Is Freedom of Thought Allowed In Judaism? | WAR OF AMALEK (19)

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every test it's clear as day [Applause] [Music] truth working on YouTube [Music] in every word in every sign you find the truth so pure [Music] Divine we'll continue our series The War of amalik tonight's sh is going to be for El nishmat uh EST but Julia and also for theana and all of and all the righteous no that continue to contribute continue to support our organization and all the good things that we're doing anyone that wants to donate could donate at be.org if you want to sign up for the AI Rabbi you can go to air ri.org or you could use it on our app and of course if you want to distribute the uh USBS the cards the arbi cards or the cards that are being ordered by the dozens you can go to the kir store.org K store.org all that is going to be on the screen tomorrow it's going to be in the comments and so on so tonight we're going to talk about something that's not just relevant but literally it seems like of el vammen had pure prophecy based on all the things that we've already learned needless to say what we're going to be learning uh today so uh the the key is to understand what are sages taught because without understanding what the sages thought a person is like a blind person walking in the night now one of the big things that uh you deal with on a regular basis when you're helping people understand the truth is to reiterate the fact that that there is something called D meaning the uh the opinion of the tah but it's not really an opinion but it's rather it's facts of the tah the knowledge of the toah really is the more appropriate uh translation now many people like to accept D so long as it does not conflict with their own do their own opinion their own knowledge their own what we call predisposition so the question is is there freedom of thought allowed in Judaism I mean we always say that Judaism is very different than the other religions where you know in the other religions you're not allowed to ask questions in Judaism you're you have to ask questions because as the says a person that does not ask questions because he's shy will never become a Torah scholar will never know what the truth is so of course asking question is critical but the question is can you also make conclusions based on your own opinion based on your own findings can you just decide that you are a or you have D because you read a book or two you lived life you have some experience and therefore you think that you are no different than uh than the Torah Scholars like this uh one guy told me uh just uh the other day uh he was asking me to uh to criticize criticize a uh a rabbi that I know uh because that Rabbi that I know isik everything is good uh but he said something in a couple of his lectures that uh this fellow doesn't like and apparently the uh the anti-semites are using it as a as a platform to create more anti-Semitism now of course everyone that has watched my Ora news film or has watched my lectures over the years know that I'm probably the most popular Rabbi on these anti-semites uh channels proudly and will continue to be uh because not only do we not care what they say and what they do we simply teach T and whoever wants to use it for good will use it for good as zakai says whoever wants to fall as a result of it whoever wants to sin as a result of it that's their problem we don't care about them now this guy told me listen uh he said such and such I want you to talk to him I want you to have him remove those videos remove this remove that and my response to this fellow was not what he was expecting because he was expecting for me to agree with him especially since he gave me some compliments you know people always when they want you to do something for them they start off the conversation with compliments you know I like you and I respect you and da d da and of course all of that stuff goes into the garbage when you have enough experience and you realize it's all nonsense and nonetheless he did not expect the response that he got which was a rebuke saying perhaps instead of going against or disagreeing with you should realize that you do not know enough Torah nor history in order to criticize a Torah scholar oh boy he was offended oh you offended me I wasn't offensive and before you criticize a Torah scholar you have to understand what the Torah scholar is even saying you have to in so many words be a Torah scholar you have to actually know what you're doing but the question is can I just criticize anyone because his this fellow's response was well I could definitely criticize uh him even though he's I'm perfectly allowed to do that I'm also a religious Jew I could criticize whoever I want question is can you can you arrive at conclusions based on your own opinion now even though it seems like I already gave you the answer we're going to obviously have to dig dig deeper into it because many people today enjoy this First Amendment rights of America but they use it worldwide especially in you know in all over England and uh Canada uh in Israel all over over the world where you have a Jews you have this so-called freedom of speech that people like people enjoy people take advantage of in our modern day Society while freedom of speech certainly does serve positive purposes also has some negative purposes in regards to the law of the land it does become problematic when a person thinks that they can utilize this so-called freedom of speech in Judaism Ra's war of Amal series addresses this freedom of speech as it applies and affects the Orthodox Jewish Community around the world not just in his day but today and he'll let us know just how much Freedom we actually have if at all so after telling us that one of the problems he was facing and needless to say we are facing today which is this strong desire from the Orthodox Jewish Community we'll call it just the community Orthodox Jewish that's all the same in so many words if you follow the Torah you are religious if you don't follow the Torah then you're not religious but many people believe they are religious even though they do a lot of things that are against the religion and in fact vman mentioned it time and time again in this series and the PRI series that we talked about uh the war the uh M the era of mashiah series highly recommended and uh he told us that one of the things that is a problem in the Orthodox Jewish Community