Smart Jews - Rabbi Dovid Kaplan

all right so on page 960 it says like this so yesterday M was talking he says you saw what hasem did at balore and then the third line from the you who to your God you are all alive so what does it mean what does it mean over here to be alive so first of all on a RI level uh there are there the the the uh the say every time we do a Mitzvah the limbs we have have Limbs and our we have physical limbs correspond to R limbs in the in the world of Truth we have we actually have phys spiritual limbs whatever that means and I think talks about a person when a person doesn't a so imagine a person in this world who's missing a limb or the limb is Mis uh what do you call misformed malformed how a person feels that he's embarrassed in this world at at having a male formed limb or formed limb so in the world to come all the more so that a person who who has done an a not done the mitzah they should have done with their limb or he's done an a with their Lim and the embarrassment in the world to come but a person who refers to what theor says that the world to come is called the world to come is a day which is eternal k a day that's there no end in the world to come the idea of Eternity people have trouble relating to Eternity because we we are limited all you got to do is wait a line in the bank in Israel then you'll know what eternity is then you get a at least a glimpse of what eternity is but that's only a glimpse eternity pales in comparison to a line in a bank I once had the guy at the bank here you know you go to the banks in Israel or any office you I was here already know he was watching my place there's it becomes a whole whole diplomatic negotiation over there then you have to have somebody to P in the H for you because yeah but I was here I was here I just went out shopping no you can't go shopping yeah you gotta you got to you got to stay you know it's a whole but I was here yesterday yeah yeah I was here the day before and you know well you've been here since yesterday wow that's all in Russia was worse by the way Russia the where where Israel right and R of the lines and R they they used to say what's 300 feet long in each potatoes a line of people in Russia waiting to buy meat so so the you know you know the idea of nitus Eternity is something we can't relate to number one number two um there is a concept of you know the gor mentions people who have lost their world their in the world to come the russet Tavis is the bad eggs that's why I remember it bam do a Andi they lose their report the m in in Russ bill bad egg the bad eggs right they they lose their portion in the world to come so their Earth sources that say that even those who've lost their portion to in the world to come they will eventually one way or they'll eventually come back even kadikar the last letters of K that even korak eventually is going to come up I think a friend of mine told me that he's going to be bring up the gates of the walls of Yim that sank into the earth when they when they destroy your slam they sink into the Earth down to korak and eventually korak's going to come up with those walls or the gates whichever the case may be Gates walls the medish says that the gates when they want the walls sank in when the vadon was trying to break into the walls sank down a couple of him every day till he was able to to enter the connection to korak the connection to korak is obviously that korak was lar he's the original Fighter the original C and the cause of the destruction was the so the walls go down to K eventually he's going to come up with those walls so there is a concept of that everybody eventually is going to make it back don't rely on that by the way we don't want don't don't don't don't don't use that uh try to try to uh try to get in on better merits right because it could take a while till that happens so I I wouldn't I wouldn't rely on that they once said to ra yashiv somebody came to ra yash's they said if you do a certain schoa I forgot what the certain schoa is you could get into ganen through the back door soash said listen I've been spending my entire life trying to get into ganaden through the front door so you know we'll leave the back door for others but there is you who CLE in your Merit you'll all live everybody will live even those who are theoretically cut off for eternity but the Merit those who are doing the right things so you don't know the effects when you do something good we don't know what the effects are how how how many other people were affecting number three there's this idea in Yiddish kite I'll tell you the biggest misconception that that people outside of Judaism have people outside of the bigest misconception is they think that the from people especially the Bor the Blacky they think that we have made some sort of agreement with god well we will exchange all of life's Pleasures in this world for some sort of uh abstract pleasure of the spirit in the world to come they think that we're a bunch of morbid uh uh depressed people who walk around saying to Hill them all day that's the that is more or less the the perception and nothing can be further from the truth the most upbeat happiest people you're going to meet are from people and we certainly are not missing any of life's pleasur just as ask