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God created the world for his purpose to be revealed. He chose us to help that happen. And so world history obviously focuses on the Jewel. Uh anti-semitism around the world, most of the world is focused on us as well. So it's just a matter of perspectives, friend or foe. So you have friends who who love us and foes who hate us. But here's how it goes. God begins the world with Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve are given a test. And you would think a perfect God creating a world with his perfect ability would would would work out that the very first story of life and of humanity would come out a winner. But instead, the very first story of life comes out a failure. And this is important for us to identify with. Why? Because in Judaism especially we have many many role models. Most of them are not failures. In fact most of the stories of the righteous Jewish leaders that we follow and emulate and and and honor and learn from were perfect. At least from our perspective they were perfect. They knew the entire Talmud by the by the time they were bar mitzvah. They knew it backwards by the time they were married. And then their wife told them you don't know nothing yet. And then they had to learn what life was really about by getting married, which is a whole another level. Either way, the righteous righteous people that we emulate, they like super geniuses, super perfect. They they have big hearts, big brains, and they have a lot of action to to back it all up. And so when we hear those stories, we kind of ask God, if you have them in your world, what in the what what in the world are you getting me for? Am I your your moment of laughter? Is it is it when everyone wants wants a good joke every once in a while and you want to laugh so you created me because how can I ever compare to the Mosher Rabenu of life the Vagons of life the Lavich rebies of life the Benish of life how can we compare it's it's we're we over before we even start so what are we doing here why are we even here well we're not alone because Adam was created by God himself Eve created by God with Adam involved. Maybe that's what got it all messed up. But anyway, and they failed. The first story of life is a story of failure. Let that sink in. There's another contrast. Unbelievable contrast. It's like, what? How could that happen? It makes no sense. And the Gomorrah points out that it doesn't make any sense. And then it makes some sense out of it. How could the Jews that survived Egypt, we're not talking about the four-fifths that died in Egypt, of the oneif, only one fifth that survived Egypt because they had faith and they held on to God and they got out and then they were merited to to be at the Mount of Sinai, the Sinai revelation. God spoke directly to them, the first two commandments. Imagine God speaking to you directly. And then 40 days later, the sin of the golden calf. Idol worship. You're worshiping a golden calf. You're worshiping our brother. Today's idol worship. What? What? How? I mean, in that case, they just witnessed divine revelation and in 40 days they're worshiping an idol. How could that happen? And the the Talmud says, "Yeah, how could it happen? So the answer is it wasn't really it wasn't really suitable for such a thing to happen to to the Jewish people after such a high point that they reached. So one of the reasons kind of deflating they're not giving an ultimate answer but a partial answer is that God wanted to utilize their shortcoming at that moment which really shouldn't have happened to point out to humanity forever that failing doesn't mean you're a failure. Failure doesn't mean you lost. It means you fall down, get back up, even if it's hard. And that's the lesson that the generation of the that was in the desert that saw God and heard God that they fell is to teach us that no matter how great you think you are, falling is part of the life experience. Get used to it. Get stronger from it. That's what that's the point that they take out of it. But it's not an ultimate answer. We're going to take a deep dive into Cababala with one of my favorite cababalists over here or future cabalists. And uh so let's get deeper into the story. But before I do, I want to share one of my really favorite ideas that of all people this idea comes from my twin brother. He tries to be mar of me. He's very sweet. He wants me to do chuva because he doesn't think I'm kabad enough. But if you ask AI I'm enough, we know from the sages that when God created the world, he created it with he created it with with the attribute of of of uh din of strictness of judgment and which ultimately results in punishment. Then he saw that the world would not be able to endure only on the attribute of judgment because because people would not be able to really kind of stand up or reach the level of that perfectness that they could be in a perfect inden. So he decided to add the the divine attribute of mercy to soften the whole experience of of reward and punishment and judgment so that the world could endure. Now that's the sages they teach us that this is my brother's kesh. He says you know that's wrong. What the sages just said doesn't is wrong. It doesn't make any sense. Why? Because God could have created a world with only. He could have and he could have left it that way. We know that. You know where we know that? On rashash shana which we receelebrate and commemorate and connect with creation. We're taught that on the there's two days of of rashash shana, right? Big question. God doesn't know how to judge us once. He has to judge us twice. He didn't get finished on the first day. He needed he needed a second day to finish up like the voting the you know we didn't get all the ballots in. We're going to we're going to extend the time for the God knows everything. God can do it in one day. Why why are there two days of