Reveal the hidden - Simple steps to apply - Rabbi Alon Anava

And before we start, I want to dedicate this class to the elevation of the soul Eliyahu ben Menachem Mendel Mendel who was born uh who his yahrzeit unfortunately is tonight Zayin Adar which is the birthday and the death day of Moshe Rabbenu. So tonight is a very very very strong night. Very strong shine ha'arah Elokit a godly light tonight and tomorrow is Zayin Adar. The birth and the death of our leader Moshe Rabbenu. So we're going to dedicate this class Eliyahu ben Menachem Mendel and for anyone who needs yeshua, refuah, hatzlacha in the merit of our of our leader Moshe Rabbenu. We should all have the the blessing from Hashem for whatever we need. B'ezrat Hashem. So next week exactly is Purim. One of the most important, powerful holidays and opportunities on our calendar. Uh this is not a regular holiday like the rest of the holidays. If you really look at the holiday, first of all it doesn't really look like a biblical or religious holiday. On Pesach you have to do all these rituals and even on Hanukkah that is not biblical. Purim you give charity. You give charity every day. You give mishloach manot. Okay, so okay, so I get food. Doesn't seem that religious or reading a Megillah or having a meal. But nevertheless, Purim is one of the most powerful days on the Jewish calendar to a point that our sages have explained numerous times that when Mashiach is going to come, most of the holidays will be canceled and Purim and Hanukkah will remain and especially the Megillah of Purim will sustain will will stay. So we already see from that that the godly revelation that happened on Purim which we call it a miracle but really it's a godly revelation and we see that the ha'arah is a very high level. And we'll elaborate on that tonight. But even when you're looking at the name of Purim it's already explaining to you its essence that when we go back almost half a year to the holiest day of the year Yom Kippurim which is a day of atonement and a day of kaparah and selicha listen to the to the name of it. It's Ke Purim like Purim. So Yom Kippur which is a day of atonement, a day of forgiveness, a day that you reset everything, get blessed for the entire year it's like Purim Ke Purim. That is enough for you to understand the power and the importance of Purim and that's happening a week from today. So if you're smart, you're already lucky cuz you're here listening. Lucky is one thing, smart is a whole different thing. Lucky you you're here. Smart is what you do when you leave the room. And you have a week you have a week to prepare yourself to this powerful holiday. That the focus on Purim is the Megillat Esther of course. all the mitzvot are important but the entire story of Purim is revolving around the Megillah. And it's the only book really that we have in all the 24 books of the Tanakh that is talking about a miracle. All the rest of the books it's prophecies, it's historical facts, encounters, other situations but Megillat Esther is really the only book that the story there is telling us about a miracle. Okay, some might say maybe Shir Hashirim but Shir Hashirim is very very very hidden and concealed. You can't really read physically the miracle. In Megillat Esther you actually read of a miracle. So that in itself is already telling you that Megillat Esther is holding in it powers that can bring forth miracles. Now if I will now ask now publicly, is anyone here in the room or in the entire world needs a miracle? I have a sack of miracles. Every of course everybody needs a miracle. In any situation that you are, especially now, everybody needs some type of a miracle whether it's in the health department, whether it's in the parnassah, raising the kids, fighting your addictions. I mean everything that you do, you need a miracle at this point. So Purim is already coming and telling you I'm I'm the miracle. So see what was going on in Purim and then you'll see really what happened here. And that's what we're going to do tonight. The Megillah is talking about a miracle that happened to Am Yisrael. By who? By Hashem of course. Is there any other option that of a miracle? No. Have you read? Have you noticed? Have you seen in the Megillat Esther the name of Hashem? No. Doesn't even say the name of Hashem once. Not even God, nothing. So we have here a book that is telling us that there was a miracle. We know the miracle was by Hashem and not because we already know the concept of Purim. Is because this can be a miracle by somebody else but Hashem. What your bank manager is going to make a miracle? No. Only Hashem does miracles. Therefore we understand that the Megillah is referring to the miracles of Hashem but even nevertheless, we don't hear or read about Hashem in the Megillah at all. Pesach is in a few weeks. It's not enough just to clean the house. You also have to prepare matzah and wine. This year I am happy to present my special edition four cups wine for Pesach. Shalom. My name is Rabbi Lior Natanov and let me tell you a few words about my wine from Israel. This wine is vintage from my best vineyard located in the Galilee in the north of Israel. This is coming from holy soil as a war is going on as we're harvesting the grapes. The grapes are all natural and organic. The wine is totally natural, no sulfites and no preservatives. The kashrut, the kosher supervision is by the Badatz Igud Haradi Yerushalayim and by my supervision 24/7. Everything that goes on with the wine goes through my hands. This wine is so amazing and it's taken care of with silk gloves. From the packaging to the shipping, we ship it to the United States by air in refrigeration. This wine is top quality. According to the Rambam, according to halacha, this is the most suitable wine to drink in the four cups during the Seder night Seder as the wine is natural, no preservatives, no sulfites and the process how the wine is done is exactly according to what the Torah tells us how the wine needs to be handled for the special mitzvah of four cups. Our spiritual partner is the great Mekubal, the great Rabbi Dov Kook from Tiberias who blessed the wine, blesses my vineyards, blesses everything that we do. So you're getting a very special blessing from my rav on this wine who blessed everyone who will drink this wine, it will affect their heart with happiness and true anavah as the name of the wine and that's how we also selected the price of the wine based on the gematria on the numerical value of the name of the wine by the orders of the holy rav Rav Dov Kook from Tiberias. So this year you have the opportunity to fulfill the four cups mitzvah in the best way possible. This wine can only be found on my website anavawinery.com or can be purchased in the next events that I'm coming to the United States in Florida and New York. This wine is only available in the United States and in Israel and it cannot be shipped to any other country in the world. I'm sorry. Next year b'ezrat Hashem. So hurry, make your reservation fast so we can ship the bottles fast enough that you can receive it way before Pesach and the amount that we have is very very limited. So hurry up, make your order today and may Hashem bless you with great happiness and success and I'm going to take you take the opportunity to wish you happy Pesach, kosher Pesach and may we all be redeemed from this horrible exile like our forefathers in yetziat Mitzrayim. Happy Pesach and thank you for your support. First of all it's very important to understand that the word Megillah is the to to be exact the translation is a scroll like a Megillah. But nevertheless, the word in Hebrew Megillah comes from the word megalah. Same letters, just remove the yud for a second. Megalah means she will reveal. If it would be a male, it would be megaleh. But it's female so it's megalah. Really the same letters, just remove the yud. Which what does it mean megalah? Giluy, a revelation. Removing the concealment and revealing something. That means legalot. So really the Megillah megalah et ha'Ester. The Megillah reveals whatever is is concealed. That's the name of the Megillah. That's the definition. Saying in other words that the Megillah plus the the holiday of Purim. Yeah, I mean they have to come together. If you read the Megillah throughout the year and you can read the Megillah whenever you want. It's part of the 24 books of Tanakh. So if you read it 364 days of the year, it's just like reading any other scripts of the Tanakh. When you read it on holiday, then you activate the secret powers of the Megillah. The combination of Megillah and the day of Purim is the power to transform any situation from one to the other. This is what's called Nahafokhu. The situation is dark, you can transform it into light. There was a problem and the transformation, the the ability of the holiday and the Megillah is to switch something. So, any negative situation that you have in your life that you would like to change, this is the day. So, you have a week to start preparing. One person has a lawsuit, another person has I don't know eviction, another person is got fired, another person have just found out some health issue. We all have issues. But, Purim is the time that you can so to say reset the situation and not only reset, also transform. When I focus, therefore, that you need to really pay attention to what's going on. Because I'm coming and telling you it's not that it's some fairy tale. I'm coming and telling you you have issues, right? You have problems? You're looking to change something? Then that's next week is your is your option. You believe or you don't believe, that's that's a whole different thing. What you're going to do, another whole different thing. But, that's the fact. All our problems in our life, but all of our problems, and we all have tons of them and a long list of them, the problems in our life is because what's called Hester Panim. Hashem is not revealing his face to us. And Panim is translated as face, but really Panim means the the inside, the the inside part. So, all of our problems are coming from Hester Panim, that Hashem is not revealed in our life. So, I am dealing with the situation because Hashem is not revealed, I see that as a problem. So, hopefully you you're listening to my words, but you're also processing it at the same time cuz I just said when you understand that Hashem is the one that is not revealed right now and therefore you are dealing with a problem, then the answer is that the problem is from Hashem. That's the Hester Panim. You just don't know that it's happening from Hashem, so you blame your spouse or you blame the bank manager or you blame the economy for your horrible financial situation. So, you blame everybody or you're looking who to put the blame on, but really it's Hashem. Why don't you see that it's Hashem? Cuz the Hester Panim, Hashem is not revealed. If you would see that it's Hashem, then you would understand that whatever challenge you're going through is good for you. And we'll give examples and I will elaborate on that throughout the entire lecture. So, if something is not clear, don't don't don't worry. Since all of our problems comes from the concept that is called Hester Panim, Hester Panim Hester means a concealed, Panim is my face or like I told you Pnim the essence of things, the root of things. Since we know that all the problems are coming from Hester Panim, saying that Hashem is not revealed, so there are two aspects of it, two situations or two ways how this Hester Panim can come to be. The first one is what's called Hester Panim. What does that mean? That I pull on myself because I do not see that it's Hashem. Like to be more clear, the definition of Hester Panim is that I just don't see that it's Hashem doing it. Then I see you doing it. Somebody does something bad to me, I blame you. That's Hester Panim. I don't understand that it's really Hashem that did that. Because as I've been saying for for numerous times, everything is Hashem, even all the horrible things. So, to come and say this individual did that to me, that nation did this to us, that's heresy because really Hashem does everything. Hashem is the one who sends every the these Dobermans to bark and to bite. So, the first way, the first aspect is Hester Panim. What happens as a result from that? I pull on me all the problems in the world. I'm a magnet to problems. The other option is what's called Giluy Panim, a revelation of the essence of Hashem or the face of Hashem to this respect. What do I pull on myself? The complete opposite. So, when there's a Giluy Panim, a revelation, I magnet to me, I pull on myself blessings in my life. So, I'm healthy, I'm happy. I I everything works out in my life in a in a normal way. My life size okay. I mean like life is kind of normal. And in many of the situations can be great success. And you're taking off like a rocket. That's Giluy Panim, which means in other words, not that Hashem is doing anything different. Means that I see it different. I choose to see this, not to see this. The example that I'll give you, I gave it in yesterday's class and I elaborated on that. So, if you want to see the entire answer about that, that's last night's class, which will probably be on YouTube tonight. And very important because the classes that I gave yesterday is about what's going on and some important information before tomorrow's Shabbat. Tomorrow is Shabbat Zachor. I will elaborate on that too in this class too. But, the example that I gave yesterday is that I brought up the horrible memory that we have of the Holocaust. Now, there's two questions that can be asked here. We know that Hashem protects us and guards us and as the Torah says, the guardian of Israel should never sleep and not not to fall asleep, not even take a nap. So, one will come and ask a question. So, during the Holocaust for 5 years, what happened to Hashem? He was falling asleep, he fell asleep. I don't see any protection, there wasn't any protection. 6 million people were murdered. You want to tell me Hashem was overlooking at us? He was protecting us? Hashem wasn't even there. That's one way of choosing to look at this period and say not only that there wasn't a miracle, there wasn't any Hashgacha. Hashem disappeared. That's one option to look at it. The other option is to say, "What are you talking about? Do you see the level of the the miracle here? The decree was to kill all of us and then Hashem intervened and made a huge miracle and instead of the entire nation being murdered, only a third of the nation was murdered and Baruch Hashem, the two thirds that remained, look what we did." Look what we did in the last 80 years. So, you can choose to look at Hester Panim, where was Hashem? He neglected us. No protection. That's the Hester Panim that I see Nazis coming to kill us. I do not see where Hashem is in here. The Giluy Panim is that I say, "What are you talking about?" Yeah, of course there was a We're going to read in a month and a half on Pesach. Every generation somebody stands up and wants to destroy us. That's the rule. So, I'm not looking at where was Hashem. I'm looking at wow, good that Hashem saved us. That's the Giluy Panim Hester Panim. What you choose what you see. Whether you choose that you see that it's Hashem or you don't. Now, you have to understand that the Hester Panim, when I don't see Hashem in a situation, you invest your money in a business and all the money goes, you lost it. You don't see Hashem in there. You just see a financial loss, all your hopes, all your money, all your dreams. Hashem is not even in the equation here. That's Hester Panim. I don't see what's going on here. So, we have to understand that what is it Hester Panim, what is this concealment that I'm talking about? And I have to also understand what's this Giluy, this revelation that I'm talking about. And if we're following the Megillah, why is the Megillah called Megillat Esther with an Aleph? It shouldn't been called Megillat Hester with a Hay. The Megillah of the concealment. Why is it called Megillat Esther with an Aleph? You understand? So, not only that, comes another question that how does the Megillah remove the Hester? By reading a text or a story, how is that removing the the concealment? There are situations that Kivyachol, so to say Hashem hides himself. You're in a situation, you don't see where Hashem is because it's bad for you, the result is bad, it seems completely the opposite of the desire of Hashem. You don't see any any hand of Hashem in there. Very very easy to fall to either heresy or if you're lucky, just to questioning Hashem. And the sad reality is that when you are face a situation of Hester Panim, doesn't matter how observant you are or how much you love Hashem, your emunah goes real down. Doesn't matter who you are and what you're going to do. That's where one needs to be very very careful that when Hashem hides him his face from us. And to give a clear example, the Holocaust, that's a Hester Panim. 