Learning To Judge - Jewish HaShkafa (43)

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preparation of the holiday hence the reason why unlike pesak which is called P because that's the the day of the holiday itself or or sukot that's the day of the holiday itself or or Yip all of these other holidays that we have in Judaism are called for the holiday itself but sh is called after the preparation meaning shabat means weeks the seven weeks of preparation for the acceptance of the Torah itself each one of us has to get prepared uh get prepared for this holiday we should have already been prepared over the last uh 6 weeks uh but anyone that hasn't gotten the uh the message or hasn't understood what the point of sh is sounded horn very loudly asman said in a lecture just last night with uh that he did with that uh the sound of the horn was loud and clear for every single Jewish Nish in the world that uh it's time to get prepared for and not get prepared with cheesecakes and what you're going to eat and where you're going to sleep and all of those things but rather accept something additional on yourself whatever you're doing accept something more if you are studying a half hour a day start studying more an hour a day two hours a day if you're giving uh you know uh $100 sta then give 200 if you're uh you know if you're uh saying constantly then learn how to shut your mouth if you're a stingy person learn to be generous and so on and so forth each one of us has to take something on ourselves and if it's not for yourself at the very least do it for the sake of the 45 sikim that were uprooted from the world that I don't think there was a single uh Jewish n that didn't cry about it and uh and uh even many non-jews cried over this situation and those that uh did not cry uh have to ask them you know do some investigation whether their nsh is really Jewish like this rash journalist in Israel named yon London that to him it was no different whether it was 45 sikim that died or 45 random people from Indonesia or China to him he says there's no difference he doesn't feel like he's part of the same nation and he's right he's probably if you look at his background he's not Jewish uh but unfortunately there are some people that areally Jewish as far as their mother was Jewish or sometimes they converted to Judaism but are so far removed from Judaism that they've literally uprooted their own Nish self-destructed their own Nish uh from uh from from the Torah from Holiness and uh feel no remorse to Jewish people no connection to Jewish people in fact many of them have hatred towards the T and uh this is many times starts because of the uh controlling uh uncontrolled desires you know and the that's part of the thing that um the Kish has been discussing of how one of the most important uh missions of a Jew in their life is to learn enough learn enough about the AL about the laws of Judaism to love the to love the law love the Judgment itself and many times you will hear people distort the judgment distort the law and uh you'll see that the reason for it is always the same which is because they are have not be uh uh toiled in toiled in the uh uh uh in the actual law itself so they don't know it or or because they have not fallen in love with it to the extent where they can remove their emotions from the uh uh from the actual equation where their emotions became their uh their God uh and their deciding what the law is based on what feels good and that unfortunately is no different than Christianity and a lot of other heretical beliefs out there in the world now in the uh weekly last week we had right after both double week in taught us the laws uh pertaining to money where uh you know if a person is going to use their emotions he's not going to agree with any of the laws that were told to us in the parasa which is when he sees a fellow Jew having a uh struggling financially he has to help him even more so if that Jew has a business you see him struggling you have to go help him give him a interest free loan and because it's your responsibility that all of am is is a uh you know is is doing okay if you are wealthy and you have fellow Jews that are in your facin that are poor and you're not you're ignorant of that you're completely uh oblivious of that and you care less about it altogether you will get judged for that you will get judged for it this is why it's not necessarily uh the uh number one wish of holy people to become rich many holy people actually wished not to be rich because it's a very very big responsibility to be wealthy financially uh but when a person has a lot of money and at the same time he has a lot of uh fellow Jews around him that are struggling that can't make ends meet and uh he cares less about it that's a very very difficult judgment that that person's going to get but nonetheless the torat tells us that uh if you see a fellow Jew struggling you have to help him if you uh ignore that he gets himself into further trouble to the point where he becomes a slave to a non-jew you are now responsible to go help that person you're responsible to go help that person and free him from that slave y but many times people say okay you know what I'll help a fellow Jew but I'm going to I'm going to lend him money and I'm going to charge him interest this is the reason why the Torah tells us specifically in the same that you're not allowed to charge a Jew interest not allowed to charge a Jew interest now the uh the um says that since the on a Jew that violat Shabbat according to the Rabat Chapter 30 last and also the in at least a half a dozen places and many of the other Pim say that a Jew that desecrates Shabbat on purpose is considered a idol worshipper and even Moshe Feinstein that discussed this issue in regards to M Shabbat many people misinterpret what ra MOS Feinstein said to say that as if ra MOS Feinstein you know said that everyone that's AABB is a is a captured baby you could just uh you know you know include them in giving them alot and treat him like every other fell Jew this is a complete Distortion of what MOS Feinstein said he only said that you can include them in certain ceremonies but nonetheless he specifically and literally writes they are still not considered part of Cl is as far as uh you know a uh uh in regards to using them as a witness for a wedding or for any type of judicial ceremony they still have no share of the world to come but nonetheless you don't have to kick them out or mistreat them in any way you have to bring them closer but unfortunately many people's emotions get touched by this specific ala about a person that a Jew that desecrates Shabbat being considered an idol worshipper so what do they do they just you know disregard the law and put whatever they want on there and sometimes they'll put a rabbi's name on there too because they read one or two lines of what the rabbi said but not the entire book of what he said point being is is that since a Shabbat is considered an idol worshipper according to you're allowed to lend him money and charge him interest you're allowed to it's not recommended to do so because a uh you know what if he does chba then you have yourself a pretty serious problem but nonetheless there is no permission to ripping people off not ripping people off that are Jewish and not ripping people off that are not Jewish even if the non-jew is an idol worshipper you're never allowed to do what these guys do and these girls do at these cash advance businesses that are charging them 40 70 100 400% interest and things of that nature that's never allowed that's 100% stealing but nonetheless a person needs to know that if you're going to help somebody only because of business only because you're profitable that means that you are in a very very bad spiritual State you're a very bad spiritual State because the Torah obligates us to help each other without profit with without considering prophet and even to deal with the non-jews you have to do it with reasonable Prophet not to rip people off and and practically uh uh destroy their lives now if a person disregards this disregards this whole issue of being honest in business and helping each other and so on gave us the following what and the starts off by simply telling us if you're going to listen to my laws You observe my Commandments you do all of them then I'm going to give you more P yeah how you going to give me more P if I'm lending money for free don't worry knows how to give you money even without the traditional ways I'll give you money I'll give you this all your enemies will run away from you and so on and so forth but if you don't listen you disregard my laws because it doesn't fit your balance sheet it doesn't fit your accountant's recommendation it doesn't fit your stock broker and financial advisor's uh plan you want to make a profit on your fellow Jews you want to ignore helping the poor you want to completely disassociate yourself from your fellow Jews as if you're not a Jew but nonetheless you act like a Jew because you have a keeper on sometimes you have a beard perhaps but if it comes to helping people no no not so much then comes in he says here are all of the punishments and then you have yourself over 40 different verses of horrific punishments that a promises promises to those people that don't listen to his laws and each one of the punishments is worse than the other with uh in in my opinion see you know you're looking at one after another different types of sicknesses that uh the world has heard about and the world has never heard about sicknesses that uh you know there's no cure to and if that's not enough and we continue treating hasem with casualness as if nothing is a big deal brings even more punishments and more punishments to the point where he takes away all the money he makes everybody poor and he creates fine which has happened to is unfortunately many times throughout history it's listed in the tanak quite a few times many stories of the starvation of am Isel before the destruction of the BET mikdash after the destruction of BET mikdash during the destruction of bet mikdash during the Holocaust and and even as recent as this today is Jerusalem day uh this was a famine in Jerusalem many years ago when all of these Arabs that were trying to kill am is and Conquer Jerusalem they were fighting trying to break into Jerusalem they had to close off the city and what ended up happening is that there was no food coming in and out of the city and many people were starving so you know starvation is not so far away starvation is not so far away but the people that get hurt from them are usually the people that were stingy during their life why because made a rule and the uh Shalom says that there is a very very critical rule in creation that implements and that rule is all punishments all difficulties that come to a person person's life will always be measure for measure meaning if you see that you have a a a a pain in your eye a pain in your head a pain in your pocket a pain in your heart and