Prayer Crisis - MUSSAR Iggeret HaRAMBAN (36)

[Music] we are back in our Tuesday you we have uh our um to continue get closer and closer to uh the completion we uh will talk a little bit about some uh current events what's going on in the world what's seems to be uh happening uh some things that some of you will want to know uh if you're in business and even uh more so if you are if you own a house uh but uh more than anything else what can we do what can we do you know to talk about the crisis we're not going to spend the whole day or not talk about we can do is the goal but of course we're going to uh always see what our sages our dear sages our dear holy sages have to say and uh not necessarily just our opinion uh today will be for foran an David benri Ben Abraham um Jonathan benel uh Sak um Sarah um dor but Mercedes Esther and all of will have goof now uh the um situation in the world is clearly not improving um it's actually uh seems to be getting worse and um aide from a mirror it's going to get much worse from here uh that's the bad news the good news is is that Hashem still runs the world uh even when we don't think he does even when we don't see how he does and which means that all of this will be for the good uh ultimately we will see good out of this but uh to give you a little bit of a situation of what's happening I'm sure people are wasting their life life uh and their opportunity to do chuv with instead of doing chuva listening to with a 14 day uh uh what is it called the um quarantine that people have had and in some cases even a month they should have already finished our entire series uh you know almost 80 lectures 3 hours a day uh 3 hours lecture you could have already finished the whole uh the whole the whole and have actually achieved something but instead people are spending a lot of time watching the news and destroying thems why you notice now more than ever in the beginning everybody was into the news it's very hard to talk to people now it's already going on for a while and you're seeing the results you're starting to see the results those that are learning T and doing nothing's changed if anything they've actually improved they feel better they look better they act better everything is better doesn't matter that outside it's it's a tragedy and you feel bad and you pray for people and you cry sometimes but overall their own never better why they've used this situation as opportunity to get closer to on the other hand those that are spending their time watching the news and not working on themselves you see how they have deteriorated dramatically to the extent where if they were religious they're borderline right now if they were just new they're for sure and if they were now they're atheist why because they don't know what's going on but on the other hand also has these special in the world the special pure in the world that did not know who is their maker until now and instead of going down they've actually gone up they they were now they're modest they were not learning T now they're learning T day and night the good news is that there is a lot more people doing chuva now that I know of than any other time that I've ever followed it it's busier now for what we're doing than any other time ever more people are getting closer to more people are doing chuva more people are asking the question of what's the point of life and more people are taking advantage of the opportunity it's sad that most of those people are going from being secular to now being religious and we're not seeing that same strength in the religious World becoming more religious and closer to hem we're not seeing as much but the point is is that there are many people that are getting closer and closer to how do you tell the difference who's who what are you doing with this time what are you doing with this time if you're spending the time asking the questions and looking for the answers of why you're in this world why is all of this happening and so on and so forth you're getting closer to your prayer becomes better your learning becomes better your overall mentality becomes better I just got an email a few hours ago woman tells me she's a very successful business woman and she says in the last few weeks her life has changed when she was introduced to our lecture she says our whole mentality that she has for 30 40 50 years our whole mentality has changed in the last few weeks why she realized what's her purpose in life she says in the last few weeks start keeping everything all the she knows about shab keeps now says I always respected God but now I'm working on on now I'm working on fear of God now I'm working on keeping Shabbat 100% no working no this no that so this is a special person and there's many others that I get every day more than ever more than ever people getting closer to Hashem but that's because the people are not wasting their time on the news maybe here and there once a day for 5 seconds I don't know five minutes let's say to check I don't know for whatever reason you want to check how many people died okay you check how many people died you want to check if there's any new rules in your community fine you check on many rules in your community every Community has a new rule but five minutes not more but when you spend a lot more than that each minute starts eating at your Nish so the people that are spending their time watching the news talking about the news are unfortunately getting more and more depressed more and more bored more and more desperate and they're getting worse the people that are doing otherwise are getting closer to now the reality is is that we're not saying to remain ignorant of the world but rather to be to acknowledge that this is what Hashem wants right now what you're seeing in the world is exactly what a wants if it wasn't it wouldn't be happening this is what wants he wants us to be in a position where we realize who's our maker that the donkey needs to know who's his master until now we thought that maybe our boss is the master our customer is the master our money is the master our spouse is the master our retirement plan is the master our pet is the master you could see some people walking around with their pets you would think the dog is the master everything is the master no no no K says no I am and that's what people little by little are starting to realize but not enough why do I keep mentioning this not enough because if I think that it's not enough that's not a good thing of course's Mercy is endless but I assume that a did not bring this decree this plague just to give us a quickie just to give us a quick fear oh got you okay we're back to normal Monday morning I don't think so I don't think did all of this just for a quickie I think wants something from us and I don't think I know he wants something from us he's always wanted something from us but right now he's pressing and thear tells us in several places that it's Our obligation to look at the world around us and start doing some doing some accounting of what we need to do what we need to fix because so long as a is unhappy with us the situation is not going to improve so let me tell you a few things that are very likely to happen hopefully not hopefully I'm wrong but is very likely to happen without outside of a miracle right now people see that the nearly 1 million people that have been diagnosed with Corona virus around the world is the worst thing tens of thousands of people have died that we know of I think the last count was something in a neighborhood of 45,000 in you know which on a grand scheme of things is not very much but the fear is that these numbers are nowhere close to the reality the reality According to some reliable sources on the from different researchers media and so on that uh apparently say that they are experts in this field um is that the whatever reported numbers there are in the world multiply them by at least 11 so if let's say there's 1 million diagnosed with this there's really at least 11 million the truth is that even the 11 everyone knows it's a lie and the reason why is because there are several places that are simply not reporting the numbers you know everyone thinks that China is okay you know because their number numbers haven't really improved haven't uh uh deteriorated meaning more people are not being diagnosed to the same extent as the past definitely nowhere near the amount that the United States is increasing over the last couple of weeks but truth be told there are many reports that the Chinese numbers are absolutely false where even though they are saying that they only had you know 3,000 or so deaths and uh 80 or so thousand that gu Di noosed with it and now it's not getting worse truth is there are reports that contradicted serious reports one of those reports is that there are H there was an earnings report uh coming out from their telecom companies that said that 21 million cell phone numbers have been disconnected in China over the last month which is a unreal unreal type of statistic because the Chinese use their phone much more than most people around the world they use it for everything even more so than Americans so 21 million people disconnected their phone how you going to buy groceries that's how they buy groceries how you going to do business that's how they do business with their phones everything is with their phones so 21 million people cut their line now they say okay maybe we could count for about 15 million 15 million that because of poverty they lost money lost their job jobs and so on they said we still can't account for 6 million which means that it's very possible that 6 million people have died not 3,000 now if 6 million people died in America You' notice you start seeing bodies and you know making making uh fences with them but 6 million and a billion and a half