Parashat Shemini - What's the deal with Kosher animals?? - Rabbi Alon Anava

[Music] so first we're going to uh dedicate this class for the elevation of the soul of Sarah B Salim sagir or sagir maybe I'm just reading it wrong her soul should have an elevation now we're in we had a little bit of a break with PES but uh we're starting now to really learn all the the Practical laws and starting from this par I mean in the previous books we learn a lot of history a lot of information and uh things that happened in our in our in the past of our forefathers and so forth but now we're really going to start learning in the next practical laws how we start applying the mitv and it starts in this par and in this par we we we see for the first time all the rules about the AR Kosher diet and it's talking about what we allowed to eat what we're not allowed to eat how is an animal kosher which animals are Kosher and we find that there's so many details in regards to the rules of kosher which H comes to a big questiones AEM does really care about all these little details I mean that how am I eating my food what am I eating all these little details about our food and a lot of people say what AEM really cares what I eat it's it's not a diet program I mean I can understand yes the is and I mentioned that in this par we learn a lot about the laws of kosher sorry and and there are many big questions about that but one of the questions is what does it matter what I eat I mean tell me not to steal I understand tell me not to kill I understand tell me what to eat I don't understand that and a lot of people they have this question well why why does AEM care what I eat and you can look at Health people do yeah yeah I'm not talking about the health reasons because the the kosher this is another question that a lot of people ask is why only Jews have to eat kosher why non-jews are not okay they they're they can eat unpure animals I mean what's the difference between me and and a non-jew why am I obligated in eating koser and a non-jew is not there's no laws whatsoever for non-jews about kosher so we see that it has nothing to do with health because if it had to do with health then hasem would say okay also non-jews are not allowed to eat that because it's not healthy for example you will see non-jews they don't have to they don't have any restrictions in kosher so kosher has nothing to do with health so before we start I mean we want to learn esec especially in this type of class that we do is we want to learn something practical not necessarily the historical fact or something interesting I want to take something practical from the class about the parasa cuz the parasa comes to teach me something in order for me to apply to my life usually this class is on Sundays so we can take that learning and applied for the rest of the week now because of PES then I didn't want to miss a week of having not class of the par so we're doing it on Thursday so we only have two days to apply it but the point I want to take from any type of class that I learned from the Torah is how do I apply it to my life if I learn Torah and I don't apply it to my life I miss the point so I want to know and not only me many people are are asking I don't I can understand many things but koser what does AEM care what I eat why that's what he cares about the little details how I ate it how I slaughtered the animal what I mixed in it okay tell me you know two three rules and get it over with why does AEM care about that more than that is we're going to go through it is what are the signs about that give makes the animal kosher now is the animal kosher to start with and it just has signs that I can recognize it or it's actually the signs that making the animal kosher so we'll go through that too and of course the question that I already mentioned is how come only Jews are obligated in eating kosher and non-jews are not obligated in eating kosher I mean I'm not allowed to steal and also a njw is not allowed to steal I'm not allowed to kill commit adultery same thing with a non-jew but we see many laws that non-jews don't have to follow and one of them which is a great wonder is why the Kosher diet and we have many students that are not Jewish and they also they always ask should I keep C so and the answer of course is no a non-w doesn't is not obligated in keeping kosher I mean it's recommended even for a non-jew to eat kosher meat because and we're going to learn why in a second and many other things but a nonu can is not obligated can eat whatever they want so we see from that already that it has nothing to do with health it's rather more spiritual but B will go through through all these questions but before just to tell you uh a quick joke that will put things in the right perspective is that there was once a Jew and he was a businessman and unfortunately one day business was not going that great and he lost a very big business deal and with this big business deal that he lost he G came into a lot of debt and with that started owing a lot of people money and the situation became worse and worse and worse and he found himself in a very bad place so the rumor around the town reached the to the priest of the Town who approached the Jew he told him listen I heard you in a very big financial problem let me help you so the Jew says okay how can you help me so the priest told him listen I'm going to pay all your debts you're going to be debt free but I have one condition he's like what's your condition condition he's like I want you to convert to Christianity so the Jew says okay you know I I don't really care I'm not really observant I'm not really religious as long as my debts are paid fine that's what you want me to do fine I'll convert okay he hands him over a very fat check the Jew pays off all his debts then he comes and he tells him okay now you have to fulfill your your promise you have to convert he takes the priest takes a cup of water he sprinkles on the Jew the water and he tells him now say three times times after me I am no longer a Jew I am no longer a Jew I am no longer a Jew sprinkles the water on him and he tells him okay now you are Christian so the Jew is about to walk and the priest says wait a minute how am I going to know that you're really following my rules and you renounce your Judaism so the Jews like I don't know you you came up with a deal you tell me so he says you know what from now and on you are not allowed to eat any kosher animals anymore and from today you can only eat horse meat and when you go to the Butcher of the city you can only buy uh meat that comes from a horse and I'm going to make sure I'm going to ask the butcher if you buy kosher food from him okay the Jew didn't really care and went on with his life after a couple months the priest wanted to see that the Jew is really following the deal he comes by surprise to his Shabbat to his Friday night meal and oh my gosh he sees their chicken and the cow and he says wait a minute you just broke our deal I told you you only allow to eat a meat that belongs to a horse so the Jew told him you know what I did I took this meat that belongs to a cow and I took a little bit of water and I sprinkled on the meat and I said you are not a horse you are not a a horse you're not a horse so so so we find it very funny sometimes this whole thing with the kosher there are three types of mitv that we mentioned a couple times that are the mitv are broken into three categories one of them is called mishpatim we learned that a few weeks ago in the par mishpatim and mishpatim is the laws that are very simple to understand not to steal not to kill and these are called mishpatim rules now there are type of mitv that are called Ed is a testimony and this is a mitvah that we do to testify for something that happened in the past for example lighting candles on kanuka commemorating the Miracle of kanuka and even things like celebrating Shabbat we're commemorating the creation of the world the Mitzvah of PES is a testimony that we left Egypt so a lot of the mitzvot fall under the category of testimony What's called the and then there's one type of Mitzvah that is called kimim has all the Mitzvah that don't make sense and for example mik or red heer and one of them is kosher it's a Mitzvah that doesn't really make much of a sense and a lot of people have a lot of issues with the whole Kosher diet and they say okay I understand tell me not to eat the meat and dairy and and they'll find the reason healthwise why not to eat it or they say okay I'm not going to eat a certain animal fine I'm not going to eat pork and H and and shrimps but does it really matter how I Slaughter the animal who cares does it really matter that my cup is this milk and FES and you go fantic with it so there's a certain line where people say this I will agree with because it says in the Torah don't eat this type of animal or don't mix meat and dairy but don't go OCD and start telling me not to mix my my spoons because this is dairy and this is meat and and doesn't matter how I do the the the slaughtering I just go to the store is that a cow's meat just give me the the meat I don't care how they slaughter the animal and I don't care what certification is on the meat so a lot of a lot of people have a problem with the extent of how koser you have to go and even the people who do want to to follow all the rules many of the rules there's a big question like why does AEM really care about these little details when it says in the Torah don't steal it doesn't come with details it says don't steal so I can understand from that that I can't steal from you and I can't steal from you and I can't steal in the morning and I can't steal at night and I can't steal big things and I can't steal Small Things the to just tell me just don't steal don't don't try to be sophisticated and try to find a loophole in the