Hanukkah Special It’s Time To Pick A Side

[Music] great to be here Miami a uh sh today is going to be a little different than what we've been doing for a while now um we have the P series I think we just did 83 yesterday uhem uh a lot of really good feedback especially one of the uh things we talked about today uh yesterday of course uh came true today um the um we talked about what was happening with Donald Trump and uh there was a uh rumors that he's going to make uh announce that uh the United States is supporting the opinion of that is the capital of not that that really changes anything as far as Israel which it's but in the eyes of the world it does so the uh on the good side he did announce it today uh which was a big surprise you know usually these rumors go nowhere so it was a very big surprise on the bad side the other part of what we said is also uh unfort fortunately very big possibility which is that a war is about to start because the Arabs uh with its Hamas heah the Palestinian Authority uh and whatever other terrorist friends they have all of these people pretty much said that all bets are off all negotiations are off and they vowed to have three days of Gom that they're trying to bring to the world it's just going to be a Gom them but nonetheless this is a sad reality that we're living in so before we talk a little bit more about that we'll do the special to Leana Sana uh Mikel Koto aaru ruven Joseph Ben Rifka Doris B David benri SAR glad nunz Melissa nor Suarez batam Suarez ardes rensi Yoshua Mel Ben hadasa Patricia valman Michelle valman Sonia Suarez Nicole valman Austine Hernandez Hernandez iset balur Liliana Antonia giberto vesses jaini roas edia Garcia Pablo Lorenzo Milam Batar Joseline Ada Vasquez andit Vasquez vquez Sarah Gutierrez Diego Hernandez dor Mercedes UDA Ben dor Miriam B mazal Ros B Elish Batar Amber B Noah Rose oh again same same name twice and Zakaria Ben anat uh and all of am Isel oh and Dalia Romero and Lindsay M and Miram all the mirams in the world we'll have and all of all of the people that love may they have you know the uh issue of having health is um always a good reminder uh always a good reminder for the the that hasem gives you each day that not only you're alive but you're alive but you're able to function without having pain now most people don't really know the difference most people really tell them well listen you know had pain you should appreciate you don't have pain like pain what do you mean like if I broke a finger what do you mean if I uh you know hit the door on you know with my toe or something what do you mean pain no if you have pain just existing like you wake up in pain you go to sleep in pain in the afternoon you're in pain in the night in pain you you wake up in from sleep not because of a bad dream you wake up from Pain you go to the bathroom you're in pain even more pain you know anything about that no oh you should thank Hashem for that you should thank hm for that how do I think AEM for something I don't know find a way find a way why because if if you ask anyone what it's like to be in pain not for a whole day not for seven years or 10 years for an hour one hour one hour one hour of pain and I'm not even talk about level 10 pain G talk about yeah you have a headache have a headache for an hour imagine you have a toothache sh toothache for an hour toothache for an hour imagine a toothache you have to get a root canal you have a root toothache for an hour just imagine that it's so important for people to understand this because this is the way that you can get both and you have thank God you don't punish meom be a million and a half times worse if I don't do chv so that's already is on top of it you have why AA you love H he's not giving it to you but I meet so many people and they have all these different sick this one's sick that one's sick this one's can't go to sleep this one is sleeping all the time this one is in pain doesn't know why the doctors don't know the doctors do know but they're wrong you know you have to thank AEM you have to thank AEM and I tell you guys all the time one of the things that is a good reminder they say it's a G for if uh the the sages say that if you say with full full Cav every time not once every time every time you go to the bathroom number two number one doesn't make a difference every time you go to the bathroom you say you look at the words N everybody remembers it after 100 times you do it everybody's going to remember it but you look at the words you look at the words every single time you must you mean it you'll never go sick that extent to that extent so that's actually one of the reasons why we made the posters is number one because I appreciate what it means to have but even more so is that people really don't know the significance of it until it's too late until you're sick so we have on a website we have the store anyone that wants to get it it's on it's available on the store anyone that wants to just write it down want to print it whatever it doesn't make a difference I'm not trying to make money here the point is at least say it for yourself because I'm telling you I just had someone tell me just today just today someone tell me you know what now I finally know now I finally know when you said I said one of my shim I said you know I got so sick couldn't even sleep I would wake up from sleep from Pain and she tells me you know I don't know what does it mean you wake up from sleep I go to sleep I wake up the next day sometimes I don't want to wake up I want to sleep two days what do you mean you wake up from sleep from Pain what does that mean she said I had pain I woke up from pain I had pain I woke up from pain she says now I understand what you said people don't understand what it means to be healthy M you don't understand what it means to be healthy and every minute that you're healthy every minute you're not suffering you should thank a that's a special gift he doesn't owe you see smart guys listen so the uh is always good to remind us of what's out there the the benefits that Hashem gives us every day that we're healthy the fact that you're able to come here sit down for an hour two hours three hours sometimes longer and actually listen to sh without saying e all that stuff it's a kindness from hem so now the question is that we have right now we have this amazing series of musar but now we have a really big question that I think has yet to be answered that has a lot to do with this holiday of kanuka kanuka as we said recently is a favorite holiday religious Jews love it secular Jews love it the reformed Jews love it the conservative the Orthodox the gim the I mean everybody loves there no one doesn't like kanuka even some of these people that have office parties you know these companies have office parties they may have 300 employees one Jud they have a minority in the office for him well no it's nice it's nothing wrong with the manora you never see them having a in the office you never see him having one of the in the office for the one Jew no but kanuka they put them what's the big deal what's the big deal putting in manora what's the it's nice it's lights shiny why do all of these people put us why is it such a favorite holiday it's such a favorite holiday that out of all the holidays we have we everything every one of these holidays have a special section in the gar in the oral T written about them a whole tractate so all of the fasts have a section in the called tractate of tan that's about all of the holidays that have to do with fasting and so on and so forth all the fasts are in there has its own tractate few sections in there very scary you look at page 17 Page 17 says some people get so wicked in sh their punishment never ends Source in the tah people always say no no it's only one year no it's a source in the it says it's much longer then you havek everything has so beautiful honestly I think it's one of my favorites if not my favorite such a beautiful talks about so many different things whether it's or it's or it's different rebukes and stories beautiful you must must read it at least 100 times so it's a every holiday has one except kanuk kanuka do have one they mention it a little bit in Shabbat that's it Shabbat a big 100 almost 160 Pages Big M beautiful and they mention it in the beginning in the beginning ofat after they talk about the is the uh um how it's forbidden to take something from a public place to a private place without there being an they go into it and they go into the rules of uh kanuka which side to light the candles bet Shay said that really you're supposed to light the candles all eight on the first day then seven on the second day then six on the third day and five and four and three and two and bet he says no no no it's one on the first day two on the second day the opposite three on the third day and so they they have a debate at the end decided we go why because you don't lower from you're always supposed to increase this is also the reason someone asked me recently what happens when a woman has she's married she's not wig or anything she has a scarf or hat and something happens she got divorced or perhaps death in the family so does she take off the and she's single now Technically she's single it's a single woman doesn't have to cover her hair what's the answer answer is you do not lower from once you got used to you don't take it off even even if you're single so how they going to know you're single hem will take care of that hem will take care of it you go have a go to tell them she said no problem why you don't lower in once you do something you don't stop so that's how they decided in which which side goes you keep increasing in every day there's another candle every day there's more Kusa every day is's another candle Shai said a seven so in essence you're lowering they agreed no we go okay no problem but still how come there's no track date for it why you couldn't make just a 10 20 30 pages in there just for a little track dat tell us a few tells a few something why the one of the explanation several obviously they there's several opinions but one of the uh most popular opinions is that kanuka is such such a beloved holiday people love it so much that they all remember the rules they all remember the story at least the synopsis of everything that we don't need to really include it in the oral Tora because it's become part of us I had a last week where I said really it's a little different it's a nice explanation yes it is a beloved holiday but the reality is it's beloved for the wrong reason the reason why it's beloved by both secular and religious by reform Orthodox Messianic and real Jews that are actually following toah not making up their own tah which is only Orthodox at this point the reason why they all love it it's simply because the side that doesn't follow Torah thinks that it's a unreligious holiday it's a irreligious holiday it's a it's a holiday where technically you don't have to do anything okay you light the manora it's fun you light the manora you eat the S the big Donuts fat Donuts some people say maybe the eight days of kanuka is because you eat one dut you have to you have to run for eight days just to lose all the weight from one donut but the the Jewish Donuts s if you actually have an authentic one it's a little piece of Gan so some people say that's you don't do you eat some donuts you play the drle you light the candles it's fun it's shiny who's better than you is is that it's if anyone actually understands the background of kanuka the real story of kanuka you'd actually realize that not only are they wrong for thinking it's an irreligious holiday it's actually the symbol of the most religious holiday it's actually the most religious holiday of all holidays it's the ex opposite and our ignorance is the only reason we think otherwise I have to admit I didn't always think though I thought it was a fun holiday even when I wasn't uh religious Shem will forgive me B hopefully one day I also celebrate Hanukkah every year why it's easy you light some candles you looking him for a little while you go do your business it's pretty little that I know that it's the most religious holiday and that's one of the things we're going to talk about today what makes kanuka the most religious holiday now last night we talked about how the prophets say that at the end of days before the mashia comes there's going to be a lot of balagan in the world a lot of problems in the world to say the least this is not a secret you don't need to be religious to know that there's a lot of problems in the world whether you look towards places like Venezuela where literally the government is starving its own people some of them being Jewish or you looking at places like the United States where every other day there's a conspiracy theory every other day there's some government official that's either missing or doing something wrong strange deaths occurring connecting to certain politicians a lot of strange things are happening you go to Israel you look at the cabinet the the the the makeup of their government they actually have the Enemy Inside the government the terrorists are members of the government if that's not stupid I don't know what is you see North Korea is pressing the bun hoping hoping that one of the missiles actually going to work Iran can't wait for a fight everyone is ready there's a lot of problems in the world Saudi Arabia obviously is having its own Revolution the guy pretty much took up his whole family threw them all in jail and is torturing them for the last couple of weeks but no one can tell him otherwise problems in the world this is just a small token of it it's an understatement disease is an alltime high it looks like people are all healthy it looks because you know I say listen we have the cure for this we have the cure for this we have the cure for this but if you look at the statistics a lot of people are dying a lot of people are dying whether it be from drug overdoses or from canc caner or from AIDS or from uh all types of other diseases some we know of some we don't know of people are dying left and right you want to get the Press you read a paper you just look at the obituary you just see how many people died today and then yesterday and they every day it's like you don't have enough time to get to know people you already see them in the paper people are having so many difficulties it's difficult to Simply mail something now some things are very simple you want to buy something it's always very simple you press a button it comes to your house you want to return it it's you have to call this one convince this one convince this one certain things in life is always like different problems strange things as you get older your body changes strange pains strange ideas sleep less friends are no longer friends the meaning of life it's not the same thing as it was when you were 20 everyone is stressed out all the time chasing dollars fight fighting for survival even if they're making a ton of money it seems like everyone is on the same Rat Race and everyone is fighting the man who's the man some illusion that they have in their mind who they're competing against initially it's their colleague sometimes it's their spouse sometimes it's their best friend sometimes it's the neighbor sometimes it's the government sometimes it's the doctor sometimes it's the lawyer sometimes it's the competition it's always everyone's fighting someone and you see people are struggling Mama struggling with to survive one day they're married the next day they're not sure if they should have been married one day they're this everybody's struggling and very rarely do you see people happy genuinely happy they may have happy moments they just got a new thing a new I know something material they got a new car a new house they had a baby they went on vacation it's happy moments but genuinely happy you wake up in a day and alive not