KI TAVO: DIBBUK and Impure Places | STUMP THE RABBI (246)

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We're back here on our Wednesday night stump the rabbi series for the sixth year. Tonight's is going to be for the benavidis and all of Isra and all the righteous nohides especially those that continue to support our organization and continue to watch our lectures continue to contribute to the organization as much as possible. For those of you that have not already uh donated to help us feed poor people in Israel and do many other things, go to our campaign page, bhr.org. Again, bhr.org. Over there, there are simply three different choices. Lots of information, but three different choices. You could either donate whatever you want or you could become one of the people that receives the special blessings and prayers for myself and Rabbi Fry uh like many have or you could go even to the highest level like some have and uh get uh much more than that which is a personal meeting with me each uh each month most likely be a call unless you feel like coming to my house every month. Uh but uh the key is is that there are three different options. there uh more than the past years. But anyone that's been tracking the miracle stories uh that we've been publicizing over the last couple of years for those people that did the special blessings with us and the special prayers uh will understand why it is literally the uh the greatest investment a person can make. Just uh in the last 24 hours we publicized someone that uh simply had a miracle of all miracles. few years ago, he decided to put everything he had and to uh buy himself one of the special blessings, one of the special miracles and uh he was just simply hoping to be able to succeed to convert, but he got a whole lot more than that. Not only did he convert, but he ended up getting a job that allowed him to buy a house without a mortgage. In so many words, buy the whole house without a mortgage. So saying financial success is an understatement. Found a shiduk on the first time and is in the process of getting married right now and moved to a uh Jewish uh community, converted, wrote a book literally in a short period of time. A person transformed their entire life. And of course this is one of many stories that we've publicized over the years. The stories continue to keep coming. We have Bo Hashem. Lots of amazing stories. One person actually just a few years ago. The most he was able to uh do is I think it was four or $5,000 that he contributed to this campaign to get himself a special blessing. And uh I can tell you that this person each year had more and more financial success to be able to afford to do more each year going from four to 10,000 to 15,000 to a 100,000 and and more. on the ship. Uh it's a uh the success is simply in there. And why why is this so much success? Why are people getting open miracles by donating to our organization and uh they're not getting necessarily those miracles in other places? I have a short video that I made and publicized last night for those that need explanation. So with that being said, anyone that wants to donate and bring themselves endless blessings in this year, help us help is help us help is help us feed more poor people. If you're going to have a good judgment, the Rambam says the most important thing that you need to do before the holiday and as part of the holiday is to contribute generously as taka before the holiday. And those people that have uh invested with us have won. those that have not have not and unfortunately those that have made the mistake of stopping perhaps we'll discuss that at another point. So is a scary parad. But we've spoken about the scary punishments, the warnings in past years, and we don't really like to repeat the same thing. And I know that people love mystical stuff, supernatural. So since this is one of the if not the last lecture before the new year, this is what we're going to learn. Many people are interested in supernatural and mystical parts of the Torah. Stories of dukim, which is in essence a soul or spirit that enters that has left the world that enters somebody that's still living in the world. Mizikim, witchcraft. These are viewed as interesting by pretty much everyone. But sometimes people think that they're irrelevant. Perhaps not to today. This is a mistake. Is well known for its warnings to those that forsake the Torah. One of the warnings is about unhappiness when it comes to mitzvot. Yes, unhappiness. Seems like it's not a big deal. While this may seem like a trivial connection between the supernatural, debukim, and unhappiness, tonight we're going to hear a few stories that are real from the sources that are absolutely relevant and shocking. Hold on to your seats and be warned that the Musar lessons in this lecture are about you. Yes, you that are watching right now. It's not about somebody behind you. It's not about somebody next to you. It is not about somebody you know. It's about you. Tells us many things. But over the years, I've studied this parashem many times and I've wrote myself notes and books and but some of my most special notes were ones that I write in the books themselves whether it's the hum or other books that boem studied over the years. Interestingly enough, instead of writing anything else that I could have written many years ago, I wrote at the top of a few things. one we are in big trouble because we don't know that we're in trouble. Okay. But what next note must be excited to give and because the fact that Hashem let you keep 90% of the money is a miracle in itself must be excited to give throughout my whole life I've always liked giving but this was a special note that apparently My needed to hear at the time and always does that it's not enough to just give. You have to be excited about it. Excited to give 10 or 20% of your money or more which we do as pretty much give everything. Our whole life is for Islam. But I still needed to write this. Why? What does it have to do with that says horrible warnings and unfortunately prophecies of the punishments that happened to when we went against the Torah? And of everything to give a tithe, to give 10% you have to be excited about it. Well, the first time you see the word joy, rejoicing, excited in this para is in the beginning. Chapter 26 verse 11. You shall rejoice with all the goodness that Hashem your God has given you and your household. You and the Levite and the convert who is in your midst. Okay? Should be happy with what Hashem gives you. Fantastic. What does that have to do with mas? The next verse, the next verse tells us why we have to be happy. because you will finish tithing every tithe of your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe. You shall give to the Levite, to the convert, to the orphan, and to the widow. and they shall eat in your cities and be happy tells us you have to be happy with everything and rejoice with everything that he gave you. Why? Because now you're able to give mael and after you give m you should be happy. Not the people that you gave should be satisfied because now they have food. No, you you the one that gave 10 or more% of what Hashem gave you, you have to be happy. Why? Because you were able to give. And the next verse sums it all up and tells us mean, then this is verse 13, one after another here, then you shall say before Hashem your God, I have removed the holy things from the house and I have also given it to the Levite, to the convert, to the orphan, to the widow according to all the commandments that you commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments. I have not forgotten. here tells us first and foremost be happy for whatever I gave you because now you have an opportunity to do a mitzvah and give m when you give the m instead of saying ah man I have 10% less now oh I have less money I had 100,000 in the bank now I have 90 I had a million in the bank now I have 900,000 I have a billion and now I have 900 100 million whatever you have now that you gave now you should even be more happy and now you should tell I have not forgotten in fact I remove the holy things from the house what is this holy things from the house the doesn't belong to me the money that doesn't belong in my bank account it's not mine it's yours I removed it from the house. Now a person can say well perhaps this is referring to the old days when we had the beta mikdash the old days at the time of mushenu perhaps it's referring to them back then it was a mitzvah a biblical mitzvah today it is something very good to do But not just very good, but rather it's the one thing that says with this you're allowed to test me. You're not allowed to test Hashem on anything. You can never tell Hashem either do this or I don't believe in you. Either show me yourself or give me a message or not. Never allowed to do that. But there's one thing that says you are allowed to test me in this which is what the says when you give properly you're protected from never losing your money. Meaning if you lost that's because your m is not working. It could be because of other things too, but the mas was supposed to protect it. If you give you give 20%. Then you're guaranteed by to become wealthy. If you're not seeing success, then there's something wrong with the masel. Why? Because the Torah says I remove the holy from the house. But unfortunately, as of breastlip says, if you give your your to the wrong place, it is considered as if you wasted seed. And I've told you guys many times, if you donate seriously to our organization, at least MV, and you don't see blessing, stop donating immediately. There's something wrong with us. Who have you ever heard tell people to stop donating? But people continue to donate. Why? Because they see blessings. But there are times the people think they found something better. And by all means, we never chase anyone. But unfortunately, from time to time, people tell us stories that we know the answers to, and we don't really like to tell people that because we know that when they're coming to us with pain, the last thing they want to hear is that they're at fault. It's not anybody else's fault. years ago there was a person that we helped them a lot. Let's just say that. What does a lot mean? In so many words, the only reason they have a chance of going to Aba is because of what we did for them. The them, their family, their kids, and everything else. And they said, "Rabbi, I love you. You are my everything. You are the this. You are all the compliments." And they used to donate. And not the one that I told you that lost 4 million after stopping. No, there's a new one. There's always new ones. People learn, people donate, people do good things, and they get blessings. One time they told me that my guidance saved them a half a million dollars. Seems like good guidance. Apparently, nobody ever gave me guidance that saved me a half a million dollars. Then panic improved and they were able to donate generously. But one day they stopped. I didn't get any note, warning, or even acknowledgement. So I figured they're having financial troubles. not going to go ask the person to donate if they're not donating. Donate. If you want to donate, donate. Out of the tens of thousands of people we've spoken to over the years, not a single one of you could ever say that I called you to donate. The most you ever got was a text message or an email simply showing you a link. Why? Because our focus is to teach Torah, but to also help people do good things. But this person decided to stop donating and um things didn't work out so well. The financial success, the protection of a half a million dollars, the growth, the stopped. They continued donating, but somewhere else. They continue donating to Torah, but not our Torah. They decided somewhere else is better for them. even though we're good and they would love to do both but they can't and therefore they chose the other place in a short period of time of just maybe a couple of years and this is a story from them which I'm not going to say the name but they asked for ms they asked for the truth and therefore I gave it to them and I asked them are you sure you want to hear this because it's going to hurt and they said yes well in a couple of years they virtually lost lost a whole lot if not almost everything. The donations they gave to the other place continued to go. But now they have almost nothing in the bank account. But they had a deal. A deal that could save everything. A deal for millions of dollars. A deal of a dream. Who would not want such a deal? All they had to do is put in their bid in time on a deadline and they got the deal. It was almost like ah Hashem sent the Messiah to my bank account on the day of the deal. person stands in front of their system and starts working on giving the information. All of a sudden, distraction, a phone call, then somebody needs something, then something else, then something else, then something else. Before you know it, by the time they were able to simply press the enter button, just a button, it was 10 seconds too late. They lost a dealim after that and almost losing their mind they contacted me and I tried to explain to them briefly without hurting them. You lost the blessing. It's clear you don't have blessing. There's people that make money and there's people that have a blessing. Two different things. I know plenty of people that make over a million dollars a year but do not have a blessing. Why? All of the money they make goes to bills, goes to lawyers, goes to problems. They simply do not have any nat whatsoever. Their kids are on drugs. Their wife are cheating on them. Their husband doesn't want them. All types of things. They have no whatsoever. They may have an income, a tax statement, but no blessing. You lost the blessing. Why did I lose the blessing, Rabbi? Are you sure you want to hear this? They insisted that they