BAMIDBAR: He Who Laughs Last, Laughs Best SUCCESS SECRET SAUCE | STUMP THE RABBI (233)

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How did those people that succeeded in the end, how do they know to keep pushing despite being laughed at? How can you use it as a lesson in your Torah learning, in your business struggles? Seems to be all about the census, counting Jews. That would seem to be irrelevant to success, needless to say, to your life. But a closer look into the verses will uncover not only things that are relevant but actually the secret to success that's buried within the desert. Hashem will succeed in showing you this and learn it that you'll be able to have literally a priceless tool that you can apply in many many aspects of your life. Hashem spoke to Moshe in the wilderness of Sinai in the tent of meeting on the first of the second month in the second year after their exodus from the land of Egypt saying take a census of the entire assembly. So here we see that is telling Mosheu to take a census. But the Torah is reminding us that this is taking place in the wilderness. Where else is it going to take place? In Taj Mahal, in New York, in Las Vegas, in Tel Aviv, where else is it going to be? Of course, it's in a desert. The whole Tawa is in a desert. Why is the con insistence that reminding us this is in a desert? Furthermore, the census, we've had a couple of them. What can we learn from those words of the census that can apply to our life, that can apply to our success? Nowaday is typically read right before in fact the sages instituted that at times where we are running behind if you will that uh the last two par of will be read a week before in order to make sure that is read right before shave. Why? Why do we need to read it before? Well, perhaps if we look at what have said, we'd understand a little bit better. The in page 54A says that inbar 21:8 it says, A gift from the wilderness. This is said during the song that is sang. What gift? What is this gift? The asks say the gift is that if a person treats himself as if he is the desert when people keep bothering him then his Torah learning will succeed. But if he does not, then his Torah learning will not succeed. Treat himself like the desert. Okay, I understand desert. Hashem is speaking to Moshe in the desert. Now you have to treat yourself like you're the desert if you want to succeed. Why? meaning Abuai just like the desert does not require permission or specific conditions for you to enter it. You don't need a green card. You don't need a uh visa, a citizenship, a toll. You want to go to the desert enjoy. If you treat yourself like the desert, meaning that when it comes to learning Torah, you'll take advantage of any opportunity, any moment of time you have and not wait for the perfect conditions where you feel better, where you have enough money, where uh it's perfectly quiet, the kids are asleep, you uh you are are into it, you're interested in it. If you give yourself all of those conditions, you're never going to succeed. But if you treat yourself like the desert coming and going any chance you get, then you will succeed. In so many words, determination. Determination. The further adds, why was the Torah given to Islam? answer. In order to make sure that no tribe out of the 12 tribes of Israel would claim ownership over it since it was given in their land, in their section, Hashem divided the land and gave a piece to each one of the tribes. And if the Torah was given in a part that was owned by Beyamin, perhaps Beyamin would say, "Listen, the Torah is really more connected to me because it was given where where we are or is or so in order to make sure that no one thinks that the Torah belongs to them more than anybody else, Hashem gave it in the desert. Why not Israel in general before you divide the land says the same midash ma so the nations the goim would not come with excuses of why they forsook the Torah and ignored it by saying listen it was in Israel we live in uh you know we live in Saudi Arabia we live in America it's it's so obviously it's Not for us. It's in Israel. You gave it in Israel for for the Jews. No habibi. The Torah is for the entire world to comply with. The Jews have to comply and follow every one of the laws that's applicable to them. And the Gentiles have to follow every one of the laws that apply to them. No one has an excuse. Hence the reason why Hashem gave the Torah in the Mid in the desert. In fact, in the recent past, I would say 100 years or so, there was a lot of fighting, even more than 100 years, but a lot of fighting between the Ashkenazim and at times certain Ashkanazim that would claim ownership over the Torah, over the many of them were surprised that the even have when they saw They simply couldn't deny that the sun has risen. And that's also why some of the elders till this day remember the pain they uh they suffered from some of the their brothers. But needless to say when somebody came to one of his so many words saying listen feel like the Torah is theirs. Shalom says the Torah itself says the Torah that was commanded on us was given to us by it says Jacob Yakov is also another name for Israel. It doesn't say it says the Torah is for all of doesn't make a difference for all of Isel. Hashem gave the Torah in the desert to all of Am is and in fact the entire world has to follow it. The problem that people have is that they don't put themselves in a desert when it comes to learning Torah. They wanted to be under certain conditions. They wanted to be in perfect mood, perfect physical shape, perfect financial situation, nobody bothering them. But unfortunately, that just never happens. Furthermore, the Torah tells us about a census. A census. What does counting have to do with anything? But if you look at the Hebrew words that are used in the Torah, Hashem says, which translates to take a census, count every head, also literally means lift up the head. Meaning get the leaders, the leaders of the tribes, the leader of a family. You that's watching right now. Let them know that if they follow the Torah, they'll be the they'll be the head. They'll be the success story. If they don't, they'll lose their head. In the census, we have the names of the leaders. Some that chose to go in the way of Hashem and some that did not. For the tribe of Shimon, we have Ben Shai which tells us this is Ben Sal, as we'll learn in Balak later on in the Torah. He was the guy that was over 400 years old and did not like that Moshe Abenu was given the death penalty to people that violated the Torah. They were part of his tribe. So he decided he's going to show that he's more powerful than Mushe. and he ended up grabbing the Goya Cosby in order to change people's perspective because he wasn't happy with what he had. He wasn't happy not being the leader of all of Islam. On the other hand, we have for the tribe of Yehuda bin Aminadav didn't look to be the leader. But when he saw that Am was afraid to go right, to go left, to go back, to go forward at Yamsuf because behind them were the Egyptians chasing after them to murder them. On the right and left, there was enormous snakes and scorpions that the Midash says were bigger than people. The scorpions were bigger than people. Something terrifying, the worst nightmares couldn't size up to it. Hashem specifically put these things there in order to make sure that he leaves a one option for where go into the water. But nobody knows how to swim. So everyone's afraid. What was supposed to swim across Yamsu knew that always does good even if it looks impossible, even if it looks like it's a certain failure. And he went into the water first to the point where he himself started drinking the water from drowning. That's how much he believed in Hashem. And he not only brought the merit to where Hashem split the ocean, but he also merited being the one out of the tribe of Yehuda where Msiah Ben Davidid is going to come from. So on one end one wasn't happy with a wanted more than what he had didn't like the conditions whereas the polar opposite he had complete he knew that hem is right even though it looks like he's wrong shalom. He knew that the were laughing at him, laughing at laughing at laughing at Moshe, but he got the last laugh. So we see that there is a certain pattern forming that the Torah is trying to tell us here much more than counting names. tell us the Torah was given to us in the desert in order to constantly remind us that in order for us to succeed, we have to act like the desert. Stop looking for perfect conditions. If you're looking for perfect conditions, you are simply going to never progress. And this applies in every aspect. It applies in learning Torah. It applies in doing chuva and needless to say it applies in business, in your career. If you're not willing to make moves, to do things that other people are not willing to do, you're never going to progress. Now, this does not mean to turn into a speculator. This does not mean to do the exact opposite of what everybody says just for the sake of being the opposite. That's a fool. But what the Torah is telling us is when you know you're right, go all in everything. What about the fact that everyone's laughing at me? Let them laugh. But there's most people don't act that way. Most people say, "No, listen. Why don't we just change the conditions?" Changing the conditions is not going to improve the desert. It may ruin it. There was a rich man that came to Steinaman. Abstein Kadosh Sadik lived in a house that literally it's the if the walls can talk just going to that house you get the mousar of your life. A rich man came to him and said I have an idea. I want the RV to give me the 10 best of I'm going to start a new coll for those 10 best of. Well, why do