5 years. Where is Hashem? So, when Hashem does the Hester Panim the face of Hashem, so to say, is not revealed. Meaning the desire of Hashem, the what his will, his intentions. And There's a lot of types of Hester Panim. It's not black and white. Hester Panim can or Hesterah can be in many many many different ways. And the Hester Panim can come in many different ways. I mean, keep talking about the Holocaust, but even in your life. You date somebody to go and marry, you fall in love, you think that's the individual, and suddenly the individual turns around and leaves, and you're like what was that for? One type of Hester Panim. And many others. It can be in Parnassah, it can be that you feel, thank you, that you're very observant and you're very connected to Hashem and you pray three times a day and you observe Shabbat and you dress modest and and you do everything. And then things don't work out. And you're like, "Hashem, something I'm asking here for so much. I'm asking for the basics." That's when things starting to get annoying, that you do believe in Hashem and you do believe in the Torah and you do everything that you feel that is the right thing and still things don't work out. And that's most of us. And then you start questioning Hashem. Why you not doing? Why you not helping? Why I'm praying. I'm I'm doing this, I'm doing that. I mean, you ever ask yourself that? And you saying to Hashem, "What do you want from me? I'm I'm I'm I'm not Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, but I'm doing I'm trying my best and I would say I'm 80%. 90% I'm hitting the the the the the point. Here and there a little failing. For that, you're torturing me? Why you can't give me a little bit of money for Parnassah? I have to deal with all this pressure. Can't find my other half. Can't have a little bit of break from with my health. What's the What's the problem? The Baal HaSulam says that Hester Panim it's a situation where it's familiar that it's him. Hard to explain that, but Hester Panim is where I can really see that it's Hashem. It's usually the complete opposite. Where I think I don't see Hashem, the Hester Panim is familiar and clear that it's Hashem. Saying in other words that when I'm dealing with a situation that doesn't make sense or I don't understand the reason that is what needs to prove to me that that is Hashem. That Hashem's hand is in there to to to mix or to do something. That's the Hester. And the the way to analyze it, how does the Baal HaSulam explains it? When I'm looking to it looking to your face then I recognize you and I know it's you. Hey, how are you? I didn't see you for months. I recognize you in a second. That's the Panim, the face. But when you're with my with your back to me is it him? Does it look like him? I can't really recognize you. I see your back. So, I might look like you, maybe it stands like you or you it walks like you, but I don't see the face, so I'm not 100% if it's him, it's not him. I don't know, he's standing over there and I can't really see. That's what the Baal HaSulam says. When does the Hester Panim it's all you see it. Most people don't, but when something doesn't work out in your life, that's when you need to see Hashem the most. Because you recognize when something is coming what's called Achoraim, the back, then you don't recognize. You're not 100% sure. That is the situation. That's how you recognize it. That something in the back, you're not 100% sure. That's the difference how people see see things. If you see a situation and you know right away that's Hashem, then you then you obviously see the Panim, the face. And when you don't recognize that it's it's Hashem, that's there's no revelation. It's like as if you're seeing the back of Hashem. I'm not 100% sure. First of all, to come to the place of saying about any situation, I'm not 100% sure that it's Hashem, then who is it if it's not Hashem? That's another problem. And when I understand this concept, I understand that everything that Hashem does in this world is good. You can you say that something that Hashem does is not good? Uh let's see you dare to say such a thing. And ra yored min HaShamayim. Our sages say no such a thing that something negative, evil or bad comes from Hashem. Everything that Hashem does is good. Even horrible things like I mentioned before, a Holocaust or we see now, a year ago October 7th and many other things and in your personal life. That you experience horrible things, but you perceive it as horrible things. But really, nothing bad comes from Shamayim. It's all how you look at things. And that's really the essence of Megillat Esther and what you need to pay attention to. Where does bad come from? It's not coming from Hashem cuz Hashem only will do good. Bad come from what's called egoism. When I want something for myself. That's how I pull bad on me. You don't need to want anything. What do you want? You want money, you want fame, you want just a nice husband, you want good kids. When you want something for yourself that's how you pull bad and negative. Because Hashem says, "You don't need to want anything. The only thing you need to want is to serve me." When you desire something and pray for that, I mean, there's nothing wrong with praying, but when when you want something for yourself, and of course I'm talking about something negative. Not talking about that you want for yourself to be close to the Torah and close to Hashem. That's not what I'm talking. I'm talking about that when you you lower yourself to a place of jealousy that you see another person have something, does something, whatever, and you want it to yourself. And we all have that little that little thing in us. Even if you're observant. You're looking at your neighbor and you're saying, "Wow, what a husband she has. Wow, he learns Torah all day long. I wake up in the morning, he learns Torah. And when I come at night, he learns Torah. I wish my husband was like that. My husband, my That's just this type of a jealousy. That's what you you want something for I wish I had that, then you bring on yourself issues. In that type of example don't want that husband for yourself. You want it for Hashem. When you want something for Hashem, that's a whole different thing. When you want something for yourself cuz the neighbors are looking and you want to look better and you don't want to be embarrassed or whatever, whatever distorted opinion you have, then you are a magnet for negative things. When you want it for Hashem uh you change right now the whole structure, the whole picture of everything. Why? Hashem is known as tov u'meitiv. Tov is good, meitiv is only wants to do good. There's no other op- You can't define Hashem in another way. He's only good and he only wants to do good. No such a thing. That's called gilui panim. Hashem wants to and he and you see it and you understand that. And even if something comes as something negative, that doesn't mean it's something bad. You perceive it as something bad. You usually most people don't see the good that Hashem does for them. You see the bad aspect of it, but you don't see the positive aspect of it. Most people they they if they if they even if they look real real deep into a sense a con- they don't see how Hashem did something good here. Very very difficult to do that, but you have to understand that Hashem tov u'meitiv. You have to register and has to resonate with you. Hashem will not do something bad to me. Now b'fo'al, practically that's not what we see. Practically, if we're looking at the entire world, looks like the entire world is suffering. It looks like the entire world is in a place of instability, danger, chaos. But even if you look at your own life you see that I I don't I It's hard for me to see all the good. Very few people have a very positive attitude. Or not only positive attitude, they see the reality. Life is challenging, but they know it doesn't affect them. Because they're in a level of gilui panim. They understand that right now that's what Hashem wants and it's probably good for me. I don't understand at this point. But the sad reality is that b'fo'al, practically, we see that things are not that good. One out of I I know if you know the amount can come and say my life is smooth right now. Most people they have a pretty bumpy life. If you're looking at it physically, practically. So what does it really mean? That most people live in a level of hustler. They're living in a level that Hashem is not really revealed in their life. And it doesn't mean they're not observant. It just means that what they're doing is incorrect and Hashem is not revealed in their life. So everything is perceived as negative or some is perceived as negative. You want to get to a point that nothing is negative. Now how do you reach to the point that you start not seeing Hashem? What's called the Hester Panim. If you see that everything in your life is Hashem and you came to terms and you're happy with it and you have no sorrow, no sadness, no worries, no despair, no nothing. You're not necessarily have the best life, but you don't see anything negative. Then obviously you're doing something amazing and you're in the level of Giluy Panim. Life is might be challenging, but I see that it's Hashem doing it to me. Most people are not in that level. Most people don't know how to differentiate and see and how do they get to this level is because they sin. And you can again be fully observant. Every person that is fully observant has at least one type of sin that they're doing all the time. Whether it's Lashon Hara. Most people fail in Lashon Hara, doesn't matter how observant you are. And Lashon Hara is very bad. More bad than you think. And then there's another thing that a lot of people fail in and they don't understand how bad it is is that's failing in vows. In Nedarim. You promise something and you don't do it. Most people fail in that. It's not enough to do Atarat Nedarim on Rosh Hashanah. You have to do it five five times a day. Now you're not maybe seeing it like oh I observe Shabbat. I check my lettuce with microscopes. My dress is like dragging and cleaning the floor. What are you talking about? Not even one hair is coming out of my head head covering. What are you talking about? I'm observing from top to bottom. Yeah, that's very nice of you. But you might be failing in basic things like Lashon Hara. Everybody fails. Don't think you don't. Nedarim. Everybody fails. I see how people talk. You have to be very careful what you say. Everything that was with the mouth, yeah. And then of course foul language and a little bit of lying. And then I'll tell you what another thing that a lot of people fail in is Gezel. You know the thief. Gezel is that you take something without the person's permission and you're causing financial damage. A lot of people, observant as they may be, fail in Gezel. And many other things. How many men pray every day three times a day, but when they wear their Tefillin in shul, they talk. You're not allowed to talk when the Tefillin is on you. So here you have a sin with all your greatness and your 10 hours a day that you learn Torah. Kadosh Baruchu medakdek im tzadikim k'chut hase'arah. Kadosh Baruchu is looking the more you grow higher in your level, Kadosh Baruchu is more looking at you. So you know how many people how many things people fail in? How about Shabbat? You really observe Shabbat? But most people talk mundane things on Shabbat, divrei chol. That's it. Here's your Shabbat gone. Now again, not gone. You're observing Shabbat, but when I'm saying we sin a lot, don't question me when you're saying I sin. I just told you how you sin. Ein tzadik ba'aretz asher lo yecheta. There's no such thing. Even the tzadikim will will will sin. So when you sin, doesn't matter who you are and how much mitzvot you have, every sin creates a partition between you and Hashem. You spoke now Lashon Hara, you created a mechitza. You see the women behind the mechitza? No. Why don't you see them? Cuz there's a mechitza there. Mechitza means a partition. I can't see the women behind. You make a sin, you make a mechitza between you and Hashem. That's it. Can you see Hashem? No. That That's your sin. Now you have mechitza. Now what happens when you have a mechitza? The light of Hashem doesn't come in. You don't benefit from the light of Hashem. So who are you blaming? Hashem? Blame yourself. Now what happens is when you create when you sin and then you create this mechitza, this partition. Now you don't see the light of Hashem, what do you create? You create a void. This void in Hebrew is called chalal, which the translation to chalal is a space, but it's a empty void. An empty space. That's why by the way we say in Hebrew when you desecrate Shabbat, lechalel Shabbat. When I was a fresh baal teshuvah and they I understood the concept of chillul Shabbat, desecrating Shabbat, I didn't understand the the the the source because in Hebrew chillul or lechalel or chalil is a flute. So I was like what lechalel Shabbat? What are you like Maybe there's some Shabbat tune I have to walk to Shabbat with my chalil, with my flute. Chillul Shabbat means that I desecrate Shabbat and what happens is in Shabbat all the world elevate to a higher level. So the physical world stays where it is. The spiritual world go up. So you have now a space between the physical world and the world above. Space means chalal, an empty space. So when you sin on Shabbat, when you desecrate Shabbat, you are not in the level of Shabbat and you're not in the level this world cuz it is Shabbat. So where are you? In the chalal. You're in the space. In that void. You're not here, not here. That's what it's called chillul Shabbat. Same thing with every sin that you do. You're creating a chalal, a space, a void, an empty space. A, you have a partition, you don't see Hashem. B, you create this chalal, this void, this empty space. Now what happens with this chalal? You start feeling bad. That's your bad feelings. Sadness, depression, disappointment, whatever. Anytime you you can call it bad mood, you feel bad. That's this chalal. If you don't sin at all, you'll be like How do you say? Jumping all day long? In Hebrew say le da leg, it's like hopping like a little girl that is happy. If you wouldn't sin How? Skipping. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah because everything is good. When you're like 100% with Hashem, nothing is bad. You're all day long in a in amazing mood. You're not in a good mood. Don't look at the weather or who won the elections or how much money you don't have in your bank account. Your bad mood is from your own behavior. Very simple. And that's with every sin that you do. And by the way, I know listen, we're all trying to be good Jews and we're trying to focus on Hashem and Hashem is not that particular with every little thing especially I'm not saying I'm saying when you're very observant. But here in the the fact is that as observant as you might want to be, you always sin. And that's what's going to cause all this problem. Now there's only one way of removing this evil from you. Only one way. And not what you think. The way to remove this evil is the revelation of the light. Giluy Ha'or. If now this room is pitch black and I will explain that this pitch black is equal to evil, then what do I need to do? Turn the light on. Turn the light on, no more darkness. That's it. That's Giluy Ha'or. Giluy Ha'or means the revelation of the light. Here we're talking about a physical light in my example, but it's the same thing in your practical actions when you do teshuvah, when you proceed when you follow the Torah. That's called Giluy Ha'or. You're revealing the light. So by default, you're pushing away the darkness. The negative. Everything that's bad in your life. Now the thing is that most people don't understand. The light is here. It's something that you have to bring somehow the light. It's just not revealed. You need to reveal the light. When the light is revealed, then like I told you, you are in a state of simcha. You're happy, you're following the the Torah and the mitzvot. Most people they don't see the light and they don't even understand that you can turn the light on. Basically saying in other words, everything exists, you just need to reveal it. You are lacking parnassah? The problem is you, not not anything else. The parnassah is there. You just didn't reveal it. And it's with everything. On Rosh Hashanah, everybody gets blessed with what's going to happen the entire year. Everyone including the entire all the world, all the human beings and then all the animals, everything is judged. Mi yichye, mi yamut. Who's going to live, who's going to die. Mi ani, mi ashir. Who's going to be rich, who's going to be poor. Everything is decided. Now let me ask you a real simple question. Do you think that on Rosh Hashanah Hashem looks at your portfolio and says No parnassah this year. He spoke Lashon Hara. That's what you you think on Rosh Hashanah Hashem looks at YOU AND SAYS NO wedding for her. No no parnassah. I don't like her. I'm going to make her sick this year. You think that's what Hashem does on Rosh Hashanah? Hashem looks at each and every one of us and says, "Parnassah, tons of money, livelihood. Here, yirat shamayim, that you'll be healthy, you'll be happy." You think Hashem blesses you with something negative? Think I think normal for a second. You think that in your record Hashem it says, "Oh, this year we're going to He was bad the whole last year. I'm going to show him." So, I'm already telling you it doesn't happen. Hashem blesses you with everything. But, like a normal human like a normal father, Hashem doesn't give you everything in one shot because he knows you're not going to be able to handle it. So, you have to three times a day bring down the shefa into the world. Three times a day when we pray, that's when we slowly slowly bring it into the world. I manifest everything into the world. So, on Rosh Hashanah I was blessed with millions and millions and millions of dollars of parnassah. Why didn't I see it? A, I sinned throughout the year, so I stopped the shefa from coming. B, I didn't do an action to bring it down as praying. Everything that we that our sages wrote in tfilat shmoneh esrei is what I need from Hashem. That's why I don't pray for myself for things. I don't say, "Hashem, I need parnassah." Right? Cuz I read in shmoneh esrei three times a day, "Barech aleinu et hashana hazot letova ulevracha." That's it. I I said my prayer. If I need something, you know what I do? Hamitpalel al chavero ne'ena techila. You pray for your friends' needs, you will get answered first. So, if I need something, I pray for you. That's my system. I don't pray for myself for anything besides what it's written in tfilat shmoneh esrei. But, everything that I need is in tfilat shmoneh esrei. Refa'einu Adonai venerefa'e. So, I need health. Do I need to ask more than that? Moshe Rabbeinu, everything was in short requests. Kel na refa na la. That's it. That's the prayer. I go and pray a lot. I live I mean around me in the radius of 30 km where I live, thousands of tzaddikim. Most condensed area of givrei tzaddikim is in the north of Israel, more than Yerushalayim, much more. And of course, like what do you have here in America? Two and a half tzaddikim. And a few in Europe. All the tzaddikim are buried in Eretz Yisrael. And where I live you have kvarim from 3,000 years ago. So, I constantly go and pray in very holy places. Your prayers are answered with echoes in the heavens cuz the tzaddik is there. So, I also go and pray in these special places. And I know and I see how it works. Your prayers always work. And how what do I I never pray for myself. I pray for other people. I see I I I I I make lists of what other people need and I pray for them. That's it. I don't need to ask anything from Hashem. So, you have to understand that the light is around you. You just need to reveal it. The fact that you didn't that you don't see it, you are the problem, not the light or not anything. When I'm saying light is the giluy Hashem, the revelation of Hashem where you see how Hashem is everything. All you need to understand is Hashem is here, I need to reveal it. Most of our lives, like I told you, are full of challenges and problems. A, because I sinned and I bring this issue on me. B, is that I don't make any effort to reveal Hashem in my life. And when you reveal Hashem in your life, suddenly the problems become this big. Because you understand, that's the will of Hashem. Can I do anything about it? The attitude is that I make the best out of any bad situation. I started sharing now after 20 years. 20 years I've been sharing my personal story how I became observant. And I know and many many pieces of it were missing. And now after 20 years when what's called the statute of limitation passed, then I can start revealing other things. And there's still many things that I can't say, definitely not in front of a camera. But, lately I've been saying how when I became chozer betshuva, I I was in jail, almost 2 years. A long story, and you can find online. B, you can come on Monday to the lecture on Monday. You'll hear everything with all the details. But, nevertheless, I found myself in the age of 27 facing 40 years in jail. I was arrested, long story. I had a long long long indictment, 47 counts on a federal indictment. Prosecution wanted 40 years in jail. Normal individual falls to depression, sadness, doesn't want to live, whatever. I didn't see it in that level. I saw, "Okay, Hashem wants me to learn Torah for 40 years." It's a personal yeshiva. I'm going to learn Torah for 40 years. I'll come out of jail with a long beard. I'll know the Talmud inside out. What's wrong with that? It's okay that the food is not that great. But, it's the best setting for yeshiva. I don't have to worry about parnassah, so I can learn Torah all day long. I don't have to worry about a family, wife and kids to take care of. No temptations, no women, no internet, no nothing. Just me, four walls and books. Do you want something more than that? Baruch Hashem, you know how happy I was? Now, who's happy with a 40-year 40 years in jail indictment? But, I saw that's what Hashem wants. Am I Is this going to help me if I get sad? No. Do Should I seize the opportunity? Well, of course. That's the attitude. What you have to look at what what's the giluy here? What Where What does Hashem here? Not to see the hester. So, you have to understand the light is here, you need to reveal it. It's all around you. And you need to make an action. The problem is that you don't see everything in one shot. You see uh pieces. And then, like I told you, these voids, these chalalim, are created from your actions and the result is this feeling of emptiness, which is equal to sadness, feeling of despair, anxiety, worry, and so forth, and all these feelings that most people have. And when you create these pockets, these voids, that's where the evil gets attached to. To this weak weak link. And then, of course, you're experiencing it. That's how it works. That's the system. No, really, when one wants to question why does Hashem do does bad things? Can you now easily say there's nothing bad in your life? No. I'm sure at least 50 to 80% of the people in this room were hurt or something bad was done to them by a young person that seems observant to the Torah and the mitzvot. And then you start questioning Hashem about every little detail. And that person shomer Shabbat and he stole from me. Well, first of all, people are human. They The The smart If he's shomer Shabbat, it doesn't mean anything. Put a temptation in front of a person, his Shabbat is not that strong. Very few people can take their Shabbat or their Torah or their tfila and use that as a shield. Most people, the temptation is in front of them, shh. They swipe the Shabbat like a TikTok page. I don't know if TikTok is like this or like that. So, don't don't don't like come and tell me, "Oh, no, no, TikTok is like this, not like that." Shh. Rachamim. But, when you're looking at bad in your life, you're lacking parnassah, you don't have good livelihood, can't find your other half, you're you found your other half, you have a horrible marriage, whatever it is, kids don't listen to you, sicknesses, everything in your house is falling apart, I don't know, whatever you're dealing with bad in your life that you perceive it as bad. You have to understand that anything bad in your life, its purpose is to bring you back to good. When Hashem does something bad in your life, that's your red lights to stop, and that's where Hashem is starting to push you back to go what's called lamutav, to the good. That's the bad in your life. Don't say Hashem is trying to punish you. And if you perceive it as a punishment, or if you read in the books that you did A and the punishment is B, don't look at it as a punishment. Look at it as a tikkun. As a rectification. Hashem doesn't punish for no reason. And if you perceive it as a punishment, it's only for you to do a tikkun. Hashem is good with you. Which means that any bad thing in your life is really Hashem telling you like this. That's it. Pushing your head to the other direction. And more than that, like I told you, if you're looking at it as a punishment, okay. Don't look at it call it a punishment, call it tikkun, a rectification. Going back to the example I gave you before, when I was happy to sit 40 years in jail, I didn't see it as a punishment. I saw it as a tikkun. I didn't think like, "Oh my god, Hashem is punishing me for all the bad things I ever did." I said, "No, Hashem is kind and he's offering me a tikkun, a rectification for the bad things that I did. So, instead of sitting 40 million years in gehennom, I'm sitting only 40 years in jail in this world. So, it's a tikkun, rehab for myself. Who knows better than Hashem how to fix me? I can argue with Hashem how to fix me. I acknowledge my negative behavior and I understand that whatever outcome, it's not a punishment, It's a tikkun. Hashem is allowing me to rectify what I damaged. Totally different way of looking at things. So, you have to understand that the yissurim, that is suffering that we have, are good for us. Every time you run into a situation that you have suffering, just know that it's good for you because it's refining you. It's cleaning you. It's removing all the dirt that you created from bad thoughts, bad speech, bad behavior. So, kind of in other way, when you're looking at it, you uh fail in min- many things. You slander, you gossip, you cheat, you lie. And again, it's that you can be a super super observant. We're not now talking about the positive things you're doing. We're looking now at the negative things that you're doing. Don't think that you don't have negative things. But then again, like I told you, the yissurim, the hardship that you experience is only for yourself. It's good for you. It's refining you. It's cleaning you. So, technique, like I said, you you very good. In one way, you're sinning sinning sinning, and here Hashem is giving you the system to fix yourself. So, stop sinning, then Hashem won't need to fix you in other things. And again, like I told you, a lot of people look at me and tell me, "What are you talking about? I'm observant." Well, I question that. And you need to question that, too. I say I'm trying to be observant. I don't say any baal teshuvah. You know the difference between baal teshuvah and hozer b'tshuvah? 22 years. Ani hozer b'tshuvah. Hozer means I return. So, one day I sin, the next day I do teshuvah. Then after I did teshuvah, I go back to the sin. And then I do teshuvah again. And then a week I don't sin, and then I do the sin again. That's why I go back. Hozer b'tshuvah. I hozer I go back to the sin, and then I do teshuvah, and then I go back to the sin, and then I do teshuvah. That's all of us, and it's not going to change so fast. And I understand the exchange here of the sin and teshuvah and sin and teshuvah. That's how you strengthen yourself. That's how you grow. But that's the system. There's no other way of of explaining it. So, like I said, I have to understand that the yissurim, the hardship is good for me. It's cleaning me. It's purifying me. And it also opens my eyes to understand, who am I kidding? If yissurim are coming, I did something. Our sages say, ein yissurim belo chet. There's no such thing that you have hardship and there wasn't a sin preceding it. Vein mitah belo avon. And then then there's no such thing as death with with you're not sinning. There are only four people in the entire history of mankind that never ever ever ever sinned, and the Talmud says they died b'eitos hanachash. They only died because of the sin of the snake. Other than that, they didn't have any sins. But we're not these people. So, we have a lot of sins that we need to rectify it, and we need to refine ourselves. And it's not so bad. Just, you know, you have to If you as they say in here in here in in America, you can't do the time, then don't do the crime. That's it. The thing is that when you really focus, when you really observe any situation in your life, you will see that it's Hashem. When you're not focusing on it, you're not going to see Hashem. But when you're really focusing on any situation in your life, then you'll see that everything is Hashem. And the more the hastara, the more the concealment is stronger, that means that the sleeping is deeper. We're all sleeping, right? It says when David Hamelech says in Tehillim, book of Tehillim, when Mashiach is going to come, b'shuv Hashem et shivat Tzion, hayinu k'cholmim. We were all as dreamers. So, yeah. We're all dreaming. Why? Cuz we're all sleeping. Now, we're going to read in the Megillah, balayla hu nad'dah shnat hamelech. That night that king didn't sleep. We're talking about Achashverosh, but really we're talking about Hashem. When there's a hester, like a very thick concealment, that's called in the kabbalistic term sheinah, sleeping. Like a body, like a person who sleeps on the bed, if the person is sleeping on the bed, you can walk into the room, in out, turn the light on, turn the light off, do things. The person is sleeping. There's a hester. He doesn't see anything. Doesn't see anything, doesn't hear anything, doesn't know anything. The morning you're telling him, "What are you talking about? I was in your room." I didn't hear anything. I didn't see anything. Why? Cuz you were sleeping. Most people are sleeping. That's why again, David Hamelech says, hayinu k'cholmim. Cuz now you're sleeping. You you you kind of like walking in the dark, but you you're sleeping. This That's the hester. That's the concealment of Hashem. It's called sheinah. Now, what is the definition of sheinah, of sleeping? Hitnatkut m'metziut. It that you're disconnected from reality. That's physically what happens when you sleep. Things happen around you, you don't know it happened. I'll never forget 20-plus years ago, our first baby, uh my first daughter, like every baby at some point uh kept us, my wife and me, all up all night, whatever she was teething or whatever it was. So, we're up all night. At some point we fell asleep. And when we both woke up in the morning, we both woke up late. I opened up the window, and my neighbor's house was gone. And I told my wife, "There was a house there yesterday. Where is it?" And we both look out outside the window. No house. Something smelled burning. We go house out. The whole time we were sleeping, the neighbor's house burned down to the ground. Baruch Hashem, no casualties. But the the house disappeared. And I'm like, "We slept through a fire." Like fire departments everywhere, and I slept through it. How do you sleep through a fire? When you are in a state of state of very deep sleep, you'll sleep through a fire. That's the the situation. That's the the the the status of most people. They're alive, they eat, they function, they