Is Your Free Choice Really Free - MUSSAR Pirkei Avot (51)

[Music] always great to be in Miami we have some new people in the crowd that the sh keeps growing a lot of people love the sh and from here specifically they always ask me when I'm coming back to Miami the shum here already for almost two years I've always had special so uh for anyone new who doesn't know who I am or or the story and everything the um main focus of the shim is for us to fix ourselves so anyone here that's perfect this is not for you if anyone is perfect you don't need to work on anything you already know everything I can't help you I'm here because I need to help myself also so that's what we show to this year so the key of this year is to try to get people closer to what Hashem actually said in today's world there a very big confusion between what we hear and what Hashem actually said very big confusion and the biggest confusion is usually because of different Customs that have been added to Judaism over the years whether the Customs are from or the Customs are from certain countries or the Customs are because of of certain ancestors whether it's ashkanazi or Safari or l or it's a I don't know yemenites or it's this one there's a million and a half different types of Jews but there and there's also 50 million opinions so the thing is though is that these Customs are good as long as they bring you back to Hashem what happens is is that at some point along the way someone takes the custom and improvises and start s telling themselves that the custom is more important than the actual so they make and said that some people focus so much on they turn into they they focus so much on stringencies they turn into donkeys instead of and sound the same why because instead of focusing on what we're supposed to do focusing on something that's nice to do maybe this is a very very big part of the confusion today so the mo most important focus is for us to focus on what Hashem actually said and what I tried to do with everything is with hem is to provide you sources of where it actually says what I'm telling you and anytime it's my opinion you'll know clearly it's my opinion because it doesn't sound like God my opinion and God's opinion two different things if it was up to me there would be no laws why because do what you want what do I care if you keep Shabbat what do I care if you marry this one you marry that one what what difference is it to me and that's the thing that gets me when people try to spend time out of their day they stop their day whatever they're doing whether they're learning or they're working whatever they're doing and they come and they contact me either on the phone or on the internet I'm very accessible and they try to give me m they try to rebuke me and they tell me listen what you're doing is wrong why is it wrong because you're telling people that they're wrong you're telling people that they're doing wrong I said yeah well if somebody drives on Shabbat God said they're wrong not me I'm just repeating what he said if someone is married to a non-jew male or female God said it's wrong not me I'm just repeating it if someone is a homosexual God said it's wrong so I'm just repeating it that's it I didn't make any law never ever ever made a law that anyone Listen to Never but they like to give me musab yeah but why don't you tell them loving things and nice things I said we do along the way of nice things we also say the things that are very nice but they sound hard they sound terrible it sounds terrible that someone that's a Jew that violates Shabbat according to Al is putting his Judaism on suspension to such an extent that he's on the same level as an idol worshipper that's harsh it's terrible to hear it's terrible to say but that's what it says so this is a very difficult thing to do to tell people these things but telling them is doing them a favor why is telling them doing them a favor that sounds good he sounds interesting to that um why is telling them doing them a favor because if you tell somebody that what they're doing is wrong there's at least a 50% chance 50% at least 50% and only all things are 50% there at least a 50% chance that they will listen and if they listen they'll change now if I take a coin and I flip it 1,00 times and one times 1,00 times in a row it turns heads thousand times in a row heads I flip it 1,00 one times another time what are the chances that it's going to be heads or tails a thousand times in a row it was heads th1 it's still 50% chance it's nothing changes the fact that he never heard the truth until now doesn't mean that his chances of listening are any less the fact that he's been lied to his whole life doesn't change anything and this is one of the things we're going to talk about today because for some reason or another one of the Customs that is infected to Judaism today like a disease is this belief that we are incapable of changing we are incapable of hearing the truth we are a special generation but special not like special like we're really amazing special like you know the special needs kids that go in the back of the bus because we can't change no offense to the kids actually they're better than us if we're that type of special because we're able to change they can't but for some reasons the leaders are trying to convince us we can't do anything about ourselves we can't change so God understands God understands that Moses didn't have a car that's why he didn't drive but he understands I have a car mercedesbenz $150,000 I have to drive it who's going to see me drive if I don't drive my $150,000 car if it's not on Shabbat during the week no one's around or another guy says no I even have a better car I have a Ferrari if I don't drive to the beach to see a bunch of people that are practically naked who's going to look at my $200,000 car it's it's a it's wasting money isn't against waste yeah it's called he's he's gonna make he's gonna make a law for himself why because some so-called Rabbi or leader or someone told them listen you don't need to change why God knew about you and he knows you're weak he knows you can't do it he knows it's too much for you he knows it's too hard for you so today one of the things we're going to try to figure out is whether God said this or not whether God actually said you know what when we get to the end of days moments before the Messiah comes all bets are off keep don't keep everybody's okay I love you I love you so much that you can do whatever you want there was one time a guy that went to a um gas station and right off the highway and right before he filled up gas he looks as a huge giant billboard open 247 and this is an Israel open 247 immediately he put the gas thing back in did not fill up any gas he just asked the guy next to him where is the next gas station and he said it's 5 miles ahead like okay he goes but there's gas right here goes no no no thank you I got to go somewhere else the guy that was sitting over there was in a very fancy car this guy that's leaving the car is not such a fancy car he's interested know people always interested in the choices we make I as him why would you drive another five miles for gas if there's gas right here he says maybe you're not going to understand but I'll tell you anyway you ask a good question I'll give you an answer if you went someplace you wanted to fill up gas but the gas station has a billboard and the billboard there have a picture of your father and under the picture and around the picture and through the picture there's all types of insults on your father he's this and he's that and they're insulting him non-stop would you still fill up guess he goes Phill up gas I take the guas I burn the place up what are you talking about goes exactly so that's why I'm leaving he goes where's the billb where's your father cuz you see that billboard it says 24/7 my father told was that he created the world in six days and rested on the seventh for me for you for everyone and anyone that testifies against it is denying that he did it it's say they might as well say there is no God that's an insult to my father I can't fill up gas with a clean heart knowing that they're insulting my father with a big b billboard nonetheless so the guy that he was telling the story like listen he wasn't exactly religious but he found it interesting he said listen give me your number maybe we'll be in touch if I'm ever in town T gave him a number nothing ever happened five years pass one day the guy the religious guy that protected the honor of hem gets a phone call from a strange number the guy on the other line says hey how are you this is the guy that with the gas station he reminds him goes oh yeah yeah yeah yeah thank you very much I remember who you are how are you are you in town maybe you want to come over for Shabbat go no no I'm not exactly in town but uh I am at a bank because I uh my father just died and he left me with a huge inheritance my father wasn't the most religious man but for whatever reason or another on his will he has this one condition that the only way that I could actually get this money is if I give it to an that has now I had to go find out what means scar didn't know much Tor he said fear of hem I said oh that guy I know I know one guy that's scared of God I know a lot of people he says I'm rich but there's only one guy I know and all the people that I know that's scared of God it's the one guy that wouldn't fill up gas because it was going against God so I called you so I need you to give me your bank instructions so I can give you my sale so I can give you 10% of my inheritance because that's the only way I get the money and then also let me know where you live so I come for Shabbat maybe in the next couple of weeks wow aming story these types of things happen for those that protect the honor of Hashem the honor of their father upstairs now what happens to those that are making excuses or even better yet they take the words of Hashem and use it against him so in this mishna we have something very interesting the mishna that we're up to continues and he says translation R akba says everything is foreseen yet the freedom of choice is given the world is judged with goodness and everything depends on the abundance of Good Deeds as we've already listened over the last 50 sh of this uh M each time the simple translation is obvious but if we go into deeper into the words we could have a for 10 hours and it only covers half we almost canceled the whole