Commandments For The Heart | TORAH FOUNDATION (6)

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Either way, so this Torah foundation series is taking us another step deeper and deeper into our heart because there are frequently asked questions such as what is the connection between the mitzvot and our relationship with Hashem? How does putting on tit putting on to fillin shaking the love all of these different things that we do as Jewish people how do they actually connect to their relationship with Hashem can I just love Hashem in my heart and that's it the takes us another step closer into understanding the connection but also helps us understand more of why and how some of the unpopular mitzvot do the same thing in in the process. This will also help us understand a little bit more about the depth of it all, even to the point of reconnecting with family that lived well before you were ever an idea in between your parents. The stories that we're going to talk about tonight are certainly going to shock you, wake you, and entertain you. So, watch, enjoy, and will be successful. So the we're still in the introduction. He has a section called commandments from above from among the duties of the heart. And he says as follows. All of the commandments are either positive or negative. There is no need to explain this in regards to commandments that involve limbs for they are known by all. I will mention however a few of the positive and negative commandments which occur to me from among the duties of the heart. These will then serve as an example for all of the rest. Examples of the positive commandments from among the duties of the heart are one to believe that the world has a creator who brought it into existence from non-existence and that there is none like him to acknowledge his unity to serve him in his in one's heart to contemplate the wonders of his creations and gain evidence of his ex existence to put one's trust in him. This is a separate mitzvah. To be humble before him, to be in awe of him and afraid and ashamed because both our public and private selves are known to him. to long to do his will and to let all that one does be for his sake to love him and to those devoted to him so as to become close to him and hate those who are his enemies and any other similar duty which is not carried out externally through the limbs. So already we see that The is taking things that we take for granted. Loving Hashem, acknowledging Hashem, hating his enemies, all of these different things. And it's telling us that there's a lot more to it than you can imagine. You can't just superficially say that you fear Hashem or you love Hashem or that uh you uh have any type of feeling towards Hashem without really taking into account what really it entails and how it affects your heart. He then goes into the negative commandments which I'll read briefly and then we'll go and line by line see what the is trying to tell us. Examples of the negative commandments from among those duties of the heart are the opposite of the above. Not to be envious, revengeful or grudging with our people as it is written in Vika chapter 19:18, "Do not take revenge or bear grudge against the children of your people. Do not dwell on sin, desire it, or decide to do it." and similar matters of conscience which only the creator knows of. As it is written in Jeremiah 17:10, I God search the heart and test the mind. And also says in Mishap 20 27, the soul of man is the lamp of God searching all his innermost parts. So the is forcing us to dig deeper into our hearts and reanalyze the words we use when we say we love Hashem, we fear Hashem, we believe in Hashem. If you ask the average person whether they believe in Hashem or not, they believe in God or not, then certainly they'll tell you yes. Yes, there's a few people out there that are fools and choose to not believe. It's not that they actually don't believe. They simply choose not to believe. It's a religion of its own. Because unlike Judaism or other religions really, not everyone missionizes for their religion. Not every Jew will tell other people that are non-Jewish that they should convert to Judaism. In fact, most will not. In Christianity, even though it's very big part of their religion to do missionizing, not every Christian actively missionizes. The same thing with the Muslims. Not every Muslim practices da which is their form of kiru. But in the world of atheism, every atheist is a missionary for his belief system or his choice of nonbelief. meaning he has to express his beliefs and mock your beliefs if they're not the same as his. Every atheist, without an exception, I've met many of them in my life and I've never met a single one of them that did not express their beliefs and mock others. So when you say that you believe in Hashem then that has to mean more than just you believe that there is a creator. So the starts off by telling you that just this concept of saying I believe that the world has a creator who brought the world into existence from non-existence and there is none like him. and to acknowledge his unity, to serve him with one's heart. All of these things really require a person to understand what they're saying. In order for us to understand what the is saying, we have to go to school but not the schools of today rather the school of the Rambam as the Rambam from 800 years ago detailed us the words of the and we're going to read some of them to try to understand what really is being said here. The Rambam in as we discussed previously he gives us the foundation of belief in Hashem. The foundation of connection to the Torah. First first is the foundation of all foundations and the pillar of all wisdom is to know that there is a primary being who brought all existence into being. All the entities in the heavens, the earth and what is between them came into existence only from the truth of his being. So if a person does not want to believe that Hashem created everything from nothing, then that means they they are not only rejecting Judaism, rejecting the Torah, but more than anything else, they're rejecting reality. Now, of course, people going to say, "Yeah, but you have, you know, all types of theories out there. you have the evolutionists, the uh the evolution theory, but anyone that really investigated that could see that it's complete nonsense. Not only because it's all theoretical being preached as actual facts, but also because evolution itself doesn't make any sense. Now the in page 12A talks about how started everything from a point before everything existed in there was just him and there was nothing else but him and then he started everything from a point which he continued expanding expanding expanding and then he roared at at the heavens and said enough die and that's why he's called the god that said die the al shadai means the god that said enough enough expanding. So from here we see that there is a point of truth in the falsehood of evolutionists where they go astray is they simply say that there wasn't a god that created the first point and furthermore the expansion continues and in fact it even continues within earth within all of the planets apparently where there's evolution. ution things are constantly trying to evolve into something else. What they cannot understand and they cannot explain is things like where did the first point come from? Okay, let's say everything started with a point. Where did it start from? Who started it? Never in creation can you ever say that something came out of nothing. There's always had to be something. Even the evolution itself had to start from somewhere. Furthermore, if you look at certain animals that they claim have all evolved, how did they evolve exactly? For example, if you look at the giraffe, the giraffe has a very long neck as everybody knows. It's a beautiful animal, kosher by the way, but we don't have the mo of how to sh it. Some say we do, but needless to say, we cannot sh it because it's a supposedly an endangered animal and very expensive. But needless to say, the heart of the uh of the giraffe is so powerful that it has enough strength in it that the blood flowing from it would explode its brain if all of the blood went to its brain. But yet we see that when the giraffe comfortably and calmly bends her head and our long long neck to drink some water, the head doesn't explode. Nothing happens. Why? Because the mechanism inside that giraffe reverses the process. How could such a system be developed through evolution? The same thing you can say about the uh angler fish. The deep angler fish, deep sea angler fish is a very unique looking fish. We just saw one in a aquarium recently and uh you know seeing is is is something else than you know you see it on a uh video over the years but then seeing it in real life it's something completely different. He said wow how great your creation is. You see a fish looks like a little monster, but then he has like a fishing rod sticking out of his head which he uses to hunt fish. He hides himself under the sand and then this thing is sticking out looks like a fishing rod with something hanging out. Other fish come close to it and right before they bite, he bites them and kills them and that's it. Such a thing cannot be