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We're back here on our Wednesday night stump. The rabbi where after some you guys will ask some questions and will give us the answers. Tonight's show you is going to be for the [Music] forit leaves and all of Israel and all the righteous Noah that continue to support continue to uh help uh with all the amazing things that the organization is doing. Anyone that wants to uh donate could go to our website bzashem.org. You could also donate via YouTube, uh, Facebook, uh, and of course the oldfashioned way of simply sending checks. Uh, the, um, Kiru store is going to be getting a bunch of new things in the, uh, next, uh, week or so. Uh, so that's going to be updated, but of course uh, you could still get a bunch of things from there uh, to distribute in your community already. Now, go to kofstore.org. Uh and uh last but not least, uh for those of you that have been asking me about uh the uh you know when we're going to get them back and everything, we got a bunch of them back. We just uh publicized a uh video about our uh highest uh quality you could possibly get uh dollar for dollar and uh we have uh safari Ashkenazi raenutam good stuff with cool cases and uh bags and everything else. So you could order that on the website bezelm.org. So with that being said we'll get right into it. Uh the uh the topic at hand is certainly something that's going to peique many people's interest which is uh aside from it being parhat we're going to talk about wealthy rabbis. Uh people love to talk about money. People love to talk about other people's money and uh worst of it all people like to talk about rich rabbis. So uh the uh it's an interesting uh topic uh if you actually understand the topic. Now this week's parasa discusses the qualifications required of the kohhen gadul. While you see that there are all types of things that the coenadul has to wear, has to do the Torah also goes deeper into it and says that the coenad doll has to have specific qualities. Some of them make sense while others unless you study it do not. Says that the cohen has to have the highest level of wisdom. He has to be the top. He also has to be really strong. Has to have extraordinary strength. Now the two of them could easily be explained. But what many get confused with is when they hear that the kenadul also has to be wealthy. Not only wealthy as in rich, but he actually has to be the richest of all the kanim, one of the richest people in the world. Meaning he goes from being a regular with uh barely enough money to pay for the diapers and the meals for his family to on day one he becomes one of the richest men in the world. Uh certainly a big change, a big uh sign on bonus. Now, it's even more confusing when you hear that the obligation on making him rich is not one that Hashem takes upon himself, but rather it's an obligation of the other kohanim to make him rich by taking money out of their pockets, out of their stock portfolios, out of their uh retirement accounts, out of their real estate portfolio, out of theirs to make him the richest. Now this of course touches on the topic of rabbis and scholars today and in past history which uh were very wealthy and the secret behind all of this is profound and perhaps is going to unravel some insights that can help each person understand the role of money in the world. This of course is going to be followed by your questions. But when we delve into the parad is full of uh extraordinary insights, we see that the kanim are unique. They're unique people. Am in general is unique, but the kanim had a special role to serve in the beta mikdash. And a person would ask, well, if he's a cohen already, then that should be uh already more than enough. How come the same Torah says that uh this cohen if he has a m if he has a some type of defect whether he's missing an eye an arm if he has a wart uh if he has a uh cleft lip if he has any type of deformity then he's not allowed to serve in the beta mikdash he can eat from the coban specific cobanut not but he cannot serve in a bet. But is it his fault that he was born with one arm longer than the other? Is it his fault that he has a uni brow? He was born that way. How come Hashem kicked him out of the beta mdash? Further, you could ask the cobot, the sacrifices. Perhaps for some people it's easy to understand. But Hashem says that when you bring the sacrifice, make sure that the sacrifice does not have a m does not have a blemish. Whether it's the goat or the cattle, the sheeps, any of which there is a blemish, you shall not offer for it is not favorable for you. Shem does not want any bull with a blemish, any sheep or goat with a blemish. What kind of blemishes? The same ones that we talked about the Quinn. Can't have a missing ear, missing eye, a wart, a split eyelid, a moist skin eruption. Meaning this goat that you're going to bring has to be tiptop shape, beautiful goat. But you think about it, you can say, "Well, listen, you know, it's, you know, you have to bring a goat." Fine. So, bring a good one. Yeah. But at the end of the day, what does Hashem eat it? Does Hashem really need our goats? Does Hashem really need our bulls? A fire consumes it. What does he care if it has a ward or not? Whether it's a war to it's it's a cleft flip. He burns the whole thing anyway. What's What does he care? Why is he kicking out all these poor goats that didn't choose to have a wart? Didn't choose to have a cleft lip, a a split lip, a uh a uh dry skin, or some type of other blemish. They didn't choose it. Why is Hashem kicking them out? Maybe they want to be sacrifices, too. And last but not least, Torah says that the in verse number 10, chapter 21, who is exalted above his brethren, Now if you just say we all understand that he is exalted. Why does the Torah have the what seems to be like an extra superfluous word? A word that seems unnecessary that he has to be exalted above his brothers. If you just say co that's exalted, it's enough. We know obviously he's uh top of the line. He's the best of the best. These are some of the questions that were asked that will be answered and the interesting information you get from the Torah is truly life-changing once you understand it. the in page 18A. This is the and we open to page 18A. The sages teach us as follows in regards to this verse that says the Cohen Gadul who is exalted above his brethren. It teaches us that the kenado must be exalted above his brethren in strength, in beauty, wisdom and wealth to such an extent that if he does not possess wealth then his brethren the kuanim should make him exalted by giving him their own money. Meaning this is a Torah commandment. This is not a suggestion. Please give him some taka. No, no, no. Obligation. Once he was chosen to become Quen Gad, he has to become the wealthiest coin of all the Kanim. And the Khanim therefore have to pull their resources, sell some stocks, sell some bonds, sell some real estate, get rid of some of the uh savings accounts, pull the money together after they find out who's the wealthiest coin right now. Oh, we have uh Steve Cohen. How much he worth? He's worth 15 billion. All right, guys. We got to get at least 15.1 billion right now. He's got to be richer than Steve Cohen. What do you mean 15? I'm gonna have to sell my entire portfolio. Well, you and a bunch of other people have to sell stuff because you have to make the the coin gadole the new coin gadole the richest coin. Now, he's wise. He's strong, wealthy. But why on my dime? Why do I have to make him wealthy? Ask the clan, right? That's that's the natural question. day before he was chosen to be kuen regular regular simple Torah scholar sadik extraordinary wisdom righteousness that's why he was chosen at least during the first beta mdash second betmdash there was a bunch of corruption there where people would buy the kuna that's why each year the coin would die because he wasn't the right one that hashem did not choose But the question begs why? Before we answer why tells a story of Pinas is with Sadik was also what's he used to work in the fields to clear out the rocks and the boulders. Worked very very hard hard work. Wasn't like today where you have tractors and all types of machines that move the stuff. No, he had to do it by hand. He had to do it all the machinery of that day. And one day he was chosen to be the So the betas sent the dignitaries, the honorable people to go and tell he's the new When they got there, they saw him working in a ditch trying to get a boulder out of there and it said, "You have been chosen to be the pinish says to them, "No, no, I I can't do it. Who's going to work the field? Who's going to feed my family?" They went and got enough gold coins to fill up the whole ditch that he was in, making him extraordinarily wealthy, a billionaire in one second. You don't have to worry about money anymore or the field. Here you have more than enough money. And he became going in regards to him being above his brethren. He also had to be tallest. And the teach that as soon as the special oil was, they would put this special oil on him. That's where the word mashia comes from. He would actually get taller. He would become more handsome. and he would suddenly become extraordinarily strong and his wisdom grew tremendously. All of this miracle in front of everyone. You see this guy, he's 5' n, regular average built, sometimes has a hard time getting out of bed. They put the oil on him. All of a sudden, 6 foot6 above everyone. Muscles sticking out of his shirt already. He's so big and bulky and strong. And all of a sudden, he's beautiful. Yesterday, you were barely able to look at him. Today, you can't get enough. Wow, he's so handsome. You ask him a question right now. It's like asking AI Rabbi get you answers with sources. This was what happened. So the question is all right. So since there's already open miracles here with this new Quinn, you became physically bigger, stronger, more beautiful. What's the difficulty for Hashem to simply just deposit $100 million in his bank account? All of a sudden, his little shack that he calls a house becomes a, you know, a castle. What's the problem? No way. Hashem says, "No, no. The mitzvah obligation of making this cohen rich is on you. you the have to do it. Why? Why did the have to make them rich? That's because wanted the to perfect their midot, their character traits. Since human nature of people, not just the Ghanian, needless to say people today, the human nature of people when it comes to giving is not to want to give anything extra. They're willing sometimes to donate and give. There's a campaign to feed a poor family. It's a campaign to do some kiru. They'll give. Oh, what do you I'll give I'll give a hundred. I'll give a thousand. I'll give just enough whatever you need so you survive and you can still make shim and you don't starve to death and these continue learning and they can afford to buy the diapers. But if you tell them, listen, what about if we decided that you have to give not only money for the Torah scholars and the but you actually have to give enough to make them rich? Like what rich? What are you picky now? What are you spoiled? What's wrong with you? What kind of uh kind of rabbi is this? He wants to be rich. No, no, no. Nobody wants to be rich. Question is, what if you were told that you have to do that? Average person will say, "Listen, say thank you for what you got. I sent you $150 a month. I sent you $500 a month. That's it. Say thank you. It's enough." Yeah, but you could afford $10,000 a month. I can afford whatever, but I work for it. Why do I have to give it to you? You don't have to. question is why have to why have to give so much and how does that interpret to us people today you see when people give out of their own heart it's very different than if they're asked usually people don't like to be asked I had somebody contacted me the other day and told me listen I uh wanted to give money to this uh local new local synagogue that I had and uh I told him I have this money that I already committed to donating and I'm going to give it to you guys. Oh, great. Thank you. On Shabbat, the rabbi sends me a message and says, "Listen, when are you going to send us the money? Because we really need it. And the guy says, "Why? I got really upset. Why is he asking for it?" But you already told him. Yeah. If I already told him, "Why is he asking for it? I'm really turned off." When you offered it out of your own good heart, you had no problem with it. When he asked for it, you had a problem with it. Why? It also connects to that nature that people have, which is they do not like to feel like they're giving more than what's necessary. If it's absolutely necessary, if it's coming from my own decision, then yeah, but if it's you're convincing me, you're pushing me, or perhaps even I find out you live in a big house and you already have enough food to eat. Why should I get you a steak dinner? Why? Why should I get you a new car? Why people don't like that? Of course, in the world of idolatry, they not only do this to their people, but they literally have these priests and pastors have literally hundreds of millions of dollars. And they openly command their congregants to buy them a new plane for five, 10, 20 million, even if they have already two or three planes. like we mentioned in our film. Oh, I got good news. But if a rabbi went out there and told people, "Listen, I need you guys to come up with some money so I can get a new plane so I could travel to different places." People are like, "Huh? What are you talking about? You're lucky if we uh buy you the ticket. You're lucky if we buy you the travel." Rabbi, how much do you cost if you're going to come to our community? Where's your community? Oh, it's only a 5 hour flight. Only 8 hour flight. Al, so that means I'm going to waste an entire day traveling each way with everything that I need to bring. And you're asking me how much it costs. Depends who's going to be there. Are you going to have 500 people there, thousand people there? 