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Rabbi, do you ever get mad at people?
Sure.
Yeah. Actually, you know what? I'll tell
you a story. Uh, you know, you guys want
stories, so I'll give you a story of No,
I know. 24 hours. I mean, there's always
stories. Oh, there's so many. The reason
why I can't take phone calls unless
they're absolutely ne necessary uh which
is usually
uh necessary according to my definition
not other people's definitions um is
because there's so many messages and so
on and so many different things that I
have to deal with but um
stories there's hundreds of messages
every day there's lots of things to do
but I'll tell you I'll tell you
something this is actually good for you
guys to know also
this guy that uh reached out to me I
don't know however long ago a year ago
two years ago whenever it was wanted to
uh do kiru wanted to do this wanted to
do that wanted to ask me for some
guidance and so on so I tried to help
him guiding him and doing whatever I can
long story short about six months ago
uh he saw that we're publicizing the uh
one of the books that we're giving out
for free in the kof store
and uh he says I want a book I said, "Go
to like everybody else, go to the Kroof
store that we have, krooftore.org, which
by the way is brand new now, so you guys
should check it out. There's actually a
few new books there, and it's also
completely different website, same URL,
but completely new system.
Um, but anyway, a um go to the Kiru
store and order a box of books and uh
give it out. And if you want to keep one
for yourself, keep one for yourself.
I don't just send one copy because it's
not cost-effective. We're not selling
it. The whole point of giving it for
free is so people are enticed to
distribute him to benefit other people
to learn him and to learn Torah.
And we pay for all of it.
And the website says
this box is 15 books. This box is 20
books. this. It's all boxes. It's not a
single book. It says it on the website.
This is all everybody understand. It's
called the cure website and it says it
on there. Long story short, he orders
the box. He gets some stuff. Um
and uh
since I know he wants to do Kiru, I also
I think he was also got some shar
posters or whatever. Long story short,
five months, six months pass. He sends
me a message yesterday
and he's like, "Uh, listen, Rabbi, I
wanted to tell you that uh uh the the
box of books and the stuff that I got is
uh it's still in my trunk. I haven't
given it out because I don't think it's
for my synagogue. It's good for the
people in my synagogue. I don't think
it's for them."
So, of course, this is very annoying and
upsetting to me. So I ask him, "Why did
you order it and waste our resources
if you're not going to give it out?"
And he tries to pretend like as if he
really only wanted one and he didn't
know. Somehow he doesn't know how to
read. He doesn't know what uh I said. He
doesn't know anything. and all of a
sudden he uh only discovered IT SIX
MONTHS LATER THAT HE GOT A box instead
of a single copy.
So I don't continue the conversation.
Why? I said you you've wasted the
company resources.
um why can't you give it to the people
of your you decided that they are not
Jewish like everywhere else in the world
that we've you know people have asked
for our stuff in America in the US in
Canada you know literally in practically
every state in the country in uh England
in Australia in uh Canada in Africa in
uh South America literally we've sent
stuff everywhere we've distributed
hundreds of thousands of books and
millions of USBs and so on. It's gone
everywhere.
People send me pictures every single day
that they see our stuff hanging on walls
or people reading them and so on. SO
EVERYWHERE ELSE IT'S OKAY EXCEPT YOUR
SYNAGOGUE IN NEW York
over there. You already know what's in
people's minds that they're not going to
want to read it. They're not going to
want to see it. You already know. Are
you sure it's the Jewish community?
So he says, "Well, why are you making me
feel bad?
This is a how it make you feel bad. How
did I make you feel bad? I'm telling you
that you wasted our resources. So I
didn't continue the conversation. I move
on. I'm usually pretty busy so I don't
have time to waste,
especially when I know I'm going nowhere
with the person's doesn't understand. E
has the audacity to send me a message
the next day, meaning today, and uh oh,
I can't get over it. I don't think the
rabbi addressed it really uh uh the
right way and uh making me feel bad.
