Don't Get Too Comfortable In This World. - MUSSAR Pirkei Avot (30)

[Music] n good to be in AV again the breast center the online at least are continue to change lives continuing to get people back to Hashem get people to leave idol worship get people to leave all types of nonsense that's controlling our without us even knowing you know one of the biggest problems that a person can have is being sick and not knowing that he has a disease and the reason why is because even though logically sometimes you would think listen maybe if I have somebody has a disease maybe they're better off not knowing they live their life why why if you know you have a disease you think know better off not knowing I live my life I enjoy my life what who needs this s in my head I'll be depressed I'll think about it all the time I'll have to go to doctors let me just live my life but that's actually the wrong mentality and the reason why is because if let's say for example you really were living you really were living then maybe you're right maybe but how many of us are really living most of us are just getting by most of us are just trying to do whatever we can to buy ourselves tomorrow we wake up we eat we drink we go to work we work we get y that by somebody either our boss our wife our husband our customer somebody that cut us off in the highway we get annoyed we get upset we finish work we go home we eat we drink we do whatever we need to do to waste some time until we get tired enough to go to sleep and we do it all over again tomorrow wake up eat sleep work sleep again that's it that's that's in general that's life for most people and yes in in between you have a vacation that you saved up for for the last two years in between you have a nice conversation that cheers you up in between you have some fun with the kids with the family with the wife the husband in between you have little moments of fun of pleasure but in reality the overwhelming majority of life is not really living or most most of your life is preparing for the moment of Life of what you view as good life so in reality most of us are not really living especially if we're not connected to Tor if we're not connected to then it's virtually impossible for us to live because we have no idea what the Cure is we have no idea that we even have a disease and we have no idea how to even be happy we're constantly doing things to try to make ourselves happy either buying a new car or a house or something material but generally most people try to attain happiness through something physical and since happiness is a emotional feeling it's it's a spiritual feeling you can't attain something spiritual by getting something material it's impossible it's difference it's the wrong cure so in reality most people are not living they're just getting by they're just preparing themselves and working to finally live tomorrow next week next month maybe in 6 months maybe next year maybe when they retire everyone works their whole life why CU one day they want to retire that's that's really it's oh there's old day uh story some people say it's Henry Ford some people say it's somebody else but a uh successful businessman goes to a uh some Island on vacation and he sees this guy just sitting there and fishing simple guy and he walks up to the guy and he says what are you doing he like I'm fishing goes once you have work goes no no this is what I do I just fish why don't you get a job goes for what goes so you can get money goes for what so you could probably you could get married for what so you can have kids what do I need kids for so you could raise them and enjoy them for what so they can get married and so then they could have grandkids for what so then after that you can get yourself even a vacation house once the kids move out of the house you get yourself a vacation house somewhere else he goes what am I going to do there he goes over there you can relax go fishing he goes fool I'm already doing that now so most of us are waiting to get to the fishing trip so to say listen I'm already living life the reality of it is that most of us aren't on the other hand if you tell somebody that they're sick and now they know about it yes initially it's very hard to know that Shalom somebody has something that they don't want whether it's inside their mind or inside their body it's a foreign object foreign feeling a negative feeling and if you don't have a serious connection with hm it's very very easy to get into depression and people self-destruct with this feeling of of emptiness because you feel like when you when you're sick you feel alone we had the T of having a little bit of health issues and I can tell you for a fact one the first feeling you get aside from Pain and Agony and so on is feeling like you're alone feeling like no one understands you feeling like no one can relate to you no one can empathize with with you sometimes you don't feel like anybody cares my uh my wife had and a extraordinary ability to to uh to be there for me in every way shape or form uh but uh for the most part of the world around you you feel like you're alone oh and actually uh this uh before I forget this year also is for um uh a uh in honor of of my dear wife for her birthday her Hebrew birthday since a since our conversion mayem bless her with many many more years happiness success all the she does to let us teach learn and do everything that we do our entire Torah and everything that we do is all really hers uh and also a uh forat a schlomo Rifka a uh the brother of a friend of a dear friend of mine who uh just uh unfortunately 30 days ago passed on to the next world May hasem raise his n and may the Torah that we learned today also help his n get higher and higher amen so when someone is experiencing serious difficulty it's very easy to feel them feel alone but then once you've overcome that hurdle once you've beat that big battle that mental struggle you could also get to a point of having a sense of relief and the reason why because it's better to know the enemy that you're dealing with than to not know that you're even fighting and sometimes when you know people have a hard time making a decision whether it's to move to a new community or it's to go to a new job or to uh to do anything new a many times people stop themselves from doing it they refrain from actually making big decisions and they stop and they're they're content in the existing relationship uh that they have and one of the main reason is because even though everything sounds good the grass is always greener on the other side you don't really know you don't really know once you get there you don't really know if it's grass or it's just Turf you don't really know if that boss is really really nice once you work for him or he's just nice cuz he's trying to recruit you but he becomes ham or as soon as you as soon as you get a paycheck from him you don't know so what happens is that you're you're you to yourself and you know your your subconscious tells you listen it's better that you continue working for this par than going to the par you don't know because the you know okay he's a he's difficult he's this and that but at least you know what you're dealing with this guy who knows maybe he's worse and that's actually what's happening in the real world today you have a lot of these leaders dictators from previous generations that uh you know destroyed their country destroyed their people whether it was Fidel Castro or it's the the guy from Venezuela Chavez these people tortured their people for many many years and everyone was very happy once they died unfortunately for those people is that the new leaders are even worse especially if you look at the situation in Venezuela this new rash is mamash starving his people I watched something I think it was yesterday the day before and I wanted to cry I I wanted to cry seeing what's happening to these people you know cuz they're all in hiding they're all reporting to the media and hiding because if anybody knew they're reporting to the media they'd killed them on the spot now to the World At Large it looks like everyone in Venezuela is oh they're happy they're it's a very rich country as far as oil nothing's missing but you actually ask the people and he tell listen I lost 35 PBS because there's no food you go to the supermarket all of the aisles of Coca-Cola Pepsi all the drinks and the snacks full but actual food things that actually make real food nothing empty who has the food the black market who controls the black market the government so the the government is the biggest criminal in the country but who's going to tell them not to do it so people are much starving to death to the point where you saw this one poor family this uh couple that uh both teachers they have a little cute son and uh they have to take turns the parents have to take turns of who eats dinner either the husband or the wife eats dinner for the night so they have enough food to give the kid little five sixy old little kid he eats and then one of the parents eats so I'm thinking to myself listen you know you have this ton you have this Pro you know you have all these different headaches he know you get people's headaches got all these different things that you deal with I'm like you know what what we have is headaches they have a problem we have a headaches you have a flat tire you have a money issue you have whatever different stupid things that you de with in life that you stress out all over but it's all headaches it goes away you fix it don't fix it whatever it goes away not having food for your kid that's a problem not being able to leave your country that's a problem having to pay $400 the equivalent of $400 for a piece of cheese which is almost a month salary it's not like they're making millions you have to spend almost a month salary on a piece of cheese and anyone that dares donate to the people in Venezuela which a lot of people from Florida are from you know are from of Spanish descent they're from Venezuela and other countries other countries in South America so they donate they donate a lot of medicine because there's no medicine in the hospitals one of the hospital administrators said there hasn't been medicine there hasn't been antibiotics in the hospital for a year and a half no antibiotic we're not talking about you know cures for cancer we're not talking about cures for diabetes we're talking about antibiotics you have a uh you know any type of flu you have any type anything you have a cold antibio if you don't have a cold you have antibiotic one two days they done which by the way just from experience if the antibiotic that you're taking does not work within 48 hours it's the wrong antibiotic you have to change it don't listen to the doctors that tell you take it for a week or 10 days and then it'll finally work no it's not true if it doesn't affect your body within 48 hours it's the wrong antibiotic you just have to try a new one and in general doctors they're not Geniuses like people think they are it's all trial and error they don't actually know which antibiotic is going to affect you when they give you an antibiotic when they diagnose you they tell you oh you have this you that they don't actually know for sure if this antibiotic is going to cure you cuz even though it may have cured many people with a similar problem you may have a different germ you may have a different anti you know something in your body that this antibiotic you may be immune to it but they give it to you like you say listen they give you antibiotic and it works out hopefully they say but which by the way every time you take medicine you should say blessing there's a blessing to say which I'll tell you after the year if you want want uh to remind ourselves that Hashem really is the one that decides whether this piece of chalk or gel is going to work or not cuz the chalk could either be for the board or it could be for medicine hasem decides but the point being is that you have antibiotics and with no problem here in America you have antibiotics with no problem in Israel you have anti all this medicine all the stuff we take for granted it's easy to get you go to this supposably rich country as far as with oil is concerned people can't get antibiotics for a year and a half which means that someone with a common cold can M die this is like ancient history when they talk about dinosaurs that's what they talk about CU always had medicine but the ignorance among the the Nations that didn't have anything they would die that's a problem that my friends is a m a serious serious problem but of course Hashem runs the world hashm knows what he's doing there's a reason of why everything is happening but these Wicked people are m a tool that hasem is using to fulfill his will whatever it is whatever the purpose of all of it is I'm sure it's for the good there's no no doubt in my mind that it's for the good even though it's very difficult to hear and very difficult I'm sure for them to experience but it breaks your heart when you find out that there's poor there's people here that are donating a lot of money to get them the medicine they send you know tons and tons of medicine tons and tons of food and what happens the government steals part of it or all of it or it finally gets to the hospital but they send a soldier say no no no medicine is not allowed in the hospital M they want the people to die this is the craziness we live in this is M the craziness we live in so in a world like today if you don't have AEM it's impossible to live with peace of mind because we're M 5 seconds away from some type of craziness happening whether it's craziness that's happening in South America or it's craziness that happening in North America what do you think everything is fine in America you think everything is fine between the relationship that America has with Russia or America has with many of the other countries around the world that call him the world's cop a lot of people lot of countries hate America and many of them if they had the opportunity and the power and the uh courage they would go to war with America tomorrow if they want needless to say the horrendous situation that am has in between all of them because with all the wars that everyone else has at the end somehow the Jews get blamed for everything somehow it's our fault somebody fell on a banana oh no no it's probably some Jew wrapped a banana in a strange Way what all Jews Jew didn't even come to doesn't even know banana he just ate the banana next to him goes no no probably he put some somehow it's our fault somehow it's our fault why is it our fault because hasem says listen one of the prophecies one of the promises that I will make to you and you will see there's a new uh short film that's coming out out that we are team made and will come out in the next couple of days it's one of the prophecies that hasem makes the one of the scary par that talks about you knowem rebuking us and promising a punishment if we don't fulfill his will and one of the prophecies that he says is going to happen is that if we choose not to worship him we choose not to work for him we choose to work you know do whatever we feel like it he says modesty we don't feel like being modest he says Shabbat we don't feel like keeping Shabbat we don't feel like listening to him we feel like being independent of God he says well especially you the Jewish people that are obligated to do everything I say you're either going to work for me or you're going to work for the enemy and this if anyone actually understood the words in this par immediately you get if you didn't have your entire life after you actually understand that verse you get and for anyone who doesn't have time or ability to open the K to actually look at this verse and see and understand what its meaning is that's what we have the video so the video is going to come out in a couple of days I've already watched at least 15 to 20 times and each time it get scared I get more scared so the guy that's going back to our original story the guy that actually has the sickness and knows about it he's much better off and the reason why is because if he now knows after he overcomes the depression after he overcomes the bad news hurdle he can now face it and he can now make educated decisions based on the new information that he has at hand if he didn't have the information then he'd continue going to work and he' continue working extra overtime two three four hours a day so he could save money for the once a year vacation that he wants and work extra two three hours or even a second job for the house he wants to buy and it work extra two three hours so he could pay for college because college is a million dollars now if somebody wants to actually go to a real good college you have to literally come up with you know if you have a few kids you have to come up with a million dollars a decent college is $50 $60,000 a year not that we're advocating people going to college for the because for the most part most Jews that go to college is just wasting their time unless they're going for a specific profession most anybody that goes to college is just wasting their time and one of the reasons why colleges have become so expensive is because the government has manipulated the system just like they did with the housing market they wanted everybody to own a house so they made lending much easier which created a housing bubble in essence they did the same exact thing with education they want everyone to be in college even though not everybody should should go to college for for the most part most people shouldn't go to college because to get a communications degree is a waste of money to get a degree in English you're an idiot you just wasted your parents' money to get uh to get any of these degree to get I don't know physical education degree you just wasted a quar million dollars and four years of your life or in today's world seven years because you know who wants to go to college for only four years you want to drink for a little longer so you want to party for a little longer so you go to college for seven years you extend and you waste more and more of ABA and ima's money and make more and more sense it's a complete waste of money but our Western mindset tells us that we need to go to college in order for us to get the job but in reality anyone that has any experience in the business world knows that a college means absolutely nothing if you went to grad school maybe it means something but only if you were top of your class if you're just a really guy you got the degree maybe you get $50,000 a year maybe maybe even I get a job I have one one one student she has a phenomenal degree everything is great great grades everything you got a job at uh what it Staples or one of these uh stores that sells you know you work for minimum wage just degree cost two $300,000 to get this degree you can't get a job so just because you get a degree doesn't mean much any anymore point being is that the guy that's working his whole life for this vacation because he