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Is Your Lack Of Emunah Killing You???
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Shiur Torah #101 ParaShat Sehlach, Is Your Lack Of Emunah Killing You??? If you'd like to invite R' Yaron Reuven to give a lecture at your synagogue, home or office please call 917.468.2324 or email [email protected] . Yaron Reuven is based out of Boca Raton, Florida, but travels around the world to give lectures to different groups. Visit us at www.BeEzratHaShem.org
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we'll have some new from
yesterday but as we started last night
talking about as I
mentioned in today's world we spend a
lot of our time worrying about our goof
our body not enough time about our soul
and without having our soul taken care
of very very
meticulously very very carefully even
more than our body we slowly die
but not a physical death only but a
spiritual death where it becomes very
simple to become
depressed something small happens the
glass falls from the counter all of a
sudden you see your wife crying why you
crying just one glass no but it's my
crystal I like my okay it's Crystal it's
material what's the what's the it's not
the end of the world okay I know it was
expensive buy a new one because we have
money why new one why are you crying
she's not crying because of the crystal
she's crying because inside
something is
missing same thing somebody loses a job
all of a sudden they want to commit
suicide why you want to commit suicide
okay you lost some money you lost a job
okay so it's not it's not good
news but what you want to kill yourself
for it's not going to stay this
way before you had this job you didn't
have a job or you had a different job
you didn't kill yourself before this job
why you going to kill yourself after
this
job the reality of is has nothing to do
with the job has to do with something's
missing inside something that the N is
yearning for is missing and that
something is the same thing for everyone
that's Hashem connection to
Hashem now kazal tell us in the Holy
books that when hasem gave the
soul to
ad he blew a wind into him but in
essence he gave him a piece of himself
meaning that hasem even though he has no
body or an image of a
body if kazal didn't spell it out we
wouldn't be allowed to say it but
according to Kaz according to the Tora
that hasm gave them hasem gave a piece
of himself and put it
in and we know that Adar Soul was
divided up amongst everyone even though
the world was destroyed still we had
Noah and hey uh his wife and his three
children and their wives and also OG the
king of Bashan the giant so there was
some survivors so that soul that was
split up into many eventually was given
you know was in them and all of that was
in Us in the entire world so in essence
there's a piece of Hashem in
everyone and that peace is like a
magnet it needs to connect to the source
without connecting to the
source it slowly loses its
power now Hashem doesn't want this is
obviously an eternal peace he's not
going to let you completely destroy it
so what ends up happening if someone
doesn't correct thems in this life and
is out of chances there's no more time
to do a g there's no more time for
reincarnation there's no more time
because the Messiah already
came there's no not you know people
already ahead of you there's no more
time to do
chuva and that so was finished this
world Shabbat that Soul finished this
world wasting seed that Soul finished
this world being a
heretic teaching the wrong things about
Tah being an idol
worshipper those types of people there's
no Chua up there their G never ends
and what does say what does the Z say
says they go to the G where the actual
part that's theirs gets completely wiped
out completely destroyed only to leave
the Eternal part only to leave the
diamond that hasm gave you and he takes
it
back his peace is eternal yours subject
to your
actions this is one of the the things
that people don't understand in our
generation and the way we know it is
because they spend 3 hours a day in a
gym 10 hours a day planning their diet
15 hours taking pills to make sure that
they take all the right vitamins and
painkillers and depression pills and all
types of drugs that
happen but you tell them listen we have
to do sh no it's too long of a pray I'm
just going to do and that's it
okay listen it's a Shabbat no listen I'm
going to do K but tomorrow I have a
meeting I have a business part I have to
meet
with listen it's a holiday now he goes
no no no I don't I don't keep two
holidays I know that they said keep two
holiday I only keep one they make their
own
rules okay says you want to make your
own rules you're destroying your peace
my peace is
eternal my pieace is eternal I'm going
to take it back and that's one of the
things
that it says in
the page 17 it says that those types of
people that literally do not do chuva
and continue being the uh ones that make
other people sin continue being Heretics
continue being Idol worshippers continue
being their G never
ends even after mashia comes even after
hasem shuts off the fire and G
their fire never ends why because you
destroyed something I created it wasn't
yours to
destroy sh takes it personally it's not
a
joke now we have to teach this to people
why because now they when they know the
cost they know the price of something
they're going to decide for themselves
do I want to buy it or I don't want to
buy it if you go to a restaurant and
there's no prices on the men you're
going to order everything give me
everything but if each PR each then he
tells you turn it around and you see
every every little piece is $1,000 no no
you know what I don't want anything just
give me a cup of water if it's for
free same thing we need to teach people
the cost we need to teach people the
price and that's one of the most
important things that we learn in every
single parasha because when you learn
the parasha like you're supposed
to you realize that there's really a
cost because half the Torah half the
Torah not even 10% 20 half the Tor if
not more than half the Tor tells us the
price tells us the
cost now in this week's para there's a
lot of different subjects we first start
with the cost
of then we find out that there's
problems
witha then we find out that there is HEM
is not kidding about
punishment but then after
that the parasha moves to a completely
different
direction and talks
about three completely different MIT
three completely different stories what
is it first it talks about idol worship
the sin of idol worship if it's
intentional if it's not intentional
what's the consequence what do we say
about idol worship in the
past every single time it's mentioned in
the Torah the next thing to it Shabbat
viol of Shabbat why because forem
violation of Shabbat is the same thing
as idol worship that's why every time
you look for it in the Torah talks about
idol worship right next to it the next
verse next to it
says and then after that it talks about
you know the part that we read
in is actually comes from this
par but one of the main things that very
very interesting about this is this is
the most famous
story that's probably most of am is
today does not know
exist I thought always that
the and also two of the very
famous parts of the tah that are scary
because they're full of
curses I thought they were the
scariest I thought that this is you know
what 10 vers
in I think we did it over here 10 verses
is
blessing 40 versus
curses it's a pretty bad ratio it's
pretty
scary even
worse so I thought okay this is the real
people when you know you have the
uh they say it in many places they say
it extra quiet they don't want anyone to
hear the curses maybe they get offended
like the K is saying it from his mouth
it's hem wrote it he wrote it because he
wants you to know
it but I always thought they're the
scary
ones but then I learned again this I
learned this a few
times I
Lear
again and you know you
start each time you look at
the you find something new
you dig a Little Deeper you find
something more and the more I dig into
this par the more I realize this par is
more scary than both of
them because in the other par it was
obvious you sin you get
this you get
this in
this this whole disaster that
happened doesn't even look like such a
bad of a sin
calls it in the that Moses knew there's
going to be something wrong he's a
prophet when he sends these spies to the
land he knew there's going to be
something wrong that's why he added a uh
UD a letter to the name of
Joshua his name was OA then he CH he
added a you to his name which is one of
the letters in hashem's name to bless
him called him Joshua from that point on
also Caleb that was a sadik when he got
to Kanan which is later to be called is
he went to
the why to pray Hashem save me I don't
know what's going on but it doesn't seem
right save me from this save me from any
save me from any sins save me and that's
why those are the only two Joshua and
Caleb the only ones that were saved and
not only that they were rewarded Caleb
was eventually rewarded his descendants
were rewarded hon
which is where the where he prayed he
was rewarded that piece of the land
Joshua
became became the leader after
mosenu the rest of the
10 they
died shortly after they reported the bad
news or what they said was bad
news so mosenu knew something's going to
be not so great but he wasn't
sure kazal says why because the sin they
were going to make was so such in a thin
line they call Dak Dak means thin it's
like the difference between making a
Mitzvah and making a
sin was such a thin line you couldn't
tell going to
be seems like aah
who's not making a mvah going toet you
have to beg some people to go to
beet but if the is
reformed or it's conservative it's not
only not a Mitzvah
it's
layah you have to do lay a man has to
lay six times a week except you know
with the exception of Shabbat not
allowed to do Shabbat not do holiday but
if he lays on Shabbat or holiday it's
not a Mitzvah it's it's a sin meaning
that the line between a sin and a mitvah
can be very very thin you can't just say
it's l is always a Mitzvah no it's not
always a Mitzvah go to synagogue is
always a Mitzvah no it's not always a
Mitzvah even is meaning exerting effort
we're obligated to exert some type of
effort for whatever we want to
do even that could either be aah or a
what the M were doing over here the
spies over here Moshe would you know
tell them yes go ahead and go it looked
like it was a mitvah even you know
technically we're exerting some effort
we're going to find out what's happening
over there because hasem said that this
land is full of gold and honey and you
know all types of silver and and a lot
of great things but if they know that
we're coming they're going to hide
it so we're going to go make sure we're
going to Scout it's only 12 of us going
to scout to make sure where they put it
so when we get there we can get it even
if they try to hide it we're going to
know where it
is we're going to look at the
combination looks like a
Mitzvah but we find out just a couple of
paragraphs into the par not only it's
not a Mitzvah it becomes one of the
biggest sins in in the history of
am why
because Hashem
said I give you I'm giving you a land of
milk and honey it's a good
land you don't need to check
it if I said something you have to check
my words why cuz I'm Flesh and Blood
hasem says something you have to take
his word for
it so when you say listen I know Hashem
said it's a land of milk and honey and
everything but can we check it you're
making a sin why because you're showing
you have NOA and not havinga is a very
big sin which we're going to learn
