Orthodox HELLENISTS, Monetary Blessing, Meeting SATAN, The MOTHER TEST - STUMP THE RABBI (74)

[Music] to all my dear fans students friends uh today uh I was a little bit of a tough day I had to um attend a funeral of a dear friend I mean although it via Zoom needless to say it was still very difficult uh so so tonight's sh will be for Ben benaa raises higher and higher for all the he did all we have benefited from uh and the whole world did also for for Leah Janine SAR Leana David benis B oshri benis Aviva bsar Angela Aviva David Ben aiva Michael Ben aiva M sanaam Stefan Ben Karina Jonas Ben Sher Haley and also for for sh faran benis gab Ben and all of is especially the ones that help us donate generous do whatever they can to uh to help us get closer and closer to so we sit here today uh you know was a uh tough tough messages come every day but uh sometimes they're tougher than than even the tough and very dear friend of mine Shalom he uh he passed away today uh this morning and um really uh like to connect some of the that we have to really even just knowing him I um although him and I never met you know face to face uh we've talked quite a bit of times he although he was a himself and a serious he wasik you know so for all of those uh uh people from kabad I think that I ha kabad it's quite the opposite I actually have some friends from there but only the ones that are normal and good and sadik and really that was what what he was he was one of the uh past Generations kabik the ones that were serious sikim the ones that uh really the foundation uh was built on uh you know today's kabad has unfortunately several different parts and but the foundation that built kabad and got kabad to where it is today as far as uh you know the uh you know the many locations the uh you know uh billion dollars or so a year in donations and so on all of that was built on the back of you know different sadim in addition obviously to their rebies with whether it be the the Bal that started it or the laabi uh and obviously the uh the handful of other rebies that they had in between all of these rebies had uh sikim had uh you know different student different that uh some of them were extraordinary uh that wrote many outside of just simple you know just they uh not that is simple but uh meaning they didn't necessarily uh do like a lot of people do today which is just focus on learning the T and just things from many of them were experts in sh and Po and and uh really extraordinary and uh that was actually one of the things that I truly appreciate about about my dear friend Abraham zel that uh um he wasn't just a uh be in but he was also in you know in many other things he knew a lot of a lot of he actually knew some things both inish as well as Safari a few times he brought me sources from the benishai uh you know and uh quite a few other where you know what one thing that always amazed me is the humility that he had with we would tell me listen that uh you know he would say this seriously but it was always hard for me to understand him and many other uh serious tell me that tell me the same thing but they say listen he says you're part of my li every week I said why do you learn my what do you mean he said I watch your lectures I watch your lectures every week uh and every time you would watch a piece of lecture you would tell me listen I haven't completed this one yet but so far good job on this and I have a question on that or I have a commentary on this or you know different things and he would really like give me like live commentary on my lectures and you know when regular average people uh that are new to Judaism or perhaps not not uh very uh devoted to tah when they make their own opinions their own uh uh uh commentaries if you will on the things that we mentioned I don't take it personally ever it's a uh I think sometimes the people's commentary is silly but I don't take it personally but uh I also don't take it uh as seriously uh when somebody uh tells me he doesn't agree with the rambam or he doesn't agree with some G that I mentioned as a source that says something is allowed or not allowed uh because you know when a person doesn't devote their life to toah I mean they don't understand what they're judging and what they're criticizing but when tell me that they actually watch my lectures and they have commentary on it I I pay pay very close attention to it uh because I know that these people are devoting their life to tah these people are uh you know dedicating every moment of their life to it and they know what they're talking about and many times have gotten great advice and different sources from different that I've uh you know become friends with over the years with fantastic sources and and opinions and uh and and even sometimes telling me Oh listen over here there's something you said that's incorrect uh and they'll bring me a source for it and obviously we view it if they're right we correct it uh but the point is is that with with Rabbi zel he was uh one of those unique people he had a lot to say and he would send me these long messages and he was one of the only few people I would listen to such long messages because he had some good stuff to say so uh I would listen to his messages and um you know was just one of those people that you see that is he was just completely infatuated with the Torah and he he he loved it and is a just like David says uh that every he learned from everything and that's why would always say I learned from everything doesn't matter if it's a new person old person young person old person doesn't make a difference if it's Torah it's Torah and he was a very big uh supporter of of uh giving you know giving to people that doing K in every way that he could and um that was just that's definitely going to be something that I miss um you know because it's the world today is so upside down that unfortunately most people from from from kabad today are uh virtually disconnected from the real Foundation of kabad uh and unfortunately sometimes the real Foundation of Judaism altogether because they've God ified a uh you know their former rebi they have monetized the the teachings and really worry about money more than uh more than necessary and uh more than really even allowed uh to the point where you have countless stories uh that are really awful whether it's uh something uh as ridiculous as forcing their Kaa to to remodel their house which is a story that happened not that far from my house some crazy rabbi forced his K to you know uh uh fix his house and his kitchen and so on uh the poor people actually did do it at the end uh to some rabbis forcing their Kila members to buy everything from them like to fill in and muo even if they have perhaps better uh opportunities elsewhere uh or different things like that the Ridiculousness which we don't necessarily need to get into but obviously these stories come from you guys that you sent it to me and from all over the world you guys send me these stories and every story breaks my heart but it it happens and unfortunately there's a lot of those stories and we've spoken about them before but really the the stuff that we don't talk about anywhere nearly enough is the realing within and within in General within in general that are just pure that all they care about is T is the is T and and T and and it doesn't matter which way it comes if it comes with a black and white or it comes with a hat or without a hat with a beard or without they just love the to and that's really the real Foundation ofab that's the real Foundation of and uh you know so when you lose somebody like that it's a really a tragedy for us it's really a tragedy for us I mean I know that is in a better place a place that you know he's going to reward him for all of the beautiful Tora he that he learned and taught throughout his life that's not our concern the concern is that you're seeing that in a relatively short period of time whether you want to count this year being the corona year or you want to look at a the last decade or so uh so many good people so many have left this world in the last 10 years and it's like wow what an orphan generation kazal told us that we're going to be an orphan generation page 49b says that this generation is going to be in a situation where we don't have anything to rely on other than in heaven but in reality what does that mean you know a lot of people say oh yeah no no I don't I don't listen to the rabbis I only listen to hasem which is when you actually start learning a little bit is probably the most ridiculous statement to say uh in a by Simple by single person to say I only listen to Hashem I don't listen to rabbis is is an oxymoron it's like saying yeah I eat kosher Pig there is no such thing as I only listen to Hashem I don't listen to rabbis there is no such thing why because our entire Torah our entire Torah depends on the rabbis depends on the rabbis telling us interpreting for us what Hashem said what Hashem wants and unfortunately many times today we judge you know harshly uh we judge Judaism harshly because of individuals and in essence so harshly that because one Rabbi or two rabbis or a thousand rabbis did something terrible or bad or whatever it is therefore we say Okay so we're no longer going to listen to any Rabbi even if it's a rabbi it's not a associated with it even if that Rabbi is you know even if that Rabbi lived 50 100 500 a th000 years ago no I'm only going to listen to what's in the Torah and what I understand they don't call themselves carites but in essence they have that type of an attitude a carite that you know claims to follow the Torah by simply following the written law and there's nothing more ridiculous than that and even more ridiculous than that and and more harsh than that is when you have uh people uh publicly uh uh um insulting our sages our not by saying uh you know bad words or calling them funny names or anything like that but rather by treating them as if they're just like you and just like me and just like him and just like anybody and says something very harshly about such people he says that the uh the uh the sages from 15600 years ago the said that the previous generation thead the previous generation sages we not they weren't talking about they weren't talking about they were just talking about the previous generation he says there those previous generations rabbis they were like angels and if they were like angels we are like men but if they are men then we are donkeys and this is who's saying this some of the greatest sages that ever lived are saying this about the themselves they're saying that their rabbis and their rabbis rabbis are angels if we would consider ourselves men meaning them being men okay and if but if they are men if those sages are men they said that we're donkeys but not even the donkeys that are able to keep Shabbat like one of the sages had a donkey that kept Shabbat no no we're we're donkeys that don't know anything now the Ben come and he says anyone that thinks that even his own Rabbi meaning the rabbi from his own generation is like him for sure is a donkey so when someone comes out today and simply publicly disagrees or discounts or insults uh or disqualifies or does anything to less than complete honor and respect and fear of the words of the sages from the previous gener ation that is a uh not only a mistake it's a tragedy because it's a person that is a donkey that thinks he's human it's a person that doesn't know what he's talking about but yet claims to know it all and this is actually part of the damage that we have today where people do not have they don't have any faith in our sages uh and what ends up happening is that they decide the law according to their likings like if it doesn't make sense to them then they just go somewhere else and many times when we quote things and we mention things in the name of the sages and name of the Torah itself people simply if they you know uh you know if they agree with it great but if they disagree with it they uh will do everything and anything possible to uh to disprove it and to go against it and so on so when a person that valued the sages and is actually one of the few people that I know that had real leaves the world we see that in order to have you yourself have to be a little bit you can't just have and and be completely ignoramus you know to have have faith in our sages you yourself have to have a little bit of wisdom and the reason why this is very important is because the that we have tomorrow night the kanuka that starts that begins tomorrow night uh really is is one of those holidays where people you know don't understand why we're even having it because most people that celebrate kanuka they've heard the story we had the mabes and maybe there's a few songs about the mabes and Everyone likes the uh all the food that that uh makes you know with oil and it's delicious and so on but in reality if you ask your average Jew today especially secular Jews or Jews that are unlearned even if they consider themselves religious yes give me give me an explanation of the foundation of of of the holidays the Jewish holidays whichever one you want person will look at you what they all the holidays have in common said yeah it's very easy what are they what are they going to tell you tell you listen the go wanted to kill the Jews they didn't succeed now let's eat that's an Essence Judaism for most people the tried to kill us they didn't succeed because protected us now let's eat that's the holiday in in in a single sentence for most people and kanuka is probably the epitome of that it's the highest level of that uh in fact where it's a uh uh where most people really they've heard the story they like the story they play with the drle but in reality they do not realize that if they themselves were alive at the time of kanuka they would be on the side of the enemy not the Victor why because really kanuka is what is the holiday that number one is the celebration of the religiosity of Judaism the the religious Jews the the ones that were fanatic about Judaism fighting against the people that were modernizing Judaism reforming Judaism and simply ignoring Judaism just changing it and adapting the new behavior of the yanim the Greeks which is called mein to to to become in essence someone that adopts the rules of of the people around now the that one thing that we learned from kanuka is that religious Jews don't need to have an army they don't need to have large numbers they don't need to have special weapons all they need to have is and zealousness for the Torah that's that's really what a person needs when you have true that means that by default you have you have you have a lot of other things you're learning to every day but you have to also be zealous about those mitv to protect them to honor them and to make sure that you are living with those MIT day and night and when a person today you tell them listen you have to do an extra prayer for the holiday and you see that that person is a little frustrated as a result of that you immediately understand that this person at the best case scenario doesn't really understand what Judaism really is about at the worst case scenario he's a he's one of these people that already has become more Greek than Jew even though he may wear a she may wear and all that stuff the exterior is not really as relevant as it used to be because today the exterior is uh is perhaps one of the most leading misleading things that you can possibly have right now there is a organization that uh calls themselves Israel Bible center that is a Christian hardcore Christian organization that supposedly teaches tanak okay now in essence they don't call it like the traditional Christians where they teach the New Testament about Yos and so on no they call themselves as they teach the whole tanak in Israel now you would say wait how could this be what what are you guys doing in Israel why don't you go to America why don't you go to Africa why don't you go all these places where there's a lot of green no no they specifically want to do it in in Israel they specifically want to do in Israel why because their