2,000 people there? No. No. We're going to have 50 people. Oh, so you want me to waste two days of travel for me to go talk to 50 people? So, that means that you're not even willing to invest money to market the event. Well, no. We'll we'll put up uh we'll send some text messages because it's free. Thank you. Let them watch on YouTube. Let them watch on a BH app. Why? Simple. If a person is not willing to invest, it's very hard to succeed in any aspect of life. But people don't like to do that. Why? They feel like it's extra. They feel like why are you asking for extra? Why not just be happy with just come over here, spend an hour, two hours, three hours talking, answer 50 million questions. We'll pay for your flight and we'll give you 500 bucks. What am I going to do with $500 in America? You can't even pay for uh a week worth of rent. Rabbi, aren't you working for the people? No, I'm working for Hashim. I help the people. I work for Hashem. But people don't understand that. They think you want extra. But if it's a heretic, they're willing to pay him $50,000 just to look at them. Why? Because the helps them make bad decisions. But the question is again and again, why didn't Hashem do it and make the coin rich? Because he wanted the to work on their midot. How so? First, like I said, the not the nature of a person is to not want to make somebody else rich. Needless to say, a Torah scholar, a rabbi, they don't want they think that if you're a Torah scholar and you're not poor, there's something wrong. Maybe you stole the money. The sages actually teach that there is actually times where we are obligated to give money even when it doesn't make sense. One of the examples from the Torah is in chapter 15 verse 8 where it says you have to open your hand and give this poor what he needs and what he's lacking. Well, isn't what he needs and what he's lacking the same thing? No. Because you see sometimes this poor person used to be rich and because he used to be rich he's used to a certain type of lifestyle and you your staka cannot be just give him a dollar and a coffee and say and feel like you did a mitzvah. No, you have to give staka properly to make him feel like he used to feel when he was rich. So if he's used to eating meat, you have to give him meat. If he's used to having a horse, you have to give him a horse. In fact, if he is used to having a servant run in front of his horse in order to move the people out of the way to let people know he's arrived, you have to do that, too. In fact, the says a story about Hela Zaken and it spec specifies when he was zaken when he was already old and he had a guest that used to be rich but became very poor and leazaken made sure to do what exactly what Torah said. He gave him meat like because he was used to eating meat used to eating steak every day. He gave him steak every day. used to having a horse. Gave him a horse. Used to having a servant run in front of him. As he's riding the horse, he rented a servant. And one day when he couldn't find a servant to run in front of this poor man that used to be rich, the people saw that Helaken himself was running in front of the horse for this man. Three miles. Three miles of running. This is page 67b. Now you see the part of the Chev and as the Rambam writes in chapter 13 12 that all of Levi do not work outside of the bet mikdash there they are Hashem's preservation of the holy they're servants of Hashem which means that they didn't have regular jobs they had to work in a beta and the 24 would suffice to provide for everyone. Some became very wealthy through different and different things that uh were available at the bet mikdash the gifts and so on and therefore some of them became very wealthy but once the there was a new coin gdole quickly they would find out who is the richest among us oh it's Steve Cohen how much does he have he has 15 billion all right so we have to gather among all of us more than 15 billion why coin gad has to be Now, naturally, a person if he was a coen and he knew that it was time to get a new coen cuz the coen that they had died, every normal person would hope it's them. Oh, let's pray for it. Hashem will pick us. Honey, read some taleim. Kids, read some taim. How about we're sleeping? Wake up. I gotta become coadal. Come on. You know, it's a lifecher. Right now, we could barely even fix the hole in the roof. If we become coad, we'll have a castle. Everybody gets out of the bed, starts reading tale, starts praying to hashem, coad, make aba co. Next door there's another coin. They're doing the same exact thing. Next door is another coin. They're doing the same. Everybody's praying. Everybody wants to be chosen by Hashem to be the coal. And the next day when they find out that the coal that was chosen was not them naturally everybody say I don't understand why I don't understand why he chose him. I mean listen I know that Pinas is a Sadik. I know it's Tommy but uh I don't think that I'm any less. I know he's a good guy, but listen, I asked him some questions and uh I knew the answer and he didn't. I know that this but everybody become jealous cuz they wanted to be the Quanka doll. Not only because of the money aspect of it, but also the significance, the extraordinary promotion. You're top of the top. Nobody's better than you. You're the one that goes and speaks to Hashem in the Keshim once a year on Yamipu. You have a special relationship with a bul on day one. You become taller, more handsome, more strong. You mean you're 40 years old now you feel like you're 20 because you became quad. So naturally everybody would be a little jealous. Says says in the Torah, my dear children, this is exactly why I'm responsible for making him taller. I'm responsible for making him more handsome. I'm responsible for making him more wise. But you you have to be the one that makes him rich because I want you to perfect your character traits and make sure that not only you eliminate that jealousy out of your heart by learning Mousar, but rather you elevate yourselves to the point where you accept the chosen Coen Gad with a good eye and make him rich. Not only you're not jealous, but you have to accept him with a good eye. Oh, wow. He just bought a new house. How much? $2 and a half million. Wow. Kazak. Oh, wow. He just got married. Muk, good job. Wow, great. I'm happy for him. Oh, they just had another kid. Wow. I thought his uh thought he was done with that. He already uh he's 50 years old. No, no, he just had another kid and this is already two years in a row. Ever hear that? Most people when they give blessing sometimes, they don't really mean it. Why? Because they're jealous. They hear that their uh the rabbi just got a lot of money. Well, what did he do? Why does he have a lot of money? They hear that their neighbor has a big uh a big uh reward. He just won the lotto. They don't usually say book. Usually it's a little pinch. Why not me? How come he has the new car? How come he found a How come she found? How come they have expects the to be much better than everybody else? Because why? Because they have to work in the beta mikdash. They have to work in the beta mikdash. They are front line. And therefore they are subject to different rules than everybody else. They're subject to different rules than everybody else. They're in the front line. Now to explain why the koban the sacrifice cannot have a defect is easy. How are you going to bring the King of Kings something with a defect when you know too well that if you are had to bring a present to the president of the United States, you're not going to give him anything with a defect? Look, the king of Saudi Arabia with all the honor and all the cavode that he has for himself and everybody scared to death of him in his own country, what did he do? He bowed his head and gave Donald Trump $400 million uh gift. Whether he accepts it, rejects it, and so on doesn't make a difference. National security problem could be a problem. But nonetheless, the guy gave a present. I mean, you're a king. Why do you have to give a present to another king? Look, I'm a king, but he's uh listen, he's uh top of the food chain right now. The strongest country in the world. And not only $400 million president, but on top of that, investments of tens of billions. On top of that, other things, if you had to go meet the president because you wanted something, you're not going to come there with a uh listen, I got you a coffee cup. I got you a coffee cup. It keeps your coffee warm. Okay, enjoy. You're not going to come with it. You rather come with nothing. But if you already have the means to give a gift, you're going to give him something that's the best of the best. And if you see that it has even a small scratch on it, you're going to replace it. Why? Because you have you have a brain. So if you know that if you were going to give a gift to your boss, to your father-in-law, to the a king, you would give the best of the best. Why would you think that you can give anything less than that to Hashem? It's not because Hashem needs the sacrifice to be perfect as if he's eating it. He's not eating it. It all gets burned. Hashem doesn't eat, but rather it's a show of respect that you have for the king that you give him your best. Now, that's relatively easy to explain and understand. Now, we take a step further. Why is the kohhen only allowed to serve in the beta mikdash if he himself does not have a defect? He's not responsible for his defects according to him. He was born that way. He was born with a uni brow. He's born with one arm longer than the other. He was born with a missing toe. He was born with one eye working and the other one not. You know, he was like one of these people that have two different color eyes. It's not his fault. At least that's what people say. Fault, no fault. Not allowed to work in the beta mdash. Why? What does Hashem care? He's really good with the koba. He knows how to do everything. He studied all the laws. He's not gonna mess up. No. No. It's not about that. You don't understand. You see, every time people ask questions about whether it's birth defects, schizophrenia, children that die young, the answer is always the same, which is that there's no such thing as a baby in souls. No one is a baby. Whether you were born yesterday or you were born 50 years ago, neither one is a baby. Why? Because the souls already started at the time of Adamishon 5,785 years ago. And each time that soul completed that their time in the world but did not complete their tikun, did not fix themselves, did not achieve their mission in the world, they would have to be reincarnated. Sometimes they would have to go to gay, sometimes kafa. But needless to say, they would sometimes have to be reincarnated and come back to life. We have several videos about reincarnations. You could actually see one of the videos where we have many famous people, including Donald Trump that look like other famous people from previous generations. And usually, not only do they look exactly alike, but they have a similar roles roles and functions in the world. Whether it's Mark Zuckerberg from uh from Facebook or it's uh Putin from Russia or Donald Trump and many others are shown in that cool video. Highly recommend it. Needless to say, when a person does not complete their tikun, they have to come back. But sometimes part of their tikun is to come back to this world with a defect as if it's a mark on their physical body. to remind them of their previous life. So if they come back to this world blind, perhaps it's because they made certain sins with their eyes in the previous life by looking at things that are not modest. Perhaps if they come back to this life missing an arm, it's because they stole in their previous life. Perhaps if they come to this world as a parapolgic, they can't walk. It's because they were going to places they're forbidden from going to in their previous life. And the point is that the Cohen that has a moom is not just a coen that was born unfortunately with