Honesty in Business (Rabbi Dovid Kaplan Weekly Parsha)

so so the first thing is like this you're not allowed to cheat people in business now the the halacha the raw halacha is and you come across this with the gemara is if you overcharge somebody by a sixth but that's in a market that's in a where there is a steady market price so for example if they charge if tables on the market range between let's say 190 dollars and 210 dollars for table that's a market price and some guy doesn't tell you and you don't know and he charges you 270 dollars he's cheated you by more than a six of what the table is worth then it's bitter mecca then the wholesale goes back that's the the problem we have today is that there is it's very hard we don't really have a steady market price because you have uh some people sell tables for this price some say with those that's priced at msi and amazon undercuts everybody right that's the uh what do you call it in if you sell something cheap so the the the the mission of bob matsuya says tava of bracha the united states if you sell too cheap so you could be accused especially if you're a big company like what's his name lost the lawsuit a walmart lost a wall suit a walmart with a wall suit a walmart la walmart lost a wall suit well walmart lost a lawsuit because walmart's policy was to go into small towns and undercut everybody and then drive them out of business then raise the prices for states so they were taken to court for what the united states is called predatory practice and they lost the lawsuit because they're rules the united states just because you're the big kid out of the block does it mean you can push everybody around and i think what's his name is in court all the time because he's he's dominating the market the amazon amazon i mean what's it my fault that i got a successful business well democracy says it is your fault you know and you're going to have to figure out a way that you can't have a monopoly over everything you know let somebody else go go bring packages to people you know and you know that that sort of thing okay so in the torah africa to undercut is a good thing if you sell cheap on the other end if you cheat somebody or if you're on the other end if you buy it too cheap the guy the guy selling it didn't realize what the price is he had no idea what the price is and you bought it more than a six but that's only where there's a steady market now there's a gamoran makos that mentions rashi brings it down the gemara just mentions when it talks about honesty it mentions rav safra the governor bring marcos on around daffhoff gimmel the gomorrah says rav safra was in the middle of saying krishma and somebody came and offered him to buy something from him or if safra did not respond because he was in the middle of saying krishma and so rafa did not respond thank you ron rosa did not respond and so the guy raised the winner he finished christopher said the guy raised the price because he thought ruffa didn't respond because he didn't want the cheaper price and rosafra said no i'll take the cheaper price the reason i didn't respond was because of the middle of christma but i had made up my mind that i would sell it to you for the cheaper price you don't have to do that you never committed yourself but in honesty in business it's like if you want an example it is if i get into a cab and i know more or less what the price of the cab is the guy says to me if i want to go from here to hard off let's say and i know that the car is let's say 65 shekels the guy says to me how much the guy says to me okay do you want the meter or do you want the you want the meter or do you want the price so i say to god how much you guys says 50 shekels i told the guy listen it's too late that's not enough that's not enough why should this guy lose just because he's not aware i know what the price is i know besides the fact that you can make your kitties hashem that way but i know what the bro why should this guy lose because he doesn't know that sometimes the guy's a new driver so if you want a guy who wants to make a kitchen hello the guy i'll give you an extra five seconds next to ten shotguns by the way this also applies if you ever set a price what i learned with cab drivers by the way when i get into a cab in israel because the guy the guy doesn't want to turn on the meter he doesn't he wants to avoid putting on the meter when i get the guy says the guy says how much i said to him so i i know more lester but i'll say to the guy 60 shekels or the meter you decide you decide wait you know which is worth it to you 60 shekels are the meter now sometimes the guy you'll set a price and it's 60 shekels and then you hit a big traffic jam right so sometimes you feel ah yeah i won i won this one right you should you should add you said hey you know that that wasn't what you had in mind and it's not this guy's fault he could sit in traffic for a long time so he added add 510 shekels to the guy by the by the driver you should know the mentality of driver it's not even the money as much as the guy just feels he got took right so make his day throw in another five seconds throw it in another type of i'll tell you what you can't do you can't get into a cab this survivor and feldman told us this years ago if you get into a cab and only when you get to the place the guys start