Rabbi Akiva's Parents, Intermarriage, TAXES, Viduy, PARDES, Teaching Noahides - STUMPTHE RABBI (82)

[Music] we are back here on our Wednesday night stump the rabbi where you guys uh let me talk for a little bit give you some then you ask some questions gives us the answers and we learn together to in order to get closer and closer to uh tonight's sh will be for for David Ben Doris b abig b um Talia M sakah Stefan Ben Karina and also for a for sha Ben faran benis gab benis elad benis David benri uh Julie uh I'm sorry Marsha but Julie and her dear daughter Isa but Mara and her son Samuel bin Mara and Alexander B Mara and the rest of her children and also to our dear friend Ben and also a to our and all of the to our very dear friend and everything that has to do with him very dear friend now if anyone asks how come I give a certain blessing for everybody but then ruven gets a special blessing sometimes you see other people but why is R get a special blessing because loves T but not only loves T he helps people do all the other people also help people do Chupa they donate they uh share and so on so of course everybody that's watching now is a helps people do Chua but there's helping people do Chua directly and indirectly so when someone goes out of the way to help people do Chua they have a very special place in my heart surely very very special place in's heart as he calls them Stars so anyway we have a very very interesting Shure planned uh ahead for you um it would be uh really a big uh honor to deliver it the way that Hashem wants me to deliver it B theem um but uh before that to give you a little bit of update uh so uh anyone that is uh subscribed to our website newsletter all you got to do it's free just go to website b.org be z r a t h a s h.org uh and you uh subscribe over there and you'll get a Weekly Newsletter from us with different updates of what's going on uh whether it's events shim uh our uh newsletter of R fr's uh uh writeups for each week in uh in Hebrew and and different things so today our wonderful team uh shared a new newsletter with quite a bit of updates quite a bit of updates and one of those updates is something that I've uh been working on for a very long time very long time uh many of you that have been uh listening to us and learning together with us for for some time I've heard me bring up the name of RA Shalom many times uh ra Shalom was one of the greatest kiru rabbis in history uh without any question uh so much so that he literally built communities not just help people do cha but literally built communities in in uh in Staton Island in uh uh Lakewood in uh different parts of uh of America and other places literally there were communities that were built as a result of all the amazing work that he did and um those that have read up a little bit about him know that you know he actually although he was Israeli he went to and learned in Lakewood for some years uh but then eventually decided to go back to Isel to uh toh start doing kiru and uh before he went they really wanted the rebi over there wanted to to keep him in America to keep him learning to he says you have to stay he said no Rabbi I got to go back he says listen if you stay with us you stay with us here in Lakewood you keep learning the where you are you're going to be the next you're going to be the biggest Rabbi in the world and he told them Rabbi I got to go back he wanted to help do so I mean he gave up literally becoming the biggest Rabbi in the generation uh another R kvki another stip goon another uh raash that's the uh that's how how much of a genius he was in order for to get closer to and he became the of but nonetheless anyone that listens to his knows that they're full every sh is different from the other they're all full of full of insights and really it's a uh for anyone that speaks Hebrew understands Hebrew it's a must and he had a commanding voice and Persona about him that the walls the walls did CH uh I've listened to quite a bit of his over the years uh I could tell you that uh it's a um it's one of those things where it's just diamonds just pure diamonds so now one of the one of the uh things that uh was unfortunate for many years is the fact that RAV again although he lived in America for for for years uh you can't really find uh much in English and the reason why is because he only had two of his lectures in English uh the rest of them are all hundreds and hundreds of uh shim in Hebrew that you can find but the English there's only one or two three videos in English I think we've publicized a couple of them over the years uh we even have them in one of our videos where he talks about Shabbat but uh really it's not nothing to compare nothing to compare the English versus the Hebrew uh that he had uh but nonetheless so that means the English speaking public literally was missing it missing this holy Torah now years ago I uh saw that and discovered uh that uh his dear son uh his children they took the initiative his different parts of his family all all people that love t uh took the initiative and took his writing took his shim took took his lectures and wrote them down in English in a readable format and uh the first book that was translated to English cuz he had many books uh in Hebrew uh was uh this well-known book called n now this n it's something like 800 pages but you're going to read it in two days because it's just that good it's beautiful Torah short little exerts about everything uh it's uh truly unbelievable I highly highly recommend it now before you go to the Internet before you go looking for it I'm going to tell you you're going to have a problem what's the problem you're not going to find it you're going to find it in a bunch of places but they're out of stock and now you say okay so I'll just wait for next week for them to be in stock no they've been out of stock for over a year two years already in America and everywhere else no one sells the books worse yet the other books that he has that were translated to English not only are out of stock they've never been in stock they simply have never been in stock and uh which means that uh there's a missing Torah out there so we uh took the initiative took the uh time I contacted one of my uh dear friends is actually married married to uh to uh his niece to Raven's niece and uh he connected me with Raven's son and uh we uh actually have uh after a lot of time and investment and so on we decided that we need to do something for for for the people that love T and uh and even the righteous that want to learn serious M uh that uh not just in lectures but also in writings because very hard to find things in in in in text because most of the uh new books coming out today they're good but anyone that likes this type of style of of speaking and emit is uh hard pressed with with some of the stuff that's out there today uh so uh I knew that there's a bunch of books there to get but no one's selling them and we got a sets and what we announced today is that we now have available the sets the complete sets of Raven's uh English books where it's two different types of sets one set is of six books and uh six or seven books and one set is of 11 books so you have this book included in it uh you have the uh one book that's also they're all uh uh this is um uh heart hard uh copy uh hard cover this isuka for anyone who wants to learn for coming up uh in a very short period of time this is it uh this also has a the second set the bigger set that has 11 books has a couple of Pocket Edition books one of them is Shabbat which is truly unbelievable you want to learn about Shabbat as far as the of Shabbat and things of that nature this is the best of the best uh so anyway there is a 11 two different types of sets or you know we're not selling them individually don't ask me can I just buy one of them uh we're selling them only a sets and uh if anybody wants to have a complete sh of M pretty much from again uh you can go to our website store.org and and Order yourself a set and we'll try to ship it out to you as soon as we can um and uh you know if we see that there is a enough demand uh of course we'll continue keeping the stock uh you know uh up and uh and keep bringing more so I don't generally deal with books the stuff that we have that we publish ourselves of 's books and things like that we we give them for free uh you know and for anyone that's uh you know as far as books I usually recommend for people to go to uh either to uh you know people that I know like um um our dear friend uh David yv you know at Ben books or go to Art scroll go to mosim and so on but this is a uh set apparently that uh you know no one has carried for sometime and uh you know apparently no one knows enough about it and uh I can tell you from experience of Reddit it's beautiful beautiful Torah uh something that I haven't seen uh in quite a you know I haven't seen period I haven't seen uh so the sets are now available on our website store we're not going to become a book store uh we're only going to deal with unique books that uh apparently are not available elsewhere uh from time to time that's that's what we're doing uh but again like I said it's only being sold as a set we're not selling as individual just because I don't have the staff the Manpower nor the patience to uh to become a bookstore um so anyway this is one bit of news we just published today now uh as far as um the uh bet the BET mus that we signed a lease in uh a little bit of a uh um I guess I don't want to call it really bad news it's not really bad news but it is a uh uh a delay um after we you know we signed a lease we uh gave the money everything was good we started ordering a bunch of stuff books this that the other thing whatever we needed we're already looking at uh talking to two different companies for the uh ordering the customized uh uh besset furniture and so on and you know pretty much already looking at things as if we have everything uh in plan and uh but in the process we had to get a certificate of occupancy in order to occupy the space uh this is one of the policies here in in Cooper City and I'm assuming in other places I'm used to uh where the building has a certificate of occupancy and that's it the businesses don't need to have it but apparently here that's different anyway um in the process of uh filing for the certificate of occupancy the city informed us that it's not possible to get a certificate of occupancy uh because the building made a big boo boo the building uh uh made a big mistake uh they do not have the ability to lease a space to a synagogue or anything that's of assembly meaning uh anything that is a uh uh where people congregate for long periods of time whether it's a different a a synagogue church or even a let's say a school uh of any kind anything that people show up a bunch of people show up at a certain amount of time and stay there for a while that's called assembly everything else is retail like somebody wants to sell Donuts or coffee or or a supermarket people go in and out that's that so because of that the assembly requires much more parking long story short because I want to go into the shield to I don't want to miss anything the building made a mistake and uh they do not have the permission to have it uh or they already have some in the in the uh in the shopping center but uh they're maxed out and the only way to get it is if they get a variance and a variance takes a very long time and uh a lot of money and um unfortunately uh you know from from what it looks like right now the building is not willing to invest this money uh or time to get this variance which uh would leave us with really only one choice which is to get out of this lease and we're back to square one of needing to find a location uh to uh to start our operations and uh from a lot of research time headaches and so on it seems to me that really our only way is to buy a place uh to buy a building uh so uh for any of you that uh have money or know people with money that are willing to uh help you know build a u uh the the future of Judaism in America uh you want to help us go to uh our website uh bh.com uh it's one of our campaigns to to to build the ISA we need to raise several million dollar to do it if you have uh $5 to donate or $5 million to donate both are welcome and that's actually one of the last points I want to bring up is this wonderful woman uh send me a uh she sends donations from time to time and uh she send me uh short letters and in her letter she said something that really like broke my heart uh but in a good way where she you know she uh sent something like $60 and she thanked me nonstop like half the letter is thanking me for giving her an opportunity to donate because she thought that really we would only accept uh big donations and she said thank you for accepting it and and for encouraging me to do it and so on uh and uh telling us that it's always welcome regardless of what it is and to me that's worth a bill ion dollar not $60 it's worth a billion dollars because that's you know that's the the says what does he want he wants your heart he wants your heart and uh and make no mistake about it is not only the one that knows what's in your bank account but he also knows what you're going to make and he's also the one that decides what you're going to make and what you're going to have in your bank account and uh he knows what you can handle and what you can't and the reality is is that when somebody makes a sacrifice to to donate you know a piece of the hard-earned money that they have you know they're donating 10% let's say of their income as M or or tith in English uh on a regular basis for the sake of tah it doesn't matter what the amount is if you donated that 10% or if you're you're you have a lot of 9 you're donating 20% you know and it doesn't matter what the amount of money is like if your income is $10 million or your income is $10,000 or your income is $1,000 okay and you donated that 10% for the sake of helping us publicize Torah around the world to wonderful people like yourself and others to help do Chua to help the righteous noahides get closer to hasem and du to help children get closer and closer to him with the truth and nothing else but the truth and you're giving that 10% it doesn't matter what the amount is if it's 10% of $1,000 being $100 10% of 10,000 being a TH or 10% of 10 million being a million dollars in a kad's eyes it is exactly the same why because he knows how difficult it you worked for it how diff difficult it is to give it needless to say how difficult it is to give it to Torah rather to give it to something that you get something right away out of it he knows and he knows how difficult it is to do it in secret why because nobody knows that you're donating nobody knows that you're donating you go to bash.org you go to the app The Bash app you go on