CHUKAT: Is Religious Isolation Needed Today? | STUMP THE RABBI (236)

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But I try to help hundreds and hundreds of people every single day to the best of my ability through the system that I use, which is WhatsApp. I know that the first time people uh call 57 times and don't get an answer and then they get a response as a text message that the only way to communicate and have a dialogue and the conversations and you know all the things that they want would be through the system that I use through WhatsApp. They're taken back and some are even offended. Uh oh, why can't why can't you dedicate just five minutes to me? Nothing is five minutes in the world. Setting up one microphone takes more than five minutes. You think it's no, it takes a lot more than five minutes, especially if you require my full attention. But again, it's a uh people get uh taken back, but the ones that are smart enough and don't have a big ebo, they take advantage of it and they get answers and they get guidance and they get things that could change their life. And countless people have changed their life. But as I told somebody just today that asked me if I would like to be his rabbi because he wants to ask me a million questions and I said I have no problem being anybody's rabbi as long as they watch all of my lectures. If they watch all of my lectures and they also use the AI rabbi tool that we have which is a very cheap subscription. It's only uh 15 bucks a month and if you get an annual subscription it's even less. If you do all of that, then you could ask me any question that you want. Nothing's off limits. But if the only thing you're willing to do is just ask me questions without actually doing your homework, then please find somebody else. Why? Because there are people that take priority over you, the ones that are willing to dedicate their time, the ones that are willing to dedicate their effort. And um that means that I will have to um you know answer them before you which means that it may be days, months or or or or never get an answer from me. Why? Because again I need people that are willing to invest into themselves. And if you're not willing to invest into yourself uh by learning our Torah, then by all means then you certainly could find somebody else. Now what if I learn other people's lectures or uh you know can I still ask you questions? No. Ask them. Ask them. You have their uh ideology. Ask them why do I have to do the work for that somebody else started. Go ahead and ask them. Now the question is one of the things that you get in these messages and the calls and everything else is people's stories. I get people's stories. Lots of people tell me their stories when they did chuva and they changed their life and they got married or they didn't get married. They want to get married. You get stories and unfortunately too often and by too often I mean anything more than one is too often sometimes when it's bad too often I get tragedy stories. What are these tragedy stories? No, it's not deathm. It's not sickness. It's people's tragic stories of how they decided to isolate themselves as a result of their decision to become orthodox Jews, meaning following the Torah. They decided that in order for them to be religious, they have to isolate themselves. No more friends, no more family, no more public, no more nothing. Maybe they'll go to shul for for a few minutes, but that's it. Run home. The problem with these stories is that they're full of suffering, confusion, and usually by the time they reach me with this sad story, hopelessness. What went wrong? In Paratukat, we learn about the extraordinary benefits that is had in the isolated desert. It seems like the question would be why did Hashem make life so easy for them and so hard for us? Even when I isolated myself, a person would say, I didn't get any food from heaven and and water that tasted like whatever I want and cured me. what went wrong. This and much more will be addressed. Now starts with of course the lesson of the not to try to make sense of everything in the Torah. Why? Because this is divine logic and does not think like us. This is what Korak made a mistake that cost him his eternity in this world and the next where he tried to rationalize the Torah and the same thing that the heretic manis and other heretics out there tried to do by trying to rationalize everything in the Torah. The Torah is not subject to human rationale. But nonetheless after that we have a very famous verse in uh chapter 19 verse number 14 where it says this is the teachings regarding a man who would die in the tent and the sages teach us that a person that wants to become has to treat himself as if he's only going to be in the oil only going to be in a tent isolated That's it. Nothing else matters. So on one end it seems like we're being taught that we need to make ourselves isolated in the desert. What happened in the desert? In chapter 19 verse I'm sorry chapter 20 verse number one and two we hear of the death of Miriam. Miriam died says Miriam died there and she was buried there. There was no water for the assembly and they gathered against Moshe and Aon and the people quarreled with Moshe. So we see here that when Miriam died the water the beer that followed is for 40 years disappeared gone. And Kazal teaches us that this beer was gone because it was there only due to the merit of Miriam her righteousness once she was gone. That's it. Now what was so special about this? The ber was not just water especially you I mean water is priceless all the time needless to say in the desert but this water was not just your typical water when you drank this water if you had a disease no matter what it was disease is gone the mind would open up and and the person would become a genius is able to understand and remember everything in ways beyond anything that we could possibly comprehend and even more so the soul of the person would be elevated with every sip. In fact, the sages wrote extensively about and some 700 years ago, there was a named Ben Raben, also known as he was originally in France. Then there was the pograms in France and he fleed France went to Spain and he wrote a se called in this response in section if indah the laws of Abdah he asks a question. Why do our women have the custom of getting water from the well on Shabbat? As soon as they hear the last part of the prayer, which is as soon as the women hear it, they run out, get their buckets, and go and get water. Not from the faucet. 700 years ago, there's no faucet. They go get water. Why can't wait another hour? Can't wait 2 hours. Can't wait till tomorrow. I mean, it's night dangerous. No says no. You see, he says, "We have a tradition that the beer of Miriam was hidden by Hashem in the Kit. And if you know the spot of where it is, you're able to get some of that water. And each the women tried to go get the water from the because if they got the right one, they bring it home. Anyone that's sick drinks a little bit of this water, he's healed. Even if his entire body says the even if his entire body is full of wounds, full of which until this day there's no cure for full of boils, full of cancer, whatever it is, does a little blessing, drinks the water, cured. And we have this tradition that actually is mentioned in the where there was one time a woman that uh went she had a sick husband and she went on Shabbat to go get the water but she was delayed. One of her friends ran into her started talking chitchatting. You know sometimes women like to talk. The says that 10 levels of desire to speak were brought to the world. Nine were given to women. So here you have a simple example of it. So she was delayed by a couple of hours. By the time she got home with the water, her husband was so angry. Where you been? What's going on here? You don't care about me. See here, I'm sick and you're just going doing what you want. Well, you care to such a point says that he pushed the water out of her hand. It spilled everywhere and a little bit of it on him. And he was full of all types of infections on his entire body. But everywhere that the water touched instantly healed as if he was a newborn baby. But the rest stayed the same because the water is gone. And on this theim says we learn that due to his anger, look how much he lost. Look how much he lost. An angry person all he has left in his hand of his after his anger is his anger. He doesn't benefit out of his anger. All he's going to have left is his anger. And therefore, we have the tradition that is go and get the water lest they be able to merit getting the water of Miam of Biam. Now, of course, the question is, why didn't this fool, okay, after he saw that the water healed him, why didn't he jump after the rest of the water that was on the ground? Number one, it's logical to and and easy to understand that the ground even in the houses back then were sand. So, the water was quickly absorbed in the ground. But two, as says who Rab Fry brought in is promises in page 62 that when a person is angry, one of the first things that he loses is his wisdom. So this guy was so angry that he didn't even think of let me just try to get whatever water is on the floor before I get it's gone forever and heal whatever I can heal. He couldn't think of that. He was too busy being angry. In fact, it's well documented. It's actually even written in a sephil that was uh published maybe 30 years ago by uh art scroll. I don't think they sell it in their stores anymore, but I'm sure you could probably find it secondhand about the life of the the Arizal. uh and uh in there one of the stories is that uh when started teaching his main student even though we have an entire world of today that's all based off of the 18 months or 19 months that taught before he died before passed away and Uh but in the beginning when they first started every time Dal would teach in he would forget it was just too high for him. As holy as he was even in the beginning of there because he was already at still he would forget he wouldn't be able to comprehend it. So the said, "Okay, come I'll take you." He took him to the show exactly where was drink this drank it and he says, "From that moment on, my mind opened up in ways that are unimaginable." I heard say recently in the name a story about Kaduli who took a few of his students uh to a special place and uh they said this is now again there's no signs there's no uh confirmation you can go to and drink the whole thing and still not have you have to obviously has to allow it but the point is that if this benefit that this sick man had oral had was so great, imagine what is had in the desert when they had access to this water all the time and in abundance. They didn't have to look for it. Didn't have to go on Shabbat for it. Didn't have didn't have to have a tradition for it. It was right next to them. Wants to take a sip. He wants to taste like uh Coca-Cola. Tastes like Coca-Cola. Wants to taste like beer. Tastes like beer. Wants to taste like wine. Wine. Red wine. White wine. Whatever you want. Every sip. It could be something else. In addition to that, it opens up his mind. In addition to that, anyone that's sick is no longer sick instantly. Unbelievable things. Now, the reason why Miriam merited having this this thing happen for her for her for her sake is because when they got to the desert, Miam was thirsty and she prayed to Hashem to have uh water. So, Hashem made a miracle in the water and there's a uh some say it was a wheel, some say it was a rock fell down from the mountain, rolled all the way down right next to her and cracked and all of a sudden water came out and became uh you know water for her but she refused to drink because she didn't want to drink just by herself. Saku made a bigger miracle and all of a sudden it became a entire well for uh for all of Am is with a water coming out for each tribe and this would follow them throughout the entire desert wherever they went for 40 years. Now this was just one of the extraordinary benefits after they she died it went away but then in the merit of Moshe Rabenu it came back. Then we see that the paras tells us that dies. Shem says go with elazar his son and uh go to the mountain the h the mountain on top of a mountain meaning two mountains. And I remember uh seeing in the uh uh the book by Rabbi Zamir Cohen where there's actually a mountain on top of a mountain in the uh that they found and um that's where our is going to die. Now, as soon as dies in uh at the end of chapter 20, the first verse of chapter 21 says, "The Canaanite king of who dwelt in the south heard that Israel had come by the route of the spies, and