you start haggling on prices and the guy says i want 70 shekels you say no it's 60 shekels and you give them 60 shekels and you get out of the cab it could be your stealing it could be your stealing because if he walks drives the weight he's unhappy then it could be a stall we're talking about pretend genome for 10 shekels right you want you to pay a lot more to get out of it right and for 10 shekels you could actually be stealing from the guy and therefore you have to be very careful there was a case here in the yeshiva in israel where a guy comes to the russia hashiva and he says i want to donate four million dollars to your yeshiva right that's some serious i could get used to that so i wanna i wanna donate four million dollars to you shiva but only one thing for four million dollars i think i would like you to promise me a portion and gun ate it so the russian chef says look cause i could promise you that you're doing a big mitzvah but i can't promise you okay like in ghanaian because i don't know what else you do she says no no no listen i think for four million dollars you could promise me a portion of garenade he says i i told you i can promise you that it's a midsize he says listen we know what four million dollars can do for your yeshiva for four million dollars i want to part he says i'm sorry for all the money in the world i won't promise you something that i can't promise i can promise you it's a mitzvah i don't know about your portion again ada so the guy says okay i just want to tell you a very wealthy man died and he left at his will four million dollars for yeshiva his children have challenged the will and they said the reason he left four million dollars to you yeshiva is because you promised him a portion in the word in ghana i am an agent of the court i was sent here to test you if you would have promised to be a portion in ghana and your yeshiva would not get the money i will now testify that under no circumstances would you make that promise and therefore the court will accept that evidence and the yeshiva got four million dollars right that's that's one of the happy stories most of the time when you're honest you lose but here the bottom line is the bottom line is that in here they won most of the time you do lose here here they actually won because they got because the guy's odyssey now if somebody comes to you and says i'll give you four million i just promise again and that's also that's also dishonesty in business that's why i have never had a problem with students especially the other youtuber where a guy's in trouble and a guy lies to me so a lot of people say i can't tolerate when they lie to me i don't mind when they lie to me because if i was them i'd lie also if you tell the truth you're really cooked you know hey have you been pushing drugs in the issue of no no not me what are you gonna say yes then you're in trouble i definitely i have no problem listen you're in trouble for lying also you're in trouble for flying also but i have no i understand where a guy's lying from where you want to save yourself you know you're not allowed to let me dry check your tear hook but at the end of the day that's what that's what's included over here okay that's as far as that's as far as uh what he calls i by the way i once walked into a shop here in israel i was really impressed i walked into a shop i think i had to buy a toaster or something so the worker is in the shop somewhere here in maesharm the worker's in the shop and i said to him i said to the guy how much how much is this toaster he says for you it's 200 chuckles just that the owner came out of from guy with a long beard all the older shaumbra joe and he had a hair he said don't say for you it's 200 shot kills for everyone it's 200 shekels i was very impressed i was very impressed because when you say for you it's 200 oh oh yeah what what do you mean for me why would you like me so much right and the guy came out he said don't say for you it's so good for everyone it's 200 chuckles don't think don't don't create don't perpetuate a perpetrated deception over here now it could be that the two of them have the shtick worked out where he does it he corrects him and then everybody's impressed by how honest the owner is and it really you know and they and and they're really ripping yeah that would be a great wedding call but they weren't they were the guy who was really upset with him he was really upset with him so that that's why i because and that works on people i mean you could count people i'm i'm i'm a salesman's delight you know you go into i remember going into this shoot shop in america and said they have this clothing sale ever knows the clothing cell they put something on and then he you you put on the suit the guy kind of steps back he his head and then he talks at a whisper i like it i like it that whisper means i am so overwhelmed with emotion that how good you look i can't even get the words out right that's what i mean did i and if he's called me buddy anyway hey buddy how can i how can i help you buddy he got me yeah he called me buddy you know i'm his i belong to him right i'm a salesman's dream he's work he's working on a commission obviously so anything that you do which isn't straight absolutely straight is what do you call it you're you're you're you're you're cheating somebody and then a