Rabbi Yaakov Rahimi | Hashem Loves You | CHAZAQ

Good evening everyone. If everyone can find their seats um feel free to come up closer. Want to welcome everyone to tonight's very special sharing presented by Kazak and Belrest. Tonight we have the great great honor to hear from Rabak Rahimi who drove all the way here from from Lakewood. So he has a very special powerful message for all of us tonight. Um, of course, um, everyone who was, um, took upon themselves, the first 50 people that took upon themselves to learn the book Huffet Slime, a daily companion, a life-changing book that you're going to hear about tonight. Um, um, you rabbi is asking if everyone can take people should take a book if they take upon themselves to bleeder, complete the book at least one time. Um so we want to make sure of course everyone that they um that they they're going to learn the book and of course get inspired and and um really um really get impacted from the book. Want to thank of course the youngest Hillrest for partnering on tonight's event. Uh we want to thank um of course Rabbi Schnal a fel here and the shu for always partnering with Kazak on the the sher and the programs for the community. And of course, we're we're we want to want to thank we want to give a special thank you to Amanda Levia for helping to coordinate today's event. Let's give a round of applause. [applause] Hashem put a lot of tremendous efforts for tonight. And of course we want to the the entire the all the all the Broncos as well as the the the sheer should be leoy nishma pinfasia Rosa and Lub Rafael and Shamosh and Aliyah. Amen. >> Of course we thank the Levia family for dedicating um tonight's shar. And of course we know about the work of Kazak. We're talk right now during the three weeks of it's all about connection and unity of um of the Jewish people and Kazak is of course we know organizes different shir events and programs to give inspiration to unite people of all backgrounds men young and old ashasar bkar it doesn't matter unite everybody under one roof and Kazak does that throughout the entire year and Kazak of course is has a main focus on public school outreach with over 20 different locations for public school outreach reach um and Kazak has helped transfer over 2,000 students from public school yes and if everyone thinks for a second everyone knows of a coworker a neighbor um who has children in public school let them um reach out to Kazak and we can help them give a Jewish education and um to introduce the the tonight's shar of of the special pre tishab was one thought so we we have tish we have tishab which is coming up just just in a in a short few hours from now. So, someone sitting right here might wonder why are we mourning um the destruction of the beta mikdash the a temple which was which was destroyed few thousand years ago. What is that? How's that relevant to me today in 2025? So, if you look back in the story that then you can get a glimpse into what happened. So, so if you look back what happens the Jews they're they're about to go into the land of Israel. What do they do? They send in some spies. So what happens? They they got they came back with a report and they said we can't conquer the land. We can't do it. There's giants that we can't we can't do it. So what does Hashem say? Hashem says the Jewish people, you're crying for no reason. Okay, we're going to make it. We're going to make it going forward that this day of of this day which is going to be tishab is which one of the days is going to be such a sad day. So you might wonder that that that Hashem God is such a is merciful, is compassionate. How does that make sense that Hashem that because we cry once then we're going to cry forever. So, so the answer you could is by Robert Waxman. He says that that if you that if you if you take if you might wonder if if a person if a person wants to light up every house in the world, what do you what what do you need? Someone might say you need a trillion dollars. You have to own K Edison and every power plant in the entire world. And what does he say? He says no. What do you need? All you need is one candle and that one candle can light one house light in that house, light the entire world. And that's what every single person and that's what every single person is. They are in the shama. They're they're a soul and and there's no person in the world who was just created to be regular to be to be just a regular person. And and that and then that's the answer to um to why why the relevance of the tishab is is that is that the Jewish people they were saying wait we can't do it we we have some limitations in their mind and and that's the relevancy to to each and every one of us is that we have to realize that nobody no man woman child who's here is just here to be regular and that's what we're going to learn about tonight from um from Rabbi Rafimi and um everyone please give a loud round of applause to Rabaka Rafimi He [applause] came all the way here from Lakewood to inspire us tonight. >> Thank you everybody for coming. Thank for arranging. This year is >> I want to pronounce it right. What is it? this year and goal. It's a big deal arranging lectures the and says that since the bet was destroyed the only exists the of the presence of Hashem of the mikdash called the only exists because of the so says the three options of what gives gas and energy for the to keep on going and And the Garra lists one of the things that gives the Shafina power and gas to keep on going to be driven even though we're 1957 years unfortunately since the second Bash was destroyed. And by the way, if you want to remember how to count um how long destroyed, you always minus the number 68 from the non-Jewish count. Thank you so much. Um just want to take this out. Sorry. If you want to remember should be the last year if you want to make the calculation the of how long ago the bet was destroyed the second one Rome maze taught us you take the number 68 and you always subtract it from the non-Jewish count so friend in the year 2025 for all the accountants over here what does it come out to7 >> 1957 so how long ago was the bent destroyed the second one 1957 years ago hopefully It's the last year but it says what gives the the the to keep on going to be alive even though the dash was destroyed says one of the things is when a lot of yudim get together for when Jews get together to learn to and then after the sh they say kadesh the words of the kadish the prayer of kadesh do you say after a class of Torah is madhmashem's name greater in the