you just sit up straight for a second? Right. And loosen your neck and shoulders. Good. And breathe through your nose and twist in your chair. There you go. They're much better now. Chill out. Everyone's so uptight. Sunday morning, you got to start breathing, stretching, smiling. Okay, today we're doing the discovery seminar, which is the reason that I am a religious Jew. There's only one reason people say to me, I'm not going to tell you my whole story, but I lived in Asia for six years being a Buddhist monk and training in martial arts and meditating. So, people say to me, why did you become an Orthodox Jew? And it's a very fair question. Judaism is all about relationship. Relationship. Relationship with yourself. Relationship with other people and relationship with Hashem, which is really the opposite of Eastern spirituality. I said the other night over Zoom to some people, Eastern spirituality is to get away from relationship, to go and sit in a cave, to sit in a temple and be alone. Judaism says the whole of Judaism is a relationship and relationships are emotional. How do you define a relationship? Wow, maybe I'll give you a relationships class instead. Forget discovery. Let's do How do you define a relationship? A relationship means emotional intimacy. Emotional intimacy. So for example, father and son, is that a close relationship? >> Not if they hate each other. They're closely related but it's not a close relationship. Relationship is defined by emotional intimacy which really means three things which means love, respect and joy. So when I see my wife I feel love. I feel close. I feel one. And I also feel respect. She's amazing. And I feel joy. I want to be around her. And for yourself by the way with yourself. You should love yourself and you should respect yourself and you should be happy being with yourself. I once got a train from Moscow. No, from Beijing to Moscow, six days, the Trans Siberian Express and I basically on my own. And if you don't like yourself, it's a very difficult thing to be on your own. And if you got a negative voice in your head, what's wrong with you? I'm such an idiot. So I said in the class the other night that if you had a friend walking around with you all day saying to you what your own mind is saying to you all day how long would you let them be your friend? So for most people not a very long time. It would be why you being so negative and critical and over analytical the whole time. So you got to make sure that you love yourself and you respect yourself and you you enjoy being with yourself. And the same goes with Hashem. Hashem we're meant to feel love, closeness towards Hashem like he's our dad, a loving dad. And we should feel immense respect like he's a king. We're coming up to au our father and our king and joy. So Judaism is really all about emotional intimacy, spirituality and it's a very very amazing path but we got to work out. It's very nice but today's question is how do you know it's true? Very nice. So Buddhism is also uh you have peace of mind and you tap into bliss. In Christianity, I'm sure there are Christians who love God and and respect God and feel joyful. So how do we know which is true? So I grew up in England, not in a religious home, but a very very good Jewish reformed Jewish home, very strong Jewish identity. Friday night dinner, we had candles, we made kdes. My parents were very loving and supportive. I played for a Jewish football team, soccer team. Jewish football team. Um, so I had a very, very strong Jewish identity. I never ate pig in my whole life. I ate lots of other things that probably shouldn't have eaten, but I never ate big. So I grew up with this very strong Jewish identity, but then I went to Manchester University to study philosophy. And I did I partied a lot. I was a DJ, dance music DJ. So I didn't really study a lot. But I noticed that there were many different opinions. Many different opinions. So Christians, for example, say if you don't believe that this guy died for your sins, you're going to burn in hell forever. That's what they believe. Millions millions of Christians would give their life for that belief. By the way, they give their life for that belief. If you do not believe Jesus died for your sins, you will burn in hell forever. Is that true or false? >> False. How do you know that? Pardon? >> No, but how do you know that? They say he wasn't. >> Hashem loves you either way. I know. But is it true or not? Do you understand? It's a very important question. So I say, if you don't believe Jesus died for your sins, you're going to burn in hell forever. And you say, and I say, is that true? And you say to me, well, I don't believe that. I'll say to you, I don't care what you believe. Is it true or not? How about this? My mother has a cat. Is that true or false? Well, I don't believe that. I don't care what you believe. >> I don't know your mother, so I don't know if she has a cat. >> But she either does or she doesn't. And it doesn't matter what you believe. >> Great. >> So, we've established something very, very important. There's something called objective truth. Objective truth means it's true whether you want it or not, whether you like it or not, whether you believe it or not. It's true. God exists or God doesn't exist. Once we define God, if you think God is an angry man, British man in the sky, you think he's an angry man in the sky, then I don't believe that God exists either. So there's something called objective truth. London is the capital of England. Is that true or not? >> That true. That's true. You can't you can't say I don't want it to be true. I wish it wasn't the capital of England. Again, it doesn't matter because there's something called objective truth. So we got to work out what is true. It's an important question. And the reason it's very very important is everyone I meet says that they want to live a successful life. Who here would like to live a successful life? What's the definition of success? How do you define success? Oh, I got a picture here. Can we turn the lights off a little bit? Is that possible? This is Floyd Money Mayweather. This is little Dovey Bear Cohen. This is the greatest poundfor-pound boxer who ever walked the face of the planet. And he's worth $1.3 billion. This is a little Jewish boy. He's worth 1.3 shekels. 50 fights, 50 wins, 27 knockouts. He's a He's the goat. Floyd Manny Mayweather. So Floyd Money Mayweather, he came to a where I work and he said to me, "Where are all the great black men here, Rabbi?" And I said to him, and this is the greatest thing I ever said. This was prophecy. This was There's no way a normal human being would have thought on the spot to say this. >> Where are the great black men, Rabbi? Well, what makes a man great, Floyd? >> That is a great thing to say. What? What do you mean? What makes I think most people would have said, "Well, you're a great What makes my great?" So, he said to me, "Currency of a legacy, man." So, I said to him, which is the second greatest thing I've ever said, "What? That's what I said, just one word, currency over legacy. So, he's basically saying money is more important than making an impact on the world around you. So, I took him down, I took him down, took him down to the theater at age, and I showed him a video, which I'm going to show you later about what Israel achieved in the first 70 years of Israel. 1948, you got a group of Holocaust survivors in a desert surrounded by enemies. What are you going to achieve? the most companies registered on NASDAQ and and Nobel prizes and medical patterns. And so I said to him, what it means to be a great person is really at least two things. Number one is refine your character traits. Are you kind? Are you compassionate? Are you healthy? And number two is positive impact. Are you making the world a better place? You're a great person to the extent that you've actually made the world a better place. And then number three is I'm connecting to spirituality my soul. I'm bringing soul into the world around me. Those are that's what it means. So what does success in life mean? It means you achieve the purpose of life. If you achieve the purpose of life, you had a successful life. What is the purpose of life? Improve yourself. Improve the world. Improve become the most refined, healthy, kind, wonderful person you become. Become can become and then make the world a better place. But we have to start asking ourselves, well, which path is true though? Cuz Buddhism teaches that you don't have a soul. And what you have to do is you need to go and separate from the world and meditate until you completely nullify yourself. Islam says you are a soul. Buddhism says that you should not get married. That's going to ruin your spirituality. Judaism says you need to get married. That's good for your spirituality. So which one's right? So my grandfather died when he was 100 years old. And before he died, he said to me, you don't want to live an I should have life. Which means you don't want to regret your life. When you get to 90, you start looking back on your life. And many people regret their lives. They just feel like I was just getting by, hanging in there. Could be worse, not too bad, fine. And he says, you got to live your life from this age that when you get to 90, you're looking back and you're thinking, I had an amazing life. Which means you have to choose where do I want to go? What do I want to achieve in my life? What do I want to achieve? I had someone in my class and he was about 38 years old. And I said to him, what are you doing with your life? And he said, I'll just see where life takes me. And I said to him, what are you jellyfish? Don't just see where life takes you because it's probably not going to take you anywhere that great. Finances are difficult, health is difficult, marriage is difficult, raising children is difficult. Life's quite difficult. Don't just see where life takes you. Be a shark. Say, "This is where I want to go." But you got to make sure you're on the right mountain. I mentioned over Shabbat, many people are running up mountains and they're just, "I'm going to get to the top of the mountain first." But most people are on the wrong mountain. I you're just on the wrong mountain, but they're like, I don't care. I'm going to get up there first. It's the wrong mountain. You don't want to get up there. You're going up the wrong mountain. I used to run trips to Thailand because I speak Thai and Hindi and Korean and as many languages. I spoke to lots of 28-year-old Americans and I'd say, "What are you doing with your life?" And they say, "I'm doing this job." They say, "Wow, do you love your job?" I hate my job. So, why are you doing your job that you hate? because I need to pay off my college debt. What did you do in college? I did international relations and economics. Wow. Did you love that? No, I hated it. I didn't even go. I just smoked weed. Yeah. So, hold on. You're doing a job you hate to pay off a degree that you're never going to use and you hated. That's not that clever. That's not a clever thing to do. So, you got to work out. So, I say to them, "Leave your job. Leave your job. Go traveling for 3 months. Work out what what's important. What are your values?" and they say, "But if I leave my job, then I'm going to fall behind. I'm on a treadmill, I'm going to fall behind." At which point I say to them, "When you're going in the wrong direction, you want to fall behind." But people don't get that. They're like, "No, I I just got to keep going cuz I don't want to fall behind." It's like you're going in the wrong direction. You do want to fall behind. If you're going in the wrong direction, find the right mountain. Climb up the mountain. No, but it's just easy. This is comfortable. This is what I know. Not a good idea. So I decided I'm going to now work out what's life a wellthoughtout life. You're going to have a wellthoughtout life. Three questions. Number one, what do you believe? What do you believe? Do you believe Jesus died for your sins? So I used to go and ask over 8, 90 year old people, do you believe in life after death? What do you think the number one answer from a very old person? Do you believe in life after death was? >> Yes. >> Yes. Was not the number one answer. >> No. No was not the number one's answer. >> I don't know. I'm not sure. I hope so. I hope not. So I'd say to them, my friend, you're going to die soon. I didn't say that. I thought that. Don't you think it's important to work out? So lots of people sp this is me. I used to be say I'm spiritual, not religious. It's my truth, Rabbi. It's my truth. And you can't argue with that because it's my truth. That can't be your truth. It's either true or not true. But it resonates with it. It resonates with I'm spiritual and it resonates with me, dude. And that's really nice, but that doesn't make it true. So, we got to work out what's actually true. So, the third thing is what do you believe? How about this? Strawberry is the best flavor of ice cream. Is that true or false? >> It's not true or false. >> It's a matter of preference. So some people say subjective truth, but there's no such thing as subjective truth. If it's subjective, it's not truth. So there are some things that are facts. It's a fact. That's called objective truth. It's a fact. There are some things that aren't facts. They're just matters of preference. That's it. So you got to start knowing the difference. So what do you believe? Number two, why do you believe what you believe? It's a very important question. Who here believes they have a soul? Believe you have a soul. Yeah. Wow. Amazing. You're all wrong. By the way, you're all wrong. Judaism says you do not have a soul. You are a soul and you have a body >> for about 100 years maybe, but the body's going to get older and older and older and die. The soul's going to continue. So, stop identifying as a body. Okay? So, you either are a soul or you have a soul. Second question, why do you believe that? Why do you believe you have a soul? So there are two main reasons you believe everything you want. You believe believe. First reason you believe everything you believe is because that's what you were told. If you tell me where you were born to what family, I can basically tell