Political Friends, Fake Friends, Dangerous Friends And The Truth - MUSSAR Pirkei Avot (15)

[Music] n always great to be in Miami this is the group with so we have we had a new sh yesterday good lot of new a lot of different things that um anyone that's really serious about doing cha has to watch it because everyone has yet every one is it it doesn't matter if you're really really righteous doesn't matter if you're just starting doesn't matter if you're from from birth doesn't matter if your father's the biggest it doesn't make a difference everybody has there's two different types of sometimes you have that is going to be a big yet for you to make one big sin and then you have the that's every day the one that tells you listen maybe today not so modest maybe today you should overcharge the client maybe today you should not you know the one it has every day so we talked about it yesterday at the uh the new um location we have for um the Tuesday sh at the breast lip Center in Aventura and uh was was good we had a little bit of a funny event happened before it you can put it here put it here it's good here yeah uh we had a funny little thing with the in the beginning I you know I have two left hands I uh ended up uh spilling over the candle that had some oil in it so had some balagan had to clean up so it's kind of funny you know it's a uh it's has to disturb you right before the was good so today we're going to talk about some new things this is uh number 15 uh and we're going to try with we're going to try to include a lot of different things that are relevant to today whether it's the political situation that's happening in the United States the political situation that's happening around the world what does it have to do with our par as we always know there's everything that's happening in your life and in the world and large is uh always has some type of connection to and also we have an amazing holiday coming up in a few days Hanah so we'll try to connect a lot of these different things and U because this week's uh bet uh chapter 2 mishna 3 talks about politics so before we start we always have to do the and so first and foremost the will have we'll go toim also to to gel Le David Doris meloto ruven Joseph Ben RKA SAR Gladis Nunes Ed magero I seez is healthy so she's not on the list also another one is off the list off the list Ana sedeno G Solano Jose a bill deutman herb fle Raquel Sandler lardis Garcia lues Reni Yeshua Mikel Ben hadasa David uel Ben Sarah Olga Flores Miriam Martinez and David Gamel Ben hadasa mayem give them help all of have both we need to serve AEM and we need the right way and to be able to do it you know we need to it's knowing that to do it you need to be able to do it physically so we need both we get both now this week's mishna is very very interesting it's a very short mishna you know usually I try to cover one or two this one I think is going to cover the whole thing because there's so much going on in the world today uh that you could really sum it up in one sentence of of the um in essence the good and the bad so says beware of rulers meaning government and and political figures or even uh heads of state or heads of groups all types of groups beware of rulers for they befriend someone only for their own benefit they act friendly when it benefits them but do not stand by someone in his time of need so this is not necessarily A K literally to all of us cuz we've all anyone that's lived in this world for more than a week already knows that people that are in pos position of power the powers that be as they call it usually take advantage of this power and don't necessarily use it for what they were put in there for in the first place um and so ran gel is telling us this and we already know from the last couple of the son of he was in a family that was in essence the kinghood it was the family that not only had power thems they were from the they uh they said that if anybody was uhi like in Ence a uh had the Merit of uh being the Messiah in that generation it will be rebi Rudi his father so if anybody had the Merit to be mashiah it'll be him so obviously this is a very big deal and they say why why does he have the uh Merit he says because he's the perfect human being not only is he a genius a sadik he's extremely wealthy he's extremely powerful he's connected with the Roman King the the Roman Caesar and rebi were learning to and on top of it anytime that he has any type of issues whether it's health issues or any type of problems he thanks Hashem showing that his connection to hem is pure it's not a superficial relationship where it's if Hashem gives you good you say thank you if hasem gives you bad you're like a hasm no what's going on what what's would you forget about me so it's a real relationship that's has unlimited love not only from Hashem to re but from RE to hasem so his son is telling you listen I've been in this family I've been surrounded byad my father's giant my grandfather's a giant I come from a family full of rulers full of rich people full of people that are rich in wisdom and rich in material people that are connected to the and I'm telling you here something about dealing with these rulers that you have to take to the bank cuz I have experience you have to be aware of these rulers whether it's the Egyptians or the syrians or the Spanish uh you know government or it's the American government or it's anyone you have to be aware of all of them because they'll befriend someone only for their own benefit they'll act friendly when it benefits them and they're not going to stand by you if something happens now this if you guys remember this seems very very similar sounds like it's we've heard this before we heard this on the uh ninth Mish 10 Mish bya said receed he uh it says SM says love work despise position of power and do not become overly familiar with government so what sha said several Generations before rabang Gamel came to be seems relatively identical but we always know that not only Hashem himself does not repeat the same thing for you know more than once for no reason of course his sages are going to you know do the same thing that Hashem does despite them being limited human beings obviously they have KES they have prophecy they have different types of uh Holiness that hasem gives them to be able to every single one of these letters every single one of these words and of course every one of these sentences has a reason of its own they're not going to repeat the same thing for no reason so thebat in which was a commentary on says there's a big difference between this Mish and what said how is it sh said listen focus on the purpose of life purpose of life is to become a to be aad to serve AEM fulfill the Torah it's not to be some uh president of the United States it's not to be president of some big uh Jewish organization cuz in reality we all know at the end of the day everyone knows at some point in their life whether it's in the beginning of their life the middle of their life or the day before they die everyone at some point gets to a point where they realize Hashem runs the world this is why in the hospice center everyone wants the rabbi to come they may be an atheist their whole life their whole life they were an atheist they even went against God they even had websites against God and against rabis but HP center right before they die oh Rabbi give me a blessing give me everybody became religious all of a sudden everybody becomes religious right before they die so everyone knows at the end God runs the world so he's telling you listen God runs the world let him run the world you focus on fulfilling what he told you you have a t learn it you have learn it you have Mish learn it you have do them don't look for any job to be a politician or anything like that that's not for us let hem run the world there's other people going to do it you have a brain you have a you do that that's what a was telling you here was telling you he says stay away from it hate it get away from it and no so much so that don't even be friends with them you have people you know they come to town they want your votes you say oh listen want your Hostess in the betet and unfortunately in today's day some of these congregations even Orthodox obviously reform and and and and conservative I don't really consider Jewish it's not they're not following the law they're going against the Torah so the problem with them is much bigger than this but I'm talking about now the problem with modern Orthodox uh shs that have modernize so much where they're constantly battling a difficult battle which is that the current generation is getting weaker and weaker and you constantly have to con convince people to stay in to stay religious to stay FR and unfortunately many of them are making the mistake of using their own logic to convince people by telling them listen okay you don't like to okay so we'll bring what do you like you like politics okay so we'll bring a politician from Israel to your besset you don't like the story about you don't like you don't like I'll bring you some scientists from Israel you like Israel right you're a Jew you like Israel You're a Zionist okay so we'll bring him to B on Shabbat so you have this Zionist or this politician or this other guy or this guy coming to the Sho and giving a speech on Shabbat the problem is that where does it cross the line it crosses the line when Sometimes some of these people are not only saying things that are against the Torah but their whole livelihood their whole life in general is against the Torah so much so that there was actually a synagogue I'm familiar with you know rabbis you know supposed to be supposed to know a lot of stuff learned Torah I don't know a million years they learned T I don't know how many years they learned to their whole life but on Shabbat they brought a panel of speakers three people to speak about supporting Israel and great Israel yeah yeah Israel all that good stuff okay so you have one guy is a uh is Israeli businessman who succeeded inventing something he invented something I don't remember what he invented I didn't go to the event he invented something and he's like whatever some in Israel he's people think he's important but the other two he fine he's a Jew I don't know if I don't know if he necessarily keeps me but whatever he's a Jew the other two were Christians but not just regular Christians not like the Christian that's like Hey listen you know uh we all have the same God you know we just believe this guy's a messiah you know the ones that like are not trying to like you know intentionally do idol worship they're nice people they're just mistaken no we're not talking about that they brought an Evangelical Christian an Evangelical Christian to an orthodox r a modern Orthodox r on Shabbat to give a lecture to give a debate about why they support Israel I'm thinking to myself you idiots you fools don't you can't you read it's not even between the lines just go to the website of any Evangelical Christian website it's the highest first of all it's the highest level of aod highest level I have a student from Bulgaria sadik I've told you guys story about him uh Emanuel Emanuel God bless him you know his family in the past was a Evangelical Christians he tells me all he told me all these things about what they do and some things I didn't even know he tells me people they think they pretend like they talk to angels and they talk to God everyone's a prophet all these crazy things you know Torah says someone is a false prophet you have to kill him like someone comes says listen hasem told me you know it's a lie you have to kill him obviously in today's law we don't have we don't have but in the time times of somebody comes even as a joke come yeah he just spoke to God he told me whatever he told me they know it's a lie they kill him on a spot no no second chance it's not a joke say I talk to God which actually reminds me have this video I sent to everybody in a group yesterday it's amazing this rash uh Muslim uh some type of I don't know speaker I I guess in the last few days whenever it happened the he a Jewish organ ation with posted this says what happens when a Muslim speaker lies so they see they see maybe a 10-c clip and in a clip he says when I was a kid Muhammad came to me and he told me kill the Jews kill the Jews and may this roof fall on top of me if I'm lying to you the roof fell on its head live the roof fell on its head I sent you guys the video If you guys didn't see you should see 10 seconds I have people from all over the world like oh my God it's unbelievable unbelievable now this doesn't necessarily always happen but apparently Hashem wanted to happen this time so nonetheless you have these Evangelical Christians that complete idol worship but they tell you no no we were friends with uh isra we donate money