KI TEITZEI | A Peaceful Life For The Traitors

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Simply put, anyone that wants a miracle has to push themselves to go the extra mile this year and donate as much as possible and even take advantage of being part of the special prayers part. Either way, there's a lot to do. There's a lot to learn and will move forward with it. We have when you will go out to war, we all desire a peaceful life. pleasure, comfort, relax and enjoy. Yet each year we read this para para that speaks of war against enemies against the Satan. But if you're already from or you've done chuva, you don't want war. At least that's what most people say. They don't want war. And all too often we see this very sad thing happen where the Satan uses his ultimate trap to capture religious Jews without them even knowing it. In fact, if you told those same religious Jews Bouva from from birth, that they actually destroyed the beta mikdash. And in fact, they're destroying the beta mcdash as we know it. They'd look at you with enough confusion to make the situation even sadder than what it actually is. Now, what's the trap tonight? We're going to discuss it. We're going to discuss peace. We're going to discuss war. And you can decide which side you're on. At least while you acknowledge that the Satan is there. when you go out to war against your enemies and Hashem your God will deliver him into your hand and you will capture his captivity. Torah tells us that there's a time to go to war and of course as the says that everything that's written in Torah and is relevant for every single generation every single person every single day. meaning that this verse is relevant to you and you and you and you and I and all of us. But we're not going to war. At least we don't think so. But who's going to war in the para first? Who are the people that are going to war? If we reverse a little bit into last week's parim in chapter 20 verse number eight, it says, "The officers shall continue speaking to the people and say, who is the man who is fearful and faint-hearted? Let him go and return to his house, and let him not melt the heart of his fellows like his heart. The Torah tells us that there were certain people that were not allowed to go to war. Why? Scaredy-cats. They're scared. But what are they scared of? What are they scared of? For that, we'd have to look into the oral Torah. The Talmud will give us some answers. And Bavi has secrets upon secrets. Whether you want the shot secrets, cababalistic secrets, mystical secrets, everything that you could possibly imagine. It always baffles me that people want to skip learning the basics and jump into the world of Cabala without realizing that it's right in front of them. But here we're going to look at the basics and then dove a little deeper. The page 44A says in the name of who is this that's frightened and faint-hearted that the Torah is referring to. What is he frightened of? Well, he's frightened because they're tall. He's frightened because they're big. They're they have muscles. I mean, Hashem is fighting the war. Oh, says this is one who is fearful on account of his sins. He made sins and therefore he's afraid that he's going to get killed in the war. And in fact, all of the other rules of why someone is not allowed to go to war, whether it's because he just built a house or he just got married or planting those other reasons why the Torah is saying you can't go to war if you just got married or you just built a house, lest somebody else take that wife. Let somebody else take that house. It's really just to avoid embarrassing the sinner because there's more of those than there are people that build a house. And we don't want to embarrass the guy that's really a sinner. When he has to say, "Listen, I can't go to war. I'm scared I'm going to die." Why? Cuz I sinned. So when they say, "Who can't go to war?" People raise their hand. And you can't tell whether it's because they built a house, they got married, he's already married for 10 years. You don't know. question is what is this sin? What's what kind of sin? What did he drive on Shabbat? Did he eat pork? Did he commit adultery? Waste seed? What sin did he make? says the if one spoke between dawning his armed feline and his head feline but did not recite a second blessing he has committed a transgression and therefore he returns on its account from the war regiments. What you kept Shabbat? Yes. You're loyal to your spouse. Absolutely. Protect your b. Yes. Eat kosha all the time. You pray every day. So what sin did you make? Well, I put on my armed feeling and when I before I finished I spoke as I put my head feeling and I didn't make a second blessing says Rashi. He didn't make a second blessing. So that's a sin. So here we're talking about we're talking about not just from people. We're not talking about we're not talking about people that are anything less than sadikim. Why? Cuz they're not driving on Shabbat and not committing any major sins. What sin did he make? He spoke when he put on his tofillin a rabbitical sin and that's already more than enough for him to be scared that he's going to get killed that he's going to get killed in the war and therefore he's not allowed to go. So we're talking about that are going to war. People today may not even realize they're in war, but in fact they are. And the same thing goes in where it also says what sin were people scared of that they couldn't go to war. Page 36A says something that to us seems like it's inconsequential. If he speaks between dawning his armed feline and his head feline, he must make a a blessing again. And if he didn't, then he makes a sin. The average person goes to sh puts on his every day. Sometimes he makes a mistake and speaks. Somebody says, "Hello, somebody says, "What time is it?" Somebody says, "Do we have a minan?" All types of things. And he says something and then he realized he shouldn't have. What is he going to do? Make a blessing. Sometimes he forgets. But the last thing on his mind is thinking that this is a sin that is putting him in danger where if we were going to war, he would not be allowed to go. He would not be allowed to go. Why? Why is this or any other sin? Because the Torah is telling us in the very next verse after telling us that you will go out to war against your enemies. Something that seems unrelated but it actually adds up and tells us exactly what Torah is talking about. Now you went to war, right? And you will see among the captivity a woman who is beautiful of form and you will desire her and you may take her to yourself for a wife. Says Rashi on the puk. this whole thing about the guy going to war and then talking about a beautiful woman that's on the other that's with the enemy and him being seeing oh how beautiful she is. What is it telling us? What is everything telling us? This entire section is talking about fighting against the ultimate enemy which is the Satan. Not just the war at the time of Mosher Benu. Not just a war at the time of Yeshua Benoon. Not just a war at the time of David, but rather a war that you and you and you and you and you and I and all of us are fighting each and every single second of the day. When you go out to war when every day, every moment. Why? Because just like the Satan is looking for any excuse to justify killing the holy soldiers of Moshe Benu, the holy soldiers of Yeshua Benoon, the holy soldiers of Shaamelik, and the holy soldiers of David Melik. He's looking for the smallest excuse, let me kill him. He's also looking for the smallest excuse to kill everybody else until this day. And just like he can kill at war, he could also kill with a beautiful woman. How many people have destroyed their lives because of a beautiful woman or a beautiful man? The Torah is telling us this war is not just a war with knives and guns and all types of this war is a war that the Satan is going to look for every single excuse he can possibly find in order to destroy a person and ultimately bring that person to fall for immorality. ultimately bring that person to start off by thinking that his sin is not a big deal. It's only wasting seed. He's not hurting anybody else. It's just by himself. She's just by herself. Nobody can see. Nobody's getting hurt. You keep going that way and people will get hurt. The Satan makes a person think that the small things are nothing. But if we look at what our Torah tells us further, we'll find out some more answers. We'll find out some more answers. In the book of Kings, in the book of Kings in chapter 16 verse number 34, this is at the time of Elawa Navi. Is the king Rasha idol worshipper and the door is ali Now, everyone knows from the time of Yeshua Benoon, the Yeshua Binon after he miraculously defeated Yiko with the walls sinking into the ground, he cursed the city that no one is allowed to build here. And anyone that does, all of his children will die. And the verse says in his days built built up Jericho. With the death of Abram, his firstborn, he laid the foundations. And with the death of Sig, his youngest, he installed its doors. like the word of Hashem that he had spoken through the hand of Yeshua Benoon. So here you have a you have a sadik you have to saying don't build here. Yeshua says don't build here but doesn't want to listen. Ah come on it's old news. It's not relevant to me. I'm a commander. I'm important listens to me. I want to make them happy. I want to also leave a legacy. You know, it's like people they want to leave a legacy. So they save and save and save and keep and save and save and they don't realize that in the end the legacy is going to go to their enemies because their legacy was not in conforming with what wanted for them and says I want to leave a legacy. Yeah, but what about the curse of Yeshua? No, come on. It's old news. So he starts building the city. As soon as he starts, his firstborn son dies. As he continues building, another son dies. Instead of doing chuva, instead of realizing I made sins, I made a mistake. Perhaps the curse is real. Perhaps we're not supposed to do this. No. No. He says, "No, it's bad times. the market is down, there's hunger, there's uh germs, there's this, there's that. He feels like he continue going and as you would have it, by the time he finishes building, all of his children