judgment? Doesn't make any sense. Everybody appreciate that question. Why do we judge why does God judge us two days? So the answer is the first day is with me sadim by itself streak judgment and the second day is mercy but then again so why is God judging us twice? So then they add that the first day that sadikim are judged. Meaning the the the Bish of the world, the villagons of the world, the Labrabies of the world, the Moshe of the world, they can be judged on the first day because they're perfect. At least perfect relatively speaking compared to me. They're perfect. I'm the one that's a mess. We need the second day. We need God's mercy to be judged because we, the regular people that have fallen and that are broken, we can't stand up to the the judgment, the perfect judgment and pure judgment of day one. Don't ask me what time I shak today. You're not my priest. Therefore, I probably should confess that you're not my priest. But anyway, the point is we're not perfect, so we need a second day. But there are perfect people in the world. The sadikim, they don't need a second day. They can be judged on the first day. That's my brother's question. We see that God could have created a world full of Moshees, full of full of benes, full of and we would live happily ever after. Perfect. One day we just need we just we just need one day ofashana and and and pure judgment. So the answer is beautiful. This is his answer. My brother's answer. You see that God did not want a world of Moshe and Gilg and Rebies. Just only God wanted a world with you in it. It's for you that that he created the world and therefore he needed to add mercy to the world because he wants the regular people. He wants the simple me and you in the world. Therefore, he couldn't make a world with only judgment because what that world would have excluded was you. And God wanted you in the world as much as he wanted Moshe. And therefore, it was impossible to create a world with only judgment because the world couldn't exist without you. Beautiful idea from Nakman. says, "You should know the moment you were born is when God decided that the world can no longer exist without you, without me, without you. We are all essential. And the moment we arrive is when it became essential that we arrive and we be here." And the world was created as the sages say, "God created the world just for me." Just for me. Unbelievable. And therefore, he needed mercy to deal with me. That's for sure. And that's my brother's beautiful, powerful, unbelievable, empowering shot that answers this deep. And with that in mind, we're going to look at the story. So why did the Jews that left Egypt spoke to God, saw God, sin 40 days later? So one answer is because God wanted to show the world the mi and use in the world. Don't worry you fall you get back up. I don't expect to be perfect cuz I don't expect you to be perfect. And get another thing issues are not issues. Problems are are solution opportunities. When a person has within him god-given tendencies, negative attributes, tendencies, that's not a flaw and it's not the person's fault. How God creates you is not your fault. So, how can God hate Asov and love Yakov? Not for how God created Asov, but what Asov did with that which God gave him. He rejected the Asov that God made and that's rejecting God and that turns into jealousy and hate towards Yakov. And that's what God hates. What what Asov did with his portion. But we're taught by great sages that Asov could have reached an even higher level than Yakov. He could have tooken his evilness because even before he was born, he went he wanted to worship idols. You can't blame a baby for wanting to do something. You can't blame a child that wants to that has mischievous that that God put out in his soul. The certain level of wickedness that Asov was born with was God-given. And God would not hate what he created. God hated the end result of Asov rejecting who he was created to become. And instead of becoming a partner with God in the the the real purpose of his creation to transform his evilness and his darkness into an even greater light than Yakov could ever reach. That's why he says, "I hate you. You took so much potential that I gave you and rejected it and me and became an enemy to my to your brother. And that's why I hate your actions and what you've done with what I gave you." And we cannot make that mistake. Broken people are not broken on their own. The entire world was created with a level of brokenness and that that that kind of expresses itself within each and every one of us. We are born with issues with brokenness but they're not real issues. We don't we were not born problem children. We were given solutions to create or we were given opportunities to create solutions and become an unbelievable uh partner in the perfection that we will ultimately achieve one day. That's what we have to understand. And so that's what we want to get into deeply right now. Deeply right now. It's all about fixing fixing and not throwing anything away. We're going to learn a very very important lesson that there is a time to to throw away so to speak, but not really throw away. And then there's a time you have to work just harder, work through the mess. I like to compare it to you have a computer that gets to a certain point where you have so much junk on it, you say, "You know what? I'm just going to erase everything and I'll start again." So there's a restart or there's the real technical fixing through the brokenness. There's a there's trying to, you know, and and and we see it in the story of life, and we're going to get a deep dive into it right right now. We were at Adam. We jumped to this sin of the golden calf. Now, we're going to go back to the generation of the flood, which is the next highlight in the story of of creation. In the generation of the flood, God decided to destroy the world. And that was what we