Is Calling Out Jewish Misdeeds Antisemitic? | Behalotecha | STUMP THE RABBI (271)

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And uh and I don't have to tell you, but I'll simply remind you that it seems like every day there's a new YouTube journalist that's calling out the misdeeds of some Jewish people. There was this guy Tyler that came out with a very uh nasty video or a couple of them a few months ago that got a lot of uh a lot of uh attention. And of course there are some others that have come out since and before there and uh quite frankly it's uh surprising some people but uh not me and I'll tell you why throughout this show. But the big question that everyone is asking is why is everything automatically anti-Semitic? Is it simply anti-Semitic to talk about Jews in any way, shape, or form? I mean, anyone that's watched my lectures over the years knows that I call out our own people more than anybody else out there and uh in order to inspire them to change. So, u am I anti-semitic now? Well, our weekly, we begin to see what Hashem expects of us. And what are some of the consequences of disregarding his expectations? What makes some Jews special? And what can take all of that away? The key lesson between these lines will show us that there is different types of Jews and how bunching them all together is part of the Jewish and non-Jewish problem that people seem to have today. Tonight, we're going to clarify the details that are blurring the picture for most people and are landing people in hot waters that they don't want to be in and never intended to be in and others that simply didn't care to be in but didn't realize it's going to happen. Begins with a command. Hashem spoke to Moshe saying speak to our own and say to him when you kindle the lamps towards the face of the manora shall the seven lamps cast light. Now in Hebrew the words towards the face of the manora is which also is telling us that the whole goal of this mitzvah is to raise am higher higher in holiness higher in servitude higher in humility under their king of kings. by fulfilling his commandments, whether they understand them or they don't. In today's world, there are many people that have issues with being commanded to do stuff. The ego today is bigger than ever. Especially when you have some people that call themselves rabbis, that tell you things that are 100% heretical, that have become the poison of the generation, much more than any other false religion, where they literally have convinced countless people that God actually needs you. Not a day goes by where somebody doesn't reach out to me and wants to debate the topic of whether God needs you or not. Shalom was that was the people's rabbi. There's nothing that he wouldn't do for the people. In fact, his own wife says that when he went into a coma at the end of his life, he woke up out of the coma and he explained to his wife that he chose this. He chose to die this way because Hashem gave him a message that it's either many Jews were going to die in some type of disaster because of the cumulative amount of sins that were made or Hashem will pick one of the roses of the generation, one of the righteous people. and Yahawahu chose to be that person in order to spare the disaster for his fellow Jews. But despite that, there is a story about Yahawahu that many people don't know. Every time that he was in shul, people would come to him asking for advice, asking for guidance, asking for blessings. But there was one time that the rabbi was different. While he did everything possible to meet everybody's needs, there was a time where it was different. A guy from out of town showed up at the synagogue looking to get a blessing from the rabbi. He pushed his way closer and closer. But every time he got close to the Rav would turn around and give him his back as soon as the guy would start speaking. Then people would come and take the time from the rabbi and he would turn back around and speak to them and bless them and help them. And then the guy would push his way in front of the rabbi again wanting a blessing. And the rav again turned his back to him. And this happened multiple times until the man lost his patience. And everyone saw this. They didn't understand why the rabbi is doing it. But nobody was asking questions. Everybody was simply understanding the rabbi has his reasons. But the man did not. And he pushed his way in front of the rabbi and said, "Rabbi, I have cancer. Give me a braha. And the rabbi again turned around, but this time he spoke and he said, "Why don't some people understand? Why don't they just understand?" No. When the man heard this, aside from being shocked and shamed, he realized it's time for him to go and he left the place. After he left, Aboda said to the people, "Have you guys heard of cancer before?" Of course, everyone knew what that is. It's the evil disease that kills so many and torments even more. So, you know what cancer is? Cancer is when one of the cells that's in the body decides that he doesn't have enough. He wants more. He wants more space. And he continues to multiply himself and get bigger and bigger. destroying everything in his path until he kills the person. Sometimes a person does the same thing to himself where he's not happy with just his wife. He wants another one and another one. And that's why Hashem brings cancer to some people. no doubtedly hadesh. But this was simply clear to everyone out there that knew a whole lot more about this man than the man knew about himself. And after hem tells us that we have to rise to the occasion. We have to do chuva. We have to improve oursel. That's the whole point of the Torah. You can't just think that just because you went to yeshiva as a kid or you learned a few years of Torah in Kel, you're enough. You're sufficient. You can't just think that just because you're keeping some basic mitzvot, you're done. If you were done, you would no longer be here. Anyone that's completed their tikun no longer needs to be in this world. Which means that every one of us that's still living in this world has a whole lot more chuva to do. But some people get wrapped up in the complicated questions in their mind such as why can't a convert marry a cohen? What makes the Jewish people chosen? Who decided this? Things like this occupy people's small minds where instead of them simply serving the king and learning more and more about him and learning even the answers to those questions, they simply become obsessed with foolish things that have answers, but they don't actually look for answers. They're just simply looking for excuses to find things that don't match their ideology and therefore nullify the entire Torah in their mind. But tells us that decided to make the Levy tribe, the Levites special. And he says in chapter 8 verse number 14. So shall you separate the Levites from among the children of Israel and the Levite shall remain mine. Even though all of Am is the entire world is Hashem's. Hashem says the levim which from them come the kanim they're different they're special they're mine what does that mean furthermore says that these these levim They shall remain to perform the service of Hashem. And he decided to make them his. As he says in verse number 17, for every firstborn of the children of Israel became mine, of man and livestock. On the day I struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified I sanctified them for myself. The firstborns were always special, but they were replaced by the levim during this plague of the firstborn in Egypt. Then I assigned the levim to be presented to his sons from among the children of Israel to perform the service of the children of Israel. So we see that it's not prejudice, it's not demeaning, it's simply the rule of the king. Akad is the one that decided the levim are different. They're his and therefore they have different rules. Therefore, the Quran can't marry a convert, can't marry a divorcee, can't marry a widow. Why? Hashem decided, not because he's better, not because she's worse. Simple to distinguish them from everybody else. He's the one that created it. He's the one that runs the show. When a person questions his creator, it means that not only do they not understand their creator, they do not even understand their own position in the world. They don't even realize that they're the servant. And a person that doesn't know that they're the servant can certainly run into a lot of confusions. But sometimes when a person humbles himself and listens to they could fix their errors. Like there was once a woman was married for many years but could not bring children to the world. And this was a righteous woman. She kept Shabbat. She kept family purity. She was modest. But year after year, no children in the house. She decided to go to and cry to the RV. Rabbi, I want a baby. Rabbi, I want kids. And she kept crying while other people were there as well. But when the rabbi acknowledged her, he shocked her because he didn't give her the blessing that she expected. She was expecting the rabbi to simply give her a blessing. She was simply expecting the rabbi to make a promise on the behalf of Hashem. But that's not what did. The first words that came out of his mouth shocked her and everybody else in the room where after time after time that she's saying, "Rabbi, I want to have kids. Rabbi, we're married for many years. Rabbi, keep this. Rabbi, I want children." And the Rav says, "Hashem doesn't owe you anything." The room fell silent. Many people are there. Everyone heard it. And the words literally dug into the core of this woman. She could not even respond. What? What? Usually you go to a rabbi, you ask for a blessing, gives you a blessing and hopefully works out. But here the dull waited and waited and waited and waited as she is screaming and crying out to eventually respond to her with the most confusing response in the world. Certainly a response that negates the entire ideology of the poison that's in our generation. Telling people that God needs you and he owes you and how people literally have turned God into some servant or Santa Claus. But tells her God does not owe you anything. As the silent became deafening of adds a few more words that change everything and he tells this poor woman, but if you do something beyond what you have to do, all you're telling me that you're doing is THE THINGS THAT YOU HAVE to do. You have to be modest. You have to keep family purity. You have to keep Shabbat. You have to keep the mitzvot. These are all things that you have to do. If you want Hashem to do something that he doesn't have to do, then you start doing things that you don't have to do in order to serve Hashem even more. And this righteous woman understood the message clearly and she decided to open a organization to help Jewish people that were struggling. when she went above and beyond to help Am get closer to Hashem, get closer to the blessings they needed. Akadosu brought her blessings and she had multiple daughters. Until this day, over 50 years later, our organization is still alive and well. Many times a person that does not understand their role in life, they get confused. They get misleading messages and everything that doesn't agree with their predisposition with their ideology shakes up the whole system as if there's a spiritual earthquake. Some famous person speaks against the Jewish people. Earthquake. Some rabbi says