BESHALACH: The Long Hard Way or Shortcut to Dead End| STUMP THE RABBI (259)

[music] [singing] I don't [music] got much. [music] It's no shame. I don't know. >> [music] >> We're back here on our Wednesday night. Stump the rabbi where after some you guys will ask some questions and will give us the answers. Tonight's is going to be for theat of my dear grandparents and also for the benitim and all of Isra and all the righteous Noahides that continue to support the organization, continue to learn with us and Big yes again to all of those that are actually taking advantage of this opportunity to do tikunet. Anyone that wants to do tikunit h you can go to tkunablit.live tkunablit.live and uh over there you'll be able to uh do one 2 10 a thousand tikun whatever you want to do but most importantly it's not just the donations it's also the learning. So I highly recommend people go to our website bzadashem.org and download this interactive PDF called Tikun, the guide to Tikunit. 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And uh you can get one of these or two of them. It comes in packs of two uh or you can get four if you want and if you have more than one car by going to our K roof store krooftore uh uh or uh or koftore.com and uh over there you'll be able to get these magnets and of course the USBs and the books for freem uh and I know I just said last but not least but also those of you that have kaleim in your community you should also get some of the new books that we have from the are specifically catered for Torah scholars. So with that being said, we have a very interesting sh ahead of us uh and to see how gave us lessons over 3,300 years ago that are as relevant to you today as ever. First and foremost, we have to understand the reality we're in. The reality that we're in is that we are in what we call the instant gratification generation. Everyone wants everything instantly. Tik Tok, you know, the the social media, AI, everything is geared towards instant gratification. And therefore, it's not a surprise that the vast majority, if not almost everyone, uh, that's part of society usually chooses the shortcuts. Shortcuts to get somewhere, shortcuts to do certain deals, shortcuts to conduct business, shortcuts to praying, shortcuts to everything. But is the shortcut really a shortcut or does it lead to a dead end? because the other direction is long and hard and no one really wants to go on a long hard path. But yet we seen right in the beginning that Hashem chooses the long hard way for Am to journey through the desert in order to avoid war. Yet the Torah tells us that AmI is left Egypt armed. Why? If they're armed for war, then why are we avoiding war? In life, we also prepare for a lot of different wars, a lot of different events, months, years at a time sometimes, only to find out later on that Hashem chose a different way. In so many words, the preparation, whether mental, physical, or otherwise, was a waste of time. Through the verses and some stories from past history, we'll actually find out some things from the parad that are going to help us not only understand why our past was the way it was, but also how we could prepare to be better prepared for the future. This will be followed by the questions and answers that I know all of you love to do, love to ask very much. So we have it starts off in chapter 13 of the book of Exodus and happened when sent out the people that God did not lead uh did not lead them the by way of the land of the pleim because it was near for God said perhaps the people will reconsider when they see war and they will return to Egypt. So this is exactly as we talked about where they're leaving Egypt and God decides to lead them on a different path because if they go on the shorter path, they'll run into the pleim which will certainly get into a war with them because they're defending their land. But yet just the next verse, it says the children of Israel were armed when they went up from Egypt. Now, of course, we know that Kamushim doesn't only mean armed. It's also a hint to the fact that only 20% or less of the Israelites actually survived Egypt. The rest of them, Hashem killed them in Egypt during the darkness plague because they were not prepared to leave Egypt. They wanted to stay there. But he did not want the Egyptians to see him killing the uh the Israelites and therefore he buried them instantly during the darkness plague when the Egyptians were too busy suffering the plague themselves. But nonetheless, the Exodus came, the salvation came. And you would think that now that the salvation has come, theoretically speaking, it should come full force. We should get to Israel right away. But Hashem says, "No, if you go to a short way, you're going to get into a war." Yeah, but we're armed. Exactly. because you're armed, I don't want you to go to war. But then we see later on at the end of the para that Am gets into a war anyway, just not with the team. They get into a war with Amalik. So needless to say, a war happened anyway. What's the message? Sees what's in our hearts. This is one of the 13 principles of our faith. The Rambam says a person that does not believe that has no share of the God of Israel. Hashem knows what's in our hearts. And he actually shows it in this verse that he already knows that if the people of Israel will go to war with the pleim, they will want to return to Egypt. He already knows what's in their heart. He already knows the future because he is everywhere, which means the past, the present, and the future are all the same thing to him. and therefore he chooses the long hard way. But then we ask, why are we afraid of war? Number one, we're going to get into a war anyway with Amale, which is a much more vicious army anyway. And number two, why not get into war with if we're already armed? Why don't you just tell Amisan not to get armed? We see a who gives us free choice. Free choice to get armed or not. Free choice to carry a gun or not. Free choice to spend all of your time preparing for the end and free choice to choose to believe in him. But since this was the salvation knew that although is armed and looked like they were prepared for war, they thought they were prepared for war. He knew that their spiritual status was insufficient and therefore if a war would happen at this moment they would not succeed they would lose. They would be intimidated and they would run away back to Egypt back to slavery. Sometimes in life we feel like we're prepared to deal with the big issues. We're prepared to make a big purchase. We're prepared to, you know, do something big. And we do all types of thinking and planning for months, years sometimes, sometimes just hours. You prepare a conversation you plan on having with your boss, with your colleague, with your partner only to find out that it never happens. You already prepared a whole discussion, a whole argument of how you're going to say one thing and then he's going to respond another way and then you're going to say something else and you already you already won the debate by the time you got there. But then you find out that the other party is not even arguing with you. In fact, the argument was only in your head. The war was only in your head. The salvation came in a different way. We feel like we're prepared, but who knows whether we really are or not. But why wasn't Isel prepared? Why was an army is prepared? Because still felt like unfortunately most people feel today my power, my hand, my strength. If you are going to rely on your strength, on your IDF, on your army, on your bombs, on your money, on your political corrections, uh political connections, you have no chance of winning. Why decides who wins and loses? It has nothing to do with any of those factors. And because this is the salvation, this is the one time Hashem says, "I will help you make the right choice." Because your natural inclination would be to make the wrong choice, which is to go the easy way because you think you're prepared for war. But I know you're not. I know you're not. In fact, the ultimate goal of this stage of the salvation was for to teach to believe in him and nothing else. To believe in him and his power and his salvation and nothing else. And therefore, after taking them on the what seemed like the short path, we see that things get hectic when they get to Yamsuf because Po has changed his mind and has convinced all of his people to go and follow him. How did he convince them? The Egyptians realized that not only had they just lost their slaves that were the only way to rebuild that country that was destroyed over the past year, but they also lost all of their money because they gave it to the Jews when they left. But now they realize, hey, gold is 5,200 an ounce. What are we going to do? How are we going to pay for rebuilding the country? says, "Let's go get them. Let's go get those slaves and bring them back." Yeah, but God's with them. Listen, don't worry about God. Why? There's an idol that's still alive. Apparently, that's a symbol that he's more powerful. And if you want me to show you how confident I am, I'm bringing all of my gold with me. And after we win, WE SPLIT EVERYTHING. NOT only you going to have your old gold back, but you also have a peace of mind. P makes a deal of a lifetime for these people. They can't say no. And they start going and they catch up. When sees this, they're petrified and they were frightened. The children of Israel cried to Hashem. Interestingly, the says this is not just fear because fear they dealt with already for the last couple of hundred years. Here it says They were very frightened. Why were they very frightened? Number one, they know what the Egyptians can do. I mean, they lived with them for the last couple hundred years. And number two, hey, after all, they were armed. When you were in Egypt, you weren't armed, SO MAYBE YOU COULD FIGHT BACK. NO, says the no. No, they were afraid. Why? Because they didn't just see the Egyptians. [snorts] They saw Mit. They saw that the angel of Egypt, his name is Mitim, is also coming WITH THEM. THEY SAW THE actual angel. And therefore, they concluded with their own logic that, well, what's an angel doing with the Egyptians? They're wicked. It must be that Hashem changed his mind. It must be that God abandoned us because the angels are with the Egyptians now. And therefore terror struck their heart. But the question is why is Hashem doing this? Why is Hashem doing this? Because the goal is to bring them to Amuna. How could scaring them to death with a huge angel that could destroy everyone in an instant, an army that's massive and already known to kill Jews just for fun, all chasing them? Why do all this? Why bring what seems like a holocaust? Because I want to teach you, says in verse number 13 in chapter 14, Moshe says to the people, "Do not fear. Stand fast and see the salvation of Hashem that he will perform for you today. For as you have seen Egypt today, you shall not see them ever again. And then my favorite verse verse that I say every day for my name where it starts with the first name, the first letter of my name and ends with the last letter of my name. Hashem shall fight the war for you and you shall remain silent. Why is Hashem doing all of this? Says because he wants to show you that only he wins wars. Doesn't matter if you're armed. It doesn't matter if you just bought billions of dollars worth of jets. It doesn't matter if you have a lot of gold. It doesn't matter if you're smart. It doesn't matter if you want to win. You believe in yourself. None of that matter. Only Hashem decides who wins the wars. And he wants to show you this because this is the