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Torah [Music] when he takes back blessings don't complain don't fall as step does he want what's the call was I grateful enough when I had that light or did I waste it away in the comfort of night the world runs from truth can't bear the weight chasing comforts that won't translate but when life turns bit they break collapse because they never built strength on maps but I'll listen even when it hurts Beef stronger cuts, but it helps me keep with the scotch for clear. The pain's not lost. It's the fire that purifies at any cost. No excuse. Every gift he gives can be taken away. But it's all for the best. His wisdom is true. He's shaping your excuse. lesson. [Music] The words sting, but the sting builds. It's not destruction, it's construction. The pain of truth is the for growth with the right teachers with Torah uncut. We gain the strength to handle what was and what will come. No excuse always return to the source with unstoppable force through blessing through loss through joy through flame. It's all his love. It's all his name. No excuse only to let the world see that Torah is the path the key to be free. [Music] Everything is perfect. Everything is love. The only question [Music] The only question, we're back here on our Sunday night, starting a new week with our new series. We're actually now up to number four of our Torah Foundations. Tonight's show you was sponsored for the Luat of Theodore and Dolly Warner sons of Noah and also for Leav the Lima of Rabbul Leavid and also for the Oriel Benina. The new song that you just heard that's going to go on our chuva music very soon on our channel was uh very inspirational story of what could otherwise be uh described as a trauma. a trauma that happened to one of the team of Shem members where uh a bunch of thugs uh decided to rob his entire business that was in his uh truck and uh after years and years of learning Torah with us. You see how the results speak for themselves where a person instead of you know collapsing instead of crying instead of complaining instead of uh saying all types of things that people usually do you see what a straight mind does and how it reacts and how it gets inspired and how it uses the opportunity of uh their suffering their difficulty to actually get closer to and bring others with it. So you'll see the song and you'll be inspired too. Tonight I want to go deeper into the teachings. But before I do that, I want to remind everyone who hasn't uh yet uh realized, hasn't contributed yet, we have our annual high holiday campaign. You go to bhr.org or over there. For those of you that want to contribute to help us feed poor people, to help us grow the organization, to help us do all the amazing things that we're doing, you can do that over there. And for those of you that want to do Kiru with uh distributing these amazing uh Kiru boxes, you can go to kovbox.org and you can order 10 of them, 20 of them, 50 of them to distribute in your community like some smart people are doing as well. So Rabai, this lecture is not only going to help us dig deeper into our hearts, which is a process. As you've seen, we're going line by line and uh statement by statement, word by word, in order to truly understand what it means to uh delve into the heart. Tonight we're going to do the same thing, but uh this is going to help a lot of different people that are dealing with different types of troubles that are general problems with life. Now, as we dig deeper and delve deeper into the hearts with in this, we'll take a closer look into what distinguishes the people that accept the Torah and those that reject it. In fact, even those that manipulate it. This will also help us understand what barriers are blocking us from not only growing in Torah, but also enjoying the life of Torah, life of Jewish community, life of loving Hashem. As many people think that they love Hashem, but in reality, they've never even read the to even understand what it means to love Hashem. Perhaps we'll get into that as well tonight. Delve into your heart with us and you'll understand a whole lot more about yourself than you can possibly imagine. So the started letting us know about the different fields of studies that are available to us in this world that allows us to delve into allows us to benefit from allows us to utilize in order to serve him. We said that we have the natural sciences, the uh intermediate science like mathematics. These things lead to different skill sets. But ultimately as the says this is all for the sake of serving Hashem and that's why the most vital and important part of the wisdoms is the wisdom of understanding the Torah theology. Now these fields of studies the said with their various divisions are gates that are opened for a man by his creator may be exalted through which a person can come to understand the Torah and the world. Some of these sciences are more vital for understanding Torah whereas others are more vital for worldly use. Now the perouch the commentary called writes that a person was brought to this world in order to serve Hashem either through learning Torah or by toiling in the worldly matters. Meaning that a person can serve a kadu by going to the by going to the bet midash by learning to by teaching to but he could also serve a kad by toiling in the world through his job. Now, there was a few cases that came to me that this applies to in just the last few days. In one particular case, we have a dear student that's been with us for many years that Hashem was one of those that benefited from the Roshashana blessings. And hashem has succeeded in his career, succeeded in a lot of different things, and now is hashem a family. But since then, he has found himself complacent when it comes to his career. figures I have enough to make ends meet the different incomes that are coming in and I don't have as much ambitions that I had a couple years ago to make all the other money that I can and one of the things that I explained to him since he's not a or going to be a Tom anytime soon is that gave him a gift. He gave him a gift which is the gift of having the ability to make money. Now if you take this gift and throw it away meaning you don't use it then simply put a doesn't need to continue giving you what he's giving you and can simply give it to somebody else and the comfort and complacency that you have right now may very well disappear again. Why? Because everything that a kadosh gave you in this world is in order for you to serve him. Whether it's your voice, your intellect, your ability, your skill set, whatever it is that Hashem gave you, you must serve him with that. And some people have a special skill set to make money. Now, while most people utilize that skill set just to become more worldly, more materialistic, just to buy another car, to buy another watch, to buy another building, to buy more stocks and bonds and bitcoins and all types of other things. Some are clever enough to not just worry about this temporary world, but rather to start building their next world, their eternal world with that money. So they invest into the world of Torah to help other people do chuva, to help other people get closer to Hashem. As we spoke about in last last week's lecture, unfortunately there are a lot of traders in the religious community today that are not traitors because of heresy or traders because they don't believe in the Torah. No, that's not what I mean. Unfortunately, we have some of those, but that's not the majority. Shalom. Traitors is people that simply care less about their fellow Jews that are violating Shabbat, that are in corrupt businesses, that are intermarried, committing adultery, and so many words denying Hashem's Torah and his existence altogether. 80% of the Jews today are not observing Shabbat in the mitzvot. But if you ask them, just like you would ask many people out there, do you love Hashem? They'll tell you, yes, we love Hashem. Many people think they love Hashem. They don't even know what the definition of loving Hashem is. Needless to say, what it is, what it actually means as far as how it applies to their life, if if it's even possible for them to love Hashem. So what happens is is that when a person lives a life for themsself where they're just learning for themsel, they're contributing for themselves. They're doing for themselves whatever is of personal benefit to them. That's what they'll do. That means that they're going to leave their brothers and sisters who they never met and probably never will meet out in the battlefield to die. That's literally the definition of a traitor because what you're doing is you're helping the other side by your lack of caress and your selfishness. But there are some people that simply don't know better. They figure, listen, I do a little bit here and there. Isn't that enough? That depends. What kind of skill set did give you? Are you maximizing that gift? Another case that came to me is, and this happens unfortunately often, is that when one person wants to convert, but their spouse does not for different reasons. They don't feel like they're ready. They just don't feel like they need this extra obligation. They don't feel like they can do it. Different reasons. And this sometimes causes tension. And obviously in the uh even if they both believe in the Torah, even if they both love the Torah, this can cause problems. Why? Because one wants to take the extra mile while the other one doesn't. Now, there are times where this leads to a divorce, but that's not necessarily always the recommended thing to do because most people don't really understand what it means to convert to Judaism. Most people do not understand what it means to live as a Jew. There are many times that new converts come to me, they converted to different rabbis, but they discover our lectures later on or new ballet discover our lectures later on and they say, "Listen, I can't seem to find a community that fits what I'm looking for. I'm looking for someone that's everybody's silent when they're praying and everyone is modest and everything is perfect." And just like the things you talk about in your shim, the problem is is that you're