billion people it's not that much percentage wise it's a lot of people but it's not that much comparison especially since the communist country that hides everything now why even mentioning this because I listened to a uh couple of phone calls that uh they had a uh done when they called the morgs they called the morgs in China and uh pretending to be government officials that are trying to help just to find out some statistics there's a uh news outlet that I uh did an interview in uh years ago when I was in business called NDTV it's a Chinese news organization that uh is anti-china meaning they report the truth about what's really going on in China because it's a communist country and they don't really allow the truth to to leave anyway the same organization uh which is really like an activist they uh did some phone calls some investigation and uh they called the morgs the place and the crematories where they cremate the bodies they burn the bodies the guy is crying to them that he can't take it anymore because the amount of of work that they're having just in his one location is five to six times the normal says dozens of bodies dozens of bodies are coming in every day and he says that's just his location another location is much more meaning that it doesn't make sense that he's burning dozens of bodies in his little location in Wuhan still right now and China is reporting only five new dead people doesn't make sense doesn't add up point being is that it seems like this virus is much greater than people think even more so as I told you guys the other day in India uh we have people in India that's are actually there seeing the disaster that's there that perhaps you're not seeing in the news India is reporting that they have maybe a thousand or so sick in reality it's probably over a million people are sick there if not more and they're having all types of shutdowns and disasters they're not allowing anyone to leave the house now they're not allowed people to do anything even buy grocer they're forcing people to bail out the government by paying uh let's say cleaning ladies if you have a cleaning lady you have to pay her three months in advance now without her working she's not going to work but you have to pay her three months in advance why cuz she can't work why it isn't the government pay him oh no that's the people's responsibility so you're seeing that the whole system is failing my prediction for whatever Penny it's worth the prime minister or whatever it's called in India is going to get assassinated just like his father did did very soon uh because the the country is already revolting and uh losing their mind now if you have a you have a country of a billion and a half people in China uh going to such turmoil another country next door India with another 1.3 1.4 billion people also going through some turmoil you're talking about a major disaster and that's not to count what's going on in the United States where places like Los Angeles are no longer testing people they're no longer testing people they simply see it as a waste of time and they don't have the resources to do it uh and really the numbers that you're seeing on TV or on the Internet are simply the people that have been tested but it's nowhere near the amount of people that are actually sick so the situation is horrific horrific but if you look at the financial World it seems like things have calm down so that confuses people the market stopped going down in fact it went up a little bit so people are confused oh what's happening okay so I'm going to tell you what's happening what's happening now is is giving us like a mini break to breathe see what you're going to do you realize I slapped you a nice big slap took away about 25 to 30% of your wealth killed a few people you probably know what are you going to do about it you going do you can stop saying no you can continue using this quarantine as an opportunity to uh to say as an opportunity to waste seed as an opportunity to go against theem or you going to do the opposite start doing CH hasem is testing us he's testing the waters you're seeing every day more more people more good people are dying more bad people are dying too everybody's dying seems like so is testing see what you do he's not giving us the same hit that he gave us a week and a half two weeks ago to see what we're going to do now if we don't wake up in the next 24 48 72 hours a week very likely to start seeing the next leg the next leg or if it doesn't hit right away some smart people are going to notice it's coming and you're going to start seeing the tsunami you know tsunami is very tricky because before the tsunami comes all the fishermen are very happy and the reason why because before the tsunami comes the water from the coast recedes goes back into the ocean so all of the fish you don't have to fish them anymore you can just grab them from the floor you just go to the beach grab a bunch of fish $15,000 worth of fish in five minutes you don't have to fish nothing just pick them up why CU there's no water so it looks like wow what a blessing what a blessing and then you see by the time you've collected all the fish there's a 100 foot wave coming at you you don't have enough time to get away it's too late that's Sunami works that's what's happening right now it looks like maybe things have come down okay there's a few people here there's a few people there but as long as I'm okay here in Florida as long as I'm okay in California as long as I'm okay here in in New York as long as I'm okay in Texas as long as I'm okay in jenam wherever I am as long as I'm okay it's okay look everything's okay right not okay this what's coming now because of my experience on Wall Street for 20 years there's not a single person on earth that could debate this issue with me um this is not toah this is just reality of what's happening right now we have a tsunami much worse than Corona I told you in the begin I'm not really so scared of Corona or scared of Corona at all uh simply because I know doesn't necessarily want to destroy the world he just wants us to do chuva but the amount of pain we will endure to do chuva depends on us Corona is a way forh to scare a bunch of people also take a few people that either have the Merit to go up to Sham and straight to ganeden or or have finished and wasted their life and they're going straight to g whatever the case is that's his not my business but regardless of how many people get sick I don't believe that is going to just simply kill everyone this is not goog 2third of the world dying all that stuff that's not happening from Corona but the amount of pain that will happen depends on our actions the following is much worse than Corona in the beginning I told you that what will happen from the sick is up to AEM but nonetheless I don't believe it's going to destroy the world what is destroying it is the financial crisis that is about to happen people think that the financial crisis already happened because the market went down 30% that's popus in comparison to what's coming and the reason is the following right now people haven't worked in a few weeks in some cases a month that means people are not generating income now most people live above their means most people if they make $5 $110,000 a month they're spending you know 50 to 100% more than that and they live on credit they live on credit why because they assume they're going to continuously make more and sometimes they do and sometimes they don't but in general they live on credit everywhere around the world the credit in the world today the amount of debt that's in the world today is higher than it's ever been in history by a factor of over a thousand you're talking about hundreds of trillions of dollars we're not talking about a$2 trillion doll bailout is actually going to help anything the $2 trillion doll bailout they just gave is not even scratching the surface of what's happening right now now this is not really a problem as long as people continue to make money but when people don't work and corporate world not just Corporate America shuts down you have yourself a problem because since people are living above their means anyway and they don't have much saved most people have a couple of months saved at best couple of months worth of life saved so right now no one's really like the the middle upper class people they're fine okay they lost a little money but they're not starving or anything the people that are struggling are people that were pretty much already struggling beforehand but that's where it's coming now these guys that are closer to middle class now we're getting to them why because now since you haven't worked in a month and you're probably not going to work for another month now you're starting to get to a point where you realize wait a minute I'm going to eat I can't spend okay so I got another month let's say two left in the bank to eat right I'm not talking about people that have and and money appears in their bank with or without it I'm talking about regular 8 billion people regular people are thinking wait how I'm going to get this money to to eat in a month from now if I'm not going to work the company's not going to pay in fact some of them are already declaring bankruptcy what am I going to do so what does the guy do he says okay listen um guys I can't pay the employees the boss tells guys I can't pay the employees why not making any money gave them let's say a couple of weeks leave there I didn't expect this to continue for three months now who else does he also tell now this is what's happening the guy that's not making money at the lowest level he says I'm not going to spend my last few thousand paying rent I'm not paying rent why I need to eat let the guy let my landlord kick me out in three four five 6 months depending on the state depending on