salvation. And in order for you to see that salvation, you have to show you believe in him before he even does anything. Because when people are screaming, petrified prays to Hashem. Moshe is screaming to Hashem. Hem says to Moshe, "Why do you cry out to me? Speak to the children of Israel and let them journey forth." Meaning, you just told them, "I'm going to bring them to salvation. Let them move forward to show that they actually believe that I will bring them to salvation." This is the long hard path, [snorts] but it's the one that's going to bring salvation. The short path is going to bring failure because the short path relies on your skills. The short path relies on your knowledge. The short path relies on your ability. The short path relies on The more you believe in your own abilities, the less Hashem will help you intentionally in order to get you to go to the path that's full of success. Even though your path looks like it's short, it's a shortcut, it ends up being a dead end. It ends up being a dead end when shows that they believe in Hashem first by having of the tribe of Yuda where from him comes Msiach going to the water to the point where he's literally drowning. But he knows that Hashem wants him to go this way. Doesn't make sense to go back. That's where the Egyptians are. doesn't make sense to go right or left because there's huge scorpions and giant snakes in both directions. The only direction is forward into an ocean where nobody knows how to swim in. After Nashon does this, others follow him and Hashem splits the splits the sea. And the Torah tells us after the Egyptians follow and then end up being destroyed. Israel saw the Egyptians dead at the seashore. Israel saw the great hand that Hashem inflicted upon Egypt and the people revered Hashem and they had faith in Hashem and in Moshe his servant. Here we see the path of how gave us a map of how a person can go from the journey that depends on their own abilities on their own talents on their own and replace that with the hand of Hashem. How? First is saw they saw the great hand of Hashem. They realized only Hashem wins wars. Only Hashem can get me this job. Only Hashem can find me the perfect zeug. Only Hashem will decide if I'm going to have a kid or not or more kids. Only Hashem is going to decide whether I will succeed or fail. Only Hashem, not me, not my ability, not my contacts, NOT MY KNOWLEDGE, nothing else. Only Hashem can decide it. First a person has to see the great hand of Hashem. The moment that you know that you're seeing the hand of Hashem and not your own abilities, what happens naturally? And the people revered Hashem. Naturally, you become scared of Hashem. Why? He's all powerful. He knows my thoughts. He knows my feelings. He knows the future. He knows THE PAST. HE KNOWS EVERYTHING. He's all powerful. He's almighty. So, of course, I'm going to be scared. Anyone that tells you he's not scared of God is either an idi atheist or an idiot. Why? Because if you understand how extraordinary, glorious, mighty a kadosh is, of course, you're going to be afraid. Afraid of punishment, afraid of of disconnect, afraid of everything. There's levels of fear, but if you don't see the hand of Hashem in your life, then of course you're not going to be afraid. So the first stage is to see the hand of Hashem. See how he's in charge of everything. Then you'll have fear of Hashem. And if you have that fear of Hashem, then it says, "And they had faith in Hashem and Moshe servant. Then you will have real faith, real am in Hashem and in his servants without having an understanding that rules everything, decides everything. And as the says everything is from heaven except the fear of heaven. Success or failure is decided by heaven. Decided by Hashem. The only thing you decide is whether you fear Hashem or not. Meaning whether you will follow his Toras or not. And how do we know that that's what Hashem wants from us? Because that's what he says. As soon as crosses the sea, they sing. But the celebration is not very longived. As we see in chapter 15 verse number 24, the people complained. What are they complaining about? What are we going to drink already? You're complaining. Didn't you just see that Hashem made miracles upon miracles? destroyed your enemy, split the ocean, made the path perfect, brought you fruit trees within the ocean. I mean, you didn't see. So, obviously, he give you water. He give you something to drink. Complained, short-term memory. Instant gratification. Instant gratification. That's what people want. And Abenu teaches them what does want from us? before he gives him the water, he cries out to Hashem. He cried out to Hashem and Hashem showed him a tree. He threw it into the water and the water became sweet. There, Hashem established for the nation a decree and an ordinance and there he tested it. There he started giving them mitzvot the mitzvah of the red heer the mitzvah of Shabbat. Here is another place where we see that the oral Torah existed before the written Torah or was given to us before the written Torah. Unlike what fools think that the oral Torah is man-made and irrelevant and so on and so forth, we see that before Mount Si, Hashem gives us decrees and ordinances. He gives us the MITZVAH OF SHABBAT. HOW do we know this Shabbat for sure? Because later on in this parenu tells us we have to keep Shabbat and not go collecting for the mana on Shabbat. If he didn't give us the Shabbat then why you mentioning Shabbat that how are we supposed to know what that is? So we realize we see that Shabbat was already given to them well before the mana well before Mount Sai is already knew that expects them to follow the Torah and if you follow the Torah all of the ailments ments. All of the sicknesses that I gave on I put upon Egypt I will not bring upon you for I am Hashem your healer. Now of course Am is happy with this but again just like the salvation that a person gets whether he got a raise he made a lot of money in the investments he did something good before he made the money before he got the job he said Hashem listen you make this success and this $5,000 turns to a h 100,000 turns to 50,000 goes makes any profit definitely going to publicize Tua. Well, guess what? The 5,000 the 50,000 turns into a million dollars. And the person says, "No, you know what? I need to pay off [snorts] my kids uh tuition and also I want to go on vacation. Plus, we have some old debt I need to pay off. Plus, I need to make a new investment to make the money grow. All of a sudden, publicizing the Torah is not as important. I'll publicize Torah with uh when I get a chance or with small money. With the big money, no, that's only for that's only for big things. Big things like for me. That's what happened with here. is gets the salvation, GETS SWEET WATER, GETS MITZVOT, but only a few verses later in chapter 16, verse number two, the entire assembly of the children of Israel complained against Moshe and why now we need food. Yeah, but I gave you the first salvation. I turned your investment and it worked out. I gave you the job. You got the raise. Yeah, but now I need a promotion. NOW I NEED THE NEXT INVESTMENT TO WORK. NOW I NEED another kid. I know you gave me one kid, but I'm not going to be happy with one kid. I need a second one. I know you gave me a wife, but now I need kids. I know you gave me a husband, but now I need uh, you know, a rich husband. I need my husband to be rich. And we complain again as if Hashem did not bring us to salvation. And that's what happened. And that's what's happening. And again, Hashem says that he's testing us to see whether they will follow my Toras or not. Again, mentioning plural as teachings, plural, not singular. gets the manu hasenu remind everybody observing Shabbat shows that you believe that God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh which in today's language means the money that you made throughout the whole week is because you kept Shabbat not because you're a good businessman. Not because gold prices and diamond prices and all the different commodities went in your direction that you wanted to go. Not because you are a good marketer, not because you're a studious lawyer. No, no. The reason why Hashem gave you what he gave you is because you had a blessing of Shabbat. Now, a person says, "Well, I don't keep SHABBAT OR THIS GUY DOESN'T keep Shabbat, BUT HE STILL has a lot of money." Exactly. You see what Hashem gives him is with when he doesn't keep Shabbat is only a fraction of what he would have gotten had he kept Shabbat. And in fact, when Hashem gives you money, Hashem gives you as a result of you keeping Shabbat, it's blessed money. Whereas the money you make by working on Shabbat, it's always cursed money. It's always cursed money. It's always money you're gonna spend on law lawyers. It's always money you're gonna spend on medical bills. It's always money that you're gonna end up losing. Just like some people are losing money today, literally in two seconds. There was a report that just came out. Thousands of people thousands of people in America in the last year lost literally almost every penny they have just simply because of a text message. How they get a text message from their bank, the bank they know. They call the bank because the text message says, "Did you just wire $4,500?" And they didn't. So, they will call the bank to see it's fraud or something. and they call the number they know, not realizing that the hackers actually took over the call. They called the hackers instead of their bank and in the process gave the hackers all the information they needed to completely wipe out their bank accounts. Hundreds of thousands and in some cases millions of dollars disappeared IN AN INSTANT. NOT BY, you know, uh, falling for a trap of somebody telling you, "Oh, send your money to this one. I'll protect it for you." Which is a very common scam. We're talking about people being scammed by what seems like their bank, but it's not their bank. Why? Wants to show everyone who runs the world. You can save, you can prepare, you could invest, but if Hashem doesn't want to give you the blessing, just like that, it's gone. You could save for years. For years, you could save, but without having the blessings, you could only look at the money in your account. It's there. your hundred thousand, your million dollars, your $5 million, $10 million. It's there. It's on a screen. Makes you feel good. But one day, you're gonna want to use it. And guess what? Right before that happens, gone. How? There's literally endless ways, as we see today, happening to people. Lawsuits, thefts, scams, all divorces, all types of things. is reminding us he's the one that provides the resources and he's the one that's going to either stamp it with a blessing or not. Now we see that Mosherenu is different from everyone else. Why? At the end of the para after the war with Amalecch, Moshe Abenu brings a sacrifice and also tells everyone the way we're going to win this war against Amalik that's vicious, that's not defending any land. In fact, they travel thousands OF MILES JUST TO FIGHT us because this is the fight of good versus evil. We're only going to win this war if we have. And that's why in chapter 17 verse number 13 it says and he remained with his hands in faithful prayer until sunset. And later on he brings us the sacrifice and he calls it. He called this sacrifice Hashem is my miracle. Hashem is my miracle. Moshe as the leader is leading by example. This is the job of each and every single person to lead whether it's their community or it's their family to lead with amuna. But that amuna starts with understanding that is the one that gives the