today but then as you go further into
the
par before we talk about
the we find out at the end of the
Paras we have one of the most important
stories in the history of am
unfortunately it's about a big
sin but it's an important
story that most people today don't know
even
exists maybe it's because at the end of
the Paras and by then people are
sleeping at the besset maybe it's
because no one understands the holy
language maybe it's because no one
listens at all maybe it's because
nobody's giving AA about it cuz maybe
it's not as interesting as the story
about the
spies the reality of it is it's one of
the most important stories to ever know
and the story starts in chapter 15 verse
32 it says
small story this is the beginning and
the end of that story four verses
what does it say it's
translation the children of Israel were
in the wilderness and they found a man
Gathering wood on the
Shabbat those who found him Gathering
wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and
to the entire assembly they placed him
in custody for it had not been clarified
what should be done to him Hashem said
to Moses The man shall be put to death
the entire assembly shall Pelt him with
stones outside of the camp the entire
assembly removed him to the outside of
the camp they pelted him with stones and
he died and Hashem had as as Hashem
commanded
Moses this is the story we've talked
about in
previous about the firstat in
history this was the second week after
we got the
Torah first week we kept Shabbat but
second week we already had a Shabbat
violator who is he this man over here by
the name
of his name
was and Kaz say that before this day he
was actually considered a very righteous
man so his death was physical or
spiritual death physical they stoned him
with the worst possible death
penalty so it was hard those days H the
punishment the worst possible punishment
you can get
there are four types of death penalties
that the Sedin were allowed to
implement four types and each one is
worse than the other the worst type the
worst possible type was stoning why
because with stoning unlike when they
would kill him with a sword which would
be one
shot or unlike where they would hang
them or they would burn them these
things would take you know less time
stoning takes the more most amount of
time it's the most amount of suffering
what happens with stoning first they
throw him off a two-story building
breaks all of his bones then they
already prepare a big boulder to follow
him to smash
him but because it's most likely that
maybe missed a piece of his body there's
a bunch of people waiting at the bottom
after after the Big Stone goes on top of
him and crushes him they're going to
throw more stones on him until he
dies doesn't get worse than
that so he was known as a sadik sadik
before he made the sin made a lot of MIT
in his
life they say that he actually made the
sin the meaning he made the sin to show
people that hashm is not
kidding but he made a mistake he
shouldn't have done it what does he do
one of three things they say the the par
says he was gathering
wood so they say what do you mean maybe
the uh if he was gathering wood from the
place he was allowed to to place he's
not allowed to then it's called the sin
of if he was cutting the Twigs of wood
then it's called
Kel and if he was just Gathering the
sticks together then it's called it's
three different types of you're not
allow to do on Shabbat this is
allat Page
96b could have been one of those three
sins doesn't necess S have to be all
three it's most likely one of them but
just for one of them they see
him they arrest him but then it says
they placed him in custody maybe they
put him in jail for it had not been
clarified what should be done to him
what does it mean not been clar for what
should be done to him T says
M what does it mean no they knew he's
going to die they just didn't know which
death penalty it's going to
be M for sure we know viol Shabbat what
do you do what happens when you violate
Shabbat you're saying God doesn't exist
that's what says someone doesn't keep
Shabbat what are they saying they're
saying God didn't create the Heaven and
the Earth in six days and rested on a
seventh meaning everything came from
nothing
can't
be say no of course we know he's going
to die we just want to know from God
listen how and also listen it's only the
second Shabbat we just got the Torah
last
week maybe it should be a little you
know lay off a little bit AEM you know
calm down we just got to we didn't even
have enough time to read the whole
thing we just got it
what does hasem
sayem says to Moshe the man should be
put to death the entire assembly meaning
everyone's involved in this
Punishment No One Is absolved he's a
sinner everyone needs to see it and
everyone needs to be involved in it the
entire assembly shall Pelt him with
stones outside of the camp don't even
punish him inside the C I don't even
want him inside the camp with
you kick him out and punish him over
over
there and this is exactly what the am
did the entire assembly removed them to
outside of the camp they pelted him with
stones and he died as hem commanded
Moshe now why do I say this is perhaps
one of the most important events that
ever happened probably um probably he's
no going so volunt no they got a hand
yeah yeah exactly yeah it wasn't it
wasn't there was no mercy no no no no no
mercy I don't think he's going to be
going like all I'm sorry no such thing
no no no that's it once hasem said the
said say forgive me forgive me forgive
me doesn't help once you violate
Shabbat why because this
was this was the the the calls this
generation the generation of knowledge
what is the generation door is is
Generation means knowledge what
knowledge knowledge of Hashem there was
no doubt that Hashem was real why there
was Miracles 24 hours a day food coming
down from sham Miracles you just saw the
biggest civilization in the world get
destroyed just a few weeks ago one
plague after another over a period of a
year the frogs attacked them went inside
their stomachs they didn't even touch
you the beasts from all over the world
even from the Arctic the polar bear that
can't live in Egypt came to Egypt just
to go kill Egyptians didn't touch one
Jew the hail somehow had miraculously
ice and fire at the same time
lava who is it hit only Egyptians no
Jews no doubt here there's no doubt that
this is obviously the hand that created
the world is the same hand that's
controlling all of this and on top of
that last week you heard God's
voice and you saw the letters in the sky
you saw the sounds not just heard the
sounds you saw the sounds you heard
God's voice remember when all of you
died and you came back to life and then
he said another word then you all died
again and then you begged Moshe please
you know tell to stop talking
remember so this is this is this is the
generation where everyone was
knowledgeable that God was real
everyone had no doubt you knew God was
real it's no joke but you only had to to
for a week but it doesn't matter but you
knew and kazal says if the generation
that only had the Torah for a week was
judged this
way what excuse do we have we had to for
3,300 years
already we can't say no we we we we
didn't know what the tah said yet if it
3,000 years they had it for a week still
got the worst possible
punishment what excuse do we have and
this is why if you remember I think in
last uh last time we had a sh I
mentioned something either here or
somewhere else I'm pretty sure it was
here a lot of people think that you know
when you say the punishment for Shabbat
maybe the rabbi is uh
exaggerating or maybe
he's making things a little more than
what they are so I bought
an amazing
book
y
y this is part of uh a whole
series and
um they translate it from Hebrew to uh
to English also and also several other
languages Spanish French and several
other
ones but this is based on
of this is based on the work of
which
is his
son by learning his father's work put
this y
together and the uh Rabbi that oversaw
this
um the work of the translation is also
one of the Disciples of radya his name
is AR Israel ban so all major
people but they're not saying their
opinion here there's no
opinion they every single line they have
to give you a
source how do you keep Shabbat what's
the AL for this what's the AL for this
where do we get it from where what's the
source everything you need to know
anything you have a series of books
about every one of the do we have in
Judaism but here in the beginning this
the the Shabbat part of it is three
books this is just one of
them in the beginning of it talks about
a few things the reward for keeping
Shabbat being endless endless reward
both in this world and the next World it
complete it's the essence of
chuva it actually uh the
um says that the the ramban says in
Shabbat Chapter 30 verse 15 or line
15 whoever observes a Shabbat as as the
prescribes and honors it and indulges in
pleasures and its Pleasures to the best
of his ability will receive an abundant
reward in this world in addition to the
reward set aside for him in the world to
come somebody keeps Shabbat they get
reward both in this world and the next
World further it says in the Merit of
observing Shabbat just so you know how
big it is for chuva in the Merit of
observing
Shabbat all of One sins can be
forgiven
as said this is
in even if someone had worshiped an idol
an Idol idol
worshipper as people did in the
generation of inos this is a generation
of the
flood through observing Shabbat as the
dictates not observing Shabbat like you
know I observe I do K and I drive toet
observing as the AL dictates he will be
forgiven for it even for idol
worship That's How Strong the Shabbat
is this is why kazal says violating
Shabbat is like you violated the entire
Tor violating
Shabbat the there's no cha without
Shabbat no such
thing but then in the same book talks
about a lot of different parts about the
beauty of the blessing of
Shabbat all types of wonderful
things the same
ramb the same Shabbat 30 after this
one says the MIT Shabbat is equivalent
to all the in the Tora
combined it is the sign of the Eternal
connection between the Blessed Holy One
and US
therefore this is rambam again it's not
me therefore someone who
transgresses any of the other mitv of
the Tor is still considered a Jew all by
a wicked one somebody makes a sin they
forget to do prayer after they eat
they go with a woman they're not
supposed to be with different
things they shave with night with a
razor woman's not modest different
things there unfortunately many many
sins we can make he says they make a sin
they're still considered a Jew
though Wicked but they're still a Jew
but someone who publicly desecrates
Shabbat drives on Shabbat smokes a
cigarette in public on Shabbat or
everyone knows he's
smoking is considered for all all
purposes to be on the level of the
member of the idolatrous nation not only
is he not considered
Jewish he's considered an idol
worshipper not being Jewish is already
bad we tell people no no no care about
not being Jewish is the least of your
problems right now you consider an idol
worship you consider the worst possible
thing you can be what P this is
rambam 30
so now we see okay this is R this is
we're all of where do we get from we get
from the
ramb now the confusion today is what
does it mean
to make a to sin on Shabbat in
public some people say yes according to
thear it says that you have to be in
front of 10 people that's public sin
that's far
but that's wrong according to
the it actually defines what means this
is actually a whole about idol
worship it defines what it defines what
