How Can You Know You've Passed The Divine Test - Jewish HaShkafa (87)

[Music] we are back here we're starting a new week continuing our Jewish ashfa series uh trying to get a better idea of uh the the holy mind of the Kish uh that's going to help us and is has been helping us over these last couple years overcome bad traits really trying to uh you know improve ourselves get ourselves to a better version of ourself a person was born an animal but certainly he's not supposed to leave this world an animal the will continue to help each and every one of us get to that point tonight's year will be for foror uh and also yonatan Ben Gabriel uh and also for the for Mar Julie and all of Israel all the righteous noahides to continue to contribute continue to watch our shim continue to share uh these sh with different people uh so of course we had uh you know a wonderful week last week a lot of uh productive things happening lots of sh lots of lots of learning B and we also had a two Raffles announced two uh different ways for people to win two different ways to 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list goes on everyone of us has uh some flaws some people more than others needless to say we all have to work on them and of course in the world today you have uh many gurus and advisers and psychiatrists and therapists and so-called friends and colleagues that have an endless list of suggestions of what you should do to overcome uh that difficulty whether it's the uh the people that recommend for you to take on yoga another form of idolatry uh or it's a uh you know have positive thoughts if you think good then good things will happen that is a nice thing to to theoretically but it's not necessarily always something that works especially if you're in the middle of a fight with your spouse or you just got fired from your job thinking positive thoughts is not exactly the uh most uh uh the easiest thing to do at that time needless to say the most effective some people will uh recommend for you to exercise a healthy body is a healthy mind although it does have some truth in it L to say at the moment of truth when you are angry when you are upset when someone just uh did something really bad to you uh that's not necessarily going to work uh you know being uh you know being in the gym 24 hours a day is not possible for most people so needless to say it's not going to affect you uh all day uh some people recommend listening to Comedy it's always good to have a good laugh especially if it's not at somebody else's expense but if you're if you're laughing at other people's expense certainly this is not comedy it's just simply making sins and being Partners to sins but nonetheless comedy is a good thing to have a good life is a good thing but it's not going to make you forgive your uh spouse after they betrayed you it's not going to make you forgive your uh your children after they wreck the house it's not going to make you forget your colleague after they cause you to miss a deadline and possibly get fired so these are things that are nice to have as as part of somebody's life but solutions to the most difficult problems uh such as character flaws that are causing marriage problems and all types of relationship problems certainly these are not Solutions but nonetheless people can't stop recommending them one of the common Solutions I remember became very popular at the time I was on Wall Street was people going boxing you know just become very violent Express all of your energy on this bag and you know as much energy as you put on the bag you'll become less angry this is actually the stupidest thing in the world because it actually does the exact opposite in fact the more you express anger the more you express anger physically the more Angry you become but of course you'll have nine out of 10 psychiatrists therapist and all types of other uh gym Fanatics recommend for you to become the next Mike Tyson on the bag and pretend that this is your boss or your wife or your husband or somebody else before you actually end up punching the real person uh you know as a form of getting rid of anger some people say just simply make fun of the problems make fun of it somebody makes fun of you make fun of them somebody annoys you make fun of them this is a solution that is a defense mechanism many comedians actually use this uh many comedians you'd be surprised are actually uh uh you know alcoholics and uh not only uh uh because they like the actual taste of alcohol initially but also because a form of them getting away from their depression even though they make people laugh for a living they themselves are many times very impressed hence stories like a uh the uh Robin Williams and the likes uh people that overdose on drugs this is not because they laugh all the time they perhaps are good at making other people laugh but inside themselves they're very very miserable so making fun of the problems is not necessarily uh a good solution if track record is worth anything other things uh you know a common a common thing to do that people say is simply ignore the problem just ignore it as if it's not happening now of course we all know that these Solutions can sometimes work with certain things uh but as an effective permanent solution we all know or at least anyone that's old enough and has tried these knows these are not necessarily permanent Solutions the on the other hand gave a completely different solution a solution that's unlike any other psychotherapist unlike any other analyst unlike anybody else out there outside of the Torah world and and the k suggest using Al using the law of the Torah as a way to overcome all of the bad traits that a person has whether it's the bad traits of of being prone to depression or anger or or or arrogance or all types of Pride seeking uh types of uh traits that a person has and on and on every one of the character flaws that a person has can be resolved and completely annihilated from the person based on their observance of now of course a newly religious person hears this and this immediately sounds stupid to them how could me be observing shabas going to help me with my anger problems that caused me to beat my wife how could me observing Kash going to help me become more generous because I can't even give the dollar that's in my pocket even though the other pocket has 10,000 how can I do this if I do that so the the logic of the of the regular person out there is literally the opposite of what the kazun is saying but needless to say kazun knows a lot more than us and he's explaining to us how this all works and last week he gave us he gave us a uh a tidbit of how this actually works and uh we'll we'll go over parts of it now and then we'll go into the ninth section of the eighth CH of the fourth chapter so the K says that when a person becomes used to patience patience that habit of patience will cure their anger and in essence going to also cure them taking offense being offended quickly many people are quickly offended they're so quick to be offended that they don't even realize what the other person said they simply assume that the other person said one two 3 like for example I have somebody that's been watching my shim for at least a few years but he saw part of of a clip that I made uh about this Kanye West he only saw the first few seconds and he immediately concluded that somehow in his wild dreams I was actually a fan of Kanye West and applauding him which is obviously the exact opposite of what I said and what I've standed for and what I've taught for the last 10 years needless to say he was instead of watching the whole clip instead of investigating he was quick to send me a two and a half minute rebuke of how terrible I am and how I did this and that and it's a shame that I did this and a shame that I did that and of course this goes a uh you know into the deleted box but needless to say it is one of those things where you have to see where where did you go wrong where did you go wrong how how did this happen how did you just take several years of lectures that you've watched that you've learned that have improved your life and you've simply thrown all of that into the garbage because you heard something something that you disagree with where even if you were right which you weren't how did you just simply throw all of that into the garbage this is a a a nature that's prone prone to be offended prone to be offended a person is prone to be offended this is also happening anybody that is a uh following some of the comments whether it's on Tik Tok or YouTube or Facebook by some of these uh black Israelites and how they're literally assaulting me with a deadly weapon on the internet you know they're just murdering me left and right they're saying calling all types of names I care less I don't respond to 99% of the comments unless I see some form of wisdom somewhere or somebody that perhaps is seeking the truth I'll respond if I have a moment perhaps maybe five comments I've responded to but needless to say the immediate response is you're an idiot you're a you're a terrorist you're this you're that just insults no actual factual information nothing with substance but immediately they are reacting because they were offended they were offended that I mentioned the hot wings even though I mentioned shuarma and Fala which is what we eat they were offended that I mention what they eat as if it's something offensive the reality is is that if a person is prone to be offended you can't help such a person so one of the ways that the Kish is trying to tell us that's going to help a person not become so quick to be offended not uh not becomes so angry is