whole purpose is to missione now why am I highlighting this organization versus others because one of the keys to their success one of the the the traps the Mal that this this organization has is they somehow have manipulated and confused and have simply bought Thea of several Orthodox Jews that have decided to become part of their faculty now I'm not talking about Jews that are uh you know secular anti-tat atheists I'm talking about from the appearance from the appearance as far as the looks hardcore Orthodox Jews with the keepa with the beer with you see in the first part you have this one woman called fed Shapiro that has a a tower on our head looks like wow what a religious woman this woman is and she works for Christian organization which by default means they're missionaries so she is part of their faculty and in our bio it says that she's a lifelong learner of the New Testament how can you be a Orthodox Jew while at the same time being a lifelong student of the New Testament and work for a a a Christian organization uh then you have some other people with uh Hebrew names but you have also some people that unfortunately unfortunately are Orthodox Jews on their faculty and uh different people that uh are uh contributing to them uh and it's really tragic where you see that this uh the the guest Scholars that they have and so on are contributing to a Christian Missionary organization that does not hide its message they're not hiding they're not even calling Yos Yeshua like the like the uh the uh modern day Messianic Jews which are in essence Christians in Disguise they're not even disguising it they're calling him the full name that we're not even allowed to say because so has so much Tuma in it and yet they have found some foolish Jews that are considered religious by appearance to contribute to their cause to teach alongside with them this is another form of because this is another form of becoming Greek where you adopt the rules and the and all of the things of the non-jews and especially the ones that are trying to destroy you uh and uh but yet you want to keep up face and you still show up the synagogue now one of the things that people are going to tell yeah what's wrong with them teaching the uh the go what's that wrong with them with teaching uh the Jews about the tanak because if it's coming from a Christian first and foremost you're not allowed to learn it you're not allowed a Jew is not allowed to learn from a Christian there is no permission to do that he's not even allowed to you know if that Christian is a religious Christian is teaching about religion and so on it's forbidden completely in fact you're not even allowed to be within six feet of him needless to say not learn from him secondly uh if if the Christian is teaching you the uh the tanak they call it here instead of they usually call it the Bible that means that they have their agenda they have their message which is in essence they're going to try to show you which is you know yos they're going to try to show you Jesus in every single page uh you know in every way that they possibly can which again they don't hide the guy that's heading it this guy Le Eisenberg uh has a Jewish name and uh perhaps may even be Jewish by birth but nonetheless is a fullblown Christian that tells you he's looking to get you closer to his Jesus to his Idol so this is completely fidden so how come this uh these Jews that are working for this organization and other uh Christian organizations how come all of these Jews at uh Jewish Federation or APAC or uh or or or other places how come they're they feel perfectly comfortable working with the Christians and actually helping their cause if you will why the reason simply money respect all that stuff that's but how do they justify religiously By ignoring the Sages simply ignoring what the sages said to the point where they become oblivious to it and just looking for some Sage that perhaps said something that may be translated and interpreted in some upside down way to allow him to do what's forbidden according to the Torah and the reality is we have quite a bit of that and part of the reason why we have quite a bit of that is because just like said in his one of the he writes that The Liberation from the Greek enactments resulted in a cancellation of the anti-jewish edicts because really what the Greeks were trying to do is just simply destroy the toah they didn't want to kill Jews just wanted to destroy the toah just wanted to make everybody not religious by cancelling some of the MIT Ence telling people that we cannot have circumcision we cannot have we cannot keep Shabbat and the ramb actually writes also that we weren't allowed to learn to anymore so they made all these rules to Simply get us to forget about the tah and they also started putting some other practices like a uh making uh an obligation a new rule if you will for every Jew to write on his sh on any shaar that they owned the horns of all the cows and the other animals that have horns to make sure to inscribe on it I no longer have any part of the god of Israel and many of these sharim were not only that people would blow on but also they would use it for bottles for babies because the Greeks wanted this to be constantly in the eyes of the Jewish people from birth to death constantly be reminded that you no longer have a part of Shalom part of the god of Israel so they had all of these because they knew that if you see something over and over again you see an advertisement over and over you get the advertisement for for for all types of Filth all types of immorality all types of atheism all types of uh uh missionizing and Christianity and all types of idolatry you constantly get that stuff on your TV on your screen everywhere it's going to affect you it's going to affect you and that's in essence what the Greeks were trying to do so the whole War the whole war in essence was to cancel all of these edicts andar says that the Liberation from these Greek enactments resulted in the cancellation of these anti-jewish edicts not anti-semitic as far as trying to kill us but rather anti- anti-jewish meaning Foundation of Judaism to and then he continues freedom from the power of the helist the helist are the all of the people that in essence adopted the Greek philosophy the ones that are like consider themselves Orthodox Jews but work for Christian organizations consider themselves rabbis uh but invite Christian speakers and missionaries to their synagogues and their communities uh consider themselves kosher people but yet have completely uncos lives by spending their entire lives either cheating everybody in business or spending their lives watching sports and all types of things that are antithetical to our religion antithetical to our foundation so these hellenists the freedom from their power however does not imply that was released from the problem that was caused by these helist by these indeed the hellenists did not disappear their influence hutner says their influence and their presence was felt in successive Generations according to the style of each generation until today I add until today this does not change mean meaning that these hellenists these anti people these people that are trying to destroy the connection between am to their creator completely this these people are still very much here and some of them are clearly enemies where it's the Lefty liberals the reformers the the the atheists the uh the ones that publicize their filth like uh you know uh LGBT types of people and the those types of people that's the obvious ones that are against but then there's the ones that are less obvious the ones that are modernizing the Torah by what by doing things that are against the Torah how do you modernize the Torah by doing against them by uni unifying yourself with the Christians saying no we can live together we can coexist together not just coexist live on the same world but coexist together by inviting the Christians to our shs and having our rabbis go visit their uh churches and and their parties and having the IM come to our community and we go to their mque and so on and so forth those types of people although by the public they look like they are uh uh you know people that are innovators and and peaceful people in reality they are 100% helist 100% helist And it's not a uh it's not a mistake or coincidence that these helist only bring all of their father followers to Hell uh and that's the reality but they sometimes have a beard longer than mine and a keeper and a heart bigger they look like they're religious and everything else and the only way you can tell the difference is if if this person practices what Judaism really is because one of the things that Hanah really saved for us is the oral tah and the oral tah is our sages all of the tah that we have today came from the time after all of the that we have all of the oral T that we have today came from that time in essence the theuk is the celebration of our oral T of all of the all of the all of the all of the G all of the Giants that we had throughout the generations all of that is considered oral T the the different po scheme that we had throughout all generation all of that came after all of that is part of the oral tah even a book that somebody writes today that's a real seph that has in it is part of our oral tah and all of that came after kanuka and thanks to Hanukah thanks to that family ofik that was zealous enough to go fight for the Torah even if it meant that they're going to die in the process and reality is is that people that don't listen to the oral tah should not celebrate should not celebrate kanuka why because kanuka is the day that we celebrate commemorating your destruction Mr helist and we will celebrate in the future when you are destructed just like your forefather was destructed because he was a helist and didn't do cha and that's unfortunately one of the problems now how did it all start you see not just about having knowledge because sometimes you have people that have knowledge but they stay quiet they may not be helist they may not be people that are against but they stay quiet and one of the things that I really appreciated by my friend is that he always cheered me on to go and keep fighting against the he would even bring me more information when the time uh was allowed and uh quite a few times we would you know go through this debate different issues and he said listen you have to go save am is you have to go save am is you have to go save am said from itself how you have to go and publicize these things against these why because they don't know am doesn't know doesn't know what they don't know so these they look like they're religious they have a long beard they have a big synagogue they have a lot of things so the average person doesn't even know that this person is a helist you have to go do it and that's how my the rest of my dear friends that tell me always tell me it's a uh it's it's it's extraordinary but again many times people are against it oh why you saying it and so on and so forth so kanuka is actually a time where we see that wisdom in itself is sometimes not enough wisdom in itself knowing the Torah in itself is sometimes not enough why because yes that may help you practice the tah that may help you learn certain things but sometimes you need a little bit more as we saw from that we saw that P he is the one that saved not through his wisdom but rather through his zealousness is fighting for the Tora and the same thing happened really in kanuka where you have aad named Yad named y saw that her family which was pretty much the the last remaining family of mat that was religious last remaining family everybody else either became helist or just uh not uh sitting on their hands not doing much and Judaism was being destroyed in front of their eyes and this young girl saw that no one's fighting no one's fighting for it no one's defending it everyone's scared to death from the yevanim from the Greeks they were scared to death what they weren't scared to die as far as that they're going to be murdered scared to lose the luxury that the Greeks gave them because as the um the uh explained to us that the Greeks the the said that the Greeks in his inuk page 83 the Greeks would imp purify would imp purify the oil but not destroy the BET mikdash meaning they constantly put things that would make it impure how so how the purity of yavan of Greek of the Greece was so great say that they literally cared less about the Jewish body meaning they didn't want to kill us but instead they wanted to destroy the N of our nation how by giving the body by giving the Jewish body as much pleasure as humanly possible while leaving the bet mikdash there how they open up these stadiums and say why don't you guys come you have front row tickets for the new event at Sparta the new Gladiator event the new NBA event you have front row tickets you nice Jewish people you have front row tickets of the new NBA the new NFL the new MLB the new UFC the new uh H H the new everything the new G you're going to have front row tickets over there come join us you have front Road ticket you have your own Suite enjoy the sports with us enjoy the the the uh immorality with us they would constantly give them stuff and if that was enough they do what the Christians do to this day which is they give them a lot of money oh you Jew you don't have that much money you don't have as much money as Steve over there down the street that has a four-story house well you only have a uh a little Studio oh you know what we we have a lot of money we Greeks we'll buy you a new uh a bigger house than him just come to come join us and that's in essence what the Greeks did that's in essence what the Greeks did because they wanted to destroy Judaism similar to how tried to do it in the book of Exodus the says it's something very peculiar where said that he wanted to kill every boy every boy to have to be killed had to be thrown into the river but but every girl give her life make sure she love what does it mean give her life to a girl what does it mean means the little baby girl give us some massage give him AA the best food in the world for babies make sure she has a nice atmosphere brand new clothes give her mom extra food just to make sure she has enough breast milk and everything she feels healthy the best babysitters that's what it means the boy kill him but the girls take care of them take care of them the best care in the world why says this is no different than the Greeks what do you want you want to destroy Judaism not just the Jews he wanted the Jews want to destroy Judaism how he says the way to destroy the Jewish people is not by killing them he didn't kill us uh by the millions like uh like the Nazi Germany did no he wanted to destroy Judaism how did he do it said the newborn Jews the boys kill them we already have enough but the girls keep them and take care of them why cuz that way all of the all of the uh Egyptians can make sins with the Jewish girls and that way the Z the filth the the Tuma of the Egyptians can go into that nice Jewish girl and that way it's never going to leave that's it the baby coming from this filthy Egyptian is going to be full of Tuma yeah he may still be Jewish but he's going to have problems spiritually to the point where it's going to be almost impossible for him to save himself very difficult situation surely there are some good people that come from such situation but the vast majority of kids that come from into marriage if the parents don't do cha it's almost impossible for the kid to have any connection to why they have so much T so much T came in and that's what knew already he knew was a genius he wasn't an idiot he knew the way to destroy is by into marrying with their girls making sins with the Jewish girls the is and that's what the Greeks would trying to do get to come to the stadium to spout watch sports watch movies watch t filth go garbage you know enjoy the body work out do all the things for the body for the body by giving a delicious things that way the Jew is destroying himself and to make sure put the constant advertisement on his