person is accountable and the liberal life just be straight and by the way they're very famous jewish rabbi reichman who was lifter moshe recorded one of the wealthiest jews of the world at the time he was probably the wealthiest misery in toronto he was one of the wealthiest jews people knew that with with reichman that if he gave you a word it was a word and you never lose that way you never lose why did he lose his money because margaret thatcher gave him her word and she broke it that's why he lost because margaret thatcher had said that they're going to build whether there's a canary wharf project and and they were going to build a uh canary wharf is off the the main what he called the downtown of downtown uh where he got downtown london and to get to access canary wharf they were supposed to build transportation so he built he went into a project over there you know a whole ball and hole though but he called based on her word that they were going to build access uh what he called the uh transportation access to it and then in the end that she went back on it they never did it that's where he took it he took a big hit over there his company took a big hit okay recovered some of it but at the end of the day that's the first thing the torah says now the second thing here is could we make it just a little bit colder by the way the uh the second thing is the torah then goes to prosecute zion and here the prophet's claim says take a look at positive sight oh no that's how the time is later okay possibly don't torment each other and you should fear your god kanye hashem okay come and look at rashi on public design very very important here rashi says because it's using the same terminology velocity something so it's very much like like like like the fir like passing your dalit where it says so what's the difference between possibly a dalit where it says altonu and what's the difference between that versus velosono and this is basic homage 101. rashi says left column six lines seven lines through the bottom velo sono isha zamiso can he's hear al o noahs dvarim over here it's talking about tormenting people verbally in other words it's got the same exact terminology gentlemen look at positive and look at possibility and possibility says and here it says velo okay the island of a low switch but the same same terminology for cheating velo sonu ishes a miso so why are you repeating it the answer is we're talking about two different things nicobar says possibly dollars talk about cheating people financially and plus a good zion is talking about tormenting people verbally and says rashi over here what does that mean khan he's or al hoda's devour six seven lines to the bottom shiloh yakiti isha vero you should not uh torment each other veloya sienu aitsashena hogeneslo you should not give somebody advice which is not suitable if he darkovan also shall yohez don't give him advice because it benefits you sometimes you want to give somebody a guy says to you listen i saw a good p i saw a piece of real estate in your slime i saw a four-room apartment in your shaline they're selling it instead of a million four hundred or a million eight hundred thousand shekels they're selling it for two hundred thousand shekels do you think i should buy it no no bad idea bad idea bad bad idea that i wouldn't buy i wouldn't advise it and then the next day i'm there you know that that's what's called i don't know is this a form of announced verb you're advising somebody i know a girl she's 24 years old her father is 91 he's a billionaire she's a single daughter of a 91 year old billionaire who's on a respirator and somebody suggested her and she's also gorgeous somebody should cycle and she's also jewish somebody suggested her for a you think i should look into it nah i don't like what it sounds like right get out of the way buddy i got a son right so yes that is called giving bad advice that's called onos dvora if she's 90 what she got a father who's a billionaire i don't care how old she is her father's a billionaire on a respirator she's a single daughter you marry her then he asks questions later right says the gomorrah says rashi the im tomar miyodeya imnis who knows if my intent was negative i think i asked me for advice i give advice who knows if i really was intending to mislead the guy the cachnam are therefore the torah says the possible says the eraser may allah you should fear your god haiyodaya who yodaya the one who knows the thoughts he knows what your intention was so don't say well i meant to give him good advice why are you blaming me called over a muslim anything that is given over to the heart shaheen nobody knows what your thoughts are never bothering wherever the torah says something where it could go either way and it really is dependent on your mind and your thoughts and nobody from the outside no human being could know no human being could know what you're thinking there the torah says very soon you got to fear your god okay now when it comes to let me ask you a question true story true case a guy comes to a booker he has pain in his chest in his lungs and he goes to the doctor now this is a bunker who's struggling with his yiddish guide he's starting to do a virus a fruit bunker is starting to do a virus and he's got some pain in his lung area and he goes to a doctor the doctor listens to the