this Facebook live you donate no one knows that you're donating and quite frankly even if they know they see that you donated a few dollars no one really cares you know I see these wonderful people all the time say donate donate and you know some people listen and some people don't listen the reality is no one really cares that you donate you're not getting that that o and W and E you know type of uh you know uh clap that you would get if you donated in public in in in a Sho you told people hey I'm donating $1,000 and everybody tells you you're not getting that knows how hard that is and that's the highest level that's the highest level one before the highest level of giving takaka where no one knows you're doing it practically anonymously you're not getting any credit for it from your peers but a says that gives you all the credit from him because you're donating to the right place you're donating the the the right amount and it's hard for you whether you're donating 10% of a million or you're donating 10% of $1,000 knows how hard it is to do it and trust me when I tell you that's the best money in the world to get that's the best money in the world to get because I know money that comes from people like that it's blessed money that's money that is going to allow us to do a lot of good with so I I I I appreciate all of the wonderful people that donate even the ones that don't donate 10% but when you see that someone is struggling to make it you know they they're barely making ends meat and you know making ends meat is different for different people around the world some people you know barely making ends meat it's uh you know 500,000 bucks a month and some people barely making ends meat it's $25,000 a month uh and yes it's true there are some people I know that it's literally they're making $25 $30,000 a month and they're barely making ends meat when a person still donates that 10% when they're struggling when it's tough and so on a says that's what I want that's the heart that I want so K to all of those people that donate and even more so to the people that really make the sacrifice uh because it's Partners like that that help us grow so rapidly over these last few years continue to grow uh so like I said we have the the books out now that's available we have the campaign for the Yesa uh so we could buy a building already and not waste any time building anything I thought about it you know buying land buying this buying that why waste time building things for several years let's just get the money together it's uh we're probably only going to need4 and a55 million for for for for what we need maybe a little bit more but either way if we need more we we could just mortgage the rest if we can get you know everybody that watches my shim to seriously uh take uh take this seriously and donate the substantial amounts more than usual uh we could easily raise $45 million we could easily raise $45 million and actually buy something and literally within a matter of a couple of months have it ready and uh and and and do something beautiful I personally think that uh the best thing we can do is to buy a church we could buy a huge church and uh and convert it obviously to a holy place of kadha of Holiness and that way we can get a uh a million and a half different types of MIT as a result of it number one you're removing idolatry from the world number two you're bringing more Kusha to the world and and the list goes on and on and you're not wasting time building something from scratch buying land having to do all the pipes and so on and so forth so uh but again it's going to take everybody's involvement we have 60 70,000 people that say they listen to our shim uh you know and there's at least 20,000 or so that are listen to it on a regular basis if every single person stepped up and uh donated a couple thousand two $3,000 we'd we'd be the money of course not everybody's going to be able to do such a thing so the people that can do more 10 20 30 40 $50 $100,000 now is the time to do it you don't want to do it don't do it going to send it anyway but again I have to remind people what the opportunities are now with that being said I want to tell you a story this story is a long story but it's a story that you've never heard before uh it's a story you've never heard before and I know you never heard it because it's not one of those stories that you can find in the gar it's not one of those stories that you can find in regular books it's it's a story that was written by one of the former Mas Mas in a called is commentary on the entire each part each uh uh um per of he wrote a book on it seven 800 Pages 600 Pages big books with commentary and commentary and it's just unbelievable stuff and this is about 506 years ago and uh don't quote me on the time but it's around that time and anyway in this I I uh have the copy of of the print out of it and but I learned this directly with my Rob God bless uh and uh this story is a story that we all need to hear but even more so for converts and people that want to convert uh because I hear a lot of times that you know people you know we deal with a lot of converts and uh a lot of times people you know a uh don't know enough about what's the significance of being a convert if you want to convert you know uh what should be your your push you know people always complain oh it takes too long or it's expensive or it's th if you understood how precious it is to be a convert you wouldn't complain a second about how long it's going to take you and and how much it's going to cost you because you realize that you're literally getting uh you know a uh infinity times the the lottery you know so infinity times infinity once you complete your conversion and live a righteous uh uh Jewish life on the other hand if you've already converted and you're maybe a little bit softer today not as strong today as you were when before you converted you have no idea what you're missing out on you have no idea what you're what you're wasting what kind of blessing you have the the promises that made to the converts uh it's unbelievable the the protection the things that he said to them but again it's not that every single convert they convert and they become Filthy Rich and popular and so on quite the opposite many converts have very difficult lives as you'll actually see from this story uh but the reward is extraordinary as writes in his uh a uh real story that happened uh uh not too long ago about a GED AED by name ofu was uh actually a uh son of the mayor uh in a uh in a city in uh France uh was born non-jewish and was very very wealthy his father obviously very successful and but uh he felt very empty and uh discovered one day discovered Judaism and decided that he not only wants to convert but he wants to commit the rest of his life to learning T and that's what he did throughout the difficulty of learning the language learning T learning everything he converted successfully and became became an in and uh despite the difficulty financially and otherwise he uh he was able to learn to us seriously and completed the sh uh which is something uh you know without just the Dai like a serious completing of the Shas even more intensive than uh da yomi not to discredit but people understand what I mean when they learn the sh and uh he uh became a someone that uh was uh well respected within a Torah community and uh about uh five years ago uh they discovered that he has AEM is cancer in his tongue and within relatively short period of time a lot of uh uh you know chemotherapy very painful treatment uh he uh eventually uh you know he accepted everything with love uh he was a very righteous person accepted everything with love and eventually took his back uh which happens at times where see that there's a pure uh that uh in a in a generation of Sinners sometimes takes the Roses uh instead of taking the rest because he says listen he could take one precious n like this instead of 100,000 Sinners to at least give these 100,000 Sinners more time to do cha so he took this precious [Music] n and uh as uh after as he passed away his family uh opened his uh his and they saw that his request is uh his request was to be uh buried in uh in in the mountain of and not and uh he wants to be buried in the ground and not in one of these uh floors that people are doing today which is very problematically but long story short because of the danger because it's different location and so on is aadish said okay we we we we found a place you know this is all intraday we found a place but it uh in order to give him the place uh you know it's it cost money it's 75,000 shekels now how is a family that's poorer than poor uh literally a family that uh was as poverty stricken as can be but as happy as can be with the toah satiating them non-stop because that's what they learned from their father they don't have the money they don't have 75,000 shekels you know the body is over there you know obviously time is passing we need to bury him where do you want to bury him this is his last world in Testament what do you want to do and he said well that's his request we have to honor his request okay but we can't honor his request if you can't pay the money so people ask you people ask you what are you going to do the time passes it's 5:30 in the afternoon already we're already getting to a point where it's almost coming to the night it's passing the day it's 5:30 in the afternoon a young American Young American guy passes by and he sees the commotion sees a lot of people and then he sees there's a uh uh you know a Le it's a funeral and he says what's going on what's the commotion about and they say listen this uh his last request was for him to be uh buried in and uh but it cost $75,000 we don't we don't have the money poor people people we don't have the money says hold on a second it's Young American Kid Never doesn't know who he is doesn't know nothing he himself just came to Yesa to uh to learn some Torah he calls his ABA in uh in in America he's like ABA listen I know you're busy I'm sorry but listen there's a very unique situation here there's a convert there's a convert uh that uh just died he was a very righteous person I don't know him but people speak very highly of him and he uh we need to get money to uh to bury him and I learned in Yeshiva I learned in yesh that uh we have to love the converts like you love a so we have an opportunity what do you think is Aba on the spot is Aba on a spot says okay tell give me the wi instructions I'm wiring 50,000 shekels meaning we're short 25,000 but already got 66% of the way to go just once the community got so red up that what Miracle just happened 50,000 came from nowhere that everybody red up everybody started knocking on doors literally within moments they gather up the other 25,000 and they fulfilled his last request to be buried uh among theim and and fulfilled his promise fulfilled his promise to a poor in money but rich in MIT and and and and merits uh by not only fulfilling the uh the the commitment and the promise that he says to the converts I'm going to give you bread to eat I'm going to I'm going to give you food to uh to uh uh food to eat I'm going to give you clothes to wear but also a very honorable grave and that's what he got promises and his promises are never broken they're never broken you see when a person is a real righteous convert they they live this life it's never easy but nonetheless they live this life now you have probably heard no less than 10 times from me and and many others any time converts are mentioned in a positive way that some of the most righteous people that ever lived uh were converts you know we have was a convert uh you know that when the uh asked why why did you uh make asab why did you make the Angels actually asked theem why did you make asab why did you you know he his grandson is amalik your arch enemy said to them it's worth it for me to make because from will come so we have we have a this week's we have the grandmother of the mashiah Ruth Ruth the moite and many other sadik but the one that always everyone knows is that Raba came from from converts was AKA benf his father's name was YF only question is what's the story why did his father convert who is his father does anybody know I just learned this and I'm telling you that when I learned this story both me and my rubel crying that's how beautiful the story is and I going to tell you that and I'm telling you I know you have questions but it's worth it to hear the story I'll try to keep it short and simple but it's not short and it's not simple but it's worth to here so who was RAB aka's father how did it get to where it got to what's the story I mean this is a story of a lifetime but it's a story full of uh struggle it's a story full of suffering it's a story full of the the battle that each and every single one of us needless to say the people that are converts or B need to know like the back of our hand because if Raba was as great as he was and he had to go through all of this surely we can't complain about ourselves but let's see let's see in a uh page 166 167 and on goes to details of who is this ysf the father of RAB AKA and in the city of lud the city of L there was a uh a woman named Sarah a widow and her daughter uh that was a Jewish woman that was exceptionally beautiful and exceptionally righteous and next door to her lived a a non-jewish man that was very beautiful he was a warrior and he was also very wealthy uh very welltoo uh and his name was Yosef now this YF was a very nice person and uh he wanted uh to marry Sarah but of course Sarah would tell him listen I appreciate it thank you very much for being kind but I will never marry you so long as you are not Jewish and really I only want to marry a natural born Jew but YF would constantly try to entice her talk to her whenever he had the opportunity but she was very very modest and barely ever went outside why did she barely ever go outside because at that time the evil Roman Empire was uh taking over the world and had a decree passed on every place that they conquered that the any any beautiful F woman captured by the Romans and put in the prostitution houses they had in every city where this would be a place where all of their soldiers can do whatever they want and this literally was all over the world anywhere that the Romans were had enormous huge prostitution houses as soon as they found out there's a beautiful woman in a uh certain area a bunch of soldiers would show up break down the door kill the husband and the kids take the woman no questions asked and that's it just take that's it put her in this place this unfortunately hurt the Jewish World more than anybody else beautiful Jewish women literally would not leave the house would not leave the house at all in fear that somebody would spot them some uh non-jew would spot them or