world and because of that mitzvah of the of Jews getting together and the kadesh that we say afterwards where we scream which means hashem's name should be not only blessed over here not only known in this world but for the next world and all the go in the world and everybody should know that hashem exists that's what the word So it says that when Jews get together for Torah and they say kadesh afterwards that gives a since the midash was destroyed the drive to keep it going the gasoline to keep on going and stay around the Jewish people. So when those who arrange you and after you say kadesh person should not underestimate the power and kak and it gives to the world. So this year these two passed away really I prepared one thing but as I drove here one of my good friends a rabbi told me a very powerful story that really has no connection to what I planned on saying but I just want to share with you because it's just a gorgeous unbelievable story. His name is Mizrai. He's a rabbi in Brooklyn. he's on Torah anytime. And he told me that his wife has a friend, young lady, married that unfortunately she has she has the she's not well. She's going to treatments back and forth between Brooklyn and Jersey. Brooklyn and New Jersey. She said that in one of the drives back home from New Jersey and listen to this. It's unbelievable. One of the drives back from New Jersey as she's driving out of the Garden State. I basically live in the Garden State. I'm there every morning. Don't ask me. So basically as she's driving back in the Garden State back to New York, she divins to Hashem and she says, "Hashem, I know you love me. Hashem, I know you're with me. Show me. Show me one sign, one siman. Are you with me? She knows Hashem loves her. Hashem is with her. But show me a sim. As she's driving, she picks up her eyes and what does she see? There's a huge billboard right next to the outer bridge bridge for those who know the area over there. There's a huge billboard, massive. And on the billboard, it says, "I love you, Dina." What's this lady's name? Dina. Dina. Now, I don't know what that sign even means. What did that I'm not asking like what's going on. What is that sign doing there? I'm assuming it's probably some flowers. I don't know what's going on there, but it says I love youina with flowers on the sign. She dives to Hashem. Hashem, please show me. She picks up her eyes. Oh my gosh. Massive sign in front of his face. I love you Dina with flowers on it. A time many times in life a person can forget the basic gift that Hashem gave us of prayer. Tilah is unbelievable weapon that we have and tool to utilize while we're alive 24/7 anytime anywhere for free. But what happens is just like everything else in life when we have it so often every single day a person can become immune to it and not utilize the power of prayer the power of I want to share with you another story then we're going to get back to what I prepared this is a beautiful story yet another story about the power of the power of prayer this person who told me the story prayed in the shul that I used to work for in Brooklyn wealthy Jew person. He flew to he said with his family. They go to the hotel and he takes his little son with his wife. Little son is a young young boy. They go to the hotel and he sees everybody's praying by the cot by the western wall. He sees one specific person that's praying dvening and dvening and dvening and crying with tears and shaking like really really really dinging by the cot. The son runs to his father. This fellow told him the story. He tells him, "Daddy, what is going on with that man? What's going on with him? Is he okay?" Like he never saw such a thing. A guy praying so strongly with tears and talking to Hashem, wanting something. So his dad tells him, "Don't worry. He's praying. He's diving to Hashem. Leave him alone." Tells him, "Dad, no, no, no, no. Please tell me what happened to this guy." Tells him, "Don't worry. He's praying to Hashem. It's none of our business. Leave him alone. He's dabbing to God." He starts pulling his jacket. Dad, I want to know what's going on. I'm going to Mommy. He goes to the other side of the mita of the coter by the western wall. He goes over to his mother. He tells him, "Mommy, there's a man praying over there and he looks just worried and he's I don't know what's going. Can we help him? Can we help him?" She tells him, "Go to daddy. Why are you coming to me?" Does I went to daddy? He said, "Just leave him alone. It's none of our business." Okay. She pulls her husband to her. She tells him, "Listen, if her son keeps on asking for something, you know, maybe you should go over to the guy. Maybe it's a sign from Shamine. He's he's insisting for a reason. listen to your little son. Let's see what happens. And Abu Tai, I heard this story from the person himself who I happened to over here in Brooklyn, this wealthy person. He goes over, he listens to his son. He goes over to the person who's praying. He taps his shoulder again and again. The guy is not noticing. Probably thinks someone's bumping into him and who knows. He's tapping his shoulder. Finally, he turns around and he tells him in Hebrew, in broken Hebrew, Why are you crying so much? Is everything okay? I mean, can we help you with something? The guy tells him, I'm making a bar mitzvah for my son very soon and I can't afford not a hall, not clothing, a suit for the bar mitzvah. I can't even afford a pair of tilene. I can't afford a pair of tilene for my son. So, I came here to dive into Hashem to please send me the money. Please send me to feeling something for my son. I have nowhere to turn. I go to the I ce. He says I don't have in-laws to depend on brother-in-laws, rabbis, friends. I'm doing straight to Hashem. I'm leaning only. This wealthy person told him I don't understand. How much does already cost? Like how much is it already? He tells him a price which this that he's like I'll pay for the wealthy Jew told him. How much is $500, $600 an ounce. He said, even less. Then he tells them, you know what? You prayed that hard. Let's find out details about a sim hall to make the bar mitzvah. They got close to each other. They exchanged numbers and they went together to book a hall. He put a down payment. They went suit shopping for the boy and they got him a pair of tili. Now, he told me this story in he told to me, meaning he didn't even realize how major of a story that is. I told him, "Do you recognize what just happened? You had this to Hashem, using the weapon that we have with us 24/7 called, but utilizing it and