Be careful what you choose - Parashat Korach - From the teachings of the Ben Ish Chai

[Music] we are in parashat and we discussed the other day if you remember that koach the problem was that he was jealous and he thought felt that he's the one who has to become he has to get to the position so it starts from jealousy and it ends with death why because he was jealous of moshe rabino instead of being happy with his own part which don't get the story distorted koa had everything everything that a person would want he had he was a millionaire a billionaire for that time he was a talmud he knew a lot of torah he was part of the family he was a leader he had everything kids the whole thing why that one little detail that you don't have and that spoils the entire dish what's the big deal so you're not a kohen gador like as if it's such a easy job but nevertheless there was jealousy jealousy of course brought hate and anger which dragged to lashon allah which dragged to a whole argument and what was the result that he got sucked into the ground if you remember the other day we talked about uh that he wanted o'shell remember he wanted the power and we separated the word osha into two ein vav and shin and reish then i said since he wanted the first part then he got the first part of osheo the iron in the valve which if you remember i explained that the valve is numerical value of six and uh he became a slave to his money which is avid the bet and the dalet is numerical value of six so the iron involved of osha that's what he got if he would not be jealous if he would not start a fight in an argument then he would get the other side of the word osha which is a minister and a leader and so forth so with that said let's see what it says here it says as follows our sages have explained to us that the tribe of issachar yamin the entire tribe of isaja were taurus torah scholars and they would learn day and night i'm sure you're familiar with the deal between issachar and balloon swollen was a business owner and he would go and make business and issachar would learn torah zwollen would supply 50 percent of the money to we also know that later on great sages came out of the tribe of issachar heads of of great assemblies and so forth velohair they weren't busy with the manual labor they were the yeshiva backers also in our generation there are men that sit and learn all day long of course many will mock it and say they're they're milking the system and they're lazy and they just said learn to all day long it's not so easy to learn all day long and it doesn't matter they do their part we do our part okay so the tribe of issachar was not busy with working the land ella not neem call per hotel they would leave to the tribe of zvulun you deal with the fruit that's how it says the crops the land to work on they would give all the work to zvulun and even if they actually had physical things they would give it to the volunteer to sell and to work um so the woman will come back give them money to live by and there you know the the the deal well if he said according to this benefit since the tribe of isaf they have no business in properties they don't deal with that loim so what did you get from that that they weren't working for their own living somebody else worked for their living which is pretty simple math so what does that mean they have the real wealth because they're getting the money from here and they're dealing with the torah all day long so now you can't call in slaves because they are 100 slaves for the torah they're not slaves to money in our generation 99 of the population of the world are slaves to their money and if it's not necessarily to the dollar bill they're they're slaves to their rent to their mortgage to their car lease to their credit cards to whatever they're slaves you need money you can't live without money so this is a type of slavery so issachar you can't call them slaves because they were learning torah the fact that there was a deal with these the vulners the woman gave them money i know many people that their parents give them money and they just live off their parents or somebody else and they're busy with learning torah so so when you're looking at the tribe of isabel all of them technically they should fall under the second part of the word osher which is a sar right a minister now can they all be ministers no but sar is somebody that is in charge over something else which means that since they don't work for their money so they have a hundred control 100 control over their money the money is not controlling them they control the money so there are people in our generation that they work for their living but the money or the job they're not slaves to that they go make the money and that's it most people again not to insult anybody most people are slaves to their money and you see it that somebody wants the the new iphone that came out they will go into debt to pay this for that iphone and people want to drive a nice car they will go into debt just to drive a nice car and something saying wow look he has this gorgeous guy he must have a lot of money no he doesn't it's all on credit it's on a loan it doesn't have money and that's where you see i mean again it's not necessarily all over the place very common that people they go into debt they go in under stress they get another job why so the house would look nice then the phone the watch the car should look nice so i want to impress everybody or everybody in the community and the neighborhood ever with fancy cars i need a fancy car that's a slave to your money in other words but since issachar did not work for their money so they were a minister over their money so they're not slaves to their