something that's the opposite of what they've learned. Earthquake. Somebody in the community said something bad about her. Earthquake. She slipped and fell and broke a nail. Earthquake. Everything that happens, anxiety, all types of depressions, crying, it's all because you don't realize your role in the world. Sometimes the Jewish people are the best of the best. So much so that Hashem tells them, "These are mine. Not just about the Levy tribe, but even the rest of the Jewish people are called Kadosh, a holy nation, but sometimes even we forget where our blessings come from, where our money comes from, where our success comes from. And therefore sends different messages to remind us when we're good and we connect to the mitzvot we can even get to a level of asking for more of them as did in this para where the first pes that was celebrated in the desert in accordance to all of God's laws They brought the sacrifice, the kuban pesak. Some of the Jewish people were impure, spiritually impure and therefore could not participate. And they felt bad. They wanted to celebrate this mitzvah. And they went and begged and asked, "Can we celebrate something?" And Hashem Hashem changed the law for them. We made a second pes where they're able to bring sacrifices says what happens if all of was impure that nobody celebrates the opposite. If everyone is impure, everyone brings the sacrifice. But if some are impure, then those that are impure can bring the sacrifice on. But we see here that love the fact that his children were so connected to the mitzvot that they wanted even more and he gave it to them. He gave them and the rest of us an ability to connect him even deeper than what we had originally. But sometimes a Jew is in trouble. says in chapter 9 and chapter 10 verse number nine, when you go to wage war in your land against an enemy who oppresses you, you shall sound short blast of the trumpet and shall be you shall be recalled before Hashem your God and you shall be saved from your foes. meaning says the only reason why you're ever going to win any war is because I decide that you're going to win, not because you have good weapons, not because you have good politics, and not because you have good allies. So long as you remember that, you win every single war. If you forget it, you'll lose every war. is the reason why the secular government of Israel hasn't won a war in 30 years. They just look good for commercials. But in reality, there hasn't been a war that's won. Why? They forgot who wins the wars. They thought it's the weapons. They thought it's the brain. They thought it's the allies, the politics, the money. Hashem says, "No, no, no. When someone oppresses you, you cry out to me, I'll save you. I'll make the weapons hit the target. I could even make the target disappear without the weapon. Simply know who's winning the war." Now, as we go further, we see what happens. When am forgets their role in the world, forgets to be grateful and starts complaining. The Mishnot says that is complained 10 times in the desert and Hashem nearly destroyed them every single time. Today people think that if God doesn't follow their requests, they could be angry at him, take revenge against him, disobey him as if you're hurting him. This is like drinking poison and thinking the other person's going to die. But here in the parap 11 verse one and on it says and the people took to seeking complaints and it was evil in the ears of Hashem and Hashem heard and his wrath flared and a fire of Hashem burned against him and it consumed at the edge of the camp. What were they complaining about? You have food coming to you without you working for it. The food can taste like anything you want. You don't have to take a shower because you have the clouds of glory carrying you, washing you and bathing your clo and uh uh laundering your clothes. And the clothes grow with you. You don't even have to go shopping. They're new every day for 40 years. What are you complaining about? If you just read the verses like ignorant people where you read it literally and that's it and try to understand it yourself. It doesn't make any sense where they're saying who will feed us meat? We remember the fish that we ate in Egypt free of charge. But now our life is parched. There's nothing. We have nothing TO ANTICIPATE BUT THE MANA. WAIT, the Torah itself says that the mana tastes like whatever you want. So if you want taste of meat, just imagine meat. Imagine steak, imagine fammen, imagine whatever you want. You can even imagine pig if you want. So the complaint doesn't make any sense. Hence the reason why we have to look into the oral Torah and understand what is the complaint here. Theat says the mana tasted and was cooked based on the actions of the person. If the person was righteous, the mana would come from heaven and land right at his door, right at her door, already ready to eat and taste like whatever you want. You don't have to do anything. Simply you pick it up and imagine ice cream, imagine corn flakes, imagine steak, imagine all of it together if you want. Nothing was more delicious than it. And it was so healthy that you didn't have to go to the bathroom because all of it was would turn into blood. There was no waste. But if you weren't so righteous, then the mana would go and land down the street. And when you'd go pick it up, you'd have to cook it a little bit, turn it into a cake, do something in order for it to be tastier. But if you were wicked like the the and some of the other wicked people, then not only did the man not land near your house or even down the street, it landed far away from your house. And for you to cook, it took a while and a lot of effort. still came down from heaven, but required some effort. So, not only did everyone know who's righteous and who's wicked based on what time are they eating. Oh, the guy just finished breakfast at 7:00 in the morning. Yeah, it's because it landed right by his door. He's full. He's happy. He's already learning. He's already having a good time. The other guy is still cooking. It's 9:30 in the morning. You've been cooking for 2 hours. Yeah. Well, first of all, it took me an hour and a half to get it. Then another hour and a half to come back. Then I still have to cook it. Oh, hopefully I'll eat by lunch. Oh, so you cheated on your wife last night. Oh, so you stole from somebody. Oh, so you WENT AGAINST HASHEM IN SOME way last night. That's why it happened to you. So what happened here? Why are they asking for meat? The tell us these people that are complaining against Hashem, they're not complaining because the mana doesn't taste good. They're not complaining because suddenly they want meat and fish. They're complaining because they do not want to change. They do not want to do chuva. They want to continue being wicked. continue acting as if they run the world. Continue stealing. Continue lying. Continue being immoral. Continue being dishonest. So he said, "Just give US MEAT. WE KNOW HOW MEAT TASTES AFTER YOU PUT IT on a barbecue and that's it. Every day you have to remind us that we're wicked. Ah, who cares already? Let us do whatever we want." When saw that these people have no desire to change, only punishment would work to wake them up. And some of them, not even that, they instantly got killed by Hashem. Hashem burned them. Especially the leaders of these people. They were stationed at the edge of the camp. The rest of them, Hashem said, "Okay, you want to meet? No problem. I'll send you so much meat that you'll eat it. It'll come out of your nose. Now, this was not revenge. This was another rebuke, another warning. Do chuva before it's too late. Because once Hashem sent all of the Slav, all of these birds and nobody even needed to hunt or anything. In essence, he was doing sending like the man came right to the door. But he was also telling them, "Look how much power I have. I can give you whatever you want. Do chuva and I'll continue giving you even more. But if you continue focusing on your desires, on your lusts, only bad things will come out of it. And those that didn't care about doing chuva and really only cared about fulfilling their lust ran after the birds gathered as much as possible and started eating right away. And that's why the Torah says that while they were chewing, while the meat was still in their teeth, Hashem started killing them. Why? I gave you a chance to do chuva. I gave you another chance, another chance, another message. You already have downgraded yourself to be too foolish to even want to do chuba. You've lost your right to exist. Now in the world today, people are highlighting different things that Jewish people do. And of course, every time they do something, they say something. There's the apex of the world and the other medias that say, "Oh, this guy's anti-semitic." anti-semitic. Rarely does anyone actually say, "Wait, why is this happening? Why are all of these non-Jews suddenly interested in us?" So much so that they're highlighting the Jewish criminal, the Jewish bad guy, the Jewish powerful person, as if they're the only people in the world of 9 billion people. As if the criminal neighborhood that they live in no longer has criminals. As if there's no school shooting every single week in America. AS IF THERE'S NO CRIME literally every second. As if there's no rape. As if there's no pedophilia. As if there's no jails anymore. All of a sudden, the only thing people can talk about is the Jewish people. Suddenly, the Jewish people have become in people's eyes the most aggressive country in the world. Israel. They are colonizers. They are terrorists. They are this. They are that. Forgetting that first and foremost if you are a religious person and you believe in the Torah, then you have an obligation from your own religion to believe that the land is Israel's. That's number one. But even if you're not religious, even if you're not religious, you're forgetting that your country, regardless of whether it's America or it's a uh somewhere else in England, how did you get it? What do you think? It just landed from heaven and it was called England. It landed from heaven and it became America. DID YOU FORGET WHAT HAPPENED ON THANKSGIVING WITH THE march of all of the Indian American Indians? The march of death? Did you forget the Civil War? Did you forget slavery? Did you forget the fact that this land was built by people from other countries? There was no such thing as American a few hundred years ago. Just like there was no such thing as Palestinians a few hundred years ago. Not even a few hundred. 