doesn't know that he's sick he could be potentially wasting his life at the same time he doesn't have much of it cuz all of us think they we're going to live till 120 no one thinks they're going to die tomorrow everyone thinks they're going to live many many more years even if you Warren Buffett or Kirk aoran or any of these oldies that have billions and billions of dollars you still go to work tomorrow even though you're 90 years old cuz maybe just maybe they're going to find a cure for life and you live till million point being is that everyone thinks they're going to live a long life now what if the guy has a disease Shalom and he only has 12 months to live him continuing to go to work is m is foolish him spending one minute working is foolish him spending one minute not fulfilling his dream his life you know spending time with his family and his loved ones it's foolish which is the reason why the guy that has the disease and knows about it but was able to overcome it he's much better off why because at least after let's say it takes him a month to overcome the depression or two months even at least he's got 10 good months he can do whatever he wants if he wanted to always go some place in the world he can go he wants to go to the mar can go to C Mar now not wait till next year because there's no next year if he uh you know has been missing out on his kids life finally he can catch up with his kids if he was missing out on his marriage finally he can fix his marriage he can finally do a lot of the things that he's always procrastinating because it's in our nature to procrastinate which brings us to our Mish our Mish in Chapter 2 Mish 18 says [Applause] translation one of the of says his a uh his wisdom his three things just like we've learned in the last couple of weeks his three things that are he believes are Life Changers that are the foundation of a connection that you would have between yourself and so first he says be meticulous in reading the prayer of shma said that we read twice a day plus you're obligated to read at least twice a day and the reason why you read the Practical reason is because it's good to say some before you go to sleep the the other reasons the more cabalistic reasons is that it protects you when you're sleeping whether it's for wasting seed or from demons all types of things that you don't really want in your life so having on your lips before you go to sleep protects you from that but your obligation what you have to do is twice a day men have to do it twice a day women have to do once a day but nonetheless this is an obligation from there are three major prayers in Judaism you have both of which you say twice a day you say three times a day and then you have which is anytime you eat bread so now he says when you're saying kma be very meticulous be very careful okay we'll go into what that actually means shortly he says when you pray which is also referring not to just TMA but also referring to amid When you pray do not make your prayer a set routine don't get so comfortable well you know of course you say it once twice three times eventually it becomes a little easier when I I remember when I first started praying the whole shoe would be finished and I'm still in like the first and I felt like I'm an idiot like I don't understand how do they read so fast like I mean I was born in Israel I wasn't I only got fourth grade education cuz you know I left Israel we left when I was 10 years old I wasn't exactly or anything in Hebrew but still I mean they're literally they finished the whole thing I'm still like the first couple of paragraphs how's it possible How could somebody read so fast then eventually you start realizing that once you actually read it a few more times and a few more times and a few more times the the words come to you a little easier you start understanding what you're saying it's a lot smoother little by little you're normal Pace now I'm still not as fast as most synagogues that I go to but that's by choice if I want to I could be just as fast as anybody there but it's by choice and the reason why is because I choose to have kavana I choose to try to take my time and actually understand what I'm saying and you know try to connect to the words as much as I can not necessarily in every prayer I'll do CH on those but nonetheless you know in many places you go to sh you pray most people are going through the motion they're already looking at the clock as they came come in not because to see if they're on time but to see how long they have to tolerate being in je it's like they went to school you know you went to school as a little kid you're not looking forward to go to school and learn you're looking for when's the break so I can hang out with my friends same thing people look at sometimes Unfortunately they go to like is thisan does he read fast does he go through the whole thing within a few minutes it's like usually the ones that theim that read the fastest they're the most popular K there finishes amid two three minutes Masia the sadik that takes 15 20 minutes to finish amid no he's too slow for me he's old he's old he's 35 years old no no it's old fashioned it's not for me you go so here he's telling you specifically the opposite of what our mentality what our yet is telling us every day he's saying do not make your prayer set routine what does it mean set routine he says don't get so used to it to a point we're just breezing through it Without Really caring what you're saying and we'll go into more more of what that means momentarily rather your prayer should be mercy and a supplication before the uh before hasem as it is said and he is gracious and compassionate slow to anger abounding in kindness and relent full of punishment this is inel 2:3 so he said your prayer not only you shouldn't get so comfortable with it but you should realize that your prayer is each time you pray it's ch in essence what he's trying to tell you is that every time you pray in front of hm you should realize that you're in front of and if you realize for even a minute for a second that you're in front of when you're praying immediately you should say a sorry even if you don't know what you did you should say I'm sorry cuz you definitely did something wrong whether it's or it's or it's kosher or you got angry or you got this or you have no something's you did something there's no such thing as a righteous person who doesn't sin it's also M no such thing everybody makes some type of a sin it means so immediately say I'm sorry and then start thinking about what am I sorry for and the good news is is that he's already a verse in the Tor there's multiple times where it says this is actually one of the things we say these first few words we actually say it in our and also we say it many times uh on Monday and on Thursday prayers and we also say many many times on the uh uh y Kip that uh in essence you're this is part of the secret prayer that the Satan gave to which says if you say this prayer hem will forgive you so you're reminding AEM in essence not that hm needs your reminder in essence reminding yourself of hashem's midot aem's quality uh traits he's slow to anger he's abound abounding in in kindness he's relent even if he there's punishment he still holds himself back he doesn't give us the the full punishment this is the reason why am is still around technically according to the Torah hasem was supposed to destroy us with the with the um the idol worship that we did in the mount saai the golden calf hasem was supposed to wipe us out and kazal tells us that because the hasem decided to listen to MOS renu's plea not to destroy us but there still have to be a punishment there's no such thing as no punishment asem forgives he doesn't forget he doesn't just let it go and that's what that's the mistake that we have in this generation where people think listen I make a sin but if hasem didn't kill me right there and then it's fine he doesn't care he's fine with it he understands he understands that I had to drive to and Shabbat he understands cuz I'm going to pray like they people rationalize these crazy things either because somebody told them and they believed it because it fit their desires or they just didn't learn and just create things no hasm understands that I have nothing really to do on Shabbat so I have to play with my phone he understands he understands today it's really come on it's hard for me not to play with my phone I'm addicted it's a problem Hashem you know you gave me this addiction you blame hasem for your problemm understands that I can't really wear K why can't you wear because no everyone else is wearing a wig I can't wear a scarf on my head or a hat on my head I'll look funny that's what women say people make fun of me one one uh woman tells me listen if if I wear a uh scarf I want to wear a scarf I know the wig is not Kosher I know you're not allowed to wear wigs according to according to the fact that it's and a lot of other major problems that we've talked about in the past I know I'm not allow but the problem is in my community if I wear a scarf not only will I be frowned upon not only will they make fun of me but I actually went to my R the woman tells me this this is just a couple days ago she tells me I went to my Rabbi and I told him listen I learned a little bit about the wig issue and it's a real problem if you don't want to listen to the whole issues that there is with the whole issue of wigs not being modest all let's say you ignore that part let's say it do happen fine there's still a problem with which we did a whole sh about there's still a whole problem with the fact that the source of pretty much every single wig in the world comes from a comes from idol worship so you're putting idol worship on your head this is a serious problem so you can't go around that problem there's no other way unless you go let's say for example again you ignore option one you ignore Thea issue you let's say you find some I don't know hippie that wants to sell our hair okay you know you know you create a a uh a wig that looks uh completely like sty that can't really look like real hair let's say somehow you find a way to finagle and make a fake wig that still looks makes you look human fine but in reality how many people are actually doing this zero so the woman comes to the Rob and says listen there a problem with the wigs I can't continue to wear it it's not good for me I know it's not good for me not telling anybody else to change but I want to change the rav the rabbi the rabbi tells her no no I'm going to send you to a psychiatrist maybe you have a mental problem the rabbi tells her you have a mental problem for thinking something different from the rest of the community this is the craziness that we live in today yeah a question so the wigs you're saying they're coming from Idol worshiping what does that mean exactly they come like from India from or person after really here was a idol worshiper or yes so after very we have one of the the biggest movies we're working on right now films of uh taking parts of different lectures that I did plus different uh uh other things that we have we're working on B hoping to come out with something within the next month or so we have a movie about modesty coming out and part of the movie is going to be about wigs and after doing serious research which is what I did for a living for 16 years on Wall Street it's I've concluded that it's virtually impossible virtually impossible to get a wig from any store that's not Source from idol worship meaning all of the wigs that you buy from stores it doesn't matter what the brand is whether it's custom or it's something else all of them in essence are soured from the same place and that place is India in India there's a custom to donate to donate your hair as part of idol worship to such an extent that the average family has donated their hair the average person um has donated his hair at least more more than two times in his life now when you calculate that there's over a billion people in India it's a lot of hair and that's why the second the first the richest entity in the world in case someone doesn't know is the Catholic Church they own more real estate than McDonald's but the second richest entity in the world is not Apple Computers it's not IBM it's not Intel it's not Microsoft it's that church that collection of churches that collect the hair in India and sell it and that's why there's pilgrims there's different poor Indians that coming from all over India it's a big country and literally there's lines out the city every single day to donate their hair and there's even movies on it online if you'd like to watch uh I warn you that there is some in modesty in in some of them so you should definitely watch your eyes and and and really uh wait for our movie to come out because you'll actually see the same thing just without the immodesty but nonetheless the point is is that the Market's hair comes from that place now how does it say now as part of of Commerce you have to always identify the source where is it coming from So You See For example you buy a any product in the store it says made in China made in uh someplace in Europe made in Israel made somewhere so how come all of these wigs don't say Made in India it's a good question right if they say Made in India which is what happened about 15 years ago there was a whole balagan in Israel where realized that all of it is coming from India and all of it is part of idol worship they're not donating their half of money it's all free they're donating their money specifically for idol worship now what happened 15 years ago approximately theor found this out made a whole big balagan they made a big fire big bonfire in the middle of Jerusalem and started people women started taking off their wigs replacing it with scarves and hats and throwing the uh the wigs into the fire the problem is that wherever there's money the Satan is responsible for it so there was already a shipment of wigs from India at at the Port of Israel on that day that they're burning the wigs they just found out they're not Kosher there's already wigs where they claim they already have a kosher stamp how do you have a kosher St if you didn't even know you had to get kosher uh wigs so you see that there's obviously a lot of cheating in this market point being is that how come these wigs these new wigs now don't say Made in India is because there's a transition process first they get them they Source them from India then most of the time they go to China for processing so immediately changes from Made in India to made in China but there's also a lot of uh idol worship in China that do it so how come it doesn't say made in China that would be bad right ah it doesn't stop in China the next level of processing that increases the price from $5 to two three four $5,000 is it goes to Europe it goes to England it goes to France it goes to Italy different major uh people that are running that business running that industry and now the stamp turns from Made in India or made in China to made in France made in Italy made in uh England and people believe or they convinced themselves to believe that these wigs actually came from France or they came from Italy somebody that shaved their head in Italy not FAL worship but for money now the question I asked during one of the lectures is when was the last time you saw an Italian woman shave her head when was the last time you saw a French woman walking around bold because she just donated her hair or sold it these people value their beauty more than they value their their their life that's not what they do it's not part of their life and there's actual proven market research that we've done there's even videos about it that other people have done uh that that were piggy backing off of that shows that there it's virtually impossible to get a wig that does not come from idol worship impossible if it's real hair obviously if it's a uh if it's synthetic then you would think it's also okay problem is it's not okay and the reason why is because even the synthetics many of the many times have some level of hair have some level of real hair in them many times and that hair comes from idol worship even if there's one hair one hair that's part of idol worship you're not let the benefit out of it we learned this from when am came into is Yeshua Joshua came into is finally we got the land that Hashem promised our forefathers first thing Hashem tells them burn all of the Asher trees burn them why what do they do these poor trees burn all of these trees I don't want to have even a recollection of them you can't use them for fire to to warm yourself up you can't use them to build anything you have to destroy them from the face of the world can't build houses can't build desks can't donate them can't do anything with them why because they were used for idol worship and even if it was one crazy guy from the ammonite Nation from the uh any of these other nations that the Seven Nations that live there came there worshiped the tree one time not every day he didn't make it a uh everyday thing you didn't do he didn't do that once he came there worshiped the tree you're never allowed to benefit out of it anything that was ever used for ID worship you're not allowed to sell you're not allow to benefit in any way shape or form so even if there's one hair that comes from illegal from from idol worship in a synthetic wig you have a problem you have a serious problem not all of them have real hair but many of them do and even the ones that don't you still have an issue of immodesty but nonetheless the the point is is that this is a tun for all of the FR world today because uh as you see from one of the videos that r yashi was recorded saying he says that even fell for this it wasn't that started it and that's the ones that fell he says even people that were actually real FR real real they fell they fell for this test and that's why today pretty much almost every raban every rabbitson has a wig on so what's the answer what's the answer is you have to give people the truth because we've gotten used to the LIE to the point where we think it's okay to the point where we think it's true so most women that are wearing wigs are wearing it because they think they're doing a Mitzvah they're not doing it they're not wearing a wig because they're looking to you know a uh upset hasem no one wants to upset hasem so they're wearing a wig because they want to cover their hair because they think it's a Mitzvah the problem is that they're just like the kusari the kusari was a very famous book you should read it if you haven't it's a originally was a King that had a dream that Hashem sent them an Angel and the angel told them Hashem is very happy with your intentions but you're doing it the wrong way why his intentions were to worship hasem but he's doing it through idol worship and eventually what he does is he brings a Christian a Muslim and a Jew each to prove their religion and eventually he the Jew wins obviously the Jew wins the argument wins the