DEVARIM: Don't Be Afraid Of Anyone | STUMP THE RABBI (240)

We're back here on our Wednesday night stump the rabbi where after some you guys will ask some questions will give us the answers tonight is for the foratana benria And a very big mazalto to our family. My dear brother and his wife just had a baby girl. will have a a lot of success raising heart with and all the issues. And thank you very much to all of the supporters, all those that are donating on our website.org or if uh they're donating with uh cryptocurrency or other ways or even if they're donating with their time. Lots of new volunteers. Bo Hashem have joined team Hashem over these uh this past several weeks or past month or so. And Bo Hashem, they're adding a lot of new skills, a lot of new efforts. And Bo Hashem, it's uh already uh creating fruits. So, hashem for that. Anyone that wants to donate could go toem.org. If you want to uh simply donate your time by distributing our material in uh your uh community, you want to distribute the books, you want to distribute uh the USBs, uh you can go to kirutore.org and get some uh books, some of the shiatsar posters and uh distribute them for free in your community. We even pay for the shipping if you're located in the US. So Karim, tonight we have a extraordinarily important sh because we're not only starting a new para but also a new book in the Torah Sephim, the book of Deuteronomy, but also we are going to delve into the ultimate mitzvah. Now, I'm sure if you've been watching my lectures for enough time, uh, you've heard me say a thing or two about fear of heaven. But have you ever heard of the mitzvah and in essence the commandment not to be afraid of anyone? Just like there's a commandment to have fear of heaven, there's also a commandment not to be afraid. Now to understand the depth and the meaning of this we have to dig deeper into this paradim and the words of the sages in order to see how applicable and relevant this is to our lives starts off the personal journal of Mosher Rabenu tell us that this was in essence what Mosherenu wrote himself and That's why it's spoken in first person rather than the first books of the five books of Moses where it's spoken in you know from the perspective of Hashem and Hashem gave prophecies to Mosherenu in every part of the Torah including and thereby told him to include this as the fifth book of the Torah and Mosher Rabenu uses this journal to rebuke Am is to tell them about the mistakes they've made but also how to fix them. He gives them the laws and he gives them the foundation of all Mus. And after he tells them, reminds them of some of the things that they've done, whether it's the golden calf or the uh sin with the spies or complaining about the mana tells that they have to have leaders, they have to have judges, those that are that will issue the rulings. But even every individual Jew also has to be a ruler in his home, a ruler in his community to a certain extent. And thereby this is applicable to everyone to a certain extent. And in chapter 1 verse number 17 says, You shall not tremble before any man for the judgment is God's. Any matter that's too difficult for you, you shall bring to me and I shall hear it. See here we see that Musherenu and the Torah itself does something unusual. If you look at all of the mitzvot in a whether it's the dum or shabbat generally speaking the written to does not give an explanation of why he hashem is doing what he's doing why he's commanding this but here you see that is saying in the name of hashem that you have a commandment not to be afraid of any man. Why? Because the judgment is God's. What does that mean? The judgment is God's. How is this applicable to your life today? Well, one of the understandings we will find out from this mitzvah is that a person that's able to fulfill this mitzvah of not being afraid of anyone is literally fulfilling the entire Torah if he knows how to do it right. Because this mitzvah includes time. Now, before we get into that, we have to understand the landscape we're in, the world we live in, where one of the worst attributes, one of the worst midot, one of the worst character traits that a person can have is to be a copycat. where they're easily influenced by other people. And the reason why is because there will come a day that a wicked person will be next to you. And if you're easily influenced, you'll start copying them. You'll start doing what they do. you'll be ashamed not to follow their words, even if their words are against Hashem. And of course, the Satan always sends those people and they start off small, like the PH Kids uh uh episode that came out in the last week about how the Satan starts off with a small nail in a big house only to ultimately take over the entire house. A person that allows themselves to be easily influenced doesn't think about the ramifications of what could this could lead to. But the reality is that a person that's easily influenced does not realize how horrible it is. And if a person is the influencer, a terminology that has become very popular in the world today of YouTube and so on. If you're an influencer and your influence is a damaging influence, you don't realize how horrible the damage that you cause and how unquantifiable the punishment will be. This is one of the things we discussed in the film OA News that we released several months ago where these so-called Jewish podcasters that talk about going off the and all types of heretical beliefs that they have don't realize how horrible these things are going to end up being for them because while they think I'm just saying my perspective that I don't want to do it, I don't believe, I don't this, I don't that You think that you're saying your perspective, but in reality, you're saying it to other people. Needless to say, you're saying it to the public at large. And there will be some people that will be impacted by it. People that are weak, weak characters, people that are easily influenced. And when they follow your heretical advice, the damage can be unquantifiable. To put things in perspective is a story that I heard from my Ra Rabm bless him given many days many years and lots and lots of success in his and Kir. told me that when he was a kid, we're talking about decades ago, he went on a trip with his family. They went to some place where people uh picnic and, you know, do all types of things where they're enjoying the the beautiful land of Israel. and he went with his family and there were other families that came and he says in this trip there were two women. One was a religious Jewish woman that was very modest, covered her hair with a mit. The clothes were fitting her wide fitting so you don't see the shape of her body just in accordance to. And the other one was a more so-called modern type of religious woman with a long wig longer than the exile, tight fitting clothes with the nose up in the air like she's high society. And on this trip while everyone is trying to have fun all of a sudden the high society from Jew decides that she's going to make fun of the other woman that is more according to the how does she make fun of her in front of everyone she says look at you look at how you Look with the schmata on your head and your white clothes, all this rags you have on you. You look like the Benanishkai. You look like one of these old Safhari rabbis from Baghdad. Everyone there is Safhari. So she's not like Ashkenazi versus Safari. Even the wigwearing woman is Safhari. But apparently she doesn't realize where she came from. And she says this embarrassing thing or what seems to be embarrassing at least in front of everyone. Frame says, "Even though I was little, I already had this thing in me where I always wanted to defend people that were weak, but I didn't need to in this time because the righteous woman says to the high society woman that just tried to embarrass her, you can make fun of my clothes, my mit, the way I look as much as you want. But at least I'm not someone that causes the public to sin aim like you with the way you dress with her long wig and her tight clothes that are provocative to make sure that everyone that looks at her sees every shape and every curve in her body. She says, "At least I'm not causing people to think about me like you do and cause them to sin." Unlike her original plans, this high society woman that tried to embarrass the sadika was silenced in an instant and everyone else was quiet. She had the trait where she wanted to influence the righteous woman to be like her and many people do that and in fact in the world today the satan has many tools to do that. A poor little girl wanted to write different things about her life. So her mother in Texas, nice woman, very righteous and says, "Okay, I'll get you something on the uh whether it's a phone or a tablet she has." And the girl is only 11 years old, 12 years old. And she gives only specific learning programs. She gets her this application and she says to her, "Listen here, this is uh something you could write your thoughts and ideas, one of these applications." And the mother says to me, "I have a very big problem with my daughter. She's only 11 years old, but she's already thinking about getting married and she wants to, you know, have a boyfriend now and she wants to uh uh kiss the every I'm like, what? What? H how could this happen? She go she's a religious girl. She's asked me questions in the past. She's done everything good. What what happened just in a matter of a few months? She says, "I don't know." But I asked her and she said, "Well, that's what my uh my tablet is telling me." I said, "What does this tablet say?" She says, "The tablet, I thought it was just going to write her thoughts, but the tablet also asks her, who did you kiss today, and what are you wearing today?" When I heard this, I realized that AML could literally enter every aspect of a person's life. And because she was righteous, I explained to this young girl that this is forbidden. showed her what the say about it in by the where in the beginning he talks about the aspects of and unbeknownst to most people is not just something you should think about once you get married but rather It's something that a person needs to know even when they're single. Why? Because in order to be taho, it's not just about going to the mikvet. It's also about understanding what is. And says when it comes to morality, our authorities said in page 25b, you shall not you shall allow yourself to be killed rather than transgress it. Meaning that even touching a woman, whether she is your wife or not, when she's nida, in an affectionate manner, whether it's kissing, holding hands, is forbidden according to the Torah. Even casual touching is prohibited according to the rabbitical authorities. And it makes no difference whether the nida is the man's wife or whether she's unmarried. If a man has relations with an unmarried woman whose nida he is punished with just the same and a Torah prohibition against touching her in an affectionate manner also applies