do and I simply had hard time telling them because I knew it's going to hurt a lot because most people as the itself says do not like to hear m when it has to do with them. A person does not see the obligation in themselves. Now, what does that all have to do with supernatural with the buim? Okay, lost a blessing, lost multi-million dollars. Mashem, they'll get it, but they have to change. It's not going to come by itself. You could donate to plenty of places, but there are specific places that says that's where the blessing is. Especially if it's a place that helped you as aim says somebody in cafe somebody that's auva that's it's ungrateful the tragedy will not leave his house in so many words the moment you are you're an ungrateful person you have just brought a curse upon yourself that won't leave ever. And says in this par you have to be happy. In fact, all of the curses that it says in this para at the end of it all in chapter 28 who says because you did not serve Hashem your God amid gladness and goodness of heart when everything was abundant. Chapter 28 verse 47. When I gave you the sustenance, when I gave you braha, when I gave you everything, instead of using it for the reason that I gave you, what'd you do? You went and bought yourself a boat. You went and gave somewhere else. You went and did this. You went and did that. So, guess what? You didn't serve Hashem. Yeah, but I thought I was doing a mitzvah. Wrong. You were making a sin by being au ungrateful person. It's specifically talking about you didn't serve Hashem when everything was abundant. Now you didn't deserve Hashem when you were poor. You didn't serve Hashem when you were struggling. No, specifically when you were when it was abundant. Now, of course, the mystical parts of the Torah are not always clear and that's why you have to learn it from somebody that understands. But Torah told us in this par that a person that fulfills Hashem's will with happiness is excited about the mitzvah. So much so that he says, "I have removed the holy for my house. There was one time a person that had a dream and in the dream he saw the words beh and he kept hearing the sound behav and he says rabbi can you explain his dream to me And the rabbi says, "Have you removed anything holy from your house lately?" And he says, "Yes, I uh I wanted to make some space in my shelves. So I removed the books of the zadosh. I removed them from the house. I gave gave them away." So ah that's why. So in a kad is telling you you're a you're an animal. You're an animal. You're an animal. Just like the word stands for animal also if you take each letter it says you removed the holy from the house. So now you're a you're an animal. Many times people remove the holiness from their life and then they're surprised that a kadu treats them like an animal. One of the most extraordinary in the last couple of hundred years was one that everyone has heard of. The Balmto and the Balmto had many Telmid and he has spoken extensively about supernatural things and the world of continues to grow. One of the great in the last century was theim. And he writes to somebody that asks them, "What uh should you teach kids?" And he writes 15, chapter 15. He says, When the child grows, his father teaches him has to teach him wisdom, mus and fear of hashem because the entire upbringing of the child is dependent on this. This was the way of our forefathers, our holy forefathers and our matriarchs. generation after generation of to raise their children this way, to teach them amuna, simple amuna, to tell them about ganed, to tell them about gum, to tell them about the eventual salvation and the resurrection of the dead. stories of sadikim and sadikot and what they merited. do their good actions and specifying stories and details of the punishment for sins and what happens to those rejected souls and the and the punishments of gum and also the rewards for the mitzvot and the enjoyment of ganed. In this way, the child will get used to it and accept it even as a child and even as someone that becomes an adult. So when you speak about reward and punishment and some scary stuff, you're in essence following the world of you following of they were also anyone that follows and does above and beyond says he's aid. One of the greatim, not from the world of the Balto, but the Safari, the Safari was the Benishai. And the Beneshai in the response are called section four or volume four. In chapter 4, he's asked a question about whether it's a problem to go to graves, cemeteries that have goim in there. Goim that recently died and goim that have died many years ago. that some of them their bodies were consumed and some of them are relatively new. But should we worry about the impurity or that there could be any bad thing that could happen from it? Or is this no longer really relevant? Because after all these are not exactly righteous people. These are wicked people. But the Z says that you have to be careful. Is this really relevant? Says the Benishai. This is not a problem that only existed back then but also now. And in fact, it doesn't matter whether the body and bones have already been consumed or not. Even if it all became dust, the spirits of those wicked namote are still upon it and they are cleaving to the grave even after the body has been consumed. And if it's a really wicked person, that kipa is so strong that it could hurt much more than you can possibly imagine. And it doesn't go away until Mashiach comes. Meaning certain types of wicked people their spark of impurity doesn't leave. And what about the damage that you said? He says, "We learn what it can do from that inim where it's documented word for word what happened. a holy book only recommended for people that have learned an enormous amount of Torah and have permission to learn this parts. But there are certain sections in it that are allowed for everyone such as the story. Although my notes initially were written on this Hebrew version, I found that I have this also in English. And I could simply read you the translation word for word of what the student of the Arizal wrote word for word. So you don't think I'm making up anything, exaggerating anything. What happened in the year 5332 talking about 400 years ago 450 years ago is talking about himself and the the is talking about himself and other students. We went out to the field and passed by the grave of a gentile from more than a thousand years earlier. meaning this is from this grave is at least 1500 years ago talking about the time of the Talmud saw his nephesh by his marker saw the soul of this gentile that died over a thousand years ago and that he wanted to kill me or at least damage me. There were many angels and righteous souls beyond estimation protecting me on my right and my left. So he could not come near me. My teacher commanded me not to return that way anymore. After which the soul of the gentile went with me from a distance. meaning is saying we went to he passed by this grave and the soul of this gentile that died over a thousand years ago wanted to kill me but it couldn't but knew that this is a very powerful soul that if I come back he I'll be in danger she told me not to come back but the soul was so powerful it followed me and he didn't realize it initially In that field I became angry with and the nephesh of the gentile began to join with me. It further made me sin and I did not want to listen to the teachings of my teacher. And my teacher began to cry and say, "All the righteous souls and angels have gone away because of the anger." And as a result, the soul of the gentile has power over him. So now they left the field, they left a place, the debuk followed but didn't have permission until he not only became unhappy, he became angry because he got into an argument with one of the other. The moment that he became angry, that opened the gate for the debuk to enter him. And all of a sudden, I'm thinking about sins, thinking about not following my teacher, not following the rabbi anymore. The same rabbi that can resurrect the dead, see the dead, literally knows what's going up in Shabim, all of a sudden I don't want to hear him. And Ariel knows exactly the damage that just happened and he starts to cry. He says, "That's it. The gentile soul has taken over him. What can I do?" says thou to rectify him. It should only be that the angels only damage him but leave him alive. Meaning what's happening right now? He says, I hope that they simply just hurt him and don't kill him. I can cure him, but I fear that they will kill him and all of the rectifications in the world that I thought would come through him will not end up happening. Meaning that says that his student is was supposed to bring the tikun for the world. It was a very elevated na and says now all of the plans to bring the salvation are not going to happen because of what just happened because of a moment where the Tami didn't want to listen to the rabbi he in essence went back in the same way that the rabbi says don't go simple advice didn't want to listen from that moment on debuk entered him and now the is hoping that he the de the book only hurts him and doesn't kill him. I'm not able to tell him how the rectification is supposed to occur though because I don't have the permission to tell him. For nothing have I come and the world to be destroyed. In so many words, Darizel believed that has the tools needed to bring the ultimate salvation to the world to Is he couldn't give him all of the details at that point yet. But all of it was going to be gone because of what just happened. Because of this debukal did not eat the entire night and all of his pain and concern consumed him. And the says, "I went back that way to the grave again on my own. And when I arrived at the grave, the spirit actually lifted me up and I saw myself running in the air at the height of 20 floors. This is huge like top of the building, but he's in the air flying in the air from the ground until I arrived to the city of Tvat by nightfall. The debuke left me there and I went home to sleep and felt healthy until the morning. When I wanted to get up, my limbs my limbs felt weak one by one and my family members sensed that I was becoming increasingly weaker. So I went very slowly until the door of my teacher. By the time I arrived, there wasn't a soul within me like with respect to Yona. My teacher lay me down on the bed and closed the door and prayed outside of the room. After that, he entered the room alone and he walked in the room and returned to the bed. He prostrated himself on top of me to put life back into my limbs. And this is what he repeated at midday until which time I was completely dead. died. The debuk killed him. At midday, I saw on my own that my soul has returned to me. Little by little until I was able to open my eyes, I got up and made a blessing over the resurrection of the dead. All of this is true and certain without a doubt. Here tells of a personal story. What happened to him? The moment he did not listen to his rabbi, the moment he got angry, something that seems superficial, something that seems inconsequential, something that seems not a big deal. A lot of things seem like they're not a big deal. tells us in this week's par, you may not think that being happy with your mitzvah is a big deal, but it is. There was one time a debuk at the time of the when they spoke to the debuke the debuk said if the tells me to get out I'll get out. They came to the and says I don't want any connection whatsoever to this deboo to the world of tum but he sent couple of his to go and say specific prayers and force the debuk to leave otherwise why did the stay away I'll tell the mu to stay away from places of impurity. The gi says that the moment a person makes a sin, there's a certain spirit that now is glued to him that desires to make more of the same sin, more of the same mistake. Once he makes a sin, there's a certain level of impurity on him that now desires more impurity. even if it looks like he's not doing anything wrong. Now, does this have anything to do with today? You tell me after you hear this next story. 13 years ago, my dear Rob, Rabbi Fraim, was looking for a house for his family. And one of the people that he knew was friendly with a friend, if you could call it a friend after you hear the story, went into the real estate world and was a broker. Of course, a friend says, "I can't afford much, but I need a house. can you get me an apartment somewhere? He's like, "Listen, Rabbi, I got you a great deal. This house, this apartment has six or seven rooms." Wow. Okay, great. But it must be expensive. He goes, "No, only $1,000." $1,000 for seven rooms. How? Seven rooms. $1,000 today. Thou seven rooms. It's minimum 30 40,000 shekels. 