some Rasha would spot them try to gain favor in the Roman's Eyes by getting their attention saying listen there's a beautiful woman living in that place over there get a few dollars for it recruitment fee and that's it is is gone forever and there's no way to get her back so one day Sarah with no choice had to get something food and she had to leave the house and uh was discovered by some rash who then told the Romans that there is a beautiful woman in this community in lud in a city of L and um without any notice without any warning a bunch of soldiers show up break down the door take Sarah and her daughter with them and bring her to the prostitution house the next door neighbor the righteous Gentile ysep found this out and was following them along of course since he was not Jewish no one suspected him of anything and he uh would follow them along to see what's going on this tadik was so righteous and her daughter was so righteous that even the thought of some filthy person touching her without being her righteous Jewish husband made them both physically sick to the point of near death near death they both had to be put into a hospital but only after the first place that saw them the first prostitution house when the commander over there saw how beautiful Sarah is he says no no no she is out of this world she doesn't belong here she has to go directly to Rome she's in the VIP section with they give it to the Caesar himself or one one of the major uh leaders over there this is something out of this world he literally uh said this you know she's out of this world and they took her to Rome ysep is following the whole way trying to see what's what's going to be but knowing that there's really not much that he can do by the time she got to Rome both her and her daughter get sick to the point of near death they're both admitted to the hospital over there and ysep the righteous Gentile comes every day and tries to feed them and take care of them the best that he possibly can but again he knows that as soon as she gets healthy they're going to take her to the prostitution house which is the same thing that happened to had two daughters one of them was which married and another one of his daughters she was very beautiful but uh because she uh um showed her her beauty just literally one second she enjoyed that someone enjoyed her beauty for a second Hashem punished her and the the Romans put her in one of those prostitution houses and nearly took took her but he saved her with a miraculous story uh we'll talk about another time so we have these two righteous women in the hospital a righteous Gentile trying to take care of them to keep them alive but the same token knowing that if they die it they may even prefer that rather than going and becoming you know public property is so one of the days that yusf leaves the hospital he sees that there's a whole Entourage of soldiers walking in the uh you know going through the streets with their horses and then he sees there's a very honorable person somewhere in between them and he looks and he sees ah that is the Caesars the the king over there his son as his son and he says to the people where to the soldiers where where are you going where are you going he says we're going hunting with the uh with the Caesar son he says your highness your highness he talks to the Caesar son your highness I am a master I'm a master hunter Warrior please let me let me join uh join your honor he said sure give him a horse and uh let's go and that's what happened so ysep joins the uh Caesar's son and his uh rest of his soldiers to go on a hunting trip and in those days it's not hunting like today with guns looking for a deer here and there no they were hunting for Lions they were hunting for Lions they were hunting for Tigers they hunting for all types of very very aggressive animals uh they themselves were aggressive animals and and uh as soon as they arrive at the location as you would have it a whole group a whole family of of lions show up and they say it's on soldiers Go full force with the dogs with everything and start chasing down the Lions we're talking about many many soldiers and everybody's chasing and ysep is chasing and he is following everyone and he sees that the Caesar's son the Caesar's son he's going he's going he's going and his horse gets stuck in something and the Caesar son falls off the horse and everybody else continues to ride on because they didn't even know it happened but because yep was in the back wanted this to happen he sees him and he stops and he sees that the Caesar son is in very very terrible condition broke some bones bleeding everywhere and the rest of the soldiers are hunting going chasing with no care in the world because that's what they came here for so ysep takes the Caesar's son over his shoulders brings him to safety and uh settles him down and he gets resuscitates him brings him back to life he lost Consciousness and as the uh young man wakes up they're both sitting down there and suddenly a enormous enormous lion or lioness or big cat type of creature that is almost double the size of a normal one starts walking down and clocks exactly these two people why there's blood in his way he sees it he smells it he's already tasting it and he comes in for the attack as he sees it of course the son can't do nothing he can barely stand ysph takes the takes his sword takes the Caesar son's sword and attacks this lion and kills him after after that after this Monumental battle where he showed not only that he's really a warrior but he saved this uh this boy's life twice he says I owe you my life twice I owe you my life twice he says let me take you back to your uh you know to your home and they start going now as all of this is happening the soldiers eventually hunted the Lions killed them and then woke up and realized wait a minute where's the boss where's the boss's son they run back to the castle to the uh he's not there they tell the the king tell the Caesar the C tell I'm going to kill every single one of you and your families in a strange death for what you did you forgot my son you lost my son I'm going to kill every one of you the whole kingdom is scared to death the King's son is missing they don't know what to do they're take every Soldier stop what you're doing go look for my son everyone's looking looking everywhere no one knows what to do but suddenly ysep shows up with the King's son as the hero that he was and the son tells his father everything that happened the Cesar tells ysep I owe you my life my wife owes you her life and my son owes you two lives whatever you want tell me you have it and ysep tells him I don't want much from your highness all I want is that there's a decree that your highness has with taking these women and is a woman that I love dearly a woman that I love dearly named Sarah that was taken she was my next door neighbor I was planning on marrying her and she's sick her and her daughter please free her and allow her to marry me without question of course get her out of there they bring her all the way to the castle here she is she's taken care of after she's back to herself the uh the queen gets a chance to meet her and Sarah the righteous Sarah says to the queen please please your highness please listen to me she says sure says I live in L we are Jewish people you have to understand what they're doing to us there's a decree a mistaken decree that has caused a disaster for my people and really for all of civilization where the Romans are taking married women different women from their homes and raped ing them and turning them into prostitutes this is a horrible thing and the queen hears this here's the details of what's Happening here's that women are committing suicide righteous Jewish women are committing suicide as soon as they find out that the Romans are coming and they're going to be one of the people that is going to go and become a prostitute they're committing suicide instead of becoming a tool that these filthy people want to use and the queen hears this and opens a heart and she starts hysterical crying and she says I promise you this will be cancelled and Sarah the righteous Sarah got the Caesar the king over there of Rome the one that was the most powerful person in the world at that time to cancel this vicious decree for all of am is not only that but anyone any Jewish woman that was in a prostitution house was freed immediately and eventually cancel the whole thing so now as this happens of course she's back to herself she's back to good health and they start traveling back and ysep on the way back says to Sarah okay so when are we getting married and Sarah looks at them and says to him listen to me I appreciate you beyond your imagination I even love you for all of the things that you did but I cannot marry you so long as you are not Jewish because what difference is it if I marry you as a non-jew than me being a prostitute for a bunch of non-jews to take me what difference in the eyes of hem I'm still a a sinner I cannot be of course in the other s it's it's against my will but here it's for my will it's worse it's worth I'm choosing to be into married it's worse ysep says to come on convert what do you mean convert I didn't show you I love you sh it's not about that I even care about you but it's not possible I cannot touch you nothing ever until you convert I wasn't even thinking of married and convert but now showing how how how good you are I would want to but I cannot do it he said okay fine so I'll convert she said no no no hold on a second I don't want you to convert for me or I want you to make sure you convert and you're going to learn T you're going to learn t for at least a year before we get married he said ah no sah now you killing me says please please do it and she entices him and he tells him and talks to him and he says okay okay I'll do it so he goes and he starts learning under one of the hos doin hinos was one of the and he starts teaching him and little by little he has his heart opened up where he starts realizing how beautiful the Torah is how amazing the Torah is he has a Brit mil he dips in the M he completes his conversion but he still needs to learn more T in order to meet our requirement all he is converted already he's already a Jew but still not married to her now two years two years have passed but at this point the r comes Doos gives a Shu what's the Shu about converts and he says you know that even when someone wants to convert to Judaism we're not Christianity we're not missionaries we're not uh listen just take anyone they have to have in their mind that they're not converting for any person or money they're converting for sh they're converting for the sake of hem they're converting to honor to fulfill the entire or else it's questionable conversion now at this moment already ysep has fallen in love with the Torah he's fall in love with the tah but now he has a very serious problem why cuz he really initially he was converting for the girl he converting for Sarah he tells Sarah this thing and he says I'm sorry Sarah I'm going to have to leave you why leave me we haven't got married no I'm not I can't marry you why not what do you mean you can't marry me she says listen you can't marry you why I don't want to jeopardize my conversion I don't want AEM to say oh listen your conversion is biss because you converted for the girl so if that's going to if there's even a chance of my conversion not being counted I said I can't do it as much as I love you I I can't do it sah runs to do says re re what's going on please tell me what's happening so the Rob looks into the things and he sees ah so he is a righteous convert if he just learned to doesn't mean that he's a righteous convert if he succeeded to convince the bed de doesn't mean he's a righteous convert but if he's even to such an extent that he's willing to give up the girl that initially gave him the spark to start this whole thing he's willing to give her up he's a righteous convert he says Ys you have nothing to worry about go ahead and marry her and you have a lot of sounds like a wonderful happy story but the story continues just like life does y and Sarah get married after two years of him learning tah and converting it wasn't like a one two three like some people think you just go to the bedine a thousand years ago and they convert you on a spot one two3 no matter what took a while especially righteous converts ysph fell in love with t he's learning T his wife and they have a son and they call the son Akiva and Akiva is a very very special young boy but this young boy grows up in a religious house for only 2 years why only two years when AKA gets to 2 years old sah his mother the righteous tadika Falls sick and dies his mother dies ysep his father who loved his mother more than his own life from the sorrow from the sorrow of losing the love of his life fell sick himself and died and at two years old AKA becomes an orphan child with nothing one of Sarah's friends a Jewish woman was a maid servant that worked at the house at the Mansion of one of the richest men in is named Kal and she said okay she took him under her wings she adopted him and said okay you come with me to work and she started taking him to work and I no Yesa no learning to just learn how to work but this little AKA learned quickly and K noticed this young kid he's smart I can make him one of my Shepherds and AKA was a very very SM smart person and learned everything there is to know about the animals how to feed them how to do this how to make sure they go this and how to make sure they do that became an expert Shepherd at a young age but no words of tah but everyone appreciated them for being what a Shepherd young man Shepherd smart every so often after working a very very long day he would see that several big Scholars come into the home of Kal and they sit with other Scholars there and they start discussing different matters just talking you know in those days there wasn't R to the oral T was not written so everything was discussed orally they would learn the uh the sh orally they learned they knew the entire to by heart and he saw how Kal the richest man of the land gave them so much honor and respect and so on he said I and he thought to himself this AKA thought to himself like what are they even doing what are they even doing I'm the one that's working my my tushi off over here and no one's paying me nothing no attention no nothing and these old men will be here these young men will be here these uh what what they're talking and they getting so much respect why because they think of themselves as Scholars and as it says in page 49b says that AKA developed a hatred for Torah Scholars so much so that he said give me a Torah scholar and I would bite him like a donkey why a donkey and not like a dog CU because a donkey bites he breaks the bones