lungs and he says to the bulker he knows that it's a like a bronchitis or a pneumonia type of thing and he says to the bucker i don't like it i don't like it this sounds like it could be pretty serious and this sounds like you know i i think you're going to have to get some chest x-rays to check that it isn't a malignancy and he scares the daylights out of the bucket knowing that it isn't and as a result of that the bacharaon starts getting his act together he's david he put on philadelphia they're straightening himself out is the doctor allowed to do such a thing or not for the good to take one for the team or or for the good of the team why not look at his he's saving him from gehenna assuming but you see that he did juva you see that you knew let's put it i'll make it we'll make the question back knowing that by doing that it'll scare him out to the right path why because you're deceiving him you're deceiving him and if you saw a guy if you saw a uh uh what do you call that there's a famous case with the villain where where a guy broke into a shull and he stole a parrot fillet he has the name inside and he goes into a he goes into a uh a jewish bookstore and he says to the guy he goes the owner of the jewish judaica shop and he says uh i found these would you like to buy him back you'd like to buy this from me he found the parrot fuller so the gk the judaica owner he says well let me see if they work first all right so he pulls him out he wraps it around his left hand puts the one on his head he looks at the baby goes hey where's the one for the other arm is that oh man where did i know he says where's the one for the other air maybe i only got for one arm this isn't a full set you know i'll give you 10 bucks for it i don't want to learn that oh okay okay they pay them the 10 bucks and they call they look they say hey mush i got your troll in here you know you'll bring you know for a thing is it allowed to do it or not yeah yeah same rule is he able to talk to a rabbi okay so are you allowed to scare the boy to get him to do chuva is that a mitzvah yeah you say you're allowed to do it you say you're not allowed to do it why not jared says review it's like silverstein they asked him to shiloh said it's also to do it you're not allowed to resort to that it's a form of ono's it's a form of causing a person needless worry but he has uriah from the torah is arrived from nach what was the rai what's his proof what's his proof it says married to to to hano was married to el cana and she didn't have any children and then finally she had a son shmulanovi and then that says that she says in her fila she says that the philosophy says the praise afterwards and in this phrase she talks about her sister peter whose children all started dying and that says penina was tormenting hannah pino who had was alcona had two wives hannah and penina tina had tina had what he called her children and hannah did not have children and it says that patina was tormenting hannah you know she she would purposely send her son over to the refrigerator to get her oh you know can you bring me something to eat make sure kind of heard about it and talk about her children and torment her and gizelle say why was tina doing it she was doing it for one purpose to try to get hannah to david yet as a result she got punished so for a good cause you're not allowed to torment somebody for a good cause even for a good cause you can't torment and he passes that that doctor wasn't allowed to do it yeah you're allowed to lie to make peace but you're not allowed that not if it causes torment not if it was here we're talking about where you're hurting somebody's feelings by the way take a look at this puzzle where it says velo sonu ish es amiso all right look at the where does it say it um starting with oh no i don't see it oh yeah the first look at the last letters of the first four words aleph look at the four last letters of the first four words aleph shin tough if you rearrange the letters if you're really as you know you get ishto his wife the government see and afternoon test says be very careful not to hurt your wife's feelings because as a result of her gender of her delicate nature her tears are very close and when a wife starts crying about her husband they can bring negative pride they can bring a bad punishment on it so o ichto that's generally by the way most oh no dwarim i would say takes place within the family between husbands and wives between siblings parents children that sort of thing so the first thing the torah says is you have to be careful now i want to just tell you what the what the range over here is number one uh the mishna baba mitsiya says you are not allowed to tell a balchuva zakhorma sekhari showed him you're not allowed to tell about shiva remember what you said sometimes you may get this with the balchuva tries to correct sense of somebody and shul you know maybe you guys could stop talking and say it about you why don't you pull the pork out from between your teeth right before you tell us what to do that is a hundred percent oh no number one number two if a balchuva doesn't want people to know he's a balchuba you're not allowed to tell people i don't know why bolshevik wouldn't want people to know sometimes ballet trooper just said you know you should be proud of it now balchuva should be proud of