call a restart. He didn't leave them and the mess they made to continue. He said, "I'm just starting fresh." And wipe them out. And then the next story is the story of the dispersion. At the story of the dispersion, he did a semi restart. He restarted with new languages and separated everybody to restart with 70 nations. Okay? And then the third time we see the big story in in creation is the story of Sodom and Gomorrah where God destroyed even the earth because they were so corrupt. And so these three generations are three points where God did a restart. The middle one is not a full restart but three restarts all because of the first sin of Adam. So let's ask ourselves, who were the people of the generation of the flood? Who were the people of the generation of the dispersion? And who were the people of the generation of Saddam? So you're going to say, "Rabbi, are you getting scenile?" Yes, but that's not the point. I just said they were the generation of the flood, the generation of the dispersion, and the generation of I don't mean who they physically were. I mean who they were spiritually. What souls? Which were these souls that we're talking about? And so here's what the Cabala and the Arial revealed to us. Deep, deep, deep. When Adam was created, he was created including all of the souls that would ultimately ever come out into existence. And we mean 600,000 souls, root souls, which have offshoots. These 600,000 souls are holy souls that come from a unique realm of holiness in spirituality. There's no division in this realm of holiness, which means that these 600,000 souls are really one soul divided into 600,000 parts. This this is a soul that Adam had and lost when he sinned. And this is a soul that comes back into reality. And the souls that were in Adam that fell from him to the lowest places of evil, these all these souls are precious souls. They are children of God. And and they have to they have to now go through a process of falling and getting back up. Coming from brokenness, coming from darkness. These are all the purest, holiest, unique souls that were the purpose of creation. 600,000 of them. There are another kind of soul that God created. This is, you know, this is this is like a master class. Follow this is 52 50 53 years of life that I'm offering you right now. 20 years of stupidity and for and about 20 years of not so much stupidity. But here we go. There are external souls not rooted in the realm of holiness. These are souls of human beings as well. But they're coming from the other side of holiness external. Originally, if Adam did not sin, so Adam would have been the father of only holiness the shamas and external souls would have come into the world from a different avenue. Very deep stuff. Very deep stuff. But because Adam first sinned, Adam and Eve both first sinned. The sages go so far as to say that the serpent in kind of kind of was intimate with with Eve. >> The cabalists are very clear to explain it doesn't mean that they had a physical sex. They didn't they didn't they weren't physically intimate. It's a spiritual idea. Evil and impurity became internalized within Eve and ultimately internalized in Adam. And so so evil that was separate from Adam and Eve became part of them because of the sin. And now when they when they were intimate physically and spiritually, it was a level of absent-minded intimacy and a level of minded in intimacy. And they channeled into the world both holy souls and unholy souls. And so now Cain and Abel, Cain and He were created mixed mixed up, right? They were created with an aspect of holiness into their soul and an aspect of unholiness to their soul and a lot of fixing to do because they were created post sin. Together with this moment was also a falling of souls. Many many souls that were not born through Cain and Abel fell to the depths of so to speak hell. The lowest depths of Kipa and Citra Akra of impurity and negativity and total externality. And these are holy holy souls. They they became trapped like like prisoners spiritually trapped in these negative low low realms. Yes. >> So in this context intern essence and internality are whole is holiness and oneness. Externality is unholiness and and multiplicity division separateness. Okay. Very good question. That's what I mean. >> Yes. Exactly. I'm speaking in English in Hebrew. of tuma impurity tuma and and and rah evil and impure versus holy and pure. Okay. Now with that in mind we can start to understand what's happening. Both Cain and Abel become the new fathers of of life and and one of them is killed. So later on He a shet shet Seth in English he becomes he takes the place of of he that was murdered and he becomes also part of the idea of fathering of mankind and so from them come all the souls which is really an extension of Adam. So from Adam and Eve and then of course k and shet which is a gilgal of heel a reincarnation of heel the entire world is fathered and motherthered with souls. What kind of souls? Mixed souls mostly impure and external tum and and evilness with an evilness attached to them and a minority holy. That's why we have certain leadership. We see leadership. Uh these were righteous righteous people. Noah, very very righteous people that had a mixture of this holiness and and and and a continuation of trying to repair the brokenness. But the main three generations we have to appreciate is this generation of the flood, the dispersion and and again the Sodom and Gomorrah. These generations represent a reincarnation of the holy souls that fell from Adam into the lowest places of evil. They were born in those three generations with a with a with a job with an opportunity. A problem is a is an opportunity solution. They were born to fix their brokenness and repair the world. That was their purpose. And the generation of the flood failed again at its purpose. It's partially not so much their fault. It's partially