anybody who was at a shabas table last week I don't think any of life's Pleasures were missing most people walk into a shabas table you know they they they can't deand they can't believe how much food they secular people walking they can't believe it heard about a girl once she came in a secular girl came to shab table her first time experiencing shabas so she comes in and they serve like the they serve first they serve the fish with some dips and some kala in the dips and they finish the women get up to start cleaning off the W so she gets up she helps clean off reaches for her coat to leave said thank you very much that was really delicious said no no Melissa you ain't seen nothing yet you know that was just that for because you know in college what did you eat you know lots of tuna fish and apples that's so all a sudden you walk in so from people are not missing any Pleasures the trick is that the pleasures have to be guided have to be guided upwards that means if we do what we do sh so then if you cleave through the physical world what even the physical uh uh involvement that we have in this world if we're using it as a means and we it is meant to be used as a means then you could live very nicely today you live you live very nicely very comfortably from people from people have nice houses they're from nice cars they have nice this nice that and as long as it's being channeled properly I've told you you know each person has what you we have what you want you have what you need everybody needs to kick back a little bit everybody needs to relax a person goes to sleep at night you could go to sleep and if you have intent when you go to sleep that I'm going to sleep for the next 6 hours 7 hours 14 hours whatever your whatever your allotment of sleep is but if you go if you're intent when you go to sleep is I need to Fresh I listen I I wish I could stay up I I I I'm just going to sleep I have to rest my mind and my body so I can serve AEM tomorrow then you have eight hours of serving Hashem while you're sleeping you have eight hours of serving Hashem if a person says I need to cry I love sleep and you get out and all you just stretch out and touch every part of the mattress to be so then then you're serving yourself you're not serving but person who does it with a little bit of intent intent that so that's you can play tennis to serve I don't mean serving in tennis I mean serving Ian okay I serve I mean to Ser you could serve a with tennis if that's what you need you need exercise you need to get out you need to re you can read a newspaper cuz you're serving a that's that's perfectly acceptable Aaron while you're up yeah so the uh I don't know even know why he bothered sitting down thank you Antarctica please there should be an Antarctica setting on that thing there we go the um okay now take a look at pug this is I mean it's just so remarkable how Timeless the Torah is because the Torah says like this you shall fulfill and you shall do it is your wisdom and your uh uh uh how does he translate your wisdom and your understanding in the view of the Nations they see us they'll hear about all these laws what a smart Nation I mean you know Jews have stereotypes in the world let's face it there are certain stereotypes of the Jews one of them is what's the first one that comes to mind what's that noses noses yeah that's true there is a stereotype Jews who try to assimilate Jews try to assimilates once said you know they always find Jews who assimilate it doesn't matter in the office the Jews always sh find the Jew you could you could change your name to Johnson or Williams yet when the boss comes in one day and he starts handing out Donuts it's it's it's Will Williams is going to these are free you know you oh there's the Jew right over there you know yeah the Jew so right you can't one way or another it's going to come out Rak once said that even Jews who tried to assimilate he said you can change your Moses but you can't change your noses right yeah they'll they'll they'll okay so there is that stereotype of a Jew what's the what's the for somebody said it what's what's the stereotype huh cheap cheap right which is synonymous with what smart no yeah it's synonymous with money Jew Jew Jew control the the finances in the world which is probably true and uh Jews Jews are money Jews are into money and Jews are then there's the cheap Jew the cheap Jew that's always the cheap Jew but it goes hand in hand it's because because we're we're very conscious you know first of all through history money got taken away so Jews they had a reason to be uh to be cheap or to be guarded with their money but there is that you know the Jew is always double coupon you know the Jews always got a hop somehow there's always a hop on how to save money you know so we are that is a stereotype I heard about these this guy dies so his three friends go to the cemetery to visit him so the first guy goes uh Bill we're going to miss you and he puts a $20 bill on the on the on the grave and John goes Bill we're going to miss you puts a $20 and the Jewish guy goes Bill we're going to miss you writes a $60 check and he takes the $40 cash you the Jews Jews always got an angle here you there's always there's always an angle on the money all right what's the other stereotype what's