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[Music] sh we're continuing our stump the rabbi series Wednesday nights where um after a little bit of you guys will ask some questions will give us some answers um reminder for everybody that uh K store.org has a couple of new items for uh anybody that uh has gotten some other items but didn't get uh the new ones highly recommend for you to order we B already had a bunch of boxes go out uh today and really want encourage everybody to to order them uh if you local in uh in the states uh so we can get them uh into people's hands so the couple new items are the USBs um that have the tunait uh teachings on them there's over a 100 lectures here also some movies hasm took back his millions and a bunch of other movies in here uh we have the uh the movie cards with the QR cards that are in that package and also we have the uh holy nation book that is well known having hundreds of sources about the issues of wasting seed and how to do Chua for it and so on um this is the time this is the time of shim throughout the entire time when we read the uh Book of Exodus seph is called shim as a acronym for each of the parot spells out the word shim which means like Rebels this is the time where uh made into an auspicious time for people to do CH for uh the issues of wasting seed and immorality uh as the Ben as well as um many other that discuss this particular issue uh this uh issues of the bit are uh you know uh multiple parts of chuba one is obviously stopping the sin whether it's uh uh by you know person by themselves or with other people the second thing is to make sure that uh you put a fence and they go back to certain places that have uh different types of things that entice you to make that sin uh the third thing is to uh you know to actually repent by feeling Sor and apologizing to Hashem for all of those things that uh were done in the past uh and uh also one of the things that whether it's theim ofad like the balat or it's the AR or it's rimai uh they all recommended for people to do tiim uh in the old days they would do these tonim with fasting uh but since the generations have gotten weaker and weaker and people can't fast uh you know and still stay normal so the recommended uh way is for people to fast with money to replace their fast with money uh for anyone that wants a detailed explanation of that go to tunait do live uh tun t as in uh tun i k k u n h a b rit. live and over there we have a write up explaining the tikun of tunit of immorality and and also and all said that the T for women uh is the same for as it is for men meaning women that were immoral whether by by themselves or with people uh also have to do a tun and the tun for them would actually be uh the same as it is for men uh fasting and uh replaced with money and so on so this particular uh uh you know tun uh or sh package that we have in the kiru store is extraordinary way for a person to Fast Track their Chua because not only is a person able ble now to stop the sin and also to uh to do Chua for it and repent for it but also to be a where you could help other people do chuva for this particular issue uh and thereby each time a person does chuva due to your giving them this uh USB or giving them the uh the book or you sponsoring these things on the on the website then uh this is in essence a person that is going to have a uh ongoing never ending Merit account uh with your name on it because each time they would have Sinn is in essence a repentance for something that you have already done so this is a way to Fast Track doing kiru is a way to Fast Track doing chuva uh and uh we're trying to make it as easy as possible for people uh to do that as I said the supplies are limited uh and it's a uh we still have uh you know few hundred left to go uh aside from we also have we just arrived the new book by uh our own dear R uh it's in Hebrew only has it's about each par different stories M lots of interesting things for anybody that lives among uh Hebrew speakers uh in the United States get if you haven't gotten yourself already a package with the books in them uh you could order it now uh there are many people that have already ordered at least 30% of the books uh that we got are already spoken for people have already pre-ordered but we still have a bunch left that uh you could order and bring to your community in the United States uh with that being said we're uh the the sh is going to be for a for IM morati Doris bat analia Leo but Francis shva Mayan but Sarah baa but Sarah Ezra Ben baa Orit bat Elana and also for a of mar Julie Isa B Mara Samuel Ben Mara Seas Ben Mara Alexander B L Ben Mar David benri Amir Ben shahin and all of am Isel uh and all of the righteous noahides that are doing everything possible to do the will of hem day in day out so uh we have a extraordinary I think it's perfectly fit for the new era as we spoke about in last night's lecture uh the new era that we began the the parasa is also a new you know starting a new era for am Isel uh where uh am Isel is now uh starting to realize that they're no longer slaves but this is not something that uh came easy because uh as we see from the beginning of the Paras that uh something extraordinary happened where even though told everybody that is there to free everyone uh he uh you know unfortunately not everybody listened uh similar to how it's going to be before mashia comes even though everybody will have easy access to Torah more than any other time in history uh there's more Torah available in the world today uh with with ease than any other time in history whether you want free online shim like the one that you're watching or uh you know easy access to books much of it is also uh on the internet for free or you want to buy books today you don't have to travel for 6 months to go find uh some rich person that's also a scholar and to allow you to learn his books uh while sleeping in his house for several months today you could simply go on the internet and buy yourself some of the best books uh that ever uh uh existed or the best books that ever existed uh you know with with just a few dollars you can get yourself a attractive for $30 you could uh you can get yourself the k for $30 $40 you can get uh uh musar books again $30 $40 these are affordable sums for pretty much everybody uh and even if somebody can't afford uh to buy these books much of it is also available uh online for free whether it's hebrewbooks.org or it's a the Mira uh or safaria and as I've warned you guys in the past within regards to uh some of the places that are out there uh they do uh use commentary uh by the sages but also sometimes they're uh perhaps somebody liberal behind the scenes in some organizations where they also use commentary that's not Kosher but generally speaking the translations are Kosher uh whether it be to English and other languages and a person has an EAS a very easy access to tah and no one's going to have a complaint to Hashem as far as making a toah hard uh to uh to read or hard to understand because everything is on a silver platter available to this generation uh and really in essence this was the case at the time of MIT where you had a generation that had a uh a prophet like mosenu the prophet of all prophets that spoke to Hashem face to face uh just like a person speaks to his friend not that he saw something but rather that he was able to speak to hasm at all times uh just like people today send each other text messages or call each other or just show up at each other's houses without any problem that's in essence what had with but despite all of that the uh the tells us that only a fifth only one out of every five b is actually left Egypt and some say it's not really one out of five but rather one out of 500 or even one out of 500,000 meaning only two only two of of survived out of every million uh in the uh in the worst case scenario but even in the best case scenario uh you know only 20 out of every hundred Jews actually survived and left Egypt the rest of them were killed by aosh himself in the uh plague of Darkness because the simply did not want to leave Egypt just like Unfortunately today we are in the end of times we are in the era of mashiach and you see clearly now more than ever that there are certain people that unless there's going to be some open Miracles uh specifically made for them that they accept as miracles from Heaven uh they are not going to be uh the ones that are going to be saved by the Messiah when he comes uh simply simply because they don't want to accept uh the Torah for what it is they simply want to have a new Torah they want to have a new interpretation they don't want to accept our sages they want to make themselves into a sage they don't want to accept the Ala that we got from Mount and also from uh the the sages and the uh the or the rambam uh they want to interpret things according to their own understanding and uh sometimes even if they do understand standed they simply don't think that they have to accept everything justifying and rationalizing everything similar to how par himself did in this week's Paras where uh it says here that uh after uh let is leave he decides to to go after them he decides to go after them but the question is what really changed what really you know changed so the uh teach us that actually sent some uh some some Egyptian AR to go along with uh with mosenu to go along with am is and to see to it that they actually come back after a few days but uh after these Egyptians told the people okay it's time to go back to Egypt am is said no we're not going back we like it here we left maybe our cousins didn't maybe our friends didn't maybe some other people that we know didn't but we already left we're out of there we're not going back so those Egyptians that pretended to be friends got back on their horses and started writing back to Egypt and that's when am Isel started getting scared as it says in the PUK in uh Chapter 14 verse number 10 onai that is was very frightened and the children of is cried out to hem they start screaming to Hashem why he screaming to Hashem because these Egyptians are going back to tell par on us yeah but what about Hashem hem is with you what do you care about par here we see that am still did not have the fulla that hem runs the world they believe that Hashem created the world they believe that hasem was powerful but perhaps maybe not all powerful perhaps maybe he's not going to save them always having some level of doubts and Aon a lackings in theira and uh but their their uh cries were not answered their cries were not answered because when they got to the uh yamu the uh Angel the angel of the ocean said to I don't think it's fair for me to split myself self for these Idol worshippers what Idol worshippers is some of these people among them perhaps they have Torah but some of them have Idols with them they brought their statues with them they brought their stock portfolio with them they brought their sports with them they brought their all their immorality with them they they they're still Egyptians these people why should I split the ocean for them and then uh you know collapse myself on top of the Egyptians that are also Idol worshippers these are Idol worshippers and these are Idol worshippers why should I do it so what happens over here mosu tries to come down is he tries to come down letting them know that didn't bring you all the way here just for the sake of killing you if he wanted to kill you would have killed you with the Egyptians or even with your brothers and sisters that didn't make it the 80% that didn't make it is gonna fight your Wars and you shall remain silent meaning that when the Egyptians do show up yes these Egyptians went back they're going to go tell pero they're going to try to cause trouble per is Gonna Come Hashem told me per is going to come he's coming so yes you have a serious problem coming but don't worry who's goingon to fight that fight who's gonna fight that fight you don't have to worry about sharpening your your weapons you don't have to worry about anything else what you do have to to worry about is your lackings in amuna that's what you have to worry about you are not at a full state of when you're praying to at the same time some of you are also praying to an idol when you're praying to you're praying to instead of bringing you salvation you're praying to to give you a uh a stock pfolio that's much bigger than what you have when we pray to Hashem for a Salvation you're asking Hashem to give you something that you're not allowed to have when you're praying to Hashem instead of praying to hashm to give you good health you uh you you want Hashem to uh you know to give you health so you can make sins so in reality you're mhash what's called mhash like a defect in your mentality a defect in your mentality you guys have to work on yourself he tells them you don't have to worry about these Egyptians the Egyptians yes they're coming that's part of all part of's plan the problems the Heretics the missionaries all of that stuff that's all part of the plan what you have to worry about is not them you have to worry about you why are you not believing in a why and that's the reality now of course some people did believe the levy tribe did believe so what was the what was the uh qu with them yes you believe how come your brother doesn't how come you're not helping your brother and we see here that one of the B one of the main things that we saw that uh that that changed from the time of Egypt to the time of Matan is that in Egypt this Levy tribe this Levy tribe they saw that am is were were sinning they saw that am is were worshiping Idols they saw that am Isel were not doing exactly very good and they didn't do much but didn't punish them extra and make them into slaves or kill them or anything else but then later on when we actually fast forward and we get to Mount saai and am you know has the the golden calf what happens then everybody gets punished everybody gets punished except the levy tribe why the levy tribe because they did rebuke they did rebuke and they ended up killing 3,000 Sinners during that day meaning that although the Torah has always been there since the time of Abu he had the the Torah had the Torah yob had the T but it wasn't enforced into law until it got to mount sa including the law of rebuking so again even though the law is not 100% enforceable still it's the fact that you're not following it is creating a problem so then answers mosu answers M's prayer in a unusual way he says to him why are you yelling why are you yelling crying out to me go speak to the children of Israel and tell them to move forward what does it mean move forward you are the one that told them to havea you are the one that told them to that don't worry is going to be the one that fights your Wars and you shall remain silent and now you come to me and pray no you yourself have to go tell them how to havea how to show youra what they're I believe a lot of people say I believe some people say I believe some people say I I have amuna some people say this some people say that but the reality is that there's when push comes to shove we have to show that we believe in him we have to