by developing patience now of course developing patience is a wonderful thing how do you do it even more so he tells us that if a person has a habit that is uh a lazy a lazy habit he's just simply uh indifferent about things he's lethargic he always procrastinates he's simply one of those people she's one of those people that she's going to delay things until 2 minutes after the deadline she studies 1 minute before the test she uh you know she uh realizes she has to get to the appointment only 5 minutes before the appointment and and people have this nature to Simply wait and delay and procrastinate and simply be careless about anybody else's time they're notorious for showing up late they're notorious for simply not showing up they're notorious for simply blaming the world for uh misunderstanding on a regular basis there's like a chronic case of misunderstanding a chronic case of miscommunication a chronic case of I didn't hear you it's almost like you want to send this person to maybe perhaps some type of Medical Institution to have their heads checked but in reality it's not their head it's their personality it's a personality flaw that a person has that they simply are either lethargic lazy or simply careless about anybody else but themselves or a combination thereof the cure for them says the K is the habit of quickness being quick to react where a person is one of these people that's like abrah ainu hasem told abrah ainu bring your son your your the son the one that you love and bring him as a sacrifice bring him as a sacrifice abrah ainu didn't hear when he didn't hear a specific time but what does the Tor says and he woke up early early in the morning meaning 4:00 in the morning abah ainu is already on his feet getting his son on board and the other two and they're on to the uh to the journey of having his son his favorite son his beloved Son slaughtered so this of course is someone that is a lover of hem that is not delaying anything the same thing we saw with mosu where told after this war you're going to die what does mosenu do immediately tells everybody we're going to war now hasem didn't tell mosenu you have to go to war now you have to go to war this week or you even have to go to war this year he simply told them after this war you're going to die what does MOS do oh the will of hem is this war that's it the fact that I'm going to die is irrelevant why I have to fulfill mitvah the will of hem is for me to go to war right now and this is the nature of people that are quick quick to do the will of hem quick to do what is necessary of course one of the greatest things in the world that a person can find in their life whether it's their spouse or it's a student or it's an employee or anything else is someone that's quick to react someone that's constantly on top of their feet on top of their game to get things done but this is very very hard to find even more hard to find in the current generation than it was in the previous generation because people are more prone to to be the first thing that we mentioned which is more likely the lazy the lethargic the one that's procrastinating the one that's always late the one that has a chronic case of everything negative unfortunately so there is a cure for that says the K there's a cure for that even more so the most critical most critical thing that we heard last week is that the Kish told us that if a person is seeking honor which is detested by Hashem there's a endless amount of verses in the Torah in the tanak that talks about how hasem considers h a person that seeks honor like an idol worshipper because in essence they're making themselves into an idol worshipper it's an Abomination to Hashem anyone that is a prideful heart and there is a uh literally a hatred a hatred from above for people that are prideful unfortunately in a world that is absent of of Torah knowledge you see many people looking looking to become more prideful looking to become more arrogant and admiring The Arrogant admiring the conceited admiring the people that put themselves on a stage admiring those people that are literally disgusting in the eyes of Hashem and of course this is the opposite of the will of Hashem but needless to say there are there is an inner inclination in all of us to seek honor in some way or another we want credit for what we did we want Applause we want a good job we want recognition we want our name on the door we want our name on the business card we want everyone to know that we did this and we did that is a constant seeking for uh recognition and unfortunately this is one of the things that hashm detest and the K says that there is a cure for this there's a cure for this if a person wants to be beloved by hasem if a person wants to be beloved by their spouse beloved by their children beloved by the world above and the world below beloved how this is a person that's not only going to not seek honor but it's a person that's going to be cured from even Desiring honor what's the cure says the Kish The Cure is developing a habit of accepting ridicule meaning that when people ridicule you you don't get offended not only it's not just like sitting there and letting people spit on you and uh and you you're crying your way home you cry into your bed and your and your and your uh pillow is full of tears every night because of all the insults no it's simply not viewing it as anything it's like wind it doesn't matter it doesn't exist now of course this is very difficult because most of us want to be the exact opposite want the recognition want everything anything else but needless to say a person needs to Aspire aspire to get to these higher levels by starting even with the lower levels one of the things that a person needs to do is stop looking stop looking for recognition that's an easier thing that's much easier than perhaps uh welcoming and and acknowledging the fact that the insults the ridicule is actually a positive thing so these few things are obviously things that are not new it's it's it's oldest time and people have been trying to figure it out in the philosophical world uh since the time of Plato Plato himself was uh one to uh try to overcome these uh these negative traits and he was known to be a very big thinker of course and one time he was sitting there with his students and thinking deeply about some type of uh philosophical concept while his wife was trying to get his attention and his wife is trying to get his attention and she realizes that he's deep in his thoughts and he's not you know paying attention to her so she starts yelling at him and he's not paying attention and she's yelling at him even more and he's not paying attention and she's yelling at him even more and eventually she takes a pot full of water and dumps it all over him and walks away and he smiles careless completely so the student says asks the you know ask their teacher uh you know teach us well how why why you laughing he says I prepared myself how did I prepare myself you ask I knew that after the Thunder comes the rain in so many words I knew that this is what's going to end up happening so this is this is the way that I reacted now of course this is a cute story but it doesn't really work in real life why because number one she's still angry two you didn't solve the problem all you showed is the fact that you could simply smile at somebody pouring water on you but if she poured chulent on you or if she threw something at you or she ended up leaving you you wouldn't necessarily smile or laugh and think of it as a funny little thing but nonetheless this is the way of the world trying to solve the problem with human logic human logic of course is not going to be able to solve these problems because human logic is the reason we have these problems hence the reason why we listen to our sages that are giving us Divine logic and the main thing that we see from the Kish is that he's giving us an extraordinary Insight a novel idea which is that you actually use all use the law itself to help you become patient to help you become quick to react and and the opposite of lethargic to help you become such a person that is able capable and even at one point willing to accept the uh uh the insults by by others there's a few stories about the Kish himself where how as as a process of himself working on his on himself he had to deal with different things that other people whether it be students or or or different people that were in the community saw it and literally were enamored by this giant of a character giant of a of of a person that is living among them now of course in those days they didn't have the social media that we have today or the journalists that are ruining the world or any of these other things in those days if you knew a person you asked their you know you asked their name that's how you knew who they were even if somebody was a a big giant Rabbi he could walk right next to you sit right next to you and sure you wouldn't know it for 15 years unless you literally asked about it so when K moved to is of course many people did not know who he was they didn't see they heard about him but they didn't know who he was when they would see him and one of the uh that he went to the first one that he went to was known to have a very difficult person run the Sho a gab the the guy that's managing the Sho very difficult older man that's simply you know one of these people that is just upset about everything so this gabai sees this older man Kish walking into the Sho and he's early for prayer and like a typical he's never going to waste any time instead of just sitting there doing nothing what does he do he goes to the library and he