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How Do We Know If Wigs Are Kosher? (36 Minutes)

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven

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[Music] now we haven't talked about wigs in a long time but today a very dear friend of mine ask me a question and there's a little bit of K about it but also to summarize the whole thing of what's Happening Here and he asked me a really good question it's a multi-art question he said to me how do we know you we're saying that for years already how do we know that the T-shirt or the honey or or whatever other products you're getting that says Made in India also not Abu daar if you're saying that the the wigs are Abu daar why isn't the H and the t-shirt and the toy and this and further wouldn't it make more sense if before we announce this to the world we go get the approval of the the biggest rabbis in the world and they would issue something and it would go to the little people instead of the little people bringing up to Theo and it wouldn't just necessarily be me and also is even even so even if there's a case here the fact that there is AB in the world is it's still the same thing as a the Torah is talking about because the Torah is talking about some of them had powers to really do stuff so is still applicable and further it's been it's become an acceptable me to wear wigs so what you're going to go out there and tell people you're not allowed to wear wigs because it's most likely from India and once it's from there the reality is that it's certain that it has source of so now not only are you going to make people go spend money to get change their lives and so on and lose money perhaps and wigs they have but also all the big rabbis that said it's okay it's okay it's okay they all look foolish Now isn't that uh disrespecting of the Torah they have so there a multipart question so we'll answer all of them because it has allowed to to do with everything that we're talking about there's obviously much more to this mishna but this specific question has a apparently half hour before I arrived or something like that an hour before I arrived I got this question I said this must be from sham because you know I don't usually get questions from him number one number two somebody asked you a question right before sh there obviously there something there so here we see that am is is suffering an enormous amount of suffering right now every other day we hear that there's an accident there's a terrorist attack there is some tragic event to am there's a disease there's a fire something's happening there's something wrong in the water here overdoses bad things are happening to despite the good condition that we're in we're in a good situation technically right now where we have money we have freedom we even have our own land even though there's still a lot of enemies but still we have the freedom and we have the land but yet we're clueless and we don't even know the hand that feeds us and there's over a million Jewish kids in Israel that do not know the average American Jew does not keep Shabbat in fact 90% of them do not and even 40% of the religious Jews say it's okay to you know it's okay to work on Shabbat and they call themselves religious so there's a lot of tragedies in ignorance in what's happening to us as a people and I believe it has a lot to do with this mishna because if you notice the main reason why people justify continuing to wear wigs is because of somebody saying a it's okay once they got their local Rabbi to say it's okay it doesn't really matter why he said it's okay they just assume he's a rabbi the other guy's a rabbi he's a rabbi for longer maybe he has more books on his shelf maybe even has a longer beard maybe he has more friends than are rabbis maybe he's a better speaker maybe he's better looking maybe he has more kids meaning all of the reasons of why I'm going to listen to this one have nothing to do with the truth it's just that he said it's okay you're saying it's not so it's a m it's a debate I'll take his side why his side fits my life I already have the wig for you I have to change what you're saying it sounds okay not saying it sounds terrible but I have to change my life I have to take off the wig I have to put I don't really like the way looks like I have to change my life the guy that's in my local kabad my local synagogue says it's okay I'm going with him now once people have some more questions they realize there's something wrong here they say oh I have to go a bigger Rabbi oh look they they says wigs are okay yes he said wigs are okay to a certain extent but he didn't say abar is okay oh Rabbi bsky said it's okay it's not really yeah but you don't hold by Rabbi bski completely you can't just take one Al and pick with him meaning we keep picking choosing our decisions based on our convenience and not based on the truth which means that those of us that are making people believe that it's okay to wear the wigs have to understand that they are the biggest part of the problem in this generation I don't care if you're a leader or you're an average woman selling the wigs in your store or you're even wearing the W telling wearing the wig telling other women you should also wear wigs you advocating it you're taking the problem on your shoulders I can tell you one thing I'm not a prophet I'm not even a dust under a prophet but I can make common sense a woman told somebody that sells wigs listen maybe a year and a half ago two years ago says listen this guy I don't know him but he brought some really serious facts to the table you most likely is selling abar in your wig store the woman says leave me alone with this abar some other Rabbi came bigger than him years ago