he warned and he warned against Israel and took a captive from it. Here we see a mini October 7th, the Canaanite king. Now, Kazal tells it really wasn't the Canaanite king of Kanan. This was actually Amalikch. This was actually Amalik that they've already fought against Israel before and lost. But their new strategy was, let's confuse them. How we're going to confuse them? We're going to speak a different language, the language of the Canaanites. So, the Jews will think that we are Canaanites. And therefore, when they pray to their God, they're praying about uh, you know, help with the Canaanites. So that's why it's called the Kenite king. And they attacked and they got a captive. And this captive, the Ramban says, was a uh servant, a non-Jewish servant, a woman that Amiad got as part of the wars that they won. But still getting a loss, an attack. How could this be? Nobody else dared attack. And what does that have to do with Awan dying? It's because as soon as a coin died, the seven clouds of glory that surrounded Am is on the right, on the left, back, front, and even on top of them and below them. We're constantly surrounding them, cleaning their clothes, and they're even sitting on clouds. They don't have to walk. So, their feet never got tired. That's Torah itself says, but as soon as a dies, this is gone. So now everybody sees them. Before that, everyone just sees huge clouds just moving in the desert. Anyone that even shot an arrow in the in the cloud, the arrow would shoot back. No one was able to enter. That's why when Amalikch first attacked Am, they couldn't go into the clouds. So they would make all types of uh calls for people's names because they found out the census. They got it from Egypt. As I said in the sh about the uh uh I think it was parat bashalak uh few months ago but they uh they got some of the weaker and older people to come out of the cloud and then they killed them. So everyone knew you can't even enter the cloud where amai is. But now the clouds are gone. Everyone sees, everyone can attack. And of course, Amalecch did that. As a side note, the very next verse in chapter 21 says that Israel made a vow to Hashem and said, "If you will deliver this people into my hand, I will consecrate their cities." meaning if you help us defeat them, everything that we get from it, we're going to make it a sacrifice. Hashem heard the voice of Israel and he delivered the Canaanites and consecrated them and their cities and named the place. Now, from what it would seem like, this happened a day later. The truth is this happened years later and not even at the time of Mosher Rabenu. Yeshua Benoon defeated the Amalik later on. But this is said here as a prophecy of the future. They made the vow right there and then that they're going to and then later on when Yeshua already enter the that's when this actually took place. Now after they lost the clouds, everyone started complaining and of course mashemu prayed to Hashem. The clouds were something very important and uh if that wasn't enough they started complaining about the man and Hashem punished him. How could you be complaining about the man? It's the perfect food. It could taste like whatever you want. Anything you want. You want taste like steak, could steak, duck, uh uh you want uh venison, you want lamb, you want it to be chocolate, you want it to be ice cream, you want to be Doritos, you want it to be Cheerios, whatever you want it to taste like, how are you complaining about it? It's the perfect food. Not only that, you don't get fat. In fact, it's so perfect that the entire man gets uh becomes blood. So, no one has to go to the bathroom. How could you complain? And that's why punished him. But in so many words, we see something amazing here. We see that made life extra extra easy for no one had to work. Everybody was rich. There was no poor people. That's why the story of Kak about some poor widow and everything else that was a complete fabrication. And there was no such thing as a poor widow among am at this time. And everyone was rich. No one had to work. No one had to look for food. Food came right to the door if you were righteous. If you weren't righteous, it you had to get get it. Uh, you know, you had to walk for it. But still, nonetheless, everybody got food. Everybody had water that tasted like whatever you want. No one had to waste their time doing laundry, cleaning themselves. none of this stuff. Everyone was literally like living in heaven. Why did Hashem make it so easy for them? Of course, the easy answer is so they could learn Torah with 100% focus. So now the question that we asked initially is about if somebody that wants to become somebody that wants to learn to somebody that wants to become a religious Jew do they need to isolate themselves seems like that would be following the tradition of Isel but we don't rationalize the Torah we need to look at what the sages And about 900 years ago there was a very important seph written that has become one of the foundational teachings of our Torah of our tradition and that's the kuzari by the background brief part of the story is that there was a king of a place called Kuzar where the king had a dream because he was trying to do the will of God. So he thought maybe idols, he thought maybe uh you know all types of different ideas and the dream was a message from God that said your desire is good, your will is good, but the way you're doing it is not good. So now he had the mission of a lifetime to go find out the truth. How am I supposed to serve God? Is it the way that the Christians do it? Is it the way that the Muslims do it? Or is it the way that the Jews do it? So, first he brought on a Christian, leader of the Christians. Tell me about your tradition. Tell me about your laws. Tell me about your God. And he told him, he told me, he says, "Where do you know this from? Where do you know that what you're saying is true? what's your source? He says, "Well, it all comes from Mount Si from the Jews." So the king who was very very smart said, "So why am I going to go to you? If your foundation that you've changed, but nonetheless, your original foundation, your original truth comes from the Jews. Why would I even bother talking to you?" So he said, "So it cannot be that you're the truth." But the Jews, no, they're so small. They're so nobody nobody likes them. No, I'll go to the Muslim. So he brought the one of the biggest scholars of the Muslims. He started asking him questions. How do you do? What do you do? Debating him. And then he asked him, "Okay, so where do you where do you get your teachings? What's the source?" He goes, "No, it's the Quran." Yeah, but before the where does the Quran get all this stuff from? was the original original from the Jews. Mount Sai also you the Jews just like the Christians. He goes, "Yeah, the original is from the Jews." And the king was baffled. These huge religions, Muslims, Christians, powerful, and everything else, but in reality, they're all piggybacking and plagiarizing from the minority, from the Jews. So why am I even bothering talking to these? Let me go talk to the Jews. And he invites one of the and starts this discussion, this debate, philosophical, spiritual, like very very very extensive, an absolute must readad for every single Jew or someone that wants to become a Jew. And after this whole discussion, what ended up happening is that the king of Kuzal not only converted to Judaism, but his entire country, all of his people, his entire kingdom, they all converted to Judaism. And there's a debate of who they are today. Some say it's the Georgian Jews. Some say they've been dispersed among all of uh am is mashia will tell us. Point is that this very very deep and fundamental book has each section each question broken up and it's a again question and answer and you see the dialogue between the Kuzari king and in the third essay section one I'm going to read this to you he's going to help us understand the question we've been asking which is religious isolation. Why are these people that chose to become religious chose to dedicate their time to learning more Torah whether it's on the path of becoming more righteous Jews or even some people that are want to convert to Judaism that chose to isolate themselves ended up more often than not very miserable, very confused and unfortunately in some cases abandon everything in the end. Meaning their passion and love and desire to to do the will of God ended up in abandoning God. How could such a thing be? Because if we look at what Am is 3,300 years ago, it looks like that's the path. They went to the desert. Hashem prepared everything for them so they don't waste a single minute working, bathing, doing laundry, making breakfast, nothing. All you can, all you need Torah because everything else is taking care of you. So some would say maybe I should do the same thing starts off as follows. And the rabbi said here is our conception of a servant of God. He is not cut off from this world. That way of life would become a burden and cause one to despise living. When life is really full of God's goodness, God himself cites a good life as a reward which he gives to the righteous. As it says in the book of Exodus 23 26, I will make the number of your days complete. Meaning you'll get a good you get a full life, a good life. And also it says in the book of Deuteronomy chapter 22:7 and you will have a long life. Why would Hashem say it's a blessing to have a long life if life is supposed to be miserable? So a servant of God says the rabbi loves this world and a long life because through them he acquires the world to come. And that's why the sages said in chapter 4ishna number 16 that this world is a corridor to the world to come. meaning that this righteous person uses this world in order to acquire but not just uses this world as okay he's going to do and be alone in the desert doing keeping Shabbat by himself in the desert doing kush by himself because he's not he doesn't want to get angry at a wife so he just abandoned his wife abandon his kids abandon everything so he could keep Shabbat perfectly not argue with anyone. No, no, no, says the uh the rabbi. No, absolutely not. That's not what Hashem wants. With every extra good deed that a person does in this world, he will acquire a higher level in the world to come. Now the only time the servant desires the opposite of this meaning the actually desires isolation is if he reaches the level of about whom the Torah says in chapter in Genesis 5:4 walked with God and was no more for God took him or the level of eli which the book of kings kings 2 chapter 2 11 says that he never died. He went up to heaven alive. It's one of 10 people that went to heaven alive. This type of person aims to divest himself of this world so that he could join the heavenly host. Once this is accomplished, he does not feel lonely when he goes into solitude and isolation as the angels are his companions. So you see he's not absolutely alone. He has elevated himself to such an extent where angels become his friends. They're talking to him. He's talking to Gabriel, Mel Rafael. To the contrary, he feels lonely in the presence of many people because he is already removed from this lowly world and instead he feels more a part of the heavenly kingdom where there is no need for such mundane things like food and drink. For such a person, complete isolation is the most appropriate condition. He even looks forward to death for he has reached the pinnacle of his life and there is nothing higher to which he can aspire. Now next you'll see okay so you have he's telling you don't isolate yourself unless you're like unless you're like so person say okay maybe I'm like how do you know I'm not how do you know I'm not like but then goes further says you know we're not just talking about Jews here he says the wise philosophers are the second category of people who benefit from and enjoy solitude. They do so to purify their their thoughts so that they can achieve intellectually sound conclusions and arrive at truths with they could answer all their questions. But they still desire interaction with their students who provoke them with their questions and remind them of things that they forgot. They're like an ardent businessman who hates to mingle with anyone except someone that he can make a profit with. This is the level that was achieved by Socrates and his colleagues. So we see how the rabbi is giving you even the other world the wisdom of the says if somebody says this over here Socrates very smart Aristo very smart yeah no problem this very very smart go but if you can tell me that this it's like a in theorah no I don't believe that it's