Rabbi Maor Bendel: Maintaining Faith in Our Current Times

Welcome everyone to tonight's very special shure very special event maintaining faith in our current times of course it's a timely topic everyone knows what's going on in the world and we're here to hear that Dizuk words of inspiration of of faith and and trust in these times of course being presented by Kazak I think of course or the shor and of course it's being dedicated by Benamakia memorial foundation um nishmatistam aliyah amen. Of course all the all the all the learning tonight should be a big aliyah and of course we thank the whole family bar and yako. Let's give a round of applause for all of our family for making tonight's special special cheer. And of course um for many many years I don't know if you know how many to count I think I cron said once that uh maybe something something which is like a brah maybe you don't even count it. family should continue being such great leaders and and members of of the community and of continue doing the great work. And of course, it's so great Aliyah Shama. And of course, we know as some might have saw in the seat in the hallway. Kazak is embarking on our um charity campaign this Tuesday and Wednesday. And of course, Kazak is spelled with a QI because it started in Queens. And of course, you know, Kazak is inspiration and and outreach is well beyond Queens and it's really across the country. And of course, everyone should um get involved with with the campaign, send out the link, make a make what whatever you could do, make a donation yourself, get your friends and family to give. Of course, it' be a great sahood to merit for you and your family. And of course, um a word about tonight's special topic. Of course, we're thinking about Iran. We're thinking about Israel. We're thinking about fellow brothers and brothers and sisters all around the world. And a story once I heard from Rabbi Fari said that that that he was going in a in a wagon and this guy was was riding on a horse. This so the guy so the guy said to I'm hungry. He said I'm going to go out. I'm going to go take from the vineyard but if you but if you see somebody who's what who's who's catches me so then tell me so we can go run away. So what happens? He goes out. He's looking around and he's like okay fine. He goes and he takes a cluster of grapes. Um screams out, "He's watching. He's watching." The guy goes, he runs to to the wagon to the horse and it goes away. He said, "I didn't see anyone." They said, "He's watching. He's watching. Hashem is always watching." And of course, we we we we we see that that um that we say we say Adon and then Ai. We see Hashem is always is the master of the entire world. And of course we are we're here to get inspiration to see the current events how we can see them through the Torah's lens. So it's our great great we have the great great honor to have Ari Bendelle speak here every single Monday. Everyone should join us of course every Monday. Maybe not tomorrow because the rabbi is here tonight but every Monday 8:30 you get amazing sushi and of course anything you get the great words from the rabbi. So it's a great great merit. It's all rise for vendelito. Thank you. Thank you Robbie for the beautiful opening remarks. Obviously we all gathered here tonight. I think I saw today that uh my dear friend David was the one hosting the classm with the family. So everywhere we should say should be when Robbie sent me the topic he said we're going to talk about current events. Anyone who knows me I'm not so uh this is not my style of classes. I don't usually talk current events and topics of today. I said, "You know what? I will, for the one time exception, I will talk a little bit uh politics and a little bit current events." Obviously, everybody knows, as Robbie said earlier, there's a war going on in the world. Not a simple one. I know sometimes we get over here a little bit uh I guess we take it a little bit easy that we don't have to wake up in the middle of the night to sirens and that we don't have to live in fear. I don't know if anyone over here was ever in Israel in a time of war. I want to say I was there one time in the summertime and there was a war and every few minutes you get the sirens no matter where you are and said we don't feel it over here as much as they do but it's something that takes a big toll he told me he used to live in he moved to America he moved over here to America I asked him why'd he move to America he said I was afraid for my children so what's going on over there is not something simple but I want you to know that the way we help is over here in America is by being here tonight. Is by coming to these events. The Torah says a thousand to this camp and a th00and to this camp cuz I'll explain a th00and to war and a th00and to the thousand to go learn and go out to go pray. When we come here tonight we gather we help the in the early 1900s there was an earthquake in Japan. It left him 140,000 people in casualties in Japan in the cities