Last Chance To Choose A Boss Before Judgement Day - Mussar Pirkei Avot (62)

[Music] great to be here back at the bre Center glad everybody's okay a few people missing some electric but otherwise everybody's okay um it was an eventful few days it was an eventful few days seeing uh hasem choose where damage is going to go where there's going to be Miracles who's going to get a wakeup call and do chuva who's going to wake up call who's going to get a wakeup call and do nothing stay the same R who is going to see the hand above that's created the storm and who's going to create a new God called Irma and blame the storm or what they call Mother Nature whoever this mother nature is so it's a uh it was amazing it was amazing amazing seeing all this stuff I mean again we don't like to see people get hurt we don't like seeing people uh even get stressed out but um for anyone that uh went through the storm on a personal level you know if you didn't do chuv then you should know one thing before we start the questions and then the lecture if you didn't do chuv you should know that this storm the storm was not even a tiny Mal was not even a tiny little angel that hasem has and at the end of days when mashia comes when go Magog starts or spreads further than what it is right now the says a lot of things are going to happen at the end of times one of them is going to be War another thing is going to be a change of a face of the generation a generation of rude people people with no manners which we already have seen for already the last generation uh just getting worse but also you're going to have strange things happening around the world you have strange sounds around the world strange uh natural disasters and now we have another storm that people are scared of called Jose uh interestingly in Hebrew Jose gimat 26 same thing as God same thing as God so uh is telling us that uh God's behind all of it God's behind all of it but uh we have right now sh number 62 in the series M series The Series has been a breakthrough a lot of people have been doing chuva several people have actually converted already uh many more are in the process of converting due to this mamash this series um whether it's someone that was uh surrounded and affected by idolatry or it's someone that just lived a life with no purpose whatsoever they start watching shim and they start seeing the truth because the truth is a lot more realistic the truth is a lot more realistic it's a lot harder because reality is more difficult than Fantasy Island but uh even the people on Fantasy Island know that eventually they have to come back to reality so this year is going to have a few things uh that I'll mention aside from answering your questions a few recent successes uh with regards to the uh wig situation several of the other things that have been going on behind the scenes um we'll talk a little bit about par some things about the uh uh but this is most likely uh not definite but most likely the last year of the year in this place uh because I believe that uh next week um the sh is going to be it's it would be Tuesday about the day before and it's very unlikely for us to do a sh day not necessarily because of the r issue but because I'm moving uh so I'm not sure if we'll be able to make it all in time obviously everyone will know uh at the uh we'll try to do something before sh before this but we have a sh tomorrow night also around here uh in adi's house anyone that wants to come to the sh has to do a RSVP we had a people come to um last time we did a sh there a few weeks ago that did an RSVP and the people at the gate didn't let them in so I mean there's nothing I can do I'm in the middle of this year I didn't even know what happened until after this year so anyone that wants to go uh come to that Shure has to RSVP so the flyer that we have online uh there's an email you could email it's her email and uh you could um RSVP to tell that you're coming it's m it's instead of making a left when you get on the exit get off the exit 16 you make a right two minutes three minutes and you'll get there again it's going to be a very different Shure but uh in case this is the uh last year of the year uh here then we have to finish out with a bang we have to uh we have to leave all the cards on the table we have to make sure that uh there's nothing missing so we'll have the to uh to do that so let's start off with uh some questions you raised your hand uh go uhhuh can answers oh is a to answer questions or do anything really uh during a Shure either live or on the phone during sh it's good question okay next we have to connect to the sh have to connect to the mishna in a no I heard not allowed to live by the water Torah says you not have to live by the water it's not true because uh throughout all of history you had to live by the water simply for survival you didn't always have Plumbing you didn't always have plumbing plumbing is a a recent invention relatively so if you didn't live by the water most likely you didn't live because you need water to survive you understand so throughout all of history you'll see that all of the civilizations not just the Jewish people all of the civilizations have always predominantly lived close to the water close to a body of water um and uh because it's necessary for survival only recently did people start going meaning recently not like uh 50 years recently last couple 100 years that people start living in the middle of the uh land uh because of Plumbing but even today there are many parts of uh the world in the United States also that uh you know where you have villages in Middle America and there's no plumbing and there's no UHA you know traditional what you're used to and I'm used to the sanitation system so for example in uh Tennessee uh where my in-laws used to live uh they used to have to take the garbage to the dump once twice you know a week themselves like there was no garbage truck that came to them now here you guys can't even think of such a thing in New York it's not even a thought the garbage is right next to the apartment on the 35th floor you walk down the hall you put it in the shoot you go it goes down 35 stories somebody else takes care of it somebody else's problem same thing here you have a house you have an apartment somebody else you put it outside somebody else takes care of it and this place in Tennessee and many places around Middle America you have to take your garbage to the sanitation that's also part of the reason why they have trucks they have uh the pickup trucks they put it well you don't to put it in a Mercedes Benz $150,000 car you're going to put the garbage you're disgusting garbage in the back seat can't so so the the plumbing sanitation system and what cities with City people like you and I are used to is not uh really everywhere um but as far as Plumbing is concerned Plumbing is everywhere uh again not to the same extent but either way um this expansion if you will uh into Middle America into different parts of the world that don't have water only started in recent history uh because you need water to survive so even though 70% of the world or 72% of the world uh is water that doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to reach all Corners there are different places uh in the world that don't have water so if it's going to take you 2 three days to get water every time you got to get a drink it's not a good place to live so there's no this Torah doesn't say don't live next to water what you could tell them is that you're not allowed to put yourself in danger meaning you're not allowed to live in a place where it's dangerous uh so for example if a place is known uh to have uh you know regular tsunamis or it's on a cliff or something like that sure yeah you're not allowed to live in a place that's dangerous but next to water no it's somebody made that up okay K Supermarket overcharging people s Ken I people Supermarket overcharging on storm people repet Ken rep supercharge Supermarket overcharging can you're not allowed you're not allowed to you're not allowed to gouge price gouge people aside from it being illegal uh and therefore you're not allowed to do things that are illegal for the country that you live in now to disobey the law uh unless the law contradicts the Torah but this doesn't contradict the Torah uh but aside from that in in regards to price gouging it's so is a problem for them because we learned a couple of weeks ago about is that hem punishes in this world about a big part of the punishment is in this world so you don't really have to report them you don't have to report them because hm already knows he already puts it in puts it in the record is it better not to shop there is it better not to shop there depends if you have a better option then go to a different better option if it's the only kosher place in town then obviously then you have to shop there it's a you know it depends can't just by default sell because the guy is a jerk I'm not going to eat kosher food anymore if there's a few then you chop somewhere else yeah why give business to why give business to R if the guy's rash don't give him any business no next go about a tree about a tree we got a bunch of properties trees trees Andis standing okaying but it didn't work out okay trees what about the trees what's the question about the trees told by a lot of Rob in New York if you have a house with trees you have to plant it so on trees what do you do with trees if you're allowed to take them out RI them out or not ginormous doesn't matter the size allowed to rip out a tree or not yes right that's the question that's okay and the second question is person always asks and does good gives it to them okay but when it comes to their family Meers healthwise not there for the help get all other things but the help he's not getting it yet right why why doesn't he why doesn't Hashem give you everything you want you just give you some of the things why we need a new pen my Pen's not working today why doesn't AEM give you everything not just some everything no it's what come on this we got to talk to hm right now we have Judgment Day coming up we got to know how to talk to Hashem thank you everything everything we want not just some things everything your your pen is worse than mine so I don't think it's the pen I think it's my uh my pad over here I think it's my pad plus I think the uh doesn't want me to answer these questions yeah no no it's working now it's working now it's working it's working not working it's fine yet doesn't want me to answer your questions today he says you guys weren't supposed to be it today was supposed to be closed with the storm was supposed to ruin it why doesn't hasm give us everything everything remember everything this has to be connected to the sometimes somehow okay yal five questions questions questions you didn't study actually you know instead of your question I wrote the question is by default during Mone like this when we have no life okay so I have to write six already so I have to make up something for uh so no studying oh stud are you obligated to study during hard times are you obligated to study on Hard Times okay no obligation study when are you obligate to study no okay we got uh so far we got six six no let's go for uh six or we got more 10 Fidel usually you have something for me nothing you studied a lot the last couple of days you're content you see you're happy somebody is Happy has to study toah you know why you have so many questions because you didn't study Fidel studied the last couple days that's what happens I ice in a can IC tea no iced tea what do you do if you drink iced tea with no Kosher should you be worried yes yes no EXA without kosher it was a big a big brand no Kosher was Big Brand means what I'm used I know other drink are this particular so you drank IC tea without kosher should you be worried that's what you telling me okay okay your inter okay people okay nine meditation how did hashem's name come to be in meditation I mean they're making a sound they don't intend for it for it to be God but okay meditation they don't know they just make a sound it's like you know it's like a little baby makes a sound and it makes a word sometimes they they don't do it intentionally go ahead last one you could ask more I mean after but how do you get from to to okay so the questions are uh is it is it rude to answer questions on a thread the Facebook thread that everyone all the sadik are watching right now or for you guys to answer each other's questions or to text message during what do we do with a supermarket owner that's a r and overcharges I think I already answered that one but um uh what do you do with trees can you rip them out can you um do you have to keep them why doesn't Hashem give us everything we ask everything not just some things everything uh five is six is uh study obligations are we obligated to study during difficult times seven ice tea without what happens what happens if I drank iced tea with no Kosher sign eight people associating with them what do we do with them nine meditation connecting to AAR and 10 how do we get from to you would think you guys were all in my house and you wrote a and you prepared it uh for the people online I know you like to ask questions I can't really scroll on the screen um but I'm hoping to do a sh like we did last week live maybe on Thursday maybe Thursday night we'll do questions and answers uh uh session like we did last week uh right before the storm so that's when I'll answer all of your questions so don't get discouraged uh but they should encourage you to show up if you can but if you live in different parts of the world that you're not here then you can enjoy the sh but I'm sure that if you have enough I'll answer your questions too somehow because that's how hasem Works he gives me something to say and some has nothing to do what I wanted to say so we we have a lot going on we have is one of the par that we uh reading this week is the other one we have a uh judgment day next week I did before uh we have judgment day next week in uh sh Wednesday night beginning Wednesday night um and we have a uh some good news some Dev some things in the development so lot going on okay so in you can come in by the way if you want to sit over there it's fine um it's a short par but it says an immense amount of M messages for anyone that uh looks into it just the first couple of uh verses give you a lot of a lot of so it says so hereu says you're standing here today all of you all of you not some of you not the ashkenazim only not the sfarim only not the yemenites only not the bukharians only not the syrians not the Iraqi not the guys from Tripoli all of you standing before Hashem your God the heads of your tribe your elders and then he gives details says in case you didn't get it when I said all of you because some sometimes you say all of you people automatically says no he means me me he's just giving you guys credit because he he feels bad he's anav he's very he's got good manners he's humble but in reality he's talking about me this whole lecture so mosenu knew people like that he says all of you the heads of the tribe top of the top the ones that think they're the best the elders don't think just because you got old you're P you don't have to do anymore because you already paid your dues you know sometimes people get old said listen I'm already old already it's not for me you guys are young and strong go you could go to besset older