Elon Musk Says Money Won’t Matter by 2036 — Did the Rambam See AI Coming? Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff

Welcome back to the podcast. My name is Iron Soil and you're watching Parsha Inspired. Today's guest we're honored to have Rabbi Hajiov. [music] Welcome back. >> Money won't matter in 2036. >> It is impossible to indefinitely control general super [music] intelligence. >> There are some saying that by 2030 we're done. AI is taking over and the Torah, our Jewish wisdom, has given us signs of the messianic age. There's many experts in this field who have this prediction that AI is going to take over and going to wipe out all of humanity. And there's this um I believe it's a Jewish guy Yampolski was one of the experts supposedly. >> I suspect that the super intelligence would be more conscious than we are. >> So we're not special. >> We never been. Based on current experiments, they will sacrifice humans if it means protecting themselves. >> He had an interview recently and he says by 2030 we're done. You said there's a 99.9% [music] chance super intelligence wipes us out within a century. >> You know, based upon the uh lack of oversight, of the power of AI, of it wanting to [music] um spread itself and seeing humans as not much of an obstacle that it can very quickly get rid of if it needs [music] to. >> So basically what I'm saying is the problem of controlling general super intelligence is not solvable. >> [music] >> it is impossible to solve it. So if we build it, we don't control it. The outcome is bad. >> It [music] isn't there to kill us, but in order to take control, it wouldn't have any second [music] thoughts about um taking out all of humanity. >> That's what I'm trying to say with it specific timeline. Again, if it decides to give us 200 years, we'll have 200 years. It is impossible to indefinitely control general super intelligence. Then again, we also have Elon Musk who just did an interview with the economist. >> Tell me what the world's going to be like in let's say 10 years if you succeed. >> 10 years. So we're talking 2036. >> Yeah. >> Hopefully we'll both be around. >> Hopefully. Yes. >> We can we can >> uh probably most likely we will be um it it's hard to imagine the future that where there's not an overwhelm over overwhelming amount of artificial intelligence. Meaning like I can tell 10 years I would expect artificial intelligence to be far greater than the sum of human intelligence like far greater. Um in fact I think AI may exceed the sum of human intelligence in about in around 5 years. >> He says by 2036 there'll be no more need for a job. >> There really won't be anything that AI can't do better than humans apart from being human. Perhaps >> at a more prosaic level, what will life be like? >> The most likely outcome is an age of amazing abundance. Uh where anyone can have anything they can think of. >> Money is going to be plentiful. >> This is this is uh this may sound preposterous, but well, here we are in 2026. Let's see where we stand in 2036. Now, of course, there are things that could derail this like a a massive global thermonuclear war or something like that. Um, but assuming that there's not World War II, uh, I think I think we're headed for an age of amazing abundance. So, this is, I guess, a message of of optimism and, uh, excitement about the future. >> And AI is going to take care of all of that for us. >> And you say, what what is an economy? An economy is um the production of goods and provision of services. And if you have vast numbers of robots uh with uh vast amounts of digital intelligence, you have a sort of a quatt quasi infinite economy. So, so this is this is really the the future is going to be very very different from the past. There's there's no um there's no analogy or metaphor that I think illustrates the magnitude of change that we're going to experience here. >> What do you need money for? Services and goods. >> Money won't matter in 2036. >> I'm not sure that the people who bought your shares think that money won't matter in 2036. [music] >> What do you want money for? You want you want money for goods and services, >> right? You want money for obviously food, housing, transport, entertainment. Um well, if that is so abundant that uh there's more that the robots and AI are providing more goods and services than you than any human could possibly consume. What do you need money for in that case? >> But you're you're creating these robots. Are you >> between every now and then? You'll need money. Sure. >> Are you are you selling these robots? Are you selling humanoid robots or are you producing goods and services with the humanoid robots that you control? >> I give you the Levi Strap. >> I think I think I would probably be it would be an exercise in vanity to for me to think that I would be controlling super genius AI that is vastly smarter than me. I think what we can and should try to do is to make sure that the AI has good values that it cares about humanity and that uh it wants wants us to be happy and prosper. Um I think it probably will be um my what my biological neural net tells me is that the most important thing for the for AI safety is to be maximally truth seeeking and curious. uh if that's the case uh I think it will foster humanity. >> So let's unpack that. You're sure that humans will no longer be in control in 10 years time? >> I think it is unlikely. Um in the same way that if the difference in intelligence between AI and humans is vastly greater than the difference in intelligence between AI and chimpanzees, it's hard to imagine that the chimpanzees would be in charge. So we have these two views and visions. Both of them are a little