we support they own a bunch of land you know how much money they have they're buying buildings they're buying land they buy they buy the country if they could if if if if the government of Israel will allow they buy the country tomorrow they pay you cash oh we support Israel we support Israel and unfortunately we're fooled by it why because number one we're thinking that they're friends Oh look The Go are friends but anybody that spent even 5 Seconds looking at the battle that we've had against them since the last 2,000 years since this holiday of kanuka for 2,000 years we're fighting this battle because their whole goal is not to be our friends their whole goal is to convert US why do they like Israel why do they like the Jews because we're the perfect prey for them to convert US they can't convert Muslims Muslims will kill them there's a few Muslims here and there that convert to Christianity but in reality you go to go to Saudi Arabia go to Iraq go to any of these Arab countries tell them no no we want you to convert they'll murder all of them they'll put all their heads on top of a pedestal convert US were you crazy go to France go to Muslim neighborhoods which is pretty much half of France now tell no no we're the Christians we're eval Christians we're going to convert you we'll give you money first of all the Arabs going say we have more money than you we own all the oil from everywhere and on top of it how dare you bring your idol worship does they'll kill all of them in the middle of the street and the French police can't do anything about it but us Jews we invite him to the synagogue we invite him to the synagogue well we want to be friends want peace why can we have peace with them there's no peace is hates yov there's no there's no it's this doesn't necessarily mean that every single is going to look to kill you but in general the powers that be the political leaders the overall people that are behind the scenes that are running the show their goal is not to be your friend their goal is to take advantage of a situation so okay maybe you don't want to necessarily go fight them head-to-head may make lectures about it or write posts about it fine you don't have to but don't invite them to your SHO cuz aside from the fact that they're lying to your face telling you they like you it's 100% idol worship you're bringing an idol worshiper into your into your Sho what if one of the naive kids 15 16 years old says wow this guy is such a nice speaker like everybody said about Obama why do people vote for Obama why because of his political uh uh success before he didn't have any political success where his business success he didn't have any business success what did he have before he became president no one knows nothing only president in history no one knew anything about him we only started asking questions after he was already president four years why did people vote for him oh he was a good speaker it's a good speaker people people are very very moved by speakers this is why in the previous Mish a couple of weeks ago he says that the must be careful with their words words that come out of their mouth because people are moved by it so now what if you bring one of these Christians to your big nesset he's like no we love Israel we donate to this we donate we'll donate to your too we'll donate toet we'll donate to your cause we'll donate to this so the kids are like wow there such generous people let me see if I can help them I have my summer I'm not working I'm not going to school let me go help the church cuz they're so nice cuz in essence he's thinking the 16-year-old kid by helping the church he's helping the Jews three years later he's 100% Christian what are you gonna do then convert him back convince him back he doesn't want to look to you he doesn't want to talk to you at all like look what we did for you you look at you like like you're ungrateful look how much money we give you and how we help you and how we this why are you putting why are you putting in Jeopardy why you putting Amy in danger all of these Partnerships between Jews and Christians 100% % against the to I know that people are scared to go to war people speak publicly about it and all that stuff but listen the reality is the Tora is the Tor if you're afraid of men don't speak if you're afraid of God speak that's just a reality you want to make Partnerships with them for what where in history did they help us where in Holocaust the his Spanish Inquisition with the Greeks the Romans where not saying to hate them I'm not saying fight them I have some friends that are Christians nice people great people but I'm not going to invite them toet to give a speech to a bunch of Jews about how much they love when I know that almost every week There's a thousand Israelis are being converted in Israel right now over a thousand Israelis almost every week are converting to Christianity every week every week over $300 million a year is spent in Israel by the Christian church to convert Israelis so much so that they actually recruited these israelies that are Jews that are making videos high level videos like really top quality videos convincing the Jews that the Jews are lying and really we all have to go to JZ peny and you have Israeli speaking Hebrew perfect HEB they're Israelis then they're Jews but they're speaking to now they became Christian they're all sophisticated Aristocrats they look the rabbis are hiding this and the rabbis are hiding that and the reality of it is the vast majority of people are ignorant they don't know they're hiding this they're hiding that they don't know anything even if the guy's wearing a keeper they have these uh videos these sneak people are walking out look look at this chapter in Isaiah Isaiah 53 or look at this or look at that what does it say and they tell the guy to read the verse literally doesn't that sound like somebody first of all you can't read the T anyone that knows anything about to you can't read anything literally that's notes second of all you can't read Torah without commentary we're not at that level third of all they are going to direct you where they want to by telling you read one verse they're not going to tell you listen read the whole chapter read the whole book so just like you can take a two three hour lecture that I make you can take three minutes in those three minutes you can either make me look like Hitler himself or you can make me look like um the greatest guy in the world you could do what 3 minutes of anybody's lecture you're taking a small little bit you can make whatever you want out of it that's what they did to ra they took a 2hour lecture I mean it took a 2hour lecture they cut like two minutes out of it and all of a sudden RI denies the Holocaust stupidity nonsense so these people are just taking one verse and they're fooling ignorant people and when they make it seem like it's not ignorant people why because they're going to people that just you know have this keeper on so it looks like they're religious first of all just because somebody has a keeper on doesn't necessarily mean they know the whole tah or even have the to even 10% of the Torah second of all most Jews even if they went to Yesa don't study prophets don't study the writings they don't study that stuff they study the they study most of them don't I've never read even Isaiah or Ezekiel most of them just don't read it it's not part of the major part of curriculum not that it's not good it's just that it's not as much of a foundation as thear is and when you read when you finish the whole sh you'll go over the whole the whole tanak you'll eventually cover everything but it's not easy to finish the whole tanak it's not easy to finish the it takes time but these people no no see they're hiding this and they're hiding that and they make it look like the rabbis are evil they make it look like everyone's hiding this big thing and these very same people that there's actually Jewish organizations like Jews for Judaism and organizations like it are targeting to fight against them what happens modern Orthodox people other synagogues who even reform and conservative what do they do they invite them to sh come come speak come speak come we'll be friends we'll make peace peace in the world so much so is reformed Rabbi that came out with a article I know maybe a year or two years ago whenever it was and said that the reason for all problems in the world and all wars in the world is the Torah he calls himself a rabbi he says the whole reason why everyone's fighting is the Torah people should value the the Quran more he calls himself a rabbi reformed Rabbi it's the reason for the world it's problems of the Torah we should value the Quran Rabbi so and so this what he says a dog is better than him a dog a dog that bites people on purpose is better than him at least going to hurt one person of the time so now is telling you my friend all of these big churches all of these political leaders all of these Mayors all of these presidents all of these people stay away from them why because they have vested they have an interest they have a bias you're going to get them the votes of the Jewish people in your area they're your friend you're going to get them the business of the diamond dealers they're your friend you're going to get them the technology in Israel That's Unique is challenging Silicon Valley now they're your friend you're going to get them Jewish business friend but as soon as we don't need need you anymore we put on our KKK masks with a couple of swastikas on it we back to where we started which by the way anyone who doesn't follow this the swastika in recent days has changed you're going to see something not that doesn't look like a swasa anymore the Nazi swas is also a new type of swasa so swas you see there's a tattoo on some or different uh graffiti in different places it looks like a square with two lines coming out of it like a uh just imagine like a square like a diamond type of square and then it's continues two lines out of it it's a looks like a uh I don't know I'll draw it for you in a few moments but in general they're uh in essence still around these Nazis and they just uh they just have a different mask on why are we mentioning all of this because Aon is already warning us over 2,000 years ago stay out of trouble focus on T focus on the purpose of life teach your kids T don't teach them secular studies yeah but what about P what if my son wants to do this what if what doesn't run the world he's not going to give you P your son doesn't need to be a doctor or lawyer or astronaut in order to make a living he can f he can survive we've survived already for several thousand years we're going to survive now don't throw them to the Wolves thinking oh no he's going to be okay a lot of kids are not going to be okay especially if you bring them to a synagogue that's going to constantly bring church leaders as guests what are we doing here bring a dog to speak it better at least the dog is not going to convince us to convert the generation is weak people don't know anything people are motivated by money they're motivated by material they're motivated by women they're motivated by things like that the and that's just the reality if your kid is not like glued to AEM and doesn't have a serious Foundation of two seconds you can lose them nice Christian girlfriend gone nice Christian boyfriend gone I have actually a employee former employee of mine amazing amazing person we haven't been in touch in a few years amazing person came from a relatively religious family and uh really just an amazing person she you know well well before I ever did cha she would always you know talk about you know they would keep Shabbat and all that stuff unfortunately you know we connected on Facebook thousands and thousands of people once in a while you get the uh updates one day I see update she has a Arab boyfriend new boyfriend Muslim guy what happened what happened religious family religious family has a Muslim boyfriend wants to get married whole family is upside down now how we going to stop this what stopped you should have stopped it before it started has to do with the community has to do with the surroundings has to do with something it's not kid just doesn't wake up one day in the middle of Yeshiva class no I want to go convert I want to go into marry I no something happened there something rotten so sh is telling you already it starts from the top it starts from our leader it starts from our Rabbi it starts from our president starts from everybody the ones that are running the show the guys that are paying the bills it starts from you my friends you keep trying to tell us that we're supposed to be at peace in today's day as if we're no longer in the Exile as if the mhia already came we should befriend everyone and not separate ourselves from them then