Parashat Matot, Secrets of Prayer, Vows, War, Converts, Financial Success

this is and he's uh unfortunately one of the people that was murdered three years ago in Bulgaria in a terror attack family and this we do as a result of it will raise his soul even higher one of the things we know about souls is that you know you ask yourself why is it that Tora says that the books of Life are opened every year it's coming up soon but it's talking about the people that are here and the people that are not here so when you ask yourself what is the guy that already left this world need us to help his soul especially if it's a sadik a lot of people go to the graves of the sadikin and they pray over there and they uh they ask for help does the sadik really need you he's sadik he's already in GED right so first of all it's very important to know that there's a very very specific way that you have to if you're going to go to a uh grave of a sadik there's a very specific way you have to do it meaning that you have to remember that you're not praying to the sadik because that's idol worship that's what Christianity is that's what Catholicism is that's what every other religion in the world is it's it's a form of idol worship you're not allowed to pray to a person ever what about everybody going to Babas they can go to whoever they want they can go to whoever they want they go to babali they go to they can go to they go to all the places but they have to mention that they're praying to his God when you say supposed to say the god of help me not help can't do anything for you know so you have to make sure that you're praying to God and not to so that's number one it's very very important people do that the right way because what happened over time is that people especially people that don't know really that much about uh religion don't really know that much about uh Judaism is that they don't keep as many of the mitv but they like the they like the cultural stuff so anytime something bad happens say Shimon or one of the major sages one of these amazing people that lived in the past they're asking him for help in reality they're supposed to pray to God so it's very very important to do it the right way no yes why am I mentioning his name the reason why I'm mentioning his name is because in essence what you're asking for is a uh defense attorney you're asking that bimon or any one of the major sages or even Moses is uh going to because of all the extra that he has and all the extra that he has in sh you're going to do something to honor him and in return you are hoping that he's going to help you fight your case so now if you just say listen something bad happens I lost some money I'm going to pray to or I'm going to pray to Moses or Abraham or Isaac or Jacob or anybody and just because you're you and because you have a nice face and you like to drive fast cars then you're wasting your prayer and if anything uh you are actually dishonoring their name if you're going to ask any sage in history for help you have to do something if to do something in return so for example anyone that's going to ask let's say may or anyone anyone you have to learn their work you're going to learn the Z you're going to learn certain if if you're going to learn the Tora itself you're going to learn different that they gave you're going to do certain prayers that they advise to do do something in their name so if you if if someone says listen I need someone to help me so I'm going to learn their Torah their one of their books that they wrote I'm going to try to learn it so so in because when I learn their book in essence I'm giving them aot so their situation improves even more in sham so if their situation improves sh maybe that will convince them to see that I'm worthwhile to help but to just say listen uh you know uh rabi so and so help me it's not it's not uh it's not going to yield very much uh at least not in a logical way uh the second thing is now when you talk about these sadim why is it that people even why why would we even ask for their help like they don't need our they don't need us to raise their soul if you think about it they already so what do they need us to raise their soul because what we're thinking about when we think about heaven or hell even is that it's limited meaning that the joy in heaven is limited and the suffering in hell is limited the reason why we have this limited mindset is because the world that we live in is limited there's only a limit of how you know a bigger person can be there's a limit of how much somebody can eat there's a limit of how much someone can breathe there's a limit of how someone you know operates there's a limit to everything because this is the physical world in the spiritual World there is no limit it could always be more which means that even someone as righteous ASU Oru or or the b or any of them La deal from all of them but the point is even their situation could always be even better because the reward that Hashem can give them is endless and that's the that's the very very big difference between their world and our world so that's why if we honor their name uh which for example one of the reasons why we do uh we celebrate the holiday of L is in the honor of Rish shim he's the one to put together the Z so when uh you celebrate it and you're in essence you're supposed to be celebrating his Torah not just make a bonfire uh because you like to make potatoes uh so uh when you're celebrating these holidays again you're supposed to be you know you're raising their soul but in essence that's that's the deal that's supposed to happen you're supposed to uh uh know that so but most importantly out of everything that I just said is that it's only God the only God in the world the only God that ever was the only God that ever will be that can help you that's it it say no you're not praying to the sadik you're praying to God and that's one of the mistakes that some fortunately some people make especially even some big congregations that pray to a former Rabbi that died uh you know 30 years ago 50 years ago 100 years ago uh there's very big congregations that unfortunately got so connected to praying to the sadik that they've turned the sadik into an idol which is no different than Christianity that pray to JC so the uh that's a very really big problem because idol worship is one of the first three Commandments in the Ten Commandments and the punishment is very very severe it's mentioned all the way throughout the entire Tor and every time that uh uh the violation of Shabbat is mentioned it's mentioned right next to idol worship because they're considered in essence the same someone that does idol worship is praying to a different God uh is violating one of the first three Commandments and Hashem says that whoever doesn't keep Shabbat is in essence doing the same exact thing because by honoring the Shabbat you're saying that Hashem created the world in six days and on the seventh day he stopped creating uh so someone is not honoring the Shabbat the fact that Hashem restrained himself Hashem didn't need six days to create the World hasem hasem created the world in an instant really he created everything in an instant he put everything together over 6 days for our benefit not for his you didn't need to hire construction companies and get licenses from the government and uh maybe uh get some uh you know some people from different countries to work because it's cheaper labor you didn't need to do any of that you know he he obviously did everything in a second but he he he minimized himself in essence to take time to create everything over six days in order to give us a week you know in order to give us seven days because after creating everything for six days then we can do then he stops on the seventh which if we stop then we can in essence emulate God so he wants to give us the same La deal but the same feeling as he has being a God so if he's saying so someone that doesn't keep Shabbat is pretty much saying listen God you minimize yourself for me but I don't really care I'm not going to minimize myself for you I'm not going to stop my work I'm going to work because I need to make money because I make the money not you don't give it to me because the weekend are more money on the weekends right so that's that's that's that's the main that's the main uh problem with uh the violation of Shabbat and again it's a it's very important to know these things because again when people think about idol worship it doesn't matter what religion you are unless you're worshipping an idol directly like in Buddhism and things like that you automatically know it's bad whether it's Muslim Christian Catholic or 880,000 other Cults that there are in in in the world everyone knows idol worship is not good since you told me about those Buddhas and all and I see them at the job sites oh yeah so I don't even touch it I tell the guy hey you want to you wrap this I'm not wrapping that up yeah listen if you're going to a work site yeah it's a uh it's it's if if you're going to a friend's house and if you have a friend that has a statue in his house you're not allowed to go into that house just so you know um and unfortunately Buddha statues are everywhere they're very very popular for some strange reason they're very popular among Israeli houses a lot of Israelis like Buddha yeah Israelis love Buddha uh yeah they travel to India they travel to that part of the world and they like to have these things in their house and without even knowing that it's actually uh a very big big sin so it's good to know these things because again sometimes we can make a sin very uh innocently uh just out of ignorance and that's why I say that ignorance is the biggest poison that someone can inject into themselves because without knowing you don't even know what you don't know let me ask you a question yeah when it comes to yeah all the sages depends you're talking about in this generation I get okay let's say 40 years ago no okay people put pictures in their house of them it's in is that in the form of idol worship no it's not a form of idol worship if you know what you're doing you're honoring him in a sense that he's a sage you're trying to emulate his behavior uh you're wishing you know you're trying to do what he did in his life and achieve the extraordinary amount of mitv that he did in his life you want to have the same midot you want to have the same behavior he did the same same things that he so you if you're praying to him that's a problem so now now now the next question should be okay so what if what happens if one day I can't go to besset and I want to pray that's a question yeah right so I want to pray but uh now if I pray there's a the first three prayers of of the first three prayers you're supposed to Bow right supposed to Bow the first three it used to be they used to Bow all of them uh but now we only bow the first three so now if you have a picture on the wall of anyone doesn't necessarily need to be a sadik could be even uh your father uh you have to bow in a different direction you cannot bow towards that direction because it would look like if somebody's walking into the room you know that you're not bowing to him right but if you always have to worry about which is actually one of the things we learn in this par you always have to make sure that if someone sees you it doesn't look like a bad thing because that causes so if somebody walks into your house a friend that walks into your house and he says wait a minute he's bowing to I don't know laich or babaali or somebody else it looks like idol worship so that that could create a which is a very very bad sin that uh uh without suffering cannot be fixed in this world so um also you know again it's a it's important to honor the sages learn their work take their advice 100% but when people take that and they say listen learning the I'm not at that level learning the it's too difficult