Does God Need A Loan? - MUSSAR Pirkei Avot (48)

[Music] good to be here in Miami as we continue our musar Series yesterday we had uh phenomenal Shure in aventur was very long I have to admit it was longer than usual but uh thank you for reminding me but uh a lot of new things a lot of new and uh one of the things that we talked about last night was the whole issue of uh not necessarily just parasa but uh I guess if you will the the issue that we're suffering in our current generation as a generation of either stingy people people that are very cheap or people that just decide to buy MIT instead of do meaning that people liking that has some type of Fame in it some type of recognition in it so if you tell them listen if you uh donate we'll put your name on your you know on AET they'll do it if you donate we'll put your name on a seph Tora they'll do it if you donate we're going to announce the to the Kad that you sponsored the Hanukah party they'll donate if you tell them listen if you um donate you may be able to be a partner in Saving a Jew from going to Eternal Gom Shalom not as many people are as excited now this is one of the systemic problems that our nation suffers as of now one reason is because we're not taught what is the meaning of actually helping people do Chua we're not really taught the significance behind chuba we're not taught of how much we actually need am we need each one of us whether we did Chua or in the process of chuva or doing chuva or haven't done anything yet we need the rest of the nation to do chuva each and every single person that's part of am as a matter of fact each and every single person that's part of the world needs to understand that it's for their best interest for am to do chuva because when am does chuva when am is close to hasem the whole world benefits if you look at the times of let's say for example schl the whole world was prospering the nation was righteous scho was a amazing judge never had a war made peace with all of the countries there was a endless amount of reward that was being gifted to Amel and all of the Nations as a result of it the same goes throughout all of history any time we've actually had am close to Hashem the whole world benefited out of it any times that we've had far from hasem suffered and sometimes the World At Large suffered along with it sometimes at the same time sometimes shortly after so if we knew and believed knew and believed knowing is half to battle many people know there's a God they know has to be some type of a Creator but believing requires you to change so not everybody believes you don't need to be a genius to know that there's a God even though knowledge means you obviously have to feel it but we're talking about in a lesser terms of different context of the language knowing that there has to be some type of Creator is just common sense but believing in the god of Israel requires life changes and many people spend their entire lives trying to convince themselves and everyone around them that there's no God or that God doesn't mean what he actually said or that maybe he didn't even say it had a a nice in the last two Sundays I uh had to go to the dentist and uh I went to the dentist my tooth hurt one of the sins that I've made throughout my life that's what happens you make sins you have to pay for them So eventually maybe it's a sin I made a year ago five years ago 20 years ago who knows but at some point you have to pay the bill it's here and not there so I had a toothache so I go to the dentist he tells me oh you came for root canal saying came for a root canal I thought it was maybe a little small filling or something he's tell me no you have a root canal but uh interesting news is is that you actually need twoot canals not one two so if you've been watching my speech is a little different than the last couple of weeks is because I've had two rot canals not not one two recovering from one rot Canal is already enough of a nightmare two R canals extra so anyway why am I telling you about my teeth because I learn a lot being in this dentist off he's a very nice guy and he has like it's become common in these years dentist's office they have a TV and I don't watch TV for already a long time but uh he has this TV and he puts whatever puts nature Channel and PBS and all types of uh things and I'm sitting there for three hours three and a half hours and he has this nature channel of how you know the world is uh I think I guess some type of Discovery Channel or National Geographics one of these channels that talks about nature it talks about the world talks about the chemicals the uh things that make up the world the fish the amibas the volcanoes so on nature so for 3 hours I'm hearing this thing I'm hearing this show in the background and he's talking about look at this Perfection of Nature and how the volcano has to has to do all this and a certain people that sacrificed their life in order to maintain a low fire at the volcano because it's very dangerous but there's a lot of uh chemicals there and it's dangerous and it's poisonous and there's another guy that's diving into the water that's inside caves and he was able to document how the water changes and then there's another guy that's a special fisherman for a special type of uh I don't know some some type of fish that lights up like a as if they have you know literally it's a little octopus aent kind of uh and he lights up like as if he has a light bulb attached to him and uh so on and so forth all these you know amazing things in nature so that was the first appointment second appointment also had the same similar show on but in the second appointment I came prepared the second appointment after we finished the appointment we finish the appointment finished the kar or at least the first part the second part of the kar is at home when the numbing wears off that's unusual amount of fun uh so I think end of the second one I uh I told him here and I give him one of my KY packages it's like oh wow thank you I appreciate it uh what's this and you know he asked me a few things about religion he asked me a few things about God we talked a little bit about it before and I didn't just you know give it to him for no reason anyway I gave him one of the um books that's in our uh Q package and I said well you see the last 3 hours I've been listening to this scientist trying to convince himself and the audience that nature came by itself this perfection in nature the light and the light bulb that the octopus is holding and the tunnel that has perfectly clear water but then it changes and the volcano that needs this and need needs that and does this and does that and all these wonderful things three and a half hours he's explaining to to his audience and himself that everything just came to be it's all just chemicals and really there's just the you know all of these chemicals is approximately uh seven dozen or so chemicals I think what is it the periodic table has what 92 uh different uh elements so you have all pretty much whether it's outer space or in space or somewhere in between if it's light years away or it's right next door it's all the same thing water is water carbon is carbon hydrogen is hydrogen everything has it's all the same thing it all came to be so for three hours he's trying to convince himself and the audience that's all by luck all just you know millions of years so I said here's a book that shows that everything that he said is actually already known by our Torah and our sages from 3,300 years ago and explains how there's no possible way that he's right people think that just because we discovered a few uh things under a microscope that uh that means that we're enlightened and people are trying to convince themselves that the god of Israel is either non-existent Shalom or is tired old broke all types of things and in last night's year we uh I said a story about a guy that called me and he was very very upset at me he left me a message I I usually don't pick up the phone so if you call me and I don't pick up the phone don't feel upset it's nothing uh it's nothing um personal I generally don't pick up the phone um I'm usually doing something I'm either on the phone already or I'm in the middle of studying or something else I generally don't me don't pick up the phone for people that I know for people that I don't know I definitely don't pick up the phone even if I'm not busy so it's better if you want to reach me it's better you send me a text you send me a message or you leave a voicemail I always return calls I always return messages but generally as far as picking up the phone um I don't pick it up so this guy called a few times and eventually he left the message and he was very very angry with me he said that he saw one of my uh I guess video clips I doubt he saw a whole Sho but he saw a video clip of how I talk about emuna and uh according to our Torah if you have a high level of amuna then you could literally get to a point of living with complete confidence that Hashem will take care of everything your your everything you can get not everybody has this obviously but you can get to that level everyone can and he said that what I said was completely irresponsible I should be ashamed of myself uh and that what about is what about trying effort what about helping the Creator becoming partners with the Creator in creation what about helping God so the question is does God need help in case someone is not going to watch the entire sh to answer the question if your God needs help he's not the real God if your God died 2,000 years ago he's not the real God if your God needs advice once in a while he's not the real God if your God needs a loan needs some money because you know he doesn't have any spent it all on no they ruined the whole world he was depending on the world going you know he already made one time investment in creation Adam Eve he invested all the money he didn't realize that just a uh 1500 years later they're going to ruin the whole things and have to rebuild it he didn't know so he had to take a mortgage and he's been paying it off for the last 4,000 years if that's your gut and need alone he's not the real God so in case you don't watch the whole sh that's the answer but the question is does God need our help does what this person say said was very angry at me and called me shameful for for explaining that you should or at least suggesting that we should strike the he he was very upset with me does he actually have any valid points is really the question the second question we're going to try to answer today is a continuation of last night's Shure where people have asked me several times you know there's some of these things that we mention in shim about what happens if somebody body sins there's geden there's for for righteous there's Gom for Wicked This Gom part doesn't sound like much fun seems more like my root canals just a lot more of it so how do we know if God forgave us dides he send us an email send us text message Jing okay I forgave you everything's good go about your business how do we know how do we know if God forgave us according to the Christians God didn't forget am and that's why he gave the Christians the New Testament and that's what he said in the New Testament that very few Jews are actually going to survive according to the New Testament only 144,000 Jews are going to survive the end of times but two and a half billion Christians are going to survive somehow so we're fulfilling 630 mitv some less some some all whatever but them that they're feeling no whatsoever they're going to survive or going to suffer how that makes sense to anybody I don't know but that's what the book says that's why you know it's a man-made book because it's complete nonsense doesn't even make logical sense let alone Divine sense the Muslims say the that God gave up on us we made too many mistakes this week's Paras again God punishes us again we complain but again God forgives us nowhere in the Torah do it say that God is didn't forgive us as a matter of fact the gave us some T he said that they when Yeshua Joshua rebuked the nation he told him if you keep sinning God's eventually not going to forgive you he's going to punish you he's going to send you to G he's gonna do this he's gonna do that God came to Yeshua say you saying about me why you telling the nation I'm not going to forgive them didn't I forgive them after the golden calf we just got married they cheated on me a week later didn't I forgive them after they complained