of Tokyo and Yokohama. And when it reached the yeshiva in which the was there, he told all of his I want you guys to know that when something like this happens in the world, it's Hashem talking to us. When there are earthquakes, when there are tsunamis, when there are tornadoes in Michigan, right? Where all these things are happening in the world, it's Hashem talking to us that it's time for us to wake up. And if we don't wake up that these same calamities can find their way to us tells his students how much more so when it's directly in our homeland that's talking about somewhere completely other side of the world in Tokyo but when it's in our own land in the own place that we are it's something that we have to learn something that we have to take away from it but today I came and talk to you about what could be the message of all of this what could be really going on in all of this I'm sure at this point everybody already saw the yes right away in the first the says that in the end of days all the nations of the world are going to come before God for a judgment and it singles out Rome and per and and Persia yeah asks why did it single out these two nations every other nation doesn't call them by name says because these two nations will actually continue until it is a mashiach bring I And brings and from there he learns that in the end of days Romy not actual Rome the Roman descendant which is America will go out to war against pass which is modern day. So we see today what is calling the pings of Msiah. You know they have the pings of labor. When a woman enters into labor before she enters into labor she has contraction. She has pains called pings of labor. The call these days are the pains of Mashiach that we feel Mashiach is coming and therefore we have to ready ourselves prepare ourselves for Mashiah and I'm not a Msiah rabbi usually you go to my classes you go back you hear I'm not that guy hey Mashia is coming now I'm not coming now but I'll tell you it's not even us who are saying this not that we need this person's uh proof I don't know what to call him smart idiot whatever you want to call him someone sent me a video today of this guy Tucker uh what's his name Tucker Carlson, Dr. Carlson, he put out a video and saying that all of this war is happening because Kabad wants to build the third mdash. I don't know how we kabad specifically. We're not in here. We also want to bet the mikdashab, >> but he wants he wants to put in. Why? Because known to be very big on the mashia, but we're also big on the mashia. The tells us that one of the questions they're going to ask you, one of the first questions they're going to ask when 20 did he learn from Mashiach. The writes that a person who doesn't believe in Mashiach, he's not only he's not only going against the he's also going against andu the Torah of and you have to believe in Msiah. But Mashiach can be a very very foreign top topic for many of us. What does it mean to believe in Mashiach? What is this Mashiach? When is he going to come? What's going to happen when he comes? All these things are very foreign to us. One of my students came to me and says, "Rabbi, I want to believe. I want to I want to yearn for Mashiach, but I don't know what I'm yearning for. I got to come down on the donkey. I go to the zoo. I'll see if you guys ride a donkey." And that's it. If I say Mashiach, but today I think we lost the point of what Mashiach resembles. Then rides and Mashia is going to come down to the world. Not only we're going to get back the kobanote and all the avod the rest of the nations of the world will not have anyans you'll no longer see pain suffering wars no one in the world will ever touch anything to us but the problem is is that we're so caught up the made us an image in our mind that so many other things are important we forget the main thing it's like a famous mashal that a king one time had a son one son only but only one son and he loved his son very very much. And at the age of 16, his son did a certain thing that almost got the people of the kingdom to revolt against the king. He tells his son, "Listen, do me a favor. Don't ever do that again. If one more time I catch you doing it, I'm I won't have a choice. I'm going to have to throw you out of the house like the Israeli moms back in the day. You're going to misbehave. Your luggage is going to be waiting for you outside." And what happens six months, the kid does it again. The guy, the king says, "Look, I have no choice. if I'm not going to throw him out, they're going to take action against me. He takes his only son, throws him out of the kingdom, throws him to the streets, passes a year, he tells his adviser, "Do me a favor. I want to know what's going on with my son. I want him to come back home. Can you please go out and find my son? Here's a picture of him. Go find him." Great. Guy goes out, thinks the son of a king. Where is he going to be? Huh? Where you going to find him? financial district, West 47th Street, doing mazalitos, selling