grabs you know grabs one of the books now this gabbi just fixed all the books and he sees this older man taking the books goes hey what are you doing no come on you're delusional old man you you can't read these things you're not at that level what are you just just give me more work and he yells at him Kish quietly takes the book returns it back to where it is and takes a seat now later on later on that night as the prayer went on the gab tells the the K that listen there is a cause that we need to raise money for and uh we're asking everybody in the community to please help us and he goes it from one person to another what can you contribute what can you contribute and K gives him a big Bill you know a bill that was a significant amount of money from that day on that gabai would bring him the book would bring him the book without the K ever asking and this the K says was how I took Revenge how I took revenge against the person that embarrassed me now of course to us this is not Revenge this is a giant Holiness who could possibly do such a thing but that's actually what's expected of us typical reaction of a person is oh he insulted me why don't I just tell him I'm the K know who I am I'm I wrote so many books everybody comes to me for blessings everybody asking me questions the entire generation is on my shoulders I could easily tell him that but instead sat there quietly and in fact gave him more money more money than other members in the community why to turn his heart around to turn his heart around because that's what moved that person another time there was a uh doctor that told the Kish that his toiling in Torah for endless amount of hours 20 hours a day was certainly good for his Nish but his body needed some exercise so he needs to walk for at least a half hour a day walk because his heart became very weak so starts walking and he walks and his old man different old man sees this religious man walking and then he walked back and he walks again and the old man is looking he's like why does he keep walking here and he starts yelling at him hey stop wasting so much time at least read some T keep walking ping bing walking walking read something do something at least useful read some Psalms Kish doesn't respond but from that day on he tried taking on a different path but he had a book of teing with him and he would read the it wasn't much longer after where this old man needed some help needed some blessings and one of his friends told him listen you should go to the you should go to the biggest Rabbi of Our Generation that's living among us go to the Kish he says where's the Kish says in oh okay it's not far away from here okay so the guy gets over there and he gets to the house of the Kaz and he sees the Kish outside go you're you're in line also to go see the Rabbi says no I live here wait you you're the Kish says yes oh no oh I'm so sorry I yelled at you I told you to do T and and I didn't know it was you and Kish looks at him with a big smile she goes no why why are you sorry it was a great idea I took it to heart from that from that day on I started reading TM every day for half hour thank you very much for the idea now of course the average person thinks yeah yeah it's a the reality is this requires an enormous amount of work of self-improvement of character development but again it is certainly possible by each and every single one of us if we wanted bad enough if a person wants to be good they certainly can become good but if a person already views themselves as good then needless to say they are on their way to becoming asav nonetheless nothing less than being asav because if a person already thinks of themselves as perfectly good they're certainly on a bad path because every single person has something to work on but if a person views themselves as if there's nothing wrong with them and there's nothing to work on certainly there's something missing they don't know enough to know that they have a disease which makes their disease even more dangerous than it is for others so a person needs to know that the process of character development although it's not an easy one it certainly is possible but the solution that the Kish is giving us is not by holding it inside or hitting a boxing bag but rather by using Torah using Torah using the as the Divine code Divine map to operate in your life for example somebody is there doing something that would make the typical person including yourself angry and you have to operate in such a fashion where you have to evaluate the case and again this may not start this way but nonetheless the goal is to view something as according to the am I allowed to be angry about this now this is the end goal this is where a person is supposed to get to determine ing whether they're allowed to be angry whether they're allowed to be stingy whether they're allowed to be arrogant whether they're allowed to do whatever it is that they want to do based on the law itself and not based on the emotions because if a person continues to follow their emotions the needless to say none of the lectures in a series of 80s something lectures has helped them in any way shape or form but if a person is starting to realize that it's time to use my brain rather than my heart in order to operate in the world then certainly we are moving forward so the Torah itself is not a you know a one-way Street where it's only going to do one thing for everybody it's not one size fits all the Torah is compared to both water and fire water where for those that for example are angry they're fiery people they get upset really quickly they get offended really quickly after you learn enough Torah it's going to cool you down where it's going to show you how to use that energy that fire that you have within you in the right way to project that fire into your learning to push yourself even further to study further to project that fire to encourage other people so that Torah will be water for you on the other hand people that are lazy slow lethargic you have to check their pulse once in a while just to check they're still alive if they study enough Torah that Torah is supposed to put some fire in them to get them to become much more enthusiastic much more excited much more alive because if a person is literally too fiery or simply you know you have to question whether they're alive or not certainly one thing you do know is they don't have enough Torah in their life so this is one of the things that the k is trying to help us help us get to with this uh with his teachings now in this section in nth section he starts as follows for translation it may almost be said that careful observance of the law he's referring to the law of the Tor careful observance of the law is the only way to correct one's character traits for according to other schools of thought the Mitzvah is to distance oneself from trials and it's not worthwhile for a person to search for tests in order to accustom himself to correct his character traits even more so it is a moral obligation not to enter a place where one might come to be tested the same way that a person must be careful not to be in a physically dangerous place as theat page 32A says if this is true for a physical threat how much more so when it comes to a threat to the soul it's also the way of the world that one does not start a business in which the chances of success and failure are even when the failure means Eternal loss even though the gain also stands to be Eternal up to this section is what we're going to cover today so we see here that the Kish gives us a mouthful gives us some real pointers that we can use if we simply accept the truth for what it is so long as a person still has faith in the same system that has failed him and societ at large for the last several thousand years by using all of the systems that we mentioned before this is not going to work for them because so long as you still think that the psychiatrist the therapist your own personal ideas and other things that are out there are going to be just as effective perhaps even more effective than what the law is going to be certainly this is not going to work why this is what we call like a non-starter question non-starter issue so long as a person still has faith in the system that has a track record of failure one after another for thousands of years that means that person has not get ready yet to move forward but if a person acknowledges that the system that's out there at large is one complete failure although it has certain parts of it that are good certain parts of it that are beneficial to use it at large to use it as a way of life is certainly not going to work it's not going to generate a happy marriage it's not going to generate a happy life it's not going to make you a better parent it's not going to make you a better person it's certainly not going to get you to heaven and very likely going to get you to Gom both in this world and the next why because the system itself of following your emotions is something that is the cause of the problem so the way that the K is addressing it right off the bat is simply telling us that after you observe all of these other things you will get to a conclusion that the observance of the law is the only way to correct your traits meaning that it doesn't even matter whether you are born religious or not male female young old Rabbi student irrelevant If You observe the law you will have a better chance of attaining true happiness for eternity both for yourself and for those around you because you'll become a likable person you'll become a tolerable person you'll become a holy person even whereas everything else is not going to help