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Do you agree or disagree? So I >> of course I disagree with rabbitic Judaism. I'm a Christian. Jesus is the is the solution. I hope every Jew gives their life to Christ. We're back here on our new series series of Torah foundation based on the and tonight's shu is not going to be for the soft hearts or people that want to play in and out within the world of truth. This is going to rub some people the wrong way. I'm warning you ahead of time. This is going to be something that's going to test each and every soul, each and every heart of whether you really are living the truth or simply lying to yourself. Tonight's show is going to be for the Ben and all of AmI is and all the righteous nohigh that continue to support our organization, continue to watch our lectures and continue sharing them everywhere they possibly can. 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And the reason why is because this has to do with simple understanding of where we stand in the world as individuals, as a nation, especially with what's happening in the world. There is an says hates. This is an this is not a midrash. This is not a story. This is an actual that hates Yakov. The question is has this become troubling for you to understand of how it's actually applicable to today? In the wake of the horrific and brutal assassination of Charlie Kirk, many famous Jews have shared their outcry. Among them were even rabbis and other famous personalities who took it a step further by calling Charlie a sadik even calling him the vinu of the generation. Despite the fact that Charlie publicly stated countless times that his dream was that all Jews would abandon the Torah and adopt Christianity. Do his praises and defense of the state of Israel and the physical Jewish lives make him a sadic or does the hate still apply? Once we know the answer, we'll understand how to understand the public outcry by so many Jews. This lecture is not for the faint of heart. As I've said, it's not for people that can't accept the truth of what the Torah is and what it stands for. It's certainly going to crush some ideologies and even irritate some people beyond the norm. But this is the Torah and it will not change. The takes us a step further into dissecting and inspecting our hearts. In this section says the wisdom of the Torah can be divided into two parts. Knowledge of the duties of the limbs meaning the wisdom that is manifested externally and knowledge of the duties of the heart. Duties which belong to the hidden private realm of the heart. It's wisdom of the inner inward life. to explain this further breaks things down for us and he says the duties of the limbs also fall into two categories and as we'll see from this entire series breaks down things into small parts each one having its own fundamental teachings each one having clear explanations that even the deaf can hear and the blind can see. But before we get into the different categories of the duties of the limbs, we first have to understand what we're talking about here. What does it mean the duties of the limbs? In so many words, these are this is the wisdom where the laws of the Torah obligate physical action. that our action of our hands is become upon us as a result of the mitzvot. So when a person puts on person on a uh does all of these different mitzvot that require action if you have if you're a Jew and you have an arm you have to put on to fill in you have a head you have to put on to fill in. If you don't have an arm, then you don't have any arms and you don't have to put on the armed feelings, but you still have to put on the head. But if you don't have have a head, you don't have to put on the head either. The point being is is that if you have the ability to do the mitzvah, you have an obligation to do so as well. The Torah obligates you. Unlike what many may think as a result of ignorance or as a result of heresy, the Torah obligates us to fulfill the mitzvot and not simply to review them and pick and choose which one we like. So this type of wisdom is something that we can see because you can see if somebody is fulfilling a Torah as a result of their actions, the way they dress, the way they pray, the way they serve a kadosh. But then there is a certain duty that no one aside from a bahu knows about whether you're fulfilling or not. This is the second type which is the duties of the heart which is what you believe what you think. There's a mitzvah called do you love Hashem? No one aside from can know if you really love Hashem. You can say you love Hashem as much as you want. You could even have a little rubber band saying I love Hashem. But in reality in your heart you don't. There's a mitzvah of fearing Hashem. You can say you fear Hashem, but in reality, you make sins like it's a mitzvah. You have no concept whatsoever of what fear of Hashem is. There's a mitzvah to love the convert. Love your fellow Jew. Do not hate them. These are different mitzvot. No one aside from a and of course you hopefully if you don't lie to yourself knows whether you actually are fulfilling those mitzvot or not. You can tell your brother that you love him but in reality you can't stand him. You can tell your sister that she's always welcome in your house but in reality you're hoping she says no and she's too busy to come because you hate her. So lies that come out of people's words are not fooling Hashem. And a person has to know that one of the fundamental principles of our faith is that knows what we're thinking. Knows what we're feeling. So these hidden mitzvot are some of the most fundamental things to discover about ourselves to really know where we stand. Now breaks down the duties of the limbs into two categories. those which the intellect would have called for even if the Torah had not and those that have come to us by way of revelation which the intellect neither insist nor rejects. For example, the prohibition of cooking meat and milk together or eating uh and deriving benefit from such a mixture or the prohibition of wearing uh shates which is woven uh of wool and flax or prohibition of sewing different kinds of seeds together which is also called kilim positive and negative mitzvot where the reason for these mitzvot has been concealed from us and the duties of the heart however are rooted entirely in reason. So here the is telling us there are two categories for these mitzvot of the limbs. There are ones that make logical sense to us and there are ones that don't logical sense that to such an extent that even if the Torah did not command them, we would still know that we have to do it. For example, the seven noahide laws. Shalom said that the obligation of the seven nohide laws is upon the Gentiles even if they never learned a shield by Rabbi Ruven or any other rabbi because they all make logical sense. What are the seven noahide laws? Number one, don't commit idolatry. There's only one God. Don't turn him into a man. Don't turn him into a woman. Don't turn him into an idol. None of that nonsense. There's only one God. There's no trinity. There's no there's no other power other than two. Do not profane God. Regardless of how angry you are and how sad you are and how upset you are, never ever curse Hashem. Three, don't murder. Every normal person understands it. But yet, unfortunately, we see that murders are on the rise. Massacres have been part of society since the beginning. whether it's the Holocaust or it's October 7th or it's all of the pilgrims and inquisitions throughout the years. But everyone knows that if someone were to kill their brother, their sister, their cousin, their friend, they wouldn't be exactly happy about it and they wouldn't uh agree with the killer. Number four, don't eat a living animal. Simple. Don't be vicious. You want to eat an animal? No problem. You're allowed to eat an animal. But kill it first. There's no reason for you to torture it just because you want to eat it. This makes perfect sense. Don't steal. Every normal person understands that stealing is bad. Even the thief understands that stealing is bad. Don't commit immorality. This whole new religion of LGBT and all the other stuff, the genders and all that other stuff, that's against the nohide laws. Number seven, establish a court of law. Every place has to have a court of law because if there's no court of law, people will think there's no consequences for their actions and they will violate every law whether it's the divine law or otherwise. So having a court of law is an absolute necessity and everyone understands it even though many people hate it. They don't realize that if it wasn't for the court of law, people would literally eat each other just for the sake of survival and from all the evil that's out there. And that's what the says that even the Jews have to pray for the uh establishment of uh and the uh of the court of law of the Gentiles because if it wasn't for the malut, if it wasn't for the kinghood, if it wasn't for some type of order and some type of superior body that puts things into perspective for people not to lose their mind, literally people would kill each other left and right without any qualms about it. We're seeing some of that unfortunately in society today, but more so we're seeing with how theft, how stealing and open daylight has become a standard in America because the laws change that literally enable people to steal