money velazes if you really want to inherit the best of this world is like that you are immersed in torah all day long and you don't care about the money the money will come is not going to throw you to the to the dumpsters the lodge who takes care of everybody like i told you many times we when we say because amazon they will say hazano me farnestla call feeds everybody um he gives them parmesan parasites your livelihood now many people they don't have a muna so they think that they have to run around their tail to get the money they don't understand that you need to do your part as we explained two days ago you do your part will worry about the rest but i told you not once or not twice you don't see animals stressing in the street because they don't have money they know they'll go in the garbage they'll find some food and they'll walk around they'll find food they don't have cats on anti-depression because they can't have a make a living they go into the garbage they get food they don't worry they know there's going to be food so why are you worried of course you have to do ish that loot you have to do your effort hashem will take care of the rest now it says it says about is that he was a hamorgaren khamor is a donkey and garem hamorgan means that he's able to take on himself a very heavy weight some people they carry the weight of the world on their shoulders some people a little bit of stress and they fall into pieces isaja was a very strong individual mentally he was able to carry on him the weight of the torah you know what it is to learn to all day long it's not so easy a lot of people think it's you're just sitting on a bench and you're learning most people cannot learn 10 hours a day after half an hour the brain is already like i'm not getting anything it takes years to get into a point that you can sit in a shiva for 12 hours so issachar was like a donkey can take a heavy weight targumo the the translation there are many types of translations of the text the famous one is unclear his properties so he's blessed with many properties and one might say but he's learning torah he's blessed with properties because when you learn torah and the torah is your life hashem takes care of you financially and you are considered blessed with property veda and this is where we find in the tribe of issachar why not because he's not busy with his own money he's busy with torah and he gets his money via dua and we know misha washer a person we know that a person that is rich if a person is rich then usually the wealth will control them it says in the talmud if you hungry for money you'll never be satisfied you get a hundred you want two hundred you get four you want two hundred you get two hundred you want four hundred never is enough and you see that that is one out of a million that has a lot of money and that doesn't let the money control him most people the money when they get to a certain level they become so hungry money that they will crush anything in their way just to get more money more money i'll kill half of this planet just to make money and we see it with our own eyes so he says here misha washing a person that is rich his wealth controls him a lot of people want wealth this is a very hard nissan very hard test better not to have money money just brings problems by the way might bring you a nice car but usually money brings a lot of problems because now everybody's jealous of you everybody's using you now you become paranoid why are you my friend or you want to use me why are you coming to my house you want money and people are getting oh all crazy because of that then of course arguments lawsuits fights i've never seen a happy billionaire by the way and i've been to some pretty rich people in my last 15 years because when i go on all my tours what do you think hosts me all the billionaires of the town they let the rabbi sleep in my home and i never seen neither one of them happy they have money pouring out of their ears and zero happiness of course there's always an exception don't take my words and say that i'm extreme i'm just saying with my own eyes i've been hosted in the most wealthiest areas in the united states with people who are worth billions very few of them are genuinely happy usually they're afraid what's going to happen i'll lose my fortune i lose my money lawsuits everywhere everybody they become paranoid everybody wants my money trust me it's not a nice it's a very hard test to have money even though some people say that money solves a lot of problems but it also creates a lot of problems so here he says a person that is very rich very wealthy the wealth controls him why it makes him very arrogant most wealthy people are so arrogant they think they own the world they become full of full of pride arrogance and all sorts of disgusting minot this is considered a slave to his own money here because his money so to say forces him to be arrogant and to be pretentious then a person becomes a balga a lot of pride i built that building i built this building i once i once was in some place where the very wealthy man hosted me and the whole shabbat oh it was showing off i built that yeshiva oh this show i built it oh that i gave them five million dollars and you know in the first few minutes it was wow very nice after five hours like that enough okay i got the point so you know how to sign checks big deal so hashem gave you some money so anyways it was too much together and of course when a person has too much gava too much ego and pride then he becomes a slave to it and then then what is the result is exactly the result of korach so the torah comes to tell me there's nothing wrong with going and making a living there's nothing wrong with living