Can Money Buy Eternity? PART 2 - MUSSAR Pirkei Avot (114)

[Music] glad to be here again Torah doing another sh with you guys we are today up to M 114 uh this is the uh second part of the same mishna that we started last week last week we started the mishna in a uh he he is 516 which uh talks about um talks about talks about the uh people's treatment of money their attitude towards money we uh I mean this is one of those Mish I mean no different than really anything else but uh this is one of those Mish that it all depends on how deep you want to go into it technically you could spend the rest of your life not the rest of the day not the rest of the week and not even the rest of the year the rest of your life just studying this mishna because the attitude that we have towards money has many many branches and many many roots of where it connects and how it connects in our in our in our Good Deeds or bad Deeds needs are always connected to uh to money uh our attitude towards the people around us are is is usually connected to money if somebody's Rich typically most people will try to treat them fairly will try to treat them good uh and that's because we're superficial and shallow and uh and quite frankly don't have d t so we judge people based on their money you know we see somebody as Rich automatically oh yeah you got to respect them now technically the tor says the ramban writes also and he get ran ran with nit uh that if somebody has wealth you're supposed to respect them but he wasn't referring to the extent of what some people take it where they kiss up kissing up is never allowed even more so if the person is rash if the person's rash thear says that a person that kisses up to such a person is making a sin from the now that Theiss up regardless of whether they have money or not so this you will also be for for Leana s Leana Doris David benri um Ben s um I [Music] um Mercedes Elish and all of will have now the mishna here is extraordinary very very interesting there's a lot of sources a lot of interesting things uh that we can go into but of course we always have to connect things to our day-to-day life this is is one of the special that has had enough to to to give us to be able to each week be able to see how regardless of what the sh is about it could be about the uh questions about God some random sh always we see how connects it to our life personally Hashem connects it to the World At Large Hashem does so many for us it's it's a it's too much already it's unbelievable meaning that Hashem is making it as clear as day what is right and what is wrong now even though we all know what's right and wrong you know what's right and wrong it be inside you you know what's wrong and it doesn't have doesn't mean because you're Jewish even if you're not Jewish everyone knows the difference between right and wrong unless they Bal unless you know they they they have some type of a uh uh mental deficiency of some kind they're sick we're not talking about them which by the way you should know the MIM say that the people that have the B whether it's autism or it's a any type of retardation or things of that nature are very high level very high level and have a very small t left in this world and they were brought to the world in a certain level of incapacity so they don't ruin what they already built so in essence they just come here to do something specific whatever that may be usually they don't live very long and uh they but they're uh very special people that uh have a small amount usually small amount of work left in this world and that's why the people that are that are experts in the field of autism and uh have actually found that in recent Generations they found a way to communicate with them uh and I'm talking about not the ones that are uh autistic but at the same time uh you know are able to function in the world I actually have a few students that are autistic that are very functional very normal people that quite frankly I didn't know the autistic until they told me but I'm not talking about that I'm talking about people that are different and uh um there is a way that you could communicate with them through computers and in some of the cases they recorded these conversations very interesting what they say about how much they know about the real world what happens after you die uh the uh the need for everyone actually to do Chua there's a very famous one uh that actually was uh documented uh saying that he's actually sadik that only had a small a to uh to to fix of saying L and um he came for now he didn't make L his whole life one a had one time he SED he did so he had to come back and they said aren't you suffering he goes no I'm great I feel bad for you guys you have a lot more work than me you have a lot more chva to do I mean I only have one more I'm aad he says I saw this it's unbelievable so anyway the average person knows the difference between right and wrong but also has now it all depends on how much you let the yet run your life the says that when a person gets angry and he acts on it he acts out on the anger you should judge him as you should judge him as an idol worshipper why judge him as an idol worshipper he says because if he's already acting out his anger and he's breaking things and he's yelling and screaming and cursing and he's acting like an animal then that means he's listening to all of the instructions of the yet so the way of the says says today he tells him this tomorrow he tells him this the next day he tells him this every day he takes him a different way and he listens and eventually he's going to say come new worship yeshu worship worship a rabbi worship a person worship a rat worship a cow worship something that's not God and since you got used to listening to You're Gonna Worship Him such is the danger of not fixing our midot and thinking like I thought most of my life oh well I'm just an angry guy no so it happens like it's a uh it's acceptable it's not acceptable under any condition there are certain leniencies when a person starts doing says a person starts doing chuva he actually becomes more fiery so if he gets angry don't judge him too harshly because he's getting fire he doesn't know how to control it yet he doesn't know how to control it yet but if a person is he's already learning for years and he's already doing for years and he's still acting like an animal then says animal in the middle of the street is better than him what is he like what is the like the says he's like the ring you put around the nose of a pig a gold ring you put on the nose right of a pig why his toah is gold but he's still a pig Nothing's Gonna Change nothing's if he doesn't do chva he's still a pig with the nose ring being gold and diamonds and everything he's still a pig that's not so that's why working on our that's what says says that's all of you if you lived the whole life without fixing Aid what' you come for that's what the says what you come to the world for what's your you didn't do anything you didn't fix anything you're still the same angry cheap you know uh balava jealous still have all these bad Meo you didn't fix anything what's the point of you so primarily one of the things that we see that infiltrates our minds with to justify our Behavior justify our bad Mido justify our actions against theem is a result of our attitude UD towards money our attitudes towards money is one of the primary tools that the Satan all the same uses to influence our perception of the world and justify our bad behavior so for example when a person kisses up to a certain person that has a lot of money and ignores what the gar says that you're not allowed to kiss up to people that I have bad mid that are wicked you know think KS up to them even if they have money he says yeah but he's Rich oh so you learn the part that you're supposed to actually you know pay respects to people that are rich you learn that part from the tah but how come you didn't learn the other part that you're not allowed to kiss up to somebody that's wicked how come you didn't learn that part how come you only learn the part that's convenient to you oh because he's going to give you a job oh because he's going to give you a loan oh because he's going to donate to your bitet oh he's going to donate to your he's going to donate to your organization a million dollars so you could uh you could kiss up to them and even though you know he's drives on Shabbat even though you know the guy is uh cheating on his wife or beats his wife you're still gonna it's okay so you didn't learn that part of the you only learned the part that's convenient for you so it's a person that's a this is a person that's despicable with permission from the Torah why he uses only the part that's convenient to him and the reason for that is because his attitude towards money is no less than idol worship he loves money so much he's willing to replace his God for it and I specifically say his God because his God is replaceable our God is Not replaceable anyone that believes in the god of Israel knows that God is Not replaceable so when a person starts worshiping money to such an extent that he uh he forgets what's right and wrong is a person that's misin is a person that's a very very lowly level lowly level because he doesn't realize that he's spiritually sick to be sick is okay we're all sick to some extent we have a bad Mida we have certain aspects of us that need to be need a cure to be sick is okay it's actually expected that's why you're still in this world to deny it is the problem to deny that you're sick is the problem so in today's world unfortunately the one of the things that I see that's very very dangerous that's happening as a result of our attitudes towards money is how people are treating Christianity uh and even the presidency right now you know people look look at the Christians today and they say oh look they're investing so much money in Israel look they're they're investing so much money in in in Jews look they say they love us look they're really nice look this and look that and they forget about the fact already told us 4,000 years ago Hashem save me from the hand of my brother save me from the hand of asav now his brother and asav are the same person so what is he's saying here he says when he's as I'm not so scared why why I'm not so scared because I know he's trying to kill me only my body though when he's a that's when he's dangerous why he's pretending to be my brother he's pretending to love me he's pretending to invest in me in reality at the end what is he trying to do he's trying to convert me to Christianity he's trying to convert me to become reform he's trying to convert me to go against hem with a smile on he's much more dangerous so that's why it says save me from my brother save me from the brother part comes before why he's more dangerous he's much more dangerous so in today's world we're seeing that the Christian world for the first time in history is pretending to be our brothers for 2,000 years they were very busy killing us and uh as much as this is hard to hear it was actually better off we were better off being killed by the Christians than what they're doing today because at least during the Holocaust the pgs the inquisitions the bet mikdash the first and the second one and so on they were killing bodies in the person with the person was sadik goes to today when they're converting Jews every day they're killing n and you're seeing that for the first time in history they're doing it pretending to be Jews so they call themselves Jews for Jesus they call themselves one for Israel they call themselves uh Messianic Jews call themselves all types of names that fool the average person who is not into counter missionary and and that whole part of the world whether religious or not is irrelevant just simply understanding that asav is very much alive and well so when they come to you with a keep on a nice little keep on with a T-shirt and uh they come to you and they say oh have you uh read the Isaiah 53 about the suffering servant have you read uh Prophet Daniel chapter n and learn about the prophecy of the coming Messiah and so on you as an average Jew in yush you as an average Jew in Tel Aviv you as an average Jew in New York California Florida anywhere like you know what to be honest with you no why even if you went to Yesa even if you went to Yesa your whole life yes generally don't teach prophets we focused on the and then after that we move on to we move on to and through the and the and other things we learn how the source for this is from the this na'vi that Navi there's different uh different sources that we use but we don't spend years and years learning the prophets like the like the like the go do number one it's because we don't learn Al from there and number two there's just so much time so so when a person is first introduced to these chapters and did not read the first 52 chapters of the prophet Isaiah and the first time he ever got introduced to Isaiah is chapter 53 the P the missionary that's talking to him that says he's a Jew himself and could very well be a Jewish because his mom is Jewish can manipulate the conversation to such an extent that makes him think that oh we're talking about JC Penny over here we're talking about Jesus now this has been a problem for years now as I've told you guys in recent months it's taking an higher level higher level where now they're doing it out in the open at least in the old days they were killing bodies then after that they fast forward 2,000 years they just did this conversion stuff behind the scenes they would usually go to the they would go to the ignorant people they would go to the reformed Jews they will go to the conservative they will go to the don't know right don't know left don't know T yet they haven't done Chu yet and they show them something and it makes sense why does it make sense why does it make sense because their religion doesn't require any MIT so in essence what does it do it enables the conservative the reformed the heretic Theon all of those to continue living their life the same way nothing changed they can still wear the T-shirt they can still walk on half naked with a mini skirt they can still be married to a non-jew they can still do whatever they why can still drive on Shabbat eat every nothing changes nothing changes so it's convenient it's convenient truth and now unfortunately what does it have to do with anything is that because of the is giving a last shot at the end of days to go all out on all of these people that are missionaries that are Idol worshiping missionaries whether they call themselves Messianic Jews or Christians or Evangelical is irrelevant it's all the same thing anyone that believes in a New Testament is an idol worshipper that's it there's no doesn't make no difference what token name they have to themselves why because the New Testament itself has several different typ of idolatry so if you believe in a new testament doesn't make a difference how you describe yourself if you're Evangelical or you're Lutheran or you're Catholic and Christian and Messianic it doesn't make a difference you believe in a book that says that God is three you believe in a book that says that God had sex with a woman you believe in in such stupidity you're an idol worshiper that's it and stupid too but aside from that aside from stupid it's the reality is this is what it is now the problem is that Hashem gave them a lot of money why because Satan has to have a lot of money in order to do what he needs to do so now these organizations literally have a bank account that doesn't end and that's what you're seeing one from is one for Israel and the guy shapir and all of these missionaries many of them are actually Jewish it's also the lawyer for uh Trump Sako suo something like that that he's unfortunately a Messianic Jew born to Jewish parents they were reform and then uh juice for Jesus came to him and when he was still young and uh convinced them that uh they're the truth and he says you know what it sounded more true he says it in an interview it sounded more true why because when somebody sneezed in the reform Shu and the rabbi I don't know whether it was a male or a female rabbi but when the rabbi said oh God bless you oh wait a minute I don't believe in God I said this reformed Judaism it can't be true so when the guy had said juice for Jesus he told me that there is a God and it's this guy ah it made more sense to me it made more sense to me I don't blame him unfortunately he's a victim of reformed Judaism he's a victim of this heresy but he grew up and he became very successful and he became the main attorney presenting Jews for Jesus and then he got up to the latter in Corporate America and even though he declared bankruptcy in the 1980s with $13 million in debt and $680,000 in assets he got out of that and a Satan ended up giving him a lot of money tons and tons of money to do the Satan's will and go up to corporate ladder to become multi-millionaire representing the Satan and his servants and now he's promoting one for Israel and he's also promoting this current Administration the Trump Administration in the name of Israel according to most people he's a Jew oh this is good didn't you hear that the the lawyer for Trump is Jewish yeah I heard he's Jewish the problem is he's he's a bigger enemy than than the Arab with the knife why the