about the man even though it tasted like anything they wanted they still said it wasn't good how could it not be good it tastes like you want so only if what you want doesn't taste good it's your fault it's not my fault you want an ice cream I give you ice cream now you want steak it's my fault you want steak no you want ice cre I give you ice cream if you want steak tomorrow you're going to have steak you complain with the man and then even after that you complain about the water and then you complain about Moshe and then you complain about the land you complain you complain complain and each time I forgave you you went and you actually went with the go you sent the men to be with all the Goot prostitution immodesty the things that I hate if it wasn't for Pinas I would have destroyed all of you and I still forgave you so Yeshua Bon my son why are you telling them why you telling about me that I'm not going to forgive them yeshu says I said it because I wanted to scare them because that's the only way they're going to start doing CH and start listening to you and says that God kissed his forehead and His Hands he took the hands of Yeshua Ben and he kissed them like you kissed sadik he says you're right that's the same system I use when they were at Mount Si and they heard my voice they all died and they complained to Moshe Moshe Moshe go go go to the mountain you talk to him we'll do whatever he says and then we'll hear what he actually said we'll do it and Moshe said don't be scared he spoke to them for me said don't be scared he's just scaring you because that's the only way that you're not going to sin the only way you're going to know what to do is when you know if there's a consequence if there's a price for each decision if the menu has no prices then only a fool wouldn't order everything if someone gives you a menu at a high-end restaurant and there's no prices everything says free next to it only a fool wouldn't order everything on the menu and as much of it as you possibly can get it's free what do you care take it home sell it it's free but if the waiter adjust the menu and says no no no just the shade of light made it look like free but in reality it's a three-digit number with a dollar sign next to each one so each one is no less than $100 now everything is changed now you don't want every stake on the menu you're deciding whether you could even afford one steak now you're not really sure if you want an appetizer you're deciding whether this is even the right restaurant for you to be in because you know the cost you know there's a price for what your decision is going to be I am your God that took you out of Egypt not because there was a question in anyone's mind but who served as a reminder for all generations that the nation of Israel began at The Exodus even though God was there when he created the world the there was no Witnesses but the Exodus there were millions and millions of witnesses so he said this is the beginning but he spoke using his voice we heard it we couldn't handle it we died and God brought us back to life and he said listen I know it's scary but it's good to be scared of me I'm your God I'm not your friend I'm not your brother not your sister I'm God if you're not scared of God he's not God if no one's paying attention to the king he's not the king when a servant is asked to do something by the king it's really not a request it's an order if he refuses the king is not allowed to say oh it's okay don't worry about it you're a nice guy just go go home go take the day off take the day off you seem hot you seem bothered you seem sick just a thing someone who disobeys the King dies according to the Torah a king is not allowed to allow people to dishonor him not allowed because the king good is not really his hem pick him to be king so the question is how do we know if this King of Kings needs our help to be a king and two how do we know that this King of Kings forgave us because according to kazal according to our sages if he didn't forgive us the punishment is dear so this m 3:16 we'll try to connect the to R is says be yielding to a superior Pleasant to the young and receive every person cheerfully anyone that just pays attention to the sentence would immediately come to the conclusion that without God there's absolutely no way to answer the questions I just asked by what I just said so don't give me any credit at the end of this year if I'm successful because it's not me it's AEM now here you have R telling us to Superior be pleasant to the young and receive every person cheerfully seems pretty practical advice pretty simple seems like Common Sense doesn't actually seem so genius doesn't seem like a Tana seems like something any old man would tell you so who is this R Isel RAB Ismael was a of RAB AKA as the testifies reached the highest level of K out of every person that ever lived even higher than mosu mosu was the highest level Prophet that ever lived he's the prophet of all prophets but but he reached the 49th level of kusal explains to us that R AKA reached level 50 why is this so important for us to know it's important for us to know because R AKA was not only illiterate until the age of 40 but he was also not religious he just started doing chuva at the age of 40 which by that Hashem is explaining to us that it's never too late if R AKA can get from being an illiterate person that hates hates doesn't like them hates them he says he used to want to bite them like a donkey bites a person and people say no you mean like a dog bites a person goes no no like a donkey goes when a dog bites he just bites the flesh when a donkey bites he crushes the bone I hated like a donkey bites that's how much he hat them before he did CH so to go from that to the highest level of here hasem is writing in black and white it's all in your hands it's all in your hands you want to be kados you could be kados you want to be T very simple you could be T you could be pure you could be impure you could be righteous you could be Wicked that is your decision so also kazal says is a is a debate whether it's the very same R is that was theen who was also one of the one of the 10 Martyrs that the Romans the evil rors killed during the destructions of the bet mikdash or he was his grandson he is the rabish that was one of the martyrs or he was the grandson few very interesting stories about isma to just to understand who we're dealing with here he was kidnapped by the Roman as a young boy and uh Rua put up a fortune to release him from prison because he saw that this boy was going to be page 58a it explains how much of a genius he was how much of a giant he was in Torah and Kus and was already seen at the prediction of the sage coming true at a relatively young age now what work did RAB isma leave behind R Ismael was the first to codify the 13 hermeneutic principles of the biblical interpretation in essence there's a certain principle certain laws of how to interpret the Torah how to read it this is one of the downfalls of Christianity is Islam Catholicism pretty much everything and anything other than Orthodox Judaism because there are rules of how to read the Torah There are rules you can't read it like you read a newspaper it's not literal Hebrew it's not just Basics this Secrets there's understandings there's rules modern Hebrew is even though it sounds the same looks the same acts the same in reality it's a very different language it's very different language as a matter of fact the inventors of modern day Hebrew intentionally invented certain words that are the exact opposite of what their biblical meaning is because there were Zionist haters of Torah and they did everything they could to confuse the public so if you're if you know modern Hebrew let's say if you live in Israel doesn't necessarily mean you know how to read the Torah if you know the Torah doesn't mean that you know how to speak Hebrew as far as conversational is concerned so for example like the they know how to read the biblical language perfectly well but they usually refuse to speak to you in Hebrew CU two different things on the other hand many Israelis lived in Israel their whole life even ones that have gone toet their whole life have gone toet their whole life you know the they have the Mas they call they have the tradition traditional Jews they still drive on Shabbat they still don't really study other than maybe once a week they hear still eat kosher once in a while not koser once in a while traditional traditional biggest holiday of the year is y Independence Day of Israel not necessarily very zionis very big lovers of Israel I tell them you know you believe in the Torah believe in the Torah you believe in God believe in God no no problem most people believe in God sometimes they believe in God and His Torah sometimes just believe in God it's usually not a problem unfortunately there are some that are atheist but that's a decision really more than a belief it's not wanting to believe in a Creator not necessarily not believing in a Creator but nonetheless you go to most Jews and you tell them you believe in God yes you believe in a Torah many will say yes even if you go to people that have changed the religion like conservatives or reform you believe in God yes you believe in the Torah some parts of it some I like some I don't like the parts I like I believe in the parts I don't like I don't believe in so it becomes like a menu I believe in the steak because I'm eating it the burger not so much I ate it last time he gave me stomach ache pick and choose but still the basics who's is a God yes Torah sometimes yes sometimes no it's okay since you believe in the Torah sometimes yes sometimes no let me ask you if you believe in the part where it says that hasem when he gets really upset with us he's going to punish us you believe in that you go yeah yeah that happens I know that happened in the past to Moses right it happened to Moses yeah something like that like what about the part where he says that he's also going to parnish Future Generations you remember that part he goes something like what about when he said there's going to be levels of punishment no I don't remember that part so much what about when he says that the fifth level of punishment is bringing us to such starvation such starvation that we're going to get to a point of being so desperate that we will eat our children you remember that part in the Torah I have yet to meet one person one to say yes other than people that obviously study tah and observe it and follow it have yet to meet one person each time you say no no come on where where what midash what story who said it I no no I said God said it twice literally and then you show him the verse and you show him that there's no way that you can misinterpret the verse there's no way you can misinterpret it this is what it means literally it's not a secret it doesn't even have to follow the rules that mentioned here it's just literal why don't we know it either because we're talking in sh and we're too busy in our conversation and our mindset thinking about the stock market and the real estate market and the job and the business and the customer and the kids and the wife and the everything else except what God is saying or we just don't know we don't know the biblical language because we only study maybe a half an hour a week I know when I read it I almost had a heart attack so isma is telling us here there are rules to how to read the Torah if you follow the rules you will inherit the secrets you will be blessed you'll have the instructions the way that the Creator wrote them if you don't follow the rules all better off also put together much of the mid inil of Exodus seph also in C in numbers and part of SE fre in Deuteronomy in so many words his work is something we can see not just hear about there's books countless works that we can read and learn from and maybe one day even understand his genius made him a giant among giants but yet he follows the same pattern of behavior like we've seen other Giants in the avot series and these are the biggest giants in world history let alone Aman's history he keeps it simple stupid he keeps the instructions simple enough for a stupid person to understand it this is not for an insult for anyone because I'm included in all descriptions this is because kazal knew that the generations are deteriorating but the Torah must be Eternal it must be understood by even someone that's foolish so even if the foolish person is not going to get to have the he's