what he's done not not not big but sometimes people don't want people know this is prerogative i know a guy who to this day and a friend a very close friend of mine to this day he was in coil what do you talk about going back probably about 40 years ago he was in colo i told you guys the swats he was in colo and there was a balchuva learning in his colo for for a while he'd been called for a couple of years and they were getting ready for the new zealand so this guy this is almost like the case in the greater the do-gooder right who covers over the covers over the grade with the thing he's doing somebody a favor before the next month he decided to arrange a cavruso for this guy ruvving the balchuva he wanted ranger cabrusa for him so he went over to one of the other colo guys and he said by the way next month do you mind learning with rivet he's very good at learning he's a balchuva but he's excellent at learning and reuven comes over to him the guy told me a story himself ruben comes over he says you know what i've been in this cola for two years nobody knows about the balchuva i didn't want anybody knowing because of what you did i'm leaving the colo and he left the cola this guy to this day the guy regrets it what could i do i didn't know i didn't know he mentioned the guy's a balchuba so if somebody doesn't want to tell somebody he's about to but you're not allowed to do number one number two to mention that somebody's a convert is us or to tell somebody's account to convert to to torment a convert verbally to say that well it's uh your answer is there's that in the other that is also these are specifically uh uh mentioned two um to make a nickname for somebody and when it comes to dick names you can lose your olam haba if you use a derogatory nickname on somebody you lose your your tampering with their oil hubba and it says even if he's gotten used to the nickname even if he's gotten used to it and you call him he doesn't mind anymore people call this nickname all the time but you're calling him the nickname with intent because you're insulting him that you're not allowed to do merchandise to go and give somebody a nickname if it's an innocuous nickname uh if it's something like his name is goldman and everybody called him goldie right so that you're allowed to do unless he says specifically don't call me that and if he says specifically it's an answer and if you're embarrassed by it because embarrassed by your tampering with your ulamba and uh you're not allowed to cause people worry causing people worry i know so jews somehow especially a child shoulda's this takes place very should as everybody sits around the table the lights go down and then everybody here talks about the the all the nerve-wracking stories they've heard that week you know they had right in shock and then everybody ah because people worry you're not allowed to do all of this is an israelisa now there's one particular form of uh of what he called there's one particular form of uh uh uh onasdvarm which is also not well known you're not allowed to go into a store and ask prices if you have no intent to buy right now again i don't know nowadays i don't think anybody ever goes hey people don't go into stores because everybody buys on amazon number one and number two you check prices on the thing but let's say you you're curious you go into a shop and you're here you're curious because you want to know what the prices are that's like a mom-and-pop shop you go you go in and you start asking prices you have zero intent to buy that you're not allowed to do because when you go into a shop and you start asking prices so you're getting his hopes up that he's going to make a sale and by getting his hopes up and then disappointing him that's a form of an odds of dwara i'm guessing if you tell him that you're not interested then if he wants to then if you say to god listen i'm not i'm not interested in buying i'm just curious and the guy says he'll do either one of these he'll either say get out of here i'll call my doberman or they'll say yeah sure they'll tell you because sometimes the shop owner may feel yeah but maybe you will buy if you tell them in advance that's perfectly acceptable or if you're shopping around that you can do you can go in sometimes if you're jewish if you bought a pair of shoes for you know you bought a pair of shoes for 80 bucks and on your way home you see the same shoes in another store another shop and you're jewish so you're not going to be able to walk past without finding out how much they cost because this is good this is either going to make or break your day because if in the other store they're 90 bucks then you know like yeah right and if the others are they're 70 bucks then you're not gonna be able to eat dinner when you get home right so so and what you're not allowed to do is you're certainly not allowed to then go back to the first shop and return the shoes unless you say to him i'm giving back the shoes i'd like to return the shoes because i saw them cheaper somewhere else you could tell them and then the guy said listen i don't have any obligation to take back those shoes and if any obligation take back those shoes and then you're you're not alone any let's put it this lady gentlemen and again this is it says it's such a you see people who are so frum in every other area they won't