Do We Have Free Choice or Is It An Illusion ? - MUSSAR Pirkei Avot (20)

[Music] n great to uh be back here we here a little over a month ago got a lot of good feedback from people that we here people that watched it online you know it's say it always amazes me how when Hashem wants something to be spread when hasm wants Torah to get somewhere it gets there it doesn't matter whether we want it or not it doesn't matter whether we think it could happen or not it has nothing to do with us we are only responsible for effort effort that's it you come to this world to exert effort NE the execution the actual outcome of anything whether it succeeds or it fails has nothing to do with you has nothing to do with you absolutely nothing it's all hashem's hands only thing you can do is try you try to wake up in the morning you try to go pray you pray you do what but whether hasem decides to accept this prayer or not it's up to him and that's one of the things that it's amazes me all the time is that all of our prayers are being answered when we're trying to do and we try to reach different people sometimes it takes a little longer than others sometimes it is a uh you know it's it's it's frustrating because you see someone such a beautiful soul such an amazing person but just going in the wrong direction poor guy poor girl you just it breaks your heart that they don't know the the truth it breaks your heart that they're blind but they don't even know it and the worst type of sick person is a person that doesn't know he has a disease because then he's just wasting his life instead of going and enjoying life trying to figure out the purpose of life during his last moments what does he do he goes to work and he works overtime planning for a vacation he's never going to see so when I see people like this and I see them just wasting their life going from you know a life of just that goes from vacation to vacation without actually living without actually enjoying themselves and pretty much already starting to suffer at the end of the vacation thinking about how it's going to be a really long time before the next vacation they worked a year to get to this vacation finally they got to the vacation 3 days after the vacation started they still have four or five days left but 3 days after the vacation started they're already thinking about everything back at home oh I'm going to have to go back at home I have to go work again and until my next vacation until I come back here again and they're already suffering when during the vacation why because the reality of it is that they're worried about the right they're they have the right amount of worry but they're worried about the wrong thing meaning like my friend David puit said is that it's good that you're worried about having fun it's good that you're worried about being fulfilled in life it's good that you're worried about being happy or making other people happy the problem is you're trying to do it the wrong way you're trying to do it by creating your own instruction set or a man-made instruction set that says that you have to go somewhere different from where you are in order to enjoy yourself like you can't be where you are in order to be happy so the bigger question for anyone that actually thinks about this with a little bit of depth is if you can't be happy where you are why you there why don't you just move to the place that makes you happy if you can't be happy living wherever you live and but you can be happy going somewhere else why don't you go there so then you tell me wait maybe I can't afford it maybe I can't afford to let's say for example people that want to live in Israel Israel is beautiful Israel is Holy and I'd like to go there so go live there but I can't live there are you happy where you are you happy in America no I hate it so why don't you go live in Israel go back to the same question and they tell well because I can't afford it okay so what do you enjoy so much about Israel well when I go there I go to the restaurant and I go to this and I go to that and I go to do all these things I'm like yeah but that's not real life in real life you can't go to the restaurant every 5 minutes in real life you can't go to the beach every time you have to go to work you have to do something so in reality you're enjoying a vacation you're enjoying something that's not real that's temporary so look at it as temp don't look at it as oh I'm missing out on something you're not missing on anything anywhere you go on a vacation you're going to have fun the question is how can you get yourself to a point where you can have fun every day how can you get yourself up to a point where you can enjoy every single minute that you live the question is a good question the answer is much more difficult the answer requires us to completely reinvent our ourselves completely change our mindset of what we actually think is possible what's not possible what we can do what we can't do and what we're willing to do and series that we have I believe this is number 20 it's a mish that you know there's several different versions of whether the mishna is only a couple of verses or many more we're going to take the opinion that it's a shorter M because there's so much to cover that if we would try to cover the entire Mish of how it's known as to be it would be at least a N9 or 10 hour Shure and I know you guys are only willing to give me a couple of hours so also before I forget this will be to Goan and may hasem raise them to the place that their family wants them to be and may hasem give us understanding of what we need to do in order to get to a better place B Zak received a tradition from H and shamay he was accustomed to say if you have studied much Torah do not take credit for yourself because that is what you were created to do so in a plain simple of this Mish kazal is telling us of course that they got it from Mount Si go study Torah study a lot of it and don't make yourself into a big deal whether you know a lot or what you think is a lot it's no credit of yours at all because the only reason that you were brought into this world is to learn to it's not to work it's not to be an engineer it's not even to be a wife or a husband it's to learn Torah it's to fulfill the Torah so if you know a lot of it what you think is a lot of it don't pat yourself in the back this is a little bit discouraging for some of us cuz we study for half hour we already think that I started half hour today especially I tell people to start doing CH start like I did 15 minutes a day 15 minutes a day if you study every day your CH will be real your your CH will survive no t or once in a while like once a week I come to a type of doesn't last CH doesn't last all or it's a chat that's like 50/50 chat I keep Shabbat but I still during a week I keep Shabbat but my wife wants to divorce me because I cheat on her every every day I keep me but I'm the guy that goes to the casino with the beer and the hat too you understand it's not a real Cha it's not a real Cha so it's either real or not why do we need to know if it's real or not Chua because there's a that a lot of people misunderstand and I heard a nice recently from who said in the times of mashia the Prophet say and the uh kazal says that it's the mashiah cannot come he will not come unless it's a generation where everyone is righteous or everyone is wicked asks wait a minute we know that it's not possible for everyone to be righteous it's not possible we're lucky if we have 10 like a was praying to hasem please save Z if there's 10 righteous people Hashem says I'll save it if there's 10 righteous people unfortunately there wasn't ours D today is called Las Vegas there's other places that are many does but that's the famous one for 10 righteous people sh will save it didn't have it to say a whole generation of righteous people Everyone is righteous it's far-fetched but on the same token everyone Wicked nah come on no even in the time of nim nim the that started idol worship the generation ofu he said either worship the idol which is me or I'll throw you into the fire what abam do he jumped into the fire cuz the people that tried to throw him in they went on fire the fire was so big and so powerful that it burned them but it didn't burn abah is standing over there and said no so come on you going to pray to me then goes no jumps into the fire all the Angels M Rafael Gabriel pray to hem hasem look at your servant Abraham he's jumping into the fire just not to violate your name desecrate your name please let us save him says no you won't save him he is alone in the world he's the only one that believes in me in the entire world millions and millions of people only one guy Believes In Me and just like there's one of him there's only one of me in heaven I'm going to save it myself and himself when goes over there and he saves abrah and he walks with him in the fire what that means we don't know all we know is they walking hand in hand in the fire so we know that a generation of complete fully Wicked people it's not possible so how's the msia going to come the answer is when the Messiah comes everyone at that point will already have to make a decision either you're fully righteous or you're fully Wicked that's the answer that's what thear means it's not that the entire generation needs to be righteous or the entire generation needs to be Wicked is that if you want to be saved you have to either be fully righteous or fully Wicked now fully righteous doesn't necessarily mean that each one of us has to be fully righteous means that you are exerting 100% of your effort to do to do the will of hasem you're doing everything you can to study as much as you can and if your ability at this point you just started doing Chu 15 minutes but that's 100% your full effort you did Chua but if you're one of these people that can study 6 hours but instead you play 5 hours worth of video games and you study for an hour thinking that you're doing Hashem a favor you have a problem the times of the mhia are here mhia can show up tomorrow in a few days in a few years we don't know exactly all we know is that according to the once he arrives clock runs out no more conversion no more chuva no more nothing you are what you are if you're still deciding whether I'm going to keep Shabbat or not CU it's