deals, send him in the finance, accounting. So he takes a picture of the guy, he goes to West 47th Street, he goes to every store, he finds Moshe, but he doesn't find this guy. Says, "Okay, not here. Maybe he's a lawyer." Goes to the lawyers, doesn't find him there. Maybe he's an accountant. Doesn't find him there. He keeps on looking. And as he's driving, he passes by an overpass. And he sees sitting underneath the overpass, a guy with a long beard sitting on the floor a bum. And it looks like the guy in the picture, but it cannot be. Long beard, the son of a king sitting over underneath the underpass. So he says, "Okay, I it looks like him. I have to make sure it's him." He opens the window. He's like, "It's the guy looks." So don't call my name. He goes, "Oh no, don't tell me this is." He goes, "It's the guy comes back." He says, "Yeah." He goes, "I work for your father. Your father told me to come get you and to bring you home." He says, "Oh, speaking of my father in the food pantry over here, every week we go get food. I have a tinfoil tray that I use. There's a hole in it. Can you tell my father to give me a new tinfoil tray?" The guy tells him, "Are you serious? I'm telling you to come back to the kingdom to go back to royalty. You're asking about a tinfoil tray." What does everybody pray for? What does everybody pray for? What's the highest bid in everybody wants to be the guy who opens the day for cuz they want to pray for the year. So what are you praying for? For money. So you know what you like when you pray for money in Jana? It's like you're that kid who's telling the guy, "Oh, by the way, my my dad who's the king, tell him that my tin foil tray has a hole in it to give me more money." But we missed the point. If we're going to pray for Mashia, Mashiah is going to come. Then everything, all the pain stops. There's no more suffering, no more not paying bills, no more bombs in Israel, no more casualties. Everything's gone. But we just don't have that ability. But I want you to know that everything is from Hashem. Everything you see happening in the world today is from Hashem. Someone told me there was a guy who came up with a video. He went into Kiras and then he went into Lakewood. You guys heard about this guy Tyler. He said he went into these two Jewish communities and he what they told me he says I'm not spreading anti-semitism. Between me and you when you make a picture of a aidish guy holding an AK-47 and you say I'm not spreading anti-semitism. I don't know what you're trying to spread. Gav holding AK-47 and what is he spreading into the world? Anti-semitism. Look at the reaction he gets in this video. You guys think it's going to stop over there? You know, my wife told me the other day. She says, I was I was amazed. I was astonished. She goes to me. I one time heard a rabbi saying is that things that you think that the people that you have around you, the non-Jews you have around you, your Italian friends and your this and your that, they're always going to love you. But one day is going to come and they're all going to turn on you cuz there's a promised you no matter how nice they look to you, no matter how much they smile at you, they don't like you. And the first opportunity they get to stab you in the back, they will. And there will come a day. There will come a day where things are only going to get worse, where the antise-semitism is only going to grow and things are going to get more difficult. And my wife told me, I remember feeling like it cannot be. My wife is a public school teacher. She works in a public school, third grade. She tells me, "What do you mean? All my friends in school, they all love me. I'm friends with all of them." And then October 7 happened. And then she realized who really loves and who doesn't really love her. You know how many people woke up that day? You know how many people woke up that day of who really loves the Jews and who doesn't? Who's really on your side or not? You have these guys, dear neighbors, they tell you, "Hello, how you doing? How's everything?" But they could be worse than I'm going tell you now something that I said in the past, but I'll say one more time. If you could pick between two neighbors. Yeah. You can pick between a nice Italian couple, Tony and Marjorie. Or you can pick between Fatima and whatever the wife's name is. Yeah. She comes to you with like, you know, all you see is the eyes and god forbid the nose comes out. The husband take out the caf. Yeah. Makot. Now, which one would you rather have as a neighbor? the Italian guy who's nice to you, comes knocks to your door, hey, welcome to the neighborhood, nice to meet you. Or the other guy who wanted to do with you, huh? He comes out and his wife beater and his shorts and his kafim and his sandals and his wife is all the way out there for team up. Everything is covered, but he can wear wife beater shorts and his sandals. Which one you rather have as a neighbor? So obviously most of you where does your mind go to the nice