the city I'm not paying rent for the next few months why I got to preserve whatever I have so now the tenant are not wanting to pay rent one proof of it is that it's not only in a small scale it's not just regular people we're talking about big people Subway the restaurant chain sandwich chain just announced recently none of their stores are going to pay rent this is a multi-billion dollar company they don't want to pay rent why we don't no customers we can't if they're not going to pay rent you think that Mr Jones the little guy that uh barely makes ends meet with his blue collge job is going to pay rent no chance now when the when the tenant doesn't pay rent what does the landlord do landlord says listen I'm not going to pay the mortgage I'm not paying the mortgage I can't pay the morage I don't have the money and I'm not going to use my last little bit my reserves to let the let the let the bank bail me out let the government bail me out or let me go on foreclosure I can't pay it so they called their bank and they say sorry Mr Bank I'm not paying what do you mean you're not paying I'm not getting rent the tenant can't come to work I'm not getting rent so now you have domino effect now you have the next step the bank the bank can say what they're saying now which by the way is a side note for anyone that owns a house call your mortgage company tell them you want a forbearance a 3mon forbearance they'll give it to you within 2 minutes why cuz they realize that if they don't give you a forbearance you're not going to pay the mortgage anyway if you're not working so you get a forbearance it'll take you literally no application at this point cuz they realize it's a national crisis cuz they're assuming okay let's the government will bail us out or something's going to happen everything's okay but the reality is how long can they last doing this how long can they last not getting the rent not getting the mortgage why is this a problem because the bank that gets the mortgage lends out more money every day based on the assumption that it has a certain amount of money in reserves now it has to be a multiple of that meaning they let's say if they have H $100,000 that they're lending $100,000 in the bank they're allowed to let's say lend 10 million now they could lend a lot more which is not a problem as long as money keeps coming in as long as there's $100,000 coming in on a regular basis no problem but once people stop paying one two 3 4 5 6 10 20 30 million people stop paying guess what the bank gets shut down by the government why you don't have the reserves in order to maintain the current loans that you have needless to say to issue new loans now you have a banking crisis now you can say yeah but the government's going to bail them out they have to bail out everyone you're talking about not2 trillion dollar you're talking about 2 trillion a month in order for this system to hold still and for such a thing to happen would simply destroy the currency and everything on the way now even more so than all of this for anyone who thinks that they could do a better calculation you also have to factor the following the landlord that's not getting rent he is not a land landlord just because he wants to get rent to pay the mortgage he's a landlord because he wants to get the rent which is enough to pay the mortgage plus a profit so that means that he's not only losing the money to pay for the mortgage he's also losing the money to buy a bunch of other stuff to do everything else he's doing so with such a situation a financial system in place that depends on income that depends on debt it simply could all collapse and make what 20072 2008 was look like Child's Play I told people couple of months ago the market go down 50% in a in a day I was wrong it took a week in this case with this situation if they continue the uh extreme extreme uh measurements that they're doing with the economy secluding people at home you're not allowed to work you're not allowed to do this you're not to do that it's going to get much worse now the good news is is that runs the world and is the one that's going to allow or not allow certain things to happen but we cannot be fools to think that is not going to is going to stop it just because it's going to hurt us we have to understand that a is still looking for something from us now you can help yourself get yourself some more reserves like I said you can call your mortgage company ask for a uh uh a forbearance a deferral payment where they would take the next 3 months of mortgage and just put it at the end of your mortgage so you could save yourself I'm sure quite a few thousand if your mortgage is a couple of thousand a month you just saved yourself $6,000 so that could help a little bit uh for most people and uh most likely they're going to make it a law in the country for all mortgage companies to do this and it's not going to be just an act of kindness but rather an act of survival but like I said at the same token the current weapons that they're using in order to fight their own poison which is these uh uh rules that they're implementing into the economy it's it's just not possible so what is the answer answer is we have to pray that's the answer pray and do chat that's the answer there's nothing else nothing else is going to help because systematically every government is making every single mistake known to man everything that they could do wrong they're doing wrong but they make it look like they're doing right they knew about Corona virus a year and a half ago didn't tell the world they in America they knew about Corona virus four months ago three and a half months ago didn't prepare for it like everything they could do wrong they're doing wrong but it's not their fault is simply putting the world in this situation in order for everybody to realize he is God so what what do we have left we have a situation where is going to request each one of us to start thinking about what's important in life you could do whatever you can in order to uh you know make your whether it save a certain amount of money uh from the mortgage and uh don't be an overs spender on certain things you should give takaka because takaka is a uh is a spiritual investment it's not a uh just a material investment uh you can uh do a lot of things like that but the point being without without none of this is going to work if for anyone that's not thinking cha right now you're not thinking right you're not thinking right because is going to make it worse and worse until we wake up now personally I'm not worried reason why I know what this I know what the solution is I'm not saying I I'm not saying I'm fulfilling every single thing but I know what the solution is I know what the medicine is I know where the medicine is which cabinet it say all I got to do is go and reach it all I got to do is just go reach it take the prescribe medicine finished so at least I know that's the diagnosis that's the situation I'm telling you things that are horrible if you don't have any if you don't know if you don't know what the medicine is if you're not using this medicine your life is going to get really really bad and it's not I'm not worried there's no people worried about food short shortage it's not going to be food shortage food's going to go to nothing the price of things are going to go to nothing if this continues now K could simply stop it he could just simply okay enough's enough destroyed half the economy a bunch of people woke up another million two million 3 million 5 million people did CH okay I'll give you guys a break till the next one you can just stop it all of what I just said could simply be deleted cuz Hashem runs the world but that's assuming we're doing the right thing if we don't it's going to continue and it's going to get really really bad and it's not necessarily bad to the extent people think that that you know the supermarkets will be empty and you're not going to have food no the food's going to be plenty food will be plenty this is not a starvation plague this is you need to know who your owner of plague is that's who that's what you need to know you need to know who your owner is and thean this is what he's talking about 800 years ago the raan told us what the solution is this week each week for the last few weeks the ran is giving us another key now in last week tells to bring these to bring the sacrifices he says where hasem says to mosenu when a man among you brings an offering from the animals now the say what do you mean when a man brings an animal what is it going to be an animal bringing a man of course we know why is this extra word that when a man brings an animal as a sacrifice we obviously know you're talking to men the Torah is for men it's not for monkeys it's not for donkeys it's for men it's for for for it's for the world for people so why are you mentioning that when a man meaning a human being brings a sacrifice that's an animal obviously we know that you can't make human sacrifices you already told us to abah what's these extra words so the says you have to know you want to bring aan you want to bring a sacrifice which in today's world the sacrifices is our prayers every time you pray to it's like you pray it's like you're bringing a sacrifice even more so when a woman goes to mik she has to follow the same rules as theim did in the mikdash page 58a says that if theen is doing a sacrifice he doing a sacrifice but accidentally his foot is is on top of his friend's foot there a couple there doing the and the BET mikdash and one of them has his foot on top of his friend's foot and his friend is nice he doesn't want to say n it's my foot doesn't bother him says this is a Corban that's void rejected why because the qu's foot is supposed to be connected to the ground of the BET mikdash of the Mish over there and the his