blessings or takes them away. When a person has real ambing is a given. It's of course I have to using your resources to publicize as much Torah as possible to help people do chuva is the number one investment you have. Why? Because you know where 100% of the money comes from. Therefore, to give 10 or 20% of the money to publicize Hashem's name and to help more people understand the same thing, of course, it's it's it's a that's a discount. But sometimes people forget. People forget and they end up losing the blessing and usually they come crying says listen rabbi I used to have blessing and uh I stopped donating to you and uh apparently the blessing is gone. Can you pray for me? Khabibi, you lost a blessing with your own hands. What's a prayer for me going to do for you? Your actions brought the blessings. Your actions took away the blessings. You want to change it, change your actions. That's the way. But sometimes people don't have patience. They figure, look, listen, if I'm going to donate, I'm going to get SOME RESULTS NOW, THIS YEAR, THIS MONTH. And guess what? Hashem gives you results. He brings you the salvation, but it's a different path than you think you wanted. HE ACTUALLY BROUGHT YOU THE SALVATION. HE BROKE UP THE SHID BECAUSE IF you would have GOT MARRIED WITH THAT PERSON, YOU WOULD have gotten divorced and suffered for the rest of your life. HE GOT YOU FIRED FROM THAT JOB. THAT WAS THE SALVATION. WHY? BECAUSE AS A RESULT OF THAT, YOU'LL end up opening up your own business and make a whole lot more money and have a lot more success and be more Torah observant as a result. SO, HE BROUGHT YOU THE SALVATION. HE BROUGHT YOU THE MIRACLE, but you don't see it that way because it didn't match your logic. The mistake that people make is they think they can not only narrate what's the right path, but when the salvation is supposed to come and how it's supposed to be. shows a lack of Hashem, a lack of understanding of our role. But there were some people that understood how they're supposed to lead, how they're supposed to follow, how they're supposed to play their role. Rabbi Ui Lupanski from that I spoke about who just passed away in the last few weeks was one of those people that constantly had Hashem on his mind and he did everything he possibly could to publicize Tawa and use whatever resources Hashem gave him to help the Jewish world. One day he met a kabad that had a uh family member, a brother-in-law that was the rabbi in uh in Georgia, the country Georgia, which is a ka that Ra Pansky invested a lot into, years into when they immigrated to Isra. Israel theim. So Rabbi Uri asked them, "How are they doing over there in Georgia?" And the said to them, "No, not so good." Why not? says, "Because they just got a new prime minister by the name of Mikash Silash, who apparently was anti-Semitic and did not want the Jewish people to have religious freedom." Without skipping a beat, Rabbi Uri said, "No worries. I'll take care of it. Okay. Most people would say, "Oh, I'll pray for them. Oh, I'll, you know, see if I could do something, but move on with their life. They're so busy with so many other things." But Rabbi, you already know. Right away, he placed the call. Being a mayor from Israel, they respected where the call came from. and he wanted to get the prime minister Mik Sakville on the phone. when he got him on the phone, oh I wanted to call you because um we are having an event here in Jerusalem to name a street after the freedom leader of Georgia who apparently was buried here and we thought that we should give you the honor to come and cut the uh ribbon. We're going to have an event. What does your honor think? And of course, this prime minister says, "Of course, I will be there. Thank you." And they made a big event to name the street after somebody. This was a great honor for the prime minister because he fought hard to become prime minister. A lot of enemies. Now they're giving him honor from Israel. And Rabbi Uryu made sure also that the rabbi from Georgia also came made a trip to Israel to this event. And of course this prime minister is very happy. He got so much honor and he says thank you to Uri. He goes oh Rabbi Uri says no no you have to meet my dear friend. IT WAS ALL HIS IDEA. OH, I MUST MEET HIM. WHO IS HE? This he THIS THIS RABBI OVER HERE, he arranged the whole thing. He says, "You are such an honorable person. He wanted to you deserved it. He because he lives in your country. He knows well what you do and how hard you fight." All I can tell you is after that there was religious freedom in Georgia. There was no more problems for the kila. Apparently, anti-semitism wasn't exactly on his top priority list. Many times the salvation comes to us in a way that is different than we were thought. People would think maybe the salvation will come if I do this or if I do that. But brings us salvation in a very different way. One of the worst decisions that people make on a regular basis is thinking that they know how to conclude things. And I'll explain. When a person has a twisted mind, a mind that's absent of data, they are inclined to make the wrong decision even if you provide them the information. because they have a certain bias and they not they're not going to humble themselves to the laws and the rulings of the Torah and its sages. One example of that is one of the stories the sages teach there was a man who could read thoughts. He knew how to read thoughts of people by looking at their face and so on. And there was a second guy that knew this and he said, "Can you teach me?" He said, "No, no, it's it's not good for you. Come on, please do it. Please, please, please." And he bothered them for long enough time eventually said, "Okay, fine. I'll teach you." So he learned this and Rabbi Hoffman who told a story which I heard from my own dev says that this man learned how to read people's thoughts and as he's working he sees that there is a old man looks righteous looks religious. But as he's looking at him and reading his mind, he sees that this old man is thinking about young women. Huh? Pervert. And seconds later, HE'S THINKING ABOUT YOUNG MEN. AH, this guy's disgusting. WOW. LOOKS MUST BE DECEIVING. Then he looks another place and he sees that the guy that's cleaning. He's thinking about Rashi. Moments later, he's thinking about the Rambam. Moments later, he's thinking about the Ramban. And all types of great sages go through. It's like, "Wow, this guy must be a hidden sadik. His teacher says, "You're wrong on both of them. Let me show you." They go and they find out from the old man. Excuse me, sir. What do you do? He says, "Well, I'm a shatan. I uh try to make uh couples, Jewish man with a Jewish woman. So I'm constantly thinking about which is the perfect shiduk for him, which is the perfect shiduk for her. I really love helping people. So yeah, he's thinking about boys and girls, but he's thinking about them in a positive way. He's thinking about helping them unlike what this guy thought. He went to goes to the second guy, the cleaner, to see if this is really a hidden sadik. Excuse me, sir. Is this your only job? No, no, this is a job that's my second job. But my main job is that I make book covers. Oh, yeah. What kind of books? Well, I make foli books. So, right now, I'm working on one book. I think it's called Rashi. I don't know much about the book. I just know that they are having me make the book, make the cover, and then bind it. And then there's also a Rambam, I think it's called. And uh and then another one that's similar. It's called Ramban. So they find out this guy, he's no hidden sadik. In fact, he doesn't know anything about what he's who these authors are. He just knows his job. Many times we are just like that. We think we know what other people think and we conclude for them what their decision should be and how we're going to argue and debate in order to get our way. And sometimes a person can have a whole discussion in his mind, in her mind of how certain things are supposed to be and they're literally fighting with people in their mind. Why? because they believe in their own power in their own understanding and they've forgotten that the salvation only comes from Hashem. The salvation only comes from Hashem. And sometimes the salvation is the last thing you would have thought. The last example is a example of how different are than regular people and how they view something to be a salvation and what's not. In the by Maz that used to they gathered up a bunch of his stories from his on Shabbat. He writes in page number 67 that a little over a thousand years ago at the time of the Gonim there was a big mlo between two Torah giants ben Moshe Raban the son of Rabim Moshe and Rab Ben Shatanas. What was the about was who is going to be the leader because father Moshe was the leader was theado and he just passed away. And even though some people thought that bin Shatan should be the leader gathered the 700 richest people in the city as his support. So much so the support was so overbearing that he put on oniid so people don't think that they can learn two different Toras to make it clear this is similar to what happened in the times of the within left the city he went of to remove the nidi from him said to him, "How could I go against all of them if that's what they short while later?" Akadoshu made sure that his answer is clear. messenger comes and tells Rabi that and all 700 of his supporters were having an event of some kind and the ceiling of the building collapsed and killed all of them all at once. Similar to what happened in with Benhat when he saw that the rabbis were scared of the king and not ruling according to the Torah. He said let Hashem rebuke you for being afraid of people even a king. And the says that sentel who took his hand his giant hand and killed the entire the entire room all of them except and these were Torah sages. These were but in their moments of weakness they failed and punishes or rebukes the righteous with much more stringency. Apparently the similar concept happened here with Moshe. Certainly he was righteous. Certainly he came from good family. But apparently his ways were against the will of made sure that everyone knows it. Now the average person hears this says, "Wow, Rabf must be so happy. Not only did all of his enemies die, but now it's clear that he's the leader." But Kabsef did not do that. In fact, Kabf started crying hysterical and said, "O to me, woe to me, I wish I never got into this debate with him in the first place, and if I had another chance, I would go to him right now and apologize." Meaning the debate between the was never for the sake of I'm bigger, you're bigger, I'm stronger, you're stronger. No, it's what's the will of Hashem? What's the will of Hashem? But I didn't want the will of Hashem to cost you your life. [snorts] So instead of looking at it as a salvation, he saw it in the world lost, one of the Torah giants due to this debate. Now of course that Torah is always to protect the honor of Torah will do what he does regardless. But from here we learn that the salvation doesn't just go in a different direction. Sometimes it's nearly all the time. The salvation will come in a different way than we thought, that we planned for, that we prepared for. in order to teach us to stop relying on our efforts, on our abilities, on our resources and start relying more on Hashem because from him comes everything. That was the lesson that was teaching am right from the start of the Exodus. Yes, you may have weapons, but if you were put up to the test, you would lose because you think it's from you. And it's not from you. Only Hashem wins the wars. Only Hashem