Arab with the knife is trying to kill the body this so-called Jewish lawyer is trying to kill the n and that's why there's videos of him saying his main mission what get all of to convert to Christianity how did he get this position money and other people's his attitude of money and also other people's attitude of money and this is continuing this infestation this plague is continuing and we see that Christianity is using money against us and unfortunately they have no end of it and anytime they want to do a campaign they don't have a campaign raising a million dollars in 24 hours or 250,000 in 20 years no they just money just comes in 24 hours a day millions and millions of dollars come in every day why because their number one job is to be Evangelical Evangelical by definition means you have to go recruit Jews recruit Jews away from hem away from the Torah and make them Christians and this is a buar this is an embarrassment for us and the reason why is because Jews have never been so rich monetarily as they are today with the exception of the generation of schl when there was gold in the streets other than that we've never been so rich but yet when you ask people to donate to actually make Jews more Jewish nobody has any money when you ask people to donate to make Jews go do chuva everybody's broken everybody's in between jobs everybody's checked it clear yet there one guy tells me yeah listen I want to donate where should I donate I said the website same place you watch the sh donate okay okay two three weeks past I don't really remember these things oh where do I donate said oh just look at the previous message on you know the WhatsApp you asked me I said the website go to the website it's the first time if you could understand my sh you can understand the message too what's the problem oh okay okay I'm going to donate new two weeks P he never donated not two weeks pass what do I donate so I just sent him the link we send the link you donate okay I'm just waiting for a check to clear I'm waiting for the check to clear check I don't know apparently is is his bank account went all the way to zero but yet he had the thought in his mind to ask me what to donate I don't know if my bank account went to zero I'm not going to ask somebody where to donate instead I'm going to ask somebody can have a loan my bank account is at zero I need to eat my kids are going to go hungry my bank C is at zero I'm not thinking about donating I'm thinking about surviving I'm thinking for going have to eat my next door neighbor because I have no money in my bank account I'm thinking maybe I need to go beat somebody up in the middle of the street to go feed Little and Sarah because I have no money in my I'm not thinking about to send a text message on a phone that cost 200 bucks a month where can I donate if if I don't have any money so whatever so this is all show though this all show this part of the show this is also part of my all the sins that I made in my life gives to me so anyway he has he said the check is clear it's been I don't know maybe three four months I don't usually count but this specific issue has been annoying enough for me to remember it's been three four months the check hasn't cleared yet I don't know I think the check is for Mars the check is for Mars so the thing is the why why is why do such things happen why why do such things happen because the in each one of you wants to donate and wants to donate to the right cause but when you have no when you have no merits because you haven't really done chuv yet you haven't even tried to do CH yet is gonna go the gonna go absolutely not let him donate to the Red Cross no problem let him donate to receiving the panda let them donate to funding the the the organization within the US government that researches what do horses feel like when you throw them out of a plane there's a budget of $15 million a year for what do horses feel when you throw them out of a plane and they Skydive there's a bun $15 million I'm not sure I don't make things up there's actually a real there's an organization that does research to see nothing is made up everything is true you can check this out after the shoe if you want to there's an organization $15 million budget what do horses feel when they are skydiving let them donate to that but to go make a Jew more Jewish cannot why he has no merits he's worshiping the money he still hasn't fixed his midot he cheats on his wife he cheats on his customers he cheats on you Hashem he has no he has no merit why because you wrote in your own Torah you said to the Prophet Jeremiah you said to the Prophet Jeremiah what' you say in if you make somebody do you make him precious when he used to be what he was you're going to be like my mouth what does it mean you're going to be like my mouth everything you say Hashem has to fulfill why you're special you return one of my children back home so sometimes as frustrating as it is when you see that people are not able to donate they're not able to donate and it's not because of money is because they have no merits so you feel bad for them you feel bad for them it's hard to feel bad for them because it's annoying but you have to feel bad for them why because imagine being at such a lowly level you don't have Merit to even give $20 to give $200 to give two million whatever you have Rel everybody relative to everybody or sometimes the guy makes 100,000 a month and he donates 50 bucks okay so he has a Merit he has a merit he got you know he got the 50 bucks in but he he skin you have to feel bad for him so thisai all has to do with our attitude towards money which we'll go into but that's also the reason why Christianity and all of the fake causes within Judaism get an enormous amount of money you see different organizations that have never made a single B Chua never made a single person make a Mitzvah if they made a Mitzvah was by accident you see them raising money like it's say look it's sned we're raising $100,000 in the next three hours for a new Shool even though there's 87 shoes on the same block within two minutes they got the 100,000 oh we gonna have a bonus round what as much as we can get the guy tried to raise 100,000 he raised 500 for what who knows maybe a new kitchen for himself a new car A new do this we're raising a million and half dollars to uh I don't know help some kids uh go uh hang out with us eat pizza all day and pretend like they're learning toah boom 24 hours million and a half dollars for what if you're eating pizza buy the pizzeria already no it's a Torah program it makes them more religious what makes them more religious your own video you see these people they're not religious at all but they get the money why because each one of the people wants to give says give says yes you allowed to give it's not the right cause give it to the center that makes people make more sins makes people worship rabbis makes people worship JC peny makes people worship more money makes sh about money all day people talk about oh listen if you do this Gula you'll make more money if you do this Gula you'll make more money if you do this schoa you make more money all day they talk about money what about if you do this schoa you become sadik what about if you do this schoola you learn about what about if you do this G you actually become a righteous person that's not really going to care about money how about that anyone that understands the test of money knows that honestly you shouldn't want money why it's a very big test it's a much more difficult test to have a lot of money than not have money much more difficult test because the will use all that money against you they'll use it to give you more test the things that you can do with money are much more dangerous than the things that you can't do with money and that's also the reason why you see most of the religious people in every in every congregation in every religion even in every religion but in every religion most of the religious people are poor the less material you have the easier it is to connect to hasm now we don't necessarily need to be the uh the or the that pray for poverty but if you're going to pray for money make it the last prayer before when first prayer should be to get closer to hasem First prayer should be to get to do what Hashem wants to make him happy to fulfill your chuva to do something meaningful in life to make your wife happy your husband happy your children happy to become to learn something in this life other than your job other than to all the things that you do do pray for something meaningful you pray all day all day people pray rarely do you ever hear them pray for something meaningful everybody pray you have a thousand people praying money moneyyyyy pray for something meaningful when was the last time you prayed to be what was the last time you prayed to actually have to really believe that hm is here now where was the last thing did you ever pray for that I'm telling to myself this is also because our for money our desire for money is out of control out of control and it's ruining us so M started saying there are four types of Don to charity and the sages explain ra explains that this is a mish that's referring to four different types of attitudes towards money towards giving money attitude towards taking money we don't need a mishna about that because everyone likes to take money attitude about giving money that's going to see that's going to show who you really are how do you treat money why because if you love it by default you're not going to want to give it if you love money automatically you inherit the mid of of cheapness stinginess why when you love something you don't want to give it away if you love money you're not going to want to share it with anyone you love it you love your kids you don't want to you know have them sleep away and sleep away camp for six months you want them to be next to you you love your wife you don't want it to show herself to the whole street and how she looks naked all day you want it to protect yourself you wanted to be modest the guys that want their wives to walk around half naked with the long wigs and everything that's only because they don't love their wives they love all the other wives all the other wives they're looking because they figure but the wife can't tell them anything the wife can't tell him oh why you looking at her why you looking at the raban that looks like a prostitute why you looking at the prostitute himself that looks like the raban why you looking at all these women she can't tell them anything why can't she cuz she looks like them also the wig is to the floor the tanked up is on she has a skirt that's so tight you think it's another layer of skin but she she thinks it's a skirt so it's she met she met because it's a skirt that means it's okay no if your skirt is so tight that it's m become another layer of skin it's better you wear pants if your skirt is so short that as soon as you see as soon as you sit everybody sees your business it's better you wear pants of course you're not allowed to wear pants but if that's what it's going to look like better you repend it's like the say if somebody does CH but he doesn't have a Rabbi says make yourself a rabbi what if he doesn't want a rabbi he wants to be his own Rabbi the say it's better he doesn't do Chua if he doesn't have a rabbi it's better he doesn't do Chua why before he was he was secular and he was making mistakes he doesn't know what the purpose of life is he doesn't know anything but most of it is because of ignorance not because he's a hater of hem or he's such a bad person doesn't you know doesn't absolve him from the sin but the point is that it's a certain level of sin but now that he did so-call chuva but he has no Direction he has no Rabbi telling him right or wrong then he's become a walking living he has the hat and the beard on but he's stealing still and he's that's against the T he decides what the is but it's against the Tor and you see him doing all types of things like uh you know hugging women you know that are not his wife in public like this Goldberg Goldberg the the the from boaron he has pictures on his profile on his Facebook profile of him hugging women not his wife hugging women in public from the K hugging them hey like fix fixes but don't you know don't you know it's that a person is not even allowed to show public affection even to his wife even to his wife he's not allowed to show public affection this is peric 11 so it's a uh it specifically says that a person is not allowed to show affection no kissing no handholding no hugging to even his own wife in public take pictures and put it on the internet and this is with his own wife his own wife if you look at in the r chapter 22 I believe it talks about all the den all of the laws of forbidden sexual relations But it includes their watching your eyes it includes their wasting seed it includes their showing affection to a woman that you're not allowed to and not talking about sex actually just holding hands hugging kissing winking winking winky you're not allow to wink or flirt with a woman that's not your wife not allowed these are these are actually laws from Mount Si it's not but when a guy decides that he's his own Rabbi and he's not gonna listen to the he's not gonna listen to the he's not gonna listen to the say better off he didn't do CH why now he's desecrating hm's name with a keepon it's better off he didn't have a keepon so some people would think he's a maybe better off he didn't he didn't look like a Jew he didn't act like a Jew he didn't call himself Rabbi why because if he drive on Shabbat and he's a GU no one's going to say oh look at him he's drive on Shabbat all the go drive on Shabbat you understand this is also the reason why go that are in the process of converting to Judaism are not allowed to take the steps of showing it exterior until the last stage completely until the mamash have a date of when they're going to convert and even then they should refrain from wearing their TI outside they should refrain from wearing a keepa in public they should refrain from putting a muza they should refrain from doing those things they should do the things like L and keep and so on when they're in a process of praying or learning but to walk around and act and look like a Jew when you haven't become a Jew yet you're not allowed to do that because number one you're still not allowed to keep Shabbat 100% which means that if if you're going to drive on Shabbat and someone doesn't know that you're allowed to drive on Shabbat you're a going but someone doesn't know that and he sees a Jew with and and talit and a driving on Shabbat what is he gonna say he's like oh look at these fakers look at the fakers and says the only way you could fix it starts with death so why start your life that way why start your conversion that way that way so I know you're excited to be a Jew and you want to look like a Jew now and so on if you want it so bad then do everything you can to finish it but you cannot look like a Jew without being a Jew there's one guy that keeps sending me the same question in different ways same exact question for the last six months I think in 10 different ways genius how he's able to ask the same question in so many different ways he's a non-jew that wants to be a Jew but he can't convert yet for whatever Reas reason but he wants to he wants to live the life of a Jew he wants and this and that and everything keep Shabbat 100% everything I said yeah but that's not what Hashem said so it's important for a person to know that is a very very big sin the biggest sin you don't want to do that to yourself you don't want to do it to yourself if Hashem said no no if Hashem said yes yes so the mishna continues it says there are four types of donors to charity meaning there are four types of attitudes towards money one who wishes to give himself but wants others not to give he begrudges others meaning he has an evil eye on others we went over this one last week is a a person that wants to keep the mitvah to himself he wants to give himself he wants to make sure that he's the only one that gives to the rabbi or to the homeless guy but not for the right reason not because he's going to pay for everything and then no for the wrong reason why number one he doesn't want others to benefit from the Mitzvah number two he wants to keep the guy homeless says if I tell everybody about this sad that's homeless he's not going to be homeless anymore evil but he wants the like as if as if he gave money to the homeless so he went over it anyone that wants to know more details about just go over the sh last week but the point is that this is a person that is selective with his giving because of an evil trait even when he sees a person that comes from a rich family that uh fell on tough times he lost all of his money he doesn't give him why doesn't he give him he says listen he comes from a rich family let his family give him why do I have to give him let his family he has comes from a rich family why does he want the rich family to give him he says because if I give him then the rich family is going to stay rich but if they give him then that means their money is going to go down and M's going to stay the same oh that's good for me meaning it has nothing to do with the poor guy that needs help it all has to do with his own ego his own