developed through evolution. What came first? the fishing rod in his head or his teeth or his eyes or where I don't know happened. How did he just decide? How come there's no other fish that has a fishing rod sticking out of his head? The same thing goes with the uh the woodpecker. The woodpecker has a tongue with glue on it that is unbelievably strong to the point where any bug that he touches has to come with him, but yet it doesn't stick to its beak. Doesn't stick to its beak. Furthermore, when that woodpecker is smashing on the piece of wood, it doesn't lose its mind. It doesn't go crazy. It doesn't have a concussion like a wood like a human being would have. How did he develop those things? How does such a thing get developed? Why did he decide to start pecking on wood? All of these things are things that a person has to evaluate if they choose not to believe in the creator. And in essence, what is telling us when you see the creation, you understand the glory of God. And that's also what the Rambam says multiple times. But furthermore, we're going to go into some other things the Rambam says. If a person thinks of God in human form like the idoltors do where they think that God came to being in human form or like heretics say that God has an arm, he has a real arm but yours is the mashall. all types of other nonsense. The Rambam speaks against those as well in chapter one number eight. He says it explicitly stated in the Torah and in the prophets that the holy one blessed be he is not confined to a body or a physical form as it says in Deuteronomy 4:39 because God your Lord is the Lord of the heavens above and the earth below and a body cannot exist in two places. Meaning Hashem is telling us he is here and he is above at the same time. He is everywhere at the same time. Something that is confined to physicality to materialism cannot be in two places at the same time. So anyone that tells you that God has somehow has human form is not only mistaken is considered an idol worshipper. And that's why told is in Deuteronomy 4:15, for you did not see any image. Or Isaiah the prophet in chapter 40:2 says, "To whom can you liken me? With whom I am I will be equal?" And the Rambam explains, "Were Hashem confined to a body, he would resemble other bodies." So here the statement that seems insignificant the Rambam explains it has all the significance in the world. This is one of the proofs where Hashem is clearly telling us you cannot compare me to anything else. Just like he says my thoughts are not like your thoughts. My ways are not like your ways. Here he's saying you cannot compare me to anything else. Not to a human, not to an angel, not to anything else. and Odmil Vad. Furthermore, says the Rambam. What about when it says that expressions in the Torah below his feet in Exodus 24:10 or the finger of God in 31:18 or God's hand, God's eyes, God's ears, all of these different things. All of these expressions were used, says the Rambam, to relate human thought processes which know only corporal imagery. For the Torah speaks in the language of man, they are only descriptive terms. So when a kadosh tells us that we should not torment the orphan, the widow and the convert or else he will take revenge and take out his sword and kill those perpetrators. Says the Rambam. Does he have a sword? Does he need a sword to kill? This is proof that it's metaphoric imagery. Meaning if you believe in a creator that created the world, obviously he doesn't need a sword to kill anybody. So the only reason why he said, "I'll kill them with my sword." is simply because he wants to give you some type of imagery to help you remember not to torment these poor people. So the more a person delves into the verses, the more they'll be able to understand if they read the commentary by the sages that explain the verses. Because like I said, the verse by Isaiah can be read superficially where doesn't mean much can't compare me to anyone. What does that mean? It means that he has no body. He has no likeness of a body. It's one of the 13 principles of faith. Furthermore, says the Rambam in number 11, he does not change for there is nothing that can cause him to change. Meaning, any time that a person says feelings about Hashem, oh, Hashem got angry, Hashem is uh is uh loves you, Hashem is all of these things, these if he actually means it literally, then he's wrong. Hashem doesn't have feelings. Nothing can change him. He doesn't need you. He doesn't want you. He doesn't have any of those things because nothing can change him. Emotions change a person as we'll see later on today how emotions can impact a person in such a positive or negative way. But then in chapter two, the Rambam says, "What is the path to attain love and fear of him? love and fear of God. How do you do it? He goes to the and he says as follows. When a person contemplates Hashem's wondrous and great deeds and creations and appreciates his infinite wisdom that surpasses all comparison, he will immediately love, praise, and glorify him, yearning with tremendous desire to know God's great name. As David said, "My soul thirsts for the Lord, for the living God." In Psalm 42:3, when he further continues to reflect on these same matters, he will immediately recoil in awe and fear, appreciating how he is a tiny, lowly, and dark creature standing with his flimsy, limited wisdom before Hashem who is of perfect knowledge. As David Medik said in Psalm 8 verse4 and five, when I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, I wonder what is man that you should recall him. This is also a line that the angel said about Mosherenu. Why are you even giving the Torat to man? This is the reason why the uh says why had to wait in the cloud for uh several days until Hashem started teaching him Torah in order to remove all of the food from his system so he could literally become more similar to the angels because the angels had an argument against him. What is man? He's a man. Why are you giving him the Torah? Give us the angels. Angels are spiritual. They can do things. They don't sin, at least not the same way as man does. But the Rambam is telling us here, these are important principles that a person must evaluate on a regular basis when they're thinking about Hashem. And anytime they say they love Hashem or they fear Hashem or they want to get closer to Hashem because he explains here these important principles regarding the deeds of the master of the world that is telling us you have to know that I'm the one that brought you into the world brought everything the world into existence. But you're not going to know it just by simply saying, "I believe." And that's it. Why? Because to know Hashem versus to believe in Hashem are two different things. To believe that there's a creator, even the biggest sinners in the world can tell you that they believe that there's a creator. to know that there's a creator, to know that there is Hashem, that means that you acknowledge that he is watching every single thing that you're doing. And therefore, it influences your behavior and your decision-m before you say, before you steal, before you commit adultery, before you uh, you know, you do anything that's against Hashem, you contemplate, wait, Hashem is watching me right now. right now he's watching me and I want to do this, I want to do that. Before a person does any of those things, they think, wait, Hashem is watching me. That's knowledge of God. Knowledge of God immediately creates fear. That's why it says the beginning of wis wisdom is fear of Hashem. And what is what is what is uh uh wisdom? Knowledge of Hashem. So now the Rambam, we're going to skip a little bit and go to chapter 7. The Ramba is talking about prophecy Nva. When we hear about having the ability to speak to Hashem and he speaks back to us in different ways, each prophet he spoke to him in different ways except Moshen where he spoke to him face to face which is in essence trying to explain to us that it's like you speaking to your friend. The rest of the prophets had to go through uh you know all types of uh rituals uh their meditation uh they they would have a uh uh epilepsy dreams all types of things. Some of the prophets, for example, they would uh when the prophecy got into them, they would uh lose their ability to control themselves and rip their clothes off and and start screaming out the prophecy. The Rambam says, "One of the foundations of our faith is that Hashem communicates by prophecy with man. Prophecy is bestowed only upon a very wise sage of strong character who is never overcome by his natural inclination in any regard. So already anybody that thinks that they speak to Hashem but yet they have trouble controlling their diet, controlling their language, controlling their behavior already you know that Hashem is not talking to you because in so many words you don't fit the requirement. the basic level requirements. Furthermore, instead with his mind, he overcomes his natural inclinations at all times and he must also possess a broad and correct mental outlook. Meaning, he has to have the right ashkafa, the right mentality in order for Hashem to speak to him. Now, this is not a course for prophecy by any stretch of the imagination. But the point here is that our goal of