without having any concern. But even the thieves, if you ask them, "Would you mind if somebody just smashed into your house and stole all your stuff just like you did to that Apple store, to that sneaker store, to that jewelry store?" Of course, they wouldn't exactly be happy about it, and they wouldn't agree that that's the right thing to do. And they may even call the cops. But the reality is, I would tell you, is that all of these laws make perfect sense. Not just for the Nohides, but also for the Jews, for everybody, for all of mankind. These are common sense laws. And there are many others. To not be vicious to an animal. For a Jew, if he's vicious to an animal, not just eating an animal while it's still alive, simply being vicious to an animal is a sin from the Torah. kicking his dog, torturing animals, all types of things like that. This is a violation of the Torah. He'll go to Gayom for it. So there are logical laws that are very simple to understand. There are also illogical laws. Illogical, not illogical as if they're incorrect. Illogical means that doesn't make sense to us. Why does God care if you eat milk and meat? Why does he care? Why does he care if you cook milk and meat? You derive a benefit from it. So much so that if you cook milk and meat, but then realize, oh wait, I'm not allowed to do it. Okay, you know what? Let me give that milk and meat to my dog. No, you're not allowed to because you're going to derive a benefit from it because as a result of feeding your dog milk and meat, you'll have to you'll say end up saving money from feeding him the other food that you feed him typically. So, you're not allowed to even do that. So, why does God care what the dog eats, what you cook? What difference is it to him? What does it matter to him if you wear a piece of clothing that has wool and linen in it? I mean, you could technically wear wool and right under it linen. The problem is if they're woven together, meaning you could wear different layers of clothing that are wool and linen. But if they're woven together, now you have a problem to such an extent that the says that if you know that your fellow Jew is wearing wool and linen, he's wearing shots, you're allowed to rip the clothes off of him if he refuses to take it off because it's a sin every second. Does that make sense to you? No. It doesn't make sense to you. Doesn't make sense to anybody that has a human brain. But who obviously does not think like us and there are that says they're not going to make sense to you. In Yemen their were called moi. One of the over there would make sure that to keep his community at bay and keep them obviously on the right path. And if he saw that one of the shops were open, one of the stores was open really early, he'd get to the store, did you put on feline? Uh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Moly. Yes. Yes. Molly, I did it. I did it. Let me see. What do you mean let me see? Let me see. Roll up your arm. Let me see. Why? Because if you put on usually leave some marks on your arm for you know an hour or two, he would check why this is a mitzvah that is manifested externally. I can see if you fulfill that mitzvah. But when it comes to the mitzvot that are illogical or beyond our logic I should say. One of the problems that people have is that the nature of a human being is to do things that have a purpose. A purpose to profit, a purpose to gain, a purpose to help, a purpose to hurt. People need a purpose. So even if you told somebody that you'll pay them $100 every time they take a rock and they take it from one side to the other and then another the rock again to the other side over and over again without changing anything. Now in the beginning the person's happy. Why? because he's making $100 every time he moves his hand. But after a while, he won't like it so much. Why? Because he start asking himself, "What am I doing here?" Okay, so I have I'm gaining something, but I'm suffering at the same time. Why aren't you Why are you suffering? Because there's no point. I'm just moving the rock from one place to the other. One place to the other. Nothing's happening. At least if he told me, "Press some buttons, build something, gather them up." Okay, I understand. Maybe a bigger purpose than But here I'm not doing anything. The rock is going from here to there to there to here to there. Nothing. That's what's called Abuat. Abuat is what the Egyptians made the Jewish people do in Egypt as part of their torture of the Jewish people where they would give the men the jobs of the women, the women the jobs of the men, and worst of all, whatever they built, they would destroy it. So literally even removing any joy they could possibly have of gaining any type of purpose where at least okay they're enslaving us. They're beating us but at least we built something. Look that's really nice. Look at that bridge. Look at that house. No, no, no. Everything they destroyed. Now when it comes to mitzvot, there is one critical problem that has always been an issue for people that are not learning Torah enough or simply did not pay attention in class. When this subject came up, what is it? The Torah says that we have all types of mitzvot and in chapter 18 verse number four. tells us in the book of Leviticus Vikapter 18:4, "Carry out my laws and safeguard my decrees to follow them. I am Hashem your God." So here we see that describes the laws in two ways. my laws, my decrees. Rashi Rashi Kadosh nearly 900 years ago in France, one of the greatest sages that ever lived, brought light to the world where you could not survive understanding a single verse in a Torah without having Rashi help you. He clarifies why is there two types of descriptions for the laws? Laws, decrees. Isn't it all the same? Rashi says, "Laws are practices that would be dictated by reason, by common sense, even if they were not commanded by the Torah, such as the prohibition against robbery, immorality, idolatry, blasphemy, bloodshed, like we said, decrees, on the other hand, are those that are unfathomable by the human intelligence, such as the prohibition against consumption of forbidden meat, wearing mixture of wool and linen, the laws of the removal of contamination, tuma, because these laws are beyond human logic. The verse ends with, "I am Hashem, your God." Meaning, these are God's decrees and is not for you to decide whether or not they're worthy of your approval. In so many words, do them whether you like them or you don't. Do them whether you agree with them or don't. Do them whether you understand them or you don't. Why? I am Hashem your God. Now, as clear as that sounds, this is perhaps one of the most difficult aspects of the Torah for the average person. Now, if they went to a doctor and a doctor says, "You have an infection. You need to take an antibiotic," they're not going to tell the doctor, "Listen, I don't think I'm going to take the antibiotic because I don't know how it works yet. So, first I have to go to med school, take some chemistry classes as well, take some biology because you can't really go up to chemistry without having some basics in in biology. After that, I'll have to go to grad school to really truly understand things because we all know that college is just completely waste of time. You don't really learn anything until you get you finish college. So once I finish all of that, I'll start if I approve of the reason of why you give me antibiotics, then I'll take them. You're not going to do that. Why? Because the doctor's going to tell you, well, listen, Khabibi, uh, by then you're already going to die because the infection would spread and you would die. No, the average person is not going to say, "Listen, I don't know if I want to take this medicine unless I understand it." If the situation is dire, if the person says, "No, no, I don't want to take the vaccine. I'm against vaccines." Yes, because you're not sick. The moment you're sick, trust me when I tell you, you'll take anything they give you. If they give you a frog to eat, you'll eat it. But the people that usually go against the vaccines, the medicines, the they the the big pharma, it's usually people that are healthy, at least physically healthy. Mentally, not usually. Nonetheless, this doesn't mean that all medicine and vaccines are good. And the point being is to just have a general attitude towards all medicine being poison and being bad and so on is pure stupidity. But nonetheless, Rashi tells us when it comes to the Torah, you cannot have such an attitude. Whether you understand the Torah or you don't, you have to do it. You have to fulfill it. Whether Jew or Gentile, you have to fulfill it. This was the problem for Kak. Korak wanted to take over. But how could he take over if everyone knows that God spoke to Mosherenu? So he had to discredit him. He had to, as the expression goes, shoot the messenger. Discredit him. make it seem as if Mosher Abenu is making things up. So he made up stories about how Mosher Renu took money from some poor lady by the end he took so much money out of her she ended up dying from starvation. This complete nonsense that never existed but that was only after he showed people listen these mitzvot that is telling us don't make sense. He's telling us that we have to wear the tit with a blue string on it. Now, we don't have the confirmation that the is for sure what we have in the world today. So, therefore, today we