self and everything so such is the confused state of mind that a person can get to when he loves money too much when he loves money too much he starts worshiping it he starts competing everybody with how much money he has and how much money they have I remember I had one guy one student was telling me he's going to a really rough time and he wants to move and he wants to do this and he's have a tough time and a tough time and a tough time and a tough time and he can't move and he can't find and he can't this okay fine I said I don't understand you work your wife works the kids work everybody works how come you don't have any money I ask people outright like I don't understand how come you don't have any money but you work you have that many expenses I mean you don't necessarily look like such a big spender to me I mean the car you have is an average car the house you have is rented it's an average house he's not renting a 20 bedroom house or anything you don't have a private jet that I don't know about you don't have any bling bling on you you're not you're not wearing any jewelry with like a five karat diamond on each year like where's the money going you work she works everybody works they're not working for a nonprofit organization with no money you work you make money so what's what's what's happening where's the money going thank you where's the money going does anybody have an answer for that you have people work in the house couple works in the house the kids work everybody works but they don't have any money anybody have an answer got a hole in his pocket possible possible what else couple things number one it could be that there's no in the money could be that everybody works and it doesn't make a difference how much they make they make 50,000 or they make 50 million there's no B in the money meaning that whatever comes in leaves faster than it came in and I remember it when I was in a business world and we had no in the money it didn't make a difference whether we made 200,000 a month or we made a million and a half dollars a month there was never any money we always waited for the next month we couldn't wait for the next month why we need the money yeah but you just made a million dollars you just made 50,000 she made 100 you just made more money than everybody else I don't understand no no we need the money why no money where' it go I don't know you have a you bought a new car no you bought a new watch no I don't buy watches I don't buy cars you have a new plane no I don't have planes do you have toys no toys what you do with the money I don't know it's gone expenses What expenses the same as expenses the lawyers the accountants the criminals who knows who knows what's happening there's no be in the money there's no be in the money when hasem does not give you blessing in the money it doesn't make a difference how much you make it's going to go to a place you don't wanted to go medical expenses accounting law lawsuits buy all types of problems it's gone but before you even have enough time lead Bon to even think about it it's already gone you wrote you a letter Oh Long remember me I used to be in your account long long time ago two weeks ago remember it was me yeah yeah how was the money yeah remember yeah just want say was nice meeting you for two minutes where' the money go no money so that could be one thing no blessing in the money happens for several reasons one of the reasons is if a person is not a person waste seed kiss your money goodbye then you're going to ask wait a minute but how you going to explain all these celebrities all of these athletes all of these people that they probably uh destroy their Breed by every second they live how do you explain them you explain it with two ways number one you explain it in a sense that if they didn't if they actually kept their bit they would be much richer second way you explain it is that notice that all of them at some point will declare bankruptcy and will be in a worse Financial shape than they started before they became a celebrity I wrote an article one you know maybe 15 years ago 10 15 years ago and uh yeah maybe 10 years ago about showing the statistics of NFL athletes which I used to deal with a few of them as clients and um how they end up declaring bankruptcy and losing literally every penny they have within four years of retirement average within four years of retirement a person that made a hundred million in his career has zero negative not once not twice not three times but over 86% of them over 86% of them will declare bankruptcy within four years of retirement and it's the same thing goes for all the other sports for basketball for football for baseball for all of them all of them no exceptions maybe there's an exception in Gulf because the career is longer if you're actually any good but aside from that the rest of the sports it's a short-term career and they declare bankruptcy so how much money you made means nothing what are you going to have for the rest of your life so another re another way that you can explain it is that when someone's not a sh the money is going to be gone it's only a matter of time okay enjoy your Ferrari and your nice car and your nice watch and your nice this and your nice that it's only temporary why because when the punishment comes when the mid comes you're going to regret the day you were born why because a person that used to have money and now doesn't suffers much much more than someone who never had money and still doesn't have any money you understand because if you have never had any money then you don't really have the understanding of how much it gives you and so on and you don't have the you never had the luxury of having a lot of money so you're not suffering really you would like to have money you have hopes you maybe you're going to have money one day but you don't have the suffering of not having money nowhere near the same as someone that used to have money and now he doesn't why he's used to eating a uh 16 ounce steak every day for breakfast now he's eating uh peanut butter and jelly on a on a on a on a cracker because he can't afford bread he used to drive a car just his car to drive once a week was $250,000 now he can't he works for Uber he works for Uber driving his Nissan that's $26,000 lease he has to pay 150 bucks a month and he's still struggling to pay for it understand so that's a guy that's suffering he used to have a 250,000 used to live in a house that was jealous of so many house so many big rooms and so on and so forth today he's uh living in his friend's basement he's renting a room that's suffering that's suffering so that's another way you can explain a person has have in the money when he Wast seed another last way that you could explain then we'll move move on from that is when a person simply does not know the value of money and simply is living in an imaginary world thinking that he is competing with the Joneses and that because he sees that all of the Joneses all of the rich people talk big numbers he just bought a house for a million and he just bought a stock for half a million and he just took this company public for 20 million and he looks at the TV and he Compares against the celebrity he Compares against the people in the community the Rich and Famous then his whole life is destroyed probably worse than the first two why he's never going to be able to compete he's never going to be able to compete because there's always going to be somebody richer than him so right now he's competing against the guy that has a million dollar house and he has a little Rinky Dink $100,000 house now let's say hasem blesses him and gives him a million dollar house where's the say says you give somebody a 100 he wants 200 you give somebody 200 he wants 400 give 400 he wants 800 and never a person die with even half of what he wanted meaning now hasem gave him blessings so oh you want a house here you're gonna bring guests to your house yeah I'll give you a million dollar house what does he want now two million house so now he's eating his heart out because now million dollar house you can't build a million dollar house projects they're going to rob you you can build a million dollar house in the woods no one's going to know you have a million dollar house need to show off so we going to build a million dollar house next to a bunch of other people build a million dollar house what happens then somebody else build a $2 million house H I got a $2 million house so now what are you doing every day you look at your house you look at his house and you look at your house like it's a g like it's a junk car ah this house and house not really my house house don't worry I'll show you my house eventually okay gives you a $2 million house now now you can't live in the same neighborhood $2 million house that's to move to a better house a better neighborhood upgrade so now your next door neighbor is what 5 million doll house what's your house now it's back to being a basement it's back to being a garage yeah this garage I live in yeah that's a nice house he has a nice house and you're always looking and competing with the Joneses and never ever happy with your share and this is exactly what happened with the student he's telling me he can't do this and he can't do this and can't do this so yes where's all the money go he says well I have a little bit of money but it's just like I don't know it's just it's not enough I said what do you have like enough to pay the bills for this month you need me to lend you a couple I have a couple hundreds I could I don't have that much I lost a million but I can lend you a coup hundred like I don't know you don't have any money you have kids you have a wife feel bad cu no he goes no I have like a $100,000 in the bank it should hold on a second wait wait you say you have $100,000 in the bank and you complain to me about money you have $100,000 in the bank and you complain about money what's the matter with you what's wrong with you no he's like listen it's not enough you know I see all these people they talk big numbers I'm like what difference is it to you what they talk you have 100 ,000 in the bank in this account and that account in this account that account and you're complaining about money you're trying to save a hundred bucks 200 bucks 300 bucks a month on on on rent and you're going to stay in a non-jewish neighborhood you're trying to save a couple hundred dollars on kosher food because uh you have $100,000 in the bank what what is the matter with you I said you should go I do three shim a week you should go to 10 shim a week just watch my same three times a week the same sh $100 complain about money yeah but I donate I'm like I hope you donate a lot more to other people because the 50 bucks a month that you sent I don't know if it's even a Mitzvah if you have $100,000 in a bank I don't even know if it's a MIT if you have $100,000 in the bank donate 50 bucks a month so the perception we have on money is killing us killing us why we're competing with everybody else so even when we give we don't give with a full heart we give to compete we only want to donate if everyone's going to know about it we buy an alah why come on I want to everybody look I donate 5,000 10,000 20,000 how come you didn't donate it during the rest of the year you knew the winess needed it how come you didn't donate in quiet why did you have to make a whole show about it the whole why for what it's a whole show it's a whole show that's because our attitude on money is wrong and it's killing us and I don't just mean killing us spiritually because that's obvious it's killing us spiritually I also mean it's killing our success monetarily physically in this world why as long as you're busy counting everybody else's money when do you have time making money if you're so busy counting his money money and his money and his money and her money his money and his house and her house now when you have time to make money you already go to work you're know the Ben you go to work right you go to work you you work you on know construction move whatever you do if you're so busy talking about everybody else's money when you have time to work and make money for yourself oh you're waiting to win the lotto oh that's a real success story it's almost 100% ratio that all of them declare bankruptcy Almost 100% look statistically lot of winners almost 100% of the time declare bankruptcy and lose everything and many of them are in a worse Financial shape than before they won lot it's a curse they call it the curse of winning the lot look it up so first person that's so busy counting everybody else's money that he's putting M on himself not only as bad evil eye and others but he's causing that evil to come back home it's like a boomerang you pray for others good health you become healthy you pray for others to succeed you succeed you want other people to succeed you're going to succeed you have you're G to get to you have a good eye you're G to get good if evil eye comes back to you you curse other people hasem curses you unless they mitvah I'm talking about you want him to fail why because I don't want him to succeed why because just because oh okay so you're not going to succeed too so this this is very very critical because if you're already going to spend your life or at least a good part of it working making money don't shoot yourself in the foot by having such a distorted attitude about it where you're worshiping it you're skipping because of it you think that you're making the money and it's not hasem giving you the money you work over time as if that's going to help page 17 a and also the B 17b I'm sorry 16a 16b 16 in both Pates says that hasem decides what your is going to be on until meaning that regardless of what you do regardless of what your career is if you're in construction or you're a stock broker or you do nothing and learn Torah all day hm already decides what your p is going to be on until how you're going to get it whether it's going to be from your job orom from an accident or from a lotto or from something else that hasem decides based on your based on your actions every day but how much you're GNA get he already decides on so working overtime and missing sh T it's not going to help your it's not going to help you p hurt your P cheating the customer just to make that uh you know payroll it's not going to help you P it's going to hard you meaning doing evil in the eyes of hem just because you think you're gonna make a mitvah because of it you're going to steal from this guy so you give sakat to that guy you want to be the the modern day Robin Hood the criminal you want to be the criminal Robinhood but you think you're a sadik just so you know it's going to hurt your parasa why because your P was already decided on but how you're going to get it is decided every day if you stole hem is GNA actually have other people steal from you so the next person is another attitude to its money is a person that wants others should give he said other people should give but he he shouldn't give he has evil eye on himself the mishna says he has evil eye on himself why this is a person that's so infatuated with money he can't part with it he loves it so much it's almost like for him he rather give his heart and not his money there was one person learns that we know indirectly heard it's a uh 10 days of chv between Yip and everybody needs to do cha so during that time is when you have to do all types of tiim if you wasted seed each time you wasted seed there's 84 different types of t you have to do if you were angry it's 150 times you have to fast and so on and so forth now obviously most people can't fast 84 times or 150 times or even 20 times so most people that are really serious about Chua what do they do they give that money in so if instead of fasting 150 times for being an angry little Gremlin and throwing something and breaking something they give 150 times a value of a meal value of a meal so if let's say for example value of a meal let's say I don't know to get a a normal meal you don't have to it's not a steak and for $80 talking about a normal meal let's say it cost I don't know five bucks so if for every time you are angry you have to give $750 150 time 5$ 750 you have to give $750 if you have the budget you have the ability you give it if you don't you give it in payment plans or you give it over time whatever the point is to try at least to do some cha for this same thing with wasting seed every time you fast 84 fast according to the so that means that you have to have $420 minimum $420 some say it's $10 a meal so it's uh $840 the point is that you should be honest with it don't lie on a chva don't if you're already going to do chva don't lie to hasm at the same time anyway if it's $5 if it's $10 whatever the case may be exactly so there was one guy one guy that says listen I rather fast like what do you mean you rather fast 84 times or 150 times or whatever that t was like a lot 100 times you rather fast than give the 400 bucks and he had money he's a millionaire CU I I can't I I I I can't do it I rather but you have millions I rather fast now you're saying wellow B that means you're normal all of you over here said wow means you're normal he's M that's how much a person can love money do you understand if you don't control yourself it gets out of control it gets out of control and it