AMAZING Story of One of The Greatest Ba'al TeShuva's In History

[Music] n first start with RAB elzar hinos hos wasn't exactly a Ben T when he was a child as a matter of fact according to many sources until he was 28 years old he knew nothing to a point where he didn't even know how to read or write 28 years old but his father was hos a multi-million there huge one day elazar is working and he sees this material world is worthless it's like I know the truth it's in Torah I want to go learn toah where am I going to start there's no Yesa there's no local Yeshiva there's no Torah time.com I'm going to Lear she starts crying me skin H know his father the millionaire sees him he goes well what happened why is this is this job that that I gave you too difficult okay go to the next Department it's a little easier he goes to the next Department the next day his father sees him crying again why this work is also difficult for you go to the next Department it's even easier the next day he's crying again no what happened the work is so difficult he goes no no ABA I have to tell you something I've decided I'm going to learn T you're 20 years old if you told me when you were a kid you wanted to go learn Tor then okay you can be something someday start learning first you have to learn Al you have to learn something you don't know anything you're 20 years old get married take over the business make a few million with your brothers that's it no once you retire or something you can learn some Torah make your money first no make your money build a castle what do you got to do first first you build the factory then you build the castle then you go learn tah you can't build the castle than the factory because then you can't pay for the castle you have to build the factory first then the castle and then you go learn to that's the mindset of the secular mind at least they're going to learn one day but in reality where supposed to to be the same thing yobu did Yu when he found out that his son is a millionaire he's leading Egypt he didn't say oh great finally I can retire now what he say you go over there to Goen build me Yesa then I'll move until the Yesa is not finished I'm not moving he didn't say go build me a house Yesa build mea so I know there's going to be Judaism there I know I can learn Tora Castle after the house this my son being a million doesn't matter to me at all I need a place to so we have it twisted andos even though he was a righteous man also had a twisted so elzar couldn't take it and he started crying hysterical until he had the Merit for hasem to send Himi came to and he said why are you crying son he says I want to learn T cuz then you should so immediately is the first time anyone's ever supported him saying you should learn to saying you crazy learn to go make money your father's a millionaire your father's a millionaire what do you need to learn toah for go it's your family business you're made already go find yourself a girl build yourself this build yourself that what do you need to learn to hire some to learn to offer you give $500 a month to learn for you you get the mitvah anyway what do you care first time you hear somebody says yeah yeah yeah go you should gets excited goes where where can I go where can I go goes go to there's a rabbi called ranan go to him he's going to teach you who's ranan he's tell he's going to teach you you don't know you don't know go he tells him huh so he says to him go to theor the one that can revive the Dead the one that knows things that we can't even understand and I'll teach you so goes to and he goes to the Yesa and he listens to the first and all of a sudden hears somebody crying somebody crying from the students who's crying goes who's crying who's crying and they all point to this little new guy theel like why are you crying son because I'm here listening to you for all this time I don't understand even one word that you said I don't understand anything saw the love that he has for the Torah and for how much he wanted T they said don't worry I'll have I'll give a couple of couple of my students going to come teach you they're going to sit with you they're going to teach you so that's what they did and they started teaching him teaching him and teaching him and every day they're teaching him more and and hos nothing was ever enough he learned one mishna wants another Mish he wants one one commentary he want to learn the other commentary one another nothing's EV the more you give him the more he wants just like we have desires for money you give him 100 he wants 200 he has for Tora you give him one mishna he wants two Mish non-stop non-stop more and more and more and more Tora nonstop eventually becomes a knowledgeable guy and one day comes to Thea and he smells something not so smelly not so delicious like these flowers that we got interrupted for he smell something not so good he looks looks looks cuz you're not allowed to pray or learn if there's bad smell not let the prayer smell or if there's bad smell if there's bad smell in any place you're not let to pray or learn if to remove it so he looks looks looks eventually finds out where is it coming from this awful awful smell that he could smell from 100 yards away the mouth of find out how is it possible his mouth so smelling he's probably fasting he's probably fasting he's not eating and eventually it's creates a problem so he ask the two people that are hosting him because he's in a hotel where they don't feed you they're just a hotel to sleep in like what are you feeding him every day you give him food he goes no no he never eats with us goes so what does he eat he goes I don't know okay so let's ask the balab Let's go ask the person that he's staying in his house go find out for me and tell me so the students go over there they go toal and they say okay what do you feed elzar every day I don't feed him anything he