a defect. No, it's a ken that came to this world to complete his mission by suffering that he cannot do everything that other kuanim can do even though he wants to even though he feels like he can. says, "No, no, no. You came here to simply serve me in different ways because that suffering you have by not by not serving in the beta mikdash with the and and everything else, that's part of your tikun because of the mistake you made in your previous life." As the says, there was one cohen that was uh one of these germaphobes. He was uh didn't like things to get on his hands, so he put gloves on his hands. When saw that, they said, "What? What is What are you doing? We have the privilege to serve Hashem and get blood on our hands as we do the sacrifices. What are you doing with gloves?" "No, no, I don't want to get my hands dirty." It wasn't too long after that where Hashem decreed that the king at the time got upset at this coin and chopped off both of his hands. You're serving Hashem with gloves on your hand. So the one that comes with the is not because of some materialistic reason that Hashem only wants good-looking people or only good-looking cobanote. No, no, no. You see, everything that's there is there for a reason, for a divine reason. He has that wart or unibrow or cleft lip or whatever it is that he has that moom. He has it because of a divine decision to stamp him with that during this life and endure that test. And if he overcomes it, certainly he'll be rewarded. So when it comes to the sacrifice, we see it has to be special. When it comes to the kanim, we see it has to be special. But we're back again for why does he have to be rich though? I mean, he's in the beta mikdash all day. Why does he need to be rich? Says in Proverbs 18 verse 23, But the rich one responds with brazen words. The Cohen is a leader. Tells people the truth. What you need to do, where you need to go, who needs to do chuva. If he was a poor man, people wouldn't listen to him. Before anyone knew who Elon Musk was, nobody listened to him. Who is this kid? What does he want? After founding PayPal and then the uh the uh uh other company Tesla and Boring Company, all the other stuff, becoming the richest man in the world, there's nobody in the world who doesn't want to hear what he has to say regardless of what he says, regardless of whether it makes sense. Everybody wants to hear him. Did he really become that much smarter since then? No. He was already smart back then. But the difference was back then he was broke. Nobody wants to hear advice from a poor person. And in fact, that's what also says in Proverbs chapter 9 verse 16. The wisdom of the poor is disregarded and unheard. So in order to make the kohhen effective in part of his job, Hashem wants to make him rich. Has to make him rich. But there is also another reason, another secret behind why he has to be rich and in fact why Hashem makes certain Torah scholars very rich. Rabaka became one of the wealthiest people of the land and the says that he acquired wealth from six different places. In a beginning he was cleaning horses and he was practically a servant. But after he became he became not only the rabbi of 24,000 students, huge yeshiva budget of hundreds of millions of dollars. But he himself became so wealthy that he bought his wife the sadika that let him go, pushed him to go study for 24 years. He bought her the crown of Jerusalem full of diamonds and gold. It's called the crown of Jerusalem. He promised her when they were sitting when they were uh uh sleeping in a barn before he became a she would wake up every day with the straw with the hay in her hair and he would have to pick it off and she would cry because she would oh how poor are we that we're sleeping in the same place as horses. Kabaka said to one day I promise you I'm going to buy you the crown of Jerusalem. Crown of Jerusalem was worth tens of millions if not more. And he bought her this and he got wealth from six different places. Some of it was from her father-in-law after he discovered who Albaka was and how great he was. Some of it was some from uh certain sea. All types of wealth, different extraordinary wealth that he got. Zazalya had so much money. He literally had cities and boats, ships, extraordinary wealth that wrote the Mishna. Our entire oral is on his shoulders. He was extraordinarily wealthy. So wealthy that he had a lot of horses. And the guy that was in charge of all the horses became a multi-millionaire simply by being by taking the waste of the horses and selling it fertilizer. There was so many horses that had that the waste that come from it made his the guy that's working in his and his horses became made him a multi-millionaire. That's how rich was shalom. Said in a sh anyone that serves Hashem, learns his Torah through poverty is destined to one day learned the Torah with wealth. And he says, "Oh, how we how much Torah we learned when we were poor." It was so poor. Literally him and his entire family were living in a one room house. One room, not not even apartment, one room house. No kitchen, no bedroom, just one room. And they had to share the bathroom with other neighbors. When somebody would come over to learn with them, the wife and the kids would hide under the table and be covered by the uh table uh cover while he and the other Torah scholar would sit at the table, learn for hours. But eventually, Hashem made extraordinarily wealthy. There was nothing that people didn't want to give him. There was one rich man that used to give him a new BMW every year. Another one would uh they would want to give him planes and helicopters and all types of things. He didn't care for any of this stuff unless it was going to help. So yes, he would use the helicopter to go to lectures because you would have seven, eight lectures in one day, different parts of the country. There was no other way to do it. And there are many major Torah scholars that also were rewarded literally with the with the gift of the of the Gado. They became extraordinarily wealthy. Why? So people could listen to them and hear them is one reason. But there's one other reason. Shi inot in chapter 8 number four says a story ofan and lakishan came to the bet midash he was the kuresh kuresim and his kava and talmid and also brother-in-law was and they would study every day and was a genius with all of questions you would ask. So much so that after died lost his mind looking in the street, where are you? Where are you? He couldn't live without him and he eventually died himself as a result of this. But during their great years, there was one time the says that came in to the bet midrash and did what he typically does every day. started asking questions, different complications. He had very very clever questions. Not just uh listen, how do I know uh when Shabbat starts? You know, he had very very clever questions. You learned, you see, extraordinary questions and complications. So asked a question and didn't just didn't respond to him. Okay, maybe he's has something else on his mind. And he waited a little while longer and he asked another question. Kanan didn't answer. This is a little scary. Why? Maybe he's mad at me. Having mad at you is life danger. Says there was an Torah scholar named one of the sages. He came to the bet midash ofan never saw him before and there was an exchange where Capella was uh in essence won the debate. So when Kanan lifted his eyes to see who is this who is this scholar that so wise that has defeated me in this uh debate and he looks at at its face and he sees that looks like he's smiling as if he's laughing at Kanan looked at him open his eyes looked at him he died on the spot which later on the says when he found out that he wasn't laughing at him. It's just that he had a uh a uh injury on his face or where his uh his face looked like he was smiling all the time. He had a moon. So then resurrected and brought him back to life. But the point is that is concerned if if mad at me that's not like oh yeah he's mad at me maybe he's not going to talk to me today. No, this is a life risk. So he asked him are you okay says answer him what can I do that the whole body depends on the heart and the heart depends on the pocket huh what do you mean the whole body all of the parts of the body the arms the legs Everything depends on the heart because if the blood doesn't flow to the heart, everything fails. Okay? And what could I do that the heart depends on the pocket? Now, everyone knows thatan who himself had money in the past sold all of his assets, his fields, his places that he had because he didn't want anything bothering him while he was learning Torah. In the mid chapter 8 section number three talks about how he loved the Torah so much that he decided that money matters are bothering him while he's learning Torah. So he sold everything so he just has money to live. But now he's saying something that seems like it's contradicting it. The whole body depends on the heart but the heart depends on the pocket. So he says what are you what are you talking about? He says, "On the way here this morning, a bunch of bandits attacked me and robbed me of all the money that I had and what can I do that it's human nature of how created a person that now it's bothering me to the point that I can't focus on your questions on learning to rest who used to be the head of all of the mafia, the whole all of the uh all of The bandits before he did Chuvine became one of Is says can you at least tell me which direction they went they came from he told them took a break I'll be right back after lunch went found the bandits and got their attention pretty quickly telling them bring me every single scent that you took from right everything as if you didn't touch it. He took got all the money. Some say he even killed the bandits. Others say he just let them go. Either way, he brought all the money back to Kanan. And Kanan was settled and they were able to learn Torah again. So on one hand, he loved the entire Torah so much that he sold everything just as money doesn't bother him. on the other hand getting robbed for the money bothered him seems like it's contradicting himself answers it says you have to understand that we learn also in the mid and many other places that instilled into the world a certain rule where three sounds three different types of sounds bring pleasure to a man. Midash says this. What are these sounds? The sound of Torah, the sound of rain, and the sound of money. Why is this the sound of Torah? Somebody walks in to bet midash. He hears everybody learning Torah. It's like amazing. Amazing. The story they say about you know he would come into the betrash hear the Tomim learn and he wouldn't be able to go anyway just was in awe of it couldn't leave sound of Torah a wife hearing her husband learning Torah kids hearing their father learn to a father hearing their the kids learn Torah one of the greatest pleasures I have in my life is when I hear my kids learn Torah or they say at the Sound of Torah. Give a man pleasure. Two, sound of rain. Sound of rain. Especially if somebody's a farmer, somebody is in a uh has businesses that depend on it. Sound of rain bring pleasure. But even people that have no financial, at least they don't think they have any financial dependence on rain because everybody really depends on rain. the life source of this world. Even hearing rain brings pleasure to a person. So those two are easy to understand. But what about sound of money? This is a rule that Hashem instilled into the world. Sound of money brings pleasure to a person. What is it? Rolling of coins. Usually if somebody drops a coin or if they do it on purpose, kids play with a bunch of coins and they pour it, it doesn't really bring anybody any pleasure. So what does it mean sound of money? To understand it, we go to the sephil of Minhag Mari the Mari says there in 83 a story about Rabenutam the grandson of Rashi. was the say that although the is that we have to Jewish men have to put on the rash first with a blessing and the raenutam after without a blessing the have higher level of sanctity that's why if you study it's good to study with If you study with your says obviously known all over the world extraordinary scholar Kadosh there's even stories of him speaking to Moshe Rabenu I mean all types of extraordinary things anytime time he wanted to go into the most complex and difficult parts of the Torah. Going to things where you literally had to break your head in order to figure out study and study and review and another review another things that were extraordinarily difficult. He would prepare himself by first getting a big pile of gold coins and put it on his desk. Huge pile of gold coins. He was wealthy. He would put it on his desk, look at them, and this would open up his heart and his mind, and then he would start learning Torah with a new mindset that would allow him to study the most complex aspects of the Torah. Why is this the case? Because, like we said, instilled into the world three sounds that give