becomes very very dangerous for your n very dangerous for your n because you turn money into an idol you're not able to part with it so that's a person that we here talking about as a person that's not able to give Saka he's so tightfisted that he fears constantly for his own Financial Security yeah but you have money you have 100,000 in the bank you have 50,000 in the bank if you have by the way just so you know anytime I mention rich people people think that we're talking about Bill Gates people think we're talking about Donald Trump we're talking about somebody that's on Forbes Magazine people even think we're talking about millionaires You Don't Have To Be A Millionaire to be considered rich if you have enough Comfort where you have at least six months worth of bills saved you're already considered well off you're already considered well off someone that's considered poor is someone that doesn't have enough money to survive the month but if you have six months in savings if your bills let's say $5,000 a month and you have $30,000 saved up and it doesn't make a difference how many accounts you have $30,000 you're well off great so how come most people think they're poor how come most people think they're uh they're not so good no I'm only middle class I'm only this class I'm only that class why because they have a distorted understanding of what's well off when the Tora says well off then not we're not comparing ourselves to kak we're comparing ourselves to what is your basic need now this week's tells us that korak was from chevet Lev and actually found the mid says that he found one of the three Treasures of yadik and he had so much money that he literally had camels camels 70 camels just carrying the keys to his safe that's how many safes he had that's how much money he had until this day it's a figure of speech to say rich like kak The amount of money that he had if if you understand the midash correctly it literally would seem like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett would be cleaning his bathroom that's how much money he had but what happened with kak anyone that read the Paras Hashem opened up the ground and it swallowed kak and anyone that followed him and anything that belonged to him meaning even if he had a little uh toothpick he left it at his friend's house and he had a watch at another friend's house he lended to him and he had a car and uh you know parked in a different garage he doesn't use it's a classic you know people collect cars they have nothing to do with their life so they collect cars they have nothing to do with theiry they collect stuff their car their houses become like a garbage pill of stuff they're never going to use so they have a garage with 25 cars okay how many cars can you drive oh I don't even drive why I have a chauffeur so what do you have 25 cars for I collect them you know there people that are homeless that people that don't have food to eat there's people that don't even know right they don't know anything and you have collection of cards you have nothing else to do with your life you collect I collect watches people collect watches why you collect watches why how many times tell the time I don't I don't use the watch for time what do you use I use my phone so why do you have so many watches I like them oh you like them so if you saw somebody Starving in the middle of the street it's better for you to have a $330,000 watch than to give the guy that's Starving in the street it's better for you to the guy to go become a uh Christian because he doesn't know what Tora is but you have a $30,000 watch or 20 of them you have a collection of watches you have to pay Dean for that person needs to pay judgment in sh and say you I gave you money and you killed my children with it why you had a watch collection you had a car collection you had a house collection how many houses can you live in how many houses can you live in how many houses can you how many bathrooms can you have so person that doesn't know the right and wrong he's in very very big trouble so a person could be so tight TI fisted so cheap it's because he's worried about his Financial Security when it's an unrealistic thing he's not he's not in jeopardy he's not in he doesn't have problems but is an imagination because he's counting everybody else's money because he wants to give himself unrealistic goals no no I'm only going to feel comfortable once I have a house as big as hers no I'm only going to feel comfortable when uh when all my kids are in college and married yeah but they're three four five and six years old what are you going to do until then people think that they control their future by saving money kak saved a lot of money a ton of money what did hasem do he swallowed all of it all of it was destroyed every little pin that belonged to kak every everything that belonged to kak is in G together with him he says look you and the money and gain them together and until this day thear says there's a place in a desert that you hear the voice of K say is is T is everything is true I'm the I'm the liar I'm the liar him and his money there's an opinion that he may have because he helped people do chuva because of his punishment but there's a bigger opinion that says he doesn't regardless of that where he is right now is more what's what's important and that's the place we want to avoid and that's because his attitude towards money is that he thought that because he had money that also meant that he's right and that's the wrong that's the wrong perception on things because you have money means absolutely nothing just means hasem gave you a tool to make mitv if you're not going to use it to make mitv and it was better off you didn't have the money it was better off you didn't have the money so one who believes in charity but is afraid to contribute personally because he doesn't know what the future holds this person the M says suffers from a narrow perspective on life in a condition called he says that a certain type of person he likes Charity like yeah there's a good cause make a choose more Jewish save people save help the homeless help this I like charity yeah he publicizes on theet he takes the charity he publicizes the people yeah you should donate you should donate you should he tells everybody donate but he himself is not willing to take out $20 out of his pocket how come you don't did you donate oh no not yet not yet not yet wait but you just told 100 people to donate on the WhatsApp group you just told 100 people to donate on Facebook a thousand people on Facebook you just told way to donate did you donate no why not you know I didn't do it yet when's yet okay a week later did you did yet come the yet arrive did yet arrive no no I didn't get to you the check didn't clear yet what kind of check where didd you get this check from Africa in the jungle they wrote it on a on a piece of tree what they write this check on a rock like they did in cartoons in The Flintstones The Flintstones they wrote checks on rocks what happened to the check how come it didn't clear everybody else's check's clear in 24 hours what happened to your check I didn't get to it yet what does it mean you didn't get it to it yet I didn't get to it yet means he didn't get to it he's not going to do it why it's hard for it's hard for him it's hard for her to part with the money why I love it so much I work so hard for it why should I just give it away why should I just give it away I got bills to pay yeah but you paid your bills ready yeah but what about next month okay next month just like Hashem gave you money this month I'll give you next month yeah but I I do you believe in hasem do do you believe that there's a God that runs the world yeah of course I love God you know all the songs I love all the songs about God they sing all the songs I love hm I love hm okay so how about you help H's children children do CH how about you help hm's children have food for Shabbat you're saying I love hem why don't you help his kids somebody else is going to do it somebody else is going to do it that has more money yeah but what about you I I'll get other people to donate fine you'll get other people to donate what about you I don't have that much money when I ask you for that much money you have $100 you have 50 bucks you have five what do you have you have nothing you're homeless I'll give you money then if you're hom I'll give you money I'll help you you become one of the homeless people we help we help people that don't have money if we have money and they don't have money we try to help them that's part of what we do we don't have that much money so we can't help that many people but if you don't if you're in such Dire Straits you don't have food to eat I I'll go I'll go rob a bank if I have to go help you but if you have money how come you can't give oh what about next month oh so you don't believe in God that mean you don't believe in God why a person that got food today food he ate food hem gave him food but is worried about where am I going to eat tomorrow is a person that has tiny tiny little microscopic emuna why why is your little M why if hasem gave you food today why you worried about tomorrow what you want hasem to give you a down payment for the whole year in advance then you'll stop praying to him this is what shim said Rim answers a question a big dilemma they said how didn't give only one time for the whole year says what is this thing like he said if a king wanted to give his children food and sustenance and he said you know what let me save him some time so herey guy herey son here it's a million bucks for the year the king noticed oh the kid stopped coming home stop checking on his father stopped calling stop writing not even answering a text message except once a year when when he has to get a new refill a new million bucks so the king saw that giving his son money in advance is hurting the relationship why because the son doesn't call home anymore he doesn't come home he doesn't visit nothing it just became an ATM machine so the king says oh listen you know what I don't have the million dollars this year I only have enough for today what about tomorrow come back tomorrow and he saw that once he gave every day the same amount all of a sudden the relationship was rebuilt why because now he sees them every day he sees her every day every day he gives a little bit he says that's what it's like said if I give them only once a year they're only going to pray to me once a year but if I give them M every day and they're not going to know if I'm going to give him tomorrow no one's going to know if has is goingon to feed him tomorrow that means they're going to pray for me tomorrow they're going to pray for me today they're not going to be satisfied with just today because they're going to want tomorrow so that means they're going to talk to me all the time we're not going to lose connection so I'm doing it to save our relationship such is the of he not only wants to give us but he also wants to connect to us too so a person that only wants other people to give is a person that doesn't have thisa he doesn't believe that hm is going to give him tomorrow he doesn't trust that hm is going to feed him tomorrow it's a pessimistic view on life it's a pessimistic view on on Hashem in general and it's actually not only it's also considered to a certain extent it's considered heresy to a certain extent why Hashem gave you and you still don't believe in him Rashi says that a the person that has begrudges himself or has an evil eye literally means cheap literally means a person that's cheap meaning that he cannot motivate himself to help others at his own expense because he's afraid to deplete his own Assets Now anyone that learned just a little bit I have anyone that learned just a little bit of Tor a little bit I heard some of the famous stories of what it says about people that the and also in says a very famous story about one of the one of the oldtime famous wealthy people of am Isel by the name of nagon benon nagon benon was alive during the BET mikdash during the times of the BET mikdash second bet mikdash and thear says that he was one of three people that financed the entire nation we're talking about millions and millions of people him and two other people and three of them financed millions of people when the evil Romans surrounded Y and didn't let us come in or ENT or leave so everybody says no worry no one has to worry I got enough I have enough in my reserves to feed everyone and they literally had enough in their reserves to feed everyone for three years and they had even more until the zionists of the day called gim decided what are we going to do we're going to burn the food they thought it's going to be good for the people what to make the starve them such is the mind of Kim we've always had them in our nation unfortunately anyway so he was a big b even before this time every time there was a event it was uh three times a year the people the sikim from all over the world would come to Y andon benon financed all of it financed all of it we're talking about millions and millions of dollars he financed all of it one time he saw that there's a shortage in water shortage in water he went to an Arab and he told them listen you have 12 Wells of water let me buy them from you for all the people that are coming up there's thousands and thousands of people coming up to so I could uh give them water he goes what are you going to pay me I said listen I'll return them to you the same way I got them they're all full now I'll return all 12 Wells the same way I got them meaning you don't lose out anything and if they're empty whatever is empty out of them I'll fill it with gold it's a good deal you have a well with a th gallons of water in it the guy's going to use it naturally you think it's going to go down right if it goes down you're not going to get water back you're going to get gold instead it's a good deal the Arab said okay no problem as the time passed they had the event they had the holiday the day came to pay back and all of the wells are empty the Arab laughs he's laughing his way to the bank he thinks that the deal is over he sends a messenger to he says okay where's my money where's my money no well you want to give me a check make it payable to cash make it payable to I'll spell for you c a no where's the money you want to give me the gold you want to give me a house you want to give me what do you want to give me oh hold on a second I told you I'll pay you back what I got the deal ends at the end of today it's 8:00 in the morning I just finished relax what do you mean well you need to go get a wire transfer from from from from uh from your foreign account from Panama where where you going no no don't worry hm's going to fill the wells starts laughing at him because what filled the wells even if it started raining where you think hm is going to fill 12 w is a months of rain because you worry about you I'll worry about me I have told the end of the day for the rest of the day the Arab kept sending somebody to B making fun of him no no no you think he's Gonna Fill now you think he fill now as there was very little time left goes to the BET mikdash and starts praying to Hashem sayem what do I do this mitzvah for for me do I need the water did I use the water it was for your children I shouldn't pay your debt this is this is water for your kids you should pay your own debt the rain started the Arabs sent some people they goes okay nice it's raining but maybe it's going to fill up uh 3% Neon went back into the he started praying Hashem we need more rain my starts coming in in a short period of time rain like never before fills up all of the wells Miracle the Arab disappointed that he didn't get all of all the gold that he expected still sends a messenger toon he says listen I still have a uh only the god of Israel would do such a miracle for for for for for you people but I still have a case against you I know your God protects you but I still have a case against your God because why he says because our deal technically ended when the sun went down at 6 the wells weren't full until 6:15 so technically you still owe me some money you still owe me the money so hold on a second goes back to the mdash talks to hem like you and I talking hem here he thinks you can't do it he think 15 minutes what doesm do hasem makes one of three people in history that he actually brought back time he put back the Sun that went down and put it back in the sky he put the sun back in the sky oh see Sun's still out deal still on worlds are full meaning that was aad wasn't some rash some rich guy with uh hotels in Las Vegas where all the is their all day all night no we're talking about sadik the only people that are put the sun back in the sky for stopped the sun in its space for who and yesu that's it meaning he's in the same league as that the says says I want to come it's gonna be yes after so he was in the same league but then the says another place in says that one day raan sees a young Jewish woman looking through the looking to the waist the filth of the donkeys of the Arabs he says to what are you doing my daughter what are you doing nice Jewish girl looking through the waist of the donkeys he says I'm looking for I'm looking for grains that the donkeys haven't digested yet so we could eat we're such poverty he looks at her he