assuming that you are perfect, that you are ready for such a thing. And you're sad to tell you, you're not even aware of what the Jewish world is comprised of today to even know what's perfect. If we had perfect, the Mashiah would have come. In fact, even if we had one community of 10 people that was perfect, the Mashiach would come. That's what Hokenos tells. So when most people are looking for something perfect, what they don't realize is that in order for something to become perfect, it needs you. It needs your contri contribution, your care, your concern. Not for you to just walk in and have all of the meals and the feasts and the 10 courses already set for you. The is ready for you. doesn't work that way. There's not a single community on planet earth where you're going to walk in and it's simply perfect or it complies with all of the things you want it to. Some will have better shs than others. Some will have better rabbis than others. Some will have more modesty than others. Some will have a mix of this and lacking in that. And if you want to make something better, then go do it. But the problem is is that most people are looking for something readymade. That in itself shows a lacking in people's understanding of the world we live in today. We're not living in a perfect world. We're living in a world where this is this is the world where we're here to toil, to work, to serve. One of the extraordinary stories that helps us understand someone that took care of his personal needs. secondary in this world rather than priority in this world even though he wasn't Jewish. a king named Moonbaz. And the says that this Moonbaz was a king, extraordinarily wealthy, but he discovered that the Torah is true. And his mother agreed with him and she said the Torah is true. And instead of building his palace further and further like his father did and grandfather did and all of his ancestors did, he started investing everything he possibly could into the Jewish world. Even though he wasn't Jewish, even though he grew up learning idolatry, but when he discovered the Torah, he realized, wait, I have a gift. I have the power to do what I want. I have the resources. So let me build the next world for myself. And he and his mother continued to contribute so much so that they elevated themselves to the point where opened the gates of heaven for them and allowed them to convert. They converted to Judaism during their lifetime. But not only convert because there was many converts over the years. But there was such a special convert that a kadosh literally mentions their name in the oral Torah as part of the eternal Torah because they utilized the gift that he gave them at the time they were able to use it rather than waiting. Wait, I'll do more once I convert. I'll do more once I move to the right community. I'll do more once I have a better rabbi. I'll do more once I have a better kabuta. I'll do more once this. I'll do more once I do that. No, it doesn't work that way. Gives each one of us a piece of cheese. Do the best you can with that piece of cheese. Do the best you can with the gift he gave you because that is what is required in order for him to open the next gate for you. Another example, we see how gives people an opportunity of a lifetime they did not even know existed. The moment before they discovered it, as we call it, the moment of truth. The Abu page 18 18A has one of the most troubling stories in the history of Israel with the 10 martyrs. In this particular case, the mentions the death of was one of the greatest sages that ever lived. But the Romans wanted to kill him and ended up killing him, but not in a way that would limit his suffering, but rather the opposite. Since he would go around with a Torah, they took a Torah and they wrapped it around him and they burned him alive. But in order to increase the pain, they put something similar to sponges, toughs of wool between him and the seafra in order to make it last longer. He even soaked it in water to cover his heart so that his soul would not depart from his body quickly. Of course, the sages since they loved Hashem and they were dying on kadashem kazal teaches didn't suffer the pain like you would imagine. But nonetheless, the has the necessity of reminding us of this story. Why? One of the reasons is to see what happens at the moment of truth to a non-Jew executioner who sees that this Jew, this Jew that's being killed, this Jew that's being murdered, how is he behaving? Is he like everyone else screaming, crying, pleading? No. He's speaking to his students, giving them insights of the next world, telling them that he sees the letters of the Torah flying in front of him. The Roman executioner sees this is not a normal person. This is a holy person. O to me. What am I forced to do here? And this Roman says to my master already he became his master. He knows this is the man of truth and everything he learned up to that day 20 30 years of his life is complete falsehood. If a human being can elevate himself to such a point where being burned alive does not affect him in any way, shape or form. This is something different. My master, he calls him, if I take off the wool and increase the fire, do you promise me that you'll take me to your next world with you? says, "Yes." He says, "Swear it to me." Says, "Yes, I'll take you." This Roman go against his commander's will, against his king's will, against his former belief. takes on the belief of the Torah, removes the wool, increases the fire and jumps into the fire with and both of them die instantly. And at that moment the says that a heavenly voice came out and said the world to come welcomes and the Roman executioner. Meaning he just with that single act of heroism of belief in the Torah he just acquired a place in the next world. Why? Apparently out of all of his life, 20, 30, 40, 50 years that this guy lived in this world, that was his gift. He was an executioner. He didn't have the ability to do anything else. And at the moment of truth, he utilized that gift and he merited having a place in the world to come. From here, we see that the deeper you dig into your heart, the more likely you are to realize that perhaps the gift that a gave you is not being utilized because it's not spreading more Torah. It's not glorifying Hashem's name. Even if you're learning, even if you're praying, even if you give from time to time, the gift that gave you is certainly more than the gift that he gave that Roman. He's in the are we going to be? So the tries to explain to us that yes, there are other wisdoms, other sciences that are made available to us because they're vital for our understanding of the Torah. As our dear Rabbi Fryim explained, there are different parts of science, different parts of worldly issues where there are some, for example, like making a road. There's the skill set that you'll get from worldly knowledge of how to put all of the materials, the asphalt, and whatever other materials need to be put on the road. that will have a certain limited ability of utilization for the learning to but then there is the knowledge of architecture the knowledge of engineering that certainly can be utilized for understanding the Torah whether it's or it's different parts of the oral Torah or the written Torah so much so that the Rambam writes in one of his letters to his students, I toiled in other wisdoms in order to understand more about the queen. The queen being the Torah and the Rambam is a genius of all geniuses. So much so that even the Gentiles to this day recognize him as one of the most important people that ever lived. I believe they have 18 people in all of history and the Rambam is one of them. Rabenu of course is another one. In fact, if you look at the Nobel Prize winners throughout all of history, 25% of all Nobel prizes were won by Jews, even though they're less than.1% of the total population in the world. are Ishmael are enemies in many cases. Those that keep saying free Palestine and have convinced the world that they're right. They have close to two billion people. But yet they do not have anywhere near close to 200 Nobel Prize winners. I believe they have eight. One of them was by the PLO leader and founder Arafat. He won a Nobel Peace Prize even though he murdered more people than anybody else before or after him. So that's already 12% of all of the Nobel Prize winners of the Muslim world. You could just see what we're competing against. If mathematically speaking, if they had as much per capita in Nobel prize winnings, they would have over 14,000 Nobel prizes. But did not make our enemies too clever or else they would destroy us. But he does make this intellect, this wisdom, this knowledge available to all. question is how are you going to utilize it? And the Rabam says he utilized all of this knowledge that he acquired of the sciences, of botanics, of medicine, of architecture, zoology, psychology, medicine, all in order to understand the Torah better. Because there are parts of the Torah that talk about things that require knowledge of animals, knowledge of fish, knowledge of plants, knowledge of trees, knowledge of medicine. Every part of the world has a connection to the Torah. So much so that is from says in the name of the that for every worldly knowledge you lack, you will have lackings in 10 different parts of the Torah. Every worldly knowledge that you lack will cause you to not have the ability to understand 10 different parts of the Torah. Now the dua is endless but just imagine one worldly knowledge affects you in 10 different ways. Bakaya tells us that all of this knowledge must be utilized in order to serve because the ultimate and most essential knowledge is the knowledge of the Torah. But in the worldly knowledge that is most essential to the Torah and the most lofty of all sciences is theology. In order to understand and realize the Torah, a person has to understand theology, how it works, what's required. Part of the problem is that when a person learns Torah because they have a certain goal. They want to learn Torah because they want to be a rabbi, so everyone can call them rabbi such and such. They want to be a well-known scholar. They want to be