debates a whole book I think may be written about uh right maybe about 800 Years Ago by and uh very famous argument very famous debate beautiful book a lot of questions that you guys never even thought of are being answered in this book it's highly recommended for any B Chua or any uh any convert usually the bedin require you to read the kuzari book because it gives a lot of proofs of the Torah versus the other religions which is necessary for conversion uh so nonetheless what happens is that eventually the kuzari uh ends up not only converting himself but he converts his entire Kingdom all of his people and the uh today they ask who's the Karis who are they and uh we don't know for sure but they uh uh many believe it's the guini georan the Georgians and the reason why they believe it's the Georgians is because they don't have anyim and uh if you're if you're a convert you can't be a Ken so that's the that's the one thing that leads many people to believe that the Georgians are actually uh the Karis and they Warriors so the point is is that many women are wearing these wigs they're trying to fulfill a Mitzvah some are doing it because they like it but the point is is that many are doing it for a mitvah they're not trying to upset hem they still pray to hm they e him every day they try to dress modestly they try to fulfill mitv and they're wearing this thing why are they wearing this because there's no knowledge no one is willing to talk about there maybe a couple of rabbis in the English speaking world that are willing to talk about it most people when I say these things it's a to them including from people no one's willing to talk about it and uh and the big reason is because many of the people that even the ones that have the knowledge even the ones that have the knowledge don't talk about it because they themselves are failing for this their own wife is wearing a wig so how you going to tell people listen you're not all to wear a wig when your own wife is wearing a wig so you have to be a real is and um ra one of the people came to him and said listen he spoke very highly against wigs how is it that you're speaking so highly against wigs when one of your uh granddaughters I believe it was where's a wig and his answer was as a is that he was there's room in G for her too is there something we can help them with like substitute the hair with like yes you substitute the hair with either hat or with they you cover the hair with a hat or scarf the point of the wig originally when the few people the few Poe that did allow it which is a m of whether was even ever allowed to begin with but let's say you rely on the ones that did allow it the ones that allowed it allowed it based on the Precedence that it doesn't look like real hair meaning that it would be obvious for anyone not just women for anyone to know that it's not real hair now the original wigs look Like Straw so it was obvious even you know the the the the broom and the hair the fake hair look the same so it was obvious it was a wig and they only did it because there was a lot of you know racism and anti-Semitism and you know that anytime you would wear the uh the the uh the the head head scarf it would cause a lot of problems so if you were the uh you know the the straw on your head it caused less anguish and it worked for them so they said okay so this is allow the problem is that we get weaker and weaker and weaker in today's uh wig you can't tell that it's not real here and even the few people that maybe can tell they're women you're not trying to that's the point it's not it's not to prove to women that it's not real hair it's to prove to men that's not real hair and one of the biggest reasons is because when a woman shows her hair one of the biggest things that it shows that she's not married when a woman covers her hair that's number one indication that she's married so when a woman shows her hairir that shows that she's not married so when you have many reiton many FR women walking around in the weddings and they show their hair or it looks like their real hair everyone thinks that they're single and that's why many times when people are going to weddings and they're trying to find a they're trying to find somebody they usually go for someone that's already married because they don't know that it's not real hair now I've looked you know you go to different sh I've seen some women that wear wigs I can't tell not to say that I'm some expert but I can't tell the difference between a wig and a uh and uh and of today and um real hair I can't tell the difference my wife she says most of the time she can tell but only if she gets a really close-up look like really really close-up look who's what you gonna start Hey listen let me look at the hairline over here start dissecting no it's supposed it's supposed to look fake from afar so that's the problem and that's that's the and one of the main reasons that we fell for this is because we got weaker and weaker and eventually we stopped talking about it eventually we started accepting it and little by little we've become comfortably numb to this sin to such an extent that we are at a level where many people in the F World believe it's actually a Mitzvah and that's why they wear it most women that wear wigs wear it because they believe it's a mitvah to wear a wig and if you fight them about it you tell them listen it's not many will not take you many will not listen to you but the biggest ones that fight against it are men isn't it a midst for women from what I from what I learned from before is that that a man is not allowed to look at even one piece of no that's z z says the Z says that you shouldn't even show a single hair but says that you're allowed to show up to three finger fulls you're allowed to you're allowed to show up to three finger fulls real hair up to three that's why you see like for example you see R his wife used to show hair up to here usually you see women that wear many of them show just the beginning just the beginning yeah now the uh that's the which is what we go by we don't go by the Z but the Kish World they go by the Z and they say listen the wig is better because the wig covers all of the hair now even though it's better to cover the entire hair than to show anything for obvious reasons it's better to the less you show the better but you're you're still following Al if you show two finger FS or three finger FS you're still following Al there's nothing wrong with it but to say that it's better to cover it with a wig yes you're covering the problem of showing any hair on one end but you're creating a new bigger problem which is a problem of immodesty CU now your wife looks like she's a not married woman and one question that I asked in one of the shim that was very effective I heard it originally from who may have heard it himself from someone else maybe it was who also said it in a in a in a that I heard um out of all the women the holy women that are mentioned in the T what you have a a um Le you have ra you have a so many amazing women Ruth the moabites the mother of the grandmother of the mashiah you listen to all these wonderful amazing women each time they're described first thing it's mentioned as modesty first thing is mentioned R modesty sah beautiful modest constantly talks about modesty but there's one woman there's one woman in the entire Torah that's mentioned for uncovering her hair for showing her hair one who is she the the Wayward woman that's accused of cheating on a husband the there's a uh there's a they tell about a if a woman is accused of cheating on her husband and the Way That She's accused is that she put ourselves she VI the laws of she violated the laws of being alone with a a man that's not a husband in an enclosed area so a man and a woman are allowed to be sitting that say next to each other let's say if I don't they sit at a cafe as long as there other people there if they're conducting business or you know it's for for real reasons not because they're flirting if he's not a husband but if they're let's say conducting business or there's actual reason for this meeting they it's allowed as long as there's people there and even if it's a closed area as long as people can enter this room without knocking without anything they can enter freely like it's a public area you're allowed but if it's locked if someone has to knock if there has to be some something has to take place before you enter meaning there's some type of barrier to entry and there's a man and a woman that's that's they're not married in a room they're violating the laws of so if this woman is married first she gets a warning now to do this if she violates it again then the uh you have to find out if she cheated on him you have to obviously after there's witnesses that she's continuously doing this the man the husband brings her to the bet mikdash he brings it to the BET mikdash and the bet mikdash they didn't need a uh private detective they have God but unfortunately when God is not a uh you know God is not like us where we have a uh um you know weaknesses god is perfect so in essence AEM he gives us a lot of time a lot of patience but when he acts it's definitive us we may have patience we may not have patience but when we act sometimes we take it back like we start something or we stop so in essence what this means is that Hashem said you have this holy water this water that theim wash their hands and their feet take this water also take a scroll with my name on it dip the scroll with my name on it into the water which would erase my name which is not allowed but for this specific thing it's allowed because this is either going to create or it's going to create truth it's going to expose the truth one way or another it's going to expose the truth with is necessary so to create schite hasm is willing to erase his name point being is that once you did this you give it to the woman she drinks it if she cheated she dies on on the spot her stomach expands and blows up and she dies on the spot if she didn't cheat then she lives in the gives her a blessing that all of our children will be beautiful and smart Andor and so on and all that gets fulfilled now also as a footnote if the husband is also cheating the woman cheated and the husband cheated she doesn't die it doesn't work why because hasm is not going to punish her for something that husband's also doing but before they get this cuz this is final this is a final step there's no like she drank the water no no no no I want to confess no once you drank the water that's it it's over so before they get it to drink the water they tried to intimidate her as much as possible to get her to admit that she cheated because if she cheated and she admits it without you know before drinking the water they you know she gets a divorce but they don't kill her she's just not allowed to be with a husband she's not allowed to be with this other man but she's let go she lives she starts on Chua but once she lies on cheating at home she lies cheating at the BET mikdash then they she drinks the water she dies so the uh what they do they do a few different things one of the things they do they tire her out where they make her walk around the entire bet mikdash to get her tired to get her frustrated they you know try to intimidate her with talking to her and the last step the last thing that they do the last two things one thing is that they rip her shirt which would Express her bosom uh uh this rud stopped doing they decreed that stopped doing it just in Cas he saw that the generations are getting weaker even in his days a couple thousand years ago he says that instead of people seeing this as an embarrassment maybe going to get turned on so they stopped doing this part so then they got straight to the last act what was the last act the last Act is supposed to be the most embarrassing act which is uncovering her hair they take the the the scarf she has on her head and they uncover her hair and show her hair to the world meaning that even if this woman was a p was a prostitute was a worst person on Earth she still would know enough to be to cover her hair to that extent meaning that even to show her bosom is considered less than showing her hair and this is the only woman in the entire Torah that's mentioned that she showed her hair but by force no woman showed her hair intentionally so this is one of the things that a uh um people don't understand you want to pray and you want to get the of you want to get the you want to get the of you want to get you want to pray to all these righteous amazing women so why are you acting like the why do you want to look like the why do you want to wear a wig that makes you look like the S because s had her hair uncovered and this in one of my lectures in New York one of the women that wore a wig at the end of the lecture M touched her heart she said right after the lecture she goes I'm taking off I never knew this taking off my wig today and putting K she listen until now I told it was Mitzvah never thought about it this way and that's one of the things I think that we have one of the biggest problems we have in our generation is either lack of knowledge or misin information lack of knowledge you could easily cure just educate the person misinformation takes a lot longer so for example I have a couple of students that we help them convert and they came from nothing they had no religion within a matter of short period of time they learned they learned converted one two three no no problem on the other hand I have a group of students that follow almost two years I'm teaching them finally they're ready to convert why did it take them two years and other people takes less one of the reasons because all of them did a conversion all of them did a conversion many years ago conservative they all converted to Judaism but they converted conservative so it took me two years to undo what the conservatives did because everything they knew was misinformation they were thought they were allowed to drive on Shabbat as long as they're driving to besset they were taught they could eat wherever they want because those laws don't apply they was taught that modesty is not really uh you know it's it's all relative to where you are meaning if you're in a place where everyone's modest you can act modest if you're in a place that people are not modest you don't have to be modest all types of things that are outright against the Tora so this misinformation is a bigger disease than anything else so it takes longer but nonetheless you know if with someone that really wants to see the truth we'll see it we'll eventually get there yeah so what was this lady what was her end and what's so special about the hair I mean there's more other attracting Parts in the woman's than hair here so is just it wasn't an actual name it was named for it's it means Wayward woman means a woman that's accused of cheating on a husband um and in that particular story she died in the this is actually one of the in the Tora uh she actually died and uh but there was others throughout history that didn't die some that did die and some cheat tried to cheat the system there's one story of one twin sisters and one of them actually did cheat on a husband and he said listen if I go and I drink the water I'm going to die if I tell them they're going to release me but my husband's going to kill me so why don't you go for me and they can't tell the difference between us we look exactly alike so that's what they did they woman went she drank the sister went she drank nothing happened she comes home to give her sister the good news she sees her sister dead on the floor why cuem sees over there and over here too he's not at the mikdash he makes you think he's only in the mikdash he's everywhere you can cheat the rabbis can cheat the you can't cheat hm hm didn't need the water to punish her this was just something to make it look realistic now the says in there's a tractate called part of and says the voice of a woman is considered nakedness but also says the hair of a woman is also considered nakedness meaning that there are certain parts of a woman that are their beauty that if they have that part it's it's it's the beauty of the woman now of course of course you know when us in our crazy Minds today we're thinking listen the beauty is what she looks like naked in reality in reality most people don't see the other person naked and even the ones even the man husband and a and a wife if they're following the uh basic kosher laws of how to be together usually don't see each other completely naked with the uh sunlight in the background it's dark and one of the reasons by the way the AL is to have it as a dark place not necessar supposed to be pitch dark but should be as dark as possible is in case one of the people have something that's disgusting to the other on their body because what all do respect to everyone's Beauty and so on the reality of it is that uh you know most people are not exactly as beautiful as they think they are or they would like to be people have different things in their body that are not exactly they're not exactly proud of thems so the in order to protect the marriage in order to protect the the love of a marriage and to protect the longevity of the marriage theal and in r in of in in his book he wrote that you um have to be in a darker place and the reason why is because there may be something disgusting on one of the people's bodies that you know would cause them not to want to be together anymore it could be a pimple it could be a hair it could be a beauty mark it could be a wor it could be whatever it could be a scratch it could be a scar you know there's a million and a half things that could be on somebody's body where some people have this crazy mindset and you know I remember in my sinful days I had a friend who uh said that he broke up with a long relationship because he couldn't stand the fact that his uh I think it was his wife or his wife to be she had ugly toes so he actually broke up a whole you know Unity of future and Eternity and because of toes this is craziness of today so kazal already knew about the craziness of today so they made these laws so so the things that are exposed to the public are the hair are the voice are the you know facial features and there are certain parts of a person that are that accentuate their beauty if a woman has long beautiful hair or her hair is done in a certain way then automatically she's going to look a lot better than if she was bald just our natural human inclination is going to find her much prettier than someone that has a bad hair day or no hair at all so the hair of a woman accentuates her beauty and that's what the gar is saying so if you're going to if the woman is going to act as if she's free and hang out with any man that she wants then we're going to let everybody know that you're single by uncovering your hair but you're not single really and you know it and I know that you're not single so it's embarrassing her so even the even the woman that was a wayward woman would