Rabbi Maor Bendel | Tu B'Shvat Celebration | CHAZAQ

Okay, welcome everyone to tonight's very special event. I thank of course Asher for organizing the all the music and um of course we thank Barakis and of course the or for everybody. [applause and cheering] >> So so somebody might might be wondering um maybe uh do we forget the calendar is maybe it's not the right day. So it was just of course just a few a few hours ago we had this amazing amazing of uh of of tubish and um somebody some it's a very confusing holiday because most people they don't know they know about rashish everyone knows about they hear hundreds of dr speeches about it maybe tubisha people don't even know what it is maybe they'll just they'll buy a fruit they don't even know what it is and something that he said once is that you would think that that tubish you're celebrating the trees Look outside. There's nobody can find parking for there's a foot and a half of snow outside. Maybe it's in the it's in the wrong calendar month. But but he but what he say he said he said no because in Judaism in in the Torah we don't celebrate just oh the end and then okay fine you see a tree. We we we celebrate the potential this the the seed is there which is still uh which still which is still growing inside. And of course that that we see the the potential. And of course uh a rabbi who is uh we infusing us with so much um uh potential and and growth is is the rabbi bandell who hashem takes the time. He drives out e even in the blizzard last week. He's no we're doing this year. We're giving that inspiration. So we thank the rabbi for always giving the giving us the inspiration taking the time. >> [applause] [cheering] >> Thank you, Robbie. I put this thing on. >> Which one do I put on? >> This one. >> Just move the camera. Just step it back. >> Let people know that we're starting. [sighs and gasps] Okay, for everyone who came out, I know it's not simple with the with the snowstorm, with the blizzard, with uh even in Florida, they got a blizzard. I heard no 38 degrees, they have lizards falling down from trees to lux. [laughter] They got lizards. They got lizard just kind of walking in the street, they got a lizard on your head. They're cold blooded [laughter] 38°. You're not used to it. There's lizards falling down. And there's also a few people in Florida also falling down. They never thought it would get to 38 degrees also. This week's and as Rabbi was telling us, obviously we just came out of a holidayish. So, we're going to get into a bunch of different details. Let's see what we can cover tonight in the time that we have. One thing I want to focus in on is a question that most people probably asking themselves is how did this guy get awareness? Who else? Huh? Now what we don't see. So the question always asks well the question that's always asked by the lady is what did you do to get such a thing? Now on top of that you also have to really look into the what happens if you talk which is obviously no question about it but I feel like it's such a big topic that we have to maybe talk about it just briefly but just in the beginning you talk comes sends a message to Moshe that I'm coming with your daughter and your children and Mosheu goes out who goes out with Moshe Moshe goes alone goes then everyone sees Moshe and Alonim go the go the whole nation goes out the whole nation goes out to meet only two people in the history that the whole nation came out to greet them who are they and when came out to meet came out Ysef came out people came to greet Only two people honored this. Who is that? Yakov. Who's Jacobu? The of the choiciest of the Jakobu. Who you comparing him to? Who was it to before? He came to convert in over here in this week's par. He was a median. He used to do a lot of id worship. Who was he? He was he was one of the advisers for parole. How did you get to your place? So we have to really see how it start the first two words heard. So what does he hear? says he heard and in the word right because there also over here in the word what is everything that did so the question ask what is just tell me everything never adds any words so comes and adds a few different things but one thing we have to really and the lady bring it down what what made him so special that he heard at what does that mean? Look at the story of the what happens in the dam what happens dam Hashem comes down he makes a and all the water turns to blood. Now if me and an Egyptian are drinking from the same cup, I'll drink water. He drinks blood come the magicians and they duplicate it on a small scale. Comes says no no you see they did the same thing. It's not legit. You guys are not all powerful and mighty. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Okay, if I can turn this cup into blood, you're going to be woo. This guy's a good magician. We're going to bring him from next. [laughter] I if I can make you you one of the person drink from a cup and you drinking water I'm drinking blood and not with the middle compartment like they have in those you know they show you one side other side is the middle compartment legit legit this is why one is drinking I'm drinking and we're drinking blood this is a pelle this he doesn't see this he doesn't see frog that's cuz one came out and they beat it so on and so forth they also were able to kim oh Tell him already no at least we can't do black magic doesn't go such a small place and to one by one is looking for excuses no you see over here over here all pestilence devil they left the horses of the royal chariot were left so what did Paul say no you see god's not almighty he could have killed all the animals he only he left the horses he's not almighty he doesn't realize maz the whole entire picture what's the whole picture why didn't Hashem kill the horses How would leave after the Jewish people after when they go to catch? How is he going to go? AND NO HORSES. LET'S GO WITH WHAT? There's no horses. [laughter] Where are we going? So he [snorts] left him horses without what? Now there's different different of that Hashem took the Jewish nation we'll deal with of the biggest in the world the Jewish people had is you want to know that it's not just enough to leave Egypt I always give this mash I didn't come to talk about it but I'll give you the no one should ever know him suffering a girl who gets kidnapped by a man and she's held hostage in his basement for 20 years she manages one day to crack through a window and escape and run away. She gets home that day to her family. Is she sleeping that night? How does she feel that night when she goes to sleep? He's out there. He's going to come back. He's going to get me and for the rest of her life, he has PTSD. But if [snorts] the police officers catch the manuk couple and they show him on a stretcher, okay, what are they going to do now? Then the woman's going to feel, okay, now I can sleep at night. He's not coming back. The Jews leave Egypt and they're like, "Okay, we left, but what's stopping them from chasing after us in 20 minutes?" Hashem says, "Don't worry, they're going to come." And guess who you're going to see? Tell us their bodies washed up on shore. And every single person saw their oppressor. The person who oppressed them, they saw them on the shore. And not only took the gold and the riches, they saw him. They know he's never coming back. Why, so how can they get there if they don't have horses? They cannot get there. Oh, he comes after the Now, let's forget the fact that it's fire and ice together. Never heard of in the history of the world. Even magicians cannot do it. Fire and ice together. This doesn't see. Huh? Oh, he's with the glasses. Don't worry. Like, oh, but the fact that he left over a few crops, he's like, "Oh, you see, you see, he left over a few crops. You see, it's not all powerful and mighty." Now, what does he not know? Why does the leave a few crops? Cuz when the locust come, they not off to eat. They're not going to want to eat. They're not going to come doesn't see as comes and everything Hashem did. He saw the whole entire picture. He didn't just look in parts of the moon. He didn't just look parts of the show and say, "Oh, this show is not for me." Huh? My wife was reading a book today and with the books and I'm talking about they have these all these uh I don't even know the names of the books. [laughter] They have all these books and this romance and all these things. Yeah. As a There was one book in the beginning very boring but a friend told you got to keep on reading cuz in the end it gets juicy. I said throw the in the garbage [laughter] mind guy's going to come in the middle of the story and he's going to come in the beginning of the show. He's going to sing this is not for me. He's going to come in the middle. He's going to think to himself what's going on over here. Huh? It's not the whole story is upside down and but in the end, oh now I understand why everything happens. So too in a person's life you have to understand you cannot judge a story by parts. You have to know that everything is and calculated and what differentiated is that he heard but not only that he heard that he did something about it. You know who else heard? All the nations of the world here opens up kills everybody. You're not going to hear about it. Even Robbie heard about it. No. All the way over here. [laughter] Kulam Shamu. Who came? One person. No one else in the world was motivated to come. Right now you're here in Iran. Iran a long time ago. Iran can a sea splits. You're going to go. You're going to say, "Whoa, what kind you going to hear about it?" No. You hear God came down the Jewish nation in Iran. All 20,000 20,000 of the Persians over there. They crossed the sea. Yeah. What are you going to think? Wow. I have to go meet the Persians now. I'm going down to great neck. [laughter] I look my neck's not so great only a middle neck