Dog Owner, Plastic Surgery, Noahide Study, Jewish Women, Messianic Era | STR COMPILATION #2

[Music] the Torah allow us to donate our organs when we die uh when you're alive you could donate organs like you donate your kidney and so on as far as once you're dead uh there is some that say no some say yes but uh you know say uh it's uh it's a very very touchy issue simply because uh there's really no need for you to donate your organs and is also very problematic to uh desecrate the dead body so the general opinion is don't deal with any of this any donations of any organs or any bodies uh it won't uh help you don't donate your time while you're alive donate your money while you're alive your body uh the world doesn't need it just let Hashem take it back as it is uh um it's not a good idea to donate any organs um you know after you die because it's a very problematic as far as desecrating the dead body and so on and there's plenty of uh non-jews that are doing it anyway but if you alive and you don't need a certain organ whether it be part of the liver or be a kidney something like that then you know some even say something it's about to do it you're saving a life or something like that but uh uh there's uh better way to do put it that way there better ways to do than D donating your body asking as a no is it okay to have dogs around when studying tah uh yes it's okay to have dog around when you're studying tah it's not recommended but it's not a sin it's not a sin it's not uh you know dogs uh you know have a certain level of impurity it's more relevant to Jews but nonetheless it's a uh a dog could also be uh a little annoying at times depends what kind of dog depends if it you know if if what's going on but again there's no prohibition against it there's no prohibition against it um and sometimes uh if if that's what's possible that's what's possible no problem I read that if the embarrasses his tal the will Merit to understand the most complex of Commerce why does this benefit come through embarrassment isn't it considered murder to embarrass somebody it's a very good question now there is different forms of embarrassment there is embarrassment that is intentional and there's embarrassment that's unintentional now it's not intentional unintentional like we would typically understand where unintentional would be oh no he didn't mean to embarrass him and it ended up being embarrassed in and if it's intentional it's like Yeah I wanted to kill the guy that's so embarrassment no that's not what I mean by that intentional but unintentional embarrassment meaning it had a purpose sometimes a uh you know a a rabbi will rebuke his t or tell his tell meet something and that will cause embarrassment that will cause embarrassment for the person but that was not the purpose of the rebuke the purpose of the rebuke the purpose of the uh the rabbi telling his student that he's wrong wasn't to embarrass him the purpose of it was to tell him whatever you need to tell him it caused embarrassment but nonetheless it wasn't the purpose of it the latter part is if you need to embarrass the person you need to embarrass him because he's doing something that perhaps uh you know requires embarrassment such as the ramb points out one of the examples in says that if somebody talks in sh uh you have to rebuke him you have to tell him something to stop and if they don't stop you rebuke them and if they don't stop you have to embarrass them embarrass them publicly why since they are causing everybody's prayer in a k their prayers is not to be accepted by hasem all their prayers are being put on hold you have to publicly embarrass that person if they don't listen to rebuke so that type of embarrassment is a Mitzvah even though it's an intentional embarrassment the other embarrassment that's unintentional is also a mitzvah it's also a MIT why because he was rebuking his his his uh student he was rebuking his student for the sake of helping his student the fact that helping him embarrassed him in the process is not a bad thing it's a good thing that he you know that he delivered the message to him there was no other way to do it meaning it's like for example if you have medicine and the only way to give it to a person is through a needle now no one can say needles are good and fun okay unless you're a crackhead but you know in reality no one says that needles are good and fun and I think even they don't like it why because they hurt but you need to administer the medicine in a painful way why because you need the medicine so sometimes the rebuke the truth has to come in a certain way that's painful but nonetheless it's not a bad thing and if the rabbi embarrasses his tmid with with a good purpose meaning to rebuke him to help him to to to show him something and the tal accepts this openly and welcomingly even though it's embarrassing for him to realize that his whole answer of what the was is wrong is is Rabbi telling him no what you're saying is wrong even though it took you three days of learning and studying and preparing everything you said is wrong but here's the right answer surely that's going to be embarrassing for that talid but if the T accepts it like he's supposed to which is that although I spent three days getting the wrong answer I'm still going to get fully rewarded for studying and even more so now I'm actually having I have the Merit to learn the truth even though I spent in essence in some people's perspective I wasted three days and it's embarrassing that he's telling me that I'm wrong in front of 500 people because he can't afford not to tell me because they could think I would I would be right with the wrong answer so it's embarrassing but nonetheless if the T accepts this answer the way he's supposed to that that's a good thing and that t will have major merits for accepting the truth even though was embarrassing a person that loves M loves not just loves listening to M but even accepting M intentionally when the rabbi tells him he's wrong when the rabi when the raban tells us she's wrong and so on and so forth and you need to fix yourself and you welcome it even though it hurts you get uh rewarded handsomely both in this world