too many people so now when you tell them listen on top of all the problems you're already dealing with there's greater problems ahead that are going to make all of your problems today seem completely meaningless sick not sick headache no headache money no money family no family all of those things that you think are significant in one moment it's all going to become worthless in front of what's ahead this is not a opinion this is what's in the Torah in the book of Zacharia chapter 14 the entire chapter 14 is as scary as it could possibly be we're not going to read the whole thing just the first couple of verses and it says Behold a day is coming for hem when your spoils will be divided upon your in your midst I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem for a war the city will be captured the houses will be pillaged and the women will be violated half of the city will go out into Exile but the rest of the people will not be eliminated from the city Hashem will go out and wage war with those Nations as he waged war on the day of battle and it continues and it continues talks about the mount olives will split into two mhia will come but before that happens it talks about what's actually going to happen and if you actually look at the verses you don't need mid to understand if you just have some basic knowledge of the weapons today he's literally describing a nuclear war now for many years people wondered why would anyone care about y it's ruined they ruined it 2,000 years ago no one cared about it really for the last couple thousand years other than the Jews why is everyone going to all of a sudden maybe there's maybe there's something wrong with the prophecy maybe it's not going to come true maybe Hashem decided against it maybe really this big war already happened cuz everyone tells no some Rabbi told told me that goou Magog the war that the last war already happened it was really World War I or maybe World War II but it's over now we're already at the time of mashia we just have to have the mashia and say what's up man and let it go back to our life it happened already what are we so scared about what's the problem what's the real reason they're saying this the real reason is because most people don't really want the mhia to come because despite how many problems they have they think that their sickness is actually healthy they think that their spiritual sickness their distance from their bad character traits the fact that they're chasing money the fact that they're hopeful that one day it will be be better is already good enough to why should I change it what's this mashia going to do for me I'm busy taking care of my problems because I'm I'm this close from being okay I'm this close from getting that house I want I'm this close from getting the wife I want or the car I want or the job I want I'm this close from buying this I'm this close from this everyone's this close everyone's really close so like why is M come is gonna ruin it no no it already happened it already happened we're already in ganeden everything's okay I'm this everybody's so busy and so worked up and where they're at right now don't change it don't ruin it for me right now religious not religious leave us alone well kanuka okay just light the candles light the candles it's a nice holiday but everyone was always wondering how is this all going to happen and we are seeing it in front of our eyes today was an announcement we talked about it yesterday as a possibility and today became a reality where Donald Trump decided to agree with the fact that yush is the capital of Israel and move the US Embassy to yush from Tel Aviv now this may not seem like such a big deal for anyone who's not really aware of how much the Arabs hate us but for anyone that's living from outside of Iraq would realize that this is in essence as big if not worse for the Arabs in their minds the 1948 when the United Nations voted in favor of Israel becoming an independent country in their minds all of this time there was always a chance that the world was going to be in favor of the fake nation of Palestine and say oh yeah no kick out all the Jews that are occupying their own land but we're calling it our land and technically they had a lot of support for it for many years the news stations even supported them but now that you have the president of United States saying otherwise officially and even going to put a stamp there by saying I'm moving my Embassy to where do you move Embassy you move it to the capital so they decided that all negotiations are off we're declaring war and anyone that read this P would realize that Ishmael just declared war on asav the Nate this is not a war between the Palestinians and the Jews that's already been there this is not a war between the Arabs and the Jews that's already been there there nothing new no but just like the PUK says that hasem is going to make everyone fight over what y why is everyone fighting because of today today is the reason why they're going to fight they said it's okay okay for Yam to be the capital the other side says no it's not just one Arab country it's all of them even the ones that say no we don't really care they care everyone cares so now you have literally the world is split into two and goes that initially the war starts with Ishmael against asav but then unfortunately the next chapter is that eventually after they go to war and beat each other up for for some time they decide that it's all the fault of the Jews the only other side left and they go against am is and that's why it says the ne in the same P the Y will be captured y being captured for nine months according to the sages sages say they're going to be captured so for all of those people that are asking me all the time whether I should do Aliyah or you know move to Israel because maybe it's safer there or live in America because it's safer there or go to some Island and safer there and it's safer there and it's safer there all you know different safe places the reality is that the only Aliah that's going to make you safer is the Ali in your raising the stakes in your your serving of hm that's the only thing that's going to save you asks what's going to happen at the end of times very scary things that prophesies called Masia Mash means like the contractions before woman gives birth it's the worst part I never felt it it's the contractions the worst part and the sages say as righteous as they were each one of them you're named by name is able to revive the dead KES each one of them says I don't want to be alive I don't want to be alive when it happens why it's going to be very difficult so what's going to save whoever is alive they says only two things says only two things are going to save us following the Tora and being glued to it and doing overwhelming kindness meaning saving help help people above and beyond the norm above and beyond the norm not just you gave $5 donation or you gave a $100 donation or but doing something above and beyond instead of just giving to some nonprofit organization you don't really know anything about you give one that's associated with tah associated with hasem you have to think about it instead of just giving to anyone that has his hand out you think about is this person going to do something that's against theem is not you have to think about these things I mean if it's small money it's small money but I'm talking about you have to act wisely what every decision you make doing kiru is the highest level of kindness bringing people to lectures giving them CDs sending them a you know a link helping people get closer to Hashem it's the highest level of kindness while you saving their people always ask me markets at alltime highs I don't follow it but they tell me all the time markets alltime highs lately I've been getting a lot of messages a lot of emails people asking me for investment advice I tell I don't do I don't give investment advice I don't give it do it for money and I definitely not going to do it for free either um but they ask they keep asking figuring you know why what's it's free why not and they keep asking me why don't you just go back into the market maybe make a few million you could do it you know they give me the whole the whole they give me the whole of why I should go back into it they're they're already working yet sends them one two three four five a week five a week remind me and you know there's test there's constant test with money it's constant test with money I had a guy asked me to uh do an investment for him manag investment he was practically begging me begging me to do it for him manage the money for him now I know the work obviously I did it for almost 20 years in reality maybe 20 minutes of actual work let's say I'm Rusty I have to catch up let's say it's five hours of work it's not but let's say it's five hours of work five hours of work five hours of work I make no less than $20,000 no less than $20,000 in reality it's 20 minutes of work 20 minutes of work $20,000 meaning I'm making a good amount of money but even if it's even if it's 10 hours of work 10 hours you anybody work for 10 hours make $20,000 it's a good deal right now he's begging me to take it he's begging me he's practically giving me the money I tell no don't thank you this is three weeks ago and before him there was also another guy and after him there was another guy every other day like when I was in the business I had to beg people do business with me in the beginning now they want to do business okay I've said about no no not interested no thank you no no but please but this but that I'll pay you I'll pay you more not interesting same day I do a whole uh shoe I travel somewhere far away seven hours three hours Shure another hour and a half or two of uh questions and answers after another two hours of uh traveling seven hours I think seven eight hours and they donated $30 same day same day he he offered me $20,000 for 20 minutes Worth to work I got 30 bucks it's a test anyone agree it's a test $20,000 or $30 it's a test it's a good test right for this test so people ask me why you crazy something wrong with you what what you you get MTH from sham you're already at that level I don't get MTH from sham and that $20,000 is a lot more money than I have so why the real reason is this because I know that most of the world whether they're religious or not religious Orthodox or otherwise does not even understand the significance of kanuka kanuka simple kanuka kanuka they don't understand what kanuka is I have to do it I have to do this I have to because most people don't realize it's every single time you do a sh every single time you have a conversation with someone after the sh before the sh every single time you bring more toah to the world that's telling people and convincing them to M wake up out of their Slumber and ask AEM okay what do you want what can I do and start doing it and you see it's wor working you realize it's all life risk there's lives on the line and people are being saved on a daily basis so now it doesn't matter if you love someone or you hate someone doesn't matter if you know them or you don't know them if somebody told you listen if you're a normal human being if you're a psychopath and it's not for you she shouldn't watch you anyway she go to a mental institution if you're a normal human being and somebody told you listen i' give you $20,000 to kill him anyone would do it anyone would kill somebody for $20,000 if you're a normal person no right or if he said no don't actually go kill him don't kill him I'll give you $20,000 just to look the other way don't kill him just look the other way go somewhere else go to the store go to the deli buy bmba go buy some snap pole make yourself a sandwich 20 minutes that's it 20 minutes an hour he's going to die but what do you care you don't even know him well hurt you if he what do you care if he dies that's what's on the line spending 20 minutes an hour five hours or six hours doing a deal someone has to die you have to be heartless to do it when you know the truth not everyone is given the talent or the ability or Theo or the Merit to do it if you're giving it you have to take the B by the ones and run with it now what do I keep saying that most people don't know the point of kanuk and for most of my life myself included is that most people think that kanuka is a holiday that we won some War a few people fought there was some miracle with the war a few beat many and then there was the miracle with the oil and everyone together we clap yeah yeah Y and let's say we eat some s anything with oil on it is also good want to makeit want want to put them together whatever you want to e just celebrate they think that's the holiday but the reality is that kanuka is by far the most extensive as far as example of religiosity today if anyone reads the history books of what happened you read kazal you read the sages you read what actually happened you see those many miracles as a matter of fact you see that the and his sons had unnatural strength and explains that they were the gulim they were the reincarnations of some of the tribes some of the 12 tribes that we read about this week Yehuda the son of met which the first leader was the Gil was The Reincarnation of Yuda from this week's par and yud from this week's par if you read the midash he had unnatural strength similar to the superhero fake cartoon character Hulk similar very similar even more so if you read the mid you read the what kind of power he had just one Roar one Roar would kill thousands of people Roar not talking about hitting them Roar you roared was so scary people will fall off of the walls to their death one Roar can destroy two cities the fights that they had if you read actually at the end of last week's par there's a mid and several others says the wars of the the wars of the 12 tribes it's you realize this is where comic books came from this is where it came from everything that you actually read about today or seeing movies today the the pow superpowers Hulk and the Wolverines and the Flash and all these different characters it actually comes from the tah you see exactly all the powers that you see in the movies actually there is in a toah from 3,300 years AG actually in this case 4,000 years ago 4,000 years ago they actually existed theim killed tens of thousands of people each in single battles they need armies they were the Army one of them was the Army you read some of these stories so much it's amazing the first time I read like this is like the greatest thing in the world my wife and I were like fighting over the book no you finished oh so we take turns and then we decide we'll read it together is unbelievable you know it's the last thing you expect from t t you think oh it's Moshe you know nice guy maybe sadik with some payers or something what do you expect you don't know anything do K shalom shalom and that's it with the family okay go home what do you expect when you don't know anything well you saw in the movies maybe held some two tablets it was nice they messed it up he broke it he had to go buy a new one expensive people unappreciative he read this stuff it's unbelievable but theim also had a mistake in this week's parasa you actually see it right in the beginning of the par it says that ysf was more connected with the sons of bil and the sons of Zila the he was more connected to them but then right after it it says that his brothers hated him meaning here is where started baseless hatred started in this week's actually telling us the fact that y was more connected to the sons of the which were really the wives of yob also rightful wives as well they weren't like people think in the eyes of the other tribes these five weren't on the same same level W on the same level was looking at yeah okay listen you're nice guys but still not the same you're askanazi you're Safari from Lithuania or this one or that one you're yemenite your Lish yourish