you all the gurus in the world all of the coaches in the world all of the other systems in the world are one big failure this is the way to win now of course many people will immediately tell you no what are you talking about I know this guy he's really good oh no what are you talking about I read this book I read this I read that okay so again this is why the Kish is adamant about starting the section with a simple fact this is the only way to fix it now he's not making a statement for the sake of his benefit he's not making money out of us listening to him or not the only one that's benefiting out of this is if we listen so here he's telling us a simple fact which is that listening to the law observing it is going to be the solution but now the question comes how do I know that if I listen to the law and I'm particular and I'm listening and I observe the mitv and I keep Shabbat and I uh eat kosher and I show up to prayer and I learn toah every day and I do all of these different things how do I know that I passed the test meaning how do I know that I'm no longer the same angry gremlin that I was you know before I did this how do I know I'm no longer stingy how do I know I'm no longer an adulterer how do I know my eyes are not one of these things that looks at everything that moves like some type of Predator how do I know I'm not that person anymore certainly I can't put myself and you know out there to go test it and that's in essence what the kazun is saying you know where the other schools of thought are going to tell you to distance yourself from these other things why because it's not worthwhile for a person to search for a test in order to accustom himself to correct his character traits other other schools of thought are going to tell you listen you are an angry person stay away from people that make you angry this is a very logical thing to do and he's not disagree agreeing with this but at the same token how would I know I'm no longer angry if I'm not in a position to get angry how do I know I passed the test how do I know I'm a better person so he tells us that in fact a person will at some point be put under the gun be put in a test in order to find out where they really stand but they could already know where they stand before that how so first and foremost the more you learn Torah the more you'll end up observing the law and one of the things you're going to learn is that it's forbidden to you to actually put yourself in the circumstance that would test you knowingly thear says several things about such a thing is a famous that talks about a person that has two options to go from one point to another point he wants to go from New York uh in a uh in one of the Burrows and he wants to go to a meet one of his clients and he has two ways to get from that uh from his house to that uh client he can go the short way or the long way the short way way is full of prostitution houses and all types of nightclubs the long way is empty of all of it and he can get there but unfortunately it's going to take him double the time or even triple the time thear says what if he went the short way but he closed his eye the whole way he didn't look at a single girl he didn't look at a single picture of immodesty nothing and he arrived at his destination without even a single look of of anything inappropriate what do you think now your average person will say this person is a sadik he went right next to all the prostitution houses he went next to all the nightclubs next to all the Billboards next to all the bars next to everything and he didn't even look this guy a sadik the Torah says Wicked not sadik why how dare you put yourself in such a test how dare you put your holy n your soul at such a test how did you know you're not going to look how do you have so much confidence in yourself that you're not going to look what if you were wrong and you ended up looking and then acting on it and causing a sin that would shake the heavens that could literally give give you g for a million years how did you take such a risk so thear is very very harsh on people that take unnecessary risks with their souls because that clearly shows that they do not value The Gift of Life the gift of Eternity the gift of Torah instructions and the manual for life that God gave them but what about the fact that the other ways much longer let her it be longer but still sinless let it be longer but still safe so this is what the is saying here that certainly the Torah tells usabat says in page 32 that a person must not put themselves in a physical dangerous place meaning he's not allowed to stand under a broken wall if you have a broken wall you can't you can't stand under it why you're putting yourself at risk yeah but you know I'll run out of the way you're not allowed to put yourself at risk not physical risk needless to say a spiritual risk and even more so for the spiritual threat especially he says when the a person looks at it from a business perspective if you have a bunch of money you got let's say a million somebody comes to you and says hey Steve I got an investment for you what's the inv investment investment is you give me the million dollars I'm going to invest it in XYZ bitcoin.com okay what do I get out of it well if everything works out like I expected to that million dollars is going to make you the richest man in the world you could even have Steve Jobs come out of the dead and work for you you can have the guy from Amazon uh Bezos he's going to C clean your carpets because if this investment Works you're going to be worth $10 trillion okay that's I like that I like that what about the downside oh the downside is uh we actually you'll lose every single penny and you'll go to jail for about 30 years now a normal person a normal person will immediately end the conversation there end a relationship with this crazy friend of his and simply go on their way with their million dollars still in their pocket stupid people are going to take the risk why in their imagination yeah I know I have this risk of possibly going to jail and possibly losing all of it but the upside is so big I mean I can become the richest man in the world in one shot whenever am I going to get a chance to become the richest man in the world well you're probably going to be broke one way or the other with that kind of logic but that's what the Kish is saying to us when a person puts their soul at risk they're simply putting everything on the line everything on the line and without even realizing it they're even in a more of a risk than this example we just gave now the K says that a person needs to truly understand what is the Torah the value of Torah in order to utilize it to its full potential and the way that a person will know that is by learning to especially when they learn when they learn which is when they learn the intricate details of the T and they toil over it not just do it on the side whenever they get a chance not just uh listen to a Shure and just get everything spoonfed to them but literally toil in Torah for an extended period of time and apply those things to their life life then they're going to actually benefit in learning what Torah is little by little and get to a point of building themselves as a character but so long as a person puts their own ideas their own uh uh logic their own uh uh agenda as something that's superior to the Tor they're not going to benefit very much from the Torah and in fact the Torah can turn into a poison for those people because sometimes people will learn to and we've learned this together already in the series of and the series of the G and multiple serieses we talked about how arrogance is one of the three things that removes a person from this world so there are certainly people that will learn tah but it would actually make them worse people because instead of learning to and applying it to their life they're learning to like they learned some type of history book or some type of a mathematical equation where they now think oh now I'm just a more knowledgeable version of the same person that I already was and this of course is a disaster and this is what happened to yam this is what happened to do this is what happened to some of the worst people on in history throughout history now if a person is not going to utilize the to the right way that means that they could continue learning tah they could continue learning the laws continue learning the details but still stay the same animal that they were and in fact there are multiple examples of that in society that are not new to the Torah recently I heard the terrible news that this is the first time I've ever heard of such a thing apparently it's at least the second time this happened and unfortunately I believe maybe more than one twice but apparently in the last few months there's been in a change of behavior in American Judaism unlike any other time in the history of American Judaism well one of the main things that everyone held as the crown of Jewel for American Judaism is the Judaism build by Rabon Cotler Shalom one of the Giants among giants that was part of the pioneers of American Judaism and he built the Lakewood Community it wasn't just a Lakewood Yesa it wasn't just a lake with K it wasn't just a lake with bed it was literally a community a holy Community full of Tor full OFA and certainly it still has that but apparently something is wrong in the water across the board all over the world not just there and recently Hashem showed us some examples of that somebody showed me a video where there was a bunch of little kids little Jewish kids with little tiot and a go to an American mall and watch a bunch of