die. Nowadu tells even though just lost all of his sons go and see him and uh you know comfort him comes and at the time he's sitting Shiva Aab is there also comes and says perhaps it's time to do you made a mistake that you built even though your said not to and answers with and says who's bigger or of course everyone agreed that Benu is bigger he's the prophet of all prophets Well, Mosher Abenu wrote in the Torah that anyone that worship idols will get a death penalty. We worship idols every day, says a life. We have a good time. Yeshua said not to build. So how could it be that the words of Yeshua Benoon the lesser prophet according to everybody his words will come true and Moshe didn't this was just happen stance it was just bad luck they died because they were going to die anyway this disrespect of Musher Rabenu angered Elawa Naveim And he went to and told him, "You promised me that if I go, you would allow me to you'll do whatever I ask. Please give me the key to reign." There are three keys that spiritual keys keeps to himself. when a woman will give birth is one of them and also the key to the rain. Now rain is also and gives him the key and says from this moment on no more rain. No more rain. And the rain stopped. Not for a day, not for a month, not even for a year. Three years, no rain. Now, of course, even has to eat. So tells Ali to go and find a widow and ask her to host him. Navi goes into the town, sees that there's a miserable woman, widow, poor, everyone is losing everything they have. Everything is drying up. and he asked, "Can I be a guest in your house?" And she says, "I only have a little bit of wheat. That's just enough for myself and my son, my only son. And after that, we're going to die because we have no more." He says to her, "Don't worry. Just listen to me and everything's going to be fine. Take that. Uh you have a a um that wheat also you have some oil. Make a cake for me first because I'm a queen. So make it for me. So this is a special guest as said in the sh special guest. Not only he's asking her to give him food during poverty but he wants to eat first. make a special cake for me. After you make it for me, then you could eat. She just said she only has enough for her and her son. But this poor woman is rich when it comes to unlike unlike she had she was wealthy when it came to believing what the say and she benefited in seeing an open miracle where the wheat would not go down. Despite how much she would use, there was still more wheat left. There was still more oil left and they were able to live while everybody else is still looking looking for food. Three years pass and of course sees his children suffering and is eating. He's drinking. He's fine. Says, "Yeah, I gave him the key. So, I want to Hashem could do whatever he wants, but I want to put him in a position where he's going to be forced to make the decision to bring back the rain. What does he do? One day, that poor widow finds out that her little son died. She starts arguing with the Lea Navi. What is it? Before you, everything was fine. Now you came over here, my son dies. And the feels bad and he runs to Hashem. He says, "Please, Hashem, why did you do this to this woman? Please bring her back to life." Hashem says, "What? You want to bring her back to life? I can give you a key to bring her back to life." Okay, so give it to me, Hashem. But hey, I mean, I only have three keys. Life and death, giving birth, and uh reign. How is going to look if you have two keys and I only have one? Who's uh who's the boss here? Who's the rabbi here? No, no, Hashem, no problem. What should I do? Give me back the key for the rain and I'll give you a key for life. Okay, Hashem, give it to me, please. Hashem gives him the key. And ali prays. He lays on top of the of the boy and brings him back to life. He brings the boy to his mother and she says, "Now I know you are a man of God." Then Hashem comes to says, "Okay, you've given me back the key to rain. It's time to bring back the rain, but I don't want it there to be because you said there's not going to be rain. So go to aav and get them to do chuva and tell them it's going to rain and then I'll make it rain goes he runs into his oady and says where where have you been where have you been? I'm here has looked for you everywhere. He says, "You could tell I'm here and if he wants to come see me, come over here." Of course, shortly after comes with its chariots, "Okay, we're here. You stop the rain. What do you want says to him? Bring all of Am to the top of the mountain. and over there I'll give the m we'll do a sacrifice and I'll bring back the rain. Okay, no problem. Of course, the king commands all of the Jews show up. But alongside them there are 400 manus freedmans 400 idol worshippers and they come and they have a plan. What's the plan? We're also going to bring a sacrifice. So says we're going to bring two sacrifices. One you guys are going to bring and one I'm going to bring. And whoever sees a fire coming down from Shamine to burn the the sacrifice, we know that's God. Of course, these idol worshippers, they were liars, but they weren't stupid. Liars are usually not stupid. They're heretics. They manipulate the Torah. They take advantage of ignorant people. But that's only because they're clever, not because they're stupid. They know the weakness of other people more than the people know about themselves. So these false prophets, they told the same that lost all of his sons, you go under the uh stage and you turn on the fire from the bottom. Take some oil, take some uh fire with you and you learn the fire. to look like the uh fire is really coming. They planned, they knew no fire is coming from Shmim. The idol can't hear, can't see, can't speak, can't do nothing. But they can't do that in front of everybody else. They have a competition to win. Win at all costs. So they say, "How what's the key? As soon as we start knocking on the stage, you turn on the fire." Okay. goes under the stage, nobody can see him. And they are saying all types of mumbo jumbo. They're saying all types of false prayers. And then they knock on the stage. The fire coming down, nothing. The fire coming down, nothing. Fire coming down, zero. What happened made sure that wasn't alone under the stage. He sent them a friend, a little snake that bit him and killed him. After they're there already for a couple of hours, no fire, starts making fun of them. Says, "Maybe your god fell asleep. Maybe he's old so he can't hear you and he starts making fun of them as it's to make fun of idolatry. But the time of Mina says okay now it's our turn. not only who bring the sacrifice, but he also dug hole around the uh the um the altar and they got water from the uh from the river and filled it up. And he says the fire is not only going to consume the sacrifice, but it's also going to consume the water and everything. It's a heavenly fire. It's going to be a fire. As the says, there are multiple types of fire, seven types of fire. And the heavenly fire is a fire that consumes everything, including water. Consumes literally things that you can couldn't even possibly imagine. It's not like a regular fire that you light in your barbecue. So, he brings a sacrifice. He prays to and he has everyone watching and the fire comes down and consumes the sacrifice, consumes the altar, consumes the water, consumes the dirt. And everyone says, "Hashem Elohim, Hashem Elohim, Hashem, he is the God. Hashem, he is the God." Everybody does cha. This was a big kushm. But now the second stage is to bring rain. Where's the rain? Leon says, "You see that tiny little cloud over there? The rain's going to come over there. A go back to your palace. There's going to be a lot of rain. Where a lot of rain? There's a tiny little crowd. It's It's like the middle of the summer in Florida. There's no clouds. No, no. That tiny little cloud that's going to make a lot of rain. Listen, after what we saw you do already, who knows? Maybe you're right. AB did not even have enough time to get back to his palace. There was already pouring rain. Rain like people haven't seen in years. So here in the story, there's a lot of different things that we can learn from it. Aside from times to sanctify kadesh's name, times to understand that we have to do chuva. But also the flaw of human logic which is that everyone thought that they were religious. Everyone thought they were doing the right thing because if they didn't, if they thought that idolatry was wrong, they would have abandoned it. Especially after having no rain for so many years, everyone thought they were fine. Everyone was shalom, peace will be upon me. Perhaps it's just bad weather. Perhaps it's bad times. Perhaps it's going to change tomorrow. And only Elah had to bring the war to them to understand that they have been caught by the Satan and they don't even realize it. The Shabbat says that the Satan comes to and says, "Your children have sinned. According to your Torah, if they kill, destroy them." Hashem says, "But there is righteous people among them. They learned Tawra. They did chuva. Even donate a few dollars here and there." Satan says, "Yeah, but your Torah says you can't just pick and choose which rules you follow. You have to follow the entire Torah." They didn't follow Torah from Al Fat. What sin did they make? They saw their brothers. They saw their sisters being idol worshippers driving on Shabbat. They saw their brothers and sisters saying, "You need them." They saw their brothers and sisters being in predatory lending businesses. They and they didn't say anything. Hashem says to the Satan, "This is the religious people. Kill them first. They're the destroyers of the beta mikdash." And that's what happened. All the idol worshippers, all the they were in bad situation. But what caused the destruction? It was because the religious people did not care enough about their fellow Jews to go and rebuke them to go and do kiru and therefore destroyed them first. This is what the says destroyed the bet mikdash not the first time but also the second time. Now you would think that this has nothing to do with this week's para but it does. And to understand that we have to go into another book. This time we're going to go to the book of Judges. In the book of judges chapter 19 there is a horrific story while