Parashat Bereshit - Destroy the source of all destructions - Rabbi Alon Anava

hard to not notice that uh the world is a little bit uh going through a mess and uh not only in the general way you look at the world that it looks like the whole world is not stable even every person in their own personal life seems that uh nothing is stable nothing is quiet nothing is calm challenges problems issues so we're starting now barem a whole new year and with the new year we're starting the Torah all over again the first Paras of the torit is one of the most powerful if not the most important parasa of the Torah and I think not only that it's the most important parasa it has one of the most if not many of the most important messages that the Torah has to give us and unfortunately like I said because in so many years there's no time to learn it that we don't give importance to this parasa the beginning of the Torah is talking about a very sad encounter about the sin of the tree of knowledge and uh the reality is that at every second at any given moment each and every one of us is continuing the sin of the tree of knowledge and we don't even noticing that not for nothing the Tor starts specifically with that story The to could have started with many other stories okay so it starts with the first six days of creation and all that but right after that after it says to us very clearly that it's hasem that creates the world and he runs the show and right after that we have the whole encounter with the tree of knowledge and when we looking at this a sad encounter we okay we maybe attribute it to something that happened 5,785 years ago the sad reality is that each and every one of us sin in the Sin of the tree of knowledge every day every almost every second and that's one of the main things I want to talk about today is where do each and every one of us sin in the Sin of the tree of knowledge and of course the Practical rectification to to throw a blame that we're sinning that anybody can do now we know that we're sinning but what's the Practical uh things to do that I won't be sinning in it [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] now I know I know that we're now technically already in parat Noah but uh it's almost every year that Paras falls on like the week of and we have like a day of enjoying the and that's it last year happened to be that was on Shabbat so we had the entire week after the week of bit but not this year and not many most of the years most of the years we don't have much time to learn of bit so this week we'll take the time to learn also on and no although if know now now this week is par no but we can't ignore the first and I think the most important Paras of the Torah bit the beginning of everything in everything that we do the beginning is always going to be the most significant and now that beginning the the cycle of the Torah the Torah starts with B these are the first three words that the Torah starts in the beginning hasem has created in these three words that's the foundation of the entire Torah and the foundation of the entire world and that's why I'm saying it's one of the most important parot and with one of the most important messages the Tor can give usim that's in the beginning hasem created everything it's coming to tell us that everything is the creation of hasem everything is under the control of Hashem and like I said it looks like in the personal level and also in a global level that the world is collapsing and in many of the cases we tend to blame blame many others whether it's individuals or in this case countries or governments or whatever but really at the end of the dayim hasem is controlling everything he's creating everything he's running the show so really we can't even put a flame of finger on anything really when you're thinking about it why because theem is the one who's supervising everything so even if something seems bad or is physically bad and we want to place a blame on somebody but really at the end of the day the ones we need to go with questions or demands or or or anything is the master of the universe and when we understand that everything is his supervision his creation his a he's running the show then everything looks completely different now again when we looking at the world seems the world is very unstable anywhere you're going to look doesn't matter if you're looking Financial Wars Health everything everything looks completely fragile and at any given moment something can happen especially here in Israel every day a new new news another terror attack another bombing another missile and it's like this in all over the world not only in Israel but nevertheless when we focus onim in the beginning hasem created that needs to make us understand that not only that it's the creation of hem he runs the show he supervises everything and when we realize that then everything looks completely different with all the sad news that we have especially here in Israel that every day somebody else is somebody else dies there's a terror attack or some other action but it's like I said like this all over the world but in this week's parasa we see the first terror attack the first murder in the in the history that one person kind gets up murders his brother and at this point he murders about a quarter of the population of the world it's Adam is as a kind in heaven so killing one person that's the quarter of the population that's a pretty big terror attack although okay we know based on commentary Rashi Z Rashi says that K was born with one twin sister and heaven was born with two twin sisters so that's already making it seven people so one person is a seventh of the world can you imagine now a terror attack or Shalom some more that a seventh of the world dies you talking here about a billion people we're encountering the the first murder in history or I like calling it the first terror attack and it says in the midash specifically inim that K comes and murders Heaven the body of Heaven is thrown on the floor and it says in the midash that Adam and they didn't know what to do they're looking at the body what do you want me to do what do I do with the body they don't know what to do they didn't have kadish then that you're talking here about right in the beginning of the creation they didn't know the mid says they didn't know what to do with the body and the midash says that Hashem sent a raven and there was another dead raven on the ground and the Raven took the B body of the dead raven and buried it into the ground andam and saw what it needs to be done and that's how they knew how to bury heaven now comes a big question how did Adam and don't know what to do I mean after all we just read a few verses before that that Adam was