take action with our not just have a little bracelet and say I have auna not just a uh write little memes on the internet and said I have auna and all types of mumbo jumbo no we have to act like we have a Muna go do something that shows you have a Muna what is that something something that you wouldn't do had you not had auna go and build something that everybody says is impossible to build go and uh give something that no one thinks that you would ever give go do something in the name of where only someone that has AA would do such a thing and he tells mosenu don't pray to me the time for pray is not now the time right now is for you to go tell is how to practice their rauna and the way to practice Duna right now is to move forward and the first student the first talid that actually took the words of mosu to Heart wasad later becomes the head of the tribe of Y he hears mosu say listen guys remember I told you not to worry hashem's going to fight our Wars have a okay now I have instructions of how to have auna move forward what do you mean move forward into the ocean without asking any questions without thinking wait are you sure we don't know how to swim can you show me a proof do you have a video maybe instructions had simple the Rabbi says I go do and he went right forth into the ocean putting his life at risk to the point where the water got to his nose he already started the process of drowning but he didn't care why didn't bring us here to kill us and he gave us a leader that leader told us move forward that's how we practice our I'm doing it yeah but you didn't ask any questions you're not really sure if this is right this is no no no if it was wrong he would tell me if it was wrong he would tell me and guess what decided to bring there are many tribes there are many people and there also if you say yeah but already decided to bring the Messiah from the tribe of yudah from yudah himself you're right but there were many udas there were many people there wasn't only there were many y there were many people in the tribe of Yuda Buton was the one that was chosen to be the one where mashia is going to come from him why simplea I don't need any proofs I know exists that's enough I know the D is what I'm supposed to do that's enough I know Hashem is expecting more from me than I even think I'm able to do it that's enough and he moved forward and he moved forward this is one of the things that each and every one of us is getting tested with on a daily basis some more some less but nonetheless each one of us is being tested with our Amun on a regular basis and it's time for us to really take action with thisa and realize that believing is not it's not something it's valuable unless there's action that's connected to it now of course still even though they followed the they followed and the Sea split their amuna was still not at the highest level why it lacked something it lacked it lacked fear of Heaven even though they had knowledge acknowledgement that who is the god is The One and Only God even though some of them believed in in Idols too still there was are lackings so after split the ocean and drowned the Egyptians and not only that not only drowned the Egyptians but made sure that am sees clearly that this is not only not a happen stance but rather this is a unique one-time Miracle specifically made for them and no one else so not only did the ocean split not only only did the uh ground flatten so it's easy for them to walk not only did the water turn into fresh water anytime somebody wanted to drink the water would would come out and he'd be able to drink it sea water the the uh uh ocean water that is salt water turned into fresh water fruits came out of the ground literally hundreds of Miracles hundreds of Miracles happened inside yam but this in itself the Miracles themselves did not bring to a full state of Amun even though while they was splitting the ocean gave each one of them prophecy prophecy that is higher than even the prophet each person had prophecy the babies the babies that were still inside their mommy's belly saw this is God and I will I will sanctify him the little babies inside the belly saw things that are unimaginable but yet this was lacking was lacking because there was a suff a doubt there was a little amalik inside each person that gave them a doubt why maybe perhaps this that all types of mumble jumble things just like par Justified to come and ignore the fact that he just got 10 plagues just like ignored the fact that is has a mightier God just like Justified going after them in his irrational mind themselves also Justified not having full until not only collapsed all of the water on top of the Egyptians killed all of them but one except but also made all of the bodies wash up into the uh into the uh uh uh Beach so sees all of the bodies but even then showed Mercy For The Wicked dead and had the ground swallow them says the midash so he spit them all up into the beach to make sure that all of says no no don't worry about them coming back just like mosu says just likeu said in the in the that the people were scared because they saw that these Egyptians went back to went back to uh to par so mosu said to the people do not fear do not fear Stand Fast and see the salvation of hem that he will perform for you today for as you have seen Egypt today who Egypt that that came along with them just like he saw Egypt today because this was already 3 days or so after they left Egypt so how could they see Egypt today if uh if uh they already left Egypt meaning the Egyptians that were with them just like you've seen Egypt today you shall not see them ever again you're never going to see them again next these people that came here that were spies don't worry about them next time you going to see them they're going to be dead bodies you're never going to see them alive again so here drowns all kills all of the Egyptians except and now has their bodies shown on the beach to make sure that all of am sees these bodies and then has Mercy on the on the bodies but also a reward for the sea that did its job and gives them the uh gives him the food in essence gives him the bodies to eat for all the creatures that he Po and then that's when it says it says on that day that saved Israel from the hand of Egypt and isra saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore Isel saw the great hand that hasem inflicted upon Egypt and the people feared hem and they had inem and in Moshe his servant so we see here as I said years ago a not only a statement of fact of what actually transpired but also a map a map for each and every one of us of how to attain real amuna where it says over here that in order for to arrive at the amuna that they really wanted to have the that they really needed to have in order to get to that next level first that is saw the great hand that hem inflicted upon Egypt they noticed that Hashem is the one that's running the world not anybody else they paid attention to the Miracles they paid attention to what people call nature they paid attention to the details and they realized that these are not things that could happen by themselves like the atheists and the Heretics think that could happen these are not things that could explain themselves even a simple watch cannot build itself needless to say a world cannot build itself so they saw the hand of hem in what was happening rather than constantly justifying it rationalizing it with all types of scientific explanations like they do on a Discovery Channel am realized no no no this is not a wind this is not a a weather event this is not a uh no this is AEM this is AEM and that's it so first they saw the great hand of Hashem after that after they saw the great hand of hem they realized they realized they realized wait if hem is the one that's doing all of this that means that he has control over the entire world world if he has control of the entire world needless to say he has control of me he has control not only of me and not only of the cells that are inside me but also all of the things that happen to me whether I have money or I don't have money whether I live or I die whether I have food or I don't have food whether the food that I eat will satiate me or I'll stay hungry whether I'll be able to uh get married or stay single have kids or not everything is in the hands of hem it's not that Hashem just created the world and he left like the Greeks think it's not that Hashem runs the world but doesn't care about the small things like the Heretics think no Hashem knows about everything and cares about everything and as soon as a per each one of them realize the details the the the the micro details that aadh is concerned with each one of them each one of them feared AEM each one of them that understood from everything that was happening that it was all coming from the hand of hasem immediately after realizing that everything is in the control of hem that in itself brought them to fearing Hashem why fear of hem not why not loving Hashem because the natural human instinct the natural human instinct that created with us with is that as soon as you realize that someone is in control of your destiny immediately you are afraid why because what if they choose to end your your future what if they choose to do something that you don't want the point is is that the natural inclination of a person to to to is to feel fear as soon as they realize that they themselves are no longer in control and unfortunately the natural inclination of the evil inclination of each person is to want to relieve themselves from that control to make themselves believe literally to convince themselves that they are in control to convince themselves that Destiny is in their hands and the reality is it's not everything is from Heaven except the fear of Heaven that's what thear says everything is from Heaven whether you live or die rich or poor married single kids no kids sick healthy everything is from Heaven everything except the fear of Heaven except whether you will follow hasem or not meaning you will not succeed or fail just because you choose to go against theem Hashem will give you success or failure one way or the other based on his own calculations but nonetheless the the uh uh the uh conditions or the price of that success or failure will be different meaning that if a person follows the way of hem follows the way of hem fulfills the Torah will give that person success in order to help that person follow hasem even better meaning that person gives Daka for good places to do kir to help people do CH to learn t for for bhiva for all types of wonderful things andh will give that person even more money why he sees you want to do good he's going to help you do good on the other hand you also see people that are wicked that donate to invite missionaries that donate to uh promote heresy that donate to do bad things and sometimes hasem also gives them success why because he wants them to bury themselves he'll give them success in order because he sees they want to make sins they want to promote things that are against them and it'll even help them make themselves are even bigger hole in Gom on the other hand sometimes AEM will give a person failure he'll give a righteous person failure why to test him to build him to uh because he knows that this person will will stop being righteous if he he had success for all types of reasons that Hashem has that are above and beyond our pay grade on the other hand sometimes they'll give a wicked person failure in order to entice them to do chuva in order to get them to realize that it perhaps if they change things will change so the point is that hasem has an endless amount of of of of weapons that he can use in order to manage his creation and as soon as a person follows their good inclination they realize that everything is in the hands of hasem and that in itself creates a fear when a person does not fear hasem that's because that person is convinced that they are in charge of their own destiny Desy they are in charge of their own future they are in charge of whether they make money whether they get clients whether they do all types of things and the reality is quite the opposite and you'll see many times different teachers some of them call themselves rabbis some of them are just uh you know faulty uh uh Idol worshippers but many times people in society today promote this type of teaching where they tell people that you are in control you can do it believe in yourself and all types of things that in reality are not exactly in line with the Torah itself to say the least what is in our hands is whether we follow hem the results of that Hashem decides the results being money uh susten uh uh marriage children everything everything that a person uh has in their life everything that a person has in their life so as soon as saw that everything is in the control of hem immediately they had the natural human inclination that each one of us had at some point when we realize that we really are not in control which is fear of the almighty and therefore a person that does not have fear of the almighty is a person that's not paying attention just like we learned from the plagues as we learned from where he said that there every word has an opposite you have a tall short black white white light dark and so on and so forth but there is no opposite for fear of Heaven in the Torah it says during the plagues those that feared the word of Hashem went into the houses to to uh to uh escape from the uh uh uh the uh the barad the the hell but those that did not pay attention did not put their heart to it uh you know stayed outside and they ended up dying meaning that the opposite of fearing hasem is not not fearing hasem but rather not paying attention not paying attention to the details so as soon as themselves they themselves paid attention to the great hand of hasem they themselves arrived at this fear of heaven and as soon as is arrived at at the fear of heaven then what happened that's when they believed in hem they had faith in hm inem and also in the rabbi in mosu how come this is the case because as soon as a person realizes the hand of hem is in control of everything and the only thing that's in your hands is whether you're going to listen to hem or not you will arrive at fear why do you fear because you're not realizing what you're dealing with to a certain extent and as soon as you realize what you're you're dealing with you're dealing with the creator of all creations with the King of Kings the master of all Masters you're dealing with a you now that you realize who you're dealing with then you can say I believe in him I have faith in him why first and foremost it will be foolish not to have faith in him it'll be foolish not to have faith in him once I know who he is that's number one second of all now that I know what to believe in I can believe in it which means that all of these other religions all of these other different types of systems that people have they say also that they have faith they say also that they have uh all types of beliefs but in reality their beliefs are not the same as as a Jewish belief why just like ra vido Miller wrote uh uh or spoke in a lecture and there was