Imagination That Build & Destroy Lives - Jewish HaShkafa (116)

during the 1800s European jewry was quickly becoming Christianity as many Jews were abandoning their faith and adopting Christianity as a replacement assimilation became a standard and even something to Aspire to in France in Germany and different parts of Europe it all became literally a standard and if that wasn't bad enough Russian jewry was hit by a storm when the same thing was happening there so much so that they developed a hatred towards their own Jewish Brothers thinking of them as ancient as archaic as even the enemy they all thought that they could these Jews could become Gentiles and become one with the Nations instead of a light to the Nations it all came to a standing halt when the prgrams were hitting the streets and they became a standard where anti-Semitism was even worse towards the people that adopted these new religions than it was to the rest of the Jewish people why did this all happen can it happen again is it happening again tonight we're going to delve into the next chapter of the Jewish ashfa series and see how an imagination and a reality can both be utilized for horrible things as well as necessary tools for us to achieve anything of value in this world we need the tools but we have to be careful with them because they're lethal but they're also necessary enjoy share and be holy everybody we are continuing our series continuing our series of Jewish ashfa the Jewish ideology trying to get a better idea of what the uh the mind is supposed to look like versus where it's at today we have a lot of confused people in this generation and uh certainly we don't want to be one of them so this series will help us will help us uh get some clarification of where to think how to think uh and get uh clear understanding of uh where we need to be tonight's Sho will be for the Doris but Jorah Sarah but Esther and all of am Israel all the righteous Noah that continue to uh learn with us support the organization and do all the wonderful things that we're 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want a pair of asazi they're on the website as well all of this is not on the BH Shop website it's on the uh store the main website store uh cuz that's not through an affiliate that's directly through us okay with that being said we're going to get to the real business at hand which is the holy T and extraordinarily enough we have a uh achieved something very big last week by completing the fourth chapter of this uh of This Book of this series and we now begin the fifth chapter the fifth chapter is called is uh could be translated as a uh nonl logical thinking or simply put imagination imagination illusion IM you know uh non-logical thinking perhaps maybe is the more uh politically correct version of it imagination I think is the more common version of it uh and that versus the the could be translated as the intellect or as the uh simply the rationale the the the uh reality check you know the way people speak and the way people uh write are two different things and that's why we always try to adjust things uh hence the reason also why it's difficult to you know to take some of these lectures and put them into writing because the way you speak is not the way you write and if you write the way you speak your writing is going to be terrible and if you speak the way you write no one's going to understand anything that you're saying so with that being said we're starting a new chapter and this chapter I have to fix this camera on we go with that being said we are going to uh start this by uh really uh see that there is an ongoing fight within each and every single one of us between the imagination and the reality there are two parts of our brain two parts of of our existence and as a constant fight between them and this is in essence something that we're going to delve deep into today we're just going to scratch the surface and try to get a better understanding of uh why the same tool the same tool could be either your Builder or your destroyer and it applies both to the imagination as well as the Ral of a person and this is in essence how we're going to start the imagination bows its head before wealth and sometimes before the wealthy it bows down before power and sometimes before the powerful it bows down before Beauty before loveliness before fine buildings Royal palaces great actions new inventions it makes an alliance with the eye and walks hand in hand with the present its adversary the intellect loves the intellectual side of reality favors the scales covets the laws of mathematics and reasoning and it's drawn to the rules of research here as usual in the Holy way of the Kish he gives us a mouth F that we have to surgically analyze each and every single word in in order to truly get an understanding anyone that reads the books of the sages uh you know just like they read any other book is simply wasting their time because you're not going to truly understand it and I think that some of you that have taken uh you know the uh the studying with us a little more seriously than others and have actually bought the books that uh each series is about and have been reading it and studying it alongside watching the lectures see exactly what I'm talking about whereas the rest of you that are just simply watching things may not get the whole thing uh of what I'm saying and the ones that have just read the book and are just Tuning In For the First Time certainly have no idea what I'm talking about so one of the things that I always recommend to people that uh you know want to um learn P which is really the foundation of all comes from the seph the book of Deuteronomy in the written Torah and the in the oral Torah those two side by side are the foundation of all mus all ethical teachings that's in the world today now everything that you see in the world today whether it's the the books of of the of today or the the sabotka sabok blaz every everything all of them come from these two the book of Deuteronomy and and of course it stems to other things but the point being is is that you have the key parts of M coming from a certain place and we did a lecture series about it was almost 180 lectures it took us about three years and I always tell people if you're going to read the uh by itself you're not going to get very much uh if you're going to read it with commentary certainly you're going to get much more if you read it alongside our lectures you're going to get a world of difference from anything else and the reason why is because the lectures themselves don't just necessarily give you the what the mishna says and what some of the commentary says but it surgically analyzes each and every single word in there to the best of our abilities and in such a way that you know how to apply this to your life and the same concept is what we've done with all of our lecture serieses uh you know same obviously this one as well where we're not just looking at the words of the Kish and just reading off what the book says we're analyzing it we giving you sources that back it that support it that connect with it and show you how it applies to your day-to-day life so here you'll see that the kish's language even though he was only a few uh uh uh decades ago uh he speaks in a very very uh uh sophisticated language and it's not easy to translate but even after you translate it it's still not going to give you the full spectrum of it unless you already have some serious Torah knowledge now here the K is telling you some things that perhaps we feel we know imagination rationale but as we go deeper and deeper into this chapter we'll see how as with the four first four chapters of uh this book The Fifth chapter nonetheless is uh just as deep as the others and we see how far we can reach with uh uh you know with some of these words so here the Kish is telling us that this non-logical thinking we call imagination is one of the things that whether we realize it or we don't is actually controlling Our Lives to a certain extent our behaviors and in fact is going to be something that is either going to build you or destroy you and he says that this imagination bows its head before wealth and sometimes before the wealthy many times people that uh you know I I remember I've encountered I used to used to work for me even to this day I could already tell not only where this person is at with their life but also what their potential is by simply uh you know by superficial talk of of of what they're interested in because of the way that they appreciate uh or or embellish or simply uh uh um you know desire wealth and the Kish is telling us that this imagination is the reason because if somebody did not look at things from a imaginative perspective and you just told him listen you see that guy he's got $100 million the average person say okay what do you want to eat for lunch like it doesn't mean anything says that one of theim had a very high level of holiness and one of the reasons was his parents ensured that they never give him any money to look at because in those days the image of the idol wor of the idol was on the coins of the uh of the countries that were living in so his parents wanted to make sure that their kid never looked at a coin never looked at any one of these uh coins and therefore throughout his entire life he never knew what the coins were and this Pur of the eyes helped them see clarifications in the Torah unlike any other so when a person grows up in a household where money is a constant topic of conversation regardless of when and where they're constantly talking about who made what and how much they made and where they made it and how they have this idea to make even more and the contract that this guy signed and how this one just lost and how that one just made and they're constantly talking about money what they're not realizing is is that that conversation that you have between the adults turns into the into the education that the kids are getting so when the kid grows up and is not interested in Tor not interested in being a not interested at all of even being religious this is the reason Al Shalom he wrote that the reason why the uh when he came to visit America before World War II he noticed that the jewelry went down drastically in just a short period of time inside the FR world inside the religious World we're not talking about the enlightenment movement that already destroyed you know many many Jewish communities over the preceding couple of hundred years we're talking about inside the FR communities the religious communities he saw a major downturn in religiosity and he wrote that the reason for that is because the parents would complain about how they just got fired from their job because of their observance of shabas how the having a tough time financially because of chabas that's what they spoke about on chabas at the at the table and their kids end up not keeping Shabbat they spoke about money and the loss of it on Shabbat their kids grew up and didn't even keep Shabbat and this is as true as it gets this is as much truth as you're ever going to get from one ofay because in reality many times parents come to me and they're disappointed that their kid doesn't want to marry a Jewish woman their kid doesn't want to marry a Jewish man their kid doesn't want to be religious and the reality is that any time you have one of these children that just simply decides he doesn't want to be religious instead of you know pointing at him and putting all the fault on him the reality is that nine out of 10 cases you have to point the finger at yourself nine out of 10 times you have to point the finger at yourself or somebody else that influenced them whether it's be a teacher or a combination that thereof because