God Loves You Unconditionally - Rabbi Lazer Brody

[music and singing] [music] >> Good evening from the south of Israel. This is Elizer Brody with Amuna hour number 250, landmark number. Tonight we have a special dedication, our very close friend Igor Olshtein. He in Miami, Florida, he lost his father 2 weeks ago. So we're dedicating tonight's lesson to Rafael Israel ben Barrel of blessed memory and his neshama should have a wonderful aliyah. They should be in a really good place. So we'll learn tonight that joy is a person's primary remedy in life, no matter what he's suffering from, emotional, physical. As any of the doctors, they have to pick hospital clowns to make people happy, to bring them joy, because that really is conducive for healing. And we find that joy is beyond the intellect. There's nothing intellectual about joy. You can't reach joy by way of intellect, because joy is in the realm of emuna. So if we discover that Hashem loves each of us unconditionally, then that paves a direct path to joy in life. And that's what we're going to learn, how Hashem's love knows no limits. This tonight's lesson is entitled Love Beyond Bounds. And there's no boundaries to his compassion. Just as he's infinite, so is his mercy and his loving kindness. So once again, with Hashem's loving grace, tonight's lesson is entitled Love Beyond Bounds. And I want to first to talk about love for a moment. There's a big difference between a love for a child and a love for a spouse. Good Shabbos. I don't know that last there was an epidemic of marital problems, shalom bayit problems. I never it was so many marital problems. You could see that for a husband and wife to love each other to get there, they really have to do a lot of work. But, as soon as a mother gives birth to her baby, that baby goes to bus seat right away instant love for that baby. The father instant love for the baby. You see the mother and the father hovering over newborn baby. You don't have to work to love your children. That comes natural. So, we see that loving a person's children comes natural, but loving a person's spouse the spouse is acquired even though acquired it is or acquired it is couplets the second half of the neshama, but a person doesn't realize that. Person has to really work hard in emunah and uplift himself above limitations of this world to get really bind make a soul connection with the spouse cuz body connections they're very limited. And person that that's why people ask me, "How come they don't find their soulmate?" So, because you're looking for your body mate. Look for your soulmate and you'll find your soulmate. So, there's an interesting phenomenon in Western society that even emotionally healthy people they experience a lot of thoughts of fear and worry and concerns, whether it's economic security, like in the more in the United States where it's personal security, more in Israel with enemies on the border bombarding. Well, this is either way any side of the ocean it's a type of anxiety that causes unbelievable torment to the soul. If we look well, we know the doctors tell us what anxiety does to the body. Anxiety does stress, which is all types of diseases from ulcers and and cardiovascular problems, even heart attacks, heaven forbid, strokes, all types of things. But, more than anything even beyond the physical problems, anxiety which have it to the soul. Soul is not built for anxiety. So, I have to get to what what a person do? So, since there's so much anxiety in the world, how does a person protect himself? That's where emunah comes in because emunah uplifts a person way above anxiety. Once again, when you connect with Hashem, the more you connect with Hashem, the more you connect with happiness, the more than we realize that Hashem is doing everything for the best. Now, why did we preface with the love of a parent and the love the difference between love of a parent and the love of a soulmate? Because Hashem is a father because as it says in the Torah, it's our father in heaven. But your children, your beloved children of Hashem. So, Hashem we're children, we all carry. How do we know we're children of Hashem? We have a divine soul that's part of Hashem's DNA. It's our part in our DNA. That's the tiny spark that's called neshama, the divine soul that's up in the brain. And this is has the same characteristics of Hashem. It defies time and space. We can close your eyes and imagine, if you're my age, you can imagine 50, 60 years ago on the other side of the world, the other side of the ocean. If you imagine you imagine who your first grade teacher was 60 years ago, 70 years ago. And they come right back that the the neshama goes wherever it wants, whenever it wants. It's above time, it's above space, like Hashem. Because it has the characteristics of his father. And so that's what it could do. So, if Hashem is our father in heaven, and we know that Hashem is unlimited, and he's all-knowing, and all-powerful, not like us, not like us parents. We have our own personal limitations that sometimes limits our love for our children. If a person is an egotistical parent, then he's more worried about his own ego, the gratification of his own ego. The child has to be subservient to his ego rather than welfare of the child. We'll talk about that. But not Hashem, not Hashem. Hashem there's no way it's only 100% our own benefit. So, this in back to the modern society, you have a situation in modern society where okay, we have this given anxiety, all of us all of us. And the more we work on emunah, the less we have the anxiety. The more we have real emunah, the lower our anxiety level goes. But then we come in contact with modern society, with the workplace, with competition, with media. We're being bombarded right and left that