Rabbi Lazer Brody: Risk & Reward

with hashem's loving grace this is laser brodie from hearing eric's youth world happy as always to be a guest of hazak in tur any times and this time with a special project with chickens for shabbos also that having a special program of shireen most important sharing this vital sharing is called risk and reward and i'm happy to take part in this because this is so important to clarity's world especially we look at the context of what is happening now in claudia's world we see the challenge of the coronavirus and the coronavirus in fact it's not a single family and the jewish people hasn't affected especially since it's hit so hard especially in the torah observant areas we ask ourselves why la mahrez why is hashem doing all these difficulties for the jewish people well if we look historically and we see things there's some strange things there's things that i couldn't say if it wasn't ghazal that said them for example any time that we had uh holocaust the holocaust the emory emes the holy emory emis of gore he said that the reason there was a holocaust in the european countries and it wasn't a holocaust by the safari jews in the sparta countries north african countries is because in the north african countries in the safari countries like in in asia in iraq and afghanistan that the jews there the jews there the persian the jews there they wouldn't speak in shul it was holy they have mikdash they have a fear of the mig dash they treat the synagogue like it's a bait mig big dash you could see that you walk into as far to shul and it's everything as they invest so much in it and everything's quiet pin drop nobody thinks of talking nobody thinks of talking but imrae emma says because there was so much chatter in the shulls in europe and germany and poland and russia because other politics and this back and forth he says that but on the holocaust it's amazing and who can say something this is the holy emory emma and you see hazal talk about this all the time but we're going to talk about something basic what is why is it so terrible to talk and show people say you know what's the big deal talking show okay so let's try and understand this and we'll we will see that the basis a person can't be if if a person tries to be quiet in synagogue it's going to be like holding a spring okay he can hold a spring and he knows he's being threatened if it's going to be a big trouble if he talks it should but as soon as he lets the spring go boof and the news that this is the the difference between the fear of punishment and the fear of sin what's it if we know there's three levels of yura shamayim there's fear of punishment that's the lowest level then there's the fear of sin then there's the upper level fear they're below hashem what's the difference a person if he knows that he's gonna get an axe on his neck then he certainly won't talk in sure but some people don't even feel that that is the fear of punishment and people talking to you because they don't know what the punishment is they don't realize what the punishment is they don't realize the severity of what it means to talk in shul and so that is the fear of punishment but what about if someone had a fear of sin what's the sin we're going to try and understand what the transgression is in fact we'll try and understand what it means the honor look at it from a good standpoint always try to teach things from a positive standpoint but every positive side has a negative side it's probably creation in the world that there's a good side and a bad side there's good and there's evil so we try to understand from a good side but if we can't understand that like little kids sometimes they'll be threatened with uh like this is dirichlet a little slap uh people say what laser you're not used to talking like that you just talked you're the nice guy you're talking money talking to heart well let me start let me tell you a little story when i was in university one of the ways i made money is in the summer i was a lifeguard worked as a lifeguard and one thing we learned in lifeguard course okay that you know you got it somebody is doing something that's wrong and they're doing something dangerous you got to blow the whistle you got a big big strong whistle big strong metal whistle and blow the whistle make sure everybody hears and once it's like an ambulance how does an ambulance get other cars out of the way it's got to rush somebody to the hospital or a police siren get someone to pull over the road would you ever hear an ambulance or a police siren nobody get out of the way so here we talk about the severity of talking in shul if a person doesn't have fear of punishment let me fear of sin okay fear of sin fear of sin is even a higher level that you know if you sin heaven forbid do you know that if a person uh speaks in shul anything other than torah and prayer and during the time of prayer you're not even allowed to speak torah but get only a prayer and then persons actually severs himself from the divine presence serving himself from hashem has shalom shalom but then as someone that is real has awareness this is that i said why how can i insult the king he's so good to me aveeno volcano my father my king and we're coming into the high holiday season we're going to be saying a lot of avenue and we think this person really says hashem says if i'm your father and i'm your king why don't you respect me one time a person came to me and a person said laser i i really don't understand a problem with my daughter so