chaar on the horn to remind him just in case he wants to do Chua he wants to watch hasem took back his millions and G me instead he wants to watch uh you know the purpose of life he wants to download bash.org app he want to do any of that stuff no no he has a sh that says no no no no you already signed you have no part of the god of Israel and they constantly worked hard to destroy the Jewish n putting in such a situation that we were in a spiritual Holocaust A Spiritual Holocaust to the point where am is was afraid to fight not because they were afraid to get killed they were afraid to fight meaning they were afraid to lose the new house the Greeks gave them the new job the Greeks gave them at the church of idolatry the new uh the new girlfriend they gave them the new boyfriend they gave they were scared to lose all the material but then comes a a little girl amazing beautiful young girl named yit yit is known forever and will be remembered forever for this one act one act that save all of she says look at everybody even my Religious brothers are scared even my Everybody's scared what's going on here nobody loves AEM anymore no no we love hm quietly there's no loving hasm quietly she went offered her self to marry one of the top Greek generals said I want to marry you so everybody said ah the rabbi's wife M's uh daughter ah it's great honor they figured okay after the biggest Rabbi in the world his daughter is marrying the Greek General that's say that's the end of Judaism she came in and says I'll marry him and after the celebration she said listen let me feed you and honor you before he puts his paws on her and she started giving him to drink and eat and drink and eat and drink and eat until he passed out and as soon as he passed out without touching her without doing nothing she took out a nice beautiful and very very sharp knife to chop his head off she chops his head off she puts it in her bag she leaves freely because she's now you know she's very important now according to the Greeks they don't know she just chopped off her her Leader's head she chopped off his head she leaves freely walks in Freely she does whatever she wants cuz they don't know that their leader is dead yet and she goes to the Jewish people with the head in her hand this is what you're scared of this is what you're scared of a little girl like me can kill their leader and you're scared of them that's when the Jews realized the power is in's hand no one else has power only a who decides whether we live or die whether we have money or we don't whether we win or lose only a decides if we follow the T that means we have to not just know it we have to fight for it we have to protect it we have to honor it and that's when the fight truly began M and bav his sons followed and started destroying the Greeks in an extraordinary miraculous way that didn't make any sense to this day doesn't make any sense how they did it because it was all miraculous but what were they protecting they were protecting the honor of the tah they were protecting Judaism and today these this family this family of Jews is the reason why we celebrate kanuka this is what we celebrate throughout the generations many people ask the question how come we don't celebrate this war then why don't we celebrate the war it's such a miraculous War started with the girl then the father old man killed so I mean all of these wonderful War Stories why don't we celebrate the war because in essence the the war is something that seems more miraculous and if we're celebrating the miracle of the oil the holiday should really only be seven days not eight days so says we don't celebrate the war as far as the phys physicality of the war because the war although it was with people it was a spiritual war so to celebrate the war as far as us fighting and destroying and swords and things of that nature it's not we're not celebrating the right thing this was a spiritual war and that's represented by the manur that's represented by the manora and since the miracle of the oil where that the the Greeks made the oil impure which in reality we could have still used it for the manur but the was so zealous for the T they said no no we're not going to use this impure Oil we're going to use kosher oil now that Miracle lasted for seven days the little canister that had the oil lasted for seven days not for eight days so why is the whole holiday of kanuka celebrated for eight days seven days we celebrate the miracle of the spiritual miracle that we had in the man and one day for the war one day for the war seven days for the spiritual Miracles that we had and one day for the physical stuff why because that's really all they worth physical stuff is in a uh that's the easy part that's in hashem's hands the physical part the spiritual part the spiritual part that's in our hands we have to decide whether we follow asem or notm is not going to decide us not decide for us we're going to follow him or not now when a person understands that that s that donut that jelly donut or in today's world there's everything in it today that doughnut that you made or you bought that L that you made or you bought that all of those oilbased products it's not just to get your stomach to grow a little bit extra that's in essence another way to connect to the spiritual Miracles that we have have and we continue to have on a day-to-day basis when your little three four year-old kid says that's a miracle why according to statistics it shouldn't be every great civilization has tried to destroy us for all of these years yet they're gone and we're here and this three four fivey old kid is saying said well 100% C now we could only wish to have as much that's a miracle when a person understands what it really means to be a Jew he understands that the fact that you're a Jew is a miracle it's a spiritual Miracle when you eat the S it's not just about eating it and to enjoy the taste is to understand the meaning behind it because unfortunately when it comes to people that don't really know tah and don't really care about it they have a reformed mentality they have a reformed mentality so they tell you listen you know just like the old joke goes where the reformed Rabbi comes to the Orthodox Rabbi he says yeah listen you guys have a uh you're not as religious as reforms and the Orthodox Rabbi laughingly says oh really how we're not as religious as you says see you have a mitvah the you have to count the the days between after P you have 50 days to count 50 days of the and they uh you guys have this rule where if somebody forgets to do it one day he stops counting stops counting he doesn't count anymore he counts but he doesn't do the blessing we reform we we do it every day no matter what he says how do you do it he says every day I eat another donut every day so on the first day one dut second day two Donuts third day three Donuts fourth day four Donuts after week seven donuts and on and on on so the Orthodox Rabbi asks the reform wait hold on a second so what happens if you forget what happens if you forget one day he goes oh so from that point on I just continue eating the donuts but no blessing this is the reform mentality where they think they can do good but without doing the good that hasem said the way of hem kanuk is one of those times to remind us today that Torah and spirituality is greater than physicality it's greater than the physical war that we had back then or any physical war that we have and people should consider where they really want where they really want want to uh to to celebrate this holiday uh because in essence when you celebrate this holiday you have to say wait a minute that means that I am celebrating my grandfather my great-grandfather by following their Footsteps in being a in being a religious Fanatic in the eyes of the world but nonetheless a sad in the eyes of hem now when you have kids devoted to Torah when you have you know after their parents devote themselves to toah you can get gifted with Miracles like the parents ofan IIT were gifted with a miracle of having such a son where when he was a little boy in the uh the teachers it was the time of kanuka and uh the rebi said to the kids anyone that wants to go out now for a break has to give me an answer how many where can we see how many candles we light onuka now some kids may remember candles total you just added to do you know first day you have the shamash and the first candle so that's two second day of the shamash and two candles so that's another three 2 plus three is five third day is three candles in the shamash and so on and so forth you add all of the candles you have 44 candles so if the kid knows how to do math he can arrive at that answer in a few minutes if the kid has a good memory then he uh perhaps he heard the answer once before and he knows 44 right off the top of his tongue but if he is a a special a special that's dedicated to maybe he Merit to give an answer like r as a little boy as little yonathan gave which he says to the rabbi right off the top of his head in in the Book of Psalms 1247 a that says the the can broke and we escaped that's the source in the Torah of how many kandles are in the uh are inuka says a a is gatria the numerical value 88 hey is five p is is a eight and you have a uh so now you have yeah so you have uh sorry no it's not 88 it's a is is 88 not a so p is 88 and uh then it says the meaning the 88 was split into half so now you have 44 okay but little little rebi why did you say the rest of the verse says says because 88 broke into two that's 44 and we escaped we escaped the we went to go play we went to go play is a answer of a genius obviously that became one of the later on but it's not just something that you're born with this is one of those things where if you dedicate your life to Tora you may or may not achieve to become a big like you want to be a big rabbitson like you want to be but for sure you will bear good fruits for sure you'll have children that get closer to hasem and do even more than what you did for sure you'll bear good fruit because you dedicated your life to the Torah to the Holiness to to Kusa by fighting all of the Tuma of the world if a person fights the Tuma of the world he's uh that means that he's not only fulfilling the mitv but he's fulfilling them with zealousness and that's one of the biggest lessons that we see in today's world that people have a difficulty with is is how to uh how to fight how to fight this there is a p in a book of 11998 where it says each of your mitv we tellem each of your mitv make me wiser than my enemies for it's ever with me says to your make me wiser than my enemy now the writes inik in O 219 that in order to fulfill commentary on this particular verse in order to fulfill the mitv one can only do it can only achieve it with cleverness in order to be saved from the yet in his heart and the says in page 82b that this 613 mitv that we have in the T are 613 strategies to overcome that meaning that in order to fulfill the MIT you have to be clever clever against what clever against the that keeps telling you to go watch sports to go watch a show on TV to go with somebody that you're not allowed to go with to do things that you don't you're not supposed to do in order to fulfill the mitv you have to beat your how do you beat your the says simple learn more T because the more T you learn the more you learn those mitv not just obligations to do those MIT are strategies strategies to beat the yet strategies to overcome the desire strategies to overcome the evil inclination that keeps telling you to become a Greek the mitv are not just something to do but rather something that you can use to survive a weapon for survival a weapon for survival and this is one of the only things that can keep a person from being a a Greek because if a person does not keep Shabbat if a person does not protect his bed if a woman is not modest if a person is not a koser person either in his business or his work or his relationships and so on it's imposs for that person to hold on to a real relationship with hem impossible why because while you're doing things against hem your yet is taking more and more control more and more control of your life of your Nish and a person could literally become a hostage without even knowing that he's a hostage because he becomes so addicted to his yet and this is one of the most important things that a person needs to learn because the explained to us time and time again that it's not just the the helist that were clearly helist that converted to Christianity like today or that uh the helist that were atheists or Lefty liberal or reform no sometimes the helist look like they're Orthodox Jews look like they are you know religious people but they do things that are against the Torah they do things that are against the Torah and brings in the beginning in the preface of it where he says in the uh in the name of the uh in per in chapter 4 he says that the um the reason why the reason why we got to this situation of even the religious people deteriorating he says because the Jews and theim meaning even the leaders of that time the Kim in particular became LAX and uncaring about theot the offerings at the bet mikdash that the Greeks were inspired to stop them all together what does that mean we don't have Kobo today we don't have kot so how does this relevant to us when you go to sh and you pray right now a lot of shoes are closed but there's a reason why they're closed why you go to a Sho most of the time it's a social club most of the time people can't shut up instead of talking to hem they talk to each other and what ends up happening is that the sh becomes a bar the Sho becomes a social club many times people say I only go to Sho to socialize it's to that extent I even heard somebody that calls himself a Rabbi says that he only likes to go to Sho because he likes to socialize with people complete and reality is that we're treating the sh the synagogues as a social club like what happened at the time of the Greeks to so even when theim and not just the regular Jews theim the leaders are talking in and they're in essence very LAX when it comes to the offerings at the bet mikdash the Greeks said you know what these guys are weak they're not zealous like pinhas their forefather not zealous like mosenu they're not zealous like they're about their this the time to go attack them and the were no longer concerned with serving at the holy altar in fact got to a point where they started to despise the BET mikdash and neglect the sacrifices the rabis started despise the synagogue the rabbis started despising teaching the rabbis start started despising learning they didn't care so much why you want to learn now listen go watch what I did last year I did a year last year five years ago go no the now yeah there's a lot of but go learn everything else from before the rabbis weren't into it anymore the religious people weren't into it anymore and the Greeks took advantage of that and instead what would they what were they using their time for then what were they using their time they just sat there and looked at the walls no something took their interest away and what was it 2,000 years ago instead these Kim these Orthodox people of the time how do they eventually become hellenists how because instead of going to learn tah and teach T and doing allot and everything else the seph says instead they ran to participate in immoral practices at the gymnasiums and as soon as sports events were announced here we see that if you have a rabbi that tells you you should make a special prayer because his soccer team is playing over this weekend or he tells you let's go watch football together as a group in the kahila let's go and watch baseball let's go play basketball that Rabbi is a helist why because if you have enough time in your brain to go dedicate to sports that means that you're not spending enough time learning to because if you're spending enough learning to there's no way in the world that you're going to want to risk it there's no way in the world you're going to want to risk it to go waste your brain away on Sports and and and that type why