paria means it defines what sinning in
public is by looking into the story of
Pinas when he killed Zim and he killed
kosby when they when they sinned
he said but the Torah says that what
gives Pinas the right to murder two
people okay they were
sinning thear says yeah he sinned in
public and thear says no the Torah
specifically says that they weren't in
public they were in inside one of these
uh Huts or something they were covered
just two of
themar says yes but everyone knew they
were sinning if everyone knew they were
sitting it's already considered in
public meaning if even if you're not
driving in front of 10
people even if you're not smoking in
front of 10 people on Shabbat even if
you're not watching TV in front of 10
people if 10 people know you're doing it
everyone knows your
that's they don't need to see you what
10 people going to come to your house
watch TV with you they
also
no 10 people
know that's already so not even watching
right nothing
nothing nothing can't watch TV can't
play on your phone can't drive on
Shabbat if they know you're doing it
already it's considered this
is it says so many things about it I
mean we could do a whole Shure and we'll
do a sh about specifically about Shabbat
one day but give you guys something of
just an understanding this thing when I
wrote it it scared
me this is what it says
ofin wrote
in his
book this is one of the
sages if a Jew does not observe
shabat he lowers himself to less than
the status of a dumb
Beast to achieve atonement meaning to do
cha he must be stoned to death just like
we learned about that's the punishment
in order for him to do he has to be
stoned to
death if he is not
stoned the connection of his soul with
God and His
Torah will be
severed therefore this is the scary part
therefore executing him meaning stoning
him is actually doing him a great
favor because at least he won't be SP
Shabbat
anymore this is not me this is this is
what this is what kazal says this is
what hasem
says and that's one of the craziest
things that people have no idea no idea
that this stuff even exists
so now we have ourselves a situation
here if you know this story of you read
this and you actually believe it to from
hasem even thinking about violating
Shabbat as a
Jew becomes scary already why because if
he was ever going to let it go if he was
ever going to say ah you know what it's
not really that big of a deal
deal this would be the time we just had
the Torah for a
week we had the Torah for one week if
anyone was going to make a mistake if
anyone didn't feel like doing it yet
they didn't get used to it yet this
would be the time if he was going to let
it go he's going to let it go to a guy
that has the book only for a
week more so more likely than he's going
to let go if somebody has had the book
for 3,000
years but he didn't let it go
he said everything in worse that it says
in and several other parts in the Tora
says yes yes we got the Tora last week
great give him the worst possible
death doesn't matter one week two weeks
one day three days and this is why when
I had a couple of people call me a lot
of people are calling emailing it's a
lot of a lot of people from all over the
world are connecting they're watching
the shim they're getting affected by it
and some of them need some help there's
no end to the suffering that many of the
people in am is are suffering today and
a lot of them are having health
issues but one thing that they all get
one thing that they all get when they
call me or they email me is the same
type of information I don't as you've
all seen already for the last year and a
half we've been learning together I
don't beat around the bush I don't tell
you listen then just keep half the
Shabbat then let's see what happens no
such thing this is what you have to do
whether you do it or not it's up to you
it's your
business it's never okay to
sin it's never okay to not keep Hashem
said it we have to do it so when I tell
when I spoke to a couple of people both
two people just this last week
having huge amount of health
issues a year ago they were perfectly
healthy and the last year
disaster very similar to my
story the first thing I tell him the
first thing you got to do is you have to
start keeping Shabbat yeah but Shabbat
is when I make most of my business I
said okay so now it's
not no no is there something else no
there isn't anything
else you have to make sure that hem
knows your cha is
genuine starting with other things is
not going to do anything for
you it's not going to do anything for
you it's like sometime you know I have I
have unfortunately had a
woman that uh she had a disease she had
cancer tell
listen Shabbat doesn't matter if her
keep Shabbat don't keep she's bedridden
she can't move
anyway but you have to promise you have
to promise that if Hashem gives you
health you're going to be 100% modest
you're going to cover your hair your
shirts are always going to cover your
elbows your skirts never pant again
always going to cover your knees even
after you're sitting down completely
modest
100% oh but you know it's hard you're
dying you're dying right
now you're dying right now but the is
very
big even on a death bed she wasn't
sure she died
people don't understand hasem is not
kidding he's not
kidding sad but this is this we're still
alive we still have a
chance like RAB from salant started M
movement one of the greatest Minds that
ever lived as long as the Candle is lit
you still have a chance to do
cha this what hasem is telling us here
I'm not
kidding whether you had the Torah for a
week or you just discovered it today or
you had it for 3,000 years you just
ignored it irrelevant as soon as you
find out Shabbat exists you have to keep
it to the best of your
knowledge if you know you're not allowed
to drive on Shabbat there's never an
excuse to drive on Shabbat unless you're
saving someone's
life and that's what we learned from
this from this
par is this tiny four verse story that
most people people don't even know
exists we have the name we have the
address we have the date we have
everything but most people don't know
this this story exists why maybe it's
not politically correct I don't know I
don't know why we don't know I never
heard of the story until it did
chuba I went to Bess like everybody else
once in a year I never heard the story
and that's the thing and you go toet no
one's going to tell you the
story it's in the par it's written it's
or you don't have to be a genius to
understand the story this is literal Tor
it's what it says I read you exactly
what the verse is said you forget we
didn't mention what Rashi said we didn't
mention what rambam said about it the
ramban or the gar or the inside secrets
in we didn't mention anything literal
translation this is what it
says anyone that reads it can only have
one understanding of the story there's
no two understandings you cannot
conflict so this is what happens when
we're ignorant and we don't know but
this is also puts the onus on the ones
who do
know the ones who did study
Torah the ones who do call themselves
rabbis and know that half their K is not
keeping Shabbat and they don't tell him
the story during a par like this it's
sin it's 100%
sin who cares about schom when the guy's
not even considered a a Jew
anymore you telling
about okay yes there's a lot of lessons
to learn from from the spies but there's
also 50,000 other lectures you could
hear about
it what about the four verses at the
end and that's the key so now we have to
ask oursel why did AEM out of all the I
mean there's 12 Parts in the
T Shabbat has mentioned many times but
there's 12 specific sections in the Tora
where it says the punishment for
Shabbat being cut off from the nation no
not being considered Jewish death
penalty and so on 12 Parts in the to 12
Parts in the mentions
it but each time it's positioned
strategically it's not just put
somewhere because Hashem doesn't have a
place for it he has to stick it over
here each time it's put specifically at
a place number one we just learned it's
right next to idol
worship right next to idol worship like
every other time every time mentions
idol worship mentions Shabbat violation
so already we know when is explaining us
that not only is he not considered
Jewish but he's considered an idol
worshipper what's the
source they didn't just make it up they
didn't say no no he such a sinner we
hate him no the saying consider idol
worship where did we
learn and every other time mentions
Shabbat that's the source because that's
whyem has idol worship next to it all
the time didn't just come up with their
own
opinion but then right here why didn't
you just put it in last week's parasha
we already had a bunch of Bagan in last
week's parasha put it over there next
week maybe why
here Shem is telling you this is the
reason why do people violate Shabbat in
the first
place that's the story of the M that's
the story of the
spies in essence the story of the spies
in
short is
that Hashem promised us a land with milk
and
honey full of extraordinary things the
land he's been promising to us for many
generations all the way back to abah
ainu we didn't take his word for it we
wanted to check it out for
oursel we go
there but we don't just send
anyone who do we send we send the
12 the
12 most important people in the entire
country excluding Moshe
andon each tribe there's millions of
people each tribe had a
leader that guy the best one who's
chosen to be the leader the most
righteous person not the one with the
most money like today you you want to be
a politician you have to have a lot of
money you want to be a top executive of
the company you have to have a lot of
connections not you have to be a nice
guy you have to be smart you have to be
skilled that doesn't matter today
anymore unless you start the company you
want to be go on top you have to know
somebody that's why they say in the
business world it's who you know not
what you know the guy that knows what's
going on yeah he makes the apps for us
he makes the apps for the company the GU
the righteous Czech was a d student in
college but his father's a
multi-billionaire so he got the job as
CEO that's the world that's the that's
the world of lies that we live in but
here it's different here we have 12
leaders of each one of the
tribes Joshua and Caleb are two of
them and then 10 other the 10 other
tribes the great the 12 greatest people
of the land to make sure that there's no
confusion they didn't know they weren't
smart enough no no no you have the best
people
going they go
there Joshua sees the good in the
land he sees that Hashem delivered he
sees the grape is so big that eight
people have to carry it back to Moshe
and eight people to carry just one grape
one person has to carry one pomegranate
it was that
big he sees the good in the landm saids
milk and honey it's even
more Caleb sees wow
Holiness is here he goes to the cave of
where is
buried where andov and their wives are
buried it's where our history is what
does he do there he prays sees the
Holiness of the land
what are the 10
other so-called
leaders the ones that call themselves
rabbis
maybe what do they see they see
Giants and they see giants that are
burying
people they're burying people these big
giants which they specifically say in
this the sons of the Giant The Offspring
of the Giant from where from the days of
the neim from the days of the generation
of no one of the Giants OG survived why
did hasem let OG
survive because he wanted to make sure
that the generation that's going to
start again is going to see how big
people used to be and OG was the
smallest
giant he was the smallest one so people
say he I
tell people I'm the smallest giant that
