EKEV: Does God Need Your Mitzvah? | STUMP THE RABBI (242)

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And you have 19 hours, 19 hours of Torah films, high quality films, the best films that have been made in uh the last 10 years, if not ever. Bottom line is by the end of the 19 hours, you'll have more shamim than anybody else. You know, you can get this at bzashem.org. If you want to sponsor them, you can get a big discount and get yourself a very big piece in. So, tonight we're going to talk about and the question that we're going to ask and answer is, does God need your mitzvah? If Shimon steals or says and then Levy stops him by scaring him, is that a mitzvah that Hashem wants? Does he even need this mitzvah? Many sheep have decided to follow the wolf of Kabad called Manis Freedman into the world of heresy where their so-called god that they believe in, certainly not the same one as ours, needs them. They actually have a god that needs them. And they say this publicly and proudly. Just today I got from somebody a poster that Y Jacobson is publicizing that God needs you as much as you need him. Is this true? Is there any truth in this? Are you confused? Don't worry. The holy sages led by the Rambanades and even aid kabad named Rab Mendel will help us understand exactly what Musher Renu is telling us in this week to address this and many other questions based on and then you guys will ask the questions. Now, of course, it always starts with personal story and then we're going to go into other things. And the personal story is that just this morning I got an email from someone in France that saw a clip from a video that we made a couple years ago after October 7th where many uh people have cut this part of the clip where we talk about how there's no mercy in war and uh certainly if you cut that clip by itself it seems like Jews are running out there and killing everybody. But of course, the person is smart enough to ask for the entire video and I send it to them. But then after that, someone sent me a uh video of a very wealthy Jewish guy that uh has decided to delve into the world of Kiru. Now, he's certainly a person that's learned to run in his life, at least for the first portion of his life, and uh seems like he has seems like a really decent person. And when he said that he is going into the world of Kiru, I was intrigued. I love Kiru and anybody that goes into it. But to my dismay, as soon as I saw what he's publishing to people where he's publishing that uh he wants to say uh happy Hanukkah and many merry exmas together, meaning plurality, we are Americans. We're not Jews. We're American Jews. And then he starts uh showing videos that have immodesty in them. So he may be from in his eyes according to Hashem you got a little work to do. But one of the things that I've seen is that many times people that go into the world of Kiru fall astray from the path of Hashem because they're trying to please the public. They're trying to humanize God. They're trying to make the Torah politically correct. And in fact, this is the path to their destruction because the last document that you will ever think is politically correct is the Torah. And we'll see this from this para. And then we'll also be able to answer a couple of questions. I'll ask you the questions now. You guys can think about it while we're learning and we'll answer the questions later on and see how everything will come together. What does it mean if a person steals or if a person says and you stop them by scaring them? Is it a mitzvah that God needs? Is it a mitzvah that he wants? Well, Rob Zilberstein says that someone came to him after sitting on a bus behind two young girls. And these two young girls were talking about how their friend that wasn't there just got engaged. And uh really this katan, this future husband of hers is making a big mistake because their friend, again, they call it their friend. I don't know what kind of friend this is, but nonetheless, their friend is really not that uh not good of a catch. Let's just say that she's uh not so pretty. She's very nasty sometimes. She gets angry. She's this. She's that. Da. and they're ripping her apart the whole bus drive. The woman that's hearing this gets up and says, "Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you." The girls are surprised like what do we do? You just saved my family. Thank you so much. What do you mean? I am the Katan's mother. So, now that I know that she's really terrible, I'm going to right away go home and call my son and tell him to call it off. We're cancelling this wedding. Thank you so much for saving us." And of course, the two girls are crying, hysterical at this point. They didn't realize what their is going to get to. And when the woman tells them that she really isn't his mother, she doesn't even know who he is. But she wanted to teach them a lesson of what their lash can get to. The girls were happy, but at the same token, the woman was a little bit concerned. She just made a bunch of, you know, couple of Jewish girls cry. She went to the rabbi and asked him, "Did I do good?" In another case, Ravzilstein says that there was a boy that knew that his friend steals and although he knows that this is wrong, he does it. And one day he sees him going into one of the rooms of the other bahim and the yeshiva and he's about to go steal. And this young boy just got a brand new camera from his parents for his bar mitzvah and he wanted to use it. So he started recording his friend without his friend knowing recording him from behind going to steal. And he records the whole thing. When his friend comes out, he tells him, "Hey, look, look at my new camera." Wow. What a camera. I want to show you what I just recorded. And he shows him his recording. And of course, the thief is shocked at what he sees. Shocked at what he sees. And he says, "Well, you know, if I can record it, then certainly is recording it." And the boy starts crying, hysterical. What did you do? How did you do? Oh, yay. And the boy questioned it. Did I do good? Because at the end of it all, I made a a Jew cry. He returned what he stole. But he cried. The girls cried. People don't like to hear about people crying. People don't like things that are politically incorrect. starts with telling us that he's going to bless us so long as we follow the Torah. But part of the blessings jumped at me today when I was reading it and studying today and it jumped at me and even though I've read this many times, it's the first time it jumped at me. It almost like it winked at me. I said, "What do you want? Why do you look this way?" I said, "Check me out." So I did. And in verse number 16 in chapter 7, right at the beginning of the parad tells us. Now the translation says you will devour All the people that Hashem your God will deliver to you. Your eyes shall not pity me. You shall not worship their gods for it is a snare for you. Means you'll eat them. Translation is not so bad. You'll devour them. But what do you mean you'll eat them? The Jews eat people? No. So why does a kadesh tell us that part of the blessings is that we're going to eat them? Well, guess what? It's not a blessing. It's not a blessing at all. In fact, as this verse was winking at me and telling me to check it out, I started looking. I said, "Where are you? Why do you keep saying you're going to eat these people? Who's eating? What are we eating? How is this a blessing?" I looked. I looked. I tried to find Rashi along the way. I couldn't find him. I tried to find along the way. Couldn't find him. I went on because the says that you have to keep going. that you got that if somebody delved into it and you told you you found something then you believe him in the Torah but if somebody tells you no I found it without even looking don't believe him it's not possible so I kept looking where are you why do you keep saying eating why is it standing in my head for the first time in my life like you know there's an expression you say if you do that I'm going to eat you. You know, it's an old time uh expression because this you're going to destroy someone. But how is this a blessing? I kept looking and I couldn't find. But then I found it. It wasn't Rashi. It wasn't. It wasn't. It wasn't even the I found my dear master the Ramban and the Ramban opened up my eyes to something that explains at least the first thing in the Ramanades. says as follows on this verse on the verse where it says Hashem your God will thrust these nations this is a I'm sorry that you shall devour the all the people that Hashem your god will deliver to you. The Rabban says scripture mentions first among the judgments that they must carry out to destroy and annihilate the idolattors. Wait. So first it explains to us that this is not a blessing. This is not a reward but rather this is a segment of the parad that tells us a list of judgments that we have to carry out properly in order to be entitled to a reward to devour the enemy. And therefore the Ramban says for this reason it says you shall devour literally eat all the people meaning that you shall destroy them. As the Ramban is telling us that devouring the nations is an actual obligation to annihilate them. Similar to the idea stated in the verses in the book of numbers chapter 14:9 where it says you should not fear the people of the land for they are our bread a form of food or it says in the book of Psalms chapter 79 verse7 for they have devoured Yakov or in Jeremiah chapter 10 verse They have consumed him and annihilated him and so too says the there are many other verses in which eating means destroying and the verse says that your eyes shall not pity them. As I have mentioned earlier that through misplaced pity, judges and fools end up losing all justice. Meaning that you pity the judges, you pity the fools, all justice is lost. So here we see that not only tells us to fight the enemies, but devour them, destroy them. And you're actually commanded to not even have any mercy on them because any misplaced mercy will lead to destruction. Furthermore says the Ramban in the next