100 years ago. People all of a sudden are so obsessed with the current Jewish bad guy that they forget to look at their own backyard, to look in the mirror, to look at the fact that they cheated on their wife, they cheated on their husband, they cheated on their government, they're stealing from their customers. They forgot that they're not exactly so uh so kosher. Let's just say why is this happening? It's because uses anti-semitism as a way to wake up his people to realize that they are doing things that are against Hashem. And when Hashem sends wakeup calls, he sends them in all different shapes and sizes. One of the most effective tools is to use the nations to remind the Jewish people, you are not like the rest of the nations. You have different rules. I have different expectations from you. And when you don't listen, there are consequences. Now, despite the fact that if you look at the amount of times that Jewish people are mentioned in the media in a negative way, whether Israel or America or other countries, the reality is that the Jewish people make up less than 1% of 1% of the total population of the world. The conspiracies of Jewish people controlling the media is so dumb that if they would control the media, then you wouldn't have all of this media against them. But needless to say, what makes a YouTuber or a some type of political commentator anti-semitic? What makes them anti-Semitic? I mean, technically, if you've listened to what I've said so far, whether today or any of my other shulim, calling out bad Jewish people is an absolute mitzvah for us to do in order to wake people up and realize the difference between good and bad. Not only to realize ourselves, but also to remind the people that are doing bad, that they're doing something bad. They're going against the Torah. So what's distinguishing us telling somebody that's a thief that has one of these unethical businesses like the cash advance industry or all types of other industries that people use to rob people? What's the difference between calling them out and some YouTuber that's not Jewish calling them out? What's the difference? The difference is as follows. Before Mount Zim, the Jewish people were not called the Jewish people. Were first called the Hebrews, the Ibrahim after Abrainu. And then the Israelites after his grandson Yakov, who was also called Israel. When did we become Jewish? We became Jewish at Mount Sai. That's when a kadosh called us his nation, a kadosh, a holy nation. What happened at Mount Sai? We received the Torah. This shows us a few things. Number one, what made the Jewish people officially the Jewish people was not the fact that they were all together because there were many more of them in Egypt and Hashem killed at least 80% of the Israelites in Egypt. He left them there. He killed them during the plague of darkness. He didn't take them to Mount Si. Why? They didn't want to accept the Torah. They didn't want to become Jewish. They wanted to stay part of the nations. They wanted to stay Israelites with no obligations of the laws of Hashem from the Torah. Shem says, "If you don't want to become the Jewish people, then then I don't need you because I don't need anything. But if you want to elevate yourself to distinguish yourself from the rest of the nations and accept my Torah, then you have a right to exist. As the says in Shabbat that Mount Si lifted Mount Si over the heads of all of Isel and he said to them, "If you accept my Torah, this is like our wedding the where you have something covering the but if you don't accept my Torah I'm simply going to drop the mountain and kill all of you. The ballet toot asked, "What kind of wedding is this?" A wedding with a sword to the neck, a threat. What kind of love is this? And the ballet respond and answer the same the question they asked. said we see from a Torah that when created the world each day he said it was night it was day the first day it was evening it was morning the second day whatever he created during that day but then when it came to the sixth day to Friday which comes right before Shabbat says it was night it was day. the sixth day. There's an extra H which in English would be an extra word of the hey has the numerical value of five representing the five books of Moses representing that on the Friday made a vow using the heaven and the earth as the witnesses saying that if Isel accepts the five books of Moses at Mount Si they will see Shabbat that will come right after they will live. But if not, I'm destroying the whole world. There's no point for this world. And therefore, a mount sai is not your loveydovey imagination that people put. He's God. He's the king of kings. He doesn't have rules that we could understand completely because we're not him. If we would know, we would understand everything, we would be him. But the ballet to say nearly a thousand years ago, what did you think? God is an irresponsible God and is going to leave the existence of the world in the hands of several million Israelites. No, he had to let them know what's on the line. If you accept the Torah, good. You become special. You become a holy people. If not, not only am I going to destroy the world, you die first. you get destroyed first. He gave them a visual of what's going to happen a second after the decision. The moment we made the right decision and accepted the Torah, we became the Jewish people. So the first thing we see is that what made us Jewish, the Torah. What keeps us Jewish? adhering to that Torah. So now if somebody was born to Jewish parents, they are automatically Jewish according to the Torah. But if they decide to disregard what their parents and grandparents and ancestors have done for the last 3,300 years and they start following the rules of their imagination, the rules of their lust and desires and abandon the Torah, then although they were born Jewish, they're not practicing Judaism. They're not following the Jewish Torah. And therefore their ideology, their perception and their actions have nothing to do with Judaism. On the other hand, if somebody follows a Torah, whether it's because they were born Jewish or they converted to Judaism and they're following the Torah, then certainly their actions are supposed to be motivated by what the Torah says. Whether it's how to conduct a marriage, how to raise children, how to conduct business, how to conduct your relationships and so on. The Torah is our book of instructions. Instructions of how to live. So now when a talking head, whether it be on YouTube or otherwise, throws all of the people that happen to be Jewish into the same basket, you have a serious problem. Why? Because if you're saying that George Soros, Bernie Maidoff, the filth of a of of a creature, Epstein, and all of the other criminals, and you call them a Jewish criminal, you are by default an anti-semite. Why? because their crimes had nothing to do with Judaism. It had to do with the actually with the FACT THAT THEY'RE DISREGARDING THEIR JUDAISM. They're disobeying their Judaism. They're ignoring their Judaism. They hate their Judaism. They didn't steal because the Torah says to steal. They stole because they don't care what the Torah says. Didn't rape. didn't do all types of heinous, horrible things because of their Judaism. Quite the contrary, they did it because they abandoned their Judaism. So to call them a Jewish criminal or the like is anti-Semitic because they would do the same thing even if they were Jewish. Now, of course, you're going to say, "Yeah, but sometimes we see, unfortunately, more often than we would like, religious Jews do the same thing." Just a few days ago, somebody showed me a video of some that pretends to be religious that's been stealing like 40, $50 million from people over the last 10 years with all types of scams. One scam after another. He's scamming celebrities. He's scamming business people. He's scamming whoever falls for the scam. And even has his father help him. He has other people HELP HIM. ALL THE WHILE, he wears a keeper. All the while, he pretends to be religious. And of course, he's not the only one. There's others. To call him a Jewish criminal is anti-Semitic. Why? BECAUSE HIS JUDAISM HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE CRIME. HE IS not committing a crime because he learned from the Torah that you need to go commit crimes. You need to steal. You need to be a cheat. You need to be a liar. IT'S QUITE THE OPPOSITE. He is ignoring the Torah and in fact ignoring it even more than the secular and the atheist Zionists because at least they don't pretend to be religious. At least they don't pretend to follow God. They actually protest against God. They fight against God. They fight against the the Torah. They want to destroy the Torah. They've been trying to do it for hundreds of years. Herzel, the forefather of Zionism, practiced Christianity. Had a Christmas tree in his house. Had a letter that he wrote to the Pope that his solution to anti-semitism is to convert all the Jews to Catholicism. He hated Judaism. He didn't even give a circumcision to his son Hans. Some of the other Zionists that we've quoted, what they wrote, what they said literally sounded no better than Nazis. When they had opportunities to save over a million Jews from concentration camps, they chose not to. Why? It wasn't their level of Jewish people that they wanted to save. And in fact, they thought it would be better if they died because it would make the world more sympathetic to their obsession with land and money. They were as much Jewish as the Nazis were. So when you're calling out people like BB Netanyahu or all of these other people that are doing things that are against humanity, against the law of the land, against morality, there's no problem with calling them out. What is a problem is if you call them a Jewish criminal where you connect the fact that they're Jewish to their crime because that is 100% anti-semitic. Because if you understood what it means to be Jewish, you would know that their crime is not only not because of their Judaism. It's actually because they are rejecting their Judaism. They're denying their Judaism. They're rebelling against their Judaism. Even if they wear a keeper, if you see someone that looks like a religious Jew do things that are against the law, do things that are hurting other people, he's not doing it because he's Jewish. He's doing it because he's a criminal. And he would do it whether he was Jewish or Chinese or Ethiopian or he came from planet Mars. He's doing it because of his obsession with lust, with power, with money, with materialism. The same goes with anyone else that to a lesser extent connects race with a crime. where they say this black guy just robbed somebody. This uh Arab just killed somebody, this Chinese criminal. What does it have to do that he's Chinese? What does it have to do that he's Arab? He committed a crime because he committed a crime. He didn't commit the crime because he's black. He didn't commit the crime because he's an Arab. He committed the crime because he has a lust for materialism, a lust for power, a lust for things that simply have nothing to do with their color, have nothing to do with their race. Now the reason why I say it's to a lesser extent is because at least in the Jewish world we have a Torah that at least is a place that you can learn morality. You could learn what is righteous and what is wicked. So when somebody that happens to be Jewish decides to be a criminal, we already know they veered away from their the truth, their foundation, their teachings. On the other hand, when somebody lives a secular life and therefore is just simply trying to comply with the rules of man that change from second to second, from person to person, they don't have any real foundation of morality. They're just simply survival of the fittest. But even survival of the fittest doesn't tell you that it's okay to steal from somebody because you would not be okay if somebody stole from you. Even survival viz doesn't say this mentality of people doesn't say it's okay to kill people to rob them. Everybody knows it's wrong. There's humanity. So when somebody says that this guy is a black, green, yellow, Chinese, Christian, uh uh Muslim, Buddhist criminal. It's something