Did You Know Intimacy & Having Children is the First Commandment in the Bible? Rabbi Avraham Willig

The Torah begins, "And what is the very first commandment? What is the very What are the very first words that God says to mankind?" Come on, here's your chance. What's the first commandment, the first thing that God says to Adam and Eve? They're that, you know, then Garden Garden of Eden. >> Yeah. What do you want to say? >> Throwing something out there for Nice. Very good. You guys are very knowledgeable. Okay. First thing, go get busy. Go have kids. Go have kids. Now, very good. I'm impressed that those are the words you even said in the Hebrew. Puru. First first message from God to man. Now, I don't need to teach you about the birds and the bees. You know a little bit about the birds and the bees. Yes. You're over 18. >> Can we talk about this? >> So So can I see can I see some ID? So the the the It's okay. It's okay. I know it's vague anyway. The the commandment the commandment that God gives to Adam and Eve is go get busy. Now, that's a pretty nice commandment, especially considering the Talmet says that Eve Kaba was the most the most beautiful woman ever in history of the world. In the history of the world, there's never been a woman as super gorgeous as Eve. I mean, God himself actually created her. Extremely beautiful. God says to Adam and Eve, "Go do your thing. So, and that's the mitzvah forever and ever. Forever and ever. That's the first mitzvah in Judaism so far. Pretty good. Pretty good. What What's the first commandment in Judaism? Can we say it openly? Have sex. Not bad. I like this Jewish thing. Is this what they study in Yeshiva? Sign me up. I I like this Jewish thing. All right. So, so that's that's first things first. All right. So, what's the next commandment? What happens next? What's the next command that God says to Adam and Eve? Go ahead. Come on. Anybody? Genesis. >> Don't eat from the tree. What's your name? >> Jonathan. >> Jonathan. So, the truth is that when I ask you if if and when I ask people this question, that's >> that's the answer. I mean, that's the answer that most people will give. Now, gentlemen, I want you to I want you to open your open your minds and hearts and eyes and ears and listen carefully. If you look in the Torah, if you look in the Torah, and I'll to be honest, I'm really I'm really expecting Jonathan's answer. And I think for anyone who tries to even give the answer, most people that's what they say. You stop someone. Hey, what's the first commandment that God gives to Adam and Eve in in in the Garden of Eden? like don't eat from the tree. But you know what? That's not so. That's not so that what God actually said in chapter 2 in the book of Genesis, and some of you have a book in front of you. There's some a whole bunch more on the shelf in case you're interested. You're welcome to look. Welcome to um the Torah says, here it is. Hold on. Hold on. Here it is. Here it is. Here, verse 15. verse 16. Chapter 2, verse 16. We're looking at page 12 insh Okay, page 12. There it says um there it says, [clears throat] "And Hashem God commanded man." Now I'm going to read it in the Hebrew because the English translation is actually poor believe uncharacteristically poor on this verse. Uh God says here, "No, one second, one second, one second. Not not ver what did I say? Chapter 2 verse 16. Is that what I said? >> 15 16. Here we go. Hagan. Any rabbis in the room who could translate that? God commands man saying translation. Eat from every tree. >> Eat from every tree in the garden. >> Eat. >> Very good. I like you. Eat from all of the trees of the garden. Now, there's a double terminology. How do you say eat to eat in Hebrew? Is to eat. It's a double terminology means you should really eat. You should eat. Eat. Right. Now, what does it mean? You should eat eat. It's the It's the Hebrew way of saying it's a biblical way of saying you should make sure to eat. It's like underlined, bold, you know, highlighted. Eat. Eat. You definitely should eat. You really should eat. And what should you eat? Mikes. Hag. What did God tell Adam and Eve? Second commandment. Eat of all of the fruits of the garden. They're in paradise, gents. They're in paradise. You know what's You know how pleasurable paradise is? And there they are all over. I don't like I've never been there. But the the the the luscious delicious it doesn't get I mean it's literally it's the word that we turn it's the term that it's the word that we use to describe like the greatest most pleasurable experience ever right we still use it today oh it's paradise you know has you know how's the hotel oh paradise you know how's Florida paradise you know how's the ice cream ganed you know it's literally it's a God says Here they're in Ganed there's many many fruits. God created many many fruits. All for what? All for who? >> Adam. Mankind. Humankind. Eat all of it. Eat all of it. Eat at to your heart's content. Enjoy it. Enjoy it. Now, it's only after that commandment, and here's what here's where we get it wrong, right? Let's let's correct it. It's only the next verse, if you if you're following me inside. It's only the next verse that God says from the fruit from the tree of knowledge, right? The the tree of knowledge of good and evil. That's the one tree you should not eat from. So, God created, I don't know, you know, 100,000 trees, fruits, whatever, and eat the first commandment. Enjoy all of them. Enjoy them. Enjoy. You're obligated. You have to get the pleasure of all of the all of the various different tastes, presentations, colors, experiences in paradise. >> And that's what I want from you, Adam and Eve. Now after that is one one tree one one fruit that God says hold off. Could we stop for a moment and look for a pattern? >> Is