you want to do that? Well, my plan is that I'm going to build the fanciest, most luxurious col that ever existed where each one of these is going to become rich. I'm going to give them houses full of luxury, cars, drivers full of the food is going to be available at all times in the co. All of their needs and desires will be met so they could learn Torah with complete comfort. of Steinerman says to the rich man, "No, this I do not agree to." Why not? I mean, people people are collecting money for the kals all the time. We need money for our kals and everybody needs money for their kals. This guy's offering not offering not just offering money for the kals. He's going to build a colo and the k is going to be a multi-million dollar establishment. Why not say the page 81A says be careful with the children of the poor Jews because from there will be the is where the Torah will come from. Meaning that if you give all of these luxuries to these Then we will all lose out of the Torah that will come from the struggle that creates Torah for them. Basic needs, sure, give it to them. But luxury, that'll ruin their Torah. Learning Torah cannot be attained if you have conditions where you have to study at a specific weather, time, location. You have to act as if you are in a desert. Whatever you have, you have one sizefits all as is. All types of different terms. We're all familiar with the adm of petsa, studied with complete devotion inside the ghetto camps in the Holocaust. to such an extent that he would give his food. The minimal food the Nazis gave. He would give his minimal food that he had to other Jews in return for paper. He needed paper. Why need paper? To write his kushim inside the holocaust. He not only learned Torah but he wrote a sephil called eshes full of extraordinary levels of Torah beyond comprehension where in later years he would thank for the struggle of the holocaust that he suffered because it brought Torah from within him that could not come otherwise. the that I just told you about. He was a son of also a giantim, but his father died when he was still a young boy. And of course, when you are an orphan at a young age, you have every excuse under the sun to be a failure. But the precious nish loved the Torah, but he couldn't afford it. In those days, they would charge you money to come to the bet midrash, similar to the times of Hil. And this young little boy, seven, eight years old, would sneak into the bet midash and hide under the curtains, waiting for the shield to start where he will hide the entire shield, listening to it attentively, no different than the biggest in there, and writing down everything he because he couldn't afford to pay but he couldn't afford not to learn dua. One day the RV that was given the sh heard a little ruffle behind the curtains. So he went to check. As he moved the curtains to his surprise, he saw this young little boy learning Torah with such devotion, listening and writing everything that the rabbi said. something that you only hear about in the the story of Hil Hil is a ken who sacrificed his life by being staying on the roof so he could hear some Torah from this little boy was the h of his generation he said from now on you don't need to pay you come sit here next to me we learn Torah He had every reason in the world to be a failure. Surely the other kids would laugh at him. What are you doing? Come play ball with us. Come cause trouble with us. Who needs to go? And even if you go, if you get caught, you get in trouble. The young Mesame did not let any of that get to him. And years passed and his precious nishama was elevated further and further in the world of Torah to the point where he was a gadul in the eyes of everyone in the world. People from all over the world would send him questions regardless of whether he was ina or when he moved to Morocco or when he went to Kazablanca. Didn't matter. They would find him. They would literally chase after him to go send him questions. One time a group of businessmen came to the bed in Morocco that was headed by one of the greatest mikubal in the last hundred years Kabitz. They told him we have a case and the Rav asked him where are you from? And they said we're from Kazablanca. The Rav got so upset. What? Why are you here wasting our time coming here wasting time, wasting money, coming here to ask us to help you with this case when you have Moshe Benu of the generation back home? What you think that we would ever know more than him? More than the Yes. The same young little boy that grew up to be a giant. But he had every reason to fail, every excuse to give up. When they asked the shalom, "Who has a share in the world to come?" The famously said, "One who is happy with his share and does not want something else." What does it mean doesn't want something else? So he shouldn't pray for anything. If he is sick, he shouldn't pray. No. No. Certainly you could always pray for Hashem to help you, to heal you, to give you pan. But that does not change your state of happiness. You don't want somebody else's life. You don't want his life because he has a car, her life because she has better health, their life because they have more children, his life because he has more money. You don't want anybody else. You want what you have. If you are happy with what you have, you'll go to lava. You'll go to heaven. in a sephil that just came out called Lev Neif. There was the journal of Mazal. There he writes different things about his life and they published it and he writes in there my peak in intellect was when I was seven years old. Seven years old he was already a ga knew the entire Tanakh by heart. Something beyond anything you could imagine. And even in my dream, they told me from Shamim that my came from the highest level of worlds. That's where his nama came from. Yet my problem was, he says, that I had a terrible stutter that I was struggling with to the point where I was willing to give 99% of what I had just to get rid of this stutter. But when I thought about Moshe Rabenu, the prophet of all prophets, Isha Elohim, who also had a stutter, I was comforted. Perhaps all this knowledge is not going to go to waste. Because if Mosheu succeeded in teaching all of Am the Torah to this day, despite his stammer and his stutter, then perhaps I can succeed too. And he didn't give up. He didn't give up. One of the biggest problems that a person has in their life is a problem they invent in their mind. Because instead of worrying about their own life, they worry about what people think of their life or would think of their life. They're affected and infected by everyone's laughs and mockery of what they decide to do. They want a different life. Why isn't it easier, Rabbi? Why can't everyone agree? You're not understanding. The Torah was given in the desert specifically harsh conditions because that's struggle is what brings success. There's no shortage of stories of major organizations that were a laughingtock for years before they became everyone's favorite investment. I remember years ago when I was still in the investment business, the secret sauce to the successful investments that we chose was looking for what everyone hated but for the wrong reason. We didn't just want garbage weren't sanitation department. We wanted to find the company that everyone was laughing at, but they were wrong. And a difference between finding losers and finding winners is whether you're able to determine whether everyone is wrong or not. Because while they're being laughed at, that means the stock has gone down. It's staying down. Nobody likes it. Everybody makes fun of it. And you analyze and you see is everyone wrong? Is it possible that these Wall Street banks and analyst everyone is wrong? Yes, it's possible. I remember the first big deal that we did was a company called Nexttel. At the time that we were looking at it, we saw that this company had a unique technology that was very special for those times where it was not only a cell phone but also walkie-talkie. And everyone was laughing at them. Why would anybody want to walkie-talkie? Just call the guy. This company's not going to last. this company's this, this company's that. Their stock went down from high prices in the 2000s, 1999, and it got down to as low as $3. I did everything I possibly could to get every one of my clients to buy as much of it as possible. I remember one of my clients, his name was uh David Taylor. He's already passed on many years ago. Used to work at a uh major bank with uh under Jamie Diamond. And I called him. I told him to buy more and more. Even though the original purchase that he bought was a little higher price, still you need to buy more. In the beginning of the conversation, he told me, "If I had $3, I wouldn't buy one share." By the end of the call, he bought another 20,000 chairs. But he believed that it was a loser. I explained to him that not only was he wrong, everyone's wrong. And he believed in the argument that I gave him based on different information. And he ended up making a fortune out of it. And so did everybody else when the stock went up over $20 a share. I think it was 25, 26, 28. After that, there was another company that was a subsidiary that again, everyone laughed at because it was a company based out of South America, not exactly a prospering area. I showed him that I found a clause inside a legal document called an SEC filing that guarantees that they will have to be bought out. something that if if you could find that and you have a billion dollars, go borrow another billion and buy that, too. But apparently the market didn't know about it. It was so clear to us that people thought we made it up, especially because of how much people hated it. Well, about a year and a half later, maybe it