a write up that came out about it that the belief of the Jews and the Gentiles in God is not the same even though some of them say that they actually like the Muslims they say they have the same God yes they do have the same God or even the the Christians they say they have technically even though they believe God is three which is idolatry nonetheless they say they still have that one God but their one God is not the same thing as our one God why because they believe in a God that has pieces they believe in a God that hates Jews they believe in a god that is uh uh contradicts himself and uh says that the uh you know the Torah is eternal but then changes it and says no there's something else to continue it they their their their Godly belief their Godly belief is not the same thing as a Jewish belief and that's one of the things that a person needs to understand when they are Torah observant they are now excluded from the rest of society and sometimes that Society is other fellow Jews sometimes that Society it could be family members could be friends could be others but nonetheless this is not a reason for you to hate everybody but rather to First and foremost understand that you yourself I myself didn't always see the world with such clear lenses like we do now through the Torah so if you have somebody that perhaps you care about or you have other people that you see that they're not seeing the truth there's no reason for you to hate them but rather try to help them try to help them because just like you didn't see it in the past they don't see it currently and just like it took you x amount of time to arrive at this Clarity it may take x amount of time for them to arrive at that Clarity this is the reason why we do kiru this is the reason why we teach we're not teaching people that already are in and already know just for them to continue growing forever we do want to teach those people and we do teach those people but nonetheless we're also teaching the people that are brand new that don't see the world clearly that don't know the the uh the whether it's right or wrong and that's one of the things that aadh taught us with this that he didn't just take out the completely righteous Levy tribe that eventually became the qu Gad and the levy that served in the bet mikdash not just them he also took out the ones that were in the middle and he also took the ones that were Wicked anyone that was willing to leave he took them meaning anyone that was T willing to take the leap of faith and just follow hasem even if they didn't believe 100% you're willing to go I'll take you I'll take you so that's in essence one of the things that sometimes people ask me listen I have a friend and he doesn't really believe much he doesn't really do much should I invite him to the lecture that you're having next week of course invite him that's the ideal candidate it's the ideal candidate why because perhaps he's going to come to the lecture and be just like one of many thousands of people B over the years that came to a lecture and changed their life I have one guy he came to a single lecture a single lecture Maybe six seven years ago one lecture in my house the guy never heard Torah in his life didn't know very much he came to one lecture after one lecture I never saw the guy never saw the guy but a year or a year and a half later he contacts me and he's a cute kid and he tells me listen Rabbi I'm sorry I haven't seen a long time I've just been really busy said what have you been busy with said I've been busy doing Chua I watch all your all your lectures online and everything I just uh haven't got the time to come to the lectures but I want to let you know that I did Chua I'm changing I'm keeping Shabbat I protected my breed and so on I said wow when did you do it he said after the first lecture I said yeah wait a minute but when you came to the lecture you asked me a few questions and you said that you're partially like almost like an atheist he said yeah before the lecture I was almost an atheist after the lecture I believed in God one lecture one lecture and this young man I tried him throughout the years got married with a has a has a family now is learns T and throughout all of these years since he did cha I think it's been maybe I don't know five six years whatever it's been he only came to one other lecture one time that's it I saw him twice in my whole life but this young man changed his life and many many others like him from all over the world so when people tell me should I come to the event it's going to it's G to be a plane ticket it's going to be difficult I have this I have that of course of course you should come but even more so bring somebody with you yeah but the people that I know they're not religious exactly perfect bring them yeah but the people that I know are already religious exactly perfect bring them too everybody needs it everybody needs it and that's one of the most important things that a person needs to understand is that in today's world everyone needs to do Chua everyone needs to anyone that does not think he needs to do CH needs to do CH just for thinking such a stupid thought somebody came to thean and told him I don't understand why do I have to read the the every day on wef we read we see i s uh accidentally uh you know on purpose intentionally all types of things I didn't sin I didn't steal I didn't murder I didn't do this the ran answers him and says to him young man if you really understood what those words really mean and you really understood what your actions that you're doing really means not only will you realize that you have to do the vi every day but you'd realize how foolish your question is for thinking that you shouldn't be included in the vi because if a person truly understood what their actions are and compare them to what the Torah says everybody has to do chuba everyone for something some people higher some people lower some people for many some people for few but the point being is is that everyone needs to do chuba and that's why we're starting these events we're starting to get people together face to face aside from the weekly lectures that we do on video because sometimes people need that extra that extra to see a physical body to see something to see other people in order to get inspired I highly recommend everybody do whatever they can to make sure not only to come to the event but to bring somebody with them or somebody's with them we have people coming from New York we have people coming from uh from Chicago we have of course people that are local we have a lot of people coming and it's going to be a packed house but most importantly it's going to be an inspiring night it's going to be an inspiring night that we're going to be able to get closer to together this is what wanted us to understand from this week's Paras in the beginning of it where we have to see the hand of hem first and foremost secondly we have to use that knowledge of the hand of hem to fear him because once we fear Him that's when we could officially say we believe in him and once we believe in him we can start noticing all of the other things that he does for us another thing that we also learn in this par is that each one of the things that a does he does for a reason even how he instructs us to write the Torah itself the Torah scroll itself you may not notice it in your Kash I don't know if you're reading an English or Hebrew but you will notice it if you go to and you see a you see the seph T in a section of that started singing with the way that the uh uh the uh the is to write a seph t is usually it's to have different paragraphs sentences and so on but there are certain sections of the Torah where the uh we're instructed to have unusual amount of separation between words in this section where there's the song of mosenu we have not only an unusual separation but a unusual separation that shows us something that happened during this event what is that something if you look at the words and I'll try to get some type of image to put it on the video tomorrow when it's put online if you see the words on the seph T the way that the sentence is broken up you'll see that the sentences are broken up into uh a bit of the sentence on the right a bit of the sentence on the left and then right under then between it there's a complete empty space and then the following line doesn't have anything on the right doesn't have anything on the left but rather has a few words in the middle and then again repeated the next line right left empty in the middle big gap in the middle then again uh the opposite what does all this look like when you look at it you see what are they singing they're singing that the one and only split the ocean split the ocean in such a fashion that it's memorable 3,334 years later and that section of the Torah looks exactly like how is crossed the ocean each one in their own tunnel each one where the ocean was split as the Torah says a blast from your nostrils the water were heaped up straight as a wall stood the running water the water continued running but straight as a wall to the heavens but what with the blast of his nostrils what does you mean blast of his nostril he doesn't have a body doesn't have a uh a nostril doesn't have a nose but in essence trying to show us symbolically show us that it didn't take much for hem to do such a miracle for us it's grand for us it's extraordinary but if somebody says listen he blew air okay so he blew air if he blew air from his mouth and he really really tried okay so he put all of his effort into it or if he blew air a little bit okay but when you say oh no the air came out of his nose that's like something that's a reflex it's not even something anybody tries with and that's in essence what the tah is telling us that from his the nostrils the air from nostrils was enough already to make the Waters of the ocean not only split but go straight up to the heavens like a wall and that's how is crossed crossed the uh crossed the ocean here we also learn one of the things that that he's too awesome to praise meaning that first and foremost when we say for example the after you complete the uh the section of the and it ends with then it starts giving all types of complements to Hashem all types of descriptions to Hashem he's amazing he's great he's this he's that don't ever think for a moment that these are it that's what the sages teaches about that prayer don't think for a moment that these are it here the Torah tells us he's too awesome to praise but we still praise him because by praising him it's not for him it's for us to remind us how great he is how pure he is how righteous he is how honest he is how everything that's good he is the Praises are for us because when we praise him we recognize how great he is but don't ever think that there is going to be enough praises to really give you an understanding of who a really is because no amount of Praises will ever be enough furthermore we see that despite all of the Miracles that each and every one of B is saw with their own eyes the tent plagues the destruction of the mo the the greatest civilization that lived uh as far as power is concerned the uh all the wonderful things they saw the splitting of the ocean each tribe with their own tunnel fruits and vegetables coming out of the ground uh the Egyptians uh drowning then getting swallowed up by the ground but yet all of their uh possessions their gold their diamonds and everything else were spit back up or stayed up in order for the Jews to actually collect all of it despite all of those Miracles what happens the Jews unfortunately stopped learning tah for just a couple of days and went back to their natural self which is complaining against the they started complaining to Moshe where we you going to drink we need something now okay you're right you in a desert you have a right to drink you're right to you're right to ask for it but why are you complaining why are you complaining then we see that this complaining was not something that liked and not something thatu liked needless to say and it says so we see here thatu had to cry out to hasem he had to cry to in order to help him with this situation that there is no water for them to drink why did mosu have to scream furthermore we see later in the par when when is again complains about the food complains about the food and it says that mosu again cried out to hem he has to scream why does he have to scream says in the uh in chapter 17 verse number four that uh they uh not the food they they wanted water again and uh Moshe cried out to hem why is mosu keeps screaming to hem why does he it says means to scream what hm can't hear you if you whisper please do me a favor hook up a little bit of water some mineral water some spring water some uh Coca colola maybe too I don't know hook us up why does he have to scream why where else did we see that it says that M cried out and screamed to hasem where else do we see during the plagues of the frogs when the plague of the frogs happened and caused destruction to parau and his Empire over there eventually says get this get this out of here get these frogs out of here there m there's death away from me already all of these all these frogs so mosenu screamed out to Hashem why do you have to scream to Hashem you could simply whisper you could do a little bit of uh pray in your own uh in your own uh stomach pretty much why do you have to scream to Hashem this is how righteous mosenu was mosenu wanted to make sure that no one out there not the Egyptians and not the Jews ever think that the salvation came from him he wanted to make sure that everybody knows that he is praying to Hashem he's praying to hasem don't pray to me mhe like some of the other religions do to their false gods don't pray to me pray to Hashem just like I pray to hem so mosu screams out okay so you have your praying to hm why do you have to scream out because the frogs were so loud he had to scream out in order to make sure that everybody hears that he's praying to Hashem and he himself is not stopping the plague but rather Hashem is the same same thing happened over here am was complaining complaining meanings that they were screaming yelling all types of vile things why' you do this to us why this why that so mhu wanted to make sure that everybody knows we are nothing we're all nothing we're all going to pray to hem I'm gonna pray to hem and you see hem answer only because I prayed to hem which you could have done yourself why are you complaining to me go talk to this is what a lot of people do a lot of people spend their time instead of working on themselves by seeing in creation by developing a fear of the almighty and eventually getting to a point of having faith in Hashem what do they do they talk about their problems to people they talk to people about their problems they quetch they tell people I have this problem boohoo to me boohoo to me boohoo boohoo now again if you're talking about your problems to somebody that can help you and you're asking for help that's one thing but the reality is most people don't talk to people that they can help they just complain oh you see what happened to me you see what happened to me you see what happened