learning the I don't have time learning a simple book about or mid I didn't get a chance to yet but I could just say his name and uh do uh you know and just do that and pretty much just pray to him they're in essence taking the the important and going to the and think which is unimportant and they're turning Judaism which is holy and beautiful into outright idol worship and that happens very often with people that are not religious because again when you're not religious you're not surrounded by religious people so no one is going to be there to correct you the fact that there are some religious people Many religious people that do it themselves is a different story but the point is the point of the matter is that every Jew knows that idol worship is not allowed the people that do it never think it's idol worship uh but I can guarantee you that this is not my opinion this is 100 opinion of the tah and major rabbis that have have told me this um it's you have to be very very careful when you are praying uh and mentioning a rabbi's name even if it's mosu very very careful you have to make sure that you are asking for AEM uh because of his because of his help me so that's in essence what you're trying to do uh and uh that could help you it works it's not it's not something I'm not saying it doesn't work it 100% Works to honor theim is is a big Mitzvah of itself um but it has to be done appropriately and unfortunately in our generation there's so much buut which is like ignorance in our generation that people don't know what they don't know which means that there's an extraordinary amount of idol worship that's innocent it's not that they're doing it intentionally not saying listen I want to turn this guy with a beard into an idol no one says that it's people do it innocently people do it as a mistake unfortunately it's still it's still a sin it's shog it's an unintentional sin but it's still a sin so if we could avoid that sin just by learning the first 15 minutes of our or that's it we're done we could avoid it so any other any other questions about the issue we can move on into okay so we have two this week uh a lot of really interesting things to be honest with you I'm hoping that we could uh cover all of it or at least as much of it as possible I mean to cover all of it would take probably years but at least the stuff that I wanted to highlight um starts with the lessons about vows and Oaths and a lot of people today speak again innocently it's very rarely will you find someone doing an intentional sin yes there are unfortunately some haters of Hashem in the world uh I actually got to uh uh um experience one just uh yesterday or the day before um but uh it's a very very small percentage of people very very small percentage of people the haters of hasem they're very noticeable why because they make their opinion is very public and they try to do everything they can to uh make everyone know that they hate the whole aspect of Judaism and God and religion in general now we we're excluding them from the opinion with the other 99.9% of people generally don't do sins intentionally people do things either because they don't know or they don't believe someone that's not keeping Shabbat which is the number one most important mitvah as far as to be Jewish even is not not keeping it because uh you know he he doesn't uh he doesn't think it's a good thing it's either he doesn't know that he has to or he doesn't know it's import or he just doesn't believe he doesn't believe that it's real he doesn't believe that Tor is real he doesn't believe that it's really relevant in today so that's and that goes for every Mitzvah that goes for every a every every every sin or or Good Deed that people do is based on uh whether they believe or not so the issues of N and Oaths vows and Oaths is a problem because people speak freely people constantly promise each other different things especially in business and when someone says yeah listen if you uh you know people say oh you know listen yeah you refer me some clients I'll definitely pay you yeah after say B you're a smart guy you learned some most people don't say B so say listen you're going to refer me a client uh every client you give me I'm going to give you $55,000 or uh someone says listen if you uh if you do this and this for me I'll you know return a favor even bigger I'll do something else for you and you don't really mean it now when someone thinks of a they're thinking that I have to say meaning I make a vow that I will do such and such that's what I thought most of my life I thought that in order for me to say a in order for me to make a you know a swear in so many words I have to actually make it like it's a formal statement of some kind or procedure like maybe I have to go even to a rabbi and tell him listen I make this n but it's not a simple statement can be a n something as simple as I promise you that I will do can get you into a lot of trouble so it's very important that you know we we think about our words it's actually also part of the reason why in the Holy books it says that each person is brought to this world with a limited amount of words meaning that there's a limited amount of words that each person has for his lifetime now that does not include Torah words like if someone is learning Torah they could they could talk unlimited amount of Torah but if it's not relevant to T there's actually a limited amount of words so someone that just likes to talk about nonsense uh and day-to-day stuff but excessively is actually wasting their life and usually they die very young Yas uh yentas I guess it's another way you could say it um not necessarily all the time it's again there's a rule there's an exception to the rule but there's a uh in General we're all limited as far as the amount of words that we have um so when we make promises we have to make sure that we mean them and if we don't mean them or if we uh don't we're not sure we're going to do it we always have to make sure we say B like you know I'm not making a vow and I try my best but I'm not going to make a vow the other thing is is that sometimes people get into trouble they get sick or uh they have financial trouble or is a very big fight or they lost something very important to them uh or something like something happens they're they're in trouble and usually when someone is in trouble what happens what happens they look at thisy ah they look up they look at Hashem Hashem help me and I can't help myself the money is not going to help me the girl's not going to help me the car is not going to help me the house is not going to help me the hundred million doll in the bank is not going to help me why because there certain things in life most things that are really important in life money can't help you and all of the other material things in the world can't help you so someone's in trouble someone you can't buy Health you can buy convenience but you can't buy Health best example of it a recent example of it is look at Steve Jobs Steve Jobs was a multi-billionaire very very successful very very bright guy died very young all the billions did nothing for him so again we don't wish anyone death this is just for the purpose of showing an example now when someone gets into trouble and they get usually it's when they get very sick or they're in a very serious situation they promis that they will do something Hashem if you help me do if you help me get through this I will do I will keep shabat I will do I will give I will donate to such and such cause they promised to do a mitvah and then hashm helps them and they don't want to do it anymore all of a sudden they became too busy all of a sudden money is a little tighter than they thought all of a sudden Shabbat is just not doesn't fit their life right now maybe once I get married maybe once I get rich maybe once this happens or that happens is kicking is working 100% is is someone we need to learn from what do we need to learn from the according to we have to learn his work ethic he never stops we have to be just like him either him or the ant the ant also never stops working so now when uh when someone makes a vow that they're going to give they don't have to say I need no D they don't have to actually make it a form even if someone says I'm going to do gifts let's say and they don't do it that's not good not only not good they're uh they're putting they're putting people's lives at risks now what is the punishment for breaking a someone a man breaks a his wife and his children are supposed to die so either his wife or his children are supposed to die so sometimes you see in the world you know why did this 5-year-old Kid die or why did this little girl this little boy or this wife young wife why do these people die this could very well be one of the many reasons of why people die uh because people speak freely about things and make promises that they don't want to keep or don't have an intention of keeping and uh that's one of the things that makes Hashem very very angry so this is specifically one of the things that tells us that uh making a vow is not just one of these things you can't just make empty promises not with AEM so when a man makes a promise when a man makes a vow and doesn't keep it he's putting B he's putting people's lives at risk serious people's lives at risk especially when it's at the time of trouble if someone is just saying listen I promise you that I'm going to show up on time next week okay that's one level of Promise it's very very different logically and based on kazal than someone saying listen God if you give me Health then I will do every day or something like that it's very very different level of n because here AEM saved your life showing up in time it's the best effort let's say so it's a very very different n uh so the one that when someone is in trouble and Hashem doesn't uh you know deliver Hashem delivers but he doesn't that's a very dangerous position to be in so now when a woman makes a n when she's a child and she's not married then she makes a Ned if her father found out that same day that she made or the the minute that he found out that she made a Ned if he doesn't think it's a good one meaning if he doesn't think that she can do it or if it doesn't doesn't think it's a good good thing for her to do he can cancel her n he can cancel her vow once she gets married her that responsibility transfers to the husband but it has to be at the time they find out it cannot be uh you know a uh he found out said nothing about it and then the next day decided that uh you know it's not a good idea it has to be within that same uh same day so that's that's another one of the things that kazal explains to us in the beginning this where it says says Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes meaning he's teaching all of the people all the leaders of Israel of the children of Israel saying this is the thing that Hashem has commanded if a man will take a vow to Hashem or swear an oath to establish a Prohibition upon himself he shall not desecrate his word according to whatever comes from his mouth shall he do so when it says shall he do when he says that he obviously has to do it meaning means that there is a consequence for it which it uh goes into in the next several verses now one very very interesting thing that I think is is actually I I found very interesting in this first paragraph on verse uh six is that uh it says here so it says but if a father meaning if a girl that's unmarried uh made a but if a father restrained her meaning that if the father said no no we're going to cancel this n all of her vows and our prohibitions that she established on ourselves shall not stand meaning there canceled but then it says something very interesting and Hashem will forgive her for her father has restrained her very rarely do you see and Hashem will forgive specific sins like there's a certain thing that's happens and then asem will forgive even