cuz that's Spartan that's the enemy now if you want to go play sport for the sake of exercise that's one thing but to go watch sports especially if you're a leader youra your Rabbi and so on and so forth that's a problem and this is one of the harshest things that a person can possibly he if he's in that world right now why because he probably likes his Rabbi even more because he plays basketball with them because he goes to the uh baseball with them and so on but that's the problem that's the problem when a person himself is doesn't know what kanuka is really about he starts cheering for the Helen he starts cheering for the he starts cheering for the Greeks because he thinks the Greeks are the good guys if we do not want the events of 2,000 years ago to be repeated the events of 70 years ago to be repeated we have to start fighting fighting this mentality this ideology of the yet that tells us go and spend your life like the Greeks by wasting your n on Sports on on on all types of immoral things and all types of physicality there's no problem making money there's no problem making a living there's no problem doing a lot of things but there is a problem when you start crossing the line into a life that doesn't belong to you because all of that extra time aside from your job has to be dedicate to your family into learning tah that's it there's no time for sports and all these other things if a person spends a lot of time on those things it's going to be very difficult for them to learn Torah with real Clarity why because you're constantly in it you're constantly in it so with that being said we're going to start taking your questions I'll dedicate as much time as necessary to take as many questions as possible there's a lot more to say but I'm hoping that this gives us enough to really celebrate was supposed to okay so we have question number one Mike is asking uh judges us for as we learned from you well from me I guess uh but how does he determine the person's income relative to the local average income because $20,000 a year in Cambodia but not in Miami or does he base it on purchasing power or fixed standard like gold where is a uh opens his hands with no limit ations and he feeds every single one of his Creations he gives the ant as much food as it needs he gives the lion as much food as it needs he gives the human being much food needs needless to say he gives the Jew as much food as he needs now sometimes gives a person even more than he needs for different reasons sometimes it's because he sees that it's a this person has a good partner so the also says that decides what a person is going to get on until meaning the year in advance is already decided how much a person is going to get but what's not included what's not included in that decision is the money that he's going to get for the use of MIT why that's determined by the person himself because hasem pays for that full full full price for that meaning hasem could decide for a person to make let's say $100,000 for the year regardless of whether he lives in camb or he lives somewhere else obviously he's going to it's an amount that is substantial regardless of where you live obviously it's more in one place than the other but let's just call it he gives him enough money to be mid uh middle size income type of place uh types of living okay so he's not Filthy Rich he's not poor he's somewhere in the middle so let's just call that $100,000 nowm decides to give him that $100,000 but that $100,000 does not include mitv put money meaning whatever money that person he or she decides to spend On's hasem says that money I'm going to pay you back and sometimes multiple fold it's not considered part of that income so you made $100,000 you gave $10,000 in in a tithe or you gave a of 20% you gave $20,000 Hashem says okay you trusted me by giving my every time you got a check you gave 10% every got got check you gave 20% right for the sake of t for the sake of K so you gave that 10% what the reward is twofold number one it's a it's a reward that I said if you give you get protection if you give the says you'll get you'll become rich in your life so that's one reward but that reward doesn't have a time doesn't have a clock it could be next year it could be five years from now it could be whatever it is but in your lifetime you'll become rich or your money will be protected right that's for the M that's one reward another reward that hasm gives a person is that during that year he says I'm going to pay you full price for that meaning you made $100,000 hm gave you $100,000 you gave $110,000 Hashem gives you back the $10,000 how does he give you that that money back in many many different ways in many different ways sometimes it gives it to you from a place you never thought he's going to you going to have to get it sometimes he takes away a certain expense from you so in essence you end up keeping more of your money than you would have kept otherwise the point being is whatever you have left whatever you have in essence whatever you enjoyed whatever you have left as your net income is the money that Hashem gave you that is an Essence includes that mitv money because if let's say you made $100,000 and you're used to let's say having a $50,000 in expenses so in essence at the end of the year you're supposed to have $50,000 left not considering taxes at this point so if let's say you made 50 $100,000 you have $50,000 in expenses that means you should have $50,000 left now if you now decided okay you know what mathematically I'm supposed to have I'm going spend 50,000 out of my 100,000 right that's what I spend usually but this year I'm going to give M I'm going to give 10% for KY okay I'm going to go to.org or the app I'm gonna donate $10,000 right you do big mitvah now says now the money that you're going to keep is going to include at $10,000 meaning at this point you're supposed to technically keep less right because mathematically if you spend uh yet $50,000 of expenses you're supposed to have $50,000 left now since you're giving m in essence now your expenses increased to 60,000 which means that your income should be 40 makes it work where you actually end up keeping $50,000 how I don't know I do it for years already and somehow it all works in fact the money keeps going higher I don't know how it works it just works it's not something that works logically it's not something that works mathematically it just works now this is also part of the reason why I don't uh spend much time looking at my bank accounts or anything like that I usually look at my account once a month once a month which is the only time I look at it is when I have to give my M every month I give it on one day that's the only time that I know what I what came in and uh and uh what what I need to give M I don't actually don't even calculate what came out I just look at what came in how much do I have to give I give 20% and I I write the check and that's it why because that's all that matters and now how do I know it's working because somehow I see that uh you know when I went to Canada when I went to Canada one of the uh uh young kids that uh came to the lecture he says listen you know I love your stuff and you're good but you know one of these says yeah this your own ruen he's only doing it for money he said he makes a lot of money and he says I told him you're not even charging so I don't know what he's talking about but how could I defend it hold on here you go right in front of those people there was I think it was before or after the election I'm not really sure I told me me hold on a second I open my phone I told me let me show you something what you going show me I'm going show you my bank account I'm show you my bank account so you can tell your friend you can take a picture of it if you want so show I open my account on my phone and say here you go see here in the account there is a uh $1,700 out of $1,700 like $1,600 or 1,700 of it came that day meaning this morning I had zero like the day I went I came to Canada I had zero no money whatsoever my account but that money came up obviously $1,700 is not a lot of money but the point being is tell your friend that if I was doing it for money I think I would have a little bit more than that money I think I would have a little bit more now why am I telling you the story number one that there is constant tests meaning that at some point I had to see a zero balance I had to see a zero balance now is is the balance still zero no it's not it's grown how it works it works you dedicate yourself to hem you give you give you do all different types of things that hasm says to do and the money works and different times different people would send money or give money or different things for me personally cuz I don't take a salary from the organization so it literally I depend on a miracle from Hashem every single month and it works now it doesn't mean it's not hard doesn't mean that it wasn't big test at different times uh but the reality is that you see it works but it's not one of those things that works in a way where you could make logic of it where oh yeah I know that it's going to come in because I have this contract and I have this deal and I have that no when a person trusts in hem he simply shows Hashem that he trusts based on how he acts and Hashem says you trust Ed me I'm going to give you everything you need and if you continuously show me trust I'm going to give you even more than what you need why cuz I see that not only trust me by giving but you also give to the right places and you're investing into toah by your own time your own efforts and even your own resources AEM starts giving you even more than you need but that means that at times you're going to have tests that he has to see whether you really whether you really love him or you're just trying to see if you can make a quick buck with AEM by saying oh yeah let me give like $20,000 to the RAB and uh maybe hasm is going to give me 200,000 next month it doesn't work that way Hashem has his own timing Hashem has his own places where he does test but I promise you I've seen with my own eyes that when you actually uh uh trust in hasem he sends you money in a million and a half different ways in ways that you would have never even imagined never even imagin I have one guy that I know that uh before Corona virus he was uh barely making a living I don't know maybe making 50 60 70,000 a year 100,000 a year was okay was you know was fine it wasn't like uh but he lives in a very expensive place so it's uh pretty much there was never any money left so you would think like everybody else almost everybody lost money as a result of this Corona virus opposite Hashem decided to reward this guy millions of dollars in the last year he doesn't even know what to do with himself millions of dollars he was rewarded he did a lot of good things in his life and so on but hasem decided to reward him in a huge way another guy that I know before Corona was he told me himself he was making between 5 and $10 million a year printing money spending it obnoxiously but he knew he was making it in over and over again Corona happened his business went to zero zero zero literally why decided to take from him and give to him even though they're not related even though they're not same businesses but Ence the shef that hem was giving one guy he gave it to another guy why one guy was investing in to with the little that he had the other guy was investing into sports into to to car into all types of things says this is a bad investment so he switched switch simple this happens all the time but that means that both had their share of tests some they passed some they failed and Hashem makes things work that way so when it comes to giving a person surely the the the all knowing the the one that knows what's hidden the one that knows what's in our mind also knows not only what we need but also the per capita ratios and the society ratios and our liking ratios and our desire ratios and our wives ratios and our kids ratios surely knows all of those things and will give you based on your faith in him based on your faith in him in practice if you use the money that he uh that he gives you for the sake of his different ways use the money not just to give him staka I'm not just talking about staka say that's one thing but also the money you have you buy kosher food that's worth it for to give you more money you buy your kids more books for for learning to that's worth it forem to to to you use that money to buy your wife uh kosher clothes for modesty it's worth it for to give you more money but if you use the money that give you to gamble to to to eat non koser to do things that are illegal and things of that nature it's not worth first time to give you blessings so the way you see that is not necessarily with the income but rather with the the what people actually end up enjoying out of their money where many times you I see certain people they make a lot of money make a huge income their W2 or their 1099 you know their statement of you know what they show the IRS shows a big number like I used to have a huge number on the on the statement but what they actually end up enjoying out of it is literally a fraction of a fraction a lot of money goes to medical bills or taxes or lawsuits or all types of problems so the way you know you have blessing in your money is not necessarily based on income but simply based on your life if you live a life where you're not missing anything you have everything you need it's already a blessed life but I don't mean you're not missing anything where you're eating uh you know peanut butter and jelly jelly once a day not say that's your food for the week no meaning you're eating normally you're drinking normally you live in a nice house normally you have a nice car normally like you have the things that you would want you're not missing for anything that's blessing that's that's shefa that's shefa you don't need to necessarily live in a you know 30 story uh house with uh 87 garages to be blessed shefa is simply one thing for nothing you have a bunch a bunch more than you need perhaps even that's that's that sometimes is not necessarily Millions sometimes it is depending on the person but if a person is using his money the right way Hashem will give them such a life where they'll want for nothing whatever they want because it tends to be good stuff he'll give it to them so this is the real blessing and it's a uh and that blessing comes in a uh you know in in different amounts per the place that the person is living in if he lives in Cambodia he'll give him a life that's Cambodian type of wanting for nothing type of living if he lives in the United States depending on where he lives if he lives in La that means he probably has to make about a half a million dollars a year to live running for nothing uh if he lives in New York probably almost that as well three $400,000 if he lives I don't know in a in Utah probably needs $50,000 he's already rich it all depends depends where he lives but hasem is going to give him a life where he's want he doesn't need anything else and that's that's a blessed life sometimes hasm will give a person much more but that's for specific acts that he makes like I said thees is one of those things okay next question if she cannot have children then to dedicate her life to T and study and to invest in tal and would be imperative uh I guess you're answering somebody else okay Ethan when a person finds out to do cha and the next day they pass away will that person be judged as a Wicked person or righteous person so the not sorry was one of these people that thear says there was no sin he didn't make there was no woman that he wasn't with and uh this person made every sin in the world and one day the uh a prostitute that he was with told him that uh yeah people like you you you know people are terrible but you are the worst you have no chance of going to heaven and he said why he says look you're all you do is make sense so so when he got M from a prostitute he took it to heart and he ran to the mountains and started feeling sorry for himself and he prayed to the