this series is to de develop our escafa, our outlook, our understanding, our ideology, and understand what our relationship is supposed to be with Hashem, what it's supposed to look like, and even more so, how are we supposed to reshape our hearts in order for that relationship to exist? So the first thing that the is telling us is the acknowledgment of Hashem creating everything from nothing and contemplating the wonders of his creation and gain evidence of his existence. What does that mean? You can go to an aquarium for pleasure or you could go to an aquarium to see Hashem. You can go to a zoo for entertainment or you can go to a zoo to see Hashem. You can go and do business for the sake of making money or you can go and do business for the sake of seeing Hashem. In fact, the two do not contradict each other. You could actually do both. The question is, do you want to do you want to? When a person goes and sees all types of new things in creation, whether it's a different fish, different animals, and so on, it's very easy to see the extraordinary endless wisdom of a how he made different fish and each one has different colors and different tools in order for them to survive, in order for them to hunt, in order for them to eat, in order for them to communicate. all types of different things each one has. They change colors. Some of them look like they're uh different animals that are similar to the ones on land. Some of them look completely different. They look like aliens. All types of creatures. And you say to yourself, why did you make all of these? We don't have a need for all of this. First of all, we don't eat all of them. We don't eat most of them. Second of all, if Hashem wanted to create us food, he could have just created us all the gray fish, all the blue fish. That's the one you eat. And if you wanted to make it entertaining for us, if you made 10 fish, it's already enough. No, but there's literally tens of thousands of species, tens of thousands of species of new ones being discovered on a regular basis. And each one has different tools and different mechanisms. And the more the scientific world investigates these creatures, the more you see the wonders of Hashem. The same goes when you go to a zoo. You see in a zoo all of these different types of monkeys and chimpanzees and and all types of uh big cats and all types of different animals, creatures that look very strange. You never even thought they existed until you saw them. and how they eat and how they communicate and how they even raise their uh their their their offspring. You have ones like for example the elephant that's willing to practically die for their offspring versus the crow that literally throws their offspring to to nothing. Go die on your own. Why? Because you're you don't look like me. Completely different. But both have survived. The alligators can sometimes eat their own offspring. Whereas the dolphins literally you would see that this thing came out. It's already ready to go. All types of different creatures that made different colors, different shapes, different things. You see the monkeys and how they are with their with their uh with their babies, with their offspring. You're like sometimes you wish that people were like that. Wow. I wish I wish the mothers would take care of their kids like the monkey does. That monkey doesn't leave its mother. Sometimes you see people you hear horrible reports, you know, a mother left a kid in in a in a car and the kid died from heat. Like perhaps you should have learned from a monkey cuz the monkey did a better job than you. The monkey is never leaving their uh little baby monkey in a car. The point I'm trying to make here is that gave us all of these different creatures, not just for consumption, not just to make, you know, better belts and and shoes, but also to learn of his glory, of his endless wisdom. And in fact, even the itself says that if it wasn't for the Torah, we would learn certain things from the animals. We would learn how to uh to uh treat our women from the rooster who is very good with the uh female uh with the chickens. We would learn how to be clean and hygienic like the cat. So really you see that put all of the wisdom into the creation and the more a person sees the creation the more they're supposed to connect to the creator rather than the opposite which is thinking that every everything came from nothing. And that's why the says contemplate the wonders of his creation because that's what's going to help you see the evidence of his existence. Furthermore, now a person is not going to be able to go to a zoo nor does it need to go to a zoo or an aquarium every day or even once a year. But this is supposed to affect your daytoday life. How so? says the to put one's trust in him to be humble before him to be in awe of him and afraid and ashamed because both his public and and private selves are known to him. Meaning that the goal of all of this is for a person to understand not only his glory, his majesty, his wisdom, but to have a much easier time trusting that Hashem knows what he's doing. If he gave you something, even if it looks painful, even if it's uh difficult, even if it doesn't make sense, you can trust that he knows what he's doing. What is it like? I said this to somebody that was going through a very difficult time and it helped them and I'm sure it's going to help you because it helped me. Imagine in the old days the movie theaters they uh first of all they weren't as provocative and disgusting as they are today. Today you're pretty much not allowed to watch any film outside of the Bashem films practically. But aside from that and there's over 500 of them so I'll keep you entertained and informed and educated especially the more recent ones like go or hashem took back his millions gome if you want to be superhero you watch all of them one week become sadik vadika anyway in the old days they used to have a movie theaters where you'd have a show at a specific time and then right after that show few minutes later they would start the next show but sometimes they would sell you the tickets even during the show and you are able to walk in whenever you want. So imagine the guy buys a ticket for the show at 5:00 but he buys it at uh 4:45. So he's let in. He decides to walk into the theater even though the previous show is playing and he sits down with all of the people that are there watching the show, but he's watching the end. And he watches the last 10 minutes. And after that 10 minutes is done, everybody leaves except him. And all the new people come in and they're watching the show all from the beginning for the next two hours. Now, during those two hours that he's watching, there's all types of action. There's disappointments. Somebody stole, somebody uh took, somebody kidnapped, somebody's might die, somebody is uh arrested. All types of action that's happening in this movie. And everyone's excited and everyone is disappointed and everyone is, you know, going through the motions of what happens when you watch a film except him. He's not emotional at all. In fact, he's kind of bored. Why? Because unlike everybody else that's sitting in the theater that's watching it for the first time, they don't know what's going to happen in the end. Whereas he, since he watched the last 10 minutes, he knows it all ends up well. He knows that the the guy gets saved and he uh this one is alive at the end and that one this and that all the good things. It all has a good ending. At least in those days, everyone cheered for a good ending. Today, from what I heard, people are cheering for the bad guy. But in those days, they cheered for the good guy to win. So he's not worried that there's a kidnapping or there's a stealing or there's anything because he knows that in the end the last 10 minutes it all works out and the good guys win. This is what we are supposed to learn from this. That is how we are supposed to behave with all the time. Even though we did not see the last 10 minutes of the show, what the is telling us is you have to act as if you have seen the last 10 minutes of the show and you saw that it all worked out and you saw that it was all for good and you saw that it was all for your benefit and everyone ended up being okay. Everyone ended up being beneficiary in their own ways based on the endless calculations of Hashem. That's what trust in Hashem means. Trust in Hashem doesn't mean that you hope it's going to be good. Trust in Hashem means that no matter what he gives you, what he puts on your plate, what circumstance you have to live with, whether it's pain or it's agony or it's poverty or it's whatever it is, trust in Hashem means that you are taking whatever he gives you with a smile and you say and that's why the says you have to bless Hashem for the good and for what looks bad. Why? what looks bad cuz it's not really bad. If you actually knew the entire calculation, it's not bad. So trust in Hashem. How can you trust in Hashem? Once you see the extraordinary creation and how many different things that Kadoshu created, whether it's the little monster fish with a fishing hook on his head or it's the different animals that make sounds. It sounds like they're speaking all types of different things. Look