though someone technically made a sin hem will forgive him the whole concept of chuva was created before the world and it's discussed in the Tora and in the and so on but a specific verse that says meaning and hem will forgive her or him is very rare so he's giving you the Mitzvah which also means you know counter to it he's giving you the a if you don't do it he's giving you the way to fix it and he's telling you if you fix it I'll forgive you that's not done with Shabbat that's not done with that's not done with wasting seed that's not done with major sins that we discuss nearly every week where someone will do this Hashem will forgive him it's not written there so it's very very interesting it's not that it's interesting that it's written here because of the N it's interesting because it's not written anywhere else and that's the important part meaning that in order to fix the other sins it's not as easy as the it's not as easy meaning not easy as meaning it's not as easy as having my dad or the girl's father fix it or the girl's uh husband fix it it's not as easy as that in order to really have the other ones fixed someone has to do a full chuva it's not a one two three thing so there's one time I'm sure you guys have all heard of aaka one of the most important Jews in history one of the reasons why he's one of the most important Jews aside from the fact that uh he uh started from nothing he started at the age of 40 he's the perfect chuva story at the age of 40 years old he knew absolutely nothing his his parents were converts he was divorced with a kid and he was cleaning horses one day one of the three richest men's daughters Rael his name the father's name was kala sees that RAB AA is not known as Raba at that point has good midot has Good Nature Good characteristics even though he's a complete Amal even though he's a complete ignorant to Judaism complete ignorant to anything relating to Torah and as a matter of fact when he speaks about the experience themselves he says he used to be anti-semite he used to hate Jews so much that he said every time I saw a religious Jew I would want to bite them like a donkey so one of the says no no Raba you mean you want to bite them like a dog no no no I want to bite them like a donkey because why donkey go because when a dog bites he tears the flesh but it's after a few weeks it's fixed when a donkey bites he pulverizes the bones and it's unhealable that's how much I hated religious Jews vac this shows us what the Torah can do to someone's nature and how it can improve it so ra wanted to marry Raba under the condition that he will do chv and he will go learn T exclusively learn to no work no nothing with his kid and he went and learned for 24 years he actually came back after 12 years and before he saw his wife he overheard her conversation with her evil neighbor who was making fun of her the evil neighbor was saying hey what did you get married for you're you lost out so much because once your father found out that you wanted to marry this bum that was cleaning horses he cut you off from the whe he cut you off from all money so you're completely poor you have no money to eat you have to sell your hair your hair in order to get money to eat sell her hair she was very very beautiful she sold her hair in order to get food so you lost your beauty you lost your money your father's a billionaire nothing just for this guy to go learn for 12 years and you're alone on top of it at least if he's good-looking and he's with you I don't know maybe the desire is so big he's with you but you don't even have the husband he's learning so what do ra say if he could hear me now I would tell him to go for another 12 years soik what does he do he honors his wife he turns around and he goes back to the Yesa for another 12 years doesn't even say hello someone asked listen okay I understand nice okay went studied 24 years great but but I don't understand why didn't he at least say hi stay for a weekend you haven't seen her in 12 years want to lose stay for a weekend stay for a week what's the big deal explains is that once you stay for a day becomes two days a week a month who knows if I can beat that yet cuz once I have a little bit of you know time with her who knows if I can be learn again he's even saying about himself so 24 years later AB AA not only comes into town but he brings his 24,000 students 24,000 students that died later which we still mourn till today in the uh during the um om but nonetheless he had the biggest Yeshiva in history no one in today's age has many people have you know students some have a few thousand students I think there's a there's a Yesa in um in New Jersey one of the biggest in the world I think they have maybe like five or 7,000 students a lot of there but 24,000 students unfortunately no one has so AKA comes into town with his 24,000 students now what kind of students do they have each student just the worst of all of his students they describe the best student and they describe the worst student so how do we compare it because if I tell you the things that they know it won't really necessarily make that much sense so let's just explain it this way if you compare all of the Torah in the world that everyone has in the world all the and all the people that don't know much everyone in the world today combine all of it together is not equal to even one of them to the worst one and that's by by the way one of the reason why we mourn their death we don't mourn that they died we mourn the fact that we don't have any more Tor from them because all of the Torah that we have is actually not from them it's from the five students that started Judaism again one of them actually being uh so we mourn the fact that since if you see the amount of tah we have in the world just from five people imagine what we would have in the world if all 24,000 didn't die the way they did so why did I tell you the story abouta is because when AA came in with his 24,000 students the whole town knew this giant sadik is coming 24,000 students is not a normal thing so ra knows it's our husband she has this feeling it's our husband coming in he's the sadik so she goes into the crowd so the I say no no no Lady this is uh it's not modest being amongst all these men move aside so says no no no let her in let her in let her come in because all of the Torah that all of you know is her T all of the T that all of you know is because Authority right the only reason I know anything about Torah is because of her so at that time so this shows you the the the and the levels of sacrifice that people that understood the importance of T made someone like ra no end to her G there's no end to her award the only reason we have t in today's world is because of what she did with r of course hasm would have found different ways but again the way it worked is due to so how is this relevant to vows so now her father Kal he was also very righteous he wasn't uh just a regular guy he was a very very wise Rabbi in add to being extremely rich but he saw his daughter making what he thought was a very big mistake so he made a vow he made a n that because you're making this big mistake I'm cutting you off so now we heard that this big giant Rabbi is coming into town he doesn't know it's his son-in-law he hasn't seen him in 24 years he hasn't seen his daughter in 24 years yeah so he goes one of the rich people he uh he gets in front of RAB AA some I think say that it was at that very time that his daughter was there some no but either way the point is that he gets in front of R AA and he says Rabbi please help me Rabbi Raba knows who he is but he doesn't say who he is because how can I help you I made a very big mistake 24 years ago I made a vow to cut off my daughter because she married this fool and uh I miss her I want to see her and he says this fool does uh you know T he go no no he knew nothing complete ignorant he used to clean my horses mhm goes well what would happen if this fool became a big Rabbi would you still Cut Her Off become a rabbi no I wouldn't Cut Her Off even if he knew a little bit of tah if he knew if he just knew the AL didn't even know the AL didn't even know the alphabet he says if you wouldn't know any Tora I wouldn't have cut her off but he was so ignorant I had to cut her off it was a giant mistake he goes don't worry your vow your n doesn't doesn't count it's not a real n and I'm RAB AKA I'm your son-in-law why is it not because he made the vow based on a false pretense the situ the circumstances that he made the N were not valid because the potential of learning Tor the potential for Raba to learn the Torah was always there he just assumed that he's never going to learn toah whatever he knows is what he's always going to know and not even becoming a rabbi he says if he knew any Torah obviously you know big difference now that he knows not only a lot of Tor he knows more than anyone else so when someone has when someone makes a and they make a vow and they know they cannot keep it it's very important you have to go in front of uh the three Dian three uh uh judges and they have to find a way to cancel it that's called but to to tell you already ahead of time so you know someone that made a during trouble meaning someone that was sick and said if Hashem you give me back my health or if you save my life or something like that someone that makes a n or vow during a time like that you cannot cancel it you have to meet your obligation so if you have to keep Shabbat or if you have to whatever it is that you you made a for you have to do it so that's the issues of n next thing is you know we always say that the par is is relevant to our to our world today this particular next uh part is uh how par is relevant to the world today and we'll go over in a second now as you remember from a couple of weeks ago we had the issue where the uh the Jews made a very big mistake and had relations with all the M medanite women and because of that Hashem killed put a plague and killed 24,000 Jews in in a moment which they were by the way the Gul of the 24,000 students OFA so now after they made this big sin they did chuva but hasem said okay listen this is it's great that we uh we did the chuva but they still caused the death of these medanite women these midianites in general this nation of median caused a very big uh amount of death for my children and he wants am Isel to have their Vengeance in his name so he says it says hem spoke to Moses saying take Vengeance for the children of Israel against the midianites afterward you will be GED unto your people so he's telling Moshe tell to uh go to war with these people take the vengance uh against these people all right but take the Vengeance in their name because they lost 24,000 people am lost 24,000 people this also shows us moshe's love for hasem what does say to Moses spoke to the people [Music] saying so he's saying arm men from among yourselves for Alle Legion that they uh they may go against Midian to inflict hashem's Vengeance against Midian so instead of saying like hasem say Hashem says take a Vengeance for your own loss Moses says no we're taking a Vengeance for hasem name not for our own loss this shows us at least a small example of of Moses purpose in life was just to do Kem his purpose in life was just to fight for hem not for himself not for people that's actually the biggest part of the reason of why when he hasem told him that he's going to die that's why he was upset he wasn't upset that he was going to die he knew that he's already set in [Music] ganeden he was upset that that he can't continue to service Hashem that's the difference so the next thing he says so he's saying we're going to go have a Vengeance against Midian in hashem's name and he's telling them to set up this Army thank you [Music] amen so he's saying you know you have to set up this Army so he's saying a thousand from a tribe A Thousand from a tribe for all the tribes of Israel shall