PINCHAS Untold Tragedy, Identifying Erev Rav, Tefillin Tips, Where To Donate- Stump The Rabbi (171)

when the average person thinks about the worst things that ever happened to am is typically they'll think about the Holocaust they think about the Spanish Inquisition destruction of the first and second bet mikdash and the golden CF rarely does anyone think of Paras and what took place during this time 3,334 years ago being literally one of the worst things that ever happened to am once a person knows the details of what happened and how it affect today they'll understand why this particular par throws cold water over the political correctness of Western society and the liberal mentality that's in the Jewish world today after that we go into questions interesting questions questions from all different spectrums of the Torah whether it's why don't we use the today or perhaps why did we ever have the if we have but call or we have prophecy the different forms of communications between between God and people aside from that how do you rationalize the irrational things from idolatry things from idol worship that exists today that existed in the past how do you deal with them last but not least how do you deal with life risk such as if a woman is about to get raped is she allowed to kill the person or is it considered a sin these and much more are going to be addressed tonight with the sources with the details that are going to help us know the truth and become holy thank you for Learning and we're looking forward to seeing your comments we're back here on our Wednesday night Tora St the rabbi Series where after some you guys will ask some questions and will give us some answers tonight sh will be for theis Sarah eser and Herzel Ben Juliet them and all the wonderful people that are listening to us now and uh all of these all of these so tonight uh we have and we're going to learn a few things that perhaps are going to give us a little bit of a clear perspective of where the torah's ashfa is and where our ashfa is where our ideology is because p is the one Paras that uh in so many words throws water over the Western ideology of political correctness uh whether that political correctness is coming from the uh uh the media or needless to say if it's coming from the rabinal world uh where people are simply doing everything possible to please the crowd to please the uh the fans the subscribers and uh quite frankly this parasa is uh is one to show us that that uh it's not necessarily always a good idea to uh try to please people as the uh Torah tells us in the that someone that is merciful uh to the wicked will eventually be vicious to the righteous so it there's a time and a place for everything and we're not saying that a person needs to be vicious we're not saying that a person needs to be angry or uh or upset at everyone for not being perfect but at the same token to uh to water down our Torah and uh to try to uh humanize God is certainly not the direction nowat P of course really starts at the end of parat bak and there are plenty of questions we all should have already had uh about this parasa already for the last week uh where uh we the story line is obviously well known where after bam sees that his uh his bless his curses are not working through prophecy the first two times the third try kazal tell us that he actually tried to go to Witchcraft uh and uh that's one of the ways they learn it is that when uh uh bam gives a blessing he says that is a uh is uh uh in charge of the the heavens and the uh uh the things that are above and below and there kazal tell us that he's actually referring to both the angels and the demons the angels that are in the heavens and the demons that are here in this world but also have the ability to go up to the heavens and Bam goes to Witchcraft but yet does not succeed there either because AOS decides to give him prophecy uh for the sake of am Isel uh on the third try and uh bless am is once again as thear mentions that bam had a special talent where he knew the thega which is in essence the moment that Hashem judges the world uh and the uh the Rea is not it's a fraction of a second and uh this this particular moment that Hashem judges the world is in essence an open ticket for bam to throw whoever he wants to throw under the bus where he uh if he wants to curse somebody he wants somebody to be judged by hasem that's the time that he would do it and he tried to do this with am is he tried to use those moments uh where hasem judges uh the world uh he tried to actually throw is uh and put them in trouble during that time and that's why one of our uh uh daily 10 remembrances is to remember what happened with balak bam and how did not judge the world during in that time and in fact he blessed us and this was in essence a showing us that he is not bound to any particular rules uh he is the king of all Kings and parad Bak finishes off with by far the most tragic thing that ever happened to Amel now typically when you hear about tragedies that happened to am Isel you may hear about recent events horrific things like the Holocaust where 6 million Jews were murdered by the evil Nazis and Cold Blood uh and tortured or you hear about the Spanish Inquisition you hear about the destruction of the first and second bet mikdash you hear even about the golden calf rarely is the biggest tragedy in am's history ever uh coincide with parat Pinas but tonight we're going to give you guys a little bit more details to actually show you how much of a tragedy this whole thing actually was because while many of us look at theim and we see that this whole thing cost us 24,000 people the truth is that it was much more than that the truth is that it was seven times more than that eight times more than that but this is part of the oral tah that we need help from in order to understand truly what it actually meant the same thing we need to know how does this really affect us today you know while the tah is of course full of laws full of extraordinary parts of am's History we always have to learn how to apply these things to our lives today how do we benefit from this parasha what do we learn from it and in fact what part of it has to do with us today last but not least was Pinas overly zealous or was he righteous now we know from the beginning of that agreed with his act and in in fact blessed him but what is that actual blessing mean these are some of the things we're going to discuss tonight to try to get a better hold of where's what's going on so at the end ofam gives the advice to to uh to balak and he tells him obviously the God of all gods the king of all Kings does not want to curse his people he's not going to allow it to happen but if you want to defeat them you have to get them to do something that will put them on the bad side themselves on the bad side of God and elim their God hates immorality so if you send your young beautiful girl and get those girls to sin with the Jewish people into marriage is the biggest disaster you can bring to am is and that's in essence what happened where balak initially asked bilam would they listen to me would my people listen to me and actually send their daughters to go sin with those Jewish people he says well they listen if you send your girls if you and the rest of the leaders send your daughters you send the princesses you send all of the uh uh uh royalty along with them they'll follow suit and that's exactly what happened and that's who kosby was kosby was one of the princesses so of course we know that they sent him and unfortunately the Trap worked the trapped worked in the worst possible way and before the act of Pinas there was a bigger tragedy tragedy that happened from those girls where those girls got am drink forbidden wine y y of idolatry a wine of idolatry they also got them to do things that were immodest and inappropriate with the uh uh with the Jewish men and the uh and the non-jewish girls and to the point where some of them literally didn't want to leave told kill all of those people that sinned all of those people that committed adult idolatry which also meant that they also committed immorality because the reason why they committed the idolatry was not because they believed in the idols just like the says that at the time of the bet mikdash there were Jews that went and served Idols how could this be that they would serve Idols when they are seeing open miracles the bet mdash on a daily basis where there's a fire from heaven comes down as the in the first chapter talks about the fire from heaven that would come down and consume the Corban in the first bet mikdash that fire that came down from heaven was in the shape of a lion in the second bet mikdash the fire was in the shape of a dog and that's because the second bet mikdash unfortunately was under the control spiritual control of the of the of the Satan and that was in essence a symbolic for to do for a period of nearly 300 years am said had the second bet mikdash but they were in such a bad status spiritually that every year theen would die because theim would bind the kuna they weren't picked they weren't chosen to be kimim they would actually buying them so the status of Am was horrific eventually LED to the destruction of the bet mikdash but we're going to go back nearly a thousand years before that to this par a bigger tragedy happened a bigger tragedy happened because we have a situation where am is sinning with these non-jewish girls tells mosu to kill all of those people that sinned the son joins in the son is the loyal servant of Hashem joins in and puts a special light on all of the Sinners making it clear to identify the Sinners and mosenu starts killing mosenu starts killing and in fact The Killing was a lot more than what people realize before Z decided to join in and go to war against mosenu and against hem as we we see from this week's when it talks about K it talks about the it says that they went to war they went against hem it doesn't say they went against Moshe so theim the commentators say why does it say that they went against Hashem when really they said bad things about Moshe andon they didn't say anything bad about Hashem that's to teach us that anytime we speak against against the T itself against the opinion of T against the leading rabbis against against people that are righteous we are speaking against AEM you speak against the you're speaking against AEM you're speaking against the sages you're speaking against theem you're speaking against the tah itself you're speaking against hem so kak is consider as if he spoke against AEM the considered as if they spoke against hem Zim didn't realize he was joining them when he decided to please the people because his tribe came to him and said listen Moshe is killing us and he's not even Consulting with you he's not discussing with you what kind of leader are you you told us that you're even greater than him how great can you possibly be if he doesn't even have to console with you before before he kills us so Cosby uh Z which was not really his name the page 82b says that Zim was a name of uh mockery of embarrassment that was given to Shel who was actually one of the grandson of yov he saw yov A's face he was the son of Shimon was hundreds of years old but he was called Zim because of the sin that he made because of the relations that he had with kosby that he lost his mind so much that literally the Satan's wife took over his body to the point where he committed so much intimacy with her that his seed became like a rotten egg says the but what led him to do this why don't he just go and console with mosenu and say listen Moshe next time you kill one of my boys talk to me first why did he just lose his mind how many people could have MOS who possibly have killed to make this the biggest tragedy ever I mean technically we see that the previous senses that am is was counted from the age of 20 until 60 was a little over 600,000 and the senses that's done in this week's par P after this whole tragedy is still around 600,000 so it says that 24,000 people were killed but that's doesn't really seem like it it says that all of the tribes had significant number of people between the age of 20 and 60 with the exception of the Shimon tribe where you clearly see that their tribe has much less than everybody else all of the other tribes have 40 50 60 70,000 yep's two sons combined have nearly 90,000 y has over 70,000 Shimon little over 20,000 literally it seems like the entire 24,000 were just him if that were the case it wouldn't be the biggest tragedy so we have to ask ourselves a question the last time we did a census was many years before this where are the kids how come the numbers are staying the same we know that in Egypt each time a woman gave birth it was six kids at a time each family had 60 100 200 kids those kids grew up over a period of 40 years certainly they grew up you would expect the numbers to go up somewhat a book that I read started reading recently said that during the tragic times of the Jewish people of the 1800s around the time of the Enlightenment movement when it came down and decided to declare war against the Torah and the Jewish people by the Jewish people where the reform movement began Zionism began and at that time there was approximately two and a half million Jewish people in Europe doesn't seem like much especially when 100 years later there's a holocaust that wipes out 6 million of them so we see that in a period of nearly a hundred years the number of Jewish people nearly tripled just in Europe so you