there a pattern here? We have two commandments, right? The first two commandments that God gives mankind. This is Judaism. Here it is. Judaism literally almost like the first page right at the very beginning here. Very beginning of the Bible, very beginning of Genesis, very beginning world of Jewish history, world history. God says commandment number one, indulge and engage and indulge and immerse in the pleasure of physical intimacy. Go ahead, just enjoy it. Go ahead. First commandment. Second commandment. Enjoy as much of the physical delights in in the Garden of Eden. Eat to your heart's content. Enjoy it. Can we catch a little pattern here? Is there a little theme so far? So far, we're only in chapter two. What does God want? What does God want of man? >> Our physical needs >> for us to have pleasure. Physical needs. You'd be fine with just bread. You'd be fine with just bread, wouldn't you, Jonathan? >> Physical ones. >> Pleasure. >> Pleasure. God, I mean, how many fruits has God created? I don't know. I like I never Googled that. Like, how many fruits are there? Many many, many, many fruits. And you know what the Talmet says? It's it's a it's a it's not an everyday line in the Talmud. The Talmet says at the very end of the garini, literally the last line, it says that when you come to heaven, you won't believe me. I could show it to you. When you show up to heaven, God is going to God is going to judge you. God is going to judge you. Okay. So, oh gosh, we're we're kind of nervous, right? You especially, right? I know you're nervous. You're nervous about all the sins you did. I know what you're nervous about. We're not going to talk about it right in here. Well, I'll tell you what the Talmud says. God's gonna ask you, you know what he's going to ask you? You know he's gonna ask you? Here's the Talmet. The Talma was written, you know, 1500 years ago. There's an old Jewish original OG book to bal asks, did you enjoy all of the fruits that I created? You're going to have to answer. [applause] You're going to be judged. God's going to be You show up to heaven. You're like, "Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. He definitely knows what I did. He knows what I He knows what I did in Vegas. He knows what happened Atlantic City. He knows what happened in Tel Aviv. You know what I'm talking about. He knows what happened, you know, in in uh whatever. He knows. Oh, man. What are you going to say now?" You're like, you show up there and what does God say to you? All right. So, did you eat, you know, you've enjoyed apples? You're like, yeah. Okay. Uh, pears check. You're like, what's going on here? Like, okay. Uh, strawberries. Yeah. Have you had mangoes? Yeah. Have you ever tasted kiwis? Uh, no. Go to hell. Whoa. In other words, maybe not. God's not that mean. Maybe. But like, but but that's the concept. That's the concept. the the mitzvah till today and I'm not bluffing you gents. It's not like a bluff like a trick. It's not a trick. This is actually honestly this is real practical Judaism current practical Judaism. You show up to heaven, right? One of the one of the one of the the most important mitzvah, the mo the very first mitzvah. That's why it's front and center. The very first mitzvah is go get busy with the girl. Go get busy. Go have kids. Very first mitzvah. Until today. Till today. That's the whole purpose. The Talmet says the Talmet says that the your whole existence is so for you for you to have a physical intimacy and have children. That's what the Talmet says. In other words, you show up to the next world and you say, "No, no, that wasn't for me. you really go to hell. Actually, actually, in other words, I'm not trying to scare anyone here. You know what I'm saying? I'm just trying to I'm trying to behave myself actually in the way I'm speaking because there's a there's a camera in the room. Okay. So, but the truth is the truth is that you know, you see you see those uh How old are you? >> 28. >> How old are you? >> 19. How old are you? >> 19. >> How old are you? >> You How old are you? >> How old are you? >> You see those guys? Those young guys, those young guys in the base mish, right? They look like penguins like me with the black and white and black. You know them? And you see that like they're like, you see them walking down the street. They're really young and they all have like a few kids. You've seen them, right? They call them like coal guys. Like, who are those dudes? Right? And they're just sitting in the base mish and they're learning in the study hall. Well, those guys have wives. Those guys have wives. And I'm going to challenge you. You ready for a challenge? It's not so nice, but I'm going to challenge you. They are they're wearing those beanies, you know, they're like, you know, goody goody guys. They're getting a great deal of sexual intimacy. In fact, I would even challenge you. They're getting a great a lot more sexual intimacy than you are. Now, please don't respond. Okay? Please don't respond. I know you're visiting from Tel Aviv. Please do not respond. But the fact is that that's not sinful. That's their that's like a mitzvah. Actually, how cool is it? How cool is it? [laughter] Have sex and go to heaven. Have as much sex AS POSSIBLE AND GO TO HEAVEN. NOT BAD. [screaming] NOT BAD. WE GOT SOMETHING GOING HERE. This seems like a nice plan, right? And eat as much as you want. Enjoy. Just get all the pleasure in the world and go to heaven. Not bad. In fact, if you don't have if you don't have a lot of sex and you don't have a lot of pleasure and a lot of good food, then you're going to hell. The reason why I'm the reason why we're discussing this today and I'm about to show you a section in the Talmud. The reason why I want to show this to you is because we are sullied. Our