few verses verse 22 to 24 when it comes to the verse that says Hashem your God will thrust these nations from before you little by little. This is where the Torah promises that Hashem may be blessed will annihilate all the nations in the land and he will send among them the hornet swarm to cause the survivors hidden one the hidden ones who survived the military battle to perish. Thus they will all perish in so many words is showing you how he is doing what he commands you to do. is being vicious on the enemy. God, the all merciful God says that when we fight the enemy, when the time finally comes, not only are you not allowed to have mercy, but God does not have mercy. Now mercy today is a political correct terminology that is leading to a lot of death. But God says to us when the time comes and you fight the enemies that some of them are going to escape the battle they're going to hide. They're going to run away. You think I'm going to let them survive? I'm going to send them my special team of millions of hornets. They're going to find them in every hole they're hiding in. Every size, every age, every gender, the enemy must be destroyed. So, similar to what we said a few years ago in that lecture, no mercy on the wicked, says Hashem. No mercy. Now, this is hard for people to accept because they want to believe their own version of a merciful God that loves everyone that forgives everyone no matter what they did and how they did it and even if they don't even say I'm sorry and even if they don't change and if even if they say they don't believe in him but Hashem says otherwise. When I looked at this verse and it says, I understood this is the will of Hashem. When you're finally going to fight the enemy, no mercy. Because that's the command of Hashem. And Hashem wants to lead by example. And he says, "I also don't have mercy on the enemy." Now, why do people have such a big problem with this? Verse number 25 says there's a reason. One of the reasons is the carved images of their gods. You shall burn in the fire. You shall not covet and take for yourself the silver and gold that is on them, lest you be ins snared by it, for it is an abomination of Hashem your God. who says, "You know those treasures they have, those idols that are made out of gold, you're going to think, why should I destroy the gold? I mean, it's just a stupid statue. I could just melt it and make a mand out of it." Bahu says, "No, no, no. This is also part of the enemy. Destroy that, too." There's no mercy on the enemy or any of his stuff. Why? It's all disgusting. It's all an abomination in the eyes of Hashem. And if you think that perhaps maybe it's about the I don't want to waste. I'm just going to end up what? Destroying this house of idolatry, destroying this gold and and and and what? It's a it's a waste, isn't it? Shouldn't we just turn it into a mitzvah? Sometimes that's not the will of Hashem. In fact, here says it's the opposite of the will of Hashem. And says, why does he give us all this to know what is in your heart whether you would observe his commandments or not in so many words is putting us in politically incorrect places. He's putting us in uncomfortable situations and uncomfortable places and uncomfortable topics for those that are not aware of the word of Hashem or simply don't accept it. And he tells you this is the time you have to be a hero. As the says in a place that there's no leader, you be the leader. You stand for Hashem. Why? I want to see what's in your heart. When push comes to shove and you see corruption, you see manipulation, and even if that manipulation generates an endless amount of gold in today's world, an endless amount of subscribers. You go fight it even if you're only by yourself. You go fight it even if no one wants to join you. Why? That's how I'm going to know what's in your heart. What do I get for it? Nothing. Because even any of the profit that you can get from the treasures that are left from the enemy, I don't want that either. Their idols have to be destroyed. Don't even have mercy on any of their possessions. Ultimately, you ask a question, which mida, which character trait does all of this require? And of course answers us. Chapter 8 verse number six. You shall observe the commandments of Hashem your God to go in his ways and to fear him. In so many words, the only way you will be able to annihilate the enemy as a willed, as a b commanded, as a kadosh told you to devour with no mercy is if you have fear of Hashem. The only way you'll be able to take no prisoners is if you fear Hashem, the only way you will pass the test when a kad looks into your heart to see what's in it is if you have fear of Hashem. Now, of course, we're not in war. At least most of us, we're not chasing after any enemies, at least not physical ones. So where else can this be applied to? Where else does Mosheu tell us that you need to have fear of God? Well, you don't have to go too far. You just continue in the para. In the fifth aliyah in chapter 10 verse number 12, tells [Music] says to us now, "O Israel, What does Hashem your God ask of you only to fear Hashem your God? To go in all his ways and to love him and to serve Hashem your God with all your heart and with all your soul to observe the commandments of Hashem and his decrees which I commanded you today for your benefit. Behold, to Hashem your God, you are to Hashem your God are the heaven and the highest heaven, the earth and everything that is in it. Here Mosheu again tells us, what is Hashem asking of you? How can you sum up the whole Torah? What do I need to have in order to serve Hashem like he wants? Not like people imagine, not like the political correct nonsense, but rather how Hashem wants tells us clearly, fear God. And in fact, what's the big deal? That's in essence what he's saying. What's the big deal? Fear God. Now, Kazal asked, wait, wait, hold on a sec. What do you mean, what's the big deal? Who's asking this? Mosherenu is saying, what's the big deal? I mean of course of course to him what's the big deal to fear God and therefore the says yes you're right to Mosheu fearing God was not a big deal he feared him at the highest possible level which is awe of Hashem but what can we do that the vast majority of people throughout all of history even if they recognize that they should feel this way towards Hashem It is hard for ordinary people to achieve it. And therefore, there is a second and lower level of fearing God, which is the visceral fear of punishment. That's what's the big deal. Meaning, yes, you may not be the Mosheu that is afraid of the awe of Hashem. Shalom hurting that relationship. But everyone could fear Hashem because they're afraid of punishment. They're afraid of dying. They're afraid of gay. They're afraid of losing their health. They're afraid of losing loved ones. They're afraid of losing money. They're afraid of being embarrassed, shamed. endless types of punishments that should be no big deal to you and that is required in order for you to fulfill the will of Hashem. But then Mosher Raenu adds something that seems like why is it there? Where he tells us behold to Hashem your God are the heaven and the highest heaven the earth and everything that is in it. Yeah. Okay. He's great. We get it. But what does that have to do with the whole fearing Hashem? You told us we have to be vicious with no remorse against the enemies. You told us that we have to have fear of Hashem in order to pass the test for when Hashem looks into our heart. You told us that we have to have fear of Hashem in order to fulfill his will. But what does it have to do that everything is Hashem's? And I looked and I looked and I couldn't find. But then I remembered the Ramban. He helped me before. He was with me before. Maybe my master could help me again. So I took a chance to see if the Ramban can help me. And I was right. The Raman was able to help, not only help me, but help you answer all of these questions beginning now. The Ramban tells us that here you see that is adding something. He's telling us that what does God need of you? What does he ask of you? just to fear him to this question says the Ramban this is connected to the words for your benefit where Mosheu is telling us Hashem is not asking anything of you that he will benefit from it's only to your benefit Similar to the idea that Job said in chapter 35 verse number 7 that if you act righteously what have you given him meaning this is all for your profit for your benefit when mushenu says what and only it doesn't mean to imply that hashem is asking you only a minor thing. Rather, it means that a kadosh is asking you to follow his commands only for your benefits, not for his. And therefore, both Moshe Rabenu and the prophet Job are saying, "If you're righteous and you fulfill all of God's command, you're not granting Hashem any type of benefit for he doesn't need anything from you." And if you are not sure that that's really what's being implied here, the verse continues and says, "Behold, to Hashem your God are the heavens and the heavens of heavens." And the Ramban there says, Mosheu here stated the reason why our righteousness cannot be in any way, shape, or form God's own benefit. by saying, "Behold, to Hashem your God are the heavens and the heavens heavens, the earth and everything that's in it." Meaning that they all give honor to his name. Meaning that if his purpose of creating the world was for his own benefit, he could already fulfill that without you. He has the heavens, heavens, he has the angels and therefore says the he is not in any need of you. Surely he didn't command you to love and worship him because he benefits you from you. Rather it is for your own benefit. And that's why God desires your benefit because he created you in order to give you good because you are the sons and daughters of Yakov whom he loved. You are the chosen offspring because he did not choose Ishmael and Asav who are also descendants of Abra. Here we see how tells us commands that could easily be misunderstood to be blessings. But then when you look at the verses, it doesn't