you're going to have so many such an easy time seeing all your kids befriend all of the and little by little a very easy time losing them so sh is telling you this come on stay away but now in this week's mishna ra is in essence trying to repeat the same thing but what does the rbat say says no the difference here is in the beginning he told you stay away in the first place stay away but if you can't stay away way like in the story of he didn't have a choice they didn't say listen we're going to have a bunch of people going to vote for you should put your name in The Ballot no no no he's said you second in command because the guy before you almost killed everyone ham who put you second in command at least you can protect the Jews the king is not Jewish we're going to put the second and command as a Jew you have a better chance survival now M didn't have a choice but the page 16b says that when M actually became a leader and got involved in he was already part of the S he was number four in essence in uh in levels in the saned number four after he became part of the government he would dropped the level to number five you would think wait a minute he's politically stronger what's wrong he's protecting am is he's in a position of power Jews are not being killed because of him now if a new Haman wants to come he has to go through morai first M told no go away look what happened to the last one we hung him protect them no says the study of Torah is even greater than saving lives meaning the fact that M became a political leader didn't help his relationship with hem even though it was Forma was to help it's to save lives says no no Hashem runs the world Hashem runs the world he could save it without you it was better off you stayed if it wasn't wouldn't be able to say something so people have to understand everybody wants to be politician wants to be this I want to help I want to help this I want to help that you don't need to hasm runs the world hashm runs the world but the rbat says okay if you can't hold yourself if you're already there you're forced to be a politician forced to be in a position of power fine then at least listen to this start off with the teachings of raban gel of Beware of these rulers meaning keep yourself at a distance don't be BFFs with them don't have coffee with them every other day for fun if you have a meeting because there's a war you have a meeting because there a strike you have a serious reason go meet them do what you got to do and leave don't go to vacation with them don't hang out with their families and have your kids play together no you have to beware of them why because you have to realize that your relationship is only out of convenience they only have a relationship with you because you're the one that can help them do whatever they want to do you could you can help them achieve their goal and this is coming from Aban gel and where is he getting this from he's getting getting this from his father rebi his father rebi it's K was antoninus the Caesar the head guy in Rome top guy number one called the king I think they called Caesar but he called the king it's the same thing Marcus aurelus antonus is what they call it in English the calls it anus but anyway they had a very very special that started from the time that they were born his father ran Gamel also called ran gel same thing like his son and the time of uh rebi was born there was a there was a decree by the wicked Romans that that you're not allowed to do not all to learn T not they tried to eliminate Judaism son little eight day old baby what is he going to do G of course there's always a r looking at everyone and waiting for them around the corner sometimes it's a Jew sometimes it's a gentile but there always a rash somewhere and hasm sends him to test us to see what we're going to do the rash is exist upon by himself sends him to test us this was not even a test for why because he knows who runs the world comes hey you went against the king I'm arresting you okay is the head of the Jews he's a important person so they can't like you know insult them abuse them it has to be an orderly way of how to bring them treat them with respect until they kill that's the goal so now before he gets to the king they have to travel eventually before they get to the king it's a long road long travel eventually they get there and you know before they meet him the next day they're going to have him stay at one of the King's family members houses and they stay there and the uh wife of the balabit of the owner of the house sees his wife sees ran gel's wife crying why you crying she look at my baby what did he do they going to kill him tomorrow and the Roman woman says why are they going to kill him what did he do she oh because he's a Jew she go what do they care if he's a Jew go oh because you know they don't like us because how do they even know if he's a Jew he says well because we did B me look we cut to forkin oh that's how they going identify go yeah she goes you know what I also had a baby I also had a baby same time same same age also he's only a week old two weeks old by now why don't you take my baby cuz all babies look alike take my baby and show it to the king he's going to see a baby that's not doesn't have a for skin cut off going think that they like so's wife says only under one condition you give me a condition saving the boy's life you going give him a condition because got one condition what don't breastfeed my son don't bre your son I'm doing your favor here said okay don't bre yeah because it's our tradition that am said is only allowed to drink kosher milk from their mothers from Jews don't bre bre feed my son such just think about this that she's trying to save our kids life and she's giving her conditions how we already be writing checks how much do you want which for this we can clean your house cook for you she's giving her conditions so this what happens says it continues they bring the Roman boy as if he's a Jew the king sees it he goes what is this you brought my dear friend The Honorable gel all the way here for no reason saying that he's did Bri went against me there's no Bri he killed the r disgrace my you know disgrace of a big person even though he's not a room he's a big person he's important they had respect they killed the rash but now they come back to pick up their boy and I want to take the you want to take UD who later becomes a so thank you very much you saved our son she goes yeah but I have one one thing I want to in return oh anything you need anything you need she say I want you to breastfeed my son you breastfeed your son why she goes because it seems like you're so connected to your God that you were scared you would rather your son die than have something Unholy which means that what you have is really holy and I want that for my son so she breastfeed her son and her son later on became antonus Marcus is and ra son who become yud and they were they learned together so much so that antonus actually had a cave made directly from his castle to re's house so he can sneak in under the uh every night to go learn with him every night and he would what he would do thear says that the uh he would take two Soldiers with him one of them he would kill as soon as he got out and the other one he would kill on the way back and the reason why CU he didn't want to have any witnesses to know that he's learning with if his people knew he's learning to you know to kill him so this is what he did for years and they say eventually he converted according to the and as a matter of fact there's some major major parts major arguments debates between rebi and and he actually rebi said that he beat him in a few debates he beat him in a few debates so such is this extent of something holy but last but not least anus also knew the truth even though he was in a political position of you know position of power the top position he knew that the Jews are the chosen people he knew that rebi and his Torah was the holiest thing there is and every night before the night would be over he would go on his four on all fours he would tell rebi climb on me to go to your bed and re said no no no it's not it's not the right honor for a king he goes I wish I had the honor of the Torah that you had your Torah is much more valuable than my kinghood my Caesar Hood whatever it is kingship so we have a son that tells us listen despite the relationship that my father had with the former Caesar I'm telling you from experience that as soon as my father died they didn't look at me the same way the relationship wasn't a same anymore Anon died my father died relationship is over that's it no more now it's new relationship now it's between me and the new guy it's not the same thing you could say that what is it like in this week's we have the whole story of how the 12 tribes yakov's 12 sons got upset got jealous all types of reasons at Joseph and eventually sold him originally they wanted to kill him but ruven said don't kill him let's sell him and they sold him kazal explains anyone that thinks that YF was sold because of just pure jealousy has got it wrong he went through this whole tun to this whole punishment for a few reasons the basic reason is because this was one of the ways that hasem is going to make it look natural for to eventually go into Egypt but a bigger reason was because he spoke against his brothers even though he was trying to do it Forma he was trying to do it for to help them when he saw certain things that they were doing weren't exactly didn't look kosher he didn't do it the right way and the fact that he spoke against each one of them 10 of them not he didn't speak against his own you know Benjamin spoke against 10 of them he got a year in jail for each one but now initially goes Joseph is sold he goes to the home of potifar potifar sees this beautiful young kid and later on we see in a Tora and actually in next week's mik that potifar is called why is why his name change why they add a a at the end of his name cuz ptif became homosexual but his wife before he became homosexual was known as one of the most beautiful women that ever lived so now he gave this position of power to YF run his business all of a sudden YF starts running the business but sees that anything he gives this kid to do succeeds he gives them ashes turns him to gold he gives him gold turns it to PL everything he does turns turns to gold everything works out so p is just sitting and relaxing but then one day ptif far's wife according to kazal he said that she wanted to do it for schad she wanted to do it for a good reason because she saw in a dream that the uh descendants of of um of YF are going to come from from his you know are going to be very holy people and so on so she wanted to that to come from her so she tried coming on to him and despite being so beautiful YF kept his eyes shut kept his mind closed and kept a straight and didn't fall but eventually the woman got upset and a scorned woman there nothing to mess with he got thrown in jail so now he's in jail for 10 years it's not like the jail that's like Taj Mahal today you know those days when they have a jail it's like they dig a hole in the ground it's a Gom is jealous of this jail that's the type of jail put this people in so you beautiful very fragile very righteous very holies who is he surrounded by murderers rapists all the worst people on Earth and they put them over there with them 10 years not one day or two days me just thinking about I want honestly since I'm starting to like having a little nausea just thinking about this jail he's there for 10 years finally Hashem sends them salvation he sends these two people that the par threw in jail the um the Chamberlain of the cup bearers and the baker Chamberlain of of of food he throws both of them in there and they both have a dream and youf tells them this is the interpretation of the dream the baker is going to die but the cup Bearer is going to go back to even a better position that he had before [Music] before great everything is fine so now YF became in essence the leader of the jail got a top position in jail everybody comes to him asks for a dice ask him for translating dreams great and then he makes the mistake of his life what's the mistake he tells the uh Chamberlain of the cup Bears goes listen when you go back to your position remember me tell par that I shouldn't be here tell Paro that I'm here and hasm punished him for it in essence according to kazal the Salvation was supposed to happen right there and then meaning he was supposed to translate their dreams was supposed to have his dream right that day and the next day Yik was supposed to come out to go Translate the dream for but because Y at his level told the uh the Chamberlain of of of cup Bears listen tell in essence asking man for help instead of asking AEM for help doing more than