is this new desire to publicize Orthodox Jewish literature not theim of Torah but rather letting you know what's going on in the community letting you know what's going on in the community letting you know what our opinions are about politics letting you know what we think about uh the uh you know the war you know letting you know what's going on and he says this actually these magazines that uh started in his day and have bloomed in our modern era are very problematic because many times they present themselves as Orthodox ASI but in reality are as far removed from what we call as can possibly be so just because someone claims to be Orthodox Jewish Ori does not necessarily mean that their behavior isi just because someone publicizes a article or a newsletter or a newspaper or a magazine or even a shield in the name of the Jewish people or the Jewish T it does not necessarily mean that it actually really is the Jewish Torah I mean there's one fellow complete aicos that has become more and more popular in recent uh last 12 months last months that literally every lecture that he uh has somebody sends me one of the clips to show me different statements that are very confusing and literally he hits the bullseye every single lecture to at least say one statement that is completely against the Torah that is complete AOS whether it's the him permitting wasting seed or all types of other convoluted statements that he makes but he says it in the name of a t and he pretends that he's a scholar he pretends that he is studious in reality he's an opic reform so what is Ence digging deeper into now after we've discussed the magazines and the Publications is now the minds the community the individuals how do they get to such a point where they look and more or less act religious at least exterior wise but they have convoluted ideologies heretical ideologies simply wrong ideologies and he starts section number 16 as follows he says the poverty in Torah knowledge in what D Torah is has led to the convoluted Minds even in the Ki communities even in the ultra Orthodox communities we find people that are simply wrong in what their belief is about Hashem wrong in the way that you're supposed to behave wrong in the way you're supposed to conduct your business wrong and even the basics of Judaism he's already talking about this 80 years ago now today you can see these types of things if you're paying attention and you know what the Torah actually says you can see this regardless of whether you look right or left you could go into a community has a good Rabbi as good people but you're always going to find a group of people within it that have completely what we call a convoluted mind whether it is their attitude towards modesty they don't think that modesty applies today anymore so they are perfectly fine having their wife and kids and daughters and Friends walk around with no arms and no legs meaning no sleeves no uh just simply showing showing what is really supposed to be seen by the husband of any woman only to him and him alone but showing it to the world but what do you why you allowing your wife to dress that way why are you allowing your daughter to dress that way I mean you're buying her the clothes after all listen everybody dresses that way it's okay if she wants to she could dress the way she wants I want to give her freedom I wanted to love God and not fear Him you have entire communities that have uh literally sects within them and sometimes even the entire community they believe they're going to a mixed Beach Boys and Girls men and women on a beach in their bathing suits perfectly fine whether it's in France or it's in uh uh Deal New Jersey or Brooklyn or different places literally I have plenty of students that ask me these questions like Rabbi listen is it true that you're allowed to go to the beach these days because everybody does it I said well you're allowed to go to the beach if there's only men there if you're a man or if there's only women there and you're a woman but if there's both men and women there absolutely not say I don't know understand half my community goes to the beach this this summer even have aimim we know in Israel tell us their family back in France it's practically standard policy in certain communities to go to mixed beaches just like the secular people with no quals about it with no concern oh are we violating the t is it violating what T says which we say in every single day don't follow after your heart meaning your after your eyes or your heart and you end up looking at immodest woman you're going to end up sinning or which is putting yourself in a step that's one step removed from a cardinal sin which means it's better off you die than go to a beach that's a mixed Beach according to you tell them this and like are you sure I don't think that's what my Rabbi says I don't know who your Rabbi is perhaps you could replace him with a real Rabbi or at the very least AI Rabbi 15 bucks a month you can get pretty much real d t because if your Rabbi said so G for you to go to a mixed Beach then he's not a rabbi but many times people say it's a rabbi but it really isn't a rabbi it's a friend it's a colleague it's a neighbor who may happen to be a rabbi or sometimes used to be a rabbi or sometimes wants to be a rabbi or he just has good story so people call him Rabbi but you see this ideology of mistakes unfortunately in every Community then of course when it comes to modesty there are certain communities that are very strong when it comes to modesty but they face a different problem not necessarily just those communities but across the board what is it their ideology about how to conduct business where for some reason some way somehow they forgot that honesty is not just a good business advice but rather it's an obligation from God there's no permission whatsoever to cheat Jews nor are you allowed to cheat gim in fact it's even worse to cheat the gim that to cheat the Jews but cheating in business has literally become standard standard people are cheating left and right lying left and right contracts are worthless Agreements are worthless those meetings Everyone likes to have on zoom and on Google and on whatever other way that you could video each other so you can get to know each other and get on the same page completely useless why it doesn't matter what people tell you why they're not going to do it they're just telling you things that you want them to do you hope that they