not possible why becausera is not just about intellect There's much more to it, but we'll get to that another time. Point is, the rabbi says there's different types of people that isolate. There's the alia navies, the sages, the the the uh the the prophets. Then there is the wise among the nations, but they're not completely isolate because they're still among their students. But what about you? Not just you today in your house in Minnesota, in Arkansas, in New York, in in in Venezuela, in Colombia, in uh Melbourne, Australia, in in Tel Aviv. What about you? Are you are you? Are you someone that could isolate themselves? Maybe an angel's going to show up and become your because you want to be religious. Should you stop talking to your Aba and ima? Should you stop talking to people in the streets because you're protecting your eyes and therefore even when somebody says hello, you don't know where it is because you're looking at the floor, you're you're counting the the grains of sand below your feet cuz you're so holy says, "But we," and he's already talking about 900 years ago, but we can never hope to achieve the level of either Kan or Socrates and consequently their type of solitude would be detrimental to us. Meaning he's not even talking about the holiness of Ela and Navi that in your wildest dreams you cannot even reach. He's saying even the wisdom of of of Socrates you're not going to reach. Even if your IQ is 200, you're still not going to reach it. Further says the Rav there is a third type of solitude which was extent with the divine presence in the holy land that when the divine presence was in the holy land resting upon the nation that was primed for prophecy. There were people who separated themselves from society and dwelled in the desert. They didn't isolate themselves completely though. Rather, they joined with others like themselves. They helped each other in Torah wisdom and in deeds which brought them to the level of holiness and purity. They were known as the sons of prophets. However, in our time and place with the state of our people today where there is no longer a prophet among us and when both acquired wisdom and natural wisdom have been diminished, acquired wisdom is referring to the uh knowledge that was passed down to us through our ancestors. And natural wisdom is is from like inter intellect where initially the acquired wisdom is something that's part of our uh uh the um like the Socrates that's acquired wisdom and the uh natural wisdom. No, I'm sorry. The acquired wisdom is like and the uh other one is a uh like Socrates. So the rabbi is saying in our time and place 900 years ago, needless to say today, we can't be like, we can't be even like the philosophers of ancient history. We cannot be even like the the sons of prophets that used to the sages that used to go into into the desert with other extraordinary sages to elevate themselves. Why? We don't have the tools. And because of that, someone who isolates himself to follow a life of a aseticism is exposing his soul to affliction and will suffer both spiritually and physically and will become sick in both. Such a person will end up looking as if he has been stricken by some terrible illness. People will think that he looks that way because a sense of humility and loneliness like he's so righteous. That's why he uh he looks he's always down like this and he he walks really slow and uh it's because he's so righteous and removed from this world says the rabbi. No, it's not. That's because he's sick. And you know why he's sick? Because he went against that. He separated himself for 5, 10, 20, 30 years thinking that that's going to make him more righteous. Not only did it make him more righteous, it made him spiritually sick. It made him physically sick. In reality, he will look this way because he feels like he's a prisoner. He's actually a person that despises life not because of his long longing to be secluded like the righteous uh you know of previous generations rather because of his disgust with his own self-imposed restrictions and afflictions. Meaning he continues separating himself from everyone but he hates it. How could it be otherwise? After all, he will not be attached to the divine light that will enable him to enjoy the commodery of the angels or the fellow prophets. Nor will he have reached the philosophers's level of wisdom that would engage him and provide him with pleasure for the rest of his life. Perhaps you're going to argue that such a person perhaps is god-fearing and is really a uh uh sadik, someone that loves the approach to approaches god in isolation. And he's always he's forever in because he stands and prays always by himself offering supplications and petitions that he knows. In reality though is that while such prayers may be new and exciting to him at first, their pleasure will last only a few days. for as long as they remain new. The more he repeats them, the less they will affect his soul. He will end up achieving neither a sense of submission to God nor an elevated soul from them. He will remain in this desolate state day and night while his soul will hunger for those things which it requires. such as hearing other people's voices, seeing things, beautiful things, ugly things, seeing, seeing the beautiful world that made speaking to people, contemplating ideas that are not just his own. traveling, eating, drinking, intimacy, making money, taking care of household affairs, helping the needy and Torah institutions with his money. This he actually desires this, but he says, "No, no, I'm separate from everything. He doesn't have a wife or she doesn't have a husband and and no, I'll just live off of the land. I'll just do a minimum of minimum because I want to be one with God. you're a foolish person. Not only are you not going to end up being one with God, you'll actually end up becoming a person that does not enjoy or benefit from either physical or spiritual things to the point where you'll end up despising life. And when such a person realizes that his behavior has only been detrimental to him, he will end up regretting what he initially set out to do. And this regret only will increase his distance from Hashem to which he has toiled so hard to become closer to. So here the Rav gives us a plain and simple answer in regards to isolation. It is not the will of Hashem for you to separate yourself from everyone and become alone because you think that's going to make you more religious. And the Kuzari king asks, "Well, if so, tell me what the behavior of your your what do they do today?" And the Ra answers aid today is a person that's concerned with his country. He provides all of the citizens with every provision and need. gives them money, gives them food, helps them whatever way he can. He leads them justly. He does not oppress any of them. He doesn't give to any one of them more than what is rightfully their share. In this time of need, they will end up coming to his aid and will rush to respond to him when he calls out to them. He could command them and they will carry out his commands. He can admonish them, rebuke them and they will accept his admonishment. So the Kuzari king is like, "Whoa, I asked you about a sadik, not a leader." And the rabbi says, "Haha, a sadik, a saintly person is a leader. All of his senses and attributes, both spiritual and physical, submit themselves to his command. And therefore, he leads them just like real world leaders do. As our Torah tells us in Proverbs 16:32, "He who rules his spirit is greater than one who captures a city." And furthermore, he says just a few lines under it that this accomplishes this by eating and drinking sufficient amounts all in moderation. He also bathes and grooms himself moderately. He also muzzles those aggressive tendencies which seek to vanquish other people. Some people have this desire to shut everyone up and not let anyone else talk because they only want to hear themsel. If you want to be a sadik, you want to be aid, you have to silence yourself and those tendencies to make everyone else be quiet unless they're doing something wrong. Then you even the rebuke has to be in a proper way. But someone that's already there, he is used to already silencing all of his aggressive behavior, all of his tendencies that are in essence trying to destroy anything around him, but he still has those tendencies. What does he do? says the rabbi, he feeds these tendencies what they need in a productive fashion by defeating others in scholarly and philosophical debates and by rebuking evil people. Meaning that hunger you have, that aggression that you have, that uh ambition you have, all of that has to be used because you can't just say, "Oh, no. I'm just going to eliminate the anger. It's not going to exist again. I'm going to eliminate to that fire and it's not going to exist again. It can't. It's It's in it. It's in you. So, how can you use it in a kosher fashion? Number one, learn enough to where you can have a discussion with other and be able to go back and forth with truth versus truth, truth versus truth in order to get to the proper answer. Number two, when there are wicked people, you're able to rebuke them in a proper way that will either help them do chuva or at the very least warn other people not to follow those wicked people. All of these character traits that a person has, says the rabbi, he uses them as part of his intellect rather than lusts. And just like we learned in the Jewish Ashkafa series, the taught that a person that wants to become elevated has to fix their character traits to the point where all of the character traits and the body follow the intellect rather than the feelings and the desires. So here we see Not just a answer, but an indisputable explanation of why those people that decided to isolate themselves from the world, from their family, from their kids, from their spouse, from uh business, from everything as a part of their religious observance made a mistake of a lifetime. Who told you to isolate yourself? And the one common denominator in a 100% of the cases is that these people do not have a rabbi. They ask, they don't have data to they just decide themselves. They think that you have to go into the desert by yourself in order to be righteous. And that's wrong. It's the opposite. You're going to need to communicate with people and need to know how to. You're going to need to see things and even enjoy things in this world. You just need to know how to did not bring us to this world just to suffer by ourselves. In fact, it's the opposite. When Raadis Rudis went to the Kazonish many years ago, he asked him if the rabbi agrees with his idea to isolate himself, put himself in a room for 10 years without leaving. Of course, arrange for food to come and, you know, close bathroom, but other than that, never leave the house, never leave the room for 10 years. so he could elevate himself, so he could just focus on that's it. Told him do not do that. He said, "I did it for 5 years and I nearly went crazy. I overcame it, but I don't recommend it for anybody. In fact, one of the main things that you learned from the Torah is that created a world in order for us to benefit from it. In fact, says that a Nazil, you know, Naz is someone who takes a vow not to drink wine, can't eat grapes, and uh cannot be next to any uh dead bodies, can't cut his hair, and then when he finishes this vow, he has to bring a sacrifice. Yezel says he's considered a sinner. That's why he has to bring a sacrifice because he did not enjoy the world that Hashem provided him for all that year or two years or five years. In fact, Yz who was poor would save up the whole year where once a year he would buy something special for himself because he said as the Torah tells us created a beautiful world in order for us to enjoy it. But does that mean that a person needs to go on a vacation every day and live a vacation? No. Does that mean that a person's allowed to do everything that they want? No. What it means is is that the reason why made tasty food, beautiful scenery, many people, different ways that you could enjoy is because the Torah gives you a clear instructions of how to enjoy in a proper way. that is going to elevate you and get you closer to Hashem. So you want to enjoy, let's say, a nice meal. Is it just to make yourself fatter? Is it just for the desire of lust? Or is it so you have more energy to study more and do more and help and help other Jews? If you're going to eat in order to gain energy so you can learn more Torah, then enjoy the food. Buy a $150 steak if you want. No problem. If you're going to use that energy to go learn to extra after that, perfect. Absolutely perfect. In