not convenient for my lifestyle you run out of time you won't have a second chance there's no more gulim which we talked about two days ago there's no more reincarnation there's no more oh can you please do cha here has a have a CD there's no more there's no more oh do you want to convert and do the will of hem or do you want to stay noahide but at least righteous oh let me think about it okay think about it good luck thinking about mashia comes no more the key is that we have to make a decisions of whether we want to be fake Jews or real ones we want to do the complete will of hem or what we think is the will of AEM ranan B Zak he's telling you here first and foremost you have to understand if you even want to have a chance a chance a small chance of doing the will of AEM first you have to understand what's the will of hem the will of hem but not your will as we learned the previous Mish make his will into your will and he will make your will into his will but what's his will what does he want us to do is telling you what said you can't here to learn T but learning T obviously is more than just learning a book it's fulfilling it to learn to do so another thing that we notice about this mishna is that it starts with the word raban so far in the first almost two complete chapters of this almost every single time with the a couple of exceptions each time we heard a name it was just the first name m we heard just the first name but here we get a description ran the explains that what are these names why is he get a description because in this world if you have a title you're more important if you're called yon you're yon if you called Moshe you're Moshe you called ra guys automatically sadik automatically sadik you got a beer too possibly it's a one that no one knows about yet you have a title of a rabbi professional you have a title of a doctor genius title of a a attorney you know they put the 18 titles on their business card that no one understands each one is $300 an hour so it depends how many titles you had the money get a title everybody wants a title I remember in my business and I business days hasm took me out of it that was probably the best Mercy he's ever done for me at least the one that I know about and uh I remember all my employees would constantly negotiate with me of what they're allowed to put in their business card a title for themselves financial advisor registered representative vice president senior vice president director all these title senior consultant senior wealth management it's allot anyone that sees a business card of someone in the financial services business he sees the business card he sees the title you could just cross it off and put nonsense it means absolutely nothing everyone takes the same license and some of them don't even have a license some people work with a license because they work through a a self-regulatory system called finra used to be called an nasd and some don't work to them they work to the SEC and to the SEC you don't have to have license in so many words meaning everyone's doing the same exact thing they just called a different name the guy that's a insurance salesman all of a sudden he's a wealth manager he has 15 bucks in the bank but he calls himself a wealth manager the guy that's giving you stock advice calls himself a consultant or a director he just got the job last week he's 18 years old he's already a consultant spell consultant he doesn't know yet he has to use a spell check all but I would have These Guys these young guys come to me and negotiate I want Financial advis I want vice president I want you don't even know how to spell vice president I'm like what do you care about these titles he goes yeah you probably don't care cuz your card says president CEO that's why you don't care I said yeah but I built a business that got me to be president CEO with no title so it's not really true what you're saying cuz yeah but you're already president you're already CEO so that's why you're getting more business the reality is quite different quite different the world gives too much value to these titles and the reality is that if you're so focused on your title you're usually not focused on what the title is supposed to mean if you're so focused about having a CEO under your name you're probably not a good CEO cuz a real CEO doesn't care about a business card somebody else makes of him he's too busy making money he's too busy building the company if you're so busy being a consultant you don't have time to make a business card and thinking about how the business card is going to look and what's it going to say you're busy being a consultant and helping people if you're so busy trying to figure out whether people should call you RAV or Rabbi or the ra or the ra or the and all these different things that people call themselves the reality is sometimes quite different a humbling story about Rabbi mosha Feinstein is that one day a father yells a uh after his kid Moshe Moshe you a little kid running around he's trying to stop him Moshe Moshe don't go in the street Moshe and Moshe find him turns around yes yes what could I do no I'm sorry no I would never call Moshe Moshe finds and says but M that's his name to him he didn't understand why would wouldn't Moshe be his name because the fact that he was meant nothing to him cuz he knew this mishna says all this to that I know there no credit that I deserve why because that's what I was created to do you don't get an extra cookie for having two arms you have two arms there's no extra credit for it you don't get an extra cookie for coming to work on time you're supposed to come on time that's what you're paid to do but for some reason we are constantly looking for extra credit for the basic things we're supposed to do oh I went to Manan every day this week good fine what what would you like for us to do clap for you do a standing ovation yeah what do you want us to do you came to mean I donated money to theet what are you looking for here you want the name because you donate on the on the light you know sometimes people donate to the besset why not because they care about the besset because they want a plaster a uh poster on the wall he donated $312 for this light bulb 20 years the light bulb was there it's already old needs a new one already but they still remember that the guy donated $320 for the light bulb he donated for the sign for everyone to know not because he cares for people to have a light so when we have a confused mind of what we're supposed to do we look for credit when we know what we're supposed to do we focus on actually doing something about it and that's one of the most important things that a person needs to know in life if you're so focused on getting Credit in reality you're never going to have a real reason to get credit for and if you are getting so much credit for whatever Good Deeds you're doing in this world you're going to be the most miserable person in the world when you get to Sham because they're going to tell you oh my friend you got so much credit you got the building which your name on it you got the Kil that always shook your hand you got the community that always praised your name like it was mosu of the generation so all of the credit that you were supposed to give get you spent 99% of it in that world this is the 1% you have left once you see the 1% that you have left and how amazing it is you're only going to cry about the fact that you didn't have the whole 100% you're only going to cry about the fact that someone even knew you actually did aah because if someone knows the true value of a mitvah they want to do everything they can to hide it you give a donation anonymously the don't you don't tell anyone you donated and even if you want to get to the highest level of donation you want to find a way that the one that received your money doesn't know you gave that's the highest level of donation there's a story about ysep aaman a kados you guys ever hear about ysep ysep the holy stingy person it's an interesting title no it was a rich guy a few hundred years ago in a in a real story by the way and uh everyone knew this guy is the stingiest person on Earth people that would come to his house he'd always walked them in come in have a seat but the minute they asked for money he would get furious throw him out of the house after embarrassing them you come to my house to ask me for $100 you come to my house to ask me for $5,000 for youra for your kids for your this for your that how dare you and he became known as ysep aan The Sting ysf cuz he had money but he refused to give it to anyone one day he died and he was hated so much by his K that no one showed up to the funeral no one showed up to the funeral this is obviously a horrendous situation you didn't exactly leave such a good past you know and they say you know we see it actually on it's better to have a good name than a lot of money said it cuz a good name lasts money doesn't last it's just this life and even this life it's questionable if it's going to last so he dies no one shows up to the funeral and all of a sudden the day after the funeral all of these poor people show up at the rabbi's house knocking at his house tens and tens of people asking for he says where did you all come from he go we all live here what all of a sudden all of you went broke at the same time goes no we haven't had money for many years go so how did you survive until now said well we don't really know but we know that every time we go to stores the stores would give us the money the stores would give us the goods we didn't have to pay if I went to theore to buy milk the guy from the milk company would the guy from the store that sells milk would give me the milk but all of a sudden today I went he said I'm sorry I can't give it to you and same thing with the next one the next one and next one next one so now the rav was not a fool and he's trying to figure out where did this money come from so he goes through all of the merchants he says who gave you the money to pay for all these people why'd you stop giving it to them says well I gave it to them because every week I would get an envelope with his name on it and the envelope would have the exact amount of money of what he needs for his groceries or what he needs for his laundry or what he needs