Amazing Questions About God From Hollywood (16)

[Music] good to be here we uh are up to number 16 of amazing questions about God uh hopefully you guys have some questions if you don't have questions then I'll ask the questions and then I'll give you the answers but if you have answers better than my answers you can answer the questions just have to go on camera so people could see who's answering the questions but will ask some good questions will give us some actual answers and if you don't have questions you don't have answers go to we'll ask AEM some questions a lot of people ask me the same questions over and over again they ask questions about um proofs of the Torah they ask questions about I'm is today how could it be the everybody's wrong there's nowhere that you look at and you don't see everyone being wrong if you look at the religious people you see that the large majority of them are wrong about a few things doesn't matter which sect you go to the emonite safari the the modern Orthodox everywhere you go you're G to see something terribly wrong that's obvious to anyone that that's looking from the outside anyone that's the inside so difficult it's difficult to see that it's wrong why you're used to it so for example all the sh that we've had about wigs and how it's wrong to wear a wig we've proven it not because of the Ala in regards to modesty because that already 130 rabbis 130 all the way from the days of the proved it all the way from 2,000 years ago there's proofs that you're not allowed to wear a wig so that is not for us how do we prove it we prove it based on the fact that it's why because of the experience I have on Wall Street I spent almost 20 years doing research so by now I think I know something about research we proved that if you buy a wig that's real hair wig you're guaranteeing that the wig is coming from India there's no other place that it's coming from even if it says made in China made in Brazil made in jenam made in wherever you want it's coming from India we proved it there's no there's no questions people have questions though what's the question how could it be that 80% of the religious people in the world are wearing wigs if what they're all wrong you know when the most recent I got that question five minutes ago you know before that an hour ago before that three hours ago before that 12 hours ago it doesn't stop the same question over and over and over again people assume that just because a lot of people are making a mistake it cannot be a mistake just because a lot of people are making a mistake it cannot be a mistake it means that it has to be something wrong with the analysis has to be something wrong with the one that's saying it's something wrong it cannot be that everyone's making a mistake maybe you're making a mistake and they will use some things from thear like a uh for example a uh someone that accuses usually is guilty there a gar that says if you accuse everyone of doing something usually it's because you're guilty of something some because they're so they'll use you everybody knows to go against the Tor will become for that but the very simple very simple way to show that the majority doesn't rule is you look at the statistics of the entire nation over 90% of American Jews do not keep Shabbat 90% of American Jews do not keep the one mitvah that hasm says this is my breit meaning this is the deal breaker this is the this is the deal maker this is the Covenant meaning no Shabbat no deal well what if I keep 612 out of 613 MIT deal no deal why this is the deal maker this is the Covenant so 90% of American Jews includes the ones that call themselves religious not everyone all of them 6 million Jews in America 90% do not keep Shabbat entire world probably around the same number some people say it's 80% it's a little better in Israel and so on so which means that the majority of Jews are making a terrible mistake against their own God so the fact that the majority of making a mistake does not say no one is saying out that no no maybe there's no more Shabbat maybe maybe hasem didn't mean it last week's par when he said someone that Shabbat the soul is cut off from the nation said in last week why no one says no maybe it's a mistake unless it's a reform and conservative which is not Judaism no one says it's a mistake if you look at other statistics you remember I told you out of 90% don't keep Shabbat but 94% believe it's okay to work on Shabbat meaning that 40% of the religious Jews meaning four out of the 10% that actually keep Shabbat say it's okay to work on Shabbat which means that even the 4% even the even the 10% that actually keep Shabbat even they're a little bit of problematic more so even more disturbing what does everybody know the you know do on Shabbat one thing everybody knows what you know do on Shabbat no what do you know do on Shabbat turn off the light now turn off the light no what else you doat work okay what else you doat do like there you go so everybody knows you're not to turn on fire or shut off fire you're not to do business out of all of the Jews in America only 133% only 133% do not handle money on Shabbat 133% don't handle money meaning 87 % of all the Jews in America deal with money on Shabbat 87 so what so no one is saying wait okay maybe hasm didn't mean it maybe you're allowed to deal with money majority of Jews what majority it's almost all of them this is 87% of the ones we know about if you do the rest of them everything everybody it's probably worse no one says no maybe hasm didn't mean maybe you're allowed to to touch money maybe do business with on Shabbat nobody says that so the fact that everybody's making a mistake does not mean mean it's not a mistake it just means everybody's making a mistake there are many other mistakes if you look at all of the books that are being written today by authors today not authors from rabbis from previous generation even from 30 years ago talking about everyone now today very rarely are you going to find a chapter you know every every book has chapters some have 10 chapters some have 50 chapters some take 100 chapters to say whatever they want to say they could have probably said it in one line but whatever said though you want to sell more books no problem more paper you're not going to pay 50 bucks for three pages you're going to pay 50 bucks for 150 Pages 200 Pages 500 pages so very rarely are you going to find a book that's written today by someone today that has a chapter discussing is fear of fear of why is it so important to talk about because number one if you look at the rambam you have 63 MIT you look at the he list all 63 number one there's only one God no Idols The Ten Commandments what's mvah number four you must fear God out of 63 I'm not talk about ten commandments out of 630 the says number four not that it's fourth in meaning it's up there it's up there why no there's no Judaism it's not that maybe you can get away without doing it some people are they're really good at it some people are less good at it this guy's really good he's always scared doesn't even know what he's scared of this guy's not good at all he's not even scared of jumping off a bridge look he jumped last week no it's not that the point isot is that is the foundation of Judaism beginning of wisdom is fear of hem meaning the beginning what's wisdom wisdom is Torah the beginning of the before you even get to any of the commentaries before you get to all the before you get to before you get to before you get to anything fear of hem why first you know have to know you're dealing with there's no God there's no Torah there's no nothing zero find me one book that's being written today one I'm not asking you for a lot I get emails from publishing houses almost every day whether it's feldheim or art scroll or or all these different that have publishing house ofes and they're not responsible for what people write they're responsible for publishing so different rabbis some are former businessmen turned rabbis some are rabbis turn businessmen either way they write books a lot of books some people you see their profile oh what the guy wrote more books than the the bookstore 50 books saying the same exact thing just call it different names find one chapter 50 books one chapter I'm not asking for a lot one chapter I'll do a whole lecture I'll that chapter find me one chapter in the current book written in the recent generation talking about one chapter one chapter I'm not asking you for I'm not asking a whole book about one chapter out of all the books written in the last 10 years talking about you're not going to find it not that I read every book I know why because everyone's wrong same thing everyone's wrong why everyone's wrong because Judaism has turned into something hip we turn Judaism is that if you want to teach people Judaism you have to take it down to them not bringing them up to it so what you want to teach kids Torah let's go teach them in a clubs we'll put some music in the background bring a magician you want to bring a belly dance bring to just we're bringing them closer somewhere they're getting closer to somewhere getting closer to some where you getting closer to we don't know but they're getting closer to something he tell people listen number one reason only reason really for all of the mitv what is it you understand the reason par no says he doesn't understand either he's smartest man that ever lived bre me like you understand you don't understand why would you cut a little baby put his life in danger on the Eighth Day M what did he do to you why' you cut your baby's uh Little T on the eighth day why oh he told you to no but other than that is there a real logical reason now if I told you that the vitamin K in the blood is 108% and the hemoglobin and the blood clotting and the makeup of the human being is very special on the eighth day does that mean that you should do ises that mean that hasem made it work made it work what does it mean it means that the real reason for B is what hasem said so the real reason for is what hem said so the real reason for Shabbat is what hasem said so every single mitvah the same reason why hasem said so what is that you got your mind that's the real reason so all of the people that are looking for oh listen can you prove God scientifically yes you can but that's not the reason you're going to become religious it's going to give you a little bit of a taste to show you that the Torah is endless but if the only reason you're going to become religious or start doing MIT is because of Torah proofs scientifically it's not going to hold up if the only reason you're going to become religious is because you like one specific type of Shure it's not going to last you likea it's not going to last you like it's not going to last you like it's not going to last what's going to last everything the whole Torah you keep learning everything but it has to have a foundation it must have a foundation and the foundation is and this we learned from mosu mosu tells is in Mount sa after they get scared to death when they hear hashem's voice Hashem is only scaring you so you don't sin that's why he's scaring you why so you don't sin why if you if you if you're not scared you're going to sin as long as you're not scared you're going to sin if you're not scared you're going to drive 150 miles an hour on the highway but if you see a cop immediately pleas if you don't if he doesn't see me or if he skips me I'll go to tomorrow toet for the first time