the other stereotype smart a smart Jew right sometimes too smart sometimes too smart but we are that is a stereotype Jews are smart here the Torah says it openly remember gentlemen stereotypes are a result of your life experiences any ethnic group that you think of and you think of a stereotype if I say to you uh three guys uh walked into a restaurant and told him to close down and made him an offer he couldn't refuse so you think of a certain ethnic group there certain people extort money from others as a group that you think of certain ethnic groups certain uh groups are big drinkers uh you know they they're constantly see you think of your own ethnic group somebody got mugged you thinking of a member of a certain ethnic group there it's because of stereotypes are a result of our of our and I didn't say anything it's whatever whatever you're thinking in your mind just means that you guys are bigots not me and and it means that it's because of your life the experience with Jews Jews are smart a smart Jew the uh the what do you call it was always uh non-jewish mothers always encouraged their daughters to marry Jewish guys because they felt they wouldn't get beaten the Jewish guy would get beaten but not not not the the the girl the he won't beat you that was always that was always The Stereotype here it Torah says this is very puzzling take a look number one the uh uh it says that now I want you to take a look back at per test B for a second look at peric test B in in uh in in bidor I'll tell you what page is it in a second um page 838 par per Bas page 838 Top Line 838 so the Torah says the Torah says take give 838 Top Line Aon while you're up close the door over there the rough day having a rough day the uh this is the statute and so on and so forth now take a look at Rashi the very first rash on page 838 the Satan and the nations of the worlding Isel they take Isel they take the Jews to task what kind of what is this Mitzvah what reason is there for this Mitzvah the and the the uh the Torah brings down I forgot where else it is where T says they laugh at us for the various laws shates andaz the go laugh at us the red cow ridiculous so then why does the Torah say over here look at let's read this P again on page 960 six lines from the top that's your wisdom and your understanding in the eyes of the Nations they hear these laws wow what a bunch of smart Jews I understand make up your mind they laugh at our laws or they think that are they're impressed by our laws which one is it which one is it they laugh or they or they're impressed the answer is in the beginning they laugh till they see the results and they see what kind of people the Jews are and they see what we are that's what bothers them they see from the outside they're looking at well these laws don't make sense well look what these people are they're are low levels of wife beating among the Jews there are low levels of drug abuse there are low levels of teen pregnancy so from girls are married there are low levels of of what do you call there low levels of of of of of of all the ugliness in the world there are low levels of divorce low levels of everything where' you go how do you get like that there's only one explanation it's these laws so you're laughing you're laughing you're laughing and I know people in life who have done things where people have laughed at them and then in the end they say wow you know your way was better I've seen that I've seen that happen where somebody somebody's laughing at your approach or what you're doing and it doesn't have to be I'm not talking about in religion I'm talking about just in general you approach something a certain way and then people laugh at you there people guys learns a lot of Bas so everybody laughs at him next thing you know 10 years later this guy's a tremendous Bucky and shot and everybody else is still they're they're still struggling to keep up because they learned six blot Lads man and and they're his way turned out to be very very successful I'm not saying that's what you should do I'm just using an example I'm just using an example so here they look at us the secular in Israel know it also they look at us they talk about they they want to help us you see the the secular want they want to put into our school system they want secular now to help the fir people they for our benefit that's why they're it's called liba The Core Curriculum which you're trying to impose on the religious schools which they never going to do my son said to me on TI he said L because they cut off now funding from the from the daycare centers my son said to me listen they could try to hurt us but they're never going to change us that's not going to happen we'll change them they're not going to change us but they see it they they know that what's going on over here because in NE go you know that in the secular and I got these people when I call them secular I mean not yet religious because eventually they will be but in the state schools in Israel they did a survey this goes back a few years ago they did a survey 33% of the kids in the school were carrying plastic box cutters you know those box cutters there those knives those blades the plastic knife 33% were carrying these plastic box cutters and of those 33% 50% said they carry it in self-defense