even if he has a bad teacher in school he has a bad Rabbi in school a bad rabbitson in school most of the education the kids are going to get is going to be from their parents and if their parents religiosity is weak that is going to turn into rotten fruits so the imagination that people have has a lot more to do with other parts of your life other than just the immediate uh uh things that we would think which is like let's say if you have a certain imagination you could apply it to your job or or to things like that imagination literally has a a role in almost every single part of your life and we've already discussed in the Jewish intimacy series how much imagination has to do with the intimacy and the Holiness of the actual act itself what you're going to end up getting as a result of the ACT has a lot to do with your imagination but that is not something we're going to cover today today we're going to talk talk about other aspects of the imagination where else does this imagination lead you to now people that know how to control their imagination have a much easier time in controlling their eyes and protecting their eyes from looking at things that are not modest but if a person looks at everything that moves this is only going to hurt their mind over a period of time and by the time they notice it it's almost it's become an addiction so the Kish is now giving us a few ideas of where this imagination could go and lead us astray he says first and foremost look at how you view money when you see someone or someone tells you oh you see that guy he's got $100 million are you one of those people that starts imagining wow h100 million how do he get it what did he do wow what I would do and he start thinking to your mind what what are you going to do if you had $100 million yeah $100 million I'll buy a plane but not just any plane I have to get A5 million plane and then I'll get the house but not in that community in this specific community and has to have all these rooms and has to have all this chandeliers and you start imagining yourself in all this places you're letting your imagination Lead You astray you're letting your imagination Lead You astray says that really protecting your eyes shouldn't necessarily be just uh protecting your eyes of not looking at uh women that are not modest really for many people today protecting your eyes should also be protecting your eyes and not looking at other people's stuff like other people's cars other people's houses other people's things because what ends up happening is that if a person doesn't know how to control their imagination they start looking at other people's stuff he looks at his next door neighbor and how he just bought this house or how he just bought a brand new car and he starts becoming jealous and this is a violation of a so if a person starts looking at you know allowing themselves to look at other people's stuff they're immediately going to violate one of the laws of the Tor which is don't be jealous now this is something that you already have to teach kids when when possible because if you simply tell your kid yeah you know just look as long as you don't touch anything it's okay you could look at wherever you want look at the next neighbor next door neighbor stuff look at their house you know when they come home from visiting their friends's house the parents start asking them no so so what what do they have over there oh no I was just playing with my friend yeah but how did the house look like I don't know kids said I don't know it was a house had rooms what the rooms look like did they have nice lamps they have new furniture I don't know they had some new boxes or what kind of boxes did they have and you know the parents start playing private investigators so they start sending their kids to the neighbors to go find out what the neighbors have and then when they see oh how are you are hope things are good by you yeah I heard you guys got some uh new uh what was it washing machine apparent yeah yeah how do you know where you have a camera in my house no no no our kid told us oh your kid your kid told you about about my washing machine all of a sudden the parents not sure wait hold on a second why why is the why is your kid reporting what's in my house and believe it or not unfortunately some people are so pitiful that that's what they do they send their kids to the next door neighbor to other people's houses not just to play with the kids but the Scout and what have you what have you taught your kid you've taught your kid that it's perfectly fine to look at other people's stuff and be AED be a jealous person covet other people's stuff you have taught your kid to violate the tah it's like you taught your kid idol worship you taught your kid idol worship you taught your kid murder would you teach her murder no would you teach him Idol no so why are you teaching him to be jealous why are you teaching him to be jealous says people have to protect their eyes from looking at other people's cars other people's houses why because when you look at other people's stuff immediately if a person is not already worked on themselves to the point where they're happy for other people when other people have good their natural inclination if it's not being happy for other people is being miserable themselves oh how come he got it and I don't have it they start crying to Hashem oh why why why are you doing this to me answers him yes my son what did I do to you today what did I do to you the merciful god why why have you done this to me even AEM ising what have we done to him today why is he crying to yesterday he was crying for one thing the other what is he crying about today even is looking at you what is he crying about why did you give him a new car and not me this is what people cry about they cry about other people's stuff instead of thinking for everything that they have they cry about other people's stuff why because you looked at it why' you look at it if you don't know how to be happy for other people don't look protect your eyes from that it's not just don't look at other people's wives it's not just don't look at other people's uhhh uh significant other her husband no no don't look at their stuff because it's going to bring you to a bad place and that's one of the things the Kish is telling us right off the bat people's imagination bows its head before before wealth and sometimes before the wealthy as soon as they see somebody with a lot of money they already start all of a sudden they're bowing like I don't even know what to do wow what would I do with $100 million wow no he doesn't have 100 million that was 100 million just in that one transaction he has a billion dollars oh wow maybe I could just just you know maybe he can give me like 10 million it's nothing to him what he has a billion dollars why can't he just give me 10 million it's nothing to him and all of a sudden people start imagining oh yeah I'm GNA tell him I'm GNA do this I'm gonna do that he's going to give me 10 million because just because he has money then that means he should give it to me and they start imagining themselves and then when they ask the person for help or for an investment and the person says no what do they do naturally they hate him they hate him oh sir why you don't want to help me that's how you are why you you're better than us why you all your billions you don't want to help us and the guy says no it's not about that it's just I don't do what you're asking me to do I'm not interested what just because he has money he has to give it to you but that's the foolishness of society that's the foolishness that comes from imagination I remember years ago when I was still on Wall Street there was a uh market crash in the uh end of 2007 and that market market crash showed you know obviously how inflated the economy was especially in the world of real estate there was a lot of corruption a lot of Scandal but a lot of people wanted to blame the uh the executives of Wall Street companies and the banks and the reality is the bigger fault was really more on the consumer or at the very least as much on the consumer as it was on the banks why everyone was milking the the cow everyone was taking advantage of it the guy that was making3 ,000 a year but buying a million dollar house didn't have a problem with it so long as the corrupt system worked when did he finally have a problem with it when it didn't work anymore and that's one of the things that happened after the whole crisis all of a sudden you had a bunch of people start protesting in the street oh they you should put these Executives in jail you should wait hold on a second maybe you should put yourself in jail because didn't you buy three or four or 10 or 50 properties even though you can't even afford one of them you had no problem buying those properties so long as the you know Wayward system worked for you but now all of a sudden it crashed and you lost the money now you want to protest now you want to sue and the same exact thing is happening now same exact thing is happening now where you have certain parts of the system have changed the interest rates have gone up and all of a sudden you have all these protests protesters in general for the most part are simply people that are complaining that their personal issues their personal issues not society's issues not the Public's issues their personal issues are are bad they're not they don't care about the public they care about their own personal agenda that's generally protesters is a uh it's coming from foolishness and selfishness even though it should be the opposite now one of the things that you see is that many times people bite off more than they chew more than they can chew in the world of money where they over buy overspend over invest over over over why because their imagination is at work their imagination that work and they figure that listen if I buy $100,000 worth then that you know he has 100,000 he wants to buy 100,000 then I can make you know let's say I don't know 20 50% on that money great so in a year from now I'll have 150,000 but I'm still not going to be a millionaire who said you have to be a millionaire well he has a million so what if he has a million why does that mean that you have to have a million no I need to catch up so now what does he do well even if I make 50,000 every single year for the next 10 years I'm still not going to have a million so what does he do said you know what but maybe I can leverage it instead of a 100,000 buying 100,000 I'll take the 100,000 I'll leverage it to buy $500,000 worth of stuff now although financially that may be a valid uh uh argument if all of the risks adjustments are things that you can handle but many times people don't do things based on risk they simply assume they're going to win and it's all based on this imagination of how they need to get to where somebody else they saw is it has has nothing to do with their own personal circumstances it has to do with where they need to be because they saw somebody else and many times it's because they saw somebody successful or someone that looks Su successful and that automatically changes their perspective of how they are behind somehow because he has succeeded she has succeeded you now are behind even though you have everything you need you have food to eat you have a roof of over your head you have shoes you have car you have a job you have everything you have but no no you're behind now why because they have more now ambition is very important to have both in learning as well as in in business but when that ambition is purely motivated just by imagination it can become a sick type of ambition that could lead to destruction even if it starts off with success and the already wrote 100 years years ago that