in six years I'll go I'll start reading just don't give me the tickets going to give me points for that you're going to listen to hem why your fear so fear works it works for us in our marriage it works for us in our business it works for us in our day-to-day life it works everywhere and it also works with God but they don't teach it today why because it's not hip it's not hip it's not nice to hear that really you're supposed to be scared to death of God that's tless you're supposed to be be scared to death thinking God you're supposed to be scared how many of us are really scared like that nobody's scared like that we don't have to answer the question I know it's me too I wish we could be scared like that so just because everyone is not scared and is making a sin doesn't mean it's right and doesn't mean that Hashem is going to let it go either only means that we need to do chuva there's a few things that I uh noticed recently that uh we'll talk about momentarily first I'll let you guys ask some questions but there's a few things that if you're not scared yet I'll give you some other things to be scared about go ahead who wants to go first you had a question for the M wore a mask okay how how did that only the people is say it because because of says it it says it says in chapter 34:35 when the children of Israel saw Moses's face that the skin of Moses's face had become radiant Moses put on the mask back on his face until he came to speak with him so the way it worked is that Moshe didn't even know when he came down from Mount sonite he didn't even know that his face was as bright as the sun he didn't know the people saw his face and they saw they didn't know is a Mal is it Moshe they didn't know what to do with him they got scared so then they told him listen came to for your face is shining huh face shining what do you mean shining a little bit no no a lot a lot it's like the sun you're blinding all of us killing us put the mask on put a mask on he put a mascot she doesn't scare them from a far away so they come but as soon as they came to learn he took off the mask why he wanted to remind them everything I'm telling you is from God it's not from me far away I don't want to scare you because if I scare you from far away you're not going to come to the shoe but so I have a mask on so he doesn't see as soon as you come to the Shi mask goes off why everything I'm telling you is from God so as far as the mask it was one of the things that showed that he was at Mount saai but also it showed is that he was different than them he was different than them one of the things that we learned is that made a very big sin when they saw that mosu did not come down back from the uh from the mountain on the time that they thought he should come how much was he late 6 hours was that exactly 6 hours he was late 6 hours and I'm said thought oh we don't know what's happening with this guy maybe he died maybe he didn't die the came to them and showed him a movie look the angels are burying him they didn't see his face M but they saw somebody's being buried maybe it's him maybe not who knows so they came to they say listen we don't know what happened with this uh this leader of ours this Moshe it says in chapter 32 verse one the people saw that Moses had delayed in descending the mountain delay blade is boses boses if you spell it if you move the the the dots from one place to another same letters just to the dot somewhere else is bishes beses meaning six hours he's six hours late now Jews we have a good Mida we're always late if you're late we're mad at you if you're late we're mad at you but we could be late all the time if you're not late you're not Jewish that's why I know you guys so Moshe late six hours Moshe late six hours we can't take it give us a new leader give us a new middleman so now said Moshe go down your nation is uh the people that you brought meaning the the Egyptians that you converted they caused all of the nation to sin they made an Idol and the rest of the nation didn't rebuke them they didn't say anything they saw them sin they didn't say anything let me just destroy all of them says what are you destroying them for says someone gets angry and acts on it meaning he let's say takes the cup and he throws it across the room or he takes a pen and he throws it across the room because he's angry somebody some customer didn't want to buy the car some customer didn't want to buy vacuum cleaner and he got angry so you know just a little bit he took a pen just flinged it ah Shar through a pen in they just marked off oh why you no Idol you acted out your anger by throwing something by breaking something by ripping something so said what are you mad at them you want to destroy them for I'll do too he took the complete the Ten Commandments and he threw them he says I'm also you going to kill them kill me first for the nation sacrificed his life for the nation actually heard this particular part from my Bon this weekend on Shabbat so it's critical to understand that when we're angry is a very big deal but now in reality he wasn't in the same league as why he did it to save them they did it because Mal Sinners Like Us so Shem says just remind the rest of the nation he's not like you look at his face you don't need to be you don't to know his name just look at his face his face like the sun his face like the sun you know that he was up here with me and I really wanted to start a new nation from him next question no you learned all week you you don't have any questions you figured out everything can't take everybody's always shy go ahead you ask question you have good questions when people go to sleep can and wake up in the morning why do they have to say what they okay good question so before you go to sleep you're supposed to say supposed to say and you're also supposed to be part of the is V supposed to we made sinsu means we made sins we didn't know it was a sinu means we made sins we knew it's a sin we still did it panu means we not only knew that it was a sin but we did it D to make you angry we say this every day and we do it no less than two times a day now someone can say to you hey I didn't I didn't make a sin today that make Hashem angry uh on on purpose yeah but how do you know the one day you did do last week or a month ago or a year ago or even your previous gig how do you know you did Chua for it yet somebody came to the r and says I didn't do all these sins he goes if you actually knew what you do you really did you do V do 10 times just for thinking you didn't you you didn't do the sins you're getting a punishment for the ran said to him so anyways we have to do why we have to before we go to sleep because a person is supposed to do Chua before he dies before someone dies you're supposed to help them do why do chv before you die why there's no more chv after you die once you go up to sh there's no more do CH before you die going to sleep is one the says is 160th of a death meaning it's partial death a large part of your leaves your body goes to SH now this goes to sh says to hm look Hashem before you brought me to this world I was pure I was part of you I was over here next to the enjoying do everything was great now you connected me with this body this body he doesn't stop sinning the guy he looks here he looks there everything that moves he looks at it his eyes don't stop sinning his hands he doesn't keep him to itself he keeps stealing from everybody he steals on the computer he steals at work he steals here he still everywhere he steals his mouth honestly hasem I think you should take away his speech he doesn't stop saying the guy doesn't stop talk every time he talks comes out if it's not he doesn't talk so goes up to sh and complains I don't want to go back I don't want to go back to this body why this body is killing me Hashem says you have to go back I believe in him I believe that today he's going to do cha as a today he's not going to do CH he didn't do CH yesterday he's not gonna do it today no no no he has to do he's gonna do chba today he has a Shure on Sunday at 8 o'clock starts really at 8:30 he's gonna go he's do chv after the he's gonna watch the clip gonna do sh he's GNA do chuva today he's not even gonna go to the sh this guy's a batlan he's lazy he's going to watch sports he's going to do this he's not going he's not going to do Chua hasm says I command you you he commands the I command you to go back to the body now this whole time the signs off on all the sins that the body made which means that after 120 somebody goes up to sh they're going to show him all the sins they're not only going to show him the sins that he made in his life the movie of all the sins but they're also going to show him his signature look over here you admitted you did this over here you admitted you did this over here you admitted you did this and also going to show him all the uh that he created all the angels of death that he created from all the sins that he made so there's no like oh I wasn't sure I didn't know really I did it there's no surprises in I everybody knows so now the says listen save me before it's too late I have to pay for the sins because I'm a partner but let me just pay for an hour already don't bring me back into the bodies I make more s hasem says no today he's going to do Chua and that's why when you wake up in the morning you say what does it mean thank you hem thank you Hashem for bringing back my because you havea in me what do you mean you havea in meem has you havea in hm no no here you say means you have you have in me what I'm to do you force the you're thinking a why you thinking hem because he forced the to go back to your body because he has today G to do CH so that's why you actually say next question yeah K why wasn't ah good question that's see what it say let's see what it says so they made a mistake they thought that Moshe died and they built a golden calf they build a golden calf but how do they build this golden calf did you ever build a golden calf takes a long time to build a go CF unless you have machines if you don't have machines you want to build a you have anybody's in a jewelry business here no bunch of Jews no jewelry wow so this is the first time ever in history so anyway a lot of Jews like jewelry business you ask a jeweler you ask a uh Jeweler how long does it take you to make these earrings how long does it take you to make this bracelet how long does it take you to takes a while that's why in reality a lot of the jewelry stores unless it's like a brand name like a Tiffany or one of these other types of places a lot of them that uh buy from the public buy jewelry from the public people that want to resell their jewelry just get cash and get something new usually they don't melt it sometimes they melt the jewelry if it's really old or it's just out of fashion or something like that but many times they take the jewelry they renew it they clean it shine it they put maybe some diamonds on it and resell it is it is technically brand new I mean gold doesn't get old gold is gold the same gold that was here 3,000 years ago you put it today in a in a in a bracelet the same thing nothing changed so there's no such thing as new gold old gold it's the same thing but many of them don't actually melt it automatically many of them resell it why they resell it because it actually takes a lot of time to make the piece of jewelry because you have to make a mold of whatever you want to make you have to make a mold mold you have