bit concerning in their own uh right. Alon Musk seems to be more of an optimist than a pessimist. According to Yamsolk and others, they seem to say, "Well, yeah, because he's, you know, one of the people with Grock who is definitely pushing his whole AI. And whoever controls AI first, whoever gets the keys, if you will, controls it is going to control all of humanity. So I want to just share with uh you you and your viewers a little insight which is actually stated in the Rambam and I'm going to read a short piece of Rambam which is in the Mishna Torah in the laws of kings 12 verse 5 and over there the Rambam gives a fascinating I mean this is a mindblowing view which had anyone said this 30 40 50 let alone a thousand years ago would have been ridiculous and yet it sounds uncanny just liked Ellen Musk and he says you know in the future in those days there's going to be no more hunger and there's going to be no more war no jealousy and there's no competition I should say there's going to be a lot of goodness there's going to be bountiful and he goes goes even further and doubles down. He says and all forms of delicacy will be will be available like dust just like we see dust around the entire world now. All delicacies will be available. And then he says the lawyer and people will not be working. There's going to be no that people are going to have to do once Msiah comes. So what are they going to do? people will be able to spend their time just getting to know Hashem. So the Rambam so far has given us a glimpse of what I think fits in very well with the AI predictions that we're seeing today. But he's saying there's a purpose to this and it's part of Hashem's plan. That's the most important thing. This is not some man-made creation like nuclear weapons that's to destroy us. However, it's God's plan that in the future, we're going to reach a point where we're going to be less involved in making a living, less involved in putting all of our time and our money and our resources into war into Mama. That's actually one of the Rambam's main differences before Msiah comes and after he comes. The pre- messianic and the post messianic era is no more wars. And therefore we have to spend all that money that is going into the mil military-industrial complex the entire world just to help humanity. When I read these words and I've read them many many times way before AI was even a question on the world. I thought how could that be? How can it be we reach a world where people won't need to work and what are they going to do with their time? Now that's still a good question because we can't fathom completely such a world yet. And yet the Ram seems to be telling us and he's being very optimistic that this is a good thing that a world where we are able to invest ourselves in spiritual pursuits is a good thing. Now it's not just the Jewish people. The entire world is going to be affected by the messianic revolution and we all the entire world just as the waters covers this the the ocean bed says the Rambam. The entire world will be able to be involved in spiritual pursuits. That's going to take a shift. There's no doubt about it. I believe that AI is going to be the tool. It's not the answer, but it's the tool by which we're going to reach that stage. I want to point out that getting to that level, that messianic revelation, there's still going to be some challenges and difficulties that we're feeling right now that are going to become more challenging. Um the expression uh the term that is coined by the rabbis, there's a few terms. One of them is the footsteps of Mashiah the Mashiah. It is a rabbitic expression found in the Mishna in that's one of them. The other is darkness to aura from darkness to light. So we know that the buildup to this point is going to be challenging. So I'm not saying everything's going to be like you know roses some kind of utopian fantastic you know um polyianish everything's going to be fantastic right away. It's going to take time, effort, and work. And we're seeing more turmoil in the world. As we get to that point, there's going to be a breakdown of the entire system before we can recreate this new world that Mashiach will be the pinnacle of and the leader of that revolution. So, I will I just want to add that caveat. I'm not saying that everything is, you know, fantastic as it is right now. There is a challenge in the world. The world is not safe. The Jewish people definitely are not safe and that's getting more and more pronounced every single day. I'm talking about the next phase right now. Once we get to that point, things will be better. In other words, I am an optimist. The Ra and we as the Jewish people, we have a guarantee that it's going to be good and in the end it will be good and if it's not good, it's not the end. So, I just want to factor that in um so people understand this. The said every generation is given exactly what it needs to understand its mission and to understand godliness in the world. And he said look people couldn't understand that there's a god who listens to us far away right or there'll be some kind of advanced technology when Messiah comes. And then God says here here's a telephone have a look at that. And then we move to video phones that we're speaking on right now. And now we're moving to AI. And this is all part of Hashem's plan. That that's the most important thing I want to get over to everyone today. Not to be pessimistic about this, but to stick with the program. And let me explain what the program involves. Number one, we have to have amuna. And that is where all roads lead when it comes to preparing for Msiah. We spoke about this before. It must be mentioned again. It's all about