or t- neck of you know great neck why cuz he hears everybody hears one person comes comes that's what does say what did hashem show himself toenuhenu was out with the herd tending to the cattle on how long was he over there people don't notice how long was mushenu out tending to the flock of 40 days to eat they're walking wondering nowhere to go nowhere to settle why in the future that is going to lead the nation 40 years and then he sees a burning bushen says let me turn and see what's going on let me turn and see what's going on brings a few different opinions says what did he do when he turned and see he took three steps. One, two, three. Says, he says, not only did he not only he didn't take any steps, you know what he did? He turned his neck. All he did was turn his neck. Says the midashem testifies him because you you pain yourself to look. I'll redeem myself through you. When a person in life is alert things that going on around him and he's alert to the way he looks at life, he understands that what I see and what I do and the actions and how alert I am. Certain people are looking for an excuse. Certain people are looking for an answer to excuse himself. But deep down inside they know I made deep down inside they know that what they're saying is a lie. How many people you talk to talking to them? How come you don't come to school? No. And it's and there's no real grasp to what they're saying, but they allow themselves to believe it to escape the responsibility. Says, "You're right. I have it right in front of me. I have it right in front of me. And guess what? I'm not going to escape it." So he become everything's in front of him. What happened to whatever? He got out. He became the it's a different story. Okay. What happened there? because he ignored he ignores everything in front of him. And so to the way a person looks in life, he looks at himself. When you look for something, you're going to find it. They did an experiment. They put a person in a room. I told him, "Look, look around the room. Look for anything brown." So he looked around the room. Said, "Okay, you found anything brown? How many red things you saw?" Said, "Not a lot." Goes, "Okay, now look for red." So he looks around the room. Said, "How many red things you saw?" He says, "A few red things." Let me ask you, when you were looking at the brown, how many things that were beige that weren't brown and said, "Oh, this is also brown. I'm going to bring it to the or the red for the burgundy." And when you're looking at the brown, did you see the red? And when you're looking for the red, did you see the burgundy? No. A person in life will only see what he's looking for. And not only that, he start making up stories. This one is beige, it's really brown. This one is burg, it's really red. He start making up stories to justify his actions to justify what he he feels because he wants to see and and I think it's a big male how is it relevant to us because the way a person sees himself if a person sees himself as a failure as a person has no value no worth then he attracts that attention to himself and that's it but a person only sees good for himself only sees greatness coming from himself this person will be great this person will this person will rise about them all. Why? Because he attracts that thing to himself. He sees himself as a good thing. And I think if you look out into the world, you look at what the outside world measured success. What are they going to tell you, your business, how much money you have, the woman you're married to, all these things. And I think it's the most amazing thing. Imagine to yourself right now for the parable. A pineapple is sitting on a on the pineapple tree vine. Yeah. And he's looking at an apple and he says, he said, "Basa, look at this beautiful apple. He come in so many nice colors. Red, yellow, green, red and green, red and yellow." He has what other burgundy. How many apples they have this many shapes? And every time, once a year, twice a year, people come apple picking. Nobody goes pineapple picking. When I see a person pineapple picking, huh? I have this weird hair, you know, this green thing comes out of my head. I have these holes all over me that are like weird things, and if you want to kosher me, you have to cut them out. Oh, I mean weird things and stuff. How come I couldn't be an apple? No. Would it be nice to be an apple? No. What a terrible comparison. What the pineapple doesn't know is that what's actually healthier for you, an apple or a pineapple. Go look a pineapple. Anti-inflammatory. Supports the immune system. Joint healing. Quick Google search. [laughter] or a blueberry. A blueberry is going to look at a strawberry. What is it going to say? You ever saw nowadays they have the strawberries? They sell you one strawberry in a glass container for $500. Chinese strawberry. Handpicked, hand woven. Have It's a strawberry. [laughter] Strawberry. Beautiful. Look at the