you're not good enough if you don't have the 21 if you don't the 21-in biceps, and if you don't have six-pack abs, and if you don't have a size four and you're did did this that all types of things that you're not good enough. And that gives person uh subconsciously feelings of inadequacy. There's all kinds of algorithms in computers that they see what a person serves on the computer and hits the person right in the Achilles heel. That's a particular company that's advertising. That's why you see the they they they send you advertising that they don't tell you advertising about the a a spaceship going to the moon cuz you haven't expressed interest in spaceships going to the moon. But if you expressed interest in certain new car, all of a sudden you get these advertisements of new cars because the the these are the algorithms and knows how to attack you. And if a person looks like economic problems, well, right away you'll find out that even if he's in a well, just got enough to eat, and he has plenty of food on the Shabbat table, and his rent is paid, electric bills bills there's always a feeling that given that you're not rich enough, the neighbor's got more, and people get really confused by all this competition and all this feeling of inadequacy and adequacy. Feelings of inadequacy are the opposite of emunah because emunah our sages tell us in tractate Avot, the ethics of the fathers, that the barometer of emunah is sameach b'chelko. When a person is content with his or her lot in life. That doesn't mean that you don't want to strive to do better. Of course you want to strive to do better. But what you have right now, what Hashem gives us right now, thank you Hashem, this is great. If you giving what you give me right now, Hashem, this is what I need, what I need for my soul correction, and beyond that, I don't need it. So we see that the root cause of all this confusion and sadness and mental disorientation and feelings of inadequacy, it's a person's displeasure with himself. And the displeasure with himself, what is that? Simply, that's the opposite of a Buddha cuz opposite of a Buddha would would the a Buddha is where a person is happy with his her life. He's happy with the with the way he is. Why you know, now when you know that Shem is loving father, Shem is not going to look at Aliza Bender and say Aliza, why are you not Sue Ryder? I say Sue Ryder, why are you not Elisheva? And like that everybody has their they have their own thing. Shem wants Sue Ryder to be Sue Ryder and Aliza Bender to be Aliza Bender and then everybody will have to be that. Then you want to say that Julia's got to be Julia and nobody else. That's it. So, what are we looking at other people for? We're comparing. Have you ever seen a giraffe complain that he's not an elephant? No such thing. A giraffe knows what he's got to do. The giraffe has a long neck to do what he wants. A giraffe is not elephant is not jealous of elephant's bulk and the elephant is certainly not jealous of giraffe's neck. He's got his trunk. He's got what he needs and he needs what he do. So, if a person doesn't love himself, he or she can't love anyone else. But the key to loving yourself is to know that Shem loves you just the way you are. You don't have to listen to Helena Rubinstein and you don't have to listen to the Mercedes commercial that you're nothing in life if you don't have the girl in the white gown and you don't have this $200,000 Mercedes. That's it's garbage. If you getting get along I'm happy as a lark and I get along walking in the park. I don't even have quirk in that. I don't have a scooter. My feet you go walk. Thank you Shem that you give me these healthy legs. It's wonderful. And then you look what Shem gives you in life and you did. I don't need wheels for for my soul connection. Simply do not need them. And everything I live in a very convenient place, a very convenient city that everything is right close to home. And if I need to travel, we have excellent public transportation here. You got a bus and at my age you have travel free on public transportation. It's fantastic. And even with the would cost me for the price of the annual test of a car, I could go special taxis wherever I want. If I need a taxi to get somewhere to go to a wedding in a particular place that's far away from a bus stop or something like that, get travel taxis all year long and it doesn't come to the price of a test of a test and like cars are licensing for 1 year. So, we know we're not perfect. British people just just the way we are. So, imagine back to the love of your children. So, your children are not perfect. Who's got perfect children? Nobody. Um Suppose you have as after sham sham you more than one child. Because one child gets a better grades in school than the other child, do you love one more? Or maybe one plays the piano and the other one doesn't, do you love the one that doesn't play the piano less? Or one made the football team and the other's not an athlete. No. We know that a selfless parent loves every one of his kids. And if they don't, that that's not love. If the love is contingent on any any single thing. If the love is contingent There's no such thing as conditional love. We learn from Hashem. Hashem's love is beyond bounds. It's unconditional. So, really the way your love for our spouses it it's got to be unconditional. And we're going to get that by praying into the spouse's soul cuz the body doesn't stay. You're not you're not 25 under the under the wedding canopy your whole life. Get older, you get older. But the more you put body aside, the more you have a soul connection. With my wife and I in our 70s, we never had such a soul connection like now and the discussions they deepen we didn't get get it get it to each other. It