too he hated Torah Scholars didn't know Torah but he knew that the respect that they're getting while he's not getting any of it didn't make any sense to him as you would have it one day this young man ofba is in the uh Fields Shepherd far away from where uh everyone lives and so on and and he forgets he forgets to bring the water so he goes to the place where his water and he sees that everything has bugs in it and all types of Filth and so on he can't drink any of the water so he figures okay so you know event people pass by here I'll ask him for some water what's the big deal give me a cup of water so first group of people passed by and uh he knows them he knows them he can you please please give me some water said no you take care of you we take care of us yeah but we know each other you know we were in the same neighborhood neighborhood no neighborhood we got to water you got to take care of yourself buddy and they pass okay hopefully uh somebody that I'm friends with would pass give me some water as you would have it a group of his friends good friends pass by yeah hey hey what's up what's up how are you high five high five hey what's going on listen guys I'm working I can't go back I'm working right now I can't just leave the Sheep here do me a favor give me some water oh aa now hold on a second now you're playing yourself hold on a second whoa hey buddies we hang out but come on what we're far away from home I can't just give you my last water what if F no I can't I'm sorry cuz but come on I'm thirsty I can't go back listen AA we friends but up to here they go this AA says I'm going to die out here I'm GNA die I don't have I don't have enough to drink I don't what I'm going to do can't even if I wanted to bring the Sheep by the time I get home it's it's going to take too long I need something and then he sees a third group third group and among them is a named the father of Rua was a one of the here is his father and as they pass you see you know the the people that are with Him AKA is trying to get their attention but no one's paying him any attention so Kina sees this goes you guys should be ashamed of yourself there's a young Jewish boy over here you're not paying attention to him stop it they stop they let him off and he comes to him yes my dear son what do you need he said says can I have some water please and at this point he's visibly dry thirsty of course here he gives him as much as he wants not just a cup then akba says to Kina he says please now that you gave me water and I got back to myself could you please explain to me why are you the only one that paid attention to me I mean I had people that I know they didn't pay attention to me I had people that I was friends with they didn't listen to me and even some people next to you nothing only you says to him I am the father of big Rabbi and I learned T and I learned that you must love your fellow like you love yourself is a very very big ruling in the Torah and this for anyone learns what did you what did you just pick up now you picked up that actually used to teach this where did he learn it from this day he learned it on the day the father of taught him this that you love your fellow like you love yourself is a big rule in the so now AKA is at a predicament he says hold on a second all this time I hate these Torah Scholars all this time I hate these Torah cuz they get respect and and all that stuff but wait a minute maybe I'm wrong because people that I know that are ignorant like me they let me die over here my friends my friends my buddies I hang out with they said now listen go fly kite if it wasn't for this Torah scholar if it wasn't for the store SC I'd be dead in the streets right now no one cared and only the reason why he stopped is because he himself is a Torah scholar unbelievable maybe I should learn this Torah but how am I going to learn Torah I'm already older I'm already I didn't go to Yesa I don't have a parent what am I going to do and one day he passes by one of these rivers and he sees that there's a huge rock with a hole in it perfect hole in it it's looks at the hole says wow must have been a big expert made this hole he sees other people there he says oh who's the expert that made this hole said what are you talking about what expert that a hole in that big rock he said no expert did that say how did it happen say the water the water keeps hitting it one drop at a time and eventually it corrodes the Rock and it makes the hole had a idea what's the idea IDE said hold on a second if the rock that's as hard as a rock if the rock that's as hard as a rock could actually have a hole as a result of the soft water then my brain that's soft why wouldn't it be able to get the holy tah the holy tah that soft itself that's fire and he realized maybe I should go and give it a shot and learn to SOA started figuring out I'm going to learn to he doesn't know where doesn't know how doesn't know this but the same token he works all day and as you would have it time passes he gets married he has a kid and he keeps praying to and says I want to learn to but I don't know where how and how I need to make money and of course the wife is not going to let me so why day takes his wife his first wife she dies he says now even more so he starts crying to hasem saying how am I ever going to learn tah before I knew that my wife is not going to let me learn Torah because I have to go make money but now I don't even have anybody that that would even say yes or no and or even let me do it because now I have to support my son he's almost 10 years old I'm going to do it and he started crying to that he wants to learn but he doesn't know how he's going to learn to and as you would have it a who hears our cries and he says you want to learn toah I'm going to make it possible for you what do you need somebody to support you somebody to tell you go do it I'm going to send you who your boss's daughter kalba had a daughter that was as beautiful as can be young 18yearold kid righteous sadika she sees that one of the employees of our father the Shepherd that cleans the horses he has very good traits on him he's very kind very nice is very this and she says then one day listen if you promise me you're going to learn to I'm willing to marry you because she figured herself he already has good traits so what is he missing toah he already has good character traits with he can become a big sadik I want to do it he says you're going to willing to marry me only if you're willing to go learn tah he saw his own prayer be fulfilled why he wanted to go learn going to learn to this girl say she going to learn to they want to get married they're getting married she gets married and secretly and then tells her father our father kalbas is as frustrated as annoyed and as angry as possible to the point where he disowns her he says no I'm making a you are not my you're not going to get nothing for me get out of the house you're not going to get a penny and they get with a little bit of money that they have obviously a IA loses his job and they go end up living in a barn in a barn where there's animals but they have a little bit of clothes there a few things said and you know every night is RA that's very righteous and uh was formerly very rich he's used to sleeping on a $10,000 mattress with all types of uh uh pillows and blankets now is she's sleeping on straw it's a little bit of getting used to and every night she would get uh you know very uh difficult night because the straw going in our hair and aka the would take out the straw out of our hair and say to her I promise you I promise you that if I ever become rich I'm going to buy you the crown the crown called there was a special crown that had uh been crafted in a very very unique way showing the entire city of Y in diamonds very very expensive crown and he says to her as he's taking out the stra of our I'm GNA get you this Crown I'm GNA get you this Crown if I ever become rich and that gave us some comfort they fall asleep that night they fall asleep tough times right times are about to get tougher that very same night a bunch of thieves going to the barn while they're sleeping take everything they have everything that they have except the clothes that are on them they wake up even poorer than they went to sleep saw that this test was very difficult for was very difficult for was very difficult for but what can you do says there's a test to be given I have to give you the test it's for your own benefit but to give them some some mercy and some uh uh you know a little bit of hope he sends themi in the image of just a poor man knocks on their barn and says listen listen I uh my wife just had a baby but we don't have anything maybe you could help us by giving us a little bit of straw that the baby can sleep on something so that's the only thing they had left they had straw so AKA gives him the straw go ahead give him the straw and both AKA and Ra's wife are happy now she see there is even someone that's worse than us for a few more days this continue and then Rael says my dear husband go and learn to go and learn toah he says but I don't even know Al I don't know how to write I don't know to read I don't know nothing she goes okay go start at kindergarten and that's exactly what AKA does he goes to a kindergarten the rabbi over there was was a very righteous Rabbi he sees that AKA and his 10-year-old son from his first wife are uh learning doing everything and his heart is breaking for him he sees an old man is trying and he's it's it's a little bit embarrassing but he's trying really and he starts praying and crying for him to and a opens up up aka's mind and within two years they complete studying the not only the entire alphabet the entire tanak after two years complete the entire tanak AKA goes to a to the city of L to study under the twoos andu who's Ru Kan Kan is the son of Kan that saved his life they gave him the water and he goes and he studies with them for 12 years studies with them for years doesn't see his wife no vacation no off no Ben no nothing Asom says I don't even understand why people even have Ben what are you GNA do with all that time other than learn T what do you what do you need so much ben money says AR Yesa in his day this is not even that long ago says AR Yeshiva is considered as if we are stringent because we only have one month a year of Ben money every two months they have a Ben man they have a break what's the point what are you doing with that break he tells the whole story one of the of America in the previous generation he says what may how he learned T consecutively after 12 years of learning to without a break he goes back home but sends another test the evil Neighbor comes to ra he says look at you your father was right for disowning you look at you have nothing you sold your hair for people to make some uh bags with it and so on you lost your beauty you don't have any money your husband is not even here you think he's loyal to you you think he's really learning to he left you already there says I know my AKA I know my AKA and if my AKA can hear me he would go back and learn another 12 years of tah if he really loves mea without even spending a half a second to say hello fulfills the wishes of his wife turns around and goes back to the is of andu and learned what them further meaning now it's not a break there's no 12 and 12 meaning he's learning 24 years straight throughout this process his own Rabbi say listen AKA R Raba you're a giant You're Something Special you need to open up your own Yesa you're gone you're something out of this world you don't need anym from us go open up your own Yesa he hasn't even said hello he didn't have the money to send her a letter nothing cuz he wasn't collecting money wasn't doing nothing he did not have the money literally did not have the money to send her a letter he would learn day and night without any breaks until he collapsed then start again until he collapsed and every so often somebody would give him a piece of uh bread he would do very very minimal work just enough to get a piece of bread so he could survive the day and immediately go learn to didn't ask fora didn't ask for any gifts didn't ask for nothing right T at its purest form to compensate for this the second open his Yesa he started Yesa people from all over the world heard about this Raba and they all wanted to go learn with them 24,000 students show up we want to be your we want to be your and he starts teaching him to the biggest Rabbi in history other thanu and he continues until there's 24 total years of studying T straight after 24 years says okay I fulfilled the promise for my wife now it's time to go Reby what do you mean it's time to go I'm going to see my wife we're coming she say come 24,000 students show up and of course the news spreads all over the city theor is coming the biggest Rabbi in the world is coming R AKA is coming no no one knows who no one saw there's no Facebook there's no news nothing there's here there's a big name there's the biggest sadik in the world biggest Rabbi in the world no one knows that he's AKA that used to be a Shepherd working for kab no one knows any of this including kab only one person knows ra Rael knows it's my it's Mya that's coming I want to go see the sadik 24,000 students show up and everyone in the city thousands upon thousands of people want to see the tadik and isik each one of them is a bigger sadik than the other little this little woman scrawny little woman she didn't have she she was so poor her clothes were completely black but not black because that's the fashion statement of the day she pushes through to gets closer and closer to see the sadik and AKA was so he walked in the front no one was you know would ever dare to pass him or walk in front of Hima was the leadera was the you're not to walk in front of your Rabbi Shalom so is walking as you would have it there is she gets to a point where she sees she sees RAB AKA and RAB AKA sees her he stops everyone stops what's why is the why is the r stopping this where the is is a gonna come why is the big Rabbi stopping everyone stops the whole world is quiet and he says to everyone move so everyone listens like good little kids and splits like the ocean only one girl one woman one sadik is in the end and the people say move move lady here they give it sta move they think this woman doesn't want to move doesn't want to listen to the biggest Rabbi in the world says quiet my Torah and all of your Torah and all the Torah that we have till this day all the entire all of it is hers all of it is hers because she is the one that not only sacrificed time money inheritance she sacrific our entire being for the sake of Torah all of my Torah and all of your Torah is hers all of it is hers the world Shook at that moment where the two connected and his dear wife ra found out that the biggest