he's supposed to do hasem said oh he said two words I'll punish you for two more years he's not going to have the dream for another two years so now at the end of this week's par the last verse of this par it says yet the Chamberlain of the cup Bears did not remember Joseph but he forgot him meaning so Cham of the cup Bears gets out just like YF said is going to be his in his dream he gets out he gets his job he's BFFs with poo again he has his job he has his money he has his house he has everything but all of a sudden the guy that helped him get out in the first place all of a sudden he forgot about him he was BFFs with Joseph just a few days ago when it was convenient for him when it's was convenient for him hey can you help me out sure as soon it was a time to return the favor to Joseph forgot forgot I don't remember forgot he doesn't remember and he forgot it means the same thing it says it twice here see that it's a for forgetting out of convenience forgetting a little bit out of intention not forgetting like he doesn't remember what happened two days ago even if you don't remember exactly every single detail of what what you did this morning you remember basically what happened well basically I ate omelette what you have any omelet I don't know was on the omelet but I remember I E an omelette what you after that I went to work how long it take you to work I don't know how long it took me to work maybe an hour maybe two I don't know it took me I went to work though I know that what' you do at work I did some stuff at the computer what' you do on the computer I don't know what I did but I know I was on the computer that's what I do every day for the last 30 years I'm on a computer that's what I did so even if you don't remember the details you know basically what happened here all of a sudden says you forgot he didn't remember remember requires a little effort to forget and not remember why because it's not convenient for him to remember this Jew that's in the jail over there I don't want him to come here remind everybody I was in jail it's embarrassing for me I'm the cup beer I'm important now can't tell people I was in jail it's not a good history so already we see here the is telling you listen this already happened to my father rebi as soon as he died as soon as anonos died they forgot the relationship between us and the Romans now not exactly the same shortly later we see the Romans are going to destroy the bet mikdash but this is not the beginning this is not the beginning so you go back to this week's par hundreds of years before this it already happened with yadik was happy until he wasn't happy threw your out in the garbage throw him in jail go die then cup be and your again same guy your supposed to get released again forget about him then eventually next week YF becomes the visoy after two years mikem says mik means the end the end of the punishment the end of the punishment meaning that on that very day had the dream on that very day that the punishment ended they brought YF all the way from the bottom he became the viscero the same day from the bottom of the barrel he went to the top meaning yes the salvation of hem comes faster than the blink of the eye when hasm wants to give you salvation it's not going to come to you in a natural way don't think oh listen I made all this money and then I lost it it's over the next 5 years I lost this money it's going to take me 20 years to make it back or I lost this relationship I worked on it to 15 15 years 20 years this relationship who knows if I'm ever going to find one or I lost this it's going to take so long everybody thinks that things are supposed to happen over time when Hashem is good and ready to give you your salvation it could all happen instantly instantly love at first sight instantly you have all the money in the world and it doesn't have to come from the lot there's plenty of ways can give you money ways that you're never going to think of instantly whatever youve want wanted for 10 15 20 30 years eventually hasm says yes hasem says yes someone came to the ROV said I pray I pray every day but is not responding to my prayer so says no no he is responding go no I didn't get anything go exactly he says no that's the response he said no you wanted this he says no or maybe you didn't pray enough if your prayers are not being answered it's one of two reasons one hasem is clearly saying no just like he said to M prayed 515 times to come into is says enough don't pray anymore I want I don't want you to come in no but what did he say he could have just said no why did he say stop could have just said no enough why cuz in reality hasem is telling you if you pray enough eventually I'll say yes if you pray enough I'll say yes M prayed 515 times hasm said stop why because if you pray 516 times I have to say yes and it's it's not good for you for me to say yes because I don't want you to just because you want doesn't mean it's good knows better says everything that the merciful one does is always for the best not that it's just good his Rabbi R's Rabbi said this to is for the good well you got to Tire it's good for the good you broke a finger it's for the good you lost your job it's for the good you lost millions of dollars for the good says not only for the good for the best everything he does is the best meaning it's a higher level why this for the good this for the good this for the good obviously amazing if we could just live like that we'd be the happiest people in the world is saying hasem has an infinite amount of ways to take you from point A to point B if you want to go from here to to New York you could take a plane you could take several planes you could take Delta you could take Jet Blue you shouldn't take spirit it's a very small airplane you could take uh this one you could take private you could take public you could take a bicycle you could take a car you could take a chopper you could swim there if you want I can't swim though you you could swim if you want you can go a lot of ways a lot of ways you can go there you could drive with a Mazda you could drive with a Ferrari it's a lot of different ways you get from point A to point B just like can take you from point A to point B in a lot of different ways but for him it's infinite the only way that he picks is the best possible way meaning that whatever is happening in your life whatever hasem allows to happen in your life is the best possible POS outcome that could possibly be even when it looks like an outright punishment even the punishment is for your best so somebody says wait a minute you were sick for seven years 8 years suffering horrendous lost money friends became enemies crying wanting suicidal everything worst things on you know worse things tell me that's for the best not only it's the best the best thing that ever happened to me why because I know just one simple explanation there's many many reasons one simple explanation is that if all of that craziness didn't happen I wouldn't be here I'd still be on Wall Street wasting my life away and then eventually wake up when hem takes me out of this world and I have to pay the bill forever and all these things what good is that money going to do for me what good is the fame going to do for me in this world only thing he going to do is go against me that's one simple explanation there's many many other ones so hasem is going to put you through a road that sometimes doesn't look that good looks like you're suffering looks like it's struggling it's tough It's this it's that but trust me when I tell you it's already written in the Tora it's already written in thear it's written everywhere everything that happens is always the best just give it time and you will see it just like you want AEM to give you the benefit of the doubt to give you more time to finish your CH cuz you're still making sins but punished you every time you made sin wouldn't survive a week if every time we a sin hasem smashed us on the head we wouldn't survive but we say listen hm I'm not ready to do this I'm not ready to keep Shabbat 150% I'm ready 90% I still I I have some problems with the phone I have some problems with the light I have some problems with but the cooking is not exactly 100% this a few things I'm not I don't know all the yet it's going to take me time or you know someone has problems they go to yeah they go to m but you know during a time when they're not pure they still you know hold hands with the husband still hold hands with the husband not all to hold hands not let to sleep in the same bed but it's hard for them it's hard not like this woman that uh contacted me a few days ago she bashem is trying to do chuva but unfortunately her husband is and he says not only he doesn't want to do Chua which is you know it's his business but on top of it he doesn't want her to do Chua meaning he says I don't agree that you're going to keep if you separate from me for half the month 12 13 days out of the month I'm going to go with another woman another woman he's telling this to his wife he's not even pretending he's not even faking it tell you go to mik do all the things fine I'm going to go with another woman days Sun I think they' hang him just for saying something like that so me I know I have uh I get upset when I hear husbands that are like that but you know at the same time you have to look what's the what's the so she asks me okay so listen so can I I'm not going to be with him during you know what actually the period I can hold up that much but maybe I don't have to wait the seven clean days maybe I can just wait two days to if you're with him during those days that intimate relationship restarts everything meaning if to restart the count if you were let's say with him on the second day first of all you have to clean yourself and second of all you have to start counting all over again new seven days new seven days you have a serious problem here you were with your husband when you technically not pure so then the next question is okay fine but okay so one week I can hold up but for two weeks of the month I can't do it he's not he's going to leave me he's going to do this he going to do that what's the AL says divorce him it's the minimum requirement of being married is keeping family Purity even if he violat Shabbat even if he's not Kosher even if he's wicked Beyond Wicked if he's not if he's all that eventually you could help influence him eventually maybe he's going to do CH but if he's not allowing you to keep there's no marriage divorce that's to me shocking because in Judaism divorce is like a bad word you nobody says divorce says no if you're not willing to let you keep there's nothing there there's no no Foundation there's nothing let you know it's all he's going to do is get you to go first class ticket to G for what so somebody gets a test like this it's a very very difficult test hasem says trust me you'll pass the test even if it ends up in divorce even if it ends up with problems at home even all of these things you trust me eventually I'll get you out of this I'll get you into something better your road is going to be shaky it's going to be bumpy but I promise you the end the destination you're never going to regret the only thing you're going to regret is you going do it faster just wait till you get to the destination be patient you get destination so now so now we have ourselves telling us you have to understand something very very important all of these leaders all of these people they haven't worked out for us very good look at my father look at sadik with ptif look at yadik with the cup error and it didn't end there it didn't end there because then he became became second in command and what does it say in the first book of Exodus a new king arose over Egypt who did not know Joseph now Joseph at this point built Egypt Egypt was like you know nice little place had a few bucks to their name H they were like Florida Joseph made them into the US he turn turned them from nothing into everything he came friends with par his whole family came in there they built cities they built this they built that he made them wealthy the entire world had to pay taxes to Egypt thanks to Joseph and all of a sudden you have Next Generation the new doesn't remember Joseph how do you not remember him your people worship him they didn't keep it record so no the people they hid his tomb his tomb because they felt that Joseph was so holy they hid his tomb inside the Nile River and they would worship the Nile River with the Tomb in it they made him into a God so what do you mean all of a sudden you don't all your people are saying he's God you don't remember him yeah so no no no conveniently forgetting why because they're getting too powerful well let's fool these people let's fool these Jews these Israelites before they become even more powerful than us cuz at the end of