that is systematically wrong, racist, and stupid because their color, race, religion has nothing to do with the crime and why they decided to commit this crime. The same goes with Jews. We have a Torah. God tells us himself, "If you do what I said, if you do what I commanded, I will win every war for you." In the book of Exodus 14:14, God says through Mosherenu, "God will fight your wars and you shall remain silent." Meaning we could even get to a point where we win all the wars against any enemies personal and national without even lifting a weapon. But if you don't, you treat me as if I'm meaningless. I'm just like nature, like gravity. It just happens to be that way. You forget I gave you rules. You forget what made you Jewish. You forget the laws of my Torah. then I'll treat you even worse. And we see even in this para we're at Mount Si. We're getting food from heaven. We don't need to work. We don't need to bathe. We don't need to launder. We're literally living in heaven on earth. But yet even then there was the evil inclination that made some of us forget who our maker is and what our purpose in the world is. And Hashem punished them, killed some, made others suffer, but made everybody realize who's the boss. So when you bunch together the Torah observant Jews with the rebel the the the rebels of Judaism where most of the time they're secular lefty liberal anti- Torah and sometimes they pretend to be religious but really they're rebels. When you bunch those that are loyal to God in his Torah with those that are rebels against the Torah into the same package and say they're all Jews, they're all the same. That not only shows foolishness and ignorance of what the truth is, but also shows that you can never even arrive at what the truth is. Because someone that is motivated by the Torah, that means they're motivated by God's law, motivated by righteousness, motivated by good, motivated by fear of God, motivated by the purpose of life. Sometimes the purpose of life will have wars and there are ways to act in war. This whole thing, this whole notion of people thinking that, oh, there shouldn't be any collateral damage, that's war. Don't forget how your country, whatever country you're in, fought their wars. Didn't take water guns to Vietnam. Didn't throw apples at Nagasaki in Hiroshima. didn't go and ask Hitler if he wants to have coffee. They went to war. And in war, there's collateral damage. In war, some people that are not soldiers die. But the reality is, Abu Tai, that even laws of war, the Torah has, you're not allowed to just simply go to war for no reason. You're not allowed to have your enemy among you. You have to know how to defend yourself. If somebody comes to kill you, kill them first. meaning that the Torah has laws and instructions for everything from the morning you wake up to the moment you sleep all days of your entire life from the moment you're born until the moment you die and even after you die what your family needs to do with you everything is written in the book so when somebody is inspired motivated and adheres to the laws of the Torah there is no doubt that that person is going to go in a good path that's good for themsel, that's good for society, that's good for the world, that brings blessing and mercy to the world. On the other hand, when someone is a rebel against the Torah, whether they're a rebel with a keeper and a beard or they're a rebel with their Zionist atheism, that person is a rebel. that person is not acting the way they're acting because of the Torah. The opposite. They're acting the way they're acting because they're going against the Torah. They don't care what God says. Needless to say, they don't care what other people say. They just want to fulfill their own lust, their own desires, their own will, just like the majority of the world. So to bunch those two together is anti-Semitic, is ignorant, is part of the problem that's causing so much confusion among Jews and Gentiles. when we came out with different lectures about the truth about Zionism and how it's inherently the enemy of the Jewish people, the enemy of the Torah. And we even brought some quotes from the evil Nazis and what was written in mine con what they said. Many anti-semites took clips from these lectures and publicized them. Got literally millions and millions of views. I wish I would know who they are so I could maybe have them manage my YouTube channels and get millions and millions of views for the rest of the channel. But the point is that initially there were Jews that saw this being highlighted by Nazis, by anti-semites and start came to me complaining. Came to me complaining, "Look, you're promoting anti-semitism. You're promoting things that are going to cause Jewish people harm." And of course, I knew what I was doing because obviously I have a RAV that tells me what's allowed, what's not allowed, what I should, what I shouldn't do. So there was no question in my mind. And I addressed every one of the people that came up with these and I explained to them that not only is this good, but you'll see that there's going to be good things coming out of it. Because at least here the anti-semites are hearing what the Torah perspective is of these bad people that happen to be Jewish. They're not acting in the name of Judaism. They're not representing the Jewish people. They're representing themselves. They're representing their own desires. Even if they call themselves Jewish, if they desecrate Shabbat on a regular basis, they're as much following Judaism as a monk. The fact that they're Jewish because their parents are Jewish. That's what the Torah says. But they're disregarding the Torah. Of course, we try to encourage everyone to do chuva and come back to their roots to come back to Judaism, but we still have to understand what we're working with until that happens with every single person. There is a difference. When someone is inspired by the Torah, they will go in a righteous path that's beneficial to everybody. When someone is inspired by politics, self-interest, lust, materialism, then it's survival of the fittest like it is among the rest of the nations. Survival of the fittest in China, survival of the fittest in Saudi Arabia, survival of the fittest in America, survival of the fittest in England. People commit crimes. People do whatever they want not because they think it's good, but rather because they want the benefit that comes out of it and they hope they won't get caught. No criminal thinks that what they're doing is inherently good, but they figure that they will do this and more good will come out of it than bad. Completely disregarding the fact that they're hurting people in the process. They're not committing the crime because of their color or their race or their religion. They're committing it because of their obsession with their own self-interest. So for all of those people that continue to bunch together all Jews into the same basket, you're anti-Semitic and ignorant. And the truth is, I don't think you care. On the other hand, for those that have now woken up and realized, wow, there is a difference. If you looked at the actions of the righteous rabbis, Raasam, the Rambam, the Ramban, the Ariza, all of these great sages, all of these righteous people, famous and nonf famous. You see how these people helped improve the world in different ways. Certainly spiritually and certainly materially. On the other hand, if you look at all of the bad guys, you'll see one common denominator among all of them. Not a single one of them followed the Torah when they were doing the bad things. Meaning, their bad actions went against the Torah also. It didn't just go against the law of the land. It didn't just go against the interest of another fellow human being. It went against the Torah. It went against God. Meaning it did not get done in the name of Judaism. They just happened to be Jewish. Just like the bank robber happened to be Chinese, happened to be from Pakistan, happened to be a black guy from America, happened to be whatever, it had nothing to do with it. So when a person really wants to get down to the truth, they have to understand the truth in the first place. Anytime you're going to call somebody out, there's no problem with it, but make sure you call them out for the right reasons. And don't add your own personal bias into the picture. Because if you just simply decide that you hate all black people, but you decide that you hate thieves and you assume that all black people are thieves, no one will agree with you. Certainly there are some that are thieves and certainly there are some that are not thieves. to say that they're thieves because of their their color has nothing to do with it. And just like it makes sense clearly to anybody, it should make sense when it comes to Judaism as well. And for all of those people that are saying, "Wait, but what about the the welfare and what about the many kids?" Every government that's a civilized country has benefits available to whoever fits. If person fits, they fill out the applications, they get qualified. This is this is the law of the land. You cannot number one assume that you know more than you do and number two disagree with the law of the land as if you're running the land. you don't like the law of the land, leave. But the reality is to go and say, "Well, how do they afford seven ten kids?" God gives the money just like he gives money to Elon Musk. He gives money to a regular to to a Jew. He gives money to every human being. When people ask those types of questions, you realize that they have an agenda. They have a predisposition that has nothing to do with the argument at hand. They're simply using all of these different things as a proxy. As a proxy, an excuse to hate Jews. This is exactly what Hitler did and it's exactly what any other famous anti-semite did. They decided they hate someone and then they started inventing reasons of why by highlighting the few bad apples as if everyone is a bad apple. They highlighted a few bad Jews as if all of the Jews are the same. They hire a few bad black people as if all the black people are bad. They highlighted a few whatever else as if everybody is bad. But anyone with common sense and even a little bit of truth in their heart knows that's all a lie. One has nothing to do with the other. So our is beautiful. It's perfect. It's the law of God. It doesn't change. The more you learn what our Torah says, the more you'll understand what good is. Because the only one that truly knows good is the one that invented good, the creator of the world. So long as we're following what the Torah says, we have a path that's going towards good. The moment we veer away from that path, the moment we disregard the Torah, we are no longer on the path of good. We're on a path of disaster and evil. And that's why you see the things that you see in society and everybody's backyard. There are many, many good Jews out there that the world does not even know about because they're too busy hating us in order to know the difference between the ones they hate and the ones that they should love. And that's why the says that if the nations knew how valuable the holy temple was for their benefit, for the nation's benefit, they would have sent their armies to protect the holy temple to protect the beta mikdash. Because every year during sukkot when am they would bring sacrifices in the name of