someone that makes money out of it because they sell books or they're invited for lectures. In so many words, they want to tell people they know better. That means that they're doing it not for the sake of heaven. There was one uh story I heard from where a father came to the and told him that uh he's taken his son out of yeshiva. Why asked? He says because his rabbi told him that he's not going to become the next he doesn't have that mindset. So what's the point? Instead of refuting him and challenging him or rebuking him even patiently started talking to him about business and he says to him, "What do you do for a living?" He says, "I have a uh store, but it's very hard. What do you do in the store?" He said, "I sell these goods. Where do you get them?" He buy them from this person and he gets them from this place and sometimes I get a shipment from different countries. But all of this toil I have to do because I have to bring it from them. And sometimes by the time I bring them to the store, some of them fall on the floor and they break. So, I end up losing money before I even start selling them. It's very very hard. Says, "I think you should close this the store down." What? What do you mean, Rabbi? Yeah, I mean, it's definitely not going to become a big success this store. So, what's the point? Just close it down. Why have it? The guy says, "Rabbi, listen. I understand it may not be the biggest biggest success, but I got to keep it open cuz I got to live. Smiles at him and says, "Your ears should hear what your mouth is saying. Even though your store is not going to become the biggest success, you keep going because you got to live. What's different about your son?" Okay. So, he's not going to become the next, but his still needs to live. And that's why you keep him in yeshiva. You keep him learning even if he's not going to become the biggest in the world because that's our life. That's our soul. That's our purpose. When a person learns Torah for the sake of their own personal benefits, already they're missing the point. already they're missing the point to such an extent that the page 62 brings and I know that we went over this briefly last week but it requires further clarification. The says carry out the words of the Torah for the sake of the deed itself. Study them for their own sake and do not make them a crown to win fame or an axe to cut with. In so many words, the GRA says, "Don't go into the world of Torah with such lofty expectations that you're going to be using it to be making money, to be a to tell everybody you know better." No, that's the wrong way to go about it. In fact, so much so teaches that we learn from that one should not fulfill the Torah for the sake of a reward. Rather be like a servant who serves the master without expecting any reward. Now if you learn those two things and leave it at that, you would literally cancel virtually all kiru, all yeshivot and virtually the entire world of Torah. Why? Because what do you tell your kids is the reason they're going to learn? What do you tell them? So you learn Torah because what? So uh you become a big sadic and the kid is motivated by that every day. He's motivated to learn another m another what do you tell them? You tell them oh you uh you know you learn to because that's why Hashem said kids motivated by that. You're motivated by that. You learning all day because of that. No. What do you tell people? Learn Torah. So you go to gedin learn to us so Hashem gives you pona learn to us you have extra blessing in your life but doesn't that contradict what the says doesn't that contradict what the vid says it only contradicts it if you don't know how to learn tra when you learn tra from one place then you don't know how to learn Torah And that's why the says the Torah requires you to learn and gather it from all the different places in order to understand a subject. You don't just take one verse or one line and say, "Okay, this is it. This is the whole subject." No. And that's why when we did, for example, our film and our shim about go wasting seed, what do we do? We brought literally dozens and dozens and in many cases well over a hundred sources from all parts of the Torah in order to give you an all-encompassing understanding of the subject from every aspect. Whereas those that reject what the Torah says have one common denominator. Either they don't have any sources whatsoever for their foolishness or they just have a single source that they like to manipulate. But in order to learn Torah, a person needs to know how to learn Torah. And learning Tua is gathering diamonds from everywhere you can. That's why you'll see one common thing about all Torah scholars or at least people trying to become Torah scholars to keep gathering sources. Keep gathering more place. Okay, so I read this. I found something here. Okay, we keep reading about something completely. Oh, I found something here. Keep reading. Keep reading. Oh, I found something here. You keep gathering. Oh, this is subjects of, you know, tikun. This subject is about Shabbat, this subject. And you gather more information about specific issues. So, when you're presenting the teachings, you have a whole lot of things that you've gathered from countless different places because that not only helps you teach it, but even more importantly, it helps you understand the subject. And that's why you see people say, "Oh, I uh you know, there's no such thing as uh more than 12 months." Look, it says over here 12 months is gay. That's the maximum sentence. But you do realize that gay is mentioned literally thousands upon thousands of times. I mean, at the time we made the film, we had over 5,000 sources. By today, we have a little bit over 10,000 sources. So you have one line that you don't know how to read, but you're assuming the whole thing relies on this. So now back to our question at hand. The Talmud says in don't carry out the words of the Torah for the sake of the carry out the words of the Torah for the sake of the deed itself. Don't carry it to win a crown or fame or fortune or anything like that. And Lazal teaches, don't be one of those people that fulfills the commandments in order to get a reward. That's why it says in the Mishnav. So how is that right and wrong at the same time? For that we have to look into the again but this time a different source page 85A has one of the most extraordinary stories relevant as relevant gets to today. Everyone knows even the know who is famous story whereishimai has to run away because a fool who happened to be a convert or son of converts had a big mouth and told the goim about's discussion with other sages where he said that the Romans everything that they're building is not because they're trying to do good for others. They're doing trying to good for themselves. They're all selfish. They're building the bath houses and the bridges and all the things they're doing is for themselves. They don't really care about the people. They care about themselves. Now, this got to the palace of the Romans and they put out a wanted poster every dead or alive. dead, preferable, alive, so they could kill him. And Rabishimon had to hide in a cave with his son Ra for 13 years. And during that time, Akadosh showed things that virtually no one else ever saw aside from Rabenu. Now his son also saw those things and also became one of Israel. So much so that the in other places mentions that when Lazar died before he died he told his wife don't bury me and don't tell anyone that I died don't worry just leave my body in the attic and uh it won't uh it won't spoil it won't rot like all everybody else for 20 years his body was in a addict no one knew How could they not know? The rabbi is not coming to Z anymore. He's not giving simple. Anytime anybody had any questions, she would ask and a voice would come out. 20 years of providing answers to Am. So of course Lazar became a giant among giants himself and the tells a story of what about Lazal's sonish had a son that's he was he was kisim what about his son did it continue says as follows when kadoshan Tennessee traveled and got to the town of Rabilaz, the son of Rabishimai. After Rabilaz died, he asked the people of the town, did he have a son, a righteous son that could continue the father's teachings? And the people told him, "Yeah, well, he has a son, but uh he's not exactly uh righteous like his father." Let's just say that. What do you mean? Every harlot who is hired for two hires him for eight. Meaning this guy was a womanizer glued to immorality. There's not a sin. He didn't make a had a reputation where literally the girls were running after him. When Rebakados heard this said, "Bring them to me." They brought the young man on the spot without much conversation. Rebi says, "I am entrusting you now with the smika. You are a rabbi now." Huh? me a rabbi. I just came back out of a nightclub all nighter. I haven't What are you talking about, Rabbi? You are a rabbi. And now you're going to learn with one of the sages Beni Ben who was also the brother of his mother. He's going to teach you Torah. You learn Tawra with him. Why would I do that? I have parties to go. I got 15 girlfriends. I got lots of stuff to do. I don't want to this old book. My father liked it. My grandfather liked it. That's not for me. Ria Kadosh says to them, "No, no, no. You're not understanding. Look, you want to go home back to your home, to your city, to your nightclubs, but what are you doing? You're doing the same thing as everybody else. All the other young people, they're hanging out. They're wasting their life. You're going to end up being like everybody else. I'm trying to hook you up here. I'm trying to help you out. Trying to make you something special. I'm going to turn you into a sage. A sage. Yes. A sage. Someone that everyone that even hears your name is already going to say hashem. Wow. Wow. I I live to hear his name. Somebody that when people see you, they kiss your hand. Somebody when they see you, they open the gates for you and put red carpets. Everyone is going to call you their rabbi. You're going to be the gdoll. And you say you want to go home to your city, to your nightclubs. Okay. Okay. Wow. that