decides who lives, who dies. Only Hashem decides whether you're going to make it or you're going to lose it. Only Hashem decides whether you're going to have it or you're not going to have it. Only Hashem decides. Which means that our goal is to see the hand of Hashem and thereby to fear him in order to have amuna in him. And hem we will succeed in having amuna in Hashem and his servants. Now we're going to answer the question that we asked last week. Many of you have sent me interesting answers. The question was there was a hitchhiker and you looking for a ride. These few guys got into a taxi and uh they say oh where you want to go hitchhiker and hitchhiker says I want to go to Tel Aviv. Said just hop along. He goes no I don't have the uh money for for such a cab. No don't worry we're going there anyway so just jump along. Okay fine. He went in the car with them and as soon as they got to Tel Aviv, these few people that pretended they were doing a nice gesture ended up showing that their true colors, that they're crooks, they ran out of the car and left just the hitchhiker in it. Now, the taxi driver wants the money. And the hitchhiker says, "Listen, I understand what they did, but you know my situation. I said, "I don't, you know, I'm not I'm looking for a free ride." He says, "I don't care if free ride free ride. You were partners with them. I want my money. I just spent couple of hours going from Jalam to Tel Aviv. Somebody has to pay me." Some of you said that he has to pay part of it. He has to pay all of it. He benefited. All types of different answers. And the answer is as follows. The says that if somebody goes to gets invited to eat at somebody's house and then at the end of the meal the guy says you have to pay me for the meal. If he wouldn't have had any other place to eat, then he has to pay him. But if he could have gotten food elsewhere, he doesn't have to pay him. And the same applies here. If this hitchhiker could have gotten a ride in another way and gotten to Tel Aviv for free, he doesn't have to pay. But if there was no other way, then he does have to pay his portion. How do we know? It depends on what day of the week it is. If it's any of day of the week, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, then it's very likely that he would have gotten a free ride from somebody, wait a long enough time, he'll get it. Therefore, he doesn't have to pay. But if it was a Friday, which means that people are in a hurry and less likely to give somebody a ride all the way to Tel Aviv, have the patience and so on, then the debate becomes more difficult of whether he has to pay or not because he's less likely to get a free ride. So, a lot of different factors, but needless to say, interesting. We'll ask another question. It's similar in a way but certainly not the same. Person passes away and leaves his kids. You know his stuff. They go into the house. They check, oh, he has some books here. He has a few bars of gold. He has a few this. A few different things. and they see that there's a cow. Oh, okay. Aba had a cow. All right, listen. Let's uh celebrate his life and feast on this cow. And they do. They have a feast. They invite some people. The whole family comes for the yard site of the father and they eat. The next day, somebody knocks on their door. Say, "Hey, how are you guys? Uh, yeah. I heard your father passed away." "Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're I'm sorry to hear, but uh yeah, I'm here to collect my cow." Like, what do you mean your cow? my cow. I I I lent your father my cow and uh I want it back. Obviously, since your father's not here, he's not going to be able to take care of it. So, I want my cow back. What cow? The cow that was in the backyard. You know, the one that's black and white, has a lazy eye. Oh, we ate it. Ate it? Why would you eat my cow? We didn't know it's your cow. We thought it's our father's cow. All right, fine. Just pay me for the cow then. It's $25,000. No, no, no, no. You don't understand. We We didn't know it's your cow. He goes, I understand you didn't know it's my cow, but you still ate it. Either regurgitate my cow back into life or give me $25,000 cuz I have to go buy another cow. They go to bed. What should we do? Listen, we understand that it's his cow, but we didn't know it's his cow. We didn't know it's cow. We ate it. We thought, Listen, we saw that there's books, there's stuff in our father's house. We thought everything's our fathers. How are we supposed to know that this cow? He didn't have a license plate on the cow. He didn't write his name on the cow. This cow belongs to Reven. No. How are we supposed to know? And he says, "Listen, know or you didn't know. That's your problem. You didn't know. You ate the cow. You should have asked. How are we going to ask? We're going to look at every item in the house and say, "Oh, who does this belong?" You know, who does this book belong to? Go in the middle of the market. Say, "Excuse me, who does this book belong to?" "Oh, it's our nobody." Okay, so this must be our fathers. Okay, we have a borrow of gold here. Does this belong to anybody? EVERYONE'S GOING TO RAISE THEIR HAND. YEAH. YEAH. YEAH. IT'S MINE. IT'S MINE. IT'S MINE. HOW GOING TO KNOW? What's the answer? What's the answer? Do they have to pay? Don't have to pay. That's the question. Think about it. Hashem, send me your answers. You could send me your answers on uh my WhatsApp or email. And uh you guys will succeed. >> I'd like to introduce you to your new best friend. We did it. AI Rabbi is here. It's an AI model that is based on kosher Torah sources. 30 different languages [music] that are available to you. So if you want to ask it in Spanish, in Chinese, Portuguese, whatever you want to do, it's available for you. Can you tell me [music] about timestamped to the shield? You press this green button, AI, Rabbi, on your WhatsApp. [music] You'll have the ability to ask questions at will. You'll be providing sources and most importantly, you'll be able to know the truth and be able to rely on the sources. So with that being said, you guys can start asking some questions and will give us the answers. It's all about money with you, Rabbi. Yeah, you're right. All about money. Asking people question about a cow. All about money. Oh, it's all Oh, I see the the free Palestine flags from the same person. When will the third temple be completed? When Mashiach comes. Once the Mashiach comes, one of the signs that he's really Msiah is that he's going to build the bet mikdash. Is charging interest forbidden in your religion? My religion is Judaism. And charging interest has rules. A Jew is not allowed to charge another Jew interest if both of them are religious. Meaning if the lender uh is a uh is a Jew, regardless whether he's religious or not, but he's a and the borrower is a religious Jew, he's not allowed to charge him interest. But if the uh borrower is a non-religious Jew like a reform Shabbat, someone that has removed themselves from the uh from Israel but specific sins that they make where they don't follow the Torah, they're an atheist or something like that, then technically according to you're allowed to charge them interest. Now when a Jew lends money to a non-Jew, they're also allowed to charge interest. But the rule is that it has to be reasonable in accordance to the laws of the land. Which means that they're not allowed to charge whatever they want. They can't just charge the guy 400% or a,000% or even 100% interest be, you know, regardless of whether the guy agrees or not. Why? Because that's a predatory rate. They're allowed to charge what's reasonable within the laws of the land. So for example in America I believe the highest rate you're legally allowed to charge in uh you know through the banks and so on is like credit cards. I believe it's around 30% or so 29% something like that. So if somebody would charge within that uh that area around 30% or less then technically they're allowed to charge uh interest. But if they charge 40, 50, 60% all of these other predatory rates, then this is not allowed according to the Torah. Even if the law of the land has a loophole that allows it, this is the loophole of the merchant cash advance industry uh and other similar industries with other uh names uh that they take advantage of it. The merchant cash advance industry are not banks. Even though some of the money they get for investors are banks, but the actual lenders themselves are not banks. This is the reason why they're able to charge much more than banks. Like if let's say for example your Bank of America or Chase lend you money, they are not allowed to charge you more than that 30% for the credit card and for regular loans much less than that. Less than half of that. So even if they want to charge you 100%. And you agree for them to charge you 100%. Chase or Bank of America or any reg regulated bank is not allowed to do it. It will be an illegal transaction. But the merchant cash industry, merchant cash advance industry is able to do it. Not because the law says it's allowed, but rather there's something called a loophole that since they are not bank entities, they are able to take advantage of this legal loophole that's over a hundred years old until it gets uh removed and they end up, you know, destroying this industry and shutting it down, which eventually will happen, especially since uh Donald Trump already has an eye on the bank saying that uh he wants them to only charge 10%. So if he's bothered by the fact that banks are able to charge slightly more than 10%. Needless to say, once he finds out about the damage that the cash advance industry is causing to his economy, to his country, to his people, needless to say, he's going to end up shutting down that industry if not putting all of the people in jail. But you know, Kosh Bahu will bring the salvation at some point or another in his own way. So the answer is yes, but it has rules. What I said is not beating around the bush. What I said is an explanation. If your brain is too small to understand an explanation, then you should go back to watching cartoons. I want to learn more about Judaism. What do you recommend? I recommend you watch more of our videos on our YouTube channel, Rabbi Yuron Ruven. Go to YouTube. I have thousands of videos over there. And along the way, there are books that uh I recommend or you could uh um go to our website. there is something called a uh interactive PDFs and in those interactive PDFs that you can download for free there are different book recommendations for converts for noahides either people that want to convert to Judaism or people that just want to be righteous Gentiles uh there there's different books that I recommend for people to uh to get Is the Rev familiar with invoice factoring? Of course, I'm familiar. It's very similar to the cash advance. It's just a different name. They take over the uh receivables of the business and make a deal with the c with a company that is struggling uh and wants money now rather than later. And uh in in in return they uh give them uh money right now but they uh they are they get all the receivables all the money that people pay their customers pay them that goes directly to the the lender and uh yes the rates are very very high and in many cases they are very similar uh to merchant cash advance and that's yes certainly a problematic business according you know, Jewish people run the banks. Not necessarily. I mean it's a uh in today's world it's not like it used to be uh from a couple hundred years ago or even a hundred years ago when uh you know you had major uh uh banks uh being private you know at the time of Lehman Brothers uh