really dvening to Hashem, not depending on anyone else in the world, only Hashem." He turns around, he gets a tap in the shoulder, Amazon Prime, straight to him suit. The power of is very strong. Like our risha Mosh would tell us when we're younger. Risha of Lakewood tells us a Yehudi a Jew is never bored. You know why? Because you always have time to pray to Hashem. You're sitting in traffic. You think you have nothing to do. Pray to Hashem. Pray for your kids, for your parents, for your relatives, for other Jews. Pray for the hostages. Audi is never bored. Why? because they always have time to utilize the power of Abraham we're holding in the days right before tab we can't forget and we have to remind ourselves and I'm talking to myself why is it that we have to mourn the bet mikdash so many years after it was destroyed this is a very far-fetched hard concept to explain. I'm talking to myself, to others, and to myself. How is it that we have to mourn something that happened years ago? What does Hashem want? What does Hashem want us to do? So, the give an unbelievable answer. If you look in the this is very fundamental. If you look in the that we pray the said in all three and the community has only to say by we add a paragraph called which means Hashem should give us Hashem should give us remorse to rebuild the bet. Inside that paragraph we describe yushai. Now listen carefully how the this prayer describes yushai the city. What does bizuya mean in English? That's >> shame that's put into shame that's degraded. That's empty, which means it's destroyed. Now, when was the last time you rent to Jerusalem? You want to buy? Anybody here want own? Don't tell me. If you want to buy an apartment in your salam, you know how much it is? $2 million. A million dollars. Onebedroom, twobedroom. Ualam is one of the Thank you, Hashem. Is one of the most expensive and busiest cities, capitals in the world. You go to Shalam, they have the best apartments, the best isot, the best schools, the best restaurants. Everything is in very busy place. Very Jerusalem is a very happening place. So how can we tell ourselves in the Jushim destroyed empty nothing is there? Don't go Jerusalem totally destroyed. What are you talking about? Come to with me. Look how beautiful is. So how is it that in the we talking about we mention how it's but if you go to it it's most expensive place. What are we praying for? What are we talking about? What is this telling us in says a beautiful answer and from this answer we know why we mourn for the mdash says and I read an article once like that of a very wealthy Jew who lived in Mexico. His parents were very like billionaires very very wealthy and his parents unfortunately passed away in a helicopter crash. So this paper did an interview with the son that took the yusha he inherited all the money of so they took pictures of the house of their driveway of their living room of their backyard their pool their very wealthy people afterwards the journalist asked the son who's now with her parents he asked him said how does it feel to own such a house you know you have a pool you have who knows roller coasters in there who knows what's going He tells him, "How does it feel to have such a house? What's a house without parents?" Yes, I have an expensive house. I have a beautiful car. I have a beautiful couch, beautiful living room, beautiful kitchen. But what's a house without parents? When you walk in, when you walk in, there's a certain emptiness. So toai to answer this question is expensive and hopefully more should grow expensive real estate good restaurants everything is going good but what's without the bet what's without the since the beta mdash was destroyed the shina is out so yes is Beautiful. But what is it all worth without the betach? So why do we mourn on Shab? What are we crying for? What are we praying for? We're praying for the rebuilding. And if you're going to tell me your shalim is already rebuilt, what's all the expensive real estate without the without the beta mikdash, without our father there? So what are we dabbing for? For the rebuilding of the beta mikdash and the true rebuilding of shalim. That's what we're crying. That's what we're mourning for. We can't forget where we really belong. And I want to share with you another story. Then I'm going to get back to what I prepare just to bring this message home. I need someone to remind me to get back. You back there. Cool. tell this is a powerful story and many times we hear stories of nim of miracles from generations in the past and then you can have the people that I learn with the most and I love learning to them is the youth the new generation so if you tell them a good story from the past some of them will tell you eh okay that's in the older times the amount of miracle stories I can tell you that are happening as we speak is unbelievable just a person has to open open up their eyes. You know, I had a relative, Israeli, he finished that, he finished the army, the IDF. And a lot of IDF soldiers, Shublim, they have this thing after they're done, they go to the the Philippines, >> Thailand. >> Thailand. Oh, Thailand. Thailand. Okay. So, they go on the trip to Thailand. So, one of my relatives, my whole family is Israeli in the army. They went to Thailand with a friend and they're not religious yet. And he tells me that his friend while they're on one of the hikes in Thailand, now who knows what goes on in these forests in Thailand. Scary to even understand probably. They're in some hike over there and as his friend is walking, he starts screaming, "Atilu, help me." What happened? Atu, help me. Save me. My relative says that he turns around and he sees his friend. A few feet ahead of him or behind [clears throat] him, he sees a massive nash, a massive snake crawled upon his thigh and his foot. That's pretty scary. Who knows who this snake is, what he can do. Woo! You're somewhere in Thailand. So my relative told his friend that the snake was on him. scream. And he started screaming. And right after he was done screaming, the snake did a reverse like the Israelis say. And then he went out and he left the person alone. Okay. So I told my relative who told me the story. That's a beautiful story. So you saw an open miracle. It's an openness. No. No. Shabbat >> tells you what are you talking about? Didn't happen to me happened to him. [laughter] Unbelievable. So should give him only health. Sometimes we can hear miracles open open. He seems stories but a person can tell himself didn't happen to me. I'm reading about it. I'm