Rabbi in the world is here he didn't know it's his son-in-law immediately he says listen I want to meet with this biggest Rabbi hey you got to wait in line but I'm okay you get some uh VIP treatment okay we'll set up a meeting for tomorrow comes to says listen I'm sorry to bother the with such a question but 24 years ago I made a I made a swear that I disown my daughter and you know I don't know I'm hearing bad things she's poor and everything how long can I keep thisa knows he doesn't know it's him he says to him why did you make such a swear he says because she married a Shepherd why would she marry a shepherd He says but might be the shepherd new Torah he says he doesn't know nothing nothing nothing he doesn't know well I mean would you if if the shepherd became someone like me would you want would you be okay with it he says Rabbi if the shepherd even knew one in if he knew the the first verse in the if he knew anything he didn't even know how to pray the shepherd if he knew a single verse I wouldn't care the big rabbi says to him I am the shepherd I'm your son-in-law your swear your NE is null and void why you made it under the wrong pretense on the spot Kal says after he passed out and woke up he said half of all of my money all of my possessions is now given to you and that was only one of the six ways that RAB AKA became wealthy the said became wealthy from six different Treasures that hasem gave him and he ended up buying his dear wife ra exactly what he promised her the crown the most valuable Crown in history and he put it on top of her on top of this head that she cut off her hair just to get some money so her husband can learn Torah she cut off her hair just to make sure that our husband doesn't have anything distracting him what he's learning to this is the story OFA it's obviously not the full story there's a million and a half other details but this is the story of not only Raba and ra and the parts you've heard of but the background of why did they have such Merit why did Raba had such Merit when you come from parents righteous parents like Sarah and your that sacrificed their life for the sake of tah sacrific their life for the sake of what do you expect this is the reason why when came with a couple of other to one of the he told them each one of them got a blessing but AKA he says you are the AKA you are the r that is known in every corner of the world may bless us with more of you as many of why why didn't he say about is why didn't he say about why didn't he say about the others why R AKA it's bad to be them he knew he knew where RAB AKA came from he says listen the other rabbis but they come from meaning his Rabbi his father was a big Rabbi his grandfather was a big Rabbi all the way to all the way to m all the way to these already for Generations what that has why his father is a convert is a good guy wasn't a big Rabbi and not only that he didn't even live with him why he died when he was two years old and you still became May bless us with many more like you many more like you it's easy to say listen this guy became a big Rabbi because his father's a big Rabbi and his grandfather's a big Rabbi but when you see someone it's a b someone it's a convert someone that doesn't have any no Heritage to speak of still overcome all of the obstacles you see wants that may give us more of those people why if you can survive all of that you become r with that being said hopefully you enjoyed the story and it was well worthed for you to listen I see from the amount of people that tuning in and the numbers continue to increase it seems like you guys enjoyed it as much as I did at least okay with that being said let's start with some questions after I get a little drink of water I don't have to depend on anyone other than Hashem to get this water I already made a blessing before okay uh let's see can a Jew go to a Super Bowl party no a Jew should not go to a Super Bowl party as it's a considered m a place of clowns a place of clowns a place of mockery it's considered Tora it's celebrating Sparta which is the Greek and Roman inventions of uh the the Coliseum and the stadium with Warriors in in inside uh watching uh the sports is problematic needless to say wasting time and money attending these events uh is definitely not for a Jew to do no uh Joseph why was Lot's wife turned into salt it seems so Random why didn't she just imploded into dust what's the deeper significance well I mean the uh theim explained to us that when Lot's wife she really didn't want to leave and Lot's wife was not fully committed to doing the the will of hasem and that's the reason why she looked back because she thought that she's going to miss this other world she wanted to stay in the world of materialism and sin and so on so turned it into something that is a uh bitter just like or or not good salty just like she was Sal salty over over the action of following the will of hem and I'm sure if you look at the mid there's many many other and thoughts about the specific issue the real reason of everything is that that was the will of hem why Hashem picked this over a million other things there are different that will give you reasons like I just said and many many others yob why do I have the Merit of being born Jewish uh well apparently the uh your was part of Cl is at Mount sa uh so you are at Mount sa and uh you are one of the people that gave the T for in this week's and anyone that Reed the Tora says that you are my people you are my chosen people and He will go to the end of the world to make sure that his people will always exist and his people will get as many opportunities as uh possible to fulfill their purpose in the world now the reason why you and I and everybody else that's watching this shoe are still in the world is because we have not fulfilled our purpose in the previous lives that we've lived in not during Matan T the time we got the Torah and not during the reincarnations that came thereafter and we had to be reincarnated again in order to finally do complete Chua and fulfill our purpose so the fact that you have the ability to be the the chosen one uh to to be one of the chosen people is a extraordinary thing that says out of the entire world that has not only 8 billion people today but billions upon billions upon billions upon billions of people throughout all of history you are my favorite you are my favorite You Are My Chosen you are the reason why the world exist why because you fulfill the entire Torah or have the ability to fulfill the entire Torah so when a kadhu says I created the entire world for the Jewish people and you happen to be one one of them there's nobody else in the world that is richer than you uh what is different same yob okay what's the difference between G the upper Gom and the lower Gom well first and foremost the the lower Gom is physical it's a physical place and the upper Gom is a spiritual place the second thing is size the size of the two is different the uh the one that's in the world here is is limited in size uh and the second one in the upper world has no size meaning it continues growing there are other things that are different uh but uh for the sake of time this is enough of a talk about it um Y petrid is asking are these spartic or ashkanazi books referring to the uh books that uh by raish again they're neither Safar nor asazi they are M they're Torah they're applicable for all of is uh the ones to learn you know how to fulfill the will of hem whether it's through ethical Behavior whether it's througha whether it's through honoring Shabbat learning about the holidays and so on and so forth it has nothing to do with Ash Safari if you're asking whether Ren was asfari he was a Safar but he also learned with but not one or the other actually matters when it pertains to the learning itself the the learning itself is for all of Am David if a Jewish woman was married to a and now she left him is she required to cover her hair very good question David a Jewish woman that marries a is not considered married according to the Torah she's just considered someone that's sinning sinning by what we call in marriage but it's not actual marriage she's sinning with theoy civil marriage is completely inconsequential and not considered as anything in Judaism the uh the children uh that a Jewish woman has with non-jewish people are not considered that his children they're only considered her children but nonetheless they are obviously children of sin uh which is uh many times problematic the shot uh tend to be a little bit more difficult diffult uh you know as far as the way they are their attitudes their uh their uh their connection to the Torah but also uh many of them are the ones that help their parents do Chua as one of the prophecies that's mentioned in the page 49 also that at the end of the days that the children will help their parents do many times it's the children of inter marriage where the the woman that was Jewish married a non-jew so in essence the children are Jewish Al many time it's the children that eventually do Chua as I've seen with my own eyes with many of my students that are products of inter marriage they helped their parents do chuva they help their parents uh come back to hasem as a result of them overcoming their obstacle and connecting to Torah even though they um never learned T from their parents but uh as far as a Jewish woman that marries a non-jew a uh she is uh simply sinning she's not considered married to him and therefore she does not need to cover her hair after leaving him she just simply needs to do Chua never ever uh be uh together with him or any other non-jew get married to a Jewish man that's righteous that keep Shabbat learns to and so on and then cover hair with and bring of more Jewish children to the world Ean question is does a Jew have to pay taxes on the can he makes uh number two is a Jew allowed to do legal loopholes in business to save money okay so question number one as far as a Jew have to pay taxes on cash he makes if that is the rule of the land then yes he does you're not allowed to violate the rule of the land uh because you're Jewish quite the opposite many times Jews thinks that they could you know beat the system and they're allowed to do it because they're chosen you're only chosen for the Torah that you follow and the Torah that you learn not chosen because your mom happens to be Jewish and you think that you could just take advantage of non-jews it's quite the opposite where taking advantage of non-jews is act or violating the law of the non-jews is more problematic than even violating the laws of the Jewish people because violating the law of the Jewish people they will criticize you in accordance to the Torah but violating the laws of the uh of the non-jew also makes all of the Jewish people look bad and becomes becomes desecration of hm's name so that's something a person should never do if a person makes a living he uh gets paid as a business if it's a business not just somebody gave you you know $50 or $500 a gift you know somebody uh is a uh selling something and makes cash if the rule of the land is for you to pay taxes then yes you have to pay taxes uh a uh there is a uh a uh a permission for for Torah Scholars not to pay taxes but that's a completely different ruling and a different question altogether but that's for Torah Scholars which a unique treatment for them they're Torah Scholars when a Torah scholar someone learned to non-stop he wants to make a living let's say every so often and let's say he sells jewelry but he really spends all of his time learning to but every so often to make the money that he needs to make for the month or for the year oh let's say spend a couple of hours to let's say go to the street and if there's let's say an event and everybody's there selling their jewelry and a toah Torah scholar comes everyone has to shut down their uh their business everyone has to stop until he finishes selling all of his Goods why he's the he's the T SCH he gets special treatment he gets special treatment until he makes his living until he makes all the money no one's allowed to sell anything everyone has to you know look at his merchandise see if it's good and buy it if they if they decide it's good but no one's allowed to get in his way you have to honor for the Torah so he can go back and learn Torah right away same thing goes with taxes Torah Scholars uh you know have according to the Torah not the rule of the land so again you not have to valate the rule of the land but nonetheless Torah Scholars have special treatment according to the Torah when it comes to taxes but the average Joe the average person even if the average person is religious he does not he's not allowed to uh uh to uh not pay pay taxes and things like that uh as far as legal loopholes that depends what you define as legal loopholes uh you know in order to save money in order to make money some people call things legal loopholes not because it's a uh legal but rather because it's a loophole but they just say it's only legal because I haven't gotten caught so you know I can't just give you a blanket statement of yes or no based on uh the term legal loopholes if it's a something that's permissible according to the law you're allowed to do it if it's forbidden according to the law you're not allowed to do it simple I'll give you an example a legitimate legal loophole in America is something called 1031 exchange what's 1031 exchange 1031 exchange is let's say somebody invests money in real estate he buys let's say a house for uh you know for $200,000 now he buys this uh $200,000 house and a house appr appreciates to let's say $500,000 now if he sells the house if he sells the house yeah has to pay taxes on the $300,000 gain right but the United States has a rule has a tax ruling which is in essence called is a legitimate legal loophole which is if he sells this house at a profit he sells it let's say for $500,000 but he reinvests that five entire $500,000 into into a uh uh or invest the money into a more expensive property let's say he buys another house for $51,000 or he buys a million doll whatever it is but a more expensive house even if he really just mortgages all of that money and he keeps all the cash does that that doesn't really matter but in essence he reinvests the original capital and the uh uh the the gain plus a dollar or more he does not have to pay taxes on that gain that he has that taxes are deferred that's a legitimate legal loophole uh there's Bankruptcy Legal loopholes and things like that if it's legitimate legal and it's a way to make money save money no problem but again it has to be legal according to the law of the land not legal so long as you don't get caught that's not legal that's illegal but you know no one got no one caught you so again you have to make sure that uh you're following uh things uh you