eats on his own goes what does he eat go I don't really know what he eats but I know that every so often he goes behind his bed he has this sack he grabs something from the sack he puts it in his mouth and that's it says can we see it so they go inside they move the bed they see the sack what's in a sack BS mud he's eating mud for months how can someone live like this the news comes back to raban yanan raban yanan understands this is a special person he didn't want to bother anyone he didn't want to annoy anyone he didn't want to interfere with anyone he didn't want to take any risk for him to Shalom be thrown out of Yesa to be a expense on anyone so he said just give me Torah I'll figure out the rest and he was eating mud for months eat mud once try once once try once feel what he felt for months so said that's and he gave a blessing he says just like the smell of Tor you did you the smell in your mouth came for Tor only amazing smell only amazing things will come out of the Torah that you will actually inherit in general one day during the of P invited a lot of a lot of people a lot of rabbis to give you know to celebrate and he asked the uh RZ to speak give a speech give no flowers though no s s they already ate before before it was finished they started on time so he says give a speech goes no what can I teach that my teacher doesn't know goes no no you know I give you something you develop it you're a big goes but maybe you're shy you're embarrassed because I'm your teacher and I'm here and you don't want to teach next to me so what I'll do is I'll leave I'll leave and you teach so immediately jumped up no no no up he started teaching start teaching teaching teaching teaching they said no one's ever heard anything he said before everything was to such an extent that his face started lighting like M's face lit and mount and at the same time who comes in who was also invited his father hos why his father come to town for he came to town to see his Rabbi ranan to tell him listen I made a swear many years ago that I'm can't you know once my son leaves I'm removing him from the will and giving everything to his brothers so I came to Rabbi to confirm it so he comes in to go see his Rabbi but then he hears the sh he sits down with the sh he's cool it's a lot of people he just hears this amazing sees this light about everyone doesn't understand what's going on says who's this Rabbi who's this Rabbi it's El who who's this follow elos me it's my son he goes sees his son be the mosu of his generation and he goes to raan he says I came here for one reason but now I want the opposite I want to take every everything away from my other sons and give everything to him and says to his father AB if I wanted money from you I would have stayed home all I want is toorah so the most I could agree to take agree to take not I want most I agree to take you want to give me most I agree to take just my share give the rest of the brothers he didn't agree to take one penny more why didn't agree to take one penny more because he knew something we're trying to get to know what did he know he knew the material money clothing all this in this world is literally it's meaningless he knew what's really valuable and he had it so that's rulos nowos also had some amazing stories in the Torah there was a big dis agreement between him and raban Gamel and all of the sages where in a page 56 no sorry in page 59 there is a uh a big argument between elazab and hinos and all of the sages about of of of Purity impurity in regards to making a oven and he says listen I got this from this from I know I'm right all of the other RAB saying you're wrong he says okay if I'm right the tree Hashem is going to give me the you know to make it happen he's going to cut the tree in half boom it happens tree Cuts in half Rabbi say we don't learn from trees next thing he says if I'm right the water from the river that goes in One Direction it's going to go the opposite direction it's going to go against the current opposite reverse it's going to change nature for me boom that's what happens the river starts going backwards what Rabbi say sorry we don't learn from rivers and there's a few other ones one time you says if I'm right the wall of the bet midash is going to topple over and one of the other I think was stopped it go okay okay stop stop enough don't to kill anyone he says if I'm right is going to be a but call from sham saying I'm right Hashem will send a voice saying elzar is right you want more than that and as you would have it call came from sh says why do you disturb my son raros don't you know the AL is always like him meaning he's always right and the rabbi said we're sorry but we don't learn from gave a law to am is and he says the majority rules not a but not a one person majority rabbis we have an order yeah but there's a but call hasem just spoke he gave us the rules we're listening to the same hasem we're following his rules I can't just decide that this gar means this because I decid that it means that we have a system I do we know the system from our rabbis who know from their rabbis from their rabbis their rabbis and that's what we know that we don't have a rabbi the all system collapses so now says listen I know the truth I can't leave it I can't change my mind I know I understand I know the laws but I can't change my mind says because you're not going back you're not turning your uh your mind you're not going with us we'll put you on no one's allowed to learn from you anymore you're not allowed to be part of the bed anymore this isos got thrown out got thrown out until almost the end of his life and says the day that they actually put him on hem decided to destroy the world and the whole ocean started rocking hasem was Destroy starting to destroy the world until AB said hem you know I didn't do this for my honor it is for your honor you gave us rules