and the next uh but if if a person is embarrassing another person simply for the sake of embarrassing them then that's obviously bad like you're saying it's a it's like murdering somebody but like I said there's there's multiple types of embarrassment uh as we just mentioned Martin is plastic surgery kosher if it's for a woman that is a or even a man that is uh having major life difficulties either uh they they're not able to breathe or they have some type of deformity that's causing them to be made fun of or not get jobs or get married and so on then it's good for them to do plastic surgery uh you know whatever they need they should do no problem but if it's simply uh you know one of these people that just doesn't like themselves and they want to look like a mannequin uh you know and then they keep uh adjusting every little thing in their life they they adjust their fingers and their fingernails and their chin and their tongue and their eyes and their Li that's a crazy person that's not that's forbidden uh a person that you know has certain things to make themselves a uh better looking in certain aspects is not necessarily a bad thing in some cases it's actually a very good thing it's a very good thing but again anything that's excessive other than toah is not good we should not forget our creator yes you're right that's a given there's even a p in a that says we shouldn't forget our creator but it's also very important to know that without our sages we don't even know what our creator said see the Christians they don't have a very deep connection with their sages if you will why because they have their Bible their Bible that's just simply you know written and you read it in your own understanding even though schl says do not r rely on your own understanding and our T says repeatedly don't rely on your own understanding in Christianity they rely on their own understanding and they in essence have their Bible that has the New Testament or we like to call false Testament and a translation of the Torah which they call the Old Testament which is a misation not really a translation because they translate things wrong on on purpose in order to serve their agenda but they say to everybody listen you read it and you uh understand what you understand out of it doing that creates a new religion doing that creates idolatry in the Jewish religion in the Torah world we do not allow ourselves to understand things based on our own intellect alone we have to have something to rely on we either have to have a source in a source in a source in tanak a source in a in a in z a source in the oral online we have to have a source or from a rabbi or you know we have to have a source we cannot just simply say oh I understand it that way and therefore it's that way we have to have some things in the have a source from the itself from the five books of Moses and that's the highest possible level you can have but some things they have something from that's called it's important but we don't from it needless to say he still has to have a source we do not read the Torah based on our own understanding which means that we do not know what the Creator wants from us and what he said based on our own understanding of what the verses say we have to have a source meaning that you can't just read the verse and say this is what the Creator said but rather that you read the verse and you see what the sages the Jewish sages who toiled and toiled and toil of their whole life what they said this means and that's what it means that's what it means in essence we need the sages to interpret the Torah for us we cannot interpret it oursel so although you're right about not forgetting our creator it's it's not as simple as that it's not as simple as that meaning yes of course is number one and will always be there is no even number to but we need to know what he said and since we have not toiled for the last 3,000 years on our own we are only alive 30 40 50 60 7 years whatever each person is alive in right 20 years 15 years so therefore we're not in the level of Rashi we're not on the level of the B for 2,000 sages we're not in the level of the ram we're not on the level of raan we're not on the level of all these other sages we're not so we need to know what he said what does this verse means eye for an eye tooth for a tooth what does it mean if somebody poked my eye I could take his eye out no it's not what it means that's what the literal verse says but that's not what it means you look at what the sages say sages say that I for an ey means that you have to give them if you hurt somebody else's eye you have to give him the value of the eye back meaning in money so what so how come there's no dollar amount on it because maybe his eye because let's say for example he's just a uh regular uh cleaning person so he doesn't really need both eyes as much as let's say a surgeon surgeon his eyes probably worth $10 million whereas the uh the guy it's cleaning houses his eyes probably worth I don't know a few hundred thousand and again this is hypothetical examples why because his income does not really rely on his eye whereas his income does he can't be a surgeon anymore so you're hurting him a lot more and therefore you have to pay him more so in essence again if it wasn't for our sages giving us the interpretation of the Torah which is a very fundamental part of the oral Torah we would not know what God said we would be dumbfounded blind and most likely idolators no different than the Christians if we did not have our Jewish sages so although we uh we obviously never forget our creator we always have to remember our sages as well uh Noyes are allowed to study the the tanak and that's what no is supposed to study meaning that they study everything that's relevant to that which is the um uh the uh the with commentary on it by even though it's part of our oral Tora it's relevant to them they learn what happened they not just the story but also uh the behind the scenes of what happened from creation all the way to the end of the time of the prophets uh because it is relevant to them there's many things that are relevant to them they also can learn ethics from there uh and