and I think that was the teachers right they they carry in a in a fromer you know what kind of trouble kids make in a fromer I'm not Bening uhoh SCH slimy schy SCH slimy schnitzel say that Asher yuts are too fast right that's the that's the kind of that's the kind of trouble in a fromer right and once in a while you know once in a while somebody does something something really terrible you know he ate without AA yeah but there's no violence they see it they see what's going on so I want to give you two examples I once was in prison no eron no I was actually in prison twice I was in I was incarcerated twice in my life I was actually in when I say I was in prison I gave a lecture once in prison but I was incar erated twice I mean I didn't know what it was I didn't know it was somebody's car I thought it was heer the uh the uh what do you call it the it the uh now I was once once I got arrested for jaywalking where Chicago Sky cop stopped us junior in high school me and two other guys were were ditching class playing tennis and uh we crossed to the middle of the street then we ran across the second half of the street they waited for you know you wait for traffic to cross so me and another the me and one one we ran across the the other guy waited in the middle and there was a truck coming so as soon as we got to the other side a sky cop they were notorious anti-semites also they he he pulls up Sky cop pulls up and he says okay all three of you get in the back of the car what's the problem he almost caused an accident the truck had a slam on his brakes which wasn't true I would have run that close in front of a truck and so uh so so he said you almost caused an accident so we get in the back of the car figure know he's going to give us some mus sh and go home you know he's got better things at the time he pulls down his code book he looks through the goes yeah that's a violation of a 1794 takes his his goes I got three male caucasian youths between the age of 16 and 20 uh violation 1794 request backup like what next thing you know another cop car comes around behind us and they drove us down to the Soki lockup they actually put us in a cell and of course yeah Mike's Dad wasn't home and Ricky's dad was out of town so I had to call my father hi yeah yeah and um me and Mike and Ricky kind of got arrested he's he's what he had a he he was reading the Wall Street Journal that was L more interested than my than my my my my criminal activity and I he say what I say they got us for jaywalking so he so he comes down with my mother was was was she comes in she was like she she goes is this going to go on his record she thought they won't let me they're going to extradite me you know so there we we eventually beat it in court but that was there was and the second time was also something something technical like that but this time that I'm telling you about which all you really should care about here instead of my record the uh by the way yeah I also had parking tickets I had a lot of parking tickets cuz when I I I made a calculation when I would go to a movie there's never there's never parking you know there never parking so I always found that there was a parking space in front of hydrant hydrant there was a parking and I and I what do you call it so I I did was I made a very very I made a what could what's the Worst That Could Happen the worst that could happen is there will be a fire in this house they'll have to chop my car apart to to get to the to the hydrant right that's the worst that could happen the odds of a fire in this house in the next two hours that have haven't been a fire there for the last 50 years we're very we're we're mines I wasn't worried about that Eli they could give me a ticket which once in a while they did so when I left Israel to come to Yeshiva so our parents had a sell my car so my mother goes oh by the way we sold the car do you know you had nine parking tickets in your glove compartment I go oh yeah she go I said what did you do with it we paid them oh Mom why did you pay she was worried they wouldn't let me back in the country or something you know they you I have a a police record with parking tickets so I went to a prison they had a program here in Israel a uh a ky roof program in the prison now this was a prison for hard violent crime violent criminals murderers armed robbers everything all and uh they ran a program I wasn't even here yet I was just I still in Colo at the time and it was in Hebrew and uh they found that these guys would do chuva they become Bal chuvas in prison and if he came B Chua they would would let him out for good behavior and they B Chua I said to the guy yeah but anybody who put on a black y just to get out of prison he said but they've done studies follow-up studies 88% there there's normally an 88% recidivism rate which means 88% of the guys who get out of jail end up committing crimes again the guys who became from in jail who became religious they had 6% and that was enough even is bad as from people are in the country criminals are worse so there was actually funding for this programs I went into this I went into this prison and these guys I mean you took a look at these guys these were not a guy these are not guys you would want to meet in a dark alley that I could tell and you know