keeping your faith in Hashem. If you lose faith, like many predictors in the AI world and outside of the military world want to tell us we're going to be gone by 2030, we don't believe this. There is a shift. If you want to use a word that I keep hearing uh from other sources, there's a vibrational shift. You want to use that word, that's fine as well. But we're seeing it and the world wants it. And everyone realizes this. They realize there's a shift that's happening. I'm saying as God believers those who have ema that shift is good it's going to come with ch all changes are difficult just you know moving house moving country is enough so all positive change comes with difficulty and comes with uh challenge but AI is coming there's nothing you can do to stop that and it's going to grow exponentially over the next 5 to 10 years like Ellen Musk says and I think if anyone in the world knows and is willing to give us the truth. It's him. But it is going to have a positive effect. Now, are we going to remain part of Hashem? Are we going to allow the Amuna to be part of the winning team to be with us? That's every individual's question. So, yeah, I believe we're seeing something unbelievable right now. And the if he was alive today, he would be just one quick side point I must mention. I made a video about this. Let's talk about the um I met a Jew, a very elderly Jew lives in Osis name is Rabbi Zach. He is a grandson of the listen to this amazing uh thing and um he was to be in New York in my recently and I happened to have seen him and I was with a friend and my friend asked him that he had a tradition that spoke to his daughter this gentleman's mother. So this is grandson and this grandson's mother was the daughter of the and he and we'd heard a tradition that the had said to her before he left this world that you my daughter will not see Msiah coming but my grandchildren I your children will currently there are two descendants of who are alive today at room and they're I believe in their 80s or early 90s. So if that if that guarantee for the since you mentioned his name we got to mention something good you know uh is true we're on the cusp of something very very good according to >> if you want to call a prediction but he confirmed that is what the told his mother >> the heart of the matter is is people have especially if you're like myself over 50 and you're I'm constantly learning new technology um it gets more difficult for older people to be able to to work technology and there's definitely a a shift a generational shift where I'll ask my kids to help me with something and more recently I'm even asking AI to help me with these things but just being able to access these things. So there is some dissonance um of this literally new generation because if you take somebody from a hundred year uh let's say you take someone from a thousand years ago and you put them in a world of a hundred years ago they probably could get along pretty well. There were a few cars but there were still horse and buggy and not everybody had electricity. But if you take someone from a hundred years and you put him in today's world, >> he he would be convinced that the temple has been built already >> and perhaps you can speak to the change of the physical world coming before the change of the spiritual world because that's what seems to be exhibiting right now. >> 100%. Such a great question, Rabbi. I appreciate it. Let me give you an analogy and it's not my analogy. We know the world as is can only exist according to the Torah for 6,000 years. We're right now 5786. Okay, 2026. But 6,000 is the absolute maximum. We know the Mashiach can come early. We can expedite his arrival by coming early by doing a number of things, which is another good conversation. We're able to bring it earlier. The rabbi say the 6,000 years reflect the six days of creation. And just like you go through the week and things become more and more speeds up until you get to Shabbat Shabbat, what's your house like? Everything's flying. Everyone's running around. People are moving much, much faster. So too, the rabbis tell us that right before Msiah comes, you're going to see the world speed up, which started with the industrial revolution and has been spinning for thousands of years, everyone's pretty much the same. You had a cart, you had a horse. If you're rich, you had a cow as well. But everything just kept moving. Suddenly, we've got to this point in history where things are speeding up exponentially. That is the era of Shabbat because once Msiah comes, we enter a world that is where it's all Shabbat Shak Shabbat. So right now, if you were to look at world history as the week, we are right now in era of Shabbat, getting ready for that final moment. that what we're seeing technologically coming is part of now one of the challenges that comes with that and the Mishna goes on to say this is a Mishna I'm not quoting some great cababalistic texts I mean I can if you will if you want but let's look at the Mishna the Mishna says that right before Mashia comes young people are going to embarrass older people why would that be a a prediction of right before Mashiach comes and I think it's exactly like you're saying because things are speeding up so fast. Technology is changing. Used to be every 20 years and now every couple of days, right? And as you said, my kids know my kids know technology, you know, more than me and and make fun of me because I don't know how to do basic things. This is part of that upside down world, the speed up leading up to the messianic revolution where the kids have more information and more knowledge than their parents. It was never that way, by the way. It was