the nations to protect the nations and bring them blessings. If the nations knew this, they'd literally send THEIR ARMIES TO PROTECT THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND the uh and the betamed. Why should the Jewish people pray for the nations, want the nations to to benefit? Because it's all laws. He created all of it. Yes, there is a difference between the Jew and the Gentile. Absolutely. But even among the Jews, there's a difference between one Jew and another. There's a difference between a Jew that was born Jewish but forsakes the law and a Jew that either converted to Judaism or is born Jewish and adheres to the law. And even among those that adhere to the law, there's a difference between someone that is Israel, someone that's a Levy, someone that's a Cohen, someone that's a convert, someone that's a mam. Meaning even among the Jews there is difference, different categories, different places, different roles in the world, different purpose. So instead of focusing so much on the things you don't like because you don't understand, start looking at all the beautiful things that you can understand in the Torah and perhaps become more motivated to learn more of the truth about the things you don't understand and realize that not only you didn't understand, but you didn't understand that you didn't understand. And now that you do understand, you love it because the truth. This is some of the things that I wanted to say. Now I know that some of you have been waiting for me to give you the answer to the question that we asked a few weeks ago. And then I'm going to ask you another question. The question a couple of weeks ago was one guy sells something to another guy. We call it a bicycle. Reuben sold a bicycle to Shimon and Shimon said, "Listen, I'm going to give you the $1,000 in a check, but you have to cash it today." Ruben said, "No problem." And uh he gave him a check. And Reuben got a call on the way to the bank that his wife needs him. So, he didn't go to the bank. He figured he'll go the next day. When he went to the bank the next day, he took out the check out of his pocket and he realized that the check is blank because Shimon used ink that disappears. So he came to Shimon and he said, "You have to pay me." And Shimon said, "No, no, I don't have to pay you because I told you I had a condition. I told you you have to deposited yesterday and had you deposited yesterday, it wouldn't have erased, but you didn't follow the instructions and therefore it's your loss. I gave you the money." Some of you said, "Simon is right. He gave him rules. He hasn't deposited a check." And uh Ruven didn't listen. He has lost. Some of you said maybe they should split it. Give him part of the money. He'd be nice about it. Some of you said no. No. Reuben needs the money. He didn't get paid. What's the answer? The answer is that Shimon has to write a new check with normal ink and give it to Ruven. Why? Because from the moment that he wrote the check, he already had a problem because the transaction was not based on a condition. The transaction was I'm going to give you my bicycle. You're going to give me $1,000. And if you're choosing a payment of credit card, check, cash, coins, apples, doesn't make a difference to me. If I agree to take the payment from you, that's the payment. But if your payment that you chose is not a valid payment by the time I use it, then you never actually gave me money. Now, I'm gonna ask you something a little more complicated. In the old days, people used to use the barter system. What's the barter system? You'd exchange goods for goods. So, if, let's say, you had apples, but you wanted bananas. So, you tell the guy, "Listen, I want uh 100 kilos of uh of uh bananas. In exchange, I'll give you 100 kilos of apples or 50 kilos of apples depending on what the value of each one is. Could be that apples are more valuable, less valuable. So, they exchange good for goods. So, the question is there was once a guy Reuben And uh he had some apples and Shimon was also a merchant of apples but his shipment didn't come and he had customers. He had customers for apples and the price of apples was skyhigh. every every apple was selling for $10 and he wanted to sell apples. So he came to Reuben, he saw that Reuben has a lot of them. He said, "Ruben, listen, give me some apples. give me a, you know, a uh 10 crates of apples and as soon as I get my shipment later today, I'll give you the 10 crates of apples back. But at least in the meantime, I can do some business. Reven said, "No problem. I'll give you apples. You give me apples back today." Yeah. Okay. Well, as you would have it, Ruven gave him the apples. And Shimon never came back that day. He was busy. He got stuff to do. He didn't come back with the apples. He got a shipment, but he never uh he never gave the A week passed. The price of apples dropped 90%. Instead of it being $10 an apple, it went to $1 an apple. But Shimon comes back. Hey, listen. Here's your 10 crates of apples. Ruben said, "No, no, no, no, no, no, no. You have to give me a 100 crates of apples." Why 100 crates? Because last week the price of an apple was $10. Now it's only a dollar. She says, "Okay, dollar, $10, I don't care." The deal was, I'm going to give you apples. You're going to take apples. What's the problem? They go to Abedine. The question is, who's right? Is it okay for him to give him 100 cases of apples instead of 10 because the price of apples dropped? Or is it not really his problem? Because, hey, apples for apples, as they say. What do you guys think? Now, as you guys think about that over the next few days, I'm sure you're going to enjoy it. I have a lot of interesting things. But again, remember, you have to not just tell me what you think, but give me a reason. So, you have the real reason. Not just, it's a 50/50 chance if you're just guessing yes or no, but a real reason of why. Why he would have to give him apples and that's enough or why he has to give him 10 times or why something in between or whatever else you decide? That's a real answer. What did your support do in the year 2025? Here's what your support did this past year and it was verified by Candid. 238,000 Jewish individuals were fed or financially assisted. 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Or you could just look at my profile. Usually my websites are on the profile. Who killed Jonah's tree? God. See? Can a person go against the will of Hashem? Yes, we have free choice. We see it in this week's para. Hashem clearly says that there were part of Israel that were complaining and going against his will. So he killed them. We have free choice. We're not robots. As the says, the Talmud says everything is from heaven except the fear of heaven. meaning that the outcome to uh whether you're born or you die, rich or poor, married or single, have kids, don't have kids, all of these different things, Hashem decides. But whether you will follow Hashem and listen to what he says, that is in your hints. You decide whether you do that or not. Because if he would decide for you what to do, then it wouldn't be right for him to either reward you or punish you. Because if he decided for you that you're going to do only right, why should he reward you? You're a robot. It's like rewarding the uh the dishwasher for washing dishes. That's what it was created to do. That's all it does. Now, if your dishwasher started uh you know uh uh building cars, then maybe you should give it an a reward. But I wouldn't wait too long for that because it's not going to happen. Same concept here. If Hashem would decide for you to do the righteous things, then there would be no reason to reward you because you didn't decide this. You didn't choose that. On the other hand, if you did bad things and it was really Hashem forcing you to do bad things, then it wouldn't be right for him to punish you because it wasn't up to you. He decided for you. But we see clearly in the Torah in practically every single para that there were some people that went against Hashem's will and therefore Hashem punished them. As soon as we open up the Torah, the book of Genesis, we see that went against the will of hem and got punished. We see in the second par the world went against the will of hem and he destroyed all of them. We see it time ofu uh Sodom and Gomorrah that entire cities those two cities went against Hashem and Hashem destroyed all of them and so on and so forth. So if Hashem's will was simply to the point where it would choose the free choice for you, there would be no free choice. There would be no point to reward or punishment. And one of the 13 principles of the Jewish faith is our belief in reward and punishment. Hashem rewards the righteous and punishes the wicked. Any Jew that does not believe in reward and punishment is considered a heretic. No, Hashem does not write what a person will do on Yum Kipur. Rather, Hashem decides whether that person will live or die, will be profitable or at a loss, will be sick or healthy. Not the actions. the actions a person decides. And certainly a person can do chuva and change that uh fortune. The Jews wrote the Quran for the Arabs. True or false? False. The Quran was partially plagiarized by uh Muhammad uh where he uh learned different stories from a uh a Jewish uh a Jewish uh wise man. Uh he learned a lot of stories from him because the uh this Jewish man was friends with Muhammad's father. They did business together and he came to uh this Jewish man had a big uh argument with his Jewish community. he decided to take a long trip and he came and he stayed with Muhammad's father and there he stayed with him for some time and uh as a way to show his appreciation and so on he would spend time teaching Muhammad Jewish stories because before this Muhammad's family were idoltors they weren't uh Muslims there was no Muslims before that so he taught him a lot of stories about from the Torah This Jewish man I believe was Yemenite. He taught him a lot of stories from the Torah and uh Muhammad was a clever young uh young uh man and uh he liked the stories and uh he eventually inherited them as if they're his and he added different nonsense to it. So he added lies to the truth in order to make it as if he invented them. And then he tried to recruit other people to follow him. And when he came to the Jewish sages and he started telling them all of what he knows, they told him, "Listen, everything that you know comes from us, comes from the Torah. You're not you're not inventing anything here. And the stuff that came from you is nonsense. The stuff that's true is from our Torah and our sages. the stuff that's uh false is your stuff that you're inventing that you're adding to it. So, he didn't exactly like the fact that they're not uh accommodating his uh new religion. So, he killed all of them. He murdered all of them in cold blood. Uh so but the point is is that the Quran is comprised of uh different uh parts of the Torah that uh Muhammad plagiarized uh and uh in addition to things that he invented. But that's also why in the Quran it says that if the Muslims do not know what the truth is, they should go to the people of the book. And the people of the book are the Jewish people. So while they hate us, while Muhammad hated us, uh he still knew that we possessed the truth. Learning may take precedence until last chance for Avoda. meaning uh yes once it comes time to