a little bit their fault. They they had an opportunity. They didn't live up to it, but they were born damaged. They were born broken and they weren't able to fix their brokenness. So God said, "Enough of the brokenness. They're not It's not working. I'm going to restart." The flood is called a flood of destruction. Mayabul a flood of destruction. It's also called the waters of Noah of comfort. God's punishment is ultimately for comfort. God's punishment is really born out of love and idea of fixing. All punishment in truth is just God saying, "I love you so much. I will never throw you away." And that's what he said to the generation of the flood. I tried. We worked it out together. It didn't work. I love you and I'm going to punish you with a flood, but it's may Noah. It's to help purify you and I'm going to give you another chance. And so they died in the generation of the flood, but they came back in the generation of the dispersion when God scattered them. And again, they they were their job was to unify and sanctify become one and and and kadosh. They did and they did not succeed. Instead, they succeeded in rebelling against God, betraying God or trying to fight God, which reminds me of a lot of uh lefties and secular Jews that become self-hating Jews. Similar to the the the generation of the dispersion, they rebelled against God. God said, "Okay, it's not working. I tried. We tried. You get a for effort, but bottom line, like in America, the A for effort means nothing when it comes to getting a job." And and then it wasn't able to save them. And God said, "I'm se separating you." And they became the new the new channeling of 70 nations. So now they would become 70 nations instead of just one people unified. The third attempt to get things right for these holy namas, holy namas, special pure nishamas, was the generation of Sodom and Gomorrah. And over there they turned again to the similar evil ways. perversion of judgment, licensed theft, uh, immorality, um, homosexuality, and if they had the technology, who knows? Probably exactly what you're looking at. Left woke America. That was Sodom and Gomorrah. Perverting justice. I get into this too often because it's personal. Um, there was a man that kind of confiscated my uncle's home because he was insane. That man had to die before we get we could get the home back which you know I didn't wish anyone that they harm but lamea America will give power to a thief to steal that's Sodom and Gomorrah okay again but with the souls of this generation Sodom and Gomorrah were these holy souls that came said I'm going to give you another chance and it didn't work and God decided to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah and there's a Fourth chance. And what is that fourth chance? Egypt. Yes. Someone learns Kabala over here. Egypt. >> So before we get there, Abraham is born and he accomplishes what no other accomplished in the idea of breaking himself, fixing himself, attaining the level of holiness where he reached the Torah itself before it was even given. He became a conduit for the divine to rest upon him. He was a chariot for the divine will. And in Kabala, it's so deep. He was an expression of divine kindness in the world. And God said, "From you, I am choosing from all the people in the world. From you," he had a holy nishama also, his brother also had these holy souls. You'll it'll come out in the story later. I'm starting with you to make a new nation, a holy nation. And from you forward, all of the holy souls that I have given three chances to fix themselves will come through you and ultimately be sick fixed through you. And you'll be the father of a nation of my holy souls called the father of the Jewish people, Israel, one day. And now of course we know the fifth the fourth Gilgoul, the fourth reincarnation of these souls was the generation of the 12 tribes in Egypt because we have Abraham, Isaac, Jacob. Jacob have 12 sons, 12 tribes. They all go to Egypt and God again throws Jewish people in a immoral, immodest uh you know perversion of judgment, witchcraft, sorcery. He throws them in a very tough place that they have to maneuver and and and survive for 210 years. And that's the story of the building of God's people in Egypt. They had to go through the servitude and the brokenness and the slavery of Egypt to repair the broken souls and the and the darkness that they had to go through. And they came out Ben Israel. They came out. The children of Israel stood at Hari and received the Torah. With them came out the mixed multitude, a mixed multitude of arav. We have to know those Arav were not just random people that just decided they want to follow the Jews. They also had souls that were connected to the Jewish people, connected to the souls of Israel and connected to Mosher Rabenu himself. And we see that from Joseph. Joseph Ysef at Sadic when he told some Egyptians, not all of the Egyptians, some Egyptians to do circumcision. Very confusing. Doesn't make sense. Why are you telling Egyptians to do circumcision? It's only a covenant with Abraham and Abraham's children. Because Joseph saw with with Raakor's divine divine recognition. He saw with the Holy Spirit that these souls were connected to the Jewish people spiritually connected. They weren't on the same fixed level of the children of the tribes because they were they were Egyptians. They were like, so to speak, potential converts with already holy souls or aspects of holy souls within them that were broken but needed fixing. And he felt if I tell them to do brisma, it will help them be able to fix themselves and ultimately be able to join the Jewish people later because there was already some kind of soul connection there. That's the mystery of the circumcision of the Egyptians and the Arav that attaches to them and comes out now. And now we are supposed to be at the end of a beautiful story where the Jews fix themselves. The