went up to from I think it was $8 or $6 and eventually got bought up at at 26 and a half. The same thing happened with a company called Price Line. They were buying after the September 11th attacks. People thought I was insane to buy a company that benefits from the airline business that's crashing, that's going out of business. Everyone is wrong. Everyone is wrong. And of course, many left. Bunch of brokers in the office thought I was either going to go to jail or to an insane asylum. But eventually everyone was wrong and the stock went up drastically. I'd say we made a few times our money, but we sold too early because it went up much more. But still the clients made a ton of money towards the end of my career. I had millions and millions of shares of a company the whole world has hated for years. I told my people that were working for me same thing I told my clients. I know everyone hates it. I know it's struggling. I know everything that everybody else knows, but everyone's wrong. One day this will change. I said, "Listen, the stock you started talking about it. It was in the teens. It's $2 right now. The market's crashing. Yeah. Started talking about it then. But right now is when we're buying the position. It's $2. Why? This company is going bankrupt. They would tell me to not go bankrupt. It's impossible for them to go bankrupt. The government will have to bail them out before they go bankrupt. Why? There's only two companies in the entire sector and it's the most important sector in a technological world called semiconductor. company was called AMD after the crisis of 2008 was practically begging people to buy the stock for $2. Some people listened. If they held on to the stock, it's over $100 a share. If I was still in the business, it'd be worth over a billion dollars for me. But again, Hashem didn't keep me in that business. But he showed me that just because everyone is laughing doesn't mean they're right. in the past couple years or year or so, somebody asked me about something and I told them to make an investment, but everybody's laughing. Let them laugh. They're wrong. How do you know? I also do research. I also look at things. I also know a few things. Well, long story short, it went from being what everybody hates to one of the most beloved companies on the planet and a person made pretty substantial fortune. And this has happened multiple times over the years. Not to tell you that everything I ever bought or recommended worked out. That's not possible. but rather to show you that just because everyone is laughing does not mean they're right. The key to success number one is to find out if you're right. Do every analysis you possibly can. Investigate your heart, your mind, your facts. put everything into it until you are certain that you're right. The moment that you find that out, then you can go to step two. But until you're 100% on board that you are right, step two is irrelevant to you. You'll break. Why? Because step two means not only putting everything you have into this, whether it's your Torah learning, your business, your idea, whatever it is. It's not just that. It's doing it with narrow focus where nothing else exists. Nothing else exists. Nothing can change your mind unless it contradicts your information. which means that either you were wrong or you became wrong because something material has changed. But once you analyze a situation to the point where you've concluded that you're 100% know this is right, then you can go step two. Step two is push with no holding back despite the fact that you will be laughed at day in day out. You'll be called crazy. You'll be called a fanatic. You'll be accused of being all types of things until everyone knows you're right. and you get the last laugh. But the last laugh is not enjoyable, believe it or not, because the pain and agony you have to go through until you get to that last laugh, nothing's funny about it. In fact, you have enough experience with winning. Winning itself is not really all that pleasing. It's expected. I knew I was going to win. That's why I continued while everyone was calling me a crazy person and all types of other names. The only thing I regret is I couldn't do more. I couldn't push more. I couldn't learn more. That's the only regret. Now everybody wants to jump on board. but it's too late. The same applies in the world of Torah. For years, we have exposed different people and some people agree, but many do not. We just published a book showing everything we've said and more of why Manis Freedman is a heretic and anyone that listens to him is also a heretic and anyone that follows in his footsteps is a heretic and none of those people will ever have anything other than Gum Cafa and Keville to look forward to. Still, there are many that disagree. Perhaps they'll change their mind after they read the book, but people think this is new. Out of the three works that the Yakim published in his life, although there are many of his chuvot in other people's books, the letters that he wrote them, they used for their books, but he himself published three works. One is the one we published just now or reprinted with commentary on it. Another one is something similar but with different. But the third work, perhaps the one that he's most well known for, is a book completely dedicated, going against someone that was a famous rabbi of the time and saying that he is not only wrong, but he is against the Torah and everything he says is against the Torah. This is not just some average rabbi. We're talking about 30% of the work that is published today from him. Perhaps the most wellrecoognized book that everyone knows them by was solely devoted to go and expose a mistake that everyone thought was right. No, but it's a mistake. Someone asked me today, a new person that started watching my shim, Rabbi, why do you dedicate so much time to going against the cash advance business? So I told him it's because if you watch my film called News in there there's a section about the cash advance business where I bring historical proofs that the proxy behind virtually every pogram or holocaust that Israel has had was lending money with high interest. Call it cash advance. Call it Lone Shark. Call it whatever you want to call it. Cash advance is not a new thing. It's just a new name. All of the anti-semites that were looking for an excuse to kill Jews in mass used the cash advance as a reason to kill Jews. Whether it's in the time of the Romans, the Greeks, the Spanish Inquisition, the disaster that happened in England in 1100s, in Morocco, in Poland, in Germany, Holocaust, every one of these, if you look into the facts, the stuff that most people don't want to look into or don't have time to look into. If you look into the filings into the legal documents that most people don't even know what they're called, you'll find the constant excuse, not justifiable, but needless to say a proxy, an excuse that Amalecch used to justify their murder of Jews. was the mistakes that Jews made by charging high interest with loans they gave to the go to the point where their loans were predatory. This is exactly what's happening now. We've been screaming fire for five or six years against that business. And although Hashem many people have left it, many people have become aware unfortunately the business continues to grow. The industry continues to grow and people continue to literally destroy people's lives while laughing on their way to the bank. And as I told that young man, everything that happened to AmI in the past is what this business is going to bring in the future, which doesn't seem to be too distant from now. So when I see fire, I yell fire even if no one else is paying attention or if everyone else calls me crazy. You see, once you have an absolute certainty of truth, it cannot be undone. Once someone that's blind is able to see for moment for a moment what the sky looks like. Even if he goes back to being blind again, he will never be the same. If he was born blind and for 30 years did not see anything, doesn't know what color is, doesn't know what shape, doesn't know. You tell him blue, red, that has no idea what it is. But if you gave him the ability to see for even a moment and he looked at the sky and then he went back to being blind, his life will never be the same. Because until that point that he saw the truth, his suffering was limited. He didn't know what he was losing out on. Once he saw the truth and it was taken away from him, life becomes unlivable. He can't live with himself. How could I be losing on that? When you are certain of what the truth is in the Torah, it's not a question of whether you're going to fight for it or not. It's not a question of whether the conditions meet your desire or not. Let it rain or shine. Let it be a desert or some type of paradise. It's irrelevant. That's where the truth is. That's where the truth is and I can't live without it. So when a person understands what we're saying here, they can apply it to their life in different aspects. If you're wise enough to succeed in the world of Torah and learning, if you want to succeed, that means Torah has to become the number one priority in your life. The absolute certainty where nothing else compares to it. Not food, not relationships, not physical pleasures. Until you do that, you won't get to your full potential. You may progress here and there like everybody else. Maybe you'll fail, maybe you'll succeed. But if you turn yourself into a desert where there's only one option and the conditions are irrelevant, then it doesn't matter that your family's laughing at you, that you spent all your time learning Tawa. Doesn't matter that your brother and sister and cousins are telling you you're insane for reading books