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now if you start reading in the from the
toah or from the Sid in front of a yite
it's very likely that within about 5
Seconds he's going to rebuke you what's
closer to the authentic language and the
uh uh and the pronunciation of things
among everyone certainly it is the
amonites it's not everybody
else what's the deal I've been having to
go to ashaz the past couple of months
and it really drives me
nuts the way they say Sav instead of Tav
what does the take on
this uh well first off if you're Safari
go to a safari
Sho uh if you're ashkanazi go to
ashkanazi now you cannot
expect to uh go into a uh community that
has a different custom than you and
expect them to change in fact there's a
Torah
prohibition uh
of for you to uh show off your
customs in a different
community and uh you know so for example
if you're praying at a ashkanazi SCH
certainly in your Safari certainly you
pray with a safari Sid you don't pray
with asazi Sid
but if you are let's say if you move
into a if you're Safari and let's say uh
you know you are uh uh uh you have a
tradition to you know to I don't know do
certain things and you go into aish
Community you can't show off your Safari
uh uh uh customs and expect people to
change and and rebuke them for not doing
so uh because you're causing you're
causing uh uh uh fights inside a
community uh so you can't you can't do
stuff like that if you go to a community
you have to respect their customs and do
not ask anybody to change for you they
were there before you now on the other
hand if you have your community let's
just say yours is a uh ashkanazi
Community or Safari community and
somebody from the outside comes to visit
uh and uh they are uh uh you know
they're different than you you could
certainly ask them to respect your
Customs because they're coming to you
they're coming to your community uh but
to go to a different community and
expect them to change it's a Torah
violation uh now as far as uh not uh
liking uh the you know the the fact that
many
ashim pronounce words differently
than uh this is a uh you know this is a
long uh term situation this is not
something that started with you
there are some sages uh that
uh even from ashim that say that the uh
pronunciations uh in the world of
asaz uh have
a but there are certain things that are
incorrect meaning that they're saying
that the uh the most authentic way uh
are the Safari way of speaking now of
course they're not going to change their
ways because they already have their
custom but there are
some from that actually went and learned
by
Safari specifically to learn uh the the
way that uh theim actually
speak and uh and their accent now this
did not happen on a massive scale or
anything this is a few uh you know
across throughout the
generations uh but again there is there
is a custom
among that the the t is a and and the
the the way that they write certain
things um you don't have to like it but
you certainly do have to respect it why
it's their custom just like if you go
into the yemenite uh
Community uh they're not going to agree
with anything you say whether you are
ashkanazi or you're a
traditional uh if you start reading in
the from the Tora or from the Sid in
front of a
yite uh it's very likely that within
about 5 Seconds he's going to rebuke you
5 seconds maybe 10 depending on how much
he has why because according to his
tradition you have no idea how to read
and I've met a few
yemenites uh that uh you know that did
that and uh some of them I uh had
no uh and would actually not just do
with individuals but would do it uh with
the B of the Tora constantly uh telling
them to correct something which again
they were not in a yemenite community so
it was it was not right for them to do
so and it would constantly ruin the
Torah readers uh uh you know fluid uh
reading it was very very annoying uh but
nonetheless the uh you know the if you
look at the Traditions what's closer to
the authentic language and the uh uh and
pronunciation of things among everyone
certainly it is the amonites it's not
everybody else everybody knows it's the
amonites now are most Jews Safari or
askanazi speaking like yemenites no even
the yemenites many of them don't speak
like yanites some of them do obviously
but most of them don't most of them have
become Americanized Israel ised uh
europeanized and so on now uh this does
not mean that uh you know the uh this is
uh you know you could just disregard it
or uh that something else takes over
again everybody could uh respect each
other's Customs you don't like the way
that theim speak fine you don't have to
like it but you do have to respect
it if it bothers you don't go there go
to a safari Sho you don't have one okay
so you should say thank you to the Asim
that they do have a Sho and that they're
letting you go
there you can't Beggars can't be ch
users you know we can't we can't uh you
know start dictating uh to people how
they should uh do everything when we
just showed up doesn't work that way you
know it's a if you just showed up to the
company you can't start telling the
managers how to run the company doesn't
work that way same thing that if you had
an established company and some new
employee came in and uh really the only
thing that he's in charge of is the mail
room if he starts telling you how to run
the company uh obviously you're not
going to agree with him and most likely
he's not going to have a job by the end
of the day now it's even more so in in
in in Judaism you can't go into a
community that's already been
established for 10 20 30 plus
years and start telling them that they
have to change the way they do things
main thing that people need to learn is
how to be how to just let things go not
to make a big deal out of everything and
also find a way to get along many people
tear each other apart I was actually uh
talking about this with somebody the
other day it's like I find people
especially people people that are doing
Chua they're on one hand they're doing
good things they're doing Chua they're
fixing themselves they're starting to
keep uh but unfortunately for whatever
reason or another they tear other people
apart like they judge everybody so
harshly uh for everything that it's it's
literally they cannot become friends or
friendly with anybody over a long period
of time because it's just a matter of
time before somebody said something or
did something that's not to their liking
and they judge them so harshly that it's
literally that if they could give them
the death penalty they would and that's
just not the way it's not the way to do
things you have to be more forgiving you
know and and and understand always that
whether it's myself or any other person
that's teaching toah uh when they're
talking about judgment and and rebuking
and so on remember when you're speaking
to the masses it's different than when
you're speaking to individuals when
you're dealing with the masses it's
different than dealing with the
individual as the uh uh the SAT famously
said
whenu uh would uh speak to uh to to
about he would constantly plead for
their case but then when he would speak
to am is he would rebuke them
harshly what's the difference it's the
same exact subject very simple when he's
speaking to Hashem he already knows that
Hashem knows what they did wrong so he's
defending them he's defending them but
on the other hand when he's speaking to
he wants to warn them not to go against
hem or else hem will punish them and he
can't defend them forever so he has to
rebuke them harshly same concept when
you teach the public when you're talking
in general certainly you have to speak
strong you have to tell the truth 100%
from Al from A to
Z but when you're dealing with
individuals you have to be a little
softer you have to be a little bit more
forgiving
you can't just tear people apart just
because they had a bad day or they said
something wrong or they were uh not
consider it many times people ruin
really good friendships or relationships
with people uh for stupid things stupid
things and they literally become like a
person that's like uh lives on an island
and uh listen most people can't do that
most people need friends most people
need relationships uh but it's a problem
when they ruin every relationship they
have and it's not because of the other
people it's because they themselves
judge everybody else but they forget to
judge themselves the truth is that if
the people that are so judgmental of
others start judging themselves they'll
see that they're more guilty than many
of the people that they accuse so be
more forgiving more accepting and again
I'm not saying more accepting and more
forgiving to uh discount the T and to
nullify the talom and to go against the
Tor that's not what I'm saying what I'm
saying saying is on General things if
somebody makes a mistake
forgive somebody uh has a mishap forgive
it's okay don't uh be so uh firm with
everybody to the point where no one is
allowed to uh to to to look up because
they have to look down when you're
around it's not it's not a good thing
it's not it's not going to be good for
you it's not going to be good for your
family and certainly not going to be
good for your
life and if you're going into a
community that has different Traditions
than you do then all you should do is be
grateful if you don't like it don't go
simple don't go but if you're there and
they're hosting You by all means you
should thank them for every second that
you're
there strong lectures uh similar and
different to the one that you heard
tonight that are simply full of sources
honesty that's brutal but is
effective it helped countless people get
closer to Hashem because For the First
Time in their life they heard that they
serious
ramifications for their bad actions
whatever those bad actions are