not going to have the ability at least not initially to understand the deep meaning of things even understanding the basic meaning would do him service and can change his life and he keeps the instructions of all of his wisdom all of the learning that he has simplifying it into three different things saying that you should yield to a superior you should be cheerful or Pleasant to uh to young people or to the young and you should be cheerful to receive every person one of the things we learned from at least about his personality is page 19a it says that R came up with the coined the term of saying if you ever see a Torah scholar sin by night you should not be suspicious of him by that morning why because you could be certain that if he's a Torah scholar he repented before he went went to sleep meaning that if someone is following the rules even if they are from time to time you must judge them favorably because they're following the rules but they're still human they still have a and he says even I made a mistake one time I said you know what the decree that the sages made to protect us to put a fence around the fence I didn't take it to heart you know there is a decree that that Hashem put together and he says don't light fire on Shabbat someone that lights fire on Shabbat someone that drives on Shabbat someone that smokes a cigarette on Shabbat is cut off from the nation it's considered 100% an idol worshipper it's considered someone that's denying the Creator's Creation in six days and resting on a seventh as a matter of fact the couple of places where it mentions whether hasem is even interested in being a partner with us or not is in page 119 it talks about how a person that says K on Shabbat and he says Vu and he keeps Shabbat not and he goes to the club five minutes later he says he says the verse from that hasem created the world and six days and rested on the seventh and he observes the Shabbat like Al that person is testifying that Hashem created the world in six days and rested on the seventh and therefore Hashem considers that person a partner he considers him a partner because even though Hashem knows what happened you testifying that that happened that makes you a part you're not doing it that makes you a denier like the Iranian leaders the Nazi leaders the all haters of Israel of today's AG age what do they all deny they Den deny the Holocaust the one thing we actually have pictures of they deny no one denies Mount Si no one denies bet mikdash no one denies the pgms no one denies the inquisitions because it's written in books countless books they all depend on these books they don't T night but the Holocaust no one depends on the Holocaust as a matter of fact to them it's annoying that we keep mentioning that we keep suffering and suffering every year and reminding the people that we've suffered so much and got killed so much and despite the fact that there were tens of millions of people that died the world is constantly reminded of the Six Million that were Jewish and the go hate it so some of them go to the extent of denying it we said we have pictures they said we have pictures also of things that didn't happen just because you have pictures I mean it's true and even though it's illogical and insane and Politically Incorrect if it's against the Jewish it's allowed I don't know if any of you heard but there been a lot of heat in the Jewish World in recent weeks because of the whole thing about homosexuality and the gay parades and so on but to show you how warped the mindset of this world is and how anti-semitic the world we live in is they had a the biggest and only gay parade in the Middle East where in Tel Aviv in the Holy Land we have a gay parade what hasem calls he calls it disgusting we have a parade about it if that wasn't bad enough they continue having these parades everywhere else so they had a gay parade in Chicago a few of the homosexual men decided that they want to bring a Jewish flag a a not Jewish a Israeli flag but to have the gay Rainbow on it as a representation that they are gay Israelis and the rest of the homosexuals said that they feel threatened by these Israeli homosexuals and they kick them out so even the Sinners don't accept the Sinners why they don't like Jews has nothing to do with being homosexual but this shows you how warped and mented the mindset is of people maybe it'll remind those few homosexual Jews that it's time to come home and do chuva and stop following their desires because the World At Large is never going to love you only God will but not if you're a sinner against them so now is telling us that in the Sin of Shabbat fire of course everyone knows but the sages implemented a rule they said that you know we have to make a fence around the fence according to what God said there's a verse in the to hem gives us the permission to put a fence around his fence he says violating my Shabbat outright lighting fire smoking a cigarette driving on Shabbat doing all of these things is the worst possible thing you can do according to Z our five books of Moses the entire tanak any book that's ever written about Shabbat and general violating Shabbat is the number one sin in Judaism someone that murdered murdered murdered another person still has to repent has to suffer but eventually Hasa Howa someone that desecrates Shabbat intentionally does not have a share of the world to come violating Shabbat is worse than murder it's not logical as far as humans are concerned but it's very logical as far as God's concerned the reason why is because the guy is different than the murderer the murderer is murdering because of his own desire his own lack of control it's nothing against God it's against the person he's denying that person's right to live either because he made him upset or because he's jealous or because of this or because of that or you just lost control or maybe it was even an accident so it's not really a murder but everyone thinks it's murder needless to say it's murder murder you have a murder here situation and the punishment is severe but still that person has but God says that if he drives on Shabbat or he works on Shabbat he does business on Shabbat he has no Al about why because he's denying me I told him that if he keeps Shabbat he becomes my partner because he's testifying that I created the world in six days and rested on the seventh which means that if he doesn't testify he's doing the opposite he's denying he's denying the Holocaust he's denying the bet mikdash he's denying the he's denying the inquisitions he's denying no he's denying M he's denying abob he's denying the entire T and most importantly he's denying creating the world there's no bigger than that for that there's no share of the world to come we have no connection he doesn't even believe in me doesn't believe in God how could he have a share of the world to come I don't want to see him just like that program that's convincing people to rationalize creation this person lived that life not for three hours but for 70 years 80 years 100 years denying like this one fool that's a multi-billionaire who's a big supporter of Jews going to Israel but is anti- Judaism Michael steinhardt is his name and he's a selfed proud atheist but he likes traditional Judaism because he likes people to have a system not because he believes in God he's a self-proclaimed atheist I've met him one time when I was still in the business world I wasn't sure because the office was very big but I wasn't sure if there was enough room for me because the pride was so big I mean you have a few billion dollars usually it's I think it's kind of hard not to have pride you have no God it's impossible not to have pride but anyway a lot of people like him because he donates a lot of money to this organization and he gets a lot of kids to go to Israel for free but he's a fool because all of the work that he's doing is for nothing nothing it's all worthless because soon as he dies the suffering just begins there's no ala just because you helped a bunch of kids go to Israel nowh in the Torah is written and there's definitely no Al if you don't believe in the one that created ala so people spend their whole lives convincing themselves that there's no Creator and the only reason they do that is because if there's a creator that means they have to listen to him if there's no creator that means they could do whatever they want and they can rationalize unreasonable unethical Behavior yeah he once one of those programs and I and I asked the person who put the whole thing say expontaneous forces it's a good question good question millions of years did it millions of years of Mother Nature Mother Nature so is said one time I didn't listen to the sages and as great as he was he said I made a mistake I didn't listen to the sages they put a fence around the fence and they said listen not only you're not allowed to light a fire but you're also not allowed to read in those days by the Light because the light in those days was a candle a lit candle you're not allowed to read by the light that night why because Shalom you would adjust the light and that's a violation of Shabbat so to keep you away from violating Shabbat directly you have to stay away from something that's even close to it stay away from the fence so you don't make a problem inside the fence so don't read next to the light and again this is only because in those days you were able to adjust the oil and adjust the fire which is a violation of Shabbat today we don't have such a problem because we don't study next to the the light switch we study our desk so he said I I thought that I know enough and have enough that I'm not gonna make a mistake and as you would have it he says I is Ben Elisha read by the candle light and tampered with the wick so when the bet mikdash is rebuilt I'll bring a robust sin offering I made the mistake not only did I read by the Light not follow what my colleague said I thought had confidence in myself that one time but I actually ended up making the ultimate sin and I have to spend the rest of my life to chuv and even after the bet mikdash is rebuilt I'm still going to have to bring aan cuz one time he adjusted the light one time he adjusted the light we drive on Shabbat no problem He adjusted the light one time put a little oil shook it up a little bit shook the oil just to make sure it tilts more oil to the right place indirect like a kosher switch kosher switch says I'm G have to bring aan in bet mikash when there the resurrection of the Dead when mashia comes I'm going to have to bring a Corban because I adjusted the light because the sages said don't adjust the light and don't even read by the Light just in case you adjust the light he says I know I made the mistake and I'm going to have to bring we don't even think about the light because we're already in our car driving to messet because the rabbi didn't say anything you understand so this is what we're dealing with here we're dealing with someone that's a giant among giants but what makes him a giant is that he's able to admit to an ER that you wouldn't even think a fool would make but the reality is he's showing you that we're all susceptible to error we're all susceptible to error as big as you are as great as you are if you don't listen to the sages you're bound to fail as a matter of fact one of the sages uh that several of them have said anyone who does not study and become an expert in alabat is guaranteed violating it if you don't know all the of Shabbat you're violating Shabbat live your whole life violating Shabbat yes it's shog it's accidental but needless to say we already learned in a that if a sin is a result of a lack of study not not because you didn't get to it but because you just didn't feel like studying then it ends up being instead of an unintentional sin and ends up being an intentional sin so here you have a giant amongst Giants telling you listen let's keep it simple we don't need to walk work uh ourselves up and talk about mystical things kabala Secrets let's keep it simple simple way to connect to simple way to connect to simple way to go in a straight path first and foremost yield to Superior this is common sense he says you have to obviously as our previous rabbis have said find yourself a rabbi make yourself a rabbi but even more so whenever you see or you're around someone that's bigger than you in Torah don't go there and try to impress them many times you have big rabbis com coming to kot to give lectures and so on and there's always at least