for whatever Goods the guy was selling and the envelope didn't come this week goes who gave you the envelope he goes no no that's one thing I'm not allowed to say I promise the person that's given the envelope I'm not allowed to say so he went to the next guy next guy said the same thing I got the envelope but I'm not allowed to say I'm not allow to say I'm not allowed to say Rabbi invited all of them to his house says I demand that all of you tell me who gave you the envelope as a rabbi back then they respected the rabbi they all admitted it was ysep ysep aan immediately the rabbi started hysterical crying and started praying Non-Stop to do Chu for all the things they said about him thought about him ysep why did you do this to us and I'm not sure whether the story goes that he had a dream about him or he actually did one of these mystical things where he asked to be shown some type of answer from ysep but long story short is that he saw ysep and he sees yoseph all wearing white looking very holy in the next world he says why did you do this to us why did you pretend to be such a cheap guy when in reality you were feeding the entire Community he says because I learned one time that if you want your Mitzvah and you want all of it you want to make sure that no one knows and on top of it the receiver the receiver doesn't even know who gave it to them and even the highest level that I did is I tried to make sure the receiver hates me and what was your reward for this mitvah he says ab andov and came to welcome me to DAV was making the music and the aot came to me and they brought me to he says but you know I still miss one thing there's only one thing I still miss about this world cuz what do you miss I miswriting the envelopes there's no envelopes in there's no more chance for me to do more so that's when Yaman got the name the holy sting when we know the value of each Mitzvah we'll Chase it like we chase money we'll Chase it like we Chase treasure we'll Chase it like we're chasing something that's extremely valuable and we're not going to really focus it about we're not going to focus about whether anyone notices or anyone doesn't notice but just in case anyone that wants to know the difference between titles in in thear versus today it's very important to know the lowest level is RAV in today's world it's the opposite highest level is RAV lowest level in is when someone's called R second is rabi it's higher rabi is higher than third is raban raban is higher than rabi and and the highest level is just the name why do they call Moshe Moshe why do they call andov andov why they call aik a MIM why don't they call them all these names no name would be enough they call hasem called himik hasem signed off on him that he's a sadik and the reason why is because he passed the test that none of us can pass he passed the test of not wasting seed on the most beautiful woman that ever lived except from Sarah put far his wife was a beautiful woman they say she was one of the four most beautiful women that ever lived and YF had every opportunity to be with her she would change her outfit M multiple times a day just to turn him on and he almost got he almost got to a point where he actually sinned with her until last minute according to thear he saw theut of his father you saw the image of his father now when a man is aroused it's not just so easy to just walk away and even if you walk away it's not enough you're still aroused you still have bad thoughts you still have all these different things YF knew this he knew that he must kill his arousal what did he do he took his hands and he smashed him into the ground in essence breaking his own hands to such a point that there was a miracle that the Sean came out of his body and out through his fingernails according to the so he doesn't sin with wasting seed and for that hasem signed off heik and theut theut that his father what does his father tell him when he saw him he says if you sin with potifar his wife instead of being known as yadik you're going to be thrown out of the 12 tribes you're not going to be considered one of the tribes you're not going to be put your name is not going to be put on theen of the and on top of it you're going to be known forever it's big difference soan is one level below the name it's even higher than a prophet because a prophet let's say for example Samuel the prophet when someone has just a name meaning that there's even saying that he's a prophet is not enough even calling on that's why you don't even though abob were all prophets was a prophet you don't call him ad Nai you don't call him ABI so was a student of H who was a student of meaning that his rabbis were higher than the prophets who were his students he was the rabbi of rabos who is rulos Rabbi who's who's his student R AKA meaning R AKA was Ran's student student Raba that all of us know about the example of chuva the epitome of chuva the one that reached that reached a according to Kaz told according to the holy books the highest level of Kus in history four people according page 14 four people went up to sh to see things that we can't even think about one died one went crazy one went off the D one became a they call him his real name was Elisha benu but forever more he was called a meaning the other no longer considered atana no longer considered holy went off death became a became a heretic fourth one R AA R AA went up and went down even better he saw something no one else is able to see and he is Ran's student student which rabbis do all of us know anyone at saric knows this anyone that's saric mother knows this no throw some names everybody knows every sear woman in the world knows she has a candle of who else we know everybody knows you're secular you're religious you're Jewish not Jewish everyone knows they were RAB aka's students so the ones that everybody knows of course holy people I wish I could have just be their shoelace but the point is the ones that everybody knows today are not even Ran's direct students there are students students students fourth level and you could only know theusa and the Holiness and the level of a rabbi to his students so if his students were like that imagine him and if he was like this who is his rabbis so to give us a little bit of an understanding of who his Rabbi was he let us a K it says he had 80 students he had many students but 80 specific students 30 of them 30 of them were worthy to get AEM to have light on their face just like mosu 30 of them if they came and said I want to have the same light on my face like M had from M SA 30 of them 30 of them were worthy to get AEM to stop the sun in the middle of the sky just like he did for Yeshua B they look at the son and say you know what son I'm running late why don't you stay there for a few hours and I'll come back I'll let you know when to continue 30 of them when did Hashem stop the for yesu anyone know right the war the war against the war against Amal that we had in the desert amalik the wicked amalik that hasem promises to destroy attacked attacked our weak but it wasn't a simple War like many of us think if anyone looks at the mid and several other mid that talks about the details of the war they actually say that it was such a mystical war that no war in history in history including go Magog will ever be like the war we had with amalik it was a completely mystical War Powers magic all types of craziness to the point where the only way we're able to win is by hasem stopping the Sun for Yeshua Bon has had to get involved here it's even more significant a bigger War than the war of go Magog which is gonna happen before the mashia comes so now that we know who we're dealing with here we know that if his Rabbi was like this who is ran out of these 80 students they say that the top student was jonatan benel when he would study T would create a holy fire on top of him that if any bird flew on top of him it would burn instantly burn just by flying flying you know trying to relax a little bit in the winds nice weather gone long area do not enter that's the top student the lowest student so what does this know if his student student student student isim that we know all the mystical parts of the Torah from him from the who's what do you mean he's the lowest student what did he know they say he knew all of the all the all the all the all which means all of the things that happen in the upper worlds all which means all the things that happened to create this world and before this world if that wasn't enough you also knew the language of the Angels how do you learn the language of the Angels anybody know the school teaches the language of the Angels they don't teach it in school you know why cuz who are you going to talk to the angels not going to come talk to you so used to talk to angels too if that was enough he got bored with the angels who did he talk to the demons you know the language of the Demons also they have a different language so he talked to them also if that wasn't enough and you know the angels in the demons were a little busy who he could talk to he could talk to the birds and the trees cuz he knew the language also now why is it so important to know who we're talking about why is it so important to know all these amazing things about or any of these sages because in today's ignorant world where people don't actually know what Torah is other than just a few stories were very easily influenced to go against it very easily judgmental and say no you know what kosher it doesn't make sense to me I don't think it's relevant anymore doesn't make sense to me like someone told me listen I I understand that slaughtering is a Humane thing to do but according to some government officials and some different animal associations they actually think the opposite they think it's a very vicious thing to do it doesn't make sense to me to keep kosher or somebody says listen I understand that it says in the Torah to keep Shabbat but I'm going to make money I'm in a car business I'm in a clothing business I'm in so and so business Shabbat is the number one day for the business if hasem wanted me to have money he wouldn't give me this job he' give me a different job so it doesn't make sense to me that Shabbat is really what you say it is doesn't make sense to me everybody says it doesn't make sense