all day and watching lectures. It doesn't matter that everyone is asking your wife, why is she so modest? Why don't she wear clothes like everybody else that's practically no clothes? These things don't become confusions. You're not confused by what people say. They call you crazy. You have no idea what they're talking about. In fact, you feel bad for them for them being the way they are. You don't get angry at people making fun of you. You simply feel bad for them because while you see the sky as blue as a kadosh who made it, they're still blind. So while you see that this person is a heretic, it's irrelevant that someone disagrees with you. You simply feel bad for them for not having the vision. You could try to help them, pray for them, tell them maybe give some on their behalf. Hopefully, they'll have more merits to see the truth. That's the difference between those that succeeded in the world of Torah and those that didn't. Dole Isel did not become giants because of their memory skills or because of who their father was or because they grew up in a religious family or because they had perfect conditions. It's quite the opposite. The more you learn about, the more you realize they literally had every excuse under the sun to justify failure, to justify giving up, to justify being like everybody else, whether it's being orphans at a young age or extreme poverty or or or death of loved ones. All types of horrible things happened to them, but their absolute certainty in the truth of the Torah did not allow them to believe anyone's fairy tales that the sky is not blue. to believe anyone's fairy tales that you don't need to learn Torah, that you don't need to serve Hashem, that you don't need to put everything into it. Because to them, the Torah was more important than air, more important than the oxygen. They're only breathing because they simply they have to for the sake of learning Torah. So when a person wants to succeed in learning Torah, throw out all the conditions. Throw out all those requests where once I have money, then I'll do it. Once I have comfort, then I'll do it. Once I get married, then I'll do it. Once I this, once I have more time, then I'll do it. Once I quit my job, then I'll do it. No, no, it doesn't work that way. If you eliminate one of the struggles, it'll simply be replaced by another struggle. Why? Hashem is putting it in front of you. Choose your struggle. You want to struggle with money, you want to struggle with time, you want to struggle with people, the struggle is there because Hashem puts it there because the struggle is necessary in order for the Torah to come out of you. And if you're waiting for that cup of coffee to be perfectly warm before you start drinking it while you learn to you may become a connoisseur of coffees, but you're never going to become a applies to people that are doing chuva, people that are converting. So long as something else is priority to you over that chuva, over that conversion, then the journey will be unnecessarily difficult. Because as long as you don't believe in the path that you're on to the point where everything is on the line, there is no turning back. There is no other option. There's no way that I can continue living my life the way it is. I have to constantly get closer to Hashem. There's no way that I'm going back. There's no way that I'm staying the same. There's no way that I could I have to keep going forward. I have to keep going forward towards doing chuva more towards converting towards growing as as as a servant of Hashem simply you do not see any other possibility being a viable option for you so long as it's not that then you'll struggle because while the difficulties will exist regardless after all it is the desert. When you're not 100% convinced, when you're not 100% narrow focused, then you create a new struggle for yourself, which is a struggle where you're not sure you're doing the right thing. You're not sure you're going in the right direction, which means that every one of your steps is full of doubts. Every time you pray, you doubt whether you should have prayed or gone to the movies. Every time you do a mitzvah, you doubt whether you should have done that or perhaps hung out with your friends. There's always a doubt and that doubt is Amalik waiting for you to break. The person that's narrow focused, completely certain and sure that doing chuva, that getting closer to Hashem is the only option. Sure, they have difficulties, whether it be financial difficulties, relationship difficulties, all types of difficulties that happen in life, but none of those make them question their path because they're sure they're going in the right direction and they realize that the path has bumps in it. That's the desert. The same concept happens in business in investments. If a person wants to succeed, it's of absolute necessity to arrive at a point of certainty as soon as possible. Sometimes you can't arrive at that point of certainty on day one. Most of the time you can't. But it's paramount for a person to arrive at that point of certainty as soon as possible where nothing would ever put a question in their mind. They've checked out every possible idea, thought, possibility, conflict, rebuttal, whatever there is. And they know for sure this is the way. This is the way for me. This is the path for me. That's where I'm going to put my time, my money, my research, my my efforts, my uh abilities, my everything. And if the situation presents itself and people continue laughing at me, I'll capitalize on it and do even more. Yeah, maybe you're wrong. If that's in your mind, that means you're not certain. If you think maybe you're wrong, that means you did not arrive at a point of certainty. This is something abai that if a person knows how to apply it, it could help them serving Hashem in Torah and mitzvot in learning Torah in business in finding investments in every part of their life. But what most people do instead is they wish for a different circumstance. They wish they could run the world. As one woman came to Moshe Feinstein Shalom looking for permission to wear it seat. Rabbi, can I wear a tit? As Mosha Feinstein said to her, you can if you can meet these two conditions. One, the tit cannot look like the tit for men because you're not allowed as a woman, you're not allowed to wear men's clothes. It's a violation of the Torah. Okay, that's easy enough. Put some sparkles on it, some decorations, maybe. Condition number two, you wearing a tit cannot be as a result of you being unhappy with your circumstance as a woman and wanting to be like the men. Because if that's the reason why you wearing a tit, then you are an apicos, a heretic. Because by thinking that your situation would was supposed to be better if you were a man or you're supposed to be better if you can have the same thing as men or would be better if you lived somebody else's life or would be better if you were born at a different time or would be better if you were born to a different family or would be better if you had his car and her wife and his this and had that. It would be better. That means you think that Hashem makes a mistake. Or worse yet, you think you're smarter than Hashem. Either way, that makes you an AIO. That makes you a heretic. Then at that point, there's no point of you wearing a tit because you're going to get home regardless. And that's what Feinstein said. Many times people want a different circumstance. What if I was born here? What if I was born to a religious family? What if I was smarter? What if I this? What if I that? But you will see battling that same thing wanted everything in the world of Torah and he did not let the stutter that caused him a lot of suffering to stop him from it. And eventually, not only did Hashem allow him to grow in Torah and to grow in teaching Torah, but he literally brought light to the world. Has the biggest kale in the world, biggest in the world, Torah empire that he built. Despite the stutterenu had a stutter, had a stammer, had every excuse under the sun to run away from all of the responsibilities. But he didn't. He didn't. Pensa had perfectly logical excuse not to learn Torah. He's in the Holocaust. People being murdered left and right. He didn't let that excuse even appear in his mind. He studied Torah with such commitment and devotion that he even wrote a sephil during the Holocaust. And we're not talking about seph or of books of uh uh some nice stories about something that happened thousand years ago. We're talking about the highest level of Torah type of had endless struggles, but they did not allow any of those to change the truth that was as clear as the sky to them. Lastly, I would tell you this. The Lublin was well known as and was called the Lublin because he was he had he was able to see from one end of the world to the other and people would come to him with all types of complications. And one day a family comes to him crying saying please rabbi cry pray for such and such was a situation that required to know what to do and lublin told him I'm sorry I cannot I no longer have I gave it back to hashem Why? It's virtually impossible for 99.999% of people throughout all of history to attain. You got it and you gave it back. Why would you do that? He says, "Because I didn't know what to do." People would come to me and cry because someone's dying. So, I'd start praying for him. And as I'm praying, another family would come to me telling me, "Please, Rabbi, my wife, she she's in the middle of labor and the baby won't come out, and if it doesn't come out soon, she's going to die and the baby's going to die. Please pray." So then I would start praying for them and then I would see with that the guy that's they're asking me to pray for him to live instead