much, huh? Somebody be rich. Very rich. Be famous. Very famous. So famous they're going to hear about you in different countries. That sounds pretty good. All right, I'll do it. And he came to Reb's bet midash and started learning. And before you know it, after toiling and toiling and toiling Torah for years, he literally became one of Isented in the now had told this young man, listen, you come learn to but only for Hashem. Only because it's the right thing to do. The kid would have told him right thing to do, no right thing to do. Right thing to do is for me to go to my girlfriend. Right thing to do is for me to go get another horse. Right thing to do is for me to go steal some more money from people so I could buy this stuff. His right thing to do was his own material world. So in order to do kiru in order to get this young boy out of the mess that he's in, Rebe had to relate to him things that he can connect to. What could he connect to? Materialism. No problem. Here's all the materialism you could possibly imagine and more. You're going to be famous. You're going to be rich. You're going to be blessed. You're going to have all of that stuff. And he eventually did. But that wasn't supposed to be the reason to start according to one. But that's the point. In one hand, the says don't serve Hashem for the sake of a reward. But in other examples it says of course you can start that way even though you start learning Torah not really for the sake of heaven. You're learning Torah so your Aba can give you another gift. You're learning Tawa so you get good grades in school. You're learning Torah so you could have blessings. You have pasa. You have zeug. You have you go to edance. You don't get punished and so on and so forth. You learn Torah in order to benefit. Bottom line, good. No problem. Go for it. Do it. But make sure you keep learning Torah with toil, with passion. Because eventually, if you do, you will understand there's more to life than just these material needs you're looking for. And that in itself is going to elevate you learning Torah. Now sometimes a person can learn Torah because they want to be famous, because they want to know, because they want to give lectures, and no matter how much Torah they learn, the change doesn't happen. Meaning they learned Torah for fame, for fortune, for money, for so on a year, 5 years, 10 years, 20 years, their whole life. And not only did it never change to learning Torah for the sake of heaven, but in fact it got worse. They continued learning more in order to get more reward in this world, more materialism, more fame, more fortune, more stuff of this temporary world. Why didn't it work? And this whole introduction was for the sake of that says the the gates opened by the creator which lead to the understanding of his Torah and religion are three. One an intellect free of any defect. Two, the book of his Torah given to Mosheu his prophet and three the mit the traditions which we have received from the preceding generations who in turn received them from the prophets. So now the explains to us something fundamental. He tells us that this wisdom, this wisdom of Torah, this wisdom of spiritual elevation is not something that will come just because you read some books. It's not going to come just because you're doing it for a long time. In fact, it may not come ever if you do not have the prerequisites. First one being a which is an intellect that's free of any defect. Now what does it mean an intellect that's free of any defects shalom in his called he writes right in the about the different midot different character traits. He says that there's the character trait of emit of truth and the holy one blessed is he created everything for the traits everything except for the traits of falsehood and injustice. As a deut says, Hashem did not create falsehood and injustice that was man-made. Meaning that all of the other evil traits that exist, Hashem created them because sometimes they're necessary. To kill is sometimes necessary, whether it's to kill your enemy or to kill an animal to eat it and so on. All of the traits, everything created except falsehood and injustice. But if people did not sin, there would be no need for falsehood at all. And that's why falsehood and injustice was created by people's sins. Because if a person conducts himself with righteousness and speaks the truth, speaks the emit, he is thereby given an angel who will behave towards him in the way of a sadik and always speak the truth to him. Whereas a person who makes himself into a rasha into a wicked person that denies the truth, lies about the truth, manipulates it, he is also given an angel. But that angel will act towards him in a way of the wicked who deny the truth and speak falsehood. How does this actually work? What's the mechanics of it? Theim teaches that if a person speaks the truth and has no desire to contemplate falsehood or to lie, then all of their thoughts and their words end up coming true. Even those that they don't intend. Like we saw with Yakovinu who said to Lavan, "Whoever stole your statues will die." He didn't know that his wife stole it and she ended up dying. Why? Because Yakov never lied. And the same thing goes for anyone that gives you a blessing. Their blessings come true if they're not a liar. If they're a liar, their blessings won't come true. And if a person is careful not to lie, all of their blessings will come true, says in the name of the because just as he's careful not to lie, heaven watches over him to ensure that everything he says turns out to be true and is fulfilled. Now the way the mechanics of this work is best explained by the gi says there's a says the reward for one mitzvah is another mitzvah and the reward for or the what you end up getting as a result of a sin is another sin. And the go says there are some people that have a great desire to make a mockery of things, speak inappropriately, do things that are inappropriate. Even though they don't actually get any physical pleasure out of their heresy, out of their nonsense that they say, but they still do it. Why? Why do they keep doing it? They didn't benefit out of it yesterday. They're not going to benefit out of it today in a called in section six. In chapter 6, section six, for every act that a person does, he is assigned a spirit from above. And that spirit has no rest until the person does more acts like the first one. Only then does the spirit have satisfaction. And this applies both to a mitzvah and to a sin. And that's what's meant by one mitzvah brings in its wake another mitzvah and one sin brings it wake another sin. The greater the significance of the mitzvah or the sin is the greater will be the power of that spirit to draw him towards that path. So here the gi explains once a guy lies once he creates in essence he's given a spirit call it an angel if you want but that angel has one desire what is it to get more lies to get more lies. He manipulated Torah once, he wants more. So the angel is going to constantly try to influence the person to do more. The bigger the lie, the stronger the angel. And every time you lie again, the angel gets even stronger and literally develops an army of angels that all day and all night they desire more lies. They desire more adultery. They desire more wasting seed. they desire more sins. The same goes with mitzvah. If he does a mitzvah, the bigger the mitzvah, the stronger the angel. So if he learns to, the more he learns to, the stronger the angel becomes and the more he's going to be able to beat the evil inclination that tells him not to learn. But this explains to us the mechanics behind people that deny the Torah and especially people that are heretics in public and speech speak heresy. Because what the is in essence trying to tell us here is that everyone can learn Tawa. Take a book, start reading. You don't know how to read, there's videos you can listen. There are even some things that are made for deaf people. You could certain books, certain material with brillshem made us have access to Torah in practically every language in every shape, form and size. But yet you would have one person learning Torah right next to the other for the same amount of time. He learned for 5 10 years. He learned for 5 10 years. He became a sadik. He became a how he says it all has to do with these three things starting with he has to have an intellect that's free of any defect. Now why would somebody have an intellect that's defective? because something is getting in the way of their ability to accept the Torah. First, it obligates them. If what it says in the Torah is true, he has to leave his non-Jewish girlfriend. If what it says in the Torah is true, he's a co. He's not allowed to marry a convert. If what it says in the Torah is true, he has to change businesses because his current business is against the Torah. If what it says in the Torah is true, he's gonna have to go to Gum and so on and so forth. So the moment that he realizes that the Torah obligates him, immediately he denies it. He says, "No, the Torah is good, just not this part." And by definition, if you reject even a single letter of the Torah, written or oral, you're by definition a heretic. Adis tells a story of one time that he was told that there was a very famous priest or pastor. They wanted to meet him. said, "Sure, I'll meet him." And he sat with them for three hours having a theological debate. And in three hours, Raada says, "This guy simply cannot get it. He's not understanding. His mind is just not accepting. Even after I proved to him one after another, we're not advancing even a single step. So then says to him, let me ask you one last question. What if I told you that to become a Jew, all you need is three things. You interested? What are they? Says the priest. He says, "One, you go to the beach once a week. Go to the ocean." Oh, okay. What's the next one? Second one. Second one is have a big feast once a week. Okay. What's the third one? says the third one is take a trip, go on a trip once a week. If all you had to do is those three things, would you become Jewish right now? He says, "Absolutely. Right now, absolutely." says to him, "Look, your ears should