your hat is this big your hat is this small your pays are this short your pays go behind the ear around the ear in the ear that the ear you have long pants short all these different things so you're not this same as us everyone is different 12 tribes everyone is different but especially if you're not from there says you're from your we don't like him because he keeps making us jealous but you guys the daughters of Z they're not really like us and hasem says oh they're not like you all of you are beautiful in my eyes but apparently you don't see it so I'm going to send all of you to Egypt and you're all going to be slaves there together then you'll learn to love each other and see that you're all the same you're all beautiful to me your all of you is is beautiful and there's no nothing wrong with you that's what's written about this the tribes you hate each other for no reason cuz this one's y this oneaz one Safari this one's a Moroccan Safari this one is a uh Tripoli Safari this one is Egyptian Safari what difference does it make already started this week's but nonetheless we still holy people you fast forward a couple of thousand years you go to bet mikdash we learned that the BET mdash was destroyed because of the same thing because of and the sages tell us that every generation that the bet mikdash is not built it's as if they destroyed it themselves because it's only not being built because you still hate each other for no reason now one of the reasons why we still hate each other for no reason is because very few of us know the real truth very few of us actually folded our sleeves and got to the bottom of it to see what does hem really want what's what does hasem really want does he want me to have a bigger hat and a longer beard and a blacker coat does he want me to have short sleeves long sleeves this sleeve that sleeve what does he want or does he want me to have or does he want me to work myself get to what does he want does he want me to have a wig does does he want me to have does he want me to listen to any Rabbi that I choose or does he want me to choose one Rabbi what does he want very few people many people ask the question but very few people actually fold their sleeves and get to the bottom of and find out what the truth is and one of the reasons is because most people don't put it on their priority list as significant they figure they'll get to it at some point similar to how most people say we'll get to it one point one day and learn the h story we know the basics we know the we know said a famous statement is for me let's go to war they won the battle who cares what happened after that if you actually notice the battles that actually happened at that time were very similar to the battles that theim had y the son of M killed tens of thousands of people by himself first battle 8,000 people by himself we talk about Rockets with rocket launchers with tanks with uh f16s not him by himself 8,000 people first battle next day 1,800 people next day 20,000 people 20,000 people do you ever even see 20,000 people imagine 20,000 people around you what do you do how do you fight all of them obviously this is unnatural strength but yet the interesting part is that the other tribes the other brothers also joined them and also fought very very heroic battles and beat the Greeks but yet and kanuka we all celebrate for the same reason and none of these mid are mentioned really because we're all saying the whole thing is for the Mir irle of what the oil the oil is after the war isn't the fact that these five guys just beat a few million people by themselves isn't that more more of a miracle as a matter of fact the bet the says listen if you look at the actual holiday it's eight days it's the longest holiday kanuka is the longest holiday it's eight days P seven days uh seven everything seven days is the longest holiday but it doesn't make excuse me it doesn't make sense why is it 8 days if you're celebrating it 8 days because of the miracle that the that the oil worked for eight days then it's not true why it really wasn't a miracle for eight days it was a miracle for seven cuz the oil that they found that was pure was good good enough for one day so the fact that it worked for eight days just means that we had a miracle for seven days not for eight days so what's the real truth says the first day the first day that's the miracle of all the Wars all the Wars all the battles that these few people killed so many people that beat all these people that's one day the rest of it is the miracle of the oil but why what do you care about this oil what's the big deal if it got shut off in reality I was talking about it the other day why didn't they just use the other oil okay so the Greeks mess with the oil a little bit they make it impure but based on there's really no thing is impure oil there impure wine you look at if a if a go or a Jew that violat Shabbat in public on a regular basis touches a uncooked wine just touches it picks up the bottle you're not allowed to use it it's considered T but oil doesn't have anything like this so why don't they just use the other oil and the answer is the knew the truth that most of us still haven't figured out the truth is that the whole holiday is not based on materialism it's not based on physical strength it's not based on the wars we won against against another Army it's based on the fact that you're still Jewish that's the whole War that's the whole War the book by rner Shalom someone took a few things from the book connected it to kanuka took the part from the book to connected to the kanuka it's really extraordinary I mean he was such a giant big man of truth but brilliant brilliant mamash brilliant it's every every little paragraph is like wow how does somebody think like this now when someone has mamash serious opens up their brain and when someone prays enough again a does the same so you see this book there's one after another after another after another beautiful things he says that the prophecy of the Prophet Daniel that he gave toan when had a um dream had a dream and no one was able to translate it so they got Daniel the Prophet Daniel KES kashim and he was able to translate it and what was the dream about he told him your dream has to do with the end of times and apparently you have enough merits in sh despite being you did something right in your life where hasem decided you're going to be the strongest King ever until the mashia every other civilization after you will be weaker and weaker and weaker until mhia and he gives him the symbolism from the statue that he see with the head of gold and then another part of silver another part of copper another part of stone and the bottom part of wood and the wood somehow breaks all of them at the end so there the prophet Daniel says this is all prophecy of each one of the major civilizations that's going to be used as a tool by to wake up the nation and hit them and you're going to be the first he ended up you know obviously destroying bet mikdash so now Rabel says that this particular prophecy that Daniel had was already written inph and the second verse second verse right in creation hasm created the world he already wrote what's going to happen at the end and it says the following it says that's the first verse in the beginning hem created the Heaven and the Earth first verse second verse it says it says and the Earth was astonishingly empty with Darkness upon the surface of the deep and a divine presence hovered upon the surface of the water that's the second verse and says these four terms that are mentioned each describe four major kingdoms to which means literally without form represents nean and the Babylonians no structure no religion idolatry nonsense V means emptiness that's the Persians and media they were together that represents that Kingdom both killed many Jews not because they didn't like the Torah they didn't like them they didn't try to destroy the Torah they tried to destroy the people Darkness that's the Greeks that's kanuka why dark Ness because the Greeks didn't try killing the Jews despite there was one the first battle they killed 880,000 Jews in one day a single day killed 880,000 Jews in one day it's not like today you have guns you have H one bomb can kill Millions one by one one by one 80,000 people in 880,000 Jews were killed in one day but that's not the real battle the battle was much worse the battle was a spiritual battle they told them listen we don't want to kill you as a matter of fact we want to give you better jobs what do you have a shoe store what do you have a diamond store how about this we'll make you a president of one of the areas over here we'll make you a politician we'll make you counsel to the president we'll make you this we'll make we'll give you jobs we'll give you money give you whatever you want make you rich sounds a good deal why what's so dark about that it's just you have to stop keeping Shabbat you have to stop keeping KES you have to stop allowing your wives to go to the mik with thees but even more so you're not even allowed to write a kba anyone that writes a kba we're chopping off their hands which means that the marriages would be considered not marriages without kba an inappropriate Act and last but not least no that's it you want to eat kosher eat kosher we don't really care you want to go pray to pray what doesn't make a difference you want to go learn learn whatever you want just those few things don't do it who is behind this Jews unfortunately some of the Jews like the material they liked ad's material they like they saw look this guy he went to the same school as me but he's a millionaire and I'm working as a teacher in AA making 30,000 a year he just offered me a job I can make five times as much so I don't I work on Shabbat what's the big deal so they joined they became Greeks themselves the Jews became Greeks themselves and some of them got to a point where they started helping the Greeks go against the Jews they told him listen as long as the Jews are have AEM you guys can't beat them so you have to make them do things that are going to disconnect them first and foremost you have to tell them to stop keeping Shabbat why that's the deal that's the Covenant between them and Hashem that's the Covenant they break Shabbat that's it no more deal with theem now these fools didn't realize the so if somebody puts a knife to your head and says don't keep Shabbat you're allowed to break it if it's by yourself if it's in public then you're not allowed to break it depends to such an extent that we actually learned from this that the Jews that were really that really were willing to sacrifice everything teach us an important lesson if there's three cardinal sins which is idol worship or murder or adultery if the go tell you either rape this woman or have have intim uh you know marriage with a woman that you're not allowed to have uh be with or worship an idol or murder someone you tell them no kill me these are three cardinal sins meaning it's better that you die than make one of those sins but other things it's not the same if they tell you eat pig you're allowed to eat pig not allowed if if they don't but that's only if it's oneon-one if it's in public meaning if their intention is purely to destroy Judaism then we learn from the that we learned something extraordinary from this holiday and that is that even if theim tell you you have a that all of you and from where you come from where white shoestrings white shoest strings on your shoes and your sandals you wear white Sho strings we want you to start wearing red not because we care about your Sho string obviously and not because the Sho string is part of the Ten Commandments or the 630 commands it's a it's a custom but we don't want you to keep that custom anymore the tell you we don't want you to keep the custom anymore you actually have to die for that you're not allowed to change the custom for them why because it's not about the custom it's about them destroying Judaism so the Greeks were not interested in killing the Jews they were interested in killing Judaism and theim knew that when they found the oil after they beat him in battle and they won the war and everything was fantastic miraculous and so on they realize okay we have an oil but this oil was damaged they did something to it we can't use it not because the oil has a specific Al no no it's because by using the oil that they tainted in some way or another we'd be in essence changing our customs no different than the oil no different than the shoe string no different than stopping to keep Shabbat no different than killing somebody it's no different why it's better that we die than use this oil because by using this tainted oil that they used in essence we would might as well lose the battle already so they kept looking and they kept looking and they kept looking and eventually miraculously they found one and not only they found one has made it work for seven days further so really the and until this day we're celebrating not the material battle the physical strength we had the Miracles we had in beating a huge Army much greater than ours much more powerful much more weapons much more advanced much more Rich much no we're celebrating the religiosity of the K the were as as it gets because even when they had an even when they had a leniency no one's going to see it no one's going to care they're already dead anyway they're not actually trying to stop Judaism now they're dead if they were still alive and you using the oil you're changing the Sho string you stop keep Shabbat you stop bleed mil you stop any of these things fine okay we understand not to do it but now they're dead you can use the oil we keep it we keep it until the end the most religious people on Earth were the ones that won the battle it wasn't some big Heroes that killed people on a daily basis tell me for a handful of people to even think that they should go and they are going to go to battle even with another handful of people forgetting Millions obviously you have to have something there either you're crazy or you have such high level ofun such closeness such some such Gless to hasem that you know it's not you anyway it doesn't matter if there's five of you it doesn't matter if there's five million of you it's AEM anyway he's going to win the battle so the holiday unlike what most people think is not a holiday about just bunch of candles and a secular holiday in fact it's a holiday about people they're willing to sacrifice their life for simple meim not just Al not just the holy Torah as a whole but even a simple why that's that's the most religious people there is on earth now the fact that the Greeks brought Darkness was not over the Greeks are the only ones that their damage still exists till this day unfortunately even though the Greeks themselves are gone there's still many there's still many Jews that act like Greeks and the reason why is because their brother their cousin the Romans continued what they didn't finish but even worse as the verse continues it says Al it's the face of the deep the face of the Abyss hutner says that's the Christians that's the Romans that's the ones that have been running the exile for the last 2,000 years whether it's the pgms the inquisitions the Holocaust the second mikdash that's it why that's ad that's a now for anyone who thinks that maybe it's extreme or friendly with the Christians now look they just told us that uh yam is ours thank you they give a few billion dollars a year to Israel not to but to Modern Israel they do some business bu with us we live in their country we live in America free we're allowed to practice our religion okay so there's an in it says yob that hat yov but maybe it's not relevant anymore maybe it was only relevant you know it's specific times like 70 years ago when they murdered six million of us for no reason whatsoever maybe it's only relevant during a Spanish Inquisition when they