breathe, totally asleep. Totally asleep. Menutak. Disconnected from reality. That's what's called matzav sheinah. Really, it's called in Hebrew ilafon. You fainted. Now, when a person sleeps very light, all you need to do is say, "Moshe." He wakes up. Person sleeps very very deep, you have to start shaking the person, screaming out loud. Now, when a person fainted, that doesn't work. You need to understand where you're holding spiritually. If you're napping, if you're sleeping, are you in a deep sleep, or you are completely fainted? But the reality is most people are in the level of fainted, and the majority of even observant individuals are sleeping. In a in in a situation it's called sheinah. You're sleeping. You're not connected with what's going on in the reality, as much as you think you are. But that's the situation. Now, if the sleep is what's called deep a deep sleep spiritually, almost impossible to get up. And I talk to many people. You talk, person is numb, asleep, fainted, cold, whatever you want. Nobody to talk to. Out to out to lunch. So, the more the deep the sleep, more harder to wake up the individual. Now, how is that called? What's the situation? It's called just a body, no soul. There's a body here, no soul. No soul means no no creator. How many people you know in your life that has just a body? No soul. No soul equals no creator. I have family members like that. I'm sure all of you have at least one or two or 50 family members, friends, neighbors, and acquaintances that are completely in that level. It's up to you to wake them up really. Now, since we are we understand the concept now of sleeping, now let's take it to our nation. When Am Yisrael falls asleep, now I happen Till now I'm talking about you individually. Now, we have a different problem. We're we are a nation. When the entire nation, the entire Am Yisrael falls asleep, then we have a problem. That's when Hashem sends us the first available Doberman to bite us. That's it. And the one who bites us is coming here to wake us up. You know how many times our entire nation fell asleep? I sadly can say that in our generation, most of the nation is asleep. The fact that you might not be asleep, that But the majority are asleep. And even the ones who are awake are not awake to the situation in the world and what you think I'm talking about. Awake to dine with what? That you know about Hashem. Doesn't matter right now if you're sinning or not sinning or how observant you are. You you're in the world of the Torah. How many have woken up in that level? Respect, a quarter of the Jews? 10% of the Jews? So, we have a problem. Am Yisrael is sleeping. You might look at your community and say, "What are you talking about? All the community here is observant and sends their kids to Talmud Torah and shops here in the kosher deli." Yeah, but there's also neighborhoods over neighborhoods over neighborhoods of people who are completely secular. Not only talking in Israel, everywhere. That's in other words, Am Yisrael is sleeping. The nation of Israel is sleeping and the ones who are observing are also sleeping. How many people are awake? Awake I'm talking right now to the fact that and all of that, Hashem runs the world, nothing moves without without the supervision of Hashem, I have full trust in Hashem. How many people really live like that and don't and question yourself if you are one of them because if you live in that level, then you're a happy person. Do I look to you unhappy? Do I look to you sad, depressed, worried, anxiety, confusion? I know you don't know me. You see me through a screen or now you see me live, but do I look to you with any of these symptoms? No. Does my life have challenges? Probably much more than you. Much more than you. How many kids do you have? Three? I have seven. Double than your problems. I also have a wife. I also have to pay my bills, by the way. Nobody pays my bills. Although sometimes when I travel it does get paid. A few months ago I was in a tour in Los Angeles. I don't know how how every place I went into somebody invited me to what I needed there. I go into a bakery, I order something to eat, somebody oh Reb Don't laugh. On me. I went to a restaurant with my kids. We're sitting and eating. I get the bill, boom. You know, it's coming from Israel to here, the bill is like I don't know how you live here actually. People complain Israel is so expensive. We had the other day in a restaurant like a bunch of people, $400. $400 I feed a family in Israel. But nevertheless, let's not get into that. The point is that when you see that everything is Hashem and you live that you don't have challenges. I mean, you do, but nothing's negative. My life is pretty I don't I'm not going to say chaotic, it's not. But I have a lot and a lot of challenges in my life. I have a wife which means I have shalom bayit issues, not that I have a bad marriage. I have an amazing marriage cuz I have an amazing wife. But nevertheless, I still have to deal with shalom bayit. Like any other individual, I also have to pay attention to how I behave and to respect my wife and to honor her and to do all sorts of things. I have to be, you know, not that it's hard work, but I'm also on my tippy toes when it comes to shalom bayit. And I have seven kids to educate and clothe and bathe and and and pay tuition too. I don't get my tuition paid. Maybe in Los Angeles a few people paid my bills. That's it. That's That's how far it goes. It was funny cuz for like a week we're in Los Angeles, everywhere we went in, everybody oh Reb, and I'll pay for your bill. So my kids were laughing and I was like, see? It's good to be famous. Unfortunately, people just pay for a cup of a cup of coffee and cookies in the bakeries for for $5,000 in airfares to flights, that nobody pays. But nevertheless, so at least the coffee somebody covers. But what I'm saying is I also have a long list of challenges. I need to pay bills like you need to pay bills. I also have kids that I need to educate. I also have to pay tuition even though in Israel things you might say are expensive and it's hard to live. If you want to compare apples to apples, in Israel I have nine people in my family including myself and I pay about 4 to 600 shekels a month which is not even $150 for the top best health insurance you can get. And here for every little pill that you take, $500. How much you pay for tuition? $10,000 a year? $15,000 a year for your yeshivot? I have seven kids like I told you 50 times already. Maybe all together 5,000 shekels a year I pay for all the combinations of all my kids together. Which is about $1,400 a year. Don't trash Israel. But nevertheless, I also have a pretty, you know, bumpy life. You need to worry about your income and to pay your mortgage and whatever expenses you have. I have here hovering a non-for-profit with millions of dollars in the budget that I need to run and manage. I also have responsibilities. I also need to worry about a lot of bills that need to be paid. People see me through the camera. They think that once a week I go online, teach a class and that's it and the rest of the time I just I don't know what. I have many more activities that I do. I also have a lot of responsibilities and with that comes a lot of challenges. I'm not complaining in any type of a way, but my life if you if you will come and ride on my life for one day, I'm not I don't think you're going to you're going to handle it that well. But I'm not shalom complaining. I'm just trying to tell you me like you, I have challenges. I have difficulties. I have tests. I know how to reduce a lot of the evil with the nonsense. You're not going to find me talking to her or her or talking in shul or or all these things that are in front of us and most people fail. But why am I saying that? Not to tell you that I'm great. It's to tell you that I don't deal with sadness, worries, and all these things. And I have sometimes I have big balls to deal with. And I told you that many many many times, Hashem presents to you a situation, but before he already presented the situation, he already has three, four options how to get out of this situation. Now the challenge is that when you are faced with a situation, how fast you're going to lose your hope or how fast you're going to lose the trust that Hashem can do anything. And then you lose your your your patience and you start screaming in all directions and blaming here and screaming here and whoa whoa wait. Wait. And that's in many many situations. Let me give you one example out of many. We were now in Miami. I was now a week in Miami. We had lectures there. Now I'm a week in New York. When I returned now the car, I was in Miami, I rented a car. When I returned the car, there was a scratch on the car. And why? I was parked in the parking lot. I come back to the car, there's a scratch. Somebody went probably out of the parking lot and they scraped the car. I returned the car. Okay, the next day I get a letter from the rental company. You owe us 9,800 something dollars. Excuse me? I owe you? Of course I called the company and within probably 2 hours, you know, you have to wait on the call and the aggra- the normal aggravation. But once I was on the call, I told the one what do you mean you're charging me that? I bought your premium insurance. I'm not supposed to pay anything. After a half an hour back and forth, he said, you're right. And sends me 2 minutes later the letter there's no damages, you don't have to pay anything, everything's fine. But in those 3 hours, a a normal individual whoa. The anger, the frustration, the worry. Oh, they're going to charge my card. What am I going to do? And then you start fighting. And then your wife, I told you not TO DRIVE FAST. I DIDN'T DRIVE FAST. OH MY HOME. But Hashem already prepared the solution. He just wants to see if you lose your patience. He just wants to see if you're going to lose your focus. He just wants to see if you're going to start freaking out. Oh my god. Or just say, okay. Whatever. I'll do the phone call. I'll do the annoying half an hour conversation. I have full trust that it's Hashem will take care of it. Why should I lose my patience? Why should I lose my calmness? Why should I be angry now? Can you imagine how aggravated you are? The first person that comes to you, you burst in anger towards them. Through your poor child or your poor wife that happened to cross your way when you are But that's a perfect example how Hashem throws at you a challenge and he wants to see how you juggle it. And if you juggle it well, the solution of the challenge already came with the challenge. Every time that our nation falls asleep, Hashem will send the first available Doberman to bite us. That's it. 80 years ago our nation fell asleep, Hashem found the first psychopath available and sent him. Hitler shimo. And that's every time that we fall asleep as a nation right now. I'm not doing it as an individual. As an individual, that's your personal life. As a nation, we have a problem. And now besides that most people are asleep and you're dealing with issues that hopefully tonight you'll be inspired and more than inspired, you'll have the practical tools to change it. But now we're going to have to also look at the fact that Am Yisrael is asleep. Our nation is asleep. So Hashem is sending a lot of Dobermans to bite us. Here in October 7, here all sorts of anti-Semite situations and many other things. Now since we're focusing on the holiday of Purim, Haman Haman was the selected Doberman at the time. Am Yisrael was asleep. They went and partied half a year with Ahasuerus. And I don't know the reason prior to that, but Am Yisrael was not really attached to Hashem. Like now. Now, in our generation, you have a certain amount of the nation that is not connected to Hashem. That's a problem. Then you have the ones who are connected to Hashem that are jealous, that they slander, that they talk bad, that they do all these things. And you're saying, "That's that's the observant part." So, where we holding? And then you have a minority that are actually pious. So, we have an issue. Our nation is asleep. And I think the ones who are observing that are asleep are much worse. If you're secular and you have no idea what's going on, then I'm not I don't have any complaints. But when you're observing and you still slander, I don't get it. I do not get it how you can put filling in the morning and then right after cheat, lie, slander. I don't understand I just don't understand it. It does It doesn't resonate with me. What are you doing? Once I was like, "That person is a hypocrite." Now I understand that person is just very, very weak spiritually. But I still don't understand. How you can observe Shabbat and 2 minutes before Shabbat you're running in the house like a mad person, screaming in all directions. The poor kids, the poor husband, the kitchen looks like a shame and a hem. You're You're You're like the house is chaotic. If your guests will see how the house looked 6 hours prior to their arrival, I'm not too sure they would want to eat the food. Of course, when the guests come, you're like, "Hi." Looking at your husband with love eyes, "How was shul?" That Shabbat if there's no guests, "Why are you late?" "I prayed." "I'm waiting here ready for 3 and 1/2 minutes." So, the Shabbat table is, you know, prior is chaotic. And when the guests are arriving, suddenly everything is calm and nice. So, if you can be so fanatic about making sure that you're observing the Shabbat and shalom not going in 1 minute later, why don't you continue in the next 24 hours by keeping the Shabbat holy? I think the most is talked on on Shabbat. With many people. Why? You are in shul. Everybody mingles. Everybody shows up. She's wearing a beautiful dress. Haman was the choice of Hashem in that generation to come and wake us up. One time it was Titus. Another time was another time was Haman, Hitler. I mean, we have a long list. Every generation every generation somebody stands up and is trying to kill us. That time was Haman. Now, what was the claim of Haman? There's one nation that is separated and scattered. That's was Haman's claim. Now, most of the time we're looking at the separated and scattered. That's our nation. We are separated from each other and we're definitely scattered all over the world. And separated from each other, you're you're you're I don't know what the and everybody hates each other because my rabbi is more smarter than your rabbi. And I'm more right in my observing than you. And you're not doing it right and why you wearing your clothes like that? And that's the separated. Scattered, that doesn't need to be even explained. I said that not once and not twice. Take it as you may. You can take it as an insult or you can take it as something positive. I shared not once and not twice that I personally feel that any individual who does not live in right now and is Jewish is kind of a slap to Hashem's face. After close to 2,000 years of exile, finally we have our land back. And it's not the land that was 500 years ago. This land right now is equivalent to where you are. Israel is developed in all aspects. Hashem gives us back our land and you're not there? You're asking for my personal opinion? Slap to Hashem's face. Doesn't matter what your excuse is. My is here is here. Hashem can't write you a check in Israel. You're very right. My kids is here. Oh, you're right. There's no in Israel. But it's very hard there. Yeah, you're doing great here. So, my personal opinion, take it as as you want, but we have our land back. What are you doing here? Haman said that we are separated. Can't argue with that. And scattered. Can't argue with that. But look what Haman is saying. There's one nation. What is there is? But there is comes from the root nation. That nation, that one nation is sleeping. There is is What's the That's Hashem. The nation of Hashem is sleeping. We are all numb and sleeping. Now, you know what's the rule? The nation is sleeping, the creator is sleeping. Because whatever we do, that's how Hashem relates with us. Measure for measure. You courteous, I'll be courteous, too. You charitable, I'll be charitable, too. You wake up early in the morning to pray, I'll wake up in the morning to make your life better. You pull on yourself, what you