10 $15,000 if not $50,000 depending on which area. A,000. How? What's wrong with this place? No, no, it's good. It's It's a nice place. It's brand new. Oh, so it's not only cheap, it's brand new. Brand new. He reid everything. Brand new place. And if you're an he'll give it to you for free, no rent. Okay, so there's many. How come nobody jumped at this? He says, "Well, everybody else that goes there leaves within a month or less." Huh? Why? Why? Says, uh, you know, strange things. What strange things? He says years ago, a little girl died mysteriously in this house. And ever since then, there's all types of strange sounds and things happening in the house. All of a sudden, you have a a cup full of juice decides to be emptied. Gone. All the juice is gone. The window shades move, but there's no wind. They just move. Sometimes the door opens, closes, lights on, lights off. Things fly across the room. You know, weird. Her frame says to him, "What kind of friend of you with friends like you? Who needs enemies? Who needs haters? You're this is what you're offering me?" He says, "Well, listen. It's a really good deal." He says, "Listen, tell the guy I'm not anymore. How about that? I don't want the place. Not for free. Not for a thousand. I don't even know. I don't even want to know the address. Something impure is in the place. And some of these impurities are still around today. But one of the things that we saw from the para as well as from the story of from the is that as the Torah tells us in this week's para in chapter 26 verse 11 and also verse 28 uh chapter 28 verse 47 there are two things that are the vessel for the powers s of impurity the which are sadness and anger. These two things seem like it's only natural for a person to be sad sometimes or angry sometimes. natural or not natural. A person is angry or a person is sad. They don't realize they just opened the gate to their nama that they can't see with their eyes, but they opened the gate for all types of tum to enter and hurt them. One of the from the previous generation shalom of the Shalom of Bs once told his that on Shabbat he was learning Tawa on Friday night and as he was learning he suddenly saw that there is somebody standing next to him not from this world. He was studying mystical things, Cabala, things that are above and beyond the norms and all of a sudden a spirit appeared next to him. Immediately he closed his book and went to sleep. So Tomim say, "Rabbi, why? Why'd you close the book? Maybe it was Navi. Maybe it was an angel trying to learn with you." He says, "No, no, no. For sure it was an impure spirit. How do you know? Well, they have a sign says impure. Says says no, I saw it. It was sad. And the says there's no such thing as being sad in front of Hashem. If there's sadness, it's not in front of Hashem. You're you're doing something wrong. doing something wrong. If you're not happy in every single one of your there's something wrong in chapter one gets the news from Jerusalem. messengers came and told that was the wine minister for the king Dyavish and they came to him and they said all the horrible things that are in yushim after the destruction and what's left and only bad things are there and people are violating Shabbat and intermaring meaning It wasn't enough just the destruction of the bet mdash but people are getting worse and worse. The next day the Yavish the king non-Jewish king wanted to drink wine. So of course in order to drink wine the wine minister has to bring it to him. And the Yavesh sees that his wine minister is giving him the wine, but he has a sad face. It's puffy. He was crying. Something immediately says, "Why are your face uh look e look evil, but you're not sick? Are you trying to kill me? Why do you think he's trying to kill you? Because the Torah is teaching us and this is proven and scientifically as well for anyone that uh recently heard about the horrible thing that happened in Israel a couple days ago. Terrorists attack Makim. There was a testimony. Somebody that saw the murderers and this has happened many times. They saw them before they killed. They see their face changes. There's a drastic change in the face of a person before they commit murder, before they kill somebody. Just a few hours ago, somebody in America, those very famous political uh um speaker was murdered while he was giving a uh lecture in front of thousands of people. And the Torah is telling us before somebody kills they change there's face changes. So Dyesh sees that Sadik his wine minister has a face that's doesn't look happy says you trying to kill me you have poison in his wine and says no no no please don't think that I'm sad because of the news that I got yesterday of not only is destroyed the bet mash is gone already for years But it's continuing to get worse and worse. And I was hoping and crying to Hashem that perhaps the Yavish, your highness, will allow me to go back to rebuild it. And the Yavish liked so much that he let him go and rebuild. But again, we see from there that if you want to serve the king, you have to serve him with with happiness. The inhale in chapter 3 number two has a story of comes into the midrash with a face as happy as can possibly be. So much so that everyone thought that he found a treasure. They started asking him for money for staka. We have a campaign rashana campaign. Yum kip campaign after that is going to be Ora campaign something you know you just found a treasure right he goes no what treasure why do you think a treasure look at your face how happy you are he goes no I got a kush I got a kadoo in a that's greater than any monetary treasure that's why I'm so happy and says the people that learn to that's notem It's not for the sake of learning Tua, but rather because they have to do it because somebody told them to do it. It's their homework. Their parents are forcing them. When they learn, you can see that they're not happy. Why? They can't wait to finish. They want to finish the book already. Finish it. Finish it. But when somebody's learning shine, you see that they're happy with every page and they don't want to finish because every page is another kush, another insight, another lesson, another reminder, another you know, you know, something amazing, another treasure. When a person understands that serving a kadosh requires happiness, it's not just happiness in a mitzvot that you like, but rather it's happiness in all of the mitzvot, in all of your actions. Because the moment a person has unhappiness, has anger, they're opening themselves to impurity. Impurity that is damaging. Not just as extreme as what happened to the M where he literally died and had to be resurrected. But even as simple as having the ability to do a mitzvah, having the ability to learn. There was one Kiru rabbi that him and his wife used to teach specifically about getting rid of wigs and women would listen to him and eventually got rid of the wigs and they would give him the wigs and he collected them in a garbage bag and one day he wanted to make Roadya happy and he brought the garbage bag full of wigs to Roaja's house of course was learning so he told him you have to He waited waited for a half hour. After half hour, they let him in. And he says, "I'm here. I want to let you know that people were listening to the shim. I was publicizing your sock that wigs are not allowed." And I brought the wigs. Look, this garbage frag is full of wigs. As soon as get rid of it, get rid of it. O you brought this here this tomb. Now I understand why for the last half hour I'm trying to learn Tora and I can't understand anything learning Torah for a half hour and cannot understand anything. Why? There is impurity in the house. What's the impurity? What went on a Jewish woman's head? a wig which today we know that's not only impure because it's against over a 100 plus scheme that say wigs are not allowed but rather it's coming from idolatry that is known in the business world in the world of trade as coming from the temples of India just today somebody sent me a statistic that was publicized by world and maps about real hair real hair 94% of it comes from the temples in India this is not your this is not all the other things that I've said over the years 94% of all re hair is coming from India so you can believe all of the liars with or without a beard that tell you that your wig is not coming from the temples of idolatry. Or you could simply have common sense to realize that you have tum on your heart that is misleading you to the point where you cannot accept the obvious truth that wigs are forbidden. According to all opinions that understand the suga, that understand and have investigated this issue. Good people can make big mistakes. And the gi says that a good person that does good things can make one mistake, donate to the wrong place, help the wrong person, lie about something specific, cheat, show ungratefulness, show unhappiness, become angry, whatever it is, and think, "Okay, it's not a big deal. it's only one thing and not realize in your eyes it's only one thing but that's because you don't have spiritual eyes. The moment you betrayed Hashem by being unhappy about all the good that he gave you and even more so showed ungratefulness to those that helped you. You just opened up a gate that only curses come through it. How do you get out? On one end, it's complicated. Why? You have desires to make the mistake. You have desire not to listen to the truth because that's what you've been consuming for a month, for two months, for 6 months, for two years, for 5 years, whatever it is. So your desire is to reject the truth. Your desire is to dismiss the truth. No, no, I'm giving myself the right way to the right place. No, I'm praying the right way, the right place. I'm learning the right way, the right place. Okay. If you were doing the right way, the right place. How come all of the blessings that said he will give you, you're not getting? How come there's no slumber in your house? How come your wife is considering divorce on a weekly basis? How come your kids don't want to come home? How come your panah has gone down 50 60 70%. And it's not because of the economy because right now we have the best economy since the time of people are making millions a week in some businesses. How come you don't have the blessings? Where's the blessings for all the things you do? You know where they are? Gone. You know why? Because you're not doing what said even though you think you're doing what a kadeshu said. You're simply lying to yourself. So your natural instinct will reject the truth and say, "No, it's not true. It's something else." But that spark, that holy spark that's within you knows it's true and that's why it hurts. Who becomes somebody great. The one that grabs on to that spark within and says that's the truth despite the fact that it hurts and I will do everything in my power to change to do chuva. now. I'll do everything I can now. And if you do, and you do with happiness, you'll see the blessings come back. people will take this message to heart, whatever is left of it, because of how painful this is and can be assured that I've also gone through it. I'm not only telling you things from the books, I'm telling you things from experience. It's painful, but once you do what's necessary, once you go with what a kadoshu says, it's worth it. Oh, it's worth it. I don't think there's more pleasure that's available in this physical world than the moment you actually make the move with complete commitment to the right path. And I'm not talking about starting to do chuva and now you're going to start keeping Shabbat like you did 5 years ago, 10 years ago. I'm talking about everything after you've done chuva, after you're already religious your whole life, whatever it is. I'm talking about when a person recognizes the error that looks like it's not an error. When a person realizes they are going in the wrong path and they make the right move towards that Torah which is painful which is agonizing which is hard to make sense out of because your nama is surrounded by tuma from the mistake. But once you break out of it, from my personal experience, I don't think there's a greater pleasure in the world. It's you don't get anything physical. It's something different. The only thing you compare it to is something completely different. Certain levels in Torah that you can learn and your feel something, but that's not something we're going to talk about today because it's not relevant to most people. But yes, you could get physical feelings from the pleasure of Torah. It's something that you'll never forget and uh yearn for your whole life, but that's not something that you get every day. We're talking about something that a person can get by simply fixing fixing a mistake. Once you change the direction, there's simply nothing greater. Why? Because even if you're going through what David says, the valley of the shadow of the death, I know you're with me. And therefore, I'm not scared. Meaning, even if whatever is happening in the world could be volcanoes around you, doesn't make a difference. Why? Once I made the move, it's nothing can hurt me. It doesn't make a difference. They do. They don't do. They want, they don't want, they agree, they don't agree. It doesn't make a difference. Why? I'm with you. I'm with you through thick and thin. It doesn't make a difference what anyone thinks. I'm with you. A person that can do that is a person that already gets blessings just simply for understanding that it's they're going in the right direction. And of course the other things come along when decides this is a important lesson for those that are real people. real people. People that actually have the guts to do what says it's not more than that and not less than that. It's simply having the guts to go in the right path and realize that you're wrong. Once you realize you're wrong, that's the first step. The next step, the bigger step is making the move. and everyone that's watching it will understand that it's about you and you need to do it. Whatever that issue is. Stop denying it. It's not going to help you. Last year we told you that our donors received miracles and it happened again. Although everyone received blessings, the ones that invested and literally sacrificed the most with us received special blessings and prayers and a kadosh who accepted it. Some of the testimonials are, "Rabbi, this is the most money I've ever had or ever made. You literally changed my life. Thank you, Rabbi. I'm getting married. I can't believe it's happening." This is coming from a person that was looking for a shid for nearly 15 years. People really need to know your Roshashana blessings work, Rabbi. It's unbelievable. This is a person that literally transformed his life in one year. What people can achieve in 10 years financially, spiritually in every single aspect. Why? Why are these testimonials continue to come in where people are seeing the blessings work? Akadoshbu says to the prophet Jeremiah, "If you bring forth an honorable person from a glutton, then