to an unmarried woman since every unmarried woman is presumed to be nida because they don't go to the mikvah and not allowed to go to the mikvah until they get married. One is prohibited to touch her or even gaze upon her. And our sages were effusive regarding the severity of the prohibition of not gazing a woman. And he goes extensively in regards to also telling people to warn others that go to weddings and all types of gatherings where there's boys and girls or men and women dancing together and let them know this is a serious violation of the Torah to such an extent that the same judgment applies to it that it's better off to die than to have a mixed dancing party or be part of it. When this little Sadika girl heard this, the poor little kid started crying. Goes, "I didn't know. I thought that uh this is what you're supposed to do." And Bashem, she fixed it. When I told this to my my daughter, may Hashem bless her, give her long long life with a lot of success in Torah. She told me, "Aba, yes, this this type of stuff is everywhere. Do you want me to talk to this girl? You want me to help you?" I told her, "I'm planning on telling her what it says in the book. Do you think it's a good idea or she's too young to hear?" She goes, "No, no, Aba. She needs to know it. You know, my daughter is even younger than her." She goes, "No, no, she needs to know. I think I think if she's going to like it." And she was right. God bless her. What can we do in a world where there is influence and influencers coming from all directions trying to get you away from Hashem? Now, of course, you could say, well, you could be like that woman in the story of Rab where she told the other woman that she's aim. She caused others to sin. But unfortunately the majority of people whether they are religious or non-religious don't realize this. Don't realize that their brother or sister or cousin that dresses immodestly that does things talks against Hashem is causing the public to sin. They don't think that way. They think it's just his opinion or just her style. And the Rambamask that the way that created people is that they will be influenced by others. They'll be influenced by their surroundings. So much so that people can become scared of someone just by hearing of who he is. There was just a story that was publicized in Israel where this guy came to a hotel and told him that he's part of this mafia criminal family and he is taking over the penthouse floor of the hotel and if they say anything he's going to burn the whole place up. The poor hotel owners couldn't do anything about it. They were afraid of him and they knew that the mafia does that. This guy lived in a hotel for 6 months. Eventually, somebody from the hotel went to the family and asked them maybe you could get your guy to pay us or leave or something. Like, who are you talking about? This guy that's there. He goes, he's not part of us. we don't even know who he is. And they realized the whole thing was a scam. The whole thing was a scam and they threw him out obviously. But the fear from this possible life danger or at least financial danger wasn't because he showed a gun or or a knife or No, no. Simply he mentioned a word. He's part of a criminal family. The says in that being a Dan is not like other jobs where you go to your job. If you do good, good for you. You don't do good, no big deal. page 109b says in the name of who said it in the name of a judge should always view himself as though a sword is resting between his thighs and gum is open beneath him as says in the song of songs 3 7 and Eight. Behold the couch of Schlommo, meaning the beta mikdash, 60 mighty men, meaning the judges are around it of the mighty men of Israel. All of them are gripping swords skilled in battle. Meaning debate between them. Each with his sword on his thigh for fear of knights. What does it mean fear of knights? fear of gay which is similar to night. Why is why should a dian be afraid of gay? I mean, isn't he the most righteous? Isn't he the most knowledgeable? Isn't he the one that learns to the most? Yes. But because of that, he's been put in a position of judging. And a judge who's unwilling to confer to those that are greater than him and ensure that he ruled correctly lacks the level of fear of heaven necessary and ultimately he will issue incorrect rulings for which he will be punished in gay for. Furthermore, if he is a judge that does not have enough, he's also going to fail in this mitzvah that we learned from that you're not allowed to be afraid of anyone. Why not says thei on this verse when musheu is telling us don't display fear of anyone he's saying that if a judge is afraid that the party who he convicted will hate him as a r as a result of his ruling against The Torah is reminding him that ultimately the judgment is God's and he has only carried out God's will. So there's no reason for him to be afraid. Adan is forbidden from being afraid of those that he's ruling for. We're not talking about if the guy threatens his life. We're talking about something much simpler where he knows that if he rules against this person, the guy is going to hate him, but he's not going to change the Torah. So what does he do? He says, "Listen, I don't have anything against you. just the Torah says and someone already ruled on it in previous cases that this is like in essence he's blaming the Torah for the ruling in order for the guy to not hate him. If you have a problem you have a problem with the Torah. This the is saying is forbidden. Why? Because unlike the vast majority of the all of the mitzvah in the Torah where there's no explanation of why Hashem gave the Torah gave the mitzvot other than that's his will that's the will of Hashem that's the command of the king. Here he specified here said you shall not be afraid of anyone. Why? Because you have to understand that judgment is in the hands of Hashem. You're simply doing the will of Hashem. And there's no reason to ever be afraid if you're doing the will of Hashem. There's only reason to be afraid if you're not doing the will of Hashem by either manipulating the law to your likings, disobeying, disregarding, or you're afraid to issue the law with confidence that this is the will of God because you don't want people to not like you. Bish of Salant once sat in a bed and they ruled against one of the people. He lost the case. And the guy that lost the case lost his temper. Huh? How could you rule against me? This is You guys don't know what you're talking about. I'm going to break this whole place. smash all the windows of salad says to him, "And you know what I'm going to do?" The guy shocked. He didn't expect the rabbi to respond that way. Uh what what are you going to do, Rabbi? And of says to him, I'm going to get someone to fix it. Meaning, I don't care about all of your threats. I'm doing the will of God. I'm issuing you a ruling in according to what the alkai is. You want to break, you want to yell, go ahead. That's not going to change the law. That's not going to change the truth. Them that do not have enough will sometimes be influenced by the public, the public's perspective. But this is not necessarily the problem that affects you and I. The problem that affects you and I is that this is not only applicable to Danim. This is also applicable to each and every single Jew that is afraid to fulfill the words of the Torah. whether it's to rebuke someone or to publicize the Torah or to do because they're afraid of what people are going to say. She's afraid to be modest because he's afraid of how people are going to look at her. He's afraid to tell people to do chuva because he's afraid of what they're going to say about him. Someone asked me today, "Am I allowed to go to a mixed gym where there's men and women working out there?" I said, "Absolutely not." He says, "So, does it make sense to tell my secular friend that I can't go because of modesty even though he's not going to care and he's going to make fun of me and not like the Torah?" Now, he perhaps thought that maybe it doesn't make sense. Not really because it doesn't make sense because he doesn't want to have this discussion with his friend and tell him, "Listen, I can't go because it's not modest to go to a gym that has men and women working out there." But that's also telling his friend that his friend really can't go either. And he's sinning by doing that. So, he doesn't want to have that discussion. But the truth is if you have it's not even a question. Of course you must tell him it's not only me that I can't go. You can't go. You choose to go. That's your problem. But I have an obligation to tell you that you cannot go. You are damaging your soul by going to such places and by doing things that are against the Torah. People spend an enormous amount of energy, mental energy, emotional energy, physical energy, trying to please everyone else that they're scared of, displeasing. But when it really comes down to it, a person that has this mitzvah under their belt where they're fulfilling this mitzvah, they know it's not just that I have to have amuna and hashem to help me with money or to give me kids or to find me a house or to uh you know get me a job. I have to have a that as long as I am fulfilling his he will protect me. He will bring me salvation that everything that's happening in my life is good. Even if it sometimes doesn't look good, even if it hurts sometimes, but if I'm doing the will of Hashem, I'm always going in the right direction. So much so that a person that lives with this mid imit, this character trait of living the truth, the truth becomes unstoppable. As the prophet Jeremiah in chapter 20 verse number N says yet if you yet I would say I will not mention him meaning Hashem and not speak in his name anymore. Meaning Jeremiah says I thought I thought I don't want to see this prophecy. Why? Because the prophecies of Jeremiah were horrific. Destruction of the bet mikdash, people dying, horrible, horrible thing. And Jeremiah says, "I don't I honestly I didn't want to say this prophecy. I didn't want to bring bad news. His word would be like a burning fire in my heart, stored in my bones. And though I might struggle to contain it, I could not. Meaning Jeremiah is saying even when I didn't want to say the horrible news that are coming. I didn't want to say the horrible news that are coming. I didn't want to be the one that scared everyone and told them the inevitable horrific things that will happen to them. But what can I do? This is the words of Hashem. This is the one and only truth and it was burning in my heart. And as much as I would like to contain it, I could not. I had to say the prophecy. A person that wants to live in accordance to the will of Hashem, in accordance to the Torah, has to elevate themselves to the point where the truth is simply not something they could withhold from anybody else. The is the truth of Hashem. The is the truth of Hashem. the teachings of our sages, whether it be Mousar or any aspect of the Torah. It's the truth of Hashem. The