will do you're going to pay them to do but they're not going to do it they'll do parts of it hopefully but not all of it for sure not all all of it you're lucky if you get 40% of it business has become such a problem and of course both for the Jews and the non-jews but I'm talking specifically to the Jews here these are my brothers and sisters these are the ones that I'm responsible for if non-jews want to watch and want to become better people by all means welcome but the key is to understand that a expects more from us because we have a Torah even more so when you are a religious Jew and you're supposed to know but every other day there's some type of expose of some corrupt business person that has a keeper that has a beard whether it's cheating the government cheating the clients cheating this cheating that stealing and of course we're not going to get into the disgusting predatory business of cash advance which we've already spoken quite a bit about and anyone who doesn't know just watch the film or the news that we have and you'll know all you need to know of what kind of cancer we have in our world today now these people that are in it in these businesses in these corrupt businesses even if they mean well if they conduct their business in a corrupt way if they steal from their clients they steal from the government they steal from anybody they cheat and you ask them why do you do that why do you steal why do you promise and not deliver on a regular basis it's not like it's a mistake it's a strategy why yeah come on everyone does it everyone does it you know don't be so uptight I don't know why the Google keeps going off line but anyone that wants to watch the live can go to b. live seems like the feed over there is better even though they're all getting the same same uh thing so you ask people why they do what they do why they're corrup in their business and they look at you funny like you're wrong which shows that this is their thinking those a statistic that came out nearly 10 years ago a PW research did research on the modern Orthodox communities in America and concluded that over almost 60% almost 60% of modern Orthodox Jews do not believe in Divine Providence in now obviously I hope the statistic is wrong but the fact that it's published the fact that no one has really gone against it defending themselves shows that perhaps they agree yeah they don't believe in Divine Providence and guess what if you don't believe in Divine Providence you don't believe in you're violating one of the 13 principles of Judaism you're considered an A you cannot be counted in the minan now as a side note it maybe be possible that it was 51% that don't believe in and 60% don't go to the mik either way it's a horrible horrible statistic that's over 50% even if it's 1% it's too much but you see that people will walk around with the keepa with the Jewish attire with a Jewish lingo go go to Sho put on to fill in but yet have ideologies that are so convoluted you're not sure what to fix and there are so many different parts of this confused situation whether it's their attitude about modesty or about business or about or about or just simply heretical beliefs such as God needs you or God is a is a uh a physical body of some kind all of this poison that's in the air these are all over the place in some places more in some places less but nonetheless in every Community going to find one of these aim that looks religious is telling us the root of the problem is poverty in Torah knowledge meaning that the more poverty there is in knowledge of Torah the more convoluted the minds are going to be the more confusion there's going to be Ro frim mentioned in a recent lecture a k journalist publicized different things about the war and you would swear that this is a secular Zionist journalist that has nothing to do with Judaism because the whole article was the my power my strength the Army the strategy not even once this so-called religious journalist mentioned God not once now if you talk to if you say this to some people it's like yeah what's the big deal why the Army won the war you think the Army won the war you think the Army is doing anything you think it's you don't realize it's AEM oh yeah you know it's AEM but really it's the Army like they they'll say it's AEM once in a while if you if you push them enough to do it but in reality they don't believe in Hashem they believe Hashem is like you know like the Greeks believe like he's created the world but he's gone and of course there's always the sikim the righteous people some of them are big Torah Scholars some of them are average people some of them are you know changing the diapers for their kids some of them are going to work or uh you know and and and and and learn at the same time there's all types ofik but the point I'm trying to say is to highlight the problem we have that Ras is telling us is not only a problem he also had in this generation but rather that this is part of the war against amalik that few are willing to deal with the in page 41A says the curse one of the curses or the punishments thatat says that happens to is if we do not follow the laws of God it says in chapter 28: 47- 48 because you did not serve AEM your God Amid gladness and goodness of heart when everything was abundant so you will serve your enemies whom Hashem will send against you in hunger and in thirst in nakedness and without anything this curse rabai is happening these hostages been hostages for over a year they're suffering this curse and there's many others but the asks a question about wait a minute if you already mentioned that there's going to be hunger thirst nakedness then why did you also say without anything isn't that enough so then thear says what is what would you say is anything says all the valuable things whether it's something like a lamp uh or a table or wife or an assistant to help you or worst of them all understanding you'll have a generation without understanding without knowledge without the ability to comprehend what is being said and Abaya says we have a tradition from our forefathers that there's no such thing as someone that's truly destitute except for someone who is impoverished of understanding as a says as the sages of Israel said he who has understanding within him has everything within him and he who does not have understanding within him then what is within him meaning he has nothing if he acquires understanding then what does he lack he's