you what you believe. If you were born in the Bkarian family, you believe this and you're whatever you are. If you were born in India, you'd believe in many gods. If you were born in China, you'd be communist. If you're born in Gaza, you'd want to kill us. If you were born in May Sharim, you'd have a strim. And literally, you're literally a product of your society, of your school, of your society. What your parents told you. If you live on, if you live in New York, you support the Yankees. And if you live I don't know enough, but you get the idea. Why do you support the team you support? Cuz that's where you were born. If you were born there and you fight each other about your your football team and your but you were just born there and you were just born there. So weird. So you believe what you believe because that's what you told. That's not a good reason to believe it. The second reason you believe everything you believe is because you want it to be true. You believe things that you want to be true. I believe in life after death. Why? Because I don't want death to be the end. That's scary to think that that death is the end. By the way, that's doesn't make sense. It's not scary because if death is the end, it's the end. There I I don't want that. I don't believe in life after death. Why not? Because that means there are consequences and I don't want there to be consequences. I just want to have fun. So, most people just believe what they believe because they want it. How about this? Not kosher food is spiritually harmful for Jewish people. It's a statement. Not kosher food is spiritually harmful for Jewish people. Is that true or false? >> True. False. >> Okay. Some people say false. Some people say it's true. That means someone here is right and someone is wrong. Because it can't be true. It is either true or false. That's by the way. Just cuz you're right doesn't mean you're better than someone else. Don't be self-righteous. You can be I'm right. I think I'm right and Buddhists are wrong. But I don't think I'm nicer than Buddhists or happier than Buddhist. I just think it's true or not true. So, not kosher food, not that's either true or false. Now, why did the person who says that's true say it's true? Probably because he was told that or he wants to believe it. But how do you know it's true? >> Pardon? >> The in the Torah. But how do you know that's true? Just made it up. The the Buddhists say that's not a thing. It's a good question. No. By the way, you should work this out before you put not kosher food in your mouth cuz if it is true, it's not good for you. You can say, "I don't believe not kosher food is bad for me spiritually and eat it, but if it's if there's poison in your food and you say, I don't believe there's poison in this food, you're going to die." So, it's not a moral judgment. By the way, kosher is not a moral judgment. I know people who do not keep kosher and they're the nicest, most loving, wonderful people in the world. And I know people who keep strictly kosher and they're horrible people. So, it's not a moral judgment. By the way, you can keep kosher and be nice. It's not a you can't do both. Try. You can do it. Someone who doesn't put on to fillin, are they a bad person? >> No. But if the Torah is true and to fillin's good for you, if you're not putting on to fill in, you're not feeding your soul. You're just missing out. You just didn't do what you didn't give your soul what it needs. If someone needs vitamin B and they don't take vitamin B pills, are they a bad person? No. They're just not getting what they need. So, the first reason you believe everything you believe, that's what you were told. The second reason, that's what you want. It made me feel good. Did you know a not Jewish person can't be your soulmate? I don't believe that. Why not? Because I'm in love with my not Jewish girlfriend, so it can't be true. I just don't want that to be true, so I don't believe it. Third question, how do you know you're right? Very important question. How do you know you're right? Religious Jews are 02% of the world population. Now, very little. How do you you think you're right? There's so many more Buddhists and Christians and Muslims, how do you know what you believe is actually true? And it's a very very very important question because if you want to live a successful life, you want to achieve the purpose of life. So if Christianity is true, that means it's the purpose of life. So you better start believing that guy died for your sins. Otherwise, there are consequences. By the way, he didn't. It's okay. But how do you know what you believe is true? You believe you have a soul. Well, how do you know it's true? >> Pardon? >> Time shows. Time show. Oh, time shows. So, you're saying you're going to wait to die and then burn in hell forever and say, "Oh dear, it was true. Jesus did die for my sins." Bad idea. >> Terribly bad idea. >> Great. How do you know anything? Someone tell me one thing that you know for sure. >> You got a hand. You've got Tell me one thing you know. >> The sky is blue. How do you know that? >> We see. >> Cuz you can see it. because everyone else can see it. Cuz you can measure it. Your tes there's gravity cuz you can measure it. How do you know your mother is your mother? Don't go and call her now and say the rabbi says you're not my mom. How do you know your mother is your mother? >> She told her that >> she told that's the only reason. >> DNA test, birth certificate, you look like her. You grew up in her house. You have the same mannerisms as her. Everyone says she's your mother. How do you know? >> No, you weren't told. There's a DNA test. That's not being told. I have >> 25. >> Okay. >> Okay, good. But now, how how do you know there's a country called China? How do you know there's a country called China? >> It's on the map. >> It's on the map. Everything's made there. You can visit it. There's a Chinese language. There's a Chinese government. You There's >> food. >> There's Chinese food. I actually lived in China. And in China, Chinese food is just called food. Amazing idea. So, you know there's a country called ch. You don't believe there's a country called China. You know there's a country called China. Map, language, food. You can go there. You know your mother is your mother. DNA test, birth certificate, photos, man. What are these factors called? >> Evidence. Evidence. Evidence. Evidence. Evidence. Evidence. Evidence. It's a very important word. Evidence. So if someone comes up to you and says, "If you don't believe Jesus died for your sins, you're going to burn in hell forever." Say, "That's very interesting. What's your evidence?" >> Do I need to answer that? >> No, you can just walk away. But I'm just saying if you did want to get into a discussion, unfortunately, there's this guy. He's Jewish, but he's Jews for Jay. And he walks around Israel interviewing religious Jews who aren't very clever and making them look stupid. So the pavot says you have to need you have to know how to answer people. What's your evidence? Then they'll say Isaiah 53 and they make up stuff. There no evidence for it. So evidence is very very important. The only rational reason to believe anything is I have evidence for it. Evidence. Not because I want to believe it. Not because my mom told me, not because it makes me feel good. I have evidence it is true. That's why I believe it. No other no other reason is rational. I'm not going to tell you my whole story because I want you to all buy my books on the way out. But after I finished university in Manchester, I went and traveled for six years in Asia. So I lived in in India and Hashem. Thank you. That proves that God wrote the Torah. Guess which one's me. I'm actually this one on the far right. I look very different with a beard. Maybe I should I should I use a microphone? Should I Should I No. Should I This feels like heritage. I am the Lord your God taking you out of the land. No, I shouldn't use it. >> Thanks. >> Oh, I got to point to Hey, look. This one's me. This is in Shaolin. I trained in Shaolin. I got a black belt in Taekwondo and a brown belt in Aikido. And I trained in Shaolin. And this is Anoporna base camp. I climbed in the Himalayas a lot. And this is a small village in Lao. I speak Lao and Thai and Hindi and Korean and I'm not very tall but that's me is someone said to me again anyone who's read my book and then they meet me they all say I thought you were much taller one of the reasons is cuz I sound quite cool in my books so they think I'm taller but the other reason is I think they saw this picture and thought I'm very tall but I'm not they're just very short quite malnourished so This is me teaching Buddhism to Buddhist monks. I was always very into kiraov. So I was trying to teach them how to what Buddhism is about. >> Why did you go in China? >> Pardon? >> China. Cuz I wanted to train in Shaolin. >> I trained in Shaolin kung fu. >> Yeah. Yeah. I went to India for yoga meditation. I went to a small island off the coast of Korea for tawanda. I was basically martial arts and meditation. >> I'm not going to tell you the single most important thing anyone's going to tell you, which doesn't have so much to do with today's class, but it's very important. The single most important thing anyone's ever going to tell you is that your whole experience of life is completely dictated by what's going on in your mind. Your thoughts create your reality. So if you have positive, uplifting, kind, clear, healthy thoughts, you'll have a good life. Even if your circumstances are quite difficult. But if you have the perfect body and the perfect house and the perfect job and the perfect family, which you will not have by the way, cuz only I do, but you have greed, jealousy, or anxiety, then you won't enjoy it. Your thoughts create your reality. That's why I did lots of 10day silent meditation retreats because you need to learn to calm your mind down. Very, very important. But I said to my Buddhist masters, I love Buddhism. But how do you know it's true? So they said, yes, they said, cuz Buddha taught it. What do you mean, how do I know it's true? I have a masura. There's a masura. Buddha taught it. And he passed it out. I said, but how do you know Buddha got it right? Buddha says you don't have a soul. Hinduism says you do have a soul. So one of you is right, one of you is wrong. Not better, not worse, but one of you is right, one of you is wrong. That's it. What's true? So they said we feel it in our meditation. When we meditate, we we tap into what Buddha's talking about. And I said, "No, you tap into something, but then you interpret it through your Buddhist teaching." So the Buddhist and the Hindu and the Christian, they all tap into the same thing. But then the he says that's Christ consciousness and he says that's Buddha mind and he says that's Krishna consciousness. That's not evidence. Remember evidence evidence. Anyway, after 6 years I decided to canoe down the Amazon, longest river in the world. And I stopped in Israel for 3 weeks 18 years ago. Stopped in Israel for three weeks 18 years ago. And I was living on a little mush, a little kibbutz near the kineret, secular kibuts with lots of Israeli backpackers I had been with in India. And there was one religious person there. And he said to me, "Why don't you learn Torah? You're Jewish. You know, you teach Buddhism and you teach Hinduism. What about Judaism?" And I said, "I'm quite spiritual and Judaism is not spiritual at all. In fact, they're not even that nice. I said, I don't believe that there's an angry man in the sky who's going to punish me if I don't do his rules. And he needs me to praise him the whole time. Oh, God, you're so great. And all I'm like, God, you're quite insecure, an egotistical guy. I got to praise you the whole time. And he needs me to kill animals and sprinkle their blood to make him feel that weird. And put black boxes on my that you're just a bit strange. And to be a good Jewish woman, you just have to wear black and be miserable and make babies. And to be a good Jewish man, you have to wear a black hat and behave badly in an airplane. They're like, I don't want to do that. That's not spiritual for me. So I said, I'm not doing it. So they said, go to because the Nepal of Israel spiritual. So I went to I started learning and I learned that everything I thought Judaism teaches doesn't teach that. We don't believe there's an angry man in the sky. It's an angry woman in the sky. It's amazing. We don't believe that. We believe God is the infinite conscious loving creator of the universe and that your soul is an expression of that. And when you're praising God, you're not praising some man in the sky. You're a you are a a finite expression of infinite consciousness. So when you're saying God, you are so great and holy. What you're really saying is I'm part of I'm part of something great and holy. That's why the word for to pray is pale, which is reflexive. I'm doing it to myself. So my whole mind was I was like, "Oh my goodness." And the animal sacrifice is really because your it's your animalistic nature that causes you to sin in the first place. So you want to get rid of your animalistic nature. You're getting I started learning. I was like, "Wow, Judaism is actually very deep and powerful and beautiful and amazing, very mindful. Everything we do, every alaka, put on your right shoe first and your left shoe. That's because you want to have consciousness and loving kindness is right and and restraint is left and every muzra is there to wake you up to the fact that God loves you and every blessing we make is to make you have gratitude before you eat everything. The whole of Judaism is one mindfulness tool. It's an amazing thing. The shoo which is the book of Jewish law is really the book of Jewish mindfulness. How to do everything mindfully and consciously and joyfully. So pardon my phone. >> I I don't think it is. Hello. >> I really want to use it. So I start So then I had one question. I said, "You know what? Judaism is actually amazing and powerful and spiritual and wonderful and I get it. But I had one question. What was my one question? >> I know it's true. >> How do you know it's true? Because however nice it might be, if it's not true, I'm not