they uh said yes then they said no I'm selling my wigs it's a big business less than a year past less than a year past a son has cancer right now and he's dying a little son little baby kid has cancer now lost all of his hair he has cancer and he's dying and people no it's just bad luck it's bad luck okay people going to hunt me down oh yeah you're saying wigs are cause of I'm not saying anything all I'm saying things are happening something's happening something wrong in the water something's wrong here it's not one event two events three events we're talking about dozens of events happening so now let's answer the questions first and foremost applies in every single generation specifically says had 400 chapters to his tractate of in comparison to us having only five chapters so what did he have so much more he had a bigger Tor than us 395 his his tractate is teaching about idol worship was bigger than our entire what do we have first and foremost you should know there's a lot of forms of a some of them are statues some of them are people some of them are money some of them are simply being angry and explained that all of those extra tractates were different forms of anger and bad midot and bad acts that led a person to idolatry it's not just Idol there's 400 different types of Idols or four million types of Idols it's different forms of idolatry meaning that idolatry applies today and forever and never changed this is why when yesu that took control after came first got from second destroy all of the a trees why somebody bowed to those trees one time they officially became a part of yeah but we're not going to worship them doesn't make a difference once something becomes a once something becomes aan the only mitvah you can fulfill with it is destroy it it has no right to exist you can't sell it you can't eat it you can't even keep it there exist you cannot allow it to exist You Must Destroy it from the world this is why by the way anyone that brought that bought the book that I told you guys about the blessings and which blessing to do on what if you look at the back of the book at the back of the book it tells you about special blessings Above and Beyond food and so on the special blessings of when you see interesting things if you see a strange looking person there's a special blessing just to do if you see a uh a church you're supposed to do a blessing that blessed is AEM that he will destroy the idolatry from the world you're supposed to bless AEM that he's going to destroy this church that's the reality idolatry is detestable it's it's disgusting to hem anyone that has a little bit of would look into this further before they put a even a potential on their head you have to double check this how could you take a risk to put something that hm says disgusting to meat is considered an idolor someone drives on Shabbat smokes cigarette on Shabbat is considered 100% an idol worshipper according to the T the ra Chapter 30 last now so never ceases to exist sometimes it's money sometimes it's a person it could even be a rabbi it could be a lot of different things that's one two how do we know it's not the t-shirts and the uh mustards and the Honeys and all the other products coming from India because according to our research the only thing that we saw being used on a massive scale as a sacrifice to the idols was the wigs now of course there's 880,000 different Cults and religions in India and places like that and they use other things as as uh as sacrifices for other gods for example there is a one God that's a motorcycle a hardly Davidson motorcycle I'm serious I have the pictures if you guys want to see there's a motorcycle that's tied to a tree that they pray to this motorcycle so obviously that motorcycle you can't use it you can't ride this motorcycle as a Jew or anyone because it's an idol if someone gave I don't know a dove or a piece of chocolate or a bottle of water or a piece of paper or anything to this Idol you can't use it anymore you have to destroy it even if it's just a motorcycle which is as stupid as it gets doesn't make a difference whether it's stupid or not or idolatry is stupid once it's used as a Corban once it's associated with idolatry finished now they also have an idol which is they have one temple in India full of there's a huge pool in the middle of the temple full of milk why because the gods come and drink what God they have rats they have 100,000 rats filling this Temple drinking this this milk and I have pictures of this also if you want to see and people go as tourists tourists take pictures and they stand next to these rats somebody sees a rat in the New York subway they complain to the government over there they go see them hundred thousand of them it's m disgusting then there's other people that pray to trees pray to cows pray to different types of idolatry and all of them bring different sacrifices sometimes they bring money sometimes they bring this but the most common thing is hair why it's part of the general population's culture to the extent that over 20 million milon people in India sacrifice their hair every year every year this is more than the rest of the world combined by a magnitude of a thousand you can't compare the two meaning it's over 90% of the hair that's produced in the world that's coming from there it's the only place big enough to make a market like some people said yeah but what about this hair coming from Cambodia I said Cambodia the entire population of Cambodia all of Cambodia forget the donors of hair all of Cambodia is 17 million the entire population is 17 million so let's just say all of the cambodians decided tomorrow we're all going to go bald we're all going to shave that's not even the market of the Indian market for one year and