to put you have to pour the gold into the mold making the mold takes money takes time takes effort then pull the the gold it's a process why would you do it if you already have something ready you just have to renew it so to make a golden calf even more so takes a long time even more so it says that the golden calf when it came out it spoke it spoke so in chapter 32 when mosenu came down and he saw everything he tells Aon no he says to what the nation do to you that you brought on them such a big sin meaning what do you hate you hate them so much that you actually made them a golden calf meaning right now wants to kill all of them why because of you you made them a golden calf you hate them so much they angered you that much so he says you know that the people is disposed towards evil don't be angry at me you know that the nation have a and then he tells him what happened what happened what happened he says he says I asked them who has gold who has gold they removed all the gold gave it to me I threw it in the fire and the calf emerged what does it mean calf emerged if you throw a bunch of gold into a fire what happens nothing nothing happens after hours and hours and hours and really really high fire me it's going to melt maybe eventually 3,000 de you know how difficult is to get 3,000 de fire you have to explode the World Trade Center for 3,000 de fire which is what they say they that happened from the fuel which is by the way not possible but anyway it's a conspiracy for a different day anyway 3,000 degrees you need to melt gold meaning to get a fight your little little barbecue is not enough to melt gold you can maybe make a steak burger you can't melt gold with you a barbecue to make a fire to make the fire so hot to melt gold there's a lot of fire it's a hot fire he says I made a fire I asked them for some gold they gave me some gold I threw the gold in the fire the calf emerged the bull emerged how thisai rewinds story starts the mid says the story rewinds many many years before when Moshe was a little boy he had a opportunity of a lifetime to be M raenu but to be mosu is not so easy you have to have a lot of test from the time that you were little boy so for example when he was just born Shem sends him into the ocean into the river and hopefully somebody's going to save him but but saves him why she wanted to save him not because she actually was able to save him on her own she the says she saw that as's a someone crying says oh I wish I can save him that's it and she put her arm out the problem is our arm was only one amama and Moshe was 15 am far you don't have to know how much anama is which by the way is close to two feet you don't need to know one is much less than 15 but she says I wish that I could save the boy whoever's crying the baby that's crying the fact that she wanted to save and she put her hand out hasem says that's already enough for me to make a miracle you tried I'll do the rest and he extended her arm miraculously and she saved the boy she saved Moshe so moshe's life was on the line since they W his life continued to be on the line when he was in the house of par later on his life would be put on the line with par when he got older po tried to cut off his head after he found out that he killed the Egyptian and when he discovered that hem is the one that's running the world and he spoke to Hashem out of the uh uh the SN the the bush the burning bush Hashem gave him a lot of Secrets One of the secrets was his real name so when he came back to Egypt to free am is he knew that he had a mission not only to free am is but to fulfill the promise that was made to yadik yadik made the 12im the the the 12 tribes the the the brothers promis him that when they leave Egypt sometime down the road or their descendants or whoever's going to leave Egypt eventually promise me that you're going to take my bones and put it to is promise me so they all promised because he knew that the Egyptians are not going to let uh YF leave Egypt because they turn him into a God so now Moshe came after the plagues a year of plagues D Kim and so on and so forth all the plagues happened a year of plagues after the plagues is begging Moshe and to leave and take everybody with them take whatever they want here some money here some more money just get out of my face go away go away okay wait a minute we're not going to go away we have some stuff to do what stuff you have to do I have to go get your where you gonna find your now in the middle of the night I have to go find them what do you mean where you going to find them so you can't look Egypt's big so who's the only one that could possibly know s sah was the daughter of a one of the 12 tribes that was blessed by yobu to live forever and the reason why is because when they found out that YF was still alive they knew that if they tell the 12 tribes they knew if they tell yov their father the truth you give him such amazing news at one time he got have a heart attack and die so he said you know what let's get him into it get him into a happy mood so they ask S the daughter of Aer to sing to sing for him and play a nice tune that puts him into a good mood what's what's the lyrics YF is Kai and he's the visoy ysf is alive and he's the visoy of Egypt and is she singing in the background while yov is learning toah and all he doesn't know why he's in a good mood it's like white noise you know white noise is like the noise that moms put for their kids to go to sleep it's a lot of noise but that's creates like a deafening sound meaning that it it uh all the other noise from cars and uh all the other things that are out there talking and so on is like uh masked by this white noise so he is listening to this music he hasn't know why he's in a good mood all of a sudden so then when the brothers come to him and say Aba yov is alive he's the visoy of Egypt now he realized why Sak was singing and He blesses her you saved my life may you live forever and shash lived forever so she was the only one they all went to Egypt they lived in Egypt for a couple of hundred years the whole all of am became slaves over 210 years they were in Egypt Moshe comes 210 years later to free is he needs to find YF who's the only one G that's going to know that's still alive that was alive at the time they buried him what did she say to him she says Moshe they because they they worshiped YF they didn't want his body to ever leave so they buried his body inside the Nile River they prayed to the Nile River and they also prayed to Y so you have to take the the the grave the tomb from outside of the Grave outside of the Nile now it's not like today's technology they have uh you know all these special ships and uh tubes that go into the ocean looking for the Titanic so what is he going to do M takes a mate a mate is like a piece of metal and he puts hashem's name on it hashem's real name on it and on the other side he inscribes he engraves Al Al means rise bll rise why rise bll rise because each one of the tribes had a symbol y had a symbol of a lion he had a lion symbol you had a symbol of a bull so he wrote it he threw it into the water and he said YF I'm here to fulfill the promise that your brothers made I'm throwing them at if you want Al if you want rise you rise you rise your own tomb he's dead though for 200 years you rise your own tomb get out and I'll take you to is if not you're gonna stay here he threw the m in and y's tomb came out of the water now at the same time that YF that Moshe through this mate there was a little boy named mikah mik that was following uh that was following Moshe and the reason why because this mik was one of the babies that Moshe saved he saw that the evil Egyptians were putting a babies inside the uh the blocks if the father didn't make his quot of building the pyramids or building something and making enough Stones say oh you don't make enough Stones we'll put the your kid there instead so Moshe cried to Hashem he's like what did these babies do babies didn't have enough times to sin hasem says don't worry these are evil Souls what Evil Soul it's a baby looks cute every baby's cute you know that Hitler was also cute ham was also cute every baby is cute whether he becomes Hitler or all depends on the parents if the parent gives him every single thing he wants he becomes Hitler if the parent knows when yes when no maybe he's gonna become depends but it's very hard why because he's so cute so you want to give him everything he wants uh he wants the uh you know your car keys you want to give him the car cuz he's so cute he wants uh ice cream you want to give him the ice cream truck cuz he's so cute but it's a problem you have to be a parent only one person entire Place found found this funny sleeping sleeping sleeping I'm working very hard on the jokes guys you're not even getting it so anyway so Moshe had a soft heart he says let me save one baby hasem says you want to save a baby I'm telling you it's a bad Soul it's a rash you want to save it save it it save one save whatever you want he saved it and he called it mik why mik because if he didn't save it they would have crushed him comes from which means to crush him you would have been crushed by the Stones so he saved his baby he named the M now this mik followed him around for years followed Moshe around for years so when Moshe took out the tomb of yadik this little mik was hiding in the bushes so as soon as he took the tomb he walked away he forgot about the mate he thought it's in the water M jumped into the water and took the mate fast forward a few months we're mount saai mount sa mosu is a Mount sa he's late by six hours according to their calculation gets upset he says no no no I think mhe died we need a new leader we need a middleman make us a middleman make us some another connection to Hashem they didn't believe that the uh God was the golden calf they believed that they need somebody to connect him to God like Christianity so Aon thought listen who her in English said no he said no he said go fly kite they said okay you go first they threw him off the mountain they killed him so said if I say no also forget about me dying it's okay if I die but it's a problem for them if I die why they're not going to have a coin G no one's going to be able to be purified without me so let me buy some time let me ask for the number one thing that it's very hard for people to give what is it their money if I ask you for your wife you're GNA give me your wife and the kids too ask you for your husband you can give me the husband and his friends I ask you for your money oh too much it's a lot money I thought the sh is free the sh is free so money is tough for people M to his surprise the yet was very strong he says I asked them for their money not just some of them all of their money they start taking off the earrings off their ears and started throwing it at me they filled up a mountain worth of uh gold I said okay you know what even if I have all this gold it's still going to take a while for it to melt not long even if you have 3,000 degree fire it still takes a long time for it to melt so I'll throw it in the fire it's going to take a few days for it to burn by then m is going to come down he throws Into the Fire and then M comes the little boy with the mate he throws he doesn't have gold mein he's a little boy he doesn't have gold what does he have he has a little piece of metal it says what Al rise B rise he throws Into the Fire what comes out of the fire a Al what came out of the