make sense. But now you look at what the sages explain, you realize it's not a it's not a blessing. It's an obligation. It's a commandment. It's a commandment to fight the enemy with no mercy. It's a commandment to have fear of God. It's a commandment to observe the entire Torah. So if it's a commandment, does that mean you benefit out of it? Absolutely not, says Hashem. I have no benefit from it whatsoever. You could do every mitzvah that ever existed a billion trillion times and it will not change anything in Hashem. It will not benefit him in any way. Rather, it is for your and your only benefit. I don't need you. Now, who knows more? the Ramban or the sheep following the wolf of Kabad today that say God needs you. The great sages or the little sheep that barely know Alf without getting instructions from their master to see if he agrees. Now, of course, people will say, "Oh, you just hate Kabad." Well, let's see. In 1907, a Sadik was born. His name was Rabi Minim Mendel Futas, also known as Reb Mendel. After World War II, Rebendo joined with a bunch of other Kabadnik to help the community flee the USSR, go to Poland, go to England, go to different places by making all types of necessary documentation on the last train. He got on to flee himself and he got caught. His family already left safely, but he was caught by the Soviets who put him in jail and the gulag labor camps and in Siberia for eight years. eight years of suffering, agony where the vast majority of the people that went to Siberia never came out. They simply died there and usually shortly after. Perv Mendel survived. After he got out in 1955, he couldn't leave the country yet. Not until 1964. Nine years later was he finally allowed to go to England and join with his family and he wrote many of these stories in a book called my gulag life. In one of the stories, Rebendel tells of what he experienced in the Siberian prison or the Siberian hell. And he says one of his prison mates came up to him and told him, "Rendel, I wanted to say goodbye." What do you mean goodbye? They're going to kill you. No, no, but tomorrow I'm not going to be here anymore. What do you mean? The only way people get out of here is usually if they get killed. Goes, "Well, not this time. What do you got planned? How are you going to get out of here with all of these Nazis over here, these Russian Nazis over here, these communists?" He said, ' Listen, every day there's a switch between the different guards. It only takes them 30 seconds to switch guards. And every day I take advantage of those 30 seconds and I dig a little bit more into the wooden wall. Well, so far it's gotten to the point where now I have an entire hole that's dug up, but it's tiny little holes where all I need to do is just kick down the wall. It'll open and then I can run out. So, I want to say goodbye. wished him much and was hoping that he would succeed. The next day, this guy did exactly as he said. As soon as the guards went to switch during those 30 seconds, he kicked down the wall that was already full of holes, busted down the wall, and got out. But as soon as he got out, a group of vicious dogs ran towards him to eat him up alive because that's what they've been training for their whole lives. But of course, as the tell us, who is wise? Someone that sees the future, someone that would seize will be born. He saved a little bit of meat every time they was served it and he had it prepared with him. So as soon as the dogs came his way, he threw meat to them and within seconds all the dogs became his best friends. They were busy with the meat. This gave him just enough time to run away and run to safety. When the Russian guards discovered what happened, they lost their mind. Cursing, yelling, breaking. And to top it all off, they went up to the dogs and shot them all in the head. Killed all the dogs. Rendle says, "When I saw this, what they did to the dogs, I felt bad for the dogs. Why'd you kill the dogs? But I didn't want to ask because they were so angry. So I waited a few days. Since I've been there for so many years, once in a while I get to talk to the guards almost like a civil human being. And I ask the guard a few days later, "Why'd you kill the dogs?" And this communist vicious guard tells me, "Huh, Menel, you don't understand, do you? We invested a fortune in these dogs for years. We're training them for years. We're doing everything we possibly can to make these dogs the most vicious animals in the world for that one moment where someone may try to escape and that moment happened and they failed. If they fail at such a moment, we don't need these types of dogs. Remendle says, "When I heard this, I started crying." The guard asked me, "What are you crying about, Remendo? You feel bad for the dogs?" Goes, "No, no, no. I'm just It's a It's a Jewish thing. Don't worry." "But to myself," says Remendle. I was crying for myself. "You know why? These guys, these vicious monsters invest a fortune in these dogs to make them what they want to make them. And one time they failed and they killed them. Look how much a kadosh invests in us. He gives us eyes, he gives us ears, he gives us children, he gives us wives, he gives us husbands, he gives us pasa, he gives us a world that's full of beauty. He gives us a holy Torah that's clear blueprint to the creation that has the instructions for a good life. He gives us everything. And look how much we fail him. But he still doesn't kill us. O to us that we don't appreciate Hashem. You see what Mosheu is telling us in the name of Hashem is that Hashem doesn't need us or our mitzvot. We need him. We always did. We always will. But in order for us to pass the test, whether the test is heresy or the test is trying to be politically correct and pleasing the public because that's what's going to make you popular and friendly. Or the test is to not steal or the test is to not say about people. The only thing that will help you with all of those tests and with the entire Torah is fearing. Understanding that not only does he not need us, but if we go against him, he will punish us. You see, when those two girls were saying whatever they were saying about their so-called friend that was happy to find somebody to finally marry, didn't think anyone was watching, didn't think anyone was listening. And all the woman that was sitting behind them did is remind them that if I am watching and I could have been the mother of that katan and I could have been the one that would have broke off the wedding due to your gossip then needless to say is listening even when I'm not here and unless you do chuva he will punish So when she came to Rav Zilberstein and she asked him, "Rabbi, I did it, but they cried so much. I feel so bad." It's Zilbstein said, "Don't feel bad. You did what was necessary in order to help those girls do chuva." Sometimes causing somebody to cry is necessary in order to save them from their own foolishness. And the same goes with the second story. When the young boy with the camera came to Rav Zilbust and asked him, "Rabbi, did I do good? I made him cry so much when I recorded it." Rav Zilstein told him, "Not only did you do good, you saved his because that boy was going to continue stealing for the rest of his life. And who knows how much worse it would have gotten until you finally showed him that if you can record him on a silly little camera you got for your bar mitzvah. Needless to say is recording him. But after you put everything into that perspective and scared him. He did chuva immediately and he will never be the same again. He will now fear Hashem. The moment a person falls for the trap of thinking that Hashem needs them, then they no longer need to fear God, which is literally antithetical to the entire Torah. And therefore, says Mosheu, all Hashem asks you to is to fear God. Because if you fear God, you'll be able to fulfill the entire Torah like it's no big deal because that's why you were created. This will help each and every one of us develop stronger fear of God and never be ashamed of any mitzvah that we are observing despite the fact that your surroundings may not be your biggest fans, despite that you may not get many likes and subscribers and views. Because at the end of it all, if a kadosh was looking for subscribers, was looking for fans, he could already do it without us. As the heaven and the earth is all his anyway. What he's looking for is for us to fear him because that's the necessary requirement to serve him. With that, you can now start asking some questions. The custom seems to be to not wear. But how should we view those who wear? I have neighbors who wear and I want to judge them favorably. There's no need for you to judge them unfavorably. There are some that wear and there is some that don't wear. It's not a sin to wear shalom worelet but did not wear. If you want to wearlet, by all means wearlet. Some disagree about the uh findings that people say is that we have today is the reallet. So they don't wear it. And someh say this is more than enough and therefore you can wear it. If you want to wear it, wear it. You don't want to wear it, don't wear it. So there's nothing for you to judge favorably. It's perfectly fine. Do I wear? No, I don't wear. My rabbi doesn't wear so I don't wear if my rabbi started wearing I'd start wearing too. Does this mean that I must treat go with no mercy only in war? What about any other areas of life like business? I have no problem doing so. I will do exactly as you say. No. No. When it comes to war, there's no mercy. But when it comes to doing business, you must be able to be a decent human being. You have to be honest. You have to have integrity. You are not allowed to steal from goim. You're not allowed to uh take advantage of them. In fact, it's worse to steal from non-Jews than to steal from Jews. Because if you steal from a Jew, then the uh the Jew will simply say that you are a bad uh bad guy and that's it. But if you steal from a non-Jew, then that non-Jew will conclude that all Jews are bad and they'll become anti-semitic. So it causes much more