now once all the cambodians went bold hypothetically speaking that's it that killed that market for $89 years because it takes a long time to grow hair so even if all the cambodians shave their head tomorrow hypothetically speaking you're still not matching the Indian market every year meaning the only way you could ever make a market to have wigs is from India there's no other market like it not from China not from Cambodia not from anywhere because even if you calculate that let's say for example in China they don't give it to Gods but they give it to dead people they take to shave the head of the dead people shave the head of dead people in China and they sell that hair so let's say you say okay so there's a lot of people that die every year they shave the head first and foremost you're not allowed to have that hair because from a dead person according to but second of all even if you took the hair of all the dead people in all of the world not just China all of the world the entire world dead people how much is that 18 million 18 million people die every year that's it meaning if not just China's Market all the dead people in the world the new Customs laws whatever you want to do it shave their head and sell it as a wig to aom okay 18 that's still does not match the living Market of India do you understand it's for all of those that are trying to argue how do you know it's from India how do you know it's from India I'm an e I'm an economist this what I did for a living for 20 years all the rabbis but this is what I do forget about with it wigs or its toy supplies or or coffee the product is irrelevant this is what we did so now once you understand that a certain product was used as aan as a sacrifice that's it only mitv to fulfill at that point is destroying it you're not allowed to use it benefit from it you're not even allowed to look at it really so now what about the next thing why don't we just go to the and have them say something the good news is people for some reason think that I'm the only guy fighting this battle maybe I started it maybe I didn't I don't really care I don't want any credit for anything first and foremost the original idea came from R yashiv ra yashiv shalom in 2004 he's the original one that found out this is idolatry but then the whole fake kosher wig thing came into the market and after they burned tons of of wigs in y in America and different parts of the world it went back into the market because of this kosher wig scam that we have in the world today and since then since 2004 so I just revived it or maybe I was one I don't really know what the point is it doesn't really make a difference the key is whether it started alone or not is irrelevant because right now it's already been for a few years we've been talking about this we're no longer alone there's a huge organization in Israel religious Jewish casus organization in Israel that has been part of it and has done even further research than what we did we helped as much as we can there people in India that looked and went to the temples and spoke to the uh to the to the uh people that are whatever you want to call them priests spoke to the people there spoke to the to the donors we it's not just I looked at uh uh YouTube videos only I decide okay uh you know that's it everybody's Idol worshipper before we came out I mean we had to do a lot of research didn't just you don't just say to people by the way most of the religious Jews in the world have an idol on their head you just you have you have to be a psychopath to do such a thing so now before we came out we double check with our rabbis we double check with the information we triple check quadruple check now we're no longer alone there's a huge organization put together they've officially put together a 300 page book that was recently published online and is being printed bem that has been sent to many of the and many of these have already signed off it's not only that wigs are idolatry it's a million percent it's not possible it's a million percent now it's in Hebrew we're trying to this is a rical version it has a lot of intricate parts of Al is 300 Pages we're trying to get a simpler version translated to English which is probably going to be 50 60 pages to the general consumer I mean anyone that could read details of Al can probably read Hebrew also but the ones that don't know probably want an easier version we're trying to get it we just need a little bit of money to get put things together but the point being is that this is already out and many rabbis have already put an as on it put it in their kot had the people in the kot take off the wigs burn them it's already very big in Israel unfortunately the galut the Exile the that we're in the Egypt that we're in has a bigger yet so it hasn't arrived here to the same extent hasn't been received here to the same extent there a lot more problems in America in Europe in the Exile but eventually it's going to come out the truth will eventually come out but the point being here is that we're no longer the only guy with the beard talking about this being a there's many that are part of it much much greater than I could ever be that I've signed off that these wigs are from India and so on and so forth anyone that wants to know it and no problem we'll send you the book no problem it's online digital version uh once we have a hard copy we'll send hard copies but most likely it's going to be all digital versions for any Rabbi that wants it we can get it to them that rabinal copy is already finished we could also send it to regular people also but I just think that most regular people most likely are going to uh want something a little simpler either way it's available so as far as waiting for the you know the system