we have seen more and more even in his day people gain extraordinarily wealth extraordinary wealth in a relatively short period of time and also lose it overnight something that is really against the norm usually you know wealth takes time and even to lose takes time but what we've seen over the last hundred or so years 200 years is that extraordinary extraordinary wealth was gained in a relatively short period of time but lost in even shorter period of time anyone interested in a real life story just watch my movie Hashem took back his millions it's a perfect example of this even more so now nearly 20 years after the story where you see people today literally young kids making millions of dollars off of YouTube videos and all types of applications and all types of other things that people are making and extraordinary wealth is made but also you're seeing greater fortunes lost like the guy with the Bitcoin exchange literally one day was worth $38 billion a year later he's on his way to jail with zero so this is one of the things where imagination goes out of control so if a person bows their head the second they see success they already need to know that if there was a chart with colors on it where the green is good the yellow is like mediocre and then red is bad you're at Red already on day one you're at Red you're in a bad place why if you're bowing your head every time you see wealth if you are changing your behavior when you see wealth if you are literally your mentality your future everything is dependent on these wealth you're in a bad position why because even if you got it you wouldn't be able to handle it and in fact it's a much bigger test to uh to have uh um wealth maintained than it is to to actually gain wealth most people think that the harder part is to gain wealth than to actually maintain it it's the opposite getting wealth is obviously always requires a blessing always requires hashem's will for you to gain it but to maintain it is certainly even more of a blessing than to getting it because it's literally getting that original blessing over and over again on a daily basis rather than just a onetime thing now if a person is going to have their uh uh their um own selfworth determined by wealth this is certainly going to lead them to bad places because so long as you're not successful you're not going to be happy and even when you do achieve success says somebody that loves money will never have enough money and furthermore thear says someone who uh uh who loves money will not even uh um will never get to even half of what he wants we'll never get to even half of what he wants why because what ends up happening is that the more a person actually uh acquires the more they want so when they had uh you know nothing they wanted to get to a million dollars let's say okay once they got to a million they figure sky's the limit okay I want 2 million now then if they got to 2 million now they want 4 million which means that the more they acquire the more they feel like they need it's not an ambition the more I feel I can get it's they now have after they celebrate momentarily what they got they now start suffering that they don't have more this is the reason or the the answer for all of those people that ask the question of why do the billionaires continue to go to work why did they go to work the guy already has a billion dollars even if he spent $100,000 a day he still would never run out of money why continue going to work oh he likes his job spare me spare me the uh the nonsense it's not because he likes his job because if he SS the company the next day that means he didn't like his job if he liked his job you would never sell the company if he liked his job you would never have anybody replace him for some of his positions it's not the job he's going to work because he wants to make more money now your $10,000 net worth mind $100,000 net worth mind a million doll net worth mind that doesn't make any sense it's a billion dollars why go to work and make more money it's already have enough no in his mind he needs another bli ion he needs he doesn't want he needs another billion because it all stems from that original mindset which is bowing down to wealth bowing down to materialism there was a uh a person that uh got a somewhat of a clarification of where he stood in comparison to where he thought he stood when he came to visit Steinman steinerman anyone that uh knows seen some of the pictures he was one of the just left our world just a few years ago at an age of over 100 years old and he was a giant an extraordinary extraordinary and his house literally was like one of those houses that uh you know that you have a lot to learn from because it was the simplest house you could ever imagine you couldn't imagine that one of the biggest sages of the generation lives there you would think that some homeless person maybe's living there or or something like that but when you walk into this house the simplest house in the world and that's actually one of the big lessons that many people would come see his house see how his his his bed is made out of uh uh milk crates and he has it and he just literally takes the desk and starts learning to right next to it literally just the simplest house in the world that many people would come and get world changing advice from him from this uh simple house even though millions and millions of dollars would pass through his hands it would always go to different people to the to the to the poor people they even asked them if they were if he's willing for them to get him a new house to fix his house anything he said why I'm happy like is I'm happy as I am one time there was a group of professionals that came to visit the steinerman and one of these people was a uh pilot apparently a very established and proud pilot and he had uh some words to say you know secular mentality completely ignorant of what a Torah Sage is what a gadul is and he comes into the house and he looks look and he makes comments out loud why didn't he paint this house why does it look like this and other people sh sh it's one of the biggest in the world why didn't you make a nicer house what's wrong with this guy R steinerman who was sharper than a knife clocks this guy he says hey how are you thank you for coming what what do you do he says to them I'm a pilot a pilot pilot to explain to was this pilot oh the PLS oh you're the guy says who what he asked what is he saying the people were say you're you're you're a you're a taxi driver in heaven in in the sky no what do you mean got so offended who no wait what do you mean I'm a pilot 300 people I take 400 people on a plane oh so says [Music] oh a bus maybe not a not aala not not a caravan not a little H Carriage a bigger Carriage all of a sudden this guy's ego went from where he thought he was back down to reality because no one in the world ever talked to him that way no one ever put things in perspective that in reality what what's the big deal of what you do what you fly a plane you go like this it goes up it goes down you carry people you'rea in a previous generation they didn't have planes so they had somebody taking a cup a whip and on on the horse or on the uh donkey that's it things have advanced a little bit after they went to cars then they went to the uh planes and you're one of the guys with the planes you're boua you're the one you're taxi driver in in the Sky What's the problem what what is there any falsehood in this no it's 100 but he didn't like it why he didn't like it because that reality check was very very different than what his reality was because he's living in his imagination because in his imagination his position his job his I don't know how many thousands of hours that he's proud of that he flew in the air because you know Pilots are very proud of how many hours they fly it's one of the statistics that shows where you stand and how much experience you have that put him in a different status according to his imagination but if you compare that to a real reality check of how things have evolved in the world and where you stand in that big world you're B you're B so one of the things we see is that if we allow the imagination to lead us things can go really ugly if we simply look at it from a monetary perspective furthermore the K says the person bows down to power and sometimes before the powerful sometimes people are just as impressive impressed or even more impressed with people that are in a position of power not necessarily always connected to money but as soon as they see somebody that's in a powerful position or they hear about him he comes in oh yeah you see that guy yeah he's the mayor oh wow he's the mayor wow Alo wow they invite the mayor and he comes to the community and he speaks to everyone as if he's their leader and he tells them yeah listen we have this and we love this and we do this and he starts giving musar to the whole community of how great after the talk one of the people says to where is he a mayor of where is he a mayor of oh he's you know he's a mayor in like a it's like this place it's somewhere in between like Tennessee and uh somewhere else I never heard of over there there's a tiny little city over there right next to that City he's a mayor over there wait so so why'd you bring him here to our community to speak to us he's a mayor mayor who knows like how does this affect us you know what happened here simple they're so impressed with the title with the theoretical power that it doesn't make a difference how it's going to affect you this unfortunately happens in all communities that had put Politics on the top of the uh list of important things and unfortunately there's been a huge huge amount of uh uh let's just say time and resources spent on politics in the Jewish World in recent years where all of a sudden you're seeing instead of bringing extraordinary Torah Scholars celebrating the Torah giving another opportunity for another Torah scholar to discuss things to help the community giv them M what have you seen you've seen all of a sudden we have one Community after another giving a honor to some politician or giving some uh major dinner to some politician another politician and then you see all these morons that literally I cannot call them anything else start making blessings next to some of these politicians as if they're kings violating the Tora on top of the with the blessing and literally seeing hashem's name in vain on top of the fact that it's literally just a bu now I'm not saying we need to be against politicians and and insult them or anything like that but take like make make make put things in perspective put things in perspective you see major ranim major ranim getting less attention less cavod less resources than the simplest politician in the world and I've seen this literally entire organizations changed from being rabinal organizations religious organizations to being simply a uh a Jewish political arm where it just became you know politically focused and it's sad why because the Jewish people do not need more politics right now the Jewish people need more Judaism oh no when I try to tell some of them listen you know I understand you know you want to I don't know help people and so on but why don't you like press like maybe more good for like Judaism rather than more politics you know rather than bringing more police officers and Mayors and presidents and whatever other politicians is in between all of them to the different communities why don't we do like I don't know make a uh campaign for uh people to learn the Shas or for PE for for to take down the price because you're getting some you know assistance from the community itself or whatever you're going to do but publicize more Torah no no we are helping the world of Torah