hearing about it. But what does it have to do with me? Leave me alone. It makes me maybe a little uncomfortable. When a person hears a real powerful nest story and I'm talking to myself, make sure it goes in and a person has to grow with it. So now I'm going to share with you a story of a nest that just happened. One of the [clears throat] hostages that got released, got saved be more accurate from Kamas, his name was Eli Cohen. After Trump got elected, he's one of the guys, one of the batch that got released had audi listened to the story very carefully. He made a suda a party to think hashem that he survived and in this he mentions a story that happened to him and he said it so fast and so quick. He said it. He said it like as if it's not an important story because I guess so many miracles happened to him there. But he didn't I don't think he even noticed the story how major the stories that he said over he said then one of the times while he was in the tunnels inside darkness inside as he's sitting there all alone he said one of the kamas terrorists that was guarding him fell asleep. Now, every kamas terrorist has a walkie-talkie that's on that they're able to communicate under the tunnels. This kamas yakimo soldier terrorist fell asleep, but the walkie-talkie was on. Eli Kuwen says, "You can just imagine how hard it is. It's even hard to imagine. You can't fathom that to be on the tunnel and darkness of heavens to Hashem and he says, "Hashem I know you with me. I know you love me. Show me, show me something that you with me." This just happened. And he said it over publicly himself. Show me that you're with me. He says a few minutes later, the walkie-talkie was on the antenna somehow caught the reception of the Israeli radio station. Now, it's also far-fetched. Gaza is in Israel. It's like, you know, it's Queens and uh I don't know what's next to Queens over here, but the city Manhattan. We're we're right there. So, the antenna of the walkie-talkie caught the signal of the Israeli radio station, the news station. And then comes the top of the hour. What happens at top of the hour in radio stations? The news. Who does he hear at top of the hour? By the news. He hears his mother screaming by a rally. Elliot, we did not forget about you. Don't think we abandoned you. Because the parents still have rallies and they had a lot of big rallies to try to release their kids. So his mother spoke with the most recent rally. They put her by the news at the top of the hour and her son in the tunnel in Gaza listening in to his mother screaming, "We did not forget about you." And this is a person now he's foolish like he said himself. This is a person that wasn't yet religious before that, but he knew that Hashem obviously is with him at all times. And look, an openness, that's an open miracle. He's diving into Hashem in some tunnel in darkness and Hashem sends him boom radio station right there to listen to your mother's voice. We did not abandon you. Then I thought to myself, this is also the lesson. This is also the message of why we mourn for the beta mikdash. We're 1957 years since the beta mdash was destroyed. But you know what our job is and we're doing it following the halakot of the nine days. Not having meat or chicken. Not listening to music. Not going shopping too much. And then we're going to fast at Shab. We're going to sit on the floor. We're going to have headaches. We're going to be hungry, thirsty, moody. What are we doing all this for? By us fasting and by us sitting [clears throat] in the front is a form of us screaming mikdashim Jerusalem we did not forget about you we know really where we belong even though we're 19 and 57 years 100 years after betimash was destroyed even though we're inside the galut inside the exile and we're so far away we did not forget get really where we belong and that is with your shalim and the beta mikdash. So when we mourn Abata, you know what you're doing? You're screaming and we're reminding ourselves we don't belong here and we're not forgetting our true reality with the mikdash and that's why we fast. That's why we mourn. It's very important. We cannot let go of reality. The reality is we don't belong. It's not a matter of if Msiah is going to come. It's a matter of when. It's a reality can happen any moment. So the whole year we could get distracted. Comes tishab. Wake up. Snap into it. Remember the plan. We don't belong here. So why do we mourn? Why do we fast? Cuz we're screaming to ourselves. We're shaking ourselves up just like his mother was screaming by the rally. We did not forget about you, Aliyah. Alien. So too. We're screaming to the beta mikdash and the we did not forget about you. We know we belong in with the beta mikdash and we're never ever going to give up. That's what we mourn. And that's the lesson of the days that we're holding in right now. Now I'm going to tell you what I prepared. How many minutes I have left? Okay. What? What' you say? 3 hours. >> Oh, okay. [clears throat] I want to share with you the words of the nobody is better than the says the in times when there's too many tragedies going on in the world unfortunately what we're going through right now soldier a hostage this that terrible There is no solution to bail yourself out from that from the tragedies that are new every single day. You already lost different you already lost different suggestions. What can save us from the situation that we're going through? like our times right now. Even though we love our government and is and even though we appreciate the president of the United States, Donald Trump and I'm a huge fan, but are we but are we dependent on him? Shalom. And we have to be careful how we talk because if we're going to put our leaning on him or on BB or on the government, that's where things go wrong and sour and we have to be very careful. We have to be reminded about that. So the over here says when a person is going through major tragedies like us right now as a nation and you lost, you don't know anymore where to turn to you know what you should do to take yourself out. strengthen yourself a lot. When it comes to the acts of kindness when you do when you go out of your way to do it will bring Yeshua it will bring salvation to the world. When one opens up the news on their phone, even the fake news, what's the answer? The answer is, "Oi, let me go to a rally." Even though rallies are nice. Okay? Oh no, anti-semitism. We must fight harder in the streets. That's not the answer. It's also one of the options. That's not the answer. The answer is ovoy. A