what's the matter he's got a very nice 16 year old daughter she goes to base yakov and all of a sudden the clear blue she disrespected him in the worst way she gave husband to her father and he says i can't understand my daughter's behavior why is she doing that and he says so hashem illuminated my head and i said to him uh stop and think stop and think hashem runs the world we say the gomorrah tells us that although we have no prophecies in this generation and although we have brought no but call in this generation no heavenly voice we have me that connected me that we have a turn for a turn a measure for measure i said if your daughter is respecting you maybe you did something to disrespect your father in heaven so he started thinking so i think he said oh wow he said he has slapped himself in the forehead so what's the matter he said right in the middle yeah hashem's great name be sanctified we know the gomorrah says right be sure ben levy says if a person says may rabbah with all his intent then even if he has a decree of 70 years bad luck against him then what's that going to do it's going to be wiped out it's going to be completely erased and what was better than that so here in the middle yeah the guy turned to talk to his buddy there can be no greater disrespect to hashem so hashem doesn't want to do this hashem is a loving father and he doesn't want this guy to go to bed because he didn't think twice about it when he comes to synagogue on rosh hashanah and yom kippur he's guessing i disrespected hashem i not even thinking most people they're far away from true self-assessment from true truth so what hashem does hashem wakes them up and hashem wakes them up so why does this wake him up with something measure for measure so by way of that he asked himself look my daughter's a good girl and why all of a sudden she's respected disrespecting me that is so he can take stock in himself and say what did he do to disrespect hashem and that way he makes shuffle and he's clean so it shows that what hashem is doing is all for the best the same thing goes for coronavirus look at the symptoms of coronavirus what happened with coronavirus we all got kicked out of shul why should hashem kick us out of shul why does she kick us out of synagogue when we're all praising his name and we're all respecting him because something was wrong with the praise and something was wrong with the respect there's a lack of praise and lack respect so look what happens not only did we get kicked out of shul but we got treated like lepers separated from one another we have the social distance not only that look what happens look what hashem is doing and nobody understands hashem's language a mask on the face you walk around with a mask on your mouth come on everybody with the mask on their pocket a couple of them and you go you know everybody's got masks in their pocket here what does this mean what does this mean why is hashem doing this to us why is hashem doing this to us ah now we have to understand this is what we said on the shabbat shabbat zone before tish above when we were trying to examine all the problems and corona was burning already in tish above and what did what did isaiah the prophet tell us the first chapter of isaiah amid bonon my nation didn't pay attention my nation didn't take stock themselves he didn't say oh all other type sins that they did idolatry and that they were they were stealing from one another and they engaged in holistic sex no no in the bloodshed my nation didn't pay attention and he compared us he said look an ox and a donkey they know who they're eating from they know who who is giving them food and people we don't know we don't know who are adopting from look what the peliod says if we open up the peliods the peliods where blaser papa from bulgaria he was the biggest poise scheme in the balkan states he was about the time of the the early 1820s 1830s in bulgaria and he talks about the need and the absolute the absolute obligation to be respectful and shul and not to speak anything not to speak any regular mundane talk only prayer only prayer and he says like this shalom he says heaven forbid a person should say uh what's the weather today heaven forbid no only thing why because a person must have the fear of the divine presence do you remember how mushroom when it did heard the divine but when he went up to mount sinai and said to him moses you're on holy ground take your shoes off he knew he was he could then he really stuttered and he was so he can feel this this is the way we should feel ensure because the gemara tells us that where there is a minion where there are ten jews it doesn't matter in eretz israel this is one place where gallus where new york is equal to eretz israel where miami is equal territorial because if there are ten jews gathered to pray in a minion then it's just like eretz israel admaskoides it is holy ground when you have a synagogue in queens and there are 10 jews praying there it is holy ground it's holy ground because that is the shaina that is the shin divine presence is right there so if the divine presence is there you know that's the king that's the king the king and the queen hashem it's all one but it's the whole it's it's the king and it's all royal great counterpart righteousness all royal entourage they're right there and who would think can you imagine if you went to buckingham palace and the queen of england flesh and blood queen non-jewish flesh and blood queen and somebody in the middle of the carnation with some some