would expect even more growth in the desert now of course everything is controlled by Hashem he decides who what when and how but if we look at the clear numbers it doesn't look like much has changed and that's why we need our sages to give us directions how is this such a big tragedy that AOS decided to name an entire par over it to end one and begin one with this particular story and make sure that people go over this issue at least a couple times a year when aosh told mosu to kill the Sinners he told them that each tribe has judges and each one of those judges each one of those leaders has to kill his own people and if they don't obviously mosenu has to do it who are these judges as we learned fromat to gave the legal system he gave birth to the legal system we still use today different levels of Court he told mosenu that he should have judges for The Thousands meaning every group of a thousand should have a judge for The Hundreds every group of 100 should have judges for the 50s every group of 50 should have judges and for the tents and it has to be different judges for each so the in the 10th section number two gives a simple mathematics since there was 600,000 men between the ages of 20 and 60 600,000 means that there was 600 judges for The Thousands for The Hundreds since 600,000 divided by 100 is 6,000 that means there was 6,000 judges for The Hundreds for the groups of 50 there are 12,000 groups of 50 and 600,000 and then there are 60,000 groups of tens totaling 78,500 judges why do I need 78,500 judges because this is going to tell us exactly how many people mosenu killed while after this disaster 600,000 people were left kazal teaches us in the Yi that each judge killed at least two people which means that no less than 157,00 Jewish people were killed before the plague before the plague took place in 24,000 more which means that between the two you have over 180,000 Jewish people die which is over 20% over 20 20% of the Jewish men died in a matter of 24 hours in all of the time in all of the history no such thing has ever happened why did a judge us so critically why was this so horrible that he literally annihilated 20% of the Jewish population in 24 hours we're not talking about the overall population cuz certainly there were kids and in below 20 years old there was women there was Elder men but of the so-called uh uh census that's constantly counted in the Torah the people that are able to be soldiers between 20 and 60 more than 20% of them were killed in hours so by the time Shimon the uh uh by time Zim from the tribe of Shimon got the news there was no way to ignore it there were literally people being hung everywhere after they would Stone them they would hang them in order to make an example out of them each and every single one was an example those people hanging everywhere when zimri saw this he completely lost his mind and in so many words decided to declare war against mosenu he took 24,000 people from his tribe and he went to mosenu on the way he saw kby that also wasn't her real name her real name was shilan and she was called because the says page 82b that when the balak proposed the plan to get am is to sin by sending the daughters to go sin with them she volunteered first and she said yes Cosby slaughtered through me in Aramaic slaughtered through me the Jewish people so she was a with a degree no less than bam no less than balak and as soon as Zim saw her he convinced her to go with him she said yeah but I'm looking for Moshe I'm looking for the leader he says I'm greater than him he is from the tribe of levie I'm from the tribe of Shimon I'm older than him wiser than him and she fell for the trick and of course the ways of these animals was to show dominance so he grabbed her by the back of her head and he that's how he walked around with her not like you know people do today they walk around oh cute oh yeah they walk with their hands holding which is completely forbidden according to the tah a man is not allowed to show affection to his own wife in public needless to say to a woman that's not his wife not let to hold hands not let to kiss not let to hug anytime you see anybody having a picture them hugging their wife in uh in uh public online if you're close to that that person you should tell them there's an in that you're not allowed to show affection to uh to your own wife in public needless to say have a picture of it if you're not close to the person perhaps you should send them the Shi maybe they'll hear from me but either way this unfortunately is this ala is like in a lost and found in the Jewish world because recently I've seen more and more rabbis having their pictures with their wives holding hands and hugging each other in public I mean you would think that the rabbis at least would know but perhaps that's too much to ask anyway the toat tells us that decided to do something he never did before theim tell us that this is the one time that aadh punished without a warning and he punished severely even the sin of the golden calf did not have such a severe punishment nowhere in near amount of people died time of the golden calf only a few thousand people died and that was literally worshiping an idol during kak sure a lot of people died but nowhere near the amount as this not even 10% during all of the other times that am sinned in the desert not a single time was the punishment anywhere near as severe as this and I would guess that if you calculated all of the punishments that they got in the desert it wouldn't total the amount of people that died during this time meaning this is greater than all of the other punishments that happened to am the desert over the 40 years why the ramban says in you behold because I am Holy is what hasem says and the way that is distinguishes themselves most significantly from the Gentiles is to the issues of morality how a man is loyal to his wife how there's modesty there's no promiscuity there's no into marriage there's no premarital relations even the permissible relations are done with Holiness and when that Holiness is thrown in the garbage and men are wasting seed and men are priscu with non-jewish women and needless to say priscu with Jewish women that they're not married to and women are promiscuous and all of this happens aosh says this is turned into Sodom and Gomorrah they're losing their right to existem is and at this moment aadh literally was about to destroy all of am that was the decree when pazar which interestingly enough it's the first time we see in the Tora that that someone has mentioned not only the first name and the name of the father but also the grandfather this is because a wanted to make sure that everybody knows that even though pazar was not aen even though his grandfather was a Quin his father was a Quin he wasn't a Quin because decided that aon's going to be aen his sons are going to be but all of the other kids that are alive at that time they're not going to be Kim only the new kids only the newborn kids in the future they will be which means that P wasn't a so people said yeah Pinas he's like uh you know his grandfather's an idol worshiper says no no no he's officially and for those that ask wait a minute but you already had elazar as a how can you have also p if you look at the multiple places where it talks about the different service that they did at the first and foremost you would find out that there were multiple there was a that was a the person that uh would constantly be a uh like on page 14 he was in essence the replacement Coen if the first Coen became impure or he died or anything like that immediately they have a new Coen G already ready and knows everything but in the meantime he is his right arm anything the quen needs he's there on the night of yum Kip they're both in different rooms they're both preparing for the next day even though they know who's going to be the one that's supposed to do the service the next day on for uh on in case there's carry that comes out the seed that comes out of him and he becomes impure the second Ken takes his place in case something happens he dies in The KES kashim second coin takes his place but there was also another qu this qu that was at go to Wars there were multiple this also answers the question of some people that have mentioned that there is a Aral that says that uh kak eventually when there's the the world will reach its culmination after G Magog after MH arrives the good part of korak after all of the bad part has been burned burned in Gom for the last 3,334 years and however many years are left or however much time is left before mashia comes he's in Gom but whatever is left at that point that's good that will come back to the world and will get a job as a qu Gul he won't be a above you'll be a because there's multiple so there's no contradiction there point being is is that Pinas becomes qu on his own Merit not because of who his father is but rather because of what he did because while decreed that the Act was so horrible that sodam and gomorah in the generation of Noah was about to repeat itself he stopped my wrath why because he went to war for the sake of God so we have to ask ourselves does God need us to go to Warf him this is answered in the beginning of the par byus because while many people unfortunately don't read books and they only hear videos of people that don't know how to quote any sources and just simply say whatever crazy is in their mind the way of tah is to learn from sources not from our minds certainly you could have your own insights good things that you came up with there's no problem with that but as long as it doesn't agree with the Tora problem is many times people's ideas are not so in the beginning of says that spoke with mhe he says P the son of elazar the son of Aron turned back my wrath from upon the children of Israel when he zealously Avenged my Vengeance among them so I did not annihilate the children of Israel in my Vengeance from there kazal tells us we learn that when someone rebukes when someone for the honor of hem he brings Mercy to the world so if somebody asks the question why did Pinas decide to go take this battle on why don't you just sit quiet because had he sat quiet there wouldn't be a world today not only there wouldn't be Amish there wouldn't be a world today so p turn back my wrath so I did not annihilate the children of isra and therefore saying my name behold I am sealing for him a covenant of peace and it shall be for him and his descendants after him a covenant of Eternal K in return for that which he took Vengeance before his God now anyone that looks at the verses it says that where he took Vengeance for his God butos says no no no before his God not for his God why why is Ulus interpretation slightly different instead of four before Rashi says it's for God meaning that it's for the sake of God to avoid implying that hem has a need for the Deeds of his Creations ulos says before his God to make it even more clear because each time in the Torah that it says for God where it says to me for me uncos interprets it as before me in order to avoid any indication of equality between hasem and his creations and this is particularly so when the term appears in the context of offerings or sanctifying something or performing a service for hasem where it might be Miss constru to mean that hasem somehow has a need for it heaven forbid to avoid any such misconception OS clarifies that it is before Hashem meaning for our benefit before him meaning that anulus already was fighting the Heretics of his time and making sure to bring a cure before the ailment so no one ever Imagines for a second that Hashem needs anything because to say that Hashem need something is 100% AOS heresy Rashi says the same thing butos clarifies even further now so from there we see that the heroic Act of Pinas Ben elazar Benin taking Vengeance before his God was not that God needed him to fight his Wars same as God does not need us to fight his Wars or for anything else for that but rather he wants us to fight his Wars because that shows us that shows him that we love him that shows him how much we believe in him that shows him how much amuna we have in him because P the said he knew he knew he was going to die as a result of killing the leader of the Shimon tribe and 10 Miracles were made for the sake of pinhas in order to make sure he doesn't die which included bringing him back from the death because he did die Pinas killed Z and Cosby and as soon as he did this the soldiers of Zim entered and saw this whole thing they saw the Spear of P go through both bodies of Z and Cosby together a miracle of its own of how it went through them through the reproductive organs in order to make sure that everybody knows that he was permitted to kill them because they were in the middle of the act of something that was forbidden if they were not in the middle of the ACT he's not allowed to kill them but because they were in the middle of the ACT he was allowed to kill them and he killed them in such a way that aadh miraculously made the spear go through the organs where you actually saw how this happened there was no doubting it but because soldiers came in from the fear of what's about to happen he had a heart attack and died brought back his n with superpowers alongside it came back from the dead and had such powers that he took the spear with Zim with Cosby on the spear lifted him up in the air with one hand like a flag throwing everybody out of the way and running through all of the camp of am Isel to show them what he has in his hand