you send to the legion this is the verse that I say is very very relevant not only to today as far as the world today but today today anyone know why I know why no I think no because what it means is that if you send a thousand a thousand uh Fox's act to battle you can have a thousand in the Yesa learning for those a thousand that are going should be teaching the class all my secrets you have so that's what it what is saying for every thousand soldiers that you send into the army to fight because we know the soldiers are not going to win the battle it's not the soldiers winning the battle it's not the guns or the special scun missiles or the Iron Dome or the uzi or this weapon or that weapon it's not them per se that are winning the war it's hem Hashem decides whether you're going to win the war or not now is HEM going to let you win the war because you have a nice weapon you worked really hard because you have a weapon no hasem going to make you uh win because you have a nice Iron Dome that you cost you $100,000 a missile no no what doesm want in this world to do to learn T obviously knows this so he says listen we have to have our to make things look natural hm doesn't want to make it an unnatural world where every time we go to war he just kills the other side and that's it right so he wants it to make it look natural so we have to actually physically go to war but the real reason of why we would win the war is because of the to that we're going to learn so for every Soldier for every thousand soldiers that I have going to fight the war I'm going to have thousand people learning to and that's the way they're going to win the war not because of the soldiers but because of the people learning the tah unfortunately in today's world in Israel things are very very different than what the Torah says instead of honoring the and realizing that the only reason why we still exist not just in Israel but in the entire world is due to them the government is going against them the people some of them are going against them the government continues to make laws that not only make it difficult for these people to live and study but they actually find them for doing so and they're forcing many of them to go into the army and this becomes a very political disgusting conversation when you talk to some people that don't believe in Tor they have a very very different opinion to what hashem's opinion is without spending too much time into their opinion at all the key here is that when someone knows the Tora is real and there's countless proofs of why it is things like the uh 32nd page talks about the number of stars that are in uh in the sky the exact number of stars being one 64 340 and then 12 zos after it at a time thear was written we didn't even have a telescope we only came up with research in the last uh 25 years that finally caught up to knowing how many stars there are in the universe matching the number that the gar wrote a couple thousand years ago things like cures to different uh diseases countless prophecies that have come true and even things like excuse me predicting the Holocaust predicting that the Holocaust will happen in when somebody says okay there's different ways of predicting the Holocaust you know there's different places in the tah using codes you could see that there is a in the same page that it talks about the punishment that hasem will give am for uh for making certain sins and in that same page shows you different codes of Hitler the Holocaust gas Chambers the names of the major officers in Hitler's Army all the same page that's one way an even easier way is just looking at I believe it's page six it talks about how yobu is pleading is pleading with Hashem saying Hashem I know that my son yov which by the way is representing Israel is you know they're not always going to be righteous and when uh he loses his strength you give the strength to asav as of that's the country that's the named after but please this asav don't give him too much power give him power like you would give a bull when you put a ring around his nose is a bull running around his nose have anything to do with anything a bull is a very very strong animal right very strong animal no human could manage it it's nowhere near our our strength but when you put the ring around their nose you can control them like a puppy take all of their huge amount of power power but now they're controlled by this small thing because it causes them pain he's saying even when you give the power to as make him like a bull with the ring around an ax it's better said an ax with a bull or ax same thing um with the ring around his nose that's a that's the weak part that's the weak part exactly so very next verse after that it talks about who is this ax and who is this he says and his bll is the same thing as what's going to be with Gman for if hasem didn't make them like the bull with the ring around his nose and he didn't create weaknesses within them where they were fighting the leaders were fighting each other they would destroy the entire world and it specifically says gmania gmania what's gmania anyone speaks Hebrew Germany now let me ask you a question when thear was written was Germany did Germany exist no Germany if you look at their history if you go into the U American history archives you see the history of of Germany Germany started uh somewhere around 800 years ago when about 300 Barbarian tribes came together to to form a country and in that very same gar it talks about how this Germany came from tribes this is the this is not even the written Torah this is the is the oral Tora the one that's the one that everyone has a problem with people don't want to follow Judaism whether it's Christians or non-religious Jews always says no I believe what it says in the Kash yeah I believe but the know rabbis wrote it rabbis wrote it they made those rules that's what I used to say not to make myself the most like the was most evil person on Earth but really that's what I used to say you don't when you don't know you don't know what you don't know all I heard was hey there a bunch of rabbis arguing in this thing called thear so I thought okay it's a bunch of rabbis arguing who wants to be a part of that you're not realizing that what they're arguing is that they're not arguing whether you should keep Shabbat or not keep Shabbat they're not arguing whether you should do or not do they're arguing of how to do it the best possible way so the first maybe 15 pages which in pages are double they're front and back first maybe 15 pages they discuss and they're debating the best time to do it and the whole battle for 15 pages which is a huge part considered in the to talk about one subject they're battling maybe for about a half hour meaning the whole discussion is about whether you should do it at this time or 30 minutes later or 15 minutes later so it's it's perfecting the mitvah not whether you should do the Mitzvah or not it's kind of perfect it in between you see you get a lot of wisdom in Judaism and a lot of amazing prophecies are in thear in the Tor and this is just one of the many signs of how do we know that the Torah is Divine both the oral Torah and the written Torah so here when we have a world that is against these uh they're against what M says here so why is this relevant to today I'm sure you all heard that today the United States made a very bad deal along with the rest of the leading nations in the world that are anti-semites and they made a deal with Iran made a deal with nuclear weapon with Iran we're not really going to go over all the details of this deal but uh to cut it to a point it's only a matter of time before we go to a major war there is no possible way that Israel can stay doing nothing they have to go to war so it's only a matter of time one of the craziest things about this deal is that our side meaning the let's let's call it the good guys get nothing they on the other hand can continue developing their atomic weapons even though they call it non-atomic or uh you know not uh non weapons they continue doing what they're doing as far as checking they say listen you're allowed the UN is allowed to go check they're allowed to go check our premises so that sounds oh okay so as long as we can check good there's checks and balance we can make sure if you're really developing a weapon we can check and if you are then we can shut you down right that's logically that's what you would think that would mean right but if you look at the very next thing after it it says but we can stop you from checking so you have the freedom to check until we don't want you to and the best part about it is that we're releasing I think America is releasing hundred billion of money that's been sanctioned that's been pretty much Frozen because they fund Iran is the biggest fun of terrorism so about 100 billion dollar of their money has been frozen we're releasing all of it giving it back to them so it's a huge stimulus to their economy huge stimulus to use that money to buy more weapons I love this President Obama it's not just him that's the sad part it's not just him as much as we would love to blame him it's not just him I can't stand the guy I think it was a mistake since day one but it doesn't matter the reality of it is that when a leader becomes a leader their free choice is taken away from them according to the Torah what does that mean that free choice is taken away from them just like par his free choice was taken away from them that's why hasm didn't kill him when he SW when all the Egyptians died when hasm put together put back all the water from the sea of reeds the only one that didn't die was par the biggest he was the leader how come he didn't die because hasm took away his choice and that's what Hashem does with every leader he takes away their free choice meaning that the decisions that Obama makes all the people in this government are making all the people of the Israeli government are making it's what hasem wants not because he wants to kill us because he's trying to wake us up as long as we're going against like they're the enemy and we're not going to do says then he's going to show us that it's only a matter of time before we're going to need those because our weapons are not going to help us against Iran sorry does uh does does Obama have a free choice or takes away his free choice his major choices meaning like choices like what was done today which is completely Beyond any level of logic whatsoever even the biggest fool wouldn't make this deal but he bu so that choice that choice for Better or For Worse is not is not necessarily his own doesn't necessarily make him good or pro- Israel the guy's been anti-israel since day one or even anti-america according to many people but nonetheless blaming him is not going to help us blaming ourselves is the only look amazing thing M when Obama went to the Cel there was an article that the one stole them note that he put in the Cortel and they published it in in the or whatever yeah I remember yeah and I that was Rabbi MOS showed that note in his and the note says it's unbelievable he says please God guard me in your ways I mean it now let me ask you a question now let me ask you a question do you think okay let me ask you a question let me do your let me do your right now let me ask you a question do you think he's a fool no right he's not a fool do you think he didn't know they're going to steal the note I they not of course he know he going to steal the note what do you mean it's the president of United States put a note on the wall that's available to everybody he's not going to steal the note people steal the note if they just see a righteous guy putting the note they if just a strange person is there they of course he knew you have to understand someone someone that gets to that level of power someone that gets to any level of power has to assume there always an ibat watching that's why I used to