friend's foot that he's stepping on even if it's a nice gesture it's a it's a separation between the to the mikdash a woman that keeps that keeps family Purity if she's going to go to the mik and be a what is the process is a ban over there ban over there says to her oh let me see is there any hair is there any uh uh uh uh paint on your nails is there this what does she care about would she care about her look she care about a hair do what she care say no no nothing can separate you from the water why cu the water is spiritual it's not something you see with your eyes it's something spiritual happening in this mik where you are becoming holy you're destroying the Tuma so anyone that tells you all of these Hocus Pocus rules that people are creating now with every WhatsApp message Mage now because of this Corona virus you don't have to go to the mik as a woman complete nonsense if you're is and you touch your husband touch him I'm not talking about be with him intimately only I'm talking about touch his hand touch his hand without going to the mik both of you get both of you lose you have a girlfriend you touch your girlfriend finished all your MIT go to the garbage why says when and my my Myan went to the mikdash they wanted to bring me sacrifices of is I gave them rules rules that you may as humans not understand that if they stepped on something and they were not on the ground the whole sacrifice the whole ceremony the big giant cow the big giant bull wasted garbage $25 $30,000 in the garbage why cuz he stepped on his foot instead of being on the ground he says is that goes to the mik is no different than the the that's at the why not not separation so when you're going to the to to the to the mik you go to the mik don't look at it oh yeah I'm going to mik you know maybe I just go to my pool instead no no you have to look at it is this is serving a at the highest possible level now says that a tells us that when you're bringing this Corban this big deal bigban all types of reasons for the Corban if you sinned if you want to sanctify aem's name if you want to thank him all types of reasons of why we bring sacrifices he tells us remember theban is from a man and he's bringing an animal the says it's not because hasem is trying to explain to us that it's men bringing animals we know that he created us pretty smart we can figure that one out by him by ourselves why does he say it he says if you want to be someone that hisban that herban gets accepted that your sacrifice that your prayer gets accepted first of all be a benadam be a decent human being and don't be an animal first and foremost act like a human being then I'll accept yourban then I'll accept your prayer because if you don't hasem looks at you like an animal if you still have a filthy mouth if you still are stingy if you still arrogant if you're still a hateful person if you're still saying if you're still going against theem in all types of ways says you want me to listen to your prayer you're acting like an animal you acting like an animal can't so here we see is very very specific about who is going to accept a sacrifice from a prayer from an who's not now the ran elaborated on this point 800 years ago in hisan aside from telling us about how we have to fix our character traits stay away from anger never be arrogant look at everyone as better than think about GED think about G and so on and so forth he now goes on with the next tool the next tool that we have to use in order to get to this place he says when you Ponder your words before you under uh you utter them is what we talked about over the last couple of weeks but now he says now that you've pondered your words now that you've thought about all of these different things that the ramban told us to think about now that you have reviewed all of your transgressions now you're ready to go talk to Hashem what is talking to hem praying and he says so the ramban says now your prayer will be pure and clear and sincere and pleasing to God blessed is he as it is written in Psalm 10:17 you prepare their heart to concentrate you are attentive to their prayers meaning that when we prepare our heart Hashem listens to our prayers so first we have to understand that the language of the is very different than the way we speak first and foremost they speak Hebrew most most Jews today do not speak Hebrew some do but many don't but even the ones that speak Hebrew many of them do not speak the language of the sages because the sages spoke FES the language of the Tor the language of the Torah is very very different than the Lang anguage of the Ben modern Hebrew now the ran here says that your your prayer to has to be it has to be three different types of things what is this Zak what is this what is this what is this what is that mean what does it mean to have a pure prayer what does it mean to have a clear prayer what does it mean to have a sincere prayer what does it mean I mean yeah you could Define it with English dictionary but it's still not going to get you anyway you still have no idea okay pure what am I going to take my you know my uh my prayer put some Clorox on it make sure there's no Corona virus on it what does it mean pure what about clear what so if if I if I mumble a little bit it's no good if I stutter a little bit it's no good now most people you can't when they pray you can't understand what they're saying so does that mean that prayer doesn't count not true so what does it mean it has to be clear where's the clarity part what I have to see through it what does this clear mean more so sincere well isn't it always sincere if I'm already praying I'm here already praying isn't it isn't that sincere enough so we have to understand the ran has a very clear instructions of how we need to pray now the the Mal in in um he says this is a section that talks about KES as I said not the same not the same language as the Ben uh modern Hebrew and he gives a detailed analysis of these words he says that zaka the comes from the word z z we have in the Tora pure oil oil with no nothing there no other parts in it it's completely pure you could see through it and so on he says that your prayer needs to be this way what does that mean pure pure the explains is pure of foreign acts without any PID without any waste without any waste in your acts meaning that before you start praying to a first and foremost review your action for the day are you serving hem are you going against him did you steal today or did you give charity did you lie today or did you tell people the truth were you good were you bad start evaluating your actions that's what the Zak means that if we're going to go and pray to a we have to understand that that we cannot come to a as criminals we just finished killing a few people with our mouth we just destroyed a few people with our business we just uh murdered a few people with our text messages or our comments on the internet and we're going to go pray to you can't do that why will take that pray put it right in a deleted file now a person has to take the first step before he prays and he has to review his actions means this comes from Psalm 199 is that is expecting us to make sure that when we're actually praying we are B we are the sons of heart meaning that our prayer is emotional it's full of feeling this is a very critical thing we're going to go into the details of each one of these in a moment third when it comes to n what does it mean to have a a prayer that's N A Prayer that's a um uh according to the English translation sincere N means clean of foreign thoughts meaning that not only we cleaned up our actions but we also are emotional about the prayer we're connecting to but aside from that even our mind is working the right way we're not thinking about anything else we're not thinking about the stock market we're not thinking about Corona virus we're not thinking about the mortgage crisis we're only thinking about AEM now the most popular prayer book in the world is the Book of Psalms David compiled 150 Psalms some of which he wrote someu some Adar and a few others a few other tadik but David it's called after him because David was the was the sadik was the forefather that compiled all 150 Psalms into a single book as simply an instruction manual of connecting to a now the reason why the book of Psalms is more popular than let's say your sidu which is what we pray from every day is for two reasons number one your sidu is full of Psalms your prayer your everything that you have your entire your your everything is full of Psalms that's what many of the prayers that we have in the in the prayer books is Psalms is from secondly Psalms are not only read by Jews interestingly enough many many non-jews read psalms read on a regular basis I remember there was a story by R he says one time he went on a uh airplane a flight to Israel from America and he says they put him in a perfect seat he was in the middle of two people on the right side was an Israeli guy secular on the left side a priest so who's going to who's going to talk to who's he going to deal with he says the all time the secular guy is watching Mickey Mouse all he watching Mickey Mouse Bo big guy grown man watching Mickey Mouse the whole time 12 hours on a plane watching Mickey Mouse not reading not learning nothing it's just brain deteriorating by the second iQ going fast to zero watching Mickey Mouse for 12 hours but he says I was embarrassed to see that the priest next to me was reading T reading T the whole time as soon as they got on the city they started open the book of T started reading so after a while again said to him you read you read psalms the priest tells them what else like what else do you want me to do you're a rabbi he says aren't you he says yeah he goes so what else should I be reading he goes no no it's perfect it's nice just surprised