hear what your mouth is saying. Oh, you're arguing for three hours has nothing to do with theology, has nothing to do with beliefs. The only thing that's stopping you is that desires. You're thinking that if you convert, if you become Jewish, has nothing to do with your beliefs or what you learned till now. as do that you think that they're going to restrict you, that you're not going to be able to go to the ocean, you're not going to be able to eat what you want, you're not going to be able to go on trips. The moment I told you that you can do those things, already you're willing to accept the entire Torah. This has nothing to do with theology. It only has to do with your desires. That's a that's a deformed mindset. And that brings us to the second point where a person becomes anti- Torah or a manipulator of a Torah because of desires that he or she has where they are used to a certain desire that the Torah forbids them. the Torah forbids them from doing one, two, three, or they think the Torah forbids them from doing it. So therefore, they say, "Well, I don't want to do it. I don't believe in the Torah." Then so wait, do you not believe in the Torah or you don't want to abandon your desires? A defective mind is not a mind that is not smart. It's not a mind that is stupid. It's not a mind that is not capable of building buildings and bridges and speaking eloquently and and saying things that uh rhyme and make sense at the same time. An intellectual mind could be defective or not defective. What's the difference between the two? If it's a it's a straight mind, an honest mind, that means it's not going to let let anything in its way of the truth. What makes it defective? The moment they have anything manipulate their truth in so many words makes it bias. They're biased and they don't want to accept this because it conflicts with their desires. one of the manipulators of the truth that we've spoken about many times over the years. This man is Freriedman continues to deteriorate day by day. We see what the go is saying. How each time you lie, you end up getting more angels that are going to desire more lies and more lies and more lies. And while everybody knows, especially in Kabad that's supposed to learn the Rambam, that not only you're not allowed to uh uh learn Christianity and teach it and so on, but you're not allowed to even go into a church. This man is Franman now is proud to say in his videos that he goes and he gives lectures in churches. Little by little, he's making it obvious even to the defectiveminded audience that he has that he's of a different religion, but he's not the one I'm going to talk about now. There's another one that's defective-minded that I haven't mentioned his name until now. I'm not going to make a whole series about him. I've spoken to a few of you privately about it, but it seems to me that it's time to just simply let everyone know. There's a guy by the name of Ephraim Palmov. He is a person that seems like an intellect, seems knowledgeable, very good at making videos, presentations, but he's 100% an apicose, a heretic because he manipulates the truth according to his defective mind. Not only in his speeches, but also in his writings. And you can check everything that I say. I'll give you only three examples because I don't want to spend my whole night on this, but simply put, there is no no other way of putting it other than that he's 100% a heretic and many examples, but these are three that you could see for yourself. He had a lecture and also a write up on his website where he says that if it's hard for you not to waste seed, disregard what the sages of the z of the of the of everyone said. If it's hard for you not to waste seed, it's okay. It's allowed. In so many words, any sin that's hard for you not to do, go ahead and do it. If pommel is going to write you a he's going to write you a check in shim to pay for it. Don't worry about it. In so many words, cancels the entire. He writes this. He says this. I didn't make this up. I don't have time to make stuff up. The truth is worse than than anything you can make up. two, in a recent lecture, apparently he told people that there's no way according to the way he manipulates sources, according to the way that he exemplifies and manipulated deformed mind, there's no way that punishment is more than 12 months in gum because it says the judgment is 12 months in one place. Hashem, one of the people in the audience says, yeah, it says the judgment, not the punishment. Doesn't say the punishment is 12 months. Says judgment. Palo didn't have much to say. He wanted to continue with his heresy. So according to him, the punishment for Hitler, the punishment for Osama bin Laden, the punishment for Shabbat, the punishment for someone that raped somebody, pedophiles, uh someone that is a pedophile with one person, pedophile with a thousand people, murderer of one, murderer of a thousand, they all have the same punishment. Everyone gets a maximum of 12 months. The Rambanad writes in anyone that says that the maximum punishment is 12 months is not only a heretic but is a person that will get punished for turning God into an evil god that gives everyone the same punishment. That's an evil God. If you if you punish somebody that stole a pencil from the classroom, the same way you punish somebody for beating up half the kids in the class, you're an evil teacher. If you punish somebody for stealing $5 from a uh candy store, the same way you punish somebody that had a Ponzi scheme and stole $500 million from people, you are an evil person. There's no reason why the two should have the same punishment. But according to Frank Pommelov, everyone has the same punishment. Maximum 12 months. That's the second form of heresy. And the third one and in my opinion the worst one is in his purim estab one of my students brought this to my attention and tells me he says that the is for the meaning the learn it it's not for only the zor is for but the is for the this is not only a complete complet distortion of a source that he simply does not know how to read but it's a complete disrespect disregard for the holiest of holy of am the greatest sages in history which also are in the zadosh but it also shows that he doesn't know how to read either one and he never read either one because debates among the sages are not just in the Talmud but they're also in and they're everywhere that's how Judaism is learned, but he pretends to know because he knows that he use a computer. I could bet anything that he's never read the entire Talmud or the entire Z. And I would honestly doubt if he ever completed an entire book at all of anything. But this Apicos has the ability to speak and capture people's attention with his presentations, with his speaking skills and with his nonchalant attitude. He's 100% a heretic, no less than Manis Freedman, no less than all of the others that we've spoken about. And I didn't mention his name until now, just simply because we have enough battles to fight. But since this keeps coming up over and over again, I figured I'd make one mention to whoever wants to pay attention. Protect your own soul and stay away from these wicked people. As Mosherenu tells to Israel, one of the reasons why this Ephraim Palov and Manis and all of the other heretics not only are the way they are, but they continue getting worse as time goes by. The manipulations continue to grow. The distortions continue to grow. The lies continue to grow, the sins continue to grow, they continue getting worse. Is because once a person instead of acquiring, instead they acquire a deformed intellect, a deformed mindset. They now have a battle to fight which is getting out of the hole they put themselves into. But since they don't desire getting out of the hole they got themselves into, they want to be in it because the more they lie, the more attention they're getting, the more fans they're getting, the more views they're getting, the more honor they're getting, the more everything they desired in the first place they're getting. So what do they do? They got to keep the crowd coming. So what do they do? They have another lie and another lie and another lie. And it just keeps getting worse and worse. Man has started by saying God needs you several years ago. Today he's already giving speeches in churches, Christian churches. This Ephraim Pommel started with any sin that's too hard for you, you don't have to keep it anymore to now he's in essence literally changing whatever he wants as he wants. And he has no no rabbi to tell him what and no uh no nobody to listen to to tell him who. It's only going to get worse from here. And it all has to do with simply the first part. They do not have an intellect that's free of defect. They have a defective intellect even though they're smart. Even though they know how to speak, even though they can even tell you things that make it sound like this is the Torah. But as I said time and time again, if a person does not know how to learn, it doesn't mean they don't know how to manipulate. They know how to manipulate because they already have a conclusion. Just like the church and the missionaries, they have a conclusion. Their conclusion is that Yosh is God. So when they're looking at places in the Torah, they're not looking to where can I find Yoshk in the Torah. They're simply saying, "What can I manipulate in order to make it sound like their man God is in the Torah?" They already have a conclusion and they're looking for something to fit it. Same concept with all of the other deformed-minded people. They have a conclusion and they're going to try to take whatever they can to say, "Okay, this puzzle piece will make sense to the ignorant that are listening." And that's why the second point says that a person has to have in order to have understanding of a Torah is a Torah. The seafra the five books of Moses and not some other New Testament or Quran or anything else that contradicts it. Our Torah is the same Torah that we got on Mount Si as we have today. If you don't believe that already, you do not have the ability to acquire Torah knowledge and have a real connection to. The third part is the one that the heretics have