everything we're the Egyptians they're here in our country we're not in their country let's fool them so I'll pretend like I don't remember this guy Joseph like ah who Joseph who Joseph who we had a couple of Joseph's in the family pretends so again leadership forgot it's not the last time though fast forward mosu grew up in Pharaoh's house even though Pharaoh didn't exactly love the Jews already from this paru it's like a son all of a sudden M kills an Egyptian as if it's the first Egyptian that ever died go find mhe and kill him this wasn't enough this continues generation after generation with the Romans with the Greeks this whole holiday that we have coming up in a few days kanuka what happened what happened is that a bunch of Jews decide to become reformed a bunch of Jews decided to become means they wanted to become Greek the Greek said listen we don't really care about all the things that you do just come join us stop with your nonsense religion we'll give you money we'll give you po political power you won't even have to work what you're a shoe salesman now we'll make you president of the school teach people that God left he created the world then he left um let's make it president of the school you're a uh dress maker we're going to make you president of the university to teach people I'm going to have to hang up because people are talking it's distracting me uh whoever is talking um you have to stop because it's very very distracting and I have the phone on speaker actually you know what maybe I could get it off speaker so maybe that would work actually should work it's very annoying people don't understand how difficult it is to give a lecture you have to stay focused I don't have a script so we'll try it this way um so now you have yourself Jews wanted to become reformed they became reformed stop keeping the laws they don't like the oral Tora they like the r t don't know r t is nice nice stories abob Moshe yeah everything's fine okay what about the oral toah what about actually knowing how to keep Shabbat no no it just said Shabbat don't light fire okay so we won't light fire okay but you're driving a car no a car is not exactly fire actually it is it's 6,000 fires you just don't see it the same fire as you light in the woods it's a different form of fire and people are starting to cut different parts of the mitv make it their own and little by little they replace the keeper with a smaller keeper and a smaller keeper and a smaller keeper and eventually becomes a little quarter and the quarter falls off they put it in in their pocket then they embarrassed of the quarter or they replace it with a baseball hat because they don't want anyone to know that they're Jewish and T first goes inside then it goes on the Shelf then it goes in the closet then it goes in a drawer then it goes in the atct eventually throw it out and instead of using it six days a week now goes down to three then two then once a month then you know whatever I get a chance instead of going to the col Ora you go to the movies let's go watch X-Men let's go watch Fast and the Furious let's go watch all those movies why it's not so bad it all starts small reminds me of a story that my mom told me CU one time there's a uh guy comes knocks on the door of a rich rich person's house 9:00 at night rich guy is trying to relax who's knocking on my door at 9:00 at night he sees this simple looking guy what do what do you want was I want to buy your house it's not for sale I don't want to buy the whole house I don't have money for your whole house I just want to buy room for my nail look what nail I have one nail I have a nail I want to put it in your house just give me the space for what that nail is goes do me a favor get away from me you and your nail I don't have time for this she goes no no no no listen listen I'm going to give you $11,000 just to let me put the nail and you all the guy's rich and you know says you give somebody 100 he wants 200 you give him 200 he wants 400 give him 400 he wants 800 meaning the more someone has the more he has a desire for more meaning that the guy that has a thousand is desires for another thousand the guy that has a million is desires for another million meaning he feels like he's lacking more he needs more the guy that has a million so the guy is thinking listen he has $10 million house this guy is going to give me another thousand it's good it adds to my collection I want more money what do I care put a nail in a a huge house 10 rooms in the house I'm going to give him a nail what do I care about the nail I don't even see the nail okay fine give me the th000 and he gives him a th000 he's like where could I put it he's like I what you want just pick a place so the regular looking guy comes looks looks looks looks he picks spot right next to the stairs tuck puts the nail thank you very much here the contract we sign a contract goodbye guys like wow who's better than me and now I have not only I have this snail that I'm probably never going to see but on top of it I have another $1,000 I'm a genius I'm I can't wait to tell this to all my friends that I was so smart I made money even off of a nail $1,000 off a nail so he's happy he goes to sleep now the next day at 1:00 in the morning he knocks on the door knocking door 1:00 in the morning opens the door go sees the guy again goes what do you want go no no sorry to bother you but my hat I going put my my hat on the nail what it's 1:00 in the morning you couldn't come to me goes no no no the Hat needs to go on the nail now I don't need it anymore I'm going to go home but I don't want to put my house in my house maybe it's going to get ruined in my house it's dirty and everything else I put my your house is clean and my nail is clean so I'll put my hat on your on the nail it's my nail goes okay no come on put the Hat on the nail goes to sleep next day 1:30 in the morning no what do you want my jacket my jacket I don't need it it's hot tomorrow I just saw the news tomorrow is going to be very hot I'm not going to need my jacket I put my jacket on the nail cuz you couldn't come at 9:00 at night or 7:00 like the first day you came at 9 couldn't come in a normal hour no no I need it I was working all day I was very very busy I couldn't come till now cuz no third day four o'clock in the morning four o'clock in the morning no what do you want now gu's you know has cobwebs on his eyes waking up in the middle of the night what do you want what do you want goes I want my hat off the nail goes that's it I can't do it no more you can't come into this house she goes what do you mean no I have a contract I have a contract look I have a contract you signed this is my nail it's my cuz no sue me go okay so they go to court and the judge says listen you have a contract it's his nail you sold it $1,000 you have to open the door whenever he knocks you have to let him use the nail the guy the rich guy every night at 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 in the morning all throughout the day put the Hat on put the hat off put the jacket on put the jacket off let me scratch my back with the nail let me just just look at the nail let me put a picture on the nail every day after two weeks he says listen take your nail take the house I'm out of here that's the Mas that's the Mas that's the parable what's the name what we we learn from here the is the same thing yet comes to you and says listen he's not going to tell you listen Go cheat on your wife not the first thing they tell you listen Go cheat on your husband not the first thing says let's watch a show on TV let's watch I don't know one of these I don't know whatever shows are on TV it's watch Desperate Housewives or something let watch show on TV instead of learning T instead of watching sh instead of com let's watch a show for half hour only half hour what's the big deal it's a nail half hour see watch show on TV and you see the woman on TV it's like the guy looks at the woman she looks perfect because she's a movie star and he looks at his wife and she's she's on her pajamas he looks at the woman on TV he looks at his wife and he really believes in his heart he can get the woman on TV every guy thinks he can get the woman on TV yeah next day he's still thinking about this woman on TV he Sayes all of a sudden he sees new employee in the office the jacket new employee in the office new secretary oh let me show around be nice what show her the Jews are good people show around show around town maybe she's from Oklahoma now she's in New York she doesn't know a way around poor girl so let me show around so he's trying to be a sadik show around look this is the office this is the printer this is the office of the boss that could fire both of us if he knew that we were talking this is the picture of my wife who would Slaughter me if she knew I was talking to you well shows her things oh she's still alive no no she's not alive anymore don't worry oh what's the wedding ring no no that's not that's just for looks it's for looks it's for looks now it's a jacket next day this girl doesn't have any friends doesn't have anybody who she have you you with the pays and the hat and everything think so what she say you want to go for lunch and the meeting goes from 9:00 to 1:00 to 2:00 3:00 it starts as a nail starts a little movie little commercial shortly later you gave him the whole house which means your whole is gone your whole marriage is gone your kids are going to hate you Hashem is going to hate you you just destroyed your life why you start with TV show half hour what's the big deal it's just a nail that's what is telling us if the evil Satan comes to you drag him to the mid drag him to go learn talk it's the only way you're going to get away from it only way you're going to survive atomic bomb like that is by learning to on a regular basis but when you put yourself in constant danger you have no you already lost the war so is telling us listen we had all of hisory my father my great great grandfather mosenu even kicked him out then took him back this goes back all the way to the beginning and he said no no but that's a long time ago come on 3,000 years ago leave us alone already with this stuff okay let's go fast let's go sooner let's go back 500 years 1492 you had Dan AB was the treasurer treasurer of the King Ferdinand and Isabella treasur is control of all the money pretty much usually the most important person on Earth controls the money no money everything fails at least in this world and he enabled Spain with his wisdom that Hashem gave him he enabled Spain to Finance getting back their country from the Muslim people he put the com the the country back on the map they got back control because of how what he did but all of a sudden J's like okay so I don't need you anymore I don't need the Jews anymore Jews helped us build our economy now we don't really need okay our economy is good now good luck goodbye in a moment Abel despite all of his pleas not to kick them out not to do all of these things in a moment his huge service his all of the years of work all of the effort all of the Friendship everything in in a matter of moments became worthless and The Ungrateful employees that he had turned their backs on him and on his people in gun not enough just go even you know re more recent than that you go back into our grandparents generation Nazi Germany before Nazi Germany became Nazi Germany it was just Germany and who put them on the map the Jews the Jews built their economy Germany was the most powerful country in the world at one point much more powerful than America much more powerful than everyone because they had the most amount of money it was the America of its day and it was on top of politics business Jews Jewish people built it and took over the country's top positions eventually this wasn't exactly welcomed anymore because said listen I gave you money I gave you power I gave you everything you want but what do you do you use all of it against me I gave you money so you go buy a car to drive on Shabbat yeah I give you beauty so you go cheat on your husband I give you beauty so you go to marry with someone else I gave you arms you use them to steal I gave you eyes you look in places you're not supposed to I gave you a brain you use it to cheat people everything I gave you you use it against me okay enough not giving you anymore but when hasem stops giving it's not like we stop giving so now the Germans all of a sudden want the V V us but not vomit us and just like go away they want to exterminate us that's what they tried to do so all of a sudden the places we were leaders we actually put the Jews actually put Hitler in power we voted for him even though he wrote in this book that one of his missions is to destroy Jews no one don't want to take him seriously no no it's not serious I'm German I'm not really Jewish not