how how are you helping with the world of Torah by what getting another guy to be elected to promise US what he's going to do while he's running to get the votes just to see that he is another one of the million people that once he got into office he doesn't do anything that he promised what you haven't learned from the previous thousand stories and even if he helps us theoretically this so-called politician how long can he help us for another two-year term before they throw them out there's so much resources invested into politics today that literally it's become like some form of idolatry almost and you're seeing rabbis talking about politics a lot instead of and in in in in a fashion where it's like sometimes you're seeing that there's almost a comparison being made of the sages and others where I've seen some people actually like this uh Kel uh Ben Shapiro and some of his uh colleagues uh what is the other guy um Prager and some of the some of the other K that we' talked about in the past where they actually believe that the mashia mhia is going to be a political figure they literally they have delved into the world of politics and the world of theoretical power so deep that they actually think and they believe this and they say this out loud openly and proudly and like with all confidence in the world that they believe that the Messi is going to be a political figure partly it's because they think they are the Messiah it's coming from arrogance because they think that one day they'll run for office or they'll be part of something Ty political St and it could very well be them be mashia I would not pass that Beyond them I would I'm certainly uh confident in saying that but even beyond that it's so far away from the truth that you see here that their imagination and admiration to the point of obsession with politics has taken him so far away from the Torah it's become a new religion now if it was just a couple of people here and there it wouldn't really be worth the time to spend it in aure but unfortunately today you're seeing it everywhere you're seeing it in a lot of different places a lot of time a lot of resources spent on chasing power and if that's not uh the only place if that was the only place it would be you know it would be a uh uh you know good but the reality is that it's in a lot of other places you also see the obsession with power in every community that has a board every synagogue Yeshiva that has a board of directors and usually the board of directors are people that have you know wealth not necessarily D not necessarily even religious but they have money and many times that money that uh that position is taken in a uh uh uh to bad places and that's what you're seeing many times these synagogues that even could have uh you know leading rabbis or founding rabbis that were very good and very righteous LED astray because of who's really calling the shots the board of directors that's comprised of complete ignoramuses people don't know anything but they have money and that's what the said nearly 250 years ago almost 300 years ago he said Judaism declared bankruptcy when the rabbis started accepting money from rich people meaning that in the previous generations the rabbi would the Sho was his there was no board of directors if you want him to be the rabbi that means that he calls all the shots there is no discussion simply put he's the rabbi he's the he's the opinion of everything he is the conclusion of everything as soon as you have board of directors in yot in uh in in synagogues you're starting to see how the synagogue is no longer serving its purpose it's become just a place to pray and many times not even that instead of it being a a place where there's going to be a a a center of Torah where you're going to bring shim there you're GNA you're going to bring different guest rabbis you're going to have all types of you know activity that has to do with Torah coming out of this place what are you seeing you're seeing the personal preferences of the board of directors so the board of directors doesn't necessarily want a shield to they don't want to pay this Rabbi to travel from Israel they don't want to pay this other Rabbi to travel from a different state they don't want to pay anybody say listen the rabbis come for free but the clown and the uh and his two little Sidekicks we'll pay them $3,000 we'll pay them $5,000 oh the blowup house yeah we'll pay $10,000 for that because the kids like it yeah but I understand the kids like it and sometimes you have to do things for kids in the blowup house but but what about the Torah part and you see how the resources of the community and the mentality of the community turns this place of Torah into MIM a place of jokesters of jesters you have all of these so-called uhh uh you know events where you know the the kids just come over there just to get uh Toys why because they listen to about five and a half minutes of uh of so they get a $30 toy this is a waste of money and then when the synagogue actually wants money to expand to maybe build a COR something else nobody has any money why they spent it all on toys this is not something that's the kid's fault this is the people that are obsessed with power's fault because now that you've put people that are obsessed with power have structured their system where you have a board of directors and you have secular people or people that are simply ignorant of Torah running the show they're going to tell you listen we want a blowup house we want a zoo We want a uh you know toys we want everything but Torah and literally I I speak to people about this once in a while uh you know and it's because it's just something I don't really even like to talk about because I get animated over it because simply because I see how far people's mentality is I speak to one guy that's a president of a president of a there's at least 500 people in the community but to get 20 people to pray is a big deal except if it's the holidays holidays they'll get two 300 people but during the week you're lucky if you're getting 20 I tell them listen you have you just did a major event you brought all these I don't know uh circus to your synagogue why don't you arrange a uh a major shabbaton or a lecture or something a few rabbis I don't know something I don't know I don't know if people are interested in that like what do you mean it's a synagogue yeah but you know the people are not that religious exactly that's the point you're the president you're the it's your job to make them religious it's not your job to be some administrator that's going to bring balloons to the synagogue your job is to make them religious the second you became part of that board the second you became part of that board to the extent where you're the president or you're somebody important in the community every everybody's responsibilities on yours and guess what every single one of them that does not become religious you will inherit all of their sins and that's what the says inat that's what the says and countless other places anyone that is in a position of power to help other people not sin and doesn't do anything about it all of their sins go to his account also all of the sins go to H account instead of bringing clowns and and sheep to the Community bring rabbis that actually have and unfortunately millions and millions of dollars are spent on complete nonsense you have some communities are obsessed with sending their kids to Israel without even calculating the fact wait a minute I'm going to send my teenage kid to go on a trip to Israel so he's inspired with Israel wait what is he going to be inspired by is he going to be inspired by the uh the Tor is going to learn there no they're not going to learn Torah over there why cuz he's going on a trip with boys and girls and Hashem only knows what kind of sins they're going to make and how much alcohol and drugs they're going to do on this trip in so many words you're lucky if he comes home in one shot in one piece but parents no no we'll send them to Israel we'll send them to Israel for a year we'll send them to Israel for a for a weekend we'll send them to is those trips many times cause more damage than good why because the amount of sins that the kids are making because of the lack of supervision or the terrible supervision I should say it should never be a trip boys and girls going on the same trip teenagers just send them to a uh send them to a volcano to have a good time and then and then parents are surprised that their uh their kids get into drugs or going into into marriage or all types of other problems this is all coming from Bad leadership the series we have era of mashia based on the seph by that he wrote before the Holocaust the at least 60% if not 75% of the book is discussing the failure of the generation being due to the failure of the leaders he calls them the bad Shepherds and nothing has changed aside from losing 6 million Jews in the Holocaust and millions more do assimilation nothing has changed because the obsession of power is still there but it's not good power there's a lot of obsession over politics and it's not going it's not bringing us to any any good places so the K says if a person is bowing down to power and sometimes to the powerful it's already on that hypothetical iCal chart that we said where green is good yellow so so and then red is terrible you're terrible he bows down to Beauty before loveliness before fine buildings World palaces here the Kish brings us another few and of course the imagination can lead a person to the worst places in the world World once he starts looking at places he's not allowed to look at because once a person allows himself or herself to look at other people's husband and other people's wives and simply something that's not his that imagination will start working that imagination leads to immorality with wasting seed it leads to promiscuity it leads to a lot of horrible places now in the beginning when he's just a kid he doesn't think it's such a big deal until he watches the movie T that we made and realizes that it's a horrible mistake that only gets bigger over time but if he doesn't have the fortune to watch that film like some of our students that are teenagers and literally have transformed their lives as a result of realizing the mistake they were making and he continues with this addiction eventually that wasting seed leads to promiscuity with other people and the priscu with other people gets worse and worse over time why because as soon as a as the ran said in the that there's a small member in a man's body one who satiate it will always be hungry one who starves it is satiated meaning that the more you feed this imagination that leads you to promiscuity the more you feed it the more hungry you'll become once he is promiscuous with one person you'll want to be promiscuous with more he'll feel like he needs more she will feel like she needs more say something horrific about the female body that's promiscuous that that Mom is never say cheated can never have enough a woman that's promiscuous literally will never have enough to the point where she'll become desperate and do anything and everything including other species the sages were as clear as they with their language and what they said and didn't just make uh extreme statements for no reason we see this in society men and women that were not taught the proper M the proper morals and ethics the proper ashfa are quick to become promiscuous and it's not promiscuous with just having a uh you know a boyfriend right before they get married no it's literally complete levels of insanity now if a person allows himself to look at all of these things the movies the the the pornography on the internet all that filth all the garbage that's out