Italian couple? Which one is more dangerous for you? >> Huh? >> Smile. >> You think Fatima, right? >> Fatima. Ah, >> you just wanted to say Fatima. Fatima. Fatima is more dangerous. No. He said, darling, I thought you smiled. Why? Cuz then you come to his barbecue. What's the big deal? I ordered you kosher food. Come sit. eat, enjoy, and you bring your kids and you guys go to the same barbecue and loenu, fast forward 20 years, your son is marriageable age, his daughter's marriageable age, and next thing you know, your son is bringing the go. Where did it come from? Because they were friends with him. Who causes a bigger threat to you spiritually? Not, not Fatima. She may want to kill you. Maybe one day she'll blow up who knows what. One day you might and that's it. You go to Ganed this guy doesn't want to kill you. He wants to kill you and these people will wake up one day when wake up one day and all of a sudden they go from loving you to hating you. How do I know? Let's go to Mit. Yeah. What happened in Egypt? Ysef is the vice in Egypt. Good. What did the Torah say? And it was a toa. It was repulsive for the Egyptians to eat with the Jews. They couldn't eat with us. They were disgusted from us. AND ALL OF A SUDDEN, tells us as we're leaving Egypt, we found favor in their eyes. Wait a minute. 210 years. You hate me. You enslave me. You can't eat with me. You can't look at me. All of a sudden, they found favor in your eyes. From there, teach who decides who find who who you find favor in their eyes? Who decides who like doesn't like you? only when Hashem decides they're going to like you, they're going to like you. When Hashem decides they're not going to like you, they're not going to like you. And this what writes the writes in the like this he changed their hearts to hate his nation. This is going to be a day when decides the rest of the nation not going to like us anymore. And what's going to happen? Boom. They're going to turn on us in one minute. Why you guys think that the Nazis all a sudden one day woke up and didn't like the Jews? You think that everything was uh one day? A day before they were shopping at supermarkets. A day before they were their accountants. A day before they were their doctors. World War I happened. They had the treaty. All the rep all the reprimandments fell on on on the Germans. They had financial struggles. Who they look to for their pains? Who is their escape? The Jews. When the financial struggle hits, all of a sudden who they look at and us. Why? Cuz they need a lawyer. Who's their lawyer? A Jew. They need a doctor to heal them. Who's a doctor? A Jew. They need a Jew jeweler to buy his wife jewelry. Who is it? A Jew. Everyone is a Jew. His landlord. A Jew. So, look at these Jews. They're all striving. Everything is good with him. And us suffering right away. They drop everything on them. Right away, they drop everything on them. It could happen in a minute. But now is the point. up until that was just was the introduction. Now's the point I came to talk about. There's only one way only one way that was to overcome these times. And what are what is that? Faith. And is the only way to overcome these times and to understand that if we have all these people against us, who's the one who sent them? Who's the one who decreed is going to happen? Across. Hashem decided all these things are happen for what? For us to wake up. For us to take a message. But we have to have the what does look like? What does true look like? Huh? I'll tell you who was the smartest person to ever live. I'll teach. Yeah. Says everyone agrees to this says he was the smartest person to ever live. Great. is writes and this thing was far from my understanding. What was he talking about? We just read this week that is far from my comprehension. I tried with all my wisdom and I couldn't understand it. Understood the whole entire Torah and all of its reasons except for one thing. The smartest person to ever live. And who was Melik? You want to guys know how how smart was? Let me tell you a story. The Midash brings down. Three merchants went traveling. Back in the day when he went traveling, it wasn't like today. You have to go with a horse, camel, buggy. They went traveling and what happened was Shabbat came in. So what did they do? They took all their money. They put it into a bag. They dug up a a hole in the sand. They put the money there. They put a sign. After Shabbat, they're going to come and get it. Right? Some people that they go to the beach, no, they don't want their stuff to get taken. They put in a zip lock. They dig it up and they put a sandal over there. They know where they come back. Good. They put their money in the sand. They do kouch. They take in Shabbat. Everything is beautiful. That night they go to sleep. One guy is looking like this looking and waiting for the other two to fall asleep. As soon as they fall asleep, he jumps up. He goes, he digs out the hole, takes the money, moves it somewhere else, closes up the hole, goes back to sleep. They