the richest man in the world he has if he doesn't acquire it then what has he had what is he acquire what are all these other things are useless in so many words there is the ability to comprehend and then there is also the ability to comprehend toah and these are both things that we are lacking because even one who does not have D themselves can have access to can have access to the tah and value it and respect it but we are in a situation where people are so far removed from understanding that even if you show them they'll tell you no I don't think so today you have people that go to a bed de a bed de obviously is comprised of Torah Scholars that have spent and dedicated their lives to learning to therefore have to the point where they are the judges people walk into AED and tell the no no I don't think I don't think I don't think you're right there's one woman that came into a bed and said oh you're saying nonsense why did you even bother going to a bed Dean if you think that they think like you people think that they can tell Torah Scholars what D TOA is sometimes they'll ask a rabbi a Torah scholar a question not because they want the answer but rather because they want to test the rabbi to see if the rabbi knows and if the rabbi doesn't know then they in so many words conclude that he's not a Torah scholar anymore people are more inclined to believe their emotions or their findings on internet threads than they are to follow what the rabbi actually told them whether it be in a lecture or private advice the problem is so big that you don't even know which confusion to address which convoluted mindset to attack to try to fix because even if you try to deal with the heretical part when it comes to believing that like the Christians believe that God is a human being you still have to deal with the heretical mindset about business or the heretical mindset about modesty or the heretical mindset about plenty of other things the moment a person thinks that their Rabbi thinks like them that Rabbi is no longer their Rabbi and anyone that has been watching my lectures over the years there was a private event that we did several years ago where I think the lecture is called did Jesus hate his rabbi in this lecture talks about the root of the problem that started Jesus's Wayward behavior and how he turned himself into an idol and why he's suffering until this day it all started with him thinking that his Rabbi thinks like him and I can't tell you how many people have rabis and they think that their rabbis think like them now Shalom said that page 30b says that a baby is in his mommy's belly for 9 months and there's an angel that aadh who said to teach that baby Torah and throughout those n months that baby learns the entire Torah and he's able to see from one end of the world to the other end of the world but when that baby is born the angel hits him on the lip and the baby forgets the T that he learned so sat asks why doesn't the also say that he's also no longer able to see from one end of the world world to the other end of the world why does it only mention that he forgets the Tora and now he has to learn it all over again do you know why because the is trying to teach us if you want to have Clarity you want to see the world from one end to the other it's only possible if you become a Torah scholar it's one of the greatest benefits and literally one of the greatest Pleasures that I have in my life is when I talk to Torah Scholars and I literally see how their vision is clear everything is clear doesn't matter what conversation you're talking about what issue what's going on everything is clear it's as if Hashem gave them the secrets of why this this and that everything is clear and y of s says seeing from one end of the world to the other it's of course it's the or but as far as how to apply to the average day to the average person today simple the moment you don't have t you don't have Vision you don't have Clarity you don't have understanding and if you think you have understanding then you're even more dangerous than you realize when a person doesn't know but yet he knows that he doesn't know that's a healthy person but a person that doesn't know but thinks he knows thinks she knows thinks he can criticize the Torah scholar even though he's not a Torah scholar that person is much more dangerous to themselves than they can imagine to think you know when you don't makes you a much much more problematic person as the Kaz said when we look at the secular people and how they behave they call their behavior love but the Torah calls it kit now they think they're right love everyone accept everyone hug everyone kiss everyone do whatever you want with everyone but the moment that you show someone that has that Jewish spark still within them the truth they realize immediately how wrong they were about every aspect they were just simply missing information now it's much easier to help somebody who's missing all of the information grew up completely secular to get them on board to follow AEM 100% it's much easier to do that than to help somebody that is already religious whether from birth for a long time to help them realize they're wrong why because they think they're religious what do you mean I've been keeping Shabbat my whole life I've been more religious for longer than you are I'm this and I'm that I've been uh learning watching lectures reading books already for five 10 20 years what are you talking about how could I be wrong this is why even again Shalom when people would ask him how come most of your lectures you're giving to people that are either Bala or secular people why don't you go more into the religious community speak to the he says helping the secular people is hard enough the uh religious community says a lost cause why they don't think they're wrong they don't think there's anything to fix now of course this is an exaggeration for the point of making a statement but the point is that yes within every one of our communities there are certain people or even sometimes groups of people that have heretical beliefs convoluted beliefs beliefs that are completely unacceptable but if you talk to the people they believe that they are 100% following in the path of God God they don't think that they're wrong for even a second and they'll even debate you about it says this is because they are lacking and of course they don't realize it and then he says the his rebi used to say he says the