how beautiful the creation is. Look, you have something that literally is created out of nothing. A little grain of sand, a little grain of sand turns into a cloud. A grain of sand turns into a huge cloud that now is able to collect rain, collect water that is now going to help people survive, help people grow fruit and vegetables, all starts from a grain of sand. When a person starts understanding the creation and they realize there has to be a creator behind all of this, none of this could just happen. Then needless to say, if all of this was made by him, then needless to say, he could take care of help me with my little lowly situation. And that's why a person becomes humbled before him and is awe of him and afraid and ashamed because both his public and private selves are known to him. What does that mean? Everyone should understand what that means especially adults. The Shabbat page 32 says that 32A says that after a person completes their life in this world brings him up to the bed of Shamayim and starts asking him questions. The first question is did you conduct your business with amuna? Meaning did you believe in Hashem when you were doing your business, your diamond business, your shalom, your cash advance corrupt business, your uh uh hedge fund business, whatever business you did you actually believe in Hashem while you were doing business. Did you think about Hashem? How could you think about Hashem if you're stealing from people? How could you think about Hashem if you are dishonest? So you didn't think about Hashem already. You failed the first question. Now how come it doesn't ask the person first question did you believe in the in the synagogue? How come it doesn't say that? Says because knows both your public and private self. He knows that everybody looks like a sadik in the bet. All the women look like they all look like they're all praying. They're praying, you know, or whatever they're reading. Maybe it's a newspaper. Who knows? But whatever they're doing, it looks like they're praying. And the man, it looks like they're praying even though he's thinking about his stock portfolio and he's thinking about what is his wife cooking. Hopefully, she put the sauce on it this time because he's really hungry and he really hated last time. She didn't put the sauce and he's thinking and what is this guy sitting in my seat? But he's think is he think knows that when you're in shul you're not always thinking about Hashem and even if you look like Mushenu that's not your real self. That's not your real self. You know what your real self is when you're sitting down and your wife gave you food and you don't like it. And you don't like it. Why? She forgot the sauce or she didn't make your favorite food or she invited your your mother-in-law that you really couldn't wait to not see. You couldn't wait not to see her, but she brought her anyway. How do you act then? How do you act outside of the sh? How do you act in your business when money's on the line? I've said this for years and I'll continue saying it for many more. You ever want to see what a real person is? Put some money in front of them. You'll see them mutate into somebody completely different. That different person, that's really them. When there's no money on the line, when a person doesn't have any money, it's very easy to be righteous. It's very easy to be humble. He's like, "No, you know, what do I have? Hashem, I'm happy what Hashem gives me." You know, Hashem, Hashem gives me gives me my few hundred dollars. I could eat. Okay. Looks like a tadik. Wow. Sadik, wow, you love Hashem. Wow. Look at that guy. He even gave myself $10 because look at that. He gives. He gives. All of a sudden, you put a million dollars in front of that guy becomes a monster. He becomes a monster. Why? Because he doesn't have $2 million. All of a sudden, his wants to eat everything in front of him. All of a sudden, he has desires for things he didn't even know existed before he had the money. Guess what? That other version with the money, that's really him. So, who was the guy without the money? That's the fake version. That's the fake version. That's the version that he had to be. under the circumstances who knows both your public and private selves. How do you act in private? In public, you can show I'm righteous. I'm honest. I met this guy recently. First few questions he asked about me. He asked me, he's like, "So, did you ask people about me?" I said, "No, not really." You know, "Oh, they say good things about me." I know I just said, "I didn't ask anybody about you, but I think people like you. I think you oh they they said good things about me. I didn't ask I asked myself why does this guy care so much about what people say about him until you get to know a little bit more about the person. You realize perhaps they don't have anything nice to say about the guy. Perhaps they don't have anything to say about the guy. So he's hoping that he could collect a few nice things. Maybe he could put a comment on his website say you know oh look there was three people that said nice things about me. Sometimes people have this public image that they're trying to show. They're trying to show the public that they are expert investors. Oh, come to my school. I'm an expert investor. all these scammers especially on YouTube and online in the last 5 years as I've spoken on and I mentioned in the movie the oil news literally 15 year old kids are saying that they're expert businessmen expert investors they have these courses you have to pay three four five $10,000 they're experts in reality the only thing they're experts at is making up a story that's what they're experts at but they have this public image. Public image that they made a lot of money. Public image that they know what they're doing. But says, "I also know the private. I know the private. I know who you really are." Not only you're not an expert, you're a compulsive liar. Not only you're a compulsive liar, you are somebody that's literally chronic chronic with your situation. Meaning that even after someone shows you that you lied, you somehow make them make them feel like they're guilty. There are people like this says, "I know the public version of you. I know the private version of you. You're not going to fool me." This is required for us to to literally believe and to acknowledge at all times. Why? If I know that is watching me at all times and he knows both versions of me. How I am in front of the camera, how I am when the camera is off. That needless to say, Needless to say, it's going to have to steer my behavior. I can't be a faker because at some point I'm going to have to pay the bill. At some point, I'm going to have to pay the bill. As the says, someone that desecrates Hashem's name in private will ultimately be punished in public. You desecrated Hashem's name in private. You did all types of things in private. When the punishment comes, it'll be public. Why? To show you has been watching this whole time. You was scared of people. That's why you did the sin in p in private says but I was watching. So that means you only sin against my eye. That's why all of these celebrities whether it's pi or the other that are out there all these criminals that's why is bringing all the garbage from the sewer. All of them are being exposed. the the gambling ring just got reported in the last few days. All these degenerate multi-millionaire basketball players and poker uh players literally they make hundreds of millions of dollars but that wasn't enough for them. They had to cheat also in gambling degenerates of degenerates. But says I knew it all along. You ignored me. I'm going to expose you. I'm going to show you who you are in front of everyone. In front of everyone. Furthermore, says the a person has to get to themselves to understand this because this will cause you to long to do the will of Hashem. Because when you know that Hashem is watching you at all times and everything he's doing to you, he's doing for you. It's for your benefit. Since he does not benefit, he does not have a profit and loss statement. It's all for your benefit. Then you will long to do his will and let all that one does be for his sake to love him and to those devoted to him so as to become close to Hashem. But then tells us something that's very very unpopular. Until now, I am sure that even my haters have enjoyed the lecture. This is when they're not going to enjoy it. The a thousand years ago knows more Torah than the whole world combined that we have today. He says this belief in Hashem, this duties of the heart, this expression of your love of Hashem, this expression of your servitude of Hashem, this expression of your belief in Hashem is supposed to lead you to hate those who are Hashem's enemies. Again, belief in Hashem, a of Hashem, love of Hashem, acknowledgment of Hashem, servitude of Hashem, all of the different descriptions of your connection to Hashem are all supposed to lead you to hate those who are Hashem's enemies. Why would Hashem care that you hate his enemies? Why would Hashem, if he could take care of his own business as he already has before you were even a thought in your parents' minds, why does he care if you hate or you don't hate his enemies? Why? For that, we're