always parents teaching their kids, grandparents teaching their grandkids. And suddenly we have young children who have more power, more knowledge than us. Now that may be uncomfortable. I don't like that. I don't like my kids having more knowledge than me. And yet that seems to be the system. So we see that young people are going to control so we're seeing it. And look at all the big companies of the world. bunch of young people like in their you know teens and 20s who are suddenly making all the money and making all the influencer uh you know um controls over society. This is exactly as the mission is saying old people are going to stand up for young people. The old stand for the youngs. Crazy. What kind of world is that? Where oh that's exactly what the mission is saying. It's a world where the young have the they have well they have the doubt. Where they have wisdom is something else actually. All right. We know that wisdom is going to decrease before Msiah comes. But they have knowledge. They have tools. And this is a um a result of the speeding up of information that the young people are able to take in and inculcate and then disseminate right before Msiah comes. So it goes even further. Sorry, I just want to just finish this last piece off because it's mind-blowing and I think it'll resonate with your your listeners and give us those people who are 50 years old some comfort. It says that we're going to see that sons are going to have a testy difficult relationship with their parents. But daughters are going to rebel against their mothers. A daughter-in-law is going to fight against their mother-in-law. Whatever that means, I don't know. I'm just reading the the Mishna Rabbi. But why is this part of the premiering reality? Well, part of it is the breakdown of the family unit, right, which we're seeing, which has other consequences to it, but it's also a result of this fastm moving social media AI world that is coming down the pipeline that is separating generations. It used to be that 100 years wasn't such a major gap between knowledge, between previous and next generation. And suddenly it's amaf and we're living in this upside down world that everyone in the whole world feels that I see even that is a sign of Msiah's imminent arrival according to the uh according to the Mishna. >> One of the Jewish uniquely Jewish concepts is reincarnation. And that that basically means that a soul after it passes on can come back into a new body be born and he may not have memories. There are people who may even think they have memories. There have been documented even in our Jewish wisdom. There are many examples where we say that different souls of different people went into different people. The Ramdu which is was a cabalist who he writes something astounding. He writes that uh and this is really words of comfort because I think most people are are with fear you know is everything going to run out of control and once we see that there's a process and there's a loving God designing this process so it's much more comforting but he describes that the souls that come at the end are the righteous people's souls who still have parts to fix up which would which would mean that we're all we're all um righteous people no matter where we are and if we have difficulties in life those difficulties are precisely why we came into the world to um you know if we have fears to to learn how to have faith that's that's that's our job so maybe you can speak about more about the hope that u that we could have towards this messianic era which is unfolding >> okay there's a lot to unpack over there you started with reincarnation um I hear the source you mentioned there are other sources sources, however, who say that the last generation is going to be the final chance for a lot of souls. >> Wow. >> Meaning that we know when the yeah when the gof is empty, the goof literally means the body, but it's actually the receptacle in heaven in Shmayim where God stores all the souls and when the last one comes out, Msiah comes. The cabalists say, well, that gat one means the last reincarnation. The labrebi is famous for saying and it's printed in a number of places that right before messiah comes uh it's going to be last chance saloon you know for people not enough time >> says that uh the the people from that at the time of the flood of Noah >> they were supposed to get they were supposed to get the Torah and because they didn't it just didn't work there's actually a rashi a rashi that says uh Raji explains on the verse in Cohelis that says I mean it's better God should show um corrective measures that seem like anger because had he tried to correct the generation of Noah they all would have repented but he didn't he wanted to actually leave that world and allow it to come to its ultimate end God promised by Noah that he's not going to repeat that And furthermore, it's mentioned that those same souls came reincarnated at the end of time. So, >> yeah, exactly. So, let's have a look. I was actually right going to go there. Let's have a look. >> That was good. No, it's good. It's great. It's a perfect segue. Uh, Rabbi, you're saying perfectly. What was the main problem of that generation of the flood, the mubble of Noah's time? Couple of things. There was sexual immorality, lentiousness, and stealing. Specifically, stealing. not just objects and things but each other's spouses. So we know that it was a uh immoral society. There's a reason God and we know that the immorality was actually them working against each other unlike the dora the Tower of Babel generation who were allowed to remain alive because they rebelled against God. God was like I don't mind you want to