heavens he says you know oh heavens Oh Heaven please pray for me and uh help me and the heavens responded to him saying you made so many sins that you even affected us that we have to do pray for yourself then he prayed to uh the mountains and the mountains said the same thing and he prayed to every Everything said the same thing you have to pray for yourself and he realized that he he made so many sins that nothing and no one can help him and that broke his heart where he started crying to hasem to do chuva and he cried from he died from his tears he died from the amount of uh pain that he was in when he finally realized what bad situation he was and then a b call a Heavenly voice came out says welcomes he wasn't a rabbi he was just from rash but the uh the uh the the T that wrote the Mish heard this but call and says look someone can buy their entire in a single moment where not only he uh got a invitation to go to but also he was called now does that mean that skipped Gom and went to went to heaven no no it doesn't mean that it means that that CH that he made even though he hasn't fulfilled any MIT yet because he died that Chu was so significant that it wiped out his permanent punishment and now he has to suffer a certain amount and in essence probably has to be reincarnated in order to get to this but he has the ability to do it because he was on a path that he wasn't able to so if a person in essence uh let's say he uh says I want to do chuva and then he dies the next day which is not really common but let's say that happens then that that desire to do CH in itself it doesn't give him heaven but what does it do it eliminates the permanent G meaning it's a uh if that person was violating Shabbat his whole life wasting seed his whole life and was supposed to go to G forever that eliminates that permanent punishment they're still going to get punishment perhaps for a really long time but it's not going to be permanent because that keeps him connected to hem or reconnects him to hem and that eliminates that permanent punishment but this is very very uh uh uncommon and one of the reasons is is that the and several other places talk about how one of the things that the Satan does is that the uh the moments before the hour before a person dies the Satan shows up to the person and that person that's about to die is the only one that sees the Satan he's the only one that sees him and the Satan is huge and as scary as can humanly be scary as humanly imaginable Beyond humanly imaginable he's enormous he reaches the sky he's full of eyes he's got this uh special type of uh knife and on the tip of the knife there's a drop and that drop uh is what kills a person and he scares the person he says listen if you don't want me to kill you say you don't believe in hasem say you regret the me what that you did depending on whether the person was religious or not so in essence he tells a person to uh be a heretic last minute be a heretic last minute because he says if you do that I willon kill you and even if the person does it he still kills it but the person is so scared that uh he uh sometimes he becomes a heretic last minute that's why the you'll see it in several books uh where the discuss where a person should actually make a um a statement to his friends or family that's next to him and tell him listen uh if I'm ever at a point where I'm going to die if you hear some heretical remarks coming from me like I don't believe in God don't uh don't believe me it's complete nonsense don't take what I say as a real truth it's complete nonsense I went crazy so this is one of the statements the has told us to do because it is possible that the uh the and likely the Satan comes to every single person and threatens him by telling him that listen if you go against theem now I won't kill you now the minute that the person either goes against theem or withstand the test that drop falls into that person's mouth and the person dies and that's actually what makes the person uh the body smell that drop of uh of from the Satan makes the the body uh smell after he dies but the point is that so for a for a person to uh to think that they are going to live a sinful life like bam but yet they're going to do Chua a minute before they died or or day before they died is uh not only far-fetched it is extremely unlikely extremely unlikely why because even the righteous are tested with that test I just described with the Satan coming in the last moment needless to say uh it's hard for them but they pass it surely a person that didn't connect himself to God is much more likely to to fail and there actually some life stories that said in several lectures where he says I saw with my own eyes people that went against hem in the last minutes before they died even though they lived a religious life he said I heard it I saw it with my own eyes so this is not like some fairy tale you reading books this is stuff that if you're around people that die you get to see some of this stuff where they start saying things that are ridiculous uh moments before they die and uh and it's that's that's actually what's happening so a person should not depend on their last moments to do chuva uh because uh it's very unlikely very very unlikely uh next question um what should a person do if he or she wants to be a righteous Gentile uh but the spouse doesn't want to be she or he uh should they uh leave or stay and keep uh budging uh or change their mind uh well it all depends on why their spouse does not want to be righteous if they don't want to be righteous because they're ignorant about the rules they're ignorant about the truth of the Torah they don't believe that it came from God they don't believe that you're obligated to do it then you should at least educate them but if they even refuse to get educated after an extended period of time of trying to educate them then it's very uh it's very likely the marriage will end up in divorce anyway because if the one person uh is truly righteous uh they're not they're going to have less and less in common with their Wicked spouse over time the more righteous they become the less in common they'll have with their wicked spouse and which will make a separation between them which in essence will break up the marriage and if the marriage stays uh for an extended period of time despite uh that person remaining Wicked that means that the person that says he wants to be righteous or she wants to be righteous is not really righteous is not really righteous because it's impossible for someone that's righteous and continues to grow in righteousness to stay with someone that's wicked intentionally over an extended period of time in the beginning they should try to get them to join them teach them have patience with them and and and uh and try to uh get them to be on the same page as you that's the that's recommendation number one but if you see that two three four years have passed and not only has this person uh not become more righteous but they've actually deteriorated or they stay the same while you've improved uh you know a world apart you won't you know it's it's obviously at that point the relationship is going to make no sense whatsoever you're not going to have anything to talk about you're not going to have anything in common anymore so uh the relationship will dissolve in itself and if it didn't dissolve that means that the person that is uh supposedly righteous is is not so righteous they're still connected to some of the Tuma of the past uh Aaron asks why do Jews live away from land I'm sorry I don't understand that question we all live on land um if you're referring to why do Jews live away from Israel because uh you know Jews have always lived through uh throughout the four corners of the world that's one of the decrees from God that's going to happen that Jews are going to live in the four corners of the world uh as partly as a punishment for us not obeying the rules of God but the other part is in order for for the Jews to spread the Torah to the four corners of the world to help uh some of the uh uh righteous noahides come and join says this in the name of that one of the reasons why hasem spread am is to the four corners of the world is in order for hem to deliver on promise that he made at Mount sa to the righteous go that wanted to join am Isel but could not because their did not accept the T So made a promise to that to those that he'll bring them back in another Carnation and give them the opportunity to join am is through conversion and that's why you see that many converts are joining am is how not by themselves by by connecting to Jews that are either there or they find in some way or another or they meet one way or another either through a relationship and business or or or otherwise and uh so part of the reason why hasem put in the four corners of the world is to spread the light of the Tor in order to recruit all of these precious souls and uh get them to convert to Judaism in essence we are actually supposed to be uh missionizing a lot more than what we are but we have enough problems among our own people that uh it's uh many people do not most almost nobody missionized today uh in jsh Judaism because we have enough problem with our own people just to maintain but the point being is is that we are supposed to share the light of the tah we are supposed to teach tah uh to to to the world but there is a higher priority of teaching our own people meaning that if let's say you have one Jew and one Gentile and they both want to learn T in two different locations and you can't get them to come to the same location you have to teach the Jew you cannot teach the Gentile even if the Gentile is really nice and and generous and and so on you have to teach the Jew why because there's a higher priority for a Jew to save a Jew uh and and even if it's uh there's more Gentiles than there is Jews even if let's say for example I had one time where a very difficult uh difficult experience where uh I mean it's was difficult for me at the time uh where I had one noahide tell me that he has an event with 500 to a, people 500 to a, people Gentiles no hides that are uh willing to host me and pay me to come and give them a lecture at a certain place and uh on the other what was the problem the problem is that they wanted me to come at a night that I have a Shure for you know a few people that would attend my Shure and at the time I think I had I don't know maybe uh three or four Jewish people in my Sher so I figured this is a no-brainer on one hand I could teach the regular three Jewish guys they come to my sh get they don't pay me anything it's all for free and uh worst case scenario you know they can watch it on the Internet or I could teach him the next week but you know what am I missing I'm missing a sh with three guys on the other hand I can go meet a thousand new Noah Heights maybe even convert some of them may you know perhaps make a few dollars since you know I need to make a living at some point in my life you know so I figured there's a no-brainer I called my Rob I told him listen I got this event uh they're going to invite me, 500 to 1,000 noahides are inviting me to come speak and they're even willing to pay me you know it was a decent amount I think it was5 or $10,000 whatever it was they're willing to pay me which again zero income otherwise so it's either zero or5 or $10,000 and a th000 people or zero income and three people says when is it I said it's Tuesday he said wait don't isn't your sh on Tuesday I said yeah but that's the only time they can do it so that's the only day say you're not allowed I my head almost left my body when I found this out what do you mean I'm not allowed he goes you're not allowed why your obligation is for those three little Jews that's your obligation a thousand of good guys good girls that are no hi maybe he goes I understand they're good and everything else not allowed find another day find another day that was a test that was a test but my Rabbi says I do one time somebody told me listen you know maybe you should do this this and this you know I know your Rabbi says otherwise but maybe you should do something else I say to him no no you're not understanding if my Rabbi tells me something there is no something else there is no other opinion I'm going to look into there is no other opinion why that's my Rabbi it's my Rabbi and that's what everybody needs to do with Rabbi Rabbi says I do and that's a problem for most people because of ego and B that's one of the things that one of the tests that we've been able to overcome many times with a lot of big tests like the one I just told you about uh because if a person does not have he's not going to survive in Judaism he not going to survive so when it comes to when it comes to it's we are supposed to go teach the Gentiles the noahides and today it's very easy to do it because you have the internet and that's Ence can go to the whole world but even if uh if if he wants to go teach them in different places that's only if it's not a replacement of a Jew meaning if if there's no other Jews that you can teach as a rabbi at that point then you can go and have an event with the Gentiles but if you're teaching the Gentiles as a priority number one two and three and in essence you're not even teaching Jews that's a problem that's a problem so the Jews are supposed to teach gentiles but we have a priority number one is always has to be the Jewish people even though the Gentiles sometimes you'll find some really precious ones that are generous and are nice and are kind and so on and so forth still but the point being is that makes it so that when you really want to help people um he makes it possible for you to do it uh you know even without you knowing how you know so that's why he made bashem our our website and our YouTube page and all of the app and all the things come to be and become very very popular um you know that it literally reaches people from all four corners of the world where people are watching in Australia and Austria in Africa in uh in uh in South America North America literally all continents people are watching our lectures in all types of countries even Arab countries there are people watching our lectures uh there are many many people watching our lectures and and many of them are not Jewish and they watch our election many Jews as well but for the non-jews point being is that many people are watching leurs because they're looking for the truth and the and the truth is not a available to them locally but since hasem made a promise to bring the truth to whoever seeks him as he says in SE in the book of Deuteronomy if you look for me you'll find me whoever looks for the truth hasem sends him the truth one way or another sometimes that's going to be a app sometimes it'll be a WhatsApp message sometimes it'll be a YouTube sometimes it'll be an email hasem gave us all types of tools that we're using to reach all types of people all types of people the four corners of the world and many many of them are are getting closer and closer to Hashem some of them are converting B we have uh three people already uh that are signed up to go to the bed and convert this month B uh and we have quite a few uh families maybe about 150 or so families that are in a conversion process many of them are in the last stage so many of them started as complete noahides with no intention of converting they just want to be righteous noahides but some of them wanted to convert but the point being is whoever wanted more and more of AEM eventually got more of it uh eventually got more of it because hm does not leave anybody behind doesn't leave anybody behind and whoever wants to help him he gives him the ability to do it but we always have to do it in accordance with the Tor which is we have to follow the instructions of how to do it um okay Saul is asking uh can I allow my dogs to drink water from what should I do with the water water a plant with it or toss it out the window well I mean no you should definitely not let your dog drink the water from that to let to die I mean usually the water that you have that comes from the canister you pour