still have to wear the tit, but we don't have an obligation to wear the anymore because we don't know if the the specific color that we have today is the same thing that the Torah says. So we could still fulfill the mitzvah but not the highest level of there are some that say you could assume that the other one that we have in the world today is it needless to say is no obligation but Korak was not worried about the string he said listen why should I wear just one string of blue if Hashem desires this special color let me make the whole talit blue the whole thing is blue is not isn't that better says no. Hashem didn't say the whole tal to be blue. He said the string has to be blue, not the whole thing. So said, wait a minute. If one string is good, then logically the whole thing being blue is better. Benu says, "No, that's not true. That's your logic, but that's not the divine logic. The divine logic was not that. You're just rationalizing things. So then say, "Hold on a second. You says that we had to put a muza on the doorpost. A muza is comprised of a few verses from a Torah. What if instead of putting this little muza on the doorpost of every room except a bathroom or a closet, unless it's one of today's closets that are walk-in closets that pretty much is a room of itself, instead of putting a muza, let me just have a house full of Torah scrolls. So obviously if the muza is only a few verses, why do I need to even waste any money on it? I want to buy from $500 muza from Mikub. No, let me just buy a each 150 $200,000. The whole house is full of them. Was very rich. That makes more sense. Isn't that better? Mushe says, "No, that's not better. That's not the will of Hashem." Hashem didn't say that a Torah scroll or even a houseful of Torah scrolls replaces a muza. He specifically said a muza. Ah Moshe, you're not making any sense. And this was the rationale of Korak to try to influence everyone to go against him because he says these mitzvot must be forenu because they don't make any sense. But then comes the next par after which is this is the law of what is the law it start talking about the red hepher soim say wait shouldn't it say this is the law of the cow of the red cow why is it saying this is the law of the Torah should Say the cow. No says no. You see this law, these laws of the red cow, they're beyond human logic. To have a cow that you're never allowed to work. It can't even put anything on top of it. It cannot have even two hairs that are black. Meaning that it could be millions and millions of hairs that are red, perfect red. But if it has two hairs that are black, that's it. It's not It's not a valid red cow. You can't use it. Okay. So, I'll just pluck them out. No, no, no, no. You can't do that. It has to be naturally red. Yeah, but I can just pluck him out and then it's naturally red. Still the same hair. I'm not adding hair. No, that doesn't make any sense. Exactly. Doesn't make any sense. Who said it's supposed to make sense? The Torah says, "This is the Torah. This is the Torah." Meaning, just like Rashi said, whether it makes sense to you or it doesn't make sense to you, it's the entire Torah. Whether it's the ones we call logical laws or the illogical laws, in reality, the ultimate reason, the only reason to fulfill the entire Torah is because I am Hashem, your God, not because it makes sense to you. Don't eat kosher meat because it makes sense to you. Don't eat kosher fish because it makes sense to you. No, no, no. Eat it because that's the law from Hashem. And unfortunately it's a very very bad thing to do where in the world of kiru there are sometimes people sometimes rabbis that try to influence people to do mitzvot for a specific benefit. For example, I remember a few years ago I spoke about this where someone had a campaign, keep Shabbat for an hour. Keep Shabbat for an hour. What about the rest of the Shabbat? So, you're simply telling him that he could just disregard the laws of Torah, follow your new laws, that if he keeps Shabbat for an hour, he's good. This is not Kir. No, at least he'll keep an hour. So he's going to go to gay for less time less than you know so instead of forever it's forever minus an hour. Who told you this is the right way? Because if you tell people that they can violate Shabbat then in so many words you are rationalizing with them that they could just continue doing this way the rest of their life. One extraordinary example of that horrible but nonetheless a real example. This person came to Rab and told him exactly what happened. Certain rabbi told the woman that she should keep family purity with her husband. She said, "No, come on. What do I need this for? We uh we're more modern." She said, "No, no, you don't understand. If you keep family purity, that is going to create more love between you and your husband because you'll miss each other. So the woman liked it. Oh, so my husband's going to love me more because he can't touch me for a couple of weeks out of the month. Okay, I'll do it. If that's what it's going to get me, I'll give it a try. So she started keeping family purity. She went to the mikvah and half the month you're not allowed to hug me, honey. Okay, no problem. As you would have it, she got pregnant. N months later, she's ready to deliver to have the child. Now, as soon as a woman's water breaks, she's ready to have the child. She becomes automatically she becomes nida, which means that a husband is not allowed to touch her. even you know giving our hug honey mazalto we just had a baby no nothing not allowed why she need so when that happened said honey give me a hug we just had a baby husband said no honey remember the rabbi said family purity we're not allowed to hug she goes no you didn't understand the rabbi he said the ultimate purpose of this family purity is so that you love me more so now I need you to love me more. I need you to give me a hug." And this rationalization of the mitzvot caused these two people to sin. The moment you try to rationalize mitzvot in order to fulfill them is the moment you're going to distort the Torah when it's inconvenient for you. Now one of the things Abu Thai that we see in the world today is that there unfortunately certain people that rationalize things according to their own logic even if they're technically religious Jews. even if they are technically rabbis and they rationalize things because it makes sense to them, it makes sense to other people. And one of the places that we found this more than once, more than twice, more than a dozen times that we have actually addressed many times over the years is when it comes to our attitude towards idolatry. Now there is a shure that I did years ago about different laws. But tonight we're going to go into some new stuff. Where does it come from? The Torah, the book of Deuteronomy in chapter 7, in verse number two, it says, "You shall not seal a covenant with them, nor shall you show them favor." So here, the Torah tells us two things. Don't seal a covenant with the idolattors and further don't show them favor. What does it mean don't show them favor? Because seems like it's pretty mean. Seems like may not be relative to today. Perhaps it meant don't show them favor if they don't show you any favors or don't show them favor if they're anti-Semitic or don't show them favor if uh some other reason. But if they're, you know, somebody that's pro- Israel and speaks against the terrorists, then certainly you should be nice to them. No. Well, let's see. The talks about this verse in Deuteronomy 7:2. What is what is this? Do not show them favor. First, we learn you shall not give them meaning the idol worshippers a holding of the land. teaching us that it's forbidden to transfer land to idoltors. You live in Erit is according to all opinions, you're not allowed to sell your house to an idol worshipper. Not allowed to sell land to them. Even though there is a wicked rabbi that's relatively famous in Israel that recently sold land to a bunch of idolattors and other called him an apicos he's a heretic even though the average person out there thinks he's a religious Jew and even a big rabbi he has many books but he's an apicos and this is one of his many many sins but nonetheless not allowed to land in in Israel to idol worshippers and in fact says even outside of Israel but nonetheless this is the first thing we learn don't show them favor by don't selling them land second says don't show them favor means you shall not give them the idol worshippers a verbal expression of favor meaning that it's forbidden to speak favorably of idolattors. And lastly, you shall not give the idol worshippers a free gift. So here the in are telling us that you're not allowed to give compliments about to an idol worshipper or about an idol worshipper like saying oh how beautiful is this idol worshipper woman or man or how smart they are it's forbidden. Oh, they are such a great speaker. Not allowed. Forbidden. Forbidden to do it. Further you would ask okay but this is the perhaps like many other things in the maybe it wasn't maybe this is one of the opinions but it wasn't the final opinion because we know that there are always debates well let's see the Rambam which is another name for idol worshippers. The laws of pertaining to idolatry has clarification in chapter 10 number four. It's forbidden to speak about idoltors in a praiseworthy manner. It is even forbidden to say, "Look how