pray Mina you have to pray the only exception to skip prayer that I'm familiar with aside from pik nephesh is if somebody is uh doing somebody's doing kiru if somebody's doing kiru they have a few special rules This is not to mean that they shouldn't pray. This is just means that there are certain exceptions for life risk that are also considered the same in the same level as kiru. Is that why the Quran arrived several centuries later? It wasn't just several centuries later. It was 2,000 years later. We got the Torah over 3,338 years ago. The Quran came into existence about 1400 years ago. Talking about 2,000 year difference. Where is Jesus now? in gum because he led people or misled people to go against the Torah, to abandon the Torah. He hated the Jewish sages. He called them the Pharisees. uh and uh he told uh people and it's even in the New Testament that he is greater than uh Shabbat and all types of other nonsense that he said uh and that was written about him and he led Jewish people to abandon the Torah and therefore God punished him and he's still being punished to this day because his act of what he did is still causing people damage till this day. He turned himself into an idol. Can a person heat up food on Shabbat day by using a hot plate? The hot plate is programmed before Shabbat, starts on a timer, and goes on and off for lunch. If the food is already cooked, meaning if it's already readymade chicken and all you're doing is heating it up, then of course every Jewish home does that on Shabbat. That's how we eat hot food on Shabbat. You already cook all of the food before Shabbat, but uh and you turn on the hot plate before Shabbat and you leave it on the whole Shabbat. Uh if you want to use a timer of when it goes on and off, that's up to you. But most people just leave the hot plate on the whole Shabbat. And so the food doesn't go bad because you're not going to eat everything all the time. You you put it in the fridge or or or uh but when you want to eat it, you would put it on the hot plate for however much time it needs to to get uh hot. Usually it's a couple of hours depending on the food. And then when you serve it, it's hot. But again, the food has to be ready. The food has to be ready already before Shabbat. Therefore, all you're doing is just heating the food uh and not cooking the food. Also, if you are safari, that means that you cannot you cannot heat soup on uh Shabbat unless you uh because that's all uh that's mostly water. And uh there's a da there's an opinion that water can cook again even though it's already cooked. So therefore, if a safari Jew wants to eat hot soup on Shabbat, they have a few choices. One choice is to already put the soup on the hot plate before Shabbat and then once they serve it on uh on Shabbat, either they serve they they don't take off the pot from the hot plate. They leave it on the hot plate and they serve from the pot and leave it there if they want to have it again later on or the next day. or if they do take it off and they put it down somewhere, then they can't put it back on the hot plate. Uh unless they have a uh timer where uh they're able to put the soup uh when the when the uh hot plate is not on, when the timer has turned it off and before it turns back on. Point is that you could strategize to actually do it, but most safari Jews that eat soup only eat it on Friday night. Um, there are some that eat it also later on, but like I said, you have to know the ala and how to do it. Ashkenazi Jew on the other hand uh Puskin that uh you could you could take it off the pot, put it in the uh fridge and then the next day put it back on the uh take it off I'm sorry take it off the hot plate and then the next day put it back on the hot plate without all the things that I mentioned. So there's a slight difference in the between when it comes to uh soup but uh the point is that uh eating hot food is part of the pleasure of Shabbat. This is actually the reason why or what uh is called also chulant uh kam and chulent are the same thing. Just depends whether you're safari or eskenazi what you call it but it's the same food. This is actually the reason why uh kamin is a uh is a a Jewish food throughout the centuries because since we weren't able to cook on Shabbat and we wanted to eat hot food not just on Friday night but also on Saturday afternoon, Saturday morning, then uh you need something that can stay on the fire without getting ruined. Usually if you leave food on a fire, you leave food on being heated for a long period of time, it gets ruined. So for example, if you take a uh chicken cutlet and you uh put it on the uh on the hot plate, if you put it on for overnight, by the time you want to eat it the next day, it'll become uh not even chicken or cutlet. It'll become like rubber, become gross because the more it cooks, the worse it gets. So when it's raw, it improves when it cooks until it's ready. Once it's ready, further cooking ruins it. Dries it out. And that's most food. That's most food. But there are some foods uh that the more you cook them, the better they are. Chulent is that. So even if you start putting your chul into on uh Friday afternoon or Friday morning before Shabbat even begins and you're you don't even want to eat it until let's say sudes which is late uh Shabbat afternoon. Therefore it's cooking for 24 hours. It'll taste amazing. Why? Because the type of food is that it's a uh it gets better with time. There are some types of soup that also actually improve over time. Uh but the point is is the reason why chulant is a uh very standard food in uh in Jewish homes is because of that is because of this that uh of of heating and so on. And the reason, as a side note, the reason why geiltaifish is a uh is a popular food for Ashkanazi Jews is not because it's delicious uh for them. Uh it's uh because of the of ber they when you eat fish and you have bones in it, if you remove the bones from the fish, it violates Shabbat. It's violates the law of ber of separating. Uh so because of that they uh take the uh fish they grind it all make it into like a patty uh and uh they uh so therefore there's no bones to remove. So that's why that's been a uh part of the customs of Ashkenazi Jews for hundreds and hundreds of years. Uh safari Jews on the other hand don't usually eat uh geilifa fish. Some do, some do. Uh some don't. Uh I actually uh have a friend that's a safari Jew, but he's married to an Ashkenazi woman and he combined the uh famous geilta fish with the famous safhari dish that's called which is a uh hot spicy red sauce with fish. And usually you make the uh with uh salmon or or you know some type of uh fish. It's it's a but um he actually combined his customs from Tripoli to his wife's customs from uh you know from uh I think she was from uh Poland and they made this and actually that was the only time in my life that I actually ate gapilta fish. I didn't know it was gapilta fish. I probably wouldn't have eaten it if I knew it was gapilta fish but I actually did like it. I was surprised that it was gapila fish. Uh so so there are there is there is a uh some people that uh uh do stuff like that but usually safari food is red. Ashkenazi food is not red. Okay. Is it bad that I use on I use my phone on Shabbat? I'm sort of addicted. Uh if you're Jewish, then absolutely it's bad. It's a violation of Shabbat. It's desecration of Shabbat. You'll end up going to Gome for it. And uh you'll realize that it's the stupidest thing you've ever done. I highly recommend you go to my uh YouTube page, go to a playlist about Shabbat and uh learn the consequences of what it means to desecrate Shabbat. It's not going to look pretty just for a silly phone. Get a book, you know, go sleep, go play uh I don't know, play a board game with your siblings or something. Why do you have to look at your phone? What's going to happen if you don't look at your phone? It's going to explode. Let's see. Do some people get out of gay after several years while some remain there forever? I'm confused. Yes, there are seven chambers in Gaome. Um there are seven chambers in Gome and um I actually have a whole uh lecture about gay that goes into detail about each chamber. I also have a movie about gay that also goes into different details. The first six chambers end at some point. could be a day, an hour, a year, a thousand years, however much time, but at some point it ends. Except the seventh level of gay, the seventh chamber of gum. Whoever comes in there does not come out. So it all depends on the type of sin that a person makes. There are some sins that automatically put a person in the seventh level of gay um unless they do chuva before they die. And uh one of them is uh violating Shabbat. So the person that's playing on their phone and watching TV and driving and you know eating uh uh at some restaurant uh on Shabbat or whatever, working on Shabbat, person that's desecrating Shabbat, they're automatically going to gnome forever unless they do Shabbat, unless they do chuva. Is there a soup kitchen near me? I don't know. Is it permissible to ask dead holy men to pray on your behalf? Uh yes, no problem for you to you have to pray for yourself though. Also, don't just rely on somebody else's prayer. In fact, there is a uh there's a shalom said that anytime somebody has a uh an issue uh that they want to pray for, they um they could go to uh they could pray and say that uh whichever Sadik um will pray for me and help me help you know help me in essence get the mercy of Hashem I'll do uh the next mitzvah that I do whether it's give taka or or whatever mitzvah that they do I'm going to do it on uh you know on their behalf and the reason why said this is good is because one of the greatest uh the ultimate desire that the righteous people have after they leave this world is another way to get more merits another way to get more mitzvot because they can't do mitzvah over there. There's only mitzvah in this world. So when a person does a mitzvah on behalf of a righteous person uh on behalf of anybody that has already passed away, it's a very very big deal. So uh if you're going to do that, for example, you could say uh obviously always pray to God. You never pray to a person whether they're righteous or not. You never pray to a person. And uh you pray to God. And also you could say uh during that prayer that whichever righteous person uh pleads on your behalf to Hashem to answer your prayer, the next mitzvah that you're going to do or whatever mitzvah you're you're planning on doing, you obviously have to know what mitzvah you're going to do, you're uh going to do it. That that mitzvah's merit is going to go to their merit, to their account. And the bigger the mitzvah you're planning to do, the more likely you are to get righteous people to uh that have passed away to plead in your case. So, for example, if let's say you have uh a lot of money, but you say that uh you know, if anybody that prays for me, I'll go donate $10 or $100, then most likely no one's going to help you. No one's going to pray in your behalf. But if you're going to plan to donate a lot of money, then that that merit is something that's worth something. or if you're going to do some other mitzvah, you're going to start keeping Shabbat, you're going to start uh doing whatever it is, you're going to learn to for several hours, whatever it is, Rabbi Ruben, do we have any in Florida? I don't know. Rabbi