to me they get so used to complaining to people that as soon as they run out of complaints about themselves they talk about bad things that other people did oh you see what he did you see what happened to him you see what happened to them you heard who how much money they lost oh you heard they got a divorce oh you heard their kid something happened with them and sins develop more and more sins develop instead of working on themselves and talking to AEM they talk to people that's what m said we learned already in yam don't waste your time talking to people talk to but first you have to recognize that can help you so look at all the goodies that you have you have a house you have a wife you have a husband you have kids look at all the things you do have don't look at the one thing you don't have look at the things you do have you have eyes you know how many people are blind you have ears you know how many know people are deaf you have a mouth you know how many people have problems that they can't even eat with with their teeth they have to eat through a tube you have the ability to go to the bathroom you know how many people are suffering that they have to go with through tubes and all types of things and you're still complaining why because you don't don't have as much money as you want to have like in your fantasies when a person starts counting their own chickens they realize that they're rich only the person that's counting somebody else's chickens thinks that he's poor and the reality is that when a person realizes all of the wonderful gifts that has given him they already know just like says I'm already you've already too much for me I'm so little I'm nothing and you've already given me so much what right do I have to complain to you but unfortunately when we don't notice we don't acknowledge what Hashem has already given to us not only do we not fear Him not only do we have trouble having faith in him but even worse than all of that we have fa we have no faith in following his Torah we have no faith in following the rabbis we have no faith in following anything but our own delusions and where do we go inet where do we go for guidance from people that are looking to pacify us friends family Heretics aim all types of wrong places that's where people go why because you didn't go to AEM you ended up going to the wrong place and evenu teaches us what what do you screaming what are you screaming for go I'm nothing we're nothing what are you screaming to me for go pray to hem and that's one of the things that teaches here this is an extraordinary Gula for every single human being on planet Earth if you hearken diligently to the voice of Hashem your God and you do what is just in his eyes who's his his is Hashem if you do what is just in his eyes meaning don't bring a missionary for idolatry to your synagogue meaning don't make fun of the sages meaning don't mock the Torah in general meaning don't go against the Torah and create a new one a new religion a new uh newer ideas don't just follow what his what his Torah already said if a person will hearken diligently to the voice of Hashem your God and do what is just in his eyes give ear to his Commandments and observe all his decrees not just some of the decrees not just the ones that you like not just the ones that you agree with not just the ones that you believe in not just the ones you understand but rather you hearken to all of his Commandments and all of his decrees than any of the diseases that I placed in Egypt I will not bring upon you for I am AEM your healer here we see that gives us an extraordinary to mankind if you follow his Torah according to his understanding his will meaning if you're a Jew you follow the laws of the Jews if you're Gentile you follow the laws of the Gentiles if you're a gentile that's process of conversion then you start following the laws of the Jews 99% until you complete your conversion but nonetheless you follow his laws according to what he said which thereby also means the sages because the sages are the ones that are telling us exactly what he says they're interpreting the toah for us then you have nothing to worry about because all of the problems that he put on Egypt whether it's the sicknesses from the plagues before all of those things he's not going to bring on you why I your healer I your healer so why did decide to to do all of this why did mosu make this statement now and not before and not after why didn't he wait to mount saai to say such a thing because this whole issue of them lacking amuna after they already saw the Miracles after they've already achieved Thea only happened because they got to the uh the place where they stopped learning to for a couple of days they stop learning toah for a couple of days and that's when they started falling why because if you don't learn toah each and every single day you're n starts starving even if your body is full your Nish starts starving and you start having all types of craziness in your head all types of problems that that's why most people cannot even solve their own problems why because their problems are not physical material problems they're spiritual problems and that's the reason why it says right before right before mosenu tells people to follow diligently the voice of hasem and follow his toah his Commandments and his decrees what does it say in chapter 15 verse 25 and on to 20 uh uh 25 and 26 it says there he established for the nation a decree and an ordinance what is are elogical laws so mosu told is in the name of hem here we have a law that's red heer it's a elogical law to teach you that you don't have to understand the tah in order to be obligated to follow it you don't have to understand the depth of Jud judgment in order to understand that there is Judgment you don't have to understand everything in order for you to be obligated to follow it there are laws that are called are laws that are not necessarily always logical to us but there but we are still obligated to do them and then there was also the mishpat what was the mishpat he taught them a couple of laws the law of Shabbat even though Mount siai was about a month and a half away he taught him about Shabbat now why start toiling with the elogical laws and the laws that make sense but also the laws that make sense that don't necessarily make sense completely and he also throughout there throughout that time where they went from yam all the way to Mount Si the Z says thatu taught them the consequence of not following these laws whether they're logical or illogical and thereby the Z says taught them about G for a month and a half a month and a half about Gom about judgment why that makes sense to everybody that makes sense to everybody that wants to hear the truth the only people it doesn't make sense to are people that don't want to hear the truth people that simply want to make a new truth they think that God's going to love them no matter what even their own husband and their own wife doesn't love them no matter what even uh they themselves don't love themselves no matter what even Society is not going to love you no matter what but they think that God is going to love them no matter what even if they go against them even if they go against the tah even if they desecrated they think that God's going to love them no matter what this is obviously ridiculous but nonetheless this is unfortunately what's being taught in the world today that no matter what you do God will love you no matter what no it doesn't work that way he'll love you in a sense that he'll give you opportunities to do Chua while you're in this world but once a person can completes their time in this world there's no more love there's judgment if you're righteous good judgment go to good place forever he didn't do good could go to a bad place go to G forever go to kafa Forever go to a lot of places that are horrible forever and this is one of the things that a person already learned at the time before Mount Z before Mount Z this is one of the things that we needed to have in order for us to get to the next level to earn the Torah itself and because we passed this test over the next month and a half gave us the T gave us the tor we too will also learn from during this time and earn the tah just like they did with that being said you guys can start asking questions I'm going to get a little drink for a second okay let's see uh first question that I see is one from Jeremy does writing off donations on taxes take away from your SC can one write off my sale Pon Fest uh or does it have to be just uh other no uh writing off donations for tax purposes uh does not uh lower your uh your reward that's just an added benefit meaning you donate money for the right cause for Torah for kiru for good things you're going to get a full uh reward in the uh in uh in the next World and actually if if it's for kiru you also get a reward for it in this world and uh as far as having the ability to write it off for tax purposes that's just an added benefit it's a uh it's it does not lower the reward that you're going to get in this world in the next uh next question I see from Ariel uh I heard that the zor says that someone that Wast seed goes to Gom and never leaves but says this means that not you go to Gom it means that part of your soul that is damaged does not Ascend enjoy the glory of God I don't study Z regularly just on this issue okay so in regards to a person that Wast seed if the person does not do chuva if the person does not do chuva he goes to G and he does not come out this is what is said uh we actually learned yesterday from the ramb uh in uh this is a also in the uh person that weigh seed goes to the seventh level of G whoever goes there does not come out this is also in the and this is also in the Z and across the board this is referring to somebody that weighs seed intentionally and does not do chuv they lose their this is uh the the opinion of all this is not a uh just the opinion of the Z or or anything else now if a person does chuva then they uh it depends on the level of Chua that they did if they did partial chuva then they'll have to go to Gom partially if they uh do full chuva then they will not have to go to Gom at all so it all depends but in regards to a person that weigh seed we have probably over a hundred videos uh on the particular topic which includes the the the different ideas uh the the uh the medical issues all of the different things are all to be learned from those lectures uh and uh hence the reason why we're even giving this stuff out uh for you to help other people learn because most people are um so addicted to the sin itself that they look for reasons to justify that it's not so bad in order for them to continue so a person needs to not fool themselves we don't make things up we don't uh just come up uh with things out of a uh out of a hat what we say is what is written and we bring sources for everything just yesterday we talked about it in the lecture it's in the ra we also talked about it in countless lectures with details uh there are literally over 40 or 50 hours worth of lectures that I have about this particular topic that a person that learns them will understand completely not only that it's forbidden but also the magnitude of the sin and I've had countless men both young boys uh you know teenagers uh uh guys in their 20s 30s 40s 50s rabbis aim uh religious non-religious Jews non-jews people literally from all walks of life that listened to those lectures listened to the movie listen to all of those things and all arrive at the same conclusion that this is the indisputable truth this is real and nonetheless they have to do chuv and countless people have done chuva and have changed their life and many of them told me how their life have changed for the better uh you know because of them doing chuva many of them ended up making a lot more money many of them ended up finding a spouse because of it many of them ended up having a better improved Health as a result of it some literally had open Miracles because of it all types of things so it's it's a the reality is that the teach us to be extremely careful of this sin so much so that they say that you're not even allowed to touch your bit if you're a single guy at all period even if you need to urinate okay so just so you understand how horrible this sin is so of course a person needs to know that the sages are not just saying things just because they want to be shock Chucks I am not saying anything just because I want to scare people I have no benefit in one way or the other the reality is this is a major tragedy that people bring on themselves and the bigger tragedy is when they hear the truth and then they look for ways to uh to uh rationalize their lies so again the truth is out there anyone that wants to fulfill it will be able to fulfill it because thein says that as soon as a person truly takes on to to do the will of hem Hashem gives him the strength or gives her the strength to be able to do it and therefore the people that are not able to fulfill a certain mitvah whether it's the Mitzvah of chuva in general or it's the Mitzvah of overcoming this particular obstacle or it's the Mitzvah of watching their eyes or it's the Mitzvah of keeping Shabbat or Mitzvah of giving or learning T whatever Mitzvah it is if somebody's not succeeding in fulfilling a Mitzvah it's because they didn't really take it on they didn't really take it on so a person needs to be able to take it on so does that mean that if a person takes it on he's going to succeed with smooth sailing and never fail no you will have bumps in the road you will have bumps in the road the says everything is hard in the beginning everything in life everything is hard in the beginning but that's what a person needs to overcome once a person overcomes that initial obstacle Hashem was going to give them extraordinary strength to continue overcoming it even if there are going to be bumps in the road they'll have the strength to overcome those bumps as well but the key is not to lie to ourselves and think that oh if I don't end up losinga then it's okay then oh if uh the uh you know somebody will say you know on a Blog that it's okay to invite an idol worshipper then it's okay oh if it's uh really not a sin to uh uh to date a non-jew then I'll do it don't don't lie to yourself person needs to admit the truth stick with the truth and once they're with it they'll have the strength to overcome it and it's a uh the important thing is to educate ourselves about the truth and not something that's going to contradict the truth um rosley we need to rebuild a temple uh we can only do it once hem tells us to do it and the HM is only going to tell us to do it once the mhia comes shom is that aspect of and how important as you in the in this Millennium uh you're combining a bunch of things uh as far as is the foundation Foundation is the breit uh that's the breit that's the issues of morality both for men and for women a person that is uh protects their uh their uh Foundation their their you know morally righteous people meaning they're not promiscuous not with themselves not with others they're uh even during uh permissible times with their spouse they do it with