everyone was in a peaceful time. Whoever want to bring sacrifice can whoever wants to pray can. Am is doing okay. But one day this man gets angry at his wife is concubine and she runs away. She runs out. a group of religious Jews. They weren't idol worshippers, at least not according to the verses, from the tribe of Benyamin. Catch this woman and commit immorality with her against her will. After the trauma, she comes back home and because of all the pain and agony she went through, she dies at the footsteps of our door. When our husband sees this, he goes to the leaders of Am. He tells him, "Look what happened." He sends everybody. He cuts her body to pieces and he sends it to every tribe. Look what the tribe of Benyamin did to me. Look what they did. They desecrated my wife. My wife. In chapter 20 of the book of Judges says, "And all of the children of Israel went out and the assembly gathered together as a single man." Meaning all the religious Jews, everybody got together for what? We're going to war against our brothers from the tribe of Benyamin. Why? Look what they did. Look what they did. What kind of people are this? We're going to war against them. We're talking about We're not talking about these gangsters. talking about people that go to war. Who goes to war? We said people are not allowed to go to war even if they have a small sin of speaking in between putting on that. Yeah, but you're going to war against your brothers. Yes, but look what they did. Look what they did to our sister. She was a Jewish woman. She wasn't a uh some amalikch. So, we have to destroy them. Even though they're our brothers, what they did is unexcusable. And the verses tell us the details of the armies. When the tribe of Benyamin heard this, they gathered together and ready for war. How many soldiers does the tribe of Benyamin have? 26,000 sword wielding men. 26,000. But the other side has 11 tribes. And therefore the men were numbered 400,000 sword wielding men. All of these were warriors. So the side of the righteous, the religious, the ones that are going to protest against rape, going to protest in honor of this woman that got killed, have 400,000 soldiers. soldiers that don't make a sin on the criminal side, tribe of Benyamin, only 26,000 people. Logically, you would say, okay, the war should be over in probably 15 minutes. 400,000 against 26,000, it's a uh somewhere almost 16 17 times the uh amount. 17 to one. Every every uh every 17 can kill one. Of course, well, the Torah says in verse number 21 in chapter 20, and the children of Benyamin came out of Giba on the first day and destroyed 22,000 men of Israel to the ground. 26,000 soldiers, the few of the bad side, ended up winning the first day and killing 22,000 of the religious Jews from the rest of the tribes. Second day, verse number 25. On the second day, the tribe of Benyamin destroyed another 18,000 men of the children of Israel to the ground. Sword wielders, all of them. These 26,000 men have not even lost a person. While the 400,000 army that were all warriors lost already 10% of the entire army, 40,000 people have died in two days. Massacre. Everyone goes back to camp, starts praying, starts doing chuva. Please, Hashem, help us. We asked you if we should go to war, and you said, "Yeah, and the tribe of Yuda should lead us. So why are you killing us? And verse number 28 says, Hashem said, "Go up for tomorrow I shall deliver them into your hand." And on the third day, the children of Israel won the war and destroyed the 26,000 of the Benjamin tribe, almost eliminating the entire tribe. So now the come say, "Okay, wait." So, we know that what the tribe of Benyamin did is evil. It's against the Torah. They desecrated a woman. She ended up dying. They committed immorality. Horrible things. The rest of the children of Israel were doing something right. They were going to fight in honor of this woman, in honor of what happened here, to go defend the Torah. So why did Hashem kill 40,000 of them miraculously? An evil miracle during the first two days before he let them win. If you want to let them win, let them win during the first time. Why kill 40,000 of them? Because the itself in says their god hates this said to balak the god of Israel hates immorality. So in essence the children of Israel the 11 tribes that are fighting against Benamin are fulfilling the Torah because he hates immorality and Benjamin's tribe committed immorality. So why is he killing them then? at least for the first two days. Now, if you would say, "Well, they didn't ask for permission." You'd be wrong because they asked for permission from Hashem. If you would say, "Well, maybe they didn't ask for instructions." They asked for instructions and Hashem told them, "Go." It's almost like he trapped them. says Rashia Kadosh. The children of Israel were punished. Why? Because they went and they protested for the rape of a woman and not for the idolatry that was happening already for years with the statue of Mika that was there. And the says punished the children of Israel saying to them, "For my honor, you didn't protest. You didn't go to war. There's a statue. Everyone's going there. The statue of Mika. Everyone's going to this place committing idolatry." And you don't say nothing. Why? Oh, you know, listen, let live and let live. I'm comfortable here. I have a peaceful house. I have a peaceful community. I'm taking care of my uh myself. I'm spending my time learning. I'm spending my time doing listen, they want to be. They want to drive on Shabbat. Okay, that's their problem. Let Hashem deal with that. So, Hashem says, "So, for my honor, you didn't go and protest, but for the honor of a woman that's flesh and blood, you did go protest. Is she more important than me?" And therefore, the alikad says, "In the first day, 22,000 soldiers died, symbolic of the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet. the holy language. And on the second day, 18,000 died symbolic of the idolatry. The reason why they died is because they didn't rebuke against idolatry. Why is 18 symbolic of idolatry? Because idolatry is the en enemy of the living God. Elai is 18. In so many words, what a kadosh is saying, you cannot say that you honor me by simply serving yourself where you study Torah just for yourself. You take care of just yourself, just your community, just your family. Well, you know that most of my children are going to statues of Mika, going to heretics of menace, going to Christianity with the Christian missionaries, one for Israel that are spreading heresy and idolatry on a regular basis and doing it proudly, saying they've reached 150 million views in just one of their channels. Jews are going to idolatry, but you don't say anything. Jews are going to heresy. You don't say anything. Jews are now taking drugs. Inside the religious community, they call it spiritual uplifting. They're taking ayawasa because some cuckoo that calls himself a rabbi says it's good to elevate yourself with drugs and you don't say anything. Jews are going into corrupt businesses destroying the economy like in cash advance business. You don't say anything. They're driving on Shabbat. You don't say anything. But the one girl gets raped and all of a sudden you have a campaign. I'm gonna fight against this sexual harassment and rape. We got to take care of this. Listen, we're not saying it's not important. But are you saying that the Torah is wrong? Because according to the Torah, heresy, idolatry, desecration of Shabbat, they're all much worse than rape. How come when it comes to pedophilia and rape, you go crazy, you raise millions and billions of dollars and cry out with no bars, with nothing holding you back. But when it comes to Shabbat, when it comes to you don't say nothing. When it comes to heretics spreading nonsense everywhere, you say nothing. You say, "No, I don't want to cause." What? What? There's no between heretics and people that have one is a heretic. One has there's no is between So, how could this be? There's 400,000 religious Jews here. This is this is the nation of Israel. They all pray to Hashem. They all keep Shabbat. They all do good things. How could they make such a mistake where they let idolatry sit there without saying a single word for years, but the second that a woman got desecrated, they lose their mind and start killing. You know why? Because the greatest trick the Satan has ever used is the one that people don't realize it exists, which is a satan that simply makes you feel like you're religious enough. Makes you feel like it's time to sit back and enjoy your life. The panasham gave you the Torah that you could learn comfortably. Relax. Have a peaceful life. Yeah, but your cousin is driving on Shabbat. Yeah, but it's not the do. Yeah, but your neighbor, he also he's he's married to a non-Jew. Yeah, you know say uh what could we do? Yeah, but 80% of Amisha is not keeping Shabbat. Yeah, but one of these Kiru rabbis will help them. I you know what? I'll send him a couple hundred dollars. You're saying shalom. You're saying peace will be upon me. Let me take care of my wife. Let me take care of my husband. Let me take care of my kids. Peace be upon me. We're learning. We'll go to yeshiva. We're religious. Let all of those that are going against Hashem, let somebody else deal with it. You traitor. You traitor. How can you possibly leave your brothers and your sisters in such a way when the Torah specifically says they'll be punished severely for eternity if they do not do chuva. You yourself in many cases did chuva. You yourself were on a first class ticket to gum that never ends. You yourself were Shabbat and now all of a sudden that you did chuva three, five, 10 years, 15 years. All of a sudden you don't want to associate. You don't want anything to do with anybody else. You're going to take care of yourself. Well, let everybody else eventually come to it. No, you traitor. No says no. He specifically says when you go out to war, it's singular. What do you mean singular? We're all in a war. It cannot just be the few people that are fighting for the truth. It's either we're all in a war to win or we're all in a war to lose. And that's what people do not understand. You know why? Because they think that they're religious enough. They think that it's enough. I've done enough. I learn. I do my