for converts does chuva take place before, during or after conversion? Chuva should start taking place as soon as possible and you continue even after conversion because even though all of the sins that a person made as a non-Jew are uh erased once they convert because it's a uh it's part of the gift that Hashem gives the uh convert. There are some sins that you still need to fix. For example, if you stole as a non-Jew, then you still have to give the money back even if if you convert. And it's not because you owe the money, but rather because if you don't pay the money, then it could create it create other sins that what people say, look, this guy is Jewish and he doesn't return the money that he stole. But chuva is something that a person needs to do every day, regardless of whether they're in the process of conversion or they already converted or they were born Jewish or they're a rabbi or they're the rabbi's son or daughter or wife. Uh, chuva is something that we have to do every day. It's one of the 613 laws. It's something that's required to do every day. It's not just something that takes one second. Do I speak French? No. But I have a French channel with thousands of subscribers that hear me speak French because we use uh AI uh as part of our uh system where uh I have uh my lectures dubbed into I believe it's 15 or 16 different languages. So you could hear me on my French channel speaking French, on my Arabic channel speaking Arabic, my Spanish channel speaking Spanish, Chinese, uh Korean, German, uh Russian, lots of languages. Does Hashem listen to Nohigh's prayers or Nohigh is the one to convert? Hashem listens to anybody that prays to him knows everything. It's not a uh just because Hashem listens to everything doesn't mean he's going to answer yes to everything whether Jew or Gentile I'm so happy with the article. I got some beautiful tail book in Cohellet Psalms and Ecclesiastes. Yes. Yes. They have great stuff. Also, actually, for those of you that uh follow our Chuva music channel, there's going to be a new song coming out that starts a new series. Uh we have a series currently right now of the entire psalms where about 30% of the psalms we've already done but we're already starting a new series of songs of cohellet turning cohellet into songs. So there's a new one that's coming out I believe in the next 24 hours uh that's going to be the first nine verses. It's absolutely beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. A lot of cool stuff coming out for uh the Chuva music channel. uh that uh you guys should follow. Yeah, we have hundreds of songs already on the channel. Just go to uh Tshua Music by Bez or you could go to my main YouTube channel and just look at other channels that uh I uh we have. You'll find one that's called Chuva Music. And you'll see over there we have hundreds of songs. All types of songs, all types of genres, whether it's Middle Eastern, uh, rap, uh, pop, all types of songs, but all of them are songs that talk about doing chuva, talk about serving Hashem, clean language, clean topics, beautiful holy music. That's what we call it, Chuva music. I'm 30 years old. Can I become Jewish? Sure, why not? You have to convert to a Orthodox Bin. The Noahide laws, all a non-Jew needs to go to heaven. If you follow the nohide laws and you're make yourself a righteous no rabbi, my mother's family and sister were Jewish, but there is no evidence. And my and my mother was. If your mother is Jewish, then you are Jewish. What about music by the Beatles that gives righteous messages? I don't remember ever hearing righteous messages by the Beatles and all the drugs they did and promoted. There's no righteous music by these uh by the Beatles. Delusion maybe no righteousness. You may like it, but it doesn't make you righteous. How do you get rid of hate? By getting rid of ego. I find it strange that in the Torah they never talk about who did the pyramids or more precise details about them. Well, if you look at the uh some of the midashim, it does talk about that. Um but again, the Torah is not a book of stories. Torah is a book of instructions that happens to have stories in it. So if if Hashem would put every story that happened at the during the life of au for example, then the Torah would be a million and a half pages just to discuss the first few years of his life. So the Torah specifically puts things that are applicable and relevant to every single generation, whether it be story or law. Do you accept volunteers to help with anything? Absolutely. We have a whole volunteer team. We have dozens and dozens of volunteers. Bashem uh and each one of them helps with different things. Some have uh technology talents that they help us. Some have uh marketing, some have uh time to distribute our books or in their communities. We have many different volunteers. Anyone that wants to volunteer for our organization, uh you could uh send us a message uh either email or WhatsApp and um let us know what you want to help with and we'd be happy to uh see if we could add you to the team. We love our volunteers. Volunteers is uh big part of the heart of the organization. I actually think that every employee that we have started as a volunteer at some point. Can safari eat soup served by Ashkanazi in the morning of Shabbat? Yes. I think it's the ultimate thing to overcome from this world to consider to become righteous and a just person. After all, Hashem owned and deserved all the glory. Yeah. What's your opinion about demographic collapse? That less and less children are born in the world. That's the outcome of atheism. When people are self-centered, when people are materialistic, when people are limitedminded because they don't have God in their life, then they will start acting like animals that uh act based on survival of the fittest. When you look at the world in past generations that was much more religious than it is now, having children was the pride and joy of all customs in all cultures. Uh only in recent uh centuries has that changed. That's because people have become much more materialistic. People have become more atheist. People have be become more um meaningless, purposeless. I love the cha music channel. What's the name of your app? Uh we have two apps. We have two apps. One of them is called Bashm app. Uh you could find it uh or BH Torah app. You could find it on the app store, Google iOS. Um or if you can't uh you could go to our website and uh download the app from there. that app you could uh watch our lectures uh in different languages including obviously English uh and uh the music it has pretty much everything there and then we have a second app that's called AI rabbi you can go to a rabbi.org And uh that app is an app where you could ask it any question regards to life, marriage, business, uh guidance, Torah stories, uh you know, questions about different parts of the Torah, and it'll give you an answer uh that's in accordance to the Torah that uh uses reliable vetted sources that we uh we put in there. It's not just internet stuff. uh which among them includes 15,000 lectures that we've done over the last decade or so. So if you ask a question and I've I've already addressed this question in one of my many lectures over the years, it'll give you the answer in text or or voice whichever one you want. Plus it'll give you sources that let's say for example if this one of the sources is one of my lectures when you click that link of that source it'll take you to that lecture. to the exact spot of when I where I spoke about your question. So for example, if you ask uh question like who is Rabia AKA, it'll give you a uh several lectures that have spoken about it. And when you click on it, it'll go to let's say a two-hour lecture, but it won't go to the beginning of the lecture. It will go to the exact spot in the lecture that actually spoke about it. So you don't have to waste time looking for it. So uh it's a fantastic app. It's actually getting a major upgrade in the very very uh near few days where uh it'll have both a uh uh the features that we've had we've been waiting for and some new stuff uh where it's going to have a um a lot of more capabilities than ever before and it'll also have a desktop version and a bunch of other stuff. So that's all coming uh any day now. Uh hopefully uh hopefully in within a week or less, maybe even next few days. We'll see. We're waiting for our uh development team to uh complete the uh all the different uh parts of it. What is the ruling on money made from immoral practices like cash advance? Are they required to give back the money made after exiting the field? Yeah, they stole. They stole from people. They they have a very serious problem. And um listen, as far as to give the money back, it's going to be impossible for them because to track every deal and how much and who and what, uh it's going to be very, very difficult. But the most important thing that they can do is stop it. Stop. Get out of that business as soon as possible. Number two, to make sure never go back. Number three, be remorseful. Apologize to Hashem and to anybody else that you can that you've hurt. Certainly apologize. That's three. If you want to uh do even more is try to encourage other people to leave that business. Uh the more people you help to leave that business, the better because you are going to undo some of the damage that uh that you've done. Uh but uh the point is is that uh it's a uh it's not an easy thing because there's a big lust of money and it's a lot of money and very hard for people to leave. But if a person could overcome their desires and uh get, you know, get out of it, it's the greatest thing they could ever do for themselves. Hashem, I have several uh quite a few students that were in the cash advance business in the past and boashm have listened to me and and left it. But there's a lot more that uh didn't leave it that uh you know chose to leave me instead. But it is what it is. It is what it is. Everybody chooses their uh their own uh ganed no. It's up to them. Uh but as far as for those that are in the cash advance business um that uh let's say they they they're leaving it but they're scared that if they leave it they're going to have to return all the money and everything. Like I said the most important part is to leave and uh get out of it. That's the most important part as far as paying back all of that uh money and so on. Hashem will find a way for you to uh to fix that throughout the rest of your life. But the big thing is to get out of it. Can I know how you join a minion? No. Man is 10 Jewish men that are Torah observant. Is it possible that Gog at the end of the times it will be artificial intelligence and his army will be mostly robots or something similar. No, it's not uh it's not that there is go is an actual person. If you watch my film called go uh that um talks about a person but there is another entity. It's not a person. Uh maybe one day we'll do a shure about it. Uh, all I can tell you is it's that it's a uh it's called alus and this thing comes from like an ancient rock and uh it has like the ultimate impurity and that's also going to be part of the end of days wars. Um, let's just leave it at that. It's a very uh it's a very um let's just leave it at that. It's not but it's not going to be like the Transformers or like the uh Terminator movies or anything like that, but there are going to be a lot of supernatural