goes who daughter are you she says I'm the daughter of says how could it be your father is a big God sadik Rich says he used to be he used to be rich used to be says this a problem here it says save your life is going to help you in life is supposed to give someone gives says you're allowed to test me I'll make you rich in your own Lifetime and say yes exactly so yes gave he gave he gave he gave the for the wells and he gave for the for the and for the and he gave enough when you didn't you don't give enough you don't have the protection you don't have the protection when a person is not when a person is not precise to do the right thing when it comes to all bets are off a bunch of people that used to be rich came toin Shalom after the crash after the market crash 10 years ago group 20 30 people all of them were very very wealthy all of them donate and all of them lost a ton of money and they come with a complaint room full of people come to a complaint to the they says I don't understand we gave money we gave money to the the ISA the school the event that is we gave how come we all lost money the typical Rabbi that doesn't have these days unfortunately what is he gonna say oh don't worry it's going to be okay it's going to be okay but that's why that typical guy is not what does Steinman say he said let me ask you everyone answer honestly can anyone hear here testify with no doubt that you are M you are precise and exact with your M meaning you got 100,000 you gave 10,000 now you deducted this you deducted this like you're treating like the IRS no this I gave some money to uh to to my sister for hot dog so let's deduct that me expenses I gave uh some guy a ride so it cost me probably $5 in gas let's deduct that and deduct is by the time they finish is to give on $10 yeah but you made a million yeah but at expenses he says who was MP to give you got a 100 you gave 10 you got a million you gave a 100 who one guy rais the room full of 30 people one guy raised a hand he says yeah I did he said you lost money no actually I'm the only one here who didn't lose money but I didn't tell my friends because I felt bad for them so I wanted I came with them to show support but actually I didn't lose a penny I actually made money I made money hasem pays cash you want to test him he says no problem test me you L test him on on this you L test but if you're going to do the deductions and the calculations and this and I didn't sell and I didn't buy and I and this was real estate and this was a stock and this was a Bitcoin and this was a chewing gum and this was a private business and this is my ex-wife and this is the Yeshiva does Yeshiva count does this count people ask all these questions every day I get questions and many of the questions are like can I deduct this for can I deduct this for can I deduct this can I deduct everything can I deduct for can I deduct that I bought a book for can I deduct my for yeah technically you can deduct if it's your son but none if it's your daughter the tuition for your son you're allowed to deduct from According to but tuition for your daughter you're not allowed to deduct from but no if they heard you're allowed to tuition it's everybody it's the kids it's the neighbors it's the it's his m everybody it's the future cost if I'm paying $6,000 a year now I'll just estimate next year it's going to be 12 so I'll just deduct that also they treat M like it's IRS we're looking for deductions we're looking for deductions somebody like that there no protection there no protection there's no guarantee There's No Deal you're cheating hasem you're cheating Hashem you're treating like as a joke you're Trea like you could fool AEM honestly better off you don't do anything at least you're not cheating Hashem you're stealing from Hashem but you're not cheating him instead it's different soem says some say if you give 10% of your of your income hem guarantees that you'll be rich some say is actually it's 20% it's 20% either way a person that is afraid to do the calculations and be exact and he's always waiting for another day he's always saving for the rainy day but he's not thinking about today no no I'm going to give money in my will after I die Hashem didn't ask you to give money after you die he asked you to give money when you're alive but you love your money more than you love him so you're assuming that you're going to get to enjoy this world and the next World so here we see that a person loses out a lot now there's a very famous story did you guys ever drink the tea um tea called uh wiski wiz anybody here drink tea or am I the only one you drink tea anybody drink tea he too young okay Israelis drink tea um you guys like American you guys skinny icy skinny okay just me and you me and you and probably a couple people on the internet okay there's a very uh well-known kosher tea uh called Wiki today to be honest with you today everything has to be kosher even though technically it's all leaves today there's so much so much disgusting stuff that they put in food that if it doesn't have kosher personally I wouldn't eat it even if they say it's allowed I told you guys last week and I think a couple times before there's a company called uh CX or cinx or some some some name it's a public company and they make food coloring and food um food additives food flavoring from uh body parts from fetuses aborted fetuses that plant Parenthood kills and they sell these body parts to this Cinemax and uh they make food flavoring out of it and now I heard actually just today that there's a company in China at least one company in China that has decided to take it to the next level and make pills out of body parts of aborted babies and sell it as if it's going to give you energy and you're not going to age and all types of things so pretty much we are at a generation where the average person is a cannibal is a cannibal even if he doesn't know another kindness of hasem to give us kosher because if you eat kosher none of this stuff is even a problem that's why we recommend kosher even if you're not Jewish because honestly if you're if you're not eating kosher who knows what you're eating it could be you're eating your next door neighbor just died last week could be can that too that's part of the flavoring too could be could be could be part of it at least but anyway they uh there was a very rich Russian named Kalman wiski Kalman wiski how was a tycoon in Russia and uh Jewish Guy and um had all types of investments in today's terms billions billions and billions of dollars in real estate in company all types of things so one day one of his uh people came to him and offered him to invest in a tea business in woski laughed at him really joking is you know invest in Israel this is before isra this is early 1900s before modern Israel he says you want me to invest in in in Palestine the Turkish people that are running it right now very difficult to deal with they're thieves they're this who wants to deal with these people you going to invest in in that country yeah no invest invest no let's start a tea business a tea business in a country where uh pretty much you can't grow anything it's all desert before modern Israel you couldn't grow anything he said okay fine he ended up even though he laughed at it and he considered it he said himself he considered a Preposterous idea meaning a ridiculous idea but he only did it because he had so much money he like I have to do something with the money here's a few dollars go start a tea business in the middle of the desert tea tea you usually you drink in you know cold places go start a tea business in the middle of the desert go had so much money the guy it doesn't make a difference he says [Applause] himself that in 1917 the Caesar and his army was swept from power and the Communist Russians took over what did they took take over they took over everything all of the assets every single thing that he had except what the tea business in Israel so when they fleed the country and went to isra that's how they restarted their life and that tea business bashem became a very big business to this day you see you go to the kosher store you see T wasoski and that's the story behind it that's the story behind it you invest in kosher te Hashem will give you blessing will give you blessing so this is a person that didn't love money so much to such an extent he says you know what if it's not going to be the typical thing I'm not going to do it okay something is in Israel it's AES Let's Take a Shot took a shot and that's what actually saved him the next part the next part of the mishna almost done says a person that's Aid as we said the definition the torah's definition ofid is not if you wear a stral it's not if you have a really long beard it's not if you belong toab or breast or G or any other today what makes you Aid is if you do above and beyond the letter of the law example Hashem says keep Shabbat 25 hours you keep Shabbat 26 Hashem says don't destroy your PE and the corners of your beard you grow a beard not because you like the style because you're doing above and beyond what the law is Hashem says don't be angry not only are you not angry you're not happy all the time Hashem says don't be cheap not only you're not cheap now you're generous meaning it's not that you're just not violating what hasem said and not doing or doing what he said but you're actually going the extra mile you're going above and beyond the law that's by definition and that's the only definition that we care about now if a person wants to be a as we talked about I think it was a couple of weeks ago we also talked a little bit about money this is the one place that a person can truly look in the mirror and admit to himself whether he's a or is the grains of sand that maybe a stepped on at some point in his life why because if you're you have to be by definition with money you have to be generous have to be because if you're not generous if you're a stingy person that means you love money too much that means you love material too much that means you haven't even begun to do chuva you haven't begun anything yet you're still connected to material you're still worshiping this money you're still looking into materialism as if that's going to save your life you still haven't connected to for real it's only superficial what's superficial superficial connection to hasem is only when there's good stuff when there's good when you got the good deal when you have a nice car when you bought the house when you got married when you had a kid when everything was good in life you love hem you singing to everybody you know whoever whoever believes is never afraid we love you we love you and all the nice songs and you have this little belt that you walk around with your jacket and your coat that you wear during your prayers and you have the nice hat and a straal and a all looks good but as soon as you have problems as soon as the check doesn't clear as soon as you get fired as soon as somebody gets a disease as soon as as a terrorist attack as soon as you lost a job as soon as something happen gives you a a present called a test all of a sudden all bets are off hasem why you doing this to me I don't understand wait wait what do you mean what do you mean you don't understand Hashem tests those people he loves Hashem to tests those he loves if you're getting a test that means hasem loves you you what are you complaining about then you're going to continue getting the test until you pass it you're going to continue getting the test until you pass it because Hashem is cheering for you to win and he cannot Advance you according to his own law he cannot Advance you to the next level until you beat that level it's like a like a video game a video game everybody played if you played video game as a little kid everybody wants to beat the game but they forget that they're supposed to not cheat you know people have these cheat codes and they get to the last level in two seconds that defeats the whole purpose you're just wasting your parents money and getting a new game for no reason now obviously this is it's a waste of time and don't do it but the point is is that in the secular world people play these games and they buy these cheat codes to get to the end what defeats the all purpose of the game you're supposed to beat the level then get to the next level get to the next level get to the next level after beating the level hem hasem wants to give you more but you have to beat the level and there's no cheat code there's no cheat code with a with AEM there's no right right left left up down up down sideways up down up TI you can beat the game there's no there's no no cheat code there's no cheat code anywh play video games as a kid knows what I meant point is there's no cheat code so a person that wants to be a real has to be when it comes to money not only should he give but he gets other people to give he donates what he's supposed to donate but not only that that's just his own mitvah what else does he do he gets other people to give no no do you hear about this you hear about this cure of organization you heard about this cause you heard about this convert this uh this wedding this this you heard about these things no I didn't hear no no let me tell you about it no I'm busy okay busy after I finish I'm trying to do you a favor what favor I'm working you're trying to ask money no I'm doing you a favor I can be saving your life is a symbol for a the Tree of Life the tree of life is given to who those people those people are benefit of the ones that invest in it the ones that invest in they're the ones that are beneficial why shouldn't it be that should be happy shouldn't it be that the the guy that got the money should be happy go no the one that invested in the one that invested in getting juice to do ch the one that invested in K the one that invested in t he's going to be happy why shouldn't it be that the rabbi is happy he got the money shouldn't it be that the organization's happy because they got the money no no why no they were going to get the money anyway it was already judged in sh that they're going to get the money meaning the only thing that changed is you decided that you're going to be the vessel you're going to be the Tom you're going to be the investor in this organization you're going to be the investor in this Torah you want to be a partner with hem everyone in this generation said if mashia would come right now it's rebi he's a perfect human being perfect human being never looked at his breit looked forget touch never looked at his breit that's why he called him they called him only three people that I know of in the entire called Kad oh not not in general in Judaism no it's not called it's called why because rebi never even looked at his breit now rebi was very rich rebi was very very rich to to such an extent he had hundreds and hundreds of horses hundreds of properties servants workers employees deal but you can call him like he was in a Forbes 500 but still any time there was a there was the says he did kindness for all of his friends by inviting them to donate why is it kindness for his friends because in reality rebi was able to donate by himself he didn't need the help he had plenty of money had plenty of money to donate you didn't need that money he says no but I was doing them a favor what I was allowing them to take partnership in a mitvah they needed a million dollars I had $10 million but I said you know what I'll donate half a million you guys donate half a million allows you to be a partner in theah why that's that's what a does not only he gives he also shares the Mitzvah but don't be a fake what's a fake he just tells everybody else about the Mitzvah he doesn't do it himself or he donates $3 and he wants everybody else to donate the other million no no I donate also what you donate I I donate for my baby son that didn't work yet I they gave him for his for they gave him $10 per 10 money Monopoly money so I gave myself from the from the $10 from the Monopoly money but you guys you guys should be partners in this what about you how come you didn't give fake so it's very very important for a person to know that to be a you need to share a person that's Kad in the Tora is like for example there's a three people that I know of that are called kados kados means that a person that watched his bre so for example you have yadik yadik is also called sadik because he washed his b a certain K certain nickname that hem gives to specific people when they do when they excel in a certain mitvah specifically with soik is the only one the entire Tora that's called sadik so the says why is he called sadik because he washed his breit during a test with Po's wife Po's wife was one of four most beautiful women in history and he didn't sin with her when he had an opportunity to sin with her there's also there's and a couple of others but point is is that people called these these names not because somebody just decided to call them that this is a nickname that stood because it had the blessing of hem and specifically when people overcame enormous tests specifically with the test of sex sex issues so to understand the issue of sharing a mitvah there's a phenomenal story about RIT had a friend that was a Kay had a friend that was zealous sadik and every day they would study study to take together kab and to to their dismay every day when