pleasure to a man. the sound of Torah, the sound of rain, the sound of money. So while we explain the sound of Tawa and sound of rain, when it comes to the sound of money, it doesn't literally mean the sound of money, but rather there's a certain nature instilled into a person that they have a sense of pleasure from knowing they have money, from winning, from succeeding because the is materialistic. The always wants people to sin with their body, to sin with money, to sin with materialism. The is constantly sending tests to people with physicality. And therefore, instill this into the Torah so that it could be used in order to elevate the Torah instead of looking at the money like unfortunately most people would look at the money and then go start spending it. Go start gambling it. Go start playing with it. No, just look at it. Know you have it. Know you have the blessing of Hashem. It opens up your mind. And then start learning dua. look at the fact that your stock portfolio just went up 100%. Then go study Torah. But if a person just lost a bunch of money, it could hurt him. Not just hurt him financially, it could hurt him even in his ability to focus. So this is one of the reasons behind why a kadosh who commanded the kanim to make the kenadul extraordinarily wealthy because the kenad is now more strong, tall, wise. But for him now to continue elevating himself on a regular basis, that extraordinarily extraordinary new wealth will give him the wherewithal to do it. Not only because he's no longer scared of telling people the truth because he's not worried about people not donating money to him, but on top of that, because of that nature that's instilled into the world that gives a person a certain sense of pleasure that he could use for the sake of Torah. This is the reason why if a person truly understood what we're saying here believed it. They would do whatever they can to empower the Torah scholars of the world. Not just to give them the, you know, the remains that usually you give to a dog, not just to give them whatever spare change you don't care if you lose, but literally enrich them just like a enrich and many other people that do it. In essence, they become partners with to bring his blessing to the world. Why? Because now that Torah scholar is going to be able to do more, teach more, learn more, do more, be more, and that extra goes to the world. That extra benefit goes to the world. But people that don't want to change their midot, don't want to do any of this, don't think this is true, don't think this is right. Simple. It's not because they don't believe it. It's because they don't want to believe it. Because they're still stuck with that natural state of baseness where people simply don't want to give anything more than absolute necessity. Why should I make him rich? Let him be rich on his own. Let somebody else make him rich. Why should I help him more than the absolute minimum? I'm already giving whatever I feel like giving. Sure, you could do whatever you want. But we see here didn't just make the cog rich. He also because the cogul had that position, he also had the type of uh term where the blessings will be fulfilled. So when people theim knew that it was time to do the everyone fought over it. Why? They knew whoever does the becomes rich that year. And therefore they had to make a uh everybody had take turns. Okay. This year Davidid's going to be rich. He's going to do the next year it's going to be is going to do the he's going to be rich next year. That wouldn't happen if the Coen Gad wasn't the Coen Gad like he was supposed to be. In so many words, the more people empower Torah scholars, the more people empower the world of Torah, not only are they empowering the scholars in wealth, but they're empowering them in wisdom and in Torah. And that extra prophet is then disseminated to the world. That extra Torah that he learns, that extra ability, that extra health, that extra wisdom, that extra power that he now has, he now shares with the world. And this is the reason why made sure that those that have the big impact on people, he gave them extra blessings. Why? Because those blessings benefit everyone. In fact, they benefit everyone even more than they benefit the kuhen or the rabbi, the Torah scholar in the end. Because at the end of the day, the cohen doesn't want to become rich because he wants to buy a new Tesla. He wants it because he wants to become closer to Hashem in order to bring everyone else closer to Hashem. And based on we will succeed in doing so. This Abu Thai is a answer to the questions clarification and hopefully you got as much out of it as I did. In fact, even if you got 10% out of it as much as I did, I think you'd still be happy. You should be. You know, it took a lot of time and effort to study for this lecture. And every lecture changes my life a little bit. And I hope it does to you as well. If you're enjoying it, please make sure to like, subscribe, and share with people that you care about, people that you know could benefit from it. You may end up changing their life. Thanks again for learning with me, and we'll continue growing together. Now, back to the lecture. So, with that being said, you guys can start asking some questions, and will Hashem will give us the answers. Let's see. Is wasting seed Uh no wasting seed is not one of the 36 sins that mut mentions in the first duff duff bit uh two there's the 36 sins that are ket wasting seed is not uh one of them but uh ket is just a certain class of sins it's not necessarily the uh worst or the only ones that are the worst because uh as the uh and many other places talk about uh the consequence of sins. The consequence of the sin of wasting seed is in the same category as consequence of Shabbat or idol worshipper where they go to gum and don't come out. So it's like a uh a certain class of sins. It's not necessarily the only ones that are bad. Does wasting seed hinder on clim climbing Yakov's ladder? Yes, wasting seed makes a person disconnected from Hashem. But even more so, the Mishna says that uh each time a person makes a sin, he creates a prosecuting angel. Each time he makes a mitzvah, he makes a uh angel that protects him, a defending angel. This is typical with all sins with the exception of wasting seed. that kazal say that wasting seed does not make one prosecuting angel but rather millions of them. So when a person wastes seed, when a person commits immorality, they literally create millions of angels that are there to destroy them and entice them to do even more sins and make them have much uh more difficulty in learning Torah, in praying, in keeping mitzvot, uh in being loyal to their wife, and all types of other things. So, it's a uh it's literally like drinking poison uh putting poison in a person's nama. It's the worst thing in the world uh in regards to uh LGBT as far as uh the uh Torah commandments is that it's forbidden. And uh according to uh the Torah, the punishment for a person that uh goes against Torah in that aspect is has no end. Anyone that wants to know more details can watch my film about gay uh and they can see what happens to someone that wastes seed and magnify that even worse for someone that does more than wasting seed like the LGB and all the other filth that's out there. So it's not a matter of whether a bed uh gives a penalty or not. It's a matter of uh a kadosh giving a penalty because the penalty that uh the bed could give the worst one is simply one that ends in moments. But the penalty and punishment that Hashem gives it doesn't end in moments. It doesn't end in years. There's end there's punishment that literally does not end. And the uh the the fact that it's forbidden both for men and for women is the forbidden for men is clear and for the uh for women also is clear. There you look at the Rambam. Rambam says that the uh when the Torah says don't act like the people of Kanan in Egypt, it's referring to that both for men and for women. It's not just men. In fact, the uh um of Moshe Feinstein Shalom brings the Benishai uh and says that uh when a woman is immoral even uh on her own, she creates uh the same asim just like a man. So the damage is uh exponentially higher than people realize. There's no such thing as that that's their opinion. This is this is this is our sages. If a person does not believe in even one word uh of the Torah, not just the written Torah, but even the oral Torah, the the Talmud, doesn't even uh believe in one uh that's there it's considered an apicos which is in itself without any other sin removes a person from so person should be very careful thinking that uh they could just say oh no it's just this rabbi's opinion it's just that sage's opinion I have a different opinion don't be uh don't be a fool these are these are our sages uh uh when they say something it's not an opinion. Usually people that think that it's people that never really learned Torah to understand the difference between the sages uh and regular people. And the Shabbat says even the sages of the time of the said about the previous generation where they compare themselves to their previous generation. Obviously we cannot even compare to of today needless to say of the but the sages of the was saying the rabbis that they had if they are angels then we are men. If they are uh men then we are donkeys. And the Benishai says, "If the sages consider themselves donkeys in comparison to their rabbis, we're not even donkeys in comparison to those sages." So when a person thinks that they know more than whether it's a gdole that lived a thousand years ago or even a gdole that lives today, then you can know for sure that that person is a little bit more like a donkey than they should be. Okay. Why do you say to people who say that they don't accept from the khared world their are from other Jewish sects like religious Zionists who decide who the real is are not decided by people is are decided by a kadosh a kadosh chooses who's going to be a because there are many many wise people there are many many clever people there are many people that learn But a is not something that somebody decides, okay, he's he's a and that's it from now on. No, it's simply a literally chooses people where you know that what they say that is their blessings come true. Their Torah is always emit. Uh it's it's not something oh he's more popular, he's less popular. No, it's simply everyone knows. Even the enemies of the Torah know who is are. Even people that are picosi, people that are heretics, people that are against lefty liberals, politicians and so on. When they come and they want to speak to the world of Torah, they don't come to the religious Zionists. They come to Rafki. They come to Rauy. They come to the the Torah scholars that the Torah world knows is not people that pretend to be because they have a uh good cameraman and a few shekels in their pocket. So Israel, it's a it's not a dispute of uh of who they are. Some are more connected to one good over another. There's no problem with that. But uh as far as a uh uh who is a gdoll, that's never really a dispute. Everyone when someone is chosen by Hashem to be a Gdul, everyone knows it. Everyone that's familiar knows within a second of of of uh of understanding who this uh Sadik is knows this is not a regular person. And in fact there are countless stories uh of uh people that uh tell about themselves of when they met even if they came uh without even belief in God in some cases without in belief in uh in basics of Judaism without belief in anything literally they would come to and literally submit like little kids. There was actually uh uh literally entire volumes of books, you know, talking about this type of stuff of how people uh they may want to criticize and dispute and say a lot of nasty things from a distance, but from the second they are in the presence of one of these or they're aware of what these have have said, have written and they understand the magnitude of this person. Immediately the opinions change immediately. It's not it's not a uh question of that. So as far as who decides it's not it's not it's not it's not an election like people it's not an election simply it's understood. How does one overcome financial arguments with his wife if having financial difficulties when the wife is not as religious and belief in Hashem as much as the husband? Well, I mean one thing has nothing to do with the other. If somebody's having financial difficulties uh then certainly they the first thing they need to do is to check the spiritual status of the house. uh if the uh spiritual status of the house is uh mediocre where they keep Shabbat they uh eat kosher but the wife is not modest but the husband doesn't learn to that they should know that the reason why this is happening is because of them meaning the husband is at fault of why his wife is not modest and the wife is at fault for why the husband doesn't learn to why is that the case Why isn't each person responsible for themsel? Simple. If she really wanted him to learn Torah, she