damage, causes uh in fact if you look at the uh hatred that the anti-semites have uh about Jews is only because of bad Jews. They don't hate Jew the the Jews because of people like us that are observing the Torah and they hate Jews because of bad people. People that took advantage of them. People that are taking advantage of society. People that are pedophiles and rapists and thieves and uh all types of horrible people. Unfortunately, the non-Jews don't realize that those few bad Jews are not a representation of the Jewish people. They happen to be Jewish by birth, but they don't follow Judaism. They don't follow the Torah. So, they're hating those people and they don't realize they would hate those people even if they were non-Jews. Their Judaism has nothing to do with their bad actions. In fact, we hate those people, too. Because they're bad to everyone. They're not just bad to non-Jews, they're bad to everyone. So that's the unfortunate situation that's out there. People that hate Jews hate them because they had bad experiences usually with or they read about bad things about Jews, but they don't realize that those people they read about that we hate them as much as everybody else. In fact, even more sometimes because they cause us a bad name. They cause Hashem a bad name. So, in order for you to understand what who's representing the Jews, you have to know what the Torah says. The Torah says to follow Torah, to keep Shabbat, to keep mitzvot, to be honest, to have integrity, to never steal, to never cheat. Uh, you know, it tells you a million different rules of how to be moral, how to be just, how to follow God's ways. So, if you see somebody, whether they look and dress like me or they don't, it's irrelevant. If you see somebody that is morally corrupt, someone that's a cheater, someone that's a liar, someone that's a thief, then you can know for sure they are not the representation of Judaism. They're the opposite. They are someone that is going against Hashem. And anyone that goes against Hashem, of course, is going to go hurt people, too. If they're if they have no concern about their creator, certainly they're not going to care about other people. But if you want to know what what real Jews are like, go to a k, go to a yeshiva, go to see people that are learning Tawa and see how they live their life. You'll see literally angels among men. Angels among men. So it's there's a very big difference. Unfortunately, the uh the the large majority of the public is not aware of the difference and therefore they simply conclude that all Jews are the same. But uh that's as wrong as can be. is salvation only for Israel? Uh, no. Salvation is for everyone that follows the Torah and according to them. meaning uh the Jewish people that follow the laws of the Torah will have salvation. The Jewish people that do not follow the Torah will not have salvation. They'll have eternal punishment. The non-Jews that follow the Torah that's applicable to them, that's the seven noahide laws, will have salvation. the non-Jews that do not follow the Torah, either because of idolatry or because of a uh im immorality or all types of other heinous crimes that people make, those that do not follow Torah will not have salvation. They'll be destroyed. So, it's a uh it's applies to all of mankind. People that follow the Torah, that's the laws of God, they will have salvation. People that don't will be destroyed regardless of whether they're Jews or not. Everything you're saying is anti-Zionism. Absolutely. We We The Zionists are the enemies of the Jewish people. They're not friends of the Jewish people. Do you represent the Jews? I represent what the Torah says and that's what the Jewish Jews are supposed to be. So as far as if you're looking for what the Torah says, that's what I teach and that's what Jews are supposed to live by. That's what Jews are supposed to follow. Do you think that Palestine deserves a state? No. Pal there's no such thing as Palestine. This is simply a figment of people's imagination. It's a bunch of people from Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, uh, and other uh, Muslim countries that gathered together in order to terrorize the Jewish people. They've never had a flag. They never will have a flag. They never have any type of history. There's no such thing as a Palestinian state. Now, unfortunately, since the government of modern-day Israel is run by a bunch of liberal Zionists that are anti-God, they may end up giving them a state because they're stupid. Uh, but as far as according to the Torah, there is no such thing as uh Palestinians, and there's no such thing as uh even giving them permission to step into the land, needless to say, to have a piece of the land. Yes, this is I am Orthodox Jewish. Was it against the law to have mercy on the on our Canaanite family? No. This was an obligation because the uh the prophets promised her. Yeshua Benoon uh you know ended up marrying her and uh she converted that she was a righteous Jew but she saved the lives of the Jews the spies that went there uh one of them was Pinas uh and they promised her that she because she saved their life uh they will uh spare her life and her family's life. So uh we don't we don't promise and uh and lie. We promise and we uh we do. So absolutely was not a uh against the law was in fact it was a very big blessing for Israel. The uh Yeshua Benoon uh brought I believe the says seven prophets to the world came from them. Seven prophets If all that do not have salvation are destroyed, what do you mean by that they are made no more? Because we are all energy whether salvation or not. an energy has never been created uh and cannot be destroyed. Well, I'm sorry to tell you, but uh you've uh simply um missed a very key part of the purpose of your creation, which is to understand that God created you and uh he created you from nothing. And uh you uh you personally came from a putrid seed that turned into a uh person that has arms and legs and eyes and ears that does not even know his creator. But needless to say uh created the world from nothing. And uh he decides to do what he wishes with it. And he says that those that follow his Torah will have salvation. Those that don't will be destroyed. And the destruction is a process. It's not a uh it's not just they simply disappear. There's places for destruction. Rabbi, can you speak about the specifically chapter 49 2021? I don't uh think I need to speak about it. You could just open it up and see what the commentaries are there. When someone makes anti-semitic comments and basically insults you, do you have to respond? I mean defend yourself or just let it go and ignore it. Depends. It depends on the circumstance. If a uh if it's something for example the people are sending online right now uh there's a bunch of them that uh say all types of nasty things like one fool is keeps writing about a thousand times that Adolf Hitler was right about us and another guy talks about how we are bad and da da da. So I don't respond to those people. Then there are some of them that I do respond. uh when there's a a response that's necessary. So, I judge it on case by case basis. As far as if you're talking about on a uh personal level, if somebody uh calls you a name or uh or something like that, most of the time I would suggest to simply walk away and just simply ignore it. Uh but uh sometimes it's not possible to ignore it. So, you have to evaluate case by case basis. But, usually the best thing to do is to ignore it and walk away. What if a partner cheats on their spouse? Well, that depends in the Jew. If it's two Jewish people, meaning a Jewish man, a Jewish woman, and the husband cheats on the wife, then the wife can choose whether she wants to stay with him or not. She doesn't have to stay with him. Uh but uh she can choose to stay with him. But if a woman cheats on her husband, then uh it's much more complicated because if there are witnesses to her cheating on him, then even if he wants to cheat uh stay with her, he's not allowed to. Uh so uh it's it all depends. It all depends on a certain circumstance. Rabbi, do you recommend any kaya in South Florida? Uh, no. I don't recommend anything specific. It depends on what you're looking for. It depends uh what your budget is. It depends uh, you know, where what kind of work you do. I don't necessarily recommend any one particular kilo over another. There's certainly certain places I wouldn't walk into even uh but uh there are some places that are more than fine. Um so depends depends but I don't recommend anything uh publicly. I have a question about cheating because you mentioned it in your last lecture. If a husband or wife cheats, can they state to Okay, just answer that question. All right. Okay. I'm a Zionist and I'm alive in Israel being a nation among the nations. I'm alive in myself being in Israel and wherever my feet are is my Zion. There's actually a verse about you in the this week's para. Since you already exposed your ideology, I want to show you where you are in this week's para because we always say that uh every question that a person has is in this week's para. In this week's para in chapter 8 in uh verse number 16, no And you may say in your heart, my strength and my might and the might of my hand made me all this wealth. In essence, that's what you're saying. that you are in charge of your life and you live and you think and you do the way you decide because you think we're all energy and Hashem doesn't necessarily run the world and all that type of things and unfortunately you're in the para and if you go into the para and you read about it read from where I showed you uh you'll see that uh if you continue this way your end is not going to be very pretty at least not the way you Think look more like fireworks. Okay. Is it a mitzvah to say to an atheist that he will be destroyed? Not necessarily. It depends. What What's the purpose of telling them they'll be destroyed? Are you trying to help him or are you trying to simply insult him or tell him something that uh you know is just on your mind to