in such high level of intelligence that every creat every creature in the universe was brought in front of Adam so Adam can name it all the animals were brought to and he would look at the line and say look at the Gira this is giraffa and everything by looking at the essence of the animal or the creature and he was able to name the animals soam has such level of intelligence to name the animals and he doesn't have the intelligence to know what to do the body of his son more than that we just read a few verses prior to that that it says about you came from the earth and you're going to go back to the Earth so he couldn't figure out that you came from the earth and the body doesn't go back into the Earth so the question in the midash what that Adam and didn't know what to do with the body doesn't make much sense but let me tell you really what the question in the midash means when it says they didn't know what to do the Minash explains they didn't know how to continue now after they lost their son what do you do now how do you deal with the pain how do you deal with the trauma how do you deal with the Lost what do you do so when the mid says they didn't know what to do no something they didn't know what to do with bearing the the the body they didn't know what what what now unfortunately each and every one of us faces tragedies in their life and you get to a point that your ANS have now watch what do I do especially Shalom if you lose a loved one now you look at Israel so many dead soldiers so many people get murdered every day it's actually every day and I don't wish for anyone to deal with that but when you Shalom need to deal with a situation like that how how do you deal with it now this is Extreme not everybody loses a loved one but in many of the situations that we have in our life we get to a point that we ask now what how do I continue I don't need to now H specify the disaster that each person has to deal with but every person in their life wakes up in a situation that you're like how I how now how am I going to deal with this and it can be a loss of money a loss of business a person that cheats you out of your money it could be so many different things I don't want to even name examples but the question is how do I continue so when the midash ask says Adam and didn't know what to do they didn't know how now what one son comes and murders our other son how do I continue with the pain what what do I need to do right now so Hashem answers them just that you would know that in every situation that it seems like the world is about to collapse and when I'm saying the world is about to collapse I will tell you in other words what I mean every situation that is bad or evil in our life I would say that it comes as a result of hate even if you're looking like at a terror attack okay so the terrorist hates us or something bad happens to you in your life Shalom then in most of the cases it will be result of hate somebody hated and the chain of event brought to a certain situation so in the situation of Adam and when K kills heaven and they don't know what to do with they're lost then hasem tells them you know what I know that hate is what brought the situation but just that you know that love is always stronger than hate in any situation that you're going to look of hate yes hate is the problem of is the source of most problems in the world but hem gives Comfort to Adam and but just that you know that love is always going to be stronger than hate now comes another interesting question so if this is the entire message then why does theem send them the Raven to show them how to bury the the the body the midash says they didn't know what to do the midash answers Hashem sends a raven to take the body of a dead other Raven and buries it in the ground but if we're all talking here about a completely different thing that and didn't know didn't know what to do how to continue with their life so why why we need the whole show with the Raven so the Raven unfortunately is known to be the most cruel animal in in in the animal kingdom has no mercy has no remorse to a point that the Raven gives birth to the little H Raven chicks and after a day or two throws them go figure it out doesn't even bring them food doesn't do anything throws the the the chicks orever it's called theim you deal with it hasem wanted to show Adam and that even the Raven when he saw the the corpse of his friend had some Mercy Mercy was aroused that the even the Raven had a little bit of love that love is always going to be stronger than hate with that said now we can continue talking about what I started about the sin of the tree of knowledge the sin of the tree of knowledge in Hebrew is called the sin of the tree of knowledge good and bad and that's the first sin that's how the Torah starts and that's what we're going to focus on today because I have told you before that each and every one of us I don't know how many times a day many many times a day I will be very easily saying hundreds of times a day each and every one of us sins in the Sin of the tree of knowledge how how can it be that I sin in the tree in the Sin of the tree of knowledge I don't even know where the tree is what to do what to how so pay attention pay attention because this message is going to be a very very strong and powerful and probably for the ones who will accept the message and apply it will change their life so as you know every letter in the Torah has a big meaning every word every sentence but every letter but more than that every punctuation of every letter is huge in the Torah I'm sure you heard not once or twice that you sit in the besset you sit in the Sho the person the poor person reads from the Torah if Shalom he will say who instead of HE everybody straight who like of course everybody's right it has to be read the right way but the poor person that is almost killed for saying something o instead of e and everybody enjoys to to scream it like as if let's see you read from the Torah and not make the mistake but even the punctuation of one letter makes a huge difference that changes the message even it changes the the meaning of everything so there's one punctuation it's called Nik of one letter in the Torah that tells the entire story of the sin of the tree of knowledge and the punctuations in case you're wondering what I'm talking about you have a DOT that's it would sound e you have three dots it's called seol it will be e this that's the punctuation so we know that there's one punctuation that tells you one that tells you the entire story of what is that I'm sure you know the story in case you don't I'll refresh your memory even though I hope that you heard the Torah yesterday but the story goes that hasem creates Adam and