tell all my employees when we used to have a the business I would tell people never write anything on the Internet or an email or anything electronic that you don't want the entire world to know because eventually the entire world was going to know and that's the mistakes that a lot of people make they write emails saying crazy things thinking no who cares about my email who cares about my text message who cares about this who cares about that eventually you see you know big breaking news so and so is a crook a liar and he's cheating on his wife how do we find out his text message so it's of course he knew they're going to take the note think small world why you think he's a fool people that don't think think that oh he's such a righteous guy hasem help me they're being a little naive with all do respect to them it's very naive to think that he president of the United States going to put a note and they're not going to uh look into it the notes are you know they're they're easy access not like there's guards guarding the notes anyway moving forward an interesting part of the POA is that when they go to war with the midianites as far as going into the story part of itself if you guys remember that uh one of the main causes to have all these women go and entice the Jews to make this giant sin what was it the idea of bam the prophet right he's the one that he tried cursing them he tried cursing am because he was a prophet and he had that power but hasem took that power away from him and turned his curses into blessings so then he told he told balak the king of Midian said listen my curses are not going to work but I can give you an idea z I know their God and their God hates zma what's zma zi is prostitution promiscuity things sex crimes things that AEM doesn't like like people that are not a modest when wom are walking around with mini skirts and tube tops and tank tops he doesn't like it people that are promiscuous with sex he doesn't like it people that have uh you know all of these things that we talked in detail last week premarital sex SE cheating on a husband cheating on a wife all that stuff Hashem hates this stuff prostitution obviously homosexuality obviously Hashem hates it hasem hates all of that stuff if you make them sin with that they'll lose their God he'll punish them himself he won't even have to fight them so said okay it's worth a shot he hated is so much he said okay send our women to their Camp including my own daughter including the prince's daughter to go make sex crimes with them make sins with them the women go Hashem gets very angry and puts a plague that in the matter of minutes kills 24,000 people and only stopped because was zealous for hem loved theem with no limitation and took it into his hands to kill the leader of the Shimon tribe with the with the um the princess from Midian uh and killed them on the spot so now this we already know no in this week's telling us to go to war with them to avenge his name avenge our own name the death of all our brothers and sisters that died so we go to war with them and at that very moment bam that very same Rashad that had the idea he's coming he doesn't know thata is about to attack he's coming over there he's coming to Midian he's coming to collect his money Milam was a very big prideful person thought he was a very big deal and he wanted his money so he came to collect his money he said listen only reason why you caused $24,000 people to die without any of your soldiers dying because of my idea so I need to collect my money at that very moment am came to attack and hasem told us to kill all of them to kill everyone bam was a again like I said he was a wizard was a prophet had powers so he tried flying away so the midash tells us the uh what the itself says they killed with the sword but the um the midash explains number one that bam actually tried flying away he flew in the air he had powers he tried flying in the air and Pinas took a spear and uh hit him in the air and pulled him down a spear with a rope and pulled him down very mystical stuff very interesting part of the uh and killed him but the uh significant part of this verse is that they say that he killed him with a sword why is it why is it uh with a sword because bam tried using the blessing that Hashem gave the nation of Israel which is the nation of Jacob which is our mouth our mouth has extraordinary power unlimited power you could pray or you can curse someone that prays could literally have extraordinary things happen in their life someone who learns to can have extraordinary afterlife extraordinary existing life someone on the other hand that tells the kid Hey listen don't do that all get the dog to bite you even if he's doing it as a joke it actually cause a dog to bite his kid that's why it's not good to joke around with your kids and say that listen don't do that or I'll get I'll call the cops and they'll arrest you you can't say that because they say that you know your mouth actually have a lot of power you could actually cause harm to your own child just by saying something innocent like a joke so bam was trying to use the power of Jacob his mouth his prophecy that hasem gave him to curse us to go against the nation of Israel The Chosen Nation obviously didn't allow it to happen so to punish him Hashem punish them with what with the reward that he gave the nation of asab what what reward that he gave the nation of esab you're going to live by the sword asa's nation is going to live by the sword and they killed him with the sword so but that also shows you the difference of what someone can have a huge connection with AEM like prophecy we don't have any prophets in the world we haven't had prophets in a long long time but still use it the wrong way and still lose a share to the world to come the next thing is the nation of Israel the soldiers come back and they tell uh Moshe listen we um we killed them we destroyed them but we brought 32,000 women 32,000 of their women we brought them back they weren't fighting they're not soldiers so we brought them back take it into the nation we didn't sit with them though Moses gets very angry with them says Moses was angry with the commanders of the army the officers of the thousands the officers of the hundreds who came from the Legion of the battle he's very very angry with them you know he's pretty much telling them I don't understand your inability to control yourself with the very same women caused 24,000 people to die and you bring them back you bring 32,000 of them back here many of them being the same prostitutes that caused you to to Die the same women that sinned with you what the what they actually uh Pinas explains and what the uh what the leaders are saying no no no we didn't bring them to be with us we brought them because they're not soldiers we don't want to kill them innocently so mhe explains to them that God said kill all the people that had anything to do with the crime destroy them so obviously Hashem knows how to test what's a he knows who sin who didn't but we don't so they had a very interesting way of doing it they would put them put each woman in front of the crown of the uh K and if the woman was was ever with a man and sinned with a man uh they she would turn green and they would know and they would kill her very day with with that grief from the tribe of Shimon or from any son from a man was it from if she knew a man it just says it says if uh Every Woman fit to Know a Man by lying with male doesn't necessarily say that she uh you shall kill it doesn't say necessarily if she was with a uh assume that if she had uh relations before she must probably right G so now the uh okay so that's the uh turn where turned green that's right everyone turn she's the same she's the one that say so how many were were left from the 32 how many 32 well there was actually more than 32,000 eventually it was 32,000 that were spread that the remainder of of of the ones that weren't killed were 32,000 actually I was I made a mistake on that thank you for correct uh the remainder after killing the um the uh Sinners was 32,000 that was split we'll go over in a second so now something very interesting is after this it talks talks about the uh we get our um laws of koshering utensils when someone buys a uh you know I don't know let's say new pot from the store uh they have to take it to the mik m what about if someone is doing chuva let's say before he did chuva he used to eat kazil and uh with some shrimp in it and with a bunch of with some cheese and mix it all together make a nice sandwich but now he's sadik doesn't do that doesn't want to do it so why you have to force the guy to go by new everything he doesn't have the money so he's not going to eat no right so what happens to teach us here how to kosher utensils if those utensils were ones that were burned it means that the pores of the metal are open which means the pores of the metal are swallowing the T taste absorbing the taste of the meat or the non- kosher stuff so that utensil that that pot or pan or anything like that has to be burned burned to the point where you're reopening burned with a white up to a point where it's a white fire it says um so very very hot fire like the kind of stuff that we did for p and uh which reopens the pores and empties them out and that purifies it if only cold food was made in this pot or pan or plate then you just have to put it in a mik water in holy water it's in a mik and you put it there so now here's a nice question for you guys let's see who knows the answer what if I'm a convert yesterday I was Chris today I'm a what's the question what's the question what the question obviously this is not the same answer guys you're smart you know it's not gonna be the same answer yesterday I was Chris today I'm okay what do you think yesterday pork fried rice every day today glosa we give your we give you HEB name what do I do with all my utensils do I have to take them to the mik where do I take them is the rabbi going to take it he's going to help me out how much it's going to cost me what do I do it do I need to do it the same way as the B CH what do I do no when when you're going the same thing as a when you go in the Mig and you dip yourself you take all the utensils with you and you dip them with them same thing so so so I go in a mik as a convert I'm bringing all my utensils with me purifi the yeah you need a pretty big mik no definitely they have fa tell you take your car everything with you okay you're not going to be the you're not going to be the rabbi that does the conversions anymore you fired from the job tensils you have to take I'm going to tell you something really really amazing I say this something say something interesting this is something very very very interesting I guess you can't purify ital explains to us that a convert a convert is higher level than a natural born Jew the the no I'm sorry not I think says a convert is higher than a natural born Jew it's not uh why because a Jew his soul was in Mount s night it's saw saw all the Miracles saw hashem's words hashem's words he saw it in the sky man coming down food coming from sh every day Hashem sounds different amazing things every day a pillow of fire a pillow of cloud people need not needing to take any shower do laundry for 40 years amazing amazing amazing Miracles that we cannot even fathom how big they were that Soul saw it every day he saw the red the Sea Of Reach split he saw the 10 plagues on Egypt a major Empire that controlled the entire world destroyed in an instant he saw this this Soul that's in this Jew saw all of these Miracles so of course he's going to be Jewish of course he's going to keep mitv he saw all of this it's easy if I saw God of course I keep all mitv the convert they didn't see that he didn't see that he didn't see the Miracles he chose to follow hashem's way anyway without seeing all the Miracles that's why he's bigger that's why he's higher