one or two Heroes that come to them and start telling them about all the things they know oh yeah I read this and I know this and they start throwing verses at the rabbi to give the rabbi an impression hey I know I know what I'm talking about so you know that I know also so I'm watching you and I know and really what they're trying to do is just Pat themselves on the back there actually a story with one of the was the of and uh they grew up together they were their whole life even though they disagreed on many things they were as close as can be they actually lived one floor on top of each other they all I think most of their lives or their whole lives and uh was I mean a giant giant giant sad giant he one of the you don't become just because you wrote a book or something then Harry Potter be or the author of Harry Potter would be so he was one of the Giants and uh one time this uh young Torah student young Torah scholar comes to him say I have a question about this and you know in on page this and on page that and on page this and on page that and on this one on page this and on page that and he starts throwing sources at him he's throwing throwing a book of sources at so says yeah the sources are not as important as whether it's a right answer or wrong answer the outcome and your outcome is wrong because you're misusing the sources don't throw sources at me show me what you learned don't show me what you're trying to tell me that you learned show me that you have a straight head straight path connection to hem no Pride no G no stinginess no anger no bad midot show me you're going a straight path you're trying to connect to Hashem for the sake of connecting to hem not because you're trying to impress me that you know a few pages by heart what's that going to do for you in Al we say oh yeah yeah that's uh ruen over there yeah he knows a few pages by heart you think anyone's going to let you in a because you're know Pages by heart no they're going to let you know if you live life straight path connecting to hm so here we see this is one example the rambam says that when you see a man of stature of Torah stature especially immediately view yourself as a lightweight don't try to go impress them number one it's dangerous according to me and number two it's foolish because you're wasting the opportunity instead of absorbing the wealth of knowledge that they have you're trying to impress them instead if you go meet a big Rabbi unfortunately there's not many left anymore and you start tell him listen I wrote this book I wrote that book I know this page I know this I did this I did you start giving your to-do list or your execution list you're wasting your time you're better off not going if you're already going to go there ask him a question you know what it always bothered me why does AEM say this in this P or why do this happen say something that's of meaning of value without showing off lower your head a little bit that's one first little bit of advice the second second thing that ra says it says the to be a to be a um a light head means that as soon as you see someone that's a scholar that's a great person be swift footed to do whatever you can to help them you see a rabbi you honor you see a rabbi you respect I mean you listen to his you read his books he helped you do CH he helped you develop he is teaching you every day whatever it is you connect to this Rabbi do everything you can to help him that's where the benefit is why what's the what's the proof of a couple simple ones Yeshua was talking to Hashem and Hashem says listen you're not going to make it to Israel someone else is going to take over M can I pick one of my sons I have two sons and can I pick one of them nothing wrong with them I almost died because of one of them because I delayed his but that was my mistake it wasn't their mistakes hasem says no the one that's going to take over is Yeshua benon and Kaz says yeah but Yeshua benon wasn't exactly do he wasn't a genius he wasn't the biggest prophet he didn't know all the he didn't know all the secrets what did he know he know how to clean the Shool you know how to clean the shol when everybody left after prayer he will be staying behind cleaning the shol he knew how to make sure that nobody bothered mosenu unless it was 100% necessary and he waited for him at the mountain he knew how to eliminate himself in his own G in order to help his master not because was waiting to one day get a position but because it was the right thing to do and it's someone that loves my people my sages and my Torah to that extent that's a leader wisdom I'll give him and like that hasem made him endless knowledge endless amount of Prophecy and he even split the ocean for him too right before we went into Israel we got to the Jordan River hasem split the river for him why because he eliminated his own Gava another one is Elisha the prophet Elisha was servant of beg not to leave God said listen you're sadik you're amazing you're holy I love you but you can't continue living in this world because your Kus is to such an extent that if you continue to live you will destroy the world you can't handle the fact that people are still Sinners so I'm going to turn you into an angel and a miraculous storm lifted him up Andi is one of few people 10 people that never died hasem took him as his but before this miraculous storm it's written in tanak literally actually happened knew this is happening he said goodbye to Alisha Alisha said no please don't leave me what am I going to do without you I got to go you could be the master now what are you complaining about uh Vice President Taylor president president don't retire no come on but I need you what I need you going be president now if anything you'll Hey listen president I don't think you're good enough for this job I think you're sick no I'm not sick I'm perfectly healthy no no I think you're old no no no 45 years old oh I think you're stressed out no actually I just talked to my psychiatrist I'm perfectly good I think you this I think you vice president always wants the president to leave why as soon as he leaves his salary goes up becomes president you have see anybody not want to be CEO no no no CEO don't retire I don't retire please don't retire you ever see anything like that people are dying for him to Die the whole time he's alive so they could take his job most people in the business World especially but it also happens unfortunately in Torah world it's human nature believe that the only way to get ahead in life is if you step on people you could only be successful if you steal the P from someone else so when they open a store they they open a store right next to the competition you have 50 states each one of them is bigger than Israel practically or actually really is but every time someone opens an electronic store it's next to the next electronic store everyone some someone opens a law firm it's next to five other law firms every time somebody opens a restaurant it's next to 18 other restaurants it's always next to each other other it's not because Hey listen if they go to One Restaurant may they go to five other ones it's not just because of that because that would be fine but it still wouldn't explain why one Law Firm is situated next to 15 other law firms why one real estate office is situated next to 10 other real estate officers they're all competing when one real estate broker finds out that somebody else in the deal they cursed the day they were born half my commission is gone one time I got a call from a client and he says listen I know you're uh for a long time I trust you I invest with you and everything but there's this guy that keeps calling me and he tells me that I should leave you and go to him take all my money I have with you go to him and really he's the one that taught you everything he taught you everything you know and uh he doesn't say nice things about you so much but especially the fact that he's your teacher I said oh wow I didn't really have that many teachers in my life what's his name very excited to find out this guy's name and I see this is one of my former employees I said well you know what you don't have to take my word but you just look up my license since how long I'm in a business and you compare it to him you see there's about a 10e difference how could he teach me 10 years before he's in the business when he was still collecting marbles for his collection in kindergarten I was already in the business how could he teach me he just got out of diapers the guy what could he teach me but the reality is that I knew that I had to learn something from this and what I learned is that people feel that there's a need to destroy others in order for them to advance and this is one of the things that I hated about business more than anything else I even had some employees like this and a few times I fire them just because of this gross Behavior even though sometimes it makes them very very productive as far as money is concerned but it's a Despicable character it's a Despicable character trait you see that there's a competition you give the guys a motivation listen guys first guy to do this deal gets 3,000 gets $5,000 gets $10,000 gets this gets that whatever and you see you know everybody's supposed to climb the mountain whoever reaches the top wins no problem that's fair competition what's annoying about the competition that the guy that won more times than not he only won because he chopped off everybody else's hands not because he's the most skilled so this is one thing that we need to learn not to do in the Torah World unfortunately this also happens there's a lot of jealousy about some of the things that happen if you notice the people that tend to hate are the ones that are not successful so the ones that write comments against me against RI against any of the majors are haters not because I said they're haters not even because I care they even exist but it's just a fact of life like this one imbecile that keeps making movies against us and and writing against us and it just really has no life he has nothing to do in his life other than writing things about us all day six seven months already all day that's what he does he writes stuff against us I say red he says blue not because he likes blue just because it's the opposite of me m has nothing to do with his life destroying is a mama self-destructing for what I don't know I guess he wants to be a rabbi now this is I thought this initially I thought this is maybe why he wants to be a rabbi so go be a rabbi I am I do I have a monopoly in a rabinal world or something but it was always suspicion so then he contacts two of my students privately and he says to them both oh you know that I'm learning to get my SM now and I'm going to be a rabbi and I'm going to teach the right way and I'm going to do this and if you want me to forgive you you have to learn with me an hour a day like if if the guy my student offended him in some way or another he says if you want me to forgive you you have to learn with me for an hour a day now he's either delusional desperate or just I don't know playing crazy I'm not really sure which one it is but all I know is that this is all based on the same Foundation where you feel like in order for you to succeed you have to destroy others divide and conquer mentality this is a horrible mentality and people that have it usually don't succeed and whatever success they have is not even half of what they should have sounds like or a PCH mkin that's what he is a mkin is a poor poor person that not really is uh is I don't know if there's many people that are in worse condition than he is it's all self- sabotage now in business in life in Torah you have to understand since the Creator is not limited neither are the opportunities for his creation there's no limit to how successful you can be in anything there is a millionaire in every trade there's a millionaire in garbage just like there's a millionaire in technology there's a millionaire in real estate and there's a guy that's broke from Real Estate there's a guy that's a scholar because he was born into a great family full of rabbis and as a scholar that has parents that are both atheists the limitation is your decision you don't need to destroy or burn his store for your store to succeed you need to convince the one and only upstairs to give you success that's what you have to do convince him you don't need to convince anyone else but if you think the situation is limited that means you also think