to me which is the reason why I always have these books next to me because I need to provide sources because people don't believe words they don't take your words if I was a doctor or a lawyer or even a broker or hedge fund manager they take my word like God said it himself once you get to a point where you start saying No One Believes anything doctor tells you listen I think we should cut your arm from the right side and then dig this way and then way and then it's like wait about it's just my knee that hurts but you're not going to ask the question you're not going to tell him your knee hurts you're going to tell him if he's cutting the arm he must know he must know he's looking at the wrong file but you're thinking he's smart you know how many times they cut the wrong part it's not a joke but me they cut the wrong leg they cut the wrong arm you know how many times these doctors and know which doctors cut it the ones with the most degrees who made the biggest errors in history the ones with the most degrees the ones with the most amount of credit that the public is giving them let's try to call again if anybody can just press Redal I don't have no idea how this works this is more complicated than my machine it's all the uh yeah I don't know nothing is working thank you just press redial and then what is the other number uh 289 something 935 just press Ral that same number hold on a second guys we'll be right there oh okay 28 oh okay good see Satan shows up to the lecture also he didn't like it he didn't like it 2 38 985 okay so press Ral and then 2 38 985 okay one second no okay they're going to listen to it through Facebook live see so already hasem provided the uh in real time provided the Cure before the ailment he knew that that line would go busy so he gave us the other one uh if you get to it again you could just press uh uh 238 985 so getting back I'll have to remember where I was so now we have an easy time judging the Tora tells somebody listen if you're a Jew and you drive on Shabbat according to the ramb which from there we get all of our which he himself got us from thear which talks about which talks abouta that's where we got it all from so according to the rabbat chapter 30 he says if you violate Shabbat you drive to on Shabbat you play with your phone on Shabbat you light fire on Shabbat you carry things outside of Shabbat you do all those things you're shabat and a Jew is Shabbat is considered an idol worshiper not considered just bad person could be a nice person butm eyes to considered an idol worshiper which is the worst possible thing you can be viewed at from sham meaning the the punishment that hasem gives a murderer murderer somebody just killed somebody works for the mafia 25,000 ahead shoots people once a week once a week he kill kills people says listen if hasem wanted me to give me better better P us I give me a better job this one pays the most 25,000 ahead I work once a week the rest of the week I study tah rest of the week he's in a 25,000 but he keep Shabbat he keep Shabbat thank you he keep Shabbat the punishment for him is not as severe as someone that's not a murderer but drives on Shabbat to wickness it not only D he drives to to dovah to go pray with the he drives on Shabbat to that person is in a much much worse shape than the murderer now they tell this to people doesn't make sense rationally it doesn't make sense I agree it doesn't make sense but the Torah is not supposed to be rational rational means human rational means it makes sense to you who says it's supposed to make sense to you who says that Hashem owes you an explanation Proverbs 193 schl says the foolishness of man meaning his sins perverts his way meaning it brings him to punishment but his heart Frets against theem meaning that after a person sins he gets punished 13 principles of faith that we have there's measure for measure meaning righteous person gets reward Wicked person gets punishment measure for measure schl is telling us here is that someone sins goes against Hashem Hashem punishes him and what does he do he gets mad at hm he gets mad at hm like it's hm's fault you sinned what are you blaming hasem for punishing you he told you he's going to punish you he said what are he so upset the kid died in the car accident he said M what you think he was joking or maybe he didn't mean about you oh a guy lost all of his money well he told you stop stealing I didn't steal did you lend money yes I didn't steal you lend money to another Jew yes I lent money to another Jew I did a Mitzvah you charged him interest of course I'm going to make any money that's stealing my friend not let the charge another je interest unless unless he violates Shabbat explained the to such an extent that he told us you are allowed to charge a Shabbat interest based on the fact that one sees a Shabbat he's no longer considered part of is to that extent and anyone that knows even a little bit about was very lenient on many things he looked for leniencies he looked for ways to even help the basic people people w so for him to say something like that you know it's not a joke but people have an easy time going against the T and the reason why is because they think that just because their local Rabbi is called Rabbi and perhaps maybe he's ignorant or he's this or he's that or he doesn't know the ways of the world or he doesn't know an answer to every single question that everyone asks or they just don't know what he knows but he just doesn't look doesn't have the look of a smart person his Beard's too long or it's too short I'm not sure yet so they don't think they don't think that it's a he's smart they say ah so he believes this Torah n it's just stories and they easily just go against it no it's it's one time I told the guy I'm like listen this what it says in in talks about what happens to them has no share of the world to come and so on and so forth and the guy tells me no no that's your commentary that's your your P you translated it that way I bet you I can give you a different translation said no but it's not a translation this is what it means literally if you understand Hebrew this is what the world mean M death upon death what is you can't die twice you die once so what's the second death no share of the world to come what's what's cut off from the nation if you already died twice where are you being cut off from if if cut off meant death why would a third time because means cut off cut off from what nation cut off from meaning no longer considered Jewish this is not a commentary this is literally what it says you just never read it I never read it until I read it and once I read it said oh I guess they weren't joking I guess they weren't I guess this wasn't kidding so before we jump and judge every Rabbi and judge rambam judge rabf Caro judge R judge ranan RAB AKA RAB Shimon judge even mosu his own generation judged him they called him a thief everybody thought he was a thief they said no he's stealing money from the you know he collected a half a shekel from each person said no that's how he got richu they said no no he's stealing money but thear says that mosu got rich in different ways how did he get rich obviously he didn't steal one of the ways that he got rich is that originally each Jew got a two crowns from the uh from the Angels each one of the the Angels Came Down 600,000 Angels came down and each Angel gave each Jew two crowns after they all sinned and one way or another some directly worship the golden calf some just let them worship the golden calf meaning the entire nation were considered Sinners even though only a few thousand actually worshiped the golden calf Hashem said to mosu let me destroy all of them and start a new nation from you why but if only three four 5,000 sinned why you want to kill everybody for what do they do they didn't worship the calf what are you want to kill them for Shem you need you have anger problems relax what do you want to kill them for they didn't worship the golden calf they were just hanging out had a barbecue relaxed another guy is building a store for everyone get a deli tomorrow you know what having a business what's what's the problem what do you want to kill them for says they sat there quietly they sat there quietly while their brothers and sisters went and worshiped the golden calf knowing that it's wrong you're not allowed to worship anything but God you're not allowed to worship a golden calf you're not allowed to worship anything in Christianity you're not allowed to worship anything relating to your own Rabbi you're not allowed to worship a son you're not allowed to worship a cow you're not allowed to worship anything but God if anything comes between your relationship with God you my friend are Idol worshiping even if the idol is your Rabbi even if your Rabbi died even if your Rabbi is mosu you can't worship mosenu that's why hasem buried him himself in a place that no one knows because he knew that if mosenu was known everyone worship would worship him makes logical sense the only one that ever spoke to God face to face they worshiped yadik because he made them Rich what are they going to do with m so mosenu got rich in different ways after everyone made the sin by not saying anything and hasm wanted to destroy them all of the Angels came down and took back the crowns and they gave them all to M from here is an interesting Source where you see in a different part of the where he say that listen every Jew have a share of world the world to come page 90 to 98 also has it a little bit in the beginning we read it on Shabbat it says every Jew has a share of the world to come problem with that Mish is that it that's just the first verse of the Mish it's the first verse but as I just said it's eight pages but not eight pages like we think eight pages eight eight is 16 Pages really because it's pages is two sides so one line in 16 Pages it's not so much what does the rest of the line say the description of all of those who do not have a share of the world to come all all of these all of the has a share of the world to come but these are the ones that do not have a share of the world to come and it says if you make certain sins you make certain sins as a Jew you not have a share of the world to come obviously Shabbat is one of them the problem is that we don't want