soldier passed away. more mitzvot anti-semitism o I got to take something upon myself better Shabbat better more mitzvot or the most important thing more Torah that's the answer that will bring yeshua that's the answer that will bring mercy on us the Jewish people and I want to share with you a story from Zed one of my favorite rabbis in Is he said of a powerful story have how one went out of his way to And because he went out of his way to do he saw tremendous tremendous we know that says you have to be a coin passed away in this month says the shalom shalom he loved peace and he pursued peace. Ask them if the commentaries what does the Mishna have to say that he loved shalom and he pursued shalom. Isn't it enough to just write he was shalom? Say love peace. He loved shalom. Why does have to add he was he chased peace. Say the comment. You can have many people who love peace. Nobody likes to fight with others. It's unusual to find the guy who just loves to pick fights. They exist but it's unusual. Most people want to do their own thing. Leave me alone. I don't bother you. You don't bother me. Oh, shalom. We all We all love peace. But who's a shalom? Who chases shalom? Who gets uncomfortable, gets up from their chair and goes to the friend and make sure that they're not in a fight even though they hurt each other's feelings. Who's chases chases make sure that there's no more fights. Make sure that there's no And that's what we learned from our he was shalom and Shalom and that's what the here is saying we need to be ashalom when we have especially person has to get out of their way for do something more more get yourself a little uncomfortable to help out another so I'll share with you a story from powerful story there's many stories hopefully I'll say one properly I have a lot in my mind right now told me that he was once giving giving a lecture in a city called is a city where my uncle happens to be my uncle lives there if that's important information for you and as he's giving a lecture there he was talking about the opportunity of that Hashem gives us and how a person has to utilize and appreciate every one mitzvah they do and this is a story that he said over in fact I'm so accurate with my stories that I wrote down the details for Oh, here we go. Listen to this story. Unbelievable. Zed goes to he speaks in a hotel for Shabbaton, religious Shabbaton. He goes Shabbat morning. He's the speaker. He's the rabbi. He goes Shabbat morning to the mikvet. Now, men are allowed to go to a pool as a mikvet. men. He goes Shabbat morning to the mikvah downstairs. As he's walking down the hall to see where the pool area is over there, cuz men are allowed to go into the pool for mikvah. As he's going down the hall, he sees a guy with the garb and the beard with the bees walking out all mu, all worried, all scared as something just happened. And he he's like this. He's running around. And right after him, after he walks out the kid, he sees a little six-year-old boyida boy. And this whose name was, we'll call him Mr. His name, his last name is Estein, Mr. Ex. He goes over to him and he tells him, "Go find out this boy's parents where they are. I just saved his life. This little six-year-old." I walked into the mikva myself. Shabbat morning. And I'm about to go in and what do I see? I see a little boy deep in the water. I jumped inside and I saved him. Make sure you take him to his mother right now. I just saved his life. Make sure he goes to his parents. You're the rabbi. Take care of it. Zid said he took care of it. He tried asking the boy. He himself looked scared. Finally, they were able to find the hotel room of his parents. And his parents, you know, it was early in the morning. They were obviously very tired that the little kid was bored in the morning, early in the morning. You open the door. He's walking down the halls of the the holes of the hotel. He finds the pool area and he almost passed away. Now you can imagine this is Shabbat morning. Everybody's talking about everybody's waking up. Comes Shakit. Comes Kush. This little boy, his name is Yoli, six-year-old. His name is Yoi. His grandfather is a very very wealthy Jew who lives in New Jersey whose last name is Nim. Now if you look in the arts called Gimot, he's actually one of the donors of the Shahim in the beginning. His name is Nim. He's a big donor. He calls over Exine the person who saved his grandson and he tells him listen I want to give you appreciation gift but I can't talk about a Shabbat come to him say Shabbat I'm obviously making a long story short comes say Shabbat X goes to the ground for the N and N tells him listen Hashem gifted me with with wealth you saved my grandson's life I want to give you a very big gift. I want to give you a lot of money. How much money? I wrote it down. Who's ready for this? >> 26 million shekele. 26 million shekele gift for saving my grandson. Now, if you go to Google, 26 million shekele is around $7 million, I believe. $6 million maybe. 26 million shekele as a gift for saving my grandson. This exing fellow thinks about it and thinks about it and tells him I'm not taking the money. Why? I feel so accomplished for the mitzvah that I did is saving your grandson. I'm not selling my mitzvah. I'm not taking the money. You tried convincing him. He says, "I made a decision. I'm not taking the money. I'm not selling my mitzvah." And by the way, the writes in this world, it's impossible for Hashem to pay for that we do. It's just not possible because the mit are so much greater than anything in this world. And the mash, the parable that he gives, he says, "Imagine I give you a open check for cash for $500,000." So here's a gift. Here's 500 grand right for cash. You go to your local bank over here in Queens, a little Chase Bank by the corner. You go over to the front desk. You put it at the thing. Can I get cash? 500 grand. The banker goes to the back and they tell you, I mean, I don't think this bank has that much cash. We're a small, you know, maybe in the city. Maybe we can order, but we don't have that much money off hand like that. They come back and they tell, listen, we don't have 500 grand cash, but if you want, we have 200 grand. Would any normal person say, "No problem. Give me 200 grand." Of course not. You want to cash your check the full amount. You're not going to give a $500,000 check for $200,000 because you want it now. You're going to wait later to get your full amount. You're not going to give you're not going to settle for less cuz you want it now. Says any we do in this world. And how