beautiful that idoltor's body is." How much more so is it forbidden to praise their deed or hold their words dear? Do not be gracious to them. The Torah says in the book of Deuteronomy could also be interpreted as don't even look at them graciously for doing so will cause you to draw close to them and learn from their wicked behavior. This is also implicit to tell us that it's forbidden to give them a present because a present could also get you closer to them. There are certain exceptions to presents which we'll get into perhaps later on, but nonetheless if it's for the for the for the sake of peace. But here the Rambam Puskins that it's forbidden to say, "Wow, he's such a great guy. He's so smart. He's such a great speaker. He uh she's so beautiful. He's so be not allowed." And one of the reasons is if you compliment them, perhaps you'll fratonize with them, you'll marry them, you'll learn their ways. But that's not the only reason. That's just one of the explanations. But then you're going to say, "Okay, but that's the Rambam." Not everything that the Rambam said is what we go by today. Even though the vast majority of the is the still what does the say exactly the words of the Rambam not allowed to praise them even to say how beautiful is this idoltor and how he looks or how she looks. Needless to say, he's not allowed to say how praiseworthy are his actions. But if when he gives the compliment he's not complimenting oh how beautiful he is or how smart he is or how good he is but rather he says oh hashem that Hashem created such beautiful creatures that Hashem put in this world people that say good things to defend the Jewish people that Hashem uh you know created such things that you're allowed but to specifically complement this idol worshipper completely forbidden it's a sin from the Torah sin now the question is why is it that the and the raam first say it's forbidden to say anything praiseworthy about them and even to say how beautiful they are because logically for a human you would think that wait saying she's a beautiful woman or a beautiful man if what you're worried about is fratonizing with them and marrying them then technically saying how beautiful she is or how beautiful he is shouldn't that be the first thing because the way you it's worded here is that praising them is actually worse than to say how beautiful they are. saying that he's a good speaker, saying that she is uh you know a uh a great uh you know prosecutor for the sake of uh Israel is actually worse than saying she's beautiful which again works against human logic. Why? Because like I said before, the reason why the Torah says don't do these things is not just because it warns us against fratinizing with them and fe in fear of marrying them and intermarriage. No, there's a much bigger picture here. There's a much bigger picture here. In fact, in order to understand the picture, we have to now go deeper into the subject and know where the source of this is. Why is it that we have to be so careful and how we treat idol worshippers? If we go back to the beginning, the book of Genesis, chapter 32, Jacobu is on the way back to his father's house, but he knows that Asav is coming. He's coming to meet him. And Yakov prays to with an unusual language. And he says to Save me please from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Asav for I fear him lest he come and strike me down mother and children. So now looking deeper into this, the Rambanades says here is a prophecy that a kadosh is giving us of how to manage in the exile because what happened to our forefathers is an indication of what will happen in the future and how we treat the nations has to be the same way in the same attitude, the same ideology as what Yakov and our rest of our forefathers did in order to survive, in order to prosper. Where did he get it from? here this verse about 500 years ago called Sephras by Rabzer Elawenazi who was the grandson of the Maron and he writes on this verse of save me from my brother save me from that certainly the ways of war were familiar to Yakov. So he did not fear as I mean we remember that just in the previous para Yakov was able to remove the seal over a well by himself when there were dozens of people that needed to do it. Usually all of the shepherds would gather together just to move the rock. So nobody steals and nobody takes too much water but also that's what they put such a huge rock on top of it. Yakovu moved it by himself with ease. So the ways of war were not uh unfamiliar to him. He had did not fear as in that way. What he feared says to was that Asav will come to him as a brother as if he is beloved to him and end up killing him inside his camp. That's why he said save me from the hand of my brother. Save me from meaning the hand of my brother is much scarier than the hand of I'm scared that Asav will treat me like I'm a beloved to him and then he'll end up killing me. And the cle the says that there's an that hates and therefore the fear that Yakovu has here is that Asav will end up presenting himself as a brother. Remember we grew up together. We used to play together. We used to run around. Don't you remember we ate together? You remember we're twins and everything. He's going to come to him like we're brothers. But really in Asav's heart, he hates him. And may Hashem have mercy on us from those who present themselves as helpers who love us while in reality their wickedness is inside their hearts. Meaning the kakala is trying to explain to us that this hatred comes in two forms. It could either be hatred and they want to kill us physically. It could be hatred that could kill us inside the camp meaning with ideology with false ideas. To clarify it all, there is a pretty lengthy write up by the bet. Betvie, if you remember, is afloic about 200 years ago. One of the sages of Leita. We actually had a whole series of lectures about his beton, his teachings of a few years ago and a beta levie writes a commentary on the Torah and on this verse in the book of Genesis 32:12 he writes as follows. is the verse. Save me from the hand of my brother. Save me from. So he says, we already know that he only that Jacob only had one brother. So why did he have to say after he said what you know save me from the hand of my brother save me from asav what is the extra need here and why say two different words describe the same thing there's way to explain it or clarify it that the intention of Jacob was that when he understood that is coming his way he knew already that he's not going to escape one of the two ways that is going to attack him either is going to fight him physically and try to kill him or he's going to want to be next to him and act as if there's brotherly love there and there's comfort and they should be next to each other and they should be like two brothers and from both of these Yakov was afraid Why? Because he knew that the love that is expressing was really not real. Was not real. In fact, it says that was afraid twice. It says says he was afraid on the possibility that maybe Asav will kill him physically. This is he was afraid that Asav will want to come close to him, befriend him as if he is a brotherly love. And that's why he asked on both of these things says the beti save me from the hand of my brother save me from because I don't want him not as a brother and not as I need help from both for both of these things. But in reality, Yakov is telling us that the fear that he had from Asav acting like a brotherly love is scarier to him than Asav trying to kill him physically. And from here we learn says the like the Ramban said that what our forefathers did is a sign for for us where this is a prophecy of how to survive the end of days. how our exile is going to be that as we are in the exile as initially will will act to us in two ways just like he wanted to act in two different ways with Jacob in the beginning of the exile In the beginning of the exile, Asab is going to issue decrees and killings and pilgrims and all types of uh horrible things in order to destroy Am. And only through Hashem's mercy, he hashem is not going to leave us and won't let him succeed in destroying am like he really like Isab really wants. We saw this whether it's the destruction of the first beta mikdash, the second beta mikdash. Those are not the only times we had the Spanish Inquisition, the programs and the disasters in France, in Ukraine. They killed over a million Jews there alone in England, in Germany, Morocco, in the uh all throughout the Middle East, all throughout Europe, everywhere. Every generation had some form of pogram, inquisition, holocaust, disaster. How much have we suffered from the hands of Asav's decrees? Now, of course, the people of today will say, "No, that was a long time ago." Even though 80 years ago was not really that long ago, still people alive from those days, but nonetheless said, "Yeah, yeah, but the Nazis were crazy and the uh the the the you know, the Russians were crazy and the Ukrainians were crazy and the Spaniards were crazy. Everybody was crazy." But no, no, we we love the Jews. There's a whole relatively new segment of Christianity that calls themselves evangelical Christians that they are Zionists. They say that their whole motto is that they love Israel. They love Israel. They support Israel. They donate money to Israel. They say that they love the Jews. So obviously they're not killing any