after showing all of what just happened here to sanctify kosh's name Pinas shows the real reason of why he did what he did as he throws the bodies on the ground and cries out to a and says for this for these two people you killed all of your children here meaning that the rebuke the protest the zealousness at the highest possible level wasn't because pinhas wanted something pinhas benefited in some way but rather was because the extraordinary pain that pinkas felt seeing his brothers and sisters die spiritually and thereby physically as well when he saw that his brothers and sisters are making sins he saw themselves literally committing spiritual suicide by being intimate with the Goot by going to idolatry by being immoral by doing all the things against hem he already sawes that literally this is the annihilation of am he saw this in sh kazal also teaches us that who gave the prophecy to see all of this including what hasem thinks about it including what happened with Zim and kby including what Pinas did literally like a quick to all of the leaders of is the heads of the S so when they see Pinas they give him cavod because even though by now they knew the they knew that he's allowed to do it unless they saw this in Prophecy they wouldn't have been happy with Pinas to the point where thear says they would have put p on why you're too zealous for us yes you're allowed to do it but isn't there another way maybe you could talk to them maybe could wait maybe this maybe that knew there's no time to wait had he waited there wouldn't be anom the other rabbis good but they didn't have the same level the same level of as P the same level of Prophecy as P the same level as the same level as pain as Pinas had when he understood the consequences of everything that's happening and miraculously showed them all of this so they not only do not put p on but they actually give him great honor and Pinas in addition to that also saved am is today how do he save am is today the teach us that when am is started this whole thing they went to shim shim is a place but the reason why it's mentioned is because it symbolizes that they got into they got into to nonsense this foolishness they started making sins this led them one sin led to another to the point where they sinned with these Goot Pinas had complete fear of to do this he was considered shalim complete this is the reason why the page 66b says that the word Shalom where hasem says shom hem says that I'm going to give him the Covenant of Peace if you look at the seph T and most likely even if you look at your you'll see that the word Shalom the VAV in the word Shalom is cut into two there's like a little part that breaks the V into two pieces it looks like a printing error but it's not a printing error the says this is intentional this is in the seph T because aen that is not shal that's not complete with hem his Coran are no good if he brings a Corban but he is impure even if he does everything right is Kuan is not valid if he thinks inappropriate thoughts while he's bringing a kban kban is not valid if he brings aan he has to be complete with AEM in order to teach us that we too have to be shalim we too have to be complete with AEM and not partial not severed like the VAV when we serve in our prayer we serve in our we serve with our we serve with our we serve with our learning it cannot be seped it cannot be partial you have to be complete with hem you have to try your best every day every you do do your best you going to pray pray your best you do morning blessings do the best learn to try your best you failed try again your best you failed try again your best every day you try your best until you get to completion until to you get to a point of being shalim why because to be incomplete because you simply didn't succeed is one thing but to Simply decide you're not going to do it that's not good to say the least gave this Covenant of Shalom to Pinas to symbolize that Pinas is Shalom he's complete he's complete is complete because that's the only way that somebody could bring themselves to be zealous that's the only way that a person can bring themselves to truly fight for hem and not for their own honor not for their own righteous uh uh ideas when you fight for the sake of hem that means you're willing to sacrifice everything even if you know you're going to lose everything as a result because the honor of hem is greater than anything else you can get and because of that this Act of P was not only something that helped am is in those days but rather something that helped am is today when am sinned with the golden calf knew that whatever rectification they did was not enough killing a few people saying I'm sorry it wasn't enough and therefore in every generation since then anytime am gets suffering part of it is because of the sin of the golden calf because if he would give it to us in one shot we wouldn't survive this act of immorality National immorality the time of Pinas at the time time of bakam over here was worse than the golden calf we see from what the punishment was so how come nobody's talking about how part of the reason of why we suffer today is because of this it was because the act of atonement by Pinas was so extraordinary what he did to sacrifice the that he did knowing he's going to die and still doing it knowing he's going to lose everything and still doing it knowing that no one else is going to do it and still doing it knowing that people are going to go against him and still doing it in fact even pining an in front of his Rabbi because when Zim came in front of mosenu it was such a horrific time that Moser Renu was speechless when the other judges the other diim of the S saw that mosenu did not have a response they thought that mhu doesn't know Tor they thought maybe there's a mistake in the Torah they didn't realized that mosenu was in such Agony from the pain of what's Happening Here from the desecration of God's name such Agony that he literally couldn't even speak but people interpret it in a wrong way they thought that maybe perhaps Z knows more Tora thanu that's why they started crying hysterically Pinas sees this gets the prophecy of what's actually at stake here understands that literally the entire nation is on the line right now because of this tells mosenu my uncle weren't you the one that taught us that if a Jew sins with a gentile and they're in the middle of the ACT someone that's zealous and wants to fight the wars of hem can kill them says yeah you said it Go fulfill the AL you have the Merit you have the Merit says had P do it because that was part of his T why didn't mosenu go and fulfill this mitvah it's the only time in history anyone fulfilled this Mitzvah in such a way why wasn't mosenu zealous to go fulfill the Mitzvah himself because he knew that the T of P was to fulfill this it was his T he had to do it but that means this the last time you ever going to see him saying go do it and saying goodbye P knew he's going to die and he's still going to do it he's still going to do it now Pinas goes in there and says an in front of his rabbi says anyone that says an ala in front of his Rabbi deserves a death penalty not allowed to say an ala in front of your Rabbi somebody asks a question you know the answer but your Rabbi is there you're not allowed to give an answer if they ask you Hey listen uh are you allowed to carry on Shabbat easy question your Rabbi is right there are you allowed to uh eat pork easy question you know the answer your rabbi's right there silence you say ask the rabbi why you say in front of your Rabbi you have a problem so how come p is allowed to do it says the and the first time I mentioned this in the was about seven years ago eight years ago when they were bringing a missionary to the Baton synagogue and says in a place that there's there is no honor given to the r anytime there's a desecration of God's name there's no consideration to the honor of any Rabbi why because the honor of God is much greater right now there was a they were bringing a missionary to the synagogue right now there was a z was sinning with a non-jewish woman in front of everybody making fun of the sages making fun of mosenu making fun of Hashem cares less about the law there's no time here to give honor to mosenu as great as mosenu is p knows the and goes and acts upon it just like when sometimes people say listen you said that uh Rabbi such and such is saying things against the Torah and you called him a heretic did you speak to him first did you ask him to explain himself first did you speak to a bed first and get permission from them to call this Rabbi a heretic yeah yes I spoke R I spoke to the I spoke to thear I spoke to thei and the bav yes spoke to them they told me he's a heretic you don't need to speak to the guy that's a heretic in order to confirm he's a heretic if he says things against the Torah that are as clear as day where he says that God needs you or he says that there is no gam and it's only a parable or he says that it's okay to drive on Shabbat or it's okay to invite missionaries to is you don't need to speak to him or any di or any bed to know that this is an Aus you don't need to get permission his heresy gave you permission and an obligation to speak against him you must rebuke your fellow is not you must rebuke your fellow after he gives you permission to rebuke him doesn't say You must rebuke your fellow fellow after you get a you know a letter with a stamp on it six months after you sent it getting permission if this desecration of a kadosh whose name there is no honor for any bed or any Rabbi or anybody why comes first if somebody desecrates the name of God publicly by making statements that heretical you have not only a permission you have an obligation to speak against them obligation there's the rebuke and then there's the Mitzvah of protesting against the she protesting against the lies it's not a nice deed to do but rather it's the deed that saved is where P didn't wait to get permission he didn't ask anybody what their opinion was he simply saw this is a tragedy of all tragedies Moshe you are the one that told us this ala yes you're right P didn't waste a second he went to go kill the guy and because of that zealousness that came out of pure love for pure love for is Agony and pain his heart break into shreds as a kadosh whose name is being desecrated Agony and pain as he sees his brothers and sisters dying from a plague from being hung from all horrible things literally 20% of am is died in front of his face there's no time to give honor or ask for permission P he took back my wrath not took back my wrath that one time 3,000 years ago but rather he took down my wrath permanently as that act ended that day unlike the golden calf which we suffer for until this day the act of P was so extraordinary in the eyes of a that it atones for it until this day meaning had Pinas waited one more minute had Pinas asked for permission wait for some letter to come in the mail had P waited for a sensus of people a quarum of people to agree with him the atonement would have not been enough and literally am is would have been at risk to being completely annihilated shom and therefore says that this gift that aadh gave to p is not just a gift of Eternal K but rather an eternal atonement for himself and for all of Cl is for this particular horrific sin one act saved am is not just that one day but until today this means rabot that while the evil are mentioned here as it says the same a meaning the wicked in the beginning the wicked in the end the wicked back then and their version of thean a in our generation is wicked today the had beards the had hats the were rabbis people consider them important a person has to know the way you determine whether something is right or wrong is based on Al if the AL says allowed allowed ala says not allowed not allowed a rabbi asked me recently Rabbi why do you say that such and such is heretic because he socializes and does business with Christians this is because the says that you're not allowed to be within four am six feet of a missionary if he's just a gentile no problem but if he's a Christian Missionary not even allowed to stand next to him needless to say be partners with him in a business in a media business needless to say times a million invite him to your sh needless to say times a billion make children's movies and call them Abraham not all to do these things a come on where does it say that page 17 the r pasin this way so this is yeah but I have so many people that I know at work that are you know very uh nice uh Christians they talk about their religion all the time change jobs if you can't simply stay away from them don't talk to them about religion there's no permission to and needless to say don't invite them to your house or to your synagogue but it's interesting that people are so focused on being nice to people to the community to the other religions that they simply forget to look at the Al and see what's allowed and what's not allowed and just like the said about someone that doesn't study certainly is going to violate it the same concept goes with ideology someone that does not learn m in order to ensure that his ideology is in line with d is certainly going to have a warped ideology if your ideology is developed through a combination of some Torah that you've learned and the news that you've watched you have the wrong ideology if your ideology is developed from the rabbis you've heard and the politicians and newscasters you watch your ideology is certainly not in the right