any type of pain whatsoever that you have and you want this pain to stop most important thing you need to know is this rule why because this rule can save you years of Agony years of pain and even your life and what is this rule a does not give punishment that's not measure for measure meaning if you have a pain in your eye a pain in your pocket a pain in your heart a pain anywhere that is because you made a sin with that body part with that thing that you're being punished with if you just lost a bunch of money that's because you did something wrong when it comes to money whether it's yesterday or a month ago or a year ago or 5 years ago whenever that time is only you know that and knows that but nonetheless if you just lost a bunch of money that could be because you made a lot of empty promises and you and you and you didn't deliver on them it could be because you stole from people it could be because you wasted seed and wasting seed is dispersing the uh the uh the shefa the sustenance that Hashem gives you all types of things if you have a heartache somebody just broke your heart could be if you're a view maybe you made fun of somebody that wanted to be a shid for you maybe you uh broke up somebody else's shid maybe you were ended up causing somebody else Agony you have an eye ache maybe you're not watching your eyes maybe you're looking at things that are inappropriate on the Internet or in the streets maybe you're you're doing things like that if you have toothache perhaps you should you know watch your mouth be careful what you eat maybe you're not eating kosher maybe you're not speaking kosher and so on and so forth every time you have any type of Agony you have to check that body part check that thing why because that's the whole point if it wasn't for this particular principle in the creation itself says there would be no point to hurting people there be no point all pain would simply be for no for no reason would create how would a person do Chua if he doesn't know what to do Chua for but the the hint that gives us he talks to us in his actions you have a pain somewhere you lost somewhere check that part check it and check it and he say oh I didn't find I didn't find I check I didn't find I was koshering this I was koshering this I was koshering this then that means you have to go to the says a person that sees SE suffering in his life has to check his actions check his actions I did check Rabbi and I didn't find so says he checked and he didn't find he should look at it as as if it's t t meaning he wasted his time and didn't learn T she wasted her time didn't learn T says no no but I watch a all the time no no that's not what it means comes the and says no it doesn't mean that you didn't learn uh that you wasted your time with toah it means you didn't learn enough about what you need to learn to know enough about what you're doing wrong meaning whatever you're learning is simply not enough altogether because you obviously don't even know that what you're doing is wrong you're still thinking that you should judge the law based on your emotions and unfortunately this is because many times people like a certain type of Dasha lecture a certain type of a book a certain type of teaching and they want to learn everything about am you ask them about what is the of family Purity they don't know anything what is the of Shabbat they don't know anything you come to their house you see on Shabbat they're violating Shabbat on Shabbat while saying shabbat shalom why cuz they don't know the Shabbat you know she'll adjust the pl oh no no it's not warm enough let me let me hide a temperature it was already turned on before Shabbat she thinks she could increase the temperature of the Plata uh on Shabbat so she doesn't she's saying shabbat shalom but she's cooking on Shabbat or worse yet you see some people completely ignoring ignoring K ignoring all the laws of Kash they just eat anywhere no Rabbi I don't eat meat anywhere I uh you know I just eat the salads yeah but you're eating salad in a non kosher place it's not allowed no no Rabbi it's salads no meat in the salad I'm just eating the vegetable so that's okay right no it's not okay unless eating bugs you can find a K in it says you're allowed to eat bugs it's not okay not allowed to eat non kosher outside of the house or inside of the house and a Jew is obligated to wash his vegetables and remove all of these bugs and so on and when you eat at a non-jewish place you eat in a non- kosher place even if it's owned by a Jew but it's a non kosher place you know that that person is not careful with washing their vegetables to remove all of these different bugs and every time you're taking a bite even if there isn't a bug in there it's still a sin it's still a sin why because you're taking a risk and there's no permission of taking such risks so it's very important for a person to know these details even more so person conducts business he thinks that he's doing good business what is he doing he's a doctor and he says listen I know that this insurance company is not going to pay me $5,000 I know they're not going to pay me the $5,000 because every time this insurance company has the has the uh uh uh thing what they do they only pay me half of what I charge so what I'm going to do I'm going to tell them that this uh specific procedure cost $50,000 even though it doesn't cost 50,000 it cost 5,000 but I'm going to tell them it cost 50,000 I'm going to tell them it cost 20,000 why because I know they're going to Short Change me anyway and then hopefully I'll get what I want maybe even a little extra you have a problem in your hands you have a problem in your hand friend same thing with people that cheat and selling cars and things of that nature guy comes in says Hey listen I have a problem there's a little light in my uh car uh it says uh check engine check this he checks the engine he sees that really the only thing he need is a little piece of rubber a little screw that's missing or a wire and a fuse is wrong but he says listen I got to pay rent I got to pay bills if I don't charge this guy you know then uh something I'm not going to be able to pay the uh you know these guys the money and these guys have to feed their kids so this guy looks like he's Rich he's driving a Bentley he's driving a million dollar car let me charge him a few thousand for you know for checking something and you charge him something that cost literally a penny or two pennies or $5 or whatever it is tell them oh you have a serious problem sir you have a serious problem you're going to have to leave it here for a few hours I'm going to check if I can fix it even next do you know the guy falls for he doesn't know anything about cars he knows about make money the guy's a million dollar car you think he knows anything about cars he knows how to buy cars so he comes back a few hours later and he tell him listen sir I got good news for you I was able to get you the part everything is fixed check it out look and you're happy and the guy's happy and he gives you A51 $20,000 for what you did that great work that cost you exactly $5 you have a problem why you're a dishonest person and the says from a thing of Lies run away from last but not least what I've talked about many times people love to cheat the government whether it's the US government the British government the Israeli government or whatever government you have in any other country in the world they love to cheat the government they want to claim unemployment when they're already employed they want to claim benefits that they do not deserve they want to claim poverty when they're rich like korak and they do all types of things because they figure listen the government is Rich it's a uh you know they should give me the money why do I care what if I take an extra five 10 $220,000 from them what's the big deal they're printing billions of dollars anyway what's the big deal if they print an extra 50,000 for me I'm a good guy a Jew I deserve it like one guy sent me today says listen Rabbi right we're allowed to uh disregard the government's law I said no no absolutely not he said no but if we're Scholars we're able to he said even more so not allowed to even more so not allowed to goes yeah but Rabbi don't you know that the government that taxes it's stealing from us they're stealing from us by charging us taxes you don't want to pay taxes to the government you in the country that you live in move to a different country there's a law by living in that land you are saying with or without making a verbal statement by living there you are saying you're going to comply with the law as long as you comply with the law you're good to go you violate the law you're violating the Torah now you're going to say wait but some of these rich people from big companies they have offshore accounts they have all types of ways to shelter taxes and so on if you're doing that in a legal way according to the law the law allows you to have offshore accounts allows you to have all of these different uh companies and so on to shelter for taxes Estate Planning and things of that nature the law allows it therefore it's not a violation but if you just decide on your own that because you're a Jew you're not going to pay taxes or you're not going to do this or you're not going to do that khabibi you have a problem not just with the government with a why there's no permission for you to violate the law of the land you don't like the land you don't like the laws leave simple go find a country that doesn't have laws go find one maybe in Sodom used to be a place like that Sodom and Gomorrah didn't have any laws they had some laws but not the kind of laws that you want and we're going to talk about that tonight so there's a reason why we have right after another why tells you in the beginning nice come way one of these you know nice par talks to you about business do this do that you know like one of these nice lectures not like the ones like fire right into you within the first 30 minutes telling you about you know idol worship and so on no the one that says hey talks to you nice and you don't you know you're like wow he's such a scholar you know like one of those people looks like a supermodel not like this guy that's just ah right off the bat he kind of reminds you of somebody anyway the point is is that you have first tells you like a little tiny baby warnings like listen you should be nice to people Everyone loves each other all of whether he this whether he's help everybody nice beautiful right after it you look at the you want to start crying if you understand what it means who says if you don't listen you don't listen to what I said he's going to give us these horrible horrible punishments horrible punishments sh the the says seven ways for your sins seven because you each sin has seven different ways of how you sin punish a person Sevenfold he thinks he made one sin punishes him in seven different ways because of how much how detailed the sin is how detailed the sin is and he