wake up in the morning. They do. They sing. They dance. They eat. Everything is going beautiful. Then they go take up the money. No money is there. WHAT DO THEY DO? HUH? Where's the money? I don't know what happened. It had to be you. NO, IT HAD TO BE YOU. NO, IT HAD TO BE YOU. WE'RE THE ONLY THREE who knew. It had to be you. They all blaming each other. So what are they going to do? I have to bring a proof. What are they going to go? They go to bed. Who the judge of the time? They come to tell them this is the case. There's no proof. No way to know. know nothing. Sham Miller tells them, "You know what? Come back tomorrow. Come back tomorrow. I'll give you an answer." They go home that night. They come back the next day. Shamal Miller tells them, "By the way, I have an answer for you. Before I give you an answer, you guys are three merchants. Smart guys. You guys are thinking good. Sharp minds. I need your help." What's the help? A king came and asked me a question. I don't know how to answer it. I want to know what you think. What's the question? There was a story of a girl when she was 7 years old, grew up in the same community with a guy, 7 years old. They promised each other they would marry one another. What happened? A year later, the girl's family moved far away. 10 years passed. She gets engaged. Before her engagement, she decides, "What am I going to do? I feel bad. I made a promise to this guy when I was 7 years old. I have to go and get him to forgive me for the promise." She sells all of her belongings. She gets on a horse and she travels far far away to go to this guy and she comes finally knocking on his door after a long travel. She says, "I made you a promise when I was 7 years old that I would only marry you. I'm getting engaged. Here's all this money. Please relinquish me for my promise." The guy tells her, "You came all this way for I promise you maybe when you're 7 years old, God bless you. Not only I don't want the money, I'm wishing you I want mazalto. Everything should be wonderful. You should have only happiness in your life and have a wonderful life. The girl goes on her way. She's happy. She's enjoying. She's on the way home and she gets attacked by an old man, Robert. He holds her down. He wants to have his way with her. And she says, "Stop. Stop. Wait." I says, "What? Wait." She goes, "Let me tell you why I'm here." I never heard the case, but she wants to know why he's here. Okay. What happened? I made a promise TO A GUY WHEN I WAS 7 YEARS OLD. I saw all my belongings and I came to him and he let me go. If him at a young age can let me go, then for sure you at your old age, you can also let me go. Take the money and let me go. The robber was so impressed by the story. This girl traveled so old and stuff. He says, "You know what? Not only I'm going to let you go, you can also have the money." Sham says, "A king came to me and asked me, who's the hero of the story?" H who's the hero of the story? the girl, the boy who gave up on the on the girl or the robber. He came and he asked the merchant, "Who's the hero of the story?" First guy says, "Are you crazy?" It's the girl a promise she made when she was 7 years old. I made many promises in my life. I never went. 7 years old, sell all of her belongings and go. The girl is the hero. The guy tells her, "No, you crazy. The boy is the hero." She came to him, she let him go. No money, nothing. Third guy says, "You guys, you know who the real hero is? the robber. He had the girl and the money and he let both of them go. So says, "A rest arrest that man. Arrest him." They arrest him. So what happened? He says, "I told you a story. The whole time your eye was on the money." The whole time your eye was on the money. And then they arrested him. And as soon as they arrested him, he admitted, "Yeah, it was me. Anyone over here can come with such a parable. Anybody over here overnight could think of such a thing?" Impossible. A man like his wisdom is beyond what we can fathom and one thing he can't understand. Yeah. But who did understand? One person. I don't know. Iran says goes up to learn the whole Torah in 40 days. Anyone over here want to take upon himself a challenge to learn the whole 40 days? I'll give you a check right now. $100 million. You want anyone want right now? Everything by heart. 