the Arav the mixed multitude that they also came out and they're going to convert and the Jews will live happily ever after. They speak to God. They receive a Torah and 40 days later because of the Arav as the as the antagonists starting a downward spiral which ends in the the pl in sin of the golden calf. And now we reach another crazy crazy troubling part of the story of life. God comes and says to Moshe, Moses, enough of these people, rebels. We're gonna get rid of them. I'm gonna destroy the Jewish people right now. all of them, Arab included, will destroy them all and I'm going to start and make a new people from you. That was going to be a fourth restart. And that most people don't don't recognize this because it never happened. This was a fourth restart in the fixing of holy souls. And that was what was about to happen. And Moshe stopped it and changed the trajectory of the course of history that we know of into what we have today. And let's understand it now. Let's go back deeper and take away the real message here. God approaches Noah Noah and starts conversating with Noah. How often does God pick a person in his world to have a conversation with? Not so often. There are many people today that that feel that God did that. There's a guy that wrote a book, My Conversation with God. You can bring it in the bathroom. Don't worry. You can bring it in the bathroom. It's not holy. And there are others in these institutions all over with special jackets that think they're Messiah. They think that God, they're they're prophets. They they forunately they exist. It's it's a lot of maybe spiritual potential, but without a vessel to to hold it properly. I don't blame anybody. I wish everybody well. I'm I wish I can, you know, be well as well. We all need to be be be gaz. But let's go back to Noah. God says, "NOAH, HOW ARE YOU? I'M GOD." You know, I could see the Hollywood version. There was just recently some kind of arc thing that they did. Anyway, it's cute. Parts of it. I I did see parts of it. Anyways, so God says, "Noah, hi. How are you? I'm God. You're Noah. Listen, the world, it's a big mess out there. the lefties, even the righties, they're all making a mess with my world. I decided I'm going to bring a flood, start over. But don't worry, I found you righteous. You're righteous, and you and your family will be saved in a in an ark. So, don't worry. But the the generation is going to be destroyed. And Noah, to his credit, tried to help them do chuva by by by telling them that God's going to destroy the world and you're all going to die. But nobody responded positively to that. one of the great rabbis of today, Rav David Yoseph, I think he's the current chief rabbi of Israel. So he says, you learn from there that yelling and screaming that God hates you and is going to kill you doesn't really get you anywhere today. Not then and not now. Okay, but anyway, that's what he told Noah. And Noah tried with his approach to yeah tell them that that God's going to kill you all. There's going to be a flood. And they all thought he was a mad man. And then the flood came and his boat rose and they all drowned and that's the end of the story. But that's not the end of the story. There's a Zohar, one of the cabalistic works that that that goes deep into the the mindset of God and why and what he meant when he came to speak to Noah. Because after the flood, Noah comes out of the boat and sees a desolate world destroyed. All of life that was there when he got on the boat is gone. Nothing existed. It's a real restart. and he cries and he's sad and he actually turns to God and says, "God, how could you do this? How could you destroy your world?" And God's answer is, "You foolish, foolish shepherd." Because he was like a shepherd of his people of his generation. He was the leader of his generation. Foolish, foolish person you are. Now you cry. Now you come to me and and ask me, "How could I do such a thing? Why do you think I came and had a conversation with you before the flood? I'm God. I got other things to do than have a conversation with you, my friend. I only The only reason I came to talk to you and to tell you what I'm going to do was so you can stand up and and fight for your people, fight for your generation, and and and ask me to be merciful and ask me to forgive them. And you but once I told you that you were you were safe. So in that comfort zone you did not push and you accepted that I'm going to destroy a world and now you're upset and now you cry. You should have cried then I would have listened to you. In fact I only came to you so you could cry so I could listen to you. And that itself is deep and a little bit hard to get our heads wrap our heads around because why did God want Noah, the the leader of his generation to be part of the of the solution to of savior? Why did this salvation have to come through the the efforts and attempts of Noah? Why couldn't God just do it himself? Right now I'm only mainly holding on the question stage right now. But I think the bigger answer is because God is not trying to just produce robots. He wants a world that builds itself that fixes itself that rises from the fall and creates a self-created people that is self-created world that can be partners with God not just robots of God. And and that's why it had to come from a person alive and attached to the entire generation because it wouldn't have been real. If God just says we'll do a doover, it turns it all into a trivial game. But when mankind rises, then all miracles can happen and we can accomplish unbelievable things. It says Elohim give strength to God and ultimately God created a system in creation where he needs our participation and our co- production so to speak as partners of creation to give him the strength to make those miracles to give him the strength to to to bring the salvation because if we're not working together then it becomes God