keeping everyone thinks that just because they're not keeping and they're friends with the politicians everything is fine no no I'm not like you know the religious guy I'm just whatever my parents are Jews I'm not connected to it who's the first person that died those people so now this has happened time and time and time again I'm no Prophet I'm not even the shoe of a prophet but I could tell you one thing for sure the amount of trust and comfort that American Jews have should be uncomfortable for everybody the amount of faith that Jews have in America doesn't necessarily look that good based on our history listen today America is our friend if Hillary was a president she they wouldn't exactly be our friend anymore had mercy on us he's giving us some more time to do Chua but the fact that everybody's so excited Trump's going to go in Trump is this Trump is friend Trump is that okay Trump promised a bunch of things before he became president but as soon as he becomes president his free choice is no longer his Hashem takes over and Hashem will move him like a puppet wherever he wants him to if he wants to have am Prosper he'll Prosper if he wants to suffer could suffer meaning that according to the ramb in the commentary on Deuteronomy 31:18 he explains that this constant reality check that hem gives us of showing us that the very same leaders that we had faith in go against us it's a vicious cycle and as a community we believe in God yet we tend to rely on governments to bring Jewish salvation well everybody say no I believe in God I have the black hat I have the beard that could sweep the floor I have the long skirt I have the this everyone yeah yeah hasem hasem hem hasem but everyone watches the news to see what the president's going to do everyone watches the elections everyone spends so much time worried about who's President and why did he say this and why did he say that and every time he has a speech everyone's glued to the TV like it'ses like it's m speaking for Mount Si they stop the learning they stop the teaching they stop life they take off of work why because the president's giving a speech at 12:00 in the afternoon I think came down at 12:00 in the afternoon some people was I'm busy president's coming oh no no come on got to take a break listen to the president so we say we believe in God but in reality we're showing that we're having a lot more reli you know dependence on these governments and the rambam says and God responds in kind to our lack of faith in him by turning his countenance away from us thus his apparent uninvolvement in Jewish history is a direct reflection of our own behavior he's telling us the more we rely on government the more Hashem is likely to put us in the hands of government this is why in the book of Deuteronomy and also it's in the it says cursed is the man who relies on men cursed so now this is a very very serious problem we see that we're constantly failing at the same thing we're failing at it as we speak to such an extent we're bringing these people theet political figures are coming toet Christians are coming toet I think one day they going to put the put Buddha right next to the no no let's just look at it and see if we feel better let's be in Peach with the Chinese maybe they could donate a billion dollars to the besset so we go and get off track to such an extent you can't really expect that much but now ra is telling you listen but sometimes you don't have a choice sometimes you have to have a Jew in politics you have to he's going to play something it's his job it's his he doesn't want to be there but he has to be there okay so says Okay first and foremost understand your job is everything else is secondary we talked about last night anyone wants to want the details last night you t is number one you are never allowed to violate Tora for any reason unless it's p unless you're saving a life but not like possible a definite like somebody asked me a question today she said listen I want to go to nursing school but the problem is that this nursing school that's local they give classes on Shabbat can I go even if I walk there I'm going to walk there I'm not going to drive I'm going to walk there can I go to nursing school on Shabbat I said it's only a matter of time even if you walked it it's only a matter of time before you violate Shabbat which means you can't go why because number one even walking there maybe it's out of the it's too far from the that you have that's number one two you may use tools now let's use these tools on Shabbat three you may have to write it's only a matter of time before you are going to violate Shabbat not to violate Shabbat to school only if he's saving a life and you're student you're not saving any lives and even if there was a possibility that you will help in some surgery that will save a life it's only a possibility it's not definite not to violate for a possibility why because as we learned earlier today learning of not just fulfilling learning of T is already bigger than saving lives but we still put the Torah on to Save a Life why so the life could fulfill the Torah not because life is more valuable than tah so first and foremost is telling you your ruler you're in there make sure you befriend them from a distance know that this relationship is B is based on certain benefits they want something from you you better get something from them don't wait till your last day in office to ask for them to give a contribution get to business right away don't befriend their kids don't go to Christmas parties don't go to Hanukah parties don't go to any parties with them go strictly business you want to save am you want to help am get to business enough with the political talk and all the nonsense that everybody spends their whole life doing playing golf playing this playing that by the time they actually get to the request they don't even want it themselves anymore why because they're comfortable playing golf like if I ask him what I want we're not going to go play golf anymore so let me delay it in 6 months I'll ask them I want to play another six months worth of golf get the business also know that they're only friendly with you if they want something from you they want your votes they want your money they want your power you want to control something as soon as you have nothing to offer them they're going to throw you in a garbage how do we know we just showed you several proofs people that are much bigger better and smarter than you got thrown in the garbage instantly for no reason for no actual valid reason now one of the things that this could apply to each and every single one of us not only in government because we're not necessarily all going to have political power we're not even all necessarily going to have you know power in our own company some of us are just going to be employees simple employees CU our life is more focused on T but this also is something that we have to use on a day-to-day basis with the people we call our surroundings our friends and family most young people think that they have a lot of friends but if you ask any old man or any old woman how many friends they have usually they'll be very happy to say they have one so one time there was a 20-year-old kid came to his father so happy his life he's 20 he's partying he's this he's that his dad asked him listen son how many friends you have I dad I have at least 100 friends you have 100 friends she have 100 best friends everybody's my best friend not just a friend best we go here we go there we go there we go there goes AB but you must have a thousand 2,000 friends he goes no I don't have cuz how many friends you have AB half a friend mean half a friend he goes I have a half a friend that's it what everybody doesn't like you he goes no no no I only have half a friend goes wow goes no ABA says uh you shouldn't feel bad for me you should feel bad for you go why cuz I have more friends than you cuz what you mean I just told you I have 100 friends CU you don't have any friends I have a half a friend you have nothing so how do you know I have no friends I just told you I have 100 I'll prove it to you go take a sheep Slaughter it put in a garbage bag and knock on every one of your friends uh doors and tell them listen there's a dead body that just killed somebody by accident help me out see what they say to you so the kid says okay why not knocks on the first door closen there blood everywhere on him on his shirt everywhere it looks like real yo listen I just killed this guy you got to help me out he get out of here close the door his face second door in his face third door fourth door fifth everybody closes the door eventually after the 50th door he goes hey hey like what what did you do goes look come on we went on vacation last month he goes okay we on vacation so what I going to put my life in danger for you you're the murderer you're the problem get out of here I'm not going to put my life on the line for you closes the door next one says so why we went to the Bahamas together so why we went to school together so why you lend me $5,000 so what I'm going to go to jail for you why why am I going to go to gon for you because you L me a few dollars because you gave me a ride to the hospital so what everybody out of the whole hundred closes their door and his face and he goes with his head down back to his father he's like ABA you're right I don't even have one friend but who's this half a friend of yours he goes yeah yeah before you change your clothes go go to my friend go to my half a friend tell him the same thing it's the middle of the night he knocks on his guy's door 2:00 in the morning n listen I'm David's son I murdered this guy I need your help he goes come in come in come in as soon as he comes in try to get him a towel to WIP himself what happened listen don't worry everything's going to be fine like a listen it's not real actually just a sheep but thanks a lot for being a friend and he goes back to his dad and he says how'd you know that he's going to do it how'd you know he's going to save me yeah that's that's what a half a friend is there for he goes what do you mean why do you keep call him a half a friend guy like that he's more than one friend he's one and a half cuz no he's only half cuz why is he only half said he's only half because you you still weren't in 100% danger you weren't caught yet you just committed the murder so you always know that you could possibly could help you get away with it if you already the cops were already catching you probably wouldn't open a door that's why he's a half a friend you weren't in 100% danger yet you're in some danger sa maybe danger maybe we can get away from we could hide the body in the basement throw him in the ocean no one knows yet only you ABA is this just a thing as a real friend goes yeah there is goes where's a real friend goes I know somebody that used to have a real friend go many years ago there was one guy Jew you know the anytime the go get bored they blame the Jews for something so they blame this Jew for stealing you know in those days Jew that stole death penalty King decreed Jew stole death penalty you don't even have to prove with no evidence no nothing you say he stole said death so Jew says okay listen I understand I can't get away or anything like that I understand you guys want to kill me what can I do can you at least give me just a day to go say goodbye to my family one day goes well one day we're going to let you go you're not going to come back goes no no no no I'll give you collateral what collateral are you going to give us my friend there's also a Jew you guys really just want to Jews it's not really not because you just want to kill me somebody else you kill him too so I'm going to give you another Jew my friend my best friend I'm going to give you and obviously I'm going to come back or you get to kill him anyway either way you win cuz okay fine no problem his friend comes in he's collateral sits in the cell said if you're not back on Tuesday 2:00 say we're killing your friend no problem Tuesday at 1:55 said he's not back yet okay let's go the friend goes they put the Rope on his neck and all of a sudden he hear the guy Scream no I'm back I'm back I'm back like yeah but you were late I'm sorry I'm here though I'm here I'm here you can't deny that I'm here okay no come on yal we're going to kill you instead and the friend says no no he puts the Rope back on his head goes no no no he's late he's late send him home kill me goes no I'm the one that I'm the one that stole kill me cuz no but he's late he made a deal with you guys you guys can't go against your own deal it's you're lost can't go against a deal so they're fighting who are they going to kill now and the King hears this commotion he goes what are these two crazy Jews doing CU they're fighting about who you're going to kill your cuz what