words of Hashem are unstoppable. And if they're not, if you're afraid to say them, you have not been able to fulfill this ultimate mitzvah. Because a person that believes that the Torah is the truth 100% is not going to be able to contain and stop himself from saying the truth when it must be said. Because one that has real, real fear of heaven, can't hold the truth back, he can't hold it from coming out. But even someone that didn't live a life from birth but still has that holy Jewish spark within them can be elevated to the ultimate truth in a moment. in called Kadesh. The author writes all types of testimonial stories, stories that he saw, stories that he got from Holocaust survivors. In one of the stories he tells that the Nazis, aside from torturing the Jews, enslaving them, making them work endless hours with no food or water or anything, their main goal was to break the Jews, break their morale, just like the Egyptians where they give the men's job to the women, the women's jobs to the men. And one of the things that the Nazis, Im Shim, would do is after a long arduous day full of horrific pain and agony, they'd gather up the Jews and the Nazis, Imam would tell them, "Who is the worst of all the nations?" And the Jews would have to say, "We are. Who is the most promiscuous, the most immodest of all the nations? And the Jews would have to say we are. Who are the biggest prostitutes? And the Jews would have to say we are. Because whoever did not, the Nazis would force all of the other Jews to beat them up. And if they didn't beat him up, they'd kill everybody. In one of these times, this Jewish doctor or was a Jewish doctor told a fellow Jew, "I'm not going to let these Nazis destroy and degrade us." Now, even though this Jewish doctor didn't exactly grow up religious and didn't live a religious life to say the least, here he had some type of holy spark within him that could not allow the holy Jewish women and men to be disgraced. And his friend said to him, "What do you mean?" He says, "Wait till you see what I do today after the Nazis gathered them and went through the words and said, "Who is the most immodest immoral people of all?" And the Jewish doctor said, "You are. You the Nazis are silence the Nazi system. What' you say? And without hesitating for even a second, this holy Jewish doctors, Jewish nama came out and said to him, "You heard what I said. You are the most immodest We the Jewish people are the holiest. Our women are the most modest, are the most conservative, are the most reserved of all the people. And all of the things you make us say, they're all lies. Because the truth is your nation is the evil one that's full of immodesty and immorality and prostitution and filth. and Akadoshu is going to take his revenge against you and punish you. Of course, the Nazi ended up killing this Jewish man that died on Kushm because here he literally died for being a Jew even though he didn't live as a Jew before the Holocaust. But we see from these types of stories that all of this is within each and every Jew regardless of how they grew up. The question is if you're going to let that emit that's within you come out or stay hidden inside you. When a person lives with the truth, the emit burns within them and they simply cannot allow the truth to be forgotten, the truth to be ignored, the truth to be disgraced. In the previous generation, the time of Shalom, there was a wicked Jew who was very wealthy and connected to the government who lived a very free life and so did his wife. And it was found out that his wife committed adultery with another man. After Sunenfeld and the other Diane did an investigation, they ruled she's an adulterer and she's forbidden to stay with this with her husband. But the husband, the wicked husband that she had didn't want this. He didn't care. So he went to the non-Jews that were leading the country at the time and told them, "These rabbis, they hate me because I'm more modern. I'm more up with the times. I'm friends with you. And they're trying to disgrace me by saying that my wife is an adulterer." Okay. So what do you want us to do? I want you to issue a ruling that if that they're not allowed to issue this ruling from their bedin and if they do for each violation they have to pay 50 zoos 50 gold coins or get whipped 50 times. The government gave him the ruling. He came to the synagogue with this ruling in his hand. you're not allowed to issue this ruling. After saw this, he went home and returned with a small bag with the ruling in his hand and the other two dean next to him. got everybody together and this wicked Jew is waiting to see what's gonna happen and shows them the the dean. He says, "This woman is a zonah and she's forbidden to her husband." Here's 50 gold coins. This woman is an adulterer and she's forbidden to her husband. Here's another 50. This woman is an adulterer and she's forbidden to her husband. Here's another 50. And this is all the money that I could gather. If I had more, I'd say it even more times. The next Dian came up and said, "This woman is a zona. I don't have 50 coins, but I can handle 50 whips. That's all my body can handle." And the third Dian came and did the same exact thing. This woman is an adulterer and she's forbidden to a husband. I don't have the money, but I can handle 50 whips. And all three of these dame said later on in their life for standing for the truth in this way we were all blessed. one became the R of Yushim lived extraordinarily long and fruitful lives akad did not forget any of his righteous people now of course saying the truth doesn't mean hurting people there are times that it's better to be silent a responsor by the rashbah says says that there are times where you have to stay silent, meaning it's a mitzvah to stay silent either because there's some type of danger or it's useless for specific uh issues. So, don't think for a moment that you could just call yourself brutally honest and just say the truth about everyone. you're fat and you're ugly and you're this and you're that and no person has to know how to not only say the truth but live the truth and if they really want it present them opportunities but if you're just looking to hurt people don't think that you're fulfilling this mitzvah the goal is to help people help people do chuva help people know what the truth others in order for them to make an educated decision. The goal is to help bring light to the world, not to offend people, not to disgrace people. The only decent prime minister Israel has had since its founding, the modern state was Prime Minister Miniman who was close to the Torah, his Jewish life and talked about Shabbat even at multiple occasions and he had a certain aspect of truth without sugar coating without being afraid to say the truth. And one of the examples was a story that came out where the German chancellor met with him. There's obviously many other people in the room. And the German chancellor said to Manakim Bean, "Why continue fighting with the Palestinians? Just divide Israel into two. Give them half and you have half. to this bean did not hold anything back and he said, "Look who here is recommending for me to endanger my own people." The very leader of the nation that's responsible for murdering 33% of my people is now recommending for me to endanger my people against another enemy. Aren't you ashamed of all the blood that's on your hands to say such things? and he continued his politically incorrect truth which of course was not exactly welcomed even by some people that were in the Israeli government from the lefty liberal side and for this began said for all of those liberal lefties in the Israeli government that didn't like the words that I said to the German chancellor her and turned their noses, you know, like didn't like it. Says, "I don't care. Let them have let them have crooked noses." Ysef bin Pat was recently invited to be one of the speakers in the army. They invited a datui rabbi or other types of speakers and they invited the orthodox Jewish rabbi in order to show as if they have no preference and are giving people freedom to choose which is complete bogus. But nonetheless of Yseph bin Pattis has a very long and deep history connected to very very powerful people even before many of these government members were even born. and he came over there and as he's speaking to the soldiers, one heretic in the crowd yelled out, "Stop babbling all this Torah stuff. Bring all the tell all the religious people to join the army and stop being stop running away from it. to that everyone was silent because they expected the typical response that unfortunately many religious people have. No, but you know that some religious people are drafting themselves, are joining the army and is actually they're doing a lot of good and this was not the response of Yu bin Pad had inside the Israeli army in front of everyone of Yseph bin Pad says to him, "Who asked you to build an army here. Don't you realize we have been here much longer than you? The Ramban came to Israel 800 years ago with all of his students. And we, the religious Jews, have been here all along. You only came here recently. We didn't ask you to make a government, make an army, defend us. We didn't ask you to do any of that. If you don't like the way we live, leave. Leave the country. No one's asking you. We don't need you. This was in the army. And not exactly the response anyone could imagine, but that truth, that fire could not be contained. And it worked. when one of the members of the government came to the Kazones to try to warn him about living in Bbach at the time. It was the Arabs would walk at night and kidnap people and do a lot of horrible things. And he was trying to convince the Kazunish to in essence join the secular Zionists by trying to scare him from the Arabs. And to that says, I'm much more scared of your desecration of Shabbat than I am of the Arabs that are murdering people in the streets. Because so long as you continue to desecrate Shabbat, the Arabs could be given the permission to be the stick that hits the Jewish people. But if he didn't violate Shabbat, no nation on planet Earth could ever hurt us. It's of critical importance for a person to follow every aspect of the Torah and not just the mitzvot that are comfortable. Of course, no one wants to tell other people things that may cause a conflict, a difference of opinion. But the truth is if you have a real relationship with somebody and it's not just someone that you see occasionally and say hello from afar certainly you have differences of opinion. You have a difference of opinion about the economy. You have a difference of opinion about the stock market, the real estate market, how to do business, where to live, who to marry, how many kids you should have. And yet people have no problem whatsoever having those disagreements. But when it comes to the truth of a Torah and you know that your fellow Jew is not dressing modest, your fellow Jew is not learning enough Torah, your fellow Jew is not observing