the most trouble with. Whether it's the Christian missionaries or the atheists or the kites or all the other clowns out there that somehow still have air to breathe which is the masoit the tradition which we have received from the preceding generations who in turn received it from the prophets. Once a person denies the tradition, denies the oral Torah, then in so many words they're creating something new. Why would they deny the oral Torah? Because the oral Torah is what explains the written Torah. Without the oral Tawa, it's impossible to understand or even read the written Torah. But if you go to one of these kites that somehow still exist in the world in small small little communities and you ask them how do you read and understand what the Torah says if you deny the validity and divinity of the oral Torah. They'll tell you we open it and whatever we understand we understand. Wait. So, you're telling me that a six-year-old boy opens the Torah and whatever he understands? That's the Torah? Yeah. So, the six-year-old understands and a six 60 year old understands. Who's right? Oh, they're both right. Whatever you understand, that's what you understand. Now, as stupid as that sounds, this is a belief system that goes on goes back already hundreds of years. Why? Why do they want to believe this? Because if they believe in the oral Torah, it obligates them. It obligates them in all of the mitzvot. It obligates them to overcome their desires. It obligates them to fix their defective mind. Now, the interesting part is that if you ask them or the Christian missionaries or anybody else that denies the oral Tua, who told you that the written Torah is divine? What do you mean? We got it at Mount Si, but were you at Mount Si? No. So, how do you know that the written Torah that we have today, the five books of Moses are what we got on Mount Si? How do you know? You weren't there. So, how do you know? Well, it's from tradition and Oh, wait. So, you do have an oral Taha. It's just selective oral Torah. It's whatever you want to believe. The oral Torah that says that you're not allowed to drive on Shabbat, you don't want to believe that. The oral Torah that says that you're not allowed to intermar, you don't want to believe. The oral Torah that says you're not allowed to waste seed, you don't want to believe. But the oral Torah that tells you that the written Torah is divine, that you want to believe. So it's whatever you want, that's what you believe. This is like a story where there was two ministers, two ministers of the king. They wanted to prove a point. There's a debate among them. One said that speech is of utmost importance while the other said silence is much more important than speech. The king was entertained by this debate and he said okay let's have a debate. So the one that's arguing for speech gets up and starts giving a speech of why speech is so important and he speaks eloquently for 40 minutes. At the end of his speech, everyone is impressed. They give him a standing ovation, clapping their hands. Next goes the second minister that wants to prove that silence is of utmost importance more than speech. He gets up on a podium and as he's about to start his speech, the other minister goes up to him and slaps him on the mouth. Hey, don't you dare do that. You have the nerve to prove your case that silence is of importance more than speech by using speech. How can you use my tool to prove yours? The point is the heretics, the missionaries, the different people that go against the Torah. One of the most obnoxious things that they do is they try to use our tools to tell us what the truth is. People that do not even know the basics of alf the basics of what the hum says of who the main commentators are. What is the Torah versus the oral Torah? They want to tell us what the Torah means. They want to tell us what's valid. They want to tell us what's true. You're coming to tell us what we should believe when you don't even know anything about our belief. That's the most bizarre. So, how come they have an audience? Because unfortunately the vast majority of people out there that they simply don't learn Torah, they don't know what Tawa is themselves and therefore they're stuck with their own defective mindset that shuts them off from acquiring Torah knowledge because anytime Torah knowledge is introduced to them, it's introduced with well, if you learn Torah and you follow the Torah, then you're not allowed to fulfill your desires. Then you're not allowed to eat what you want. Then you're not allowed to marry who you want. Then you're not allowed to do this. Then you're not allowed to do that. So because they have such dedication to their desires, their materialism, their physicality, they're not even allowing themselves to learn what the Torah actually says because they hear that the Torah is going to stop them from fulfilling their desires. And the teachers that are manipulating them, how do they manipulate them to follow them? Simple say here by us. They'll tell them at Christianity, at kitism, at heresy world, God needs you. God uh you know loves you. No matter what you do, you could do whatever you want. You could fulfill your desires. You could do what you want. So how do they sell their lies? By simple, very simple. by letting people think that they could do whatever they want. They could simply do whatever they want. They could act however they want. This unfortunately is not just in different religions. This is also in Judaism. You have unfortunately some liars that are speakers which I mentioned a couple already today. How do they get the public to follow their their deformed mindset? By taking advantage of other people's defective mindset. While the manis and the pommel and the other heretics, they have a deformed mindset intentionally because they simply want to manipulate the Torah in order to get everyone to follow them. The audience have a defect, not intentional. They don't even know it's defective. They just simply want to do whatever they want to do and they don't realize they're not allowed to do it. So when you give them the option that they could do whatever they want and still feel good about themselves, of course most people will go after that unless the person has the trait of truth. The trait of truth means that they're not going to allow their desires to control their decisions. They're not going to allow their desires to control the truth. The truth is what it is no matter what implications. No matter what the implications are. Now, one of the things that from my perspective, it's the by far on one of the top at least if not on top of the list of the most obnoxious lies that we see today is this so-called understanding that people have that everyone could just simply love God and serve out of love. No need to fear. Now, as I told you last week, we're sometimes going to delve into other parts of the because it'll simply take us years to get there and it's critical to today. If anyone knows what loving Hashem is, it's the from a thousand years ago who gives has a whole section of the book about the gate of love, love of Hashem. In section six of the gate of love, he says as follows, what are the signs of love of God to be found in one who loves him? In so many words, if you love Hashem, how could I tell? How could anybody tell? How can you tell that you love Hashem? And he begins, among them is a renunciation of all excesses that might keep him from serving the creator may be exalted. In so many words, you desire money, you desire wealth, you desire uh you know beauty, all the e extra whatever it is, all the excesses. Certainly those take too much of your heart in order for you to leave any room to love Hashem. Now does that mean that if you love Hashem you have to be poor? No. Rabani was very rich. Rabaka was very rich. Schlomik was very rich. There was many were very rich. The difference between the two is that one makes their whole life about materialism and the other one just simply has been blessed with material and uses that material to serve Hashem to the absolute maximum. One their life is material. The other one simply uses material in their life. A further sign says the of the love of God to be found in one who loves him is that traces of his fear of God and profound dread of him are apparent in his facial expression as it's written in the book of Exodus 20:1 17 so that his fear be on your faces and you not sin in so many words fear of Hashem is not only good to have, must have. He's saying this is a completely different level of fear. The fear of Hashem has to be on your face at all times for you to even have a remote chance of even understanding what loving of Hashem is. And he clarifies, fear of God is of two kinds. One of these fears is a fear of his punishment and trials. One fears God in this case because he can cause him pain and suffering. If however he were immune to suffering, he would not fear God. Of such individuals, our masters of blessed memory said we should be wary lest they come to observe the commandments out of fear. Such an individual falls short of the degree attained by the truly god-fearing and is and is the embodiment of what our masters of blessed memory said and warned against be not like the servants who served the master on condition of receiving a reward. So here he's saying if the only fear you have is fear of punishment that means that if God said you're not going to get punished then you won't fear him anymore. So it's not real fear of God. It's fear of anything bad happening to you. And therefore, if that's the only way you're going to serve Hashem is just simply scared that bad things will happen to you, then that's not the level you want to stay at your whole life. You can start that way for sure. It's the absolute necessity to start that way. You have to just like you crawl before you walk and you walk before you uh uh run. You have to start somewhere. But the average person out there doesn't even want that. When they hear about gay, they hear about kafa, they hear about, they hear about problems that happen in this life. Say, "No, no, no. God only loves. He only loves. He doesn't punish." So who punishes? A different