direction if the Torah that you learned is mixed with your opinion that you don't double check whether it's in agreement with the Torah certainly your ideology is not inl with theah why because the natural inclination of a person is to have an ideology that's the opposite of the tah because he's influenced by the and therefore a person must know if you want to know how to think if you want to know how to behave if you want to know what to do under all circumstance es there's only one place to look at and that's and if you're not a Torah scholar with a rabbi and a k and diim and all types of readily easily available access to what's the truth then these are contacts you have to make you have to get yourself a rabbi you have to become part of some type of bet midash that you're learning every day you have to learn Torah every day why because without learning toah you're never going to know whether you're doing right or wrong you're never going to know whether you're on a direct route to heaven or to gam because many times people depend on simply what they hear from their friends from their colleagues even if their friends and colleagues are a completely different religion even if their friend and colleagues may not even be religious at all even if their friend and colleagues are outright upim Today We Live in such a generation where already says that during his time 200 years ago most of the rabbis in the world were needless to say what's happening in the world today one student told me that his local Rabbi disagrees with our ways of telling people thatat cannot be counted in the minan because he brought him a couple of ideas that he heard somewhere where he says yeah R mosha Feinstein says that uh even if a Jew is uh you can still count them in m David says that uh if someone's a you count them in and he got him like you know a couple of like one line here one line there and the poor guy says oh wow I got to ask Rabon how do we address this told well it's easy read the rest of the read the rest of what they wrote read the clarification if you read only what they show you then surely you're going to arrive at the same opinion as what they said no one's going to show you black and say it's white but in the world of the Torah it's an endless ocean and therefore you have to double check everything you have to ask yourself if Feinstein says that you can count how could all of the say otherwise without any consideration if David says can be counted how could he sleep at night knowing that his father one of the greatest rabbis that ever lived not just in his generation write multiple times and speak multiple times of how this cannot be how simple you go to the volume and you see what the actual is and you see how explains every opinion and he explains what ra M Feinstein was referring to was that if someone's aat and you don't have any other choice you have 10 people one of the is and you want to say kadish you can count that guy while you're saying kadish he can't say kadish but you can count them to say kadish but you can't count them to bring the Torah out and do what does as aan just for the sake of saying kadish you can count them for that but not to take out the Tora to read the Tor to do all the things that you do with a real minan no just for the sake of St kadish that's what was talking about and his dear son David YF he's not talking about you can accept everybody to if no he's simply telling you if this is a tragic situation and there's a place where there's only 10 Jews there's nobody else none of these Jews know right or left about to nothing they don't know anything they just started learning what Judaism is and a couple of them are not keeping Shabbat you could still act as if it's a minan with obviously many many limitations as far as taking a to out and all that stuff but that's under extraordinary circumstances but yet today says in the world we live in today this is not applicable why because in the world today where do Jews live they live in Israel with every corner has a synagogue they live inica America with bash every Jewish Community has multiple synagogues they live in Canada has many synagogues they live in the UK many synagogues yes France half a million Jews full of KS full of yes this is not applicable today you have a Yesa online it's called be.org you have all types of Torah websites all types of no one can say they don't know what Judaism is if they know they're Jewish that's it they already know what Shabbat is you can't count that guy in a minan if he's driving on Shabbat what David YF was mentioning was extraordinary circumstances that existed in a different time in a different world not today and if it exists today it's in remote places where there's literally no Jews and no knowledge of Judaism you went to let's say the middle of Montana your next door neighbor is a Mustang horse that's what you have okay in that case you have something to rely on but you don't live in Montana you live in New York you live in Baltimore you live in Los Angeles San Diego you live in Houston you live in Israel all over the place you live in London you live in Jewish communities where where where do you get the permission to Simply say that everybody's a that you could just simply count everybody Min with so when you read the and you read the details you find out that the rabbis that telling you no no Feinstein said such and such such and such either they're ignorant and they themselves never read this they didn't read the details they just you know they heard it in a shoe they're watching shoe him like you are they learned their Torah to some you know little blog or or or or or a five minute clip that's how they learned their Torah and they call themselves Rabbi either that or they're Liars those are two options that I can think of if you could think of a third one we could add a third one too but it certainly is not a good option why because the good option it's as clear as day it's as clear as day even in his feeling he's talking about feeling he asks a question what if a heretic writes guy says God needs you guy says that you could violate Shabbat and there's no G can you use those basic level Judaism brings the of brings the of brings the of all of and they unanimous which is you cannot use those it's a mitv to burn them if a heretic writes a se he has really good handwriting really nice handwriting beautiful SE instead of selling it to you for 100,000 is wor to Salty for 5,000 can you use it the Rin so does so does so does everybody else a not a Christian Missionary not an idol worshipper because if they write a also it's a mitv to burn it but if he's like a nohide nice guy he didn't know he's not allowed to write a se he decided to write a se you take it and you bury it wait but but when the Jew that says God need that says there's no G he writes you say burn it the non-jew believes in God it's not a idol worshipper he writes you also not let to use it but you telling me don't burn it no why because the heretical Jew is worse than the non-jew because the non-jew he's righteous he's just not allowed to write so you can't use it so you better it but a heretic and not because it's the worst of the worst when a Jew violat Shabbat the mentions it a half a dozen times the mentions it 12 times the Ramba mentions it also about a half a dozen times the countless times the Z many times everybody agrees a Jud that violat Shabbat drives on Shabbat drives to sh on Shabbat drives to Gom on Shabbat drives to work on Shabbat he's considered 100% an idol worshipper cannot be counted in the minan in fact this is such basic level Judaism that if you actually bring this to any real they're going to look at you funny like you really have these questions or you just a board because this is like my six-year-old knows this my four-year-old knows this yeah but the rabbi that's leading a community of 500 people doesn't know it so perhaps his teacher is if his teacher was Pinas he would know does not need us to fight his Wars but he certainly wants us to because that will show that we know where we stand that we know we depend on him we need him we love him we fear him we believe in him and when we're complete with him it's going to be easy for us to fight the wars of God with that being said I'm going to get a great quick drink and then you guys can ask some questions am I allowed to make the tie on my head scarf on Shabbat uh yes if uh the you're tying something that's not a permanent knot then you're allowed to on Shabbat the the knots that are the tying and untying that's forbidden on Shabbat if it's permanent so if it's let's say for example somebody is H tying a boat that's forbidden on Shabbat because the ties of a boat the way you KN it is that it's a permanent knot but if somebody is tying a head scarf certainly that's not a permanent knot because you're going to take it off later that day or probably uh uh later that hour even sometimes so it's not a permanent kn no problem Sarah is asking how do you know if a rabbi is or real Rabbi uh the most important thing for a person to to do in their life is to make sure they have a rabbi but the way that they know that the rabbi that they chose is the right Rabbi the in page 17b says first and formost most they have to have good midot they have to have good midot they have to be caring they have to be patient they have to be clear you know they they have to want your best and not necessarily want from you all the time uh that's number one number two they have to be well-versed meaning they don't necessarily need to know everything off the top of their head but they have to have enough that if they don't know the answer to something that you ask them then they're going to tell you I'll get back to you I'll find out for you and I'll get back to you they don't pretend to know everything if they know it they give you the answer they give you the source if you uh uh uh if you need the source uh but they didn't give it to you you ask them for it they'll get you the source within reasonable time frame they they give you information they give you the answers not just out of the top of their head where they're pretending like they know they tell you this is the answer this is the place you will find the answer that I'm telling you uh it's in such and such book they tell you that the name of the book uh if they're uh well versed enough they could even tell you the page uh and if they're Real Genius they'll even tell you the number of line and word but the point is not you know most rabbis are not going to know everything but they'll know just enough for the basics and the things that are more complicated or that require more research they have to have enough uh uh self-confidence and also more than anything else fear of hem that they're not going to pretend like they know the answer and just throw an answer to you they're going to tell you listen I don't know the answer I'll get back to you I have to double check I have to double check and they get back to you and they give you the answer so if your Rabbi is willing to get to do that where they're they're able to give you the answer they know where to find the answer they know how to tell you that they don't know the answer and that they'll find the answer for you you're already in the right direction but if you have a rabbi that is a uh only uh uh good at giving you stories and giving you all types of speeches but is not interested in your questions is not interested in helping you with questions pretty much he's only interested in your money he's interested in uh you listening to everything he says without uh uh without any uh uh uh questions or or doubts that's not usually a good uh Rabbi but it's not necessarily the are people that are going to make up answers meaning they're simply going to give you a a philosophical uh speech about every question that you give them they always have an answer for everything and generally speaking they never mention a real Source they'll state general stuff like they'll say well the rebi said such and such what do you mean the rebbi said the rebbi said a lot of things where did the rebbi say or he said it in one of his that's the same thing I saying the rabbi said what do you mean in a where in his oh you know in the what do you mean you know how many he did in that year that what are you talking where which book what page number where can I get this where can I find what you're saying in a book and even more so how come all of the answers are from one single Source why don't you mention the foundation of Judaism why don't you mention a why don't you mention the why don't you mention the the the the uh the rambam why don't you mention everything else why is everything only one source so when somebody says to you the rebi said this the rebi said that that's not a good sign not because the rebbi was lacking shom but rather because the the rabbi that's telling you the information is lacking because they don't really know the answer they're just pretty much they know you don't know and therefore they're depending on the fact that if just simply say the rebi said it or another way they say we learned such and such where inid where which book The bov RAB Rabin who who said it where did they say it oh you know it's in where oh the T where in T I have the book T show me which page show me which M and in reality they don't know they're just throwing names at you to sound educated this is like the in the business world this is like name droppers you know people that pretend to be successful uh or they