drink colo of your soil they won't drink a regular they're making the only but for five bucks they'll perpetrate a deception you know you're in the india you come back and say oh listen i put on the shoes they were really uncomfortable hey i want my money back then you run over to the other you make up a star you can't make up a story that you're a lawyer and you're a thief and you're doing everything else all for five bucks so you'll have to live with it and to go into the other shop where you have no intent to buy and you say to the guy listen oh by the way how much how much are those shoes you're not only that's an issue risa if you say to god listen i just bought these shoes for eighty dollars i'm curious how much are you selling those shoes for that you can do if you if you've got guts you could do that or you could go back that you could do you could shop around you could price around you could ask prices if there's a chance you're going to buy if it's the right price i'll buy it we can turn off the area i think we turn off there for a few minutes if it's the right price i'll buy it that you're allowed to do but to just go in and i say yeah people do that people do that all the time then there's one thing even worse this is the this is probably the most cruel thing of all is where somebody buys something men are i don't know men do this all the time you know a guy you brought your guy buys a new car how much was it you know uh 24 thousand dollars my brother-in-law could have gotten you for 21.5 right somehow brother-in-laws are always involved by the way his brothers and brothers-in-law are always involved in anything automotive tires cars always a brother or a brother true or not true diamonds always an uncle right right and the uncle's name is either l or irf right that's true or not true right or marv sometimes you show me marv right those are the guys are about diamonds i guess it's a generational thing you know start the younger generation as an automotive then you graduate up to diamonds always i got my wife's diamond ring my diamond ring my uncle right my uh what do you call it uh electronics was a great uncle my cars only by my son and my brother my son and my son-in-law that's all they ever talk about is cars cars tires wheels right used at least that's all right uncles diamonds that's the way it works so so at the end of the day at the end of the day to go and tell somebody you could have gotten it cheaper is one of the cruelest things you can do to people right people do this all the oh i could have gotten by women it's always shoes men humanity's tires women's shoes i don't know why that is how much did you pay oh they had a sale over there what are you telling her for now i think that a woman will never wear that's why women always have lots of pairs of shoes in there in their in their closet that they never wear those are just shoes that somebody told they could have bought cheaper that's very and what's her name imelda marcos what was her name from the philippines she had a twelve a thousand two hundred pairs of shoes there she and her husband had ripped off the entire country eventually they killed them both but they they went to go she had about a thousand two hundred percent that is a cruel that is a form of enough storm okay all these things the bottom line is the bottom line is that anything anything that you uh uh that the person walking away from you i always tell people if you have a conversation with somebody did the person walk away happier or less happy that they spoke to you if they're less happy when they walked away that means you were probably over and answered the rise of a nose door and and uh and between husbands and wives it's particularly what he called it's particularly delicate and that's why it's alluded to with each though and rava says it's rava and the governor says be careful that you honor your wives don't be careful with their what do you call it do not reference says honor your wives in order that you get rich be muhammad your wife though that you get rich it doesn't mean that everybody's not rich means that they're they're they're they're torturing their wives it just means habit your wife may have you also be willing to spend money on her and treat her and put her on a pedestal yes somebody had a question yeah does this only apply retroactively meaning like in the future do i have to think like oh could this make him feel bad eventually it would be a good thing yeah it would be a good thing to to to make sure that just if when in doubt you know the old saying when in doubt shut your mouth right that's that that that's that's a good rule of thumb to follow in life don't say if it's gonna make somebody feel bad don't say it don't say it we have a policy in the house i do not come into those and we find out that something bad happened because it's all about tragedy we don't bring in the news unless it's something somebody in the house needs to know somebody was nifter they have to go visit shiva so i have to tell my wife about it but if i found out somebody wasn't sure what i got to tell everybody if she finds out she finally doesn't find out also good i have to make somebody feel bad or or cause somebody that they shouldn't feel that they shouldn't feel good what's the point of telling them okay take a look we could turn on the air again