minds, our our understanding of the world has been has been dirtied by the Christian influences. The Christians have their own ideas about holiness and pleasure. I mean they have this concept which is not Jewish which is that to have sexual pleasure it's not so good it's not so righteous it's not so holy in fact I have this term which I'm sure all of you have heard to be conceived in sin were you conceive were you conceived in sin Well, you Oh my gosh. I mean, how did you show up to this planet? We know. You can't hide it. Your mom and pope, they got involved with some What are you laughing about? You had the same thing. They were involved with some type of you are a oo you're like a dirty being. You you ex your whole existence is is is is is oh gosh I I you're a teo you're you're not so holy inherently the Christians say inherently every human being is dirty every human being is bad every human being is is is sullied is is is is impure because they've been conceived in sin only and you know you might you might or might not know I'm not here to teach Christian theology you might or not know only Yashki oo Yashki he is the child of God you see mother Mary was walking down the street one day AND SUDDENLY SHE'S LIKE OH I DON'T BELIEVE THAT I'M PREGNANT NOW THE TRUTH is we know what happened she was drunk you know three months five months before she hooked up with some dude in the bar okay no no that's not what without mother Mary she just got pregnant from God without any sexual intimacy God just right yeah right okay but that's what they say and therefore Yashki is the [clears throat] father of God the child of God right he is he is he is pure he's so pure HE'S ACTUALLY GOD HIMSELF he became God himself because he's unsulli and follow their logic follow continue it what else did they say who are the only people who are really holy and good and righteous in this world today. Come on. You've been you know a little bit about uh Christianity. >> The ones who never Yeah. They're they're holy pastors and priests who are celibate and don't engage. They're not involved with any sexual any pleasure. No pleasure for them. No sexual. They they they're monks. They lock themselves up. They don't get married. You know what I'm talking about? Am I boring you here? Am I born again? They get married. They don't get married. They they this they're celibate. They're they are very pure. Oo. They are very holy. Righteous. Righteous. Right. And and and um those are the those are the you know the spiritual leaders of our community. Now it just so happens sorry to be a little cynical but just open the newspapers. you know, might have noticed every basically every Monday and Wednesday, you hear stories about how this pastor molested this little boy and that and that priest molested that little boy. Okay, listen, you know, it happens. I wonder why it's happening. And they have these big meetings. How why why is this why is there, you know, priest molestation of little kids in the church? We might have a we might we have to have a think tank about why this might be true. Uh yeah, God created the world and God said the very first thing that the very the most important thing is the very first thing on the list is have sexual pleasure. >> Which line is it? >> Genesis chapter 1 uh maybe verse 28 or so. So uh hold on, hold on. >> Yeah, you're right. Uh actually 28. Not bad. Not bad. Not bad. Okay. So in other words, that's the that that's for all humanity. That's for all the humanity. Now the Jew so so the Christians have this have this concept that sin is bad. You know sexual intimacy is is is is sinful is wrong. Right? Some of them even like don't want to eat, right? They don't want to eat either. Like aseticism that's pure holiness. Judaism says exactly the opposite. Exactly the exactly the opposite. If you want to be a a a holy Jew, you have to be married. You want to be a Jewish leader, you have to be married. You actually are not allowed to be you're not allowed to be a you know, they have these laws about a high priest. If you're not married, you don't have you don't have sexual intimacy with your wife. You actually cannot be considered e holy and extra holy. Exactly the opposite. And us Americans have been our minds have been tampered with. We have this you have this idea that that this is not this is wrong. Sex is wrong. Sexual pleasure is is let's not talk about that. That's not so good. It's not it's it's it's wrong. And it's and it's exactly the opposite. And we have these guilt feelings attached to the concept of sexuality. Now understand one thing. When God says sex is a mitzah that's true and but that's what what I'll call a kosher a kosher relationship. Adam Adam and Eve are a [clears throat] committed a committed loving caring husband and wife. That's where you're going to get the most pleasure. And God says go for it. Just to be clear about that to have sex with everyone everywhere. That's that's already not that's already not so holy, right? Why am I telling you this? How does this have to do with the you know, I told you we're learning a little taste of the Talmud? Let me show you one more thing on on these pages and then we'll open the Talmud. Gents, I meet a lot of young Jews. I meet a lot of young Jews and one of the sentiments that I hear again and again and again from young Jews is I'm not interested in Judaism. I don't like Judaism because Judaism holds me back. Judaism it ruins it spoils it spoils all the fun. Judaism says we can't enjoy anything. In fact, I met a guy, Israeli dude. He's like, he was talking to me in Hebrew. He's like, "I hate I can't stand, you know, Judaism, Jewish religion." I said, "Tell me what wh why is that?" He's like, "You guys are just a bunch of altas." Altas. Now, Alta is Yiddish. Alas is like