the holy used to say people say Jews are free meaning free to do whatever they want free to think what they want they have complete freedom I don't understand that how could it be that Jews are free if they're free yeah they they may be free but they're not Jews why he says because the Jew does not have freedom and freedom is not something that we are preaching we learn in the Torah no no no the Jew is not free and if he's free he's not Jewish this is the words of and his how could this be how could this be you see a Jew is never free to do whatever he want if he wants to be a loyal Jew loyal meaning loyal to Hashem loyal to the toah there's no way that a Jew could do whatever ever they wish since there is a permanent burden of the Torah of learning it and fulfilling its MIT that is constantly put upon him now of course when a person accepts that burden of Tora and then they're free but not free to do whatever they want like people think but rather they're free from all falsehood they're free from all mistakes they're free from all Wayward Behavior they're certainly free from that they're free of the slavery of materialism the slavery of of all the immorality and the filth of the world that they're free from but in order to have that freedom they have to continuously carry the to and fulfill its and that's why the says I don't understand understand when people in our communities are saying no we're free we could do whatever we want yeah perhaps you're free but you're not part of we anymore you're not part of am is anymore you're removing yourself why that mindset is not a Jewish mindset because in order to follow the T and fulfill the MIT properly you have to accept now there are many people that will say yeah of course we accept that we follow that until it doesn't agree with what they want so yeah we follow that except when it comes to wigs or business or this or that don't follow that generally speaking and just remove a few pieces of the puzzle whenever they don't like the way it looks or better yet you'll have people that say yeah we uh follow D where do you get your daa oh I uh watch a shield from this Rabbi and whatever uh you know that's it okay but do you have a relation reltionship with this Rabbi do does he guide you on a regular basis or you just watch and you think that okay that's that's it what about when you have questions when you have problems you have slum B issues decide to take on a job decide to uh uh anything no no no we just you know we watch a lecture well how do you know that the lectures are going to talk about everything you need because there are certainly be sometimes that either you didn't watch the lecture that talked about what you need or you didn't understand what he said or or whatever it is but you need to have some type of relationship or better yet some people just decide that whoever they like that means they're D well where does this person get the confirmation that they're saying do do they have a rabbi no they don't have a rabbi they have a rabbi but the rabbi died okay but what about now do they have a rabbi that's living now no then how do they know if they are your source of D obviously they have to follow the toah too how do they know what to do when they don't know what to do how do they know who do they go to no they know nobody knows everything everybody has somebody everybody has a rabbi K Rabbi and K you have to have and people simply do not understand what a rabbi is what D is and they'll simply conclude that whoever they like that even if that happens to be their neighbor their friend their son their father whatever they'll just make anybody they want in and these types of decisions are key part of the reason why there is so much confusion many people say yes I have a rabbi but if you ask them when was the last time you spoke to this Rabbi when was the last time you had a serious conversation with this Rabbi asking him about personal issues don't look at you funny like what are you talking about no no he's just the rabbi in the community in the Sho yeah but last time you argued with your husband last time you argued with your wife last time you made a business deal last time you uh decided which school to send your kids last time uh you uh had a question about a certain restaurant who' you ask no no those most of those questions uh I figured out on my own so wait so he's your Rabbi because he's happens to be in the Sho that you pray at which means that if you leave and you move to a different community that means you don't know you no longer have a rabbi yeah I'll have to find a new one oh so you kind you replace rabbis like you replace cars every three years the lease is over you replace them that's not a Rabbi thear says that if somebody has a rabbi they have to follow that Rabbi wherever he goes meaning that even if that Rabbi leaves Israel because to leave Israel you can't just do because just because you feel like it it has to be for three different reasons one of them the reason is if you're going to go do a Mitzvah you're allowed to leave Israel to go make money or to uh get married the three different reasons why there's permission to leave Israel other than that if there's no other reason if you have enough p in Israel You're not let to leave Israel if you're already married you're not allowed to leave Israel if you're already teaching to you're not allowed to leave Israel unless you're going to be doing more if you're going to be going learning t or teaching toah by all means now what about if your Rabbi leaves Israel guess what says go follow him go follow him if he goes to Israel go follow him wherever he goes go after him why if you understand what having a rabbi is a Torah scholar is someone that has D is you would literally put every single penny you have just to make sure just to make sure that you're constantly next to him but when the average person does not know the value of d t they'll trade for a pack of gum they'll trade d for a small business deal they'll trade d for nothing this is where people go wrong where it starts off by disrespecting Torah Scholars thinking that they think like you thinking that they act like you thinking that they are like you they put their pants one leg at a time thinking that you can figure it out on your own and that already starts the convoluted thinking and before you know it that convoluted thinking grows into outright heresy this is actually one of the things that happened during