modesty uh they're not like animals in the zoo uh they uh they're they're also modest with their uh words their behavior this is the issues of yod if a person is a modest with their and protects their yod they can in essence sanctify themselves and thereby make it easier for them to accept what D is what is the truth of the Torah what is the truth of the Torah and as far as the importance of theim said in the which interpreted for us that the last generation before mashia there is going to be a couple of things that are going to be the tun of the generation the biggest one is going to be the issues of morality wasting seed promiscuity all of those things that's going to be the biggest thing for the generation uh second thing is going to be uh Torah learning Torah learning is a uh uh second thing and also modesty I mean technically all three are really connected but nonetheless that's the the uh if a person protects their breit it's very easy for them to learn Torah and their Torah brings them a lot of merits if a woman is modest it's very easy for her to learn and also observe the Torah because she's pure but if a person is not modest or if a person is not a protecting their their B their they're immoral they're promiscuous and so on then even if they learn Torah says all of the merits for that Tor all of the good that that is comes out of that Torah goes to give strength to the goes to give strength to the Satan himself it doesn't go to their account they don't get reward for it so a person that learns to but still stays immoral uh does not get the merits of that to and in fact a uh gets punished gets some say that he actually gets punished for it uh so again not doesn't mean that he should stop learning but rather that he should start following what he's learning and many times the people that are immoral end up uh you know not accepting the toah that they learn so they learned Tor but they learned Torah like the ramban says naal despicable with in essence with permission by the Tora so he looks for things to justify a Despicable Behavior he looks for things in the Torah in order to justify Dispicable Behavior which of course anyone that wants to find something and twist the words will uh will uh you know can use the Torah for it and and it's a unfortunately done every day tell are you allowed to have TV in your house if you only watch news and select programs okay so TV in the house if you're using the TV as a screen to uh to watch Torah uh and educational programs for for kids which in essence is Torah or let's if you're learning a language or math you want to use a TV as a screen you can use that it's no different than a computer uh but to watch the news absolutely not to watch uh programs like a uh I don't know uh uh all types of uh you know public television programs absolutely not if you want to use a screen for educational purposes uh which is again to learn Torah lectures you could watch this lecture on your TV you could watch a you could put the uh uh YouTube version of this on your TV you could uh watch other lectures by r mrai or other uh uh righteous people on on on that screen again whether it's a computer screen or a TV it's the same thing or it's a phone it's all the same thing uh you want to use a that that program to watch a education let's say I don't know uh teach math or a some type of uh uh mik some type of uh profession educational program for that yes that that you can use a screen for that but to watch public television like news that's full of absolutely not uh a uh public programming like TV shows absolutely not in fact the ston says it's idol worship ston says it's idol worship to do such things to bring such uh Toy Vine into a house so again if you use a screen whether that screen is a computer screen an iPad screen a phone screen a uh or a TV screen that you are putting programs on it that you have control over and again it's only that then you could uh you could have a uh uh you could it for that because again the whole world is uh is is learning more to today on a screen much more than they are learning from books and Torah has become accessible for people because of the screens but to go and uh think that that's giving you permission to watch uh television to watch TV sports uh news uh all types of uh Stupid shows no there's no permission for doing that no uh no leniency and no nothing um uh and uh again I I have in my in my house we have a screen which is there there's no cable in my house it's simply a screen that's a uh computer screen you have it on the wall and from time to time my uh raban puts a specific program a Torah program or some type of educational program for my kids to watch and uh get educated sometimes they'll be educated from the books sometimes they'll be educated uh from words she'll teach them sometimes they'll be educated by the screen so we use a combination of all of it sometimes more sometimes less but nonetheless of course we use a screen uh for that purpose but to go and give yourself or your children access to the uh so-called secular world free world to watch a screen and watch News full of full of Gossip full of Filth full of immodesty full of all that junk absolutely not to watch movies absolutely not to watch TV show absolutely not simply nothing is allowed on TV so that that's on a regular uh uh uh cable uh so uh so therefore there's no permission for it but again the screen in itself you can use a screen for good or for bad the screen you can use for watching Torah the screen you can watch you could use it to I don't know hit a terrorist in the head or something you can use a screen for a couple of good things but to watch TV and public TV and movies and things like that no there's no permission whatsoever for such a thing that is bringing what's called to which is disgusting in the eyes of hasem into your house and that's forbidden according to all opinions according to all opinions and in fact even the uh the uh uh the permission to use the screen uh to watch anything is not necessarily acceptable by everybody's opinion there are some uh some righteous people some that say even to teach even to teach Torah you shouldn't do it with the screen of course in the world today uh we see that there's more good coming out of this than there is bad from learning from a screen uh but nonetheless there are some opinions say that even for that it's not good and there's a certain certain part of it that's 100% true why because when you learn from a book versus when you learn from a screen they're two different things they're two different things why are the two different things because if you learn from a book first of all it's usually much more difficult when something is more difficult and you end up overcoming it you end up remembering it and and and really uh uh uh connecting to it much more versus when I give you guys a lecture I'll give you I don't know sources that took me years to acquire all on a silver platter in a matter of a couple of hours and nine out of 10 things that I said people are not even going to remember and almost 10 out of 10 things that I said no one's going to write down uh you know so it's it's so it's yes a lot of work came into it give you a lecture you have the information but in essence it's a it's not something that always sticks with people usually most people get one two things out of the entire lecture that really impact them and the rest of it is as if it never happened but it's still better than not watching the lecture because it's two three hours that you're not uh doing something wrong and it's still educational it's still informative and it's still good but again the stuff that's really going to stick is usually one or two things whereas when you read something you'll usually you'll you'll acquire a lot more you'll usually acquire a lot more but the problem is most people are not going to read either they're not going to read at all or they're not going to read all the time so studying by video is something that is extremely valuable on the other hand the the the the downside of videos is that sometimes we'll see imagery in the videos that actually instead of doing what the objective is which is to give us an imagery to uh uh to to give us a sense of what's happening and and and try to make us have a uh emotional uh uh reaction to certain things sometimes those very same images will actually have a negative effect on us and I'll give you an example that I saw in myself now most people think of Mount sa when they think of Mount saai if they are b or if they simp uh were not uh uh extremely observant their whole life and they watched movies and so on when people think of Mount Sai they think of some film that they watched that gave them an imagery of what Mount saai looked like and what the Exodus looked like so it looked like a huge group of people came out uh and uh and a huge group of people gathered in Mount saai and in essence it's a uh so when you think of it I think of it uh you know it's a uh uh the movie that I saw I don't know 30 something years ago was the Ten Commandments I don't recommend for anybody to watch it but nonetheless that's the movie that I saw 30 something years ago okay so now I think okay that's Ten Commandments there was a mountain there was a lot of people there uh there was Moses with two tablets that he's holding in his hands and that's in essence a visual that's still stuck in my head now initially you think oh this is good so at least you have a concept of that there was a lot of people and it was a mountain and this and that right until you start learning once you learn Tor you start realizing that those images are actually ruining you why because those images in essence what they're doing to you is that they're putting that that event that happened in Mount saai in a comprehensible format that you can not only visualize but you could really truly understand the scope of it so in what you're seeing is you're seeing that there is a leader that looks like an older man and then you have a huge group of people that's somewhat equivalent to what you see in a a uh football stadium uh or a uh baseball stadium you see I know 20 30 40 50,000 people so in essence that imagery is not really what happened why is that important because told us in the Tor that what he did at Mount sa what he did to take us out of Egypt is a memorable event so much so that we have to be reminded of it every single day because it is something that's incomprehensible it's beyond our Logic No human mind could truly understand it without being there and even if you were there was literally impossible to comprehend the massive scale of what took place so when you have an imagery of 30 40,000 people that you saw in some film okay versus what really happened which is literally millions of people millions and millions of people you can't see the end we're talking about miles miles of people like it's it's it's it's it's something that is not comprehensible to a human being because you've never seen such a thing what it's like is in the movie It's like a bunch of people went to a football game and a bunch of people left so you see them going in there's a lot of people in line getting out of the cars you know all excited they're all sitting in a stadium cheering You See It Roar noise and so on then everybody leav at the same time a little bit of traffic for a little while and then everybody eventually goes home a few hours okay that's in essence comprehensible what happened really in a tah is not comprehensible it's not comprehensible why because it's miles of people miles of people and it's literally something that the human mind cannot comprehend and it what it's like is as if the entire state of New York okay the entire state of New York we're talking about millions of people probably 20 million people in New York I believe now okay all of them all of them decided to leave New York and go to Texas that's what happened that's what the that's in essence what happened or I don't know if people may makes people happy everybody in New York all gathered they all agreed to leave which is in itself incomprehensible for people they all agreed to walk no driving they all left their house took a little baggie some food in it and just started walking hey smoy how are you oh hey Joe and everybody started walking and before you know it there are literally millions and millions of people all at the same time walking endlessly all the way to Florida can somebody comprehend such a thing no no it's not comprehensible hence the reason why tells us to reminds us to remind oursel of this onetime event that never happened before will never happen after until mhia comes when there's going to be even bigger Miracles but it's something that never happened to any other Nation nor other the nation even claims it as a false story that these types of things happen and needless to say all of those people arrive at the same destination and all saw the words of God and we're talking about miles and miles of people forget about the number people usually try to say oh yeah it was 3 million at least it was 5 million it was 10 million forget the number the number is not comprehensible to people think about distance think about distance think about from let's say for example it takes you I don't know takes you uh uh an average person walks 4 miles per hour that's where an average person walks okay four miles per hour so that means that every mile is 15 minutes so imagine to to walk to walk from the beginning of the camp to the end of the camp it's going to take you more than an hour some say it was actually going to take you somewhere closer to 3 hours to go from beginning of the camp to the end of the camp it's it's not something and that's just the people that's just the people and all of those people are all walking together with their kids with the babies with everything for years together this is not something that's comprehensible so the massive scale of the massive scale of Mount saai was only ruined by the imagery we all allowed into our minds so from there those sages are 100% right because if you asked the if you asked the the uh the bov if you asked R AKA all of these things that happened to us they would give you an imagery that's even clearer than the one that I just gave you because the Torah was much clearer to them and it would be even more in comprehensible to us because it's just so massive and the only reason why we think we understand it is because we saw an image of it but that understanding is limiting excuse me is limiting hasem it's limiting hasem why it makes the miracle of Mount sa the miracle of The Exodus smaller than what it was and thereby not as influential not as extraordinary not as magnificent and not as obligatory for us to appreciate for us to live by because it's okay it's a football stadium what's the big deal I see football stadiums all the time that's in Ence the human mind like okay so I go to soccer games all the time there's a lot of people there what's the big deal so okay so all those people went to Israel big deal why because the mind the yet saw in essence people go to a soccer match and thinks okay so they went to Mount Si what's the big deal no that's the problem