guys like like three-day beard growth you know grizzled with hard faces with a big black yarm on and I'm giving them a talk it wasn't very it wasn't very good talk either was very successful towards the end of the talk I started talking about prison life about fighting with roommates with cellmates and that and then they all got interested so I should have done that the whole time and so at a certain point at a certain point I was standing in the prison yard after the talk and I'm schmoozing with one of these guys and he's about 6'4 I'm not and I'm just shoing it at a certain point they said to him you know why why are you here why are you here so he kind of like I trusted the wrong people which is by the way very characteristic of of people in jail they never did anything wrong they're all innocent it's always somebody else's fault which is true so I'm talking to this guy and at a certain am I'm in the prison yard with these are hard these are these are violent criminals and at a certain point I start looking around and I realize there isn't a guard in sight and I'm talking to this guy and there and I'm looking around and there isn't a guard in sight and all a I'm starting to picture the next day's headlines Rabbi taken hostage in prison and it at that point I politely excused myself and I went back to to the guy I even saw by the way there was one guy I saw cleaning a table a little old man in the lunchroom he the sweetest guy looked like the Candy Man in Shool and he's cleaning off the tables I said to the guy who brought me there was run to the progam said what's he here for he said well he became a widower the do-it-yourself way he cooked his wife I didn't ask for any details I'm just telling you at least some of your family cooked but it it was what do you call I I didn't ask for any details but you know and then and what I felt was when I left my stereotype was broken I I was affected negatively by it because when I tell you a murderer what do you think of you know some gruesome this guy looked like you know you know like you know just like like Pete from the vegetable shop you know and and here he is cleaning off the table sweetest old guy you know he was a murderer so it took a while to to to get back like oh murder isn't so bad you know because he could be a sweet old guy also there was one from guy in the group there were actually two there was one uh uh knitted yarma young guy like a like a a right-wing extremist who was who was imprisoned because he was he he had expressed a certain enthusiasm for using his his m116 on Arabs and so he was put in prison he didn't use it but he had expressed uh intent and then there was this one little old guy who looked like he stepped right out of a a souvenir shop in Mayar the beard m m is could be and so every time I quoted a Gamora this guy kind of mouthed the words along with me and so I went up to him I said what why are you here he looked at he SM goes in Hebrew he goes I forgot to pay my tax taxes right now it's interesting you forgot to pay his taxes I know me too it's interesting here he was that not one from person a violent crime they see that they know that not one from person by the way statistically and this is uh what do you call just just an interesting thing that Hillary Clinton should hear uh 90% of the violent criminals in America are males why is that I I thought they were all alike I thought men and women are exactly alike Hillary right so what what happened you know maybe she is and women if they commit a crime it's usually a crime of passion meaning they kill their husbands but there it's very rare that women women don't rob banks and women don't you it's an interesting things they see right there the difference that we you know it's like we've s been saying it all along so they see this now I was once in a cab I just want to tell you one other incident I was once in a cab was a woman cab driver secular woman cab driver a loser on all counts and she was uh uh uh driving me I had to go from benra to Ramadan and as we're as we're driving on the streets of Ben brck all of a sudden I heard a like a playful yell there was a guy wearing like u a white shirt and slacks he didn't look very yish but he looked he looked what they call K and him and a girl were were were they weren't touching each other but they were doing things that are you know just associating with each other which is considered in appropriate in the K world and so there's a she gives a playful she gave a playful scream a playful yell and this lady the cab driver she looks he goes oh see so what goes on by you also what was her issue what she just trying to show that we're not so why because she knows in her heart of hearts that it doesn't go on by us so a guy talking to a girl and the girl gives a yell all of a sudden we're all that's considered in the secular world if a girl would give a yell and people would give her what you called she'd be the the she'd get the sne award of the Year by them by us that's already considered crossing a line because they see the difference that's they're cynical at first about about what about the Mitzvah but then they see the effect on the people number one number two I I really want to show you something now I want to give you a couple of examples first of all you know the