thing because you want to comment so so now R is telling us as the rambam in his in his p in his commentary on this mishna he says that this is a very short mishna but its significance is Monumental and unlike all of the other commentaries that the ramban puts on the rest of the Mish which are relatively short on this one is very extensive and the reason why he says this mishna has the answer that's one of the foundational questions for all of creation question is do we have free choice if God already knows what you're going to do is it really free choice this is a major question that people have to ask themselves at some point in their life most people don't know the answer and the rambam says that the real answer is beyond human comprehension meaning you can't understand it not because we are fools but because we're human and the answer requires you to be divine but there are some answers and this is what R is trying to teach us here so first and foremost he's telling us everything is foreseen meaning that everything and anything that happens anything that's happened in the past anything that's happening in the present and anything that's going to happen in the future hasem already knows we said in last night's youu that when people have doubts about God say oh maybe he's busy maybe he's resting maybe he's on vacation maybe he's out of money you know cost a lot of money to build the whole world twice they built it they ruined it Noah everything the boat so maybe ran out of money maybe he can't give me P so I have to work overtime I have to work on Shabbat I have to work on all these extra days so people have a lot of excuses for why God can't do it how many of us actually making excuses of why you can so there's only one excuse that you need to make if God is God of the Torah then he's got all the time not sometimes if anyone wants to believe that we all came from a cell like some of these scientists convinced themselves then you still have to answer the question of where did this first cell come from let's say the cell came and it went through the process of mitosis which splits the cell into two now you have one now you have two then it went through another mitosis or myosis whichever one they want to pick now it's two went into four and four becames eight and eight became 16 and so on and so forth eventually became a monkey or a lizard or a fish or whatever you want to pick as the first creation or an amiba and somehow the amiba turn into a human being and I'm here today let's say all that happened and the way they rationalize it is that it happened over a really really long period of time that no one can prove fine it happened let's say we agree no problem where did the first cell come from the answer is that even the their genius Hawkings or any of these other Geniuses is that they don't know they don't know throughout his career Stephen Hawkings has changed his mind about whether there is an intelligent design or not whether there's a God or not sometimes yes sometimes no so his God is sometimes there Our God's always there it's good news so now if let's say Stephen Hawkings said today you know what I'm going back to there's a God and he created the first cell if this is a God why is he limited with just creating one cell what kind of God is that that's only the only thing that he can do is create one cell if the creation can create many more things than a cell the creator has to be greater than the creation or else he's not the Creator if there's a creator that created the first cell there must be greater than the cell so if you can create a cell he can create everything so if he's already creating everything why is he just creating a cell might as well create everything why create the egg if you create the chicken for what that's by the way the answer for people that ask what came before the chicken or the egg the chicken two reasons number one why would hasm just create an egg if there's a chicken that's already made and two who's going to sit in the egg to make the chicken come out the donkey he's gonna eat it he's gonna make he's gonna make omelette so once we understand the first first first grade level whether there's a God or not there has to be a God and if there's a God he's always God all the time that already shows us that he has no limitations he's beyond anything we can possibly imagine now the next thing to understand is the following one of the main things that people have a hard time with is understanding beyond the intelligence of the Greeks the Greeks was supposed to be very smart and they said yes we agree that there's a God but he left he came he created retired went on a pension it's collecting from the IRS until they run out of money so they believe that God created the world but he left Unfortunately today there are many people Jews and non-jews religious and not religious Ultra Ultra Ultra Ultra Orthodox that are M on the smallest tiniest things that believe God doesn't care many many people that are Ultra Ultra religious question whether God actually cares about the small stuff obviously someone that's not religious who doesn't believe in God at all of course he doesn't think there's a God so of course if there's no God then of course he's not going there's no God to care him we're not really worried about so far him we have to get him to actually believe in God in the first place and then once he believes in God it's very easy to show him the cares the problem is for us religious people if the religious don't think that God cares about the big stuff and the small stuff about what we think is big and what really is Big then why should we do anything that mentality created Christianity that mentality created the Sadducees that mentality created the reform that mentality created conservative that mentality is a disease that's a couple thousand years old that's been destroying us from within does God care the good news is you don't have to go too farem says my Torah is not in heaven here you don't have to go too far you have the answer you go to the Book of Jeremiah and he tells you who says it God so it's not even Jeremiah that says it's actual God actually says this and he says translation I am a God Only from nearby or am I a god God Only from nearby says Hashem and not a god from Far meaning am I God sometimes all the time am I God that's like on vacation and I'll check in once in a while or am I here all the time if I'm here all the time then pay attention second thing he says can a man hide in concealment that I not see him is there anything that you can do and hide for me can you take a drink without making a blessing of sh and I'm not going to know about it can you look at a girl that's not yours inappropriately and Hashem is not going to write it in his book or like unfortunately like what many people think can you waste seed and I don't care do you know in the Holy books it says that every time a man seed comes out of his body there is an Angel that's responsible for each seed and he brings the seed to Hashem he says hem what will be with this one what will be now every scientists are estimating that each time a man ejaculates it's approximately 300 million seeds whether it's 100 million or 100 or whatever the number is is irrelevant we all know it's a bunch is an Angel that's responsible to bring this in front of hem andem Hashem you've instilled a human being into the seed a human being can come out of every one of these seeds this human being can be asav or yov both were the sons of the know both had the same father both can say my father was a big Rabbi you know a lot of people tell me my father was a big Rabbi my grandfather was a big Rabbi my great-grandfather wrote a book he's a big Rabbi okay good he's in G then you may go to G if you were your father but you're not he's in G not going to help you that your father his father was also but says has no share of the world to come but his father was that's where comes from so each seed could be or yov the angel comes to Hashem and he says which one is it going to be who is it going to be something is it not going to be something is this someone going to be tall is he going to be short is he going to be rich is he going to be poor is he going to be ugly is he going to be good-looking is he going to be a she who's it going to be meaning that everything is instilled into that seed to give it the full potential to be the next do to be the next mashiah but hasem decides on each seed no it's going to be nothing it's going to stay it's going to go to waste but he decides many people think that hem doesn't care about the seed but this holy books are saying otherwise if Hashem cares enough to decide what's it going to be obviously he cares which is the reason why as early as par Noah he told us that wasting seed is not even allowed for the go let alone for the Jews so now Hashem is here is telling us is there such a thing as you making a a sin in concealment and hiding in the bathroom in the bedroom in the office behind closed doors when it's night when it's midnight when your wife's not looking when your husband's not looking when no one's looking is there such a thing as me not looking is there such a thing there was one time a guy K guy he was walking around the sh that he was going to happen to be right at the end of where theu was so theu the line of theu was right there and everyone knew where the U was on Shabbat you're not allowed to take things in and out of the U but as the test would be his hat flew off of his head and fell right outside of the line of the according to he's not allowed to touch it it's outside of the stays there on the floor whatever happens to it he cannot touch it it could burn up it could stay there someone could take it what it has he has no permission whatsoever to do anything with it why it's outside of the but what does he do quickly before anyone sees he grabs it puts it back on so the rabbi saw he says let me ask you a question you grabbed it really fast you knew that there's a chance that one of us is going to see you hundreds of people coming to biget right now you're not the only one you're not alone it's not night why' you grab it so fast did you think for a second that maybe God's not gonna see it did you think for a second that if you do it really fast maybe God's not going to care like he cares if you do it fast or slow like if you really fast it's no big deal like if you just light the cigarette really quickly one puff throw it out and