than a natural born Jew and because he's so much bigger because he's so much higher we mention in before we say we say we say on the on the righteous converts before we say ourselves to bless them before us and because of that the convert RAB from the and many other places he wrote it in Al in his book Al um Z page 269 convert not only doesn't have to take his things to the mik his utensils to the mikve but when he goes or she goes into the mikve she purifies or he purifies the entire house M the the of a convert influences our surroundings purified but that's after no before before she's not she she's still Christine she's not yeah but she's trying to all Christine goes into the mik she comes out Sarah at that very moment our entire house is kosher but that's not possible but there's still bacon on the koshering and mik is not the physical is for our eyes the real action is spiritual the state of spirituality changes yeah but that depend and again of if she's going into the M she doesn't have pork in her house that was just for the purpose of giving you guys an example I'm talking TR to she's going through the process she has to obviously keep koser throughout her process but uh she would still have to do the uh take everything to uh if if is a process she left that stuff let's say she ate kosher only but she left and she gave all that stuff to somebody else she gave it to a Jew that Jew would have to put them into the mik cuz she's still non-jew or he's still non Jew the fact that he ate kosher is nice but it still doesn't do anything to the spirituality of it so now the next part is this Spoils of War what is the big biggest benefit of War what is the reason people go to war money money why do we go to much money land is money land you was want to land because you want to say oh listen I own a island in Tahiti no it's worth a lot of money territory territory is money goes back goes back to money what's what's territory land in Israel that's money so now the biggest benefit of war is The Spoils of War what you get after the war you get all the money all the treasures all the treasures so now we destroyed the midianite nation and to give us an understanding of number one the and two the size of the medite nation how big they were that we beat them the Torah comes here and tells us about how am is giving M remember we talked about M if someone wants to be rich someone wants to be rich in this life they have to give 10% of their net income we talked about this before it's the only thing you're allowed to test Hashem you're not allowed to test hasem by saying listen Hashem If You Give Me A Sign I'm going to keep Shabbat that you're not allowed to do but if you say listen I'm going to give 10% of my net income and as a result you're going to make me Rich it'll work why because hasem himself says it says do not test me anywhere else except myself except the 10% so now is giving he's giving so the um each part of the tribes first Hashem tells us that The Spoils of War 50% of it goes to the people that actually went to war and the other 50% goes to the rest of the nation it gives you the numbers details tells that you have to give the uh M why leim because they're the ones right they're the ones that they are they are the uh ones that have dedicated their life not to war not to money but to God who who the leim of our of Our Generation what do we say a couple of weeks ago Tom who's who's the levy tribe of this generation no they're not who is the levy tribes of this generation who the levy tribe theim we know who theim is who is the ly Tri who's the levy tribe of this generation of this generation how do we know someone's a l or not no no that's the Coen R says that rambam says rambam from 900 years ago the biggest Sage that we had in the last Thousand Years says that Levy tribe of his generation which obviously means for the rest of generations after him are the ones that dedicate their life to learning that's the levy tribe it's not because someone's last name is just Levy someone that's that's considered a leev tribe is it possible that they were Levy at one stage and they forgot of course a lot of us don't know what we are you could be in the gener you could be in the seat of King David and be the next mashia but you don't know when you need to know is going to let you know thank you so now they giving this they giving it but then andem goes into the very very details of each one how much he gives [Music] he tells all the details 600,000 of this 72,000 of this and out of that there's only uh 01 uh% left and you given exact details of everything they gave the exact numbers you're going to read it on Shabbat there's a page and a half here that you would think is a waste but that's you would think what what ISM giving us the details they gave this much and that much what I okay tell us they gave stad they gave 10% that's it you know we're finished what are you give me the details they gave 600,000 and then 72,000 and out of the 600,000 they had 60 something left and what's the details for what's obviously this is a reason for this there's not even one extra letter in the Torah that's wasted there has to be a reason my reason says when someone is average or poor it's very easy for them to give m someone makes $2,000 a month it's very easy for them to give 200 bucks or if out of the $2,000 they only have $500 profit let's say after they pay their bills let's say they live in a very very very cheap area cuz I don't know where you could live in America for $2,000 but let's say you live on $2,000 your $500 net profit you get $50 sale it's very easy to get $50 for the guy that makes 500 bucks very easy the guy makes $5,000 very easy to give 500 bucks very easy $1,000 also easy to give $1,000 not for everybody but for most people ,000 you're a Jew that means you have a good heart that means you have to have by the way you have there's three signs of what makes someone a Jew if someone doesn't have them you have to question whether that person is a Jew one of them is the um uh mercy and the and the need the desire to give someone that's not generous you the question whether they're really Jewish or not look into seriously but what happens when that same person that made $2,000 a month now he makes $300,000 a month 500,000 a month a million dollars is it just as easy to give 10% a million dollars give a 100,000 everyone that says yes didn't make1 ,000 a million dollars a month I'm telling you from experience very very difficult to give 10% when you're making millions one of the experiences we had in life was making a lot of money and I can tell you 100% we gave a lot of money but nowhere near 10% I used to think that I gave a lot of money we did this we did that we're not going to count my mitv or because it's nowhere near my a in life but the point I'm trying to make here is that when you're making regular money very easily give 10% you make $5 million a year $500,000 to the rabbis $500,000 to K that were you crazy okay I'll give him 50,000 fine 500,000 it's not even a thought unless you have Tor in you with no Tor it's virtually impossible because you don't see the reason so what do people give for the people that have hundreds of millions of dollars and you see them they gave 10 million to this one 5 million to that one they're not giving it they're not giving it to people learn to over there who are they giving it to hospital because it has their name on it University because it has D name on it that's what they story with by the way this is the story about Le if somebody know gave that's how he got rich one of the richest if not the richest uh Israeli uh in go down everybody everybody lost money he's the the only one or maybe uh one of very few at least yes that's Survivor the okay can't can't and that's that's the thing when you have God in you it's very easy to give when you don't have God in you meaning not God like you believe in God God meaning you have the Tor as part of your life you're living your life in accordance to God's Tor when you're not living your life in according to God's Torah it becomes very very difficult to give give M it's very difficult to give money big money and this is exactly the reason why hasem mentions every detail of what AM Isel gave because they got billions upon billions from this country they conquered billions and billions how do we know it's billions because the very next paragraph talks about how the leaders the leaders of Israel there was leaders they came to MOS and they said listen we went I believe it was with 12,000 people to L fight median and we came back all of us came back no one got hurt obviously this is an open Miracle you don't go to war you have somebody hurt you have somebody dead even today is a modern technology people die you know what are you going to do that's War says all of us went to war to a bigger nation More Money More this more that more that and we destroyed all of them and none of us got hurt obviously this is AEM because of that we want to do something above and beyond what Hashem requested us we're going to give you all of this different gold and other things and the K did a calculation of how much gold they gave it ended up being a little over 28,000 600 kilograms of gold I took a little bit uh to calculate it in today's market 28,6 42 kg of gold is about a million ounces a little over a million ounces with today's gold I think it's around 1,300 it's $1.3 billion $1.3 billion that's from 132 people how did they carry all those spos took money from Egypt took gold forces existed back then too I mean talk enormous amounts each one and people died people died so those people who died gave it to their you know passed it to their to the new generation yeah so how very very rich how did they we had millions of people remember we had Millions it's not like uh us 15 people it's you know millions and millions of people so you know they uh they also are very smart tonight and a lot more than Z they uh a lot of cattle they had a lot of trees so here's the thing here's the lesson here the lesson here is that the significance of how much how holy these people of Israel were they gave this big amount of above and beyond a lot already that they already gave because we constantly talk about the sins that they made makes it seem like was evil they were very very holy people had a big yet something that we can't even fathom but this leads to the next thing that we have a problem with today when you tell people that listen am gave 1.3 billion immediately people like oh for what or why oh yeah they had it so it's easy for them you know you tell us to say something like Bill Gates gave I don't know I think like $30 billion inaka not to he give it to science and medicine but needless to say it's still it's still considered a good deed especially since he's not Jewish 30 billion yeah over $30 billion and he also could him and his buddy Warren Buffett convinced a bunch of other I think maybe another 100 or 200 other billionaires to give most of their money and so on and so forth but the point is that when you say that like yeah but he has 70 billion so what's the big deal of him giving 30 billion so the first thing I can tell you is that whoever has money loves money meaning they don't want to give their money away they have it because they like it so they want more of it never satisfy says you give someone 100 they want 200 you want give them 200 they want 400 a human nature will never stop human nature will always want more one of the things that uh it's someone needs to work on in their life is to not like money very hard to do but uh it's a uh it's one one of the things that you see some of the most righteous people in history they were haters of money in order for the leaders of Israel to be chosen by Moshe when uh when Jethro told him to pick certain leaders one of the qualifications was haters of money so they people that hated money H so they wouldn't be bribed right