old. I'm like, "Alas? No." Everybody here was young. He's like, "Ali." He's like, "No, no, no. I'll explain to you the joke." He said in Hebrew, he said, "No, you all you guys say old is ala means Alas means don't do this. In other words, Judaism is all about don't do this, don't do this. Judaism looks like this. You want to take a snapshot, a picture, a frozen image of Judaism looks like this. It is restrictive. The Torah is constricting. It's it's a restrictive set of ideas. I cannot en I cannot get the pleasure that I want. God is ruining my fun. He's spoiling. He's holding me back. And all these laws are not for me. They're are just annoying and and they're difficult and they're and they're they're a pain in the neck and I'm not interested. Gents, I've heard it a hundred times. I've heard it a thousand times. I'd like for us, please, if you have a in front of you, please turn to ch to page 15. Page 15. I want to show you a very important short conversation in again at the very beginning of Genesis chapter 3. Genesis chapter 3. You can look at the English sidebar there. It says what was happening here. This is the story of the sin, the actual sin, the original sin in the garden of Eden. Okay. And and anybody know that story? Who gets Adam and Eve to sin? >> Snake. >> The snake. Right. [clears throat] Okay. What exactly did he say? What did this snake say? Anybody know >> what I'd like to do for a moment, Jonathan, you have the text in front of you? >> Yeah. >> You mind reading for us? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Hebrew English. >> Yeah, the English so everyone can understand. >> Now the serpent was cunning beyond any beast of the field that God made. He said to the woman, "Did perhaps God say, you shall not eat of any tree of the garden?" >> Stop. What did the snake say? The snakes, the snake comes over to The snake comes over to Eve and he says, he said, listen to those words. He says, "Oh, I heard I heard that that you guys are not allowed to eat anything. I heard that you cannot partake and enjoy any of the fruits of the garden." sucks for you, right? Look at the text. It's in front of you. I'm not making it up. Oh, look. I heard what God said to you. You're you you're not allowed to eat any of the trees of the garden. Whoa. I kind of feel bad for you, Adam and Eve. A You can't enjoy anything, can you? >> Huh? Now, we know the truth. We read the story together. What did God actually say? What did God actually say? Come on. >> EAT ALL [screaming] OF THE FRUITS OF THE GARDEN EXCEPT FOR >> one >> except for one. Let's say there's a million fruits. Eat all of them except for this one. And the snake who is the embodiment of you know the villain you know the we call him like theahara the how do how do how do how do how do how do how do how do how do how do you call the our our negative impulses right the the bad the bad voice you know that comes to try to get us ruin us and test us and right get us down he comes straight up here to to Adam and Eve and said oh I heard you can't get any pleasure in What a lie. What a lie. And ladies and gents, guess what? Guess what? Not all that much has changed. You know what Yorah tells you every day? Whoa. Sucks for you. You can't do I You can't get any pleasure. You can't do anything. Especially if you want to live a life of godliness. You want to live a a life of spirituality, holiness, Jewish practice, Jewish Jew, you know, identifi Jewish identity, Jewish Jewish. It's not for us. It's not for me. It's like it's not for you. It stinks. It's so You can't get any pleasure. This is one of the the the tactics, right, of the of your of your your dark side, the evil side. It's still very successful in getting lots of Jews to throw away their to throw away their Judaism. Jews not to be practicing and living a life of Judaism. And what I'd like to show you today, now we're finally up to the Talmud, we'll do it as fast as we can. What I'd like to show you today in the Talmud is a Jewish concept. Just the next step forward in of this Jewish concept, which is the world. You came to Asia Torah. I don't know how many Jewish classes you're here you'll ever hear. I don't know how many little segments of the Talmud you're learning, but let let this be a good takeaway. The purpose of Judaism is Torah Judaism front and center. The first page is you if you want to follow the will of God, the word of God, the purpose of life, just indulge and get as much pleasure as possible. That is why God created man. I didn't make it up. I showed it to you inside. What God wants from you is to get the maximum pleasure, the maximum enjoyment in this world. And I'm talking for physical. I showed it to you. Sexual intimacy, food. People say, "Okay, fine." But it's really a trick because you know, okay, so turn more pages of the Bible, right? Yeah. There's lots of laws, Rabbi. You're you're hiding it from us, aren't you? There's lots of laws. And in fact, there's many many commandments. Seven commandments altogether. >> 63. >> Nice. 613 commandments. And a whole lot of them are what we call prohibitions. Things you things you can't do. And therefore I there's lots of pleasures that I'm being robbed of. I don't want to be Jewish. I'm not going to follow Torah. I can't follow Jewish law. I It stinks for me. I'm not going to get any pleasure in this world. It's this issue that the Talma that we're about to look at small segment deals with this section is a gar in page 109. Now I photocopied it for you. Everyone should have a photocopy. Everyone should have a photocopy. There is a rabbi in the Talmet. His name was Nakman. Okay. Some of you might have heard of Rabi Nakman. You associate with Rabi Nakman from Breastlo. You know you see those. This is this is many many many many many many centuries