doing it. Thank you. Cuz Buddhism is also nice. How do you know it's true? So they said to me, "Go to Aish in Jerusalem. Go to As in Jerusalem and they'll brainwash you." So I turned up at Asian Jerusalem and I said, "How do I know Torah is true?" And they said, "Easy. Come and sit down." And they put me in a room. And basically they tied me to this table and they shone a light in my eye, but they had lavender diffuser and soft music. And they just started saying, "God is good. Torah is true. God is good." And every like half an hour they gave me a drop of sugar water. God is good. Torah is true. And after about two weeks I woke up with these strings. And and I've never been happier. God is good. So they said we have evidence there's no way a human being could have written the Torah. It was the first time I asked Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, Christian. I asked everyone, "How do you know it's true?" And they all said, "Because that's what we were told. That's what we feel." It was the first time anyone said the one word that I wanted, which was evidence. Evidence. I know it's true because I have evidence that no human being could written the Torah. The things in the Torah that no human being could possibly have known or would ever have said. There are three levels, though. There's something called faith. Faith is I don't have any evidence. I just believe. Hallelujah. I believe. So let's say it hasn't rained for 2 months and the weather forecast said it's not going to rain for another two months and there no clouds in the sky. And I come up to you and say, "God spoke to me this morning and said it's going to rain this afternoon. Buy this umbrella for $100." If you buy the umbrella, you're an idiot. Why? Because there's no evidence. I might be charismatic enough to persuade you, but there no evidence. Then there's something called belief. Belief is I have some evidence. It rained twice last week. The weather forecast said there's a 30% chance of rain. There are some clouds in the sky. I believe it's going to rain. Judaism says belief is not enough. You have to have something called knowledge that your da you have to know. What is knowledge? There is so much evidence that it would be irrational not to believe. There's so much. Is it possible that there's no country called China? Maybe it's a worldwide conspiracy and everyone's in it apart from you. So there is a tiny little possibility, but you'd be an idiot to believe that because there's no evidence and there's lots of evidence there is. Is it possible your mother's not your mother? Maybe, but there's no evidence she's not your mother and there's lots of evidence she is. So knowledge means I have so much evidence it would be crazy not to believe. Good. So this is what discovery is. Discovery started in around 1970. There was an Israeli outreach organization called Araim. And they started doing these seminars presenting evidence that there's no way a human being could written Torah. Lots of Israelis were doing chuva. Har's newspaper which was anti-religious sent their three top journalists to go to a seminar >> to prove them that they were wrong and write articles to show it's wrong. All three of them became religious. When Rav Noak set up a Ravnakinberg Zel set up a he said we need this because we need people to be empowered. This is very empowering knowledge by the way because when someone says to you, "How do you know what you believe is true?" You can say, "I've got evidence." You don't have to say, "It's just what I believe. It's what my mom told me. I actually know that it's true because I got evidence." Very important. So, here we go. Who wrote the Torah? We've only got two real possibilities out there. There's what I believe based on the evidence which is was given God given by God to the Jewish people starting 3,338 years ago on Mount Si. 3,338 years and about a month and 3 weeks since Shabawat. And then for the next 38 years, Hashem would dictate the Torah to Moshe. He'd go into the oil moed and he'd write it down. That's what I believe. I believe that the divine infinite creator of the universe communicated every word of the Torah. Moses just wrote it down. He was just a scribe. The other opinion is called biblical criticism. Biblical critics say God didn't write the Torah. There isn't even a God. What are you talking about? God didn't write the Torah. How do I know that? because there are different styles and some stories are repeated and there are different names of God and there are some seeming contradictions in it. So I don't think that God wrote the Torah. They basically use literary criticism on the Torah like they would check Shakespeare and they use literary criticism on the Torah which doesn't make any sense by the way because God doesn't have to stay by your literary standards of human beings. It doesn't it just doesn't make any sense. I want to give you a whole class about it. It's called the documentary hypothesis. I put the plural documentary hypothesis because there's lots of them because they can't agree with each other. But they basically says that humans beings wrote the Torah about 2,500 years ago. A man came along and he took there were there were different tribes, the priestly tribe and the Elohist tribe, different tribes. He took each of their texts and he basically wo them together into the Torah that we have today. doesn't make any sense. There's no evidence of the other texts. There's no evidence of a war breaking out when they said, "Why are you taking?" It just doesn't make sense. But the only important thing is even according to biblical critics who say that God did not write the Torah, the Torah scroll that we have today is 2,500 years old. No one says it was written a thousand years ago. So, we have a document which is at least 2,500 years old. So we got to work out by reading that document if a human being wrote it or God wrote it. What's actually an amazing thing is every Torah scroll in the world, you go to a reformed synagogue in Canada and Orthodox one in France, conservative in Australia, they've all got the same Torah scroll. How is that? After 2,000 years of exile, every single Tora scroll is the same in the world. There are five small differences in Yuds and Vavs in some Yemenite ones. little difference but make no difference to the meaning or the pronunciation. It's like writing the word kala. C o l o r or like you're meant to write it with a u. C o l o u r. So we got to start asking ourselves who wrote the Torah? Who wrote the Torah? So I started with this one just because of yesterday's para. Yesterday's para. What would you like to see by the way in this document that might suggest that a human being did not write it? Evidence. >> What evidence? What would what would count as evidence? >> Future predictions. >> Future predictions. Extraordinary predictions. Why is that evidence? Because human beings don't make extraordinary predictions. Anything else? >> They do make predictions. >> Good things that human beings just can't know 2,500 years ago. So, we're going to do this one because it was yesterday's para kash. Let's say there is no God and there's a man living in the Middle East 2,500 years ago and he's making up a religion. What's he going to put in his book? He's going to put in don't kill, don't steal, take a day off a week, shake leaves in a lemon. Weird, but why not? I'll do it. Circumcision. Not so sure about that one. How about this? Kashroot. Does that make sense for your society? I'm starting a religion. Starting a society. Now, at that time, 2,500 years ago, the East was vegetarian. Hinduism, Buddhism is vegetarian. Everyone else could eat whatever animal they like. You can eat snake and dog and cows and chicken. You can eat whatever you like. Someone came along and said, "No, you can eat some animals but not others." Why? What's the human rationale behind that? How does it help you? It actually doesn't. It causes great difficulty for your nation. You've just suddenly said there's loads of food we can't eat. Why? You're living on the Mediterranean and you say you can't eat seafood. Why? >> Why? But if it's not healthy, then no one would eat it. It's not even that unhealthy. Why are we saying we're not eating seafood? that takes away 90% of your diet and trade. So, you've messed up your society by doing that. And you can't eat other pigs and snakes, things that you have. How about this? You can't eat camels or drink camel milk in the desert. Why? Why are you saying this in your book? It's a stupid It's a very stupid thing to say in your book. It's very bad for your diet and your trade and your society. It weakens you. I want to say you can do anything you like. I want to strengthen my society. So then you read it in yesterday's para in he then said remember there's no god. He's just making it up. Well which animals can we eat and which animals can't we eat? H well long tail. Well long tail and flip fluffy ears. No that doesn't sound right. So he came up with these two signs. Remember no god. You just said random sign. What are the two signs of a kosher animal and two signs of a kosher in animal are mallea chews the cud which means it has lateral chewing doesn't chew up and down and it has a stomach with four sections in the stomach. It chews the food, swallows it, digests it a bit, then throws it back up, chews it a bit more, and then swallows it again. Well, obviously that's kosher. So, where did he get that from? Why does that make it kosher? It's even worse, by the way, because they're very, very few. They're called ruminants. They're very few of them in the Middle East 2,500 years ago. Why didn't he make you can eat uh lions and wolves and snakes and things that are around? He should say we can eat there, but he didn't. So, he just messed up your whole diet basically. No reason. Made up random. And this is where it gets crazy. It didn't say in yesterday para, but it says in Vayikra, it says this. I'm just going to say half of the P because it's it's easier. It says that you're not to be kosher. You have to have two signs. Cloven hooves. Chew the cat clo. Oh, by the way, the second sign is fully cloven hooves. If it has hooves that are not split, you is not kosher. If you have hooves that are half split, not kosher. Has to be fully split. Okay. Where did he come up with that? Yes. >> Only can be domesticated. That would be >> Oh, that would help. But I don't think it's true. And why? Because >> I'm not sure it's true because I was in Time Square last night and there was a man with a big bur constrictor bear. I never I actually ate snake. They are quite nice. Anyway, I think other animals can be like dogs are not ruminants and they can be domesticated and so are cats. So, right. Anyway, but it's true. They can't run away as fast and they're not as dangerous. So it says the pig the which means whenever the Torah talks about animals it's talking about the the species the class of animals. So the Torah says kev is dog. It doesn't say spananiel als it says so the pig family the swina family that's wartthogs peckeries pig. Anything that a four-year-old would look at and say that's a pig. So the Torah says that the pig family is the only animal on the face of the planet that has cloven hooves, but it doesn't chew the cur. You can't eat it. It's not kosher. So we got two questions. First question is, why did you write that? I know it's not kosher. You didn't add anything by writing that. I already know it's not kosher. I already know. You don't you didn't teach me anything new. But a bigger question is how do you know? How do you know that living in the Middle East 2,500 years ago and you make a claim? The claim is you go anywhere in the world for the rest of all the time, you will never find one and other animal that has fully clothed hooves but doesn't chew the cud. How do you know that? You know they exist. You know animals with that one sign exist because you see a pig in front of you. What do you gain by saying that? So you gain nothing. You gain nothing by saying that, but you risk your whole book. You risk the whole book. If anyone finds one animal for the rest of history that has fully clothe but doesn't chew the card, you've just made your book false. God cannot have written that because it's false. Why did anyone put that in the book? You didn't gain anything by putting it. You risked your whole book by saying that for no reason. It's a pointless R. Did you understand that? It's very important. Very important. Okay, I'm actually done. What? I think we did the Let's do this very quickly. It says in the Torah that for for seafood to be kosher, it has to have two signs, fins and scales. Has to have two signs, fins and scales. Why? Firstly, why you've just cut out most of my diet? Who can name anything under the water that has fins but not scales? >> Sharks, dolphins, whales. Who can name things that have fins and scales? >> Salmon, tuna, whatever you eat on Shabas. Who can name things that have no fins and no scales? >> Shrimps, octopus. Who can name something that has scales but no fins? No, you can't. Why? Because it doesn't exist. It doesn't exist. The Mishna says, the mission in Neida says every creature in the water that has scales also has fins. Yes, >> I looked up on >> No, on You got to go to sea seaife.com. Anyway, what did you look up? >> It's a word that has >> Send it to me. I don't believe that. I really don't because I did loads and loads of research, but he sent it to me. >> What's the >> So, you're going to If that's true, by the way, I'm going to go and be a Buddhist again. I'm like, I'm out of here. But it's not true. I found one once. It was called a mono something. And they said, "Look, but mono meant one fin." You'll show it to me. I I haven't seen. We've got I forgotten what it's called. It's called sea life. is basically we wrote we wrote to the world's expert sea life people and we said do you have anything ever that has scales not fins and they said it doesn't exist but that would be interesting why there >> excellent the Gorra asked that question and it says basically to prove that God wrote the Torah that's a very good question and that's what the Gmorrah answers did you understand his question If if everything anything that has scales has fins