you will be like my mouth." Meaning those that do kiru have a special mouth that a kadeshu simply fulfills their wishes. But there are other people that do kiru. There are other people that do good things. Why aren't you hearing the same things from them? Well, let's see what they actually do with the money. What do we do with the money? Over the past 10 years, we've distributed nearly $12 million back to AmI aside from over 15,000 Torah lectures delivered in 15 languages, which no other organization does. We've distributed over 280,000 Torah books back to AmI 38 books we've published, all of them distributed for free. 238,000 Jewish people were fed or assisted financially from us. We have two coals, a bed, 12 rabbis. We've also developed revolutionary apps, whether it's the BH Torah app or the AI rabbi app that is giving people answers around the clock for whatever question they have. We also have our Chuva music to show you kosher music for free or the BH kids to help your kids learn Torah from a kosher source while being entertaining. over 500 Torah films that are transforming lives and inspiring people all over the world with the most recent one go literally waking people up about the reality of today. And you don't have to take my word for it. You could simply take Guidear. Guidear has given us the platinum seal. The platinum seal is only received by 1% of all of the nonprofits in the United States. So the money that people donate to our organization is not enriching us. It's simply enriching yourself. This is why Kadesh BU allows these blessings to be fulfilled. This year we're looking to do more than ever. We want to grow the organization's impact much more than ever before. Increase the amount of lectures, increase the amount of reach, increase the amount of languages, release new apps that are also revolutionary. But in addition to that also open a headquarters that's much bigger that's much more transformative in the United States to have a place where people can come pray can come to a coal could come learn can come be inspired and hear Torah lectures and also even send their kids there as well. We want to help more poor people in Israel feed more of them. We fed 238,000. We want to double that. We want to do a lot more. And those of you that are willing to sacrifice much more than ever this year with us can be assured that you will have blessings come. The stakes are high. The world is upside down. Everyone can use more blessings. This year, we're looking to go above and beyond ever before. And those of you that are with us can be assured that we will do everything in our power to make sure that your money is well invested into blessings that will be fulfilled in this world and the next. Go to our campaign page and make sure that you literally are investing and putting everything you can to help us magnify Kadoshu's name. Thank you very much and we're looking forward to being partners with you again. Now you guys can start asking some questions and will give us the answers. How much time should an average person sleep? What's an average person? It depends. Depends what their life is like. It depends if they're a young person that's a student uh or it's a uh a father with little kids or it's a uh older person in their midlife with no kids in the house anymore because they've already moved out and grown up and got married or it's an old man. It's a if it's a Torah scholar, if it's a uh person that works all day that with you know with his hands and in you know a regular job, it depends. There's no there's no normal time. It's a matter of, you know, your circumstance. Sleep what you need to sleep, study as much as possible, and uh work whatever you need to work. Different people have different circumstances. No oneizefits-all. How can a non-Jew without Jewish friends or a Jewish community stay strongly connected to Hashem when everyone around him is an idol worshipper? Change location. Uh learn Musar, fix yourself. And the more you do, the more you fix yourself, the market is going to send you people that one way or another that are similar to you. I could tell you one story that's I've said this story in my Shabbat table, okay? That's how good the story is. It's such a good story. It's a real story and I was able to witness it and still witnessing it. It's one of my favorite stories. I don't even I don't even know if the people in the story know how much I love their story years ago. I had was giving live lectures and uh you know people come and everybody you know some people are noticeably Jewish, some people are not noticeably Jewish and sometimes there's people that are non-Jews that come to the lectures but you can't tell just by simply looking at people despite color, shade, height, weight, it doesn't make it until you get to know them. And one of the people that came to lecture was someone that was already watching it online. Came to the lecture, asked me questions and I uh really really nice person and uh becoming closer and closer. He asked me for guidance about different things over the years and he uh lived here and um one of the things he wanted to do is he wanted to convert to Judaism. everything they you know tell guide him the best that I can to convert and he would be very dedicated to the lectures also helped us share Torah and you know online whenever he could same time more or less maybe a year or two before maybe around the same time I don't remember exactly somebody from what seems to be to me at least from my the end of the world. A woman from Indonesia contacts me. She watches my lectures. She likes them. She wants to volunteer to help the organization. I say it's wonderful. We need volunteers. We need as many of them as we could possibly get back then and today. Especially if you have time, you have skills, you have whatever you have where we could use it. To be honest with you, I've told this time and time again, the the best people in the organization are often the volunteers. Sometimes I'll see that an employee is working less hours than some of the volunteers. Can you imagine somebody that actually gets paid a salary works less than some of the volunteers? It's unbelievable because the volunteer even though the employees all love the company and the the lectures and everything that we do at the end of the day there's a certain element of benefit and also certain uh physicality there. So that part hurts a little bit of the passion that a person could have especially if they do it for a long time. But a volunteer that works for free, it's 100% passion. It's 100% love of a isra and obviously the people that are spreading the message, spreading the truth. So volunteers are very special people especially those that stay around for a while and often we've turned many many of them have become employees and good employees too. But anyway, this woman wanted to volunteer. She's at the end of the world. She's in Indonesia. Sure. Want to volunteer and she is you know clever and smart and dedicated wonderful. One one time to time she you know we she asked a question about different things one day my student from here asked me a question about getting married. Should I get married now? Should I get married after I convert and so on. So, okay. Well, first you have to meet somebody. He says, "Well, I met somebody." Oh, great. She met somebody. Um, does she also want to convert? He says, "Yeah, she wants to convert, too." I said, "Great. So, that's perfect because if you know that means you have a similar ideology." He goes, "No, it's very similar." Great. She watched my lectures. He says, "Rabbi, she watches all your lectures." Who is this angel? That's great. Well, for what's the chances? That's the chances. Says, "No, Rabbi, she's on team Hashem." Said, "What? What do you mean? She's on team Hashem. She's on the team team. She's work. She's one of the people on team Hashem. On teamm." So, I'm thinking, okay, maybe one of the other volunteers that's also in Florida and this with this guy. Oh, oh, no, no, no. is the woman in Indonesia. I said, "Are you kidding? How how's that possible?" said, "Rabbi, we worked on similar things to do Kiru and then we started talking and uh we saw that uh we like each other and we've had this uh relationship, but uh through email exchange and messaging and calls and so on." Long story short, guys, this is like a such a beautiful story because he was in a position dealing with impossible things. But if his deal, his situation was impossible, ours was simply not possible. Not impossible, just simply not possible. Why? to even leave the country is is is is is a you you requires a miracle just a little bit uh you know uh lower than katyamsuf but today they live together they're in uh they're living in America they're very close students very dear very happy serving at kadu with team hashem publicizing to not just online but also spreading the books and the USBs and the the tablets, the kiru uh boxes. And this couple, I think, is just such a beautiful story of how a kadosh takes one nisha that wants good and takes another that also wants good. They both want the same thing. And he puts them together through impossible situations. There's more details to the story, but perhaps we'll do it maybe a chapter two for this story. But literally taking two people from the ends of the world and making them simply the the the most extraordinary thing. So why once you have once you have blessing from Hashem nothing is impossible once you don't have nothing is possible everything you do might as well throw it in the garbage it's spoiled before it even started when something doesn't have when a person doesn't have doesn't make a difference whether they're profitable not profitable They make, they don't make. The end result is a disaster. When you have the end result is always good. Even if it looks ugly. Even if it looks impossible. Even if the lawyers tell you it's, you know, you're never going to be able to leave the country. Even if the people, friends who whatever tell you this is never going to happen, doesn't make a difference. Why is with you? When you have everything is possible. There's no limitation. has no limitation. When you don't have doesn't make a difference what you have. It's practically acquiring more curses. Why? You're you're you're acquiring the future the future pains today. So is what we should be praying for and what we should be yearning for and what we should be changing for because if you don't have bra now that means that you need to change you need to change and yes this is a story that uh I'm the I think I'm the biggest fan of this story biggest of this couple. They're such a beautiful couple, wonderful people and they both just simply miracles miracles continue blessing them to have a lot of all the good things in the world. Continue. Arab I would love to volunteer. what skills are needed and who do I contact? Uh you can say it's not a matter of what skills are needed. It depends what you have. If you have specific skills, we could perhaps utilize those skills. For example, if you're good with graphics or you are able to develop uh apps, uh those are skills we could use. If you're a lawyer, we could use. If you're a doctor, uh you know, at times some people need to use. But if let's say for example you uh don't have any of those but you're able to share our lectures online then you could you know join the team and you know coordinate with everybody where you're going to share. If you're able to uh edit videos, if you're able to make certain posters, if you're able to uh do different things, then you could simply reach out to me, send me a uh message. The best thing to do is to send me a WhatsApp, tell me who you are and uh what skill sets, abilities you have that you want to contribute, and I'll try to figure out which part of the uh team you could help the most. Whether it's the English team, the Spanish team, the Russian team, the uh uh Portuguese team, French team, and so on and so forth. Uh could also be AI Rabbi team, or some of the other apps we're developing. Again, it depends on the skill set. Depends on the skill set. Really the big thing that you need is number one you need uh time because if you don't have time there's even if you have a lot of skills it's worthless. You don't have time. You don't have time. Uh and two you have to be very very passionate about what we're doing. If you have those two things then certainly we could use you. Can one convert while serving in the US military? Probably not because uh you you're not going to be able to live a Jewish life. So, uh, how how can you live a Jewish life while being in the military, going to synagogue, holidays, and so on? I don't think there's going to be any bed that will actually convert you. You'll have to be after you finish your service in the military. Uh, most of my donations go to, but is there something wrong with giving to multiple organizations? Is there something wrong? Listen, if it's a good organization that does good things, you could do whatever you want. Uh, sure, you can give it to a lot of or good organizations. Question is where is the where are you seeing the most results? Meaning, who is doing the most? So, if you let's say for example, you have a two investments. Okay? Uh, you have one investment that you see every year is growing by uh, you know, by uh by 1% or 2% or 5%. And the other investment is growing by 100%. Every year consecutively. So somebody says to you, uh, I want to, you know, I want to invest. Should I diversify and put a little bit in both? Now, if you know anything about investment, you would say no. Why? Because that one is growing. Even though it's growing one, two, 5%. Great. But the other one's growing at 100% every year. Why should you waste part of your assets on something like that? If something is growing more than the other, you invest into there. But if you if they're both the