the sun went up or went down the shadow of the Cross that's on the church across the street would show up in the besset through the window it would show up in the besset like the shadow of it would be on the B floor it would drive him crazy what are you going to do the the Christians they're the powerful what are you going to do you can't do anything about it can you please move it what you going to tell him they're going to kill you but his zealous friend couldn't take it one day he says that's it I have a Pon what are you gonna do I'm G to destroy it they're gonna kill you let them kill me for K sacrifice his life for sanctification of hm's name so he goes destroys the cross and as he comes down from have destroying the cross what do they do they catch him they catch him they throw him in their jail and they decide okay we have to kill him after their fake court hearing they say okay we're going to kill him so now abets and the rest of the K have to find a way to save him what's the best way to get people to do what you want especially if they are money so they find somebody that works for the church the guard of the church they find out that he likes money big surprise so they tell him listen how much money is it you free our friend oh your friend's expensive okay okay how much how much listen if they me okay okay how much how much he tells them a huge amount no problem we'll get it to you listen you don't have that much time we'll get it to you says I don't know if they're G to get it they're not going to get it it's gonna take some time I have the amount he has the amount because his father-in-law gave them a big present when they got married he's Rich gave a big present to his daughter to make sure that she's okay here he takes everything the father-in-law gave their entire life savings from the safe without telling his wife and goes and gives it to the Christian he says here free my friend the rest of the Kila comes to the and says okay we got we got part of the money goes ah don't worry don't worry uh uh your friend you already paid me the full amount your friend is already free so the K comes to we want a piece of theah we got half the money goes wow hey you want me to share P share the Mitzvah don't no I already did it I already did it I already did the Mitzvah I can't sell you Mitzvah I already did it so they got all the money but now mitvah it's already too late but now has to deal with the consequences what's the consequences is to tell his wife that they're poor now he's scared to tell his wife what does he do he goes to he says okay I'll be back he goes to the co and hides there for a week he hides in the C for a week after a week passes you have to go home during that week the Christian comes to his wife's comes to his house and he's under pressure he's like listen he here and he gives her three buckets full of diamonds and gold and money he goes here give this to your husband she goes what is this for he says listen they caught me at the church I've been stealing money for them from years and they saw there something fishy with this prisoner ran away and it's under my control and they want to kill me so I have to run away I can't take all this money so if I survive I know that your husband is so honest that he's going to give me the money back and if he if I don't survive I want him to have it she goes why you want him to have it why you like my husband so much you're Christian he says because your husband is a real Jew he was willing to sacrifice everything he has just to save another Jew just to say everything you guys had he gave me he told me gave everything you have she doesn't even know yet she doesn't even know she's finding out from the go he gave me everything you have to save his friend to save another Jew so he deserves it if I survive I know he's honest enough he's going give it back to me if I don't survive I want him to have it so he gives her these three buckets full of diamonds and gold and everything comes home later that day he doesn't know what to do he still he doesn't know what happened he's coming home I'm going to tell her I'm going to tell her no no I'm not going to tell her I'm going to tell her I'm not going to tell her I'm going to tell her I'm not going to tell to do he comes to the house his wife is happy and cheering and singing look what your god did for you look what your god did for you look what your lover did for you look what your lover did for you or who loves me who God why why you saying God loves me look what he did for you look you gave a little bit of our money what we had a little bit that we have look how much reward he gave you three buckets full of gold and thousand times more what do you do now honestly what do you do at this moment you're what do you do you start singing start singing We love you right so you singing what does he do he starts hysterical crying Shalom starts hysterical crying because he knows the truth he says o paid me reward in this world OEM paid me reward in this world that means he doesn't like my mitvah he doesn't like my Mitzvah and I know why he doesn't like my Mitzvah because I didn't share the I didn't share I took it all to myself he says oh you took it all to yourself I'll give you all the reward here then you want all the Mitzvah to yourself fine I'll give you the reward to yourself to O what did I do to my connection with hem o look what I'm do all what I'm going do with all this money all this garbage what am I going to do with this garbage my connection with hasem is is is is is is hurt that's a lover of hem you understand people say no no I love hem I love H where you love hm you love his money give you you love the wife he gave you the husband he gave you the kids where do you love hasem love is like what a a says even if he were to destroy me I would still serve him Shalom says what does this mean it says it means that if hem says from now on every mitvah you do you're going to go to Gom for and every you go to geden what do you do by minut I'm asking you a question okay from now on he says every as a say from now on every mitvah you do you're GNA go to G and every sin now you're going to go to G can anyone honestly say they would even fulfill one mitvah for for the rest of their life or they're all going to do sins I'm not going to embarrass you but I'll be the first one to no no no why because we're selfish we're selfish people we're selfish people we want to go to GED we care less about because we don't love him we love ourselves what is the B says even if hasem tells me that every mitvah I go to G I'm still doing the mitvah Because I know that's his will and even when I go up to sh the B says I go up to sh they tell me listen you got to go to kafak oh great has said it fight he run he run oh I'm what do you mean you're gonna suffer yeah that's wants if that's what Hashem wants let it be suffering that's loving Hashem meaning We're Dreaming when we say I love hem what I love hem you love yourself understood he understood what it means to connect to AEM and what's at risk when we're disconnected he says I did a Mitzvah I gave everything I had but it was incomplete Mitzvah why was selfish selfish you have to share the Mitzvah share the Mitzvah and that's why for us to do mitv it's not just about doing something it's about doing it completely there all the connection with hm is all about meaning complete you want your mitah to be complete so here will'll finish this specific part and understand that this is theid this is theid that wants to do above and beyond the not only he himself giving but he wants other people to give so a person not only gives but he also helps other people give the gives a k gives a k about this specific thing and he says there are eight levels of Charity that the rambam discusses I went over it last week if you remember different levels of of Charity a person that gives but doesn't really want to give that's the lowest form of Charity he doesn't really want to give according to the Tor the bed the bed is allowed to force people to give even though it's not practiced anymore at least not to my knowledge um but a person that the bed forces him to give and he gives that's the lowest form of Charity the highest form of Charity is when someone gives another person the ability to make it on their own gives them a loan to make into a business a interest free loan but sometimes the yet will fool us into thinking that we're doing when in reality we're doing a how so a person is looking for IT person is looking to get help he has uh problems he doesn't have any money has any food to eat and so on and a person comes to goes okay listen I'll do a Mitzvah I'll lend you the money I'll lend you the $10,000 I'll lend you $100,000 I'll lend you whatever the money is I'll lend it to you now the problem is that the person doesn't have any money also doesn't have a way to pay you back and in reality he wasn't asking for a loan he was asking for a if you're giving somebody a loan when they didn't ask for it they ask for and you're pretending that you're doing the highest level ofak you're wrong why because you're not giving the person what they're looking for you're only trying to give yourself what you're looking for which is you don't really want to give any because you're too cheap you're too cheap so what do you want you just give the guy alone but you're protect tell to be a sadik lord yeah you know many people I help you know people I help I lend him money I lend him money yeah but they didn't ask for any money and all of them going to feel bad for the rest of their life because they can't pay you back or even if they pay you back they're giving you their own food they have to skip one day a week eating just to pay you back the loan you're a lone shark that's not a Mitzvah so a person cannot fool themselves and definitely cannot fool AEM so he says here the highest level of Saka is where an intermediary is used where neither The Giver nor the recipient are aware of the other's identity this is before the the Levi just told you when a person wants to do wants to be a not only is he going to give before people ask him he's going to look for ways to give he has money he knows hasem gave him the money specifically to do good not to build up his IRA account not to uh build up his 401k and plan his retirement from 30 years from now who said you're going to survive 30 years he gave you money today for you to use today now we're not saying you should be homeless but because you gave there's also laws of how much to give and so on but the point being is that a person that doesn't give because he is trying to save for a rainy day or sa for retirement or all of this other stuff is obviously just using that as an excuse not to give give so now if a person wants to be a when it comes to money not only is he not waiting for people to say oh listen there's a cause you should give to he's not waiting he's looking for them he's doing research instead of doing research on the news of who's going to be the next president or uh what's the best stock or who won this Sports uh competition or who is the richest guy in the Forbes 5er list instead of wasting his life on that he's looking for good causes which one is the cause that sanctifies hashem's name the most which one helps do the best in the name of hasem which one he looks for that that's what he spends his extra time on and not his extra time so now this is a person that already is doing in the sense that he's looking for people instead of waiting for them second thing is when he gives he gives anonymously he gives anonymously he doesn't tell them who he is he sends the check with no name on it he gives cash he's not looking for the the chandelier to have his name on or the building to have his name on it but if he wants to get to the highest highest level he gives the of giving to somebody he trusts instead of him giving directly to a certain organization he gets a real friend it says make yourself a rabbi but buy yourself a friend here is one of the places you need to buy yourself a friend how you got get yourself a real friend that's going to tell you right and wrong it's going to rebuke you when it's necessary it's going to lead you the right direction you say listen here has A1 thousand go give it to the place that is going to do the biggest K the place that will help am the most don't tell me who don't tell me who why I don't want them to I don't want to know who they are and I don't want them to know who I am because I want a pure Mitzvah I want a pure Mitzvah this is today the say that if it wasn't for ego there wouldn't be today this m is almost like talking about the Ten Commandments and uh you know in Mount sa it's so far away from us because most people if you if they don't get recognition they can't give just they can't they can't bring themselves to give or even if they give they give only a little bit private and a lot of bit public I used to have this client I had a few of these clients where had a lot of money they invest with us but they'd buy a little bit of you know a little bit of stuff with me they invest a million two million with me on a certain deal but on their own they'd buy the same thing they buy the same stock they bought with me but on their own they buy 1020 Million worth why they want to save an extra couple of points on commission so they feed me they give me a few million dollars because they like the deals they know they're going to make money for out of 16 years with the exception of The Last 5 Years everything turned to Gold then the Last 5 Years everything turned to Aces but for a long time they like the deal so they gave me some money yeah I keep coming keep coming keep giving me these deals here's a couple of million there's a couple of million here's a couple million but some of them were so cheap as far as paying paying what that they buy two three four5 million me and $20 million on their own just to save a point two points three points on commission had a uh so-called uncle that uh was very wealthy or is very wealthy and uh when I first started in the business I was looking for clients and uh my dad told me listen why don't you call him he just sold his hotel he has some money t I said okay so I called the guy I told him listen I'm doing this oh sounds good what do you have so I give him two of my best picks two of the best ideas I was working on all right it sounds good get get back to me get back to me in a week two weeks three weeks all of a side call him yeah no I don't know it's not really for me but uh I'll look I'll track them I'll track them I'll see if I like him you know I'll track them okay maybe a year and a half two years later he sends me an email listen the two ideas that you gave me I made a lot of money on one of them but the second one it didn't go up 300% it only went up like only like 30% you have anything better spun m not only did you just steal my you sto you stole money from me you're not have to steal somebody's idea it's gizel you're not allowed to steal it you're to steal somebody's idea you're not even allowed to look at somebody's paper if it's not your if somebody's reading a book you're not allowed to go look and read the book not allowed no you oh I heard this guy say something so you say it if you say you have to say it in his name so the guy not only has Thea to steal the idea especially at that time I needed it at that time I was starting out I didn't have any money but he asked for more too such is the bad midot of people that worship money so last but not least last but not least is the last part of the mishna it says a person that he doesn't want to give and also he doesn't want other people to give and that person the Torah calls him this is a rash this is a evil person why is a evil person okay cheap why does that make him evil why somebody that's cheap evil there's plenty of people that are cheap and they're really nice people selfish okay but why evil why connect evil with cheap cheap it's plenty people cheap said so he's cheap but why evil why is it evil trait why is being cheap evil he made money so that means he's a but why evil opp Opposite of opposite of H only gives he is the the ultimate why he only gives and never takes you cannot offer AEM anything your you're learning all for you when the Messiah comes the rambam says he's going to ask everybody what you do for me what did you do for me what you do for me you have you have 13 principles of Faith you have to believe the mashia is going to come as one of them any day mhia comes after goog 15 days of darkness two-thirds of the world dies all types of problems B let's say you survived let's say we do ch we go to sh okay good m is going to ask what' you do for me what you do for me to come now first person say oh I went to T oh I learned T oh I did blessings what the Mia gonna say no no that was for you the blessings the the learning that's all for you what you do for me for you you learn MIT you do you learn that's for you if you want to do something for me you bring hashem's children back home if you get other people to do cha Ah that's for me why because in reality in reality it's a thankless job you don't really get reward for it in this world you don't get noticeable reward in this world from it for the most part if you're really doing your job right A lot of people going against you I saw says the gets up off the chair