murdered millions of us for no reason and kicked us out of our own houses and took all of our money and so maybe only relevant during the BET mikdash 2,000 years ago when they kicked us out and they killed us and they made a whole well River of blood from from the murders they made that was much worse than the Holocaust maybe it's just during those specific times maybe that's the only times that asav hates yov maybe it's not all the time they seem pretty nice now I mean you see some Christians uh and Romans running the streets saying we want to kill yob every day not really sometimes here and there but not really you're free but as anyone that learned to would know that doesn't change ifem told mosu in M SI hates yov then hates yov even when it looks like he likes him eventually when push comes to shove eventually will hate yob he may not at him right now he may even be good friends with them but there's countless stories of what happened during the times of trouble of how isav had to go back to being as whether it was the people that told their own stories in the during the Holocaust there was one very famous story of a very wealthy formerly wealthy Jewish person that was on the line in the Holocaust crying hysterical now everyone everyone obviously was sad everyone was miserable everyone was ready to die what are they going to do but this guy was smashing his head against the wall nonstop until one of the other people told him stop already okay yeah I mean we're going to die probably anyway you don't have to kill yourself enough and he kept going he kept going he kept crying kept crying goes why why what's wrong with you what happened what I mean we're all on the same boat there hundreds of thousands of us just here what's wrong what he goes you don't understand all of this I did to myself there's no way I wall here no no no no all of this I did to myself by not listening to my ABA and IMA he goes what do you mean you didn't listen to your ABA and IMA because my ABA and IMA when I introduced him to my wife and I told him look she's such a nice girl so she comes to a nice Catholic house she's very religious she's getting me closer to Hashem okay so she believes as a middleman big deal maybe I'll convince her to convert maybe I'll convince her to to do this maybe this maybe that she's a nice girl look at her she likes me T that my parents told me no you can't do it unless she wants to convert ahead of time you can't do it you can't take the risk I didn't listen to Aba and IMA okay so you got into married it's a sin the guy says okay it's a sin it's not good but a do chuva go what chuva she's right there pushing the line she's the one that told the Nazis about me you see the woman over there yelling and screaming and looking at me right now that's her asov push King to shove now people don't like it people don't like people don't like to think like this why I tell people the things we said yesterday no come on someone said at some point that at the end of times as is going to love you yov it's going to be one of the blessings so we don't have to move from America we don't have to worry about them taking over we don't have to worry about the war it's all not relevant anymore it's all not relevant it's okay it's fine it's everything's okay look my I voted for Trump look there he's lowering this and he's doing this and the stock market's alltime highs and the house extension that I bought is almost complete don't ruin it for me don't ruin it for me Everyone likes their life so much in America and in England and France and all these different places all over the world no one wants the mhia to come they want they're they're this close from being where they want to be this close Bitcoin is almost a zillion dollars so they're almost this close don't ruin it for me with your asav stuff but the reality is that anyone that doubts r hutner that the face of the Abyss is aav then because of your marriage I had a k today that puts no doubt now first and foremost we know that without form and emptiness as we said is Babylon and the Persians they wanted to kill our bodies darkness is the Greeks because they wanted to kill the Torah and AD is the face of the Abyss because they want to do both they want to kill both both the Torah and the bodies now maybe it's someone else maybe the face of the Abyss is the Arabs it's very easy to hate Arabs for Jews it's a natural thing very easy to hate ishma look they're killing us almost every single day they publicly detest us they publicly burn our flag they publicly want to kill us why why isn't the face of the Abyss ish because the the uh face of the deep is spelled with a hey but if you spell it with a letter Al it makes the same sound only difference is that means the face of the Abyss now turns into face of the twin asav was the twin of yov the twin of yov now when the reality check sets in and you realize okay what do we do first and foremost we have to realize what got us into this place in the first place the Greek impact has continued with the Romans the level of religiosity in is unfortunately at terrible levels even though there's many people that are doing CH it's still not enough I was thinking about it the other day the got into my mind and M I started becoming depressed for a moment I said you know what whatever we're getting for each class some classes are 5 10 people some classes are 50 people whatever it is I said to myself you know what we're only doing a few classes a week but let's say we did seven days a week oh let's say I have a life so let's say five days a week and each class each sh is 500 people like some of the shers I have in New York is 500 people so let's say every class is 500 people every class every sh is 500 people and every sure everyone does chuba everyone have to be a prophet let's say 500 people five times a week is 2 200 2 200 people a week do Chua how many is that a month 10,000 how many months a year 12 that's 120,000 people a year it's still sad why you have at least 20 million Jews in the world meaning that even if you're doing something that's really impossible for a human being to do and you're actually making 10,000 people a month do chuv you're still not even scratching the surface I start thinking to myself what what are we doing how is it how we going to do this point is we're not going to do it point it's only him it's always been him so when the when this foolishness got out of my mind I said okay it's up to you we're just G to do whatever we can five people or 500 people or 5,000 people it's all you anyway but the reality is is that each one of us needs to make sure that we don't repeat the same mistakes same mistakes that got us into this place in the first one the Greeks and the Romans the the darkness and the face of the of the Abyss is the same thing just one got a little worse than the other the impact is the same page 16a also in page 15 it talks about a very famous M very famous debate why is it such a famous debate it's the first debate that ever happened it's the first debate between the sages one said right the other one said left what was the debate the debate was whether you are allowed to do something called SM on aan on y what's what's what's SM when they brought theban you had to press the head on top of the head of the Corban of the sacrifice of the cow or the bull you have to press on top of their head while you're asking hasem for either forgiveness or you're praising him whatever it is that you're doing the part of the Corban you have to press on top of the head of the now why would this not be allowed it's not allowed on Shabbat why is it why would it not be allowed because in Ence considered as if you are first of all an animal you're not to touch an animal on on Shabbat it's considered M but aside from that it's considered as if it's carrying you as if it's carrying you you're not have to ride a horse or something like that on Shabbat and there's a few different debates about it allowed not allowed now the debate started between Yosi which was the N the head of the head of the and is and the debate continued for 200 years between the sages all the way until it got to Shai 200 years later shamai said you're not allowed to do it on yum he says you're allowed to do it on yomtov eventually after 200 years they agreed he goes we're allowed to do it on y point is it continued this debate for 200 years people think that am made laws just out of quick thinking yeah yeah it's allowed not allowed yeah it's good no good do it today don't do it tomorrow they think that it's likeif like it's like ah happen St we'll do whatever we want we're just guessing 200 years they debated whether you're allowed to push the head of a cow during what a sacrifice it's not like you're just riding a cow to see if it's fun you're bringing a sacrifice to and they're debating if it's allowed or not allowed but it's not like allowed not allowed if it's allowed it's if it's not allowed it's death penalty it's life and death it's not like ah we you're too strict for us no this says life and death is on a line of course we're going to battle for 200 years doing anything less will make us irresponsible for 200 years they're debating it imagine that each one of these laws you keep today whether it's your whether it's kosher everything you're keeping it's not just I it just happened everything is debated and the debate is what brings out the truth now here you have have the first debate why do we mention the first debate because the first debate the first M it was the first sign of the collateral damage we got from the Greek mentality because Yosi and Yosi benan both lived at the time of the Greeks both lived at the time of all of this of kanuka and unfortunately the mentality the materialism the priscu the T the impurity of the Greeks and their impact on some of the Jews affected even the religious if you remember last night we said a story from salant he came into his very upset at a student and he says we're not stop studying hard enough why I mean we're here we're here from morning toight we don't have this we don't have we're studying we're not studying out enough and he's very upset because why did you see maybe one of the was I you saw him on Shabbat on on a bicycle maybe Shalom is dating a non-jew like what what makes you think we're not studying hard enough what he says I just heard a terrible story that there's a Jew in France that was caught violating Shabbat because For the Love we're not in France it's a different country it's far away he goes exactly if you are studying hard enough Torah here a Jew and France would not be violating shabat we're all responsible for each other the today is helping somebody else not just you guys here it's helping somebody else not make a sin he's about to eat a McDonald's burger he says you know what it's not worth it he's about to go out with someone that's not Jewish says Ah it's not worth it why hasem gave it to put him in his mind why because it's Tor there's Tora in the world that's affecting a different place how did you get to the sh today someone somewhere else learned Tor to give your your good inclination enough strength to beat the that told you don't come to sh it's too late it's 3 hours the guy doesn't stop talking he's too hard he's too strict he's someone had to give you the somebody had to fight for you today when there's when there's baseless hatred obviously this has less of an impact when there's more sins as a result of the Greek mentality materialism priscu this effect doesn't have as much of an impact and if you notice the decrees that the Greeks had each and every single one of them had to do with bit Shabbat the bre between us and hasem the the the whole issue of mik they want us to go to mik why we're not allowed to be with our wives and if somehow made a miracle it says the stages say a mid says that made a miracle he opened the mik inside the houses of the people but then they told me you not to celebrate roses so now the people it's not like they have calendars like today no one knows when roses is no one knows where the months are no one knows where the times are if you're not keeping it if you're not extra and doing the calendar yourself which is much more difficult in those days than today there's no calculators there's no things like we have today it's not like you just turn on your phone and you can see what the date is if you don't know when roses is that means you don't know how many days when you went in pure when when you were pure when the day starts when the day ends you don't know when you're allowed to be with your husband you don't know when you're allowed to be with your wife you don't know if it's allowed why what's the difference difference is if you're at one hour early we're not talking about you're three days early a week early or while she's still menstrating we're not talking about that you're one hour early one hour one hour early it's K it's death penalty in sh it's not a joke so they said let's ruin this let's make sure they don't have it that's the breit they triy to make am the most promiscuous Nation there is why because they knew the promiscuity zma is disgusting in the eyes of Hashem that's what ruins our relationship with hasm unfortunately Ami say something s doesn't get it the Shalom he says that pray they pray often to they pray they pray they pray but sometimes they see that prayers are not working someone is sick they pray nothing happens husbands not got fired from the job they pray nothing happens someone's sick they pray nothing happens this they pray nothing happens we pray we pray we pray and not only nothing happens sometimes it gets worse Shalom says it's because they're praying in front of hem naked what naked they're immodest a woman that's immodest my as well be naked he says she's wearing a wig and in his day a wig looked like a uh uh straw how are you coming toes how you coming to naked cloth are too tight Naked Too Short he's naked how are you going to pray you expect him to listen to your prayers you expect him to listen to your prayers when you're naked in front of him why is they naked because they don't want to listen to the they don't want to listen to ra when he says Shalom he says all of these wigs they're real hair they're not reliable they come from not reliable stop it they want to listen to him it's not enough that he was g no no we're going to find somebody that's not and listen to him instead they don't want to listen to the Giants of all the generation that says that your clothes have to be loose they don't want to listen to the Giants of the generation that say you have to cover your body they don't want to listen to all the Giants of all the generation that told you you have to be modest that's your number one mitvah as a woman they don't want to listen they don't want to listen and there's a PUK for them there's a verse in the Torah for them what does it say it mentions in 289 in Proverbs 289 one who turns his hearing away from a Torah meaning away from the sages away from the rabbis doesn't listen to the rabbis even his prayer is considered disgusting in the eyes of Hashem you're praying to Hashem and he's not answering you know why you're praying naked but is you are you are beloved by hem you can't have candles of Shabbat with a tank top I'm sorry it's not cavod for hem you can't think oh just because you put a little shata on your head and you're wearing a mini skirt it's okay you're in front of AEM you're front of the king of kings this is how you show up one guy went to was invited to one of his uh Kila members house for a party and there's a lot of people there and a rabbi just wanted to say hello pay Cav you know it's one of the K members and uh he sees that the guy that's hosting the party is talking about how he's going to go to Vacation him and his wife are going to go on vacation to one of these beach resorts with a beach people are practically naked there baithing suit might as