then in the Torah just right if it has scales it's kosher you should come to yeshiva but that's the question so the answer the Gmorrah gives is to make this proof great just going to add to this very quickly this wasn't actually meant to be part of this presentation but because it was yesterday's para I put it in how about this so I've just messed up your diet you can't eat you can't eat very much. You missed out. You can't eat very much meat. But don't worry because you're going to be agricultural nation. Lots of your food is going to come from fruit and vegetable. So it's fine. I'm covered. So then the Torah says, "Oh, just by the way, for one year out of every seven, you can't do any farming." Why? Why? Let's think back. You got a person writing a book. The land needs to rest. >> Pardon? >> Land needs to rest. >> The land needs to rest is called fellow. You got it's called a fellow field. So the land needs to rest. So if I was writing a book for my community, I'd say the land needs to rest. So for one year, no farming anywhere in the land. Does that make sense? >> Yes. Can someone say no? >> No. Because you can rotate. >> It's called crop rotation. What you would do is you'd split the land into seven pieces and every year you'd rest one >> and then the other say but the Torah doesn't say that. The Torah says the whole land no farming for a year. Imagine I came up to you and say hey guys you're not allowed to work for a year. You're not allowed to make any money for a year. That's fair. So what the Torah says no farming. And the Torah says and if you should say what will we eat then? What are we going to eat if we don't do any farming? What are we going to eat this year, next year? What are we going to eat? I get it. Firstly, I don't get why you're saying we can't farm for a year. It doesn't make any sense to me. >> Rabbi, what if you have a winery? You need to drink the grape grapes. >> Firstly, wine wine stays well. You can drink the wine from the year before, but you can't you can't eat bananas from the year before. If you wine's cool. We're cool with wine. Don't worry. You can have wine. It's fine. We love wine. Kush, we're good. We're into it. What are you going to eat? It's a very good question. If we can't do any farming, what are we going to eat that year and the next year? So, what would you say? You're a human being. You just made up that you can't do any farming for a year for no reason. There's no good reason for it. But then you've got this challenge. Okay, then. So, what are we going to eat now? You're on the spot. What are you going to say? >> We can use >> store. Good. Store. Store food. You should store loads of food for the first six years. Store as much food as you can. I like that answer. Are there any other answers that you would say? >> Pardon? >> Ferment. I like that. Very good. Sauerkraut. You can have like kombucha. We could have sourdough. We can I like it. >> Ferment. I I'm good with that. Anything else? >> Import. Import food. Just bring it in. So, I've got three good answer. I still can't really explain why we're not farming for a year. It doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. But I can answer your question. Fermenting, wheat storage, and importing. Do you know what the Taurus says? >> Pardon? >> High-tech. You could get AI robots to do it for you. >> I don't know why I didn't think of that one before. Thank you. >> This is what This is what the Torah says. Think about a human being. What answer they'd give it to this question? And then look what the Torah says. I will command my blessing for you in the sixth year, and it will yield produce for 3 years. Remember, there's no God. I'm making up a religion. And I saying to you, you can't farm at all in the seventh year for no reason to say that. And you challenge me. Well, what are we going to eat? And I say, "Don't worry. In the sixth year, you're going to get a triple crop in the sixth year." So, in the first year, you're going to have a hundred apples. And the second year, you're going to have 100 apples. Third year, 100. Fourth year, and don't worry, because you can't farm in the seventh year. On the sixth year, you're going to have a miraculous 300 apples. Is that a good answer for a human being to give? You just put yourself in the worst predicament for no reason. So in the first year they get 100 apples. Second year 100 apples and they're excited. They're like mush mush we're so excited. Third year 140 >> better. But it doesn't say that. It says six year. So we're in the fifth year now. I got 100 apples and then like we're mush we're so excited for the 300 apples next year. We're not doing anything different. What was Mashe doing at the moment? Now he's shaking. He's like, "What? What an idiot. I just put my What? Why did I do that? Why did I even think of putting out the bird blade?" Third, seventh year, 100 apples, kill Moshe, burn the book, you're wrong. It doesn't make any sense. So, lots of things like this. But now, I'm actually going to get on to the class I wanted to give. But it's good to show all these little things. Does that Can everyone just stand up for a second, please? Stand up. Stand up. Stand up. No one's walked in. Don't worry. Just loosen your neck and shoulders. Breathe through your nose. Lift your arms up. Smile. Okay, sit down. Okay, let it go. We just needed that. We needed that, you know. and have some water. Okay, so here we go. The Torah, this document that's at least 2,500 years ago old, which has already said some things that no human being would say or could know and risk the whole truth of the book if it doesn't happen. It has in it seven extraordinary predictions. Now, when you see that, what do you immediately think? Human or divine? >> Divine. Why? Because humans do not make extraordinary predictions in their books. Why not? >> Because they won't come true and you'll look stupid. >> There no extraordinary predictions in the in the Christian Bible or the Bhagavagita or the Dharm. There are some loose ones. There's going to be a messianic figure at some point, but they got that from us. So in the Torah, there are seven, not just predictions, seven extraordinary predictions. Seven things that you just would not think would happen and that no human being would put in the book. Now there are only seven. They're not 15. And also very important I want after after this whole session I want you to hit chat GBT. You know what? Even hit Claude and you say refute everything Rabbi Dove Bear says. Do it. I want you to do it. And then write to me and say oh the hippo has hooves Rabbi Dub bear. And you do all of it. Don't think I didn't hit chat GBD and Claude. I know all their things and I answer them on chat GB. No. So I want you to explore this. I want you to refute this. I like it. I want when I give a class and no one argues, I don't enjoy that. I want you to start arguing because it means that it will be more powerful when you get it. Yes. >> So at the end, what did >> Well, you'll see. I'm not going to do that now. I'm going to go through the whole back and forth debate, but everything chat GBT and Claude said I was like it doesn't I can answer everything it says >> like at the very end >> oh it depends who puts it in. When I put it in it says yes you're right bear and when some atheist puts it in it says yes you're right Sam Harris it just says what you want to hear. So you got to know I I tried to use chat dbd and claude from other people's computers when I want to ask real questions like that. What is the one true religion on my computer? It's going to be like Judaism, Rabbi Dp. And I like, no, come on. Be real. And it's like, it is true. Discovery, Rabbi. Fine. Seven extraordinary predictions in the Torah. So that's extraordinary. It's an amazing thing. So we're going to look at these extraordinary predictions. First one, the Torah says that our nation will be around forever. This is an eternal covenant. As long as there is a universe, there will be the Jewish nation. That's a very, very extraordinary prediction to make 2500 years ago in the Middle East. To say that we will be around forever, that's an extraordinary prediction to make in the Middle East. How do we know that? We really know that looking back because we are the only ones who are still around. There are no Canaanites. There are no Moabites. There are noites, Gigabytes, parasites, whatever they are. Aztecs in very not it didn't not it's very extraordinary that we should be around forever. Very very extraordinary extraordinary prediction. In fact, Mark Twain says that I can't explain how the Jewish people are still around. It's completely extraordinary that we have Jewish people around. I'll read it very quickly. He's made a marvelous fight in this world in all the ages. He's done so with his hands tied behind him. The Egyptians, Babylonian, Persian rose, filled the planet, sound and splendor, faded into dream, stuff passed through. The Persians didn't. They're in great neck now. The great and the Roman followed and made a vast noise. They're gone. The Jews saw them all, beat them all. now what he always was no decadence no infirmities no weakening no slowing no dulling no what is the secret of his immortality Mark Twain's looking at the Jewish people and say this doesn't make sense doesn't make sense that there are still Jewish people says according to materialistic and positive criterion this people ought to have perished long ago so it's extraordinary that we did survive someone wrote a book at least 2,000 years ago saying we're going to survive and now looking back on history, we're saying that's impossible. How how is it possible they survive? Bla1 Pascal said also it's a it's crazy how the Jewish people survived. Now I want to be cynical because as I said I didn't want to be a religious Jew. I would still put this in my book even though it's extraordinary and very very very very unlikely to happen. I would still put it in my book. Why? Hope is nice, but if it doesn't come true, then your book's false. >> Takes a while. >> Come on. So, I want you to start thinking now. >> Pardon? >> You can't be self- affiliate. Everyone wants to survive forever. >> That's true. >> I'll tell you why. I put it in my book. >> Because if it actually happens, I look great. If it doesn't happen, if I'm not around forever, then what? I'm not around. I'm sad. Brilliant. You got to you guys got to start thinking. I'm sorry it's Sunday morning, but I want you to Sunday in Israel. That's the day we start the week. Yam Rishan, we're going. Let's go. We should have done this Monday morning. This extraordinary prediction. Now, are there any other nations that have been around as long as the Jewish people? >> Can you think of any? Just any. You make any up. >> Egyptian, Chinese. >> Chinese. >> There loads of nations. >> So, what's so special? Why didn't Mark Twain freak out about Chinese people? Why didn't Mark Twain say, "Well, the Persians rose and build, but the Chinese, they're still here. That's crazy." Why didn't Bla1 Pascal say, "Well, the Indians, it's a miracle that there are Indian." No one's talking about these people. Why not? Japanese have been around as long as us. >> Much bigger population on their own >> on their own land. >> Not persecuted. Good. You got it. I didn't have to say it, but it's obvious. There are three major factors you need for survival. Your own land, large numbers, and free from persecution. Japan had at least two, not large numbers, but their own land and free from persecution. So, the more factors you have, the more likely you're going to survive. If you have all three factors, land, people, no persecution, you're going to survive. It'd be crazy not to survive. If you got two, probably survive. If you got one, maybe unlikely. The Jewish people had none. >> Common language is important. >> Common language is cute. But how many Jews speak Hebrew? >> Very few. Just doesn't work for us. We got nothing. We got nothing keeping us together. >> What actually connects all Jewish people? >> Torah doesn't connect all Jewish people. It actually splits up Jewish people. Religion isn't what's connecting the Jewish people. Are we a race? No. Many different types of Jewish people. Are we a culture? No. Bkarian Jews. English Jews. Different culture. Are you >> Jews? >> Jews. But what connects us to Jews? It's not religion. It's not race. It's not culture. It's not nation. Most Jews haven't been to Israel. Don't speak Hebrew. What is a Jew? What connects us? >> There's one word. Torah unfortunately doesn't. Most Jews don't believe Most people don't believe in Hashem. One family. Family. Family. Family. We're a family. >> We have the same great-grandparents. >> We're a family. That is what it is. Some of the people in the family are religious and some are not. >> Some of the But it's a family. Unfortunately, it's a dysfunctional family. We're very bad. We're a dysfunctional family here. In fact, this is very, very important. And I'm not going to go into my rant now, but watch all my videos from Tishab. I like the reason Mashiach is not here. And the reason October the 7th happened is we're hating each other. We we're a very not healthy family. So we got to learn love each other. Love every Jew. Love every Jew. Doesn't matter if they look different, if they believe different. Love every Jew. You don't have to agree with every Jew. You don't have to like every Jew. You have to love every Jew. Hitler's taught us that. So when Bla1 Pascal and Mark Twain and Berv and everyone listen to the Jewish people, why are they freaking out? Because we didn't have any of the factors that you need to survive and we still survived. Not only did we survive, we thrive. We're doing very well. How does that prove that God wrote the Torah? >> It doesn't. It just proves that Jewish history is crazy. But what does prove that God wrote the Torah would be if those three things were predicted? Because no human being writing a book 2500 years ago would predict that we would be exiled and that we would be few in number and that we would be hated. Why wouldn't they predict that? Cuz no, you don't want that to happen. >> I don't want it that. If that happens, then you're not going to be an eternal nation. Let's just see it together. says in Leviticus, Deuteronomy, many places you're going to be exiled. So, I'm writing a book. We're in the desert 2,500 years ago. Hey guys, we're going to go to the Holy Land. And everyone's like, "Yay! And we're going to mess up so badly that we're going TO ALL BE KICKED OUT. WHY? Why are you saying that? Why are you saying that? What if it doesn't happen, by the way? What if you're not kicked out and your book's false? It's a very weird thing to say. Now, it's weird for two main reasons. Number one, exile was not common. Being conquered, that was common. So, the Romans when they conquered the whole of Europe, they didn't exile the French or the British, they just romanized them. But when they came to Israel, then there was exile. Not there was never a full exile, by the way. There were hundreds of thousands of Jews in Israel. this the least number was in the Ottoman Empire. There were about 5,000 Jews in Israel. So there's always been a presence, but the percentage of Jews in Israel got down to very few.5% of Jews. In in the year 1900 5% of Jews lived in Israel. 