seeds. They put a little switch of water on it. Organic. >> [laughter] >> eat. There you go. There you go. Take a lot of bugs. Yeah. So, the blueberry is going to look at the strawberry. He's going to say, "I'm dark. He's nice and red. My seeds are inside. Nobody can see them. I have this like weird crown/ circular thing on top of my head. I'm just a weird round berry. Look at him. It's like a triangle. Looks like a heart sometimes. You know, it's beautiful. It's that green thing coming from him. [laughter] He doesn't know what a dietitian say. What is one of the healthiest berries you can eat? A blueberry if you want. Start whatever healthy to eat blueberries. So if if I'm if I'm an a pineapple, if I'm a blueberry and I compare myself to an apple or a strawberry, it's the stupidest thing I could do, for lack of a better word. So too, if you compare yourself to somebody you see on social media, it's the dumbest thing you could ever do. It's the dumbest thing you ever do. If a person looks at social media and says, "But look at his life and look at this and look at that." I'm telling you right now, there is no comparison. You're comparing apples to oranges and that life is all fake. Cuz I tell you something about life. The louder something is, the less happy it is. Real shalom bite, you don't see this. They post your online. We're going on a trip today. Let's go. Go have a picking. Everybody pose. Pose. Pose. [laughter] Yeah. Facebook story. Instagram story. Hello everybody. We have a great time today. Bunch of nonsense. Huh? Where's the real salom? Where's the real bite? The one you don't see. Go to the Reby's house. Go to the rabbi's house. See what the reality looks like. You don't see You don't see them in the street. Gucci mucci woocci. Cuz if I have a hund00 million diamond, right? If I have $100 million in my safe, right? Right now I have 100 million. $100 million diamond. >> You tell me I don't believe you. I need to show it to you. So don't believe me. I have $100 million diamond. The only time I want to show it to you is when I don't really have it. If I don't really have $100 million diamond, I'm trying to make up stories. No, it's in the car. It's in the mechanic. It's in the shop. [laughter] No, I left it in West 47th Street Mama. I have a Somebody asked me the other day. I think this is a big thing we spoke about in the past. As to me, I don't understand. I have a hard time making friends in the circles that I'm in. I said, "What do you mean?" He says, "Well, I work in a public school and I don't really get along with my colleagues and I with the friend groups, the people that I grew up with, and I don't really get along with all these people. Excuse me, I don't understand it. I said to them, the reason why you don't get along with these people because you're not meant to get along with these people because Hashem doesn't want you to be friends with them because you're up here and they're down here and you're trying to bring yourself down here and there's no connection. Apples to oranges, pineapples to apples, blueberries to strawberries, no connection. And that's the way it is in life. If you realize how amazing and how valuable you are and you look outside into the world and what does it tell you? Look at all this loud loud loud loud car loud. The more loud they dress, the less self-esteem they have. The louder their car, less self here. Driving on the block, zero self-esteem. Guarantee it. Talk to the guy. He's know that's where that and never in my life ever in my life ever said to myself, "Wow, I can't wake up to wake up four o'clock in the morning and wake up all the neighbors." Loyal shoot [laughter] lo I never in my life had this desire I don't understand what straight pipe back pipe left pipe all pipe this pipe there a spoiler on the car not spoiler on the car red interior not red interior beige blue orange green everyone should look what's going on inside empty the louder something is the more fake it is a reality of life and when you look outside into the world and things look amazing. I think the biggest problem is that deep down inside everybody knows this, right? Ask anyone in the world. Everything I see online is fake. But they allowed themselves to believe that in some alternate reality that there is a person as a way that I could have that and be happy [snorts] here. Some alternate reality. You're right. Maybe they're not happy. But if I live that life, I would be happy. That's the That's the problem is they don't realize it. They think if I was an apple then I'd be happy. But they don't realize how great you are to be a pineapple. You don't realize how amazing it is to not have that life. You know how demanding and how much of I don't even want to tell you. I have people who come to me who are famous online. I have people who are multi-billion. I'm I'm not joking around. We have so many people. And I tell you one thing, nobody in the world wants you to see the dirty