the big rabbis to do something and then the little guy says the Torah doesn't work that way that's in a place that there's no leader you be the leader if there's something if you see that your brother and your sister is standing on train tracks and the train is coming you're not going to wait till his mom or dad come to tell him to move you're not going to go you know what I'm going to tell on you okay hey uh Mrs Jones your son is you're not going to do that why the train's coming there not enough time he's in danger she's in danger even if you don't like the guy you say listen get out of the way the train's coming the fact that they didn't say anything they didn't do anything is not my problem I'm just trying to save you I'm going to tell you what it says you do whatever you want you want to stand a train tracks enjoy the train's coming you guys are going to get to know each other intimately you're going to get to know each other really well soon you want to move move the fact that your Rabbi doesn't agree or didn't tell you or the biggest Rabbi that's not my problem it's not your problem either the problem is what's the truth and what's a lie if I'm giving you a 300 page book proving it if I'm showing you already lecture after lecture after lecture with more and more material proving it we already have I don't know how many how much time in lectures proving the case with new information every time what else do you want you want the mashia himself to come says take off your wig what else do you wantu says by the way what do you want but to come down from sh Hey listen what do you want the reality is even if theik some of them are so stubborn sometimes that even if the laab came down came back from the dead told him by the way no more way said no no you're not a re anymore we have a new guy people are so stubborn just we read in the beginning the prophet Malachi was saying we're so stubborn sometimes we don't realize we're sitting what do we do so as far as the system waiting for the big rabis to live not the way the Torah Works you're all responsible for two things number one you must rebuke your brother you see your brother sinning you have to tell him second thing is you cannot stand over his blood you see your brother your brother is about to kill himself about to hurt himself by a certain sin you can't just sit there and do nothing you have to save him you have to do something cannot stand over his blood she's wearing a wig you know for sure that it's 99.9% chance it's a you can't just do nothing now I'm not telling you to start pulling people's hair off and see if it's a wig if it's not they not doing that we're not crazy people but to just remain quiet sit there pretty say oh hem will judge hem is judging you too hem is judging you too for not saying anything so as far as waiting for the system for the big rabbis that's not the way the Torah works next thing is was a very interesting question said what about all the rabbis that perhaps don't know good rabbis they don't know the information they don't know about part and I've been saying it's okay now and maybe they passed on already maybe they're still alive they say it's okay they don't know it's so wouldn't you publicizing it to the public and causing so much uproar and confusion wouldn't that you know embarrass those big rabbis the the m in we learn from B and Pinas the M of Pinas killing Z and kby before he went and killed them he went to mosenu he said to mosenu Moshe isn't the that we learned from in that if a Jewish man is intimate with a Jewish woman and you see them in the middle of the act and you're zealous you're allowed to kill them M says yes I forgot the you remembered it you said it go do it and P who later on became went and killed Zim the leader of the uh of of the Shimon tribe theor the biggest Rabbi in the world in the shimon's tribe and Cosby the Goya kill them together while they were in the act and hasem blessed him to become a and said you're going to live forever he became who never died and that's why he's going to come three days before mashia comes why because in order for the mhia to become a prophet before the mhia become a king and so on an existing Prophet has to be here we don't have prophets anymore hasem says I'm going to return the only Prophet that's still alive who so now asked wait a minute says wait a minute wait a minute this m this Mish says you're not allowed to go say Al in front of your Rabbi you're not allowed to say Al in front of your Rabbi just said it no somebody asked a question the rabbi has to answer not you but P what did he do he said it he said hey you're the rabbi don't you remember the so how could he say in front of his own Rabbi and then get rewarded for it nonetheless the M says the says what in the place that there there's no under consideration to the rabbi if this if aem's name is being desecrated there's no regard whatsoever to any rabbi's cavod respect honor nothing that's that's why anytime we go and we say things publicly it's not that I want to insult people or go to war what you I have nothing to do with my life I'm bored oh let's pick a war with uh this guy let's pick a war with that guy let's go pick a war with this guy have nothing to do with my life I want to spend my time with my kids my wife I barely see them if it wasn't shab I wouldn't see them people need help 24 hours a day you think I have nothing to do with my life the reality is no no one else is talking so what are you g to Do's been talking for 24 years say okay I got to join the club why well is he going to do everything by himself few are talking you see something what all right maybe you should say something you do it you do it no such thing place this there's no regard whatsoever to the the honor of the