that imagery ruined us and it's important for a person to learn the mid and the the the thear and all the different teachings about what actually transpired without always adding an imagery to it uh because again the imagination that you have naturally is much more developed than the imagery that's available out there in the world and the imagination of a child for example can reach much much further places than the imagination of an adult because the adult is full of is has seen a lot of things in their life that limit their imagination so that's why when you tell all types of Supernatural stories to a child it's very easy for them to believe it's very easy for them to be influenced it's very easy for them to accept it and to to just be amazed by it whereas when you teach some of these things to adults are you sure about that what's the source for that story can you give me a source for that like as if it makes a difference if I tell you it's in a book or it's not in a book I mean what do you think I'm in a business of making stuff up for what purpose exactly so that's the thing is that people are constantly don't want to believe something because their imagination can't get their head around it so they want to justify a way how they could justify not to believe it and that's unfortunately the problem because sometimes we have certain mid that uh if you have tainted your mind with this world too much it's impossible for you to believe just for example learn about the midashim of what happened in the BET mikdash what happened in the BET mikdash how many people were actually killed how many people lived there before the destruction the average person that reads those midashim simply no no it's all Parables it's all analogies it's not real automatic automatically arrives at the conclusion that it's all not real it's all imagination it's all some other message that nobody ever knows because it cannot be humanly possible that that many people lived in Jerusalem but the reality is that the only reason why we have those beliefs that are lackings of of of belief is because we tainted our minds with other things so the less the less imagery the less uh uh things you put in your mind the better quite frankly if somebody has the ability to just listen to my shim versus watch them I would say that's also uh uh even preferable even preferable why first of all I'm not exactly uh such a good-look man that you need to look at me exactly and second of all even more more more uh uh serious is that perhaps the words may reach even a deeper place in your imagination if you don't have any visuals distracting you especially if you're watching me on like a uh Facebook and you have all these comments and all these distractions on the screen uh it's it's you know usually these things hurt the imagination that's why I always tell people watch the uh lectures if you want to watch them live watch them on on our app or watch them on the website BH dolive uh that's all you know you can watch it there on your desktop instead of watching it on Facebook we're still doing a Facebook live because there are always new people that join us because of the of the social network but nonetheless if you are already a uh a subscriber you're already a student you're already a friend you're already a supporter don't watch on Facebook watch on the app or watch on the browser b. live that's the best place why because there there's no distractions there's no texting there's no nothing there's no a uh distractions and and and I think it's it's also very valuable again in regards to the questions for this particular uh series uh we'll have to figure out a way of how to get questions from those other terminals but the other lectures that there is no questions there it's best to watch it on those other places so again there is a great value uh for uh the using a screen uh for the sake of learning toah but that does not give us any permission to use that very same screen or other screens to watch things that are forbidden but even what's allowed we have to be very careful with because sometimes what's allowed can end up hurting us nonetheless okay next question uh Ricardo is asking oh I the question just got erase Ricardo sorry it's um every time somebody asks a question the the terminal uh erases it okay uh okay okay is is asking is it a punishment from Heaven if someone has difficulty learning from printed books even using glasses can you replace partially the books with recordings or shim on TV uh like I said learning from a uh book learning from a is the highest level uh learning from a screen uh or or audio is uh is also good I mean the guys that for example our four students that completed the sh in one year they did a combination where they would learn from the the duff through recordings as well as reviewing it you know and actually reading the actual page itself they needed that extra uh help to understand from an audio recording so the audio or the the video is definitely helpful uh but that does not absolve a person from the need of actually reading books you do need to read books the more the better but again always remember always make sure it's kosher books not just uh you know books that uh are uh popular today uh next one Marshall is asking good evening Robert ruen I have been wanting to know how can we distinguish when it's aem's will that we do something in personal decisions rather than our guilt following other people's advice how do we know I know everything is from Hashem and he controls what happens but how do we know when he wants us to do something so in essence if a person needs to uh uh Act Naturally in in in his uh in his uh world where you know we learned from this week's par that is they left Egypt but they took weapons with them they had weapons why they need weapons if Hashem is with them because from there the teaches us that we all are obligated to Act Naturally in the world to to work to make a living to uh to to eat to do all the things that people naturally need to do and if Hashem needs to and we have the Merit for him to help perform a miracle okay but nonetheless hasem prefers for us to use the uh the natural world to operate in our in our life so now how do we know that our actions are are what Hashem wants or our actions are against what hasem wants we simply look at what is the what am I doing if a person is doing business is that business uh honest business or not honest business if it's a honest business then he uh he's he's allowed to do it and he he needs to provide a living for his family it's perfectly fine but if it's a dishonest business then of course that's not what Hashem wants but again with honest business honest in itself is not just honest in sense that you don't steal from people is honest also honest in regards to compliant with the Torah itself if his business is a business of let's say pornography although he makes his money honestly where people are paying him the money he's not stealing from them that business produces sin so thereby that business itself is forbidden regardless of how he makes the money still the business's nature itself is is forbidden if uh let's say he is a uh uh a lawyer okay now if he is a business lawyer that and a Jewish business lawyer is usually fine as long as he's complying with the Torah he's fine but a Jewish criminal lawyer has a lot more problems why because if part of his criminal law is to defend guilty people then he has a very very serious problem why because he is trying to be a good lawyer but the same token he's also going to try to defend guilty people he's going to try to defend the pedophiles and the rapists and the gangsters and the drug dealers because they pay him so that's obviously very very problematic so even though the business in itself they pay him honestly but the business itself is immoral so a person needs to make sure that they are righteous with hem with whatever they're doing if it's business the business has to be in accordance with what to is if it's a uh anything else really anything else that he they he do needs to be in accordance with what is allowed and what is forbidden in the Torah Jew or Gentile so a uh so a person needs to know before they do anything they needs to know whe whether they're allowed to do it whether they're not allowed to do it if you're allowed to do it then go ahead and do it if AEM uh wants you to succeed in it he'll allow you to succeed uh because that's his will if he wants you to fail he'll allow you to fail because that's his will why would he will for you to fail perhaps because he wants something else to happen but this needed to happen in order for that to happen meaning you needed to get a flat tire on the way to an appointment to close a deal with for a million dollars and that flat tire was going to cost you the appointment cost you the client cost you a potential million dollar deal and cost you to get fired Hashem wanted all those bad things to happen to miss the appointment end up losing money because of a flat tire end up losing a client end up losing reputation end up losing a lot of things why because now that you're fired you've had it with working for other people and you decide decided to start your own shop and your own shop is a much more kosher business than the business you were working with and ends up giving you P much higher Much More Much More kosher to this new Avenue but all of those other things had to happen in order for you to go strike out on your own because you didn't have the courage to strike out on your own when you had that job because there was so much potential there and and so and there's so much risk starting your own thing but once a person lost all hope because he lost that job and he decides to start on his own because he doesn't have the confidence that anybody else will hire him Hashem ends up giving him the Salvation because of that uh uh disaster that happened to him so in essence all of that was part of the calculations of Hashem all of that was God's will but you had to go through all of that in order for God's will to be fulfilled but nonetheless as long as a person goes in a straight path and doesn't uh go against the Torah he could be assured that regardless of what he's doing he's doing the will of hasem and again it's a uh it's it's not so difficult to uh to look at our own moral compass to know whether it's what we're doing is right or wrong and even if somebody has questions about whether what they're doing is right or wrong there is a Torah that's available there are rabbis that are available that can simply tell you honestly whether what you're doing is right or wrong but again we have to be very careful with the way we ask questions because many times people ask questions you know uh in in such a way that it already leads the person to a certain answer you know like saying oh uh listen I have some Jewish guy that's not religious coming to speak at the synagogue about Israel what do you think okay it sounds great that sounds great that's like what refm told ra there's some Jewish guy that's not religious going to talk about Israel but in reality what should he have said he said listen I have a Jewish guy that's actually practicing Christianity and is also a missionary he's going to come to a synagogue to speak to a bunch of people about Israel what do you think every normal person whether it's or any other Rabbi out there that has would say absolutely not it's forbidden according to all opinions but of course it's the way you ask the question so if you're going to ask a question honestly you'll get an honest answer but if a person asks a question dishonestly then of course they've already decided what the answer is they're just looking for somebody to agree with them or Justify their their uh their deeds so a person ask the question the right way they'll get the right uh answer uh if they ask from the right source but in general overall your uh your question is a very very important one and I think that this is one of the things that uh reminds all of us why we need to have a rabbi why we need to have D because many times our moral compass is biased our moral compass is not clear our moral compass is a uh you know has a desires uh so we have to double check with the rabbi to see what's right and wrong and uh if a person uh has a rabbi and he asks the question they'll get the answer and they'll be able to know what to do and they'll know that when they did the will of hem they'll see that there's that the when you do the will of hem there's also a different feeling that comes with it there's a certain pleasure that a person gets spiritual pleasure that a person gets when they do the will of hem uh whereas when a person does just simply their own will uh at best they'll get a physical pleasure but they won't get a spiritual pleasure this is really not something that you could explain this is simply something that you could either see or not see uh you know on your own on your own life next question uh are adult toys allowed in a religious marriage uh are they allowed I mean listen this is a uh not necessarily a very common thing uh in in religious marriages uh mainly because it's generally not needed uh people that typically have these types of things usually have uh other problems other problems uh that uh can create uh can create a lot of issues can create promiscuity can create adultery can create uh all types of other uh issues is it clearly forbidden is it no is it clearly Allowed no uh each thing has to be evaluated Case by case bases but generally speaking it's it's not something that uh uh a person should uh ever use unless there's you know uh serious problems and even then typically these things are not necessary typically it's because a person has tainted their mind with all types of pornography and filth and uh just like says that when a person taints their mind uh they end up being promiscuous either with themselves or with other people and when that's not enough because they want something that's more taboo they become even more promiscuous and when that's not enough they end up becoming even more promiscuous with the same with something more taboo whether it's with uh you know adulterous relationships or ancestral relationships or it's with uh homosexual relationships and even when when they continue with that and that's not enough then they go to animals meaning that a person that is uh going to constantly try to fulfill their physical IAL desires is a person that's never going to be fulfilled and is going to uh never have enough and these types of uh tools typically lead to that type of Destiny typically lead to that type of destination uh and thereby it's a it's not something that anyone would ever recommend using if they have uh but again there there are certain circumstances where even such things are permissible but it's not normal thing to permit it's not a normal thing to permit like I I know they do that a lot in the modern Circle and there are even Wicked people that call themselves rabbis that uh even talk about this stuff like they're talking about uh you know Shabbat dinners but no this is not an appropriate uh thing to to bring to a regular normal house uh this is like a uh uh