prince or some uh some the pageant they're having in buckingham palace instead would yell up and talk right away to say i'd say they would strike him they throw him out they throw him in jail right in a minute and people know people go and they feel there's this awe going into buckingham house look invaluable flesh and blood queen non-jewish queen and here what do we do we go into synagogue and the divine presence is there people talk why do people talk because they lack emunah they don't believe that divine presence with the peliods this was words and this was he says he a common person it's a common person how could he not feel how could his heart not feel the severity of the divine presence there oh in liberius meow media and he says wow woe to the woe to the people from the day of judgment the day of the judge was coming close on rosh hashanah and if you think it's a joke think back of last year rosh hashanah how would we have prayed in rosh hashanah if they would have told us oh you know what the if we speak in shul this year or if we don't properly and if we don't do chuva guess what there's going to be there's going to be a pandemic there's going to be we don't care what's happening and what about let's look at our own people look at our own people look how many funerals there were in new york look how many funerals yerushalayim not worried and not to be shaking and we're about to stand the second this year on on russian at least in eritrea's royal the second wave is back and you have 10 15 people dying every day but the gomorrah says if you see somebody and especially somebody cashier a upright jew and your community and something happens to him you know don't say oh that's his that's that's moisture's business and that's yaakov's business no person has to say wait a second i know better than him i've got to do truth i've got to do stalking myself what's happening with me how do i behave in shul and now the polioid says like this he says when other people speak in shul you have to go going bob you have to you have to uh protest you have to protest you're not trying to win an election with a popularity contest and you know you got the guys the the mafia there that speaks at shul and you say no uh did you afraid they're going to make fun of you this is the very beginning of the show and sif aleph the rama says that you should not be afraid of the people that are making fun of you when you're doing a mitzvah and this is the biggest mitzvah and we'll see why it's the biggest mitzvah okay we said that the imrae ms said that the reason that the holocaust affected the ashkenazi countries and didn't affect the safari countries it's because the al-jukhnazi countries were used to blabbing in shul and as far as countries they did not speak at shul you know who said the same thing in a previous holocaust we looked at toys versus yomtov in terms of your rabbi yomtov lippmann heller he made the card the toast for zyumth of commentary on the mishnah okay he lived in po born of poland russia back at the time of 1648 1649. in 1648 and 1649 there was what's called it was the the decrees of 1648 1649 there was a pogrom that killed one-third of european jewry this was a holocaust a holocaust in every sense of the word and he was saved from this holocaust rebellion lip and heller was a big sadiq young that was a big static and he was saved and when he was saved here yeah they're not a single house that wasn't mourning they were villages whole villages were wiped out whole communities were wiped out and they came in the cossacks it's a white wipe down at the entire entire population old people children it was so such they say that since the 1648 and 1649 uh decrees on judaism that there's not a potato in the ukraine or in poland that doesn't grow that's being fertilized by the iron or jewish blood in the ground there's so much jewish blood in the ground so tusfas yomtov he did 40 days fast and he did unbelievable shiva and he wanted to know from shamayim why why hashem why did you do this hashem your loving father how could a loving father do this to his children why did you do this hashem and he fasted for 40 days and then he made a sheila after a 40-day fast a sadiq could do a shayla a a shy excuse me a question in his dream and he asked in a dream why that they should he wanted to be one he wanted that he should be notified in a dream from shamayim why this all happened well his prayer was answered after his 40 days fasting and i was asked that he should be answered in a dream okay and i malok came from chemin and came to me a dream and said and i'm quoting israel was punished and that terrible terrible decree that killed one-third of european judaism because they took lightly the fact of the prohibition of speaking in shul al-zouzbah and that is why they they had this this this terrible evil and hundreds and hundreds of synagogues were totally wiped out okay it was because of this therefore the toast was yomtif he says i have to do something this is a sadiq a real sadic a real sadiq has to do something to to make claudius trail better than it was before these are our true spiritual leaders they do things for to strengthen claude israel and to make claudius israel better than they were before so what did he do he made a prayer and the thousand yanta made a prayer very few people say this prayer but i strongly suggest that if you're a god by in your synagogue it's a mishabera okay after we say and we say that misha bayrock for the entire uh italian congregation and we say that we brought