you don't have to you could pray once a week it's enough Hashem knows cuz I'm old your office officers meaning the guys that are running the law doesn't mean that they're Above the Law sometimes you see the biggest talker inet is the Gabi and if it's not the gabbi who's he talking to the rabbi they think because they're the rabbi or the Gabi they're allowed to talk everybody else has to be quiet I went toet like that the biggest talker in AET was the rabbi but he's not talking in secret he's talking on stage everybody's playing say he's talking everybody's praying he finished before everybody else he's talking to somebody else about whatever he's saying he's see you like they're all laughing I'm wondering myself is he believing God I'm not wondering listen does he realize he's interrupting prayer does he realize it's not good manners does he realize people can see him he's on stage nonetheless I'm not even thinking about that I'm just thinking simple question does he believe in God it why if you believe in God that means you have to have one ounce at least one ounce of if you have you fear of the almighty how dare you speak in as B how even more so when you're the leader when you're the police you're the guy that's going to either create the biggest K or biggest how could you talk about M so so he says all the men of Israel your small children just because they're little small doesn't mean they can walk around put you know sometimes you have parents they think no no no she's only seven years old she can walk around with underwear and with a tank top it's okay no my friend once a girl is three years old she's three years old you should know once she's 3 years old she's already not allowed to be alone with a strange man in a room like you can't have a man babysitter to a three-year-old girl why you don't know what kind of crazy people are out there well you guys didn't hear stories am I the only one that doesn't live like under a rock at three years old she's not allowed to be alone with a strange man a father Yes a brother yes no problem neighbor best friend Uncle no no no my friend three years old when I'm talking about 12 15 21 no no three aside from that you already have to dress your kids modest from birth obviously Dal is much more stringent once they're six years old once the girl's six years old but many parents get the kids used to wearing tank tops or short dresses or these dresses that are pretty much a combination of like a short dress and a tank top you know these dresses that are barely any clothes at all and they get the kids used used to it and they get the kids used to this mentality of I'm hot I'm hot I'm hot 5,000 years we weren't hot now we're always hot even though we have air conditioners you never see in the Torah abah ainu say ah it's hot even though hasem says it's the hottest day in history he was recovering from you don't see it's so hot outside you don't see that you there's no verse in toru saying in the desert guys you know what let's take a break from sh Tora it's really hot it's really you don't see that but here in this generation everybody's hot everybody's hot that's why no one wants to wear TI that's why no one wants to wear clothes everybody's hot so when parents are putting their kids and let the kids walk around with no clothes on you creating a problem and the reason why is because once the kid gets to six seven eight years old he tell listen honey you have to start wearing long sleeves you have to wear long dresses you can't continue walking around like you did when you were 3 years old in a diper you can't the kid's not going to want it why cuz she's used to it's going to take a little bit of an adjustment even though it's easy to adjust still while the're 78 years old still why go through that nightmare get used to it already now from the beginning it's more difficult to find clothes I know trust me my wife deals with it also but it is what it is so he says just because your kids are kids doesn't mean that the laws don't apply to them yes the little seven-year-old boy doesn't have to lay but you still have to feed him kosher yeah the girl doesn't have any issues with she's eight nine years old but she still has to have clothes on she still has to look modest she's still the daughter of God can let to walk around with a tank tops and short shirts short skirts and things like that absolutely not first verse your women just because she's your wife doesn't mean she's above the law because if you tell listen honey you have to be M she's going to yell at you doesn't mean that it's okay you just don't tell her anything you have to figure out a way if she doesn't listen to you you have to get somebody else that she's going to listen to who find a way CD a rabbi a lecture something you have to do something you can't just let it go no no she's going to do her thing I'm going to do my thing I remember one of the worst possible things that I ever heard was we were in Israel on the way back uh from uh on the way to the airport and uh the uh taxi driver was telling us you know talking and so on telling us the stories like listen biggest mistake I made in my life is when I started doing chuva I didn't care whether my wife is going to do chuva or not I figured she's GNA do her thing I'm gonna do my thing and at some point uh you know she'll just get you know she'll catch on she'll catch on she figured listen I'm keeping Shabbat she'll keep Shabbat if eventually she's I'm laying eventually she going to you know see okay so I should pray also no but I should pray she should just catch on by itself like it's a cold he says that was the biggest mistake I made in my life I continued doing what I was doing focusing just on learning myself hoping she going to catch on one day not bringing a not bringing a CD not saying words of wisdom not nothing just she's going to catch on by herself he says it's now almost 20 years later and she's the biggest hater of Torah I know she duka turns on the TV on Shabbat she duka smokes inside the house on Shabbat dka dka and now I can't divorce her why he says I have seven kids with her what am I goingon to do break the house so I pray every day for salvation somebody does Chua bring along the family bring along your spouse bring along your spouse even if it means slow down sometimes your guy guy learns a lot more T he's obligated to learn to so he could go fast he could already do a lot of things right away he learns a lot of things women don't learn as much they're not obligated to learn as much so they may grow slower it's better that you grow slow with her but grow grow together then grow too fast and leave her behind but make sure you bring them along how listen to with her she doesn't want to put it in the background one way or another she's going have to hear it put it in the background you have a computer in your house you're already in the computer you have speakers instead of listening headphones where it's clear in headphones right it's much clearer in headphones much better in headphones you listen with headphones much better but it's not why is not because she can't hear in the headphones so what you do you blast the speaker whether she likes it or not she going to hear the sh in the background instead of theot on TV bring the rabbi to your Kaa why because she's probably gonna come to the sh baby my husband organized it my husband invested in it try to get her involved try to get him involved be patient don't tell them that uh you know all the tough things right away just get them in and never ever give up never give up just keep trying keep trying to bring them along with you it's very difficult but here he's telling you you have to include your women why because it's very easy for us to not to not do why who wants to hear this headache I want to do chuva leave me alone she doesn't want to do Chua it's her problem that's what you know mentality of a guy is listen she's already a mother of my kid she's already my wife let her be whatever she is I'm going to do cha I'm going to go to ganed let her go to Gom I don't want to be with her anyway I had enough with her already in this world I don't have to deal with in the next World understand so don't have that mentality then it says your converts oh your converts the convert what does it mean a convert says first and foremost just because you're a convert does not mean that there's a different law for you people think just because they converted that's it by default they're okay they could slow down now they went into conversion they would but now they're married now they're this now they're that get slow down no slowing down my friend same law applies to you on the other hand it's also rebuke for says just because he's a convert does not mean you have to look at him any different he's the same thing as you same Torah and we're going to talk about that a little bit more later today the convert that's in the midst of your Camp from the Hewer of your wood to the drawer of your water whether the guys whether the people are rich or poor the same law applies to all the guy that's Gathering wood this guy that's running the country doesn't matter law applies to everybody for you to pass into the Covenant of Hashem your God and into to his imprecation that Hashem your God seals with you today in order to establish you today as a people to him and that he be a God to you so here we are becoming a nation again but now just in case someone wants to be smart they say listen yeah it's good times of mosenu I would have also been a tadik if I saw mosenu talking to God I heard God's voice see a pillar of fire following us giving us light see a cloud cleaning our clothes we're walking on top of the cloud for 40 years we don't have to change shoes we don't have to change clothes we don't have to go to the bathroom why because there's food from sham comes down right to my door I eat it it's completely absorbed by my blood system to the point I don't have to go to the bathroom for 40 years only people with stomach problems can appreciate what I just said if you don't have stomach problems you don't know what I'm talking about but anyone that's ever had stomach problems would appreciate what I'm saying here one of the things is a m about one of the things there's a debate about between the sages is whether we're going to have to go to the bathroom after mashia comes why would we care anyone that's ever had stomach problems cares not we're not allim let's not pretend to be Rish no I'm going to the bathroom I'm not gonna learn Tor okay you you have 24 hours in a day not everybody's in the bathroom seven hours most people in the bathroom 20 minutes what why you're really studying the other 23 hours and 40 minutes it's not because of that cuz going to the bathroom is 50/50 if you're a normal person to relief to relief if you happen to have some issues with your body it's m 100% suffering suffering that only I don't even wish to my enemies suffering going to the bathroom if you don't understand what I mean you should pray to hm every day when you do should pray to Extra Extra cover that you don't know what I mean if you go to the bathroom with no problem nothing hurts two seconds you're in two seconds you're out normal to you everything I'm saying to you like what is he talking about this guy if everything I said to you doesn't mean anything to you you should pray to hem extra extra you should pray to hm why because it doesn't mean anything to you because if it did mean something to you you probably be given the Sho you never know until you know until you know you don't know so he says we continue he says in case you don't think it's for you in chapter n in um sorry in chapter 29 verse 13 a few verses into the par he says he says not with you alone do I seal this Covenant and this imprecation not just you people that in front of me in Mount saai in the desert for 40 years you saw the pillar of fire you saw the cloud you saw m coming from shamim so he says no not just you think it's just you if it was just you I didn't have to have this if it's just you you don't have to have why he's right there you can see it you could see it who who needs it says not just with you but whoever is here standing with us today before hem Our God and whoever is not here with us today meaning your grandson that wasn't that's not born yet your great grandson the descendants of your grandson the descendants of the descendants of your grandson 5,000 years from now still same breed nothing changes that's who the deal is with everything this whole tah is for everyone M says in the name of hem so this we read this a week before R every year a week before sh we read this par why because in case you didn't read all the until now and you think that it doesn't apply to you you happen to walk into the a week before say hey by the way everything you missed out on it applies to you you have a lot of catching up to do so now he continues and he starts talking about some of the things that we're talking about is actually a prophecy of the end of times what's going to happen at the end of times he starts giving us warnings about idol worship but he specifies what kind of idol worship and you saw their Abominations you talking about the have these Abominations what Abominations they're detestable idols of wood and stone of silver and gold were with them here he's naming four different Idols wood stone silver and gold wood represents Christianity stone represents Islam silver and gold are different forms of money which unfortunately people today worship sometimes even more than they worship Christianity and Islam together CU some of those people that worshiping money are also Jews but they call themselves religious so m is saying at the end of times you're gonna have a lot of Idols not just one Idol you're GNA have the what people that that call themselves Jews for Jesus or messianics they're going to pretend to be religious Jews they haveit they havein sometimes they look perfectly Jewish little do you know these people are considered minim minim the says mean you're obligated to hate him and even if he wants to do CH you can't help him why a mean is someone that gets other people away from God and we had a sheer about that a few months ago we'll talk a little more about it later he says to those people unfortunately have a serious problem but the ones that have a bigger problem than the meim are the ones that are worshiping money and the reason why is because the guy that's worshiping money doesn't realize he's Idol worshiping doesn't realize that his whole life is based around money he wakes up in the morning he thinks about money in the afternoon during lunch he's thinking about money when he goes to sleep what do you think about money all day money this is the form of idol worship so here is the beautiful part of this par is HEM reminds us of one of his greatest Creations in Chapter 30 verse one it says says it will be again talking about at that moment and also the end of times it will be that when all of these things come upon you the blessings and the curse that I have presented before you then you will take it to your heart among all the nations where Hashem your God has dispersed you obviously he didn't disperse am at this point the point that he's talking to he didn't disperse them everybody's in in a desert he say so this is one of the clear uh messages that this is talking about the end of times plus he mentions the end of times um so here he says after Hashem shows