the Tor says very clearly that he created Adam and K one body face in the front was Adam face in the back was and after that he separated them but one while there were one Hashem build and created ganeden and he places Adam in ganeden and he tells him from what you see all the trees you can eat from whatever tree you want first of all that's the N the First Source in the Torah which I bring a lot that it's going to return When mashiah comes all the trees now most of the trees they're they're called Barren trees in Hebrew it's called it's a tree but no fruit out of it I said many many times that when mashia is going to come all the trees are going to bring fruit so we're going to have a lot of new fruit when mashiah comes and where do we see the source for that in G all the trees you can eat from saying in other words that all the trees gave fruit but then he gives him the rule but says but there's one tree that I don't want you to eat from and that's this tree over there it's called the tree of knowledge don't eat from it because the day you're going to eat from it you're going to die okay sure enough you know the story The Nash the serpent goes to kava tempts her she suddenly becomes very kidish and very strict and she says no Hashem also told us even if we touch it who asked you to add Hashem said to eat not touch anyway so The Story Goes that the serpent temps she eats from the Tree of knowledge not before she also feeds and you know the the rest of the story and one of the first things that the Tor says that they H realized that they're naked and they were very ashamed right after that Hashem turns to Adam and he pretends like he's going into a conversation with him and he tells him where are you so Adam says no I've heard your voice and I'm embarrassed so I'm I'm hiding hasem says what are you embarrassed from what you ate from the tree that I told you not to eat that you embarrassed that you are ashamed what does says it's the woman she the woman you gave me she she gave it to me oh so when hasem goes to she doesn't take responsibility the the serpent he gave it to me in English you can't teach the Torah in Hebrew answers I I will translate in a second and then says now in Hebrew means in the future it should have been said so should have says the woman that you gave to me gave it to me and I ate says I will eat and K says the same thing the serpent gave it to me and I will eat so one punctuation it should have been a the Torah changes it and it puts a SE it says I will eat so one pun tells you the entire story of the mid mid says what does it mean I ate in the past and I will continue eating throughout the entire future they're crying and admitting that the next sin is about to come they're admitting yes I ate but here's the next the the next sin is waiting I'm I'm going to sin again tomorrow and again and again and again and again I will continue sinning so admits I I lost control I failed your commandment okay that's very Noble of you that you that you admit but also says I lost control I will continue eating that's the whole story of the sin of the tree of knowledge now we really have to understand really what happened that sin we have to understand what happened and we have to understand what's in the tree of knowledge that causes us to do such mistakes that I will continue and continue and continue and continue how many sins do you admit that you did and then you continue doing it and you continue doing it and you continue doing it we just pass you admit all the sins Bravo and then a moment after you continue doing the sin that you just admitted that you did now I'll ask you another question what does the shim one from us because hasem told Adam and not to eat from the Tree of knowledge because the day you're going to eat from it you're going to die but really the serpent was right on the money he told Adam and Hashem doesn't want you to eat from this tree because the day you're going to eat from the Tree of knowledge you your eyes will open up and you're going to be wise like a god so what hasem doesn't want you to be wise if the tree of knowledge will open up my eyes my spiritual eyes and the physical eyes and bring me wisdom why hasem doesn't want me to be wise Shem doesn't want to give me nothing makes nothing is clear nothing makes sense and then I'll ask you another big question what's the idea behind it that after they ate right after they ate from the fruit of the tree of knowledge they became very embarrassed of being naked a second ago you weren't embarrassed walking around naked in the Garden of Eden Rashi actually says that and were busy mating and the Nash the serpent saw that and he desired K and that was the plan I'll kill Adam I'll take a second ago you're running in the Garden of Eden naked suddenly you eat a little fruit suddenly you embarrassed of being naked what what was so big what Revelation have they received that they had to cover themselves okay so now that we presented the few few questions and a few problems let's see what the Torah says the main part of what we're going to talk about is the main source of the healing of everything so in the tree the the the the sin of the tree of knowledge they lost what's called that that the Torah translates the words thatt as a connection but when it says that in the Sin of the tree of knowledge do they lost the dot I know do can be explained as comprehension the Torah says no that in this case is Unity is connection really what they lost is they lost their positive inner voice you all have an inner voice I'm saying you me too by the way I also am human I also have an inner voice and comes a big question who is this inner voice that talks to you all the time is it your voice is it the who's talking who's that voice you have a voice in your mind that talks to you 24/7 batteries never run out you don't have to charge even the batteries of that inner voice the sin of the tree of knowledge is that they lost the connection of the positive inner voice of them and what it created is that the external voice became an inner voice the external voice of the serpent became now their inner voice that's what it means they lost their connection what's the connection the connection to their inner voice to their real real inner voice now of course what's the T from that I'm telling you that's straight out that's the sin that's the result of the sin and if you're paying attention I just told you that we all sin in the Sin 100 times a day minimum so again let me repeat for for to be more clear what's the result of the sin of the tree of knowledge that they lost the connection to the true positive inner voice and that result was that the external voice became internal that's it so now you have a problem you have a