the mitzvot either at all or properly for whatever reason there a person does not want to express their conflict of opinion. there a person all of a sudden doesn't want to tell his friend that he disagrees. He's more than happy to volunteer his information, his opinion about the real estate market or politics or where the guy should invest. He doesn't think it's too personal to ask the person of whether he's renting or he's buying or how much money he makes. But he thinks that if telling his friend that he should stop driving on Shabbat or that she should stop being so immodest in her behavior or her clothing, they feel like that's maybe too personal. Reality is it's the opposite. Sharing your opinion about what other people should do with their money or where they should live and whe how much they have, that's something you have no business talking about unless you're invited. But telling your friend, your brother or your sister, spiritually, biologically, or both, that they're endangering their eternal soul. They're endangering their children's lives in this world and the next with their behavior. It's not a matter of sharing your opinion. It's actually showing them you love them because you're warning them of the clear danger that they're putting themselves into. And if you choose not to know that it's not because of your friend that you're not sharing the truth, it's because of you not believing the truth enough to the point where it's a fire within you cannot contain. Each and every one of us will find a way to learn more and to do more of what the Torah says to create a bigger and bigger fire within that will ultimately turn into a desire to help our brothers and sisters from the religious community and the not so religious to at the very least know what the truth is. Sometimes the best thing to do is to share it over coffee. Sometimes an even better way is to send them a lecture, a video. Send them this video or any of the other videos we have on our channels in Hebrew, in Spanish, in English, in Portuguese, in Russian and other languages. Sometimes giving them a USB. Sometimes it's giving them a book that we have. The point is each and every Jew has to know they have to do something in order to help KL is know that the truth is still alive and well even if they've ignored it their whole life. And the more we live the truth, the easier it'll become to share. and basm we all succeed. You know, it took a lot of time and effort to study for this lecture and every lecture changes my life a little bit and I hope it does to you as well. If you're enjoying it, please make sure to like, subscribe, and share with people that you care about, people that you know could benefit from it. You may end up changing their life. Thanks again for learning with me and we'll continue growing together. Now, back to the lecture. With that being said, you guys can start asking some questions and will give us the answers. Dear Rabbi, I was having lunch with my Jewish part of your answer is missing. I don't uh not uh seeing some of the words something at work colleague and my colleague asked me why we don't eat meat during this time and I mentioned it's forbidden for Jews to have meat now and my boss got triggered and said I shouldn't use the word forbidden at workplace in a religious context. It bothers me that he said this. who is in the wrong. If your friend at work uh asked you, you there's no problem of you uh answering the question that he asked. Now, if you simply go out there at work and you spend your time at work instead of working, uh you're uh trying to tell people that they should do chuva, then that's not what the boss is uh paying you for. He's paying you to work. But if it's just uh not a problem for people to share their opinions about music, about money, about their personal lives in every other aspect, then there should not be a problem of you sharing your uh beliefs for someone that's interested. So your bo your boss seems to be in the wrong here, not you. But again, that's so long as everyone is allowed to talk freely about every other subject. If they're allowed to talk about every other subject, then there then he's not allowed to restrict you about this particular subject. But if no one's allowed to talk, it's one of these companies where you're not allowed to share anything personal and or talk at all. Everybody has to simply focus on the machines uh until they're replaced by machines. Then in that case, you should either not talk or find a different job. Dear Rabbi, I have an interesting question. Imagine an individual comes by and asks me question regarding the authenticity about the book of Job. What's the question? Book of Job is through prophecy. It's part of the Tanakh, part of the 24 books of the Tanakh. If you believe in a Tanakh, then certainly you believe that the book of Job is authentic. Should a person work at a yeshiva where the rabbi there is not so much of your fan? I don't care whether a person is my fan or not. Question is whether they are a person that has that is following the Torah and is not one of these heretics. If the uh leader and the rabbis over there are heretics, whether they are fans of mine or not is irrelevant. You're not allowed to work in such a place. But if they are uh people that have then it's not a problem. Whether they like me or not is irrelevant. If there's no third temple, why don't they build a temporary tent? If they did, that would be that would then be able to do animal sacrifices. No. Once the first beta mikdash was built, it was forbidden for any Jew to bring a sacrifice anywhere else outside of the beta mikdash. So when the first beta mikdash was destroyed, we were no longer able to bring sacrifices until the second beta mikdash. After the second beta mdash was destroyed, we're no longer able to bring any sacrifices until the third beta mikdash is built. And we're not allowed to build it on our own or even a tent or anything else. It's a strictly a something that the Mashiach will do through the command of Hashem. How can one address a teenager regarding use of video games? Well, it depends what kind of education the kid is getting. Uh if the kid is getting a Torah education, uh then uh they should know that video games are not only a big waste of time, but they're usually full of immodesty, immorality, uh killing, viciousness. Uh they're not going to teach you uh much good. Uh especially if you're talking about this firsterson shooter games and uh or sports games or or other types of games. So it's it's not going to help a person in their life to become a better shooter or a uh you know a a better uh person playing uh football games. It's not going to help them in their life. Uh so it's a big waste of time and it's also could corrupt their character. Now if the person is not getting a Torah education uh then again you could still mention the fact that it's not going to be uh very uh useful in their life uh to do any of this stuff but it's going to be very very hard to convince the kid that has not learned morality of the Torah uh and therefore just says is comparing everything based on their own common sense and what they see out there. They see their friends playing video games. They see their uh even celebrities playing video games. So their role models are people that are playing video games. So to convince a kid to go against their role models is going to be very very difficult if not impossible. So it's the first thing is that a person needs to make sure that your children have sadikim as the role models. That's why I always recommend for people to get books of the stories, the life stories of different sikim and always read a new one on a regular basis. Once you finish one, you should already have the next one ready and after another one and another one, another one. there's no endem has many and the the cost of printing and the ability to print and technology has become so easy that it's literally very very easy to get new books uh and there's uh no end to the stories. So if you want your kids to uh act like sadikim they first have to admire them and uh to do that you have to read the books. But if your kid is not getting that type of education, uh then why should they want to be a Sadique? Why should they want to uh be reserved? Their their role models are uh are people that uh they see on TV and on YouTube and you know they may look up to uh you know to celebrities. So for you to tell them to do the opposite of what their superhero is doing won't make sense to them. Rabbi, in the case of a family that's in the conversion process and the kids are 11 and 12 years old and can't go to Orthodox school, the kid should be should not roll in a secular school or wait until they proceed. Um, it depends what schools you have available to you. Uh if you have the typical school that's available here in America, it's a public school. Then whether you are or you're not uh going to convert, you should not send them to that because the typical school here in America today is teaching LGBTQ, is teaching that you should have two fathers and two mothers, is teaching immorality even in school. there's no end to the uh to the uh you know horrible things that are happening that I don't even want to mention in in these schools. Uh so why would anybody send their kids to those those schools? Either they're ignorant of reality or they simply don't care about their kids. So if that's the choices you have, which is the majority of choices, and I even have students that are teachers, so it's not I'm not just creating this information and of course you see what's happening in the world. Um, if that's the choices you have, then of course it's better off not to send them to those schools and do homeschooling. And homeschooling has become uh something that's much more common uh today. There's a lot of programs uh out there that uh you could sign up to and the kids could learn at home. And it's it's not easy. I can tell you from experience, it's not easy to get the kids to be on the same type of structure where they wake up a certain time and they and they do uh school work for a certain amount of time and uh they're always focused. It's certainly not uh easy to do homeschooling, but it's much easier to do homeschooling with all of the problems that homeschooling has than to deal with the kid that now is a father at 12 years old because that's what he learned in school that he should do. or a girl that now wants to uh marry another woman because that's what she learned in school that she wants to do or she married the teacher or all the other horrible drugs that are there. So you have to pick pick which difficulty you want. I mean I think it pretty much it makes common sense that uh today this the public schooling system in America is bottom of the barrel. Bottom of the barrel. And this is not just me saying it. This is anybody that's been paying attention in the world saying it in this country and outside of this country. So you see what's happening. So of course you should not send