same, if this one is growing 100% or 50% or whatever it is, and the other one is also doing the same thing, then by all means, you can invest into both if you want. But if you see that one is uh outpacing the other, then for sure the decision is is clear. In many cases, it's uh it's worse. Meaning that you have one investment that's growing and the other one is losing, but people still invest into the losing one. I don't really understand uh the mentality of people other than what we talked about the uh the mystical aspects of the Torah where literally a person has what's called he has a spirit of impurity on him that causes him to make mistakes, that cause him to make to make stupid decisions. and uh and they invest into the bad places, places that uh not only don't do don't grow in in good things, but they actually make sins. In fact, majority of people invest into those places. But that's because majority of people acquire their money by sins, they live by sins, they think, you know, they they they only invest uh they only give donations for for honor, not really for uh for the sake of Torah. So, it's a sin from the beginning. So that's why the the says the reward for a mitzvah is another mitzvah. The the reward or outcome of a uh of a sin is another sin. So when a person is giving donations for the sake of honor, for the sake of recognition, for the sake of uh you know things that are you know uh not kosher things then their mindset is already sinful and therefore Hashem is going to couple them with a bad uh bad place to donate to. The same thing goes for people that for example they get uh stolen from. You know, there was a this Rashad that I've spoken about, this Adan Brooks that is continuing to this day uh to uh take advantage of people through WhatsApp groups and pretending to be Jewish and pretending that he's in need uh and a bunch of people uh got uh got taken and he stole money from them. He got, you know, in some cases a few hundred dollars, in other cases a few thousand dollars. And a few people have asked me, you know, yeah, about it. And uh, you know, they told me that they that he took from them. And one common denominator among all the people that have told me about it that he stole from them that I know, one common denominator, all of the people that he stole from give to the wrong places. Let's just say that. So takes money from people that deserve to lose. It's a sort of a tikun. Again, this is not a uh uh something I'm making up. This is all in all in the holy books. This is not not a single word is for me. Everything is in the holy books. You read, you learn Tawa, you uh have a uh you know teach you like I've merit it to have Rab teach me for the last 15 years or so. It's it's it's it's clear as day. It's as clear as day. Other people they don't want to agree. They don't want to believe. That's their problem. But this is what it is. You go anybody that has to tell you exactly the same thing I'm saying. Why did he Why did you somebody uh uh why was somebody allowed to steal from you? Because you made sins. because you made certain mistakes and allowed them to steal from you. It's it's no one is allowed to hurt you or help you unless proves it. No one is able to help you or hurt you unless a proves it. Which means that if as the says, if even you have a prick of a needle in your finger requires the bed of Shamim to approve you getting a little bit of pain in your finger from the needle, then needless to say, somebody being allowed to steal from you has to get permission that the souls have to get permission from Shine that you deserve to be stolen from. So if somebody stole from you, it's not because of him, it's because of you. And that's also what the says 700 years ago. It's one of the mitzvot. He even gets to the point where he says, "Why are you even mad at the guy that stole from you or hurt you? It's your fault. It's your fault that he hurt you." Why is it your fault that he hurt you? Yeah, he'll get punished for hurting you, but it's still your fault. Why? It's only because you made certain sins and went against Hashem that you were allowed to get hurt. So, it's your fault. you got hurt. It's not his fault. It's your fault. Why are you even bothering being mad at him? You're mad at the messenger. He's just the messenger. The fact that something happened to you is because you did something. This is an This is uh everywhere. It's hard. It's painful, but it is what it is. It's the truth. What do I think about the Charlie Kirk death? Yeah, I mentioned it briefly uh in in the lecture. It's you know listen it's a disaster that is indication of the degradation of society especially here in the in in America where school shootings have gone from something that was a you know unusual tragedy when it happened in Colorado some almost 20 years ago uh to now it's become a standard In America, there's no other country in the world that has as many public shootings as America. Even in terrorist countries, like you don't have as many terrorists terrorizing their own people in in in in the Middle East, in anywhere you want as much as you have in America. Literally people, kids going to to to their public school, going to different uh public places, the the postal service, cafes, uh you know, malls, whatever, and just decide to shoot people and kill them. This is an unusual thing. It went from being an anomaly, something that never happened practically, to now, the last time I checked, it was multiple shootings every single week in America. Every single week, there are multiple shootings. Meaning that when a parent sends their kid to a public school, there is something like a 25% chance or some ridiculous statistic that I don't remember perfectly, but it's some ridiculous statistic that the kids not coming home. Why? Because of the school shootings, the terror attacks by their own citizens. We're not talking about, oh yeah, the the uh the uh Palestinian terrorists are coming and terrorize America. No, the Americas are terrorizing America. Yes, there's terrorists that are coming from from from the uh Middle East and there's no shortage of that everywhere. But the point is that the biggest terrorists many times are are are their own citizens. They're just losing their own mind. From what I understand, the the guy that uh murdered Charlie Kirk was not a Arab terrorist. I believe he was an American. I didn't check uh you know too much details. doesn't have time. But from what I understand, he was a older guy that was a an American that just didn't agree with him and decided that it's his obligation to kill the guy. Same thing happened with the uh the the the lunatic that decided to kill a uh uh young woman on the subway or whatever, some train for no reason whatsoever. Nothing happened. She wasn't even she didn't even know the guy existed. He was sitting behind just decided to kill her. These murders, these disasters are happening in America more than anywhere else. Yes, it's also happening in Europe, in England, in Germany. There's a lot of terrorism over there. There's a lot of horrible things over there. But one thing you could see is that there's a steady degradation of morality in society at large, but more so in the Western world, more so in America. Now, yes, there are many problems in Europe. Germany pretty much became a Muslim country and so did uh many of the other European countries because they simply let every terrorist and his mother to enter the country over the last few years. So now they're crying about it because literally the majority is becoming uh uh uh people that hate the country but want to rule it. It's the craziest thing in the world. Uh but you're seeing that there is a degradation in society. people feel like they have rights to do whatever they want, including killing somebody that they don't agree with. This is a product of a godless world. Meaning the more people become atheists, the more they become a a communists, the more they become disconnected from God, the more they believe they are God and therefore they take the rules into their own hands, including the rights to somebody else's life. This is simply the degradation. It just got worse and worse every single year for the last, you know, 20 years more than it has in previous years. I mean, there's always been deterioration uh throughout society. I mean, if you if you look at uh for example, just the way people dressed, you know, the the first woman that wore that wore a modest bathing suit in America got arrested, went to jail. This is over a hundred years ago. first woman that went to a to a beach in America with a emodest bathing suit was put in jail. Today, women walk around with that in the middle of the street. And if they don't, they're looked at as weird. So, you see how society has changed. And I'm not even just talking about the Jewish world. I'm talking about non-Jewish world. So, you see how things have deteriorated. When I was a kid, if somebody had an unusual preference of who they want to marry, it was their business. They didn't publicize it. No one really cared. Today, the force on you and your kids to not only hear what their unusual preferences are, but to accept it, to like it, and even to become like them. The biggest missionaries in the world are not missionizing for Christianity anymore. They're not missionizing for uh Islam. They're certainly not missionizing for for Judaism. The biggest missionaries in the world are missionizing for a godless world, for atheism. So the more you have that, the more you have disconnection from God, the more you have fearless people, the more murders you're going to have, the more immorality you're going to have, the more destruction you're going to have, the more uh disgusting things you're going to have. Uh and uh this is a uh something that I've spoken about many times over the last 10 years. I even spoke about this stuff back when I was on Wall Street almost uh I don't know 15 20 years ago. So, it's a uh it's a uh disgrace, but it's also not going to get any better until Mashiach comes. Now, as far as your life, your life doesn't have to get worse because if you're watching this, that means that you still have hope that you could connect to God. You connect to the truth. You connect to the Torah and therefore exclude yourself from the disgusting society that's surrounding you. You don't have to be like them. You don't have to be a terrorist. You don't have to be a disgrace. You don't have to be unusual. You don't have to be uh you know a uh uh you know doing things that are against the uh the nature of of of of uh of society. You could go with the way of Hashem. Um, so you have a choice. Choose wisely. As a Muslim myself, I do agree with you in this for 100%. Dear Rabbi, can a person learn Torah? Can a person learn directly from the Torah or should they be under a rabbi? Well, learning Torah, you learn from the books we have today which have commentaries. Commentary. If you're learning, for example, the five books of Moses, you have the commentaries of Rashi, you have the commentaries of the Ramban, you have commentaries of the Midrasha, the Talmud. I mean, you have endless commentaries. So if you as long as you're reading the uh the Torah with basic commentary by Rashi at least I mean it's not that at least he's he's he's the greatest of great but at least that you understand and not are interpreting it according to your own understanding but rather are you know are are learning what it actually means and what it says according to the sages uh then there's no problem that you learn it but you know you're going to have a limitation as far as how much you can grow because you'll You'll need a rabbi not necessarily to teach you how to read and word for word, but you'll need a rabbi to tell you number one what to read, when to read it, and whether you're actually reading it correctly, whether you're understanding. Many people uh learn, but more often than not, they don't know how to learn. Meaning, they'll learn with somebody, they'll learn with somebody, but they'll learn wrong. They got the wrong explanation or the wrong understanding. One of the most common things that uh uh that uh that happened to people is that they learn something on their own and uh they they simply just misunderstand it and they build a foundation on that misunderstanding. So if you're learning um then certainly you can uh you know learn with commentary by the sages. Uh if um you want to grow further then certainly you should have some type of rabbi that will guide you in some way or another of what to learn uh when and whether you're understanding things correctly. So you need to have somebody. Do you have to know Hebrew to convert? No, you don't. See what's that box? Oh, that's the Kiru box. You're talking about this this thing. Yeah, this is called the Kiru box. If you go to k roofbox.org, or k I ru uh box b x.org and you could order one or 10 of these and uh it turns on and it has 19 hours of our films. That's what you're talking about. Yeah. Oh, if you want to buy uh one or you want to buy 10, the uh the price per unit is different. If you buy one, it's $150 plus shipping. uh if you buy 10 then it ends up being only $100 per unit. So it's you save a lot for buying more than one because our purpose in having these is is to distribute them to many people. So you buy not just for yourself but you buy for other people. Uh no you can't well let me correct that as far as if you're asking if you could use maser money to buy it. If you're buying a unit of kiru box just for yourself, then no, you cannot use ma money to buy it because maser money is supposed to be to help other people help other people learn to help other people do mitzvot. That's what mas money is supposed to go for. But if you're buying the 10 units uh or more then uh to distribute to other people to to give it to other people then certainly you could use mas money for