40 days. Does anyone want have any in the house? Huh? 40 days comes out to 40 days. He's trying to learn cuz I can't do it. Hashem says I'm giving it to you as a present. Among the things he got was the understanding of that means to say the Torah testifies him that he's what he's the most humble person in the world to ever live but not the wisest person to ever live. Who was the wise person to ever live but even still was to reach a higher level than him. You want to know why? Because he understood that Hashem is everything. A person who understands in his life that Hashem is everything then he could be he the highest heights in the world. Why does paradma give us the highest level of purity? Huh? Why does paradum give us the highest level of purity? >> The red heer red cow. >> Red cow. Okay. Red cow that never had an yolk and it didn't have white to white hairs. to black hairs. A very nice story. Go to India. They say they have a few of them over there. I don't know if it's true, but they say, "Okay, red cow. That's what they used to do. They would slaughter the red cow and it would be it would purify the Jewish nation completely. But it gave us the highest level of purity. How did it give us the highest level of purity? What was so special about this red cow? What makes the cow so special? That it's red. So if I paint myself red, I become special. Huh? Tomorrow, next time, next week you guys are coming, I'm going to be red. Once I make what does it make a difference between red and not ready what's so special about the make you that makes you pure >> it was a sign of readiness a state of readiness right that's why we do beforean so be ready but why does it make you to because it's the thing that makes the least amount of sense that get you closest to the thing that makes no sense the person who sprinkles it becomes the person who gets sprinkled on becomes the same thing that makes me pure can make another person impure doesn't make any sense But the thing that makes the least amount of sense to when you when you throw your mind out and say I'm not going according to what I see take the word yeah what does the word mean bad is only what you see but the reality is the tell us in the Hashem never does bad with his nation Hashem will never do bad with us Hashem only does good with But we have to believe it. You know last week we got what did we do right away after? Huh? Teach like a bride who cheated on her husband in the day of can you imagine now gets married. He's over there dancing with the boys and then he goes to the kal room and he finds his wife and his best friend. Hello. What are you doing over here? Mosher Abenu goes up to the Halabat. The Satan shows him a picture of Mosher Abainu on the death bed and they say, "You know what? Let's make a golden calf." Mosherenu comes down. He hears drums. Yeshua Benoon says he was there the whole time in the bottom of the mountain. Drums of war. Mosher tells him, "No, that's music. I hear." He goes over there. He sees them dancing around the dancing. They were dancing and Mosherenu breaks the many different understandings. If why Moshenu broke the many different many different things did he do it on his own? Did Hashem tell him did it become too heavy? Did it lose? But at the end of the day we have to understand you know who broke the you know the tells us that whenever the first broke in what happened? If we would have had the first Torah, we wouldn't have forgot anything. Everything would have been one time you would learn it, you don't forever. Now you have to review a million times. Huh? How many times you have to go through the shoe before you come over here? 100 times. Back in the day, you learn it, you remember it forever. Mashenu breaks it. Why break it? Huh? Why break it? Something beautiful. The midn brings a parable. There was a guy who heard of his wife that she cheated on him and he wanted to go and take her to bed to put her to death. So the shakhan the guy who set him up the matchmaker as soon as he heard about it he ripped up the he took their marriage document and ripped it up. Now she's a single woman. Why? Cuz you can take it to Med she doesn't have the status of a married woman. Says Moshenu as he came down with the Jewish nation are called cheating on Hashem. Hashem said if I rip up the marriage document then it'll save them. So Mosha breaks to save the Jewish nation. Mosheu breaks to in order to save us. But the Torah and why does he say that? Because Tawra can only be accepted from purity of heart. And that's why when we build a Mishkan what does it say? It says over here if I ask you guys let me ask you guys a question. One question. Wisdom comes from where? Your heart or your mind? >> Huh? >> Your wisdom comes from your mind or your heart? >> You ever heard of a person who was a smart heart? You ever heard the concept? Smart heart. >> What is smart heart? Your heart can be smart. It's a thing. Maybe it's like a watch. Smart heart. Look that smart heart. Tua says what mean? Everyone who's wise in their heart. Anyone who's wise of heart will come and do. What does it mean wise of heart? Wisdom doesn't come from the heart. >> And it says about the person with the means when you want it, Hashem will give you the rest. He wanted to he wanted to understand it but he understood that only Hashem could give it to me ever trying to use his own wisdom to get there. When you try to use your own wisdom you're never going to understand the full picture. But when you understand that you will give you everything in front of your eyes everything will open. Right now we're seeing all these current events happening before us. We don't know why they're happening. We don't know why the all this