rebel against me. I'm not happy about it but I get it. But when you're bad to each other, when there's not enough love between you, that's a problem and that's a generation that's wiped out. So we're told exactly as you're saying that at the end of days, that generation was actually the one that goti and they're going to be they're going to be reincarnated at the end of time as well. And if you look at some of the major problems in terms of respect towards each other, sexual immorality, and other things, seems to fit in very much with the challenge we're dealing with today. the generation of the Gil Ghoul. So the Labra just to finish that point, he does say that there's going to be a short amount of time because you can't have another generation of Gilgul. This is the last reincarnated time that people get to and this is the last chance because we can't like die and come back again for another 40 years, 50 years because Messiah is going to be here by then. So the end of days, which is where we are right now, I mean that's unanimous. Everyone agrees with that. Even the uh you know non-believers who believe in AI feel as though we're coming to an end. This is the last this is the final incarnation of all those people that we are part of right now. And there's actually a wonderful book written by Sarah Regler. I actually met with her, spoke to about us. Um, forgot the name of it. Um, it's a Holocaust reincarnation book that came out a couple of years ago. Well worth reading. Um, and she quotes the Clausenberger Rebby, which I've heard before, but she brings it down. how at the end of days you're going to see actually since the Holocaust because that's the transitional point for reasons that I won't get into now that we're moving into this whole uh pre messianic era that was definitely one of the watershed moments. He said you're going to see a lot of souls especially children who died during that time have to come back. He actually says there's not enough Jewish families to actually take those million Jewish children's souls back into the world. So many of them are going to come back into non-Jewish nations. He's going to see that's why he says you're going to see a lot of people and she documents this through her interviews and studies that right before Mashiach comes you're going to see a lot of non-Jewish people started to convert those are actually Jewish souls that perished during the Holocaust. I've actually met many many people who've converted and one of the reasons I'll give you is I just feel a Peter before and I went and I have holocaust uh memories and dreams and phobias to go with it. So it's not just the Jewish people. This is the God is allowing the final generation right now to come back. But we've got to get it right now. This is the small window of opportunity we have right now. Well, the name of the book is I've been here before, by the way. >> Yeah, it has some pretty amazing accounts of people who have um recall of of things. I I have a family member who who has who has this I don't know if she would want me to say it online but someone very close to me who has um very vivid experience and and memory from the Holocaust even though our family has been in California for before the Holocaust. >> Yeah. 100%. God planted those souls into the world um right now. This is the last >> I'll just say as a caveat that not every person who experience has a you know there there are many um many experiences from many people of different religions who also have uh pre-life experience and not all experiences are correct. We I'm not using the the cases of experience as proof of anything. I'm just saying that it is happening. I think that would be fair to say. Hey, and by the way, I spoke to Musha Weinberger about this this phenomena and he says you're absolutely allowed to believe in it and you're even allowed to go into hypnosis to do past life regression work. He does mention that by the way, but Rob Mosha Weinberger um so he speaks about this. I asked him about this. He says there's nothing wrong with it. It's not comparable to you going to a medium or a psychic. Nothing like that whatsoever. It's allowed to be done. And I know many people who've done it, but they have to do it with the right person. As you said, like anything in life, there's, you know, good people who do uh practice work like this. And there's charlatans. You got to find the right person. And I've sent people to the right person. And uh I think one girl who I'm very close to, she was terrified of dying. And she did past life aggression. That fear went away immediately when she experienced a previous life of hers. There's no problem in doing that with the right uh person guiding you. >> Now, Hashem would leave those that would mean that Hashem leaves certain memories inside of our soul that we kind of know we kind of know our mission. Uh and that and this is like a real a feeling kind of like when you come you come to Israel and you come up to the place of the ba mikdash and you get this feeling like I've been here before and even though you may have never been there and this was your first visit I've I've heard I've met I've led many I've led many I worked for Birthright as the official rabbi uh in America for 15 years and I took many many young people for the first time and uh they many of them have told me I feel like I've been here before. They've had that feeling. I myself have had that feeling from my work in this realm which I which is another conversation but I'm happy to speak about another time in terms of my past life and understanding of uh certain things that have just spoken to very great people very great people about this and what my mission is in