fact, would eat so much that other rabbis would seems like how could he how could you allow him eat so much? They would ask, "How could you allow your son to eat so much?" He says, "Watch what happens after he finishes learn after he finishes eating." As soon as he finished eating, he started learning to standing up for almost two days in a row. And Shimon says, "I'm the one that feeds him that way because I know what he's going to do with all that with all that energy that he has. He's not eating to get fatter to to satisfy his taste buds. is eating for the sake of doing the will of Hashem. Now, you want to go do business, make money, sure. Is it so you could buy more fancy cars and houses and show off to people and pretend as if you're like a little mini god? Or is it so you could do more and help your fellow Jews, help the world of Torah, help others elevate themselves even further because of this gift that Hashem gave you of more money? If it's to buy Ferraris and Lamborghinis and big houses and vacations and show off, then no, that's not a noble reason. That's not a uh that's not the reason why Hashem gave you the ability to make a lot of money. But if you're going to use a portion of that money to bring more Torah to the world to do more good, then certainly go work. Go do what you have to do to make billions, not just millions. Now this person says, "Yeah, but I like to exercise. I like to play soccer. I like to play basketball. I like to do all those things. Run around." Sure. Are you running around because you want to beat people and show them you're the best, you're the fastest, you have the best body, or are you doing all of that so you can now have an easier time learning for more, an easier time to do more, to elevate yourself, to get closer to Hashem. As a result, you'll be able to learn for longer. As a result, you'll be able to do with your body. As a result, you'll be healthy and be able to comprehend what you're learning. Why are you exercising? Why are you playing all of this? If you're playing so you could use all that new energy, all of that beneficial uh benefits of of good health in order to serve Hashem better, then absolutely you should exercise. absolutely should play the soccer and the baseball and whatever it is that's going to make you a better person when it comes to serving Hashem. But if it's just for the purpose of telling everybody you're the best player and you hit the ball the best and you kick the ball the best and you are then no absolutely no. In so many words, all of the joys of the world can be enjoyed according to the Torah. The question is why are you doing it? Are you doing it in order to become one with material or are you doing it in order to elevate yourself to become closer to being one with Hashem? If you're doing it to become closer to Hashem, there's no problem of enjoying this world. And that's why when a person isolates themsself, it's not just that they're no longer going to be living a normal life with the wife and kids, husband, kids, whatever it is, but rather they're going to torture themselves and not allow themselves the permissible joys of this world. Whether it's conversation with people, communication, exchanging of ideas, enjoying a good food, all of the different things that says, "I put this in this world for you to enjoy it, not for you to uh pretend like you're some uh some snake that only eats sand." At the same token, if you're only eating, eating, eating, eating, and then by the time you finish eating, there's no you don't you don't want to learn Tawa. You never intended on learning Tawa. You just want to eat and eat and eat and enjoy this world and that's it. Then of course, you're not using the gifts that I gave you for the right reason. And that's why when parents actually come for guidance and they say, "Listen, my kids, you know, become we become religious. I don't know what to do with them anymore because we're not allowed to do this. We're not allowed to do this. We're not allowed to do this. And I ask him all the time, "Who told you you're not allowed? You're allowed to a uh play with the ball. You're allowed to play in the water if you I don't know if you have a pool or something. It's just that you have to make sure that you take into consideration the laws of modesty. You're allowed to exercise. You're just not allowed to exercise in a mixed gym where there's boys and girls exercising together. So if you're a boy, you go only to a male only gym. If you're a girl, you could go to a female only gym. That's it. Well, no one's telling you not to exercise. No one's telling you not to eat. We're just telling you eat kosher food and eat it for the proper reason. You say, "Well, I can't learn to all the time. First of all, it could be a woman. I'm not learning to all the time. Or it's a man and I'm working." No, no, no. We're not saying only eat so you could learn Tawa, but rather you're eating so you have energy, so you could work, so you could do good at your work and therefore get a promotion, therefore make money, and use that money to aside from provide for your basic needs, but also use that money to promote the Torah, to promote Hashem's Hashem's will, to help other Jews do cha. So yes, go eat, get strength, do good at work, and use the money to do good things. Of course, you have to still learn Torah, but the point is you can do what you want to do. You just have to have the right plan of how to do it, which means having Hashem in mind at all times of the of all times. That has to be the ultimate motivation. And when a person does that, they can elevate themselves both spiritually and physically much much more than the so-called isolated religious person can. Now, as a explanation and clarification before we finish, for those that say, "Well, does that mean that I could have a million friends like I did in high school and I can go wherever I?" No. Like I said, everything has to be done with wisdom. To maintain so many relationships is going to be impossible for you if and still give you enough time to learn to. So certainly you could have a friend friends but you have to also keep it to a a uh certain amount of control under it. Number one because of the time and number two because it's very hard to find like-minded people. You can't continue being friends with criminals that are trying to convince you to go be a criminal too and not be affected. So you have to also choose your friends wisely. But even if you have let's say for example family members or even friends just because you become religious doesn't mean that you disconnect from them maintain the relationship but also hold your ground and say this is this is the way I live and perhaps over time you'll be able to influence them not necessarily by yelling at them and screaming at them but rather by showing them that you're actually enjoying life. You're enjoying the life of Torah. And when a person enjoys the life of Torah and they walk around with a smile on their face, that could produce more desire for people to follow in their footsteps than all the yelling in the world. You could yell at people and tell them, "Listen, you're going against God. you're going against Gome. You may catch a few fish here and there, but most people going to run away from you. But if you show them that the Torah that you're learning, which also includes reward and punishment that sometimes you need to think about and perhaps some people more than others, but nonetheless, that's not your entire life. Your entire life is not just worry about being burnt because you have to do your homework. If you're in school, you have to go eat lunch, you have to uh go to work, you have to function in life. So certainly the fundamentals of Judaism are always on your mind. But at the same token, you didn't come to this world to suffer. You came to this world to show how you can live a happy life without missing out on everything like people think. But at the same token, when you show people that it's due to the Torah that you're enjoying life and not due to your exercise and not due to your extra money and not due to whatever other material benefit when you show it's due to the Torah that I'm enjoying money because I enjoy money because I give and I and I made money because I give and I do good things with the money. And therefore, when you show them that it's all connected to the Torah, that becomes a that becomes a kushm. But at some point or another, a person is going to have to understand that just like your hand that has five fingers, all of them are different sizes. All people are different. Which means that you're not going to find a community where everyone is just like you. In fact, you will not not only not find it, it doesn't exist. But that does not mean that you need to now isolate yourself and never go anywhere. Rather, you should be that pillar of truth, that pillar of good, that pillar of happiness that could find a way to help those that are around you. More than once, twice, or even a dozen times, people that were new on their path and were moving to communities or want to move to communities said, "No, I can't find anything." So, why can't you find anything? No, this uh synagogue next to me, you know, it's orthodox, but uh look, they have a picture on their website and there's a not modest uh you know uh woman on it uh next to all the people or in this synagogue, you know, I I went there a couple times and once in you know sometimes people talk there in prayerib everywhere is like that. Even if you go to Benraim or you go anywhere in the world is going to have every place has some type of issue. Some it's lack of modesty, some it's a lack of some it's this, some it's that. When I went to Yushim, most religious place on earth community, one of the first things that I said in in my my sh over there was a indirect rebuke to some of the people in the kila that were talking during prayer. Certainly they were shocked. Certainly they didn't exactly like it, but they listened. For years they've been doing it. No one said anything in boim they heard. But the point is that this problem exists everywhere. So if you're going to look for the perfect place, you're going to end up forcing yourself to isolate yourself, which we just learned is not the will of Hashem. So what do you do? You have to find the best that you can get. The best that you can get. Okay. So they're orthodox. They have they have this. They have most of the things that necessary. Okay. So the women side they're not exactly modest. Okay. Don't look that way. Don't look that way. You're a guy. You're on the guy section. Well, you know the women are coming. Stay at the guy section. Who told you to go to the women's side? Who told you to look at them anyway? Oh, but I'm a woman and I hate seeing it that when I go to the women's section, the women are not modest. Why does it matter to you? Who? Why are you looking at them? Look at the sided. Look at the kesh. Perhaps you could become friendly with one of them and convince them to become more modest over time. Show them how you have a beautiful modest dress and how you have beautiful modest shoes and how it's beautiful to be classy. The point being is that when a person is overly righteous in their mind, they'll end up isolating themselves either physically or mentally where they're simply not going to allow themselves to tolerate anybody else because they won't think that anybody else is righteous like them. The truth is that type of mentality is wicked. That type of mentality is wicked. It's arrogant and it's wrong. So yes, there's going to be sometimes people that are not modest and sometimes there's going to be people that are not exactly focused and sometimes going to be people that need a little work when it comes to and sometimes there's going to be this and sometimes going to be that. Instead of being someone that runs away from everything and just to save yourself, why don't you be the voice of reason, the voice of inspiration, the voice of truth? We're not saying become like them. We're not saying agree with them. We're not saying ignore what they're doing to the point where it's okay all the no simply saying that you have to use the wisdom that gave you and different tools to try to inspire people. Sometimes it's by saying a good word. Sometimes it's by giving them a book, a lecture, arranging an event. Sometimes it's simply by praying for them. Sometimes it's simply by praying for them. when one rush yesa came to uh Steinman about a boy that he uh decided to throw out of the yeshiva Steinman said what's his mother's name and Rasha says I don't know Steinman was shocked what do you mean you don't know how could