voice inside of you and you don't know it's if who who's talking you is theem is it your your soul is it the is it your evil inclination who's the one who's giving you advice all day long because somebody's giving you advice all day long how to conduct your life and in 99% of the situations that advice is not good advice right you're not getting the right advice from your inner voice now what's the T what's the rectification to find out who's inside of me talking or if I would go by the words in Hebrew to do the sifting who's talking right now a person that is healthy in their mind and Shalom don't get me wrong I'm not telling you that you're not healthy in your mind but I'm saying a person with a strong healthy mind that conducts his life according to the Torah constantly knows how to ask himself or herself what is causing me to do what I'm doing right now that's a healthy person I do something doesn't matter right now I'll give you a few examples in in moments the right way is that you make some type of analysis in your mind asking yourself what is causing me to do this right now I'm about to do something good ask yourself what is causing me to do this good deed right now and the good deed can be shutting up your mouth at the right moment being patient being kind whatever it is and vice versa you're about to do something or you do something and you need to right away make some analysis what's causing me right now to do this that's a very healthy way of thinking now of course not in an OCD in a May that way that it becomes compulsive the second that I know how to control the inner voice that and who it is that the voice from that comes the Salvation from that will come Thea the healing but how do you know how to do that when and how so let me ER explain a little bit the story and then it will be easier to explain what the Torah teaches us so like I told you hasem created first he creates the entire world with everything in it and vegetation and water and the Sun and the Moon and creates an entire world and once the world is completely created then he creates ad and it says he puts him in puts him in to serve to work to pray and he gives him gedan now imagine really that's how we need to imagine a time of M because that's what's going to happen everything will go back to the original state so is placed in ganed a place of per Perfection no worries no problems don't need to worry about his livelihood food everywhere eat from whatever you want as much as you want no hate no competition no pollution no nothing a place of perfection just him and his uh girlfriend running around there mining their own business okay mining their own business the Torah says clearly that Adam and were busy mating now comes the serpent and don't imagine like a little spaghetti coming into ganeden because people imagine the Nash they imagine like a cobra or something no no no the serpent looked exactly like Adam and he had he was standing on two legs when the punishment was you're going to crawl on your stomach all your life hasem cut his legs off it wasn't a like I said like a little a snake the Nash serpent goes into G we not going to get now into the zor and the cabala about it I have enough classes online where I explain more in depth what it means but nevertheless the goes and he sees Adam and naked and he sees them together and he's jealous he wants K he thinks she's beautiful and he wants her so so he says okay I'll go and kill Adam and then there's no other people here then I'll get right I will take a quick stop to tell you go and watch the class they gave about two years ago or three years ago I don't remember ER the title of the class is called was kind in heaven humans or reptilians that's I think the title of the class don't see we learned from the Z what what the zor says what was going on there clarifies a lot of issues but nevertheless let's focus right now on what we learning here the Nash the serpent was jealous of Adam cuz he had a beautiful wife and he was planning on killing Adam so he can go and marry K and again don't imagine a cobra or a Viper or or a rattlesnake the serpent looked like a a human being so he says if I'm going to go straight to adamar and kill him I'm going to have an issue with the Creator so I'm going to have to make some type of uh scheme here that I'm not I'm I didn't do anything so he goes to and he you know like I told you don't imagine a snake he comes in he's all muscular put some gel in his hair put some cologne on himself he comes and stands next to ganeden he wasn't in ganeden but he's outside he's starts singing TOA some love songs come takt with a violin he has a rose in his mouth he charms okay so we know the women are can be very easily H tricked and persuaded so he he tricks her he comes with a convertible BMW and he's like hey there more fish in the sea honey your man is not the only one here and and uh he shows her some uh you know how they say now some bling maybe brought her a nice watch some rings I don't know what he did there but he came to to to trick her okay so like I told you before he comes and he tells her how about we have a a a glass of wine you and me I mean after all we do know that the tree of knowledge was wine it was a Vine a Vineyard uh there is one opinion that they ate from a fig tree this opinion is supported by saying because right after they found out they're naked then they covered themselves with leaves of fig tree so the commentary says with the same tree that they sinned the same that's the tree that they needed to cover themselves okay that's one opinion there's a few other opinions in the talmud arguing one opinion says it was wheat and all opinions er er ER conclude that kava took grapes she squeezed them and made wine and gave wine to adish that's the tree of knowledge it's not an apple that's an invention of Hallmark apple is not part of the argument but nevertheless H the serpent says TOA can I buy you a drink and she tells him listen you know she suddenly becomes very Orthodox and she says no uh God sent says not only we're not allowed to eat from this tree we're not allowed to touch it so and she adds on her own opinion the serpent tells her not allowed to touch it who says so he pushes her that she touches the tree and he say tells her you see you didn't die it's all nonsense and he tricks her by saying God doesn't want you to eat from the Tree of knowledge because the day you're going to eat from the Tree of knowledge you'll receive wisdom like a God and you'll become like a God and the creator of the world doesn't want to have competition that's it gets convinced but I'll tell you what's the problem she before she even got convinced she gets jealous of the potential wife that maybe Adar will have if