founding Goldman Sachs Rothschild you know we're talking about 100 200 years ago 400 years ago uh yeah the biggest banks were owned by the Jews. And in fact, the the biggest these same Jews saved France, saved America, uh the the you know, the the French Revolution, the uh uh the uh American Civil War, all of these were paid by Jews. And in fact, uh the uh the the Jewish lender that lent money to the United States never got his money back. So, just in case you guys don't know, uh your freedom in America is actually because of a Jew that never got his money back. you kind of owe money. But nonetheless, a lot of things have changed in the last h 100red years where the biggest banks in the world have become public corporations, which means that nobody owns them. You know, you have Chase, you have Bank of America, uh Goldman Sachs, uh you know, all types of major banks. These banks are owned by investors. So, if you have a little bit of money, you can actually buy a piece of those companies. Now, you're not obviously becoming a controlling owner, but you can own shares of those companies. So, and the reality is that if a person understands what a public company is, they realize that there is no such thing as a uh as as as the same thing today as there was back then. That's number one. The second thing is is to understand that if the world was in accordance to the Jewish law, then the world would be a much better place. How do we know that? You simply look at all of the times where Jewish law, the Torah, meaning was the dominant force in the world. Whether it was at the time of Moshe Rabenu, you see how the world started following what we did. They started becoming monotheistic instead of idol worshippers. They started to constructing rules for themselves instead of just being barbarians. Things changed. We brought monotheism. We brought civilization. We brought all of the wisdoms of the world came from our Torah. Furthermore, uh the the other religions, whether it be Christianity or or or Islam, uh these these are in essence something that started as a result of our Torah, not uh despite our Torah. If it wasn't for the Torah that we got at Mount Si, there would be no Christianity or New Testament or anything. There would be no Islam or anything. So, that's another thing. In fact, it's not only that the Christian false god uh Yosh was a Jew that everybody knows, but the original teachers of Muhammad, the original teacher of Muhammad was a Jew. So, it's a uh it's ridiculous how little people know about the benefits they get from the Jewish people. Last but not least, if you look at the laws of Torah and you compare them to the laws of any land, the business laws, the uh civil laws, any part of the laws and you compare them apples for apples, you will always arrive at the conclusion that the Torah law is uh superior and more beneficial for people, whether it's the way we treat uh you know, women and how much we respect them and honor them or how we treat business laws or how we treat uh you know uh any any other other nations and so on. Now, the problem is that most people get their impression of the Jewish people not from the Torah, not from learning the Torah, but they get their impression of the Jewish people from either some uh uh anti-semite that knows how to uh you know, copy from the previous anti-semite from previous generations and take parts of our Torah and distort them and tell people they say one thing when in reality they're saying something else or people learn their uh their impression from the Jewish world from bad actors. What's bad actors? Somebody that does not follow the Torah but happens to be a Jew. And people say, "Oh, this guy Bernie Maid off, he stole money. That means that all Jews are thieves." Bernie Maidoff was a wicked, wicked person. He did not follow the Torah. He did not follow Judaism. The fact that he was born to Jewish parents does not make him a representation of the Jewish people. He did not follow the Jewish people. He he hated the Judaism. So to say that such a a person like that or any of the other bad actors out there are representation of Judaism is is not only uh foolish but it's just simply wrong. It's the same way that you cannot judge anything by bad actors. You can't judge all of the uh you know Muslim people based on bad actors. You can't judge all of the Chinese people based on bad actors. You can't judge anything based on bad actors. In fact, if let's say for example, you have a you were born into a family and let's say you're a family of six. You have three brothers and your parents and you and two of your brothers are angels among men, but one of your brothers is a terrorist. One of your brothers is a horrible, horrible person. He rapes, he kills, he steals, he does every crime under the sun. Now you're ready to go get married. And you find a nice girl. She comes from a good family. And she says, "Well, listen. My father wants to meet your family and he wants to meet your brothers." And then he says, "Wait, look, his brother's a terrorist. His brother's a thief. His brother's a killer. I don't want you to marry him. What are you going to say?" No, no, no. THAT'S MY BROTHER. IT'S NOT ME. He happens to be related to me, but we don't act the same way. He's following, he's going against my parents. He's going against our tradition. Don't judge me because of him. Why? Because it wouldn't be fair. So you already know that the Torah that we got from God, that's our rule book. People that follow that rule book are righteous Jews. They are the example of what Judaism is. They are the example of the Jewish people. People that do not follow that book are not a representation of the Jewish people. Simple. And if you judge us based on the people that go against the Torah, not only you're mistaken, but you don't realize that we also suffer from those people. We also suffer from those bad Jews. So that's one of the things that people have to understand. And I think one of the best ways to understand is by empathizing, looking at your own situations because there's no there's no uh place to have a bad apple. See? Gabriel was a Muslim. Gabriel is an angel. He's not a Muslim. He's not a Jew. He's an angel. The fact that uh you think that an angel was Muslim shows how little you actually know about anything. You should actually try reading a little bit. It'll help you. When I recently learned that I'm not allowed to pray, but that is the way that I feel connected to Hashem. I feel that I haven't been connecting to Hashem since I stopped. What should I do? Not sure who told you you're not allowed to pray. You're allowed to pray as much as you want. Rabbi, does a gatan need to be formerly asked before his bar mitzvah if he wants to stay a Jew? Yes. Rabbi Noah, how do we find true friends if we don't use any social media nor have a job to be able to communicate with people? Get a job. >> [sighs] >> get a job and you'll have other people that you'll meet. You'll get customers. You'll have uh different colleagues. Don't just stay in your room. It's not healthy for you and certainly not the way to live. Cain wasn't a murderer. It's a spiritual allegory like Fight Club. You probably learned from some that is trying to reinvent the Torah. So, [sighs] Brother, what do you say about the prophecy of 144,000 virgin Jewish evangelists according to Revelations? The New Testament is idolatry and everything in there is complete nonsense. abandon the New Testament and go learn Torah, the written Torah and the oral Torah, and you'll understand what the purpose of life is and not foolishness. I stopped wasting seed eight years ago when I was 40 years old after watching Yeshua and wasting seed and my business expanded and I was able to buy my house after donating to the Bashm organization. Continue to donate. Continue to do it. Obviously, if you brought your blessing in the past, continue. You see the results. There's much more that Hashem can give you. Rabbi, I'd like to get your email. I can send my response. You could send a response to um it's the email that's not uh I gave it to a few of you guys that's that's not my main email is flooded with uh thing. Oh, you could send it to events eve v n ts at bh tora bht t o r ah.org. That's not flooded. Uh, now you guys send responses, send short, short responses. Same thing if people ask questions and so on, keep them short. If you send me a migilla, I usually don't have the time to read it. Rabbi, I ate bacon today. Please forgive me. Why would I care if you eat bacon? I'm not God. Your problem is with God if you're a Jew, not with me. If you're not a Jew, then you're allowed to eat bacon all you want. Why was the man who raped a three-year-old in a Talmud found not at fault? There's no such thing. You're you're learning from anti-semites. Just like I said before that simply take different bits of information and make make new rules. When the Torah says, the Talmud says that a girl that was raped before the age of three years old can still be considered a virgin be that's because the sages say it's not that we promote it, allow it. In fact, the Torah says that somebody that does such a thing as a death penalty, which means the Torah is much more uh um critical and and and uh uh the punishment from the Torah is much worse than the law of the land or law of any other religion. In fact, so so why does the Torah talk about a three-year-old? Because if such a thing happened, we have a tradition from Mount Sai that if it happened before she's 3 years old, the the um the uh the will actually repair as if nothing ever happened. But if it happened after 3 years old, then it would never repair and therefore we judge accordingly. But this has nothing to do with allowing pedophilia or anything like that. This has nothing to do with it. It's simply a uh the sages explaining the difference of what happens to the body of somebody that has a trauma happen to them before 3 years old or after three years old. But if you look at the actual Talmud of what it says about rape, you'll see that it's of severe sin. no matter what the age is, whether it's a pedophilia or if it's a grown woman. In fact, the Torah calls a rapist a murderer. So, when you learn from anti-semites, when you learn from fools, you're going to learn mistakes. So, if you want to actually learn the truth, you'll have to learn from people that actually know it, not from just some, you know, uh, YouTuber that, uh, decided that he wants to make up stuff. >> [sighs] >> Why do we deny Jesus? Because he was a wicked person and um caused people to follow him instead of God. Why do you keep quiet on Palestinians? I don't keep quiet about it. Anytime people tell me free Palestine, I agree. Free Palestine. We are. We're freeing them from terrorism. We're freeing them from Hamas. We're freeing them from Israel to get out. Free. We're all for free Palestine. Can no hides or Gentiles eat bacon? Yes, they can eat bacon. They can eat non-coosher. The only thing they're not allowed to eat is a animal while it's still alive. [sighs] In Judaism, is the Mashiach considered a divine person or just a high example of what any human be? Well, the Mashiach is one of the descendants of King David. He is a regular flesh and blood person born of a woman and that was married to a man. He's not some uh there's no divine conception or or or nonsense that Christianity makes up. Uh the Messiah is a regular person. Once Hashem tells him he's Messiah, he instills certain powers within him to the point where the prophet says uh it's in Jeremiah, it's in Isaiah, in several different places where it says that with his mouth, with the breath of his mouth, he'll be able to destroy the