Jews like the Nazis. this uh recent uh assassination of Charlie Kirk hurt the Christian Jews, the the Christian uh uh evangelicals more than everybody else. He was one of their top representatives. He was their hero. people that hate Jews, the anti-semitic, especially people that are very vocal about, you know, the uh the Zionism in Israel and, you know, all this other things. They hated this Charlie Kirk. In fact, what they say about the uh the murderer was that he was uh that's the reason why he killed Charlie Kirk. At least that's the story. We all know that there's a whole lot more to the story than the reality that they or the the what the people represent. And it's very hard to believe that it was only one person that's uh 22-year-old psychopath from that went to college decided to take this whole job on his own. Hard to believe that that's the reality. Then seems like this this was an organized uh assassination. But nonetheless, of course, this is a horrible thing that he did. But we're not talking about giving him any any there's any good things of what he did. This killer is a killer and he should be killed. They should give him the death penalty. That's what Torah says. But the point being is is that the reaction from the Jewish side, especially the religious Jews, some of which are rabbis, was that look, they killed our hero. They killed Charlie Kirk. He was a defender of Israel. One rabbi said for this that he believes that Charlie Kirk was a uh you know a uh he's a righteous gentile that uh you know he was uh he saw his wife cry over this. Your wife cried over Charlie Kirk the non-Jew evangelical Christian. and and you're actually proud enough of the like you're publicizing this. Another another rabbi said that uh Charlie Kirk was so righteous that he's theu of the generation. Charlie Kirk praise to a person. He's auh against idolatry. Another one said, "Charlie Kirk is in heaven right now." Apparently, apparently he decides who goes to heaven, who not. Hashem apparently went on retirement in his book. Charlie Kirk is in heaven and he's we we're praying uh that, you know, we're we want Charlie to pray for us in heaven. Why are they all saying this? because they believe that since Charlie Kirk and people like him, even the uh the the other guy from um what's it called? Daily Wire, the whole organization always speaks in favor of Israel. There's one guy that calls himself an Orthodox Jew and the rest of them are Christian missionaries, evangelicals. And one of them I think is Catholic, but he's really a Christian missionary because his attitude and his understanding are different than what Catholicism at least says they present. But nonetheless, why is everybody consider these people righteous? Consider them heroes. Why? Because they speak favorably about the land of Israel. The Jewish people should live. But here the bet says, "No, no, you're not understanding yet." You see, all of those decrees of the past of the pograms, the Inquisitions, the Holocaust, the the the the horrible, horrible things that happened to the Jews. That's only one aspect of how Asav is going to try to destroy Am. There is a second one. A second one which Yakov was more afraid of. A second one that he's telling us be careful please Hashem help us when he pretends to be my brother when he pretends to be my defender. And he says that in the beginning of the exile will try to destroy us by simply murdering and so on. But towards the end of the exile, Asav will suddenly come to say, "You know what? Let's sit in comfort next to each other. Don't go away from me. Don't go far away. Come close to us. Be friends. We'll sell you some missiles. We'll uh call, you know, we'll we'll help you out with your other enemies, Ishmael. you know, we'll be friends because the ultimate intention says the in order to distance from and to remove them from their beliefs in so many words missionaries. And this is why says the bet the end of the exile is called like we said before that's what happened to us in Egypt. The Egyptians enslaved us, tortured us, and didn't let us have any joy out of what we were building. They would destroy everything. But also, the last exile is called why he says don't read rather break up the word with a soft mouth. That's how the last exile is going to the last part of the exile is going to be. They're going to try to destroy us with soft words. And from this from this part of the exile, is in essence prophecy for us that he's a lot more afraid of than the first part of the exile. Why? Because the nature of a person would end up causing him to falter more from this type of enticement with soft words with pretending like they're protecting us and helping us than from the hammers and the axes and the guns and everything else. more people will falter. Certainly when the Kazaksim the crusaders went from town to town massacring Jews, very few Jews converted to Christianity, very very few. The majority died on Kum. And this was not one time or two times. This was hundreds of years of crusaders going from town to town. massacring the Jews. But the Jews were not afraid of the sword of the idoltors. They were afraid of Hashem and therefore they died on Kushm. So the sword didn't work. For the last 2,000 years, the sword did not destroy us. But Jacob is telling us if you're not paying attention to the if you're not paying attention to the prophecy, if you're not paying attention to the warning, that soft mouth will kill you more than the sword. That's what I'm afraid of. He says and that's why he said save me from my brother be in his prayer before save me from asav because in the beginning with the with the uh with saving from asav okay they're trying to kill fine but it's not trying to kill my soul. He's not trying to kill my soul. It's just the body. The body is temporary anyway. In the beginning of the exile, all they wanted to torment was our bodies. But at the end, the last part of the exile will actually be both physical and spiritual. How could it be physical and spiritual? Spiritual, like I said, they're going to try to tell us that the Msiah already came. That you don't need to keep mitzvot anymore. That you could pray to some dead guy from 2,000 years ago. That there's a replacement theology in play where in so many words, the Torah changed. God says he doesn't change. Countless verses in the Torah and the prophets and the writings say that God doesn't change, but they say he did. There's a new book that wasn't given at Mount Sai, but apparently they say this is the new thing. And ignorant people will fall for this because they want to feel righteous without actually having the obligation of following the Torah. So, they want to feel righteous by saying they're connected to God and they love God and they fear God without having to eat specific foods, have a family purity, separation between them and their wife, keeping Shabbat, all of these different things. But the reality is the Torah doesn't change. But how what about the physical the physical attack? He says the fact that there are so many Jews that spend instead of watching our instead of watching kosher rabbis teaching what do they do? They watch the YouTubes, the CNN's, the BBC's, the the the all the different that literally gets them to the point where these speakers, many of which are idol worshippers, literally enter their minds and their hearts to such an extent that they cry over them. They cry over them. Now again to think that it was good for anybody to die. That's not a uh you know somebody that's uh physically hurting the Jews or anything like that. I'm not saying that what the killer did is good. But to have an Orthodox Jew that understands the damage that the missionaries have done for to us, not just in the past, but now over a half a million Jews have converted to Christianity, unfortunately, because of ignorance, because of foolishness. You're crying over a missionary dying And the reality is, says the bet is that the ultimate goal of Asav is to get closer and closer to Yakov in order to be able to destroy them from within and remove their belief Now the says that I testify as heaven and the earth are my witness that whether it's a man or woman young or old Jew or Gentile Every person can get to the level of based on his actions of how he serves Hashem through the Torah. But when a person goes against the Torah by humanizing God by dividing the one and only God into multiple parts, by praying to an idol, by doing things that says it's outright forbidden, obviously they cannot get to. But if it's a righteous gentile, we've have righteous gentiles in the Torah, whether it's Job, the righteous gentile that was a prophet or is the prophet Ovad which eventually converted to Judaism and there are others. The point here abutai this is not prejudice against the nations as we all know in the movie we made of go the prophecy of is that go will destroy twothirds of the world one-third will remain and then be tested meaning that whatever is left out of that one-third certainly the majority as far as quantity is concerned is going to be non-Jews because there uh the Jews right now that we know of is only about 20 million Jews. Certainly there's some Jews that we don't know about. Let's say you add another couple hundred million that we don't know about somehow that are behind the mountains which perhaps we'll talk about another time. But generally speaking, if