still know enough not to embarrass herself by showing her hair same concept with in regards to a lot of people have a hard time understanding why a a kosher Jew is a male is not allowed to listen to a woman sing um if he knows what she looks like even if she doesn't know what he even if he doesn't know what she look like he shouldn't but Al is specifically where if he knows what she looks like he's not allowed to listen to her sing and the reason why is because when a man listens to a woman sing his natural evil inclination makes makes him think of her naked this by default most of us thinking what what are you talking about it works I'm telling you it is this is I I fought these things tooth and nail before I did chuba every single thing that they told me oh the hair the uh the uh the vo everything everything that I'm telling you guys I fought everything tooth and nail I was the worst Bal Chua in the world I tortured my rabbis t tortur them like n this doesn't make any sense what did you make show me proof and I start thinking about it after I tortured them I started thinking like you know what that's actually makes sense it's really true but immediately my evil inclination was so big I would immediately fight everything kosher why do you care if I eat kosher really cares if I Gooser what does he care salad I eat salad what does he care if I eat salad at McDonald's or I atat salad at the house what does he care he's like oh listen you know every time you eat a bug it's like eating pig six times so most people no I keep kosher I used to think I kept kosher even as a it's a even as a secular person I believe that I was keeping kosher my whole life because I never ate meat outside with the exception of a break of let's say a year of my life I never ate meat outside never ate Park never ate milk and meat never ate meat outside period because I don't know I was brought up with a to think that you know meat outside of the house that's a uh not Kosher not to eat so I thought I can eat pizza outside anywhere cuz it's cheap cheese I can eat salad anywhere cuz it's salad I can eat fish even though I don't really like fish anywhere cuz it's fish I can eat pasta pasta it's the best anywhere little do I know that each one of these things could potentially be even worse than eating pig your salad the don't have to wash the salad like the Jews do which means anyone that's ever made salad anyone that's ever bought from a supermarket freshh salad you go through the salad you wash it you find bugs flies spiders uh whatever all types of worms all types of things there's certain things right now that you can't even eat because you can't coze them anymore unfortunately like for example strawberries and in general o berries real FR people don't eat anymore you can't find ones without bugs on them and you can't clean them because the bugs look exactly like the seed must they look exact identical you can't tell the difference until it moves until it moves it you cannot listen you I I don't need I don't need berries of any kind anymore and there certain things you just can't eat uh in the old days it wasn't like this but unfortunately our sins created this rotten world that we live in right now from our own sins go ahhe how does it have OU on it then strawberries yeah some frozen strawberries have OU on the the the frozen strawberries because they figure that by you know if they're frozen then it kills everything that's on it but if it's a if it's fresh on uh from the from the supermarket doesn't have an OU on it like frozen it dead right Frozen it kills everything that's at least that's the only thing I could say for the uh for the in the U's uh benefit for why they would give for some like that because in essence if you freeze everything nothing can survive um but what if you make a smoothie and you pour from a frozen bag right into a blender and you never know again it's a if you're making it yourself you have a lot more a uh control if you're going to use Frozen um strawberries then if it has all you on it then you can rely on it there's no problem you can rely on it if there was a real real you can Rel I'm not telling you to go against the but to go buy strawberries at the local supermarket the regular strawberries or berries or some other specific fruits that are pretty much infested with bugs these days um there's another one there's a um what is it called TAA TAA what TAA uh not fig is it fig fig it's one of these other fruits um it's actually good according to uh the rambam it's actually good for hemorrhoids believe it or not I fig I think it's t I think it's fig but anyway I think it's fig uh you can't you can't eat because you open it it's infested with worms infested it's it's you you cannot find one one with obviously you have to look they're not like worms like it's like you have a uh Anaconda coming out of the uh thing but there you look at it and there's worms in them so there's certain things you just can't eat anymore um so if you have control you have obviously something with ou on it you make the shake yourself then yeah go ahead you can find but in general it's a um if you could do it in another way do it another way if you use a different fruit to you know to to create a flavor for yourself to make it delicious find a Kos of fruit and one of the main reasons why is because every single one of you have has a good n and every single one of you is here because you want to improve your which means you're learning T and one of the dangers of non kosher food is that it ruins your and it specifically ruins your learning of T in the Tora it says when we eat noner it makes us makes us impure so says no no it makes them stupid what stupid spiritually stupid meaning not stupid that you still build a building you could still be the greatest stock Trader in history you could be uh whatever a doctor lawyer could genius but as far as spiritually it's going to be very very difficult for you to accept why because your is stupid when you eat non koser food so each one of you is here 10 11:00 whatever time it is right now obviously you're here because you're trying to improve your n so these little things could you know could uh could hurt you what do you really need to eat a strawberry you really need to eat one of these berries there you know they're delicious but there's something else that's delicious also hem created many many delicious things yeah you a question um what if you like shog if it's shog then obviously just it's it's not the same level of sin but it's nonetheless it's still a sin it's just a lower level of sin and the uh the reason why it's still considered a sin is because the the root of it is if you had enough if I had enough we would investigate every single thing before it comes to our into our so it's still some level of sh but sin but it's not to the same level sh anything else okay so we continue so the uh the root of the problem that we have you know we have many many you have three major cancers in today's world you have political correctness which is like the worst possible cancer that I think ever hit the land it's people that are in essence deciding for you what you can handle they decide for you whether you can handle the truth or not before they even know anything about you now obviously if you're a father and you have kids you know what your kids can handle or not because number one their age so you use a little bit of you know a little bit of wisdom that you have so you know 5-year-old kid can handle certain things can't handle certain things aside from that you know the kid if your kid's a little scaredy cat he can't handle certain things if your kid's an adventurer you can handle certain things you know your kid that's a father that's a mother problem is we're not talking about our parents we're talking about rabbis we're talking about politicians we're talking about teachers we're talking about the world around us decided that there are certain things that only they can handle so it's like the doctor knows you have cancer but he doesn't want to tell you because he thinks you're going to you know really get depressed over it yeah but if I don't I better be depressed and start taking medicine to not be depressed and live a lie and die so the problem is that you have this political correctness of these leaders that decide for us what we can and we can't handle this is a major major root of all problems because this is the reason for all of the misinformation in yish today this is the reason for all of the misinformation in Torah Judaism today this is the foundation of reformed and conservative of Judaism this is the foundation of modern Orthodox that is slowly but surely becoming weaker and weaker unfortunately it's the root of the problem because when a leader is deciding for the student what he can't and he can't handle if it's based on knowledge fine I agree with you there's certain things you shouldn't tell everybody this is the reason why many of my students that asked me to make a sh about G I still haven't made one not because of I'm scared to talk about Gom but because I know that most people can't handle it most people can't handle the real details about gome so one of them says no I can handle it I can handle it I told okay you know what I'll give you listen just because you said you can handle doesn't mean that that you can really handle it okay if you want to test yourself of whether you can really handle a like the details I'm not talk about like oh you know you make this you go to Gom the details of what happens in Gom which you find in the book and also the few other places but Main the big source is you really want to learn about G there certain people that love to get scared it's like uh you know people like scary movies they like to get scared I was one of them as far as people like to get scared never really like scary movies but I like to get scared I like the strong stuff in Judaism but once I started really learning about the details of Gom I wasn't really sure if it was the right thing or not but now I know it already so what's the test test is go watch a film go watch a film I could send it to you if you want that talks and shows pictures of abortions go watch it 5 minutes 10 minutes if you can watch it without having nightmares and vomiting I'll teach youo nobody can watch it even the thought right now you got disgusted and all of you guys are like you know like wondering whether you should have come to this and that is the best case scenario that abortion is the best case scenario of what happens to a person that makes sins and goes to G old it's the best case scenario that's the G for him you know what they do to shabbat you guys even have an idea of what they do for Shabbat I was going to go over some of the stuff today about Shabbat but hasem wanted me to go in a different direction apparently but one of the things they do the says they dobat someone drives on Shabbat someone plays on the phone on Shabbat someone is Shabbat they feed them they feed them coals that are called which is coals that never extinguish they're it's like lava that never ever goes out that's what they feed them non-stop this is just one small tiny little fact of G tiny little fact imagine how much worse it gets so people want to know a lot of these things but it's not we're not we don't necessarily we're not all at the level that we need to know these things just knowing a little bit is good because it gets scared enough to have some so this political correctness destroys us why because this political correctness is anti- mus political correctness is anti-truth political correctness is anti- Gom it's anti-truth in essence it's pretty much selective truth they decide what is truth what's not they decide what you should know and what's not even if the truth is what you need to hear that's one of the things the second thing is misin information as we talked about earlier having misinformation having just thinking about certain things and just having just the wrong information and thinking it's right this is a really big problem like for example one of the uh people that did sh recently talking about the whole issue that happened in a uh in boaron with the missionary That was supposed to go there and one of the people that was fighting against it was trying to actually support this missionary coming there made a saying that in thear it says that uh the all the meim the people that are Idol worshippers that that I talked about called meim in the they're all Jews they're all Jews and this is wrong the mean are both Jews and non-jews what was the problem what was his misinformation what was his problem is that he only read the first line of the if he would have read the rest of thear even the next line the next line was the full information problem is that now he made a video with just this one line so everyone thinks that listen the guy's you know knows toah he's a rabbi he's not getting paid for this so it sounds like it's good but the problem is now he has a bunch of misinformation disseminated to thousands and thousands of people because it only has part of the information this is a problem so misinformation is the second problem the third big problem which is a problem both in the FR world and in the um nonf world but a bigger problem in the FR world is exactly what this mishna is talking about which is getting used to things making things routine when you make things routine you become a robot if Hashem wanted robots you wouldn't create man he would just leave angels and that's it angels are in essence a robot they're a spiritual robot they do exactly what Hashem does if they don't Hashem punishes them and destroys them on the spot so they have free choice but not really they have free choice but if they use their free choice it's against the will of hm they get destroyed instantly we on the other hand hasem has as it says in his slow to anger abounding of in kindness relent full in punishment where even if he punishes us he's merciful so even going back to the original thing that started this question which is the idol worship of the mount what happened the uh golden calf hasem said yes I'm not going to destroy them cuz mhe said listen if you're going to destroy them destroy me first said to mhe listen let me destroy them and start a whole new nation from you a better Nation you'll still live you're sadik I'll start something better from you m says no not only don't start anything for me but actually erase me first cuz I don't want to go up to sh to and say oh you're the leader you're you're that guy that destroyed all of our descendants you're the guy he like I'll be embarrassed being in front of my forefathers I'm the guy that killed all of their that got all of their grandkids killed who wants to be that he goes erase me first Erase Me from the Torah erase that I have existed I said okay okay fine I'll listen to you m I love Moshe so he listened to Moshe but the point is that hasm still had to punish us but the punishment even after the mercy even after the forgiveness still so big for the golden calf that kazal tells us that until this day till today over 3,000 years later every single time am is suffers any suffering whether it's shalom the Holocaust the programs the inquisitions anything anti-Semitism BDS anything anytime am suffers part of the reason they're suffering is as a repentance for the golden calf that's how big the sin is and that's how big the punishment was because Hashem said if I give them the punishment in one shot there's no wait for them to survive so I have to give them a little bit out a time for until the end of times till the end of times so even his being slow to anger and being relent full in his punishment we see how that works and it says do not judge yourself to be a wicked person that's the last part of the Mish so let let's go into details unless you guys have any question we'll go into some of the details of this of this mishna you have a question somebody raise their hand I learned that God was actually pleased with Moses's um yeah God Moses was the closest person to Hashem in history that God didn't really want to extinguish the Jew right exactly so that's the the difference between Moses and uh and for example Noah is that Noah was also given the news that Hashem wanted to destroy the world but no didn't fight for people Noah heard what hasem said he started building the uh the ark like Hashem requested and but he didn't go anytime somebody came to him asked him listen what are you doing start making fun of him he says listen hasm is going to destroy the world anybody came to him he'd tell him but he didn't go out there and start doing kiru so that's why they call the flood the flood of Noah even though Noah was a sadik sadik tamim it says they called the no they called the flood after his name meaning they're giving him part of the fault he knew the truth he knew it was happening but he didn't try to fight for anybody AB on the other hand when hasem came to him and says listen I want to destroy and gorah says yeah what if there's 50 okay if there's 50 I won't destroy it what if there's 45 what if there's 40 what if there's 30 what if there's 20 kept fighting for them you know to see maybe hasm can save them hm said even even if there's 10 10 sikim all of Sodom I won't destroy it unfortunately it wasn't so he fought for them mosu went even further he didn't give an argument of if there's sikim save them mhu says listen you destroy them I'm not going to go against you you want to destroy them destroy them but destroy me first I don't want to witness it I don't want to be part of it I don't want to benefit out of it I don't want to start I want to be destroy I want to be destroyed it's causing me such anguish I love them they're part of me now I can't it's like saying listen you know it's either you or your son what do you mean it's either son kill me first who wants to live without their son you understand so it's the same concept so M we don't even know how significant mosu was but that's the reason why mosenu was the only one that ever spoke to hem face to face was the only one that Hashem himself buried him now Rish Shimon is telling us a few things that take everything we've talked about until now and throw it put it upside down also for but he says very very simple things things that all of us know really not a things that are common sense first he says be very meticulous in reading the what's the big deal the big deal deal is the big deal is that even though all of us know this we should really be careful we not only K anything you read K you should be careful you read anything it's the words of God you should be careful right the problem is if we really were careful if we really were careful in Reading kma we'd actually understand what it means if we understood what it says in we would never dare to be politically correct we would never dare to spread misinformation we would never dare getting used to anything because every time if you actually understand what it says in you get scared every time now everyone