true that is, it's unbelievable. Any one moment of Torah, one Shabbat, one every is priceless. It's not possible to repay in this world. And if a person wants to get repaid in this world for what did they do? Then they're selling themselves short. You're compromising on really what you deserve. The real reward is inabsible to repay for a lot more powerful than this world. So this sadik exim told n I don't want to take the money. It's not even a good deal. What's 26 million compared to like this? Forget it. I don't want it. Let's try to be honest with ourselves. I'm talking to myself. Why would I do in such a situation? What would a person do in such a situation to say no to 26 million shekels? It's a lot of money. Z got so inspired like he told me on the phone that he told this fellow Xeen, I got to take it to my rebi. Who's his rebi? The great mikubid Abu. Now to get into right now is very hard. You have to wait online a few hours even if you hooked up and when you get in it's a few seconds 1 minute but is very close and he doesn't take any person there but he tells him you such avah such a you give him so much money for this I got to take it to my rabbi the and tells you you see this Jew he made a huge kushm he gave up so much money not to sell mitzvah told him right now is right now is an opportune time to dive into Hashem for anything that you tried ding for your whole life. Ask for a ask for a blessing. Now this exing fellow told with all due respect what I really want is not possible. It's just not just not possible told him no no no right now is I will give you and he said because family they're all holy the brothers the uncles the old were old so you tell them I will give you what do you want tell him I'm 47 years old 47 years old I was not a child yet. Me and my wife were not to have a child. Gave me a for a child gave him a and he told him this year you're going to have a baby boy this year but don't call me Z is going to be my my will be Sak. When I spoke to Zid on the phone he told me he had a baby boy that year. this exing fellow was already the sak and the name the baby yi after the boy that he saved. Now this is a tremendous story. Why is this a tremendous story? The way I took it every day we do so many mitzvot we literally make before we eat and after we eat every single time we literally keep 100% we keep Shabbat we learn to we do so many do we truly value the mitzvot that we do we really understand that enemy that we do is priceless. Literally, there's no price tag. This fellow ex was not willing to sell his mitzvah for 26 million shekele. He says a mitzvah is a mitzvah. I'm not doing it. Now, that's a very extreme case. 26 million shekel is a test. It's not easy. Doesn't happen to your average person. But every day of our lives, we do so many that are prices that are worth more than millions. Yes, nobody's coming over to us and tells us here's a million dollars giving you a mitzvah. But it doesn't mean the mitzvah doesn't have that value. It has more value than a million dollars and we do it every single day. Do we really value every mitzvah that we do? Every one mitzvah that we do. One mitzvah is worth so much in the eyes of Hashem. Now after said over the story, go back to the beginning for those who are following. He said this in where my uncle lives for that detail. As he's sitting in the apartment saying the story, the lady who invited him to speak told him the apartment that you're sitting right now giving the lecture happened because of such a story to my husband and she tells him the following story. She says my husband works in Modí. Min is a city next to Shalim. They lived in Kulon. Hul is city next to Tel Aviv. They lived in a very small apartment and the family was getting larger but they couldn't afford it. One time a husband drives from to back at home after a long day of work. As he's driving in the highway, he sees an old man parked at the side of the highway who looked very lost or confused. So he passed by him but he decided let me do some he went a little back of the highway. He pulled it aside and started reversing. He goes over to the old man. He knocks over the window. He says, "Aka, is everything okay?" So the old man was trying to work his GPS. He wasn't sure how to do it. The battery was dying. He couldn't do it. And he was lost. This old man is scared. He was the type they actually needed an aid. That's what Hamzi told me. And he was lost. Very dangerous. This fellow, the husband of the wife saying over the story, he said, "I'm going to drive you home. Come to my car. I'll drive you home." The old man said, "I'm not comfortable with that." So what did he do? He drove him with his car. Which means he left his car parked by the highway. The husband he went inside the car of the old man and he drove with his car to his apartment. Where was his apartment in? Okay. He he parks his car. He takes him home to his apartment. Just that detail of the story. Imagine that. You never met the person. You pull to the side of the highway. You offer him help. The guy says, "I don't want to go in your car. I don't feel comfortable." So you go in his car and you help him. You drive him all the way home. You never met him. Everyone is always busy. To go so like that is tremendous thing. He drives him home. Then he orders a taxi back to where the highway is, where his car is. Then he goes back to his car. He goes home. Now meanwhile, this old man unfortunately lost his wife already many years ago. And they started getting close to each other, the husband and the old man. And they started speaking to each other every sing. And they got close to each other. Fast forward a few years later. She said that many times he went shopping for him cuz the old man felt comfortable only with him. He got close to him. He didn't have any children. He has one son in LA. This old man he has one son in LA. And he, you know, he only felt comfortable with him. So he went shopping for him. Can you imagine? You never met the guy. Can you go shop right? Give me some eggs. Every person's going to hang up. I'm busy. What do you want from me? Why would I go so much on my way? I don't owe you anything. Do I look bored? What do you want from me? But this guy went and he went shopping and he did out of his way. Just like the says, fast forward a few years later, he gets a call. The couple gets a call from a lawyer. The lawyer that was in charge of all the money and the wealth of this old man, she calls him. She tells him, "Unfortunately, the old man passed away. And [clears throat] the is going to