fire all the congregations that's really about for everybody and we dial it for the people that sarcastic but the our public servants that did help them the beatles of the shoulders the shamash the gabbais everyone okay then there's a misha beyrach that the toysviciontif wrote and he wrote this after the 49 degrees okay i'm going to say it and translate it and as i'm saying i'm blessing everybody that's listening this lesson okay this is a blessing a side check from the toy special the holy toast with yomtov okay if you commit now and this i suggest people commit what i should do i'm good i'm gonna finish it's important to learn it's important to to strengthen ourselves and and and cautious it's important to strengthen ourselves in shams but number one if someone would ask me what are the first two things to do when they're related to one another they're related to one another the first two things i would say are number one no lachanera stop with the evil talk the slander the wagging tongue let's use our speech for torah learning and for prayer and for to heal him and speaking to hashem that's it number one number two number two absolute no speaking under no circumstances there are many people that refrain from speaking in shul even after the services are over it's amazing because it's a big it's it's like being the holy temple you don't talk in the holy temple you go outside you go outside nobody talks in the whole temple because the divine presence is there if someone talks in a holy temple you know what happens to them why do we stop breathing their hearts stop boom right there there's the ax that falls right there this holy present okay divine presence so this is what we need at muna we need muna to feel hashem's presence there and when you work on your moon and you strengthen your moon and you know who am i this starts when walking into show we're walking chill and we say hi guys i'm here you don't walk in the king's play hey king i'm here no coming to show and and yeah the the fear the ah the of hashem and you say hashem i i asked permission to come in i'm not i'm not even worthy to pray here but you let me come in into your to your holy presence and speak to you and pray to you and i will prostrate myself before your holy yard this so here the toastmaster says like this and i ask you beloved brothers and sisters take upon yourself the commitment this year not to speak and show maybe you say you can't promise trump your best you're going to try your best and it's not enough to try your best ask hasheb to help you hashem won't ask you why did you speak in shul hashem will say why didn't he ask for my help and this is what we say happy is the person who never forgets you because you won't talk at shul if you feel that hashem is right there with you just imagine you have a stern father and he's sitting right next to you you're a little kid and your father you're going to talk in front of your father no your father give you a whack no way you're not talking sure you just think your father in heaven my father is the king and i'm sitting in the king's palace in the holy kingdom palace next to the king and i'm going to talk hospital so toasty like this and anyone who commits not to speak at shul gets the benefit of the blessing of the toast festival the toastmaster says he who blessed our forefathers abraham and jacob moshe and moses and arun david david and solomon that our holy father in heaven who blesses abraham isaac yes and and and jacob moses and aaron and david and solomon will bless not may he bless will bless this is a sign check from those vision he will bless anyone who guards his tongue from speaking during the time of prayer yes and hashem will protect him from every single peril and trouble and be called what better health insurance hashem will protect him from every pandemic and every sickness and he will benefit from every blessing in the torah to be in the holy book of moses the five books of moses are because of him and all of the books of the prophets and our scriptures and he will see sons with vitality living sons and you will raise them for torah for and for good deeds and he will always serve hashem with truth and an innocence in other words the real deal on main this is the blessing who can refuse to sign check like this this is so wonderful who can refuse to side check and and we see that this nothing invokes such a divine blessing as maureen migdash that's why i love the name of the series that hazaka tour anytime and chickens for shabbos gave risk or reward because yeah the risk the risk is very very stiff and we see the arizona and we see the hours he talks about the risk he says he says that the evo that a person's the vapor of a person's speech ensure it creates this is this is really scary i don't want to scare anybody but this is the words he always thrush he says it it creates a spirit of impurity and it invokes things to bring this or the zord says what happens when you have a spirit of impurity that comes in the dark side angel you know who that is not going to mention his name comes to die and he takes over the synagogue so now you cannot have the divine presence anymore as soon as the dark side angel comes in we have evil you can't have good the good says bye-bye i'm going and when you see a dark side angel then it's just a matter of time before that community is destroyed and we can see how this is the blueprint for destroying a community hospital and told us he was one of the prime students of the balsham he once went into a town