you talk about 2/3 of 9 billion, three billion are left, whatever remains out of the three billion, you're gonna have hundreds of millions of non-Jews. Meaning that even the prophets themselves say there's going to be righteous non-Jews that will be able to see Msiah. But those righteous non-Jews will say that their forefathers and their fathers lie to them about their false beliefs and they'll grab on to the Jewish people's tit from each nation will will grab the corner meaning there's going to be 700 in every corner. Every Jew will have many uh righteous non-Jews that are going to want to learn from him. The point is Abu Tai this is not prejudice against non-Jews. This is simply what the Torah is telling us. There is a righteous person and a wicked person. A righteous person serves God as God decreed whether as a Jew if he's a Jew or as a Gentile if he's a Gentile. If you're a Jew serving Hashem with only the seven nohide laws, you're considered wicked. Why? Because you're obligated to follow the Torah in accordance to the laws that apply to Jews. And if you're a Gentile serving Hashem like a Jew, you're keeping Shabbat, you're eating kosher, and you're doing uh all of the mitzvot without any intention of converting to Judaism, you're also wicked. Why? Because you are stealing the mitzvot from the Jews. Why? If you want to be if you want to live like a Jew, then convert. But the point being is that you can be righteous both as a Jew and as a Gentile as long as you follow what Torah says that's applicable to you. The moment a person goes against the Torah whether they're a Jew or a Gentile himself says that's a wicked person. So when the Torah says there's only one God, God is not a man that would change his mind. When the Torah specifically says that idolatry is forbidden, that means that anybody that's an idol worshipper is considered a wicked person according to Hashem. Now, what about the fact that some of these idol worshippers speak favorably about the land of Israel? They even donate money to feed, I don't know, poor people or whatever it is that they do. Saying nice things about the land of Israel or even about Jewish people doesn't make you righteous. Especially when we just learned that the intention of Asav was to look as if he is the brother in order to kill from within. Meaning say nice things, do nice things but with an ulterior motive. And that's why I've said time and time again over the years that when the missionaries, the churches send money to Israel, it's not because they love Jews. It's not a donation. It's an investment. They go there, they invest into there because according to their belief system, they need to convert all of the Jews to Christianity. And that's why when I heard some of these praises of Charlie Kirk, which to be honest with you, wasn't so familiar with him, didn't follow him, don't have time for any of those things. I've seen some of his clips everywhere because he's very popular but wasn't a follower not of him or anybody else aside from aside from aside from but when I started seeing and people are sending me one after another look this rabbi said this look he called him the uh angel he called him au he's this and some people are troubled by it I can't believe it why Would God kill him? This is so sad. So, I looked into it and literally it didn't take me more than two seconds to realize that Charlie was a missionary. And two seconds later to see that Charlie himself did not deny unlike most missionaries out there like one for Israel and many other missionaries out there that deny that they're missionaries. Charlie didn't deny it. He clearly said that his wish was for all Jews to accept Yoske and he clearly said that he rejects and is against what they call rabbitical Judaism which is Orthodox Judaism or in the church they call us Pharisees. He's against orthodox Judaism. So why are you supporting Israel? Why are you supporting the Jews? Because it's not because of their religion. It's not because of we want them to live in peace with their beliefs from Mount Si. No, it's because we need them alive so they convert to Christianity. This is no different than one for Israel. This is no different from chosen uh people ministries. No different from uh the Rasha Brown, no different than all other missionaries, just a different platform, no different than daily wire that's comprised of missionaries, including the one that's wearing a keepa. So, you have to understand that although this is going to be very unpopular among some of you, this is the Torah and it will not change. It's not my opinion. According to the Torah, all of those rabbis or YouTube personalities, TV personalities that gave these ridiculous compliments about someone that spoke favorably about the land of Israel. They violated the Tua. You cried for him dying. Again, I'm not saying celebrate. I'm not even saying see be happy, but you cried. Did you cry over the destruction of the beta mikdash? Did you cry over the fact that your next door neighbor is Shabbat? Did you cry over the fact that over a half a million Jews have converted to idol worship and over 80% of Jews do not even keep yum kipool? Did you cry about that? Sh is literally days away. Did you cry about the fact that Am is in such dire straits that most Jews cannot tell you the difference between Shai and Yomipur? Did you cry about that? Did you cry about the fact that we have a government in the state of Israel that hates the Torah? Did you cry about the fact that there are so many problems within the Orthodox Jewish communities that are unspoken of in fear of looking bad which allows some of the problems to grow? Whether it's the fact that there is just as much problems with girls going off the d as there is with boys going off the d. All of the immorality that would happen at certain places. What happens with the phones? What's happening with people's simple ideology? how a statistic from 10 years ago about modern Orthodox Jews in America reported that literally 60% of modern Orthodox Jews, meaning they call themselves Orthodox, do not believe in one of the fundamental principles of our faith, which is divine providence. Nearly 50% do not go to the mikvah. Did you cry about that? Did you cry about the fact that many Jewish women have this idea that they could simply wear whatever they want, do whatever they want, but as long as they light some candles before Shabbat, they're fine. Like this woman told me a few days ago, she thinks she's righteous even without wearing any clothes that would cover her body, keeping any mitzvot because she lights candles before Shabbat, you should cry for her. Or for those that say, "No, he was an angel. He was a martyr." I have a question to those rabbis. I have a question to those Jews that call themselves religious, that he was a martyr, that he was a an angel, a right sadic. I have a question to all of those Jews, and I have to ask it since we're already on the topic. If someone that believes in something that the Torah calls idol worship, that their primary mission in life was to convert Jews to Christianity. Because if a Jew came to him and told him, "Should I become an Orthodox Jew or should I become a missionary to Christianity like you?" What would he tell him? He said it publicly himself. His goal was to bring all Jews to Yoske. So if somebody like that is considered righteous in the eyes of God, if somebody like that is theu of the generation, like this that calls himself a rabbi said, and I have to call him a for saying such a thing. And that's an understatement. If somebody that's considered an idoltor is in heaven right now and we he says that his may his merit protect us. I have to ask you why do you keep Shabbat? Why do you remain Orthodox Jewish? Why do you go why do you eat kosher? Why? Why are you even practicing Judaism if you believe that that's righteousness? Now, don't tell me, "No, it's righteousness for them. It's not." No, no, no, no. You can't do that. If you could be righteous by going against the Torah, then why aren't you going against the Torah in your way? I understand that there are some difficulties here because all of us have friends, maybe family even that are decent people. They're not murderers. They're nice. You do business with them. You like them. Whatever it is, no one is telling you to hate everyone. But to go from that to Sadik, I'm crying over him. When we have our own people suffering day and night from literally a spiritual poverty unlike any other time in history, the spiritual poverty puts all of the attacks of all the nations to shame if you truly understand what we're dealing with right now. But yet, nobody's crying about seeing a Shabbat drive on Shabbat. Nobody's crying about seeing people steal for a living in all types of corrupt businesses like Cash Advance. Nobody's seeing anyone cry over the fact that their divorce rate continues to go up even in communities that it's not supposed to. No one is crying over the fact that there are some people that are such disgusting perverts that they manipulate little children and women and whatever they can even if they have sometimes a hat and a beard and everything. No one's crying over that. But you're crying over some idoltor that died. I don't understand that. If you're going to cry, cry about everything. or at least cry about the right thing. But no, you don't see that. And you know why you don't see that? Because when