doesn't think that he's suffering because of the sin he thinks it's a bad luck he thinks it's the stock market dropped he thinks it's because of this it's because of that but he doesn't think it's Hashem so the punishment gets worse and worse and the sword continues to chase a person is and plagues chase him swords chase him and he still doesn't get it he still doesn't get it and that's why in chapter 26 verse 29h says in my opinion the scariest part which is you will eat the Flesh of your sons and the Flesh of your daughters you will eat meaning starvation poverty will get to such a point that people will eat their own children this unfortunately has happened to am multiple times destruction of the bet mikdash the Holocaust and other times this happened this happened has gotten to the point of ignoring the law to such an extent that they forced aem's hand to deliver the promise to deliver the promise of bringing this punishment this is also the reason why says that a person has to have kavana when he says blessings blessing has to have cavana on the name of Hashem what cavana should he have or should she have when they saying hashem's name with each letter a person is really supposed to have a that was is will be but when he mentions the the the word Elohim he's supposed to think that he meaning AEM te what's the attacking the owner of all powers and all strengths in the world every time I say aem's name I have to think and even say sometimes is attacking he's a aggressive AEM I thought AEM according to all of the Babas of today the the the people that are pretending to be rabbis that uh many times you'll see a name attached menace to them or some type of uh modern mentality tell no loves everybody you have you have it's in the it's in this is an obligation you have to think what's as soon as someone messes with him doesn't play games this takes fear of the almighty to a new level why to think oh I'm supposed to have all of the almighty because I'm afraid of a you know punishment and gay okay of the almighty because his majesty is all over the world okay I respect them okay the king king of this world king of you know okay oh I love okay but the think in so many words is don't don't mess with theem don't mess with him why he is your father but he's also your God and when you're not acting like a son or daughter he's God first and anyone that does the opposite of what the law is says remember I told you I'm I told you don't mess with me why because it's against your own good I'm a king and a king cannot simply forsake his own kinghood and his own majesty and his own name and he can't just let you walk all over his face can't why or else the whole thing goes into garbage this is a to all of doesn't matter if you're Safari you're kabad you're a breast whoever you are you think about A's name the you're supposed to have is that is he's not just the KE all powers are in his hands all strengths are in his hands but not just the strengths and the powers that will give you the Salvation that you want rather the strengths to hurt a person to destroy a person in ways that he cannot even imagine it's important to have that because when a person knows that every action you're going to do every time you steal money every time you about to commit adultery every time you're about to cheat lie deceive in any way shape or form is watching and does not let go of anything doesn't let go anyone that says a lets go gets an additional punishment this is an important thing to understand why because once you know this type of understanding about AEM all of a sudden the desire to sin is lowered drastically it's lowered drastically why who wants to mess with hem one of the places that people have a hard time following the laws of Hashem is when it comes to business and it comes to laws specific laws everyone loves laws as long as the laws are favorable to them everyone loves the laws that comply with their life you like that there's a stop sign on your street because you have children and you want your kids to be safe you love that there is police driving in your neighborhood because you know that if there is a thief or or something a murderer or rapist that is thinking about going somewhere he's not going to go in a place where there's police constantly uh present over there there you like the law that in essence obligates the police force to go in your neighborhood if you have a law that allows your business to make money in ways that other people can't because it protects your patent your creation you love that law you love that law so it's not so P it's not so simple to just say I love the law loving the law when it comes to tah means you love the law even if it disagrees with your agenda your logic even and perhaps even your bottom line Prophet the Kish continues here in chapter 3 section number 13 saying the following one of the main ways to perfect one's love of justice is to learn Rashi and to that's Gat Gat is the acronym for which is Rashi and then to regarding the so to learn the regarding the in general and the laws pertaining to the laws between men and man in particular so here the Kish is telling us already last week we have to learn to love the law to love Justice just like it says in the book of Isaiah chap the prophet Isaiah in chapter 61 verse number8 for amem who loves Justice and hates a burnt offering bought with robbery tells us through the prophet IEM I love Justice and I hate when somebody's donating money with stolen money don't come to me tell me you are a big b you are a righteous person and you're going to bring me some sacrifice to the bet mikdash some donation for the sake of t with a bunch of disgusting money why is it disgusting has blood all over it whose blood the person you murdered for it the person you stole from it don't give me that money I can't be a lover in Justice if I don't hate Injustice you can't say you love the truth and the LIE the same not possible either you love the truth and hate the lie or you love the LIE there is no such thing as loving both so for a person to get his mind to get her mind to that wavelength they have to learn the teachings of the sages if it's a man he has to get himself to a point where he's not just learning just lectures although the lectures are very good and a constant uh uh fuel for many nonetheless at some point you have to start upgrading start learning the weekly Paras and after you've done that for a while start learning why because thear will rewire your brain you don't learn the actual from the gar you learn how to think like a Jew hence the reason why non Jews are not allowed to learn gar why because they're not supposed to think like Jews they're supposed to think like non-jews and for them they need to learn the things that pertain to them which is the moral teachings that we have in the Torah which is and also the teachings in but unfortunately stolen water are sweeter as says and many people that are not allowed or are not recommended for them to learn these specific things they want to learn it and the ones that are obligated to learn it don't want to learn it that's just the way of the nature of the world all the time you'll hear oh yeah I have a girlfriend she's really religious oh yeah what makes her so religious she's so modest and everything well modesty she's okay maybe she's not up to your standards Rabbi as if I made up to standards okay then what makes her so religious oh she learns gar every day with her raban I said that doesn't make her religious that makes her problem why because she's not learning enough about her own obligations but rather she wants to learn about things that are not an obligation for her and therefore she is forbidden from doing such a thing is it outright forbidden for a woman to learn gar no it's not outright forbidden for a woman to learn gar if she has perfected the laws that she's responsible for which is very rare very rare nonetheless if a woman spends her time learning all the things that she needs to learn she won't have time to learn but a man on the other hand has to learn not because it's going to teach him the law but rather it's going to teach him how we arrive at the law and how the sages considered every single aspect before they told you what the bottom line is they didn't just shoot off the cuff and decide this is the law like the Christians and the missionaries tried to tell people oh look over here it says this and this and they mistranslate and misinterpret everything and they try to in essence make the oral t look ugly in the eyes of Jewish people because if the oral tah is true which it is that means that their entire religion is idol worship garbage so that's why their number one tactic of all missionaries all Christian uh uh people all Messianic Jews obligation number one is to make the oral toat look ugly in the Jewish people's eyes that's the main objective same thing with Sadducees and carites and other forms of Heretics try to make the oral tah ugly but that's the reason why says you have to fight for this T because you have to learn how to think like a Jew you have to think to learn how like a Jew and you have to learn not just the gar you have to learn the commentaries the rashi rashi is the basic Foundation of all commentary on the gar and also on the written tah and also tosot at some point you have to get to a point of learning TOS also why because TOS elaborates even further now generally speaking when a person first starts learning he doesn't learn to he learns just Rashi you go to the sh at least once if not more with just Rashi and then you learn other commentators the tosot and others why because if you do everybody at once you're never going to get through it you're never going to get an idea it's going to take you a million years to finish you have to go through the material you have to go through the material and then little by little add more more to it many times people take on too many things and they end up completing nothing 15 years he's learning he's still in still on one tractate you have I have students already finished half the in one case I have one guy but he's going to finish the Shaz this year in the next couple of months this guy is serious about everything he is learning everything he possibly can every waking hour and he's going to complete the sh why because he's following what the instructions are he's not playing any games but nonetheless many times you have some people that they want to be bigger than the sages big bigger than everybody else they want to swallow up the whole tah in one day doesn't work that way so you have to take things in uh in steps you have to have guidance from some that knows what he's doing or at least someone that knows how to teach and nonetheless follow this regiment also the says it's a mistake for people to learn two tractates of g at the same time why someone came came to rebi reos and asked them a question and one of the other other sages said to them what are you doing how could you be asking the rebi a question about this