just tell him that is not gonna it's not necessarily a mitzvah. It's not a sin and it's not going to help him though. I can tell you that if it's just for the sake of telling walking away tell him why. Um, can this lecture be for the looneymat of somebody? Um, we already did a lecture, so it's after the fact. If you want to sponsor a lecture, you can go to our website bzashem.org and uh you can sponsor a lecture. There's a few different options there. If I were to sponsor a set of new tablets, do I get the same reward as someone who buys it and hands it out? Certainly, you're going to get an extraordinary reward. Uh, as far as if somebody actually hands them out themselves, they will get a slightly bigger reward than you because they made an extra effort. Not only they bought them, but they also gave them out. Uh so they made an extra effort. There was a story of two sadikot that were their husbands were both from about 150 years ago that uh they always did together helping the poor, helping the needy, all types of things. And they promised each other as they got older that uh once they die, whoever dies first will come back to, you know, in a dream for the other one to let them know. let her know what's what's what's judgment like. So, one of them died and uh shortly after she died, she came to her friend in a dream and she told her, "Well, how is it?" She says, "Babashem got, you know, it's getting a lot of good things, good judgment for all of the that we're doing that we did in our life. It's unbelievable. But I want to give you good news. What you're going to get is much much more than me. She says, "What do you mean?" But we were together all the time. Every that we did, we did together. Every poor person we helped together. Why would I get more than you? So because I always came with you, but you're the one that actually gave the money or the kala or knocked on the door of the people. You made that extra effort. And in this world, in the real world, that extra step is worth a lot. So you'll get a much bigger reward than me. So certainly the extra effort is worth a lot more, but sometimes the extra effort scares people away to the point where they don't do anything at all. Meaning that if they know that they could, you know, let's say sponsor 10, 50, 100, a thousand of these uh of these uh ku boxes, but they don't want to give it themselves. So they'll end up not sponsoring anything at all. That's a foolish, you know, mistake. So, it's better for them to sponsor them and let us give them away. So, at least they'll have the vast majority of their reward rather than have nothing, you know, but if somebody could sponsor them and give them, that's certainly the ultimate way of doing it. If they could sponsor them without giving them, they still should do it because they'll get an enormous award. Like I like Rab Fry said and we said in the lecture last night, this is literally a way for you to get a peace ina huge peace in more than even your own uh righteous acts. How to get it? You can go to kiru box k i r uv vb ox.com and you can buy one or 10 or 50 over there or 100 or however many you want and um you can either choose to buy them and get delivery of them or you could choose to buy them and simply be a sponsor and we will distribute them. As far as how we will distribute them, simply we'll choose different people that contact us constantly. There's hundreds of messages every day and we see that they uh need some you know until now it was uh you know sending them lectures, sending them videos, sending them answers, you know, sometimes sending them the Kiru uh um boxes that we used to have which was you know different books and USBs and so on. uh and we had plenty of success doing it but it was uh very timeconuming very expensive and uh uh not necessarily always effective in this generation that needs immediate gratification and digital media. So this particular device answers all of those questions that a person can possibly have whether it's Torah and science or it's uh you know issues about morality or business or uh you know what's the you know value of money all tests life tests lots and lots of information in here literally 19 hours of films uh that are of the highest quality as well as some music uh the music obviously is not even uh close to being you know 5% of But there's a uh we put a bunch of our chuva musics on it. But this is something that will help somebody do chuva more than any other tool that ever existed because this simply there's never been anything comparable to it. And most likely there won't be anytime soon because even if somebody copied our idea, our innovation and and and and publicized their stuff on it, they don't have the same content. And we know that the uh content that we've created over the last 10 years produces results. It's not just views. We see the results, the life changes. The people that literally go from being uh partners in Sodom and Gomorrah to being partners in, you know, K and and Kusha. So we've seen miracles and wonders uh happen as a result of people watching these uh films. in boashm we have a uh we have this all in this uh you know in this um in this kiru box. So someone that wants to get it wants to get one for themselves or you want to get to distribute in your community you can go to kroo.org.com uh and you could order over there and uh you'll be able to uh get yourself something significant. My suggestion for people is to try to sponsor some of them every single month. Literally make this your monthly uh donation, your monthly contribution, whether to distribute them yourself or to have us do it doesn't, you know, the key is to just do it every single month because this is literally guaranteeing yourself the ultimate reward. And people that have money, people that have 10, 50, 100, 200,000 big money, if if you want to make the smartest investment of your entire life, do this. invest as much as possible into this because there's simply never been anything like it. This is bigger than sponsoring you know our uh you know tikuna breit film our gay nom film our uh you know why this is something that has all of it has all of it and it's uh it's it's something extraordinary and as simply something unbelievable and as a uh uh since we're already on the topic of uh big films we have been working on a big project for a long time and uh if you guys remember about a year ago we came out with the news which hashem was wellreceived and helped a lot of people do chuva and uh the movies that we've made over the years keep getting higher and higher quality higher and higher u results uh as far as getting bala and over this uh period long period of time we've been working on our next major production and boashm it's in the last stage. It's in the last stage. Everything that we have is something that uh the world has simply never seen before. And uh this uh movie is something that is uh simply unbelievable. Just put it that way. As usual, you're going to have hundreds of Torah sources listed on the screen while you are being uh intrigued, entertained, and scared to death or entertained to death or or or simply elated and just enamored with how glorious our Torah is. All of it is going to be on a screen. Uh we're in the last stage of edits. Uh I would say that uh this is coming very very soon, meaning a matter of weeks if not less. Anyone that wants to be a major sponsor of it can contact us by all means. Uh and you could become a sponsor. But uh to be honest with you, we're so I'm this this this Kiru box is such a big thing that um you know it's it's I I can't tell you that one film is going to be bigger than this. If you have 10, 50, $100,000 and you ask me which one should I invest into, I would tell you into this. Why? Because this is the gift that keeps on giving forever. Uh film is going to be obviously very effective and and and great and so on. And uh I would certainly uh love for anyone that wants to help us. It costs a fortune to make each one of these films. There's salaries, there's licenses, there's uh copyrights, there's a million and a half different things that go into it. Even though there's some people that actually take that stuff from us for free and uh without our permission. You know, we we do whatever we can. We invest a fortune in every one of the films. It literally cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Uh and uh it gets results and it's worth it. But when it comes to long-term effects of one film versus 19 hours in such a package, such a presentation, nothing will ever compare to it. Nothing will ever compare to it. Maybe the next edition will include the next film, but there's more than enough already in here. So, anyone that wants to sponsor the film is more than welcome to contact me directly. I don't have time to make a campaign for it, but like I said, anyone that has the uh access to money, especially uh those that are have been watching us uh for a period of time, make the biggest investment of your life into this thing. Help us get to a point where we're able to give this thing for free to as many people as we can, just like we do with the books, just like we do with the USBs, just like we do with everything else. requires a huge investment we've already made. But nonetheless, uh there's a lot more there's a lot more that's needed. It says in the Quran that Islam are the greatest people of mankind supremacy. Okay, there's a lot of lies in the Quran. This is one of them. Is Jesus the Messiah? He's not even the donkey of Messiah. Even the donkey is is higher than what he was. So, not really sure um why you would ever think that. Why don't Jews believe in Jesus? Because he was a liar. He was a heretic. He was an idol worshipper and he got people to leave God. Are there Spanish editions of this uh box of this cure box? Not yet. If we get enough sponsorship for the English and then there's enough demand from the Spanish speaking crowd, then we'll be more than happy to do it in uh in that as well. Uh there's different ideas, there's different additions that we're we're looking to have. But