you the blessings he shows you the curses regardless of whether you are in the four corners of the world you will do chuv and return to hem the what what's CH means to return you return to God and listen to his voice according to everything that I command you today you your children and with all your heart and all your soul so here hasem is giving us the Commandment of doing chuva it's one of the laws in the t is in this par multiple times this is one of them another one of them isn't vers 4 Chapter 30 another one is in verse 10 it says um uh all of these decrees that are written in the book of Torah that you shall return to hem your God with all your heart and all your soul so there's multiple times that we see and there's also one in uh verse eight and so on this Paras is packed packed with details about the mitvah of doing chuva doing chuva now what does it mean to do chuva supp to me does it mean that if you do chuva you're extra nice to the rabbi you donate money does it mean if you do chuva you uh put to in both rash and if you do chuva you wear certain clothes what does it mean do chuva we'll learn that in this mishna as well so this Mish chapter 4 Mish 7 radok says um so here we have radok which we'll learn about him momentarily he says the following some say that the first two things are actually at additions uh to uh some uh some don't include it because it's already mentioned in previous Mish says don't separate yourself from the community when serving as a judge do not act as a lawyer these first two things of uh separ separating yourself from a community was already mentioned the first mishna the first chapter mishna 8 and when serving as a judge do not act as a lawyer was uh mentioned uh also I'm sorry that's 18 and the first one was in 25 and uh those first two things are relevant but not all included what's included here from radok is the following says do not make the Torah a crown for self- glorification nor a spade with which to dig and so he used to say he who exploits the crown of Torah for personal benefit shall fade away from this you derive that whoever seeks personal benefit from the words of Torah removes his life from the world simple translation of everything I just said is the following do not separate yourself from a community we already learned is you're not allowed to be a Jew alone you're not allowed to be a Jew in the middle of the island with no no Community unless the entire world is full of wicked people which would already mean that hasm destroyed the world so in essence one of the major Commandments is for you to be a part of a k for you to be a part of a community and this is also one of the rules for conversions is that you have to live in a Jewish Community within walking distance from a the reason why is because you have to be part of a community you have to have a rabbi tell you whether you're doing right or wrong you have to have a community that you can be a part of celebrate holidays together at least know where you stand learn with teach and so on you can't be a Jew alone so all of these people that come to me and they say I want to convert first thing we tell them is that there's two parts to conversion one is you have to learn what it says in the Torah two you have to make certain lifestyle changes you have to keep certain laws eat certain food foods but one of these things you have to do is you have to move to a Jewish Community this is usually the stopping point for many people why it's expensive to move to a Jewish Community imagine a guy discovers Judaism is the truth but he lives in the middle of Montana where his next door neighbor is 15 miles away his house huge giant house but in order for him to move to Jewish Community even if he sold his entire house maybe he can afford a tiny little apartment and his next door neighbor is going to be on top of his head so it's it's a major lifestyle change this is a very difficult thing for a lot of people the beauty is you don't have to be Jewish if you're a righteous you're a righteous Gentile you have ala it's not the same ala but you have ala you can't expect the same reward for doing less but you don't have to convert at the same token if you want to convert you have to comply with all the rules that's exactly what we said in this all of the rules not some of them Sook is saying first and foremost don't separate yourself from a community meaning if you have problems with the rules don't become Jewish if you're already Jewish because you were born that way already know you have to be part of a community you don't like your community move it's more expensive too bad you have to do it why you have to be part of something you can't be alone can't be alone you have to go somewhere you have to be part of something can't be a Jew in the middle of uh you know Key West with the hurricane five over there five because there's so many homosexuals over there it's probably the reason you can't be a Jew and surrounded by a bunch of people that hate God have to move somewhere else second when serving as a judge don't act as a lawyer in the first mishna when we read it in in chapter one mishna five it meant if you're going to be a judge don't act like a lawyer meaning when you're a lawyer you're biased you're biased why you're fighting for your client you're not fighting for the truth you're fighting for your client here it doesn't apply here it applies in a different way here he says listen don't separate yourself from the Kila and don't be a judge don't be a lawyer meaning don't make excuses no no but there's not really I can't really find a good Rabbi and I can't really find a good community and who knows anymore you know I have some many people they come they do they come they do CH and they stop coming to they come atheists they come Christian they come Idol worshippers they come whatever they come they come Jews that just don't know anything ignorant they do chuv learn da six months a year however long it is stop coming always wondered what happened you came you benefited why stop coming so one time I had this guy this is maybe a year ago year and a half ago came hasem got stronger and he stopped coming so I saw him in the besset one time and I told him no you haven't come busy what happened why don't you come you used to come every Tuesday used to the lecture used to be at my house Why'd You Come he lives much like I don't know three minute walk from my house you're going to have to drive this literally three minute walk from my house why don't you come it's like no you know listen I'm okay already I keep I keep already I keep it's fine you know Sho is for beginners beginners beginners she was for beginners before you know he was still an animal it was for him now he became a human being it's not for him anymore so and I heard this many times I also heard this recently from a good guy that hasn't been able to come to the shim he's like no you know it's I know most of your uh crowd most of your fans are people that watch shim are secular and to let all of you know this couldn't be further from the truth why most of the people that watch my sh are religious people but not just religious I have rabbis watching the sh I have watching yes students watch the people that are already in some people are secular and they love the shim they do CH but anyone that's going to watch the shim on a regular basis has to do one of two things either they have to become religious so they can't be a secular person anymore or they have to stop watching because you cannot continue getting it on your head every week every week every week death penalty to the he's not considered a Jew anymore and someone doesn't go with his wife when she's uh pure and he goes when she's not p and someone doesn't e koser is you can't hear these things every week and not do chv you can't it's either you're going to stop listening or you're going to do cha which means that everyone that's watching is either already religious or is in the process of being so and I see also from emails emails who emails me I see guys Yeshiva students rabbis amazing people why is it all these people because all of these people have one thing in common they want to improve someone that's already connected to hasem wants to prove his connection he's going to watch someone who is not connected to hasem is not going to worry about connecting to hasem or improving it because there's no connection at all so someone that's looking to remain secular is not going to continue watching the you have to be insane so for all of those people that think no this only for beginners this couldn't be further from the truth this is the yet are talking so the Mish starts off with first and foremost don't separate yourself from the K and don't make excuses for yourself of why you can't come to the why you can't do this why you can't live here why you can't live there enough no excuses once we've established those first two points we could begin we could begin with what is adding to those two things he says do not make the Torah a crown for self- glorification and don't make it a spade of which to dig so many of the uh commentaries say that actually this mishna is a special M for speakers people that teach Torah as a continuation for what we learned last week from R is we learned last week that somebody who studies for the sake of just studying for himself is going to get a you know limited amount of but someone that studies for the purpose of helping people do CH gets extra level of gets extra level of assistance from heaven and so on and so forth you could study a lot more information and less time so here's continues this teaching he says listen you have to understand you're gonna get these You're Gonna Learn these different things but don't do it because you're looking for cavod don't do it because you're looking for money why because anyone that uses the crown inappropriately loses no share of the world come you could teach Tora your entire life and be a so now you have yourself a problem the problem is it's hard not to take things to your head and anything one of the greatest human Pleasures that anyone has is getting compliments for most most people it's a necessity like breathing it's a necessity for example any man that wants to stay married has to get used to giving his wife compliments for no reason you want to stay happily married get used to giving compliments you don't want to give compliments you want to be cheap with compliments prepare to be single or miserable one of the two or both why a woman needs compliments she needs it why because her whole being as far as confidence if she's a normal woman is going to depend on what the most significant person in our life thinks of her her husband so if you're one of these husbands that's generous to give everyone else a compliment except your wife you're an idiot it's like helping everyone else breathe except yourself that's why even in the airplane they tell you listen in case we crash put the mask in front of your face first don't put it on the baby don't put it on your neighbor why first save yourself then you it's going to help you save others so complimenting wives um so a person that wants to remain married must compliment his wife a wife needs it someone that is uh on a um I was actually just talking to a guy the other day and uh I told him that some of the things that he was saying the way he was talking to the woman that he wants to be with and and get married with bem I told him that if you continue talking like that not only will you not get married but you'll remain sing uh single forever because you're talking to her like a guy you're talking to the woman like a man you know logical it's rational but she's not a man you have to you have to talk to a woman differently so it's very important for a person to know how to talk but at the same token one of the main things that every person wants is to hear these compliments so the woman needs to hear compliments but the same thing for all of us someone goes to work they work partly because they want to make a salary but partly because they want to hear good job good job big guy you did good why that good job gives the guy encouragement to continue same thing with learning one of the important things that a teacher needs to know how to do is to give people compliments and and and encouragement to continue if you're always going to tell people that they're not good enough then eventually they're just going to give up like listen I've been already trying for five years still not good enough nothing is good never got one compliment eventually G guy going a break this is something that's very hard to do sometimes for certain people certain people are very good at giving compliments sometimes a little too much certain people don't give compliments at all so you have to have someone of a balance the problem is is that sometimes you give people compliments and you destroy them this has happened several times to me where I would give somebody a compliment and all of a sudden they took it to their head and they thought they would be they became the guy just started learning started doing CH you know you give him a compliment all of a sudden a month two months later he starts telling you that gives you mus starts telling you about the things that you need to know and this and that has happened to me several times or he doesn't want to listen to you anymore why because he you gave a compliment this happened multiple times so it's very very hard to not take things to your head when someone is complimenting you unless you have M on a regular basis meaning that not just are you learning mus but you're actually applying it now m is not just something that you come attend the sh once a week and you heard your m m is something that you have to meditate on and think about on a day-to-day basis so that's why I tell you guys that one of the most important things that you need to do and should do is watch the shim again aside from coming here aside from watching it online watch it again and take notes take notes for some of the things because you're not going to remember everything I said I don't remember everything I said take notes of these things because we try very hard to make make sure that every week There's Something New take notes of the sources take notes of the sayings take notes of the things that hit you the most the things that apply to you the most take notes of these things and go over these notes this week next week and so on and so forth keep taking notes because musar is not something you just read one time like a like a story it's something you have to continue applying throughout your entire life so it's very important to take this stuff seriously now the problem is is that sometimes the person that needs the most amount of M is the rabbi and the reason why is because he got some kav from some people people started donating people gave him a job to be I don't know a uh you know R of R of a r OFA you know teacher of some kind people give a big salary some of these rabbis in the world make big money some people their speakers they make $25 $30,000 per lecture it's very hard not to have a big head when for you showing up for an hour of speech they gave you $25,000 very hard so he says abok says make sure that the Torah that you've learned you're not learning it for the sake of being a rabbi you're not learning it for the sake of getting cavod you're not learning it for the sake of getting paid why because if