knows exactly how to convince him to do it. Each and every day, she knows how to convince him how to do it. Just like she convinced him to buy a new house that they can't afford. They she convinced him to move to a community that she he doesn't want to go to. She convinced him to go to certain vacations he doesn't want to. She knows exactly how to convince him when she wants to. She should use those same talents to convince him to learn Tawra each and every single day. Whether it's cooking, cleaning, uh te that, everybody understands be a woman. On the other hand, if the wife does not want to walk around uh modest, it's because of the husband. It's his fault. Sure, she makes the choice of what to wear, but she's only making the choice of what to wear because since the husband doesn't tell her that she's beautiful every second of the day and he is very very stingy when it comes to compliments and he is eyes are looking elsewhere, then she feels like she needs to get attention from other men. She wants other people to compliment her since he doesn't compliment her. Since he doesn't care about her, since he compares her to other women because he's looking at them, so she figures, okay, so I have to compete since I don't have his full attention and his full heart, I got to fight for it. So she walks around that way. So he is the reason she's not modest. She's the reason why he's not learning Tawa. And the same aspect goes for everything else. So if a person wants to fix the problems in the house, the first thing they need to fix is themsel. First thing they need to fix is themsel. And themsel doesn't just mean keep Shabbat, eat kosher, and watch by Rabbi. No. The Torah tells us that a person has to constantly look for more things that he needs to improve. She needs to improve. If that means being nicer, if that means being more calm, if that means being more generous, if that means being more patient, if that means uh being uh a lot of other things that you're not, yes, go for it. And you'll see the more you follow the footsteps of the sages and how they explain to us how we need to behave, how we need to be as husbands, how we need to be as wives, how we need to be as servants of Hashem, the more you'll see that there's peace in your house. the more you'll see that arguments are like it's almost like a uh swear word like it doesn't exist in this house. What are you talking about arguments? Every couple argues to some extent from time to time but there's there's an argument and there's a fight. Argument is you just disagree. She thinks that you should live in this community. You think you need to live in that community. That's an argument. A fight is you start calling each other names, being spiteful, saying things that are hurtful, yelling, screaming w with with with the purpose of insulting, that's a fight. So when a person argues, that's normal. Happens from time to time. But fighting, hurting each other, trying to hurt each other, that type of stuff means there's a lackings in Torah. Lackings of Torah in that house. And the reason why there's a lacking of Torah in that house is simply because people think that they are doing enough by keeping some of the mitzvot that they're aware of and like and therefore they they don't need to do anymore. They figure listen I'm learning Torah. I am giving some and uh she's not modest so it's her fault. No kabibi. It's not her fault. It's your fault. Why is it my fault? I'm learning Torah. You're right. I'm giving. Good for you. So why is it my fault that my wife is not modest? She's wearing a shait. She's wearing a wig that's longer than the exile. You know why? Cuz it's your fault. If she knew that she's the most beautiful woman in the world in your eyes, she'd wear whatever you wanted to wear. If she knew that if you're going to buy her a whole new wardrobe, no questions asked, and buy her anything she needs to be modest, no questions asked. Even if you have to go borrow the money, she'd be happy to get a new wardrobe. You know why she doesn't? Because she doesn't believe you'll bite her. Because when she asked you for $50 for groceries, you're like, "Oh, come on. Again, you're taking money from me." As if she she's the only one that eats in the house. So that's the thing. When people are stingy with their wives, whether it's stingy with compliments or stingy with money, the itself says the itself says the reason why the s the happens is because a husband was cheap. The husband didn't want to give money to the to the Torah scholar. So now he has to go to the Torah scholar. He has to go to the Quran and find out if his wife is cheating on him. So it's a midgah. So a person that has problems in their house has to do a spiritual check. Focus on yourself better yourself. It'll improve the rest of the house. It'll improve the rest of the house. But don't think that just watching or reading books is enough. It's also fixing character traits. How do you know what you need to fix? Simple. What everyone complains about all the time or most often? If the most often thing that people complain about you is the fact that you're angry, then that's what you have to fix. If the most often thing that people complain about you is that you're full of anxiety or you're stingy or you're arrogant, guess what? That's what you have to fix. It's the easiest thing in the world. Fix that as soon as possible. And the more you fix it, the better you'll become. How can someone overcome anger? The more they have, the more they understand that they don't have the reason or the right to ever be angry. I highly recommend watching the series we did called It's a relatively short series. I believe it's about 30 lectures or so. It talks about anger extensively and uh certainly it could help you. It's on the playlist on YouTube or on our app. Watch the whole thing. Study it even more than once and you'll see that it helps you. I used to shoplift a lot from uh of beer from Walmart and Kroger. How can I fix that? I don't think me doing good deeds erases that. I've gotten a lot of punishment, although well, if you stole money from uh a person, you have to give the money back. If you stole money from a person that you can't find or died already, then you have to take that money and donate it to a public cause uh in their uh for their merit. You don't have to necessarily tell anybody you're doing it. Look, you're donating for Kiru on for their merit. Uh and uh that will be returning the money. Uh but if you uh stole money from let's say an entity like a Walmart, a Kroger's or some company or government and you know that even if you wanted to return the money to them, the moment you come back and tell them, "Listen, here's $5,000 for all the money I stole from you guys over the years, most likely they'll arrest you. And most likely the people that you're giving the money to are not going to give it to the companies, keep it for themselves." So what do you do? The same concept. You take the money that you stole, you estimate the amount of money that you stole, and you give it to a public cause. to support TRA to support something of a public cause and uh uh for their merit and that's that would be it. Rabbi, is it okay to cremate our pets when they die? Is that a serious question? Why would somebody cremate their pets? just bury the thing or burn the thing and bury it and that's it. I mean, are you talking about like putting them in a little canister, like a little cup thing and put it in your house? If you just mean just to how to get rid of the body, no, it doesn't matter how you do it. Give it to somebody to do it and uh by all means, whether you burn it or you bury it, it's regardless doesn't make a difference. But if you're talking about like actually, you know, taking the ashes and and like putting it like the goim do, they put it in like some type of little Coca-Cola bottle and they put it on their uh their armwire or something or one of their closets. That's that's, you know, people like that need to get their heads examined. I hope you're not one of those. Aba, you talk about stingy husbands, which I agree with you are bad, but likewise, I don't hear you mention wives who are reckless with their husband's income. Okay. Well, obviously, there's not much that needs to be said. a woman that is excessive to the point where she causes her husband to not have rest at night because he knows that they don't have the money to pay the bills because his wife wasted all the money. Uh then that woman is considered as if she's a murderer. Why? She's literally taking what he's spending his blood getting and wasting it. So to do that is certainly not a good thing. Many times there are husbands that have a impossible time learning Torah because of their wives uh spending habits uh where he knows that he can't learn as much as he wants because he has to work in order to pay for the bills because she likes to spend 5 10 20 $30,000 a month on uh you know on vacations and on bags and on shoes and all types of things that she already has and doesn't need. Uh so women like that are they're they're considered not a good woman. So but again usually this is because there's a lacking. A woman that is excessive when it comes to uh when it comes to money uh is not very different than a woman that's excessive when it comes to immodesty. Uh it's that she doesn't feel like she's getting enough attention and love from her husband. So, she's trying to make it up with something else. She feels a sense of accomplishment when she presses the buy button. She feels a sense of ownership when she gets a new dress or a new box of some kind. Why? Because she doesn't have a husband to talk to, to sit with her, to to study with her from time to time. I'm not saying you should sit with your wife all day and chitchat like one of her girlfriends. The the Mishna says multiple times. It's a soul for a man to sit with his wife constantly and uh and become like one of her girlfriends. It's a big waste of time and it's not good for you'll go to gain for that. Both of them will go to gain for that. But certainly a man needs to spend some time with his wife. Certainly there is quality time that needs to be done. But it's a person needs to know how to control. But if a woman is not getting uh the compliments and the attention uh and the sense of uh feelings that she needs even if he spends all day with her which most people spend a lot of time with their wives. Most people spend hours with their wives every day. So the lack of spending time with them is not usually a problem with most people. The problem with most people is that the time that they spend together is either bad time or a waste of time. Bad time because he's criticizing her, he's mocking her, he's yelling at her, and who wants to spend time with a person like that? or it's a waste of time because he's either sitting there not saying anything because he's watching TV, he's watching YouTube, he doesn't really talk to her, he doesn't listen to her, he doesn't care what she has to say, he doesn't want to share anything with her, he can't wait until she goes to sleep, he can't wait until he goes to work the next day. So, she feels like she's uh she has a roommate. So, a woman that's uh in that situation that I don't blame her for becoming uh best friends with uh Amazon. I don't blame her for becoming uh the number one customer for a uh the local supermarket. I don't blame her for wanting to uh you know talk to her uh friends on the phone constantly because she doesn't get the attention anywhere else. So obviously she has to fix herself too. Uh but the point is is that it's a two-way street. It's a two-way street. If a man is doing his job, the wife is going to do her job. If he treats her like a queen, she will make him her king. If she makes him her king, he won't necessarily always make her a queen, but certainly he'll treat her well. Depends on the guy. If it's if their life is led by Torah, then they're going to do well. If their light life is led by their own personal opinions, unfortunately, they'll just simply join the statistics of divorcey or miserable people. Hey, Rabbi, do you study in that room? Yes, I study in this room. He knew what he was getting before he married her. Not necessarily. Nobody really knows what he's getting before he gets married to somebody. Even people that made the mistake of uh living together before they got married, everyone would tell you that the moment they got married, everything changed. So it's not necessarily true. I just want to thank you for all the time that you spent toiling in Torah and bringing us so many wonderful. I just saw Torah codes about Yeshua being a amazing. Let's see. Rabbi, do I have to donate my investments? Uh, if you're talking about giving mael, like giving 10% uh mael, then uh orsh if somebody gives but uh when a person wants to get blessings on uh on their money, then the gi says as the Torah says, that if somebody gives 10% of their income uh to its publicizing Torah to its Torah scholars to its kiru things like that