do. All the the calls it the law of attraction. Whatever you do, you you pull it on your you pull this energy on yourself. That's why I told you before. You sin, you pull this energy of this void, this emptiness, sadness. You don't realize why you're sad from. You think you're sad because your financial situation is bad. Or that somebody slandered you. Or your kid is not listening to you. Or bought a bad a bad report. Or your husband is insulting you. Or whatever. You blame it on that. But it's really your actions and your sins that brought this void in your life. You feel this emotion, you just need to blame it on something. I'm coming and telling you it's your behavior. Change your behavior. So, Haman is coming telling to us there's there's one nation totally sleeping. He's separated. He's scattered. That's our problem. We're separated and then we're scattered. You know what will happen if hypothetically now bring now to another 5, 6 million Jews? becomes a powerful hub. The more observant individuals on the land of Israel, the more powerful we are. Cuz right now, unfortunately, half of the citizens of Israel desecrate Shabbat, eat unkosher food, and many other things. So, you have like a yo-yo in Israel. A lot of Torah and and and on the other hand Shabbat. Bring now another observant Jews another million observant Jews to Israel, the scale goes down to our favor. Which means more miracles in the land of Israel, more prosperity. That's it. You take that as you as you may. The Torah tells us about Hashem not sleeping. Won't take a nap and won't sleep. The guardian of Israel. But right now, I'm telling you that when we are asleep, that's what we bring on ourselves, a sleeping God. And again, I know might some might say, "Oh, but God you just said God is good." I didn't say he's bad. I just said that we we we activate, so to say, the God. So, we have a very special power as a nation that we got that other nations didn't get. Don't have a big head that we're better than the others. That's not what the Torah teaches you. It doesn't say anywhere that we need to be arrogant and say we are better than other nations. It doesn't say that anywhere. It just says that we were chosen by Hashem to do a certain task. And it happens to be that the Hashem found favor in our eyes cuz our great forefathers and many leaders. But don't get a big head and arrogant that we're better than others. But nevertheless, we have a special quality that when we are united, we're able to reveal godliness. And nobody else can do that. When the nation of Israel are united, there will be a godly revelation in the world. That's the power of unity. And that's the power that we have it. Therefore, the is going full force against us to remove this power, to separate us, to make us dislike each other. Now, when you are in that level of unity, a very high level of unity, you bring uh godly revelation in this world that is way above nature. And what happens is by the default is this godly light that is above nature changes the situation. How do we call this situation? A miracle. It's a miracle. Well, if you allow Hashem in, every second of your life will be a miracle. And you will acknowledge it. Most people don't acknowledge the miracles in your life. The fact that you're breathing is a miracle. The fact that you can see it's a miracle. Every little thing that happens to you is a miracle. If you don't see it as a miracle, then it's your loss. And you know why it's your loss? Cuz you don't see the other miracles, too. When I practice unity, and I gave a lecture exactly a week ago. It's online. Go and look at it. Where I'm talking about the the potential of the month of Adar. I'm telling you go If you didn't see the last lectures that are on my YouTube, go and watch it right now. A, it's about in Yomi it's has to do with and Purim and everything, but has basic simple information that you need to apply. And this is all talking about unity. Now, a lot of I know a lot of people think, "Oh, unity have to be I love to love you all." That's not That's not the unity that I'm talking about at all. That we will never have. Don't think we will have it. That's how Hashem created us. The real unity, go watch that class, but the real unity is that I just accept other people that are different than me. I don't judge them. I don't hate them. I don't slander them. I just accept it that you're different than me. And in your difference, Hashem loves that. My wife gave once such a douche. I'm sure you heard the Mishna that says, "The have to love you more." Right? I mean, this is a verse from the Torah, but the Mishna comes and explains the have to love you more. What does the Mishna explains? The have to love you more. Come on. That you should love your fellow individual like you love yourself. Right? That's what we learned. My wife once had such a such a I don't want to know if to say it's right to say a twist, but uh a real amazing angle to look at it. The have to love that you should like your fellow individual, comma, come on, Hashem, like Hashem loves that person. Not like how I love myself. Of course, I love myself. And I will never ever get to love you like I love myself. It's unnatural. You can't do that. Once one person out of a million may be able to do that. The only time you'll be able to do it is in a time of danger when you jump into the fire to save somebody else. And that's already coming from a very deep place of your soul. But other than that, no. The have to love you more means the have to love you more. You should love have love to another person come on, how Hashem loves that person. I will never love this person. But that person exists. Means Hashem loves that person. Then I have to love that person how Hashem loves that person. With her things that I don't agree with. Because if Hashem wouldn't love somebody, that person wouldn't exist. Which means that I'm looking at another person totally different than me. I have no reason not to like them. I have no reason to be in disunity with them. So, when I practice this unity, and like I told you, I'll try to elaborate more on this in this lecture. We'll see how much time we have, but if not, go and watch the last lecture that I posted online. Because that's what I'm focusing on. The concept of unity. And it's not what you think. It's not about me loving you. Or me accepting you in any type of a way. It's much more profound, much more deeper, and different than what you think. What this unity that we need to apply. Because we will never reach to a point that we will be that I will love you like I love the ones who I agree with them and they're going in the same school of thought as me. And I'll never do that. You have to be a very special individual. You have to be in the level of David David says I have learned from all my teachers. Even I wanted to kill David slandered him, went against him. And David says I've learned from him. Of course, you have learned. You learned how not to behave. You have learned how not to conduct your business or how to talk. But every person that I see, for me it's an opportunity. I landed not too long ago in Miami. I mentioned to you unfortunately my my legal situation in this country, which can you can also understand why I wasn't here for 5 years. I was banned from this country. But nevertheless, every time I land in the United States because of my record, I just put my hand for my fingerprints, and right away I will get detained. Every time I land. And it will never change. I already asked them. They said, "No, your status is every time you enter this country, we have to check on you." Sometimes it's half an hour, sometimes it's 3 hours. Last time I landed in Miami, 3 hours I waited there. Finally, when I when I after the interrogation, everything went well, I went to whoever was there to the the counter guy to finish with the documents. And he's talking to me regular talk. And then he says, "I know you hate me, but I was like, "Why why do you think that I hate you?" She says, "Oh, don't you all Jews hate us Christians?" I says, "Listen, I didn't interrogate all the Jews. But from the ones that I know, most don't have any issue with the Christian Christians. Where did you come up with that I know you hate me?" I said, "I don't hate you. Why would you think that I hate you?" She says, "Because all the Jews hate us because we love Jesus." So, I said, "Then you got it all wrong. We might not agree with you, but the majority of Jews don't hate you. If you're coming at at us to kill us, that's a whole different thing. You'll meet hate. But I don't I don't hate you. I see you as a child of Hashem. But you are an image of God. I don't care your faith right now. You come and attack me, you're going to have a problem. You're going to come against me, you're going to have a serious problem. You're going to talk against my God, you're going to have even more serious problem. But other than that, I I don't dislike you. You are misguided. But I don't hate. I don't hate anyone. If I hate anything or anyone, I'm the one who's carrying the hate. So, who's the idiot here? Me. That's why I don't hate anyone. You're not worth me carrying hate towards you. Because carrying hate is carrying a burden. Let's see you walking in the streets with a 150-lb backpack on you. That's your hate. Whatever whoever you hate, you're carrying that hate with you. And then you wonder why you're tired spiritually, why you, you know, empty, drained spiritually. Yeah, you're carrying bags of hate. Fool. When I act in a way of unity, I invite on my life a godly revelation that is above nature. That's miracles. That's why my life is full of miracles. I only see miracles. Thousands of videos I have on YouTube. 50% of them are just miracles that happened to me. And I and I talk about it. That's half my classes. You're when cuz when a miracle is done to you, and you recognize it, whoa. You have to advertise the miracle. And when you make space for Hashem, your life is just miracles. Now, we're only talking here about that when you apply this unity, this then you bring on yourself these godly light that will activate miracles in your life all day long. Everything will be a miracle. And everything that I just said, that's Esther. That's the Esther. And next week when you're going to read it, you got to have to pay attention. Real real good. Because the entire is just miracles. The whole is talking about miracles, but unrevealed miracles. Hidden miracles. You know how many miracles Hashem does to you that you will never know that he actually did? How many times something fell from the sky and he moved you and it didn't hit you? Physically or metaphorically. If you would see how many miracles Hashem does to you, how many car accidents you were saved? How many times you were supposed to choke? And many other things, by the way. Hashem saves you from so much situations that you just don't see it. And usually it comes from arrogance that you just see yourself, so you don't see anything around you. So, Esther is talking about a series of unrevealed hidden miracles. And you need to take from that and reveal the light. That's Megillat Esther. The darkness of Purim is Amalek, of course. Like Haman is from Zera Amalek. And the darkness, so to say, that is affecting us in Purim is Amalek. It's what he did. And Amalek is in every generation. In the story of Purim, in the meal if you remember, there was a few meals, but when one of the meals, when Esther invited everybody, then she tells Ahasuerus, uh you know, our our my nation was sold. And we are out there where there's a contract on our on our heads, and we are going to be killed. Ahasuerus says, "What?" I I I never heard of such a thing. What are you talking about?" Of course, he's pretending, cuz 2 days prior to that, Haman came to him and told him, "There's a nation that is scattered and is and is separated and and etc." So, Ahasuerus is pretending, "Oh, I don't know what you're talking about. Who who you talking about? Who who would do such a thing?" Pretending that he doesn't know what what's going on. But nevertheless, he knows exactly what's going on. He knows exactly what is the plan. The only thing is that Haman didn't tell Ahasuerus, "I want to kill them." You have to see the word that it says in the Megillah, Haman says, "Le'abdam." Le'abed means to lose, but really what it means le'abed is to separate them. That's how Amalek like let me make them fight with each other, and they'll go against each other, and you see that Amalek is doing it in our generation very, very well, especially in Israel. All you need is a few a few dozen liberals, and everything is everybody's fighting with each other. So, Haman comes and says to Ahasuerus, "I didn't say I'm going to kill them. I said I'm going to le'abdam." To scatter them, to separate them. I say killing? Has v'shalom. And Ahasuerus is playing the game with Esther. "Oh, I didn't know. What do you mean? You That's what you mean?" Why did Ahasuerus pretend? Because Haman didn't say to kill. Haman said, "I'm going to scatter them. I'm going to separate them." Later on, of course, Haman changed it by said le'harog u'le'abed u'le'hashmid. I will kill and I destroy. But in the first encounter, Haman didn't say I'm going to kill them. He just says I'm going to make them scattered and separate them. The second that Haman came up with the next day, he added, "That's what got Ahasuerus angry." In the beginning, Ahasuerus pretended like, "What are you talking about?" But the second that Haman stood forward and said, "Oh, yeah, I told you I'm just going to le'abdam to separate them," but then he goes and declares that I'm going to kill them, le'harog u'le'hashmid, then Ahasuerus got upset, and he ordered to kill Haman. It's kind of like a Trump getting upset at Zelensky, right? Yeah? Listen, somebody told me a good a good source, cuz I heard recently some rabbi said that Trump is a gilgul of Esau. Which could be. I don't know. Who am I just to to know? I mean, with all the explanation. But I heard from a different individual I know is a liable individual and not like some cuckoo, like le'afekh, somebody who's extremely learned and very connected. He He said that according to the signs that he sees, that Trump is actually a gilgul of Ahasuerus. I don't know. I'm not in the department of gilgulim. I don't know who's who. But nevertheless, nevertheless, look at the look at Haman what he wanted. He He He He wanted to kill us. He He lied to Ahasuerus, and then the lie came up, and that uh that was his own karma, and he got himself killed. Sounds very familiar, but nevertheless, in Israel now, there's this sticker for the last year that it says "Beyachad nenatzeach." Together we will win. Which is annoying sticker, because there's no real unity in Israel, and the joke is it's it's actually the liberals in the left side who is advertising "Together we will win," but you're not practicing any together, dear lefties. But nevertheless, the sticker doesn't make much sense, but the concept does. Because you know what beyachad means? Beyachad means together. When you together, nenatzeach. That's the definition of winning. Being together. So, the sticker is coming from a bad place, but it's really the what you need to hear. Beyachad nenatzeach. Now, beyachad means together. What is our victory when we are together? That's it. So, what does Hashem will do? He will bring a lot of enemies on us. It's very simple. So, we will understand that kohenu b'achdutenu. Where is our power? When we are united. What is the the solution of Esther? She tells Mordecai, "Lekh knos et kol ha'yehudim." Go gather all the Jews. Now, she doesn't tell him gather them to a concert, or gather them to a place where they're all going to learn together. She just says, "Knos et kol ha'yehudim." Go out there, dear Mordecai, and bring unity between the nation. And that unity is what's going to be our salvation. The decree was a year before it was supposed to happen. The decree was on Pesach to the next year. Megillat Esther is the way to reveal the light from the darkness in your life and in the whole world. Right now, you can physically see how the whole world is against us. The whole world is against us. Most of them pretending they're not. But have you heard any nation, any leader, or any entity