she dies she's still not convinced that she's going to survive eating the tree of knowledge he says maybe I will die and if I will die then Adam will get a new wife maybe younger than me maybe more attractive than me oh no no no no no no if I go down he goes down so she makes sure that she gives also from it Shalom that if she dies that he doesn't get to marry another woman so what do we see here we see jealousy we see curiosity we see Charming look at what's going on here this is the hours is is a few hours old and already jealousy and curiosity and all the Temptations and then of course they eat from the Tree of knowledge and the result is that the found the source of the foundation gets soured and damaged that's really the results okay question question is not oppos not presented by me rather by R the myON says why was hem afraid that Adam and will eat from the Tree of knowledge it's not the Tree of Life the tree of life if they would eat then they will be immortal it says clearly in the Torah that hasem kicked and out of GED that shalom they should not eat from the tree of life because if they would eat from the Tree of Life they they would be immortal hasem was really afraid that's already the commentary the Zar says that Hashem was afraid that if they eat from the Tree of Life then also death evil and all these bad qualities will be Eternal because when mhia is going to come there's not going to be death there's not going to be hate there's not going to be all these bad attributes and feelings and emotions and jealousy and hate and so hasem says if they're going to eat from the Tree of Life all these bad things will also be Eternal better kick them out so okay so rambam says if the problem with the tree of knowledge is knowledge and the serpent was right you would gain knowledge why hasem doesn't want ad and to be knowledgeable he doesn't want him to have wisdom and like I told you before Adam had knowledge and and intelligence before that he the he named all the animals so it's not that he was stupid before that so what is the root for that what is the root is that eating from the Tree of knowledge is the root of all destructions destruction of any normal thing that's the root of it okay so now comes another question why were they embarrassed right after they ate from the Tree of knowledge why did the Tor say right away they ate and whoop and they became embarrassed who who looks at them there's nobody in the world to look at them who want they embarrassed from from the leaves from the the the the birds in ganeden who who do they need to be embarrassed from why does the Torah tell us right after they ate that they became embarrassed okay now let's H dive a little bit more into the to the not to the problem but to understand the issue and how to correct it the sin of the tree of knowledge basically what happened to us as humanity is we fell as hostages in the hands of the yet of the evil inclination what is this evil inclination I'm talking about these external voices that talk to us all day long and why am I saying fell hostage first of all the word in Hebrew in the Torah says naevi but when you are a hostage unfortunately now there's dozens of hostages in Aza a whole year can you imagine a year passed people like you and me are sitting in a tunnel right now and are in in inhumane situation and condition but what will is the nature of a hostage he has no say you can't say anything you have no rights it's not like the prisoners on you know the irony the the joke is is that the Prisoners the Arab prisoners that in our prisons they have rights they come into our country kill rape and brutally murder women children babies and they have rights they get food they get three times a day food medical assistance you know they get lawyers too they have lawyers so they're not hostages because they have rights they have a say a hostage doesn't have nothing they can't say anything you know that our hostages a whole year are in AA no no no official saw them the Arab terrorists that are in our prisons the Red Cross comes to see them they have visitations our hostages don't knowbody went to see how they are so hostage is when you have no say that whoever is holding you is controlling you 100% you have no opinion you can't say anything you have no control you are 100% under the control of who whoever took your heart ostage and the sin of the tree of knowledge is that we became Hostage to the external voices you can call it now the your evil inclination but to these I choose to call it this external voices in you control you 24 hours a day they control you they tell you what to say to who to say when to say how to act what to do what not to do you are a hostage and why is it called the tree of knowledge in Hebrew it's called it's not the right translation by the way because that is not knowledge but nevertheless it says it's the Torah says that is a connection so what is the sin of the tree of of is the connection with the external voice before that there wasn't an external voice didn't have a didn't have a external voice that's why we call the serpent the yet also cuz he came external he wasn't allowed into G and he gave an opinion so that the the tree of knowledge let's forget the word knowledge right now let's call it connection my connection to the external voice that is I'm the hostage of this voice and this voice is telling me what to do all day long their problem is it's not knowledge that's the thing that's why you can't learn to in English it's not correct to say tree of knowledge the problem is that the is the connection what am I connected with with what is not permitted I you think Hashem has an issue with us having knowledge when rambam asks why Hashem doesn't want us to have wisdom that's not the issue the issue is not wisdom or knowledge the issue is theem didn't want us to have connection with the external voice that tells me what to do and now I am connected to this external voice that tells me what to do when I'm not allowed to do it that's the problem it's connected me with what I'm not allowed to that's why if you read the Torah clearly it says to to is good RA is bad Hashem says this is good this is not good that's it but I have now a voice that tells me who says it's not good the to will tell you this is permitted this is not permitted this is culture this is not cure this is pure this is not pure this is permitted this is good this is bad the is that the the voice that tells you what's good what's bad now I have another third party that tells me who says it's not good so after the sin the result is that I don't ask myself what does theem want from me I ask what do I want I don't say what does AEM need from me I say what do I need that's the result of the tree