existed and hasem destroyed everyone so
if I'm the smallest imagine how big
people were and he destroyed all of them
maybe they'll have some maybe they have
some fear of
hem unfortunately no fear of sham
350 years approximately After the flood
they tried building the Tower of Babel
to go fight
God nothing changes now nothing new
Under the Sun just like says human
nature is always there what's that human
nature human nature is the yet that we
can't overcome why because when we don't
have Tora it's impossible to overcome
the
yet now he
continued and they uh his descendants so
on now you have new
Giants and these 10 Le ERS all they see
is Giants but they see the Giants are
burying
people now they're thinking what do they
translate that they translate it as
something bad saying that the yes it's
great that the grapes are big and the uh
pomegranates are big but apparently this
land is poisonous because it's killing
even the
Giants if this if these Giants are
there's a bunch of funerals
here so it must be that the land is
killing them because who else would kill
these
Giants that's looking at things the
wrong way what's the right way the right
way kazal says that little do they know
that Hashem was killing these Giants why
so they don't look and
see small
little walking around their town and try
to beat them up try to killed
them so he's making sure these Giants
are busy with funerals every city they
go to they see there's a
funeral is making sure they're busy with
the funeral so they don't see that
Joshua Caleb and the other leaders are
walking around their uh their
land but when you have
NOA when you already started with the
left
foot we already
lost and this is why when they report
back
to
mosu they don't just report to them they
report to them and to all of am is
together to make sure they make they
want a show you know you ever meet these
people that want a show they want they
want they think that they're on a uh on
television all times you know you go on
a bus the guy picks up the phone hello
and he's screaming and everyone knows
his conversation yeah yeah yeah I want
to buy 10,000 shares buddy you're on a
bus you just paid $150 like the rest of
us you don't have a money for 10,000
shares just sit down be quiet and who
cares yeah really what it is it's like I
said it yesterday really what it is he's
not buying 10,000 shares of anything
what is he doing it's AT&T on the other
side saying you didn't pay your bills
sir or the phone's going to be
disconnected but what is he he wants a
show was attention he wants attention he
wants to make a show he thinks there may
be some celebrity Scout you say oh wow
you got talent we're going to put you on
TV or something people want a show
that's what happened over here they
wanted a show they wanted attention they
wanted to publicize to all
of we got ourselves a
problem Hashem wasn't exactly ecstatic
about
this and this is what he says
this is in Chapter
verse 11 and
12 Hashem said to Moshe how long will
these people provoke me and how long
will they not have faith in me the
despite all the signs that I've
performed in their midst all the
Miracles I made for them still they're
still going against me they're talking
about these Giants being stronger than
me they're talking about this land is
not what I
promised let's Smite them with the
plague and annihilate them and I shall
make you a greater n a greater and more
powerful Nation than they hasem has had
it with them says
a aen is
plural aen let Smite them even the
English translation says I'll Smite them
it's not I'll Smite them aen means let's
Smite them meaning it's plural so he
saying Moshe come on they're going
against you they're going against me
they're saying let's go find another
leader let's go back to
Egypt let's just destroy them and start
a better Nation from you
now you ask yourself if you
m how could you say you know what it's
not a bad
idea all they're doing they're insulting
Moshe they're calling him all types of
names they're telling him he's wicked
they're telling him that he's killing
them they're telling him all these
things the opposite of what he he's been
doing for them he sacrificed his life
for them
and all they're doing is not only
complaining against them but they want
to put his enemies the as the leaders to
replace him and on top of that they're
going against the God he he's so dear
to hasem says let's just kill
them how Moshe didn't say you know what
maybe it's not a bad idea is what makes
Moshe Moshe and me me cuz I would have
said
I think you're right hashm I would have
failed this test
miserably but that was the test that was
that is what makes mosenu
mosu and that's the difference between
mosenu and everyone else because no one
else would have been able to withstand
this test
what is Hashem really doing here is
Hashem really looking for M's
opinion no he's testing him he's testing
him why is he testing
him he wants to see if his surroundings
is influenced
him the r
says doesn't change meaning Al is what
we got from
Mount there's minim which different
cultures have different minim different
cultures
but this Al is something we got has to
come from Mount sa doesn't
change the r says
in chapter 6
first the nature of man is to be
influenced by his friends and his
acquaintances
meaning the nature of man the the
essence of
man is to be influenced by his
surroundings meaning that it's
impossible for you not to be influenced
by who you're next
to the old saying goes you are who your
friends are comes from the T also comes
from the
rambam ramam says you can't say listen
I'm going to be surrounded by a bunch of
wicked
people and I'm going to make them all do
chuva not possible
you can go visit
them influence them for a few hours
leave visit leave visit leave yes that
you can do that's how you do kiru that's
how you do you know you don't I don't go
to all places righteous like you people
I go to places where sometimes you know
some places in
Israel 60 people I had a I had a one of
the lectures in Israel maybe like 60 70
people the rabbi of the Kil tells me you
know after the Le you didn't tell me
before the lecture it's pretty smart he
goes you know probably 75 to 80% of the
of the people that were in your lecture
today didn't want to leave they wanted
to stay learn T cuz I just wanted to let
you know I never I never saw them sit
down like this for two hours and they
didn't want to leave like yeah what
what's what's why because they're all
gangsters some of them was just starting
to do chuva and stop a lot of these guys
murderers this the worst people on earth
because they learned the Tora they want
to do CH
now you can
visit you can't stay there you can't say
listen I want to go to a reformed Sho
but I'm going to be
Orthodox all my friends are going to be
Christians but I'm going to be the one
Jew
okay ra says an he doesn't say in his in
hisim in commentary says is you going to
be changed by your surroundings and then
he
continues he says if you cannot
find proper surrounding you can't find a
good neighborhood move to the
desert move to the desert you have to
move to the desert why there's no one
there except scorpions and snakes go
there I heard a really crazy
story this week it's in a uh
it's a p on this on
Hisar in
uh
tractate page
17b in the days of the wicked
Romans there decree on am
is decree against am
Isel so the sages think to themselves
they're like you know what let's send
rimai
he's all over
the greatest sages that ever lived let's
send him to the Romans he's used to
Miracles he's used to Miracle he gets
miracles from hasem all the time let's
send
him bimon goes and he starts praying to
hm he's
like let's get an angel to help us I
need some angels to come with
me no angel show up who shows up a demon
demon comes toed comes to
him says I'm here to help you CU you're
going to help me goes yeah yeah he goes
how you going to help me I'll get into
the King's Daughter like a debuk a debuk
is when there's two souls in in one body
make her go crazy and you're going to
come to the king and say listen I can
take this demon out if you change this
decree against my
nation okay
that's that that's what I could do for
you what does Rish Shimon do which ended
up happening by the way he went inside
the uh the woman this actually the AR
says that uh crazy people like people
that you know have lost their mind it's
usually because there's a demon inside
them that took
control most most people that have like
major mental issues is and they tell you
they hear things it's because they do
they do hear things and they do see
things
they do see things not they're not
imagining it it's M for them it's 100%
real they do hear voices they do see
things says the most of them have a
demon inside them SK poor
people but obviously everything
everything that happens into this world
it's em signs off on it nothing happens
in this world for no reason whether it's
someone uh losing their mind someone
dying the concentration camps in you
know in Nazi Germany which we talked
about in last last night sh I won't ruin
it for you there's some K I learned this
week M for me was a complete chock cuz I
learned about Zionism in college but the
history of is and so on what I learned
in the past week
about imim Hitler what he wrote in his
book I could never
imagine in so many words he tells he
says in his book in his own book he
writes
that he hates not he doesn't care for
the
uh religious Jews doesn't care for them
but the ones that we he says we have to
annihilate we have to kill is the
non-religious
ones why because they're Communists and
what are communists Communists are
people that are going against
God it's my job to kill
them he writes it in his book
most people that especially Jews never
read it number one it was in German and
number two who's going to read this
crazy guy book other than people that
are anti-semite already so for them it's
like a nice uh support to what they
already
believe this Rabbi poat in
Israel this year about it uh publicized
it about a week or two ago it's
unbelievable there's more to it but
anyway I published a the video on my uh
page and also the Facebook uh groups
that we have and it has a
um uh translation has a um subtitles in
English
also so
anyway back
toim you just got yourself a demon
the end of the story goes where the
demon actually went into the daughter
she was going crazy Rish Shimon came he
says I can take out this demon if you
remove the decree against my nation they
agree and he tells the demon to leave
and the demon leaves and everything
decrees off but the gar doesn't say that
here the gar says that as soon as the
demon says I'm here to help you I could
do this this and this
starts
crying and he says when he cries the
slave of ABR ainu
hag Saw Three Angels the slave of abrah
ainu Saw Three Angels when she started
crying Hashem sent her three
angels and we can't even get
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one this is a shim it's not me it's not
anyone here in our generation
shim he says Three Angels she got ha the
slave of we can't even get
one
so the story I heard this week was
razi he was the rabbi of
the a lot of the secrets to most of the
secret parts of the uh mystical parts of
the Torah we learned from him
thei was his
Rabbi you just understand how big he
was and he wrote in his
book why was R Shimon so upset you got a
demon that's it what's the problem demon
Angel you got your help what are you so
upset
about says actually he has a reason to
be
upset because we find a here
he says
that at that time at that time the time
of shim just forget about our time at
the time of
Rim there was so many
Sinners that the Angels were scared to