goes yeah that's what I read and then the priest tells he says you're lucky you he says why he says because you're a Jew he says I'm a very famous he didn't say his name but I'm pretty sure I know who it is I'm a very famous and successful priest I have a big church but I know that you Jews you have the truth My Religion he says it's all a lie the whole thing is a lie he says if you want you come with me to my country which I believe in was London or somewhere in England you could talk to my entire my entire church whatever you want tell them the truth so RAB again says to him let me finish with am is first and then I'll come to you he says they had a debate in his head whether you're supposed to tell him maybe you should convert Maybe not maybe this maybe that the point is is that Psalms are read by people all over the world it's sad that Jews don't use that get out of jail free card as often as we should men and women you got to read some T every day outside of your and the reason why is because was not only but he was also King when it comes to prayer when it came to connecting to every one of his if you understand what he's saying you start crying you start crying now David writes that there's three types of prayers in his T he says he starts off the uh in a few different ways when he talks about prayer he says a prayer for David which is the prayer for like the king the king's prayer it's a high level prayer the King has a special relationship with hem but then he says there also this is all for the all the people that are glued to the toru the merits of mosu not just the Merit of the king but the Merit of mosu there's nobody better than mosu spoke to but then he says the highest level of prayer is of the destitute of the poor why is the of the poor the destitute higher than the of not only David not only the king but also mhe the poor guy his prayer is higher than everybody else's why explained to us see the king yeah he's praying for certain things mhe is praying for certain things some things that they're scared that may happen whether it's Corona virus getting worse financial crisis getting worse all types of things but the an the destitute he's already at the worst he already knows what it feels like to not eat for three or four days he already knows what it feels like to bounce a few checks he already knows what it feels like to be embarrassed not to have a house and get kicked out with a marshall you ever have that you guys ever been fortunate enough to experience such a nice experience Marshall shows up to the house okay sir get out you're out okay house is locked they put a bunch of bands around the house okay everything that's inside now belongs to the government it's not yours anymore unless you file law through this that the other thing you're not getting the stuff back you had to get your stuff out a minute before the Marshall showed up that's how they have it in America show up your house so the destitute the destitute knows what that feels like to not have a house to not have food have little kids not know how to feed them he know knows how it feels like when he prays to is praying with real tears of what's happening right now not what could happen in the future hence the reason of why kadh answers his prayers because he's praying not with the tears of maybe should be could be he's praying with the tears of what's already happening to the poor guy now he's praying with tears he is's praying because he's already going through hell right now like some of these poor people that are suffering from all types of diseases whether it be Corona virus or other things that are even worse so we see here that the prayer of the destitute is the highest level prayer because he knows all of the struggles what does this have to do with us this is a very important secret to know from David because what he's trying to tell us is that you're probably not going to be the king in fact you're not going to be Moshe either now you may or may not be poor but you don't have to be in order to pray like them meaning you're not going to be deid anyway you're not going to be mhe you may or may not be poor but you don't have have to be why cuz you can pray like him now that you know that a prayer full of kavana full of Heart full of tears to is the highest level of prayer it's higher than anybody else you can do it whether you're poor or not if you put your effort into it you think about what's going on you could do it two seconds question is how do we get there the way we get there is by following what the says has to be Z has to be has to be so now shalom in his he says person asks themsel they do some evaluating what will be with me after I've filled my mouth with mundane things and now I have I must use this same mouth to speak to he's talking he's saying listen a guy that's actually reflecting on his day he's about to go pray he's praying it's middle of the day in the morning you don't have enough time to make a lot of sins you just woke up but by the afternoon you already had half your day or more of it that you probably messed up a few times so says a person asked themselves before they start praying wait hold on a second uh okay uh the guy cut me off I cursed him and his mother uh my employee failed at a deadline we lost money I cursed him his father and mother and his kids uh this one that one he's thinking about all the different things that he did bad it's horrible right but the says no no we're not talking about that guy yet we're talking about a guy that simply wa wasted his time all day he didn't curse anybody he didn't say he didn't make up any rumors no no we're talking about a guy that simply spoke about nothing spoke about the news how many people died today in Corona oh another 5,000 oh that's it that's what we talked about all day how many die how many Die oh no you have five or six four five oh maybe China maybe all day he's talk about things that are nothing he doesn't need to talk about the things for his living for his job for for anything he just talking about nothing he's just you know talking nothing he says that person if he does some evaluating before he goes to pray his n is going to tell him all day I talked about nothing and now I have to use this same mouth to go talk to Hashem to go talk to the King of Kings what will be with me like how is he going to accept my prayer says if that's the case the tells us that's the case of someone who knows his reality for just talking about mundane things needless to say someone who's saying all day someone that's making rumors all day someone that's cursing all day yelling all day what's this person's Dean if he shows up to go talk to the King of Kings so the continues and he says I'll give you a suggestion to save your life is giving you a suggestion save your life he says first before going to pray think of thoughts of chuva before you go pray before you pray any of your prayers start thinking thoughts of chuva and think what did you do all day and regret all the bad acts and accept on yourself to not repeat it she says doesn't matter who you are doesn't matter if you're a rabbi doesn't matter if you're a student doesn't matter if you're newly religious doesn't matter if you're not even religious doesn't make a difference you want to go pray and you want hasem to listen to you you want to talk to the king first start off with thoughts of Chua evaluate your day what did you do all day what kind of mistakes did you make and say okay enough's enough at least okay right now let's say it's 5:00 I messed up the first half I woke up at 6 7 8 9 10:00 it's now 5:00 I just wasted the last eight hours talking about nothing okay now I got to go talk to Hashem I'm going to convince hasem to listen to My Talking because all day he's been listening to my talking and he he keeps telling me shut up enough about Trump enough about the economy enough about NBC enough but I won't shut up I keep talking talking now I got to talk to hashm why cuz I need hem to fix all the mistakes that I made so how going to get how could I get him to listen to me says review it regret it and commit to stop meaning okay it's 5:00 you messed up the first half of the day commit that from now on at least for the rest of the day you're not going to continue you're not going to continue talking about mundane nonsense you're not going to continue with you're not going to continue with making rumors you're not going to continue with cursing and talking up a a storm out of your mouth coming out a sewer you're not going to continue that way you're messed up the first half of the day fine okay whatever happened happened let's start again half of the day start from here start new for most people is 3 four 5 hours before they go to sleep so it's not even half the day it's even less okay that's fine do regret it and stop and commit to uh stopping it then he says and then you'll be ready to bring your prayer in front of the king of kings he says what is this like a person he gives an analogy gives an analogy says a person a rich person goes into town and he finds the most expensive most elaborate festar hotel in the country and he comes and he stays in his hotel and as you know or you may not know these hotels they don't spare a penny they try to make sure that their guests that are paying a fortune for each room the little little uh tiny hole in the- wall rooms $5,000 a night so they make sure that everything that the the the lightning fixtures are certain type and the couches are certain designer and the paint has a certain color to it from a certain painter and so on and so forth and the dishes are made by the best chefs and so on and so forth why because they want to make sure that when people leave after they've paid the a fortune a small fortune for the room for a few days they leave with a good taste in their