dafomi. I have my local rabbi. I give it taka here and there. No. No. You don't realize You don't realize you're at war. You think you have peace. You're in the middle of a war. There is no peace in this world. Why? Because there's shalom. There's no peace. So long as there's wicked people, there's no peace. Certainly, there are parts of life you should have peaceful. Your house should be peaceful. Your prayer should be peaceful. While you're learning should be peaceful. But that doesn't mean that you're on vacation. That means you have to utilize whatever time you can each and every single day to invest in the rest of the nation that does not realize that a kadosh is God. And if you say I'm too busy cuz I'm working. Okay. If you're working, take a big piece of that salary and invest it in Kiru. You can't say shalomi. No, you know, Rabbi, listen. I invest into the co. I donate to the local co. How many people do chuvine the co? Oh, no. Nobody. They're all religious. Okay. So, in essence, all you're doing is you're building more religious people by giving to the already religious. In so many words, you're still abandoning 80% of your brothers. Do you know why you're donating to the local kell? Do you know why you're donating to your local synagogue? It's not because you care about the synagogue. It's not because you care about the kell. It's because it's personal to you. It's a personal benefit to you. Just like the tribes of Israel. They went to go fight for the woman because it was personal to them. What about the honor of Hashem? What about the fact that there is so many people literally denying that he exists, driving on Shabbat, going and literally cursing his name? What about them? You don't say nothing about that because they're not in your call, they're not in your yeshiva, you're a traitor. That's the truth. And that's why says it's time to go to war. Not war against Hamas, not war against Iran, not war against all types of terrorists. It's a war for the sake of the honor of a bar. Now, for those of you that are scared, you're scared. Why are you scared? Oh, what are people going to say that I take so much of my money and I invested into Kiru? You know, people want me to invest into into the local community because they want to start another camp. And you know the kids this year there's more kids and there's more we need more Bamba and more Beastley and we need new uh new rides and we take them on a trip which you know everybody you know likes especially because it gives the parents free time and ignores the fact that most of the kids come home completely full of Abu D and Gilot on their on their and everybody claims as if it's all okay if you're going to war for the sake of there's nothing to be scared of. It's not because I said it because the Rambam said it. The Rambam chapter 7 number 15. Anyone who fights with his entire heart without fear with the intention of sanctifying a kadosh whose name alone can be assured that he will find no harm nor will bad overtake him. He will be granted a proper family in Israel and gather merits for himself and his children forever. He will also merit eternal life in the world to come. As the prophet Shuel said in Shel Alf chapter 25 verse 28- 29, God will certainly make my lord a faithful house for my lord fights the wars of God and evil will not be found with you and my lord's soul will be bound in the bond of life with God. Here Aiga tells David, you fight the wars of God and therefore no one can harm you. When you are fighting the wars of your own personal preference, you're not fighting the wars of God. You're fighting for your own status, for your own personal interest, for your own stat where where you stand and how people look at you. You're not fighting for God. And therefore you still have desires for women that are not your wife. Therefore you still have a lot of the things that you thought you did chuva for. You still have a problem donating to Kiru, but you have no problem donating to some camp. You have no problem donating to some Christian organization that called itself Judeo-Christian. you have no problem investing that money in the stock market. You have no problem buying a $10 or $20,000 watch. But when it comes to investing to Kiru, all of a sudden you're you you don't know if you could afford to buy a $150 little tablet to help your neighbor do. All of a sudden, you don't have it. And that's why says when you go out to war against your enemies, who's your enemy? The enemy is a Satan that has fooled this entire generation for the last 2,000 years. Again, to make everybody think that for each their own, I will do chuva myself. I will fix myself. I will take care of myself and let everybody else take care of themselves. It doesn't work like that. All of responsible for each other. And if you choose not to do that, you will get punished severely. No different than the tribes that got punished for doing what seemed like being the right thing. Why? Because they fought for their own personal interest. And that's why says you're going to war. It's not the war of uh against kamas. No, no. It's the war against the the war against immorality of people wasting seed of people that are literally glued glued to their phones and computers and all types of things that they don't know how to control themselves in front of it and they're at a point where they literally are addicted to sin just like you used to be. Oh, you forgot you used to be. You forgot you used to be addicted to sins. Oh, because it's been already five, 10 years since you did chuva. You forgot you used to be you forgot is not going to give you that same protection once you abandon the path of waring going to war for the sake of Hashem. This is what a lot of people simply do not realize. This whole delusion that you could have this peaceful life and just take care of yourself while abandoning your brothers in the middle of a war is simply a traitor mentality. It's selfish and it is what destroyed the beta mikdash. If anybody wants to do real chuva during this time of alul or really any time but especially now this auspicious time of chuva of alul they would take upon themselves to literally gather as much money as they can from themselves gather as much money as they can from their friends from their family from their ka from their community to try to support as much kiru as possible get a thousand of these devices that we have to give all of the people in your community, the ones with a keepa on and the ones without. Why? Cuz everyone has to do chuva. There's no there there's no house that doesn't have a problem. Just today we got a case where a religious family a religious family just joined the widow list of people we have to help this uh this holiday. But who killed? What happened? The father got murdered. Oh, an Arab. No, his son murdered him. His son, a religious son murdered the father. There's sickness everywhere in the religious community, in the secular community. And whose fault is it when a looks at us? It's the fault of the people that wear a keepa that don't care about anybody else but themselves. The people that don't wear a keepa, the people that are not religious, they're so sick, they don't even realize they have stage four spiritual cancer. They don't even realize how sick they are. Unfortunately, there's also a lot of religious people that don't know how sick they are because they stopped caring about their fellow Jews because they think they should stick to their own, their own community, their own uh modern Orthodox, their own ultraorththodox, their own whatever other version of Orthodox they want to be part of, they don't realize so long as your brothers are violating Shabbat, so long as your brothers are wasting seed, so long as your brothers are in corrupt businesses. So long as your brothers are going against Hashem, it's your responsibility to help them do chuva. There's no such thing as peace. There's peaceful times of your life. Peace when you learn, peace when you have kadush with your family on Shabbat, peace during your holidays. But real peace that you're thinking like you just go on spiritual vacation and care less about your brothers and sisters, that's against the Torah. That's against the it's time people do as much as they can to bring people to do cha not with this slow motion version that a lot of people do. Well, I'll invite them for Shabbat and we'll eat and hopefully they'll become religious in like 30 years from now. No, no, there's no more time right now. Everything has to be on fast forward. You have to do everything you can. Exhaust all efforts. If you don't have any money, go raise money. If you don't have any people that have money, then go get people to come and arrange a big lecture. Go give out books for free. Go do something. Go do something. But not just this little half half a step into the right direction. But in reality, you don't want to be there. Every single person has to exert all efforts right now. Whether it's to raise money or it's to uh give out books, arrange lectures, talk to people, whatever it is, but you have to exert all efforts. Whatever gift au gave you, use the full gifts that gave you to help your brothers and sisters do chuva. Stop being selfish. You could still learn to you could still, you know, do your mitzvot, but don't think for a second that that's enough. So long as your brothers are not coming to every day, so long as your brothers don't even believe in him. So long as your brothers live a life that's against the Torah, you're at fault. You're at fault. And that is what is telling us here. We have a war. The fact that you think that it's from 3,000 years ago is already the first mistake. There's a reason why we read this para every year. Because so long as the Mashiach is not here, we are at war. Once the Mashiach comes, no more wars. Magog ends. He is one and his name is one. That's it. You're finished. You can relax. Enjoy heaven forever and ever. But if you did not help your neighbor, your brother, your cousin, the stranger down the street, the stranger in a different state, the stranger in a different country, if you didn't help your brothers, do chuva, you didn't help your sisters, do chuva, you didn't exert any effort, you didn't give out any books even though they were free. You didn't give out mas even though