well be no clothes anyway especially in our generation and his story is maybe from about 20 years ago and he says oh we're going to go to this place and then we're going to go on a boat and then we're go on a beach and then we're going to do this he's telling everybody what the plan is you know travel agent set up everything he's excited about this he's a religious guy he's not a guy doesn't he goes to beess that's why the rabbi is invited he's religious but he's going to go to a mixed Beach and he thinks it's okay because he's with his wife so what that everyone else is also with their wives in the same Beach so what he doesn't think there's anything wrong with it so the Rabbi says um can you please tell your wife to show me the the the baiting suit can she put it on so I can see what she looks like in a baiting suit now and the guy says to excuse me goes no can you ask him wife you know she I know she's talking to a few people can you tell her to go upstairs to put the bathing suit on come down want to see what she looks like in the bathing suit the guy gets really angry go kind of nerve do you have you asking me to tell my wife to come down here and show you herself in a bathing suit can of Rabbi you the rabbi who actually was one of the few remaining people that actually had tells them your ears should listen to your foolish mouth I ask you to tell your wife to come show me your in a bathing suit in front of the 300 people so you have here in your big house and you obviously realize there's something wrong with that question why would you want your wife to appear in front of 300 people practically naked but yet you have no problem with going on vacation and showing your wife around to 30,000 people that there's nothing wrong with even the prayer is disgusting why you're showing up to Hashem naked what do you expect you're showing up to Hashem with dirty hands you have blood on your hands because you're stealing in your business what do you expect the rabbi told you no you found a rabbi that said yes people sometimes come to the rabbi not because they want to answer they want an excuse they want to a leniency guy comes to Rabbi and he says Rabbi I'm doing this this and this I need a blessing a blessing you already decided what blessing do you need someone came to the stier G and told him I need a blessing because I'm opening a in America opening a I'm opening a CO in the United States and I want the rabbi's blessing I'm going tomorrow the sty go says don't go wasn't asking for permission I'm opening it I'm going tomorrow stier says don't go why it's different story he had his reason he had we don't ask such questions you have to have tells you no it's no he wasn't looking for yes or no he was looking for an a tail to not listen he went anyway under the we he arrived in the United States on the way to his location from the airport got into an accident died I'm going to dovah it's novah if told you no it's no mitvah they tell you no it's no why it's not it doesn't make a difference people have a lot of questions but it's not really questions more than a few times I had people come to me that I thought were students I thought they were students and come tell me listen I'm doing this this and this I said you shouldn't do it no no I just want a blessing well you need my blessing you already decided I don't think you should do it though it's very hard for me to hold my opinion sometimes you get a gift of talking you can't stop yourself from talking I see somebody doing something wrong I tell them I don't think you should do it no no no I'm I'm going I just want you know I want you to give me a blessing I said I wish you a lot of success in life but this is a mistake what you're doing and unfortunately after time it's a mistake but they don't want so what happens they disconnect they disconnect because they don't like that I tell them that it's a mistake because I'm disagreeing with them they love the truth that got them to do Chua they love the truth that got them to do chuva they love the truth that got them to be have a little bit of maybe they love the truth that gave until the truth affected them and they didn't like the truth anymore they want a different truth they want somebody else's truth they want a truth that they agree with think that the truth is something that's you know changes it's something that changes he has one truth he has this truth he has this truth 70 fa to the truth my there's no 70 faces it's one truth is yes there's no there but that's also one of the things that we learned from that even that had the we still learn about the M we still learn about the debate why because that's also despite the fact that it's the wrong opinion we still need to learn why it's the wrong opinion it's still considered Torah and we're obligated to learn it now if a person takes things into account and understands how much damage we cause ourselves we realize that all of this is simply because of some of the things we talked about last night we have jealousy we have uncontrollable desires and if that's not enough we search for cavod we search for Honor we constantly look for people to respect us and say that this mishna specifically goes in that order jealousy lust and then Cav is because you can do chuva for jealousy you're jealousy in your life you were jealous of certain people that had things that you didn't have you could do chuva for that lost you made some mistakes in your life you went with a woman or a man you're not allowed to be with you had certain desires that got out of control you could do tra for that even the worst of sins even the worst of sins like wasting seed you can do Chua for it the Z says no you can't do Chua for it what does it mean can't do chuva everything is subject to Chua what does it mean it means that with wasting seed there's no help from sh it's hard to do Chua for it you can do it but you're on your own everything else hasm will help you with wasting seed is so disgusting in the eyes of hem he won't help you with it why it's hard you're killing you're murdering so if you're going to do Chu for for for wasting seed you have to be serious it's not something you can do on a side it's not like you wait for the guy fromat to come to your office and help you doine every day get out of the jail free card it's easy to doin five minutes no wasting seed is a lifestyle it's either you do it or you don't so he says the lust the jealousy you could do chuva for it what's holding you back from doing chuva you're kav no no I'm too good for chuva I like my lifestyle who come on look how people are going to look at me like all of a sudden I'm Mr Mr religious you know first time you put a keep on like hey what happened somebody died why you have a keep on why somebody died and you you no nobody died oh what you Rabbi where all of a overnight you became a rabbi that's you how easy you think you become a rabbi what you Rabbi now you tell the guy listen you should keep Shabbat what are you Rabbi now yet sah has many soldiers he tell the guy no I don't think you should eat that's not koser what are you Rabbi what do youu quick but if you tell the guy listen I don't think you should eat it it's fattening oh you know what maybe you're right oh you don't I don't think you should eat it I don't think it tastes really good oh you know what I think you know what you're talking about about food I see your stomach you know what you're talking about you tell a guy don't do it for any other reason now I don't think you should date her oh why not I don't know I saw with this other guy I think he was a gangster I don't think she comes from a good crowd you know what I think you're right you know what you're talking about you you you dated the whole block you tell a guy to not do it for any other reason ah you know what I think you know what you're talking about you tell him listen I don't think you should dat that she's not Jewish hey what you Rabbi I don't think you should go with him he's a terrorist what you Rabbi what what do you what you Rabbi what you raban I don't think you should eat that it's not kosher what you have a kosher restaurant you're gonna you make money out of it how do you know the rabbis are not lying everyone is all you know they call they all Geniuses when it comes to Judaism everyone knows everything but still they don't know why we celebrate kanuka though kanuka they don't know why we celebrate but what are you Rabbi why for the jealousy and for the lust the desires we could do chuva but what keeps us away from chuba is the fact that we're constantly looking for K we constantly care about what people think of us if we wear a keeper ah they're going to look at me different I'm not one of the cool kids I'm not one of the you know Sleek shishi you know one of the people that's calls the shots I don't look like a boss so I'll put uh you know whatever I'm doing religion I'll put a hat on fine I don't want to put a keep on Shalom I look like a Jew what about you want to grow a beard maybe no no no then people going to look at me no no no it's you know but why people wear beards now it's style oh if it's style then I'll do it for style I'll do it but for religion no it's not by the way it's not a Mitzvah to wear a beard it's just and it's free anyway you could shave it anytime you want even the goat has one but you tell somebody listen once you wear gives you mitvah every second you're alive every second you're alive cried on his deathbed why he says I'm leaving a world where you can make a mitzvah for every second for just wearing he say if I if I go up TOA and I say you know what I'm going to give away my entire just to do one one not forever just one day one second of wearing can I do it can I replace my entire for this one MIT he says can't do nothing in so I'm leaving a world that I could get a for every second into a world that I can't do it but yet you tell people why you wear I wear it before I go to sleep but that's not the Mitzvah the advice to wear it during the day yeah but I'm not wearing Four Corners I'm wearing around oh so the V didn't know what he's talking about so all the didn't know what they're talking about so M didn't know what he was talking about all of them wearing we have talks about but no we don't have to it's not a big deal it's part of your daily prayer you have to pray every single day to where why the is a constant reminder is watching you is listening to you and is writing down everything you're doing why because before you make the worst possible sin you're going to see your tiit why your Pence are going to be down before you make the biggest sin you can make and go with the woman you're not allowed to go with wait Steed like you're not you're not supposed to your pant are going to be down you have to see that's why you wear reminds me of when you're going to sleep who needs it going to sleep it's already too late why because when you go to sleep your dream is not about what you wearing when you're going to sleep your dream when you're sleeping is about what you saw during the day that's whatat says says watch your rise in the morning because it's going to lead you to bad thoughts at night that's why you wear but no no it's uh you know I don't want people to I don't want to rule my style I don't want to rule my style you know I got to look oh what you don't want to look Jewish you're you're embarrassed of looking Jewish you know the more you think about the more I personally think about it the more sad I get it and the reason why they thought about this and then you know actually heard ofan badi serious Israeli Rabbi he had a clip he said something similar it made me sadder of the state of events that we're in we've become so Greek we don't even realize where we're at if you look at the situation we're in you have homosexuals are pridefully taking parades they're pridefully walking around naked half naked they Parise they're celebrating their war against theem they're celebrating their war against the Torah they're proud that they're going to war against theem they're proud they against the toah whether it's in Washington or it's in New York or it's in AV or it's they're proudly marching and their clothes or no clothes proud the nais still to this day exist and they're proudly walking with their swastikas and proudly walking around saying hey we want to kill anyone that's not like us anyone that's black will kill them anyone that's a Jew will kill them anyone that's this anyone that's that going to kill it and they're proud about it and the Arabs it doesn't matter where they are it could be in Broadway in New York when there's millions and millions of people or it could be in Atlanta or it could be in anywhere in the world when it's time for them to pray one of their foolish prayers five times a day they'll put their little rug and in the middle of the street they'll stop traffic and all of them will pray together to to the to God and they're proud of it because their prayer they're praying for the government to be destroyed for the people to to be killed for all the bad things in the world but they're proud of it they're proud of it you ever find a a Arab that's not proud they'll kill him they'll hang him if he's not proud you find an Aryan a Nazi not proud of being a Nazi they'll kill him you find a a gay person not proud it's it's the opposite of the definition in order to be gay you have to be prideful but yet you the son of Hashem are embarrassed the gays the Nazis the terrorists they're all proud but you the Jew the chosen one are ashamed are embarrassed to tell the world I'm a Jew and how am I a Jew I look like a Jew I have I have a keeper I am modest I speak appropriately I pray to Hashem three times a day I learn tah because it's the most important part of my life I am a Jew and I'm proud of it but the par sh is another reminder it's another reminder of what it means to be a Jew in we meet y we meet Yehuda and we find out an extraordinary story about Yehuda and Tam and why Hashem decided to choose y to be the representative of all of is and why he called All of is Yim after the name Yehuda Judah yudah understood that his name wasn't M his name wasn't just a happen stance in essence his family his mother specifically had a prophecy each name to this day when parents Nam their kids if they're normal and they're paying attention to the uh messages from sham even naming the children is a is a 160th of a prophecy according to the sages in this case it was a 100% prophecy because his mom was a prophet now y when he was born his mother said I thank Hashem and because I thank hem I'll call my son y because to is means to be thankful to be grateful now if you look in the that you pray every day you have a section to thank AEM in this section we read especially when there's the uh the and the um you read it twice actually because one is the one is but the point is is that there now this section most people just read it Breeze through it with very little acknowledgement of what we're actually saying and R says so first we say we're grateful to youm that you're are God and the god of our forefathers forever and ever and so on and so forth you're are strength you're a rock but then the very next sentence says again we thank you and declare your praise for our lives and so on and so forth Hut says most people think that the word mod means to think to be grateful but sometimes in Hebrew thees a single world word has two meanings within the root of the world word one is connected to the other so mod or even no they all come from the same root means both to be grateful but also to acknowledge how are the two connected when someone is grateful someone says thank you they're also acknowledging that they couldn't have done it without you that's the point of being grateful saying thank you is not really if it's a if it's a meaningful thank you you're you're being grateful because without this person without this help without the donation without