mouth they leave telling other people that they should also go to this festar uh Hotel so rich guy goes to a five-star hotel and sits there sleeps there eats there enjoys his time after a few days of being at this hotel the owner of the hotel comes to the rich person and asks him no sir how you enjoying how you enjoying our hotel is it as good as uh you heard and the rich guy says well you know everything is great the lighting fixtures are beautiful the paintings are beautiful the smell is great the bed is very comfortable the room is very roomy the people are very nice the food is delicious ah so the the owner is very happy goes but I only have one complaint what's the complaint he says for some reason every time I finish eating the food which is Delicious By the way says but after I finish eating for what whatever reason there's a disgusting smell coming out of my mouth and I can't put my finger on it because the food looks good and it tastes good but I'm not really sure but for some reason something's wrong so the owner gets worried if this word comes out we're doomed from Five Star we're going to no star he starts investigating the issue and what do they find they found out that the guys in the kitchen don't wash the utensils don't wash the tools that they use to cook the food every week and much of the food has little pieces of rotten stuff that's been accumulating all types of Corona viruses inside it says this is an analogy of a person that uses their mouth to go speak to the king but this tool this tool that he has that's supposed to bring a beautiful dish this tool that's allowed is being given permission to talk to the King of Kings unfortunately it's filthy it's full of it's full of making rumors it's full of cursing it's full of lying it's full of all types of things how do you expect the King of Kings to want to be at your hotel how do you expect the King of Kings to listen to your prayer a person must ensure the says that the tools that he's using to speak to Hashem do not have any tum at all and must be pure because when he speaks impure words or he's even Wast ful conversations he's creating tum that's on top of his lips as it is written in the book of Isaiah the prophet Isaiah tells us something petrifying the prophet Isaiah in chapter 6 verse number five he [Applause] says the prophet Isaiah says woe to me for I am doomed for I am a man of impure lips and I dwell among people with impure lips for my eyes have seen the king hasem master of legance in Hebrew it continues he says the prophet Isaiah says woe unto me if I have impure lips and I still expect to speak to the says to us if you're going to speak wasteful conversations about the news about the stock market about a bunch of sports that have nothing to do with your vocation have nothing to do with you making a living you're just wasting time waiting for Corona virus quarantine to be over you're just buying yourself more time you're smoking a cigarette wasting your life away you're lying you're cheating you're cursing you're creating tum you're creating so much T there's a in the tanak about it the prophet himself says wo unto me if I have impure lips how could I continue speaking to God and he's a prophet needless to say us so the continues and he says and then you're going to come with these in this tum that you have with these filthy lips and pray to Hashem while the tumah is hovering above you how can you say says how can you say kados kados kados how can you allow yourself to say such things holy holy holy sanctifying aem's name when there's tum on top of you from all the fil that came out of your mouth all day rather a person must cleanse him his mouth and he uses the word aala aala is more than just cleansing you know some people think cleansing maybe you wash it a little bit but aala you're boiling it not literally but make sure to remove remove all of the fil how do you remove all the filth from your mouth you have to burn it what can you burn it with words of toah words of to to is fire cleanse his mouth thoroughly to have a pure mouth and the way to do it is by thoughts of chuva and to take on himself to not speak forbidden things in the future and therefore his prayer or har prayer will be will be heard because it says in in a person who says his prayer does not reach heaven and doesn't get answered because the T covers him but once he does chuva once she stops saying about her neighbor once she stop saying about her mother-in-law once she stops saying about the rabbi once they stop talking about nothing all day they actually do chuv then the spirit of tum leaves and immediately their prayer is lifted to heaven and is able to be answered here we see that a person that wants his prayer wants her prayer to be heard by a k must have a clean mouth and the only way to have a clean mouth is in order to do chuva but how often do you have to do Chua every day every day now if a person says listen I did Chua already I keep Shabbat I watch one or two shim a week I read a book here and there I pray I'm fine and doesn't realize that no matter where you are in your life whether you've been sh wrot for 50 years or five years or whatever in between you have to do Chu every day any person that doesn't think that is living an illusion but what kind of an illusion an illusion to think that you are excluded from the mitvah of CH because you are good enough you are a rabbi you are learned you are a religious woman for a long time and therefore chuva is not subject to you it's for everybody else mistake mistake Chua is an act that you have to fulfill every single day especially if you want your prayers to be answered now if a person is going to say listen I'm just going to continue doing what I'm doing and I I think hasm is happy with me I'm going to continue praying I'm going to continue learning whenever I get a chance I'm going to continue doing whatever I'm doing I'm coasting I'm good now and doesn't continue to elevate themselves by fixing their character traits every day by doing you well for something that you've done wrong and just live an illusion that you're good enough that means that you are not following the instructions the way that the instructions are and that's not really going to work so well what is it like galinski shalom gave an analogy he said there was one time a meeting between the king of Russia and the king of Morocco and both were trying to impress each other so both brought their best chef with them and the king of Morocco brought his best chef with all the spicy delicious food and the king of Russia brought his his chef with all of the different types of fishes and meats and so on now the Moroccan King really really like the Kish the food called Kish that the Russian Chef made he liked it so much that he asked the king who made this delicious dish and the King says my chef he's the best chef I know no no no please please your highness please we're friends right right you're King I'm a king please have your Chef come out here and tell my chef exactly what he did so I could have this at my house in Morocco as a sign of good gesture the and also being proud of of his country and his Chef the Russian was happy to do this and he brought his Chef out he goes tell him everything so the Russian Chef proud as can be tells the Moroccan Chef huh so you got to put this and you got to put that you got to take the stomach it depends how big you want it to be if you want it to be a big then use the stomach of a cow if you don't want it to be big you want chicken it's fine CH and then you put some potatoes and some uh this and some that some this and some sauces and this and that and you have yourself a Kish so the Moroccan King was happy as can be he feels like he just got a treasure as soon as they got back home first command to the chef go make meish the chef goes makes Works 4 and a half hours 4 and a half hours he's working on this dish after 4 hours the king is excited to come in to the kitchen he's not even waiting at his table he's going to the kitchen to go see what's going on with this Kish as soon as he gets there the oh open open the dish they open the dish and the filthy smell that came out of this dish they almost passed out both of them the king took his sword out and put it to the neck of the chef he you trying to kill me he goes your highness I swear to you on anything I followed the recipe exactly as the Russian Chef said I didn't miss a beat everything that was on a list I wrote down I did it I don't know why it smells so horrible maybe the Russian King is making fun of your highness he told the chef to give us like a spoof the king says what I'm going to war with him that's it I'm going to destroy Russia you send him a messenger that if he doesn't have an explanation of what happened here we're going to war they sent a messenger to Russia the Russian King says no no war he's my friend why War brings his Chef in puts a sword to his neck says tell me what you said to them what you why what happened to the Kish he says your highness everything I give you I told the guy both Kings get upset they throw both of the chefs inside they throw them in jail both of them they're there for 14 days Corona virus they're in there being secluded from the world not knowing what's going on he cooked he cooked both kings are upset at the chefs but after a while the Russian the Russian chef says you followed everything he says yeah I followed everything everything you told me you put the potatoes I put the potatoes you you you put all of the the the the pepper I put the pepper you put the sugar I put the sugar you put the salt I put the salt you put this you put the I put everything and that's what you got goes that's what I got thinky thinky hold on a second when you got the stomach before you put everything did you clean it first the Moroccan Chef looks at him