so now you tell somebody givea give this give that and it's very becomes very very difficult the conversation changes with people on the other hand there's a very famous saying says right will save from Death save a person from Death what does that mean the easy the simple translation is that if someone was supposed to die can technically stop it save save him from being from getting the death penalty the deeper meaning of it is that when someone gives when a rich man gives a poor man one has money one doesn't have money who's doing who a favor based on hem has told us in the Torah when the rich man gives the poor man money it's the poor man that's doing the rich man the favor have to go to to Jew you can give money to other non-jews but uh the first choice always has to be a Jew Jew and especially a Jew that is either learning tah as as a fulltime or someone that does K like rabbis specifically focus on uh helping Jews do CH those are the two main things why because one is saving the world in essence by learning to lie and the other one is saving souls and not for those that standing in the traic lights yeah not people not not not people that are just very famous but don't really do much they they have a law now they just passed they don't want especially in Palm Beach not uh doing that anymore back to our point now if you tell if if a poor person comes to a rich person and he says listen I need some financial help help me out give me I don't know a few thousand a few million dollars whatever he wants and he tells him I'll do you a favor and I'll take your money what do you think the rich guys going to say get out of my office get lost but in reality in reality the poor man that's taking the money is doing the rich man of favor and the rich man has to actually have Theo to want to give the poor man the money meaning that just because he's rich and just because the poor man came in front of him and asked for money if hasem doesn't want the rich man to get the benefit of doing the Mitzvah of giving because he's a complete R he's a complete evil hater of hem even though the money doesn't mean much to him Hashem will give him a design not to give that person the money to stop him from doing it because he doesn't want him to save be saved from Death it's one of the biggest sins one of the biggest uh uh punishments the other thing is is that when someone is taking money as they literally could be saving that person's life at that moment meaning that if let's say for example when someone is helping at someone is helping at people are learning to all the time he's giving the money every month and you don't want to ask of how much problems we have in Israel right now and people are learning tah people people don't have food to eat and on top of that there there's more cutbacks and so on it's a real disaster as far as how people are difficult with money when you hear the stories it m breaks your heart but when a person is righteous and gives those people money he may be thinking oh I'm doing a mitzvah this will go up every day I'm going to get aah for giving to learn what he may not realize is the fact that he gave him money is the only reason why he's still alive at that moment meaning that the moment he stops giving him money his life ends and there's a few stories of people that there's actually one story of a uh I forget his name but um a person was actually a big sadik that had a rich person that financed him he said this is the person I don't know if he was a cabalist or not he said this person is my uh you know he's he's been helping me for all these years uh with money but I've been keeping him alive and the minute the guy died the sadik died shortly like within a matter of like a few uh few days or something like that the other guy died meaning the Divinity had nothing no one to give to he fulfilled his purpose so when when someone is collecting remember first of all he's doing you a favor second of all he could be actually there could be a decree in shim that you did something even if you don't know that you did it or you do know you did it that could be decreed to get a death penalty and that's the car could literally save your life at that moment but the guy that save the money have to to do uh actually it's the C with the money no meaning what meaning if if I give to somebody money yeah the yeah you need to do um he needs to be an honest person not a thief yes he need to do something good with the money yes if he if he's going and he goes to uh Las Vegas with the money he's aash then that also means that hasem doesn't want you to have the scoot that's actually another form of of punishment the outcome of your of your the outcome of your is also a form of reward or punishment yeah because there's endless reward for someone that gives there an amazing amount of reward that someone that gives to someone that's learning and doing but at the same token some people don't deserve that reward some people they're evil in a million other ways or they sto stole the money they overcharged people or things like that and then they say listen I stole like made off made off he uh stole I don't know know many billions that he stole but he gave a lot of St up that's a account that he gave stolen money no what I'm saying so what happens if those people got benefit from his like the people who received this that's the uh what hasem decides is going to happen with that but the main thing I can tell you is that the usually the of people like that doesn't have a good outcome doesn't go to the right places it's another form of punishment Hashem is just Hashem is always just he's always going to make sure that certain things happen in certain way so for example someone that works on Shabbat Hashem is going to make sure that the money they make on Shabbat they're going to spend it on really bad things whether it be bills or hospital bills or car fixing or different things like that where you're making or Casino or loans that never come back and things like that so it's a hasem is just and his ways are just and that's one of the things we have to understand is that he has a certain order to the world so first we learn that is a big mitvah second of all we learned that technically that the poor person that's giving that's to is doing you a favor and third of all we need to know one of the Prophecies of the days of mashia this is also this is 97b so it's saying one of the signs giant Sage countless Miracles are spoken about him in the Torah that we learned from him he says you know the Messiah comes from the seed of David so meaning the m is not going to come meaning until everyone's broke wow it's complete famine no one has any money who it's happened many times if you read a day that's coming up in U less than two weeks you're not allowed to learn T because T creates Joy with the exception of the sad parts of the tah so things like the Book of Job or mik or different parts of the Prophecies of the end of times things that are miserable things that are sad things like the destructions of the bet mikdash the first one or the second one I actually have a book about the destruction of both of them if anyone wants to read it uh it's guaranteed to make you depressed but it's also guaranteed to teach you what's possible and to wake you up it's very very very difficult read I read it on and it's a very difficult read but like you said when you ask the question how is it possible the were Empires with much more power than America much much more power than America CU America right now is the most powerful in the world much more powerful that were crushed to a point where people had to become cannibals in order to survive and eat their own children people had to eat their own kids in order to survive this is not this is actually in the written to in the tanak it's one of the prophecies so as far as how is it possible it's happened several times why is this related to because like I said number one the poor man is doing you a favor number two he's saving your life number three you're not going to have the money for that long anyway at least do something with it what do you think you're going to uh the next World with your1 million or your million dollars or your $100,000 think you're taking your money with you mashia comes tomorrow you think your money is going to count for anything this is not just for us this is for ourselves but this is also for anybody that's watching this especially if they have money or they have access to money they know somebody with money people need to understand the treatment people have towards money is outright Idol work worship I'm not going to mention any names and if anybody knows this name please don't mention it I spoke to somebody about bringing a rabbi very big Rabbi to the community to a community and I told them uh listen this Rabbi was here worldwide giant Rabbi everyone knows who he is people speak English don't speak English even people don't understand where he says know who he is big Rabbi giant it's helped a lot of people including myself so you want to have him this year he because no no listen it's great Rabbi no question but uh when they were here last time they pulled a move on us I asked what do you mean they pulled a move on us what does that mean pulled the move on us he says to me yeah after he finished the sh they raised money they raised $40,000 from our K why would I want them to come raise 40,000 from oura let us uh keep it for ourselves for the give it to the besset with a leader like that that specific this is not from the to saying it just but this is from me saying it from a business perspective I wish I knew as much to as I know business with a business perspective if you ever have a leader that believes that there's a limit in the world meaning there's a limited amount of money a limited amount of customers and a limited amount of potential it's guaranteed to fail it's guaranteed to eventually collapse anyone that wants to be rich if you ever want to get let's say for example business coaching anyone that's a good coach will give you this advice if they don't I will if you ever want to be rich there's a certain part of it that requires a mindset change one of the things that's required for success in anything especially monetary success is to change your mindset about what you think is a lot of money because you will make approximately 60% of what you think is a lot if you think $100,000 a year is a lot your maximum potential is $60,000 you will never make above $60,000 from your own ability obviously Hashem decides but as far as human nature and how that works you will not make as much as you think is a lot if you think a million dollars a year is a lot your maximum potential is $600,000 am high so but Aiming High is one part of the argument believing you can do it is a different part when someone believes that there's a limited amount of money in the world to get a limited amount of customers limited amount of opportunity in the world that means that they feel like if I open a jewelry store here and he open a jewelry store here that means that we're splitting the business 50/50 or any business that he gets I'm losing that's not only a wrong mentality for business but that's outright that outright is telling AEM that you don't believe the from sh so it's not only bad for business it's also bad for the toah life but when that person is a leader and he's responsible for the benefit of the public and he has that mentality where he thinks that there's a limited amount of that the can handle then he's limiting the kila's growth he's limiting the kila's potential and unfortunately he's putting the Kila in a situation where they can never grow so first of all my response was I didn't know that you think I maybe said it in a different way I'm a little bit more abrupt at times but I didn't know that you think that rabbis live off of man because that was only in a desert hasm gave us man from