you're learning it for that number one everything we said last week applies to you meaning that that you you could potentially get you're not going to get why you're not going to get because you're not learning lishma you're not learning for hem you're learning for money it's like anybody else someone uh learns architecture for money they want to be an architect someone learns medicine for money they want to be a doctor someone learned science for a profession and so on and so forth he goes you're learning it for a profession you're learning it to sell it this is not good Torah this is not healthy Torah this is unhealthy Torah and it creates a lot of problems the worst thing that someone can tell me and I heard this already twice in the last two months last two months three months two different people worst thing you could possibly tell me if you want me to help you with conversion because many people come to me for conversion we try to help whoever is legitimately wants to convert but the worst thing you could do when you introduce yourself is hi Rabbi I want to convert to I be a rabbi I want to convert because I want to become a rabbi first you have to become a Jew be a Jew first be a standard Jew regular Jew survive as a Jew a year five years 10 years be a Jew then we worry about Rabbi no rabi be a Jew first so people want to tell people what to do so it looks this job of speaking to people looks like a glorified job looks like it's h fun to tell people what to do hey death penalty the guy that's a thief it looks like it's fun to do this but you tell them listen you don't charge any money for doing it becomes a little less fun you have to live in a miracle every month because you don't have any money the fun drops even more many people send you messages that are not exactly comp compliments they're not compliments all the time not everybody says hey sadik I love you you're the best not everybody some people say rash they make videos against you by the way in case you guys don't know there's a new video against me no new one come on I just told you I have to bring you Kim every week new guy we have a new video against ruen new right before Shabbat right before the hurricane right before the hurricane another guy made a video about me he has a clip professionally made he has me in the background Torah you know that's what I said why he's a Messianic Messianic yeah don't say the name so I'm afraid it's like Beetle Juice maybe I'll arrive here not worried about it don't worry not worried we're going to talk about the point I'm trying to make is that not everybody's compliments all the time not always compliments so important thing to know is that if you're going to teach T you're going to learn T you're learning t for the sake of Torah you're learning T because God obligated you not because you're gonna give every week not because you want to show people off that you're the smartest you're this you're no no no no you're doing it purely because you have to without learning Tor you cannot be righteous it's impossible so the question goes when is this obligation to learn t stop what if you're having a tough time what if you have you have hurricane showed up at your door you're stressed out Galore there's no electricity there's no water you haven't taken a uh shower in a day and a half day and a half there's no AC it's hot when is it stop this obligation to learn t as long as you're as long as you're clean there no bad smell around you you're obligated to to learn tah even if you're deathly sick even if you're deathly ill the fact that you expect to learn T only out of comfort shows how far you are from the truth because a person who knows the value of Torah the value of Torah knows that the highest level of Tor is to learn Tor with through suffering meaning the great greatest sages in history whether it's the days of thear rados why is he known kados aside from protecting his breit because for 29 years first 13 years he had problems with his stomach another 16 years he had teeth problems he brought it on himself because the value of learning Torah through suffering is exponentially higher this doesn't mean that we have to pray for suffering let's just survive basic the point being here that some of the greatest sages that ever lived asked for suffering asked for suffering so if we're expecting to learn only when it's comfort that you know we have popcorn a little coffee a little coke maybe uh you know the AC pumping we have to learn more mus have to learn so as far as learning Tora you're obligated to learn T regardless of whether it's comfortable or not and Shalom used to learn something from a uh watchmaker one time he saw watchmaker still working late at night and uh so listen once you go home relax and he says to as long as the candle you know those days no electricity as long as the candle is still lit there's still time to fix meaning still time to fix watches it's not like he was a rich guy that he could just shut off the candle and there's going to be a new candle tomorrow he has to use the maximum potential of every candle this is on a basic perspective but learned a lot M from that what he learn he ran back to the Yesa and he told for the rest of his life he would repeat the same thing over and over again as long as the candle is still lit there still time to fix as long as the candle's still lit it's still time to fix meaning as long as you're still alive you can still do chuva the candle represents your soul the is light as long as it's you're still alive you still have a chance to do chuva what am I do chuva for all the sins you made yesterday are you good yesterday day before you were good day before day before today yesterday next week and so on you have to constantly fix something constantly so when the students of R understood this teaching they understood that they all had a chance this was actually encouragement for them this encouragement for someone that actually takes M the right way it's very motivating it's very motivating that yes okay I'm spirit sick that's what the ramb calls anyone that's a sinner he calls them spiritually sick sick ill it's okay to be sick it's not okay to deny the medicine so when he would give his students M and the rest of the sages when they would give people M tell them listen you're sick you're a very sick person you have bad mid you do this you make all these sins against the Creator obviously there's something wrong with that that's the diagnosis the medicine is learn M the encouragement to take the medicine is still alive still alive so now that's part of the job of the speaker but the speaker when he's going to give you m if he's a good speaker he already knows ahead of time there's going to be some compliments and there's going to be some people go against the better the speaker meaning the the more truth the speaker has the more people going to go against him this is just a reality Source you don't have to look at my life you don't have to look at R zari's life all you have to do is look at the Torah what was the job of all the prophets every single Prophet mentioned the Torah Isaiah Zakaria Jeremiah mosu David all of them every Prophet their job rebuke the people teach them M do chuv follow this you have to do chv that's what constantly all of the prophets Prophet after Prophet Prophet after Prophet the men and the women there's 48 men prophets and seven men seven women prophets says 55 are mentioned in the Torah seven women 48 men all of them had one job get to do chv so now the greatest of them M the entire nation went against them all of them the guy speaks to God and God answers everyone thinks they speak to God but here he's answering him he's answering him Makes Miracles for him nonstop up what do they do they go against them so you little Rabbi speaks for a couple of years think who you are who you think you are what you don't think anybody should go against you why you don't think anybody should make videos against you why who do you think you are you better than mosenu mosu had people going against him so first and foremost you must understand that if if you're doing it for cavod you're doing it for the wrong reason so how do you avoid this problem both as a student and as a teacher you do it by learning the most important thing to learn in M most important thing to learn in all of Judaism you learn your now itself has steps has a weight to get to it and as an outcome that comes out of it several steps in first and foremost we need to know that there's a p in seph Isaiah it says the fear of hem that's his treasure some of the commentaries are saying part of the commentary one way of of translating this verse is saying that the only thing a person has in this world is his money is worthless his looks worthless is uh everything he has in the world is worthless why can't come with him only thing they're going to ask him when he gets to Sham first thing they ask him do you have page 32 says even if he knows the entire meaning the entire oral tah by heart even if he learned tah even if he did good business even if he was nice to everybody and answered all the questions right they asked him do you have if the answer is no judgment is no judgment's negative why the fear of the almighty that's his treasure that's the only thing it can really come with says everything is in the hands of hem except whether you have fear of hem that's your that's your free choice that is when you arrive to sh you arrive in only thing you arrive with is a bag full of or a bag full of nothing everything else the money the kids the wife the husband the job the opportunity the everything else is worthless your treasure the other commentaries are saying it also means that's aem's treasure the entire world was created purely because hasem wanted you to fear Him that's his treasure originally had two Treasures two Treasures what was the other treasure Shabbat says tells M tell I have a big treasure in my treasure chest and its name is Shabbat go tell them I'm gon to give it to them I'm gonna give them my Shabbat out of my treasure chest after he gave us Shabbat what does he have left he gave you shabbat so when you don't keep Shabbat not only you show that you don't have but you're not even appreciative of what he gave you the Shabbat that he gave you the other treasure that he gave you so K is saying was enough of a reason for hem to create the entire world that's the reason he created it so the rambam says how do we prove this and is p his commentary on chapter chapter four of he says the purpose of wisdom the purpose of you having any wisdom whatsoever the purpose of hem creating wisdom hem created many things created flowers created fish created everything everything that's in the world created the concept of you having free choice you having desire everything is part of hm's creation nothing is independent of hem nothing Jose whatever winds came whatever winds left everything is in the hands of hasem he says that one of those Creations is called wisdom having wisdom the rambam says the only reason he created wisdom is you could be wise enough to fear him the only reason he created you having any wisdom whatsoever is that you could be wise enough to fear Him where do we learn this from the beginning of wisdom is fear of the almighty the and also repeated the beginning of wisdom is fear of the almighty so which means here that wisdom beginning of wisdom is Right which means that in order for you to have wisdom you have to have to know that you have to know you have wisdom you have to have it's connected now how do you get to this there's another verse in Proverbs says it says the result of humility is the fear of hem wealth honor and life follow so says as a result of you having humility being humble you will reach the greatest treasures there is in this world and the next beginning with no fear of hem humility will lead to fear of Almighty but as a result of having you also going to have wealth you're also going to have honor and you're also going to have life why is life the end he says because life is eternal it's not just life in this world wealth is this world honor this world life eternal where if someone has all the money in the world but dies money's worthless someone has all the honor in the world but dies worthless the fact they put your name on the building doesn't mean anything once you're dead no one looks for shami like oh wow let me go look at my building if they put my name on there let me look at my Foundation they put my name on no nobody cares they leave the world they have something else to deal with so the life that we're talking about here is that we're talking about A Life That's Eternal so in essence here we see that humility is a tool you use in order to get to fear of the almighty therefore humility is even greater than wisdom because says the beginning of wisdom is fear of hem at the same token before we even get to fear of hem before we even get to the beginning of fear of hem beginning of wisdom is fear of Hashem before we get to the beginning we have to have humility before you can get the beginning you have to have humility you understand if you can understand everything I'm I'm saying here beginning of wisdom is fear of Hashem before you get to the beginning to get to fear of hem you have to have humility you must be humble you must be humble in order to even think that you need fear of hem because fear of hem does not come to you naturally how do you get to this first level of humility cuz here we see that we think thaty if we learn a lot of Torah we become very wise we're going to become here we have a proof from the ra not you don't need to be a you just need to be humble you don't need to be a big you don't need to be a big genius know the whole sh by heart you don't need to be a genius to have you just need to be humble now the only way to get to humility is to First understand what it means now we don't really understand reward in this world because most of the things that we think are reward are usually not good for us so we think money is a reward for many people money is poison we think a wife or a husband is a reward but if it's a good or a bad wife determines whether it's a reward or it's a punishment that's why the says someone has a bad wife doesn't see Gom doesn't go to Gom why he already has Gom in this world I don't know can we handle the tun scary wife is also scary so now we need to we don't understand reward we don't understand we understand punishment so let's see what ises hem God Almighty think about humility so first and foremost we know that there 13 principles of faith that the rambam teaches it's the foundation of Judaism if you violate these 13 principles of Faith you are putting your Judaism on the line if you want to convert and you don't believe and you don't follow these 13 principles of Faith you cannot convert if you're a Jew and you violate these 13 principles of Faith you are possibly putting your Judaism on suspension one of them the first one is that there's only one God this is the flaw with Christianity why they believe according to their new testament that there's three pieces to this one God in essence they believe there's three Gods there's the Trinity the concept of the Trinity so this already makes Christianity and anyone that believes in the New Testament 100% idol worship 100 % idol worship so to associate with Idol worshippers is very very dangerous simply because you have to know whether you're strong enough or