Torah is a relatively small book it's a relative it's not a very big book in the irony of life is this is Torah this is the written Torah where's the oral Torah where's the oral Torah that entire shelf among others isn't that an interesting irony this is the written that's the oral that's pretty ironic because anytime you take a gamorra and I show you this this sure looks this sure looks written to me not only it looks written I've never seen as much writing on a page in my life small smaller minuscule right then you got a few of those back there that's a lot of writing for an oral Torah so that because the nature of the oral Torah is that it can't be put into writing and therefore it keeps it it expands like an inverse pyramid because it starts here and goes this way but it's one little book with an awful lot of wisdom now I want to tell you something do you know anything about hemophilia blood what's that yeah where the blood doesn't the blood doesn't clot right and person can bleed the blood doesn't clot you know does hemophilia transferred through the mother's genes or the the father's jeans mother's what mother's mother's jeans correct what was the one in Russia what was the family the Zar The zarena Who had who had hemophilia that's when that nut that what's his name uh vtin rutin who who had the magical cure for the for the zarina's B for for the child and they were all the royal families were all related so they all had hemophilia came from her it was all the whole family had hemophilia do you know that the post a thousand years ago there's a question if a child has a bris ra son a child dies from the bris usually meaning that he probably bled and the blooding bleeding didn't stop and he has a brother and the brother dies you don't do a bris on the third one but that's only if they are what about if they're half brothers so the Ramos says in that if they're half Brothers Through the mother that means the same mother different fathers you don't do a bris if they're half Brothers Through the father now side through the mo uh through the mother that means a man had two different wives then you do do it because the Hop has passed through the mother how do you like that that's a thousand years ago or 800 years ago Medical Science only discovered this about 100 years ago how did they they know how did they know number one give you another example s ior when the Moon Moon the the the count of when the when the new moon is going to is the What's called the sodra the the the appearance of the new moon and we have it down precise they've tried doing it with scientific instruments and they can't they still can't figure out how we've known about this all the way since back then the sod eor the when when the moon is going to come and and the calendar that we have which was written which was formulated by re hudia who a grandson of rud anasi that calculate the the calendar that we have since then he made a calendar how did they know these things give you another example medical science has only recently discovered recently meaning within the past 50 years or so that certain eye ailments are an indication of heart trouble and eye ailments and they know that the an eye ailment they have only recently discovered that an eye ailment I think it's in one of the eyes of I don't remember what my friend the doctor told me with one of the eyes versus the other eye is an indication of potential heart trouble the gamorra says that the eye is attached to the heart says the eye has some sort of cords that attach it to the heart how they know just that dissect going WR it was like they were dissecting people how did they know Medical Science has been certainly and the ultimate how long have we known that the Earth is round who discovered that the Earth is round what say it's not it's not what it's not it's not round what is it it's Square oh you're one of you're the Flat Earth Society Mak between who and whom America it's big big in America it's a big the Flat Earth people yeah okay but that's a mlus you know it says it says that that that that that even shami compared to Hill as if their opinion doesn't exist so the Flat Earth Society with all with all uh with all due respect or undue respect uh the Earth is round so people think Columbus discovered that if you look in aora toos in aora and Al says that Alexander the Great which is way way way way back Alexander the Great went up in the air and saw kadura he saw the the roundness of the earth which means toos knew it which means toos is before Columbus which is Yi knew it which Alexander the Great saw it so how do we know that means that we knew it how do we do it long before long before the the Christian Europe discovered that boats weren't falling off the edge of the sea and by the way Rashi in M bras talks about a magnetic field in the sea you heard of the Bermuda Triangle okay so let's get something straight first of all they found statistically there are not more ships lost in the Bermuda Triangle than in anywhere else percentage wise but the entire story of the B triangle started with a squadron of planes that were flying out over what you call it and they're apparently this whole Squadron and then they went lost and apparently they what they think what they speculate is that there's a magnetic field