laundry. Nobody in the world wants you to see the dirty laundry. But you know who sees all the dirty laundry? The rabbis. cuz they come to us, rabbi, you know, student teacher confidentiality. Ken, you're not going to tell anybody and starts talking about this and that and that. You're like, whoa, you know, say get back up, you know, stay away and get a restraining order. And it's not meal. The more businesses you have, the more money you have, the more worries you can have in life. And then so too for everything. If a person understands that Hashem created him, I don't want to say completely the way it's supposed to be because in the we have to work but on the and the money and the all these things Hashem already predetermined for you. says there's a malik we spoke about in the past's name is that he goes and he takes a and he comes to and says what's going to be with this of he's going to be handsome not handsome he's going to be rich not rich smart not smart everything to testify about him except for one thing if he's going to be everything is in the hands of God except what you do fore so if that part of your life of the yi the looks the money, the success, that's already predetermined. Hashem already decided for you. So why we wasting our time with these things? Hashem created me in those elements exactly the way I'm supposed to be. I'm supposed to look the way that I look. Guy was looking in the in the water. Back in they didn't have mirrors, you know. I'm talking about today they have mirrors, you know. They didn't have so much mirrors back in the day. Even though in the times of whatever they had mirrors, they were looking in the water to see themsel. So one guy saw himself. He got turned he said hooked it up and then he told himself you you wicked person what are you I woke up this morning decided how I'm going to look huh maybe if I went to LA Los Angeles I met with Dr. for $30,000. Make my nose like this. Make my face like this. Makes my lips like this. You know, I told you guys the mighty ducks are making a comeback 2026. [laughter] The guys over there. Okay. I'll tell you one thing someone told me a long time ago and it resonates very very strong. No one in the world a present that Hashem gave you, no one in the world can recreate. No matter how many you pay for the doctor, a real no one can recreate. Hashem created you exactly where you're supposed to be for your for your job over here in the world. You created exactly the way you are. The way you look, the money, money you make, all these things, Hashem decided for you already. So what's the one thing that you weren't created perfectly in? That's the that's where the real battle is. And that's why right when he goes up to get the what does it say? The angels come and they attack. Excuse me, Hashem. How many generations did Hashem hide this hidden treasure of the Torah away and put it away? How many generations? A thousand generations minus the 26 generations, 974, whatever. It's different calculation. How many generations? And you're going to give it to flesh and blood. You're going to give it to this person who was born of a woman amongst angels. What will makes more sense to you? Hashem, you want us to do your will. Hashem wants us to keep. Who can keep it better? Also an angel. Also robot robot easily tell robot he's gonna do whatever you want robot why you giving it to this person but what are you giving it to him he's going to ruin it keep it with us [snorts] and mashem looks at hashem and he says hashem what am I going to do says answers them I'm afraid that they're going to burn to death they're going to kill me the angels says hold on to my k hold on to my throne and answer them and just starts going off on them. He says to them, "Hashem commanded us, I'm your god. Don't have another god. Why you have any other gods instead of respect your mother, your father? Why angels have parents?" Shabbat. Why you guys work? You ever heard of angel working during the week? He has a busy day. Home warranties. [laughter] You see angel picking up cars in the lift. She's over there. Angels don't worry. He doesn't don't kill, don't steal, don't cheat. You have you have this is the answers he give them and in the end so they give they say you know what you're right it belongs to man this is the says afterwards the all come and they give him presence gives him the which he teaches them how to brings down what do we learn from over here I think the biggest m from over here is hashem gave us a because we're not angels because we're not perfect because we stumble because we fall. That's what makes the Torah ours. If Hashem wants us to work, Hashem says all the other things, don't worry about them. But the things you have to worry about, which is which is your work for Hashem, those things I want you to work and over there you have to understand what you can gain if you do work. And one guy asked me, he said to me, "Rabbi, how do you judge yourself spiritually? How do you know what level you're on spiritually?" I tell him, "Okay, I'll tell you. I believe I'm sure if I look maybe I'll find I believe that Hashem gave us dieting and nutrition as a gateway into that teaches you willpower, right? So when a person wants to track his weight, right? How does he know if he's going down? If you track himself every day, what happens? Fluctuates. Water weight, not water weight. I ran last night, not ran last night. Boom. Boom. B. I heard that the fighters when they prepare for a fight, they go on the treadmill with 15 garbage bags on them. They go down 30 lbs in one night. 