know at all times um Ben uh how do we fulfill both MIT remembering am and erasing their name from the world if we erase their name then we can't remember them anymore and vice versa no that's not necessarily true because there's different forms of amalik and uh to wipe them all out is not possible by any one particular person there's a people and there's a a thought process so for example a uh if a woman is IM modest and then she finally does does Chua and uh so destroying all of her old clothes all of her wigs all of her uh old pictures of her immodesty and immorality is a form of destroying Amal it's a form of destroying Amal a uh I know one particular tadik that did it specifically on pooling uh to you know magnify the mitvah destroying Amal because it's a special place special time to destroy Amal during poing but a woman that does destroys our uh imod clothes imod pictures everything connected to their past immodesty and from now on only as modesty that's a form of destroying Amal but as far as erasing Amal the the uh erasing their name that is something else altogether that's in essence a uh something that uh sometimes it's a people sometimes it's a specific places but it's not these are two completely separate MIT there a uh Gabby uh the angels to you're answering a question okay Charlie H can you explain the difference between personal daily prayers for cha and as far as what each do um well we doing uh in essence the same thing that's something that us uh do it uh every day and some do it every day like us and some Asim do not they only do it uh during a couple times a year uh theim in Israel I believe many of them do V like theim every day and many of the in America uh do not do Vu every day but V is in essence saying to we sinned and we talk about all the different sins that a person uh uh did uh and it gives you a point of reflection in order to say I'm sorry at least uh so that's a uh saying I'm sorry already elevates the person's n uh especially if they are uh uh taking it to heart not just mean it but taking it to heart uh many of theim uh that may not know this but and may not know this the ones that don't do V do it's not because they're Wicked or they are uh don't care but quite the opposite the ran says that a person that does V without that V ends up becoming a prosecutor against him uh because you're saying while you're thinking about baseball and basketball doesn't look so good in your so some of the said that because maybe people are not going to have kav it's better off they don't do but the and many other disagreed with this and they do V do every day but nonetheless doing VI as a form of chuv personal daily prayers for chuva is in essence talking to hem in your own words your own language saying to hem I'm sorry for the things I've done please AEM help me with learning Torah help me with schom help me with serving you and ask for Spiritual things most people focus on asking AEM for physical materialistic things that's a mistake you can ask for materialistic things you can ask for money and things like that but that should not be your priority it should not even be the the the uh the dominating part of your prayer it should be a minority of your prayers all of your requests or virtually all of them should be for spiritual growth to be able to serve AEM more to learn more T to understand more tah to remember more tah to enjoy the into more spiritual request why more spiritual what about money if you ask AEM for more spiritual more good things real meaning you actually mean it I want to learn and you really try is not only going to bless you with the materialism with the uh spiritual growth and and uh but also with the material growth so personal prayers are something that you can do every single day V is something that you do typically twice per day and sometimes you know three if you do some people do V also uh but the point being is is that uh a person should do V every single day day and of course if somebody is uh on their deathbed then uh they should do V uh to at the very least do CH before they die uh it's very important to do that it's a very big mitah uh to help somebody do when it's even uh probable that they would die uh there are some people uh that did that V uh you know several times because they thought they were going to die several times uh and uh you know but uh you know obviously there's no harm in doing that but nonetheless it's a hasem miraculously saved them but the point is that had they died at least they know that they won't uh die without doing Chua uh as far as that's a v that is much more detailed it's much longer and the V of has a lot more pertaining to immorality crimes wasting seed uh into marriage being with a non-jew uh uh incest and uh and so on and so forth It's V it has to do with a uh with the bigger sins that are correct the bigger sins that are correct whereas that we do have every day is a combination of both the big and the small but it's a much shorter V elh my dear helan how are you as we see our sages were and are geniuses other than the fact uh hasem gives wisdom were they using more capacity of their brain and can people train themselves to be above the average and using their brain power uh as far as the uh if you look at the uh if you look at thear and uh the beginning of the uh most there is a blessing in the inside cover and in there there's a verse from Proverbs that hem gives hasem gives wisdom so uh many times there are different that talk about themselves that say that uh for example the rambam the rambam as a child was known as a as ail as a fool he wasn't a good student and it wasn't until he cried with bitter tears as a as a young boy uh that Hashem opened up his mind so uh the uh most of the sages weren't necessarily born Geniuses it's just that they love the Torah they toil for the Torah and eventually opened up their brains open up their minds and allow them to you know retain a lot more information develop more ideas and surely use much greater capacity of their brain now as far as uh can anyone do it yes anyone can do it as far as a uh any Jew can become a any Jew can become the biggest Rabbi in the world but they have to study like the biggest Rabbi in the world how do you become one you toil in Torah and you make that your number one priority in your life more important than money more important than anything more important than anything else if Torah becomes the number one thing in your life you will eventually become a uh but sometimes people like Torah but they like Torah from a distance meaning they like Tor for other people to learn not for themselves to learn so person that learns and toils and toils and toils will open up their mind and they'll become a uh very uh you know they'll become how big they become as far how how big of a because of course there's you know there and there's a there's different levels how big is based on their on their self-sacrifice uh the bigger the sacrifice the bigger the uh the uh the you know the and uh but sometimes the people uh want to be big before they even become a and they start pretending like they are and the say I believe it's says that a person that does that is is a fool and the reason why is because the the biggest they you know the they also get a lot more suffering than the average person many times but they could handle it so they don't they're not complaining every day like us you know about their life's troubles they are serious likea never complained about the fact that he didn't see his wife for 24 years he didn't complain complin about the fact that his first wife died he didn't complain about the fact that he grew up you know without parents he didn't complain you don't see him complaining at all he's happy gol lucky his whole life especially even at the end when they're peeling his skin these wicked wicked people will killing him in front of everyone is saying he's saying as excited as can be this is the person out of this world how come the big they're able to handle a lot more of the suffering of the world as the says a certain amount of suffering that has to be in the world and a bigger batch is given to theim why because they can handle it but when a person pretends to be a sadik when they're not what happens hm gives them more suffering why you want to be sadik you go some of the suffering let's see what happens and they can't handle it in the breaking so a person should always know that being to be a real person to be honest person is not only beneficial in the uh long run but it's also beneficial in the short run uh when a person is a faker uh it's a uh it's one of those things that can't stand um let's see I know some of you are asking multiple questions but I'm going try to answer questions for people that didn't ask uh Emily is the new building for Torah study still pending uh yes I discussed it in the beginning of the sh uh we need to raise more money uh so uh we need to raise a lot more money so we could buy a building uh we uh we signed a leasee But the lease is most likely going to be canceled because the building that we signed a lease with made a mistake that they are not able to have a synagogue or anything of assembly in their shopping center unless they uh get a variance from the city which is a long and expensive process uh that uh you know I don't believe that they want to do uh so most likely we're simply gonna have to uh raise money in order to buy a building so we could eliminate any of this craziness but that requires uh you folks to uh to come up with money uh you know if anyone that wants to wants it to happen but anyway next uh Joshua was the m and the written before during or after the two mikdash uh very good question so you have the uh the mishna was the entire oral toah we already got in Mount sa but it was or for many many years until the generation of was after the mikdash uh was after the BET mikdash second bet mdash and was a put the Mish into writing because he saw that the deterioration of the generations there's no more mdash there's a lot of things that were different at that time obviously a lot of Destruction and so on uh so he knew that the uh people were not going to be able to continue remembering all of the tah so he took advantage of a uh of a uh uh really that uh was already available to some extent from Mount Si but was practiced originally by yonatan benel who was the first one to put some of the written the oral tah into writing uh and many other put it into writing but they didn't write books for others like everyone had their own notebooks or their own Scrolls for themselves but they didn't have the oral tah and writing for other people they had everyone had their own Scrolls for themselves but uh reos decided to put the oral t for Mass uh printing for Mass uh for public use and he put the uh uh mishna now the mishna was much much greater than the six parts that we have butos with his wisdom minimized it to the uh the core Foundation the Torah that are sages of AK you know all the way you know to mhu the Torah that they studied was multiples upon multiples upon multiples bigger than the Torah that we have in our hands today written but nonetheless it's a uh the Mish that put together is the six fundamental parts of the mishna from that a couple of generations later uh they uh put uh turn it into a is in essence asking questions about the Mish asking questions of because the mishna is in essence the core foundation of the idea but that was appropriate for that generation later generations argued how did they arrive at this conclusion what is the real secret behind this mishna there's a million and a half different things you can learn from this one sentence and the the's whole point is to teach you how to think in order to arrive at the conclusion and also to know that all possible questions were asked asked about this Mish before they got to the conclusion or the uh the argument itself so that's but both of those things happened after the bet mikdash the was written something around maybe 1600 years ago or so the BET mikdash was destroyed about 2,000 years ago that was the second one the first one was destroyed about 2500 years ago see JPI uh this is my name and I sto dating a Christian so I don't have any conflict of interest in my conversion process oh very good jei excuse me um shap uh what should I do for my threee anniversary of being a practicing Jew this is a huge for for years I was very anti-religious uh then hasem woke me up and my life is looking for uh looking up for uh year three uh I'm going to Yeshiva this uh was uh two fantastic what you should do as uh anniversary of of three is make a commitment spiritual commitment of what you want to take on from now on so for example if until now uh uh you are studying let's say an hour a day so make a commitment that from now on you're going to study two hours a day uh an anniversary of of your uh of your achieving this level now it's time to pick up an Notch so if you're studying an hour a day now it's two hours a day if you're studying two hours a day now it's three or four hours a day or if let's say for now until now you studied let's say the Kash with commentary and let's say some now it's time to let's say start learning take a you know pick up a art scroll start with which is very common to start with and start learning or if you have someone that can teach you you could learn with with somebody that's a Torah scholar that can teach you that knows a learning that's uh just as good or even better then uh but the point is take that take that whole thing on not just learning the one but take on okay I have been religious for three years I studied this much but now want to take on the next thing in the name of hem what am I going to do I'm going to take on I'm going to start learning until I complete the entire but not just once many times but obviously start with completing the entire sh uh uh uh uh you know obviously one time and then move on to continue learning for the rest of your life but take more Torah into your life make a bigger commitment and think big think big why because when you think big when it comes to spirituality and you really want it will give it to you glad you enjoyed the uh the story uh few of you like the story it's good I'm looking for questions guys oh here we go jeppi why would hasem allow someone to be born to a Christian and believe in idolatry I understand that the world is supposed to be a mix of Jews and Gentiles but why wouldn't AEM lead all people towards his grace or is it because all people have free will and that this can happen Okay so the r uh writes that uh before Judaism before gave Judaism to the world gave Judaism that was really uh just the Hebrews it was Abraham yob the Hebrew people but the uh the rest of the world was just idolatry now once we got uh we got the Tora Judaism was born and then there was