simply are yearning to uh to to get honor from people they pretend like they know a lot of people so they drop names oh yeah you know such and such businessman and such and such banker and such and such uh uh you know I don't know wall streer and such and such lawyer and they throw all types of names and then if they really want to seem educated they start throwing names of authors all types of authors oh yeah I read that book over there by such and such and that book by such and such and that one and then they start throwing oh yeah sunzo you've seen sunzo right yeah sure the order of War like it's all nonsense these are name droppers these are fakers if you're speaking to somebody every I've ever met is always going to quote the foundations before they quote any particular Rabbi they're going to quote the foundation they're going to quote the they're going to quote the they're going to quote the the the rambam sure the great rabbis but they're well versed in a lot of different things and that's one of the things that uh many people don't realize they don't realize that when somebody is teaching toah they're obligated to provide you a source it's not just a nice thing to do it's not just the uh well-learned people do it even if you'rea 13 14 years old and you want to give your family a Shabbat for five minutes you have to tell them where did you get the story where did you get whatever you're saying where did you get it from can't say Oh I thought about it myself you didn't you're a liar no one thinks about anything by themselves you heard this somewhere you read it in a book your Rabbi told you uh some you heard it somewhere if you if you're if it's King by yourself that means you're either a liar or you're a angel either way we don't believe you why because when you steal sources meaning you're saying that you know something that you got it and it's from nowhere that means either you're a thief or a liar because it's the m says that when Esther told that his life is at risk because two of his servants want to kill him she said it in the name of M because m is the one that told her and the mishna says from there we learn that anyone that says what they know in the name of where they heard it they're bringing salvation to the world and anyone that says things that they heard from somewhere they read somewhere but they don't mention the source they're actually delaying the Salvation they're delaying mashiah so there's a significance importance uh to actually bring sources now again you don't necessarily need to know the entire Torah and everything by heart to to be able to uh to lead a congregation or be a rabbi you just need to know that you have to be honest meaning you may know the answer but you don't remember the source but you tell listen this is where I heard I don't remember the source or if you need the source I'll go for find out for you you know how to get it you know how to get the source or if you don't know the source say listen this is what I know but I don't remember the source fine but generally speaking the more you speak the more you teach the more you're going to remember these sources the more people going to ask you questions so if the rabbi that you're listening to doesn't bring you any sources he doesn't tell you where he heard this story or where he read this ala and he just simply talks and talks and talks and he just simply tells you what to do but he doesn't tell you who told him what to do and how does he know what he's saying is true that's a very big problem why because more times than not if you're going to double check what he's saying to you you're going to start seeing mistakes now still again that doesn't necessarily mean he's 100% that just means he's a problematic Rabbi that he shouldn't be a rabbi but to know for sure that he's an is if he has terrible midot if he has bad mote where he looks at women that are not his wife he's an immodest person is a uh he he uh publicizes pictures of women that are not uh modest he's into that stuff then obviously he's not good uh if he does things that are not Kosher like he gambles or uh he goes to inappropriate places he uh he has a a potty mouth where he says things that are forbidden certainly he's a very serious problem uh another way is if he simply contradicts the Torah if he says things that uh the Torah doesn't say where he says things that are considered heretical where he says God needs you or he says that there's no punishment that God loves you no matter what these things are heretical which means that you need to learn in order to know what he's saying is right or wrong you need to know enough but usually every Jewish n has a you know sort of like a radar where they know if somebody's lying to them or not they know that if somebody's saying to them is true or not so usually if something doesn't sound good to you then it's good for you to double check you could either double check by asking that Rabbi to give you a source for what they said tell you what's the name of the book uh that uh that he read this in and and if you could see it if you could you know tell the name of the book and the page number and you could go open the book yourself and see that what he said is the same thing that says in the book or you could ask another Rabbi that is a Torah scholar that's and tell him listen Rabbi such and such told me this is he right if the other Rabbi says uh yeah no problem it's it's right because it's in uh he gives you the source then good but if he says no it's not right uh I have a different opinion then you have to go back take what the second Rabbi said say listen I I told the other Rabbi what you said and he has a source that says the opposite you said God needs you he says there's a million places in the Tor it says God doesn't need you so can you give me a source that shows that what you're saying is right that God needs you where where which book says God needs you oh it's a Mickey Mouse book Mickey Mouse is not tah Mickey Mouse is not tah Pokemon Pokemon is not is a is an ocean where has a lot of books I have many books of in the house tell me which one I'll open it oh it's not in in your imagination oh okay so you're you're so again it's important for a person to know that if a person says things that are against the T he's 100% unless once he finds out that he said things that are wrong he apologizes and he corrects himself then he's just simply a regular person made a mistake if you show him that he made a mistake and he says oh you're right I made a mistake I'll correct myself okay he's not he's a good guy but if he says no no you you just you're just not you just don't understand you just don't understand then he's more in line with the idol worshippers than he is with Judaism so the are people that change the Torah they change the Torah in order to make people like them they change the Torah in order to get people to give them uh all types of uh honor they change the Torah in order to be popular they change the Torah in order to make it a more sellable and those people are so you have people that are connected to things that are not modest certainly they are very problematic people and almost 100% of the time they're people that are saying things against the Torah if they're not going to correct themselves they the third thing is people that connect with Idol worshippers and don't see a problem with it meaning they're inviting the other Idol worshippers Christian missionaries to synagogues or they are uh uh you know they're they're they're doing things together with those other people that are in so many words enemies of God and enemies of the Jewish people and they don't see a problem with it 100% of why because if you truly love your father in Heaven if you truly love his children am why would you want to be friends why would you want to be partners why would you want to be associated with someone that's an enemy of God and is trying to bring his people to idol worship why I mean any normal Jew any any normal person even if he's a non-jew that loves AEM when they hear that somebody's an idol worshipper and is trying to bring Jewish people and different people to idol worship immediately they get upset so if you're friends with those people and you're inviting them to your house and your Sho and everything else for sure you're an as says in Proverbs a person is judged based on who he praises if he praises the big rabbis theim that's a good sign if he praises the Pope the chief Idol worshipper if he praises the uh the uh yes then obviously that's who he is he's also a uh yeshu he's a little yeshu so the people need to know that there are people that are but you're only going to know if the if you're gonna go through this checklist there's also a Shure that we made several years ago probably five six years ago uh it was actually two in in a row where it says who are the it was part of the uh series who are the in there we go over the uh the uh the Z that talks about who the are what are they uh how do they act what do they believe in and there more details over there uh and uh generally speaking it's going to be like the things I mentioned to you now but there's going to be obviously more details uh over there ER are more concerned with getting rich they're more concerned with being popular they're more concerned with being liked they're not concerned about the Torah they don't care about the Torah they use the Torah as an acts in order to succeed in order to make money in order to be popular they don't use the in order to help people they don't care at all about helping people they care about helpings so that's in essence the uh okay next question who made kazal okay so kazal is an acronym meaning it's a uh in Hebrew it's called means that it's it's multiple words that instead of writing all of the words they took the first letter of each word combined it and then they put a little uh uh apostrophe on it to tell you that this is really not a real word this is a multiple words at once and kazal is three letters which means it's three different words means means our sages means may they be remembered with with blessing may their memory be a blessing so who are kazal who is kazal kazal is the sages that lived in the past the ones that lived at the time of RAB AKA uh the the times of the gar the times of the Z the times of the like the ramb the ran uh uh the uh the uh this is all of the sages that lived in the past in those those times that's in essence kazal now of course some people uh they break it down into different times of kazal meaning you have kazal which are the the main ones that are the ones that are mentioned in the in the Mish so you have RAB ra uh you know all of those great sages that are in and there's many of them uh so that's in the mishna then you have the that's that's the main then you have also the uh the geonim the geonim lived about a thousand years ago uh so you have is one of them after that a couple of hundred years later you have theim theim are the rambam Rashi ramban R those are there's obviously there's more I'm just giving you a few names there's many more has many many many many many uh then you have the more recent great sages which are called so the means the first sages after after the sages of the so it's from the earlier era name is earlier era which is about a thous 800 900 years ago and it goes up until about let's say 300 years ago so you have a big period of time there's like a there's a map that I have with it tells you the period of the different uh sages the uh the zot the T the you know eventually you get to the then you have the and this uh the main ones that we have our information from is is from the tal and also the and also the theim are more recent sages uh and uh you have let's say the uh uh theim is you know people that lived let's say in the last couple hundred years uh you have that so all of them are in essence considered kazal as far as but if somebody wants to be more particular they're going to consider the as the ones that lived at the time of the and before it and before it uh but if you're talking about let's say for example uh the times of uh of the prophets that's the times of the prophets that's not kazal that's even before kazal okay so kazal is the the ones that uh gave us the the mishna the the all of the teachings that we have uh in the world that we learned from but before that you had the uh uh you know the prophets that's in the uh tanak you have the the prophet uh uh Jeremiah Zacharia uhel Isaiah and so on uh and then you have obviously uh you know the aot you have David you have abrah and yob these are our forefathers but you also have you knowu yeshu and so on now also one thing actually I could tell you uh that I forgot to mention before is that seven times seven times in the Torah says that he's giving a breit he's making a special deal a special deal with a person seven times and uh those uh uh seven times are with Abraham yov um M uh is also David and then you have uh um pinhas Pinas meaning that this Shalom is only the seventh time seven time oh also Aon moson and uh and Pinas only seven times made a special deal with an individual uh um Moshe Aon David and Pinas seven times in the entire Tor hasem says I have a special breit special deal Covenant with somebody so Pinas it was a very very special person to say the least and that's why the uh says is he never died good questions uh let's see next Rashi says the women convinced the men to hold Idols to their butt but they went to but while they went to the bathroom uh yes so the uh