it's finished no big deal on Shabbat if you cheat on your wife for two seconds one two three you finish you go back to your wife H I love you that's okay if you walk around not mod for five minutes not the whole day five minutes a day five minutes a day you decide to walk naked it's okay it's only 5 minutes 24 hours in a day it's okay you do the percentage a very small percentage what God's not going to care this is what this PUK is all about this PUK is telling us is there such a such an existence such a thought that there's such a thing that could happen in this world without me seeing it and then he consider continues the word of hasem do I not fill the Heaven and the Earth the word of hasem in so many words he's telling us if there's such a thing of me not seeing it there's also such a thing of me not being there and that cannot be because I fill the whole world when Jews cry for money because they don't have enough par or they want more than what they really need says God says m is the money mine is the gold hasem master of Legions what does it mean mine is the money mine is the gold it's all mine the money that's in your pocket's mine in the bank it's mine the IRA is mine the stock market is mine the money you want is mine everything is mine you want me to give you some ask nicely Give Me A Reason do you want more money so you could buy a fancier car so you could be aat but you ow more money so you give more so you could publicize my Torah what do you need the money for and R AKA is already telling us the freedom of choice is given despite the fact that hasem knows that sometimes he's going to give us much and we're going to do things against him he still gives us the ability to choose he gives us the ability to choose to such an extent that kazal says when a person decides on something Hashem helps him regardless of what the choice is whatever the choice is if he wants to be holy hem will help him become Holy inm says be holy because I am Holy so if you want to be holy Hashem will help you you want to be rash will help you too whatever you want you have free choice but just know the begin meaning I know I know it's going to happen whatever you're going to do I know why is it important to know that Hashem knows because the next part of the mishna says the world is judged with goodness meaning a few things first and foremost when you make the mistakes whether it's violating Shabbat or any of the other sins that are in the Torah no that when hem says goodness here or says goodness says it means Chu hem created the world with a concept of chuva and the reason why is because he realized that without chuva the world cannot exist the world cannot survive without Chua so the first thing that we learned from Hashem in uh the book of Deuteronomy chapter 6 verse3 is a says gives us one of the key mitv which is to fear Him fear hem interesting I learned from one of my students he says look 6113 chapter 6 verse 13 meaning you can't fulfill the 613 Commandments without fearing hem it's a nice K so here hasem tells us one of the major mitv one of the 63 what is for you to fear me it's a very important mitvah to such a an extent that without fearing hem you cannot connect to him so for all of those that believe that you can connect to Hashem through love kazal explains to us that fear with fearing AEM without loving him is an incomplete connection it's a connection nonetheless but it's incomplete ideally you want to be likeu ideally you want to be likeu they feared hem and they loved him ideally so if you only fear him it's not enough but it's a connection loving AEM without fear is no connection at all it's zero why it's impossible to love him without fearing him because in order to love someone you have to know what it is and who it is once you know what and who hasem is immediately you're scared he's in control of all of the cells in your body he's in control of your health he's in control of your P he's in control of your kids he's in control of everything the only thing he's not in control over is whether you fear him or not that's your free choice so whenever anyone asks you what is free choice do I really have free choice the Torah says yes you have one single free choice whether you're going to fear God or not that's your only free choice everything else has nothing to do with you everything else has nothing to do with you he say wait wa whether I decide to drive on Shabbat that's my choice yes exactly that has to do with fearing God or not if you drive on Shabbat you don't fear God if you don't drive on Shabbat you fear God yeah but what about if I decide to choose one profession or another that also has to do with free choice that profession can be a sniper for the mob or you could be a sniper for the Army you can either kill people for money or you could protect people one has no fear the other one has fear even though they're both technically the same job as far as the actual action one guy can have hunger for blood and be a surgeon some people are created with some type of desire to see blood says in they have a desire to see blood me on the other I see blood I cringe so I have the opposite doesn't help me but some people see blood for whatever however it makes them feel it satisfies them to some extent so with that inclination that Hashem put in you you could decide to be a surgeon save people's lives or you could be a butcher give people kosher food or you could be a murderer all three do the same thing but two show fear of God one doesn't your only free choice is whether you fear God or not to love love him without fearing him is impossible because as soon as you understand that he's in control of all things in your life the hair on your head the uh car you drive the parasa you get the parasa you end up not getting the contracts the deals the clients the children the husband the wife all of those things is decided by him and he already knew it before you even realize it exists and this is Whata is first telling us in the first part of the mishna is that know this everything that you're going to do hasem already knows he already knows before you're going to do it so now to answer the question of if he knows it why would he punish us if we make a sin the ramb ask the same question in this week's par we already learned from previous par that tells us that by the time we arrived to mount saai am is went from the 49th level of tum impurity and sin to the 49th level of Kusa we went from one end to the other we became the holiest we've ever been at Mount son we've never been that Holy again since then it's been downhill kazal says that the reason why hasem took us out of Egypt at 49 is because if we reached the level of 50 in Egypt since we did not have the Torah he couldn't save us meaning one more sin and he'd have to destroy the world same thing like he did with Noah so he had to take us out at that very moment before the next guy makes a sin one guy makes a sin end of the world this is why kazal teaches us each person needs to view himself appropriately by saying that the next mitvah that I make puts on the good side of God at 50% plus one mitvah or my next sin puts at the bad side my first my next sin my next Mitzvah my next action can change the tides either bring a good decree or a bad decree on the entire nation so what do you do after you make a Mitzvah you say oh we'll back somebody else prob made an A so we probably at 50% again so I need to make another Mitzvah another Mitzvah another Mitzvah another Mitzvah we're always at 50% my next action is going to change the tides so now no one knew when they were in Egypt that the next thing could easily bring their own Doom except hem Hashem took him out and he brought him to mount SA says that at the end of times right before the mashiah comes unfortunately am is going to reach the 50th level of Tuma it's going to be worse than it's ever been looking at the world around us it's not so hard to imagine anymore when you have people celebrating Wars against God on a day-to-day basis it's not hard to imagine that we've already reached reached 50% a long time ago to me I think maybe was conservative I think we're going to reach 100 because seriously you look at the things that happen today you compare them to the Past were much worse everything you can name anything and you could see something wrong with it religious world irreligious world everything there's something wrong everywhere and it's not just something wrong with our ways it's just something wrong with the morality of the world the way we think the way we view things it's like we've somehow been rewired but this is all prophe this is all in the page 49 it says that at the end of time there's going to be certain signs one of the signs is going to be a lot of a lot ofah people are going to do things that are specifically against the tah on purpose so now this very same am that reached 49th level of the highest level ever okay they made a sin golden calf made a mistake fine made a bunch of mistakes fine but it's still the same holy nation maybe they're not at 49 anymore they're 48 or 47 or 46 or 42 but they're much better than us for sure this very same nation in last week's par at the end of parat balak made a fatal mistake a mistake that Hashem said this crossed the line I'm going to destroy the world what was the mistake they decided to get a bunch of non-jewish girlfriends after bam tried to curse am three times and it didn't work he told balak listen there's a thing that you can do you don't even need me you want to beat them just send your girls over there idea that was Bam's idea and he sends balak sends not only all the girls to the camp of am Isel but on top of it he sent his own daughter and they all go to the camp of am Isel and unfortunately we sin they accept them and they start sinning with them and Hashem without warning for the first and last time in history Hashem starts killing us every other time he's punished Us in history he warned us this is the one and only time in history that Hashem did not warn us even the evil rotten generation of Noah they used to kill each other used to steal from each other used to waste seed used to be homosexuals used to go with their animals I mean there was no sin they didn't didn't do he gave them over a hundred years of warnings 100 years Noah is making a what are you doing in the middle of the city making a why you making A's going to destroy the world 100 years they're getting warnings Sodom and gomorah