not most people are not strong enough to deal with Idol worshippers and they can be influenced with them influenced by them especially if this Idol worshipper is a meit someone that is actively looking to convert people to his idol worship if he's such a person like a missionary then you're not even allowed to be within six feet of him not allowed to stand next to him he's considered a meit or a mean and a mean has according to the r in chapter four of it talks about minim it talks about minim and um I'm sorry not uh in um it talks about who uh who could do chv and uh it says the the people that are meim are gon to have an extra difficult time to do chuva why because you can't even help them do chuva if they helped other people get away from hem one of the MIT that you can do from the is to hate them so now if this is an active mean if he just believes in idol worship it's a different story you could try to help him show him that he's in a wrong uh he's going in a wrong direction like the me Kari the king of K in the book The kuari that R wrote almost 800 years ago the the King was actually very righteous and he actually had the Merit to have a dream where an angel came to him and says God appreciates your intentions but not your deed means you appreciate you're trying to worship him but not the way you're doing it he was trying to do it through Islam he was trying to do it through Christianity he was trying to do it through different stars and different things that he was trying to do he had good intentions but not good way so then he this in the kuzar is a very very good book highly recommended um it's dense book a lot of proofs and so on but it's very very serious book highly recommended especially all converts it's one of the books that they usually recommend I think it should be every Jew should read this book but anyway the uh he actually later on he invited a Muslim guy proved to me you know was one of the biggest religions proved to me that Islam is true he tells them A B C D and so on okay where' you get sounds all good sounds everything good Muhammad sounds good even though he's a rapist uh is uh you know all the things that uh he says sound good even though he kills a bunch of people fine okay where'd you get it from where' you get the proofs that he has the instructions to do everything that he's doing who's giving him this power he says he believes in God he goes who says that this this God is the god the right God he goes the Jews so the kuzari is like oh the Jews can't be the Jews Jews are little people there only a few million of them let's go to the Christian guy maybe the Christian guy is better so he brings a Christian guy brings the uh the church to his uh to his kingdom and he says AB c d AB c d Jesus did this Jesus did that okay great everything sounds fine sounds like a nice story he helps people sounds like a nice guy great whatever wa did you get it from who says that he has this power who says he's righteous who who decided these things he said God he goes okay what's the proof who has the proof who's the first Christian go no no it's the Jews goes back to the Torah Jesus himself was actually a Jew he wasn't a Christian so now the kuzari was forced to meet with the rabbi some say it was actually himself some say it was somebody else point being is that you have the whole book is full of a debate between this very very well-learned king and the rabbi and it's a real story and in the end the not only did the king convert but to Judaism but he converted his entire nation manyo almost 800 years ago so now a person that is following the Torah needs to know there's only one God 13 principles of faith page 4B says someone that has Pride meaning the opposite of humility when you have pride it's the equivalent it's like a it's like believing in two Gods why if you have pride that means you think that your power your intellect your brain your beauty your might your whatever is a different entity from God you created it and this is why it says himself says that someone that is prideful him and I cannot be in the same room you should you would think that say someone is prideful should kill him on the spot why you shouldn't be in the same room but here we learn aem's an hashem's humility what's how do you learn asm's humility from here he says someone that has Pride I can't be in the same room with him but yeah Hashem the room is yours the house is yours he goes yes he wants to have pride give him the house I'm leaving I'm leaving even though it's my it's like somebody coming to your house he tells you how to run the show he okay you know what just have the house I'm leaving that's how humble Hashem is so for someone to be prideful it's mamash literally the opposite of Hashem because with all of his might and all of his glory and for all of the reasons that he actually has to be as arrogant as can possibly imag Be Imagined Hashem is humble so what right do you have to be prideful so that's what he says someone that's such a opposite of me I can't be in the same room with him he's considered M like he's turned himself into an idol in uh Deuteronomy chapter 7 verse 26 it says you shall not bring an Abomination into your house and become banned like it this Abomination you going to be banned like it also kazal give the p give the commentary on this the Abomination is referring to GA it's referring to Pride don't bring Pride into your house meaning don't bring it into your heart why because just like I hate Pride you're G to end up turning me into hating you and I'll ban you the next chap chapter chapter 8 verse1 14 hasem says the danger of having GA of having pride is to such an extent that by having Pride you could literally forget about God the verse says and your heart will become prideful and you will forget hem your God it's literally a verse in the Torah Deuteronomy 8:14 says afterm gave you all the gifts he made you rich he gave you buildings he gave you a wife he gave you kids he gave you this he gave you that he gave you this if you're not connecting to him on a day-to-day basis learning Torah through thick or or thin you'll forget about God why you'll turn yourself into a god you'll think you made the money my hand my might my power my intellect my beauty my this my that I made everything says pride is such a dangerous poison in your that you m could forget about God last but not least there is a story about R was not just a giant of a generation he was one of the Giants of all generations huge bigad and uh he got a lot of cavod from people during the month of alul it's known that he used to travel every night in a helicopter from place to place from Stadium to Stadium to give lectures to 10,000 people 15,000 people at a time one lecture finished go in a helicopter go to another Stadium another 10 15,000 people in every place every night amen we barely get 20 people here barely sometimes when you know great 50 biggest sh in New York we did 600 people big sh a lot of advertising a lot of this him 10,000 people 15,000 people per lecture multiple times a night got a lot of cavod and when you would arrive they would sing there was over 40 songs about him 40 songs that professional singers wrote and wrote music for and L lycs just about I think they sing about me but the opposite so a lot of cavod he got when he would arrive at the place the stadium they would sing and celebrate it was a big cab some people some of the big sadik that were around him they don't stop talking about the stories that they experience but some people their highlight of their life for example gon Ben one of the head in y he says one of the highlights of his life was that he touched radya one time highlights of this is a giant he touched r one time touched him so a lot of cavod he got one time he got to a Stadium 10 15,000 people in the stadium celebrating his name celebrating his name and they all of a sudden they hear something from the speakers did not know that the microphone was on but they hear a mumbling something over and over again over and over again and it becomes clear and what is he saying it's an Abomination meaning it's disgusting to Hashem anyone that has Pride you want to be disgusting to Hashem be prideful you have 15,000 people singing your name you're not going to have pride somebody wrote a nice email you already take you're a sadik 15,000 people are singing your name singing your name and what is he saying to himself he doesn't know that people can hear what he's saying why he's reminding himself he goes this is not credit to you this is is Torah Tor is not even yours it's aem's you want to be disgusting to the shame ofm that gave you this Torah take this personally and think that you're something think that the credit is due to you so when someone really understands how much Hashem is disgusted by Pride that already gives them enough of a reason to build on to run away from Pride run away from kav yeah a rabbi that would sorry if I remember I'll tell you I don't remember the story you told me maybe it's a different Rabbi different fure hearing here maybe maybe I don't know I don't remember the story I don't know the story but um if you know the story tell me um so anyway again going back to the equation you want to get the you have to get the humility First Once you have humility you get to get to once you have once you've attained that means you also have wisdom so it's m a map a map of how to navigate this world now there's uh I mean we've already gone through a lot but there's a couple of things that I really wanted to mention that is very important you see sometimes people learn Torah either because of the chv or because they're already religious from birth but they're just continuing to learn or they're rabbis and uh they're not really doing it for the right reason they do it for cavod they do it for money this mishna is talking about them he says such a person can lose hisa now first and foremost how could such a person loses because when somebody has Pride that means that they're not going to listen to anyone else and they could continuously violate the law their whole life thinking that they're righteous so you ask yourself I've always asked myself How could somebody learn tah their entire life How could somebody be religious what's called religious in this world their whole life and Wicked at the same time now of course there's Pretenders there's Pretenders that you know they have a beard they have a hat but really they're pedophiles they have a beard they have a hat but they're thieves and they price gouge people during a time of uh storm people are you know need water they charge people $500 for water or $50 for water that cost 30 cents of course there's people that pretend those people have a special Villa VIP section in Gom we're not talking about those people talking about somebody learns Tor learns Tor but is a sh how could such a thing be so he says H here is saying it's because they learned Tor not just for the money aspect of it not just for the cavod aspect of it but in essence for their own personal desires the Torah has become a personal desire of theirs where there is an intellectual aspect of it intellectual benefit out of it but also is that they feel like they're doing right and no one can change their mind now there's a story of one of the big Kim in previous generations somebody uh came to him and he says for the I need money for uh my wife my uh daughter's wedding can you help me out and Rabbi gives him a you know take some money out he gives him a little bit of money the guy leaves he still needs to raise a lot more money but he took whatever the rabbi gave him later on he comes back sometime later he comes back he says I'm in a very desperate situation my uh daughter says she's not going to get married unless I buy her this very expensive dress it's very expensive dress so the rabbi takes more money than what he took the first time in the beginning he gave him $100 let's say now here he gives them a thousand for the dress go buy the dress so all of these tadim always had someone that uh would uh sit next to them and learn just by watching them so was the this Rabbi so the student said to him lambi teach me when he asked for money for the wedding that's much more expensive you gave him $100 whatever the money currency was at the time for a Dr he came back he had the to come back to you for a dress after you already gave him give him $100 for you're not so rich give him $100 for the wedding he comes back to you for for expensive dress you didn't have money for the wedding now you want it on top of it you want a dress not just a dress expensive dress $1,000 dress and you give the whole thing there has to be something here you could have used all that money for the you could have used all that money to give you could have used all that money to buy Torah books you could have used all that money to give it to the homeless you could have used all that money to give it to the sick you could have used all that money to give it to the convert to the orphan so much money you can give so many people you give it to yourself to I don't know maybe uh do something good for yourself and M says everything you said I also thought about when he came to me for the wedding I said I have to help he came back he had after I gave him the money starting money had he got the rest of the money so that already Mitzvah no problem that's a separate mitvah I did to give money for the wedding when he came to me for the dress he said it's a $1,000 dress and everything you just said I also thought about I can give the the money to the I give the money to the I give the money to the this to the that to the sick to the poor to the convert to the all those things came to my mind also but then I said how come I didn't think about it before he came to me and that's how I knew that this mitvah that I was I didn't really do all these other things that all of a sudden I want to do Satan wants me to do them that's called that's a Mitzvah that is the engine from the Satan the Satan is the one that want you to do this Mitzvah instead of giving it to to give a bride do the Mitzvah of giving a bride happiness on our wedding day you know what kind of big Mitzvah it is instead of making this poor bride happy all of a sudden I'm thinking about the convert all of a sudden thinking about the homeless all of a sudden I'm thinking about the poor all of a sudden thinking about the K all of a sudden I want to give everyone a raise why didn't I think of it before this Mitzvah because this Mitzvah that is presented to me right now that's the Mitzvah I need to do and all the other things that all of a sudden I'm thinking about that's Satan Satan doesn't want me to do this Mitzvah he wants me he rather me do these other things just so I don't do this Mitzvah that's how I know have to give him the whole money so here is telling you sometimes the Satan will come to you he going tell you I have a mitzvah for you I have a mitzvah for you you're thinking yourself Satan's giving me mitv he goes yes a lot of them sometimes he's going to build you up for 30 years full of mitv just so you don't do the real Mitzvah sometimes you can learn Tor your whole life and still be rash because the only MIT what you're fulfilling are the ones the Satan is giving you now I'm going to give you a few examples today I got some emails the last couple of days some good news came out in regards to this whole wig war that we got involved in over the last couple of years