it over a sink and it just goes in the uh you know sewer um you're not supposed to preserve it or or anything else I mean you can preserve it if you want but that's going to lead to some trouble at times because on Shabbat you're not allowed to uh uh uh put water on a ground because that's a part of planting uh so you're not allowed to put water on a ground uh that's uh you know could be um considered like part of farming and so on so it's a so you'll be only be able to take this water that you preserved uh and use it during the week but to be honest with you I wouldn't really unless you live in an extremely poor country that water is scarce I wouldn't uh waste my time trying to preserve the water and uh just to get just to use it for plant just get some more water and and and and you know give it to the plants there's most of the world has a abundance of water there are obviously people that are in place where their water is scarse and in that particular case you have a case you have have a uh you have to uh maintain the water and in some cases there's certain parts of the world where I could even tell you that uh you would be absorbed from washing your hands Al together with water but rather you could just uh go like this and uh to because water is so scarse that you cannot use it for you should only use it for drinking but uh that's very rare uh situations and I don't think there's any Jews living in those places if you're living in a place like North America or in Europe and many other places where the more modernized world it's very likely the water is abundant and I would not waste my time uh uh preserving the water from the I mean how much water is it after I mean not putting buckets and buckets of water it's not five liters of water so I wouldn't necessarily uh put too much thought into it because also uh I think that when you start thinking about preserving the water you'll have your mind instead of the Kusa the Holiness of washing your hands in accordance with what Hashem said and the sages instilled into Judaism and so on instead of having your mind on AEM you have your mind on making sure that every job goes into some buckets so you can give it to some plant or it's you know you have to remember the whole point of everything is for hem not for the dog not for the plant not for the ant not for the cat not for the neighbor it's for hem everything is for hem Focus all your attention all of your heart all of your resources es to hasem and don't worry Hashem will feed bathe clean and satiate everyone of his Creations he doesn't need your help Joseph is asking how do you reconcile schlomo's principle there is nothing new Under the Sun with the concept that in every successive generation we are seeing unprecedent lower and lower levels of kadus uh what does one thing having have to do with the with with the other nothing new Under the Sun meaning that the sins of today are not new the sins of today were made yesterday the uh dedication of certain people to the tah existed today and existed yesterday there's no new innovation uh being created that wasn't here at some point in the past that's in essence what the verse means whether there is more or less kadus is not uh necessarily going to change the base acts of people uh you know it's it's may be there's some sins that uh we View today as perhaps it's easier to sin certain sins but nonetheless those sins still existed in the past if you think that uh the fact that there is more pornography in the world today and easier access to pornography uh that means that immorality is uh you know unprecedented levels you're right there is an unprecedented levels but doesn't mean that it didn't exist in in the past we see from this week's par that y was KES but he had a test where uh you know after his wife died he was very lonely and hasem pushed him uh to uh to have an evil inclination that he couldn't control and he ended up going with someone that he thought was a prostitute but that's only because hasm wanted him to be with Tama so but needless to say prostitution did exist back then in the same par you see of how a married woman that's not Jewish is trying to be intimate with a nice Jewish boy named ysf you know that's perhaps is in on even television stations today and and there's shows about it today of how they highlight these types of Sinners but that doesn't make it new uh perhaps there's you know the it exists and it's more obvious and in your face today but it's not new it existed it's in the to even so the sins of today are not new uh they're perhaps more apparent they're more clear they're uh they have less shame so they're more uh uh uh bold with their sins but they're not new nonetheless even at the time of the bet mikdash there is a a PUK in the book of Isaiah of a group of women walking around with a special high heels that had bells on them in order to get the attention uh uh of of the green uh because every time the Bell would would make a noise somebody would look and then these women also had these special heels where they would walk on top of some uh some uh fruit or something that smelled really good uh that as soon as the gim would pass by them they would step a hard step on that fruit on that heel and it would bring a huge amount of perfume around them that would get the attention of the gim and and uh the prophet Isaiah rebukes these women you wicked women look what you're doing and the women respond to the prophet to the high highest uh sadik in the generation the prophet Isaiah and they say what's the big deal what you're you're scared of these go these Romans are going to want to be with us so let them marry us then so then the and the says who are these wicked women that answer the biggest Rabbi in the world the prophet that talks to Hashem when he rebukes them for being so Prov who are these wicked women that are answering this day who are these these these Wicked prostitutes who are these and says these were the wives of the rabbis of the day these were the wives of the rabbis of the day at that time so I don't think that's very common in today's world such wives but the point being is that the Tora shows us that there's nothing new Under the Sun sins were back then sins are today uh is there mark back then and today it's higher level but everything is relative either way the acts of people the desires of people what drives people that has not changed uh Rabbi is the Hanukah candle lighting time the same time as the time hour one is permitted to DAV Al what is meant by a time of three stars in the sky uh so the uh the uh explained to us that the best most ideal time Ideal Time not the only time most ideal time to uh to light the candles is 15 minutes after Sundown 15 minutes after Sundown uh that's the most ideal time that's some even say it's the only but the is that's the best time but if you don't light the candles at that time you can light the candles all night all night and actually David y David himself said that shalom in his entire life never lit the candles at the best time at 50 minutes he always lit the candles somewhere in the middle of the night at 1:00 in the morning even though was do the biggest Rabbi in the world biggest biggest sadik everything you could possibly say is not enough to compliment how great he was but he could never light the candles at that time why because he didn't care or he didn't believe in it no shalom no why couldn't he light the candles at the ideal times because he was busy lighting the giving lectures every single day countless lectures countless meetings with people with Jews countless countless love every day he had lectures every single day of the weekend on Shabbat he had seven to 10 lectures every single day he was more busy with lighting the of whoever would listen he would talk to them one of our dear friends one of our dear Partners uh in the project is a big he's in a with in extraordinary he he uh put wrote together rewrote a seel by the uh that hav hasn't been out of print for a few hundred years by the rabbi of the uh he put it back into print he wrote it the organiz published it and he's an extraordinary but what a lot of people don't know and I myself didn't know until maybe a couple years ago is that is one of the children of Rya not that he's his son biologically butya when uh when he was still Among Us in the world he would go to houses he would give lectures give lectures everywhere and then he would find out you'd bring papers from the local Yesa to sign up all the parents to sign up their kids to yes had no money exchanged he would just yeah I brought you the forms you need to get your kids out of the secular school and into the religious school into the ISA and one day he comes to a parent he says listen your kid is going to secular school you got to get him to go to Yesa no no no Rabbi no come on so he says let's go talk he starts talking to the guy's father meaning the grandfather of the kid you have to do it you have to do it long story short he convinces them to sign the little boy to yes who's that boy our own dear you go to our website you can see his picture he has extraordinary you know for he's the one that prays for all of the people that buy uh the uh the campaign that we have someone that wants a special prayer for for for different things that they want in their life different blessings they donate $180 and you know the goes to ra the grave site of of ra he lights a candle for them and he does a special prayer for them we make a little video of it and we send it to the people uh so he's the one that prays for people and he is one of the countless countless people the himself saved with his own Blood Sweat and Tears went to the house of the parents and didn't leave there until they agreed to send their little boy to and today a big one of the I know so that's that's the thing so was not able to light the candles of the manora on time not because he didn't care about the but rather he understood there is the ideal mitvah of of of lighting kanuka candles at 15 minutes after Sundown yeah it's ideal but what if there's no Jews to light it okay so it's much more important to like the Jewish and get them to do CH and that's in essence what a person needs to know when it comes to the a lot of lot of people are worried about their own but in reality they also have to be worried about the nation's next question uh if a Jew owns a dog are they allowed to pet it on Shabbat by Leah uh no a dog or any animal is considered M they considered M you're not allowed to pet your dog you are allowed to walk your dog uh with a leash or with no leash but as long as the the dog it's only in your back yard if there's no leash because if you walk with no leash outside it's a danger to the society and it's a uh it's a sin uh but if you're if you just have your own backyard they could just you could just let them out let them do whatever they want and you know and uh that's the best part but if you have to walk the dog you can walk the dog with a short leash that doesn't hang a short separation but you're still not allowed to touch your dog and you're also not allowed to pick up after them like a lot of Americans and in today's society you have to pick up after your dog or you know because of the it's disgusting and so on but on Shabbat you're not allowed to do that you're not allowed to pick up the uh the waste of the dog or the cat or anything else and you're also not allowed to touch the animal they're considered even if there's an all that stuff they're considered m not allowed so so it's actually that's part of the reason why a lot of Jews don't own dogs there's another part which is the fact that dogs have a lot of Tuma a lot of impurity but that's uh you know again that's a different issue either way it's the the impurity part is not something that you're obligated to comply with uh you know different people deal with different things sometimes people are are surrounded by impurity for their living they they bury people and so on uh so that's not Al you're not you're not forbidden from from from petting a dog you're allowed to pet a dog uh during the week but on Shabbat you're forbidden for petting a dog so that's anic issue so that's a uh that's a that's a problem um why do Jews choose to live in in the Exile we already answer this question um let's see Jimmy is a married woman allowed to let her hair down when she is around her children If a married woman is only around her husband and small children then she's allowed to let her hair out but if her children have grown up then no and if there's other people in the house other than our husband no allowed to have our hair out only our husband really ideally should see our hair out uh because even the children should not it's allowed but they should not why it's good for the children to see their parents in uh in uh in in their most uh holy ways because the children admire the parents and want to be like them so if you have a little girl you have a little daughter and she sees her IMA her mother constantly wearing the the uh the k then that's what the girl is going to want but if she sees that her mom takes off the K at any chance that she gets then that's what the girl is going to want she's going to want to pretty much not have the K so it's better for the kids to see the mom constantly covering her hair and the says that one of the uh of the previous of of the times of the BET merited to have all seven of her kids become the high priest all of them became K which is a statistical anomaly so the sages all came to her and they said how did you Merit to have such blessing in your life that all of your kids one after another at some point became how could it be I mean such a praise and she says the says I think it's she says my whole life I covered my hair to such an extent not only did my children not never see my hair but even the walls of my house the walls the walls of my house never saw my hair because even when I changed my hair I had a a I changed my K or I had to fix something or something I was under a sheet to cover myself so even the walls don't see it that's how much I love this mitvah and how much I I I enjoyed it and I I adored it and how I valued modesty that even the walls the walls are not living Flesh and Blood he say that yeah but still we should try cover cover cover and that's that's the thing she merited to have a uh kids that were extremely successful that's actually one of the promises one of the promises of to that a woman that's truly modest that covers a hair with the with a hat and is modest in her behavior is modest in her clothing and and covers a hair the blessings that the zad and T itself promises such a woman are the best blessings in the it brings uh sustenance to the house it helps our husband make a lot of money it helps her kids become wise sikim righteous kids uh it helps them stay healthy protects them from damage like literally all the greatest things that a human being could ever want for their life and for their kids come from the woman's modesty so when a woman is modest there is a promise from the to that there will be a lot of good in their life now again it doesn't mean that it's automatic and it's all the time there's obviously everybody has tests but nonetheless you'll see when you calculate when the woman took on the Mitzvah and you calculate a certain amount of time after you see how their life has improved in such amazing ways you see blessings that uh you know that it's unimaginable I mean I know one woman I can tell you this I saw this with my own eyes I couldn't believe it I couldn't believe it when I saw it I know one woman that if you ask 10 years ago 10 years ago the the last thing on her mind was to be modest forget about covering her hair the last thing on her mind was to be modest this woman took on something amazing I've never seen anything like it took on everything she uh she she like one of those women that loves the MIT so much that uh she sleeps with the she sleeps with the there only a few women I know they literally sleep with it they love it so much they sleep that way I saw one time I saw saw her three-year-old kid I saw a three-year-old