he's limited once you think he's limited you believe in someone else then you have a problem then you have a problem that you have to fix even more than you have to fix your business once you limit God it's no longer God which is very similar to what we talked about yesterday in regards to all of these issues we keep mentioning the problems with andab and breast of how some of these so-called rabbis are telling people to drive on Shabbat but still calling themselves Orthodox rabbis what we clarified yesterday is that if your Rabbi that has a kabad house has a breast live house has anything orthodox Judaism house is not rebuking you to do CH he's notab he's just wearing the uniform of kabad if he's not telling you you're not allowed to drive on Shabbat if he's not telling you you're not allowed to marry a Goya you're not allowed to marry a you're not allowed to eat non kosher if he's not telling you the truth of what it says in the Torah he's notab he's not breast he's not even Jewish according to someone in that position that has the opportunity to rebuke in order to help people do chuva and does not he becomes excluded from the nation someone doesn't want to believe me you look at Al you look at rambam rambam says something horrendous about such a person in chapter four of first he says there are 24 Deeds which hold back chuva meaning even though chuva is always available to someone in order to really do serious chuva you need you need help from above you need help from above to repent for your sins you need help from above to remember your sins you need help from above to have an opportunity to repent for your sins need help from above to understand that you actually even sinned 24 things that will eliminate that so even though you always be able to do chuva if you do one of these 24 Things No Help For You door closed no help why do go do it by yourself God wants no part of it why you just did one of these 24 sins that is considered crossing the line with God for the commission of severe four specific ones that are worse than all God will not Grant the person who commits such Deeds to repent because of the gravity of the transgressions and they are one one who causes the masses to sin included in this category is one who holds back the many from per performing a positive commandment someone starts doing CH tell them you don't need to do this you could stay where you are okay so you started keeping kosher don't relax you don't have to start keeping Shabbat don't go crazy on me don't become uh someone holding back people from doing chv doing a mitvah one mitzvah two one who leads his fellow man astray from the path of good to the path of bad for example someone who prizes or serves as a missionary for Christianity someone says to you listen I know you're interested about this God thing you're interested in doing cha interested in your Judaism but why don't you check out the New Testament why don't you check it out see what it says simple suggestion you're not even giving him the book suggested it you just suggested something there's no one in a worse position than you three one who sees his son becoming associated with evil influences and refrains from rebuking him you see a son going the wrong direction no no we figure out in his own he's going to grow up I grew up I had to go to tough time so he's going to go to tough time I'll do Chua I did Chua I'll do Chua but you know what's right and wrong now yes I know why you tell your son no let him learn on his own let him learn on his own let him go out with the Goa and then figure out that maybe he's not really allowed to be with her like a few horrible stories that I heard people told me that someone that called themselves a rabbi a couple of times there's a few different people so apparently this is a epidemic within the fake part of the Jewish world where the so-called rabbis told the young Yeshiva kids listen with Goot with non-jewish women you can go with them but just not allowed to marry it's for practice despicable but this is what this is what we're dealing with now this is what we're dealing with number one they're telling the kids something that's outright against the Torah number two they're treating the go like they cattle there's no one worse than you on Earth since his son is under his authority were he to rebuke him he would have separated himself from these influences hence by refraining to admonish him it is considered as if he caused him to sin fact that you didn't tell him the truth you're at fault you knew you're not allowed to drive on Shabbat and you didn't tell anyone your whole Ki is driving on Shabbat they come to beet at some point oh for a year you're going to talk about meaning that no less than 12 times during the year no less than 12 times during the year you're going to talk about how horrible violating Shabbat is purely by talking about the par Shabbat mentioned many more times than 12 but no less than 12 times is a mentioned how horrible it is to violate Shabbat where it's meaning the worst punishment in Judaism no less than 12 opportunities they come to beet 52 weeks a year for 20 years you didn't tell him once one time you didn't tell him in fact you told him the opposite is it any wonder why the gar says the Gom continues to grow and there's no end to how much it's growing because there's more and more attendees but ganeden stays the same it doesn't grow because only a select few go inside included in the Sin are also all of those who have the potential to rebuke others whether an individual or a group and refrain from doing so leaving them to their shortcomings you have the knowledge you're a rabbi you're a religious person you just started doing chuva you heard a few lectures in your life you don't keep anything but you know the truth you have desires you can't overcome your desires to says you're still obligated to rebuke most likely no one's going to listen to you how can you tell somebody to keep Shabbat if you're not keeping Shabbat how can you tell somebody don't marry a non-jew if you're not married to a non-jew how can you tell somebody keep kosher if you're not keeping kosher most likely no one's going to listen to you but to command you to continue and you have to rebuke so someone's going to come to me and they're going to say wait a minute says if they're not going to listen the says don't bother him rebuking them this only has to do with r if it's a rabah like important but not biblical you know if you tell your son wash your hands because you're about to eat he's going to lose his mind he doesn't want to wash his hands he barely wants to even be in his house doesn't want to do anything so why you going to ruin the whole Shabbat dinner you have 15 people over the house you know that if you tell your son to wash the hands he's going to lose his mind ruin the whole night don't say anything it's a rabinal mitvah don't say anything that you're right but if you see him going to his car to go driving Shabbat it doesn't matter if he's going to flip out or not you must rebuke him you must tell him he's not allowed to drive on Shabbat to the extent that we learned yesterday that you could even embarrass him in public if you have to not start with embarrassing him in public start with private nice mature civilized if he continues to not listen continues to ignore continues to desecrate the name of hem desecrate a Shabbat desecrate a Biblical mitvah you're even allowed to embarrass him in public which if he was a righteous person embarrassing in public you're putting your entire on the line so this is what it means to rebuke and to not to rebuke not to rebuke if it's a Biblical mitvah and you know he's not going to listen but if it's a Biblical one whether he listens or not he's irrelevant you have to you have to do it even if you yourself don't do it even if you yourself are secular 100% secular but you know the Torah is true you know you have to keep Shabbat you have you have to rebuke so when someone even more so someone that's in a position of knowledge position of authority knows what Shabbat means to Hashem knows what all of these Al mean to hasem does not rebuke the rambam says this person is in the worst possible position he can be in what is that position hasem will not let him have any help whatsoever in his Chua so even if he wants to do Chua no help from him so now the question is how do we know if Hashem accepted our Chua let's say someone messed up like all of us did at some point or at least I did you didn't do chuva you started doing Chua then you stopped finally you woke up you start doing chba how do I know when I'm finished I'm finished anyone have any suggestions Fel usually you have some how do I know if I finish my chuva there is a time that you actually know for sure if you finish your cha something happens okay the answer is you know when you get to Sham you know in Judgment Day in sh and you have your trial 12 month trial they show you a movie of your entire life they show you your sins they show you your they show you your CH they show you your they show you what you said they show you what you did in comparison to what you said there's no text message that you get from so long as you're still alive why don't trust yourself until the day you die because even if you were born with the beard the keep the stal the everything you're born with a you're born being one of the few people throughout history that remembers everything the Mal taught him you're still a human being you're still going to live an ex amount of years with a yet that's going to do everything he possibly can to convince you to go against theem and you're surrounded by people that will try to do the same as well so to say that you're just too righteous to sin is impossible that means you're not human so as far as knowing when your chuva is finished the only way you're going to know when your chuva is finished is when you get upstairs now why does Hashem do it that way he does it that way simply because we have a lesson we learned obviously is all knowing and already knew this but we have a lesson that we learned from as far as 's reasoning for not giving us as many years as he did to Noah and the generations before him if you remember lived to the age of 930 years old many of the people right before Noah lived to be several hundred years old 600 700 800 900 years old many of them Liv to very very old age and Hashem decided when Noah was born that he's going to be the last of it after him everyone else is going to have 120 years as a maximum even though there was certain people that were given even extra years above that but overall there were exceptions to the case there were exceptions but overall rule of thumb after that everything deteriorated eventually being maxed out at 120 would few exceptions to the case and the reason why is because people saw that each person is living 600 700 800 years they always going to live they barely saw there was barely any funerals other than murder there's barely any funerals so everyone said listen I'll sin now for the first 700 years of my life and I'll make chuva for 100 years straight from 700 years to 800 years 100 years Tua that's what Adar didar sinned by eating from the the uh The Forbidden tree the forbidden fruit he went out there he left his wife did Chua for 100 years 100 years Chua we already doing Chua a couple years we think we already mashia he did chva 100 years 100 years chuva it's good so everyone else said the same thing listen we're going to sin 700 years from 700 to 800 what do you and if I live to 900 I'll do CH for 200 years whatever you want to give me but years so what happens if we know when the mashia is going to come we're going to do CH a little bit before he comes that's why when Yu told his sons come I want to tell you about the end of days I want to tell you what's going to happen when the mashiah comes he told us it's written in the Torah came before he died he came to son come I want to tell what's going to happen at the end of days and it says the next sentence he said something else completely why hasem took that prophecy away from him don't tell them what's going to happen at the end of days because if you tell them when the end of days are they going to wait till the end of days do CH if you tell them they're going to live 700 years they going to wait 600 years to do chba when David asked theem hem when am I going to die I can't tell you that can you at least tell me a day you're going to die in Shabbat oh can you at least maybe take me