like he has three heads he goes no why would I that wasn't on a list he says you idiot you Tes Benes you fool son of a fool of course you had to clean it that was a given of course you had to clean it there's a bunch of manure in it there's a bunch of Filth in the stomach obviously if you put all the good stuff all of the salt and the peppers and the this and the that on top of fil it's in a of course it's going to be smelly and toxic you have to clean it first they found the solution and now they have a good Kish galinski tells us you can have the best system in the world but if you don't follow the instructions it's simply not going to work it's not going to work a tells us we have a mitvah from the Tor not from the rabbis from the Tor to do CH every day you think you're good enough you think your prayer is good enough you think your Torah learning is good enough you think your marriage is good enough you think your parenting is good enough you think your staka is good enough you think your character traits are good enough mistake as long as you're in this world you have some something to work on how often every day before you go pray to before you say's name you have to reflect what did I do today and how could I make the rest of the day better because if we skip this step then the kishk turns into waste it turns into filth it turns into toxic food the prayer turns into something toxic when a person does choose before he prays that automatically that automatically makes the words that are coming out of his mouth have much more emotion the chuva part is the first step of prayer it's the Z it's the part where we are purifying our prayer because we're purifying our actions we're not saying we were perfect all day or all week we're saying we know we did wrong we're sorry we're going to do better for the rest of the day that's all is asking us once you've worked on that you spend some time doing that automatically you're more emotional when it comes to prayer now when you're more emotional when it comes to prayer you are curing one of the biggest problems we all have the Mish in Chapter 2 mishna number 18 has a warning from rabish Shimon rabish Shimon says be meticulous and reading the in your prayer we have to read this twice a day and when you pray do not make your prayer a set routine don't make your prayer robotic don't go into prayer you finish you're in there cuz you know by heart because you pray so much already three times a day for x amount of years and you pray you know by heart and finished you're you as soon as you got you already calculated how long is it going to take me to get out of here why cuz you have an appointment instead of thinking about the appointment you have with the King of Kings with with the one that has the Cure we're thinking about what we have after work why because the prayer is tur into routine robotic gives us a specific warning not to do this not to do this well rather a person has to make sure that he does all types of things to bring more emotion to his prayer rashi rashi 900 years ago writes a person has to in his prayer in his daily prayer every prayer he has to beg for God's mercy yeah but I didn't do anything wrong I just woke up you did something wrong but when yesterday day before the week before a year before a life before there plenty for you to ask for forgiveness for Mercy a person should ask for God's mercy as if he was a beggar at the door who senses that this is the only place where his needs can be met and he must concentrate on the meaning of the words he says he must have C now a person must understand that a prayer without emotion without the right cavana in there is like a body without a soul and when a person prays to a with serious kav with serious emotion he's automatically going to get closer to and get us to the next point now the next point is is that we not only have to make sure that we concentrate on but we have to do different things that help us do it one of the things that I always tell people is to study the Sid learn what you're saying actually understand what you're saying because the sages from the sages 120 sages that put together the sidu weren't just regular rabbis some of them were prophets some of them were prophets this is almost 2,000 years ago this is at the time of the bet mikdash there was still prophecy these are people that spoke to God and God spoke to them these are people that knew what God wanted from them for sure without guessing these are people that knew what God likes to hear from us they used specific words at specific times for specific reasons because they knew that the sounds from those words the words that are said in these times at specific times open different Gates of Heaven and when a prayer of a person has full cavana has the right ingredients in it it's not only something that affects him or her but the in says that this prayer that you little old you in your in your house right now because you're in quarantine and you can't pray with thean you're praying by yourself little you can open Gates of Heaven for the entire world with your prayer if it has the right ingredients in it you can open the prayer the Gates of Heaven by yourself nobody else to solve Corona virus to solve financial crisis to solve anything you want if it has the right kavana that's how powerful prayer is now the key is to know that in order for us to do this we must have the right kavana the right cavana means that we have to know that our prayer has to be clear of all thoughts stock market sicknesses disease fears whatever it is we have to clear ourselves and everything that we're thinking about we have to connect it to hhm somehow even if you're thinking about money connect it to Hashem you think about marriage connect it to Hashem how is whatever you're thinking connected to hasem if you connect whatever is in your mind to Hashem it's allowed it's a it's part of the prayer but if is not connected to Hashem it's not allow it's it's it's a foreign thought when you have the right kavana in prayer and you succeed your n feels it you feel it right after you finish praying you feel like you got something and that's what says he says that when a person prays with serious kavana he feels a certain pleasure unlike anything else right away right after he finishes he feels something that's like wow what just happened like wow I did really good I don't know what I did but I just did something good like it just feels good like a sense of achievement a sense of of accomplishment of something a sense of connection a sense of worth all types of good senses finally but then the next day he thinks it's going to come to him naturally now so he goes back to the old way and nothing biss she goes the next day she say while she's chasing the kids down the hall no feeling she says while she's not even sure if she's eating or drinking or she's going back to the bathroom nothing why if you wanted to give you that feeling you wanted to give you that achievement that sense of achievement that real achievement where you're literally opening Gates of Heaven and must have kavana this is not easy to do it all the time but it is an obligation meaning that just because it's not easy doesn't mean it's not an obligation now how does a person get themselves to do such a thing he has to understand that it has to have a certain value in your head the the prayer if you knew that this prayer could literally answer all of your problems could literally change the world then you would use it as that tool now I'll give you a couple of stories and we'll finish tonight many people have heard of two that would tell of the last week I told you guys a story about rabusa today I'm going to tell you a story about his brother his brother was rinin was an enormous and was also a miracle worker one time a couple came to him with their sick daughter that stopped growing at 3 years old so even though she was 16 years old she still looked like she was three they went went to his house and he wasn't there so they just entered and waited inside and the girl she couldn't stand Al she didn't have any muscles or anything so they put her on top of the bed shortly after shows up says rude person he talks to the baby to three-year-old but really 16 what are you doing about my bed get off my bed for the first time in their life they see this girl move she gets up gets off the bed sits on the floor they start crying please we know you you are special please help us what what's what's the matter why you crying so that's our daughter she goes yeah what's wrong with her goes no she's 16 she's 16 years old she's not three okay so what's wrong with her go she's little oh you want it to grow goes yeah okay you can stop crying okay how much you want it to grow oh I want it to grow he goes stand up he yells at the kid stand up they see the the kid standing first time in her life she's standing he say how big do you want it to go and he puts his hand his holy hand was burned to crisp one time in his life he did on purpose he burned his hand cuz he heard that his hand hit someone heard his I think it was his mother so he intentionally burned his hand he had a glove on his hand it was completely burned this hand was as holy as can be he put his hand on top of this little kid and he tells the parents how big you want to be and he starts raising his hand and the kid starts grow in front of their eyes now people have heard these stories I only recently heard the story of how he died and it's an amazing story Shani told it in and he's the grandson of the which is a very famous book written about a little over 100 years ago has a lot of mystical stories and uh Miracles scary stuff every story small little heart attack point is the The Story Goes that he was the of the mag and the was the of the B so was very close to the bov now the bov he