many warnings the generation of MIT many warnings what happened there before MIT after MIT during MIT here we got the Torah we made a few mistakes along the way but we're still a nation we still have mosu Shem says you cross the line he cross the line and he starts killing us destroying us with a plague that within moments kills over 24,000 people 24,000 people exactly it says actually 24,000 die within moments and the only reason it stops as it says in the beginning of this week's par spoke to Moses saying the son of elar the son ofon the Coen turned back my wrath meaning because of him I stopped turn back my wrath from upon the children of Israel when he zealously Avenged my Vengeance among them so I did not consume the children of Israel in my Vengeance means consume meaning destroy the entire nation so here we knew what was on the line before we didn't know when we were making sins with the non-jews we didn't know when we were in Egypt and the next sin could have brought us to the 50th level of Tuma we didn't know the people of Sodom and Gomorrah didn't know that if they would have had just a few sikim in town Hashem wouldn't have destroyed them just a few the people of Israel that keep trying to draft all of theim from Theos to the to T to IDF they don't know that the only reason IDF and the rest of the country exists is because of the very same people that are in the K the people in America that are constantly trying to motivate their kids to go into the business world and leave the aiva world or just study for a little bit but just go be an accountant go be a doctor go be a lawyer go be rich go be this go be that t on the side T sometimes T is a they don't realize the only reason this country exists is because there has to be something TY but drew the benefits out of it has to be to such an extent that the Z says there could be an entire structure an entire building built by some shik some some shik from uh Saudi Arabia in the middle of the desert middle of the desert he can build a huge monstrosity billion dollar building why because maybe one day a Jew will get the shade from it not because AEM cares about what's in the building who works in the building what comes out of the building none of that maybe one day A righteous Jew will get shade from this building but where's so worried about sending our kids to go be doctors and lawyers and everything else except B you know people that actually learn tah why because we don't understand what T actually means we have no idea that the only reason this world exists is for the Torah not for the other way around but now p is telling us that despite us having this Torah hasem said all bets are off I'm destroying all of you every other time he warned us he said listen you have a few don't worry about it we'll let this one go okay m is praying for you I'll let this one go I'll let this one go I'll let this one go a million times he let this thing go here he said no you crossed the one and if it wasn't for I would have destroyed all of you why why we answered this question the question is aners yesterday but it's a good answer and it's a good question the reason why because in the Sin of let's say the golden calf hasem came to Moses and he said to them let me destroy them and start a new nation from you Moshe said destroy me and not them but destroy me first erase me from your book I don't want to be the prophet that comes to shami and sees ab and yob oh he's the leader that destroyed the nation why the leader gets the blame not the people you never say hey the Americans are a bunch of loser you say no no the president's a loser if they're winning oh the president won the president lost they always blamed the guy when a company misses earnings when I was an investment business company misses earnings one too many times what happens CEO gets fired like he's the one that made all the mistakes it's all his fault the guy never went into a Starbucks before in his life the guy is in the office night and day I said no he missed the earnings it's all his fault they have 880,000 employees it's all his fault yeah it's his fault somebody has to go under the bus the leader is the first one leader gets fired that's why you see many companies that are struggling they switch CEOs like a uh you know it's a it's a insurance they changing shirts exactly why because they have to keep investors hopeful This Is The New Guy this is the new mashia this guy's going to change it no the 8,000 people are going to change it that work for the company he maybe he's going to direct them in a certain direction Direction but it's really them you have to motivate them so here a mount said I don't want to be that leader they say oh they all died under your leadership so wipe me out of your Torah first says okay I don't want to kill you you don't make any sins I just want to see if you're really going to step up for the people and you did that's what made him a leader but he gave him a warning the sins we made and the tests we give gave Hashem 10 tests that Hashem testifies to he constantly gave us warnings and he never put us to the point where we almost destroyed us those punishments those horror few people died but it was never did he say that I almost destroyed all of them until here why with the golden CF we left theem but we as a nation stayed intact Hashem says leave me but not my Torah you should be the opposite leave the Torah not me says No leave me but not my Torah why you can leave me for now but the Torah is going to bring you back home but if you leave the Torah you're going to eventually leave me anyway without Torah there's no God whatever God someone believes in if it's not from the Torah it's not God it's someone else it's someone that's limited if you believe in God but you don't believe in the Torah it's not God someone else many people say no no I need I need the I'm religious in my heart he said okay so what do you believe in you what's what's this religion that's in your heart he goes no I believe in the same God you do I said okay so the same guy that I have said that if you drive on Shabbat smoke a cigarette on Shabbat you're actually saying he doesn't exist he said it so that's the god you believe in it goes no no my God didn't say that oh so it's a different God okay so good luck with your God another guy says listen I uh believe in God but I don't know I think maybe I need to work on Shabbat or I need to work in an illegal business or I need to overcharge my customers or I need to do all types of things that are frowned by God I need to cheat the M program you know they say give M give 10% of my salary to to Tora you know he gives like 10% of 10% why because maybe I'm not going to have next month I'm like oh so your God doesn't have any money your God's broke my God's Rich my God's better so it keeps going back to my God being better everyone else is God something else they're always limited they always don't have money these gods they always have no money they're always broke they're always not able to heal us oh God gave me this test why did he give me this is test what's the test you have health problems okay so what God can fix it he can fix it no but the doctor said that I only have uh a year so what God can't change what the doctor said this is where we have to get to understanding that the god of Israel is not limited he could do anything anything they could tell you you shom have an hour to live he could still give you 120 years they could tell you that you are overdrafted by $25,000 in your bank account he can still make sure all your bills are paid without a question how that's his problem you just have to believe in him so God said at the golden calf you left me but you stayed together you stayed with the Torah you made some mistakes but I didn't destroy you the problem is with the S sin of Pinas it was not just going against me it was not just going against the tah it was destroying the nation because anytime a Jew is with a non-jew the outcome is a non-jew if the husband is a Jew and the wife is a non-jew the outcome is a non-jew if the husband is a non-jew and the wife is a Jew the is that the child is a Jew but there are opinions in the that he's not a Jew there are opinions in the oral Tora that he's not a Jew he has to go through conversion if he wants to be a Jew the child but aside from that in reality the child will not be a Jew even if the mom is a Jew why he's confused AB has a Christmas tree has a Hanukah which one do I pick so what happens with the product of inter marriage atheists he says Hanukkah she says Christmas they're both wrong I'm picking neutral they become atheists they become nothing they become agnostic is what they call it no we're friends with everyone until they go against us so now the product is destruction Hashem says if you're going to breed destruction I might as well speed it up for you just like I help you with your mitv you want to be holy I help you become holy you want to destroy I'll help you destroy P put a stop to it going back to our original question if anyone remembers the original question if God already knew this was going to happen why did he punish us if he knew we're going to do this he knew that balak and Bam are going to talk bam is going to try something it's not going to work then they're going to try something else and that's going to work we're going to sin is going to stop it why even why even killed them as a matter of fact in the page 44 it actually says that Pinas after he killed Zim and kosby he threw their bodies and he screamed ATM Hashem for this for these two you killed 24,000 people these two Sinners you killed 24,000 of your children and that's why thear says that's why P got the blessing he did it wasn't that he was just zealous for hasem and protecting his honor he was also zealous for his people too that is the sign of a righteous rebuke there are two ways to rebuke people there's a good way and there's a bad way there's a way that brings honor to hashem's name and there's a way that desecrates hashem's name the mistake we have today is there's a huge misunderstanding of what nice or good or honor of hem Means versus harsh most people think that if you rebuking Somebody by telling them that aat according to God it means a death penalty or it means they're putting their Judaism on suspension or it means that they're not allowed to say kadish no one's allowed to say Amen to their kadish you can't drink their wine if they touch the wine and a lot