25,500 2,000 years ago 100% of Jews lived in. So saying an amazing thing that we're going to get exiled. If I was writing a book, I'd say we're going to get conquered because you do get conquered like the Greeks conquered and they helanized us. I'd never say we get exiled because who would think of us getting exiled? The second problem with being exiled is exile equals extinction. You're very unlikely you're going to survive exile. The 10 northern tribes, which is really nine, by the way, Shiman was in the south. But the nine northern tribes, they were exiled 7:22 by the Assyrians. Where are they now? They're called the lost tribes. very very very very very very difficult to survive exile. So it's unlikely to happen but if it does happen you're unlikely to survive. So this is a negative prediction. No book has negative predictions about your own people. In fact whoever the wrote the Torah was either God or the biggest anti-semite who ever walked the va planet. I'll tell you why. because it's a whole book of how bad the Jewish people are and how much God wants to kill them. No, I'm being serious. You're creating a religion 2,500 years ago. Are you going to say anything bad about yourself? And hi, God wants to kill us. Oh, we did the sin of the golden calf. God wants to kill us now. Oh, we did the sin of the spies. God wants to kill us now. I'm Musha writing a book and then I hit the rock and couldn't go. Why? Why are you It's a whole book of saying how bad the Jewish people are. No other religion has anything bad. No one says anything bad about Buddha or or Jesus or anyone. You just don't say bad things about Muhammad. Why not? The whole Torah is saying Ara messed up. Yets messed up all the mess. Saying bad things about him. No human being writing a Torah makes the foundation of my religion how bad everyone was. It just don't make sense. Extraordinary. You wouldn't expect it to happen. Exile is not common. And inconsistent. If you're exiled, you're not going to be intern eternal. Let's go on to the next one. If the whole of China was exiled, you'd expect them to survive because there billions of them. You have a Chinatown in in London and a Chinatown in New York. You're going to have loads of people. So, I'd say you're going to be exiled, but don't worry, they're going to be loads of you. Do you know why they're going to be loads of you? Well, firstly, let's just see where it says it in Deuteronomy. It says, "You shall remain few in number. Hashem says to to Abraham, you're going to be like the stars in the sky in the sea of sand, but you're going to mess up so badly that you're not going to get that. You're going to remain few in number." Why? It's a strange thing because the Torah says first thing in the Torah is puru, have children. It's a big miz should have loads of children that everyone should have the right amount of children in the right time with the right person healthy good beautiful invite me to the wedding I'll be the rabbi for the wedding dog bear is a good name it's actually a difficult name for most people whatever so the average orthodox family has 6.7 children not exactly sure what 7 of a child is although my son Shimshan was born 3 months early he weighed 2 lb which is about.7 of a child I'd say but he's fine now he's a full child now the average secular family has 1.2 two children. So if you have an ancient nation with a high birthight rate, then you're going to have lots of people. That's how it works. If we grew at the same rate as China who were having one child for most of their history, there would be 400 million Jews today, but they're not. They're still there's always been about 15 million Jews. All always, always, even though we're having lots of children, doesn't make sense. View in number. ancient nation with a high birth rate, large population. Now, looking back on history, I can tell you why there was anti-semitism and people were killed and things, but this is for me an amazing statistic. Since the Holocaust, there hasn't been that much anti-semitism >> until now. Today, we're getting we actually think anti-semitism is a good thing. It is a good thing. It's the way that Hashem says when you are going away, let's smack you back in shape. is making people make aliyah. Yeah. Is is not is not a nice thing, but it's actually a good thing. It's spiritually speaking, it's helping us. So, at the beginning of the Holocaust, there were 17 million Jews. At the end of the Holocaust, 1945, there were 11 million Jews. Since 1945, the world population has grown by 3.5 times, which is an amazing statistic. There are 3.5 times more people on the planet than there were 80 years ago. So if there were 11 million Jews in 1945 and the world population grew 3.5 times, how many Jews should there be now? >> About 39 million. But they're not. They're 15. And we're having more children with than anyone else. Someone wrote a book at least 2,500 years ago saying you're going to remain few in number against all the odds. It don't make sense. Now, we know why. Because 72% of American Jews marry non-Jews. That's not going to be good for your numbers. There's a simulation. It's a negative, extraordinary, and inconsistent. What? Here we go. The next prediction is you're going to be hated. It's basically going to be the worst hatred known to mankind. You're going to be hated. Why are we putting that in our book, by the way? If you get exiled and you're few in number, but everyone loves you, then you could survive. like the the Tibetan people Tibetan people they were exiled but everyone loves the Tibetan people and the Dalai Lama and I lived with them for a long time but whoever wrote the Torah said it's basically going to be the worst hatred known to mankind and completely irrational. Anti-semitism is irrational. What what did we do? We pray and we help the economy. Well, I don't It doesn't make sense. You are genocidal. What do you mean we're genocidal? The Arab population of Israel has increased by about 20 times in the many that's not called genocide. Israel is good at everything apart from genocide. We're like we lead the world in everything. We're not we don't we don't want to kill anyone. But if you see how many Jews are in the Arab countries around how many in Iraq and Iran you know more than anyone nothing can zero. That's called ethnic cleansing. But in Israel the Arab population keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger. Again make how can you call us genocide? It's so weird when Hamas say, "We want to kill every Jew." They say openly, "We are genocidal, but we're called genocide." It's so weird. It's so crazy. Have you ever heard of blood labels? >> Jews use Christian blood to make matzah. >> A Jews don't eat blood. B the matzah would be pink and everything pink matzah. It just don't make sense. Hatred of the Jews has many parallels. is unique in persistence, potency. Basically, Jews are hated wherever they go and whatever they do. If you're rich, they hate us. If you're poor, they hate us. If we assimilate, they hate us. If we stay in our own, they just hate us. Doesn't matter any other hatred. Now, people actually say black people are hated. They're not hated in Africa. Jews are hated wherever they are. It doesn't matter where you are. You're always hated. We're always always going to be hated. It's just irrational. Where's a genetic? I'm just going through it. Negative extraordinary. So basically three strikes and you're out. I've just wrote a book and I said we're going to be around forever and then I took away all the natural factors. I need to be around forever. Why? It's the greatest thing to do. So watch this. If these prophecies come true, there's no natural chance of survival. That's why Mark Twain and Bla1 Pascal and Birdie have ever like how did you survive there and no natural chance of surviving that? And we did survive. That's why our survival is supernatural. I just want you to be very very clear. It's supernatural that there are Jews in this world today. It doesn't make any sense. But someone predicted that. But so let's say he wrote it in his book because I want to scare people. But I don't really want it to happen. I don't want it to happen. I'm just doing it to scare people. What's the problem with that? >> If it doesn't happen, it's false. If it does happen, you're not going to survive. But if it doesn't happen, your book's false cuz you said it's going to happen. So, you put yourself in lose-lose situation. If it happens, you're dead. If it doesn't happen, you're false. You're dead wrong. It's a It's a crazy thing to do. Now, watch this. There are other smallhated people that exist today. For example, gypsies. >> Yes, >> Romani gypsies. They're roaming around. They were also killed in the Holocaust. They're few in number and they're roaming around. So, our question is, what impact, and I'm not saying anything bad about other people, I'm just historically speaking, what impact have they had on the world? Gypsies, what impact have they had on civilization and culture and nothing? I'll tell you why not. Because when you're few in number and hated and displaced, they're very very difficult to have any impact on the world. We even see Australian Aboriginals, they're kicked off their land and they're few in number and not particularly like they they did dig boomerang. If you're few in number and hated, you're not going to impact the world. But whoever wrote the Torah said a crazy thing. you're going to be the greatest nation who ever walked the face of the planet. That's a ludicrous thing to say. You're basically saying you're going to be gypsies. And yet the greatest people, the most impactful people who walk the face of the planet, you're going to be a light unto the nations. Isaiah is says you're going to be a light under. How's that possible? It just doesn't go. It doesn't make any sense. You're probably not going to survive at all. Basically, it's going to be impossible to survive. But if you do survive, you'll be a gypsy. No, no, don't worry. You'll survive and you'll be the greatest people ever. Winston Churchill. Some people like the Jews, some people do not. But no thoughtful man can doubt the fact that they're beyond all question the most formidable and most remarkable race which has ever appeared in the world. And he didn't like the Jews so much, Winston. But he's looking at the Jewish people. It doesn't make sense. John Adams, I'll insist the Hebrews have contributed more to civilized men than any other nation. They're the most glorious nation that ever inhabited this earth. They've given religion to threequarters of the globe have influenced the affairs of mankind more and more than any other nation. Everyone admits even if they hate us, they have to admit that we've done more for the every area of life than any other nation on the face of the planet. So I worked out there are three main things that make you a light unto the nations. Morality, spirituality, civilization, technology. Morality comes from the Torah. Before the Torah, there wasn't saddaka. There wasn't education for every echelon of society. There was no taking away power from the king. If I was if I was Mushe writing a book, I'd say I'm the man. Don't mess with me. And my son is the next man. You don't hear about Musha's sons. Where did they go? You don't hear about them. He actually takes away power from the king. What human being writing a book takes away power from the king? Hum. Morality comes from the Torah as we know it today. Spirituality comes from the Torah. One God. We made that up. Made that up. It was all pagan and all crazy. There used to be gladiators and crazy. Put lions in with Christian. Some crazy stuff going on there. And civilization technology. I'm going to play you this video quickly. >> How do you define being a light unto the nations? Cuz some people say that's a very vague prophecy. You're going to be the greatest nation. Well, what do you mean by greatest nation? So what does that mean to be great? So I say there are three or four. But there are three main factors that I would say make someone great. That they bring morality to the world, spirituality to the world, and technology that what other what else could it be? How else would you define a great nation? I've had a very positive impact on the world. That makes you great. Positive impact on the world. So, let's play this video quickly. I might play it a bit quicker. One point. >> There's the volume here. >> Israel is the 100th smallest country on the globe and has about 1,000 of the world's population. It's only 70 years old, smaller than New Jersey, surrounded by enemies, under constant threat of survival. has few natural resources and yet Israel is the only country in history to revive an unspoken language. Since it found Israel has won the second highest number of Nobel prizes per capita. Although the Jewish people are only 0.2% of the world population, Jews have received 22% of Nobel prizes, constituting an inexplicable 11,250% above the statistical probability. Israel is the only country that entered the 21st century with a net gain in its number of trees. Even more remarkable in an area Over 90% of Israeli homes use solar energy for hot water, the highest percentage of any country. Israeli companies are building the largest solar energy production facility in the world. Israel operates the world's largest desalination plant and is the number one country providing usable water from seawater. Israel scientific research institutions are ranked third in the world and ran two in space sciences. Medical patents and has revolutionized modern medicine. Oregon is changing the diabetes therapeutic paradigm by delivering insulin in a pill. We walk exoskeleton allows powerful legions to walk or cam allows blind people to virtually see. Israel has more patents registered in the US than Russia, India and China combined who have 300 times Israel's population work, print, drive, read, eat, drink, talk, exercise and even play. Israel is the only liberal democracy in the Middle East and its third largest party is often the Arab party. Israel is providing humanitary aid and services to over countries. Even some refused to recognize it like Syria and Israel is the third most educated country in the world according to the OECD. The world's second highest number of new books per capita. Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship among women in the world. And in 1969, Israel elected Goldman, the second female head of state in modern history. In proportion to its population, Israel has the largest number of high-tech startup companies in the world. In absolute numbers, Israel has more startups than any other country except the US and China. Israel is the only country whose indigenous population returned to its native land after 2,000 years of forced exile. There are 26 official Muslim states in the world and 18 official Christian states, but there is only one Jewish state, Israel. >> Yeah. Ah, this is the video I actually showed Floyd Money Mayweather and he became a big supporter of Israel after that when the war broke out the next year. He sent lots of money. So he actually I said to him when we were further apart you're going to be remembered as a great fighter but will you be remembered as a great man? And what does it mean to be a great man is to impact the world. And then he did. Now he's actually helping and he really did a lot for Israel and he visited orphans of soldiers and he so he flipped a car Floyd. He's now 50 for one. But there we go. This is the next one. Number six. And this is my favorite one. Everything I told you so far is extraordinary, not normal. This is super natural or supernatural. This is called the fertile crescent. Fertile crescent Mesopotamia. It's the cradle of civilization because of this is where agriculture really started in the world. So we see that Israel was basically very fertile and lush. This written 2,000 years ago by Josephus says, "The whole area is excellent for crops, pastrid rich in trees of every kind, so that by its fertility it invites even those least inclined to work on the land. In fact, every inch of it has been cultivated by the inhabitants. Not not a parcel goes to waste. It's thickly covered with towns and thanks to the natural abundance of the soil, the many villages are so densely populated that the smallest of them has more than 15,000 inhabitants. We know for a fact 2,000 years ago Israel was a very lush agriculturally amazing country. Still had the negv that we had some desert in the south but in general the country was when we came back to Israel starting really in 1890 we started coming back the first aliyah it was a complete desert. It was a swamp and a desert. How and when did the land of Israel go from being the fertile crescent into a swamp in a desert? How is it that the other nations who lived here couldn't establish any real true civilization here? You don't see uh ruins of Ottoman Empire in Israel. You see it in other places. You don't see many ruins of the Roman Empire in Israel. You see some quesaria as a bit. You see some crusader castles. You see there is a little bit but very very little. Baantine churches. You see a bit but really over the 2,000 years from when we got exiled the land didn't do very well. There was a little peak in the baantine period the 4th to the 6th century. It picked up. There was wine production and there were pilgrimages. So there was a little some people say that's when the yusheli talmud was being written to help but we've seen from when the Jews left the land basically agricultural production went down and down and down until it turned into a desert and then from when we came back to the land 1948 up and up and up and up and up and up and we're exporting millions of dollars of produce around the world. So it seems that the agricultural produce of the land is intimately tied with Jewish presence in the land. This is an amazing thing. Whoever wrote the Torah 2,500 years ago when the land was fertile made a crazy claim. This is supernatural. So devastated will I leave the land that your enemies who live there will be astonished. Your land will remain desolate and your cities in ruins. It will remain desolate all the days you're in the land of your enemies. How's it? What are you talking about? You just made a supernatural prediction. You just said when the Jews leave the land, then no one else will really be able to establish any great. We have the Romans, the Baantines. They did okay to be honest. They had a little peak in there, but they wiped out pretty quickly. They're not great baantine ruins all over the land. And then the Ottomans complete desert. The Ottoman Empire complete desert until there were only 5,000 Jews until we came back. >> Pardon? >> Oh, I don't know. Squares. I don't know. It's a special sign from God. I don't know how to. So, here we go. Romans, Baantine, Ottoman. So some people said to me, you know what, they just didn't care about the land. They didn't really try to make it good. And this is not true. Firstly, because they were Christian and Muslim, so they do care about the land. And secondly, the land is the land is the land bridge between Africa and Asia. It's very important for trade. So no one could establish any great civilization over a long period here. That's a crazy thing. But it becomes very important when you see the final prophecy. Pro final prophecy says this. Basically, you're going to come back to the land everyone. You're going to be exiled from the land. You're going to be exiled from the land and you're going to be few in number and you're going to be hated. But don't worry, you're not going to die. But not only are you not going to die, you're going to be the greatest nation. You're going to impact the world. Even though you're outside your land and few in number and persecuted, you're going to be the greatest people and you're going to come back to your land. Now, we got a problem with coming back to the land because if you have a nation that's established in the land, very well established in the land, you're very hard to come back. You can't just walk into England or France and just take over the land. You can't do that. But it says, don't worry because no one's going to establish anything in the land. 1890 the population of Israel was 800 400,000 people and you might think that sounds a lot but there are over 800,000 people in Jerusalem today so basically there was no one there was no one on the land very side point I'm not into politics though in 1948 when Israel declared independence not one inch of Arab land was taken not one family was kicked kicked out of a home. We had settled in areas where there was no there's no occupied anything. That's a very important fact for you to know. By the way, we didn't come and kick people out. Then there was a war. They started a war that day and they started fighting. So after the war, so we built a buffer zone. But if you start a war, that's what happens in war. Don't start a war. Important. Oh, what's he doing here? Forgot about this. It's an it's amazing to see what Israel has become over the last several decades. To have scratched out of a rock this incredibly vibrant, incredibly successful, wealthy, and powerful country is a testament to the fact that God wrote the Torah and loves the Jewish people. Let's do this very quickly. I want to have a break. There is facts. Let's just hit the facts. I have a text which is at least 2,500 years old. I think it's 3,338 years old. Not big difference. 800 years. It's not a huge difference. I have a text, seven predictions. There are seven predictions. There's not eight. There's not nine. There are seven predictions. They're all extraordinary. No human being would think to write it in their book. There's no reason. You don't gain anything to write in your book. And it's probably going to prove your book false because they can't happen. They're mutually inconsistent. If I'm exiled for you in number and hated, I'm not going to be surviving. But even if I do survive, I'll be gypsy. I won't be a light unto the nations. So it doesn't none of it makes any sense. It doesn't work. One of them supernatural which predict a unique and supernatural future for Jewish people. Each and every one of them came true. So now you have to ask yourself based on that is it more likely that a hu I don't think this is 100%. I don't think anyone thinks 100%. But based on that does it make any sense that a human being writing a book 2,500 years ago would say those things and then they all came true. That's impossible. It's impossible. Which shows me very, very, very clearly that a human being didn't write that book. Oh, fine. We're going to have a break. What's the time? >> 12:30. >> Wow. You guys came late. Not my fault. Let's have five minutes of questions, then we're going to have a 10-minute break. You can buy my books. Anyone else who has more questions should just come and ask me your more questions. Are there any immediate questions? Yes, please. >> Pardon? >> Means that God put some things into the Torah to prove that he wrote the Torah. >> Fins. Therefore, this Torah doesn't need to write >> scales >> because it's saying when it says scales and fins and then it repeats the puk. By the way, it says and I'll show you. Whoa. We're going back in time. Among all the creatures in the world, you may eat these. Anything in the waters that has fins and scales, those you may eat. Yeah. Whether in the waters and sea, the next p says, but any creatures that do not have fins and scales, whether in the seas or the rivers among the creation, that you can't eat. What did the second p teach me that I didn't know in the first p? Nothing. So, it says all the repetition is to make you be aware that this is saying that God wrote the Torah. That's why the Mishna says this shows that there's nothing without with that scales benefit. >> Do you want to learn the kamura together? >> Let's learn the Yeah. So let's learn it together. Come to yeshiva three months. Any other? Yes. >> Two different questions. Extraordinary >> seven extraordinary predictions. Number one, we are going to be an eternal nation. Very unlikely to happen. We see no Canaanites, Moabites in the world. Number two, we're going to be exiled from our land. Very unlikely to happen because exile wasn't common then. Number three, we're going to be few in number. Very unlikely because we're having 6.7 children. By the way, now there used to be.5% of Jews in Israel in 1900. Now there's 50% of Jews live in Israel. And when you all make aliyah next year and have 6.7 children, then there'll be more. Number four, we're going to be persecuted. But the most universal, irrational, crazy persecution. Number five, we're going to be a light unto the nations. That's very unlikely. If you're gypsy, how are you going to be a light unto nations? Number six, the land only responds to you. When you're in the land, the land will be fertile. When you're not in the land, the land will not be fertile. Number seven, you're going to return to your land. You're going to be the only nation who ever survived exile. But not only will you survive exile, you'll come back to your land. How many Jews spoke Hebrew a 100 years ago? >> No one. No one on the face of the planet Arabic. >> Spoke Aramaic and Arabic. And >> I'm just I'm just saying Jews didn't speak Hebrew 100 years ago. It's the only revived language on the face of the planet. It's the only lang. Now you got 8 million people. That's their first language in India and another 8 million people in Israel. That's a that was a joke. Okay, let's have a 10-minute break. Shalom. Okay, everyone sit up straight. Breathe through your nose. Loosen your neck and shoulders. Smile. I just want to point out there are two very separate things. One is Judaism which is all about emotions and spirituality and the other is the reason for believing it in the first place. So what we're doing today is just the foundations of my belief have to be rational. But my Judaism is emotional and spiritual. They're very separate things. So I love to give classes about how beautiful is and what Hashem is and amazing things. Today is not about that. Today is just how do we know that it's true? Very philosophical, very logical, not emotional at all, not spiritual at all. So when people say how did you go from being a Buddhist monk into being a a orthodox Jew? If the answer was I came to the cottel and I started crying it's not a powerful answer because people come to the cottail and they feel Jesus whatever it is. So the only answer to the question how do you know it's right is logic logic logic logic evidence evidence evidence evidence but everything else I teach is all the emotional spiritual stuff which is very important. Okay, I'm not going to use this. Although, how's my throat? Okay, we just had Shabawat. Shabat. And Shabat, we don't commemorate things in Judaism. We tap back into the energy. But basically we believe that 3,338 years ago God revealed himself at Mount Si and spoke to the whole nation. 