of die, his soul is supposed to go into that baby, but it can't go into that baby that's supposed to be born until he dies. So who do I pray for? For the guy to stay alive or for the baby to die or for him to come out? So I said, "Hashem, I don't know what to do. You run your world. Take this away from me. Take this from me. The more you understand that you don't understand that Hashem understands that he knows. He's the one that's putting the bump in the road. He's the one that's making the weather difficult in the desert. He's the one that's giving you all of the obstacles because that's the perfect solution for you. And what you need to have is not a different life, not a different situation, rather absolute certainty of the truth that you're willing to put everything on the line for it to the point where it doesn't matter that everyone's laughing at you because you know that in the end only the truth will win and you'll get the laugh at the end, the last laugh, even though it won't be funny because you knew was true the whole time. It's just simply an expectation of the inevitable. This is some of the things, some of the tidbits that we learned from this. It helped you as much as it helps me. And now ask your questions will give us the answers. You know, it took a lot of time and effort to study for this lecture, and every lecture changes my life a little bit, and I hope it does to you as well. If you're enjoying it, please make sure to like, subscribe, and share with people that you care about, people that you know could benefit from it. You may end up changing their life. Thanks again for learning with me, and we'll continue growing together. Now, back to the lecture. What is kavana supposed to feel like? Well, the more focused you are on the prayer and on the purpose and who you're praying to, uh, the more you, you know, the the more connected you are to the words. Now, there is certain things that a person can do. They're called coven. That's not usually for women, but uh that a person can do. And it's in essence it's a um let's just say it's narrowing the mind's eye into a smaller and smaller and more focused point. And if that makes any sense to you, what's the best type of Torah to learn on Shvot? Uh that depends who you are. depends where you stand. I mean the uh if you're part of a Jewish community then usually in the synagogue they'll read a certain portion of each parat throughout the night. Uh certain segment of each one say about each par um if you're not part of a Jewish community uh yet then uh learn whatever is uh most pleasing to you, whatever you like the most, whatever you connect to the most, whatever is going to help you study Torah all night. Bunch of wood. Someone told me that if you don't intend to hear any curses, if you hear one by accident, it doesn't affect your nishama. Uh that's correct. If uh you don't intend to hear it, but it depends what uh you have to make sure that you know that uh you know what you're doing. You're not expecting to hear it either. Meaning if you uh listen to let's say uh rap music that's full of curses uh so you know that there's going to be curses in it. So even if you don't want to listen to those curses since you know with a certainty that you'll hear them then certainly it's not good for you. But if it just happens with uh without you expecting it then yeah. Am I allowed to download books from websites that have free books for download? If it's not allowed, should I get rid of those that I already downloaded? Well, if it's free to download, then yes, they made it free to download for a reason. But if you made it free by cracking some type of code or something, then that's stealing. Then it's a problem. What about reading curses accidentally? Why would you be reading curses accidentally? I mean, what kind of stuff are you reading? I mean, you shouldn't if you're reading newspapers and magazines, then you shouldn't be reading them even if there's no curses in them because they're full of they're full of atheism, heresy, and complete nonsense. So, read better quality uh books and uh things, and you won't have to even worry about reading curses. How do I get hold on the questions are moving. Rabbi, is the book on freedman Freedman available in English? No, it's only in Hebrew. How do I get a Jewish husband, Rabbi? Well, if you are Jewish, then uh you uh shouldn't have uh an impossible time finding a Jewish husband. Just go to the synagogue, meet some more people that uh could help you find a husband. meaning meet more women if you're a woman and meet more men if you're a man and try to see if anyone has a recommendation for you. You can also use a shakan which is Jewish matchmaker. I'm not Jewish. Can I go to synagogue still? No. How do I forgive myself for a mistake? Uh simple. Commit to not repeating the mistake and know that you can't do anything about it since it's already been made. And the only thing that you can do is the best you can today in order to make tomorrow better. There's no point of harping on the past. There's no point of crying over spilled milk. It's already spilled. And the only thing that crying over it and being upset over it is going to do is lead you to make more mistakes. So, it's better to focus on committing to not repeating the same mistake and doing everything possible not to repeat it. Why aren't non-Jews allowed to go to a Jewish synagogue? Well, if it's an Orthodox synagogue, which is the only version of Judaism, that's true. then uh the synagogue is not going to be very welcoming to non-Jews because they would be afraid that uh there's going to be intermarriage and uh assimilation and all types of things that are antithetical to a Jewish life. So if uh if if the non-Jews would come and sit next to the Jews in a synagogue, then within a relatively short period of time, they develop relationships and could end up leading to intermarriage, which is bad for both of them. So if you liked the Judaism so much, then you could convert to Judaism. But uh if you just simply want to uh be next to the Jews, um then uh do it outside of the synagogue, not not at the time that they're serving Hashem, praying, learning. Could do business with them. You could uh you know, befriend them, but there's no reason for for you to be part of their religious uh servitude. What's the difference of praying to God or the Lord or his name mainly in a blessing? uh where there's different uh um ways that Hashem connects to us and each blessing that the uh the great s the sages of the great assembly each one of the blessings they uh they instituted uh they knew exactly which gates in Shamim are open at at which specific times of the day and which specific Specific words are required in order to make specific sounds in order to connect to specific vessels which also includes certain names that uh are utilized for Hashem. And in fact uh the Ramal writes also that the uh the different angels that uh you use their names in different uh teachings and learnings and coven and um and the reason why Hashem allowed this to happen um is not because we're serving the angels or we're praying to the angels or anything like that. is because in essence, Hashem created this world with certain uh uh uh opportunities or certain gates that are opened, certain vessels and in so many words different holy names open different locks. So just just imagine of it that there is a unlimited amount of doors in order to reach different blessings from Hashem. But these doors have all have different keys. Sometimes the key is the traditional blessing. Sometimes the key is a uh you know a blessing that uses the uh a different uh a different uh wording than traditional. Some uh blessings are uh longer, shorter, you know, different times of the day, different times of the year. Is one allowed to wear a very large seat in length up to the middle of the hip or knee or does it need to stop by the hips? Uh, no, you could wear a long tit there's no there's no problem doing it. It's not common, but certainly it's uh um it's it can be done. Sure. There's no prohibition of it. In fact, the uh uh there was a big about the uh um the kan that many uh would wear. There was a of whether uh it had four corners and you have to wear a tit on it, the strings on it. So even though it reaches all the way to the ground, you don't have to put seat on it. Point is that yeah there was certain garments that had tit that were longer but today usually people wear uh tit up to the hips. How to deal with from non-Jews? There's no such thing as from non-Jews. There's only from Jews. And the reason why is because the Jew is obligated to love you. That's one of the inra he's obligated to to love you. So when he hates you uh then already he's violating the Torah and when he hates you for for a uh baseless reason then it's an additional sin of the Torah. The go on the other hand are not obligated to love the Jews. And in fact uh many of them hate the Jews uh since the time of Mount Si. So when they hate you, they're simply doing what they've done throughout most of history. There have been exceptions. There are some non-Jews that love Jews, but for the most part, throughout all of history, non-Jews hated Jews. So there is no such thing as they hate you because they hate you because Hashem uses the the non-Jews uh sometimes as the stick to hit us with in order to remind us that we're different from them. Just imagine that despite the anti-semitism in the world before the Holocaust intermarriage was over 80% in Germany. Jews were marrying Gentiles left and right. Today there is extraordinary anti-semitism and despite that there are many Jews that marry Gentiles. Uh so despite the hatred by extraordinary amount of non-Jews especially as we've seen the last couple of years