the the the Bal uh which was the uh the idol uh that they were uh worshiping the the uh the midianites were worshiping the uh says anyone that uh served this Idol uh would get a death penalty but um if somebody did something to uh to serve it but uh you know intentionally they would get death penalty but what if somebody did something to uh you know to make fun of it make fun of it then it all depends it all depends so for example if you go if somebody goes and a uh they don't uh pray to Yos they throw a rock at Yos so that's obviously desecrating that uh that statue of of of Yos so that's not serving him but if somebody bows to Yos that's a problem that's idol worship with the Bal the way that they would actually serve the Bal is they would defecate they would do you know they would do number two on them and in fact in fact the more they did on them the more holy they considered it that's that's how they served their Idol B and uh the what the women did of the midianites they uh uh in order to entice the uh the Jewish people to uh uh to do this disgusting thing they would uh give them wine to get them a little drunk and then they would uh take off their clothes and tell them listen if you want this if you want to be you know then I uh you have to serve this Idol so they would arouse them and try to get them to do something stupid by um you know making them want to sin so say what what do I need to do do I have to pray to him he goes no no you need to uh defecate now the problem is that even if the people didn't mean to serve the idol the fact that they did it is still considered serving the idol and the says still get punished for it uh but that's in essence how they serve the idol then after they would do that they would make sins with them even more sins but this would actually uh even if somebody uh meant it in a mocking way they would still acquire the Tuma from that evil act and would affect them and they would end up making even more sins after that and many times uh you know the uh the people that fell for this they uh they wouldn't want to leave it they would actually become addicted to this Idol to do do this disgusting thing idol worship is Al always disgusting uh that's why in a uh in uh the uh which the first paragraph of was written by Yeshua the last line of alen was written by his wife ra and uh the uh the the thing is though is as far as the uh it talks about how idol worship is uh G is is is it's it's it's number two meaning that is saying that idol worship is the equivalent of feal manner waste that comes out of the body that's what it is um the things that people do for idol worship is irrational but they use their minds to rationalize uh doesn't mean it's right though so the thing is though with idol worship is that uh the uh says that we're not allowed to be within six feet of someone that is a mean someone that's a like a Christian Missionary not all to stand next to them and uh and the reason why is because even if they uh say they won't talk about it they can't help themselves because once somebody is uh is is part of idolatry the Tuma the impurity that comes from an idolatry in essence takes over the person uh and and and influences the person to do things that are completely irrational where they can't control themselves that's why religious Christians even if they don't mean to they missionized they try to get people to idolatry even if you don't listen I'm a religious Jew I'm not interested in your religion they're not going to stop okay okay we're not going to talk about it today five minutes later they're talking about it why they can't help themsel this is why in it was a story of two that were on a Fork Road and uh they had to choose to either go right or left in order to get to where they wanted to go but on one side they had a uh a church of idol worship and on the other side they had a uh house of prostitution of of of you know non- modest things and uh the they chose to go next to the not modest things and that path why so said this is that uh even though the uh not modest thing and idol worship are both bad the idol worship is worse because the prostitution house he goes by there and he could close his eyes even if the women come outside he could simply close his eyes and pass through it and maybe they're not going to be there maybe they're not going to come out the point if they come next to him and as long as he passes and he doesn't stay he doesn't talk to them he doesn't do anything there it's not going to affect him whereas the place of idolatry even if no one comes and talks to you it's still going to affect you in some way or another passing by it needless to say if somebody comes and talks to you why Mas means that when someone is connected to missionizing for for idolatry they literally they they they H they can't control themselves they have to missionized they have to preach idolatry they have to constantly do things that are connected to this idolatry their whole life uh revolves around it to the point where rational and irrational are uh there's not much of a difference between the two they'll do all types of things just to get their point across this is the reason how you know why uh you know people that considered themselves religious Christians murdered the Jewish people in the Holocaust because they believed that this was the uh you know what was needed to to happen now of course I know this is part of the uh the church doesn't like to talk about and a lot of people don't like to talk about this but that's the reality people that were religious Christians were part of the Nazi army were part of the uh the the the problem and they actually thought that they were doing the better good by killing Jews when uh the the Jewish people cried out to the pope you know one of the leaders of the uh of the Christian world uh to help them he stayed silent you know it's a he didn't uh he didn't help them uh like he was supposed to or like uh like the so-called loving uh religion that he has does uh they uh they stay you know they they pretended like they helped but in reality they didn't help didn't help uh so it's a the thing is though is that uh even in the world today there's a lot of confusion about what to think about all of this Christian support that Israel gets you know where you know the Christians are donating uh and investing a lot of money in Israel and a lot of people think oh yeah this is really nice of them they're helping us no no they're not helping you they're investing in order to missionized because part of their beliefs is that they have to either convert all of the Jews or kill all of them whichever one happens because they believe that all of the Jews are either going to convert to Judaism or they're going to die they don't believe that we could just live in peace once they're so-called Messiah comes it's either die or convert to Christianity that's the belief that's the core foundational beliefs of Christianity you know and that's the one of the things that a lot of people don't understand it's in their books you know they say yeah no it's 144,000 people going to let be left yeah 144,000 people that means a complete Annihilation it's worse than the Holocaust so that's in their books now some no but I don't believe that so wait so you follow the New Testament but you don't believe the New Testament I don't understand either you follow it and you believe it or you don't follow it and you don't believe it and that's the problem you're never going to find two Christians that are alike because many of them are simply following the footsteps of whatever preacher or Pastor tells them uh and the more extreme ones are uh are very very big anti-semites they hate Jews and they do it openly and the ones that invest into Israel it's not because they love Jews but rather because they believe that their job is to convert the Jews to idol worship or to eventually be part of their Annihilation one or the other they're not going to admit it but that's really what it is that's in their books that's in their belief system that's simply the reality so obviously it doesn't make sense because many times you'll find very very nice Christian people that don't believe what I just said they don't believe they need to kill the Jews in fact they themselves believe that they could coexist with the Jewish people they don't want to be part of some Annihilation they don't want to be part of of killing any Jews and they don't even necessarily think they need to convert that's very nice of them problem is that's not really what their belief system is meaning they believe that but the books they follow don't the New Testament says what it says they have their own version of Christianity meaning the New Testament is by far the most anti-Semitic book that exists in the world that's the New Testament it's an anti-semitic book it's a book that hates Jews especially the religious Jews the which they call the pharas sites they the Pharisees which are the sages that's that's the New Testament so they're not going to tell you that they hate Jews they're going to tell you they love Jews because if they told you what they've been telling us for the last 2,000 years it's not going to work so well it didn't work so well in the last couple thousand years but that's the truth so a person needs to know that rational and irrational do not play a role in the world of idolatry in the world of idolatry Mas Mas means that the missionizing mentality and ideology is what pulls a person to do what they do meaning their end goal their end agenda of missionizing and and converting Jews to Christianity because the whole thing doesn't make any sense or rational sense for them to even missionized the Jews because there are very few Jews in the world go to the Chinese there's two billion of them go to the Hindus there's two billion of them go to the Arabs there's two billion of them go focus on uh you know all of them why do you bother with the few million Jews that are in the world that's because again rational and irrational play don't do not play a role in idolatry it's all minut it's all a spiritual deformity and uh this is also the reason why when a uh when a Christian lets himself really think lets himself really think and actually double check his beliefs more times than not he ends up leaving his religion and many times he ends up uh um sub joining Judaism because once he questions his belief system he can't uh he can't understand why he believes what he believes all right um first time I got to watch the rabbi won't be the last uh let's see strange things are happening with my computer here not sure what's going on okay wasn't there a supernatural energy of lust on Cosby to mislead a man uh yeah I mean generally speaking any time that a uh a person uh is uh enticed to sin the says in that is a spiritual Spirit of foolishness uh spirit of impurity comes to that person even more so with the uh non-jewish uh people that uh can have that literally on a permanent basis a non-jewish woman that entices uh Jewish men to sin with her is uh literally like a servant of the Satan's wife uh and she's uh a uh both murdering uh the the soul of the Jew as well as her own soul because she's not going to be rewarded for it uh in the next World she'll be punished for it but in this world she gets certain benefits for making uh these uh sins because in essence the Satan tries to entice her to do even more what about the kabad rabbi to asked you about carrying on Shabbat uh well the uh not have to carry on Shabbat unless again you have a u if you live in U but there was a rabbi that um asked me you know a couple of questions I thought that he you know he should know but uh interestingly enough you know when uh I showed him some uh sources he was you know uh in one case actually he still rejected it because he you know had his own beliefs even though they were sourceless in another case he said okay you know what I'm going to change my ways and uh he wasn't a kabad guy though the one that changes ways unfortunately wasn't a kabad guy let's see uh screen keeps moving uh what's the difference between Rashi and R uh it's considered correct or why ah okay it's a very good question so uh the Rashi and ruin are in essence exactly the same as far as what's written in them theot that are in the tah uh that both use are exactly the same the only difference is is the order of the parot the order of the parot that in R are different than theot of Rashi uh so uh not only the way that they put them into the uh um into the of there's four compartments in of and uh they put them in a certain order but also the way they're written where even though they're all they're in essence if you look at the scroll of the of Rashi and you're not necessarily going to be able to tell the difference but the way that the Scribe writes them is that he'll write uh the the first uh first uh two par skip you know leave an open area for the third write the fourth and then go uh so but in Ence it's it's it's the same just different orders now uh generally speaking the the custom of is that uh uh since the AL an obligation for a Jewish to uh put on Rashi every day that's the obligation if a man is married he should start putting on R if he's married he should put rabu and you know it's Rashi you put Rashi on you say say the when you put rash on as the way it goes is that you put the before you pull the knot uh before you pull the string to tighten it on your arm you say the blessing then you pull the string so it's right you know so in essence you're fulfilling