and mamash we did a lot of research and confirmed that if you're getting a wig that has real hair you're in essence guaranteeing yourself if you're getting it from a store not if you're getting it from a person you're cutting off cutting the hair yourself if you're getting it from a store you're guaranteeing guaranteeing yourself that you're involved in a why because the overwhelming majority of the hair real hair wigs in the world real hair extensions in the world is coming from tonser hair from the temples in India which is idol worship they donate if you will their hair as a sacrifice to their false gods now the temple wants to make money out of it so they take the hair they send it to process s in China so now it says instead of Made in India it says made in China China takes it to the next level of processing dying same colors length and so on and so forth to different places in Europe it could be London it could be uh France it could be different places so now it says made in France made in London made in jenam wherever it made him so people think no no I have Brazilian hair I have Malaysian hair I have British hair it's no British no nothing it's from India so we uncovered this bem and brought it up to the Jewish public and have been fighting this battle for the last couple of years especially this last year where the whole argument of wigs has always been about the modesty problem that the wigs of today are not modest number one they look too much like real hair two the vast majority of them are real hair three they're too long and the wigs that were permitted by the handful of PIM in previous generations were not only short wigs but wigs that didn't look like real hair that was the major battle a handful of Pim versus 120 or so Pim that say it's not allowed we took a different approach we said forget about the modesty or not modesty they're not going to listen anyway here we have something that's above and beyond everything else it's idol worship why it's connected to idolatry now this wasn't a because rash Shalom already said all of this in 2004 after he sent Messengers to India to investigate the issue and confirmed its idol worship so what's the after yashiv said it's not allowed to have these wigs from India because they are not kosher their idol worship some Wicked people came up with a new scam that they claimed was a Mitzvah what kind of Mitzvah Mitzvah from the Satan they said we're going to kosher wigs we're going to make them kosher kosher certifications to confirm they're not coming from India so they fooled the entire nation into going into this kosher wig nonsense so the fact that Indian wigs were connected to idolatry everyone knew already before we said it what's the the K is is that the kosher certification is fake there is no such thing as a kosher wig there is no way to kosher a wig and the reason why is if you know anything about manufacturing process if you know anything about markets if you know anything about industry these are things that I was an expert in for almost 20 years on Wall Street running a hedge fund running a brokerage firm running an investment company this what I did for a living if you know anything about Factory processing different levels different you know that certain things have a plan but many things don't go according to plan the beauty of this it was much simpler than that part of the plan of making a wig is to make it perfect so everything is the same length if you look at any woman in the world your wife your daughter wife to be you'll see that our hair is not all the same length it's different lengths different here it's shorter here it's longer here's this but when the wigs are made through the processing they combine all the hairs that are the same length as part of the process meaning once you tons of the hair you shave over the head of the woman her head is not going on another head directly our head is going to be mixed with a bunch of other hair of other people's heads so even if you have 999 women that didn't give the hair as a sacrifice but one did and it's part of the Thousand hairs that were combined the whole thing is p there's no there's no in one out of 60 like there is in food and other things there's no once is the whole thing is p you don't know which one if there's one air of an entire wig that's AAR the whole thing you can't wear it the only thing you're allowed to do with a is destroy it that's the only thing you're not allowed to sell it not allow to trade it not to give it as a gift not allowed to wear it not allowed to eat it nothing only thing you're allowed to do is destroy it throw it in the garbage you want to be burn it so now what's the the was that the whole kosher thing is complete nonsense it's completely fake it's a scam to make money and it's mamash 100% a mitvah from the Satan himself Satan himself made this Mitzvah created a mitvah out of nothing these women many of them are righteous people they're not wearing a wig only because they want to look more beautiful they're wearing a wig because they think it's k a few big p in the past said it's okay even though we don't necessarily agree needless to say they could they have something to rely on fine they're trying to be righteous trying to cover their hair they're not all Wicked they're not we're not saying anyone is wearing a wig is a wicked what we're saying here is that even if they're the most righteous person on Earth they don't know this is from Satan why they have in their house they have on their heads this is one of the biggest poisons in Judaism today this is a mitvah from Satan to the highest extent why because now to undo it is not so simple five major PIM in Israel came out over the last uh month and a report was released recently we published it yesterday uh you know in uh in their name obviously and said as of now real hair wigs are no longer allowed they're forbidden they're banned why because you cannot verify the source of the hair everything we said over the last couple of years they verified on their own they wrote the report other people wrote the we didn't write the report we said all this stuff we did the research and so on and so forth but they did their own research these are these are not like little localad rabbis breast rabbis Orthodox sh rabbis with a k and a a this is the son of the previous raos Rael Rosenberg ra Yehuda s Shimon bani and ra Moshe all of them all of them P all of them the all of them the Giants of the Generation all signed a letter saying all wigs made from real hair are no longer allowed to CL why we cannot verify if it's a or not and since market research confirms that the vast majority of real hair wigs are coming from aod there's no way to koser them and they outright say in the report you cannot rely on the kosher certifications because it's impossible for them to koser a wig it's impossible why because the only way for you to kosher a wig is by watching the hair from the minute it's shaving off the head until it goes on another head why because you have to make sure it's not combined with anybody else's hair because even if the original person is a donor and she wants to I don't know some Israeli girl wants to donate the hair to some uh cancer patients I actually have a distant cousin that did this she shaved the head to donate our hair to some cancer patients no problem problem is unless somebody takes her head and put it on somebody else's head the hair is going to go through a processing process it's going to be combined with other hair so even if her head was pure mitvah she want to do or whatever she want to do it's combined with one hair of idol worship the whole thing is you can't you're going to pick a hair which hair was it that's the idol worship how do you know it's impossible so some of these fakers what do they do they make it like they're doing kosher so you see pictures we have pictures of this they smell the hair as if that's a way to kosher the wig like they know where the source of the hair is by smelling the hair mashia they're little Mash of the hair business they smell the hair oh no no this is Indian hair oh no no this is Malaysian hair oh no this is Brazilian hair this is European it's garbage hair you have no idea what you smelling it's mamash making the whole system into a big joke a big joke you can actually go on um websites third- party websites direct websites you could go on uh websites from China like for example Alibaba go to Alibaba and type in wigs you'll see a bunch of wigs factories offering wigs kosher non- koser we can make a Kosher for you we can all make a kosher they already have the certificate on there we could print whatever you want it to say custom made kosher the Chinese guy doesn't know what kosher means it's m a joke it's from thean so now this report came out so you think people would wake up this is will shake people up and of course some people are shaking up some people are figure out okay I got to take this thing off I gotta change I gotta do this I gotta do this what am I going to do who we getting a war from rabbis no no no he he created this report and a guy tell me yesterday he goes yeah I brought this to my Rabbi he's like ah don't listen to this your own ruven he probably he forged the cig signatures I forg the signatures first of all I didn't write the report second of all my like why would I Forge the signature what benefit do I have in forging a signature do I have like a wig store that I'm shorting on as a stock there a wig manufacturer I'm betting against their company do I have a factory that's making a the uh the hats that I'm going to sell to all the women that throw away their wigs what benefit do I have out of out of making this up the best part about it this rash Rabbi he could have easily picked up the phone saw the name of these rabbis these these are not like uh no-name rabbis call the rabbi ra yes did you sign this letter yes okay thank you what does he do automatically assume that I'm a liar I'm a cheat I'm a this I'm a that that why why what was his reason says why didn't they come to me and tell me that they're saying it's no like he's some he's some big uh big meal or something why don't these big how come I didn't hear about it until now how come this uh youron ruen is uh telling us why don't they Pim send it to me also like who this is the first principle this is the first principle you have no humility your Torah is not worth anything and you could see it from the maim what's the maim instead of verifying instead of investigating instead of checking what does he assume he assumes I'm a liar I'm a cheat I'm a this I'm a that I'm a this and he starts saying on me bad name everything no not YouTube he says it to his K his K and it's not this is verified this is one and then another and then another another guy a woman wants to set up a lecture tour for me in a different country she goes to the Rabbi says yeah I want to bring Rabbi your own ruven he's going to help he did people are motivated by his lectures do Chua no no no don't bring them he says bad things about wigs he says bad things about wigs don't bring him here don't bring him to the whole key create a what's the common denominator the common denominators that all of these rabbis why doesn't anybody else talk about it really don't all of their wives wear wigs all of their wives wear wigs and they don't want to go home and tell H I'm sorry to tell you but you have to put a on why they're scared the wife's GNA throw him out of the house they're gonna tell him some uh some the board of director wife or her herself if there's a woman on the board of directors of the synagogue donates a million dollars a year donates 10,000 a year donates 100,000 year whatever it donates she wears a wig up to her ankles Rabbi can't tell the uh board of directors hey Mr board of directors your wife has to take off a wig they all n they're all scared care be rabbis care M care be rabbis why it all started with a mitvah from the Satan what Mitzvah you making you're trying to make something that's into never going to happen so this report it helps people people listen but the reality is I'm not going to be surprised if some people continue to make different excuses no it's this and no they're going to make different excuses just to justify their wicked behavior of continuing to wear wigs with a even the manufacturer there's actually a manufacturer in there says yes these wigs come from verify the manufacturer is saying it Indian guy Indian guy in the report Indian guy says yes it's coming from abar I actually have a new student he sends it to me he goes yeah of course what do you guys think where do you guys think we get the hair from it's all AB he's an Indian guy he's looking to convert to Judaism he sends a text in the group he says yes of course I never realize yeah of course it's not allowed it's all AAR people from India are saying it's AAR who are you little ashkanazi Safari Rabbi whatever you are you're gonna say it's not abar the manufacturer is saying it's abar the only thing you know only that's left is the people are doing Abu said no they don't mean it they don't mean it they don't mean it's really a that's actually what somebody wrote in 2005 a report came out going against it going against r yashiv r yashiv he said it's AB they went report against them where they say no no no the people that are going to the temples they don't mean for it to be and what's the proof that they don't mean proof is they're not cutting their hair in front of the idol himself they're doing it in a separate section of the temple mamash they're creating there's impur garbage inside in pure garbage you an entire nation Satan is very smart Satan is very smart so you see this is a MIT I give you another Mitzvah Froman this Mitzvah is something that's there are certain congregations that got to a lot of money in previous generation and because when a man has a lot of money women want to marry him even if they don't like him all of a sudden he's smart he's good-looking he's smart he's uh good-looking he's smart he's good-looking and what else he's funny too and sadik so what happened so certain kot had a lot of money and unfortunately not a lot of so not all the members had and uh they started marrying Goot so they in order they weren't welcom in in a community so the community said listen you have to convert them so it convert but it would be fake converts fake converts so after the rabbis the holy rabbis of these very same congregations said this is becoming a serious problem too many fake converts we're making a Tak we're making a new law we're not accepting converts anymore not accepting converts why we continue like this we're not going to know who's K who's T who's nothing we're not going to know they made Tak that original Mitzvah was fine no problem temporary situation to fix things to put it back into order where did it go wrong it was never undone it was never undone so these same congregations continued and after the holy rabbis died the new rabis made things much worse instead of being and stringent on instead of being and stringent on instead of being stringent on modesty what do they pick as the one mitvah they're going to be the most stringent of all we do not accept converts in our kot so they have signs at the entrance of their synagogue no converts allowed you know like in the previous generation in America it say no black people allowed you have a bus for black people you're buz for white people here you have this is