remembers the first few lines you love with all of your heart with all of your soul with all of your money everyone knows this first line after you say after you say uh here are here Israel hem Our God Hashem is one after that you go into the is which you're supposed to do a couple times a day at least so everyone knows the famous story about r from where they were the Romans the evil Romans were torturing peeling his skin like it's a uh orange and he says no crying no complaining no show me proofs that God exists none of that garbage he is happy with what's happening and when he's questioned rebi why you just say the real name of hasem you can kill all of them you're such a holy person why are you suffering through this he says my whole life I've been 80 years now Bal Chua he did Chua when he was 40 years old he's now 12 years old 80 years B cha 80 years became the biggest Rabbi in history has 24,000 students where the least of his student can revive the Dead the least lowest level student says all my life I tried to fulfill not saying I tried to fulfill the entire he says try to fulfill what it said what did you try to fulfill love hem with all your heart what does it mean study T nonstop hem is number one I tried doing that as soon as I found out who hasem was I tried doing that I exerted my effort to such an extent that I sacrificed my life my soul my everything for hem I separated my wife for 24 years it was her will for me to separate from for 24 years but to fulfill the will of hem my soul went into it but there was one thing I couldn't do he did with all of his money but I'm sorry the the all of his soul the was able to fulfill the wasn't able to fulfill the was all of his will he separated from his wife but the soul he wasn't able to fulfill because he says listen because even though I put all my heart all my everything into it I separated from my wife I couldn't fulfill with the soul because I still had my soul so now I can finally die on I can say as I'm dying and you want me to complain I can finally fulfill this mitzvah so this is understanding just the first line but then it says we go briefly into says these are the things that hasm commands you it goes through details first and foremost teach your children to so first thing the kazal is telling us here T has to be the foundation of your life especially when you're raising kids because without T you have no life you have no connection to hem you won't make it you may make it as a you make it as a r but you're not going to make it to so first and foremost says meaning teach your children constantly t on a daily basis next again it's reciting a uh another paragraph out of the book of Deuteronomy chap 11: 13 to 21 where it talks about how again remind yourself on a regular basis of all of these MIT and do them out of love don't do them like you're doing me a favor oh I'm keeping Shabbat because the rabbi said it's Shabbat is a bad thing so I'm going to keep Shabbat like you're doing me a favor like you're doing hasm a favor that you ate Kal Shabbat or that you lit the candles or that you're not driving no if you knew the significance of Shabbat you knew the significance of the smallest Mitzvah he'd be excited to do it the problem is we don't know oh how do we know we educate ourself so first is educate second thing is once you educate yourself start doing things out of love this will eliminate you getting used to it but then it's the part that that I think everyone misses every day despite of whether they read it two or three times a day most people M act as if this part doesn't exist in this generation at least from my experience it says this exactly in many shs unfortunately they've got the Min to this next part that I'm going to read to you they actually say it so quietly you can't hear it I'm serious they can't hear it this say the part they say they don't say you go to they get to this part supposed to read the whole out loud they get to this part they say quietly we can't hear it every person reads it to himself which is the opposite of what the sages used to do the sages used to read it extra loud we're the opposite same thing of how certain parts of the throughout the year there's a couple of that have curses in them that have punishments in them in the old days thean would the would actually repeat these extra loud get fear of sham into their hearts in today's world many places not everyone but many places do it so quietly that you could barely hear it it's the opposite but let me you have something relevant to the point or something else yeah it's relevant is it the part where like it says if you follow the Commandments he will like give ring the proper time and if you don't then yes yes exactly that's what we're going to get to so IED AR yeah so here's the thing this is the part where it says here so now if you follow the mitv I will give you all these wonderful things I'll give you food at its proper time rain in its proper time this is a big thing people don't think that rain it's proper time is a big thing it's a huge thing why because if you get too much rain destroys the field not enough rain destroys the field it's green its proper time is m a miracle so imagine you get food right after you start to death but a lot of food you're dead it's not worth anything or you have a lot a lot of food but you already ate it's also worth worthless why cuz it's all going to go bad by the time you're hungry again so rain right time is is a major blessing from sh says you do all these things not only you do fulfill my but you fulfill them with love you act like you're not doing me a favor you're doing yourself a favor I'll give you all these blessings whatever you want I'll give you and more I'll give you things you couldn't even imagine you wanted I'll give you everything good kids everything and anything you could imagine and that's just a down payment for this 70 80 120 years you live in this world it's not even a comparison of what you're going to get in the real world just do few things say say be nice to people give do late pray to me a few times a day learn to every day fulfill a few mitah what's the big deal you got to get all these things but the problem is we sometimes forget so says okay in case you forget I have something to remind you in case you forgot you turned aside and you worshiped other gods and you bow down to them then I will Blaze you with anger hasem will uh BL his anger against you he will restrain the heavens and there will be no rain and the land will not yield any produce and you'll perish quickly from the good land which Hashem gives you this tiny little thing I just read this is the most critical part of the that you have to tattoo to your heart why because it shows you there's a condition once you know there's a condition everything changes if your boss or your customer tells you listen you can do whatever you want what are you going to do you can do whatever you want but if he tells you listen you can do whatever you want but just in case you're not really sure what I mean if you don't do what I want if what you want is not what I want then I'm going to send people to your house they're going to beat you up non-stop just in case just let you you can do whatever you want but I'm going to send people to your house they're going to beat you up all day so now you're going to say oh wait hold on a second before I do what I want what do you want cuz maybe we both want the same thing now cuz there a condition now and hasem is telling you there's a condition if you don't do what I want then everything that I just promis you is not going to happen but not only is not going to happen the opposite not it's not like you're gonna go from having large amount of produce to a little bit no no he's saying I'm going to cease it completely you're going to starve to death you're going to get punished now everybody is saying wait a minute this is he's referencing here he's referencing here idol worship not idol worship I kiss theza go to not Idol worshiper no no my friends if you look at doesn't always mean other God as far as you bowing to some statue or uh the New Testament or any of that stuff also means anything that steers your attention away from God including your job including money including Sports including Hobbies everything that steers your attention away from Hashem could potentially be not always could potentially be a to such an extent that thear says that if you just burn the incense some people like magic and if you uh watch some of these illusionists of today some of their tricks are astounding making many people question whether these illusionists really are Illusionist or they're actually using mystical powers from shim from demons to use to do their magic cuz some of the stuff is you know just quick hands or they fool you with different things but some things are must like just ridiculous where there's just no natural way to do it so some people myself included believe that there's a possibility that some of these people actually use shadin they use demons and some people like this stuff some people like to play Ouija boards we're not going to get into all this crazy stuff but the point I'm trying to tell you is that the says that if you just burn the incense incense like a uh you like uh for a nice smell but it's something that's relevant to demons then that's considered some you just have incense want to burn for nice smell but this is something you bought that's connected to a demon in some way or another if you work too much to the point where you're not going to learn anymore because you can skip the because you work too much that's you've turned money into your new God so point being here is that this is the part that's the most critical this is the part part that if we actually understood the consequence the cost of us not doing it number one we be too scared to be politically correct number two we never ever there's no misinformation here there's no two ways of understanding this there's reward there's punishment and three we never get used to it because if you actually understand what's being said here how are you're not going to be scared is telling you out right listen you don't you do it you get all the reward you'll be in great shape you don't do it oh I'm sorry to tell you but you're going to get the worst possible punishments that mankind has ever seen it's the worst thing so now he's telling you how once if you don't do it you do chuva you put these words back onto your you start doing how do you protect yourself you put on you put on so on and so forth so the first thing that Rish Shimon is telling you is that if you actually put serious into your shma into your simple already changes your whole day just understand the words you're saying read it don't worry about what the k is doing you read it take your time but understand what you're saying if you don't understand Hebrew read it in English if you don't understand English read it in Russian you don't understand Russian read it in Arab whatever read in whatever language you speak if you don't understand any language have somebody explain it to you but you must know what it says to just read it like a robot that's not what hasm created you to do you didn't cre you want you to be a robot page 15b takes it a step further says anyone who's not careful with cannot avoid going to G something little kids know how to do it's the first thing you learn we're talking about we not talking about Hey listen guy is uh eats pig every day the guy is he makes other people sin he has a uh I don't know one of these stores that's full of pornography or something we're not talking about that talking about somebody doesn't read the right way says he cannot avoid going to to G why because he doesn't have the foundation he doesn't know what he lives for he doesn't know there's a consequence he doesn't know why he's even here the mahag said there's a really significant meaning and praying three times a day really if you actually pay attention to it it changed the way you look at prayer says first thing you pray in the morning in reality what you really what your yet really wants to do is pamper yourself sleep a little longer eat you don't want to go pray to hem want to do everything else but pray to hm let's let's be real here you want to be in the bathroom praying with your phone for five hours you want to look at some sport you don't want to go pray to Hashem say so first thing you're doing hm is requiring you to go pray to hasem this is to remind you to recognize that you need him everything you're going to get that day you need him then you have another pray of middle of the day you're busy with customers they're yelling at you you're yelling at them they're complaining you're complaining everyone's complaining it's the middle of the day last thing you're thinking about is let me go pray to hm I'm about to close the deal hm can you wait till can I just do it tomorrow can we do it twice tomorrow what do you want you want to go pray in the middle of the day since you're pursuing your life livelihood but this is to remind yourself that the only way you're going to get is if decid you're G to get both say your is decided from your livelihood is decided already how much you're going to make on everything you to make from that until next year's decided already on one day so the asked if it's already decided it's already decided what I'm going to make why does the say that I also get judged for my P every day if it's already decided what are you judging me again it's decided it's a good question so one day the B sees this guy that used to carry water used to be sell water and he asked him how you doing he says to him uh I have a very very difficult life and uh I have this job that uh there much torture it's hot outside it's my C customers are unhappy the water is not always as clean he's complaining non-stop the next day he sees him again how you doing oh everything is great thank godm has given me thank God that today was a little easier less hot than yesterday for teaching me Torah oh guy is water water man is saying I Tau T what did I teach you cuz my for many years I've been wondering this question when it says in we get judged on what we're going to get from but then the says something different it says yes we get judged but we get judged every day why are we judged every day if we already got judged it was already decided it was already decided how much we're going to make why you judging me every day again for what and then I finally understood when I asked you how are you yesterday you were complaining and today you weren't but nothing really changed you have the same job for 25 years already the same water was just as heavy yesterday as it is today the W the weather really didn't change what changed something in your changed what changed is that when you went to sleep your went up to sh before the first time I saw you it was decided in sham that you made some a you made some sins you have to repent for them so tomorrow the way you're going to get Thea you're going to get let's say you know $50,000 but the way you're going to get tomorrow's share it's going to be very very difficult so automatically when you woke up you already automatically you woke up you miserable nothing happened you already miserable why because your knows today is going to be a hard day today then you went up to Sham again you went to sleep your went up to sh they said oh today you went through your you don't have tomorrow tomorrow's living is going to come fine no problems so automatically your is happy you feel good so now I finally understand even though it's decided how make they decide every day how I'm going to make what I'm going to make based on my actions that's why sometimes you wake up happy sometimes you wake up upset so a real smart person that believes this what would they do if they wake up upset the first thing they need to know I need to do cha because I did something wrong yesterday if I continue acting like it's t the whole day I continue making sense tomorrow's also going to be a bad day so now tells us that in the middle of the day when you really don't want to pray the reason for the one of the things for the prayer is that it breaks up the day and it reminds you that all of the sales you're making all of the customers you're having the ones that are complaining of from Hashem the on ones that are giving you money are from Hashem everything is from Hashem the good and the bad is all from Hashem it reminds you that the only source of sustenance that you're going to get is from hasem and then at the end of a tiring day when the only thing you really want to do is go to sleep be left alone you have to delay your sleep and again go back to God last thing you want to do now is go talk to God's like I'm tired right I talk to God twice like he did him a favor if I told you talk to richest man in the world twice she's like oh I can talk can't talk to him again you had a meeting with Donald Trump twice today already oh can I meet him again tomorrow you're excited tell you about God not so [Music] much but here it says that you have to turn back to God again why say thank you say thank you you survived another day say thank you that he gave you everything that he gave you for that day first cuz you start off the day asking for Stuff middle of the day you're reminding yourself that this is where you're getting it from but don't don't forget to say thank you even a 5-year-old knows to say thank you the other thing that the the uh K is telling us about dma is that it's it contains the main articles of Judaism in general your whole belief system the foundation of your entire belief in is found in first thing is it's the unity of God automatically you destroy Christianity Catholicism and anything relating to anything other than when as soon as you hear hem is one that's it there's nothing else there's nothing else there's no three Gods two Gods several you know nothing there's nothing that's it there only one God second you have a duty and a mitvah both of them are different MIT out of the 63 you have a duty to love AEM and you have a duty to fear asem it's a out of the 63 I know most people don't know the 63 by heart it's one of the 63 is to love and another one of the 63 is to fear and remind you of both next thing is it reminds you of your obligation to study T you're not doing him a favor you're studying t as we learned last week because Torah is not something you can inherit even if your father was a big even if your grandfather was a rabbi everybody tells me that grandfather was a rabbi it means nothing maybe that's why you're still alive being a Shabbat but other than that it means nothing he's in G you're maybe going to G home if you don't St keeping Shabbat the fact that he's a sadik doesn't help you so I'll finish this point and I'll answer the question so next thing is you cannot inherit you can't inherit the Torah you have to study it that's the third point fourth point you can't just learn to you have to fulfill it you have to fulfill the