go women and men dance for Christmas for their idol worship holiday Jewish kids with little keine andit are in a mall watching men and women dance for Christmas and they have a bunch of people with costumes as if this is okay now of course most people will not think too much of this but if you insert this poison into that little kid then the following story is what eventually be becomes possible because the the laws of the Gentiles is not just something that's not good for us socially it's not good for us even more so spiritually because it poisons the Nish so little kids like that may not realize there's an effect their parents certainly don't realize there's a negative effect but when you hear that AA a Yesa in Lakewood one of the holiest places on planet Earth just had two young B teenagers 14 15 years old 16 years old get into a fight in the Yeshiva and one of the kids takes out a knife and stabs the other now I grew up in public school I grew up a bunch of thugs a bunch of gangsters a bunch of people that would use a gun just for fun would use a knife just to get back at you slice your face slice your back do a few things to give you a nice accounting to show you where they're from and where you're from and whether you're blood or you're a or you're this or you're that or you're a gangster or one a gangster or a wangster or all types of other things I grew up around those people so to hear that somebody had a gun and somebody got shot and somebody got stabbed that's where I grew up with but you see I was I grew up among the hoodlums I grew up among people that this is what they do I didn't grow up among Yesa Bim rabbis holy people I grew up around people that this is their behavior they're literally no different than the jungle where it's survival of the Fest it's simply the Anaconda snake against the lion let's see who wins but when you hear the same exact behavior is now poisoning our communities where you have two young B fight but not just fight fight the same way as what we have in public schools that you now have to consider putting metal detectors in the Yeshiva just to make sure the kids don't bring weapons you have to think whether this next fight is just going to be another kid fight where one of them gets a bloody nose and the other one says I'm sorry and reads t for him for a week because he you know he he punched his keeper off or it's really going to be like the stuff that's across the Street in the bad neighborhoods in the neighborhoods that parents don't really think too much of you see if the laws of theim have infected us to such an extent that our yes are now having stabbings even if it's two stories it's already too much it's already too much why this was not anic debate this was not this was not this is two getting into a fight and stabbing each other how does this belong to our nation now of course this is not the first time this is something that has poisoned our people throughout history and the sages knew about it it all has to do with character development and needless to say character flaws when you don't teach M like you're supposed to then this is the outcome and one of the proofs is the behavior in the first says that theen prepar for yum this is the big day in the world of theim this is the Super Bowl the World Series and the Stanley Cup all in one day this is the big day the entire nation is a waiting theen to go into The KES kesim the holy of holies do the service that he needs to in there with a pure mind that he cannot even think about his wife in there he cannot think about anything foreign during the moment that he's inside The KES kesim come out and let everyone know the good news that our prayers have been accepted now this Coen has to go through a preparation process anyone that wants to learn it could look at the or you could look at multiple places but needless to say this Co has to be separated from his wife he has to live at the bet mikdash he has to go through a process in fact he's not even allowed to wear shoes or go to sleep the night before so his feet stay cold on the floor so he could stay awake now things can happen where the gar says he could become impure where something would happen not to his uh choice but Carrie can come out of him goes to sleep KY comes out of him he becomes T he cannot be the seed comes out of his body while he's sleeping while something happened and he is impure he cannot be theen this is why the made sure that there is a backup Coen a backup Coen also in the bet mikdash each one of them has a separate room where they eat and they drink and they pray and they learn and everything is there so the then asks why don't you just put both of these in the same room I mean there's plenty of room why don't you just put them in the same room says the following no possible way for us to do that without it leading to spilled blood what spilled blood yes if theen becomes impure he can no longer do the service on yum Kip and the seconden is taking his place there is no doubt in our minds thear says there's no doubt it is an absolute certainty if you will that he will murder him that night why there's no way that he can handle seeing this other person benefit from his trouble now you're thinking he has the vest he has the the jewels he has the the the the the everything he has hashem's name he has the everything you could possibly imagine to literally Elevate him Above the Rest Of The Nation he had eight pieces of clothe that if he doesn't serve with them is his servitude is not good if he serves with seven pieces of clothes he forgets one of them in the in the bag in the room it's no good if he doesn't wash his hands and feet it's no good if he's impure and he serves death penalty I mean he has to be absolutely perfect he has to be well learned he has to be a sadik he has to have a pure mind when the when he goes to The KES he has to be able to have a pure mind because if he doesn't he's going to die inside there that same righteous thear says will murder the other that's taking his place because there's no way that he could overcome it so when you hear that a Yesa B murders another kid according to the To None of surprise but the reality is it's not the same circumstance here's a flaw of character traits here's a flaw of character traits there's obviously significant difference between the Coen and these two young boys of the first story or the other story or any other story that exists out there but the reality is that we can learn a lot from this that a person that does not have developed their character traits with the proper musar teachings could literally turn from what they are to a complete murderer if you simply press the right button now thisai is not something that is easy to say but rather it's a reality that each and every single one of us has has to acknowledge that the evil inclination within us could literally reach that level if we do not control ourselves now page 121a has a story where says I was sitting in a ship and watching across the ocean there was another ship that I knew that there was a in itaba was in that ship and as you would have it the ship hit something and started sinking and I'm watching from afar this sh this ship breaking and sinking and feeling anguish and sorrow for the loss of this when we get to shore I don't even know what to do how do you give an a SP a eulogy for such a giant likea I get to the get to the BET mid what can I what can I possibly say you can't even bury the body Sun he's in the ocean swallowed up by the big sea and L and behold AKA himself sits in front of me and starts learning toah with me and I say a my son how are you here what saved youa first and foremost shows us that unlike the average person that has even the most minute trauma happened to them a car almost hit them somebody ran into them they got a flat tire or perhaps maybe they stung themselves with a needle they have to take off a day off of work maybe they have to go to the doctor double check a psychiatrist AA the ship he was on sunk he was on the ship he sunk with the ship he survived and he didn't skip a beat he went right to K he went to go learn toah and he didn't come to the K to tell everybody Hey listen you're never going to guess what happened I was on a ship just a few hours ago it sunk it broke up people died nightmare hell on Earth I survived I swam all the way here that's why I'm wet and I'm here to tell you guys this what happened and I got a blessing and I got a no no no he's there he starts learning to mind is different the mind is different but before he gets too in too far into the Torah wants to learn a different type of from him how did you do it how are you here assistant the ship broke with the breakage a piece of wood broke off I grabbed that piece of wood and I climbed on top of it and I started floating on the ocean but there was a lot of waves and every time a wave came some of these wave 5 m 10 m 20 M the waves in the middle of the ocean could be huge every time a wave came I put my head down and passed and every time a wave came I put my head down and I passed and that's how I survived and got all the way to shore says from there we learn from there we learn when the evil comes to you whether it's evil people or evil things in the world put your head down and keep going forward put your head down and keep going forward what does it mean put your head down and keep going forward what does it mean put your head down keep going forward what does that mean what does that mean put your head down keep going forward says AB AKA says that he had a Duff had like a piece of the ship he was the one that coined the idea brought the idea of the say had had he had