system what you allow to steal don't steal end the story so when the T wants to be very a ER focused on something it just tells you just don't do it here it doesn't only tell me don't eat a certain animal it comes and gives me a whole list of requirements what would make the animal closer how the animal will be slaughtered how to eat it when to eat it so many real rules so we want to learn why and how is that to do with me because in many of our classes we mention how the Cal diet is extremely important and many times that we we we we talked about a certain concept I went back to the original and said it's kosher make sure that your diet is very kosher and a lot of people say yeah but I'm very kosher already there must be something that you're missing we spoke about it couple times about the and in all the classes that we do about about and I always emphasize also of things that culture is the the the foundation of our existence because exactly how they say in America you are what you eat and what I put into my body becomes part of me and one of the the first things that we we we learn on in the Tor now in these parot after we got the Tor after we learn about the sacrifices then we start learning about practical things and one of the first things is about kosher so it's extremely important to know what is got to do with me because a lot of people they think that their kitchen is kosher or that they follow the kosher rules but they're really not following the rules exactly how it should be and not too long ago there's a a a certain a a lady that she cered the her entire kitchen and right before PES I remembered to call her and told her listen you got to make sure that your kitchen is going to be really really ready for p because I know you're not so observant it was for her a mountain to cross to make the kitchen kosher and I knew she's not going to really observe the Mitzvah of P the right way I mean she's not going to eat a roll but she's definitely not going to be particular about the the things in the kitchen and I told her you got to be very particular about what you do with the kitchen because if you're not going to sell your K and you're not going to put things away and all these extra rules after PES you're not going to be able to eat in your kitchen your kitchen is going to go back to square one it's going to be not Kosher anymore because if you have in your kitchen and you didn't sell it you can't eat that KET anymore that's it you have to throw it to burn it and if you didn't sell now all your plates and cups during PES you're going to have a problem now with all the stuff that you CED already you're going to have a problem now because it a p went through it P and this was in your possession it's going to have a problem now so and she was like I opened now another whole a new world what now I have to do this now I have to do that why are you telling me that after months of convincing to the kitchen she she couldn't understand why she has to stand out sell her kets what I can't use my plates I can't use my pots I have to buy new pots so the point is that kosher goes into to such a details and it's so important that it's important for every person that is God-fearing to understand why and where it's coming from and why do I need to follow it because if the Torah would not be particular about it it would just tell me don't thisat this animal don't do this don't do that and finish with it excuse me one of the ways that we see that the Torah is serious about something is that when it repeats it if you see that most of the Commandments in the Torah the Tor says it once doesn't repeat it anymore when you see the Torah repeating something over and over it means that it's important and one of the things that we see a repetition is in kosher it's talking about three times about kosher in the Torah and in most cases it's only talks once not to kill not to steal not to commit adultery all these things it says once not that's it it says twice in the Tor not to kill and that's it another time that it will repeat it over and over then we see that the Torah means business about Shabbat it's mentioned many times about Shabbat amazingly it's off the subject but you see that it's mentioned 36 times in the Torah about how to treat the converts that you have to treat them with respect that you have to honor them that you have to accept them and so forth 36 times it's the only commandment in the Torah that is repeating it over and over and over 36 times it's talking about treating how to treat the converts that's how the Torah is so strong about it so we see that kosher is pretty important it repeats it three times three times we find in the Torah the Commandments about kosher so we want to know what's the secret behind Kos and how does it apply to me now first of all when now we're starting the a lot of The Commandments of doing we see that the Torah starts with the Commandments that are important that everything has to do with our mouth and our mouth is very very powerful we mentioned that many many times how powerful our mouth is next class we're going to learn about and in we're going to see how the the counting of the days is that we count 49 days because we take the seven SP and we times that seven times and we're going to talk about it in the next class but we see that the number seven constantly comes back in the Tor in many different ways and one of the places where we find that the seven is is a dominating number is that we have seven gates to our body so we have two eyes two ears two nostrils and one mouth and hasem knew exactly why to create only one mouth and not to create two mouth I mean we have two eyes and two ears technically we should have had two mouths but hasem was very smart and he was like I will create give them two mouths one is enough so we see that the Tora starts with a lot of The Commandments and everything that has to do with our mouth now a lot of people are very particular with what goes into their mouth they will go to the supermarket and they will observe and they will go with magnifying glasses to see all all the supervisions what's what stamp is on the food what comes into the mouth they care but what goes out of the mouth that's a whole different story there's a story once that the batan he he went on a trip and before they arrived into a certain city hisim went into to one of the houses H it was more like a big synagogue and they said listen listen the balat is about to come and we want to eat here but we want to make sure that everything is kosher and theim were asking where did you get that flower from where did you get this from what did you do about this they were interrogating the woman in the kitchen where did she she get everything and she was like wow they're so very strict then when they sat to eat they all started did you hear what this guy said about that guy did you see this did you hear about that and the bat said you were so particular of what goes into your mouth and you're not particular what goes out of your mouth so our mouth is a very powerful Channel where we take things in and we also take things out so this is not a class we're not going to talk about what comes out of our mouth this is just a side note that as much as particular that we want to be in what's going on into our mouth we have to be particular what's going out of our mouth in regards to lying and cheating and and and all the things that our mouth can produce but what goes into our mouth is extremely important and usually what will go into our mouth is food and not nothing else and it says in the that the protects the mouth of theim and D their mouth that's there's a story in the about a certain T his name is RAB P he's the Rish shimon's father-in-law and there's many interesting stories about him especially that he had a very special donkey and if you remember in one of the classes that we had in the course about the gates of reincarnation one of the intros I was telling stories about his donkey who's a reincarnation and this was a very very holy donkey and the story in the talmud says that he once arrived in a certain town and he went to eat and everybody was like wow this great Rabbi is com coming in and they wanted to honor the rabbi so they also right right away ran out and they gave the donkey H to eat and the donkey didn't eat they gave him probably some straw some type of food that they give the donkeys and the donkey didn't eat so they came to him and they're like what's wrong with your donkey why is your donkey not eating so he says listen my donkey is a very holy donkey this is a a special n in that donkey and if he's not eating it means that it's not Kosher and they're like donkey donkey doesn't need to eat kosher so he says yeah but this is a very special donkey and he's not eating it because on the the straw that you gave him it was given from a an area that they didn't give Meer from it and therefore it made the the straw not Kosher and even the donkey didn't eat it so the is talking about about how the the kadh he protects the mouth of a sadic that even he's not going to let his animal eat something that is not Kosher and there's a big contradiction about it in thear because it gives two examples how a very big sadic failed in a very big sin and there's a very big sorry a very big Sage his name is RAB Ishmael that he made a a very big sin with a a candle one Friday night he was reading out of the light of the candle and he couldn't see something so he tilted the candle by mistake to make some more light and you're not allowed to do that on Shabbat because when you tilt the candle and the wax falls off the candle then the wick burns more and you're not allowed to do that on Shabbat and he failed by doing that of course it was by mistake now there's another story about excuse me about another T his name is Yehuda babai that he by mistake