the lift without the ride without whatever it is you wouldn't have been able to do it and this is when someone is simply saying thank you to a person even more so when you're saying it to your creator the King of Kings so it says it would obviously be silly my language it would be silly to say thank you twice one verse after the other just say once then so Shalom says no in the first modim in the first sentence was saying hem we acknowledge that you are God you are our God you are the god of our ancestors you are strength you are rock your protection and then we say and we thank you for it we thank you that you are our God we thank you that you chose us not only do we acknowledge but we thank thank you so the of what a Jew is y got to today of being yudi yudi is a Jew when someone is a Jew he needs to understand what it means to be a Jew and the is when you are saying I am a Jew I a Yi I'm y I'm a Jew I'm connected to hem what are you saying you're saying I am acknowledging my obligation to you I'm acknowledging that I have to fulfill all of the mitv I'm acknowledging that you gave T you gave my forefather the Tor in Mount sa in front of millions and millions of people what you never did before or Ever After I'm acknowled in the responsibility that I have before I leave the house to think is the way I look like a Greek a Roman or a Jew I'm acknowledging that even the way I look has consequences I'm acknowledging that even the way I speak has consequences I'm acknowledging that your Torah is AIT I'm accepting this responsibility because I know it's true by calling myself a Jew I'm mod I'm mod meaning I admit I acknowledge that you're are God but also I thank you I thank you that you are God I thank you that you chose me why because I need you I need your strength to fulfill your will I need your strength without you I can't do it yet is too strong yet is too strong he gives me problems he gives me headaches he gives me flat tires he gives me people that bother me every day he gives me fights he gives me arguments he gives me St in my head he gives me different people on my path that I'm not allowed to look at or even talk to he gives me money issues he gives mea issues he gives me a saf doubts I need your strength I need your strength so I thank you that you give it to me but I know you're not going to give it to me until I admit that I have a responsibility so first you have to say I admit you're the only God that's what a Jew is my friends a Jew is not someone that was born luckily to some mother why because if it was only because your mother's a Jew then conversion would not exist if you had to been born to a Jewish mother and that's the only that makes you Jewish then conversion would not exist but yet the Torah mentions it 36 times the importance of loving the convert to such an extent that the rambam Shalom says You must love a convert more than you love a natural born Jew theph says if you have a convert it's a righteous convert in Judaism it's better off to marry his or her kids than marrying the kids of a natural born Jewish kids that doesn't have these midot better to marry them why because they're righteous they chose AEM he didn't choose them they chose him and for that he pays them double the Torah says that when a convert cries Hashem answers and anyone that caused them to cry will have to pay he says I will take revenge against them not my Mal not my angels I will take revenge me personally I take revenge against them he says for everything else he has servants he's the king of kings because no for that I take revenge why I'm their mother and their father so if you had to have a Jewish mother then conversion wouldn't exist which makes us realize that what makes you a Jew is whether you're if you acknowledge and accept the Torah and admit you need AEM admit you need AEM to follow it but knew that you're going to need some help he knew that it's not enough it's not enough for you to do it by yourself you need some guidance you need some help at tough times you need some help because it's not so easy to fight so he says I'm gonna send you some I'm gonna send you some that are going to save you from who from yourself from turning yourself into a Greek in a book book of Deuteronomy instills the power in the and he says the following you shall come to theim the Levites and to the judge meaning to theim all the rabbis all theim the ones that are working and toiling and touring decide wigs are allowed not allowed the uh mody is this modesty is that Shabbat is this Shabbat is that Greek is this Jew is this K not Kosher someone he said you follow don't have to have a million and a half proof says yes or no don't be one of these people like ah I'm not sure there's enough proofs why if you want enough proof they're going to bring you upstairs they're going to say okay now you have a proof he says go to theim no be in those days you shall inquire and they will tell you the word of judgment they're going to decide the law why I gave them a living Torah I didn't give them black and white I gave them the Torah that in some cases both answers are right and they're both Torah in some cases white and black are right why that's the's job to toil and toil and toil to uncover the truth if it was black and white no one would study it it'd be boring you just memorize it like you do for high school and have no emotion no connection no nothing the battle for the truth that's what get you to toil he says and you go to the and they're going to tell you this is the truth you shall do according to the word that they will tell you not the word that you think it is not what you understand who are you why because you went to Yesa for a few years why because you read the same book and you think you understand you understand the ram you understand Rashi who are you just a thinks that his intellect is higher than everyone else's it's not about intellect it's about toiling it's about Torah is not for you to be your own Rabbi and he continues and he says from that place that Hashem will choose meaning Hashem is giving them the answers he's giving them the someone came to rki and he told him I want to know if I should buy this house once I retire I'm supposed to get a uh the retirement packet is going to be x amount of money he goes when are you supposed to get it goes in 9 months from now he goes come to me in 9 months he goes no but if I buy now maybe it's cheaper he goes come to me in 9 months from now when you have the money nine months later he comes to the rabbi and he says yeah you should buy it he goes why don't you tell me nine months ago go because nine months ago I didn't have the because nine months ago it wasn't realistic you didn't have the money yet I only get the advice I only get the knowledge from hasem at the moment of need not at the moment of Desire so Hashem will choose and you shall be careful to do according to everything that they will teach you is chapter 17 verse 9 and 10 according to the teaching that they will teach you again it says it and according to the Judgment that they will say to you shall you do you shall not deviate from the word that they will tell you right or left this is one of the places where instills the power in the sages for all of these people that like to be their own rabbis or they have a rabbi that's so far away he doesn't even know they exist like no no my Rabbi is R yashiv yeah you you you I mean that's who you go to because he died so who do you go to now you how do you go to him what do you do who's your Rabbi now living one oh no I don't I I don't hold by anybody else I hold by his books how do you know you translating the book the right way why I've been learning it for 10 years so what learn it for a thousand years what difference who says you're right who says you understand it one of the famous is about what was said in the book of shalom in one of the books he says that a woman is allowed to wear a a a wig but he aaric this is unheard of so many people saying look there's a Safar P that says you're allowed to wear a wig how could it be see it's allowed said no you go to the two students ra mutapi andon M two of his main students of MSI was his longest standing student and actually wrote the answer in the book for him he says when he wrote it you fools if you understand what he you understand the whole context of what he wrote he didn't write you're allowed to wear a wig he says if the wife is wearing a wig inside the house inside the house you're allowed to see but it's inside the house Shalom she wears it outside you're allow to say if she wears the wig inside the house next to her why because if a woman doesn't cover her hair you have to pray next to her if your wife is next to you and she's not covered you're not have to pray next to her why it's considered nakedness but he says I have a leniency if she's wearing a wig inside the house you're allowed to say next you're allowed to pray because she's covering her hair but it's inside the house shalom it's outside never said allow so what happens people translate things the way they understand it that's you have to go to you have to go to the author itself what do he actually mean what do he say who says you're right go to the one that wrote the answer I went to the one that wrote The Answer Shalom he gave a t you understand the answer when people translate things the way they want they put themselves in severe risk one of the saddest stories in the entire tah is the story of kak korak unlike what most people think was actually one of the kak was actually one of the righteous people of his generation he was not only wealthy materially he was also a very very smart person in Torah and he came to mosenu and he said to Moshe Moshe who says you're right look you said the Torah says that you know that the has to have a has to have a string of blue look at my the whole thing is blue so if I have a whole that's blue do I still need a still have a string the whole thing is blue do I still need one Moshe says yes he says see doesn't make sense he brought 200 50 biggest rabbis in the world this says K you're right it doesn't make sense the whole thing is blue he says Moshe tell the truth I have a house I got a lot of money I got a bunch of all these rabbis wrote me all of them each Tor 30 4,805 letters the whole Torah I filled up the entire house with just the whole thing from floor to ceiling three floors full of do I still have to have a mza $100 mza I have to put a mza mza only has a couple of paragraphs I still have to have a couple of I have the whole Tora and have thousands of it have a whole house full of Tora I still have to have Moshe says yes he says see Moshe you're making your your own opinion it's your opinion rabis you see doesn't make sense they say you're right K you're right doesn't make sense maybe you're translating it the way you want M the says the sun the sun for the first time ever the son the son the Angel that's responsible for the sun went to hasem and said Hashem if you do not choose Moshe I'm not lighting tomorrow if you do not choose Moshe I'm not lighting tomorrow but the son is like us you can tellem heym I don't want to do tomorrow I want to sleep late what kind of will destroy it in a second what do you what does it really mean so the Mal gives an amazing per I heard from Something Beautiful he says in reality What's Happening Here kak Is Telling Moshe Moshe why do I need you why do I need you to tell me what to do let AEM I'm also a prophet if Hashem wants to tell me something let Hashem talk to me if Hashem wants to tell everyone here something let everyone talk to Hashem directly what do I need you because all of us are all of us are chosen all of us are chosen if we're all blue what do we need what one little string where do we need one leader to stand out we don't need a rabbi we don't need a leader we're all the same says no hasem instilled power in the sages you have to follow you have to have not your own D not your own opinion have to have the opinion of the Torah because who says you're right he says but look if I the whole thing is says but it's two different it's two different having a is one the is a different mitvah people spend a half a million a million dollars in houses but when I tell them a good a good mza is going to cost them 150 bucks like oh you have something cheaper you spent a half a million dollars in a house don't you want a to protect it you spent a half a million dollars in a house tell a guy you have to spend a few hundred bucks few thousand whatever it is depends how many doors you have if you have more doors that means the house is more expensive that means you could afford it anyway if you can't afford it why'd you buy it but no no it's too expensive you have something for 30 bucks like the reform you have a $30 mza like the reforms have they print it from a from computer paper spend half a million in the house a million in the house but they want $30 mza $50 mza kak says what do I need you Moshe what do I need you Hashem can talk to each one of us so the son said to Hashem Hashem if korak is right and there's no need for a leader then you don't need me you can light the world yourself if there's no need for servants if there's no need for anyone you're right Hashem anyway you're right if there's no need what do you need me too you like the word world if there's no need for the sages there's no need for the if everyone's going to talk to hem privately like everyone thinks oh no you do you do everyone's a rabbi everyone's a rabbi everyone's a sadik everyone's gonna listen to their own opinion translate their own opinion listen to No One then hasm just Run the World by yourself what do you need all of usem says no I didn't create the world this way of course hasem does everything of of course hasem is everything but the way of a king is to have servants the way of a king is to have servants I have the son because the son is a servant I have the moon because the Moon is a servant I have the Earth because the Earth is a servant I have my rabbis because the rabbis are my servants when you go against them you're going against it's the same thing as if you're going against himself the problem today is that our cavod our pride is the main thing that makes us continuously go against the real opinion we don't look for rabbis we look for opinions instead of asking what's d t what's the real truth in the Tor what does AEM say here can you translate Rabbi what does it say what proof do you have to what you say is this what you think or you actually have a source and is there backup for the source or just one guy out of 300 pem said it because if if there's 300 peme on this one answer and one guy said no and 299 said yes Al is 299 you're right you can't just pick one that says yes because you like that one so even if your Rabbi mistranslates it and choose the one guy he's wrong why he has no support there's no support for what he's saying but our pride our pride continues to destroy us because instead of looking for answers Fromm we're constantly looking for excuses and the Torah says really awful things about Pride he says first and foremost if you're a rabbi you should understand what's what kind of job you have in today's world there really two types of rabbis there are rabbis that are broke and there are rabbis that are rich the broke ones usually tell the truth the rich ones not always why there a bigger it's a bigger it's a bigger for someone that's getting two three four 500,000 a year or even more in some cases to be a rabbi in some of these K it's a biger to the truth why because the truth he's going to lose half of his donors if not more the guys with the biggest checks are usually the ones that are looking for lenient seats so thear says and also mention inama says in the name of ran he says whoever accepts the position of authority meaning whoever becomes a rabbi for his own benefit because he wants to make some money it's a good job get 100 