enemy. He won't need weapons. But before he is chosen as Mashiach and is made aware of it, um he's a regular person with regular abilities uh as far as physical abilities. Now certainly in order for him to fit uh to even be a possibility of being Msiah, he has to be a righteous Jew. He has to learn a lot of Torah. Uh he has to fit the formula. He has to be one of the descendants of King David. Uh and so on. >> [sighs] >> Can Jews eat halal? No, we can only eat kosher meat. The Muslims could eat uh kosher because our rules are more stringent than halal, but we're not allowed to eat halal. Is it okay to make fun of LGBTQ? What's for what purpose? Rabbi, Rabbi Abedin of my city disagrees with you on the ruling of a katan whether he should be asked or not. He said the boy doesn't need to be asked before his bar mitzvah or right when he gets to bar mitzvah. I don't I don't really understand when he gets to bar mitzvah. It's it's a known thing. It's not about agree disagree. The rest if they want to be a junat for a no. If a mosquito flies into your mouth and you swallow it accidentally does that count as eating a living animal? No. Bugs are not considered animals. Even if you eat the bugs intentionally, it's not it's not eating a live animal. How do you protect a baby from? That's a good question. Uh first off, do not post pictures of the baby or any of your kids online. And quite frankly, it's better not to share them with anybody. If anybody wants to see your kids, they could see them in real life or you could show them on your phone, but not don't send it to other people because then you don't have control of where they're going to share it or not. Uh the second thing is is don't talk too much about wonderful things about your kids. Just say hashem everything's okay. Don't go into small details. Oh yeah, today he uh showed us that he knows this or she knows this. And the more you talk about your kids to other people, uh, the more I know possibilities you're you're bringing on. Um, also it's a, uh, um, try try not to bring so much attention to your kids. Don't make them the center of attention. The more they are the center of attention, the more I can come. Do Muslims and Jews serve the same God? According to most puskim, yes. But uh the um roachov says otherwise. Go and pus that the Muslims are idol worshippers. I mean it's known that the Muslims were idol worshippers before Islam. That's where they came from. But uh he says that they're still idol worshippers. But most like the Rambam for example and uh the uh say that they also pray to the same god as us. It's just that they are unfortunately misled to think that we are the enemy and uh they are now the new they've replaced us. Are there particular prayers or things we can do for Hashem to help with career? Yeah. If they teach us that a person uh takes at least 10% of their income and gives it to uh to publicize Torah uh whether it's Kiru with organizations like ours or uh uh donating to a Torah scholar that's serious Torah scholar then uh if you do that over a period of time you show seriousness then certainly you'll bring blessings uh to your life Uh second thing is simply doing kiru, helping other people do chuva, sharing these lectures, you know, sharing Torah books, sharing all the different things to to get more people to learn Torah. Kiru is one of the things that gives blessings in this world and the next. Most things that you do, most good deeds that you do bring blessings just in Allah. Um but uh and whatever you get in this world the Rambam says is in essence it's not really the reward for it but rather it's Hashem enabling you to do more mitzvot. But for Kiru one of the things that the sages teach us is that it brings blessings both in this world and the next. [snorts] Are women allowed to testify in court for themselves? If you mean a bed, no, you usually have a uh somebody to represent them. How do you know if you're from King David's descent? Well, Shem will tell the person when he tell when if if you're asking if whether you're Msiah or not, um don't be delusional. Number one. Number two, if Hashem is uh tells you you're Msiah through the prophet Leah, then that means you're from descendants of David. Unless you have a family tradition that you already know, you're from the uh family of David. When should we consider aliyah? It depends on your circumstance. There's uh I have a couple of lectures about it. I think uh one of them is called should All Jews make aliyah where I go into details. And I think another one that was made like a few weeks before it is all Jews must make aliyah. Something like that. But in there I really explain that it depends on three different factors. Number one uh if you're going to be able to move to Israel and it's not going to cause schlumbite problems. Meaning if the spouse wants if you want to go but your spouse doesn't want to go and if you go they're going to divorce you then don't go. That's enough of a reason not to go. But if they're okay with it, you have a check mark next to one. The second thing is is if uh you're going to be uh grow spiritually as a result of it. Meaning that your rabbi is let's say in in Israel or your kavut is in Israel or you're going to continue being able to learn Torah and be uh uh and grow closer to Hashem as a result of it, then you have a check mark. But if let's say for example your uh rabbi uh lives in England and uh he studies with you every day and as a result of you making aliyah you're not going to be able to study with him anymore then that's a problem. Uh it doesn't necessarily mean that you can't go but it's certainly a problem you have to have an answer for. How are you going to replace it? And you can't just say oh I'll just figure it out. That's not that's not a good thing. Same thing with uh with education for kids. If let's say your kids are going to a good yeshiva right now and you cannot get accepted into yeshiva in Israel then certainly you cannot go. Why? Because you need to educate your kids. It's a Torah commandment for the parents to educate their kids. Uh so you have to have answers for those things. The third question is if you have a way to make a living uh where you are and you're going to have also something if you move to Israel then you have a check mark next to it. But if you have a way to make a living now where you are, but you're not going to have any way to make a living in Israel, uh, and you're relying on people giving you staka or you're relying on people, uh, borrowing money and hoping for the best, you're waiting for some miracle, then that's a problem. That's a problem. Why? Because, you know, lack of money could lead to not just problems financially, could lead to marriage problems, school problems, kids problems, could lead to a lot of problems. So, if you have a check mark next to all three of those, uh, where you know that you'll be able to make money, uh, you you know that you'll be able to have schlumbit and you know you'll be able to get a Torah education for you and your kids, then certainly you want to make aliyah, go for it. Uh, go for it. In fact, in the last uh what was it? It's probably been the last week uh there's been a few families that asked me about whether they should make aliyah and uh some cases I told them no, in some case I told them yes. Why? depends on the circumstance. In a couple of circumstances, I told people they should make aliyah. If they want to, they should. Uh and but in a couple of cases, I told them there's no if you do it, you'll ruin your life. So there's no uh there's no point of doing it. There was one woman actually that came to me years ago uh asking me if she should make aliyah. And uh I asked her the questions and uh she said no that her husband and kids are going to stay in America. So I told her, "No, don't move. Don't move to Israel. Uh you have to stay with your husband and kids." She goes, "No, but my kids are grown up already and my husband'll come visit me." I said, "No, no, no. A wife is supposed to live where a husband is, not the husband's going to visit his wife." She didn't listen. She moved to Israel and um you could already know that it wasn't a good ending. Let's just say that wasn't a good ending. Dalia did not do good for her. [sighs] Is the prophet Moses from a tribe? Yeah, he's from the Levy tribe. Says it in the Torah multiple times. How can I incorporate the spiritual wisdom of a Torah into my daily life while respecting the status as a non-Jew without overstepping the boundaries set by no height commandments? Watch as many of our Musar lectures, which is the majority of our lectures. And in those lectures, I tell people how to apply these things to their life. Whether it's uh how to raise your kids, how to pray to Hashem, um what to learn, what to you know, how to conduct yourself. Watch the lectures. You'll see literally a uh uh bunch of uh things that will improve your life in a million ways. Aside from making you more righteous, it's just simply going to improve your life. What happens if the boy is not the Gatan is not asked whether he's going to be Jewish or not? Uh it doesn't it doesn't uh uh invalidate their conversion. It doesn't invalidate the conversion. It's not a uh it's not something that uh will make somebody if they're not asked, they're not Jewish anymore. In so many words, if the person is uh asked, it's not for the purpose of validating or not validating, but rather in order to uh confirm something. Um if the kid is already living a Jewish life, he's goes to yeshiva, she goes to Jewish seminary, then the answer is already uh spoken for based on their actions. based on their actions. When is the uh the situation much more complicated is if the uh the child and the family are not keeping Torah. They're not keeping to the parents are not keeping to the kids not keeping to then if you don't ask them then it could create a problem because you know if let's say they stopped keeping shortly after the conversion and the kid grew up not religious and now he's 13 years old you cannot really be comfortable calling such a person a Jew and very likely he's not Jewish. Uh but if the person is going to uh is learning Jewish education, is following the Torah and mitzvot, even if you don't ask them, he's still considered Jewish. Uh it's just it's a confirmation, a formality if you will. It's not like the conversion where they dip in a mikvah or anything like that. And it's not even something that has to be done by it uh can be done by uh the you know you know or the local rabbi uh people that understand what they're doing. [snorts] Yeah. Let's see. Where's the best place to get a business loan? Bank. Kabad is the only truth. Only truth to what? To what? What exactly? Truth. You mean the rest of the Jewish people are not valid according to your uh your your uh your understanding? So if you have to understand that the Jewish people come in different ways. There's Safhari Jews. There's Ashkanazi Jews, Litfish, there's Yemenites, there's Ethiopians, there's Jews of all shapes and colors. There are all types of now the original Kabad is uh certainly a uh uh they were righteous, they followed the Torah and so on. But uh for those of you that are um saw the clip that they made out of my lecture recently, I think it's called what's the problem with Kabad today or something like that and a lot of people have called me about it and sent me messages about it. Uh over there I actually specified that there is two different types of kabad. There is the kabad that is the old-timers that are following what the real kabad uh teachings are and then there's the crazies the crazies of today they look like the real kabadnik but they