kid and this three-year-old remember a three-year-old kid three-year-old kid asks me cuz I think at some point I said yeah you know sha was very the says that his Grand because he was so righteous then uh than uh uh his uh his daughter well as a granddaughter and was EST this three-year-old kid I can't believe I heard this with my own ears and still was alive to tell you the story this three-year-old kid says to me yeah I don't understand how come you say that sha was aad I said I just told you was sadik goes yeah but if he was such a sadik he tells me if he was a sadik how come he wanted to kill David three-year-old kid asks me a legitimate question I haven't none of you have asked me this question today three-year-old kid says IFA was such a how come you wanted to kill what threeyear old do you see I mean I could only wish this on my own family on your family and everybody that loves family amazing amazing why his mother you can't ask for more can't ask for more so that's the thing of a woman that wants to bring blessings to our kids to our husband has to overcome the test the test of modesty and of course the test of life if she remains modest in her behavior in her clothing and needless to say in her she's bringing all of the greatest blessings you can possibly bring in a person's life it's for a woman to cover her head with a just to explain to you it's like a guy wearing to feeling all day which none of us can do because we can't even think properly sometimes when we're wearing theing thear says that if you're wearing you have to only think kadus you can't think about your mundane life so you're not allowed to wearing if you constantly think about nonsense so when a woman wears a it's like she's wearing theing all the time that's how much blessing it brings to a person's life so it's a uh when a woman understands how great it is she's not going to want to take off her K not next to her kids not next to anybody only time she's going to do it is when she's private with her husband and that's perfectly fine and good uh but other than that there's so much blessing in it you don't want to miss a minute out of it uh Jacob is saying in's last year he States we're not supposed to take back our land by okay you're answering somebody else fine okay Shalom from UT oh see I mentioned UT Daniel is telling me from UT so am might right about UT that it's like you don't need as much money to live in Utah I remember I had some clients there some of them were extremely rich some of them weren't but nonetheless they all lived in huge houses uh okay let's see let's see looking for more questions in when you state your desires is it correct to ask hasem to give you the secret knowledge wisdom and understanding of the tah quicker while we toil and toil in Torah uh it's no problem for for for you to ask for to give it to you quicker uh but the says in I believe it's towards the end uh maybe uh even the last uh chapter uh thear says in the name of who doesm give to who doesm give wisdom to says hem gives wisdom to those that are wise so asks shouldn't he just give the wisdom to people that are fools so that way they'll stop being fools says no says no he gives wisdom to those that are wise because if they're wise that means that they like wisdom they appreciate wisdom they respect wisdom and therefore they know what to do with it a person that's a fool is a fool only by choice because he doesn't appreciate wisdom he doesn't know what to do with it he doesn't care for it he cares more about desires so if hasem gave him wisdom he wouldn't know what to do with it and therefore he would disregard it soem gives wisdom to those that are wise already because they've shown that they know what to do with it so a person can ask forem to give him more wisdom more knowledge and more this but not depend on that but rather you know make sure that he's doing whatever he possibly can to acquire it in a uh in a by toiling and toiling but to to ask for more sure why not why not you could ask for more as long as as you are toiling as long as you're toiling uh next um how can kanuk and be relevant to today's attack against Jews and Judaism uh well I mean listen the whole the whole uh story of kanuka that we discussed earlier today is that you have a uh constant attack against Judaism not just physically but spiritually by spiritually and and unfortunately in the last generation it's going to look like the uh the the wicked people are winning so the only way that a person can survive and stay aad stay aik and not become a helist is by having in the 13 principles of Faith which is that Hashem rewards the righteous and punishes the wicked you know so it's very important for a person to have in the promises of the if a person does not have does not have confidence inm's promises he could easily become a helist and unfortunately that's what happens a lot of times that people you know start doing certain MIT because they expect good things right away they don't get it and they you know they say listen if hasem doesn't do this for me I'm going to stop being religious and that's not uh that's not the right way to do things it's a very stupid thing to do unfortunately but unfortunately many people think that hasm works for them and that's a mistake that's a mistake so having is critical because if you have if you have confidence inm you know that in the end in the end you'll be rewarded in the end you'll be rewarded even if it looks like you're losing in the end you'll be rewarded uh and in the in term it may look like you're losing but in the end you'll be rewarded the guy that uh you know like I mentioned an example yesterday that uh I learned a lot of M from of uh how when you see bodybuilders uh that were like uh walking tanks during their uh peak of their life it look like they're always going to be winning they're always going to look good they're always going to uh look healthy and so on but if you see them several years after their career is over uh many of them die many of them look very sickly many of them do get sick become paralyzed and start losing their mind become depressed and so on so the works that way where he makes the wicked people look like the bodybuilder is looking in competition he makes them look like that but what Hashem is trying to teach us is that remember that bodybuilder that athlete that celebrity that Hollywood person it's only temporary it's only temporary why because if they are wicked they're going to get punished they're going to get punished in this world and the next it just looks like they're winning it's an illusion but it looks like they're winning now you may look like you're not winning because you're just sitting there you know just you know putting the shoe together and your little you know blue collar job and and learning some K and doing some it looks like you are not winning don't worry Hashem says you'll win you'll win you'll win a big way one of the things that I could tell you is a fantastic example is that an average person today thinks that they need to make a lot more money than they need uh in order to survive you know so many times people don't have kids or as many kids as they could have because they think they don't have enough money now Shalom he never you know went to work at some uh you know at stores and malls and businesses and so on he was dedicated his life to the tah you know he was a DI also but the point is he didn't Focus his life on business now if you knew if you knew about his life and you say listen this guy he shouldn't he shouldn't have more than one or two kids cuz you wouldn't be able to afford them by the time he passed away by the time he left this world over 100 years old he had over a thousand a thousand grandkids a thousand Grand kids great grandkids great grandkids great grandkids great grandkids he was actually invited to the bit mil of his grandson's grandson of his grandson's grandson he was invited to the B bre me just imagine now you would think a thousand people you need to be billionaire billionaire to afford such thing no you need to believe in hm believe in hem you have the kids we need to have kids you have the house we need the whatever you need is going to provide you and that's it you trust hm 100% hm provides provides you could say no but he didn't pay for all of them what do you mean he didn't pay for all of them you think that Torah that he learned didn't Finance everything didn't give life to all of his children all of his daughters and sons and you don't think he did of course he did so that's the thing a person has in's promise of of of reward to the righteous and punishment for the wicked they're going to succeed in life when they don't have they're already partly if not completely hellenized uh thank you for the blessing Michael roas um Josh is money really the answer to everything no it's not the answer to everything so um no it's not the end of everything it's actually the last thing um is it Melody is asking is it okay to to donate used im's clothing to a charity no it's not okay because obviously you're not allowed to wear im's clothing which means that it's not allowed for anybody to wear im's clothing so in essence by you donating im's clothing you're enabling somebody else to sin which means that all of the sins they make is going to be on your account because had you not donated that close to them they would wouldn't have made that sin of immodesty and immorality uh at least not with your clothes so you're in essence enabling them and contributing to their sins the only thing you're allowed to do with im's clothes is destroy them just like the only thing you're allowed to do with the wig today is destroy it because it comes from idolatry comes from Indian idolatry that's the only thing you're allowed to do with these wigs same thing with IM clothes only thing you're allowed to do with them is destroy them you're not all to sell them not allowed to buy them not allowed to to to wear them and you're definitely not allowed to give them or donate them to somebody else um let's see we're almost done it's already over two hours Daniel is asking if you receive a Christmas bonus at work is okay to use the money uh yes you're not really you know as far as Christmas bonus is concern you're not receiving that bonus uh because of the idol of Yos you're receiving it because that's in essence usually the time that people uh in their businesses give bonuses and since it coincides with the idol worshipper holiday they call the Christmas bonus but in reality it has no connection whatsoever to Jesus or to Christmas at all it just has the connection with the fact that it's the end of the secular Gregorian calendar year and that's usually the time where people uh give bonuses so if you get one you're allowed to use it no problem what about Hashem Gathering the Lost tribes House of Israel has spoken about in h and Assyrian captivity Gathering the Lost tribes is going to be one of the special missions that only the Messiah himself is going to be able to do he's going to uncover who are the 12 tribes today there's really only two maybe three tribes that we know of today uh four but the most of the tribes we don't know where they are in the world so one of the things that the messia will do when he comes when he arrives is he's going to uncover who are the uh 12 tribes is it true that the entrance to gome looks like a completely black room uh I never heard of such a thing uh I don't think so but uh I don't think I don't uh uh I can't tell you with the with a source as far as um I never heard such a thing I mean I'm I studied the subject quite a bit um I never heard of such a thing if I do I'll I'll let you know but it's uh to my knowledge it's uh there is nothing that I could think of that even resembles that because there is a uh thear says that there's two Gomes there's Gom in this world there's Gom in the next World and a gome in this world has three entrances one in the desert one in y and one in the ocean so obviously these are not simple black rooms in the ocean or in or in the desert and so on um so that that doesn't make sense to me no sorry uh what are the first things to explain to a Christian who has expressed interest in becoming a noahide after explaining the basic differences no yeshu no New Testament what is a good place to start I have a uh an email that I've published before that I sent to a lot of people that uh starts with the words of dear New Testament believer and it has a bunch of different I think it's half a dozen or so different videos that I recommend all Christians to watch which is the first thing that they need to do is to arrive at a conclusion not an interest a conclusion that the New Testament is false man-made document it has nothing to do with God it's completely man-made document so those few lectures are very good at uh showing you evidence that the New Testament is completely man-made idolatry so that's the first thing that it established the second thing is that once you establish the New Testament is nonsense at the same time those same documents those same lectures will show a person that there is a document from God it's called the Torah and so that will give them a uh number one the information to get rid of their pre-existing beliefs and number two a foundation for their new found beliefs if you will uh so at the very least they have something to start off with and and and uh and get them to understand why they need to become a no height at least so those few lectures are uh are a good starting point and of course once they watch those few lectures then uh it'll be a good idea for them to continue watching lectures from those same uh rabbis myself mrai Rabbi toia singer to uh continue uh you know learning other subjects uh from the Torah and things like that and as a they can contact us and they could join our WhatsApp group and they could get uh or go to our website and go to the section called uh um conversion or noahides and over there there's a list of lectures and different things that they can watch or a playlist uh one of them is a playlist it says play converts but it actually has many lectures uh for noahides uh for noahides uh so you could find noahide lectures on our uh website or on YouTube page or our app and uh that's a good place to uh at least learn some of the basics about being a noahide and one of the main things of being a nohide is to learn M to learn you know character development that's one of the biggest a for no heidas to learn M so they could learn it from us they can learn it from they could learn it uh you know from a few sources in English in Hebrew obviously quite a bit more uh and um but the point is is that after they eliminate their pre-existing belief they have a uh at least a place to go with the new teachings they need to have I think at that point uh there'll be on the right path uh to to build from there uh it's written writes it's written that ABR ainu sits the Gate of Gom and saves those who kept their so if someone kept their breit but were a or doing other sins will Abu save them well if somebody is aab they're not keeping the breit because theat is considered a Shabbat is considered a breit also it's also considered a so that's a and also going to G for for forever but aside from that the strength to protect your breit comes from Shabbat like a person that doesn't uh doesn't keep Shabbat will never have the strength to protect their simply not possible not humanly possible uh so uh even in that case but uh again if a person is make sins that are that's in Ence is a the of the Brit they're destroying the Brit it's not just the breit of the but also the breit of the Covenant of the Tora itself uh see if a person makes Chua in this life would they still get punished for sins of past lives uh very good question the uh part of the uh uh punishment for sins of past lives is to be reincarnated uh and and to fix those sins during that life so sometimes a person uh is doing everything good they're doing chuva they're learning they're doing fantastic and all of a sudden you know something bad happens to them they break a or something or or or they get a fender bender