tractate when you see him learning a different tractate the rebi doesn't learn two tractates at once if the one that wrote the mishna the foundation of our is is the Mish he didn't learn two tractates at the same time you little puny guy want to learn two tractates at the same time and you know sometimes people have such a big ego when you tell them listen I asked you what you study you told me you're studying three different track Ates reab didn't study more than one at a time why don't you change uh you know what I'll think about it they can't take any type of construction of criticism they want the whole to on a silver platter they want to be the St in one day people like that generally speaking never make it not only they don't make it to becoming they never make it to even where they think they can make it they never make it to even bottom L why cuz they fail they see that what they try to get to is unattainable and they break so you have to have guidance you have to have a guide you tell you what to do and how to do it and you have to be very very careful but nonetheless learning Rashi learning TOS is has to be on the to-do list of every single Jew for the guys for the women you have to learn all of the that pertain to you which is all of uh for the holidays and of course m is obligation for everyone but we'll get to that in the moment and he says that a person has to take this has his priority in life it's more important than your pharmaceutical job it's more important than your stock market job it's more important than anything else but especially the laws pertaining to dealing with people man and man you have to learn how to deal with people why because it's most simple it's the most simple to violate those laws cuz if I tell you keep Shabbat or else you're considered an idol worshipper you know that this is a law between you and God and if you want to be on God's good side because you want him to keep you alive you want them to give you money you want them to give you good health you want them to give you a wife or a husband you want so you're going to keep Shabbat it's not rocket science it's not rocket science even protecting your breit or being modest it's a law between you and God so you say listen I want to be on God good side and therefore I'm going to keep these laws but if I tell you listen you know that uh that business you have it's not koser you have to change the whole business if not completely change business either change the whole business restructure it or change business altogether cuz sometimes I tell somebody listen you know the way you're making money it's illegal according to the tah illegal listen Rabbi any other way I'd lose money I said okay change business ah come on is there another way said yeah change business no another way I said change the business either change business or change the business so if changing the business means it's not going to be profitable that means you have to change the business pick whichever one you want either lose money or change a job and uh you know make money some other way I'm going to find another rabby to give me something else second opinion okay good luck to you good luck to you and you see the person is still in the business 6 months later a year later two years later four years later and still has the same curse on his life makes a ton of money with no blessing still has problems with the wife problems with the this problems with that tons of money no blessing I met a lot of people like that they make a lot of money but have no blessing in their life why non-c coer business where sometimes you'll have something that is allowed you'll find a leniency to do to make it allowed but still you will not have any blessing on it even if if it's allowed why because just because something is allowed does not mean that you should do it I had somebody ask a question I've had this question many times where they say listen I have a job that uh from a uh Church they're asking me to paint the church or they're asking me to uh do the parking lot for the church or they're asking me to do the advertising for the church they're asking me to do something for the church can I do it can you find a leniency in to do something to hire somebody to do it or to do it but it's outside all types of leniencies in different intricate cases yes you can find a leniency you can meaning you can't find a way that permitted to do it should you do it that's a different question the question the answer to that is no why you will never have on that money you will never have blessing on that money never it will never be that money will always be cursed why you helped idolatry you helped a source of Tuma in the world reproduce itself in the world grow in the world for sure it's not going to be blessed money so you'll see you can make a ton of money and then it's gone either for bills or for lawsuits or for medical issues all types of issues but in the beginning the Satan makes you feel like you're winning why he gives you the church has a lot of money hey we're going to give you a million dollars for this parking lot your average guy is going to pay you 200,000 he want wants to pay you a million like sure what a great client this guy is yeah hasm is sending me blessings he thinks Hashem is sending him blessings in reality it's a curse from Satan but he falls for it because he doesn't ask the rabbi he only asks his financial adviser he only asks his wife that wants another house he only asks uh his emotions you ask your emotions you're bound to fail this is important why a person has to have a rabbi that he's going to ask everything and that's one of the things that K is going to get to in a moment and now he quotes So now that a person needs to know that he needs to love the Justice by learning regarding the in general and pertaining to the laws between men and men in particular as said what especially deepens and entrenches the knowledge is the labor and indepth study of the where even if a person does not become an expert that's well-versed in all of the one still acquires both the principle of subjugating himself to the laws and the recognition that the is the basis of servitude of hem and knows that it is necessary to ask a rabbi in regards to anything connected with one's daily life interactions with other human beings gives us an extraordinary Insight of the benefits of learning the laws themselves but studying them to the point where you're toiling you're breaking your head you're trying hard you're pushing yourself to study more than what you originally expected of yourself and even more than what you think you can do you're studying early in the morning you're studying late at night you're studying in between uh interviews in between different things instead of wasting your time you're studying why because that toil that effort is going to give you three major things three major critical things says first and foremost it's going to acquire you the principle that you have to subjugate yourself to the law this perhaps is one of the most rare rare attributes in the world today why because of people's emotions many times you have people making their decisions in life based on their emotions and what ends up happening is that your emot emotions tend to steer you the wrong way tend to steer you the wrong way and if a person does not learn how to subjugate himself to the and simply do what the AL says even if it doesn't agree with your emotions you're bound to fail you're bound to fail in such a miserable way that you can end up in gay the page 59a says that the after the destruction of the bet mikdash the Gates of Prayer were closed but the gates of Tears remained unlocked so comes the reab mik and he asked the question if the gates of tears are not are not closed they're unlocked they're not completely open but they're unlocked meaning you want to go in you can get in what's the point of having the door if anyone that wants to get in can get in what's the point of having the door it's a good question comes the mikos and gives us an answer mik says in his huge wisdom says to us sometimes sometimes that gate of Tears wants to tell you that I don't want your tears that's why I'm closed I'm unlocked for the good tears the ones that are really crying for legitimate reasons she's crying because our kid is off the D she's crying because her husband doesn't want to learn Torah she's crying because she wants to get higher in regards to K in regards to she's crying to hem he's crying to hem because he wants to understand the TOs he wants to learn like a normal human being without falling asleep every two minutes he's crying to hem he wants he's crying to hem because he wants to be able to say without stuttering 15 times he wants to say he cries to hem for those people thear says it's unlocked you want to you you cry we going to let those tears in but sometimes there's crocodile tears the mik says sometimes there's fake tears sometimes there's tears of a wicked person that knows how to take advantage of people where she comes to the rabbi that's unlearned in ALA she comes to the rabbi that's very learned in socializing with people he's learned in communicating with people he's learned and making people smile and happy and she start crying Reby Reby my husband won't do this for me my husband won't do this for me I want this and I want that and in reality the truth is she has her eyes on some other guy in reality she just wants him to give her the money so she can go away and do whatever she wants but she can't tell the Rob by this she knows the guy's not a complete aicos he can't give her a say listen you have to give the get because your wife you know is a uh is wants to go with another guy can't get a get for such a reason if a woman says listen I want to go with another guy that's why I want to get can't give her a get yeah what do you mean but she doesn't want to be with them doesn't want to be with them that's her problem that's her problem she can stay without a get an auna for 500 years why punishment for being such a person such a wayward person you are married to somebody you stay married to that person why because you want to be with another guy therefore you should get a GU no that's not the way Judaism works but that's going to come all the feminists they're going to say no she has the right she should be let alone what is this a prison she doesn't have to stay married to him and they're going to go to the rabbis who don't know anything and they're going to start crying to him boohoo boohoo and get them on video saying yeah that's not right you have all these aun note it's not right that they're trapping these poor women and it's not fair they don't know the real truth they don't know that sometimes these women are wicked not all the time sometimes the guys are terrible sometimes the guys are cheaters Liars garbage of the world but not all the time but if Rabbi doesn't know the but he knows how to socialize instead he knows how to socialize he knows how to be friends with