fire a that's what came out of the fire a bll came out of the fire because the M said so that's why says and the calf emerged what emerged I didn't make the calf I was trying to buy some time I didn't know that this mik has this mate and he's going to make this bull Rise by itself meaning the gold by itself came out he didn't make it anything miraculously he put them a in and the gold came into into a form of a bull and the bull says I am God that took you out of Egypt the bull not only came out but he started talking why had hashem's name on it who who doesn't want to take that mate if he do have a chance right now I want two of them was it as simple as that or was this there from the Egyptians who had some knowled of no no the the M by itself itself okay by itself according to the mid did it by itself next question shorter answer good begin two questions the first one is uh the 10 commments the two the first two um usually they had those like know know that I'm the God to take out of Egypt and you know all question question after Moses came down okay and you know shatter those tablets the story shift to you know him cleansing the people and all these things and after killing them too you know killing yes about 3,00 of them okay and exactly 3,000 yes no and then after that and then went back up to the mountain uh to get you know make no tablets and get the uh Commandments you know again okay but it seems that now these sets of Commandments for some reason is it the same one or they change because no no no okay so let's let's let's so this is exactly what happened the mosenu went up to Mount Si three times three times Well actually went up every day for a long time but he would go up in the morning the page says would go up to mount saai in the morning and he would come down in the morning in when it talks about it's talking about a completely different law in regards to purification when a woman is pure when she's not but nonetheless we learned from there that mosenu goes up at night goes up in the morning and comes back in the morning he went up to mount saai three times first set first time he went up for 40 days and 40 nights and hasem gave him the Ten Commandments the two tablets that he made Ben which was one of the first one of the 10 things that hasem made before the first Shabbat in creation meaning couple thousand years before this 25 200 years before this if you remember in the M we did for a few weeks the 10 Miracles that hasem has before Shabbat one of them was creating this first set of 10 Commandments so the first set hasem himself made it from beginning to end he made the tablets with his own hand he made the writing with his own hand and so on and so forth mosu thear says did a few things out of his own mind meaning he decided to do it and Hashem agreed one of them was that he broke the Ten Commandments why did he break the Ten Commandments thear says that he wanted to save am Isel but that's why every time later on Hashem says the Ten Commandments the plages that you uh that you um that you broke even though he agreed with them he start to R you broke them the second set wasn't 100% by hem it was part Moshe part hasem part Moshe partm so that's the uh that's the so it's two different sets thees had both of them in inside it and the mid also tells us that this the the uh small um pieces of rock oron this piece of uh material that made the Ten Commandments hasem allowed M to take the small pieces of it and sell it and became very very rich because of it because he didn't want the people to think they're the ones that they giv M so the uh Shalom said that Judaism declared bankruptcy once Rabbi started accepting money from rich people why because as soon as a rich person gives you money if you don't have an amra you don't have like a spine and you're you're scared of Hashem more than scared of money immediately that rich guy becomes the rabbi and the rabbi becomes an employee so hasem obviously wanted to listen to mosu the same way as they listen to Hashem he says you can't take money from them here's the money here's some things there's a way you're going to make money and he became very rich from that even though they still accused him of stealing that money anyway but anyway the Ten Commandments worked as follows first 40 days mosenu got the first set second set of 40 days he went up there to ask for forgiveness when he came down the second time it was third set another 40 days is the second set of of ten commandments so that's the 120 days that M went up and down from Mount sa next question no yeah so the first set and the second set so different two different Commandments no no it's the same Commandments what's written on the on the on the uh on the first set and on the second one is the same thing it's just the first one is broken so it's like for example you have a I have let's say twoim one of them is ripped and the other one is not ripped they still say the same thing it's just that one of them is ripped and one of them is not ripped same thing the reason I think you're asking about Shabbat you're asking about Shabbat one of them says keep Shabbat the other one says observe shabat I think MH explains that what he says that the set of Commandments were you know you keep the shabat and about first fruit and so and so on I think he added some so if you read the Rashi know so if you read the Rashi on that it says that the first time that Hashem said the Commandments it was coming out of hashem's words he said it in in the second time we have the Commandments is in a book of d uom book of Deuteronomy the fifth book of the Tor is like the Journal of mosu meaning it's the words of mosenu so it's mosenu saying the Ten Commandments in his own words it's the same thing it's the same commandment nothing changed it's just that hem used a different word to say the same thing us a different word for what hem said but the same thing and say that either there's a there's a of whether both were written on the Ten Commandments or was really just the original original one but nonetheless it's the same Ten Commandments nothing changed nothing changed but just different uh first one is Hashem himself we have his words directly second one is mosenu in essence interpreting hashem's words and there's not much of a difference there a different of uh of vocabulary if you will yeah next okay in relation I ofl it doesn't seem to Spirit of the Hebrew a lot of times to learn Hebrew no no I'm saying when I read the Hebrew and then read the English I see that a lot of times it's not saying what the Hebrew says yes I know yes I know why did they do that so a lot of places where it would be conveniently controversial or politically correct say exactly what the Hebrew says I see them refraining from saying it and it seems to me a conscious intentional thing going on I don't know what what's in people's minds I'm not God and I don't have a crystal ball uh but I can tell you that um the ultimate purpose of theim the uh the people that put uh translations is for you to understand theat theat is the simple meaning the simple meaning of the Torah simple meaning of the Torah requires a high level of Hebrew and the reason why is because there are certain words in Hebrew that do not have a translation so that's why you'll see for example books that were translated to English 100 years ago and the translation today the translation today is much clearer than what it was a 100 years ago one of the reasons is because to the people that translated the books 100 years ago English was the second language the people that are translating the the books today Hebrew is the second language and English is the first language so the Hebrew is the it was clearer in the past English was less today it's the opposite today the English is a is a uh is a first language and Hebrew is second language that's number one second thing is is to knowes it's not like knowing a language like English or Spanish or Italian or or any other language knowing the only way you can know it is if you're meaning if I want to learn Spanish you give me I don't know a few months a few years I'll learn Spanish whatever it takes I'll learn it you could learn it from CDs you could learn it online you listen to a few things and uh you watch a few videos you're going to learn Spanish within a few months you could probably be conversational uh within a few years you could probably write a paper same thing with all other languages with with the Holy language only way you're going to know the real holy language is if you know extremely well and you know how to be a med meaning going into intricate body of the language of how it's built itself this is very very high level of Hebrew and only way you're going to do it if it's part of Torah learning it's not part of what you learn in school it's not something you learn on a course it's something that you're going to learn from learning to so not all translations are being made by they're made by workers some of them are like for example art scroll has the people that are making the why because it's extremely important for you to understand what it says in the but in the SE in a the basic meaning will will do it justice why because either way if you want to know the inner meaning of the words you have to learn it from the Hebrew side you can't learn it from the English side and either way you're GNA have to learn commentary anyway so if I can just give you a basic translation to get you by fine and that's why there's certain uh certain uh uh publishing houses that even if they have known errors they won't change it cost too much they don't care whatever it is third reason is it could potentially be on purpose but not by all very few cases there are some that do it on purpose for example there is a uh there's a uh word I heard it in a lecture a few years ago there's a word in a Torah that creates a huge amount of debate as far as proving the torah's authenticity which is literally means giant reptiles where do we have it in the Tor inph in seph in the beginning I think it's the fourth verse uh says that he created now if you look at the JPS JPS uh Kash J Publishing House JPS you'll see that it says um not it doesn't say large reptiles it says monsters large monsters so some people are saying oh large monsters that was referring to the latan that was referring to what the mid says was a big levat which was a huge fish 978 miles long ashem created two of them and then he decided to kill one of them because if they procreated they would destroy the world and and this big monster is the latan wrong it's not latan is actually another verse so what's the monster it's not a monster JPS is wrong JPS publishing house is wrong what does it say it says t means large reptiles what large reptiles dinosaurs so for all the people that say oh wait wait no prove prove the Torah is real where does it say the Tor dinosaurs says in the beginning says in the beginning but only if you know Hebrew only if you know Hebrew if you don't know Hebrew you're not going to know it's is a dinosaurs so that's why we have to learn Hebrew but nonetheless some people did it on purpose some people did it accidental some people did it somewhere in between it doesn't really make a difference the reality is the onus is on us to stop complaining and start doing it I see a lot L of times someone I saw today make a comment online yet today yesterday something like that made a comment online bring a oh this is all this is bad is