also learning mus because that's uh the ethics uh or character development that they need to learn anyway like the rest of mankind including the Jews uh so M and tanak are the primary uh places that a noahide should find themselves more so than anything else yes there's no uh problem learning the entire tanak uh but don't delve too deeply into the parts that have to do only with like specific like when you get to the section that talks about uh you could read the basic commentary by Rashi what's being said there but don't delve deeper into to it uh you know if you're a no hide but nonetheless again if you have a uh um tanak with commentary by Rashi whether you're Jew or Gentile you could and should learn it what is the Messianic era in the tanak and Hebrew terminology I ask because each time my husband hears the word Messianic he his mother tongue is Hebrew second language is English he underst understands Messianic as messianics running around trying to be Jews I'm unsure how to explain this to him the Messianic era means that there is an era of that is more likely or uh or to be the end of the world where there is a uh going to be certain events that take place in the world in order to prepare the world for the Messiah to arrive now uh we are in that Messianic era now uh to learn what happens in the Messianic era you could watch our era of mashia series or some lectures that I have or ra mrai has uh that talks about the different things that will happen in the era of mashiach uh but in so many words it's a time period where the whole world gets their last chance to do chuva and to do the will of uh before the final Judgment Day the final Judgment Day uh where in that final judgment day everyone will be you know in essence anyone that's alive uh will be judged based on whether they followed what God Said or not if they follow what God Said then they will be rewarded eternally if they don't then they will be punished and possibly punished forever the reason why I say possibly punished forever rather than definitely punished forever is all depending on how much they did that's against hem if they did only a few things that are against hem it's pretty normal then they'll get punished uh you know to a certain extent but then get rewarded for the good that they did but if they did big things like violating Shabbat on purpose without doing chuva wasting seed uh eating on PES eating uh you know uh food on yum kipur and other types of KET sins without rectifying those by doing chuva then their punishment will be permanent uh once the mhia comes so uh it's a uh it's it behooves a person to learn more and more to in order to do Chua in order to get closer to uh as far as people running around saying the mhia is coming or mashia here mashia now yeah that's already been happening for a long time already it's nothing new but the real Messianic era is in essence an era where the uh Hashem does different things in the world in order to prepare the world for the culmination of the World by bringing his mashiah who is going to once he comes here defeat uh and destroy all of the enemies of Israel and the enemies of the Torah uh you know which is the vast majority of the world at that point after he destroys all of them the righteous Jews and righteous Gentiles will serve hem uh to the fullest extent uh surely thereafter some say 40 years later uh there will be resurrection of the Dead uh which are going to be resurrection of both the dead that were righteous and the dead that were Wicked whereas the resurrection of the righteous they will be resurrected and live in this world for another thousand years until the end of the 6,000th year and the resurrection of the wicked will be a a short-term Resurrection where they will wake up see all of the beauty and glory and uh you know and awesomeness of the world and how much hem is rewarding all of the righteous and all the things they're missing out on and then they'll be destroyed so in essence it's a their Resurrection is a form of punishment uh before their bigger punishment which is in a different place uh but um so again as going to be a um Messiah is going to have the AR of mhia is going to have multiple things number one there's going to be certain things that happen in the world that test each and every single one of us to choose a side of whether you want to be with hem in his Torah or against it then the world will heat up even more so there'll be a war called The War of go Magog where the uh uh the vast majority of the world will fight against uh am and the Torah then the Messiah will arrive and destroy all of the enemies of the Tor is and the only survivors will be the righteous Jews not all Jews just the righteous Jews and the righteous go the righteous noahides not all the noahides but just the righteous ones meaning only the righteous Will Survive uh and uh with that being said they will then be able to uh bury all of the wicked which will take some times several years I think it's seven years burying all the wicked because there'll be a lot of dead but you won't have to fertilize the world for a long time because of all that blood uh either way after that the uh the glory of hasem will be at the highest it's ever been uh and then uh you know we'll be able to serve AEM for another thousand or so years in this world in the last thousandth year uh before we go to a different world after this okay if the righteous Jews will be resurrected from the dead when M comes that mean that they will leave ganeden to come back to live or are they not in gun Eden yet oh very good question there's two there's two gun edin and there's also there G there's so there's several different parts several different parts even within them so everyone that's in ganeden is in a good place an amazing place in a place that's much better than this world but this world will change into a different version of itself once there's the mashia comes which will be superior to that gun Eden that's available now but then after that geden that that uh this world culminate itself at the end of the 6,000th year then they're all going to go to a different ganeden that's much more Superior than anything else before it