Commandments five there's a reward and there's punishment in my opinion my lowly you know meaningless opinion I believe this is the most part most important part of the entire thing this is I think in my opinion also why it's one of the 13 principles of Faith even all of these things are one way or another part of the 13 principles of Faith this reward and Punishment concept is what our generation needs more than anything else why because for some reason we've humanized God we've humanized God to such an extent that we act like he's our buddy we act like he owes us something we act like anytime something bad happens like he should say I'm sorry anytime we don't have why is doing this to me what why is doing this to you lucky he didn't just kill you right now for saying that what do you mean why if there was a king of Flesh and Blood just beat you up just got you beat up just took all your money just killed somebody just whatever just insulted you in public he hey what are you doing this to me no you wouldn't dare you put your head back into a little turtle cave I'm sorry I'm sorry you're honor I'm sorry I'll do I'll do it better next time for king of Flesh and Blood you start crying saying I'm sorry for saying why are you doing this to me the that you have you're asking why are you doing this to me why don't you look in the mirror why is he doing this to you why are you doing it to him why why you go looking at women that you're not allowed to look at why you eating not Kosher why you not fulfilling your Tora why do you have so many flaws and you're not even trying to work on them if you were trying good job of course you're expected to sin but at least you're trying if you're not trying you you dare even complain to hasem why do we why are we at that such a far level because we don't think there's reward and Punishment we just think there's reward we think of God as a lotto ticket he's supposed to give us stuff like the idol worshippers they created Santa Claus the rest of us have created something else we think that God is like just gives us stuff yes he gives us stuff but part of that stuff is punishment too punishment is also a reward it wakes us up so that's the next point the next point after that is that we're talking to be cautious of the forces of desire and heresy we have to control our midot we have to control our desires one of our desires is going to be think that are outright against sometimes we have the to desire T sometimes we have the to desire to fulfill but most of the time our desires are the opposite of what hem wants from us are the opposite of what even our own wants from us what do we desire we desire things like sex we desire things like money we desire things like kavod we desire a lot of the things that are poison for so now he say listen if hasm already instilled in us to have to have these desires why is he punishing for us it's his fault he put it in us that we want money he put it in us that we want sex he put it in us that we want kavod he put it in us he put the desire in you but it's up to you to act on it and that's the difference between you and an animal an animal has no choice soon as a lion is hungry he's going to go chase the giraffe and kill it he's not going to ask the giraffe giraffe you okay if I kill you today oh you have a bar mitzvah you have to attend to you all right it's it's good it's good your family's okay with you you said kadish everything you arranged everything the funeral everything's fine I can eat you today I'm hungry oh you want going to wait today you know what I'll wait till next week don't worry about don't worry I'll eat a couple of the other uh deers they're fine with it they're good with you F's hungry goes he kills everyone that's it it's Instinct tiger is hungry goes kills anyone the snake the snake is the only creature of even when he's not hungry he still eats it's pure Instinct cuz everything tastes the same to him whether it's a rat or it's anything else as soon as in front of him as soon as he has prey in front of him he eats it it's pure Instinct if you're an animal if you view yourself as an animal as an outright animal and you want to be judged like an animal then why are you wearing any clothes I have a friend 26 years friend we had a debate one time SK he's an atheist or says he's an atheist I don't really think anybody's true atheist but anyway he says he's an atheist and one time I read this debate and we got to a point where he says listen I told him listen obviously we're not monkeys you know he believes in evolution I'm like oh well if you believe in evolution and we all came from monkeys why is the monkey still here if we all came from monkeys then the monkey was supposed to disappear at some point and it's supposed to be something that's like you know cuz if the monkeyy is the first stage and we're let's say the fifth stage and there's three stages in between us then the three stages in between us or at least one of them is supposed to be here the monkey is definitely supposed to be long gone if there was really Evolution like that why is the first stage here in the fifth stage here but nothing in between you don't see like a half monkey half man running around I'm like so stop acting like a monkey and he says something really stupid but it stuck with me he said no but you know what I don't really see much of a difference between us and monkeys and initially I C me off guard it's the last thing I expected somebody smart to say CU he's a very very he's a brilliant guy what like the last thing I thought I thought he was going to say something else I mean you know you try to calculate what the other person's going to say he throws a monkey wrench at me he thinks like I don't think there's any difference between us and the monkeys and you know the conversation ended shortly after and I thought about this for a while after it and then I realized you know what he did it purely to end the conversation why because there's no way that he can believe that he's just like a monkey there's no way that he could that anyone believes even the people that work at the zoo even the people that love animals more than they love some people I remember when I had a dog I loved my dog more than I love more most people you're more loyal more honest more loving never gave me an excuse very easy to love a dog more than people at least most people but nonetheless the reality of it is you don't think that you're like your dog and you don't think that you're like the monkey why cuz you're still wear clothes if you really thought that you were like the monkey and there's nothing difference between you why don't you just walk around naked jump from trees eat bananas don't work live in a jungle you see any any any monkey with gray hair worrying about a mortgage any monkey worrying about what degrees going to get in college or whether he's going to get into Pace University or Princeton you see any monkey worrying about his degree or whether he's going to become a rabbi one day or he's going to fulfill any mitah no so why don't you go be a monkey go enjoy you can't be both can't be monkey with clothes off CU that's a circus act so don't be a circus act so next thing is is that the desires that we have they destroy us to such an extent that a small desire according theat page 105 it says this is the way of the first he tells you this then he tells you that then he tells you that you keep following what he says first he tells you listen just eat salad salad small salad at Starbucks salad Rabbi is a fanatic what could possibly be wrong with a salad it's first tells you eat a salad daddy tells you eat the chocolate bar even though the chocolate bar doesn't really have a kosher symbol on it what could possibly be wrong with a kosher with a chocolate it's chocolate if you look at the ingredients most likely it's beetles but nonetheless the rabbi is a fanatic then he tells you from salad he tells you chocolate then he tells you you know what this whole Shabbat thing you could keep the first day keep Friday sleep most of Saturday but as soon as you wake up at 4:00 on uh on Shabbat on Saturday afternoon if Shabbat over you kept all Shabbat you didn't it's aem's fault play with your phone drive on a car watch a little TV there a rabinal it's rabinal you know start creating things and little by little the Satan leads you slowly but surely away from the truth to such an extent that it says in the that eventually you start worshiping Idols that's exactly what the says little by little he starts with some small sin bigger sin bigger sin bigger sin bigger sin bigger sin now a lot of people have this confusion about rabinal MIT I think listen this is rabinal it's not uh really from the Torah it's and it's figure that you know what if you play with the phone if you drive a car on Shabbat then obviously that's a Biblical sin because a car is f fire and it says in this week's in uh chapter 35 verse 3 he starts actually verse two on six days work made be done but on the seventh day shall be holy for you a day of complete rest for hem whoever does work on it shall be put to death you shall not Kindle Fire in any of your dwellings on a Shabbat day this is this week's par believe it or not last week also talked about death penalty for and as many of you that went over through the know that almost half the Torah half the Torah talks about Shabbat which is part of the reason why mentioned it so much and actually wanted to do a whole sh today about Shabbat but apparently that wasn't the uh what hasem wanted yet but anyway so most people say you know what okay Shabbat fire we know that a car is fire why because even if whether you want to do logic you know that you're turning on an engine is fire the gas is fire the engine is fire it's all fire but if you want to look at an engineer report I have a student I think he's based out of Canada who actually is an engineer he says the uh and he calculated how many fires do you light when you're driving a car says with an average car not a Ferrari and not Formula 1 and not a uh tus you a regular basic car little Honda CT or something so you're driving 60 miles an hour you're lighting no less than 6,000 fires no less than 6,000 Fires for driving regular speed limit but that's just one just one every time you press the gas pedal not the whole time not from the trip from the house to the B it on Shabbat is 6,000 fires every time you press the gas pedal it's 6,000 different fires so already we know okay this is a problem it's not one fire it's 6,000 fires 6,000 sins we get it no good but now people say but this is all rabinal sins this is all biblical sins but you know what about the phone what about the phone phone is not a uh it's not really Fire TV is not really fire it's not as a matter of fact that he said that when they came out with uh electricity and so on they were actually looking for ways to make it not allowed even though it wasn't mamash fire like we know fire they were looking for ways to make it not allowed why because they knew that if they make electricity allowed permissible slowly but surely there would be no longer Shabbat so they made it a rabinal no electricity on Shabbat unless you leave it on or you have a timer and so on but this is again this is the fence around the fence that hasem permitted the sages to have which includes your phone which includes your television includes all of these things that you don't think are fire you don't agree that are fire it's really fire but nonetheless you don't agree you say it's only rabinal so and we think it's not really a big deal to go against what the rabis say so if you look at Proverbs written by the wisest man that ever lived he says this if one turns aside his ear from hearing the Torah even his Prayer Will be considered an Abomination so schl the wisest man that ever lived is telling he given us a small tiny little reminder Kem implemented the Tora he gave us the basic laws of the Tor but he also gave us the sages to deliver it to us and part of the rule is for the sages to put a fence around aem's fence meaning if someone makes a Biblical sin someone makes a de sin they light an outright fire they uh sew on Shabbat they do something like that there is no chuva it's death penalty if there's witnesses to it at the times of the bet mikdash there's no chuva for it if they made an accidental sin then there's chuva they have to bring a Corban but if they made an intentional sin they sowed SED not let fire they just SED SED a little bit people told them you're not allowed to next weekend they came back so him so him again he said there's no chuva they kill him they have to start with the worst possible punishment so this is again after warnings and it's goes to trial and so on and so forth so we think okay listen this is a Biblical sin so to get to that point we don't want anybody to get to that point so the rabbis were charged with the responsibility to get people as far from that sin as possible meaning they would put a fence around the fence in a sense saying let me get you not only to not make that sin but to not even get to something that technically really isn't a sin that's a Biblical sin but is going to get you one step closer to making the real Biblical sin so not only you're not allowed to light fire but now you're not even allowed to watch TV because if you watch TV then you're going to think that hey if I could turn if I could press a button to turn on my TV what's the difference if I press a button to turn on my car if I uh you know if I do one thing it's going to lead me to other things if let's say for example there's something called a concept called M if I were allowed to let's say pick up the pen and put it away a pen put it away then I would say what's the big deal I already picked up the pen what's the difference if I start writing I'm only writing five words not writing a whole not writing a Miga writing five words just to remind myself what I need to do on Monday so there's a fence around the fence so there's certain things the rabbis implemented to protect us to not get us to the ultimate sin but for the honor of Tor hasem said that a is more valuable than a prophet and therefore it says that if someone says if someone doesn't want to hear his Torah doesn't want to hear doesn't want to hear doesn't want to hear what the says doesn't want to hear what the say doesn't want to hear what theim say just say no I'm going to decide for myself what's fire what's not fire what's m what's not M I'm going to decide to just listen to the written Tor not going to listen to the T he says just remember you want to do that fine just remember when you pray to hasem you pray to hem your prayer is considered disgusting forget about the fact he's unhappy with you forget about the fact that obviously you're making sins that even at the time that you're going to need AEM you're screaming because the medicine Med is not working you're screaming because you have no food to eat you're screaming because the anesthesia is not working you woke up in the middle of surgery like I did you're screaming because the painkillers don't work screaming Hashem help me what what did you say I'm busy right now I'll get back to you couple of hours what you mean I'm dying here in pain when I ask you to keep Shabbat and listen to my rabbis you didn't listen why should I listen to you to that extent it's m a something that hasem takes very seriously very very personally why because his his sages that's his company that's who advertises him all day that's his number one employees that's his children that's his number one children it's the best ones you going to go against them so this is another thing that we have to remind ourselves in get ourselves away from this thought of finding our own way there's a way there's a follow it don't try to become Rashi don't try to become TOS don't become the next rambam there's a way there's a system find a r stick to him that's it as long as he tells you the truth and it's no like you know 50/50 stick with it last but but not least it's reminds us to recognize AEM as the source of all blessings everything and anything that's any good bad or indifferent comes from hasem that's what the kma is supposed to remind you every day The Good the Bad and the things that you have no idea what they are yet all comes from Hashem if you really have your brain and rewired to think like that you'll never complain again youash live a lifestyle likea where he said everything that the merciful one said everyone everything that the merciful one uh does is always for the best the last page everything that he does is always the best what do you mean it's always the best how could it be the best maybe it's second best maybe it's third best says AEM unlike us has an infinite amount of options let's say if I want to go from here I need to go to New York in a couple of weeks there's a lot of different options that I could take I can go there by plane I go to by several different types of planes I could use Jet Blue if I want to have a decent flight or I can use Spirit if I want to torture myself if I want to bring myself in Kap I use them or I could use American Airlines if I want to pay extra I can do all these things I use plane but then if I don't want to go to plane I want to go by car if I have nothing to do with my life I want to drive for a day and a half I'm going to use a car or I could use a boat or I could use a helicopter if I have infinite amount of money I want to spend it on gas or if I'm just really bored and I want to make a movie then I'll just walk there I'll be the next far as Gump point is there's a lot of different options for me to get from point A to point B as much more but unlike me where each one of my choices has consequences and each could be better than the next and I don't really know which one is the best I could pick Jet Blue but Jet Blue could have a delay I could pick Spirit but Spirit may have a new plane and that's the biggest one I could choose walking and I end up meeting the mashia on the way I can do something you know each option that looks the worst can be the best I don't know which one is the best really I'm guessing hasem doesn't guess whatever AEM does is always the best option out of all of the Poss possible options that could ever be meaning that everything and anything that's happening in your life including the suffering including the pain including the anguish including everything that's negative and everything that's positive is always the best possible choice that could be made for you so you'd ask me natural question would be why would AEM think that it's any good to punish me why can he just give me a reward or I don't talk to me through a bush a burning bush like mosenu because number one you're not mosenu and number two you did something and you deserve punishment for it and there's two choices at the very least one choice is to suffer it for a day here you broke your finger you got a flat tire you lost a job whatever a million and a half things that could happen to a person or two could be 50,000 years