again, like I said, it each one of them requires a huge investment. uh a huge investment uh not just uh the uh the printing cost and the the production but uh investments in in graphics and licensing and all types of different things. A lot this is three years in the making. What you're seeing over here this is something I worked on for three years. It's not it's not a it's not something that uh and and the films in it took almost a decade. So it's not something that uh is one two three and it gets printed in a home printer. It's a big big production and um we're we're really hoping that people understand how how valuable this tool is. So far, anyone that has already gotten it has told me this is the greatest thing since sliced bread. So, uh has good feedback on it. We just started shipping it this week. I have a question. If a Jew is traveling and there isn't an Orthodox shul for minan, can you do minan in a reformed synagogue? A Jew is never allowed to walk into a reformed synagogue, not to pray there and not even to work there. So no, a reformed shul is considered equivalent to idol worship. If one makes a pledge to use a percentage of their panad to buy tablets for giving out, would this help bless his panad to increase? If he actually gives, he gets the blessing to make a pledge. Not so much. Because some people make pledges and they don't they don't actually uh they don't actually do it. I've had a few people that uh you know made pledges. They say, "Listen, Rabbi, I'm going to donate x amount of money this year." Okay, I'm in. I always say, "I'm in." I never really get excited. Uh I've been around the block more than a few times to get excited by money already at this age. Uh and uh so people say, "Oh yeah, I'm going to donate this much." Okay, I'm in. And to be honest with you, more times than not, people don't do it for all types of reasons, whether they don't have it, they don't want to have it, they uh you know, different reasons. You know, I've had people uh somebody offer me said, "Oh, yeah. Listen, Rabbi, I'm going to donate a million dollars. A million dollars. I'm gonna donate. I'm in. I'm in." After that, they somehow lost my phone number. Uh so people unfortunately uh forget. And that's also in this para by the way. Uh it's a uh in this week's para in verse number it starts at verse number 10 in chapter 8. It says, so it says you will eat and you will be satisfied and bless Hashem your God for the good land that he gave you. Meaning that Hashem is giving you the blessing. He gave you the pan. Take care lest you forget Hashem your God by not observing his commandments, his ordinances, and his decrees which I command you today. Lest you eat and be satisfied, and you build good houses and settle, and your cattle and sheep and goats increase, and you increase silver and gold for yourselves, and everything that you will have increase, and your heart will become hardy, and you will forget Hashem your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt from the house of slavery. Do you know how many people I've met in the last 10 years of helping people get closer to Hashem, do chuva, transform their lives, get married, all types of things. You know how many people I've met that after they got the blessing and I don't mean just one blessing I mean countless blessings they suddenly forgot God they suddenly decided to not only not be grateful but they actually went against not many of them stayed religious but they decided to become forget who helped them forget who saved them forget who got them married forget who made the shiduk for them. Forget who gave them a blessing so they have kids and they finally had kids after 10 years of marriage with no kids. Forget who helped them make money. Forget all types of things. And I don't mean help them make money by praying. I mean literally helped them make money. Forget they forgot who didn't forget didn't forget. And I'm not uh I'm not uh looking for anybody to to to give me anything. Not even a shoelace do I need. So nobody thinks they enriched me like Abraham said to the king of of but the problem is when people forget they bring a curse upon themselves unlike anything else. And it's almost impossible to remove it. And I only say almost because I'm hopeful, not because I have for sure a uh a cure for it. I'm hopeful that it's possible to remove it. But I can't give you a source that it's possible to remove it. Why? You forgot Hashem after he gave you the blessing. It's it's it's it's it's literally worse than committing suicide. Unfortunately, I've met plenty of those people and uh helped plenty of those people and continue still have now. It's not like a uh it's not like something that happened a long time ago and I'm just uh you know still living it. This is something that continues to happen. In fact, the more you invest in people, the more likely they are to be ungrateful. That's the that's the satan. He usually lets those types of people that are within themselves ungrateful. He lets them grow, grow, grow without disturbing them. All of a sudden they're praying at 5:00 in the morning with no problem. All of a sudden they can learn for a few hours. All of a sudden they pas they grow really really fast without the satan really touching them. So they have their guards up. they're fine. And then he gives them a shot. They don't even know what hit him. And all of a sudden, they turn from Rabbi, you are the Messiah to Rabbi, you are Amalik. Literally from coast to coast, from planet to planet. And I've seen it. And it's literally so painful you can't get rid of the pain ever. It's like Yakovu crying over over Ysef because you know he's still around. You just how where is he? Where is he? You know they're still around. You just know they're gone. They're here but they're gone. They're never It's just It's unfortunate. It's a very very unfortunate very painful. And if I didn't love and I didn't love is I would have stopped doing this a long time ago. It's way too painful. The amount of pain that you have to endure it's it's literally unimaginable. But the only reason why I do this is because I love Hashem and I love his people. If but at the same token that love also causes a lot of pain. Why? Because you literally see people destroy their soul and they don't even realize. It's like somebody just acquired AIDS without even realizing they have it. This is this is very very painful thing. Very painful. It's not. It's It's like somebody walking around as if they're perfectly healthy. They don't realize they have stage four cancer. It's a very sad. Very very sad. And unfortunately, I've seen it. I see it. It's happening. And there's nothing that you can do about it. Only a only person that can save a person is themsel because they're the ones that are causing it to themsel. They don't want to hear it. They don't they don't uh sad sad very sad all the righteous people that follow. Okay. Thank you, Robert, for not giving up on us. Yeah, no problem. It's not uh it's not really a uh it's not really possible for me to give up. I have to do what Hashem says, I have to do it for and as painful as it is, it's simply a necessary part of the uh part of the job. Collateral damage. How can I keep the closeness to Hashem I felt when praying with a broken heart? Now that I feel decent, I find I tend to dist distract myself. I feel distracted even in prayer. Well, the Ramban says he that before a person prays, they should study some Torah, especially Mousar. When you study some mousar before you uh before you pray, it should awaken up your heart. the uh the balm like for example the uh the um used to uh take one uh like one of the statements of once one verse in the Torah and just repeat it over and over and over again for hours until he literally like is like engraved into his and broke every that was there that had to do with it. and then he would pray. So depends depends on the person depends on your level. I don't know how long uh you've been learning Tua or anything but in general the simplest way step one is to learn some Torah before you pray. The next level is to learn specifically mousar before you pray. Uh the third level after you've done those two and uh you know you're already at a higher level you've uh then you could do the third thing like the Please save my soul. I'm currently not Jewish. I don't want to go to hell. No problem. Just watch all of our lectures and apply everything that applies to no hides to yourself. I have a whole playlist on my YouTube channel for no hides. Watch it, study it, and do what it says and you'll be su you're successful. Let's see. What is a muza? That's for person's house within a person. I'm sorry. I some of the questions you guys ask, I just don't understand what you're saying. So the question is somebody that's new to chuva, uh, just started doing chuva about a month and, uh, he wants to get closer and closer to Hashem, but he also wants to get married. Is it wrong for him to uh, look for a shid? No, absolutely not. If your rabbi says that uh, you're ready to get married, uh, then by all means, you should get married. If, uh, but at the same token, look for somebody that's growing like you. Don't look for somebody that's been religious their whole life and doesn't have any concept of what a balchuva is. Uh so look for somebody that's looking to grow just like you. Uh because that's somebody that you can have more uh more in common with uh similar ideology and you'll succeed. Sure. And when when it's time for you to get married, you'll get married. I had one guy did uh watched our Hashem Took Back His Millions film. after he watched that film literally did Chuva on the spot and um he contacted me got some you know started praying everything else and uh I think it was maybe four months maybe four months possibly six months later he already found a wife started building a family and uh uh you know life is great you know so uh you know if you're serious about chaos could give you many many blessings right away some blessings later on some blessings now but your your effort you could uh you could try