30 lbs one night. Water weight. It comes like a pickle to the [laughter] to the weight after night. In the night time, he's chugging water. Okay. 30 lbs overnight. So, how can you weigh yourself? How do you know if you're going up and down? You can't take a daily average, what can you take a weekly average? If I weigh myself every single day and I take my weekly average and week over week, I'm on a downward. That means I'm losing weight. Week I'm upward that means I'm gaining weight. If I judge myself spiritually every single day, I'll have days that are much more difficult than others. Yesterday could be was an amazing day for me. I woke up, I prayed, I went and I put the sh and I learned and today was difficult for me. So what I have to measure myself from today? No. Where am I over the span of the week? If I take an everyday average, am I getting better? Am I getting worse? So week over week, if I'm getting better, that means I'm going to grow. It's exactly what Hashem wants from us. We're going to have days where it's difficult. We're going to have especially last week with with a snowstorm. The kids are at home, not at home. Go jumping off the walls. Go prey now. Yeah. You're walking in snow. You know, you don't want to fall to get to the minan. You get in there boots from here to Shamay. You in a snowsuit like you went to Alaska. You sledded over there. We were sledding over there. We had sleds to get to the minan. So a guy said, "Ah, I feel so bad. I went and I didn't go and is not measured by individual actions. Is measured by totality. Who are we in a whole? Are we moving upward, moving downward? Are we getting better every single day? Are we growing? Are we getting better versions of ourel? And that's what Hashm wants from us. He wants us to be real with ourselves to do the internal work and say ourselves. You know why I created you? Is because you're not perfect. And guess what? When you fall down and you get up and you keep on moving, that's what makes the world perfect. There's a mash I heard of a woman in Thailand one of these countries. She lives on top of a mountain. She used to work in a laundry company. She would basically take people's clothing in the neighborhood before they had the laundry mats for, you know, money laundering. No, before they had the laundry mats, okay? They would come with a woman and she would take like one of those like, you know, those old boards and she would clean it and then she would hang it to air dry. That was her business. Every morning she would go down to the watering well and she would carry the bucket. You know how you used to carry buckets back in the day with one stick and then one bucket here, one bucket here. She would carry the bucket every day as you would come up. When her son was born, she had a son who his right leg was shorter than his left leg. But she needed help. She's getting older. So her son would walk up the mountain, but every time he would walk, he would stumble and fall. And he get back up, stumble on the phone, get back up. And after a few weeks of working with his mom, the right side bucket would always come up pretty much empty. And the left would be almost full. So he comes to his mom and says, "Mom, I don't I think it's better that you just, I don't know, get rid of me or replace me or something. I just I don't feel like I'm benefiting you. Every time I come, I fall and I and I'm causing all this water to fall. I'm not bringing you water. It's not helping the business, not helping the family. And the mom says, "That's what you think." She said, "Come on with me." She says, "Come outside." She takes him on the trail. She walks on. She says, "Look at the trail. What do you see?" She see mud on the trail. She says, "Come on with me now. Let's go to the trail you walk on." She goes to the trail he walks on. So, which side of the bucket did you say was the one that always had the water coming out? The right side. Just look at your trail. He looks at his trail and what does he see? The left side is nothing and the right side is all beautiful flowers. Cuz you don't realize that when you're falling down, you are watering these plants and they grew because of you. So, you think your imperfection is is not bringing something to the world. Rather it is. But if a person never gets up, if he falls down, never gets