condemning what was going on in Israel for the last year and a half? No. Only complaining about Israel who's doing a genocide and killing babies and etc., etc. I never heard, besides Trump, not one leader, no one nation saying anything good of the of the nation of Israel. Oh, but everybody's against us. I here and there you have a few stars. Of course, listen, there's always an exception. But if you're looking at a whole, and even the nations and leaders who are talking a little bit positive, it's politics. It's not real. And it's going to become worse, because Hashem wants us to become united. We're not going to do that, he will send us another Haman to threaten us. And hopefully we'll get the the message early enough. But right now, you see, most of the world is against us. You might not see it, cuz you might not look so Jewish in the street. I look very Jewish. So, I get in airports and in many other places, "Baby killer, free Palestine, genocide." You don't even know me. Somebody told me the other day in the airport, "Your government and your government and your government." And I said, "How do you know which government is You think I voted for that government?" Why do you keep telling me my government, the government? I told him, "Go to YouTube, you'll see how much I'm trashing that government. And you're going to kill me because my government?" It's not my government. So, the fact is, Hashem is showing us how the whole world is slowly, slowly we're going to become against us, then take my word, it's going to become much worse. Here and there you'll have a few leaders that are for us, and then the rest are against us. And maybe Hashem made Trump the shaliach to be the leader that is very favorable to Am Israel. I don't know, maybe he is Ahasuerus, and will come and be the leader that saves us. I don't know. I'm not negating any option. Hashem has many, many ways how to save the day. And there are many times in history that a gentile saved the entire nation. Like we're looking now, of course, it was a miracle in Hashem, but who was the one who saved Ahasuerus? A gentile. Hashem has many ways how to dress the miracle. But why is it important for us to know, and why is Hashem showing us that the world is against us? For one mitzvah that you have to do. Zachor et asher asah lecha Amalek. Remember what Amalek did to you. Don't forget. Don't forget what the Nazis did to you. Don't forget what the Soviet Union did to you. And don't forget what the Spaniards did to you. And don't forget what the Romans did to you. And don't forget. I didn't say don't forgive. That's a different sticker that is going on in the internet. Don't forgive, don't forget, don't I didn't say not to forgive. I just don't forget. It's an obligation from the Torah. I'm not making it up. Zachor et asher asah lecha Amalek. I gave yesterday a very, very interesting class. It's also going to be online tonight or tomorrow about all the idea of what Amalek did to you. And why you have to remember it. Tomorrow is Shabbat Zachor, one of the most important Shabbatot of the Torah of the year. And by the way, since we're prior to this Shabbat, you know, you're all obligated to be in the b'knesses and listen to the Torah. Men, women, and children are obligated to hear parashat Zachor. You have to. You're not going to come tomorrow to be blessed to hear on Shabbat. You transgressed a mitzvah from the Torah. If you're planning on sleeping or pretending that you're tired and you have to babysit the kids and it's cold and whatever. No, no, you get yourself ready and get pull yourself to a synagogue. You have to hear the Torah. You're not performing the mitzvah of Amalek. And I know my some people will tell you it's okay, you don't have to go. Go listen to it in Purim. That's if you didn't listen it yesterday and two days, then your teshuvah, so to say, is go listen to it on Purim. And who says you're going to find the minyan that will read parashat Zachor. But nevertheless, the mitzvah tomorrow is to remember what Amalek did to us. Don't forget. And Megillat Esther is the the tool that comes and shows us that reveals the light in the darkness. That's the the essence of Megillat Esther. You are now in darkness, you are now in exile. Megillat Esther is going to come and reveal it. How do you reveal it? Then we are commanded on Purim next week to celebrate. Till you reach to a point that you can't tell the difference between Haman and Mordecai. Ad d'lo yada. You have to get to a point that you don't see the difference between Haman, arur Haman, the horrible Haman, and baruch Mordecai. You know that the gematria of arur Haman and baruch Mordecai same gematria. Same numerical value. So it means that arur Haman, the damn Haman, and baruch Mordecai, the blessed Mordecai, are equal. Equal. Melech says zeh l'umat zeh bara Elokim. Hashem created everything with a polarity. So, like I mentioned many times, the polarity of Moshe Rabbenu is Bil'am. Bil'am was a prophet. If he would direct his way towards Hashem, he would be greater than Moshe Rabbenu. So everyone has a polarity and everything in this world has a polarity. There's only one entity that has no polarity and that's Hashem. Hashem Echad u'Shmo Echad. No polarity to Hashem. Oy va voy, chas v'shalom to even think of that. So everything has a polarity. The polarity in Hebrew means that zeh l'umat zeh. So zeh l'umat zeh bara Elokim. Here we're seeing that arur Haman is equal to baruch Mordecai. The l'umat zeh Haman is the l'umat zeh of Mordecai. So when I need to reach to ad d'lo yada, it doesn't mean that I need to be so drunk that they mop the floor with me. That's not what you need to do. Yeah, I need to elevate myself to a place that evil and good is the same thing. That there is no Haman. That everything is the same. And that's a very high level. That's a very high level that I understand there's no such thing, anything evil in the world. Even somebody has arur Haman, he has a tafkid, he has a purpose in this world. And there's no there's no negative. That's a very very high level. We're not going to get to the Kabbalistic aspect of it, but according to Kabbalah there's different many many different levels. But when you reach to a very high level, rasha d'lo yada, there's no there's no polarities. So everything is one. Everything is the same. Which means that that Haman and Mordecai are the same. Which means that the evil doing of Haman is as equal to the good doing of of Mordecai. Which means that whatever Hashem does is good. All the bad things that ever happened to you and will happen to you, it's all good. That's the path you need to walk on. Now, if you acknowledge that as it's happening, 90% of the suffering and the difficulty of the bad disappears. When do you see that? When you look back. The b'di eved, the after the fact. Ooh, now I understand. So ad d'lo yada, we have to differentiate we we have to get to a point that I don't see the difference between Haman and Mordecai. In my life, you come and help me, I see you as a Mordecai. You go against me, I see you as a Haman. But even if you are a Haman in my life, you're still good to me. Cuz I told you before, any bad in my life is to direct me back to good back to good. When you have bad in your life, that's Hashem telling you, wrong way. Distovev, turn around. Don't be upset. Be happy that Hashem is telling you you're about to go into a ditch. Wouldn't you want that? A personal GPS that tells you don't turn right, there's a cop there? When I understand that both arur Mordecai and arur Haman and baruch Mordecai are the same, everything is from Hashem. The good and the bad. They're both equal cuz everything is from Hashem. That's what I've been saying for the last few years and people seem to to get so emotionally hurt. Because a lot of people question where was Hashem in the Holocaust? Where was Hashem in many other situations and including now October 7th last year. And my answer is very simple. What do you mean where was Hashem? Hashem is the one who did it. You're giving credit to anybody else? If you are giving credit to anyone else, that's heresy. You think that the few hoodlums from the Hamas can sneak at night behind Hashem? And Hashem doesn't notice that what they're doing? What are you talking about? Hashem is the one who opened the doors. Hashem allows that. And Adam no kef etzba l'mata elam ken machrizim alav mil'mala. A person cannot move his finger in this world unless they declare it in the world above. Nothing can move in this world unless Hashem allows that. I know it's hard to accept, but all the bad in your life and all the bad in all history of mankind, Hashem allowed that. And if you think differently or say differently, sorry to tell you, you are 100% a heretic. No questions here. Cuz you're saying something in this world is stronger than Hashem. Bigger than Hashem. More powerful than Hashem. To reach to the level that I see that Haman and Mordecai are the same, a very hard, almost impossible throughout the year. But there are two times in that in the year that you can reach that with a little bit of effort, but Hashem does the rest. The first one is Yom Kippur and the second one is Purim. The two days of the year where you can reach to that level of rasha d'lo yada. In Kabbalah it means a very high level where you ascended to such a high level, you're above the clouds. You you see everything from above. And what do you understand from that? That everything is from Hashem and everything is good and you have no doubts, no worries, no anxieties, no hate to anyone. You see how the world is governed and you live in a in a level of geulah, of redemption. And you can reach that now way before Mashiach comes. And if you reach that, you live a normal life. You might not have everything that you want, but you know that Hashem gives you everything that you need in abundance. And the more you apply that, life becomes much better. And like I told you before, not that I'm trying to show off or anything. My life is great. I don't have no complaints. And I if you join me for one day, we'll see if you'll stand the pace. The other day, not too long ago, somebody that was with me, he told me, now I understand why you can't find helpers, workers, assistants. Nobody can go in your in your pace. You're like 500 miles an hour. Who who can Nobody can tag along. And not because I'm some great individual. It's just I I I understand what the Torah tells me. So I have no issues in my life. I mean, I have a lot of challenges, a lot of difficulties. I don't even look at it as challenges and difficulties. I look at it as part of my my my day-to-day job. That's it. But why? Cuz I I give Hashem all the credit. And I understand me l'chatchila, from the starting, that I have no control here. Hashem presents the situation. I need to apply a lot of emunah and bitachon, trust and belief, and ignore the challenge. And surely, very short after, the answer comes. Ta-da! That's it. So 90% of what I need to deal with, I don't even deal with it. I just let Hashem deal with it. Or you might call it I let nature deal with it. Or the world to deal with it. Or things just work out. Like I told you with the letter that I got from the insurance from the rental company. Easily I could lose my temper and my patience, scream, and of course when I lose my temper, everybody around me gets gets the the fire. My wife, my kids, my boss, strangers around me. I'm angry in the street. I yell here, I yell there. Why are you so uptight? I have I have I have things to deal with. Cuz now you got a bill. A $90,000 bill. I didn't lose even one second of like, okay, okay. So Hashem wants me right now. Hashem is testing me right now if I'm going to lose my patience. Or if I'm going to lose my calmness. And the second that I did ignore the the problem, the problem fixes itself. So to reach to the level that everything is Hashem, I and od milvado, no evil in the world. I just need to do my job. Everybody is participating in the structure. Either you do that yourself, which is very very difficult, or you wait for two auspicious days of the year, and one of them is Yom Kippur, where Hashem elevates you. All you need to do is fast. That's what you need to do. Not to Not to eat, not to work. Five prohibitions. Not taking showers, not having marital relationships, not wearing leather shoes, etc. You know all the prohibitions. That's it. And what does Hashem says? Lifnei titaharu. I will elevate you that you are lifnei, in front of me. And by default, all your sins don't exist anymore, because what does Hashem do on Yom Kippur? He elevates you above the clouds. Above the spiritual clouds, of course, not physical clouds. I call it above the clouds, in the place where ad d'lo yada, where everything is one. And that's what happens on Yom Kippur. Lifnei titaharu. Hashem elevates you to a place that sin doesn't exist. Because the spiritual worlds are divided into four. The highest of all is the world of Atzilut, and then comes the world of Briah, and then the world of Yetzirah, and the world of Asiyah. The world of emanation, creation, formation, and action. Action, formation, and creation. Asiyah, Yetzirah, Briah. There's existence of klipah. Klipah is a negative energy. The klipah exists in these three worlds. In the world of Atzilut, no klipah. No existence of such a thing. So, when you elevate yourself to a very high level, it's a place of no sins. So, by default, all your sins disappear. That's what happens on Yom Kippur. If you grab the Yom Kippur elevator, that's it. So, that's Yom Kippur. Now, Kippur Yom Kippur is K'Purim. Yom Kippurim K' is like Purim. That's the replica. So, the original is Yom Kippur. Do you understand what's happening next week? You can change your life. The essence of Purim is venahapochu. Venahapochu, you flip. 180°. You just mentioned the dreidel. If you're already mentioning it, you notice that on Chanukah, we turn a dreidel, and on Purim, we turn a grogger. Chanukah, the turning is from above. Hashem activated the miracle. He's the one who's turning it. Chanukah, we turn the grogger. The turning is coming from below. Us. You already mentioned grogger and and and a sevivon, dreidel. But Purim is the time of nahapochu. If you believe, then it will happen. Purim is not about giving some bag of treats to your neighbor, and a little donation to a poor person, and doing a favor to the world, and coming and listening to the Megillah. Purim is an opportunity. You have now an opportunity to make a massive change in your life, and a huge change in the life of our nation. That's why I told you you are lucky, because you're hearing this now a week before. Some Most of the people who see it will hear it much less than you. Till the video will get edited and go up tomorrow Shabbat, most people will hear it on Sunday, Monday, two days before Purim. You have the Shabbat of Zachor to prepare, because what you do on Shabbat will affect the next week. That's the power of this coming Shabbat. Whatever you do this Shabbat, it says whatever you do on the Shabbat, the the blessing goes to the next week. So, you have to follow. You have to see what the Shabbat needs what you need to do on this Shabbat, Shabbat Zachor. Now, I'm telling you that the the the basic part that you need to do is just to observe the Shabbat. That's the minimum of the minimum. Take this to be the most observed Shabbat that you can you can. If you have issues with observing Shabbat. But the power of Shabbat Zachor is giving you all the energy to Purim. This Shabbat is very very important. What you do this Shabbat, and you don't have to do somersaults in the air. You just observe the Shabbat how it needs to be done. Go to the shul three times to listen to the Torah in the morning, to pray in a minyan, eat your three meals, learn Torah, do teshuvah. Whatever you need to do on Shabbat, just observe the Shabbat. But whatever energy you create on the Shabbat, the whole week is like that. So, here you you're talking about Purim. Purim is one of the most auspicious times of the year, and you decide what you want to do with it. Ad d'lo yada, the concept of Purim means that you elevate yourself to a very very high level, whether you acknowledge it or not, whether you feel it or not. And you reach to a place to the level that is called Megillah. But I told