himself was the Kazan at his synagogue andin also was the Kazan In His synagogue why because they knew certain prayers that were very very unique that opened specific gates in Heaven so one time there was a b called RAB AB and that comes into the B and he says I am struggling financially if the can give me any blessing he says so the B was already very old he says to him why don't you come to my synagogue on Friday and uh listen to my prayer he said okay so he came to the bmov listened to him after heard him pray the B told him can you do that that prayer I just did can you do it he said sure says no do it and he sees him a with a MH Miracle he prayed that particular prayer with exactly the same tune the B tells him listen I'm going to die soon so you can be the in the sh make some I'll pray I I'll pay you and then eventually after I leave this world people will know you were Myan and you can make p that way other places so that's what happened this became the new at the of the and people enjoyed the prayer and the tune and the voice that he had was unbelievable after the bov died started traveling from place to place to make a living and he had his helper cuz you needed two people to do this unique tune and he had his helper with him and they would go from town to town to pray for them and they would pay them after doing it for 27 years making a living doing well and so on eventually he gets to the of whoin didn't like to invite Outsiders to be the Kazan cuz he was the Kazan but when he heard that was the tal of the bmov prayed at the bmov and he knew a specific unique tune that open the gates of Heaven that the B he says listen you can be Khan for us Friday so fine he starts praying and shortly after he starts praying everybody's enjoying it but starts feeling the prayer elevating his Nish out of his body he understood this tune he connected to the tune he understood what this music is and his n enjoyed it so much he started dying so much so that he had to get up and push the Kazan the fall push him away to stop him from praying he took over finished the prayer and then he said listen I'm sorry if I embarrassed you by pushing you but it was simply a p i felt my n leave my body because of what you were doing it was such a high level prayer my was leaving me and I had to stop it but to show you that I'm not disrespecting you please please pray again with us tomorrow and I invite you to my home to eat with us all three and he honored them and celebrate them and they pray together and so on so shabat sees he says everything okay he says I'm glad that we pray together but there's only one issue he says what says have to uh please ask you for a favor goes what's the favor he says I need you to give this will need to give this will to my family cuz I'm going to leave this world tomorrow I'm going to die tomorrow how you know you're going to die he says because the B told me that when he gave me this gift of this prayer he told me that one day someone that everyone's going to enjoy your prayer but someone is going to push you off the Bea and to know that the next day you're going to die and today that happened so I know that today this Shabbat is my last Shabbat tomorrow I'm going back to my maker I'm going back to so if the could please give this to my uh to my Rabbi to my family did it and the next day as you would have it the guy died now before they buried him RAB told bring me the body they uncovered the body and R said sink for me one more time and he sank for him one more time on the way to the to being buried now all of these stories are mystical and beyond our even wildest dreams if you believe it you believe it you don't believe it you don't believe it but here's the best part after this happened comes to his K the next day and tells his Kaa I'm sorry I'm going to be leaving this world when are you leaving this world in a few hours so and so is going to take over this that the other thing I'm leaving they just had to bury R AB the visitor now they're burying their rabi as you would have it went to sleep that's it finished left the world a few days later who's left the helper the helper comes to the gab of the bet he says here take this note give this to my family because what happened to you now he says last night I had a dream RAB my partner RAB AB came to me in a dream I said hey how is it over there he goes listen I got to give you some news what what's the news you got to come up here goes why just came here and he wants us to sing I can't sing by myself you got to come here so tomorrow I'm and that's what happened the guy died all of them died within the same week this is the stories of our grandparents this is the stories that lives on live believe don't believe some people say oh this is too mystical it's too crazy how do they know how do they don't know this is our heritage this is our history this is what's to say that this is a big miracle when you look at miracles in a destroying the world and then rebuilding it in an instant what's the say Big Miracle Small Miracle takes a a putrid seed that you would just not even want to look at and turns that putrid seed into a human being with perfect Eyes Ears Nose mouth legs feet all types of things a brain that's more sophisticated than all the technology in the world the key part of the story is to understand that aside from all of the beautiful Miracles within it there is a very valuable lesson the valuable lesson is that if a person truly knows how to use this tool called the mouth that Hashem gave him that Hashem gave her you could literally elevate your Nish to different worlds needless to say Elevate the world to a different place gave us a gift what's that gift crazy people forcing everybody to Pray by themselves to be secluded from the whole world not know what to do even though this even though that none of the stuff makes any sense you have to be alone but just with your family you have to be alone but you're allowed to go to the park though you have to be alone but but if you work here it's okay you have to be alone but if you do this none of this stuff makes any sense bottom line is what does want hasm wants us right now to think about how we pray think about how you pray before you pray think about how you learn before you learn think about what you're going to do before you do it why you are not using your full potential now K is nearly destroying the entire world to get our attention to get us to do this it behooves us to do it and not force him to make it worse so we're prying so we're crying like the destitute we can act like the destitute without being the destitute we could act like the Ani without being the Ani Don't Force AEM to turn us into an the fact is that the raan tells us you have an opportunity to pray to a all you got to do first and foremost do chuva we're not even asking for chuva of your entire life Chu for the day start with the day start with chu for the day after that after you've done Chua you've done Chua for the day you actually thinking about what you've done what you didn't do what you plan to do once you've actually done this next step of you have to start becoming emotional with your prayer cry a little bit when you cry the AR says you take your tears you wipe them on your forehead and you and you're erasing sins you've made tears are very very valuable in sh if you use them the right way if you cry about not having a a nice car or not having a nice friend or not having a nice kitchen that's not really worth very much but if you cry for for for the sake of you cry because you don't know enough T you cry because you don't know enough anything that's worth something that's worth something especially if you cry about spirituality have emotion in your prayer that's step number two last but not least make sure that your prayer is clean and clear of all thoughts and your only thought in your head is AEM one of the ways that you can do it when it comes to the amid every time you get to the blessing part where it says and so on when you sayem's name when you say aem's name you don't don't say it but thinkon uh the the uh you have to describe in essence uh what's AEM his significance his significance and you have to say Adon he's the master of all he was he is and he will be this when you do it it slows down your prayer a little bit but you now are not are saying Hashem with real meaning where you're Hashem is not just another word in your Sid Hashem is not just another word in in your mind like anything else here when you say aem's name you're giving it the right respect where you're simply recognizing that you say blessed are you AEM the M but you're thinking this the rest of it you're not saying you're just thinking it you're the master of all you were you are and you will be resurrecting the Dead uh you know the uh uh blessed uh abam uh the the holy God and so on and so forth all of the rest of when you sayem's name do with full kavana that will change your prayer tremendously there are other things that you can do but first this is the basic minimum basic minimum of what we're supposed to do when we shem's name when you do it most likely your prayer will be slower than your community your prayer will be slower than your Kaa in many places you know what's the good news is all your K closed so you can do this by yourself and get some training get some training improve your prayer improve your connection to listen to the instructions by and I promise you that the only thing that we will have to worry about is how much more Chua how much more CH we need to do because we finally realize we haven't done enough this gives us the to overcome all obstacles tomorrow night we'll have the questions and answers in Sunny Isles and then we have one other sh before p a little bit of a break but uh hopefully you guys got some like I did amen amen [Music]