this life. But whatever that is, whether a person decides to do that or not, in the end, there's no doubt that we have to get this final life right, we don't have time to come back again after this life. We've got to get it right now. And Hashem says, the prophet Isaiah says so many times that um you know, God God gave us a lot of commandments. and what God really wants uh right now from people who maybe don't know enough. What would you say people who have not gone to yeshiva, who don't speak Hebrew, have not gotten a uh an education like uh many of us were gifted. So what would you say to those people what they could be doing right now? >> You know, let's go back to that, Rabbi. Let's go back to that says that every generation is given exactly what it needs to succeed and to believe, right? One generation needed the telephone. One needs We now live in a generation where okay, maybe we don't have as many smart people and good like we did in past generations that I always hear. I don't like people saying that. I believe it bismerches the great people. But the ability to learn and hear in any format is so available in our generation. Something our grandparents or parents could never believed in. even like this having these um such important podcasts that come and having Torah information if you don't want to sit and read you could just listen to Torah right it's so easy now I mean no one's got an excuse right so much people have so much time on their hands right because of the internet and other changes in society they give us a chance so yeah yeah you're right there are many people are very ignorant of Judaism today but is there a time in history that you could tell me where you had this much information ready readily available to everyone in any format, right? It's just it's at our literally at our fingertips. We've become augmented beings with our phones in our hands. So once in a while tap into a Torah class, a sh something that I tell people nowadays to learn Torah that inspires them. >> I know we live in a they say well you know I was in yeshiva they would say no you got to break your head on this and break your head on that and I did for many years. I studied Gumar and but we live in you need to learn Torah that inspires you. That is our generation. I believe that to be very very true. Not just on Shabbat, but any day of the week. What if you find something that speaks to you like some people they just the idea of Miaim just speaks to them and that's it then that's your thing. Then that's what you have to delve into. If you're like Beno, if that's your that's your connection to Hashem, then that's what you got to double click on, right? There's something for everyone right now and so available. So yes, um part of part of the messianic era that we're in right now is the revelation of of God's presence in the universe. Meaning that you mentioned previously that people should find comfort in the fact that we are in messianic times. It's not a time that we need to be afraid of AI, but you know, how do we find comfort in Hashem? So these are challenging times. Again, I'm an optimist, but they're not easy. You know, back to that Mishna one more time. The Mishna tells us that at the end of days, we're going to see that that the vine is going to give of his fruits. What is that? Why? Why is that a sign? Mashia is coming. What is that about? So Rashi tells us that there's going to be an increased demand for wine and I'm going to add all alcohol and I'm even going to add drugs onto that right before Msiah comes and that's going to cause prices to go up. But the Tefer is says that people are going to be turning to alcohol and drugs. I mean I'm adding the drugs, you know, as a as a as an addition over here because people are going to turn to drink and alcohol and drugs because they're going to be bitter and depressed. That's what the ter Israel says. So there's no doubt that there are challenges that families are feeling. There's a void that people are feeling. So family breakdowns happening. People are socially breaking down in terms of you know taking drugs and abusing alcohol and and other such things. We know that the governments have let us down tremendously and that's uh governments throughout the entire world. Everyone's dissatisfied with the governments. They keep electing these, you know, extreme people on the far left and far right thinking they're going to be the solution to the problems, which they never are, right? Maybe they make things better. Mostly they make things absolutely worse. All of this breakdown. You can't trust your your rabbis. You can't trust your family. Right? We've said it already. Uh you can't trust your government. So who can you trust? And the Mishna ends extraordinarily with the words, you can only trust your shamim, Hashem. Hashem wants to hear from us. Hashem wants us to believe in him. This is where everything is leading us to. Don't put your faith in AI. Don't put your faith in in your, you know, your leaders, right? No matter who they are, that's not what Hashem wants. Hashem, God wants you to have a personal relationship with him. We've kind of lost this. You know, I don't know what happened. Somewhere in recent history, it all became like trusting the yeshiva, trusting the government, and trusting other people. They're going to take care of us. What nonsense is this? This is not this is not to emit. Torah is everyone's got to find a personal relationship. We go to Shirim, we learn Torah, we extrapolate, of course, but in the end, everyone's going to have to find their own personal loving relationship with Hashem. That is why all these things are happening in the world today. Everything, every