power. So you're an idol worshipper, too. You believe in m multiple powers. So here he's saying, "Yes, fear of punishment is not where you want to be. If you want to get to the point of loving Hashem, that's not enough. It has to be even more than that. That and more. Every time there's more in Torah, it means that and more. Not just that. It doesn't mean this or that. Doesn't mean either you have this fear or that fear. There's the fear of punishment. Just like the said and we wrote it in the uh in the on and many other have said it that the fear of punishment is always present at all times. But if that's where you've parked, that's where you're at, that's where that's the only fear you have, then you're not going to get to loving Hashem because loving Hashem requires a higher level of fear, which is fear of punishment and awe of Hashem. What's the of here? The tells us one who reaches the degree of fear of God will not fear or be afraid of anything but the creator. As one of the pious told of a god-fearing man whom he found asleep in the desert and he asked the man, "Are you not afraid of lions? How can you sleep in such a place? And the man replied, I would be ashamed before God if he were to see me that I was afraid of anything besides him. Meaning that the second type of fear is when you have such awe of Hashem that you fear nothing else. And therefore the says this second kind of fear of Hashem is awe which is inspired by his magnitude, exaltedness and awesome power. This awe never leaves a person or parts from him all the days of his life. This is the highest of the degrees of a god-fearing to life uh to uh to whom the scripture attributes as it is the gateway to pure love and intense yearning. Meaning that in order for a person to even start loving Hashem, they have to be at the highest level of fear of Hashem. as I've told you guys 500 times over the years. Furthermore, a further sign that a person loves Hashem is that it is all the same to him whether people praise him or condemn him. Whether in fulfillment of the will of the creator may be exalted when he's in fulfillment of the will of the creator. Meaning even if you're doing what's right and people yell at you, you don't care. People compliment you, you still don't care. It's all the same. It's called where everything is the same to you. It doesn't make a difference what the public perception is, the anybody's perception is. All you care about is the will of Hashem. All you care is the will of Hashem. No, the average person out there is upset if people don't like their uh their their uh their little Facebook posts. Oh, nobody liked it. How come my friend didn't like it? I'm not going to talk to her anymore. I'm not going to talk to anymore. Wait, if you care about people's feelings and what their perception is of what you're doing, then you're not even close to loving Hashem. Why? Because really, you love yourself. And in order to love yourself more, you want to convince yourself that there's a reason to love you because you love Hashem. But in reality, you love yourself. You don't love Hashem. You don't have room to love Hashem. A further sign is that he's willing to surrender his life, his body, his money, and his children in order to do the will of God may be exalted. Here the is telling you telling you that if you really love Hashem, you're willing to literally sacrifice your kids for him. Show me one person. Just want one person that goes and advertises they love Hashem that is willing to sacrifice his kids, that is willing to sacrifice all of his money, willing to sacrifice his body, will to sacrifice everything for Hashem. Show me one person. Not five, not 10, not 20, not 50, one. one of these people that say it's all about loving Hashem. Show me one of them that's willing. The second the second one of the mitzvah get in the way of their comfort already that mitzvah is not relevant anymore. The second Hashem commands them to do something that is not their preference already they kill us. Why? Because loving Hashem is not just saying I love you and putting a little rubber band that you buy for $10 because somebody is very good at capitalism and they know how to sell, you know, silly things to stupid people to make them think that they actually love God by just having a little band on their arm and say, "I love you, God." If you think that little band means you love God, you should have paid $20 for it because at least somebody else could use the money instead of giving it to people that are mentally sick. But that's what's happening today. People think they love Hashem just because they have a little rubber band that says I love you Hashem. We have I love you Hashem t-shirts on our on our website. Just because you have the you buy the t-shirt doesn't mean you love Hashem. It's a t-shirt. It's an indication you want to. It's an indication you're trying to but doesn't mean you actually do. Another sign is that he repeatedly mentions God's name in appreciation, thanksgiving and songs of praise. In so many words, Hashem's name is constantly coming out of your lips always, always. Further sign that a person that the person loves God is that when promising others that he will do or say something even in the very near future he always adds the provision God willing for two reasons one because he fears death may swiftly overtake him and prevent him from fulfilling what he promised this comes from from fear of hem that you don't if hem is going to take you or not, but you still love him. And two, because he does not know whether it has been for ordained by Hashem for this to be done. Meaning, he loves Hashem so much that all he's willing to do is the will of Hashem. And if what he's about to do is not the will of Hashem, then Hashem, just take me out of this world. There's no uh there's no no qualms about it. No qualms about it. In fact, anything that I do, I say based on Hashem. Why? Because if Hashem does not want this to happen, let it not happen. And if I'm going to do something against Hashem, Hashem, take me from the world before I do it. Take me from the world before I do it. Why? Because I love you, Hashem. Is anybody still listening to to and still thinking that they love Hashem? Further sign is that he guides and directs others to God's service gently or forcefully as needed according to the time and place and a different types of and levels of people from kings to ordinary folks. And said that a wise man may hear and add to his knowledge and that a man of understanding acquire perceptiveness and furthermore to lend shrewdness to the simple to a youth knowledge and discernment. In so many words, if you want to love Hashem, Kiru is no longer a good thing to do but rather the main thing to do. doing kiru, supporting kir, helping people do chuva, either with money, with speech, with skill set, whatever a kadu blessed you with. Every part of your essence becomes something that is going to help people do chuva. That is one of the signs that you love Hashem. If you're not doing kir, if you don't care for ku, if you only do kiru once in a while, it's not really a priority. Like your business, it's not really a priority. you like your your upcoming vacation is not really a priority in uh here or there. If Kiru is not a top priority in your life, for sure you don't love Hashem. Why? That's what he says. To have to love Hashem, you need all of these signs. So, a person that only cares about their own soul, their own family, their own little circle, and does not care about the rest of Hashem's children, how can you say you love Hashem? If somebody says to you, "Honey, I love you." While at the same time seeing that your kids, your beloved, are suffering on the side. They're crying. They're miserable. They're hungry. They're lonely. But paying no attention to it. No attention. Doesn't care. You tell them, "Listen, you know, my kids are crying over there. They need food." Ah, no. Come on. I love you though. I love you. Okay. Love me. Love me. But my kids said, "Who cares about your kids? I love you. If you loved me, you would love my kids. But you don't love me. You love what I do for you. You love what you want for me. You don't love me." Because if you love me, you love my kids. If a person wants to even think that they love Hashem, for sure they would do everything possible to get a kadu's children to come back to him and do chuva. And that's what the is saying. He say, "Oh yeah, you do it nicely, they'll come." He says, "No, no, no. Kiru is done gently or forcefully as needed according to the time and place and in different types and levels of people from kings to ordinary folks. So one person you could speak to them softly explain to them what amuna what is what the confirmations of the divinity of the Torah with through science architecture history and so on. Another person you could simply explain to them that what they're doing is against Hashem and they're going to get punished in gome and they give them a few details of what happens in gome and so on and so forth. Another person you simply invest into them by showing them you know material and books and let them read for themselves. Another person you have an argument with. Another person you have a discussion with. Another person you are do whatever it is is necessary. As we saw from the on one end they say don't serve hashem because you want a reward on another end we see the sages themselves doing kiru by telling people you get a reward why because it depends on the person it depends on the circumstance so to say that you should never rebuke is simply cancelelling part of the Torah to say that you should rebuke everyone is also making you a crazy person because it's not applicable to everyone every place. When people ask me, well, listen, I want to move to a community, but I see that not everybody in the community is a uh, you know, is is modest. Not everybody in the community is righteous. Are you all righteous? Are you all always modest? Just because you're good at one mitzvah doesn't mean that you're good at all the mitzvah. And that's what a lot of people don't realize that I mentioned in the beginning of the sh is that many times people look at their own strength