you, don't read it as Megillah as a rather megalah. You reach to a place of revelation. Everything is clear. Everything is revealed. I didn't say life will become easy and nice, and you suddenly going to have tons of money, and you're going to be jumping up and That's not what I'm saying. I'm just saying that you're going to be able to deal with your life. And 90% of your of your problems will diminish and diminish. And you live a whole different life. Whereas all the turbulence of the world, like David Hamelech says, I've been quoting it for years. Tehillim 91. A thousand will fall from one side, 10,000 from the other side. Nothing will come to you. That's the level you want to get to. The whole world is chaotic, and you You just live your life. Good. So, you can reach in the day of Purim to a level of megalah, of revelation. Everything is revealed in front of you. And more than that, on Purim, you can reveal the hester, which means that in every situation that you're dealing with, you'll get clarity on. When you get clarity on a situation that you're with, you know what to do. Should I sue? Should I not sue? Should I proceed? Should I not proceed? Should I call? Should I not call? Most situations, you don't know what to do. You're confused. Then you get here some clarity. We always pray that Hashem will reveal his face to us. Yaeir Hashem panav eilecha viychuneka. We're praying that Hashem is going to be in a revealed way to us. Or now, we're reading now the structure of the tabernacle in the parashah. We're talking about the cherubs. When they're towards each other, everything's good. They turn away from each other, that's hester panim. That's when we don't see Hashem in our life. When I don't see miracles in my life. I just see trouble in my life. So, we're praying all the time for giluy panim. Which is equal to redemption, to geulah. In a level of geulah, redemption, there's a giluy panim. I see him, and there's no hester. What does it mean geulah? To go out of your klipot. That you go out of your limitations, out of your addictions, out of the state of limitation that brings you to sadness, to depression, to to many other things. And we have to understand that a klipah is also to go out of the klipah is to go out of your opinions. Most people, their opinions are completely distorted. They're not the opinions of the Torah. They make up all their opinions, and they're stuck in the klipah. That's most people, by the way. Even though you might look or feel very observant, but there are ways to recognize that you are stuck in the klipah. And the klipah, again, is a negative energy that controls you, and you create the klipah with your actions, with your thoughts, with your speech, with how you behave. By celebrating on Purim in a high level of simcha, which is the last stop of Purim, cuz first we start with mikra Megillah. You have to read the Megillah or hear it twice, once at night, once in the morning. You missed it, your Purim is worthless. Minimum twice. And you have to hear every word. You miss one word, you I You have to learn the halacha. You either say the word, or you If it's a small congregation, maybe the ba'al koreh reads it, but you need to hear every word. Twice. Women and men. Don't don't like be like, "Okay, I'll send my husband." No, no. The women have to hear it, too. And don't come with excuses. I have kids. I can't go and listen. My wife also has seven kids. Somehow, she listens to the Megillah. Cuz what she does, her and her friend, one baby sits the kids while the others listen to the Megillah, and then the ones who listen to Megillah baby sits the kids, and the ones who baby sits the kids go listen to a different keriah, different Megillah. But by bringing yourself to a place of joy in Purim, that's where you able to reach to that level of giluy panim. So, first we read the Megillah, then you give charity to poor people, and then you give mishloach manot. You give food to other people. I'm not going to repeat that, because I told the lecture I gave last week, which is online, I explained very thoroughly the essence of the four mitzvot, why, who, when. I explained that. In general, just that you know, we're just right now in the parashah. Va'asu li mikdash v'shachanti betocham, right? That's what we're going to That's what we're going to read this Shabbat. First aliyah. You should build for me a tabernacle and I will dwell in you. That's what the Torah says. Commentary, what does it mean in you? In each and every one of you. Very simple. I build a tabernacle, I refine myself, how I think, how I talk, how I what I look at and say etc. I refine my tabernacle, I shall will dwell in me. But the result says different. Betocham means betoch mem, inside the mem and I gave a long explanation. Go to the other lecture, but what does it mean for the in the mem? Mem sofit, a closed mem looks like a square. Four sides, a top, two sides and a bottom. This corresponds to the four mitzvot of Purim that all start with the letter mem. Mikra Megillah starts with mem, reading the Megillah. Matanot mishloach manot giving food to other people starts with a mem. Matanot la'evyonim, uh charity starts with mem. Mishteh ve'simcha, a feast and joy starts with mem. When you fulfill all these four mitzvot, you close the mem. Etcetera can come in. V'shachanti betocham, I will dwell in you. Hashem can dwell in you. Cuz there's no filth, there's no dirt. That you can achieve on Purim. And I have explained and elaborated in in other classes that if you do these four mems throughout the year, then constantly Hashem dwells in you. How do you do it throughout the year? The Mikra Megillah, the the Megillah that we read corresponds to learning Torah. So every day you have to learn Torah. Whether it's 1 minute or 5 hours. You have to set time that you learn Torah, even women. You read Tehillim, you you read laws of lashon hara, family purity. Women have a lot what to learn. Parashat Hashavua. Then the next mitzvah is mishloach manot is matanot la'evyonim. That you give a charity. Then you have to give charity every day of the year. No difference. I didn't say ma'aser. Charity, tzedakah. If you don't make money, you have to pay ma'aser? No, but you still have to say pay give tzedakah. I know many people who don't work. And they they have no ma'aser to give, but they obligated to give tzedakah. It's two different things. Ma'aser is 10% of what you make and tzedakah is your charity. So every year you have to give charity. Then the last mitzvah is mishteh ve'simcha, a feast and eating. That corresponds to Shabbat, the meals of Shabbat. You have to observe Shabbat. And the third one really mishloach manot is that I give you food and you give me food. I don't need your food. And I don't think you need my food, but why are we exchanging food? I'm giving you some of mine and you're giving me some of yours. That's it. This is ahavat chinam. We share. I want to give you some of mine and I want to get some of yours. It's a healthy way. It's that's ahavat Yisrael. That's ahavat chinam. That's giving. You do that throughout the year. That's it. Hashem will dwell in you. And now we're reading in this in this parashah. The four mitzvot go in order. First the Megillah, then the mishloach manot, then matanot la'evyonim, and then mishteh ve'simcha. So after you read the Megillah, after you gave charity, after you exchanged love with your friend, now it's time to sit down and to be besimcha and to have joy. That's Purim. Al yedey simcha, by having the joy of Purim, that's how you reach to that level of ad d'lo yada that everything is equal. That's your opportunity. And on Purim you have to fulfill all these four mitzvot. I know it sometimes it's hard. But like I told you, first the Megillah, that's the first investment. Matan mishloach manot the the law is that you have to give two portions of food. Two portions of food like mishloach manot, two types of food to one individual. That's the the mitzvah. And then after that matanot la'evyonim, charity. And after that you get to the seudah, to the simcha. All you need to do is follow the rules. Cuz Purim is holding in it the power of miracles. You just need to apply and there will be a revelation in in nature. But you need to do something. It's not going to happen unless you do it. It's not going to happen. You have to understand as we pray on Purim and Hanukkah and many other that we say al hanisim v'al nifla'otecha, for your miracles and your wonders. But it says b'chol et, every second. So now that you understand that the entire concept of Megillat Esther is coming to tell you Hashem is everywhere. You just need to focus on Hashem. You just need to focus on the Torah and the mitzvot. And you just need to do whatever Hashem tells you to do. With love, with joy, with happiness. All this you're already trying to do. Here we're coming down you have to add on that a few more elements and you'll suddenly see that life is not as bad as you might think. And maybe some of you are already in the level by saying I know what you're talking about. I I relate with what you say. Good. So you're doing your job great. Not every word hits uh exactly exactly where it needs to go. And other people might not um might tell me I'm I'm already way after that. I don't think a lot of people are way I think a lot of people can definitely refine themselves. So what you need to take from that, like I told you in the beginning is what you do when you leave this room. I told you you are lucky cuz you came here. But what you're doing with that, if you're smart, that depends what you're doing when you leave the room. If you're smart, then tonight you sit with yourself and you arrange your thoughts and you understand that there's an opportunity and you prepare for Shabbat, for Shabbat Zachor and you you you prepare yourself. You celebrate Shabbat the right way with all the right intentions and waiting for Purim and you're fulfilling the mitzvot of Purim the right way. You fast on on Thursday. You go hear the Megillah, you you invest every little thing in Purim. It's the easiest holiday. What do you need to do? There's nothing to do. You listen to a Megillah. That's the wow. And then to get dressed up, it's a fun holiday. It's like the easiest holiday ever, but you have all the opportunities to completely change your life. How you look at things, how you you you relate to this world. The idea of Purim is miracles that you can invite miracles on your life. Now everything that I told you will stay activated as long as that's your direction. You do what everything that I said in the last 2 hours, you'll see that after Purim your life is still running good. Challenges somehow disappear, somehow money comes in from all directions so you can pay whatever you need to. You just live miracle after miracle after miracle after miracle and all your life is miracles. And you'll see it and you let Hashem run the show. I'll give you one example out of thousands. I moved to Eretz Yisrael 10 years ago. Which in itself is a miracle. But for a year and a half my wife and me were planning where we're going to live, which schools the kids are going to go to, what are we going to do? The morning of my flight I call my mom to okay, I'll see you in a few hours. We're leaving in a few hours. We'll see you. And my mom tells me as a concerned mother where are you going to sleep tonight? You have where to sleep? I mean you're coming with a wife and six kids. Kind of saying in other words, are you planning on crashing here like for a week or two or three? Like what should I expect? So I told her I don't know where we're I don't know. What do you mean you don't know? I don't know where I'm staying. She says, "Are you serious? What do you mean you don't know where you're staying? You're traveling with a wife and six kids and you don't know where you're staying?" I said, "No, when I'm done with you the conversation, I'll go on Airbnb and find myself an apartment. What's the big deal? The the apartment where was already set in the six days of creation. Where I'm going to stay the night I land. I need to to think where I'm landing. And of course the reaction was you're it's irresponsible, it's this, it's that. I said, "No, it's not it's not irresponsible at all. I just didn't have time." The apartment is waiting for me. I just need to reveal which apartment it is. The apartment is already saved for me since the six days of creation. I just don't know which apartment it is. The light is there. The blessing is there. Hashem exists in this situation. I just didn't turn the light on yet. I don't know. Should I get angry, upset, worry? No. Hashem is like my party planner. He he he books everything. I I don't book things. So when I got off the call and sure enough I went to Airbnb. 20 minutes later I found an apartment. That's it. When you let Hashem run the show for you, you don't need to be on Airbnb for 6 hours till you find the right apartment. Two three searches and you lock it. That's it. That's how I lock things. It takes me more than not more than 10 minutes. Book flights, book I don't even let my assistant do these things cuz when she does that, 10 hours till she finds me a flight. What do you think of this and what do you think of that and that? I go in, check check check, this one. That's it. Why? Not because I'm special, because I let Hashem run the show. I'm going to make any decisions. It's not good for me landing in the morning, it's a night flight and I just don't argue. I let Hashem do everything. And I just believe that he will do and everything gets done. So when you put a sham in charge and you trust a sham that he will do the best thing for you and you give a sham all the glory and all the keys to all doors, let a sham do it. Why do I need to worry about these things? I don't need to I have other responsibilities. I have another class online. I urge you to go and see it unless you already saw it. It's called I don't remember exactly the title but it's called something along the line does how a sham can make money from thin air. Go watch this class. Where I had to urgently come up with a very large amount of money. Everything seemed like there's no other chance where I'm going to get this money. And the second that I gave a sham the responsibility 2 hours later the exact amount that I needed showed up to my table in cash. And I'm talking about a very large amount not say $100. Go watch watch this class. You'll see how a sham operates. The second that you let a sham do his thing, give a sham the stage how a sham drives everything. Miracles over miracles over mir- and your whole life is a mir- one big miracle. Now I know everything that I just said is very hard to apply. If I would think that it's easy I would teach you that a long time ago. But since it's very hard to apply then I'm urging you to do it on on Purim. That's when you can go through the back door. That's where you have your spiritual Black Friday. 