do you mean they're fighting who you're going to kill go this guy says kill him the other guy says kill him he goes what they want to kill each other he goes no no no they want to kill themselves so he goes bring them over here says why are you just fighting he goes listen he said he's going to come back he didn't come back I want you to kill me that's your deal goes yeah but I'm the one that stole cuz why you guys want to kill yourselves for cuz let me tell you the truth your honor see him he's my best friend he's my best friend and I can't live without him so I rather die first and the other guy says TI and he my best friend he's my can't live without him so i' rather die first so the king says I can get you both off but under only one condition I said yeah make me the third friend once in a while you're going to find a friend but in reality most friends you keep him at a distance it's convenient relationships you have money you have looks you have job offerings all different types of things says befriend people but know that they're your friends for a reason they want something from you most of the time they're not going to open a door 1:30 in the morning to save you they're not going to be there even if they have 100 200 300 $ million they're not going to lend you $100 I'm telling you me personally based on experience when I had money people would throw money at me throw money they would want to give me money I didn't need money but they want to throw money at me all of a sudden get into a gym I'm busy I'm this I'm that I'm not one to ask for help but one time I actually tried to see if maybe I could get help on this thing I was trying to do I call a guy at least he has $150 $200 million at least we used to do deals each deal was a million do minimum million 2 million 3 million made a lot of money for him ask him for a deal I think it was maybe I $100,000 meaning it's like a day pay nothing n you know I'm just too busy what too busy to to to tell your assistant to send me $100,000 what too busy n it's just going to mess me up you know it's not all of a sudden this is not even a a rounding error it's not even a rounding error for what he has and he's not the one and two and three and every single person that I called I tried to save my house all of a sudden no no no I can't do this I can't do this I can't do yeah but I'll pay you for it you're going to get 100% on your money you give me the money I'll pay you in two years when I sell the house 100% profit no it's this it's all of a sudden nobody has nobody has time nobody has patience nobody has this nobody has that nothing all doors closed why that's life it's already in the Torah it's not new there's nothing new Under the Sun but you're only going to find out who your friends are when you really don't have any friends cuz that only time you're ever going to need them is when they tell you who they really are so don't spend so much time thinking that you have these dear relationships CU in reality most people have relationships based on convenience based on benefits and things of that nature and unfortunately sometimes it's even worse Sometimes some people that don't have they act like some of these older friends that I had they used to work for me we were best friends they came to me with nothing all of a sudden they have something came started making some decent money all of a sudden they became wolves you know why wolves why am they saying wolves because wolves have a nature in them that if one of the Wolves it's a wolf pack you know wolves don't go alone they have a bunch of friends yeah but as soon as one of them gets weak what happens where they go bring him a uh some help some doctors they bring him as a fruit tree bring him a drink no what do they do they eat him yeah you're too weak for us you're too weak for the pack they eat the wolf sometimes people act like wolves sometimes the wolves are actually better than the people cuz at least they wait until he's really weak that's what happens this is reality who do you invest in invest in your invest in your family invest in your own home everyone else yeah if it happens it happens it doesn't happen doesn't happen don't be like this 20-year-old kid that thinks he had 100 friends you don't have 100 friends the rum had a good friend also happened to be his employer this story is uh not a well-known story it's in the book new book that came out by RAB mazuz it's one of right now called me is who are the Giants of and in the book he says a very very interesting story about the rambam saying that rambam worked for the king the Egyptian king and the King was always impressed by the rambam's wisdom how much he knew and so on he' want to test them from time to time and they would play chess play chess chess is a uh mental game you know you have to be smart to play it if you know what you're doing and the rambam would the king would never win but the rambam had good midot and he also knew where he stood so every time he got check on the king he'd push over the table and all the P fall ah we have to start all over and the King wasn't a fool you know okay so so they kept playing kept playing but one day the king is like you know what listen enough of this I want to know how smart you really are I want to know if you can beat me or I could win we have to put something on the line no no your honor please it's not it's not let's just play cuz no no no we're going to put something serious on the line once and for all so you can't do what you're doing if I win you convert to Muslim if you win I convert to be Jewish goes no come on please your honor can't do that go I'm decreeing as the king that's it now you have to do it and the rambam says they started the game and at that moment he felt that he doesn't have all of a sudden he doesn't know what he's doing all of a sudden he forgot how to play he doesn't know what's going on every move he makes the guy's beating him now if he loses the game they're going to force him to convert to Islam he has to kill himself which is what the Ra was going to do for the first time ever the king gets a check not Checkmate but check which is one move before he beats him he has a check for the first time on the ROM at that moment the r says somebody comes in very like honorable man comes in is I am suing the ROM your highness I'm suing the Ramba they stopped the game they look at this guy who's this guy cuz why are you suing him the ram stole 100 Zeos for me $100 he borrowed the money for me and he never paid back so I'm suing him for the $100 King like come on Moshe his name was Moshe Mo Musa $100 you work for the king you have $100 to pay this guy come on it's not bu it's not nice give the guy a $100 it's not not $100 not like a million two million at least she got a few Bentley $10000 I never even met this guy in my life I don't know who he is so King says to the guy he doesn't know who you are goes well only way I'm leaving is if he swears to me that he's not the person that borrowed the $100 for me no come on go ahead do it just so we get on with the game already so go I'll swear I'll swear for you go no no you have to swear in my language okay what languages repeat after me so I know you don't you're not fooling anyone he starts talking him in Hebrew now the king doesn't speak Hebrew he says to him repeat after me make two moves to the right make two moves to the left go straight go right do all these things and you'll beat the game rambam follows it says goodbye goes back to the table next 30 seconds he turns the whole game around he beats the king wins Checkmate the king wants to like he's losing his mind is possible how'd you do this 2 minutes ago you were you were about to lose all of a sudden you beat me cuz to be honest the guy that just came here that weird guy just came here for $100 he told me how to beat you was he told you how how does he know how to beat me I have no idea I've never seen the guy in my life but what he was saying in the language was a language I speak it's Hebrew it's holy language and he told me how to beat you find them he sends all the soldiers to go find this guy after looking looking looking looking they found him they bring him back say who are you it says my name is Abraham evanel he go where are you from CU I'm from Spain he goes what are you doing here well last night I had a dream they came to me in a dream they told me that a holy man by the name of rambam is going to be in danger at this exact time and I have to go tell him how to win the chess game I okay this dream of yours fine interesting dream how'd you get here from Spain to Egypt you matter of a few hours go no it didn't actually take me a few hours it took me less than a moment and the King's like what do you mean took you less than a moment you know those days they didn't have Jets cuz I used the holy name of hasem and I came here and the King says ah come on this is 900 years ago King says this guy put him in a mental institution ra says no no no he's right I could do it too you could do it too I can do it too I can use the name holy name of hem and I can go for anywhere you want go prove it it's okay whatever you want okay this is a city 3 days away from here and they have a store bring me one of their glasses with their names on it before 3 days ra says no problem he goes leaves the door 2 minutes later he comes back with the glass and the names on it and everything showing that when someone is that Holy hasem changes nature for them this is in the book of RAB Maz there's one of the right now now a lot of people say that uh the rambam didn't believe in demons and some people take it too far where they say listen they should remove all talk of demons from the Tor they should remove all this mystical stuff from the Tor this is complete n sense and a misunderstanding of what the rambam said so first and foremost rambam obviously as you could see from the story which is not told by me this is story from one of this is uh story that happened obviously rambam was very very well aware and informed about mystical stuff number one two when he talked about demons he says he doesn't believe that demons existed in his day meaning around him not in general because it says it specifically that there's demons Shalom ra his whole life worked on giving us explanation of the Tor he's not going to go against the same to he's giving this explanation of number three there's demons and then there is a ghosts or Spirits so it's also he specifically talked about demons so nonetheless we see here that people take things too far and they start using their own logic to translate what the sages say instead of actually seeing what the sages say themselves and this is only because of something going wrong somewhere along the lines their parents did something where instead of wearing the T they didn't wear te te anymore didn't seem like it was a big deal their parents' parents they were but they keep a guy a little smaller and maybe watched a few shows on TV and they're parents parents maybe they didn't watch TV but you know they played a dice with friends here and there and you see the weakness continue to gradually get bigger and bigger generation after generation eventually current generation either doesn't believe at all believes that there's nothing Shalom or they just modify the toah as a reform as a conservative and even sometimes a modern Orthodox that brings Christians and all types of idol worships to the besset so here we understand that it all starts somewhere it all starts somewhere and we have to be very very careful with the source you know because if we as independent leaders of our own and leaders of our family leaders of our children leaders of our communities if we don't start standing up for the truth everything is going to fail everything is going to fail maybe not right in front of you right away but you see that the generations are getting worse and worse someone has to stand for the truth at some point and I was talking to my R today and honestly with all the things you know unfortunately you know you're in this you you find out a lot of things that you don't really want to find out things that happen in the world and so on and you know it says in that people should pray for the welfare of the government because if there isn't fear of government people will eventually devour each other meaning people will get to such a crazy state to start eating people start murdering everyone so on one handar says pray that there's going to be order another it says stay away from them so this this Mish has explained to you in what way he's telling you listen yes there's certain parts where the government is needed it's needed you need order you need cops you need uh you know all types of things for government sure but don't bring it to your house don't have the IRS code or the constitution replace your or your