going to get it now they're not religious they're not this and M like it's all true what he says but who's asking you to to publicize it that way who's asking you to to say to Hashem that who's asking you for that so the reality is is that we have to understand number one you have you have two obligations with Tor the the book that is comprised of the letters of plus some wording from his says says you have two with t two One Is to learn it two is to be an expert in it these are two different mitv learning tah you have to learn the basics learn being an expert meaning that you have to talk in Torah terms think in Torah terms hold a conversation with anybody in Torah terms knowing that learning T to to that's obligation hasm said yeah of course you have to learn but you have to be an expert why an expert that's what you have to be that's the only way you can fulfill the LI T Li is two parts so to be an expert requires you to delve in into a lot of different things it requires you to delve into learning Hebrew it requires you to delve into learning requires you to delve into learning about your mid fixing your character tra a lot of things the Torah is endless and that's why you'll see whether it be Shalom it doesn't matter all these science they weren't just experts in ALA they were experts in everything they they specialized in one or two or three different things but they were experts in everything they knew the the M the body of the language the inner makeup of the language they could show you who misspelled what in different seels they'll tell oh yeah that book yeah on page 306 on the sixth line he misspelled the word he used an alif instead of a hey how do you know it's supposed to be a alif instead of a he because they knew the body of the language they knew how the language is supposed to be written how the language is supposed to be uh taught so that's Torah so for us I used to complain all the time but that got me to understand that complaining no one cares but that also got me to understand that I need to learn Hebrew and the reason why is because I remember when we first started doing chuba I would tell my wife that listen there's some mistakes in this new testament the Christian Bible there's mistakes in it she goes what mistakes the same thing you have a no no there mistakes in this I said I don't know that much Hebrew I mean I was born in Israel but I stopped learning Hebrew when I was in fourth grade it's 10 years old I stopped learning so it's not like my my Hebrew is a fourth grade level I don't and I stopped using it for years so I don't know that much but I know there's one word saah I know the word saah why don't know the word sah because I remember we used when we were little kids we used to go to the beach in Nat and every time we'd go to the SL we' go to the beach to play on the big rocks what's the big rocks called sah SL giant rocks and at the end of almost every T there's the word s which also means forever why because just like it's symbolic from that rock it's going to be there forever doesn't matter what you're going to do the world can explode 20 times that sell is not moving it's giant it's huge those things it's not moving I said in your in this and actually I looked at a Hebrew Bible Hebrew of five books of both JPS that I had said they don't even translate it they say translation not available to the word s I said we not available I know what it means even so you'll find errors in a lot of different places which means that we need to learn to we need to learn T but part of learning T is learning Hebrew it takes time it's not a language that you learn overnight it's not a language you're going to learn in six months not a language you're going to learn in six years it's a language you're going to learn in lifetime even if you're a native Hebrew speaker even if you were born there even if your father is doesn't make a difference you have to learn it for the rest of your life it's a very very difficult language but it's a uh it's it's worth learning but if you have to learn Tor or Hebrew you learn tah first because your mitvah is to learn Tor Hebrew is just part of learning to next we yeah so the half a shekele it says in the beginning of the par was specifically against it's a concept in in Judaism that almost all Jews religious and non-religious believe in literally means evil eye it says 99% of people die from 1% the original sin 99% of people die from say oh wow you look good guy dies the next day oh wow you only 70 guy dies the next day oh wow all these compliments people like to give they're not helping you it's not good if you believe in it's better off to never get a compliment in fact you can get even from people that love you including your own mother nobody loves you as much as your mother except God why because your mom believes that technically you're part of her body used to be part of our body before you came into the world and started running around by yourself causing trouble before that for n months you were part of a body a a part of her body so that's why any time a husband tries to tell the the mom how to raise the kids as if he knows better she looks at him like he has five heads she goes how can you tell me how to make my arm work better it's my arm how you going tell my arm to work better it's my arm I know my arm better than you know my arm that's the way she looks like a child normal mom yeah some of these moms what they are but I'm talking about normal mom so the important thing to understand is that your mom loves you a lot because you used to be part of a body it's good but even her that loves you as much as she loves you can give you says oh wow ma oh you got a promotion next week he's fired oh wow you guys b a big house next next day the the house is on fire happens wait it doesn't happen tell it happens it happens and that's why a lot of people are very very scared of religious and unreligious because these things do happen it's not a coincidence it happens one of the reasons is because most people give compliments but it's really not a compliment it's really a jealousy really they're giving a they they're reminding you that you have something you really don't deserve and in reality they're kind of putting a uh case against God why don't I have this big house what don't I look as good so a lot of people they say they give you a compliment they give you a compliment on your car on your job on your client on your wife on your this on you that but in reality they want it that's the second reason is also because if they mention something somebody mentions that you got something those words go up to sh the says that every single word that you say goes up to Sham and they they evaluate what this word is they evaluate what this word is every time you say whatever it is he go to sh say oh let's this what he says should we fulfill it or not yes or no they ask hasem should we should we fulfill his his his his uh every single blessing should we fulfill what he said or not he says to somebody I can't stand you I hope you hope you die those words go up to sh said he just hoped that his best friend die should we fulfill it or no so nowm says okay open the book let's see maybe maybe there something here open the book he says it maybe he has the right to make his words fulfilled so when someone gives a uh says words don't words go up to sh they evaluate those words oh the house but actually looking at the counting over here he doesn't deserve it he doesn't deserve it it can bring a so a person needs to be worried from from even his own mom worst thing that I heard about it is that a person needs to be worried from giving himself himself he can give himself by saying things out loud talking about himself ah I just uh finish oh I just got this client he's gonna send me a million bucks this week all those things you got to be careful first and foremost get used to saying all the time before you start any s say a million and a half times a day why always remind yourself it's all because of hem has nothing to do with you that already protects you second of all if people like to give you compliments try to run away from compliments in a nice way it's better off not to get compliments it's better off even though I know we like compliments everybody likes compliments I like compliments you like everybody likes compliments if you're a human being you like compliments even if you say right now no no I really rather not have compliments okay don't have compliments for six months look how de press you're going to get oh nobody likes me nobody likes me they tell me that my bicycle is nice nobody even knows you have a bicycle you're hiding in the house you don't want see it nobody likes me though everybody cries about that so you have to you have to understand compliments is part of our nature we like compliments but it's very dangerous so one of the things the says that you could also say you could put your hands like this and say I am of the seed of of yadik I am of the seed of yadik and he is above and beyond you could also say that somebody gives you a complement of some kind or a uh um somebody something good happened to you aside from saying if you're still worried about then you could say something like that um best of all is to sayem and do the right thing do the right thing you'll be you'll always have the reason why wants to give you more next question oh so the answer to your question is the reason why hasem said to uh to to uh do the is uh he says take the senses of the children of Israel according to their numbers every man shall give hasem an atonement for his soul when counting them so there will be so so that there will not be a plague among them when counting them so one of the things we learned from this mitvah it's the beginning of is that you're not allowed to count Jews you're not allowed to count Jews in a normal way why it might bring a plague among them meaning there's a that can come and kill all of them kill all of them even Hashem says Hashem is telling this which means is very much real it's not like some uh superstitious this is aah he says count them but when you count them make sure they bring this half a shekele why count the half a shekele don't count them if you count them it could bring a plague among them when counting them what's a plague plague is a good thing or a bad thing PL kills usually so each one he says this shall get this they shall give everyone who passes through the senses a half a shekele of a sacred shekele and it says how much a half a shekele is 20 G half a shekele is a portion to hasem use to uh for for for the Tabernacle and so on uh it says regardless of whether verse 15 says the wealthy shall not increase and a destitute shall not decrease from a half a shekele meaning it doesn't matter whether someone has a billion dollars in a bank or he only has one shekele does it make a difference everyone has to give a half a shekele because it's not for the half a shekele that we're doing it we're doing it as like a token we have let's say 100,000 half a shekels that means 100,000 Jews a million half a shekel that means a million Jews and so on and so forth we're counting the half a shekele instead of counting the Jews themselves why if we count the Jews it could bring a plague now this the says is one of the things that measur for measure he used to punish DAV actually DAV made a mistake I believe it's he made a mistake of calling the Torah songs songs and Hashem says Songs you call