to get depressed every time we pray on Shabbat so they don't mention the entire mishna plus we're in a hurry to go home and have some CH so from here we answer the confused that say listen you say that every Jew has a share of the world world to come but then you say that okay they lose it if they violate Shabbat but it already says that they created a share they already created a part of for him what they going to close it put a sign closed the guy didn't show up he didn't pay his bill what are they going to do with the share it's Eternal it's not like a uh space on this world kazal explains to us that share goes somewhere else goes to a different Jew what Jew a Jew try to help him do Chua a Jew that told him the truth you came to me said listen my friend you're not allowed to be married to a goah my friend you're not allowed to shave with a razor my friend you're not allowed to violate Shabbat all of these different major sins he says do me a favor Live and Let Live you live your life I'll live my life you want to be religious good for you I don't want to be thank you for caring thank you for trying I'm not interested not buying in the business world I wish it was that nice but usually when people say they're not buying they just hang up in my face but nonetheless it's the same answer not interested click now you'll be upset like I am every time I try to help somebody do Chua and they say I'm not interested it's very upsetting but in reality you have something to celebrate about the fact that you just told them the truth and they didn't want to listen if it stays that way if it stays that way you will end up getting their you end up getting their share just like mosu got the crown for each one of the that sin with the golden CF so now the question goes since ran over here is telling us that he heard all of his teaching from H and Sh and he knows what he's talking about obviously not only a holy and righteous man but this is someone that his entire life was dedicated to am is his entire life was non-stop teaching non-stop learning and he's telling us a message saying if you learned a lot of Torah don't take credit for yourself because that's what you created to do now if it was somebody never learned tah that says listen if you learn a lot of T don't take that much credit of course he's going to say that he doesn't even know what T is knows what T is he says I learned he learned plenty of Torah what he learned we can't learn we don't have the same tah anymore we don't even have a fraction of what he knew to give us an example people always ask about and yob who was the first Jew who is not the first Jew there's a little bit of a of who was the first Jew whether it wasu because he's the first one to get the Tora or it was actually Abu or andov or it was just yob nonetheless they say that abrah ainu fulfilled the entire Torah all of the rules of the Tor no no no didn't fulfill the entire T it was called it was called but he was isik but he didn't fulfill the entire T and he wasn't in the level of this is the reason why the Maul was called after him the Maul was called after him because it was actually a rebuke because after the Maul was over after the flood was over Noah came out right right no no right no no came out and started crying and hasem says you're a you're a fool no if you would have cried before the mul I wouldn't have brought to Abul what's the difference between why is he not called the first Jew because he just sat there and took care of himself once he knew that he's going to be saved he took care of his family and himself he didn't rebuke anyone he didn't go try to do kir with anyone else on the other hand the reason the argument says that he's the first Jew is because he dedicated his entire life to help other people and that's a responsibility of a Jew that's the first responsibility of a Jew is to be a light to the Nations you're not allowed to be selfish in Judaism which means that if you're a selfish person you have a lot of work to do and this is unfortunately a midad that each every single one of us has every one of us is selfish to some extent every one of us cares about our parasa we don't care about our neighbors every one of us cares about our own stomach we don't care if our wife is hungry or our husband is hungry we care about us being hungry once I'm not hungry then I'll make you something to eat once I have a uh you know my my bills paid then I'll think about if I can want to give you in general the natural inclination of most people is to be selfish now of course if you love somebody or you care about somebody then you overcome that if your wife loves you then she won't make herself food first she'll make you food first if if you care about Jews you'll spend money and invest money into kiru before you invest into your stock portfolio if you care about your community you'll invest money into your betet or different types of Jewish organizations because you care about the future and not just care about your Mercedes-Benz so again if you care about something then you overcompensate and you overcome your own desires but if you don't then your natural inclination is going to be to be selfish so aam showed us that you're not allowed to be selfish and that's actually the argument of why he was considered the he was called the first Jew but now we have ourselves a interesting question all of this tor that we learn we say that a learned a different level of T much more how much more how much more did he have I mean he didn't even get the written T so what did he actually have thear says that our current current if you have let's say thein it's two books because the shenin has English and Hebrew and has the commentary on it it's two books it's a little over 70 pages and obviously regular it's just one book I believe it's five parts five chapters five or maybe six chapters to the so five chapters are these two books let's say his was 4,000 chapters 4,000 chapters meaning just as was bigger than our entire all T that we have today entire sh entire Z en all combined just just one track dat so when they say that AB was able to fulfill the entire I'm not surprised if you just if you're even able to go through the first 4,000 chapters you're doing okay so nonetheless we have here is telling us listen this Tora this is the number one Mission this is really important you have to fulfill it you have to learn it and even after you learn it don't take so much credit but the question that everyone always asks especially if they haven't started doing chuva or even sometimes if they are religious but not really Believers I have some people that come to me they're religious but they don't actually believe in God this sounds unusual to some of you but this unfortunately is very common today religion has become a custom religion has become a culture not necessarily a way of life where you know you're supposed to be glued to AEM religion you know if you're wearing the black hat the beard it's nice but it could literally be just because you were born into a household that that's what they wear that's why they act they go to besset at a certain time they go to a community meeting at a certain time they have certain holidays that everyone observes not because they care about the holiday but just because that's the way it is unfortunately some people are there they're religious they follow the mitvah but they don't actually even believe in God and we try to help them we try to get them to believe in God scientifically rationally different ways but now you have people from all walks of life ask the same exact question who says that I have to learn who says that I have to fulfill it like where does it say it where does it say that I agree to this they agreed to it in Mount sa they agreed Hashem said listen here my tah you know the famous kid story is Hashem went to all the nations he says you want toah you want the T you want the T and everyone said what's WR it says you're not to steal oh no no no we like to steal don't accept it went to the other one now let to kill oh no no we like to kill we're starting Kamas organization tomorrow that's what we do our top engineer is a bomb designer what's your second top bomb designer third bombs fourth only bombs we're strictly bombs bombs they want to kill people ran out of bombs they use [Music] cars No Stealing no adultery no killing the Jews didn't ask anything that's what the story goes we didn't ask we just said how you know how many you have it's free how many you have so from this story it sounds like we had a choice hasem asked us and we accepted we said now here's the atomic bomb we didn't have a choice it was actually no choice at all if any one of you looks at at the which is Exodus chapter 19 verse 17 Moses brought the people forth from the camp towards God and they stood at the bottom of the mountain so theab asks a big question what does it mean what does it mean the bottom of the mountain why didn't they say the mountain they stood by the mountain you don't say I'm going to Mountain uh so and so the bottom of the mountain you go I'm going to the mountain next week you give this save me the time no it's 20 minutes to get here no no sorry I'm telling you you know more than I do I had to learn this so page 88 it says they stood at the foot of the mountain said this teaches that the Holy One blessed is he covered them with the mountain as though it was an upturned vat and said to them if you accept the Torah fine but if not your burial place will be there translation the mountain wasn't like we have in a pictures you know we have pictures little kids books have pictures or people have pictures of Mount Si everybody standing there it's a holy there's a on top maybe Moses over there holding the Ten Commandments nice wonderful visual it's completely wrong first of all he didn't hold it it was in the air was floating in the air second of all it did not look like it says in the in the picture the letters were you're able to see the Ten Commandments what it was written on the Ten Commandments from all four sides from all four sides all of the letters will float in the air you were able to see what it says regardless of where you were standing which is obviously a miracle because you can't do that with anything else meaning if I'm here it's I see it says AEM is the