war, every famine, every earthquake, it's all there to waken us up so that we say, "Hashem, I I need you in my life. I need a personal relationship." In Isaiah 49:14, God called Temple Mount cries out to God and says, "God, you have abandoned me because uh she doesn't see that the redemption is unfolding. She she sits desolate." And today, um, people around the world, as you mentioned, are able to go online, be able to learn, learn the Torah, be able to connect to Hashem, and Hashem really knows, and he told us the prophecies of the future because they're all going to happen. Everything that is written is going to happen. Our only real question is where are we going to put our faith? Are we going to put our faith in, as you said, our leaders? Are we going to put our faith in politics, in money, in and or are we going to put our faith in God? That >> Let me let me let me just add one thing cuz that's really the question and I want people to really like think about that. Think about that deeply even for a minute. Just stop everything for just one minute and just think how am I as an individual going to put my real faith in Hashem? That's really and we have a in actually invar chapter 30:6 and it says God is going to circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants so that you can love Hashem. How do you circumcise a heart? What exactly is Mosher Rabenu telling the Jewish people who are about to enter into Israel that they should circumcise their heart? What exactly is on my heart that needs to be circumcised? It's a very unusual verse. And the rabbis tell us the Ramban tells us that at the end of days we're going to have a a covering on our hearts. That is a metaphor obviously for a blockage. something that's blocking our ability to relate and love Hashem. Something which may not have been there before, but Mosher Rain was warning the Jewish people about it happening definitely towards the end of days. But Hashem is going to circumcise. He's going to give us each and every one of us an opportunity to do a Brit a circumcision on our hearts to make that go away. that blockage that's that interruption that's between our emotional state and Hashem. It's interesting. It doesn't say our mo brain says our heart our emotional connection to Hashem is blocked. There is a blockage right now and we need to break that. Mashiach's job is to finally break that blockage. I mean there's a big discussion is that going to change the nature of free will which it will by the way. Everyone agrees to that. Ramban says it's going to change that completely. nakmanades others disagree and say well free will will exist will be lessened the ram's like it's going to change completely right that uh surface um blockage is going to be completely removed but it's there right now it's there I've had the privilege of meeting people who've managed to remove that blockage and rebuilt a whole beautiful connection to Hashem right and as you mentioned many converts that I've met you talk to them it's inspiring ing very inspiring even uh non-Jewish people or Ben Noah who uh who have changed their lives around right and and left the church and and and join the Jewish people uh if not in religion and definitely in belief and you see that even the Balua movement which isn't really where it should be at the moment it's moving but it's it hasn't really overtaken the world it's going to it's going to Msiah is going to revolutionize that we're about to see a big sweep. It's going to come right through the world. The Rambam says this um in his letter to Tman when he says that you're going to see the world is going to just suddenly all falsehood is going to go away and we're going to be able to really relate to Hashem in a whole different way once Mashiach comes. And if we haven't, Mashia isn't here yet. But that blockage needs to be taken away. It needs to be excised from our hearts. Gratitude for me is one of my my tools that I use when um in the morning prayers we have many blessings that we say every morning a whole list of blessings that we're not slaves that we can stand up that God opens our eyes and that God gives us sight and that we have all these gifts and when a person and there's one one blessing which was actually very surprising a friend of mine is a uh he's a rabbi and he goes to factories around the world that produce alcohol. They produce uh different highlevel single malt scotches. And when he came out of the bathroom there, he the the manager came over to him and said he wanted to speak to him. And he said, "Just one second." And he made the blessing that we say after going to the bathroom. And that thanks God for opening up our blockages and understanding that if one of our bodily functions didn't work, we wouldn't be able to stand. And he explained this to the manager and he was shocked and he accepted it. And then a couple months later, his friend went to that same factory and then he called him up and he said, "You know, I'm here." And I came out of the bathroom and the manager came to me and says, "You're not saying the blessing." [laughter] And he and he called him out on it. But just having gratitude, having gratitude that I that you know, and when we have gratitude for me, this is what works is that when I appreciate that I'm have all my bodily functions that I'm able to see and praise God, so I I know that everything's going to be okay. you know, thank you for that. Yeah, I I always tell my students the most beautiful braha for those people who don't make blessings. It's a wonderful thing to do. Um, but that's one of the first braha I tell people to have after the bathroom because everyone appreciates uh the results of not being able to go to