that. Why in Makot do we believe the witnesses that false falsify the other pair? Um because if you look at uh there's more extension to that in are really in one but they're read separately and there's a whole section about witnesses but there's a lot of it also in a makot because the witnesses that are coming second are proving that those first witnesses could not have been at that place at at that time because they were with them. Meaning the first witness comes and says, "I saw Shimon, you know, kill uh uh uh kill Levy at this time at that hour and I warned him and I told him what the punishment was." Now they believe him and the other second witness that let's say says the same thing. But then before they execute, another pair of witnesses come and say, "Oh, hold on a second. Shimon is a is a liar." Why? This murder happened on Tuesday, right? Shimon was at my house on Tuesday. I live, you know, a uh three days away. There is no way that Shimon could have possibly been at this place at that time because he was at my house. So they bring information that shows that these are for sure liars because they couldn't have been at that place. So that's why we believe them. But uh there are times where it's too late to be for for the second witnesses to come which is uh what happened to the son of Rabishimak. the uh the the false witnesses which were witches uh took revenge against Kabish Shatak and they uh falsified testimony against his son to uh to execute him uh and uh by the time the uh the the real witnesses came uh it was too late. It was too late. I mean technically they could have judged it anyway but uh said no he didn't want it to be but nonetheless it's a uh there was extreme cases but the the false witnesses is a very big deal in Judaism because if there's somebody at the time of the sun if somebody was caught to be a false witness they would would get the punishment of the uh the person that uh was going to was was uh they were trying to kill you know meaning if somebody was accused to be a murderer and uh the witnesses lied. He's not really a murderer and they caught them lying. Then the death penalty that was supposed to be on the person that was accused ends up going on the false witnesses. They get killed. It's obviously very different than the uh civil law of today where you can catch a witness lying 15 times in a single trial and many times nothing happens. It's it's practically a norm for witnesses to lie in civil courts. That's one of the main jobs of lawyers today is to catch the witness's lie. And usually more times than not, nothing happens to them. And even if something happens, it's usually very very little. So the Torah takes things very very differently in What's the purpose of a gig if is fal? Uh because there's different types of punishments for different parts of the nama. So first off, a few corrections. Number one, gum is not final for everyone. There are different parts of your nama that are affected by sins. Now, if you made a sin, for example, with your hand, then that's the part of the nishama that was damaged and that's the part of the nama that needs to to to uh to get punished. It's not going to be the leg or the head or something else. If you if you sinned with uh with your eyes, then that's the part of the nama that has to get punished and not the other parts. Now the tikun the rectification for one part of the soul is not the same as another part of the soul and in fact even the same part requires different levels of cleaning. What is that like? For example, if you ever saw people that are experts in reconditioning or renewing things that are old, you'll see ah this is also in in a jewelry business. is also people that use chemicals, but especially if you see people that are renewing things and you see they have this old, I don't know, you know, a device from a few hundred years ago that they want to renew or even if it's from 100 years ago, they want to renew and it's full of rust and all types of other things. So when they don't just, you know, brush it once, you know, put a little soap on it or, you know, and that's it. No, what you see them do is that they put one layer of chemicals on it. That does one job. After that layer of chemicals does that job, they put a different layer of chemicals and then they brush it or whatever they do. And then after that does the job, they do certain light or a different layer of chemicals. And you see that the renewal process requires different things at each level. The same concept is with the rectification of a soul. Each layer requires a different type of cleaning. Some part requires the first level in gum. Some requires a second level in gum. Some require the third, the fourth, the fifth. Some require a reincarnation, a gilgul. Some require kel. Some require to be reincarnated as a plant, some as a uh an animal, some as a abortion, some required to reincarnate as somebody that gets murdered, some require all types of things in so many words. It's impossible for the human mind to ever comprehend all of the mechanics of the beautiful world that created. But our our sages have told us all of the different things. But everything that happens around you, everything that you see in your life and everything that you don't see in your life, everything is happening based on the perfect uh uh uh judgment of nothing happens for no reason. Nobody is born for no reason and nobody dies for no reason. Nobody loses for no reason and nobody wins for no reason. There's always there is a judge and there's a judgment and that's everything happens for a precise reason. The punishment is given for precise reason. Different types of punishments. Reward is given for a precise reason for different types of rewards. There are even uh a uh a certain level of rectification that happens when a person goes from one level of heaven to another level of heaven. Why? because he was righteous or she was righteous to get to that level of heaven, but her merits continue to grow and now she's able to go or he's able to go to the next level in heaven. The problem is that the next level in heaven requires even more purification for things that weren't sinful on the first level. They're considered imperfections in the second level. So they have to go to a certain type of rectification in the you guys don't want to know. Uh the point is is that each level of the product needs to be renewed, cleaned re uh uh uh re uh redone with different chemicals. Same concept with the nishama. Each act needs to be rectified with different types of chemicals. They're just hot and painful. Very painful. And you won't have to deal with that. Why is there suffering on earth if Hashem is all good? Because it's necessary for there to be suffering in a world where this is not the end. Most people think that this life is the end all be all. Meaning this is it. you're here and you only live once. But this is contrary to what the Torah says. The Torah says that this world is like a corridor that a person needs to serve Hashem in order to get to the the hall the uh the the the endless hall of of reward or punishment depending on what they do. If a person serves Hashem, then they get rewarded and they get to heaven. If they don't, they go to gayom, they go to cafa, they go to a whole level of suffering that in many cases will be endless. But in order to reward somebody, they have to have tests. They have to have resistance. If everything was perfect in this world and everybody was rich and everybody was healthy and everybody got whatever they want, then why should God reward anybody for doing anything? didn't have any resistance. What is that like? Imagine the uh what was a famous soccer player, Messi. Messi. People like Messi. Him and the other guy Ronaldo. There's two guys. They've been like the superheroes in in soccer for I don't know like 10 years now. Imagine uh Messi scored all of his goals but at home or in in a in a in a field but there was no other team. He just went to the goal post and he just shot into the goal over and over again. Instead of scoring 500 times, he scored 5,000 times. But there was no goalie. There was no defense. Nothing. with the 50,000 people that are in that stadium cheer for him for shooting the uh the ball into the net? No. Why? There's no resistance. Why should we cheer for him for just kicking a ball into the net when there's no resistance? Even my uh you know, the person said, "Even my 2-year-old can do that." Would anybody pay Ronaldo hundreds of millions of dollars if all of the goals that he scored went into a net that had no goalie and no defense and no but no resistance? No. Why? There's no point. So why do they get paid so much money and so many people cheer for them and so many people uh uh think that uh you know they're they're special? Because they're able to overcome the resistance. Now unfortunately for them that their whole life is based on one big lie which is simply a physicality of things and that as if all of it is really you any part of the purpose of life. But the point being is you could still learn from it and understand that when there is resistance in your way and you overcome it, you then deserve a reward. If you fail, then you fail to reach your objective. If you fail intentionally, you deserve a punishment. Same concept could be given in business for somebody that works versus somebody that doesn't show up to work. somebody that does their job versus somebody that ruins the job. Somebody that gets the deal versus somebody that ruins the deal. This could be applied in every aspect of life. So when a person understands that in order for me to get a reward, there has to be a resistance because that's what justifies the good I will get as a result of doing good and doing the will of Hashem. Then they also understand the concept of punishment where if I failed to reach the objective not only I failed but I didn't even try I actually went against the overall objective therefore a person deserves a punishment. So the ultimate good which is Hashem, he created good and he wants to give us good. But in order for it to be good, he has to put he has to have a system that has good and evil. Good does not exist if there's nothing that's the opposite of it. How would you know what good is if you don't know what evil is? How would you know what rich is if you don't know what poverty is? Everything has to have something that's the opposite. So in his ultimate goodness, he is the only one that knows what good truly is. And therefore, in order for us to be able to benefit from this good, he gave us this is the instructions. This is the goal you need to reach. If you do it, you'll get good. If you don't, you'll get bad. You'll get the opposite. And that reward and punishment system is the foundation of Judaism. Anyone that does not believe in the reward and punishment uh of the Torah is not only a a heretic but is also an idiot because you see how society is. There's a reward and punishment system in every aspect of life. Whether it's in business or it's in investing or it's in marriage, parenting, food, cooking, what everything has reward and punishment. driving to work has a reward and punishment. If you obey the law or violate the law and so on, everything has a reward and punishment. The only time people have a problem believing in reward and punishment is when it comes to God because they think that God works for them and owes them presence for some reason. They've turned uh they've turned Hashem into some type of fairy tale. But the real God, the God of the Torah, says countless times in the Torah, he rewards and he punishes. And in fact, most of the Torah talks about the different uh uh punishments or tests that is had to go through throughout all of history as a result of uh either following what Hashem says or going against what Hashem says. They got rewarded when they did what Hashem said. They got punished when they didn't. This whole talks about the reward that is gets when we do what Hashem says and the punishment they get when we don't. Are women allowed to cry during prayer buddh or is it true that it invokes a stern judgment? If you're crying because you're praying and you're getting closer to Hashem, then of course it's a good thing. Why would it bring judgment? I don't understand. Who would tell you such a thing? I have no way to travel to a shul or money to move. Should I still call the rabbi of the nearest Orthodox Shul to ask about conversion? Um, well, I mean, you'll you'll need to move to a Jewish community in order to convert. So I mean that's a uh you the studying that you do is not going to be enough to convert. Part of conversion is studying and learning how to be a Jew. But part of conversion is making life changes which means you'll have to move to a Jewish community. Without moving to a Jewish community it's not possible for you to convert um because you need to live in a Jewish community. It's part of the things that every bedin that's recognized and uh requires. Crying to Hashem is not only something that uh is is is good to do. It's actually part of Al the Rambam in Chuva writes on Vidi uh that a person has to do. Um he uh a person has to cry to Hashem, admit all of his sins and say that I'm a different person. And uh in fact, this is required in order to do chuva. It's not only good to do, it's required to do in order to do chuva. You could look at the Rambam chapter two number four. And uh so to say that somebody else said it's not good to cry to Hashem, it's either you misunderstood or the person that you're learning from perhaps forgot or um hopefully not worse. But crying to Hashem is something that we already learn from where we learn our prayer from our prayer of Amida. How we pray how every single Jew prays every single day is we pray Amida. How do we learn what are the foundations of the Amida prayer? We learn from Kana in what was Kana doing? Kana was crying hysterically to the point that Eli thought she was drunk. But she not drunk. You're misreading the uh the I'm not I'm like or I'm kosher and the says we learn the foundation of our prayers from and what was she doing? Crying hysterical. She wants to have a son. What did uh you know all of our forefathers did? What did the word Kanan is 515 times? 