after October 7th where a lot of hidden Amalik showed their true colors um Jew many Jews still intermar and still uh don't see uh difference between them and non-Jews and uh many times even convert to the religions of the non-Jews. So with all of the hatred and the anti-semitism, look how much intermarriage there still is, which pretty much means that if there wasn't hatred and there wasn't anti-semitism, we'd simply lose all of we'd simply have 100% antimarriage. So that anti-semitism, that hatred, that prejudice is actually a tool that Hashem uses in the world in order to preserve Israel and remind us that we are different from them. And sometimes getting punched in the face uh with that uh with an awful remark by one of your co-workers that that's anti-Semitic is what you needed in order to remember that you are from two different nations. Do you need to follow the Talmud in order to be religious as an Orthodox Jew that you have to know not only to follow the Talmud, you have to know that the Talmud is the oral Torah. We have a written Torah and we have an oral Torah. They're all part of the same thing and you cannot do one without the other. You cannot understand the written Torah without the oral Torah because the details of the of the written Torah are explained in the Talmud. For example, uh God said that if we violate Shabbat 12 places in the Torah, he says that if we violate Shabbat, it's a death penalty. So therefore, we need to know how to not violate it. But if you look in the entire Torah, the Torah, you're not going to find the details of the violations with the exception of fire. But there are many other ways of violating the Torah. So where do you know? So how do we know the details of how to not violate Torah so we don't get a death penalty? Simple. You go to the oral Torah, which is where you have the explanations. This is what's allowed. This is what's not allowed. In so many words, without the Talmud, there would be no Judaism because we would not know how to serve God. And this is actually one of the the uh one of the um biggest uh and clearest uh proofs that Judaism is the truth versus Christianity or you know that that denies the oral Torah because while Christianity says they accept the the written Torah but they reject the oral Torah uh you see that that's uh complete nonsense and a complete uh fallacy because it's not possible to accept the without the oral Torah because you cannot understand the Torah without the oral Torah. So much so that even the ability to read the words is impossible without the oral Torah. Because as I've said this several times over the years that most people don't know in the English language you have a vowel system. You have a, e, i, or u. And sometimes y. So you have a handful of letters that one of those letters at least has to be in every single English word. One of these letters, a A or E or a U or or O or Y. One of these letters has to be in every word. Why? Because they're foundational letters that have to be in every word in the English language. And the same thing goes for other languages. In the Hebrew language, we do not have a vowel system that's comprised of letters. The vowel system that uh uh uh uh that Hebrew has is those dots which is called nikud. That's how we know how to read the words. So for example in English when you want to write the uh the word Moses that Moses spoke to God, right? So you have to use vowels in order to write the word Moses. So you use M O S. So you see in the word Moses you had to use two vowels. You had to use the O and the E. Without the O and the E. All you would have is MSS which changes the word and it turns into miss. So in Hebrew we don't have a vowel system that's comprised of letters but rather of those dots. In order for us to know that this word is Moses, we need those dots. those dots, that nikud, you're not going to find that in the written Torah. If you open a Torah scroll, you'll see there's no dots there. There's no punctuation whatsoever. There's no period. There's no uh uh indication of when the sentence begins or when the sentence ends or how what are the sounds, what are the vowels? The Torah scroll does not have it. So, how do we know how to read? because the oral Torah provided us the vowel system and it told us where to put it in the entire written Torah. Therefore, not only do we have to have the oral Torah in order to understand the laws, we have to have the oral Torah in order to even read the word Moses or any word. And in fact, this is one of the proofs that shows that the Christian beliefs is complete foolishness because they themselves deny the oral Torah while using the oral Torah because that's the only reason why they know how to read the translations of the written Torah because they know they are using the vow system which is part of the oral Torah and the foundation of the oral Torah is the very Talmud that most anti-semites and ignorant people speak against and it's only because they're ignorant of it. But once you understand what's in the Talmud beyond what the anti-semites like to uh uh like to highlight and misrepresent, you realize how fundamental it is to the entire Torah, not just for the Jewish people, but for every religion. Because the Christians and the Muslims also say that they believe in the Torah and that their books are in essence a continuation of the Torah. Now the fact that their books are not a continuation but rather a fabrication is irrelevant and a moot point. Still they both accept the Torah as divine which means it's from God. So that means that once you have a Torah that's from God, but yet you don't know how to read it, then it's useless. So where do you get how do you know how to read it from the oral Torah? Because the oral Torah gave you the vowel system, the punctuation system, tell you where the sentence begins, where it ends, and so on and so forth. So, it's a uh it's it's a it's a beautiful thing when you learn more and more Torah and you realize how clear the truth is because it also makes falsehood like Christianity and Islam and all the other beliefs out there also more clear. The more you know about the truth, the easier it is to identify falsehood. Why is there a minag some sphartics eat on shot? It's not just some sphartics also. And the reason why is because after came down from Mount Sai with the Torah, the Torah had laws of how to slaughter the animals. and Amish is prepared already before Mosher Rabenu came down which means that all of the animals that they prepared that they slaughtered was not in accordance to the law of the Torah which was applicable at that point and therefore all of those animals were deemed non-coosher so they could not have meat and they ate uh they ate uh dairy. This is one of the explanations of why we eat dairy on shot. It's not an obligation to eat dairy on it's simply customary uh to do so but it's both and not just not just what do you know about the god of the Assyrians that he was a another idol false idol and uh I believe if I'm not mistaken um now that may be the pleim No, I'm mistaken. Yeah, either the Pi idol uh or the Assyrian idol was uh after a uh mermaid. Mermaid Serena, but um but a male Serena. But either way, they're all idols. That's bad to lump Islam and Christians together. One is severely idol worshshiping and Satan too. U it's not a matter of compare and contrast. It's if you listen to the entire lecture, you'd understand that when you have the truth and it's as clear as as as the sky is, then everything else is falsehood. So it doesn't matter if this falsehood is uglier than that falsehood where one falsehood is praying to snakes and scorpions and the other one is praying to a man and the other one is praying to mosquitoes and the other one is praying to motorcycles and the other one is praying to rats. It doesn't make a difference. It's all falsehood. It's it all goes in the same basket of falsehood versus the single truth. So it's not necessarily comparing them that they uh they both do the same thing. They're both this both. It's simply everything is falsehood except simple. Is it to stay up all night on? It is a custom. It's not an obligation. Can you explain what it says in the 12b? Whoever sin does a sin and is embarrassed by it is forgiven for the sin. when a person makes a sin and uh then he suffers as a result he's doing chuva he uh you know he's not he's not planning on doing it again and uh it brings him different types of suffering that suffering uh is a is in essence a uh could be a uh to a certain level depends on the sin um wiping off part of the uh payment that he has to pay or punishment that he'll have to suffer for that sin. Is a firefighter, paramedic job good to take in the Jewish world? Uh certainly there is a need for paramedics uh and firefighters. Um is it good? Depends on the person. Depends on uh on um opportunities available. Depends. Do we get a mitzvah by asking these questions even online? Uh, sure. If you're learning Tawa, you're asking questions that you actually want to know the answers for that. Sure, why not? Just learning Tawa. Doesn't matter if you learn Tawa online or in person. Question gets to destination, it gets answered. It's good. Inuk we have a mitzvah of sitting in a suka Passover we eat matzah the four cups um mdash say a story of Egypt what is the main of there isn't a main of there isn't a main of and that's actually one of the things that toil over of why didn't specifically make a mitzvah of like you know I heard once said uh why he just make a mitzvah to eat cheesecake you know we eat dairy anyway often on on this as a custom so why don't they make a special blessing on a cheesecake because Hashem has his uh his ways, his reasons. The reasons for the mitzvot uh are beyond our comprehension