on Friday goes no no no no no no takeing removing One Day from your life removes one day of Torah from the world and one day of Torah that you learn is worth more to me than a thousand sacrifices that your son schl is going to make so definitely not removing a day from your life he says okay no problemm give me one extra day let me die on Sunday why die Shabbat why people going to make Shabbat for me no come on let me die on Sunday says no no King goes into the kinghood of another your kinghood ends on Shabbat your sons has to start on a Sunday starts has to start these are rules of my world the way I run my world so here we see that even David was not allowed to know when he's going to die because if we know when we're going to die we're going to fail miserably to our yet we're putting an obstacle in front of us that we can't handle and hasm promised us he's not going to give us an obstacle that we can't handle so as far far as knowing if hasem accepted our chva or not there's no way in the world that we can know number one because if we knew when we completed our past chva we stop second of all there's no such thing as a righteous person who doesn't sin meaning that even though you may have done chuva for your previous sins of Shabbat your previous sins of being with a non-jew your previous sin of wasting seed your previous sin of not studying your previous sin of this your previous sin of that okay you did chuva let's say for all of that there's still other things you're doing there's still other sins that you're committing there's no such thing as a person doesn't sin once you've stopped sinning you no longer Bel belong in this world this not to Advocate sinning but it happens we fail we have a yet as a matter of fact the sages teach us that a righteous person falls seven times why why does he have to fall seven times why fall three times why is have to fall this is teach us it's not about the fall that we're concentrating on is that what makes him righteous is that he got up seven times that's what makes him righteous if he wasn't we would just say used to be a righteous person but he fell the end here it says a righteous person falls seven times meaning he's still righteous after he fell seven times he took advantage of the situation and became even more righteous for it sometimes a person needs to fail in order to succeed last but not least this first part we're still within the first two words of this mishna believe it or not it says yield to the superior Rashi interprets this as a very simple understanding of knowing where you stand before your maker he's the superior you are the creation he's the Creator you're the creation know and remember where you stand as long as you remember where you stand you have a chance to get to a good place as soon as you think that you run the show you have a problem someone who knows where he stands always yields to the will of hasm even if it means that he does things he doesn't want to he wants to go to the baseball game game but instead he goes to the sh he wants to go to the club but instead he goes to the synagogue he wants to go to the new non kosher restaurant but instead he cooks a nice kosher meal for his family he wants to do a lot of things because yet is convincing him do this do this do this do this all day in his head all day he's telling him do this do this do this do this do this and all day he has to say no no no this no this no no no all day being righteous all day say no no this no no no no so you raise little kids right little baby daughter all day no no no no no no I don't like saying no but all day that's what you have to do tell you get them into the right direction what we have to do all day no not this no no no no no stop this stop eventually it's okay you keep saying no right you're depressing me already okay I'm gonna come back later and also the means the um uh Superior the head actually uhu mhe alak says it stands for to do the will of your Father in heaven so here we learned that in essence just the beginning of this mishna yielding to the superior means you're yielding to the Creator it's the foundation of everything two words Foundation of everything once you understand that you're the creation he's the Creator he's in charge of everything he's in control of everything he's responsible for everything you are just a vessel if you truly understand the meaning of that life changes as long as you don't understand it you will suffer every minute you live on in this world a person who does not understand that hem is in charge will work over time because he thinks that he needs to help AEM come up with money a person who doesn't understand that Hashem runs the show will be cheap will be very cheap because he thinks that he's limited with how much he has and that when Hashem said that if you give my if you give a tithe give 10% of your income he promises to make you rich you thought he was just kidding just to get you excited to give some he was only joking you thought page 17 says that anytime someone pays money for a mitvah whether it be Shabbat holidays T hem pays for it in full how he says I decid already how much money you're G to make this year you're gon to make 50,000 100,000 200,000 200 million whatever I decide how much you're going to make but that does not include the takaka money you're going to give the money you're going to spend on Shabbat the money you're going to spend on holay whatever you spend on those I'm going to give you so that means that someone who understands this completely and lives it is never going to look at the price tag of the shopping cart when he goes to the supermarket to shop for the holidays he's never going to think should I buy this kala for $4 or this kala for $5 just for Shabbat he's never going to think you know should I take send my kids to school for this place that's a $1,000 but much better school or the other school that's like 350 but it's okay it's not so bad he's not going to think about that why that's aem's problem when you understand that you yield before the Creator you will never be in a position to even think that you're allowed to be cheap because immediately if you yield before the Creator you want to be loved by the Creator and if you want to be loved by the Creator you don't want to do something that's detested by him says I hate four types of people four types of people I hate them there's a few others that mentioned other plac that he hates them but there's four types of specific people that he mentions that he hates them one of them is an old man that goes after young women say him I hate him he's disgusting to me you ever see those seveny old rich people want to go out with a woman that's not even old enough to be their granddaughter even their granddaughter she's already she's too young for those people he says I hate them hate them they're disgusting human beings another type of person that he hates is someone that that's cheap why does he hate someone that's cheap we talked about last night he says because it's the epitome of the opposite of me I only give and receive nothing you only take and give nothing and even what you're going to give is not yours so what do you cheap you're cheap with my stuff it's like the king tells you listen here's a safe you are the supervisor of the safe okay I'm going to pay you to be a supervisor of the safe my safe no problem how much is in a safe safe has unlimited amount of money okay great only one condition yes whenever my son comes give him give him a little bit give him a little money help him out how much do I give him whatever he needs to get whenever my son comes give him some money okay anything else nothing else you have no other responsibility you do this one job you have you do this one job I love you one job you have you don't have any other responsibility one day six years have passed no one has come after six years Mr Prince comes Mr Prince is is wearing a ripped suit hasn't bought a suit in a long time his shoes are ripped he's carrying his littlear he's serious about his studying and he says listen I finally ran out of money for what my father the king gave me six years ago I finally ran out of money and I have two choices I could go learn or I could go work now if I go work that means I can't learn at least not learn as much if I go and learn that means I need to get money from somewhere I need to live still have few kids I have a wife I have to live so my father told me that whenever I need something to come here and what do you say to them no you know what I'm actually a little stressed out right now I'm working on a deal come back after the FED makes the decision after the FED makes the decision on interest rates I want to see where the Market's going and then then you come back I'll let you know because I'm stressed out about the FED rates I'm stressed out about the economy I'm stressed out about the business I'm stressed about the state of the Kingdom I'm not sure if we're gonna have enough money to pay next year's bills and you send them away or better yet you say you know what listen I know your father is important and everything but I'm in charge here I'm in charge so I'm going to give you just enough money to get for this week come back next week so you give the guy like a little boy you know we little kids that are generous 15 16 years old if they get motivated a little kid that gets motivated let's he has a newspaper out he makes a little bit of money makes i100 $200 a week he's motivated he's motivated sees a homeless guy he sees a someone that's in need the little boy or little girl has no problem giving whatever in his in his pocket whether it be $20 or $200 he has no problem at all giving all of it no problem why he's pure he hasn't been tarnished like the rest of us he's still little he's 12 years old 13 years old he's still okay he has no problem giving the homeless guy whatever he has in his pocket no problem so the problem is when the adult gives like the little boy when the adult says you know what yeah I got $560 in my pocket let me give you the 75 cents yeah that's the coins I have you give the guy 75 cents hey good luck thanks for coming thanks for giving me the mitvah thanks for giving me the mitvah you give the guy 75 cent you feel good about yourself you give the guy $3 came to you for help you give him $3 you give him $20 you feel good about I did a mitzvah hone hone I'm aik what happened honey I did I give a l from morning toight I gave $20 how much did you make today honey oh made $600 you made $600 today you gave the guy $20 you made $5,000 this month and you gave they gave the guy $20 $20 little boy gives $20 the little boy gives 20 he gives more than $20 you're giving $20 that's what happened little children give that melee if it's some homeless guy that has no kadus no no connection to hasem you just want to give him a meal he's a homeless guy fine you give him five bucks 10 bucks whatever someone has learns to his whole life he's the reason hasem created the world he's the reason he didn't created for the homeless guy he didn't created for the tiger he didn't created it for the lion he didn't create it for the politicians he definitely didn't create it for the homosexuals he didn't create it for them who did he create it for created it for the sadik sadik learns to all day you give $20 what do you think is going to happen when ABA shows up at the safe and he says did my son come yeah yeah your son come oh did you give him the $5,000 I promised him no no no I gave him the $20 I gave him $20 what do you think the king is going to say to you I gave you one job I told you I'm going to give you $150,000 a year I'm going to give you 50,000 a year I'm going to give you a million dollar a year I'm going to give you whatever I'm going to give you you have one job when my son comes give him what he needs are you surprised that hasem says I hate you is a story from someone that's such a high level of K it's hard to understand even the story but it gives us a little perspective of how difficult it is to overcome the bad character trait of stinginess but at the same token how someone that has the truth in their hand has to work hard to help people overcome it so one day was told that the Yesa is in danger the are in danger we need money we need money fast we need to come up with $30,000 you know the beautiful things about yes if they're serious they spend most of their time learning to not collecting money but that also means when they're collecting money they need it now when you