for you why to go against you specifically to war because you're stealing his employees just like built everything with a equal if you will so he gave ISU he gave the go and says that bam actually had one power that M did not have meaning he was actually even in one step greater that's why it says no one that was like Moshe was ever around in is in is why because in the go there was somebody like Moshe there was bam but bam used the same powers that Moshe had to be rash that's why he's in where he is in G forever but the point is is that hem gave about light dark tall short so on and so forth and just like the says just like has is the Throne of Glory he gave the Throne of Glory also to the Mal and he doesn't get up after the throne he has servants every time a person makes a sin he creates a servant of the Satan every time a person makes a sin it's as if he brought aan a sacrifice to the Satan he created something for the Satan he created a new employee and that employee is going to influence this person to make more sins and that's why you see every time somebody starts with a little sin one one leads to another one sin leads to another we learned this in maybe three months ago so now this is because this demon that he created is an employee of the Satan and he's working and influencing the person to make more demons more more more sins so how come it's not the Satan himself says because Satan doesn't get up for just anybody he has employees he's a king doesn't just get up for anybody who does he get up for says he gets up for M he gets up for people that go do K not just the speakers even the people that helped them the volunteers the employees the donors all of them why you're stealing my employees you're bringing the mhia once the Messiah comes he's going to slaughter me hashem's going to slaughter me I have to deal with you I have to deal with you personally and that's why you see if you're involved in kiru you see that some of the tests that you get a unbelievable unusual tests unusual I could testify as myself honestly some of the things if I told you you wouldn't believe it if I told you what really goes on every day of my life you say no no even in a book they wouldn't write this I don't tell you because people would think it's something it's unbelievable even my own RAB R how many tests he goes to he's a big but he tells me when I tell my test he tells me some of his we don't even tell each other everything CU already come on but he says honestly the other I told him something I was going through goes honestly if it wasn't you I wouldn't believe it I would I don't think even if you wrote this in a book one day you're going to write a book and don't write this in a book because no one's going to believe this no one's going to believe this this is this happened to me he said us one one one how how recent do you want it to be right now you want it from last week you want it from week before can that's enough but I wasn't yet I haven't heard yet okay how many plagues were in Egypt plagues 10 okay 10 plagues were in Egypt so d right now before we Mo before we moved to to Florida we lived in a $4 million apartment in New York on a 35th floor even bugs don't go up there 35th floor bugs don't even go up to the 35th floor they already stop at six seventh floor they stop city city K Manhattan so anyway so all this natural life you know squirrels and cats and dogs and and bugs and all that stuff I saw it on TV it was a Discovery Channel that's it that's as that's as you know once in a while you see a squirrel on the street on trees but wasn't like something so over time you learn about these things and you know you get to become a a little bit um not necessarily germaphobe just a little bit sensitive to some of these things unusual so now when I first moved when we first moved to Florida I first saw the lizards I saw lizards and I found this very unusual I'm like what do you mean was it a zoo why is there lizards outside my house there's lizards everywhere I found it very unusual and everybody told me no this is common and then I saw like a dinosaur they called it an iguana there a dinosaur next to my house and then he has a friend it's like all like a like a slew of dinosaurs coming to my house I see little dinosaurs next to my house each one they climbing trees said how they climbing tree so this was like okay this is Florida fine no problem it's not a test it's not the test just funny and so it's like you know unusual different you know I live in a house now s so when first we moved we lived in boka Bon which I later found out is the mouth of the Rat that's what it means in Spanish mouth of the Rat and I found out they were talking about Goldberg he's the rat because everything comes out of his mouth is only a rat could say it guy wants to invite a missionary Catholic missionary to a Jewish rule what else you going to call him you can't call him a Jew reform is better reform is better reform at least has his beliefs he believes in nothing this one pretends like he believes in Judaism but he brings Christian missionaries and sexaholics to speak to the to the people yeah so anyway let's stay to the story and stay funny so I saw one time I uh outside my house I uh it was raining and I noticed that it rains almost every day I thought okay again we saw the dinosaurs in the first week now we're seeing rain every day over here in Florida said no is coming any day it rained so much unbelievable to me okay fine rain rain rain rain but then I noticed now the lizards have friends what frogs these little dinosaurs have friends of frogs and there I couldn't believe what are the frogs doing in front of my house for you I understand it says 100% Discovery Channel not in front of my house now up to now fine they're frogs from a distance once in a while they were next to my door once in a while they were next to my door and I didn't really like it so much but whatever I would like run out run in what's the test now as you can see I'm a little bit sensitive about this stuff I don't like it now right before Shabbat this Shabbat past Shabbat Thursday Thursday fr Thursday no Shabbat shab Friday Friday Apparently one of these frogs gave birth outside my house and we looked it up and well we looked outside and we saw there's literally a thousand frogs outside my house frog yes from 200 to a thousand little frogs come out of an average frog and a thousand of them this one this this one a thousand frogs outside my house they're everywhere a tiny no tiny there's a thousand frogs outside my house and what are they doing they're climbing everything the walls the windows everywhere now Shabbat came in are you allowed to kill it's one of 39 not alled to kill but they're outside right what's the problem the window the window had a crack and some crack in the the connecting not the window not the glass part but the connecting I know the the male female part whatever it is whatever I that belonged to me had my name on it over aund frogs enter the house 30 on Shabbat another 30 on until we got somebody to shut off the windows what a for three days the average day over 30 frogs per day are coming in and they're jumping all over the house I'm trying to study and there a frog jumping over here now come on does this happen to the average person in Egyptian happen in Egypt it happened that's why I told my Rabbi I said okay having these goes yeah exactly I found it in a place in the Tora he says I he went my he says I went to I told him listen we need help what says we have a problem with frogs say there's over a thousand frogs at house the mual says listen this a big guy he goes listen I have CED for rats I have come for for dogs for cats for everything but I never heard of anything about frogs until Egypt this doesn't happen thousand frogs don't drop to anybody's house this he says this is belongs to him we can't help him with his name on it you understand this is this is just the day in my life gives me now what do you learn from what do you learn from from from you have to learn you have to learn why do you have frogs in your house nice house little two cute babies why do you have frogs in your house I'm telling you the story it's embarrassing my wife's probably going to kill me say why you tell me wear frogs in a house so now why you frogs in your house you have to learn about frogs you have to learn about frogs frogs what can you learn from a frog so we're going to finish with this first and foremost as K said the frogs were one of the 10 plagues but if you look at the book of of schot Exodus after par said listen I'll do chuva I'll do chuva just tell your God to stop this m tells to tell me when meaning so you don't think that it's some type of happen stand that incidentally the Frog stopped because of the weather weather or because of the day no tell me when you wanted to stop say tomorrow such an idiot he should said today no he says I want to see that it's tomorrow because if I I want to see it's tomorrow that this is how much of an ego he had so now comes to hasem Christ to hasem the says hasem please stop the frogs hem sends a Mal Mal comes frogs AEM says leave he didn't say kill yourself he says leave the frogs says many of them went into the Nile and lived many of them went back into the river and lived says many of them went into the Tano many of them went into the fire why you go into the fire why you going into the fire frog it's a fire you don't do well on fire you don't do well on fire why you going into the fire the the the Frog did a said listen if I go back to the river it's going to take me 20 minutes the fire is 2 minutes that means there a difference of 18 minutes that hasm is not going to be satisfied with me it's better that I kill myself frog that lives off of instinct it's better that I kill myself than hasem not being satisfied with me for 18 minutes Hashem rewards them in this world what none of them died none of the died now fast forward fast forward in the Book of Daniel says says listen I just built a big statue every one of the Nations that uh over here has to come say worship this statue had an option to leave to run away but then they knew if we leave and run away to tomorrow the paper is going to say all the nations came and worship the statue they're not going to say ran away because they're not going to notice that we didn't come so this going to say everybody worshiped him and people are going to assume that we did too that's so we have to ask the Nai what to do they go to the prophet they say listen talk to AEM tell AEM that we did a we did a needless to say we did a calculation our head if the frogs were willing to jump into the fire in order to honor hasem for an extra 18 minutes we're willing to jump in the fire for hem so Nai ask AEM will you save us like you saved the frogs the prophet goes to hem said they're going to jump into the fire for you are you going to save them Hashem says tell them no I'm not going to save them if they want to jump into the fire for me like the frogs good but I'm not going to save them they dovah good for them not going to save them why they leave say he's not going to save you okay we're jumping into the fire Prophet goes back to Hashem hm how come you're not going to save him you save the frogs you saved Abu no no I'm really going to save them no no really be I'm going to save them so how come you didn't tell them because because they want to do mitvah completely I want to give them the opportunity to do the Mitzvah like the frogs completely the frogs didn't know was going to save them if they're not I'm gonna save them they're not really they're not sacrificing anything they know I'm GNA save them if you know's Gonna Catch You it's not me what are you doing it's it's not even a risk they jumped into the fire instead of worshiping a statue and hasem saved them everybody saw they walking in the fire hanging out the fire made the whole thing into a joke says take him out take him out it's bu for us it's embarrassment for us these people are dancing and enjoying the fire but then if you look at the book by he says how come we never hear about again how come we never hear about them again after that story they all died they all they all lived to the fire Sanctified aem's name you know the story already 3,000 years later but there's never another story about them never how come says says after they jumped into the fire and didn't die was a big K the problem is it started becoming a k tool look saves them people started doing chuva Satan got off this chair Satan got off the chair what happened people put on them and they died they didn't die from a fire they died from from evil eye that's why you never heard about them again so that's another way we learn about frogs and what learned another thing is D thought to himself that he he wrote sanctifying aem's name one day a frog tells him listen you know I do better than you right knew the language of the frogs we barely know the language of people the frog says I sanctify H's name all day all the time I sing what do you think I sing what you think I sing a rap what you think I'm busting Rhymes what think I'm having a battle here I'm saying I'm sanctifying H's name just like there's a that says says there's a there's a special angel in the middle of the cosmos huge giant Angel you think it's probably a planet it's an angel and it name is Israel like the nation and on his forehead there's the name Israel his name what's his job his job is to stand in the middle of the cosmos and command all of creation and all of the other angels and Creations and the frogs and the cats and the dogs and the lions and whoever is a holy Jew what do they say so now when a Jew says he's just fulfilling his purpose as part of creation when he does it he's lower than a frog and that's why the says if a Jew does not keep and does not learn T if he's not he should not be allowed to eat meat because the meat comes from a cow and the cow is better than him so is a lot to learn about frogs as you can see it's a lot to learn also you learn from frogs it's like gave this some of the say that frogs is a sign for why says you look how how is it connect she did a she said if you notice the frogs are unlike all other creatures if you look at the ducks that hang out in the same neighborhood when a duck has little ducklings the little ducklings follow the duck the mommy duck for for a long time it's cute you follow little seven eight nine little ducklings follow the big duck but with the frogs that has a thousand little frogs that follow him you see these frogs they go everywhere there's no Rhyme or Reason there's no neighborhoods there's no Clans they don't stay by the mom they don't stay by the dad they don't pay mortgage they don't do nothing they go everywhere that's Al goes everywhere you think no no I only told her this one thing about him it's this one thing I just told her yes by the time the week is over you'll see that it went to her and all of her friends and all friends friends and it went on the news and it went on TV and it went over here and it went on the internet and what happens what happens this is why I tell people that if you're smart don't ever make a comment on the internet honestly if you can't help yourself don't even make a good one it's better you want to make a good comment oh yeah I like the that's fine other than that don't make any comments if you have a problem with a send the rabbi a personal message do not make a public comment why because anyone that actually is going to stop learning from that Rabbi because of your comment there's no end to your suffering there's no end to the punishment so that's why people that make comments freely on the internet against me against M against anybody that actually actually does real kiru it's really you have to feel bad for them aside from being annoyed because it's annoying like you know you work for free you try to help am you try to sanctify aem's name day and night you're talking bad about me like what's the matter with you have nothing else to do in your life go talk bad about Obama go talk bad about the Hamas don't talk about bad about somebody else you have nothing else to do just talk about bad about us make a video about us but honestly at the end of the day you have to feel bad for them why this is a person that's in gay he hasn't realized it yet he's inside of T he's inside deep deep inside the Tuma he doesn't realize why he became part of it like this one guy Ari Roseman who made a comment just a few days ago about the interview that uh mrai did with this uh FR girl FR something Flatbush I know some some woman that interviewed him and apparently the whole interview was based on the fact that she gets a lot of criticism she wants she wanted to interview ra mrai who also gets a lot of criticism and um about Judaism and so on all after she published it apparently a lot of her fans so all of theim came out and started making comments now you expect this from people that are people that are haters of hem haters of Judaism haters of and so you expect it what don't you expect you don't expect it from somebody who calls himself a religious Jew and claims to work for kazak kazak is a well-known Jewish organization in New York and that organizes shim and also has a program to bring kids from public school to uh toot and apparently they do a lot of a lot of good things for especially in the