it's your rules you said the sages have to decide that's what we're doing I know it's hurts but I had to throw them out why because he would teach people the opposite if one person teaches the opposite they're going to say maybe everything else is the opposite becomes and hasem quieted the world but to show you how Bigos wasem wanted to destroy the world for him at the end of his life RAB AKA which was one of his students came to him and he was very upset at RAB AKA that he didn't come visit him all these years he said uh you are going to die a very strange death told AA he predicted that he's going to die a very very unusual death and that's exactly what happened to R AA and all of the other students that he talked about but he said okay I understand you're upset at me cuz I didn't come learn from you I wish I would have come learn from you but teach me something now he started teaching him some stuff in a matter of a few moments he taught him apparently more to than we have in this world but uh one of the things that they uh he said you think this is a lot of tah what I taught you is not even a drop of water of what I know and what I know if is all of the ocean is ink and all of the trees were pens and all of the land was paper it wouldn't be enough to write down all the knowledge that I know and all of the knowledge that I know it's not even like a dog that licks water from an ocean in comparison to my teachers so this is the people with dealing with you us it's not even people this is Angels this is not normal so that's it's important to know these things about the sages because before we decide that we agree or disagree with them we have to know who we're dealing with first now said a few things that were very famous in page 63a he says if if a person rules out rules a point of law in the presence of his teacher someone that says a law somebody asks you what's the for kosher or something and your Rabbi is next to you Rabbi is's next to you you but somebody asks what's the for this you answer instead of your Rabbi death penalty disrespecting the rabbi you could ask the rabbi for permission if the rabbi didn't answer but till the rabbi answers or gives you permission I'll let to say Al in front of your ally now if I told you this in the beginning of this year instead of after I just told you was it'd be a little different tell you this guy he like hey hey relax with your little rules okay just like my Rabbi can he read the same book he read the same book he read R I read R he I why can't I say it in front of my Rabbi what's the big deal what is a big head he's arrogant didn't you say arrogance is not good didn't you say was was humble no it's a rule next he said in page 48b a person who has bread to today but still asks what am I going to eat tomorrow says that person has NOA NOA why NOA say she's wondering what is he going to eat tomorrow why does he have no if he's asking where's my brother going to come tomorrow because if obviously hasem cared enough for you to have food today then you already see that hm runs the way world how could you be so ungrateful to at least not thank him and believe in him at least until tomorrow you're not telling you believe in him next week next year next month or for your kids's wedding he's saying you got bread today you can't believe in Hashem until tomorrow you have no you just got your paycheck you're already worrying about the bills for next month why sh gave you this month we'll give you next month how is he going to give it to who knows it's his business it's not your business this business I's going to give you it's one of the main things we're all lacking we're all lacking we're all constantly questioning Hashem how you going to do this how you going to do this how you going to do this how you going to do this Hashem I don't have a job so I'm going to make money Hashem I don't have any customer so I'm going to get money Hashem I don't have this so how I'm going to do this you constantly ask AEM how how how how how instead of focusing on what you need to do you're focusing on what he needs to do and if you're so you're so busy doing aem's job who's doing your job if you're so busy trying to figure out how is AEM going to do all these things how you going to have any time to actually do the things that will lead to do them and last but not least in obviously said many things but this is three famous ones Page 6 3B he says whoever refuses to have children is considered a murderer this is because of the very same issue that we've talked about we had several sh about the issue of wasting seed when someone decides I don't want to have kids obviously they have to do something there's still a guy there's still a man they still have needs they still have a wife they become a statue which means that if you're going to intentionally not have kids that means that sperm is going in the wrong places so hul says just so you know in case you're wondering we already knew 2500 years ago you were murdering 300 million people each time they already knew they already knew it was murder 300 you know 2,000 years ago we just figure it out now with the scientists we didn't need the scientists already knew you already knew that every little cell has a name every cell has a name every cell has a potential in the shama that's supposed to come to this world you decide no no I don't want it so you created a little Holocaust times a thousand every day oh no it's I don't want to ruin my wife's body I don't want to ruin her body she's so nice pretty 22 years old I'm not ready for kids or the best we don't have any money for kids tuition tuition what tuition the kid's a baby no but who knows I'm going to have the money let me get the money first enough money for the ISA then I'll have the kid so by the time he gets the ISA it's already grew cuz I'm invested in Microsoft stock with dividends all this are