i think take a look at pierre hey possibilities okay now we go back to shemitah so it says like this first of all this by the way this reason this feels this follows business the reason this uh uh uh uh is or the beforehand say the reason that the torah talks about onos dvoram right after it talks about how to behave in business is because often business brings out the negative in people right people get very nasty in business and so the fact that you're sitting at there as a table and trying to cut a business deal doesn't allow you to unleash your mouth so impossible vias you will dwell on the land in security you live in heritage israel in security and venus the torah says you will dwell in security so if ours would say you keep shmita you're going to have bumper crops and when you have bumper crops there's always the concern that the people around you will invade because they want to get at your crops as well the torah says you have nothing to worry about if you keep shmita properly and you have bumper crops you will dwell on the land you will dwell on the land and security the mishna in pierre calva says that the punishment for not keeping shemitah the mission says there are four things right that why do we get punished with golos why do we get punished with exile so what do you think the first three are because we're abusing the land that was given to us idol worship immorality and murder okay that we understand and not keeping shmita properly right those are the four things the mission empirical says that you go to golosaur why do you go to goalers for me for for for sure why do you gotta go through nike right what's that you think you're making your pronouns i'm not ashamed you're very close very close you're abusing the gifts you're abusing the gift of mary to show in other words the fact that we survive in eretz israel is la malami natava right about the fact that we live in earth israel is beyond nature we're surrounded by 60 or 80 million sworn enemies and the fact that the jewish people are here and live in eretz israel without being overrun by the others that in itself is beyond nature the existence of kleinsville the survivor christopher islamalaminateva you don't want to live in aries israel la mala me nateva sarcoras vorko brings it down to the natural running of the world the natural running world that we don't exist after running a world we're putting in exile that's the natural running of the world if people ask where was god during the holocaust god the profound question where was god during the holocaust god was exactly where german jury put him they put him out of the picture so if you have the the the the the lamb is surviving is surrounded by 70 wolves that's ghazal's example of klysol we're the sheep surrounded by 70 wolves well by natural law what happens when a sheep is surrounded by 70 wolves it's a bad day for the sheep if it's very bad to be the sheep surrounded by 70 levels if hackers rojo supervises beyond nature that the sheep survives if hakore's work doesn't supervise he steps out of the picture the shepherd is out of the picture so you're leaving it to natural law by natural law they get ripped apart so if you come along and say coach brother you step out of the picture i go sure you really want me to step away are you sure about that you don't want me to be involved in your life you don't want to serve me and me to be involved okay i'll step away but okay here we go psycho steps out so what happens it's not why how it's not where was god during the whole guy how could the holocaust happen that's the wrong question the question is why didn't it happen more often there should always be holocaust we shouldn't even be here to be talking about it and the only reason we are is because there's so you push a quotation from glassy you're living in here it's israel none of it makes any sense listen in israel they always used to say you know i say in in in do you know why you know what the currency is called in israel by the way what's it called the the what the new israeli shekel now make a duke right there was an old israeli shekel it's like they used to say used to say why does why does the polish navy have the new polish navy has glass bottom boats why to see the old polish navy okay so in israel in israel they what he called in israel they have the new israeli shekel the shekel that's why well what can you make the duke there used to be a shekel yashan now israel had runaway inflation and at one point the shekel got to a thousand there was a thousand on this was a note of a thousand one show what we so how did they fix it up they scooped three zeros off of it and just printed a new one that says the new shekel that's how they fix it up now ask any economist if that works every economist in the world will tell you that does not work here we are sheckle's one of the strongest currencies in the world right now right it doesn't work that's that's that you're bankrupting your country right i was once in a cab years ago and so the cab driver there was some crisis in the country security finances or whatever whatever it was i would probably go back so the cab driver says you know he's talking to his driver says what's going to be here in another 20 years because everything was everything was it was a mess what's going to be another 20 years so i started laughing