killed a person that wasn't he was a he was a judge and he made the wrong judgments and the person was not obligated in Ma and he put him to death and these are two great sages that they they made a very big sin so the thear there contradicts and says what the theem doesn't always protect the sadim sometimes we see sadim that they also failed and of course this is done by mistake they didn't do it deliberately in these two examples but the is talking about not K is protecting the mouth of aad that aad is not going to eat anything that is not pure that is not Kosher that's where the is talking about theh is very particular about what's going in into our mouth now the Torah is telling us which animals we're allowed to eat and which animals we're not allowed to eat amazingly if you look at the way it tells us it doesn't tells us which animal we're not allowed to eat it says this is the animal that you allowed to eat which here we have already a very big hint that originally we were vegetarians and and up until the flood nobody ate meat was a vegetarian it says in the Tor eat only from the trees so till no they weren't allowed to eat meat after the flood Noah did the first sacrifices and then they're allowed to eat meat but we learn just from this PUK in the Tor that originally we weren't allowed to eat meat and now the Tor come and says yeah you're right not allowed to eat animals but from these animals you're allowed to eat the this is the animals so just from that we already learned that originally we we weren't allowed to eat meat and even in a later stage when mashiah is going to come we're also going to go back to that level we're not going to eat meat anymore we're going to go back to how it was originally was and we're going to stop eating meat of course that's going to become in a much later stage of of the time of mashia cuz in the beginning we're still going to have the sacrifices but originally we not meat eaters therefore just as a side note as just for for for the health part of it it's not good to eat too much meat but here body to lower level yes the body went into a much lower level sometimes you try to be vegetarian you know a some such a mixed feeling about Chinese medicine they say certain that we can't Fe fly vegetarian for our body un we can get a lot of supplements to the thing is that if you're looking at the health part of it the you can get proteins from many other things so I don't want to talk about the health part of it but yeah our bodies became much much more lower level that when the time of mashia is going to come and our bodies will be refined we're not going to need to eat the meat I'm going to get to the to the end of in the end of the class why are we really eating meat I don't want to ruin the surprise but really we don't need the meat as if you're looking at the biological part of our body we don't need meat if we're looking for the proteins you can get much more proteins than many other things eat almonds there's more proteins in almonds than in meat so and I'm not promoting vegetarian I'm not a vegetarian I also eat meat but if you're looking at the health aspect of it we don't really need the meat one of the many reasons why we started eating meat is because our bodies H went down in its level but by the end of the class we're going to kind of summarize why we do need to eat meat and what's the point of it and that's why it has to be kosher but really Before the Flood we didn't e meat we didn't need to to to to consume the meat so first of all we see from this par that the Tora is already hinting that generally we're not allowed to eat meat just comes this is the animal that you allow to eat so the Tora is coming and giving an exception and says 99% of the animals in the world you're not allowed to eat we're only allowed to eat 10 animals that's the the whole thing there are only 10 animals that are Kosher all the rest of the animals are not Kosher so originally we see from that we're not allowed to eat meat now the thing is that in the meat in the in the the actual meat if it's kosher it affects us that's one of the many reasons why we follow the the laws of the Kosher diet because what's in our meat affect us a lot and that's very important thing to to to consider it and that's one of the reasons why we why we H follow that now there's a story of a certain individual who lived in Russia about 200 years ago he's known as RAB AKA Iger who has a lot of commment on the oral Torah and a lot of commentary on they're very special individual and the amazing thing totally off the subject that a few weeks ago somebody donated a bunch of books and we were cleaning them a lot of books were really really destroyed and but we were working in cleaning them and as we were cleaning them they were there on the table and we had a couple here that came to spend the Shabbat with us and the man was interested looking at the books and and as as we were cleaning one of them was a whole set of commentaries by RAB AKA Iger and the lady looked at him he's like oh I'm a descendant of this special Rabbi who was very a very special individual but anyways totally off the subject I just remember that this special individual was a very holy person and and one time he he went to a certain wedding and he found out that all the the food in that wedding was not Kosher and he didn't understand he wanted to find out and he went to the mash of that wedding and he told him tell me I heard something there's maybe an option that something was not cering the food here and the M was like don't even bring this whole thing up up I didn't I don't even want to this nightmare was already over please don't tell me the story again he's like what's going on he's like listen there was a certain man that he was married but then he he he the get that he gave was something was wrong with the G and there was a whole problem in h here in regards to the G and then he got married again and when they went at the time to the P of the generation who the balatan the balatan says if you're going to get married again because you're not particular with what I told you to do then all the food in that wedding is going to be TR and that's what happened and he went and and did the wedding and the m at the time says I didn't even know that the rebi of the generation then gave that sucked in and I gave everybody to eat from then and there was a whole there's a whole a a problem going on and how did he find out because this rabiger came came to a certain town and a mother approached to him as a rabbi and she told him listen my son he doesn't liked learning Tor and when we take him to the he doesn't like to learn and when we we hire the best teaches and he doesn't get it so he tells her check his K diet and she was like what are you talking about we're very religious we're very strict what do mean check his Kosher diet and and he tells her if he can't absorb the Torah if he can't learn the Torah and he doesn't like it means that something's wrong with his Kos diet and he's she's like what are you talking about we're 100% strict and then he was like okay go and dig into your mind maybe he went somewhere maybe he he ate somewhere not Kosher and he and she was like the only place that I can think of that he ate that is not at home is a few years ago he went to so and so's wedding and he's like okay that's where he got it because the W the all the food in that wedding was TR was not Kosher and that's where he got it and that's why the Torah is not being absorbed in in him so a lot of people come and tell me you know I come to your classes and you put me to sleep after 3 minutes and I have a very good talent on making people fall asleep when you don't notice cuz you're looking to this direction you only see me when I look to this direction I see the the heads going down and people tell me you don't get insulted people fall asleep in your lectures so I'm like no I'm probably probably have a good talent in putting putting people to sleep my wife always gives me the kids she was like you put them to sleep they fall asleep on you with me they don't fall asleep sometimes when I go to to to certain lectures that people really are a big amount of people in the crowd fall asleep and a lot of people they're like listen isn't it insulting you or hurting I'm like no because first of all if they fell asleep the mystical part behind it is that if the vessel of the person is not able to sustain the words of the speaker then the person will fall asleep because the CLE the vessel is is not able to hold the information and it happens to a lot when I come and tell my when I share my near-death experience story that's when I really P people to sleep because the the the message is too too too strong or too powerful and the vessel of the receiver cannot handle it then the person will fall asleep but it happens a lot when the neish when the soul of the person has a little bit of impurity on it and then the nefes cannot handle the Torah and the what the result will be will be the person will fall asleep so what we eat affects our neish be cured excuse me be cured of course it can be cured when a person is more particular with their diet so if you learn Torah and you go to a class and a lot of people tell me I come to your class as I'm listening to you it all makes sense and it's all very exciting and inspiring when I go out 3 minutes later I don't even remember what you talked about and when I come home my husband or my wife will tell me what was the class about I don't know he he he talked about something it was very very interesting but I don't remember one thing to so when I first learning in Torah I would be extremely excited and inspired by what the teacher has to say and then I would walk out of the class and I was like I don't remember one thing come Shabbat I would want to give over some Tora and I was like I don't