you not know Rabbi I don't remember everybody's mother's name no I'm not saying everybody I'm saying this boy that you want to throw out how do you not know his mother's says, "Why would I know his mother's name?" Steinman looks at him. He says, "You're telling me that you want to throw him out and you haven't prayed for him for at least 40 days straight, which means that you would know his mother's name. You want to throw him out before you even prayed for him." This is data. You want to help people, help them by contributing. Help them by being the righteous person that's a leader that helps others. Whether it's with money or it's with good words of the Torah or it's positive influence of the Torah, help them follow in the footsteps that you went. And I can tell you this, the greatest sign of ungratefulness for the kindness that Hashem showed a person is when they do chuva, but they don't help others do it. Because the reality is that if you did not do chuva, you know that you would not only be in a one-way ticket to gum forever and eternal suffering, but also your life would be much much worse than you can imagine. Whether it's drug addiction and other addictions and all types of other things. So the fact that Hashem gave you an opening and allowed you to do chuva that you have to show gratitude not only by continuing to serve Hashem but also by sharing sharing that opening with others to help other people do chuva. The worst type of people that I've seen in my life are people that have done chuva and now want to separate themselves from everyone else because they don't care about anybody else doing chuva. They just care about themselves. What happened? Why don't you show other people the same path that you went on? Show them the directions. I'm not saying be a speaker. I'm not saying leave your job and start going from door to door. But at the very least do something whether it's with money, time, effort, whatever it is to help other people following the same path you went. Don't just save yourself and be uh selfish. That didn't work out too well for Noah. Be like Abrau. Be like Mosher Rabenu. be like the greatest sadikim in the history of am is that never ever gave up on their people and continue doing whatever they could. Sometimes it's a rebuke, sometimes it's guidance, sometimes it's an investment, sometimes it's investment of time, sometimes investments of money, sometimes investment of knowledge. But don't just think to yourself that you are so righteous, you can't even be next to anybody else. Because if that's your way of thought, not only are you wrong, you're not even righteous. You're simply deluded. This will be heard by the people that are deluded and will wake them up. and make them show their gratitude by showing others the path in the countless ways that are possible. And anyone that wants ideas, you could just go to our website, the Bzishim website under the ebook section, there's a PDF, an interactive PDF called Guide to Kiru. And there are countless ideas of how you could help is with our organization or on your own if you want. But by all means there are many many ways to do it. Show the ultimate gratitude by helping other people do chuva. Making care of your number one investment of money, of time, of effort aside from what your own basic needs are. That's the ultimate way to say thank you to Hashem for allowing you to be on that right path. You know, it took a lot of time and effort to study for this lecture and I really hope that you're enjoying it and really growing with every word cuz I did. If you liked it, if you're enjoying the constant challenge from the Torah, then please like, subscribe, and make sure to share with the people that you care about because you could end up changing their eternity. Thanks again for learning with me. And now back to the lecture. Okay, with that being said, you guys can start asking some questions of who will give us the answers. Rabbi, may a lady learn Torah also learn at night? Well, a woman has to learn Torah that is applicable to her. So for her to learn, let's say for example, the Talmud is not relevant because that most of it is not relevant to her. So a Jewish woman needs to learn Musar, which is character development, the laws that are relevant to her, whether it's family purity or laws of Shabbat, holidays, kosher. Uh she also needs to learn the Tanakh, five books of Moses, and the other 19 books after it of the prophets and the writings with the commentaries. So certainly there's plenty of Torah for a woman to learn. Uh and she has to focus on the things that are relevant to her. Sure. No, I have not uh given a lecture in Lakewood anytime soon, but as far as ever, yeah, I did uh I think a couple times. I once was in a school there. I forget the name of the school because that was maybe seven, eight years ago. H off. See? Have you come to Canada? Uh, yes. I've done a few lectures in Canada. with so much immodesty in the world. How to guard your eyes without being rude and staring at the ground in public? Uh very simple. If you watch my lectures about kadusha, there's a whole playlist uh on the YouTube channel and also on the our batm app and there's a whole guide of tuna that we have an interactive guide. If you watch those lectures in those lectures, I don't just talk about punishments for for for for sinning. I also give strategies of how to overcome the obstacles. One of them is how to function in life. So the sages teach us a person should know uh should look no more than four amut in front of him meaning a uh no more than 8 ft in front of you. No more than 8 ft. You don't need to look down the road. So if you limit your uh uh your sight to seeing simply just what's in front of you, you're not looking down at your feet. you're looking somewhere slanted where you're looking to see just a few feet ahead of you. Then even if you see that someone that's im is coming your way, you already know how to react ahead of time. But if you walk around like everybody else with the head high, then you're going to see everything. You're going to see the billboards, you're going to see the signs, you're going to see the people, you're going to see the animals, you're going to see the the zoo. So you simply look at what have said. They tell you how to walk. Not just today, even at the time of Mosher Rabenu, even at the time, even of the time of the uh you know the uh the Rambam, there's always been protection of eyes. Now, certainly the modesty has become almost like a uh foreign word to most people over the last 120 years. uh but needless to say still exists in certain communities. But even in those communities, there are some immodest people. Even if you go into the most uh religious communities, there's always going to be some thorn sticking out from the side that's not modest. Which means that everybody has to know that they there's going to be modesty. Even if all of the women are modest, that still doesn't give you as a man. There's no no permission for you to look at modest women in a in in a uh you know like you still have to limit your uh your your staring at women. Even if they are modest, even if it's a uh old grandmother, you're not allowed to stare at her. Why? you have you can't follow uh what your heart desires as a result of what your eyes see. But that doesn't mean that you can't look at them once when it's in your light of uh sight of uh uh in front of you in your line of sight and to see who's in front of you to to acknowledge to say uh you know a quick hello is a is as a part of being cordial. There's no problem if let's say it's a coworker or something like that. The the key is to make sure you protect your eyes that it doesn't go beyond that. It doesn't go beyond that. But as far as how to function, how to operate, all of that is in our lectures. All of that is in the uh things that we've uh talked about over the years. And if you watch it, you invest the time, you'll know which one to study first, to the Kuzari or to D'vorah. I'm a female. uh the kuzari for sure and I wouldn't necessarily recommend uh studying to dorah not just for a uh a woman but even for a person a man that's relatively new to the Torah is very very deep uh and uh has some topics in it that are very very high that could cause a lot of confusion for people that are not well-versed in a Torah for many years so I don't think it's appropriate for uh everybody. Uh the Kuzari on the other hand is talking about all the fundamentals of Judaism and even though there are very very deep ideas in it, there's uh um it's specifically for people that are looking to know the uh you know all of the foundations of of the Torah. Rabbi, I'm socially awkward. What do I do? Stop being awkward. If you don't know how to stop being awkward, then work on it. Work on uh you know, recognize what you do that is uh that is awkward and try to fix it. What what you do that makes other people feel uncomfortable. Is one allowed to put on sunscreen on Shabbat? No. because it's uh usually not going to be uh absorbed by the skin completely with many of them. But if it's something that could be completely absorbed by the uh your skillet, let's say if you put it on your hand or something like that, it's completely absorbed by your skin, then that's less of an issue. But usually there's no reason to put sunscreen on Shabbat. Why do you need to put on sunscreen? You're not going to the beach. Rabbi, is it okay for a father to help correct the son with sentences during prayer? Um, that depends. Number one, how old is the son? Number two, what is the father doing during that time? Uh, is he in the middle of prayer also? Is he not? Uh, generally, it's part of it's important for the father to help his uh his children learn how to pray. uh and there's even certain things that are exceptions that uh people wouldn't know is even possible. For example, I can tell you that uh we recently start I started with one of my kids uh to pray with him uh that to teach him how to do Amida. Now he's very little uh and uh and still very young. So, but he's also a very smart kid and he's very uh you know he's he loves Hashem. So I don't want to just like teach him okay say this when he gets I want to teach him I want to actually pray with him. So what am I doing? One of the prayers that I do each day I pray together with him where I say a few words and then he says he repeats after me. Now you're going to ask wait are you saying even amid where you're supposed to be silent? Yes, even amida when I'm supposed to be silent because for the sake of there's no problem of me saying the uh or you saying the out loud in order for you to teach your kid. So I'll say I'll actually say the name of hemat and I'll say and obviously I'll use the real name of because I'm praying also it's not I'm not practicing I'm actually praying and he's going to say the same exact words and then we'll say the next few words and we're going to continue and little by little he continues to learn more and more and he starts learning more by heart and he starts remembering it. And guess what I told him today? Soon I'm going to have to repeat after you. You're getting better than me. But the point is is that a person needs to know that it's a Torah obligation for a father to teach his son. Torah obligation for a father to teach his son, father to teach his children Torah, to to part of Torah is knowing how to pray. Now, you also have to pick a time and a place to do it and how to do it. So, if you're at home and you you're you're praying with your uh kids and you're correcting them, there's no problem there. But if you're going to a synagogue and uh there's a lot of people there and your son makes a mistake and you say, "No, no, no. You should have said that. You should have said this." You have to understand that right now, yes, you may think that you're correcting him, but in his mind, you just murdered him. Why? Because you embarrassed him because other people could hear. So you have to be very cognizant of of not just what's the right answer but also when is the right time to say that right answer. In fact the says there are certain things that even if you see your children do that's against the Torah but they're a very very young age don't say anything. Why? because again when they're very very young there's obviously no uh the obligation is is not the same. Number two, you can't attack them on every single mistake that they make. You have to know when and how. So in regards to teaching your kid and telling them that he said he pronounced something incorrectly, no problem. But you also have to pick the right time and you have to make sure that you do it in a way that the child is not