uh and that's usually referenced to ASA what is the purpose of a Jewish woman's life if her children already grew up and she has no eggs is the purpose of a Jewish woman's life to influence a husband and children to learn to what if she couldn't be married for 80 years because she has noen uh the uh this sounds more like a man asking a woman's question um which is not really the best idea but I'll answer it anyway uh a woman has a lot more purpose in life than simply having children anyone that thinks that the only purpose for a woman to have in the world is to have children is an idiot uh why because a woman is aem's daughter she could fulfill mitv of women she could do certain things that only women can do uh and it's not just having children surely having children is great benefit of uh you know of having women in the world but needless to say it's not the only one so women can do much more than just simply have kids uh but if she has the ability to have kids she should have kids because if it wasn't for her having kids we the rest of the world would not be able to exist but that doesn't mean it's the only purpose it's just part of the purpose now as far as uh you know aside from that she should uh if let's say for example she can't have kids because you're like you're saying she is 80 years old and she looks like uh you know a troll and she wasn't able to get married according to what your question is uh because she's so ugly first and foremost you should know that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder and has a match for everyone even someone that you think is ugly is a uh you know has a match in the world and to be honest with you statistically speaking and just from my experience in the world for uh a little bit of time uh I can tell you that it's actually easier easier for ugly people to get married than for good-look people much easier for them to find somebody to marry than for good-look people and the reason why is because they're less picky and they're looking more at a person's personality which is really important than they are looking at The Superficial stuff like good-looking people do and you also see that all of these celebrities that are getting divorced on a regular basis like as if it's changing t-shirts they're all very goodlook people but they're miserable people with their good looks and they're also promiscuous people there's a one of the uh princesses of the go comes to one of the sages and says to him you know it's a uh you're a very ugly person and uh and um the uh the sage tells her okay uh you know and he gives us some advice that caus her to lose or her father to lose a lot of money and uh then he's brought in front of the Cesar and says why' you do this to me said well I uh she said certain things and I said something back and said to but she she's right though you are ugly and he says well you may or may not think I'm ugly but if I uh if I wasn't ugly the information that I gave her you know I wouldn't have meaning the Torah that I know I wouldn't have why because I would spend if I was good-looking I would spend more my time seeking the admiration of uh of the public for that good looks so there is actually certain benefits to being ugly uh next point is is that most people the meaning the overwhelming majority of people will at some point turn ugly in their life uh you know although most people don't necessarily think they are but most people will turn ugly with their life due to age and different life changes uh you know whether it's you know in Teenage life where you have all types of acne and different types of things in your body you have no idea what to do with or it's when somebody simply gets old and wrinkled and they're not their former self or 20 25 years old uh bull that could rip uh trees out of the ground with their teeth you know but the reality is is that if a person thinks that that looks is uh more important than what it is then they are may not be an ugly person physically but they're an ugly person inside and most likely they'll be a alone or miserable or both throughout their life so a woman does not need to be good-look in order to get married and neither does a man in fact it's actually easier if you are uh you know less good looking to find somebody because you're more likely to find to look for the important things in life but either way even with all of that being said a woman that does not have a husband and does not have eggs to have kids can still be extremely productive and resourceful in the world by using her abilities whether it's to work and make money or or otherwise to publicize tah to help the world's learn more Torah by doing K by uh by you know investing into Torah and so on and so forth which means that your question comes from lack of maturity chauvinism and out ignorance if if you really look at it superficially your question uh but at the same token it was a valuable question because at the very least anyone else that has your question uh will now be able to learn the answers and not think that the Torah is a chauvinistic uh sexist uh type of document that thinks that only the men have value because they learn toah this is what the reform-minded want you to think that only men have value it's complete opposite so much so the and both tell us that the mhia mhia is only going to come because of the Merit of the righteous women and am was saved from the Egyptians because of the righteous women so obviously here we see that it's not just because of women that have kids because some women didn't have kids some women their kids died some women they uh you know couldn't have kids and so on and so forth so uh it's it's not just because of children there is more to life for a man or a woman than having children although that is a very big plus so uh it's a valuable question which I appreciate but at the same time I have to uh make that comment that it sounds a little bit uh uh chauvinistic the question but hopefully it's because you're trying to help somebody else see the truth and not because you actually uh believe some of the things that seem seem to be implied by the question [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]