a mind of Tor so he knew that the way of Torah is not to fight every single battle that's in front of you if you can avoid it avoid it it if it's not necessary move on put your head down and go but that only a mind of to thinks that way because the mind of the average person thinks of whatever his trouble is in front of me I must deal with the wife is yelling I must deal with it the kids are crying I must deal with it the boss is compl complaining I must deal with it customers I have to deal with it traffic I have to complain about the traffic yes like as if a million and a half other people are not honking the horn the government just did this I have to deal with it the president just said that I have to say something some guy said this I have to say something everybody has to say something and they deal with everything and what ends up happening is the person consumes themselves with the world's troubles most of which have nothing to do with him why because his mind is absent of tah says had his mind had his mind had in his mind he would not deal with the world's problems he would not care that these people say this and that people says that unless it's a problem he must deal with he's not going to fight every single battle he's only going to fight the ne Neary ones the ones that are necessary the ones that you cannot avoid and most things you can avoid most things you don't need to deal with and there lies the question which trouble do you want do you want the Troubles of society what's happening on Twitter and the New York Times and CNN and the US government and the war in the Middle East and what's happening in Afghanistan an and the trouble in Africa and what's happening with the homosexuals in Canada and whether they're friends with the homosexuals in Tel Aviv and the demented people in Mexico and the crazy people in Germany and this and that and and your neighborhood and the board of directors for your building and your community and whether the gate works and whether the laundromat did your clothes the right way and whether the food is hot when you got it and whether the drink is cold enough when you drank it and whether your stomach really digested everything and whether your eyes see the same way they saw yesterday and whether your glasses are really perfect and they look good on your face or maybe perhaps you need to get a different one and whether your shoes are new enough and fresh enough or perhaps you need to renew them or perhaps you need to get a different bag because this one is last year's fashion and whether your pants are tight enough or loose enough or whether this or that all of the Troubles of the world and this one looked at me that way and that one said this to me and this one said that and that one was a nice and this one said that one and this one thought that and I think he thinks this about me and I think she thinks that about me but I'm not really sure because I can't read really read their mind but if I was them that's what I would think and all of the crazy thoughts that the evil inclination puts in an empty mind an empty mind that does not have any Torah whatsoever hence the reason why people spend their lives on Tik Tock and Twitter and Facebook and social media and reading the news and watching the news and being politicians even though it's not their profession and they literally have zero in their heads other than troubles troubles that don't even belong to them troubles they literally buy for free but ruin their lives in the process you either want that or you want to replace it with Torah because if you learn Torah none of those troubles are part of your life unless they affect your life because there's no time for anything else there's no time for anything else other than what affects your life there's no time for what the politician said there's no time for the speculation of the economy there's no time for what's going on everywhere and what he or they think there's no time for any of that the only thing you have time for is what does a bay mean when he says this to Raa and what does mean when he said that to what are they saying how can I apply what they said 2,000 years ago to my life today how can I become a better Jew how how and you go through another page and you go through another and you go through another da and you go through more learnings until you have perfected yourself just a little bit more and you've occupied your mind with as much Torah as humanly possible in the process hence the reason why the World At Large simply doesn't exist because there's no time for it there's no time for it there was a young student that came to R Shak Shak was one of the Giants among giants both as a young boy and of course as one of the the head of yes pich Shak made sacrifices for the Torah that are are simply unbelievable unbelievable to people of this generation at the age of 11 he left his family to go learn tah during the war poverty famine did not bother him he would not quit learning tah after World War I the countries changed where he went to Yesa was no longer owned by the same country so he was in a different side of the Border as his family so he couldn't see his family CU you weren't allowed to cross the border his mom after many months she wanted to see her son and it happened to be that her neighbor her son was in the same Yesa and they found out that there is a place near the border that you can see each other so they sent a letter to the two boys in the Yesa asking him to come meet at this space the letter went went back confirmation and they went to meet on that day and as they got to the Border shak's mother is waiting to see her 11-year-old boy but she only sees his friend and she's looking for him where's my son where's where's laser he go ma'am he gives her a letter the boy she opens the letter and the letter is from her little boy laser dear IMA I miss you so much and I love you and that's why I can't come see you because I know that if I came to see you it would make me miss you even more it most likely will cause me to come back home but I need to learn to so I thought it would be best for both of us if I stay at the Yeshiva and continue to learn Torah because I know in the end that's what's going to make you happy as IMA cried she wants to see her son she never knew she never knew this about her son she knew he loved tah but she never knew to what extent that this very same laser became elazar one of the and he has a little boy come to him asking him questions telling him about his troubles he tells the young man sit next to me we're going to have bunch of people come here ask me questions I want you to learn from that over 100 people come each one with their own troubles this one tough time with P that one issues with health that one tough learning this one tough this tough tough tough everybody has their troubles solves their problems with a few words of wisdom from the holy Torah in a matter of seconds one after another one after another one after another the boy it's sitting next to him in the beginning is not comfortable hearing everybody's troubles but says no sit I want you to learn after all 100 people go through it raak looks at the boy and he says you know what the common problem among all of those people is says he says none of them know five or 10 pages of by heart that's the common problem because had they known five or 10 pages of by heart the troubles that they have would not exist there wouldn't be room for it there wouldn't be time for it there wouldn't be a consideration for it and from there we learn that if a person occupies themselves with the Holy Torah they no longer have time for these troubles and that's what the promises us from that a person that takes on themselves the burden of T takes from them the burdens of the world it doesn't mean that their life doesn't have difficulties it simply means that those difficulties do not stop them from their number one priority which is learning tah it doesn't affect their mind that's occupied with to that's full of T you see one of the extraordinary things that we see here is the very same Al that the ramb told us 800 years ago chapter 22 the first and he tells us about people that have thoughts of immorality thinking about inappropriate people inappropriate women men and whatever other filthy thoughts enter the mind of a person he says those thoughts only enter the mind that is absent of tah because had this person had tah in their mind they wouldn't be any room for thoughts of immorality if you're thinking about IM thing if you're thinking about promiscuous things if you're thinking about inappropriate things the solution the solution is the cause of your problem meaning that the solution is you don't have to and you need to learn more the problem is you don't have to and you need to have more you see what the k is trying to tell us is that the only only solution to the flaws that we have in our life is Torah not because it's his own unique Theory it is T it is the law of the land it is the law of God this is what we have as an instruction set to live in this world now of course the average person that does not have enough T in their life is going to have a tough time accepting why because they see that the Torah has all types of stories that are perhaps hard to believe all types of laws that seem like they're outdated all types of things that perhaps are difficult for them to really accept upon themselves and there lies the problem when a person considers themselves superior to the Torah superior to the sages that taught it Superior to the opinion of the Divine thinking that perhaps there's a better way but why don't you look at the