embarrassed. Some parents, for whatever reason or another, they like embarrassing their kids. I don't know why. I don't know. Like people have this like bully mentality where they like to embarrass their kids. Ah, stupid. You don't know what you're talking about. Like they insult their kids because they that's not the right way. You have to respect your kids. You have to uh uh of course always keep that certain level of distance where you're the parent and they're the child, but that doesn't mean that doesn't give you the right to abuse them or insult them or minimize them. You have to understand that if you treat them properly, they're not only going to love you, they're going to love Hashem and the Torah. But if you're going to treat mistreat them, they're not only going to hate you, they're going to hate Hashem and the Torah because they're going to blame one on the other. So it's very important that if you teach your kids, you have a lot of patience and you know the right time and place to do certain things and how to do it. So even if let's say for example you're in shul and your son let's say makes a mistake don't say ah no you did something wrong. No no no you could whisp it to him or you could even guess what you could just be quiet and not say anything and after the shul when you're walking home and it's just you and him you could tell him oh by the way uh I heard uh that this is pronounced that way and that's good. You don't have to be like a an alarm clock or not alarm clock a like a like a one of those alarms for the houses that as soon as the sensor is broken uh you uh immediately react. Sometimes you can correct them an hour later, a day later, a week later and sometimes even longer. So you have to be cognizant of the uh uh how it affects them. Some kids you could speak to them in ways where you're open with them and you're clear with them and they're very good with it. But some kids are very sensitive. So you have to speak to them differently. You have to speak to I know some of my kids when I say certain things to them some say yeah okay no problem. You know whatever it is even if I'm rebuking them about something there it's no problem. others even if I say one thing that uh is like in some direction that they don't want or immediately it's like they become emotional and they'll even cry. So you have to know how there's no there's no uh benefit in just making people cry. So you have to know how to treat each one because each child is different than the other. You have to if if you have students or if you have uh uh friends, people that are new to the Torah, you have to be patient with certain people and understand that mistakes are not sins that are uh that you get death penalty for. In fact, even if somebody mistakenly uh violated Shabbat, all they have to do at time of the bet is bring a sacrifice. Bring a sacrifice. But embarrassing a person in public, it's a it's a the uh divine death penalty. So we have to be cognizant of it, know how it affects the the person specifically based on their personality, based on the environment. But last but not least, with all of the warnings that I just said, this does not mean don't fix anything and let them continue making mistakes for the rest of their life. A parent that does not correct their children is an evil parent. Why? If they're going in the wrong direction and you don't say anything, they're going to continue going in the wrong direction and the damage will keep getting bigger and bigger. That's what the rabbi of uh Shaulik uh taught him uh one word incorrectly and because of that Shaul did not destroy Amalik. Because of that he didn't destroy Amalik because he thought that that's the right thing to do and it was because the rabbi did not did not correct him when he made a mistake on one word. So, it's important to correct your kids when they're mispronouncing certain things or where they make the wrong blessing. But you have to know how to do it, when to do it. And each kid is different. Okay. What do I do if I can't sleep at night? Because sleep is very good. Learn Tawra and you know you the Satan will make you very tired but learn Torah from a book. Something sometimes learning Torah from a video makes you stay up for even longer. Learn Taw to a book. Uh I do share your lectures online on Facebook and I started giving the Kiru books. Um okay very good and uh good good keep doing it. Would you ever do a standalone series on books like Mishle or Cohellet going verse by verse? uh would I ever ever is a very long time but most likely it doesn't uh make sense to go verse by verse uh because it would simply take too long and I wouldn't be able to do to study a lot of other things and teach a lot of the things uh Rabbi is it okay for a father oh no we read this one already I have trouble with lust I tried to guard my eyes and I deleted all social media and it still fails upon me uh Word of advice. Yes. Go to my website bzashem.org and uh there's a ebooks section in there. There's something called tikun bleet or or guide for tuna bleet. Download it. It's free. Download it and go through every single part of it. Watch all the lectures that are on it and uh you'll see that this will transform your life. Can I have a blessing? My dental surgery is next week that that it goes well. What are you willing to take upon yourself that's going to make the blessing work? One of the things I learned from my Rav is that when uh giving somebody a blessing, they have to take some type of mitzvah on uh in order for that blessing to have the uh the uh the to work because the blessing um is good. It's important. It's a uh it's something that's you could get even from a common person. But the blessing needs fuel just like a uh the uh the act that the good deed that you do is the uh is the ground where there's the uh seed and the blessing is the water. But without the seed, the blessing doesn't work. So you what kind of uh mitzvah are you taking on yourself that's going to make the blessing work? you take something on, tell me what it is, and I'll be happy to give you a blessing right here live. Uh, as far as who's a heretic and who's not in regards to the whole manis thing, whoever teaches the same thing as Manis Freedman is a heretic. Doesn't matter which place they're in. Whoever tells you God needs you is a heretic. Whoever tells you that there's no reward and punishment is a heretic. Simple. Stay away from them. And whoever is even like them. How should a no protect him or herself at a workplace in today's generation with all the immorality that's being promoted? Uh number one, don't uh make don't go to work making friends. Meaning don't socialize personally at work. Focus on your job. And I think that's already more than enough. Number two, preserve yourself. Be conservative person. Be modest and uh be professional. Please can you explain what the meaning of the uh copper serpent that Mosherenu made is? Why have the permission to destroy it? So the uh the serpent the tells us that toldu to make this uh copper serpent and put it on top of the mountain um to get people to look at it. As soon as people looked at it because those snakes were biting them. People looked at it but then they saw the heavens behind it. They saw the sky behind it and they would be reminded to pray to Hashem to save them. And anyone that uh did that, Hashem healed them. Hashem saved them. So now, but this particular uh serpent in later years at the time of since it was very uh uh you know very uh important thing that happened. It was at the hands of Mosher Rabenu. Some people turned it into a uh into an idol. They started praying to it. So destroyed it. He didn't want anyone to uh pray to it to go against Hashem. So he destroyed it. The says that uh also destroyed the uh the special sephil that had all of the cures for every disease. People would get sick. They would get cancer. They would get uh you know the worst types of diseases in the world. They would come to this book, open the book, open up a couple of pages, look up for their disease. Oh, okay. Do this, this, and this, and you're cured. They would do it, and that's it. They were cured. Destroyed that also. Why? Because uh he saw that people stopped praying for Hashem for salvation. They in essence, you know, just went to the book and that's it. They wouldn't pray to Hashem. So, this was not good for so he destroyed it. He destroyed it. And there was says there was a few things that did that agreed with him and said it was good what he did. Rabbi thank you for the amazing recent sh on the modern day kak amazing se you've produced I look forward to reading it. By the way, tradition says that is buried in Jerusalem and also Jerusalem is is ganed. So when Adam was allowed to come back, no tradition does not say that is in Jerusalem. Tradition says that is the same place that buried. So I'm not sure which tradition you're talking about, but Jewish tradition says that How is the bronze serpent not idol worship? Nobody ever prayed at the time of Mosherenu. Nobody prayed to the to the uh uh to the serpent. This was in essence just to get people to look at something that was shiny. So for example, if uh if if you ever went to a uh a kid's doctor um and usually when they try to get let's say if they have to give the uh the child uh a shot and kids are scared they see a needle and they're scared even by looking at it they start crying. So you could either, you know, be vicious and not care what the kid's doing or you could do this. What are you doing there? The kid's going to look at, oh, look, look, hands, fingers, fingers. What? He's getting sound. You Why are you doing it? Are you making music? No. You're getting the kid's attention. He's looking at that while you quickly give the kid a shot. And by the time he realized he got the shot already, he's forgot whether he's supposed to cry or smile or whatever it is, you're finished. same thing that you have to do sometimes with older people. You have to get their attention uh in in different ways in different ways in order to deliver the message. Uh so the same concept here human human nature is human nature and uh when a bunch of snakes were uh were biting people and killing them is very hard to get their attention by saying yo they're not they're not they're not going to do it. They're they're running away from snakes. But when the people were after they got bitten, they were on the floor, they were dying, and yet they saw something was shining in the sky. Naturally, they looked at it. When they looked at it, they also looked at what's behind it, which is the heavens. And then they end up doing cha and Hashem revived them. Is there a reason why both Aon and Miriam died in the same pala? The uh puts everything for endless amount of reasons that are beyond our uh thing. But one of the things we also see is that even the way that the Torah is uh is is divided teaches us that uh when there's bad news made it specific at certain sections and also not too not consecutive. So there's certain segments for example uh in the Torah where you see that am got punished they did something bad they got punished you know let's say two par in a row and then there is a uh section that has took place many years before these bad things but Hashem inserted it over there in order for it not to directly connect the text to the very next thing that happened which was also So sin and punishment. So in essence the same concept here where these major things happened where a uh passed away. This was obviously very tragic uh for Is so therefore condensed it to be uh in a in one place and not spread it out further. But of course there are endless other reasons. This is just a simple explanation of just the ways of the of why does Cain and Abel sound like cannibal in English it does but that's not the words Cain and Abel are not Cain and Ael in Hebrew the whole language Kain is K and Abel is e so e doesn't sound really cannibal. But uh on your way on your website, there's a wasting seed part. If not, what section do I click to download the books? On the top left, I believe there is uh I think something like uh education and then there's uh ebooks. There's a section called ebooks in one under one of the tabs. Once you go there, it opens up uh six ebooks at a time. If you don't see tuna bleet on one of the PDFs, just press the uh arrow to move to the next six. At some point, you're going to see a PDF that has uh the tuna bleet. are past lost Jews. They match all the signs of being near mountains, warriors, and so on. Are they Jews? It's possible, but uh we're only going to know once Mashiah comes. Would it be okay for a man to perform the purification ritual and