come
down why because if they come down they
get infected by the
sin which means that when they try to go
upazi says when the angels have to go
back
up they're dirty so they have to go
through G first to burn the sins off of
them so this so the angel is saying
listen I'm sorry I I can't come down for
this I can't come down for this I'm not
going to gain home for
you this isn't a generation of the sages
that wrote the
the us where we are
today imagine
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that wrote in his
book first
chapter why did theem command of
ainuu ainu knew that everywhere he went
he converted
people why did ainu
command why didm
command leave your town leave your
father leave the town go to a place he
didn't even tell him where
why writes a he
says that hasem was scared that
eventually AB Ain will be influenced AB
ainu will be influenced by the public
by the surrounding area next to him all
these Idol worshippers all these Kim all
these
homosexuals all these people that give
Bar Mitzvah to dogs all those people he
goes you have to leave you can't be next
to these people go to the
desert like the rambam says if you can't
find a good surrounding go to the desert
be by yourself you have to even abah
ainu had to abah ainu this is this is
the for father of
Judaism so if the forefather of Judaism
was forced to leave a bad
environment who has an excuse to live
next to one of these nightclubs who has
an excuse to live next you know in in
these neighborhoods like the village and
the city and Manhattan surrounded by
homosexuals and other types of Heretics
who has the nerve to say that they're
being a kosher Jew or kosher even
non-jew living in Las Vegas living in
San Francisco where it's some somebody
told me this that they actually checked
this
statistically the most amount of animal
homosexuality in the world animal
homosexuality in the world is in San
Francisco
yeah just like the
generation of Noah where the sins of the
people led to the sins of the animals
and therefore hasm destroyed all of
them it's happening now
also and anyone that wants to say no we
should be nice to them you know they
it's it's a it's a uh they're born this
way I'm not saying kill
them let's not misunderstand but you can
never ever say that Hashem agrees with
them you can never ever say that it's
not disgusting to Hashem you can never
ever say it's a 100% sin that in the
Torah just like Shabbat is connected Ed
to idol worship violation of Shabbat is
connected to idol worship violation of a
sex crime like homosexuality is always
connected to beastiality it's always
connected to having sex with an
animal always every time every time
we've gone I think in a couple of sh
over here we said it also every time
hasem mentions homosexuality in the
Torah he say the same
thing to beity which bity you ask people
even today despite the generation being
so low they say ah it's disgusting okay
to hasem homosexuality is the same thing
lesbian is the same thing there no such
thing as a uh gray area it's black or
white it's never acceptable now somebody
says yes but what if somebody's born
with that
desire well the Z says everyone is born
with a
desire everyone has a certain desire
that they're born with some people have
born with a desire to see
blood see blood they have a desire for
blood Hashem made them that
way now they can use that desire for a
few different things the obvious choice
they can become a
murderer serial killer apparently today
it's become a uh Trend to kill people
especially in in America these days so
they can join these crazy group of
people not a good choice but they have a
desire for blood or they can become a
butcher or they can become a surgeon and
save
lives same
desire different
choices and that's the thing that people
need to understand yes Hashem gave you
that
desire but you can use it for good or
for bad every desire and
also just because you have a desire
doesn't mean you have to act on
it that is what separates us from
animals that is why hasem calls
homosexuality the same thing as
bestiality as an animal why because the
animal can't control itself it's
Instinct 100%
Instinct mankind it's not supposed to be
Instinct supposed to be you make choice
just because you have a desire does not
mean you have to do it okay you have a
desire for a same-sex uh uh relationship
great you're born that way I'm sorry for
you doesn't mean you have to do it does
not mean you have to do it that is what
separates you from being an animal you
have a desire to drive on Shabbat
because you want to go car racing okay
find another day to do it you have a
desire to
steal find a different thing so what so
people
are getting to a point where they're not
only saying it's okay in our generation
but they're celebrating them they're
celebrating homosexuality saying no come
on God God is uh understanding God
accepts them God created them that way
how come they don't say that about
kleptomaniacs or pyromaniacs somebody
that has a desire he can't control his
desire to steal why don't you invite him
to your
house no rob my house okay but it's his
desire let him go why why who are you to
tell him not to do
it why it's his desire let him steal in
your house what's the big deal
you're helping him what do you mean
helping him he's destroying my house but
it's his desire he's born that way M
poor guy what poor guy's stealing all my
stuff what about Pyromania guy likes to
burn things invite him to your Shabbat
dinner what do you mean invite him he's
going to burn my house but it's his
desire
mein hasem created him that way you
should help him out what do you mean
help him out he's going to burn my house
yeah but he hasem created that way why
don't they say that why because they
know it's wrong and just like they know
it's wrong for pyromaniac and every
other crazy desire they also know that
homosexuality is wrong there is no there
is no gray area it's black or white you
have a choice you either be righteous or
Wicked you either
have or you
don't simple as
against that's why the rambam is telling
us
here if you have you even want to have a
chance a chance of being
righteous you have to make sure your
surroundings are
okay because if your surroundings are
not okay you have no
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chance now people think that the sages
the power the the Miracles and stuff
like that it's all gone it doesn't
happen there's a made
sadik a miracle worker also by name of
Baba Sali
just generation
ago he was still alive when I was a kid
I think yeah a lot of Safar houses have
his picture
on of course Moroccans have
it major Maj sadik was more
modest than the biggest raban in the
world not talking about men I'm talking
about women he's more modest than any
woman in the world that's how modest he
was cover his hair cover his body
everything all the time that's how
modesty was made a lot of
Miracles and he was very very adamant
about not being allowed to wear a
wig not allowed to wear a wig in Judaism
even though there's some rabbis that say
you are even the ones that say you
are most people misunderstood them
they're not saying that it's better than
a k with a scar for what a hat they're
saying if that's the only choice we have
it's better to have a wig than nothing
at all
but nonetheless it's only only a couple
of rabbis that said it it's not like a
whole generation of people said it not a
whole generation of
s but
nonetheless this is only a problem in
the last couple of generations this
wasn't a problem you know 400 500 years
ago but the babaali says listen we are
going according
to no wigs never allowed doesn't matter
short wig long wig one of his family
members like I think a uh a
granddaughter or something like that
made fun of it said
n oh no he said that a woman that wears
a
wig a woman that wears a wig is
preparing for herself the chemical she's
going to be burned with and
G this is what the babaali
said so one of his family
members granddaughter or something like
that made fun of it ah well you know
what at least there's not much uh to
burn me with cuz my wig is
short and as she tells the story the
minute she finished that sentence she
got a
headache okay everybody gets headaches
you didn't think much of it but the head
it got stronger and stronger and
stronger and it didn't go
away a day day a week a
month two
months Doctors
Hospitals scans no one knows what's
wrong she's going crazy she has no idea
what to do few months like this headache
24 hours a
day she eventually gets to a census
apparently and she calls the babaali and
she
apologizes he says please please make
this stop
he goes only you can make it
stop take off the
wig he took off the wig it
stopped she covered her hair with a
scarf stopped
instantly power
ofik is not something to uh to joke
around with it's m it's someone that's
completely connected to Tora to that
extent you have to not only listen to
them but uh you have to make sure that
uh you give them the honor that they
deserve
second so
now we know the significance of
Shabbat we know the significance
of not following
sikim we know that hasem has had it with
already in this par
but in reality he's just testing
Moshe and Moshe
responds no hasem if you kill them then
what are the Nations going to say that
you are going to bring them to the
land
and since there were giants in the
land you really couldn't give it to them
so you decid to just annihilate them so
then the whole purpose of this world is
to sanctify your name is to do K the
only reason we're all
alive the only reason this world exists
is to sanctify the name of
hem someone asked me recently what's the
purpose of
life it's a very common question
everyone should ask themselves this
question at some point in their life
because if you think about what kazal
said there was an argument between
and about whether it was worth it for
man to come to this world or
not 2 and 1/2 year
argument conclusion of the
argument anyone want to
guess it wasn't worth the for man to
come come to this world it's better off
not
coming why because there's more ways for
us to
sin then for us to make
MIT but if man then the next part of the
argument is but if man is already here
which obviously is beyond his choice or
her choice if man is already
here and he does MIT then it was worth
it for him to come to this world because
then he gets Eternal reward but if he
comes to this world and waste time
spending all of his time chasing money
chasing women chasing men chasing
publicity chasing cavod chasing all
types of nonsense of this
world then definitely worth wasn't worth
it for him to come to this world cuz
then he's just going to have eternal
punishment but if he's going to come to
this world already then it was worth it
for him if he makes me but that's our
end but the real question is why did
hasem create us
he's
perfect he's perfect he doesn't need us
you don't actually change
anything in his stature by making a
Mitzvah he was perfect before us he'll
be perfect after us during us what's the
point so kazal tells us that Hashem is
all good and when you're
good you have a desire to create good
this is the reason why for example if
someone wants to have a a fun they want
to have a party they don't just have a
party in their head unless they're crazy
what do they do they invite guests why
because it's more fun when there's more
people why just clapping by yourself you
can listen to their music okay maybe 15
minutes and that's
it but if you have everybody coming and
celebrating then it's more fun why cuz
you want to share it you you have good
you want to share good it's a natural
it's a natural connection between good