you know something that is not it's not it should not be standard in anybody's house put it that way once people you know make the taboo standard it becomes very very problematic and leads to a lot of problems uh but to say everything is forbidden is not true either so a person needs to know where they stand typically it's not something that belongs in a religious house that that's that's really the the the best answer but again there are certain exceptions uh but again it's only because uh the people are healthy mentally but perhaps not healthy otherwise you know so that's that's a uh but if a person has ruined thems uh you know mentally and they think that their wife is supposed to be like somebody they saw on a screen or she thinks that a husband needs to be like somebody she saw on a screen then most more times than not uh no uh no device will ever fix that uh that mentality it's only very very serious chuva and if you guys only knew if you guys only knew what the uh what the sages write about somebody that was immoral one time a woman that was immoral one time what the the the tun for that is forget what the punishment is because the punishment is incomprehensible to us but when the sages write about the tikun meaning the Chua process for a woman that was immoral a single time she let's say committed adultery literally you guys would start if you understood what it says if you read the books and you understood what it says or you heard the lecture and you understood what it said literally you start shaking uncontrollably and crying hysterical people have no concept no concept of what our sages say about people that are promiscuous people that are immoral they have no concept no concept of how much the punishment is uh for a person and thereby to fix that to remove that punishment how heavy the chuba process truly is people have no concept of what it is there's some sages say there is no tun for it there is no tun for being immoral there is no tun for for committing adultery for a woman to commit adultery there is no tun for it but to the best of our abilities she can fast every single day for three years every day until night only eat at night for three years straight wear black for the rest of her life never put any makeup on never put on any jewelry uh never look beautiful uh uh never talk to anybody be in a corner publicize her sin to the women that to to show everybody that she's a z i mean if I told you guys what the sages say about women that sin an adulterous relationship literally you would shake uncontrollably even if you're a guy even if you're a guy because needless to say it means the same thing for for guys for other sins that they make so people have no con cep no concept of How Deep The judgment is and we're not talking about fanatic people we're not talking about only one Sage said it we're talking about across the board anyone that talked about the process of Chua anyone that talked about tikim and things of that nature literally it's it's Earth shattering it's Earth shattering what the Chua process really is for certain people and people think oh no listen I'll just put on a nicer dress I'll just get a shorter wig and I'll give $18 a month to Rabbi Ruben and that's it I'm aad it doesn't work like that it doesn't work like that it doesn't work like that I'm telling you if you only understood understood half the stuff that I've ever learned in my life you would think that I'm not speaking strong enough you would say Rabbi why don't you say the truth you call me a liar that's what you say to me if you UND if I understood everything that's out there I'd call myself a liar but I know that most people can't handle the complete truth even my Gom was censored put it that way anyone that watched the Gom sh left that sh scared to death anyone that watched the kafak killer Sho left the Sho scared to death anyone that watched tuna bre movie left that movie scared to death if you didn't you should check your pulse but guess what all of what I said was censored that's the censored version because if you truly understood what actually transpires in the next world you would simply shake uncontrollably and lose all sense of reality and that's not what we want we want people to move forward grow get better and little by little you know we peel another layer of of of the onion and get you closer to Hashem closer to hasem closer to Hashem closer to Hashem but if people really understood what's required of them what they're supposed to do You' say I'm not doing enough I'm telling you you'd say I'm not doing enough and I'm telling you if if if if if uh uh if my Rabbi would would tell me that this is what I was supposed to do more I would do more but I'm doing the best that I can it's it's this is what the this what I do is already in tolerable for so many people we have tens of thousands of followers and students and and fans and and and people that learn and get grow and grow but still look still still even even even though we have all those it's still a small fraction of the Jewish world and of the world in general and look there are I don't know how many but there are still quite a few people that are so disturbed by the truth that we teach that is full of sources from the tah that you could find an practically endless amount of books but they're so disturbed by it that they call us Fanatics they call us Hitler's Rabbi they calls all types of names as if we're making stuff up like the truth is so unbearable to some people that they simply cannot tolerate and this truth that I'm telling you guys is literally the children's version this is the children's version like some people ask me can my kids listen should I have my kids listen to your lectures I said of course why not oh they're scary you think this is scary the truth is much scarier I'm like a little puppy next to the pages of what they said in the previous generation if you just if you guys just spend some time reading some of these books cuz you're not going to see videos with this stuff you're not going to see videos there maybe just a couple of rabbis in the world that say some of the stuff that's really there uh and even that they they only intended for it to be to a exclusive crowd uh so it's again it's put it this way Tora says in you be holy cuz I am Holy therefore each person needs to think is what I'm about to acquire is what I'm about to do is what I'm about to say going to make me holy like AEM obligated me to as to Aspire to be or is going to do the opposite is that toy that car that deal that relationship that statement that what ever going to make me holy or the opposite if it's going to help me become holy then why not it's a mitvah but if it's going to do the opposite the hell am I thinking what the hell am I thinking and that's what a person needs to really think you don't need to know all the details of the punishment in order to understand that punishes that's why when they ask the rambam why didn't hasem give all the details of G in the Torah itself he says because he doesn't need to once you see the punishments he says that happen in this world in in and some of these other places in theor when you see the punishment that he promises to to bring to the world to an individual's life in this world you and you you understand what he's saying there that a person's going to have to eat their own kids and have all types of strange diseases with no cure and all types of horrible things when a person understands these punishments that are in this world you know you don't need to be a genius to realize that the next world that's unlimited will have much worse punishment you don't need details of Gom because you realize that at the very minimum it's just as bad that's at the very minimum and most likely it's worse and of course it is much worse but the point being is is that when a person is is is is wise they ask themselves is what I'm about to do for Hashem against Hashem sanctify me make me impure good bad allowed forbidden that's what a person that's what a smart person does male female Jew Gentile whoever each person has to ask themselves is what I'm about to do follow the good side or the bad side and be honest with themselves and they'll be able to if they pray to Hashem they'll be able to get the answer on a consistent basis next question uh if a noahide has doubts about Judaism but keeps all the Mitzvah will he still go to G edin the ra that a Noah that observes the noahide laws only because they make logical sense to him not because God commands them is not only considered a a fool but also a fool that is not going to get rewarded for his uh for his mitv because he did not fulfilled them because God said he fulfilled them because his logic said and thereby he's not going to have a share of the world to come only a person that follows the Torah because God said so will get the share in the world to come whether Jew or Gentile uh so therefore if a person has doubts they have to do whatever they can to eliminate those doubts uh whether it's the different proofs that God exists or proofs that the Torah is divine or uh or or different things there is an endless amount of information available out there from the Jewish world uh on video on audio in books that if a person truly wants to know the truth they'll have the availability to do it do Jewish women have any laws against masturbation yes absolutely it's forbidden r that the uh women being uh promiscuous with themselves is considered the acts of Egypt and therefore is forbidden it is not as evil in the eyes of hem as let's say the evil of wasting seed for men but nonetheless it is evil uh and the Ben is says she still creates demons and she still has to do a tun for it she still has to do Chua for it because she will get punished for it if she doesn't do chuba so yes it is forbidden for a woman to be promiscuous with herself uh and it does create demons uh it's it's not as Grave of a sin as a man but again for all intents and purposes uh it's it's a it's it's bad and this is bad and this is bad it's just that that one is going to get Eternal Gom and that one's going to get Gom for a really really long time either way it's a bad place so a person needs to do Chua and the and others that discussed this particular sin in the way of Chua they said that women have to do chuva for it the same way that men have to do Chua for it with uh the process of chuva which is stopping the sin um uh staying away from such things that that Inspire that sin to uh to cry and do chuva for it and also to do tiim to tiim uh with either fast or with money or a combination thereof uh to eliminate the sin altogether uh from their record from the past but of course number one thing is to stop it that's the number one thing whether the male or female it's it's forbidden according to all opinions uh what's the best statement that tells how great our sages are I believe it's page 108b says that the uh the sages themselves theim uh these are sages that lived about 15,600 years ago they themselves said uh and these are people that were able to resurrect the dead you know with their prayers because they're named by name in thear the says anyone that's named by name in the is able to resurrect the dead and in fact in the I learned today in uh that uh there was a sage that uh is only mentioned once in the it's only mentioned once in thear and uh this uh this uh Sage he um what his name yeah is only mentioned once in the here in and he says a certain teachings and the sages say listen we don't really knowas uh is he reliable he says yeah of course he reliable why is he reliable cuz he uh said a teaching of uh of why the uh the uh husband of the pus the concubine why did he get mad at her he said that uh it's because uh the husband found a fly in his plate and raban said that it's because that uh it's because was a uh he found hair in her in his plate that's why he got mad and that's why he got angry at her and then she ran away the concubine ran away and then she ended up getting raped and uh and killed and so on but the point being is there was a between andan he said it's the the whole argument that's mentioned in the tanak uh the whole argument that's mentioned in the tanak in the uh the Book of Judges chap uh 18 uh the end of chapter 18 is because uh the husband got mad at his concubine because he found something in his food says it's because he found one thing andan said it's because he found something else one said he found a fly the other one said he found hair so this that's only mentioned once in the and he asked what do do right now says actually right now he's learning to oh why is he learning right now in fact what he's learning right now is you is what you said what what what do you mean what he said he said look look at my children my son says that what happened in this event is that he got mad because he saw a flying in his plate and my son raban says it's because he found the hair in his plate is it really possible that hm doesn't know goes no no it's not that he doesn't know it's that what ISM saying look my sons they're debating the Torah he's saying it's because of a fly he's saying it's because of a because of hair but both of them are right this and this are both words of the living Gody they both happened that's what hashm is saying they both actually happened but initially when he saw the fly he didn't get mad but once he saw the hair he lost his mind and he scared it to death and she ended up running away so that says s just just finalized the uh that's what he said so now tells the other sages oh I got from that's what actually happened and say now we know is a he's a he's a g he's a giant what because he saw no not because he saw other people saw is great says that says that sees and says Shalom to him and returns a Shalom to him but that's not that's not the reason why raas is considered great in the Tor great among the sages he's considered great because he got to the he got to the truth if he got to the truth that's that's the uh that's a that's a great person that's a great person you could rely on this is a in beginning of the page 6B so uh anyway the uh the the sages themselves these very same sages that I'm talking about in theat tractate Shabbat they say the sages from the previous generation were so great that if we think of them as them being Angels then that would make us like human beings meaning there is no comparison between us and them they're like angels and we are like human beings but if we don't see them as Angels let's say we see no they're just men then we are like donkeys but not like donkeys like a uh the donkey of the father-in-law of Rim but rather a regular donkey what what's the what's the so special about that particular donkey that donkey was smart enough to never eat anything unless you took M out of it he was a special donkey we're not even that donkey we're a donkey that's a donkey and from there we learn that they themselves looked at themselves as donkeys if the sages that live just a generation before them we're talking about 40 50 years before them we not talking about thousands of years so the Ben says if a person doesn't see the the uh uh the sages not just the sages of the G not just the Sages the that