shave all of his hair before taking on a big Torah commitment? That's not uh it's not something that we do today. It's not you're not at the time of the mikdash. You can't purify yourself that way. You're not a coin. You're not time of the mikdash. It's not really relevant. You're just deluding yourself to thinking that this is going to make you holier. It's not going to do anything for you. Why are Samaritans not part of the Jewish people? Because they separated themselves from Mis went against God. Uh all right. Thank you for the answer. I confuse the city of Jewish but the question remains. is the place where is and also Ganedin. Was allowed to go back to Ganed? No, not there. There's there's two there's more than one Ganed. There's Ganedin in the in this physical world. There's also a heavenly ganed. Uh so he's not in he didn't go back to the physical Ganed here. Once he got kicked out, he get kicked out. There was even uh angels at the uh gate of Ganedan uh that would not allow anyone in what complete set do you recommend? uh there is itself has not been translated to English but I wouldn't recommend for people to learn the um anyway because a lot of the things that are in uh are not relevant to a uh a somebody that's new to the Torah. What they need to learn is is the laws that are applicable to today. So if you're a sphartic Jew, then I would recommend getting yourself the Yakut, which is the work of Ra and also Rab uh that takes the uh laws of the and shows you how to apply them to today's world. And you have that in English, in Hebrew, in French. I believe it's also maybe even in Spanish. So uh you could get the Yutf Uh that's uh that's uh very good. Can you answer my question? I don't know what your question is. You just wasted your opportunity to ask a question by saying can you answer the question? All right, couple more. Is gambling a sin? Yeah, have a um I have several u videos about it. Uh gambling for a Jew is a very big problem because when you're sitting down to gamble with somebody else, you're sitting down because you're assuming that you're going to win. And therefore, when you lose, the other person takes the money from you. Even though that's the rules of the game, in reality, had you known that for sure you're going to lose, you would not play. Nobody in their right mind would just go there if they knew guarantee they're going to lose. Everybody thinks they're going to win. So that means that when you give the money that you've lost to the other party, you don't you're not giving it willingly and therefore it's considered as if they're stealing from you or if you win, it's considered as if you're stealing from the other person. That's one of the major problems the sages bring up that g gambling is considered stealing. The second thing is is that a uh this is not good for the ways of the world. Meaning that if a person would just gamble for a living all the time. He would not be productive for society. He would not be uh uh good for society. This is not the right way to live. So that's the second problem with it. The third problem with it is that it's moshim. It's a place of scorners. you know, casinos and uh card rooms and places like that is not exactly comprised of uh decent upstanding people. There's crooks, liars, addicts, degenerates, thieves, and all of the uh bottom of the barrel people are usually the ones that are in the places. Now certainly there are some people that are decent people overall um and uh like to gamble. Uh so it's not that every single person is a thief or every single person is a uh the things that I said but generally speaking the the the uh the environment itself is comprised of a majority of those types of people and therefore it's also not good. So there's multiple different reasons of why gambling is not good. But again, whether it's the stealing part or it's mushim or it's a place of uh uh where um it's a not good for the world. All types of things. Everybody understands that gambling is not uh is not exactly a good thing. Even the people that gamble and win know it's not a good thing. Does the same problem apply to gambling and lottery? It depends what you mean by gambling and lottery. If you mean by uh putting a lot of money to buy lottery tickets, uh then yes, it's the same thing. But if you mean uh buying a lottery ticket for $1 or something that's considered a pa uh you know then no, it's not. There are some leniencies to be able to buy a lottery ticket for you know a1 or $2 or whatever it is that's considered a pa. But these people that spend, you know, 10, 20, $50, $100 buying tickets, they're Yeah. Then that's the same thing. They're the they're gamblers. It's not a uh it's not a good uh thing to do. How do you respond to someone saying ma doesn't work because some rabbis in the past lived in poverty if they were very likely to give mas weren't rewarded? Uh you say to those people that uh deals with people the way that they could handle be done. If they were sadikim, if they were righteous people, then many times they did not give ma because they wanted to be rich. They gave ma because they wanted to do the will of hashem. In fact, when uh uh somebody uh uh saw the give his son a blessing, um he saw that the said that he doesn't you know he blessed his son to never become rich. So the person asked the why would you uh give him such a thing? I mean isn't it good to be rich? He says no I know it's good for my son. It's not good for him to be rich. So while the average person out there thinks that being rich uh is a is a good thing, the truth is that being rich is a bigger test spiritually than being poor. So giving the sole purpose of it is not just to become rich. It's uh to do the will of Hashem. Now certainly giving ma is a good thing and certainly if a person follows what the say and they're at the level where hashem knows this is the person I'm going to give him success as a result of it that hashm will give them success but uh make the person very very rich but there are certain people that are so elevated as far as spirituality is concerned that they themselves don't want to be rich because they don't want that test they don't want the test of being rich in In fact, one of the things the GMA says about Rabi Dani Rabu Dani was the richest man of the land. He's also the one that wrote the Mishna. Uh he's also the one who wrote uh uh the um several other things. Uh and uh one of them being Perik and anyway was very very rich. But at the end of his days, he uh he looked up to Shmim and he told he said to Hashem, "You know that I did not enjoy all this uh all this wealth even as much as my finger, my small pinky finger." Meaning that as much as as rich as he was, it was a burden for him. In essence, it wasn't uh like the pleasures of this world like people do today. He used the money to publicize more Tawra to help the poor people to to do the will of Hashem. So for a person like that, Hashem gave him wealth and he used it the proper way. Most people don't use their wealth that uh that way and therefore it's better for them not to become rich. But if a person is a uh you know is uh doing what Hashem says as far as giving m is very very particular about it then uh they can become rich. There's no there's no question about it. The there's no issue with that did not become rich even though they gave m because again remember their desires are not the same thing as the average person's desire. I'm a doctor and I love to gamble. Okay. Not really sure what the point of that, but Rabbi, would you consider a series on the par with commentary by Enkulos? I've already done it. I've done it. I've done it for over the years. If you look at there's a playlist of different uh I believe every par of the Torah I have at least one or two lectures about it. Rabbi, can we do Ku during the three weeks between the 17th of Tamuz and 9th of O? Absolutely. My friend eats kosher, but when we travel, he eats nothing. I tell him, "This isn't right. Who's wrong? What do you mean he eats nothing? What does that mean? He eats nothing. How does he survive? If you travel or if you stay home, you have to eat kosher. If nothing is kosher is available, then he has to uh eat whatever is allowed such as fruits, vegetables, you know, nuts, things that don't require kashoot. But uh there's no permission to eat uh to eat non-coosher. He just starves instead of eating non-coosher. I I think you're exaggerating. If he could afford to go on vacation, I'm sure he could afford to buy himself a granola bar from the stro from the store. So, if you're saying that you're on vacation and he chooses to eat a granola bar or a banana that's kosher and you choose to eat, let's just say non-cooser burger, he's right and you're wrong because he's doing the will of Hashem and eating things that he's permitted whether he's on vacation or at home. And you left your uh you left your belief in God at home. I have a gambling addiction and I lost 7,000s. Any advice, please? stop gambling and find something else that occupies your mind that uh is not going to require all that money. You know, I would say read uh the hum, five books of Moses with commentary by Rashi. You could get if you don't have a copy of it, you get a one on archall.com. They they sell really good stuff. Um you could read a book called book, the uh duties of the heart, published by Feldheim or Art Scroll uh that um will teach you the purpose of life and including gambling, including business, including uh all the different things that you could ever think about during a lifetime. Um, and the more you occupy your mind, the less you're going to have a uh lust for uh quick wins, immediate gratification, and uh and and desire to gamble, but it's not an easy thing to uh to to overcome. You're not going to overcome it unless you replace it with something else. I used to play poker many years ago before I did Chuva and um it's certainly a uh you know the game itself is fun. So when I found out that it's not allowed, it wasn't a uh uh easy thing to do, but it was a necessary thing to do. When a person the more a person understands that they're in this world to do the will of God in order for them to benefit in order for you to benefit yourself, you're doing the will of God. you're doing what the Torah says, the easier it becomes for you to do, for you to stop doing things that you want to do, but you know you're not allowed to do. So, the reason why people continue doing things that are against the Torah is because they do not comprehend the ramifications of their actions. The more you believe the Torah, the more you understand the Torah, the more you understand your purpose and obligation in the world, the easier it is is to be to become someone that gives up on worldly desires. So the way for you to overcome it is the same way that I've overcome it and anybody else that has done chuva has overcome it, which is simply to learn more Torah in order to understand your bigger purpose that's worth a whole lot more than $7,000 and a whole lot more than the uh the um the whole life of gambling. The other thing that you have to also understand is that generally speaking when it comes to gambling, you know, there's a uh no one ever wins other than the house. Like casinos are not built because people win in the casino. Casinos are built because people lose. In fact, even the so-called professional gamblers that are out there are people that lose the vast majority of their life. And they're generally speaking losers, even if they have a lot of money because the way they live their life, it's I've met quite a few of them in my past in past years. They're not exactly the uh nicest people. Let's just say that. uh they're not somebody that you'd want your kids to marry and they're certainly not somebody that uh you'd want to uh be uh alone with in a room to save your life. Uh so generally speaking, when a person is, you know, spends time in the world of gambling, the only thing that they're uh surrounding themselves with is people that are low lives. In addition to that, they're mistreating the blessing that God gave them and throwing it into garbage. just, you know, taking the money and just, you know, you worked for that $7,000. Who knows how many hours if you're if, let's say, for example, you uh make uh uh even $100 an hour. Even $100 an hour, just look at how many hours you had to work. You had to work several days in order to acquire that much money. Now, most people don't make $100 an hour. Most people probably making $15 an hour, $20 an hour, $30 an hour. So look how many hours you work to acquire that money and just throw it away. Just throw it away. So the more you start understanding that, you