is is to create good same thing with for
example Sports Arenas or any major
events they make with big stadiums why
big stadiums why is it not a private
show why do people not just watch it on
television they'll spend thousands and
thousands of dollars on front row
tickets why because you're part of an
environment you're part you're sharing
the
experience and when you share something
it feels good there's also Al the reason
why a lot of very very rich people
towards the end of their life mostly but
even during some sometimes during their
life they make major donations some of
them do it purely for tax purposes some
of them do it purely for publicity
they'll donate I don't know they have a
hundred billion dollar and they'll
donate $100 million which is like $5 to
us just to uh you know to get some
publicity because they want more cavod
they want more people to respect them
but some actually do because they want
to create
good why because in at the end it
doesn't matter how much money you have
it's still money it's still material
it's still
worthless it still doesn't change your
heart so you want to create something
that will change your heart and by
creating
good you have an
impact so now hasem is good and wanted
to create
good but what's this good what's the
purpose of this good that he's creating
what benefit does he have out of this
creation for them to sanctify his
name why because if he created a bunch
of creatures that are just going against
them everyone's just going against them
it already happened when flood Noah's
Noah's the flood of during the
generation of Noah
they went against AEM he doesn't need
them I created you you're supposed to do
good supposed to sanctify my name you're
doing the opposite I don't need you
destroyed him it doesn't change his
status which means that the ultimate
purpose of your reason for
existence is to sanctify aem's name
which means that if you're not spending
some time every day sanctifying hashem's
name you're not fulfilling your purpose
purpose you have no
purpose and a lot of people spend their
entire life completely being
purposeless but Hashem gives them time
because they have potential maybe one
day they'll do it but that's the that's
the real reason for existence that's the
only reason why Hashem would allow us to
even create be created because good
wants to create good and that good that
he created will also create good by
sanctifying hashem's name
so it's a continuous cycle of good but
if the creation is not fulfilling the
will of the Creator it has no purpose
you have to replace it with something
else you have to replace it with
something good then because if it's not
good it's
bad and you can't have bad you can't
have the One Drop of
Poison in the
bottle you have to pour out the bottle
or just get a new bottle with pure
water and that's one of the most
important things the person needs to
understand when it comes to the will of
hasem we have an opportunity to benefit
he's already
okay he'll be okay with us without us
before us after us during us he's okay
only one that can win or lose is
us what's the key to all of
it if we
notice here Hashem says
that Amel tested him 10
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times in chapter
14 starts with verse
20 it says and Hashem said
after he decided that uh
he's not going to destroy all of
them M pleaded their
case okay we'll just make sure they all
know that all of them are going to die
anyone that's over the age of
20 is going to die in a desert they're
never going to see
is so kazal says here that no one lived
past the age
60 so but it had to be 40 years meaning
that if someone was 20 then hasm would
let him live 40 years until the age
60 but all of these people didn't have
faith in
me they're going to die in a
desert but their children are going to
see the land the children If the child
was 5 years old 6 years old he's going
to see the
land so they're going to be in a desert
for 40 years and they're never going to
enter it so much so that this was a
suffering every year that every year
everyone had a common Birthday everyone
would celebrate
r as their
birthday and every year sh they would
all dig Graves and they would sleep in
the
grave why because no one knew if they're
going to survive after sh or not and
it's not fair to leave 50 60,000 bodies
for people to bury so the whole nation
would sleep in Graves except the women
and children
so they suffered for this for a long
time but
why and Hashem said I'm forgiving
because of your word I forgave them okay
I'll let it go I'm not going to kill
them right
now because of you Moshe your prayer is
special but as I live which means that
hasem is swearing on his own name just
like I exist I'm
Eternal my word is eternal
and the glory of hem shall fill the
entire
world which kazal says this means that
by the time this punishment is over
their children are going to know who
Hashem is meaning that they're going to
develop because they're going to see
their parents grow up but they're not
allowed in even though you're five
minutes away from it right now you're
not allowed to go
in that all the men who have seen my
glory and my signs that I performed in
Egypt and in the wilderness and have
tested me these 10 times and have not
heeded my
voice if they will see the land that I
have sworn to give their forefathers and
all who anger me shall not see
it all of these people that didn't have
amuna in me they're not going to see the
land but here the key part I want to
focus on is that Hashem is specifically
mentioning 10 test
and this is in essence will put all of
the things we learned into perspective
of what's the
point these 10 times the sages take
this this is also in chapter
5 Mish 4 says what are these 10
tests first test when Egyptians chased
them to the Sea of reeds we're in front
of the Sea of reeds we just left hasm
destroyed the Egyptians everything went
fine we got to the ocean we have an
ocean where would he go Hashem no
response we look back we see the
Egyptians what happens you saw these
Miracles why you what are you worried
about you have a pillar of fire you have
a pillar of cloud you have money you
have this you have that hasm did
everything for you what happens has NOA
they get worried let's start complaining
to Hashem complaining to Moshe
complaining about
Hashem next test when they had nothing
to drink in the bit but the bitter
Waters of
mar we went to a lake we wanted to get
some water but all the water was bitter
started complaining to Moshe about
Hashem third test when they ran out of
food so when as a food what would you
bring us to the desert to starve and
kill us you didn't just you were better
off uh just living in Egypt as
slaves fourth test when they left the
Mana over even though they've been told
not to hasem told them listen
specifically everything that I give you
Mana eat it all I'll give you something
new
tomorrow they still left some over for
the next day which turned into worms and
maggots because they weren't sure is
going to actually give it to them the
next
day fifth is when they left the camp to
gather mana on Shabbat even though
they've been told not to he said no
listen mana the one on Friday he going
to be enough for you for Friday and
Saturday what happened people didn't
trust it they still went on Shabbat
tried look for looking for
Mana seven test is when their water ran
out
at they didn't have any water they
thought that they're gonna die from
thirst
next test is when they worship the
golden calf
mosenu is up at the mountain he's
getting the Torah the only reason this
world
exists the purpose of creation is to get
this Torah and fulfill
item created the Torah 974 Generations
before he created the world which means
that it was more important than mankind
if the Torah was not around there would
be no no mankind there's no point for
mankind and instead of being excited for
this
Torah they make a mistake and go worship
an idol the worship an idol the rest of
don't say
anything Hashem wants to destroy all of
them the ones that worship an idol and
the ones that didn't say
anything next test after the golden calf
is when they rebelled against aem's
MIT this is an interesting one we
actually learned it
recently just in last week's
Paras in um chapter 11 verse
1 last week's par
the people took to seeking complaints it
was evil in the ears of Hashem and
Hashem heard and his wrath flared and
the fire of hem burned against them and
it consumed them at the edge of the
camp tells us that over here the
complainers the again fired again
and started creating nonsense to
complain about wasn't any real reason to
complain said no we don't have meat what
do you mean you have millions and
millions of cows go Slaughter one eat
meat T you know
enjoy you want chicken you have a bunch
of chickens you want whatever you need
eat but no they're creating
complaints and they're leading
ERS don't say anything again just like
the time of the uh golden calf so what
does hasm doing last week's Paras he
burns all the
leaders not all the people all the
leaders why because if the leaders are
not going to rebuke the nation they're
worthless if a rabbi is not going to
tell people the truth he's
worthless what's the point of learning T
if you're not going to share it
says someone
that learns Tor without an intention to
teach it but it doesn't mean teach it
just say stories teach what he learned
teach what hasm said about Shabbat teach
what it says about n teach what you said
about kosher the real laws not half the
toah the whole
thing is like someone who doesn't have a
God if you're learning to without a
without a a intention to teach it you
the same thing as someone doesn't have a
God why because as we said
good has a need to create good so if
you're learning my T and you're not
getting good out of it then you're not
learning my T it's something else it's
not my T it's a for you it's a history
book and the Z says someone that thinks
that the Tor or even says that the Tor
intentionally says it tor is a history
book loses his right to live he has no
point of actually living he has no right
to live
every second person in today's
generation says it's a history
book so here's the test where we wanted
to just complain to
Hashem and then the last
test when they complain it the Mana was
not good the're tide of it Mana couldn't
be not
good it's any taste you want if you
desire a steak it's a taste of a steak
if you desire chicken it's Taste of
chicken you desire ice cream is you know
it's the uh Taste of a chicken of a of a
ice cream whatever you want how could it
not be good meaning that they just
wanted to create complaints and then
obviously this test of this week's par
of the uh saying bad uh words about the
land of Israel which in essence is
calling hasem a liar they even said he
changed the color too right
yes so these are the 10 tests these are
the tail 10 failures of
am but
why are we focusing focusing on this and
why does this connect everything because
in essence if you look at each one of
these
tests it gives
us the real desire of Hashem from us to
such an extent that it might as well
being implanted in our
head this is a commandment
meaning when
says I am your God that took you out of
Egypt first
commandment obviously we
know we were
there we know you took us
out he's saying
here it's not about I am God I know you
know I'm God you hear my voice you just
died I woke you up I of course you
know but I need you to believe in it
meaning I need you to
have
withouta we cannot have a
relationship without having amuna there
is no
relationship not having a is sin it's
100% sin how do we
know 10 tests every one of the
tests what was the failure failure of