himself and God himself existed before all of this and he doesn't need to do it all himself. He doesn't want to create a world and invite us into it. He wants us to help make a world together that we can both share. And that's why it says give God the strength to save you to save us. And we we we empower God through our self-sacrifice and through our struggles. And right now Noah as the world leader and the sole connector of everyone that was alive had a moment to rise to the occasion, but he was comfortable. I'm going to survive. and he didn't do it. Now, let's look at the Stark. Stark Stark getting too Jewish over here. Now, let's look at the contrast between Noah and Moshe. Same scene. All of a sudden, God is talking to Moshe, although we're more used to God talking to Moshe. But, but why would God tell Moshe, "Moshe, I'm about to destroy the entire generation of of of Israelites in the desert. I'm going to destroy them all and I'm going to start with you, just you, Moshe, and make a new religion from you called the Moshe people. I don't know what whatever what we're going to call it. You're going to be the father of a new religion. The It won't be the Jewish people. It won't be the It won't be Ben Israel. It will be bene Does this not remind you of what God told Noah? I'm I'm going to destroy a world, but you're going to be but but you will survive. And he tells Moshe the same thing. I'm going to destroy the people, all of them, but you will survive and from you will be a new nation. Now imagine a human being. Who am I to argue with God? God, listen, I'm a little bit uncomfortable with this new this new arrangement, but where's the where do I sign like a religion of me from me? Who would argue with God? The self-interest was set up. He was set up to fail again because it has to come through the human struggle, the human triumph. And Moshe doesn't even bat an eyelash. No. No. You kidding? It'll be what will Egypt think? And and if you do this, then erase me from your book. Moshe said, "If you're going to take away these people, not only do I not want to be part of a new people from me, take me out of your entire story. I don't want to exist in your story if you take them away." The self-sacrifice, he there's no Moshe. And that's incredible. Incredible to reach this level because again, remember, you're arguing and talking with God. It's not so simple that you could even allow to do such a thing. But that's just Moshe and his infinite love for the Jewish people. I skipped I'm going to go back really to to Abraham now because it's important. Abraham was also given a conversation. God decided to talk to Abraham about Sodom and Gomorrah. Again, similar theme. Why is God telling Abraham, I'm going to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah? Because he wanted to see what Abraham would do. And Abraham fought sort of he negotiated with God to save the righteous. And I Cabala points out that Moshe's self-sacrifice and Moshe's unbelievable fight with God for for the was for the wicked. It was for those that worshiped idols. Who are you going to kill? The worshipper idol worshippers. So Moshe's kindness for the Jewish people were much was much greater than Abraham's. Uh Moshe cried in forth and said erase me for who? For rashim. For absolute rash. me he he was said he raised me for not for righteous Abraham great is with no comparison I'm just teaching you what I was taught in the holy books Abraham said you know what if I find righteous people so save the wicked in the merit of the righteous but he didn't pray to save the wicked even though they're wicked he was limited in his kindness compared to Moshe and of course they both made Noah seem a little bit selfish it's important to know now but I want to transgress for a moment because it's just such so worth it this idea. Once we understand that when Abraham spoke to God and negotiated to save the the wicked in the merit of the righteous, we can ask Accasha a problem and then we have a beautiful answer. What's the message? Why would Abraham, a man of kindness and truth, pray to save a a a country, a nation that is purely wicked and and lies and theft and immorality? meaning they were basically making Abraham's job much harder. Abraham was trying to fix the world to serve God and follow God's ways. And they were like the absolute radical woke left saying, "Forget about God. There is no God. We're our own God." And so why is he praying to save them? He should be happy that they're getting that God's getting rid of them. And again, what would the mixed message be? Would we pray for ISIS? Would we tell God, "God God, don't destroy ISIS. They can do chuva s." We wouldn't pray for ISIS. And we wouldn't pray that the the democratic woke left radical in America would no keep them in office. They'll do chuva. No, get rid of them. Of course, get rid of them. So what's the message? It's a confusing message. So I think the beautiful answer according to everything we're saying Ali Kabala is this. Abraham was a holy nama and and they were holy souls struggling to fix themselves. So if we understand that Abraham wasn't praying for strangers, he wasn't praying for what we would call go. He was praying for his own soul because holy souls are one. They were like his spiritual children struggling with their mess that they were dealing with. And so therefore, he had compassion. He's not saying pray for ISIS. Pray for pray for Amalik. He's not saying pray that terrorists should should live so that we should have to see more of our children be murdered. No, he was praying for his spiritual children. It was a part of him. He's saying, "Hashem, I know we could restart, but instead of restarting, maybe there's a way we could fix. We could fix through the righteous." Unbelievable. Very noble. Moshe says the same thing, but stronger. Forget about killing even the wicked. We We could We forget about a restart. We're