sure why not I don't have a rabbi yet I do study a lot as I say just say to study till you sweat I hope soon I'll get myself into betset thank you for your answer uh yeah you need to get yourself a rabbi. You need to have somebody that's going to guide you. It doesn't necessarily need to be somebody that's uh you know lives next door to you. Uh but you need to have somebody that's going to guide you uh to let you know what to study, what's good to study, what's not good to study, uh to ask questions, you know, uh different things that you have. You certainly need to have a rabbi. But you're doing already and you succeed in a very big way. If I could be of any help, you want to ask me questions, you could just send me questions to my WhatsApp uh like countless other people do and um and uh I'll be happy to help you in any way I can rabbi when someone does an a is a itself that's judged as a whole or the time spent itself that's judged. That's a very interesting question. The gi says that uh this is actually in the that a person is that makes a sin is going to be punished not only for the sin but also for the time they spent sinning and also the level of enjoyment they got out of it. Meaning there are multiple levels of punishment that a person is going to get for every single sin. It's not just a sin. It's also the uh the time they spent on it that they could have spent doing mitzvot. And last but not least, the level of joy. Whatever joy they got out of that sin gets taken out of their so uh it's sinning is no joke. Let's just say that say uh very very uh the judgment as says people do not understand the depth of judgment it's called is the depth of judgment. Do you put your sins into chickens and beat them? No. But if you want to go and dress up like a chicken, we could use you. Let's see. Can you discuss the benefits for Noah studying Tanakh? Well, in order for a person to know who the God of Israel is, what he did, what are their obligations in the world, they need to know what says because that's where it is. I have a question. I have many questions. If you have a questions, ask the questions. You don't have to ask permission for a question. You're asking a question to ask a question. Why? Oh, you're also interested in that chicken. Okay, I'll ask the guy again. So, you going to dress up like a chicken or no? The anti-semite that was making fun of the Jewish customs about the chickens. Are you going to dress up like a chicken so we can use you? How's it coming up? Be nice. All of us could save some money. We don't have to get chickens. Ask a question, Kasim. Ask a question. Ask. Ask. Stop asking if you could ask a question. Ask a question. The chicken thing went over your head. You didn't understand the chicken thing. That's the question you can ask. Why would you ask an Orthodox rabbi that fights against missionaries, that hates idolatry, that speaks against the New Testament and any every opportunity that he has if he likes Jesus? Like seriously, don't you have any other better question to ask? I mean, I have entire lectures dedicated to this topic of explaining to people how much the New Testament is a man-made lie that has fooled billions of people to go to gay and never come out. So, you're knocking on the wrong uh door, buddy. How much time should a busy woman spend each day for mousar learning and which as much as possible? Meaning it depends what he you know what what she's busy with. If she's busy in business, no problem. But nobody works 24 hours a day. Let's just say your schedule is 9 to5. um you know you go home you want to relax a little bit you want to eat drink there's 24 hours in a day there's 24 hours in a day so for you to spend an hour two hours a day learning mousar learning some alot that are relevant to your life is not a big deal you should spend at least an hour two hours uh learning each day uh you know and that's if you have kids if you don't have kids double that at least you have no responsibilities uh other than yourself so I mean person should certainly never study less than 2 hours a day because you need that much to simply stay afloat and connected to Hashem. And uh if a person does not study at least a couple hours a day, they start getting disconnected from Hashem. Unfortunately, I found listening to Cabala and Zora lectures to be very fruitful to my chuva and all. I'm 22 years old. I've heard a lot of myths. Is it okay for a guy to listen to Cabala and Zora lectures? No, it's not okay at all. There are only a few people out there that are even fit to teach Cabala and Zoro. And none of them are going to teach it publicly. Those that are fit and if there's very few people that are fit to teach the Zo and Cabala publicly, uh I could assure you it's not the people that you're watching online. And um needless to say there's very very few people that uh are fit to learn it. In order to learn cabala and you have to already be in uh you know with all the foundation meaning you have to complete the sh multiple times which is the mean learn how learn certainly finish the a bunch of times. uh you know you you have to learn a whole lot for many many years to be fit to be able to absorb the uh right message from uh from the Z from the world of Cabala. And last but not least, you have to get permission from a rabbi that's your rabbi that knows you and knows what you know, what you don't know to say that it's okay for you to do it. Someone that's about for only a month listening to Cabal lectures, I could assure you you're going in the wrong direction there. How can you stop people from speaking near you if possible? Uh, simple. Tell them, "Oh, guys, guys, guys, I have a story for you." Oh, yeah. What's the story? And tell them the story I said earlier today in the lecture about the two girls that were talking about their so-called friend. Uh if you didn't hear that part of the lecture then go back to it uh when it's uh later on today or tomorrow when it's on YouTube listen to the uh story and uh tell them the story. Everybody that hears that story for sure will stop speaking or at least for a while. Okay. As a no, I want to spread God's word. Okay. So you could share these lectures that we're making, share the clips. You could uh help us as a volunteer to share in uh you know online. We have a uh bunch of uh channels on uh different media on Facebook, on YouTube, on Tik Tok, on uh bunch of places. If you have specific technological skills, graphic skills, you could certainly uh volunteer at our organization and help us. uh if you have if you live near a Jewish community uh that's uh you could order stuff from our Kiru store uh and give you know and distribute the books and posters and USBs over there. There's plenty of ways that you could uh share Torah and help people do cha and earn the merit. And last but not least, you could also support by uh donating if you have money. The dreams, the dreams have meaning. I have very dark nightmares sometimes and I'm afraid God is communicating bad things with me. The has a section that talks about dreams. I mean, there's other gimm that also talk about dreams, but generally uh the says that most dreams are meaningless, meaning they don't really have much meaning. It's just an a result of what a person encounters during their day. meaning that if a person went to the zoo and then he uh you know bought a ice cream and then he rode in a bicycle home. So he may have a dream that there's an elephant riding a bicycle while eating an ice cream. Now he may think oh elephant that's a good sign and maybe I'll make money and even start an ice cream shop. But no, it means nothing. It means that you went to the zoo and you saw you saw an elephant that's and then you ate ice cream. a person has a uh appointment at the dentist and all of a sudden they uh they have a uh dream where they see a bunch of teeth in the sky. It's I can assure you tomorrow it's not going to rain teeth. It's just that you're thinking about the dentist. So most dreams are an an outcome of that. If you're dreaming about immorality, it's because you're looking at it during the day. You're watching stuff on the internet. You're watching billboards. You're watching people on the streets. That's the majority of dreams. But there are sometimes dreams that are meaningful and there are specific times of when people have them. There are specific types of dreams and quantity of times that they have to have it in order for them to uh to have meaning. And if you want to learn more about that, I have a few lectures that I discussed it. You could just go to the YouTube channel and type the word dreams or you could subscribe to the AI rabbi app that we have and type uh the uh question about dreams and it'll give you the different lectures that uh I've spoken about it with a uh you know exactly what what it says and uh other sources as well. Uh, I would like to sponsor a kir box, but the system puts my address of my home country, which is not in the US. Is it better to click on a donate and specify that it's for the kiru box? Uh, if the traditional way doesn't work uh for you, then yeah, you could do it that way. Yeah. Okay, we'll take maybe one or two more questions. What is good prayer for a Noahide woman to recite each day and stay connected to Hashem? the words that are coming out of your heart. Pray to Hashem from all your heart about number one gratitude things that you're great grateful for that he he's given you in the past in the present you know and then ask him for help ask him for help for everything words that come out of your heart that's the best prayer is Jew allowed to go based on his feelings to make a decision solely based on emotion if not does this count as going after your heart yes it counts exactly is going after your heart. Jews that are following the Torah are not supposed to follow their emotions. They're supposed to follow what's allowed, what's not allowed. Have you ever heard about anyone who works in construction convert to Judaism? Absolutely. I have several students that uh work in construction and converted to Judaism. I have an