know, you have to respect the gifts that God gives you and you could do a lot more with it. You could help people that don't have food to eat. You could help people that uh you know that uh you know need uh need real help in life uh with that money and you and you can't do that now because you lost it. the more you understand the ramifications of of your actions, not just when it comes to the divine spiritual world, but also when it comes to the practical world. So, you're surrounded by degenerates. You're you're you're throwing away blessings that God gave you. And on top of it, even when you win, it's only temporary because all winning does is just entice you to come back and gamble even more, which means that eventually you're going to lose everything. So gambling is not good for a lot of reasons. Whether you want to use the Torah's reasons or you want to use the uh practical aspects of it as a justification to stop. Um doesn't matter which one you start with, but ultimately to stay away from gambling, you're going to need the bigger reason, which is the spiritual aspect of it. That's, you know, that's that's going to help you stay away from it because the practical parts of it, you can always rationalize your way out of it. Okay, we're uh take maybe one or two questions and we're done. It's been almost two and a half hours. Rabbi, can I have a blessing that our family will get our home in a few days? I will give my before the end of sunset tomorrow. The sooner you give your whatever good deed you're going to do, the sooner that fuel is going to go into the blessing inem that's going to be the blessing that will give you a lot of success to get the house and to bring a lot of good into the world as a result succeed. Why is mentioned with body part, hand, feet, voice, face? Uh well, the Rambam explains that there the Torah speaks in a language that humans would understand. Uh since it's for the purpose of humans to read, it's not for the purpose of God reading it to itself to himself. Uh so the Torah speaks in a language that we would understand. So if if uh God would uh explain things in a way we can't understand then we can't be expected to follow it. So when he says uh when it says that God was uh angry at something then we understand to humans we understand this is not good. This is not good. So the Torah speaks in a language that is easy for the ear as the sages explain. But it never means that God has a physicality as there's clear verses that God himself says he doesn't have a body or even the likeness of a body. How could I explain the new book against manis freedman the kofel to people who misinterpret the book by the title by simply telling them this is this book is a uh book that is um fighting against a heretical book that was published by Rabbi such and such that says things like god has a body or that uh god needs you instead of you need him. So this book is showing you the proofs from the Tawra that uh you know he is wrong. So in essence the reason why his book why this book is called too bad that you came to the world is because it's a direct response to his book which says I didn't ask to come to the world. That's it. Uh but uh that's the lengthy way of explaining it. The easiest way to explain it, oh no, this book is by and look and you open up the book and as soon as you open up the book there is the there is a uh words of support by some of the biggest rabbis in the last 100 years rase are different rabbis that have supported us over the years either myself ra or both of us. So these are the biggest rabbis in the world that uh you know that support us. So this is a uh book that is in response to someone that is distorting the words of the Torah. How do you say Hashem's name? You don't you don't say Hashem's name. Does the father teach on Shabbat? Is that the mother's role? Uh it depends depends uh you know a um what are they teaching and who but generally speaking it could be both. Why does it have to be one or the other? If the father's a good teacher and the children are receptive to him then by all means the father and every you know it could teach everyone including the mother. Uh but if uh the everyone's more receptive to uh the mother and the mother but generally speaking in a normal house it can be both. There's no uh there's no absolute rule that has to be I mean Okay, let's take one last question. I just Is learning Hebrew requirement to be Jewish if you're a convert? Absolutely not. It's not. You can go to my website.org or on the again the same section the uh uh ebook section there is a guide to conversion there uh interactive guide over there I have uh a lot of information about conversion and including lectures about the whole process of conversion what you need to learn and everything else and I speak about the fact that it's a big mistake it's a common mistake for people to think that they have to learn Hebrew in order to convert it's not true at I asked four times about not a good sign, but I'll keep asking if they are blasphemous, heretical. You're asking a question that you already know the answer to. So, I'm not exactly sure if you're just simply looking for attention or you're looking to make a clip. I've already said those rabbis like that guy Beton Bonak Beton or Bon whatever his name is uh he is absolutely an apical and I've said it and I'll say it again uh because he says things that are against the Torah. He's become uh one of the pro you know the the the uh little prodigies of manis freed men. He's trying to build himself a stage by saying the same exact thing and manipulating the Torah. So what he says is heretical. Now in addition to that he's not a nice person. He he says very very nasty things. He's a very not a nice person. Now on the other hand some of the other rabbis over there are not like him. Uh they may uh not uh battle against the manis heresy uh like they should but they're not promoting heresy like he does. But generally speaking, anyone that says, doesn't matter if it's or it's a uh planet Pluto, anyone that says things that are against the Torah is is a is a very very big problem. If they're saying things that are heretical, they're a heretic. Doesn't matter who they are. Uh so the book that we have has the clarifications of not only what Manis Friedman says, but also what the sages said. uh and a clear explanation of what everything is based on what the sages say and not based on my opinion or Robert Fry's opinion but rather based on what the sages say and from there anyone that reads it will understand why Manis is a heretic and why anyone that follows him and believes what he says is also a heretic even if they're not teaching it even if they're just following it and they say they agree with him that's heresy Now, it's a very very big problem. It's the biggest cancer we have in the Jewish world today. Uh that unfortunately people are unaware of to the level that they're supposed to. Uh but we're doing whatever we can to help them. But as far as I can't speak on every single rabbi that works on or because I don't know every single rabbi. I know that uh the uh Boton one he uh is the most problematic. I know that uh at least one or two other rabbis if I remember correctly have mentioned it like as almost like a side comment and trying to rationalize it whether it's a uh uh possible not possible but again even the ones that are trying to word it in a way that it's permissible clarify that they don't mean what manisman means. This is the same thing, and I'll finish with this point. This is the same thing as I tell people about the word Messiah or Messiah. When a Jew that believes in the Torah says Mashiach, they're referring to the descendant of King David, who is a human being, that when Hashem selects him to become Messiah, he will give him certain powers and abilities and so on. But this man that's will be become Mashiach is the son of a father and a mother that are humans. He's not the son of God. He's not an alien. He's not uh a angel. He's just like every other human being in the world born from a father and a mother. When the Christians and anyone that believes the New Testament says Messiah or Messiah, they're referring to their God, their idol. So it's the same word but two completely different meanings. So when it comes to the rabbis at when you have B button versus the others which I I'm sorry I don't remember the names of it's two different things. Why? When Bon says it he agrees with whatever Manis Friedman says even when Manis Friedman actually made fun of B button in his face button agreed with it. He he's almost like uh like idolizes him. It's very very strange and disgusting. But nonetheless, he agrees with everything the man says. What man says, it's like said it. It's disgusting and and and and really really just pitiful. But nonetheless, he means the same thing as what mana says. Whatever man says, that's what Bon says. He tries to reward it, read this, and read that. All with an effort to build himself a speech. When the other rabbi has said it clearly, he explains and shows that he does not mean what Manis says. Manis says there's as a result of God needs you. There's no reward and punishment. No one will get punished. He uh he's referring to the uh uh ganom is just a place you don't feel like a soul and that uh God's gonna say I'm sorry to you because of the exile and God has a body and uh that that that's real and yours is all types of nonsense. So Bon agrees with Manis regardless of what Manis says. The other rabbis actually have a brain. They are not in agreement with Manis. They're trying to reword and repackage his heresy into something that could potentially be said even if it shouldn't. In essence, they're trying to cushure this really that's a pig. But again, they give a clarification that they're not saying what matters. And anyone that reads the book because they can't stand to hear my voice because they can't stand to hear Robert Fry's voice and they don't want to believe us when we show them clips of what Manis Friedman actually says. You could simply buy the Manis Freedman book cuz we don't have it obviously. You could buy the book. He sells it in all the stores and then you can get our book for free. Free. and compare everything we wrote that he says versus what he actually writes in his book. And you'll see that everything is word for word. We didn't make up anything. And you'll see that what he says is against the Torah and is heresy. Simple. According to all opinions, the only people that agree with manis are people that simply do not understand the either the Torah or what man actually says. It's like simple like simple that same thing like what with with the whole uh word Messiah. When a person is first introduced to Christianity and they hear them saying Messiah and they hear a Jew say Messiah, they think that both mean the same thing. No, they don't. To New Testament believers, Messiah means word means for them God. That's what it means. God to us human being. human being, mother and father goes to the bathroom, eats, drinks, sleeps, righteous, special or ultimate salvation will be. Yes. But human being, human being born of a woman. So world of difference. World of difference. Idol in Christianity. Truth of Torah in Judaism. World of difference. Same concept here. Madness heresy. People that believe and follow what he says. Heresy against Tawra. Noah G forever. Horrible life. Horrible everything. People that go against them big reward. Hashem loves you. You're superheroes. people that don't want to be in the fight and they're trying to rationalize how the pig could somehow be kosher because maybe it's just looks like a pig but really it's it's it's soya. You have a different problem. It may not be outright heresy like manness, but you better pray that God doesn't prose prosecute against you for not fulfilling what the Torah says that when you have you see somebody doing something wrong, you have an obligation to go against it. You have an obligation to protest against the heretics. So you have to pray to Hashem that he doesn't prosecute that you are a heretic for not prosecuting because Am did not worship the golden calf. the did but got punished for the golden calf. Why? Because they didn't go against they didn't protest against so in so many words you have bad amazing and problematic. Choose wisely. Thank you very much for learning with me. May Hashem bless each and every single one of you that is learning Torah with us. Even more so if you're supporting, even more so if you're sharing. Andem we continue learning together. Anyone that wants to support can donate on our website.org. 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