of knowledge the evil took over us and unfortunately with most people most of the time the evil took over us and it's so strong that I don't even recognize it it's so connected and so overpowering my personality that I don't even recognize that it's evil I'm right in all the arguments I have I'm right you don't know that same with your arguments in your arguments you're the right one you go into an argument being not right ask yourself if I'm not right why would I argue I would say I'm sorry you're right you are right so every argument that I go into I'm right how can I be right in all the arguments so the evil took over us is so strong that became part of my personality that I don't even recognize that it's evil and I don't even recognize it's something that has nothing to do with me technically we accepting the evil complete natural I can step over a human being I can slander a human being I can steal from them hurt them physically financially emotionally I'm right does this make sense sense no so I accept the evil as something completely I I can go and slander now a person no I'm right it's natural I have to I'm right which means that all the material of Destruction becomes part of me that's not nature that's not natural to us I actually had this realization over the H in R had this amazing realization that I don't even know how to say it in words I understood it I realized it I internalized it but now I'm going to have to find the have to find the words how to teach it because I looked around and if I look through H the lenses of kindness and good then I can find something good in every person right that's what the Torah tells me judge a person always favorably now there's a famous song think posit you see a person you see complete evil try to find one good one one good thing so I looked around not from the lenses of seeing good and everything I looked from the regular lenses and I see evil evil evil evil evil evil evil I'm sorry my lenses don't allow me to see so easily the good in every person I'm sorry I admit I first see all the corruption all that's rotten all that it's disgusting and then I try to look for one good thing and in many of the cases I don't find and I know I have the pro it's my problem because every person has at least one I'm not talking now terrorists I'm not talking about I'm not talking about these people I'm not this is not the TP talking about you and you so I looked around the people I'm talking and I saw I said wow most people are evil are disgusting it's just pure filth disgusting Bad Evil of course yeah you can find a good point in every individual and then this realization that I have that it's not them that it's not them they are captured in some Clipper of evil that causes them to behave like that and when mhia is going to come who's going to be the ones who will survive and mashia come the ones that were able to break that Shell by themselves so somehow it doesn't matter right now how all of us are sunk in in a kipa in an evil husk strong husk of Filth and disgustingness all of us and therefore there's hate there's jealousy there's murder there's all these acts trashing each other arguments but it's not the real person it's not their Essence if somehow you would break that kipa that husk you will see a nice person and suddenly if let's say hypothetically this husk would be removed from all of us you would turn to the people who you hate and they hate you suddenly you'll be best friends all the everything will be removed so that all that I told you now I already know about and I've been teaching it for 15 years that each and every one of us is stuck in a cipa of evil and that's what causes you to hate another person to do bad things to other people slander them trash them steal from them hurt them etc etc that I know already it's not that I realize something big here what I realized is is if you don't break that Kaba yourself you won't see mashia that's what I realized that Hashem says you have to break it you are stuck in your kipa in your evil shell and you have to break it nobody will break it for you that's it which is the complete opposite of what I've been teaching many many years that a prisoner cannot let himself go out of his own cell it's not my teachings I quote the T but here in this case nobody will do it for you nobody will break your Clipper nobody will come to you and somehow get you out of this situation you have to do it and if you don't do it forget about seeing mhia that's the realization that I had which means that hasem is going to put on us so much issues that we're going to have to do such CH each every person in their personal level to go out of it if not we won't survive what's coming if you think what's what we saw up until now is bad it's not even the warm-up I'm talking about I'm talking about just the last year October 7 everything that you see that's nothing what Hashem is going to bring on this world and not only in Israel all the the entire world Shem is going to make the entire world that I'm quoting myself now Hashem is going to bring Humanity to its knees I said that 50,000 times in the last 3 years what does it mean that hasm is going to bring on us so much problems that we will realize that the only way for us to get out of these problems is if we do real CH that means breaking my own husk my own Kiper and that will require a lot of hard work so that's the problem right now that's the problem that we are facing that we are stuck in this bubble of evil that we are Hostage to this evil that's the the foundation of D the destruction of everything and that's the lenses through we look at the world so we are hostages of this evil force we're all Hostage to this and that's why says I will continue eating I ate today and I will continue eating every day, 1500 times because now I'm Hostage to this voice that is telling me what to do and that voice is an external voice it's not me it's not my soul it's not godly it's an external voice that tells me hate take be jealous be angry you are right you deserve you need to get so it became so natural to us that I don't ask what does the world need from me I ask I what do I need I need I don't say what can I do to others what others need to do to me and I'll give you one example out of man out of many some will relate some will not you know a man in the middle of the day he his wife calls him to ask something to tell something instead of seeing that woman in the biggest Unity I mean you were in love with her 20 years ago you were willing to do anything for that woman or a man a woman to the wife a woman to the husband sorry instead of seeing your wife as my partner as the most closest person to me as the closest Unity possible then the person start screaming at