there he himself she herself doesn't realize that they have just become addicted to something worse than crack cocaine they think it's fun they speak about it freely they're proud of it even when did they become miserable when finally their senses come to them and they realize that all of this promiscuity has ruined their chances of a normal relationship because now he wants somebody that's like he saw on the screen but in reality it's not going to happen she wants somebody like she met that one time and that one place for five minutes but that's not going to happen in reality they want a constant taboo but that can't happen in a real relationship they want excitement all the time it's not possible in a real relationship they want things that are products of the imagination and this leads them to a life of misery because even if they married someone they theoretically love they're still not happy because they may love that person emotionally but that's only when they're in front of that person and everything is working right but the moment things are not right or if there's an argument or there's some type of other emotional shock of loneliness of depression or some other thing immediately they go someplace else and many times they cross the line and many times that crossing the line becomes even a worse condition that they started with getting to a point of even thinking about suicide and this is actually one of the things that one of the women that did a uh uh chuva story with us which B will publish soon she said she has talked to several of of her friends that have actually crossed the line and cheated on their husbands and she said almost in every case they become suicidal in every case they become depressed and almost in every case they become suicidal because it's not just that they did something terrible to someone that they care about is that they know they can never do it again and that makes them even more miserable and this is one of the things that the average person doesn't understand because if a person allows their imagination to control thems to to control their life that imagination will lead a person to jealousy and the holy Torah has taught us multiple examples of where this imagination leads a person the M chapter 21 I'm sorry mishna number 21 in chapter says says jealousy desire and honor remove a person from the world what does it mean it removes a person from the world aside from losing eternity and going to gam and kafak and all these horrible places after he dies the mishna is referring to losing their world even here living a life of misery here and several of the examples of literally losing both are across the T and brings a few examples and he says just from the beginning of the toah the serpent the serpent was given a gift among all of the animals Hashem created the serpent as a speaking creature that was the most beautiful out of all the creatures out there and also was walking like a man and had arms and legs like a man in order for this serpent to be the king of all of the animals but this wasn't enough for him he wanted more he wanted more and thear says that he wanted to marry in the chapter 20 section eight says that after he convinced to sin and to entice Adam to sin punished him because his whole goal was to get her to get to sin so hasem would kill him so there he can marry so when Hashem punished him what was the first thing that he did he says I created you so you could be a king of all the animals and the beasts in the field and you shall walk erect however now you will Slither on your belly two angels came down from heaven and cut off the Serpent's arms and legs and his screams were heard around the world further says to him I said that you shall eat and drink food that's fitting for people now because you made them eat this fruit the forbidden fruit you shall eat dust all the days of your life so the serpent wanted just a little more and he lost everything including what he had k k was jealous of his brother he because as the PUK says that Ken was born with one twin that became his wife in order to reproduce and populate the world and he was born with two twins two twin sisters and that time was the only time in history that it was allowed to for a brother to marry a sister because there was no people in the world so Hashem had this exception made only at the creation of the world and K was with one sister and he was with two sisters two wives K was jealous K was jealous that his brother had two wives and he wanted all of the wives to himself why should he have uh any of the wives I'll have all three wives he wanted the entire world for himself and the mid Rait says that hasem not only punish him that he ended up losing his position in the world that instead of gaining the world he had to wander the Earth for the rest of his life and put a mark on him on his forehead which would eventually lead to him getting killed what was the mark some say that the Mark was a dog some say it was a certain sign in his head but the uh but says according to Rashi there was actually a horn was actually a horn on his head cuz he acted like a uh animal what he did so hasem made him look like an animal in so many words put a horn on him and that horn was the reason why he was shot dead by his grandson Le because he thought that he was an animal hunting so his jealousy of wanting more than what was given to him led to his complete loss even of what he had kak was jealous of el of Elan benel because he wanted that Moshe to appoint him instead of Elan instead of accepting the de sham the law of Heaven he went to war with Moshe and instead of gaining uh having the extraordinary wealth that he had a great position that he already had everything that he had was good instead of maintaining everything that he had he chased after something extra and he ended up losing everything including his life and his eternity as the ground opened up and swallowed him and all of his followers do do was one of the heads of the S he was an extraordinary in his 30s him and both of them were the some of the great sages of the generation but both of them in different time frames were jealous of David because of their jealousy of David instead of being happy with the extraordinary gifts that Hashem gave them to be extraordinary Torah Scholars to be to have everything you could possibly want they were jealous of DAV do was jealous that DAV was always right about everyone would ping like whatever David said not because he was the king but because he was right that wasn't good for him so what did he do he said about the the says that when eventually punished D he sent Three Angels one to cause him to forget all the Torah that he has ever learned the one thing that was good about him was that he had T hasem had to remove that two one Angel to burn his soul and the other one to spread the ashes everywhere that's how harsh his punishment was that all began with jealousy he was B's grandfather or father actually so he literally was not only close to David as far as a colleague he was related to him he was a father-in-law but his jealousy of David led him to go against David by trying to get AB Shalom David's son to kill him when he realized he's wrong he committed suicide instead of gaining something thing being happy that he's connected to the greatest King to Sage to he was jealous of something small he lost everything same thing goes with Shalom literally one after another this is all is what we learn from our sages and the toat tells us this could all be learned from the Wayward woman a woman that's an adulteress in in the T in there is a section in there that talks about the is the Wayward woman the woman that committed adultery and cheated on her husband says what happens to this woman if she drinks the water at the bet mikdash she blows up and dies so she loses everything but if she doesn't drink the water and she simply admits yes I cheated so what happens she still loses everything she just doesn't die because she's no longer allowed to be with her husband since she cheated on him and she's also not allowed to marry the man that she that she committed adultery with so either way she loses everything why she wanted more than what she was given so when a person does not allow the uh the their common sense to control their imagination to a certain extent is bound to go to the worst places you could possibly imagine they will certainly never have schlum they'll never have a good marriage they'll never be happy with whatever they have because if she's looking at our friends and our neighbors and what they have She'll always be unhappy with her husband why because somehow the grass is greener on the other side she's going to look at how her friend or her sister or her cousin her husband just bought her a present her husband just bought her a new refrigerator our husband just B her a new car or a new house but she didn't get a new house she still has the same house since she was uh married 20 years ago she didn't get a new refrigerator she still using the same one from 10 years ago she didn't get any jewelry and she doesn't put things into perspective that her friend or sister or somebody else is perhaps well off or they're newly married or a million and a half other reasons of why she got what she got no no she just wants the same thing as other people and that jealousy leads her to have just a little bit of hatred for and resentment towards a husband even though he didn't do anything what did he do you didn't buy a new house if you had to buy your wife a new house every time she wanted one you'd have literally more property than Donald Trump you'd have more property than a uh major corporations can't buy a new house every time you want a new house if you had to literally comply to every whim that somebody in your family wants you'd have to be a trillionaire so she doesn't put that into perspective what did the husband do he didn't buy a house okay he didn't buy a house he didn't buy you a car but you have a car you didn't buy you jewelry but can't afford jewelry right now or it's not time to buy jewelry or there's other things that take priority she doesn't put that into perspective the only thing that she puts into perspective is that her sister got it her friend got it her enemy got it somebody else got it and instead of only looking at what she has she looks at what somebody else has the worst is when people look at Celebrities and they get addicted to watching the celebrity Lifestyles and then they think that they could live like those celebrities I remember a story came to me years ago where a couple I only knew the wife from childhood which I haven't seen for I haven't seen for many years and uh her uh brother came to me crying asking me like what do you do in such a situation the marriages between his sister and a husband is uh literally uh in shambles said what happened did he cheat he goes no no the guy works like a dog he's the greatest he's fine he's great so okay so what's wrong with the marriage he says that his sister is so addicted to living the life of a celebrity she starts imagining herself as if she is a celebrity and has taken the life savings that they have which was somewhere in a neighborhood of about $50,000 and instead of buying them a house like they were planning on saving to buy a house she went and she bought a bag a bag that she saw one of our celebrity Heroes Have she bought that bag a $50,000 bag now again if you are a billionaire you want to spend $50,000 on a bag it's a waste of money but you can you have billions of dollars your interest per day is more than that but when you have a net worth of 50,000 and you don't even have a you know barely enough money to finish the month and you spend $50,000 on a bag or even $5,000 on a bag