before that. This is the the original the OG R the original in the Tal Rabman was married to a woman named Yala. That was her name. Okay. That was her name. Yala. Okay. And sounds like Alta, right? Alta. Like I just told you before, Alta. Yaltta comes to deal with the issue of Alta, right? You can't do this, you can't do this. Ya is a is a feisty girl. She's a well known in the Talmud. She has she's strong minded. She has lots of opinions. She has she's a she had a voice of her own, a mind of her own, and she has lots to say to her husband and her husband's rabbitic friends. Very interesting woman. Yalda. So, the Talmud records, please take a look, guys. I photocopied a few. The top the top of the page is what we're looking at. And we're going to look at the top left section. You see there's a line here not on the notes but we're looking at the top left section second paragraph. Okay. So left side on the top second paragraph the Gar relates. Yala said to Rab and her husband she says the following. She says wait I there is a principle. We know that the world is created for pleasure but I have a question. I have a difficulty. Now it's going to take her a little while to get to her difficulty. Okay? So stick with her. Stick with her. But on the way to get into her difficulty just you know just like as almost like a stream of consciousness she throws out a whole a whole important list for us. A very important list of prohibit you know prohibited behaviors in Judaism. Prohibited behaviors which people really would like to get would really like to enjoy. And what Yalta says, and she says it again like almost like out of the side of her mouth, like it's obvious, but all of us need to listen in and learn the lesson of what what was obvious to her. She says the following. She says, [clears throat] "Whatever the merciful one forbade us," that means whatever God forbid, whatever God said, it's prohibited. Here it is, guys. Here it is. There's many laws in the Torah that God says you can't eat, right? I like pork. Don't you like pork? Isn't pork delicious? Pork's delicious, right? You pork's delicious. I mean, let's be honest. Bacon delicious. No, you're going to lie to me now. Bacon is extremely delicious. Am I Why you looking at me like that? It's delicious. I'm not I'm not kidding with you. It's It's It's It's It's delicious. Shrimp. Delicious. Shrimp really is delicious. What's What does God want from us? You want to be a nice Jewish boy, you shouldn't eat shrimp. So, so she relates to this. She says, let's just go in order. The things that God forbade for us in the Torah, he permitted us something that corresponds to it. In other words, the the the prohibition in the Torah of all the all the things that the Torah says you should not do, God says in the Torah, don't do those things. Maybe he's God says not to do those things but he offers the same pleasure. He God offers the same pleasure in a different form. In other words, you should not eat that food or get that pleasure, but you can get get the pleasure from that food. But there's an alternative which is identical in order that you should not be with you should not be um held back from the pleasure. God does not want to withhold pleasure from you. In fact, like we said at the beginning of our class, God wants you to have every pleasure. Hold on. Now let's look at the list verse. And she says to him, for example, follow me inside, guys. Follow me inside. God forbid blood, right? You might you might or might not know, right? Blood is not kosher. Even if it comes from a kosher, you know, chicken is kosher. It's slaughtered properly. It's a kosher chicken. It's a kosher slaughter. So you can eat it, right? >> What if it's sear blood? >> Hold on, hold on. Can you can you eat it? The answer is uh well, not really. Now you guys, you guys don't know this, okay? Because simply because if you do eat kosher, anyone here who eats kosher probably gets food from a kosher butcher. The butcher, the kosher butchers themselves take care of the blood in the chicken. So today it's almost like commercialized, you know, it's like it's like produced, right? But but 100 years ago before they were like big, you know, butcher butcher shops that like give you the final product. your great if anyone here is great your great great great great great grandma even just three greats great great great grandma ask her ask her everybody knows like you got a kosher chicken you get slaughtered by a kosher sh and then well and then you have to salt it anyone ever hear that right again we don't know it today because we're not in the back we're not in the back end of things salt it has to be salted and soaked and if salt gets all gets out all the blood and then the chicken becomes kosher. You're not allowed to eat blood. Blood is not kosher even from a kosher animal. It's a it's a it's an independent mitzah in the Torah. It's a law in the Torah. It's not kosher. But wait a second. Blood blood is kind of nice. Blood tastes kind of good. I mean, have you ever like come back from a, you know, run on a hot day and you, you know, you come home and you're like, you're really tired and really hot. You go to the go over to the fridge, get a nice glass, fill it with ice, and pour a tall, cool glass of blood. Delicious. Well, maybe not, but it's a mitzvah anyway. It's a prohibition. You're not allowed to eat blood. So, so blood apparently has a nice taste. Says ya. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Even though God says you're not allowed to eat blood, but you're allowed to eat the equivalent. The exact equivalent taste. And what's that? God permitted us to eat liver. Now, you guys take biology, high school, elementary school. I don't want to I don't put anyone on the spot. What does the liver do? >> Filters. >> It filters the blood, right? It cleans the blood. So, a kosher animal, kosher slaughter, you have a liver of an animal. You you have to make it in a in a way that's you know to put it in a kosher way. It's not a regular type of thing. You have to put it on a grill. Whatever it is, not for now. And it's kosher. You can eat liver. You know what liver tastes like? Blond. I mean its whole existence is blood. It's a blood. It's a blood filter after 100 after however many years that a cow or a chicken it right. I mean anybody from Brooklyn? I don't want to offend anyone. You know, you know the expression, you can take the girl out of Brooklyn, but you can't take Brooklyn out of the girl. You don't even laugh at a single joke of mine. I'm having a hard day today. In any case, so you you can you can slaughter that. You can take the you could you can roast this liver. You can never get the taste of blood out of a liver. It tastes like blood. But you know what? It's totally kosher. So, what are we learning? God says, "Don't eat blood. It's a sin to eat blood." and and and it's one of the it's one of the 613 commandments in the Torah. It's a prohibition. But I can't get the pleasure of the taste of of blood, says the Talmud. Of course you can. Of course you can. Just have liver. Have chicken liver. Have have beef liver. You can enjoy it just as much. In other words, what I'm showing you here, here's the concept. I don't you know if you ever heard this expression, you can have your cake >> and eat it too. You know that expression. You can have your cake and eat. I know exactly how that work. that why that expression means what it means. But do you understand the concept? You can go to heaven by not eating blood. So you can have eternal ecstasy in the next world by not having blood. And guess what? You can have ecstasy in this world, full ecstasy in this world by having liver. You don't get you're not ripped off by by by living a Jewish life. That's just one of a long list of examples. Let's continue. She says, "Oh, well, God says, you know, let her live with with with Anida. Don't have sex with Anida." What does that mean? What does that mean? You know about this? >> When you take a break every two weeks, it >> it means that even if you marry a kosher girl, she's a Jewish nice Jewish girl, a nice kosher Jewish wedding. you really, it's a real deal being married by, you know, a rabbi officiating and she's really your girl and you and everything's totally cool, totally good, right? And you still are not allowed to have SEX WITH HER. WHAT? She's your wife? Well, depends. If she's not on her period, enjoy. Game on. She has her period, game off. But that's my wife. Kosher wife, kosher marriage, kosher everything. totally prohibited to you. You're not allowed to have sex. It says it in the Torah. One of the big mitz in the Torah. Prohibition in the Torah. You learned You learned it here first. You're not allowed to have sex with your own wife. That's right. Hey, who are you talking about? It's my wife. Says, "God, sorry. Game off. Game off." Until after her period. After her period, she goes to the mikvah. Game on. Game on. Well, but but but wait a second. You know how it is. Sweet. this the sweet pleasure of the prohibited. [cough] I kind of want to have that taste of sin. It's kind of be I it'd be kind of nice to have sex with a with a with a need with a woman who's bleeding. No, I don't know. I'm not sure why. Listen, let's not let's not judge anyone here, you know. Let's not make fun of people's sexual imperences here. All right. So, in any case, so so the Talmud relates to this. Ya relates this. You know, maybe go that maybe people would be interested in that. Well, God says, "Guess what? You don't have to suffer half your life every time your your wife is is on her period. You should just know that that God is actually not trying to restrict you. You want the quote unquote pleasure." Hey, listen again. Let's not judge others. You want You want the quote unquote pleasure of having sexual intimacy with a woman who's bleeding? No problem, says God. No problem. You can have it. You can have your cake and eat it. You can have it. You can have sex with a woman who's bleeding. Who's that? Says, says yalta, right? Well, you can have the blood, you can live with your wife who's having the blood of purity. That's one version. There's other versions or this, whatever it is. In any case, what's the blood of purity? Your your your wife has a baby now. She's bleeding. Well, according to the Torah law, we're not going to get into the details. According to the Torah law, you cannot sleep with her. anybody wants to sleep with her and she's definitely always want to sleep with you. She just had a baby, right? So, there's a night there's a there's a serious break there for a bunch of long bunch of weeks. But after that, let's say she's still bleeding according to the Torah law. She's still bleeding. You're But it's called dam to blood of purity. You let have sex with her even though she's bleeding. Yeah. Because it's not menstrual. That's not menstrual blood. That's blood of purity. Right. That's what the Talmet calls it. And therefore, you can have sex with your wife while she's actually bleeding. Is there such a thing? Okay, so God's not trying to restrict you and hold you back. The point is you don't sleep with your wife while you while she's on her period. Eternal ecstasy, big reward in the next world. But guess what? You can also enjoy that pleasure in this world. All right, let's continue. He forbade eating. It's in front of you guys. Look inside. He forbade eating. Kalev is fat. Okay, the fat of a of a domesticated animal. Okay, you guys, again, you don't know this. You wouldn't know the difference. You don't have farms. You know, 200 