of other horrible things they can't be a they can't be a they're removed from Judaism they're removed from any holy ceremony they could attend if they want but no one's allowed to say Amen to any of their blessings why because they are considered according to Al 100% an idol worshiper now a that brings aan to the bet mikash we take hisan take hisban sacrifice it brings aash we don't take it because he's worse than the go the go is Holy go wants to bring long as you're not an idol worshipper take the kban no problem but a Jew that desecrates Shabbat can't take his Coran so now this is a problem so people think that if you tell this to people this is harsh truth they say the truth hurts and Truth is too harsh say something else lie now we said yesterday nice example if someone saw their child break something they tell them stop lightly but if they saw the child ran to the electric socket with a fork they're not going to say stop it honey nicely they're going to run move everything out of the way it doesn't matter if the whole house breaks they're going to do whatever they can to stop the kid from doing it even if they have to tackle the child why it hurts why you going to tackle your child maybe he's gonna break a hand maybe he's gonna break a leg maybe he's gonna do this at least he's GNA live at least he's going to live so when hasem says someone that's violates Shabbat is considered an idol worshipper he's saying it it's not the rabbi that said it the sages just wrote what God said you could look at you could put you could look 12 different places in the Tor it says the significance of a sin of violating Shabbat and many many other sins but specifically with Shabbat being the worst of it all so now if you tell this to someone you're doing them a favor whether they like it or not it's their business whether they listen to it or not it's their business but at least now we have a 50% chance that they may listen before you told them there was a zero% chance of them listening because you didn't say anything so there was a z% chance of them changing without information people don't change now we officially have 50% chance it may be 50% that he's just not going to do it nothing's going to change but at least now it's 50% it's gonna bother him next time he drives the car he's gonna bother him next time he loses money on Shabbat he's gonna blame Shabbat he's gonna Something's Gonna touch him it's going to bother him why because you did him a favor but many people say no this is Harsh let it be harsh but it's still at least he's going to live at least he's going to live to say that you're not going to tell him because you're trying to be nice you're not going to tell him because you don't want to offend him you don't want to turn him off like a lot of people say no no I don't want to tell my people to all these things of what actually the Torah says because I don't want to turn them off the problem is that you can't turn off something that's not on if he's not keeping anything he's not on to beat turned off the fact that he's showing up to Bess doesn't mean he's on just means he comes to gather just like he does at a bar at a sports club at work and any other place he has a bunch of friends there he goes to Social Club so to say that I'm being nice and therefore I'm not saying it there's also a for them in page 54 the sages ask a God why did you punish the rabbis before the wicked people when you destroy the BET mikdash why you would think the Torah the significance of the Torah the only reason this world exists is for us to fulfill this Torah you would think the people that study it would have privilege VIP this is not only not VIP you destroy them first this a contradiction the which in essence is like a voice of hasem responded they weren't sikim the rabbis they weren't sikim why why were they not considered sikim to get this special privilege VIP of protection like remember last week we said a story about there was millions of people waiting at his door to destroy him he said okay I finished my I'm going to sleep millions of people at his door they want to kill him he says okay good night but there's people with swords atomic bombs outside your door they want to kill you okay good night he's going to sleep why he's going to sleep he said I learned my Torah I'm going to sleep hasem says if I learn his Torah everything's going to be okay I went to sleep I woke up in the morning they're all dead took us a few days to bury them why did he do it for him and not for the people of the BET mdash why why what happened he got everybody to keep chabbat he put a sword on the ground and he said anyone who doesn't learn T leave everything learn T I'm going to kill him with the sword the entire nation became everyone learned to to such an extent that six-year-old little babies sixy olds still babies they knew the entire M by heart got to a point when they buried him the inan says they buried him with a seph Tor why they bury with seph Tor they said the seph t is Holy is Holy same thing same thing seph same thing as seph Falls everyone has to fast Falls everyone has to fast is holy of holies holy of holies same thing so they asked the asked so the rabbis mdash they did they did this they did this why didn't you protect them he says they weren't why they weren't sikim they didn't rebuke the people tell them to keep Shabbat when you don't rebuke the people says you take the sin yourself you're a sinner just like them so the nice way the nice approach I don't want to tell him cuz I don't want to turn him off there's a gar for you the gar is you're also The Sinner you go up to sh and say oh I kept Shabbat 50 years 60 years 70 years no you didn't keep one Shabbat one Shabbat you didn't keep like what do you mean I went to El I heard Shabbat I went goes yeah but your wife she didn't keep Shabbat you never told her one thing your son didn't keep Shabbat the whole life you didn't tell him one thing your neighbor didn't keep Shabbat you didn't tell him one thing all these people goes on you why you didn't say one thing nobody didn't want to turn them off okay you don't want to turn them off now we're going to turn all of you on G together it's on permanently so this is one of the things we have to understand knew the significance he knew that yes knows that we can sin he knows we can sin but he still gives us a choice of whether we're going to sin or not the fact that he knows of what we're going to do is irrelevant it doesn't change our choice example is two things one if let's say for example you knew that someone was starving you knew someone was starving they need to eat they're starving and you have two things in front of them two options one you have a sandwich tuna steak whatever you like the other is a hammer one table has a hammer the other one has a sandwich which one is he going to pick sandwich right you don't have to be a genius so did you the fact that you knew that he's going to pick the sandwich did that change his choice no you know that's what he's going to do his inclination made him give him a predisposition to pick the sandwich you knew his inclination you knew he was hungry he said I'm hungry there's two choices a hammer there a sandwich you know he's going to pick that sandwich didn't change his choice that's God the fact that he knows what you're going to pick doesn't change anything even more SOI in one of his shim says a really good example he says if let's say for example you wrote everything on a piece of paper I wrote everything on a piece of paper what you're going to do tomorrow all the things you're going to do tomorrow and I said put it in an envelope don't look at it put it in an envelope close the envelope only look at the envelope at the end of tomorrow you go through the next day you do what you have to do you open the envelope at the end of the day you see that everything that you did during that whole day was already written on a paper by me the day before did me writing it me knowing it change your choice change your day no nothing changed so the fact that I knew is irrelevant now what's the hard part what's the part that's impossible for a human being to understand the r explains in and also in that to us we have a difficulty understanding God in free choice only because we bound God to time because we are bound to time we are bound to time we know that we have a past we have a present we have a future we have things we want to do we have things we need to do we have things that we've already done we have goals we have aspirations everything we do is tied to time a time to eat a time to go to the bathroom a time to be with the wife a time to be with the kids a time to go to work and so on everything is bound to time God on the other hand makes time he created time he's not bound to time so anytime you bound you bind God to time he's not God he's a human being so for us thinking of free choice us for us free choice is connected to time so when we think of free choice we think free choice is what I'm going to do in what I did in the past what I'm going to do in the future and what I'm doing right now it's all connected to time since God is not connected to time all three of them are the same to him it's all the same he sees the past the present and the future all at the same time it's all the same thing to him this is why he tells the prophet my thoughts are not your thoughts they're not like this is the prophet Isaiah chapter 55 and he actually says some things that if you take it into account you could be begin to understand who this God that we fear is he says chapter 55 verse for my thoughts are not your thoughts and your ways are not my ways the word of Hashem as high as the heavens are over the Earth are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts over your thoughts if you didn't understand it the first time when he said my thoughts are not like your thoughts he gives you a little more details he says the distance between where you are to the heavens is not even enough to measure the distance between your thoughts and my thoughts if you think of a solution that's not what what I'm thinking whatever solution you think is going to happen most likely is not going to happen stop giving me ideas because my idea you can't think of you can't think of my idea I'll give you an example I tell people that I live a life of Miracles and we see it all the time anytime someone has has a am issue to tell him listen call me if it's really urgent call me