only God you're allowed to worship I go to the right same thing I go to the left same thing I go behind same thing not opposite it says it as if I'm standing in the same location all four times so that's the first thing second of all the mountain didn't look like that originally before they got there and now it looks like that it looks like a regular Mountain but once they got to mount sa the is explained to us like Joseph said that the mount that hasem made the mountain change and actually become like a keeper on top of them cover all of them it became like a roof on top of all of is we already had the clouds what he know the roof for remember we had seven clouds we have to laer our clothes we didn't have to go to wash anything we we didn't have to strengthen you know Sten strain our our legs because we're like floating so we already have what do we need this mounted on top of our head maybe the dirt's going to fall in our eyes looking up with like something why says because said to is my sons if you want to accept the Torah fine but if you don't this will be your burial meaning this keepa this addition that we have this extension that we added to our Mount saai will fall on top of you and kill all of [Applause] you so the Mah gives an amazing explanation of what's going on on here he says to us wait a minute this doesn't sound like a choice what it even bother asking him for it's not a choice you forced them into it and the answer is true he didn't actually force them into it but it wasn't really a choice what was it he explains that Hashem had to put am this situation and the reason why is because if history recorded that Israel accepted their acceptance of the Torah was an optional was optional they could accept it not accept it even though it sounds nice sounds praiseworthy oh wow they accepted it even though they had a choice not to sounds nice what sikim sikim M says yes even though it sounds praiseworthy it would have seemed as if an indispensable component of existence had been left to chance says to Jeremiah hm says to Jeremiah if not for my Covenant meaning if not for my Torah the rules of the world will cease to exist so the M explains is that if there's no world without Torah then we can't leave it for choice and to say that had a choice would make it seem like hasem is irresponsible Shalom like he's leaving the whole world s and a half billion people that live right now billions and billions of people that have lived over the generations he's leaving all of their Destinies all of their Futures all of their presents all of their pasts to a few million Jews who decide if they woke up on the right side of the battle KN not if they want to accept this book that's not a God so the maral continues and he says to dispel such Notions God demonstrated that Israel's Free Will decision was such an unalterable necessity that their failure to make it would have caused their extension maral explains like yes they did have free choice they did have they could have chosen to not follow the Torah they could have chosen hey we don't want it but hasem had to put it in a situation where he said okay if you don't want it I just want to let you know you're going to die either accept the Torah or die now a lot of us enjoy the K on for Shabbat even before we do CH most Jews do K most of them do even though sometimes they go to the movies five minutes later or they go to the club or they go to the beach they do K it's a MTI thing it's a tradition even if your Rabbi is a woman you do K even if your Rabbi is a dog do people do people like do they like the wine they like the sing most people know by heart which is a verse in Shabbat same page 88 but it's also a was a the student of the same we're talking about this is one of his students he ask a question if you look at all of the days during creation you have Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday but obviously in Hebrew names not the idol worshipping names that Christianity created but unfortunately were forced to use each one of the names in English is after some type of idol or star that they worshiped but nonetheless each day it would say it was evening it was a night it was Day end of uh you know first day end of second day end of Third Day end of fourth day and so on but on the sixth day on Friday it says meaning it says it was evening it was morning the sixth day meaning there's an extra letter in a Hebrew language or in English language there's an extra word the so let asks a big question obviously we know there's no extra letters there's no extra verses there's no extra paragraphs in the Torah what do I need this extra he what do I need this extra word the on Friday and why is it the only day that has it why couldn't you if you're going to add it make it match you you can't wear red and black if you're not gonna have another black or red that's to match you have a hay over here just on Friday put it on Thursday too at least give it a friend the lonely McAn you know he's going to feel alone this hay why you have only one hay put it come on it's free why only one gives us an amazing K he says it says the Hezekiah says in Psalm 769 from Heaven you made judgment uh from Heaven you made judgment heard the Earth became afraid and grew calm it's talking about what happened in Mount sa before we got to mount saai it says that Earth the angel controlling Earth was afraid before we got to mount saai but after we got there it became calm so the question is if you were afraid why did you grow calm and if you were able to get calm why did you were why were you afraid in the first place obviously something changed SOI says this is why I was scared he was scared because Hashem during creation made a deal with the angel that runs Earth everything has an angel the sun has an angel It's a small Angel Earth is another small Angel Everyone's an angel someone wants to one of the one time said I'm going to fight God go fight him I'm a king he's a king want to go fight him so the but apparently had some or something a Heavenly voice aem's voice came from sh and said rash rash Wicked son of wicked you think you get to me fight to me just to get to the bottom of my chair bottom of my chair will take you 500 years from there we learned we knew what light years were already to get to the bottom of my chair to get from the bottom of my chair to the next level of the chair is another 500 years and to get to the next level it's another 500 years meaning it would take him thousands and thousands of years just to get to the chair to the chair not to Hashem himself to the chair you're going to go fight him another rash tolda I want to go see God said okay do me a favor look at one of his angels for a few hours if you're able to look at his his Angel for a few hours no problem he goes who's the angel he goes the son son is a small little angel small little angel Shem has Angels the son is one of the small angels look at that angel talk to him a few little bit B I'll come back tomorrow if you're still looking you're still talking you guys on first name basis by then I come back I take you show you hasm 30 seconds pass the guy's crying his eyes out OHA goes why what do you want you guys got into a fight goes no I can't look at him why can't you look at him because it's burning my eyes if you can't look at a small Angel how you going to look at hm so so says that in creation Hashem made a deal with the angel that runs Earth he says if is accept the Tor if they accept it everything continues but if they don't accept it I'm returning everything to to I'm destroying everything now every deal has to have a country contract what's the contract the hey the extra hey the extra that's the contract if they accept the deal we go from y to one of hashem's holiest Creations y Shabbat if we don't we stay during the mundane week and everything gets destroyed and also a small little if interestingly you would see that hey also has a numerical value of five five representing the five books of Moses we accept the five books of Moses we get the Shabbat we don't accept them we have nothing no Shabbat no Torah no nothing no purpose so from here we learn from not only from Ab but from some of his students that in reality whether it was Shabbat or was Tora or was any of the it's not really a choice like we think it is yes you have free choice you can do what you want you could eat pig you could eat a kosher cow you could be honest you could be a liar you could be an angry person or you could be someone that's trying to work on his me you can do what you want that's free choice but that's not exactly what we have because what we learned from this is that we really have choice not free choice meaning we have consequences free choice in our minds means that I can do whatever I want and nothing will happen if I go to work I get paid $100 I don't go to work I don't get paid anything that's free choice in our mind what we have is Choice meaning I go to work I get paid $100 I don't go to work the boss sends people to my house and he beat me up all day that's what we have we got to mount siai with choice we accept it tah Hashem fulfills the promise to the angel that runs Earth Hashem fulfills the promise to the rest of the Angels Hashem fulfills the promise to the souls that were in that were in creation before he put us into IES we don't Mount sa becomes a burial ground so ra is telling us here that first and foremost you need to understand that there's no reason whatsoever for you to ever take any credit for your learning Tor because that's the only reason you exist is for the Torah that you can learn for the Torah you can fulfill meaning that if you have no plan on fulfilling the Torah then you're fulfilling the verse that it says that even are called dead in their own life during their life they're called Dead there's no point to your life even an animal has more Point than you do because at least we could eat the animal we can make something out of it you came here you don't want to learn to you don't want to fulfill to you're losing your purpose now why do we say this now only a little over an hour after the lecture started versus right in the beginning because if I said to everyone right away listen if you learn to all you're meaningless people take it offensively but once you learned it it didn't come