years ago, everyone had a cow in their backyard. Everyone had goats, right? That's like, okay, today it's not like that. So, you don't know this stuff. But it's it says in the Torah, if you have a domesticated animal, a goat, you know, a sheep, a cow, it's kosher. It's a kosher animal. It's slaughtered. It's a kosher slaughter. Are you allowed to eat it? Well, you're allowed to eat a lot of it, but not all of it. There's something called means there are forbidden fats in an animal that every knows are actually not kosher. It's one of the independent one of the 613 commandments. Again, you might not have heard of it. It it's it's prohibited to you. Oh man, I want to eat that part says the Talmud says ya. No problem. No problem. You should just know that's only in in a cow. But you take a a wild kosher animal, for example, a deer. Take the same fat and a deer. It's kosher. God's not trying to torture you. God's not trying to hold you back from pleasure. Guys, listen up. This is the part we need to know. You think God's trying to hold you BACK TO PLEASURE? NO SUCH THING. THE OPPOSITE. God wants you to have every pleasure. Every pleasure. That's the Please have every pleasure. That's all God wants. All right, here comes a big one. And she says, "Okay, so God forbid pork, bacon. You can't have bacon, but bacon's so delicious. Fresh bacon. Oh, it's so delicious." Guess what? You can have the You can have Shibuta. It's right in front of you. Shibuta. What's Shibuta? Shibuta is a It's a It's a type of fish. It's a type of fish. And if you eat that, it's like sounds like it's caviar. So, it's like the brains of the of this fish. It's super delicious. It tastes exactly like bacon. Exactly like pork. What's the point of that? >> Well, it's available to you. Stop being Stop having so much self-pity. Oi, I can't do this. Oi, I can't do that. Oi, [laughter] what can I do? Oh, oh, I'll suffer in this world, but at least I'll go to heaven, you know. Oh, sucks to be Jewish, but you know, like what can I do? Wrong. Wrong and wrong. Totally wrong. Totally. you have the wrong view of Judaism. Totally dis a total distortion of what Judaism is, of what God wants. And then he continues, you're not allowed to you're not allowed to eat gerusa, whatever that is, but you can have fish tongue. Okay? He forbade relations with a married woman. You can't have sex with a married woman. The girl next door, she's married to someone else. You can't have sex with a right there. It is in the Ten Commandments, adultery. He'll tell me, "Listen, you can't have." You'll say to me, "Rabbi, very cute, but what about that girl?" "Oh, I have the hots for the girl next leg. She's married. My my brother's wife, you know, that's the girl I want, but she's married. I can't have her, you know. I Oh, man. It's really hard for me. I I'm I suffer. I struggle. What are you going to tell me now, Rabbi? I can't I can't I can't enjoy that. I'm suffering in this world. If only I take off my yamaka. I don't have to be Jewish. I can get all the pleasure I want. But because of Judaism, I'm stuck." says says yala. What are you talking about? What are you talking about? First of all, you can have relations with a with a divorcee. In other words, if if if she if this the girl next score gets divorced and she's a free agent, you could lock her in, right? That's pretty nice because for the last tw that's 10 years, you've been thinking about like that's this guy's wife and suddenly it's your wife. That is like a That's a little a little taste of sin right there, right? And and he forbade relations with your brother's wife. But guess what? There's a law called yum, which is a very complex law. You'll have 100 questions, but I can't take them. There's no time. I have to finish. There's such a law. Check it out. Ask your rabbis. There's such a law called yum. Yum means if someone, God forbid, dies dies without children, dies without children. So his brother is not only allowed is not only allowed to live with his surviving widow, his brothers, his dead brother's widow, he's obligated to he has to actually have sex with his brother's wife. What? That sounds crazy, right? That's the law in the Torah. Today, we don't actually really do it that way. But but the point is, you know, that for the last 10 years, every Kaneka party, you have the hots for your brother's wife. You can never have her because suddenly you're like, mitzvah to have her. The concept here is the concept is here you all the things that you think are you can't have you could have and what about having relations with a with a with a non-Jew that's a big sin in Judaism you can't have relations with a non-Jew guess what there's a law called the beautiful captive it's a whole other law also a very complicated law but the point is in that section in that law of the Torah it's a mitzah in the Torah you could have sex with this woman she she she wasn't Jewish all of this Now we've arrived at Yalta's point. All of this Yaltta says like, "By the way, that I know." But she turns to her husband and she says, "BUT I MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE, I'VE wor my whole life. All I hear about is the pleasure of the McDonald's cheeseburger. That's all I want so badly is the cheeseburger. I want milk and meat." And clearly she's a learned woman. She turns to her husband, Rabbi Nakman, and she says, "Hey, but but what about the pleasure of milk and meat? It's so good. It's so good. So much so that the Torah has to say three times, three times, don't eat milk and meat. Three times the Torah warns us, don't eat milk and meat. It's a sin. Oh, is it good? Double cheeseburger. Big Mac with the with the, you know, with the cheese melting over the side of B. Oh, with the lettuce and tomatoes. Ooh, it's delicious. We're