the girls what is he going to do instead of listening to the Ala he's going to listen to the tears he's going to listen to the tears the crocodile tears and he's going to say you're right lady you're right he should let you go he's a bad guy if he's not treating you right he's a bad guy he should let you go and da da da da da and then he's gonna make a public statement about it of how he should let her go that's a nightmare in Judaism why nightmare it's a distortion of and that's what ends up happening those crocodile tears that mik says the Gates of Heaven are closed for it they're unlocked for the righteous people that are crying for the righteous reasons but for those crocodile tears you could only fool the people in this world you can't fool AEM those crocodile tears will not be answered and there's a reason why that same page in right after it says anyone who goes in the the uh the um uh suggestions or ideas of his wife in the end will go to G so now the missionaries and the Messianic Jews and the haters of the oral Torah are going to have a field day with this verse say look see the woman is nothing the feminist are going to say look the the saviors hate women no not at all opposite you just don't understand what it's being said and what we're going to explain to listen to a woman that only uses her emotion is going to lead you to G for sure why women are emotional much more than men typically with the exception a little bit of some men in this generation women are generally very emotional very hormonal and if you're going to listen to her every time our hormones kick up every time she has an emotion decision she's going to tell you no stay with me stay with me never go to never learn never do anything guess what you and her are going to go to get simple if your woman if your wife is aik she pushes you to go learn T she pushes you to go do of course listen to her that's that's that's the best woman in the world it's going to help you but if you're going to listen to the type of woman that's being talked about here that has cries crocodile tears because she's emotional she wants you to feel bad for the baby why she wants you to feel bad for the baby baby's fine he eats he drinks everything is good yeah but it's uncomfortable for him that you're in the room when I'm changing his diaper what he's 3 months old what feels uncomfortable that I'm in the room when he's changing a diaper there's women like this yeah I think you're traumatizing him I'm his father how could I be traumatizing my own son I don't know I just feel it I'm the mother I know that woman you're probably not going to go in the G on because of such a woman because that's what the also says women that are like this you have a very serious problem in this life probably is going to remove all the punishment you can have in G sometimes these women go to a bed Dean and pretend like they are a victim and if the rabbi does not know how to follow Al the right way he will fall for the Trap of the crocodile tears and I'll even go on video supporting such women saying look we should protect these auna she's auna for 30 years yeah but you realize she cheated on her husband you realize she just wanted to go with other guys you realize she herself does not follow Al no no no you're misunderstanding it you have to understand the women crocodile tears are not welcome in heaven but who's going to know that the rabbi that knows Al to the extent where he loves it he loves the law so sometimes the danan will look like he is heartless why cuz he going to see some girl crying boohoo boohoo he's going to see some guy crying boohoo boohoo about the business and how he took advantage of him and how this and how that but in reality he knows the law is the law that's it Cry No Cry Cry somewhere else that's the law why that's what the Torah says and that is a very very important principle in and that's what says when you understand that you have to subjugate yourself to the law you have to put your head down to the law and completely disregard these emotions of crocodile tears these fake emotions that are trying to in so many words make you a a partner in the crime why she wants to touch your emotions you have to know I have to put my head down and listen to what the law says not listen to her tears not listen to his tears sometimes you're going to have a guy big donor in a community big donor comes to the rabbi Rabbi listen you know Steve my partner yeah yeah he's good guy well let's not say that Rabbi what do you mean you guys just donated 100,000 for for for Yip just a month two months ago what happened something happened between you guys yeah Rabbi heard he stealing from me wow I didn't know that about Steve and automatically the rabbi believes them believes that Steve's a thief first of all he believes from a criminal why because he said about somebody else that's said automatically believes him automatically sides with him why because he's a donor he completely disregards the other guy why emotions very very important very important that a person know where if you're going to judge if you're going to be in the middle of marital issues if you're going to be in the middle of financial issues if you're going to be anywhere you have to know the law and you have to put your head down and understand with or without emotions I have to follow the if I don't follow the I'm no different than civil law and in fact I'm probably even worse because that's the stronghold of our tah that's the strong of our to we know it's emit we know it's emit but unfortunately many times people fall for this trap when it comes to money brought a where he says although in it says different reasons of why different prayers in our prayer there's a reason for each one of them but you could also have a understanding from the reason why there's a few of them that are one after another where there is a section where you're doing either the winter or the summer prayer where it says bless us this year or a handiwork this specific prayer that's for summer or for winter this is the prayer for sustenance for important to have kavana during this prayer people always ask for and different tricks you have it every day number one for is with every day number two when you get to this prayer have kav have kav have a lot of uh full Focus but don't just have kavana only on this one which is number seven in the have focus on all of them especially the first three the first three the uh the Mish says if you don't have kavana in the first three start over it's as if you don't have kav on the whole thing so you have to have kavana point being is you get to this one where it talks about the summer prayer or the winter prayer right now we're obviously in the summer prayer have this is for sustenance this is to make good living to have blessing in your money regardless of whether your income is going to go up or down to at least have the ability to use the money that hasm gives you to get everything that you need people always ask for more money more money is not necessarily the the always the answer more blessing is always the answer you don't necessarily always need more money to have blessing I know a lot of people that had a lot of money and zero blessing and a lot of people that have less money but all the blessing in the world it's all about having blessing having in the money so here's one of the places where you could pray for it after that prayer after that prayer there's the the very next one blow the the horn the what's the is Gonna Come blood of sh bring the Salvation everybody likes to say mashia mashia mashia mashia now all these different things that people say we say it in our prayer three times a day in right after asking for good we saym bring mashia right and after that it says restore are Judges as in the beginning meaning have good judges good the that are righteous comes my dear and says to us why does tell us pray for p pray for mashia and then pray for righteous judges why because knows we're praying for p meaning we want to have a lot of money we want also have mashia so mashia comes going to have a lot of money and what's going to happen everybody's going to be a lot of us going to be a lot of money everyone's going to start fighting all this money mashia now Mash I want to have the money I want to buy the alah I want to buy this I want to live in right next to the mashiach's house everybody wants to it's gonna fight over the money he says when they fight at least give us good judges that are not gonna fall for the Trap of money are not going to fall for the emotions of people they're G to tell us what the is the real judges not like unfortunately some judges in the world today they fall for emotions they fall for for a uh uh the um ratings and that's unfortunately what happens in the world today where I myself was at a bed one time and we had a Dean with some guy that was a uh landlord and I paid him on time and I did everything I needed to do and one day I uh decided actually right off the bat I'm going to invest in his house to fix a bunch of things that he left broken so I fixed it he did not pay me back so we went to the bedine so you would think listen I fixed his house he's going to give me the money I didn't fix the house for my health I fixed the house because it was not simple to to to have it like this way doors broken people could break in and all types of things like this basic minimum stuff he doesn't want to pay we go to a bedine this corrupt bedine tells me listen you're smarter than him excuse me what difference does it make I'm smarter or not smarter yeah listen we're just gonna you know he's not going to pay you back why not well you're smarter than him you'll find another way to make the money that was the bed's conclusion three hours of my life they even took a fee for it and they concluded that because they decided that I'm smarter than him I think he's smarter than me and them because he's the one that got off free and clear but nonetheless that was their conclusion save us from such judges save us from such judges when I told this to my Rob he says your own please forgive them forgive him forgive everybody because if you don't they're all going to have to come back in a reincarnation and you're going to have to also and you're going to have to be the judge to do it to them so don't do it just forgive them already but that's the reality today people judge with emotions emotions 100% emotions why that's just the way the world is not all judges of course there's many D that I know fantastic people but you have to remember if you're going to go and ask a rabbi or anybody to judge for you to be in the middle of for you it cannot be somebody that's biased on either side because of some emotional connection why if there's a bias for sure it's going to be a corrupt judgment now acquiring this principle of subjugating yourself to the law is an extraordinary purchase in this life because once a person knows that they have to put their head down to the law of the Torah no matter