grows it grows it grows. And we all the time say that love is wasted on young people cuz they don't know what it is. They didn't because they haven't yet connected to the soul. They're still bodily oriented. Hashem loves our soul. Hashem loves our soul. What When does Hashem not love our bodies? When we subjugate our soul to our bodies. When our bodies are subjugated to the soul, this exactly what Hashem wanted. Hashem wants our body to be subservient to our soul, that we use for each one of us is his or her individual soul correction because our bodies as a means of getting close to Hashem as fulfilling Hashem's commandments because you can't fulfill Hashem's command to You can't give charity if you don't have a hand to put the the coin in into the to the poor person's pan. And even so, if a person can give if he's he's got a voice and he doesn't have hand if he doesn't have the hands he so the war veteran did he can ask someone to to go into his account and and give the poor person some money. So we we need all we need all our faculties to do Hashem's will. Do Hashem's will. Now Hashem doesn't complain about us. This is a Gemara but fairish it's a it's an explicit Gemara in tractate Avodah Zarah page three. Hashem does not complain about his creations. Hashem doesn't complain about the giraffe why you're not elephant. Hashem doesn't complain about elephant why you're not a giraffe. As so Hashem knows exactly the spiritual DNA that he gave us, exactly the soul that he put into our body. Hashem does not complain to a person why they are not anyone else, why Mike is not David and why Barb is not Sue. They know they what Hashem wants is just like you are. But Hashem is upset when you are not using your own potential to be yourself. And to use your own potential to be yourself it comes back to loving Hashem. Know that Hashem loves me and Hashem gave me all the tools that I need. So if Hashem didn't make you 6 ft 10 and you can't shoot three-pointers from 40 ft outside, then maybe Hashem doesn't want you to play in the NBA. And if Hashem didn't make you the the Twiggy and and you're not a 98 lb gymnastic that could do a a triple salt and backflip, then maybe you're not meant to be on the US or the UK Olympic the gymnastic team. Okay, so we say Hashem doesn't complain. But sometimes we go punch-drunk on the offensive. We have this inner inadequacy. The moment someone says to them, have you ever seen people even they think before a person even I think the criticism's on the way, they're right away defensive. It's like we say in the in the tank core that the the tank that the hatch of the hatch it goes up. Okay, should she on. The the hatch it goes right up and they're right in defensive mode. They don't have to be in the defensive mode. Because Hashem doesn't complain about us. And if you listen to most people, they don't complain either. They don't complain either. But what time we have uh we think in the in Yiddish there's an expression often God's got blind to it. For a person uh the hat is burning on his head. If a person has complaints about other people, has complaints about himself, then he thinks everybody has complaints about him. So it goes without saying that all these negative thoughts and what to be this way experience them. And I would like people sometimes you have them and you can't you can't explain them. You can't even explain that all these negative thoughts, what makes you feel bad, these are these negative thoughts are the worst torment in the world. But but yeah, they have a power to overcome a person only when a person is not in the happy mode. I could say that people say it's easy for you to say to be happy. It's >> [laughter] >> Oh, I could say somebody I got a notice from the bank today. Notice from the bank that somebody in Canada, how they did it, somebody in Canada used my credit card to try and take a cash discount from a UTM, and the credit card company here, they're right on the ball, they right away canceled it. Well, what a chaos, what a balagan, right away credit card's canceled and payments and this and that. Spent 2 hours on the phone with prime time. They're preparing for tonight's lesson. Do it for Hashem, for Hashem. 2 hours on the phone, okay, Hashem, this is from you, this is all the best. This is It's a nightmare, never happened to me before. Your credit How did they How did it happen? Maybe some hackers or something like that. But in Canada, look at it, they know I'm I'm here in Israel, and baruch Hashem, I was in the butcher shop today and bought meat for Shabbat, so they know I can't be simultaneously in Ashdod in Israel and in Canada. So, they don't know how hackers got this, something don't know, but this is the ills of modern society. But then, what do you do? Stop, time out. Time out. Remember, Hashem loves me. Oh, where do you learn, ladies and gentlemen, that Hashem loves you? Three words of emunah. Three words of emunah, if you've read our book, the three words of emunah, it's about three words written Torah, ein od milvado. There is no one but him. There's nothing in the world but him but Hashem. There's no hackers and no gods, it's only Hashem. Hashem wanted this to happen. Hashem wanted to see if I could practice what I preach. Oh, Laser, tonight you're going to talk about happiness, you're going to talk about connecting to Hashem. How do you feel, my son? Now you get ripped off, your credit card is closed off, you do you know can't do thing they got to have a new thing. What a balagan, what a chaos, and informed the the people they suppliers about the the new credit card. That million billion dollar thing. No, it's all from Hashem. Thank you, Hashem. Thank you, Hashem. This could have been somebody stole my health, didn't steal my health. Credit card