people glue their mind to the media, glue their mind to all types of messages that are not Torah, they become enslaved by that media. They become enslaved by those messages. Whether they come from CNN or Bloomberg or CNBC or they come from YouTube, it doesn't make a difference. If it's not Torah, it's going to infest your mind in a negative way. Just like the Rambam says, a person will be influenced by his surroundings. Surrounding doesn't just mean your next door neighbor that comes for coffee. Surroundings means whatever you allow into your mind, whatever you allow into your brain. One of the most pathetic things in the world is when you see people that on the exterior they look like aid. They look like aid with the stray and the beck and they look oh more religious. They look like they just came from Europe. But when the words come out of their mouth, praising idolattors, praising all types of nonsense, manipulating the Torah as they like, you realize why open the mouth of the donkey? How how do we allow ourselves how do we allow ourselves to get so far from reality? Again, people make mistakes. I'm not I'm not saying that somebody that made a mistake and didn't know. Fine. Okay. People make mistakes. I made a million mistakes. But I'm not talking I'm talking people that live like this. people like the Ephraim Goldbergs of the world that even after he found out that it's not allowed to bring a Christian missionary to a he himself gave a lecture about it when it was financially beneficial for him when it was beneficial for him to be in the eyes of the peed among the people what did he do he invited one missionary after another to the synagogue even after we went against it he invited all types of heretics and missionaries to the synagogue. Even when the missionaries said their main message is to get Jews to leave Judaism, he still invited them. One Jewish organization publicized a clip of Charlie speaking against one of the people that wanted to make the Jews look bad, saying that, "Oh, the uh the Talmud and this and that." Then Charlie presented himself as if he knows a little bit of history about what the Talmud is and so on. But what's interesting is the initial clip that the Jewish organization the podcast presented to the public was a clip that at the end of the clip Charlie said, "Of course I'm against rabbitic Judaism. I'm a Christian. and I want all of them to go to Jesus. I saw this with my own eyes. When somebody asked me about this issue, I wanted to show him this clip. Look, he's not a regular non-Jew that's in favor of Jews doing chuva like people think because he wrote a book about Shabbat. He didn't write a book about Shabbat because he wants Jews to do Chuva and keep Shabbat like a Jew. Everything is part of the missionary plan. Make it look similar so people think it's the same thing. And interestingly, when I went back to that clip of the top podcaster, the top podcaster cut the clip. No, he did not remove the clip. The clip is still there getting tens of thousands, if not millions of views, but he removed the last few seconds where Charlie says his real plan is to get all the Jews to leave Judaism and become Yoshk followers. Meaning that you can't claim you didn't know he wasn't a missionary. You publicize he's a missionary and you intentionally removed that reality from other people that don't know. Uh the Taloo states that Jews are the chosen people and all non-Jews are going here to serve them. You are a Christian who's clearly serving the Jews, defending Zionism with all you got. But you also believe Jesus is a rabbitic Jew in heaven when you know the Talmud states he's in hell burning a feces. >> Okay. So you're a Teldutic expert, right? Which tal is that in? Jerusalem or Babylonian? >> I'm talking about Jerusalem, sir. >> Oh, that's the Jerusalem which actually is not as divinely inspired. Which one's longer? How long is it? Don't look at your Don't look me in the eye. >> I'm not I'm not >> Oh, come on. You said that I'm a what? A tool of the Jews. So, look me in the eye like a man. >> I'm talking about the Tammud. >> No. You accused me of saying like you're a Zionist or something, right? >> I mean, do you support Israel? >> Yes, of course I do. Yes. >> Let's go for real. >> But that's another thing. You're an advocate for the military in America. But then you're a Israel's war crimes. What's up with that? >> Oh, war crimes. We'll get into that. But let's be more specific. What is your point here of of dragging up a multi,000-year text that you don't know, that you haven't read? Have you purchased the Tammy? Have you read the Tammy? What is the Tammy? Tell me the difference between the Tour of the Tank and the Tammy. Go ahead. >> I don't know. >> Oh, you don't know. That's pretty important. Time out. So what you did is you chair picked something on the internet that makes Jews look bad. But you can't tell me the difference between the Torah and the Tanakh and the town. >> I'm trying to make the Jews look bad. >> No, no, no. This is this is ridiculous. This is for clickbait. Let me tell you the difference. The Torah is the books that we as Christians acknowledge. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, the most holy scriptures in Judaism. The Tanakh is also our Old Testament, right? That's Joshua, Judges, Second Kings, you know, Hezek, Nehemiah, Ezekiel. The Talmude are rabbitic debates spanning over 500 years of which is the Babylonian and the Jerusalem Talmude. The Babylonians actually more inspired. It's two and a half million words. The Jerusalem is lesser inspired and they disagree on all sorts of stuff and they pick it up. Those those are people that would say I disagreed that last thing. But it's very important. You don't even know the stuff that you're bringing up to this event. >> That's why I'm No, no, no. It's really important because what you're trying to like this context. You're a tool of the Jews and I read this thing. But let's just make this very clear. >> Sorry. It's agreed to a disagreement. >> It's not a great disagreement. It's very clear that you don't even know the stuff you're bringing up to make someone look bad. >> Do you agree or disagree? So I >> of course I disagree with rabbitic Judaism. I'm a Christian. Jesus is the is the solution I hope every Jew give their life to Christ. >> No different than Efron Goldberg. No different than other people. Meaning the problem here is not with people that make a mistake that didn't realize they're not allowed to do this. They're not allowed to praise. That's not the problem. Okay? Learn you learn. You know, you make mistakes, you learn from the mistakes. The problem is not that. The problem is there are people that know it's forbidden and they simply don't care. Why? Because it doesn't make sense to them. It doesn't make sense to them. How could it be that Asav hates Jacob is relevant in today? They say if Asav gave money to the Israeli government, if Asav allows us to live in different places in Europe, in America, in Australia, and different places around the world, if how could it be that hates Jacob? Look, we have peace. The moment you try to make sense of the mitzvot to the point where it's only going to be something you follow, if it makes sense to you, that moment the beginning of your heresy path begins. Where it ends depends how long you're going to continue with that nonsense. The people that we've gone against over the years, we're not something that's we just simply were bored. We decided to talk against it. Everything that I say has to receive approval, not by me. It's not my opinion. Many times it's not even my choice. But the reality is when there's such a desecration of God's name, such a rabbis are going on national television, all types of media today, some of these YouTube channels get more views than they do get on national television. saying that this is the replacement of au. This is what sadik is. Don't you realize that you have actually just mag magnified the missionar's impact because now a Jew could watch a rabbi say that this guy was righteous so therefore now he has even the the stamp of approval from the rabbi of Kabad. the rabbi of other places, but most of them were kabadnik to go and follow in the footsteps of a missionary that worshiped the man. What's happening? Is anybody awake? The point being is telling us there are that make logical sense. There are mitzvot that don't make logical sense. Regardless of which one it is, you have to keep it because God said so. Here we have a mitzvah of do not speak favorable or in a praiseworthy manner on about idol worshippers. Why? One of the simple logical reasons is so you don't fratonize with them. But even more so the and the raam warn about speaking favorably of them more than even more than even looking at them. Meaning it's more dangerous that you speak favorably about their actions and they're good people and they're good speakers and I like the way they talk. That's even more dangerous than complimenting their beauty. Why? Because complimenting their beauty at the end of it all, everyone knows he didn't create himself. She didn't create herself. That's all at the hands of Hashem. It's forbidden for you to compliment it. But needless to say, everyone understands they didn't create themselves. But when you complement their words, when you complement their ways, then in essence, you are giving them credibility. You're giving