her doesn't make sense your child does something it can be something minor you lose your completely your you start screaming you you you that's your child doesn't make sense this type of behavior and why because we don't understand and realize that we were kidnapped by the external voice we don't see the lenses that are on our eyes right now are wrong lenses we don't see I see now a person instead of saying oh my God that's my brother I need to help him he needs my help instead of that I hate him I trash him I slander him I put him down I hate him with all my passion why cuz he said something cuz he did something the way to explain it I'll give you a parable is that in the beginning the the Satan the devil who was hired by Hashem to come and to confuse us and to you know lead us to do bad thing but his name was Satan or how maybe some will call him in English Satan so when he would come to people and say hi I'm the Satan nobody would listen to him so he came to God and says listen you gave me a bad name you know I just come and I introduce myself to people and I tell them my name is Satan they don't want to listen to me so how am I going to seduce them how am I going to make them fail so says no problem I understand the problem I'll give you a different name I'll call you I'll call you the evil inclination that will that should do it he goes back two weeks later he comes back to Hashem he says that name also doesn't work because when I come to people and I try to make them sin I tell they ask me who are you I tell them I'm the no no no we don't want to listen to you so it doesn't work how I can't do my job so Hashem says okay you know what I'm going to give you another name this time this will be 100% they will listen to you and your name is not going to be Satan your name is not going to be your name is going to be from now on me an they're going to listen to you just tell them it's me then they're going to listen to you so the Satan right now is not called devil Satan he's called an me so you listen to him cuz it's you I see the world through the lenses of the Satan when I look at a person and I judge them or I slander them or I'm jealous of them or I put them down or I trash them or doesn't matter what it's not how I see the person it's how the Satan wants me to see that person and I'm a hostage and I listen and I believe it but really it's not the real me it's not not the real me now you can understand why the Torah says clearly that once they ate from the Tree of knowledge they became embarrassed I'll tell you what's this shame that they had not because they were naked there was nobody there to look at them you know why they were n why they were embarrassed what's this shame the shame is the distance is the difference between what they were supposed to be to what they are then they were embarrassed this inner feeling that I'm a fake that I'm messing it up that I'm a no good for nothing that's the shame the huge gap between what they were supposed to be to what they really are and they had this thought oh my God if only anybody would know what's in my mind can you imagine if somebody go goes into your mind and knows everything what you're thinking now you're embarrassed and more than that they realize that if that's what's in my mind what's in your mind the shame that they felt is that they understood that they're not what they're supposed to be that there are fake they're faking it we're all fake if you would let somebody into your mind and without being embarrassed then you're doing good it means that your mind is clean your mind is clear you don't think bad things you don't have bad thoughts all sorts of distorted thoughts if you had some machine to read thoughts of people you would think most people are completely insane and that's not even me saying that that's the great sages have taught us that that's the reality can you imagine reading other people's mind you would see how how crazy people are now the reality is that we also if somebody would know what's going on in my mind you would be embarrassed I don't know I don't want people to know what's in my mind when I'm looking at a person what's going on in my mind o the junk that's going on in my mind that's the shame they have once they ate from the Tree of knowledge and they became captive by evil they became embarrassed because they're not where they they understood they're not what they're supposed to be how many people are dressed like an orthodox or an observant individual and the outside looks very nice and holy and the inside what's inside that I'm telling you is a fact now that individual that on the outside pretends to be so holy and then the inside is all corrupt and everything will be exposed that person will have great shame that's the shame that's why the Torah tells us that they were embarrassed not because they were naked because they understood that they're faking it that they're fakes that they're messing it up that they can't even listen to in one little thing to Hashem the tree of knowledge gave birth to me to the existence of I how do I pleasure myself how do I fulfill my own needs how do I control over him how do I take what he has to me that's the result of the tree of knowledge the birth of the eye and now that we see towards the end then what do we we have iPhone iMac iPad everything is I because to signify to us and the joke is that the symbol of the eye is an apple people think with a with a bite like as if it's the Apple that but look how hasem is twisting everything to show us that's the problem with Humanity the existence of me I exist and everything is around me that's the problem of humanity that's the result of the tree of knowledge the birth of an an means me therefore and his wife started becoming embarrassed because they they understood that now everybody will know what's in their dirty mind that's it and that's embarrassing so if I have dirty thoughts horrible thoughts disgusting thoughts disgusting intentions Etc you know what that means that you have them too you're not different than me so if I think bad about other people and I have all these horrible ideas in my mind you have them too that's the problem there why that's why Adam and started hiding themselves Shalom you should not know what's going on in my sick mind not because they were naked they didn't want you to know what you're what they're thinking of and that's why we hide each ourselves behind Smiles or clothes or whatever I don't need you to know what I'm thinking most people I can already tell you the heart and the mouth is not the same very few people what's on their mind and heart is in their mouth too most people they hate you they can't stand you they smile at you how are you you look great but that's not