remember one word I don't even remember what was the topic the J so some people remember just the jokes so the point is that when something like this happens it's only because the nees is not pure now we mentioned in our sh class that our is built from five levels which the highest of of the levels is called then these two levels have nothing to do with us and the lower levels of our soul which is called they're in our body and the lowest part of the soul is called nees and the nees it dwells in the blood and this is a very clear a verse from the Tor that it says so our neish is in our blood that's why you see that any place in the body that you will poke with a needle blood will come out even if it's not poking a vein take even the a little toe and poke it blood will come out why because the nefes that enlivens the whole body is all over the the body and and for example the ru is in our heart and the N is in in the top part of the brain even though yes also the and the they're in the entire body but the main place of dwelling is for the is in the top part of the brain the ru is in the heart and the neish is in the blood so everything that I eat gets digested becomes my blood which means that if I eat something that is impure now my neish becomes impure so if I eat something that is koser if my diet is extremely strict in koser then my neish is pure now we're going to learn what does it mean pure and impure because L of people says what you tell you're telling me that I'm impure that what's wrong with me because I ate something that is not Kosher than I'm tame or tame is impure now now happens to be in the next class that we're going to talk about the this is one of the topics we're going to talk about what's pure what's impure what's what's the but when I eat something that is not koser it makes my nees impure so what would be the result the result will be that my speech is impure that my thoughts are impure that my behavior is impure now impure means not not not perfect not good not not not the right way so like when I'm saying my talk my speech will be impure means that I'm going to curse a lot and I'm going to lie and I'm going to cheat and doesn't mean that I'm a bad person but you know I know a lot of good people that if something was going to fall on them the and they get a little bit of a uh uh a hurt or something the bad word will come out of their mouth that usually starts with an s or starts with an F or all sorts of other words that why you say that word somebody cuts you in the street you throw a word out why I mean think where it's coming from and and and and I'm just giving one example out of many what it means an impure talk now I'm not talking about when your talk goes even Beyond impure and in some people every word second word that comes out of their mouth is a curse and every word that comes out of the their mouth is a lie or or uh gossiping or slandering this comes because my neish is impure then what comes out of it will be impure same thing with my thoughts my thoughts can be pure thoughts and my thoughts can be impure thoughts except a teenag it's everybody even you can you can do that test even on kids kids you would see right away the difference take a kid that their diet their Kosher diet is 100% you see the kid is more refined they don't curse a lot they don't scream a lot they're not their behavior is not so aggressive I gave you already I don't want to repeat it one time we had when we moved to California with my son that he was given in the kindergarten milk that wasn't is how was entire Behavior became aggressive so the food effects are neish because it goes directly to the neish so what's going to be in the food one of the main reasons why I do eat kosher it's not the health part of it it's not about being OCD rather because it affects my nefes and once it affects my nef NE is the lowest part of my it will affect me now here of course comes the question so why a non-jew should not follow the laws of of of kosher because a Jew is a little bit different than a njw and it doesn't mean one is better than the other I'm just saying different one of the the points that a Jew has is that Jew is an emissary is a he's an emissary of the kadosh to advertise that there's a kadh in the world there's a God in the world and not only that is to be to serve as a proof that the Torah is real because if there wouldn't be a nation that follows the Torah then who would come somebody can come and say t is not real but when you see a whole nation and you're talking about millions of peoples for Generations follow the Torah this is what's called a proof that Torah is real there's a whole nation that follows the Torah and they're thrown into fire they get killed murdered and executed and they still follow the Torah we have the obligation to follow the Torah to serve as a proof that t is real because nobody will go in such if something is not real so part of eating the kosher is the proof that we have to come and show that Torah is real and the point is that when we follow the Torah we don't follow the Torah because we we we want to make a point because we understand that it it's part of us now there's a story about a certain kid he's a luich kid he's very famous his name is re Mendel futas that he was known to to go into the Soviet Union and pull people out of there at the time when the the borders were closed and he really went and jeopardized his life went Behind Enemy Lines and saved people and and and did unbelievable things menal FAS so he he there's a lot of books about him I once read one book of just the heroic things that he did was unbelievable anyways at some point he got captured and he was thrown into isolation in Siberia I think he was there for 10 years 15 years whatever the the punishment was and he actually got released because that's when the the borders were open in Russia he was able to leave if not he would probably be there till the day he dies but he was punished to to be in isolation in siir and he was there and he had to follow as the Torah as hard as it was and one time he you know there was barely any food there I mean just imagine that 10 10 months out of the year is all snow and ice there's barely any food there and finally one time he found like a a jar of food and he was excited to to to dig into the jar and as he opened the jar and he would looked into it something was shining from inside of the jar that got his attention and as he was looking into the the jar he saw that the jar was schmeared with some oil and he knew at the time that they what they do is they used to rub the jars inside with the oil that comes from an impure animal H to keep the freshness and this is a individual that was starving I mean for days he didn't eat and now you have a a jar here of food and you know he said on himself I mean I had the the option I mean this is this is I have to eat this is but I can't I'm going to be eating something that is coming from a oil that comes from an uncer animal and it was a very big test for him whether to eat it or not because he could easily say listen in the middle of Siberia this is this is literally means that I have to save my life and I'm allowed to sin and he's like no I'm not going to eat it because there something not cous I'm not going I'm not going to let it affect me and the result was first of all he he lived till I think like 97 or ' 98 he lived till a very very long life and all his offsprings go and find you can find them here in Israel inad and in many other places he has all his Generations after him are unbelievable people great great rabbis and and he was telling on himself that even though I had all the right to eat that I would not let it touch T I would not even touch it because I knew that this little thing even though according to I can eat it because I have to save my life but I didn't want it to affect me you know there's a story that about 200 years ago there was I told you about it that there was a certain Russian ruler that he was really mean to the Jews and he recruited the the boys to the Army from the age of 12 can you imagine from the age of 12 and the decree was that they have to be in the Army for 25 years and the 25 years started from the age of 18 which mean six years this has nothing to do with the decrease so they had to be in the Army for 31 years so they would take these boys and of course it didn't give them any freedom they had to to to work on Shabbat and they couldn't follow their religion and one of the things is that they had to eat anori food and at the time the sadik of the generation was theed and he used to send people to these camps and on hanuka to give them candles and P to give them matah and he would give them all sorts of little things to to to do and one time they asked him and they told him listen you know they feeding us pork and what should we do should we eat it or should we just uh go on strike and say no it's not ction to die on kashem so they said listen there's not really a Mitzvah to die on K because of food you this is not one of the mitv that you put your life on on the line and you have to eat I'm sorry to tell you that's the decree that came from above and you have to eat you have to eat un food and he tells them eat it but at least don't lick your fingers don't enjoy it you you you're decreed from above to eat this anos food but don't enjoy it because they used to give them on purpose very good unor meat that one can easily enjoy it so he said listen listen eat it but don't don't lick your fingers don't enjoy it too much so we see that Al does permit me some in some situation to eat not Kosher it even says a pregnant woman that if she asks to eat something not Kosher you have to give it to her because she's in a state of mind that she's allowed to to eat even something that is not Kosher and ifom a person is about to die and the only way to