the whole Corona virus where you saw the Satan's trap of the entire generation work in many households people that did not have serious appreciation of Torah Scholars and what D tah is abandoned d t abandon the Torah Scholars abandoned just because they saw something on the Internet or the news but yet they still consider themselves just as religious as r kvki they had no quals about the fact that they were saying about saying they got paid off by the government or by the pharmaceutical companies because they said to take it or not to take it and all these nonsensical things that people made up in their heads vas says is this mindset that people have that you're free to think whatever you want is not only wrong it's anti-jewish it's anti Tor there was a tadik by uh the name ra Moshe sh F now he really he wasn't an active Rabbi but they called him Rabbi and the seph called uh on page six tells a story about him where he was living at the time of the Kish and Kish didn't just learn toah he impacted the entire generation and thefa of the world of the Jewish world today was literally built on many of the things that the kazun taught and anytime something happened people would ask what the Kaz said but of course before they got to the Kish or before the Kish would respond of what he thinks about a certain war or certain political situation or certain thing that was happening in the world or in the country or in a city or wherever was happening before they got his opinion before they got the D to what we need to do with this information people spoke about it between each other and this m shenfeld they asked him what do you think about this thing that it's happening in the government and he would tell them and Surly thereafter they found out that the Kish said the same exact thing then they went back to mosha shinefeld and asked him what do you think about this thing that happened and he told them oh well this is what it is and he would give him the response and to everyone's amazement when the Kish came out with his opinion about that topic he said the same thing and they tried it time and time again and each time MOS shinel would say exactly what the k said so they said to him wait a minute H how is it possible that you're always in the same direction as the Kish what do you talk to him beforehand does he talk to you before his hand how do you know all this stuff and he says to them we we have a tradition and this is actually in the we have a tradition the tradition is the the opinion of the general public the regular people is always the opposite of what D is so I go out there and people are talking about the political situation about the financial situation about the uh whatever situation is happening in the world and I see that people are talking and they're arguing and eventually people get to some type of conclusion or an opinion and whatever that opinion is I know the Torah says opposite and that's exactly what happens that's exactly what happens every time so I pick that and since the K tells us what that t is he confirms that that's what it is now this is not just something that has good stories about it but this is the type of stuff that also affected lives and also affects ala there was one time a a Jew that came to um steinerman and this Jew was very sick getting all types of treatment for 10 years with no solution and the doctors proposed to him three different possibilities of what they can do and told them the first possibility has a 50% chance of succeeding and curing your ailment the second type of procedure has a 30% chance of succeeding and the third type of procedure it's only 10% chance of succeeding so of course these are three big choices he came to he came toin to ask him which one should I choose OB Steinman says to him choose the one one that has the that the doctor say has the least statistical possibility to succeed why he says because if they've been treating you for 10 years already without solving the problem then it shows clearly that they don't actually know how to solve the problem so now we have to think differently now they think that there's a 50 or more chance to solve the problem finally after 10 years with this procedure we have to think differently than them let's go with a 10% chance and of course this man believed every single word that steinerman told him and followed what he said to everybody's surprise and it worked the procedure with only a 10% likelihood of succeeding ended a being the Cure why D Tora is the opposite of the do of but when the average person is not keeping not observing we already know his path is a mistake from the moment he wakes up until he goes to sleep he's making mistakes the problem is when that type of mindset also impacts the one that's religious the one that's already observing the Torah that goes to sh that even learns a little bit when that mindset is infected with something that is confusing that that is rejecting D then you have yourself a bigger problem because when you tell these people listen you can't think like that you can't do that you can't act like that the typical response is no I know what good for me I know this is what Hashem wants from me Hashem understands me I'm free to do whatever I want and K says yes they're free to do whatever they want but hasm is going to punish them for that says yes they're free but they're not Jewish the mentality of the zionists of today is not very different than what it was when it was founded 100 years ago or more which is freedom from the tah they simply do not want to follow the tah and that's why people that love Jews whether they are the religious the or it's the secular people that they're trying to help them do chba never accepted for a second the whole Zionist mentality because they knew that the root of Zionism is to destroy Judaism Shalom Cohen Shalom we saw the hundreds of thousands of people that showed up to his Lea just give you a small understanding of the impact he had and used to call him he's a pados he's has a holy mouth everything he said is kados and he was in a certain event that there was government people and at the same time as was the and at some point they uh played the you know the national anthem of the Zionist is the song and while R stood up along with everybody else of shalam Cohen refused and he told why you stand up he said I didn't stand up for their silly song I was saying I was saying a prayer oh okay well I didn't stand up for them why