you had it. You had no no problem spending it on watches. No problem spending it on vacations. No problem spending it on all types of other things, but you didn't invest into kiru. You didn't invest into helping people do chva. Guess what? Mashiach comes, you're not going to be one of the people that's going to be happy about it. I promise you. Why? Because we've seen it time and time again. Torah tells us we're at war. You can enjoy your life, but there are times to realize that you have to invest into your brothers and sisters and not just say, "Oh, yeah, dova." If that's how we treated you before you did chuva, guess what? You'd still be today works when people are willing to sacrifice everything for it. If you have somehow graduated from that in your mind and you think that you've done enough and no more is needed, Satan has you. He has you deep inside a trap and he's making you so comfortable in the trap you forget to trap. Get out while you still can and you will succeed because there's a lot of people that would love to be on the right side of the fence if they only knew what it is. And you may very well be their way to get there. Anyone that wants to support and help, as I said, we have our holiday campaign, bhr.org, or if you want to buy a bunch of these tablets, Kiru boxes, you can buy them on our website bzm.org. You don't have any money, you want to distribute books, USBs, you can get them for free from our Kiru store, koftore.org. In so many words, there's something for everybody. But if you want to do what's right, that means you have to do everything in your power. everything in your power. The same way you would be fighting for your own children if they were falling off of a bridge, if they were about to get hit by a train, if they were sick and to the point where the next the next bit of medicine is either going to kill them or save them. What would you do to save your kid's life? What would you do? Would you jump in front of the truck? Would you go and grab them, even sacrificing your life to save them from falling off the bridge? Would you pay a million dollars, a billion dollars just to make sure it's the right medicine? You would, right? That's what you have to do for your fellow Jews. Even if you don't know them, even if they live somewhere else, even if you're never going to meet them, that's what you have to do to help. And if not, if you're simply going to sit there and comfortably care about yourself and your kids because you think you're religious enough, just know will agree with what I'm telling you. You're a traitor. Why? Because you're abandoning your brothers while you're still at war. Because you're pretending you're not at war. Wake up. It's ill. Everyone has to do chuva. Everyone, you know, it took a lot of time and effort to study for this lecture and I really hope that you're enjoying it and really growing with every word cuz I did. If you liked it, if you're enjoying the constant challenge from the Torah, then please like, subscribe, and make sure to share with the people that you care about because you can end up changing their eternity. Thanks again for learning with me. And now back to the lecture. With that being said, Abu Tai, you guys can start asking some questions and will give us the answers. Rabbi, if I could afford to buy two of your tablets, one at a time, one for myself and one to give away, which one should I buy first? Well, if you're already doing chuva and you already know the where all the lectures are, then you should buy it for somebody else first because you already know where the information is and you could watch it for free. And in essence, what the tablet is for you is a convenience because all of this is available online for free. Everything the 19 hours that are here are on our website, are on our YouTube channel, all for free. It's just that this gives you convenience of having all you know organized shim and and and all the other things that are in it. So since you already know and have access to it, then you don't absolutely need it for yourself because you have. Whereas another person that doesn't even know right or left when it comes to the truth, they don't have access to it. And even if you sent them a link, they may not click it because it's not really so interesting to them because they got 10 or 20 or 30 or 40 other links from other people. Some of them for work, some of them for some articles, some of them for gossip, some of them to buy merchandise, some of them to buy stuff for dinner. They got a bunch of links from other people. So the links are good, but they don't work anywhere near as much as giving somebody a tablet and saying, "Here, I love you. This is going to be good for What is it? Open it and you'll see. I don't need to explain. Open it and you'll see it. And Abu Tai could tell you every single person that has received this tablet, whether it was in England or in Israel or in America or in Canada. Uh what other countries of uh Ghana? Mexico. People ordering it from all over the place and every single one of them loves it. Many of them are coming back for seconds. They're buying more of them. It's simply that good. It works. It's effective. So, if you could get as many as you can, gather some money together, uh, get 10 of them, get 20 of them to give in your community, to give your family, your friends, give even in the local Jewish supermarket, in the synagogue, there's Jews, give it to them. Here, take this. I'll give you, you'll see that it's going to help people. And all of that goes to your merits. All that goes to your account. And one secret I can tell you and in essence what the Rambam was trying to tell us. When you fight the wars of Hashem, Hashem will protect you and your kids will be uh righteous. And what what is all this for? In essence, one of the things that people worry about when they do kiru is maybe if I do kiruv then my kids won't have enough money or uh you know they uh you know I won't have enough time to spend with my kids or people are not going to like me or all types of other you know concerns that people have. The Rambam says if you're really fighting for the sake of Hashem, you're fighting for the honor of Hashem. You're not not only you're not going to get hurt, you're gonna get blessed. Your kids are going to get blessed. You're gonna have a share in Aabah. You're going to have literally more blessings you can possibly imagine and especially you'll have the blessing that you'll actually become stronger in your imun even by helping somebody else. Even though you've read it, you've studied it, you've heard it, the fact that you gave it to somebody else, that simple move that literally takes one second, switching hand, just that move alone in that second gives you special protection from all of a sudden your just got weaker against you. Why? You just helped another Jew do chivva. You now have extra protection, extra blessing, extra extra everything. There's no greater blessing than the blessing that goes upon somebody that does kuf. And anytime people ask me, well, listen, I did ku. How come I'm not getting blessing? And anytime I check the store, I'm like, yeah, you gave out one box of books a year ago. That's not that's kiru a year ago for a few days. If you want the ultimate blessing, you have to do something on a regular basis. Either distribute books on a regular basis, invest your on a regular basis, which is the, you know, donations uh to to support. You have to do something on a regular basis in a significant way. Why? Because you want the blessings. You want the blessings. But again, it doesn't come cheap. It doesn't come free. It doesn't come easy. Doesn't come without tests. But when you do it, I can assure you, I've seen it with my own eyes, not just on myself, but on countless other people, the blessings are simply second to none. Second to none. I could tell you one one family that I know, one family that I know that at, you know, when they got married, they were worried about whether they're going to even be able to have kids. They were worried, I don't know, we're going to have kids. We're we're already older. We're not exactly so healthy. and even if we have kids uh you know maybe the uh the children will have some uh medical problems some health problems I said you go and support Kiru and you'll see you'll have a blessing well you know what there's some people that listen to data and they listened and today hashem not only do they have kids but they have really really smart kids really really healthy kids and uh in act according to many genius kids genius. But these are people that sacrificed everything for the sake of Is everything they could they didn't have much but sacrificed everything. Why? Because they believe in that Torah. They believe in Torah. So people can have all the concerns in the world. All the concerns in the world. But if you go with Torah, you win. You go with you win. Didn't want to listen to didn't want to listen to didn't want to listen to Yeshua. Didn't want to listen to anybody. He wanted to go and do whatever he want. He wanted to build because it's it's good for his community. It's good for his name. It's good for himself. And guess what? All of his kids died. Eventually, he died. And the only thing he's remembered for is for being he's not remembered for good. He's not remembered for building and it's now beautiful because of him. He's remembered as being. And that's what people don't understand. When you just want to build yourself a name, when you just want to build yourself a tower, a yourself thing, yo, you you you you. That means you're not fighting for Hashem. You're fighting for yourself. So the ultimate a thing to know when it comes to Kiru is helping others before you help yourself. Helping others before you help yourself. Which also answers a question that somebody asked me earlier today. Can they use maser money or money to bite? And the answer is no. Why? Because is supposed to be used to help others especially help others do chuva help others learn to not to help yourself. You have to buy anyway for yourself. So you can't use your just to buy yourself or or or more books. You have to help others. I know that there are some people that rely on certain uh rabbis leniencies that say you could pay your uh uh tuition for your Shiva for your