515 times Mosheu pleaded pleaded with Hashem meaning he cried to Hashem. So much so that at 515 times Hashem says enough stop it. Why? the whole world, all of the angels, everything was being destroyed through the prayer of Mosherenu and and said to Mosherenu, if you continue one more time, I have to destroy the world. I can't let because if you enter is then you'll have to build the bet. You'll build the bet mikdash. I can never destroy because I already promised you and Hashem doesn't change his mind and is going to sin in the future and then I'll have to destroy them. But I I can't. So, it's not possible. You have to stop. The whole world was shaking, earthquakes, volcanoes, all types of chaos all over the world because of Mosherenu's cries. So Mosherenu has a whole para called Kanan where he cries to Hashem. And you're telling me you're not allowed to cry to Hashem? Come on. You guys, you guys have to be a little bit more careful. A little bit more careful with stuff that comes out of your mouth. Especially if you're sharing with other people. Poor people are having a tough time. They want to cry to Hashem. You tell them don't cry to Hashem because you heard it from somebody. Come on. You have to at the very least think logically. You go any sadik any sadik that you see in your sh in a community that you hear about you hear a story of when they pray nine out of 10 times they're crying. Go look up online the closeni closeni praying regular prayer ma middle of the week middle of the week we have one of the videos I think on our channel closing regular middle of the week ma prayer this is not yum kip because they couldn't record it not it's not yum it's not shabbat it's regular everyday ma and this was every single day's his whole his whole life the amount of crying that he has in this in his regular if you don't cry just by hearing him pray there's something wrong with your in that sadikim cried constantly to Hashem if you don't cry to hem who are you going to cry to that's what prayer is crying to Hashem the ultimate goal of prayer is to cry to Hashem. That's the goal. If you pray every day, you've achieved the goal if you cried. If you didn't cry, I'm sorry. You did not achieve the goal of prayer. Why? Because a prayer is supposed to come from a deepest part of your nama. If you touch those parts of your nama, everything comes out. and you're telling me somebody said, "Don't cry to Hashem." It's a mistake and it's irresponsible to say it. Why? It's the opposite of the Torah. I'm sorry. Again, I'm not trying to be mean here, but there are certain things that people simply just throw out and just say person that's asking, "Can I cry in my prayer?" Obviously, number one, doesn't know much. So, they need proper guidance. Number two, who cries? Somebody that's struggling. You're telling them, not only you should struggle, but keep it all inside. Who are they going to talk to if they can't talk to Hashem? Who are they going to cry to if they can't cry to Hashem? Well, I talk to you on Tik Tok and on Twitter and on, I don't know, whatever other media is in front of me over here, Facebook and YouTube. That's who I talk to. They're going to talk to somebody online. Oh, can you help me with my problems? If they can't cry to Hashem, who are they going to cry to? We have to cry to Hashem as often as possible. That's the only place to cry to. Never cry to any person. Never beg anybody. Cry to Hashem for everything. Cry to Hashem. That's what all that did. That's what all that do. Cry and cry to Hashem. No one else. That's how you get closer to Hashem. The more you cry to Hashem, the market is going to open up the gates of blessings for you. Are you not allowed to pray out of self-pity? Why self-pity? If the person is the widow of one of the people that got murdered by a terrorist couple days ago in Israel in Yaleim, the wife of one of the people that got murdered, the husband of the woman that got murdered, what are they supposed to do? It says say uh not they should be happy. Start jumping up and down. Say great. What do they do? They cry. Now, aside from crying for losing somebody they love, now they have a new problem. Why? If the f if the the person was the uh the you know the one that's responsible finances, responsible for money, now the wife or the husband has to figure out a way how am I going to survive that now I don't have anybody to bring the food to the table or the opposite if she was the mother of the kids taking care of little kids and now the father all of a sudden became the father and the mother of six seven eight nine What is he going to do? What is he going to do with little little kids, big kids, crying kids, complaining kids, sick kids? What is he going to do? He has to become the father and the mother overnight. Overnight. Who's going to help him? You're going to help him. Somebody else going to help him. Who's going to help? Is the only one that can help him. So, what does he have to cry to Hashem? Hashem, I can't do this. I can't do this. I can't. I don't know. I don't even know how to manage myself. You want me to manage seven kids by myself? You want me to manage seven kids? You want me to manage seven kids and also make money? Who else is going to help him? I I can't do it. Please help me. Send me something. Send me some type of salvation. Where else can I go if not you? Okay. You decided to take my husband. You decided to take the Fine. I'm not judging. I'm not I'm not I'm not questioning you. I love you, Hashem. But I still need help. I still need help. A terrorist just killed a husband. A terrorist just killed a a kid. I need help, Hashem. I need help to help to to do this to deal with this new reality. So of course you have to cry to Hashem. You have to cry to Hashem as often as possible for everything. And even if tragedy did not hit you that tragedy didn't hit you, you should cry to Hashem that you don't know how to say thank you properly for all the good things that he gave you. He gave you money without questioning. Every month your bills are being paid. Did you thank him enough? He gives you ear air in your lungs. Did you thank him enough? He gave you kids that are healthy. You know how many people would pray would would literally dance in the streets if their kids are healthy? Just yesterday, somebody tells me that their uh their uh uh uh family member had two kids. Both of them are autistic. Young woman in her 30s. Two kids. Both of them are autistic. This girl that thought that she could rule the world all of a sudden realized that she is now the servant of two autistic kids. It's a completely new reality. Completely new reality for this person. And blessed you with three, four, five, six, seven, eight healthy kids. Even one healthy kid. Did you thank him enough for it that you have healthy kids? Did you thank him? One time I went to visit the sick. Who was the sick? A tiny little baby that was born five months early somehow stayed alive. Unbelievable. Another time went to visit someone that was born 3 months early. I think the fourth first one was four and a half months, not five months or maybe four months. Either way, lots of months. Impossible situation. You see this little tiny thing with all types of tubes and stuff and the parents can't help themselves but cry. What are they going to do? They have this little kid, this little thing. They don't know if it's going to live or die any second. Any second. And you have healthy kids in your house. They eat, they drink, they cause trouble, they jump, they drive you crazy, but they're healthy. Did you thank Hashem? Did you thank Hashem? So, that's the thing. Sometimes you should cry because you need Hashem's help. Help with all of the difficulties you have. Sometimes you should cry on yourself that you don't realize how much you need Hashem and how much you have not thanked Hashem. The reality is the more you think about how much you need Hashem, the more you cry, the more you cry. If you're not crying, it's a disconnect from Hashem. And we all have that at some point or another. So, a person has to of course pity themselves. All of that sadikim write in their eulogies, in their personal letters, how they are not serving Hashem enough, how they're not grateful enough, how and they serve Hashem non-stop, a million times more than is possible for us. Because what's the difference between a big Tadikim and the average person? that Sadi knows a whole lot more about the reality and thereby the lacking than the delusional average person that doesn't even realize what the reality is and thereby doesn't know what the lacking is. The person that never saw the mechanics of how one of these storage houses for food or all types of crops work looks at the machine looks at this huge building and assumes that it's full and it's easy to run and it's no different than just having a little uh thing in his kitchen that's full of stuff. the guy, the engineers that are working inside that are losing their mind just to make sure that there's the proper heat, there's the proper parts, just to make sure that the crops don't spoil, just to make sure there's no mold, just to make sure everything. And they realize that this building has only a certain amount of years lifetime left. Now both are people but there's one guy inside that knows reality and there's one guy on the outside that doesn't know reality they both look at the same building but they have different different understandings. Same concept between the sadikim and the people that are not the sadikim knew a whole lot more about reality and therefore they cry. The average person doesn't know what reality is. He just has a delusion and that's why they don't cry. Now just because a person cries doesn't make them a sadik. But certainly if they cry for the right reasons they're at least on the same path the same road that took and they'll succeed in getting there their destination. How about someone that suffers a car accident and becomes a disabled person unconscious to its surrounding does he pray or is it acceptable that he status chuva? Well, if he can pray or she can pray, then they should pray. If they can't, then they can't. It depends on their level of uh if they're you know a vegetable then they're a noose they can't pray. It's like saying if somebody can't walk does he get punished for not walking the shul? No. Obviously he can't walk. You don't get punished for what you can't do. You get punished for what you can do and you choose not to. I already spoke about Charlie Kirk today. You should have watched from the beginning. You can watch it in the uh on YouTube tomorrow or later when it goes uh on the channel. What should you do if you can't concentrate during your writ segment about prayer but um that I talked about in the series that we did of the Ramban. But one of the good things that uh you could do is learn mousar at least five or 10 minutes before you pray. You could watch one of my lectures. You could watch you know a uh you could read a mousar book like uh shuva for five 10 minutes 15 minutes depending on your level of nish. Do that for uh some time before you uh pray and then pray. That certainly will help your concentration. Of course, remove anything distracting like your phone and don't sit next to your friends. Go pick yourself a corner, stare at the wall and stare at the at the sidul and uh and focus. That's those are some of the things that can help you pray. I have an atheist friend and our chats are intense. What's your views on having atheist friends? Doesn't matter what my view is because the Ramban Rambam already writes in that you are going to be affected by your surroundings. Meaning if you befriend people that are heretics, people that are atheists, people that are ungrateful, people that are evil, people that are criminals, you will ultimately be affected by them. So even though you feel like you're not affected by him and in fact you're trying to help him, uh if you don't succeed in helping him, you will get hurt. So trying to help somebody from a distance is one thing. Trying to help somebody once in a while is also but being friends with them meaning you're socializing with them on a regular basis is very very unhealthy for you. Uh and uh you should not do it because the Rambam already says that uh it will hurt you rabbit. Why does Hashem allow unnecessary suffering? When did you become God and determine that there are certain things that are unnecessary? The reality is everything is necessary. And I explained it earlier in the lecture today that every single thing happens based on the perfect system that has everything happens for a specific reason. You may not understand it. You may not see it, but it's always perfect. So for example, the BMT says he actually brought his student uh to uh to a place and he told them wait over here and watch and the uh the students saw this guy came in uh rested under the tree and then he got up and uh when he left he left his uh wallet there he left his wallet there and the guys want to tell him no says don't do anything watch just sit here and Shortly thereafter, another guy comes, rests under the tree, he sees the wallet, he takes it and leaves. Shortly thereafter, another guy comes to the tree and he sits there. And then the first guy that lost his wallet comes back and it says, "Where's my wallet?" The guy says, "What are you talking about? I don't even know what you're talking about. I just came to the tree." Because now you took my wallet. Before you know it, they get into a fight and he kills him. He kills him. So the students of the