you are a sick person and unfortunately this is becoming a norm in society where people are spending every single penny that they have and they borrow money that they don't have even a way to pay for which is a sin by the way you're not allowed to borrow money you have no way of paying back it's considered stealing but needless to say people are doing this not because they need these things and sometimes not even because they want these things it's because they're trying to be somebody that's in their in ination like what they saw there are entire businesses built on this type of premise taking advantage of people's low Minds you have people making videos you know the uh you know best place to vacation you know a vacation of uh $1,000 versus a vacation of $100,000 and you'll see a video get literally millions of hits why because people want to see what is a vacation for $100,000 like or let's compare a house a house for 10,000 versus a house for 10 million and millions of people would watch these videos simply curious what is a $10 million house with $100 million look like planes a plane for a dollar a plane for a billion dollars whatever it is and you'll see millions of people tuning in even though they know they'll never be able to buy this billion do plane they don't need to buy this billion dollar plane even the company or person that owns it doesn't want this plane anymore and the best use of that plane was simply for that video which is surely not worth a billion dollars not that or the yacht or any of the other stuff that people get for that kind of money but all it's for is simply show off but the people that are watching the video they want to imagine what if I had this plane what if I had this yacht what if I had this house what if I had this what would I do nothing you still go sleep you still go to the bathroom you still eat you still put your pants on one leg at a time nothing changes and the more a person lives in this imaginary State the more they're going to be miserable and the reason why they become miserable is because at some point reality sets in at some point Point reality sits in when he realizes that that girl that he's looking at he's never going to have her he's never gonna have her why she's married she's not interested a million and a half other reasons says that there was one guy that wanted a another girl she wasn't interested he went to the to uh the doctor he said Doctor I'm dying doctor said why are you dying he said because this girl next door doesn't want to marry me all right let me talk to the rabbi hey Rabbi my patient is dying he's a Jew okay why is he dying should we say kadish no no he's still alive okay so what what's the problem he wants to marry this girl okay so what's the problem she doesn't want to marry him no okay so find somebody else no no no he has to have her so can he uh maybe uh she could show herself to him the Rabbi says let him die and not see her do comes back to the patient he goes listen patient uh sorry Rabbi didn't go for it you're still dying yeah I'm still dying all right let me go back to the rabbi Rabbi listen he's still dying he's dying even wor worse than yesterday so maybe he could talk to her for what what is he going to talk to her about no you can talk to her about how much he's dying over over her Rabbi said let him die and not talk to her we don't have conversations between boys and girls just for the sake of Desire they talk either for the sake of getting married or because they're already married otherwise there's no reason for them to talk you should talk to your husband not to your uh neighbor your neighbor comes over tell my husband's not here bye click the end why platonic relationships are unhealthy they become Atomic relationships same thing with women that go into the business World make sure not to make friends that are the opposite gender or ones that are attracted to the same gender but needless to say this guy came back to the doctor he says listen doctor I'm dying and the doctor says listen uh I'll go back to the rabbi said Rabbi the patient is still dying you didn't will you weren't willing to show her to him you weren't willing for her to talk to him but maybe maybe just maybe they could talk you could put a wall you could put a wall and he's on the one side of the wall and she's on the other side of the wall and then he could just like you know talk to her through the wall you won't even see her just talk to her just to hear her voice the rabbi said for what is he going to talk to her about about how much he likes her and he wants to marry her but she said no yeah but maybe uh he could just you know get a relief out of it by hearing her voice the rabbi said let her die let him die and not talk to a about is why we're not here to fulfill your desires we're here to protect our children we're here to protect our people there's no such thing as platonic relationships there's no such thing as permitting all types of sick people to fulfill their desires because of their sickness your sickness doesn't have to be become my tragedy and one of the things that happens here is that people are consuming more and more ideas to fulfill their imagination they're watching these videos they're watching these shows and they start living vicariously like all of these different celebrities all of these different Abominations all of these different literally monsters spiritual monsters that are just infecting people's minds all of a sudden you have an entire part of an entire Society agree that pronouns should no longer be used why did nobody bring this up for the last several thousand years several thousand years no one brought this up now it it became like a must several thousand years everyone knew what's a male and what's a female now all of a sudden people don't know several thousand years everyone knew pretty much the basics of humanity surely there's flaws surely there's Wars surely there's all types of issues but in general people knew basic things all of a sudden no one knows anything anymore this all comes from imagination people allowing their imagination to run their life and when they allow their imagination to run their life they also allow their imagination to ruin their life and they get impressed by all types of things whether it be buildings or Royal palaces or actions or inventions they see this new AI is an extraordinary tool which is right it is an extraordinary tool and I would love to have more people in our team that know how to use it in a positive way to bring more to to the world but the people that don't know how to control their imagination they see it as the culmination of one of the movies they saw 20 years ago of how the computers took over the world and they think how the computers are somehow going to now build robots and the robots are not going to want to be robots anymore and somehow they're going to become a new segment of the civilization what robot is going to walk around they're going to go shopping they're going to have uh relationships maybe even have some little baby robots all types of stupid things that people think they have why because they saw movies they've allowed the fairy tales of all types of other sick people to enter their minds to the point where they think it's real people actually believe this and I'm not just talking about people that have never learned Torah people that don't know what TOA is those obviously they have a lot of other sicknesses I'm talking about religious people people that know a little bit of Judaism know a little bit they tell they ask question Rabbi so so do you think the you think this new AI thing is dangerous why is it dangerous I mean there's certainly bad things you could do with everything you could do bad things with a knife you could also eat with a knife you could do a lot of bad things with anything but why is it dangerous oh you know this AGI how and some people are saying it's in the next two years you're going to have this whole thing for robots and they're going to come and maybe it's going to be like the movie like The Terminator and how they're going to make ships and they're going to shoot people stop watching movies stop watching other people's imagination if it's not written in the Torah it doesn't exist oh you're being closed-minded no no no you're being closed-minded you're shutting down your mind and you're allowing somebody else to infiltrate your mind he's replaced their imagination has replaced your mind my imagination has substance has me controlling it and that's unfortunately one of the things that leads to a lot of problems because when a person does not allow themselves to control their mind their mind can go anywhere there's a few places that this can be applied in one if a person allows his imagination to control himself to control him or her they start looking at people not as people but as a number that they measure up against some type of standard imaginary standard so if they're in the business World they would look at things like I used to look at things when I was in a business world I don't have time to waste I was making $3,500 an hour or so $3,300 an hour so for me to go meet somebody that had to be a reason that's much more valuable than that few thousand why because the way I looked at a person is that if I can make more than that per hour dealing with you it's worth it for me to deal with you if not then I have to go find somebody else's so you start looking at people and literally after years of doing it years of doing business and doing you know lots and lots of billion dollar in business or so start looking at people and within seconds tell you oh yeah that guy's got a million and a half dollars in the market probably about $2 million in real estate and maybe a couple hundred, in liquid that guy he's probably has million dollars negative net worth he has no money whatsoever but he's looking for a job that other guy he's the boss but he also has he doesn't and you start looking at people and how much they have and how much they don't have and and you start realizing that you forgot the humanity and this happens when people are so infatuated with their business so infatuated with their job so infatuated with their success they forget the humanity aspect of it they forget the people part of it I heard a uh successful monetarily successful business person say just the other day if you want to succeed look for the for the uh uh products that help people that are self-conscious meaning people complain about stuff people complain about being fat people complain about uh acne people complain about I don't know uh whatever or whatever people complain about find products for what people complain about whatever they don't feel confident about find a product for that now although that is a a valid business advice it's sad it's sad that this has become the norm because you're not looking at oh go into business so you can help people you're looking at look at people's flaws and then try to cater to that flaw instead of instead of looking at it from a human perspective which is I'm in the business so yes one I need to make a living but two I need to help people they're not looking at from that perspective they're simply looking at where is the flaw in society now go there go there that's how you can make money now this is not a new reality this has always been the case this unfortunately is a part of the flaw of of of of humanity but when a person looks at uh allows their imagination to run their life if they're obsessed with a uh uh with with money they're start looking at people that way they're also going to be very jealous people because they're GNA anytime they're going to encounter anybody and they say oh somebody else that they their neighbor their friend whoever it is they