suffering and all these explosions and all these things that are going on around the world that we don't understand why antise-mitism is on the rise. At the end of the day, a person who understands that Hashem is the one who controls the whole entire world and everything he does is for our best, Hashem says this person will always be watched over. This person will always be safe. A person who believes in God, mercy will surround him. What does that mean? What does it mean when a person believes in Hashem, mercy will surround him? that even explained that even if was decreed upon him something bad, Hashem will save him. That's what does he write. Even if something bad was decreed upon a person, he can be he can take away the from him. You know what that means? Clapping. You know what says? You don't know how to pay the month. You don't know how to finish your bills. Clapping. You don't know how what's going to happen with the shid. Things are falling apart. Clapping. Real is not says the what's the the purpose of the purpose of is for you to have. You know what means? Not fear, not anxiety, not depression, happiness, peace, tranquility. The says it's not a lip service. It's something to do with your heart. Some guy goes to situation. Rabbi, I'm struggling right now. You have to believe. Everything is good. What do they tell you? Rabbi, I believe. Rabbi, I believe. You really believe? How do you believe? You tell me you're stressed out. If a person gave you right now $100 million check, how would you feel? $100 million check right now. Under the house, free. Huh? What are you doing? Huh? Dancing, singing. He's the happiest person in the whole entire world. No, Rabbi, I believe. I believe. How you stressed out and worried if you believe? If you think everything Hashem does for you is for your best, then Hashem just gave you $100 million check. How you not singing and dancing? Real Hashem is not your words. I believe, I hear it every day. No, I believe. I believe. I believe. But it's not. You don't say you believe. You show you believe. He writes comes to Hashem. He tells him, "How come we say the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, man for the guys who speak English?" But how come we don't say? Why don't we say King David? Hashem says, "But I tested him. I didn't test you." So Hashem test them with test with what? And he fails. And then he lost opportunity, right? He lost opportunity, right? Comes and tells us, you know who really is the fourth leg of the chari. How did he get there? Over there. It says a song to as he's running away from his son. His son comes to kill him. He's running away from his son. Can you imagine now? Imagine your son is coming to kill you. You're on the way out. YOU'RE RUNNING AWAY FROM YOUR son who's coming to kill you and you're singing a song toem. Oh my your son is coming to kill you. How you singing says how IS HE SINGING HAPPY SONG? IT SHOULD BE A LEMONADE. IT SHOULD be sad. Sit on the floor. How you happy? He said thankful I am to you. If this WAS DECREED UPON ME, YOU GIVE IT FOR my son cuz at least my son will have mercy on me. A person who has a son running after him to kill him. He's going to love his son more. Huh? How's he going to feel about his son that moment? He's going to love him more, love him less, equal, neutral. How's he going to feel about HIS SON? DAVID'S SON is running after him to kill him. And David loves his son even more singing songs to Hashem. That's not it. Who comes to him now? 16th chapter. He comes as throwing stones on him. Can you imagine that guy comes to throne at you throwing rocks at me and calling you know what it means? First of all, it means that he's second of all it means he told him your mother cheated on your father and you're a bastard and David right now where is he? Don't tell me he just came out of a million dollar, hundred million dollar deal. He's happy with Walmart. Everything is great. He's running away from his son who's trying to kill him. This guy, who g says was the head of San, one of the top people of the JEWISH COURT, IS CURSING HIM OUT, THROWING ROCKS AT HIM. And tells him, "Let me kill this dead dog." He says, "No, Hashem told him to curse me." And that was to become the fourth leg, the fourth leg of Hashem's chariot. How did you do that? Because in a time when EVERYTHING LOOKED UPSIDE DOWN, my son is trying to kill me. This guy's cursing me out. He's calling me a bastard. And not only is he's happy, he's singing and he's dancing. Then he was then he married to reach the highest levels with Hashem. You know how you reach the highest levels with Hashem? When you have real. What does real look like? happiness, singing, dancing, not fear, not stress, not anxiety, not worry. That's not real. You can say a million times your mouth. You say 100 times you want. Can sing the song for today and tomorrow. But if you have stress, if you have worries, the not in the heart. You have to be heart smart in your heart. Your heart has to be smart. Has to believe in Hashem. has