it to them. Of course you can't send your kids to an orthodox school. But that doesn't mean they shouldn't get an education. You should do homeschooling and deal with that particular difficulty. Uh because that difficulty is still easier than the horrible uh other option that's available out there. Is it permissible to sell mobile in a country where the majority of people will use it for non-cooser purposes like idolatry? If the product that you're selling is legal, you're not stealing it, um you know, then there's you have no responsibility of what people are going to do with it. Whether it's a computer or a phone or a washing machine or a car or a hammer, people can use everything for good and for bad. If the product itself is not inherently bad, a computer, a computer, whether it's a computer that's a phone or a computer that's a desktop or a laptop, is not inherently bad. It gives you access to information. Same thing with social media. Social media is not something that you could only do bad things. Obviously, we are publicizing Tawa in all four corners of the world through social media. Now, of course, the majority of people choose to use social media for bad or computers for bad or phones for bad. But that's their choice. You know, people tell me all the time, listen, how could you have an account on Facebook or on Tik Tok? There's so much immorality there. There's so much immodesty there. I have no idea. Listen, I don't go looking. I always tell even my own team when you're posting the lectures when you're posting the posters all the things that we do k with you go to Facebook you post it you leave you don't start surfing and socializing and discussing you go you uh you post you leave you go you post you leave you go you post you leave like a sniper so a person that's not looking for trouble is not going to find trouble. So, if you're selling a phone or laptop or or any other type of device that is not inherently bad, it's a device that is going to help somebody work. It's going to a device that's going to help somebody communicate and so on, there's no problem selling that device and making a living from it. Even if the majority or all of the people end up doing bad things with it, it's not your responsibility. Because if that was the case, we would not be allowed to do any commerce because everything can be used for bad. A hammer can be used to build or hammer could be used to uh to kill or or destroy. A knife can be used to, you know, cut your food or a knife can be uh or slaughter food or a uh a knife can be used to kill. Uh you know, so everything can be used for bad. It's it's not your responsibility of what people are going to use it for if the product itself is not inherently uh you know has a you know only one use if it only has like for example poison selling poison or selling idolatry is never allowed why because there's one use for it you know poison specifically to let's say kill people you can't use that why because that's to kill people you're not allowed to kill people or same thing with idols you're not allowed to sell idols unfortunately A lot of people in the jewelry business make the mistake uh where they sell these uh these crosses and these uh all types of statues and so on because they have customers that are that that are looking for it and willing to pay a lot of money for it. It's a mistake. You're never going to see from benefiting from idolatry in any way. Even if you think that your business is making a million dollars a year from the uh the the statues that you sell and the crosses that you sell, you'll see that all of the money you make from there will end up being spent on things you don't want. Whether it's the IRS or it's doctor bills or lawsuits or or all types of horrible things. There's never going to be any even in the places where you would say it's allowed but not recommended. So, but generally speaking, if the product is a uh uh something that can be used for good, there's no problem of of selling it. I have a question. Send a question. I have a bunch of questions. I have questions from Facebook. I have questions from Tik Tok. I have questions from WhatsApp. I have questions from uh I don't know, a bunch of different places. So, just send what's the question? Do I believe in the Islamic Madi? Is that a ser That's That's what you're asking a Jewish rabbi that's teaching the truth. You want me to You You're asking me if I believe the uh lies and manipulations of of of of Islam. Like this this this is the question you ask. I don't understand you. Why don't you go ask your imam? Why don't you go ask Osama bin Laden? Why don't you ask, I don't know, uh, all of the people in your world if they believe it. Why do you need me to believe it? You realize it doesn't make any sense. Why am I disrespecting Islam? Because your Quran says that one of the ultimate goals of Islam is to murder the Jews. As it says that your your your prophet your fake prophet Muhammad says that at the end of days even the the rock and the tree is going to tell oh Muslim oh Muslim here's the Jew he's hiding behind me come and kill him. So your book is the ultimate enemy of the Jewish people. Muhammad murdered countless Jews. So why would I not be against it? You want sources, I have entire lectures about it. Go to my YouTube channel, Rabbi Yuron Ruven, type the word Islam, and you'll see a bunch of lecture there where I give you sources from your books, not just my books, from your books of what it says. And you'll see that the Quran is not just bad for the Jews. The Quran is bad for the Muslims. But most people don't read. They trust what uh what the imam says, what uh what some uh uh some guy says to them. And uh unfortunately, they live a lie. Does Judaism believe in eternal gay means gay for infinite duration? I have an entire film about gay that will answer all of your possible questions about gay and it also provides sources to be precise. 172 sources are mentioned in the film. Now there are thousands upon thousands of sources that discuss Gum. Uh but if we include all the all the sources then literally the time time wouldn't end. Uh and we'd still be doing the movie. But you have the the film called Gayen. You go to my channel, you type the word gaom. Ge hi uh n o m. And you'll see there's a film gaom the film. And over there you'll see what the Torah says about gay, how long it is, uh what are the different possibilities, the chambers, who goes there, who doesn't go there, what does say about gay, what does the says about gay, uh what do uh the says about gum, the zak says about gome. You'll see all the different things from all aspects of the Torah and you'll uh have your answers. Can you go over your transition to the ways of the Torah? Uh there's a whole film about it called Hashem Took Back His Millions. Go to Hashem, you know, watch the film Hashem took back his millions. That's the personal story. And then after that, watch my lectures from time to time. I add more more parts to it. Go to Hashem took back his millions. I want to maintain a healthy, loving, and close relationship with my parents, siblings, and other family that I live with. How do I balance my observance with their non-observant secularism? Uh, simple. So long as they do not mock the Torah or try to entice you to live the same type of life uh that they live, there's no problem in having maintaining a amicable decent relationship with all of them. But if they're mocking the Torah, if they're trying to convince you to be like them, then you have to spend as little time as possible with them and quite frankly live as far away from them as possible. So, it all depends on what kind of family you have and also depends on how easily you're influenced and uh how strong you are, but it's uh it's not it's not something that's a one-sizefits-all. Some people have a family that's a decent family even though they're not observing of the Torah. Uh they still respect religious people. They respect you of discipline. They respect you have morals and uh they, you know, they're not against it at all. They're actually very uh fond of it. They just choose not to do it because they're ignorant of it. Uh but then there are some people that literally are haters of the Torah. I have a few students like that that have to deal with this war inside their own house. I have one particular student that literally his family tried to do everything possible to get him to stop being religious to the point where they tried to convince his wife to divorce him and almost convinced her to divorce him. And literally only through the mercy of Hashem did Hashem saved that marriage and Hashem. Not only that, he Hashem also killed the top perpetrator of the Amalik that was within his family that was uh spearheading this whole internal war. literally killed him. Like the the the main person that was behind it got uh died instantly and uh surprisingly to everyone and left all of his uh uh material belongings that he was so uh addicted to in this world. Sorry, my question I left partial was asking about the authority of the book of Job. Why the Jewish tradition has no record of Job? I don't really understand why you're saying that the Jewish tradition does not have record of Job. You have an entire book of Job and the Midash talks about Job and the talks about Job and the Zad talks about Job and the Ramban talks about Job. Just because you don't know something doesn't mean it doesn't exist. People have to swallow their pride and stop pretending they know more than they do. Just because you don't know something doesn't mean it doesn't exist doesn't mean it doesn't exist. The Torah talks about a lot of things. To say something doesn't exist simply means you think that you have covered the entire uh endless Torah and you couldn't find. And the says if you looked and you didn't find in the Torah, I don't believe you. Why? Because it's in there. You just didn't look. you didn't look. So don't say something is not in the Torah. It is you just don't know about it. And mentions him in in Job is mentioned many times. He's mentioned how how many kids he had. It mentions that who his friends were, what their names were, the the different hats they had, they had supernatural abilities. Uh this hashem plenty of things that are mentioned about Job. uh where he why did he even get this punishment or this test uh it's all because he was one of the Salem one of the uh main ministers of P and because he did not speak in favor of the Jewish people he stayed silent then Hashem gave him this test the point is there's a lot of lot of information about Job to say that we don't know about Job is just simply uh wrong now as far as to say uh uh you know we don't know everything there is to know about Job We don't know everything there is to know about anything. You don't even know everything there is to know about yourself. You don't know everything there is to know about your parents and you live with them or or you've lived with them. So, it's it's it's it's important for a person to put things