going to have to go back even before we're going to have to go reverse about five six hundred years. actually maybe close to a thousand years before the into the when wrote down the Mishna the six sections of the Mishna he didn't take the entire oral Torah and write it he took the best of the best he took specific things that we needed to know forever. But there were other teachings that are called that are included in the shas also that were also put to writing that we have available to us today at least some of them and in there there is something called a rabinatan this is teachings ofatan some say it's others needless to say it was someone at the same time as Rabuy. And here he takes the of the and he gives us more color, more behind the scenes, more details about each Mishna. For example, in the beginning of tells us that Mushe got to from Hashem from Sai. He gave it to he taught it to Yeshua Benu Yeshua to thee to the elders, theimm to the to the prophets and toim to the anishdah, the men of the great assembly. And the men of the great assembly taught three things. What did they teach? Be deliberate with judgment. raise up many disciples and make a fence around the Torah. In short, be deliberate in judgment. Meaning, don't jump to conclusions. If you want to conclude correctly with you have to have patience. You have to wait for all the facts. You can't just believe people's stories. Just because they said it. Just because the person looks religious does not mean that they really are acting religious. Just because a person says that they're a victim doesn't really mean they're a victim. They could very well be the perpetrator. Just because a person says it's true doesn't mean it's true. Just because a person says this is a lie doesn't mean it's a lie. Don't jump to conclusions. Don't jump to conclusions. Don't make conclusions based on emotions. And certainly don't run to conclusions without knowing what the Torah says about it. Because if you conclude based on your perception, for sure you will make a mistake. You will say something is a sin when it's not. In fact, some people say some say it's a mitzvah. You will say something is allowed when it's forbidden. Even though it looks like it's no big deal, you will continuously and always arrive at the wrong conclusion. So the first thing of judgment be deliberate meaning you have to be patient. You have to conclude with all of the information before you say anything. Until then not a single word comes out of your mouth. That's why sometimes people ask me questions about certain things. They say listen based on what the information that's available right now it's not allowed to believe it. No, but the person is saying person saying whatever they say I don't care what they said according to the Torah not allow not only I don't want to hear it not allowed to believe it even if you heard it not allowed to it's a sin and in fact says if somebody came and told you a story about somebody else and you believed it you are a criminal. Why? Not only did you believe, but you sided with the criminal because the person that's telling you knows or should know that there's no such thing as one witness. That has to be true. So if they're one person, they tell you that it's a sin. It's a sin for them to say whatever they're saying. And therefore, you believe the criminal and therefore you're a criminal. So when a person does not know the law of what said they will constantly make mistakes. They'll think people cheated. They'll think people lie. Don't think people gave people took people this people that. Why? Because they're emotionally deciding. So the men of great of assembly which were comprised of many prophets uh Hezekiah uh you have a uh um was was part of it. Zachariah Malachi Kagay those prophets that were that were part of the men of great of assembly. They also the ones that wrote our sidu and uh the safari version because at that time there was noazim. Sorry to my brothers, but my brothers are fad came before you. Uh but nonetheless uh the uh the men of great assembly said first thing first when it comes to Torah, be deliberate with judgment. Two, raise up many disciples. Why raise up many disciples? If you're teaching Tawa, why not just have five, six people and that's it? You know why? Because even though in the beginning he looks like a super student, she looks like a super student, they look like super students, you don't know if a few years from now they'll turn you into because you said something in the lecture that really applied to them, but they don't want to believe it. So they turn you into you don't know who's going to be a faker. You don't know who's really going to be loyal. You don't know who's going to be there when push comes to shove. You don't know who's there only to take and not to give. You don't know. Have many disciples. Many disciples. You don't know where the good ones are going to come out. You need many. Hopefully, you'll have some that end up being real. Last but not least, the Mishnot says in the name of the men of great assembly, make a fence around the Torah. Okay? So, make a fence around the Torah. And then for the next I don't know maybe 20 or soan elaborates on that and says how did make a fence around the Torah? How did make a fence around the Torah? How did David make offense of the Torah? Everybody wants to show you how this teachings of making a fence around the Torah was applied. He also showed how the other things were applied. Now when it got to the writings, the writings of the Tanakh are the writings. How can we see says defense around the Torah being made by the authors of the writings? How can we see that in action says distance your way from her and do not come near the door of her house says this is telling us based on the verse that says distance your way from her is referring to keeping away from heretics. You're thinking distance away from her. It's some girl. That's not the only thing it means. Her is referring to heretics. And when it says we tell a person do not walk among the heretics and do not even enter a place if they're there for perhaps you will stumble with them and be led astray like people led astray with zonot with promiscuous women and so on. Meaning the the is trying to tell us that this verse is cautioning us not only to avoid the proximity of heretics and not only to avoid heretics in general but to even avoid being next to them because you may mingling with them. Perhaps a person will say, "I'm confident that even if I go there, I will not stumble with them. And even if you say to me that my confidence is mis misplaced and that I will listen to their words and find them compelling, even then I will eventually reject them and do chuva and return to proper beliefs." And therefore the scripture says by proverbs chapter 2 verse 19 and all who come to her do not return nor do they attain the paths of life. So here is teaching us some very profound lessons about heresy and heretics where first off the b is not literally telling us oh this is the fence but rather it's telling us these words of the writings were the fence not only to teach us to avoid heresy but even to teach us to avoid contact with people that are nonchalant about heresy, meaning they're not heretics themselves, at least not yet, but they have a bunch of friends, they're okay, they watch a heretics here and there. So the mavot says this is teaching us not only stay away from heretics, that's obvious. Stay away from people that embrace it, that are also nonchalant about it. Because a person who involves himself with heretical ideas will not avoid stumbling and will ultimately be ins snared by them forever. Why forever? Person says well even if I fall, even if I go to a workplace or to a community uh thing or a meeting with a bunch of heretics, even if they say a bunch of heresy, not going to affect me. No, you're not understanding, says Rashi. What you're not understanding is that here the Torah is promising you if you surround yourself, if you communicate with heretics, for sure you'll be impacted and you'll never be the same. Because even if even if you realize, oh wow, they said heresy. I'm I'm not going to do it anymore. I'm not going to talk about it anymore. It'll still affect you. It'll still affect you forever, says the Torah, because he will subsequently try to return and repent, but the pain and struggle of doing so will cause his him early demise. This is a divine decree as a punishment for his sin, says Rashi. In so many words, what the rashi says on page 17a is that many times heretics they do chuva they die quickly right after that. Why? Because the heresies mash heresy becomes part of their their their themselves their their life their blood. So when they finally do it's like they can't take it. They keep feeling that they have to go back. Why? Because heresy affects a person more than anything else, more than immorality, more than anything else. So if you are nonchalant about heretics, about socializing with heretics, about listening to heretics online, about thinking that no, it's not going to affect you. You don't understand. It will affect you. And even when the day comes and you realize I need to leave this, you're constantly be one foot in, one foot out. One foot