save it is with something that is not CER you have to give that person but being excuse me being pregnant it's not but the permits of a pregnant woman that if she if she she really is craving something that is not Kure you're allowed to give it to her wow so I wouldn't say it's recommended but perits it to so same thing with the story with this menal phot the was permitting him to eat he was but he's like I don't want to touch it because it will affect my nees so we see that many people they go to such an extent that they would not even dare they'll starve just not to touch something that is impure why because the Kosher diet affects directly my neish and when a lot of people come and tell me I have a problem with depression I have a problem with anxiety I have a problem with I sleeping disorder all sorts of different problems the first thing that I asked is do you eat kosher now of course most of the people will tell me of course I eat kosher what are you talking about and the next question that that I ask is are you really is is your diet really koser culture with when it's convenient so and I'm not judging any person I'm just saying that the kulture diet has to be Beyond strict because something as small as even mixing the the spoon that was in the milk dish and the and the and the the meat dish something else small will make a big difference and I once had an argument I I was giving a lecture and a woman in the middle of the lecture she bar barged with her question and and and she didn't wait she didn't wait till the end and she she couldn't stand what I had to say about kosher and she had to throw her question and she told me she started arguing with me why am I telling that about that you have to be so strict with kosher and and she was like listen I eat kosher but I don't believe that I that first of all she said wine doesn't have to be kosher I don't even know where she got that from and then she was arguing with me about the whole dishes that have to be milk and H and meat and I told her listen first of all I'm not making anything up I'm not that I'm coming with my new rules I read from the book and I tell it to you excuse me but I was telling her listen if you now take a spoon and you put the spoon in a boiling hot cup of coffee and you mix the the coffee and it's boiling hot now the pores of the spoon open the taste of the milk gets absorbed in the spoon now the status of the spoon is a milk spoon now a few hours later you made yourself a chicken soup or any soup that has meat and the meat the the soup is boiling hot and you take that spoon that you mix the coffee with and you washed it of course but you put it in the boiling hot H plate of soup that has meat now the pores of the spoon open again what happens is two actions a it spits out the taste of the of the milk now the entire soup is not Kosher because it spit the taste of the milk into the meat soup at the same time it absorbed excuse me I'm not going into all the small details in Al I just gave her example and because not always it's Bim and and and sometimes it's a very small cup of soup at the point I was trying to make a point to make the point not to start going into every little detail that's something screamed from the crowd but I said listen just listen to the example anyways what I told her now what happens is that the pores of the spoon are open then the taste of the meat will get absorbed in the spoon now it will make the spoon uncer and she of course didn't accept the the whole argument but I told you you don't have to accept it I'm telling you the reality now what's going to happen is you can argue as much as you want if the spoon is koser if it's not koser if the meat if the the soup is koser or not what it will do in a spiritual level it will affect your nefes it will affect it so later on don't call and tell me that you have anxieties or that you have sleeping disorder or depressed or any other problem because this all these problems they come from your neish and if you're not particular about something so small then later on don't come and complain where is it coming from because if I'm depressed it's not because I have money or I don't have money or I I can find my other half or I can't find my other half or whatever challenge that I go by that should not make me depressed what will make me depressed is that my soul is depressed and if what would put me to have an anxiety is because my soul is not eased and it's not sitting well in its place so it's all shaking so it will manifest into my body as an anxiety so if a person is not willing to to accept the the strictness of the culture they cannot later on complain that I go to a class and I don't remember anything what something's wrong with my memory some people they they will watch uh uh uh a movie they'll remember every line of the movie off by heart when it comes to to to repeat what they learned two hours ago I don't remember anything not too long ago we were invited somewhere and and and they were talking about a certain H movie or a show whatever they these people they knew every line of the movie they were saying and the other person was completing the sentence and I was like wow if you would just know this level of of of the memory about a few in the you would be in a much better place and you see that for Junk the mine absorbs and remembers everything and you know I have a relative that he knows all the football players in the world he knows all their names all the the the teams where they play on their numbers on the shirt and I was like Wow and he doesn't even know one name of one Rabbi in in our entire history and I said all the football team and the players you know their names one Rabbi you don't know I tell him you know who's RAB AKA no RAB May no re this no this is this is the junk that's in your mind the number of the football player in which team he plays for so comes to show you that our mind if it wants to it remembers whatever it wants but when it comes to Torah suddenly you have a block so this block comes not because your mind is not sharp I know people that are professors and they know unbelievable depth of knowledge when it comes to the Torah they don't know anything because the Torah is Holy it's not it's not regular wisdom the Torah is's wisdom so if my soul is not a vessel to accept it and to understand it then it will never get it and this will cause another person to have all these doubts in the Torah it says oh I a lot of people says I I I believe that you shouldn't steal but I don't accept not driving on Shabbat where does it say in the Torah not to drive on Shabbat so the mind will not be a vessel to accept things that are Beyond this world because the mind and the soul is fed with things that are not Kosher so why do I have to be so particular about it because Hashem says because it affects you it affects you directly and for whatever reason from the spiritual structure of the Soul it affects the soul of a Jew not a soul of Jew so it doesn't mean one is better than the other it doesn't mean I'm better than a non-jew because I'm a Jew it just means that the the the spiritual structure of my soul is different to a point that it will affect my n and the N it will not affect their n that's it that's that's what it does now the Torah goes and tells me about 10 animals that I'm allowed to eat that's it that's the that's the whole thing and the to is very particular and then it goes and tells me everything that I'm not allowed to eat and you have lists over animals over animals that I'm not allowed to eat now when it comes and it tells me about these 10 animals that I'm not allowed to eat it gives signs to the Torah to to the animal and then there are two signs that makes the animal permissable permissible for me to eat a it has to chew its cut and B it has to have a split hoof these is the two signs any animal that doesn't have these signs I can't eat them if you notice that all these 10 animals that we're allowed to eat these are animals that are in Hebrew it's called Nim they being chased after these are animals that are being eaten that's not animals that eat all these animals that we're allowed to eat like a sheep a goat a cow all that they they're vegetarians and not only that they're vegetarians they don't chew their food right away they swallow it first then they spit it up out and then they chew it if you notice ask ask a a zoologist and he will tell you a cow will take the grass or whatever it eat it swallows it it doesn't chew it then it will spit it out and then it will start chewing it and then swallow digest and backwards and forth if you notice these 10 animals that that we are allowed to eat they're animals that they're they're being eaten in nature that they the in Hebrew the word is n is being chased after they don't chase after anyone you're never going to see a goat that chase chases after anything or a cow they don't chase so you can see by already the character trait of the animal what are the animals that we're allowed to eat now we have two signs that making the animals koser and there's a very big question does the sign make the animal koser or the animal was already culture it just carries the sign so first of all we have to understand what are these signs the the first of all the answer for what I said is that the animal was kosher to start with the sign just comes to show me that the animal is kosher but it has two signs that I have to notice that first it has to chew its cut and the second thing that it has to has a split hoof and all the other animals are not Kosher for me why are they not Kosher because if I'm going to consume them by eating them they would lower me in my level of my spiritual level whether the other animals they're not going to affect my spiritual level as on the contrary it will actually elevate my spiritual level so if I eat an uncor animal what it