my Torah songs I'll show you that these songs are so critical because songs is something you can change song is something that you memorize just get used to I'll show you that these songs even the smallest things that is six year old knows not to do you're going to make a mistake on and he made a few big mistakes one of them is number one servant uh died another one is that he used to count his soldiers and every day he would see his soldiers go down until he realized oh it's because I'm not allowed to count my soldiers but how do you not remember this stick away from him this memory so we see that this this repentance for our sins different things is actually a has a very big foundation in Judaism page 885a there's a story that's an amazing story about R was the one that put together all the Mish that we have today he put them together and he picked selective Mish he didn't take everything the reason why if he took everything the book would start here and end at the end of the world so he took the best of the best and he realize that we have to write them down now until then we weren't allowed to write down the uh the written Torah the oral Tora oral Tor was all oral that's why it's called oral Torah but until the generation of R weren't allowed to write it we allow everybody would remember it all the way from mosu to they remembered everything by by heart all the all the all the everything they remembered by heart you had Tora and then you had the oral Tora oral t meaning we transfer it orally that's why you see if you read if you learn gar you see oh I heard from such and such and he said this law where did you learn this law oh this law I learned from RAB so and so this way and that way and this what he said this what somebody else said it's how they used to learn they used to learn from debates debates the different people had at different times and you would have to remember every single part of the debate cuz that's the only way you can get to the actual law you can't just say no no it's allowed how do you know it's allowed no I remember he said it's allow no no he can't you saying it's allowed means nothing like today people ask today I ask questions all the time if I have somebody have a question ask my is this allow or no so he starts giving me explanation I'm yes or no he goes no yes or no the Torah is not yes or no have to know why yes of course at the end most of us just want to know yes or no but that's not Torah that's not Torah yes or no is not Torah allow to drive not let to drive yes it's not let to drive unless speak there's no yes or no as always yes or no you understand so the shows us these conversations and breaks up how we got to the yes or no but until then all of the Mish which is where the comes from were remembered orally now in the time that they were written the generation was at such a high level that to us we can't compare the smartest human being on Earth cannot compare to even 5% of one of the from 2,000 years ago 5% not even we're closer to monkeys than we are to the rambam and the rambam was only 900 years ago the rambam was not even enough to be a student of R AKA that's 2,000 years ago you understand so we are closer to monkeys than the rambam and the rambam himself is not good enough to be a student of RAB AKA why to be a student of RAB AKA you have to be able to revive the dead ra could do a lot of things the greatest human being that lived in the last Thousand Years still nonetheless he's not enough to be one of the people in the G so the interesting thing is is that this oral Tora this entire Tora this entire body of Torah you can fill up the books from here until the end of the world they still not finished they remembered all of it by heart we how many of you remember the tanak by heart how many of us remember Five Books of Moses by heart how many of us remember one par by heart they remember the entire oral Tor by heart it's it's unbelievable to imagine even so now these people were holy different world amazing fine rebi noticed something different what he notice that the generations are getting worse people are starting to forget people are starting to forget if we continue letting them forget we're not going to have a tah in one or two generations so he decreed we have to make a law we have to write the oral tah and he started writing the Mish one of the uh the first few page I think it's page three four of it says started writing oral Tora commentary on the on the uh the the like um prophets and so on Nim started started writing commentary on the prophets and so on and he wanted to write more commentary on the rest of the tanak as he was writing commentary there was a b came from sh after an earthquake Shook Up entire the B came out and said who disclosed my secrets from Heaven to the sons of men meaning he just wrote the oral Tora and he until then you weren't allowed to who disclos it talks to the says it was me and I didn't do it I didn't do it for my father's honor and I Didn't Do It For My Honor and you know that I did it for your honor and I would like to do it for the rest of the tanak the bat said enough no more what you wrote is enough why why not why not more because if you would have wrote the commentary on the rest we would have known exactly the day the mashia would come the secret of when mashia would come is in there we're not allowed to know which means that some of them actually knew when mashia was going to come the day the time and so on so the entire generation said if mashia is gonna come now it's it's him it's him he's KES kashim he's amazing he's this he's that he's unbelievable never even looked below his belt never saw his breit in his entire life not after he did chuva his entire life his entire life of a baby until he died never saw his breath so the says a very very scary story about rebi says one day rebi was the prince of Israel he had a GMA like a cape and one day pastors had a huge giant mansion horses so on and so forth he very very rich and they were slaughtering a calf for dinner and a calf ran away the calf ran away and he ran to rebi now rebi was the head of the son which means he knew 70 languages one of the languages is languages of the animals so he says to the calf he sees the calf is hiding under his GMA under his uh his cape a cape um Cape called gown Cape something no cape cape he's hiding under it and he says why are you afraid go back this is what you were created for to be slaughtered and so kosher Jew doesn't blessing and eat you for Shabbat for dinner what's the problem why you scared that's what you're created for like I said moments ago every word you say goes up to Sham in sh they evaluate every single word you say like last time when you cursed your wife or you cursed your husband it went up to Sham oh let's see if we want to make it true no no but I was only kidding AEM in sh they're not kidding and Sh they're not kidding no I I didn't mean him death I just I just couldn't stand him today and Sh they're not kidding sometimes people say things that they oh no I can't stand I wish he died those words go up to Sham they're G ask oh let's see if she died let's see maybe they're going to evaluate it no I didn't really mean it and shamine they did mean it so you have to be very very conscious of the words that are coming out of your mouth especially on our kids sometimes a uh you know you say to your kids no stop running or you're going to fall you said stop running or you're going to fall what happened in sh oh oh you're gonna fall oh yeah he all to fall 5 seconds later kid falls why why' you say fall you have to evaluate your words you have to evaluate your words very careful with the words it goes up to sh it's very scary so the words of had G to sh he said oh re you said you tell the little calf you're right for what was the calf was created for what to do moo all day to go on a commercial so they say all this we make milk from put on the truck where do they make cows for for people to put them in the backyard where do they make milk what do they have the C for two hours you listen to this you still have the answer no for the Jew for the Jew to eat I gave you the answer already two minutes ago half asleep today do next week I'll be more entertaining more jokes so anyway meaning that the CF was re is Right re is right you the calf was created for the Jew to eat him but they said but you rebi on a higher level from you we expect mercy so even though you're right and the only reason that the calf was created was for the Jew to slaughter him and then eat him after doing a blessing and so on and so forth the calf came to you and he was scared you shouldn't have said it you should have taken the calf gave the guy a th000 bucks hey leave this calf alone he's for me he's going to be my pet for the next week have mercy on the C rebi rebi didn't know me skin what happened for the next 13 years he had pain every time he goes to the bathroom Kap is not enough to say they said they heard him screaming when he goes to the bathroom in the middle of the ocean do you know what that means can you imagine screaming and someone can hear you from miles away he used to because he was the n he was the the prince of Israel he would tell his uh the the people that worked for him feed the horses now why cuz he's about to go to the bathroom and the amount of pain that he had when he went to the bathroom was so hard so he said let's at least drown out the noise for me screaming I cannot scream you have pain I'm hoping none of you guys have ever had such a pain I didem so I can tell you what it means to go to bom and scream it's not fun not fun you scream neighbors here they call the cops oh the wife's killing him Cops show up no no she's not killing him the guy's uh killing himself he SK what do you mean he's killing himself he's going to the bathroom he's scar what can he do so now he's screaming his lungs out he's tell him listen I'm going scream at least have the horses eat at the same time why because when the horses eat they make a lot of noise so they make the noise people hear the horses like white noise Maybe not going to hear me scream they heard him scream how much they heard him scream they heard him scream in the middle of the ocean that's how much he screamed for how long for 13 years for 13 years what do you mean every year what do you say so how come didn't stop every year again every year again every year more screaming every year more screaming every year more screaming how come Hashem did not forgive this sin you go to young people all of us depend on this all of us depend on Yip that when we go to pray we donate a little bit of money sometimes if you don't go to SCH the whole year you donate a lot of money and uh you say hem I'm sorry Hashem forgives you all the sins no so what rebi didn't know this rebi didn't have Yip rebi had Yip every goes and everything else praise the whole day all night doesn't sleep everything else and still the next day he's screaming again how could it be why isn't hasem forgiving him this is also in a this is also in right now actually just realized it this it says in the there's a special prayer that hasem teaches he says Moshe there's something that I can teach you that is Gonna Save The Nation it's called the 13 attributes of Mercy says Hashem descended in a cloud and stood with with him there with Moshe and he called out to him in the name Hashem Hashem passed before him and proclaimed Hashem Hashem God compassionate and gracious slow to anger