in second world this is an world you expect that from people you don't expect it from they have signs we don't accept converts even more if you are a convert and you come there they kick you out not only they don't accept they kick you out so a recent event that happened that made me want to vomit is one student went to a mik Rabbi says who are you this first time she went to mik who are you you're convert yes don't come here again kicks her out of the mik now if that wasn't bad enough if you think about it the most intimate part of a Jewish woman's life is the mik if you want to destroy a Jewish woman you want to destroy a Jewish you ruin this mitvah for her a woman comes everyone knows what happens after the mik everyone knows this woman is trying to be righteous everyone knows this is a very personal mitvah and this says get out not welcoming our mik because you're a convert now if this was not bad enough my friends it got worse recently another student went to mik took a shower in the mik to get ready for the mik ready for the mik you have to be clean you have to be ready you can't just go it's not a pool ready for the mik with towel and all about to go in all of of a sudden the the the the woman that's handling the mik all of a sudden she wants to beik wait wait are you a convert by any chance what difference does it make what is the water going to be any more or less if I'm in it or not all of a sudden you want to ask me about my background what difference does it make you Wicked person who told you to ask such a question what are you supposed to do would just make sure there's no nothing is getting in the way of the mik shut up you're not supposed to talk do your job be aad if you're G to ask people about their personal life go find another job work in a supermarket she asked this woman if she's a convert she happened to be a convert she goes hold on one second the woman is dripping water she goes to the rabbi of this congregation in and the Rabbi says no get her out of here they kicked the woman out of the mik after the shower now if this wasn't bad enough my friends let me explain to you how bad it is if someone that's an idol worshipper Idol worshipper someone that's Idol worshipper wants to bring a Corban a sacrif rice to the bet mikdash he's an idol worshiper but he wants to bring a Corban to the BET mikdash to God's house we accept it idol worship wants to bring Corban to the BET mikdash to God's house we accept it but Jews are not going to accept another Jew to go into the mik if that doesn't boil your blood you're probably not Jewish and they think this is a are you surprised we have so many natural disasters are you surprised we have so much suffering we think that kicking out a righteous Jew that's mentioned to have special protection in the Torah 36 times more than a natural born Jew Hashem says a Jew on his father a convert an orphan a wait on the father and the mother they're higher level than a natural born Jew the rambam says convert you have to love the convert not like a regular Jew you have to love him like you love God you have to love the convert like you love God meaning more than a natural born Jew and you're going to tell me you're not going to accept this convert to your mik to your fency mik with the water that God gave you and you think this is a Mitzvah you think this is a Mitzvah if the Satan doesn't have his signature on this mik I don't know if I'm a human being 100% Satan is signing off on this and laughing his way to the bank and we think we're doing mitv MIT if you can accept thisan you can accept from an idol worshipper but you don't accept a Jew that just gave up his whole life her whole life to go into yila to pray with you to go into your mik you're not going to accept him because he's a convert she's a convert I'm surprised hasm doesn't destroy the world just for such a thing last but not least these very same raban are lying to God in his face every day three times a day no less how it says on the ones that have never sinned the and theim the pious people the remainder of your nation the remainder of your Scholars the converts the righteous converts and then us meaning us wherever we are we're below the converts it's all levels of righteousness highest less and so on and so forth we Al means us we're the last before us comes the converts it says in so you say three times a day God give us mercy God give us good reward God give us a portion of this world the next World give us something how how can you say this in God's face every day when you just k out the convert that's higher than you from the from the M how you're lying to God in his face what will you do when the mssiah comes and he tells you to your face I'm sorry I can't accept you to alion to the Mount to Mount Zion I can't accept you why but I'm a rabbi I have a k we learn T every day mashia is going to tell you I can't accept you my friend because you're not my friend you're my enemy why but I kept Shabbat I kept kosher I kept I kept this I kept that I kept I gave why can't you accept me why can't you protect me it's the end of times atomic bombs on top of us why can't you protect me and the mashia is going to tell you because you rejected my grandmother Ruth what was she she was a convert the Mia's Grand grandmother is a convert you're going to tell them no no you didn't accept my grandmother she wasn't good enough to go in your mik you're not good enough to go lying to God every day if that's not aahan what is the truth my friends is if you have no humility you have nothing you think you're something you think you're something special you're wearing God's robe and pretending to be the king you're worse than lost you have to get to a point of realizing where you stand because that's the only only way you can get the and if you don't have the one main treasure that hasem has the one main treasure that he's giving in your hands other than Shabbat you're not even using you're going to show up to empty-handed you have nothing to show for it nothing why tell them I learned Tor great I did mitv great I kept Shabbat great I did this I did this I did this I did okay great did you feel God did you fear God no answer is no page 32 you didn't fear God worth nothing to me you're continuing to weigh the wig knowing that there's even a 1% chance not 99.9 1% chance is from idol worship it's 1% chance it's from idol worship you're still wearing on your head and you expect hasem to respond to you not only we expect to respond to us do you remember what we read after after after on the 10 days between and this is 10 days that we supposed to do serious serious chva but we don't ask AEM for uh small little things you remember what we ask for but not just the regular reg Book of Life no regular Book of Life is for the uh regular people we want to be written in the book of life like theik like the like the yeah this says we sinned but you write Us in the book of theik of the of all the greatest people thatu same book as him we want to be so we want hem to give us everything everything while we're doing the MIT of the Satan how how you're doing mitv the Satan told you go instead of giving money to the bride all of a sudden you're thinking about theet instead of worrying about modesty you're worrying about converts not coming into your sh you understand it's time we all looked in the mirror and realized that there's not that much time left Judgment Day is next week Judgment Day is next week if you haven't thought about it as a judgment day it's time you thought about it it's time we actually start taking things seriously who knows if we're going to be here for another year at least you know know that when you show up to sh you have something in that bag you have a little sh you have something to show for it you lived 20 30 50 100 years whatever you have something you brought something with you you have your no nothing now as far as the questions here I didn't answer many of them I'll them briefly in regards to the answering questions to other people uh during a sh this also has to do with if you believe that whatever you're learning is God's word you have to in essence treat it like it's God word so that means you have to pay full attention if God himself was here talking to you would you be texting somebody would you be calling somebody would you be socializing with somebody no you wouldn't be so trying to answer for example on the threads I see a lot of times people that are wicked missionaries and otherwise come on the thread and they try to say things they curse me out or they uh talk about about their Idol JC Penney or some other Idol they made up for the week and other people try to respond to them this is a Mitzvah from the Satan why the Satan wants you to address them why because if you address them you're not listening to the sh if you're not listening to this you're not doing this is a it's not from why because you came under the sh wants you to watch the for the sh he didn't he didn't create you to answer this heretic and then people say okay so why don't you block them I said you could block 500 of them 500,000 more are going to show up it's a waste of time you came to the sh watch the listen to the take notes of the let everybody else blow up all these Idol worshippers let them blow up and die it's aah to hate them these it's aah to hate them don't address them don't answer them let them write whatever let them continue typing whatever they want to type they want to curse me you want to whatever they want to do let them do it do not address them do not respond to them why because if you're doing that you're not listening to it's a waste of time on top of it on top of it you could lead another person that's listening to oh look my friend is responding let me help him out so now instead of you now we just lost one student now we lost two students cuz the other guy wants to help you next thing you know 500 people are answering this one heretic no one's listening to the that's next thing is one second let me just answer these questions unless it has something to do with this question yeah go ahead when in the middle of a shi oh I'm ident yeah it's a different story we're not in the middle of a shield T not in the middle of a shield T yeah of course you uh when someone some heretic comes to you you could always tell him give him a CD give him a that about uh you know it's about Judaism and so on point up to Rabbi singer Rabbi mrai myself Rabbi uh uh zitron who did a whole series about uh you know about Christianity and how it's all completely false no problem yeah but in the middle of a you have to make sure that you tread very carefully number one because Satan wants to interfere especially if it's a sh that could actually affect your in a positive way number two you have to honor if somebody's teaching you real Torah you have to honor them like you honor the Torah itself so ifem gave you a Tor he says this is my greatest creation I looked at this Torah as a blueprint and I created the world from it now rad was a living seph Torah therefore him getting cavod was a mitvah to give him cavod why it's like you're giving it's giving Cav to the Tor anyone that teaches real Tor you have to give him C because you're giving a Tora not them personally so that's also why you have to tread very carefully when it comes to talking in the middle of a t walking out of doing things like that because it's very very important for people to to know what's happening so for example when uh some people that come to the they tell me already ahead of time listen I'm going to leave early I have to leave in the middle it's best if you know that you're going to leave before the Sher is over it's best that you sit all the way in the back why so the less people see you leave less people see you leave because if one person let's say for example the room is filled it's 500 people and then one guy that's very very important very important businessman very important Rabbi he has his uh toothache he has to leave he's not leaving because the a toothache he has I don't know he has a appointment or something that's very important that he can't avoid but he wanted to see the he should not sit in the front he should not sit in the middle he should sit all the way in the back when no one can see him when he leaves and when he leaves leave very quietly why because everyone could say hey look this is our community leader this is our Rabbi this is our Gil this is this and he's leaving if he's leaving they don't know he has a dentist appointment they don't know he has a appointment they think he's saying this Rabbi is pul he's not good so they could say oh if he doesn't listen to him next thing you know you have 500 other people leaving so the same concept goes with you know making comments on the internet when you uh in the middle of a t you start making comments other people are say oh look it's more important to deal with the comments than the sh T so that's not kod for the Torah it's notot for the rabbi teaching it now as far as the um people we already answered that it's very important to know which level these people are if they're mean meaning if they actively look for Jews to get them to Christianity to get them to Buddhism or some type of ID other idol worship they actively do it stay away from them don't debate them don't waste your time stay away from them if they're just innocent bystanders they were born into it and they don't really realize that their whole life is complete nonsense you know their belief is nonsense then you should try to help them at the very least you know try to get them to uh know enough about the real God of Israel to get them to become noahides um but that doesn't mean that you lower yourself to their standards in the sense of you know be starting to do what they do you can't start eating non kosher food for the sake of helping this guy become a noahide or even to become a Jew you can't do for the sake of a mitvah so you have to know where you stand you have to know also your own strength and your own knowledge usually if you know them really well it's best for you to bring somebody else to do it because most of your previous life most of the people that you know are not going to want to listen to you they always view you before you did Chua before you converted before you became tadik or tadik as far as meditation having anything to do with a yes there's a uh common question about yoga is Yoga AAR and the answer is the root of it is AAR Rabbi Fenger from Israel very famous Rabbi in Israel he was actually a yoga Master very very famous in uh in that world before he did chuva and became a very uh well-known Rabbi and he says himself uh that the root of all of it is 100% so as far as Yoga Yoga is very problematic now you can stretch you can uh you know you can exercise but if it starts doing these sounds these specific types of meditations and thoughts and certain even certain positions that you take in yoga you could have serious problem in your hands so focus on traditional meditation traditional uh you know exercise you can do certain yoga moves as long as it's not yoga per se as far as the ones that are connected to um there's plenty of kosher ways to exercise you don't need to use yoga with all these sounds and and things like that um as far as the uh what is what else what else why uh why doesn't Hashem give us everything every day I think I answered the answer simply said is because we don't deserve it that's the answer we we are each