have a Torah organization of any kind collecting it's usually not every single day it's usually once a year twice a year but they need a bunch ASAP because they've gone to work until pretty much the wheels have fallen off so was told we need $30,000 an enormous amount of money at the time we need the RV to go if we're going to get this money quickly enough we need the top we need you to go always excited for mitvah opportunity always excited to help tah he goes out with several of his students he says okay tell me where to go you have a list from last year of who donated and we go and they start going through the list goes oh no no that guy don't go this year one of them said it he said wait wait who we're not going to he goes oh no there's this one guy he's very very rich but he never gives and every year we go to him and not only does he not give he makes fun of us go perfect him I want to go there first no no for he's not going to give exactly for him I want to go first what are they going to say they go they go to this Rich guy's house knock on the door the butler opens he says yes I can help you oh I'm here to see so and so he says what you here to collect money you know he doesn't give no yeah I'm here I'm here to collect money because don't waste your time I know you seem like a reputable Rabbi no no I need to see him okay act at your own it's at your own risk he calls the balabit the owner the owner comes he oh you here to collect yeah yeah you have a cause oh great great great great thanks for coming yeah thank you thank you he goes into his pocket he takes out one penny one penny a penny was never worth much even many years ago today I don't even think it should be in circulation anymore no one actually uses pennies anymore I think it costs more money to print a penny and even a 5cent coin then the 5cent coin is worth but they still print them because people are scared of change but here he gets the penny he takes the penny and he starts dancing and cheering and giving the cheap stingy rich man blessings from here till tomorrow and he gives him the name and he gives him the blessing and the guy like what's crazy he goes oh wow you like the penny huh cuz yeah thank you so much I appreciate it what a great start wow the guy's like you want another one the guy is so enthused about the dancing he say you want another Penny because you would do that said sure why not goes into the draw takes out another Penny dancing is doing bigger than the first time he's giving him blessing for me in the next week the guy is so excited he says what about if I gave you a quarter quarter Falls he starts de who who who he starts dance the guyy is so excited gives him a quarter he says okay this is great I actually even have I like you I like you I like you I even have a dollar for you the guy is dancing is dancing like he just gave him the whole sum and that's exactly what happens next he says how much did you say you need we need $30,000 because one second the butler comes brings a checkbook he writes him a checkbook also the students are baffled the whole city knows this man as the stingiest man that ever lived in a city how did you break him how did you break the stingiest man that ever lived in a city there are legends that speak about this man stinginess gives us a secret he says when someone has the yet of stinginess it has to be somewhere and I found it his yet was in the first penny his yet was physically in the penny once I took the penny from him the was G now go enjoy he's going to give you to no end and that's exactly what happened he became the most generous person in the city over coming your yet is not easy it's not easy it's hard we said last night the rambam says you for money you like money so much you chase money all your life anytime something Rel related to Torah comes to you you're always short car you always have the money house you always have enough money vacation definitely if somebody tells me I was so short you know I'm not going to be able to give anything this month it's not like they give that much in the first place they give a 100 bucks or something like that a month we're not going to be able to give this much okay no problem God bless you what can I do God bless you surely L if I know you going on vacation to Israel where do you think we should go where do you think we should go in Israel last time check each ticket to Israel is almost $1,000 if there's five of you that's $5,000 now once once you get there you have to actually get out of the plane that means you have to pay for a hotel or a house and if it's for a week or two weeks or three weeks that also cost money yes we love each other but we don't give each other free homes and then once you're in the house you also have to eat that also costs money and after you eat you have to go do something for entertainment meaning that if you're going to Israel it's going to cost a few bucks and you tell them you can't afford 100 bucks for k you can't afford 100 bucks for you can't afford 100 bucks to support T you surprised why hasm says I hate you when we understand this and take it into account we understand why hasem is very very critical of stinginess simply because he says I only gave it to you so you give it to my son not because I need you to have some big house or nice car or a big watch for $20,000 it's not for that enjoy have a nice watch have a nice house have a nice dress have a nice bag have a nice whatever but when my son comes just do your job that's the point when we yield to the Creator we've already beat half of our yet the other half the other half is taking action rambam says you have a problem with stinginess give a little bit to a lot of people instead of giving a $100 to one person give $1 to 100 people get your n used to giving you start getting pleasure out of giving before you know it you're going to start giving $10 to 100 people and next thing you know going to give $50 and $100 and you actually get to a point of finally giving what you're supposed to give but you must work on that trait you must work on the trait of not being stingy and obviously I'm talking to myself and everyone not you guys this is what it says one time there was a story that became famous in Israel about a fool called Zalman or z z 20 years he was directing traffic where at the entrance of Jerusalem in the entrance of Jerusalem many cars pass 20 years he's there directing traffic go right go left go this go that he wasn't exactly the brightest there was his wife same she also wasn't as bright about 20 years he's directing traffic go right go left Stop go yes one day he calls his friend early in the morning and he says listen I can't do it today I can't do it today 20 years I'm going to work I can't do it today I'm sick I'm sick I got a cold I can't get out of bed you have to go for me or else it's going to be accidents there's no one to replace me 20 years I've been going they don't even have a replacement for me his friend says okay okay fine fine where do I go goes go to the entrance of Jerusalem direct traffic over there now his friend was a little brighter than him but he wasn't exactly one of these people that travel some people live in in Jerusalem and they never leave they just live there they enjoy that's it so he goes to the entrance of Jerusalem and he sees there's traffic lights traffic stops traffic goes traffic stops traffic goes everything is managed perfectly fine with traffic lights so he looks for a place where there's no traffic lights he can't find it so he goes to the next pay phone calls the city goes listen listen it's getting late zman told me that I have to be here at this time where is there no traffic light and he starts hearing people laughing on the phone as if he he said the funniest joke that ever was and he says what what's wrong with you why you laughing goes oh that Z yeah he's there for 20 years he goes yeah he works here he goes no he doesn't work here he just decided to direct the traffic he goes okay so where does he direct it he says he doesn't really direct it he pretends like he's directing it but there's traffic lights for 30 years already there's traffic lights but he makes believe like as if he's the whole traffic is depending on him 20 years he's working for nothing 20 years this fool is working for nothing he doesn't even get a penny from the government or any employer nor is he even helping anyone there's traffic lights the says this is us this is some of of us we going to work 60 70 80 years in this world collecting money collecting 401K accounts collecting Ira accounts collecting savings accounts collecting houses collecting cars collecting watches collecting jewelry collecting collecting collecting we go up to sh to tell us you're like zman you worked for nothing you lived for 70 years you have nov why because everything I gave you you left it in the safe everything I gave you it's in a 4way 1K account that that half the half of it the government's going to take anyway instead of using what I gave you to collect MIT you left it in a box for a rainy day that never happened we're not smarter than Zan so the following thing is the Noah literally means be pleasant to the young aside from honoring this also has to do with some of the things we talked about of being Pleasant to the young Pleasant to his children here especially the ones that are involved with is tor on a practical perspective there are many times that you are put in a position where you've been doing the same thing for a while you have experience whether you're a public speaker or a rabbi or you have a certain job you have EXP experience you're in it for 5 years 10 years 20 years 30 years whatever you're in it for a while a new guy or girl comes on and they're excited they're excited like you used to be 10 years ago you know after 10 years you're not as excited you like your job but you're not as excited as the 20-year-old just came out of college he's excited to be alive what do I do now why you follow the papers oh follow the papers follow the papers okay great I'm going to follow the papers I after finish the what I do now what I do now now you can take a break oh break no can I do something else I don't need a break I'm hungry I can do something else and they're excited who are the best employees I ever had interns free interns the greatest employees that ever existed are free why because they're driving force pure excitement the ones they paid already lowered their excitement why why is the guy working for free have all the excitement in the world he has an overdose of excitement but the one that you actually pay he's already miserable why the one that you pay he's already thinking about so there's money in this he's probably making more money than me he has more money than me I should really at this point I'm already working for a week I could run this place he's already thinking about your job he's already miserable and not happy not content with what he has you give him a 100 he wants 200 you give him 200 he wants 400 you give him 400 he wants 800 this is actually in the is the reason why a person that has a lot of material in his life revolves around material feels like the more he has the more he lacks the guy that has $500 to his name if you give him a $500 bonus to him it's a miracle right now he has 500 bucks in his bank he knows the rent's coming up this it's due any day and he short $500 you decide you're Mr manager you're Mr owner you're Mr whatever you're customer hey I like you is a $500 bonus he at that moment feels like God spoke to him it's a miracle $500 is changed his life $500 changed his life why that's all he had you just doubled everything he has you just gave it to him at the perfect time you just performed you areu you split the seat for him you give him $500 on the other hand if he just made $150,000 this month to add to his collection of money and he said Hey listen I like you it's a $500 tip what is he going to say thanks put in his pocket forget get about 30 seconds later the end beginning the end conversation same $500 but the guy that has the 150,000 feels like he's missing at least another 150,000 as much as you have is as much as you feel like you're lacking I can tell you this from experience the more we had the more we felt like we need it for what no reason because I wasn't a materialistic person to begin with it's not like I bought watches and bracelets and planes and cars all the money either went to giving to people or investing into the business that's it beginning