then uh if they give 10% they're assured that they're not going to lose their money they won't become poor uh and if they give they're assured uh that they will be uh become wealthy and so much so that uh this is the only thing that Hashem says to us clearly that we're allowed to test them with this test them with the mas. So now uh as far as what you have to give ma on, you have to give ma on any money that you're getting. So if you're getting a salary from your job or if you're a contractor, you're getting a payment, you uh give 10% uh of of what you got. Uh now, as far as expenses to deduct, only deduct the cost of doing business. meaning that if it's your income, let's say you make uh $2,000 a month, uh then uh and it didn't cost you any money to make the $2,000. All you had to do is show up to work and you got the $2,000, then you have to give 10% off the 2,000. Now, if uh they deducted taxes out of it, and after taxes, you only had a,000 left, then you give 200 out of the thousand, whatever you got in your hand. But if, let's say, you sold something. Let's say you sold a car uh for for uh for $2,000. Now, obviously that $2,000 is not all profit because the car cost you something. So, let's say the car cost you $1,500, which means you only have $500 out of the $2,000. That's really profit. So, now the 10% has to come out of the $500 profit. The same concept goes with stocks or bonds or real estate. If you sell a piece of real estate or you sell a piece of a stock for a profit, you have to give mael uh you have to give 10% of uh the money that you've profited. But you only have to give uh that 10% uh that male after you've sold it, not while you hold it. So let's say for example, you have a stock that you bought for a dollar and the stock miraculously went to $100. So, you have a lot of profit and you bought, I don't know, a bunch of shares and you have, I don't know, $100 million in profits. Now, you don't have to give mas until you sell it because so long as you own it, it could always fluctuate in price and it could potentially go back down to one. So, you don't have to sell it so long as you own it. But the moment you sell it, you have to give mul if you want to follow the Tua, you want to get the blessing. What about your oh so whether the money that you have is in a regular uh account I guess you stock trader uh whether it's in a in a regular account or it's in a retirement account you need to give male on it it doesn't make a difference where the money is now I understand that the uh you know if somebody let's say for example bought a piece of property uh for for, you know, for $100,000 and they sold it for $500,000. That's a $400,000 profit. They have to give MV off of that. The same concept goes with you invest in stocks, you invest $100,000, you sold it for uh $500,000, you have to give MV off of that uh off of that uh money. The problem is that uh I guess the point of your question is what if that money that you have profits is in some form of retirement account which means that you know if you take the money out of the retirement account then you are uh then you are um going to be subject to taxes because you took money out of some 401k or some uh uh some uh uh IRA account. Uh so you could do one of two things. Uh one, you could uh take it out of a different account that's not an IRA account. Meaning you have the uh profits. Let's say you have uh uh $100,000 in profits that uh you got in the uh in your retirement account and you sold everything. So you locked in the $100,000 profit. Uh so you now if you give him a sale, you give 10%. That's $10,000 you give Mel. So that $10,000 you can take it out of a regular account that you have. I'm sure you have some type of money in regular accounts uh that um that are uh that you have $10,000 in uh you give the asset from that account. That's one way to do it. Uh another way to do it is uh is to actually take it out of the retirement account. Take it out of the retirement account. then yes, you don't have to take all the money out of the retirement account, but you take the money out of the retirement account and uh pay the penalty. Now, you don't necessarily need to do that. There's other options. Uh so, I mean, you could also do something where, let's say, for example, you have $100,000 in profit and you want to give $10,000 in ma, but you currently don't have $10,000 in your uh checking account because you're waiting for some this and you're waiting for some that. You just don't have it. So you could have a IOU note to yourself that as soon as you get the money you'll give it. So let's say you don't have it now but you expect to get it in let's say two months from now. So as soon as you get the money in two months from now you give the at that point. Try not to extend it too much. Usually the best thing to do is to uh is to give it uh the same year. Uh not let pass without giving uh that masel. Uh but needless to say, the sooner you give the maser, the better for you because that m that you give, the moment you give it, you're in essence fueling the next blessing. Meaning that $100,000 that you have has to be invested again. You want it to work out also the same way the first $100,000. So you obviously you want the blessing as soon as possible. So, I understand that, you know, there's some people that ask me about, you know, they want to donate, but they have their money in, uh, you know, off offshore or they have their money in Bitcoin or they have their money in all types of things. Uh, you know, there's different ways to uh there's different ways to donate. Uh but a person can certainly certainly uh donate um you know you can even you know with with uh with our organization we have a way now to now to accept uh stock to accept um bitcoin to accept cryptocurrency. So you can donate even the asset itself which sometimes is a uh major benefit for people uh financially and tax- wise. Uh but point being is is that for all intents and purposes of your question as far as whether you have to give money out of profits you're making in your retirement account the answer is yes once you've locked in the profits means meaning once you bought something you sold it that means at that you know you have to give uh money from the you have to give m from that profit now in your case since you're I guess a trader of some kind no you just like to trade you're not a trader okay So in your case that since uh you trade uh then if you're more than let's say the average long-term investor where you're not you know you don't buy and hold for a few years you usually you know buy and sell regularly for you to give m out of every single trade will become very cumbersome difficult and sometimes even detrimental to the strategy of investing that you have because usually capital is trading is int is is capital intensive meaning the more capital you have the more uh um uh ability you have to to do what you do. So if you're an active trader, uh then what you can do instead of what I just said, which is to give my sale once you've sold um you can actually give my sale, let's say every so often, whether it's a uh uh every few months or even once a year. Um I recommend to do it, you know, every few months and not once a year just simply because it's becomes more difficult to give mas once the amount becomes bigger. uh the SLR works harder. But the point is is that if you give the MAL uh let's say once a year or every few months, then that means you can tally all the trades because I'm sure you have some, you know, winning trades, but you also have some losing trades. So you can calculate the total of those trades since you're an active trader uh at at that time during the year. uh and then you know the ones that you've uh already locked in gains or losses on and then give m off of that dollar amount. Um and yes even that is same thing in regards to uh it doesn't matter whether it's a uh IRA or 401k or uh a regular account or partnership doesn't make a difference you give mas no you don't have to necessarily give masel specifically from that account just like I said you know you could collect the profit in the retirement account but pay the uh the maser from a regular account doesn't make aense difference the way you pay the masa which is the point is spiritually speaking it's as as long as you pay the masa you give the masa you it's that's it's a different type of investment you have the investment of stocks and real estate and whatever people invest in today and then you have investment in you know your spirituality which is publicizing tawah and supporting tawa that's a different type of uh but where you give it from doesn't make a difference so you can keep all your money in that account and give it from a different account you could take everything in that account give another one doesn't Get the first. Is this pre-recorded? No, it's not pre-recorded. Is Trump turning on Israel and teaming up with fulfilling a prophecy? uh the sages clarify that the um the hands of the kings are in the control of Hashem. So it's not a matter of Trump turning on Israel or befriending Israel. If Israel does chuva, if Israel does what Hashem said, then all of the countries in the world, including America, will be petrified of doing anything bad to Israel. But if AmI is continues with the marches and protests against God, with the atheism and the assimilation and all of the other lefty liberal types of uh uh you know uh things that they do, then certainly Hashem is going to give wakeup calls and use the kings of the world, whether it be Trump or it be the uh Iran or it be uh whoever He'll use the kings of the world in order to hit his children and uh in order to wake them up. That's what David says uh that uh uh he loves Hashem both his uh staff and the uh the um when Hashem is is is hitting him with the stick and is also is leading him with the staff. Why why is David Melik saying to Hashem that he loves him regardless of whether he's hitting him with the staff, hitting him with the stick or leading him with the staff? Because know that regardless of what Hashem does, it's for our benefit. If he's hitting us, that's because we went too far with making sins, with going against the Torah, with doing things that are abomination. So, he's hitting us in order to get us to change direction. hitting us with a uh tariffs, hitting us with terrorism, hitting us with uh missiles, hitting us with all types of threats and so on. If he is uh uh if we do good, he's also going to direct us direct us to make partnerships with the right people, direct us to make the right inventions, direct us to support the right Torah, direct us to connect to the right rabbis, direct us to the right places. So, Hashem in essence is the shepherd of Isel and is in essence telling us if I'm hitting you or if I'm uh with my stick or I'm directing you with my staff. Both of them are for your benefit. As far as what these uh kings will do, whether it be Trump or anybody else, they're simply pawns in Hashem's uh Hashem's big world. Hashem is going to use them however he wants based on how uh is behaves. So, is everyone in the world going to hell? No, not necessarily. There's going to be righteous people that don't. And there's going to be wicked people that do. Righteous based on the Torah's definition of righteous and wicked based on the Torah's definition of wicked. Regarding last night's teachings of Rabbi Wasam, does the amount of time to return to Hashem and do chuva less than what previous generations had? Well, naturally, there's less time between now and when Mashiach is going to arrive than there was a thousand years ago. A thousand years ago, there was at least a thousand years plus whatever time is going to be before Mashiach comes. Uh but as far as the amount of time that a person has uh to do chuva, certainly it's easier to do chuva than it was back then because there's many more tools uh that help a person do chuva. It's much easier to be a Jew today than it was uh 500 years ago. Because today, if you want to be a Jew, you could find a Jewish community relatively easy. You could find kosher food even easier. uh you could uh watch uh Torah lectures uh you know literally uh as much as you want. There's no end to them uh of good Torah lectures. You have uh lectures that we've done, lectures that Rabbi uh Ephraim has done, lectures that Rabbi Lev has done, uh Rav Sharvit, all of our guys from the Cole, you have countless literally uh somewhere in the neighborhood of 15,000 lectures just from our organization. Uh needless to say, there's other good rabbis out there. You could listen to their lectures, learn alah from Rabbi David Ysef in English and Hebrew. You could learn a uh a uh different uh different parts of the Torah from different good rabbis. So there's no end to the lectures. There's no end to good books that are out there uh from uh from uh you know solid uh publishers like Art Scroll, Feldheim uh and uh you know in multiple languages. So, it's relatively easy to get access to Torah. Uh, unlike the past where