200 300,000 a year that DWI makes over a million dollars a year for some reason I don't care about the money it's just the guy's lying to people in their faces but they're paying him a million dollars a year to do it he says whoever accepts the job for his own benefit because he wants to make money it says he's no different than a no what's a no an adulterer who derives pleasure from the body of a woman you got a job you got a good job as a rabbi why because you're making good money that's the reason you're not going to tell them the truth because you're G to stop the donations you're a no no there was a woman that married a Babylonian p 66b and uh at the time that Baba B bhha was a and this woman she had a different dialect than her husband a new husband and she didn't understand some of the things she wasn't necessarily the smartest uh smartest uh person on the Block but uh the husband wasn't exactly the most C person on the Block either but whatever that's the matches that hasem made so one day the husband tells her make me to which is which is the feet of cow cow feet and she didn't understand them she thought he meant lentils she made him two lentils two little lentils the guy is starving work the whole day he gets two little lentils two little beans over here he got so upset he says to her make me a lot make me a lot so he figured that at the very least he's going to get a decent amount and make sure with a lot of lentils that you give me with a lot of the uh make sure you give meini two watermelons now she misunderstood again instead of two watermelons it sounds the same as two oil lamps so she made them a lot of lentils but she brought them with two oil lamps he got so upset he says go break them Anda Thea is like go break them on top of a gate but she understood it go break it on the r on the head of Baba bbha she goes to theiva she takes the two oil lamps little innocent breaks ab's head students run they want who's this woman terrorist what are you doing no no no don't touch her don't touch her B B my daughter sadik says why' you do that why' you do that to B she says my husband told me say ah since you did the will of your husband May hasem bless you to have children like B BB like me why he I'm nothing if what you're doing is going to give you schom bite that means you're doing the will of hem you're doing the will of hem you're yehudi you're a Jew you're a Jew it's fine for me even if it hurts my head a little bit that's d That's D if it's the will of hem it doesn't matter if it hurts if it's the will of hem it doesn't matter if you like it it doesn't matter if you agree he says who am I that's an opinion you listen to when the Rabbi says who am I that's the that's somebody when he says who am I he's someone when he says look at me you're no one you want to be someone realize that you're no one realize it's all AEM as long as you think you're really somebody you're nobody and that's not but the Greek mentality will convince you otherwise the Greek mentality will tell you no you need money you need money to succeed in life you need to look a certain way to succeed you need to act a certain way to succeed you need to be arrogant you need to be cocky you need to have this suit and that suit and this hair and that hair and you have to have a certain format andem gave us this amazing holiday of kanuka he told us listen all the Wars all the wars that we had all the battles the Miracles of the battles that's one day out of eight days it's one day out of eight days we celebrate one out of the eight days is for the battles for the material the other seven that's for Judaism that's for The KES of the T that's for the spirituality so when someone says listen you have a big miracle with Greeks there was a we had about a week or two ago it says if you look at the two main things that happened during kanuka you have n which is miracle and you have yavan which is the Greeks if you combine the two n and yavan it spells the word N means test the test is every day the reason why you don't have a is because the the test of not being like the Greeks is required every day and the only way you're going to pass it is if you acknowledge the responsibility you have as a Jew and you thank hem for making you one you thank hem for giving you the to pass the test and that my friends is a miracle that's what makes you a miracle any questions hover right 500 there 500 different reasons of why it's 8 Days versus seven days it's over 500 different opinions of why 500 different from the the one that I said is the is the uh in regards to the bet that's the UMO but you have 500 other opinions that uh in addition to it no one necessarily disagrees with it it's just a uh um other on top of it like what we said some of the things we said were the of and some of it was on top of what he said that we had so it's not my my don't disagree with his it supplements it if the you have disagrees with the before you you're wrong if it supplements it it's fine but again you have to double check somebody else had it sometimes you'll have a usually find somebody else had it also also Gooding uh with the levy Levy tribes in general Levy tribes had uh from I know from the BET mikdash time they had a uh very very unique voice uh to such an extent that they would sing and cause the people that are bringing the Corban to cry uh that would uh lead them to Christ so if somebody came there and they weren't ready to do chuva but time they got there they started doing chat because the song had a spiritual impact on them to remind them of the sin and they would literally do chv on the spot uh one of the reasons that uh the explain it as is that if someone had a Corban without the right thoughts then it would be considered a pul then theban would not be accepted in sham so perhaps this is one of the ways that unless someone had a Stone Heart uh this is one of the ways that they could stop somebody from sinning you know themselves go ahead Rel right the way this speaking almost as if when Cheng confirmed this that people shouldn't um like criticize people what what people do when they see something perhaps what well there is a there is a law and there's teachings about giving people but even giving people K has restrictions so if someone has is known to be a righteous person he's a rabbi or if he's a uh if he's just overall known as a righteous person and you see that person driving on Shabbat one day you're obligated it's not you should it's not a good Mida you're obligated to give them K meaning the benefit of the doubt and use the imagination that put in your mind and instilled in you instill in your nature and create an excuse of why he's driving on Shabbat make up a story in your mind he gave you an imagination only for this reason now you use your imagination maybe to draw pictures use your imagination to build buildings use your imaginations to do all types of things but in reality the biggest reason of why you give you an imagination is to create an excuse of why he's not sinning why oh he's driving maybe he has his wife or some other woman that's pregnant in the back seat and he's taking to the hospital so if he's known as righteous you're obligated to create an excuse for him under the other hand if this is the part that everyone agrees with the part that people don't know or don't agree with or don't like or whatever it is if the person is known as a rash now rash doesn't necessarily mean someone that's evil it doesn't mean it has to be Hitler doesn't mean it has to be a mass murderer that murders for fun rash means someone that goes against theem on a regular basis and everyone knows it it's not someone that is a openly going against the openly violat Shabbat every week openly eats non kosher openly goes out with non-jews openly does business dishonestly openly does things against theem Faria people think that Faria means that if if let's say for example driving on Shabbat the uh the law of driving on Shabbat or or really anything is that if a person violate Shabbat in public Faria then it's a they have to kill him now people say oh yeah but if he doesn't in public but what if public is considered 10 people so what if 10 people don't see him driving on Shabbat but he drove on Shabbat what if he drove and he parked a half a mile or five minutes away or two minutes away from the synagogue and he walked the rest but 10 people 10 Jews did not see him drive is it still considered fesia what if he smoked a cigarette smoked a cigarette but in his house no one no one saw him smoke a cigarette is it still considered public sin the answer is yes why why is it considered a public sin it's considered a public sin if 10 people know that he drives on Shabbat they don't have to see him per se they just have to know if 10 people know he drives on Shabbat he drove on Shabbat if 10 people know he smokes on Shabbat it's consider the public sin when he makes it consider the public so the specifically talks about this and that's one of the things that rabbis don't mention to people when they tell them listen it's far they start making excuses I remember this one Rabbi from Bon that he is also happened to be the guy that was throwing on my CDs was trying to argument no but 10 people didn't see 10 people didn't see and I bring the guy proofs what are you talking about 10 people don't need to see that people don't need to see where do we learn it from we learn it from the also in what does it sayas the P what happened withas it talks about how when Pinas found out that the uh Z and kby were sinning he went to mosenu he says mhe we have to is if you see if you're seeing a a a Jew and a non-jew in the middle of the act in the middle of the intimacy if you're actually in the middle you have to kill them says you're the one that said the AL you're right go execute it now it says that Pinas went inside the tent and killed them while they were in the middle of the act so the asks how could he kill them there weren't public people there weren't people there wasn't the is in Faria meaning if people actually see that they're sinning when they're in a tent there's no one there it was just them two so how could PES killed them and we know he did the right thing because hasm blessed him for it so how could it be you can't make a sin bless you for it and that we learn 10 people don't need to see it 10 people need to know about it the people outside the camp his soldiers his friends the whole K the whole arm much more than 10 people knew that he was he was doing it he was allowed to kill him so in regards to driving on Shabbat or smoking on Shabbat or doing any of the sins on Shabbat you don't need to have 10 people see you or even a half a million people see you or anything like that just people need to know you're doing it if you're doing it it's considered so it's considered a public sin public desecration of hm so that's the part that people don't like but it's a reality that's the actual now in regards to if the person is righteous you must use your imagination to come up with an excuse for them but if the person is considered a rash then you're not allowed to give him meaning even if you see Hitler you see him in the street giving sandwiches to homeless people you actually have you're obligated to create an excuse of why there's something wrong with you it he a r you're obligate to come with excuse no no he's not giving him to feed them he probably has poison in it why he's a rash so just by default giving people is not quite that depends who the person is if you don't know them if you don't know they're rash you have to assume they're sadik and you have to give them if you don't know for sure give them but if you know for sure this guy is a you're not allowed to give so that's the part that is not politically correct why because it creates tension creates tension and people don't like tension the reason why is because they're comfortable in their Greek life they're comfortable in their Greek life because the the lack of tension every time you tell people a different you tell them what the actual Al say you tell them what the actual law is of hem hey you're creating telling people they can't drive on Shabbat telling people they can't wear wigs anymore cuz you're creating difference of opinion I'm like no you're creating it by doing the sin oh it's every time everyone's you're talking what it's the truth that's what it says look says now to do these things what's no you're not talk about the messianics no there's no against is only against people that are righteous not against people that are not against for that but people always scream no they a few terms they know the few terms they know they throw it at you because why because they have to turn the tides they have to make you look bad why because you're reminding them they're a Greek you're reminding them they're someone that's asav now the Greek people today by the way you should know are not connected whatsoever to the Greek Empire of 2,000 years ago they call themselves Greeks but they're not connected whatsoever same thing like thean are not connected to the Roman Empire of 2,000 years ago so there are many decent people within them and there are many people that are not like anything else same thing with Amal even though the Nazi Germany was Amal today not all Germans are Amal there's actually a few that I know that are extremely righteous people so the point being is that you have to know who you're dealing with but the biggest thing is you have to know who you are you have to know who you are when you look in the mirror are you a Jew or you make pretend you pretend sometimes you're a Jew and you're in synagogue you're a Jew until it comes to money you're a Jew until it comes to kavod you're a Jew until it comes to one of the sins that you can't get over you're a Jew but at home in hiding you know you want to wear Ki and TI at home but outside no no no no no it's going to ruin your style it's going to ruin that the mo you have what people think of of you you make pretend Jew you're a Jew in a box you buy you in a toy box and you they play with you when they want and they don't play with you when they don't want that's the thing that people need to understand it's it's really bu it's an embarrassment people that are embarrassed to be Jews should be embarrassed of themselves there are many self-hating Jews but that's not even who we're talking about we're talking people that are supposedly religious or doing chuva or something but they're having a hard time putting a keep on they're having a hard time being modest they're having a hard time you know looking like a Jew oh what are my girlfriend's gonna think of me if I start wearing a k oh what are my friends are gonna think of me if my skirts are always long who cares what they think of you what does God think of you it's better to be viewed as a drunk for 70 years the sages say then be viewed as a in the eyes of hem for a moment that's the reality if you're still thinking about what are my friends going to think of me what are my girlfriends going to think of me what are my colleagues going to think of me what are the some of the that call themselves ranim gonna think about me what is the government going to think about me what is this what is that you're asking all the wrong questions the question should only be what the does God think now am I a Roman from ad or am I Yi when God sees me right now he sees you all the time he says Ah that's my my that's as's descendant oh he says no that's but yov that's Ben yov that's a Jew what does he see what are you portraying butov doesn't walk around with tank tops or with no sleeves or with a mini skirt or with no K or with any type of immodesty or cursing or disgusting Behavior but yov doesn't walk around like that my friends aov doesn't walk around all flashy with his chest out telling people what to do that's not aov ainov doesn't disrespect his parents on a regular basis aov doesn't go against the rabbi