Behar- The Other Side of Wall Street

[Music] virtually every single Bank in the world lends with interest there's not a single financial institution in virtually any country that will think twice about charging additionally for a loan so why is it that the Tyra frowns upon Rivas so heavily why does the tra and the mishna and the gamarra elaborate so much about the severity of charging interest what is it about charging interest about charging ribus that's so terribly bad both parties agree nobody's getting RI off how is charging ribus any different than marking up the price of a sack of potatoes to make a profit why is one considered financially unethical and the other is just business as usual and to compound the question the name the toyra uses for interest is and the B explains that the name is derived from the word Nash the snake meaning to say that lending with interest is tantamount to causing one to get bitten by a snake and the question is in what way and why specifically a snake of all animals Why Don't We compare it to the touch of a poison dart frog or the sting of a killer wasp or getting your leg bitten by a great white shark so the cleer gives the following explanation we know that Hashem does does not benefit at all from the world or its inhabitants he just created us purely to give good to us and the ultimate good is spiritual pleasure which emanates from Hashem himself the more we connect ourselves to him the more of this pleasure we receive and a utopian perfect world Hashem wants nothing more than to give us pleasure and he has no problem giving us all the food and money we need on a silver platter in fact that is the life were living in a g that lifestyle was doubly good first of all he had all his needs taken care of by Hashem and secondly he therefore had the closest of relationship with him it was immensely obvious to that the goodness was coming from Hashem which then heightened their appreciation of Hashem which in turn strengthened their relationship with him which in turn added to their spiritual pleasure basically in short life was fantastic then Adam sinned and he ate from the atadas from the forbidden fruit and being that he breached his relationship with Hashem his punishment was that the Heavenly kitchen essentially offering him three meals a day was now closed and he had to work for his food and this was a two-fold punishment number one he no longer got his needs handed to him directly from Hashem and number two he no longer saw hashem's direct hand in all areas of his life which in turn lessened his recognition and appreci of appreciation of Hashem which in turn tarnished his relationship with hasem which in turn lessened the pleasure of his existence basically in short life got significantly less pleasurable spiritually and this was Mankind's Destiny for the duration of history as we know it we would now have to work to sustain ourselves and hashem's involvement in our lives would be much harder to perceive but our Saving Grace that would guarantee at the very least a builtin small relationship with Hashem was that we would still need to come onto Hashem for our food to grow and our business to prosper even though a farmer now has to plant his crops and a Salesman now has to sell his product he isn't entirely cut off from his relationship with Hashem because he still needs to do in that his crops grow and his product sells and the same is true with all avenues of income all except one and that's ribus lending with interest is guaranteed profit to the point where it cuts out God from the equation there is no praying that the crops will grow there's no doing that customers will show up there's no doing that the business deal will go through it is merely lending and getting free money in return God is entirely out of the picture one who lives a life independent of Hashem is missing out on the ultimate pleasure that our world has to offer dependency on Hashem isn't merely a way to please Hashem so he gives you more pleasure it is pleasure in and of itself it is our soul realigning with its true self it is our Eternal Nish connecting to Infinity the snake that persuaded other was given a peculiar punishment he was told beginning now until the end of time you will eat the dust of the earth now you might ask what's so devastating about this punishment an animal doesn't care what it eats with this punishment the snake now has the whole world to eat wherever he goes he finds food what type of punishment is that the answer is that his retribution is the fact that he is cut off from God forever there's no relying on Hashem for the grass to G there's no dependency on Hashem to send deer and fish to prea and there's merely spiritless dirt we call ribus n symbolizing a snake for that is what the snake represents living life Godless Banks all over the world have no problem charging interest because for them money is an end not a means we believe there is something far more meaningful our relationship with Hashem is what's dearest to us and we vigorously avoid detractors from that relationship when we suffered a terrible plague in the midbar Aron aen took a staff with a snake circling it and ran into the middle of the camp holding it up for all to see and he was sending the message to never forget the mistake mistake of the snake to never forget that our connection to Hashem is what's Paramount nowadays ambulances and Hospital logos also bear a symbol a logo of a snake because it symbolizes the desperate need in times of Health crisis to booler our relationship with Hashem because that's what brings true healing and health I was once reading parak Shira which is the listing of the spiritual DNA of all the living creatures in the world and I was going through all the animals and I was amazed at what the snake says the PK that the snake belts out when it's his turn to sing hashem's praises is to I was shocked the snake out of all the possible angles of praising hem proclaims Hashem as the true source of nourishment the snake who was given nothing but dirt to consume is the one telling us how great hasem is he sustains all life after centuries of being cut off from hasem the snake finally belt out loud and proud Hashem is the ultimate source of good a young man once asked an old Rich Man how he made his money and the old man straightened his uh designer glasses and said well son it was 1932 the depth of the Great Depression and I was down to my last nickel and I invested that Nickel in an apple and I spent the entire day polishing the apple and at the end of the day I sold the Apple for 10 cents and the next morning I invested those 10 cents in two apples and I spent the ENT entire day polishing them and I sold them at 5:00 for 20 and I continued this system for a month and by the end of which I accumulated a Fortune of $1.37 wow the young man said and then what happened and then my wife's father died and left us $2 million because we all put in the grind to succeed But ultimately it's Hashem who supports us and the sooner we come to that conclusion the Richer our relationship with him will be because on our side of Wall Street that's the only thing that really matters [Music]