things uh things that the movies didn't think about. No, there's no problem of a Noahide praying next to Jews. It's just that they cannot be counted among the minyan. In fact, even a Jew that's not Torah observant. Let's say a Jew drives on Shabbat. Okay, he's born Jewish, but he doesn't observe the laws. He also can't count the minion. You also can't count the has to be 10 Torah observant Jews. How do you get rid of an evil spirit? You do as much good that the Torah says as possible, especially helping other Jews do chuva, by sharing these lectures, by supporting financially, by doing everything you possibly can to publicize Torah. The more you add good merits to your account, the stronger your is going to become to fight off anything that's evil that's hurting you or trying to hurt you. Most of the people in my kabat should drive on Shabbat. Should I not attend? If you are uh counting on them being part of the minyan, meaning that uh if there's no 10 people in your kabad or whatever sh you go to if there's not at least 10 people that keep Shabbat uh then there's no point of praying there because there's no minan. And in fact, you could it could lead you to sins because if you bring if your entire uh if you don't have a minan, but you guys still do bring the Torah scroll out and do those are so uh these are sins. You're not making if somebody says kadesh, you can't uh can't say amen. So you have to have at least 10 people that are Torah observant, meaning they keep Shabbat and so on. All right, we'll take maybe another couple of questions. What should I do if I see a Jew going to his car after going to the synagogue? I'm afraid it might push him away. Well, if you know the person, you could try to reach out to him uh at some point during the week. Send them one of our lectures. Try to get them to watch the lectures with you or maybe you could watch it together. Send them my movie. Try to educate them uh by sending them information and uh that we have and uh hopefully they'll listen and they'll do Chabbat. I have many lectures and films about Shabbat. So, you could send them some of that. which discusses the life of uh there's different parts in different places. There's some at the end of uh there's some in uh there's it's all over the place was one of the the greatest sages that ever lived. He's the only person that got to the 50th level of Kadusha. So his different parts of his life are everywhere but there's a big section about uh uh about him in the uh bot in uh there's a few others. I heard a rabbi that says that people go to Temple Mount now if you dip in the mik first that day. Is this true? No, it's against the uh of all of it's not true at all. Can we start building the bet mash now? No. MC is going to come down from heaven. It's not uh it's not a construction job that uh Donald Trump and company can do. I heard that by the year 7,000 the world will no longer exist. Why would Hashem create a world that people will not live in forever? Why would people need to live forever? If you talk about people being the flesh and blood, flesh and blood is not you. The is you. You've been here already since the time of Adam and you just get reincarnated each time until you complete your tikun. Now the world is going to change throughout the next uh you know in the sixth uh when it gets to the year 6,000 and change even further after 7,000. says all the way up until 10,000. But the point is is that the uh the ways of the world are going to change drastically once Mashia comes and even from uh millennia to millennia. There's different phases of the world. But the real you is not the flesh and blood and the uh the hats and the skirts and the sneakers and the uh you know and the mustaches. The real the real you is the that's inside. All right. Okay. Let's see. Is it worth debating Jewish heretics? Not only is not worth it, it's forbidden. The says if it's a Jewish heretic, you're not even allowed to be within six feet of him form. How do I ask you a personal question? You just did. Ask whatever you want to ask. Ask. But when I answer it, I'll answer it. My boyfriend said he's watching the stream. So, she's saying hi to her boyfriend. Okay, that's very nice. It's good that your boyfriend brought you here, too. So, the you learn um does Hashem sometimes not want us to have clarity and answers? Why would that be? Uh it's simply because either you don't have the tools to understand It hasn't come time to understand. Uh Hashem wants you to overcome some type of test or obstacle in order to get you to understand. So for example, when Moshe Rabenu asked Hashem at Mount Sai to let me see your glory and Hashem responded, no one can see my face and live. But we know that Hashem says that he doesn't have a body or the likeness of a body. So what does it mean? He doesn't no one can see my face and live. Meaning that Mushenu wasn't asking to see a physicality of God, but rather he was trying to understand how Hashem works. So, Hashem says, "I can't show you my face," meaning the things that I'm doing now uh that haven't been completed yet because you won't you don't have the ability to understand them and still stay in this world, still stay alive. But I can show you my back. What's my back? The back is the things that have already been completed in the past. for example, creation of the world, different people that have lived and so on. So, uh, Mosher Rabenu wanted to see uh some of those things, but then Hashem started showing him some things in the future and he showed him uh the life of Rabiaka and he saw how Rabaka rose to greatness and became one of the greatest sages that ever lived. But he also died a very horrific death where they uh they you know tortured him and killed him and so on. Uh and uh Mosher Rabenu had a question. How is it that he did so much Torah but he got this? Is this the a reward? What is this? This is a horrible punishment. And Hashem said uh silence. This was my initial thought. What does it mean this was my initial thought? The uh the sages explain that if you look at the first verse of the book of Genesis, the first verse of the Torah says, so Hashem created the world with the midav which is the mid the uh trait of judgment. Uh and then later on it says that Hashem's uh four-letter name the uh tetetrogrammaton which is the measure of the trait of mercy. So initially, Hashem created the world with judgment, meaning that anyone that would do anything wrong would immediately be judged. But he also knew that this is not possible for people to exist in such a world because we would literally all die within a few moments of of of being uh created. So he added the trait of uh of mercy. Now the nama of was connected to the trait of judgment and therefore when judged him and gave him that horrible death that he got as a kap as a tikun and so on andu asked about item didn't say this is right this is wrong he says silence this was my initial thought Meaning this death that got is in accordance with my initial thought of creating the world with judgment. So of course Moshe Rabenu was not able to comprehend the full story until he left this world where there's no limitations of humanity in the uh you know once a person's na is not hindered by the flesh and What answers do we give those who are abused and hurt from the age of innocence? It's a case-byase basis. It's not it's not something that has a uh general answer. Of course, there's a lot of emotions involved. There's a lot of trauma. It also depends their level of understanding of Torah, their level of commitment to the Torah. It's not it's not there's no one-sizefits-all. It's all case by case basis. The person has to not only be sensitive uh but also has to be knowledgeable in how to actually help those people and not just simply pacify them or uh try to make them feel better. It's not about making them feel better. It's making them aware of uh what transpired the uh the value of it on a positive end even though it's suffering. It's uh uh there's a uh it's a whole big teachings. It's not it's not one sizefits-all. If you want to learn more about stuff like that, there's different lectures that I've spoken about suffering. I've spoken about traumas and and things of that nature. Rabbi, do you speak German? I don't speak German, but I have a channel in German where there are thousands of people that watch my lectures with my voice and uh in uh German because we use different technology to have my lectures translated to 15 or 16 different languages. German is one of them. Do beads draw down more sheffa? Maybe to the seller. The seller gets more money because he sells it to people that believe nonsense, but the buyer doesn't get anything. Oh, beards. Okay, the beards. So it's not the hair on a Jewish person's face uh bring down mercy. The hair on a Jewish person's head male bring judgment. So that's why it's uh common for Jews to uh have longer beards. It's not an obligation by any stretch of the imagination. The only obligation when it comes to the beard is not to shave with a uh razor. uh you have to shave with a machine or uh because you can't uh cut these uh five corners with a with a razor. That would be a sin. But if a person wants to grow a longer beard, they can. But they don't have to. There's no obligation of growing a long beard. Are Gazin civilians innocently? Not necessarily. How can a gentile like myself become a priest of Aon? You can't. The priest of Aon has to come from the lineage of Aon. How can we reconcile seeking intercession with the verses where Hashem forbids consulting with the dead? Who said to seek intercession? Why do you want to seek intercession? What are you idol worshipper possession? What are you talking about? What is your opinion of full self-driving cars used on Shabbat? Forbidden. It's a uh disgrace of uh Shabbat. It's not uh it's not love. Okay, now the last question. Let's see. I think I answered already all of them. Do you think you could you could call upon the dead? I call somebody on the phone if they're alive. Maybe they'll answer me, but I usually don't call people. Too busy. So, as far as the dead, I don't know what their phone number is. So, if you have uh if you have their phone number and you know for sure they're going to answer, maybe we can set up a conference or something like that. There are nine billion people that are alive. Why do people want to talk to the dead? I don't understand. Does Rabbi Ruben have an interpretation of Adam and Eve? Of course, there are many uh um things that were written by the sages about Adam or as they call them in in English, Adam and Eve. But I don't really know what you mean as far as the interpretation that. But if you want, I have several lectures that go into a lot of details. just go to my YouTube channel, type in uh either Genesis or Adam and Eve or different words like that on the search box in my uh you YouTube page or my app and you'll see there's different lectures uh that I've made about the topic. Many of them I would say at the very least half a dozen or more that have many different things to talk about. Uh, okay. We learned, we enjoyed. Hopefully, we could take some of these things and apply to our lives. Anyone that wants to support all the wonderful things that the organization is doing uh can now now support on our bezel page with either regular credit card. You could send a check. 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