what it says automatically that gives the person the fear of the almighty what is really the fear of Almighty Almighty what is the fear of Heaven the fear of Heaven in simple terms is this you're about to do something whatever it is business intimacy uh uh whatever it is food before you do it am I allowed to do it or not before you not after you do it before you do anything in your life am I allowed to do it or not what does hem think about what I'm about to do what does hasem think about what I want to do that's that is fear of the almighty that question that second before you do something that's if you don't find yourself asking ever then you should be able to understand hopefully that and you are not so such good friends we have to work on that asking whether something is allowed or not allowed before you do it that's that's where you want to be be that's where you want to be and and the subjugating yourself to the law the higher level of is that regardless of what the answer is you're going to do it meaning that once you find out that you're not allowed to do it or that you have to do it and it's not really what you wanted to do you're going to do it anyway you're going to do it anyway in the old days and even today some of the big ranim would give somebody a smik without giving them a test because really for all intents and purposes the whole test of giving a rabinal smik was not really based on a test this is a new thing new invention qu quite frankly over the last few Generations the way that you were given a SM was based on whether you had not knowledge knowledge of the subject at hand and even more importantly whether you had whether you had the book which is an extraordinary story life story of zil zil known as the to remain a Jew he says that he got a from one of the how he went he met him got a blessing and he was about to leave oh hold on a second took a paper you're officially a rabbi why why you didn't pass a test you didn't do nothing no no no you did everything why I know you have understanding of the knowledge but even more so that you have that you have fear of the almighty that you will ask ask a rabbi in case you don't know the answer if you don't know the answer you have enough you have enough fear of the almighty that you're not just GNA shoot from the hip and hopefully you're right if you're one of those people that answers all the time without double cheing you have no whatsoever if I know that you're going to ask and you are more than happy to ask and in fact you will not answer unless you know the answer you have you get and I've seen it with my own eyes how that have are World apart World apart from people that don't have and even if both of them have a you'll see that one of them has AAL with no and one of them has a with and you'll see that in both cases the students they have the people they lead the influence they have has a world of difference the one with no has a whole class of Heretics that remain Heretics and grow and become more Heretics whereas the one that has grows a entire group Community ofik why your students are going to replicate you that's your students are a reflection of you that's just a reality and that's one of the things that the big the big that are able to give a SM they know but sometimes you'll have some people say listen I'm a RAB I'll just give a SM to all my friends this is also a destruction of Justice because they're again working off of their emotions they figure listen their Bud needs a because maybe I'll get a job maybe I'll be more respected and so on and so forth they give just because he's their buddy they don't know if he has or he doesn't or they don't really care because they themselves don't and then you have a destruction of justice so subjugating yourself to the law is a multifaceted uh uh principle that applies to the rabinal world to the average Jew uh and even to the noahide where a Noah that wants to be righteous noahide wants to serve AEM wants to learn to wants to do all of the good things but one day finds out that he or she is not allowed to observe Shabbat like a Jew if the Noy wants to really do what God says they will immediately accept this from the rabbis from the rambam among many others and not observe Shabbat like a Jew because he's not a Jew she's not a Jew they may decide to not work that day because they feel like having a day off they may decide to have a nice barbecue meal they may decide to do a lot of things but they're not going to observe Shabbat like a Jew because they don't want to become a Jew they want to remain noide or they're GNA say no no I love Shabbat I've been observing Shabbat my whole life uh unknowingly but now that I'm already used to it I'm going to stay doing it a person like that is not serving hasem they're serving themselves they're serving themselves and they're doing things because it fits their agenda because they're not willing to subjugate themselves to the they're only willing to subjugate themselves to whatever meets their desires and unfortunately many times you'll see that some of those people become very problematic so much so they start teaching the masses toah as if they're Jewish and this unfortunately is much more apparent today in the internet world where you have people with a little bit of a beard and a keeper they everybody looks Jewish everybody looks Jewish and I've seen it many times some people have the masses think that they're Jewish teach Jewish books as if they're Jewish talk like they're Jewish act like they're Jewish but in reality completely not Jewish two seconds after that lecture is done they go back to their non-jewish world sometimes even go to church with their wife because their wife still believes in Yos sometimes they'll go to a all types of places the Jews are not allowed to be in and it looks like a Jew is desecrating the tah and they get themselves into very very serious trouble why because they're not really willing to subjugate themselves to the law they're just looking to use the law to fit their own agenda this is a very very serious problem but nonetheless this is for Hashem to solve there's not much that we can do about it but it is something that you probably have seen and it is probably something that you've probably uh heard now the second thing that says is the recognition that the is the basis of servitude of hem this is one of those statements that to understand it is to understand the entire tah why because if a person thinks that they can serve AEM in any other way other than following Al that person is an epicus and unfortunately today there are are many people that think that many people that think they could serve hem without following Al they'll tell you listen I love AEM my way you love AEM your way you want to follow all these laws you want to keep all these laws you want to keep Shabbat I don't keep Shabbat but I love hem just as much as you do and unfortunately you'll find many people saying the same exact stupid thing and believe it 100% believe it 100% such a person unfortunately will get punished very severely because of their Distortion of justice and their Distortion of the Torah itself no different than how the generation of Sodom and gomorah distorted Justice says in page 109 that the uh generation of Sodom and Gomorrah have no share of the world to come why don't they have a share in the world to come says that the verse in Genesis chapter 13:3 says that the people of Sodom were evil and sinful towards hem exceedingly the comes the and asks what is this double statement that they were evil and sinful towards hm exceedingly so a little bit of uh extra emphasis here says there were evil in this world and sinful in the world to come y Yuda comes and he says is referring to their lustrous sins evil evil has to do with wasting seed adultery uh filthy immorality means that they were sinful with their money they were evil with their bodies and sinful with their money that's how they did it now were they all just gangsters in the middle of the street shooting people in the face say give me everything you got NOP they were sophisticated elaborate goodlook people going smiling at you even if they're going to murder you 20 minutes later in fact they'll invite you they'll take you they'll do whatever you want until they got what they wanted they would do it in such an elaborate way in such a smiley way you wouldn't know that you're going to die until you were already too late and this is how they manipulated the law they manipulated their country they manipulated their entire civilization if you will and these people have lost their share of the world to come now how did they get to this point the says that saw that these people became extraordinarily arrogant because of the extraordinary Bounty the sustenance that the Holy One blessed this he gave them he gave them an enormous amount of money so much so that even the regular stones that they had in the street yielded Sapphires and the dust on the floor was gold meaning everybody was filthy rich but because they did not thank the Creator and thought that since the land from which bread comes forth is has dust of gold what do we need God for what do we need guests what do we need all these people usually you would give money Asaka in order to get more blessing but what do we need more blessing I already have $10 million and another $10 million in the way what do I need all these people so you know what no more people collecting Staker in our town anyone that comes to collect charity in our town that's it he's going to get punished severely and if the person came to their town and somebody gave him they would take that person and punish him as what happened to lot lot the uh the brother-in-law of abrah ainu he had a daughter that had a good heart and she decided to give to some poor person that came to visit and even though lot himself was a judge there's nothing that he can do because either he judges or they'll kill him too and what was the Judgment they said oh you want to be generous even though we have a law in Sodom not to be generous we're not allowed to be generous it's against the law to be generous no problem we're going to make you very generous they put her on a uh top of a roof put honey all over her body and released all of the bees and that's how she died slowly in a vicious death and that's why heard the scream what was the scream it was the scream of Lot's daughter who was generous that's how much they hated generosity why because they figured we don't need any more blessing we don't need more blessing we have the blessing we already have all the money dust on the floor is is gold what if somebody came and he already had money they said they don't want any guests why they have any money says the people from Sodom would put their eyes on this person and it would seed him next to a leaning wall right next to this wall and and the wall would fall on top of him kill him and then they like scavengers collect all the money like scavengers will collect all the money and their law