encounter is oh listen yeah having a uh get together at my house why don't you come and the person says no I'm sorry I'm going I'm going away on vacation oh vacation all of a sudden the accounting head weigh on his head vacation where's he go on vacation how much the vacation cost where you going now he doesn't actually care where he's going for you know to to be happy for him he's trying to figure out how much it costs oh yeah we're going to uh I don't know we're going to Hawaii oh Hawaii well Hawaii I checked on Hawaii Hawaii is uh $6,000 a ticket why you going by yourself no no I'm taking the family whoa family how many kids do you have he has five kids whoa you're spending what $40,000 on on on on just tickets yeah well you know uh well that's Hotel hold on a second Hotel he's doing accounting wait so wait you're spending 50 $100,000 just to go to a vacation and hold on a second did I did I ask you for any money did I borrow the money from you like what do you care how much money I'm spending on vacation but that's what happens that's what happens many times people are so infatuated with money and and and and materialism they forget the human aspect of it they forget that it's none of your business they forget that you should have never asked in the first place they forget the fact that you should be happy that somebody else is successful they forget the fact that literally all of this stuff is completely unnecessary if he's going on on a vacation that cost $100,000 apparently he can afford it and if he can't he's stupid so you should feel bad for him if you're jealous of the fact that he has $100,000 then you are partially a heretic because you believe that hem gave him what you belongs to you and what happens is is that when a person develops this type of Personality it's not only that they become a person that is very difficult to like to such a person that's jealous and and and always looking and counting your money and things like that but it actually becomes a problem with their relationship between them and Hashem because they're never going to be happy with whatever Hashem gives them because they're always going to look at somebody else and what ends up happening is that Hashem is going to give them what they need to eat Hashem is going to give them what they need to uh uh to sleep hem is going to give them what they need to live in he's going to give them whatever they need but they're going to forget to even say thank you to Hashem and almost feel like I can't believe hasem has only given me this as if Hashem owes them something I can't believe thatth this guy has all that and all that Hashem has giving me is this what you're complaining about what Hashem gave you because he gave more to somebody else did you say thank you for the air that you breathe did you pay for it no how much would you pay for it if you ran out of air if you were drowning right now how much money would you give for one breath one one one little breath of air how much would you give guess what if you were the richest man in the world with a trillion dollars in the bank You' give that trillion dollars for one more breath of air and you have many breaths of air every single day for free did you pay a for the hearing that you have well guess what the person that's deaf de can't hear if you had a trillion dollars in the bank and you told him listen I need that trillion dollars just to fix your hearing the only way to fix your hearing is with all of the money that you have he'd give that money in a heartbeat just to hear one more time his kids say I love you his wife say I love you her husband say I love you one time to hear prayer to hear sha one time you give all the money to hear one time but you get it for free did you say thank you for that oh no it's supposed to be that way supposed to be that way the person that has 20 restaurants best chefs in the world but he has diabetes or some other disease where you can't taste any of the food if you told them listen listen I can cure your illness but it's going to cost you all 20 restaurants you're going to lose all 20 restaurants but for the first time in your life you're going to be able to eat again like a regular person guess what they'll give you all of it they'll give you every single restaurant just give me my life back what all that for the food no it's not the food it's to have life back person that can't eat like a regular person doesn't feel like he can live all the money in the world was not going to make him happy like one simple meal that he could taste without being worried about his life I know an that was born with this condition and it's so severe he has to have a cath a um catheter is constantly in his arm has to give himself shots every single day and he has like an emergency an emergency needle for any time the sugar goes up drastically in a short period of time literally has to give like an emergency like somebody dying if he doesn't get it he dies the kid's maybe 25 years old thin looks healthy strong like a bll but he has this condition every meal he has to think 50 times of whether this or that all types of cat can't eat can't act like a normal person you tell that person listen give me all the money that you have give me whatever you have have just to have a normal life he'll give it to you why it's not for the food it's to have life back but you have it did you say thank you do you appreciate it the reality is that when we're jealous of other people after we followed our imagination it's only because we are ungrateful for what we already have and when a person is ungrateful for what they already have then certainly they don't deserve anymore and needless to say even if they got more they would be ungrateful for the more they got this is one of the downfalls catastrophic downfalls of being a person that lives through their imagination in today's society people complain about the med day and night of how the media is feeding them all types of Lies while they're replacing that media with a different form of media they're complaining about the CNN's and the Fox News and whatever other New York Times they're complaining about them that they're Liars now they're right they're all liars but guess what how do you know they're all liars because somebody else from a different form of mean media Independent Media yeah right independent they replace them on the YouTube and the rumbles and the all other types of media they're replacing them so you replaced one set of liars with a different set of liars why because you are not allowing yourself to see things clearly instead said you're living your life based on other people's imagination other people's interests other people's uh uh craziness in so many words so you don't want their craziness anymore you don't want their agenda anymore so you replaced it with somebody else somebody else usually is jealous of the first one so the guys that are now telling you about all these conspiracies and all this nonsense that they sell you about how the whole world's going to end and how they're aliens and how they're the government is hiding something as if it's all new news it's all old news anyone's finding out right now either is an infant or a stupid it's all old news who cares care about things that matter people spend an extraordinary amount of time arguing about whether the Earth is flat or not extraordinary amount of time determining whether aliens exist or not extraordinary amount of time whether the government stole this amount or that amount who cares what is that going to do in your life anyway the Earth is flat the Earth is round who cares how is that going to make you a better person how's that going to make you a better wife a better husband a better employee a better boss a better human how how is that going to make you anything if you're right or if you're wrong you're Stone in the same place you can't leave it or they wor worry about the aliens why why are you worried about the aliens because even if they came and they wanted to take somebody it wouldn't be you they would want to take somebody that did something with their life instead of just wonder about aliens all day or the best yet the government is corrupt welcome to society government are supposed to be corrupt that's why they're there it's a bunch of people that want to justify their corruption through making it legal what's new it's nothing new oh but the corruption here and he really who cares what is that going to do for you if you know that he did this and he did that and he stole this can you get any of that can you do any of that no it doesn't make a difference to you oh but you have to vote for him you actually still believe that you're vot counts with one one demented person after another in office in the United States over the last of the last 20 years you still believe that your actual vote counts literally you have some of the most Brilliant Minds in the world in society today and not a single one of them is even running for office in the last I don't know at least 50 years you still think your vote counts people spend an enormous amount of time arguing about this position and that position who cares how is that going to make your life any better you're living in imagination you're imagining that your opinion counts in politics even when you're not a politician you're imagining your opinion counts about finances even though you barely have a net worth that's enough to be middle class you're imagining that talking about your neighbors is somehow going to smooth out the situation you're you're imagining all types of things live your life make something of yourself be somebody productive that helps Society do something useful instead of Liv in an imaginary world a world full of jealousy and animosity that really has nothing of value to offer somebody meet you for the first time all you can talk about is every conspiracy theory Under the Sun you can't can't be business can't be done with you you can't be hired no one would want to marry you and needless to say have kids literally you're a danger to society but you still think that the world is at fault it's important for a person to know that if you allow your imagination to run your life it will ruin it now of course if a person allows that imagination to go into the way they look at people sexually this could lead to some of the most awful places as I said before it could lead to promiscuity it could lead to all types of horrible things but there are times where it could lead to place that people can never even imagine now if you ask the average Rabbi especially young rabbis if it's good to go to the mik now of course a woman that's married a Jewish woman that's married must go to the mikve once a month that's for fulfilling the family Purity law if she's not married she cannot go to the mik it's not allowed but a man can go to the mikve whenever he wants but he doesn't have to it's good for Purity it's good for a person that wants to purify themselves if you ask the average Rabbi is it good for me to go to the mik average Rabbi that's young is going to tell you yeah of course you should do it even do it a few times a week but if you ask a more experienced Rabbi they're not going to tell you it's good right away they're going to ask you who who wants to go to the mik and why why who why why because it all depends on the reason of why you're going to the mik and there was a few times over the last few years that I've told men that they should not not go to the mikve ever not only they shouldn't go to the mikve they should never go to the mik in one case I told a few people not to go to the mik because they told me about all the immodesty that goes on in that mik how people use that place as a place to socialize instead of a place to purify so