for me came from came from came from people that were Beyond nature it came from the creator that created nature then you could just eliminate my picture and listen to them doesn't matter who said it I'm just the voice there's no credit due to me same book you read it you'll get the same thing just that most people didn't read it so we did the work for you so that's the first part and I think it's the most critical part that we have to understand in the book of mikah see oh okay the book of mikah The Prophet says in chapter 7 verse 20 give truth to yov and so K asks why is it that yob the son is mentioned before AB isn't it usually andov why is he mentioning here yob first and where is so from here we learned that each one of them represented something else had 133 character traits each one of them represented something else represented that's why it says represented de or fear or judgment and yob represented this why he says give truth to [Music] yov so why is the conclusion indisputable in regards to yov being the foundation of am Isel and not ab and not why is jakob's name changed to isra because aram's entire connection to hasem his entire mission in life was based on and by itself doesn't last doesn't fulfill hashem's will completely there's plenty of people that are very rich they give millions of dollars in but they drive on Shabbat but they don't keep the mitv like they're supposed to but they figure listen I donated $5 million to the K I get permission I could drive on Shabbat somebody else donate $5 million on Shabbat somebody else donate $5 million to the col no okay so I'm here to fulfill the job so that means I get special privilege they think just because they do that's their connection to first thing that people tell me tell them listen you keep Shabbat you keep kosher you keep you keep you keep all these basic level mitv this is not this is not stringencies basic level mitv a woman must be modest if you're not modest you're failing your test in this world a man is obligated to learn T at every single moment that he has a chance that is the minimum requirement minimum requirement not the maximum requirement minimum requirement is to learn t as a man and every single moment you have a chance meaning every time you're not working to make a living for your family and you're not let's say helping your wife fulfilling your role as a husband you must be learning t meaning any single time you spend watching stot on television playing on the internet watching a cop save ducks in the middle of the highway every time you're doing that you are in a serious serious problem with Sham called T this is the reason why when someone wants to get blessing for give me a blessing for give me blessing for this blessing for that what do we say we say Ben his mother's name David Ben his mother's name yon Ben Doris wait a minute why don't you say his father anybody ever asked that question we only say the father a different chance but not when it's relating to why don't we say the mother because the father if he's still alive you can't bless the son on his name and the reason why is because there's there are prosecutors going against the father and Sham saying he made definitely at least two sins one of them is T he watched some YouTube videos that weren't t he watched the cop saving the Ducks he watched the baby laugh for 3 hours he watched he watched YouTube he became one of those one and a half billion you know listeners of the YouTube channel so he has a problem with definitely all of us have t okay okay fine what's the other one then what's the other okay fine okay you know what's the other one he wasted seed definitely wasted seed at some point of his life for that you can't bless the son on his name why because you go up to shamay and say listen the blessing came wait who is he oh he's uh this guy son of Shimon oh Shimon the seed waster get out of here get out of here let him die it's better to bless him on the mom's name why because she doesn't have those two obligations so she couldn't have made those s at least according to theat according to theat the simple part of the toraat woman cannot waste seed even though the cabala says she can but as far as T she's not obligated to learn T so she couldn't have made that s so at least 50% she's definitely better than the man so bless the son under the mom's name but here we learn that all of this stuff has meaning all of this stuff has a reason we bless for certain reasons we mention people for certain reasons everything matters now if you only want to do like a lot of people tell me they donate a lot of people tell me they do all these wonderful things they give Kal to people they give food to people they have 500 people every shabat great wonderful but by itself does not stand example A's work throughout his entire life was doing kiru he was trying to convert everyone but according to kazal everyone went back every single one that converted eventually went back to idol worship and this if this wasn't written obviously by kazal I wouldn't be allowed to say it represented representing Dean judgment judgment by itself always be judgmental always fear always fear fear fear fear also doesn't hold someone eventually gets so much fear they break down they can't handle it anymore if you constantly every single sh you have is about G eventually people are going to break down they either going to go crazy or they're going to leave everything it's like ah listen I'm definitely going to again look I made at least one of those sins that he mentioned that's it forget it I'm just going to might as well do everything for what I'm definitely going to suffer anyway might as well go for the whole thing this is actually how how gamblers behave by the way which hopefully none of you have ever went to a casino unfortunately before I the cha I used to spend a lot of times in casinos this is what you would do you'd see it all the time it's called tilt the biggest poker players in the world they say oh yeah they make all this money they make all this money but what's how do they make all this money they rely on other people's failures they are perfect at or they're very good at spotting other people's failures failures in as far as containing thems so for example when someone is playing they're playing they're playing they're playing it doesn't matter what type of game or it doesn't even matter if it's in the gambling could be in business something goes you know everything goes to normal but then something small happens that annoys them someone calls them and it's the wrong person or the wife gives them an attitude or the waitress gave him milk instead of you know I don't know something else or they put sugar and in their coffee instead of uh you know putting I don't know uh sweet and love something annoying happened something that got them off their balance sometimes it's more than that sometimes just outright anger sometimes they lost their hand and that got them into a little bit of an annoying mood already they are not as stable as they were and that's when the Sharks come in and that's when they start talking to you all of a sudden hey where you from oh that place oh yeah I know people like that you know they start making fun of you start annoying you start asking why you doing this and why you doing that why because they see you're already loose because we want want to get you on tilt what's tilt complete lack of control why because when you have complete lack of control what do you do a you know what the heck with it I'm putting everything on the line but you don't even know what card you have you don't even know what you're betting on you don't even know what you're investing in you don't know what you're doing yeah but you know what if I lost a small hand maybe I'll lose every hand so I might as well get to the whole thing I'm either going to win everything or lose everything one shot that's the mentality of being on tilt and that's what these professional gamblers at least the ones that survive which most of them don't um that's what they're betting on that's why they could sit at the table for hours and hours and hours without even playing without even playing why because they're only waiting for one moment the fish to show itself who's the fish if you don't know who's the fish it's you so now to tell somebody constantly listen everything you're going to do you're going to go to Gom and Gom looks like this and Gom looks like that and it's going to burn and it's going to hurt and it's this and it's that and get people depressed okay you need to know what Gom is even RAB from breast for anyone who doesn't know you know it's breast movement today is very different than it was in the days of raban they weren't break dancing back then by the way especially not in vents as a matter of fact the big foundation of his teaching was very different than it is today in today's world people must represented not everyone obviously there are pretty there's a lot of sikim in the breast movement but there are some that completely misrepresent it and make it seem like it's a Party Movement like it's just fun and laughing and all that stuff it's really not because from bre said that he read the book 400 times 400 times he studied it he says that every one of his students must learn it and become an expert in it why is any more special than any other book out there because that's the one book we learn about most of the details that we know about G most of the real details we know about Gom in that book or two books the gruesome stuff the stuff that no one wants to teach or even learn that's what we known from so he says that in order for someone to be connected to H it's just like said the beginning of wisdom is fear of hem you have to fear hem you have to have your foundation of your of your uh connection to hem must be based on fear but if it's only fear it won't last it won't last you're either going to become completely out of this world or you're going to be completely off so H says in the Holy books after the he lived in Two Worlds really part of his life was in the next world that we can't even fathom part of his like his body was still here his was so high he couldn't relate to this world anymore couldn't relate that we can't compare ourselves to and then yov says emit why a a represents