and they were talking in the synagogue and right away he stopped he said he brought the possum and she said says hashem will fight your battle and you should be quiet that's when they did ominous rather they saw the sea in front of them and they saw the egyptians behind them they say i was supposed to do they needed a miracle had to get a miracle moses says you be quiet and hashem will fight your battle so when when the when the bala told he heard people talking he said you know what this means it's the opposite he says if you're talking if you talk it shall hashem will not fight your battle and then the enemies prevail and now we can understand why there's 1648 and 1649 decrees and why there's nazis and why there's fascists and why there's everything else okay yeah you can see there's attacks at shoal united states and pittsburgh and california and miami who needs it who needs it and there's one thing you don't do people to talk and show you see people coming into synagogue nowadays with telephones this is suicide don't bring a phone to show what's more important so when a person even looks at a text message and even puts the phone on on its buzzer and that they they took the ringer they they in hebrew they call it they they put on a buzzer but it takes aways attention from a sham machine so oh that's more important than me so why are you looking at your phone oh hashem i got a big big deal to make oh you got a big deal to make you think that your parnassa comes from you okay go try now you're in big trouble now you're in big trouble as soon as a person is dependent on himself heaven forbid heaven forbid and he thinks that his business is what makes him a living and he wants to make sure he runs his business from chakras and in the middle of this is suicide we don't get our parnosa or our health from from the doctor our parasite from our business it all comes from hashem so the best thing not to only turn off your phone don't bring your phone to the show it all leave it at home and leave it in the car while you're in show you're talking to hashem this is uh it's so important and as soon as a person looks at that phone it's not with hashem anymore shep says you're not with me you have to understand one thing and spirituality there is no grey it's white it's kedusha or it's tuma it's tuma or tahala there is no middle ground between tuma and tahara between ritual purity and impurity there's no middle ground something's half pure there's no such thing so where we have the divine presence where we have the shaina then that's that's what we say so there why is there no lacking there's no deficiency to those who fear hashem because hashem's there and hashem's giving them every every single blessing but shalom if they don't fear hashem then they have to fear everything else because hashem's not there if hashem is not there the dark side is not there and that's the words of the zor that the arabs dwash is bringing here and as we see what that would talk about with the emory emma's with the holocaust and the toast yomtov with the 1648 1649 degrees girls what else do we need and now with the coronavirus people wondering what's happening with coronavirus what's corona corona in latin is ketter that's the crown that's hashem hashem himself hashem himself and people think why every time we see every other day in the news oh this one's got a vaccine and israel discovered a vaccine america that has a vaccine and russia discovered a vaccine and then two three days afterwards it all fizzes out there's nothing there's no vaccine the only vaccine for corona is to close our mouths and not speak at shul that's it this this is the source this is the source of the not my words here we've got the sources we can talk about this for four hours and when i read before what he says a person shall never open a word and say a word when a person during the hazrat beef softened if he talks a person that makes such a sin by saying a word insult during davening is a sinner and his sin is greater than can be beared and this was the words this was words of cain when cain got kicked out when when get kicked away from hashem's presence and now not hashem gave him the curse you wander around the earth he says hashem uh this this punishment is unbearable it means so and this is exactly the words that the mahabharata uses in the shogun aura for a person that speaks and show that his punishment is unbearable and i'm going to finish our list with two stories and these are two stories that happen in recent years in eretz you stroll okay they had and it's it's crazy there were these two good friends and i'm not gonna mention their names i've been two good friends and they were very very friendly they were so friendly that uh they would talk i know once i was speaking to a rabbi and i said nicely respectfully to the rabbi afterwards said rabbi you know there's a lot of distraction in show people talk it's the rabbi the show says oh i like when they talk so i said why is that rabbi he says well at least i'm i'm glad that my people love each other and my community loves each other instead of fighting i'd rather talk than rather argue you know or give each other sound treatment i don't know if the shogunor would agree with the rabbi i understand what he's saying and that's nice okay so let them have a kiddish let them talk after show let them drink alohay in and have a you know a good good piece of hearing and did that nice kiddish and have breakfast together and hug each other fine that's all fine okay but in time of