in G choose one same same sin same sin it's just that time is different here than it is there here it's could be a moment there could be years choose one suffer 50,000 years and burning Co and fire and which is burning feces or you want to lose some money in this world lose a million bucks lose 10 million bucks lose 50 million bucks which one if you really knew the options of course you would choose the suffering here that's the point of learning so the next the last part is to recognize that Hashem is the source of all blessing all good all bad everything and anything in between this is what's going to get you to a point of having full kavana when you're praying you had a question yeah um me me personally I like to read on Shabbat but for some people it's a little bit hard harder to you know buckle down and read and I had uh someone bring up an idea to me that during Shabbat they could possibly let's say make a 25h hour mixtape of sh play on the TV they start it they don't touch it the rest of the Shabbat and it plays throughout the whole Shabbat so they're not touching the TV from there is that permitted it's not there's there's there's a uh there's a few different sins involved number one there's no such thing as is making a Mitzvah by way of sin so to listen to a radio listen to a television or watch television on Shabbat is not allowed so to even though the to listen to a is allowed you're doing it in a disallowed way in a prohibited way so you're not allowed to make a mitvah by way of of a that's number one two the reason why technically you're not allowed to watch TV because technically if you're just starting to keep Shabbat you know many rabbis would tell you if they let's say some people will have a problem with TV they watch TV on Shabbat and you tell them listen don't watch TV they say you know what I'm not gonna do anything I'm not GNA keep nothing and you know I have to watch TV so people that are very very weak-minded then you tell them listen you're not allowed to watch TV no one's ever going to allow tell you you're allowed to watch TV you're not even allowed to watch TV even on a on a regular day takes away from takes you away from T it's it's complete garbage and many other things I mean TV you're not listening to sh Shabbat let's let's let's be real if you're listening to sh Shabbat then you go you can walk go to you go a million million ways yeah regular days but anyway the uh the thing is with a uh with um TV on Shabbat so what they would tell you is like listen at least leave the TV on Don't Touch the remote at least it's lesser of a sin it's still a sin but it's notb as far as fire the the problem with watching TV or listening to a radio Shabbat is notab a fire because you're not touching the remote unless you're touching the remote it's on of Shabbat it's not the way to honor Shabbat and the only reason why we would ever dishonor Shabbat is because we really don't understand the significance of Shabbat what uh time is it how much time do we have like 12:40 it's 124 sorry sorry so we have uh okay okay you know what I think this is a very very needed thing the reason why we never get to a point of not even just Shabbat of driving in a car in Shabbat or uh watching TV on Shabbat or playing on a phone on Shabbat or doing anything that's not only just but also of the on of Shabbat the honor of Shabbat is because the reality of it is that we don't know the consequences we really don't know the consequences so I prepared a few things that will give us an understanding of the consequences both the reward but mostly the punishment part and the reason why the punishment is critical is because we already have a mindset that Hashem owes us something anyway so we everyone thinks that there's only reward so it's important for us to know a little bit about the punishment a lot of people think that I mention Shabbat very often and as I mentioned previously Shabbat is mentioned in nearly half the Torah it's mentioned more times than anything else except conversion accept aem's Special Love for converts why is AEM mentioning the honor and the observation of Shabbat more than anything else because it's literally the foundation of Judaism and belief in inm tells us that he created the world in six days and rested on the seventh not because he needed rest not because he needed a break but rather because he did something beyond what you would think he's able to do which is he refrained himself from creating the only reason why hasem created Shabbat is for you it's not for him he's already perfect he's already perfect he was perfect before the world he's going to be perfect after the world he's perfect during the world the only reason why he created anything is because good is known to be good by its creation of good you you know whether you're a good person or Not by whether you do good things or not if you say inside your heart I'm a good person but in reality you're a Nazi you're not a good person you're just lying to yourself if you say that you're a good person but you're the stingiest person on Earth you don't give any you don't even want to give your wife any money to eat you're not a good person you're just a liar that's fooling himself but if you give you help people in all different ways then you potentially could be a good person still doesn't necessarily mean you're a good person yet but you're doing good things now AEM is good therefore he creat created good he created a way for us to benefit out of his goodness but during his creation he says I want them to feel like me I want my creation to feel like me now obviously they can't be God but I want them to have a feeling like I had when I created therefore I created things on six days and on the seventh day I stopped creating now if I stopped creating that's a certain feeling that Hashem had and therefore if we stop creating as you beings as therefore we have in essence a feeling like God did if that's not enough of an explanation Hashem says listen everything that was created in this world is Essence is a way for us to honor hem in this week's after the first couple of verses that I just read to you before to talk about Shabbat the rest of the repeats what's mentioned already in the last couple of par which is the construction of the Tabernacle the BET mikdash of the desert the Tabernacle the BET mikdash of the desert was actually H holier than the first and second bet mikdash it was never destroyed it was just dismantled and it was holier than all of them and AEM is giving us precise instructions in this parasha in last week's parasha and next week's parasha of how to build it exactly what to use the measurements everything and anything who can donate who can't donate everything all the details of how to build AEM a house on earth but before this he mentions don't violate Shabbat what does one thing have to do with the other what is a whole par is talking about building AEM a house on earth and he's giving you the details the measurements who to hire who to fire who to contract who to get titles from where do you get the trucks where do you get the best prices what does it have anything to do with don't violate the Shabbat it has nothing to do with it or it has everything to do with ital explains to us that the reason why in it beginning of this par and actually other times in the Tora it's mentioned Shabbat right before right after the discussion the lengthy discussion of the details of the building of the mishkan the Tabernacle is because from here from the building of the mishan is where we learn of the 39 things were not allowed to do on Shabbat everything all 39 actions that were used to build the mishkan all 39 actions that were bu that were used to build the BET mikdash of the desert the holiest thing that ever existed on this planet all 39 things that were allowed to do there you're not allowed to do on Shabbat why why those 39 not some other 39 what's the connection it's a constant reminder to each and every single one of us that Shabbat is so holy that even to build God's house you're not allowed to do on Shabbat even to work for God and building him his own house that He commands you to do in the first place you could only do during six days but you can't do on the seventh day so obviously if you can't work for God on Shabbat who tells you that it makes any sense for you to go work for your company on Shabbat for your customer on Shabbat for anyone on Shabbat now most of us don't have this concept of Shabbat to such an extent we realize how significant it really is the on of Shabbat and here I'm talking about not only the people that violate Shabbat because Unfortunately they don't know what Shabbat is but I'm actually also talking about people that keep Shabbat the half room B Chas many of them don't have an idea of the significance of on Shabbat in the old days and in some places in the world they still do it in Jerusalem B there when Shabbat comes in is somebody that scream Shabbat Shabbat coming in as a warning in reality this warning should be in each one of our houses Shabbat coming an hour before Shabbat comes in Shabbat is coming why what is Shabbat it Shabbat is aem's daughter now just like each one of us likes ourselves we're even more protective of our children you can do anything you want to me you can curse me you can punch me you can insult me you can do whatever you want people have fun with me on the internet you say one thing about my daughter I'm going to find out where you live do you understand each one of us is the same thing our children our life soem says to mosu I have a precious gift to give to am is in my treasures and its name is Shabbat when Hashem says he has a treasure and he's going to give you the biggest part of his treasure and the name of it is Shabbat and that's his daughter and she comes to your house every week by dishonoring her there's no biggera than that and that's why when you're going to hear a few of the things that I say now that are very scary you'll understand why Kagan explained the midash saying the following there are many different types of precious gems in the world some of which are literally Priceless very few people have the means to purchase a large con collection of such Jewels even Kings and Emperors would find it difficult to obtain samples of every type of gem known to man The more powerful ful the king the more vast his Empire the more likely it is that he will have a larger collection of rare gems the king of all Kings has access to all of the treasures of Gold Silver and jewels in the universe but nevertheless he does not take pride in any of these the only thing that he calls a treasure is Shabbat this is what he calls his precious gift clearly it's impossible for us to conceive of its true value yet every Jew has access to this gift all he needs to do is observe Shabbat everyone should be anxious to observe it and be at the very best of their abilities exert the best the best of their abilities to gain the largest portion of this precious gift the Shabbat chapter 35 wrote whoever observes Shabbat as the prescribes and honors it and indulges in its Pleasures to the best of his ability will receive an abundant reward in this world in addition to the reward set aside for him in the world to come to such an extent of the observing Shabbat will forgive all of a person's sins including idol worship Saida so here we get a little bit of a taste little bit not much but a little bit of a taste of this precious treasure but since we don't really understand that much comes to to and Mount Si and say say gave us all these 63 by the way is the gatria the numerical value of 613 not an actual word it's just a combination of letters that equals to 613 is 400 is 200 so 600 UD is 10 giml is three 613 I never knew this so I found it very interesting when I finally learned it at some point so that we have it's a lot big responsibility am goes to Hemm what do we get for thism answers you get returns you know there's no Jew like a Jew that answers a question with another question it's says give me a sample and hasem says Shabbat Shabbat the sample of if you honor Shabbat like you're supposed to if all you do on Shabbat you prepare for it by the time you got the Shabbat you know the wife is half dead the house she cleaned for the last two days is a mess because you know there's kids in the house and everybody's frustrated and everybody's fighting or on top of that father's not really interested in Shabbat he's in in business so he's going to go meet a few people in a and talk to them about the business they're going to do on Tuesday and Wednesday which is Shabbat by the way you now let's talk about business to such an extent that the Von one time tells a story of Rim heard his mother say something what wasn't a uh wasn't a sinful discussion she said just said something with she used a few extra words more than she needed said and she quieted them meaning you have to even watch your words to such an extent that K debate it there's a of whether you even allowed to say shabbat shalom shalom being an extra word what's the what's the argu arent in favor to say it Shalom is also one of the other names for Hashem it's one of the names of God but the point being here is that to that extent that extent you're not even allowed to say extra words people talk business in his famous well-known P of he said there's no cure for our souls other than to observe Shabbat even if we do complete Chua for all of our sins everything depends on our observation of Shabbat we've suffered countless tragedies because of our laxity of observing Shabbat and there's no doubt that we've languished in the exile for many hundreds of years because of this sin says that the reason of why the BET mikdash was destroyed was actually because of the idol worship that they're talking about it wasn't just Idol worshiping of like different different Idols also idol worship of Shabbat because Shabbat and idol worship are considered the same in hm's eyes there is a few things that will give us a little bit of the r wrote In 30 someone who transgresses any of the other mitv of the Tora is still considered a Jew it's non kosher goes with a woman that's not that he's not allowed to be with does a lot of many many other sins he can do still considered a Jew a wicked one but a Jew but someone who publicly desecrates Shabbat d to B on Shabbat lights a cigarette on Shabbat watches television everyone knows that he learn that he's watching television on Shabbat he's a public desecrator of Shabbat meaning as describes and defines what a public desecration of Shabbat is it doesn't mean you have to be outside telling you hey everyone I'm lighting fire hey everyone I'm driving on Shabbat no as long as 10 people know that you don't keep Shabbat every sin you make on Shabbat is considered be considered a public sin 10 people need to know not need to see rambam says someone who publicly desecrates a Shabbat is considered for allic purposes to be on the level of the member of the idolatrous Nations not a but an idol worshipper a could be a sadik a could be job aov prophet amazing no we're not talking about that talking about someone Jew is an idol worshiper he's the Holy zor says every Friday afternoon there's an announcement broadcasted throughout every section of G that all suffering of the Sinners has to be halted stop the fires has a break says exact measurements of ganeden we know exactly how big ganeden is but he said Gom has no size it continues expanding CU many more Sinners than there are righteous people but even G has a break Shabbat but for those who did not observe the Shabbat while they were alive the fires of Gom are not extinguished continues for them they continue getting punished even on Shabbat another part of the Z and it says that although there are many Wicked people in the in G they're all there for different sins the ones that didn't sin for one of their benefits is to light the fire to burn the Shabbat guy is a thief but he's still getting a benefit of punishing the Shabbat as we mentioned before hasem created Shabbat for us to give us a feeling like he had if he had feelings this is what he would feel he stopped creating he says one who desecrates Shabbat is considered to deny the truth of the entire Torah and is given to status of a non-jew this is in P by RAB aael and also by RAB aigel why do the P say that such an extent because someone who desecrate Shabbat is in essence saying that hem didn't create the world in six days and rested on the seventh so it's the same thing as if he said that hasm didn't create the world at all page 24b says there was once a populous city named T Shimon eventually Hashem punished the city and destroyed it what happened the people in the town started playing with a ball on Shabbat a place where there was no there was no they weren't allowed to play in a ball for playing with a ball not for driving on Shabbat smoking cigarettes Hashem destroyed entire city [Music] ofin wrote in if a Jew does not observe Shabbat he lowers himself to less than the status of a dumb beast and in order for him to achieve atonement he must be punished with stoning he has to be stoned to death because if he is not stoned he has to be punished in sham so if he punished he you're not punished up there we don't have stoning anymore in this world we don't have mdash we don't have which means that any can only get the punishment from Heaven sometimes hasem punishes us here car accident or anything like that but he's saying the only thing that he that could happen to him to his benefit is if he gets stoned why if he get stoned as a benefit because if he doesn't get stoned the connection of his soul with God and His Torah which is in essence the bond between God and the nation of Israel is severed without him having punishment for his Shabbat there's no connection between him and hasem meaning that the now that he violated Shabbat on purpose drove on Shabbat did all these things on Shabbat he has to be punished unless he does full chat because if he doesn't get punished there's no connection he's disconnected from therefore he says one executing him with stoning is actually doing him a great favor again again says someone who desecrates Shabbat is liable to be punished with ket what's KET KET includes the consequences of dying childless not having any kids never bearing any children losing one's children kids die because of this he says it amazes me that people can simply ignore this reality if some someone would strike another person's child even lightly give him a little slap in the head you see someone's little kid I you don't like the kid or whatever something you think you're playing or whatever it is you slap the little kid in the head certainly if the kid was injured because of this and he'd need uh medical attention the parent would hate that person forever touch my kid chop off your hands that's what any any normal parents who you touching my kid who are you to touch my kid the parent would hate the person who abused this child even if the abuser paid for all the medical expenses