don't bring your president of the United States to your house bring the rabbi your house don't make your television the place where you're going to see The World At Large in a political view watch lectures instead that are going to actually help your future so that's what we're trying to learn here because it all starts with you we can't do anything about our parents we can't do anything about our grandparents we can't do about our great-grandparents only thing we can do is follow what mat and his five sons did in this holiday that's coming up in a few days M was in by himself and he had five sons and maybe a few people a few tedim joined him but according to the army of the Greeks was 600 million people 600 million people this is pretty much almost half of China or double the size of America Were Soldiers not talk about the country as a whole just soldiers coming to war and mat and five people and maybe a few others that helped him let's say a thousand it's not but let's say it's a thousand saying we're going to go to war with them you're going to go to war with them you suicide mission just jump off a bridge it's much easier you go to war with 600 million people and said if it's just like we learned from to if I'm not for myself who who's going to be for me whoever is for God come with me meaning that doesn't matter if it's natural if it makes sense or it doesn't make sense when Hashem runs the world he runs the world somebody has to stand for the truth at some point we can't worry about our grandparents and great grandparents or anything else what we can do is worry about ourselves and our kids the future our community you have a few friends you see that they are not completely reformed you see that they're not completely atheist you see that they're not completely off where they become haters of Judaism save them save them but also know the says something very very scary for anyone that wants to do K anyone that has family members that is off the you're going to have some resistance from some people some people are going to outright go against you and fight you sometimes you see people make comments on the internet you're like this guy's Jewish this guy's a rabbi this guy is like part of how is it possible page 49 B says something very very scary says the people that are ignorant hate hate Torah Scholars hate Torah in general even more than the hate this is a he's telling you here that someone that doesn't know Torah a Jew comes from Russian family Moroccan family tripley family whatever family Jew a Jew an actual Jew born Jew IMA is Jewish aba's Jewish everything is Jewish him inside rotten he went to the movies he went to the bowling alley no Torah in his life instead of going to sh he went to a strip club instead of going to sh went to the bar says he can get to such a level that he can hate other Jews more than the Nazis hated the Jews and his wife to be says and their wives are worse than them this explains a lot of things you see some times people are running the Israeli government but they're anti tah and I always ask myself how does this make any sense you're a Jew even if you're not religious why would you go against religious people okay you don't want to be religious you want to keep keep on you don't want to keep Shabbat take vacation once a week you don't want to eat kosher that's healthier for you anyway okay you don't want to do all these things fine I get it okay you don't want you're not into it I get it but why you anti why you going against it why you have we sites of people saying don't believe in God tells you it already he's telling you somebody that has zero spirituality zero connection to Hashem can get to a to a point of being worse than a Nazi and this explains those very same Nazis that we had a all Shure about that were Jews because they were Nazis that were Jews this explains all of the characters in the book by Rabbi zilber to remain a Jew that everyone should read of the ab Setia the ones from Russia that were the communist that killed Jews that killed religious Jews rabbis this explains the Jews from the kibuts when El the modern state of Israel was founded that beat up rabbis including Rabbi galinski who was a Survivor from the Siberian jails who was trying to teach to offer free trying to help Jews in every single way and when he found out that these kutnik these people that were like communist anti Tor were bringing the yemenite Jews who were pretty much living in a third world country and and tell no listen now that you're in you don't have to keep anything mashia is here they cut their payers they took off their T they tell me not don't learn to anymore and Rabbi galinski went in there and started pretending that he's going to help them out help these kutnik out and went on stage and tell them these are going to teach you things against the Tora over hem says eat koser they eat rabbits hasem says learn T they teach you you came from monkeys and these Jews these Zionist Jews what do they do they went on stage and beat the hell out of him beat up a rabbi one time two times three times several times this happened you could read his own Testament it's a life story biography by that was written by his daughter Rabbi galinsky one of the best speakers and kiru people that ever lived just recent generation says listen if you get too close to these leaders you get too close to these political people you get too close to the secular World you'll be worse than them where is it written in the Torah hasem promised it to ABM promised it to promised it to he says your descendants are either going to be like the stars or like the dust when they're holy they' be higher than the Stars when when they're not they're worse than the dust already written in the toah 3,300 years ago it all starts from the top all starts from the top and if we really start looking at this holiday yes there's some you need to learn about lighting the manora and celebrating all these different things with oil and having fun and even though there's a we don't really it's not it doesn't become like the M where we read it in public but there's things to learn about Hanukah there's a nice story but the really biggest story about Hanukkah is this a Greek walks into a Hanukkah party eating s with the drle like hey hey hey what are you doing we're celebrating that we beat you and a Greek chewing the S pleasure he say wait you don't play soccer every Saturday in the big Stadium Sparta where do you think Sports came from your basketball courts your soccer game and your football games and all the we waste our lives on if the Greeks came here they' be laughing at us why cuz we think we won this is why we're so ignorant at this point that the number one most favorite holiday favorite holiday of secular Jews reformed Jews conservative Jews is Hanukkah cuz it Doesn't obligate you to do anything you eat you drink you light a monora it's fine everybody you ask guy listen we need $50,000 for Hano party everybody donates $500,000 we only need 50 okay so big a party and $400,000 for the rabbi with the quarter keeper Hanukkah party everybody donates helping Jews do CH no one wants to donate maybe you're going to get $10 a day if they if mashia comes maybe it's $200 a day cuz they already know mashia is here why cuz it said doesn't obligate them what's the funniest thing about it the real biggest enemy of Hanukah the people that we really won against were the reformed Jews the ones that joined with the Greeks that ratted on us that got religious Jews Orthodox Jews killed the were kite Jews and other types of reformed Jews that joined efforts with the go they not only brought them to the synagogues they made them the new Rabbi and after they made him the new Rabbi they went against the old tradition and that's what we won the war against so if anyone wants to really celebrate Hanukkah do yourself a favor tell your secular friends they should really learn about the truth of the holiday there's nothing for them to celebrate if they're still secular the war is against them so if they don't want a war against them join us do Chua start small keep Shabbat keep kosher keep a few things stop acting like God's not real because eventually we're all going to end up in a hospice and you're going to need God what are you going to say I was too busy making money I was too busy chasing women was too busy playing sports what are you going to say raang is telling us this my brothers and sisters you want to save your kids you want to save yourself start by looking in the mirror and after that make sure your surroundings look the same you have a beard make sure your surroundings have a beard you're modest make sure your surroundings are modest you're righteous you're trying to be righteous make sure your friends are trying to be righteous why because if your kids continue to hang out with people that are losers or they hang out with people that are completely atheist even if they're family even if they're your parents even if they're your brothers even if they're whoever if your kids or if you continue to hang out with people that are and are not interested in doing Chua you'll eventually become like them if you could influence them then sure why not bring them on get them stronger get them to do chuat if you see that there's interest if you see that they're listening to what you're saying they're respecting what you're doing bring him on bring him for Shabbat bring him for the holidays little by little be nice to them and show them the beauty of Judaism but if they're the types of people that are anti tah every time you mention God it's like a again like one of those types of people or they're the type of people that make comments against the Torah they make fun of it get rid of them like a a disease as fast as you want to get rid of a disease get rid of those people can't help them doesn't matter that your friends or this or that it's not much time it's not much time is around the corner it all starts with you all starts with you any questions we'll celebrate Hanah a few days maybe next week we'll have actually sh with some more um commentary on uh Hanukah but I thought this mishna is much uh more relevant than anything else I could say about Hanukah because it could also hit Hanah as well could also talk about Hanukah talk about the mishna itself to continue the series but also talks about the position that we all find ourselves in everybody's so excited about the new president coming on board everybody's excited about the stop Market being at alltime highs everybody's excited about everything that's going on but to me the better things look the more scared I get because before hasem punished us each time throughout history not that thinking our punishment is coming but unfortunately if you just look at history before Hashem gave us a serious serious wake up call every single time right before we're at the top right before we're at the top just look at all the stories we mention today yadik at the top slavery 210 years Spanish Inquisition top Germany top Greece top Roman top every time not one time not two times not three every every single time we're at the top right now unfortunately some Jews are so comfortable with where they are if tell you want the mhia to come yeah as long as I continue my life they're so happy with their life with their business making what it's making and their reputation growing and their Facebook profile gaining more friends and there are more TV appearances and more fake friends people just forgot what the purpose of life is you know so you ask some people about mashia don't even want him to come they're too happy here ramban is telling us here the more we rely on this other stuff other influences government people and so on and disconnect ourselves from Hashem Shem eventually has to give us a wakeup call hopefully enough people watch the shim and wake up without needing hashm to wake us up that's the point it's the goal the goal is to wake up before hhm wakes us up so we don't need to wake up we already have our own alarm what sure we listened we learned it we woke up but make sure you're not putting yourself in a difficult spot where you're in such a difficult spot you can't get out of it where all of your friends are reformed conservative and different types of people that are against the to that you don't know what to do to yourself you have to separate it's not it's not an easy choice but it's a reality unless you can bring them with you yes it's not enough time it's not enough time not enough time to be friendly with everyone and that's it I think that uh this covers this mishna um unless you guys have any questions amen amen and also last thing anybody watches this shs also on Tor anytime our website bash.org and uh few other places sh I'll see you guys in a couple weeks [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music]