number, no damage. How much financial damage did I suffer? Zilch. The moment it happened, the credit card company right away knew something was wrong. And that's it. They didn't honor it. Right away they got up with me. Kind of got up with us immediately. That's it. You're not in Canada, are you? I said, "No, I'm in Australia. I said, "It's 90° today. I'm not in Canada." Okay. I said, "Right there. There it is." So, we see that Hashem when Hashem tests us, it's a sign of love. It's a sign of love. What do we say? If Hashem doesn't pay attention to us, it's something that you're not interested in. You don't pay attention to them. But someone you're interested you pay very much attention to. That's the whole thing. So, a person's remedy in life and that's without emunah I don't without emunah I would go crazy. Without emunah I'd go crazy. But it's this is something I've done First person that's talking about myself I'm talking about something that happened today. Which is that it's 9:15 in Israel. This happened at 1:17 at 8 hours ago. 8 hours ago. So, you're we're talking about something fresh out of the oven. I'm not talking about something theoretical. So, what do you do when you're in a situation where something seemingly bad happens to you? You get seemingly bad tidings. The doctor says this, the lawyer says this. You cling to Hashem. Hashem, I don't see anybody. I'm blind. It's nothing but you. Ain't old me vado. There's nothing or no one but you. It's all you Hashem. And it's not just some flowery idea. Hashem loves us each one of us always. There's no exception to the rule. And guaranteed Hashem loves you umteen more times than you love yourself. His love it's the best thing in the world cuz it's love with no strings attached. No ulterior motives. No angles. No catches. No small clauses. And it's important part of emunah. Very important part of emunah. And believing that Hashem loves you unconditionally. Wanted to take one night lesson with the doing series when to take this one lesson and to reinforce our basic emunah to just remind ourselves that Hashem loves us unconditionally. When the very lesson said every single week to remind myself to remind each one of our beloved group members Hashem loves you. So do we, but Hashem loves you especially. Hashem loves you especially unconditionally and that is the type of emunah that's going to give you peace of mind and happiness always. Cuz whatever happens in life, it's all from Hashem. What joy this overrides the intellect. The intellect comes in the intellect says, "Oh, you've got to be worried and the job market is no good and the economic situation is no good and the security situation is no good and Hashem Rabbi Nachman writes in Torah 54 Likutei Moharan, discourse number 54 that Hashem personally orders for every person every thought, every speech and every deed according to the particular day that person's life in the particular circumstance and what that person needs for his or her daily soul correction and for the big picture, the general soul correction. This is all designed to bring a person closer to Hashem and this is the epitome of divine direction. We took eight weeks we really learned to learn about divine direction and this is Hashem's limitless mercy within the context of his divine direction that he just not Hashem didn't create the world and put it into process and give it to the angels to to run and Hashem went on semi-retirement. No, Hashem is not playing golf in Bobs Golf Springs and he's not then the with the with the Trump's resort or whatever you call Mar-a-Lago. He's not no, Hashem is running the world. Hashem's busy running the world and that's why we have to Hashem thank Hashem always for every single heartbeat comes from Hashem, every single breath comes from Sham, every single brain impulse, it's mind-boggling. You know, you ask a neurologist, how many brain impulses does it take to lift a finger 90° from here to there? 90° every degree is one a bit that this 90 million brain impulse it it's crazy. It it's crazy. The numbers that you can't even imagine. So, imagine when you sit and you learn if you're in in university and you're in physics and you listen to a physics lecture for 45 minutes. How many brain impulses? Can't imagine. There's no numbers to make to make no numbers to imagine. So, Sham's divine direction and his control of our brain, our abilities. Every single it's mind-boggling. We can't even imagine it. We spoke about Sham's control of the universe in macro and in micro in our introduction of 13 principles. You go back and and see that on laserbeams.com. Uh his divine direction never stops. You know what else never stops? Sham's mercy and Sham's love for each of us. I'll tell you one thing that Sham love never stops. So, the love is for each of us. His particular love for you, no matter what your situation is, no matter where you are, no matter how you're up on yourself or how you're down on yourself. In fact, when you Sham when you're down, Sham will lift you up. And when you're up, Sham will rejoice with you. Baruch Hashem, because his mercy for every single person is infinite. It's beyond our imagination. Now, just to think about this is a source of encouragement. Okay, right away, every one of us we're in this world cuz we all have challenges in life. They may be health challenges, income challenges, marital challenges, child education challenges, you fill in the plug. Fill in the fill in the the the blank. Just remembering, wherever you are, that Sham's love for you, his compassion for you is infinite, That's a source of encouragement. Well, Shem, why are you doing all this pain? Because Hashem wants you to learn Emunah despite the pain. Champion athletes have a lot of pain. Special special unit soldiers, special