and there are certain things that need to be done uh at different times at different to open specific gates in Shim during the holiday of Shabot. It's a uh there isn't a specific mitzvah that's necessary on Shabot aside from the Yumitzvah of keeping Yum. Except that you're allowed to cook if you have pre-existing fire services atone for bez sins that one already did chuva for since they become bish upon chuva. Not to my knowledge. No. No. Not even sure how you got such a connection to be honest with you. Is it okay to learn by yourself with art scroll or must one have a kava? Having art scroll is like having a kava uh but uh it depends also on your ability to learn. But having an art school is like having a kabuta. And if you need further help uh but you don't have a face tof face available to you then there are uh several good rabbis that teach duffi um online that you could watch it while you uh read the duff you could uh also after you finish the duff you could uh watch the uh you know 30 minute video that the rabbi made about in essence to make sure you un understood everything. That's also like having a kava. How is it allowed to turn away a Jew who wants to learn Tawra because they don't have money like in the cases of H and Yakim? If so, why is it allowed to sneak in and learn without paying? Why is that not stealing? So as far as uh turning away somebody because they don't have uh money it depends it depends on the uh uh you know the uh what what what's his rationale behind it there may be limited spaces uh there uh there's a uh uh let's say if there is only 10 seats and one person is paying and the other one doesn't have any money you have to take the one that that is paying uh not because his money makes him better, but rather because you need the money in order to pay rent, in order to survive. It's it's the ways of the world. So, it's not you're not rejecting that person from learning Torah. You're simply, you know, uh not making your particular place to be the only one. He could still learn Torah. He just doesn't have to learn with you. He could learn Torah else. He could read books on his own. Now, as far as the uh Hel or uh or the young listening in on the uh no, it's not uh it's not stealing. Hel was on the roof. So therefore, he was not occupying the space that required money and the also was not taking up one of the seats. Uh and therefore it was uh like uh doing benefiting from someone uh without them losing. There's a uh concept of benefiting from something that someone has without them losing. Uh that uh at times is permitted, at times uh uh not depending. But the point is is that uh they no it's not considered stealing what they did. What makes our hearts more capable of loving God and others? The more you invest into something, meaning the more effort you invest into something, the more you're going to love it. The reason why a mother loves her kids typically more than the father is because a mother typically invests more of her efforts into raising the children. Aside from the fact that they used to be part of her body and she gave birth to them even later on in life. The uh the mother is typically more connected to the children uh than the father is because she invests more of her efforts into raising them, into feeding them, bathing them, cleaning them, crying with them. uh crying about them and so on. So the uh the more you invest into something, the more you're going to care about it. In so many words, if you want to love God more, then invest more into the relationship you have with him, uh pray to him more, speak to him more, do more of what he says, and the more you'll do, the more you will uh uh fall in love with God, uh because the more you'll you'll feel connected to him. Uh the same goes with uh other people. The more uh you help other people, the more you'll care about them. Can single people say the prayer for parents onesh? Sure, why not? You could pray for your parents every day. Is it true that Mashiach has to come within the next 20 years maximum based on calculations? I believe I heard this from Rai. Uh has to come. No, nothing has to happen. Uh likely to come. Sure. Possible to come for sure. Has to. No. Hashem is not subject to any rule whatsoever that we have in our minds. He can do whatever he wants. He could do whatever he wants. There's no no one can tell God what to do. In fact, even Moshe Rabenu asked God specific questions of why he rewards he he uh he gives uh benefits to uh the wicked at times and uh hardship to the uh uh to the righteous. And Hashem gave him seven different reasons. But the seventh reason is I'll do whatever I want. In so many words, Hashem was telling him it's beyond human comprehension. and I will do what I do without having to explain everything that I have to do. So anyone that tells you that something has to be where God has to do something uh then you have to uh um qualify that you have to qualify that. So I don't think I again I I haven't heard Ra Misrai uh say that uh but uh you could ask him does it have to happen guarantee like God has to do it or you really saying it's just really likely it would happen or it's really possible it would happen but doesn't have to happen so a uh there's a uh a big difference between the two big difference between the two and I'm sure that Rami will say no it does not have to It can, it should, it could, it's likely even, but it doesn't have to happen because God does not have to is not subject to our rules. We're subject to his Can you make it to Allah but not be resurrected by but not be resurrected by the dead? And if so, where would the soul be during those thousand years? Yes, there are plenty of people that uh have no uh merit to be resurrected with the dead, but will still eventually go to and during those thousand years, it depends on the soul. It could be that it's in gay. It could be that it's in Kafka, uh that it has to clean up the filth it gathered before it goes to Lamba. Uh it could be it's even in a lower heaven, but it doesn't have a merit to go to Lamba. In fact, says on the uh um Chevet Ben I believe it was that left Egypt prematurely. Uh and then they were the ones that uh Ezekiel resurrected in a desert when you know the the the dry bones story of the dry bones. Who were those people? Those were the Jews that left Egypt before Mosher Rabenu. before Mosher Rabenu came uh and uh they got killed uh because it wasn't time and uh explains uh that uh there was about uh 970 years between Moshe Rabenu the time they left and Ezekiel and throughout that entire time those souls were in Kafka because they uh they put a definitive statement of when the salvation will come. It's like saying the mashiach has to come at this specific date. That's a violation of the can't say anything like that. Can't say anything like that. Can't can't put timing on on on that because that in essence subjects God to our laws. There is no such thing. So they suffered nearly a thousand years in uh for uh for doing that. This is I've converted in my heart long ago and only want Hashem to take me deeper and level up my soul to its highest state. His glory and face is okay. I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm sorry. What is the AI app? Do we Oh, AI Rabbi. AI rabbi.org.org. You go to the uh app and you go to the website AI rabbi uh.org or you could just type AI rabbi on your phone uh app store and uh you could download the uh the app over there. You'll get a few questions for free and then after that you'll have to become a paid subscriber. I could assure you it's a million times better than uh chat GPT or your internet all the stuff that you'll find randomly uh out there because it not only uses Torah sources that are reliable but it provides them to you as well. Am I allowed to enter a church for a parents funeral? If you're Jewish, no. If you're not Jewish, why are big Tadikim not talking about wigs and modesty like they should? How do you know what big Tadikim are talking about? Do you listen to everything they say? Do you read all their books? Does spilling seed make you physically and mentally very weak? If so, why? Yes, it does. I have an entire uh series of lectures about it. There's actually one lecture that I did about um I'd say close to eight nine years ago that gives a um uh proofs from books that were in over a hundred years ago and before uh of the different medical uh issues it creates, health issues that it creates. Uh so you can watch those lectures. I believe if you just go to my YouTube channel, you type in the words wasting seed and you watch the longer lectures, not the clips that are 5 10 minutes, but rather the longer ones that are an hour or more. Over there, you'll find a uh endless amount of information. Each one is different from the next. And some of it contain contains uh medical uh uh uh information that you're interested in. It's called wasting seed. Go to my uh YouTube page, Rabbi Yuron Ruven, go to the search, type in the words wasting seed, and you there's a whole playlist probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 150 200 lectures I've done about the topic if not more. Is it true that only 20% of Jews will be saved when Msiah comes? based on what we say in Kadusha and Musaf only 20% left Egypt. So as far as how many people left Egypt, there's different opinions. On the conservative end, 20% left Egypt, 80% died in Egypt. On more aggressive end, uh much less than that left Egypt. In fact, in the Miam Lues, he says one out of every 500,000 left Egypt, meaning that it's 2% left Egypt. Um, and uh, the final uh, salvation uh, we're hoping it's going to be much better than that. If mashia came today then certainly it would be a disaster because unfortunately uh many Jews do not keep to and therefore