you had to literally travel to a different city just to find a book that you would be able to borrow for a few months by staying at the guy's house if he allowed you to stay at his house for those few months. So, Torah is much more accessible. Uh, kosher food is much more accessible. Uh, to the community is much more accessible. And let's not forget the fact that 500 years ago you had the uh the Isabella the queen of uh of Spain where mo you know many countless Jews millions of Jews were there. uh she had a decree of this, you know, where pretty much any Jew that did not leave Spain uh with nothing, just with their pretty much their shirts on their back uh you know, any Jew that stayed uh was simply subject to the death penalty if they even thought that he was practicing or she was practicing Judaism. Uh so, and this is not just in Spain. This happened throughout all of Europe. This happened uh literally in every part of the world. So back you know in the previous generations you know being Jewish was a life risk was a life risk. Today it's a certainly not a life risk like people think it is. For the vast majority of Jews it's a uh it's it's very easy it's a very easy thing to do. It's simply by choice. Uh so to do chuva is much easier today in that that respect of it. Uh but at the same token there's also uh more tools that the has the has more tools where there's uh the the media the modern media the the filth that's on the internet uh and available on phones and all the garbage and yet that's everywhere the immodesty and immorality in practically every street and billboard and so on. So there's a lot more but this you know measure for measure this this this versus this uh if a person wants to do it and they really want to do it they'll do it they can do it and Hashem will help them as says somebody that wants to become purified Hashem helps them but someone that uh wants to become impure and do the wrong thing Hashem opens the door for them and say do whatever you With everything being digital these days, will there ever be a time a minan would be allowed through live video of shs for people to join? Obviously not in Shabbat. No, minan has to be in person. The talks about how what kind of person is allowed to be counted in minan. If there's a person that's sleeping, he's uh in the in the same place, he's allowed to be counted in minan. If he's next door, uh he cannot be counted in minion unless there's a window. Unless there's a window that connects the two rooms. So there's different uh rules for a minan. But uh when somebody's on uh watching from uh from from a phone, they're not in the same place. So therefore, they cannot be considered uh part of the minion. How does Jewish religion address the impact of childhood traumas and what guidance could offer for healing and resilience? Well, it depends. It depends on the childhood trauma. Uh certainly a person uh needs to uh seek some professional help in in certain types of trauma. Uh but at the same token, the the more a person uh learns Torah and gets closer to Hashem, builds their the easier it's going to be for them to deal with uh the uh major difficulties and traumatizing experiences in their life. Um and uh they'll be able to overcome it. There's no uh question uh of whether it's possible or not. Certainly, it's possible uh but it requires work. requires change, requires a uh understanding. It's very difficult to become Jewish. I've been on a religious research journey for the past year. Uh well, that's because you still don't understand what it means to be Jewish. Uh so, as you learn more and more, you'll understand why the journey you're having is difficulty. It's not supposed to be easy. It's not Christianity or Islam where pretty much they all they do is just throw a bunch of dirty water on you and uh you know and you're one of them. To become a Jew means that you want to become one of Hashem's chosen people which in so many words also means that Hashem has to choose you to allow you to become Jewish. So it's not just a matter of whether you have money to pay or not or it's a matter of whether you live in the right place or not or whether you know the information or not. Literally, Hashem has to open up the doors for you to allow you to succeed in this journey. So in order to do that, it's takes effort, takes sacrifice, takes time. Uh and uh there's a lot of information in my lectures about it. I have a whole conversion guide that you could download for free on my website bzashem.org. Uh and it's on the uh uh in the book section, ebooks. you could download it for free and it's a uh uh it certainly uh could help you but again it's not necessarily um that uh you're experiencing something unique by having a difficulty converting. It's it's supposed to be difficult not because people want to make it difficult for you but because this is in essence the path. Anything that's worthwhile in life in general has to be difficult because if it wasn't difficult, it wouldn't be worthwhile to find. Gold is difficult. Therefore, it's very expensive. It's considered a precious metal. Other metals like for example copper are not expensive. Why? Because it's easy to find copper. The first layer in the ground after you dig, you're going to find copper. But gold, you're only going to find little bits here and there. Hence the reason why there's, you know, copper is $4 a pound and uh and and gold is $3,000 plus an ounce. There's 16 ounces in a pound. So, you could understand how much more expensive gold is than copper. Even though copper is much more useful for the world, copper you need for wiring. Copper you need for you know for for pipes you need copper for everyday life. Without copper the world would not survive a week but it has abundance. Hashem made sure that whatever we need a lot of we have abundance of. We need a lot of water. Therefore 70% of the world is water. Uh we need a uh and we have rain and we have rain that from comes from the clouds and also there's rain that comes from outer space like unlike what people think because a lot of rain coming from outer space even more rain coming from out of space than there is coming from uh from the uh uh uh whole process of uh you know the photosynthesis and the uh uh vapors and so on. The uh as far as uh abundance of water we have we have a lot of water underground. there's even more water underground than there is above the uh you know that comes they're just finding that out right now through uh uh the uh the different type of technology has developed in the last decade or so uh shell gas and so on the the the uh it's an abundance there's an abundance of uh of uh of of cows chickens but there's not an abundance of lions and uh and zebras why we need a lot of line of a lot of cows and chickens and goats because that's what most people in the world, both Jews and Gentiles alike, eat. They're easiest to kill. They're easiest to raise. They're easiest to uh to uh to take care of. Um they're they're uh they're not a threat. And uh they're they can be used for multiple things. Whereas if people ate lions every day, guess what? The world would not survive a week. The world would not survive a week. So the fact that there's an abundance of things is by divine design to make sure that we have whatever we need in abundance. Uh whatever we don't need, Hashem has in the world, but it's not an abundance. But therefore, the things that are more rare are also more valuable. So if you wanted to buy a cow, it'll cost you 20 uh 20,000, let's say. But if you wanted to buy a lion, you know, you could probably add a zero to that. Why? Because it's a lot more rare. It's a lot more difficult to catch a lion. It's a lot more difficult to uh to keep him alive, too, once you catch him. Why? Because again, it's it's it's it's more difficult. It's more expensive because it's more rare. [Music] Uh when it comes to religion, if you look at the Christian world, it's very easy to convert to Christianity. Therefore, you know, you you see that Christianity there's no problem of of converting to them. It's one, two, three. Anybody can convert in two seconds and uh nothing changes in their life really because they don't have to do anything. They don't have to do anything. Very easy. And there is billions of them. Islam not different. Same thing. they uh very easy to convert to Islam and a little bit more changes with Islam than uh the lifestyle of a person with Islam than it does with Christianity because they pray five times a day and and uh have different things. But uh the point is is that it's still relatively easy to convert to Islam. With Judaism, it's very very difficult. But we also have number one, we're the chosen people. We're the people of the book. And there's very few of us. There's maybe 15 to 20 million Jews that we know of in the world. In comparison to uh Islam and uh and Christianity between the two of them, there's somewhere around five billion uh five five and a half billion of them. Uh so there's a whole lot more. Uh we're not even a rounding error. So to become part of those select few that were chosen by Hashem not just am the 15 20 million but even to be part of those few that are actually loyal to Hashem still out of that 20 million literally you're talking about just a handful of million Jews in the entire world are the ones that still follow the Torah. So, you want to become one of those out of over eight billion people. What did you think? It's like saying you want to go to uh to to Mars and then to Pluto in order to find a uh a 500 lb perfect deflawless diamond that's blue and then come back to Earth all within a week. And it shouldn't be difficult and you shouldn't get uh car sick or spaceship sick. It's a ridiculous thing to expect if you want to if you truly understood what it means to be Jewish, whether statistically, spiritually, historically, or all of the above, then literally you would welcome the difficulty because you'd understand you're getting closer. you're getting closer. Unfortunately, many times people that want to convert have a little bit of a chip on their shoulder. I don't know if you do or not. I know I deal with a lot of converts, but I've helped a lot of them convert and I continue to guide hundreds of them uh on a regular basis. Uh thousands, I don't there's a lot more than that. But the point is is that uh some of them I already know from the beginning they will succeed and some of them I know already from the beginning they're going to fail. Why? They have a chip on their shoulder. Some people have a chip on their shoulder where they, some of them feel like they're entitled. So, they're upset at the system. They're upset at the rabbis. They're upset at the community. They're upset at a lot of things. They're upset uh, you know, at the circumstance. They're upset they don't have money to do it. They're upset at all types of things. And if you go into it with that type of attitude, for sure, you're in a path of disaster. Um, and that's why a person needs to really understand what it means to be a Jew. um as part of their learning to convert and not just be a robot that uh follows instructions. Understand what it means the privilege that it is to be a Jew. And if you succeed, there's nobody better than you. But if you don't, then it's not uh it's not a surprise. Oh, you respect all religions is just belief. Oh, so obviously you're never going to convert. Obviously not even a familiar or aware of what Judaism is. To you it's just philosophy. So it's uh you're you're very uh ignorant about uh um about Judaism and probably a lot of other things from the stuff that you're writing here. So to ed educate themsel, read a little bit, spend a little less time on the internet reading nonsense and uh perhaps you'll wisen up. For someone trying to learn, for someone trying to schedule a time to learn Torah, who works 9 to6, what time do you suggest is best for learning? Uh, it depends what they do with their time after and before. Depends what they do their time after and before. depends what kind of job they have, how labor intensive it is, if they have breaks, how much uh uh what their life is like after work. You know, if they're a single guy uh with no wife, no kids, then in so many words, the moment they get home, eat, drink, you know, take care of hygiene and study until you go to sleep. Um, and if they could learn even a little bit for before they go to work for at least a half hour or so, you know, that that's good, too. But if they're a uh husband with uh, you know, four or five kids or more and uh, they have financial issues or health issues in the family or all types of other things then of course that type of schedule is not suitable for them. So it depends depends on the circumstance. Also depends on what kind of job they have. Uh if they have a labor intensive uh job that uh is different than if somebody is a uh let's say uh you know a lawyer or a uh investment advisor or uh somebody that uh you know pushes paper. It's different. Do Zer is get faster conversion? Zer is usually