in the sea that affected their compasses so they didn't have keep we couldn't keep track of where they were going and how much fuel they had so they all now Rashi mentions that in bras that there are ships that have wooden planks on the side because with the metal they wouldn't be able to pass through because there's a magnetic field magnetic field in the sea Rashi mentions that openly so that's now the is well known that the K knew all about medicine and it's documented and I've seen the there is a uh uh diag that's available now we're going back to about the 19 late 40s early 50s a man had to have brain surgery and the doctor said he will not operate on his brain so they didn't have scans and they didn't have any way of of knowing what's going on inside the brain like they do nowadays the doctor said he cannot do the surgery he canot excess whatever it was that he had to do the Kish drew a diagram which apparently involved going through the ear and the doctor did the surgery and the surgery was successful and Kish drew the diag for brain surgery and we're not talking about a podiatrist over here removing a splinter you know we're talking about brain surgery and the Kish drew a diagam and the story I don't know if it's true or not but the legend is that this doctor would never do surgery again brain surgery until he spoke to the till he had confirmation from the so that's what it says the nation see there were a bunch of smart jewes cuz that comes from it all comes from Torah it's all in Torah you just got to know how to fight you know that the vill Goen wrote a book on trigonometry are you aware of that the vill Goen wrote a book and we still have it he actually has a theorem in in uh in what do you call called Cramer's theorem and he actually wrote a book on trigonometry called a mulos and apparently the story is that he wrote it in the bathroom because outside the bathroom he was always learning Torah how do you like that I also dumped my books in in the bathroom my my my what do you call never looked at them but the uh that's why I felt they should be dumped anyway but he wrote that that's what he did the vill go wrote that in the bathroom I could write a Sports Illustrated in the bathroom but they the V go and wrote the the she wrote it in the bathroom that's that's okay let's go on take a look at um that we did one second let's see where we are here um uh where are we one one about nine lines from the top who is a great nation that has a God that's close to them our God whenever we call out to him now you have to understand sometimes people call out to hasem we we we sometimes feel that we're not answered you do and you didn't get answered and by the way that there's a piy people say well I do I yeah I did get answered Hashem said no the gorah doesn't say that the gorah says if a person DAV and saw he wasn't answer DAV again pour out DAV to Hope toak strength in your heart you didn't get answered DAV again answered means yes not no if you didn't answer you ding ding again some dings some Tas are answered immediately some Tas are answered after 30 years but DAV and Dav and daving some more here it says we call out to Hashem and he responds now they ask the Kish and this is a constant question that many people have how do I strengthen my amuna how do I strengthen my faith in hasem the most basic answer of strengthening Faith you could read all the books in the world all the books in the world is wonderful there are a lot of good books out living amuna is a very nice series these are all nice the way you really incorporate and internalize Zuna is by daving the more one davens and obviously learns Torah but daving creates that connection serious daving real focused daving to the great by the way don't get upset if you don't concentrate on all on every word of something you space out during daving like 80% of the time daving is challenging it says in Hal now this is written 400 years ago nowadays we don't have kav in daving that's written 400 years ago and by the way we haven't gotten better so don't you know if in baseball guy hits 300 he's a star 30% you're a star 35% you're a superstar that means on my test scores in high school I was a super duper Star I was up to 50 or 60 in baseball I'd be you know I i' be I'd be a billionaire a multi-billionaire if you got 30% you ding count the hits don't count the misses count the hits during daving but the K was asked how do we strengthen Arun you know said ask for anything all the time even for little things sometimes I I I when I'm at a bus stop I will actually I I'm not I'm not I'm like I'm not a flower child guys but uh I'm just telling you sometimes I'm at a bus stop and I'll say please AEM send transportation for me soon and then I you know you're supposed to include yourself with all other Jews with the with the Tor so I say among all bus waiters in Cloud Israel and I don't ask for a bus I ask for Transportation cuz it could be a ride also but I say that's f a woman I once read a woman who's in the kitchen she's cooking she should dve in there should come out well the cake should come out well the what do you call it the the the the cougle should come out well for some women that's a you're not allowed to dive for a miracle but but assuming that she's capable ding that it should come