in perspective and understand that the Torah is not a story book. The Torah gives us information that is relevant to us, that is something we can learn from, that is something we can apply to our lives from. And therefore, the Torah brings every single aspect, whether it's the stories or the laws or the intricate details of who, what, when, and how. All of those things are things we have to learn from. And a person that learns Tawa, the more they learn Tawa, the more they realize every letter of a Torah, every little crown even of a Torah is something you can learn from. That's why Rabaka was teaching his students from the crowns on top of each letter. So, it's important to understand things from the right perspective and not say these statements, and I hear them unfortunately way too often from decent people. I'm not I'm not uh uh uh telling you this as if this is the first time I heard somebody make a statement like, "Oh, I I can't find it." Literally, almost every single day, somebody tells me, "How come this doesn't exist in the Torah? Did you review the entire Torah? Did you even finish the entire No, no, I I completed one." So, how could you know this is in the Torah or not? Just because you didn't find it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It's important to not say things like that because this is a subconscious amalik that will create a saf within you to think that the Torah is incomplete. And a person that thinks that the Torah is incomplete will thereby start devaluing the Torah. Now, as far as every single detail of Job's life, what he did in the morning, what he did in the afternoon, what his hobbies were, what he ate for breakfast, no, we don't know all of those details because they're not necessary for us to know. But whatever we do know about them is discussed in the in the by a different throughout all of the generations. And there's plenty of information there. There is even two different opinions about the book of Job. There's one opinion that the book of Job was at the time of Mosher Rabenu and when Mosher Rabenu sent the spies or allowed the spies to go to told them uh find uh to see if there's a tree there and if there's a tree uh learn from it. How could you learn from a tree? This is a verse in the Torah. Uh and Rashi says the tree is Jobenu knew about Job. Job that was very righteous and uh and he told the uh the spies that if Job is alive go to him go to him uh and also would tell us that it's not the time to uh to go to right now because Job will give merit to the to all of the uh all of the Gentiles and we can't go to war against Job. So the point is that Rashi over there says that uh Job was alive at the time of Musher Rabenu and he actually died when the spies arrived in in init or at the time called Kanan. Now as far as the other opinion the other opinion is that Job was actually a story that Mosheu wrote in order to teach. The vast majority of believe the first one which is that Job was alive. Job was one of the ministers of Po. Job was a righteous person. He was one of the righteous prophets of the nations. Uh but nonetheless, there is a lot of information about Job. Lots and lots of information about Job. You just have to look further and uh you'll find much much more things. In fact, the introduction uh to the book of to the commentary of the Ramban on the book of Job teaches us about gay where he says that all of the suffering that Job had during that one year where he lost all of his sons, all of his money, all of his health, pretty much lived hell on earth, the the Ramban says all of that suffering is not equivalent to even a moment in gum in the real gay. So from there we understand how horrible gay is to a certain aspect of it. Plenty of information. Plenty of information. The Torah is endless. Uh, thank you, Rabbi. I will be as compassionate as possible with my family. Still want to help out with Bitcoin AI and Bitcoin robots. More time for Jews to fully study Tawa every day. Okay. If you want to donate Bitcoin, you go to our website bezelm.org and over there there is a option to donate with Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies. Rabbi, is it kosher to have hobbies such as sports or gym? If you are working out in a gym, if you're a man, you're working out in a gym that's only males because you're trying to take care of your health, that's perfectly fine and even recommended. If you're working out in a gym that's mixed gym, then it's not allowed no matter what. Even if it's the only gym in town, not allowed to work in a mix to work out in a mixed gym. Now if you are uh playing a sport for the sake of the exercise, there's no problem playing that sport once a week, twice a week, whatever it is to uh for for the sake of exercise to take care of your health. As a mitzvah, take care of your health. But if you're one of these people that's obsessed over the gym and obsessed over the sport where you're spending hours and hours every day watching it uh you know doing it and there's barely any time for you to learn Tawra, then of course that's not allowed. Why? Because you're you're you've turned sports and and physical fitness into a new idol. So it's important for a person to uh to have things in the right perspective. Do not turn your physical fitness into some new Greek god. To be physically fit is important. If you're physically uh fit and you're healthy, it'll be more uh uh uh it'll be easier for you to to study more to uh to do good things to do. But if you're spending two hours a day playing sports and going to the gym uh and uh you're barely able to listen to uh 15 minutes of Tawra or read even then obviously you have to make some changes. You have to make some changes. Put it this way. At the very least at the absolute very least if you're relatively new to the Torah you should study Torah no less than you exercise and play sports every day. So if you play sports, let's say for an hour or two a day, you should study Tawra for at least an hour or two a day at the very least. In reality, it should be more Torah than even the gym. But at the very least, that's one way to start. You like playing sports, no problem. You like going to a kosher gym, no problem. But make sure if you give yourself permission to play sports, if you're going to study Tawah that much. So first you study Tawa for a couple hours, then you can give yourself a permission as a reward, let's say, to go play uh some sports. uh you know for for for that amount of time for Gentiles it's free is free mixing between men and women permitted. Uh if you're talking about going to a mixed gym and and and and dancing together yes Gentiles don't have the same laws as far as modesty as the Jews. It's still not recommended and until recent generations was never done even by the Gentiles. If you look at uh the old pictures of how even the the uh the beaches were in the early 1900s, people would go to the ocean with complete gowns. No one would walk around with a bathing suit. In fact, the first woman that uh showed herself publicly in a bathing suit that is similar to the ones of today in the early 1900s was under went was arrested. They put her in jail and she was a non-Jew. They put her in jail here in America. It was completely uh you know even even the Gentiles knew that for a woman to walk around that way was inappropriate. Unfortunately, immorality continued to grow and uh and people started walking around uh you know with less clothes outside than they even do inside. But until this past century, modesty was as far as clothing is concerned was a standard across the entire world. It's not uh of course there's always exceptions if they live in a jungle or something or they're native Indians and different cultures that walk around naked regardless but I'm talking about civilized first world countries generally speaking walked around with completely uh covered uh unlike the people of today. Eating out with family at a non-osher restaurant. Can I order a salad with plastic utensils and have them take all the kosher precautions? No. Absolutely not. Not allowed to sit even in a non- kosher restaurant. Okay. We know why Moshe and Kali did wrong. Four of them to die for that for them to die and not enter Israel. But why was Miriam not allowed to enter Israel? She was also a prophet. She also uh had a certain sins that Hashem punished her for which was saying against and she simply did not have the merit of entering is uh not just not not because of lack of righteousness just simply because decided to leave certain outside of Israel in order to make certain things possible for the end of days. Like for example, the sages, I'm not going to go too deep into this, but the sages said uh that Mosher Renu was specifically buried by Hashem across from where the source of impurity of the Bal was. Meaning Mosherenu next door grave next door next door uh mountain is where the source of impurity of the bal the worst idol worship in history. Why? Why why put Moshe? Why can't you get Moshe a nice burial? Put him in Mount Si. Put him uh in put him in, I don't know, some nice place. Why put him right next to uh the worst idolatry in history? Because the spiritual the kadusha of Mosheu submitted the uh impurity of the Bal and lowered the desire of Amel uh against that particular idolatry. They still worshiped idols later on, but it was never the same level as it was from the time of Egypt. You know, in the time of Egypt and before that, uh, people were idol worshippers, whereas throughout the rest of history, there was always a mix. There was people that were loyal to Hashem and there was people that, uh, were idol worshippers. But the point is that Hashem specifically buried Mosher Abenu where he did in order to to have the kadusha submit the powers of tuma and and help is in different ways than than what people could possibly think of. And the same concept goes with uh each one was placed in different places just like put all the stars uh you know in different places. If a person starts learning about the uh outer space, they realize that the earth is not just in the only place in the whole universe where it could survive, but all of the other planets and moons and everything are also in the only places they could be in order for the earth to survive. So the moon has to be an exact, you know, specific distance from the earth. The sun has to be specific distance from the earth. If they were placed anywhere else, we would not be able to survive. Hashem put all of the stars in specific places all for the benefit of Isel. So if the entire universe is structured in such a precise way that everything is there specifically there so much so that Hashem knows the name of every star and every hair on your head even that needless to say all of the righteous people that is had they were put in the same exact place at the same exact uh at a specific place at a specific generation at a specific time uh for the overall all uh you know good of am and part of the ultimate plan of Hashem. How did Muhammad know the human body