should I stand up for their foolishness not going to stand up for their foolishness why foolishness why is the national anthem of the Zionist Israel foolish because it sings Le to be free to be free in our land what free free what are they talking about free not free from the other nations free from toah free from Judaism the original Zionist hated Judaism more than even the Gentiles hate Judaism helel converted to Christianity and had his son convert to Christianity didn't even give him he would have the uh uh the Christmas tree in his house every year and we talked about the zus many times in the past but the point is that even though people that call themselves Zionist today Zionist religious today don't agree with let's say the helel and the uh uh and and all of these evil people that founded Zionism many times you will find even in their communities things that they don't realize are against the tah you find it everywhere it's not just in the community it's in the modern Community it's in the uh religio Zionist Community what is it it's simply convoluted ideologies in regards to specific issues that are against whether it's going up to even though said it's forbidden or all types of other things that D to us says it's forbidden and we say you have that say this is is not allowed even within your own communities they'll tell you no no he's not my he's not my Rabbi he's not my G so even if you bring them a huge Rabbi sadik a g that tells them otherwise they'll tell you no but he's he's a good I accept it but he's not mine I choose somebody else that says it's allowed who is it somebody else some Joo that they decided or they chose different rabbis for different things for this thing that they were looking for permission they chose the one Rabbi that says it's allowed and disregard of the 9,000 that says it's forbidden and for something else they wanted to be allowed they chose the one Rabbi over there that says it's allowed and went against the other Rabbi they went with last time in so many words picking and choosing whichever Rabbi they want whenever they want and the page 14 says someone that is looking for the leniencies of bet Shi and the leniencies of bet meaning he's only looking for whoever is going to allow him what to do today he's going to pick Rabbi a tomorrow he going to pick Rabbi B uh day lady is going to pick Rabbi c a week lady is going to pick Rabbi D every other day he's going to pick somebody else for a different reason even if they contradict the original he's not going to actually have one one opinion One Direction the says a person like that is a rash is wicked and is telling us the root cause of all of this is simply B ignorance of tah ignorance of Torah knowledge the more ignorant a person is about what the Torah is the more they'll allow themselves to ignore it or disrespect it and the more they're going to look for freedom to do whatever they want just like in the secular World here in America they have this mindset that before somebody gets married he has to have a party they call a bashor party in so many words it's a party that he's going to make every single sin Under the Sun and pretend like he still loves the woman he's going to marry and the woman he's going to marry she's going to have a bachette party and she's going to make every sin known to man but she's going to pretend like she still really wants to marry this guy or better yet people that want to pretend that everything is okay even while they're married but they want to go on vacation with their friends to Las Vegas but they have a statement what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas in so many words they'll put God on the side and ignore everything that he says in the Torah and then go make every sin Under the Sun and then when they come back they go back to being religious again now even though this is not really supposed to affect the Jewish World Unfortunately today it does it does there are some people that act like secular people even when they're religious and have these mentalities where you can make sins somewhere else I even had one time years ago there was a certain heretic that told people that the T allows you to sin as long as you wear black clothes and do it in a different city I tried explaining this that there's no such thing there's no such permission to go away in sin is not saying Go away and you're allowed to sin what it's saying is that in those days it was difficult if you look at the to it was difficult to find and afford black clothes so they said if you want to sin get yourself black clothes and then leave the city meaning that by the time you actually acquired this clothes that desire to sin would go away and even if it didn't go away by the time you bought the clothes by the time you arve at a different city it went away no one is giving you permission to sin but that's what happens when somebody does not have a rabbi they'll teach people whatever they think and people will believe them as if what they're saying is D because the people know even less than them and that's why is literally crying out 80 years ago about what we need to be crying about today Shalom one time as he left his house to go to the ISA as soon as he got out of the house there was a disgusting stench in the air and he covered his mouth and as he walked more and more the smell got stronger and stronger and then as he got to a part where all of the work was happening he was flabbergasted when he saw that the workers were s sitting on top of the sewer hole where all the filth and all the stench was coming from but the workers were eating their breakfast he could barely contain himself self he ran away and went to the ISA and immediately knocked on the table and said we have a m right now and he gave the of what he just learned he says when a person abandons the Torah just even for a moment just even for a moment they abandoned that t even for a moment to go to a place they're not allowed to go to to do a transaction they're not allowed to go and do to look at something they're not allowed to do when they first do it smells funny smells terrible they're not comfortable but if they do it again the next time it still doesn't smell good but it's more tolerable and if they continue doing it they could eventually get to the point where they could literally sit on top of all of the filth in the world and eat comfortably as if they are in a five-star restaurant while the average person saw