most people call me it's not really urgent but they tell me it's urgent which is the reason I don't ever pick up the phone until I know for sure it's urgent there's too many funkos I mean I love it people but there's too many funkos but just I can't talk to every single person that calls you're never going to actually get to studying and actually have sh it's going to be here the same sh every week no come on 50 weeks in a row same sh yes it's the funkos so one time we had a uh bills come you know that happens once a month and my wife tells me we're still living in New York and my wife tells me honey we need $6,000 by tomorrow I said okay good so pay it I I stopped looking at the bank account after losing millions and millions of dollars you tend to not want to look at the bank account anymore now I didn't realize there's zero in the bank my wife knew there zero in the bank so I was focusing on learning my Torah I was focusing on hasem why do I care about money but the world has money so what are you going to do it happens this thing called Bill shows up every month even though he tell him don't come back don't come back he keeps coming back it's always on time same time every month so anyway so my wife tells me honey we need $6,000 by tomorrow I said okay honey so pay it she goes honey we don't have I said okay how much we're missing she said the whole 6,000 so okay so hasem now it's your problem what am I going to do it's your problem we start talking my wife and I talking I'm like listen Hashem made enough miracles for us where listen we're trying to do his will he brought us this far what to destroy us not a moment passes from me finishing this sentence was sitting my wife both of us had full that things are going to be okay we had no idea how but we knew things are going to be okay we're laughing at the situation that just not too long ago this was like lunch money now there's no money to pay bills so not a moment passes I get a phone call from an unidentified number for the I don't know maybe first and last time in my life I actually pick up the phone I usually don't pick up the phone if somebody if I don't know the number it's all strange people in the world so you can't just pick up any phone and I pick up and the guy on the other phone is hey I've been looking for you oh he's isi how are you everything fine who is this oh it's Doo D Who's d oh you remember D from eight years before eight years I haven't heard from this guy he's like listen I'm really really sorry that I never paid you back the money that you lent me please give me your bank account I'm going to the bank now I said eight years he didn't answer a phone call eight years he disappeared eight years the $5,000 that I gave him magically evaporated into the sun now he calls me I said okay maybe he's going to actually do it I said yeah it's my bank I sent him a text like thank you thank you hangs up the phone moments later or whatever an hour later I get a text from him oh the money is deposited I look at my bank account online I see there $6,000 I gave him five he gave me six I call him back I said I'm sorry I can't take interest it's against the law of God this God that I'm connected to now I can't take interest goes no Shalom I know I watch I watch you I see you online I see some of the things you do I see some of the you send a book to my friend and this and that I wanted to give you a $1,000 present to help you do Zim exactly $6,000 shows up in the bank your thoughts not my thoughts I thought okay maybe I'm gonna rob a bank maybe I'm gonna go Beg For Change maybe I'm gonna ask my brother for a loan maybe I'm ask my father all these different things you ask oh I'm going to do this I'm going to do this I'm going to do this all million and a half different options says it's not even one of my options I'm going to give you the money from eight years ago that you forgot about you forgot about the money I'm going to give you that money the money you forgot about that's the one I'm going to give you this is one of the things we have to start understanding the more you live with that understanding the more likely you are to actually see these Miracles with your own eyes and the reason why I say see him is only if you believe in them is simply because if you don't believe in it you're always going to make an excuse for it meaning if someone doesn't believe in miracles someone doesn't believe that God controls everything then when amazing things happen that are beyond the natural you're always going to make an excuse no no he was probably I don't know he's probably in town and someone told him about you that was going to make an excuse and rationalize the Miracles oh it's raining red yeah no it's probably the uh air you know it never rained red before yeah it's probably the air from the pollution they're always going to rationalize Miracles now nature nature for example we see rain last time you saw rain did you make a blessing look at this rain amazing technically you're supposed to do a blessing every time you see Rain by the way but most people don't they forget They Don't Know But at the very least when you see rain there's water coming from the sky now above the sky there's nothing if you go into outer space there's nothing there's no like like you know a bucket full of water and someone pour in the bucket and it goes into us nothing there so it's kind of miraculous there's water coming from the sky and the water comes and it's here in my tea now last time you saw this water come from the sky you say wow what a miracle anyone say what a miracle no one says what a miracle why we got used to it take it for granted we got used to it so nature is Miracles we got used to that's all it is so Hashem gave us the option of whether we're going to be amazed by his miracles or we're going to be just supposed to happen supposed to be this way the world's supposed to function that way people are supposed to be nice they're supposed to be good good things happen to good people and all these nice things that people have so here in this mishna he's telling you first thing first everything that happens is under control by who by the one and only Creator I think you press the button it's okay so the uh first thing that R AA is telling us is that everything is under control by what by the Creator everything you've done everything you're doing and everything you will do he knows but he's not going to interrupt your choices you still have free choice but that free choice is limited to only one thing whether you fear him or not everything else whether you're going to be rich poor tall short ugly pretty whatever it is up that's up to him after that he tells you the world is judged with goodness so the first thing that one of the sages says this is to signify that after you make your bad choices with your free choice that you have you're going to make some bad choices Hashem created the world with goodness meaning with Mercy he gave us an option to do chuba why did he give us the option to do Chua why what's the benefit to him to give us the option to do Chua no I'll give you a couple of guesses Fidel usually have a couple of good ones what benefit is it to Hashem to allow us to do Chua what benefit yeah what's the him why does he want us to do CH if we do bad destroy us we do good go to ganen right away reward us huh to reward us to reward us why would why would why would giving us the ability to Cha reward us first you Cann and then you get a reward okay but if you're good you're rewarded if you're not good you get punished what's what's the point of doing Chua why does Chua have to be in the way someone that's good from the start okay he gets rewarded someone that's not good beat them up for correction no correction you're in the right direction correction of soul for what what's the purpose what's the purpose of this Chua right how do we get to the next World what do we need to do we just said no we need to connect to hem you guys you're saying all the right words we just have to connect them so I'm going to help you connecting them because I already learned this so the connection is he created the concept of forgiveness the concept of chuva because with ch is the only way you could achieve the purpose purpose being purpose being connecting to God the only way you connect to God is with now if there was no forgiveness there would be no one to fear him either because we wouldn't survive a week if there's no chuva eventually everyone's going to fail so then there's going to be no body Left to Fear him and then there's nobody else to eventually go from fearing to loving him and then therefore there's no one to reward there's no one to benefit he's going to be alone in G so the whole concept of chuv is you can get to the next level which is why is the first level of connection the beginning of wisdom is fear of hem beginning of connecting to hm the beginning first time you can say oh I have some wisdom because I'm scared of God so the reason we sent back over here for you know through a reincarnation is because for us to do correction right his Mercy us to do CH so he wants us to do CH how to do CH connect him how do you connected him start with fearing him escalate more and more up to the letter eventually we would like to get to a point of loving him but first we have to go to Basics in this generation I don't believe there's many people that are even able to get to a level of loving hasem and the reason why is because the concept of doing something for no reason is beyond us meaning anything we do in this world it's always because there's a benefit people do things for some type of vested interest no one does anything for nothing including the people that give they give why because they want their name on the because they want the people to know that they're they want K from people not everyone but many people gifts to for that purpose we go to work because we want to get paid we get married because we want to have kids plus we want to have a relationship with a woman in a righteous way we get married to a husband because we want someone to provide to us we do things because there's a benefit to it love on the other hand is something you do for no reason Real Love Is Free three I love you for no reason Who Loved theem job job who was not even Jewish he was a noahide he says to he says to his friends is always in the picture he says to his friends even if I knew that he would destroy me I'd still serve him even if I knew