aem's signature what's aem's signature on the Torah it's the only thing that can last and that's why mik says you want to get to a point of doing first fulfill the Tor because without the Tor your won't last and your won't be worth anything without the tor your is also not worth anything because you're not even scared of what you're supposed to be scared of you can't be scared of hem for the right reasons without toah you're scared of hm because you don't want to lose money you're scared of hem because you don't want to get into a car accident you're not scared of hm because he created you you're not scared of hem because that's one of the 63 you're scared of hm for the wrong reason that's not going to last you're giving because you want to look good you're giving because because you want to sound good not because it's an obligation not because the only reason that Hashem gave you money is because he needs you and wants you to give only reason you have money is to give it that's it it's not because you Hashem wants you to have a big IRA account it's not because hasm wants you to have a big hedge fund account and for you to be known as the you know greatest investor who dies with $350 million then what everyone that dies with a lot of money and no actual purpose suffer more than everyone else why because they still eat themselves up that they didn't spend it he couldn't enjoy it so is telling us here you want to get to fulfill the truth you want to get to a point of fulfilling your purpose you must learn once you learn stories like the one we have about the stier don't sound too strange anymore it's obviously an accomplishment we could only wish to achieve but it don't doesn't sound too strange the Stifler G um kki was someone extremely special they say he's one of the last people to have but one day somebody came to his house knocked on the door they answered the door and says oh I'd like to see the r I'm sorry he's sleeping sleeping so the guy you know mumbled to himself Stifler sleeping at 10:30 in the morning so immediately obviously they knew that this doesn't look says well you need to know that he just finished studying t for 56 hours in a row without stopping so he has to sleep 56 hours in a row no breaks no let me check my phone a little bit Ah Facebook it's great like like no none of that none of that now let me check the baseball game they're losing ah let me go back to the Torah no lunch breaks no dinner breaks nothing 56 hours in a row of learning to to us it's not even human we learn 56 minutes we're already think we 56 hours in a row why was he able to study like this because he finally understood this Mish and he says it's my purpose it's why I was created it's not a choice like free choice it's a choice because it's the only choice and once we fulfill it hasem has enough Mercy on us to make us see how good it is and eventually see the Salvation just like finally saw the Salvation like no other and we'll finish with this story was in such a level that kazal says that hasem said if he were to bring the mashia it would be him Heek I think it says in English isah is supposed to be mashia why he decided one day that's it hasem told us the only reason he created us in this world is to told the Tora to actually learn T so he put his sword down and he said anyone who doesn't learn T all day all night all the time not just sometimes not 15 minutes a day like your own saying all day that's it no working no nothing learn to I'm going to use the sword on him everyone has to learn tah it got to such a point the kazal says there was not even a baby a baby that didn't know all of the of of Purity and impurity which is the most difficult there is at least to my knowledge baby didn't know all these laws there wasn't even one that didn't know page B it says that s tried to do the same thing as ham anyone that wants to remember this page know that page 95 isik which is the am which is the same gatria as ham so the wicked who conquered according to the conquered the entire world there was only one small place left called Jerusalem little city especially comparison to the rest of the world had 185,000 generals each one of them had their own Legion wasn't 185,000 soldiers 185,000 generals that each one of them had their own soldiers and he brought all of them to Jerusalem as soon as he got there said this is Jerusalem if we spit we'll drown it so you know what let's just take a rest tomorrow we'll conquer it it's not like this can't defend itself why 185,000 generals the the length of the army was 400a 400a each pal is 2 and 1/2 miles approximately which means the length of the army was 984 MI was the size of the army the camp 984 miles which is pretty much almost the distance between here and New York obviously didn't they couldn't miss this it's not like they couldn't see it from the window they became like a black plague just came to town it's right in the border is learning his t got tonight okay I'm finished with toah he sees all of these soldiers going against him Satan decided to give us some music it's okay it's okay I got it I got it found something like that it was a good story they're ruining it I don't know how to do this this is like more sophisticated than anything else take this please thank you so you can just shut it off soia sees these people you can't miss a thousand miles worth of people reads his Torah reads his Mish reads all of his beautiful that he has learns at okay I'm going to sleep I'm going to sleep why why is he going to sleep at least listen get nervous get your army ready sharpen the steel a little bit fight for it do something you know what you don't want to fight because you don't have a chance because they have so many soldiers fight pray pray at least pray do some maybe something no he's going to sleep why is he going to sleep said wrote in this God will fight your Wars and you shall remain silent when shall you remain silent when did mosu say this we got to yamu we got to the Sea of reeds we left Egypt we get to the ocean it's there it's not splitting it's not moving it's a sea behind us desert right over the coastline Egyptians want to kill us where we going to go everybody starts crying some people want to kill themselves some people want to go to war some people want to go become slaves no one knows what to do says you have nothing to worry about God will fight your Wars you shall remain silent what do you mean remain silent with millions and millions of Egyptians according to the mid 900 million soldiers Egyptian soldiers are coming to kill the Jews 900 million this is the population of China coming to kill you or or India at this point it's huge amount of people coming to kill you I'm not I'm not going to be worried says you already did what hashm asked you to do you left Egypt leaving Egypt that was enough why because you want to do chuva you want to receive the Tora the 80% of is didn't want to do chuva didn't want to do what the Torah says they died in the plague of Darkness that's why it says a fifth of left Egypt what happened to the other four fifths which is 80% they all died hasm killed them they didn't want to do chm says I don't need you then you want to accept my Tor I don't need you so only 20% survived you survived because you already doing hashem's will you already did you already tried you already got here once you did you have nothing to worry about because at this point once you've shown some to do the will of hem he promised to do his his his job his job is to make sure you're going to be okay he'll fight your Wars it's not s that's going to win the wars it's not the the uh the uh Dome that they have that's going to win the wars it's not our allies in America that's going to win the wars it's not our weapons and our minds that are going to win the wars it's only that's going to win the wars the sooner we realize that the sooner we're going to start winning the war but until we understand that without we already lost the war we're going to continue losing every day got it they were put into a situation where they were forced to get it but nonetheless they got it same thing with got it he didn't have to get to the point of the Red Sea Of The Sea of reads cuz he was already learned to he was already fulfilling it he was already forcing everyone else to to learn T he says I'm going to sleep cuz I did my job I tried you gave me I learned you gave me I learned you gave me I learned you gave me T I learned it did I understand it did I became big did I become small did I give sh no I I'm basic guy I just did what I could I did what I could you told me study I studied you told me mitv I did the mitv the best that I can I didn't create any excuses I didn't make up any new laws I didn't say I don't agree with the ram I didn't say I don't think even knows what he's talking about I didn't say this 4 Day holiday is too long for me I didn't make up any rules you said it I did it War that's your problem God I'm going to sleep and he went to sleep and hasem said he's right when you're eating the fruits and vegetables go take a look at those soldiers for me that's what he said so came down and after he heated up meaning helped the fruits apparently and the vegetables grow he also heated up up the soldiers only thing is that heating up the soldiers had a different effect he killed all of them millions and millions of people died in an instant only ones that were left was and his sons that's it his two sons they want to run away but s says no no you know what let's go worship our god let's worship idol worship maybe he's going to turn things around and I was going to worship him I'm going to give you two US sacrifices give both of his sons sacrifices two son say what you give us a sacrifice we're going to make you a sacrifice so they killed them once we realize that the number one weapon we have is the Torah we already won we have nothing to worry about we want as a nation and we want as individuals whether you need to win in order to build your bitet build your built your financial life build in your life get salvation in one way or another get healing one way or another get AEM to acknowledge that you are a righteous son or daughter simple you have a Torah you have an instruction set follow it and guaranteed to win any questions amen ver amen [Music] [Applause] [Music]