so there was in essence two things there was Judaism and it was idolatry people pray to statues would pray to dogs we pray to all types of other animals we pray to uh you know all types of uh stupid things uh they would sacrifice uh people for their false gods they would sacrifice all types of animals and unfortunately some of this stuff is still done to this day but the point being is that there was just Judaism and idolatry so because cares about all of his creation the rambam writes that in order to prepare in order to prepare all of creation for the inevitable and eventual arrival of the Messiah the Jewish mashiah not not Yos not Muhammad not any of these people but the Jewish the one and only mashiah that's the descendant of David in order for everyone to be able to be part of that and be saved as one of the either righteous Jews or righteous uh Gentiles in the world the uh Hashem wanted to in essence steer the world into something that's a little closer to uh to Judaism even if a person is not Jewish so in essence he allowed the world to have these two uh other religions that for all intents and purposes are also monotheistic now uh Islam according to the rambam is 100% monotheistic at least the Islam of 800 years ago that the rambam was discussing today's Islam I believe is similar if not the same but some people tell me that it's different either way when they say Allah they they are they're talking about the same God of Israel but again the point is is that according to the ram Islam is considered monotheistic Christianity on the other hand is considered idolatry but most Christians do not consider themselves Idol worshippers because they don't think that thinking that God has three parts is idolatry they don't think that God being a human being is idolatry they don't realize that they're Idol worshippers so the point is from their perspective even though from the Torah perspective they're wrong but from their perspective there're you know the Christians and the Catholics are also monotheistic and so are the Muslims Islam so that makes it easier for them to to accept the not only the one and only God but also all of Judaism and the entire Tor and the Messiah when that time comes either in their own particular lives and they can convert or become righteous no hides or when the mhia eventually come but again don't think for a second that anyone that still believes and follows uh these different types of heretical beliefs and Idol worshipping beliefs is going to be saved by the Messiah they're not they're not even though they were taught that way and so on they're still not going to be saved only people going to be saved at the time of mashiah are people that follow the Torah only the Torah nothing else uh so but the point is in order for somebody to abandon uh let say a statue and go and uh become a uh you know a believer in tah it's a much further stretch than let's say somebody abandoning let's say the New Testament and just following the Torah which they call the Old Testament so it's a much smaller jump much easier and in essence much higher uh likelihood of success hence the reason why page 3B says that before mashia comes there will be a lot of converts a lot of people converting the Judaism uh as uh the the world matures and uh gets closer and closer to its ultimate uh end uh when msah comes more and more people are going to discover the truth and uh in their last opportunity and uh any is asking are Jews and or noites allowed to own pets if so is it against spray or neuter them uh thank you for your time uh very good question uh Jews and noids are allowed to own pets uh it's a uh not necessarily recommended for everyone to own pets but it's allowed a now why is it not necessarily recommended specifically for Jews it's not recommended to own uh you know a dog because for cabalistic reasons the dog has a lot of Tuma a lot of impurity and therefore it's a it could affect the the person or the house so they have to be very careful when it comes to that even more so it's a very big responsibility both for Jews and for noites to own a pet uh you know because everybody wants to buy a pet usually because they're a puppy or they're a cub they're something really really small and cute everything when it's a baby cute uh but the reality is is that the Torah tells us that if you're going to have a pet uh you have to make sure to feed it before you feed yourself meaning if you have food you cannot eat until your pet ate so if you're not going to follow that rule it's better not to own the pet because you're violating the Torah that pet is causing you to violate the Torah so it's allowed to have a pet but again you have to know the laws of owning a pet also for a Jew uh to uh to have AET pet they have to know that on Shabbat that pet is considered M meaning you're not allowed to hold your pet you're not allowed to pet it on Shabbat uh and if you going to have to walk it let's say in order for it to relieve itself you have to have a very short leash and make sure not to pick up the waste not to pick up the waste uh because that waste is considered M so there's laws that have to do with owning pets hence the reason why I say it's not really recommended because most people uh you know don't know these rules and they end up in the tah for for for the sake of these pets which is ridiculous uh but if somebody knows the rules and is willing to follow them and is going to follow them they no problem they can have pets I have actually a friend of mine he's an he learns T and he has like his house like a little Zoo he has all types of animals he loves animals he has parrots he has all types of birds and fish and uh reptiles and dog he's got a whole zoo in his house and he loves it oh good fam he learns a lot of to so it's not necessarily like something that makes a person stupid or makes a person Wicked it's just that again you have to know how to deal with it and what to do with it and if you do then perfectly fine many of our sages were shepherds were constantly around animals whether it be sheep or dogs or or other types of animals and obviously Farmers so having uh animals has been a very very critical part of society needless to say am since the beginning of time where we're not against animals but we have to know how to treat them and if a person mistreats an animal that is a very big sin which leads to the second question of spraying or neutering spraying or neutering is forbidden forbidden according to the Torah it's unnecessary suffering for the animal and it's forbidden according to the Tora because you are doing something called which is torturing the animal for no reason if you don't want the animal to mate either do not bring it next to another animal or don't have the animal simple you know people that just cut body parts of animals thinking no no it's they feel better as a result of it you know they grow older it's the dumbest thing ever why don't we cut you up a little bit not you Annie H Shalom but the person that wants to cut people up and cut the animals up and cut all types of part part let's see if you live a little longer you know people just you know torture animals thinking no no listen I'm doing it better for him look he my friend did it and his his his dog is much happier okay buddy let's see if we do that to you let's see how happy you're going to be it's complete nonsense it's completely according to the Tora it's forbidden it's called which is causing anguish to an animal uh unnecessarily so uh it's a if obviously there's a major disease of some kind you're trying to save the animal's life then obviously uh doing surgeries and things of that nature is allowed but uh to just uh do something out of spec ulation that it may be good for them or as because you don't want them to uh to hump your couch anymore or anything like that if you don't like it don't have the animal simple uh simple there's no reason for the animal to suffer uh now someone could say yeah well if I don't do it then my husband won't let me or my wife won't let me adopt it and if I don't adopt it the shelter is going to kill it that's all cute and it's a nice rational argument in your mind but that is not a certainty that's only speculation Works off of certainties not speculation so you're not allowed to neuter an animal uh so your wife or your husband allows you to adopt them if you're going to own them you have to allow them to live in peace without uh cutting any body parts whatsoever and causing them unnecessary anguish uh next Daniel Shalom no that makes a living out of producing music but some of it that I get asked to produce contains profanity and nonsense in lyrics what can I do in order to continue on with my profession without facing this issue uh I would say that you should uh focus on uh just the vocals uh you can produce the vocals and as long as you produce the vocals or whatever they're doing with the vocals it's their business as long as you're not the one that's producing the uh the stuff that's profane and so on it's not a problem now again that's being a Noah you have a lot more uh permission to do a lot of other things that Jews are not allowed to do technically you are allowed to deal with the music uh even despite it having the profanity but it's not recommended because uh you know you dealing with profanity could lead you to profane thoughts and profane thoughts would lead you to wasting seed and wasting seed is forbidden so it's a uh the the basics of it are not forbidden but what it leads to is forbidden hence the reason why I say it's better for you to um deal with just the uh the vocals and not with the uh the stuff that's more uh uh direct and uh and problematic plus you don't want to uh have that garbage in your mind at all times there's plenty of people that make a good living uh you know just dealing with vocals and not with profane things you could also uh start doing things for a different genre of music it doesn't have to be hip-hop and dance music you could deal with country music you could deal with classical music there are many many different genres of music that do not require profane and filthy Behavior or language so you could uh uh have different uh songs you can even do Jewish songs uh it doesn't all necessarily have to be uh bad stuff you could pick your clients and remember in in the world of business your clients are going to be like you your clients are going to be like you and uh that's generally how the world works you'll see people build their businesses and most of the uh their clients are very similar to them in in uh in um mentality and so on uh Sarah uh we learned that four sages got into the PES benayah Ben z a and RAB AKA why did all of them except RAB AKA die or abandoned the Torah or lost their mind if they had a lot of Torah knowledge having a lot of Torah knowledge doesn't mean that you they're all in the same level uh it doesn't mean they're all on the same level one of them chose to die one of them chose to die uh because once he saw what he saw in the PES he did not want to leave it he it was too much joy for him to uh to to let it go so uh he uh he chose to die uh but it was like choice but without a choice meaning that it was just so good that he couldn't let go uh you know something that uh Beyond Ecstasy of some kind uh the one that uh you know lost his mind is again and uh it's it's a person had a lot of tah obviously enough of Torah where he knew how to elevate his n uh to the heavens while still being alive but just because somebody knows how to do something doesn't mean that they should do it for example there are different uh cabalistic names that if a person knows what they are they can do different things like you could for example uh uh use a specific cabalistic name that if you say that cabalistic name you can make a lion stand up stand up and start uh roaring start roaring uh there because what that cabalistic name is doing it's commanding the angel of the Lions to uh to to force him to do it and I've seen this with my own eyes actually happen somebody did something and it made a lion uh Roar and so on again believe or don't believe this stuff exists so now just because somebody does that doesn't mean they should why because that angel although he's going to listen to what you said as far as the command and do that with the lion but at the same time you're going to see whether you're worthy whether you're worthy of even saying his name and if you're not worthy of saying his name that angel could hurt the person that's the reason why there's a hospital a very special Hospital in y in the area of har for people that have lost their mind as a result of dealing with cabalistic things of saying specific names and different types of cabala teachings that they did not have them the the the the ability to deal with they had the knowledge but their n wasn't the pure vessel that it needed to be in order to be able to handle it there is a Heavenly light that comes from from the and that Heavenly light is a if the vessel I.E you me or anybody else is pure that Heavenly light is going to uh bring uh good to that person in a certain way but if the vessel if the vessel is not 100% pure then that light will cause major anguish and pain for that person because it's burning off the little bits of Filth coming from sins coming from lacking and so on that are on that person's n so it's a a person that uses real cabalistic things uh when they're not ready for it uh can and uh lose their mind and I actually know at least one person that did and lost their mind and uh one day once you lose your mind it's it's not something you can get back uh so the point being is that out of the four people out of the four people that went to the PES only was the uh the vessel that was able to handle it uh only just like for example out of all of the prophets we've ever had there are 55 prophets mentioned in the tanak and over 1.2 million prophets throughout all of history out of all of the prophets the ramb writes in onlyu was the one that was able to receive his prophecy while being awake and and walking around the rest of the people they were they were KES you know of course these are Big you know the prophet Isaiah all of these people but none of them were able to receive the prophecy while being awake all of them had to either do it through uh a dream or some type of uh epilepsy or or a certain TR or different uh things that in essence they were all laying down and uh not alert if you will in in this world uh when they received their prophecy they were not capable of doing it only mosu was and the by the r explains that's because mosu purified his character traits to the point of perfection it was the difference prophecy between all of the prophets throughout all of time was based on how much they perfected their character traits so allthough all of them were perfect in comparison