kids using Mel, I don't recommend it. And those that see that they're paying the tuition but they can barely afford, they can barely enjoy the money they have. One of the reasons because you're not really giving mel. You're relying on leniency. So you don't have to give masel. Find a way to give masel and not for your own benefit but rather for the benefit of others. For the benefit of others. That's the secret of of successful kiru. Rabbi, recently the oldest Hebrew book in the world was discovered in Afghanistan is also the oldest sidul. But they found that the agada was upside down flipped. Is this important? No. When Moshe broke the Ten Commandments, did he break his own heart? I don't know what that means. Unfortunately, there's a lot of people that say nonsense and they take up a lot of time to uh sift through. Will Mashiah come in the next five years max? Only Akadosh knows that. Nobody else knows. What's the procedure to convert to Judaism? Conversion to Judaism requires two main things. One is learning how to be a Jew. And the second thing is is to make the lifestyle changes that are necessary in order to live a Jewish life. the first one being among them which is to move to a Jewish community whether in the United States or in England or Australia or Israel or Canada or wherever there's a Jewish community especially one that has uh what's called a bedin which is a Jewish uh court to help with conversions uh and then uh do those two things go through the conversion process uh and then uh eventually if you're uh if you're really serious about it eventually they'll convert conversion in to Judaism uh is not like in other religions or uh it's not a one two three thing. It takes time. Uh it could take anywhere from a year to several years or or even more depending on how serious a person is and who they use as a sponsoring rabbi. But conversion to Judaism is by no means easy or quick. Most people only discover what converting conversion into Judaism uh is through the process of conversion. You know, before they converted or they just wanted to convert, they thought it's like Christianity where you could just go to a church and just they'll throw some dirty water on you and that's it. You're you become uh one of them. Doesn't work like that in Judaism. In Judaism, it's a process. You know, the bet has to uh see that you can live uh a Jewish life and there you have to have people to vouch for you, a rabbi that vouches for you that they've seen and they know for sure that you can live a Jewish life because it's not in your interest to convert to Judaism if you can't really live a Jewish life. Uh you'll get punished for it. What can a non-Jewish woman do to prepare for prayer? I have a really hard time connecting to God when I pray. Well, first off, I would recommend uh watching my series called Aamban. It's one of the playlists on the uh on the YouTube page and there is uh several lectures in there to discuss prayer. Uh second thing I would recommend is to watch one of the lectures that we do and for at least 10 10 minutes or so five 10 minutes 15 minutes before uh you uh pray that's going to help you learn some mousar some ethics and and and and put a little bit more fire into you to to yearn to get closer to Hashem. That's the second thing. Uh third thing is think about all the things that uh you rely on Hashem for. Not just stuff you want, but things that you rely on. You rely on him giving you good health, the ability to walk, the ability to see, the ability to go to the bathroom, the ability to make a living, the ability to get married, to have kids, the ability to function. Uh you'd be surprised how many people uh do not have that function. I don't mean just people in the hospice or people in the hospital, people that are walking everyday life. Just last night, I was talking to a young man that uh literally was like screaming his lungs out in the middle of the night. uh because of the amount of pain that he had and he was dealing with and uh I was doing whatever I can to help the guy and uh but this poor guy is literally dealing with such pain that uh he's gone to a point where he's he's he's you know he almost prefers death over item you know he's not going to kill himself but you know it's a uh he needs to do a lot of things to make those changes uh to to fix things but the point is is that uh he knows what the direction he needs to go in. I gave him the best guidance that I possibly can. Uh but it's really at the end of the day, it's his it's it's in his hands of what he's going to do, what he's not going to do. But I can assure you that you don't think of yourself as ever being like he is. Uh because you don't see it, you don't think it, and therefore you think it doesn't belong to you. What you don't realize is that can give that suffering to anybody that he brings it on you or anybody else. But the reality is he he brings it on people. So when a person wants to protect themselves from, you know, anything bad happening to them, the first thing they need to learn how to do on a regular basis is thank Hashem for everything. Thank him for literally every single thing you have. And I I recommended many people that had a hard time understanding gratitude, make a list. Take a little book, take a little notebook and write a list. Every time something good happens to you, a miracle happens to you, you uh found money, you got a raise, you uh miraculously met somebody that ended up becoming your spouse, whatever. People have endless miracles. Write it down in a little book. Write down a little book. You'll see how they start adding up pretty quickly. And anytime uh you have a moment, look through that book. Look through all of the things that Hashem gave you, all the wonderful things that he gave you. And you'll see that you have so many different things that Hashem gives you that perhaps you forgot about, you take for granted. And uh unfortunately, many people are ungrateful. They don't realize they uh that saying thank you one time is not enough. I have a uh lecture that I did years ago about what is what is really the Torah way of saying thank you. The vast majority of society uh does not even realize what what thank you really is. uh they think thank you is just simply saying a few words and then moving on to your you know with your life. That type of thank you only makes you know your you feel better but it doesn't uh it doesn't show gratitude. There's a very big difference between saying thank you and showing gratitude and most people don't realize there's a big difference between them. So if you start appreciating the things that Hashem gives you uh and start thinking about all you depend on every single day that in the very least should make you more connected to your prayer that you're praying to Hashem because he's the source of all good. He's the source of everything. You need everything from him. So that's the first step. After you do that for a little while, you know, you uh you'll have other things also. Thank you uh uh you know for for a lot of things you'll learn from the lectures. But point is that if a person knows how to be grateful, it's a person that knows how to pray too. If they don't know how to pray, it's because they don't know how to be grateful. So you have to fix that. Is there anything in a cirto that can be purchased in Spanish? Since I live in Mexico and I would like to buy some things to leave in a synagogue, is there anything that could be purchased in Spanish? Uh the only thing that uh we've uh recommended for people and we've uh done is uh the AI Rabbi cards in Spanish. Um but uh we ran out of those. I mean if you want to sponsor them, we could print more of them. The shipping to Mexico is pretty expensive, but uh you could also print them over there if you want. I could just send you the file. You could print the cards over there. That's just AI Rabbi because that's the one thing that you know you could uh ask the AI rabbi in all languages. Uh if you have money you could maybe buy subscriptions for a few people. Uh that's another thing that you can do. Um and as far as books, no we don't have any books in uh Spanish currently. We've had from time to time some books in uh Spanish, but uh we never really had uh a huge demand for it or any big sponsors for it. But uh if you are willing to sponsor uh I'd be more than happy to you know get some books and send them to you uh or or give out to other people. But uh so far right now I believe all the books we we have in stock right now are in Hebrew. There's no English even. Uh we have USBs in English. Um we have cards in Hebrew and English. But uh as far as um uh lectures and like on USB or I uh or books, we don't have anything uh in in Spanish. But again, anybody that you know wants to make the investment and and help us do it, I'll be more than happy to do it. It's not because I'm looking for more work to do. It's just if you have if there's a demand for it and there's a somebody that's willing to back it, I'd be more than happy to to do it. Um but it's not, you know, it's not cheap. It's it's everything costs a lot of money. I've had uh people ask me about uh Rabbi Nissim's books a bunch of times uh because we gave out a bunch of them for free. Uh what was it earlier this year or Yeah, I think it was early this year or last year and um you know then people asked me, "Oh, can I have uh can I have more?" I said, "Well, we ran out already." All right. So, can I you know, I said, "If you want to sponsor it." like, "Yeah, yeah. I want to sponsor a uh you know, a uh uh Okay, great. Um, how many do you want to sponsor?" "Oh, no. I want to sponsor a thousand 2,000 books." I said, "All right, great. Let me find out the price for you." And I said, "What's your budget?" He's like, "No, I I could donate $1,000." Like, $1,000? I'm sorry. I can't buy a th000 or 2,000 or 5,000 books with $1,000. I mean, yeah. I I I can buy a a few postcards. I can buy a thousand postcards. I can't buy a thousand books. Who could buy a thousand books for uh you can't even buy a thousand empty notebooks for $1,000? Uh so people are a little bit delusional. Uh it's it's very strange, but so again, it costs money. If you have the ability and the and and and the interest, I could uh find you good products that we could uh get for you. um that uh you can distribute