a mitvah after the blessing then you put the wraps around your arm uh if you don't have uh a long string where it won't reach uh you won't be able to do seven rounds on your arm uh it's okay even to have one and go straight to your finger but if most feeling today the strap is going to be long enough that you're going to be able to go seven rounds on your arm then you wrap it around your hand then you put the uhin of the of the head without a blessing during this time you don't talk uh you put the ones on your head if you're ashkanazi uh you do a blessing at that time a Second Blessing but if you're there's no blessing then after you put the head on you complete the armed by putting the one on your uh finger and you're uh and then you obviously do the and so on that's the rash now uh that's every Jew is obligated to do that uh people that are converting should start putting on to fill in about a month before the conversion date meaning once they have a a conversion date with the bedine set they should get themselves a pair of uh highend and start putting Onin before that they should not put Onin uh but uh that's a uh Rashi now that fine you put on every day except Shabbat and holidays uh as far as r r are put on by married people with the exception of kabad that they recommend to put it on even for non-married people but many of theim uh disagreed with kad's customs of putting Ru on non-married people because of the issues of impurity and how people waste seed and they're not able to uh be spiritual clean when they're not married uh but you know kabad has its own uh Customs anyway the uh the rest of Cl that puts on R they put them on after the uh the Rashi you the ideal time to put it on is after you completed the entire you finished then you put on the uh some people have the custom of putting it the r uh when there is where you finish and then the the the khazan is going over the uh the amid again uh this is not a good Customs that's R says it's not a good idea to do that unless you're able to put on the before the starts the the repetition of because you're supposed to listen to the repetition of d as if you're praying it yourself you're not supposed to chitchat and joke around or do other things you're supposed to listen to the as if you're saying it yourself so to put on your while while thean is doing the again is not the right way so unless you know for sure that you'll be able to put them on before the uh you should wait until the end of theid uh and um and then put on the uh the but that's again only if you're married now the r you do not do a blessing on them you're forbidden from doing a blessing on them and in fact anyone that puts on should it's if you haven't done it already then obviously do this now but if you if you haven't bought yet uh and uh you know you you want to uh then before you put on the first time think in your mind you don't have to make a public statement you just think in your mind that you're only putting on this in case is like but if it's not like then this is just straps it's just straps of letters meaningless you have to do that and not think that you are actually fulfilling a separate Mitzvah anyone that thinks that they are doing two separate MIT it's a mistake it's not you're not fulfilling two separate mitv the only reason why we do is because in case the is like even though the here is rash there's a where it could be so because of that risk because ra is so great we put on and we think in our mind that at least one time uh in our life that if this is the uh law then this I'm putting on to filling that I made on my Rashi is for the sake of this that I'm putting on now this is also another another reason why you're not allowed to chitchat during your prayers because if you're breaking up your prayers with all types of chitchat with people it's a problem it's breaking up the uh the blessing so the blessing that I made for the Rashi prayer is in essence counting for the ru but is not then I'm just putting on straps of leather on me I'm not doing anything it's meaningless and that's actually the the the now ACC to the cist according to the the according to uh uh um the the the uh sanctity of is higher than Rashi it's not that it's the AL to be like R the AL is like crash but if someone is going to be studying t with on they should do it with with not because they have a higher level of sanctity uh than R but that's again only if you can stay focused on the fact that you're learning to and you can remember that you have at all times and you're going to only do uh Torah and not socialize if you're going to socialize if you're going to you know uh you know eat and drink and uh you know and play with your computer don't put on uh at that time you know only do when you're completely focused but the point is is that the the difference between the two for the regular average person you're not going to be able to tell the difference but the way that the scribes WR the way that the scribes write them is that it's the same of the same segments of the Tor just in different order of how they write them and also how they put them into the uh the the compartments of the uh of the also to to symbolize that one is RAB and one is Rashi the strings the little extra strings uh that look like it's a mistake but it's not really a mistake are slightly to the left on one and in the center on the other so there's small difference differences between the two generally speaking unless you learn of you're not going to be able to tell any difference whatsoever between the two so that's why today the uh when you have usually the box that covers them has on it Rashi orash now some people that have uh the uh the uh uh uh you know ability to get uh and also the uh uh the ability to do they put on both F at the same time I would not recommend this at all did not recommend this and the reason why is because most people uh don't uh know the laws well enough where they don't realize that if they don't put the two perfectly where they are then they're not fulfilling the Mitzvah at all why because theine can't just be anywhere you want they have to be at a specific place in your head and if theine are too big or your head is too small then you're not fulfilling the Mitzvah at all and that's why recommended that people put on the uh the Rashi first complete the uh the uh what you need to do with Rashi which is at least the the uh and but ideally you should finish the entire and then put on the once you put on the you do the part uh all the way up until the where you start the don't do the part all the way until there that's what you do but again this is for married men married men it's not for children it's not for single guys uh and uh and that's about it but obviously there's many many other laws uh this is just the and uh you know in a quick couple minutes why are methods like and tumim and lottery for the division of the land used if in thear there exist what why are there methods like and the lottery for for division of the land used if in the there exists the idea of a ah okay so decides to communicate with us in different ways the rambam in his commentary uh on it's called Uh in there there's a believe is in chapter 7 uh he talks about the different levels of Prophecy uh the distinguishing difference between uh mosenu and Isaiah and all of the other prophets that followed he gives a teachings about prophecy and in essence over there he talks about different forms of communications that Hashem had then you have a a but is usually a certain statement of some kind but then there is also it's another way that hasem communicates to certain people uh the were not that form of communication the were generally questions that you would ask uh you have to have a you have to have a with the uh that has the whole suit on and is obviously a time with time of the mikash so time of the you couldn't have secondly were used usually for going to war to know whether we are uh uh you know we need to go to war or not because there are different Wars there is a war of mitvah which is hasem commanded us to go do it like for example in this week's P hasem commanded us to go and kill the midianites unlike the other places that we fought other other uh armies that we fought other nations that we fought in the Tor this mil this war against the midianites is unique because hm commanded us not only to go to that war which means it becomes obligation just like you know keeping Shabbat just like eating kosher it's an obligation for us to go and fight this war but on top of it one distinguishing Factor about this uh uh uh War war with the midianites is that he told us to kill them to completely annihilate them whereas the other nations that we fought he told us to strike them and the difference here is that the kazal explains to us that the reason why hasem says to annihilate to kill the midianites whereas the others just simply to defeat them is because the midianites caused us to sin and a uh the the says and the mishna uh say in the name of I think it was in the name of that someone that causes you to sin is worse than someone that would kill a person so the fact that the midianites uh caused us to sin is worse than other nations that wanted to kill us or even Nations that killed us the same concept goes today someone that causes people to sin is worse than a murderer according to the Torah because someone that kills a person person he kills them whatever status they're at if they're righteous they go to heaven if they're Wicked they go to gay and but he doesn't eliminate their ability to uh to do mitv uh to I'm sorry he doesn't encourage them to make sense he doesn't worsen their status doesn't worsen their status whereas a person that causes another person to sin like for example a woman that's not modest and therefore she causes other men to look at her a woman that's promiscuous causes men to make sins a uh a person that sells uh non kosher food to Jewish people a person that brings a missionary to a synagogue a person that preaches things that are against the Torah these are all they cause the public to sin they're considered worse than murderers according to the Torah and that's why told us to go and destroy the midianites whereas when it came to the other nations we fought he didn't tell us to destroy them he told us to strike so the were used not for but rather which is we have an obligation to go to war with this particular Nation but as far as when we don't know this that is also and then there's a which is the war for for for survival if somebody attacks us and then there's also War for the sake of money meaning if let's say for example was struggling and they needed food and the only way to get food is to take it from The Other Nation they don't want to sell it to us then we're allowed to go to war with them so there's multiple different types of Wars the were used for usually for this particular purpose uh the B was usually uh made uh you know in a um it was unplanned you know the was planned it was the Coen Gad involved uh there was a uh a certain level of KES involved it's multiple things but it's planned it's something that's done in a certain structure you follow instructions the but just comes out it just Hashem decides to have a echo of his voice come into the world and make a certain statement like he made in the where uh there was a between hos and the sages and a b call came out from sh and said why are you bothering my son don't you know that is always like him but to that the S said we don't based on so uh when they asked what say when the sages responded with this response that we don't based on but says hmem loved it because he says my my kids used my Torah to beat me meaning that they they use this law the proper way it was a test the point being is is that there are different ways forh to communicate with us depending on the need depending on the time depending on the person it's sort of like for example if let's say you have a executive of a company okay executive of a company it's easy to understand those people are usually very very busy people but they have to communicate with certain people so the executive of the company if he's uh talking to let's say for example his clients clients of the company then he's usually going to have a certain phone uh that uh and a phone number for those people to call and he's going to use a certain phone to call them uh if he's talking to uh his uh his his uh assistants he could talk to them face to face he could talk to them in uh different uh that same line uh but if he's talking to let's say his wife his kids and he loves them and he wants to uh make sure that they're not uh thrown into his busy schedule and he can't find out where they are he has a separate phone for them he has a line that is separate just for his family just for his kids where he knows if that phone rings it's important whereas when the business phone rings it's not necessarily always important it could be a customer complaining it could be a customer saying hello it could be somebody trying to sell him something it could be a lot of different things and then he also has text message he has text message and he has email but the point is is that the important person has different forms of communication and he doesn't use the same thing for everybody it all depends on who it is when it is if it's in the middle of the night then usually email is going to be or text message if it's in the middle of the day usually phone and text message you know so and if it's the weekend it maybe you have to meet