allowed this why cuz we have a law that doesn't allow guests this guy's a fool he came here who asked him to come yeah but he didn't know the law that's his problem if he was going a smart guy he should have learned the law before he came into our town yeah but your law is unusual maybe it's unusual to you it's very normal to us according to them that's how they manipulated the law there were four judges and Sodom sh and there's a person who struck his wife or struck another person wife and uh he had some woman and as a result she miscarried a baby so what are the judges do according to the Torah obviously he has a very serious problem on his hand he has to pay a fine and so on you don't kill him you don't for doing such a thing but nonetheless it's a very serious problem it's a sin and Sadam and gorah and their judges uh they don't like such a rule why said listen he hit her and she lost a baby so what's the real loss here she lost a baby okay so he owes her a baby okay so now what's the law you give him your wife and he'll give you give her a new baby and then after she has the baby take back the wife that was the law of Sodom and Gomorrah that was the filthy disgusting law that they had in salon and gomorah when uh a person hit another person and blood came out they go to the bed go to the judges over there said ah what happened to you he hit me and I ended up blood oh so that's uh so he helped you out pay him eight zo pay him $8,000 why do you have to pay him $8,000 because he did Blood letting for you that's uh that was a uh a form of medical treatment in those days to lose blood today obviously we know it's not it's not right but in those days they thought that blood letting was a form of uh healing to remove all the toxins from the body oh so he helped you re uh lose blood instead of you going to the doctor you went to him he punched you in the face and you're bleeding a little bit oh so you owe him that was the Judgment of Sodom and Gomorrah when elel elel was a servant of abrah ainu he was a genius anytime AB ainu was not able to give a elzar was able to do it elzar came from saw that after he threw him in the fire because he didn't want to worship His Idol and abah was walking around the fire and hasem was with him so after that Nim realized this is not a regular person so he said to his own son elzar go with him it's better that you are a slave to abah ainu than be a king after me didn't want to do Chua he wanted to stay rash because he couldn't let go of all the money that he had until asav killed him but nonetheless he gave abrah ainu a present he gave him elzar elzar became the servant ofah became a so much so the says he's one of 10 people that walked into heaven walked into ganeden with his clothes on alive one of the people never died walks into ganeden alive so so wasad Kad and a genius so now he went to Sodom one time they know these people are so crazy and all of a sudden they jump on him and beat him up goes to the uh uh goes to the uh court and they say oh listen you uh what happened oh they beat me up so I have blood oh so you owe each you owe them eight zo you owe them $8,000 for doing blood leting for you so because a genius takes a stick and hits the judge judge says to them what are you doing he says listen now you owe me money should just pay them the money that I owe that I owe them that's uh that's a Jewish mind that's a sadik that's sadik but the point being is these judges of Sodom and Gomorrah were evil judges they weren't Outlaws in a sense that they just were like a mafia killing people without the law they weren't Outlaws they had a law but the law itself was corrupt the law itself was corrupt and what do you do when the law itself is corrupt it's a destruction destruction of the T and that's why a person needs to know that recognition that the Jewish the torah's is the basic Foundation of servitude of hem there is no such thing as serving AEM by violating the by not listening to By ignoring the there's no such thing if you want to be on aem's good side you have to follow the law if you're not following the law is punishing you who is punishing you now and will punish you even more later on now some people will misunderstand some of the teachings of the AR for example and the reason why it's not for everybody we say look the uh door of the flood got reincarnated so they uh they uh they got another chance that's what the Manis fredman said to some poor kid in England that has a channel on YouTube where he tells him that the door the generation of the flood good things came out of it because they got another chance but the page 108 has a mishna out there and specifically says the generation of sodam and Gomorrah the generation of the uh flood have no share of the world to come they have no share of the world to come so Manis fredman and his friends say they they they got reincarnated they're in a good situation and so on if he's even using a source he's misunder understanding it most likely he's not even using the source but we'll give you an explanation anyway in case you ever run into this says that the generation of Noah that got destroyed got reincarnated as the generation of Sodom and Gomorrah and again reincarnated as the b in Egypt that were slaves and died over there why why they got reincarnated several times if they're Wicked they destroyed the world the time of of Noah they destroyed the world at the time of Sodom they destroyed Sodom and gorah again they didn't want to follow hm in Egypt why doesm keep reincarnating them because it's a very very critical lesson there's a in the one before last says he loves those that observe his but his haters he pays his haters cash to their face in order to destroy them and elaborates those haters those haters that do not keep the Torah they keep whatever fits them whatever suits them whatever they feel like doing meaning they're religious in their heart but not in their actions I love hem even if I violate Shabbat I love hem even if I'm stealing from everyone those types of people that distort the law like Manis and people like him such people they don't go straight to G no will sometimes reincarnate them bring them to the world again in order to make more sins just to give them the pleasure for the good things they've done during their life pay them their reward in this world and then destroy them ultimately meaning that it says he's aggressive he's attacking why if you are going to distort his tah his signature in the world his baby you're going to distort it this way even if he has to reincarnate you and bring you to the world just to give you the reward in order for you to never see heaven for a single minute he will do it time and time again until you're paid in full in order to destroy the person and that's what he did and that's why the mishna concludes generation of the flood generation of Sodom these people have no share of the world to come how can you say they have no share of the world to come and they're going to gain them forever if they were reincarnated because eventually when they finish their reincarnation finished No Heaven no heaven and you can see they came back destroyed more they came back destroyed more each time they came back the wicked they were the and unfortunately they are the ones torturing us until today until today what do you think all of these that you have running the Israeli government and all of these reformed people in America and all of these anti- Tor people all over the world what do you think they just came out of nowhere no these are the same Wicked people that the says were literally Wicked that have existed since the beginning and Hashem disperses them in every generation a little bit a little bit in every generation until they're all destroyed all together when the mashia comes but nonetheless when a person decides to join those types of people to distort the Torah to tell you that you don't have to follow the Ala you don't have to listen to the sages you could just do whatever he feels good to you those people for sure are part of the of Love last thing in that section is that the says that a person that toils in over will know that it's necessary to ask a rabbi in regards to anything connected with one's daily interactions with other human beings this is a critical part of having a rabbi critical part of having a rabbi many people ask a rabbi RAB am I allowed to eat this am I not allowed to eat this am I allowed to buy this am I not allowed to buy this but when it comes to buying a house selling house usually they won't ask a rabbi until after they moved in tell them buy a car they won't ask the rabbi tell them before they invest in a something specific they won't ask the rabbi whether they should marry such a person they won't really ask the rabbi the biggest decisions in their life they don't ask the rabbi they ask their conscious they ask their friends they ask their parents they ask a bunch of people that are ignorant of Dua most of the time when do they ask the rabbi they ask the rabbi questions that they could find out themselves but they're too lazy to open a book this is the opposite of what it's supposed to be all the questions of whether you should eat something not eat something when does Shabbat start when does the holiday start all of these things you could simply open a book or go on the internet and find the answer that's what you should be doing yourself the big questions of whether you should work at specific jobs get married to specific people move to specific communities those are the questions you're supposed to ask your Rabbi those are the questions those are the questions that are the most important but nonetheless if a person can't tell the difference between one or the other what should they do ask everything from the rabbi they should have a rabbi they could ask him everything nothing is off limits and many times you have certain people that ask you everything and sometimes you say to yourself you know it's a a little ridiculous they're asking this specific question but nonetheless it's better they ask even the small questions as long as the small questions and the big question questions come together and it's not only the small questions because if it's just small questions then you know that this person doesn't understand what having a rabbi is for they think a rabbi is is a replacement of Google and that's a mistake a rabbi is there to tell you what's allow what's not allowed and how to lead your life and of course you need to make sure that you pick the right riar and not somebody that's just yesing you to death because if you just getting somebody just yesing you to death then you have a very serious problem the one of the the previous generation Jakob Elin he's the brother of the one of the todayis the uh the UHA of ponich and also the head of of of the so his brother Jakob edin was a giant KES KES and he lived in a uh a very secular neighborhood in uh Shon and uh he became the r over there and did a lot of good in the neighborhood lot of K helped a