does to me it takes the level of my spirituality and it takes it a little bit lower which actually takes me down to the level of the animal we mentioned in one of the classes there are four levels in Creations an animats vegetation animals and humans and the human is the one who has to elevate all four levels so when I eat a cow that ate grass that was grown in the ground I'm taking the anals that in the ground like the minerals and the soil and I'm elevating it to the level of the vegetation because because of because of the minerals and the soil the grass was grown and then the cow ate the grass and now I'm eating the cow which means I'm able to elevate all four levels in creation Now if I'm eating an animal that is not Kosher then I'm going one level down in my level I'm going down from the level of Med of a human into the level of an animal what does it mean that my entire Behavior will be an animalistic so I'm going to have the desires and the inclination of an animal so I will want to be eating much more then I'll have my my my my eating will be like a eating disorder I'm not going to be able to control my eating I'm going to go past the bakery and just smell this nice smell right away five rolls I can't control my my eating like an animal and that will come in anything my my behavior will be impulsive my words will be not not pure and and it will trickle to many many character traits that the animal has cuz the animal just wants to procreate just wants to eat just wants to sleep an animal doesn't want to open a book and learn an animal doesn't have the the character trait of doing charity or kindness here and there you might see an animal that will help another animal usually animals their character trait is is an animalistic character trait so if I consume an animal that is is not culture then it lowers My Level so we see another reason why I have to be very particular with the actual diet that I eat now when the Torah comes and tells me that only a Jew has to eat it eat a kosher animal we see from that it has nothing to do with health it has nothing to do the reason here is not Health rather only spiritual because the spiritual structure of my soul gets affected by the animal a non-jew can eat any other animal it's not going to affect them it's not going to affect them at all even though it is recommended and I know many non-jews that eat kosher food they eat it just because in most cases it will be much more healthier and in a very refined spiritual level when when you Slaughter the animal the right way it doesn't feel any pain so the animal doesn't have any negative charge in it versus if you stun it you know in our days how they kill the animal that is not koser they shoot it with a stun gun the animal goes into shock so the meat is also very stiff so it's not an obligation but I know many non-jews that they also will eat kosher they say the meat is the food is much much better food so we see here that the Kosher diet is has nothing to do with health has only has to do with the spiritual level excuse me often you know I say The Food Co it's not don't keep then it's not Kosher yes in kosher there are many many the food there's many many levels in making the food kosher it's not only that's why I started the class by saying that a lot of people say oh I I eat kosher it's it's cow but I don't follow the rules that it has to be slaughtered and I know many people that they tell me oh I eat kosher I would never eat pork or or Shri or I don't know what but I only eat a cow so where's the certification oh I don't care how it was slaughtered I just eat the cow so there are many levels in the making the food kosher and of course food that was cooked on Shabbat yeah of course it's going to make the food not culture we're not going now to all the laws what will make the food culture or not we're more asking why is it so important that I follow all these rules cuz a lot of people say yeah I understand I'm I'm going to eat the meat and the dairy together but I don't care if the meat was slaughtered the right way or however it was cooked the point is that I have to maintain a certain level of spirituality and this class is going to be very connected to the next class we're going to have about because is all all about is climbing in my spiritual level I refine one level in my spirituality then I climb to the next level so I have to maintain that spiritual what's the point if I made chuba I sacrifice my life I put all my energy and my thoughts and my time into coming closer to Hashem and I'm climbing in the level of Holiness I have to maintain this level if I don't maintain this level I will fall down in my spiritual level and you see in the physical world a singer they have to maintain their voice they can't scream they can't talk too loud they they have to drink all sorts of soothing drinks that the voice will stay will stay shape I know some cousins a week or two before the the holy the high holy dayss they they whisper they don't talk why I have to preserve my voice I have to sing now so I have a friend who was the opera singer he made Chua I think he's the first that is a opera singer you can find him online he was a world renowned opera singer and he became about can you imagine what a cousin is but he maintains his voice sometimes he speaks very low he speaks to I told him what's wrong with you and the first time I didn't know he would sometimes he would he would whisper he's like no I have to have to keep my voice so a singer has to maintain the level of his voice an athic has to maintain shape he can't just sit and have cheese burgers all day long he has to maintain his shape so a Jew has to maintain the level of the spirituality if you work on yourself and you work on yourself and you work on yourself one little bite of something not koser will throw you back many levels back and that's the problem of a lot of people they become observant and when I say B CH it's exact same thing for a convert a convert struggles real hard becomes observant becomes je Jewish and then he has a he she has a certain level of spirituality if they don't maintain that they go back so I can put a lot of energy into my spiritual growth and then for whatever reason I will not accept all the rules of the diet Kosher diet and I you know putting a lot of effort here and I'm losing I'm losing my spiritual level over here so I have to maintain that now how do I maintain that is that I follow all the Kosher diet now in this kosher has a lot of other rules here in this par we talking about the kosher animals right now so kosher is how I'm mixing the meat and the dairy kosher in the food can be an example that I gave you the food that that the the that was not given the Meer from this is not kosher food you can't eat that just the other day we have some pots outside the house and my wife brought in something to cook with and I told her wait wait wait you can't just cook with it you have to give me from that you have to take a piece of now we don't have a coin to give it there's a way how to do it but here here in Israel we have to give Myer and we have to keep what's called sh and and one time I told somebody about certain fruit and I told him the fruit is not Kosher and he's like okay that's it you are completely crazy you're telling me the fruit is not Kosher and I told him yeah this fruit is not Kosher and he told me why are you telling me this fruit is not Kosher I told him because this fruit comes from a tree that didn't pass past 3 years from the time it was planted this is called if I now plant the tree 3 years have to pass before I'm able to eat the fruit of this tree now it doesn't have to be exactly 3 years because if it was planted in a which is two months before Tish then it's close to Tish there's all a lot of rules in it we're not going to go now through all the rules but I'm not allowed to eat fruit from a tree that 3 years didn't pass from it the fruit is not Gooser so even fruit has to be grocher but now we're mainly going to talk about concent about the animals cuz this par is talking about the animals not about the fruit it's also talking about fish we're not going to talk about fish today we want to talk about meat because I mentioned two weeks ago three weeks ago I was in a class H and I talked about the kosher Kosher meat I think the video either went online yesterday or it's going online today go and look at it about the kosher food about the Kosher meat and and it's very very important to know cuz a lot of people don't put so much in so so much emphasis about about the about the certification and many times I emphasize how a lot of the meat that we eat in our generation is not Kosher it will have a beautiful stamp on it but it's not really kosher and many rabbis in our generation they went and and they made a whole campaign against the the certification by saying listen the we are being feda is an animal that is not Kosher and why because they're like it's it doesn't even make sense you go to these kosher plants how can they make the the so fast and and just imagine that there let's say hypothetically there are about a million Jews that eat kosher around the world which means that we're looking at about a million chickens need to be koshered every week that's is I'm just throwing big numbers cuz we do have about a million probably even more but just to be a a conservative with the numbers I think there's about a million people who consume Koshi food every week that just eat Koshi food and in general an average Jewish Home will eat chicken on Friday night some people eat it every day but an average family will eat chicken every week which means that we're looking about a million chickens that need to be koshered around the world every week you know what it is to kosher a million chickens go once to a plant of how they CER the animals and the speed that they slaughter