that what I'm doing to honor him is destroying me I'd still do it that's for nothing it says they debate did this mean that job got to the highest level of fearing hem or was that the beginning of Love they debate which one it is point being none of us are on that level why we do what we do purely because we want hem to give us stuff we do mitv because we want a l if you don't know what a l is then you say I want to do mitv you give me a car I want to do mitv you give me a house I want to give mitv so I have a good husband or a good wife or good kids you want stuff the rambam says if you think the stuff that Hashem gives you that's your reward you're a fool why because the value of the smallest mitvah the smallest Mitzvah of all of the mitv we don't even know which one it is but pick whatever mitvah you want that you think is the smallest mitvah pick some rabinal Mitzvah let's say time is not it's not from the Torah it's rabinal so the rabbi said it's good for you to wash your hands for a few reasons number one implemented it at theik that's where is the original source of but the sages continued it because they said also there's benefits to to purify your hands because there's there's evil things on your hands from different things that are impure that you touch to such an extent that there's actually SE several uh famous stories from the MIM of just the previous generations of people that didn't wash their hands and because they didn't wash their hands they ate some type of fruit or vegetable or something and there was some type of that went into them as a debuk debuk is uh Beyond Us in this generation but it's something that a different soul goes into an existing soul and creates a whole bunch of balagan so it's like makes the person bipolar does crazy things and you know they made movies about this that not exactly precise but the point being is that you don't want anything to do with it this is not the place and time to discuss the details of deim but the point being is that there is a significance to this Mitzvah most people don't think it's a big deal but let's say it's a small Mitzvah small Mitzvah in sh the reward for this small rabinal Mitzvah is great than all of the good that all of the people that ever existed from the beginning of the world until the end of the world are ever going to get in this world the reward for doing that Mitzvah one time once is more significant than all of the good that everyone has ever gotten ever good you can Define as all types of Pleasures money uh Pride women intimacy whatever whatever you think is good in the world all of it that everyone had put together is not enough to pay for the smallest Mitzvah one time so we have no concept of the reward of sh this is the reason why this don't actually give many details about there's not many details about what happens in the good part of in the next world there's a lot of details about the bad part there's two parts of good one bad one one is nice well learning and benefiting from the the other part is a little [Music] warm so so now yeah I figed so now Hashem is telling us that the concept of is for us to have this for us to have this connection with him to at least begin somewhere we have to fear Him First eventually get to love the next part of this Mish is that in everything depends on the abundance of Good Deeds so with all the things that are happening in the world you see there's a lot of bad in the world there's disease there's all types of Wars against theem there is all types of things that are not fun not fun to read about not fun to live through there's a war either in the making or already happening despite the fact that people are in denial anti-Semitism is very much alive and well everywhere including America including our towns including our cities including our neighborhoods including our neighbors and sometimes including our friends it's alive and well last week there was a young guy that young Jewish guy that got murdered and B Ron so I put it on my page in Facebook kaval another uh another one of our brothers was murdered showing us that anti-Semitism is very much alive and well so what were the responses that I got you would think oh pray for him who is he do you know him something you would think like you know I'm sorry something what kind of responses did I get from Jews from Jews how do you know is anti-Semitism do you have proof this is what you're thinking about guy just died this is what you're thinking about whether it's if I have proof or not if it's anti-Semitism yes we have proof it's called the tor the Torah has a law the laws are from God God doesn't change and God saidov hates yov that is a law that he instilled in nature just like he instilled gravity just like he instilled air just like he instilled everything else in nature he also instilled hate inside asav to hate yov why if he loves yov and he wants yov to use this free choice that he has to sanctify aem's name why would he put something in his way why would he put something in yakov's way we said earlier that he knows our free choice but he doesn't get in the way right we said he knows what we're going to do he knows what's in the envelope he knows what we're going to do tomorrow he knows what we did yesterday he knows what's going to happen he knows so why would he put a hurdle in our way and the answer is because he knows that our free choice is not always the right choice our free choice sometimes is a mistake sometimes we choose wrong and he wants to make sure to correct us because he loves us so he says despite you seeing my words in sham just weeks before you still went and sinned with the Goot you still went and made sins against my Torah despite you knowing and seeing the BET mikdash seeing Miracles every single day you still sinned with murder with stealing with hating each other for no reason whatsoever because one guy's ashkanazi the other one's Safari and the other one is yemenite and the other one is Ethiopian you hated each other for no reason but you saw that God created all of you he said All of You Are My People all of you are chosen all of you are my children I love all of you he said no but I don't love him yeah but he's your brother but I don't like him but he's your sister and she's did I don't care I don't but they're all my kids how could you hate my kids you saw it still sinned still sinned and despite the programs and inquisitions and the Holocaust you still sin to this extent that you wanted to be like the people that killed you many people don't know that during the Holocaust the one thing that's unspeakable of is that there were actually Jews there were some Jews in the Nazi army killing other Jews we actually had a couple of shim about this you go to my page you go on Holocaust research and you see my lectures about it showing proofs that there were actually Jews that enlisted themselves excited fake their identities fake their names not because survival but because they were more proud of being a German Nazi than being a Jew they hated themselves for being Jewish and this is from all walks of life this is from reform even to the extent that this actually Pro one Orthodox guy they enlisted into the army of the Nazis and they killed other Jews you understand the significance of this this shows us that when we're far away from God there's not much difference between us and the animals at least they're living on Instinct we have no excuse soem says sometimes you're going to want to be like the killer you're going to want to be like isav you're gonna want to marry him you're gonna want to marry her I have to stop it because the fact that you still want to do it when they hate you when I instill the hate in them imagine what you would do if they loved you if all of the go erased anti-Semitism from their hearts there'll be no more Jews because we already want to be like them do to our distance from God we want to be like the green we don't want to be chosen we want them to be chosen we don't want them to do the MIT let them do the mitvah let somebody else do it we just want to be like them we want to be hip-hop stars we want to be basketball players we want to be football players we want to be movie stars we want to be singers we want to do everything and anything except being little learning Tor morning tonight little rambam goes doctor Works a few hours but his main job in life is learning tah no one wants to do that everyone wants to do no no I want to be 50 Cent I want to be Eminem you know how many Bal Chu I have send me their rap songs look look I have this rap song I have this rap song I made and they make videos of their rap song and I mean at least to their credit they're rapping about God little white Jewish kid rapping about God sounds like Eminem just talks about God instead it's cute but you're still far away from home the fact that you're still connected to it means you're still far away from home you're far away from home we still got to get you little stronger we still want to get you to a point where you don't want to do that we still got to get you to a point where you want to sing you want to sing to God but not in a certain style because of anything else but because it's coming from your heart to connect to God through his Torah not through your logic or what's in style so hasem said I've instilled this hate in the go to protect you to protect you because if they loved you they would welcome you and then all of you would not be you anymore you be them and there would be no more Jews because you already want to do it when they hate you and the only reason that's stopping all of you from doing it is the fact that they hate you so Shem says this it's part of the creation this is actually part of the goodness even though it looks bad and we'll finalize it with this many times in life we thinks that the things we everyone thinks that the things that are happening in their life are bad people get stuck in the moment if something bad happened in life no question it's bad at least to you it's bad to him it's bad to me it's bad whatever is happening in your life you're viewing it at that moment as bad as long as you're viewing it only as bad it means we still haven't learned this mishna completely and the reason why is because Hashem says I created the world and I judged the world with goodness meaning we learned from r at the end of everything that the merciful one does everything that Hashem does is always for the best meaning there is no such thing as