up, then he'll never make those flowers. He'll never get up to keep on going and to keep on growing. says, "I want you because you're not perfect, but I want you to grow. And that's exactly what I need you to do. I don't need you to be a malik. I don't need you to be a machine. I don't need you to be an angel. I'm okay with the fact that you have time you stumble and fall. You get up. Most important thing is you keep on getting and understand that when we do fall, when we get up in those moments, that's what creates a beautiful world. That's what's allows us to keep on going, keep on going, keep on going because we understand this is why Hashem created us. That's exactly what we learned from here. To wasn't given for people who are perfect. That's why it was given to you to because he didn't start off perfect but in the end he became one of the names he had meaning something that's precious to me says because the Torah was precious to him when do we see that and I'll finish with this if we look at where does his original origin start tells you one of the advisers when when asks him what are we going to do one of these babies runs Where does he go to Midian? He becomes a priest in Midian. Long before he meets Moshenu, he denounces their religion. He says, "This is all fake. It's all phony. It's all baloney. I'm denouncing everything." And what happened because of that? How many daughters did he have? Seven. And when they went out to the water cuz nobody wanted to work with him, they all hated him. They would make his daughters wait until the end of the day to water and they would stick there every day. Terrible. Terrible. Terrible. What can he tell himself? I left this fake religion for you, God. And this is my reward that my life is getting more difficult. I get closer to you. My life is getting more difficult. This is my reward. This is what you're giving me. This is what I deserve for doing this. What he didn't see? What didn't he see? What ended up happening because of this? Well, let's look at the story. Mosheu comes down to the watering well. And who does he see? He sees the daughters of it trying to water and the shepherds are pestering them. Mosha who saves them takes the watering well and gives them. They go home. The father says, "Why'd you come home so early today? There was an Egyptian man. Mosha who was still dressed in Egyptian clothing." Yeah. There's an Egyptian man who came and he gave us water and he saved us. So he to say, "How come you don't bring him BACK TO K? GO GET HIM." And they ran and they go get him. And what ends up happening, Mosher Mosher ends up marrying his daughter, Tipa. HE BECOMES A FATHER-IN-LAW Mushenu that he says in he would be so amazed that he was he was f with why because he stood for the he never let go of the he never let go of the truth and he held on to it he never let go and that's the reality of our life if we go with Hashem's we're never going to lose you'll never lose anything by going I'll tell you two stories I'm going to finish okay I don't want to make any promises real promises finish these two stories real stories that were and from him maybe we could understand sometimes in life for our mind takes us the wrong places. We have fear was today this morning. When were the trees created? Huh? Come on. Huh? The third day of creation. And when were they created originally? The shami tells us that they created all with fruits. No fruits. And not only that, there's the midash. Hashem commanded them that they would be created that they would bear fruit and the tree, the wood, THE BRANCHES ALSO WOULD BE EDIBLE. The trees didn't listen. However, what did they do? They made beautiful fruit and they made impalable wood. So, Hashem punished them for that. He says, "Wait a minute. Hello tree. Why? Why? Why? Why you didn't listen to Hashem?" Huh? Hashem commanded you. Hashem tell you to do something you're going to change. Hashem tells you to make yourself edible. What are they reasoning the trees? He said if we're going to create our stuffed edible they're going to eat the tree. They're going to eat the branches and the going to be no more trees after one year. There's going to be a few weddings in over here in the wedding hall over here. They're going to be tree platters everywhere. So they changed said we're doing it for the right reasons. We want Hashem's creation to have continuation. Good good reasoning. You guys like it? It's good. You like it? Comes and he brings a mash. Here's a beautiful mash. What's the mash? One time the king told one of his ministers cuz you're going right where the foreign country. Do me a favor. I know you like to bet. You like to gamble. You like to go to the casino. Do me a favor. Don't make any bets over there. No racing, no nothing. I said, "Of course you got it. Whatever the king wants." That goes to other kingdom. The ambassador over there tells him, "Look, let's bet me and you few million." What's the bet? That you're