be this in this time, but for some reason I see that you're not related, but you're in the you're in the will. So, we have to meet. I don't know who you are. I mean, you're there. They met. What happens? The old man wrote the apartment. You know who's going to inherit this apartment in big fancy apartment? That couple. So she tells him, "Rabb the apartment that you're sitting in right now was where my husband went out of his way for not accepting. He wasn't expecting not accepting. He wasn't expecting to get rewarded like that." He did it at the time for the sake of you know sometimes a person can say beautiful story but if I knew I'll get a permit I'll also do it. Yeah. Well that never happens. The point is doing now for to make Hashem happy. Go for another Jew. He went out of literally got in the car. I don't know what I would do in such a situation. Get in the car, drive him home, go shopping for what's going on over here. But this person went out of his way for shalom and shalom. Not just talk about but get uncomfortable for another Jew for look how much brought to the world and how much it gave to that person. A free apartment. So after was saying that story, she told me another tremendous story. What happens when you go out of UA for now? We all want to rebuild. The question is how? So Hashem did not leave us hanging. You know, Hashem doesn't keep things in a secret way or suspense. Go find that yourself. And when a person knows that he has a judgment in court, he doesn't know who the what the judge is going to say, what mud, what this guy's going to say. You have to guess around. Your lawyer is supposed to help you to try to save you over here. Hashem is not like that. Hashem puts everything on the table exactly what's right, what's wrong, what will save a person, what will give everything is out there in the Torah. Person just has to open up their eyes. How do we get out of galut? How do we get out of exile? How do we give ourselves how do we give ourselves blessings? So the say over and over and over again they say that Hashem tells us all the time when a person doesn't speak when a person knows how to close their mouth and not speak another about another person that person will get that person will get blessings. Now I know the word we heard our whole lives but who honestly doesn't speak who honestly is really careful with that I'm sure many in this crowd but I have to work it myself [snorts] is a serious topic and it's all over the Torah and the tells us that if the beta mikdash was destroyed because of because of hatred which means then the only way it's going to to be rebuilt is if we do something about the topic of lash the zah brings down if a person sees that he's not succeeding in panas if a person sees things are not going well you tried doing this you didn't succeed you tried doing this there was no or let's that person feels spiritually locked like you're trying to grow in and spirituality but just things are just not working out you feel stuck If a person has that feeling says the zo many times like the quotes, you know what it is? You have to fix the sewage. What does that mean? The pipes are too stuffed. You have to unclog things over there. Hashem always wants to give us Hashem is always showering us with blessings from Shamim. Like the says, if you have a very very sunny day, person goes inside his house and closes the window shades. No more sun is coming in. Does that mean the sun outside stopped beaming? Of course not. It's still beaming powerful, but you close the shades. Says the z. Hashem is always beaming. As we speak, there's opportunities to grab more blessings, more blessings, more and more and more. But a person can close the pipe. A person can close the window shades and not let the go in their life. What closes the pipes? What clogs the pipes? Our mouth. When a person speaks a it clogs the shalom. So says the z if you're looking for the to flow on you work on the do something about it. It will let the flow on you and the mash like to give to this is imagine will give you very very expensive wine. Now I don't know wines well but officially there's very expensive wines out there like a few hundred bottles. Is there a few thousand bottles wines? Anybody know here? Is there a bottle that cost $2,000 for some reason? >> It exists. >> Possibly. >> Possibly. You say, "Okay." So, imagine I give you a very, very expensive bottle of wine. You the over there. You want expensive wine? >> Imagine I come and I give you wine. And then I tell you, take out your cup. Take out your C. Take out your cup. You have a cup. Oh, he's holding the cup. And then I see that inside your cup, you have ashes of cigarettes. You have dirt. >> It's my uncle. >> It's your uncle. No matter how expensive the wine that I give you inside the cup is, if your cup is full of ashes and dirt, it's I can give you expensive wine, but if there's dirt inside, loses quality. Our souls are very holy. We're capable of a lot. We're very close to Hashem and Hashem loves us a lot. We could do a lot in this world and create and build more. But if a person clogs or gets their mouth dirty, then no matter how expensive your is, no matter how beautiful the when it comes out of your mouth, says the it gets polluted by the so sometimes you can have a person who prays and prays and prays and prays and it could be says that the reason why it's not going straight to is because the you're speaking intercepts and kidnap you it takes it away. So if a person is feeling stuck or things are not working out that person has to work on says the so like said we're giving out free books now it's $10 a piece don't think it's cheap but we have awesome sadikim sponsors who sponsor this online it's $10 a safer [clears throat] you could take it for free but on one condition you give me $50. I'm joking. One condition. You have to finish the book at least once. I can sit down over here. I don't have that much time. I can right now stand here and tell you tremendous stories of people that I know personally. It's an amazing thing who started learning this and they literally saw open miracles. And I'll share with you one and then we're going to end off with that. And this just happened a couple of weeks ago to a person who called me from Lakewood where I live. He told me this story couple weeks ago. He calls me up, young couple, and he tells me, "Rabbi Rahimi, I got to tell you a tremendous story that happened to me when me and my wife started learning Delhi companion this book together." He says, "I always heard you preaching about learning