bad there's no such thing as bad everything he does is the best possible thing that could ever happen this throws our entire human logic in the garbage because first question you say well how is cancer bad how is the hollow how is how is cancer good how is the holl cause good how are the pgms good how is BET mikdash being destroyed good how are all these bad things good if everything that Hashem does is the best meaning it has to be good in order for you to be best so if everything he does is for the best that means that everything is good how could everything be good if it's so bad how this is where we have to start understanding our own limitations due to us being human beings meaning we're never going to fully understand why Hashem does what he does never rambam says to understand him I have to be him but we can understand being parents now anyone that's a parent they have a little kid would they ever tell their little kid little seven eight nine 10 year old kid honey go do me a fever pick up the car bring it in the house like pick it up over your head and bring it inside the house no right why unless the kid's a Incredible Hulk they're not doing it why they not going to do it cuz they know they can't so a parent that loves their child is not going to give them anything that they know they can't do why because they don't want to see their kid fail why because to see their kid fail breaks their heart because they love them and they only want the best for their kid every normal parent wants the best for their child so to see the child fail hurts the parent sometimes more than a child to see the child go in the wrong direction more times than not hurts the parent more than the child and the reason why is because the child while he's making mistakes most of the times doesn't think it's a mistake he doesn't think that smoking a little weed with his friends is a big deal no IMA come on relax in your time they didn't do it but in my day everybody does it look they do it on TV it's legal in California in Connecticut in Colorado and pretty much all of America look they even have a holiday for it the kid doesn't think that smoking a little weed is Bad the kid doesn't think that having a girlfriend at 14 or 15 years old is Bad the kid doesn't think that having a kid at 16 is bad doesn't think so he still lives with IMA and ABA but his girlfriend just gave birth he doesn't think it's bad that he still doesn't even know what earning a living is yet but he already had a kid he doesn't know how to be a kid but now he's a father he doesn't think it's bad with there's anything wrong with it because it's cool the mom the Dad that says listen I have some experience with it I'm telling you it's not a good idea for you you're too young you haven't matured yet you're not ready to be a father you're not ready to be a mother you're not ready to handle the consequences of what happens when you do drugs you're not ready to handle the consequence of what happens when the cops catch you you're not ready to handle the consequence of what's going to happen to the Future in 20 years when you still can't get a job for getting caught one time with a little bit of heroin you still can't get a normal job why because you had to spend some time in jail and unfortunately the world today they look at you based on your resume resume says jail no one hires you this is the reality it's the reality of the world they live in not because they're against the people that went to jail it's not because of that it's because there's so many better options there's so many people that didn't go to jail there's so many people that didn't do drugs why would I pick the guy that went to jail when I had a company I looked at people resum their resumes had hundreds of resumes every day and every they have to look at resumes it was like an employment company even though it was an investment business but you run a company you have you have to look at employees so I would interview these kids and I'd ask them questions and by the way 99% of all resumes are complete lies the person and the resume are not the same thing they always say they know things that they don't know they always say they like things they don't like the only thing that's similar is the name so that's his life business owners know this is to be true this is not uh just an insult to people it's it's true it's what happens people lie in their resumes because they trying to portray themselves is better than what they are because they figure that whatever they are is not good enough to be hired fine whatever it is what it is but you look at these resumés now if anyone says on their resume I like to do drugs on the side I went I spent three years in jail I have a record anything like that you stop looking at the resume you crumble up into a nice ball you throw it into the basket you hope that you make it into the basket you go like this to everybody's I got it and you go to the next resume why because you have 99 other resumés of people that didn't go to jail and didn't do drugs and didn't have problems it's not nothing against him there nothing to do with him it's just there's so many better options this is what boggles my mind sometimes when people make excuses of why they failed some people say it's because I was I can't I was brought up poor some people say it's because I'm black some people say because I'm Spanish some people say because I'm Jewish everyone has an excuse of why they're not succeeding you're not succeeding because you're making too many mistakes that's why you're not succeeding if you let your color in the way you're never going to succeed because you let the color in the way not because of anybody else if Obama achieved anything in his life was the fact that he showed you you could achieve anything you want even if you don't know anything you've never done anything and you've never said anything right you can still become president of the United States if he did anything right in his life he could TR you without knowing anything achieving anything you could speak well you could be president of the United States so color didn't get in his way if anything he celebrated it color didn't get in the way of Jay-Z didn't get in the way of P didy didn't get in the way of all these celebrities that have hundreds of millions of dollars and more money than they can count didn't get in that way they used it to their advantage but anyone that has a sad story to tell you will always have an excuse oh I failed because I only had one parent you know what so did many of them oh I failed because I was broke oh yeah did you have $35 left to your name I did I still made $20 million $35 left in my pocket I had to use it to survive for the next month after I ran out of money I had to borrow a dollar every day for six months six months I have to borrow a dollar from the kid Demitri so I could eat and drink I could eat donut and drink coffee that was my food for the day that didn't stop me from being a millionaire one day the fact that I lost all of it later on in life has nothing to do with it point is didn't stop me oh I'm an immigrant I was too oh I didn't finish college I didn't initially either oh it was hard so was my job I started my day at 5:30 it finished at 1:30 at some point I slept because I couldn't close I couldn't open my eyes all this and all that everyone has excuses your excuses are the only thing getting in a way it's not your color it's not your religion it's not anything it's you you getting in your way Hashem is telling you while you're so busy getting in your own way I'm going to do you a favor when you get too far off to the point where you're going to a dead end street I'm going to hit you and the reason why I'm going to hit you is because if I don't you'll arrive at the Dead End Street and can't turn around there's no u-turn it's the electric socket you can't go back from the electric socket so when you get a flat tire on the way to a big meeting and you end up missing the meeting it's only because hasem says if I let you continue you would have been part of that accident on the highway if you would have made the meeting you would have made the money and then you would have used the money to do things more things against me like you've already done for the last 30 years so I didn't want you to at least have that money if you would have made the date you would have married her and she's not Jewish and that would have ruined the rest of your life if you would have made the Z you would have met him but he's really a wife beater and he just looks good and it would have destroyed you there's many many things that happen to us and we think are bad but in reality if you believe in god of Israel it's only good only good he's doing you a favor even though it looks horrible you ask somebody listen why does he make people sick the easiest answer it's not necessarily A one-sized fits-all but the easiest answer is because everybody becomes religious when they're sick you go to the hospital Center as I learned from my dear friend Fidel everybody believes in God there are no atheists in the hospice center there are no atheist on a deathbed the biggest atheist will ask the smallest Rabbi to give him a blessing sickness makes you realize that you're mortal makes you realize you're not God like you've been pretending to be for the last 50 years so he's doing your favor SOA is telling us here your choices I know what you're going to do your freedom I'm still going to give you even though I know what you're going to do I'm not going to get in your way when you make the wrong choice the world was judging goodness I'll give you the option of doing chuva and everything depends on the abundance of Good Deeds remember I need the world to continue existing you can't get to a point where it's the 50th level of T you can't get to a point where it's unrecoverable because I promise my son Noah I'm not going to destroy the world I promise my son mosenu I'm not going to destroy the world I promis my sons Abraham and yov I'm gonna give their children the Torah and the mashia Mas is going to save them I made all these promises so don't ruin it for me I can't let the world get to a point where it's unrecoverable so when you get to a point where you're the one that's going to make that one extra sin that takes everyone off the map I'm gonna stop you I'm gonna do you a favor by stopping you even if that means that I have to kill you [Music] [Applause] [Music] no a [Music]