amuna we didn't actually make sins by
complaining it's not an actual
sin by not liking a certain food it's
not actually a
sin by saying listen it's there's a
bunch of giants in this land it's not an
actual
sin by being scared at yam it's not an
actual
sin you're scared
by being concerned that your kids don't
have food it's not an actual sin it's
not one of the 613
Commandments what's the real Sin of all
of these all 10
tests
no the only
reason you were scared at yam
is cuz you had NOA that I could do
something you had NOA
that I'm bigger than the sea I'm bigger
than the Egyptians even after
all of the people of of of saw the
Miracles in
Egypt you still had
NOA who
hadaad from the tribe of the son of Amad
the tribe of Judah he had am he went
into the water until the water passed
his nose and that's when Hashem split
the ocean why he showed us amuna having
amuna is not I believe I believe I
believe like a lot of non-religious
people say no no I believe in my heart I
believe in my heart me and hashm are
okay no no believing is
meaningless believing means that you
have to take
action saying in your heart throw it in
the garbage send it a postcard it's
worth probably more than you believing
in your
heart you have to take
action showed his faith said am didn't
that was the first test that was the
first sin that was the first provoke uh
provoking that they did against me took
it defensively second
one they concern about the
water the water being bitter didn't he
just show you a bunch of miracles in
Egypt didn't he just split the ocean for
you why he can't he doesn't have control
over this uh little bit of water to turn
it into something
sweet what is that no again what Happ
how does this affect us today thinking
to ourselves that Hashem is
limited when people are sick they pray
to hem everybody's a sadik you go to
hospice centers you go to Canon centers
everyone's really I the same guy that
was an atheist last week he becomes
religious all of a sudden he prays to H
doesn't the same way that supposed to
but all of a sudden he's praying to hm
because he has no
choice but the same guy in his business
oh
hem put me in this world to work seven
days a week no he didn't put you in work
to work seven days a week he put you in
this world to keep
Shabbat he put you in the to fulfill the
Torah he put you in this world to do K
sanctify his name not to work seven days
a week
that's
that's that's heresy against
hem that's a person that thinks Hashem
is limited hem is limited yeah he
created the world they say he created
heaven he spoke to abah he spoke to
Moses yeah all those wonderful
stories but he could do all of those
things except Mya Mya have to work for
it my I have to work for like this one
woman calls
me she says listen I uh can't find a z
can't find somebody to be with and I
want to be with somebody I want to get
married okay what meets what you
keeping virtually
nothing virtually nothing like half of
Shabbat sometimes yes sometimes no
Kosher but only in the house when we go
out we eat
whatever so pretty much
nothing then I ask okay why would hasem
do anything for you you should be
grateful you're still
alive grateful you're alive they didn't
kill you already violating all these
sins okay okay so I keep I'll keep I'll
keep okay so you start
keeping but what happens listen I found
somebody oh great Miracle yeah but
there's only one problem what's the
problem oh he's not
Jewish why you you playing with an
atomic bomb is there something wrong
with you didn't didn't I just tell you
that you have to keep do so things get
better what are you doing
you even the go know were not allowed to
marry
them don't people what happens she
thought God is limited no no he send him
to me he send me this guy maybe I I'm
supposed to convert him you're not even
keeping me yet you want to convert
somebody you have to learn enough for
you you want to learn just to be basic
to keep the basic get used to the basics
if he wants to convert on his own let
him convert and if Hashem wills it
you'll be together but if you're not
together
already it's a different story if you're
already married for 15 years and you
just figured out hey by the way we have
to do ch which is like my story it's a
different story but if you haven't
started
yet and you already have an intention to
convert the guy or convert the girl then
it's where you going with this this is
not the will of
hem this not what Hashem sent you to the
world to do you're not ainu he sent you
to make a choice he gave you a test okay
started keeping Shabbat good for you you
officially became a Jew oh you're eating
kosher all the time good for you now you
can start learning some to and
understand it because your soul is not
impure oh you're starting to be modest
great now you're not making the public
sin every 3 seconds when they look at
you cuz every sin we make according to
the creates a demon a woman that's not
modest is creating demons not stopped
they all walk after
her people don't know this we said we
want over this in the wasting seed uh
lecture in New
York okay so youus now great
but then she says no no but
Hashem it's great he did all these
things but appar he hasn't sent me my Z
yet so I guess I have to go find him so
she goes finds a non-jew or he goes
finds a nonu thinking no no Hashem sent
them to me no Hashem did not send it to
you he did not send them to you if
you're already in a situation before you
at Cha maybe yes maybe no we don't know
but the point is just saying that any
random things you're creating that
that's the will of hem it's not it makes
99.9% of the time it's a
test what happens no just like we didn't
believe that hem was able to handle
nature he was able to handle the water
little bit of water he couldn't handle
he was able to make ice and lava in the
same ball fall only on the heads of the
Egyptians but he can't take it out of
water what is that lack of
next test is we ran out of food again
hasem fed you every single day you have
cattle you have everything you possibly
need food's going to come to you from
sham what are you complaining about stop
complaining for no
reason think about it this way if you
had a meeting with LA you know made a
huge difference yeah a king in the real
world in this world that the the fake
World actually that we live in right now
King
billionaire control and so
on imagine somebody's meeting this King
you have to wait two years to to finally
have a meeting with this king and the
guy says you know what yeah King thank
you for meeting me oh okay so how can I
help you the guy says oh you know what I
just need one thing oh sure sure that's
the point you waited two years for the
meeting what do you need my son what do
you need I just need you to tell the gab
at the it to put the nail back in the
wall next to my
seat King looks at him he says
what what what do you want to this nail
no no that's all I want King I I just
want you to put the nail back in the
wall next to my
seat why what do you care about this
snail go no there used to be a nail in
the wall and you know I could scratch my
back could scratch my shoulders I
scratch my lower back but there's a spot
at my back that I can't reach and there
used to be a nail on the wall and I
would scratch my back but then the nail
fell off and I wanted to put a new one
but the gab won't let me but if you tell
him King you tell him your highness
he'll put it
back the king says that's all that's all
you want in the world because yeah yeah
that's all I want that's us that's us
every day what do we do we have an
opportunity to meet hem every day you
pray you have an opportunity to talk to
hm every day you learn to you have
opportunity to meet hasem every day you
have an opportunity to talk to hem the
king of all Kings the creator of all
creations what do we ask for oh hasem
listen I hope I get to work on
time all right fine it's it's good to
ask forem for every little thing but
what about listen Hashem make me
connected to you make me understand the
purpose of life if you're already going
to talk to hem ask for something big
something meaningful
let me understand why I'm even in this
world let me fulfill my
mission let me be the one that actually
sanctifies your name in a world full of
garbage let me do something let me be a
little mini mosenu or something let me
do something let me be the one that
actually is a leader give me the
strength to say the truth when no one
wants to say the truth and I'm
surrounded by
Liars give me the strength hasem okay
don't ask him for a name okay you want
to ask for the nail ask for the nail if
you're crazy you want the nail take the
nail but at the same you have a meeting
with hem ask for something big already
do something significant in the world
and that's the problem what are We
complain complaining about food
complaining about food hem is giving you
destroy the biggest civilization in the
world you're worried about a little bit
of food he's going to kill you he
brought you all the way here just so you
could starve
you pointless complaints We complain to
about nonsense all the time we never ask
ourselves what's the good and what's
happening to me right now um about those
people that they were really religious
those people that were complaining were
they religious were they keeping them
his thoughts at that point uh this is
actually before we got the Torah but in
essence they uh were going up the
spiritual ladder from being in a 49th
level of Tuma 49th level of impurity in
Egypt that by the time they got to mount
sa which is 50 days later they were the
49th level of Kusa they were the holiest
people that ever lived so they were
already they were going in the right
direction whether they got there at this
point or not they were still okay but
still Anda is something if you don't
work on it it'll never develop auna is a
muscle it's a spiritual muscle someone
wants to build muscles they go to the
gym they lift
weights they go home
they look at themselves in the mirror I
remember that's what I used to do as a
kid cuz I used to lift weights you look
at yourself in the mirror and you oh wow
muscles are so big cuz you think that's
the most important thing in life you
have no clue what's going on in actual
reality and you see that your body is
Puffy now if you actually took a skin of
your body it'd be very scary why because
under the reason why it's puffy is
because Under the Skin the entire muscle
is
ripped that's why it's puffy
that's why for example if someone gets
you know punched or gets hit somewhere
becomes swollen why because everything
under it broke it ripped what do you do
when you work out you rip your muscles
ripped your muscles you ripped that's
why they call somebody that's you know
very physically fit ripped your muscles
are always
ripped but in essence and everyone with
that wants to succeed knows that in
working out they know that they have to
rip their muscles which NE is
painful but in order for them to grow
you have to rip them in order for your
to grow Hashem has to rip you he has to
get you to go through
hardship your
experience is either going to build your
amuna or destroy it it's up to you to
decide what it does for you hasem is
going to give it to you one way or
another you could either use your
experience as pure suff
uffing where there's some people that if
they have no everything to them is
suffering the kids crying they're
suffering from that they're late to work
they're suffering from that they arrive
to work they're suffering from that
somebody talks to them a certain way and
they don't like it they're suffering
from that everything they're suffering
from whether it's good bad or
indifferent everything is a form of