lived 800 years ago 700 years ago not just the sages of 500 years ago but even the sages of the previous generation to him if he doesn't see them like they are literally like like angels in comparison to him then for sure he's a donkey meaning that if a person does not understand who the sages are of even of his own generation or the previous generation that they're that much greater than he is then for sure he's a donkey needless to say we all know that the sages of the previous generation are even greater than the sages of now you can't compare the sages of let's say 200 years ago to the sages of the of the of the G they were great they were great but we see from the gar itself that even they among themselves said the ones from before us were even greater than us so needless to say the ones of even now but for us ourselves there is no comparison this is not supposed to discourage somebody but the opposite it's supposed to encourage somebody that you have something to rely on because the Torah that you're learning is the Torah of all of these great sages that lived over the last few thousand years meaning that the greatest Minds that ever existed in all of mankind belonged to am is the greatest minds and that is the Torah Scholars and a person that learns Torah today whether they are learning the commentary on the by the your your learning uh the uh uh some of the the other more more uh uh uh later uh sages whatever you're learning you're learning the or you're learning the from the stages of 15600 years ago 1700 years ago or you're learning the Mish from 2 years ago the Z from 2,000 years ago or you're learning the from 500 years ago or you learn learning the the cabala or you're learning the uh the the P scheme that we've had over the last Thousand Years uh or you're learning the the great sages of the of the last generation uh the the uh uh all of the other great sages that that wrote uh all types of responses you are learning from the greatest Minds that ever lived in all of mankind in all of mankind so the fact that they're greater than you and greater than you can ever be is not a discouragement it's an encouragement that you now everything that you're learning you have something to rely on you don't have to worry about is this a mistake you don't have to worry about did somebody double check this because everything has been checked everything has been double checked everything has been discussed and you now have literally Torah that has been toiled and toiled and toiled and toiled the the Mish says toil in it and toil in it because everything is in it so a person that learns today has a lot to rely on why because he is now standing he has uh Torah that's standing on the shoulders of the greatest sages that ever lived the greatest mindes that ever lived the greatest people that ever lived and you have that available to you on sometimes on a YouTube video sometimes in a book sometimes in the audio and you you have this available to you so that is something that's great unfortunately there are certain people in the world uh that are so arrogant that they think that they could be compared to some of the great sages and in fact they don't like to hear that the sages are greater than them they want the sages to be just like them just like they want to be just like them and that's why those people have no share of the world to come uh you know because they they're so far from the truth they don't belong in a place of Truth uh that's it that's it we're going to take one more question and then we're finished guys uh the tetr griton no not let to say it not let to say it not Jew or Gentile a lot of people write the whole name they spell it out in different languages you're not allow to do that it's forbidden why are we not allowed to to say the name of hem because it's too holy it's too holy for a impure mouth like ours to say it even if that mouth belongs to a Torah SC they're not allow to say it only theen was allowed to say it inside The KES kashim and at extraordinary times uh extraord AR circumstances uh certain sages were allowed to say it but uh it's too holy for us to be allowed to say it okay fagie is asking oh good evening what are your views about having an Evangelical preacher raise monetary funds for Israel in a synagogue I'm hoping this is a joke uh obviously it's forbidden for him to even enter the synagogue needless to say to raise money either even if he even to raise money for the synagogue is not allowed uh why does a Torah view someone who doesn't contribute to society uh the the mishna says gamblers or people who raise money for Christians uh for Jewish causes are purul for adud because they don't contribute to society what does that mean so the people that are uh that are gamblers uh typically the if you look at the commentary over there it says that the reason why they're is because these people number one they are uh typically don't have a regular job so they don't contribute to society and therefore they don't have a real connection to society and what the what Society needs they're just selfish people self-centered people uh second reason why gamblers are P meaning they're you can't use them as a witness uh is because since they have an addiction to money because they're gamblers that means that you can buy their uh their their uh their words could they could turn into a false witness same thing with people that raise money for for uh for Christians uh from Christians for Jewish causes also a uh problem because these people clearly are addicted to money and they're going to unkosher sources uh they're going to unkosher sources to uh to raise money rather than go to kosher sources they have no amuna they don't think that hasm is going to provide the money in a Kosher Way so they go to a non- Kosher Way and in essence they actually put an obligation on all of the community to allow those same non- her people to enter the community because once you went to a church or some pastor and he told listen we need a million dollars for our uh whatever our community uh and uh he gives you the money that same Pastor is not going to expect for you to allow him to enter your synagogue and even give a speech uh so why because you are now number one are in debt to him and two you now have a fear that the next time you ask him for money uh he's not going to give you meaning that even if he says no no there's no you don't owe me anything back still the next time you know he ask you listen can I come speak at yes or can I attend your yum Services just attend uh you're going to say of course of course attend why because you're afraid that if you tell him no he's uh going to uh he's going to uh not give it to you the next time you ask him so going to non- koser sources is not good even go going to people that are uh Heretics they don't even have to be uh Christians even going to a heretic and asking them for for money is is bad uh so if a uh um someone that does not observe donates on his own and uh you didn't ask him to then some will say that you're allowed to accept it uh because he needs a Mitzvah and you're allowing him you're not allowed to get in the way of his Mitzvah but to go after him and ask him to donate that's not uh that's not a kosher thing to do that's not a kosher thing to do uh but as far as is not contributing to society in Ence what it means is that a person that is a putting the entire Society at risk for his own agenda for his own desires so a person that goes and collects money from non- koser sources like I just explained he's putting a he's putting the entire community at risk because now that very same non- kosher sources are going to feel at home in that Community this is like one time I saw in a besset there was a certain obnoxious person that would come to the sh during the high holidays only and everybody knew that this guy is driving to sh on yum driving on Shabbat has non kosher businesses but he every Aliyah he bought it then he would just give it to people he bought everything and I asked somebody what's the story with this guy he said no no every year it's like that and he does this at every shoe he just goes to every shoe and he buys all the alot and he gives the money and all the shoes are afraid of him why I said why because he has a lot of money I said yeah but it's like yeah I don't know so even such a thing like that is not good even such a thing is not like that not good so to go and uh obviously that shol and that all those other places allow this type of behavior and it put the entire community in a bad situation where first and foremost the theah that other people are supposed to buy is being bought by some guy that's it's stealing it's taking a mitvah from people it's a very very serious problem but even more so it's also very discouraging in for other people that they're uh they're they come to the sh the whole year but the alot are being bought by somebody that doesn't even care about the just cares about looking good so this is a person that does not uh contribute to society meaning that he's a the guy that's receiving the money and also the guy that's giving the money uh these are two people that are pul uh because they care less about the society or the community they only care about themselves same concept with a gambler a gambler is simply somebody that you can just buy their opinion uh because they're so addicted to money uh and and therefore they uh they're they're not contributing anything to to society they don't care about Society they're so addicted to their own desires uh that uh they will sell the society itself and that's actually anyone that read the uh the article that we highlighted in our shiu uh or some of the Articles we highlighted in a from last night in the video about uh being a m like Ephraim Goldberg that called the cops and sent them to my house that's what a MOS is uh to being a m you read the history of a m what is a m in Judaism not just the part of it but the history of people that were m m o s e r or m o i s e r depending on where the that's how it's spelled in English to be these are people that are rats these are people that are snitches these are people that are tattletales that they go to the authorities and send Jews send the the the non-jewish authorities to their houses and so on now those people typically are the people that are Heretics gamblers degenerates don't contribute to society Addicted to Money addicted to some type of desire that's usually where it comes from the the Muslim are usually those very same people it's one and one and the same it's one and the same uh so so so those people cannot be counted in a before they become M they cannot be counted as a witness after they become a m they have no share of the world to come even so that's that's that's the case all right last question from my dear friend Jose is a nonu allowed to bless a non kosher food before and after eating using normative blessings given by using hashem's name uh okay so for a non-jew to make a blessing uh on a non- kosher food is not a problem uh because a uh he's allowed to eat non kosher food uh and uh it's not a problem for him to uh to to eat it and therefore it's not a problem for him to make a blessing but to make a blessing using the text of the uh of the that you have in the that could be a problem because the text itself says bless you hasem that commanded us to such and such God did not command uh the non-jews to make a blessing they should make a blessing it's a good thing to make a blessing it's a good thing for them to make a blessing but they're not commanded to do it so technically the blessing that's in the Jewish Sido would be a lie for the non-jew and that's why I always tell non-jews if you want to bless hem bless hem in your words if you want to pray to hasem pray to Hashem in your words don't uh use the uh the Hebrew sidu the the Jewish sidu that's for Jews for your uh your your the uh Gentile World why because again in that text it's not that there is some type of racism it's simply that the text itself the text itself is something that is only to the Jews because they were the ones that were commanded to do these things uh you know they were the ones that were commanded to do these o these blessings they were commanded the the non-jews should do it it's a great recommendation but there's no obligation they're not commanded to do it so to say bless you hasem that commanded me to eat to to say a blessing or commanded me to do such and such it's a lie and unfortunately it's a a lie is not a good thing to do whether you're Jew or Gentile uh last question where am I located I am on Earth uh I'm in Florida uh in South Florida and uh as far as um uh my stupidity sometimes makes me laugh sorry guys uh my uh my uh my uh uh next location as far as the um synagogue and Yesa and so on hasn't been determined yet uh we're hoping that who opens the Gates of Heaven very soon and allows us to not only have uh the place that we want to get uh be huge and glorious and and and be a big K but also have the funding to do it uh and the students to do it and all the other good stuff we still have the campaign going uh for anyone that wants to contribute for the uh the Yeshiva the synagogue the everything that we want to build if you go to bhiva .org bh.org or you go to BH isa.com uh B is in beat H is in Hashem uh Yeshiva is ye s i v a do uh com.org uh and then go there and donate and uh you could help us get to where we need to be we're hoping that b we will find a uh place in the coming months uh we don't know yet where it's going to going to be whether it's going to be in Cooper City Florida or it's going to be in Hollywood or it's going to be I don't Mars I'm not really sure yet I assume it's going to be in Florida I assume it's going to be in South Florida but I can't tell you for sure that's the reason why many of you that asked me should you move here I haven't told anybody that they should move here yet simply unless they already moved here on their own because again I um I I don't know I don't know where it's going to be I'm hoping that it's going to be here so I don't have to move but it's that's you moving not moving is not going to determine where we're going to get a place here or not that's going to be very soon I've been a little bit busy uh for uh the last few months uh as you guys have noticed so I haven't been able to really uh look for anything but B hopefully now we'll be able to do it again okay thank you again for learning with me bless each and every single one of you for anyone that speaks Hebrew later on we're going to have a Shue in uh Hebrew uh that'll be posted but it's probably going to be late for all of you guys so we just wait for it to be on our Hebrew channel uh YouTube channel amen amen so for anyone who doesn't know we have an event coming up here in South Florida for anyone that wants to come it's going to be at a uh uh resort called bonaventura for anyone that wants to uh attend uh it's free of charge but you have to RSVP RSVP to uh Leia bam.org [Music] [Applause] n [Music] [Applause] [Music] n [Applause] n [Music] [Applause] [Music] w [Music] [Applause] [Music] for for [Music] [Applause] [Music] n [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Music]