the book, learning the book, but me and my wife actually started doing it. And I got to tell you the nim that happened to me." And he called me and told me the story. I met him in the yeshiva of Lakewood and BMG young couple. He tells me that his wife by mid June the school that she works in Lakewood told her that she's not coming back next year. Parenthesis fired out. Okay. Very sad situation because she's the one supporting her husband. Her husband is in Kell learning all day. It's Sadik and she's at Sadika. So she's basically supporting the house, the rent. So being told you don't have a job next year is pretty unsettling and uncomfortable and pressuring. So she tries to apply for another job. They tell her no. Another school they tell her no. She went to one school. The school told her that we have more people applying for jobs as teachers than students. It's not happening. So she couldn't find the job. Okay. To make things worse, he tells me his wife is due with her first child. should have only they get an email from the insurance company after she got fired. You're off insurance. And he told me that's a very pressuring thing to be off insurance when you're pregnant like that. You know, it's very, very pressuring. Off insurance. Okay. To make things worse, even for the upcoming summer right now, he said that me and my wife didn't even know how we're going to pay our bills. We don't have any money. But we remembered those who learn daily companion every single day and you start reducing the amount of you will see him and his wife go to Judeica Plaza store and liquid and purchase this book and they started learning it together oneon-one. I myself do it with my wife also every single day. We learn it oneonone. Also bring by the way learn it five minutes a day. We started learning it together. He tells me for two weeks straight. Then he calls me up and he told me the story. He called me two weeks later after him and his wife were learning it. He says, "Rahim, listen to what happened. The school and the the the the day that he called me was the day after this happened. The school called me yesterday, called his wife and she said and they told her that we're looking for employees. We thought other people are going to come and they're not doing it. We want to reassess. Please come to the school. >> She goes to the school. They met her. The principal like what's going on. And he says, "You know what? It looks like it's going to happen. It's not for sure. It looks like it's going to happen. We'll be in touch." As they walk outside the office, the main secretary there told her that, "By the way, if the principal talks like that, you're in. You're hired." And what ends up being not only did she get a job 2 weeks later after he tells me she's getting paid a bigger salary from the school that she got fired from and she has to work less hours. So she's less hours more money. And the story keeps on going. He goes inside his he goes to his what happened to my English to the mailbox. He goes inside. He takes out an envelope. What does he see? A nice beautiful envelope from the United States Treasury Department. Wow. >> He opens it up. A few thousand of missing tax returns from a few years back that's somewhere there on the computer in America government messed up. So they owe him a few thousand. He has no clue where this comes from. Learning two weeks. Boom. Hashem sends him a check in the mail to last for the summer. He says he goes to learn in the afternoon. He opens up his laptop at night. His emails. He sees in the email. Who did they get an email from? All in one day. Who did they get an email from? Their insurance. His wife is back in insurance. What does that mean? They went to organization called LLC that helps them out. They're back on insurance. All happened in one day by doing what? Reducing the amount of bring so much. We have over here USB of over 600 stories of people of Yeshua that they saw from stopping to speak of reducing the amount and learning the daily companion every single day. A person is never going to regret after they learn the but you can have a person that after 120 years in this world they had an opportunity to do this of reducing the and what was it a few minutes a day it takes four minutes a day and it makes Hashem so happy and rebuild it and we'll give you and says those who are careful with not only do they bring blessings to themselves they bring blessings for their children and says they also blessings to their grandchildren and their great grandchildren for what? For not speaking. Look how much you [clears throat] get. And it makes Hashem so happy. And this will rebuild the beta mikdash. Hashem told us why the bet was destroyed. It was because of how do we how do we actually rebuild it? Yes, we heard about our whole lives. But how is it that we can actually and I'm talking to myself work on it? The answer is learning the safer every single day. The writes in his introduction, nobody likes to speak. Nobody likes to, but humans forget. So how do you remind yourself not to speak? By learning it every single day. And I can say that upon myself when I learn this every single day, it reminds me, wait a minute, I just read it. Don't say this sentence. Don't say this next. But if you miss a couple of days, you space out. You get distracted. So what's the trick? Learning the every single day, you will see tremendous. It's being given out for free for those who are ready to take upon themselves to finish the whole safer last announcement. Anybody who's ready to finish the companion can submit their names for we're going to have a group of in England and from Lakewood flying to the caver of the Manchester and he's that sadic that instituted this idea of learning every single day. They're going to be flying to his kel on the yard side of the which is the month of September around. They're going to be flying in and praying for any person that submits their name that was ready to take upon themselves to finish the at least once. You can purchase it on your own. Whatever it is, as long as you're ready to take it upon yourself, you can submit a name and they're going to dive in and fee by the caver of the by the cave of the Manchester doing the yard of the So, if you're interested, email me. I can't think your names over here cuz it has to stay all professional. I don't want to just write it down and lose it in my car. Okay? So, please email me yakov [email protected]. I'll right away send the name to the rabbis that are flying in. Thank you so much for listening. >> [applause]