in your community in in many languages. Uh but if you don't have the ability then you know as uh fine we'll wait until somebody else has steps in. What advice do you have for someone who grew up conservative but has gone off the de? Stop keeping kosher since the army but wants to be close to Hashem while still being moderate. There's no such thing as being close to Hashem while betraying him. If you want to be close to Hashem, you have to listen to him. How do you listen to him? By following the entire Torah. Following the entire Torah means keeping Shabbat, keeping kosher, keeping modesty, keeping all of the mitzvot. If you're not keeping all of the mitzvot, you have a very serious problem. Uh not only are you betraying Hashem, but you're also living in denial. Now, most people live this way because they don't realize that the Torah is not a pick and choose. It's not a buffet and you can just pick and choose whatever you want. The Torah is a one-sizefits-all. One size fits all. Meaning everyone has to do it. Everyone has to do it. So if you don't know why, I would recommend you watch more of our lectures. Watch the film that we have on our channel called Hashem took back his millions. Watch tikunit. Watch the Shabbat film. Uh you know, watch all the different films that we have. We have a playlist on the YouTube channel. Uh for anyone that hasn't subscribed, you should subscribe. There's constantly new stuff going on there every day. And now we have some short films going there. Uh uh we just published a new film uh yesterday or the day before that so far only the uh uh YouTube members have, but the rest of everyone else will have access to it in a few days. We published a big film a few weeks ago called Go Magog. So, if you like films, then I have a whole playlist called Torah films on there. If you like lectures, I have thousands of lectures you can listen to and understand what the Torah says. And you'll notice from my lectures that I always bring the sources, whether it's from the five books of Moses or the Talmud or the Zah or there's always sources that you can look up and uh confirm that what I'm saying is what the Torah says. Uh and the point is that you'll see the more you learn Torah, the more you realize that um living a life where you are, you know, expecting to be close to God while betraying him is not only a uh you know, a a fool's errand, but it's it's it's it's literally something that's so absurd that um it's it's it's it's ridiculous to even think it's possible. It's like saying I want to have a loving marriage while cheating on my wife. It's it's not possible. It's not possible. So person has to understand that if they're living such a life where they're cheating on their wife and they're deluding themselves to believe that they love their wife, they don't love their wife. They love what their wife does for them. They love themselves, but they don't love their wife. Why? Because if you love someone, you don't cheat them. You don't betray them. You don't lie to them. You don't hurt them. Oh, no. But she doesn't know. Even worse, even worse, they're living in denial thinking that you actually are honest and one day they're going to find out and uh and realize their whole life was also a lie. So, stop lying to yourself. Learn Tawa and you'll understand that uh there's one way to connect to Hashem and that's through his Torah. Rabbi, do you accept zel? Uh, yeah. If you want to send zel, you can. It's my phone number. I am not Jewish. Before I learned it's forbidden to study the Zo, I bought the book. How should I get the book out of my possession? Go to a local yeshiva or k or bet midlash or synagogue that's orthodox and give it to them? In your opinion, what is the best gula for someone who is in need of Yeshua? Doesn't matter what my opinion is. You got to listen to the writes about a thousand years ago that even if somebody knows and has good deeds like Mosheu, they still would never get to the level of somebody that does kuf that helps people do chuva. Because the prophet Jeremiah says in the name of hem in chapter 15 verse 19 if you bring a lugard and turn him into a someone precious meaning if you help somebody do chuva you'll be like my mouth. So the suka actually uh says something uh extraordinary because sometimes people ask me why is the uh campaign the uh you know the the Russash Shana campaign that we have obviously we're here to help poor people to help people that are in need to do more kiru and so on but there's also a special prayer and blessing that we uh we give to specific people and uh why can't people pray for themselves? They can. But why would anybody want some, you know, Rab to pray for them or myself to pray for them? Because the says in page 14a in the name of why are the prayers of the righteous compared to a pitchfork? To tell you that just as the pitchfork turns over the grain that is on a threshing floor and tosses it from one place to another, so too the prayers of the righteous turn over, so to speak, the attitude of the holy one. Blessed is he from the attribute of harsh judgment to the attribute of mercy. In so many words, the reason why people ask us or other uh uh you know people that do kiru to pray for them is because not even a matter of just being righteous or not righteous. It's a matter of that there's nothing higher than somebody that does helps people do chuva. Meaning even if you compare, you know, someone that learns Torah all day, okay, someone learns to all day, learns to 15 hours a day. Okay, you still cannot compare them to somebody that helps people do. This is what says this is what says in countless places. This what says this is what says this is across this is not like a people that help people do chuva are above and beyond everyone else. They're considered the stars. They're considered the stars even higher than people that learn Tawa and and just do that. So when you have the opportunity to support somebody that's, you know, helping people do Chuva, there's nothing greater than that. And that's also why we were able to publicize dozens and dozens of miracle stories last year of people that have supported us to you know and and literally got open miracles whether it's having children after doctors said it's not possible for 10 years or it's a uh you know cures for cancer or countless other things and we have a whole playlist on YouTube of miracle stories after another and this is not even you know 5% of them. These are just the ones that you know were publicized. But the point is is that if somebody wants to bring a uh you know extraordinary miracles upon their life, they have to take as much as they can and invest it into kiru and in as much as they can means, you know, it's above and beyond the norm. Not uh not just a one-time thing. Above and beyond the norm, you know, I have uh unfortunately sometimes people love their money more than they love their life. And uh they uh they realized too late. They re realized too late that it's it's a mistake. I actually had a guy that um used to uh I don't know if I told you guys a story or I said it just in the Hebrew lecture, but I'll tell you anyway. It's uh a guy that uh really nice guy that uh gave him over the years the chuva and um he used to donate every month and uh and this went on for for years. And uh what was it a little over a year ago? A little over a year ago. He uh sends me a message that he wants to stop the monthly donations. Okay. Why? Uh I mean it's not that much. It's not it's not like you're breaking the bank here. I mean he has money. What's the problem? Well, listen. I want to buy my dream car and uh you know I'm going to need the money for that. You know, after I buy it, I'll save up and I'll start uh you know, I'll start donating again. Okay. Do what you want. You know, it's I don't I'm not here to convince people to help themselves. I'm here to show you what's possible. You want to help yourself, help yourself. You don't want to help yourself. You know, there's nothing I can do about it. Um, so I'm never going to be the guy that convinces people to donate. I tell you that donations are possible. I donate. I tell you that donations are available. I tell you that donations are good. Whether you do it or not, it's up to you. You're never going to get a call from me to try to convince you. uh you you'll you'll get a link, you'll get a letter, you'll get a text message, but nothing more than that. You're never going to get a convincing argument. Uh why? Because at the end of the day, it has to be me. It has to be a sacrifice from you that it's hard for you and you overcame it. That's what gives it the, you know, one of the things that gives it a blessing. But anyway, this guy decided to stop donating and okay, I mean, people stop and start every day. You know, Bo, most people that donate to us uh don't stop, but some people do. Anyway, um not too long ago, he uh calls me and uh sends me messages, bunch of messages, and he talked to he talked to you and he talked to you and uh it's urgent and uh Okay. Okay. So, we talked and he says to me, I want to donate my house. I want to donate your house. How do you go from, you know, donating for years? Stop donating because of a stupid car to now you want to donate your house. Why? He says, "Rabbi, doctors say I only have about a year left." So, what? What are you talking about? He says, "Remember when I stopped donating?" I told him, "Yeah, I remember. You know, I mean, it's uh I don't think about it every night or anything, but yeah. Uh well, that was July." "Okay, you have good memory." He goes, "No, no, I remember because I stopped donating on July. I got the car. The next month, the doctor says I have cancer. Stage four. There's no cure. Now, not only I uh can't drive the car, but I can't do a lot of other things. And um I know that the taka that I was giving you from your says taka saves from life and it was saving me. It was saving my life all these years and I didn't realize it. The minute I stopped donating, that's when uh you know, gave me this uh this cancer. So, you know, I tried to comfort him and and tell him, "Listen, you'll live. We'll pray for you." Uh, you know, and he said, "No, no, but I want to donate the house. I want to do this. I want to do that." Said, "Listen, you know, we talked about it. It's a whole