entire family not too far from here that the uh the the father works in construction and um yeah, of course, why not? Why not? Why what's I I don't really understand the uh the difficulty. Why would somebody that's working construction not convert? There's people from all walks of life that convert. I have people from all over the world that have converted and all types of Jewish people that have done chuva. Uh they didn't have to convert, they had to do chuva. What's the difference between converting to Judaism and becoming a nohide? As far as becoming a nohide, you don't have to become a noahide. Every non-Jew by default is a noahhide. Whether they are a righteous no or a wicked nohide is determined based on whether they follow the Torah. Uh if they follow the Torah, they're a righteous nohide. If they don't follow the Torah, then they're wicked. Which means that if they follow other religions, they're wicked. As far as converting to Judaism, converting to Judaism means you are following the Torah, but at the level of the Jews, which means many more commandments and obligations, uh many more uh uh rewards also if you do it well. But uh a bigger consequence if you don't. How can I donate my help? I already donate monthly. uh as far as donating your help, you could send us a message either to my WhatsApp or to the email of the organization uh with different skills or uh things that you want to help with. I don't know what you do. So, if you have, let's say, a specific profession, if let's say you're a lawyer uh and you want to, you know, be the lawyer that's on call for us if we need legal advice, then by all means, then uh we uh we could use you. If let's say you are a um someone that uh you know arranges events and uh that's you'll volunteer whenever we need an event we'll call you. If you're someone that's good at doing graphics or uh you know someone that is uh well you know uh knows how to program you're a developer then we'll use that. We could use that. That's probably the number one thing that we're always looking for. uh if you have you know contacts, networks, people that you know that uh you could help us uh get them to donate, we could use that. So point is reach out to us. You could send a message to me or directly or you could send it to the uh um email of the organization which is [email protected] or uh tell us about yourself, how you want to help uh and then we'll communicate and try to figure out what you could do. Uh we actually have a new uh a new family that uh have become uh volunteers to our organization. They're helping us with all types of graphics and stuff like that. And there's actually a new thing that's going to come out in the next few days uh that is going to be a new ala group uh new ala group where uh on WhatsApp where every day we're going to post a picture with an on it that's very simplified that'll literally take you 10 seconds to read and also see a picture that's relevant makes you easier for you to understand the uh so this is going to be on WhatsApp and also we'll publicize has it also online and you know Facebook and the other places but the best place to get it will be on WhatsApp and uh this is actually coming from a uh a family like the whole family is actually helping us with different things and one of the members of the family is doing this and interestingly enough we just found out that this family that uh you know that that's helping us uh in the last few months um is actually uh related to a another dear student of ours for probably I don't know five 10 years. Uh so but they didn't know that they're both fans. They didn't know that they're both uh so he said so so when when we found this out they're like oh wow it's so great. So it's a small world people that are kadosh they attract more. So one family that's kad they also have other kadusha in their family. Uh, this guy never reads the chat. No, I read the chat. It's just that most of the messages that you guys send are either anti-Semitic or simply foolish. So, uh, what what do you want me to do? Just deal with foolishness all day? My IQ keeps going lower just by simply dealing with the some of the questions you guys have. What's the genuine question? What is a genuine question? Let's Let's see. Okay, let's see here. Another another one of these. We're going to if it's a foolish question, I'm going to tear you apart. I'm telling you. I'm just going to rip you apart and you're going to regret you as this foolish question. You won't tell me what you feel about being born into Judaism if only your father is Jewish. I don't know what. Okay. So, this is not the same person. It's different person asked the question. So, a guy is asking how I feel about being Jewish. I'm very happy about being Jewish. If you're asking about whether somebody's Jewish based on their father, no. Judaism is determined by the mother. If the mother is Jewish, then the children are Jewish. It's not like the Muslims where they determine it by the father. What's your opinion on the situation in Gaza? I knew it. I knew you're going to ask one of those dumb questions. I knew it. I knew it. I knew there could not be a possibility that anything intellectual come out of your mind. You have cockroaches in your mind. So, how could possibly anything intellectual could come out? Listen, the situation in Gaza is an embarrassment to the Jewish world. Because if the Zionist leaders of Israel, the government would actually follow what we read today in the phat, the war in Gaza would have ended in 24 hours, if not less. you you you would have already been able to not only completely annihilate anything remotely close to an enemy in Gaza, but you would have already been able to build a bunch of falafel houses, shama houses, hotels, a uh beautiful place for religious people to go to the beach, separated part for the men, part for the women. Yeshivot, you would have already had enough time to build a lot of the stuff in the last couple years if they would have listened to the Torah. But since they don't listen to the Torah, then we're still dealing with a bunch of uh degenerates that uh abuse their own people, steal money from their own people, and somehow convince the world that they're the victims. So, what do I think about Gaza? I think Gaza is an embarrassment. That's what it is. It's an embarrassment. It's shame that uh the uh Zionist leaders of the uh state of Israel do not follow the Torah because if they did, the war would have already been over. Is it possible that your Mashiach came and you denied him? No, it's not possible. According to there is no such thing as denying him. Once he comes, the whole world will know and some people will be part of the salvation and some will be the enemies and therefore will be destroyed. There's no uh there's no denying or denying that's only in the idolatry world of Christianity. What can I do for aud number two? you could uh support as much Kiru as you possibly can afford uh and also get them to donate as much as they possibly can to help us do Kiru because if they care about Amy's returning to Hashem then certainly Hashem is going to care about them uh you know having more uh more success in their life uh you know and being uh fit to have a bite name on the ultimate uh school of all blessings is to support Kiru and to help people do chuva I believe it's a requirement to attend Jew at least twice a week at least twice a day and usually are prayed at the same time. So if you're going for that's two prayers and then is another one that's twice a day but three prayers. Is a mandatory to recite the full shak prayer or can I just pray from my heart instead? No. If you're a Jew, you have to pray from the sidu. If you're a non-Jew, then pray from your heart. Whatever words you want. You don't pray from the sidu. The sidu is for Jews. I ordered a cheese pizza from Pizza Hut and they put meat on it on purpose because I told them that I only eat kosher. If you only eat kosher, then you wouldn't eat Pizza Hut because Pizza Hut is not kosher. Uh the uh uh the cheese in Pizza Hut and all non-osher pizzeras is not only non-coosher cheese, it's it's it's has renet in it. It has meat even without them putting pepperoni on it. Uh so they uh eating uh cheese at non-coosher places is still non-coosher. It's it's actually many cases worse because it's meat and milk at the same time. There's a document on our website bzadishm.org. If you go to the uh PDF downloads over there, there's a document over there called Are We Really Eating Kosher? And over there it shows you all the different ingredients that the non-coosher world puts that most people do not realize exist. Whether it's renet or different uh types of uh uh animal parts or bugs that they use for food coloring and seasonings and all types of things. Some of the stuff that's on there literally will make you want to vomit. And thank Hashem that you only eat kosher. But from now on, only eat kosher means only eat from kosher places, not what you think is kosher. Kosher means the place that you're ordering from has to have a kosher a uh supervision and the food that you have has to have kosher stamp. That's kosher. If you want to convert in Jerusalem at your bed, would we need to contact you first? We don't do conversion at our bed in Jerusalem yet. Um, but uh if you're already in Israel, you can go to the Rabbanut and convert over there. Okay, I think we uh think we did enough, right? Yeah, I think we did enough. All right, thank you very much for learning with me. Hashem, bless each and every single one of you that's here to learn with us, to publicize the Torah. Anyone that wants to donate can go toem.org If you want to get yourself and your community a kiru box, go to kirubox.com and I am looking forward to seeing all the wonderful orders that you guys place because that simply shows me that you guys have an is awake that and understands that you need to do as much as you possibly can to uh help your own needless to say help other people's called to learn again next Heat. Heat. Heat. [Applause] When a person has knowledge of a sense, every