the bathroom, god forbid, or having any blockage in our entire bodies. You know, something just occurred to me while you were talking. It came to my head. If something comes to my head, I'd like to talk about it. You know the the partial of this week I don't know when your your viewers are watching this but the partial of this week is rare is to to see see what I'm giving you today blessings and potential curses. So the whole of Dvar up to now has been about listening and listening is literally listening but also metaphor for understanding because when you listen you I understand right I didn't see it but I'm listening secondhand I'm I'm listening about the stories about you know leaving Egypt and I'm listening right that God you know wants me to to follow his commandments because I wasn't at RC now so I've got to listen to it second third or fourth hand but I'm listening I'm understanding and suddenly there shifts suddenly see what do you mean see I didn't leave Egypt. How did the shift go from listening to seeing? What exactly am I meant to see? There's many answers to this question, but you said something and I just want to share this and this applies to any day of the week, not only this week's uh uh uh parasa. Seeing something like the miracles of the return of the Jewish people to the land of Israel can change us. Just look at the recent history of our people returning of the thousands of years into the land of Israel. And Mushraenu is telling the Jewish people because he's not going to go in. He got a glimpse from afar from outside of Israel. But he's saying you are going to see. That's what he's saying because it's going to happen at two mountains, right? Ival and and Gimm. When you get him, you're going to be able to see. There's something about having the land of Israel today. Whether you live there or you watch from afar, you can see that God's eyes, that's the expression the Torah gives us, are on the land of Israel. God's presence in the land of Israel is there the entire year. Now I don't know what his presence is in the other lands. Maybe like turns a blind eye once in a while but not Israel. The hasha the connection that every Jew has by seeing what is taking place in the land of Israel. Hopefully is such an amazing evidence of God's control of the world. So we as Jews are expected. I find this a big source of comfort, right, and understanding and belief when I see what's happening in Israel. Even, God forbid, the bad things. You know, one someone asked me this morning, you know, God does all good things except October 7th. And I said, we don't have that vision right now, but there will be a time when even that disgusting event will be able to look back and be like, it wasn't pleasant, but I understand why we needed to go through it. I don't have that vision right now. That's only in God's hands. That's God's purview. But everything that happens in the land of Israel always has been hopefully braa which is going to be God willing. All of that is there for us to see and to see God in action. That is why God gave us the land of Israel to see his hasha, his control over the entire world firsthand. I don't need to hear about it. I can see it. That's what the Torah is telling us and that is unique to the land of Israel. >> You know in six weeks time uh this will be my last comment. In six weeks time is rash sha the Jewish new year then followed by yum kipur 10 days later the day where uh we get atonement. It's the happiest day of the year. I I couldn't even think about food. You're getting atonement. Imagine God's taking you into his into his into his uh mishkan into his suka into his uh dwelling place. And God's dwelling place is very simple. It's very it's very and and that we we'll have a lot we'll have a lot to talk about because go Mooog is is so interconnected with Sukkot. There's so much to prepare for that period of time. We we actually we read the story of Go Moog on Sukkot on Shabbat in the Besset in the synagogue. So we have a lot to look forward to. Um, we we're definitely entering one of the most intense periods in in Jewish uh life cycles and probably the most the closest year ever to Messiah. Uh I mean everything has switched even from when I was a kid. I remember a time before when they had Napster when I was calling my friend up and telling him that wow I could you can pick a song and I could play it within a few minutes and that was like mindblowing. And today any person could turn on Torah anytime. Turn on YouTube, type Torah and see what comes up. See what message is there. Check out Rabbi Haj's channel. He's got some great great topics over there. And also check out my channel. Some good stuff here too. And um so Rabbi Hajf, give us the blessing. >> So Hashem, thank you so much. Uh, Hashem should bless uh all of us with clarity, which is one of the greatest blessings a person can have in this world, with a realization that all the doomsayers who say we're going to be wiped out by 2030, 2036, Hashem has us in his hands. You've got to get with the program, whatever that means for you, learning Torah, connecting to a synagogue, doing, but you've got to become part of the uh the nation, the the true God of Israel. That's what we need to become part of. Uh even your non-Jewish viewers, I wish I have many. I tell them you're part of God's creation, right? Supporting your people, uh learning Torah that's applicable to you, finding inspiration, but having faith, and knowing that in the end, it's all going to be okay. And if it's not okay, it's not the end. >> Beautiful. Thank you so much. I look forward to our next episode together. And once again, guys, please like, share, and subscribe. leave and channel.