balento said what happened here says this is all a tikun from a previous life for all of them for previous life of all of them. The guy that killed he was a unfair judge. He was an unfair judge. I'm sorry. The the guy that got killed. The guy that got killed, he was the unfair judge. The guy that uh uh got the money is somebody that was stolen from in a previous life. So now he got his money back. And uh all of them were in the same situation but in different circumstances in a previous life. And he gave a lot more details uh of of who, what, when, and how. The point is that every single thing happens specifically in accordance to will. There's no such thing as unnecessary suffering. If someone is suffering, that's because they deserve to suffer because the suffering it's to their best interest. meaning that they did something that requires punishment and instead of giving them the punishment in a place like Gome or Kafa that's the suffering there is uh endless in comparison to the suffering here um he gives them suffering in this temporary world uh instead so it's actually to their interest to their best interest to suffer here in a temporary world versus suffering much more in the eternal world. I have lectures about reward and punishment and suffering that go into it uh even more extensively. But there's no such thing as unnecessary suffering. How can you strengthen your amuna? Uh one of the uh serieses that we did uh several years ago that's very very good. Uh it's a short series. It's called it's only a uh I think 16 or 19 lecture series based on the u teachings of the about and from the first lecture you're already going to have more once you have an understanding of how certain things work in this world and how you could apply to your day-to-day life. uh another after you finish that lecture that series uh it's one of the playlist on my uh on my YouTube channel you go to Rabbi your own Ruven you go to the playlist look form over there there's a series I believe it's either 16 or 19 lectures they're very very good some of my students watch the whole series multiple times every so often they watch it again because it's very helpful um and uh after you finish it I would recommend going to another series that uh discusses which is uh um Jewish Ashkafa series. The first 20 lectures of that series which is much longer. It's almost I think 150 lectures or so but the first 20 lectures are about. So I would recommend going to the first series that I mentioned first and then after that to the other series also play this on the YouTube page. Uh and um you'll have you'll have a lot of tools uh that will help you in every lecture. is going to give you new tools of how to serve Hashem, how to have amuna, how to have, why it's bad for you not to have the proper amuna and uh why it's beneficial, how to do it, all of the different tools um that we cover. We bring a lot of sources from different parts of the Torah, different uh verses, prophets, the uh the betto of many many every lecture is full of sources and uh interesting teachings and we always try to make sure that it's uh easy enough to understand how to apply to your life. So, highly recommend it. Okay. I think uh Rabbi, from a logical standpoint, why do you believe in God? From a logical standpoint, I don't know how it's possible how to not believe in God. What do you think? The earth created by itself. Everything created by itself. Only an idiot would think that everything came by itself. If I told you that this microphone just somehow appeared here, you would tell me you're a crazy person. you. So, where did it come from? Oh, somebody made it. Where did he get it from? Maybe maybe it just appeared there. No, somebody took the parts, made them. Okay, so what about the whole earth? Where did it come from? Oh, no. It It was an explosion. Let's say let's say it was an explosion. Where did the first thing come? Where did the explosion come from? From nothing. From nothing. The explosion came from nothing. Let's say you want to believe in a stupid explosion. The whole uh uh evolutionary theory, let's say. Where did the explosion come from? And even after the last time you saw an explosion, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, World War II, there were two big explosions. Did anything anything materialize out of that? Those were big explosions. Do you see any bunnies coming out of Hiroshima, Nagasaki? See any lizards, any horses appearing as a result of the atomic bomb from America on on Nagasaki? Do you see it? No. No bunnies, no monkeys, no lizards. What about jellyfish? Maybe jellyfish came out of Nagasaki or Hiroshima. Maybe anything? No. Nothing. How come you said an explosion? The whole world came from it. Explosion. The whole world came from it. Ah. So, a little explosion at least a bunny something, an amoeba, uh, something that can even go through meiosis or mitosis, something. No, no explosion. They can't do that. So how come two atomic bombs nothing good comes out of it other than diseases, disaster, destruction, nothing good. But yet before everything one explosion, all the monkeys, the lizards, the the the uh the winds, the sun, the the uh the fish, the beautiful colors, the flowers, the different types of food, everything came from that explosion. How come? And even if you want to say that where did the first explo what exploded? What explode? If there was nothing, what exploded? Nothing exploded. You ever seen nothing explode? Nothing. Nothing explode. Nothing. How does nothing explode? How does nothing explode? Please give me one scientific explanation of how does nothing explode? When in the history of mankind has anybody proven that nothing can explode. If you can give me a scientific proof, not religious proof, scientific proof that nothing can explode, that nothing can do anything that nothing can walk, that nothing can explode, that no something can come from nothing outside of Torah, scientific, that nothing can turn into something. One proof, I'll become an atheist with you. one proof. But no, no scientist will ever even dare say such stupidity. But yet they teach in schools that nothing exploded. And here you got all the lizards and the bunnies and the rabbits and the horses and a different types of species of of of everything because nothing exploded. Furthermore, they also say that the different animals mutated over time and eventually the penguins and the monkeys and the parrots and everybody eventually became humans. Eventually became all types of other fine. If we came from a monkey, if your father is a monkey, my father's not a monkey. I promise you, my grandfather's not a monkey. My great-grandfather's not a monkey. I promise you I did not come from a monkey. But let's say your father's a monkey. How come the monkeyy's still here? How come the monkey is still here? If if you came from a monkey, there had to be a transition from the monkey to the person, right? It didn't just one day the monkey just took off his fur and was like a ninja. I'm no human now. No. Right? Monkey had to go through a transition. That's what the scientists say. He didn't just take off his mask. I'm no longer a monkey. I'm now a rabbi. I'm now No. Right. He became something else. How did the monkey become a human and still stay a monkey? How how does it happen? Where is the middle bones? Where's the middle bones? Where is all of the stages from the monkey to the human? Where are they? Furthermore, they say that the dinosaurs came from 65 million years ago. 65 million years ago. Fine. No problem. Let's say 65 million years ago. How come there's not single bit of evidence of anything that was ever found anywhere in the world that is either from a few thousand years ago or 65 million years ago. There's nothing in between. There's nothing from one and a half million, 1 million, 500,000, nothing. No dinosaurs, no nothing. They found over 10,000 different bones of dinosaurs in Montana and different parts of America and different parts of South America and different parts of the world. But all of them say unanimously the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Fine. But the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, they didn't just born and then die. They lived for a while, right? How come there's no dinosaurs from like 60 million or 50 million, 30 million, 10 million, 15 million or even let's say not 65 million. Let's say this dinosaur 65 million and 100 million, 200 million, 400 million. How come does everybody agree 65 million? How how how does everything that was discovered by professional archaeologists, people that spent their entire life pretending to be professors, no one has thought that none of the proofs they provide to build their fake religions of atheism have anything to stand on. that evolution has no middle ground, that it was ever found, that saying that certain things existed 65 million years ago and so on doesn't make any sense because there's nothing that was found in between. There's nothing that's found in between. If you look at the layers of the ground where they find the dinosaurs, they determined that this bone came from 65 million years ago. Fine. If that came from 65 million years ago, where is all the stuff in the ground that should have been there from 60 million, 50 million, 40 million, 30 million, 10 million, 5 million? How about this? 15,000. How could it be that you dug and you definitely found 65 million years ago as the first found? First thing you found under the rocks, first thing you found under the ground is 65 million. You should have found everything that happened beforehand. How come? Where did it all go? These are all logical. Just like your question was logical explanation for Hashem. It's illogical to believe in a godless world. Illogical. Makes no sense whatsoever. To believe in atheism, to believe in the scientific norms of today. As I just explained, it's stupidity at its peak, stupidity at its peak because it makes no sense. Even to the scientists, go ask one scientist, explain to me scientifically how nothing exploded. What's the first thing that existed? What's the fir where did it come from? Where did the first thing come from that exploded? Where? How did it explode? How did where did it come from? All of it is simply because atheists do not want a god. It's not that they don't believe in God. In fact, they believe in God more than many other people because they fear him so much they refuse to believe in him and follow him. And therefore they spend their entire lives denying him because they know that once they accept him and they realize that he's the creator, it thereby obligates them. It obligates them to change because once they recognize there is a god, there has to be only one god. And if there's one god, then he certainly knows more than they do. And if they know enough to give instructions to anyone that they want to teach how to use something, certainly the God that creates the whole world also would have given instructions to the people that he wants them to use what he what's what's good for them. So just like you give an iPhone with instructions, a computer with instructions, a anything that you get a car comes with instructions still to this day even though nobody reads it. There's a manual for everything. So because logic tells you that if you want somebody to use the product the right way, you have to give them a manual instructions. So needless to say, your creator is smarter than you and he gave you instructions. Where in history have we ever heard that God gave instructions outside of Mount Si, nowhere else. At Mount Si, we got the instructions. The instructions is called the Torah. Hebrew word Torah means instructions. And there God tells us exactly how to serve him, how to live, how to be happy, how to succeed, uh how to do everything. And it all makes sense once you remove the personal bias of your physical desires, which is to deny him. Because the reason why atheists deny God because they know that once they accept him, they have to obey him. And they don't want to obey him. They want to live however they want. like a behemoth, like an animal, free to roam and kill and and do whatever it wants. This is the reason why you have society degrading, degenerating, becoming more and more despicable by the day. It's because they all desire to do whatever they want, which in essence does what I mentioned earlier today in the lecture, which is they certainly turn themselves into a god because they decide that not only is their own life in their own hands, but they eventually take other people's life in their hands like the murderer of today and every other murderer out there. They decide that they decide who lives and who dies. Atheism is nothing other than simply a huge ego that deifies himself, no different than tries to missionize by convincing other people that his lies are true. And unfortunately they also are uh the the followers of it. The the people that fall for the scam are also a uh a uh people that don't have uh a desire to follow instructions from God. So they want to do whatever they want and this person gives them the permission so they follow him. In so many words, atheism is not a uh secular. Atheism is a very religious missionizing religion with a top mission of not only denying God, but to cause other people to deny God despite the fact that it makes no sense, despite the fact that it's completely ridiculous, despite the fact that nothing good will ever come out of it. But they continue because they like to serve themselves. They like to deify themselves and unfortunately they're the reason why the world is getting worse and worse. But we have the Torah and those that want to follow the Torah, those that are clever enough to follow the Torah, those that are humble enough to follow Torah will always end up benefiting in this world and the next. 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