out well don't take anything for granted the only thing I would tell you is nobody should hear you shouldn't be a demonstration of our amuna nobody else should hear hear you please I might need a bus o give us a br no D to yourself nobody no no no a woman says with the cake to yourself if you say it out loud you drive people crazy drive people crazy that's the way that that's what the recommended to to strengthen aun one more point take a look at P test be careful that you don't forget the things you saw it should be and that it should be rub from your heart I want to say guys something I want you have you ever seen Niagara Falls you ever been Niagara Falls have you ever forgotten what it looks like can't forget eron did you ever forget what an anger looked like have you ever uh what's the most amazing thing you've ever seen what's the most amazing thing you've ever seen no idea what's the most amazing thing you've ever seen I think of something they ever the most remarkable amazing thing you've ever seen trying to think you know I think probably the Bulls winning in 91 was pretty amazing there was there was a I haven't forgotten that Cubs winning in 2000 see that was pretty amazing hav forgotten that but what else you ever see a light a light what do you call a you ever been on a roller coaster was it a have you forgotten what that's like you ever like the supersonic Dinner Spinner right or one of these one of these other things that that that what do you call that that you feel like you're dying and you pay money for that feeling right have you ever done that have you ever parachuted anybody here ever parachuted yeah you have yeah have you forgotten what it's like it's fine oh it's fine is it oh it's fine it's only fine because the parachute open somebody what said if at first you don't succeed parachuting is not for you they say yeah okay the point is k whatever you could think of a Niagara Falls or or the Grand Canyon or or the topography in Afghanistan anything that you've seen would you consider that it was unbeliev that was amazing that was unbel was awesome I mean what Kell saw at harena was even more amazing a I could they saw the letters they saw a fire they said they heard sounds how can you possibly forget that the Torah said be careful that you don't forget it how can you forget it how can you possibly forget that you saw her C that can't possibly forget such a thing and even more than that you're you're could you forget forget what fillan is how do you forget what fillan is how can you possibly forget what filling you've been putting out fill you've seen fill in your whole life youve seen you've seen people putting on one guy once came to kki he said to kki my daughter is 5 years old and she every morning she takes a pink ribbon and she wraps it around her finger seven arm seven times and she takes like a little pink flower and she puts it on her head what does that mean does that mean that she's got like a very is she very high spiritual spiritual Nama said to it means you should start doing in a minion how would a 5-year-old girl ever see her father putting on fing he put on full and Sh maybe he puts in the home and then walks the sh chances are he's doing at home sometimes that it means you should start doing in a vinion how can you forget something the answer is there's only one way to forget you push it out of your head with nonsense and the more nonsense we put into our head the Gamora says every piece of nonsense we push in puts pushes out a piece of Torah person fills his head with Torah pushes out the nonsense the Mion perova says that a person is accountable for forgetting what he learns but not if he's you know you learned a tremendous amount you know but if if you forget we're human the word it says until you sit and actively remind it from your you you remove it from your mind I wondered about that how do you remove that from your mind how can I actively okay don't think about don't think about uh it's like trying to forget a number don't think don't remember 966 74 don't remember 966 74 try to forget 966 74 what's going to happen all you do is remember it so how do you forget how do you sit down and actively remove Torah you actively remove Torah by actively engaging in nonsense the Torah is saying don't fill your head with nonsense don't fill your head with all the all the silliness and all the and even Imager especially imagery can have an effect on pushing out other imagery and so the a a person you know raak I think it was raak was once in uh one of the gum I don't remember was it he was he was in New York I think and uh it wasn't R it was one of the other G and they were driving a lot of skyscrapers in New York and he was sitting in the car readingar so said you got to see these skycrapers he said no no I don't want to they said why not he said I don't want anything to amaze me I don't want anything to see anything amazing other than Torah I want Torah to amaze me because if you look at something else that's amazing that's going to reduce the effect of how amazing Torah is that's very very true the more we're involved in other amazing things it could be movies and it could be imagery it could be whatever it is it pushes out Torah the more Torah we're involved in the more it pushes out other things all right