don't follow the real kabad examples they think that the rabbi is msiach even though he died already some of them even think he's god even though it's idolatry they uh say things that very antithetical to the Torah like a uh that all everybody goes to heaven no matter what even if they don't keep to mitzvot they follow the teachings of people like manis freedman that uh says god needs you and god has an arm and all types of other you know foolish things now those people those mashistim elistim and heretics they may call themselves kabad but they're not following kabad now up to now. These are things that you heard me say in the past. But what I'm going to show you now is one of the vatikim of Kabad saying the same thing. We got a call just a few days ago and this is what he says. So, it's a little long, but you'll hear it directly from them. And you'll see that there's Kabad that actually love me and they're my students, some of them. And those are the righteous. And then there's the crazies that we speak against that do not help the Jewish people. They just help line their pockets. They're meshim. They they they they literally, you know, either deify the Rebi or or or or make him uh make it similar to Christianity and all types of other foolishness. Now, again, these are my words. Now, you're going to hear one of the vatikim, meaning one of the elders of Kabad saying the same exact thing. This is brand new. I haven't released this before. You're going to hear it for the first time right now. >> The you giving very important and I spoke about about you're talking about I try to explain till after this from the was given since then [clears throat] is no one actually a who the leadership responsible runs by run by owned by many many people some of them are 100% good some people I don't know not everybody you know has the have the responsibility what they're doing and when you do [clears throat] comes out sometimes if kabat did that wrong or that wrong it's supposed to be more saying that some people of kabat not a general name kabat why you under the phone now you hear me hello >> yes I mean my daughter so I put it on you but I'm listening >> oh but you because explaining [clears throat] Many thousands of people balach who the whole Yiddish kite is not going what Kabat tells them. Now when you tell they get afraid they're going backwards. So you have to explain them. They have to be know we're in Kabat. They have to explain that in Kabat is a big variety all type of people all type of we can't put like a stamp of like you can't say I'm circumstance. Some are like this, some are like that. My English is not bad. You is a little bad. You understand my point that I'm trying to bring up. >> Yeah. >> Because it's very important. Your words are very nice saying whoever talks there. But have to be explained. It's not. This is some people of Kabat. Let's say mom is free now. He doesn't have he's not he doesn't have a a he's not a not official. He's no he's not nothing. of he's not a he's not a mach he's not a d he's a individual and he talks on YouTube and he tells people he's saying what kabat says actually all his controversial things says opposite what he's saying it's true [clears throat] so we can't feel reliable for that so it has to be like the mission says to spell out Kabad is all types some people of kabat you have to be careful you understand me you understand me >> yes >> hello >> yes yeah yes >> yes let's say one example I don't know if you know you don't know 23 years ago more maybe came out a big kora in kabat of the most highest people some of them don't live anymore they came up against the a big kora you have saw it in a today most people don't know even about it and they think whole of the cuz always in every community who makes noise from them they're here the normal people they don't talk about it if you want I can send you even just so you should see it maybe they can put it up even today publish that called if I want to send it to you I should send it to the toashemcoorg Yes, you can send it also to there. Yes. >> www.org. >> Huh? >> Yes, the email. You see an email there? >> I see I see a new face that says www.bwashem.org. What's that? >> That's the website. >> What's that website? >> Yes, that's the website. >> So, how do you send it? Like email or like something like >> you want to send it by WhatsApp. So I'll send it to them uh straight. >> Okay. So you see the point. I mean it goes on for another few minutes but you get the point. My point is that the Vatikim of Kabad he said himself. You heard an old-timer Kabadnik saying he likes the way I talk. And later on he says he agrees with everything I say. But he always says he says to uh make sure that people know that there's a difference. There's a difference between the realad and theim the problematic people uh the people that are not following. He also mentions manis freedman and he says all the controversial stuff that manis freedman says is against kabad. It's not teaching of kabad. It's not teaching. And another thing that he said is that there was a Kore which is means it's a major write up and announcement over 20 years ago that they issued meaning the leaders of Kabat issued against the Mashim and he sent it to us. I have it in Hebrew. actually have having it our team translated to English and they go against the you know much harder than we did but unfortunately the mashikim are so loud and obnoxious that most people don't even know that the real kabad is against them and it's not just your own reven it's the real kabadnik are against the fake kabad and so is the rest of the Jewish people. But a lot of people don't know the difference. And the fact that I'm one of the few remaining voices out there that speaks against them is actually beloved by the real Kabadnik. The only people that don't like it are people that are part of the problem are part of the problem. So here you saw I could not prepare for such a thing. You asked, you made a comment. You got a response. Not from me only. You got it from the real Kabad. From the real Kabad. Maybe when we post this, I'll put the the entire recording or just this part. The point is you got the point. We'll finish translating the coco. I'm sure that there is uh ways that some of you can get it on your own, but we're working on translating it so everybody can understand it. And everybody could understand that when uh Aan Feldman uh wrote a letter saying that you cannot count these minan or these minan. It's two different sets of problems. Um he didn't say it because he's not. He said it because what they're doing is against the Torah. Has nothing to do with Kabad. It's against the Torah and the real Kabad agrees with it. It's just that they're not as loud and they're not as certainly not obnoxious. They're righteous people, decent people and uh they are uh not uh as uh you know they're not as well known as uh the uh the loudmouths and the heretics. So here you got the real answers from the real Kabad live. without preparation and it was pure that we got this call this week and uh now you guys I didn't know how to publicize this or not and here you go it happened so now you know what uh what is the truth and what's falsehood I like the Kabad website. They have so many insights on Tawa lectures, books, and the Rebi who said to his followers to spread no laws. I just listened from the rabbi that they don't support. Oh, yeah. did certainly the the kabad website the main one has a lot of resources on there um most of what I've seen there is very good there are some articles by modern day and you know uh that that go in there also that are problematic but uh if you're talking about the resources such as the fact that they have the Rambam uh on there or they have a uh letters from the rebby uh that are real letters from the rebby they uh especially the Hebrew versions because the translations as we found out uh recently are not always uh correct. uh the uh um uh the Tanya the you know all of the old books that's very good that is great I've used it also but if you talk about some of the modern-day writeups that I cannot vouch for across the board because it's not so simple some of some of the stuff is uh good but some of it is absolutely heretical so it depends >> [panting] >> the or as you're calling Enoch die or was he taken up to heaven? He didn't die. Hashem took him and he turned into the an angel called Meet. Are there Cuban Jews? Yes, of course. There's Jews of all shapes and sizes. Since the uh destruction of the beta mikdash, Jews have been in exile, which means they've gone to different parts of the world. Rabbi, I'm single and I and pretend to convert to Judaism. Should I wait to be married if I marry before the marriage is valid? Okay. If you're, if I'm reading what you're saying correctly, if the person that you want to marry is Jewish and you have not converted, then you're not allowed to marry them. Um, you have to convert first and then marry a Jew. Uh, if you marry them while you're not Jewish before you converted, then the marriage is not valid according to the Torah. uh and in fact you're making a very very big sin and you're making them make a very big sin. When our parents say we're not honoring them because we rebuke them on idolatry, how should I act on this case? Um, I mean, if your parents are idol worshippers, rebuking them is a necessity, but you have to do it in a certain way that still shows respect. Meaning, you can't yell at them, insult them, uh, you can't mock them. You have to educate them. Meaning, you have to share lectures with them, books with them, show them information, but always speak with care, concern, and patience. If you cannot carry yourself that way, then uh it's better off you don't say anything because you're uh you're not going to inspire them to change by uh by mocking them. Just wanted to tell you that my sphartic sh gave me a laminated prayer for the bathroom that was made by you. Very nice. The rabbi is very good. Anybody has used it likes it. Are there Native American Jews? Is it possible? Yes. But I I doubt it because uh they um Native Americans have a form of idolatry. So they I mean could there be a Jew that lived among Native Americans? Certainly. There is a uh in the early um early founding of of of America. The uh the country was uh full of American Indians. Uh and uh many Jews that came from Europe to America would do business, would do trades with them. Uh they would uh trade uh you know wool, fur, all types of different uh things with them. And some of them ended up living next to them for business purposes. So if uh you know and certainly there's certain exchanges, certain friendships and so on. But can you be a righteous Jew and also a native Indian meaning following their culture? No. Uh can it be somebody that lives among native Indians? Certainly. Uh throughout history certainly. What's the Torah view and doing things as gulot? Uh, depends. If it's a real goola, then it has a tradition. If it's not, then it's just simply wasting your money and time. How to ruin marry Dena. I believe it was Shima that married Dina, not Ruven. If you're asking about how a I guess according to the uh modern day definition, you know, someone that has same father but different mother, how could they marry? Today they're not allowed to marry because we already got the Torah. But before the Torah was given uh this was allowed meaning before the written Torah Mount Sai was given this was allowed. That's the reason why uh Yakov was able to marry two sisters. That's why the uh each one of the tribes was born with twin sisters. Uh so they they were able to marry. But uh after we got the Torah