just because he thinks he's smarter than everyone else that's not a Ben yov first thing you have to realize by being a Yi you're acknowledging that hasem is above and then you're thanking him that's what you're doing in amid every day three times a day that's what every time somebody asks you oh where you're from what are you this that when you say I'm a Jew say with pride a little bit anything else yeah you know the Greeks they had a war against the ideology of the Torah in the sense right so today is the same thing so where do you draw a line anti-semites or atheists that are willing to attack you but you isolation is not an option oh isolation is not an option so what they're attacking you physically no how what's the attack is attack is is what they're they're Mak calling you calling you names and things like that they're physically attacking you they're uh if we get into details it'll be no give me give me give no give me give me give me give me examples it could be a uh well first of all no one knows who you are because they don't see you they see me only uh second of all you don't have to mention names you can just give me an example so if there I'll give you how about this I'll just give you the possibilities if someone comes to attack you physically is you have to kill them first before they kill you meaning if someone comes to kill you you're obligated to kill them first meaning there's no mercy here we're not the Christians that say if he comes to slap you give him the other cheek too that's stupidity and Judaism says someone comes to kill you you kill them first why your life is precious to hasem there's no Mitzvah of being a fool somebody comes to hurt you you hurt them first that's one second thing is in regards to somebody embarrassing you somebody publicly embarrassing you it depends it depends what's the uh what's the circumstances in reality if you could avoid it if you could avoid the altercation then avoid it if you could be quiet then be quiet if you could move away then move away it's better to avoid conflict in general especially since we are in the Exile especially since we're under the rule of adom especially since the ruling is not going to be the rule of the Tora it's going to be the ruling of the goish court so if you could avoid it avoid it if you can't avoid it's a different story now if there's an un you know unavoidable circumstance you work with somebody and they're constantly insulting you depends on the level what are they insulting you are they insulting you in a way where it's really just like they're hurting your pride a little bit you could just be quiet and let them smash their head against the and kill themselves eventually or is it something that's really hurting you in some way meaning that because of the way that you're not responding the boss looks at you he says oh this guy has no heart I'm gonna fire him if you can lose out of it then there something to do so again it's not it's not a one-size fits-all there's no one siiz fits all it all depends on the level of damage that's being done most of the time most of the time the damage is purely to your pride and if it's to your pride don't worry it's anyway it's going to be fine if it's something more then you have to react give you an example yeah pornography okay being sh in your face look away yeah you can try that many times until you draw a line okay I don't want to have I mean can you file a complaint if this is in in a work environment can you file a complaint yes oh was file a complaint I did and what did they do nothing still do nothing well I mean right right now right now the whole issue of uh inappropriate behavior in regards to sexuality is a big deal you know everything that's happening with the government officials with Hollywood and a few other places a few other people uh it's become a big thing finally the people have woken up and its inocence become almost in style to complain there's a class action lawsuit uh that was filed today against this uh Weinstein guy hundreds of women are complaining against him and a lot of other dirty just come out of against other people other officials pretty much anyone that has dirt on them and someone doesn't like them which usually the case because they want their job or their money or something it's coming out right now it's coming out so I think for big companies especially if you work for a small company it's much more difficult usually because you know they're willing to fire you instantly because they're a small company and complaining to them unless there's some decent people behind the scenes there's not much you know there's not much that that actually has effect pretty much your only option is to leave but if you work for a big company uh whether it be a uh shipping company or an airline or a uh I don't know Diamond company whatever what some big company some you know uh significant company then they'll definitely be very scared if you threaten to to do such a thing of pressing uh you know filing a lawsuit or a public complaint or something like that um because no one wants bad press they could lose millions and millions of dollars off of it and so again if it's a one-time thing and someone threw you know showed you some picture or something like that one time thing you could tell them no thank you go away if they're extremely inappropriate on a regular basis then put your foot down tell them stop or I'm going to complain if they still do it again complain complain publicly and and and and go all the way with it because it's it's a uh first of all it's illegal it's illegal to do such a thing second of all it's inappropriate uh and third of all there's something wrong with them which means that if they're pressing on that button because they know it bothers you and they're not listening to you saying no it means it's going to get worse because what happens with bullies is that they're going to press your button until it stops till it doesn't work if it doesn't work they're going to start try try do something new something worse why because their whole thing is to get a reaction out of you they're not going to stop by doing by you doing nothing they're going to continue so if this is the case that you have you're in a situation where you have no option that you have to complain against them and whatever you know whatever hasem wants is going to let happen but to stay there and be a victim and suffer not an option another question about the Hanukkah blessings and several other like T where it says our ancestors and it says um our forefathers yeah for a cross light what would we use in that sense I mean you still you you still say the uh the same blessing and the reason why is because when someone is a convert they're considered the descendant of abrah ainu and the reason why is because in the nearly hundred years 100 years that a was alive he was with SAR for large majority of it and for most of that time they weren't able to have any kids until he was 100 years old he didn't have a kid okay but he had a kid he had 13 years before they Ismael but for a large part of those years for decades I don't remember of top my had the exact amount of years but for decades he did not have any children and the sages say that uh they ask the question I mean and if he knew that there's no way that she thatu could ever get pregnant was it considered wasting seed so no absolutely notem miraculously took each one of the seeds ofu and he put it in a place waiting for all the converts to come in the future meaning that every single one of the converts that you see it's the seed of ab it's theu created already 4,000 years ago plus so that's why when someone uh converts they say that they're the descendants of because they really M are the descendants of so and that's that's the beautiful beautiful mid part of the oral Tor that uh many people just don't don't follow don't know don't do you know it's simply because it's just a uh teaching for uh you know for Judaism people most people just focus just on Natural Born Jews you know so since a uh this is a issue that's very very close to me I look for anything that's out there and it's beautiful the amount of stuff that's out there I mean if you see the language that the rambam uses in M uh and how he talks about about converts some of the even some letters that he wrote some of the things he wrote I mean it's true I me some of this the sages talk about the rambam talk about converts it's truly amazing the um uh I believe it was theal uh he says when I die bury me next to AB Ben abam who b a b aam was a convert who was a martyr he died for Judaism he converted he told him because you convert we're going to kill you he celebrated the whole way to to his death penalty and saw him I believe his I usually confuse and I think it's on this case says this is the this is the most righteous person in the generation most righteous person this is the giant so this is a person that like they it's to be a convert is not uh one two three but that's why it's very sad when some converts ruin it for everyone you know unfortunately there's a few thear says that converts are like a skin disease to now theim say that that means a few things what does it mean skin disease skin disease in one regards means that when a natural born Jew sees a convert he sees that the convert is much more passionate about Judaism than he is even though he's already obligated he had the privilege of being born to Jewish parents he had the privilege of going to Yesa his whole life he had the privilege of being born in Israel and so on and so forth but the convert that was born in Puerto Rico or born in uh Atlanta or born in wherever he was born is much more excited about doing mitv than you Jew that's natural born what's wrong with you so it reminds the Jew how he's not doing enough so it's like a skin disease it's annoying it's annoying why in Sham in sh the says in sham when someone comes to Sham they're gonna ask him a few questions you say oh why weren't you a sadik oh I didn't have any money did you have a worse financial situation like h h a was uh put his life on the line and hung out on the top of the roof of the uh bet for just to learn T and the snow went on top of him almost killed him you had a worst finan situation like so no I was uh women were chasing me I was very beautiful they're going to bring him yadik it's like you are better looking than your a sadik you better looking the most beautiful man that ever lived you were better looking he was shiny he was so shiny and so beautiful that when he became the visoy of Egypt the women would throw their underwear and jewels at him just to get him to lift his head and look at them and he wouldn't he would continue looking on the floor he only lifted his head once because he saw The Medallion of uh the uh the granddaughter of um of of yov so he knew that's the one I can marry but the point is is that it's that beautiful you more beautiful than yourself obviously not said no no I had a lot of money I had a lot of money they're going to bring him kak he had more money than kak K had boats you can bring you uh you had more money that that countries countries they had not uh a few shekels you have what you have a $10 million you could be an employee for for $10 million what do you have you could be an employee clean the clean the carpets maybe what do you have so all the excuses they say oh no it was hard was hard they're going to bring him a convert bring him a convert was harder than him he had to give away his mom and dad it's harder he had to give away all the holidays the Traditions the friends the family the holidays the everything he ever knew he had to give it up it's harder than him harder than her has to give away a family you had a harder time than her that's why in sham there's no excuses no excuses no excuses so on one end Natural Born Jew says Ah this converts like a skin disease so annoying it reminds me I'm not doing enough but unfortunately unfortunately sometimes the convert is a skin disease because they're bad sometimes the convert converts but he doesn't really want to convert so he fools the judges or she fools the judges they're converting for money they're converting for convenience they're converting because now they want it but not really later on they become secular or they become K either and unfortunately I know a few already that uh converted for not weren't my converts but I know them anyway unfortunately and they're M Wicked people wicked wicked like a special level of wicked like like gross but they think they're little they think they're the most righteous people on Earth angry nasty creatures why skin diseases so it's not all good and it's not all bad when someone converts they really have to really understand what it means there's no turning back you can never be you can never make yourself not Jewish there's no undoing it there's no converting from a Jew to be something else even if someone converts to a different religion it still means nothing and Sh they're still considered a Jew and they'll be judged as a Jew Wicked or righteous whatever it is but they'll be judged as a Jew there's no way out that's why they tell them in a bedine when we bring a person to the bedine and tell them you realize you don't have to do this oh yeah yeah I know I don't have to do it else no no no really you don't have to do this there's no undoing it like next week or next month or next year or next decade you don't like something you can't undo it you can't it's not there not like it's the stupidest thing in the world to convert and not be religious you might as well just kill yourself I mean it's really it's craziest thing in the world why because you're you're putting yourself in a doomed situation things that you were allowed to do now you're not allowed to do and now you're putting yourself in a situation for the things you get punished for it it's foolish so that's why Torah says that the uh came from converts came from converts and we suffering from them until this day that's where there skin disease so yes we have some of the greatest human beings that ever lived what converts uh aka's uh parents uh and a b aam and many many others Ruth um many many others came from converts some of the most important people in Judaism they all came from converts but also did you understand so the fact that the life of a convert is difficult is no surprise some kot don't like them some people don't like them uh life is difficult the friends are no longer the same friends the family is no longer the same family it's not easy it's not easy but that's why hasem says I'm your father and your mother if you're converting for the right reason nothing in the world will bother you even the most annoying people the Klo the everything nothing's going to bother you why you're with hem what do you care anything else get a list I took all of it go ask foror ask battery still alive I think we clear everything for now anything anything everyone's innocent nothing everyone knows the rest of the Tor so we have a uh covered a lot of things I think the most important uh issues to remember is what it means to be a Jew a lot of people like to Define it in different ways your mother's this way your mother's that way you learn this way you learn that way your mustache is this way your beard is that way your hat is this way your hat is that way all that stuff doesn't mean anything what mean something is first and foremost acknowledge that you are a chosen person which means you are obligated to do certain things in accordance to the Torah after you acknowledge it accept it realize it say thank you to hasm why he the only way that you can actually achieve any of it so this will give us a much more significant kanuka a much more significant prayer every day a much more significant learning every day and much more significant understanding of what it means to be a Jew amen amen [Music] [Applause] [Music] no oh [Music]