in, one foot out. Why? It's a punishment from Hashem. Why did you delve into heresy? Who told you you're allowed to go and listen to heretics? Now, if you didn't know it's heresy and then you discover the truth, your parents grew, you know, raised you like an idol worshipper and now you're discovering the truth. That's one thing. We're talking about somebody that you know the truth but you still choose to delve into heresy. It's a sin. It's a sin. And it's written in scripture says she prepared her meat, mixed her wine, and also set her table. Who is she in this verse? Says, "These are the wicked heretics. For when a person enters among them, they feed him, they give him drink, they clothe him, they give him covering, they give him much money. all in the effort to influence him to join them. However, once he becomes like one of them, he becomes a heretic like them. Each one of them identifies what was originally his and takes it back from the new heretic. see here for all of those that are trying to ride the wave of destruction of the heretics of the world we've discussed in the past because they figure listen they have 500,000 subscribers they have 100,000 subscribers they have uh uh you know 100 million sins per second going to go to gome forever all that stuff people that are jealous of those things know this the moment you come into the system you support the heritage heretics, you're thinking, "Oh, these other heretics, you know, they're going to they're going to help me out." No. Once they make you a heretic, once you have simply sold your soul to the Satan, they'll throw you into the garbage. Everything they gave you, they'll take back and you'll be simply stuck like a prisoner. You'll be stuck like a prisoner. And regarding those who are ins snared in this way by heretics, it says in another verse in chapter 7 verse 23 of Proverbs, until the arrow splits her liver, he is like a bird hurrying to the trap unaware that its life will be lost. In so many words, a person that goes into the world of heresy is like a clueless person thinking that they're not going to die from the arrow. Now here the is telling us that this fence that entire section of the Tanakh the writings gave us because this is not only necessary to protect us from the heretics, but it's also a way that we can fulfill the mitzvah of hating Hashem's enemies. Hating Hashem's enemies. Who are Hashem's enemies? Heretics. Those are Hashem's enemies. As we said in the and provided multiple sources for it in the Gogum Magog film, the ultimate enemies of Hashem will be destroyed at the War of Gum Magog. And they're not even Gog. It's the heretics. It's the enemies of God that will be destroyed. Some of which are Jews. That's the and the says if you're going to say I love Hashem, I fear Hashem. I have awe of Hashem. I believe in Hashem. Hating Hashem's enemies is how you exercise all of that belief. Then the says on the other end the duties of the heart about the negative commandments are not to be envious, revengeful or grudging with our people. How many times you hear stories of people simply so envious of people that have more blessing than them. Hashem gave this person more money. Hashem gave this person a wife. Gave her a husband. Gave him more children. And instead of being happy for other people, they start hating that person. Their envy leads them to hate the person. Now if you ask them why do you hate that person? No, I don't hate them. I don't hate them. Okay, then then how come you say all the bad things about them? How come uh you don't invite them? How come you this? How come you that? No, no, no. For no reason. No reason. But in reality, it's because of envy. It's because of envy. In the world today, one of the most bizarre topics that people choose to talk about as lectures is baseless hatred. Why is this a bizarre? Honestly, I don't know how the vast majority of speakers out there dare even mention dare even mention as a topic to talk about in lectures on or different times of the year. No more no more. Why? Because the reality is from my experience nine out of 10 people if not almost 10 out of 10 people have some form of you're not Ashkenazi enough. You're not safari enough. You're not rich enough. You're not poor enough. You're not uh religious enough for for our customs. You're not kidish enough. You're not this enough. And literally the has become so standard that I just spoke to one of my uh one of our sadikad. And he told me he's like listen in Israel in the community do not marry and do not marry. Like, what do you mean? What do you mean they'll marry each other? He says it's it's if you do it, people will look at you like something's wrong with you, like you're class B. It's like we're one people, but two different nations. And we're not talking about problems with the secular people here. We're talking about from community. The from community refuses to marry each other. Why? He's safari and she's a skinny or vice versa or both of them are skinny but he doesn't have enough yikus or she doesn't have enough money or all types of other nonsense. Literally people are looking for reasons to hate each other. Oh wait, he lives in Muny. No, no, no. It's not for us. Why not? What's wrong with Muny? It's a bad place. He's willing to move. No, no, it's just not for us. You know we are from Ta. What difference does it make? What difference does it make? Oh, he's from Lakewood. No. Oh, he has that profession. Uh, oh, he's that his mother is this. Oh, his parents are divorced. Oh, he only has one. Oh, this. Oh, oh, oh. All you hear is, oh, everyone has a deficiency. Everyone has a deficiency that literally people have turned the entire nation to baleum. Deficient people. No one is good enough for our son. No one is good enough for the daughter. No one is good enough to pray with. No one is good enough to donate to. No one is good enough to listen to. No one is a leader. Go ask who's the leader in your community. Ask a thousand people, you'll get 2,000 hands. Why? No one wants to listen to one leader. Even if you have a gadul in the community, you have a gadul. You ask one person, you listen to this gadul. No, no, I have a different R. All right. You you listen to this? Yeah. Well, with some things, but he's a How come you don't listen to him? Well, you know, it's uh literally nobody wants a leader. Nobody wants to listen to anything. How do they pick leaders? Who said what I want him to say? Who said what I want him to say? In a matter of 10 minutes last night, 10 minutes, my mind almost blew up. Look at the the the the the huge thing. And this is all real stuff when I spoke to the he told me what he told me. Literally, both of us wanted to cry. Then turn on the phone, check things. I see I got a message. Somebody sends me a message. Listen, Rabbi, our community here in the United States suffering. The guys here are struggling, barely have jobs, barely have this, barely have that. Want to do something to help them. Da da. Literally, every second person has a tragedy. Everyone is lacking money. Everyone is miserable. Everyone is okay. Horrible things. We hear a lot of it in Israel. We try to help as many people as possible. Two seconds later, you go to I go check the the channel on YouTube and you see there's recommended posts. There's a new video by one of these podcasts talking about the financial problems of the firm community. What are the financial problems? Now, we've gone to the point where some communities, if you're making less than $250,000 a year, if you're making less than $250,000 a year, you're considered lower class. Why? You can't really afford all the things you need in the community. You can't afford to live in a million- dollar house. You can't afford to send them to the yeshiva that's going to provide education. You can't afford to go away on Yumo. You What? Do you realize that statistically speaking, if you make $300,000 a year, you are considered part of the 1% top earners in the world? Over 8 billion people, 300,000, your top 1%. But we have gotten to the point where there's such a variance between communities. Now, those that are making millions, if you're making it ethically, you're making it legally, you're doing won't give you 10 times more. But there's unfortunately many people that make it unethically which will take it away from them so at least they could suffer in this world and not in the next world. Needless to say, this is not hatred on people making money. But I understand and and money is needed in the world. But we have gone to the point of materialism. We have gone to the point of loss of control. We have gone to the point where we have no idea what we're even paying for. Why is yeshiva so expensive? Why can no one afford it? Why do you have to be a millionaire? But yet at the same time, on one end, in the same country, quarter million dollars a year, you're barely making it. Another end of the country, no one has any food to eat. They're lucky if they make 50,000 a year. Lucky. They're looking for a job to make 50,000 a year, thousand bucks a week. How how could it be when we have so much Torah in the world but no one wants to listen to it? Then we're going to have strange problems. You're going to have somebody say is the reason why the beta mikdash