and everybody else's weakness. So they go into a community with their head high and their shoulders straight because they feel like exterior wise they're more modest and thereby more righteous than everybody else. This is simply a delusion and a perfect perfect example of a defective mindset. Not intentional, not making them an evil person, but it's a defective mindset. Why? Because you think that just because you're good at one mitzvah or two or five, that makes you more righteous than everybody else. Secondly, a person cannot go into a community expecting everyone to be perfect. We're not in a perfect world. In fact, if you truly loved Hashem, you would know that going to help other people do chuva is part of your love of Hashem. Even if you don't love him now, at the very least you're trying to love him by fulfilling the we that you love your God. This is the way to do it. by helping other people do chuva till you see somebody that's not modest. You say something, you befriend them. Little by little, you try to encourage them. Oh, they're not listening to me. Okay, so maybe you shouldn't talk, but you should get bring somebody else to speak. You give them a CD, a USB, a uh a ku box. You try to help them in any way you can, but if they're not willing to take the help that you're giving them, the way you're giving them, then your love of Hashem should influence you to change the way you try to help them. meaning never give up in trying to help Hashem's children do chuva. Simply adapt to the situation and find another way. Because if you truly love Hashem, you're never going to give up on his kids. You're never going to give up on serving him. What? If it's hard for you to build a suka, you're not going to build a suka. If it's hard for you to eat kosher, you're just not going to eat kosher anymore. That's what the pommel of the world say. If it's hard for you, don't do it. That's what heretics say. What the is telling us here is that if you want to have any sign of love of Hashem, your priority number one in life aside from learning Torah and building yourself is by helping other people do chuva. And that's why he says you should know my brother that even if a believer were to attain the utmost limit in the improvement of his own soul in its devotion to God may be exalted even if he were to approach the level of the prophets in so far as their personal virtues, their praiseworthy conduct, their effort in serving God and their pure love for him, his merits would not equal those of one who guides others. to the right path and directs the wicked to the service of the creator. For the merits of such a person are multiplied every day and at all times by the merits of those who who he's guided. In so many words, a person that loves Hashem does ku and not only because he loves Hashem, but also because he has a he realizes that even though I'm not doing kiru for the reward, there's simply not there's no other better way to show Hashem I love him and also to do chuva because even if I only work on myself, I only study for myself, I only do research for myself to the point where I perfect myself like I become a navi I become a prophet I become ely comes to visit me every day it's still not equivalent to someone that does kiru because while I do as much as I can every day you're not awake 24 hours a day you're not always perfect whereas the guy that does kiru whether he does it with with his money, with his skill, with with his talent, with all of the above. Somebody that actually toils and makes Ku their number one thing. Now, the says is greater than someone that has worked on themselves to the point of perfecting themselves like the prophets. Because while that person that perfected themselves has only their own merits to rely on, the person that invests in has the profits of everybody that he helps. So now every Shabbat he has 10, 20, 50, 100, 500, 5,000 people that are keeping Shabbat. All of that goes to his account. Every day he has 5,000. Every day he has 5,000 10,000 aars in so many words, he multiplies himself. She multiplies herself. So the more a person elevates themselves in loving Hashem, the more shows them the greatest prophets that could possibly exist. But the opposite is true as well. If a person does not really love Hashem, but rather loves themselves and looks for fame, fortune, and profit and honor, and everything else that comes with it, then they're going to do whatever they can to get people to follow them, to get people to like them and not necessarily Hashem. And they'll become people that cause people to sin, people that cause people to distance away from the truth of Hashem. And their punishment is magnified in the same fashion. So they made that sin once, but the five or 10 or 20,000 people that followed them also made the same sin now. So guess what? Every day they get 20,000 sins. And now those people do that sin every day. So they get 20,000 sins every single day. So the g that they are digging themselves literally doesn't end as said in the video that I showed you guys a couple of weeks ago that when he learned about the depth of what happened to Kak Kak made a mistake that happened in a relatively short period of time where he went against Mosherenu yet his gum was literally took over 300 years to to get to the bottom of it, to get to the place where Kak was. And that's a sin that was practically a momentary sin. If somebody is a heretic week after week, lecture after lecture in front of tens of thousands of people, millions of people, literally is like a perfect sadic next to them. the gay that is like gun next to the gum of the sinner of those people that are in this generation are. So it's absolutely ridiculous when people fall for these traps to say that oh no no no they have a uh a softer way or a nicer there is no softer night there's simply the truth there simply the truth commanded us to reprove those who fall short in the fulfillment of their duties says as the Torah says you must reprove your fellow and our masters are blessed members He said until what point is an obligation to reproof? Rav said until a person is cursed. Said until he's stricken. As it says, he who admonishes a man to serve me will find favor. In so many words, the says that part of loving Hashem is being is being able, willing, and even happy to sacrifice any comfort that you possibly have, any desire that you possibly have, anything you have. In fact, not only are you willing, but you're offering everything to Hashem constantly as a sacrifice, going into it knowing that you'll get hurt in the process. Why? Even if he were to destroy me, I'd still serve him, says Job. Now, is the average person out there that's saying that he loves Hashem or she loves Hashem willing to do that? Maybe in their wildest dreams for about a half a second. So again, this is not a mockery of people's uh ideology. It's simply a clarification of what is the truth versus what is a lie. Many people have a simply a misunderstanding of what the truth even is. And one of the reasons why they stay with that misunderstanding is because they have a defective mindset. a defective mindset that blocks them from the truth of the Torah because of their own desires, because of the Torah's obligation they don't want to fulfill. And therefore, those very same people are attracted to the heretics and the liars and the people that say they teach Tua while pretending to be super models and all types of other deformed teachings. This is what the truth looks like. This will open up our minds not only to look around of who is failing and who is succeeding but really more than anything else to look at ourselves to look at myself and see am I lying to myself where could I fix myself what could I do better where am I failing how could how could I do this better than what I'm already doing what am I not doing what am I doing give yourself a pros and s doing good, not doing good, and start delving deeper into yourself and and simply not lie to ourselves. Because if we're still here, there's more work to do and we will succeed. Thank you very much for learning with me. Anyone that wants to support can go and donate on our website.org or you could go and donate for the high holiday campaigns. There's a couple of uh options of uh people that are able to donate more than others at bhr.org. And of course, those of you that are clever and want to take advantage of the ultimate Kiru opportunity, get yourself as many of the Kir boxes that you could possibly afford, buy 10, 50, 100, 500, as many as you could possibly afford and give it to people. give it to people because each one that you're giving to them literally it's the ultimate opportunity to get people to do chuva. Instead of buying aliot the for 5 10 20 $50,000 go buy 500 a,000 10,000 of these of these kiru boxes we have and give them to everybody in the community. I could assure you your year will be blessed 50 million times more by doing that with that kind of money than any aliyah you can buy aliyah even if you bought the aliyah of and every bknisset whether it's the uh you know the bikes that sells the aliot for $100,000 a clip or the ones that are still stuck at5 or $10,000 if you bought all of Daliot of all of the technet in you know it would not be the same blessing as if you use that same kind of money on getting these Kiru boxes into people's hands. Why? This will make people do chuva and if you make people do chuva gives you extraordinary I've seen it with my own eyes not just for myself but for others. And I wish I wish people simply understood what this means. And that's why I always tell people, if you still don't understand, if you still haven't bought at least, you know, 10, 20 of them right away, then at least get one for yourself so you could see the words that I'm saying to you because it's simply the best possible tool that ever existed for the world that we have we live in today. Simple. There's no other way to put it. People will understand and take advantage of the opportunity. And we will show that not only do we want to love him, but we're at least doing something to show that we want to love him by doing called toe. We'll talk soon. All right. foreign. Amen.