forces soldiers, they have a lot of pain. The higher a person is, the higher a person's performance is expected to be, the more a person has to suffer in in training. So, we want to be Emunah commandos. So, we have to strengthen ourself in Emunah, and that is why look down Hashem that uh most of all of you are are close to me, but then we have a few new new names here. Hashem, welcome. And uh share with the problems, share with the group, share with me individually. And I know your life is not easy. But you're an Emunah commando. Despite that, you're learning Emunah and getting stronger. Not only that, say one other thing. We said that less than 250 weeks been on the air together for more than 5 years. To see your spiritual growth in the last 5 years, it's so gratifying. Something that makes me most happy in life is to see the people close to me how they grown in Emunah. Not only that, but many people have been coaching other people in Emunah. Okay, so strengthen ourselves in Emunah means strengthen ourselves in full and complete belief that Hashem loves that Hashem is absolutely good and everything he does is for the very best. Now, if we open up the compendium of esoteric Torah, the Zohar, the Zohar says that people are obligated to be aware of Hashem's honor and to get to know Hashem. This is an obligation each of us has beyond the the basic fulfillment of our commandments required for for Jews 613, for Noachide is the big seven. They Maimonides said it's not your seven, it's 30. We won't mention that. You can see that in the moon and the Noachide. But that's a 30 that you add to the seven Noachide mitzvahs that adding the the the slander, the the prohibition against slander, the commandment for loving your parents, the commandment for for honesty in commerce. So we got the 30. Okay. The Zohar says that for each one of us, beyond fulfilling our commandments, we have an obligation to get to know Hashem. So the more we get to know Hashem, that means that we can't fulfill the commandments like Brazilian parrots that like or like robots. No, Hashem doesn't want parrots, it doesn't want robots. He wants us. So the more there's something upward dynamic that we're going to learn now. This is great. The more we get to know Hashem, the more we want to thank Hashem. And there's a big benefit to this says the Zohar because the this is Zohar words of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai that the more a person gets to know Hashem, the more Hashem does that person's will. If you want Hashem, Hashem answer my prayer. Get to know Hashem. The more you get to know Hashem and come closer to Hashem, Hashem will be glad to to do to do what you want, do your will. Not only that, Hashem says even without your asking. But there's there's such a level where Chanina ben Dosa that's what it's a big tzaddik in the Torah. He would before he needed something, Hashem would be be right there and it give him before he even prayed for it. And so the Zohar says even more than that. When a person gets to know Hashem, that it invokes he or she invokes blessings from above and from below. And there is a uplifts blessings and brings down blessings. So that's the key to heavenly treasures. It's like Hashem gives you the key to the heavenly treasures. So when a person gets to know Hashem, Hashem uplifts that person. And the higher person ascends, the better gets to know Hashem. And the more they get to know Hashem, the higher it lifts him. And that's the beautiful upward spiral. So we'll soon be you this. and going to map it out like a physics equation. With the Gmar and Bubba Kama, page 16, says that there's a type of human spine that's worthy of becoming a snake. I said what it that this is this is really scary thing that there some people that in the afterlife because they did live an upright life. Sham takes their spine, puts it in the snake. They become reincarnated snakes. Why? Can't believe what the Sham said what what they did what the the Gmar says. Person doesn't prostrate himself when he says the Modim prayer. What's the Modim prayer? It's an important prayer of gratitude and the latter part the latter third of the Amida. The Amida is a prayer we say three times a day. We say it during the week. We say it on Shabbat. We say it on Rosh Hashanah and Kippur all year long. And this is one of the most important prayers in the It's a prayer of gratitude. Modim. Modim means that I'm grateful. According to Halakha, we have to bend all the way. So, what does a snake have to do with the Modim prayer? It's the atfet what we call the atfet principle in old Isaac's trail of trickery a turn for a turn. It's measure for measure. Modim means we thank you. And Hashem created the snake with two upright legs. It's the Gmar in Bubba Kama said two upright legs but the snake was an ingrate. The snake wasn't happy with his own mate. The snake coveted Eve. Eve was beautiful. The snake The snake was and he had he could could speak like a human. Was upright like a human. The snake didn't want his own female snake. He wanted Eve. He wanted to take Eve away from Adam. So, Hashem cut off the snake's legs and the snake is the symbol of the evil inclination and as ingratitude and lack of These are the two cardinal characteristics of evil inclination, ingratitude and lack of So, when a person fails to say the Modim prayer, we thank you Hashem, he gives it and gives only a simple perfunctory bend at the waist. Doesn't want to invest in the effort. So, instead of bowing all the way down, he acts like a snake. And the snake is spine is worthy of being a snake spine. So, what what's that ability prayer have to do with Hashem's unconditional love? Okay, here's the equation. The more person gets to know Hashem, the more he or she recognizes