one of us has a serious problem or another some of us are better than one thing than the other some are worse than the other point being is that if we want everything we have to do everything if we're not doing everything then obviously we're still going to be in this world if we're already doing everything that hasm will just take us to and we can hang out with andu so uh and also because everything you want is not necessarily good for you so that's another reason but that's all logical it's not you don't have to be a big genius to know this uh last but not least was the iced tea eating drinking iced tea That's not Kosher um this is a problem why it's not necessarily just the iced tea that could potentially have flavoring made from beetles and other bugs it's the problem is even more so than that the problem is that you only realized and this is a common problem that sometimes people only realize to think about AEM after it's too late so many times I have uh people young kids especially they sent me a picture of wrappings of their food after they ate it after they ate it oh can can I eat this it doesn't have a kosher symbol on it like well you should have asked me before you ate it not after you ate it so what does this mean this means that there's there there's a lack of because if you feared theem like you're supposed to you would know that you're not even allowed to put anything in your mouth not if it's just not kosher if you don't even know the if you don't know the if you don't know the blessing of what of what blessing to do on what you're going to eat you're not allowed to eat even more so if it's not Kosher so in today's world and uh it's it's there's a lot of things that are not Kosher in food a lot there worms there's beetles there's all types of bugs there's all types of different things that are against the Tora that you're not allowed to eat different pieces of animals um there's a lot of food that seems Innocent but in reality it's infested with things that Jews are not allowed to eat you know because again keep in mind that in the uh business World they look to make money they don't necessarily look to make you healthy or holy so they're going to try to make money or they do make money from literally every piece of anything that exists so for example it's not like the Jews where after we slaughter a uh you know a cow we take the meat we take the skin and pretty much the rest of it we throw out no in the in the business World they take all that other garbage that's left and they make stuff from it they make stuff from it not even just food they make other things they can make perfume they can make uh shampoos they can make uh different types of vitamins different uh flavorings and so on I mean they take bugs and make them flavoring for juice they take hair and make a different different flavoring for food they take all types of things they even take raccoon urine raccoon urine and use that as flavoring for different types of food raccoon urine okay they take anything anything that anything that exist to try to make money out of it everything everything they'll do anything and everything they'll take everything to make money out of it especially if the rest of the world looks at it as a waste because that makes it more profitable if it's waste if you look at something as waste that means you think it's worthless so if I tell you listen I'll pay you $3 for it for you it's 100% profit $3 you take it you give the guy $3 you add this thing this ingredient to food and you sell the food for $10 for $20 for $30 you now have built a very profitable business you're not thinking about is this healthy is this good is this holy does God agree with this none of that stuff goes so you have to check kosher you have to check what goes inside your body you have to you have to there's a few other things I want to talk about but I don't think I think we're out of time we already have already a few hours in um but there is a uh that Rashad that made a video about me uh there is a lot that needs to be said about it not because of him but just because it needs to be said in general about this whole uh idolatry issue with Christianity and how many Jews are falling into it unfortunately many Jews are falling into it to such a deep extent where they think that they're doing Chua they think they're doing good but in reality it's the at the driver's wheel Satan is making him feel holy look holy but in reality they're all rotten why because they're worshiping an idol so this is one of the things we have to work on uh so the next year that we do maybe we'll talk about that um unless you guys have any questions okay so as far as developments developments on um so first and foremost everyone that is just watching the Shure for the first time there's a whole series of this specific type of Shure this 60 this is number 62 or um you can watch the whole series each lecture is two to three hours uh and uh it's different topic each time uh go on our website bash.org uh b e z r a t h- s h m.org um or you can go to our YouTube channel just type in my name and you can watch the series this series M has saved many and so on um but we have a lot of really amazing developments at we have a couple of huge huge projects that have been in the works for a long time one of them is something I announced a couple of days ago which is uh the app there going to be a new application very soon hopefully within uh next week uh maximum two weeks hopefully I'm hoping it's very soon right around we're going to have an app that we've been working on for almost nine months uh coming out with all of my lectures in Hebrew in English and also RAB lectures uh and other people that we add to B other righteous speakers you know we'll add them to the uh to the team but this app is going to allow you to both watch it without without going to any Avenue not going to YouTube without going to anywhere else but it's also going to allow you to do what we right currently use uh SoundCloud for which is you'll be able to just listen to it and do while you do other things on your phone but the biggest thing that I'm most excited about this app is that it's going to have live uh questions and answers and testimonies meaning you're going to be able to ask questions on this app instead of texting me night and day 24 hours a day cuz no one considers you know sleep important in my life so they want me to answer questions at all times uh so you're going to actually have the ability to answer qu uh ask questions and the answers will be posted so other people can learn from your questions plus testimonies anyone that's been influenced by the shim uh anyone did chva anyone that converted anyone that got married anyone you know people got they sent me a lot of mail and uh emails and so on telling me how these shim have actually helped their life now you can tell the world and motivate the world and in essence become a partner in because people get motivated by real life stories so you'll actually have an opportunity to make a video make a video of yourself saying what you think uh anyone that wants to do it can actually already do it now and send me the videos and we'll upload it to the app make a 30 second video don't make a whole Milla of 10 minutes or 3 hours 30 second video minute video maximum and you can send it to me and we'll upload it to the app of what your story is how did the shim help you if you are if you're about Chua if you're a convert if you're a from from birth whatever or you could just write it if you just want to if you want to stay Anonymous you could write it and say Anonymous whatever you want uh but this definitely helps us and this is in essence another way that you can do kiru from your own story so that's another thing another feature is going to be in the app and there's also going to be other features in the app that are uh new and Innovative that I'm very excited about we also have a uh new website that's been in the works also for the last several months with all of these same features that we're going to have on the app but on a website and a few other things so that's also in the works we have about a half a dozen movies that are in the works one of them has been in the works for over a year and a Satan is doing everything he can to destroy it we actually had it ready once had the movie ready and then it got erased then it get erased that movie was about wigs that movie was about wigs that movie was about wigs and that got erased the person that made it quit and erase the movie no no not rash no just uh whatever whatever it is the point is that listen it's not easy to do it's not easy to do Satan pretty much treats you as a VIP client especially something like that we have several other movies about other topics very you know you you know I don't talk about uh Care Bears so every movie is uh atomic bomb of its own and uh has a couple of light uh things that we have that are more encouraging but in in general every movie is an atomic bomb to the to get you guys to wake up so we have mm working on movies we also have a plan we're hoping if you know to to do a few other things as far as CDs and uh as far as expansion a lecture tour but we need uh we need the Merit we need the Merit from sh because the Merit once you have the Merit the money doesn't become an issue when you don't have the Merit there's no money either so one of the things that I have a dream of doing one day is to open a m center pretty much building where we learn M 24 hours a day like a but specific exper specific focus on on mus called bet mus which the last time they had it was a couple of hundred years ago in the times of a bet that's my goal is to open a bet but not a uh wherever to open a bet M but for that we need some serious donators for all the things we do all the movies all the websites all the CDs all the packages at the end of it all it all requires your help it all requires donations so the guys that are still thinking whether they're going to get $50 or $100 you're not going to be part of that why because if you're still thinking whe it's going to be 50 or 100 you know that means in sh they're thinking whether you deserve to have Merit you know so people that want to be partners with saving you don't think twice you take advantage of the opportunity and that's the one thing that people can't get it around their head as far as what we do what we do because when you say listen your own forged some report I don't know this stupid Rabbi that said that uh I I I created the signatures or I talk about specific topics don't listen to him like you think about for what purpose do I have I'm not making money from selling you hats I'm not making money from selling you I don't know scarves I'm not in business I'm not going against I'm not betting against Weg companies I'm not getting any money from any company I'm not even getting money from you I don't charge for lectures uh the CDs that people are supposed to sponsor we give them for free we gave 40,000 CDs for free in just the last couple of months 40,000 CDs for free we gave 5,000 uh of those new Flyers that are supposed to be $6 each gave 5,000 of them free for in two week last two weeks all free I think I sold one for $6 in one of the one of the we don't it's supposed to be sold but it's not sold the kiru packages that are $95 to $200 depending on where we sell where we uh deliver it whether it's domestic or it's International I think in the history of the organization maybe we sold five maybe rest of them hundreds of them hundreds of them are given out for free free whether you're in Alaska or in Australia or in America or wherever you need kiru we have a package it's on the way we're not worried about money why listen it's God's problem so all of this is funded by people how we survive I have no idea no idea there's no salary there's no fee for lectures even to go to lectures people don't want to pay even like mosenu says even the Donkey the donkey they didn't pay me for which donkey the donkey that I used to go to MIT to go save them they didn't even pay me for the donkey the gas didn't pay me mosu is saying it so this is not new thing it's not a new thing so and the reason why we did it is because we listen to our rabbis a rabbis said not allowed to let money get in the way of chuva so if you tell if I tell people listen I charge a th000 2,000 5,000 10,000 20,000 to teach you tah that's going to help you change your life I just gave you all the reasons in the world to say no thank you and in shamim when everybody goes to the bed they're tell them listen so you keep Shabbat no keep no keep this keep that keep this keep that no why but uh Rabon was in your neighborhood every week yeah but uh you want to charge $5,000 for a lecture oh 5,000 for a lecture okay bring them up here I have to go pay the bill for it for what for making $5,000 for making $10,000 that's what this mishna is about you're not allowed to use the tah to dig into the ground as a as a tool to make money you want to donate donate It's Your Privilege one way or another hasm is going to pay the bills how it's his problem I have no idea just like he made a miracle for us in Hurricane the entire neighborhood was affected the BET next to my house at a giant tree destroy their huge gate huge gate they had maybe it's giving them a sign that they don't want anybody to go to this big Ness anymore I'm not really sure but uh point is huge Treet destroyed this gate there was uh trees falling everywhere some people lost power some this some a tree fell right in front of our house also maybe they're telling us don't leave the house stay learn tah you could translate anything any anyway you want but the point is is that everyone was affected we had one of the best shabbats we've ever had since we moved in this community did not feel the hurricane at all nothing one time I think for like me I don't know three and a half seconds we lost power and then it turned back on nothing so that's the thing it's hashem's business the's business so that's that's what you have to wish we could continue having the Merit to make sure that Hashem runs his business the way he's running it so the app the movies the building the website the CDs the posters the lectures the tours all that stuff it all costs money you want to be a partner you don't continue doing chuva continue watching there's no obligation whatsoever no hard feelings don't make a difference you do what you think is best if you think it's better to fund Hanukkah parties and buy alot in your enjoy you want to spend $5,000 buying an Aliah your enjoy you want to spend $110,000 to buy be a partner in t enjoy you want to spend $20,000 sponsoring certain homeless people enjoy enjoy you want to save so you have something to show up in sham with it's different story for that you have to have Merit for that you have to have Merit any other questions so in case uh you don't come to the sh tomorrow tomorrow sh is down the street in case you don't keep keep an eye out on whether there's going to be a sh next week next Tuesday most likely not most likely this is the most likely this sh this year today is the last year of the Year here um and after after after we'll see I don't really know how long it's going to be when we're going to do a year again when not but uh just keep I follow us on YouTube follow us on Facebook follow the website continue texting me 60,000 times a day and uh I'll see you soon amen amen [Music] [Applause] [Music] n he [Music]