in people's head thinking that they're responsible for the money the kid comes with money hasem send with the money once you make rules that are against the Torah why does hasm get upset says because you're pretty much saying that I'm wrong when you make a rule that's against my Torah you're saying that my Torah is wrong my instructions are wrong I manufactured you but I made a mistake in my own creation I said bring kids to the world I'll give youa I say have I'll give youa I say don't weigh seed I'll give you P I say be honest I'll give you I say keep Shabbat keep I'll give youa you don't do any of them and then you complain to me and on top of that you want to Blackmail me you say no no no hasm first give me P then I'll do it condition and sometimes hem does it sometimes AEM gives you gives you the P he gives you not P it gives you a lot you Ferrari and a penthouse and another house and a vacation house and if that's not enough you get another house and the plane and everything else what happens you become the biggest cof you have a website against rabbis why you say I made all of it I don't need God secret secret secret secret G soos was a very very tough very tough Sage one time it didn't rain for several days the says and he told everybody that we have to fast we have to fast several days until it starts raining after the 13th day it still didn't rain 13 fast they did already it still didn't rain but everybody left the Shool like we leave the Shool after YY pool how do you leave the Sho at YY pool he was happy hey yeah all of a sudden you're not hungry you haven't eat 24 an hour before the fast you're dying fast is over no you don't even want to go home you just want to hang out with the guys all of a sudden we don't want we don't want to we don't eat no just give me a candy it's fine give me a little sip of tea I go fast for another two weeks you ever noticed that during the fast 8:00 in the morning no no no I can't wake up for prayer I'm dying from not eating or drinking I can't go pray I want to sleep all day sleep all day can I haven't eaten a whole whole six hours the fast is over all of a sudden we don't want to go home want to hang out with the guys plan a vacation plan a barbecue plan this plan that all this that we plan all of a sudden doesn't bother us why is a rule in the Torah stolen water are sweeter when we're not allowed to do something that's what we want to do water if you steal it or you buy it stays the same actually check check those check what is the same you stole it you bought it's the same but if you stole it you say no it's sweeter what's sweet it's the same flavor same thing with MIT the things that you're not allowed to do that's what you're going to want they actually did an experiment on this they showed the guys identical twins women identical twins said which one's prettier they look exactly the same everyone said the one on the left why we find out later she's married so even subconsciously the convinc US that that's what we want they're look exactly the same it's the same person but they want that one the one on the left why she's married she's prettier so says you're leaving the K you're leaving the prayer rain didn't start 13 times so everybody's like happy like what can we do we prayed we did our job so says did you finish is digging your Graves yet because we're going to die say something like this it's very scary everybody started crying everybody started crying and ran back to Sho 2 minutes later rain started goes okay now I know you prayed what's the prayer all about we go to pray pray what's the prayer what does want from us he really needs us to repeat these words what does he want he wants your heart he wants your heart for few minutes give me a few minutes why did it make the prayer so long if you look at the Sido ofu it's not even 10% of our sidu you look at the sages even from a couple of hundred years ago you look at their sidu our Sor it's not even comparison I'm not talking about English and Hebrew talking about just just the basic it's much much bigger much bigger today than it was a th years ago 2,000 years ago much much bigger why back then they connect to hem like that they meditate an hour according to an hour before prayer then the prayer itself another hour then to get down from the high level they got to they' have to meditate another hour so Kaz asks when they have time to study to they're praying 9 hours a day they say answer hem wishes that a person will pray all day 24 hours a day so but even that you need to know how to do it and it also has to come along with a lot of T can't just go into the middle of the wood smoke weed and think it's we have to we have to be serious with you tell most people like oh yeah yeah the all were smoking weed together no no they weren't they were all they all did they all knew the en they all fulfilled the entire and then was part of what they were doing in today's world you have to explain these things you throw words at people people say okay so I could just go to the woods and hang out with my friends with uh ecstasy and say I'm feeling I'm close to hasem people will give you all types of reason all types of things all types of things people will make what what I never heard that what they don't do that in all these places they go to Graves they go to Graves once a year what they allim over there no a lot of people doot over there a lot of people doot so anyway the uh the key is to wow this um Facebook may may die out soon because uh my battery's dying but anyway the uh was a very very serious person and there was no shortcuts there was no Hey listen you could just do half the and you have nothing to worry about he actually if you look at it every time he's mentioned the every time he mentions in the Tora he's the ultimate rebuker no no gray area it's black or white if it's true it's true if it's not it's not [Music]