rabi you see that there's rabbis that are not saying the truth that there are are people that literally are benefiting from Ab and the reality is no one is saying anything you must say something when I saw the video that uh Jonathan saaks made with the debate with the atheist and he's called K he called Eve a prostitute and said that it's all just one Parable it's not a real story I went out there and I said listen this this what he's saying is heresy it doesn't matter that used to be the rabbi of England and he wrote a a million books and he's old and he's a nice guy and he's it doesn't make a difference is desecration of hm's name the daughter of is the holy ones they don't even know they're holy sometimes but they don't realize when there's a wig on their head it's it's if it's it's I'm telling you we did the research and you don't believe us now you're going to have 300 Page book coming out 300 page is proving it page after page after page after page interviews I mean there's much more than what they what even what they're releasing there's much more than that the point is it's not an opinion it's not a m there's no M here there's truth there's a lie so we're not concerned about oh this one's going to be embarrassed that one's going to be embarrassed this one's going to be offended that one's going to be offended all we care about is AEM gonna be offended is but isra gonna be offended is but isra gonna go up to Shay and they're GNA punish her for something she didn't even know she was doing wrong her son got cancer she doesn't even realize it because of what she has on her head sometimes or what she did in our job sometimes or what's happening in the world somebody has to say something if I have to be the k let me be theban what do I care if I wanted to go make money I go back to Wall Street so the reality is all of these issues that people asking about the rabbis the system the the this the that it's all literally nothing a dressed all dressed all have been addressed it's going to continue being addressed what's happening in Israel is going to continue to grow people that are doing CH will continue to do chuv many women B have sent me pictures of their wigs being burned many women B have sent me stories emails that they sometimes they even from they put a on some send pictures some send just a story an email people are waking up but it's still not enough still not enough we still need a lot more this book will help the emails will help spreading the message will help even a clip from this lecture will help the point is it's all going to help but only thing that will help in the end is Chua people actually doing Chua people do chuva we have nothing to worry about people don't do Chua we have everything to worry about so the problem is is that just like there's corruption in politics there's also corruption in religion Judaism is not excluded from corruption and this whole business of kosher wigs is 100% the biggest corruption that has happened at least in the last 150 years if not ever to the nation of Israel because it's 100% corruption lying to people's faces and telling them that they know how to verify whether a wig is from idolatry or not if anyone that spent a few minutes researching how they make wigs will see it's literally impossible literally impossible to verify a single wig forget about all the wigs a single wig if it came from idolatry or not impossible why because they mix the hair they measure it based on length meaning that every wig has multiple types of hair multiple heads it's impossible what do they do they send a rabbi there once every several months just so they can collect a paycheck and the rabbi smells the hair he's like oh yeah yeah this is not idolatry it's like they they're they're just fooling people fooling people in front of their faces and people like yeah yeah but my Rabbi said it's okay what is it like some people made videos online about how some companies not Kosher companies non kosher companies they make hot dogs and to make hot dogs all the types of uh that type of meat they take all the nastiest stuff I mean all the nastiest stuff left from the animals the feet the hoves the the the legs the the eyes whatever you could pretty much everything no one else wants to eat and they put it into mixer they make it into a paste they put some sauce on it you eat it and wow yummy delicious it tastes delicious cany tast delicious then they then they take out there's the one that came from you know good parts come from a bad parts taste the same thing you can't taste the difference but what's the difference here the one that they gave you all the garbage they made you believe it came from good stuff too what is that like yet will make you eat garbage your whole life make you think it's kosher make you think it's good make you think it's mitvah but all what you're eating garbage why you didn't check you did not check you did not verify you just assume oh some guy said it's okay okay he happens to be a rabbi okay he happens to be the local Rabbi okay he happens to have a book or two books or 20 books or 30 books doesn't make a difference you still have to pay a Dean for yourself you have to pay a Dean for yourself you want to sell wigs you want to sell uh un kosher food un kosher products enjoy we're just here to provide information you want to do it at least you were warned can't go up to sh says no one told me no one told you look there was a lecture you watched it you cursed the guy out you sent him a few hate mailes too you continue telling like no nothing nothing nothing was wrong the next day no problem at least you won why in sh after you see the video say you going to say you're going to say to Hem Hem I deserve the punishment please punish me which chamber [Music]