has 360 points? I I Why don't you guys go to your imams? I don't understand. Why don't you go to uh Saddam Hussein? Ask him about Muhammad. Why are you asking a Jewish rabbi when you know that this specific Jewish rabbi is only going to give it to you on the head and and and and is not going to answer you in the way that you like? Why? Why do you ask me? Do you like being abused? You like you like being shown that you're wrong? I don't understand you. I don't understand you guys. You spam all of the different networks, the the Facebook, the Tik Tok, the YouTube. It's like literally you're like cockroaches. Why do you come here? I'll answer your question, but please do yourself a favor. Do yourself a favor. If you're here to learn, be quiet and just learn. If you're here to be abused, just go smash your head against the wall a few times. It's probably going to be less painful. I'll answer your question. Muhammad got taught by a Jewish scholar some of the things that are in the Quran. He didn't come up out of his own head. He didn't meet with the angel Gabriel like he says. Muhammad was an illiterate. He did not know how to read or write. But he got a Jewish scholar to give him certain information. And uh that's why initially he was favorable of the Jews. But then when he tried to influence the Jewish scholars to follow him and the Jewish scholars rejected them, he killed all of them. Now, any truth that's in the Quran was simply plagiarized from the Torah, the written and the oral Torah, whether it's the number of parts of the body or it's different mathematics or it's or or laws from a Torah uh the story of obviously of even the Quran itself says that if the Muslims don't know what the truth is, go to the Jews, go to the people of the book. So, anything that's true in the Quran, you'll find in the Torah. You will never find a single truth in the Quran that does not exist in the Torah. And the Torah preceded the Quran by 2,000 years. We got the Torah 3,300 years ago, more than 3,300 years ago. Now, 300 3,335 years ago, the Quran only became a thought,400 years ago. Before that, the Arabs were idol worshippers. They prayed to statues. They prayed to stones. They prayed to all types of things. They didn't pray to God. So when the Quran is actually read, you'll actually see that the stories in it are about Mosher Rabenu, are about Isel, are about the Jewish people. That's the initial part. Initially, Muhammad is favorable of the Jews. But when the the Jewish scholars rejected him, like I said, he killed them, he raped Jewish women, he did a lot of horrible things to them and he became obviously an anti-semite that's still causing damage until this day. But any truth that you will find in the Quran, you will find in the Torah, which means that he plagiarized it from the Torah. He did not come up out of with any original uh uh with any original uh ideas. Now, why do I say any truth in the Quran? Because there's a lot of lies in the Torah. A lot of I'm sorry, a lot of lies in the Quran. And those lies in the Quran you will never find in the Torah because those lies were his creation, was his invention, and then the people that followed him. So, if you actually want the truth, you will find it. It's in the Torah. If you want to somehow prove that your lie is the truth, you'll have a very, very difficult time and you'll end up wasting your whole life and still not succeeding. Oh no, you don't. If you're really seeking knowledge, then I have no problem with your question. But most of the people, you have to understand, I'm getting endless amount of comments from people that are either cursing me out, cursing the Jews out, mentioning all types of nonsense from the Quran. So, I can't decipher the ones that seeking knowledge versus the uh you know, people that are fools. If you're actually seeking knowledge, I have lectures about the topic on my channel. As I said to people earlier today, go to my YouTube channel, type Islam on my uh on the search box, and you'll see I have several lectures that bring sources not just from the Torah, but also from the Quran that show uh you know the uh different uh different falsehood that's in the Quran, at least some part of it. Anyone that wants to ask a question can ask a question, but I'm only going to answer it if it's a relevant question and not one of these foolish insults or spam messages. Unfortunately, some of you all you do is just send 500 times the same thing. Kasim wants to ask you a question. Ask the question. Ask. You don't have to ask about asking. Just ask. And don't be like the fool before you that says, "Rabbi Ruven, why are you killing babies?" This is this is this is the the type of foolishness that uh people have in their head. You're asking a person that sacrifices a his life to help people, including babies. It's a level of stupidity that deserves an award. You literally deserve a medallion for your stupidity. Why do the Jews think it's acceptable to claim Israel with force when it goes against the Talmud? Now, you have to understand that the land of Israel was given to us by God. There is no claiming it. It's ours. God gave it to us because it's his. It's not anybody else's. It's not owned by the Zionists. It's not owned by the Arabs. It's not owned by anyone other than God. And God says in the Torah that he gave us the land. So there is no such thing as claiming it. He gave it to us. The end. Now, as far as having the uh right to exist without uh you know being uh uh under a constant threat of annihilation, if that's what you're referring to, the so-called modern state of Israel, that's not the Jews claiming it a new. It's always been ours. It's just that since 1948, we've been in essence permitted by the non-Jewish world to have an army, an organized army. But Jews have lived in the land of Israel throughout all of history. It was given to us by God. It's not something that uh anyone else could ever own other than us. God gave it to us. If you're talking about the force, meaning that when Israel got the uh uh the statehood of 1948 and so on, that's nonsensical simply because in uh 1948, the amount of Arabs that lived in the land of Israel was less was a fraction of the amount of Arabs that live in Israel today. meaning they increased, they went up drastically, tenfold. Whereas the amount of Jews that lived in the Muslim countries before 1948 was nearly completely wiped out. Either they killed them or they forced them out. So, if you're talking about uh who is uh more guilty than the other or who's guilty at all here, it's not really a question if you actually know anything about history. Rabbi, are you American? No. I was born in Israel. I'm Israeli and but I've been in America for most of my life. Do you support Netanyahu? No, I don't support anyone that is against the Torah. You're forcly removing the Palestinians when the Talmud directly says no to you. No, the Talmud does not say not to remove the Palestinians. In fact, that Torah itself tells us that the uh uh any nation that lives in the land of Israel is not allowed to live there if they're idol worshippers or they're against the Jewish people. So, in fact, if the uh uh the law of the Torah was governing the land of Israel today, there wouldn't be even a single Palestinian in Israel. Uh, so I'm not really sure what you think you know, but your knowledge is simply wrong. Rabbi I heard during a rebuke of Job by Hashem. It was both a rebuke but also God promising Job and us that he restore us so long as we are faithful to the Schma. Okay. Is marijuana allowed based on Genesis 1:29? It seems like if man has dominion over the herbs and seeds, he would be allowed to smoke them. No, marijuana is not allowed according to the Torah. In fact, a uh um Mosha Feinstein Mosha Feinstein Poskins Laad that any Jew that uh smokes marijuana or any type of drugs electively is considered in the same level as a Ben Sel. uh pens is a weward child that would get the death penalty. Uh why? Because when you are electively altering your state of mind, which is what marijuana does, uh then you're not fit to serve Hashem. You're not allowed to pray. You're not allowed to learn Tawa. And uh in essence, you are going against Hashem. You're not allowed to ever put yourself there electively. Now if you have no choice because you have medicine or something like that you have chronic pain things of that nature then obviously there's uh permissions but to electively uh get high is forbidden according to the Torah and the GRA mentions it. I have actually several lectures about uh drug addiction and uh also the the the Torah perspective of drugs. What cemented your belief or what event? Well, if you want to know my whole journey of why I became religious and so on, uh there's a film we made about it, it's called Hashem Took His Millions. That at least gives you an idea of the beginning stages uh of why I went from being a uh Wall Street executive making millions of dollars to being a rabbi teaching people the truth for free. So, it's a uh it's not exactly for uh for for uh for money reasons because there's uh let's just say that um now as far as what happened since then I continued to learn Tawra and the more Tawra that you learn the the more knowledge you have the more belief you have and uh the more actions you take to continue to support that belief continue to build further on that belief. The more Tawa you learn, the more you'll know God and not just believe in God. Why can't I guard my eyes in a mixed gym like anywhere else in the world that I go? I work out for a purpose, not to look at women anyways. Um, Rabbi, thank you for everything. Um, now although you believe that uh you can guard your eyes, there's an ala which is a Torah prohibition to put yourself in a place that you have certain risk. Meaning, if you are simply walking in the streets to go to work, then it's not a certainty that you will see immodest women uh and uh and immorality. you're going. Maybe the street is empty, maybe the street is full, maybe the people that are walking there are all men. Whereas when you go to a gym or when you go to a beach that has men and women there, then it's an absolute certainty that you will see immorality, that you will see immodesty, and you're not allowed to take those types of risks with your nishama. Now, if you truly are working out for the sake of physical fitness, then you know as well as I do that going to a mixed gym is not your only option. You could either go to a men only gym or you could simply get weights and put them in your house. And I know it doesn't look like it, but when I was young, uh, you know, when I was a teenager, I used to be a junior bodybuilder. I was I squatted 805 pounds. Okay. I I used to bench press. I do sets with 225 pounds and uh and and bench press I think my max was somewhere close to about 400. Uh so I know a little a thing or two about working out. And guess what? The majority of the exercises that I did, even though I worked out in the gym also, but the big part of the workouts were in my house, sometimes