going to work through it. And that was Moshe's message. The time of destruction is over. We can't restart because in restarting, you're destroying. You're destroying an entire world to bring in a reincarnation a new a new world. We're not. You say, "Don't destroy this world. We will work harder and work through it. We will fix it. We will rise from a darkness and create an unbelievable light because Moshe was merciful to no end." And and God accepted his his prayers. And in in fact he did erase him from his book from the para of tatsav but he accepted his argument and he said okay Moshe we're not going to break we're not going to we're not going to restart we're not going to destroy we're going to build and through Moshe self-sacrifice we have a series of struggles because Moshe foresaw that we wouldn't it wouldn't be a perfect story perfection is only God's just after we left Egypt we s with the and then we rebelled in in the first temple and we rebelled in the second temple and we're rebelling now. If you'd look around the world, you would see more rebels than servants. More people that that are trying to throw away their Jewishness than embrace it. And again, the darkness and brokenness, it's tough, but it's not everyone's so to speak fault because when you're when you're in 2,000 years of gullus, what what are we what are we meant to accomplish? And so we have to have real eyes, eyes that Hashem has to see the good in us and our world because it's not our fault that we're in 2,000 years of 2,000 years of darkness. And so the question is, what about now? Where do we go from here? We just learned an unbelievable lesson. Moshe stood up and said, "If you're going to destroy the wicked, destroy me first. Take me out of your book. I don't want a part of it." What does that mean to us right now? Because we're in a world, we're in a world and we might think, okay, we're on God's side. They're not. Get rid of them and let's just bring Messiah. But let's go deeper. Who's really stopping Messiah from coming? Is it really them or is it us or is it all of us or is it none of us? So now we're going to shift this whole talk with not yesterday, but tomorrow. We want to look at a tomorrow. How do we view tomorrow? Where do we go from here? That's what we want to discuss right now. And what I want to challenge all of us is to understand this. Who's stopping Messiah from coming? It's a very very powerful, very important question to ask. So I want to tell you who's not stopping Messiah from coming based on the view of the Labavich Rebi. He bases it on a Rambam and just I like this view. There's an idea that the wicked people today that are hating Hashem and rebelling against Hashem, there's an idea that they're the ones obviously that are the problem. And of course, if you have a Yamaka and sitsus and you get up late and Davin Shak is late, okay, it's not so bad. You're the part of the solution. But the kind of gives us a new new eyes. He flips the entire script and gives us a new way to view things. And I want to digress for a moment right now to tell you a little bit about some special message I want to give everybody right now. And I want to start with a question and I hope you all have patience because Shabas is not for a few more hours. But it goes like this. If I would ask you all which rabbi in the history of rabbis had the most beautiful eyes. Who would you choose? The most beautiful eyes. Can you can you picture beautiful blue eyes? beautiful hazel eyes. Which rabbi, if you could think of the We have a lot of pictures today, had the most beautiful eyes. >> Thank you. I have one fan over here or just some lunatic that needs a straight jacket. Who had more beautiful eyes than those beautiful baby blue eyes of the Labavich Rebi? Who? I my my opinion is the Lubavage rebi had the most beautiful eyes but not because they were blue, not because they looked nice. Because what beautiful eyes the Rebi had that he was able to see the beauty in every Jew, the absolute beauty in every Jew. The absolute beauty in God's world. That's why the Reb had the most beautiful eyes because he saw what God sees instead of what we choose to see. You know how many sinners walked by and looked at his wonderful, beautiful blue eyes and that smile? Did he yell at anybody? Did he scream at anybody? Did he tell anybody that you're stopping Messiah? No. He understood a much deeper truth. And I'll tell us all, this is a very important lesson. Don't look at yourself with your own eyes. Think about how God sees you. And if you can't imagine that, think about how the Labavat Rebi would have just looked at you and smiled with such love. No judgments. That's how a Jewish leader looks at his his people. That's how God looks at his children. And I'll tell you another thing. Let's talk about today and tomorrow. Mosher Raenu said, "If you're going to destroy the wicked, take me out of your book." who who greater than the labrebi in modern times he could have sent all of his students to the bish to learn but he said you can't this is a famous idea from he said listen everybody understands that our life is for Torah rabbi ka says you can't a fish out of water is is is like a us with no Torah our life is Torah because Torah is God and our connection to be with God and to be like God but he says You want to talk about education as to make like as an institution when there's a fire in a home and and and the people in the home are going to die. Anyone and everyone has to get up from whatever they're doing. Even if they're learning Torah, they have you have to get up and save those people from that fire because they're going to die. The world is on fire right now. There's a darkness, a double and tripled darkness. The world is ablaze and there are people sleeping sleeping in their homes and their homes are on fire burning down and they're sleeping sleepwalking. They don't even realize it. Now if