to us or what we could ever be but the point being is in their level some reached let's say 75% of their potential 80% of their potential 85% of their potential mosu reached the top he reached the Perfection and that's why he was able to receive prophecy at the the highest possible level due to his Perfection of character traits hence the reason why he's called the Hest man that ever lived the others are also called many many good things and Hashem says I love abah ainu and uh and a lot of compliments about the other but nonetheless none of them were prophets like mosu because mosu perfected his character traits he became the perfect vessel to the point when Mal came to take his when he's 120 the the uh uh when he came the the Nish told theem I don't want to leave the body I don't want to leave the body this body is so pure it's so perfect where else can I go that would be so where the body became as pure as the nem says yeah but has a job but the sh wanted to continue serving hem in the body so the came in for the attack M beat him upu beat up the Satan he ran away the Satan he couldn't take him he couldn't do it that's why says M I love you and he gave him a kiss and he had to take out his himself why couldn't do it that's how beautiful amazing extraordinary and every compliment under the son mhu was no one before or after was like mosenu not even the mashiah not even the mashiah will be like mosu uh so that's that's the key but that was was all based on mhu perfecting his character traits hence the reason why we emphasize Time and Time and Time Again whether it's me or all of the like Shalom ra all of the Giants all of the Giants constantly constantly talk about perfecting character traits as being the fundamental necessity to servitude of hem yes you need to learn the laws you need to learn the and all that other stuff but without perfecting character traits a person can is simply an animal that is worthless uh because that is the whole purpose of a person is to perfect their character traits the more person perfect their character traits the better they're making themselves as a vessel to serve we'll take a couple of more questions maybe a little bit of drink sorry okay uh Steve are Jews allowed to teach no Heights Torah Torah Concepts and M uh well that's exactly what I'm doing uh there are Jews and non-jews that listen to my lectures there are Jews and non-jews that learn our Torah on a regular basis part of the job of the Jewish people is to be light to the Nations and to teach the uh the noahides Torah but only the Torah that's permissible to that meaning I am not allowed to teach noahides the laws of Shabbat and that's be to because they're not allowed to keep Shabbat they're not allowed to keep Shabbat I'm not allowed to teach noahides the laws of family Purity because noahides are not supposed to keep family Purity they don't have to necessarily uh be together when the woman is uh is is impure and she has a period but the laws of impurity is one of the main ones is that she has to go to a mik you know Noah don't go to the so the point is I'm not allowed to teach them the details of the laws that only pertain to Jews uh but the laws that pertain to them the Torah that pertains to them which is the five books of Moses the the prophets the writings and uh M which is ethical teachings they're not only supposed to learn it they're obligated to learn it in order to serve hem so where are they going to learn it from they're going to learn it from a rabbi uh it's much better for them to learn it from a rabbi than to learn it from someone that's not a rabbi because the obviously the the rabbi has spent enough time to know what he's allowed to teach them what he's not allowed to teach them I actually had one time a guy that uh started uh learning toah with us uh and he was a very very nice guy uh and um he uh wanted to convert to Judaism but he had all types of issues and so on uh that were delaying things but long story short he was very very nice guy and uh he uh you know he got a little bit ahead of himself like some people do he got a little bit too excited uh when he got into uh Torah and everything and he said listen I like what you do I said what do you mean you like what I do he said you teach you make videos and so on I said yeah okay well first focus on you know focus on learning and then teaching you know focus on you know learning enough and eventually becoming a Jew and then uh you know you could uh think maybe eventually you'll teach he didn't really like that advice and he decided to start making videos making videos teaching toat not teaching uh uh things that were uh just Rel into no hides but teaching things as if he's a Jew he looked like a Jew he had a keeper like a Jew he grew a beard like a Jew and for all intents and purposes people thought he was a Jew and he started teaching to to people as if he's a Jew and this was very very problematic uh there's not much that I can do but did his own and uh not only uh did he uh stop teaching but he lost his desire to even be Jewish eventually uh why because when a person does not learn toah that he's supposed to uh and he only learns T that he feels like he's doing that means he's not doing it for the sake of hasem he's doing it for himself many times people tell me listen I know I'm not Jewish but I really want to learn gar I said yeah but if you're not Jewish you're not allowed to learn gar yeah but maybe you're wrong I said that's not my opinion it's what sages say you know learn now I'm going to learn it anyway okay learn whatever you want it says death penalty for for know how that learn but you want to do it go ahead and do it but the reality like oh no I think you're fanatic it's actually helps me gets closer to Hashem blah blah blah reality is not only they're not closer to hem they're further from hem why because if you were learning Torah for the sake of serving hem that means you would listen to the Servants of hem and you would listen to what Tor says itself but because you're learning tah while forsaking The Messengers of hem and you're just learning toah the way you feel like it that means you're not doing it for hem you're doing it for yourself meaning that all of your Torah is one big pile of ego and the Tora says ego is considered disgusting in the eyes of hasem so all of those people that don't listen to the sages they are no hides and they keep Shabbat anyway they're no hides and they learn anyway they're noahides and they do things that are forbidden for noahides no not only you're not going to get a merit for it not only you're not going to get a reward for it but it's actually a sin you're going to get punished severely for you're sin going to get punished severely for same goes with uh Jews Jews that learn tah that's inappropriate for them they're not going to get rewarded for it so for example somebody to Bal Chua just started yesterday he decides he wants to learn cabala he wants to start learning Z he wants to start learning things that are not appropriate to him he will not get rewarded for this he'll get punished for this and I've seen time and time again people don't want to listen and they suddenly have all types of problems in their life all types of issues in their life and they're like oh why ISM doing this to me I'm learning five hours a day yeah but you're learning things that you're not supposed to learn you're learning things because you don't want to listen to the rabbis you're learning things because you don't want to listen to anybody you became your own Rabbi you became your own M you're not learning t for the sake of hm you're learning t for the sake of you and that is egotistical T that is forsaken so the point is if a person is going to learn whether right church noahide or a Jew learn T from a rabbi then they could be rest assured that they're going to learn things that they need to be learned but if they see that their rabis is teaching them specifically things that are forbidden then that's not a rabbi that's a clown uh so that's uh or perhaps the rabbi forgot they're not Jewish uh so you have to uh you have to decide you have to know but the point is anyone that's watching my generally speaking I don't go into the details of Jewish too much uh to the point where it's forbidden for people to learn uh even if they're not Jewish but uh even if I do go into the details of something because more than 90% more than the majority of the Shure is General stuff that's applicable to to all of society the entire sh is allowed for everybody to learn uh next question oh okay so when someone asks me to pray for them what am I supposed to do is there a recommended way uh sure when you're praying in general when you're praying either you're praying your amida or your you're praying just with your own words you should just you know and while you're praying have in your mind the name of this person uh son or daughter of whatever the first name of their uh mother is or father but uh generally it's mother uh and for whatever purpose that you want them to uh you know whatever the reason they ask you to pray for them so for example if somebody's sick Shalom someone's sick says pray for me so while you're praying and you're you know you're thinking thoughts of asking for hem not just the words that you're saying but also thoughts for yourself Hashem give me good health give me money give me a good wife give me good kids give me a husband give me this give me all the things that we ask for hem from also include this person and all you knowm all also please give this person good health uh so they could serve you better give them uh whatever they need to be given have mercy on them and so on that's it simple just like you pray for yourself pray for them and the says anyone that prays for his friend his own prayers get answered first meaning if one of the best ways to get your own prayers to be answered first is by praying for somebody else uh because it shows that you care about somebody else Hashem cares about you even more as a result because that's one of the traits of hem so when you pray for other people Hashem answers your prayer first which is fantastic uh okay El we miss you does the have to work more for their wisdom as Einstein said they use about 20% of their brain or AEM also givs them all of it there are some guim that are extremely smart in different fields uh so I believe it says if the come to you and says we have wisdom we know math believe them we know architecture believe them we know history believe them uh we know different Sciences believe them medicine believe them no problem theim can be experts in many many things uh and they could be Geniuses in many many things and as we've seen throughout history there are many many guim uh that are pure Geniuses uh that have made major uh advancements to society I have met a few that are fantastic people that are very very smart people and are not Jewish no problem you don't have to be Jewish in order to be smart there are many many smart non-jews uh throughout all of history uh but the Contin says if a go comes to you and says I am a Torah scholar do not believe them why because gives the gift of scholarship in the Torah which is not something that's only based on the amount of books that you read and the uh the uh uh the amount of time you spent but also a gift from Heaven specifically of a Clarity of Mind of understanding what things certain things mean Torah scholarship is unique for the Jewish people doesn't mean that a non-jew cannot be knowledgeable about Torah sure there are many non-jews that are knowledgeable about Torah they're knowledgeable about character traits development they're knowledgeable about the stories of the Torah they're knowledgeable about things but to get to the point of scholarship where they could understand how to in understand the intricate details of the law and so on absolutely not that's a unique gift that hasem only gives am is only gives because has a unique that's fine tuned to receive that that's not something that's attainable by the non-jews even if they study their whole life if they want it they have to convert to Judaism because that requires the Fulfillment and the practice of the mitv as a Jew uh but so that's not necessarily brain capacity but rather more of a fine-tuning of the soul and more of a soul capacity not necessarily the brain capacity even though the soul technically uh part of it the big part of it is in the brain last question we'll take for the uh uh night um Michael uh is there any way to know where we stand with Hashem as far as uh if our efforts to improve are making us gain his favor uh yes or no uh yes or no the more a person Tunes his life uh with the will of hem uh meaning he knows he used to pray uh once a day now he prays three so already you know you don't need hasem to give you Divine Providence to know that you're doing better he used to learn T half hour a day now he learns two hours a day you don't need AEM to send you a text message tell you you're doing better he used to think about hem only five minutes a day now he thinks about hm five hours a day you don't need hem to tell you you're you're doing better a person knows if he's doing better he knows better so point is that a person knows if he's doing better uh and what Hashem tells him in essence that him doing better is in essence hashem's opinion now that's only if he's judging himself in comparison to what Allah is meaning what his responsibility is and what the law is if he's simply comparing himself to himself only in his own opinion only that's not necessarily a good indication why because he say listen I didn't murder anybody this year that's not exactly a good sign why because just because you're comparing yourself to last year you weren't murdered five people and you didn't murder anybody yes this year not necessarily such a big upgrade because it was forbidden to murder anyway and anyway saying that you didn't murder anybody this year doesn't say so much because it's only a month into the Year you still have 11 more months to go so the point is that you have to compare yourself always to Al aside from that the uh there is a different gift uh there is different gifts that a gives a person from time to time that uh is more like a uh you know I'm watching you I like you good job sometimes those gifts are in dream format sometimes those gifts are in a mental capacity an opening of the mind sometimes those gifts are things that happen to you physically in your life different gifts that are clearly from Hashem like there is no doubt that that's from Hashem that's a special gift from hasem and that is very very unique it's not one size fits all not everybody gets it but the point is is that the people that get it usually make major sacrifices for the sake of the Torah and 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