lot of so on his kids his kids didn't even know whether they were orim until they grew up because they never heard him say a single thing about Asim orim as being different they didn't even know what they were themselves that's how much Holiness was in his house his third marriage his third wife she uh she was a BAL Chua former actress former actress of course there were some rabbis that had an opinion about this opinion about the going out out and marrying a Bala that was an actress nonetheless but he had his a and he stuck with it and he helped countless people and he was kesim one time some drunk comes into the BET mid broken bottle puts the bottle in the neck of the r says come your Torah says that a woman can't be a witness why she's no good tell me right now Ed without a Flinch with the glass to his neck looks at this murderer in the face and says because our Torah knows that if somebody like you puts does this to a woman and tells her she has to do something she'll do it tells her she has to say something she'll say it but a real man doesn't care about people like you and will always tell the truth this murderer got shock of his life of Holiness coming out of of edin's mouth turned around and ran away that is a test May none of us ever get such a thing but nonetheless that is KES toiling over Torah to the extent where even if your life is on the line and you can distort the truth and you can find a leniency to do so no chance why that's the foundation of Judaism if I don't know it I ask the rabbi and if I am the rabbi I can't change it can't change it that's the emotions no emotions doesn't make a difference the Perfection of the Torah says the K the Perfection of a Torah scholar who labors in learning Torah Rashi to the books of and morals and acquiring good character traits is assured that his Integrity will remain intact if one has neglected ala and has not put in the effort to learn it there is no doubt that he is lacking in justness and is in danger of becoming an unwitting accomplice to an evil entity here the Kish gives us a subtle warning to each and every single one of us that if we all just simply focus on just certain facets of the Torah and ignore the actual law itself you're only going to learn M you'll become evil you're only going to learn the midash you'll become evil you're only going to learn the different kidish books you'll become evil if you ignore the you will become evil why because you will not know how to apply to your life you will not know how to apply M to your life you will not know how to apply the teachings of the sages to your life you will not know how to apply the teachings of the Tora to your life you will not know how to do it because you don't know the you have to learn the law itself if you don't you will turn evil and even a few don't think that you will turn evil because perhaps you're not that bright to come up with some grand plan perhaps you're not that clever perhaps you're not that uh uh don't have such a big mind you will become an accomplice says you'll become an accomplice to an evil person and thereby become a a partner with an evil entity as unfortunately is happening with different organizations and different people that are hosting these evil Wicked speakers and rabbis that we've highlighted in the past each one of them becomes an accomplice to the evil entity and even if they don't mean it even if they don't know it nonetheless they will be judged for it why you are obligated to learn the law you chose not to learn the law you were spiritually lazy you spend more time learning how to make videos you spent more time learning how to make money you spend more time how to look fashionable you spend more time developing your speaking skills instead of spending the time to learn the truth the law itself therefore punished you measure for measure by making you an accomplice to an evil entity and that is a hefty Hefty punishment why because now a person could literally be sinning and not even know it he was already sinning beforehand but now the sin is getting even worse measure for measure measure for measure May none of us ever fall on such trap but unfortunately when a person disregards the law and does not bow their heads to the law it's bound to happen it's bound to happen and it's important that a person know that these types of tests are not a new thing they've always been around and a person needs to understand that what and are teaching us is that the greatest the greatest thing that a person can do is toil over Torah if you're only going to learn Torah when you have a nice cup of coffee maybe a little marshmallows in it too perhaps some tea with some uh some peanuts in it like they do in the Middle East maybe a few cookies from Syria perhaps maybe some uh some nice a uh dinner waiting for you but still heating up all types of things you're going to learn toor you're going to watch a shy comfort put your two legs up hanging out chilling out as if yeah some educating myself but as soon as things become difficult no Torah is off I'm not going to learn under these conditions when I feel better I'll learn again you're never going to love the Torah if you only learn T when it's comfortable for you you're never going to learn to you're never going to acquire the Tor you're never going to love the Torah why T is acquired to difficulty at the end says that a person has to be willing to sacrifice his life for the sake of theah has to be willing to sacrifice his life for the sake of the page 100a says in the name of a person that starves thems for the sake of will satiate him in the next World sometimes a person will have to forgo a meal in order to finish his s and learning sometimes a person will have to forgo a job and thereby not have enough money to have a meal in order to study tah sometimes a person will have to make certain sacrifices in order to learn T and what does the Tor say about such a person if you do it you'll get rewarded you don't do it not only you don't get rewarded you'll never acquire the Torah period if you're only going to learn tah when it's comfortable for you you're never going to acquire the Torah for real never why because the Torah is bought with sacrifices in the previous generation Frank was the giantes also had a lot of respect for while he was still very young this P Frank had a lot of uh respect for but he also had a in his own household was a giant who his brother his brother Frank was an extraordinary KES Kash day and night he would toil and toil in Torah without stopping when would he stop when he passed out Simply there was no more energy left in the body and he would pass out how long throughout his entire life needs to get up go to the bathroom back to learn TOA shower back to learning TOA minimum of minimum of needs of this world all he needs is to go learn learn learn Lear when the whole attack of the Arabs Jerusalem happened the city was closed off so the food couldn't come into the city now before that any time somebody was toiling in tah one of the was toiling in tah somebody saw that this guy hasn't left his desk all day they would go outside get him a sand wi get him a cookie get something put on his desk and leave that's how it happens till this day there's always some sadik walking around the neighborhood or perhaps in the cola they see they themselves are studying or somebody else is studying but they see there's one guy in a cola one sadik doesn't leave his chair all day nothing he's just learning he's enamored in the Torah he might as well be a mount sa so what do they do they want to have some they want to have some merits they go they know he needs to eat he's still human even though he's practically an angel he's still human so they go they get something from outside they get a cookie they get a drink they get something they put on his Des they leave they don't make a big thing out of it Hey listen he's a cookie nothing they go they leave they like like literally like an angel that's what sikim do people that interrupt better off they don't do anything so when everything was going functioning okay every day somebody would put something on his desk he would eat that's it simple but then when the city was closed off because of these terrorists everywhere trying to infiltrate into the city Not only was food not coming in but people didn't come people didn't come to the K ra Frank would continue coming to the K every day learning T learning T learning T learning T learning tah but there's no food a month straight learning Torah surviving off of the crumbs he can find wherever he can find cuz there's no food anywhere there's famine whatever crumbs you can find from time to time survived on that for a month after a month of doing this he goes and he sees his brother Frank the he says look have good news his brother sees him sees what he looks like doesn't even know what to say he says look B I learned so much T I've gained look I become fat what is this fat for anyone who doesn't know learn this when a person starves one of the things that happens as starvation gets to a very detrimental point they start puffing up they don't puff up because they're gaining weight it's one of the few things that happens before person dies he was so enamored in the Torah he did not even realize that this is what it is he said I learned so much to I got I got fat over it cuz he puffed up that's a person you want to ask a question from that's a person you want to rely on that's a person that has dedicated his life to the Tora these are our sages these are our these are the people we look up to and wish we were even the dust under their feet this is what a person needs to know when they're learning toah they're learning from the books of such people they're learning from people that sacrific their life for the sake of the tah so when they say something they're not saying it because they feel that way when they say something they're not saying it because they they even think that way when they say something it's because they toiled and toiled and toiled and sacrific their life in order to arrive at that answer so if you follow what the and you go up to Sham and they ask you why did you do this you say I did it because the said to do it I learned it in his book I learned it in his he said it I did it they go up to Sham they see that's what you did you did it because he said it you're good you're good even if somewhere else is different you did it because that was the that you listen to that was a real you weren't spiritually lazy and just looking for whatever fit your agenda you listen to you're good to go this is something that a person needs to do and needs to acquire because even if you learn Al a lot you won't necessarily always be fortunate enough to be a someone that knows as an expert in says it you won't necessarily become an expert but at least by toiling yourself you'll understand the magnitude of the one that is a PK of the one that did toil of the one that did acquire 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