600,000 men plus women and children about 2 million people. That's what Judaism says. And it's an amazing claim. What other religion makes that claim? By the way, >> no other religion makes that claim. It's a unique claim amongst world religions. If we very quickly look at other religions, how do religions get started in general? Christianity, Paul has a vision on the road to Damascus and the whole of Christianity basically gets started from Paul. How does Islam start? Muhammad Muhammad has a revelation the angel Gabriel for 27 years. Angel Gabriel basically speaks to Muhammad and Muhammad says this is what I learned. What else do we have? Seekism Guru Nanak Gurun Nanak he had a revelation and he shared it and he said this is what God said to me and everyone said wow that's amazing and very spiritual it makes me feel good. Mormon, Joseph Smith, he had a revelation and he shared it and he found the golden tablets and all the stuff. And I think you might see a pattern here. Every religion starts with one person. Buddhism, Buddha reached enlightenment and then taught the path to enlightenment. Every religion starts with one person and that one person says, "I got enlightened. I heard God speak. This is what he told me. Follow me. And everyone says, "That's great. I'll do that." There's >> Paul. >> Paul. His real name was Saul. He was a Jew. Turned into Paul. Not going to give a whole class on the history of Christianity right now. But Claude will tell you about it. >> So, One religion says, "No, God didn't speak to Moses and then Moses said this is what God said or God spoke to every single person, the whole nation." Now, which of those claims is a stronger claim? >> God spoke to me or God spoke to all of us? God spoke to all of us is a very, very strong claim. Hashem Wow. Did you hear that as well? And sometimes you just hear Hashem. Let's say there's a king and he has three sons and they're triplets and we don't know who's older. Son ABC, BC. And the king dies and and the sons are now arguing who should be the new king. And the whole nation starts arguing who should be the new king. A should be the new king. B, you see C, they're all say I should be the new king. And then one morning A comes down and says, "Our father appeared to me in a dream and he says that I'm the new king." Is that good evidence? >> No. Could he get away with it? >> Yeah, why not? He's very charismatic. Our father came to me and dream is amazing and he looked like this and everyone's like, "Wow, he came to me in the dream. You must be the new king." But it's no evidence because he just came to you. If the father could come to someone in a dream, who should he come to? >> Come to the other two at least come to all three of them, but come to the whole nation. Every the whole nation woke up in the morning saying, "Wow, the former king came to us and said that a is the new king. That's really good." So there's only one religion that actually has a very very very strong claim that it's even making of how the religious death is. There's a very very strong claim. So our question is the first question is it's a much stronger claim. Why doesn't any other religion start their religion with this claim? Once again, I want to try and play the game that there is no God. Someone's making up a religion. I'm just making up my religion. So, I'm going to start my religion by saying that God spoke to a whole nation. That's how I start my every other religion starts. God spoke to me or I got enlightened. That's how religion start. Someone 2,500 years ago at least says I'm going to start my religion by saying the whole nation all heard God speak. >> You need everyone else to >> Why didn't any other nation do that? If Jews did it, then it can be done. So why didn't anyone do that? That's a very strong question. >> So the answer is, and I'm going to show you how this works, that you can't make up that if it didn't happen. It's impossible to make it up. At what point in history do you suddenly say, "Hey, everyone heard God speak." How do you get that belief into a nation? I'm trying to get a belief into a nation that there was a mass national event. Where do I do that? At what point do we wake up in the morning? How do I make that begin? It's easy to say I heard God speak. Listen to me. Very, very difficult to say we all heard God speak. >> You can say 200 years ago there. >> We can say a billion years ago. We're gonna I'm going to show you the timeline and then I'll answer all your questions at the end if you have any. I'm not sure you will. Here we go. How did this belief begin? There are only two possibilities. Either it actually happened. So that's why we all believe it. It actually happened. Or it didn't happen. Someone somehow in time in history managed to persuade the whole nation that everyone heard God's speak. Those are the only two options here. Either did happen or it didn't happen. If it did happen, that's how it started. If it didn't happen, our question is at some point someone in history or a group of people in history persuaded a whole nation that a whole nation heard God speak. It's already feeling a bit strange to me. How how can you do that? So, I'm going to play out every single scenario and see how we can do it. First scenario, one person convinces a whole nation that you all heard God speak straight. It's a it's a immediate event where the whole nation believes. The other possibility is it didn't happen like that. It was a legend. It builds slowly over time. So only a few people believe it or or I say a few people heard God speak and then by 200 years later it's just built into this bigger thing and a bigger thing and and more and more more people and then at some point everyone starts believing. Those are the two ways I think it could happen. So let's go through those possibilities. Getting away with the lie. There's something called the present lie. The present lie is like this. We're a nation and we might have some traditions and we keep kosher for no reason. It's a bit weird, but we have some traditions. And then I come down or I start in my religion and I come out and I say, "You all heard God speak." Muhammad didn't do that. Muhammad said, "I heard Gabriel." Joseph Smith didn't do that. I heard God. Guru Nanak didn't do that. He said, "I heard." the first way. You all heard God. You're my nation. You all heard God speak. Can I get away with that? >> No. Because he didn't. You can't persuade a whole nation of something didn't happen. Now, there's something called the Apple White theorem. This is very disgusting. But there was a sect called, just forgotten what it's called. Doesn't matter for now. There was a saint set up by Marshall Appleweight in the 70s 80s in Texas and he basically persuaded people to kill themselves. The heaven's gate. There you go. The heaven's gate sec. He said, "You got to kill yourself in order to get onto the spaceship. There's a spaceship that's going to come to take us to heaven. In order to get onto the spaceship, you have to kill yourself." And they did. And it was proved that they were quite intelligent people. So you can persuade people of crazy crazy things and they'll do it. But Apple White theorem says you can persuade people if there's no evidence either way. But you can't persuade people against the evidence. You can't say the the spaceship that brought your mother to Earth is coming. Kill yourself. Because you just call up your mother and say, "I didn't realize you came to Earth on a spaceship." At which point she'd freak out. Get away from there. So, I didn't tell you as part of my story that I walked across a tight rope in Korea across a a waterfall, the tallest tallest waterfall in Korea. I walked across a tight rope cuz I got a black belt in Tawwondo and it was amazing. I didn't tell you that. By the way, do you believe me? You did, didn't you? You did. How about this? You all walked across a tight rope in Korea. You can't persuade people of something that didn't happen. Okay? By the way, I didn't either. It was not true. But I'm charismatic. I could persuade you. You did ask me why is it not in my book, but I can put everything in the book. So, here we go. Present lie can't work. You can't persuade a whole nation that they all heard God speak. So, what you have to do is something called the past lie. You didn't hear God speak. Of course, you didn't hear God speak. I just come to inform you that all of your ancestors heard God speak. The whole nation stood at Mount Si. We're now in the Middle East 2,500 years ago. We're the nation. I'm your king, Moshe D. And I come one day and I say, "By the way, everyone, all of our ancestors heard God speak at Mount Si." So, I'm not trying to persuade you that you heard God speak because no one would believe that. But I say to you, you didn't hear God speak. All of our ancestors, two million people, st stood at Mount Si and heard God speak. Could I get away with that? >> Yes. >> No. Why do the people who say no say no? >> Why is this the first we've heard of it? Don't you think if the most significant thing that ever happened on the face of the planet happened, we might have heard of this before? I'm speaking to grandparents and children and and grandchildren and great-grandchildren. No one ever heard the idea that God spoke to the whole nation. They'd just say to me, "What are you talking about? Why did we never hear this? At what point in history do I put in the idea that the whole nation heard God speak suddenly and no one ever heard of it? And the book itself said tell this story in every generation. The book it says you have to this is a very important thing. We left Egypt and with the sea split. We left Egypt and the sea split and God gave us the Torah of Mount Si. There we go. So why didn't we hear about it before? So, I can't tell you that you heard God speak. I also can't tell you that your ancestors heard God speak. How do I get you to believe that? So, biblical critics say there's something called the gap theory. Oop, told you that. Oh, yeah. Why didn't I Why didn't I hear about this before? So, there's something called the gap theory. The gap theory goes like this. The reason you didn't hear about this before is actually because the whole nation got wiped out. there was a catastrophe. So God spoke to the whole Jewish people and we're in the desert, but then there was a meteor or there was an earthquake and the whole nation got wiped out. And now I've come back. My name is Dove Bear and I've come back and I'm restarting the the tradition and I found the book. That's why you didn't hear about it before. Could I get away with that? >> Yeah. >> No. Why couldn't I get away with that? Three reasons, please. >> Heard about the catastrophe. >> But it could. We would have heard about the catastrophe. What's the catastrophe? I'd be telling my children at Pesak that we left Egypt, we crossed the sea, we received the Torah, then we all died, and then one guy came and brought the Torah back. I don't say that to my children. We have no catastrophe in our story. So, there's no way the religion could have started with someone saying that there was a catastrophe because it would be in our story. There's an even more fundamental reason that this couldn't work. >> All everybody died in the desert. >> All the men died in the desert. >> Not everybody died in the desert. Lots of men died. >> Anyone who was under 20 didn't in it. There was a whole nation went into Israel. No, but he's saying that everyone died. You didn't hear about it before. Now there's a more fundamental answer to my question. Where's the proof evidence? >> If everyone died, who are we? >> If all of our ancestors died there, how where did the nation come from? Just a ridiculous thing to say. And the third problem with this is who is that man? He'd be really famous. You know who Abraham is. You know who everyone is. Who is that guy? If there guy some guy came and restarted Judaism. I give you a whole class on Ezra by the way if anyone's thinking about Ezra. But I know that guy. So there are three main problems with the gap theory. Number one, how we alive. Number two, no catastrophe. And number three, who's who's the story? Good. So I can't persuade the whole nation that they all heard God speak. And I can't persuade the whole nation that all their ancestors heard God speak. So we know that it was not started in one go with one nation. So now let's look at the building slowly option. Building slowly option. So what happened was this. There are a few families. So there are five families and we all get together and we say let's raise our children believing that God spoke to the whole nation. So we got five families and they have five children each. Second generation 25 children. We send them to school and we say we all heard our whole nation heard God speak. And they're like amazing. And they have a festival pes or whatever. And then those families get married somehow. And then they have five children each which is 125 children. Third generation 125 children believe that the whole nation heard God speak. Next generation whatever it is. fourth generation, you got 625 people who now believe that two million of their ancestors heard God speak and then it builds up slowly and eventually you got a million people who all believe that God spoke. >> Does that work? >> No. Why not? >> It's like families. You're saying it's millions of people. >> Beautiful. The question is after you got three generations and you got 600 people who all believe that two million people heard God speak, some point someone would say, "Hold on. If two million people of our ancestors heard God speak, why are there only 600 of us now?" At which point you say, "Well, there was a catastrophe and they all died." And you're like, "Oh, there's no catastrophe in our story." So, you can't build it up slowly. It doesn't work. >> Just kill that one guy. >> Which one guy? guy saying what do you kill him and then >> no but people don't like people killing people anyway what we're going to do now is we're going to play a game we're going to play a game but I want you to say that opinion you're going to talk to the person next to you and you're going to come up with any natural explanation how you could start a religion with the claim that millions of people heard God speak any come up with any any natural way to do it. If you were starting a religion now, how could you start a religion with this claim? Go. I'm giving you three minutes. >> So, your one's fair. Say you kill that guy. You what? Whatever. >> What? Do you need to be picked up tomorrow? >> Tomorrow. >> What time do you need to be picked up at Tina? >> I start teaching at 8:30 at Great. >> I thought 10:30. >> No, that's the