process. Whether it happens or it doesn't happen, I have no idea. But this thing, you know, I told him it's not really relevant because we want you to live and we'd rather have you alive doing mitzvot than having a a house." Uh but the point is that uh either way it's not relevant until you know you leave this world. So it's uh let's focus on you living. I'm not uh I'm not looking for uh for people to enrich me here. You know, I want you people to live. I want you people to do mitzvot. And that's the key. But it was amazing that he knew it himself. He knew it himself. He got to his head from Hashem. and he's one of the few people that actually understood why he got it. Now, heretics and and and and and fools will think, "No, it's just a coincidence. It's a month later. He already had it. You could believe whatever you want." This is what he said himself. I didn't convince him. And I definitely would never tell anybody. Uh listen, you know, you got cancer because you stopped donating to me. That will never come out of my mouth. Even if I think such such a thing, I would never tell somebody that, especially in such a situation. But he literally himself called me to tell me that this is what the case is and it's his fault and it I'm sorry you know we pray for him every day now and my wife prays for him and Frank prays for him and will live but the point is when people donate to help other people do chuva all you're doing is helping yourself all you're doing is helping yourself that's who you're helping you're helping yourself and when people don't realize that you know they are either stingy or they don't want to do it at all. And it's a mistake. It's a mistake. Let's see. I have difficulty understanding how and when and why Hashem offered the Torah to the other nations if he already promised of and his descendants. This is not like a a physical thing that happened where Hashem, you know, sent a angel to and said, "You want a dua, bring all your people, let's ask everybody." No, this is more of a something that um speaking to the to the angels of each nation. Uh it's it's not it's not something like what happened with Israel where um a uh you know, we already have This is something already from the creation. Already from the creation, creation of souls, creation of the world and so on. Um I don't have an as far as the uh subject you're asking about uh the artificial insemination. I don't have an entire lecture about it. I mean, I've discussed parts of it in different lectures, but uh I can't uh off the top of my head which lecture it is. Can we learn Judaism even if we're not Jewish? Depends which part. If you're learning Mousar, which is ethics, then yes, you're allowed. If you're learning uh the scripture, which is the uh the five books of Moses, the Tanakh, and the basic meaning of it, then yes. But uh if you're talking about the different parts of the oral Torah, the uh um you know, learning Talmud, things like that, then no, that's not that's not for you if you're not Jewish. What's my website? Website is basm.org. B z a t h a shm.org. And that also answers your next question which is where to buy the kiru box. It's on that website.org. or go to the uh store on the uh page and over there I believe it's the first product. Uh you can buy one or you could buy 10. You get a discount if you buy 10. Um next one. My father is Jewish but is Christian. I'm converting and tried lectures and reading Kumas with him but he's unmoved. I'm sad he doesn't see the privileges of being Jewish. What more could I do? Well, it depends what you've done uh as far as what you've showed him and um how you try to help him. I mean, usually parents do not like to listen to their children. So, the best way to help parents usually is by giving them lectures or giving them, you know, videos for them to watch uh and let them learn from somebody else. Um, so that's why I tell people if you want to help people do chuva, whether it's your father or your mother or your cousin or your neighbor or somebody you work with or uh anybody, buy as many of these as you can from our store. Give each person one of these. This will do the job for you. Why? because there's 19 hours worth of Torah films we've made over the last 10 years that hit the nail on the head time and time again with every aspect of the basics whether it's understanding the obligation of the Torah, the truth of the Torah, science versus the Torah and how science actually uh proves the Torah is true rather than what people think which is the opposite. Uh the reward and punishment uh beton all types of amazing things are in here. 19 hours. It's not for children uh because you know there's certain films that uh a three or 5year-old or a six-year-old is going to be scared of like Gome. Uh but if it's a uh you know teenager or something like that, there's no problem. Uh but as far as for adults, it's for all adults. It's for all adults. And as I've told people time and time again, get as many of these tablets as you can because they'll do the job for you. Number one, because all the content that he needs to get the spark to wake up is already there. And number two, because he's a whole lot more likely to listen to me than he is to you because I'm not his son. How to help children with fixing their mid at a very young age, especially some that may be worse than others, such as anger. Uh that takes time. It's if they're really young, then uh you know, you you have to already teach them now that anger is not good. The best thing to do uh with kids that are young and kids that are even old, like 30 and 40 and 50 years old, is to read stories of the Tadikim. Read stories of the Tadikim, uh stories of the sages. Uh there's, you know, comics that have these stories. there is a uh you know long bios depending on what your you know for a kid it's usually the the the ones with the with the pictures on them but there's a lot of really good ones these days so I would say reading reading them on a regular basis on a regular basis means every day every day 15 minutes a half hour an hour two hours when they're younger you could probably do a whole lot more when they're older maybe a little less but the point is is that uh doing it every day to learn stories of sadikim when they start admiring the sadikim when they started admiring the Raas and Rabina and and a the Rambam and the Ramban because they heard stories about them, then they're going to want to emulate them. They're going to want when they play role play, you know, they're going to pretend that they're a big rabbi instead of pretending that they are some, I don't know, uh superhero uh Superman flying in the air. Uh they're going to have better role models. uh and uh that that helps. The other, you know, what you could do after that is also uh read uh books for kids that are about midot. Uh I think it's going to be easier to read them stories about sadikim if they're very young than to read them books about midot um because you know it's there's a certain level of uh of of intellect of how much they can absorb. But you could do both and you could read the same book multiple times too. But the biggest thing to do is for them to learn and don't expect them to learn to develop their character traits in school. Kids do not learn mousar in school. They don't learn how to fix their character traits in school. They learn that from home. They learn that from their parents. How do they learn it from their parents? Number one, from the what I just said, which is the parents educating them. And number two, from seeing how their parents behave. If they see their parents act like animals, then they'll be an animal. If they see that their parents tikim then there's more of a chance that they'll be inclined to beim. Uh but uh it's the kids the benish said up to you know five six years old in many cases are you know close to like a monkey. They see, they do. You know, of course, there are some kids that are much more clever and, you know, already at three, four years old, they know how to read and they're smart and they know how to communicate, but I'm saying the average kid out there, uh, is just he sees, he does. She sees, he she does. They don't have an opinion of themselves. So, if they see the parents, you know, have, uh, you know, emodest clothes, they want immodest clothes. If they see, uh, their parents yell, they yell. if they see their parents uh you know act nasty, they'll act nasty. They're like copycats, you know, they they copy. So, if you want to fix that, number one, read to the kid. Number two, apply all of what you read to yourself and try to get also your spouse to do the same thing as much as possible at least. I have a few books. How many more should I buy? I don't know how much a few books is, but uh if you want uh to have a Jewish home, then you have to have a books constantly coming in because you're reading them. You read the books, you buy more. You read those books, you buy more. You read those books, you buy more. When do you stop? Never. As long as you can fit more books, you can read more books. That's it. That's that's Judaism. Judaism is constantly learning more and more. Books are not a luxury in Judaism. Books are a necessity. No different than air. And I'm talking about not just, you know, general books, books that have to do with Torah. A Jewish home must be full of books. must be full of but not just books on shelves so they look nice if in case you have guests and you know they think you're smart because you have a lot of books because they assume you read them but actually books you read you read you study all right we'll take maybe one question we'll Finished. Rabbi, do you know someone that could help with information about conversion living in Bulgaria? Years ago, I had a student that lived in Bulgaria. And there is a rabbi that moved there. This is probably seven years ago, maybe more or less, that uh was trying to start a community in Bulgaria. Um, I don't know if he's still there or not, but I know that there is something there was something there. There was something there because I spoke to the rabbi over there and everything. He was a good guy. But, uh, I don't have the information. I'm sorry. But look, Orthodox Judaism, Bulgaria. I'm sure you'll find something. 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