track record over the last several thousand years has anyone come up with a better way anyone that looks hard enough will have a confirmation that no no one has ever been happier than the Torah Scholars no one has ever been more successful than the Torah Scholars no one has ever entered ganeden other than Torah Scholars the the happiest people on in this world are certainly also the happiest people in the next World those people that look happy because they have possessions or they're fulfilling their lusts anyone that followed their life sees that their end wasn't necessarily what their climax was their truth wasn't necessarily what they presented to the world many people look rich many people look successful but when you look behind the curtains you see failure trauma and disaster whereas when you look into the lives of the Holy sages when you look at the lives of theik the the ones that are dedicated to God there is where you're going to find a purposeful life that's where you're going to find people that are not bothered by the world's problems unless the world's problems become their problems and quite frankly most of the world's problems are not going to ever become your problems but yet people are going to continue going watch the news tomorrow and even later on today just to see maybe they can get a head start on the disasters that are going to be reported tomorrow as if they can fix it as if their opinion about it is going to change it you see one of the greatest things that we have from the Torah is we have a manual with m multiple examples of how well this system works we have what the k is teaching us then we havea and R gel telling us how this worked in their life then we have R explaining to us how you could apply yourself in your level needless to say we have a Al from the ramban that tells us this is exactly how it's supposed to work but if that's not enough you could simply look at this week's everything is always in the that's what makes the Tora Divine Yik is abused by his brothers although he is a wonderful young manados one of the few people that is coined the name sadik yet his brothers accuse him of wrongdoing they think that he's trying to kill them they think that he's trying to steal the kinghood certainly they think wrong but nonetheless that's how they prasin they almost kill him they sell him what it would appear to be that they ruin his life not only doesn't see his family his his father his mother for 20 plus years he's thrown in a hole then he goes he's sold somewhere else then he goes in jail for 12 years it seems like it's never going to end but yet we will find out in two weeks is that when he sees his brothers after the test confirms that they have changed he loves them he accepts them he tells them it wasn't you it was God that did it he gives them money he gives them good positions he cares for them for the rest of their lives how how did it not bother you how did you still have the face to smile to these very same people needless to say how did you have the smile on your face while you were inside the hole in jail because the only way you were able to interpret the those dreams is through divine inspiration and divine inspiration does not go upon the person that's depressed meaning that inside the hole of hell that YF sadik was in for 12 years he was as happy as anybody else can possibly imagine how are you still happy you just got sold by your brothers you almost got killed by them how are you still happy you were accused for things you didn't do how are you still happy you're in jail how are you still happy how are you so happy after you see the very same people that brought you to this so much so that you say to them I love you and you cry with them and you give them and you help them for the rest of their life how the Torah tells usik was a special boy what a special boy he was the smartest of all of them he was and he studied with knew with his father each and every single day and the reason why when yov heard that his son YF is still alive he didn't believe it until the brother says yeah but the carriages are outside what does a carriages have anything to do with yourself being alive if there wasn't carriages there are carriages how does that make any difference the carriages had to sign from YF to his father ABA it's not just I'm physically alive I'm alive spiritually remember that last year that we did 20 plus years ago about about the red heer that picture of the red eer is on the carriages to to show you I still remember the sh from 20 years ago because I was going over it for the last 20 years learning and delving into the to he taught me throughout all the years we were together I'm not only alive physically I'm alive spiritually hence the reason how Yik was happy the whole time despite the troubles despite the agony despite the pain that would literally destroy every single one of us in a second he's as happy as can be because his mind is full of Torah you see if a person simply gives the Torah a chance a chance to truly save their life they'll never regret it but that chance is not just like you give a chance to a date it's not a chance like you give this food to taste it a chance meaning you put everything into it without looking back and you'll see how it transforms your life and the only thing that gets in the way of a person getting to that happy place getting to that success getting to that mindset that is now capable of overcoming their anger overcoming their stinginess overcoming their all of their bad traits is the one trait of arrogance that overcomes them all that tells them maybe I have a better idea than the Torah maybe there's something that I have that's perhaps better than the Tah maybe I don't have to believe what the Rabbi says and I could just make my own idea that little bit of arrogance says the takes a person out of this world you see the problem is people have no concept of what a is and what even the is but yet they're quick to judge and assume that they know more than the rabbi they know more than a they know more than a even oh come on you're gonna believe these stories that it says by the sages about the fire and the salamandra and a this and a that come on those are you know Parables those are like fairy tales the only thing that is is your ego getting in the way as a result of you not realizing that you don't know as much as you think you do you see if you tell a person how much is a day in seconds it's going to tell you 86,400 seconds good Google did a good job how much is a million seconds after Google search let's say 11 days million seconds million seconds 11 days now if I ask you is a billion a lot you say yes but how much is a lot can you fathom a lot if you compare a billion to a million can you comprehend the difference between them they going tell you of course well it's a billion it's a thousand Millions what's the big deal okay without looking on Google if 86,400 seconds is one day and 1 million seconds is 11 days how much is a billion seconds now your average person is going to be so far away from this real answer that hopefully it will bring their arrogance a little lower to to make them realize perhaps you don't know as much as you think you do because to an average person they're going to do well oh so let's try without a calculator without Google doing the work for me let's figure it out 86,000 is one day that's a lot 86,000 it's a big number a million is a really big number that's not that far away from 86,000 so figure that's 11 days so a billion times 11 oh so you probably I don't know what is like a year two years how about 31.7 Years 31.7 Years a billion seconds 31.7 years now the average human mind cannot fathom not only the value of a billion seconds but needless to say how big the difference is between a million and a billion needless to say the average person cannot fathom the difference between them and a of this generation when they think of their flaws and their lusts and their desires and them looking at everything and feeling everything they think that the rabbi thinks the same way just like yesu thought about his Rabbi Yeshua B paraka one of the greatest sages that ever lived yesu thought the same thing about his Rabbi hence the reason why he was put on ban for eternity the average person today doesn't know much toah but yet he thinks that him and the rabbi there's not much of a separation between us he's been learning for what a few more years than me okay so it's not much of a difference and therefore when you tell him okay so what's the difference between you and let's say I don't know rabbiya oh oh he's a genius certainly he knows a lot more than me but if I learn for the next 20 years 30 years I could certainly be like him and in his imagination he can actually reach this place and therefore he's not far away from thinking that he could reach also the place of the of Theon of the of rig of the uh the Aral and rabf Caro and the rambam what's the big deal why because when he heard the rambam say what he said he didn't agree with the rambam so in fact he sometimes has an easier time disagreeing with the rambam than he has even with his local Rabbi because the ramb is old it's 800 years ago it's not effective but the truth be told is as far as your mind is from understanding the difference between a million and a billion seconds if you multiply that by a billion it's still not enough to comprehend the difference between you and even radya and if you multiply that by a billion it's still not even 1% of the difference between you and R Kad um Ram it's it's it's a it's the difference between us is not comprehensible to a human mind why because you have a