middle end I invested in the business I gave money to people I helped them out and uh that's pretty much in I obviously I went away a few times at a decent house but overall relative to what we were making we weren't addicted to toys the only jewelry I ever had was gifted to me never bought a piece of jewelry in my life at least not for myself only owned one car which is a normal car an expensive house but that was really only because it was convenient because it was five minute walk from my from my office but in general if I made a million one year I said next year minimum 2 million the year I made five million in uh 2006 I said next year minimum 10 million why if it's already this it has to be more it was never in my mind that this is has to stay this way as long as I keep making you know what I'm gonna Coast here I'm gonna make a 100 this year or make 100 last next year I'm gonna stay around here I'm gon to relax for a little bit never it's never the more successful you are the more you desire the more you want and it's not necessarily always because you want more more material it's just for the sake of competition it's for the sake of continuing to grow if you're not growing you feel like you're not doing anything I wish we all treated Judaism and connection to Hashem the same I wish that we were as ambitious about our connection to Hashem as we are about our connection to money that we have to force oursel to continue growing in that regard as well I wish and that's what we actually have to do one of the ways that we can help ourselves is by surrounding ourselves by with young people if you're surrounded by people that are just like you people that are old mature experienced and tired you will remain old experienced and tired you you can't really all you have to that's going to all that's going to drive you is some distant memory of your past and the little bit of ambition that you may have left but if you surround yourself with a few interns if you surround yourself with a few young students if you surround yourself with a few that are still striving to get to the ultimate level of surrounding a few young people they're going to move you they're going to encourage you and if it's not for you wanting more it's just because you like to see them excited so when that young person comes push them don't be one of these people where the young person comes to you and say listen can I use some of your lecture material no you know how many years I've been working for this material go get your own you know some people are like this you go to them you say listen you know you have you meet a lecture about XYZ a few times in your career can I actually borrow some of the materials I can use it in my lecture hey I've been working 20 years for that material you think I'm just going to give it to you yeah with no skin off your back it doesn't cost you anything to give it to me it's my experience so what are you doing it for are you doing it for helping come back to hasem or you doing it for your experience if you're doing if you're in business you have experience you have contacts as long as you don't get hurt from it obviously if a guy says listen can you give me your Client List I'm going to call all your clients and take your business and your house and your car obviously you don't do that you're not a fool I'm talking about if the guy says listen if you have a sales pitch if you have a uh recommendation you have some advice you have some a uh you know different contact that could help me out I'm a young guy coming in you're already in it for 20 years you should be the first one to do it why why not why not why not help the young guy why not help the Next Generation this type of mentality will help you number one it'll help you relive your younger age relive your early stage Chua once you're in Chua 10 20 years things get a little St unless you're surrounded by young people and I don't mean Young by age I mean Young by experience you could be a b CH 60 years old and you're brand new driving the guy that's been from from birth but he's only 40 but you 60 year old are driving him 40 year old to be more ambitious about hem why because you're brand new you just met God for the first time three weeks ago he thinks he knows him for 40 years he's not excited about he's like I'm tired I'm gonna watch some TV and go to sleep you are like Hem Hem is here Hashem is showing up Hashem is showing up wake up wake up well wake up I'm still sleeping at 6:30 in the morning leave me alone that's he's bored he's already religious 40 years you 60y old 50 year old 80 year old wherever you are point is you wake him up why you're the Young Generation you have to surround yourself with a few B you have to surround yourself by a few interns you have to surround yourself with a few new people to keep yourself young how do you do it help them give them a reason to be around you take a few of these new guys you know what guys you're you're all new five six seven all you know what I'm going to teach you a little half hour every morning after I'm G to teach you guys really wow you're going to teach us you they look at you likeu and ends up that you end up being a better version of yourself why because of them even the sages in thear said I learned from my Rabbi but I even learn more from my K but the most I learned from were my students I learned from my students is says surround yourself with students be nice to them be pleasant to them the Young Generation not just by age by experience they're going to keep you young last but not least he says receive every person cheerfully in the early mishna chapter one M 15 Shay you know Shay in sh Shai the original shamai said that uh something similar he said that you should receive all people in cheerful state of mind but here says you should receive them with happiness so kazal explains that this is the next level you should be cheerful to do anything that you're doing if you're doing it for the sake of Hashem you're doing MIT you've yielded yourself to the superior to the ultimate power to the Creator that's already good you've surrounded Yourself by few that's already good you should be already happy that you're alive says being content and cheerful about about is not enough do it with do it with full Next Level now this morning looking at my daughter and I was learning some musar from her and yes she's only two years old she's only two years old but I was thinking about her and I said you know what WIS his man of all time says go to the ant Little Ant go to The Ant and learn from her you lazy bum and then you'll be smart says this go to the ant you lugard you lazy person go to the ant learn from her and then you'll be wise you'll be smart what this a parable what's going on here say says you have an ant an ant sees all its cousins all his brothers all it sisters all everyone die after about six months of Life an ant only lives approximately six months that's it so the ant sees everyone else cousins brothers sisters everyone else that was already born before him died at a pretty young age 6 months but still what what does he do every day he goes to work as if nothing happened and as a matter of fact on his first day of life he collects enough food to survive him six months so just on his first day he has enough for the rest of his life but he still continues to go to work every single day he continues to try he continues to collect he collects 6 months of food every day but he's only going to live 6 months but he continues to perform with Vigor and excitement maybe I'm going to be the ant that beats the system maybe I'm going to live longer than six months says learn from The Ant and you'll be wise what can you learn from the ant learn that number one you never know how long you're going to live two two whatever you do put your full Covenant in it it doesn't matter how long it's going to be if you have a long to live you don't have a long to live you're this you're that it doesn't make a difference you have a mitvah do it so I was looking at my daughter and she's two years old and she doesn't know all of our words yet she knows all the colors B she knows purple she knows red she knows blue she knows the numbers she knows the ABC sees the whole alphabet she knows a little bit of Hebrew also she's very smart but she also knows a few other things and she knows that before Shabbat is over you have to do ABA so she goes to her seat and she waits for the candle to go on and every time I say a she says I'm in there's no many words but she knows I'm in and then when a candle comes you have to do the part of ab where you look at your fingernails because it's a reminder of the reason why you look at your fingernails next to the candle is because the skin of ad was shiny like our nails after they went to the manicure and it's a reminder of what we lost so she knows that when the candle section comes she goes like this the candle she puts a hand like this twoy old excited about the mitvah go like this now what was I thinking about this morning every time Sarah that's her name Sarah who learns everything from a mom I just I'm there to for entertainment purposes she's amazing I just enjoy the ride so she everything she eats she knows that before you eat you have to make a blessing at two years old she knows before you eat AB make a blessing so she doesn't know all the blessing words yet she says I'm in eat difference is that every bite she makes a blessing it's not just one time she takes something she says a few right words a few mumbles I'm in I'm in and everybody has to say amen and she drinks and she puts it down looks around okay next biteen amen everybody says amen amen you drink it every single bite Another Blessing it's the cutest thing in the world it's million bucks you think this is the greatest thing it was worth to come to the world just to watch this once and you see this twoy little two-year-old two-year-old little girl little sadika making the blessing and she says Amen to herself but she also waits for me and my wife to say amen and she gets excited when we're all saying amen and then she wants to do it again but I was thinking this morning kazal says that the horrible horrific worst decrees from sh M can be cancelled due to the prayers of the children who learn toah and I thought to myself what's so special about the children that learn T and do I don't know more Tor than them he's six years old okay maybe he know little four years old I know more than a four-year-old what is this tor is better than mine what's this special Father's prayer what's so special about his Torah why is I'm praying to Hashem I'm crying hysterical this Hashem cancel bad decree no little Sarah I'm in I'm in thecreek cancelled why I'm thinking about them driving me crazy why what's so special what is so special about Sarah's prayer what is so special but what I'm thinking about Sarah this morning and I said Sarah only has one Mitzvah she knows whatever Mitzvah is in front of her that's the Mitzvah she knows she knows she has to make a blessing before she eats one blessing before she eats she takes a bite before take the bite she has to make the blessing and at the end of the blessing she has to say amen amen other people have to say amen amen and she goes through the whole thing and she has full passion and excitement for this one mitvah that she knows she puts her entire self into this one Mitzvah a whole kavana whole little two-year-old body goes into this one Mitzvah can we say the same about our mitvah any of our mitv that all of us went into this one Mitzvah or any mitvah you made today name one mitvah we did today that we had as much kavana at sah a two-year-old baby that's what I said that's why her prayer cancels big decrease that's why the little babies when they pray and their parents send them to the right school to the right teacher to the right Torah you put their head on the right direction that's why their prayer is the one that's going to bring mashiach because when they finally pray they have they have we have all the MIT we have for one of them is tells us in all all starts with these three simple things first know you have to yield to the Creator two surround yourself byan surround yourself by B surround yourself by converts brand new to the religion excited about hem and when you have an opportunity to do a Mitzvah whether learning remember Sarah has full when she prays you should at the very least have some any questions amen [Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Music]