them empowerment in the eyes of others that could easily be influenced to them where otherwise they wouldn't go. When a rabbi says, "This is the Arainu, this is a martyr, this is the righteous among the nations." In so many words, both Jews and Gentiles that are not currently idol worshippers hear this from a rabbi, a famous rabbi who also happens to be a criminal according to the government for stealing money and so on. when they hear such a rabbi say this is righteousness, he should, you know, he's in heaven. We pray that he'll help us. All of a sudden, he became a a sage. So people that are not currently idol worshippers look at this, say, "Okay, so maybe it's worth it for me to be an idol worshipper also." Well, needless to say, it's certainly worth it for me to listen to other idol worshippers that talk like him at least instead of listening to some old rabbi that's uh, you know, give us gives a few lectures every week. Hurts Jews and Gentiles. Gentiles can become confused by this and Jews will become confused by this. And this is the only reason why we had to bring it up. This again, this is not prejudice against Gentiles. We have plenty of Gentiles that are in either in the process of conversion or they're righteous noahhides that watch the lectures that we've helped in in countless different ways and continue to. This reality is you have people that have a hidden agenda. The hidden agenda is to destroy the Jewish soul by bringing them to idol worship. That's the hidden agenda, but it's not really hidden. The only people that are hiding are Jews. The Gentiles don't hide themselves. They're not even hiding themselves anymore. They tell people outright, "Yeah, that's my goal." They're not afraid about their beliefs. They're not shy about telling them, "Yeah, we want all the Jews to convert to Christianity." They're not shy about it. They'll tell you to your face. They say it in videos that and and they make clips out of it. It's literally virtually impossible to find a Christian that's shy about his beliefs. Anytime you ask him, I'll tell them. In fact, he's not according to their beliefs. They're not allowed to deny their beliefs. So they're not shy about it. The Jews are shy about their beliefs. They're afraid to say, "Well, listen, you know, according to our beliefs, you're idol worshippers." We're afraid to say that for whatever reason, or a lot of people are, but I don't have that fear. I'm afraid of Hashem. That's already more than enough. Don't need any other fears. Fury of Hashem, it's the only fear you should have. But we're in a situation where people have infested their mind into so many different things that their vision is blurred. Their vision is blurred. And our hope is that at the very least in a world full of lies that come in all forms and sizes, if anybody's truly looking for the truth, as hard as it is to accept, as hard as it is to realize that this is the reality, at least it's there. On a personal note, when I first learned this, it hurt. Why? Because I remember years ago, every time I'd speak to my RV and I'd say a compliment about somebody I'm working with, somebody I know. Oh, he's such a nice guy, such a nice woman, nice this. Keep telling me quiet. Don't say it. What? What's the problem? Don't give them a compliment. Why? They really are really smart and uh don't do it. What? What? Nothing else. What did I do? Can't give them a compliment. Why? It's not allowed. They're an idol worshipper. Okay. But when I was talking to them was in regards to business, not because uh they went to the church. Still not allowed. And I'm like, why? Why is he why? What's wrong with him? Like why is nice about everything else? The most kind person in the world, most just amazing angel on earth. And I could not understand this. I could not understand it. Again, I have a lot of respect for him. I I don't you know, I don't I don't argue. He I know he knows and I know I don't know so I follow but you know I constantly made this mistake in the beginning giving compliments to different people I associate with people that I know people that I like and every time you tell me no don't do that I didn't understand why what's the big deal just to say he's a nice person and he's this and he's that what's the big deal not allowed and I can tell you that this was literally one of the fires within me would drive me insane. It would drive me insane that I can't I can't do it. These are people I knew for 10, 20, 30 years. All of a sudden, I can't give them a compliment. Why? It didn't make sense to me. But I knew that he knew what I don't know. And only after learning and toiling in Torah and I'm not mean I don't mean just reading the words reading the words I did already in the beginning and I still do to this day but only after toiling in Torah and trying to fix myself and fix the mistakes and fix the deformity and fix all the things that are broken and continue to fix that eventually simply have enough mercy on me to simply just open up my hard way. I could understand why. I can understand why because it didn't make sense here. It didn't make sense here until simply himself broke the shell. And I finally understand. So I understand that everybody's going to have some comment or some no. Oh, he's fanatic. Oh, he's this is the Torah and it will not change. This is the This is the This is the Rambam. This is the this is the this is according to all opinions and even more so when you realize the ramifications of ignoring this for the last 30 years and how much damage it has caused our people. What do you think Jews are converting to Christianity just because they're bored? Somebody had to compliment these people at some point or another, praise these people at some point or another, recommend these people at some point or another for a Jew to become interested. That's how things happen. Meaning that every single Jew that abandoned Hashem and went to idolatry was due to a result of somebody violating this. what seemed inconsequential, what seemed irrelevant, what seemed simply not Shia to this generation is actually at the root of why so many Jews have gone astray into the mouth of idolatry. Before you compliment somebody, think what does it entail, what's the ramifications aside from you getting a prophet, whether it's you getting a prophet for money or you getting a profit as honor because you know you know somebody. Everybody likes to know somebody for something. It's like almost like a little star on their resume. they know somebody. Before you recommend somebody, before you publicly praise somebody, think think for a second. What could happen from this? Do I really know this person that I'm recommending? What's his really what's his ulterior motive? What's his initial motive? Do I know? Oh, no. It's just a nice clip. It's just a nice song. Haven't you noticed that many people have started becoming more and more public about their missionary plans? People have become public about it. musicians, rappers, uh you know, a uh different, you know, TV personalities, YouTubers, athletes. Haven't you noticed? You think it's all a coincidence? It's the end of days. At the end of days, the beta levie tells us we already learned what happened to our forefathers is simply a sign of what's happening to us. In the past, they tried to kill us with a sword. But at the end of days, they'll try to kill us with a per soft mouth words, a rap, soft music, nice commercial, a long touchdown, anything they can do. A YouTube of how they're helping kids in Africa. Whatever they can get you to watch. Watch and watch and watch and one thing they do have is patience. Oh, they have patience like an elephant. Just keep watching and a little bit at a time. More of the idolatrous poisonous enters your mind and you stop crying about your brothers and sisters that are dying spiritually and physically and you start crying about that you missed the show. This is not my problem. This is our problem. And unfortunately, I know there's not going to be many people that talk about it. So, I hope that you do your part by sharing this lecture with as many people as you possibly can. Take clips out of it, send it, but represent to them the entire argument. Don't take a 30 second clip and distort the words. Get people to wake up. If we don't defend ourselves, as is going to eat us alive. I'm not saying go hate everyone. I'm not saying go hurt anyone. What I'm saying to you is that know where you stand. Isav may say he's your brother, but Yakovu already told us that's the dangerous part. Be careful. Thank you very much for learning with me. May Hashem protect Israel and all those that want to follow the Torah to be able to see the truth for what it is and overcome all obstacles. Anyone that wants to help us continue growing the organization with the lectures, with building a headquarters, with helping countless people this holiday, widows, orphans, simply poor people in Israel that we are doing everything we can to help as many of them as we can, you could contribute generously on our website bhr.org. And for those of you that want the special blessings or you want guidance and so on, there's a few options for those that are able to afford it and simply want to do it. Either way, Karim, this is our last lecture of the year. We learn a lot in the past year and we'll continue to learn a lot more in the next year. 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