So, he turned himself into a victim
here. Now, again, I didn't curse. I
don't you I don't cursem
I didn't uh you know this just text
and even send a voice note which I
usually do. But
this victim so apparently didn't get the
first message. which I explained. I
said, "Since you're so self-centered
that you don't you're not understanding
the message and you want something more
clearly, let me explain to you what you
did."
Because he only sees his own
perspective. So, let me explain to you
what you did according to the Torah.
According to the Torah,
you wanted something
for yourself
and you chose not to give it to the rest
of the community
because you decided that it's good for
you, but nobody else can handle it.
Nobody else can read it. So, in essence,
you withheld Torah from the holy Jewish
people because according to you, only
you can do it. Only you can read it.
Only you can listen. Nobody else can.
You've already decided what's in
people's minds. According to the Torah,
this is called
he desecrated the word of God
and punishment and punishments and
punishments. Horrible, horrible
punishments. It's the worst type of
punishment.
You withheld from Is. It's desecrating
the Torah.
two,
you knew that it's a box. It says it on
the website. I told you, but you still
chose not to give it. You still try to
pretend like you really only wanted one
copy and it took you 6 months to say
that
you don't want to distribute it. Like
you just discovered that the one copy
that you supposedly ordered IS A BOX.
SIX MONTHS. IT'S SITTING IN YOUR TRUNK.
YOU THOUGHT THAT THE WHOLE box of 20, 50
books, whatever it is, is one box. Like
this is like you think I'm an idiot. So
you wasted
money. What's he money? Heish money is
money that was donated whether it's to
the beta mikdash or donated to synagogue
or donated to yeshiva or donated to
publicized Torah. If money that was
donated to publicized Torah, this is not
money that you mess around with. This is
not money that you're allowed to steal.
There's not amount money that you're
allowed to misappropriate. So you with
your selfishness
decided to waste
heish money. Now you may not think
that's a big deal but if you look at
what the Torah says the book of Joshua
right after the first book after that
book of Joshua chapter 6 and chapter 7
especially chapter 7 you'll see that
Yeshua Benoon kills Akan
for misappropriating heesh money. It's a
death penalty.
So
your selfishness,
you wanted a book and it didn't matter
to you that you're going to order a
whole box because that's the only way it
comes and you're just not going to give
it. AND YOU THOUGHT THAT IT'S OKAY TO
JUST RETURN IT and that makes it okay.
No, it doesn't make it okay. You know
why? Because during that time, number
one, we wasted time packing it. We
wasted money shipping it. Money and time
shipping it and packing it. On top of
that, if we could have given it to
somebody else during those six months,
we can't now because it was in your
hands.
So
all of that and more is on you.
So when you order from the Kiru store,
don't order from the Kiru store to keep
it in your closet. order. It's free
stuff to distribute in your community as
soon as you possibly can. Even if as
soon as possible you can takes you six
months or or or something like that,
that's fine. But as long as you're
trying all the time, but don't waste
heish money. People that donate to us
are not donating it for you to keep it
in your closet. They're donating it so
we help more people do chv, more people
learn Torah.
So now that you've asked for
clarification, that's what happens. You
thought it's not a big deal to
misappropriate
Heces money. You thought it's not a big
deal to be so selfish. You thought it's
not a big deal because you thought that
it's like high school where you could
play stupid and we're just going to buy
it. I gave him the chance of giving him
a simple explanation. That wasn't enough
for him. Now you guys the bigger
explanation of how many sins he made in
the process of stealing from our Kiru
store.
A person that steals from our Kiru store
from our organization literally it's
like committing spiritual suicide.
We're giving our whole we're giving
everything we possibly have to
publicize.
So, a person that takes advantage of
that in a positive way is a brilliant
person. A person that
goes does things that that harm it.
Literally, I'm not even sure if there's
somebody stupider than them that exist
in the world because there's so many
sins that are made in the process. I'm
not sure you're going to even know
enough to get out of them. So, do I get
mad? Yes, of course. This is a situation
that's very very upsetting to me. Why?