she said dude why are you laughing so i said because 20 years ago they were asking that question also they said maya but here we are we're still here last one out close the door lock the door that's what happens if you knock off three zeros i think the circle is very perfectly strong because it doesn't work i'll be tevi here israel does not work by natural law israel the reign in israel doesn't work by natural light so we got to dive in for rain we're dependent on god's raid we're not like egypt we're not like other countries italy where the bracha for me it's like the asap is you can live on a fertile land it's not like england where it's raining all the time and somehow they still managed to have a water shortage there go figure that one out you know that do you know that in england they have a water shortage that's a great question somebody didn't do their homework and in israel where you're where you're living in israel you got the the desert starts growing because they they managed to figure out israel israel exports agricultural agricultural education israel is used they consulted by other countries on how to get plants to grow and crops to grow and everything else and high tech and everything else it's not natural law you want to live on natural law then you leave shmita is not natural law now look at puzzle clubs look at the next buzzer puzzle this is the biggest question because the question almost all of them unfortunately all the fortune many when you say what are we going to eat in the seventh year hang on these revolutions today we're not going to plant we're not going to gather our crop what are we going to eat in the seventh year crops the six year will produce three year crops three years worth of crops so when you say what are we gonna eat in the seventh year the sixth year you're gonna have a bumper crop it's gonna cover the sixth year it's to cover the seventh year the eighth year and part of the ninth year so that you have enough okay so of course you say what i understand and it's only if we say it when you ask what are we going to eat then i'm going to have a bumper crop and if you win the and if you would have asked them what would be say you only get to get by per cup because you asked what are we going to eat that's what the words say so the sforno and other befores him say good question right what's the answer what's the answer gentlemen jeb wants us to call him that's true that's true so the sourness says not quite like that this is a downgrade level one is do it and don't ask questions and what would be then we wouldn't have that bumper crop when you have a bumper crop is a great thing but bumper crop means bumper work it's a lot of work a lot of harvesting a lot of plant a lot there's a higher level in a better broca which is you have less but you need to eat less you don't need as much me zabar at the example the terminology of the gemara is yeast the food that you eat will be blessed in your in in your stomach so you don't even need to do the work you'll have what the little bit that you have or whatever you're given will be adequate it'll be sufficient your your faith is not at that level you don't have that level over though when you start saying but what are we gonna eat what are we gonna do oh okay so then we'll move into a little more natural i'll fill your fields and you'll have to harvest and you have a good you have bumper crop but it's gonna be more more sweat on your part because that's a level down that's a step down right what you find it says on based on this that number one our attitude is supposed to be don't ask any questions the torah jew doesn't do it because we do it because we're told to do it the next level down is that you start asking questions everybody said where do we see this nowadays where do you see this down remember you should find something it's not me saying it whether much of it says that he says you see plenty of people who don't work much and they've got enough you have plenty you have guys learning in kohler who still then if you ask the individual how are you making it i'm not quite sure you know i'm not quite sure somehow you know i get from the cola my wife works a little bit and somehow you know we you know all of a sudden i got a check from my uncle and i go there you know you know things work you have other people say i'm not quite sure but even though they're getting supported by yeah sure i'm not quite sure we live on faith yeah you live on faith and you're and you're in your father-in-law's paycheck yeah okay that's a different level of faith right but there are people who don't have their their their way to go their safety net they're making it they're playing people you're making it's like you work that's a bro if you're starting to you know you don't have that faith okay so you may make more money but you're going to work harder yes i'd be worked 12 hours a day go you know okay 12 hours a day my zadie used to say it's no trick to get rich by working the trick is to get rich without having to work that's the trick so so at the end of the day the tour that this is a downgrade vikki sommer is a downgrade we're not supposed to be you ask okay but you're willing to keep shmita and you ask the question okay so then you'll have the crop further you'll have the crop for the next three for the next three years okay