and abundant in kindness and Truth preserver of kindness for thousands of generations ations forgiver of iniquity willful sin willful sin and error who cleanses but does not cleanse completely recalling the iniquity of parents upon children and grandchildren to third and fourth Generations here rabotai is the secret of why re's chuv did not work every Yip he's doing the same thing all of us try to do times a million what he does but still every year for 13 years he has has the same same pain goes to the bathroom it's pain G how much is the pain how much that for all the years the says for all the years that reos was screaming out of out of pain the entire world never lacked rain why the amount of pain that he had was enough for the entire world for 13 years take all the you had in your life all of the Terrible Things you had flat tire lost job somebody cursed you somebody insulted you somebody beat you up so whatever whatever happen who beat you up I'll tell you I'll beat them upit all the things that happen everything that happened to you you take your brother also all that happened to him too his brother his this take everybody's times it by 8 billion people for 13 years packaging it together in a little box none of them had a shortage of rain why the was as big as all of the for 13 years that's how much screaming he had why this is this is this one wrote The M he only reason we have oral Tor in m and anything is because of him everything is Du to him the entire generation said mashia comes it's rebi if mashia comes it's rebi why did you have all this suffering because of this verse hasem says cleanses but does not compl complet cleanse completely what does it mean means he cleanses the sin of the one that does chuva but he doesn't cleanse the sin of someone who doesn't do if you go to say I'm sorry but you don't plan on doing chuva 100% you wasted your time you're better off not going if you're going to but you already have a barbecue plant for Shabbat you better off not going why is not going to help you if you go over that say no intention whatsoever to learn M work on your mid fix yourself become a human being be an example to the Nations be be a light to the Nations you're not planning on doing that this year don't go stay home why if you're not planning on doing is not gonna help you anyway re went to yip he saidu but hem says yes but you don't know where you sin though you're say generally this Reby for you you need to say specifically meaning that for 13 years rebi did not even know why he's even getting this he didn't know he made a mistake why he's right the calf came to him he told him go back they're going to slaughter you why that's what you created he's right but does not necessarily mean it's what you're supposed to do all the time there's a time in a place there's a time in a place and if you don't have mercy this is one of the reasons you get kapar one of the reasons why a person gets kapar get suffering in his life is when he does not have mercy so you fast forward 13 years one day rebi sees his shif his mid servant cleaning the house and there was uh in those days it was normal to have some uh rats or mice in the house it's not like today if you have it you call an exterminator 5 seconds later you know they're finished you just give the guy 300 bucks and he's done in those days you have him you sh him away take the broom finished so the mouse or rat or whatever it was had little baby rats and the sh took the broom and started sweeping them away to sh them out of the house and rebi saw because the little the little baby rats they weren't able to run around like the mommy rat so they were getting hit by the broom and Reby saw that they were suffering he told them no no no no don't do it don't do it leave him alone let him be but they rats in your house you have a $20 million house going ruin your house don't you know there's a version of Tora says that you have to be merciful he are don't you know you have to be merciful you can't just hit them little baby rats but they in your house $25 million house it's okay let him be let him be in sham they took those words and he says Let It Be ah re why he's not merciful you're merciful we're going to be merciful on you you Merc you finally learn you're supposed to do Mercy on being merciful for you have to you have do do Chu being merciful for the animals you did chuv pain stopped pain stopped so that's why it says meaning if you did Chu hem will cleanse your sins you come up come to hm like a little baby with no sins but if you don't do chuva then you could be suffering your whole life and not even know why imagine suffering your whole life and not even knowing why now thisai is is actually one of the best proofs in my opinion of the entire Torah the reason why is because if you look at the par from a few weeks ago chapter 18 says something interesting it says in chapter 18 verse 11 he says to Moshe he tells Moshe now I know that Hashem is greater than all the gods for in the very matter in which the Egyptians that conspired against them what do you mean what does this mean he says to Moshe why did I come here why did I leave being a coin midan was Co over there hundred million in the bank private jet Ferrari Lamborghini what other cars are there Bentley gently this be that be all those things he had everybody prays to him everybody why I leave all of that now he's homeless mkin why no money in the bank he's ask asking M for some help why now I know God's greater than all the other gods okay so God made some Miracles so what amalik didn't see the Miracles Amal saw the Miracles what do am attacked they saw the same Miracles they heard about the same Miracles they saw the same Miracles that happened to is they attacked is said now I knowem is greater than all the other gods I mean there's other Idols that I worshiped and I did no all of that's nonsense God is greater than all of them why why what made you think that everybody else heard about the same Miracles he says because ASM punishes M because AEM punishes measure for measure how does he know he said look the Egyptians look what he did to the Egyptians didn't let the Jews drink water or go to the mikve he turned the Egyptian water into blood didn't let the Jews bathe he turned them into filthy animals by with the frogs they didn't let them uh clean themselves and keep hygiene he actually made the uh them have light each one of the plagues has a mid mid measure for measure measure for measure we had a whole series about how each one of the plagues is m of why there's a reason of whym did this or not this he says even the yam the the Sea of reeds how he split it even that's why they drowned all the Jewish babies they threw them into the ocean what hasem do he drowned them into the ocean so what measure for measure why is this the best proof in the world says this is the greatest proof that ever existed why now I know punishes measure for measure and if hasem punishes measure for measure that means he's in charge of every measure if he punishes with water that means he knows about all the water that exists and he's in charge of all of it if he punishes with fire that means he knows about all the fire that exists and he's in charge of it if he punishes with animals that means he's in charge of all the animals if he punishes with the heavens with this what he's in charge Char of everything now I know he's above all the other gods cuz he punishes measure for measure and if he punishes measure for measure there's nothing like him there's nothing like him in the world because that shows he's in charge of everything he sees everything he hears everything there's no Messengers does know nothing it's him himself he knows of everything that's going on and if he know knows of everything that's going on and he punishes and rewards measure for measure that's the God of all gods so here when found out that hasem punishes measure for measure it changed everything for him and it should change everything for us because if a person truly understand that Hashem is in charge of every single thing that you have in your life even the dogs that are barking right now for absolutely no reason there's a reason for it we think there's no reason for it but of course there's a reason for it why if they wouldn't bark today is not says they didn't bark today it's not so it don't remind you but there's a lot of reasons of why these things happen the point is everything that happens in the world is mid mid measure for measure and that is the most merciful way to run the world because if you show Mercy Hashem will show you Mercy if you don't show Mercy Hashem will not show you Mercy it's fair it's it's perfect it's divine us on the other hand we sometimes give credit when credit is due and sometimes we don't give credit when credit is do sometimes we punish when punishment is supposed to happen and most of the time we don't we work off of our emotions hasem does not work off of emotions he works off of a system that he created for himself so this is what actually happened to even the greatest among us and for all of those people that always says say you know you hear these stories about whether it's Sons or all these different stories in the Torah why do we hear why does the Torah highlight the details of these disasters don't you just want to hear good stories M was in sh he saw G it looks like so much fine why do you hear the details about the horrible stuff even more than the good stuff the horrible stuff how they took R and cut them into little pieces and sold them in the meat market we know this inat talks about what happened to certain people that don't do says it all these different things that are bad we have details we have details of these things and they give us examples of who it happened to why it's to remind us you're gonna say oh yeah but that's mosu yes exactly that's mosenu ifem judged him what about us for small sins look what hem did to what makes you think you're going to get away with the big sin ofat what makes you think you're going to get away with stealing some money from your customers what makes you think you're going to get get away with wasting seed what makes you think you're going to get away with not having uh modesty in your life what makes you think that and that's why thear says page 86a it says why because even their marital relations their intimacy between husband and wife they only do at night when it's dark why because they know it's not modest to see each other naked but then it says since they already know it they're even allowed during a day why because they know to cover but meaning that knows T has to be so holy that even things that you guys don't think about and I never thought about before that I have to even watch how I'm with my wife yes yes even now you have to think about how who what when and how why modesty is everywhere in the bathroom out of the bathroom in your house with your wife with your husband in the school and everywhere that's What Makes You holy it's not that you wear a keepa it's not that you wear just k good job that you wear them but that's not what makes you holy what makes you holy is that your mind is straight what does it think about what doesm want what does hasem want that's the foundation that's the foundation of everything when you ask yourself what does Hashem want you already won because you're always going to get the right answer now in today's world a lot of people ask the question of mashia when's mashia