him personally point being is is that the uh a person that communicates with a lot of people but there is different levels of importances is going to communicate with them uh with different ways based on that level of importance communicates with his children in different ways depending on the level of importance depending on the person depending on the circumstance for the for the men killed were attached what does that mean it seems to sound as a uh modest way to say relations but uh seems more severely bound uh were these ones communicating moral acts yes both so the say that they were attached both they they were attached not to the immodest woman but they were attached to the idolatry once they committed the sinful act with the woman and uh that meant that they already made the sinful act with the uh the uh Idol and even though it sounds foolish uh as soon as they defecated uh they cre a certain Spirit of impurity went on top of them in essence they became attached to this Idol they wanted to stay they didn't want to go so hence the reason why they got a death penalty can we still do puls on uh is it possible sure it's possible but it's not something that the average knows you know certain cabalists uh you know perhaps uh uh would uh knows at least the text maybe even the uh the strategy to do certain things like that but it's not something that you do uh for uh just an individual purpose it's usually something that has a national uh uh uh uh it's something for it has to be for the sake of the entire uh people of Israel it can't be just for uh one's personal preference or it can't be just a regular rash it means it has to be for the sake of saving the same thing with all ofal you're not allowed to use it for your own personal reasons you're only allowed to use it for the sake of the nation and it comes at a very high price people that usually typ deal with kabalas seat they suffer a lot of different tragedies uh how should someone in the conversion process approach spending money for Shabbat and mitv uh it depends on their uh it depends on their financial circumstances if their financial circumstances are good then certainly they should get themselves used to spending uh and being generous forab and especially when it comes to giving taka for the sake of publicizing T because they're going to need as many merits as possible uh and uh if they have a nice Shabbat it's not really going to be a big Merit for them because they're not obligated to keep Shabbat but if they have a lot of money invested into helping other Jews do Chua that certainly will go to their Merit where they're Jews or Gentiles so the number one investment that a gentile should have is to help more Jews do chuva uh but of course if they have the ability to also have a nice Shabbat and and do other mitv certainly they should be generous with them but it shouldn't be an expensive Shabbat uh at the cost of uh less kiru being done why did the minites hate am so much that they went out of their way to hurt the people uh that's because the uh Mas the the the uh idolatry cannot coexist in peace with the truth of hasem it's a there cannot be peace between the there's there's the spirit of uh tum versus the spirit of Kusa so is Tora that's idolatry is T they cannot coexist in peace and uh says that if you tell me that am is is doing well and adom is doing uh uh well I'm not going to believe you if you tell me that am is is uh doing poorly and AD is doing well I'll believe you if you tell me that am is is doing well and AD Dom is doing poorly then I believe you why because they uh they cannot coexist coexist in peace cannot coexist in peace Rabbi took a vow to contribute predominantly to widows and orphans and build schools uh is it wrong to encourage others to do the same uh yeah I mean it's as far as to mainly contribute to help widows and orphans and build schools is a very nice thing but it's not the most profitable for the sake of of mitv uh the most profitable for the sake of mitv is public more to and helping people do chuba that's the most profitable investment that a person can do uh you could you have to believe me you could look at the uh he writes itak writes it a thousand years ago uh it's mentioned in countless places across the board and a person needs to look at theira like a no different than they look at their investments in real estate or stocks or businesses people don't invest in something because they like it they invest it because they has the most potential so if you have let's say for example you know uh uh two different uh buildings that uh uh you know that you want to buy one is in the middle of uh I don't know it's in the middle of Arkansas and your next door neighbor is a uh a pharmacy and the next door neighbor on the other side is a farm and then the other building is in the middle of uh some uh you know uh you know some city which is up and coming and uh you you have you know different buildings being built across one has the opportunity to go up maybe 3 or 4% a year the other one has an opportunity to go up maybe 50% 60% over the next couple years because of what's happening in the area now even if you like the one that has a farmer next door and the pharmacy that's going to go up 3% you're not going to invest there why because if you're a clever person you're going to invest where you can make more money same thing when it comes to investing into stocks or businesses if somebody says listen we sell uh these uh products and uh we could uh make you uh 5% 10% a year great thank you very much another guy says to you listen I have a new technology that already has the CIA the FBI and uh the uh uh the other parts of uh the government as our customers already meaning it's a proven product and the government is a customer the government doesn't change uh consumers often uh I mean vendors often and on top of it we're growing we're doing really really well that's our business and we're uh we're innovating the world great what do you expect to be we're expecting to grow 50% a year maybe even a 100 now a person that evaluates those two Investments is not going to waste more than 5 Seconds deciding that the second one that I mentioned is the better investment why it not only has a proven product but it also has a much greater potential the first one sounds nice maybe for somebody else but not for you why because you have both options same concept when it comes to MIT when it comes to MIT even though helping the poor and the uh the orphans uh is is a very nice thing to do uh and certainly we do we help poor people every week every week we send money to help poor people we have a huge amount of money that we've sent millions of dollars we've sent over the years to help poor people in Israel the primary focus that or organization has is has always been to publicize more to do more lectures to do more films to have more to publicize more and to help more people do CH and the reason why is because the investment there is much much higher so I'm not saying to ignore uh the poor people certainly you should help some poor people and some orphans but to make that your uh predominant of your investment is not a good investment in comparison to K it's simply not and it's again it's not my opinion because I'm doing it it's opinion of D you ask any real that could bring you sources 5 Seconds they'll tell you that uh uh what you're doing is a mistake uh in comparison to helping people do Chua now unfortunately many people don't realize how great uh the uh helping people do Chua is until they read the and they read uh the he wrote about it they read about it and they understand that there's literally nothing greater than that there's it's it's it's to how people do chuva is even higher than helping people learn we try to do everything but the primary focus has always been to help people do cha uh is it a good thing that ishma is taking over a dome and what does the say about regarding the coming of mashia uh is it good that he's taking over a do there is no good or bad there's prophecies that tells us what's going to happen at the end of times at the end of times that adom and is are going to go to war with each other there going to be a horrific War where two-thirds of the world is going to die in a very short period of time after they go to war with each other they're eventually going to stop fighting and then both are going to attack Israel uh and blame Israel over it some prophecies say that uh Isel is going to take over the land of Israel for nine months uh and before mashia comes uh but that doesn't necessarily have to happen but needless to say the uh the war between adom and Ismael it's there's nothing good or bad it's just a reality it's like saying the sun came up yeah it's expected that's because hem says the Tora says that this is what's going to happen that's what's happening okay they have uh is buying kosher me online a reliable uh way to get kosher food uh that depends who you're buying from uh if you're buying from a uh company that has good uh you know they sell stuff that has good supervision then yeah no problem uh but if you're buying it from this you know you know some Discount Store nobody's ever heard of uh then you know it's you have to double check it all depends on who is the rabbi is overseeing it what what kind of he they sell if you're Safari it has to be if it's me it has to be bet uh uh but uh you know if if you're you're buying a uh uh chicken then it's a uh uh you know it's there's a lot of different e there's different levels depend depends on the depends where you are in the world uh if a man who raped a single woman is kept alive so that the woman he defiled would have some someone to marry what happens if if the woman doesn't want to marry him would he be killed if he raped a woman no no no there's a the man is the woman is not going to uh marry a man that raped her this is a uh mistake that people make they think that if somebody just raped a woman uh then she has to marry him no no this is somebody entier entier and raped are completely two different things uh man marri you know uh uh the Torah says that if if he you know went to the field and she screamed and no one was able to answer uh that's uh a person he's considered like he murdered her no that's that's not the same thing as somebody enticing a Woman by you know enticing her enticing her by you know fooling her or uh or whatever convincing her to do things that are bad and then she realized that she shouldn't have done it that's that's what you know there two different things uh so if he took her virginity away without being married then certainly he uh has to marry her if she wants to marry him if she doesn't want to marry him then uh then he's you know he goes away but uh but that's not if he raped her it's not if he raped her it's two different things and light of a student not pronouncing Al in front of his teacher how did come to teach Moshe about the way he judged judged uh very good question well wasn't giving him he wasn't telling him what the law is he was telling him guidance based on what uh he saw that mosenu was judging the way judging the people in a certain fashion he told them you can judge the people in a different way but go ask God so he didn't tell him what to do he told him go ask God if this is a good idea whereas uh Pinas actually told M the this is what the AL is you told us what the AL is this is what it is so it's two different things uh yeah oh well we answered all the questions okay thank you very much for uh learning with meem bless each and every single one of you oh wait hold on a second I have here [Music] I have no idea what that means I'm sorry uh that's too long of a question so Milla and that's not a question okay yeah um okay next question If a woman is about to be raped God forbid is she allowed to kill the person 100% she's allowed to kill the the person yes somebody that's coming to rape a woman is considered as if he's trying to kill her so yes she's allowed to kill him uh with no problem and um say she shouldn't uh she shouldn't hesitate for a second shouldn't hesitate for a second she shouldn't you're not allow to be merciful to vicious people thank you very much for learning with me has bless each and every single one of you anyone that wants to support all the things that the organization is doing whether it's the free books and the free CDs and the free everything that we do or you want to help us uh you know publicize more T help us with the in you could sponsor an a uh in Israel on our website.org in the store there is opportunities to sponsor a week a month two months of each uh you could sponsor you could certainly help us feed poor people that we send money to each week there's a lot of ways to support if you have the ability then certainly uh you could uh help us and you could help yourself by doing so remember everybody there's a fast Tomorrow there's a fast tomorrow uh and uh it's a uh obligatory fast to everyone that is healthy unless you are pregnant or you are breastfeeding uh if that then you don't have to fast but everyone else that's healthy you have to fast tomorrow uh obviously I'm talking about Jews Gentiles don't have to fast if you're in the process of conversion you should fast um but uh as far as the uh uh considerate practice though but a uh and you can break it let's say 1 minute early or something like that uh or break it at one point during the day point being is there's a fast tomorrow is a opportunity to get closer to Hashem tomorrow andm we all do [Music] [Applause] [Music]