dovetaining with the holy presence i say honorable rabbi this doesn't hold water because the shaina the divine presence the king's presence amongst us this that's everything this uh everything's got to stop all right so let everyone love each other before dominating and after dominating after they have a nice kiddish okay so the mahabharata says that his punishment is is unbelievable so here we talk in a community one of these communities one of these friendly communities and we had these two guys that were very very friendly okay let's call one guy david and one guy motion just named okay so dude emotional good friends and they're in motion they've come to show all the time and they were good jews they were good jews they were code they learned torah they were javarusa's they loved they learned gamora together and they they learned well but but they they were a little bit careless about talking in show they decided that whoever would die first the other one would come to a dream and say what's happening in the next world well duffy he got the big nasty sea you know what kind of disease i'm talking about we don't like to say that name because it's a curse he got the nasty sea and he had terrible suffering terrible suffering for two years and he finally succumbed to the disease okay well he came to moisture in a dream doofy that died from the sickness he came to motion his dream his buddy as he promised and he said to him he had a very stern looking face a very pained looking face so moisture in the dream says duffy you look terrible i figured you'd be in ghanaian after you're suffering and this net why why do you look so terrible he says my suffering atoned for every one of my sins except one it didn't atone for speaking in shul and he said from shamayim that there is no atonement for speaking in shul no atonement for speaking shul okay i hear that but we have i want to say i have one little critique of that story there is one atonement for talking in shoal and this is called chupata mishka and this i learned from yonah who was a rishon means that i do an equivalent shiva to something was wrong for example uh once a woman had an abortion and she came to me crying and she said rabbi you did the the rabbi told her she made shuv afterwards and then she said she killed her own embryo and that there's no there's no chuba for this no atonement and i'll tell you what you convince people convince people become active in an organization like a fraud that prevents abortions and you convince other women not to have abortions if you save one abortion you save one woman one woman from doing that this is already a wonderful tone this is called trivisa mishka quivetshuva and you say more and more and more and more then save it to your credit then what happens what the gomorrah says that if a person makes shuffle out of love then even his transgressions become mitzvahs it turns right around so what i suggest the same thing if you beloved brother beloved sister has had have been guilty of speaking in shul convince others not to speak at show and this will be a perfect atonement and look there's one other story i wanted to share with you that uh this is and and are sure on a good note the other story i wanted to share with you is about a another jew and you shalom and he had the terrible sickness the same thing that duffy had in the first story and rabbi knew the power of refraining from talking so he got the members of shoal together and he says let's call the sikkai avram he said to the whole community we all love avraham let's do what we can to save avram's life we know the government said edward tells us that anyone who saves a life in israel is like saves an entire universe so let's do what we can to save a life do we all are we all willing to commit not to talk in synagogue anymore in order to save avraham's life and they all agreed well it was a short matter of time it was a short matter of time that the doctors they checked him out okay and they they saw you know i read it right right from the israeli newspaper okay and the next time the doctors checked the disease disappeared as if it was never it was never there female muscles and nasty that the doctors say this is a total miracle and they never saw such a phenomenon in their lives and this is what we see clearly we see clearly the power of respecting shoulder power of not talking in shul and this is the reward so beloved brothers and sisters let's focus on the reward and say the risk if we're not scared about to focus on the reward and remember what the sign check from the toast facility that you have every single blessing you need people run to to big sadiq and then they pay all kinds of your pid your nephesh before rosh hashanah and all types of things okay that's how important but there's nothing is this powerful it's just close your mouth sure and intent dominating with the tent closing on the shield especially on the high holidays especially in the high holidays and by virtue of our strengthening ourselves and our prayer in shul hashem will certainly strengthen us in good health good health of body mind and soul and by us respecting hashem's mini temple which says mikdash ma'at each synagogue is called a mini temple hashem will certainly have pity on claudia's world on the nation of israel and build us our third holy temple that will never be destroyed forever and ever and in gathering the exiles and bring mashiach with the full redemption of our people speaking our days on main god bless have a wonderful wonderful new year