New York area but in a few other places now this guy AR Roseman is a but he claims to work for them he claims to work for them now a lot of people claim a lot of things but you need evidence problem is there's a lot of evidence that he does like his pictures on his profile have him with a t-shirt of kazak Staff he's in a lot of lectures next to the rabbis and so on and so forth now why is this a problem because kazak is supposed to be a kosher organization supposed to be a decent organization I spoke for them a couple years ago he spoke to them many many times in the past uh I don't think there's anything in in recent uh months but in the past he's done many many shim with them and helped their organization especially in the beginning for for for an employee of kazak to go out there and publicly badmouth one of the most important kiru rabbis of Our Generation even if he wasn't even if was just a regular Rabbi that's a kosher person to go out there and call him names and publicly you know do things like that I mean there's a problem it's a serious problem so we contacted and uh you know and thing is though is that I said they said no no he doesn't work here I said why it's unusual for a person to have a staff shirt if he doesn't work there it's unusual for him to say he works there and he doesn't work there it's like somebody says I work for the white house but he doesn't it's unusual like why would you say it they have nothing else to do in your life why do you have pictures with the president I mean if you have pictures with the president every other day you you probably work for him if you if you if your office address is600 uh whatever uh what is it Pennsylvania or something the White House that means you work there if you have pictures and staff and t-shirt me you work there so if he works there he should be fired if he doesn't work there then any reasonable organization would come out with a public statement saying this guy does not work here and what he said does not represent kazak does not represent our organization or even Judaism and publicly endorse ra and the T that he spends but if you can have problems publicizing this that means there's something wrong here that means the Apple doesn't fall for from the tree you can't claim he doesn't work and not say anything about it you understand so that's the thing is that when it comes to the r says if somebody says once he has a big judgment in sham but he can still have share of the world to come but he says this is not talking about somebody that says on a regular basis because of course he has no he say if the guy that says it once depends on the damage if he has but someone does it regularly or has an effect that's going to happen a longl lasting effect if one single person doesn't learn from myself or anybody that's a koser rabbi because of this AR Roseman or anybody else because of that you have no idea what kind of punishment a person like that is going to get one person doesn't learn one person doesn't support one person doesn't do chuva one family is lost even if you hate me even if you hate ra even if you hate be quiet keep it to yourself there's plenty of in the world that you could talk about go talk about Kim Jong Yun go talk about Iran go talk about Hillary Clinton go talk about Obama go talk about Osama go talk about I don't know the the the the Christian missionaries this plenty of things to talk about if you have a filthy mouth and you want to you want to want to do it but to go talk against kiru rabis why why do it to yourself why do it to yourself this we also learned from the frogs so I'm hoping that kazak does come out with a statement and say something supportive because uh it would be sad if they don't because it would means that they're Partners in the crime and I don't think they should be because they have a lot of good things going for them they recently raised a million and a half dollars to to to to do this program to take kids from public school toot and people donate to them people B like them they have events they have big rabbis supporting them and so on okay that's fine it's all fine and good as long as you're kosher organization but if you're not going to back up the Torah and you're not going to do anything to reprimand an employee or clearly show that he's not an employee by showing a cease and assist letter and make a public statement then you're partner in the crime and for that you know that's unfortunate and but you're a frog you're part of being a frog so that's another thing we learned from the frogs we have another tomorrow night I hope you enjoy this one we finished this Mish tomorrow night we'll have another mishna we'll have another Mish but here we see that the people that are have a uh special connection to money usually it's not good usually it's not good we'll learn some more things about other things tomorrow night go ahead thear says that he had a uh hasem had to give it to somebody and he had a one eye he had one one eye so the prophecy that he got was in that eye that he didn't have the hole that he had because that was the only place in his body that was pure so he didn't sin in that place of the body and therefore that's where the prophecy would come to but in general as far as when he first got the prophecy he wasn't uh uh he wasn't evil right away he had the ability to become huge to be sadik but he chose not so a prophet could turn evil afterwards yes okay so my next question is what if mhia come no what if when mhia comes people are still in the process of converting and then complete the process I have a short Shure about 15 20 minutes about that specific question I'll send it to you if you remind me uh generally if somebody's in the process of converting uh but authentic converting the mhia is going to know what's in your heart in a sense that Hashem is going to give him uh give him so he's going to know who's a real convert and who's not and they they're going those people in essence will be already considered as people that are Jewish yeah they'll be able to complete their conversion you can ask Che my know wasting is it actual verse do that on did and it said that he deserved death oh that's what we derive it from no there's several if you watch my sh about wasting seed it's three and 1 half hours of proofs with somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 sources from the Torah from the from the uh um from from the from the many many places uh that scientific even but many places of the Tora proving that it's in a Tora they are not allowed to waste seed also if you look at uh the r chapter 22 it says specifically you're not allowed to waste seed and also the just like just like adultery no it's considered murder it's worse than adultery it's worse it's one of the reasons why homosexuality is wrong huh yes it's it's it's yes some calls it the biggest sin in the yeah but if it's such a big sin how do you how does a person do T for it like if a person's done it a million times how does how does a person like actually bring without suffering tremendously good suffer tremendously but the person does for that sin he's going to suffer a lot in this room could be true you doy no you help others first of all first first first of all you can leave it on you can leave it on it's good questions uh first of all a person can do you know does Chine in a few ways number one he stops sinning stops wasting seed uh number two he uh uh does the different things of T of of wasting as far asak and so on and last but not least he also helps other people not waste heed by educating them by uh sending them the sh giving them the CDs and so on helping other people do Chua for wasting seed those few things are going to help a person do complete Chua for for uh for wasting seed yeah but if every man in this world decides to do to shoua for that isn't everybody going to have to like receive some sort of suffering here you receive suffering people people suffer regardless people suffer in their life regardless of Chua so what's the purpose if you're not if a person's not doing at all exactly so he's suffering for no reason so that's the point if a person does chuva and he gets suffering at least the suffering is worth something if a person is not doing chuva and he's suffering then it's just a waste of suffering he's not getting the full potential of that of that suffering does that relieve him in the next World of suffering if he does Chua if he doesn't do chuat then the suffering here is not going to relieve him of of the next World you're saying that every person suffers every person that's aive everybody suffers everybody suffers there's not a certain there's not a person in the world doesn't suffer in his life everybody suffers it's part of life suffering is part of life people suffer waking up early people suffer uh people suffer you like the sh I like it I'm still here I barely slept last night a person's always happy happiness is a choice suffering as a choice but doesn't necessarily mean that a person doesn't suffer you know everybody suffers people want to eat more than they eat but they can't so they suffer that they're not eating as much people want to spend more than they have so they suffer they not everybody suffer a certain level of suffering some people have disease some you have financial problems schom bite problems kids problems people suffer everybody suffers there those things a person doesn't suffer but suffering per se as far as having pain as far as suffering as being miserable that's a choice that's a choice that's a choice that a person has and if he chooses to to to that's all based on his spirituality it's all based on his to if he has a lot of T then he'll be fine then he won't be miserable about it he'll take it with he'll know that there's the suffering has a value but if he doesn't have Tor then he'll just be miserable and unhappy and think that hm is you know hates him and he won't see the real value of what he's doing so it's suffering for no purpose what if suffer Mally I mean is it possible it doesn't change anything you're asking the same question in a different way suffering it doesn't matter physic Ally mentally emotionally sexually financially any suff all suffering suffering in general everyone has it some people have it one way some people have it another way some people have it multiple ways everyone suffers a person that has a lot of Tor uses that suffering to get closer to AEM a person that does not have t uses that suffering to get away from hm he blames hm inspiration or despiration right good it's all together res I'll give you a small story I met this lady in the hospital she's 90 years old Holocaust Survivor okay 10 years old she was begging people for money she know where her food is going to be she went from there to be extremely rich give a lot of money okay she's in the hospital bed and I'll show you a picture of her she's 90 years old she looks like maybe she's 55 and she's not even sick in house she doesn't even know why she's there because her mind is with Hashem exactly what it's about he's building you for his to be stronger it's not it's not weakness it's such thing is bad everything has ises good our perception is B right go scream out go talk to there's no way after you sp your heart to You're Gonna feel state of mind that's Psy yeah that's it how do you fight the thing is I want to speak to hasem in my own words but sometimes I don't know what to say so like so you tell him Hashem I don't know what to say help me what to say just say that little bit doesn't want big just like you're asking questions now you ask hasem questions the point the biggest way to talk to AEM aside from prayer is to learn about him the more you learn about him through shab to the to M to different books that in the Tor the more you learn about the mid of the more you're going to connect to him and that's also a way that you show him that you love him the more you love a woman the more you want to know about her the more you love a man the more you want to learn about him the more you know the more you love your job the more you want to learn about the job so to learn more about hem will show that you love him and actually will cause you to love him but as long as you don't know enough about him then there's that disconnect so that's part of the part of the ways to fulfill the is to learn about him yeah but isn't that what you said before isn't that what the Buddhists believe that everybody suffers or some somebody in China a long time ago said that that there's no way to receive pleasure in this world or something suffering and pleasure are two completely different worlds pleasure exists and suffering exists one does not cancel out the other somebody can suffer and have pleasure all at the same time even could be could be that heed of himself because he's disgusting of what he's doing but he still has a physical Pleasure Point being is that it's a it's it's it's it's it's these these things happen say one thing doesn't cancel out the other yeah but if a person is a sadik though and he doesn't do anything of that nature shouldn't he not suffer why because the guy that's with a prostitute he has a reason to be disgusted doing the will of hasem so shouldn't he not feel disgusted or shouldn't he not no he's not he's not g to have that same suffering he's G have different suffering that suffering has a value in sham there's a Val there's a value of suffering in sham there's a certain value it's very valuable the uh the um say that if a person really knew the value of his suffering he would pray for suffering that's how valuable it is that's why that's why in your story he didn't want the money he's like why why I should give you the money you didn't pay me I want for the next World doesn't care because he knows the value real sadik knows the value suffering isn't really suffering they'll dance in the suffering made it made we have a little misunderstanding yeah but I haven't kind I I loved A lot of it a lot of it got today I had a couple tears honestly a couple times I'm not going to lie okay so which one didn't you like I'm having just a little problem with the ending there about that's kind of what you mention names you mention this guy such such this everyone has haters everyone's going to try and bring someone down to publici them to point them out I understand publicize them it's not that it's not it's not it's not not publicizing them not publicizing them is an a why because if someone's a rash by not telling people that means you're not warning them so they could suffer his consequences for him so now for example if you have a bank let's you have a bank you have to give give a bank I understand and somebody know works for the bank he's a thief if you don't tell if you don't tell the bank tell fall and other people so the no you're you're now a partner of the crime why you knew he a thief you didn't tell us he robbed the whole Bank we lost the whole bank now because of you are you so 100% sure I started my own eyes I don't say anything 100% I can't put myself in a situation to call somebody out like that I'm not even that perfect to say they're they're not perfect not about being being perfect has nothing to do with being perfect no no no it's not has not no that's that's the point the the when a person is rebuking somebody it's not about whether I'm perfect or not perfect there's right there's wrong there's right there's wrong if somebody is a missionary he's a missionary doesn't make a difference that he's generous doesn't make a difference if you're the most religious guy in the world he's a missionary that means he's considered he's consider disgusting to if somebody goes out and makes public comments public comments about against the Torah against the toah and you keep it to yourself and now everybody thinks oh this guy's sadik they don't know that he's actually secretly saying things against the tah you become partner in a crime no it's not to be your job because there's aah 630 one of the in the is that you're obligated to rebuke you're obligated to publicize this or else you become part of the sin theab page 52 says was one of the T was able to revive the dead somebody died he can say no live goes back to life that's that extent they said in sh what says yeah but he saw his neighbor had a cow that still carried bells on Shabbat and it's not allowed and he didn't tell her anything because he didn't tell her anything they counted as if he was the one that was the owner of the cow and he violated Shabbat so after he found out this he did Chua for the rest of his life he had fast until all of his mouth turned to Black now you fast forward two more pages Shabbat it says that the uh hasem only changes his decree in sham once in history usually makes it decision let's see he doesn't change his mind he's not a human being like us say only one time he changed the decree the mikash he said to the to theim go put a mark a t a t on all theik all the rabbis all theim we called them put a t why because I'm going to destroy the bet mikash but then I'm not going to destroy that the shows up comes to him say Well hem wait a minute you're call all these rabbis sikim but they're not sikim they not why they not is because they knew the truth but didn't tell people and according to your Torah they are part of the crime [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music]