The most upsetting to me in part of it
at all is not even the money part. The
most upsetting part is the arrogance
that some people have where they assume
they know better than other people to
the point where they already know what
everybody else can't handle. They
already know what's in the whole, you
know, the whole k. Let's say there's 50,
100 people in his sh. He already knows
what's in everybody's brain, everybody's
heart THAT HE ALREADY DECIDES FOR THEM
what they would allow themselves to
read, what they would allow for
themselves to learn from, what they
would accept, what they would accept.
This requires such a high level of
arrogance
that literally you could compare such a
person to
why THAT'S THE MENTALITY OF THINKING
that he knows what's in everybody's
hearts. Who are you to think that you
can know what people are going to read,
what not? You take the book, you put it
on a shelf, whoever wants takes a copy.
Whoever likes it likes. Whoever doesn't
like it doesn't like it. It's not your
problem. All your job is to take one
place or another. But you've decided for
the Jewish people what they can handle,
what they can't handle, what you know
more than Hashem. He wrote the Torah and
you decide that his Hashem's Torah is
too much for them.
So, you know better than Hashem. You
know better than theim. You know better
than all the sages. This is arrogance.
And that type of arrogance is
particularly
irritating to me because that's what
happened to me when
I was in the business world and all
these rabbis would come to my office and
they all decided not to tell me anything
about the Torah, the truth,
because apparently they felt I can't
handle it. And anyone that's watched my
film, Hashem took back his millions, I
talk about it in there.
And that's literally
arrogance,
evil, and just horrible. Horrible. Let
people decide for themselves. Let people
choose for themselves. Don't assume you
know what people going to like or what
they're not going to like. You present
the information, you present the
product, people choose for themselves.
Especially when it comes to Torah, you
present it. Some people like, some
people don't like, some people neutral,
whatever it is. Same thing I told you
guys about this heretic Palmanov or all
the other heretics in the past. Some
people that listened, understood,
accepted, and thank me for it. Some
people till this day, they chase me and
and they try to torment me and bother me
and and say that uh, you know, I'm a bad
guy for for exposing the heretic because
apparently there's some type of benefit
somewhere. I I honestly I would love for
people to show me where is that benefit
exactly? Where am I benefiting exactly?
Like if you could show me my bank
somewhere, how it's increased as a
result or maybe the views and how those
views have translated into some type of
uh I don't know monetary gain, fame,
like just show me where the gain is
because I can't find it. I've been doing
this for 10 years. I can't find the gain
yet. So maybe it's you have it and and
you could give it to me. So I could use
this game. I could use this prophet
because we could do a lot of good things
with all this game. We could do a lot of
things with all this. So if you could
tell me where the gain is, where the
profit is in in exposing aside from the
profit of spiritually helping people,
show me any other benefit out of it.
Please send it to me. Transfer it to me.
Um, I would happily accept it because we
could use it to give more free stuff and
to give more free lectures and more free
free free free Torah. So, let me know,
wire it to me,
Tik Tok to me, I don't know, YouTube to
me, whatever. Whatever works, Twitter X,
whatever. Anything to me. Just send it.
Send it over. Send it. Send it. We We
need We need the the benefits. We need
the benefits. Okay. Thank you very much.
for coming back and learning Torah with
me. I understand there's been a lot of
internet issues. I understand that some
of you missed some of the stuff that I
said, but don't worry, this will be on
YouTube in its full version.
Uh tomorrow call anyone that wants to
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especially now that the end of the year
for anybody that's located in America
wants the benefit of uh tax advantages
and so on donations be before the end of
the year or simply wants to do a big
mitzvah as soon as possible we need as
much support as we can get because uh
it's good we do a lot of good things
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to
we are meant to be a light unto the
nations not to follow their misguided
practices remember Every Jew has to
remember that he's a Jew and she's a
Jew. We don't celebrate non-Jewish
holidays, even if they seem harmless.
It's ail disrespect
to the Torah.