the chickens doesn't even make sense that it can be kosher because the animal has to be cleaned then the knife has to be 100% not 99.9% 100% perfect there's one little blemish on the knife the is not Kosher and the has to be done the right way then the knife has to be tested go and and they this a few big rabas that made this campaign against it they planted hidden cameras in all these plants and you see them slaughtering like like machines and they interviewed slaugh like slaughterers and they said yeah we have to do a certain amount per day sometimes it's 800 chickens a day can you imagine what it means to to slaughter 800 chickens a day it's not even normal not to make mistakes so and the a lot of the funny thing is a lot of people say oh I'm I I I'm very particular with meat with chickens but not with meat and they'll go to a restaurant they're not going to eat meat chicken they will eat which is the biggest mistake because when you slaughter a cow you're much more careful than slaughtering a chicken chickens they just go like this with a cow it's a much more sophisticated slaughtering to do the point to do to to that I'm getting it go look at that video where I'm talking about an hour and a half how the majority of the meat in our generation is not really ker and you should not be fooled by all the stamps that you see because it cannot be kosher and the the there's so many stories you know that a few I think it was like a year ago they caught I think it was like 16 or 18 truckloads of meat that crossed the border from Aza and all the meat had stamps on them now the Army stopped it because they thought they're smuggling a terrorist or explosive or something and the soldiers opening these trucks and all the trucks are full of meat and all the meat have St s certifications and these trucks are coming from AA so there's so much problems with with Kosh meat in our generation and there's so many laws you know there's another organization it's called P I'm not so crazy about this organization because they have an agenda but that's not the point and and they come and they and they put hidden cameras in all sorts of places to prove how the animals are being mistreated according to the animal was tortured before it was slaughtered the animal is not Kosher so you can have the most slaughtering out there if the animal was tortured before that it's not Kosher and if you see how most of the animals are being F breed not breed how how they kept that's torture when the animal is sitting like this and it can't move that's a form of torture now there's there there's much more to it I I I don't don't want to go totally Sidetrack go and look at that video because it's extremely important but this is one a problem that a lot of people they oversee according to Al that if a chicken was it got hit to from a certain impact it will make the chicken not Kosher now for if the chicken was thrown from a height of a meter and it didn't land with its with its wings then it means that it has some type it got hit in such an impact but will make the chicken un kosher and sometimes you see chucks with the crates of the chickens they come and the guys are standing on the truck and they throw the crates down now this is a height much more than a meter which means that if the chicken didn't flap its wings to land on its feet then and it was in a age that means the chicken is not Kosher before it was even slaughtered so even if the if the slaughtering is done right before that already the chicken is not Kosher so go watch that video about the meat because it's extremely important because we are fed we fed a lot of meat that is not Kosher the point that I'm trying to say is that the meat affects me directly it affects me spiritually and it it's not only that affects me spiritually the signs that that the meat will have that will make it for the animal to make it coer comes to teach me something very very very amazing a I want to know that the meat affects me directly and if I eat something that is not Kosher it will affect me to a point that it will come out in some type of a way and usually it will come in a spiritual or emotional way emotional way it will affect I will have like I said before it can be depression and anxiety and fears and Nightmares and sleeping disorder and all sorts of emotional problems it can also come spiritually that I'm not going to have any excitement to do any Mitzvah I'm going to do it in a very mundane and dead way or you see sometimes a lot of people they'll keep some mitv you come and tell them to do another thing no no no I don't want to do that I don't want to do this spiritually it puts a block this is one thing but if I want to take it to a Next Level if you're looking at the two H signs that the animals have they come and teach me something very special that the first thing is that the animal has to have a split hoof if you look at the split hoof then it's like two fingers pointing to two two directions these two fingers that's pointing to two different directions they're coming to signify the two paths that I serve God in one of them is the side the right side which is called the side of kindness and the other side is the C of of severity in most cases we come from one side our will either come from the side of or the side of you can come from both that's one of the many explanations why we have groups in in in in Judaism a lot of people say why do we have to have thei andazi it's it's causing a lot of problems so one of the many reasons is because where the soul originates from one comes from the side of one comes of the side of that in this world it will manifest into a different place now if my soul comes from then it means that it will be much easier for me to be kind and to be charitable and to help and to to to be courteous but when it comes to be very strict in something to do with the Torah I'm not going to be so strict because my n comes from the side of so I might be an amazing person very charitable very giving very welcoming and accepting and and all these good things but when it's going to come the time that I have to be very strict in h in regards to how strict I am with ker I don't come from the side of gor I'm going to be like ah it's not so important I don't need to light the candles before the time two minutes before two minutes later it's not so important why because I lacking the side of severity so I don't know when to to say no this is important and another person will come from the side ofor and he will be particular 6 hours between the meat and the dairy it's 6 hours and not 5 hours and 59 minutes but when it comes to giving charity no comes to help another person doesn't mean the person is bad we just we we operate in two motions and the split off excuse me you want to a for and this is exactly the sign of the split hoof that the split hoof people imagine the the shoe horse how do you say shoehorn shoe horse how do you call it horseshoe because in Hebrew it says par is a horse shoe so when I became religious and I kept saying I was imagining in my mind this horse shoe some people have this superstitious that if you hang it on the door it's I don't know what it does maybe it keeps the witches away I don't know what where where this nonsense comes from but you see in many homes they put a split shoor on the wall nonsense by the way but but the Ma look at at the the actual animal it has two fingers and the fingers go like that why because it comes to signify that even though I have one side more empowered I should also serve AEM from the other other side too if I'm coming from the side of I should also serve AEM with the side of and that's striving to the to come to to the middle that I can take something that I'm lacking and Empower it and believe it or not that will affect it the kosha diet will affect it that if I'm very pulling towards gura and my is lacking which means that I can't even come closer to by following the the the laws of kosher animal it will allow me to be able to have this split hoof that I can migrate some of my energy from where I'm more powerful into the side that is a little bit lacking so that's the first thing the second thing the sign is that the animal has to chew its cut and this comes to to to to teach me that in my daytoday life I constantly have have to think of things somebody comes and tells me something I can right away throw uh reaction and in most cases it's not going to be the right reaction because it hurt my feelings or my ego or whatever it is very easy to right away throw back a comment but the right way what the Torah wants to teach me is chew chew on it first before you throw it out chew on it a few more times before you say your comment because maybe that person did Lally mean it or maybe he's going through a bad time or whatever it is and even if he meant it deliberately doesn't mean you have to go to his level and and give him the exact same H dose back and this is one example out of many but constantly in our life we're dealing with situations that I react very impulsively and that's a a character trait of an animal animal doesn't think okay let me think if I should an animal right away will strike now if it's a a a vicious animal the reaction will be instantly a dog for example you'll kick the dog I'm assuming that it's a not I'm not talking about a Poodle right now that is afraid of his own shadow I'm talking about a a normalized dog he'll ride away attack you if not with a bite with a bark or you know any type of these animals whether it's a snake or or a wild animal you'll do a a quick move it will it will attack right away but a a goat if you're going to scream at a goat it's not going to scream back at you it will usually will move back look at the character traits of these cure animals these 10 animals they're not aggressive animals you're going to hit it it's not going to hit back