Hashem's blessings. With all our free gifts, and the more he or she thanks Hashem, then the higher they go. Let me show it to you right here. This is the love beyond balance equivocation. You have here you have a moonah. And that arrow means yield. When something yields, a moonah yields getting to know Hashem. When you have a moonah, you get to know Hashem even better. Okay, when you get to know Hashem, you have increased the blessings from above and below. And you get even more reasons for gratitude. When there's more reasons for gratitude, you get more awareness of Hashem's boundless love for you. And then more expressions of gratitude. Hashem gives you more reasons to thank him. So, that uplifts him, gives more a moonah. And you get more a moonah, get to know Hashem, more reason for gratitude, and you thank him more, and you go higher and higher and higher and higher. This goes upward and upward and upward. So, that means there's no limit to your ascent as soon as you strive to get to know Hashem, and Hashem gives you reasons to to thank him, and you get go higher and higher and higher. So, what's it getting to know Hashem? If a person thinks that Hashem is giving him a rough deal, a bad deal, that Hashem's being unfair, excuse me, that person does not know Hashem. So, therefore, when a person thinks that Hashem is unfair with him, despite what what Hashem is really has this boundless love, then it's going to invoke the exact opposite. That's going to bring him down and bring him ingratitude and complaint. The more they ingratitude complaint, the less they get to know Hashem, the less get to Hashem, the less blessing, and down and down and down. But here, we go up and up and up. Up and up and up, we thank Hashem, and we have more more reason to thank him. Hashem does our will, we get closer to Hashem, more reason to thank him. And that's what he did. Okay, if you like, maybe I'll I'll post this that you can I can download it. I'll do >> [snorts] >> So, right now, the the people in So, what what what about the Jewish people here in Israel and in the UK and in the United States? The United States are fighting for lives. It looks like all these progressives, socialists are coming to power. And as they do, you can see in Michigan all these Muslim congressmen that are anti-Israel. It's not anti-Semitic. It's not in It's not in style. They say anti-Zionist. Anti- Anti-Zionist, they mean they're anti-Semites. They don't differentiate between Zionism and Judaism. It's just something more socially acceptable. It's a a more socially acceptable to hate Jews the way they choose. So, we're fighting a difficult war. If it's here in Israel, we've got those enemies and we're in constant threat from enemies in all the borders. And if it's in America and the UK and in France and in Germany, wow, all this anti-Semitism. And even you think in the in in the religious neighborhoods in Brooklyn, where they did the Hassidic neighborhoods of Brooklyn, that people are getting I mean, it's getting smashed and coming home from synagogue, all types of things. So, it's not just material and spiritual enemies on one side, but it's all around. And that means that we have to wake up fast. It's a wake-up call from Hashem. Hashem's a loving father. So, why is Hashem doing all this to us? So, it's simple. Well, the first reason is Hashem wants us to spread more and more of it. Hashem wants us to let everyone know, to teach everyone that He loves them. That this is all for the best. Why for the best? Now, let's look why it's all for the best. So, you see, if we First of all, if we don't understand it, we accept it with emunah. But, the more we have emunah, then the more we gain privilege to divine wisdom, and we get divine understanding. Then, we achieve a measure of divine understanding, understanding what Hashem is doing in the world is through emunah. You can't learn it in a textbook, and you can't learn it in uh organic chemistry 303. You know, not the master's program. So, the second is Hashem wants to strengthen of our observance of the mitzvot between man and fellow man. These are the mitzvot that are common for all of humanity. Uh Jews and Noahides or Emunahides, whatever you like to call them. Okay, we have Rav Auerbach His rebbe was a secret kabbalist named Yehuda Zev Leibowitz, of blessed memory. And Reb Yehuda Zev warned a person must do everything to avoid causing anguish to a fellow human. And whatever you do, don't raise your voice at another fellow human. Don't yell at another fellow human, cuz threatening and raising a a threatening gesture, raising a hand, is it it's unthinkable. And self-righteous people with bad tempers, they're enveloped in stern judgments. That the judgments they're judging other people, they bring it right down on themselves. It's a boomerang. So, don't go there, and don't be jealous of them. So, we have to have compassion for each other. Give in to the other person. Let the other person have their other right away. Yeah, I'm not going to take another 2 seconds and you have a car accident. Go ahead, my brother. Go ahead. I need I'm not competing with you. Go ahead, you go in front of me. So, we have to be smart and not right. And then, okay, it says, you know, they they have they On the cemetery, they have the guys and you you know, I had the right away, was on his tombstone. That doesn't work. So, here's a big problem with us. If the Jewish people had love for one another, no enemy would have any power them. And you know, we learn this we learn this from Ahab. There was no Ahab was the second seventh king of Israel after the civil war between Judea and Israel. Israel the northern 10 kingdoms, and Judea was the southern two tribes of Judea Judah and Benjamin. And the other 10 tribes were the