suffering for them they're always
miserable why because they don't believe
there's an actual purpose for anything
cuz they have
no when when you have no you have no
connection to hem everything is a form
of
suffering but when you start realizing
that everything you do has a purpose
everything that Hashem puts in your path
has a purpose there's no more suffering
oh I guess Hashem you start thinking of
ideas why is hm doing this I guess maybe
I got a flat tire because hem is
actually saving my life here because if
I went to regular speed again into an
accident that's probably ahead of me oh
I didn't get this job
because Hashem knows the people that run
this company are crooked they're
criminals and if I come here they're
going to influence
me just like the ramb says from next to
them they're going to influence me and
I'm going to become a r myself so I
didn't get this job oh this potential Z
this potential person I wanted to meet
she didn't call me back oh maybe she was
the wrong person for
me you start thinking about instead of
looking at them as bad you start
thinking about how is Hashem helping me
with
this what wonderful thing is Hashem
doing for me and then you could start
living because without it you're dying a
little bit every day a piece of you dies
with every failure got a flat I can't
believe it what bad luck I have the girl
didn't call you back a see I'm never
going to find a wife the job you didn't
get it see I'm going to die from
Hunger everything is bad oh the customer
didn't want to buy see I'm going to go
homeless my my kids are going to be
starving this month everything is bad
all of us it's a same thing same thing
happened to both people but withouta
you're dying that's why the word emit
emit is the signature of hem the
signature of hem so in order to be
connected to Hemm is telling you you
have to know that's my signature and has
three
parts which is the
AL which is to do things in order to
actually show we have this and T which
is to know what to do so that's the
three letters but if you take out the
AL you take out the you only have me
which spell the word met what does met
mean
dead without amuna you're dead and
that's the thing so withouta everything
for us is suffering if you're suffering
already you already feel like you're
dying this is what happens when we limit
AEM when we say he can't change the
water to Sweet we're limiting hasem when
we say that we're not going to have he's
not going to send us
food we're limiting Hashem he's not
going to send us we're limiting hem
we're constantly limiting
Hashem next thing we said that you know
he told us to keep the
Shabbat what happen said no but if we
keep
Shabbat we're not going to have money
for Sunday cuz no no no I gave you
enough money on Friday for both for
everything just like the seven year he
told the Jews stop working on the on the
sixth year and you'll have enough to
survive the sixth year the seventh year
and the eighth year all the way to the
ninth year you're going to get
triple if you're planning on doing it
from the beginning that's what you got
on the sixth year you got enough for
three years because you got for the
sixth year the seventh year you can't
Harvest and the eighth year until
everything starts growing it's already
the ninth year so you need enough money
for enough Surplus on the sixth year for
the eighth year
also you have to have in order to
fulfill this mitvah no you're thinking
that hasem is limited you're not going
to get it and that's what happened with
over here where they said no give it to
us on Friday but maybe it's not going to
be
enough maybe it's but he said it's going
to be enough but maybe it's not but but
Hashem said not I said Hashem said it's
going to be
enough but maybe not so it sounds it
sounds like it's crazy but that's
actually us every
day maybe I need to get a second job no
you don't you don't need to get a second
job maybe I should you know dress a
little bit less modest so I could find a
uh spouse easier no you don't need to do
that Shem wants to send you the right
spouse I'll send it to you with you
being a
sadika but maybe my husband's not going
to like my K when I cover my hair in
time he'll love it when he actually
realizes the significance of it stay
strong maybe I should cheat this one
customer cuz he has extra money no you
don't need to change to cheat the guy
whatever hasem dictated and wrote for
you on you're going to get you're going
to get it you don't have to cheat
anyone every time we have a doubt we're
doing the same thing that the that the
um the spies the M were doing we're
doing the same exact thing that was
making mistakes year after year
water ran out same limitation of hem
rebelling against the mitv of
hem thinking complaining for no reason
again limiting oura in hasem again anuna
test everyone of these tests saying that
Hashem can't beat these Giants limiting
Hashem in essence what Hashem is telling
us here is if you have no imuna in me we
have no real relationship you believe in
a different God not the god of is
because the god of is the god of the
Torah is's not limited your God is
limited I'm not limited he says the one
you believe in yeah he's limited I don't
think you should believe in him
either me the creator of the world I'm
not limited when you say I'm limited
you're making a sin a very very big sin
so much so to the point that a few of
these sins and a few of these 10 test
hasem almost destroyed the entire people
for
it for them to say listen there's a
bunch of giants over there and the
grapes are big and so on it's not really
a sin what's the sin that they actually
had
no and this is what obligates US it
obligates us to start looking at things
differently start looking at your
experiences as a reward
as something that's going to get you
prepared for the ultimate
test the ultimate test of
life without it you're never going to be
righteous you're never going to be the
guy that sanctifies hashem's name you're
never going to be the woman that is the
K that's walking around instead of
the you need these tests and hasm is
sending you them every single day just
like he did them he has this par written
for us not because he wants to write
about his own Nation he has this so we
could learn what not to
do why because the only reason they did
it is because they had NOA and here he's
telling you if you have NOA every single
day there's almost no purpose for you to
live that's why I almost wanted to
destroy
them but even after I forgave them they
continued with NOA and when you have NOA
it's very easy for you
to be
a very easy for you because you don't
really believe that I created the Heaven
and the Earth 100% you believe somebody
else made it cuz if you believe that I
created the Heaven and the Earth then
you'd also know that I'm not
limited so if you don't believe it you
don't have
AA you'll have a hard time keeping
Shabbat
eventually and if you don't keep
Shabbat same par says also what is it
you're the same thing as the idol
worshipper to help all of you men that
are less
spiritual than
women I gave you a Mitzvah a woman can
get to the heart
ofuna to her prayer and tears very easy
for a woman to develop amuna because a
woman is much more spiritual than a
man but a man at the end of this
Paras he gives you a way to do it also
what is
it last paragraph of
this chapter 15 verse
37 all the way until the end of
par verse 37 to to 40 this is the second
half
said to Moses speak to the children of
Israel and say to them that they shall
make themselves tiit on the corners of
their
garments throughout their
Generations meaning it's an eternal
Mitzvah it's not just for now and they
shall Place upon them a of each
Corner a thread of turquoise wool
K says we know this turquoise color came
fromaz a certain bug or
snail uh that its blood was blue we no
longer have this on so we no longer have
the true authentic turquoise color that
the uh or it's called in Hebrew uh that
we have in the Tora so we're not
obligated this this specific mitvah of
turquoise is on hold sometimes you see
people wearing a blue string on their
but there's no saying whether it's the
right one or wrong one either way some
people want to do it you don't you're
not obligated to do it but then he says
this specific Mitzvah what's it for it
shall constitute for you this is going
to be a for you that you may see it and
remember all the Commandments of hem and
perform them so just to remind you this
T is to remind you I'm God and if you
know I'm God you have to perform all my
Comm
Commandments and not to explore after
your heart or after your eyes after
which you
stray why after your heart and after
your eyes because your heart and your
eyes are going to be the ones that lead
you to
sin If instead of your mind you follow
your
heart If instead of your feet moving
forward you follow your eyes you're only
going to sin and when you sin the more
you sin the more you disconnect from
Hashem the more you disconnect from
Hashem the more impossible it becomes to
be considered alive meaning you cannot
havea and sin at the same time the two
contradict each other if you have
reallya it becomes more difficult to
sin if you have NOA it's very easy to
sin because you don't really believe so
that's the most important part that we
see here why so how does he's saying to
you this T you're going to wear the
simple clothes you're going to wear
first of all you get a Mitzvah every
second you wear it and second of all
it's the one that's going to remind you
of me remind me of you remind you of me
and last but not least it's your path to
starting youra Journey because once you
think of me all the time because you're
looking at yourit you're going to start
connecting me to everything around you
whether it's why the tree fell or why
the accident happened or why you were
late to work or why you didn't make the
same amount of money that you thought
you going to make you GNA start
connecting everything to me and when you
connect everything to me that's the
beginning ofuna beginning
OFA then you're
alive any
questions thank you again for learning
some Tora with me always enjoy the shim
here next week we have a sh both in
bokeh on Tuesday everyone is always
welcome and then
Wednesday we have a sh in aventur the
same place we did last time uh the the
lighthouse project uh last week last
time it was a very good Sho we had maybe
like 60 people but I think this this
time it probably be even more maybe like
100 or so people so definitely come the
CDs are doing amazing a lot of people
already ran out I'm waiting for the next
order of
CDs uh and uh thank you for everyone
that sponsored them that's giving them
out you have more people to to give them
out to let me know please it's uh one
big Rabbi said this in last night CH one
big Rabbi in uh in Jerusalem told me you
have to say this in yesu and personally
I wouldn't say this if he didn't
obligate me to do it but he says you
have to say this in
yesu and because it seems like it's I'm
trying to promote myself even though I
don't make any money from these CDs or
anything it's all
for but he says you have to say this he
says what he says tell them this is his
words tell them you know he knows the
material that's on these
CDs says tell them that these anyone
that sponsors these CDs like sponsoring
a thousand of these CDs they have to
look at it in a way as if they're saving
a thousand Souls from a place much worse
than
ashit because these Souls without
actually knowing what's on the what's on
the CD without knowing what Hashem is
really telling us they're
lost they're much lost
and I told yeah but they have to get
other CDs he goes no no you have the
material tell them
yours amen