mind that's flawed due to its nature it's not a clear mind it's not a crisp mind it's not a mind that's pure of information and where you see the information you understand it at face value and what it is as crystal clear as it is as soon as we read toah our emotions jump at us does is agree with me do I accept this do I want this this immediately the emotions react meaning that when we see the information we don't not it's not only we don't have the mental capacity but we also have our emotional flaws getting in the way and that's why one of the greatest things that a person can do for themselves is is to develop a way to commit themselves to what the law says without asking questions without going off the grid without requiring to understand in order to do certainly it's good to ask questions but only during learning not during doing because if you wait for yourself to understand you're only going to find out when it's too late now the page 885a has a example of one of the previous sages a story that your average arrogant person in his generation will have a hard time accepting but only if they learn enough toah will they realize that this story this story as farfetched as it may sound to the average arrogant fool is actually no different than to RAB Zer was a giant sadik wanted to make sure that he tested himself to see where he stood spiritually well we have to test ourselves based on how we follow ala if a person is precise with the alas that he learns and he does what he what he reads he does what he's supposed to the more precise he is with following the law the more he knows that he is overcoming the his evil inclination and his character flaws had a test that perhaps is not even comprehensible to us in order for him to test himself self he would jump into a burning oven once a month in those days the ovens were like a huge room full of fire and he would go into the oven with the fire in it if his feet burned he knew he wasn't righteous enough he has to do chuva if they didn't that means that he was righteous and there was no sin that can hurt him no fire that can hurt him now of course your average person say ah yeah this is probably like a parable of some kind it's not in fact the testifies that it's not at the end of the page 27A says that in the name of RAB AB says in the name of the fire of Gom does not rule over Torah Scholars why because these Torah Scholars create a fire around their n that supersedes the fire of Gom now thear then says there is an interesting thing to learn from this also there also a physical creature a physical creature called the salamandra this salamandra looks like one of these little reptiles that walks around here in Florida but the salamandra is something that's created inside the volcano after a seven-year process salamandra comes out now again the average person who thinks he knows a few things could even call himself a rabbi who does not have will immediately go to the solution of saying the story of RAB Zer it's not true it's a parable no way that he jumped into some oven he still made of Flesh and Blood like us how could the oven not burn him needless to say once a month maybe to trick like a circus and of course this analogy that's being said here in is also another Parable like it's saying that they're so holy that their fire is like G but they they're not going to go to Gom so how could you really test it you go there to test it but then what does it have to do with the salamandra that's throwing some people off so of course you're going to find some heretic rationalists make fun of the salamandra online and say oh you really believe salamandra exists you really you really you really the says yes salamandra exists in fact the salamandra is in our tanak meaning that if you don't believe it you're needless to say if you don't believe it either page 63b talks about the different types of idolatry that's been around throughout the generations and one of the forms of idolatry was an idolatry where they would take the children and throw them into the fire in the book of uh Kings talks about King aaz a wicked wicked King and he wanted to show the people that he is just like them and he's going to throw his son into the fire and he took his son he's going to throw him into the fire kid's going to burn the problem is that son is who later becomes one of the holiest people on planet Earth that causes to do CH so much so that the says that thought to make him Masia so anyone who doesn't know the story would immediately say oh so you probably didn't throw him in the fire you'd be wrong threw him into the fire and the baby burned but he didn't get affected why cu the says his mother's mother go sent one of the servants to go find a salamandra for one of the find the salamandra bring him here take the blood of the salamandra and put it on my son without the father knowing and that's what they did they put the blood of the salamandra on the little baby and that's why when they threw to the fire the fire couldn't affect the baby so you see wanted to burn the kid because that was his idolatry but already brought a solution brought a cure to the ailment and a person that thinks that the story of raber is too far to reach too far to believe is only showing that he didn't learn enough toah to even know this little tiny story that I gave you guys needless to say this is not even 1% of 1% of 1% of 1% of the wisdom of the sages of this generation needless to say the previous ones but when a person does not want to believe anything that their ego does not agree with is a person that's not going to be protected by the toah is a person that's not going to become better by the Torah in fact it's a person that is very likely to be the one that brings disaster to our communities the main message that we get from the Kish today is that yes there is a solution to all of our problems solution to fix our character Flaws by following the law testing where where we stand by simply seeing ourselves and how particular we are about following the law the more particular you are about following the law the stronger you've become even without seeing yourself under the fire and if push comes to shove and Hashem sends you a test you will see that in real life so you don't need to go test yourself out but if you see yourself learning but failing you're learning to but you're still getting angry like a monster you're learning but you're still stingy you're learning but you're still having marriage problems you're learning but you're still all of the problems of the past seem to have never left that means that you're not learning enough to change yourself or even if you're learning the right amount of quantity your ego and B traits are not allowing you to accept it so it's as if you're not learning it when a person learns to like they're supposed to there's no time for trouble there's no time for the world's headaches the only time that I have is to learn tah and deal with the problems that I have to deal with the problems that are also part of my mission in this world maybe his will that each and every single one of us chooses Torah for life because it's the only right way to live it's the only way to to overcome our problems to fix our marriages to fix our Parenthood to fix our association with the World At Large but that doesn't mean we become friendly with everyone or go to every wedding in bar mitzvah in fact it doesn't even mean that you socialize with people on a regular basis what it does mean is that when you do you'll have some Torah to say and will be a really good thank you for learning with me we will see each other later this week on Tuesday learning the next series of the Jewish intimacy and 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place is am maaz the person after death went to a place called This is by far the largest near-death experience study that has ever been conducted people go to a place place and they experience weird things and sometimes they actually will see a character of some type well where did that come [Music] from I don't know why that one chain is swinging back there [Music] they may describe feeling profoundly peaceful seeing a bright warm welcoming light some people describe watching doctors and nurses working on them with Incredible accuracy next thing I knew I was above my body watching the operation how long did you feel like you were gone I went to a place of timelessness and so that means it could have been a second could have been 5 minutes I don't know [Music] can you imagine waking up from your sleep and not being able to move as I'm lying there I realize that there's an evil presence next to me do you believe that Angels demons exist get out of here oh my god dude strange things keep happening bizarre nightmares as if I'm on fire wa what the hell is this man I've got bad she has pain Satan's Hollow is what it's called the portal to hell some people calling it an eye of fire While others said it looked like the portal to Hell opening up and the next thing I know I was outside of my body looking at my [Music] body what I'm going to do is called cleromancy the art of throwing Lots or throwing bones 2,000 years of experience passed down recorded of how demons work God has them all on a leash and he lets the leash go enough to let them tempt us because that's what makes us spiritually [Music] stronger I'm trying to be as graphic as possible so you understand what we're talking about here it's your ticket to reality it's your ticket to freedom it's your ticket to immortality is there an afterlife is there a god the type of information that can keep you away from the ET what happens to us after we die [Music] a