workers working baffled that they're even doing that jobit learn musar learn musar that we need to apply to our lives now the average person doesn't think that way and it's not going to think that way because they don't look at the world the same way as the and that's why when a person goes to a or better yet when a person goes to a bed if if they're not asking a question with already a decision to accept whatever the answer is with already a understanding that it's very likely believe that the answer is going to be the opposite of what they thought because they're not a if they're not going to go and do that then really it defeats the purpose of going it defeats the purpose of asking many times people ask me how come you don't answer my questions anymore it's only one of two reasons either one I'm very busy because there's many many people asking questions or two I've answered answered your questions enough times to know that it doesn't really matter what I say you're not going to listen anyway so why should I waste my time when a person does not value what D is they're not going to listen to it and if they don't have that in their life they're going to have a convoluted ideology even if they act religious in certain aspects of their life even if they look religious in certain aspects of their life they could still walk around seeking freedom and living with freedom that is not theirs the smat lived about 400 years ago it's a section of the that talks about how the are not allowed to go sit on a bed without knowing who the other Dian are going to be ahead of time and the SM says if you listen to me you're never going to sit at any place that does not have you're not going to do any judgment any place where it's just the regular people that it's not why because the way that these non Torah Scholars these people do not know D do not care about D they pretend to be rabbis they pretend to even be Pim there's plenty of them on the Internet that call themselves Pim that call themselves rabbis that call themselves leaders there's plenty of those that's not a new discovery of today this happened even in the past and says if you're don't sin among those people don't judge along with them why their opinion and the opinion of Torah Scholars are always Polar Opposites and we already know from the in in page 23A that the pure sedim of yush already took upon themselves to never go and judge in AED without knowing who is going to be in the bedine before them with them so he's in essence expanding on that telling us why why not judge if he's a Torah scholar and you're a Torah scholar if he's uh religious and you're religious why can't you no no you don't understand sometimes you'll have one Torah scholar and then you'll have some uh you know G that's also religious and they just decided to add them to the uh bedin or they added to decide to add them to the board of directors or they decide to make him the president of the sh or the president of some uh religious organization don't go and rub elbows with those people and make major decisions with those people and why because their opinions are constantly going to be the opposite of the T so if you have D if you know what D is and you're going to expect the Torah to be followed don't waste your time why those types of people are always going to have the opposite of theah opposite opinion of theah so this has not just ramifications but also ramifications when it comes to how do we decide Our Lives how do we decide where to go who to ask when to ask who to help but at the end of the day the wordi tells us all of this there's only a few places in the tanak that the wordi is shown up couple of the places are in Isaiah chapter 66:5 another one is in Ezra chapter 10:3 and in Isaiah in chapter 65 and in Ezra they both mean the same thing what does it say says listen to the word of hem you who are zealous regarding his word your brethren who hate you and shun you say Hashem is glorified because of my reputation but we will see your gladness while they will be shamed so Isaiah says in the name of hem who are these are those that are zealous to fulfill the will of hem why because they they're scared to do anything that will forsake his word when a person is scared to forsake the word of hem that means that they make D their number one priority in their life whether it's in regards to how they learn what they learn whether they learned correctly or it's how they do business whom they do business with when to do business whom to marry when to marry everything when a person is a a real K that means that they are petrified to violate the word of hasem and therefore they're going to constantly look for the one Rabbi that's going to connect to them that's going to direct them to what D is whether that Rabbi is going to be in Israel or in Australia or in Canada or in America or wherever it is that's not as important the importance is to have and not do Tor you know what Tor is T we know that's the knowledge of the Tor that's the opinion of the Tor Torah is the opinion of the bull of an ax and unfortunately many times people make an ax the source of information sometimes they're the ax of himself cuz they're so stubborn and arrogant that they don't want to listen to anybody else even D and sometimes they just chose an ax to be their leader to be their Rabbi to be their one because that ax says whatever they want that ax goes wherever they want that ax does whatever they want we don't want an ax we want sikim we want because we need them a whole lot more than need us because we need in order to make sure that we are going in the path of hasem and are never going to forsake his word in any way and that's why may it be his will that we all follow the will of hem the ways of hem in accordance to what that is and never forsake it or be arrogant for even a moment to think that we know more than it and may always send us an abundance of to dedicate their lives to learning T and those that want to learn it thank you for learning with me mayem bless all of us with all of the blessings of the Torah anyone that wants to support that tah wants to support our Torah Scholars col you can do that by donating at be.org donating on the app donating on YouTube there's plenty of ways to do it amen [Music] ruven AI speaking here let me be very clear about Shabbat it is the foundation of [Music] Judaism it's really Bree this 13-year-old no shame 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