what's in the heart and definitely not what in the mind it's remember this the tree of knowledge do means connection to bad to evil that's the result of the tree of knowledge that I'm connected to evil that I can do something evil to another person that I can think bad of another person now that we clarify that now that we all know how bad we are now what do we do to present a problem anybody can present a problem we hear not to present problems we hear to present Solutions so what's the solution what's the tun how do I fix it we're all guilty by the way don't pretend you're not all of us including me are guilty in everything that I just said in the last hour there's not one person that can say what are you talking about the ones who can maybe say that are true true righteous sikim but we're not even close to that which means we're all guilty in everything that I just said in the last hour and if you think that you're not you you're in such a bad situation that even this is not going to help you so what's the tun I raise my hand and I say guilty I'm guilty you're right what do I need to do what's the tun what's the rectification the rectification is that you need to learn how to sift the sounds and the voices that are in you this is good and this is not good that's the that's it that's why the tree the sin of the tree of knowledge is called to ver good and bad why because I need to know this is good and this is not good this is bad now we have a problem here because before the tree of knowledge there was two situations truth and a lie you can't argue with the truth and the LIE I can come and tell you it's dark now well no the sun is out it's not dark that's a lie that you can't argue you can't argue that now the Sun is up and there's light and certain things you can't argue the truth you can't argue with it that's it but on good and bad that you can argue as much as you want because what I think is good you don't think is good what I think is bad you don't necessarily think is bad that's what you can argue about that's selective the truth you can't argue about good and bad is how I see things that you can argue about so if you are holding on the tree of knowledge good and bad you won't heal there's not going to be any rectification cuz you decide what's good and bad if you decide what's good and bad then that's the the that's the Disease by the way and you're not going to have any healing from this and Hashem should have mercy on you and that's all I can say if I want to do a rectification and if I want to heal then I have to understand that I am not the one who chooses or selects what's good and bad that's why I have the Torah that's why our SES say appoint yourself a rabbi now it's not talking of that you have to go now to YouTube and choose one of the rabbis there that you like the most and says that's my Rabbi that's that's what the Torah says Rabbi is a teacher which means you have to te to find the right teacher that teaches you what the Torah says if a teacher distorts the Torah that's not the rabbi you want you need to teach to find the person that teaches you what the Torah says but you know what my my recommendation you teach yourself I told you that a month ago in the class don't wait for somebody to come and teach you you teach yourself say dam is the person who trusts in a human being go and learn the the Tor by yourself and if you can't okay then that's when you need to appoint yourself a rabbi the right Rabbi that tells you that's what the Torah says the Torah will Define for you what's good or bad not you when one you starts defining what good and bad you have a problem one of the only human beings in history that actually applied this is yadik and the story is that he is in Egypt he's 17 years old and he's now facing the temptation of a gorgeous woman the wife of potifar who is seducing him to have relations with her 9 99.999% of all men in the world will never ever stand this SED seduction right the only one whoever was able to hold himself from failing was yadik that's why he got the title sadik he didn't get any other title and what's behind the story this woman is seducing him she's gorgeous he's young nobody in the house house no cameras he has nothing to lose nobody knows him even he's an orphan from the mother the father is already sitting shiva on him for for All For What the world knows he doesn't even exist he can do whatever he wants with this woman and she she went out of her way to seduce him the says she will change her clothes every hour high heels cleavage lipstick the whole nine yards who would be able to stand such Temptation he has he has nothing to lose he's not married he does doesn't have any obligations what in the right mind will stop this man from being with her so I'll tell you what the T says very clearly that moments a he he was about to jump on this woman and an image of his father appeared now what's so significant that an image of his father appeared the mid says that ysep looked exactly like yov right that's what it says in the Tor yov the Tor says they were they looked identical Y and yov so which the who's the image he saw his father that he saw himself he saw his true self his inner voice that Drew in a voice that told him what are you doing you can't do that you can't sin in front of hem the only man that the external voice didn't take over that the internal voice the real voice told him that's not you don't be fake don't go against your God don't go don't go don't go against the Torah why you going to you're going to hate yourself in an hour you know that that's not you be who you are be who you destined to be and that's how he had the power to overcome this huge seduction by this woman and throw her and to sit in jail for that for 133 years that's the advice we need to take ysep was able to listen to his real true voice this voice that tells you what are you doing are you serious you wake up in the morning to pray you pray three times a day you look with microscope for bugs in your food you run like a chicken without a head before Shabbat you follow the Torah everything but when it comes to hate another person and slander them that's okay what's wrong with you what's wrong with you what are you pretending you're fake if you can pray pray like this three times a day to your God and then to go and lie cheat standard you are a fake but you don't have that voice that tells you that because the external voice is telling you it's okay you're right you deserve you are the tun is to sift what's the voice that is taking me here and what's the voice that is taking me here and now now that you know everything that I told you you need to choose who you going to listen to [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]