was destroyed and then an hour later throw out or reject a boy from being accepted to yeshiva because he's safari or because he's uh I don't know from some type of uh you know uh that's not like yours. How can you say this and do that? Oh, so the that you were talking about was just within your own family, not everybody, not the rest of how is it that part of us are complaining about not having enough money to go on two vacations a year for PES and Sukkot while the others literally don't know how they're going to finish the month. How how is it that we have this all comes from a disconnect? a disconnect with with why we're even here and having all types of feelings that are foreign to a healthy relationship with and therefore people are envious of each other. Instead of being happy for each other because Hashem gave him a lot of money, Hashem gave him a good wife, Hashem gave him a good whatever, people are envious of it. So they put on the guy. He ends up losing his money because of he ends up losing be you know having all types of problems because of the says most people die from is not a fake thing is not a fake thing. is not mumbo jumbo is a real thing. For some reason, some people No, no, I don't believe in come on the ghost and debukes. I don't have Okay, so let me ask you a question. Why do you shake love? Why? Why do you shake love? Oh, it's avana. What does it do? What Hashem cares about? You take a little palm tree and shake it. Why? Why do you shake love? Why do you eat kosher? Why? Why? Why? Why? Because all of it has something supernatural. All of it. The fact that you don't see it doesn't mean anything. The fact that you don't see it doesn't mean anything. But guess what? When you shake the like Hashem said, something supernatural happens. When you eat kosher food and make a blessing, something supernatural happens. When you look at somebody with jealousy, something supernatural happens. So when people do not have to when people do not have the right outlook on what they're doing in this world then they will constantly have envy, revenge, grudges, all types of things that are forbidden and they have no idea what kind of damage they're causing themselves and to other people. We'll finish off with a couple of stories that will help us put things into perspective. The first story I read with my dear daughter is story that was written in this book called great Jewish letters and plot you see a letter written a couple hundred years ago and it affects your as if it happened to you. There was named of Ashina lived in the 1800s. E one day during uh during the high holidays went to go pray and got tired and fell asleep for a moment and had a dream and he saw some sadik but he didn't know who it was. Later on he saw it again and happened to him a few times after the this sadik came back again and initially the sadik told him that he came there to warn him because he has to do a tikun for sin that he's made and after he cried throughout the holidays the sadik told him you've made a tikuna Now you will get the message that I really came here to tell you as a reward for your chuva. And he says what? He says my name is the Mari Benv was a Dian Kadosh Rab Ben who lived in the 1500s. And he says in the year 1545, I was a dan betin there was a business dispute between two people. I ruled against one of the people who happened to be a very powerful and rich Jew that everyone was scared of and he did not want to accept my judgment. And I warned them. I told them this is the judgment and you have to comply with it. And this went after me when I left the bed outside and punched me in the face in the middle of the street. Punched the dian the kadosh in the in the face in the middle of the street. I fell to the floor. And as I was getting up, I saw that no one came to my help. No one even said a single word to this rich Hasha because they were all scared of him. And at that moment I said, "Mashem, judge them. judged the this this uh this disgrace of the Torah. Later that night, the owner of the uh spice store went into his store with a candle and saw that there's a mouse in the store. So, he chased after the mouse and accidentally put his whole store on fire. This fire spread from his store to destroying nearly the entire town. Nearly 5,000 Jewish houses were burned to the ground. Over 300 people died. And it all started from this rich Rasha. That rich Rashad is your great greatgrandfather and he is still suffering in kafa until this day for what he did and you have to help him is scared to death. scared at the holiness of the Mahib and live mamm angel he said but I don't know how I don't know anything how could I do it he said you have to do it okay how do I do it he says you have to study my book the response I called live to the point where you know it fluently and it will take you four years because you are constantly involved with the helping the community. That's why it's going to take you a long time. But you have to do it and you have to get the book from your he didn't do it right away and he started seeing problems happening in his life and the Rav came back to him in his dream a few more times. Why aren't you doing what I said? Oh, I got consumed. I got this. Things were distracting. Things were taking the time. I'll get to it. Then one day, his wife falls ill. Literally in a matter of hours, she goes from being perfectly healthy that she's on her deathbed. No one knows what to do. He falls asleep. The marv comes to him again. He says, "This is your final warning because you still have not done what I asked you to do." No, but I sent messengers to go get me the book from the stores. I didn't tell you to go get it from the stores. I told you to go get it from your rabbi that's in a different country. Go there and give it get it from him. So he sends the letter to Isra with fear and trepidation pleading for him to send him the book at all prices. Why? Why is RAB? He says because your rabbi also has a tikun to do. And in order for him to do his tikun, he has to complete his book that he's been writing and he can't afford to do it. So you send him the money for this book, he'll be able to write his book and there's more to in the world. But as a result, he will finish. You complete his tikun and you will not only save your wife, but you also save your great ancestor that made a sin 300 years ago. A person thinks that they can embarrass people without any consequences. A person thinks that they can steal from people without any consequences. A person thinks that oh if I just say I'm sorry then it's all okay. You don't understand the depth of judgment is much deeper than you can possibly imagine. And the more a person delves into the more they realize how much work we have to do each and every single day just to get a basic level understanding of what our role is in the world. Shalom. His yard site was just on Shabbat. And the stories about are endless. But once in a while you hear a new one. That shocks you more than any everything else before. This story I heard from my Rav who got it from Ozer. He actually has a video of this and he double checked the story, doublech checked the facts. This is like checked and verified. About 20 years ago, there was a kila in Kifa where most of the people over there were not very religious but practically in every corner in Israel there's synagogues. So they had a synagogue over there but they struggled getting a minan. So for min prayer the saw there's only eight people. Okay, let me or nine people and uh he went outside. Let me get another person. He goes outside, sees nobody in. Then he sees young guy pizza delivery. Domino's pizza. Israeli guy, not religious at all. Cuckoo earrings. Surprised if he knows anything about Hashem, but he says, "Okay, it's another Jew. Come on. you want to come on help us out come uh complete a minan and the young guy says to him no command zati leave me alone I got work to do I'm working come on please do us a favor we need 10 I promise you other people going to come the moment they come you can leave pressured him say okay fine fine I'll come brings him to the synagogue but as soon as he comes in one of the other people lost his patience and left says, "Okay, okay, listen. You're already here. Stay away. I'm going to get another guy outside cuz now he's back to nine again." So the pizza guy, he's sitting there and the guy goes outside looking for another guy to complete the minan. In the meantime, the young pizza delivery guy is looking around the synagogue sees all the kadusha people with a keepa and he starts thinking about his life start thinking what am I here in the world? I don't really know anything about this religious stuff. He starts thinking. As he's thinking, the good comes in with two other people. So now he has more than 10. They come in and they're going to start praying. And he the goodbye tells the peace of delivery guy, "All right, listen. I got it. You don't need to stay. You can go." So delivery guy says, "No, no, it's okay. It's okay. I'll stay." And the goodbye does something very nasty. He says, "No, no, no. It's okay. You can go. Meaning, you're not really the right fit for us. You're not really religious enough for us. And he gives him the boot to leave. From this, the