Mount Sai uh things changed. Okay. Yeah. Shimon. Yeah. Shimon, not Reuven. Is it under the no prohibitions? No, it wasn't the same. Uh it wasn't the same uh same mother. Can Jews have many wives? According to the Torah? Yes. But according to uh the way people live today, uh it's not uh it's not it's not done. Ashkenazi Jews are already forbid nearly a thousand years ago. Benu Gillon made a takana that Ashkenazi Jews are not allowed to marry multiple wives. He learned this on his own uh his own suffering led to this one. His second wife ended up uh being jealous and put him in prison and nearly killed him. So after that there was a takana that uh no more uh um multiple wives for Ashkanazi Jews. It's over a thousand years old and uh the Safharti Jews never accepted this takana. So until recent history you know the you know some uh Yemenite Moroccan Jews uh married multiple wives. Today meaning in the last you know 40 50 years it's not so common. Uh it's not common at all I should say. Uh certainly not in you know Jews that are living in uh you know in in Israel or in uh you know the west in in America or England or anything like that. There may be some Jews uh in Morocco or in uh uh Yemen uh that still live there uh that may be married to multiple wives because the Torah allows it. There's certain rules obviously but to how to have such a marriage but uh according to wives allowed to have multiple wives not allowed to have multiple husbands obviously but multiple wives the Jew is allowed to have but it has to have the permission of the uh of the wife you can't just marry whoever you want whenever you want. It's not like the uh the Muslims where they could just do whatever they want however they want. Now there's certain rules if was three years old when married her according to the yes she was. But you can see from what the Torah explains is that she was three years old in age but not three years old in size like you know the world today. your uh three-year-old daughter or three-year-old son are probably, you know, two feet, three feet tall, tiny little things. And if you ask them to uh go water a uh a camel, one camel, they're not going to be able to even lift the uh you know, the uh uh the bucket because it's so heavy for them. But Rifka shows obviously she was much bigger and stronger than even adults that are alive today because she went and she gave water to all of the camels and all of the servants of Eleza. We're talking about 10 camels, servants. We're talking about buckets after buckets. In fact, uh a uh in a book by Rabbi Deutsch, uh he writes that if you actually do the calculation based on uh how much a camel actually drinks, it certainly is much more than a bucket. Certainly much more than a bucket. We're talking about several buckets, huge uh amount of water. Meaning that for somebody to do what did at three years old in today's world, you not only have to be a grownup, a full adult, you actually have to be one of the strongest people in the world. That's how difficult it was. So obviously she was not the same size and image as what a three-year-old today would looks like. And neither were many of the people that are mentioned in the Tanakh. Uh for example, King David. Who doesn't love King David? Who doesn't love King David? Everybody loves King David, right? Msiah comes from King David. Guess what? Which wives? And King David had 18 wives. Which wife is uh the Mashiah coming from? Bacha. She had Schlommo. Schlommo is their son. And from Slommo comes the Mashiach. At what age did King David marry Bacha? Seven years old. Now again if you look at a sevenyear-old in today's world you would say pedophilia terrible but obviously in those days number one things were different. Not just the culture was different, the physicality of people was different cuz she was number one already previously married before she got divorced and married King David. Um, and secondly, you see that she was able to bear a child. A seven-year-old today can't. So if you analyze things based on only the information you know from what you see today, you will arrive at the wrong conclusion about everything. Therefore, anyone that is a scholar or at least someone that is trying to learn properly always looks at not just based on the world of knowledge they have based on today. They look at the circumstances that were at the time that they're analyzing. So for example, if you look at the laws of uh the the fact that uh slavery for example today slaver if you mention slavery in America or in most uh of the western countries uh you know you people will look at it in a very negative way. Oh, slavery is terrible. You know, based on people's understanding of what happened uh to the uh the black people and how they were abused by the Americans and so on and so forth. Now, what you don't realize is that before this recent revolution that took place here in America, slavery was acceptable worldwide for all of history. It was an acceptable behavior. Was an acceptable according to all uh according to everybody. Not just the Americans, not just the Jews, not just the Arabs, not just the Chinese, everyone. Everywhere in the world that you go, there were slaves. It was a normal part of life. Now, of course, the treatment that and the rules for slavery according to the Torah are very very different than modern, you know, than the people's rules. We were not, you know, we're not allowed uh to to beat up the slaves uh and and and and poke their eyes out and and and and rape them and do all the things that the Americans did to the to the black poor people. Uh uh obviously this is horrible what they did to them. But the point is that slavery in itself was an acceptable thing throughout all of history much more than the recent history of where it's become unacceptable. And even in today's world where slavery is unacceptable, it still happens. How does it still happen? Simple. Look at all of the very wealthy people. The people that are billionaires, multi-millionaires, royalty, oligarths, all of these ruling people. What do you think all those people are? You think that they're employees? Yes, they give them food to eat and so on. They give them a place to stay, but they don't have the freedom like a regular employee that goes to work for uh the postal office has. They're today's modern-day slaves. If one of the servants of let's say Putin or or or even Donald Trump or any of the uh Saudi Arabian uh kings and royalty over there, any one of them, let's say, decides to just curse the curse their boss, curse their leader, you think that person will live 24 hours? No. They'll instantly be killed. Yeah, but but there not there's no slavery anymore. In your mind, there is there isn't. But there is. Now, again, this is something that still exists today. In fact, in places uh in America, there are different communities in America that are usually by uh uh you know, Muslim communities that still have slaves. There are some uh you know, Asian communities that have slaves. They bring them from different countries. They buy people. You could, if you go on uh, you know, somebody that wants to do it, you can buy somebody from Thailand for 5, 10, $15,000 and they'll be your slave for the rest of your life. Yeah, you'll have to feed them and stuff, but you always had to. So slavery still exists. It's just a little bit different than what it was. So if you base your knowledge on what you see in social media and in and and in politics and in television and in the the the lefty liberal uh world that we live in, then you're going to simply say no, it's terrible. It's horrible. It's it's a it's a uh inhumane and all types of things. But in reality, it's been very much part of society since the beginning. And there are rules that the Torah uh has about slavery and that are certainly much more favorable than man-made rules. But the point is is that this is a world that you cannot judge things based on just what you know or what you heard. You have to look at the circumstance. When you are looking at three-year-old that's mentioned in the Torah, some one that lived thousands of years ago, you cannot look at things from your perspective of today. You have to look at how is the rest of the information describe this person. Do they describe them as a toddler that still has a you know a uh puts their finger in their mouth and wears a diaper and you know and and plays on a slide before they go to bed at 8:00 at night? Or are they describing someone that is more like a full-g grown woman and in fact a very very powerful full-g grown woman that is able to give buckets and buckets literally thousands of liters of water to camels. How about this? You go to any place that has camels. Middle East has plenty of them. and tell the guy, "Listen, I want to give your camel some uh some water. I want to give your camel some water." After they laugh at you, they'll tell you, "Thank you. We'll see you uh later tonight." Why? Because it's a whole process. It's a whole process. And guess what? Don't be surprised if your arms are so sore after a half hour that you simply give up on completing the task. And that's just with one camel. Now, when I say go give them water, give them water like gave him. Go to the well, put it fill up the bucket with uh with water, bring it back to the camel, see him finish it, go get another bucket, go. Let's see how how many buckets can you bring in to let's see if you could satiate one camelifa did 10 camels and the servants and alazil so obviously this is not the normal three-year-old person you have to learn how to learn and not just conclude based on a bias or based on ignorance Because either way, you will arrive at a wrong conclusion. You want the truth or you want some manipulated way to make the uh the Torah and the Jewish people look bad. If you want to make us look bad, you don't need to ask questions. You could just hate us for for no reason. None of the previous anti-semites ever needed a valid reason to hate us. But if you're actually looking for the truth, at least do some homework before you conclude things. I'm not Jewish. Can I be here? Sure, why not? Want to learn? Learn. If my parents say that the way I talk about God looks like Hashem is bad and very severe, they don't have the knowledge around punishment and how it works. And they think that God is always merciful with wicked people. Well, it's not the way you talk. You have to show them how God says it about himself that he punishes the wicked. After the flood, the three sons of Noah have sons. They married their own sisters or they married their cousins. They could have married either one. Could have married their sisters. They could have married their cousins. Obviously, uh, Adam had, you know, his sons and those, you know, Cain and Abel, okay? They married, they were they were born with twins and they married their their their twins. They married their twins. That's one of the reasons why Cain killed Abel is because uh Abel was uh was born with two women twins, two female twins, and he married both of them. And Cain was was born with one single uh twin woman, and he was jealous that he had two, and he had one, so he killed him. Like I said, the uh the uh in order to populize populate the world, obviously, we were allowed at the time of uh Yakov, it says the Torah says that he came down with only 70 and it only mentions the uh only mentions the the men with the exception of a couple of women. So all of them had wives and the sages teach us that each uh each uh one of the tribes was born with a twin sister. I heard that a terrorist ran his car into 770 headquarters tonight. Shalom. 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