means Jewish. Uh so not sure what you mean. U but u usually the uh if somebody is um let's say a child of intermarriage uh then they have to do a full conversion like everybody else because you have to make sure that the person uh knows what it means to be Jewish. So they're no different than you know a guy coming from uh you know from China and wanting to convert. Uh but if they are a uh uh let's say a possible Jew, meaning that uh uh they uh there's a possibility that there's the the grandmother of the of the mother or the mother of the mother is Jewish, but they just didn't follow already for a couple, you know, for a couple generations. So there's a possibility that the ch children may be Jewish or not. uh and they're already living a Jewish life, then that's called a gil saf then that that could be sped up. Um not overnight, but certainly could be sped up. But quite frankly from my experience of over a decade of dealing with you know conversions and badines and and converts and so on the success and speed of conversion is determined on what kind of blessing a person has brought upon themselves through their actions. The more serious a person is about Hashem, his Torah, their conversion, and their life as a Jew, the more Hashem is going to smooth the path of conversion for that person. The more difficult a person is, the more arrogant the person is, the more uh you know a um stubborn the person is, then uh the more difficult their path is going to be. So if someone is threearters Jewish and their maternal grandmother is not Jewish, they're not Jewish. Even though most of their blood is Jewish. Correct? If their mother is not Jewish, they're not Jewish. There's no such thing as threequarters Jewish. It's either you're Jewish or you're not Jewish. either 100% Jew or not a Jew. No, they're not considered part of AMI is even if their father and grandfather are Jewish. If their mother is Jewish, they are 100% a Jew. If their mother is not Jewish, even if their father uh became a big rabbi, they're still not Jewish. They would have to convert. Do you believe that you have to be Jewish to go to heaven? No. Uh in order for somebody to go to heaven, they have to follow what the Torah says that's relevant to them. And the Rambam writes uh that uh we have proof from the Torah that uh the Gentiles also have the ability to go to Allah, to go to heaven, a different heaven than the Jews, but nonetheless a heaven uh that's full of blessing and so on. a lot better than this world could ever be. Uh based on what the uh tom says in about how is one of the people that lost their and he was a gentile. So obviously if he lost their then that means that there's a possibility of getting it for Gentiles. So certainly there's a heaven for righteous Gentiles just like there is a heaven for righteous Jews. On the other hand, there's also a punishment for wicked Gentiles and wicked Jews. And so it's as far as the destination, the destination depends on the acts both for Jews and Gentiles. How can you compare God to anything material? I do not compare God to anything material. So I'm not really sure why you're asking me the question. I have a cousin that's on the road to conversion. He put me on rabbi and gifted me the good cousin. All right. There's an obligation to learn. Why not? Uh well there's no obligation to learn dybaskans that every man has to learn the weekly Torah portion uh twice and commentary on it once. That's in order to have the basic understanding of the Torah. Certainly every Jew has to learn although male and female have to learn alah but especially the man uh and uh man at some point also has to learn uh mousar and has to learn but they can't start with day one usually because they still don't understand their right from their left but as far as to uh to learn the na'vi that is certainly something that uh a person can and should learn but only after they've learned the things that are higher priority. So in many yeshivas today I've heard this actually from uh David Ysef in many yeshiva today um they don't teach nave not because it's not important he says that his father says that he learned the entire tanak by heart in 10 minutes not 10 minutes you own study but every time every day they would have a in yeshiva they had a break of 10 minutes between uh a certain session that they had where the the rabbi gave them a break for 10 minutes and many of the people instead of uh you know uh um studying those 10 minutes they would go take care of their personal needs uh do whatever they needed 10 minutes talk uh whatever it is he says I knew that my personal needs didn't need 10 minutes maybe two minutes go to the bathroom whatever it is so that means I had eight minutes left so every day I spent those 10 minutes learning navi learning the uh tanakh and that 10 minutes every single day. Now, if you do the math, and he did it in the lecture that I watched, he said, even if you do it five times a week, five times a week, you have 50 minutes per week, another 50 minutes, another week, another 50 minutes, another week. You're talking about after you finish uh a year, hundreds of hours of Torah that the person learned certainly it's going to help them. Certainly it's going to help them. Now why don't they teach navi in the yeshiva today? Not because it's not important says David. It's because we expect you to learn it on your own. Because to learn Allah and learn, you need the help of Torah scholars to tell you right or left to tell you how to understand what what to do. But to learn the Nav'vi, all you got to do is read the commentary by Rashi over there and you'll understand. You'll understand what you need to understand. Certainly, there's even deeper understandings and so on. But the basic understanding you can learn on your own just like you can learn the hum on your own with commentary of the sages. So that you don't need the rabbis help with. So you could do it on your own. You could do it on your own. there's no problem and you should do it on your own. Spend 10 minutes a day, 50 minutes a day, 100 minutes a day, whatever you want to spend depending on your schedule. But there is a higher priority uh of other subjects like uh because that's tells you how to live life. But the point being is a person can study as much as they want as much as they want. Uh it's it's a the the uh sages teach in the in the uh Hashem says, "Open your mouth and I'll fill it." Meaning as much as you want to study Torah, Hashem will help you with it. But if a person uh says, "No, you know what? I'm only going to study this one subject for a full year and then next year another subject and you're making your own uh type of things. You have to follow what a rabbi tells you to do, instructions, how how uh what to study, when to study it, and uh stick to the plan, and you'll succeed. I have uh many students that specifically ask me uh whether they're allowed to or whether they should uh study certain books. And they even uh every time they complete a m they tell me they complete the m they ask me which is the next m to learn I tell them which one to learn next and they follow that regimen uh they uh they complete one m after another some complete the hashem and they're not too proud to ask me uh what what should I study next or should I study this book or not or you know different things but the point is is to have some type of guidance uh in your Torah study as well as in your life. Don't just ask rabbis questions about Torah study. Uh you should, you know, you should have a rabbi that you could ask him also questions about business, about life, about, you know, about everything. And the more you uh uh the more you uh connect to the Torah, to the Torah scholars, to uh to the uh world of Kadusha, the more you're going to succeed. I will take one one question. Uh what is the priority for women? Doing or learning Torah? Both. She has to do both. She has to learn Torah in order to know what to do. Especially when it comes to the mitzvot that are relevant to her modesty, kashut, the holidays, uh, mousar, you know, character development, she has to learn that every day, uh, to, you know, but she also has to do, she has to implement it. She has to take time to do good things. And again, it also depends on her life. If she's married, she has kids, she's healthy, she'sam sick. Sometimes the biggest that a woman could do is with her own children. Just raise our kids and don't waste her time with uh friends and uh family and all types of people that want a lot of her time uh which ends up hurting her children because she doesn't have time to spend or attention with her kids. Sometimes the biggest that a p that a woman could do is with her own kids. Sometimes the that a woman can do is with other people's kids. Why? Either she doesn't have kids or the kids have already grown up uh you know or the kids are away at school or whatever it is. So she has time go she could help our neighbor, she could help our rabbi, she could help our uh uh family, she could do it. But point is that she should be productive. Be productive. Not be a couch potato. Be productive. Do something at all times. And uh was that you'll have a sense of accomplishment does learning from Rabbi Nishim's books for extra mus can this impact us to have merit for him to help us with Hashem's help? Certainly if a person learns learns Ravni Mien's books it's uh very very good in my opinion it's the best books uh about the topics about Mousar books written in English language uh in in in this generation it's it's it's something that uh it's amazing stuff um and uh certainly if a person learns it and applies it to their life it's going to help them is it is it enough to get the rabbi to help you uh with life depends what you do with the learning. If a person takes uh you know takes the learning and the things that he says to action where you help publicize his Torah. So uh like somebody asked me uh I don't know maybe a week ago a few days ago when I'm going to have uh Rabbi Nissan's books in the Kiru store again. I told them when I get a sponsor for it. People want free stuff all the time, which again, we're happy to give free stuff, but it costs money. Uh, you know, we gave hundreds and hundreds of his books for free a few months ago, hoping that uh some people are going to, you know, wisen up and take uh take money and and then actually uh become the next sponsor. You know, I had one guy tell me, "Oh, yeah. I want to sponsor the books." Said, "Fine, okay." He's like, "Okay, I'll you know, I can send you $100." I'm like, " $100? Go buy the book in a store. $100? Not going to help you sponsor the books? Sponsor the books? you're talking about tens of thousands of dollars. We're not buying three books. So, a person has to understand that sometimes it's tough. I mean, of course, if a person doesn't have it, they could, you know, uh contribute towards it by simply, you know, giving money in the k store. But these things cost money. Each time we make a purchase, it's 10, 20, 30, 40, $50,000. The purchases that we make in different books are a lot of money. It's you look at the financials. We have over $100,000 $150,000 in bills every month, whether it's the col or it's the books or it's the helping the poor, you know, talking about a couple of million dollars a year in expenses, you know. So certainly we appreciate every uh, you know, request for books, but we'd also appreciate people helping us. If a person has the wherewithal to do it, by all means. If they don't, they don't. Help with whatever you can. Some people are fantastic students and donors and they only donate 50 bucks a month. Some people uh donate 5,000 every often or you know so it depends. One has more than the other. We appreciate both of them. The the key is for people to understand that uh in order for us to get more from Hashem than the norm that means we need to do more than the norm. So for example, in regards to your question, reading a Kam's book is standard. It's not considered more. More would be not just reading it, not just living by it, but publicizing it, promoting it, doing more of it, you know, to get more people to do it. So that that requires time, money, attention, and so on. Same thing with, you know, people that help uh us with other things. The people that have been blessed the most uh that I know of in the last uh several years especially but in the last 10 years have been the people that help us the most. the more serious they are about promoting Kiru and and supporting Bezem and the more generous they are relative to them, uh the more you see literally huge blessings that these people have and uh you know the people that uh uh do less get less. So each person has to determine on their own. But again, it doesn't necessarily mean dollar amount like it has to be 10,000, 50,000, 500,000. It's all the maximum of what each person can do. Maximum of what each person can do. And that uh that takes time. That takes time to build up. Takes time to build up. 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