not a hunchback. I mean, you are a hunchback that you're a hunchback. What kind of ridiculous bet is this, my friend? I'm not a hunchback. No, no. I'm willing to make the bet with you. I'm willing to make the bet that you're a hunchback. Not I'm not a hunchback. So, they bet me. They bet me. We bring a doctor to a bet. Okay. It's a no-brainer. I'm not a hunchback. How much you want to bet? How about this? My 5 million to your 1 million. You like it? Good bet. I'm not a hunchback. So guy says to himself, "Yeah, ya. Let's make the bed." The king's going to be very happy. I'm bringing you back 6 million. It's a good deal. I'm not a hunchback. Okay. It's a no-brainer. I say, "Okay, make the bed." The guy says, "Oh, I lost." Here he goes. Here you 5 million. The guy goes back to the king. He's ecstatic. He's like, "King, you don't even know. I just won5 million. He said, "What do you mean you won 5 million?" I I know the king told me not to bet. I know. I know. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Let me just wait. Let me just tell the king for a second. Okay. $5 million that I'm not a that I'm a hunchback. [laughter] So, I got my million. Look at him say, "What did I tell you?" Oh, what did I tell you? You fool. What? I made a bet with him that you're not going to bet. You know how much money you LOST ME? I LOST 100 MILLION. [laughter] You gave back with 5 million. I lost 95 be trees. >> Hashem says I get it. It's nice. It makes sense to you, but if it's not with my emit, then it's not what I want. I don't care how much it makes sense to you, how much it makes logic to you. Nothing. If it's not my I don't want it. So you're right. The trees were afraid. So if it's not my I don't want it. So what happened with this? When a person goes where they met, it's only what they gain. There was a story of a businessman in the Syrian community. He used to sell toilet paper. Now I'm going to ask you guys a serious question. You answer me for real. And a toilet paper. It says 1,000 meters. Anybody over here ever count? Anybody over here toilet paper? Counting. You counting a thousand. And >> businessmen, Jewish guys, look, I work with Costco. I work with Walmart. You know what does it make a difference? 1,000 950 50 m a few cents I'll save everyone multiply by a million I'm making good money. So for 3 years this guy takes a,000 meter roll and instead of a th000 he puts 950 >> for three years. One day he goes to Rabbi taking says over there brings it down that you're not allowed to steal from a Not like some people think. Yeah. You're not allowed to steal from a three. He goes, "What are you doing?" He goes, "I've been taking 50 meters out of the toilet paper for 3 years. You know how many millions and millions? I don't even know who these people are. Right? What can I do? Look, are most of your clients return clients or not return? Look, I have 90% return clients with good toilet paper. Yeah. 90% return clients. Cuz here what you're going to do. How long you do this for? He says three years. For the next three years, instead of putting a,000, you're going to put 1,50. Says, "Okay, Rabbi, that's what I do. I have to do." So the next day comes to the thing. Everybody from now on, 150. >> 1,50. We only put 1,000. We're putting,50 in the road. No one has to know about it. At least we'll pay them back. 90% of people at least the majority will pay back a little bit of money in the sites and I'll be okay. Yeah. 6 months later a newspaper comes out. They do a study. Charmin Ultra Bounty that they start measuring in the toilet paper and see who really has 1,000 meters. So they come up with a study all the brand. This one said 1,000 this one has 900. Those are a,000. This one has 920. Those are a dollar. This one has 980. And for some reason this weirdo this Mun case only one brand out of all the brands Kulan I don't know who this guy is says,000,50. >> So now what happened now? Everybody went from Charmin to Jewish Charmin that [laughter] and he started buying became multi millionaire. I don't understand. Yeah. This is how it works in life. Even though some you think you're going to lose, if you go at Hashem's emit, you're only going to gain. A person who keeps will never know any suffering. Everything in life emit. Oh, I have the ability rabbi. I'm going to set fame. I'm going to this. All these words like to use to whitewash their stealing. No, Rabbi, I'm not stealing. I'm just upcharging. Not that they use. It's not right. You cannot steal a dollar. It's not yours. Have to be very, very meticulous. And always go with the a person goes with the he'll never lose was to become have a part after the father because he was a person who went after the emit. He listened he did and he went after the emit. If we take this m for ourselves to listen to do to act on what we hear and to be on real people who do things that are right and what hashem wants us to do then we'll only be we'll only go upwards and upward.