he hit him even by accident he hit him but he ended up breaking his leg because of it he ended up something happened and the guy says I'm sorry I'll pay for the expenses the parents still going to hate him but yet the parent is willing to desecrate Shabbat and place his own children in Mortal danger how are you mad at this guy for hitting your kid but you're putting your kids life at risk every time you turn on the car in Shabbat this is what Kagan said I'll finish the point I'll answer your question this is a by the way the again continues in no one should question the fact fact that we see many people desecrate the Shabbat regularly and yet are successful in all of their Endeavors you see people driving on Shabbat but they're driving a Ferrari how could this be says it's no question if you have patience you're going to see cancer grow in their midst and it will eventually destroy everything this is the words of the even if we see some people living out their whole lives in peace this happens only so that they could be destroyed utterly in the world to come this is as it says in in the T the last three verses where it talks about he Hashem Pays His lovers for thousands of generations but to his haters he pays them cast to their face to eliminate them he will not delay their payment even one bit he gives them payment right now for anything good they did in this life and in this world he pays them cash right now so they don't have a share of the world to come meaning when you see somebody violating Shabbat but he's driving a Ferrari he has a big building he has got it looks like he's got the world in his palm of his hands there's no per person in the world that's more miserable than he is because he's the guy we talked about at the beginning he's the guy with the disease but he doesn't even know he's [Music] sick yeah you had a question yeah U why why do why do your kids have to suffer one reason is the fact that them suffering will cause suffering to their parents there's no worse punishment to somebody than seeing his kids die before them second thing is the the of the child is you know if let's say for example they get you know they were brought here they're not really a child they were somebody that was here already before there's no such thing as really a baby anymore each one of our n has been here multiple times so they came here to fulfill a certain tun and if they completed their tun hasem is going to take them out of this world but he's going to use this specific this pfic parent or so on as a way for him to fulfill his will anyway so there's good and there's bad coming out of the same thing at least it's one simplistic way of explaining it of course there's deeper deeper uh things from it yeah it's also true that that the son has the chance to save his father through becoming a sadik save the sins of the father and he's the only one who can yes bring the father into G 100% 100% sometimes this causes families to do Chua many people do Chua for the most part from my experience almost every single person I've ever seen that that did Chua did it because something bad happens sickness all types of disease money loss marriage problems kids issues death I mean there's countless problems that happen to people's lives but usually that's what happens before they do ch elzar desler volume 3 page 295 he says Shabbat is the greatest of all the revelations of the Divine Spirit if someone does not observe Shabbat as he should or if he fails to indulge in physical Pleasures on Shabbat or to behave in a manner that behooves its sanctity he will not enjoy the arrival of the mhia Shimon Hile her demonstrated that various rules governing the of Shabbat conform to this concept for example the sages taught that the Tor did not forbid the act of a that simply ruins an existing item if someone breaks down a house for the purpose of destroying it he hasn't desecrated Shabbat but if he breaks it down a house in order to build a new edifice in its place he's desecrated Shabbat the act the same Act is considered forbid when it's performed as constructive creative act but not when it's done simply for the sake of Destruction so in essence here thear hch explains that even the details of the Shabbat obviously you could do the same thing one is allowed one is not allowed you have to so that's why the sages before this was I was supposed to say that the only way you're going to know how you're not violating Shabbat by learning of Shabbat so it's very very important for each and every single one of us to learn the of Shabbat but until we get to a point where we do what sh and did where we're already starting to prepare for Shabbat on on on Sunday that means that we're still something missing there's still part of us that doesn't understand the significance of Shabbat and page 15a we have the famous story of Alisha AKA he was one of the rabbis of R he went off the became a complete Idol worshipper heretic all types of crazy sins murderer but in the beginning as he was beginning to sin not everyone knew that he became a that he became a uh bad Rabbi so he went to a Zona he went to a prostitute and he asked her for services now he was a famous Rabbi wasn't some local guy that no one knew one of the so the Zona says to him wait a minute aren't you Elisha B Aya the big stage so Lea Benya takes a radish from the ground he sees you know he's in a garden he took a radish from the ground he pulled it out of the ground and gave it to her as like a gift you know those days they didn't give iPads and iPhones they gave radishes and apples so he took a radish from the ground and he gave it to her but this happened on a Shabbat so taking out a radish out of the ground is 100% a sin de it's a Biblical Sin from the Tor it's not allowed on Shabbat and the Z knew this so right now this guy that she thought was one of the just violated Shabbat says oh you must be someone different you're someone different what's the mcale here the Z was saying to s listen even if he's a big Rabbi it's always a possibility that he's going to come to us or not there's always a possibility that he can't control his desires and go to a prostitute even if he's a big Rabbi you know how you see these guys with the big stroles the jackets the whole thing but you see them at the casino or you see them at you know other garbage places unfortunately we all have desires and some of us fail she says even if he's a big Rabbi maybe maybe fail to come to a prostitute he couldn't control himself but there's no way in the world that he would violate Shabbat can't be the same person go to a prostitute you can fail for that test but the violent Shabbat who in their right mind would fail for that test we learned this from a z do you understand what's Happening Here page 32A says there's three in specters of death that are created and tied to a woman we repeat them every time in uh in prayer before Shabbat three things that a woman is punished for and killed at the time of Labor the sins of and kindling of light so Kaz ask why why are you going to kill her for these three things I mean it seems like not really a big deal how can n understand I mean somebody it's a a a man being with his wife when she is a worse sin than him being with his own mother according to the punishment the punishment for being with his mother is a is a lesser of a punishment than him being with his wife when she's n so we understand okay okay death penalty got it but why is a sin of or a sin of kindling a light you know lighting candles get it to be a death penalty Max a little bit you're little extreme CU both of them have to do with Shabbat both Kal and the kindling light have to do with Shabbat when you dishonor those things you're dishonoring the Shabbat you're lighting the candle but you're lighting It 2 minutes too late you violated Shabbat one minute too late Shabbat already in instead of it being a Mitzvah it's the biggest sin in Judaism wanted to make mitvah he wanted to light candles before Shabbat one second difference turns it from mitvah to the biggest sin in Judaism the biggest the entire t or page 17 says there are certain types of people that will never leave G there Sinners eventually their G ends they're there for 5 years 10 years 50,000 years a million years whatever different punishment different times as I said before there's no concept of time like we have in this world in G but he says in thear there certain types of people that will never leave Gom even after the mashia comes the world ends and the fire of the rest of G ends but their G will never end one of them is a mean which is someone someone that causes other people to go to idol worship to leave AEM that's one we understand that one it's logical someone that kidnaps aem's son or daughter it's understandable why hasem hates him forever it's understand understandable why hem calls him an enemy he stole hashem's son he stole hashem's daughter from him he brought them to Christianity he brought them to idol worship he brought them to reform he brought them against theem it's understandable why his punishment will never end understandable what's not understandable to us until we understand the significance of Shabbat is that the Shabbat violator is right in there with him that's a significant Shabbat is in the bet mikdash anytime we made a sin we had a way to repent we bring a Corban you turn on the light by accident accident accidental shogg accidental sin you bring a Corban you make an accidental sin you bring a Corban you bring a sacrifice page 69 says we accept from from the criminals of Israel the thieves the Liars all of those criminals we accept from them to help them do chuva they got to come they're gonna give the Corban they're going to hear the sing it's going to break their heart they're going to do CH but if he's a we don't accept thisan we don't accept this Corban if he's a Shabbat we accept theban of the idol worshipper but we don't accept his Corban you understand what Shabbat is yet a lot of people say okay this is all rabinal this all Z all these things where does it say in the Tor where is the saying of T it's really that bad let's go let's see Book of Leviticus Five Books of Moses doesn't get any better than that Leviticus chapter 19 verse three we have a story of the first Shabbat in history his name is chapter 15:32 and it says this translation the children of Israel were in the wilderness we were in a desert and they found a man Gathering wood on Shabbat we're not talking about fire talking about driving on Shabbat we're not talking about smoking cigarettes we're not talking about that talking about he took a few pieces of wood put them together that's it we're not even talking about sewing sewing you know sewing okay sewing you can think okay sewing doesn't like sewing I don't know don't sew not talking about that we're not talking about erasing we're talking about taking a few pieces of wood putting them together tit go in the field take a few pieces of wood that's all he did Shabbat not allowed to gather not allowed to gather so he was gathering pieces of wood but to us it's not even it's even a sin yes it's one of the 39 restrictions it's one of the 39 things you weren't allowed to do because that's one of the 39 things we did for the mishan so this is what he did when is this one week after we got the Torah we got Torah a week later maybe he didn't read all of Shabbat yet he didn't have time to read all it's a big big book it's not just one it's three of these it's big book all the Shabbat you didn't get time to read all of it doesn't matter says he violated Shabbat okay let's see what happens to him those who found him Gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and to the entire assembly they placed him in custody they threw him in jail for it had not been clarified what should be done to him so they threw him in jail and because they didn't know what to do with him we'll explain a second what this means hasem says to Moses The man shall be put to death the entire assembly shall Pelt him with stones outside of the camp and so the entire assembly removed them from the to the outside of the camp and they melted him with stones and he died and hasem as hem commanded Moses so here you have several different types of death penalties we have in the Torah the worst one is stoning in so many words it's graphic but you need to know this this will get you a little fear in your heart maybe first they throw him off of a two-story building in case he doesn't die they already have a boulder ready for him which they roll right after him to crush him in case he still doesn't die he's got Superman skin there's already as the boulder is dragging him there's a bunch of Jews who saw him sin with stones in their hand they're going to rock him and throw rocks at him until they kill him it's the worst possible death penalty there is this is what the m Shabbat got but not just any ordinary M Shabbat the one that just violated it a week after we got the Tor why is that a big deal why why do I keep mentioning he's the first Shabbat let it be the first Let It Be the 50th Let It Be 500 what difference does it make if it's in the T it's in the T what difference does it make if it's a week after we got the T or if it's 3,000 years after they got the tah what difference does it make the difference is the following if anyone thought that theem is a v he just lets go of sins you didn't know so it's no big deal if he was just lenient and he would just say you know what you violated Shabbat don't worry this one's on me who would he do it for for him for why number one says he was a sadik and the only reason he violated Shabbat was to show is that hm is serious meaning even his sin that he made was the sin that he made was to honor hasem and that's why there's a m of where whether he has a share of the world to come or not some say yes some say no point being he was a sadik that's why his name is mentioned in the Torah second thing is if anybody would have gotten any leniency it would be him why he just got the Torah last week he didn't even have time to read the whole thing yet we have it for 3,300 years we still didn't read half of it we have a hard time reading two two two times a week the par barely read it once he had it for a week you want him to read the whole thing with all the everything so if anybody's going to get into excuse who's it going to be him he has an excuse he has all the excuses in the world he has it for a week Shem says no excuses Shabbat above everything my friend has the same value as all of the mitv put together why because it's the foundation of it's either believe it's either you believe I created the world in six days and rested on the seventh or you don't now what was the question here this is the worst possible punishment ever so why does it say they put him in custody because it wasn't clear what will be done to him I me obviously if you know K Shabbat is getting a punishment of death penalty what's not clear the only thing that was not clear is if you backtrack to a story that actually happened early in the tor in chapter 24 verse 10 The Book of Numbers I'm sorry the Leviticus and talks about the son of a woman named schlomit who got into an argument with the tribe of Dan got upset at God and cursed him and it says here that after he spoke against theem and he cursed hashem's name he was a blasphemer hasem said give him a death penalty death penalty you curse hasem death penalty this is not this is not really a uh surprise what's the surprise the reason why they were waiting for an explanation from Hashem of what we should do do with him is because they didn't want to put him the Shabbat in the same cell as the blasphemer because they didn't want they already knew that the Shabbat is getting the worst possible punishment in the Tor they just didn't know what the blasphemer is going to get and they didn't want the one that cursed hashem's name to feel bad about himself that he maybe he's going to get as big of a punishment as the M Shabbat that's the only confusion we finalize it with a couple of points as all says even if someone who knows a lot of T studies a lot of t on a regular basis but he a he has no share of the world to come he writes that a Shabbat violator is considered as if he's shouting in the middle of the street to the one who spoke and created the world that he didn't create the world in six days not only is he violating Shabbat but it's like he shouting to the world hey you didn't create anything he's worse than the blasphemer as I mentioned before razi on P of tabala 207 a says they feed in is calls that never go out of fire they never stop being fire never stop being lava that's what they feed him I don't know I think about that for half a second that already makes me have to do something about my Shabbat make it even better I keep but just thinking about that for a second that's enough but listen this generation is it's it's a tough Nation we have to do everything we can but this by the way all of these things I'm mentioning is off of FR people everything I'm mentioning I'm not mentioning I already finished for the secular people not keeping Shabbat I was already finished with them 20 minutes ago why they got the point Shabbat not considered Jewish that's already enough the rest of this is for the FR people that talk business on Shabbat in theet that when Shabbat comes they wait all the way to the last moment before they shut off the phone the ones that when it comes to shabbat it's like they're not really so excited about it they can't wait for the weekend to start they go to be a couple of hours but they're waiting to go to the movies to see all the nudity and what else in the movie theater half religious half the Shabbat is the first one that will be attacked byalik reason why shabbat is mentioned when you talk about the Torah Five Books of Moses every single time it mentioned Shabbat it mentions the holidays Shabbat comes right before them the reason why is because Shabbat is more significant than all of the holidays andat is not protected by hem says there's a special place in as I mentioned before because he lit a candle of fire before it was time so the the other that get they light the fire to burn him now in case people think that the five books of Moses is the only place and it's only about lighting fire and that's it you don't have to travel too far you could just go to the rest of the tanak you go to the Book of Jeremiah in the book of Jeremiah chapter 17 verse 19- 27 says the following thus said hasem to me Jeremiah is talking to the nation of Israel go and stand in the gate of the children of of the people through which the kings of Judah enter and through which they exit and in all the Gates of Jerusalem and say the following to them hear the words of Hashem oh Kings of Judah and all of Judah and all inhabitants of Jerusalem who entered through these Gates thus said hasem Beware for your souls do not carry a burden on the Shabbat day to bring into the Gates of Jerusalem and do not bring burden out from your houses on Shabbat you</