after party. >> Oh, I'm teaching for 2 hours 8:30 to 10:30 to educators. >> Okay. So, I can't come to them. >> You can't come to the cure of training seminar, >> right? >> But I need to be in Great Neck at 8:30. So, what time do I need to leave T-neck to get there? I'll I'll text you after, but just be on the lookout because I know 102 people are probably texting you. But I'll see if I can make that work. >> That'd be awesome. >> Yeah, >> it would save them the Uber fee. >> You could maybe you could charge them. I'll say that you are the Uber guy. >> What? Yeah, maybe. Yeah. >> Tomorrow. Yes. >> Goes historically from all the way from ab >> unbroken chain. Okay. >> Okay. I am the Lord your God. >> Okay, I'm going to give you my natural explanations that I came up with. If you get any extra ones, let me know. It started as a small event and got embellished over time. We kind of went through that one, but fine. A dictator forced people to believe. I'm going to for you have to believe this. If you don't believe this, I'm going to kill you all and you're going to burn in hell. And if you do believe it, I'm going to give you hospitals and schools. Not mentioning any other religions. I got hypnotized and brainwashed to believe. Someone just hypnotized the whole nation. You've seen those hypnotist shows where they make people be chickens and stuff. >> Joint mushroom. They they were slaves. They were hungry. They were in the desert. They came across these mushrooms. They ate the mushrooms and they all had this joint mushroom trip. I taught a yeshiva group and to prove that it couldn't work, I gave them all mushrooms and they didn't have the same trip. It just didn't work. And everyone, it was just didn't work. Three million people got together agreed to tell a mass lie. >> This is the best one. Someone convinced the nations that the thunder and the earthquake was God speaking to them. So there was there was thunder and lightning and earthquake and I come down and said that was God speaking and this is what he meant. This is what he said. That's a good one by the way. That's the best one. I thought of that on my walk through Israel. That's a very powerful one. >> But I like this one a lot. It's hard to get away with because it said, "And these are the words he said to you." But maybe I could just say I'm translating from God into human. This is a good one. If you're a sitter with >> butter >> mushrooms with >> mushrooms with that Chris >> we added this belief to an already existing religion with it very hard to do it because we have an unbroken chain from Mashia and we had prophets all the time some people like to say Ezra when we came back into the land of Israel after the destruction of the first temple lots of Jews weren't keeping the Torah and then say Ezra and basically made it up and could get away with it. Doesn't make sense because there was always a remnant of I think there was about 7,000 prophets and people who were keeping it and Modi was but people like to say Ezra and Yoshi who found a Torah scroll. There's all that you can look into but whatever someone at some point added it into the religion. Are there any other ones? >> Pardon? >> Ancient alien. >> Ancient alien. Yeah, aliens came and gave us this book. I people say that often and I always think to myself, so why didn't they say worship the aliens or anything about aliens? Why did they say? It's just a weird book for an alien to write. It's a weird book for anyone to write, but definitely Okay. Any other any possible natural? Good. Yeah, >> you can try to perform a miracle. >> I like that magic trick. That's a magic tr miracle. We believe in miracle. I believe in miracles. We believe in miracles. Or echo chamber in the desert. I am the Lord your God. Like wizard of Oz something. Okay. That's going to be on my next thing. It's going to be there. >> Yes. >> Um I said that we always say our souls left our body. So you could say like when your soul left your body, you forgot but it happened. >> When your soul left your body, you forgot. But it have I convinced you that it happened. Okay, great. So, if this is true, we have two questions. Once you've just shown me that it could be done in a natural way, it could be done. Question number one, why didn't anyone else do it? It's much more convincing. So, if it could be done, do it. >> This is a quite good question. It's not the bomb question, but this is the question. If you just got away with it in a natural way, you did a magic trick, an echo chamber, what any of these things, why would you make the claim that no one else would actually ever make this claim? How could and why would the people who just got away with it in a natural way claim that it would never happen again? Where does it say that? Let's have a look. We're coming up. We read it recently when you beget children. So Moshe is speaking to the Jewish people on the other side of the Jordan. You're about to go into the land of Israel. And Moshe says to them, "Jewish people, you're going to have children and children's children. You belong in the land and you're going to become corrupt, grave in image, and then you're going to give upset Hashem." This is the time of the the beta mikdash. Then you'll be exiled. You're going to go into the land of Israel and then you're going to mess up and you're going to be exiled and you'll remain few in number amongst the nations when you're distressed and all these things happen to you in the end of days. Really, we're going to the So, Moshe is now addressing the Jews at the end of days. You're going to be at the end you're going to be in the year 2026 is it's going to happen. Then you'll return now. You start doing cha for ask now regarding the early days that were before you and since the day that God created the man on earth from one end of the heavens to the other whether there was anything like this great thing was it ever heard did ever a people hear God's voice speaking out of the midst of the fire as you heard and live no one's ever going to make this claim go to the end of days even go to the year 2026 and Ask everyone on the face of the planet. Did your whole nation hear God speak? Did God speak to your whole nation? How did your religious start? No one on the face of the planet will say yes. What do you mean? You just got away with it. You just hypnotize them. You know it can be done. You know it can be done. You just did it. You know it can be done. So what do you gain by saying no one will ever even claim it will be done again? No one's even going to make the claim. If I was if I was Muhammad and I wanted to disprove Judaism having read the Torah, I'd just make the claim again and say, "Ah, see, I did it." It doesn't even need to have happened because we said the original one didn't happen. So Muhammad could have just come along and said somehow, however we did it, hypnotism, dictator, mushroom trip, small overtime, he could have just done it and then said, "Look, we did." So you don't gain anything by writing in your book. You didn't gain, but you risked your whole book because if someone comes and does exactly what you did and know could be done, then your book's false. Don't make this. This is a a stupid claim to make because if you know it can be done, then it can be done. So don't say it's not going to be done. Why doesn't any other religion have this much stronger claim as their revelation narrative? Because you can't get away with it if it didn't happen. There no way you can make up that a whole nation heard God speak if they didn't. We've just been through everything. You can't say you heard it. You can't say your ancestors heard it. You can't build it up slowly. You can't say you got there. No way you can get away with it if it didn't happen. So, we know it must have happened. How could the author of the Torah guarantee that no other nation would experience a national revelation? How could the author of the Torah, if he was human, guarantee it wouldn't have wouldn't even make the claim that it happened again? It means that the author of the Torah was God. And God says, "I'm not going to reveal myself to any other nation ever again." That makes sense to me. He must have known that he'd never reveal himself to our nation again. Oh, that's how you can. Are there any questions? We only managed to do three, but I got more. There's more. Pi in the first verse of the Torah. Pi in the first verse of the Torah is mind-blowing. The Torah codes is mind-blowing. The Purim fest is mind-blowing. Go to this. Go to are you right.org. >> That's a question. >> Okay. evidence of the Germans. They constantly >> Oh, we know. We know now. If you teach people free Palestine and genocide, they believe it. You know, that's not But what's that saying? >> No. So, let's put that in the natural explanation thing. >> Great. So, I did that. So, why did I then say no one else will repeat it until convince people? That's the whole point. Whatever natural whatever natural explanation you come up with, I'll say, "Okay, so don't say it won't happen again because you know it can be done." And in fact, the more easy your explanation is, the stronger this question is because if it's easy to do, then other people can do it. And why would you say if you got away with it easily, then you're not going to say no one else is going to do it because you know it can be done easily. >> Why? Why hashem allow these other religions to come into the world instead of >> people have free will? >> Why do they believe they're they're baloney in comparison to >> well who else believes that God spoke to the whole Jewish nation at Mount Si >> Christians and Muslim they also believe it. They just say you messed up for power. They wanted power. >> But still why do they >> why did Hashem let that happen? Hashem lets you have free will. You can do what you like. >> But they see that we're surviving and all are going on. So how come they're not waking up? >> Because they're very stuck in their this is my imuna. This is my faith. This is my belief. >> I want to be right. I want to be true. See, but we're meant to bring everyone with us. We're not me. We don't not like people. We're meant to be a light unto the nations. And the temple may be built soon in our days. >> It's for everyone. It's not for the Jewish people only. It's for everyone. Everyone's going to come and pray. It's going to happen quite soon. It's the end of days. So, I've actually got tickets for everyone to come to Israel with me on Wednesday and pack up. Let's go. It's time. Yes. >> I'm sorry. >> Oh, do you want me to do it very quickly? >> As in 3.14. >> You know what? How could everyone hear the Could everyone hear the the this well enough? I'll just And you can do it quickly here. >> Billions of people around the world believe Jewish Torah is divine. Christians and Muslims alike. Do recent mathematical discoveries linking the constant pi to the first verse of Torah in its original Hebrew language support the claim that Torah is divine? For yourself. The constant pi plays an important role in both math and the sciences. According to documented history from different cultures and societies around the world, the most anyone knew 2,000 years ago about pi was less than five digits and less than 10 digits 1,000 years ago. Torah language does not contain digits. Instead, each letter of the Hebrew alphabet has a numerical value assigned to it in accordance with the sequence of the Hebrew alphabet. Adding up the values of the letters in a word gives us the gantri value of the word. The default numerical value is called regular model. The next value is small which is the same as regular Datria only without zer. Examples of deatria number systems may be found in the Talmud and other Jewish texts. The Hebrew word Torah has a regular value of 611. The first verse of the Hebrew Torah has a regular gamria value of 271. presenting pi's first 611 digits after the decimal point. Adding these 611 seemingly arbitrary digits of pi together, 1 + 4 + 1 + 5 and so on gives 271. The Hebrew word Torah has a small gumria value of 17. The first verse of the Hebrew Torah has a small gamria value of 82. presenting pi's first 17 digits after the decimal point. Remarkably, adding these 17 digits together gives 82. >> Moreover, the consecutive 17 right after the 611 digit add up to 82 yet again. Therefore, the regular and small democracy values of the first verse of the Hebrew Torah, 271 and 82 have a perfect mirror image in pi's decimal digits. Presenting pi's first 82 digits after the decimal point with each digit multiplied by itself or squared. The first 82 decimal digits of pi each squared add up to exactly 2,7001. This is a reflection yet again of the regular and small democracy values of the first verse of Hebrew Torah 271 and 82. The first verse of the Hebrew Torah has seven words and a total of 28 letters. The sum of the first set of decimal digits of pi is 28. Addition. It was discovered that the initials, the first letter of each word of the first words of the Hebrew Torah, have an average value of 3.14. The probability for these matches to occur in a randomly selected book has been calculated by computers and it is virtually impossible to get such matches by random. It is estimated that there are less than 200 million books in the world. This means there are not enough books in the world for such matches to occur in a randomly selected book. As a conservative probability value for such matches to occur in a randomly selected book is 1 to one quadrillion. That is 5 million times the estimated amount of books in the world. These findings are not found in an arbitrary book or a random word sequence. No, these findings are found in the most influential book in the history of mankind, the original Hebrew Bible. Right at the first verse, the first and main statement of the 10 statements by which the creator created the world. Elohim, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth >> in the 1-hour video titled Code of Cre. >> There you go. I could have saved you two and a half hours. Just played that. >> Okay. Thank you, I will see you all next Sunday night on Zoom for my preparing for Russ. Oh, dinosaurs. There's a book called The Science of God by Gerald Shredder. Dinosaurs. He answers that question.