they will not survive they will not be rewarded. Quite the opposite. The reason of why I do what I do for the last decade and why Rabb Fry does what he does and the shim and the lectures and the uh books and the USBs and working for free non-stop around the clock is to change that percentage to help as many people as possible dom um couple days ago uh my uh my dear mother left me a uh a message uh as excited as can be her. She said uh she walked into a store and there was a uh a group of young uh young guys religious and she always carries either one of my books or USB or something. Uh she likes to give it to people to do kiruv and uh she uh I believe she gave him one of the books. She says you know my son and uh as soon as they saw the picture on the book they all started like jumping around. Wow wow you know you're his mother. Wow wow wow. And then she was happy to see it. But then they explained why they're so excited. Says, "All five of us did Chuva because of him. All five of us read the book. All five of us uh did Chuva because of this book." So and they watch also, but I think it all started with the bookm. So uh that uh is a big uh big win. five special nishes that are on the path to Gan Eden that are gonna sanctify Kadosh Baku's name uh have religious families are going to do mitzvot for generation after generation till Msiah comes are from someone that invested into putting that book somewhere and those uh guys picked up the book read the book and decide to transform the rest of their lives because of it five guys five people mean five it's five families five grandkids uh sec next generation next generation next gener you know this is this is an endless amount if if says it's worth it to spend an entire life of 70 years to try to make one Jew do one Jew it's worth it to spend 24 hours a day running around the chasing after one Jew trying to convince him to do chuva to start keeping Shabbat to start keeping mitzvot one Jew if you and you succeed after 70 years finally the day before you die you succeeded you got the guy to start keeping it was worth it for you to live that whole life was worth it just for that one so here you have a group of five guys wanted to make my dear mother very happy and of course me happy as well. But uh it's certainly a special experience for a mother to see the the fruits that come out of all of this. And it never gets old. There's always more and there's always it's always exciting. That's extra happy gift to see come into a store happens to be five ballet chuva all from the same book written in Hebrew that these guys read in is in in America and all of them changed their life and transformed their life because of this book. It's unbelievable. But by the way, I don't know who these five guys are, but if they're watching, thank you for number one doing chuva, learning to with us, making my dear mother happy bless you guys. Continue serving full force. Sanctify's name and please return the favor by getting other people to get our to to to read our books and to and get some books from the store and distribute them in your community. It worked for you guys. Transform your lives. The least you could do is help other people. We have uh look what the question he just asked. If only 20% of are going to survive. We don't want only 20% of this much more. Help us. You guys benefit from these shim. The least everyone that's watching these and benefiting from them. The least you can do is share these lectures and go to the Kiru store, get yourself some books and distribute in your Jewish community. That's the least you can do. If you could do more by donating, by all means. But the least everyone that watches the lectures can do is do kiru and distribute these books in the Jewish community. Why? Because if you benefited from them, it transformed your life. Now you're keeping Shabbat. Now you're keeping family purity. Now you're eating kosher. Now you're learning to as a result of these lectures. The least you can do is help other people do benefit the same way you did. So that's uh that's that's an important thing for people to to to help. And the people that already gave the books, don't think that you're finished just because you gave a bunch of books. Some people tell me, "Listen, I gave a few cards or I gave you a few books. Am I finished? I'm done." No. As soon as you finish, get more. When am I finished? When your life finishes. When your life finishes, then you're finished. As long as you're in this world, you have to do as much as you possibly can to get Amishai closer to Hashem. give more give more of the books, more of the USBs, especially since it's free. It's free. I don't know. I wish I wish I had stuff free for me to give out uh when I was uh first starting out. When I first started out, I had to go buy from different uh uh rabbis and organizations the stuff that I would give out to people. Uh you guys have it for free. It's unbelievable to me that uh some people are not smart enough to literally uh order, give out, order, give out, order, give out. Now, some of you guys uh sometimes order more than you can handle. So, order, give out, order more again. You know, it's it's important because if you order the books and you don't give them out, then it's a problem. Then it's a problem. Why? Because then you've wasted our resources uh for nothing. We could have used those resources to give those books to somebody else to distribute. Plus, we paid shipping. Each box cost 40, $50, $60 to ship just in in in in America. Needless to say, if we have to ship it uh to different countries, people don't understand that it cost a fortune. A fortune to publish every book. People say, "Oh, yeah. Can you uh translate this book to English and that book to English?" You guys don't understand how much it costs to publish these books. Each book cost 100,000 plus. Each book. Each book. One book. one book over $100,000 per book depending on how many copies. People don't understand that you have the editors, you have uh the uh uh graphics, you have a uh uh the printing shipping taxes, just taxes taxes to ship the books to to Israel, for example, is 17 and a half% of the cost. So, if I bought $100,000 worth of books, for me to take those $100,000 worth of books and get them to Israel, for example, I have to pay $17,500 to Israel in taxes, plus shipping, which 10, 20, 30, $40,000 depending on how how heavy everything is. It's not uh you know in in to ship it to America is less in taxes but not less in shipping. So the cost is enormous. And this is just shipping it to the warehouse. After shipping it to the warehouse, it's shipping the boxes to all of you all over the place. Each box is anywhere between 27 to 40. We send it UPS. Average cost is anywhere between 35 to $65 per box. So you ordered 10 boxes. Let's say you ordered 10 boxes over a period of time. You got 10 boxes. Just the shipping costs, just the shipping cost to get you the stuff is somewhere in the neighborhood of $500. Now if you calculate the cost of the books talking about huge investments huge investments but people don't understand it. Sometimes people think oh listen I uh you know I'll do what I can you know and and in reality they don't they don't understand how much they are benefiting from the organization. Go to any rabbi any rabbi and see how many books he's going to give you for free. For free. Go any rabbi. Go to any rabbi. Go, go tell, rabbi, listen, can I have uh 200 books for free? Okay, why? What do I uh steal my money? Why would I give you 200 books for free? No, I'll give them out. Okay, pay for them and then you could give them out. No, no, you pay for them and I'll give them out. Why? Nobody does what we did. Nobody gave 300,000 books for free like we did in the last few years or pretty much ever. 300. I'm not talking about 300 pamphlets. Talking about 300 hard coverver books, hard coverver books. But that's the thing. If people understood the value of what we're providing, literally they would take money from their stock market, Bitcoin market, real estate market, retirement market, non-retirement, every investment they would take some of it and start investing into. Why? Because literally the amount of benefit that we provide to the public for the sake of amad, for the sake of amad getting close to Hashem is endless. There's no there's no limit to how much sacrifice we're willing to make. And when we're asking people to donate, it's not to enrich ourselves. It's so we can do more for you. So at the very least, a person should contribute what they have. If they have money, contribute money. If they don't have money, at least they have time. They live in a Jewish community. Take some of that time and give some books in your community. You go to shul, there's 10 people show up to prayer, give each one of them a copy. There's a another shoo down the street, another 10 copies. There's a bigger sh that has 30, 40 people. Here's 30. Don't just uh do nothing out there and expect to go to Ganeden. Don't do nothing and expect to go to Gheden. Guneden is not for free. Lot of sacrifice is required. Lot of sacrifice. Okay. Thank you very much for learning with me. Shem bless each and every single one of you that's learning and applying these lessons to your life, especially those that support and help us do all the wonderful things the organization is doing. Please make sure to share this lecture, subscribe, uh donate if you can on our website, bzantashem.org, Subscribe to the AI Rabbi. Order some books for free so you can distribute in your community. Do all of this stuff. Apply some of this stuff and don't just make this a uh a YouTube video that uh simply occupy two hours of your life but had no impact whatsoever. 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