delivery guy gets really offended and leaves. And they go by goes, prays like nothing happened, even though he just made a crime of the century. sin goes and prays to Hashem. At least he thinks so. He prays, does his thing later that night, he goes to sleep, and in his in his sleep, he dreams and he sees the pizza delivery guy coming running at him and starts screaming at him. I don't forgive you. Not in this world and not in the next world. And I'm waiting for you for what you did to me. I'm waiting for you to come here and pay for what you did and I don't forgive you. Not in this world and not in the next. And he keeps repeating it. And the guy starts crying. What did I do to you? What did I do? I don't know what what happened. What did I do? And the pizza delivery guy tells him, "I was in that synagogue. I was in that synagogue. And while I was waiting, I started to think. I started to think about my life." and had you let me stay there, this is what would be. And he shows him a picture of himself being completely religious, this is what would be. But because you kicked me out, I left and I got hit by a truck later that night and died. And now I'm in the bed of heaven and I don't have any to I don't have any mitzvot and you're going to have to pay for what you did. and he wakes up scared to death. He says to himself, "No, this this can't be real." I mean, the says that most of the dreams are not real. He goes back to sleep. And again, the delivery guy's back and screaming at him, I don't forgive you. Not in this world. Not in the next world. Look what you did. This is what was supposed to happen. Now, he shows him himself because they show him in heaven. They show him what he would be, what he was supposed to be. They show he shows him an image of himself religious with kids that are religious and the guy scared to death wakes up again and a third time I don't forgive you. The guy wakes up. He doesn't want to go back to sleep ever. His wife sees something's wrong. Says, "What happened?" He can't ignore it. He tells her what happened. She says, "You have to go to the rabbi. You have to go to the rabbi. you have to tell the rabbi what happened. He goes to the local Rav and the local Rav is a but not uh to deal with something like this and he tells him listen you ask me aloud not allowed I can tell you certain things which he did not allowed but I can't help you with this somebody from the bed of heaven wants to prosecute against you I can't help you he goes but he's crying to him he goes but rabbi what am I going to do rabbi thinks he says there's only one that can help you but he doesn't accept people anymore he's old. Who? He's already older. Doesn't really accept people anymore, but I don't know what to tell you. He's the only one that can help you. Go to him and beg them to let you talk to him. He's in make the ride. The guy does not waste any time, but he wants to verify. Is this story true? So, he goes to the pizzeria. He sees the pizzeria is closed and he sees this posters of the funeral. One guy shows shows up there. He goes, "Who are you?" He goes, "What happened here?" Goes, "Ah, don't ask. The owners of this pizzeria, their son, nice kid, got hit by a truck yesterday while he was delivering pizza." The guy says, "Did he look like this? We had earrings on both sides." Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And he had a cuckoo and a this. Oh, you knew him. Yeah. Yeah. I met him. Yeah. He was such a nice guy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And the guy doesn't know where to bury himself cuz he realizes this dream is real. This just happened. Now I have to make my way to Vadf. He's the only in the world that can help me. He makes the trip to from Kyifa, gets there. They tell him, "Listen, I'm sorry is doesn't have uh he doesn't see people anymore. He's tired. He needs to learn. You come to one of the shi maybe." No, no, no. I need to speak to him. He starts crying. He's like, "Listen, I'm sorry. You can't. I'm not leaving. I have to talk to him. It's nephesh. It's life risk." We're sorry. We're sorry. The RV told us no. The guy refuses to leave. He sits on the stairs and just hysterical crying. After a while, they seem crying. So, come on. Come on. Come in. We'll see what we can do. They bring him to the room. Raady is learning. After a while, raises his head and he sees this guy and they tell him who he is. No, come tell me. And the guy the tells the story hoping for mercy, hoping for a solution. As soon as Roi hears the story, he gets angry with him. Why'd you do that? Kicking out a Jew out of the synagogue. How can you do that? What kind of good are you? Mama yells at him. I can't help you. You deal with it. do something like that to a Jewish the guy if he was scared before he was even more petrified now hearing rebuke him literally it's almost like open up with and put him in there the guy doesn't know what to do but the for the helpers say okay come on the uh got upset you have to leave you have to leave and the guy cries hysterical as he's leaving and as he gets to the door right before he's about to leave Ro says wait he turns around you sit there let's see what we can do with you doesn't say a word yes rabbi he sits the chair over there he sits there and ra goes back to learning as if the guy's not there a half an hour, an hour, an hour and a half, two hours doesn't say a word to him. After two hours, the guy falls asleep. In the sleep, what happens? The pizza delivery guy shows up and starts screaming at him. I don't forgive you. Not in this world and not in the next world. What? You don't think I know that you went to He's not going to help you and I won't do it anyway. I'm going to go against you for what you did. And he's yelling at him and the guy's crying and all of a sudden as he's yelling at him as he's crying shows up in the dream and he says to the pizza delivery guy, "Why? Why you doing this to him?" No, Rabbi, he did something bad to me. He says, "You're right. He did something terrible, but look, he's crying. He's sorry for what he did. He does He didn't realize he did something so bad. Why don't you forgive him? Stop tormenting him. No, I want to prosecute against him because I would have ended up having memot instead of nothing. So says to the pizza guy, listen, you're right, but what if he takes upon himself to learn 4 hours a day of Torah for your every day? Would you forgive him then? No, I don't forgive him. Says, you know why? You don't know what the merits of Torah is because you never learned Torah. I know how much Tawra is worth in this place and I'm telling you it's a good deal for you. Take the deal. He will learn four hours a day for your merit. It'll help you. I know what it is. The pizza guy says to him, "Okay, Rabbi, if you say it, I believe you." But every day he does it. Every day the guy wakes up, tries to figure out where he is. Open up his eyes. He's He's still in Rabaja's office. Opens up his eyes and what does he see? He sees Raba standing next to him with his hand out and he says four hours. Don't forget it's it's a lot. It's a lot. Four. Four hours. That's what we agreed. Don't ruin it. Okay. Rabbi says start today in the dream in the world in reality in those that cleave to a who do not have the limitations of those that do not. The is trying to teach us the very basics of connecting to for most of us the very basics seem like they're far away but that's why we're starting with the introduction to understand to say that you believe in Hashem to say you fear Hashem to say you have awe of Hashem to say you love Hashem requires you to understand what is the relationship supposed to even look like. The more we see glory in the creation, the more we want to cleave to Hashem, to do his will, the more we love him. And the more we love him, the more we disconnect with these foreign beliefs, the more we hate his enemies, the more we run away from anything that's against Hashem. And the more we remove anything that's foreign from within us or even from around us, this is food for thought for us to delve into our own hearts and start working start working on removing all these foreign things that are ruining our lives, that are ruining our communities, that are ruining our generation. Because if each and every single one of us took upon ourselves to just start fixing one thing, one thing and share it with another person and they could fix one thing. This in itself could make an extraordinary chuva revolution that is unlike anything else we've ever seen. And will hear our prayers and fulfill our will to do his will. Thank you very much for learning with me. Hashem bless each and every single one of you to succeed in delving into your heart and connecting all of the all of the commandments to your belief in anyone that wants to support can donate on our website.org. And as I said earlier, we have a sponsor for some of these Kiru boxes. Anyone that orders one uh will get two. one for themselves and one to give to somebody else until we run out of the 20 that are being sponsored. Thank you very much for your support and we will learn again later this week. Couai, we're finally here. The new Kiru box opens up. A nice little cushion here. 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