coming when's he not coming as if I have his phone number people ask me at least once a day when mashia is coming he's he's still uh he still hasn't gotten back to me but in reality there's things that are much scarier than Masia because it says that we read in prayer the go is only going to come for people that do CH for their PES do chva for all of their crime and we'll finish off with this we'll finish off with the fact that most people think that if mashia comes they're going to be okay the reality is is that we have a lot of work to do a lot of work to do to fix our midot a lot of work to do to fix our all our character traits a lot of work to do to fix all of the mitv that we do 5050 a lot of work to do to really start working on and everything else that we do and the reason why is because ifad that wrote the entire t for memory not just the written tah but also the the oral Torah he wrote the whole thing for memory if he can make a mistake the same mistake for 13 years we can't risk it because our risk is not 13 years of suffering our risk could be 30 million years you understand so instead of being worried about mashia when mashia is coming when mashia is not coming worry about doing Cha about doing Chua fix ourselves fix our midot fix our arrogant nature fix our laziness fix our stinginess all of those different things and when we get to sh we'll actually have the of actually seeing G from afar because if we get too close it probably burn us but anyway from his Holiness but anyway at least we'll get there at least we'll get there even if the wheels fell off by the time we got the grenade and we have no wheels it's fine at least we got there it's fine no I have to have wheels they'll give you a new Chariot over there any questions yeah basically the US straight up but there's a time table for Mia's arrival that by 5800 he's got to come which in essence means he got maximum 22 years now if this is the case isn't it something that we really need to promote and highlight saying you got to do because doesn't mean he's going to come in 22 years up until 22 years he's got for this deadline which means he could come between now and those 22 years and any time in between so there is real urgency on people well first there's a it's not the rambam's opinion of it being 5800 is not the only opinion there are other opinions so if you tell somebody that somebody says the r or ruu says he's gonna come it's now 5778 m is GNA come at 5779 say says 5779 says it let's say making it up obviously say yeah but my Rabbi says it's 57 you know 98 there's always going to be a different opinion people are not going to hold to it they're always going to hold to what's convenient to them Chua is not based on mashia coming Chu cannot be based on mashia coming and the reason why is because if somebody and the r specifically says it it's also you're not allowed to time when the mashia is going to come it's 100% forbidden for you to put a timetable of when mashia is going to come why because if you're wrong you break and that's why even theim people that knew actually saw the mashia at the gates saw the mhia at the gates he saw he actually saw the mashiah says okay so how come he not saving us he goes it's not time he saw the mhia not like he heard about it he read some books he saw the mashiah how come he not saving us it's not time wait it's not it's not time Hashem did not give me okay to go it's not time we're not allowed to put a time table on mashia and for all of those that do it did not do it by the way he just said that according to this calculation that's one opinion he didn't say that's the only opinion he didn't say it has to happen there are likelihoods there are likelihoods that he could come during PES there's a likelihood it could come during sh there are times during the year that the say are more likely for the mhia to come doesn't mean that he has to come at that time it just means he's more likely to come at those specific moments those specific times doesn't mean that for sure it's going to happen then but either way we're not allowed to put a specific time on it and the reason why is because I've seen it already too many times people that thought mashia is going to come this year he didn't come they stopped becoming religious why ah he's not here he's never GNA come they've been saying he's gonna come for 2,000 years I thought he's come I moved to Israel I sold my house I sold my car I did this I did that he didn't come ah the heck with all of it who told you to sell your house oh but I saw Rabbi alona's lecture he said that the mashia is coming yeah he said he's coming he's coming this year yeah but he moved okay he moved it doesn't mean that he moved because again people have to have a local Rabbi or rabi that has it or even if you talk to Raba or any of the rabbis out there you have to use a little you can't just decide no no he said this he didn't say it people take what rabis say and they make it into their own words and this is actually what we're saying before the shield people say a lot of things a lot of big things from big people and and and they distorted completely so for example a lot of people like to say that uh the uh the RAB for bre said that either him or bov I think it's rabman that anyone one that has the long pairs the curls the or the bmov is teach whichever one it is it's gonna pull them out of G from those pays this is the Distortion of all distortions why what did he actually say what he actually said is if somebody has followed the entire has a lot of he follow the entire to the and he had a little sins here and there not big sins like or wasting seed or or something like that a little small sins here and there small things here and there he says that he has to suffer for and G maybe for three days three years whatever it is has to suffer for those small sins said if you already follow and he only has a little bit of damage that small Merit that he learned my Torah that he learned my Torah that he actually uh fulfill the entire to I'll help him out this is World apart from what people say if you just put some curls on you're good to go you go to G with so what people do is they take what the say and somebody gives a lecture about it now the guy that gives a lecture about about the the's book let's say he not going to go over the entire book what is he going to do 10% of the book so already 9 % of the book is gone so let's say you picked the laich's book or you put Rab's book or you po whoever's book put put five books of Moses Five Books of Moses look at all the lect even if you look at the lectures of every single Rabbi pick one Rabbi we did a lecture on every single parasa the parasa even it's mine any Rabbi whatever they're covering in the actual lecture is not even 1% of the par even if they went over paragraph by paragraph it's still not even 1% why because it's huge the shoe would be 10 million years long so they take the book already the lecture is about 10% that they understand then somebody instead of the Next Generation takes instead of learning the actual book he learns from the lecture the 10% he learns from the lecture and he starts teaching from that 10% then somebody he takes his lecture of the 10% of the 10% and he teaches from that 10% by the time we got to to to now if you didn't read the book yourself all you have is said he's gonna take you out of G if you do whatever he didn't say that though say that all of has yes but they also said other things above it Beyond it around it there a lot more you have to follow the you have to keep me vot if do CH they said a lot of other things to make that statement true yes they said that but it has conditions it's like the it says all of Israel has a share in the world to come but then the rest of the mishna the rest of the is another 10 10 10 pages of and these are the ones who do not have a share in the world to come wait but just two seconds ago you said everybody has a share of the world to come yes if they don't fall under these conditions and so on and so on someone that lends money with interest someone that violates Shabbat on purpose someone that's a uh you know all these different sins if you don't fall under one of these conditions you're good but what did they really say oh they just took one line so this is why you're obligated you are obligated to be to be to delve into the Torah and to toil in it to find the truth you can't depend on just one lecture you can't just depend on just one book you have to toil and toil and Torah until you get to the truth and that's why you have to study as much material as possible but even the study material you can't just study anything you have to make sure that comes from a kosher Source already a handful of times in the last couple of weeks I had people ask me questions that are based on non- kosher sources so one person asked the question about R AKA I told him it's not possible this question came from a kosher Source I asked her where'd you get this question from and she tells me the book I said yeah you got to you see who the author is the author doesn't believe in God how can you ask about if the auth doesn't believe in God he's telling us the har Potter story you can't read a book from a Harry Potter uh and think it's tah even if it says doesn't make a difference same thing somebody says oh look Rabbi so and so says that uh everybody doesn't have goes to ganen I said who who said it RAB said it no somebody said he said it okay somebody let that somebody deal with the Gom he has to deal with said so you have to you have to go down to the source and you cannot just trust anyone if it's a book you have to make sure if it's not coming from a known Orthodox type of publisher like MIM feldheim art scroll and a couple of others that are really really like like you have to double check there are other Publishers there are other people that are Kosher that don't go to the publishing houses they publish self published you have to check who they are if the rabbi is conservative reform missionary Messianic Gom whatever all those places if he's from one of those places do not read do not enter do not do nothing why it's not go Source it's not just because he has Rabbi before his name doesn't mean anything you have to make sure the source is kosher source is kosher you can maybe rely on the information but even then you have to double check why because people make mistakes I saw there was a mistake in the bio of of uh of uh Rad's book ra ra mistake the one that wrote a bio about his life made a mistake in one of the books he made a mistake about what the AL was and it really isn't about holding a key in in in a place where there's no and so on and so forth the point is is that mistakes happen mistakes happen so you have to make sure you have to double check everything you can't just you don't you don't learn Al from personal stories you don't uh rely on just one opinion you have to double check everything and that is enough for tonight we'll have another sh on Tuesday we have uh and Wednesday Tuesday is an aventur we have the M series B uh I'm planning on BM going to New York I think it's in two weeks from now so we'll have sh here next week and then the following week um I think I'm not going to be here and then we'll have one more sh before P here and then I'm going to be away for about a month so try to make it all the uh and bring some questions and we'll learn some amen amen [Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Music]