northern tribes. The northern tribes they separated they had a civil war and they separated. And their seventh king was named Ahab. Ahab's wife was named Jezebel. Ahab and Jezebel were the two biggest idolaters in all of history. And Ahab won all his wars. And the Midrash says, "Well, how did Ahab win all on win his wars?" Well, King David won his wars, too. But King David's soldiers came back wounded and that lot of casualties. Ahab's soldiers came back without a scratch with the smell of aftershave. So, the Midrash says, "How's that that King David all the young soldiers got killed right and left and Ahab's soldiers they all came back?" Well, explain our sages explain that in Ahab's generation there was no slander. This was something they would spite their idolatry, they did not slander one another. Didn't speak bad one another. And there's proof of it. At the time there was one prophet in the kingdom of Israel that remained loyal to Hashem that was Obadiah. Obadiah Obadiah the prophet he was a servant in uh the palace of Ahab and Jezebel. Jezebel killed all the true prophets. She didn't know that that her servant Obadiah was a was a prophet. And Obadiah found another 100 true prophets and he hid them in two caves. 50 in one cave, 50 in another cave. Well, meanwhile, Elijah the prophet cursed King Ahab. He said, "Because of your idolatry, it says there's not going to be a drop of rain that falls in the kingdom of Israel." For 3 years there was not a drop of rain. It was the worst drought ever. There was a hungry for grain, everything. So, for an entire year Obadiah brought every day bread and water to these 100 prophets, the 50 and 50. Now, just imagine how much of bread subsistence ration and how much water subsistence ration to bring to 50 people. After I made a calculation, that we we call them the in the Israeli army for a word from the British army, the jerrycan. It's a It's a four-gallon can, like 15 L. Those 15 L, maybe 10 of these, 150 L. At least a person in the the heat of Israel would need to He's He's on a donkey. How many donkeys do you want to a wheelbarrow train and taking this these two caves? Who's that Everybody's going to notice that. And to know to turn over to to a tattletale on Obadiah to Queen Jezebel that he's hiding these true prophets. And she would have his head. She would have given half the kingdom for such information. Nobody revealed any information like that. Nothing. Nothing. And this is the the praise for that. They got rewarded that they won all their wars. They had no casualties. But in King David, look in the book of Psalms. We talked about We learned the book book of Psalms how there was a Doeg and Ahithophel and the Giphites and all these people that slandered and revealed when King Saul was jealous of King David and tried to find his whereabouts, revealed where he lived and revealed where he hid was hiding. Oh, well. All this stuff and that the why they had they had all these casualties in the war. So, just then we don't back have talk about emunah. Why why why a moon? We have to feel sorry for someone that doesn't know the laws of wholesome speech. Doesn't know that it's forbidden to lie. It's forbidden to say the shame of the slander another person. It's forbidden forbidden to make fun of another person. Say something a moon a lot of people don't know. It is forbidden to say a derogatory nickname about a person. Because the person's name is from above. That's the characteristic of that person's soul. So if you say something derogatory about that person, you're putting a derogatory label on the soul that the shame gave them. That's bad news. We don't do that. Don't do that. People don't realize what they're doing. There's a lot a lot a lot laws to learn because the your father you're you're you're the son of a king. You're a daughter of a king. You're a prince. You're a princess. And the king cares about your prestige very much. So if other people step on your prestige, they believe in your prestige, the shame doesn't like that. So we certainly shouldn't do it to other people. Now suppose the king's son or daughter gets lost. They're lost. They go off. Imagine the reward that the king is willing to give to get his beloved son or daughter. You find his your majesty, I found your lost son. Your majesty, I found your lost daughter. What? They come into the palace. Whatever you ask for you're going to get. So let me take it and put this close to home. Heaven forbid, imagine that a child should be lost. And we're beside ourselves in grief. We call the police. We call the rescue squad. We call the national guard. Who knows who we call? And we're panicking. And we send all our friends to to go search where the where the child was or where it was. Call the newspapers that the the the the child is missing. How are good we to feel if someone brings a child back, Okay. you know how you feel? That's how Hashem feels when you spread emunah, when you teach emunah to someone else, when you teach Noachide laws to someone didn't know them, when you teach Hashem loves them that they they they have any idea, when you teach the three words of emunah, when you teach what we learned tonight, what we learned tonight, teach that to someone else. Or even don't don't bother teaching it. It's enough that you take the MP3, we have one on beams.com, you can take all our lessons and download the free MP3s. We don't charge for it, baruch Hashem, because we're wonderful sponsors. We don't charge for spreading emunah. You can take this and spread it. Hey, my brother, my sister, did you listen to this lesson? That's all. You did that, it's like you did the the uh outcome is not up to us. Outcome is up to Hashem. But the fact that we made the effort to spread emunah, it's as if we bring Hashem's