to believe that everything Hashem does for you is for the best. That's how you show real. Guess what? When you have that happiness, when you believe everything is for your best, Hashem says, "Now what?" Guess what? Everything will be for your best. But when you leave, when you believe everything is for the worst, that's what things go downhill. I'll finish with this story just to show you what the power of real belief can be. When a person believes in something, how far he can go. There was a story of a guy lenu fell into deep debt. $120,000 in debt about almost 50 67 many many years ago. You know how much $150,000 was in that time? Much more than us. $120,000 in debt. He's walking in the street. His head is down. He's stressed out. He's worried. An elderly man comes up to him. He tells him, "I see your face is down. What happened?" He goes to him, "Don't ask. I'm in huge debt right now. I'm struggling. My family, I don't want to finish the bills." He tells him, "If I'm going to write you a check for half a million dollars right now, it's going to help you. If I'm going to give you a loan right now, half a million dollars, you come back in one year and give it back to me. It's going to help you." He goes, "Of course, but how can you write it for me?" He tells him, "I'm Rothchild. I'm from the richest family in the world." No problem. Takes out a checkbook, writes him a check, $500,000, signs a check, Roth child, hand it to the guy, and tells him, "Have a wonderful day. Me back in one year." Guy goes home, has a check in his hand. He's dancing. He's singing. He's the happiest person in the whole entire world. He gets home. He's okay. I'm going to put this check in my safe over here. And when I need it, I'm going to use it. He starts doing an account, starts paying the bills, so a year passes. Not only he gets out of all of his debt, he got to a place where he's even stronger than before and he didn't even cash the check. Says, "Wow, thank God. Let me go back to this guy and go tell him thank He goes back to the same place he met the guy to go tell him thank you. He sees him. He's running to him. SAYS THANK YOU. THANK YOU. HE SEES two nurses running out of the psychiatric ward. Coming to the guy and telling HIM COME BACK IN HERE. COME BACK IN HERE. He says what are you GUYS DOING WITH ROACHI? HE GOES WHAT? Don't tell me he got you also with this roachi with the checks. Every day he comes out of here he's giving people fake checks. This guy's in the looney bin over here in a psychiatric ward. The guy thought he had a check $5 million in the bank and in the end it was nothing. But the belief that he had something he was able to overcome everything. When you believe in something, you have the power to overcome everything. That's when you're believing in something that's fake. When you believe in Hashem something that's real. If you believe Hashem is there for you through everything, then you overcome everything. You reach the highest heights. And specifically the things that make the least amount of sense, that's where the real test is. And how do you show you have? It's not by saying I believe. is by showing you belief with the happiness with the dancing with the with that's how we do it dance in these times and you guys should know the Jewish nation as much as they have all these and everything like that they're not over there sitting down laying low I saw they put out an application they did an interval went to shower weddings in the bomb bunkers they do have all things over there going on the Jewish nation is not afraid of nothing you guys want a You know, the Jewish nation is not afraid. You see them, they're strong. They're going because they believe in and that's where they and you should know just for people who are worried, America and Israel are decimating the Iranians. They're like the kid who's getting beat up on the floor and getting stomped out and he's like, "I'm going to get you guys back, Khabibi. There's no no chance for you." They come on the news, "Our plan is running exactly the way we wanted it to, Khabib. You're getting abused. You have no nazy, you have no air, you have no nothing. Kosbahu is against you and everything you want. No, God is going to get them back. It reminds you of the guy who went up to the stage a few years ago. God is going to get back all those people and he had a heart attack on the stage. >> That's the most these guys over there. Every leader is getting knocked down one by one. The next one is coming in his place. They're going to get them back. Boom. The next day he's dead. They're delus with us. It doesn't make any sense. It makes zero sense how a tiny little blimp of a nation which is 02% of the population of the world can have such influence and such power and such protection. Hashem is with us. We'll get through everything but only with belief and faith in and real faith is not saying I believe. It's showing with our actions, with the dancing, with the singing, with the And that me will get close to man cuz you