sham and that's that's how we lived but it's last I checked M doesn't come down to anybody including rabbis so a rabbi comes from a different country nonetheless to AA he's not coming because of your good looks he's coming because he's trying to do K but also raise money that's what rabis rabbis come they don't come because they just like you they need money to eat to help people to help to help to help people that are about to have abortions to help people that you know to not have the abortions so they could you know have the kid and not murder him to help people that are you know they need to uh um get them away from Arab boyfriends that have stolen them and and and from their families to help all of these people to help the tan to help Judaism they need money for this stuff to have a TV station in Israel cost somewhere in a neighborhood of almost a million dollars a day wow when you have a station like which is 24 hours a day worth of 24 hours a day we you think it's cheap it comes from hasem is sending them M he's depositing into their bank account by itself yeah people need to raise money so only a fool would say that what do you mean they they pulled a move on us they uh raised money that's what they do they need to live the fact that you have money is your benefit that you could do something with it because according to kazal it's only a matter of time but your money is not going to be worth anything because when a mashiah comes everyone's money is going to be worthless and that's one of the things we have to understand so to give what you really have to understand to give money to people like that what you're doing is not just a Mitzvah it's not just saving your own soul it's not just saving your own life you're getting rid of the garbage because that's what money is it's outright garbage it buys convenience at best but it turns families into enemies it turns friends into enemies and it does a lot more bad than it does good if you treat it like it's garbage it will be much easier for you to use it for something good you could recycle the garbage and make something beautiful out of it if you treat it like an idol you'll become a RHA like the people that are stamped on it and that's what we have to understand about money and and all of those things because when it comes to listen I need to buy a car add navigation system $3,000 okay yeah no problem add chrome wheels another $5,000 no problem add this add that all those things they cost money right the guy that's buying the car doesn't care I'm not saying this specifically because a couple of car Styles in here I'm just saying this because a good example but when you tell that same guy that's just spent 60 70 80 $100,000 on the car with features that cost $5,000 that he's never going to use you tell that same guy listen Rabbi is coming to town we need we're trying to raise $5,000 what can you do ah let me see hold on say I got 20 bucks but you just spend 5,000 on a navigation system you can get for free from your phone you just spent 5gs just to have something look good and it's fun it's convenient and it's nice but it's $5,000 there's a rabbi that could help people and save people and eat maybe you give him $20 $20 and that's the difference guys that person is treating money like an idol because it's so important to him he doesn't want to get rid of it why would you want to get rid of something you like he's talking about five he always he always gets the the the the the stuff that's uh completely not relevant to the story he's talking about the navigation system right now God bless time of the Mia how are we actually going to survive on like food that well there's a few uh different times as far as mashia is concerned there's the uh there's the war before after the war or during the war there's going to be uh 15 days of darkness like the plague that we had in Egypt of darkness is going to be 15 days of that when a lot of people are going to die also War once the mhia comes it's relevant to the entire world is this before he comes or after he comes I believe it's after after it's after after Darkness after he comes m is going to be one the one leading the W you with me Tom not after okay so the um they say some say that after the war and the lot of death approximately two-third of the world will die instantly ly during the war according to the the war will last 9 Minutes wow um 23 of the world will die instantly and uh because they um they're not they're not they weren't righteous the third that's left will uh some of them will be righteous very righteous some of them will be tested meaning that not all of them will survive um so to even be part of the Third you have to be a certain amount of righteousness and they'll have to make a choice there's going to be a very big difficulty as far as passing the test it's not going to be an easy test uh But after those days and there's much more details uh that I'm skipping over some say that the world will go back to some extent to its natural ways where there's not going to be War there's not going to be need for weapons but there still will be some type of Commerce meaning you're still going to have to eat and buy stuff from a store and stuff like that uh some say that uh it it won't be that way be very very different what one thing we do know for sure is that we're only going to know for sure when it happens so as far as the last part of this this I U this is still my thought I know it's going to take a while to just cover this one we didn't cover the second par but the last part of this par is the uh argument between the tribe of ruven God versus mosu the tribe of ruven and God come to mosu they say listen before we cross the border and go to the nation of Israel and you know we're going to have to go to war because there's people there's people there the Canaanites are living there before we do that can we um we see that there's a bunch of land on the other side of the river can we be gifted this part of the land and give our share to the other tribes you know split the share in Israel to them but our share give us this stuff and um who are you talking about the Giants no no I'm talking about the tribes of ruven in Israel and the tribes of wanted land outside of Israel they wanted to land outside the other side of Israel the other side of the river because they said listen we have a lot of money what is money in those days money is not just gold money is cattle livestock they have a lot of sheep cows and an extraordinary amount say in this land over here gold on the East Bank of Jordan is a uh perfect for um for the for the for the livestock so let us let us stay over here and build a place for our cattle and our children so Melle gets very very angry he says your forefather your father's in the previous generation did the same thing that you're doing they came to me and they uh they were the spies that we sent remember a couple weeks ago we had the spies that came to Israel and they spoke badly about Israel and they convinced all the people that it's not good to go to Israel are you doing the same thing right now aren't you doing the same thing right now that by you saying that you don't want to go into Israel aren't you doing the same thing you're speaking back about Israel Hashem almost destroyed all of us we had to suffer in the desert for 40 years because of that are you doing the same thing and what are you doing it for because you don't want to go to war with us you don't want to help us out instead you worry about your money you're worrying about your cattle there's a problem here so then they say no no no no you you know you're misunderstanding us we're going to be willing to be the first ones in line to go to war and help and we're going to go to war for as long as it takes and we're even willing to stay with you until you divide the land but after you divide the land the war is over we'll go back to our area over here so M says okay now that he understands if that's what you're going to do that's what you promise to do fine but kazal says that in reality to some extent mosu was right for being angry because in reality they were really worried about their money how do we know they're worried about their money in the verse itself it says in so many words they're saying they approached M and they said we need the Pence for our flocks shall we build for our livestock and cities for our children so first they're saying we're going to build a place for our livestock and after that we're going to build something for our children so their money their their cattle they worry about it more than they worry about their own children so after mosenu rebukes them they say to uh they they obviously understand the point and when they respond the children of God and the children of ruen says say to Moses saying your servant shall do as my Lord commands our small children our wives our livestock and all of our animals will be there in cities in the Gilead so they fixed it before they took they were worried about their livestock and then their children but then they realized that they have to take care of their families first and you know their money last and that's one of the main most important lessons that I think we can learn about today is that the importance of money is obvious obviously people need to live money you know need money to live I'm not saying that uh you know we're at a level like the uh nation of Israel in the wilderness in the desert that's going to live off of M but at the same token there's a certain level of importance that one has to have to something that's technically unimportant meaning that if someone believes that Pai is really from sh if someone really believes that hem is the one that dictates how much you're going to have on R decides how much you're going to get whether you work 8 hours a day or 24 hours a day a hm decides at that moment how much you're going to make it doesn't matter how much you work your work is completely irrelevant if someone believes and lives their life in accordance to that it becomes much easier to live a life in accordance to AEM by spending some time to learn to spending some time to teach the family some to spending that money that you make and giving the right amounts of and becomes much much easier because you're not worshiping the money it's not an idol to you it's not something that's really a big deal there was a person by name ofon Ben gulon I told you about him uh not too long ago he was one of the three people that during that very time that we spoke about before where it was a disaster and the Romans surrounded the nation of Israel they um didn't let us out so and three richest people in Israel were financing all of Israel financing all of the people of Israel for three years so he gave a lot of one day ran sees a woman looking through the waist of a donkey or horse he says what are you doing ma'am what are you doing he's looking through the through her waist and he says what are you doing and then she turns around and uh she says I'm looking for food I'm looking for food looking to see in one of the grains maybe he didn't digest one of the grains I want to eat it and then he sees her face he goes who are you and she goes I'm Ben's daughter he says how is this possible your father he gave a lot of how is it possible that you're you're at this level that you're worse than a homeless he says he gave Sak but he didn't give enough he gave millions and millions but relative to what he was supposed to give he didn't give enough and that's one of the things we have to understand about money when you understand that it comes from sham much easier to give more than enough because you look at it as just material it's nothing when you see it as anything more than that it'll be impossible for you to give because the is just too big will help us all be bigger have bigger and that from him continue to get closer to him we see each other on Shabbat when we have our