nice that you don't have to live in a in a tent or in poverty but there's a very fine line when you work for your money or your money works for you you have to make a very strong separation what's what's the power of money in this world if i make them if i make money to use it to my to my uh my benefit good but when i lose the right focus and the star the money starts controlling me then i become a slave that's something that many people fail and this is one of the many reasons if you remember two months ago i told you when the corona started i told them the corona is not the problem we have other viruses on this planet corona is not a problem the problem then when it came out if you remember i said the problem is that the the entire economy of the world crashed everywhere every country that was the problem the economy the money the finance if you remember then i explained that there's a prophecy in the talmud saying and ben david the son of david cannot come up until there's not going to be any money this can be any money so here i added a little twist not everybody found it so interesting but of course you know that the globalists are interested in making a cashless society no cash right everything digital through a chip through whatever they want so that means there's no more money in the pocket so when the talmud says the son of david cannot come till there's no money in the pocket just just imagine what they saw two thousand years ago but we're not gonna money in pockets it's all gonna be digital but the thing is that the money is the cause of most problems in this world so in order for there will be redemption in the world hashem says i have to take away the money that you can't depend on anything you can't depend on a bank giving you credit you can't depend on a little card that you can buy stuff you have to depend on the cashback so we're having a very powerful lesson that hashem says you can only be a slave to one thing to me it can be a slave to anything else and for sure not money because that's the most population of the world that there are slaves to their money the smart people they know how to live very humble they don't need much and they don't need too much pampers and comfort and i need spiritual sustenance i need good things in my life not physical things so it's already a good thing as a as a human race to start getting rid of physical things not to be attached to all this physicality why because eventually it will make you arrogant you make good in business you make money you have a beautiful car i know many people when they get a beautiful car suddenly the chest is a little bit more out the key the you know the car key is on the hand why because it has the bmw on the car key if it was like a toyota the car keys in the pocket you should not see that i driving at toyota but if it's a bmw or mercedes the car key is on the table so everybody should know see i have a fancy piece of metal this is all fake all nonsense just makes a person a slave why because you need to it's a pitch that you need to throw money in better to invest your time in smarter things and the most important lesson to take from that is we see what happened to kovac as they say and it's happening till today the money blinds the eyes of sadiq so there's a beautiful explanation why it blinds them it could say the money uh captures their heart or any other way why is our sages say they choose to say kessafe avvernate so they came it will blind them why because with money you get bribed today everything works with bribery how much is that it's going to cost me what do you want me to write here i'll give me some money i'll write whatever you want it's all bribery it's all money now what happens is when i bribe somebody they look the other way so that they blind them from the truth so our sages say that the money blinds the eyes of righteous people because they take the bribe and suddenly you forget about the truth you're blinded so we got to be very careful that this power that money the roots coming from a very negative place should not blind us should not affect us look at the rama was a gazillionaire didn't affect him look at many other people in the past that there were multi millionaires you know how rich jacob was coming out of haran with six million sheep he was an empire who wanted to eat who he didn't even have room to put the sheep from so much but it didn't affect him so we have to understand money is a tool to get what i need and not to become a slaves husband shalom to physicality why the result will be pride the result will be arrogance disagreements la genera and lycovac got swollen into the ground well also some people get swollen into the ground and sometimes it can be physically chemical we should stick to the kalosh stick to the torah who takes care of everything of us our physical needs that's really what we need now that's why the kaloshva was crumbling for the physical needs in this world so we will start getting used to depending on hashem and not on anything else hashem should all be free from any type of slavery and it says who is a free person that is a slave to the torah if you slave to the torah you are free from any other things the torah will set you free as the mishnah says that the letters on the tablets were engraved in hebrew engraved means you engraved the letters were engraved you can't erase it the mishnah says don't call it engrave call it call it freedom when you are then the words of the torah are engraved on your body and your soul and your mind and your mouth that's the real freedom you don't have any strings attached to anything in this physical world because of the shame we should merit to apply that in our in our lives [Music]