or they lose money or whatever it is like what what did I do what did I do and sometimes they really didn't do anything in this life to deserve that punishment but rather they did something in a previous life and Hashem enjoys their chuva so much and how they're doing in this life so much he says okay you know what you're doing so good let me start cleaning you up in this life that you're in in order for you to finish this life and not have to suffer at all in in the next life for the previous sins so part of the reason the biggest part of the reason of why hasem brings a person into this world again is in order to give them suffering as a form of payment for the previous life but also as a form of rectifying those sins so he'll send a person that sinned with one girl that he wasn't allowed to be with he'll send it the same girl reincarnated at his reincarnation time or send the same girl to the same guy you know in his new life and he'll expect him to overcome that sin and not sin with her and if he does that then he won't get punished He'll Do complete CH and in fact page 86 says that a person that does Chua out of fear of the Almighty which is a fantastic fantastic chuva that the uh um the says he only wishes that the the religious and his gener ation would do CH from Fear the says people do from Fear it turns all of their purposeful sins into accidental sins which means it lowers the punish punishment dramatically but the says if a person does chuv out of love of hem which is a higher level of chuva uh then it could turn all of their sins into mitv into MIT and that could even turn the sins of the previous Carnation into MIT meaning he could get rewarded for sins he made because of how high is is chuva is or how high heart chuva is in this world but that means that they have to not only have uh there's no such thing as just loving AEM that means they have to arrive at the highest level of fear of AEM and then they're starting to love AEM so what the explain is that it's never truly just 100% love it's either only fear or a combination of fear and love but needless to say all chuva is good and all Chua is going to clean a person up from a uh from his uh from his sins uh but again Chua is not just a uh learning a little bit and uh being a nice person Chua also means that a person needs to do a lot of different uh all types the more the best in so many words my Rabbi told me this once uh recently um he said when when uh when Rabbi Ali came to us and told us that the situation in is disastrous uh and uh because the girls are not going to school for a long time now so a lot of the religious girls are becoming weaker in there and even and keep observing and we need to do something for them and uh we're not exactly printing money in the organization or actually the donations went down drastically last month it was a big test donations went down 70% apparently everybody watched the sh but forgot to donate but the point is is that uh we're not exactly big fundraisers or anything so you know we live on Miracles so when donations go down go down when they go up they go up either way we still do what we need to do but when Rabbi Ali came to us and said listen we need to do you know something to to help these girls there's literally 400 plus girls in a community that are you know in in Jeopardy of of of you know completely going off to De so we analyzed how much it's going to cost to do it we're looking at somewhere in a neighborhood of $20,000 uh a month so it's a big expense and again we don't have we we didn't have enough time to wait for donors and so on so we just okay we do it or not so I said I told RAB let me think about it let me think about it and uh I spoke to I want to speak to R FR alone and I told him listen I want to do it but I mean it's it's is this really our mission that we need to do it and so on so told me this and I think he only told me the same thing once in my life other than that he said listen none of us know none of us know how long we're going to be here none of us know none of us know if going to be tomorrow if going to be in a year from now none of us know some of us are planning to be here for 500 years with the amount of properties we have and the things we but in reality nobody knows how long we going to be here some of us none of us know how long we going to be here some of us know some of us know the truth of why we're here and those that know why they're here they know they have to grab as many MIT as they could possibly grab grab grab grab whatever you can you you could do it today do it today what about tomorrow who who says you're going to be it tomorrow grab you could do it now do it now you could do it for one month do for one month you do five month just grab it grab it grab it and that was the answer that was the answer he didn't say do it he didn't say don't do it he says listen some of us some of us know why you there there some of us but nobody knows how long they to be here if you know why you're here grab as many meat as possible and that was in essence the only conversation we needed to have about this decide to move forward with this uh with his Seminary which B is 400 girls and have lives literally in a miracle but the point being is that you have to grab as many MIT as you possibly can while you're alive so cha is to constantly learn perfect yourself improve yourself and do as much good as you can that's within your power without thinking so much about the future 10 years from now 20 years from now today today worry about today as much as possible and when a person does that then a person is literally fulfilling their purpose and is going to prepare themselves a a world of only good no punishment whatsoever no punishment whatsoever because everybody that knows what you know why they're in this world they know that they need to help people so for example when you are giving some of your uh videos and you're trying to help people do chuva and so on that's a fantastic thing you know it's say the ladies that are watching you or anyone that's watching us doing CH as a result of it they're reading some of your articles that's a fantastic thing why because they're getting closer to hasem and you're doing kiru in essence so when you're donating money that's uh you're able to donate that's doing kiru it's fantastic when you're giving CDs out that's doing K that's helping people why is all of this relevant because the Z says the Z says something even more something even more than say somebody that does even someone that has like doesn't get to the level of somebody that does and the zad supplements that says somebody that does K there is no judgment in heaven for him there's no judgment there's no bed he walks in he goes directly to wherever he wants they can't talk to him in sham can't talk to him why they can't no one can judge him no one has the permission to judge him hasem saids no no no no he's with me he's VIP she's VIP no no no she did K she brought thousands and thousands of my kid back to me you going to talk to you going to judge her anything no but AEM what don't see nothing y my kids you brought back home yeah I'm sorry sorry okay no one's allowed to talk to them they go wherever they want where is that Source was the nephew of says that R is the is the in his generation he was the one that went to sh was able to go to anywhere he wanted in sh why because he did K so when a person wants to do CH and not have any any of their sins ever at all even mentioned in sh question in sh they have to get involved in CU because that in essence is the ultimate cleaning process but in order to succeed in kiru they obviously have to learn you know and they have to they have to do Chu by themselves you can't succeed in kiru while you're violating Shabbat you can't succeed in K if you're eating pig can't succeed in K if a woman's not modest can't so a person that's that's doing CH by themselves is is going to have the uh spiritual strength to do kiru and that k will get them literally not only a clean bill of health in sham no bill nothing they could literally just walk anywhere they can go anywhere they want they go see you want to go see or go see if you're a woman you go see go see that's that's how much values people that do so that's that's again when people understand it it's no uh it's no surprise that writes in if people only knew what helping means they would literally spend 70 70 years even to get one person to do cha it's still worth it one person needless to say how many people you can save today with uh with with simply pressing share on this lecture or a few dollars or uh some effort to give away some books or CDs how many people a person can save with a the click of a button today it's uh literally you can get hundreds and hundreds of people to do cha on a on a regular basis just uh anyone that watches Rabbi sh uh on a regular basis knows that in the last three weeks we've had a campaign to uh bring some kadha to the world and get as many people to uh to keep Shabbat in the last three weeks we have over 570 people 570 brand new people 570 how 571 people have committed to keep Shabbat already in 3 weeks this does not include the other people that uh are watching me it's just 571 new Shabbat people in the last three weeks you know what kind of kadha that brings most speakers rabbis people in a career of 20 years are not going to see 570 people keep Shabbat because it's not their focus is not necessarily always to do K their focus sometimes to do other things so when you care about will give you the strength to do as much as your heart wants and if you do it you don't have to worry about sins because the says anyone that helps the public no sin comes to his hand meaning protects that person from from sins protects him from judgment because say if a person helped doing he in essence becomes the the people's Rabbi or the people's raban so it's not fair for their students to be in heaven and the raban to be in G the rabbi to being gay no so what doesm do no anytime there a uh sins hem protects him from that to make sure that he gives them the all extra strength to overcome these things so a person that wants to eliminate all suffering whatsoever in the next life make sure that your life is constantly involved with kir financially time effort resources whatever you can whatever you can okay well ask one one last question it's two and a half hours so I think we maybe one last question uh let's see let's see let's see if you live with a Jew that eats scallops are you and you are converting what should you do can continue your conversion process just don't eat his food and uh try to encourage him to do Chua by watching the lectures with you are nohy women obligated to keep the laws of modesty uh technically there's there's more leniencies for for noahides but it's highly recommended for for no hides to keep modesty because when a woman is immodest it leads to a lot of sins that uh are sins for noahides that are in essence a permanent death penalty uh so uh in essence it's highly highly recommended at least highly recommended to a women to be modest but uh in most opinions we tell you that it's also obligated because if a woman is not modest she could lead other men to uh be promiscuous with themselves with her with other people and that will go on her bill and in essence that will destroy her so uh in so many words yes obligate to be uh uh to be modest no hi or not uh how do you know your previous life from praying V do we ask to not bring up past trans transgressions and ask for full forgiveness or sin transgressions why would we still pay for our past sins and present sins uh because some sins uh a person did not uh pay for them yet you know sometimes a person has to be reincarnated in order to pay for his sins like we learned from the many times there are certain people that were born with certain uh uh deformities if you will in order to pay for previous sin a person is uh uh let's say born uh without the a mute he's not able to speak perhaps it could be according to that a person said a lot of in the previous life so in order for him to fix himself he has to live a whole life without speaking a single word uh you know so there are certain things but we also learned from uh uh from this week's par uh that we're introduced to the uh 12 tribes they they were righteous they were sikim they were amazing uh but we also see in thear that uh the leading opinion is that the uh 12 tribes the 10 of them had to uh or nine of them 10 of 10 of them had to be reincarnated as the 10 Martyrs that were uh the biggest sadik R AKA and uh and many of theim that were murdered in Cold Blood and in vicious ways at the time of the where theim would literally peel their bodies sell their meat in the market and so on and so forth the worst possible days death that could ever uh be in this world they they got and say that the these Martyrs these 10 Martyrs were the 12 tribes were the the the you know yud and and so on and so forth why would it why would theim are aot are 12 tribes have to be reincarnated they were complete Sim why they have to be reincarnated because we find out that at the end of that story that YF ysf died 10 years before his brothers he uh died at age 110 unlike his brothers that died at 120 and say that that's because he never he got punished for not forgiving his brothers he got punished for not forgiving his brothers uh but uh so he got for it how did they get punished for him not forgiving them they had to be reincarnated because he never completely forgave them says they had to be reincarnated they had to be reincarnated as the 10 Martyrs so that means that although they were extremely righteous and they did chuva and they said I'm sorry part of that Chua required a reincarnation part of that Chua required a reincarnation but surely they didn't have the same test in the next life as they did in the first life but point being is that uh sometimes reincarnation is a necessity is a necessity I know I said last uh last question but short question kanuk is tomorrow night yes kanuk is tomorrow night you should download an app called calj C AJ and it gives you times for the holidays times of when Shabbat starts and so on uh so download that app uh I've read two descriptions of the entrance to gome as a black room where one waits to be picked up by a Mal or sadik uh okay f i don't I just don't remember reading it in any of the it's possible it's possible I'll look at it I'll uh I'll take the link that you s and look at it oh this is uh Daniel the autistic kid that uh it says a lot of interesting things um I wouldn't necessarily use him as a source that GOM looks like anything uh but uh we need the sources means that it's a he says interesting things and he says things that are true no question but uh it's not necessarily considered a source a source is a uh a book you know we have to have a book so I'll ask I I'll find out I just never heard of uh uh it being a black room but it's very very possible okay K thank you very very much for learning with me I really appreciate it um I know that uh you have a lot of opportunities to do other things but you choose to learn with me and I appreciate that oh by the way on a side on a good note we are we've signed the lease you've signed the lease for the new place a new place going to be open next month uh we're just getting some uh Insurance together and some other stuff together but we signed the place um the app is uh seeing some great growth so anybody does not have the app I highly highly recommend to download the app a few people that have downloaded the app are sending me thank you notes because they can now learn t with more Focus uh lot of good projects and the works so each and every one of you will enjoy kanuka remember it's a critical holiday to celebrate the Tora the written tah the oral tah but that means most importantly no arguing no fighting none of that stuff just learn T enjoy the T enjoy the you know eat enjoy and Shabbat is a very special Shabbat Shabbat is a very special Shabbat enjoy that time and you'll have a lot of a lot of and we will learn again together next week on Sunday night am [Music]