locked out. We can't enjoy it. What do I do, hubby? She turns. He asks, she asks her husband. He says, "No problem. You think God wants to hold you back for the pleasure of milk and meat?" No. No. He wants TO TEACH YOU A LIFE of self-control. He wants to teach you a life of of moderation. He wants to he for whatever reason, it's his business. He wants you to get the maximum pleasure in this world and spiritual pleasure as well. For whatever reason, I'm not God. I don't know. Right? As I as one of my rabbis says, I'm not in management. I'm just I'm just in sales. I can't tell you actually why God doesn't want us to eat milk and meat. I don't know. I I'm just in sales. I can't tell you. But I know that God doesn't want us to. And I also know that the reason why God doesn't want US TO IS NOT [screaming] IS NOT BECAUSE HE SAYS, "OH, LOOK, I have people have to suffer. You know, I have to make sure that there's make sure that you can't get pleasure. If you live a life in this world, you know, which is full of pain or then you get to the next world and you can really you'll enjoy yourself. You'll be rewarded in the world to come. BS. You know what BS stands for? Baloney stories. Baloney. No way. That's not the reason. The reason is so God's going to hold us back and we we shouldn't have pleasure in this world. Incorrect. So she says, "Okay, so so tell me, Rabbi," she says to her husband. She says, "Okay, so uh hubby, tell me what what about what about the pleasure of milk and meat?" He says, "Look, he calls over his chef." Look at it. Second, right, in the right side, top of the second paragraph, the bottom of the first paragraph on the on the top right, Rabbi Nakman calls over his chefs. He says, "Bring me an udder, a cow." Okay. Bring me an udder of a cow. >> Kosher cow. Kosher slaughter. Kosher cow. Kosher slaughter. An udder is kosher. Now, what does an udder do its whole life? >> What's an udder? >> It has milk. It holds the milk of the cow, right? Its entire existence is holding milk. For the last however long this cow lived, right? for the last 10 years. It's just been Now, you could take the girl out of Brooklyn. You can't take Brooklyn out of the girl. You could take the milk out of an udder. You could take the How do I say? Well, how do I say this? You could take the udder out of a cow, but you can't take the the the milk out of an udder. I mean, you can't a little bit. The special laws about how to do it, but as much as you take it out, right? It's full of milk. Kind of like the kind of like the the the the liver is full of blood. So, it's kosher, but it has a little flavor of milk in it, even if you try to drain it. And it's meat. It is meat. It's a piece of the cow, right? It's meat and milk. You know, put it on, throw it on the grill, and enjoy enjoy the taste of the same taste of a cheeseburger. And what the garumar is show it's it's a profound garum here. It's a profound conversation. What this Gumarra is doing is dropping a bomb. Is dropping a bomb. Is blowing off and exploding one of the misconceptions of Judaism. One of the misconceptions of Judaism, which is one of the stereotypes to be Jewish, to be to be religious, you you know, if you're going to be religious, you cannot have any fun. You cannot enjoy yourself. All the pleasures that all my friends are having, I'm not allowed to have. My life is just full of restriction and constriction and difficulty and and misery. And that is a a total distortion of Judaism. It's a misconception. It's not so. It's not so. And the garra wants us to it's showing it to us. It wants us to know that it's not so. Stop being so, you know, having so much self-pity like, "Oh, if I'm Jewish, it's going to stink for me." And whatever God does say about certain laws, well, that's even the re quote quote unquote restrictions that God gives us, that's also for your good. That's also for your pleasure. God says, "Don't sleep with your wife half, you know, while she's on her period." Whoa, that's sounds terrible. You know what? It's not so terrible. God's a genius. God's pretty smart. He's a genius. He knows what he's doing. He knows that. Look, just go look. Just go look. Just go look at the world of people who have never go on any break with their wives and they get they get sorry to use the word they get bored. It gets stale. They're like okay next. And somehow you live this lifestyle. It's like it never gets boring. Your girl is always the tal is always every month you have a wedding. Every month you have a wedding with your girl. You're married every month. You get married. We get married every single month. You see those guys in in the study hall? Every month they have a new wedding. Pretty good. It's like with a new first time sexual experience. Not bad. Not bad. Your whole life. That's just one of a million, one of 365 examples of all the prohibitions. All the prohibitions make. And even if I can't explain them fully, God, you want to tell me that God's trying to hurt you? We spent the whole hour here learning that God's TRYING TO GIVE YOU PLEASURE. THAT'S the whole point of life. That's the WHOLE POINT OF JUDAISM. EVERY other mitzvah, as the TA would say, the whole Torah, all of Torah Judaism, all of Judaism is for your pleasure. So even the laws that seem like, wait a second, maybe if we can't figure them out, God only wants our pleasure. I want to our time is up. So let me bless you. Let me bless you and bless me back. Say amen. I want to bless you with a life of the maximum maximum physical pleasure. The maximum sexual pleasure. Amen. >> Oh wow. Come on. I took what took you so long. Amen. The maximum pleasure in this world and and >> only in yeshiva, gentlemen. The maximum pleasure in this world and in the next world. Amen. >> Amen. >> Thanks for listening. >> Thank you.