without any weights, push-ups, sit-ups, all types of other types of exercises. So, if you really are working out for the sake of physical fitness, you don't need to go to a gym. Certainly, you don't need to go to a mixed gym. So, stop lying to yourself and either find a men only gym or spend a few dollars, order some weights from Amazon and uh pump some iron. That's it. Can you highlight Hashem's name with a yellow highlighter marker in the sidul so you can pay more attention to it when you say Hashem's name? Yes, that's great, Rabbi. We'll do great answers as always for taking the answer and applying it to your life. Did you play high school football? Yes. Dear Rabbi, I want from you to bless me that conversion that you may convert one day. Well, what are you going to take upon yourself that uh will give the blessing a uh some type of uh some type of nourishment? The blessing is the uh you know is only the going to be the water on top of something that a person has to take upon themselves. Are you going to help other people do chuva by distributing material in your community? Are you going to give ma to help organization do it? What are you going to take on yourself to give the blessing some type of uh of of juice for some fuel? How often a How often a week should you listen to Mousar? Every day I donate the organization. Good that you donate to the organization. Just make sure that you donate as much as you can. It's at least m that you're doing everything you can. Why? Because it's not because we need it's because you need. The more you do to help is the more merit you will have for to say yes this is one of the best ones among the nations and I want to give them as a present to my people. That's what our sages teach us that righteous converts are the gifts that Hashem gives to the Jewish people. How does he choose who's going to convert and who's not? And this is in the countress by Rab Frame in his book. He brings multiple sources for this. He looks among the nations. He says who's the best ones? Who is the best from the German nation? The best one from the uh you know the uh French nation, best one from the Spanish nation, the best one from you know the uh Portuguese nation. He says who is the best one? who's the and he takes those and he gives them an opening to uh to to become part of the Jewish people as a gift to the Jewish people. So how do you become the best among the nations? by helping his people do chuva. By helping his people do chuva, whether it's through uh donating your time, your efforts, obviously being righteous, following what you're supposed to, the better you make yourself, the more you are becoming the ultimate present that Hashem will want to give, not only to you, but to the entire Jewish people. You'll become our present, and we're looking forward to it. So, keep doing what you're doing and even more of what you can. Keep pushing yourself and Hashem will help you. And I can't wait to have another present. Do you know that one of my presents, one of my dear presents, one of our presents, one of AmI's presents, one of AmI's presents just had a a baby, which means that the gift that Hashem gave us is already bringing more gifts to Is righteous converts are amazing. The more you know about converts, the more it's you realize how easy it is to love them. Okay. Oh, what? Sorry, two hours. Is RB kosher? Ephraim Goldberg does the kashut. Is his conversion kosher? Ephraim Goldberg although he's an apicos that brings uh missionaries and other heretics to his he gives a stage to other heretics. He has a position in a lot of different things in Florida uh and even outside of Florida. But just because somebody works somewhere doesn't mean that it disqualifies the entire entity. Because remember the of the meat or restaurant or so on is mainly dependent on who is the mashia? Who's the mashia? Who's overseeing that they're buying kosher meat? Who's overseeing that they're washing the vegetables? who's overseeing that they're following all the kosher laws. It's certainly not Ephraim Goldberg. Why? He has a multi-million dollar job at the BRS and other things that he does. So, he's not a mash at every restaurant or any restaurant for that matter. He doesn't go and check who's uh the vegetables or where they buy the meat or anything like that. He has some type of position. Uh but many many people were have positions at OB and and OU and and many other places. So if you look at any organization, any organization, you're always going to find somebody that's not exactly the most kosher. In fact, even if you look at the best of rabbis out there, best the greatest rabbis, the How about this? Even if you look at the prophets, you'll always find that someone close to them is didn't we know about Alicia? Alisha had says he has no share of the world to come. Well, you think Elisha was the only one that had a wicked person next to him. Unfortunately, there's always some bad apple here and there. So, that bad apple obviously doesn't disqualify and certainly Mika doesn't disqualify and so on and so forth. So, you have organizations out there that overall do what they're supposed to do good, do what the Torah says, but they may have some employees or or uh or people that are involved in them that are not not exactly the most kosher. So, what do you do then? You have to determine if those non-cooser people are actually affecting the product or not, actually affecting the or not. So when you when you see that and you realize it's Ephraim is not a mash in any restaurant, at least not to my knowledge, unless they fired him from BRS and he needs to get a new job. Uh I don't think he's going to become a mas at any restaurant. He makes too much money right now for that. I think a mak barely makes minimum wage these days. Uh Ephraim is making seven figures. What's the best thing to do on tab? Learn mousar and pray to the Jews believe in Ganeden will see Hashem. Uh righteous Jews will go to Ganeden. Wicked Jews will not go to Gan. Did you see that they found an archaeological finding of Mosher Benu's writings in Egypt yesterday? It's connected to this week's para. No, I did not. You could feel free to send it to me. How do you do chuva for breaking a nil? It's a very very big problem. Uh to break a nil. Uh you have to go to see if uh you can get the nil nullified. That's the first thing you need to do. if there's if they can find some way to um to nullify the NL and and find some way that it's it was never valid to begin with. That's the first thing you need to do. Uh if you can't do that, then uh uh if you go into they'll tell you what to do. But um that's the first thing you need to do. go to the series, tell me uh and explain to them what happened and they'll see if the uh they can find a way for your NE not to be valid in the first place. Can one of the Mes explain why the rabbi isn't engaging? You know what is? It's your language. Well, you don't hear me talk. You don't understand. You're here to learn about Muhammad. Why? Why? Why do you want to learn about Muhammad, the the the pedophile, the rapist, the murderer, for me? You're only going to learn the truth from me. You're only going to learn the truth from me. That he was a pedophile, that he was a rapist, that he was a murderer, that he was illiterate. That's what you're going to learn about Muhammad from me. Now, I know you don't want to learn that. You want to learn that he was good. You want to learn that he was uh righteous. You're not going to learn that from me because here you only learned the truth, but you're not interested in the truth. You want to be a donkey for the rest of your life. You want to be smart. You want to learn the truth. Then stop saying stupid things. You want to learn the truth. I'd be more than happy to teach. But if you use the brain that that Hashem gave you, use it the right way at least. Okay, we're almost done. We'll take maybe one or two questions. We're finished. Why is Israeli parliament parliament not overthrown today and a holy sun put instead? What is needed to have a sun today mashia to come once mashia comes we'll have a sun dream until then we're not going to have a sun and that answers the first question too once the uh mashia comes there's not going to be any more Israeli government is going to be a Can I listen to music in my car stressed out in traffic tomorrow? Listen to why you have to listen to music if you're a Jew. It's in nine days. Don't listen to music. listen to instead. At least it'll improve your spiritual uh feelings and psychological state and your life overall. Why listen to music? Listen to We have 15,000 in multiple languages. I'm sure you could find one that's decent. What do you think about the future of America as far as Oh, the cryb babies from Tik Tok. They didn't like that. uh the responses they got. So they complained and they uh to Tik Tok to Tik Tok police the from Tik Tok complain to the from Tik Tok. Um what do I think about America? What does it mean? What do I think about America? What do you think of the future of America as far as anti-semitism is concerned? It seems like the hatred is growing massively with the media. Things happen faster. Yeah. Well, this will continue. This will continue. I have an entire series about it called War of Amalik. Is a false Messiah considered the anti-Msiach? Who exactly is Alus? False Messiah is not anti-Msiach. There's a lot of false Messiah. There's a uh we've had uh countless of them over the years. There's actually an entire book full of uh stories of false messiahs that we've had throughout the generations whether it's uh Shapvi Jakob Frank Yosh and many many others that uh have been false mashiach and there will continue to be ones until the real Mashiach comes. Um so that's as far as anti-mashia. There's no such thing as anti-mashiach. There's the which is a the people that will fight against the mashiach. Um, and we have an entire series about the which is called the war of Amalik. Okay. All right guys, I think I've asked answered uh sufficient amount bless each and every single one of you to continue learning to with us to continue doing with us to continue growing closer to and those of you that are in a process of chaos continue to strengthen you and get closer to him. And those of you that are in a process of conversion, strengthen you and succeed your path and to get you to exactly where you want and need to be. And uh it will be a smooth and successful process. and bring all those that are looking for aid, the righteous to be able to build a bite and awaken each of our to understand the necessity we all have in helping publicize name and helping do in helping the world see the truth for what it is in accordance to the Torah. The more we realize what it is, the more we apply to our life, the more will help us succeed in doing it. And if that is something that we'll do can bring the Msiah without all the pain and agony that would come otherwise we will succeed and we'll learn again next week. Called to Shabbat Shalom. All right, guys. Amen.