look for example at a at a all the animals that have the split hoof they don't know how to kick a horse a donkey a camel if they kick you that's a very powerful kick cows don't kick and sheep and and Lambs they don't kick and goats they don't know how to kick and even if they throw their leg has no power in it a horse will kick a person he can kill him so you see the character trait of the animal so the animal that Che its C I have to learn from that that I'm going to be faced all day long with situations that I have to so to say digest the situation before I react it's very easy to right away impulsively curve or hit or or or abuse or or do anything because it's come impulsively but that's coming from a very bad place if I know how to so to say true my then let me digest the this situation right now and probably if I Cal down tomorrow my reaction is going to be completely completely different cuz I'm already relaxed so what I want to take from these two signs that a I have to serve AEM in both both ways both from the side of and the side side of G I want to reach to the middle to the and more than that I should show my card in everything not to be quick to react not to be quick to to to to judge a person it's not only sometimes reacting it's also judging a person will do something and I will observe what he's doing and right away judge that person the wrong way the Tor comes and teach me don't be so quick to judge or to react swallow it throw it up swallow it again bite it as much as you can when it's ready to be swallowed then you can swallow it and and finish with it so I want to take from this a few important things a that my Kosher diet is is beyond important it's crucial to my spiritual level if I will put a lot of energy into my AEM and at the same time simultaneously I'm not keeping the Kosher diet I'm injecting a lot of spiritual into my Nish and I'm losing it from this side constantly so the koser diet is is the foundation of my of of my my life I have to have this in my life so the the first and most important is to take to take from that is that I I have to become much much more stricter with kosher and it goes to the little things is checking your your vegetables for little bugs making sure that everything is separated you want to go through the entire laws to make sure that your Kosher diet is 100% And if something on the way arouses like like I told before all these emotional problems and even physical and and and health problems go to search where maybe there's a problem with that if you go out of this class and after 2 hours you don't remember anything then you you have to say maybe maybe somewhere where I'm meeting something is not culture because my mind is able to absorb the last movie that I saw or like you said people remember the jokes but I am not able to absorb the Torah something's wrong here means that my nefes is not a vessel to absorb the Torah which means that there's something impure in my nefes and sometimes it can be something very small it can be something and we talked about it many times I don't want to repeat it but the point that you want to take from that is that your Kosher diet has to be 100% not 90% more than that since the par is talking about these two signs on the animals excuse me% you want to strive to be 100% I I don't know about who's 100% or not I'm not going into people's kitchens I'm sure that if I look into myself I'm also as strict as I want to be it's also here and there you make a mistake sometimes unfortunately you count on the supervision on somebody else and that person can make a mistake so we're not coming to blame anybody I'm talking that I want to strive to become 100% kosher I'll tell you in a second what you can do or you can go watch that video but I'll tell you in a second well well the thing is that this the the main solution to do with meat is that you you buy the animal yourself and you hire a sh and the sh does it for you oh great can yeah and if you live inat there's a if you live inat there's a very good sh that you can buy from them and we're not going to name names so people are not going to start telling me that I'm promoting businesses here but there's a sh SP who is a very and he buys the meat in organic farms that are grass-fed and the meat is is healthy strong meat it costs a little bit more but the is done right the the cering is done right the cows are grass-fed they don't eat GMO and all the junk that everybody else is feeding them and they're not injected with antibiotics and hormones and all this and and you can go and look and say I want this cow most people don't do that they just tell them give me what I want some people say I want to buy this cow there are farms here in the north that you can buy your animals and you hire a sh and you do it it's not such a big deal and if you really care about your health and your spiritual level then you invest a little bit more money so instead of eating everyday meat so you eat once a week meat on Shabbat or twice a week anyways it's not good to consume so much meat and you do it the right way there's ways to do everything about chicken chicken same thing he does he does all the anal you tell him what animal you want and he goes and buys it for you and here in the Galil and you know what it's not an excuse just here in the nor in the in the north we have a group of ladies and once a month we have a class in ranana and many women come from all around the area of ranana and mon man we have a class there half of these women's they grouped together and they ordering the meat from here and he delivers it to them they make an order and and when it's a big amount it's cheaper and he delivers but anyways before we go into questions let me just summarize the class that a I want to make sure that my Kosher diet is 100% because whether I agree with it or not it does affect me spiritually emotionally mentally and physically and I do attribute a lot of our problems to our diet like I told you before when people come with all sorts of emotional problems depression sadness anxieties I do attribute that a lot to to our diet and when you really go the the extra mile with Kure you will see a big difference in your behavior in your in your in your God-fearing level I know many people that come and tell me listen my my kids they don't want to put fill in they don't want to learn Tor and my first question is make sure that they eating kosher that their Kosher diet is 100% And the reason the the Torah we we I asked the question in the beginning why is AEM cares about it because he knows that the little details will affect us one little detail in the entire process of the CER that is done wrong will affect my nees to a point that one person will affect in being depressed another person will affect in being sick another person will be affect that they they they don't have sh they don't want to do certain mitv the bottom line is that the CER diet affects us a lot and for the ones who are skeptical put it to the test go on a diet for two months be extremely cautious and strict with culture and I can guarantee to you you'll see a massive change in all the problems where all the Departments that you're finding a deficiency or a lack of something more than that I want to take something practical is that when the Torah comes and gives me two signs I'm just going to repeat it that I want to make sure that I serve AEM in both motions of both and and more than that that I have to chew my cud that I have to not be so quick to judge situations and not to throw things out of my mouth and not to behave a certain way and ride away shut the phone or turn my my shoulder away because somebody said something I don't like is to to chew and to digest everything not everything is directed D at me sometimes my reaction can be crucial sometimes just closing your mouth in a certain encounter will change the the the entire situation and sometimes just by me opening my mouth and saying one word I can Shalom destroy marriages like that and and Destroy things so the comes and tells me like a ker animal chew it Cho something don't throw don't be impulsive don't have the character trait of an animal just reacts right away take your time and think about it we should apply this all to our life and I can guarantee to you and I'm telling you that from my own experience that when you apply that that kosher is the the foundation of of our life when I started becoming observant the first thing that I did was kosher that's the first thing I mean I started putting Fillin on and my emphasis was was on kosher because I was like okay that that is my being my what I put in my body that that is what's going to come out I put junk into my body then junk will come out consume a lot of sugar then your body will start spitting out pimples and and rashes and all sorts of things like that put healthy food into your body you'll see your body is reacting the right way we should all Elevate ourselves to a much higher spiritual level and I didn't mention that because we talked about it many other times part of the concept of consuming the meat I'm just saying that because we said before that till no we weren weren't supposed to eat we're not allowed to eat meat one of the Motions of eating meat is that I am elevating the level of the animal to the level of human and that's part of the structure of creation that I have to do that the animal wants to be eaten more than what I want to eat the animal we spoke about it in one of the previous classes how the animal wants to be eaten by me it wants to get this elevation so our life should be much more kosher and much more p and needless to say that it will make our life much more elevated and closer to Hashem and we should constantly learn to grow and grow Much More Much More higher in our spiritual level and the foundation to that is our social diet [Music] [Applause] m