90% off. Don't work too hard. All you need to do is listen to the megillah, give some mishloachot manot, give charity and a lot of it. The more you give the better. Purim is the day you want to give the most charity you can. Whatever you will give it will boomerang right back at you. You're not going to lose from any charity on on Yom Kippur on on Purim. Cuz on Yom Kippur you can't give charity. You can only fast and pray. After you gave charity, you gave mishloachot manot, you heard the megillah, you do the feast. I'm telling you follow the order and let a sham stand next to you. You'll see how a sham runs the world with miracles. To get all the nation of Israel together in unity uh that's a harder task. Unfortunately, I think we're going to need to get a few more slaps to the face as a nation to figure out what we need to do. I've been trying for 20 years to teach, preach, and inspire people to be in some type of a form of unity. Not so simple. Not everybody wants to be in a form of unity for many different reasons and I'm not going to argue with anyone. I mean I can argue as much as I want but that doesn't help me. But that's the secret. Until we get it then a sham is going to deal with us in whatever way he wants. I'm telling you as a nation that's what we're going to need to deal with. And until we get it a sham is going to put a lot of pressure. Be ready. As an individual you're not dependent on other people from the nation. So like I told you like David says you need to make sure that make sure that you are good with a sham. And a sham is going to be as it says in the megillah with the ones who are following a sham everything was good. Everything was fine. So now all that's left from you to do is how you walk through this door. You need to know that Amalek is standing outside the door. Right now you hear protected. This is here. This is Torah. This is a here. You are inspired. You're hearing words of Torah. Now everything that I say makes perfect sense. Everything that I say tomorrow I'm forgiving all the world. But not so easy to do. But that's what you need to do. And again you have the option of leaving the door tonight like you take the blue pill. Don't change anything in your life but don't complain. Don't do anything. Don't apply. Don't work hard. Don't do anything and but don't complain that things don't work out. Or you go out this door you take the red pill and tomorrow and tonight you already changed some aspects of your life and by making these aspects of your life permanent you invite positive light into your life. You invite solution to your problems. You invite a sham into your life. And a sham is a sham is going to get to where he wants you to get in however way he needs to. You're going to get to that point regardless. You can't change it and you don't have any control. Wherever a sham wants you to get. You choose how you get there. Whether you get there with a smile or whether you get there all beaten up from all directions. That's it. The truth the the message, the class, the learning what a sham wants to give you. He will do that anyways. You can choose if it's going to be the hard way or the easy way. So choose the easy way. My why why Why look for trouble for for for problems? Purim is a time of of missing as we pray every second we can activate it. You have to understand that Purim if you do what I told you not only that Purim will be different. It will affect the rest of the year and every year and every year. So now you decide what you want to do when you go out of the door. You stay where you are or you change. You have the opportunity. So what is left for me is to just to wish you great success and that a sham should bless you in the best way possible and enlighten your way and enlighten your path that you can do what you need to do, find the sham, reveal the godly light in your life. But I'm telling you now I know now you can summarize okay great lecture and if you don't apply anything you you wasted your time here and I actually don't know why you came. And and and You need to apply. It's it's not so hard to have a and I'm telling you the the the the wise person is a person with experience. I'm not selling you a product that I didn't try myself. I applied that to my life. I can come and testify and saying you know what what the holy text says works. And if somebody will point the finger and say how come it works for you and doesn't work for me? Then you didn't it means you didn't apply yourself. Apply yourself and do whatever I told you. You'll reach to a place that you'll see. You'll see this godly revelation in your life and life will be positive. It will be easier. You'll reach to your you won't you're going to be much less angry, much less aggravated. You'll sleep well. You'll eat well. Life will be kind of normal with the challenges that you need to go through but you understand that the challenges are good for you. And you will welcome these challenges with a smile. Not that you welcome the challenge. I can already tell you that most people if they would focus 5 minutes in the morning on morning prayers half of the problems will be disappeared. Look at what you're saying in the morning if you focusing on what you're saying. Most people don't focus on the morning prayers. Most people most people don't say that. Look at the middle paragraph. What do you say with the I am I am I am I am I am I am I am I am I am I am I am I am I am You're telling a sham save me from from any evil from a bad neighbor from a bad the national home from being judged like as if I'm in I mean look what you're asking. If you would ask that with the right intention in the morning wow. Why can't you invest 5 minutes in the morning to be focused on I guarantee to you that 1% the people in the crowd in this room and almost 0.1% in the video people looking don't say the morning prayers. 5 minutes it will take you. That's how you start your day. Don't start your day with your phone. That's how most people start their day. And I said that in previous lectures. You go to sleep with your phone you're going to have a problem cuz you means you're going to wake up with your phone. And most people wake up with their phones not with their alarm clock. And when you wake up with your phone the first thing that you touch is full of full of full of impurity. You want to have a happy day and a successful and productive day an hour before you go to sleep you don't touch your phone. And an hour after you woke up you don't touch your phone. You only go to your phone after you prayed after you went to the after you sent the kids to school. Try it. The phone is not productive in any What do you need to check it first thing in the morning? You don't need to sleep with it. Doesn't do anything good. I'm not talking right now about the radiation. Talking about the that is in it. I said that numerous times. You want a big change in your life? Say goodbye to that little thing. We're now going to we're walking into Pesach. The concept of Pesach is we were slaves to in Egypt. The slavery what is the definition of slavery? Hard work. Hard work. Materialism and bricks. The is you work hard for money. I don't know many people who money just falls from the sky. Even if you have a lot of money you work hard for that. That's and means that what you work for really? I would say that 80% of your income goes to your mortgage, to kids tuitions, to all your bills, to to your basic essentials. Unless you have a lot of money, that's where your money goes to. That's how Hakadosh Hu You work hard all month, comes the end of the month, you paid all your bills, you're left with $2.5. Homer, I told you that. That's materialism. You're a slave to If you are a slave to materialism, you are a slave in Tupa U'min Mitzrayim. And the last one is levenim, bricks. So at the time of Mitzrayim, they built houses. Your brick is this. This is your brick. See, I have a brown brick. You have a yellow brick. And yours is a pink brick, and yours is a whatever brick. Why do you think our great sages have been telling us in the last 20 years not to touch the smartphones? Not because of the pritzut that's on the phone that you can see things you have a one button to get a gnome on your phone. I thought that, that that's why our old khakhamim say, "Don't touch the smartphone." Which is not far from the truth. But when our khakhamim saw the that that's a problem. If you're holding it more than 5 minutes consecutive, you Most I said that already. I don't want to, you know, bang the nail too too strong. You find yourself more than 15 minutes on your phone going like this consecutive, you have a problem. A big one. And by the way, maybe two in this crowd don't and the rest have their phones. Going like this for 3 hours. So some people can't sleep that I'm sorry. Either way, you either go up and down, to the sides, same videos, same nonsense, same junk. And even if you think that you're watching Torah and shorts Okay, so after three videos of Torah, boom, pops up your favorite car, favorite dress, you the lipstick that you're looking for, whatever it is. And then before you know it, 3 and 1/2 hours, you're already Avadim Hayinu L'Pharaoh B'Mitzrayim. That's it. You're a slave to Pharaoh in Egypt. Happens to be that it's in Brooklyn, and happens to be that your brick is an iPhone 15. That's it. And you live in denial. Everything's great. But you are a slave to Pharaoh in Mitzrayim. Pharaoh doesn't let you go. He takes all your shifla. He takes everything. He makes you forget about God. He makes you a slave. So you want to be free from this slavery? My personal recommendation is don't go to sleep with your phone and don't wake up with your phone. And you'll see a huge change in your life. Start controlling yourself. That's a very strong form of slavery. This thing. Try to go 2 days without your phone. Let's see if you can handle your life. Which in 30 years ago, the whole world was managed without cell phones. I'm not a dinosaur, but I'm old enough to tell you that even in my time, we ran the world without phones. We had beepers. That's it. And the world was functioning very well. So you have to understand where you're holding. You also have to understand a much more profound thing that if you are going through over the the block of Purim, then your Pesach is going to be in a completely different level. Then you're really going to go out of slavery. You're going to go out of your Mitzrayim. Your Mitzrayim is all your limitations, all your habits, all your addictions. If you do your job right on Purim, a month later you go out of Mitzrayim. Because from Purim till Pesach, our khakhamim say the Kadosh Baruch Hu removes Klipat Amalek. So everything that comes against you to cool you down from the Torah is removed from from Purim to Pesach. And if you do everything the right way in the right order on Pesach, you become a free individual. Free from all your limitations. And your limitation is not always your phone. Your limitation is that you want to do good in the eyes of Hashem. You say, "Tomorrow I'm going to wake up at 6:00." And tomorrow you wake up at 9:00. And then you say, "Okay, tomorrow we're starting." Next, you wake up at 12:00. You want to, but you can't seem to get it done. That's very familiar. That's you when you have blockages in your Avodat Hashem. You when you are a slave to Pharaoh in Mitzrayim. You do everything the right way, you will become a free individual. You know what it means to be a free individual? Benei Khorin? Nothing limits me. I'm not saying it now in an arrogant way or in any type of negative way. I consider myself a ben khorin. I'm a free individual. Not I don't have the yetzer hara. Yetzer hara is bothering me day to night, but he's not controlling me. I don't let anything control me. That was my my change when I became observant. When I became observant 22 years ago, I was a slave to everything existing in this world. Alcohol, drugs, money, anything that you you can think of. Cigarettes. I was addicted to every substance. I was the worst. And I understood that I cannot become an eved to Hashem, a slave to Hashem if I'm a slave to anything else. How can I become an eved Hashem if the whole Shabbat I'm thinking of a cigarette? Or the whole time I'm my mind is somewhere else. You can't be a true slave to Hashem if your slavery is something in this world. And when you let go of everything, then you see that the only one you want to be a slave to is Hashem, and that's what you were created for. And then in your Avodat Hashem, you're a slave. All the rest, you're free. So smart people take advantage of good opportunities. Hopefully you are smart cuz you have an opportunity to go out of this door tonight, and I'll summarize your opportunity. You go out of this door tonight, and you start preparing yourself for the major change in your life. And then tomorrow you prepare for Shabbat like you prepare every Shabbat. And if you don't observe Shabbat, then tomorrow's the Shabbat you're going to prepare the right way so you can accept it a few minutes before. Yeah, I know you're going to run tomorrow like a chicken without the head a minute before Shabbat. And tomorrow make an effort that you accept Shabbat 5 minutes before. That you don't have any chance that this Shabbat should be touched in any type of a negative way. And Shabbat, you make an effort to go to the Beit Knesset, especially in the morning cuz you need to hear Parshat Zachor, and you're fulfilling a mitzvah that is very difficult for us to fulfill. Remembering the memory of Amalek and to erase the memory of Amalek. Yeah, just go to shul. Here, and that's it. You perform the mitzvah that you are obligated to do. When you don't perform mitzvot that you're obligated, you are creating these voids in your life, and then you start having problems. And then you have a beautiful three meals. You observe the Shabbat the right way. That's it. And then a few days, you prepare your Mishloach Manot. You start giving charity to poor people. You prepare what you need to prepare for the Purim. If you don't have a Megillah, go buy yourself a Megillah. If you have some money, it's not so expensive. You prepare the right way. Where are you going to hear the Megillah? Who's baby sitting the kids while I'm listening to? Where am I having my Seudah Purim? Learn the laws of Purim. There's so much information online now. 20 minutes, learn the laws of Purim. What do you need to do, not need to do. Just follow the the steps. Very simple. You don't have to develop now ideas in your mind. Follow the steps. You will see that by default you will reach to this level. And the more you put it, the more you invest, the more you give, that's that's K'mayim Panim El Panim, like a reflection in the of the face in the water. And again, you have an opportunity. You can fall asleep like I've been saying, and then you'll wake up next Sunday. Oh, I missed Purim. I have to wait now till Yom Kippur. I mean, you're all laughing, but I'll when now your favorite store will send you an email that they're giving a 90% off coupon to the product that you wanted the whole year, wouldn't you jump on that opportunity right now? Of course you do. So I'm I'm the salesperson of the from the products of Hashem. I'm coming and telling you, "Jump on the opportunity." Jump on the opportunity. You have an unbelievable opportunity that will change your entire life. And I know it sounds dramatic, "Change your life." But it will. How many times you woke up in the last year or 2 years or 3 years and you I need a change. This is not working out. This is not working out. Dead ends everywhere. No shifla, no brakha in my parnassa, no brakha in my learning Torah, no brakha in the shalom bayit. I said one word too much. I want to wish you a happy Purim. I want to wish you already Shabbat Shalom. And Purim Sameach. I'll take the opportunity to wish you already Pesach Sameach. Take advantage of the next month and a half cuz how you work yourself throughout the month of Adar and and Nissan, and you do everything the right way, I'm telling you the only one who's going to benefit. You are the one who's going to benefit. A little bit of effort, a little bit of hard work, you will see that Hakadosh Baruch Hu is just waiting for you to reveal this light. And once you reveal it, things will be positive in your life. Doesn't mean your life is right away going to change, but you'll see a huge difference. So I wish you when you walk out of this door tonight, that Amalek is going to be waiting in a different block. He's not going to notice you. Maybe walk from the side entrance. Go out quietly. But really the main main change you need to take and you have now the opportunity and especially on Purim is really the switch here. That's it. That's what I've been trying to push so long. And all my bad door, when you leave and all my bad door, you have no issues. You have no challenges. You have no problems. You wake up happy. You go to sleep happy. You happy to other people. You healthy. You good. But you need to reach to this level and all my bad door, all my problems is Hashem. Nobody hates me. Nobody does anything bad to me. I have no enemies. My only enemy is myself. Hashem is waiting to bless me. This is the attitude. And you'll see everything falls in place and your desires get answered. Your prayers get answered. And if they don't, you still see that it's from Hashem and you understand what you need to do. Everything that I'm telling you, I'm blessing you that this should be a reality in your life. And in order for this to be a reality in your life, then you need to apply the few steps that I told you and Hashem will take care of everything else.