there be a physical fire and people are sleeping, they're helpless. Who's going to help them if we don't if we don't run and help them? The secular Jews of today are secular because of their fathers and grandfathers and grandmothers and great-grandmothers and great-grandfathers decision to turn away from God and Judaism. They are innocent children that have been kidnapped. They have been raised as non-Jews, complete non-Jews, and they are exempt from the Torah entirely because they're like children that were kidnapped that are that are considered onus, considered forced. It's beyond their control to embrace Judaism. They are sleeping in a house on fire. And the Labrebi understood and preached and screamed, you have to get up and go out there and save your brothers and sisters. And so he closed the books, so to speak. I mean, they they learned they learned they learned. But he said institutionalized learning to sit in a base medish all our lives and learn while our brothers and sisters are dying dying and they're asleep and they can't get up and they're they're dying. No. Now's the time to save lives, save souls. And he sends his children around the world. There's nowhere you can go where you're not going to find some kind of aabar or this be in their their area code radius. And it's unbelievable. He sacrificed himself and his children and all of the greatness and honor of they could have had in Torah. Because when push comes to shove, what's more valuable? The Torah or the Jew? What's more valuable? The Tillin that you put on the Jew or the Jew that's wearing the There are Jews that are so estranged. They are more gimm than Jews. They are more like non-Jews than Jews. But inside is the nama. They are a walking safer Torah that's being burnt. And what are we? Who are we if we don't go save them? And so if I would pick the rebi with the most beautiful eyes and the rebi that stands in the place of a moheim my small brain someone who sent his children around the world to bring every Jew back home wake them up save them from their own destructions that's a moherenu saying erase me erase me from all the books I could have written and all the books my students would have written and erase me from a Torah that could have been because the Jew is worth more. With that in mind, let us answer our final question. Who's stopping Mashiach from coming? No one. No one is stopping Msiah from coming. We're not powerful enough to stop Msiah from coming. It says Moshia will come in his time and he he will come speedily and it's a contradiction. Either he will come on time or he'll come early. What is it? And so we're taught from Kabala that at the end of the day, Mashiah coming doesn't depend on how good we are or how bad we are. It depends on God. However, what does depend on us is are we going to learn the lesson from Moshe, learn the lesson from the Labavage Rebi and other great great sages and great rabbis. Are we going to learn their lesson or are we going to make the mistake of Noah? As long as I'm okay, it's okay. It's not okay. Imagine today today Hashem wants to bring Mashiach but there's a problem there's a lot of empty seats in this table. The party of Mashiach is is going to happen. God wants it to happen more than we do and we think we're here with a keepa with situs. We're sitting here ready ready for the Mashiach party. It's late. We're it's late. It's supposed to start. He says what do you mean start? start a party of Mashiach and my children are not all here. The Rebi understood and we need to understand we got to go out there and help bring Hashem's children with us to the party. An empty party with his children out there, that's not a solution. And again with the Msiah coming and the end of days wars with an entire world out there that's just vulnerable to the attacks of of of Midin we have to make a Israel and aus unity love and we have to become a one unit. If we stick together as one then of course nobody can get hurt. If we're holding on to each other then no one gets hurt. If we're separate then people can become vulnerable. The secret of porum according to at least my understanding is this. It says in the migilla Hammon M was very deep, very smart, holding on very high spiritual and sorcery levels. He understood if the Jews are scattered and separate me and I can attack. When the Jews are separate and individuals, that's the idea of of accounting which they're susceptible to to to danger to harm. when they're scattered, you can they can be hurt. But if they're one, if they're one unit, God will never get rid of all the Jews. So if if we become one, then none of us get get or get harmed. And that's what Esther says, okay, you want me to go in and risk my life BY MYSELF, I'll die, but if we're one, if I come in with all of you with me, I'm untouchable. bring them all together as one and then I can go into and risk my life because I will never die. When we're one, when we're united, when we're when we love each other, we are untouchable. The solution to Mashiach, at least from our perspective, is embrace your fellow Jew. Don't blame him. Become one. If we become one, we become untouchable. And the miracle of Porm shows us this. How many Jews died in the war of Porm? Miraculously, probably the greatest miracle that ever occurred without a ball of fire coming from heaven was zero. Not one Jew died on the Porm battle because we were one. And God said to Hammon, you Hammon, you want to kill my children? I won't even let you have one of them. But what did we do to merit that? Because if we're connected, then not one of us is left available alone to be targeted by God's retribution. And so the solution to Msiah and Jewish survival right now in the face of all of the bombs and all the craziness and all of the prophetic go end of days wars is love yourself, love your fellow and the Jews and the Torah and God become all one. And we have Mashiach coming.