back lost child. There is no limit to to no limit to the reward we get. So, imagine that you're a child in the war and you become separated from your parents because of war. And you go for years thinking that you have no parents. This happened in the Holocaust right and left. And then suddenly you become reunited with your parents. That's what you do when you show a downtrodden person that he or she has a loving father in heaven. They're downtrodden because they don't know that they've got a loving father in heaven. They think they have no father in heaven. But you show them, hey, you're the king's son, you're the king's daughter. This is really Show them, you prove it to them. Wow, that's like bringing that lost child and bringing him back to his parents. Just because you see a person wearing a fancy suit and carrying this alligator skin uh James Bond case and and don't think he's not downtrodden. First could look very rich. People will walk about the the facade, the Western facade. And recently, I've I've had I get lots of letters from people. Had more than one letter from people who used to make fantastic livings in the investment world and now they lost all their money. The value of the dollar going crazy, the purchasing value, what they they're pretty particular commodity of dealing in while it's not interested. People have lost their jobs because of AI, artificial intelligence, and people that had the people I don't want to say where, but big house with a swimming pool and a tennis court and now they have this tremendous mortgage they can't pay. But you can see that they're trying to keep up the image cuz they have to keep up the image, keep up the Jones. Guy is a a lawyer and he has to show he's still a big roller, is an investment banker, had to show people he's still a big roller. So he's driving a fancy Lexus, but that Lexus is on leasing, it's not his car. And they might even be religious. There's a lot. See, people that are religious but they don't have a moonah and they don't know that Hashem loves them. They're in big trouble. They're in big trouble that they're again they're practicing practicing the commandments of Torah like a robot, like a Brazilian parrot with no heart in it. When a you don't know, when you're not aware of the fact, when you don't realize internalize that Hashem loves you then they lose taste, there's no taste for prayer, there's no taste for mitzvah observance. So what connects us to Hashem? Prayer and gratitude. Prayer and gratitude that we pray that this is the connection to Hashem because without prayer and gratitude a person drifts away from Hashem. And when he drifts away from Hashem, he or she loses their vitality and their energy in life. They they not only energy in life, they will live. Because as soon as a person thinks of Hashem doesn't matter what situation, you think of Hashem and you long for Hashem you become stimulated, become awakened, and you get new energy. That's COVID the prophet said that Hashem will live with you. Isaiah the prophet said that those who seek Hashem, they get renewed power. And that's why people are close to Hashem, they make do on much less sleep because their love of Hashem gives so much energy. It's they're they're they're on they're they're moving. They're on a high. Okay, so easy to understand example of a young man and his fiance. Ah, this guy's looking forward to the wedding. Oh, is he looking forward to God as he love that young girl. He loves that young girl. Something after they get married and when honeymoon wears off and the nuance wears off and all of a sudden he sees that he squeezes the toothpaste from the bottom and she squeezes from the top that drives him crazy. And I get letters. Yeah, yeah, the people they're complaining about be like that. You get letters like that. And I say, "My brother, how did you feel when you're engaged?" How did you feel when you couldn't wait to next time you saw her? You couldn't wait to next time you spoke on the phone. Okay, think about that. Think about that. Renew that. When we think about Hashem and think about Hashem's love for us, we renew that love. So, it's important like say we care about each other and we strengthen one another. And the greatest strengthening we could do for one another is to remind each other of remind each other about how much Hashem loves us. And it it you get it close to it. The the solution to all the problem. This is the remedy to everything like we said at the beginning. So, one of the greatest things we could do on earth is bringing someone else close to Hashem. Now, that you think of the greatest gift you give to a person, there's no greater gift than the gift of emunah. So, if you want to see miracles, cherished brothers and sisters, then start thanking Hashem for everything in your life. And don't ever forget, don't ever ever forget how much Hashem loves you. Put on the sign in room in the house, "Hashem loves me. Hashem loves me. Hashem loves me." And we should pray that all of humanity get to know Hashem and do what we can to spread emunah in the world, and it's a lot easier than you think. All you have to do is send somebody a link to an emunah shiur, send somebody a a link to an emunah book, and turn them on about that cuz if you want Mashiach to come without wars and without terror attacks and without intercontinental intercontinental ballistic missiles, we just went through that not long ago that the two short months ago. And then we have to start loving Hashem unconditionally cuz don't ever forget that once we deliver Hashem unconditionally, Hashem is going to fill all our hearts' wishes for the very best. He's going to build the holy temple here in the land of Israel and rebuild Jerusalem and bring us Mashiach speedily in our days. Amen.