if that's the only mik that they had in their Community then certainly they should never go there but in other cases I've had unfortunately a situation a few times it's happened where men that had attraction to the same gender asked me if they should continue going to the mik in some cases they were married in other cases they were single and in all cases I told them never ever go to the mik no but isn't that Purity no it's not Purity not for you for you it's putting yourself in front of a test that you cannot handle you are not allowed to go to m for you to go to the m is a sin it's 100% a sin from the for you go to the m why you have unfortunately an imagination that that's damaged and that damaged imagination is going to cause more harm than any Purity you could possibly gain out of that mik so the more experience that a rabbi has the more he can give advice but that experience also requires an imagination because you can't just assume that everything is by the book that everyone this law appli to everyone this recommendation applies to everyone this uh custom applies to everyone you have to understand things based on their circumstance this is also the reason why for all of the people that think that AI is somehow going to take over the uh the world of to it can never happen because even if you could program an ai's algorithm or ai's uh code to uh give you the answers they could only answer superficially they can never answer answers BAS B on specific circumstance that require a relationship with people an understanding of people and different things that a computer could never do now when it comes to the uh um the world of Torah we're not saying that imagination is bad in fact imagination is required in order for you to achieve big things in the world of Torah because if a person goes into the next segment that the K says that its adversary the intellect loves the intellectual side of reality and favors the scales cets the laws of mathematics and reasoning and is drawn to the rules of research that reality check that intellect is critical but is either more destructive than imagination or very very healthy meaning if you have imagination and a person is in a situation where he sees a woman that's not his wife it's somebody else's wife or she's not married but he's already married if he allows his imagination to control his life he's going to try to commit a sin because he's thinking about all the imaginary Terrible Things without thinking about reality but if his reality is intellect comes in says wait a minute hold on a second you're about to make a sin first and foremost do you realize that this is a daughter of hem you're going to do that with that number two do you realize that you're married your wife that gave you our entire life brought kids to the world she sacrificed her body each time she gives birth it literally breaks her body from inside if a man understood the amount of suffering that a woman endures just to bring birth just to bring a child to the world they'd literally kiss their feet every single day just to say thank you for one kid their organs are in different places in the body she has to wait for them to come back into shape takes a year and a half to two and a half years in a normal condition they gain weight they lose weight they gain weight they lose weight they go up they go down they constantly you know the hormones are all over the place what does she do that for for you she's not obligated to have kids you are she may want kids but she could have had kids with anybody she doesn't need you for that on top of that she takes care of you in all types of ways she cooks she cleans she work whatever she does she she's for you and you're going to go what and abandon her because of some some Z that's what you're going to do that's the reality check but then the reality check are like wait hold on a second so you're going to do that and you realize that at some point it's very possible and even likely that Hashem is going to make sure that your kids find out that that's what you did and maybe your five-year-old kid your 10-year-old kid doesn't know all the things that he needs to know in school but he's going to know if his father or the mother is a liar he's a cheater he's a bad person and guess what he will continue knowing that as he gets older when people ask him about his parents he's always is going to have to start the conversation with oh yeah they got divorced oh wow wow how did you handle it and he's going to constantly have to answer how he handled it how it traumatized him how he was only 10 years old or 15 years old when his parents got divorced and it changed his perspective on life and it changed his perspective on marriage and he doesn't believe in marriage anymore or he does or he wants to be better or he wants to be worse and literally that one act could change that kid's life forever do you think about that do you think about that before you went with the person that treats themselves like a garbage P everyone's allowed to touch do you think about that no do you think about the fact that that person could very well be married to somebody else and the same exact thing will happen in the opposite end so when a person has reality check in it could contain the imagination and put it in the right perspective to get you away from bad things but it's not always the case because if you have someone that has the guts to use their imagination for good things he wants to build something that has never been bu built before that could be for the good of society he wants to say things that will help Society even though no one wants to say them he wants to tell people the truth about the Torah while very few people are willing to do it because it may cost them donations it may cost them popularity so they don't want to say it but he wants to do it or he wants to go and finish the entire talmud bav in one year when the average person says if you finish it in a lifetime it's already a big deal but he wants to go do it in one year he wants to do it in 52 days he wants to do it in a ridiculous number he wants to do things that the average person simply doesn't even think about he wants to do it if the reality sets in he will never do those things why because he says listen I want to build a ship a ship that does all types of wonderful things that help society and people got told oh what ship what are you doing it's too expensive it's too much it's too this it's to that he says I want to tell people the truth I want to help them with the truth of the Torah no come on it's not going to get you the donations you're not going to be popular no one's going to invite you no one this no one that I want to learn a lot I want to I want to make a my life just learning to the point where literally I eat and breathe Torah oh come on but how you going to eat how you this and they bring you all of these realities that are their realities and those realities are the realities of lawyers you know what the reality of a lawyer is lawyers are known as deal breakers not deal makers because they bring such realities many times and Destroy deals sometimes you need a lawyer in order to remind you of things that the imagination simply went too far on but many times and I would say even more times than not lawyers are the ones that bring a reality that's completely antithetical to any imagination whatsoever where they destroy it and sometimes people have friends and family that are those types of lawyers you tell them that you want to build something that's completely Innovative never been done before and tell you now come on you're crazy go get a regular job and do what everybody else does be a sheep I want to say such and such oh come on why do you have to always stand out just say what everybody else is oh I want to achieve such and such ah it's too much for you it's too much for you how do you know what's too much for me do they ask you what's too much for me and unfortunately right now we have many people being taught by such people such family members such friends such leaders that are these types of people where they limit they limit everyone that's around them because of their reality their reality they assume is everybody else's reality I remember we first started giving lectures one of the things that I drove me crazy at the time is when I would speak to different rabbis and ask them how why don't you tell your community or in the speech that you had about how important keeping Shabbat is and it's not just a suggestion and if they don't keep Shabbat they're considered the equivalent of a of a idol worshipper why' you put them things in perspective for them n come on listen they they didn't go to religious school they don't know what keeping Shabbat is they can't keep it how do you know they can't keep it what do they have like some big sign on their on their shirt saying I can't keep Shabbat do they have a resume that says I can do everything except keep Shabbat how do you know they can't keep Shabbat why do you assume that they're spiritually why why do you assume that no one except you can do it you can keep Shabbat but they can't you can learn to but they can't you can keep kosher but they can't why because they went to a public school or they didn't get the right upbringing so therefore they have to stay that way why don't you tell that to every single success story in anything in history how do you expl explain them how do you explain the fact that you have our Torah still alive 3,334 years after it was given to us despite the programs the inquisitions the enemy from within that we've had how do you explain that if everyone was like what you describe spiritually Bal spiritually deficient then why did hasm pick us if we can't do anything why did you choose who gave you the right to choose what what we can do and that's one of the things that would drive me insane like they would tell me I'm not telling them because they can't handle it why do you think they can't handle the truth why do you think they could do a lot of other things but they can't handle this why not why can't they handle this and this is very important for a person to know that you need your imagination you need your imagination because at times the reality that will surround you will try to destroy you will try to limit you we'll try to disable you from being as successful as you can be and there are times where that imagination will be like the imagination of the serpent it would literally be a Venom that kills the most venomous creature so how do you know the difference in short it all depends on what the purpose is what's the purpose of your imagination and what's the purpose for that reality and to delve into those two we're gonna have to tune in next week we continue this series and continue building up our imagination in a healthy way and our reality to coincide just as healthy thank you very much for learning with me maym bless each and every single one of you andm we'll learn more later this week what happened how did you discover Rabbi Ruben or the organization I met Rabbi Ruben believe it was also on YouTube and I was inspired by his story about how he returned it was kind of similar to mine you know he was also immigrant to the United States and secular Lifestyle the stories that he told about Hashem took it back his millions it kind of you know resonated with me I started listening to him more but most of the time I would listen to his lectures and he does a good job in answering questions during the lecture most of the questions I had he already answered them for me so I never like you know talk to him uh oneon-one I would email him from time to time if I had difficult questions but most of the time when I listen to his lectures he would answer my questions [Music]